The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 3

MILLIONS LOST IN “GIFT DOLLARS” SENT TO EUROPE Cash Sent to Friend! to Friends and Rela- tives in Warring Countries Never Reached Them. MAY BE HALF BILLION. Senders Have Only Receipts of Little Value and No Redress, By Martin Green. An itenfof the cost of the great war to the people of the United States which has never been referred to be- fore, so far as I know, is the vast ag- sTegate of money sent in small amounts by foreign-born residents of this coun- iry to relatives in Central Europe which was never delivered to those for whom it was intended. From 1915, when distress in Central Europe be- came acute, down to the present time —except during the period while the United States was at war—this “gift money,” as it is known in forvign ex- change banking circles, has been flow- ing into Qurope in a mighty stream. From the number of receipts I have seen representing dollars deposited in unis city to be sent to Europe in the shape of marks, crowns, Ie and “ubies, which have not been delivered, I think I am safe in saying that at feast balf the money sent to Europe during the war for the relief of dis- tress was lost through non-delivery or for other causes, The money sent from New York |. only a fractio: part of the total, for, large as New York's foreign-born population is, it is overshadowed by the foreign-born population of the country outside the metropolis, Mil- tions of Germans, Austrians, Hunga- vians, Russians, Jews and other aliens or Americanized aliens have been sending money steadily to Eastern atd| Central Europe for the pust six years, EXCHANGE EXPERT SAYS LOSS MAY BE HALF BILLION. 1 asked a foreign exchunge exper: ot wide experience the other day if he thought $100,000,000 would be a fuir estimate of the amount of money lest by residents of this country who sent “gift” donations to Burope. Aftor protracted figuring he said: “L think the estimate is extremely conservative, When you tigure in the depreciation of foreign money values during long periods elapsing between the time it was sent from New York and the tune it wus received by the beneficiaries, you gather an enor- ous loss even to those who got the money from America. Then, adding this to the money that never was delivered and the great amount that was stolen in New York and through- out the country by dishonest money transmitters by means of extortion in exchange, I wouldn't be surpriséd if the total would run up to half a bil- fon dollars. “The money that was hot delivered 5 irretrievably lost to those who sent t unless something is done whi will require the aj icles which acted 1s transmitters to refund more than the present yulue of foreign currency should say that the. present value ef millions of dollars’ worth of re- reipts held in this city by person sent money to RMurope was delivered is about t. of their face value. “If there is another war in Wurope- and it appears at this time that an- other war is inevitable in the spring, when the Bolshevists will have to find vomething for their army to do—the money of Bastern and Central Buro. pean countries will be worth less than t is now, which means that it will be worth nothing at all. It will be decades before those bankrupt coun- tries can assemble a stability of xc ernment and resources that will re- store their money to its pre-war standing.” | | | 1 per Even though all those who still hold their receipts shall eventually col- lect the trifling amounts those re- ceipts entitle them to, there will still he a ebgantic loss represented by the receipts that have been lost or re- ceipty that have been destroyed by utterly discouraged holders and by the persons who sent money and have since died. QUESTION: WHERE ARE THE MISSING DOLLARS? The dollars that were deposited | here for the benefit of persons in 5 who ne received their equivalent in crowns, marks, lei and 4 are presumably still here. T redits In Burope from whien the | equivalent of those dollars was to be paid is, presumiat til] there. ds as the umably the wiio accepted them and ¢: for them and never deliv their} quivalent