The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 3

ORT OF COAL, ITY SHIVERS IN Resell Limited Supply With Huge Profits. NFERENCE ON TODAY athy From Operator to Re- tailer Causes Widespread Suffering. fealth Commissioner Copeland has Bled a conference to-day with Spe Deputy Attorney General Speer, F. Bermingham, Chairman of the 1 Producers’ Emergency Commit- » and representatives of various producing agencies. ‘Apathy on the part of coal opera- , wholesalers, jobbers, commis- n buyers and retailers has brought Neral suffering to the city with the rst cold snap, Those who have no onl have been forced to purchase ctric and gas heaters and still bffer from the winter blasts. Those ho have secured coal “have been bliged to pay exorbitant prices. The shortage begun last summer cause of the freight car shortage continued because of coal pri- y orders to the Northwestern and idle Western States, What coal has been transported Into New York City, and into the st, has been bought and resold any times before it has eventu- ally found its way to the bins of con- wumers. Speculators have been reap- ing a harvest. Practically all of the coal shipments into the clty have been “gobbied up" by manufacturers and public utility companies. The smal! householder and apart- wnt house keeper are the ones who } ve been unable to obtain a winter's upply of fuel. Hundreds of thou- ‘sands of families are affected by the . situation, and thousands of letters are pouring into the offices of the Fed- eral, State anq city departments and to the newspapers, which are seeking ‘to relieve the situation. Many @nvestigations into the crisis were begun during the past week. On Wednesday a committee of the Whole- sale Coal Trade Association, another investigating body, will report its Andings at a mecting in the Whitehall Club. It is expected that resolutions will be offered limiting the wholesale profit in coal transactions to the ex- ceedingly small margin of 10 per vent., and that wholesalers will be re- stricted to not more than,two sales of coal shipments between the mine and the retailer. ‘This is practically the same action taken some months ago by the sugar brokers and traders of this clty wao “froze out" the illegitimate speculators ,who flooked to trade in sugar to get some of the e: money ani who are now believed to be a substantial por (tion of the group who have been profiteering on the present coal short- age. The present shortage Is of hard coal, used by small consumers for heating purposes. Soft coal, used by many in- @ustries and by all of the public util- ity companies here, {8 not so difficult to obtain. This ls becauso soft coal gnsumers united in exerting pressure n the bituminous operators to halt culation of a com- modity they needed to produce what they manufacture, | Preliminary steps to alleviate the anthracite coal shortage were taken Jast Friday when Mr, Bermingham, who is President of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Coal Com- pany, called a meeting to reconvene he Wartime Coal Distribution Com- mittee for New York. On Wednesday and Thursday Mr Bermingham expects shipments of ard coal to reach New York from he mines. This coal will be distrib- Uted to be sold in the poorer sec- ions of the city to relieve tho Im- mediate situation. Mr. Bermingham unable to predict or even estimate e price at which this coal Is to be In lots of five tons and less, —_—> for High Price of Soft Coal, Is Report. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—"There is 9 occasion for coal consumers paying inreasonable prices for soft coal.” ‘This ‘assertion was made to-day in n official statement from the National Boal Association declaring that pro- juction now equals demand and that punicipalities and large manufactur- ng plants everywhere are plentifully ipplied, and are laying up winter stocks. Tho association states thut gouuse of the tremendous increase in production in many of the soft coal fields there his been a decline of from . 