The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1921, Page 1

iI a The Circulation Books {Circulation Books Open to All.” | to All. oo 4 LXI. NO. 21, 646—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1941, { “Circulation Books nation Books Open to Alt?’ | Fost Office, Entered as Second-Class Matter to All.”” New York, N.Y. — ALBANY LEGISLATORS DENY POWER ~ TOLOCKWOOD FOR A FULL -* INVESTIGATION OF BANKS aeiealgeasis Resolution Limits Inquiry to Loans Made on Mortgages of Buildings. HE IS DISAPPOINTED. Senator Says Work Is Crip- pled, but Will Be Continued: (Special From a Stet Correspond- ent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. %.—The Lockwood Housing Committee was to-day de- nied the full power asked for in its investigation of the buikiing and housing situation in Greater New York, by the Joint Committee of Finance and Ways and Mécns. \ "The power to go extensively into the affairs of banks and insurance com- panies requested by Samuel Unter- myer was abridged to permiasion to go into the investments so far as they affect loans on mortgages on real estate, Included in such investiga- tions are the title and mortgage com- panies. The committee was given power to investigate these investments to de- ‘ermine “whether bonuses were de- manded and given for the loans, and \f there were any other irregularities |, jn the transactions. It cannot, in- quire into other investments by fin- anctal imstitutions,, no matter whether the inetitution has loaned or not its full allotment on real estate mortgages, The clause giving the Committee access to the boc data of the Superintendent of Banks and of Insurance, to aid them in their investigation, was also stricken otlt Mr. Untermyer will not be per- mitted to question the companies with regard to salaries of officers nor xo into any other of their affairs out- side of their building and loan in- vestments, The Lockwood Committee ts em- powered to compel the attendance of witnesses and to grant immunity to witnesses in its discretion. It also has the priv@lege of amending or re- pealing any or all of the rent laws passed in the extraordinary session of last September and in that of last winter, Senator Lockwood declared that the investigation has been badly crippled by the resolution as re- ported. “The resolution,” ‘he said, “gives us feas power than we had under the resotution, and were it not for the clause continuims the old reso- jution the housing investigation woukl be at a standstill, We are badly crippled, but we are going to continue the fight. The only” addi- tional power given us is the manity clause. = Lockwood s and im- Classified Advertisers Important! On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Classified sor ieee for Weok DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication the following day, EARLY COPY Seem Serena Seem THE WORLD, WAY IS GREASED TO GIVE FAT JOBS’ TO THE G. O. P. BOYS Harding Ready to Begin Distri- bution the Day He Takes Office. ROCKLEDGE, Fia., Jan, %. VERY important office to be E vaeated by the outgoing ad- ministration will be filled promptly after March 4, accord- ing to the present plans of Presi- dent-Elect Harding. His intention is to make ap- pointments on March 4 for diplo- matic posts, the Interstate Com- merce Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the \ assistant Cabinet secretaryships and other places so that the Senate can confirm them qt once. The Senate, it is expected, will be kept in session continuously from March 4, when it meets to confirm Cabinet appointments, until the extraordinary session begins. | ‘The houseboat Victoria, which tied up here over night, resumed her cruise to-day, Mr. Harding expects to reach Vero, sixty miles “away, this afternoon in time for a game of golf '4 BANDITS HOLD OFF 6, GET $30,000 GEMS leto (Robbers Treat Girl Courte- ously and Spend 'Half Hour Looting Jewelry Store. TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. %.