The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 3

a —- ’ THE EVENING WORLD, GATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1920. Many Youthful Matrons as Well as Lovely Maidens In Contest Over Five Most Beautiful Girls in the U. S. NEW HOUSING LAW PERMANENT COURT MAY PROVIDE FOR; TY BUILT HOMES Lockwood Committee Will Ask for Tenements and » Not Air Castles. WHAT NEW LAW MAY BE. Tax Exemptions and Suspen- sion of Summary Evic- tions Are Proposed. Only two or three more public hearings will be held by the Loci- wood Joint Legislative Cominittes before the members begin drafting thelr recommendatiéns’ for the spe- cial session at Albany, called fo Sept. 20 by Gov, Smith, to give re Nef in. the present house shortase and rent profiteering emergency. The programme mapped out by Senator Charles ©. Lockwood, whic! is understood to have Gov. Smith’ tentative approval, is: I 1, Suspend summary for eviction of tenants, 3, Start New York City on a plun to build and operate municipal tene- ment houses, . Exempt new dwellings from (ax ation for a period of five 3 3 @xempt mortgage income from in- vome tax and memorialize Cougress to exempt it from Federal income tax; exempt Land Bank securities! from tax. Some additional measures will rc ceive consideration and may be en acted to further the general scheme of relief, but foregoing are the sali. nt features of the ined. THe most proceedingy legislation out optimistic do net that final relief can be given lay ¢ egivlature, or that the laws tol» mased will bean nuthixen blessing » either landlords o: ay have a deterrent Duflding projects. Bu vost Manner of handling an abnormet tuation that the framers of the wogramme can devise, after nts, It effect on « it will be tt long ry interest has been given ample opportunity to be heard. The third provision listed meets with the approval of the real estate erests, ‘Ihe others they have bit- ely attacked, with one notable ex- eption—the United Real state | Owners, of which Stewart Browne is! President. i Wuward P. Doyle, Secretary of the Real Estate Bourd and alno Secre- | wry of Mayor Mytaa's Conforence ummittee on Housong, was spokes. | tan te he opposition interests. tobert E, Dowiing, President of the pard, also appeared against it. ‘she principal objection to legisla- estricting rentals has been that | 1 discourage bullding of multi- dwellings by private interests, | sndreds of p of record have, ‘on written by the comintttee's ste- | ‘aphers on tls point. Strangely sug, not one © comprehensive sogramme of bi ng by any pri- interest as been offered by any opponents. They have not of-| red any buildings in the event that} se Legislature will abstain from restrictive Chairman Léck- ‘ood has eought in vain for any evi- ding enter- will be dte~! been able to been ges se of the private prise that, theoretical ouraged. has vying to Nght 1 tenemen Justice Aaron J. Levy, who heads | the Municipal Court system, has ad ised the committee to leave the Jus- | tices considerable leeway in exercis- | ing their discretion. If finding for | tenants means an arbitrary stay for | aw long period, Judges will hestiate to} work a possible injury on a property | owner, Judge Levy believes. | ARGUMENTS AGAINST SUMMARY | DISPOSSESS PROCEEDINGS. The summary proceeding to dis- possess, which many landlords and yenants apparently have come to re-| gard us one of the fundamental rights { property sanctified by the Consti- ution, is actually a special privilege granted by the Legislature to land- | lords, Justice Levy stated. He de-| clared no rights wil be infringed if the Legislature takes away or modi-| fies the special privilege. He ad-| vised that the law be reformed, dur- ing the emergency at least, #0 that andiords would have to get the court's permission to start summary proceedings. If the sworn petition of the landlord convinced the court that he had the basis for an action, per- mission would be granted. The ten- ant would then be summoned into court to show cause why he should not be dispossessed. This, Justice Levy vald, would end the present abuse of landionis dragging tenants to court month after month in hold- over proceedings. The municipal tenement building plan would be established under a wencral law permitting the City Gov- ernment to undertake any enterprise Becessary to the welfare of its citl- genz, upon certification by the Com- vs castles, | q@mcy threatening the public health required such action, he warmest advocates of this plan, including Aldermanic President La Guardia, dp not delude themselves with the idea that the city can build ps aheaply 04 private enterpriae. But