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LEROY CAUGHT ON FREIGHTER BY __ ove TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Montly J Fa WHO ARE AMERICA’S FIVE GREATEST BEAUTIES ? Tell The Evening \ World. VOL. LXI. NO. 21,519—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Pablishing ere ee. (he New Xork World). v — DOWLING DRAWS UPABILL - REGULATING RENTS ON BASIS. OF VALUATION FOR TAXES s =o New Tenant in Case of Evic-| tion to Pay No More Than Predecessor. TO LEC E EGISLAT URE \ GOES Measure Will Come Up at the| Special Session Called by Gov. Smith. By Joseph S. Jordan. Senator Edward J. Dowling¥of the Nineteenth Senatorial District will in- troduce at the extraordinary session of the Legislature, which hus been called for Sept. 20, a bill which, if It becomes a Inw, will fix the amount of rent a landlord tefant, and do bickering between tenants and lund- may charge his away with fprther lords, prevent further gouging and) relieve the ¢ which the laws pass urts of the mess into ed last April un- wittingly threw them Mr. Dowling proposes that a land- lord shall receive 10 per cent. upon the valuation of his property. | Proposes that this valuation be determined by adding 2% ent. to the assessed valuat\ ° The Frening World exclusively presents herelth the general scope of the new legislation on the landlord matter what rent you may be pay- ing now, unless you have a writton lease, you can compel your landlord * to reduce It to the requirement of the new law. You can figure out for yourself what 10 per cent. of your landlord's assessed valuation, plus 20 per cent, ia, The assessment books are‘ oven , to you as well ag the landlord. You know how many rooms are In your apartment house, and to make up your pro rata, the 10 per cent. all you } have to do Is to divide it by the num- ber of rooms, which will give you the ‘average price that should be paid for & room. The teeth in the bill are furnished by the Tenement House Law, The building of a tenement house and its maintenance in this State is a privi- “jege, and not a right. Owntng, op- | erating and controlling a tenement house ia a business just the same as any business establishment, which does away with any question as to the constitutionality of the Dowling measure, The constitutionality of the Tenement House Law has been up- held by the Supreme Court of the United States. TENANT EVICTIONS MAY 8E- COME A LOST ART, Eviction will be a bygone pastime, #o far as tenants who waht to pay a Classified Advertisers Important! assified advertising copy for Tre Sunday World should be In The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication larly copy receives the preference m4 Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late advertising ls now omitted for lack of time to ret It ut HE WORLD. and tenant situation which is ao acute in New York and vicinity * MEANS READJUSTMENT OF HOUSING SITUATIONS. If the bill becomes the aw, !r “means & readjustment of the entire| rent situation, It méans that, no DEMOCRATIC FUND UNDER $100,000, SAYS CHAIRMAN Contributions Mostly: in Small Amounts, White Announces —No Budget Made Up. | HE campaign fund receipts | of the Democratic National Committee to date are lesa | than $100,000, Chairman White an- nounced to-day, in commenting on the statement Upham of the Republican Na- onal Committee that the Repub- | lean fund totals $944,353. Chairiman White said contriby- tions have not been coming in rapidly and mostly in small amounts, The Démocratic organ- | Waation had no budget and no dis- trict allotments. pee ears PREMIER REFUSES TO HELP M’ SWENEY | | {Telegraphs 1 ord Mayor's | That No Exception Can Be Made LONDON, Aug. —Terence Mac Sweney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Who has been here since being removed to this city} from Cork, on a hunger strike in prison Was still conscious this) morning and Father Dominick, his} | private chaplain, administered the ‘last sacrament. LUCER? Switzerland, Aug, 2d | (United Press) George dec to Premier nygd to-day in MacSweney's sister: ‘I regret to hear of the pain in flicted on you