The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 2

=< the touring car the driver stepped | 0, Bas, pi a car phot across 19th down the avenue to 1 Street, turned west and was lost “So fats is known nobody the license number. ugh Russel and Brown had rs in their overcoat pockets | ly, made no attempt to use them told Mr, Whyard that y were momertarity alyzed by boldness of tthe attack. sees of the hold-up told the | they: thought it was a moving xire epiaode. The victims of the) ir? have Only « meagre descrip- of the 16né thug who grabbed the and no description of the other Marro was detained at the arto Was Getained at the West ; Btreét: Bimtion as a material Abwoman witness of the rob- oO ; T SIDE CROWDS TCH HOLD-UP AS Thee Shots Fired as Three ‘thugs | igRob Two Meh Carrying | $800 Payroll. \ Residents of 11th Avenue near 1st @treet and thdxe whose business or ome pen took them to that neiglbor- hood were diverted by seeing two men heldgup there Saturday morning at 10.86o'clock by three armed thugs Yobbed the elder of the victims uh $800 payroll and fired two shot Spi they hastened off. fe’.main who was robbed was backdé@ against the wall of a building by two of the thugs, who held re- VM against his body, While be was in-this position, his hands uhove he yainly implored those food Aéarby to help him, calling at he was being held up. Fut theraith Avenile audiénce made no mover.,witatever td, g0 to his sid, me standing by and watching as if this were one of the interesting events bf city life. People living in of Dis, wns, All Receipts Thus Far From Sales of Hulls and Lands Have Been Swallowed Up in Expenditures of Board ‘in Keeping Vessels Afloat. jeauiss Ships and Materials Now Estimated at $397,- 000,000 Claims of $210,- 000,000 Are Pending for By Martin Green. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, b. 20,—While Congress is Soundering about in a welter of preplexity over how its members can stick the taxpayers for a few billion dollars to go into a cam- paign fund disguised as a “Soldiers’ Bonus,” a Government investment of approximately four billion dollars is trickling, unnoticed, through the fin- has no bottom. Instead of maintaining themselves from ‘Févelpts since the decision to sel the Shipping Board properties thefénemehts of the neighborhood watehéd the robbery from their wine | dows as from reserved seats, hen the robbery was ac ant mplished he three highwaymen made thet escafiv {hn motor car the neighbor hpodswent back to its pursuits as i) nothing unusual bad happened. The. police urged that nothing about | ibbery, be made public by the ba, Dut the story of it was toll yo The Evening World. ke Scheuer, fifty-five years old, | of No, 679 Ninth Avenue, and Joseph Kirehyer, twenty-two, of No. 117 Unit Place, South Bergen, N. J., cmt veces of the wholesale grocery izhment of John 8. Sills & Sons, No. teak West 37th Street, drew $809 Fifth Avenue bank on Satur- Ail at as ‘an addition to the Schduer’ put the Pocket of hts money van an “inner “Quastulce: from a 42d Street crags town car at 11th Avenue, they started seutbward. At dist Street the three held-vp men confronted them and While,one backed Kirchner to one side the, other two forced Scheuer against t It was evident that they jed the money. In order et it they threw the elder man to sitewalk and one of them put a) g.upin his neck, while the other yen his waistcoat and got the rail, 8 th thieves ran off to their motor Street Scheuer drew his SAVE fired u shot at the receding The thieves replied by firing ineffectual shots at him. pastors alias OOKLYN HOLD-UP NETS THUGS $700 Klyn Police Headquarters re- pofled to-day a robbery by armed thi on Saturday night which netted the: criminats $760 and was accom- pli@ied while Capt. John McCluskey pea metective Casey were speeding to Beene in an automobile, r men entered Joseph Schaap's market at Pacific Street and ington Avenue at 10 o'clock. In thej shop were Schaap, four of hir yees and Thomas and Frank jo, owners of a vegetable stand in Market, A woman customer had the market Just before the thieves them en and somethipg about Pi ipted her to renfain on the side- wal , and peer through