The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 3

JHEP THREATENED 20 CHILDREN IN BY CONTRACTORS APPEAL. FOR AID eT cea Will Stop Work Unless City] Urges Contefbutions to Fund Ceases Holdup of Pay- | for 3,500,000 Who Are ments on Jobs. Starving in Central Europe. {FRAUD CHARGE *MAD WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—President | Wilson to-day called upon his fellow | | | Waniel J. Rice Accused [n]countrymen to contribute funds to 1Retantc Ra, ' save children who are facing starva- O'Brien’s Report Read to |ticn in central Burope Estimate Board. “Three and a halt million children | mie are facing starvation in Central Eu- said the President's statement “It is estimated that they can be! tided over until the next harvest by | Mncts to-day Mayor Hylan had read|money and service equivalent to $30 tnto the record a letter sent to him|Per child, ‘The countries involved can By Comporation Counsel O'Brien | fUFHIsh two-thirds of this cost in the | Hhargthi that inve a. personne! and machinery for distri- bi & that investigation — has | ation, mut for the other one-third they @hown that Daniel J, Rice, public | must look afroad, and they are look- | echool ‘bullding contractor, “was|ing to us. . | eullty of collusion with other bidders] “gince @nd of fraud in the ma When the Board of E timate @umed its investigation into efty con- 1914 our people have given ing of the] with unparalleled generosity and they wontract with the Board of Educa-|should not ibe lightly called upon for | fion."" additional charities. Bue there {s a | Mr, O'Brien says that the discov-|jite and death situation in Central «'y-of-collusion and fraud was made|yurope,-where orphans, destitute, | after *he contractor, {nan examina-|famished children, pitiful conse tion ‘hefore the Commissioner of Ac-| quences of the World War, must dle vonnts, had signed an affidavit that | untess ald is sent. bie, had no understanding or agree-| pen dollars contributed through | ment whatever withiany one the European Relief Council will save | There is a progress payment of/the itfe of one child, For concerted 351,080.50 due Mr. Rice. Mr. O'Brien! errort, there have been combined in | soksthe opinion that the Mayor / thiy council eight well known organt- showWa-not sign the warrant and he |sations—namely, the American Relief | Zurther advises “that the contract a8) Association, American Red Cross, entered into between Daniel J. Rice} american Friends’ Service Commit- eid the Board of Education for the] ies, Jewish Joint Distribution Com- ing and ventilating of Public| mittee, Federal Council of Churches Nehool No, 182, Borough of Brookiyn, rist in America, Knighta of Co- | bus, Y. (M,C. A. and Y, W. C. A. | | | | should be cancelled.” This is the Arst | rge made against @ contractor by | Christmas time, peculiarly the Board of Estimate inqu since en's feast, we should think of | pning |this «ad urop “an problem in terms cading of the charge |of children rather than in money came a letter from} Pen dollars will sol contractors claiming {life in Central Bui Following present ope. T shall adopt = nl work on new public schools, In ny they “leave those accountable for the suggest to me that the ¢! Christmas t unless, ming’ ronsequent chaos to answer to thelr|pectant children, they shall visualize wonstituents.” The letter ends as fol- |some of the waifs of Central Europe, Jows: w country- clusive Social Bodies. rund their co Will be incomplete | Jersey City's exctusive doliig this, the contractors wil making pay-|not toys, but bri ménts is adopted and put into execu-| they must perish, hin the present we d to stop wor ad, without which tion be fore . we day before Judge O'Driscoll in the Sr COMPTROLLER CRAIG BLAMED JFOR STOPPING PAYMENTS. | ogc \Woumded as Michalow’s Sec- of Violating the Disorderly House Act. awithout reason or ex anation, in fact | b)l_explanat used.” * Concern- developed this afternoon at the 1 in White Plains of Samuel Micha jorer,”” fo on is r rontrac- Ww, Known as “Sam the § i ‘ {ice with breaking and entering if th [the murder of Mrs, Blizaboth Niznick | attempt yo enter the elib. to. stop jon Oct, , 