The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1921, Page 1

———SSS VOL, LXI. NO. 21,659—DAILY. f Cirenl: tion Books ak to All. ] Copyrights ee by The Pres Publishing ‘he New York World), NEW YORK, _ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, Entered Fost off 1921. Becond-Clase Matter r, New Yorks Ne ¥. BRITAIN SCOUTS ‘THREAT OF WAR’ WITH U. G-CENT FARE DEMAND DUE TO SUBWAY HASTE TO GRAB $6,339,000 “ Must Get Money Quickly or Stand Chance of Having City Recapture Roads. TEN YEARS TO DO IT.) ante | Municipality Need Set Aside Only $25,000,000 to | $30,000,000 Annually. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The frenzied effort to get Scent faré is due mainly tothe great interest af the subway corporation | to secure the annual $6,335,000 “pref- erential” as quickly a8 possible. This was plainly stated in an in- terview I had with Mr, Shonts on Dec. 2%, 1918, a memoraiidum of which was printed for the frat time in these columns. ‘That this annual $6,335,000 “prefer- ential" would be more then the sub- way corporation could possibly make, | and that the city would be loaded down with this “preferential,” mounting year by year enormously im cumulative deficits with com- pound interest, was also forcefully stated by Milo Ro Maltbie, Public Service Commissioner, as sot forth in The Evening World yesterday. The People's Institute estimated “the total deficits during the life of the one contract with the Interbor- ough at $170,000,000, without interest. A constant adverse balance counts up yery fast under compound interest. For example, a million unnecessarily given by the city to the Interborough in the first year becomes eight mil- lion in forty-three years at 4 per cent.” Tt ts readily seen how e higher rate of interest on many millions would go sky high accordingly. That the city may recapture the subways in ten years from now and save millions thereby, instead of wait- ing until these vast preferentials roll up into gigantic sums at the expire- tion of the contract in forty-nine years, has been further urged as one constructive move as against in- creased fares, The increased fare is the surest, safest and quickest way for the subway corporation to get this assured $6,335,000 annually, while the city’s burdens can only be lessened by recapturing the sub- ways at the earliest possible mo- ment and thus forestalling all of these huge annual deficits, and benefit by’ profits on its self-run subways for the thirty-nine years after recapture. It was pointed out in these oal- an {Continued on Second Page) WILSON NOT TOGO INTO SECLUSION White House Denies Story That He Will Hide Away for Six Months. WASHINGTON, Fob, 9.—President Wilson will have “both eyes open" to rational \and international affairs after March 4, it was said to-day at the White House, * The statement was made in denial of published reports that Mr. Wilson will go into seclusion for six months after his rotirement from the White House. President Wilson, according to those in touch with him, will care- fuly refrain from doing anything that might envbarrass his successor. He may from time to time have state- ments touching pon issues before he country. It is alao probable that the Presi- ent's vielta to the theatre w be nore frequent and hig daily aw bile rides will ge om mo- PREFERENTIAL” STATE TROOPERS FIRE INTO CROWD IN ALBANY STRIKE | ci Repair Wagon Filled With Non-Union Workers Attacked on North Broadway. ALBANY, Feb. 9.—State Troopers, assisting the local police In maintain- ing order in the street railway strike of the United Traction Company em- ployees, late to-day fired upon strike sympathizers. The shooting followed the stoning of a repair wagon filled with non-union workers, The stones were thrown from the roofs of buildings in Broadway, North Albany, where the men were repairing broken wires. So tar as could be learned none of the shots took effect. Only one car was sent out by the company up to early afternoon. This car was operated in Troy and svon was stalled, wires having been torn down for a block or more by strike sympathizers. ‘The lone car had difficulty in mak- Ing headway, Frequent stops had to be made in order to permit the guards to remove debris from the tracks and wires. It could make only one half a trip. As it came to a stop the crowds surged forward, and then the police fred several shots in the air. Bafore the car begun its return, orders were issued By Chief of Police Goeroid to his men to “shoot to kill” if necessary to move the