the window. saw the quartet draw revol- One took his stand at the door, idrove the four butchers and the scos into the ice box and closed joor. The fourth man, with re- ler levelled, ran to the cashigr's Jwhere Schaap had just counted ‘the day's receipts. Tho thief it and dropped it In his tthe mean time the woman had io Ue G AY Police Sta- tlomt two blocks away, and reported theg robbery. McCloskey and Casey ju into McCloskey's car, When the—f {reached the Washington Avenue bf Schaap’s Market the thieves’ was turning into Pacific Street they were unable to catch it, MILLION IN LONDON ? TO BOYCOTT BEER rr Federation Will Make Nation- fide Issue on Brewers’ Wage Reduction. INDON, Feb. 20 (Associated ).—A considerable proportion of @ock workers and car drivers in London area to-day obeyed the National Federa~- jor Transport Workers for a boy- ‘on beer, which is an answer to falleged excessive price being for this form of beverage he recent cuts of workers’ wages e brewers: Federation purposes making cott nation-wide, involving a m dock and road transport rs, No orders have been issued jand i t . have spent hundreds of million of appropriated dollars. Few ships little materials have been solid. Receipts from the sale of lands and houses have been swallowed up in ex- pendigares, The Index of experience points te the probability that the| enormous investment of the Govern-| ment tp ships will soon be wiped out. Furthermore, even after private owners shal) have aceumul..ed the beat of the ships at rock bottom prices, and the others have been left on the hands of the Government to rot, it Is propgeed by this Administration to pay-tt> the operatarsabd owners of; the ships a sisidy of $35,000,000 year, In eight years, as will be ex- plained further on, -the subsidy will have reimbursed the owners for what) they paid for the ships and If a pol- ley of stretching the payments over a long period is adopted—and no other policy is being considered—r.any of the owners will have recelved their purchase money back by way of the subsidy before they have actually pald It out for.the ships. how the subsidy is disguised it will come out of the pockets of the tax- payers. The people of this country spent, out of taxes, by Congressional appro- priation and allotment by the Presi- dent, for the purpose of a merchant marine, from the time of the incep- tion of the Shipping Board in 1916, to July 1, 1921, the sum of. —3,306,000,000 According to figures compiled by Representative Byrnes of South Caro- lina the Shipping Board will have spent in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922 ,000, The Shipping Board and Emer- gency Fleet Corporation |s asking for an appropriation for the fiscal year ending Juve 30, 1923, of...$100,000,000 Tmasmuch as experience has shown that appropriations are generally dis- bursed, the merchant marine of the United States stands the people the sum of. $3,706,000,000 To show for it they have on the face of the latest figures submitted to Congress: Ships valued at, tenta- tvely, based on esti- mates of what they would bring, if sold..... Other assets inventoried $25,000,000 as at “fair value’ + 142,401,612 Total assets , $397,401,612 Against which there is an offset of net claims for moneys alleged to’ be due of approximately.. 210,000,000 Leaving net assets of... ..$147,401,612 But if the Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation con- tinue to spend money at the rate es- tablished by precedence the assets will eventually be dissipated and the merchant marine by the time all the usable ships have passed into the hands of private owners will have cost the people close to $4,000,000,000, Feur billion dollars! Almost half the total of the owed us by our allies and associates in the war! We have a slight chance of recovering the money our late al- Nes and associates owe us, but $3,706, 000,000 of the American people's flyer in ships will never come back, and the balance remaining of the invest- ment {# bound for the port in oblivion where the $8,706,000,000 are anchored for eternity. Chairman A. D. Lasker of the Shipping Board told a sub-committee of the Appropriations Committee of the House a month ago that after the next fiscal year the Bourd will proba- bly not require any appropriations. But he was unable to venture an ideu of how long the Shipping Board and debt the boycott for workers John's Medicine rebut health, All pure food.