2h to 50 per cent. below the price that prevailed up to six weeks ago, and hat with adequate railroad transpor- ation “prices at the mines will un- dergo a further decline until the bot- om is reache PORTER'S TRIAL DEC. 10. Arrangement cuter, to Consents Made by art Who the tral of Col. Augustus Drum orter, formerly Third Deputy P. ‘oner, Indicted on a charg of duty, was called to-day in \s before Judge Rosalsk ey Smith stai t with *s coun= nd the winson, Mo- ted on charges on, Was Wi pista District Attorn had made an arrange fartin W. Littleton, Mr, Porte to, 0 to tr al on Dee. 10, reed to that date he trial of Detectives pney and Prank! if taking bribe ‘ ft the requir ourse . Fallon, 6 AZE ON BLACKWELL'S ISLAN ire discove ast ight In. the fetropot tal on Blackwell's sland was extinguished by the leland much damage re- ited. ‘Phe news of the fire was kept rom the patients, A few old hospital rd books were deatrayed fighters bef FIRST COLD SNAP: uging Speculators Buy-and | In an Outing Su | The young woman standing besid B, McLean of Washington He BVGE NANG WuUad, |'President-Elect Harding Clad it at Point Isabel, PRESIDENT TELecy wr EOWARD B.NCLEANM CF WASH OS Thema e the President-elect is Mrs, Edward JILTED BY FIANCEE, , WEDS HER SISTER | Burfind Had Invited Guests for the Ceremony and He Would Not Disappoint Them. John Burfind, wealthy apple grower of Ritzville, Wash., believes with the author of a current Broadway pro- duction that it is possible for two female beings to be so nearly the spiritual, intellectual and physical counterparts of each other as to be practically indistinguishable to any interested third party. Burfind came out of the West a month ago to marry Miss Kathryn Rupy of No, 226 Cooper Avenue, Glendale, whom he had met while serving'‘in the navy during the war. They, obtained a license at the Queens Borough bureau and, setting Nov. 14 as the nuptial date, Inserted an“announcement of their engagement in the papers, invited two-score of guests and ordered a, Glendale caterer to bake an immense wedding cake. |$70,000 IN LIQUOR STOLEN FROM CARS Engineer Takes Bribe of Whiskey, Then Tells Police of Robbery— Pistol Battle Follows, Police of Newark are seeking verifica- tion to-day of the statements of the owners of two motor trucks seized in a raid on whiskey robbers that they were stolen from their garages. The engineer of a switch engine in the Pennsylvania yards at Newark, N J., saw gang of men loading motor trucks with heavy boxes from a fretght train early Sunday morning. He stopped his engine to ask questions. He was told that the less he had to say the bet- ter and accepted a case of whiskey as & bribe to keep silence. He ran his en- gine to Elizabeth and reported to the railroad police, who notified the Newark authorities, Policemen hurried to the ratiroad yards and found seven or elght men etill toading two trucks. ‘There was an ex- change of shots, which all went wild. The robbers escaped. The trucka were impounded. Three weeks ago there developed a lovers’ quarrel, and Miss Rupy brought the debate to a close with the trite but cogent statement that after what hi ppened she could be a sister to him—and nothing more. “Since that 1s the way you feel,” he {a reported to have remarked, “the best play left for me to make iy to find a| girl as near like you. It seems a shame to disappoint all those guests, and besides there is that big cake we ordered,” Within a week he was engaged to Kathryn's sister, Anna, Yesterday the pair were mar St. Adelbert's Church, Ridgewood, after the re ion at the bride's hor Kathryn threw rice and old shoes v the best of them. “You sce, Iam his sister,” she said triumphanily, “in law as well ag in spirit.” ed at nd, Sse TEAMSTERS VOTE AGAINST STRIKE Favor Overwhelmingly ‘Renewal of Agreement With Employers’ Association, By an overwhelming yote the Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, at a meeting y erday in Webst nh Vit et, near Third Avenue, ed against a strike and in favor of renox the agrooment with the Merchant Bureau, which expired Ne n ner also to work five full days ny hold day week, which me the day, overtime to be computed | minute inatead of the hour. He fore, 1 they worked minutes’ over time, the} received pay for a full ho “Ihe vote by locals was: Local 609 agninst, 324 for; Local 615, 79 against, 37 for; Local 202, 48 aguiast Local 282, 581 against and for ballot was a secret ewer than 1,500 voted, re a membership of 40,000 driv Cashel and William F, Kehoe, union leaders, sald to-day that the result rep: resented the majority opinion and thut agreoment ‘would bi 1 im thi ta Ice Skating © ns in Kaces To-Night. Th will he a series of handicap races for Cluss A and Btmen at the Iklst Street Ter Palace vo-nt Moore, International sprint and winner of the 220-yard ser two handicap race, held in PP adelphia lant Monday evening, will face the starter’s mun, A few tl C Pstare will be Wiliam Murphy It was found that $70,000 worth of case whiskey and barrelled alcohol had been stolen from three freight cara and had been sent away !n four trucks, An advance party of the robbers in s touring car had overpowered Special | Policeman James Gregory, on watch at | the Poinier Street gate of the yards and had taken him to the country and left | him, hitnatolded, on a lonely road. — ie FIREMAN GETS FALL AT FIRE IN HOME Dougherty Stips From Roof After svery One Else Had Escaped. fire In a cellar fn a houses In Denzinger A A milkman ‘ow of frame nue, between Streets, arly t anw w ay ton. aroused the State and wo f in the house from which smok was coming. ‘Thomas McKinnon, his wife and two children om the lower floor, escaped In thelr night clothes. efy, thirty-four, William a fireman attached te Engine Company 156 on Staten Island, lives with his family on the upper fc They were in windows calling for help when Harry Smith, foreman In the Bor n plant around the corner, ran for a ladder All except Dougherty had reached stréet’ when Smith returned with ladder. The fireman was clinging the steep single roof, and just aa t lor wis raised lost his hold and fell Dough the to the areaway, ance of 26 feet, nls head. Hi taken to the Statea and Hospital. The fire was in th ellar gelling and did Ittle damage. > *- MEAGHER ESTATE , FIGHT IS SETTLED } Widow, Cut Off in Will, Ac School Founded by Husband and Some Cash, epis M e Meagher, a Me “r husband's widow of Prof who has been will, by which ix $75,000 eatate to his Sere tary, Miss KatMorine Kulzer, of No, 305 Wost 45th Street, to-day accepted a compromine by which she receives the United States Secretarial Schoo! at No 542 Fifth Avenue, founded by her hu band, and a small caah settlement. Sur roxate Foley effected this settlement r ferer in His chambers be tween the Htigants During the trial, Mra, Mes charged tht Mins Kulzer had alienated her huebs affections and had used undue tafluence to bring Prof. Meagh to disinherft his wife and thelr two children. Prof. Meagher died in ¥ ne-mile char Lealic Boyt Bon Baker, guarter metropoKtan’ chum Blan Do son, metropolitan one indoor champion; Bobly —itearn, Irving Malnner: and Arthdr Gorsbah biveuiser’s apartment Feb. 12 last SAFES RIPPED OPEN, “OFFICES LOOTED IN ENTIRE BUILDING $10,000 In Money and Bonds | | Gone—Police Busy Trying to Keep Robberies Quiet. The attention of Police Commis- sioner Enright {s called to the fact that every tenant in the office build- ing at Nos, 261-253 West, Thirty-fourth Street found on entering the place tu-day that his office had been en- tered by burglars since Saturday evening, Four safes had been ripped Jopen. About $10,000 in money, Lib-| erty Bonds and jewelry had