The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 1

, AND ow a JUDGE MAYER TO “TAKE UP” CAR STRIKE ~ |42 STEAMSHIP COMPANIES ARE INDICTED — malian We wtherOCCASIONAL SHOWERS. WHO ARE ‘AMERICA’S GREATEST BEAUTIES? See Page 3 np “Circulation Books Onen to All? Copretants 1920, by The Press Publishing { yew York World). NEW ‘YORK, “MONDAY, “AUGUST 30, 1920. Katered as Second-Cinss Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. —<o—— quor Interests Are Money, to Aménd tralfVolstead. Act. According: to ‘Witnesses. (she At ‘Aug. - 30.—Will Hays, CHICAGO, at the inquiry before the United States Senate Sub-Committee inves- mitted to the committee a letter from George T. Carroll as “President of the New Jersey Association of Liquor Interests," He read from it Cox propuganda with the ultimate object of obtaining an amendment to Volstead Act to permit the sale ht ang beers. The } alled “pronounced the of ter wines v. Cox a charges are “false in and libelous in their| Hays declared when he | Cox's theyssay punpose,” Mr took the stand Mr. Hays said the Republican Campaign for 1920 will be carried on at A& total expenditure of $5,600,000. what He explained that $1,100,000 of the total. had been expended by the organization which went out of of- fige ‘with the end of the Republican National Convention. ; Mr. Hays emphasized that’ the present National mmittee had @ budget of approximately $3,000,000 * Gov, Cox had charged there was a » $16,000,000 fund “The $3,000,000 doeg not “include,” Mr. Hays said, “collections for § where there is a mutual agreement that such collections for State and | National Committees @hall be done + jointly. It is my opinion that the total amount which hag been and will be finally collected by the joint money raising organizations for the ‘use of all Stafe committees in their \ State election® will | approximate 91,000,000. ‘This is no part of the National Committee's fund. Taking up the various angles of Gov. Cox's charges, Mr. Hays aa'd ‘Gov, Cox has publicly charged “That certain interests wer ‘banded together to buy the Presidency, that millions had been contributed to the Republican party with sinister } intent.’ ‘That statement is fals “That there is a dqjibera 2 ‘plot that: has been carried into every county ij America in a conspiracy io buy the’ Presidency of the United States.’ That statement is also false. at others are writing large checks so that if their puppets or tools get Into office and there are in- ates and (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! assified advertising copy for She Sunday World should be fn The World office * On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Early copy reeeives the preference when Sunday advertising hus to be omitted. Lute advertising la now omitted for lack of time to set It THE WORLD. “Pfemocratic Candidate Pro-| _ tlaimed*“Pronounced Wet’, ‘Chairman of the Republican National | Committee, the first witness to-day, tigating campaign expenditures, sub- | sentences soliciting funds to carry on | HAYS CALLS COX'S CHARGES, OF $15,000,000 CAMPAIGN EUND FALSE AND LIBELOUS: G. O. P. COMMITTEE CHIEF’ WHO DENIES COX’S FUND CHARGE | | | RATE WILL_H. HAYES . PRINCE GIVES SERVICE MEDALS IN LIEU OF TIPS ‘Carol of Roumania Decorates Policemen and Hotel Servants Who Attended Him. RINCE CAROL of Roumania, who finished his visit of week in New York last Sat- unday, followed the lead of King Albert of Belgium in showing his appreciation of services rendered him instead awarding of money gratuities to the policemen and the Waldorf-Astoria servants and, who attended him, he estowed service medals of gald and silver. A dozen of them were awarded, HARTE VICTOR ° IN FIRST ROUND FOR NET TITLE Opening Day's Play of National Singles Championship Draws Big Crowd. FORWST HILLS, N, Y., Aug, 80— The Natfonal Singles ‘Tennis Champlon- ship Tournament got under way here thls afternoon before a large attend- ance, Richard Harte of Boston was the first player to turn in a victory he defeated Robert 8. M ton, 6-1, 6—1,6 matches were won by defau! Niles, Boston, winning fro Adouo- jr, Texas, and Edward Oelager, Montclair, N. J. defeating Hugh Kowa. her, No## York City, The latte ot |wtar, due to a broken arm received in a diving accident, was unable to put In an appearance, Other matches resulted as follows sdward B, Benedict, Cambridge Mass., defeated R. A. Johnson, Par kersburg, W. Va., 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 | Fred O. Josties, St, Louis, defeated Raymond Springficd Mass., 61 Dwight P. Robi Hoston, de- cated John W. Dud Washington 6,64, 61, A, 8, Dabney, Bo: rry Vories jr, C W. W. Ingra defeated Milton wuor, Boston, defeated Walter Huye Chicago, 4-8, 6-2, 6-2 COMPANIES — U.S. NDICTS 42 STEAMSHP 8000 ea ND MEMIBERS OF BROKERS’ ASSOCIATION. All Charged With Conspiracy | in Restraint of Trade inetd Sher rman FIXING A AL LEGED. Ship Freight Body Accused of | Using Blac nate Competition. Forty-two leading