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” tion was made at the second meeting TTL TE < deal GOV. SMITH SAYS: N.Y. CITY CAN BUILD HOMES NOW | ‘To-Night'’s Weather—FAIR, CONTINUED COOL. To Be Sure of "Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your el “VOL. LXI. NO. 21, 526—DAILY. Copyrient, 1020, by Co, (The New York World). ‘The Press Publishing ITY CAN BUILD HOMES NOW UNDER THE HOME RULE LAW, | IS STATEMENT CF GOV. SMH Powers pene Conferred on It Can Enable It to Go into Big Building Operations. ONLY SLIGHT OBSTACLE. Court of Appeals Will Surely _ Permit Such Action—Asks Concrete Ideas. Gov. Alfred E. Smith came flatly to-day as an advocate of the | plan which would authorize the city of New York to build homes or fi- nance the bullding of homes to rel the. housing shortage. His declara- out 1 at the City Hall of the Joint Legisla-| tive Housing Commission, of which | ' Senator C. C. Lockwood is Chairman. | Pa Hugot, BROTHER OF JUDGE TIERNAN INDICTED IN ECKERT EXPOSE Ne He and Hugot Charged With Conspiracy and Trans- porting Liquor. The Federal Grand Jury in Brook- yniyn this afternoon returned ir- Jictnents against William D. Tier nan, brother of Judge Harry I. Tisr- ian of Richmond County, and Henry restaurant keeper of Staple- “T pelieve the Home Rule Act sivea/ ton, 8. 1, on charges arising out of the city the power to build and ‘fl-/ the mu Vrederick P. Eckert, nance the building of homes for the | alleged lcewer and whiskey’ rink 2 vernor ©} leader this point, but! The indictments charge conspiracy whatever flaws there may be in tl nto the Volste ud Act and trans- ‘WALD AUT HURTS 10.BY DASHING INTO HIPPODROME CROWD |Six Injured, Two Two tengsrouaty, | When Stolen Machine Tears Into 44th Street. THRONG AT CROSSING. One of the Injured a Secret Service Man in Charge of Russian Children. A stolen eutamonile, beyor and driven by a man in a soldier's uniform, crashed into a crowd of wer- sons on tho sidowalk in West, 4th Street Avenue at 2 o'clock this Six persons were so seriously Jured that tHey were taken to Belie- vue Hospital and two, a man and a woman, were said by the ambulance surgeons to be in danger of death, Ine At (t ten persons were hurt dither by being struck by the automo- 1; Who W a short distance east of Sixth | bile or the rush to get away from {t. ‘The car ran into a window in the store of the Hippodrome Optical Com- pany the southeast corner of 44th | Street and Sixth Avenue. The occu Jpant of the car jumped out and es caped Lewis Murphy of some suburban Wi LD AUTO CRASHES INTO — _ CROWD AT HIPPODROME To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR, CONTINUED ¢ coon. ‘Entered ne Becond-Class Matter Fost Office, New York, N. Ys ‘COX BOSSES CN CAMPAN, “NQURY BY SENATE SHOWS; | Testimony Points to Disor-} | ganization Rather Than Or- | ganization in Party Camp. MOORE TO | GIVE NAMES. | Knows Some Meetings When “Quotas” Were Taken Up. Hen ere at | Declares | By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Even- ing World.) CHICAGO, Sept, 2 (Copyright, —James M. Cox, Democratle nominee for the Presidency and James M. Cox, Manager of the Democratic campaign, are one and the same person, There are men like George White, National Chairman, and Ed Moore, Pre-Con- vention Manager, and a host of others who are helping but the testimony Senatorial Investigat conclusively fs the real mpaign, before the Ing Committe the Ohlo | tive in th shows vernor I te ca moera Home Rule Bill as it | ng lquor. T |New Jersey town was one of the first] Candidates for the Presidency housing emergency can, in my felony, whereas a c ot |s He is one two vie-| heretofe ave tried to manage thelr on, be noved by the speck uor is a misdemeanor. jtims badly hurt : others taken tolawn campaigns, but usually have session of the jature to meet on) Tiernan and Hugot ¥ h | Bellevue Grant L. Rice, a Se-| given it up the end of a brief Sept, 20. | They have been under ball since -loret Service agent; Mabel B |period of experimenting, butt the “| don’t believe any action the city| day i Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Freda Hart-!casy of Mr. Cox his friends say he chuld take in the direction of reliev-| District Attorney Maloy of Rich- |man of Newark, N. J., and Mr. and/always manages hia own campaigns ing the housing situation would of- | mond refused to turn|Mrs. Jacob Lohg Leroy of Le-|and that he will be equal to this fend the Court of Appeals to which over + es District Atior-|moyne, Pa too. the question of the right of the city ney ence ho has gath-| The Russian refugee children who| ‘The fact ‘9 Gov. Cox Is a natural to engage in operations of this kind | ered on Isl about the|are on their way to their homes on a|born manager and that be has the has been referred. The city runs a) whiskey s ture of the murder] journey around the world, were| faculty of getting loyal and enthu- lodging house and a ferrysystem and | of Preder kert, bootlegger, | guests at the Hippodrome this after-|§ om his subordinates, both, are successful enterprises. | see| Mr. Ross accordingly announced he} noon, and a crowd that overfl | uging ® campaign and man~ no reason why, with appropriate leg-| would agk the Federal Grand Jury] from sixth Avenue into 430 and 44th |aging a trusiness property are two islation, if such be needed, the city|to subpoena Maloy's evidence and |gtreets had assembled to watch them, | different things. In the first place, cannot build homes for the people as| also hs witnesses. Maloy explained |-pe crowd was particularly thick on|the Ohio Governor can't give all his well as lodging houses and ferry-| he could not give up his evidence at| tne 44th Street corner, and Rice, the |time to the task df management, and boats.” this time because it will be needed o: ret Service Agent, who is travel-|in the second place, the time of the Younsel John O' Brien| Se pt, 7 when William Maloney and whole campaign is too short to select Corporation ¢ had previously stated that in his ¢ jon the city has the power under the Home Rule Bill to engage in the build- ing of homes. A recent court decis against the right of the pin=| city to oper-| ate bus lines, he said, has cast som doubt on the authority of the muni aipdlity under the Home Rule Bill, but such doubts could in his judgment be removed by legislation. Opposition to the ing was advanced by Edward P. Do; representing the organized ren interests and secretary of the May Housing Committee. f cost the city $400,000,000 to housing busin id quoted figures plan of city hous go into the| to show that thé price of building materials and labor have increased ap proximately 250 per cent ©1904 “The sald Goy. Smith, “is not the question. “Are you opposed to the “itlea of the wot un| emergency as we face at this time,"'| “Lam a Jeffersonian Democrat," re plied Mr. Doyle, “and I believe in the lease possible r | “There plem in Thomas Jeffers the Governor, At the opening of marked | session Goy Smith pleaded for action, He said he| hoped that by the ume the Lexisla ture meets proponents of the dit-| ferent plang of relict will have agreed | upon something concrete, even though all were not satiatied with every ne of tt Mrs, Henry Moscowitz and F Brady presented plana to the cor sion, John J, MoMillan, who sald he was a mechanic er a by the Board of Education at eight dollars @ day “and not worth as h opinion, representing nobody but him- self, that the housing problem will not he solved until the people once more| become honest. | portation ever known, Cha 3 Kane are given a hearing on nunier charge. Max Katz, several days in th Richynond County Jail ona Bho who has been held for ¢ with the Russian children was In the midst of tt. the We New York Ath Stree standing in front Yacht Club at No. 3 The car which did the damage was; et maximum the personnel who can # (Continued oa EI th Page.) l i affidavit charging him] wiiie the crowd was gathering. ‘The! WHY ARMY MEN with “aiding and abetting’ the mur-| ’ 1 on man In soldier's uniform camy along, derer or murderers of Eckert, wit de eee ent started weet, PACED BROOKLYN harged in N Brighton Court to-|476 