The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1920, Page 3

PRESS PROPAEAND USED EFFORT TD - BOOST CAS PRES Emergency Committee Tells Companies to Seek Aid of Newspaper Men. EDITORS’ , -\-ASKS HELP| | Urges Personal Calls to Win | Support in Campaign for Higher Rates, By Sophie Irene Loeb. | Judge John C. Knox of the United | States District Court has signed or- | ters allowing Charles D. Newton, | State Attorney General, to take ap- | Peals to the United States Supreme Court on the question of charging more than 80 centa for gas, a rate| which The Evening World established im 1906 and has vigorously fought to maintain since that time. | A merry war is anticipated. And old Adrian Blook must be turhing in | his grave. Little did he realize when ‘he built the first four houses in Man- hattan in 1613 what the city would develop into and how much it would eget the average dweller to maintain the commonest kind of a home in ac- cordance with twentieth century de- mands. | Following another milk raise and a | coal raise, now comes a concentrated | battle for raising the price of gas, one | of the most essential commodities in the household of the New Yorker. | The manner in which injunction after injunction has been demanded by the gas companies of the city and Whe consant effort to keep the city authorities out of the courts show to| ‘What lengths the Gas Trust are going to nullify the 80-Cent Gas Law. How is this done? By eecking the Federal Courts the gas corporations put every stumbling block possible in the way of the Cor- poration Counsel, so that he is not permitted to be a party to the action and therefore cannot defend the New York consumers. move is the establishment of a so-| calied "Emergency Comittee” American Gas Association with the prime object of cultivating the ac- wuaintanceship of editors of newspa- pers in order to help thelr case along. _ This committee, with headquarters vat the Hotel Pennsylvania and Snow- den H, Summers as its director, has issued a little booklet designated as “a booklet of suggestions for gas| | company officials concerning ways | and means of obtaining the right kind of co-operation from the newspapers in the campaign of the Emergency Committee of the American Gag As- sociation.” * Here are some of the directions to these gas companies contained in the booklet: “Go to the newspaper offices your- self, Be friendly. Newspaper men often are really quite well worth knowing on a purely friendly basis, “Your local newspaper editor is your natural friend and ally and a tremendous asset in the campaign to be carried on by the Emergency Com- mittee of the American Gas Associa- tion. “The editor of the average news paper—and this is particularly tru in the smaller cities—is a man who usually has some financial interest in the newspaper. He is the man who controls and directs the paper's edi- torial policy on nearly all matters. | ersonal cails on the editor of your home paper are invaluable. But you must use good judgment in se- lecting the time to see him, and bear in mind that he usually is busy. "On afternoon papers see the city editor before 11 o'clock in the for noon, In the case of morning papers, | see him between 2 and 4 in the after- noon. “Frequently the city editor will turn you over to one of his reporters, “If the reporter seems cynical and not much impressed, do not be critical or anxious. He is not necessarily un- intelligent or trying to ‘throw the story down.’ It takes a good deal to arouse much enthusiasm in the aver- age reporter, but he seldom lets any real news get by, him facts and answer his questions frankly and fully, Leave all th st to him. “if there is any subject in which you think the gas consumbr would be Interested, notify your local news- and, if it appeals to the city editor, have a definite time and place fixed for an interview. Keep the ap- | tment. Do not keep reporters | ing to see you, neat You may find a means by which! your local consumers may be inter- ested and be brought tavorabl: view a proposed increase in ra: | The closing itema of the booklet are also worthy of note, showing how extensive the programme to. give “news” to the consumers about gas companies is planned: “Information for the public—and that is publicity: the lifeblood of any sound campaign, Anaemic pub- licity produces public apathy, and public apatffy spells certain death to any proposition, no mutter how sound at bottom it may be, or how neces- sary or worthy the object, | “The Nation-wide information cam- | paign of the Emergency Committee ‘ims to produce real and definite re- jults toward solving the vital prob- jems of tho gas industry that Titically affect the living condltic. of 45,000,000 United States, “you can be of invaluable assist- ance. Every gas company official nust do his part.” w Among the companies that have| obtained injunctions | dated Gas, Central U a river G vy Amsterd york M Gas Light, ’ Ona, ard Ch ogy County béighting. orthern, Lignt and Coe ees ae» nen. ‘ALLAN A. TATUM, WHO FIGURES IN TRUNK MYSTERY) | s INT. BRONX DEMANDS < EXTRA SESSION ON HOUSING RELIEF “Quick Ac tion or 40,000 Bronxites Will Be Living on Sidewalks,” Says Robitzek, “Unless something 1s done at once, nicipal |40,000 Bronx residents will be living on tho sidewalks In October,” Court Justice Robitzek Mu- tod the Lockwood Committee last night. It was the first of a series of meet- ings the joint Legislative Committee on Housing is holding in the Br nx | for suggestions as to changes necded The latest and most astounding in the rent laws. There was an urgent demand for ° of tie | special session of the Legislature for ;quick action by delegates represent- ing tearly a million rent payers in the Bronx and on Washington Heights. There were also many “suggestions” for changes in the law. The committee heard about a dozen terested in acute, Seven a jmen and women who have been in- Jandlord-tenant |sinco the housing situation be hundred attended matters a the meeting held at Morris High Schoul, Judge Robitze er and embodie ok din his s the first speak- k his ree- ommendations cited in The Evening World several ws giving Mu power to exten proceedings from three to five y de in. dd a stay y3 Ago. He urged | pal Court Justices in holdover rs: empowering the Court to fix rent ac- cording to include stores, lofts the conditions of repairs; extending the anti-rent-gouging Jaws | and hoteis, and placing the burden of proof up in the inc “Act sald. session. landlord Jon shou ‘You in should Unless you courts will be powerless to stop evic- every case o} 1d come for ent at once,” he urke a special wet busy the tions in October, and you'll find 40,000 persons in the Bronx alone “on the sidewalks William A Cahill, counsel to the University Heights Rent Payers’ Ax- sociation, urged the repeal of the part of Section 139 senaby per cent. which fixes the rei ine for rent tnereases at CHARGES MAYOR “PACKED” MEETING ~ ONWAR MEMORIAL Curran Says Plan Has Degen- erated Into Rivalry for Public’s Money. Manhattan Borough Prestdent Hen- | ty H. Curran charged to-day that Thursday's meeting of the Arts and Executive Committee of the Mayor's Committee on Permanent. Memorial, which toted in favor of a bridge across the Hudson River as the form of New York's tribute to her soldiers, was packed with favorites of Mayor Hy- lan and that the entire eshemo has degenerated into a mercenary rivalry between two committees—the Mayor's Committee and the Victory Hall Committes—to see which can first get thé public's money. | “I was present at the meeting,” satd Mr. Curran, “and 1 moved that action be postponed for at least six months—meanwhile holding as many meetings as the members desired—in omer that as many suggestions as Possible might be received. France, which ts older in art than we, hae de- cided to walt twenty years before fi- nally deciding upon a World War memorial. “My motion for delay wne lost at the packed meeting by @ vote of tep to six. “Phere are over 500 members of the Mayors Committee on Permanent |Memorlal. Out