The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1921, Page 3

ants, the $19, CENT. DECREE Ruling, Based on Past Condi- tons, Used By Owners for Rent Gouging. | TENANTS FEAR A FIGHT. Quick Work Forces Flat Dwellers to Sign Leases at $40,000,000 Increase, Landlords are taking $15,000,000 from flat dwellers under the decision ot the Supreme Court Appellate Di- vision in Brooklyn a month ago that 10 per cent. net on the current market value of their houses is a sree investment return. Few owners believe that this a cision will stand the test of APNE | litigation, but they are using {t to the | utmost for one more year of rent} gouging. The decision came just in the nick of time for the had distributed notices demanding an average 10 per cent. increase in rentals for the coming year and ten-| ants were in no mood for accepting thé boost on account of three notable developments—first, the big building boom under way, adding vastly 10 available housings; second, the rapid subsidence of war inflation, with great declines in living necessities, building materials, labor and money rates; third, the successful operation of the emergency rent laws passed to end vent gouging and to prevent whole sale evictions of tenants willing to pay the old rent for one more year. Then, just as the majority of tenants had determined to resist further rent boosts and landlords themselves secretly were giving up the hope of getting the full demands, willing to accept a fraction af even the old rent to hold their ten- court's decision for 10 per net on total value upset every- cent. thing. The highest rents had not given this income on many houses. The own- ers, apparently, Were justified in rais- ing renis higher than ever. Many with small equities in their properties stood to make 30 to 60 per cent, on their actual cash investment, The court’s ruling gave landlords courage not only to insist upon the.r | new demands for increases but to start further rent gouging. It dis-| couraged tenants and frightened many | nto sighing leases at the higher ren- tals, ‘As has been reported recently in| ‘phe Evening World, the total increass emanded thig year by greater city andlords was an average of 10 per cent. of the preceding year's rent biil | ‘of $750,000,000, or $75,000,000. Accord. | jng to agents’ estimates, tenants .1n- | mediately accepted about $25,000,000 of ‘ecd to pay it without pre lost. of them having u 1 s during the Must month. H remaining $50,000,000 had been under | protest, more or less vehement, and: jnost of it would have been thrown | {nto the courts after October Day as @ result of the tenants’ refusal to pay qnore than last year’s rates. But the 10 per cent, turned in the landlords’ | favor by the Brooklyn court decis on akes $15,000,000 from this te |. leav= jag now approximately: $35,000,000 un- dee protest and $40,000,000 signed up In ars. |neevous b: Ss FOUND HER FIANCE WAS MARRIED MAN, SHE CLANS NSIT n, because they Suffered aehionel When She Found Out, Says Miss Dia- mond in $50,000 Suit. Charging that she abandoned a stage career which promised a bril- Nant future because Julius Zitenfleld had promised to marry her, Miss Roberta Diamond is suing Him for $50,000, alleging breach of promise. She claims that Zitenfield was mar- ried at the time he became betrothed to her, on Sept. 1, 1919. The suit, which has just been no- tieed for started October term, .was April, when Zitenfield served at No, 168 West 18th Street. According to Stanley C. Fow- 3 Ziten- the last was ler, Miss Diamond's attorney, fleld is head of a taxicab company | and during the last few years has) amassed a fortune, Zitenfield, through Marx & Snydecker, says that Miss Diamond knew that he was married She denies this and has numerous letters she alleges were writteon by) Zitenfleld professing that he loved her and was going to marry her. One letter reads in part: you every minute of the da night, 1 wish it all over so 1 could take you in my arms and shout out to the world, this is my wife. God! I hope it will be soon.” An- other contained this: “I love you; I see you all day and dream of you night. What a wonderful life and [ will have, When I think happy we will be it inspires m Migs Diamond says she suffered a kdown when she learned he married, and that her pavents refused t6 recognize