The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1921, Page 1

‘MRS. SHON 7 - Ee a Aen. - - TS LOSES $1,000,000 SUIT BRINDELL SENTENCED TO 5 TO 10 i To-Night’s Weather-—UNSETTLED, _WALL STREET FINAL ED! TION VOL. LXI. NO. al, 658—DAILY. ty 1021, by The Press Publishing . (The New York World), ‘Che NEW ‘YORK, TURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, JOKER IN FAR IN COMPANY PREFERENTIAL; CITY CAN RECAPTURE TUBES Twenty-five Millions Set Aside Each Year for Ten Years Would Cover Cost of Taking Over the Roads and Avoid Sharing the Profits of Thirty-nine Ye INCREASE ALDERMEN FAVOR CTY COMMISSION TOPROBE TRACTION Declare Goy. Miller’s Plan an Outrageous Assault Upon Home Rule. POWER ‘BILLS UNPAID. For Twelve Years Queens Roads Have Let Accounts ars. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The hue and cry of increased city carfares is for the prime purpose of hetping the subway corporation to get ally as quickly as possible. its “preferentials” of $6,336,000 annu- This was unmistakably made clear in the interview with Theodore Shonts, President of the Interborough subway, published in yesterday’s Bening World for the first time, and taken from a memorandum which I made immediately after my talk with him Dec, 23, 1918, The city, instead of imposing in- ereased fares on the people, can re- captare the subways the first time legally possible in 1930 at less cost than at any other time in the next forty-nine years, the duration of the contract. The Shonts proposals and the re- eupture proposition are borne out by eminent authorities and are set forth below. ‘The city will have available next menth $100,000.000 to the gvod of the debt limit, By setting aside a certain sum each year, say $25,000,000 each year for the next ten years, the city can have the money ready to buy back the subways and ve enormous sums that are piling up against the city be- cause of these “preferentials,” which are constant deficits cumu- | lative at compound interest. | Im plain parlance, the subway corporation doesn't want to wait | to eam these “preferentials” on a S-cent fare the next forty- nine years, but by increasing the | fare, they got their “‘preferentials” quickly. ‘The city’s interest would be to keep | the 5-cent fare, for the bonefit of all the people, and the city can afford to wait and be satisfied with less profit. But beause of this $6,335,000 “preferential,” the seeming millstone | around the neck of tho city, which the corporation is permitted by the contract to take out every year first, the wise city will recapture its sub- ways as quickly as possible, and thus | wave the everlasting accrual, which, according to the authorities, is over- whelming. ‘This anrna! $6,335,000 “preferential” in forty-mine years, the duration of (Continued on Highth Page ~~ VARDAMAN’S NAME IN BIG BOND THEFT, fo Have \ided ‘Huntley Disposing of $135,000 in Liberty Bond | MEMPHIS, Said in nn, Feb & ~The me of James M Vardaman, son of former United Stulos Senator 4 1 Vaydaman of Mississippi, to-day be- | came involved in tic estigation of | the eale here of new 1,000 worth of Liberty Bonds s! and sold here nin New York Vardaman, police sy fed WY Buntley jr. former V President | at the Nation Clty Ba Mem phis, in arran for the sale of $135,000 worth rey Bonds whieh later prov have ‘been stolen, He is emp CARS ARE CROWDED EVEN IN JAPAN And People Growl, Bven as You and I—But They ‘Have No Subway S Osan, Japan, hes ita traction troubles even as New York bas them, and es K. Arita, Deputy Mayor of the Japa- nese town, related them to-day, Osuka residents complain about the same things New Yorkers protest against, put up to them in exactly the saane way. Osaka tras traction lines both muni- cipalty and privately owned. “The ‘people are always complaining.” eid Mr. Arita. “The trolleys are al- ways crowded. ‘The service is bad on | both jines. “Tho war amo has stopped expansion, ‘thas inade inroads on «materials and has | stagnated bailing. Rents are high. “No, we have wo subway,” said Mr. Arita, breathing @ sigh of retef. “Then you have no @ubway Sunt’ he was astced. “I can't me." he reptied. seemms