The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1920, Page 2

°° aiae qa eam = Yestimony, pleaded not guilty before _ @ Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions. a -- omMmitted by Backer in making con- \ < that Willlam Barnes of Albany, in fui use of fear to do an unlawful ir _ sdery to the property of Fradus un- | Mesa the money was paid, by Venting Fradus from securing pre- labo BUILDING SLUMP CONTINUES, STATE FIGURES REVEAL Ment for perjury in his committee A& emurrar to the indictment was overruled, Assistant District Attor- Rey Robert Johnstone gave notice of motion to have the trial wet for the @ariioat possible date. 1m a letter charging Mr, Untermyer “vielous and unfair tacti r Hylan replied to-Yay to a _ Metter from Untermyer yesterday im- the sincerity of the exam- into olty contret conditions the Board of Estimate and the ration Counsel, ‘The letter was Peparded as indicating a permanent @n4 usly breach betwoen the Lock- #004 Committees and the municipal authorities, * When Backer's plea of not guilty bad been entered, his counsel, Edward Xs Mooney, presented a demurrer to the effect that no crime had been Gradictory and evasive statements be- fore the Lockwood Committes. Judge Muiqueen asked him to submit an argument. MB. MOONEY TRIES A NEW TACK x FOR BACKER. Mr. Mooney said the committee had been limited by its creator, the Tagisiature, to a consideration of housing Conditions, The building re- garding which Backer was questioned wad @ large office and manufacturing building, Judge Bartlett of the Court of Appeals he naid had ruled an investigation of muniolpal condi- fiona in Albany could not be com- pelled to answer questions about his control of certain stock in the Albany Company. » Mooney also maintained the Sommittes had no authority to in- Quire into crime, It had no right, he @Aid, to ask Backer to whom he paid Bribe money (though such a question _ would have been ali right if asked by @ Grand Jury), ite powers stopped when it learned that there had been oritery, “The question arises,’ id Mr. Mooney, “Is thin committes an annex of the Grand Jury, or ia the Grand Jury competent to attend to ite own affairs?” Mr, Mooney hoki that Backer had shown 4 helpful spirh to the com mittee in that he was the first per- @on to reveal the corruption of bulld- Ane conditions in this oily and that he had not in fact concealed Brindell ‘by hie statement that he “handed $25,000 to Mutt and Jeff,” because he ‘had also said the “money reached the fight party,” and the comunitves al- ready knew snough to know this Mieant Robert BP, Brindel!, President of the Building Tradey Council—im- Cause there could be no other “right party.” After Mr. Johnotone had argucd that full knowledge of condition» in- Creasing the cost of buildings, whether dwellingy or commercial, Must be ossential to knowledge of the cost of housing, Judge Mulqueen Overruled the demurrer, “We must see a head before we myer to! daté of Nov thoroughly understand what |» mov- ing you to such despicable attacks on of Estimate und Apportionment and the LockWood Committee on Monday last, Lockwood Committee has neither tho power nor the wish to undertake the duti of the City of Now York,’ a resol ok it,” 5 prolly My dT beg th bron Including the names section and renders I!” unsafe for me to venture out in thi4 inglem- ent weather, With a day's rest, confinement to my mom and a Nttle medica) care, 1 phull doub les# be on hand at 10 to-morrow. 1 particularly regret the tn venience the many awit- nesses who hive alrendy gpent so much time {n attendance, but it is unavoidable. Please see that the announce- pora' eau oper nlahiag plan, _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1920 BRINDELL HOLDS 1 the fiv igh ¢ neludtng for t of which I out which met w an ext d Hon Counsel papers necessary to put the plan into vation, {mate a comprehensive ot that it was then and there, in my presence, resolved by t board to ask me to Join with the Cor- f. oUt url up te Court of battles to pro! very $ * consideration of the lined to the board ith its approval to] f in formulating the t formed as to Mr. 10 a day for bricklayers, $9.50 4 day | for plasterers and $9 a day for mem- hers of the inside trades. ments for these wages all run until ‘The agree- dec, 81, and the employers were said to be united in opposing any increase t this time, The recent revelations of the methods -of Brindell will also. prob- ably and some of the employers are sald HE CHARGES BAD FAITH TO|t BOARD. “No sooner wore our backs turned than, if 1 am correctly be discussed at the mee B 0 favor an “open shop” policy te ward labor if the