car. One policeman wad injured by @ brick. No attempt was made to operate cars in Albany for the reason that too many of the company's wires are down or sagging. Shortly before noon the non- union repairmen, surrounded by cor- dons of State and city police and pri- vate guards, began the repairing of wires, Until this is completed, it was said, the company could nox reopen its lines, The State police have established lines for several blocks north and south of the cerapany's property, POWDERING NOSES - FOR LUXURY TAX A in vain to keep the secret of how much they spent cause the luxury tix and other recoms of the Government at COST $50,000,000 MERICAN WOMEIN tried in 1920 for knick-knacks be- Washington reveal the expendi- tures, The habit of powdering noses alone cost $60,000,000, Other items were: Candy +... -$180,000,000 Chewing gum.. + 15,000,000 Diamonds . + £4,000,000 Perfumes .. . 5,400,000 Hat & fan feathers 2,000,000 Furs .. + 160,000,000 Jewelry . + 182,000,000 Soaps, toilet pow- ders, cosmetics.. 15,000,000 Total . -$584,400,000 All this is exclusive of necems- ties" like silk stockings, dancing slippers and kid gloves, which would bring the total up to more than $600,000,000, Men help to consume the items Hated, but t | seimated to be emall, U.S, WILLINQURE INTO DEATH OF BERGDOLL LAWYER Hinted That Gibboney May Not Have Been Drowned but Is Hiding. | HEARING IS TO-MORROW. State Department Has Ob- tained Permission of Mexico to Disinter Body. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Intima- tions that D, Clarence Gitsboney of Philadelphia, attorney for draft- dodger Grover Bengdoll, is ative and in hiding instead of being im a Mexi- can gtave will engage the House Military Affairs Committee when it begins its investigation of the incidents surrounding Berg- to-morrow, doll's escape to Germany, and his charge that he Was asked to pay $100,000 to persons in Washington for his freedom. 2 Representative Kahn of California, Chairman of the committee, predicted to-day that staruing disclosures will be made at the inquiry, Mr. Kahn has gone over documents thus far produced, whieh include papers from the Departments of War and Justice and from, United States District At- torney MaAvoy at Philadelphia and which, he declares, show a “tangle of misstatements.” The investigation of what hap- pened to Attorney Gibboney is new and unexpected. It was learned that the State Department has obtained the consent of the Mexican Govern- ment to disinter the body of the sup- posed Gibboney for the purpose of making a definite identification. GIBBONEY HAD BIG LUMBER IN- TRESTS IN MEXICO, Gibboney ts the man, according to information, who offered Bergdol! his freedom for $100,000 to be “distributed in Washington.” Gibboney had lum- ber interests in Mexico and took a trip there, says the report, tq look after them. A body supposed to be hia was washed up on the Mexican coast, near Campeche, and it was said he had been drowned when a small bout was wrecked in a storm. There is nothing in the documents he has, Mr, Kabn indicated, to es- tablish that the body found was that of Gibboney, so the grave is to be opened a8 part of the Federal in- quiry. Bergdoll was released in charge of soldiers from Governors Lsland on a War Department order so he could dig up $100,000 in gold he suid he had buried in Western Maryland. The committee is tu investigate how the order was obtained at the War De- partment, While in Philadelphia on bis way to recover the buried treas- ure Bergdoll escaped. Chairman ‘Kahn says an order iasued on such a pretext {s ridiculous, because Treas- ury Department figures show that $100,000 in gold weighs 368 pounds, which one man could not have buried without assistance. Yet Bergdoll suid no one else knew where it wus, and got out on the strength of it, TO FIND IF BLUNDERS WERE DUE TO CONFLICT, Another feature of the investiga- tion will be whether some of the blunders were due to @ reported con- ict between the Department of Jus- tice and the War Department in the case, In discussing the Bergdoll case Chairman Kahn said: “This case is rotten, tion of the papers is only partly com- pleted and has revealed what, judgment, 1s a terrible state of af- fairs. I have gone over the report of the Inspector General's Department of the Army, which was one of the first prepared, Mr, McAvoy had it and used the factg in it in the pres- entation of bis case, which resulted in convictions, “My examina- in my | the the In- ly con first page of if port there (Continued on Sevegtcenth Page,) ~nepeaniier~ ‘eAthena etnienit Se teen cermetetaeiincied a ral nee ey ea: BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE DENIES TALE OF STRAINED RELATIONS WITH AMERICA Declares in Formal Statement There 1s No Basis for It—Confident All Questions Can Be Settled. LONDON, Feb. 9. ports published in the United States Tuesday to the effect that TT Foreign Office to-day declared to be without foundation re- an official of the Foreign Office had uttered a warning of the increasing seriousness of Anglo-American relations, The statement said: “The statement was made without the authority or knowledge of the Foreign Office, and does not in any way represent the views of the Foreign Office upon the present or future state of relations be- tween the two countries, “On the contrary, the Foreign Office is confident that any ques tions arising between Great Britain and the United State can, and will, be settled without difficulty, ceeding Administration.” whether with the existing or suc- Since the publication of the report, now denied by the Foreign Office, a majority of the correspondents have declared that the story as printed in the United States was a gross exaggeration and that-when they were received it was understood no part of the interview was to be quoted. The correspondents were received in response to their request for a statement from Ambassador Geddes in connection with his visit, MURDERED WOMAN IN BAY IDENTIFIED: MAN FRIEND HELD Body Found in Water Was That of Mrs. Dolly Sanova- witch of Bayonne, EXtward Vacca of No. 65 West 24th Street, Bayonne, Identified at noon day the body of a w been beaten to death floating in Newark Bay at the foot of West 25th Street as that of Mrs, Dolly Sanovawitch of No. 447 Broad- Bayonne, Her maiden name was Hayward and her father is said to Jersey City. Developments !n the case Indicate that Mrs. Sanovawitch was murdered d@ was found way, live somewhere in Bayonne or somewhere in the vicinity of her home between 7 o'clock and midnight Mon- day, It would appear that her body was wrapped in two blankets and conveyed {n an automobile to the pier at the foot of West %th Street, where it was thrown overboard. The blank- ots were thrown out of the car at the foot of West Mth Street, where they were found to-day Vacca, held by the police, said Mrs. Sanovawitch’s hus- band, who served in the A. E, F, tn in Ecuador, and has been away from home almoit a year. Mrs, Sanova- witch lived alone. Vacca had bern considerably in her company of jate. He said he saw her last at 6 o'clock Monday evening when he gave her a $5 bill and made an en- gagement to meet her at @ ball at the Bayonne Opera House. The woman left her home at 7 o'clock telling neighbors she was going to the ball According to Vacca she did not ap- pear at the opera house, The body was fully clothed when it was found. In @ pocketbook in the vf the coat wae a $5 Dill and afew pennice, Itis assumed that she was enticed to the spot she was murdered soon after she left her home, and that the murderers waited until midnight before putting the body in an automobile and tak- Ing it to the foot of West 25th Stre An automobile was ceen there day night who is being pocket where Mon- THE WORLD TRAY in, World) 6 1 7,000 WOUNDED MEN NEED HOMES, FOOD AND CLOTHES ——— Evening World Suggests Plan to Provide Gritty Soldiers With Necessities, By Lilian Bell. The are in New York city 7,000 wounded e@x-servies men who need homes and good food. They cre mostly out of money be- cause many of them are from three months to one year behind in pay- ments for compensation. ‘These boys are able to be out of hospitals, to be sure, but they need clvilian clothes. They are trying to live on from $12 a month up, This means the cheapest and darkest of hall bedrooms. It means eating but twice a day because three meals cost too much, Jt means cheap food, poor food, bad food, These boys have come to New York to take vocational training or to get a Job. They are ill-clad, hun- gry and half sick. They walk our streets and see the streams of auto- mobiles. ‘They look in at shop win- dows and see the prices of things that people who stayed at home from the war have money to buy and do buy every day. ‘The shoes on the tired feet of these wounded men are broken and old. Their clothes are shabby. Their faces are pinched. Their lips blue. Yet— in the buttonhole of the old frayed coats ts the button, which moans they fought overseas and were wounded. Do you suppose they over think ot the day they were borne down Wifth Avenue, and we stood on the curb and cheered as they passed by, their crutches standing up stiffly in the au- tomoblies—tiute witnesses of their disability? Do you suppose they think of the flowers we hurled at them and of the tears we shed as we stood there prom- ising ourseives that these wounded should be our charge foreverinore? 