The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1921, Page 5

PIEZ SAYS SCHWAB! DONT GET A CENT FROM GOVERNMENT Unfortunate That Suggestion of Improper Action Was Made, He Declares. WASHINGTON, Jan, 2%.—Charles Piex of Chicago, former Director General of the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration, appeared to-day before the House Committee investigating Ship- ping Board operations to deny charges against the operation of the corporation which were made by Martin J. Gillen, formerly assistant to the chairman of the Board, in a spec- al report submitted to the committee some weeks ago. In the examination by Chairman Walsh, Mr. Plez declared that to his knowledge Charles M, Schwab had never received a cent from the Gov- vw. in salary or for personal 8 while Director General of eet Corporktion, Commvatirg on the charge made t minittee at New York by © 1 H. Abadie, former Comptrotier General of the Shipping Board, that a voucher for $260,000 had been ye sented for Mr. Schwab's personal penses, Mr. Piex declared “It is ua- fortunate that any suggestion of im- proper action on Mr, Schwab's part has been made at this hearing.” Mr. Piez told the committee how Mr. Schwab had reluctantly taken over direction of the Fleet Corpo tion after he hud bean urged to do 40 by Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board, Bainbridge Colby, then « member of the Board, and the wit- ness, and finally by President Wilson. ‘This was in the spring of 1918 when the Germans qvere making their ifnal drive, he said, and when the general staff was calling on the board to transport 350,000 troups a month to Fran “That meant increased tonnage.” Mr. Plez continued, “and we saw the need of bolstering up the construction ond of the Shipping Board, We need- ed a man of Mr. Schwab's experience, vbility and enthusiasm. Mr. Schwab expluined that firms in which he was interested had contracts amounting to $500,000,000 with the Government, He was positive he would be subjected to unfair criticism but finally agreed if the wituation were outlined to Presi - dent Wilson and) the President in- sisted, he would take charge of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, “Mr. Schwab never charged his ex- penises to the Government either di- ectly or indirectly, He was too high epirited a man for that, On a trip made to the Pucific Coast to inspect the Pleet Corporation work there, Mr. Schwab paid all of his expenses, as well as those of his private purty and [aid mine.” Mr. Piex said he was re $75,000 a year when he Joined mergency Fleet Corporation's forces ($7,500 a year and that he always paid all of my own expenses, When Mr. Schwab became Direc- for General of the Shipping Board's div construction, Mr. Plez said, the Fleet Corporation did not “stand very b opinionbe- se the public expected more than could be accomplished by a new or- ganization.” My Schwab, he addded, paid Ht attention to detall work, the ¢ ving the in public but did “impart so much enthusiasm” | that the operations division “took on | new Ife." p will return to New ht to hear addi Monday, regarding ‘The committ York tomorro tional testimony the youdher which Col. Abadie testi fied had been presented for Mr. Schwab's expenses After this discussion of _ Mr Schwab's connection with the Fleet ornare Piez replied to Mr. Gillen's charies Mr, Pieg denied management and waste in the oper- ations of the board and the corpor- ation, made by Martin J. Gillen, for- mer assistant to the Chairman of the board, “Mr charges of mis- Gillen’s statements,” Mr, Piex said, “do not square with the facts in a single vital case in which he ndulged ine sm concerning con- struction work Mr. Plez denied the claim of Mr. Gillen that $240.000,000 in Fleet Cor- poration securities were and afterward found in a safe deposit box n Philadelphia ‘The Board of ‘Tri s of the Fret Corporation orde transfer of these secueities to the Comptroller of Phi hia, where he corporation a were placed in sitfe deposit by aim Louw oM Contract to He Investizated, WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—An inves tation of the contract betwe ernational Mercantile Marine Compan ay American conporation, and the Brit rent will be conducted by the A ext Thursday, it wa to-day after a meeting of t An opportonity will be given 1 Klin lent of the com ban s d, to be heard Mena. Alal Jan. $2 jobert M Thompeon of New York was r Prosident of the New York State Pores- Uy Assoclation here yesterday. J. Tt ons of Syracuse was elvcted’ Sec relaryetreasurer, Included. sincag’ te twenty Vien Presidents were Sailhu| Franklin D. Roovevelt and Con-| Commissioner George D. Pratt, | ‘elected : Jan 22-—Ah & Louistar “ tween cadets that are hnot be arctled by we fought with light @ entire university to get a cudet corps of and. the plan 1s expected to check difterences. "| 700 boys, \[ LETTERS FROM KIDDIES. I) - = mber. Why, I could run wild with ’ Joy SUITS & O° COATS