—Advt. AFT i strength the Emergency Filect Corporation— which latter has now taken over prac- tleally all spend money, There is no legal limit to the life Amounts Alleged to Be Due. | gers of office holders into a hole that) was reached the Bourd and its subsid- | | y, the Emergency Fleet Corpora- No matter | but perfunctory duties of the Shipping Board—wil! pontinye to THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922, SHIP SUBSIDY MAY WIPE OUT LASTCENTOF$4,000,000,000, EXPECTED COST OF U. §. FLEET of the Shipping Boara, At the time it was created there was an Idea in the minds of some of the statesmen that {t might, after the war, operate the ships it was to build and get the cost back in profits from freight and passengers. That idea has been abandoned. The Emergency Fleet Corporation has a legal life of five lyears after the President declared j Peace with Germany. On the payrolls of the Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Cor- poration are thousands of expertenced office holders who are drawing better pay than they ever eojoyed before in their ‘ives. It is an axiom in Wash- jington that a Government bureau ts | practically death proof. The payroll boys are wonderful doctors, For the benefit of Congress the Shipping Board—for the first time in its history, by the way—has prepared & statoment of assets and liabilities from which most of the figures cet forth earlier in this article have been |taken, It will Interest the people to | know what they spent thelr money for |and what they possess for the expen- diture, Here is how the money was spent, Net amount Invested in vessels after deduction of proceeds from sales | of vesnels .. | Shrinkage of assets July 1, 1921... | Net ansets, July 1, 1921 (exclusive of fleet)... Operating gains — or losses, “dministrative | expenses and miscel- Jnneous losses ... 000,000 306,000,000 190,000,000 serves 128,000,000 Total appropriations and Presidential allotments expended + ++ +$3,306,000,000 ‘The assets are listed as follows Materials and supplies, including shipyards . and equipment, land, buildings and == dry- docks; also uncomplet- ed wooden hulls Total $142,401,612 No valuation is placed by the Ship- ping Board on the 1,450 steel steam |vessels and the 264 wooden ships owned by the free cnd untrammeled |American people, About 1,060 of the |stoel vessels are tied up and the cost |of protecting them from the elements land burglars runs to about $3,000,000 a month, The Shipping Board rates the wooden ships as practically wort less. The last bid was $2,400 each for the whole fleet, but the bid was re- jected because of alleged technical ir- regularities and the bidders have brought suit to establish their right to the ships. In connection with this bid of $2,400 each for the wooden ships it is said by men who built wooden ships that the equipment and fittings, such as wireless outfit, navigating instru- ments, hawsers, anchors aad anchor chains, furnishing of galley and cab- ins, etc., is worth more than $2,400 per ship. And jn the case of ships tied up in ‘the James River, at least, the fittings and equipment have been taken ashore and stored in Norfolk. If the bid is finally upheld by the courts, and the Shipping Board is compelled to return the equipment and fittings to the ships, the total cost of removal, storage and replacement will be about $2,000 per ship. Experts in the Shipping Board have told Congress that the gross tonnage of the ships ts around 10,000,000 dead weight tons, exclusive of the wooden hulks, Dead weight tons means tons of fucl, cargo and supplies that can be curried. These same expert: have said that 6,000,000 tons represents first-class ships. The other half of the steel fleet is composed of from fair to worthless vessels. The original cost of the ships ranged from $140 a dead weight ton to $210 a dead weight ton, Some ships cost as high as $270 a ton. Ship owners and