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To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer Circulation Books Open to All. | IPPED. AS COMPROMISE ees PROFITEERS ARE FINED $ { “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Coolor, PN A GLS lad Ua EVENS PERS TNT RIAL I, WOES VOL. LX. NO. 21,448—DAILY. The Press Publishing w York World). JUNE 2, 1920. Entered na Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. Y PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW TORK NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, $55,000 PROFITEERING ~ IMPOSED ON Bla CLOTHING FIRM; FOUR OTHERS INDICTED Yohn.A. Roberts Co. of Utica Convicted on 11 Counts in Federal Court. SUGAR FIRM ACCUSED. Three Other Concerns to Stand Trial an 19, 10 and 19 Counts Respectively. SYRACUSE, N. Y, June 2—The John A. Roberts Corporation of Utica, dealers in wearing wpparel, was to- day fined $55,000 by Federal Judge Harland B. Howe, following its con- vistetn of profiteering on eleven |” counts two weeks ago. 8. Burdick & Gons, clothing deal- \ ere,.0¢ Siymacuse, aud Joseph Burdick, secretary of tho corporation, were In- ticted there to-day by a Federal Grand) Jury on nineteen counts éharging violations of the Lever act. Bail in each cane was fixed at $5,000. Robert B. James, of Oswego; Al- bert A. Inman, of Fulton, and Harry Martin, of Montreal, are named in an indictment charging an “attempt to monopolize and to exact an excessive price for sugar.” Mertin ts in Mon- treal und extradition will be neces- sary. Bail in tho other cases was fixed at #000. * Joseph Pulitzer of Binghamton was indicted om ten counts charging ex- cessive profits on clothing. Michael J. Loo, owner of a general department store at Utica, was in- Neted on nineteen counts fdr exact tg alloged uxcossive profits on wea ing apparel. “He owns twelve stores, Ten of the eloven counts in the Rob- ‘erte case on which conviction was re- yurted covered sales which the Gov- ernment charged were actually made. ‘These sales, as explained by th Gov- * grnanent through Department of Jus- tice agents, wore: Pi A Gress bought for $16.75 sold for’ $35; @ dress bought for $8.60 sold for $1850; @ woman's sult bought for $26.60 sold for $5; a skirt bought for $9 @old for $18.50: a coat boucht for $7.50 old for $1! @ coat bought for $87.50 evld tor $75; a coat bought tor $27.60 wold for $55; a fur coat bought for $125 sold for $250; a scurf bought tor 6.60 sold for $3. The eleventh count on which the Roberta Company was convicted changed @ conspiracy to obtain exces- «ive profits, It quoted a list of forty- eix articles giving their cost prices and figures at which the Government cleimed they were marked for sale. ‘Tho marked prices, as introduced in jevidence by the Government were on ‘average in excess of 100 per cent. higher than the cosi prices. ANOTHER HOME RUN FOR SLUGGER RUTH POLO GROUNDS, June 2.—Babe Ruth slammed out another four-base wallop tn the first inning of the first game between the Yankees and Wash- ington here this afternoon. This mukes thirteen ¢troult clouts for Ruth. . The Yanks bed a big lead on Washington up to the sixth stanza, the score standing MANCHESTER, N. H., June 2.—The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company to- day posted notices of a curtailment in orking hours in its worsted depart- affecting 8,500 ewployees, The tailment virtually amounts to a four week in this department, The os of merchants not to buy man- */ ufactuped goods under the prevailing | gh prises was given as @ reason, ot ada ore tae { yg Gay Serene ae 20,000 SHORTAGE IN MONEY OF DEAD HELD BY THE GIT Detective Sent After Clerk in Public Administrator’s Office, Away on Vacation. A chortage of $20,000 on the beoks of the Public Administrator was dis- covered to-day by investigators act- ing for Commissioner of Accounts HirshfielM. The deficit is in moneys taken from the dead by the police and usually banked for future return or adjustment. The name of the clerk intrusted with the banking of these sums was placed in tho hands of District At- torney Gwann who instructed Assis- tant District Attorney Ryttenberg to submit the matter to the Grand Jury to-morrow. This clerk is now in the norther*mpart of the State, where he has been on a three weeks’ vacation. Detective John Cunniff, of the Dis- trict Attorney's office, was sent to bring him back to this city. It was stated this afternoon in the District Attorney's office that most of the missing money had meen taken since Jan. 1 last, although the érregu- larities have been going on fér two years.’ The method employed by the per- son who did the pilfering was thus described: When he had received 5,000 of such moneys for deposit in a bank he deposited only $4,000, podketing the remaining $1,000 and falsifying the bank book on his return to his office CHILD FINDS $2,000 AND GIVES IT AWAY Real Owner, a Woman, Seeks Money Boy Handed Over to Milk Wagon Driver. When Sammy Salvarto, aged six, went out to play in front of his home in Warburton Avenue, Hastings-on- Hudson, he found a roll of bills on the sidewalk. He was tossing it around, when @ man jumped out of a milk wagon. “Gimme that, it's mine,” said. Bammy gave ft to him and the man drove off. A little later Capt. Cornell, of the Police Department, came’ alo: looking for $2,000 in cash lost by Mrs. Lizzie Yermoes, Sammy told his story. Capt. Cornell summoned milk wayon drivers to his office. All denied know- ing anything about the money. Sammy will be asked to look at them to seo if one of them was the man who took the money from him, the man THE WORLD'S SPECIAL SUMMER RESORT EDITION Will Be Published SUNDAY, JUNE 6, Advertising Copy for This Great Edition Must Be in The World Office on or Before ih lnassiitionaa Sich adi sei Se a te asad THURSDAY, JUNE 3 JILIED DOUGHBOY GETSHISSTSOBACK; |Raspa Marries Mile. Romeuf, Whom He Won With Voice While on Ship. EX-FIANCE CHEERFUL. “Rather Have It Happen Now Than in Ten Years,” De- clares Sergt. Hewlett. At 10.30 o'clock to-day word came |from Brooklyn, Pa., to the Travelers’ Aid Society that Signor ..teola Raspa. 1s a gentleman of good character and high standing in that community; 10.35 friends of the Itallan tenor turned over to Sergt. Ray Hewlet the $190 the Findlay, Ohio, man ad- vanced to pay the passage of Mlle. Emilienne Romeuf from Orleans, France, to New York, and at 10.40 Mile, Romeyf began fixing her back hair and everything preparatory to a journey to the Marriage License Bu- reau with the singer who stole her ‘heart away while they were crossing the ocean on the steamship La Savoie. Sergeant Hewlet, who said he was golng back to Ohio without delay, was the most composed of the parties to the triangle. Accompanied by representatives of the T. A., the young couple drove from the Travelers’ Ald Building at 46th Street and Lexington Avenue to the Municipal Bullding, where, the lcense having been issued, they were married by Deputy City Clerk Cruise, Raspa gave his age as twenty-six; Mile. Emilienne Bliso Raymonde Romeuf acknowledged twenty-two years. After the word “occupation,” on the license blank, Signor Raspa wrote, “none.” at POTATO PROFITEERS GET $1,000 FINE Judge Denounces Company That Bougt Potatoes at $3.69 and Sold at Advances up to $7.70. Judge Augustus Hand, in the Federal District Court this morning, fined the New York and New Jersey Produce Company, 11th Avenue and 26th Street, $1,000 after tt had pleaded gullty to an Indictment charging profiteering tn po- tatoes. “This 8 a gross case of profiteering,” fata the Court in imposing sentence. Judge Hand added that the defense's plea that the increased profits were justified ip order to make good losses suffered on other transactions had no standing in law. ‘The indictment charged profiteering on ten counts. It alleged that the company had purchased potatoes in Maine at from $3.69 to $4.32 per hundred weight and had sold them at advances up to $7.70 per hundred weight. The total profit shown on one and one-half car- loads of the potatoes was $2,000, Morris Spirt, a broker of Waterbury, Conn., appeared before Judge Hand to- day and pleaded not gullty to a charge of profiteering in the sale of 62,000 pounds of sigar, which he {s alleged to have purchased from Werren N. Hall & Co, of Waterbury, at $18.67 a hun- dred weight and to have sold tn this city to the United States Exporting Company at $26.50 a hundred weight Me was released under $3,000 bail. ———_ MINE EXPLOSION KILLS SIX. Men Buried Under * by 3 yivania PivTSBURGH, Ju | men were killed by [coal shatt of * of Barth taxt. At least six an explosion tr the the Ontario Gas Coal Company, near Cokesburg, Pa, to-day. The men. were buried under tons af earth, and the foreman in charge said NEWU.S. SHIPLINE WILL BE ONE OF ~GIRLWEDS TENOR WORLD'S LARGEST | Will Begin Operations in Fall With Leased Fleet From Shipping ‘Board. |May Get Former German Docks at Hoboken—Sail- ings Here and at Boston. Announcement of the completion of | plans for one of the largest steamship |Mnes in the world was made this H morning by Francis R. Mayer, Presi- | dent of the new United States Mail | Steamshtp Company, with offices at | No. 120 Broadway, ‘The new company, according to this statement, will begin operations in the fall, and the stock, 200,000 