her, A letter al- leged to have been written by Ziten- field reads: “In regard to your mother ignoring you—those things will pass just as much as they make your life unhappy. Think of your sweetheart and the happiness that Is to come and that will put you in bet- how THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1921. most this beautiful daredevil of the air. pion DOUG AND HIS MARY, HEIN WHITE “KELLY, SHE IN BLACK, SAIL i} |She Tosses Kisses Freely While} He Entertains Crowd With Dare-Devil Feats. | Twelve of the 1,000 pa: ngers listed to sail on the Olympic to-day got in} an e yenth hour row with dayligh ed the pier at 11] ad of 1 daylight ved in time to wit ness the impressive sight of the great White Star liner turning around 1p inidstream, Officials of the ever, put the gers aboard the noon all Two pi saving and standard t me saving, reac ins They ar line, how- | en- dozen stranded pa: Balt c, which left “good time was had by | and engers who did not miss the Olympic were Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, the latter be known as Mery Pickford. The ser taking with a 5,000 pound touring car in w! stars are them 000,000 FOR |<Most Daring Aviatrix in the World,’’ LAND ORDS N 10 Challenges America’s Aerial “‘Stunt”’ Girl MILLE ANDREE PEVRE Mile. Andree Peyre, noted French aviatrix, who was granted a pilot's license when she was only sixteen years old, is known in America as the “daring girl in the world” and tue “aerial tomboy.” the wings of an aeroplane and looping the loop are only child's play for Mile. Peyre has sent a challenge to Miss Elsie Allan of Grand Island, Neb., who claims to be America’s cham- “stunt” flyer, for a series of aerial “stunts” to decide who is the champion flyer of the world. The photo shows Mlle. Peyre playing the ukulele in midair, one of her favorite amusements. SKILLED, 20 HURT AS AUTO DASHES INTO A PARADE Car Going at High Speed Plunges Into Democratic Pro- cession in Secaucus, N. J. Joseph H. Ostler, whose a Democratic parade in Secaucus, N. J., at midn a score, to-day on a taken te Hackensack. roe Strei ployed as a driver by After of 500 1 gate a passeng: post for, touring car going ght, four seriously, w murder Jail charge of > the Bergen County He ti et, Hoboken, where he at No. his car had t swerved ad ran against rin the car. Walking along) and destitute. years old, at great speed plunged into the rear ranks of killing three and injuring arraigned | ana| in} 73 Mon-| is em- a poultry raiser. | raced down the! preme”— U Paterson Plank Road into the parade | One of the men killed was LEDOUX WANTS HARDING 10 NAME FOOD PROFITEERS May Take Unemployed With Him When He Goes to Washington, He Says. An appeal to President Harding and Secretary Hoover to publish the list of firms and individuals who made more than 100 per cent. profit during the war on food commodities and war goods will be made by Ur- bain Ledoux, champion of the unem- ployed, who sald to-day that he in- tended starting for Washington on Sunday night after the song service in the Mall, Central Park. Mr. Ledoux said that he might take with him “human documents,” un- employed sufferers, in order that they might tell Mr. Harding and Mr. Hoover their own stories of hardships. Fifty per cent, Mr. Ledoux declared, was what he considered sufficient profit for any one and the other fifty should be used in behalf of the un- employed. He added that he hoped the trip to Washington would result in play- ing the searchlight upon the prof- iteers to the end that they might split their earnings with the war veterans who are now out of work From Washington he said he would go to Buffalo, and then to Chicago and later to St, Louis. Starting out before daylight to-day, Mr. Ledoux made a journey about this city seeking homeless men, He rounded up a large number asleep about the Public Library at 42d Street and Fifth Avenue, and found many others in Bryans Park and along the water front. To all the men he gave meal tickets The Rev. Dr. William Guthrie, rector of St Norman Mark's-In-the nasium and parish thrown open for the reliet employed, beginning Tuesday. A meeting in the interest of unem- ployed women will be held in Union Square this afternoon under the di- rection of a comtiittee of the tional Consumers’ League, headed by Miss Jeannette Rankin, Mrs, Flora McCloy house will be of un- Chairman of ster, is the a Bouwerie, announced that the gym-| Na-| Merchandise offered SUPRE-MACY CITY FINDS JOKER IN $1.35 GAS RATE ORDERED BY P.