The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1921, Page 2

. oe —_ Tae ; : ( t : \ } " ‘fe leader of the “TY ig noun ng mots Wor leas than the foreru un f-cent fare if the editortof the Sub way Sun dint write the message, he ed a whole lot.” Assémblyman George N. Jesse, Republican, of the 1 284 Menhattan District, sai s, adroit argument for an increase earfare.” The Jonks bills seck to take the power of fare fixing of its car s Vice out of the handa of the city and vest it in the keeping of the Public Service Commission, Gov. Miller in his message recommends tho “Complete power should expressly be vested in the commission regard- Jeaa of local consents or contracts.” He recommends “that a Commi sion of Three be created with com- plete jurisdiction over the subject of transit in the First District (Greater New York); that the powers under the Public Service Commissions Law and the Rapid Transit Act be trans- ferred to it, with such amendment as farther study may suggest, and that the former independence of municipal control be restored, regardiess of the provisions of local consents or prior contracts,” PUBLIC TRANSIT SHOULD BE UNDER A SINGLE AGENCY. Further, that the Public Service Commissions Law be amended so to make the rules uniform as to all public utilities, “including the power to suspend rates pending a bearing and determination.” ‘The Ggvernor believes, “in view of the time required for some rate deter- minations, there should doubtless be power to prescribe temporary rates pending such determination.” * He recommends, also, that jurisdie- tion over all other public utilities in the State be conferred on the present Commission for the Second District. Five commissioners may be necessary for the work. He advocates a single fare plan and @ unified system of tho city’s transit lines. The conclusion is irrenistible, saye the Governor, that the authority and Fesponsibility to deal with the transit Problém must be completely centred in some single agency, and that that cannot be the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which, under the present law, guards the city's inter- ést in its railroads Without implying @ny personal reflection, the Chief Ex- ecutive says that “it is common knowledge that that body Is unable now properly to function and dispose ef the matters coming before it.” ‘To the city ts rescrved the power ta give the constitutional consent to Toutes and, O{-vourse, wo pledge the credit of the city, ‘This would also eliminate the Tran- git Construction Commission, the Governor believing that the threr- headed authoriiy--the Transit Com- missiouer and the Board of Estimate) and Public Service Commission—has resulted in increased expense and division and uncertainty of authority, Transppriation, says the Governor, isa public function, intimately affect- ing the public welfare, and the regu- lation of it ts within the pol.ce power of the State. “The coloswal nature of the problem and the general interest affected by it” be adds, “are indicated by the fact that there are upward of $850,- 000,000 of New York City Traction ( bonds held by the public, including jy the $20,000,000 of city bonds, “Phe present problem has a back- ground of crooked financing, which Now subjects it to popular distruat and prejudice, easily aroused by the Wiles of tue demagogue, The time has come to protect it from tug sinis- ter designs of seliish financiers and politicians, ‘The market value of out- Blanding securities is undoubledly much below the intrinsic values of the properties represented. ‘The water has already been squeezed out of the securities and the companies are not carning txed charges.” The Public Service Commission, the Governor mys, after telling of the Various changes‘ in the law, including the investment of power in the Hoard of Estimate in 1905, and the Court of Appeals decision denying complete regulatory powers over (he surface Jines where local consents bad im- posed conditions as to rates of fare, has jurisdiction over goine lines 0! diferent sections of the same lines, and a divided authority with the Board of Wstimate over otber lines or sections of the same lines, There greater need than ever for | new construction wed extension, the Bervicw being so crippled that every hour is a rush hour. ‘The construc Yon, the Governor ways, will cost $50,000,000 and the equipment $200,- 000,000, “Private capital will not be risked in the enterprise,” he goes on, “aud the city’s borrowmg capacity is lim- ited by the §$200,000,0uy of subway } bonds now maintained out of the tax levy, while another $09,000,000 will be required to complete projected work for which the city 1s obligated.” “According to the report of the Pub- Ve Cominissioncr,” again quoting from the message, “the rovenucs of all operating companios within the for the flacal year ending Greater © June 40, 1 short of paying op- erating expenses, interests, rents and argos by $10,785,399, as against a deficit the prior year of $8.