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

, the common good; we Ry BaD) ai aad ae TAT Te To-Night’s Weather-—SHOWERS, WARMER. COMPLE RENT LAW DECISION ETE ae ALLIES OCCUPY THREE RHINE CITIES COURT OF APPEALS HOLDS _NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, MARCH “8, 19 21. Post Office, Entered as SecondsClass Matter New York, Ne ¥. — ALL NEW YORK RENT LAWS TO BE CONSTITUTIONAL Decision Very Sweeping, Coy- ering All Aspects of the Housing Laws. ONE JUDGE DISSENTS. Includes Even Dispossess Pro- ceedings Stayed by Agree- ment Before Oct. (Staff Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) ALBANY, March $.—The constitu- tiona of New York State legisla- ion deuling with the housing situa- tion in New York City, “which pro- vides that until Oct. 1, 1922, no land- shall charge an nor recover possession of ity unreasonable ie dord ren property, except in certain cases, from | any tenant, was upheld in all respects af the Court af Appeals to-day by to1 ‘The opinion, which was written by Judge Pound, says: “The conclusion is, in the light of * present theories of the police Lower, that the State may fegulate a busi nese, however honest in itself, if it \s W instrument of that the busi- or may become an widespread oppression; ness of renting homes In the city of New York is emergently such an in- is rument and has therefore become subject to control by the public for that the regulation of rents and the suspension of posses- sory remedies so far tend to accom~ plish the purpose as to supervene the Constitutional inhibitions relied upon defeat the laws before us. . “The order appealed from should be affirmed with costs." * ‘The decision is very sweeping, cov- ering not only the.broad questions presented but also actions for rent on leases executed after April 1, 1920, as well as dispossess proceedings in which stays had been agreed on. be- fore Oct. # 1920. Chief Judge Hiscock and Judges an, Cardozo and Andrews con curred in Judge Pound's opinion, Judge Crane concurred in the result | in @ brief opinion of his own basing | circumstances due to war conditio only, and Judge Me- Laughlin dissented on the ground that the legislation was ,objectionabla on all the grounds stated by tho land~ fords. The decision means that the New York legislation dealing with the housing situation in New York City, which provides that no landlord, ex- cept in a few specified cases, can re- cover his property from any tenant who pays a reasonable rent, his vote on (Continued on piven teth Page.) PRIEST DIES § AT PRAYER. Monastery, Kingsbridge, Stricken at Mani even after the expiration of the term of ev, Hilary Walsh of St. Patrick's io EVENING WORLD IN UPHOLDING LAW the | @ most sweeping one and extended | congfatulations \ The Evening | World for its great work in aiding | the passage of the measures, STRIKE ENJOINED, ALSO PICKETING BY GARMENT WORKERS Skolny & “Co, Wit Win in Fight Against Union in Sweeping Decision by Justice Erlanger. Supreme Court Justice Erlanger to- day enjoined the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America from conduct- | ing a strike against Joseph Skoiny & clothing manufactur | factory at No, 906 Broadway and two factories in Brooklyn. Justice Er- langer forbids picketing of the shops of the plaintiff in one of the most im- ant and sweeping strike | po decisions handed down in the local*vourts since | the war, Joseph Skolay & Co., which employs 400 operatives and does a business of about $3,000,000 a year, asked for an otder restraining the union from in- terfering with their business pendin: | the |the trial of a sult against the union for $250,000 damages. The petition was for an directed against Hillman, General President of mated, the officers and members of 1ocal unions, . Jusilce Erlanger denied a motion to | dismiss the complaint of the clothing manufacturers, and granted the mo- tion for an injunction pendente lite. Last year the Skolny firm decided to run its business on the principle of the “open shop.” The firm serted that it so notified the Amalg mated on Jun, 27 last and then en- tered into written contracts with its employees not to become members of the clothing workers other labor organization. “mn violation of the contract rig’ of the plaintiff,” says Justice langer in his opinion, “and contrary to the term of sald contracts of em- ployment, and without complaint, grievance or dispute