§.0. Brooklyn Borough Company Would Be Able to Charge Full Rate for Street Lights. Corporation Counsel O'Brien has asked the Public Service Commission to modify‘its order to the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company making a temporary rate rate of $1.35 a thous- and effective Oct, 1 in two ways, The city asks first a reduction for private consumers to a rate not to exceed $1.05 a thousand, and then calls at- tention to the wording which compels the company to charge “all consum- s,"" Including the ity, the same rate, It ls pointed out that the city now pays only 75 cents a thousand for gas in street lamps and public buildings and that ff the order 18 obeyed liter- ally this rate will be raised to the $1.35 ordered. At the office of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company, in Coney Island, it was stated the city's rate has not been changed in the new sschedule filed with the commission Corporation Counsel O'Brien, when informed of this, deciared the com- pany is disobeying the commission's arder, which, accor’ing to the word- ing would seem to be the case. He will press, as far as possible, he sald, the reduction to $1.08 for private con- sumers and the protection of the 75- cent rate to the city — HENRY B. PLANT RENTS $20,000 APARTMENT. Douglas Gibbons & Co, leased for the No, 910 Fifth Avenue Company a duplex apartment of fifteen rooms and six batns to Henry B. Plant, son of the late Mor- tor F. Plant, The apartment was held at $20,000 and 4m leased for a long term of years. Mr. Plant a year ago sold his six-story American basement house at No. 2% West 54th Street, on the same block on hich John D. Rockefeller and his son ve the! igh the same bro- the Hervice Flag, Brooklyn Women's Club of the took twenty-seven for- mer service men to the club's “Rest Awhile Budd wood, N. J could be time. A mass meeting of unemployed will be held to-day in Union Square. The meeting was arranged by Miss Jean- ette Rank n, Chairman of the Na- tional Consumers’ League camp sterday. accommodated near Spota- She satd 500 there for a “Supremacy,” says Web- “state of being su- EQUALLED and no one doubts Webster. in a sale must be | AMERICAN GIRL | WHO SAILED TO-DAY TO WED IN COBLENZ Miss Mildred Eddy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Leeds Eddy, No, 375 Park Avenue, salled to- day on (he Olympic as the begin ning of a 3,000-mile journey to become the wife of Lieut. William McKee Dunn, aide to Major Gen. Henry T. Allen, commander of the American Army of Ocqipation on the Rhine. The wedding has been set for Oct. 12 in what was for- merly the Imperial Chapel at Coblenz Accompanying Miss Eddy were her father, her two brothers, and Miss Fonrose Wainwright, daugh- ter of Major J. M. Wainwright, Assistant Secretary of War, who will be one of Miss Eddy's wed- ding attendants Lieut. Dunn was graduated from Yale in the class of 1911. He joined the French Army at the beginning of the war, serving with it for two years. When America entered the conflict he returned tu this country and enlisted in the Regular Army, receiving a com- mission later. He served in the artillery when he went back to the front and after the signing of the armistice attended the French ar- tillery school at Fontainebleau, Afterward he was detailed to len's staff at Cob BURGLAR STEALS WATCH, DROPS IT IN HIS NEXT PLAGE Entered in Night by Mys- terious Visitor, newest cause of police perplexity. When Miss Elsie Goldstein, No. 298 West 122d Street, arose last Monday morning she found her gold wriste watch and purse had disappeared from her dresser. The screen ha@ been cut from her bedroom window, The telephone wires were also ott In the dining room she found the purse, empty. It had contained §® the night before. Presently it was learned that me apartment of Mrs, Sarah Tucker om the floor above had been entered im the same way, the screen and the telephone wires cut. burglar apparently had forgotten what, he was after, for he had departed that were in plain sight. The neighbors talked things over for quite a while before calling the police. When Elsie Goldstelt mother went