of that number only twenty-three were present, which means that on my proposal to wait) and carefully consider this all impor- tant question ten men out of the 500 | decided the question, which was but to walt and deliberate. “Ofhand, I cannot recall fe names of the entire ten, but I can give you seven of them, You will recogntze all of them as being specifically qualified by artistic temperament to pass on so momentous @ question. They were} Deputy Police Commissioners Leach | and Daly and Special Deputy Police} Commissioner Shaw, Tax Commis-! stoner Sinnott, Corporation Counsel O'Brien, City Chamberlain Berolz- (hoimer and Willam B, Walsh, cbiet of the Real Estate Bureau of the Pinanos Dep..rtment. Aj meoting was packed. It was presided over by Plant and Structures Commissioner Whalen, There was a letter from the Mayor | recommending immediate action on the plan to convert Madison Square Garden into a conservatory of music and convention hall. This in spite of the fact that there were letters from forty-one prominent members of the committee asking for a postponement, “It appears that Whalen is afraid the Vietory Hall Committee will get ahead of his committee in colloe:ing money from the public. I’m aga.nst the Victory Hall plan, Likewise I'nt opposed to the Victory Arch and the brid, oss the Hudson River. The! would be nothing more or le than an ugly steel railroa Madison Square Garden is all right for the r at Show Earth and things at, but not f a memorial to imperishable sacrifice and heroism. “A Victory Arch on the site selected would be an ‘absurdity and a traf- jfile mena A Victory Hall would simply the sarrying out of a utilitarian idea, I have no plan, and thorefore I have no axe to grind, “Instead, the people of this city who gave so much when the greatest of all sacrifices was demande of therm, when the flower of the flock went forth to war, are witnessing a spectacle that is degenerating into a meroenary rivairy betw ™% two com~- mittees to see which can get at the| people's mone first “LT openly charge that the be that Thursday's meeting was packed by members of) An Mayor Hylan's official family. effort is being made to rush throu this memorial before the end « “Isn't it edifying to pleture se: appointees of the Mayor deciding in “The landlord should be required | mid-summer to go ahead with so great to prove in eve demanding is providing only investment,” advise, too, yt holdover procee can't get the ri said ry case the fair and r a fair return Cahill, edings. If ent on ent he i /an unde ‘taking a8 a memorial to our usonable, | soldic his “T would 1 close the loophole of a iandlord he demands now he somes in on a holdover and gets possession of the apartment without the tenant having the alternative of paying rent.” Cahill said should be subje that. | holdoy r et Lo € applications parte motion, the landlord or his attorne would have to get permission of the court in order to bring such an dorse tion, Justice Cahill's suggest! Robitzek ions, Cahill also offered a sugrestion of District Attorney that the State F ed and the “In this Prosecutor some of thes to account e Patrick J Borough Presid cated a law to ¢ panies to invest 40 miums in dw i construction $n the premiums ar word to landlords, owners or their way,” assures me he can bring befo to| #here they belong.” fealth laws “lessors" said Cahill Martin to the effect amend- changed agenta, the unscrupulous owners the crimina Revell: jent Bruckne compel insurane nt th collected, ul by of bar, representing advo- | home. om- the lings and tenement my In which ge JERSEY POST OFFICE BURNED Contents ment Are Rescued, The Post Office at Onk Tre miles from Plainfield, N. J. holds the record for being so more times than any the State, wa ceries were x0 fire waa set. éxpired Thursda: ed. other of s burned The ¥. insurance robbed | pistrict fice po IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Kaights of ( cli, convention, nited Watet eauioition, Ne Hot Leamue. nf 39 Keay 2d st Commad ; a