in Kurope, ‘These money transmitters now offer to refund to claimants at the present rate of ex- I know of one lawyer who 317,000 worth of these claims that is, the face value of the receipts amounts to $317,000—which have been turned over \ta h{m for collection by persons who havé refused to accept | fh refund on the terms named by the mmeney transmitters. Under the Taw within their rights. ponsible — for reope_of money ere. Their oblig y transmit it, Ps money transmitters receipts the >ankers Th non-deli niruste tion , ends are to them i when and a “specification r contract is that in case they t of tl have to refund, the refund shal! be it the rate of exchange preva ade on at the time of the filing of the lent claim, For persons who bought fore\«n exchange in the belief that it would appreciate in value this rule is fair enough. They gambled and lost. But in the case of persons who sent their hard-earned money, paid to them by ‘American capital, to loved ones in Burope, only to have it tied up for years—and in a considerable \per- centage of instances never sent at all —the rule ap) to be te ag appear that the om ot , "WHE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1921.™ WHITMAN BERINS ||Navy Balloonists Who Made Great Flight WORK ON INQUIRY INTO GRAFT IN CITY, Goes Before es Cake Jury— Offices Allotted to Him by District Attorney Swann. Former District Attorney Chartes 8. Whitman, designated by District Attorney Swann as a Special Deputy District Attorney to take charge of the investigation of the Hylan Ad- ministfation, appeared ‘before the Jury to-day and stated that he was not prepared to submit evia Grand dence to the body at present It is understood that he said that he was averse to calling newspaper- men as witnesses before the inquis- itors, sayings in effect that the men gathered news for thelr papers and that their sources of information were known and were open to him as well as to them and that he pre- ferred to get such information at first hand. ‘There is no indication that he will accept any of the men for his assist- ants suggested by elther Mayor Hylan or District Attorney Swann. Rather he jill name his own assist- ants, and same of them, according to report, will be from central police | office. Members of the department who are at outsywith the Enright regime ,some of whom are out of the department, have offered their ser- vices to Mr, Whitman in the police investigation It appears now that the efforts of Mr. Whitman and his aids will be directed against the Police Depart- ment. Mr man to-day moved into the offices assigned to him by District Attorney Swann. They are on the third floor of the Criminal Courts Building, udjoining Mr. Swann’s fices. anybody with a griev w ance against or information in regard | to the Mayor's administration or that of Police Commissioner Enright will be welcomed. On the Whitman staff will be a number of promifent lawyers, crim- inul and others, and itis promised | that the office will be in full swing in » few days, with experts, detec- tives, stonographers and investiga- tors. Among the detectives will be men who were under Whitman when he was District Attorney. It ts understood that the prosecutor spent half an hour before the Grand Jury and was much impressed with the intelligence and high standing of that body, He assured them, it ts said, that nothing but material evidence will be submitted to them, so that there will be no possibility of confusing them with a mass of testimony, The in formation’ secured by the Whitm staff will be carefully gone over aun put into concrete form before it is sub- mitted to the Grand Jury. At the 8} stion of Mr, Whitman, District Attorney Swann to-day com municated with Mayor Hylan asking hii to abrogate Section No, 184 of the new rules of the Police Depart- ment, 80 far as it applied to the pres- ent investigation. The section pro- vides that any member of the de- partment summoned before the Dis- trict Attorney in where he or a jow member i to be a defendant, aot or th in detail at once to the Police Com missioner, Special Deputy Whitman said that 4 policeman