Bee) Ghee. i will prossce Rouses, jit is time to leave fairyland so they missioner of Health that am emerg-| J HAVE YOU A GOOD LANDLORD? TELL EVENING WORLD Readers Asked to Tell of Any They Know Who Are / Fair With Tenants AVS 7.0 & gond landlord: A veader of The Prening Wor'd, arpelled by the aumber of (cnants forced to take troubles to the Municipal Oourts, h. written to ask if a! New York landlords are crue! There must be nome decent , landlords in a big olty Ike New York who have net rated rents &t least, have been moderate | and just with thelr tenants, If you have & goed landlord, | bis example wii be a rebuke to | bed oges. Write abeut him to Che Hea! World. Give his | name and address, location ef his |” property and tell’ why yeu con- sider him a goed landlord, Ad- drews the Goot Landiord Biitor. | RUSSIAN KIDDIE WANT TO GET HOME| 799 Refugees Fear Delay if Sent | Back by Way of | France. The 798 little Russian refugees who are on their way to Petrograd under guardianship of the Red Cross have signed a petition to the Red Cross that they shall not be sent to France en route, as they wish to get home 4 quickly as possible, They started from Vladivostok June 4 and have been shown 90 many | nders during the world tour, in- luding the Hippodrome, the Bronx |. Zoo and West Point, that they think | | on} can tell their people of what have seen. they GIRL’S DEATH DUE TO FILM SHIPWRECK Elizabeth McKentry, Movie Actress, Plunged Into Sound With Fifteen Others, It was learned to-day that the death of Elizabeth McKentry, a motion ple- ture actress, was the indirect result of a ‘movie shipwreck” which became realli last Tuesday in Long Island Sound, Fifteen screen players in & ama}l boat were thrown into the water when @ sud- den squall arose. Miss McKentry, whe could not swim, was saved from drown- ing by Marjorie Clemmons, a film notress who. is an expert ‘swimmer, Pneumonia followed the {mmerston, however, and Miss MoKentry died at the Hotel Albermarle, where she had been making her New Yogk home. Ghe was the daughter of a Kansas City grain merahant, —_—-— BABY BORN ON LINER. + Passengers Outfit Him and Present Purse to His Mother. ‘The American Line steamship Man- churia reached here from Hamburg to day with a pasyenger whose name did Rot appear among those of the 201 in the cabin and the 1,856 third class pas- songers, He was born Aug. 30, whon the ship was two days out from San Miguel, Azores, and will be named George “Manchuria Cavatha. His mother, a Portuguese, is Senora Marie Jose Moranda Cuavalha. His father, George Cavalha, was detained at San ‘4 MiBret cabin pe: rs outfitted the baby and presented the mother. with a urse of $79. She will go to the Ellis | Island Hospital 8 time. 3 ROBBERS RIP OPEN SAFE. Robbers ripped a safe in the loft of | stax Davidson and Son, woolen dealers, on the tenth floor of No. 817 Broud- way, it was learned to-day when Superintendent Jackson opened the bulkiing. The thieves chiseled two locks from the fireproof front door of ithe loft. "They got. $260 and two $100 | country. MRS A.MELONI PRo-ve ‘ew | | ONSEN N EXT week will be the last week of the contest to find the five American selected by E. O. Hoppe, the and published recently in The Evening World, Mr, Hoppe 1s looking far and wide for the fairest of the land. He will not have any trouble finding five—that he admits, but it will be'no easy matter to sele hundreds of beauties in the United States. The Evening World to help tim. Tuesday there will appear on this page the ten beauties who, according to readers of The Evening World, best represent the feminine charm of this That will mark the beginning of the end of the contest. If you wish your choice to be printed Tuesday, send in the inclosed glip imme- diately to insure her standing if she already appears on the list, . If she does not, now is the time to place her among the first ten. Mr. Hoppe already has begun to take pictures of the most beautiful women of America, and some more of his pictures soon will appear. When the final choice of the readers of The Evening World ts printed Mr. Hoppe will study the selections carefully, and also about fifty photographs which will be submitted by The Bvening World, as selected by its readers. When he makes his final selection of five American Beauties to take their plac against the five English bewuties he will be greatly influenced by the opinions of readers of this newspaper. Next week five pictures a day will appear on this page, and these wi be chosen from tho nt to The Evening World by its readers. If you think you know the most beautiful girl in America, one who can take her place with