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

To-Night’s Weather—RAIN, WORLD! ‘INAL EDITION PRRITCENCRMRIERET COLDER. — = enter ‘VOL. LXI. NO. 21,683—DAILY. Copyright, 1924, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). VCTORY FOR Sweeping Decree of Appeals Court a Knockout for Greedy Landlords. PROTECTS THE FAIR. Every Honest Tenant Now Need ‘Have No Fear of Evic- tion or Profiteering. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) ALBANY, March 9.—The emergency remt laws stand, The Court of Ap-! peals by a 6 to 1 decision upholds every one of them on every point, a vietary of the most sweeping nature for The Evening World in the fight ft bas waged for more than two years agninst the grasping and greedy land- lords, ‘The jegisiation, which was drafted by the Lockwood Comnuttee and passed after one of the most sensa- tiona] battles ever witnessed in Al- bany, is thoroughly vindicated in the decision banded down yesterday by the highest tribunal in the State. The laws, which were made to cover one of the greatest emergencies New York City has ever known, are declared constitutional in every particular. As @ consequence every honest tenant, willing to pay a fair rent, is safe from eviction or extortion by a profiteering landlord for at least another year. ng No landlord may cject a tenant on! any flimsy prevext, for the purpose} ot gaining a higher rent for his flat/ or apartment. He canpot avail him- self of the favor of the Municipal Courts to throw a family into the street. HONEST TENANT NEED NOT FEAR EVICTION, Summary proceedings, the terror of the podr tenan®, have been abolished for at least another year, and there is doubt if ever again the City Marsha! shall exercise the power ef his star to frighten poor families inte submission to a profiteering landlord. The landlord cannot even take bis tenant into the Supreme Court on a writ of ejectment for the purpose of raising his rent. Tenants who bave been forced under doress to sign new leases, pending the legislation which was to free them from their thralidom, can now refuse to pay the increased rent.and it will be % the landlord's interest to listen to offers of less from their harassed temante, That is what the decision of the court means to them. But there is nothing in the de- ision of the highest tribunal which need cause worry to the honest landlord. No tenant can avoid paying rent. The landlord im still entitled to a fair return, The taw, as it now stands, does (Continued on Second Page.) me TWO POWERS'S AIDS SLAIN IN CHICAGO N. Y. Gunmen Believed Implicated fin Murder of Polifician’s “Lieu- tenants’ —Police Guard Homes, CHICAGO, March 9.+Rewards of $5,000 wore offered to-day by Alderman Powers of the 19th Ward for the tre of the men who yesterduy shot an tilled two of his political Lieuten- ant Pau! A. Labriola and Harry Ray- mom, One man was under arrest to- aay. Four gunmen said to have been imported trom New York were report- ed to have been connected with the shooting. Police were detailed to guard the home of ‘Tony’ Girardi, another Pre- HIGHEST COURTS DECISION ON RENT LAWS HAILED AS EVENING WORLD MRS. W. E. D. STOKES ON WAY TO COURT IN DIVORCE CASE CREDIT IS GIVEN TO EVENING WORLD BY EX-GOV. SMITH Offers “Congratulations for One of Best Fights for the People Made by a Newspaper.” (@pccia) to The Droning Wortd.) AUBANY, Maroh 9.—By ooinci- dence former Governor A. B. Smith, who signed the emergency rent laws, wae at the Capitol when the dectsion of the Court of Appeals upholding them was an- nounced. “Good.” he cried. “No better or more just decision could be de- sired. I decinred my belief in the constitutionalliyyof the mea- sures when I signed\them. The decision relieves bundreds of thousamds of tenants in Greater New York. “My congratulations to The Pvening World for having made one of the best fights for the peo- ple ever attempted by any news- paper in the world.” COUSIN “HAL” JUST WALKED RIGHT INTO NR, STOKES ROOM No Formalities at Denver; Saw Them Kiss and Hug on a Stairway, Nurse Swears. BIG CROWD AT TRIAL. Principals in Suit Have Hard Time ta Force Their Way to Court Room. So great is the interest—or curios- ity—in the Stokes divorce trial in the Supreme Court that when it came time fot the resumption of to-day’s session at 2 o'clock ,the corridor of the Court House adjoining the door of Part I. of Special Term, where the case is on trial was so crowded that the