by your brother's d termination to starve, but it is im Lioyd | an exception in his The following message was sent fo-day by Hamonn De Valera ‘To the Muayoress MacSweney, Cork, Ireland “We all sympathize with for you in your sufferings. these heroic sacrifices of the that, alas, our country way to freedom. ou and pray It is by individual has*to win her Your example and that of your husband will! |FIRST S of Treasurer | possible for the Government to make | ALL OVER WORLD NIM OF HARRIMAN Further Aspires to Have portations Pgh: cht Here on U. . Bottoms. Im- STEPS | ARE TAKEN. | Great Shipping Deal Perfected, by Son of Railroad Wizard | Has Vast Possibilities. —— | | By Martin Green. | It required a lot of nervo on the corporation to enter into an amicable trade agreement with a great German | jbusiness corporation such as the Agreement which was perfected al jfew days ago between the American Ship and Commerce Corporation and the Hamburg-American Line: The revulsite nerve was furnished | by W. A. Harriman, the 28-year 0:1 son of the late B. H. Harriman, and the t ton proves that young Harriman has {inherited the qualities | which made his futher the most pow- | jerful factor in Amertean transporta- tion—viston,., courage and the spirit lof business: adventute ‘W. A. Harriman is altruist in jinternational transportation enter-! his father was an altruist in anscontinental transpertation en- | terprise. In the helght of his ag- | Bressive activities nobody visualized E, H, Harrfman as an altruist. It has taken the passage of years to show that he was really actuated by a spirit of altrulsm in seeking to {eontrot a rafiroad line from coast to |@oast, and business history records that every sten he took tion with the properties he acquired was constructive and beneficlal to the owners of the properties and the people served by them W. A. Harriman occuptes to-day in the world of shipping a position anal- | agous to that occupied by his father jin the rafiroad world fifteen years ago, The elder Harriman uchteved results by what might be called di- rect-action methods in business, The policy of the young man which has | enablea him to control, wholly or in part, steamship routes connecting the ports of the United States with not only the principal but the most re mote points of th of the world, has been one of conciliation, |SPIRIT OF HARMONY pees | VARIOUS CONCERNS, connec- ~ULS.SHPSPLYING. LEROY ARRESTED IN BRAZIL: SALED FROM THIS PORT Man Sought in Trunk Murder Mystery Seized on Request of U. S. Authorities, }TO BE RETURNED HERE. | Later Will Be Delivered to oF-| ficers From Detroit—Was Caught by Wireless. JANEIRO, Aug. wanted by RIO Leroy, trate 25,—Hugene police of De- with the Aug. the ™ fn cennention murder of a woman supposed to be his wife, was arrested on board the | Britidh freighter Dryden, which ar- | rived here late yesterday, Leroy was & member of the crew. Leroy was placed under arrest at the request of United States authori-| tes hore, and while the Dryden is tn) port will be guarded by four members of the Maritime police. he ship will | later proc to Buenos and from that port will sail for New York where La will be turned over to| officers from Detrott. The British freighter Dryden, up- NEW YORK, (WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 “VERY DEAR FRIEND” ON WARSHIP [aA FAY BAINTER ATS FAY BAINTERAQGY sree | Destrover | as Liner Skipper Brings Here Same Time [with the alleged connection of the| was Lieut. Comp man arrested in Rio Janeiro with the first bonrded + murder. They have \n ation, they | Health offtetats had thelr intimated, of anotl tv whose ar=| pectin. Gna! was ondornt om the. ship, He thereupon went abourd” a coast rest they hope soon to make and) piosa cutter and returned withthe whose ety will be beceneiey | Customs offciula NEW SUIT 18 FILED TO TIE UP SUFFRAGE, remain an] No w » marks the tral] : a ecret trspirationn for many generations. Muy | young Harriman through the field of | COU Asked to Restrain Secre Trefand always have such women and/international shipping. The men he Colby From Formally Pro- “De VAL sD COLLEAGUES,” |@8 gathered into his immense or- | aiming Ratification ADBBRA AND COLLEAGUES.” | enization ure all his friends, ‘The| © aming . spirit guiding the operations of the, WASHINGTON, Aug. %5.