1919, that Charles Bogoc, the ‘dance, At the same time they will un | prineipa) Witness for the defense, was | dortake he May A$ wh ener r uildings. but npt pre ers equally | mysteriously shot in Brooklyn yester- | rashionable dances in the Union League a Soy It| for the murder, the art of Appeals | the Veter $600,000 | having reversed his conviction in Juty | the testimony of Bogoe was] 14 OF CREW HELD roperly admitted, Michalow bs be more than thirty days. sot 4 Sacks wordinary en From Registere: nd Jury was the ined by Agsistant | “PP! esl Gs Aboard Vess District Attorneys Davis asserts ‘swell, Mr. | holas was the master mind who Hettrick, | nack of | the murder, one of whom hae not been | Aiigt witness exa tion Counsel ¢ n membere of the cre n frelghter Hegre N Pane ee planned the robbery of Mrs, } r of the “code of prac-| $1,500 in Liberty bonds and cash, ee eat Ay Lesion testi sich” Ping, when i me associ-| though he was in New Jersey eet Gatice Insnedters tad an in aiad with it in September, 1919, He | “ne ROA SBSON |) 0) the theft szdabetdons | Nicholas r4 old. On| thoysand dollars’ Worth of re Pate th cence eh aretr eich the lower known as | matt from the steamer's hold. ‘Two are wenuse other trades had adopted an cause af the | ait ty be unter ausplcton ie a: runkement devised by Hettrick, he mefore he His money |in court for his Were taken to the Federal Bullding After several conversations with] Meltrick, the witness sald he went EARL GRANTED J. Ross of No. 4 Seventh libmntted estate cards of all] ABSOLUTE DIVORCE) war resorta, found at cer ace and: submitted estimate cards 6 reported, found at Cartagena, Co- Tilda for epmnarixions with (the Gite: aa |lombia, that fifty-two mail sacks had ‘ 8 F | been slit open and emptied. Thelr con- Sonal grant so ao 4 competitors.| (Court Says “Women Have More 4 included jewelry and clothing A Imira nsisted that he was] 5 7 | emptat ) Wrong Since In response to cables from the ship's principally interested in obtaining | Vemy ion to Do Wr mg since | oi Fee Lea oMicers, Postoftce Inspectors were walt Ing to-day w of ab | tro om Latin Am Hegre is ope ta Steamship Cc adequate labor, assurances of which | They Got Vote. bad been given by Hettrick, Mr, ¢ well's examination disclosed the ars- | ty iean and Cuban ports ated by the Five Con awarding to-day a dec his} solute divorce to Theodar fivin welcomed the chance to learn|son of « f ing |elair, Vice Chancellor Lewis, of y n City, sald Haa saiuisai Through the j The Strewt and her captain js Haakon enson. Wiat other concerns were jobs he was interest return for Hettric ased vileges Dy, Almirall said, he patd a retain sonferred 0 and further remunerated |obtaining the vote and by reason of thelr | 1 cent. of th Mtract | present statum in affairs, they have| Governor WE Manage Co 1 n Hettrick ETOUD | more opportunity and temptation to d tion of 28 Concern us tober—aftes, the Le | ai wrong than ever before Za lisee ig ettay e Rn OLAS woud comiitiee had exposed thel SN ectin He ine re | ALBANY, Dec. 13 Smith ar pon ms manipulated by Hett-| ia iclavad! Row 8 mining | nounced to-day his ention of 2 ais sh SN a Sey) eel = { Hester Renwick | entering the trucking business, whic Because he ettrick coule le, nam eut, Commander Alex twenty-five ye 0 to Her furnish 1 | Chariton, t N. This i Jett nary gaint dive wo decree Mr. Mat’ A"! come a subpoena server, us soon a ne aaak eno "Was \iyite | he relinquishes his office as Chief when he nan aie Mra. Barle ‘appealed Mth | Executive of the State n was reversed, ‘a 2, the Governor will as: The E Mved! at No. 47 Dunear On Jan = isa the position of Chairman of the of Directors of the United of the latter was awarde Trucking Corporation. —_ \sked about the submission of city \tracts to Hettri Mr. Almirall i these were omit He was cor- 1 that Hettrick had not raised any ginul bids, Asked why uyed ering relations hirteen me ad hecome appa lo that Hettrick’s promis wean eess WwW yess repli s cnde racticn had deen|until apring when more labor is re ents Was that all] Mr, Almirall admitted placing some of 85,00 1 tn compliance /value in obtaining Information con- the code ley