The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1920, Page 4

6,000,000 Tons—Indus- tries Menaced. ‘BIG JUMPS’ IN PRICES. _ Legislation for Permanent Reg- ulation May Be Urged When Congress Meets. _ Bpeviat From a» Stati i Savane of the Evening Werld,) ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Impend- Jing conditions in the Northwest, due _ © Meagre fuel shipments as com~ © pared to former years, were dexcribed to-Aay by Judge J. F. MeGee of Min- Reapolis, formerguel administrator of | Misinesota, who is in Washington try- ing to provide some measure of re- Met before navigation closes on the Jakes in November. The shipments of cargo coal are early 6,000,000 tons behind as com- pared with normal years and the sit- Uation If so serious that necessity for shutting down of industries of that region which will be felt in all Parts of the country is foreseen. “Beventy per cent. of all the tron ore Madwvest Fears St Fears Shortage of| | HARDING FORESEES “NO HOUR DAY” IF vellers Wilson Administration Is Hindering Business | MARION | speech to a lange delegation of com- | | merotal travelors who, to-day came to his front porch from all quartecs of | |the country, He urged a brand of | American Idealism that is not “too proud to work.” | “TE would not dwell upon criticism of the conditions brought about by fhearly eight years of mismanagement of the United States,” he amid “if it} were not hecensary to take some itp. count of where we now stand so that we may wisely bring America again to her main road and restore pros- perity and give promise to the laborer | lwho gives us the produce of eotl and |, that we shall not have in the d States », hour day.’ “Undeniably there is a feeling per- meating the American mind that great harm has been done by uhwise heads and prodigal hands, In seeking the |etts Visiting € ng Colittecil Tra- ©, Sept. 25.—Derk days! are ahead for America unless she | meta back on the main road, it was ! | predicted by Warren G. Harding tn a BUILDING TRUST INQUIRY ORDERED REPUBLICANS LOSE BY LEGISLATURE | Loe hid Canal Committee to Delve Into “Combines” Ham- pering Housing. ALBANY, Sept. 25,—The powerful Politiea! and financial interests which have employed every known means to prevent a iegisiative investigation of the Building Materials Trust and savings banks and life insurance companies in the interest of increased housing having crumpled, and the in- vestigation will be made at once. Hefore the extra séasion adjourned i it ordered the Housing Committee to make a sweeping inquiry. ‘The inquiry will be directed toward determining whether a conspiracy ex- ists among manufacturers and deal- ors in building materials, as charged, and will inquire into the investable | assets of savings barks, life insurance companies and other leading concerns to that at the regular session of the mortgages. The committee is given $25,000 to carry on its investigation, Ritter opposition to such an tn- quiry has been shown ever since the extra seasion met. The fight in the committee itself NRF AIR i THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920, “Automat”’ in London Sells Milk | To Children After Closing Hours: Legislature these corporations may) be forced to invest more largely in| Jicate the evil, but Johnson did not avail. ‘1 employed & Inrge force of detec- tives to run down every clue, and paid ‘ them more than $4,000 for their vices, but could get nothing tangible. ‘At no time since the playing of the World's Series did I have any co-op- eration from Johnson or any mem- ber of the National Commission in ferreting out this charge of crooked- 7 ness. Johnson now saya that an official investigation was made; if eo it was (Continued) made unknown to me, my manager baseball matter we shall devote a fulljsuch an alleged investigation nave day and possibly several evenings to| Hever been communicated to mé or to the hearing of evidence noxt week, the league, “If the evidence warrants, the Jury] uppore’s HotnIOR too ie tee le ll will indict. and thefeby bring to trial] hearsay. That is what the entire those gullty of crime, Unless this| mess has been. If Johnson has any- is done the Nation will lose an in-| thing concrete it ls up to him to come out and give it cold turkey. fluence that has been an important) >.) have not got a thing. If they character building factor; wes, an in-| had, jt world have been aired long fluence that was a potential one in| before this.” the part that we took in the great| Commenting on Johnson's