The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 2

i ¥ v ' | SOIR anmRN NT EN ar a ee Pe men SU RO J jneer. R. MacBain, ai ot the it The train, watchman endeavored swingin; ths. bus by that the electric headlight to stop 1s a red lantera,” |. “We have several witnesses this. striking the bus the train ‘about twenty car lengths. Wit- verify the declaration of the Se PHONE RATES HERE . sald the disaster evidently re- through the bus driver trying ORDERED REDUCED NEARLY OPER CENT. fan be seen for a epee) Ruling of P. S. Board Will miles when unobstructed, brightly, the whistle was and the bell ringt The crossing is unobstructed and a cles! vi west can be ha statement said that several oc- caped unhurt. hs piectaienler = Nelo BUSINESS GOOD, i LABOR INSISTS “Wage Reduction Plea Baseless,” . Asserts A. F. of L. Survey, q Quoting Earnings. WASHINGTON, March 4.—A large portion of the Nation's industries have concluded a prosperous year and pleas for wage cuts are unjust, am official review of big corporation earnings compiled by the American Federation of Lubor states to-day. The survey states that raliroad earnings increased; that annual pro- fite im retail stores and railroad equipments were enormous; that seyeral steel companies showed huge earnings, and that many big corpora- ions declared startling dividends and made big increases in working capi- tal, “This does not represent a picture of the entire industrial field,” the sur- vey adds. “Many companics lost money during the last year, but a great many have eeaped fabulous profits. The plea for wage reductions is ‘baseless. * Phe survey contends that the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western Rall- road reported the best year In Its history, and that equipment indus- tries made unusual profits, Baldwin Locomotive earning $5,900,000 net for cofmmon stock, or $29.81 a share. A number of industrial companies were listed as large earners and tho survey quotes Wall Street authorities for proof that tobacco manufacturers had & Prosperous year. oe CUBA AIDS U. S, JUDGE TO WED N. Y. SINGER President Zayas Waives Publication of Bans for Jersey Jurist and 6 Miss Agramonte. HAVANA, March 4.—President “a¥as to-day signed an official decree|ded unt!) it aggregates more than 30 rence - fermitting Judgo William E. Sum-|per cent. of the total fixed capital in vice fuaptler|p Gov. Miller iers of Milburn, N. J., and Miss/this State, which amounts to $229,-| 0° New York, and maay other influ- Delores Agramonte, an opera singer, of New York to marry In Cuba with- ont going through the usual neces-|to revise its expensive manner in do-|reagpility of the project ts unques- sary publication of the bans. This is the first time tn the history ef, the republic that sugh diepenad- tton has been granted. THe law|ratc®. Qa this point the Commission sbortly submit a special message to} requires that announcement of a con- templated wedding be publicly adver- tised for at least six months. Judge Summers came here a month ago to make prepurations for a Mu- vonic pilgrimage from New Jersey to the death place in Havana of Dr. Blisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explo- ret: He fell Mt on the voyage an‘! Miss Agramonte, who was coming here to fill an’ engagement, nursed him .buck to health. Pecahic ss 3-WOMEN THUGS STIR LOS ANGELES Hold Up Two Men Near Dance Hall and Get All Their Money. S ANGELES, March 4.—W. T. 1 at a public dance hall early to- requested the pleasure of escort- two comely girls home, and they ted, Several blocks away, at a corner, one of the girls softly ‘k ‘em up, honey, and hold ‘em ;"’ punctuating her remarks with tol. The other git! caressingly re- $35 from Taylor's pockets and bid him a fond good night while, P. A. Downer, not fi the dance hall, met a Titian- cing him with a revolyer. Dik Ra GLAR KNEW OFFICE, Save Public About $3,000,- 000 a Year. ete at te ean Sumsed ca os: [EXPECT FURTHER CUT. Companies Criticised for Ex- travagance and Directed to Readjust Expenses. The Public Service Commission an- nounced to-day that the dispatch from Albany announcing am order re- ducing telephone rates 6 per cent. in New York City and 7 per cent. out- side was not quite accurate. The re- duction will mot amount to quite 6 per cent. and does not affect the basic rental rate. The order reduces the surcharge of 10 per cont. to 5 per cent. It