100 DISCHARGED WOUNDED MEN RETURN TO HOSPITALS DAILY. Yet we have forgotten them—and still they do not complain, They ore breaking down and being returned to hospitals at the rate of 100 per day Those who were gassed and supposed to be well are becoming tubercular ‘That hospital at Fox Hilla, which has been declared a firetrap by building experts, 1s overcrowded. Boys arc | dying there public ts The y day 4 ies aad Mi (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) VICTORY 1S NEAR IN WAR AGAINST TICKET SCALPERS <= — Bills Urged by Evening World Expécted to Pass Both Houses Monday. MUST PRINT Measures Also Would Keep Speculators Off Streets, and Limit Commissions, PRICES. (Prom @ Gta Comementent at ‘The Brening | ‘World ) ALBANY, Feb, ¥.—The fight of The Evening World against theatre ticket scalpers, driving the speculators from the streets and compelling the indoor brokers to limit their thargeé to oa commission of 50 cents a ticket on the box office prices, is nearly won. In the Senate to-day the bill of As- semblyman T. K, Smith in relation to the sale of tickets of admission to theatres and othe? places of amuse- ment, providing for the commission, which hae already paswed the As- vembly, was substituted by Senator Charles Walton for his bill of the same import and put on the third reading calendar. Mr. Smith's bill in the Aapembly, making it a msdameanor for street scalpers to operate, was also ad- vanced to third reading, and Senator Walton's bill covering the same ground, which has bean passed by the Genate, was recoived in the Ad- sembly, Mr, Smith will eubstitute the Walton bil! for his measure and poth Ddills will come up for third reading on Monday night, when they wil probably be pasiied and sent tu the Governor for ila styature SIX THEATRE TICKET AGENCIES ACCUSED OF VIOLATING LAW Charged by U. S. With Failure to Print Name and Price on Coupons. Six speculators in theatre tickets appeared for pleading to-day in the United States District Court before Judge Thompson as a result of The Evening World's expose showing how the public has been gouged. All of the defendants pleaded not guilty and the cases were put over for one week with permission to change the pleas or file demurrers, The defendants are the Tyson Com- pany, New York Theatre Library, National Theatre Ticket Company, Premier Ticket Agency, Susaman's Theatre Ticket Office and Leo New- (Continued on Second P: — re) SMUTS PARTY WINS IN SOUTH AFRICA Defeats the Hertzog Faction, Which Favors Secession Fram British Rule. CAFE TOWN, South Africa, Feb, 9,— The South African Party, headed by Gen, Smuts, which strongly advocates the continuance of the present relations with Great Britain, won a victory over | the Sucession Party, led by Gen, Hert- xog. in the Parliamentary elections Smuts, Prime M Union of South Africa, waa clooted from the district of Pretoria West. Bnormous majorities were given the South African party in Durban and Cape Town, while the Labor Party suf- fored a severe reverse in the Rand dis- trict. In Cape Town the South Afncaa Party guined two seats, in Durban, 3; in the Rand, 8, and in Bast London, 1, ‘The victory of the Smuts party ts attributed to the fact that working-| men voted yainst the secession tasue! raised by Gen. Hertaog, and did not pay much attention to sec nal iasui relecd by labor leaders. ‘Henry M Heanett of Jacksonville, All Connection today flatly refused to reconsider HOUSE COMMITTEE REFUSES 10 RECONSIDER RESOLUTION LIMITING LOCKWOOD POWER Untermyer Says He Will Not Sever - With Inquiry if Senate "Passes Measure in Emas- culated Form—Full of Fight. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Wertd.) ALBANY, Feb, 9.—The Ways and Means Committee of the Assem! the Lockwood Housing Committee's resolution extending its powers of investigation on the housing situatio: of New York. The resolution in its emasculated form will come up for final @on- sideration in the Senate next Tuesday, Se COURT FEEDS BOYS, SENDS THEM HOME Two Jersey Lads, Unable to Get Jobs Here, Had Asked to Be Arrested. “New York js full of mén looking for jaba, Here is some money; get on board a train and go home, snug- gle under a nive vr trim bed and warn. yourselves with liome cooking.” These words were addressed by Magistrate Corrigan in Jefferson Market Court to-day to two youths arraigned before him on charges of They desertbed them- selves aS Vhilip Longo, sixteen, No. vagrancy. 