workmen persist {n helr demand for more pay. Although Taylor recently intimated ina xpeech at the meeting of the State ment is made for their attend- | what happened, the measure of your | A iitocts’ Association that such. a ance to-morrow. sincerity apd that of the Corporation | policy was possible, he sald to-day Youre very trul Couns our spokesman, in desir- | that he did not believe it would be me LL tol tt ing our a rgal investigation and| gonsidored. SAMU UNTERMYER, in the solution of this difficult prob 2 Bast Sith Street, New York, | le Nov. 17, 1920. Mayor Hylan's letter to Mr. Unter- was as follows Your letter to me unger 16, 1920, is the meancst “Dear Si the Noy, 15, when you stated ‘The will the that devolve upon the offici fe) ing that you declined this tnvitatten, “You must remember that you also gave ay i reason that the Lockwood Committee'a Investigation Into oft the i Inge of Che board when ao requented questions of Inbor and materia! com: | wit hold good, but on the distinet binations was of more immediate im-| underatanding that the conferencor portance and that you yoluntearsd to will hore for be opntinad to the {a the of Ei ate and Ap-| Ueular business in hand and that they bac al BOSSI Of Eatimate and AD-1 vil not he used for the purpoaen of bortionment in ite investimation by! gelf-cxploitation, defense or utinek submitting to it ail data in your pos-| John T, Hotiriek, attorney for th seasion relating 10 city contracts or|contradtora who conducted ar such other information that would |!0K huuse for bide through his office come to you from time to ime. kwood to awalt doy mitments ments between the contractors and the city necessary for the protection | was made all too apparent. It 1 am rightly advised as to what ocourred, the Corporation Counsel al- most immediately after our departure took advantagy of our absence to turn meeting into the cancellation of a single contract with the city—all this in the face of sumption, a grave responsibility will | t be Involved, which I hope, for the’ of the city as well not AAsUME, wil, If put Into effect, city and enable tt at the same tine opments without involv. by without adequate un ind ry to for he latter in th paymenta and to attend future m Was reported to ha |Mon Bright, Nod. where he ha be ‘ATTACKS BY INFERENCE ONLY, |0ut of the Lor HE SAYS. juriwdiction. Bu fed last taht o “Now, wuddenly, without the tenant | We had tet ne Justification in the around and attack the entire Hoard ¢ portionment world you turn nd faith of | Petimate and Ap. | the Law Department of the c Of course, very shrewdly all of your attacks by Inference only, but you try to eréate the fulwe impression that the Law Department of this city will not conduat an epen the are and fearless examination ax to] wasiHiNeTON, Nov, 17 (Acuoolated whether there was fraud or collusion | priay).—A volled threat that the per in tha granting of contracts by the | nits granted for the landing of Weatorn city, nton cables in the United States will “The peaple at the City of New [be revoked unless the company con York righiful Yo the fallens [Aven bo give’ the Aunerican | Govarr confidence, in the Law Departs [et te eam priviees as the Brita ment of the city by reason and other jovernments in handilng| Woularly of {te successful con- duo. aguinst ihe traction inter- A statement Departaneut. bee he had left or intended to leave. THREAT TO CUT OFF ALL W. State Department Intimates Land- Ing Permits Re Revoked ie meeanges if inpued mittee by belittling its an attack on the ni a8 yourself, The plan ont fully prote the departments ower of thir own rmulate the docu. | no making of future * left hia hen rn Kwood committee's Mr. Hettrick de the 5 tha . U. CABLES In U.S. May pntained in a fern) to-day by the noel Se ee ae Relatives of Rosa Dankowitz SUSPENDS LAWYER LOEB AS EXECUTOR Al-4 work (whicl, If it had done nothi e Mi 73) | collection of insincere expressions] beyond breaking up the fraudulent lege Mismanagement. of | that has thus far been presented by| Court House contracts, would have Her Estate. | you to me. ’ been well worth while) and by falsely ' cnc ay 7 . jerting and giving the extraordinary| It became known to-day that Surro- You know it, I know it, and that the committee had not yet| gute Foley has suspended Charios J sooner or later the whole public will] pre: id the proof that would justify | Looh of No. 97 Fort Washnigton Ave- ue Ae executor of the estate of Roan Dankow!tz, who died March 27, 1917, Ge the fact that the City, presumably on| icaving a iange estate v as alr il: “You cannot have forgutten that, in eenthastac nt ete ea ral David and