the most beautiful women of England, mail her picture imme- diately, after carefully writing her name and the return address on the reverse side, to the American Beauty Editor, The Evening World, New York City. She need not be a woman of society, as all pictures will receive equal consideration, 80 mail you pictures to-day. turn addre: 8 several which have been sent in have no marks of identifi- cation on their reverse side. It is not sufficient to write a letter in addition ebrated London artist-photographer, from to the picture, as it probably cannot be identified unless it is carefully | marked, The contestants who appear to-day, Mra. A. Malone, Mra. Fred Finne- gan, Mrs. Charles Dedon, Miss Noelle Mathieu and, Mise Florence Mae Ridolf of Savannah, Ga., all were submitted by readers of The Evening World, The standing of the ten foremost beauties to-day, according to the ballotting by readers of The Evening World, is s fellas Jn. 1, Mra. Lydig Hoyt. / | 6 Mes. Chartes B. Dillingham. Mrs Tene Barcymere. 7. Mra. Angier B. Duke. 3. Mrs. Preston Gibson. 4. Mrs. Gurnee Munn. 5. Miss Mary Millicent Rogers. Some of To-Ray ’s Selections By New York Readers To the American Beauly Eittor, The Drening realize that Mrs. has Wortd fairly won her plac as the fai - .|the fair in America, MRS. I'm delighted to hear that The F t fo ican Bewu ditor, The & ning World will publish Tuesday a| Ties, Aer Renty Waiter, “7 lat of the ten first candidates for the| I jnclone a list of girly whom I “4 fs American Beau-|think will qualify for your contest famous ‘Gallery Of jmersing to dot can send in their pictures it you then? 2'm going to sit down and look | Want them PHONE | 9, Mrs. Peter Cooper Bryce. 10. Mra. John Wanamaker jr. Lydig Hoyt a them all over carefully, and every| (Editor's Note—By all means send day afterward, vole for the five|them in at once.) whom I think merit the first posi oe = Beauties who can compare with the gallery of English beauties! in | And it {s up to readers of| But be sure to write the re- | INNEGAN | | \ (SAYS GILLIES WON'T GIVE UP FIRST WIFE Second One Asks Separation and | Alimony From Art Pho- tographer. John Wailace Gillies, proprietor of Jart photography establishment at 14 West 40th Street, is charged by his cond wife with having caused rgat humiliation, grief and mer anguish” by his habit of visiting h vorced wife, ° leaves me alone and calla on his former wife,” she asserts in a com pluint which she haa filed in the Bu-) |preme Court, asking for a separation | decree. | In the complaint Mre. Gladys L. we | Nes, the second wife, changes her hus- | band with having treated her ecruolly and with having tried to separate her | from her daughter, the child of a former marriage. Since her huaband eft their | home, she says, he has sent her only $20 a week, notwithstanding that Jestimates hie income at $25,000 4 year) |from his photography business | Gillies dentes her charges. | a ~ EQUITY ACTORS PLAN, CLOSED SHOP VOTE One-Night Stand and Repertoire | Producers Will Be Hit If | cheme Is Carried. A referendum ts to be taken by mem- | bers of the Actors’ Equity Association on the question of the so-called "Equity | shop," the enforcement of which would | prohibit any Equity actor from appene- | ng on the stage with any non-Kauity |uctor, It would apply for the present jonly to managers not members of the | Producing Managers’ Association, with |which Kauity hes an agreement run- | ning four years longer. ]_ It is thought it will require three or four weeks to get of opinion of the members quitty shop would affect mainly one-night jatand producers, stock and repertoire | producers, but it also would apply to a! an expression few New York managers, —_— | eave To-Day, | Lipton will leave with his party on the Baltle, He will by his friend Lord ar and Commodore J, Stuart Black- photoplay producer. ‘The Commo- accompanied by Mrs. Blackton visit Sir ‘Thomas at his country at Ossldge, Southgate, Sussex later will go to® Lord’ Dewars shooting lodge in Scotland Sir to-day accompanied D ton, dore, will place tions. I think that the first ten can't be beaten, but I want to be sure an¢ see that the first five, at the end o the week, are the best five. HAROLD H. | To the American: Beauty Eslitor, The Brening | World I thipk that possibly the reason that Mrs. James Macartney Stands L sees at the end of the list is because a number of readers do not know who} she is. eis the former Miss Edith | Hyde, who recently won golden | . apple in a beauty “cont prowided over by the best oritics of beauty In ] cocovcrrecrcerocedacssne . Liberty Bonds from the safe. They doparted by the rear