ocean steamship companies and the members of the |, |Steamship Brokers’ Freight Associa- | tion were charged with cogspira®y in | restrain of trade and violation of the | Sherman Anti-Trust Act in an indict-) ment handed down to-day by a Fed- ¢ral Grand Jury reporting to Judge Sheppard in United States District/ Court. Rate-fixing, coercion to en-| force agreement, blacklisting and] elimination gf competition are charged in the éndictment Among the steamship companies named in the indictment are the In-| ternational Mercantile Marine, At-| lantic Transport, Green Star Line, Anchor Line, Booth American Ship- ping Corporation, Cunard Mine, Com- pagnie Generale Transatlantique, Kerr Line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, United Fruit Line and Ocean Steam Navigation Company, all charged with being members of the Transat- lantic Associated Freight Conferences eThe brokers indicted are Walter Moore, Elliott T. Barrows, Richard L. Walker jr, Charles W. Jordan, Henry Fowler and other menfbers of the Steamship Freight Brokers’ Asocia- tion. / “he indictment charges that the brokers and the répresentatives of the steamship companies held meetings, fixing freight rates, refusing to let any man become a member of the Steam- ship Freight Brokers’ Association un- less he would abide by its constitution and by-laws; that they agreed that the freight rates quoted by the steam- ship companies agents be observed; that they agreed to discriminat: against freight broker’ and for. warders not members of the associa- tion by refusing to pay any brokerage fee. It is charged further that the de- fendants agreed to domin the memper sof the Freight Brokers’ As- soesation by requiring all applicants nbership to become members of the New York Product Exchange; that they agreed blacklist all freight brokers not acceptable to the steamship companies or to the Steam- for me to ship Freight Brokers’ Association; and that they agreed to compel mem- bers of the association to live up to its by-laws and agreements by In- vestigating complaints of violation of agreements. |HERE’S A WHALE OF A TALE. nar Meee inte, U6 American 1 ter and Cate It Im Tro. |seas was pught to by | ‘ k_ he from stem toatern | jung snet her backwardtowatd Ireland, | nk out of sight them | WSWENEY AGAIN “COLLAPSES IN JAIL; HIS END VERY NEAR | Prominent4.abor L Bae) aden Send) mission increasing the wages of con- Joint Note to Premier Urging. Release. LONDON, Aux. 30.—Terenve Mac- Sweney, of col- this Physicians expresse@ the belief he hadsbut a few hours to live. This was the eighteenth day of | hunger strike, Even if he took food now, Mrs. Lord Mayor Cork lapsed again tn Brixton Prison afternoon. his the prison doctor told MacSweney, it Mrs remained with her | would do Sweney, him no good. Mav- husband three She was véry pale and shows the great strain under which she @# laboring. hours to-day. clearly “I told Terry that America was in- | terested in his fight,” Mrs. Mac- Sweney sald. “This greatly cheered im. He whispered: “When I die, ask my friends not to attempt retaliation’ upon the per- sons responsible. We want to show America tht Irishmen are just. My fight 1s based upon principle, not per- sonalities, My fate is not important if it centres the utténtion of the world upon British wrongs aginst Ireland.” J. H. Thomas, Arthur Henderson and William Adamson, labor leaders, torday sent @ joint note to Premier Lloyd George as follows: “The whole of organized labor asks reconsideration of the government's decision to allow MacSweney to die His death would make solution of the Irish problem even more remote. We appeal to you to do the big thing.” DUBLIN, Aug. 30.—One of eleven hunger strikegs in the Cork jail is expected to die before Lord Mayor | MacSweney. He is Sean Hennessy, a young Volunteer from Limerick, who | on the eighteenth day of his hunger strike began to spit blood. Another boy, Michael Bourke, a Volunteer from Thurles, is reported by almost dead, Crowds about the Cork Jail are con- stant except during curfew hours. ‘The rosary is sung, telegrams from Brix- ton Prison are read, and tragedy hangs thick in the air, In the crowds Volunteers pgss constantly, caution- ing against Violence, telling the peo- ple that the Government aska noth- ing better than the ghance to shoot down. ‘ io SARAH BERNHARDT HAS HAD RELAPSE Compelled to itenton templated London Is Reporte Her Con- Tour, It VARS has Aug, 20.