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@. J Contract for $3,125,000 Job &: 7 ~Garried Out Without Regard ae ap at re Ip ee Oo -[Cireutation Books Open to All.” | VOL. LXI. NO. 21,613—DAILY. ht, 1920, by The bapdias' (the New York Press Pablishing World) ‘NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Dempsey, Goaded STEEL MEN TRIED TO-RUN WORK ON ~ BIG STRUCTURES Starrett, Again on Stand, Tells of Determined War Waged on Union Shops, AN EFFORT THAT FAILED to “Open Shop” Rule. ‘The Lockwood committee continued to-day taking testimony regarding the @ffect of structural steel industrial ditions on building costs. Henry W. Lazette, Cooney Sunday and Thomas ahd Mickey Cortoran, all etructural steel workers, all members @f the Ironworkers Local No. 314 Erown as the “open shop union,” made up of unton men seeking opén Shop jobs told of being dischar; from the American Bridge Company because they were blacklisted. Mickey Coreoram said when he asked for ® job on the Baltimore and Ohio bridge in Pittsburgh, the fore? man looked up his name on a list and told him to get out. “Then two men came up to me," he waid, “and swung me around, and told me the American Bridge Com- Dany didn’t want me tn the place. ‘They told me to ko away and stay ‘until they sent for me and that would fhe never, Go I went and kept on going.” Lasette had been employed as as- sistant foreman for the American Bridge Company, Lazette was dis- @harged after working four hours In Sewickley. He heard afterward that @ New foreman named Jackson had been caught going through the men's coats in @ reat room, looking for the red, white and blue cards of the new union. After @ brief executive session the hearing was opened with Senator William A. Carson of Yates Courity 4m the chair. Senator Lockwood |s il} in bed in Brooklyn with influenza, ahd Vice Chairman Thomas W. McWhin- ney, senior Assemblyman of the cofn- mittee, was unavoldibly absent by Treason of Is trial In Nassau County on charges of conspiracy to protect gemblers and gambling houses from detection and prosecution. UNION AND NON-UNION CON- STRUCTION COST. Paul Starrett, President of the George A. Fuller Construction Com pany, was recalled to furnish the com- | mittee with figures promised yester | day as to the compartive costs of the steel erection In the Gommodore Hote} (Qwhich was done by union workmen employed by the Fuller Company) and in the Pennsylvania Hotel Gwhich was done for the Fuller Com- pany by Post & McCord, Inc., the con- tractors who furnished the steel with “open shop” or non-union labor), Mr. Untermyer conducted the ex- mination. -“We figured that the difficulties in| eonstruction in the Commodore made the steel erection cost at least $3 more per ton than in the Pennsylvania, This was due to the quantity of crooked gteel used in the lower part of the} Gommodore. New York Central and] gubway tracks run through the foun- | (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! Classified aavertising copy tor ‘The Sunday World Tee World office | "ule be On or Before Friday Preceding Publication |] Cluseified Advertiooments for Week Days Reoewed DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication the following day. EARLY COPY | inaictment. ‘cation unuer consideration, Brennan Got “‘Rabbit Blow’’ on Neck That Knocked Him Out in 12th Round; Rickard Lost Heavily on the ‘‘Gate’’ ss eponnmer “LAST GARD” LOUIS SUED FOR $331,000, a TIMES HIS GAIN Commissioner Coler Sues Un- der Law That Provides Win- nings Should Go to the Poor. Welfare Commissioner Bird 8. Coler, in his capacity as Overseer of the Poor of New York, brought suit to-day through ‘the Corporation Counsel against Louls Krohnberg— otherwise known as “Last Card Louis"—to recover for the use of the poor of New York $331,500. This ts five times the sum Krohn- berg ia alleged to have won between June 1 and Deo. 41, 1919, at poker from eight men who were his friends at that time but have since brought suit against him to recover their losses on the ground that he was a cheater, The law provides for the forfeiture by one who wins at gambling of five times the total of his winnings for the benefit of