services of extra court attend- ants were necessary to clear u way for Mrs, Stokes and ber husband, who is bringing sult againet her, gad the various witnesses who had beep summoned, ‘The crowd not only banked iteslf about Justice Finch’s door, but ail the way up the etatroase to the floor above. , When Mrs, Stokes arrived she hesi- tated in the rotunda near the court toonf, secing no way of entering the court. Finally it was necessary for those whe accompanied her to force a way through che mass. The star witnesses, Juliette Gass- mer, bad a somewhat caster time since the crowd, having seen Mra. Stokes, was more or less appeased for the day. Mr, Littleton, the cross-questioner in behalf of Mrs, Helen Elwood Stokes, asked the witness first about a visit of “Hal” Billig to the home of Mrs. Stokes's mother, Mrs. Miller, m Denver, in 1917 when, according w her direct testimony, he had entered Mrs, Stokes’s reom unannounced when she was only partly dressea. The witness caid that this was on Aug. 17 after the party, of which Mrs. Stokes and Billig were the principal members, had returned from a trip to Yellowstone Park. Q. Was Mrs, Stokes’s door closed? A. Yes; she was undressing. Q. What happened then? A. Mrs, Stokes said, “Wait a minute,” after which Mr. Billig entered the room and closed the door. Mrs. Stokes put on a light kimono and sat down, Mr, Billig walked around. I went into an adjoining room. Q. At Troutville, Col, you said Mr. Billig entered Mrs, Stokes's room in her bungalow in much the same way? A. Yes, in July, 1917, in the morning. Q. By the Court: Had you seen any instance of undue: intimacy between Mrs. Stokes and Mr. Billig before he walked into her room in Troutville’ (Continued on Tenth Page.) World. Hershkoft. cinot Captain for Alderman Powers in the recent Aldermanic -elgetions, __ the Joint Legislative Committee. et etdehem perce tet LOCKWOOD CREDITS EVENING WORLD FOR COURT VICTORY IN RENT CASES Says Support Given by This Paper to the Joint Legislative Committee Was Con- sistent and/Powerful. Albany, March 9. To the Editor of The Evening World: The sweeping victory in the rent cases in the Court of Appeals to- day is a wonderful tribute to the consistent and powerful support given the Joint Legislative Committee on Housing by The Evening The decision demonstrates that the Constitution will protect the people in time of great emergency and distress. Great credit is due, by the people of the city, to your paper. All of these cases were most ably argued in the lower courts, the Appellate Division, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States, without any char; tral Newton, William D, Guthrie, Jullus Henry Cohen and Bernard Great credit {s due also to Elmer G. Sammis, couns whatever, by Attorney Gen- ot CHARLES G. LOCKWOOD, Miter NEW YORK, W Tye ater EDNESDAY, MARCH 9, WHITE RUSSIA IN REVOLT: gad iooe tS ra , Parts of Kronstadt Said: to, Be in Flames—Garrisons Join in Revolt. NEW RISING PREDICTED. Savinkoff Declares It Will Oc- cur This Spring — Czar’s Brother Leading in Siberia, WARSAW. March 9% (Associated Press.)—The White Ruthenians have proclaimed their independence from Russia, according to @ Minsk report received here to-day. ‘ TROTZKY BESIEGED IN BI PETROGRAD FORT, [S REPORT (The Ruthenians meant probably are those inhobiting what i known as White Russia, comprising the Gouth- western Russian provinces, centering ‘upon Minsky.) ~ It 1s reported 4 imited number of Bolshevik troops. rushed to White Ru- thenia to suppress the uprisings bave jolned the insurrectioniste without firing @ shot The Ruthenians proposed to as- semble a Legislature in Vitebsk early in May, but they plan later to make Minsk their capital. For months the RutWenians have been clamoring for &@ separate State and declared their independence when encouraged by the news of outbreaks clsewhere in Russia. COPENHAGEN, March 9.