state- World War. ment that the gamblers would not allow the White Sox to win the ‘The Grand Jury will appreciate! pennant, he said: any clues that Jovers of clean sport) “That' sounds like a bad statement throughout the country may give it| for President Johnson to make if he ° hasn't anything with which to back that the game may be ever free from i Tam mire 1 know noth ‘edout this manson” it Tam sorry to nee He After recounting his yeara as player,| mixed in thie scandal, for I have a manager and owner, Mr. Comiskey| ways liked him and thing him a great aid: ball player.” \. aed 4 Chie ayers whose checks “Tt was nearly nine months ago that were wee upitor several months were Mr, Johnson, who Is the President of! Jackson, Gandil, ‘MoMuilin, Felsch, our league, gave out interviews re-| Risberg, Weaver, Cicotte and Wil ferring to gambling in connection| ‘ms Gandil 1s not playing this year, with baseball. Immediately afterward the Board of Directors of the Ameri. At the home of Arnold Rothstein, a or my baliplayers. The results of sive us the information, but to n>] No, and the mald door aaid that she had no idea where he had gone, when he would return or where his office was, if he had any, At the Fitzgerald Building, in Longacre Square, somebody said that he had never heardiof Rothstein, ———— POLICE , TAKE CARE OF $11,500 PAYROLL Building Corporation, Too Late ta Reach Bank, Has Grip Locked Up in Headquarters Safe. Police Headquarters to-day justified the trust of a corporation which used the gold dome building in Centre Market as an overnight safo deposit vault for a satchel containing $11,500, Late yenterday afternoon a messenger for the Holbrook, Cabot & Robbing Ruilding Corporation carried a grip into Headquarters and asked permis- ion to leave it there for the night for nafo keeping. He explained that the’ grip contained $11,500 in payroll en- velopes. The firm had been unable to reach its employees on a certain job in time to distribute the envelopes and as the banks were cloned, he asked that the police safeguard it until to- day. Lieht, MoCarrivk sealed the satchel and gave a receipt. The messenger called to-day, presented the receipt and took away the satchel ean League called upon Mr. Johnson for proof to substantiate his stat ments, so that the board might erad- even attend the meeting of the board, much less give the desiped informa. tion. ms “The World's series of 1919 started We Eat Less Meat We Eat More Milk Of America is produced in Minnesota, and this constitutes about 40 per cent. of all the {rob ore produced in the World,” said Judge McGee, ‘The five See, oOMatiCc | States affected by this situation nor- CvsTONE Vikw Co was bitter, During an all night ses-/on Oct. 3, 1919, in Cincinnati. Im- | sion Senator Abeles, a member of mediately I began to hear rumors the committees, attacked Senator /ihat some of my ball players had Lockwood, declaring that he and his) been fixed. I sent for John Heydler, associates had done little to alleviate | President of the National League, leorrection, tne party for which I apeak means to appeal to the confi- dence and the sober convictions of America, elxe we do not wish to be AS to the U. S. Department Agriculture, we are eating less meat. A nai 8 pounds per capita per year. The figures available, indicate that we mally produce 45 per cent. of all food- This hew “Automat” in London enables customers to obtain supplies |Co™mmitted to the enormous taske-Oe | ine housing difficulties throughout the|ang a member of the National Com: Mith gives gre eating more saille. Vstuffs of the United States, If the) of miJk after cloning hours. It iu fitted low into the door of the dairy | fre us. ” .q| State and there was therefore no god | mission, This was the morning of FOR eee: Gre does not come down, furnaces in] to be within reach of the smallest messenger. The presence of a “Wo have been driven toward) season for giving them additional| the second game. 1 told him of the food per This may be due to price, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Middle] “krown-up" |s unnecessary chaos, 1 believe, not only by the Un-| Sowers and ‘the 425,000 asked. He hs \]] * dollar than * States will close, —— successful attempts made to mort-| carried the attack later to the floor of /fUmors I had heard. I told Mr. thi Milk, you probably know, is the cheap- gage American ‘rights, American for the Senate, but that body had seen the [Heydler I was sending for him and | anything f all foods of animal