mystified, “how fhe sun can shine in the subway,” and his eyes rolled in wonder SHIP GOES ASHORE OFF N. J. Brasttinn Vessel Later Flonted aad Proceeds te New York. ‘The Brasiltan steamshtp Parrmypa, from Marseilles via Bermuda for this port, went ashore near the Harvey Cedars, New Jersey Coast Guard Sta- tion, early to-day during misty weather Later, however, uhe was floated with: out assistance and proceeded. Accumulate. Resolutions calling Miller's traction pfins “this outrageous as- sault on home rule and the princt- ples of self-government” were adopt- ed by the Board of Aldermen this af- Gov ternoon ‘The board also voted fa- vorably + report of Its State Log- islation Committee recommending tho appointment of a commission to investigate the traction situation in this city. Out of this probe would be formu- lated a plan for a correction of pres- jent day evils of the subway, "L" ani surface lines, the committem report- ed, Its recommendation follows: “Your committoe believes that ihe “this city are more unxions €ven than Gov, Miller to have (his traction question settled and setiod Properly and justly, To that eni it would welcome the appoiutinent of a cominiasion to make % thorougl in- veatigntion of this matter, and after ascertaining all the facts present a constructive pian to the local author- ities for adoption. This city has an| investment of $300,000,000 In the sub- ways which it constructed and leased to the operating compani controlling the other transit facilities, and a fare ‘no more than five cents’ way written into that operating contract.” In the report acompanying the reso- lution, the committee on State Logis lation calls attention to the fact that when he prepared his plan depriving New York City of the right to ou late its own tmction lines, Gov. Mil ler avidently, at least temporarily, had forgotten one of the cardinal planks in the Republican platform on whioh he and his party had run “Even so recent as the last elec tion,” says the report, “the Republi- can platform in this State declared In favor of ‘granting to all cities and villages adequate powers of self-gov ernment and control over their local «ffaire and property, (rec from legis. (Continued on Second ash) Comnussioner Delaney Department of thr merce and ‘Trust (” Bank mpany, 4 bank, and left here fo-day on a va. | cation A statement Mi Vard man says he Introd st a ibond salesman, to tho bend se | firm of Tigrett and Company in ofder © do Huntley @ personal favor, 4 Potts fracture of the ankie, gestion That Can and May Raise Railway |?! (lund craig io noigvbor Revenue and Stop Higher Fare Talk | remembers he was being taken in an ambulances to Roneevelt Hospital HN DELANGY, ‘Transn Constructivy Cuuiubisioner and inter | Where he arrived at & o'clock im the If mediary between this olty aud the tnterburough Rapid Transit | yorning, At nen he was Laken to Company in all coutractual relativus, approved with much eathusiaam |i). City, The Lvening World's suggestion that all uevessity fot an increase la | Capt in ny dectare fare be countered py selling Ube surplus olectrie current of the LR. lw ne ble to walk with The Evening World poliited out two yeuns age inal Liviu Was a sur ci HX Werths He plus of 1,000,000,00y kilowatts, which, if sold to vuleide corporations, — | 8! an cf8! Tie ia would oring in sullicieut revenue to d ate The iden tor a raise in ae eee ae aN fares, Capt, n 1912 w a ifiee of Mr, Delaney told a reporter tur Che bvening World iat the A ew te ttar Interboreugh Company recetved from the te of surplus power on Con " i iow both ubway ant elevated ves $2,015,654 toy the Mecal yea ' t jag June 30, 1920. ‘This surplus energy was sold as a vy product only nn tevin to the New York Municipal Ratlway, whieh operates tue 6. KL, sub way, and also to the New York Ratlwuys Company, operated vy Jov # TRAINEE RRA STREET TEC Hedges as receiver, Mor the six months ending Doe. 31, 1020, the sale Years in it of ‘surplus power ainounted t “86. f who tax Spent thirty | The Transit Comimnissiones Uarry Wo batey, an ereerrica fate Niet 1 Uri. Was engineer working under his dit wis already waking a ; : pe on of the electrieal tran sti Of ton ¢ i 1 equipment, coat of production abut possibilitie evelopment, wonky | yk Mw ft Sade tus area rer view to increasing the revenues, ‘This survey, Mr. Delaney said, would — fseuiill, Whose fifteen-year-old brow George, mid he saw Berry in the require nine months, Approves Evening ‘World's Plan for Sale of I. R. T. Surplus Power Enthusiastic Over Sug- | Peak and recetved 4 MUST PAY U.S. LOAN. SAYS BRITISH PRESS Our Credit and Honor Are at Stake, Is View Taken by Times. ITUINDON, Pen. &. day Inked prop ngels for debt cancellation with German reparations, calling artencen ty art -Newspaper com ment te baton terest awed the United States is greater than the payment domanied annival from wermany The gencra! tone was thai the re- qutst for cancellation had failed and that Britain now should pay and for- get the incident ‘Britain js a nation of shopkeepers.” the Times declared. “Our credit as well as our honor js at stake. The question of repayment to the United States is no question. We shall pay fully and promptly on any reasonable CAPT. GARD BEATEN AND ROBBED WHILE RIDING IN TAXICAB Former Yale Football Player Attacked by Bandits and Relieved of $40. E. Gard, who fought. ua- through the Argonne oum- as a Captain in the 313th Artillery, is confined to his bed at the City Club, No. 65 West 44th with a fractured ankle and a swollen jaw, received a hold-up by taxionb at 80th Strect and [ifth Avenue early Sat- urday morning. Capt. Gard, who is « graduate of the 1908 class Yale, where he payed on the football team and who now lives in Orange, NJ, came to New York Friday evening to attend a banquet and reunion with uwelve fellow officers, of his regiment. There was banter over the fact that there were thirteen members in the party and that, their regiment was the 313th, About | Walter seathed Palisn Fiesta Street, in two bandits 2 o'cinek Suturtay mormng Capt. Gaurd hwiled a taxiowb at 42 Streot and Madison Avenue and usked the chauffeur if he could take him to w room for the night. The chauffeur agreed and drove to Fifth Avenue where he headed nortl. The taxi stopped yoon and another man joined the chauffeur on the driver's seat At 80th Street the chauffeur asked Capt. Gard if he had money te pay for th: Mr. Gard replied that he | and pulled out his poakeboo} taining $40. ‘Thr chauffeur gr sued it, Capt. Ga'u snatched fo thy pocket- punch in the mouth. He was then knocked un- conscious with a blow on the jaw, ap parently with a blackjack. The rob- bers evidently kidked Ca ard as he lay unconscidus on the si alk, Doctors found later he had reowived i bavemcat und culled Patrolman Alacchi. 4) Se renee - || Btect COURT DISMISSES MRS. SHONTS'S SUIT FOR ALIENATION ml —_— > Calls Charges Against Thomas “Perfunctory Prat- tle of Fraud.” LOVE WAS NOT STOLEN. Justice McAvoy — Declares Widow’s “Squints” of Duress Were Not Proved. The sam for dotiars damages brought by Mrs. Milla D. Shonts, widew of the traction mult!- one amillion millionaire, againet Mra, Amanda ©. THomas, alleging that the latter had elienated the affections of Mr Shonte, was to-day dlemiesed by Jus jee McAvoy in the Supreme Court Mra. Thomas benufited larguty under the will of Mr Shonte, The action was Wemissed on the ground that the defense made by Mre. Thonms was compluie in the absence of facts to suppor: Mrs. Shonts’ olatm, The decision of Jus- tiee McAvoy said in part “ think the defenses (of Mrw. ‘Thainas), bar the deviared claim Cor Mra, Shorita)“oh & reading of all the pleudtongs, and that the roply (of Mra. Shonts) fails either to deny or avotd their effect.” Hisewhere in McAvoy sald “LE the plaintiuf® wishes, as her brief sguints, to assert duress and fraud in procuring beth of the instruments now pleaded in bar of her claim, ane ought to set furth facts whieh would make the claim appear plausible: The purely perfunctory pratt fraud, duress and intimidation in hace verba ominous with dearth of fucts.” ‘ The motion for disiniasal of tne action wus made by Clurence J. Shearn, former Supreme Court Jus tice, atturney for Mrs. Thomas In anawer to Mrs. Shonte’s com plaint, Mrs, Thomas