shares of which of no par value have been is- sued, will be owned almost entirely \by Charfes Mayer and his son, Francis R. Mayer, President of the concern. Arrangements have been made witb the United States) Shipping Board for a five-year lease at the rate of $3.50 per ton per month, of the steamers George Washington, Mount Vernon, Agamemnon, President Grant, Pocahontas, Spequehanna, Princess Matolka, Antigone and Mad- ‘awaska, all of 10,000 tons and over, and the Callao, America, Amphton and Freedom. The Huon and Acotus will be added to the fleet if posstble. ‘The company has tho first chance to buy all these vessels at the expiration of the lease period. Charles and Francis Mayer organized the France-Canada Steamship Com pany at the outbreak of the World War, operating the largest fleet of schooners in the world, and have bean the largest transporters of horses and cattle to Europe tn this country. Francis Mayer said this morning the new company has already protected itgelf in tho matter of docks, both at thig port and at Boston, tts other American terminal. The New York piers will ‘be, he said, on tthe North River and will have all modern con- vengences, including upper decks for passengers, with lower decks equipped with rafiroads for handling freight. It was admitted that the new company may take over the Hamburg-Ame.1- can or the North German Licyd pliers in Hoboken, virtually the only piers or the North River with these modern conveniences, Ships of ‘the new line will gail from this nort for Queenstown, Cherbourg and Bremen, and to Dover, England, and Danzig. The Boston service will be Queenstown, Cherbourg ani Bremen, returning via Cherbourg an1 Southampton, BABY KIDNAPPED FROM CRIB IN HOME Parents Asleep in Adjoining Room When Abductor Takes In- fant Down Ladder, NORRISTOWN, Pa, June 3.—The police of Montgomery and neighboring coufities are searching for kidnappers who entered the home of George H Coughlin of this city and stole his thir- teen-months-old son Blakely from his } ert. ‘The child was asleep in a room on the second floor adjoining that of its parents, Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the mother was aroused by a nolse. The absence of the child was intely discovered A screen had been removed from a window and there was « 1adder against the side af the hous 00,000 Naval Agreement on #440, Bil WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Senate to-day agreed to the Naval Appropria- Fett” Sie SF Ect Humber Of! eton BIll as amended in conference and gent it to the President. It carrie: ee $440,000,000 and provides for investiga WORLD RESTAURANT, fon of the project! fOr @ deep see naval pbpects: fo soda), Wadvenday June 2, sogo:| base at San Francisco, cant ‘teal ba and. apple eeace,. 6: fra Sy ae chickes! eal: ons stable d’ é= | WHAT IS SURE KRELIEV—WHY rvs Lata tn, "Wend Kan Wellnane tur Lndiseation—Adve, TO USE MODERN PIERS| | MISS HELEN TAFT WILL BE BRIDE OF YALE INSTRUCTOR Miss HELEN TAFT, Teacher Daughter of Ex-President to Wed F, J. Manning, Former Lieutenant in Artillery. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2.—Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Taft to- announced the engagement of their daughter Helen to Frederick John- eon Manning, an instruvtor in history in~Yle University He was a mem- der of the class of 1916, aud until Sep- tember, 1919, was a First Lieutenant in the Field Artillery of the United States Army. The marriage will take place in Canada in July. < Miss Helen Herron Taft, eldest child of the former President, and now twenty-nine years old, has on sheer merit won for herself a posi- tion among the leading educators of the country. She now is Acting President of Bryn Mawr College and has 20 SHOTS FRED INTO ITY: BUS; TWO WEN HEL Bank Clerk and Companion Accused After Volley From Ambush om Staten Island. Douglas Carnegie, a bank clerk of No, 611 West 161st Street and King Miller, of Mlmburst, L. L, were held tor Special Sessions in $1,500 ball by Magistrate Croak at New Brighton, Staten Island, to-day, charged with firing twenty revolver shots through the upper part of a municipal bus near Midland Beach. The volley came from the bushes alongside the road and scared twenty-four passengers in the bus. Several women falnted. A watch was kept for the men at St. George. Carroll later pointed out @ group of four. men of whom Car- nogie and Miller were two, Two re- volvers were found in Carnegte’s pocket, He had a pistol permit. The police charged that one Bait weapons was slipped to him by¥®Miller at the moment of the arrest, —_ COTTON TRADING DELAYED, in BID fr aned by, W Pats Off Opening Till £ O'Clock, An error in the enrolment of the Ag- ricultural Appropriation Bill as signed yesterday by President Wilson delayed | the opening of the New York Cotton Lxxchange to-day unt 1 o'clock Late In the forenoon word came from Washington that President Wilson had signed a joint resolution eliminating the error, sk te New Jersey Central Sunday Excursion, Baltimore ‘and. Washington, Junot, $4. iberty &., Becurday midnight (Daylight Tine).