—Appitea RECEIVER FOR BETH. MOTORS ; é tion for an Injunction to restrain Sex i jvarions concerns in the American — 5 * retary Colby of the State Department Solvent, but Working Capi Inf Onie. Sha (Gommenoe Comporeven ta) ng ratification of the wee nan, although well ame Court to-da: PHILADBLPHIA, Aug. 2.—<linton = au to eu) in the District. & praia ss rt Aoaey |Soods, xeneral manager of the Bethle (Continued on Page Etghteen.) | by counsel for the Am onsth Motors Company, with plants at AS Reels tional Leaque. | Allentown ana Pottste Was appointed F Associate Justice Siddons required Pater e Ses Smee 6 “1 WOULD ENLARGE TENEMENTS | tat umnority, tor, such procedure. b Icorll tates Distect cuir ——— cited “and agreed to hear counsel or | It 4s alleged by counsel for both ere- | Plans to Add Angiher Story the pofnt during the day |diters and the corporation that it is so! to All Balldings The pplication w made by vent with Mabitities of ,$3,000,000 and} Moyor Hylan to-day in a letter tojney A, D. Smith tn behalf ¢ axsets of $4,900,000. Its dimiculties are |John P. Leo, Chairman of the Board of Fatrehiid New Yo said to be due to Insufficient working | Standards and als, asked if it ts | the league jcapttal and lack of cash to meet matur- | NOt possibl ease housing facili This was th : 4 ing obligations. One thousand men are| ties by the “addition of at least league to qutain from employed, many of whom are stock-| story on existing tenements an injunction restratt Mr pie | Mayor's mfenieiitand from procainiing the ratifivatlon, | STORM AND GALE ON Way. I wish you would advise me promptly ;f' art wae nm month bef aa to th asd ae th what e had acted and Was dlsmlane The follow! py | ates we sary to make thi aan Mhe following measaxe recelved by pr onostie Jelerion Sampaen recat ty | monk SHOOTS HER TWO CHILDREN. lon to-day c Advisory storm warning, Disturp-| 1O°YEAR-OLD BRIDE FREED. Phem Againat Wall i f fie pene Bie, a forming of the } h Caroline Gs ’ ees cee etter Moe Mother Now Reconetted tw Kee) pyyosno, Aili, 95.—0he « ng northerly” winds the) MAREE OF Mem Van Nation. | seareold daughter of Mre. Laur Uantic und South ¢ Perak i \ and Mra. Hrowr wnd Ju ‘ ther prediction o-night obit by th wUte, pal orrow 18 4 Wary “mostly falr.” THE WORLD TRAY EL BREAK Seainer rca edit Nott Anathr ae ; | how N.Y, ‘Teloy hone Rory tun, ii ‘4 for ide a Tord arm ln are ain panes Spo, das ad ‘ barged In Chis ami a undey nervous dle i de for some time, ‘we officers are informed, | Oo ,_WOMAN IN SWIM SETS NEW RECORD e Wins 100-Metre Contest in Olym- piad—American Team Wins Heat ANTWERP, Aug, 26.—The Americar team won its heat in the S00. metre Olym elay swine here to day | minutes, ix. The men composing th rey Me i A.C; P. Kealoha, Honolulu and Duke Kahanomoku, Honolulu Australia, Sweden, Bugland and Italy Jqualified for ~ finnl en's 100-motee free wtroke event was won by ithelde Blelbtrey, Women's Swimr elation, in 1 ina st, Phil- Frances ¢ third Chir Assoc! > pomps, a blue dress and « blue hat |DENOUNCES BAN ON DANCE. Commissioner A blue asllk parasol was found _—_— fhe Long taland Hatiroad's applica ngwide the body, A ack fu Veanets Wil Mustern Not i t Inte effect a 20 per com kplece, with @ small pocketbook 4 Deer rater , ml Sratrte'lnagditte oa Tnulgateg atwehed containing sixty dents were Nat bs Ki by the Interstat Commis. | #lKo found he arate Hotes A owas denied to-da Acting A gold cap was on a right upper| n ' ’ sbi se \ Commissioner Alfrod | (oath. Two of the front te re | 1 Ba | . n ' intssing a» if knocked out, She ti: ‘ ” bs ; i which would war.| dark brown hair, was 5 feet 2 inchey th leant the Comm ) allowing auch| in height and we J 325 pounds. ton iA, He said aiao ting n the Wout. ” RRSTApMANT. r i Spre'e o-day, Widnesdas, aa 23. L920 mse t vig ave sought by] Ista by the Bigs nt inves! ton, “Cath "Rh prayer to guide chat Presence. ine daclinisien should be denied, rns Ke) ft ~—— Cireulation neste) Onen to All” 4g 1920. Entered as Becond-Class Post Office, New York, N. ¥. Matter T MU T GOUGERS TO BE CURBED BY NEW WIRE To- -MORROW'S WEATHERLMastly Pain PRICE THREE CENTS = ASSIS TO END ~ PEACE TALK; POLES SCORN RED TERNS 15. Soviet Demands Are Refused, One Only Is Accepted. 