been stolen, Detectives were busy about) the butiding to-day telling the vic-| had been broken and found empty in the Meyer Singer and Wolf Yavno concerns. Desks had been rifled and the contents thrown about the floors East Uth Street, standing in front of Mwindow which 4s without shades, was blown open some time between Saturday night and this morning and $2,832 ‘In cash taken, Another afe, inside the big one, as removed to the hall where the hinges were pried off, but whether or not anything was taken has not yet been determined ‘A sate expert will be required to open it, Salvatore Ninfg, manager of the union, said that if the safe blowers succeeded {n getting into the smaller one they wopld have got 33,000 more The burglars made their entrance into the building by forcing the front door. They drilled the safe from the top und poured thelr explosive down 10 the combination. TWINS DIE IN FOUR DAYS; MOTHER HELD When Seooml Infant's Death Oc- curs in Train, New Jersey Woman Is Arrested. Mrs. John Sweat, of Vincentown, N. J.. 18 held by the police of Columbus, O., pending inquiry into the deaths of her twin child three om ia old. | one of whom died at Vincentown Jast| Thursday, the other yesterday in a Pennsylvania train After the death of the first child, Dr J. Clifford Haines made an examina-| Uon and said the child had “wasted away." He warned the mother that the | necond child would die antess its diet was corrected After the funeral the mot startod | West with the other child, who diet | in a “train passing through Steuben. ville, O, ‘The Columbus police are hay- ing the contents of the ni yzed. Prosecutor Kelsey M Holty, N, J.. said to-day he may order the body of the nrst o xhumed, depending on the remult Ohio investigation. ‘The father, « former service '. reported to be in Ohio State Re! tory. Mma AN A ae a, | votes. au © V Ae ie os as be 4u ava. Home Ablaze, AUT) KILLS MAN "She Won’t Let Firemen In “It's: My Fite Hhiabeht Will | Put It Out,” Says Woman, | Assaulting Fireman, | naatse | Speci 10 The Prening World.) | NYACK, N. ¥, Nov. 15.—Sparks | were shooting from the chimney of | the home of Robert Johnson on Kuff | Street, Spring Valley, at midnight | and the roof was blazing merrily when a passerby saw the miniature voleano and sent in an alarm, Henry Rush was the firat of the Spring Valley department to dash up the Johnson doorsteps and ring the bell According to Henry, Mrs, Johnson opened the door and twid hint that she didn’t want any firemen in her house, He told her that her house was on fire, and she responded he says, thusly: ‘ire Department stood by to see that the fire was put out, and then John- son told them the sad story They were playing the victrola in in alt the offices, Small sums of |e. panor, i Fare sa as he was money were taken from some Of) changing a jazz record, ib dropped to4 them. the floor and was smashed. He didn't FON Khe Reesud soc: the safe ‘S Le A) epeat al] that Mrs, Johnson said tia paren Bekah vpho| {Out his awkwardness, but anyhow, A in cash siberty bonds. lhe ow the cord o ie deh oMces of M. Schlesinger, furniture seve Ie oe OR isd st | dealers, were wrecked when nothing Of) 71,6 14 tne flue and then to the roof, | value had been found. “When that woman starts,” be safeblowers Get sasuz of Union's [oncluded, “who's gving to make her eEaak stop? I can't." | rhe big safe of the Statlan Cloak,| Henry Bush is nursing « wounded | Suit and’ Skirt Makes’ Union, No.