operators tell me that a fair present value for the best vessels built or owned by the Shipping Board is $35 a dead weight ton. This figure is for freight vessels. Passen- ger ships are sold according to their speed, accommodations, decorations, eto. Shipping Board experts have placed a tentative value of $37.50 a ton on the best vessels but have hesitated to even guess what the other ships are worth, Owners and operators tell me that ships representing probably 1,- 000,000 dead weight tons are useless and that if the remaining 4,000,000 tons can bo sold, a price of $20 a ton would be a liberal estimate of the re- turn. To arrive at a fair estimate of the value of the ships the writer has list- led 5,000,000 tons at $35 a ton, or $175,- 000,000, and 4,000,000 tons ut $20 @ ton, or $80,000,000, a total of § 000,000 for 1,400 ships that cost §2, 687,000,000. Their present value ap- prdximates 10 per cent. of their cost Jand they aro deteriorating rapidly. Against this apparent valuc should be set the cost of reconditioning them when and if they are sold, and I could find nobody who would guess on that. Painting the tled-up ships ajone, which must be dono within six menths, according to Shipping Board experts, will cost approximatoly §1,. 600 a ship, a total of about §1,590,- 000, Ships are an expensive luxury to the American people. Further details of the state of the Nation's investment in a merchant marine will appear In succeeding is sues of The Evening World pba Sa eld im One Day, BASMOMRTN EY caviers the signature of bE. Ww 1OMO. 300.—Advt, ‘Te Stop Take Lasative The genulee. be a, Be sure | wit $317 641,- present. fa'> | + $70,262,700 | Real vstate in New "York, ! fuel ofl stations and ships and drydocks under construction..... 72,188,912 so HOHE, GATHER BIG TIPS Smart Set Takes Takes Charge a Biltmore to Aid Tubercu- | losis Society. | Saree em | | Tips of from $1 to $5 to New York society women who were acting as| waitresses, selling newspapers, cigar- | ettes and checking coats featured the! women taking over the management of the Biltmore for to-day. H. W. | Joraleman of’ Golorado, who is stop- | ping at the Biltmore, gave Mrs. War- |ren Rishel a $5 bill when she pinned one of the buttons she is selling to his coat lapel. All money taken in by the hotel will go to the Society for) the Prevention and Relief of Tuber- culosis. Promptly at 6 A. M. to-day Mrs, Joseph Griswold Dean and Mrs, Lind- | sey Tappan took positions at the main desk and were ready to check out or | room any guests. Only a few of the| 300 society women who voluntecred to) work at the Biltmore were late in ar- riving. Many of them stayed at the) hotel last night so It would be casier | to get to work. Miles Surke, bead} detective, started the ball rolling | when he purchased a package of cigarettes at 6.05 A. M. from Miss Carolyn Frances McCoon, and paid, her $1. At 8 o'clock Mrs. Frederic Coyken- dall, head waitress for the first shift! in the dining room, said that each of | her forty waitresses had scrved ten persons, and each averaged $1 in tips from each person To-day's programme is filled with musicales, dansantes, supper enteMain- ments and midnight frolics. will be a dramatic playlet, There “Around the Clock With a Debutante,"* in which society girls will display all milady’s finery in sequenee from dawn to mid- night. Another fashion show will In- clude many prominent society women, who will wear the same gowns they Aisplayed at the recent reception given by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt 2d, Miss Ruth Vanderbilt Twombley is Presi- dent of the Ejesta and Fandans and committees read like a late © of the Social Register, ees 15,000 GREET BISHOP. Catholics to the number of 15,000 at- tended the reception to tho Right Rev. Thomas Edmund Molloy, third Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, at the armory of ‘the 106th Infantry last night. Thomas I. Murray presided. ‘The address of greeting was by Justice Will- fam @. Kelly, who pledged the allesiance of 600,000 holics of Brooklyn. The pledge of Queens County church- goers was made by Justice Leander B. Faber, Nassau County, and Mayor Jame: ®, Burns of