next door to No. 236 te in the front hall she found Mrs. Lilijam Kayser, who lives there, using the phone, Mrs. Kayser was saying ¢ “Did you leave your wrist watch here last night?” It developed that the burglar ha@ > left in Mrs. Kayser’s apartment the watch he had stolen in the Goldsteing’, He had also left a scrap of paper with — the mystic words: “About Thursday's game.” Mrs, Kayser, from whom the bur+ giar had stolen nothing, thought at first that her niece, who had called om her the night before, had left the watch. Ss Took Potsom to Induce Sleep. Raymond Pice, thirty-two, of No. $08 West 104th Street, trying to go to sleep Jast night after sitting up late for many nights to study, accidentally took am overdose of veronal. He was taken to Nckerbocker Hospital. The police Kniemsiclan prescribed the drug for Ples, Beginning Monday At9 A. M. Three West 122d Street Homes ; A burglar who gathered his loot fi) one house and left it in the next place — on his nocturnal calling Het ts the» But there the. without taking any of the valuables” telephone the police at a pay statiom © 4 ; j 7 — new leases for one or more y ter spirits, The way things look it nich they are) See * é Realty experts, AB @ Tue eps | won't be long before you and 1 are going to “do Kusope.” They were ao-| The Dead. supreme — UNEQUALLED very strong reliance upon the Brook- ople think," companied by Mrs, Charlotte Pick-| HEITMAN, JOSEPH, No. 359 Ce . a ourt decision for the 10 per cent, | one regardless of what people think. ‘y “ITMAN, JOSE. i. a n- = y > oa = we turn on market rele, There: Miss Diamond lives at No. 508 West fru, Ma: FA mother, and the ae tre Avenue uous. “ am _ point of yey of fore they are inclined to belleve that] sgn street. | five-year-old niece, soon to be legally matin = value—for we are alous jnost of the $35,000,000 held back by —__—>— ladopted ‘and! knowacas Mary Diek-| "UGH, ALE jar Street, . M Hants still determined to fight will] Ary DPIVER ARRESTED jog? callous of our reputation as Webster. not cet into the hands e Z } : nee Ene oe jirds at all because they look for Doug" was arrayed in his mus-| SMITH, CHARLES, No. 506 Newark | ‘re fulings soon ‘0 reduce this de- AFTER (CRASH WITH TAXI. | Jtache and a blue suit, white Street, HoboRen, a passenger in the MMMM © rt P rt Ryen if landlords who take x Thossee Ailes, Dancer, |A°d White spats, Mkury was all in| Automobile nts to courts should w on-| Given Name of Roncoc Ailes, Alett : s oe , lly, they would not be able to get @ Husband of Kva Tanguay— black except for a huge bunch | Recovering from the shock of the Udcisions for nearly a year because a Puts Up Cash Ball. orchids, and ber white t which | accident, and with men lying dead tlelige of 20,000 to 25,000 court actions glistened in a feminine reflection and Injured on the street before their owned and driven Roscoe Alles, thirty-four, vcribed himself as a duncer band of Eva Tanguay, co: indicated immediately after tenants} A big automobile, “fuse to pay the } October | by its, nd the courts would need from fix months to a year in getting at While ses to all in the | as delighted husband's famicus smile throwing ki einity, the her eyes, the crowd grew mad with wrath | against the man they held responsible. | They down on Ostler and the who de and hus ed with a Another Week of she was sur agile Dov framed the mormeney Rent laws top he cor ttee, hi been engaged tn boil- iso PER CENT. DECREE ing Gown the record from ‘its 209 type written pages, and he and the comiit- TO BE TAKEN UP BY vir ties wiun sige toath Sm” HOUSING COMMITTEE the tria’s on ac punt sul mare Tee axieab driven by John Dilion of No.| tac large crowd on the pier with dare- | Policemen who held him and tried to 2000 ee, represent about $16,000,000] 1519 Amsterdam Avenue, at Hroadway | dovit acrobatic feats |tear him from his captors and lynch of The $25,000,000 protested hoosts it on i tarney oe ae pel Miss Anne Stillman sailed to at-|!im. Women joined in this with hys- "Ranert realty opie'on looks askance] Mubel Berall, and another girl, whoss |James A. Stillman, arrived to see her | frightened that he was Incoherent | jipon the Brooklyn decision because | name none would tell, All escaped in- /off just before the Olympic pulled for a nhour afterward, was narrowly | money rates have dropped