- | ether fixed | B68,d08,”” Attention is called to the roads in the hands of receivers, lines aban- doned ans service suspended, and two, three aud four fares required ware one sulliced before. “The ultimate solution of the proh Jem,” the message soys, ‘must be maxiioum service with minimum cost for the benefit of the users of the pub- Me Wansportation facilities, the mu- jority of whom have no other meuns t Of transportation, * * * Necessar- | ily, the subways will form the back- bone of the system. The elevated, wur- face jines and buses will eventually \, be merely auxiliary. “The toregoing and other consider: tions all point to one completely uni- ) fled sysiom, and if that premise be it necewsarily lnads to the ) /@enctumon that ultimately such a sys- \ granted must be municipally owned, That War settled when the city denided na ‘mo Baar t , the message is an} ‘MLLER MESSAGE SCORED AS PLAN FOR FARE BOOST Suggestion of Ultimate City Ownership Brings Query, “Why Not Now?” (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jal —"This message,” said Minority Leader James J. Waik- erin the Senate last night, after the reading of the Governor's message on the transit situation in New York, “is nothing more nor less than the fore- runner of an & cent fare, It may be new stuil to those of you who are here for the first time, but it Is old, very old, to the rewt of us. It has all been before us in the old days, “I bave read It in the Subway Sun, yes, much of the same language, par- Ucularly the figures, the sum of $50,- 000,000 and of 1,000,000 inore for equipment. Gov, Miller would do away with the Board of Estimate, the Dower which prevents the rajlroadys from increasing the 6 cent fare. If thg editor of the Subway Sun didn't write the message, he beipod a whole lot. “In his first message the Governor advocated @ single headed tax do- partment, which has a very good sound and looks good to the taxpay- ers, But he reverses himself in this instance and wants to make a single headed commission a three header. And 1 want to say that there has been more subway construction work done under Transit Commissioner Delaney than at any tme in the history of the subway, “And I observe that the Governor wants to make the terms of the Com- missioners fifteen years, He knows ! (THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1921.7 TIARSH PENALTIES GN SOLDIERS FOR PETTY OFFENSES | Sixteen Thousand: Cases Under Investigation —Relief Is | Granted to 4,000 Men. (Special Co spondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, % (Copy- right, 1921)—Members of Congress who have lately visited the War Department in behalf of soldier con- stituents who have been disciplined for trivial offensos have gone back to Capitol Hill incensed and indignant over what they term “hard-boiled” treatment by the offigers of the Reg- ular Army. Out of 16,000 cages it develops that the efforts of a reform element inside the Regular Army have resulted in the restitution of more than 4,000 to the status of honorable discharge, Just how many more of the remain- ing 12,000 are deserving of leniency is hard to conjecture. The stigma of dishonorable dis- charge must be carried through life by one man who fought in France and whose offense on his return to the United States consists of taking & palr of shoes from a comrade. The soldier wanted to go to a dance and asked the Sergeant of his company if he could borrow a pair of shoes, ‘The request wis granted. A week later when the same soldier wanted to go to a dance again, the Sergeant wasn't in the barracks gnd the private borrowed the shoes, When the Sergeant carhe home, he reported that his shoes were missing, When. the private came back from the | By David Lawrence. | that If the Legislature makes It pos- sible to make the appointments they will be the last he éver will make. “He saya that the present problem hes a background of crooked financ- ing which now subjects It to popular distrust and prejudice, easily aroused by the wiles of the demagogucs, Do you know the wily demagogue? ‘There are 4,000,000 of him, and you usually see him with his hand up above his head. He is the strap- hanger, You men from up State don't know what it is to hing to a etrap, but we do, we do. “Gov. Miller says that ultimately the traction lines must be owned by the city. Why not now? There is the solution to the problem. The Board of Estimate knows that the lines can be operated on a@ 5-cent fare basis and the city Is ready to take over the roads and operate them