Glen Cove, and the pledge of Suffolk County Catholica was made by United States Circuit Court Judge Martin T, Manton. —>— DAD DENIED ENJU +AINST NEWARK, The application of the Erie Railroad Company for a temporary injunction to provent the City of Nework from inter- nek ecllor with the laying of tracks in dented to-day by Vice Ghan- n M. Lewis at Paterson. bridge over the Passaic yned the railroad 1dge. but w the ot Was Viv built a new not pany permitted to connect station with the bridge by tracks through the street ponding an agreement to eliminate grade crossings. When workmen tried to lay the tracks the city prevented them, Th Vice Chancellor said the matter was on for the civil courts AS HOTEL HELP, | first two hours of the experiment of ~ S———_—_—aeaeee——_— ee SeSeeeeeeEE MRS LINDSEY TARPBING ano MRS _J.GRISWOLD © meSRIE SES SERN GIRL V WHO | SHOT HER BROTHER TO SAVE HER FATHER ULSTER RELEASES Dublin this afternoon Two of the four Northern Liaison been appointed, Col members. of Commission have Sutton and Major have appointed Ward as their representative _ BRARIAN SK, cher, one o' 1 SCHOOL y HIS BD te assigned sch Pope, librarian in th Marey Avenue Brooklyn, , w#s his desk ‘to-day physician could reach hin wag. fifty years old and lived at No. | §107 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, He | haa been attached fo the high schoot for about three years as Beth and taken nd suddenly 1 before Mr. Pope ‘Debs. and Matrons Wait on Desk, Sell Newspapers and Hop Bells (CHARGE BANKERS \the Treasury hasn't the figures, 14 IRISH ARMY MEN | 22° estimates rua as high as | $5,000,000,000, but the statistics can- | not Le verified, | Football Team Captured Last} ane question of whether American| Month Set Free on Orders | private firms shall receive from the | of Viceroy | Allics the money owed them ahead of any payments on the American Gov- | BELFAST, Feb. 20 (Associated /ernment's debt ts something the! > —The members of |fuading commission to be appointed | eas ARSE er Irish |by President Harding will have to BepUboay AMY Hotcam, COB- | thresh out with the 4 This com- ured at Dromore month, were} mission consists of the ser released from the Londonderry jail| the Treasury and two members of the this morning in conformity with the | Cablnet as pela a roptbeentailye oF | the Senate 's couse. order issued last night by Viscount |'"Gertainly it looks now as It the| Wiens Whe a nveyed in{ NOUS of this funding commission witl| ne. see oh OrO, COUNE YEP In cted to more serutin: tha Riotan Care Antone the Teal Tree Alo, y a ginod when it Wan first hore ip Donegal) Hy Brie) tcops proposed, While it is true that the Lieut. Mead of the Army Service| Waite House had declined to promise | Corps was shot dead and @ staff sur-)to use any funds received from geon was seriously wounded in an at-| Aijicd payments as a basis for p tack from ambush on a road near|ing the soldier bonus, the reason | the Clemson representing the British au thorities on the Southern SCommis- | sion, Col, Allgood will be the chief British representative, with Lieut Cols, Montague Bates aifa Boys as alternateives. The Dublin authoritic jnot in sight. | ure owed to American munition firms, Bonus Editor of The Hvening World. Name what length of time? . flourishing in the gossip of Congres- sional cloakrooms, President Har- ding stands committed to the payment of a bonus sometime. He insists that he has hitherto favored, but that he did not believe last August or this year the right time to burden the ‘Treasury with It. He holds out hope! for the future and promises faithfully to sign a bonus bill if the means of payment are found. ‘The financtal wizards of Capitol Hill are daily pro- pounding various plans, and it is not unlikely that when the British actu- ally begin paying interest on their debt some of that fund will be used directly or indirectly as a basis for bonus payments. CAN’T FIND WAY { TO PAY THE BONUS bi Majority of Ways and Means Com- mittee Passes Whole Problein Back. WASHINGTON, Feb. —Majority | members of the Hous Ways and! Means Committee referred back today | to the special tax ‘sub-committee the | whole problem of how the