limbus, Supreme Amer! cek of Oak Tree Entablinh- two In esterday people Unroughout the pfoney and stamps and a stock of gro-| It is believed the} licy une ry why weren't the for one absentees Who wrote asking a decent | opportunity to be heard given y consideration? The action of a cer-| tain small clique in the committee is nothing short of a scandal, “Phe Hudson River bridge proposed | been pushed at in vals fh aty-elght years, More than twen- | five years ago permission was ob. tained from the War Departmer span the Hudson, othing done since until the Mayor's Comm tee resurrected 4 eres BUSINESS AGENT A SUICIDE. eats Note that Life Was Atmicns und Dead tn Office, ) hi t Leave Charles W. 8. Ahern, business agent | of the Amalgamated Silver Work Union, found dead in his office ning that he would life seemed pur- as to him n Ab did not app No. 131 Olmstead Phice up to thia morning, his wite Vay to the office tom McVay got Policeman Mai Fifth Street Station to break dowy, the door, At firat the two ¢ ht Ahe was asleep with his head on’ his arm: folded on the desk. Phere was no in dioation as to the means he had used to end his life, oe |AUTO STOLEN NEAR POLICE. Fach’s Car Recovered After Staple- ton Thieves Strip It. automobile owned by Attorney Albert Avenue, Stapleton, § found to-day Avenue thieves Me nauirles: ney oof t An former h taten Island, West New an all night took car Stat Building stone's throw Mr. Fach Cepra Brighton search for t night }Island Savings | Stapleton, within |the poles station the bank at ® directors’ meeting The robbers stripped the car of tires, batteries und cushions. ‘The toaal eatinuted ut $600. Two otler care have boon eimilarly ecolun in the Inst Wo night. near after who from in front of the Bank a in of was in its] Wife and Mother of Charles Ponzi, | the Latest “Wizard of Finance’”’ H MRS. ROSE PONZI, WIFE OF CHARLES PONZI, AND HIS MOTHER (Copsright by Unders ool & Uaderwuod.) Readers Far and Near | Match Wits in Penning Slogans for Campaign Some Eager Contestants Use Telegraph In-, stead of Mails in Effort to Win The, Evening World Awards. From every nook and corner of the metropolitan diStrict and, neigh- boring States, and from an hourly widening zone already as far afield as Texas, readers are making an overwhelming response to the offer of The Evening World to award $110 {n cash for the best Cox and Harding twelve- word slogans. So eager are some contestants to submit their efforts that they cannot wait for the matls, but the moment they hit upon what they deom heppily phrased elogan’ they send them by telegraph. Hundreds of otherwise good slogans have had to be rejected because they contained fewer or more than twelve words. Among those received to-day are: HARDING SLOGANS. COX SLOGANS. “A Cabinet of ‘Thinking Mem, Not] “A Man Who Was a Good Governor One Alone in) His Private Den."—| Thrice Makes a Good President. Mary BE. Smith, No, 380 Riverside| Harry Goldman, 330 East §oth Drive. Street, “One Swallow Is Not a Summ. = Neither Is One Man a Governm —A. D. Heckert, Norwood, N. J. “Victory for the U. S A. Vote for Harding; Win the Day.”—S, R, Jonea, No. 244 Franklin Avenue, Edgeni 1 ; Issues Will Be League or Labor, Di Burke, No, 21 mat L. 1 “H, C. L. and Profiteering Fox We'll Bury Deep; Vote for Cox."-= M. Parker, No, 605 West 1th treet. “Cox! Cox! Squarely Mot-~ y or Wet."—L. 1 Richburg Street, st wut] anisna.! 8 Eust “A League of Nations? ¥ Not axa Tombstone to Ameri -Dr, J, Henry Young, No. Third Street. “Republi Stands; Placea Welfare Competent Hands.”"—F, 3 No 1 Atburtus Avenue, Carona, L. “Rosaed Not We by Polittelans, by the People Under Ali Mrs, H. P, Pond, No, 246: Avent Hurrah for Cox! Win, You Can Ret Your Sox."— Mayer, No, 1111 South Henderson Street, Fort Worth, Tes. “Peace and Humanity, United Woe | Stand; for Personality, Cox Is the Man."~—Fred Rothfuss, No. 2265 Wal- ton Avenue, Bronx. “Four More Years of Work, Quod ity; Vote for Cox uman, Murray Hill, F Gibraltar vation in Party as gp All, the United s to Cox, He's the Man; He's arding, on November 2a Vote f the State, He'll Rule the Harding.”