The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1920, Page 3

z AR BAY LABOR FALS TOPLEDGE AID I Framers of‘ Definite Pro- ' gramme of Building Blame Workmen for Delay. MORE WAGE DEMANDS. President of Building Trades , Council Fails to Attend Committee Meeting. Plasterers and painters are already Committed to a $10 a day schedule and before to-morrow night other bramohes in the building trades will be making similar demands accord- ing to fnformation received at yes- ferday’s meeting of the wommittee of the Mayor's Housing Conference Committee. Builders declare that it is Impos- sible to rent a dwelling at less than $20 a room, with labor demanding a flat $10°a day wage. Edward P, Doyle, a member of the Mayor's Committee, said to-day that Ptesident Brindell of the Building ‘Trades Council did not appear at the meeting ‘although assurances had been given to the committee that he would attend, Those who are en- deavoring to formulate a definite progtamme of building assert that labor is the only element in the en- tive "situation that has thus far failed to give definite promise of co-oper- ation. “A written invitation was sent to President Brindell of tho Building ‘Trades to attend the meeting of the yor’s Committee,” sald Mr. Doyle. went to his office and there me Roswell Tompkins, his Secretary. TI ‘was assured that Mr, Brindell would attend the meeting but he did not show up.” Builders recall that in 1872 shortly before the panic, the cost of labor was almost as high as it is now. After the financial crash mechanics were glad to work for $2 a day, Mr. Doyle said. The Real. Estate Board of New York has informed the Board of Esti- mate that it would be inadvisable at this time to proceed with the erec- tion of a new court house on the ground that the job would utilize labor and material needed for the erection of dwellings. “Delay in the court house project would hort no one,” the Real Estate Board's appeal reads, ‘but delay-in the production of houses would invite a public calam~- sty" FUND FOR DEFUNCT BANK DEPOSITORS Verdicts for Judgments of $211,100 Against Former Brooklyn Trust Company or Shareholders. Verdicts aggregating $211,100 against former stockholders of the Laf ‘Trust Company were returned to-day efore Justice Benedict in the Supreme Sourt, Brooklyn, in favor of Bugene 14 Richards, who was State Superin- tendent of Banks at the time the trust company failed, The amounts of the judgments will be placed in a fund for the benefit of depositors of the defunct institution. Dhe judgments do not include as de- fendants stockholders who paid in amounts totalling $260,000, the ambant of stock they held. Among the’ ver- dicts returned were against; Richard K. Haldane, $10,000; the estate of the late Magistrate EB. G. Higginbotham, $6,000; ‘rank, Jenkin 17,000; Edward T. Jen- ing, $10,000; John'G, ‘Jenkins ar.; $30,~ 000; John G. Jenkina jr., $20,000; Fred Jenkins, $10,600; Fred Kater,» $10,200, and Kathryn Murphy, as executrt of the estate of John B. Murphy, $23.6! ‘The trust company was close on Nov. 20, 1908. At the time it had book ussets of $2,876,783 and liabilities of $2,801,731. ae IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Pratt Institute, commencement exer- pises, Academy of Music, Brooklyn, 2,30 P.M holic Writers’ Guild, meeting, No, 420-224 West 42d Street, evenin, New York County American Legion, meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, 8 P, M. Railway Mall Association, meeting, Flotel Pennsylvania. $ P. M. National Home Furnishers’ Agsocia- tion, meeting and dinner, Cafe Boule. vard, lat treet, near Broadway, 6 PM or Boat Club of America, meeting, office of Commodore Judson, No. $6 East 42d Streot, 3 P.M. Zeta Pai Fraternity of North Amer- jea, convention, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, 9A Motor Truck Association of America, meeting, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, 2 P.M National Retail Dry Goods Associa- tion of America, dinner, Hotel Waldorf- Astoria, 7 P. M. Sterling Silverware Manufactu meeting, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, A Spectalt: 4 y Manufacturers, Idorf-Astoria, ‘Ametican meeting, Hotel W: 16 A.M. Saeelaeeeel resem Platform in Baptiat