for a 5-cent fare and make money on them.” Senator Walker and Assemblyman Charles D, Donohue, minority leader in the Lower House, announced to- day that the Dompcrats in the Legis- lature have qecld@i to support vigor- ously the original proposal of the Lockwood committee, giving that body full powen: to exe » the affairs of banks and insurance com- panies, and that the Demovrats will oppose with equal vigor ail hi!ls look- ing to increased railroad fares. Tho stutement continue “Gov, Miller in his annual message recommended a single headed Tax Department in place of the present triple-headed Tax Commiasion, In the message transmitted to-night he rec- ommends a three-headed ‘Transit Commisrion in place of the present single-headed one. ‘This might tndi- tate that the Governor's reconstruc: tion. pre sme 8 as liberal as the school t r who Was prepared to teach that the earth l¢ round, or that the earth 1s flat, according to the wishes of the School Trustees, But the present Tax misaion is con- trolled by two Democratic Comimis- sioners; this gave the Governor (wu reasons for making that department single-headed, Also, the present ‘Tran- ait Construction Commission js con- trailed by one Democratic Commis- sioner; this gives him one reason for making it tripled-headed, “It is interesting to note that hia argument for (raction difficulties In New York City leada up to wvont municipal ownership. If eventually, why not now? Assemblyingan George N. Jesse snd of the measyge: “Based on fala promises it is an adroit argument for an incre carfare " that it cannot undertake new con- struction, yet if the subway bonds were maintained out of operation, as they should be, the city's borrowing power would ‘at once bo jnereased '$200,000,000."" ADVISES REVISION OF CITY'S SUBWAY CONTRACTS, Subway contracts Nos, 3 and 4, the Governor says, inust be revised in the public interest if the transit problem is to be solved, He has mot studic them suilicicntly ty say precisely Waa revisions ded. Experience tas demonstrated that the provisions tor preferential payments are unfair w the city. ‘The eity Is nof providing the interest and sinking tund for, roughly, $200,00U,000 of subway’ bonds out of the tax levy, yet ite budget re quirements are so great that it has to curtail thespolice tyree, and (his year the Mourd of Hatimate and Appor- onment even cut out of the budger 000,000 conceded to be necessary tor the schools, ‘Th people the message reads, “do not that in addition to their fares » paying to muintain $200,000, 000 ‘of subway bonds, and it dovs not matter whether they are taxpayers or rent payers, The transit problem, the Governor declares, is not a jocal, but a Sta problem--State-wide in buportance and can only be solved by the exer- cise of the police power which resides in the State Legislature. Continulia, be say: “I belleve in the greatost exercis: home rule compatible with good « ernment, but the publi: Qreat wy always be kept paramount, and w! State power can be effectively oxe: clsed ony by the State, it ought nut be delegated to muntcipalitios,’ of 1 sd 7 Te who ride in the sup- dance, he was locked up and charged with theft, His record was good. He was given six months in the barracks as a punishment, Instances of this kind can be found in the records, and while a number of Army officers with kind hearts are distressed over the pitiful pleadings of friends and relatives for justice, they can't say a word to anybody but their evperior officers, The Adjutant General's office does its duty as it sees it,and if a man’s paper shows that he was convicted of thievery it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference whether a soldier stole a pack of playing cards or a euit of underwear or embezgied funds, The dishonorable discharge has been given fust the same. Essentially the Judge Advocate General's office js the place where matters of law and evidence gnd justice are concentrated. A clemency ‘board in the Judge Advocate Gen- eral's office constantly reviews cases and recommends changes. The Adju- tant General's office is a huge clerl- cal organization where no attompt ls mde to inquire into questtons of pen- ology. There are thousands of cases veterans who have been vainly en- deavoring for years to rid themselves of the stamp of dishonorable dis- charge, ®ut witheut avail And it is said that most of the offenses are just as trivial as the borrowing of blanket or pair of shoes without ny idea of thet. DELANEY OPPOSES GOVERNOR'S PLAN; GARRISON FOR IT Transit Construction Commissioner Insists on the City Retain- ing Control. Transit Construction Commissioner Delaney to-day: denounced the propo- als contained in Goy, Miller's mes- sage for the elimination of New York City’s control over its