works this way: A subscriber paying $4 2 month has been assessed 10 per cent additional, making his bill $4.40 2 month. Herc- after the surcharge will be cut 20 cents and tho total bill will be $4.20 a 4 month. Reductions to other sub- serbbers will be in proportion. The saving to the $4 a month subscriber will be $2.40 a year. The surcharge was a wartime tax allowed by the old gSecond District Public Service Commission, It was o.iginally 28 per cent. The present Public Service Commission on taking office firmt teduced it to 10 per cent. und yesterday cut it im half. Corporation Cotimsel O'Brien did not share to-day ih the chant of vic- tory that was voloed by other of- ficials of the Hylan Administration when the news of the reduction was received. “It'a only a drop in tho bucket,” he declared. “Why didn't the Commis- sion act on the evidence in its pos- session and eliminate the surchares and then cut the rental rate. Until that Im done subscribers will not get a fair deal. The cut ordered is not sufficient and the financial condition of the New York Telophone Co., shows it.” Accompanying the order reducing the surcharge, the Commission is- sued a statement criticizing the bus' ness methods of the New York Tele- phone Company. It is charged that the depreciation fund has been pad- 437,818. The telephone company ts advised ing businoss, which appears to be maintained largely for the purpose of making a sMowing to justify high eays: “The dividend history of the com- Pany, an average annual return of 8.17 per cent., during the past twen- ty-five years and the accumulation of $36,079.446 In undivided profits during the same period make it apparent that the company has been generous- ly treated In the matter of rates, “We believe that the entire sched- ule of expenses of the Now York Telephon Company can undergo ren- sonal. revision, with a view to reaching a basis of expenditure fair to the public. The telephone com- Pany should make this revision. The situation whieh this and every other public utilit: must face te that in a period of increased cost it Is its duty to adjust expenditures to meet these costs, rather than to expect to exact | from the public the full measure of such costs by means of increased rates J. F. MeCulloh;Vice Presitient of the New York Telephone Co., de- clined to-day to comment on the order of the Public Service Commis- sion until it has ‘been carefully analyzed," “The New York Telephone Com- pany has not received a copy of the orders of the Public Service Commis- sion of March 4 relating to telephone rates,” he said “From the news- paper accounts the orders appear to %e of such character as to affect not only the rates and revenues of the fed woman, who relieved him of! company, but also its operation. The cin cash, $2560 in postal saving®| public may rest assured that the ficates and $12 in checks while| company realizes its obligations and will protect the service and provide for its continued development.'’ _—__~zs-—_ “PRENDERGAST DECIDES|SENATE BILL PLANS obry vereonst Pavers in sate| MAIL TUBES HERE owe One Atiempted to Op = Povlic Service Commissioner witl-| Restoration of Pneumatic System iafe A: Prendergast, returning from | Soy sor de Past Albany to-day, decided that fhe at-| Provided For ir, Post Off tempt to open the safe in his office | Appropriations last“ Tuesday and the breaking open! wasHINGTON, Mare 4.—Funda of his desk and that of his stenogra- pher was the work of some one who \ngw the workings of the office. |to continue the transcontinental aiy mail service and to restore the The safe contained only papers of a) New York City pneumatic postal tube pergonal nature, Mr. Prendergnst said. He believes it was an amateu after looking through his desk |system are to be pi nual Post Offier vided in the an- Appropriation Bill who, ‘ofthe combination of the safe, broke |inder agreements reached by Senate open his stenographer'’s desk for the }committee members ip charge of the same reason. There was no Informa- | Measure tion in ‘the safe of value to any one In passing the bill, the House re- , Wicd allied fused to provide for either of these Y, S. MISSIONARY SLAIN |*? les. nd former Postmaster Gen- eral Hays recently appeared before BY ROBBERS IN THIBET | ihe senate Committee in thetr behalf, Minister of Christian Church cmped Chi ‘ST. LOUIS, March 4.