The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1920, Page 4

‘aide tae, Ieuan . a "THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1920. ander of the Polish Armies $500,000 COST FARE REBATE PLAN And Members of Flying Squadron 1 pn irasry QF | QN JERSEY TUBES .B.DUMES MOTHS UPHELD BY STATE Tobacco Man Imported Them Legal for Company to Charge | in Blue Spruce Pines,-and Six Cents, Then Refund They Have Quickly Spread. a Cent. “Senator May Draft Bill to Ameliorate the Desperate Housing Conditions, WOULD LOOSEN CASH. Another Plan Is to Utilize ~*~ Millions in Postal Sav- WASHINGTON, sept. 11—-An im-' TRENTON, sept. 11—The regula- portation of gyPsy mothe to the t!0M of the Hudson and Manhattan entate of James B. Duke, the tobacog F4!lroad Company requiring all pas- millionaire, in Somerset County, MN. %°%ers entering the tube stations in J, several years ago in blue spruce Jersey City, Hoboken and other New Pines, promises to cost the State and Jersey points to pay at least 6 cents, ings Banks. Federal Governments $600,000. with the privilege of having 1 cent Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Chief "funded within half an hour, if the By Stanley Mitchell. of the Bureau of Entomology of the trip is made entirely between points Department of Agriculture, says in the State, is upheld by the Public that Mr. Duke should contribute Utilities Commission as “not unrea- heavily to a fund to help clean out Sonable” in a ruling made to-day, the insects. This is just the begin- ‘The railroad has been granted per- fing of the cost, for nurserymen in @, Mission to charge six-cent fare be- large infected aren in New Jersey tween New Jersey and Manhattan by will mot be permitted to ship their the Interstate Commerce Commission, products out of a restricted territory butts restricted to a five-cent fare be- Welted States Senator Wiliam M. alder of Brooklyn ix working on & GIA to meet tho inability of the ‘Wederal Reserve ‘Board to aid in the @® Keverow view ce. HEADS WILL FLY WHEN HE RETURNS, SAYS EX-KAISER “Shows His Old Greatness as a Politician,” Is Berlin Pa- per's Comment. HORLIN, Sept. 1L—An extra- dinary declaration by former Emperor William, made on the grounds of his residence at Doorn, is reported by Vorwaerta ina story purporting go emanate from a Prussian Junker who recently vis~ ited him. The former Emperor was chop- ping a tree when he suddenly ex- claimed, as he struck furious blows with his axe: "This is the way heads will fly to the right and left when I return to Germany.” “The remark shows Wilhelm in all his old greatness as a poll- ticlan,” comments Vorwaerts, to the State Board that the issuance of a refund by check by the company was an inconvenience and annoyance to intrastate passengers. Tho board pointed out in its reply that only 6,000 to 8,000 persons use the tubes dally in travel within the State, while 86,000 persons travel be- Tulsa, is no question about the tm- Calder said after reading the Presented in the The Evening Reserve System has commercial interest carriead them through tho period. Housing bas had aid. and must have it before Thousands of Those “Out” Now Working in Other Trades and Industries. Facts obtained by The Evening ‘World to-day from the State Labor Commission and other sources reveal @ marked improvement in the indus- trint situation in New York City as compared with a year ago, Then the number of men and women on strike was about 150,000. HOME LOANS UN-' To-day the number, Including the GOVERNMENT WING, ‘Brooklyn Rapid Transit employees ure of the plan Senator who have not yet returned to work, is mind is & Home Loan about 83,600, less than one-fourth of under the wing of the Govern- the number a year ago. mortgages on homes! The number of strikes in progres into more easily mar- in New York City to-day !6 695, an | this figure, considered in connection with the number of persons on strike, illustrates a curious feature of the situation. It shows that while strikes are numerous, strikers are compara- of the Postal Bav- along lines ey ted by rer jr., former Photo made in Warsaw, before squadron ‘started for the Bolshevik front. Right to Left—1, Licht Edwin Noble of Boston, 2. Lieut. Carl Clark of Okla. 3. Polish Lieutenant pn Pilsudski's [reer teens, Dinel. 