—B. A, Farnham, No. 605! Rdward H. Potlact, No, 7801 West 11th Str Brooklyn, “Harding for You, Harding for Me, Liberty and Progress Harding Our Next President Will! deal, Amerion Bb.""—Mrs, J. Markey, No. 159 Doug-|ism—All With Cox."—8, D, MeCet- lass Street, Brooklyn. land, No. 22 West Boston Road, Mam- “That We Ame aroneck, N. ¥ for European Gat ‘or All the People, Not the Privi- ing.”-—D. Cohen, No. smoeratic Government Street Wood, No. 242 “Harding, Harding, Is the Man: If I Can't Vote My, Daddy | ry Man His Duty Do: Christine Schultz, No. 453 E 1} Vote for Cox and Roosevelt Tow.!" Since: Grorge C. Barlow, No. 245 th From Washington to Harding | Street tnd Lincoln and Roo: ant] "Cox's Det an ‘it and Croas a ‘t? afogunrding athar | if N James Martin Mil-! Judas, 50 Fourth Avenue. 1th Str “Harding, Harding, One, Twe.| for Persona) Liberty Three; e the Man ‘That Just/and Fulfilment of | Democracy Suits Me,"'—Ceorge M. Willment, No | Pledge to Humanity.” A. Holor West S7th Street worth, P.O. Hox art River, ‘Oh, Mr. Harding, Hard Aport, N.Y at Washington You Must Soc “The Teesolute Test Ship, So port." Willem BP. Powers, No. Is Cox the Heat Tip.’—Miss Anna L. “ast a5th Street Cox, No. 426 West 57th St “Harding for Women, Harding fir for Tiberty, At | Men, Harding Ix Beat for His C | the People, Not trymen."--8, _ Weinbers, ald Draney, Bardonia, Rock N.Y. 18th Avenue, Brooklyn. Have You a 12-Word Campaign n For Harding or Cox? TAXI TURNS QVER T GO-MILE CLP; O HURT; 2 DYING Skids on Wet Asphalt in Glen- dale, Queens, After Dis- tancing Motor Policeman. Turning over twice, a bie taxtord Pinned down and injured five mon who had been driving sixty milea an hour to outstrip a pursuing motor- cycle policeman at Metropolitan and Continental Avenues —_ Glendale, Queens, early to-day. ‘The injured mon were removed St. Mary's Hosp tal, Jamaion. whera it was reported that Michael Waren- aky, No, 66 McKibbin Street, Hrook- lyn, “and Joseph Sotnick, N: Moore Street, whose skulls were frac- tured, might die, Tho others burt were Stephen Blackman, No. Moore Street, Peter Orlinsky, N: Siegel Street, and Harry Davidoff. No, 97 Bartlett Street, owner of the automobile, Policeman Martin Mahoney of the Richmond Hill Station took -up the chase at Metropolitan and Lefferts Avenues, when, be says, Davidoft's car passed, driving toward Brooklyn at sixty miles an hour, stomoblle gradually drew away from the imoter- cycle policeman, When it reached Continental Avenue, Glendale, its tires struck a freshly Watered atrip of asphalt, skidded and turned over, two tres exploding. Da- vidort was arrested, charged with reck- less driving. ROY HOWARD QUITS. AS PRESIDENT GF THE UNITED PRESS Goes to Scripps-McRae League, and Is Succeeded by W. W. Hawkins, Announcement was made to-day by the United Press Associations of the resignation of Roy W. Howard, Presi- dent of the organization since 1912, and the election aw President of W. W. Hawkins, for several years ite Vice President and neral Manager. The change is effective Aug. 1. Mr. Howard Js leaving the United Press to accept the position of general bust. of ness direetor League of quarters at the Seripps-Melt. with heud- Mr. Howard in the United reas in nivoly held th postition of Pacific Coast Manager, Washington Manage neral News Manager, Business Man ager and Firat Vice President and neral Manager of the organization, He ta thirty-seven years old and ts & native of Springfield, Mo, NEW TUNNELS OPEN TO B.R. T. TOMORROW rvice «Through City - Owned Tubes to Montague Street and Long Island City, Operation of trains of ihn Brooklyn Rapid Transit System through the now City owned tunnels freay Montague Street, Brooklyn, to Whitehall ~itreot, Manhattan, and from 40th 8 Man- fan, to Long Island City will begin at 2 o'clock to-morrow morning, Trains Wil Bo opemted to-morrow on holiday schedule, but the regular service will begin Bonday morning, By the new arrangement approxi- matoly 