origin Hight and the resolution was adoptad|not for Johnson, because I had no you eat. eat 9! sin }tunes and the American conscience) the moment It was read. In the abroad and to check American na-| House an amendment was passed au- 4 “On Sept. 30 the coal dumped at i] Lake Erie ports for the Northwest caret S50 DD MPPUIRE'S WILL MISSING DANSEY eae tlonality and American honor at the| thori ths committer to inveati-| "I also sent for Gleason, manager amounted to 15,613,621 tons, which is gate towing charges on the barge |of my team, and told him of these about 6,000,000 tons behind our gormal | cloakroom “of the Preaident’s League Uirements. . canal, same rumors. I asked him to take req jor Nations in Geneva enater Lockwood said to-day |out any dali player who did not ap- “The whole situation, as I see it, ¥ “The people know already that| that while he was not fully satisfied | pear to be doing his best. The stories | largely one of transportation, and the war came upon ug Ameri-| with the wording of the resolution, | of fixing would not down. 1 offered | hen pes he believed it gave th pe | a “d fo D! $20 vine to impress our Sanaa n business wax facing disruption) Sige power tp make rigid and| axing of any of my ball payers. “1 | ‘ashington.” and the American workingman un-| searching inquiries which can be com-| hud heard that a gambler in Bast| |employment, and that another year] pleted before the regular session. He | St. Louis had been “crossed” by tne | ae wigan coul, it ivabd, 0 ta jane got in the game early, and Incannyv. Claus: am ii aca wichuag < tay were cor U anny “Clause Seems to Foretell Accident That Canada has come out much caer i folly now would mean industrial | #4ded: gamblers and had lost $5,500 on t Prices asked. Of ali the coal dumped Wiped Out Family, confidence in Johnson, On the other hand, it may be due to a national awakening to the fact that milk 4s the greatest of all body-building foods. Milk is rich in Caleium and other mineral salts, Ita constant use aa a food can hare but one result; to ge you a sounder body . and a sweeter disposition. Sheffield Farms Co., Inc. New York than the Northwost States in : “1 could not get all I wanted, but| games and that he would teil the! | ‘at the lake ports up to Sept. 1, Can- ts cold ‘g idleness and ‘vain T got snough 2 get at the bottom of| story of the alleged frame-@p if he| Investigating Story T old by Lor” ada secured 27 per cent., as against an fyerage of 20 per cent, in former Years, ‘The will of Dr. George H. McGuire.) coLtrwnUs, bern are appointed and we have a| fast St. Louis and offered to pay this . i “ stn a i hte man man the $5,600 in question if he would Prisoner Held There. | ‘phe present Administration, “al- most innocent’ of business principle, Tt i» averted that the Canadian |the Bronx physician whowe autol view cy Government absorbs the difference|P!UNKEd from a wall at Dobby Ferry | \°''® N- Griffin, Senator Harding continued, “has \reached out ‘hindering hands to the at Liverpool, WhO! ,merican prosperity by experiments between what Canadian buyers have | Sept. 12, killing him, his wife, throe | Met night told the hat Billy|in new economic theories, to’ pay and the current price in this | Children and his wister and brother-| Dansey, kidnapped from his Ham “Prom that unfortunate picture we @ountry, and in that way compotition |!-law, was filed in the Surrogate’s| monton, N. J, home Jast Oct, §, was| Must now turn away,” he said, “We fas been made very difficult for} Mce in the Bronx to-day. The in-| ny ‘Tulsa, Okla, with her aunt, Mrs,|™must set our faces toward the tasks American purchasers am ve lake | *trument, which was drawn Dec. 20,| Nottie Radclifre. to-day was held for|vofore us, We must bravely meet 1918, contains a paragraph providing Jour practical problema, so long neg- t TAverpool police on a charge of | ode ¢ doc ‘ ote © ha y ‘The Northward situation is only one | 488 inst just the death the doctor met ting hi three children thero,| lected while we have been gazing pt, 25.