—Petro- grad is reported to be in the hands of revolutionaty forces which for sev- eral days have been fighting against Russian Bolshevik troops near that city, says a despatch from Helsing- fors received here this morning. The revolutionary forces were vic- torious, the despatch declares, after a terrific bombardment of Petrograd from Cronstadt, Krasnoya Gorko and Systerbak, which was followed by machine gun battles in the streets of the cfty. Ancther version of the situation in Petrograd is given in a despatch from Helsingfors, dated to-day. This says that fighting is continuing in the streets and that War Minister Trotzky and M. Zinovieff, the Sovict Governor of Petrograd. were reported to have taken refuge im the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, surrounded by a large number of protective troops, All attempts by the revolutionaries to capture this fortress, the message says, were repulsed. “Gen. Brusiloff (former Comnwn- der in Chief of the Russian Armics in the late stages of Russia's par- tcipation {n the European war) et- fected an organization of the Soviet troops in the city,” continues the des- atch, “and ordered a mixed regi ment of Fidnish and Chinese to clea: the streets. The revolutionaries. however, refused to on the Finns, who jolned the revoluvionar- ies, the latter repulstng the Chinese. “Moscow is reported quiet, with Lenine remaining inside the Kremito jssuing orders for arrests, which are eceurring by hundreds.” HELSINGFORS, March 9 (United fire (Continued on Second Page.? BUILDING COSTS GO DOWN. Lowent Bid Last November 820,000; Now 816,872. A hig dectine in building costs was re- struction Commission opened bids for a statrway from the Borough Hall Sub- way etation to an Isle of Safety outside Borough Hall, Brooklyn. The same job was advertised last No- vember and the lowest bid then was nearly $20,000, Al! bids were reject at that time in the nz could be made by waiting. To-dey t jowest bid was $16,872, offered by [@tattery Engineering and Constr beltef that a say ! U.S. CANNOT STOP MAKING OF LIQUOR NOT A BEVERAGE Ruling by Dept. of Justice Lifts Limit Also on Sale of Booze. WASHINGTON, March %—The Government is without authority tu Prohibit or limit the manufacture and ele of liquors, wines or beer for non- deverage purposes, according to an opinion “by the Attorney "General, made public ta-day by the internal Reverue Bureau. . The opinion, one ef the most com- prohensive dealing with the question of Prohibition. expressly states that there must be no limitation en the use of liquors for non-beverage pur- poses, except that prescribed by Congress in limiting the sale of spirituous liquors to one pint for fen days. The question of limitation thus, the opinion said, is left to the good faith of. the physictan. “Subject to this limitation.” the opinion continued, “obviously there has been committed, not to the judg- ment of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury, but to the professional judgment, of the physician. the ques- tion of t@\guantity of liquor that may be w fo advantage as a medi- cine in each case. “As to this question I think the intention waa to leave the phyvician unfettered by Governmenta! control, ‘but subject to be dealt with crimi- nally and by revocation of his permit if be acts in bad faith.” ‘The opinion, existence of which be- came known Sunday, was signed by the then Attorney Gencral Palmer. and was dated March 3. Commissioner Williams in making Public the opinion did so without comment, saying that he had not had opportunity to discuss the eubject with Prohibition = Commissioner Kramer, and therefore ‘had prepared no regulations to carry out the con- struction of the law by Mr. Palmer, He said, however, that the bureau would gtve the matter its immediate attention and expected to prepare Some regulations at a very early date. Mr. Palmer also held that the Gov- ernment was without authority to limit the number of permits to manu- facture or sell within any State or locality "I cannot bolieve.” he sald, “that it was the infention that the executive officers should have authority to say that one reputable druggist in a com- munity should have « permit and an- other equally reputable should not.” With respect to sales at wholeeate for any non-beverage purpose, Mr Palmer said: “On the whole; I am of optnion | that there is no authority to limit the ‘number of permits, either locally or for the country 2s 4 whole, because the Commissioner and Secretary of the Treasury may be of opinion that a farger numbér are not negessary.” vealed to-day when the Transit Con-| Dry Entorcem Bills Reportea. | ALBANY, Murch %.—The Mullan- Gage Prohibition Enforcement Bil, | which are designed to carry out Gov. Miller's recommendations for State en- forcoment of the Eighteenth Amend. ment, were reported favorably by the Senate Judictary mittee to-day. The vote was 1) to a TRE WORLD TRAVEL BURRAD. 