98 Palm Place, Newark, amd Antonio Foreno, sixtecn, No. 23 Sanford Street, Hust Orange, N. J. They were arrested early to-day by Pa- trolman Frank Meyer of the Charles Street Station, after they had plead- ed with him to arrest thom so they “could get something to eat,” they told the court. “We came from Newark a week ‘ago to get work, We've tried hon- egy for jobs and haven't had bite to eat in nearly four days, If you can help us get a job we'd ap- preciate It." The Court then handed $10 in bills to the patrolman saying: “Reed than up and ship t home," — HARDING DECLARED ELECTED PRESIDENT Made Before Joint ot Senate and House. WASHINGTUN, Feb, —The of. cial and final declaration that Warren a been elected President and Vico Prem- dent of the United States was mae before Congress to-day by Vice Presi- dent Marshall. House and Senate met in the House chamber in jotnt session to carry out tho historic custom of making an offl- clal count of the electoral votes and thus write the final chapter in the 192 jection, The announcement of the vote of each State waa received in silence, in accordance with a request of Vice President Marshall, Announcement Session WASHINGTON, Fob. 9—A FI | alligator with a wx foot smile, mure leas, Is to suceed as White House met President Taft's famous cow, Pauline, (he pony that rode in an elevator in President Roosevelt's Ad- ministration and more recently Presi- dent Wilson’g flock of lawn-mow.ng sheep. . Senator Trammell carried word to the While House offices to-day that President-elect Harding had already accepted a “fair sized ‘gator” from Harding and Calvin Coolidge have | (Samuel Untermyer, when infogme! that the Ways and Means Comunftty: of the Assombly had refused toy re- consider its action in fimiting tho said he would take no action until he had communicated with Senator Look wood. (Mr, Untermyer added that he ‘a & poor quitter and is still ful of fxght. He said be would as -leav> fight the Ways aid Means Commit- tee an the big (nancial interests fcr the benefit af the public.) Speaker Machold refused to permit the suggestions offered by Mr. Un termyer to even go before the Comi- mittes on Ways and Means afte President Pro-Tem. Luck of the Ser ate had expressed himself in faver of them. | Senator Lockwood had been umder the Impression that the committes had the suggestions under considers tion, and only learned that they had not even been discussed when lo asked Chairman Joseph A. MeGin- nies this afternoon if he had @ ro- port ready, FATE OF RESOLUTION SEALED AFTER CONFERENCE, Speaker Machold and George A. Glynn, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, were in conference yesterday afterne and between them both the fate of the resolution was seal Just what business Me. Glynn hao» in interfering with eny legislation at Uils stage of the! pro~ beyond the comprehension \lust member in ether House. Democrals are wondering ppen tf Charles Mur- phy should come up hero and tual Senutur Walker what to do on at mousure which had to do, or had nut to do, with the city of New Yoric. To intents and purposes Mr, Glynn is ay much the head of ths Republican Party as Charles Murphy is the head of Tammany. As for Spenker Machoid, Assembly~ man Maurice Bloch expressed bia opinion ef him to-day during thé dis- cussion in the Assembly of the Uli- man motion to abolish the Rules Committes, The Rules Committee (a the graveyard of all bills which the majority weh to kill, Ten days be- fore adjournment of the Legislature atl committees coase functioning anal ail bills before them go to the Com~ mittee on Rules for burial, cecdiig ts Jot tie ut would | mittee leaves all hope behind, for it can be taken out only by unanimous consent. Mr Bloch, addressing the | “You know the Injustice of the | rule, for you, yourself, im the old | days. have been « oufferer through it. You know what chance a man's bid has with the committee, unless he votes for the measures the ma« jority wants to jam through. The rules defeat the very foundation of the Constitution, which declares that the Assembly is a deliberate Body where free discussion can be had. “Tho Rules Commitiee does neg ‘The biM that entérs the Rules Com © powers of the Lockwood Committes, | So aS