among said em ployees, and with the intent and’ pur- op any | (Continued on Ds ond Page.) BABIES COME EIN BUNCHES. IS CONGRATULATED | BoD! Soon after the bodies were partly | identitied through papers found in| MeCurdy's pockets and marks on the} girl's clothing, Charles H. Mills of No. 498 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, app the Arsenal Station, He said he was engaged to marry Miss| Snowden and had given her the dia-| mond engagement ring which was found on her finger, She had com SHOOTS RL DEAD, ENDS HS LIFE I CENTRAL PARK McCurdy, Surety Co. Manager, Infatuated With His Office Assistant. SIDE BY. SID Love Notes to Miss Snowden |Sehator Lockwood Declares ; amd Kipling’s “Vampire” Court's Decision Is a Most . }y Gpurtis Decision: in Dead Man’s Pocket. | Sweeping Victo | Specks) From zs teed We mondient of The The bodies of Willis E. MoeCurdy, | ALBANY, Mareh 6. head of the personnel department of | ENATOR CHARLES cy | the American Surety Company, No. | LOCKWOOD said that the 0 ead e L | vidtory Pahatihe Housing > on Broudway, and Miss Alice K Laws in the Court of Appeals was |Showden, twenty years old, his as- sistant and stenograph er, were founa | this morning by Policeman McClinch in q Secluded spot behind a rock near the lake in Central Park known s “Japanese Point." Both had be va shot through the head. An auio- matic pistol from which two shols| had been fired lay between them. A handkerchief clenched in the gitis) right hand indicated that the shots! had: been fired’ by the man’s land | nmather than hers, A sheaf of notes, written in al dum slips such as might be pasved | across an office desk surreptitiously, | found in MoCurdy’s pockets. | They were signed “Alice,” and allj indicated strong feeling for the per- | son to whom they were written, One f them noted by the police as char- acteristic of all read: “I simply can- not walt until I see you to-night I love you—Alice.” With these slips was a letter in an unaddressed envelope, apparently in McCurdy’s handwriting, which began, was Dear Man—I do love you. I know I am a fool, but I cannot help it." There was also a copy of Kipling’s “Vampire,” with the opening lin ‘A fool there was’ underscored At the offices of the American Surety Company nobody could be found to- day who would admit ever having sus- pected a secret romance between Mc- ho was thirty-two and had a ‘dan eight-year-old daughter at First Ayenlue, Astoria, and Miss Snowden. They frequently left the office together when their work was over for the day, as was natural, their associates thought, 3 (Continued on Tenth Page.) a RR. HEADS CONFER WITH MEN OVER CUT Representatives of 35,000 Unskilled Workmen Meet New York ° Central Official. of 35,000 unskilled New York Central Representatives employees of the Lines met to-day with managers of the railroad at the Grand Central Terminal to discuss a contemplated reduction in anging from 13 to 20 cents an W. J. Fripp, New York manag: road, and A. S, Ingalls, manager nes west of Buffalo, presided hour of the of the jointly, stles were presented to explain ),| Mother With Twins Followed by While Kneeling in prayer at mass in One With Triplet the chapel of St, Patrick's Monastery of (Special to The Bypning Wucld > the Passionist Fathers) Sedgwick Ave-) pouyroRD, RL, Maren $.—Whil nue, near Kingsbric ad, the Bronx. | yp grank ‘T. Cale? was busy at the this. morning Hilary Walsh] ome of Mr. and irs, Longl Christoph muddeniy toppled = vs une lous. There, th belng the arrival Father Alexia, the superior at the MOn-| win pables, « boy and girl, witghing watery, weve first ald treatment, but total 143-4 pounds, tae phone was busy when Dr, Boyd arrived from his home | cating: nt across Rehoboth 11 nearby he prondunced th priest dead! where soon after h arrival three lit from heart: failure. Father the Paasioniat twenty =f for Walnh pag been a member of | girls weighing four pounds each were made nara. a at the home of Mr and iss and dotw- mothers are ane the reduction was justified by the 1¢ d cost of living. No definite action wan taken or date set for the cut |though April 1 hua been suggested | There will be anok meeting March The worker# will take the proposal | back to the men for an expression | The unskilled “employees Include sta | ton mon, clerks and com) passers. Their MRS. W. E. D. STOKES WHO TESTIFIED IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE Rs