1921. j “Circulation Books Open ra ‘All| GERMAN GOODS TO BE SEIZED BY AL Che | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ To-Morrow’s Weather-GLEARING, COLDER, SEUUREOF HALE THE VALUE. F THE EXPORTS OF GERMANY NEXT MOVE OF THE ALLIES HARDING INVITES ROOT'S AID ON HIS Former Secretary to Negotiate for a New Association of Nations. WILL GO ABROAD SOON. Expected to Save Some of the Features. of the Present Covenant. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, March 9 (copy- right, 1931).—President Harding has asked Blibu Root to assist in shaping the poligy of the United States to- ward Europe, particularly in connec- tion with the association of nations. Whether Mr. ‘Root will go abroad as head Of « special mission or will slay On this gide as the Ameri delegate to un international ¢6) ence of diplomats is undetermined, but the chances are that Mr, Root will sail for Buropt just a& soom as the Harding Administration is ready to take the European Governments into its conference. While this kind of negotintion or- dinarily would be conducted by Amer- ican Ambussadors and | Ministers abroad, ali of them were appointed by the Wileon Administration, and it 18 not feasible to put into the hands of the new appointees such @ delicate task until they have had a thance to be on the ground Jong efough to famtliarize themselves with European conditions, ROOT ALREADY EQUIPPED TO DO THE WORK, Elibu Root spent many months ‘in Europe last summer in conneetion with the making of the International Court of Justice, and he already has all the background and knowledge necessary to negotdate with foreign Governments. Not only has he beon Secretary of State, but he represnted the United States at the Second Hague Conference, and is perhaps the best equipped American to-day to deal with international lawyers, diplomats and treaty experts, Mr. Root has not sought office, bor is he eger to accept any per- manent post «broad, an has been urged by #0 many of his friends, but he told Mz. Harding he would ren- der any aasistance he could in mat- ters of foreign policy. There is a close friendship between Secretary Charles Evans Hughes and Mr, Raot and there |s every assurance of Go-operation between them. Of course, Mr. Root is friendly to the existing League of Nations, and while he never did subscribe to the covenant, advocating reservations similar to thowe proposed by Senator Lodge, he does believe that mucb of the ma®}inery of the present League can be maintained. Mr. Root wrote the Republican Nationa! Convention's platform on foreign policy, pledging (Continued on Page Fourteen.) WAR DEAD OF 71ST DUE HERE MONDAY | Honor Escort of Local Regiment to Meet Bodies of 500 Comrades | Slain in Battle. The bodies of 600 mombers of the Diet Regiment are due New York Monday un the army transport Somme from Calais, France. An escort of honor from the 27th Division will meet the bodies at Hoboken and Chaplains of the 27th will hold memorial services on the pier, The Samme te bringing « tota! of 1,596 American soldiers’ bodies from France, it was said at the Ho | boken army base in _ 1s for 810,000,000 of Higtwe: | ALBANY, March 9,—Bills appropriat- Batered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New Kerk, N. ¥. ne pouces © EW REVOLUTION IN WHITE RUSSIA REPORTED Bonar Law Announces in Commons That Bill Authorizing This Step Will Be Introduced—Soldiers Keep Order in Occupied Cities. BERLIN, March 9 (United Press\)—British warships were reporied lo have been sighted off Cuxhaven. (British blockading of German the Allies in enforcing obedience to the reparativns terms.) LONDON, March 9.—Means the Allies will take to extract the required reparations from Germany were revealed to-day by Andrew Bonar’ law, Government leader in the House of Commons. Bonar Law announced that a bill for the seizure of G0 per cent. of the value of German exports, He sta’ that immediate passage of the bill will be urged, since trade will be suspended for the time + —$<—$<— $$ From French sources it was learnea Ing $10,000,800 for hignway improve ment purposes were introduced i the Legisiature to-day by Senator Chacine | ‘Assemblyman Jozspa | PRESENT ON RHINE Will Not Participate, However, in Occupation of Additional German. Territory. WASHINGTON, Mareb 9. MERICAN troops will be kept on the Rhine until the flare-up between the Allies and Germany over repura- tions is settind, according to best information here to-day. President Harding had planned to call in the American Army of Oom:pation of Germany at once upon assuming office, but the ex- wting situation, it is understood, makes this inadvisable at present. A withdrawal now might be mis- interpreted by the Allies. ‘There is no intention, however, of peroritting the American troops to partictpate in the cocupation of additional German territory. —=_——— NO GERMAN PROTEST SENT TO THE LEAGUE None Is Expected, It Is Said at Headquarters at Geneva. GENEVA, Mareb 9 (Associated Press).