the poor. Krohnberg was served at noon. Commissider Coler obtained his tn- formation of strohnberg’s winnings from testimony given by the elght men who clatm to have Ibeen cheated tn his complaint the Commissioner alleges that between June 1 and Dec. 1919, Krohnberg won $66,300 from J. M. Silverman, Henry Silverfeld, Ssmuel Lewis, Charles Pillar, Hyman Kort, John Mack, J. H. Mark and Jo- geph Schenck. The losers admit that Krohnborg won the sum mentioned; in fact they have made affidavit that they lost tt They also charge that Krohnberg couldn't lose because he marked tle cants they used in their social poker sesrions which were held in Krohn- berg’s home at 99th Street and Fifth Avenue, at the homes of various los- ers and at various hotels. As the result of the complaints of the eight lovers Krohnberg was in- dicted by the Grand Jury on a charge of cheating at cards, Recently coun- sel for Krobnberg argued before Judge McIntyre for dismissal of the ‘The court has the appli- —— rr ~ es Challenger Lasts to Twelfth Round in Ripping Battle— Lefts and Rights to Body Start Finishing Touch With} Blow on the Neck—House| Not a Paying One, but Rickard Has Interest in Movies of It. By Vincent Treanor. Fighting only in spots, principally from the fifth round on, Jack Demp- sey put “Big Bill” Brennan out in 1 minute and 67 seconds of the twelfth round at Madison Square Garden last night. That is, he doubled Brennan up with two rights and two lefts to the body, and then dealt him a cleaverlike punch on the back of the neck which sent Brennan helpless to his hands and knees. While in this position Ref- eree John Haukop counted the ten seconds which ended, for the time being, all championship aspirations of Brennan. Brennan thought the referee had counted only “nine” and tried to get up, but in attempting to do so fell again near the ropes, The knockout punch was not of the snappy or classy variety that puts @ man flat on the floor for the count and then some, It was more of what might be regarded as cavemanish. It is called the “rabbit blow” tn Eng- land, where it is now barred as well as in Australia and is so called be- cause when a rabbit is captured the easiest way to kill him is to hit him @ smart chopping blow on the neck as he is held suspended by the hind | legs, However, {t retained the cham- pionship for Dempsey, and that's all that is necessary. thing of the sensational. The fight proved that either Dempsey Isn't as good as he was, or wanted to show that he can go a route if necessary. Anyhow, Brennan proved a big sur- orise, The battle was fourht under mov- ing picture lights, a fact about which not @ word had been said in advance. Dempsey was guaranteed $1000, Brennan, $36,000, with each to get @ share of the pictures which may be shown through New York State and possibly in Europe. At times the bout looked #0 one- sided that it appeared that Dempsey wasn't extended at what looked like critical periods. : The bout was a good one because it came in the nature of a surprise, Nine out of ten of the 12,000 crowd present went to the Garden expecting It lacked every- | en eine a by Bre Sundays May Be Real Blue Jan.2 In Big Hotels| Just to Give an Idea of What it Would Really Mean if All Work Is Cut Out. ‘The fondest dreams of Dr. Bowlby and other Sunday reformers wit! be teal'zed in New York hotels on Jan. 2 if the suggestion of Frederick A Reed,’former owner of the Park Ave- nue Hotel and now a retired eapital- ist, 1 followed out. Speaking to-day at @ luncheon of the Old Friends’ Club, an organization of hotel men and hotel supply dealers, in the Park Avenue Hotel, Mr, Reed urged that the hotels set aside tho day after New Year's as Blue Law Sunday and that the following rules be put into effect: No chambermaide—guests must make their own beds, No dining room service except under @ cafeteria plan under which the} guests will serve themselves. No bellboys—guests must get their own tcewater and hot water. No barbers—guests must shave them- solves, No bootblacke—quests thelr own shoes, No telephone service except by oulja| ‘board. No Ughts except candies, No mails, No music except religious pieces, No newspapers, must