The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1921, Page 10

= Sere: f \ <a eet Ne ie ee Dee i ‘4 » @ torpedo-boat destroyer to an unknowa _™ destination, ; 4 Comptrotter Considers Curtailing a SU CONSTABLES ARE SHOT DEAD IN AMBUSH OME CLAN I SLA —>— (Comtinued From First Page) Cork, where martial law is in force, od has, it is said, acted as a pre- ventive of attacks on parties of con- siebulary. Recourse to the hostuce @ystem here, where martial law has pot been declared, caused general wurprive. ! Major Gen. Sir Edward Strickland, sommander of Crown troops in Ire- Band, stated yesterday at Cork that gmartial law was producing beneficial Pesults and that arms are being sur- wendered by or captured from Sinn re. He*admitted, however, that only a . handful of Irish Republican leaders had given themselves up to the Brit~ {sh Government, and added that his ‘were most seriously handicapped | By the uctivities of women who are | ing arms to fugitive Sinn | RK, Jan, 21—During yester- wre Tound-up here while two were being destroyed, tho made twenty-three arrests. Fhe men arrested included the Cork , A. F. Sharman-Crawford, in ‘whose office it was alleged ammunl- tion was found. pass ree O’CALLAGHAN GOES __ TO SAIL FOR HOME Mayor of Cork Will Surrender to r] ‘Immigration Authorities at : Norfolk, Va. Donal O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor of @ork, left this afteraoon for Norfolk, Ya, where he will surrender himself fo the immigration guthorities, who announced he would be permitted to peship as a sailor. He said he would mop in Washington to confer with hie counse!. “It any additional steps can be Qaken to avotd deportation they will be taken,” O'Callaghan told an Eve- ming World reporter. “If not, I shall probably take advantage of the right > ship home as a seaman. I have never been afraid af bard work.” & He added that ho had been deeply Wapressed by his visit to this country and by tho cordial attitude of the New York people with whom he has ome in contast. On his trip to Nor- ¢folk he expected to be accompanted ‘py tho brother of the late Lord Mayor ‘McSwiney. ‘ (+ @@ finn Feiners Off for Privon. LIMBRICK, ‘Jan. 21.—The eighty-two —* ginn Voiners who were sentenced Jan, * § to imprisonment, ranging from three . to aix months, for alleged unlawful as- @embly, have been conveyed on board Se CRAIG QUITS POST ON FINANCE BOARD {of Powers on City Budget »; Personal Affront. Comptrolier Craig resigned to-day as Chairman of the Finance and Budget Commitics, the most important in the Board of Estimate, His action is the result of the Board taking away from the committee its powers of preparing the elty budget. The Comptroller re- garded wis action as an affront to him, as Chairman, The Board transferred authority to the Committee of , the “-whole, of which Mayor Hylan is chatr- at Mot present, D~ Comptrolier Smith. Mayor Hylan he alan’ think the Comptroller had he 1 Fight to resign from any com- moved the resignation be ‘on die. rmenic Pre sident La wanted the resignation 1¢ forthwith. It was finally deci lay the matter over for one wee! : while, according to an annotinc ment made by Mayor Hylan, the Fi and Budget Committee will mo lay afternoon at 2.15 o'clock Wer Craig’s office provided the | rs are not barred against the mein- lo ae Neted Woman Astronomer Dead. » WALTHAM, Mase, Jan. 21—Mary Watson Whitney, astronomy professor of Vasnar College, died yer- ferday et her home here. Mins Whit- ney Was a member of various scientific tes and had contributed many on astronomical subjects, She director of observatories of Vansar 1889 to 1920, when she retired, NEW TRIAL ORDERED IN ELECTION CASE Liberman Had Been Found Guilty of Fraud in Mitchel-Bennet Primary in 17th District, The Appellate Division of tha Su- preme Court to-day reversed the con- vietion of Leon Lisbermun, accused of participation in election frauds in the Mitchell-Bennett primary contest 1M17, and ordered a new trial, Lieberman was chairman of the board of the 7th election district, 17th Assem- bly District, the polling place of which was at No, 42 East 112th Street. Tt wan alleged that he and the other inspectors for the district signed a report stating that the vote was 28 for Mitchel and one for Bennett when the actual vote wan 18 for Mitchel and & for Bennett Lieberman's counsel, Charles Firestone, contended thet at the time of signing it Lieberman believed the canvass to be true and proper. it is believed the decision will have a bearing on many other election off- cinls convicted and sentenced to prison as o result © 1917 primaries, — FIGHTS TO SAVE HOME BREW IN U.S. Chicago Attorney Brings Action to Test Constitutionality of Ruling on Volstead Act. