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* the value of imports and exports hi $300,000 HOOVER FUND, SAYS JOHNSO AR ne ners | GOV. SMITH PRED TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair, To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer VOL. LX. NO. 21,446—DAILY. Cn “WAKE UP, N EW YORK! NEW YORK ClTY HAS LOST —ONE-FOURTH OF FOREIGN COMMERCE. NIX YEAR in 1914 to Under 40 Now. DECLINE CONTINUES.| Even Goods Made in Metropol-| itan District Are Shipped | From Other Ports. | By. Martin Green. Striking figures showing the rapid decay of the Commerce of the Port | of New York are contained In a re- | port of the Port and Harbor Com- | mission Issued for the information of the Legislatures of New York ana! New Jersey ana not generally circu- lated. In the six-year period 1914-19 inclusive the coumerce of the port fell off 27 per cent—that 1s, New York's percentage of the foreign duty’ since the strike started at 4/ large manufacturing concern of Louis. commerce of the United States in| 1919 was 27 per cent. under the fig- | ° ures of 1914, In six years New York lost more than one-fourth of her for- eign commerce; or, to go into comparative figures, in 1914 more *+-<, two-thirds of the foreign commerce of the country passed through this port, and last year New York handled only a little in excess of 40 per cent. of it. The | decline this year has beenheavier | than at any time in 1919, and the | figures at the end of 1920)willun- | doubtedly show that New York | handled considerably under 40 | per cent. of the foreign commerce of the Nation. { While New York's percentage of| foreign commerce handled has bern steadily and alarmingly dwindling, | been steadily increasing, In 1914 the| imports of the United States were | valued at approximately $1,890,000,000. | In 1919 the value of imports had} mounted to $3,095,000,000—more ‘han | 60 per cent. In 1914 the exports of | the United States were valued at $2,364,000,000. In 1919 the export value went up’ to $7,225,000,000—u!- most 960 per cent. New York should have had her that she didn’t get any part of the more than 60 per cent. increase in imports and 250 per cent, inore: in exports, but actually lost com- | merce eagh year during the pe- | riod used for illustration makes | the figur the more startling, | In volume and yalue the factory output of the metropolitan district has increased enormously since 1914, and a considerable proportion of the export freight leaving this port olusive of oil, coal and grain—origi- nates in the metropolitan district. | New York's decline in commerce while the manufactured product of | the district contiguous to the port in- creased means but one thing: That goode \ tan district and exported have been, | to a considerable extent, shipped from | ether ports than New York. In some quarters there ts a dispo- | sition to dispute the fact that New| York is declining in importance as a! Seaport und tonnage figures are quoted to show that there has been an improvement rather than a loss But tonnage figures include passen- ger steamships. Zhe gigantic trans- Atlantic liners, coming in and going out with the regularity of ferryboats, add to the port tonnage, but handle Very little freight, Tndisputable evidence that the de~ cling of the commerce. of the port is, (vonlnued om Meguad Yager | | he is fostering the KH Percentage Has Dropped From| $ 662-3 of Nation’s Business ON B i I. AFIZZLE AND CAR SERVICE IS NORMAL | Emergency Force Takes Place | return is set forth in an affidavit in of Electricians and Cars Run as Usual, The strike of 120 members of the Brotherhood of Hlectrical Workers of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system had no visible effect on the service of the Brooklyn trangportation iines to- day. Inspectors of the Public. Serv- ice Commission who have been on yesterday reported to-day that all through the night and the | crowded hours of the. morning 100) per cent. tained, There were no service had been main- strike disorders. | The men who quit turnec over their | stations to the substitutes provided by the company without shutting off power or disarranging the delicate and powerful machinery, The po- licemen detailed at the tiree power houses and the twenty-one sub sta- tions and the three policemen held in reserve at every station in the borough had nothing to do. “So far as the companuy Is con- cerned,” General Manager W. 8, Mon- den sald, “the strike is.gver. The ser- vice has been kept normal and within a few hours operating conditions will also be normal. The company will take back for a time.any of the men who quit without realizing how"ill advised they were.” President Reeves of the Brooklyn local of the electrical workeds organi- zation complained that he could not 1920, (The | Circulation Books Open to All.” | Now York Wits NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1920. PRETTY WAR WIDOW {IS NAMED IN WIFE'S SEPARATION SUI Says C. T. Ballard Maintained Woman in Luxury While Husband Was Overseas. 