Herman’ Leerburger of at the Joint Conferenae of the Board “If you or he acts on any such as- | N% 954 Broadway, legates and rela- ives of the testator, seek to hive Loh removed on the ground of nyis- ™ panagement of the estate, and to-day rrogate Foley appointed Joseph T. Ryan of No, 149 Broadway, to pass on line merita of the case, PITCHER CADORE TO WED. tion Was adopted by the Board of | et# that might be genorally regarded | Mis» Helen J. Sweeney We the Hatimate and Apportionment, with. | 4,4 Whltowashing operation. Bride-to-Re. When we accepted in good faith . Out objection from you or the com-| the invitation of the Boart of fare] leon Cadore, Brooklyn Natfonal mitttee, that the Hoard of ‘Mstimate| mate to attend the conference wa| Leneue pitcher, living at the Hotel would proceed to make tts own {n= ea BOS cave contemplated that {1 | Bossert, to-day took out a license to : vould have been turned int : on J. Sweeney of No. 15 vestucation ito the a ‘ y lo an at-| wed Misa Helen J. Sweeney * dite the setting. (Of BAY.| tempt om the ene hand’ te Jusite Otelin ica ime troaion ce cane hia city contracth that miglit be under] past actions of city officials or ah tre | Onenada. Pe rook ly Any pomible suapicion of fraud other hand as a medium for an at: | OR "e twonty taht .and alex Eoveanay “You cannot proto mi ack on ¢ said sho was twenty-three 6 maid | Ou cannot protend to have for | coer fn she work of the Leokwood| Ani int Mitneased tho. Worlds Series Rotten that the Hoard of Bxtimate] “phe jasues Involving the elty are,| kines and had been wcquainted with and Apportionment Invited you to] however, sy serious and far-reaching | Miner torn ar mame times conduct this Invesiigution in son, | That notwithstanding thin evidence of | church of the Holy Innocents, Beverly You cannot pretend to have forgotten | 244 taste (to put It mildly) our com-| Road and at Beventaonth Street, Srooklyn, on Saturday, Mr. Cadore was a Lieutenant during the war and waa dena A for Wravery, LODGE AND WOOD PICKED BY OUIJA FOR THE CABINET Says the Democrats Will Not Win Again: for Fifty Years, ASIINGTON, Nov, It- Congressman B,C, Little of Kansas reports that he and ” group of lis colleagues tn the House recently gathered about @ oulja board and asked queations about the make-up of the Harding Caviner, “Whe will be the Secretary of State?" wae first asked “Le * was the Anewe “Secretary of Wart” Leonard Wood,” aid Ouija, but she failed to apell the name of any man as Beetetary of Labor. ‘How long will it be before ats come back Into power i board was next anked “Rifty years,” was the peply “Ary Joking about al) these questions? "Yeu" said Quia, ‘ PRISON DEMANDED the foot of which the chi dren were trampled to death or su focated. ‘The only inference that can be drawn from this action of the Dis- trict Attorne office is that credence is placed in the reports thac the exit door was locked, Anticipating the conference set for Friday it can be stated that the officials of the Fire Department will discount, with testimony, the idea that the deaths of the ehildren resulted from the possible blocking | of mn exit door. It developed to-day that the department has in its posses- | sion a sworn statement from Patrol; man Doolan of the Oak Street station to the effect that the gallery exit door was not locked. Fire Department officials are out- spoken in declaring that the exit door from the gallery lobby had no bearing on the deaths of the children. They declare the children cfme to their deaths at the foot of the stairs, eight feet from the exit door. Assistant District Attorney Dineen, in charge of the Investigation, summed up the evidence that has heen collected: “It looks at this time as if we could bring only charges of operating without a Hoense and selling tickets to children unaccompanied by parent or guardian. Hither offense is a mils meanor.”” The funeral of Elmira Alpine, thirteen, one of the victims, was held sterday. Her home was at No, 16 Catharine Street. There was a double funeral to- day at 2, when the bodies of Theres idice and her two-year-old cousin, Jominic Maniseallo, were taken from the Maniscallo home, at Ng. 87 Oliver Street, and interred in Calvary after services conducted by the pastor of the Church of St. Joachim. ‘Vo-morrow Joseph Lombardi, two yeara old, of No. 140 Cherry Street, rea some and Pasquale Comisas, ten years old, of No, 50 Oak Street, will be buried, following ssery at St. Joachtm's Church, The classmates of Pasquale from Public School No, 114 will follow the hearse, The tolow\ng letter was received to-day from Julian Rosenthal, former Heese oftietal: “Editor Evening Wor ing on