—The Rey. Dr. A. L. Shelton, medical mission: “ ot-the Disciples of Christ (Christian) 4 Building Trades & Church) in Thibet, was iurdered by rebbers near Batang, Feb. 17, accord ing to a cablegram received by t) —>———. CHICAGO LABOR HEADS Kidhappers tn 1920.| FREED OF GRAFT CHARGE der Not Guilty of Bxtortt | nell, formerly President of the Chi- Untted Christian Missionary Society|cago Bullding Trades Council, ani here to-day. thyee other labor leaders charged with Dr, Shelton escaped from a brigand| graft, extortion and conspiracy in e@imp in China in January, 1 |, after} connection with an alleg ouliding hypvieg been kidnapped and held for} trust here to-day were found not prowl for sixty days. guilty by a jury | ll Trace the President’s Ap- proval of Pro’ect to Pre- Election Pledge. . IS IT A POWER SCHEME? Possibly Explains Opposition to Ford’s Muscle Shoals Project. (Spectal to The Eventing World.) WASHINGTON, March 4.—Dele- gates to the Rivers and Harbors Con- gress of the group opposed to the St. Lawrence Power and Ship Canal pro-: fect, who have been looking for the senegambian in the woodpile to ex- plain the persistent support the Har- ding Administration is giving this pro- ject, think they have located tt. ‘The comment In inside ciroles at Washing- ton is that behind the President's drive to secure Congressional approval for the proposition Is the fine Itallun hand of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. The Mellon influence is being ex- erted on the one hand to prevent Henry Ford's Md for Muscle Shoals— or other great water power develop- ment—being approved, while, on the other hund, it is being used to put greut benefit to the Mellon interest under the guise of canalization, uc- cording to thoss who have been in cloxe touch with the situation. MELLON IN THE “ALUMINUM TRUST.” Secretary Mellon and his brother, R. B. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, ure di- rectors in the Aluminum Company of America, usually known as the “Aluminum Trust,” whieh would be the chief beneficiary under the power development plan on the St. Lurw- rence. Secretary Mellon is sald to be the largest individual stockholder in the Aluminum Company of America. ‘This corporation has 3,700 acres of land on the American side of the St. Lawrence River and owns about 300 acres on the Canadian point where the first power develop- ment will be undertaken under the President Harding has come out tial representatives in that State. ‘The President has declared that “the tioned, and its.cost compared with other great engineering works, would be small.” It is understood he will Cont urging approval of the fectmnmendations of the international t commission for the undertaking. ‘Those opposed to the St. Lawrence project say the President's attitude is accounted for by pre-convention cam~- paign pledges. Persons interested in the scheme are alleged to have had an ufiderstanding with the Harding man- agers at Chicago that certain dele- gates would be permitted to vote for the Ohio Senator’s nomination only on condition that tarding get be- hind the St. Lawrence development scheme. ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS INTERESTED. Certain large manufacturers of elec trical machinery in New York and other Eastern centres are understood to be working hard for the project because of the market it would create for their output. But the crowd that pulls the strongest oar with the Ad- ministration is said to be the Alumi- num Company of America, the Mellon organization. which is associated with Genera! Electric interests and with the du Ponts in hydro-electric devel- opment. These plans are said to con- template an aggregate development of 8,400,000 horsepower. This group of interests has preliminary points for the development of 2,600,000 horse- power on the St. Lawrence granted by the New York State Wate-pewer Commission. These interests are “att- ting in the game” with a hand that will enable them to take toll whether or not their particular plans are ai cepted for the power feature of the project recommended by the Interna- tional Joipt Commission, ‘The Aluminum Trust and the asso- ciated Interests kept under cover dur- ing the early part of the Interna- tional Commission's hearings, but at the Ottawa hearings of the commise slon last November its representa- tives came forward with their own | power plans, which