|"o# todsy; ee s hief ee sts ogi [that there won't be any charges filed 48, on the ground floor of No, 281 Sei ae Phils ing with the firemen, DID SOMEBODY TRY TO ROB THE BANK? Gong Clangs Mysteriously in Long | Island City Building and Dazed | Man Is Found There. | A rep/lar detective Is wanted right | away in Long Island City to find out} whether anybody has been trying to rob the loca! branch of the Title Guarant« & Trust Company The gong outside the building, or tod electrically with the safe, clanged | yrday aft The po! | stocked, August Kolb, unlocked the t de nd went in, but coulg fad nots ‘ oon. found hier, poties wronk Patrolroni tt ing Lahey at 3 o'clo man moving miilding and saw door found Charlie Daly of No. | enue, Astoria, Who wild know How got tn h wis released evolve that jeska of off! of the found In the | Th lanation, ‘The janitor, Bernard Rile No. 67 Jack#on Avenue, who is also supposed to ly thy night watchman, wax ound and said he had taken a day off The safe was all right WESTCHESTER’S VOTE. te thin nN vaguely belong company ¥ ¢ was Ho « bb nvas | Gives 707 Plurality, WHITE PLAINS. 15.—The of-- Jolt ean Weatehe County vot % completed to- lny, gives Harding a ¢ y of 47 Miller's plurality over smith’ for®¢ ernot is 14.410, Debs recelved Malone, Farmer-Labor date for Governor, received. 1.9 Wadsworth's plurality for Unit Senator Was 23.484. Mra. Ella candidate on the Prohibition t celyed only $.227 votes in W or 2.130 less than Par andidate Nov of th which Ww FULL WEIGHT—16 Ounces of CANDY in Every Pound Box No boxes, wrappers or trimmings weighed in. penny you spend in these Stores goes for Cand Eve vt |} | Ch Pure Sugar Frui 9: Assorted Nut) Pudding ib. | Fruit Drops FULL WEIGHT—16 Ounees of CANDY in HAPPINESS STORES: 4B, Lith, at 4th Avenue landt Stee non Terminal Entrance betwee Tilton und ‘Naswau Streets 4a bs In NEWA _ppetia) Today & Tuesday “Large: Candy Store in the We 54. Every Pound Box. Street Broadway, mu Broadway, nr. 3rd St. | Of persone saw the automobile strike | IN 42D STREET JAM AND DASHES AWAY. Speeding Machine Drags Vi tim 30 Feet, Then Runs Over Him. | The police to-day are hunting for two mon who ran down John Noveilt, | @ waiter of the Harvard Club, living | at No, 341 West 37th Street, when Novelli was crossing 424 Street at Elghth Avenue, last night, Hundreds Novelli, who held on to the bumper | for fully fifty feet before he had to} teleane his grip and full under the wheels Accorling to witnesses, the driver slowed down @ second after the first with him were injure d, two of the: vals, of them HER FIANCE DEAD IN ACCIDENT—GIRL HAD PREM | which Edwin H. Gleason was riding, TRV UNDERTAKER IN FATAL WOOD ALCOHOL GASES Romanelli Charged With Lar- ceny of Mixture Causing Deaths Last Christmas ONITION | ‘The tral of John Romanells, an un- jdertaker, No, 271 Third Avenue, | Brooklyn, for alleged grand larceny | growing out of the preparation and sale of a wood alcohol mixture which Wax distributed through Connecticut, | Massachusetts and New York last /Cheiatmas time, bexan before Justice Kappér and a jury in Part No. 1, 8u- | preme Court, Brooklyn, to-day Romanelli In the first of four men | : impact and then speedéd up again and who have teen indicted on charges of time of the pated that their ae ‘hia ts my fire. My husband/conttmued up Eighth Avenue on ‘the | = yy grand larceny in the same case to go chance for recovering any eof the) started it and he will put it out. Get | Wrong side of the street at a fast pay H ; t | \) ‘ast pac on trial. ‘The others are ‘Thomas Ro- stolen property lay in keeping in-| out of here.” lwest uOu Boleenime “water | il odchathe WAN. mandlll, Carmine Ligenalato, who kept . id Polleeman Patri Foy, spe : = . formation from the newspapers. As Henry didn't go fast enough he !standing in front of the Weat 4th | Tells of Presentiment Just Before! # “toon at No. 111 Mott Street, Mane On the top floor, the fourth, $8,000|heiped him down the stairs, he says,|Strwet station, got his license num. | ‘ OTe | anttan, and Salvatore Kspoaito. worth of jewelry and some money by punching him on, the nove, He | Pel which corresponds with the nur- Auto Struck Man She Was The jury wae drawn in an hour, had been taken re the safe of the | reported to Chief Furman, who said | dont’ wl ea BL Soon to Wed, | Harry