36 Sreriee st ern: |W sietognritn esac sree <= 33,000 ON STRIKE (DESERTED VILLAGE IN GITY TO-DAY; OWNERSHIP HINGES 150,000 YEAR AGO} ON COURT DECISION the War Finance Cor- No. 14 Wall Street. Mr. who appeared before the Re- is tively few. ‘The five biggest strikes in progress are those involving the B. R, T. men, the needle workers, including the fur wérkers, the warehouse and moving men, the painters and the plumbers. In the fur trade 7,500 men are on strike from union shops and about 2,000 from independent shops. Of the union strikers it was learned that about 4,500, instead of being Idle, have taken temporary jobs In trades other than their own, and this is true of the strikers in many other linea. The men strike on one job and Immedi- ately take another. The strike dates from last May. The main objects for which the furriers are striking are the forty- for the savings of the hour week and the privilege of divid- fo Apance Jong term invest- ing the work to sult themselves #0 as to give jobs to as many persons as possible. Each aide in the contro- versy claims the other has violated @ contract expiring next January, In other branches of the needle trades there afe little groups of strik- ing parment workers scattered here and there, striking against individual anding changes in Route pay and working conditions. The number of warehouse and moving men on strike is about 2,600. They have only one demand, which a They ask for the eight-hour day, $45 a week for chauffours, $38 4 week for packers, and $36 a Wweex for helpers, The number of painters on strike (4g estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000. ‘Pney have been striking only a few is for a wage of $10 a day. ‘There are 3.009, plumb enor, annual report, are demanding $9 a day and a four Pederal Reserve vais sone wean hour week. ("Phe number of B. R. T, men on Tre edvance aver the | srixe, demanding recognition of thelr foam union, was estimated to-day at a Pederel anes, become maximum of 6,000. ; The report Indicates that there ts virtually no such thing as an “unem. loyment problem”—as distinguished Ress the etvike proviem—ie* Neo York to-day. ‘There are Jobs at good pay for all men who are able and Willing to take them, itruction Committee recently to Plan, said yesterday that he i; the Postal Savings 4 be a big help in solving the fhile the Government has, Fed Ls hl the Federal Reserve System to financial assistance to the and industries of the coun- - mot enough has banki; of nid. increasing the interest rate to 4 per cent, instead of 2 per cent. now at gga) 000 can be wa from tocking banks’ of _ the public and used to stabilize Gov- Y it securities. ‘ ) ments. WHERE THE FEDERAL RESERVE FAILS, Long igM care for needs of long-time ." Mr. Meyer continued, in Casventing or mortenges ey stringency is die largely to Fates of interest paid The Govern: could be obtained in competition puch rates, but the usury laws more than @ per cent, and a “iene tine tosas test ve on joans je housing.” Patt Meyer said the present Postal amoun . according to the 4 000, in the system do not entirely themselves to securities ac- Ne for rediscount and the issue ney against them, but it is the tendency of bankers to prefer les on which they may realize ed @ manner. | i : far the amount obtainable '®™. The Federal Reserve will not re- '" the Postal Savings System ,19c0unt real ostate securitie Lig shor to meet the »| “In a Senate bill introduced by Sen- soorteese ' ator Edge of New Jeracy, favorably reported July 25. provision is made tor Federal Reserve accommodations ~ through the agency of member \banks, fan $472,000... tO corporations which are to be ex- From 1915 to 1919 the average Clusively engaged in foreign business $189.000.000. and which are empowered to ‘lend figures were compiled by F, Money on real or personal security,’ » Director of the Division of This may mean that in order to per- Werks and Construction De- Mit these corporations to compete in the United States De- with institutions abroad, the funds of r, associated with subscribed in the United States, as Calder in the Reconstruction well ax certain Federal Reserve ac- tee, for which he is compiling coinmodations, are made available for tical data. foreign real estate loans, thus, in de- gree at least, making lens mone PPERAL REGEAVE BARRIERS IN Kyatiablo for’ domestic real ‘estate WAY OF LONG CREDITS. loa: ‘The use of continually accumulat- ing funds for short term credits may have been a factor in maintaining ine flation, and even in facilitating ulation, at a time when the absorp- colupanies and other bank- tion of funds in: aa based on jand n which tormerly