'MOTHER-IN-LAW MIXUP. Mother Encouraged Him in Desertion. | ‘The story of a young and pretty wife who went to live with a mar- red man while her soldier-hushand was at the front, overseas, and who abandoned her comforter to go back to her husband upon the latter's nafe| |Support of suit for separation sub- | | mitted to Supreme Court Justice John M, Tierney to-day by Mrs. Mae | Ballard, of No, $40 West Sixty-sixth | Street, daughter of an old Keatuoky| | tamily. Prefatory to this story, Mrs.’ Bat- jiard declares in her lengthy affidavit | | that her husband, Charles T. Balléra, son of the Jaté Charles T. Ballard, bead of Ballard & Ballard, Inc, @ | ville, Ky,, deserted her June, 12, 1918, jand while ‘failing to contribute to- |wafd het support,’ matntained in jevery luxury a@ beautiful, lonely | soldier’a' wife, | Mra, Gene Dougherty ts the young “war widow” named, Mrs. Ballard jrelates that Mrs. Dougherty was | known as “Pinkie” to her friends and to Ballard, Ballard kept “Pinkie” at | the home of Mrs, James W. Elliot, | No. 2 Prescott Street, Boston, Maass., | according to Mrs. Ballard, and, later, at the Hotel Somerset in this city, Mrs. Ballard charges her mother- \in-law, Mrs, Mina B, Ballard, of | first disturbing -her married happi- ness. She quotes in her affidavit part of a letter which she says was |written by Mra, Ballard sr, to her son, urging him to leave his wife and |telling him that she had 0 disposed of his portion of his father’s estate that his wife could not obtain any of it if she divorced him, Another letter to the defendant, headed “St. Andrew's Hotel, Nov, 15, is spread on the record as ws: | tol Affidavit Declares Husband's /TROOPS PATROLLING of the men kept them covered the other ARMOUR GRAIN CO.’ PAYS FINE OF soso OMITH IS HOPEFUL mec FOR EARLY TRUGE Grain Consigned to Armies Fighting in France, ‘CHICAGO, May 29.The Armour Grain Company was fined $1,060 by Federal Judge Carpenter to-day for violation of the (Pure Food Law. It was charged the company adulterated a abipment of thirty-five cars of oats by mixing barley with it. The grain was consigned to armies @ghting in Franoe, but was seized ih transit oy the Government at Balti- more. Attornéy C.' J. Fulkner, repre- senting Armour’s, pleaded guilty to the charge, and paid the fine. a mittee Head and Will Meet Union Leader ‘Later, MAY RAISE SHIP RATES. Men Expected to Return to Work on Promise of Increased Wages. BRISTOL AFTER RIOT City Declared “In State of Insur- rection’”’—No Further Dis- onder by Strikers; BRISTOL, R.,L, May 29.—Troops of cavairy and coast artillery are patroling the streets of Bristol to-day to pre- |}, yent a répetition of ‘the rioting that oc- curred yesterday when striking em- ployees of ‘the National India Rubber Company sought to prevent other work- ersi from entering the plant. Gov. Beeckman has declared the city “in a state of insurrection.” Troops C amd D of the Fourth Com- ng Coast Artillery Guard, were on Guty last night and another artillery company was ordered to join them to- day. No effort-was made to open the plant ‘this morning; ut-an attempt may ‘be made to resume operations Tuesd: During the. night cavalry guards dis- Perged several growps of strikers near the factory, but aside from this there was no distutbance, i Alfred E. Marling, Chairman of the Oltizens’ ‘Transportatfon Committee, after @ forty-minute conference with Gov. Smtth at the Biltmore this morn- ing, came forth smiling and said to an Evening World reporter: “I have outlined to the Governor as fully and fairly as I could the whole situation in regard to the tleup. of freight in this port. ‘The Governor ts keenly interested and I am hopeful of @ quick settlement, “Members of the Citizens’ Transpor- tation, Committee are gonsidering a plan to recommend the granting of in- creased freight rates to the coastwise steamship companies. ‘The question hag not yet been passed upon, how- ever, by the committee as a whole.” “There is no doubt that progress is being made,” Gov. Smith sald, “I shall see Mr. O'Connor of the Longshore- men’s Association early next week and I hope that @ truce may be ar- ranged. The immediate need is to get the men back to work and end the congestion,” The Governor declined to discuss at this time the matter of a possible in- crease of freight rates