they offered as a substitute for the plans prepared by the commission's engineers, | ALUMINUM COMPANY CONTROLS POWER CONCERNS, The Aluminum Company has sub- sidiaries on tho St. Lawrence as fol- lows: ‘The St, Lawrence Company, Massena Electric Light and Power Compan, Company, Louisville Power Compuny, Hannawa Falls Water Power Com- pany and controls through stock own- Power Company. | Its capital stock is $19,000,000, I of 100 per cent.; in December, 19: one of 500 per cent, side at the | the earnings of the previous year, A dividend of 28 per cent. was de-|revolutionary Provisional Government clared, compared to 16 per cent. pafd | to-day, jast year. gros revenues amounted 2 scheme. ito 20,000,000 niarks, as rg President Zanella by a ership the Potsdam Electric Light and | November, 1904, ft paid a dividend | Harding. VENING WURBLD, SALUKDAY ‘ST. LAWRENCE CANAL FOES FIND A‘MELLON IN THE WOODPILE’ AND HARDING STANDING CLOSE BY THREE SHOOTINGS MYSTIFY POLICE Wounded, Other Won't Reveal His Assalfant. Three men were shot in Brooklyn early to-day. None was seriously wounded, and the police have been un- Court Stréet, was takeh from « Lexing- ton Avenue elevated train shortly after Bushwick Hospita) be sald he didn't and Summer Avenues, james Carey, twenty-five, No. 125 Fi Gold Street, was found at Myrtic Ave- | ‘he 1apid rise of the theatrical nue and Bumner Street with a bullet in| ‘business, “This talk about my planning to} ries and banks. pital he said he had mo idea who shot} use the movies for political purposcs him, None of the residents of. the/is silly. neighborhood heard « shot. to. his side. In Cumberland Street Hos- | Dhoi Campbell, twenty-one, 1% Steuben No. Stréet, an employee the ieee WASHINGTON, March 4.—Movies jable tp learn how tho affair happened. |in every school and ehurch is the aim Robert Sabundy, twenty-two,'No. 370] of will Hf, Hays, who retired to-day way have been almost overlooked in end of I couldn't do it if I wanted I would fail before I started. “Iam not going to reform the mov-|™ost of the rescrves. MOVIES IN SCHOOLS |POLICE SWAMPED AND CHURCHES, AIM) WITH PLEAS FOR OF HAYS, HE SAYS). PAYROLL GUARDS Two Brooklyn Victims Strangely| Educational Possibilities Havel Factories and Banks Seek Pro- Been Overlooked, Declares New Czar of Industry, tection Following Recent Daring Hold-Ups. Because of recent audacious hold- ups in Long Island City, and par- ticularly that of the assistant treas- as Postmaster General to become the|urer of the Tiffin Products Corpora- “, n woldnight, with « butlet fa tns fag. In see Toluene of the motion pi¢-|tion yesterday, when a murderous “Tho educational mavie ought tof{US Cbtalmed $8,000, the commanders know who shot him or that he was shot} take its place beside MoGuffey’s ‘Third |} the Astoria and Hunter's Point fey he felt blood triekling down his| Reader,” Mays sald. “The possivili-| Police precincts e overwhelmed es the train was bet' Throop| ties of the movie im an educational bef ; with requests for protection for pay- roll earriers and bank messengers to- day. The requests camo from facto- In order to supply the protection demanded it was neceseary to call on Uniformed Brookiyn Savy Yard, was teuna ta|'°* There is tobe mo cleanup cam-|patrolmen were sent to factories to Myrtle Avenue, near Sanford Street, | 2/5? with a bullet in his shoulder. He said | Scribed. the bullet seemingly where and he did not hear a shot. ool dnpalpanatiiaiads JEWISH RELIEF WORKERS Judge Sanders Swells Fund by Inducepeat to Subscribers. nemblies. This was decided after it was learned that thousandd of Jewish kinamen in Eastern Europe, imembers of the Sanders jation, Grand Street, had raised $2,060, Judge Leon Sanders annotincéed thut he would a a os GERMAN LINE DOUBLES LAST YEAR’S RECEIPTS Hamberg-Seath American Co. Pays 28 Per Cemt. Divide: HAMBURG, March 4.