stated that there had never been any !mpropriety tn the relationship exieting between her self and Mr. Shonts, and that Mrs | Shonts henelf had alienated her hus | band’s affections by her uwn Sho further maintained that ay the time specified in Mrs. Shonts’s action there was no affection existing be- tween Mr. and Mrs, Shonts, Anothe: phase of Mrs. Thom: anewer wi that in 1917 Mra, Shonts had given to Mra. Thomas, for a valuable con sideration, a release of amy and all claim or claims whteh Mrs. Shonts might hold against Mre, Thomas The action of Mrs. Shonts against Mts. ‘Thomas was begun in Decen ber, 1919. HARDING WON'T EAT | CHAMPION TURKEY | the de Hon Inustice acts, | loo Vahuable a Bird, He Writes Owner, in Declining Offer ot Gift heb written 1 ot | DIXON, 1h Harding } Fowler of Rochelle offer of “Phe Flame champion turkey i Prewdnut- Mrs. declining her he FF mes Na | Poultry Show in Chie ' frat Thanksgiving dinner the Wh te House | Mr. Harding expresne reluctance Jte take food out of so valua + bird | while we fre preaching simplicity ond | thrift of (he necessary rea wn American cur COULDN'T STEER BATHTUB. Cow Metused Vake Gar bearing Ne Mich! KID People Patrotm: William, Bedell ot Ruled Lo pre a brought Deputy Commixatonor Leach tp on th that her ata mutans Mice Mi nye H wool wt want io kil ine 1 didn ¢ to ateer one of te lecision was reserved He yn oa learn things aince and decisi semienhihisa. © oschararetiiaaaieeaneneides enemanen, Oe Mrs.| “Circulation Books Open to abt a 1921. WIFE OF TRACTION MAGNATE WHO LOST HER $1,000,000 SUIT MRS. AMANOA c. THOMAS. COUPLE HELD UP IN HOTEL ROOM: ROBBED OF EVELS Alleged Thief, ner in ay | Found Hiding by Maid- Stolen Ring Recovered. Morris leon, twenty x wit [ne lived at No. 1061 Intorvale Ave nie, Bronx, was held in $10,000 bail to-day by Magistrate ‘Totian, charge with holding up My. and Mrs. Mi chav! Cohen last night on there apart | meat in the Langwell Hotel, No. | 123 West 41th reet, and takinis two diamond Ainge vlued at $1.66 from Mra. Cohen Leon, who claimed ty the siliannnn, had an appointment | Mrs Cohen some underw he appeared, according (0 the Coliens, | with pistol in hand, he backed cies | Jaiwinst the wall and took Mrs, Co hen’y rings. ‘Tho robber fled, pursued by Ce howe erinx awakened uoste on the mime floor | ‘The bold-ap man remained tn one hotel A maid discovered Atay Widiine Cohen ran on Mth Street to Sixth Avenue where je waa halted by Traffic Holiceman Meixenheiin, who sccompanted dim fhack to the hotel The maid led Detective Maherty te Loon who, the detoctive said, told Jtum he had thrown the rings down | Ohe elevntor shaft, An how's search tatulted in une of Lhe rings beine | |r uad At the Wotton Of the nbutt he police wy, his a peeord of GRAND JURY HEARS TWO POLICE AIDS Post Offlec, New York, N. ¥. To-Morrow's Weather—PROB, LY RAIN OR SNOW, 8 PRICE THREE CENTS —== HORMER LABOR ‘CZAR’ GETS SENTENCE IN SING SING AT HARD LABOR FOR EXTORTION Brindell’s Counsel Will Apply for Certificate of Reasonable Doubt at Once—Term May Be Cut to 34 Years—Hettrick Trial Begins. Robert P, Brindell, convicted last week of using his powers as Presi- dent of the Building Trades Council to extort $5,000 from Max Arenson, owner of a new building at No. 236 West 35th Street, was sentenced to-day by Justice McAvoy in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to not lees than five years or not re than (en years at hard labor in Sing Sing Prison, ‘hard labor” With time allowances, tuctuding those accruing on account of the provision, the actual tenn of imprisonment may not be more than three aad a hulf years. fin whiet at Samuel Untermyer, special cutor, addressed the quest a sentence, imposing the ex- jtreme penalty of (ho law—fifteen years’ inphivonment. He said that tn careful study of the Case he bad prose- court to re- | 150,000 ARMY BILL WITH $329,000,000 PASSED BY HOUSE: Move to Out Number ot Officers From 14,000 to 9,000 Martin W. Littleton whook bis head Beaten jwhen asked if he desired io make eWARFIINGTON, Fou, © | pten regarding? the seotenve, Uy WK Army Approprintion tit had alrewdy cnaede the «© omary vrying