Just when I walked down the (006 by Ith Ava Toho | stairs, my arms full of books ready | $ oe $ 50 y: to go to school, the letter carrier | to $60 banded me a letter, When I looked stay ot aarabat at the envelope I knew right away The Evening World's iddie Klub Korner Copyright, 1981, by The Press Publishing Uo (The New Tork Evening World) = Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Woodland Wonder Tales: By Cousin Eleanor Commas a1. bn Eres adenine Oo. yew Yorum Breniia World. Twas tite atterdgon, so Billy Bright eyes and Pollfkin were both at home: they were each in, their own home and very they were to be sure. different homes Billy, the gray squirrel, lived with his family in a nest away up in the top of a tall hickory tree ‘ Pollykin was a little girl who tiv in a home such as most little girls live in, only much hicer, Like most homes where little girls live it had carpets on the floors, paper on the walis~end a piano, The thing that made it different and “nicer” was that it hud been built out in the country very near to a wood; the wood where Billy Brighteyes lived AS We already know, Billy and Pollykin were the best of friends and Im the Cold, Cold Forest “All Night Long. at this moment as each sat in their se TL OANOR he eed oe own home the sume thousht kept! yeurs, Commack, L to N.Y puzzling both thelr heads: “What is My Kitten philanthropy? What ean it t I havea nttle kitten, © Billy had given bis mother Gran- | Ana he’s cute as he can be: He climbs up my legs, And sits upon my knee. When dinner comes you may be sure, He's always right on time: He helds his little head up high, And cries for some of mine. daddy's message word for word. He, fald that “there would be another | meeting tuut evening at the old oak, | for grown folks only, and that the discussion was to be on philan- i Bot when the day is over, thropy.”. Mrs. Brighteyes had not! And on the porch T sit, turned a bair when Billy told her. | | Be gomes monk aw mews to me, Ths surprised her son, Pollykin,| THER "cross the lawn we flit. and he had agreed that philanthropy By Margaret Stenacker, wos an amaging word and they were Aged 11 years, Sanitoga Springs, N.Y sure (hat It must mean something | $e enrnnnnrrrnnn @ very uncommon. But mother squirrel. § HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND Showed no surprise and offered no) OBTAIN YOUR PIN. information, and though Billy looked | Declnning wich & world of questions, he did not usk any. Pollykin was impatient waiting for | her mother to get back from a bridge so that she might question her “Why did her mother stay so long | ‘a bridge’?” The most that Polly kin k about bridges was that} they spanned streams and rivers that they were very windy In wint and sunny in summer and not Ge’ “aso ADDIS | All eblldren up To siateen wears of Metubers | Bact i ue | silver gray Klub i ticularly pleasant at any time ex cepting when boats sailed under —_— them, when they were thrilling. Yet} MOTHER SUES FOR SON. her mother had never found them} Poe og anaes ace Mra, Mabel “hdamna of Port Chester to- like this was more than Poll, Jay bogan habeas corpus proce could understand, Still Aunt te} in the Suacess Court in White id that her mother bad gone | aguinst to “a bridge,” and there was no| and bis n doubting Aunt Kate. teenie | Billy Brighteyes was wondering 7 Mj Adama alleges she was ordered too. He could not play for all won- | from th Owens home by Isr husband | dering und when evening came and | Dec 1920, after » all self since her » aad paying the he was a year old she alleged further, paid only her por with bis mother, who, she contin he and his sister Jennie were tucked into their beds of soft leaves Billy could not go to sleep. “What could it be that his parents had gone to the Old Oak to discuss? Philan-| ft vined the child to have no. revpect ft thropy must be something important] jis own mother. This met Adams's ap- to lure squirrels from their homeg on| val, she alleges. fm night like this.” sie moat He - —— ~ — ortant thin: for Billy were the ae eeaetsel? would. get. Phic | —A MILLION MOTHERS— | Her hiesana, | | | | | lanthropy must be something to hang on the Christmas tree, or, better atili, to put into the toe of a stocking, Bul he could not remember having found | anything by that name on Christmas morning. The wind whistled and sang in the tops of the trees, but the music | proved no lullaby to this curious little | gray. Stealthily he got up, listened | to make sure Jennie was sleeping | soundly, and started toward the Oid Oak Meeting Hall in order to hear all uid. Every “gray” parent in the community was present and they |] orn: were all talking at once when Billy reached an overhead branch, “L for one won't hear of It," said Lane Bryant MATERNITY co RSET preventing injury, rin ho ’tate, Lane Beyant 3. 