—The League of Nations has received no appeal. from Germany against application of the Allied: pem- ales, None tm expected, said officials of the League to-day, particularly as Germany is not a member of the Leagud “A Ne Exciteme im Bertie Over Sets- ure of Cities, BERLIN, March 9 (Associated Press) —The public in the streets of Berlin ovtwardly gave no indications of resent- ment to-day at the Emtente occupation of additional German territory. ‘The Reighstag also has refused to get excited and has settled down to con- sideration of the regular calendar, after listening to Chancellor Fehrenbach's statement concerning the breaking off of the London negotiations and voting down a niotion by radicals to have the London deliberations discussed in plen- | ary session The Foreign Minister is being sharply | attacked In a section of the Nationalist press for failing to make a sterner pro- test against the acoumtion of war guilt. | He is known to have the solid backing of the Cabinet. STORM WARNING: GALE DUE. Strong Southerly Winds Predicted To-Night or To-Merrew. = | The lora!l Weather Bureau to-day re | ceived une following storm warning from Washington: | “Small craft warning: fresh and) strong southerly winds, shifting tol thwest late to-night or Thuraday a ia is Prt pa : ; : | ——— = ports was & measure discussed ty will be introduced shorUly providing with Germagy that even more exiéfsive invasion of Germany ts being urged in the hope tut Germany at just) will agree to! y paying something liko the great mum demanded by the Alligd, ‘ German. A abasanders, are leaving the Allied capitals to-lay, bat « sccrélarion were left ip. charge, ine dicaling Ure envoys wete returning to Berlin merely for conferences with Governinent heads, ,. j pale? A GERMAN WORKERS AT DUESSELDORF | REFUSE TO STRIKE There are 7,000 ‘Allied Troops im Occupied Regi, but Business Is Uninterrupted. DUPSSELLDORF, March 9 (Asso- ctated Preus).—Although 7,000 French, » British and Belgian soldiers were to- day occapying Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Rahrort, the peopte of those cities were proceeding about their usual af fairs in apparent utter indifference to | the prewence of the Allied forces. There were no signs to-day of any | immediass iabor movement by Ger- man workmen as ap outcome of the occupation, the effort of agitators to bring on the long-threatened general strike in protest against the imposi- tioa of the Allied penaities having: ~ failed. ‘This refusal of the workmen to wtrike is attributed by the leaders to the poverty of the men, which would not admit of their existance, . without their daily wage. ‘The tem- per: of the laborers in the Eanen dis- trict wm reported euch that it is” feared ‘the agitation may develop « ménacing situdtion there. AlMed troopa to the number of 5,000, with four tanks and three river flo- tillas, are stationéd here; but the mili- tary are not in evidence except wbat double sentinels webe at the street corners with machine gaps. Gen. De Goutte'’s order places the miners “and other funetionaries of the Public utfhties” geder mffitury con- trol. It Mkewhse fortids paasenger train service, except for workspen and international travel. There duyve so tar been no cancefathume of @uins or other changes in the servics. Gen. Gaucher, commanding the French troops io Dusseldorf, visited the Burgomester to-day and told him Gen. De Gautte had no objection to the meetings of the Rhine Provineial Landtag called for Sunday, prowkded no speeches were made with regard to the occupation The communal! police are rematning om duty. The seturity police force, which was disarmed yesterday, rer coived tte arms back to-day, The men on duty were reduced to the smalieet number consistent with the preserve- tion of order, although the Burgomas- ver had urged that the foree be Mi tained at its former atrength, ‘Tho nowapapers Are appearing un- der censoranip. Thoy #@ far have aby