door, which they unlocked from the inside. Guperintendent Jackson said there haa mm several depredations in the bullding lately, An electric torch and & auowdeiver were fund fn the hall. New York, Since her marriage to Mr. Macartney she has, no doubt, lost that identity . FH. b To the American Bewuty Editor, The Evening ‘Works «oe see ‘om al law .d then every one will 3 MAME o...cecseeneerqee ADDRESS .. Good work. row Tucecay, | FILL OUT THIS COUPON AND MAIL AT ONCE TO THE AMERICAN | | BEAUTY EDITOR, THE EVENING WORLD, NEW YORK CITY: | 1 WISH TO NOMINATE AS AMERICAN BEAUTIES: o |that she —— N LECTURE BUREAU FAILS, PUTS BLAME ON MAETERLINCK Pond Lyceum Bureau of New- ark Says Belgian Broke Contract for Lectures. LLEGED failure of Maurice x Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, to keep « contract for an American lecture tour, was de- clared to-day by counsel for the Pond Lyceum Bureau of Newark, N. J, responsible for that concern fling a voluntary petition in bankruptey. ‘The petition gave the company's Habilities as $60,- 269,20 and assets $72,044.64, in- cluding a $60,000 claim aguinst the author of “The Blue Bird.” According to counsel for the bureau, Maeterlinck contracted to deliver forty lectures in this country for $20,000, which would have given the bureau a net profit of $26,000. After delivering three lectures, Maeterlinck {s sald to have repudiated his contract, ‘The bureau is sald to have in- sisted on the poet speaking Eng- lish whereas, after one essay at that language In New York, he insisted on using French. The bureau was established in 1873. ‘ COP SAVES BOY FROM FIRE TRUCK Child, Kfiocked Down by Another Auto Truck, Lay Unconscious. in Path of Wheels, Stx-year-old Benny Mell No. 1% ‘Mridge Street owes the fact that he ts alive to-day in Gouverneur Hospital to the. courage, ready wit and athletic preparedness of Patrolman George Braendley. Just before Hook and Ladder ‘Truck No. 6 aped aleng Eldridge Street on its Way to & fire, Benny was knovked down by aa auto truck owned by the De La Vergne Company of Kast Litth Street and thrown directly tn the th of the fire truck's wheels, Running at. full speed, Braendiey dashed In front of the truck, snatched up the unconscious boy and jerked him aside, ‘The wheels missed both by inches —_ HELD FOR SHOOTING FORMER PUGILIST Bruno Says Buchanan Got His Mother to Sell Home and That She Was Penniless. Magistrate O'Neill in Coney Island Court to-day held without ball for ex- amination ‘Tuesday, Carmine Bruno, twenty-two, of No, 2747 Weat lith Street, Coney Island, charged, with shooting James Buchanan, twenty-three, of No, 2717 West Sixth Street, Coney Island, known as “Fighting Frankie Mayo," middleweight champion pugil- int of the Atlantfe Fleet five years ago. Buchanan, with a bullet hole through his wbde nen, denied Bruno shot him when the latter was tgken to his bed- aide tn Coney Island Hospital and asked that no of be arrested. Bruno acoused Buchanan of inducing his mother, Mra. teanor Bruno, to sell her house for $4,000. Later, It ls alleged young Bruno met his mother at Gr: Central Terminal nd we told by her Was penniless, Bruno pleaded not guilty, DEATH LIFT DEFECTIVE. Inquiry into the elevator necident in the Clarendon Bullding at 1sth Street and Fourth Avenue last Tuesday, when three persons were killed and a num- ber of others injured, ended yesterday, No official action ts iikely to result, it wan waid. Assistant District Attorney who conducted t atigation, exame~ three more esterday, OP. Foisy ana’ Ondriaw Decied, building inapectors who examined the elevator April 4 and reported It In good condl- tion, admitted that the cable was de- Live inside but the defect was not visible at the time of tholr inspection. ineuras Snapector suid founa the cievator in working order on the morning of the accuent, Marro, HELD 10 BE VITAL _—-PART OF LEAGUE Root’s Idea of Relationship , Reported Different From | What Republicans Believe. | H By David Lawrence. | ' (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (Copyright, 1920).