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—A suit to teat the conatitutionality of the interpreta- tion of the Volstead Act probiblung manufacture of home brew was on file to-day in Federal Court. A petition by David D, Stansbury, attorney, asserts the Government cannot collect both a revenue tax on home made liquors and anvess a fine for violation of a law for- bidding their manufacture. ‘More than six hundred Chicago sa- loonkeeper# have been assessed both the fine and the tax, according to Mr. Stansbury, on charges of selling beer containing more than tho legal per- centage of alcohol - Died From Sicknens. Philip Suska, th ive years old, ‘of No, 217 Wast Fourth Street, died in Bellevue Hospital yesterday from sleeping sickness. Suska came to this country from Russia fourteen years ago. tn} OTHE: EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1991." MILLIONS FOR SUGAR MEN ONLY —__WTHE NEW TRICK TARIFF the additional tax of 4 cents a pound, nominally a tariff, is adtually a pref. erential to American sugar interests, This is how it would work out; There Js at present in the United! States a surplus stock of sugar, raw and refined, held by the Louisiana growers and refiners, the beet sugar refiners—not the farmers who grow the beet—import refiners, wholesales and speculators, a total of 1,250,000 tons of sugar. We haye to start with: ‘Tons. Sugar on hand.. + 1,260,000 Louisiana Will Di fore the importation of duty paying suger be- comes possible. . Texas will produce . Porto Rico will produce. ... Hawaii will produce... Virgin Islands will prod Domestic beet sugar grow- ors will produce...s..sse+ 935,000 Total ......005 ween eeeee ++ 3,323,000 This total of surplus on hand and Production to come while the Fordney bill is In effect—éf it passes—amounts to within 700,000 tons of the total an nual consumption of sugar in the United States, The surplus on hand, which would be enhanced in value $112,000,000 overnight by the mere !n- corporation into the laws of the Ford- ney Emergency Bill, is sufficient to carry the country for more than three months. The increase in price would Teduce consumption to some extent. By the time the surplus on hand was exhausted the growing crops would become available—and leave it to the domestic sugur manipulators to see that they were used before it would be necesmry to jmport the duty-pay- sugur interosts, Government, montis, would be in the postion, in so far as sugar tariff receipts is con- cerned of Old Mother Hubbard. THE While the beet sugar interests are in the background, chie¢ beneficiaries under the working of the Fordney bill. called tbat during the war the Govern- ment and Herbert Hoover implored everybody producing to produce and produce and produce, the patriotic beet sugar interests re- sponded to the call. In 1915-16 they produced 7 The production gradually 4 until 1919-20, when it totalled tons. were sugar beet growers were decreasing thelr output, During the war period, when the After the armistice wag signed became apparent that os soon a8 the | Government Jet go of the control of (Continued From First Page.) | ing product, sugar the price would soar, ‘The beet naam einer Nl Practically the entire enhaneement | kar people made their plans a ra @uty wl come in at all. ‘Pherefore| %f Value created by the Fordney billlingly, ‘The Government released would be collected by the domestic | sugar price control on Dee, 1, 1919, and | ‘The United States at the end of ten about But which “PATRIOTISM” OF SUGAR BEET FARMERS. they woukl be the It will be re- crop. Me Tat us see how 756 tons. gtum While the farmers generally speeding up production the all at tri KRAMER BROS.,"< Quality Meats : Provisions: Poultry Office & Warehouse| — rripay anp saTURDAY 517 West 16th St. Battery Pl. 132 Broad St.,nr. South Ferry 920 Ninth A . 59th St. 777 Eighth Av.,nr. 47th St. RESTAURANTS, SHIPS AND FAMILIES SUPPLIED had to accept, it, but Not an enormous return the production of beet sugar in 1920-21 Jumped to 935,000 tons—an increase of market the sugar of the world, price didn't soar, , And now the patriots who earned @ comfortable income on dec dugtion during the war are sandbag- ging Congress in an effort to exact pay from the public for their excess profess to be afraid of the importation of vast amounts of German and Bel- gian beet sugar. of production in Ge that there is no ground for alarm over this feature of the situation. In 1914-15 Germany produced 2,689,- 330 tons of beet sugar and consumed it Pork Loins 30c” Chuck Steak 17¢” Ae. > aa maw Government, regulated sugar prices, atiles rop | bublic in the way of a 4-cont-a-pound] GET MARRIAGE LICENSES. yeet sugar gold at obout 665 cents a for less |Md¥ance in sugar tn $275,000,000, het Ja narnnen s j pound and dity-pald sugur at 7.28 per than half tn It lsrodid. ateerty Senuraoe tha Hopetoits Frederick M. Keater, forty-six yeare pound—that