1 POLES WILL NOT DISARM Curzon Boundary Line De- clared to Involve Another Partition of Poland. LONDON, Aug. 25.+Poland's reply to the peace terms presented by the Russian Soviet delegation at Minsk amounts to a flat rejection, says the | Manchester Guardian's Minsk corre- { szandent in a wireless despateb filed in that clty on Monday. | “Out of the fifteen Russlan de- | mpnds,” he continues, “only one, that jative to demobilization, is pted, and that only on condition )that Russta will take a similar course Russia nfust demo- ace on j—that Is to say, at the bands her forces. “The terms relative bilize same time Poland dls- to disarma- the closing of munitions plants Says. i ent eur oF No, ordered under arrest charged: with Max Ratz, a chai | the grounds for he murder chasge | Katz, according to detectives, ing legitimate whiskey shipments yards on Staten Island, in which he -GIRL'S BODY FOUND White Ruthenia and Lithunta are re- | | Jected as interfering with the inter- na} affairs of Poland and a violation of Polish sovereignty “Other terms are rejected without qualification, and Poland demands a line of demarkation between Polish | and Russian territory based on stra- legic considerations and the of buffer stat MINSK Russia, Aug. (from Associated Press Staff Corr | spondent with Armistice Commission via Soviet Wireless to Moscow).—The Polish armistice delegates are not eat- stledwith the Bolshevist terms whioh reference to the boundary line Soylet ma proposed by Earl Curzon Minister of Foreign Affairs, In submitting \their reply to the Bolshoviat delegy tes the Polish repre- sentatives stated that by agreeing to. this line the Soviets were seeking to retain territory wron| Poland by the Curzon taken from Russian Crars. , DENIES APPLICATION FOR L. I. FARE RAISE) Twenty Per Cent, Boost It Asked Is Unwarranted, Declares fully | wood, N, J., 600 feet west of Anderson | | Avenue. | term! hit over the head with a club or some o*her instrument, ‘The body ws discov {Grant Avenue, Grantwood. |was found about 900 feet from the | Di Salatio home. | Clutched in the right hand of the British | girl was a piece of cloth the bootlegger, by District Attorney Maloy of Richmond. to-day. made known that Katz had driven truckloads of liquor for Eckert, but ‘The police have not yet de- ed whether the girl was shot or red. by Louis idea) pi Satatto, the thirteen-year-old son of the Vice President of the Bergen Contracting Company, who lives in| The body | apparentiy torn from a dark blue coat worn by THIRD MAN HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER IN ECKERT CASE: PUBLIC OFFICIALS NAMED: Max Katz, Chauffeur, Under Arrest —Other Prisoners Seek Release’ on Habeas Corpus Writs—Five Men in Death Car, Prosecutor Division was, the murder of Frederick P. Eckert, It was 318 Avéius, Biountys, were not made public, confessed to making inquiries arriving at the Baltimore and aio | had no legitimate interest. k © ft vecame known to-day that De- tective James Graham had discovered women’s hairpins in the tonneau o! the machine In which the body o peraons in Manhattan and Brooklyal on “Little Cuba,” and fortified by thé | mass of evidence he has collected la his investigation of the Eckert mur * der, Maloy has about determined ty | ask Smith for an order for & | special Grand Jury, This jury, {f authorized, will charged to consider indictments net only for the murderers of Eckert but | for certain ¢ and county officials, who seem to have been involved In un~ lawful dealings which contraband whiskey whether stolen oF smuggled out of storage by the righs= ( ful owners, There is no regular Grand Jury ‘ a t - ment, | Eekert was found. Maloy declined tog on which Eugene Leroy ha lies | With Actress, and delivery of munitions to Rus- |say whether he had information that ” at “Sle