WE D STOKES STUYVESANT BOYS, WELLDRILLED, END - HIGH SCHOOL FIRE Forging Machine Fills Cor- ridors and Rooms. Boiling oll burst into flame in @ forging machine in a classroom at the High School, 16th Street, this morning and smoke began to pour through corridors and rooms. Stuyvesant East principal was instant and efficiont. One student ran to the second floor and notified the principal, Dr. Paul Von Nardors, who sounded the school fire alarm, The well drilled students responded with true military snap and in less than three minutes the school had been emptied of 3,600 boys with- out a sign of disorder. Meanwhile the students in the forg- ing class, under the direction their teacher, Ernest Schwartzkopf, dumped eand on the blazing oi! and succeeded in blanketing the flames, exhaust fa the smoke and sent it p, which sucked from the room and halls through the ventilating tus into the streets n alarm had been turned in, but When the apparatus arrived most of |the excitement was over emen carried dit the machine containing! the burning oll and dumped the oll in the gutter, where it was quickly extinguished. Studies were resumed a short time after the of the oll. Mr. the fire was caused by a spark from | a nearby anvif or that another forg- ing machine set fire to the oil He declared the oil had a “fash point” of | 800 degrees, its temperature ITALY IMPORTS SPAGHETTI FROM UNITED STATES! present wages under un award made by the War Labor Boord lest year run trom W & 00 conte an baties Forced to Tur to This Country to Get Kind That Pleases Her Palate Best. ALY is importing spaghettt from th 1 States, Fifty tons of (500 caxcw, or enough to make half a million liberal platefuls-—were In the hold of the steamship Princess Stu toika when she sailed trom New York to-day for Naples and other Mediterranean po Italy formerly secured from sm supiey Semolina pat, a hard grade, for the man ufacture of spaghetti, but internal troubles in fussia cut off tne supply. America now products the same grade of wheat and also map the spaghetti. oN | Mrs. | Threatened to Shoot ‘Her if j was | Mr. The action of students, teachers and | of) Mr. Schwartzkopf then set in motion| ja large original flash] Schwartzkopf said he believed | but ignited to-day when| was only 675 degrees. | SAW MRS STOKES. KISS COUSIN “HAL AND PAY HIS BILLS Witnes Testifie: in Divorce They Were Nurse, Case, | Very Affectionate. CAlLED HER “CARROTS Stokes, She Swears, She “Told on Her,” ‘The variably figures on the witness stand naid or nurse who almost in- in prominent domestic entanglements not missing when the action W. E. D. Stokes has brought against his-wife came to trial to-day | before Justice Fineh lm the Supreme Court, ‘This one was Juliette Gass- | ner, who used to take care of the two | Stokes children, and she told all ehe knew of Mrs, Stokes's comings and |eoin sige those with whom. .she time when Mr. Stokes was A Py her company, She reélated much about Mrs. Stokes's cousin, Hal | Baie, who is named as one of the | co-respondents, telling of week-end | trips in Colorado, on which, however, which woman's Nandwriting on memoran-/ Smoke From Flaming Oil inj the stokes children and Mra. Stokes's | sister always went. Also she told of a party on one New Year's Eve when Stokes ordered Billig out of the Stokes residence, ‘That night Mr. | stokes nailed up the door leading to ‘hig wife's room. But the sensation of the day, aside from bits of testimohy here and there, | was the appearance of Mrs, Stokes on | the stand as the first witness. She was asked to identify a batch of pho- tographs of herself and various friends, some of the pictures having been taken three years before she was married to Mr, Stokes, The pictures showed her in white overalls working in a garden and also skylarking with one of the male members of a Wis- consin house party. Mrs, Stokes could not even remember the names of some of the people in the pictures. Mrs. Stokes, a ‘handsome young woman, was modishly dressed in fur cape, brown velvet hat and lace looking not unlike a fashion 4 French paper. She was called to the stand by | Francis Wellman, Mr. Stokes's attor- ney, but as soon as ghe had answered | his first question, ad to her marriage, waist plate in Jon Feb. 8, 1911, Martin W, Littleton, ler attorney, arose in immediate ob- jectioi Mr. LitUleton protested vgainst he calling of the defendant jas an a mpt of Mr. Wellman to shield h n client by not putting e stand. But the Court ttleton and the ques- S okes proceeded examination Mr. Stokes the Intter on overruled Mr. i yning of M During t | (Continued on Second Page.) |NATIONAL L CITY BANK AIDS ARE ARRESTED Seized in Connection With Disap- pearance of $100,000 in Matanzas, Cuba. HAVANA, Cuba, March 8.