The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 10

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, _1920, ALPE GROW i OVERNIGHT ON WAY FROM MINE TON. P xciaie Committee Tries to al Find Who Gets the Profit al : a .* ‘Present rate of t = 4 Hf \y be te but Fails. (Somcial to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—At the speed it will take the Senate Committee on Reconstruction | from now until the next world war to fix responsibility for the exorbitant @oal prices of the past nine months. Pvo entire day® spent in questioning the con! experts of the sonal Coal m and the American Whole- wale Coal Dealers’ Association have Jett the committe ose) ever, “ Whik the responsibility for high jap it has developed some inter- eating facts. Im ita first day's session |t opened | UP AD avenue of investigation with| Fespect to grafting public officials whieh will be pursued next week) When George H. Cushing, represent- ing the wholesale cog! men, has prom- | Wed to appear and continue his atart- Jing narrative of how a group of men. official positions in the Government, made illegal profits by taking ad Wantage of the panicky coal market and inside Government information » on requirements, Members of the committee indi- ere to be followed up and If the evi- denee warrants it indictments will be sought. Until they get the proof which has been promised ther it will Be impossible to follow up this lead. Try as hard as they might, com- ‘Wittee members were unable at ~ Wednesday's session to ascertain who ‘Yeaped the harvest of illegitimate ite when coa! shot up to $21, $23 ‘and $°8 per ton in the Eastern mar- ‘et. Senator Edge obtained from J. M. Morrow, Vice President of the onal Coal Association, and re- puted to be the best posted coal man _ §h America, some figures on produc, dion costs during the first nine Months of 1920 when the profiteering pre at ite worst, $2.75 to produce a ton, jaced the operator's mar- proiit at 70 cents per ton. several of them temporarily holding/ Geted to-day that the graft charges) | read a létter taken from the Cont As | sociation's files, in which $6.25, $5.60 [ag Ke = given to # coal operator ir prices at the mines for lal to Me saved to New York the middle of November. The witness pcon Libre had dropped since the letter were made. ptue sandil was touched on edinge Senator Kenyon tried to find out why the United States Shipping | Board agreed to pay $16 to $20 per ton at the mines for 2,000,000 tons of bunker coal a few montha ago, Mr. Morrow thought this was “in- eMfciency” on the part of the Bhip- ping Board's purchasing agent. While the report at the tme was that a | contract was made for thia coal and | sobeenuesty cancelled at the direc- tion of Admiral Benson, Chairman of | the Shipping Board, the witness's Impression was that the Shipping SANTA, 1920 STYLE, to TO FLY INTO TOWN ——>- Will Drop Gifts, ‘Altached Ridgewood, N. J orn CLAUS has made wood, N. J. in an aeroplane. Ridgewood people are Mattering in the world to receive such a dis- tinetion. community Christmas trees, at which Santa Claus appears in per- IN HIS OWN AIRSHIP Parachutes, on the People of arrangements to visit Ridge- themsc)ves theirs is the first town Bvery year here the town has a son and distrity the gifts, This Board contracted for none of \ts coal, but “insisted on buying coal at spot prices." He did not know what op-| yeratore were responsible for mulct- cng the Government in this way |" A new factor in the demoralization | of the coal market which remulted in| | the pyramiding of — prices orought out when Morrow told of «| thousand independent mines which! opened for business in Pennsylvania, | paying big bonuses to miners to pro- duce coal for the spot market at fam- | ily prices, | embers of the investigating com- | mittee expresred surprine when they found from an examination of the) Coal Arsociation’s files that the coal operators had spent about $6,000 for salaries of clerks of the United States | Geological Survey engaged in pre- | paring weekly statisticn on coal pro- duction. Morrow said that as o general! principle he would not attempt to de- fend Government employees recely- ing pay from outside interests, but in thin Instance Congress failed to ap- propriate for the preparation of these bulletins for the fixcal year be- ginning July 1, 1919, and the data were of much great Importance to the coal, trade that he had offered to have his |association bear the expense rather than have it stop, and the offer had | been accepted. though the coal men exercised no authority over the Gov- ernment statisticians, | ‘The