wag seen by the doorman and py | STREETS REVEALED ay when rict Attorney . ft SiGe orton adm the tate had no|% BC byon - ce vidence to connect him with the eae baie ea | “Soldier Patrol’ Merely a Check Weadral (Grand 5 the traffic jam as he approached F on Chauffeurs Who Gave cedral Grand Jury.) Avenue disconcerted him, Me trie: Free Rides to Girls, igen ean At-|to ys ee es reer a ‘44th | OLICE inquirern lear to- : uses against Stre¢ lost contro! eer inn renaa tl foe CMRae f Tiernan and + Henry) wage of the ctr across the brs Be cisclaa ss Hugot, charged with violations of the | The Passage of the cir = the! tivity of army officers in Prohibition law, will be Inid before [sidewalk and Into the shoy the nelgiborhood of the Long the jury at ance, oceupled only a couple o Island Railroad Depotat Atlan- . It left behind ten people unable t tle Avenue and other congested U.S. USE OF SUGAR rise and many others who were S aantiuarod thie’ at REACHES HIGHEST POINT IN HISTORY Consumption in Last Twelve Months 90.6 Pounds Per Capita WASHING per sugar PON, Sept capita was twelve 30, the HE consumptior 0.8 pounds months’ highest study luring the period ended June in by made public Imports of sugar totalled 9,485,- 7 pounds and exports 1, Sugar was bought y count Cuba eller 4 total nds sent to this biggest Cuban fm- history, according to 1 Commerce Department lay the from than ng the chiot 5,709,612 po country, the r, wit |to. scrample ich led to rumors of prepara- A. policeman b t to police Brooklyn with reg fore the crash o! wittfl ular soldier the window had « t the They were told that since the man in soldier's Matar had disap-| gtrike the chauffeurs of Army ared in the crow otor Tra sorp: cka Red Cross nurses in charge of the| Meter Transport Corps tru or *l Russian children’ alded in caring for| €e8 accounting for slow and ir- the injuned. regular work by tell of long ———— detours and elow progress made by strike owds and ; , police yegulations, Ia Classified Advertisers f that the mon were louf {) and making unwnthorized mportant. use of tho t a with nen who esrined advertising co) for ele my ide towar¢ niay World should Be tm PaLnOmL a: 6 4 nae The World office thelr work ©) h ox, an on) noyed Colonel and men under his On or Before Friday etait Preceding Publication prehensive Io Early copy receives tho preference when Sunday lalng haa to be omitted, Late a tng ta no: omitted for lack of time to et it. THE WORLD. ing Mp th dier-drive summary court prospect (Racing Ent 1920) | ~FQUAL TO J0B, FRIENDS SAY MOORE TO REVEAL COX'S SLUSH FUND mn NEXT TUESDAY Says Lincoln's Words Have | Been Changed to “Govern- ; ment BUY the People.” CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—The Senate Committee investigating campaign ex- penditures adjourned Shortly after {noon without haying hean’ Edmund | Moore of Ohio, Gov. Cox's personal representative. Chairman Kenyon an- now the committee 1 that would sO next ‘Tuesday to hear Moore and other witnesses, i} Y | ect in Chics This action was taken after the Re- publican members objected to putting Moore on the stand to4lay on the ground that some of them had out-of- town engagements over the week end. Mr. Moore arrived here this morn- ing prepared to go on the stand with evidence, he sald, to | the charge of Gov. Cox of a $15,000, 000 Republican campaign fund. 3 said he hore » mandate of the can- didate to “carry the fight to the en- emy,” and indicated that Goy .Cox believed the Senate Committee is not woing after the evidence as vigor- ously ax it might, A large part of the evidence Mr, Moore brought was documentary, Mr, Moore in talking to newapaper- men, Indicated that If the Senate Committee does not produc on evidence of Cox's charge dence will be laid before the ment of Justice, He declared that * onal money er? has b put in charge of collecting Republican campaign funds, and named Henry M, Blair, assistant to Treasurer Fred and act profesni substantiate “SMR HOLDUP VAN OPERATED BY NON-UNION MEN Unload Mrs. Burns's Hous hold Goods on Sidewalk in East 39th Street. {DRIVER