B. Hawkins, who deseribed him- 8. & B. Manufacturing Company. | “he'd see about this," but he went| The machine | . & e machine was later traced to a| Misa Emily Flick of Rossville Ave-| self ax a President, No, 221 Stratford On the third floor the offices of the | down the stairs faster than Henry | #@rage at No.1 Brook Avenue, the 7 Toaevili ti Me es wa h Road,’ Brooklyn, is the foreman, ee RS ean CHeeear ee Hm aine thoes Bae dear no, JOFe HE ance, Hobert HL. Drennan, to. wiiee | === === Metal Tile Construction Company re ha appeared, ane be i 10 = —— Mayer and Goldstein, insurance Meantime Robert. Johnson was} Patrolman James jannon of No.| she was to be married within two] gwer, Then I ran into the hduse aud May! sending down the chimney the con-|832 East 17th Street was another | weeks, killed early S tie * brokers, the Wolf Yavno Construc-|tonts of two bags of salt and sousing|death victim of the Sunday autoc| wn” killed early Saturday morning | a4 my brothers, William and Thec~ tion Company and G. Toutl, real e8|ihe tor with buckets of water, and |Monlle amaahups around New York, | (2 front of her home by « Public) gore, and the three of us came out tate agent, had been entéred. A #afe|tne “sicht’ was frecsing cold” he | eit, chree other men in the machine | Service Commission automobile in! and went down the street to where | Hob was lying, | told how hin death came about yew |, , rac Raey aie Charlee Helly, Ho, tel ene TM HARM came eeous ye Ie has been sald that our tavlead Hancock Street, Woodside,’ Queena: | TY wis 1 enough to the right of the John F. Daly, No. 501 Bast ith] “Just as T Rot out of the taxicah) oad, 1 am positive it was as far as Street, Manhattan, both badly hurt, |thatemy ance and t had come home|" couid got, for when I alighted T and Police Lieut. Thomas Kelley of| in.’ Miss Flick expla 1a ess ca No. 60% Weat 184th Btroet, who wag fe : ry Autti ie ial | stopped on the grass stetp beyond the cut and bruised. Relly was taken to| a. mn aT wes) itech." Jamaicg Honpital and Daly ta ge | about to happen, Then Ut beard a]. 4 Maloney jr. the Public Mary's, both suffering — fract |terrifle whirring sound and f turned | , A eens gateinar ele baudtanins wa ates toward the taxicab Just in time to) Series eben : Their inachine overturn sl eae the Biecauliiol ee encom | was driving tue one when the accident politan Avenue near Contin z at diges Zs | happened apy before Magis« Forest Hills, Queens, as they behind It at tremendous spee AS] trate CRC Friday. He {s out pa returning from the unveiling the big car erashed into the. other|gyo06 bail on a techpfoal charge of war monument at Central Tali et ‘Rob, but he did not an- homictd | BONWIT TELLER &,CO. FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET Have Arranged for Tomorrow, TUESD/ A Very Special Sale of Tailored & Fur-Trim 85.00 Formerly $110 to Suits of veldyne, mole or nutria. with separate furs. 185.00 Formerly $210 to mole, Hudson seal, s beaver and nutria. ‘d Suits $135 duvetdelaine trimmed with Also plain tailored models to be worn Two & Three-Piece 5 Costume suits of duvetyn, marvella and veldyne handsomely trimmed with WOMEN’S TAILORED AND COSTUME SUITS At Extraordinary Price Reductions INCLUDED ARE PLAIN AND FUR-TRIMMED MODES AND THREE-PIECE SUITS, ORIGINAL PARIS MODELS AND REPRODUCTIONS. velour, uits $395 quirrel, TAILORED TWO WOMEN’S FUR-TRIMMED SUITS 68.00 Formerly 89.50 to 95.00 Duvet De Laine and Velour Suits in belted or plain-tailored types, effects or with embroidery. stitched Tailored & Fur-Trim'd Suits 150.00 Formerly $195 to $250 Suits of duvetyn, veldyne and duvet de laine trimmed with nutria, mole, beaver or squirrel, Included are models of a Strictly tailored type. Two & Three-Piece Suits 250.00 Férmerly $310 to $415 Costume suits of duvetyn, veldyne, marvella, velveteen enriched with squirrel, fitch, mole, seal, wolf and beaver.