as the basis of an increase of wages. He left the city early this afternoon, When the suggestion of Mr, Marl- ing made to Gov. Smith that he re- quest the striking Jongshoremen to return to work was called to the at- tention of ‘T. V. O'Connor, Interna- tional President of the Longshore- men’s Union, he said, “If the Gover- nor makes that recommendation, {t will be helpful. We will call a meet- ing of the men as soon as a hall is available, Leaders on both sides belleve that O'Connor, after his conference with the Governor, will unge the men to go back to work with the assurance that thetr wage demands will be fairly considered after the employers have ROBBERS HOLD UP 25 IN BILLIARD ROOM Clean Up Proprietor and Cash Reg- ister, but Do Not Molest Patrons, + Two masked men, arined with re- volvers, entered the Broadway Billiard Parlor, at Broadway and Bridge Street, eurly to-day, backed the twenty-five patrons against the wall and while one Went through the pockets of William Cosley, the préprietor, and the cash register, obtaining about $100, The patrons were not molested. .* ‘The men fied in an automobile which was waiting a block away, passing two policemen before they reached it. CONSTABLE IN ROW, SHOOTS. Said te Have Called Passaic Veteran a Socialist, Louts Wallsch, Passaic Constable and a leading member of the local Re- publican Club, was arranged there to- day before Police Judge Costello on a give exact information as to the num-| “My Dear Charles; I regret very | charge of attempt to kill. He was held|been permitted to increase their ber of union men who quit, because, | deeply lust night's episode, but being rm sere hap Calgon Gri seers ‘e revenue, It is believed that Gov. h rar nen fe Sagisiiona leerith Gadi, on ipa ‘ he said, “the police at the power ja fatallst, such shins are meant | club sJast night, In which Wallach n Locsqeenie urge O'Connor t@ take houses and :ub-stations refuse to let|be. Don't you think so? julloged to have called Assemblyman | {!9 couree Ps : very mo. | Grover Heinamann, world war. veterar eanwhile the Citlz ‘Transpo ta- our committees go into the buildings| “Although 1 oherished every mo-| With several mous. a Manatee, Bean ue Les Transpo rta and check vp. | ment that ( was near you and with| Wal igch fred t evalver pig sald to tion Committee has not ceased Its pre- cipal told 2 | tA asc that Heinamann and Abraham Lin-|paration for the establish After making a public announce- | You. something, told ine It could not ah ith others, followed him | pee” Aid 4 i ment of an ment that meinbers of the Amalga-|last. It was too good to be i:ue,| downstal nucing ‘manher ag hu | independent trucking organization to 8 of the Ami | te sod! ag | lett. an somewhat al andle Ne e if effor ettle- mated Association of Street and Hlec- | that's all, So ypu see, God'e will hus | Teta nna ty i oi eitaalonees \etpier RAAFORRDEING SF SRRVUE ET OC tric Railway employees would have | verified iny presentiments prectyely, — | ment fail. no part In the strike and its members | N’est ce pas? FINE WEATHER TO-MORROW | . Peputy Public Service Commissioner had been ordered to stay at their| “Last night's outburst was hardly ph Ml | Alfred M. Barrett estimates that 40 posts, William Reilly, Aaron Korman | without foundation with the excep-| And Probably on Monday, Forecas- | per cent. of Now York's norma! ship- and Raymond Dhuy, division secvetar-| tion, not sparing your feelings any, ter Ansures New Yorkers, ying has been diverted to other ports s of the Amulgamated, preferred |of too much alcohol, if you'll pardon| ‘The wether man to-day assured New |since the strike bean. The money charges against E. L. Smith of the Strike Committee on the ground that though an offici:! of the Amalgamated lectrical Workers’ strike without authority from bis own ualon. Workers’ Union, and that the Blectrical Reeves say the President rewl janufactured in the metropoli- |test of the strike will not come until the emergency men from the execu- tive and engineering staff of the com- | pany become exhausted from long hours and overwork. The men who watch foremen, high tension me: ternating and direct current opera- construction n from the powerhouses, and the tors, repair men and » operators. y tenders f sub-operators and the substation ice President J. W. O'Donnell of |1 feel very sorry, indeed, and a Iittio alked out are the/the slang, if L may; but by doing so al-|you gave me a very hectic descrip. me for saying so. 1 certainly was appalled at the whole thing. Although expecting something like a tempest in form, !t was rather sudden on go | short an acquaintanceship. Later on, | perhaps, I might have warded