reserved the|cerning the estimates sent in by his + to furnish labor under this ar-| competitors. However, he was cer ngement wud that was what|tain that was only incidental to a de mpted Us mainly to employ Hett-|sire to get sufficient wor i When we found out that He got no/trick’s guaran require! be regis Company Fonds, Trial of John A. Willers, formerly « Infantry, on a charg: n begun to-day be Court-Martial at Fort Jay ‘a withers audi ss of labor did When arrested . ‘f Bisse lho facility than before,|mean anything, that any one co! was wileged 10 have co: \d that he Ss since rdedit'as|get enough men, we resigned, conn a ith the diermoar rat class fake. Asked why he put|said, He would not admit’ t any aystenis bub! this, vine of the (up ‘with this hoax so long, Mr, Almi-|Hettrick wae the connecting tink will not enter into the desertion tl ! . be ni ath a isteach “ * }piib explained th ona} tines de-|tween contractors in the apportion-| Willers. also i charged with abacond. f r ie ‘ Y Pha oe the amount of labor fo be!ment of business, ibg with $6,000 of Lia company's funds, made by the speculator and bear his! Pauly Hospital oy ae ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, ‘DECEMBER 13, 1920.4 SCHOOL BUILDING WILSON “ADOPTS” ‘Kiddie Klub Members in Christmas Show ‘‘Try-Out”’ Display Real Talent in Acting, Dancing and Music LADIES’ NIGHT” BAN | ON JERSEY DANCES city. ceases holding |tvetity th children as my own » se tatiridue pasinenth 5 ee 2 i einporary wards and T can think of | Members of One Club Threaten to, Rate bie Py aI CaS rk HOR) no Detter use to which I could put | a eatix: performed; they. will abandon |gaoo ; scale Force Action Against Ex are dd with their own ex- | likely to be stopped from holding ‘‘La- dies' Nights as a result of an order | stretching out their thin hands to 'sued by Chief of Police Richard Bat- Maier a mnathan’ of pluck from the boughs of the trees, | tersby to stop all clubs which are not |Mecensed dance halls, from holding all ~~ ‘dances. One Club, the Gypsy Rangers, k on all school| ALLEGED SLAYER’S located In the Horseshoe section, had buildings on Dec, 17, much as we re- their officers summoned to appear to- tthe financial necessity therefor” | STAR WITNESS SHOT : THEATRE TICKET GOUGERS ADVANGE CUT 10 50 CENTS BY EVENING WORLD CRUSADE Jond Criminal Court to answer charghs pue’ installment payments, the pro- ‘ , 5 Th r 4 C X al for Woman’ | The members of the chib will start AeSting contractors say, “have been ond Trial f ORAS proceedings before Judge Swayze in the stopped by the Comptroller's office, | Murder Begins. Supreme Court to prevent the police |from Interfering with their dances, Failing there, they threaten to secure! warrants charging the Jersey City po- to compel the police to stop a Agents | name fis yespon © hitve treated this m day, No details were given as to how|Carteret, Jersey City, Berkeley and} ger wit ite laek of conc badly he was wounded Elks Clubs and promise to even st op Cheek Fak whteen| ‘This is the second trial of Michalow |the dance of the American Legion a Causes a Panic Among the Profiteering Ag hand in crowded the mammoth stage and speculators selling high priced tickets | making themselves drastic penalties on conviction of tm- venue returns. new orders issued by the re thelr turn to go on, By Sophie Irene Loeb. ‘The recent orders from the Internal | Department juahn Aimircih Ge Aimiratl & Co, [RE defended by Tormer District Attor-|/ AP LER MAIL THEFT Incory d, heating ventilat, {ey Wee's, who will try to prove that — | ing contractors, and a brother of Ray- | Michalow Was the vietim of a frame-| Several Thousand Dollars’ Worth} Revenue | Altmirat, foreman of the Fx. {¥P of Wo ex-convicts who committed ‘ ticket speculators haye caused what | : termed a panic among mong thi gougers ts of the public su 1h tit kets to be! miums for the- "| charged enormous pré * columns, the and then giving the ©” which called for the has led to an tubs of tickets to be returned partment ordered tt it the theatr lector of Revenue stioning by the Untted States At-] i. wawards. dies had to get Up early Manhattan Opera House Hut the