the motion picture theatre dis- aster, may I say that it appears to be alinost impossible to prevent ohildren under age trom entering such amuse Comment- ‘As Deputy License Commissioner in the Mitchel Administration, we were continually faced with this prob- lem, The Inspection foree Was sent out scores of times to watch for vio lations: “We establiehed the rule of pun- inhing the license holder by closing down his place for two or three days, which is & more Hevere pminishment than» fine. ining for viviations will not cheek the evil,’ “Bar More serious than the viela- tion of the law by tho theatre own- ore wan the discovery that hundreds of mothers, to ape the care of their children for a few hours, de- Liberat would send them to the sovies, “The writer recalla presiding at @ heariig ina case where Lhe licensee’ defense was that the women of the nelghborhood had written him notes asking that he admit thelr ehildren. And he proserited the notes as evt- dence, “Not even the big moeyie theatres bar ohiidren under age, Absolute en- forcement of the law would require a porceman of Ilcense to be stationed conUnuously in front of every thea tre “One way inowhich to stop the evt Is to reach the children (hemaselyos Jin the sehools, using the® Catharine |Atreet affur and similar dsastor as warnings. “Mothers eat be reached. in the jpn LS ny ¢ tru! F rt a STOCKS SLUMP Competent to do the work requited } t ent gas rate statutes; | f | ‘ ‘The witnesses named on the In-| Only €160 | the telephone rate Inquiry now | @orsement of the indictment are my $16,679, fn progresses the litigation invely i George H. Clarke, Saul Singer, the tor October—G: Y New York Central fait | owner of the building, Samuel } Way's Occupation of eity property | | ’ | Donnelly, Franklin Nevins and Jo n the west side of Manhatt | Fradus, a wrecking contractor, w nm Wefore the fT ) J told the Lockwesd Committee he had Heard: ut Hinate and Appor ‘been ruined by Brindel! | ae « ta fallw aye nd coe | —. cok INDICTMENT WAS EXPECTED > tigur panier ML aL IR Says 5 Are|Ste > ie e Asked Pre : son | Thon inet } me figures of tt | sactocwaatel eedatiel OF sere wine ys Graft Exposures Are/Stern Penalties to Be Asked Pressure’ on Standard High . atistica of the Etat fi i ; rayon” aati st . : : HR hae deca w foregone conclusion) Crmminton Which | complex lawsuite and procecas | Only'to Head Of foe | at Conference of City Priced Shares as Great as Mince the first few hearings of the | the extra session of | - ssi Pay Demand its ; . Li | “No one his so far made ay aun. orities, awer Tests Lockwood Committee that Hrindell| jure were ‘ iv at ny _ hits #0 tar mate any i \uthoritie Newer Issues. would be the first person indicted | gouging jandl . of the | i bai i fk nae oe 7 ¥ - Aue CHM Wate aeLitie - ~ « mong the builders, contractors and| laws tected Were intended to pada diglicteli aL tase it AN dice Cieed i VE More drastic pinishmer ") Notwithstanding (he reassurinc wity Administration, Buildin Trades Couneil net the Tabor union officials regarding whom! eneourses eonatra j ieaild ‘ 2 graft exposures before tt xentences: for motion 4» Statement Jasued jast night by a the committee has taken evidence In October : eee ote ee LORS | cniimlt tha d adol-|tora who fil t f opt y © mean but carefully WIE a ae alle jsOre who fi 0 Ory Wit 1 erenp of the pres ypart winkers Phe indictment of George Backer for] cost of buiid ' : Stal let te MIy |lur a day more pay for Wis mens ANd | matory tien velll he advorated by the te wat AAMAS VARS LG oy Perjury was incidental to his persiat- | firet and second eae | i erences cared 0) spparentiy ts holding nis forces solid, je he a W Wall Street. folowing 2 meeting +tmg in telling contradictory stories] the State was $16,479,000, aa com ome Me Mrs | ‘he larmeat mocting of the council | Sclety for eMtlon of Cruelty to held in the odices of J. 0. Marwan: & Tegarding the payment of a $25,000} pared with $1 In sep. : 4 . 1 owl paid ei nies | since its organ min last Jannary | Children at the Joint moeting of vity | stock market to-day experi- Bribe, due as now confessed by is] tember. The fal waver O& | Whit the Corn ae eau Wilt | Was Hold yesterday at the St. Marks /departments on friday when the Pr severe sinking spell Counsel, in arguing a demurrer to an| tober of 1 year was 45 ; Liddle Bei Place headquarters, OF the 187 walk- | Gattn Street theatre tragedy with NWN carried the price of many im- | conduct # most rigid and syaroh- Catharine Street thea uapedy unwillingness to name Brindell. cent. The drop waa. princip RETaCoATGatiG acit call legates from the building trades portant issies down to the lowest of (Counsel of the Committee, when | in new construction, whet phe oh fan ae Poa unlons about 109 were present, it |°O* UP for consideration the y In not 1 few instance the eked why Brindell was not indicted | $4,200,000 xhort of September WATHING Of tthe conner nt | was reported that fully 80 per cent.