650 of the 600 city owned steel curs of the Brooklyn Rapid Tranalt System will be placed in service on the extended city-owned mpid transit line Due to the fire on the Wilhiansbursch Bridge, which BY ull of the atoel ears that had tH operating in the Centre Street loop, there will be a temporary shortage Of about forty cars In the new service for the next. three or four da It is expected, however, that it will be possible to place the ars in the subway not inter than Wed- ay nM, the service Inaugurated to-mor- row, the five cent fare to Coney Island will be In ef the shore, i mately 18 miles: two nd Clty anv Coney Island, tte Hrighton throug) the two rai hours daily SINGER HELD FOR STABBING HUSBAND {Quarrel Over Man Now in Prison} Said to Have Led to Attack With Knife. 4 Sloga Mrs. Audrey Fbner, Russian singer HE Harding managers are alrcady proposing to blazon such # a dead alec ne tee a slogan from every dead wall in the cilles and towns In tho |e8th Street, waa held for examination country from coast to coast, Jon Aus. 24 by Mugtstrate J Schwab The Cox managers w!il follow suit, to-day In $1,500 ball The Evening World bas thousands of readers who cao write clever slogans. We invite them dll to try their hand, The Evening World will ‘pay $110 in prizes for the best efforts, —aet. divided as follows & dangerous condition on the weat side, The method they First prize Harding slogaf, $25 polic a to-day that #he had} roll say the police, was to obtain Three other prizes, $10 each. chienges her oFisingl marr’ and 4d that] 4 20h An Clevalor operator, nd out “ 3 jthe trouble was over v4n named) what families were away, and then rob. First prize Cox slogan, ¥ |Josaph Merino, who occupled the room! the apartment Three other prizes, $10 each, |while she was in Buffalo, She found « The police are inveatiguting similar Remember this is neither a guessing contest nor @ lottery. ates ht. articles of he ra mining and In the Washington Heights jcharged th nad taken them, Skill alone will count In the selection of winners. Merino, her husband info her, | district, They any that the admissions tain exactly 12 words. had been sent to the penitentiary for| made by the men led to the arrest of The slogan must contain exactly 12 Fee forcible entry into wm i in the Hot a woman as receiver of the stolen Send in your slogan to Slogan Fditor, Evening World. Savoy. It was over the man, she claimed, | goods. i — that the quarrel gecurred, In the re | The specific charge against the men ) were found two revolvers, tusks, hotel-| ty the theft ef $500 worth of clothing STORE OFFERS dent t Board of Aldermen. Mr m okeya and jewelry Mra.’ # land jewelry from the apartment. of BIG ser a ait Maitien ta tos cated te esata est cast| Wad Wekata's, ae ae weet an Hl here left there by Merino, “Her huat FREE MARKET SPACE | the fruits and vegetables sold there tien ta ey with violating th —_— must be of the highest quality and sold |W [————— at a price fixed by the Department of - —<_— --- Men. Mitebell te Hold Sal | Bloomingdale*Firm Member Sub-| Markets, the fact that no rent ia} 81,500,000 final Flee. ara. John de aie 1 mt ; ala a tis PI , charged being taken Into consideration y § | wale er er home, Weat Lane, mits Plan for Farmer-to-Con- : Nek ales sos ese Onna I, NEW , OLAN July die Yiidgeficld, Conn, assisted by Mrs. in determining the price ECR as as the lass : ~ 4 Ke Ne S Mw The Department of Marsets ia given lin . a a George A. H man of } Canaan, Ae Nese Sian the Wrivlicge of destenuting the farmer [ins from the Are which last night de-| conn, next Wednesday, fer the ben. Offer of free space in Bloomingdale | or wholesaler to conduct the sale, Straved one section of nnotl| writ of the New York Exchange f¢ Brothers’ store for a Farmer-to-Con- | Bloomingdale Brothers’ one dex vaing |warehonise of the Apoalan Corn ISvemasie Work, Noo ¢s0 Readlent ay ‘ , ‘et hax heen made) te, Kive the conau the benefls. ol of Louisiana, which coy ee rove Gi % 4 sumer Vegetable Market ‘h nh made) the low prices wich the Market De- ol The ‘burned section was lrmely|RMe New York City, This exchange by Samuel J. Blooming: in 4 com-| partment announcer are pousible if Alled with sisal, 40.000 bales of whioa,) helps More women than any other Giunivation to FH, Le Guardia, Pres!