—Four ban- dits entered the Daniels Jewe y Store here to=day, bound the proprietor and customers hand and foot an, escaped in an automobile with jewelry valued at more than $20,000, ‘The two proprietors were felled and bound by the bandits, Two customers, one a girl, Miss Adel Laramie, teen, upon entering the store were also bound and placed in a rear room Two architects engaged in determin- ing repairs to the entered a seve store, few moments later and were simi- larly treated. One of these, Sidney Afttel, escaped in a melee with one of the ‘bandits, but the hold- had fled before he could sum Miss Laramie when confronted by om of the bandits, was furnished with @ chair, She said “they were very kind to me during the*half hour they were in the store.” WAGE CUT OF 19 P. C. IN N. J. WOOL MILLS Reduction in Seven Plants Totals $2,500,000 a Year—Bonus and Overtime Hil. An average reduction of about seven and one-half per cent. in the wages of 13,000 employes in seven of the larg- est wool and worsted mills in New Jer= sey Is announced by the manufacturers In addition the “high cost of living’ bonus of $3 a week has been eliminated and overtime cut 50 per cent, making the actual reductions in the workers’ salaries about 19 per cent,, totalling $2,500,000 a year ‘The companies that aniiounced ihe re- duction were the Botany Worsted Works, which were taken over during the war by A. Mitchell Palmer, then Enemy Allen Property Custodian; Foratmayn & Huffmann Company, Gera Mills, New Jersey Worsted and Spin- ning Company, the Passale Worsted {and Spinning Company and the | field Worsted and Spinning Mills | Forstmann & Huffmaan Company two plants, ohe in Clifton and in Garficld. Al! of the Phase Officers of the workera’ union could not say what thelr anawer would be to the announcement of the companies. _ Seek Repei Jersey Boxing Law. TRENTON, N. J, Jan, 25-—Frank B Champion of Kesex County introdion & bill in the House to-day for the re- peal of the boxing law, Gar- The has e other plants are near O00 IMMIGRANTS ELD IN PIER SHED APPEAL FOR HELP Women and Children Kept on , ‘Cunard Dock Since Friday by Congestion. | FED BY MARKET MEN. Officials Seek to Relieve Aliens, Who Sleep on Mats in Chilly Quarters. e Five hundred immigrants, Including women and children, held since Fri- day afternoon in the ohilly pier of the Street, they dropped letters of appeal from the windows to the market men be- low, who raised a fund of $100 and ought food fer by ropes. ‘The immigrants arrived Friday on the Saxonia and could not be comodated at Ellis Island bec: the crowded ‘condition there. Nor could they be kept on board the ship, because it the following day and did so. From the Cunard line offices statement was obtained which dic not cntirely bear out some of the re- ports of distress believed by the market men, It was admitted the immigrants were obliged to sleep on the asphalt floor, but it was sald they were adequately provided with mats, mattresses and coverings. It was. also stated hot coffee and good food was served them regularly by the Immigration officials. The fopd sent market men was them, ac- up on ropes by the chiefly fruit The pier is enclosed and has steam heat, but 90 little of it, the immi- grants complained, overcoats were necessary in weather like this “Immigration inspectors were hard at work to-day trying to clear up the situation before night s0 another restless night on the chilly floor would not be necessary. Many relatives of the immigrants Gathered about the pier and some brought food delicacies which were hauled up iby. ropes. ‘The ‘pier is partitioned, so the wom- and chikiren are kept separate from the men, During the war mili- tary guards ocoupied the pier and slept there ‘The market men’s food fund, about $190, was collected by Max Rothberg. —s— TRIES TO KILL HER ASSAILANT IN COURT en Revolver Fails to Go Off as Negro Is Arraigned—Detectives Rescue Prisoner. PITTSBURGH, -Mrs. Lill- ian Bangham pressed the muzzle of s pistol to the side of William Wilson, Jan. 26 J with assaulting her, at 4 court hearing in Forest Hilis Borough, near here, to-day, Sh pulled the trigger but the cartridge did’ not explode. Forty or fifty women, assembled in the court room, cried “Kil bim!" and “We'll stand by you.” Five detectives quickly surrounded the prisoner and after much difficulty @ negro, charg succeeded in getting him to the county jail here. Wilson was ar raigned on a charge of felonious as sault upon Mrs. Bangham in her home at Forest Hifla on Dec. 11. He also was charged with having knowl- of a number mitted at Forest Hills ~_ ri edge of robberies com- Min o Mint Memorial | Dei | WASHINGTON to-day passed a bh (Missouri) fifty memorate the rersary of the [into the Union. Jan The by Senator minting pl to hundredth annir admission of Mis Sen 0 thi ate Spence for of 250,000 cent com marl BRINDELL’S SAFES Cunard Line at the foot of West Mth | were in such distress to-day | sending it in| vse of Get Services of a “Jimmy \ | was scheduled to sail on) * | combination '/ from a truck at the White Street Halt) $30,000,000,000 BOND ISSUE BILL TOFUND U.S. DEBT | curities to Replace Those Out- standing or for Long Time and Draw 4 Per Cent. WASHINGTON, Jan UNDING of the entire Na- tional debt into long-term , bonds is proposed in a bill introduced to-day by Represen- | tative Petterson, Republican, New Jersey. It would authorize a bond issue of not more than $30,000,- 000,000, the bonds to replace those outs nding. = | The bill would limi rate on the the interest bonds to 5 per cent., but terms and Ponditions of the proposed issue would be left to the disaretion of the retary of the ‘Treasury SEIZED IN HUNT TO GET PAPERS Mr. Untermyer Says He Will Valentine” to Open Them. Two tal! steel filing cabinets, with locks were unloaded door of the Criminal Courts Building shortly hefore noon 2 o'clock this after- ‘Nhey were set up on the first floor guarded by a number of agents from the Attorney General's office. The safes had been taken by order of Justice McAvoy from the office of Robert P. tortion, Brindeit, on trial for oy Laser in whe day Samuel Untermyer said he would obtain the se: a Jimmy rvices of Valentine-like person who would open them “by ear.” The bringing of the into the strong boxes custody of the court was made necessary because Roswell D, Tompkins, Secretary of the Building ‘Trades Council and the only person except Brindell who knows the com- Wination, is outside the reach of the court, Whether not the missing records of the Building ‘Trades Coun, cil ure in the safes will not be known unt] Mr, Untermyer and his .suuff get at their contents. Brindel| can- not be foreed to open ithe sufes lest he thus Obtain immunity on the ground lhe has been compelled to tes- Ufy against himself, When the safe movers looked over the and inquired about unchoring tackle to the roof of the yuilding the safes out, of the building trades members who | was watching the proceedings, said: “You are fine union safe movers, | We have men here that wil hoist them on their back and go down- stairs emoking a pipe. Those safes | ore empty. Give ‘em a shake and | BRINDELL THREATS steel ‘boxes: to holst one | DROVE OUT UNION | MEN ON BIG JOB His “Wild Men” Instafled in fort to Make His Council Supreme. | Rober€ ©. Whiting. Jabor affairs for the ler Construction Co, was the first witness of the day at the continua- tion of the trial of Robert P. Hrindell | for extortion He described manner in which William sub-contractor hou of | A, Ful- | supervise George the Waixe!, | wrecking, members of Zaranko * House Union at work on the Mun Wal and April May Walxel hud I's organt- for was forced to discharg the Poilsh wreckers' Building Beaver Streets, 1920. Instead to take men from son ut Peart in and them Brint (Continued on Page Two.) : | Grand | AFTER WHITMAN TRACES + POLIGE GRAFT Ti TWO INSPECTORS Jury ily Cas Evidence Which May Bring the Indict- ment of Retired Captain. THREE OTHERS Witnesses Well Known Manu- facturers of Ladies’ Garments —Insurance Men Testify. Whitman took three wit- this Former Governor as Special Prosecutor nesses before the Grand Jury afternoon to present evidence which was expected to lead to the indiet- mont of a recently retired police cap- tain on charges of accepting unlaw- to ful fees The information Mr. Whitman acted was obtained for him by Al Thomas, chief in- vestigator for the former Governor y into municipal affairs. known manufacturers of ladies’ gurments. It that they would tell the of paying money to a agency during a strike of employees three years ago From the detective agency, it is re- ported, the money went to the police official whose indiftment is expected. on which Detective in his inqui ‘The witnesses were all well was mid Grand Jur certain detective Pfforts are also being made by Whitman ‘to connect three other police captains and two inspectors with automobile and strike graft, Bvidence along this lne was pre- ented to the Grand Jury. Mr, Whit- man also called adjusters of insur- ance offices and presented their evi- dence to the Grand Jury, Information has reached Mr. Whit- man that thousands of dollars have been paid as rewards to policemen for bringing about the return of stolen automobiles, and that other large sums were distributed by the Gar- ment Mannfacturers' Association for police protaction during the strike in that industry, "The insurance adjusters were accom- panied to the Criminal Courts Build- ing by Attorney Royal H. Weller, No, 31 Nassau Street, The adjusters took with them check and account books. In one instance a check made payable to the Police Commissioner of New York was found to have been in- dorsed by 4 patrolman. Under the law, rewards to members of the Police Department are sup posed to be divided 60 per cent. to the winner, 10 per cent. to the pension fund and 40 cent. to the relief fund, In many