Convention 14} Three Hart Seriously, BUFFALO, Juno A~ temporary platform at the Broadway Auditorium bn which about 100 delegates to the Northern Baptist Convention were hav- ing their plotures taken, collapsed a few Fihhutes after the close of this morn- ing’s acasion. ‘Three persona Were se- yerely hurt amd several othera were cut gnd bruised, —_-— ‘Hotel Site Now Valued at 82,000,000, rice of $2,900,000 was net on the Grand Union Hotel site, 42d_ Street and Fourth Avenue, by the Sinking nd Commission yesterday, In a resor hutionsauthorizing ‘Tranait Construction tommissioner Jolin H. Delaney to offer tat private ‘or, public sale This. is 100, more than the price ed was offered ai Gra Ani upset po mee ew wecke ago, with np bidders * Agures. \ alba building | at Fo THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1920. FEDERAL INQUIRY ~ INTO OIL FRAUDS , HOUSING PROBLEM, 10 BE CONTINUED, , Two ‘Prominent New York Concerns Said to Be In- | volved in Investigation, | Listas | Following the return of the dictments by the Fedéral Grand Jury against oll companies, ten brokerage concerns and fifty individ- uals, politicians, lawyers, detpetives | and others have been approaching the four (Ggvernment prosecutors, presumably with the hope of learning how they “edn get out from under,” according to Government officials. The Government drive, Assistant United States District Attorney Sim- mons said to-day, would continue for lat least six months, Men tn high places will be reached, he declared. Two prominent New York concerns are sald to ‘be involved in the inquiry. Attorney Simmons received sovics Of letters to-day from persons who had been mulcted by stock frauds. Among them was a letter from an @ged couple who had sunk their en- tire life savings in a worthless oll stock proposition and who are now penniless, ‘The following were arraigned to- day before Federal Judge Learned Hand charged with fraudulent use of the mails in connection with the wale of oll stocks: Alexander R. Grossman of Grossman, Sherman & | Co., brokers, No, 7 Pine Street, al- leged to have sold W, P. Williams Oi! Company stocks, and Samuel Newhouse of George A. Lamb & Co., No, 2% Fifth Avenue, salesman, alleged to have sold Great Western Petroleum Corporation stocks. They pleaded not guilty and bail was fixed at $2,000 for each. 'B. X. Dawson, a broker of (No. 505 Fifth Avenue, also pleaded not guilty. He guve $10,000 Wall. Dawson is charged with having sold 200,000 shares of Crown Ol stock, in viola- tion of the mail laws. (M, Klein and Charles Friedture, salesmen for Lamb & Co., pleaded per guilty and were released on $2,000 SEARCH HERE NOW _ FOR MRS. H. K. LEE Shepherd Dog Loses Trail at Dis- posal Plant in New Rochelle City Park. of Harvey K..Lee, who between the hours of 1 and 1.80 o'clock Jast Mon- day morning disappeared from the home of her brother-in-law, E. A. Nield, at Larchmont, has extended to this city. Mr. Lee to-day asked the police to aid him in his quest. A shepherd dog yesterday took up the scent at Simpson's Corners, where the missing woman was last seen, and | traiied it to the disposal plant at City Park, New Rochelle. Here pe seemed jcompletely lost, for his pefformance | was repeated three times and he got no further, Mrs. Lee lived at No. 816 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, and had gone with her husband to Larchmont, on the advice of her physician, after a nervous breakdown, Mr. Lee thinks she may have had her home in mind when she left the Nield house. When last seen she was clad in a blue suit over her nightgown. She wore a blue straw hat trimmed with flowers, brown silk stockings and rubbers. 