—The annual report of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Lines, lesued to-day, showod net profits amounting to more than 7,000,000 marks, twice the amount of 19,000,000, ——— ee CHICAGO. MURDERER ering “Father and Moth: chair and carried to the gallows in the death penalty late yesterday. He re- tained his apparently unconscious mien to the end. Church broke his silence of forty days were waiting to see him, He then whis- pered the rds- father > WOMAN, SUED FOR DIVORCE, Ex- ONERATED OF GUILT, Emily Schwenk of all guilt in the at- Yorce action brought against her by Mya. Schwenk tuting proceedings for possession of ner rated for year and a hal: more than a year, _—_— Norfolk, Va., and Eastport, Mi turbance, central to-day in the yiniciy move rapidly northeastward, {| rapidly in intensity and be aitended by Southern New England Co; wdas? Sauls he asts to-day _—s-—___ JUSTICE HOTOHKISS CRITICA ILL, 76th stre Dr. Richard Stern, the ai- latest report from the home this morn. ing was that he was resting more vome fortably. It was sald that the crisis ts expected this afternoon, i eS eee es ner, who had served as Chairman of the International Joint Commission, The place was given to Former Secre- tary of Labor W. B, Wilson, a Penn- sylvanian. Shortly after Mr, Har- ding was inaugurated he invited W. Company, St. Lawrence River Power! R, Wilton to Jufcheon an i I id inf Panhandle State St. Lawrence Transmission | nim that Obadiah Gardner's police was embarrassing to the ne i latration and previlled on Wilaw vol and ‘‘step out without fuss." Obedigh Gardner, who had been a strong supporter of the St. Lawrence project, was then reappointed by tense interest in the canal scheme. ag revealed recently, is oe as Binns Col. Hugh L. Cooper, who so vehe-|throwing new light on Mode: th mently denounced the Henry Ford|that Odabiah Gardner incon ner joffer for Muscle Shoals before the! of the Internation CHICAGO, March 4.—Simon O'Dun-| House Military Affairs Committee, rhe ioe pee ygineer. Henry Ford entering the hydro-clee | © An incident early in the Harding tric development field on a large acu | } Administration is recalled by the de- is significant when the activities ov}! ‘velopments of the Admin the Mellon interests in the St. Law \1 | keen interest in the St, Lawren rence region are taken into consider -| t | jogt. Former Senator Obadiah Garg- ation. ex ndernihel toetisestcitasverdechsuunatoll Ssimentiantuiie daheasinnstenimenadidemndiodsesar The mysterious unseen inflyence the Aluminum Trust's hydraulic en-|which has #0 far operated to prevent in ee bonis many have de- am going to work slow! ulcer: Ee seit | aed quietiy toward: developing cconc, | Danks, and detectives were on duty at mies within the Industry, and toward | banks to watch for thugs who might raising standards.. “Movie apparatus ought to be in- » TO INVADE SCHOOLS “!°2 ' ¢very church and schoot- aoe Soe house. Biblical pictures and travel r lands [of armed stick-up men throughout the wonld prove of great benefit to any|city the plan of the Long Island City churell. Schools can teach geography, | Manufacturers and bankers to obtain The New York Campaign Committec| history and science through the aid] Police protection direct from station for Jewish Relief have decided to send he movi over u great water power project Of | speakers to the public school as- of the movies more graphically than| houses may spread. pictures in any other why. turn out the right kind of pictures if|Killed five persons and stolen $150,000 people in Greater New York are una-| there 1s a demand for them, and it{in daylight attacks on the streets and ware of the conditions faced by their|!% my job to create that demand.” Tho business end of the movie in- new subscriptions ware ro-| dustry also cet yesterday. and when ninety] tention, “Seventy-five per cent exchanges could be eliminated by | yet, add 10 per cent. to whatever eum the| combining them and reducing over-|two thugs who held up and robbed raises. head and wast pasteles late FIUME IN HANDS a ‘ OF REVOLUTIONISTS | “Seonzcan’ Cumpuncllay, a jeweller, centre of the Adriatic, following the overthrow ef rising yesterday. nd mother.” 19.149 IMMIGRANTS ENTERED PALESTINE | true value. If the proposed bill be- A sealed verdict exonerating Mrs,| Figeres Are for 1921, and 8,517 of | creases in asse: Them Were Jew: (Jewish Tele-| harvest from their tenants. eect twas Conn toe 275 East 1682] sraphic Agency).