shine \ MILIONS UNPAD | INCOME TAYE WN. Y.DSTRET Estimated That $40,000,000 Will Be Defaulted Due to Business Conditions. PENALTY IS 5 PER CENT. Collector Edwards Advises De- linquents to Write Facts to Washington. Quarterly income running into the millions cannot be pald to- day as required by law, This is the taxes last day for the payments, and those’ who cannot meet thelr governmental obligations will be mibject to a penalty. It was estimated that fully $40,000,000 of the $100,000,000 due in taxes in the New York district would be defaulted. Collector Edwards pointed out 15, that one of the ironies of the situa- tion is that many of the concerns and individuals which will have to default in payment were able to pay-the full tax on March 15 but preferred to pay it in Instal- ments and get the interest them- elves. “IT have advised all who cannot make their payments that hey writy the facts to Washington and so get thempelvea on record," sald the Col- lector. “I believe that the Govern- ment will be fair with them tf they show good intent and can prove thoir Inability to meet the obligation, “Aa far as I can tell now, the in- dustries and business that seem hardest it because of inability to pay their income taxes ‘are the tex- tile and gil dealers and manufactur- ers. ‘The large grocers are also tight for funds. “The trouble with most people who are unable to meet their income taxes is that they are afraid of the Government, and they shouldn't be. They feel that the Government ts going to swoop down upon them, It will not. They are, of course, Hable to @ penalty, but it is not a great one.” The penalty for fallure to pay the income tax instalment to-day 1s 5| per cent. of the amount due and in-| terest charges of 1 per cent. a month, | Collector Edwards also stated that | checks placed in the mail to-day would be accepted as of to-day's payment. Among those who will be unable to pay their taxes to-day are a number of individuals and firms whose quar- terly payment amounts to $26,000 There {8 one case which involves a payment of $700,000 which cannot be made, One corporation made a quarterly payment to-day of $8,164,000. concerns paid quarterly taxes in ex cens of $1,000,000, | Because of the rush of tax payers | Collector Edwards was forced to «vt Several ) arrivals or departures. } Guests must refrain from smoking or indulging in alcoholic stimu-| lants. | No loud talking in the lobbies, | A collection to tbe taken up for the heathen (Mr, Reed did not say | what heathen). “If every hotel in New York will put th@ plan {nto effect,” said Mr. Reed, “it will show the public exactly whut a Blue Sunday law would mean, Following immediately upon the New Year's festivities it would offer a most appropriate contrast, to say nothing of giving a complete rest to the Sunday workers for whom the uplifters are so solicitous, Pet Peodic. 15.—Rex, a pet} Beqneai CHICAGO, Dee. | poodle, 18 made heir to $8,000 lett by his mistress, Mra, Roso F. Porter.4 according to a will filed in Probate Court here, which provides that Rex shall be given his daily bath, plenty of sauer kraut and @ Christmas tree {Continued on Twenty-second Page.) emo years eh 100 clerks from the Federal Reserve Bank to assist his foree. Collector Bertram M. Gardner of Brooklyn sald he expects but few de linquents in his district, and eat mated that 97 per cent. of the tax due had been pad by noon. _— | INAUGURATION NOW TWICE FORMER COST Joint Committee Authorizes Large Reviewing Stand and | raved Invitations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The cost | of inaugurating a President has tn-| creased from 60 to 100 per cent, It was estimated to-day at the first ses sion of the Joint Congressional Com- mittee in charge of the inauguration of President-elect Harding Construction of the usual mam- moth reviewing stand on the Capitol | Plaza and engraving of official invt-| tations was authorised by the com- | mittee, which is headed by Senator Knox and Representative Cannon, po te. rid. { “Circulation Books Open to All. | Entered as Second-Clase Mi Pont Office, New York, N. Ys ED ITION PRICE THREE CENTS 1920. nnan, Wins Big Fight. SUGAR