4 AUTO BANDITS ROB CIGAR STORE Hold Up Clerk at Revolver Points and Escape With $20 in Cash. Jt was learned early to-day that four ‘bandits held up Roy Dhuy in the United cigars store at No. 70 Barclay Street, corner of Greenwich, at 6 P. M. yes- terday, He was alone when a touring car stopped out front, ‘ One man remained ‘at the wheel and three entered the atore and asked for cigarettes, When Dhuy turned to them he was looking into three revolvers, The robbers told him to hold up his hands, keep quiet and march to the rear. One stood guard over him while the two others went through the cash register, getting only $20. eae MERLE-SMITH SWORN IN. New Yorker Succeeds 1 as Third Assistant Seoretary of State. Santvoord Merle-Smith of New York yes- terday was sworn in as Third Assistant Secretary of State, succeeding Breckin- ridge Long, who is In Missouri, conteat- ing for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, Major Merle-Smith was born at Sea- bright, N. J., June 22, 1889, and is now a legal resident of Oyster Bay. He is & graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. When the United States entered the war he joined tho 165th Infantry, He was promoted to Major in 1917 and served until 1919, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary herolsm in action, Major Merle-Smith was once enga, in the service of the American Em- haasy at Tokio and the American Lega- tion at The Hague, Ho was military aide and private secretary of former Secretary of State Lansing during the €onference, He entered Peace apecial drafting officer. ‘Fred K. Nielsen of Nebraska has as- the ottice of Solicitor in the ‘tment, tn- bail set at $5,000; | Search for Mrs. Ada M. Lee, wife | WASHINGTON, June 26,—Major Vas ‘Women From Staten Island Marching | On City Hall to Demand Car Service GAS FAMINE FOR CONEY ISLAND After Aug. 1 Unless Company Is Allowed to Raise Rates, Says Manager. ‘The “hot dogs” at Coney Island and neighboring resorts are in danger un- leas the Brooklyn Borough Gas Com- pany is permitted to increase ita rates for gas. That corporation, through its general manager, Miss Mary B. Dill complained to the ‘Pubjic Service Com- mission to-day @hat after Aug. 1 it no} longer will be able to supply gas at the prevailing raté of $1.15 a thousand cubic feet. Miss Dilion testified before Deputy Commissioner Barrett that the present ott supply for was making purposes will run out in August and the ofl com- panles thus far solicited want 14 cents gallon instead of 7 3-4 cents now paid. Under these ratea for gas oll, she said, the company faces @ loss, of $160,000. Furthermore, all the bungalows, camp sites, lunch’ stands and coffee wagons |at the Coney Island, Gravesend and other Brooklyn resorts cook by gas, and they are in danger this summer, she eald, of being deprived of their fuel supply. She figured @ rate of $1.40 thousand cuble feet would “tide the company over." She said olghty per cent, of the 80,000 gas consumers in the Sist Ward of Brog‘dyn have no coal stoves or chimneys in their homes. Deputy Commissioner Barrett served decision. WHEN IS A HOTEL APARTMENT HOUSE? re- Appellate Division to Decide Dis tinction In Case Under the New Rent Laws. ‘When does a hotel become an apart- ment house? Thix question was sub- mitted to the Appellate Division to-days in connection with relief sought under the new rent laws in the case of the Waitt Investing Co., operating an apart- ment hotel at No. 309 West 86th Street, against Ralph S. Robbins, a tenant, The Waitt Company seeks to recover $105, said to bq one month's rent. This ja at an Increaved rate, Mr. Robbins having paid ¢77.60 a month under his former lease. ‘The defendant, under the new rent laws, insiats that the land- lord cannot ine his rental albove twenty-five per cent. Here the question of a distinction arises, The plaintife desoribes its bulld- and ‘avers that It d n the 1915 code of or: dinances because (t maintains a dining room and more than 16 sleeping rooms, and accommodates transients, Because most of its apartments are under jease, it does not lose its hotel character, the plaintif( charges, and al- leges that big hotels lease many of their suites —— PORTER COMMITS SUICIDE. Cats Throat Twice and Jumps Into Sound at Clason Voint. The body of Ignatz Maydola, Afty-six, was picked up to-day in the East River by Cwpt. Cherry of the Department of Corrections boat Whitney off Riker’s Island, Maydola had been a port at Historic Inn, Clawson's Point. Detective Hazlett of ‘the Simpson Street station sald he epparently cut his throat last night In his home in South w Avenue o then ran to a stringplece over the Sound, Here he cut his throat again and Jumped into the water. A murder was investigation reve ‘heen melancholy. found on the atringpiece, of Justice to Wit at The Hague. THE HAGUE, June 25.