—adr, —_ BLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Pylon, (Word) yg SOY Peck i Say ter eae held the position for about a/ MONEY SCANDALS CAUSING 6 0.P.10 LOOK TO HUGHES Party Leaders at Chicago Fear Result of Nomination of Wood or Lowden. JOHNSON IS ALSO HURT. Former Justice Now Appears as the Real Dark Horse of the Comvention, (Special to The venting World.) CHICAGO, June 2.—The attempts of various Republican candidates to buy the Presidential reaching the climax of scandal in gifts of Lowden money to Missourt delegates, have the effect af proluc- ing sharp reaction in both public opinion and the attitude of practical politicians, As about all of the leading candi- dates are more or loss scotched, at- tention 1s turning to the man ‘who stands the very antithesls to the money spending aspirants as ths most availabl candidate to cleanse the Party of tho financtal scandals that menace both tonvention and election, ‘This man 1s Charles BE. Hughes, Against whose Integrity and political Probity not a reflection can ibe made. Tho possibility of this name looming largo in the convention ts already diacussed. A favorite argument against the nomination of Hughos is that a once defeated candidate cannot be elected. ‘This is contrary to Presidential his- tory. Andrew Jackson came as close nomination, delpma. pointed “with Mr. Palmer's vise.” $5 AN INCH FINES TO KEEP COLGATE MEN TRIM IN GIRTH Thirty Inches ihe Limft Among Those in Boston and’ Harvard Looks on in Wonder. to being declared elected Presidemt tn 1824 as Hughes did in 1916. He was beaten by John Quincy Adams only after the contest was thrown into the House of Rapresentatives, Afterwards Jackson was triumphantly electéd tn 1828 and {n 1832. Grover Cleveland was elected In 1884, beaten by Harriwon in 1888 and again elected in 1892 Hughes t9 the one seriously dis- oussed candidate who has sought no delegates, entered no primary, made fo declarations, and kept absolutely out of the race. As an antidote for the scandalous disclosures of corrupt Practices, he 1s commanding sudden and rapidly spreading interest. Lowden was the favorite ynti! to- day, Now no uninstructed ‘delegate would dare to vote for him without running the risk of insinuations that he had received donations like those of the two Missouri delegates. Gen. Wood's costly campaign and the reckless throwing about of money in his behalf is becoming a dally increasing handicap, Harding and Johnson are political spenders only in lesser degree, > SHIP SALES ABROAD terests of ships more than ten yeara oli and not exceeding 6,000 dead-welght } tons ne bi would require that 15 per cent. of thé stock of companies engaged in coastwise trade be American owned aa well as the majority interest In or- ganizations engaged in foreign trade, Americans would be given fifteen APPROVED IN BILL Conference Measure Provides Ef- forts Must Be Made to Dispose of Vessels Here First. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Gale of American ships to foreign interests If, after diligent effort, the Shipping Board unable to dispose of tham to is provided for in the Mer- chant Marine Bill as finally agreed upon ‘dy Senate and House conferees after virtually an all-night seston, The conferees eliminated Sena posals to limit the sale af to years in which to pay for #hips, but for- elgners would be allowed only ten years and they would be required to pay not lesa than 5 per cent. Interest A. bi- Shipping Board of goyed maces la Brovig if r ite mem- re selected geographically, two each from the Pacific and Atlantic Goasts, and one such Saat ‘Guit, partisan permanen: (pectal to The brening World.) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June, 2 HERB ure to be no more “per fect 368” among tho Cols gate University men in Bos- ton. The flat has gone forth that 20 1s a sufficient circumference for any male with Colgate for Ame Mater. Perhaps the tong, lean took of the Harvard species may have tad something to do with it; per- haps it may have been anothe: phase of the “sweeping reduction” movement which has gone broad~ cast over the country; perhaps it may have been to curtail tho square measure of cloth necessary to clothe the Colgate men; per haps the women bad eomething to do with it. But the fact remains that henoe- forth all Colgate men living in Boston are to be assessed $5 for every inch their girth exceeds thirty inches, Alumni with eagic eyes and tapo measures beran to~ day the task of locating the vio- lators of the new personal profile regulation and reducing them at least in pocket, if not in clreum~- ference, Harvard is wondering whether this ts a beginning on the part of Colgate to establish a standard of pulchritude among umversity men. BUTTER DROPS AGAIN. Another Wholesale Price Reco Fall of Four Cents, ‘The wholesaie price of butter drop- ped four cents to-day, The highest grade creamery product brought 55 to 56 cents and good grades were selling at 63 to 63. Consumers ought to get the fancy kind not more than 60 cents, and the next best at 57 or 58. The decline was attributed to tne fact that lange amounts hitherto held back by the freight situation, found thelr way to market. New potatoes showed no price dectine to-day, w incoming shipments from the South amounted. to 301 care loads in two days, the large amount éver received in 80 short a Ume at this season of e year, ‘Com- PHILADELPHIA, Boles Penrose was to-day re-elected a June 2,—Senator momber of the Republican National Committee from Pennsylania by the State Committee which met here for its ular reorg imation. ‘The Gematar fas not at the mecting, being i et his 6 A Bic Mitta a PALMER CAMPAIGN RIDDLED AT SENATORIAL INQUIRY; ACCUSED OF VIOLATING LAW Bonniwell Testifies Attorney Gen- eral’s Managers Openly Favor Liquor Interests, That Whiskey Is Released From Bond and That Four Men Have Made $1,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Oharges that the campatgn for the nom- ination of Attomey General Palmer as Demooratic candidate-for the Presidency had been conducted in Pennsylvania with an open appeal to the aistillery and brewery interests in the State, were made to-day befare the Senate Investigating Coramittee, by ‘Bugene C. Bonniwell of Phila- Mr. Bonnlwefl, who distributed stickers during the Primary cannpatgn seeking the nomination of W. S, McAdoo, said that saloons and bonded. warehouses in some parts of the State were now running “‘wide open” and that this was proceeding under the eyes of Department of Justice and Prohibition enforcement officers of the Federal Government, ap- ‘% The wnness charged that the Palmer campaign in Pennsylvania had been a “ghastly and dogredation” of law, He added that the campaign he conducted for Mr. McAdoo had been entirely the work of himself and his wolleagues and against the specific personal refusal of Mr. McAdoo to allow his name te de used. ‘ Mr. Bonniwell said that et moran- ton, Pu, where the District Attorney was “Mr, Palmer's partner,” the sit- aation was» particularly bad with re- lation to open tion of the Pre- hibition law. He added that men directly connected with the Mquor in- terests were among the Palmer dele~ gates to the National Convention elected at the recent primaries, “I organized w campaign in Oppest- tion to Attornay General Pajmer,” Mr. Bonniwell said, “and I know all about what was done in it, and & great deal about what the other gide aia.” “This wa» a McAdoo casnpaign tn Pennsylvania?” Chairmen Kenyon. asked. “Yes, etr, It was exclusively an act of myself and associates,” Mr, Bon- niwell said, “I met Mr. McAdoo in January. He took the position that he was not @ candidate, that he di¢ not want to onganize, Q. How much money 414 you epend on it? A. T was making a battle for National Committeeman, and I'm frank to say that the MoAdoo work was a great benefit to me, SAYS CAMPAIGN FOR PALMER COST $300,000. Axked as to ‘the use of money on the other side, he eat: “My advices are that $10 a committeeman was pald in Philadelphia, From Dauphin County, the chairman wrote me that the Pennsylvanta fight cost she Palmer men between $200,000 ang $800,000." Hore the committee objected on the ground the witness was dealing with rumor, “I'm not,” Mr, BonniweM returned. “The name of my informant was Charles B. Stucker. They had elght or ten men employed in polling places in counties where there were hardly 2,000 Democratic votes, Bruce Sterl<« ing was directing the fight. This lete ter went to every Federal officer i% the State," the witness continuing, turning over to the committee a docue ment signed by Joseph K. Willing of. Philadephia, It was a solicitation ge? funds for ‘A. Mitchell Palmer, the Pershing of Pennsylvania,’ The doors of the bonded warehouses in Pennsylvania are | standing wide open,” Mr, Bennl- * well said. “The breweries es running every day and the cas.