| Mtnest K. Coulter, general manager | ow prices of the day were the lowest ‘at once, have explainod that the #ep- The Borourha of Manhattan, tiny hans ant contract, Tv | ot the delegates appeared to show [OF the Children's Soolety, stated to recorded during several years arate charges against him were wus-| Bronx and Queens in Now York i ; Aaa a fa bi Wud. | their loyalty to Beindell and assured [AY that he or « representative will!) Vaiyox me Say ih a manner that Geptible of separate attack because of | City fell short of building in Os- hai jay, wilt De imeted Tht that he was “as pupular as cyer" | OC Present at the conference to A#h| was surprising even to those hearixh small corroboration and i was neo-| tober, us compared with the mgnth ed hed eee eres with the rank and fle of their untony, | MO"e Arastic punishments for viola-| professional speculative cliques who @eeary to get corroboration of tho| of Be aber, ‘by Tat- RoR waht, Gee ae ee start to ‘The delegates told of conditions in| Of the Inwa made to guard the heen loud in their predictions of @amaging statements made by Com-| Per cent 2 per cent, re- hi ae chee tome try WO | oie rexpective untons, after which | Bealth, Hfe and morals of patrons of] tock market demoralization. ‘The de- mitice witnesses, It was aloo neces-| #pectively. Thote was a gain of | Meee In inind go a dua Of fair | the Rockwood committeo's investigu- | Mitton pleture houses cline to-day was first felt by the @ary to co-relate the thirty aceusa-| 12 per cent. in Brooklyn and 123 | a Hp MAE Seay: ou know Very | ton came Into the discussion, Brin-| Col, Coultor saya he will-also aug’ |‘newer and supposedly “bnseasoned fons (more or ‘<as) made nguinat| Der cent. in Richmond. | ee erenas CDThinead hetors Lah eels tald to have tnade dint of toe | gest that welfare workers in the tene=| sauces that have been offered for pub- * i Leal al oe. Ween ready to appear before y att chartes and Uedlared the ¢ Brindeli so that they would support} ~ ==} committes and. testy without |fnittec was merely trying to disoredit | MOM! hoase neighborhoods instruct the liseription during the past year | h each other by their mass, gain full knowledge without full | reservation. Your intin him and the council, but that the | Members concerning the dangers thal or so. ‘Theatre stocks were hurriedly wrongdoing, which +ffects the Sahil BA w “walling gn me’ if | Jan, 1 demand for an increase of $1] exist In many picture theatres, dumped oa the market and Famous- Tt was necessary to draw all the % he Her aaltbarar the | {fils as the rest ue your in a day would not be withdrawn. If) «9 great majority of mothers In Me! Players 4 in overnight de- 4aterlocking apd complicated charges | subject of its deliberations. ferences concerning me. the demands are granted, Journey« _ ‘i i to resist technical assaults by coun-| information sought from the de- “Very truly yours, men will obtain $10 a and he tenements do not read the news-! cline of 12 points, Loew Ime. and eel. For this reason Emory Buckner, fendant was material to the com- | “JOUN FL HYLAN, Mayor.” ers The demands affect approx:- | papers,” said Col, Coulter, “and ‘Orpheum Cricuit scored sharp de- *e former District Attorney and an ex mittee and to the Grand Jury, and Some of the statements made by eae ros bhoerta: thar leaked out at|{ROrant concerning conditions that] clines, ; Pert in the drawing of Indictments, | | #0 instructed the Grand Jury in | {i Narberth Sia alyilte ident that Brindell's delegates | &Xist. Werkness soon spread to the old ‘with @ forve of assistants made their | My charg thon ware; 4 that the idea of an increase of | “If they are warned as to the dan-|and higher priced stocks that hay M Pi $l a day in thelr wages will appeal! gers that lurk in many of these| jong been favorite mediums for trad- Sock purposaly ceberate, They haa|MR. UNTERMYER ASKS FOR|PROTEST AGAINST CORPORA-|{, the rank and fie of the unions. (oom tint lurk in many of these Bae COMES edule Ree tts @etermined to put off the actual POSTPONEMENT. TION da la This will be Pires os the council's nen fee Seu seal teil rhe ine, nied ae Steol sol AR S1, ng @rawing of indictme . two yard of Batlma oom at ake Lis opportunity of register- | trump card in ite Aght to retain the |dren. Furthermo! sho bl towest price of the year, Bquipmen Weiks, \f