Mr, Whitman per cases, | has been told, the entire proceeds were the being obtained checks, by without rons cashing any division | made ay provided. ENVOY’S DAUGHTER TO WED. Mins Elizabeth Willard Reported Engaged to Secretary of Embansy MADRID, Ja Edizabeth Willard, daughter of Joseph Willard, United States Ambassador to Spain, ia be-~ trothed to Mervyn Herbert the British Embassy in this nounced by La Epoca, U.S. AND JAPAN AGREE TO SETTLE CALIFORNIA CASE retary of ity, it be Washington Announces That Ne- gotiations Have Been Suc- cessfully Concluded WASHINGTON, Jun. 25 Ameriatesl Brow HGOTIATIONS between Ambassadors Morris and Shidehara for the settie ment of the California question and phe definition of the rights of Japanese United States have been successfully concluded, ~ f COAL PROFITEERS MULCTED PEOPLE OF $1,500,000,000 Senator Calder a Witness Before Committee Hearing on Bill for Regulation. WASHINGTON, Jan, 26. HE opinion that the Ameri- can people were “mulcted” of a billion and a half dol- lors Jast year “by the men in the coal trade” was expressed to-day by Senator Calder, Republican, New York, who was @ witness before the Senate Committee considering his bill for Mederal regulation of the_ Seed es Joa) BRIRECEIVERSHP. IS DENOUNCED IN ALBANY AS ‘JOKE? Inquiry Demanded as to Need of Paying $131,000 to Find Lines Do Not Pay. * (Bpecial Dewpatch from x Staft Currmponient of ‘Tue Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 25,—Senator Alvin W urtingame of Brooklyn arove in the Senate this morning to a question of privilege and expressed his opinion very forcibly of the handling of the re- celvership of the B. R. T. by Receiver Garrison, the selection of a Special Federal Judge to handle the affairs of the B. R. T., who has no juris- diction in Brooklyn, and also of a receiver who, he said, has since taken up his residence in Manhattan, who never did live in Brooklyn, and knows Mttle or nothing about that part of Greater New York, He said that for twelve months of receivership Mr. Garrison, a former Federal office holder, had received $125,000. Stone and Webster, the ex pert accountants, he said, received $131,000 in practically the same period for telling Receiver Garrison that the roads were losing money under hin receivership. “When Receiver Garrison was asked opinion by reporters of the pro- posed Investigation of the Brooklyn detegntion,” the Senator continued, “he said that jt was a joki The whole thing ix evidently a joke with Mr. Garrison. When the B. R. T. sought a friendly receiver, they did net go to cither of the two Federal Judges in Brooklyn, but to Judge Mayer in Manhattan. Their pretext was that there were creditors in Man- hattan, and so there were. ‘They were creditors whose -claims totalled yometbing like $46,000, and to guard this amount of money and to it, If possible, they have given receiver $125,000, and the expert countants $131,000. “And these sums, it is explicitly stated, are only on aacount. How muoh more the receiver and his ex- pert saocountants are to receive ls problematical, Mr. Burlingame concluded sisting upon the immediate conald- eration of the Simpson resolution demanding an investigation the affairs of the B, R. T. SEPARATE CARS, . PLAN FOR WOMEN IN RUSH HOURS ot the fee by in- of Two Bills to Provide for Them Introduced in the Legislature. ALBANY, Jan. 2. BPARATE trolley cara for S women in New York City during “rush hours" is the aim of bills introduced in the Legislature te ay by Assombly man John O, Gempler, Ropublican, of Kings, who represents Mayor | Hylan's diwtret, and Senator ¢ ree M. RR hinann, also a | Brooklyn Republican Th billa are jnten 1 10 em. | power the Public service Commis | gion to determine what are “rush ‘hours ' LIMITS LOCKWOOD BANK guy COMBINE ALL TRANSIT LINES UNDER CITY MILLER SAYS 1S HIS PLAN ‘Tells Albany Correspondents ‘His Message Was Misunderstood and Even Hints at Lower Fares When All the Systems Are Under One Management. By Joseph (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 25.