IS Is Turned Back Undelivered. re teok the os gressive to-day, threatehing a driver and unloading the goods of a patron who was using the services of non- union workers, Mrs, M. Burns of No. 206°Fast goth Street was moving this afternoon from that address. She employed a yan owned by Jeremiah Stein of the City and Country Moving Yan Com- pany. Her goods were packed in tho yan and all was in readiness for mbv- ing away when several steiiking van men appeared on the scene, The horses attached to the van were stopped and the owner threat- ened with punishment {f he inter- ferred. Then the strikers proceede to unload the van, Burns's belongings on the sidewalk, ‘The men exercised the gratest care in doing this work so that nothing should be injured. Later assistance came to the van driver and bis helper and the van was repacked, polleemen overlooking the proceedings. While this as going on another n stopped In front) of No, 232 Bust th Street with furniture for a fam- lly moving to that address from Nut- ley, N. I Strikers gathered about the driver of this van and so intimfdated him that he refused to deliver thesfurni- ture und turned his motor van toward Nutley. _ HYLANS CARRY MORE GIRLS TO WORK Mayor's Automobile Brings Six and Mrs, Hylan’s Car Picks Up More. Mayor and Mra. Hylan came over Bridge this morning with girlie whom Wiiliamsduré in automobiles Upham of the Republican National [picked 4p — SHE RAOE, {AB TIER AEN Mr, Moore watd t was pre-| wogit of persons—-Muyor My jpared to submit that theljan, John innott, his secretary j Republicans a ul money |Detectives O'Hara and Rile the isin oF jon under direction |chaufteur, and alx girls, of Mr. Blair and 4 number of “ With ame, Hy Pee ae oe ene a BED passengers in & Po Department — oer wore Miss Frances W. Rokus, (Continued on Eighth Page.) Ansistant Secretary to the Mayor, Miss Alma O'Hara, Police Headquar re clerk, and the chauffeur, ‘The |RUN OVER TWICE tprings of that car, tov, protested at Ne load, but both Mayor aud Mrs, | BY THE SAME AUTO} Driver Loses His Head After Strik-| Policeman and Repeats Accident on Reverse, Police Sergeunt Patrick Gorman of| the Hunter's Point station was direct ing traffle at Jackson Avenue and Pros pect Street, Long Isinnd City, to-day when he was run over by An automo jotle driven by Robert 1. HUN, No. 149 Sehool Street, Manhattan | Hill, excited and confused, put’ on} he reverse and before he realized what he woe doing, had run over th this time backwards ved preliminary 4 Hospital « oF treatment at] Iwas t ty hie hy st rMth t New York. “He has broken ribs nd betiived legs, fast ever in| This morning she Hylan were smiling WOMAN FAILS TO SWIM THE CHANNEL (ett England ‘Last Night for Calais —Picked Up Off B ish Coast LONDON, Sept. 2—-For the second Une & woman has attempted to awim the English Chi J failed. Mra Arthur Hamilton, ¢ r of the lute Sir Charles and 1 Fairite Margaret's Bay ut 6.10 o'clock with ¢ nia, ash was for the rin Ne, don the attempt sear win tends to attempt & feat in the ‘near future, Another Load from Nutley, 4. | ue placing Mr. they | Cauning= | Mrs. fon wan the frac woman|* }to mak trial Annetto Kel-! an failed Aft Are nO, Mix Hilda Willing, ar gilah woman, in |B. R. T. CAR JUMPS MANY MORE TRAINS AND CARS. IN SERVICE ON B. R. T. LINES; ~ STRIKERS PLAN NEW OFFER ap Men Await Arrival of Mahon to Arrange Settlement—3,000 New Workers Ready at Barns—Police. Clubs Break Up Minor Disorders. Diuface cars of the 3rooklyn Rapid Transit Company appeared on the streets of Brooklyn to-lay in numbers indicating that the company was making progress in its plan of giving service without regard to (ve Success of the negotiations for bringing the striking employees back ‘work, Officials of the company reported the return of twenty surt ce car men to work at“the Halsey Street barns as an evidence that mang So-called strikers were, merely refraining from work untif-they-were assured of protection, nln LATEST BULLETINS ON THE BROOKLYN STRIKE SITUATION Mahon Here To-Morrow to Direct} Men—Many More Trains and Cars Run, HE