had to be summoned a case upt if he would tell the Commissioner any+ how, He concluded: "My persona opinion, however, is that the rule does not ply in a case where the policeman yoluntecrs, as many did in the former investi s. Any pokceman cin come to me and tell me as much as he wants to.” transmitters of the money should share some of the risk ‘An express company, for instance, accepts a package of goods for de livery to the consignee, If the pack- age is lost the express company settles at a valuation fixed by the consignor at ihe time of shipment. But if an express company under takes to send money abroad and does not deliver it the whole risk falls on the consignor ‘The experience David En to The Byening World o with a handful of Adame many receipts if came to-day 3 Com terest as showing what a great pe centage of money sent to Europe was not delivered. Between Feb. 21, 1916, and Jan, %, 1917, David Engel sent, through the Adams Express Com- pany, thirtcen separate remittances to his wife, his children or his father in @ town {a what was then Hun- gary but is now Czecho-Slovakia, His remittances totalled — 4.66) crowns, for which he paid in Amer can money $17! ive of the remit- tances were sent by wireless. Qnly three reached the persons Engel de- sired to ald. His two children r ceived 5 crowns each—vglued at 70 and his wife received one re- ance of 700 crowns, valued at $57. ‘or three years Engel held his ri ceipts awaiting action, Then he wrote to the Adams Express Company, and on April 9, 1920 received a reply ‘stat~ ing that the United States Gover ment had directed that items for- warded during the war cannot be dis- posed of until after peace Ix declared Technically the United States Is still at war with the Central Powers, En- gel’s receipts for money represent a face value of $390.00, transmitter offers to refund the dollar equivalent of crowns at the present rate of x: At that rate Engel 60 mo pout $4.25 in Ht eat a3 io The undelivered | | _BEOT LS KLSOR JR $27,205,283 NET VALUE OF ESTATE OF WOOLWORTH $1,084,761 Tax Due State, Ac- | cording to Appraiser’s Report | —$600,000 Liberty Bonds: | The transfer tax appraisal of the J estate of F. W. Woolworth, who died | April 8, 1919, was filed ‘at the Surro- gate's office in Mineola to-day by the transfer tax appraiser, ‘The net valuc | of the estate is $27,205,282.36. Mr. Woolworth’s personal property including furnishings of his residences and gffices, bonds and other property. | was valued at $29.916,937.90, His real estate, consisting chiefly of the Glen Cove and Fifth Avenue homes, was valued at $874,066.56. Dobts against the estate, including the expenses of administration, amounted to $1,58 720.70. Ry the terms of the will, dated July 1889, the entire estate is left to the widow, Mrs, Jennie Woolworth. ‘The amount of the tax due the State $1,084,761 | st, ommissions of the EVEN OUIJA WOULD HESITATE AT THIS| Court Must Decide if Cafe Propri- etor Is to Blame Because One Guest Damages Another. ‘The question now arises; If one & Hleman, in an excess of feeling, bounces a heavy glass tumbler tne tleman justified In bringt suit for|duct of Assistant District Attorney | damages against the proprietor of the |James E. Smith was bexun to-day be- | establishment in which the houneing| fore Justice » Weeks in the Supreme and consequent distress occurred? Court. The answer to the question ts to come| Goldman testified at shat time that) trom Justice Newburger of the Supreme | Smith had accepted a fribe from one Court. Julius Halthelmer asked It as|Bernard Friedman, keeper of an al- counsel for the Black Cat Restaurant | leged “stuas” shouse in Chrystie Street at No, 557 West Broadway lo-day in|He also stated that Smith tried to get requesting dismissal of the sult for) him to testify falsely against Deputy $10,000 damages instituted by Joseph | Police Commiasioner Augustus Drun Malloy. that the tumbler was bou other patron of the night of April 24 Inst. It was from Mr. Malloy’s he 1 by “Not even In the palmiest days of the blue laws was a restaura uur required head of another gentleman, Ls the second