—Three employees of the Matanzas branch of the National City Bank of New York were placed under arrest last night in connection with the disappearance of $100,000 In currency from a regis- tered mall package supposed to con- tain $219,000 sent from the Matanzas branch of the bank last Saturday, ‘The men under arrest are the pay- | ing teller, the receiving teller and his | assistant | Loss ey was not discov Jered until the package reached the | Havana bank » bore no evidence tampered » enroute shortage o had bom disc ered in a registered mpall/packuge sent trom the Matangas branch, butt { bank bad not Been notified of the a employees, rea, Of any i ‘CHARGES HIS WIFE CHEWS TOBACCO |Also Smokes Cigars—Offered to) Give Them Up if He Quit Cigarettes. Lacy B. Mow Stpreme Court Eckstein applied to Justice Van Sicien in Brooklyn to-day for 4d alimony an: |counsel fees pending trial of her ac tion for separation from her husband, | Bernard, of N | Jersey City | Eokstein stated in bis affidavit that | | his wife smoked cigurs and chewed tobacco “When I told her to stop,” he swore, “she said to me: ‘You smoke ciga ettes, don't you? 76 Montgomery Street, | smoking cigarettes 1 will stop smok- ing cigars and chewing tobacco Decision was reserved. PETROGRAD IS HELD IN MOSCOW STRIKE Ex-Premier Kerensky Said to Be Directing Operations ‘ at Kronstadt. - LONDON, March $ (United Press) —All Bolshevik commissaries in Pet- rograd have been killed or taken prisoner by revolutionaries, accord- ing to Foreign Office advices to-day Despatches from Helsingfors con firmed reports that all Petrograd, ex- cept the fortress of Saints Peter and Paul, was in rebel hands. LONDON, March 8 (Associated Press).—During a recent bombardment of the workmen's quarters in Moscow from artillery placed on the hills over- looking the city, says a Central News despatch from Helsingtors to-day, sev- eral hundred persons were killed and numbers of others wounded. More than 100,000 men and women, the despatch asserts, are now on strike in Moscow. fi ‘The bombardment, says the mes sage, followed a call for a general strike issued by leaders of the work- men, and a demand for the immediate convocation of the Constituent Assem- bly. COPENHAGEN, March §,—Alexan- der Kerensky, Premier of the Russian Provisional Government, which was | overturned by the Bolshevik late in 1917, is said to be at Kronstadt, Ker- ensky, it is declared, is direoting the revolutionary offensive against Petro- grad, with that fortress HBLINGSFORS, Finland, a bage Mareh & (Associated Prest).—The revolution aries are bombarding Petrograd and Soviet batteries at Revonnena and ‘Tarbovka are bombarding Kronstadt, gays # despatch from Viborg ceived her Red troops, aided by Chinese mer- cenaries, attempted to stem a rebel (Continued on Tenth Page.) as HEITLER CONVICTED IN WHISKEY DEAL Found Guilty in U. S. Court of Conspiracy to Violate Pro- hibition Law, CHICAGO, March § ike de Pike” Heitier and five others were found guilty by @ jury in Federal Court, here to-day of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law ina $200,000 whiskey deal. Six defendants were freed. Ae! >. No Nesre Troovs Sent to Rhine ide PARIS, Maro’ tod Preaw) Leas the were used in carrying on of add | tonal German ter way stared at the Foreign Offive this afternoon Goiontal forces ani no negro trovpal whatever were inciuded in this num-! ber, so that the Germans would have go bass for criliclam om this ground, | Well, when you stop | BY REBELS; 100,000 re-| | | Br SNCH MILITARY (A’ the Allies had announced they was carried out toalay carry out Its obligations. PLAN ANNOUNCED To Be, Made Into “One nious, Well Balanced and Effec- tive Force,” Weeks S: WASHINGTON, March 8.