it off. rt, but gradually I'll get used to it all I've been getting her hat'’s | latel, “Never mind, dear child, i'm not cvonsuring you. God forbld. On the contrary, I admired your chivalrous impulse in going up in the alr, using von of your disposition. and what [| look forward to in future, | kindest feelings to Uncle Mac! and my bestest to you, for deep down Yorkers of fine weather to-morrow, and probably Monday He predicted a continuation of the balmy spring temperature for Sunday, with posstbily slightly warmer oa Mon- day, The wind, he thinks, will continu moderate ¢rom'the north. loss, exclusive of wages, he estimated at $50,000,000, and he sald the strikers had lost $3,400,000 in wages, He | cited one consignment of merchandise | trom Herkimer to New York and suid | that, e@ the freight charge wus jonly $8.77, the cost of trucking from station to warehouse was $27. FRENCH RELIEVE AINTAB, oie ou taep WORLD RESTAUKANT, Fight Way 4 fur toway, Saturday, May” 20 givia han, fried swcet potatoes, beef and new cabbage He: table Lb floor, World Bullding. fea LONDON, May 29.—A French column fought ite way into Aintad, Syria, and after heavy fighting succeeded in re- Heving the town, it was officially an- nounced to-dw: ‘The Turks rt, The Evening World Will NOT Be Published During the strike omere y alllin my. a 4 Iittle vaconcy shail e- belt iter 1 electricians are held at the dif d linger, waiting ton— you don elieve {t—In- * pot ty ; Bisa Ti linger an . 6 for. a > 1 ceva Leer Tams ore mslve Neus | ive away the ‘onelluess, Always! lf formed bye ertminal that ne | DECORATION jof a shutdown on uny line, a ¢om- | affectiona ELLEN.” | avopped his thesis to grab a DAY plete substitute personnel could be | Justice T y allowed Mrs, Ball-| jimmy and sari @ wood living, rushed to the proper power house bY og $75 a week aliinony and §760 It's all told In Williamabung power house was/ House, Grossman & Vorhaus ls the; ®pich begins serially in The Bve- [attorney tor Mee, Ballard, | wing Worle Tuesday, June 4 by) 4 Senator 1s Author of Platform That Has Been Endorsed by President. LIKES THREE OTHERS, Besides — Virginian He Sees Good Points in Davis, Cox and Houston, By David Lawrence. iH Correspon: Nespas ints reinsray oad WASHINGTON, May 29 (Copy: right, 1920)—President Wilson's ap- Proval of the Virginia platform, which, {t 1s uo secret, was largely the work of Senator Carter Glass, ts the first expression from the White House of what the President would like to have adopted by the Demo- eratie Netional Gonvention at San Francisoo. “He Goes not ask for the unqualified indorsement of the cov- enant and peace treaty, but “prompt ratification without reservations which would impair its essential in- tegrity.” There's the Democratic national platform on the treaty issue con- densed in ten words. Inasmuch as the President considers the Lodge reservations to be “nullifying reser- vations,” and inasmuch as he has already indorsed the Hitchcock res- ervations, the Democratic claim is unchanged from that which & ma- jority of the Democrats stood for in the various votes in the Senate. The big query is whether the Repubil- cans will stand by the Lodge reser- vations or the Hiram Johnson pro- gramme of no treaty and no League at all. GLASS SEEN AS A WILSON CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT. But the President's tndorsement of the Virginia platform and his words of commendation for Senator Glass may have another significance. The junior Senator from Virginia has the Democrats of his State in co vention assembled. He himecif is a strong supporter of the candidacy of William Gib McAdoo, But sup- pose, for various reasons, the dele- gates to the National Convention de- cide that McAdoo cannot win, If nom- inated, To whom would the McAdoo strength be thrown? Not to Palmer, for there 1s deep-seated rivalry be- tween the MoAdoo and Palmer camps, which will not vanish on the conyention floor. | Senator Glass is a man after Prest- jdent Wilson's own heart, He ts | fearless combatant, an uncompromii \ing fighter and a man who, as Chair. mun of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, helped frame the present Federal Reserve Act and }later made a splendid impression as | Secretary of the Treasury. There is one important factor to |keep in mind in trying to figure out (Continued on Second Page.) ae PRESIDENT WILSON | FREES KATE O’HARE Convicted Under €spionage Act, She Was Serving Sentence of Five Years. ‘TON, May 29.