—(Associated Prese.)—The Commission of Juriats in vession | for the formation of a permane! mrt of International Ju , a8 provided for in the Langue of Nations Covenant, has unanimously de cided that this Court shull be located at the Hague, voted ut dola had e used was Intern ———, Interbere Gets Debt Extension, Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer to-day directed James 1, Sheffield as receiver for the Interboro Consolidated ation to grant the Lnterboro &: ‘Transit Company six months more time for payment of notea for $1,000,000 bor~ BROOKLYN GETS TWO RECRUITS IN FIGHT ON H.C. L. Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge Co-Operative Societies File Certificates of Incorporation. T reduce the high cost of liv- ing by the establishment of co-operative societies -received two. recruits to-day, when certifi- cates of incorparation were filed in the County Clerk's office for the Fort Hamilton Co-operative Society and the Bay Ridge Co- Operative. Soclety. They were fapltalized at $10,000 each, in ‘Shares of $ cach. Women pla: important part in the organiza- tion of these societies, as in the other four already established. ‘Tith certificates declare it is the purpose of the eociety to engage fm producing, manufacturing, end merchandising. ‘The incorporators of the Fort Hamilton organization are Mrs. Charles Meyers, No. 525 88th Street; Mrs. G. Olsen, No. 584 92d Street; Mrs, William Gumber, No. 72 Dahlgren Plac Minnie Walker, No. 78 Gelston Avenue: Ethel Guinan, No. 113 92d Street, all of Brooklyn, and Arthur R Hurst of No. 120 Broadway, hattan. HE movement in Brooklyn to wee ES GIRL SAVES FATHER, SEEKING DEATH Baker, Deserted by Wife, Had Pros- ecuted Man Who Claimed to Know Whereabouts. Haskell J. Baker, whose wife had deft him and thefr two children and e all efforts to locate her, was to a found by hfs twelve-year-old daughter Ruth half dead fn thelr home, No. ‘711 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn with @ tube from a gas fixture in his mouth. He was taken to Kings Count Hospital, after he had been with a pulmotor. Baker was a complainant Fifth Avenue Police Court revive He may die. in yesterda against Gordon Mitchell, twenty, of No. 206 70th charged with attempted Baker testified that Mitch fered to tell him wh upon payment of $1 police wert notified and when Baker met Mitch fn 4 saloon two detectives in an a Joining room Mstened, Mitchell pleade not guilty fn court and was held | $1,500 ball for examinat Bast Street, Manhattar extortion friendship for Mitchell's induced him to move Waterbury, Conn. tp Brooklyn, - ae TEN YEARS FOR $6 THEFT. brother aded the 1} had of- Baker was nm towmorrow: Baker stated that it was Mra, Baker's that thelr home from CRAG DEFENDS CITY PER LEASE TO TANMUANY MAN Denies La Guardia’s Charge That Hagan Firm Can Sub- let Valuable Property. Comptroller Craig to-day issued a» statement to explain why he, as a member of the Sinking Fund Com- mission, voted yesterday for a tem- year lease of a hitherto open pler at the foot of East Fourth Street to Carroll; Hagan & Carrot, of which firm the son df “Jimmy” Hagan, the RIL WAGE ANARD LKELY TOSETE PER STRKE HERE Decision In Pay Dispute May Have Immediate ‘Effect On Longshoremen’s Walk Out The Railroad Labor Board’a prom- ise to President Wilson to expedite its decision on railroad wage ques- tlons was received with satisfaction by labor leader n New York to-day. ident T. V, O'Connor of the In- ternational Lotigghoremen's Assocla- tion sald that the settlement of thes: Ware questions, even on @ tentative basis, would probably have immediate effect on the constwise longshore- men’s strike, “The long#horemen higher wages, and the steamship companies claim they must have higher freight rates in order to pay higher wages," said O'Conner, “But the Interstate Commerce Commission does not want to decide questions of freight rates until it knows what wages the common pay. If the Raltlroad Labor Board fixes higher wages at once the Inter- state Commerce Comminsion will know how to figure on rate it ought to lead to a speedy settlement of the whole situation.” The Citizens’ Transportation Com- mfttee announced to-day that