—The number of im- } wa 0-day by Supreme| migrants entering Palestine during the| s Court ‘Justice Martin, in the Brone. ‘The | year its, the | sound itbe recommendatiin to oxtee case was tried before Justice Lydan,|9.149, a Colonial ending December 31, STORM COMING UP COAST To-pay|Suthoritics. | The number WASHINGTON, March 4—An ad-[ MoUs nage Men eltion following the | 2ewrial 8 inery storm warning was issued to-| Jaffa riots in May and the subsequent y by the Weather Burean for the|iimitation of immigration, the Zion{sts | portion of the Atlantic Coast between | assert. Since the new regulations, Jewish im- ee are ES at ‘icinity | migrants have been arriving in Pales-' *ynagogue prope! y to relieve eo is~ ot Cape Hatteras, the bureau said, will] tine at the rate of 800 per month. pension of HME fone tae Saat, ganas ant] SHIP NEWS INFORMATION Due To-Day. Supreme Court Justice Henry p, gexonie, Laverne) Hotchkiss is reported critically 1 with}Aracie, Gibraltar, pneumonia at this home. No. g15 weat | 7eaUol™ Cia ’ Vv. tending physician, said his patient had | Et a high fever, respiration and pulse, The] fiagar Maresiiien f Due Tuc-day. subject to removal at the President's Qurroples pleasure, was asked to resign near the| St. Mibiel, end of | the Wilson Administration. |Gumeronia, Queenstow Sailing To-Day. mout re. Vi jt. . George, Trint- Bath To-Morrow. 8.00 The Administration's Im- Zeeland. Antwerp .. Sailing Tuesday. ——-————— AN PRESIDENTIAL TION STILL IN DOUBT, of the Brazilian Presilential elec. juns, whieh took 4 accompany paymasters to and from trail paymasters or bunk messengers In view of the boldness and industry Incomplete re- Producers will|turns show that armed thugs have} int offices: since the first of the year. Primm England of the Tiffin in for at-|Products Company, who was shot yesterday, is not in serious danger. ‘Im| ‘There is no trace of his assailant as ‘Theodore Valentine, cashier of Wells & Newton, engineers, at 17th Street and Avenue B at 2 o'clock yesterday was held up and robbed in front of No. 149 Sullivan Street Tuesday night. Government Overthrown and Rome } tye jost $12,000 worth of jewelry. The Representative Take It Over. police kept this crime secret until | to-day. storm| HITS TAX VALUES is held by a AS RENT BASIS Fascist up-/ Would Permit Landlords to Gouge Casualties before Zanglla’s surrender were light, only eight soldiers being killed. Administration of the city will be IS HANGED IN COMA| handed over to an accredited repre- sentative of the Italian Government,| volunteer counsel for the Mayor's who now is on his way from Rorae. The Italian Government has ordered the destroyer Mirabelo to land ma-| day opposed the passage of the pro- CHICAGO, Mafch 4.—Strapped to aj fines here and restore order. 4.—Commendatore | tais on the basis of assessed valua- same comatose state in which he has| Castelli, Italian diplomatic represen- lain for weeks, Harvey Church, slayer | tative to Fiume, to-day accompanied of two automobiie salesmen. paid the|pneputy Gluriati to Fiume with of- ficial authority from the Facta Gov-|baum, “would result in as much | ernment to restore order. Fasciati in Venice and other Italian | from the 26 per cent. provision in the just. five hours before the hanging,| cities to-day held demonstrations ap-| laws of April, 1920. Assessments are when the was told his father and mother | proving the Fiume revolution. pisces diehe aes More Than Ever, Expert Says. Applebaum, Julius formerly a Committee on ‘Rent Profiteering, to- posed measure to fix reasonable ren- tion. ‘This provision,’’ said Mr. Apple- profiteering and inflation as resulted commonly made on the basis of rents demanded. The present assessed | valuation of property, based on pres- ent inflated market prices, is not the comes law, landlords will seek in- ed valuation, pay a small increase in taxes and reap a Mr. Applebaum also declared un- was ws “eb. 24, 1924. ‘Omfice announcement the rent laws until F 924. He id she intended insti-| published to-day states. Of these 8,517 were Jews, according to| ebild, from whom she had been sepa-| figures compiled by the Immigration Di and also for | partment of the Zionist executive, which children’s school terms. alimony and counsel fees. She stated|adds that this number does not cover that she had been without support for|the entire said the laws should expire on July 1, 1924, if not 1925, so that tenants could not be evicted during their PERE ASA RSE to the Holy! SYNAGOGUE PROPERTY Lang, including only those arrivals who! have been registered with the Zionist | ‘The number of Immigraiits MAY FEED STARVING ste Would Tara fons te the Soviet. MOSCOW, March 4 (Jewish Tele~ graphic Agency).