—ENihu Root has an entirely different conception of the relation- ship between the League of Nations and the world court of justice than prevails io the minds of many Re- publican leaders, including perhaps Senator Harding. For a while the Re- publican candidate's latest speech has been interpreted as meaning that the league could be rejected and the world court preserved; PEople who have recently dimcussed the matter | with Mr, Root In Europe say separ tion of the two projects would leave | Untouched a vast number of causes | of war which are not within the do- | ntain of jurists or legal bodies created vy the world court. | “One of the most serious misappre- ‘henstons in America regarding the! | League of Nations,” writes an Amer- ican who has just made an analysis jf the Permanent Court of Justice and the rest of the league, “and a misepprehension which might have |very far reaching and deplorable ef- feots, concerns the interdependence of the Permanent Court of International eague activity, Recent discussions nd the press comment have shown a tendency toward an utter misunder- standing of this relationship, “Firat, it must be stated unequivo- cally that the permanent court is not only @n essential part of the leagué, | league, but beyond that is wholly in- |seperabic from it. The two are in- tertwined and interdependent to such & degree that neither could function properly without the other. “The permanent court in the drat place, owes ite origin to the Covenant of the League. it was because of Article 14 of the Covenant, because of nomination by the council of the League, and through the extraordin- ary proparatory work of the seare- tariat of the League that the com- mission of jurists was able to meet at The Hague and carry out its work #o effectively, Had it not been for the league, the best that could have een hoped for would have been that some government of its own initia- tive might have called such a group of men together, but these men would have met with very little authority, would have ‘been the mere repre- sentatives of chosen governments rather than of a world ongunization, would have been aided by practically no preliminary work and would have had such inadequate staff as u single government could give. This, how- ever, is the mechanical elde. SPIRIT OF COURT HELD VIT- ALLY MORE IMPORTANT. “Vitally more important is what may be called the spirit of the court. That spirit has been drawn entirely from the League of Nations and will in the future receive its greatest strength from the league. Consider, |finwt, the vastly intricate problem lof the method of eelecting, say, |a dozen judgesto sit as a perm- ‘anent court dealing with the In- |terests of fifty nations, This prob- lem hitherto has been utterly un- |wolvable. Upon its many difficulties the second Hague conference in 1907 went to disaster. No way has, up till now, been found on solving the con- filct of interest between the big pow- ers who claimed the right always to have a representative on the court and the little powers who refused to recognize any system of selection destroying the theory of the equality Of sovereign states, The existence of the League soived this problem immediately, Already in the organization of the League {teelf a divtinction had been made between, the Big Powers who are represented in council and the Little Powers who wit on the council by rotation and who form the asspmbly of the League. Around this adheme tt was possible to weave a system of joint selection of judges by the couneti, which gave the Big Powers reasonable assurance of constant representation on the court without, at the sume time, foreing the Little Vowers to recognize the repre- solution, it should be noted, was pro- posed and put through by Elihu Root. “The constitution of the court, therefore, will depend entirely upon ‘a indeed the very backbone of the/thorefore will need the council as mn sentation as @ matter of righ. This? United States are on the incrense. | ‘The production from the 1918 etop was 1,439,071,000 pounds. There | | were imported in 1919 leat tobacco, ‘and tobacco products to the value of $86,485,085, while the exports of teat tobacco were more than $250,000,000. The combined production of cigars 7,629,000; of cigarettes ap- proximately 66,000,000,000, and of chewing and amoking tobacco and anuft 427,000,000 pounds. : ‘There were 16,211,769,000 otga- | fettes exported during the year, leaving 39,000,000,000 home factory made cigarettes for home consump- tlon, — 15 nevertheless the existence of a con- tant maohinery of conference assures the development of a whole vast serie: of new agreements between nations. | “Undeed the assembly, the council | and the various permanent commis- | siona of the iengue are as essential to the laying down of understandings for the court to Interpret and admin-_ uter ns the Senate and the House in the United @tates are essential for the laying down of agreements of thy Supreme Court to interpret. The league may never attempt to enfotor any of the decisions of the court a more than the Government of the United States has attempted to en- fored any of the decisions of the court as between the States of the Union. But the league will