gen- restaurant on the ‘Into Frozen Wilderness, and Their Families LIEOT. WALTER HINTON AND LikOT FaReeit, MRS FARRELL. ano THEIR CHILD |GOLDMAN PERJURY TRIAL IS OPENED Case Grows Out of His Testimony | Before Grand Jury Investigating James Smith's Conduct, | The trial of Jacob L. Goldman on o arge of perjury in tedtimony he ave | last June to the Extraordinary Grand ury which was investigating the con- MRS HINTON "CLUBS TRUMP KNIVES. He: proved trumps, however on th r 1 Porter and Police Inspector Dominic Henry in that he saw Col, Porter come out of a certain house uptown and saw Henry accept a bribe from Jacob Lubin, proprietor of an alleged disorderly 1 hoase in West 46th Street | to ask for a certificate of character Judge Weeks ruled that only the testi from prospective patrons," said Mr. mony, given by Goldman before, the 01 ay of ent, ‘ut Grand Jury with re to tha throe Hallheimer, by way of argument. “It charges on which he was indicted would would seem absurd,” he went on, ‘for ne admitted aa testimony, He repri- an innkeeper to be held accountable in manded Deputy Attorney General Man- @ damage «ult brought by one guest ley and Clark L. Jordan, attorney for who had been injured by another.” De- Goldman, when tach made longthy ar- erved. cision Was r uments concerning the admisaability of testimony, alleging that sumith thad ac ——— i opted a '$6,000 brit sey oth | executors totalled $598,060.11. sAYs RENO DIVORCE psa ne bribe of Savina Broth More than $25,000,000 of thé estate ne | consists of holdings in the F. W. Wooi-| IS INVALID HERE TRIO ROB AND BEAT | worth Company and the Broadwity- —————. | | pemcetise corican) “|So Mis ifaich Asks N.Y. Varity—| GIRL IN A TAXICAB Mr. Woolworth owned stocks 0: : nea { Says Her Fo shy A ; i even railroads which had a total] 4) Her Former Husband | Policeman Finds Her in Dazed Con- valuation of about $150,000. Fis ehiet | Re-Married Recently. dition at Franklin Street and | holdings were: 107,16 yares, COM-) A divorce granted in Reno, Nev., on West Broadway, mon, of the F, W. Woolworth Com- the ground of abandonment is of no est Broadway. |pany, value $12,181,172; hares, yalidity in New York, according to Policeman Theodore A. Raphael of preferred, F. W. Woolworth Com- petition for absolute divorce filed in the ‘the Oak Street Station last night heani pany, value 201,100; 945 shares, Brooklyn Supreme Court by Mrs. Maude ate in a building at’ Franklin etreat| Woolworth Deposit Company, B. Hatch {nat Edwin @. Hatch, a and West Brondway. investigating, he | common Bre consulting engineer at No. 12) Hroad- | found a well dressed young woman who | eas way, She said his income is $20,000 a! appeared to be in a stupor. In order preferred, year. » place her in safe keeping he took es sh rag), FAS year according to Mrs. Hateh, to the Oak Street Station PATE BMGs Somnadys, Rank ang Mer husband secured a divorce in Reno| This morning in Tombs Court thi shares, Irving National Bank, | and then married Amelia B. Arnstein, ! young woman told Magistrate Tobias 905 shares the ov Trust Com- with whom he is now livingsat No. 159 that her nam Stance Durbin. any, the jat par valup Of North Grove Street, Eust Orange, N. J. | nineteen, of No. 215 { 18th Street $445 a sha m1 value of these Mrs, Hatch claims that inasmuch as that she had been lured into a taxicab! \ stocks being $08 He liad on de-| the Reno divorce is not valid here. | py thre en who beat and robbed her posit in banks $155,434.41 Hatch is .iving with his second wife! of her watol and then threw her out The valuation placed on the house- ally, giving the first wife statutory | Policeman Raphael said that when hold furniture, vutomobiles and per tor divorcee In New York, In lls he found the girt r Hp were cut an sonal effects of Mr. Woolworth a mid that Mrs, Hatch! there was a gash over hor Her, Winfield Hall, the name given to the Atniiall reserved decision on’| hands were basin Ms ted and tn one Glen Cove estate, was $ and aay for allmony jt them: ehe held the end of he? proken | \ A) effects and furnishing eeenueam tempera ut 90 Hifth Avenue at $221,089.55, De SID STS ye Seer