—The liquidation of all tress of the Jewish famine sufferers in Russia is urged by Commissioner Mere- jin in the Emmess, the Jewish organ of the Communist Party. Merejin takes his cue from the Bi shevist Pravda, which recently appealed to the church authorities to hand over S| {he buildings and equipments to (he | Soviet authorities, applying the pro- ceeds to the feeding of the farmine vic- tims in the Volga district, Particular stress is laid by the Jew- ish Communist leader on the desperate situation of the Jewish small holders in South Russia, and he urges that the scrolls of the law, the silver ‘crowns,’ candelabra and other valuable ornu- ments be stripped for the benefit of the . 25 .25| famine stricken. It is also proposed that Jewish worshippers deVote ¢ customary contributions wien reciting the weekly Pentateuchal portion to the relief fund. Se WOULD STOP RENT vt TO FORCE REPAIRS Folbert Bill Aimed at Landlords Who Ignore Official Orders. ALBANY, March 4.—Landlords who ignore the notices or orders of the Tenement House Department or other municipal authorities directing them to make necessary repairs will be unable to collect rent from ténants if a bill in- troduced by Senator Ward V, Tolbert becomes law. The measure provides that where a \\andlord fails to comply with any of- cial notice or order affecting the roof, hallways, approaches, dumbwaiter: team, hot water or plumbing, or thi ELBC-|jytorior of any apartments the tenant ‘jeod not pay rent until the order te \contplied with, Senator Tolbert declares that there we thousands of apartments against vuleh all sorts of notices and orders | ted, but not obeye unfit: fol Mts, Docuuse of but that the Acting President, hug| ui ‘political influence of the landlords, wajority 1p the larger citlos, ere upeble to comps! avten. :GISLATORS HELD CAPTIVES TO FORCE SENATE ELECTION Troops Called as Gun Fighting Qaxcurs in Argentine Senate \ and Assembly. BUENOS AIRES, March 4 yted Press).—The Senate and Asspmbly of the Province of Tucumagd have been held prison- ers for more than twenty-four hours wighout food by order of the Presidwnt of the Senate in an attempt to\force tho election of a federal Senator. . The legisintive building is sur- rounded by, firemen and armed civilians and) revolver fighting ts sald to be gokng onginside. Police are reported be endeavoring to gain cntrance and Hberate the deputien, _ The Speaker — tele- gtaphed President Yrigoyen ask- ing for troops. ' They were sent. es ALL NEW ENT LAWS NAY NOT BE PASSE PORTS DELAYED (Continued From Fiwst Page.) of the Assembly lasts only until Tues- day night. At midnight they pass out of existence and all bills under consideration will go into the Commit- ; tee on Rules. When a bill goes into | Rules Committee there is about as ‘much ebance for its passage, unless | forced by an emergency messnge from the Governor, as a camel has to pass ‘through the eye of the needle. | Gov. Miller has taken a stand on only two propositions with regard to the Lockwood Committee. Ome was that the emergency Inws must be cx- tended until 1924 und the other that the committee was to continue in ex-| istence for another year. The latter Neither is there any clue to the js assured, for a resolution to that’ 750,000 Ruble Pi effect has already been passed by both Houses. ‘Thero is little doubt the rent laws will continue In force, because, ff it {is necessary, the Governor will send fA message which will scnd the bill through beth Houses. But so far as the bills making for the increased facilities for housing are concerned, with regard to whut the insurance companies and the savings the cause of building along, as re} gards removing the restrictions upon | building by providing adequate pun~ jishments for illegal combinations in building material and among the build- i trades and labor, legislation 1s up in the air. | The committees have two days for! their consideration before the Rules Committee takes over all measures, an there will be less than ten days for their discussion on the floor of both Houses, even if the committees report favorably on them before Tues- day night. Thomas A. McWhinney of Nassau, Sub-Chairman of the Housing Com- mittee and a member of the Rules Committee, contributed materially to the delay. He was not in favor of an |extension of the Housing Committee |and showed his antagonism to it at the last session when he fought its recommendations on the floor of the House. The committee waited upon |him for two