—-Mre. THE FRANKLIN CAR police lias of the com ausstion which in| “Should my wife predeceune me, oF] Word from ‘Tulsa warly to-day was| Wo impractical visions 1 Yok for- ig itwelf upun the attention of | should we dic at vat Bhp le aly 4 to 4 where all Amer a Ree diveramient at this thas, ie: | reels we ale § rp about the same} that the police were Investigating RR ee ee eciaie te isk oh tween uur shortage, profiteering coul of an accident, dis-) Mex. Griffin, arrested with Denver bs ans will put their shoul gs | Men and labor troubles the authori. | *#tér or calamity, it is to be assumed | Harkless, also of East Liverpool, at! J and in a united purpose re- nation to the corse of n which progress must made, by deeds rather re ties in Washinton bate grown very | that I died firat and my will carried | tne ve of fuel comditions Uus)out as provided for in case of my request of her husband, John| store their Griffin, made her statement on the| mood #ense F. 0. B. SYRACUSE : in Washington cou! is costing do- | *ife’* death,” was what Dr. McGuire | poy's alleged whereabouts after her jana will e te consumers $5 per ton, whil ieagecel husband had indicated to the police} than words.’ 5 e iN some Other cities the cost runs as waving bequests of $250 to the | that she knew something of the case. | ar ~ Justice are in the anthracite felds| Fr the Aged, and Sisters of the Poor | boy's real mother 1 Mra. Radelitte | WOMAN KILLE| Making un investigation of produc-|of St, Francis, Dr. McGuire also re-|had taken him some time before he is Hon comix and trying to get an accu- |membered half a doxen relatives with | Wis reported misning, Mra, Ting. | Unidemtttied © tettm Ha nese te Fate line on who ls doing the promt | iegacios of $500 onc M cliffe had brought Billy first to Bast claw eering. The coal operators in some preseeiggots aad Pais sister, Mra. /T iverpoal and then to Columbus, # ‘| An unidentified woman, about forty wections blame the retailers for the ynes, was left an income Of} ing from there to Tulsa, she added. — | evidently on @ market or shopping exorbitant prices and suy the doalers | $6,000 per year, and his wife $5,000 per| ‘The child, Mra. Griffin are trying to shift the blame to the) year, with an additional §§,800 should| brown hair and eyes, art conditions improve there |"N* remarry. Aside from his eister papdinnge dh a nee is certain to dj and the relatives who were bequeathe $990 each, no beneficiary under the| Lamber Fiem Will lives to receive their share, ex- ault of 1, has light ear on bis er his mouth and \tour, waa run down by an automobile owned and driven by Leo Stark of No. 3 Wost 111th Street at 16th Street and) Sixth Brooklyn, to-day, She aa Re- was to Methodist-Episcopal Hospital in Mr. Stark's machine, but Touring Car $2600 — Two Passenger Runabout $2400 — Four Passenger x cept Francia McGuire, the only sure} TOLEDO, ©. Sept, umber | died on the way ‘ '. 7 7 | She & feet 5, e| 160 pounds, permanent, | Viving member of the auto ¢ , | Prices fell here yesterday when a co-| She was § feet 5, weighed pa os I ‘ P th ny trade organs see th who js now doing well at St operative ready-cut house company | With Heht complexion and brown hair O42 s er wo assen er wi and-are urging the coal trade to | Houpital, Francs knows nothing of | 22N0UNCEd A 20 per cent. reduction in |She wore 4 blue straw hat. dark Akirt ckings and black shoes and rds a+ |carried a blue cloth handbag, retail lumber pric Company. offts [whites save itself b; ten clals admitted that Henry F and by correéting other the death met by the rest of the auto ot Bince the war coal crises have be-| party and constantly expresses a wish | tion on the price of automobiles in-| The owner of the automobile waa not stituted the drop in lumber prices. arrested. ome such regular things each win-| to see his parents and brothers, fer that there iy a demand for the Government to get at the bottom of jthe whole trouble. Prior to 1914 coal ‘shortage was such & rare thing that —— tern Brothers were kept by the Goverame it. The West 42nd Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenucs) West 43rd Street Winter Top $2750 — Brougham $3500 Sedan $3600. sump» tion of coal by industries is given as the prinuipa!l reason for the changed Situation., Domestic coal in the old it i ewtimated, #0 to Of the output of the while to-day it is only about 12 per cent ‘The industries formerly used about 16 per cent, of the coul supply, while the latest figures c ‘ ernment statisticl — dustrial requiremen per cent. of the total output. Department of Justice agents are Mow making an investigution to ws: certain bow many coal deulors are mulrling the public by adding on w the price of anthracite coal « margin | to cover the award of the Anthraoite Wage Commission. This increuse in Production cost was anticipated by Practically ali of the coal companies last June, and 9 cents to $1 at the mines was added to the price. 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