car. d construction might have health. r -alroul ond ‘must be given to a modern bank- a to supply long-term cred- ; the “Deserted Village” together with ton. Gen, Coles's Son Sues to De- termine Title to Iron Mines Property. It became known to-day that an action has just been begun in Su- preme Court at White Plains by George Wilson Coles of West Mount Vernon, through Congressman Ben- jamin L. Fairchild to test the ques- tion whether he ts the only heir to the Magnetic Iron Mines property near Brewster. The place is known as the “Deserted Village,” aa about forty houses there have been vacant for many years because all the own- ers of title of the various pieces of property are dead except Mr. Coles, who Inherited the deed, he says, from his father, the late Gen. George Coles, who was in the New York Custom House for more than fitty years, Gen, Coles was a resident of Pur- dy's Station for many years, His grandfather, Justus Wilson, in 1830 leavod to James McCullum 1,000 acres comprising the Magnetic Iron Mines property, Mr, Coles contends that under the terms of this lease the mineral rights in the mines were re- | Served by his grandfather and that the ownership has reverted to him.| Mr. Coles also claims ho is owner of, the Harlem Railroad Company's right of way and the site of the station. The railroad company through| President A. H. Smith has held sév- eral conferences with Mr, Coles about the property, ‘The corporation, It {s understood, will oppose the action as it claims it-+has a legal title to its right of way through the “Deserted Village.” As soon as the Supreme Court has Passed upon the ownership, it ia said, the shouses will be made tenantable to Weve the housing shortage in Westchester County. FREDERICK KRANICH, PIANO MAKER, DEAD Funeral of Senior Member of Manu- facturing Firm to Be Held Monday. Funeral services for Frederick Kran- ich, senior member of the piano manu- factaring firm of Kranich & Bach, who died yesterday at his country hame in Hohokus, N. J., will be conducted Mon- day morning at 11 @ciock from the West End Presbyterian Church, 91st Street and West Knd Avenue. Mr. Kranich was fifty-seven years old, and had been in plano manufactur- ing since 1881, when he was «radu- ated from the College of New York City and entered the business of his father a8 an apprentice, He made a keen study of piano construction, becom: an expert on plano woods and venee 4nd development of tonal quality He leaves a widow, who was Mixa Olga A. Rohe, two sons and one daugh- ter, He waa a member of the New York Athietic, Oak! and Country and Ridgewood Country Clubs. PAYMENT ON INCOME TAX DUE SEPT. 15 Installments Should Be Sent by Mail, Says Collector Edwards, Income taxpayers who are settling thelr 1919 payments with the Govern ment on the instalment plan are reovly- ing from Collector Edwards bilis for tie third tnatalment due on or before next Wednesday, Sept. 16, Mr. Kdwards again emphasises the desirability of payment by or money order through the .mails. ‘Tho taxpayer who takes advantage of the 1s trip to the iT a it Or the vbikach” mice, ere ulWays great con, thes lng wide the evlicctors cierleu! ton, Del. 6. Lieut. Kenneth Shrewbury of Charles- 6, Major Cedric B®, Fauntleroy of Chicago. 7. Gen. Piisudski, 9. Capt. E J. Coral of Brooklyn. Kelly of Richmond, of Jacksonville, Fila. 8. Aide de camp to Pilsudaki. 10. Capt, A. H. 11, Capt. Merican C, Cooper RUSH OF ALIENS GONCESTNG PORT DELAY MANY SHPS Officials Can’t Examine Them Fast Enough—26,710 Ar- rive This Week. With the total arrivals of aliens for the week ending with to-day 1unning up to 26,710, and with more than 10,000 of these yet to be In- spected, the port of New York is menaced by a passenger congestion 80 grave as to endanger the sohed- ules of vessels that brought the im- migrants here, Some of the ships have been compelled to keep cn board aliens until to-day, although they ar- rived early in the week. The Kaiserine Augusta Victoria, which arrived last Thursday and is due to leave to-day, was relieved of ite steerage passengera only last night, when Commissioner Frederick A. Wallis, as a Inst resort, arranged with Dr. Cofer, Port Health Officer, to take 785 to the Quarantine station for shelter, Steamship agents are beseeching | W## © barber living at No. 6208 Vine officials of Bilis Island to adopt some extraordinary plan for taking care of | the passengers remaining upon their vessels so the ships might load for the