—Mme. been forced to pdon tour it was Sarah Bern abandon he- ‘owir announced hardt font to to- son gslaa hs iM tte” World Wulitiog, ~ saves » the chaplatn | MORE PAY GIVEN’ TO GOAL MINERS Anthracite Commissiog’s Find- ings Are Approved by Pr esident Ww filson. ¢ | 818,000,000 BACK PAY: | Workers Meet “This Week to Consider Award—Expected | to Accept us WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. | Wilson to-day approved the majority | President | | report of the Anthracite Coal Com- | | tract miners 20 per cent. over present rates, | Miners employed as company men jare given an increase of 17 per cent jand the same amount is given “con-| | sideration miners” and miners’ tabor- ers and monthly men. ‘The findings, the report said, would! fix a minimum rate of 62%Aents per | hour for the lower-pald men in the anthracite industry. | Anthract jcelve about e mine workers will $18,000,000 in back pay} the retroactive feature of the re- | under Jaward which makes It effective April 1, 1920, and the total increase award- Jed to the 175,000 miners will average, said, leust $85,- commission “at annually. ‘The majority report declated that | the award “offers no justification for any advance in the retail prices of coal, but on the gt her hand is consist- ent with a decline tn prices. Any sharp advance in retail prices, the re- port added, “couid not be charged to the operators, the miners or the award,” ‘ The minority report, signed by Commissioner Ferry, while departing from the majority's conclusion, says that officers of the United Mine | Workers “will of course accept and carry out this majority award with the utmost good faith.” | “While the adjudication of any di {pute necessarily results in some di appointment,” the President said in |his letter to the Commission, “I am sure that the spirit with which you} jhave acted will receive the commen- dation of the great bulk of the Amer- ican people.” Officials of the Anthracite Commis- sion said that the joint wage scale committee of miners and operators had already been called to, meet |Wednesday or Thursday to consider |application of the award. They char- {ucterized the meeting of miners at| Wilkesbarre, Pa, last night as an insurgent -gathering without author- ity to commit the miners to rejection, >. LAWYERS LATE IN COURT. by Ac Many “Delayed by the strike.” uttered many tomes by lawyers, appeared to bea good excuse for lateness in} anawering calendar caMs in the Su-| | preme Court to-day. In many en where the lawyera FOR STARTING THE STRIKE ON B. R.1.? ‘Investigations Are Begun to, Ascertain if-.Company or Men Were Guilty of Trick. MAYOR MEETS Request, but {s Inflexitile as to Terms. Following a statement. given out m the office of Mayor HYlan as cony- en from “an unnamed mptorman of Brooklyn was delibarately provoked | ing Anvestigations were startea this afternoon, ‘These objects in view. had either of two To find and punish | the guilty officers of the B. R. T., if! punish the persons who brought « strike out of an apparently conclli- atory meeting by starting the ‘story, and who seek to keep the strike ef- fective by repeating it, While the surface street Brooklyn ytood etill and the subway and elevated trains of the B. R. T. crawled far apart, Mayor Hylan en- gaged in a controversial correspdn- dence with United States District Jtfdge Julius M. Mayer, iby whose direction Revolver Garrisonerefused to go into an arbitration with the employees as to whether the com- pany should agree to raise their wages by epending money which Gar- rison says it cannot hope to earn. MAYOR ABKS JUDGE MAYER TO TAKE MATTER UP. ‘The Mayor then wrote a letter ask- ing Judge Mayer to reconsider or at least to “take the matter up.” In lens than an hour Judge Mayer's reply was handed to the Mayor, as followe: “I have just recetved your letter of Aug. 80, 1920. I am inclosing a copy of my letter dated Aug. 25 to Re- ceiver Garrison. A copy of this let- ter was ‘handed to the committee last Wadnesday and they have been fa- (Continued on Sixth ‘Puge.) |GOING TO HIS WORK— IS ON HIS WAY HOME Good’ Humored Driver Thus Summed It Up After Making a Block in an Hour. ‘Tho westorn end of Manhattan Bridge beckme @ storm centre, Canal Street was mate @ one-way street. The Jam was slightly relieved by of traMoc south into Ellzabeth Street, failed to respond when thelr cases| ases were cajled the presiding Jus- tees took it for granted the Htigants lwere delayed by the atrike and ad- natead | them at the f of the | or marking them off for the | Journed the cases u day or tw Jor netting alendar THAYER, Be Cae varity Wattage Bee eee Telephoce ifeekwan Per es the narrow width of which was made narrower by exvavattons. Automobiles took to the aldewalks and one driver who kept Ms good humor called out to rossing policemen “I's laken me an hour to travel a block, #0 1 guess i ein't on ry way to work, I'm on my way home, -_-— (FOR ROUTES OF BUS LINES IN | BROOKLYN DURING STRIKE SEE "PAGE 4) the B. R. T. charging thaf the strike, whidh has paralyzed transportation in by the! officers of the company search | the charges were true, or to find and| a] to Coney Jsland. cars of} the shunting | NOTACAR GF THEB. RT SYSTEM RUNNING IN BROOKLYN; STRKEBREAKERS READY WHO iN 10 BLAME ‘Motor Trucks, Furniture Vans, Pore | and Everything on Wheels Used to Carry Crowds to Work—Few Evidences of Profiteering—Only Trivial Casesof Violence Reported | | ft workers, fe ihe [Brooklyn id Trans cht started heaili two o'clock this afternoon