MEN CANT EVADE CONTRACTS AT 1810 22CENTS Judge Cohalan Decides They Must Be Lived Up To Despite Losses. Denies 21 Injunctions to Re- strain Collection of $1,100,- 000 Deposited in Banks. denied for Jueticn Cohalan to-day twenty-seven applications tn- junctions $1,100,000, brought cerns against Lamborn & Co,, sums 182 “sugar sults,” involving by vartous con- importers, of No. ront Street, to restrain banks by the deposited against the arrival of #m- of the collection from various importers of moneyn gar contracted for at the peak high prices Inst Spring, ‘The sugar, Java wh for at 22 cents, contracted arrived after the price had slumped below ten cents, and the contracting concerns refused to take the umoute they had ordered dn the grounds that lt had not heen shipped on the ehip “declared” but on a sub- stituted vessel. The dealers alleged that the substitution was tn violation of contract and released them from thelr obligations. In giving his de © Coha- lan sald: “To enjoin the defendats fr lecting on a letter of ¢ Isbed In their tay plaintiff alleges default or breach thy the defendant of the contract, ts for the Court to make a no’ and Glatinet agreement f In, This t rom aol- cataib~ because the alan's decision, in case It de sustained by a higher court, will have a far-reaching effect and involve ery ugar refining com- » country, not to mention tens of millions of dollars, It affects the millions in sugar contracts exe: cuted by the refining companies on what It known as Irrevocable credits, The refineries, seeking sugar when the demand sent the comomity to highest prices, bougbt In Java, eko-Slovakia, South America—in anywhere it could be found, It In earnest of they contracts that posited in banks the moneys were as Irrevocable credits, When the price of sugar dropped, even more rapidly than It had risen, the pro delivering at the maintained high their ducers: were prices and ve jright to sales at these contract fig- ures Instead of prevailing at time of delivery. ENDS LIFE, BABY’S PICTURE IN HAND Husband Ill, Despondent Mother in Brooklyn Turns on Gas, The phatogrs old baby in her arms, M ‘en-montha Elsie Nagel, und dead to-day on| rin the brother-In-law, John Goetz, No, Kings Highwey, Brooklyn. All the Jets of the gas stove wore turned on and every crack of window | and door stopped with rage or | Hor huaband, ward, ie at Lake Bara- | nac for his héalth, Of late despondent, | she hud threatened to end her life, GETS $15,000 FOR DOG BITE Maid im twenty-five, the kitchen was fi paper Mins Elizabeth Henry, « mald, form- rly in the employ of Bradfey Martin at his country home in Westbury, L. 1, to- iay was awarded $15,000 damages from Mr, Martin by @ Jury in Justice Richard H, Mitchells part of the Supreme Court. Miss Henry claimed she had been bit- ten in the face by the Martin white dog ‘Teddy, and demanded $46,000, -_ at ae there te a dispute, | VICTORY FOR IMPORTER, sti the like Atlantic in ever increasing volume. No Christmas For These Boys, {fs Court Order {Orange Lads Sentenced to Go to Béd at 6.30 for a Month for Pranks in Sunday School. Recorder John B. Orange, N. J,, sentenced three boys to presents, to be barred from participa- tion’ in Christmas Eve festivities and to go to bed at 6.80 every evening for & month, including Christmas Eve. The boys are between ten and twelve years of age. Their names were withheld, Their parents were present. The boys all attend the Sunday School of St. Cloud Presby- terian Church.’ After Sunday School, a few weeks ago, they broke a win- dow in the school building and stole pencils, erasers and other articles. A week later they took $2 from a teacher's desk. On Dec. 5, during evening church services, they put dirt Into lamps of an automobile brought to the church by the Rev. Alfred Roy Ehman, formerly pastor of the church. They stole a watch from the Instrument Board and so damaged the machine that the clensy- man could not start it after the ser- vice. With the'r hands upraised, the boys repented these promises after the Re corder in court to-day 1 will see Mr, Khman as soon as possible and ask pardon and ¢orgive ness, LT will apole o to the teachers and will