return trip. One official who called upon ‘Com- missioner Wallis to urge that some emergency plan be adopted for the Kaiserine was Percy W. Whatmough, General Passenger Manager of the Cunard and Anchor Lines, “That ship must be unloaded at once,” he told the tmmigration offi- clals, “because she Is due to sai) Sat- urday afternoon, She carries mails of great international importance, be- sides she bas a full booking, Many on business of such 4 character that it cannot be delayed." He asked if the immigration authorities would not be willing to take the Kaiserine Augusta Victoria's passengers ahead of other walting vessels to permit her sailing to-day. Commissioner Wallis replied that the detention quarters were already overcrowded, the steamship Nieuw sterdam alone having brought 1,700 steerage, more than 60 per cent. of whom had to be detained because of thelr ineligibility or to await the arrival of relatives to claim them, Every night this week hundreds of these aliens have slept on the bench in the big concourse where the daily inspections are held. Some of the steamship, officials asked the Commissioner if he could not arrange with the Army Depart- ment to lodge immigrants in empty warehouses on Governor's Island, ee Saaeaa ROB TAXI DRIVER, CHARGE AGAINST 2 Alleged Reporter and Nurse Accused by Chauffeur of Holding Him Up, John K, Reynolds, twenty-two, who sald he was a reporter living at the Longacre Hotel, No. 187 West 47th Street, and Edward McFadden, nine- teen, nurse, of No, 238 West 49th Street, were arraigned to-day In West Side Court charged with holding up and robbing Gabriel Exerjian, taxi driver When the youths were arrested in the lobby of the Longacre Hotel by Detectives Maney and Daly, a loaded Automatic was found in the pocket of Reynolds, who i# out on $1,000 ba:l on another robbery charge, the police way — CHa Dies of Auto Mary G jurion, ngastro, two years old of No, 2206 Fifth Avenue, died at Harlem Hospital early to-tay of Injurtes re- ceived when she was run down by an automobile operated by Claxence Lar. son of No. 2110 Madison Avene, in Seen at ar dain Lah hades while the moth exists there. There is an interesting story be- hind the Duke estate infection. Ten or ie bacon ve bayer! is yo spruce fan to be the rage, the for- mer head of the American Tobacco Company cornered some nursery stock abroad and set out thirty acres in tiny trees, worth at that time $1 &@ foot. It was Mr, Duke's intention to sup- ply the demands of American trate at an advanced price and make & neat sum on the transaction, but nurserymen refused to give his price. The little trees have become large ones and the gypsy moths brought over with them are gradually spread- ing through the forest and to the \country round about. | These facts were brought out be- fore Dr. Marlatt. A. F. Burgess, who has directed the fight against the gyPey moth in the New England States for the Department of Agri- culture, said that an area of 100 square miles was affected in New Jersey, but the centre of it was on the Duke farm, which covers 2,300 acres. | It was asserted by Mr. Burgess) that $200,000, balf of which is to be; put up by the State of New Jersey! end half by the Federal Government, ie immediate need for the pur- {chase of spraying machinery apa other equipment for the war on the new outbreak of gypsies. He said the ultimate cost might be over $500,000, ACCUSED BY GIRL AS WHITE SLAVER Barber Alleged to Have Taken Her Out of, School—Has Wife and Five Children. When Daniel Falcone, thirty-two, was arraigned in Jefferson Market |Court to-day on a white charge he was confronted by Brisco, twenty-two and pretty, who declared he had compelled her to lead a life of shame. Falcone, who said he Street, Philadelphia, is sald to be wanted by the Philadelphia police on ja charge of deserting his wife and five children, Miss Brisco testified she was at- tending school in Philadelphia when Falcone compelled her to him to Norwaik, Conn. whe: placed in @ disorderly hous cently, she said, he Preven her to New York, taking her to live as his wife at No. 124 Washington Place. id by him yesterday to go out treets, she said, she went to the Cl Street Police Station and told her story. Falcone was arreal in the Washington Place house, Lech enh WOMAN'S WILL AIDS FILIPINO CHURCH. Juda Ludlow Young Left Property to Priest at Sagada Mission, Philippine Islands, whose will was filed! at White Plains to-day, left all her! personal property to Sagada for the use of the Rey, John A. Staunton j in charge of the church there. He ta) directed to purchase furnishings and| fittings for the Interior of the church. She bequeaths $800 to Barnard Col- lege and the major part of her estate | to two brothers and a slater of Yonkers. | ‘The testator had an Interest in the} big Ludlow’ estate which takes In a long water front at Yonkers, WORKERS TAKE LOWER PAY. Accept Reduction in Order to Keep Hostery Mill Got PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.