to get sw MAYER, |ley M. Garrison of the company on the one hand and from ice Pres In a determined effort to reach settlement of the strike of the * acting Public Service Commissioner the Public Seiviee Commission atjhaift past orn information from Receiver Lit pide t |Shea of the street car men’s union and his associates on the other; whiab -_ ELEVEN INJURED IN CRASHES DUE. | Buses, Trucks and Autos in Collision From Manhattan p Colitaion | accidents in trafic, involving jams and other injuries to-day attempts of Brooklyn crowds to move in spite of the strike, | marked the Accidents were reported from Man- hattan to Coney Island. An auto-truck converted into a bus and operated by William Hein of No, 71 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, waa in collision at Irving Avenue and Stockholm Street with a touring car of No, 1633 Groene pleasure vehicle was smashed and the passengers !n the bus were shaken up, An ambulance surgeon of Wyckoff Heights Hospital treated Avenue, The (Continued on Fourth 'Page.) > STRIKER IN OWN AUTO ARRESTED | After Is Striking Gary Seized Mechanism of Subway Car Tampered With. te growing out of the BR. T. to-day Included that of Samuel Arres strike lyn Labor Lyceum, ‘The hall was crowded 49 the wits remained outside talking to othor strikers until ordered by a police ser geant to move, Words followed, Haim owitz being, arrested on a charge of iisorderly conduct, The police had to fight their way to take him to Vernon | Avenue Station. Bernard Capadonna of striking guard, No. 639 Presi dent Street was ar sted On & one-car subway train on which the mechaniam had been tam- pered with, Slugs were in the box to | prevent th Ing of the doors, The police al they found seven slugs in Capadonna’s possession ut Newspapers W.—No Liverpoc appeared for the first time in 112 years and no apers papers for the first time in ty years a# a consequence of a sud den atrike of newspaper compositor» here and in Manchester for more pay ~~ (Racing News on Page 16.) evening i TO TRAFFIC JAMS owned and driv@h by William J. Woll) Haimowitz, striking conductor living at 06 Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn, | who drove in his automobile to Brook sidewalk and Haimo- | Judge Willing to Accede 6, would afford a basis for a peaceful understanding ‘as soon as possible. ® The Acting Comiasioner had: before him for especial Investigation the as- sertions made by Mayr Hylan and others in the City Hall that the B, R. T. autporittes had forced the mey, to strike as part of a campaign toch creasing the nt fare. | Judge Mayer in @ letter intimates his willingness to receive Mayor Hylan in conferénce end take up the strike situation In order to move home to Brook- |iyn the thousands who had managed |to get to their offices, stores and fac- tories in Manhattan in the morning rs, Commissioner of Plants and Structures had arranged for more vhan a thousand Pyses and trucks with temporary seats to operate over the score of roves on which 5-cent fare municipal lines were estaialished by, tate in the day, District Attorney | Lewte has ‘er- ed to give a Graud Jury hearing jto any officer of the company, any, striking employee or any innocent |bystander who is a mere patron who | thinks he knows anything on the sub- ject. The Public Service Commission started hearing this afternoon with | Receiver Lindley M, Garrison of the B. RT. Vice President P. Je Shen Joe the Amalgamated Association of | Street and Electric Rallway Employ- jees and Grievance Chatrman James |M. Sheridan were the first witnemmed called Without sunface cara and asith only forty-elght skimpy elevated and sub- Way traine out of the usual 480 fully | equinped trains, Brooklyn had been | practically stranded by the etrike of |the Brooklyn Rapid Transit workers ail day, While the people rode motor ucks or squeezed ‘into emergency unicipal busses or took to “afhti- quated ferryboat transportation or | walked investigations were started to fix the respogelbility tor the strike and finding @ meang to end it, One thousand munichpally supers, | vised five-cent buses were put on |more than a score of routes between Manhattan and Brooklyn and thou- sands of makeshift buses, operated independently by truckmen, were de- | voted to meeting the emergency, | ‘The city started one new ferry line land doubled service on the existing 'muntetpal lines. Traffic rules on the | Bast River bridges were estabitshed \e0 that the Willamabung and Man- | nattan Bridges carried the westbound morning traffic and the eastbound evening traffic, while the old Brook- lyn Bridge carried the backwash re- |turn trame. | The violence reported was trivial. The leaders of the Amalgamated As- *| sociation of Street and Railway Em- | ployees, which has officially approved | the strike, promised to keep, the men | from attacks on passengers and com- | pany property. Mayor Mylan has pledged the police to keep impartial lorder, He offered the B, R. T, two | ———