in the p the vefinors fore of Ciba, which we went to war to| Old, « broker, of No. 169 Germain Street, Th was money ht 43 per cent. owing to trade conditions, attracted to this high priced the It began to drop. cased pros ptoponents of the Fordney bill The official figures many and Bel- for the last nine y show home or sent it to other coun- in the Central Empire and its Selected Small Best Cuts B. Altman & Cu. Thirty-fourth Street Value-giving Sales for Saturday MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Women’s and Misses’ Advance Spring Hats in smart, becoming models, suitable for early town wear or the Winter resorts, will be on special sale at $10.50 All of tinese Hats are effectively trimmed, featuring the new straws and color effects, and offer a wide choice of selection. (First specially Men’s All-linen Tape-bordered ° (First Floor) Floor) One Thousand Dozen Irish Linen Handkerchiefs low-priced Handkerchiefs Hemstitched, per dozen $4.25, 5.35, 7.50 ‘ per dozen 8.90 Women’s Sheer Ail-linen Handkerchiefs Hemstitched rs per dozen $2.50, 5.00 initialed + «per dozen 2.85, 3.65 Tape-Bordered te per dozen 3.75 Also te oamcon, Women's initialed Lawn Handkerchiefs per dozen * © «© «© «© © «~ §).68 for sale on Vogue Patterns the Fourth Fioor Thirty-fifth Street Another Sale of Girls’ Winter Coats has been made possible by a purchase just consummated. Girls’ Coats (sizes 6, 8 two attractive models, made of ail-wool polo silvertone, in Copenhagen, brown and rein- deer; lined throughout will be specially $11.75 Girls’ Coats (sizes 10, 12 and 14 years) in a mew raglan sleeve model, made of all-wool polo silvertone, in Pekin and brown; lined throughout will be specially $15.50 (Second Floor) Final Reductions have been made in the prices of Metal Laces as a result of which Edges, insertings and Flounces, in combinations of gold-and-net, silver-and-net, and various color effects, have been variously marked, regardless of cost 95c., $1.90 & (First Floor) and, 10 years) in priced at blue, Copenhagen priced at 2.95 per yard Ly are et emenees thia vountry sprink work out prac sop which the from their products, holdings are ®t. John, New Brunswick, Canada, oh- tained a marriage license at the Ma~ nicipal Building to-day to wed Miss Marion EB, Littebarnt, twentynine old, of the Hotel Buckingham, Street and Fifth Avenue. ‘The weddin is to take place at the “Little Clr Around the Corner” to-morrow. “ Another couple recelying a. Neense were August C. Scharmnan, thirty years annot expurt /establigh in 1898 and whieh has cost productive | t lions of dollars. It is n- | would purchasing power j 4. While the Cuban re to blame for the with it with sugar— ugar | rondition of the country to-day, It would be bad economle tactics for propovition would not /the Congreas of the United Btates to cally it in interesting | ac ntuate the situation by legit u Gu roment could | tion in favor of a domestic industry! oi, a lawyer, of No. 150 West’ 69m the Loutal- not need 4 subsidy from the Mrs. Dorothy planters a’ en -one years old, of nd burn tive of the plight. of Cuba Their wedding tuction of the deposits of two .drain|of hor leading banks, due to the Phe Louisiana | sugar speculation. In June, 1920, the worth’ $14,000,000, The | deposits of the Banco Espanol am- ugar holdings are worth $75,000- |ounted to $12,000,000. ‘They are now about $44,000,00 June, 1920, the de- eo Nacional we: re now about $7. Ds ps Overcoat Only Clue to Suicide. The only clue obtained to-day in the {dentity of a man who. killed’ himself by a revolver shot in the lobby of-an-+ ‘partment house at No. 141 W 110th say eet Inst ei ny. ~ fat Led \- that le _overcoa’ nal een OU ly market for the] Hoh M* Kulak of No. 99-41 Wldridge fe—sugar—is the | Street, “Kulok will view the body, to- nd thé Fordney billlday in an effort at identification. ed effort to destroy It. body Best & Co. Fifth Avenue at 35th Street, Established 1879 tHeir surplus | §194,000,000. T ede of $89,- | 000,000, ation. sum has been went to the Morgue. THE LOWER PRICE LEVELS OF 1921 PREVAIL THROUGHOUT THE STORE “TO-DAY AND SATURDAY Misses’ Winter Coats with Gray Squirrel Collars _ 89.00 ea Our regular 185.00 grade ALMOST 100.00 LESS! Veldyne, duvetyn, velura, or cashwell, graceful wrap models with enormous col- lars of the rarer, dark-colored squirrel. Girls’ Regulation Sailor Dresses one piece models—navy French serge 4 to 12 years 10.50 Regular 19.50 and 22.50 grades Girls’ Serge Middy Suits 8.95 Regular 19.50 grades Pleated skirt, turn-up middy, in navy French serge. Sizes 6 to 16 years. Girls’ Navy Serge Bloomers yoke model, 4 to 14 years 1.95 Regular 3.95 grade ‘Girls’ French Serge Bloomers Navy, 6 to 16 years. Full Pleated 3.95 Regular 8.50 grade ¥ t Polo Mixture Coats ' _10 to 16 years i! Regular 39.50 grade i! i‘