days while he re-read the report, which he was the last to sign. Gov. Miller at the opening of t present session called for the shortest possible term, and both Houses, tak- in: him at his word, have adopted journment a week from Friday, March 17, The session might be prolonged at the request of the Governor, but from unquestionable sources it is learned no such request will be forth- | ecming for the purpose of passing the housing bills. |\UNTERMYER WILL | COME BACK TO AID | LOCKWOOD BILLS! {No Break With Housing Commit=| tee Over Alleged Changes | in Report. } Statements from Senator Charles C. Lockwood, Chairman of the Legis- lative Committee on Housing, and from Samuel Untermyer, counsel, made it apparent to-day that the rumors of friction due to changes made by the committee in the report written by Mr. Untermyer had no foundation. The Evening World showed yeste: day that the changes of the commit- tee in Mr, Untermyer’s original draft, | of which it had a copy, were trivial} and omitted only one recommendation, that of etablishing a State monopoly, i of compensation Insurance; some char- | : teristically severe characterizations | | of officials were also eliminated. The | ‘ comniittee felt it has ne evidence that State monopoly of compensation had| | worked well in Ohio and other States. Senator Lockwood sinca the pub had assurances from Mr, Untermy that he will return from Palm Beaci | Monday to speak at the hearing on! | the bills submitted. From Palm Beach Mr. ,Untermyer has wired a message in which he de- clares the talk of “emasculation of his report” by the Housing Commit- tee is only another effort to sow dis- cord, and that it will fall. He says: | “T am in close touch with what is) transpiring, and while one major | recommendation concerning a State | monopoly of workmen's compensa-) tion and a few minor matters, con-| sisting of criticism of public officials, have not been adopted, the report has | not been rewritten or materially | changed. Its important features | | Nave been adopted. RTS HOME TO-DAY, Bermu |Charles E. Hughes. S | HUGHES 8 | ch ot jreturns to the United States to | HAMILTO from his vacation “much benefited by the rest and delighted with all ‘essn 4nd capsriciced in Bermuda, banks shall do with their funds to hefp | ~ a resolution making the date of ad- ~ lication of the amended report has|’ MR. WILSON BETTER, IN GENERAL HEALTH ; One Year Out of Office, He Has Withstood Well Any Minor Setbacks. i WASHINGTON, March 4.—One year as a private citizen has brought improved genctal health to Woodrow Wilson, his intimate friends said to- day. A the result of the extreme care with which his health ts guarded, more color has uppeured io Mr. Wilk s uble to walk with leas in use his afflicted his countenance seems more cheerful; he is able to take almost daily motor eur rides} he at- tends the theatre once and sometimes twice a week; his list of visitors as increased; smali, private dinner pare ties are again being held at the Wilson horhe; he follows the newspapers rather closely and, although refusing to take any direct part in international affairs, he is following the Arms Con- ference treaties and other national and international developments with close interest. He has, so far, with- stood well any minor setbacks, ‘ ee $100,000 BLAZE NEAR " WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE Three-Alarm Fire Brooklyn Loft Menaces Other Buildings. Persons crossing the Williamsburg Bridge at 3 A. M. to-day stopped to watch a three-alarm fire in the five- story loft building at Nos, 33-35 Broad- way, Williamsburg, a short distance from the bridge. ‘The fire apparently started on the top floor in a hosiery factory and dropped to the floor below, where firemen stopped It after the fire and water had done about $100,000 damage. Because of the danger to surrounding property. three alarms were sounded, the third bringing Deputy Chief O'Hara and Deputy Fire Commissioner Thompson, pbs easel 200,000 RUBLES YEARLY TAX ON PHONOGRAPHS mos im Soviet Russia. MOSCOW, Feb 7 (By mail.)—Gi pianos are heavily hit by the new juxury. taxes framed by the Moscow Soviet.' Each owner of a grand piano must pay an annual tax of 750,000 rubles, which exceeds the annual wages of many Government employees. Ordinary pianos are taxed 600,000 a must pay 200,000. 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