peers IDA VON CLAUSSEN AGAIN. | that tne mon gave ne Mr. Woolworth owned in a house at site No, 2 East Bightieth Street furniture | pi.y a Petition Against Whit The magistrate dixeharged he ind other goods valued at $22,408. reas nkcy. - At the lime of Mc, Woolworth’s| ygq Von cldussen 13 West Jdeath Federal taxes were paid} s9th street to tition with | $47,000 TO WIDOWS BY FIRE. amounting (0 &851,873.81, and Sta Supreme askir caste aeiie taxes of 2,047, hat Cormer Ge 1 iste Owner of Matiten Lane Ballding Pie Wit the plot at N ‘Attorney Baware Y purrend tes Canes Oat of Court, Fifth Avenue was given u& $156.00 | trom gett public saecuitors ( cnage Mr. Wovlwort masatoum, whieh | ory ' TtGeaY t | F oh on Jur ¥ © he ct roted secording to |? eer peeNite} he ATER ATENGS which he approved before his |" inventis gation now under way 20 In niaing 4 iy w to st $105,788, The | Distric y's office of city affair 16-18 en Lane J in which seve urial in Woodlawn Cemogery | The contains fifteen ¢hactes | ral employed the building cost $10 7 | aga Whitman, Swann and Judse | we catied in’ Supreme come Bilal pid nee bond of a that Whitman and Swann be pri to-day Attorney John Ro 1 an 8% given by him to seoure the |} ‘ / further |nounced that all of these actions hud elease of is widow's dower Interest | from taking any pare in ihe further [nounced that all : a satin h oa n real estate. Mr. Woolv ) held | Shielding of criminals from just punish netiled ont of co! he. mil: Liherty Bonde valued at $600,009 ment. were against Robert A Powers of No | Mrs. Von Clauasett has had numerous [1 Hudson Street, owne the build-| YyY PAANLE and stormy ospe the courts of | ing BITTEN B ne: HE SUES. this ty She ha» wel Mr, Whit The tilements roaehed wer M Jman, Distebt Swann and ¢ Stambler, widow of Benjamin Willlam Hee Worver Hatler Anka y ai, Dhan Osee d Tee Trin} was begun to-day before Jus: | Claussen Med 4 Inoaday. | widow of E 1th Aven thee Schmuck in the City Court of a at ia Lambert brought by James J. O'Brien for $2,500 |Sixty Daye for Inviting Asdience to Eman 2% Divinion ys 5 ave a Drink." Avenue, $9,000, and. Mrs. Clars. Las roan: “his former amployer, Willem rink Neary ¢ 1112 Fourth | Hauser, widow of John A. No, 17 Ha Hurat, President of Me Stock Quotation x 51 f ey reeweit b OREE kK Avenue, Brooklyn, $7,000. | ereph Coninany, far Injuries al- | Ong ‘tale : y. wae sen > have heen inflicted by a pet| to) the | workhoure (Or AEty | Alarm Clock Gets tems Busy, Z agixtrute Shor r Seok ke " pete an formerly a butler tn th ‘ourt, Brooklyn, t white| BERWICK, Fa, Jan. 10.—Council Horst at Inwoed. While 4 erformer in the Greenpoint Theatre, |man Lutz tried to get hia hena on the norving Lea on the lawn on June 6, 1918 prohibition jokes last | job early by. turning on electric lights he alloges, he-was bitten by Miss Claire {night drow an empty flash|At € A. M., but the fowls enored on. Hurst's pot poodie, Chinnita. and was {fram his pocket and shouted "Have a| Now Ae has an alarm clock. that ‘rings Rruareremeniee ss “Pipes, 8. |S epeatea st” veverad mes gaa rt he lights a4 USE C202 St Tee i rf 0 ing tbe egg output over. plove OR iad PR GR works” \ heat ~ ov George Ryan, oman Says rt iF Drew Two 15-Inch Blades. a cook of No. 307 West hh Street, was arraigned to-day \n West Side Court, charged with bur glary and attempted assault by John Morris of the « address and Po- liceman Brandreth of the Weat 37th Street Station, Morris was awakened carly this morning by a man in hig room on the second floor. He chased the intruder to the floor above, then called the po- Heeman, who forced the dgbr. Ryan according to the ‘oduced twr !'15-tneh knives ed to etl Brandreth if hi cd. Clubs and @ crack ¢ head took all the fight out of Franklin Simon s& Co, Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts. Tuesday, Annual Sale of Knitted Combinations AT THE LARGEST PRICE REDUCTIONS EVER MADE Regular and Extra Sizes FINE RIBBED COTTON COMBINATIONS Light weight, pink or white, tight or lace knee. Regular price #1.25 ONE CITY CONTRACT HAS SUSPICIOUS AIR, SAYS STEINBRINK aiacamigbais Refuses to Make It