-| profitesring je eliminated, Valuwd at$740,000, were destroyed. {similar organizativn in the world. - wt eaten ~- er oe oon eR veneers = ee ee ’ ® 4 Mrs, Ebner said she had been in the Nose OF: several’ Broadway but to say under what name she ap. Her husband in in Flower Hos HALT MOVETOCAL MOVING VAN STRKE AT STORMY SESSION Conciliation Committee Named to Confer With Similar Body of Owners, At a mesting of 1,000 moving van drivers In Testhoven Hail in Fifth Strom near Thint Avenue last night, the radicaln of the inion were de feated in thelr effort to foros woge demands whieb would have led to a strike In the immediate future, A canciiiation commitien was appoint. ed to hold conferences with a elm {lar committees of the Moving Van Owners’ Association, ‘The contract hotween drivers and ownert expires to-day, It was the strike Monday, One-half or more of the members af the unten had gone to the meeting expecting a atrike ordor, Business Agents Willem F. Kehoo, MeNaly and Jin J. MoKenna had to use their utmost persuasive powers to stand of a strike stampede. ‘The meeting was unusual inuamuch as @ reporter of The, Evening World, be- give a hearing to both sides in the controversy, Was permitted to witness the proceedings; the utmost secrecy is usually the rule when a strike order is under consideration ‘The demands for increased pay presented about two weeks aso to the Van Owners’ Association of Greater New York follow: Now Aporoximate Demands Prewot soale Ver Work. Per Week Chaafteur, ee hort over 1% to 5,00 $31.00 Chauffeur, under 40.00 aan Chautteur, eleetele 400 4.00 wo berre, me 80 orse mo 38.00 Packet or room packer: S4o00 Miler Tee i600 30.80 In addition, it was demanded that when a trailer is attached 10 cents per hour be added to the chauffeurs wages; eight hours to constitute day's work, with Saturday, afternoons off; time and one-half for overtime, with extra time for Sundays and holidays, Under the present wage ment the men work nine hours rive time and one-half a for overtime within the city and straight Ume for overtime outalde the city, Those Soimands wars retested, Phe union business agents conforred with Charles S. Morris, President of the Van Owners’ Association, but cetved, us they sald, little satisfac. tion. A few days later, however, a printed notice was posted by the van owners in all the storage warehouses that the Van Owners’ Association was willing to meet with the men's representatives, but could not con- sider the demands presented, The union leaders, in combating the strike sentiment last niehc, then re dd the proposed — or. dinance recently before the of Aldermen, designed to put a stop to the exorbitant rates charged under “special contraets" by moving van owners. They dectared that any ordinance limiting their pay would be unfair, If not unconstitutional, saying they were neither city em- ployees, nor to be considered as in the phblic utility service. They pro- posed the following remedy for the re- al moving van’ evil, which in some in- stances, they admitted, has cont householders high as $100 for moving comparatively slcrt dis- tance: Let each van owner be required to furnish a $2,500 bond and pay a li- cense fee of $500; also let the char- acter of each applicant for a license be thoroughly investigated before such Heense is issued. ‘This, they sald, would greatly reduce theft from trucks and woulda promote decent, fair competition, More important than anything else in reducing van rates, the union loaders said, would holishment of the general practice of making house- hold leases expire Oct. 1, If leases Wd be made to expire on different dates tt would distribute their busi. ness throughout the year, give them plenty to do all the time in an eight-hour day. APARTMENT