nece: at {St SBD be esd en ie ll Traie, {10K 4nd protest againat what has| support of its members. If the em- | brought to realize the dunget Inctrred | stocks were heavily pressed for sale seary, ae it obviously | City Hall wae well filled when Chalt-| yecn reported to me 4s the behavior | pivyers refuse the demand, Brindell’s |, their offspring .of tender years diuinta Rasued UM Wes aUMRAT Jhas not been. man Lockwood announced adjourn. | of your Corporation Counsel yester-| agents will use the refusal as evi-| oi, coe permitted to go unescorted | ne 4 | ‘Bail for the full amount o: 0|ment of the session. Mr. Lockwo y before the Board of Estimate be-| dence of an “organized cunpaign to} ie his * i poitts, Baldwin Locomotive, which a owas turn Fivshee |Geetpccs eae ‘ Lili J the backs of the committee and redit labor.” Uf the employers |to the picture places 1 ab 116 . nd packs oO} « nered , ale he pleture plac month ago sold above shed by the National Surety {presented the following letter frof | iyveit und which could hardly have|acgulesce, the walking delesites, ot | GAYS PRISON SENTENCE WOULD] ™ : Com; ; ls SAYS 11-2. Houston Oil broke pany. Mr. Untermyer. happened without your tacit approval. | pusiness agents as they are known, | END MANY EVILS. - 7 MR. UNTERMYER ILL; INQUIRY] Hon. Charles ©. Lockwood, Chair- We lad appeared betore the board | will rally the workers to the cause! 7 4.) however, thit n few jatt [| POMS Pressed steel Car lu : fake beh ' cu Yee olty ts aclving. ee moult | othors Te: Hecie aiketlnsea: hee. the] Remleaoes Will go a loo way cowed | Moxoen Hetroloum © petnth Amoriond « y Den ‘ e1 he , : " - sae sinh x CMe" | Tobace pret i points, Crucible Because of a cold contracted by My Dear Senator: Tregret that | problema growing out of the many | Building Tradea Employers’ Associa- | ojjminating rany.of tho evils that at r bacco more than) ® pointe Crueibli Chief Counsel Samuel Untermyer of} it will be ssary for me to | millions of fraudulent | ae tion wit «rant the mand for an) present ist.” Steel 6 points and International Har- ‘the Lockwood Committee Investigat-| ask you to postpone the Inqul have heen saddled upon the city, This | increase in wages, according to Ro- | ats P vester, International Paper, American 4 2 is expeciauy true of the Board of Bdu-/ land Taylor, President of the asso- A representative of the District At- | ee . a NORDIN ing housing conditions there wag A} until to-morrow, morning, at | cation and uiher departmenta in caxes| ciation. The employers will meet} torney's officg to-day visi the | (ternational, Am rican Hesore ty _ {Postponement until 10 o'clock to-| which tine I am assured I will | where they have not taken the pre-| this afternoon at their headquar Catharine Street theatre and with a|#9d American Car & Foundry all los Morrow of the sessions of the com-| be able to resume. My indispo- | caution to require the names of #ub | No, 30 West 34d Btroet, und Mr aw cat away a portion of the door | fem 81-2 to more than 3 points, Unit- mittee, orl "1 contractors. lor said the indications are that the) * gee . . - | ed Food Products decline fe + George Back ‘ nition In mot serious. A cold I |" “realizing the importance to the} demands of the men would be te-|framewny to which at one time a| %4 Food Products declined more than ¢ 'ge Backet, the rich contractor, | contracted a few days ago has |eity of prompt action and of a con- | fused unanimously, padiock had been attached, ‘Chia was | points. ; chia he had given a bribe] aggravated a chronic bronchial uctive programme in dealing we The present wage seal Is for} iis doprway leading to. th gallery | n the standard railroad issues Of $25,000 to Hrindell, under inaict- the situation, | had spent hours in fur- he d ay lendin | vere notably weak. Reading declined four and a half points and Northern Pagifle, Southern Pacifle, Great North- ern and Atchison, whieh recently were eagerly bought beeadse of prospects of “melon” cuttings, were freely dumped on the market and lost from two to three points compared with the closing figures of last night. At no time was there evidence of “Inside” or banking support. The market appeared to be without re- Cuperative power and the lowest prices of the day were touched in the jast of trading, although the call money rate in this period dropped to 6 per cent,, which ts the lowest money rate Wall Street has had in several months. Saeeieen 14S 0S CALLS PICKED UP AT SEA Ward Liner Mexican Arrives in Port With Tales of Big Storm, Rough weather, without a letup from the time of his departure from Havana, Nov. 12, until his arrival to- day, was reported by Capt. F. L. Mil- ler of the Ward liner Mexican, who added that his ship's wireless had in- tercepted during the voyngie fourteen 3.0 8 calls, six of which were re- ceived as they were entering New York Harbor, and that they had seen one abandoned steamer burning sixty miles off the east const of Florida All of the wireless calls, Capt, Mil- ler stated, were out of reach of the Mexican, The burning vessel, it was learned, was the Mary W. Richard, loaded with lumber, all of whore crew was picked up by the steamer Rumney. a PRICES TO FARMERS DROP. Record Further Decline Per Cent. in October. WASHINGTON Nov. 17 (United Preas).