public utilities. “There should be no modification of fares without the consent of the people,” he said. “There is no luck of rapid transit facilities—only a lack of service. There ts no clash of au- thority. Only the outworn over- capitalized surface Mnes are drifting to disaster, They are paralleled by modern rapid transit lines and must pasy as the stage coach did. The. water has not been squeezed out of these properties, “Lhere will be no more subway construction for many years if the proposal to strangle the city’s au- thority js adopted. Such a policy has {alled before and it will fail again.” Lindicy M, Garrison, recotver of the n xystem, issued the following siatement “It seciis to me the only hope of & proper solution of the traction problem hes along the lines of the vernor's message. Unless, as he Eiesi8, a competent body ‘of men, vested with full authority and charged with fuN responsibility, takes this matter wp and gives it the study it requires and reaches a conclusion just to all concerned, I do not see how it can ever be properly settied “The only opposition to this sound and sensible method of treating this business problem (for that is what it is) will come from those who seek personal or partisan advantage in preventing a just and proper settle- ment." Mysterious Fire tn School. floor of the St hool, No. 193 8 tin the Keie, Been meeion goklyn, at) ALM. ta-day ny 0 ina It Stephen's Junior Auxiliary of St. Luke’s Social Service the Moving Spirits. “The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife,” the play by Anatole France, will be presented Jan. 26 and 26 in tho ballroom of the Hotel Plaza under the auspices of the Junior Auxiliary of St. Luke's Social Service, directed by Grace Henry. Miss Ruth Maniere ts Chairman of the Entertainment Committe and the proceeds are to go to the work of the social service of the organization, for French Play and Mediaeval Pageant ; By Society Girls for Social Service which also will be presented a French mediaeval pageant, in which many young society people will take part. The cast of the comedy includes Leonard Cox, V. Bverit Macy jr, Van Henry Cartmell jr, Cyril Butler, Rob- ertson L. Cleveland, Emerson MeMilin 4d, J. Berry Underhill jr. Mrs, Herbert Groesbeck jr, Miss Currie Duku Mathews and Miss Dorothy Post Clapp. Songs and dances of the twelfth century will be interpolated, and among those appearing in the “masques” will be the Misses Margarct Neick, Geraldine McAlpin, Betsy Fiags, Elsie and Dorothy Morrill, Exith McCoon, Florence Clendennin, Mary Strange, Syivia Seymour and Betty Merchant, Nant © STRANGE ©twessa ALBANY MOVES TO INQUIRE INTO FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEALINGS BY SMALL PRIVATE BANK oa Concurrent Resolution Introduced in Legisla- ture Following The Evening World’s Expose. » ALBANY, Jan. 25, N investigation of the forcign exchange and letters of credit activities of private banks in New York City is asked for in a concurrent resolution presented in the Assembly. by Axs- mblyman Dickstein of New York last night. He asked for an appro- priation of $2,500 for a joint committee of three Senators and four Assemblymen, It went to the Ways and Means Committee, This action follows the series of startling disclosures by The Evening World of methods followed by many small private banks here to mulet ignorant immigrants who in the aggregate send many mil lions of dollars annually to various countries in Europe. CRAIG STAYS AWAY FROM BUS CONFAB hanging over from the Civil War,|'Does ‘Not Go to Albany With Hylan and Others for ‘Con- ference With Governor. The breach between Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig waa widened to- day through the failure of the Comp- troller to accompany the Mayor and other members of the Estimate Board to Albany, where they are to ask Gov, Miller's support in legislation enabling the City of New York to purchase ant operate buses. Although the Comptroller Ls in favor of munictpally operated buses and haa been consistent in hia fight for this method of transportation, he refuses to co-operate with the Mayor because ho ployed. “1 ibelleve,” the Comptrotier sald, “that enacted, But the whole matter has been badly bungled tn presentation." ‘The foregoing Was one of the reasons siytn by the Comptroller for refusing company Mayor Hylan to Albany or to send Acting Comptroller Henry smith es his representative. Another yoagon ‘Was the pressure of business, the Comptrolier said. ‘Phere a likelihood of the Comp- trofer hianself sponsering a municipal bus bill. er SPENT $15,671.79 IN YEAR. th Files Lint im Mrs. Elisabeth 6: Husba Sait Mrs. Bilzabeth Smith of 14lst Street and Riverside Drive, who ta being sued for an accounting by her husband, Maj. Julian ©. Smith of No. 347 West 51th Street, took the witness stand to-day in the Supreme Court at Long Island City and submitted a list of her ex- penditures while her husband was In France. It showed her expenses were $16,671.79 from June 1, 1918, ot May 31, 1918, Bho said that in that period she received only $9,952.64 from her husband, from whom she had been separated about « year. ‘The Smiths were married in 1900, Mra. Smith la said to be wealthy in her own Pitad. Smith sald he assigned to his wife a banking account with deposit: of $2,248.05 @he withdrew $1,351.25 pre AE Body of Suici Identified. ‘The body of the man who commit ted suicide in the lobby of the apart- ment house at No. 141 W dO) Fire was discovered on the second [Street the evening of Jan. 20 way iden Parochtal | tified at the Morgue to-day as Mhat of Naphacl Gipelson, thirty-one, of No \b42 Minford Mace, the Bronx. He was solerk And unmarriod, They idenet Jone, HM won evened & Ae clrmerde PO etd was ii the rear af the building, An inves | who said he could give no tigation is ben made ‘eulckene jon for wade by his b: F Le does not approve of the methods em-| ph: apaired of ever fin FINDS SISTERS AFTER | 18 YEARS, LOSES ONE Joseph Rizzi Brings Them From Italy Only to Have Ellis Island Authorities Intervene. After @ alx months’ search in Italy! Joseph Rizzi, a tailor of 115th Street returned to New York to- day on the liner Duca degl Abruzzi with his twin sisters, Alella and Ada, from what he was separe thood clghteen years ago, only to be} separated from one of them again al- most within sight of home when the immigration inapeotors found Adella to ‘de suffering fram a disease of the eyes. | She was sent to Ellis Island and may be deported ed in chijd- Rizzi cue to New York in 1902 with father, Geraldo, who lives at No. | 623 Henry Street, Brooklyn. They left Mra. Rizzi and the twins ebind, M if legislation had been properly pre-) Rizzi died aud the twins disappeared. sented favorable laws would have been} Last July Ria# went to Italy to huat up the girls. He found Adela in a convent in Sin Severo, but did not lo» eate Ada unt a few days before he sailed from Naples, ufter he had de- ing her. 5 As soon as the Duca degli Abruzsi docked to-day Rizzi telephoned hts father he would soon be in Brooklyn with the twins, ‘Then cama the dis- covery of Adella’s affliction and the order sending her to Miis Istand, STOWAWAY, 8, HAD FINE TRIP TO U. S. Mother Put Little Girl on Board Liner in Italy With Note to Relative. Nina Lombardo, eight years old, ihe youngest stowaway to land at this port within the recollection of Iamigration officinis, explained she had had a “wonderful timc” when she looked at her Inquisitors to-day through smiling black eyes and ed- dressed them in Itlan, Nina was found not to have been accounted for when all the passen- gers on the Duca delgi Abruzzi of the Royal ftalian Mail Line hud been chooked off, and so she was officially recorded a8 a stowaway and sent to Fle Island, Through an interpreter Nina said she had been placed on the ship by her mother. She produced note written by her mothe Mechact Bom Siveus, WHAT IS DOING TO-DAY IN CONGRESS Acting Secreta S HERE| a to disclose to Foreign Relations Committee confidential facts con- cerning Island of Yap. Manufactures Committee con- tinues coal hearing. Immigration Commissioner Immigration Prof. Chafee of Harvard Law School before Judiciary Commit- on charges of committee twelve lawyers against Attorney jeneral ‘Palmer. Gen, Pershing gives his views on disarmament before Naval Af- fairs Committee, Interstate Commer: considers Towner Maternity Bill representing farmers, on Anti-Future Trading Ways and Means Committee continues hearings on agricultural Post Office Committee continues hearings of reclassification of pos- Appropriations Committee con- siders Navy and Rivers and Har- bors Bills. $6,000,000 BONUS PLANNED IN CONN. 240 East} (Bill Ready for Legislature Provides $10 a Month Men and Nurses. HARTFORD, MeCuen pill, now? ready, of $10 for every month of serv April 6, 1917, to Noy. ®1ll empowers the State to tas amount of $F,900,000 for & committer sisting of one Veter Indorsed by the State body, a civilian who has nover served in any branch of service, ‘fhese men will ro- ceive $3,000 @ year. $50,000 to meet the expens Investigating vital expenditures, Sal IT FOR SHIP SUNK BY U BOAT cluima and inetd FIRST S Porto Rico Company Asks $2,750,- 000 for Carolina, Destroy Off Jersey Coast. WASHINGTON, Jan, suit to recover damages from (he gov- ernment for 4 whip sunk by German submarines during the war was begun to-day in the Court of Claims by the New York and Porto Rico Steaimsnip ‘The company claima thia to have been steamship Carolina which while under operation and