its trucks moved 170,000 pounds of freight yesterday from ‘the coastwise piers and that there are now twice as many trucks operated at these piers by In- dopendent owners as by the commit- tee, The congestion longshore etrike was “practic P H. Pushae Williams, a member of the Transportation Committee, was must have the Consolidated Stock Exchange this fternoon, explaining the situation. no of the ‘Trans- said that papers | law commit | portation Comm Tammany leader, 18 a member. Mayor fiylan and President La |Guardia of the Board of Aldermen voted against the lease, which was granted for ten years at $14,000 a year, Mr. La Guardia characterizing the award us "the fattest Tammany plum that has been plucked during my tenure of office” and adding that the Jease also gave the right to suh- let the pler and produce a profit of several hundred thousands a year, In his statement, Comptroller Cralg said that President La Guardia spoke without regard for the facts, that the lessee of the pier can neither assign nor.sublet the lease save upon recom- |mendation of the Dock Department with the approval of the Sinking Fund Commissioners: He also said that La Guardia omitted any reference to the action of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund with respect to the pier at tho, foot of East Fifth Street, for which he voted. The Comptroller also chal- lenged La Guardia's statement as to “politics in the opening of the piers," saying that this was utterly without foundation, AUTO KILLS BOY OF FIVE. jonpital, Bet Ar Thomas Fair, five, of No. Bay Street, Rose k, S. 1, was killed this morning ®y an automobile driven by Hans Hermanson of No. 340 Dakland Avenue, West New Brighton, ‘The boy was pulling a small wagon up Bay Street, at Roscbank. Near St. Mary's street and was run over. The driver took the boy to the U. 8. Marine Hos- pital at Stupleton, Hut he was dead on arrival. Several hundred crowd saw the accident. y rag § i rs a |CAN ; response with whi f 4 a in PEANUT BRITTLE‘ Crisp, aromatic, studded w Churh he swerved to the middie of the | people in the noon | ILLER “Better Chocolates aka Lower Price’ In appreciation of the enthusiastic ith plump jumbo peanuts—a sat- would be filed ly to-day or ¢ morrow in the prosecutions already announced against steamship cor panies refusing to accept merchandi: | handled: by the committee's trucks. |It is generally admitted that the |steamship companies would ha | been willing to accept such morehan- | dise but for the fear of trouble with | thelr emplo: ——— | SAYS GERMANS NEED U. S. AID geht cr {Herman Mets Declares They Want American Raw Material, Lieut-Colonel Herman A. Metz, for- ‘mor Comptroller, arrived to-day on the American Line steamship Mongolia, He had travelled extensively in Germany and said that although the country had jample supply of men and machinery, raw material was lacking, Germany, he added, was looking to the United States to supply this and that if this gountry did not do it, Th engin men of Germany, he turning their clothes inside out prolong thelr wear and that even mil- jonaires were eager to receive the Hoover packa, Ho met Whert, the President, and thought him a sensible man with good Ice 08, us. which put Vigo, Spain, were 470 Spanish granta on thelr way to. farms in Southern —¢ fter, it was sald, Vigo will be a reg- iar port of call. \f ANCRE | With the Gonuine Roguefirt Favor CNEESE “I do believe that half Jack’s pleasure in: our motor trips lies in the Ancre Cheese sandwiches I take along,” says Mae. ) MADE BY SHARPLESS, PHILA. in at DIES ch the public has greeted our successful innovation of offering the higher grade of can- dies at lower prices, we are Still Continuing Our Special Reduction Sale 29c 44c Nap E RS Special Special Kerr Gets Seven Years Vor Part isfying treat In 85,000 Hold~Up. RAISIN CLUSTERS Judge Malone in Genenal sion to- Winey, juicy, ripe, raisins cloyed together with rich Milk day imposed two stiff sentences on men Chocolate. .... > re convicted of robbery MILK CHOCOLATE PLANTATIONS 49 James Ki No, 165 Tilbrey Street, Virginia molasses, forming a disk of sheepmuvorjness... Special Cc Brooklyn, ex-convict, waa sentenced tof ASSORTED MILK CHOCOLATES seven years in the penitent