—Prices pald farmers for prin- cipal cropa at the farm dropped 19.1 per cent, during October the Agriculture Department announced to-day, Discouraged by theso falling prices, farmers are carrying out thelr threats to curtail production, according to other reports to the department despite the ract that present priees average 14.8 | por cent, higher than those of thé pro- war price. Im Ohto 60,000 workers ayit farm labor during a twelve-month” period just ended, according to reporta of a survey | which were forworded to the Agricul: | ture Department, which also showed th are 26,000 Vacant farm houses tn Ohio compared with 16,000 a yoar ago, Similar reports ce A other States, of 194 juat eaat of the Ponneylvanta Rall | ie Hiendled wie We “ca PITTSBURGH, Nov ate ) shovels and @ large of Juborers were to-day vainly trying | to overcome great masses of earth | 1 and rock slipping down the hillside Attraction for WOMAN 1 LED IN FURIOUS STOR; SHIPS ARE HELD UP ups Lackawanna ferry alip at the foot of Mth Street. ‘These scows usually carry ¢ ws of four men, but fre- quently a left at night with but one watchman, The ewnership of t May Queen has not yet been learned ippery wind w pavéments and the high p said to he responsible for | the death of Carl Clemantedn, No. | 754 48th Street, Brooklyn, An auto truck of I. Namm & Co, driven by | Frank Reilly, nineteen, of No. 69 | Bond Street, Brooklyn, ran into an | automobile at Seventh Avenue and | {8th Street. Clemantsen was shegwea| from the car and died from a frac- tured skull, Reilly was charged with | homicide, } Out fen the gat ater | Nshore, The Spanish steamer! bound for Dunkirk from Balth font out a wireless all for help 240 miles off Cape May, The coast guard cutter Seneva was sent to the assistance of the Yute. She is a freighter with a crew of| ‘orty-cight men, ‘The French steamer | Genua, bound to Baltimore from Sa- vannah, sent out un S$ O 8, but later) was than reported she needed ne stance, panish steamer Emmanuele | Accum wirelessedt that ehe was in| distress fifteen mites off the Dela- ware Breakwater. The Coast Guard cutter Gresham was sent to her ald. | The tanker Hisko, 8,500 tons, Iragged her anchors off Stapleton ‘arly this morning and tugs were sent to her assistance In response to her wireless calis for heip, ‘The Sound steamers Lexingtor and New Hhven were driven to shelter into New London, and a boat believed to be the Concord, anchored outside the New London tight, Willis Avenue and other principal thoroughfares of the Bronx got the full foree of the blow. Poles were Dlown down and the streets were strewn with acres of glass, whipped from the show windows, and um- brella wrecks torn from the grasp of early morning pedestrians, Men and women kept thelr feet only with the Kreatest difficulty, Six persons were badly cut and about a score slightly bruised at Huntington, L. 1, last evening when a tree blew over against a passenger train from New York,,breaking the windows, A big plate glass window was’ blown out of the Heatherington drug store, 42d Street and Vanderbilt Ave- nue, early to-day, scattering fountain pens, bottles of perfum® and other articles over the street and sidewalk, to be picked up by pedestrians. A water main burst at 50th Street) and Lexington Avenue and for half an hour a geyser shot many feet in the air, stopping the Lexington Ave- nue trolleys until Water Department employees arrived and shut off the water. Western New York Digging Itnelf Out. HORNELL, N. ¥., Noy. 17.—Weatern New York Is digging itseM out to-day from a heavy blanket of snow and sleet to find wire commumiation — badly crippled by the storm, train service nearly demoralized and’ coal bing atill empty, The snow waa so heavy that it broke telegraph and telephone wires and stalled all trains during the night. Buffalo Tas One of Worst Storms in Its History, BUFFALO, Y., Nov, 17.—Ruffalo Is showbound in one of the worst storms in the history of the elty durin, the month of November. From 4 o’cloc! this morning until! 