THEFTS PUT AT $50,000 to Two Elevator Operators Said | Have Confessed to Upper | West Side Robbery. property is put at $50,000 by the police Detective Morron to-day sald that both men hud confessed after havin been identified by the superintende of more than twenty apartment houses Intention of the radicals to start a! cause of this nowspapers efforts to! Boasd | The police to-day continued the in- Yestixation of the alleged robberies for whieh Wendel Heaubean of No. 261 Wot 134th Street and Juilan Burton of No 11 Weat 138th © ele. * Vator operators, we 1 Inst night, The total value of the stolen FORCES ARRIVE “ERMAN French Troops Still in Two. Border Provinces—Will Be Held There. . PATUS, July 91 (Associated Press). i Rolahevik envalry forces have ade i |wAnced to the east Pronsian frontier, jAconnling to a report from the Franch | \ French forgn offica The Bolahevite ‘line extends from Suwalki, fifty |wlles northwest of Grodno, more than jSixty milow to a point almost dinsetly — north of Warsaw | ‘The Holsheviki nave not actually roamed the hordera of Allonatein ond Marionwerder, hut are fraternising with the Gormana The tnission rays !t understands the |Germans and Holwheviki are somotle \ating at Suwatki. ‘The northern wing jf the Bolshevik army now in menac« (ing Warsaw directly from the north as well as from the east. Tho Bol« sheviki are now twenty-five miles ‘eouthwest of Bialystok. ‘The allied troops in Allenstein an Marlenwerder, which are méstly Mrenoh, will be held there until the |situation clears, though the plebiscite duties have been completed. Gen, Romer, commander of the first Polish army, which auffered most severely in the vital region northeast of Warsaw, has been relieved and Gen. Joseph Haller has been given supreme com~ mand of the northern group of armies. ———— ‘MAN OF WORLD,’ 15, JOINS THE MARINES Johnny Schaffer, After Exciting Tour of Country, Is Now on Way to Camp. Johnny Schaffer, fifteen years old, is a man of experience, and he is out to see tho world. When the wanderlust‘ called te Johnny last fall he was a pupil in @ public sche but he quit that and got a Job with the Power Trust Com- pany at $18.a week. There he lost his finger and received $400 in compen- sation with which he went to Phila- delphia and shipped as seaman on the Lake ‘Traveler, In Tampa he lett the ship and went to Jacksonville. There he ran afoul of the law against Vagrancy and was sentenced to “ki months with the chain gang. | Hia mother appealed to the Soetery lor Prevention of Cruelty to Children, |which succeeded in getting John freed and sent home. He stayed two weeks when the fever caught him again an he wandered off. Coming back ho was taken before Chiet Jugtc tps In the Children’s Court and teldsbtie Honor he wanted to enlist in the |Aarines. After some red tape wae unwoypd this he aecomplished and [this atbrning John sald goodtby to “Gertrude,” the matron of the Chil- dren's Society, before etarzing, for the Marine encampment at Quantico, Va. x NEW ORLE Huge Sin 1 NEW ORLEANS, ead ANS HAS BIG FIRE. a. July one and a half million dollars is esti- Nearly mated as the loss resulting from the fire which last night destroyed one sec- tion o. the mammoth warehouse of the Appalachian Corporation of Louisiana, which covered the block bounded by South Peters, Erato, Thalia and South Front streets, The fire started at & o'clock last night and brought out the entire fire departs ment, which did not ket thy blaze undor control until early to-day. The burned section was largely filed with sisal, 30,000 bales of which, valued at $780, do) were destroyed. ‘The section of th building destroyed was valued at $400, 000 and other merchandise was burned, I CANDIES Six Week-knd Specials Milk Chocolate Natted Royals.44, Miller's Chocolate Nutted be MILLER’S EIGHT CONVENIENT STORES 121 Broadwi 742 Broadway At Canal at At Autor Place, Nita ed aoe yr, inp ste ni G10 Bron Pats tway, At Boe at insist upon idvion woe Pompeian Olivet Oil inilitary mission in Warsaw to the BF; a