—Two hundred employees of the Herbert Hosiery Mills at Conshohooken, Pa., have agreed to accept a 10 per cent, reduction in wages 80 that the mill will not close, according to L. 3, Herbert, head of the concern. “it the workers had not agreed to accept the reduced pay," Mr. Herbert | said, “we should have been compelled | to stop work entirely. All our em- ployees are girls, some gf whom re- ceived as much as $52 a week.” Many hosiery mills in the Con- whohooken and Norristown district have been closed indefinitely on ao- count of cancellation of orders, POLK ENTERS LAW FIRM. Former Under Secretary State Returns to Bar, Frank L. Polk, former Under gec- retary of State, will enter the law firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell of this clty Oct, 1. Announcement to this ef- fect was made last night. Mr. Polk's resignation from the State Department, explained by reasons of health, became effective June 15, and concluded nearly five years’ of service, He was appointed Counsellor of Department in September, 1915, later became Assistant Secretary of State. When Congress last year cre- the oltiee of Under Becratary mint, BS Sse eames tor she sic tween several points in New Jersey. Hoboken and Jersey City protested {STANDARD Die Every motor highway and byway throughout icturesque New Eng- Juda Ludlow Young, a member of the ind and New York, isa Mission of St. Mary the Virgin at irt of the long “*Socony Sagada, in the Province of Bontoc, | ‘rail’’, neath the Hudson between New York and New Jersey daily. rOGEN | Kittery, Me. was erecte eas fuel and oils, Eve STANDARD OIL SOCONY REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MOTOR GASOLINE The old Block House at Fort McClary, It has been rebuilt in imitation g an ancient structure that on the same site the last of the seventeenth century. OST automobile tourists at some time or other take a trip along the island-dotted shore of Maine. The rincipal drives there are part of the ong ‘‘Socony Trail”. Wherever motor vehicles go, Socony service has made it to keep well supplied with motor step in the manufacture of Socony gasoline—from the crude oil pipeline to the tank of an authorized Socony dealer—is checked up by the highest standards of quality. An unequalled experience in petroleum refining and distribution has made Socony gasoline the standard motor fuel today. Socony vaporizes quickly—it is a low boiling- point gasoline. Asa result, itis easily ignited, combustion is complete, carbonization is slight, and every gallon is crammed full of power. Use Socony regularly for one month—you can get it almost anywhere—and check the results, Look for the red, white and blue Socony sign. 102, SAYS HE WILL LIVE TO BE 112 “Happiest Man in the World, Be- cause Going Back to Farm,” Declares Levine, At the -request of Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Chairman of the Advisory Bourd of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, 167th Street and Finley Ave- nue, the Bronx, five automobiles went to the City Home, Blackwell's Island, yesterday and tranaferred twenty old men and women, all of Jewish faith, to the private house in the Bronx. Most of them range in age from seventy to ninety and have been at the City Home for many years. One man, Louis Levine, gave his ago as 102 and sald: “Tam the happlest man world, because | am goin epend my tast days in the place where 1 was born and brought up. 1 lived on a farm there more than’ seventy~ five years ngo-—it was all farm land I feel that I can live at least years longer just because I an: then, ten going back."” The transfer was arranged by a com- or 3 ke In Cloned, BOSTON, Sept, 11—The Prudential trust Company of this city, with @ apital of $200,000, was taken over by Bank Commissioner Joaeph & Allen yosterday. Its troubles are not eon- nected in any Way with those of Other banking Institutions rece rly closed by him, the Commissioner said. Ltt Me CO, OF NEW YORK