soldiers’ | “Scene OE BELAHOR BS PHoTosS PAUL Theme son as forgotten, but many still fol- bonus is to be financed. h iS It was announced the sub-commit- | low her rule at CHILDS. tee would meet to-morrow and would A ;#o into the question of a sales tax Ferenc Aa Beatin et |among other thing: ich. - OF SOLDIER BONUS Financial Tees Said to, Claim First Chance at British | Interest on Debt. CLOTH SAMPLE TRAPS DANCER AS SUIT THIEF h Clue Supplied by Fastidious Vietim, Detective Makes Arrest. Pasquale Parone of No. 322 Weat 49th {Street 1s given to distinctive clothes. | Almost is this raiment scenery. air Compan: : A WHET OF OYSTERS Hygeia, the classical goddess health, gave the ancients many tules for good living. | Those who abided by these rules began dinner with a whet of plump, medium- sized oysters, HOW DO THE VETERANS STAND ON A BONUS OR THE BOOTLEGGER? What is the real sentiment of the war veterans of the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut? to the forms of direct taxation proposed by Congress, would the veter- ans favor a modification of the Volstead Act, taxing the sales of light wines and beer, to ) pay a bonus, thereby ending the nation-wide nuisance, the bootlegger? Write your answer in the form below and mail to the With the President opposed Service—In what branch, whether abroad or at home and for Injured in an explosion on the Standant Oll tanker Ardmore on July 22, received a verdict a from @ jury before Justice Van Sicle in Supreme Court, was against the Morse Dry Dock & Ii- + at whose yards tanker was being overhauled. arising out of a death in thi was ended lnat against the Morse Company of $55,110 of Brooklyn. week with | And ate them slowly in order that their exquisite flavor might be fully enjoyed. The mythical Hygeia may be $25,000 ‘to. The nuit the A sult uccident diet By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Ev ning World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (Copyright, For that reason Louis Melito of Ja- matca ‘as held in $1,000 bail in West Side Police Court to-day, charged with | breaking into the Parone apartment and ‘stealing six suits of clothes. Parone supplied Detective James Man- % ney with samples of the cloth of his ).—The bonus problem gets bigger! suits. Entering a dance tall in Colum- and bigg: Mere negatives from the | bus » yesterday, Manney's atten- executive end of the Government fuil wes attracted Wy the outer tablin- of the men. He waited | to stem the tide of sentiment on Capi- | neer came around. One tol Hill for some kind of a bonus, Tue) *!Mple matched the Ault, he said, and the vr of the sult was Melito. Democrats, who are not displeased i er the political discomfiture of the | GmTs #25,000 VERDICT AGAINST Republicans, are telling the Legion, MORSE DRY DOCK CO. that if the Republicans really | Willla J, Connolly, forty-five, | No, 812 56th Street, Brooklyn, who w men wanted to pass a bonus and pay it, they could. But. where would the money be ob- | tained? One Democratic Senator told! the to-day that the British Government was ready and able t of its debt te the United Government und was also uote to pay interest and « part of the sum | borrowed from Ameriean banking | concerns before the United States en- | tered the war in 1917. He insisted that back of the fight against *he bonus was the determination of these banking interests to their money before tho American Government re- | ceived anything from Bngluz i This kind of argument is hard to} trace down. ‘The Angio-French loan | foated in the United States before the war amounted to $509,000,000. The interest payments have been regu- ‘arly met. If any sums Leyond that writer given was simply that no one know at the moment how much was forth- porning, if the plan, therefore, to} pone indefinitely the enactment ota bil providing for the bonus is accepted, the measure will crop up again just as soon as there are any available funds from any sourc the bonus problem ts Schemes galore are The end of FUNERAL DIRECTORS, oe When Death Occurs Call “Columbus 8200" FRANK E. CAMPBELL, "he Funeral Church", When Winter rattles the win- dow panes — What comfort and cheer in White Rose!