Teneire boon aaa » gattea | Mi# Fay Bainter, the aotres itn Foland ure indigaantly te- 4 woman was in the murder party. @" 4 the “trunk manner” myntery Aalle4 | 1.4 ty New York sn thu White ac Former Assistant District Attorney | from New York on Aug. 8, ten days |71"0 in New Serk 1: aie Je A ) Fach of Richmond County, counsel’ © after the body of his supposed wife feed " 2 | “Bolshevik terms relative to a for William Maloney and Charles od i arrived a ste ¢ was thn san ress in a trunk in Ai When: the GUM Polish workers’ militia and control} | Kane, previously, accused of the panos Mab \tt at the Unite by the Russians of the railway line murder, went before the. Supreme The authorities learned, a we ne coast nit mara | k ye 1 t ) | Ingraham, on her York | from Biglystok southward are de- curt In Brooklyn to-day to. ast after the Dryden aulled, that @ matt) vies up a wireleds that Mias Bainter Fe writs of habeas corpus on thw answering Leroy’a desoription Was On| io. Ghoard, ‘Pils a affected the atene.|Clared beyond discussion, The boun- Es 4 ‘| va | pound thek thi tesla Seeiae poard, and the freighter Captain was |jre guar cet wnate} dary line between, Poland and Rus-|Police Unable to Identify Vic-| Sane ot Bieta staoe sang er a by eless to hold the! for the Hner 4 he i ‘ ‘ . meee et =i faeasite ‘ Bay ered gia, ax Iatd down by Bari Curzon! tim, Who Apparently Hach | them did not constitute a crime, ¢ suspect for the Rio Jane ylice: | port towether i nil Me ye | N tly Bia 98 { Simultaneously, Detroit police omf-/ graham went ab British Secretary of State for For-| Fought for Life. ; Pisteh t Attorney Maloy said to-day, clals Med with the State Department cording to those elen Affairs, is declared unaccept- he had additional information to the at Washington an application for |for Miss falnte able, as it involves a third partition =—" effect that there were ave men in the Leroy's urrest and extradition, should Wei Page wa ron "eT of Poland, The body of an unidentified giri oy ere wien eas was shot toy - he attempt to land in Bragl or any |U0" 0 8) “Demands for alatetoutian a biel about nineteen years old, pretty and| Biscea oy Aregicn ie Jcountry en route. lssapoaie © A4T anie oe any was that | Polish victims of war and the! desing extansine castilGe iets buna teeta hoes nes ent The ,New York authorities they were dear frie return of cattle and horses ial rt : : at for months Staten Islan® pressed themselves ts not satisfied! 1 way reported th young officer | away by Polish land owners from|to.dayein @ secluded spot in Grant-|™# been known “to many conviviall be. made Staten * Inland ® clearing house for dealers ing. term in Richmond County from June | the man who attacked ther. From | until October, Many Influential citl-™ ens of the borough have urged the |} th ypearance th 7 v0 zens of pees wn08 6 the Gody.if) was district attorney to ask the Gover- ¢ evident that the girl fought des- perately with hes assallant The police believe that the body the girl lay in the woods for two or three days before being found, ough of Cliffside | Tomb. opposite The girl wore black patent ot | Grantwood is that part of the Bor- Grant's leather “> fe Noned, as wal nor to give him the means of taking action while fresh. ‘There are not lacking indies | tions that the complacence and worse ” of the elty and county officials Bas extended to the licensing of profitable violations of State laws as well as, the federal prohibition law, the Eckert it became apparent that the | Manhattan Hotel, owned by William Maloney, one of the men already charged with the murder of Bokert, was a meeting place for men on the elty and county payrolls on the one hand and Eckert and his assoolates from Manhattan and New Jersey om the other, These nightly gatherings were from time to time attended by persons recognized as active In Mane hattan in the distribution of contra- band liquors and in other illegal ems: | terprises: POLIPE CAPTAIN AND COUNTY OFFICIAL ARE NAMED, | The name of at least one police captain has been. pramneaty men disclosures are*.) | In looking Into the associations of | ae: » a A