Public, Al- though Mayor Hylan Urges Publicity. Meier Steinbrink, associate counsel for the Board of Estimate in ita in- quiry into city contracts, announced at the opening of to-day's Aession hot he has found “elroumetances of \@ very suspicious character" in one proposes city contract and that he presenting the evidence to the Grand Jury, Neither the nature of the con- onges that could te lermanic President La 7 ioked 14 why « combination of doors and publicity, auch. as "ay grand jury proceedings, could an be resorted to, Replying, Mr, igen | brink said leaks Lak Grand rooma sometimes defeat the wnda bs eer final; &teinbrinke an Counsel present thetr evidence to Grend Jury. THREE HELD AS STORE ROBBERS Magistrate Nolan Orders Inquiry of Sureties Before Bail Becomes Effective. Detective Ndward Fitsgerald of the West 100th Street Station went to the rooming house of Hfonry W. Hannahan a No. 6 Weet 100th Street early thir morning and avked to see three mon who had rented a room, ‘They refused to answer tis Knock end he" broke dows | the door. In the room he found John ‘Thomas, tract nor th department in which it}John Polletier, who, according to the was found was disclosed. Neither Pol was recently released from / prison, and Joseph Lyons, au was the amount involved mentioned, It was explained By Mr, Steinbrink that to mention names or give other the Information now might defeat ends of justice. On the other hand Mayor Hylan was quite insistent that every detail connected with the matter be made the public, The dialogue between Mayor and Mr. Steinbrink, in which the former insisted upon pitiless pub- Melty and the latter upon secrecy was staged in open meeting after Mr. | in’ paviee Sunglass: tools ih Rie eee Steinbrink and the Mayor had a| session wag arrested. leat lett whispered conference After concluding his statement on the subject of a suspicious criminal act In one of the departments, Mr, Steinbrink said he would have his 48. AS! opinion on the ash removal contract ON HOUR BASIS on the Court House site ready either - = to-morrow or Wednesday. This is|Both Sides at Paterson Try to the contract with which che name Re. ement Witho of Plant and Structures Commis- Reach ito’ wi t The sioner Whalen has been connected by Mr. Untermyer, counsel for the Lock wood Committee. were vouchers jn another department which needed much explnining, “Why not make the entire matter public here and now?" asked Mayor Hylan. “I'm for publicity. Let's have}day night voted against the Le Mr. Stelmbrink sald there were he. Inds ry. Women’s COTTON COMBINATIONS Medium or heavy weight, French band tops, knee or anklelength, pink or white, Regular prices #1.50 to 2.00 WOOL AND COTTON MIXED COMBINATIONS Fine ribbed, low neck, sleeveless, knee or ankle Regular prices 43.50 and $3.75 length. SILK, WOOL & COTTON MIXED COMB Bodice or regular tops with crocheted edges, knee or ankle length. Regular prices #4.50 and 5.25 He also said there tacked the detective, who sui (cs In the room, he reported, he wultoase containing thres loaded re volvers, two blackjacka and op ee ’ admitted, cold chisels, Thomas gerald mid, owning the gultoase, — » Magistrate Noian held all three im $5,000 each on a charge Uae, they, were implicated in the robbery of a delicatessen dealer at No. ys sterdam Avenue, Dec. 1. The trate directed bail should not effective until after fort ight ane ours investigation of the suretiog. Louis Carlo, eight of No. 432 Wont Broadway, was by to-day in. the Tombs Pi for examination Wednesday, in. $26,000 bail, id Court Schifino, fourteem years pisaswary at Spring FEW SILK MILLS Up of Industry, “A canvass of the silk plants in Pat- enon to-day showed that a prise Lae. oum- ber of them were the of the mamutesurete, toe "e-hour week. It had been announced that the manufacturers conteruplated a 20 per cent. cut In wages, Ribbon workers at a it ee Me re neme —_ .90 "1L* ee ee ae pe et me tes 2 NATIONS O'9e HEAVY WEIGHT COTTON COMBINATIONS Extra fine quality, knee or ankle length, pink NO EXCHANGES WOMEN'S KNIT UNDERWEAR SHOP--Street Floor or white. ] 50 Regular prices $2.50 and 42.75, NO CREDITS