strike | sent a definite propos: for the settlement of the ‘ One seventy-three running on the hundred and | surface ‘cars were Finthowh-Seventh Slope, latbush Avenue, Greene-Gates , Richmond Hill, Fulton Street ind Putnam-Halsey Avenue lines Sy | the beginning of the evening rush hour, Kefore night 100 more cars were leav- ing the Borgen Street barna over the | St. John's Place lines, One hu jand thirty trains with a total of 324 jcars were operating in the subways strike to Mayor Hylan at 3 |ond elevated. o'clock, to be transmitted to Judge | ‘In the mean Ume negotiations for Mayer. jthe return of the strikers to their President William D. Mahon of | jobs marked time, pending the ar- the Amalgamated ie expected to |rival of W. D. Mahon, President of arrive from Catroit at 9 o'clock ‘the Amalgamated Aasoctation of to-morrow morning. |Street and Electrie Radway Em- More cars are being operated freely and three new lines were. opened to-day. The strike leaders say that they have not asked for a 10 per cent. inarease; that they have not named any definite amount. Strikers object to the use of police night sticks in quelling riots, and the successful ope: tion of the surface cars has dam- pened their enthu im. > ployees, in this clty at 9 o'clock to- morrow morning. Mayor Hylan held a fruitiess conterence with Viee President Shea, Counsel Louis Fri- diger and Organizer J, J. Reardon ot. the Amalgamated. Refore the meeting Mr. Fridiger — denied to reporters that any stated _ amount of increase had been decided upon as a demand, the men can be obtained,” he said, “they will be satisfied with that im eu of arbitration on this point.” President La Guardia wae ap. pointed to transmit to the newspaper TRACK, HITS TRUCK |men what had taken place between Four Passengers oe Policemen |the strike leaders and the members Shaken Up in Myrtle Avenue |2f,t€ Board of Estimat Shaken te bs e “Certain suggestions Srash conned ang it was 4 A Greene-Gates Avenue car Jumped the track at a Myrtle Avenue switch tn, Hrovklyn to<day and crashed into an automobile truck, carrying paasenge standing at the curb. Four of the ps rs of the truck and the car we inen and get from them some defi- nite, conerete preposition. promised to do this and return later in the day. If they do this we will submit the proposition to badly shaken up, but refused medieat | Judge | Willlam Roach, who operated the car|- Less than 600 str'vrs showed up at j and who gave his address as No, 168|/the Labor Lyceum, at Myrtle and | Montague Street, and Patrolman Burke | Willoughby Avenues, Brooklyn, at a f the Wilson Avenue Station, who | 10.80 o'clock this morning, at which | as guard for the cur, were cut! hour the meeting wus to be held, It about the face by flying glass. A crowd was after 11 when the meeting was of atrikera and sympathizers started To | cutiea to onder. ell nd joer Roach, but the pollke aie cera rosg INCREASED SERVICE DAMPENS~ 3 MEN'S ENTHUSIASM. The mon were cheered by the re- eet teeta witridge, |BOrt that Mahon was on his way overed to-day from Hackensack River cars being operated and running near, North Hackensack after an ati] freely, had @ dampening effect upon ment search. Mera, Wittridge rented a {the enthusiasm of the leaders and boat yesterday afternoon, leaving a|the men, The action of the police tpook containing $10 as seourtty,|in quelling riotg by the free exer- H. Y, Hlaskiston of Rutherford found in which Mra, Witt left cise of thelr night sticks, it was ad- mitted, had given the strike “a bad turn” for the mea, Shea, ¥ Southern Ratlway Train Deratte MHW ALBANY, Ind., Sept ‘Soutn-| from the Mayor’s office to Brooklyn mm ttatlway train No. bound from] and there met James W, O'Donnell, ut was derailed | representative of the International, 4 tunnel near ee from here, late Electrical Workers’ Unfon, and G. L. - ngers wore killed Peapkiva ed injured. PRICE THREE CENTS | Avenue, = Park + Bergen Street, Tompkins Avenue and © “If @ flat increase acceptable to - trike leaders should return to the { They : jiger and Reardon went ~ e * * a