Lave es jury. jout, When the photographers and | Saved trom death, Thoss attackin | vost to normal de ne tectihe in the |, Arthur Wilson, thirty-four, who said) reporters deserted the movie stars fur /him were tearing plekets trom the = Neatrve Wank discount rate|2e was a repogter ving at the BU- {ene central Ngure in the divorce suit |feRCe and Iifting stones w verever er ce Shows that the heads| more, the only passen; in. the. taxi, bere ey could be foune ed a patre per cent: shows tna stoned ta| Was severely cut and bruised and wag |he beat a hasty retreat. Shey SONG (Be Gighd ESE &. parr vanew rates deflated in common | taken to Flower Hospital ior treatment) Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Lamont, of automobile arrived and the prisoner | a erin id later sent to the hote . vas hustled Thother commovities, especially | edie n ad he. was returning from |J- P. Morgan & Co, who deferred | WA8 Nu ns ee in : junt of their effect upon home| Téledo, wh had just. ended a|saiting on the Olympics last trip be hen his automobile ran through theatrical nent He and Dillo the nks of the pi ders it Knocked he Evening World has pointed out | almost came to blows in the street over [cause of serious operation upon i - | ° Tee" Rea" hic indy ener |e am ey ab hl | Si eA rcpt Values Extraordinar ind high rents go hand in hand.| {4° cabarets and restaurants, Police- | son, lett Ii Sonat Bote. || Were: Renously’ Murh) “Adrian Foat: Hankers and cantains of industry have | an Heffernan took Ailes to the RANNEne ‘Also on board were| TOW" Clerk of Secaucus, suffered yound it impossible to get the wases| 47th Street Station, where he put f fractures of both legs. Adolph Hil ae taber back to a normal level until | $100 bill f Tall aa bal for nis | Frederick Guest, M. P., bead of the) f h Adolph Hil- : wre deflated tow rd the old normal. SSE —=—=|Purker novelist: ( Swone| fered a fracture of one leg. | charles | There is sat public censity fo! cision e Brook- ‘osie had both legs broke | ‘rhere is great public necensity, £07 | the recent rent decision of the Brook-|progident of tho International Gen-|Mosle had both legs broken. James | r rents of homes, and {t is the}! Supreme Court Justices giving the) 0) tric Company, and “Kia"| Hackett, No. 85 Madison Street, ; of f'nance and industry to ac-|landiords 10 per cent, net on the prop- Towis, gritish middleweight cham- boken, who was a passenger in the| lcamplish this deflation of rents. erty they handle, Independent of the | pion, automobile, was'severely bruised, | Time money Is ruling under 6 per! equity they may have in it. | \ cont, eall money In Wall Street has “While the Housing Committee was - | See Our Announcements fallen hetwron 4 and & per cent {he gor concerned with the litigation waich | A ‘i E eat uatdtulat RNEMEAMoeka rouge abet we aeenn ot ier UT hy ichever you choose. | In Tomorrow's Papers tent yetarning & to? per cont, Cfepsey and his associates, the re:ord | i 1e food Phere In Of the trial has been turned over to the “ing scarcely any spot where In- Committee and the lawyer mombers of it will be th rT ted | estors 0 (i G ore it have b going over it for several Ww: ta safety for their prinetpal. weeks, Attorney Elmer G, Sommis, who 1 2 e BES you ever Sted. | canna ne Fi At the meeting on Monday the re- port of the sub-committec will be re- Celved and plans for the autumn will be & 60 A Mercey 5 decided upon. This committee, compris- Will Use Fine Tooth ae on ing Senator vant V. Tolbert and As- Brooklyn Decision That semblymen Leininger and Cauifiel, H Id S D N Y k has been working right along on mat y 4 y Pleases Landlords. ters of importance, and the Housiog era quare 720 ew or ‘i oe Committee still has a small working full meeting of the Lockwood staff of clerks, stenographers and in BLACK TEA MIXED TEA GREEN TEA ou ‘committee Hl be held at 11 vestigators. A f: ing C Tle it Pid ie oh of, The. report, with the recommenta Rich, Satisfyin; dust enough green A Revelation in Green nelock on Monday im os *> tions of the Housing Committee, is ve- Flavour. From the tea to make the Tea. Pure, translucent fices of Samuel Untermyer, No. 120 ing prepared for the next Legisiat finest gardens, blend delicious, and 80 Flavory, lwsroadwey, ‘at which will be considered progress is being made in the wons, {