—President commuted to expire at -year sentence imposed on Kate Richard O'Hare of St. Louis, tenced on April 14, 1919, to « Federal Penitentiary at , Mo, for a violaiion of Espionage act was accused of having In aw n, North Dakota, com- nothers who allowed thelr sona to soldiers to “brood sows,” Mra. was one of the prisoners for the nt Socialist National lew York asked release, A nbs WHAT 15 SURE RELIEW—WHY IT's Boll-aus Cor Ludigeotlem——Ady te Convention at Seen GLASS LOOMS UP + AS WILSON CHOICE | IN HARBOR TEP TO HEAD TKET Confers With Citizens’ Com- | been indorsed for the Presidency by| red WAS RAISED McCabe Tells Senators That $50,0 Was Spent in California and Es ‘mates Hoover Times McAdoo Fund. WASHINGTON, May 29.~Approximately. $200,000 has. beth raised for the National Campaign of Senator Johnson of California, the Republican Presidential nomination, Alexander McCabe, the Johnson Califomia Organization, testified to-day: Committee investigating pre-convention campaign Bn topes more than a few thousand dollars. DEBS “OVERJOYED” BY HIS NOMINATION Receiving Committee in, Jail, .He Kisses Each Member—Movie Pictures Made. ATLANTA, Ga, May 29.—/The stran- gest notificatfon ceremony for any oan- didate for President of the: United States occurred at the Federal Prisan here to- day when @ committee of Socialists tolt Bugene V. Debs he had been nominated for the ¢ifth time, Debs threw his arms about each member of the committee and with a kiss upon the lips for each declared he was happy beyond words. “I have always been a radical—naver more so than now," Debs declared tn his speech of ucceptance, “I have never been afraid of becoming too radical, but I have feared ‘becoming’ a éonserva- tive. “I said { was @ Bolshevik, and T mean it—and I mean it now,” he asserted. The octal reception too kplace in the office of Prison Warden Zerbst, who Permitted motion pictures being made both in th eoffice and on the front Ouside, the nelson swells, in wilcty “he ceremony of present ‘boua' carnations and the kisses of greet- ing were rpated. was in the denim of the prison, Teaming heppity. —_——— FRENCH WOMEN FOR A TAX ON SPINSTERS Suffrage Union Insists That They Shall Be Treated Syme as Bathelors, PARIS, May 29.—~The Woman's Suf- frage Union of France has congratu- lated Finan “Unister Francols-Maraal upon his reje..ion of the proposal made ‘by certain Senators that spinsters should be exempted from the surtax on bachelors, on the theory that women who remain unmarried do not as @ general rule do ao of thelr own chotce. The Suffrage organisation holds that women should be equal before the law in all reapecta. > HIS STILL TOO SUCCESSFUL. Lebauch “Drinking Himeclt to Death,” Saye W: Leopold Lebauch, No. 436 ast 76th Street, was urrested to-day on the com- plaint of his wife, who told the police he was having altogether too much suc- sens with his home-made still. He'll drink himself to death if he tan't stopped,” she eald. ‘Just. thts morning he got two half pints from the eull and drank it all” eld for the Federal au- thorities. gation ie shinee, majig was confiscated on the suspicion that it might be the wonderful still. Re acthase> “ac sh Woman as Aw Attorney Gen WASHINGTON, ay %.—President Wilson to-day nomniated Mrs, Annette Abott Adams, San Francisco, to be As- sisant Attorney General. She wilt be the first woman to hold tha office. ———— | ott Pesbtetch “=e Oar mae ADMITS NEARLY That—More Denials “af Mr. MoCabe said this total did not-include local sums raised over the country, aa ‘he declared: thet.all qther sums would. pot agaiagale FOR Expenses: Yaw a rere the Sale dgolaring the total. Héover ag California pent “eight or nine times se much as we,” at the lowest esti The witness testified that sent to te Jenson’ echioadl i sent to the Johnson National quarters in New York. that he had been in touch state organisation up to “about May 4 when the California orimery’ MORE .MONEY RAISED | SINCE { THE STATE PRIMARIES, “Money was ati!) coming ; Mr, MoCabe testified. Contributors mamed by ness included Henry 35,000; Will Crocker, $4,000, and John H, Rosseter, 92,500, % “The money was gathered in statewide collctation ‘Bie, Meclly continued.’ Asked about path by Gate officers, be sald “Charen It, Miller, a prison commissioner gaye $1,000." , -f Whl C. Wood, State Edueationsl ~— Officer, “contributed active suppart to Mr. Hoover,” the witnéns declared,» adding that out of Sve railxoad eom-- missioners, three gave to | Palen. STATE OFFICIALS SUBSCRIBED TO THE JOHNSON FUND. = “A large number of Btate off did contribute to us," Mr, MéCabe said; “but they were not men means, and they did not gtye amounts,” Asked as to the “nine millionaires af@ on son ticket of delegates” fornia, the witness named Crocker, Mr, Flelahacker, Geers Cochran and M. H. De Young, whom, he eaid, gave nothing, fed Ze BE bd