submit to whatever punish- ment my parents mete out, according to the verdict given by the Court. I will never again touch property not belonging to me and I promise not to enter any premises for unlawful purposes. I am aorry for what I have done and I expect that, if I do such things again, I shall receive all pun- lishment this Court sbal inflict.” tecorder Lander has long been ac- tive in juvenile delingnency work. Piaa te Eviet €000 Janitors, CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—8ix thousand Janitors, scheduled to etrike Jan. 1 untess they receive @ 60 per cent, wage increase, will be evicted from thelr en if they ¥ out the trike, according to plans announced to-day by the landlords. Lander of West to-day recelye no Christmas Te ve Packing Bill Jan, 94. WASHINGTON, Dec. ~The, tow agreed to vote on the ioe regulation of the meat try on Jan, Mat é rhe robbery is actively progressing to-day. : Is the meanest, most sordid, contemptible form of robbery aginable, because it is made possible by the widespread conditions of misery in Eastern, Central and Southern Europe, the appeals of the freezing and starving which are coming across the SWINDLERS TAKE MILLIONS RCM FOREIGN BORN HERE TRYING TO AID KIN ABROAD Jews, Slavs, Italians and Others Ex- ploited by Own Countrymen and . Robbed .of Large Sums Paid for Rescue or Relief of Starving Rel- atives in Europe. | By Martin Green, On the east and lower west sides, in Harlem, the Bronx, Williams: burg, Brownsville and South Brooklyn, in the foreign quarters of every industrial town and city in the United States, millions of dollars have bees, stolen since the close of the war from ignorant, credulous Jews, Slavs, Italians and aliens of other nationalities by individuals, partner. ana organizations calling themselves private bankers, relief societies, exportat.on companies, distribution companies, immigration bureaus and im- It is exploitation of ‘@ Tho growing tide of immigration pouring through Ellis Island ts al- most entirely duo to the activities of men of foreign birth who have por+ tected plans by which they have ea {wblished for profit some sort of con nection between yast numbers of alieng residing in this country and vast numbers of relatives of these aliens still in Europe, who are per- sistently told that gold ls picked up on the streets of American commu. nities, A sido line to the promotion ef Immigration is the “relief” of the suffering in Burope, and the extent of tt Is amazing to those who have gone into the matter, There are many agencies engage@ in the transmission gf money and supplies from persons in the United States to distressed kinfolk im Eu~ rope which Are consclentiously con ducted both here and abroad, From complaints svhich have reached The Evening World and stand up under investigation, these reliable agencies are in the minority, THOUSANDS IN NEW YORK EXe PLOITING FOREIGNERS, The game is 80 profitable, go easily worked, no apparently beyond the reach of the law that literally thou. sands of unscrupulous persons are engaged in it in New York alone. Many saloons on the east side, In the Bronx and in Brownsville, which were closed by the Prohtbition Law, are now the headquarters of indivi- duals or associations engaged in the exploitations of war victims here and abroad, Many of the managers were formerly proprietors of or bartenders in the saloons, The skeleton framee works over the doors which were erected by the breweries in the old days to curry advertisements of beer, how carry brilliantly decorated ane nouncements that the premises are devoted to financial and charitable purposes. From the experience of the writer in checking up on complaints of downe right robbery, he ts convinced thas probably every tenth person one might meet on the crowded atreets of the east side or Brownev.ie, in the exclusively Jewish sections, can prow duce, if asked, receipts showing pay» ments of money or shipments of supe plies to Poland and Galicia, through numerous pr.vate agencies, which have failed to reach their destinations, In the public school at Hester Essex Streets, in response.to a line announcement in a Yiddish | | neon ee wer ne