3.2 Mrs. Brighteyes. \= — — “T won't have my children con-) taminated by those rascally crea-| tures,” decided Mra. Nibbler. hilanthropy must mean rascally ures,” concluded Billy, Which ones’? he asked himself, | “the woods are full of them,"” Then | he lstened in. “Come, wife, we're Koing home.” It was Billy's father said this, What should Billy do now? He W1d not possibly reach home before | parents. To come in after them | would mean a spanking from his mamma. “Ob, why did I leave the nest?” he wailed, ‘fam not one bit] wiser than if I had gone to sleep, and | now there is nothing for me but to stay In the cold, cold forest all night long!” Poor Billy Brighteyes! In the next story Billy Brighteyes makes a discovery. When you buy muslin ask for FRUIT OF THE LOOM Dear Cousin Bleanor: T am s0 very glad MOBT WONDERFUL SALE OF THE YEAR that 1 All Wool, Sample am a River sinee then COHEN'S, 265 6th Av. t was from you whenever I look gt my club pin, Oven E Got, 17th at, siy “Proud of the Kiddie Klub.” Thanking you with all my heart, 1) im, your cousin, FANNIE MUOHNICK Dear Cousin Bleanor it was very nice of you to send me the pin and the certificate and that wonderful letter. 1 to thank in the best way I can. I wil try to} keep the rules of your Klub and be a cousin of the reat of the you also | I will try to make wpa nice px be publivhed in The Evening World Your truly cousin, MARIE BANNON The Indian in the Prot ant Church, One night in church I saw an In dian who came from Sing Sing. He was seventy years old and his siater was 104 yeurs old. He wore a brown sul with colored fringes made of beads and a band With feathers in it Htubbee and Leather Est. 1876. Major Mfg. C All good, ¥ 6 “Lost and Found”. articles’ tn The Word or reported * Room Mr, Morris, the minister, asked Hin te sing us a song. so he sung Been at any of The Word's n English a one in the Indian nd Found” advertivenents anguage. And he preached vut of tat any of The Word's t Bible and everybody pralae can bo him His home is in Spokane, Was! That was (he first indian 1 ever saw Toanacat torn ntania Broadway at Ninth, New York “THE DOWN-STAIRS STORE Skunk Scarfs that were $30 to $50 in stock Now $20 A close-out. Round or flat. Down-Stairs Store, Old Building Does she graduate this month? ..And the dainty white frock then becomes a necessity, for mother’s sweetheart must look her best on that important occasion, There are simple little net frocks here, ruffled to per- Perhaps. fection, at $6.95 to $7.95. White voile, lawn and organdy frocks, $5.95 to $8.50. And some very delectable white Georgettes over Jap. silk or net, with wee ruffles in profusion, and flowing rib- bon sashes, at $13.50 to $17.50. Sizes are 10 to 16, _Down: Stairs Store, Old Building Fresh, new Ginchan Morning Frocks, $5 Just a minute, please—these are NOT the ordinary type of house frock. They are made in models similar to | the regular street frocks, correctly fashioned, prettily trim- med, and attractive from every angle. | In fact, it is not a bit too early to buy frocks like these | for spring use, even if you do not want them for immediate wear; but many women, we are thinking, will welcome the | chance to get frocks like these for morning and home use. | Plain colors; checks, plaids; some with organdy bands | and organdy sashes; others with white braid and white trimming. Sizes are 16 and 18 for (iisses; 36 to 44 for women. Rotunda, Down-Stairs Store, Old Building Yes; Misses’ good Frocks are $7.50 Perhaps you have wondered if good dresses were really possible at $7.50. They are. Here, for example, are wool serges and wool silvertone; embroidered models, mostly with colorful tricolette sashes. Six months ago you could not have found frocks like these at $7.50; but now—things are different. Sizes 14 to 20, Down-Stairs Store, Old Building Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co. Important Sale of Pianos A quick let-go of | Boys’ Clothing Originally held for out-of-town customers reduced because lines are broken, ; now $6.75 Suits now $4.50 Mixed cheviots; H $9 to $13.50 Suits now $7.50 Norfolk suits—broken lots and blue serge; sizes 7 to 17 as a whole. $2. Trousers, $1.85 An extra pair of knickers is around, Blue se » mixed sizes & to 8 years; broken lots of corduroy, mixed cheviot a handy garment to have cheviot or corduroy; 7 to 17, New Building Silk Packets begin at 50c a yard The table is heaped with them —and so many different kinds that a bricf doscription wouldn't begin to tell the story. Plain silks and faney silks; and the weaves that are now wanted, One-third and more below regular Down-Stairs Store, Down Stairs Store, New Building ¥ Ths urowiNG@ WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2%, 1vdl. f I JOHN WANAMAKER Tetephone Stuyvesant 4700 Looking critically over the Blane opens February 1-—we samples of tone and cas will move out quickly. found many instruments whieh design. struments which had been put into saleable condition. prices, and will put them on sale And, Monday. and Player-Pianos Store houra 9 to 5 3 --lMonday 53 new pianos and player-pianos