bo! was attacked by a and sunk off the New rman subimarin Jersey covst 0} Shipp ag Board + | No BIO West Liza St |b t iniaile tala BRINDELL THREATS DROVE OUT UNION — on (ci yitinued Irom Mirst Page.) zation—known in the trade as “The Wild Men.” Q Did you have any talk with Brindell about this change? A. Yes. T saw him April 5, and he sald we employ men of the new union. He choice. one. Q. That is Atwetl'st A. Yes Q. And the other two? A, George F. Atwell as an Individual and the Demolition Company, Company? A. George Atwell, A, No, I told him the contract had whom It was later given. Brindett later asked ald of the ful- ter concern in forcing Waixel to dis- charge the Zaranko men. Waixel was obstinate. Chairman Kelly of the Building Trades Employers’ As- sociation called Mr, Whiting and Brindell in conference in May and Mr. Kelly ordered Mr. Whiting to obey Brindell. Brindell said if Waixel were not dismissed every Fuller job ‘ pulled.” Brindell accused Mr, Whit- ing of calling him a crook and said the Puller company could do no more building until the charge was proved true or withdrawn. indell reached an agreement with President Paui Starrett of the Fuller company. All the men who through the city went back to work. The Puller company assumed re- sponsibility for any sums lost by Waixel because of the inferiority work. This cost the Fuller company $30,000. Regarding the erection of the Metropolitan Life Building Annex, Brindell, Mr. Whiting said, came to the Fuller offices in thhe Flatiron Building and said a strike had been called on the Metropolitan Bulldi because the Fuller company was re- sponsible for the presence of non- union ironworkers in New York. ‘Every pound of steel in that building, Brindell said tg me, “the witness testified,” pointing to the Metropolitan Building, ‘is going to $be taken down before any other trade will do any work there,’ , “What did you asked Mr Untermyer L told him,” sald Mr. Whiting. hat if the Puller company did any- thing like that 1 was through with the Fuller company.” Brindell suggested that the cement arch work (which the Fuller people were doing with thelr own men) be sublet. Mr. Whiting adopted e sumgestion and the strike was de- clared off, The name of the sub- contractor was not mentioned. Mr, Whiting remembered on cross- examination by Martin Littleton that was then given to Waixel, He said that after the cement arch work in the Metropolitan Building had been who went to work were the same men whose presence had been given as the reason for the strike, The testimony of Naimon Clom- poos, housewrecking contractor, was faded to that of othems of his ‘trade regarding Brindell’s tacties in black- listing the Zaranko forces. He told of his troubles in wrecking the Cam- meyer Building at Fifth Avenue and sid Street. He was using men of the vorked. He offered Brindell, he said, this he paid $500, Tt was arranged that some of the satisfactory Zaran- eo men were to work with men fur- nished by"Brindell; for these the con- tractor Was to pay $10 a weok each until $50 for cach man had been pald. pay the second instalment, he said, he took Frank Meiton with him. He from h Plaza Hotel. ———_ ged With Anti-Trust Law Violation. Cha hers of the Bronx Cut Stone Contr polation, One of the Hettri tors’ 4 group of of the Donnelly Antt- or thelr names were withheld, in court at 11 viclock to-morrow morn would produce them Mr. Spence told Justice McAvoy tha 1 Bive Plone! Louls Comba, fifty-three years old, fra tured when he fell P= De. J MEDICINE, Wie “aria Adwes a pital Where ho was workin MEN ON BIG J0B would have to let the contract for the wrecking to a firm which would |_After rejecting to-day « proposal to gave me the names of three firms among which I was free to make 4] Ajjied Supreme Council decided Q. Did you comment on his limiting you to these three Atwell concerns? |the Allied countries obtainable. n the United States would be were on strike in various Fuller jobs the “Wild Men” whom he put to f ‘Anas cckuig Job had been first. promised to Albert Volk and | the opposition in his speech in the Diet When Clompoos went to Brindel! to | political ambitions, persuaded rindel! to accept, $1,600 a m for Molton, ao that Melton ‘nd’ his brother, James Melton, might |QUEENS JAIL INVESTIGATION. he free of interference on a job at the STONE CONTRACTORS IN BRONX INDICTED] !