Calder committee has a great |mass of files and documents which {tm agents seized from the Coal As- sociation, Just what these records of the organization will disclose mem- bers of the committee do not seem fo know. A_great deal of time wan spent at Wednerday’s session ir reading various letters to the repre- sentative of the organization and | seeking to have the witness shed light on their meaning and relation to the tion. matters under inv an cgen ol “COAL INQUIRY PUT OVER. Charmes of Graft by U. §. Omotals to Be Taken Up Wednesday, WASHINGTON, Doc. 28—Senate in- vestigation into the coal altuation was | put over to-day until next Dednesday, Chairman Cajder of the inquiry eem- mittee; sald it was planned at that time to recall George H. Cushing. Managing Director of the American Wholeraie Coal Aasoclation, and clear up changes that Government officials and. railroad men made profits on‘ the distribution of coal during the shortage panic last summer and fall. year, if the w her te not too fierce, Santa Clouse will fly over | the public square, dropping dolls | and bi ‘andy attached to toy | parachut nen he will alight, Ko Inside Wilxey Hall and distri- | bute the rest of the gifts from the | | Christmas tree. | Don't tell the children, for it is 4 secret, but Santa Claus is really Harry Rouclere, who has retired from his theatrical career as a mystifier and has taken up the more exciting life of running @ hotel in Ridgewood. He Is said to be the only hotelkeeper who has his own aeroplane, he flew to the Hofel Men's Con- vention at Atlantic City ~— Lawt summer « enty: for Poor Children, Poor children in more than @ score of New York institutions will receive Christmas candy from John Doukas, No, 59 Avenue B, who atill remembers with @ thrill of gratitude the candy that Was given to him twenty-olght year sao when he was poor immi- rant boy from Greec! Electrical Appliance Gifts Promote Lasting Happiness Violet Ray Generators $25.00 4 er Tes Unive i Blectric Stops. 130 East 15th Street |worth of clothing and a quantity of |was taken from the cloak rooms and BOGUS ELKSHELD | FOR CLUB THEFTS Charged With Stealing $1,900 Worth of Clothes, Stamps and Change, Two men accused of posing as “out | and stealing $1,900 of town Elks" stamps and small change were ar- rested last night at the Elks Club, No. 108 West 48d Street. The clothing the stamps and change from a stamp | machine by inserting metal rimmed tickets the Maze of a quarter, The men say they Alexander | Hall, twenty years old, and Murray! Gilbert, twenty-three, both of Call- | fornia. They gave their address New York as the Lenox Bath: in} $26,775,000 LOAN TO N. Y. CENTRAL | | Sysiem Will Add $30,000,000 and | Expend It for Equipment and Betterments, SHINGTON, Sead to the Ni subsidiary of new equipment ettorments to coat y by the purpose and the fu cxpended Jointly to Bo Emperor of J TOKIO, L hito, who ha presided at first itme this » almost restored. to and his complete ed noon. y cow fe r He appeared | it Chamberiain of Orew neil for the| care of #peciallats at rer health | dition y is expect. sertasnty 111.! 23.—Sena ie under ¢ local hospital, Priced from $25 | __ BEAUTIFUL | DIAMONDS, AVATCHES | to $2,500 GOLD JEWELRY Take your mee of any of our handeome jewelry to-day while our stocks are largest—you pay us only a dollar or so & we You can afford to bey a watch pr Our terms are liberal and confidential. Wriie or Call for Book of Gems. never miss! jewelry this year. ewicehty an amount you'll M 578 fine piece of DIT 1374 3 Broadway STORE NOT AN OFFICE Open Eveni: ings Till 10 o'clocs u ail . Christmas Greeting & Taking these figures as a basie, _ Senator Edge tried hard to find _ why eval sold for from $16 to $23 per ton in ‘New York and New dersey last September, but he did net obtain the information, The witness maintained the hig! prices mentioned were tlenal. ’ One important disctepancy ‘In the “witness's testimony related to a fair Brive for a ton of coal laid down in _ 4 ew York. Morrow thought $¢ would be about right Senator Edge then NO TRACE OF NAVY BALLOON, to Locate Craft Canada. ‘The first report recelved from Licut A. W, Evans, attached to the naval air station at Rockaway Point, who left for, the missing balloon, A-6598, con- tained no news of the whereabouts of the craft, which went from the naval air stat a week ago Monday, Omeee at the naval air station this morning announced 1} had received ho other information Fe Monday for Canada to aid in the search | et balloon, which carried Lieut. Hinton, it. Farrell and Louis A, Kloor jr. 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