—The policy of the War Department under the new Administration contemplates organization of the Nation's military forees into “one harmonious, well \balanced and effective army, consixt- ing of the Regular Army, the Na- tional Guard and the organized re- serves,” Secretary Weeks announced to-day. ‘The Regular Army and (he Guard will be developed to th authorized by law, the announcement said, and the reserves will be organ- ined a8 divisions and avxil with full officer complement and eut. | PENNSYLVANIA R. R. | HAS LAID OFF 61,000 Total Number duced From 279,000 to 218,090 Since December. PHILADPLPHIA, Maresh & —It was learned at the Pennsylvania Railroad offices here to-day that \uince the company began its re trenchment policy last 61,000 men oughout from 2 |ONE-HALF OF BREAD 1S SHORT WEIGHT ,000 to Were Tested Failed to Balance Scale. ALBANY, N March §.—More than half of ves of bread weighed ently by agents of the Foods and Markets division of the D partment of Farms and Markets were under weight, Commissioner Bugene N. Porter made known to-day Investigation into the weight of wrapped loaves showed. he said, tha out 1187 tested, 680 were short weight from one-half ounce to one-half pound, 28% were overwMight and 186 | welgned exactly arked Harding Selects Personal Phy " SVABHINGTON, March &—Pretden: sawyer Mave {ersonal phy siglan and expects to nomina jfor the rapk of Urigadier Gen tae Areey diced Saree Recheck Harmo- | ational | strength | NORESISTANGE BY GERMANS. ~ASALLIED FORCES MARCH IN; NO DISORDER 1S REPORTED ry \French Commander Establishes Headquarters Near Duesseldorf and Issues Proclamation’ Saying Movement Is Not Hostile—Offers Aid to Workers, Especially in Food. HEAD@WUARTERS, MAYENCE, March 8 ciated Press).—Occupation ot the additional German territory which would take possession of the penalties for Germany's failure to meet the Allied reparation demands No belligerent incident marked the are move of the Allied troops, so far as reports show * Gen. DeGioutte issued a proclamation Iu whieh be dectdred theSecupation was not a measure of hostility ugainst-the populay*~ tion, but one intended to compel the Government of Germany to No obstacle would be raised against the carrying on of the economic life of the region, he declared, and the Allied authorities were ready to aid the workers in ime i proving their condition, especially as regarded provisioning, ——e@ = The occupation of the city of Dues ARMY ORGANIZATION “or taken over, was completed this morn= ing, and that of Duisburg and Rub- ] rort, comprising togethey the chief 7 | port of the Ruhr com and industrial ~~ region, this aternoon. fi The entire movement was effected Y in a way to obviate, so fur as possi- ’ Ra of Employees Re- th as one of the largest of. the ities ble, a show of force, but the Frengh and British Rhine flotillas were pre« pared for eventualities. ‘The troops moved forward afoot, im camions and on board French and British river ¢raft, The Belgian troops entered Duesseldorf by way of the bridge over the Rhine, The nch and British proceeded by way ot the Cologne bridgehead, marching along the east bank of the Rhine and entering Duesseldorf from the south ry troope, | and east. Duisburg was occupied by French ficient enlisted strength to be capable) an4 Belgian troops, while possession ot rapid: rperuitinedt t¢ full strength.| of Runrort was taken by the Allied Rhine fotiila ‘The headquarters of Gen. De Goutte, who as Cammuander in Chief of the Freneh forves along the Rhine carcied out (he orders from Marshal Foch for advance, are situated at Neuss, on the west bank of the Rhine, oppa- site Duesseldorf. At Duesseldorf the inhabitants were warned in @ proclamation by the | Mayor against taking @ provocative jattitude toward the Allied forces. | | | him |indifferenc } in Passed. Later Gen, Beurein of the Belgian Army December, | assumed command at Duisburg and the system|Ruhrort, The Pench contingent of have been laid off up to March 1, re- | ocoupation ts a battalion of chassours, ducing the total number of employees | who arrived in river craft, disem~ barking at the Ruhrort docks, The military experienced no difficulties with the German railroads, traffic on which moved smoothly without ex ception, 680 Out of 1,137 Loaves That AMERICAN TROOPS STAY AT COBLENZ AS THE ALLIES MOVE ON Economic Penalties Already Belay Enforced at: Duesseldorf om Onder of Lloyd George, DUBSSELDORP, March 8 (Asso- ciated Press,)—~The American troopa” in the Coblenx area are remaining at their oid positions order®™ from, Washington. Duesselforf was quietly entered by Allied troops early to-day, { Many curioun persons! were on the street corners, if they had been waiting up all night for the event, wh but théy only looked with app at 4.