reduced in price showing savings of $78 to 3.350 each. 66 used pianos and player-pianos taken in part ex change, and offered at $75 up for up- right prands, ‘and & up for_player- pianos. with an eye to our new fiscal year, Which ad done quite a little duty as in the workrooms, a number of surrendered in- All these we marked at very low Music lovers will be glad to have them. Thay, Think of being able to buy — Monday (used upright pianos) —an upright piano for 875 —a —an (used player-pianos) r-piano for $395 —an Aeolian player-piano for § no for § —a Mason & Hamlin Welte for 8950 —an Aeolian Orchestrelle for There are eight used upright pianos at $ twelve at $245 to $295 There are —a Walters play —a Steck player- seven at $225. lent condition) . . ninger upright for $195 Emerson upright for $22 —a Chickering upright for $2 —a Hardman upright for $475 —$5 —a §$ —$1,32 bl 15. $1,000 4 to six at $3 three us D DCs —$515 Lindeman & Sons for $410. _. , t (new player-pianos) —S8785 Lindeman player-piano for $395 —an $850 Autopiano for $650 —an $800 Pianista for $700 —an $875 Lindeman-Angelus for $745 —an $825 Hamilton for $750 f —an $865 Shoninger player for $750 Ellington for $790 5 Autopiano-Welte for $1,175 seven at $175—eleven at $195— 5 to $595 (the latter a KNABE, in exeel- ad player-pianos at $é (new uprights) Campbell upright for $410 —nine at $475 to $775—a Link Automatic Pian# (suitable for clubrooms or moving pictures) at $850..,.66 used pianos and player-pianos to choose from.... Reproducing pianos to choose from. Convenient Terms Monday—Piano Salons, First Gallery, New Building Mink Scarfs $9. 75 $15 For one-skin » ‘ $19.50 $30 For two-skin Early season prices were $29.50 to $75 are good qual ; ior. ‘The scarf are in medium and large sizes, See flo Old Bldg. 33-inch All-Silk Pongee, 85c yard There will be 8,000 yards of this very desirable im- ported silk, in the Silk Ro- tunda, Monday at Be y ard. Last week it sold at $ We do not think it can go any lower low, again. It is in the natural shade, so greatly in favor for sum- mer frocks, skirts. blouses and Main Floor, Old Building perhaps not so | 53 new reduced pianos, player-pianos. and Some very interesting special offers for ~ LARGE women MONDAY Lingerie |, Corset covers, enve- | lope chemises, drawers, at 95¢. | Originally they were $1.45 and $1.05; of nainsook, trimmed awe laces or embroidered e Windsor crepe orof pink Batt te, | Chemises have bodice or round top At $1.95—were $2.65 corset covers, Nainsook Combinations, ir levy, lace uvers, nighty trimmed witih ¢ and wee At were $3.65 Nainsook nighi gowns in eral styles, with hand titehed square neckline neeklines trimmed with hort or long s Sizes 46 to Petticoats Satin, $7.45 were $8. Taffeta, $5.45 were $6. Generously cut, but close fit vt laces; tinge and stra Tn all ii and tong Third floor, Old Building IS inche LR. Corsets, $7.50 Corset® of white coutil, bound with satin and lace; it on long straight lines; the bust is low; there are large gores of elastic over the thighs, Sizes up to 86 inches. Brassieres, $2. to $3 ‘a long, of tae or cam- sizes up to 52. Housedresses. Two models at $3.85 One of a two-tone striped per cale with pique collar and euffs; one of blue chambray with @ simple V neckline. Four models at $6.75 A Billie Burke modet of cross bar gingham with embroidered pique collar and pottes three models of figured. voile with crisp collars of apeele ox net, in surplice or shawl fashions. Green, gray, navy or Copen- hagen blue, black of gray. Sizes 46 to 62. All crisp and fresh with lar; and comfortable armhole for the three-quarter sleeve, so im- portant to the large. woman working about the house. Third floor, Old Building br The February Furniture Sale is the dominating furniture event of the day, greater in its relative savings than any other of our great furniture sales which preceded it. For more than thirty years we have been holding this seasonal sale, giving to the public euch year the best furniture values to be found in the market. The BEST alw Sale, and demonstrat Stores, which appealed very This year we have market is firm. There | stocks to sell at regular little—af price) the strongly to furniture beyond all previou any—surplu Indeed, at the Tr We ture is below today’s cost of production People who require furniture should know this there such a large and varied stoek of than $800,000 of furniture for the They should know, also, good furniture, every bedroom, dining-r ul half price pices vm and | are \bout S15 that nowhere ¢ it a reduced Pye More ing room is ate 000 ib ten p ent tys cume to us, because we originated the Februar broad distributing power records in manufacturer Furniture of the Wanamaker value-giving. The furniture could not duplicate ouP, present ‘bruary Sale prices, some of the furni- >to 35 per cent. Many pieces Ii is time to invest in furniture Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Galleries, New Building eee