April 25 he and three other 1 tered the apartment of Louls Sharp, » 740 Fitth*Street, and with draw tols held up the players In dice gume Fresh fruit favors, Chocolate MILK CHOCOLATE WGS SALTED PEANUTS They got about $5,000 In money and Perfect Virginia peanuts, deliciously Jewelry. All but Kerr escaped SUPER ASSORTED CHOCO! Wemicke, No. 149 Bast 85th Carl was senten _on conviction as rowed by the I, R. T. several months “m0 to mect its obligations. The notes are extended from June 30 to December based to ten years in} second | centers. nder of burglary in’ the third de-| Kreo. On May 18 he stole $6 worth of clothing from @ store at No. 1620 Third . Beeadwar Avenue, His record showed he had trondwey Broud way beer sentenced to Himira in 1912 and At Bering Ot eeer S88 to Bing Sing in 1913, 1915 and 1917, all (or burglary. \ ——— luscious cream centers, blankets of Milk Great, luscious figs, straight from the sunny orchards Special ‘The very finest grade of Milk Chocolates with fondant cream Watch for the opening of Our Eighth Store. 49c 49c 44c Special star-studded with salt Spe, LATES Special Miller’s Seven Convénient Stores Every Pound Box Contains 16 Ounc of Candy. 1440 Broadway prey tie 1608 Broadway At ¢0e Br i andy Ann carriers are to| to address the Board of Governors of | 67c || NEGRO POLICEMAN KILLS MAN IN DUEL | Had Got Humphreys to Go Home, but Latter Got Weapon and Came Backs ‘Thom: Humphreys, twenty-five, @ negro, stationary fireman, Itving at No, 2400 Seventh Avenue, Was shot in the ‘Dreast and killed at 1 A. M. to-day in West 125th Street, near Fifth Avenue, by Walter Allen, twenty-nine, a negro Polleeman, attached to the West 135th Street Station and on the force about two months, According to the'potice, Allen was off duty and in civilian clothes when three women who knew he was a policeman ran up to him at #ifth Avenue and 196th Street and told him a man was threat. ening everybody in a nearby restaurant with a knife Allen persuaded Bum- phreys to go home. A short time later, Humphreys ap- ‘looking for the peared with a revolver, cop that told me_to go home.” East Third Street, was walking the Bowery ¢o- thrust suddenly (6 her throat and went her $200 diamond Jovalliere, away on the car bicycle, Patrolman Harry rear wheel of the the rider, lavalllere EP Spring Toma Ce 1 owe my dandlady he said, “and she said if I didn’t pay her to~ rider Fra, |. The name of Joseph Poolt mn it twa) He fired jay. The Home of 40 Famous Brands of Clothes for Men and Young Men SENIOR” Sale of 24 Floor ISW. 34%S¢. “JUNIOR Entire 50% "What It Cost 60 Days Ago! 15,000 Suits For Men and Young Men 40 Famous NationallyAdvertised Brands tochoose from Sizes 33 to 42. When the wholesale market collapsed recently, we Saw an opportunity to make a tremendous saving for our customers by taking advantage of the situa- tion, buf our enthusiasm led us to buy far too heavily. Between our own regular stocks and the large number of Suits purchased by us on a low market’ we have fully 10,000 garments more on hand than we should have at this time. decided upon this sweeping clearance of our entire stock at the above amazingly low prices. your chance to get a wonderful bargain. nothing reserved. ENTIRE SECOND FLOOB (Between Sth Ave. and Broadway) Opp. Waldorf Hotel Masteiiasiss: dial bit, About 275 Suits Mostly young men’s models in the lighter shades. two of a style; Values up to $40, For Suits That Less ‘Than fo Days Ago Sold at $37.50 $40 $45 Thousands of them to choose from. Light and dark colors. All sizes. For Suits That Less ‘Than 60 Days Ago Sold at $50 $52.50 $55 Regulars, longs, shorts, stouts and extra sizes. All fabrics and colors. For Suits That Less Than 60 Days Ago Sold at i $60 $62.50 $65 The very highest standard of ready- for-service clothes for men. All sizes and models. One and Here 15 West 4th Pleaded Need of Room Rent, Mra, Angelina Poggeoreals, No, #9 jay when & hand was turned and saw a man pedalling rapidly Her cries caught Traffic A, who Cag} bo Bg w a Street. when he was taken to rt for Marra! he'd put me aus GF (Between Sth Ave. & B'way) Se Stock Valued at Over a Million Dollars. at Practically ‘That is why we have Positively down away, She 4 the 1, No. Megud * 4 is