always be a very powerful force behind the court of, international juatice supporting it by the mere prestige of its presence and in the final analysis by the knowledge of every State within the league that the league may at any time use its power of economle beywott againet « nation violating the covenant, “The Court is able to handle only questions of pure law. It ts not em- Justice and the other branches of/jowered to handle mediation, arbl- tration or good offices, which func- tions are entrusted to the Council of the League. “In other words, the settlement of, & mere question of law might still leave untouched the more basic po- littea} questions involved and such questions ure wholly beyond the |competence of the court. The cou corrolary in these cases it may itself be unable to essential which handle “Thin argument, it may perhapy be stated, hus made a deep impreastoa upon Mr. Root. He was much pleased that the council did not itself en-! deavor to settle the legal points ta the dispute about the Aland Islands ‘between Sweden and Finland but | stead referred it to a committee of jurists. He also admits that the de- cision of that committee of juriate ou legal points involved may stil! leave some action necessary, and recognizes @ wholl ylegitimate ‘field of activ! for the political branch of the league.” The foregoing analysis, made upon the @pot, by persons not a part of ‘Amertoa political controversy, eiven some inkling however of what Bithu Root'e difficulties will be in recon- oiling some recent Republican utter- ances with hie own experience abrond. eS WIFE KEPT AWAY FROM NOTT FUNERAL Police Decide That She Shall Not Attend—Will Be Arraigned in ~ Court To-Day. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 4. -- Police wenerves were called out to hiii- dle the crowd of several thousand pr, sons which swarmed around the under- taking establishment from whieh tho funeral of George B, Nott, trunk mur- der victim, was held, Half an hour before the time set for the funeral police oMicials deckiel against ‘bringing Mrs. Nott to the f0- neral, ‘The ‘woman charged with assisting in the murder of her husbai and feeling runs high at the preses time. Mra. Nott, Elwood B. Wade and Joly Edward Johnston will be arraigned charged g fret will bound "they * court, POLICEMAN SHOT WITH OWN WEAPON Wife Was Bringing Reyolver to Him as He Returned to Duty After Vacation, Policeman Thomas Devlin, thirty-two years old, of the City Hall Station at Jorsey City, was accidentally shot by his wife, Mary, about midnight as he started to leave his home, No. 16 Brigit Street, for duty, He had asked her to bring him his revolver, which he had concealed in the fesbox while he was on his vacation ending yesterday, It was discharged and the bullet lodged tn his left imag. At the City Hospital, where his condj- tion was reported critical, he said it was” purely an acctdent and the police ex- onerated his wife. COLONIZING IS REPORTED. peetors Pat tricts ter Special Blect Inspectors were scattered. to-day throughout the six Assembly Districts in which, on Sept. 16, a spectal elec- n Assembly Dis-> the existence of the rest of the league ee ig to be held to elect Aaserably- If there were no league there would be no method of #election of judges, and consequently the world would be in exactly the same state as in 1907, | when The Hague conference created | & full court project without being | able to agree on the method of secur- jing its personnel. From this view- point it follows that @ nation not a member of the League of Nations could not take part in the selection of the Judges of this court, for it would | be represented on nelther the assem - bly_nor the council of the league, “But if the court is essential to the League, the League is a thousand times more essential to the court, It ie through the League that the field of international agreements is going to be enlarged. The League already has functioning bodies for the creation of international understand- nas in international labor, health, transportation, disarmament, finance. cic, While every one of these agree- ments arrived at in international con. ference under the auspices of the League must be approved by the in- dividual governments before Decom- ing effective for those governments, men in place of the five ousted Soctal- ist_Assemblymen and one other, ‘The action was taken ow! ; i” "Soothe report reaching Jolin Proaident of the Boart of Elections, that colonization was in progress on the last registration day, } | MILLER’S EIGHT CONVENIENT STORES 431 Broa TA cit toe tees, At Capel St ‘ 53D Broadway 440 Broadway 1008, | ' way ES i a