% 12-2, sirectot “an investigw A blanket indictment charging mem- ombinations, with violation | cell rust law, Was returned to-day before Supreme Court Justice MeAvoy by the Grand Jury, of which William 1, Splegetberg ts fore- man. Tho number of the men Indicted Deputy Attorney General Spence sent word to the attorney for the Indicted mon, Clarenoa J arn, to have them ing for pleading. Mr. Sheurn sald he the Grand Jury haa cauani vp with nl) G different, but we all to-morrow hy will grant the body an) F enjoy Ancre Cheese,” Broke Both Leas. . hod both lege | ECONOMIC NQU DECIDED UPON BY SUPREME COUNGL Commission to Consider Aus- tria’s Affairs Along With Those of Other Nations. PARIS, Jan, 25 (Associated Preas). turn the Austrian financial probl over to the League of Nations appoint a commission to make a thor- _Q@. What were the three? A. The |ough inquiry into the entire question Northern Wrecking Company was|of the economic situation in Europe, with particular reference to Austria. ‘The Council took this action tn view of the opinion of the conferences that as the Austrian situation involved the entire Buropean economic situgtion Q. And who controls the Demolition | \t was advisable to have this ettuation thoroughly inquired into through the most competent representatives of ‘These representatives, it was" de- been let, T was mistaken, it had been | cided, will be Sir Robert Horne, Pres- promised to William Waixel, the Gar-|igent of the British Board of Trade; den City Wrecking Company, to] ovis Loucheur, French Minister of Liberated Regions; Signor Gianbint, the Italian economic expert, and probably the Ministers of Commierce of other Allied countries, including Belgium, ‘The commission was appointed this forenoon. It was expected to meet before the day was over and expedite its work in order that definite de- cisions might be taken before the close of the conference here. During the discussion in the Coun- el toxlay the general opinion was developed that it was uscless to ¢ry t: do anything for Austria apart from the solution of the economic problems of the neighboring coun- tries, with which Austria's future ts bound to be closely connected and the suggestion from the Austrian gec- tron of the Reparatirns Commission for an advance to Austria of $5,000,000 yearly for ten years, guaranteed by of | Diedges on Austria's resources, was: not acted upon, . ‘The tendency is, it appears, to re- ject any proposition Hkely to involve increased taxation for France and Great Britain. ‘The Italian viewpoint ig that Austria should not be allowed to bind herself to any particular country or group of countries through international arrangements. In connection with the other work of the Council it was reported this morning that the Italian Government had sent a note to the Council. re- garding Smyrna, which would be considered tn connection with the Greek and Turkish questions. —_ POLICY OF JAPAN ATTACKED AT HOME Former Premier Says She Should Have Followed U. S, Lead in Siberia. TOKIO, Jan. 24 (Associated Prens.)— If Japan had withdrawn her troopy fram Giberia when the United States did, she would not have been open to the charge that her ambition were mil- itaristle, said Viscount Kato, leader of to-day, attacking the Government's Si- berian policy. In opening his address, Viscount sublet the non-union steel erectors| ato sald that when America proposed Joint action in Sferia, he had hoped that Japan would determine — the strength of her force after taking the powers into her confidence, but instead of living up to the international agree- ment she had despatched the dispro portionately large. number of 45,000 men, creating ‘a rehension abroad as to Japan's aims. Then, con- trary to general expectations, Japan had withdrawn only partially when the ranko union, ‘They struck twice | Ded WineraNy Qoy Pea nd were irregular when they | Eiberia had. been effected ove?” Premier Hara, in his reply, declared $1,000 to get him satisfactory mon, Of | that Japan wanted to evacuate com- letely when the Czecho-Slovaks hes Been repatrinted, but that Japan's tne graphical situation had prevented tule while many of the Russians were ans: fous for the Japanese to remain, “Thus the withdrawal was delayed," sald the Premier, “but not because tr ‘Viscount. Kato's rejoinder _w: ) Premier Hara’s reply was ‘ar fir satisfactory. jE S80 One Prisoner Found Hanging, An- other Tried to Ewcape, Commissioner of Corrections Hi into an attempt by John Moore of Arverne to commit sulelde in tho ‘ation, One of Hettrick Group, | Qneena, County Jail tn Long Island City G@iaturday night, and an attempt on Thursday night by Albert Schantdt of Mamhattan to saw his way to @ree- dom Moore ‘had pleaded guilty t burgliry of the Seaside Home tor cine pied core ene nat awaiting :sen- renee. He waa found han, Se ad aren Lene Roney. tne ia Bie Schmidt, charged with was eald to have sawed two [Ange his cell door and one of a window, through ich he was about to when captured by Keeper Charl “We're a hard crowd to suit at home, Every- body likes something ANCRE ‘| WIth the Genuine: CHEESE ~* siade by SHARPLESS, Phila, Roquefire Flavér | 1 { i