—Gov. Miller tive correspondents on his message, put to him, He said that ‘while he believed ip municipal ownership, he did not 26 lieve in municipal operation, “Municipal operation and munici, ferent things. vice or proper economies of service. solely as a business is conducted.” ‘The Governor said he was not prophesying when asked if he did not belleve fares would ultimately be lower than five cents, SOWith regard to the suggestion that INKWELLS CHARGED TO SHIP ACCOUNTS Witness Declares 300 Spent for Booths at a Fair Was “Overhead” Expense. A. Van Oss, an accountant of Prio Waterhouse & Co. was # witness th aft before the Walsh Con- gressional Committes rewarding an audit he made at the Fore River Ship- buikiing Company on behalf of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. He waid that he waa sent to the plant to check up on an audit made by Perley Morse & Co. public accountants, for the Luckenbich Steamship Company, Fifty-three charges were made by Perley Morse & Co, following the original audit, the witness sald. id you find any af the changes cor- rect?" the witness was asked gA tow,” he replied, No xaid he found that silver inkwells and office furniture und fixtures, be- sides $800 for booths at fairs, had been charged to overhead and shipbuilding accounts. NEW MOVE I IN SENATE! FOR CUT IN NAVY Resolution Adopted Directing Re- port on Suspension of Building for Six Months. WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.—A resolution directing the Senate Naval Affairs Com- mittee to report whether it is possible for the United States to suspend its naval building programme for six months was adopted to-day by the Senate. ‘The oon resolution introduced by | Senator Borah, who announced that If the Naval Committee «id not have the Information upon which to base a con- clusion he would offer another reso- lution for a complete mvestigation of the subject. This Investigation would ‘bring to Jlght facts concerning the plans of other Sickest Rit i NP, REPORT THE KAISER LOSING HIS MIND Saki That He Is Unable to Write and Cannot Remember Faces. The Berne corre- spondent of L'Intranaigeant declared it was believed there that the Kaiser is losing his mind, It is veported to be unable to that Me cannot remember and faces that grave fears PARIS, Jan. to-day former is mid he write now his for names and en his me has toura sanity Herne is a gathering place for for- mer royalty which is belleved to be conversant with affairs in the Kal- wer’s retreat. is wee Municipal operation would be absolutely fatal to good ser- OWNERSHIP S. Jordan. talked this morning with the legisia- and answered questions as they were pal ownership,” he said, “are two dif- ‘We have got to have roads operated he ‘s proposing that the State usurp the powers of the city, ho sald: “That ia due to the congwsion of mind of those who are in the habit of viewing this from one angle. The cities never had power over public utilities except that which was dele- gated by the State. Until 1907, when the Public Service Commissions Law was enacted, there was no regulation of public utilities by the State except the constitutional provision which gave the municipalities the right to consent to the Iaying of tracks, and having that power they had the power of refusal and could refuse consent, necessarily the power to im- pose conditions, SAYS HE IS GETTING BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES, or ¢, prior to 1907 there was the old Railroad Commission Law which did not seek to regulate in | the same wense ax the Public Service Commission Law of 1907, but as a matter of fact the State never del gated to the cities complete power | over public utilities, My recommen- jdations return the question to that which existed at the time the city ; Made its initial payment of $65,000,- 00 toward the subways, “It would be difficult to evolve a unified system if half of it were owned by pX te Interests and the other half by\ he public. ‘The city has alreddy addpted a plan of muni- cipal ownership and private opera. tion. It already owns the backbone of what would be the unified system." “Some legislators say they will vote for your plan, providing no higher fare than five cents be allowed," the Governor was told. “That reflects a state of mind bordering on insanity,” replied the Governor, “In my judgment it is not a fare question. The fare question is only incidental; the real question is one of publio service and the solution of the traction problem transcends the fare question, If the people would view the problem in this light they would find they would soon be paying less than five cent: In the view of many members the | Governor's message is really the opens ing of the elght-cent fare fight, With the Jenks fare grab bills of last’ year, reintroduged to-day or to-morrow, both sides will rally to the fray, CITY MEMBERS MAY HANDS IN FIGHT. + ‘The Democrats wil! oppose not only the Jenks bills to increase fares, but also the Governor's proposal to take | control of local traction matters omg of the hands of the city authorities, Most of the city Republican members are expected to join them. Of the Governor's message, James JOIN A CC LLL aE Ee, Re OE wtb