7 more than a foot of snow fell. and interurban traffic Is demoralized, ae Hearings on Ireland Postponed WABHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Whitnesses direct from Ireland will be the first to be heard by the commission from the Cofnmnittes of Or Hundred investigat- ing conditions In Ireland. ‘The opening of the public hearings, met for to-day, was postponed until to-morrow. fy HOCOLATE AND VANILLA COCOAN Thursday youd passenger terminal here, and ney threatening that hinpartant property AN with serious damage, If not destruc thon fa 1 | rer Mvidend. amy Aimx Ratber Coie Dividend Ceemms | fay Becniise Of “ealating Anancial ana a ar Husiness conditions,” the Ajax Rubber in! cote of the quarterly divider $150 to) P| per gre end Felt $1 on shave, pynyn Wen is he uider remiiue | For exnet t , j c teleuhone, | POR COLDS, Gite Om ESELL ENBA. pias nes He MiG ATEN git, QUAY AY: BOS pint doh iv ernuipe beats egosue o ave tho | ear ee tat this morning near the)! REDS RETAKE KIEV IN NEW OFFENSIVE Bolshevik Cavalry Breaks Through the Ukrainian Lines at Various * Points. WARSAW, Press). —Th Klev and qth Nov. 16 (Associated Ukrainians have evacuated r towns they had occu- “ane , aa pled and are fleeing before the new (Continued Krom First Page.) Risalan Soviet offenaiy Woe The Holshevikt cavalry has swept his hotses in the blinding rnin fett| through the Ukrainian Hnes at yarlous from the wagon between the] Three of Gen. Ipetiura’s divisions animals, who try hina were surrounded by Soviet troops Hoboken poll searching for} When the Ukrainian left wing broke t ; beeause of bad communications. thesbodien: af one Tore men be-) The Ukrainiions start i gendral ats Heved to have been erawned from te|tack Nov. Ip. took Mamertnki, and tn Indvanced fie miles when thelr lack rand seow May Queen, which turned | Or wommunentions eauned. the collaper turtle during the storm and waa found |of the left wing of thelr army, opening Hing the storm und was found jof the left wing of thelr arn Conditions In th Ukraine are re- parted xenernily desperate. There. ts mich the population belns 4 decimated by hunger jourands are fleeing to to find aid, or at Toast Bolshevikl and roam- — 40,000 U. S. CLERKS ARE SLATED TO GO Republicans Estimate Annual Sav-~ ing of From $100,0% 900 to $200,000,000, WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—In the com- fog session ef Congress Ropubilcans say they will eliminate 40.000 Government employees at Washington, thereby sav- Ing annually from $100.900,000 to $200,- 000,000, This is exclusive of the ofvi | service employees elsewhere than in Washington, whose number also will be Juced, Representative Wiliam R. Wood of Indiaga, Chairman of the committee that prepares the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Bills, asserted that the cut will equal the reduction last aesaion, “We reduced the number by 41,000," he said, “and I belleve we can eet rid of many more this winter,” . gen TEXTILE MILLS CUT OUTPUT ONE HALF: | Most of Those in New England, * Employing 300,000 Operatives, on Half Time, BOSTON, Nov. 17.—Curtailment ef production which began some months ‘go in New England textile industries mploying 300,000 operatives has now reached a point where the total output is leas ‘than one-half that of one year ago, according to estimates made from a canvass to-day of the great mill cen- tres. In some instances the curtailment runs us high as 80 per cent. A mills have shut down entirely. majority have adopted a workin, ule of three or four days a week. that continue in operation on full time with full crews are exceptional. PAPER MILLS TO CLOSE. Gate Plant at Montville Shute Down To-night. . The Robert Gair Paper Mills at Mont- Ville. Conn., will close to-night. Mills of the sme company at ‘Haverht!!, Mass., have been closed all this week. At the executive offices of the com- Washington Street, Brook- said that both clowings are the cause boing « “slacken. irs.’ ‘The Haverhill plant will he next weak and it is ex pec t the plant at Montville will Also re-open then, In answer to a re- Ing of or port that the plan was to run the Mont- only that ville plant was sald definitely of the o ity three days a week |t no such plan had been d. ‘The Brooklyn mills mpany ire operating at capac- se Ship Captain Dies on Veanel. The police boat John F. Hylan went to Red Hook Flats this afternoon to hiring ashore the body of Capt. Hugh T. Rowland, of the tramp steamer Franklin County, who, it was reported, was found dead this morning tn his cabin, BALL-BEARING CUSHION TIRES Th nd Vanttla Havre gy y fod BOTAL. 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