big, bare stage was just au warm ag the home the kiddies left The steam In the radiaturs was hiss ing and sputtering and sending out a} most grateful warmth, so Qiat.every body had to lay off his or her wraps to be comfortable, abuse that has pr ‘or y tickets at the the » person entert lof these stubs of but 50 cents brokers do a thriving business, some s thousands of now show an over the price printed on the tickets, als of the Revenue D partment have reported that in all the speculators’ places where tickets were sold high as 300 and 400 per cent. ad- re price of telephoning seeming reason why a e vessel arrived | vance over the th the ticket they now charge only 50 cents extra for furn pany of No. 2 ecause he cannot get fen and fee from the ie ent has given Jone Also, one of the most prominent from the stage entrances every time| theatre owners and managers h determined to abolish ticket spec- ulation in his business, refuse to sell tickets from his the- atre to any broker who charges more than 50 cents extra for the Further, he has the revenue authorities that he will no longer permit his organi- zation to accept any commissions from theatre’ ticket brokers for advance or choice seats. pon woinen, through their {SMITH TO HEAD TRUCKING CO. violation of the the time of sell on the broker in 2. | vt | fats in theatres, it la estimated, wraps and heir hats on th abolish this evil as This was for the he singers, Whose yolces were tried And then the kiddies, aa directed, had brought and while some were having their pmaking and singing voices tried out by Couain Eleanor down front, the rousic CRANE KILLS ENGINEER, to Pler, Diew jyted by the journeymen, and one | quired. Accused an Denerter and \baconder Reaching Ho |who thinks that the estigating. the Captain of Company I, 48th United] . aitnehed to th us the actor of them, besides boing artists on thelr favorite instrument, could pick off Garmvinve Me AL EER HiLbUS HILDA LOCUS, Erivurasmeanenpn yt ne bre wre reer rnc! FONA~OOD FLORENCE Sonera IN WISHINGDOM” KIDDIE ACTORS FILL A BlG STAGE Edis First Tryout for Klub’s Christ- mas Show Reveals Much Talent. Actors and other artists of the Kia- tie Klub had thelr.tryout on Satur- lay on the great big stage of the Manhattan Opera House on 34th Str he two performances of “In Wish- ngdom" will take place on the morn- ings of Dec, 28 and 29, st, near Fighth Avenue, where Be it said for the kiddies who were |there, to the more than 100,000 or 115,000 who couldn't be there, the per- ers wero on time and were on reat numbers, They all over the boards, just ike 1 actors and actresses, waiting It was a wonderful treat and a great experience to the many new kiddies who had never been on any stage before. ‘The stage wasn't what the theatrical people call jwas a bare stage, but Mrs, Oscar Hammerstein, who bas told us that she is going to do her very best for the kiddies and thelr kiub, had ar- jranged everything very wonderfully “wet It ‘The morning was cold and the kid- Nor was that all There was a drop,” which 18 @ curtain that rolls lp and down, extending the width of he stage, and there was a “prop! wing’ king a little wood one 3 All of this was shut off any possible draught door was opened, ‘The “drop” was 4 aene of a rugged hore, with roc and trees and the cean rolling up on the store, Tt lcklod the kiddies to see the sea up ceiling, but 6 to And thi vught, And they readily discovered ut the fence was for and how nat them t there was ne iral it was, for they just slung their aks over it and laid top of thelr wraps ere was a grand plane down near front of the stage on the lett accompaniment t Jr portable instruments, ns were tuning up and trying ‘y Instruments away back, ave It, Up stig Violing rds san queuk Gnd again in real were loling, guita nstrumen ut th nd 1od musicians were amor Kid + Klub members, and bow many an alr by ear, And they played cverything from the Sexteste from ‘Lawla’ tot uwanee Rives "Old Kentucky Home Kiddie set the boat roe ing” with “Turkey and tho Straw; and when Cousin Eleanor asked if anybody could dance that “tun there was quite a number who could and one cute little girl who