dpproximately $329,- i Sbiadi re motions to set aside the verdict and 000,000 and providing for « foree of only 160,000 men in 1922. to ask for a new trial The point Wak juped today by the House | WNtch he urged wat emphatically ribet the auhisce was that the indictment charged WML went ty the Senate, [he meisurn wie fumed prac | Utindell with tating mney sent, 2% i LGaetieRronn tN AIDES 1920, from Aronson as the “No, 286 y aw ita spew : West 31h Steet Corporation” priations Committee, A last min Whereas Chat Corperution was diss ut the ‘number of 14,000 to soived tn July, ir) attiowes Crom 9,000 was hae Che: eyler ae Py f showed. | blocked by vote of 271 to 68 Rte ve ltablinve. einen Saar McAvoy denied. Mr. Littleton has ten | TWELVE INJURED dnya (0 winke aw upped beturw BEay IN TROY RIOTING | sett is cunsterread trom the i \ The lawyer Disorder Follows Attempt to Oper} ts a baa ae | City Strike Breakers. Jadmutted to bait | ALBANY, NOY ) Ae Itioting,| COMES INTO COURT UNDER SHERIFF'S ESCORT. Brludet) eames inc least twelve strikebreak~ ura Were {usured, one perhaps mur. ourt guarded by tally, occurred to-coy when the | Shere Kuett und Deputy Sherift Lutte Tr on Company operated | Furke. Hts vedi, dherk Ortek pd Les, manned by Hed crews, | COmplexton was iui tied with Hehe Jover ite Albmy Wy lines fur | Me His ced were Uvubied as thy firwt time sinve its employees | ough be wece suffering physteat [walkie ative elevak: dive! akc pain, His fugers savatched nervous- The greatest digrder was report-|'¥ 98 the top bur of the railing gute cd in Troy, where three cara were |#t Which he faced Justice McAvoy, When the term of his imprisonment stoned, a repalr wagon attacked, vieven strikebreakers injured, three | 72% ates ig by Justicn’ MOANeRE of whom were removed to & hos- eid he ig te ie oan (ital, where one, John O’Brien of desl al oe Mr. ee bis No 606 Pourth Avenue, New York haath ois! Sune te tened City, is reported to ve in a serious | Ne as though appealing to him for mulitiva, and one patrolman, John | “countmeiment All his culvr, confidence and tha Ingram wus suspended for an alter- i sparkle uf his eves came buck a few tion with strikebreakers Forgas Saves =e ; . firiw. wily wan Guiet iontt Us| moments later.” however.» whee atternuon, when repair. meg, sent to| {ced the demonstration of hundreds [North Albany lo re feed wires,|of his follow weather beaten, re stoned ty strike sympathizers, | hurd flsted fellows, who filled the = corridor outside the court room to 2-077 Vers | "see Bob go away." EGGS AT LOWDST They swarmed around the She PRICE SINCE 1915, itrs ana the prisoner, cheering and | culling to him. A Hi ot 8.218,800 “Hen Fruit” | Don't you care. Bab,” one shouted, : “We'll have you out of that by uight!™ ¢ Kesully in Seven-Cent ‘The whole crowd roared a Wholesale Decline BEG BRINDELL To Vee t sais wren THEIR HANDS. ee. With tie joqntph 0 Hrindell was taken up to the offies 4. O8EN0 Inne of We of the Sherif on the meseanine for 1 and rented the loweat wine line making of certain tormal revonds i pelee! leve net regarding bis sentence. From the Wholvkare quotations range from th in 49 conta to-day, White yeuter, | frst Qoor to the first mezzanine run diny they wore from 44 to 46 centa,| Wide stairways. At the top of them I" Chifcawo aka BL. touls genter are voliapsible iron gates which are George WeNulty Testify in inter ( Gans Kia Hon ecibsetona ha Caeornn Meni ‘ ary Chief inenein Lahey hn 1 rs " " fore Gand te eriot Cilleopie aad M & beough® wieh | curds 4 fr Vuln Lite Detect ' \ Hen Nvilensresoih tiitran® Nad. wut ato Jask for two more afternoum this moled kept closed when prisoners are being fe same varioty of og wer y taken to and from the Sheriffs ot- The ees flee ho crowd surged up these ied x aL: ine Stairs, paoking the stops from top to fe kiabas ameaaiate tum They tnrwst thelr han be sold in moss stores at nearer throu the vpeoings in the cents, it wan maid in the wholesale sates, begging Brindell to “shake. market, Thy prisoner seemed to ep? | “found uo mitigating circumstances.” scsi pean siya asap ease ee NS me a Ro eR a ee ame ee Ee pene yee gett a —_—_——