did. Those kiddies can do anything in the acting line, and they took a lot of fun out of the “try-out, although they were very serious when it came to work, 100 PICKETS GUARD: CLOTHING FACTORY: INBIG LABOR FIGHT» No Atterspt by Flea by Firms to Start “Open Shops,” but No Back Down in Sight. Ri Picketing on an extensive scale was begun to-day by the Amalga- 44 mated Clothing Workers Union in éte break with the manufacturers who | plan an open shop and piece work. - policy, As far as could be learned, none of the big shops attempted tana ut Into effect the new working con- ditions to-day, One hundred pickets were patrolling the entrances of “Pig Six" Rosen-. thal, No, 65 Fifth Avenue, one of the largest clothing factories in the eityy No workers, It was said, applied there for jobs, A member of the firm aald | there had been no work in the factory. for six weeks, the last of the workers, the shipping clerks, having beer called out by the union a week ago. He declared the shop had no orders ~ now and that as soon any were” received Jt was planned to open up the plece work basis. ‘The firm normally employs about 5,000 workers. There were pickets also at the fac+,_ torles of Schwartz and Jaffe, No, 708, Broadway, and Fruhoff & Co, Mt Street and Fifth Avenue, It wa planned to picket twenty shops dur-, ing the day. Meetings of branches of the union will be held in fourteen halls in Manhattan and Brooklyn, 6°94 The State Department of Labor tod day injected itself into the situation when Col. Michael J, Regan, State!’ Mediator, offered the union and the manufacturers his services in reach- ing a settlement. While his work fur has only been preliminary, Col: Regan, who has settled several scores of strikes in New York in the laste! year, declared he was confident of © Kett'ng the two sides logether, William Bandler, President of the Manufacturers’ Association mployers would not sign ® agreement until the union amended its constitution, which he as declared contained Soviet principles. He said the other demands of ther employers are of ‘That all employment must be on an efficiency basis and that individual re~™ sponsibility for standards of produc- tion must be certified. That the union must repudiate the- doctrine of life tenure of employment, of workers without “regard to ef- ficiency. t ‘That the right to select and retain « independent contractors must he > granted employeys. That walking delegates be forever banished*from the €lothing marker, 9 A jot of the Kiddies came with) phat all arbitration be fixed by | ‘their costumes, and when they put jthem on the stage looked like a reg- either the union or employees ands& employers and that no outsiders be. | war Theatre, There were little fairies! cailed in |and sprites, nymphs and nalads; ithey dipped and tipped, and tripped jand skipped jn the light’ fantastic fore Cousin Eleanor, who was telling off their good points as fast as they displayed them, Cousin Kleanor took the centre of the stage and the kid- dies all crowded about her and took it nway from h real stage dire: st out and put them in ord ‘Then an Evening ¥ lin another gr make @ picture paper, He got up in a private bo with his camera and shouted “ready, ‘Phen he told everybody to look pleas- an: and be awful quiet, “poof! boom!" the flashlight flashed, and all the kiddies laughed "tee hee, and “ha, ba, hal" But the camera [mon nad them ad Then they had the ad the crowds wld photog- pher came along and put them all up, 90 that he could f the kiddies for the which was the hardest thing the kiddies had to do on Saturday morning, And then 3 New Stores Open To-day 13 PARK ROW | (PARK ROW BUILDING 135 W. 42ND STREET NEAR BROADWAY right at the back of the kiddles, | | 2690 BROADW | AT 103RD STREET OTHER HAPPI 64 East 14th, at 4th Avenue. 32 Cortlandt Street, Hudson Terminal Entrance. Fulton and Nassau Streets. 42nd, also 43rd Street, be- AY NESS STORES: | 2249 B’way, near 80th St. | 1343 B’way, near 35th St. | | 1272 B’way, near 33rd St. }-* 200 Fifth Ave., near 23rd St., Fifth Avenue Building. tween 5th and 6th Aves. | Newark —785 Broad Street. } > 42 East 23rd Street. | Phila,—12th and Chestnut, pe ———