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1 1 JOHN D. JR. PAYS ANDERSON $15,000 A YEAR WEATHER Fair. TOMOnnOW8 WEATHER Fair and Warmer. Get the Coanby HI Baek Peace M EDITION \ Circulation Hooka Open to All.\ 1 \Circulation Books Open to All.\ 'VOL. LX. NO. 21,376 DAILY. cwri,bwIoT.rr.,Uhl,,, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920. Port Ilntrrnl Offler, Reronil-Cl- New Vork, Mattrr N. V. 20 PAGES. S PRICE TWO CENTS. U - m m. r as IK IN W U. S. ON PEACE Quick Saving of Possible Through Simple Measures of Economy. FIRST, SELL WAR CAMPS. Plan Will Be Strongly Op- posed in Various Sections, but It's \Only Way.\ By Martin Green. Eveninn World.) WASHINGTON, March Mem- bers of Congress In both bianohes anil many economists who axe jr on how to reduce Government expenses appear to be unable to get toarothcr on a plan whioh will result In the reduction or taxation and speedily lead to a reduction In the hlch coat of living. Tho hlph cost of living lo to a great extent duo to the extravagant cost of government, fi when the cost of government cesses down the Individual will bene fit In two ways from a reduction of taxes, whether he Is a direct tax- payer or, not, and irqm a reduction in '(St ooK \6f commodities be must purchase for hlmsclf\or his family. The solw,tipn of the problem, as The Evening World haa pointed out and win continue to point out. Is to place the country onco .norc on a peace basis. There Is widespread confusion Government expenditures and appropriations. The Secretary of the Treasury, Carter Glass, now United States Senator from Virginia, In out-- V lining to Congress tho state of the finances of tho Union lost December, ;.spoke of uctual expenditures and es timated receipts. He knew more'at the time he made hia report about the state of tho finances of the Union than any other person connected with the Govern- ment, and Congress, In struggling with the problem before It, is using his figures. Tho Treasury Department esti- mates a deficit this year of 13,155,-000,00- 0. The estimated excess of celpta over expenditures next year should reduce the deficit, according to the Treasury Department, to $1,009,000,000. Tho department esti- mate of expenditures next year Is, approximately, J4, 000, 000,000. WAY IS CLEAR TO SAVING OF $3,925,000,000. The programme ot The Evening World Is simple, straightforward and practicable. It la net forth In plain figures tn the adjoining columns. The Secretary of the Treasury es- timated the deficit next year of $2,009,000,000 on the basis of expendi- tures and receipts as set forth In his report. Kcduclng the expenditures by $1,725,000,000 and accumulating through cash or collateral 12,200,-000,00- 0 In salvage, which can be done as the accompanying table shows, would completely demobilize tho defi cit of $2,000,000,000 and permit the re duction of taxation to the extent of approximately 11.000,000,000. A. taxation reduction of $1,000,000,-00- 0 would make possible the Imme- diate repeal of the excess profits tax. The Evening World's pro- gramme, Involving the return of (Continued on TwOfth Page.) TAX BILL PASSED ALBANY, N. Y.. March D. The Sen ate tday passed tho Davenport bill amending the State income tax law In relation to tho taxtlon of ts so u to conform with tho recent United States Supremo Court decision holding the State cannot discriminate between icsldents and In oxemp-- i ion privileges. The bill would nllow to 'Bxpayors the same exemptions, In pro- - y portion to the amount of their Incomes earned with the State, as uro allowed reokUota, ATTACK ON CATHOLICS BY BASIS COULD THIS YEAR'S DEFICIT OF $3,155,000,000 $3,925,000,-00- 0 NON-RESIDEN- T Plan of Evening World For Saving U. S. Billions How the Government Can Help Taxpayers, Shown in Simple Figures. programme of The Evening World for putting the country THE on a peace basis, reducing Government expenses and thereby lowering the cost of living, Is herd set forth In con- crete form: The Government shipping Interests can be sold for, ap- proximately $1,700,000,000 Tho war plant, comprising such elements as cuntonments, warehouses, munition plants, surplus supplies, and so on, can bo salvaged for (at a low estimate) 600,000,000 The expenditures for the war plant next year can be re- duced, below the estimate of the Secretary of War and the General Stan, about 1,000,000,000 The appropriation for the Shipping Board can be limited to tho extent or 500,000,000 The proposed expenditures for public works, which can be cut out tins j .'. . ...lout any detriment to the nation or to communities thej uro designed to benefit, should bo reduced 150,000,000 The various \uplift\ schemes by which It is proposed to graft onto the Government private bureaus and organ- izations can be oui to the extent ot 75,000,000 Representing a total nalvuge of $3,925,000,000 Of this ?2, 200, 000,000 is embraced in money to conio In from sal- vaging the Shipping Board and war plant, and $1,725,000,000 amounts to reduction In expenditure. Subtracting, tho saving In expenditures from the estimated expenditure .pr,,.$4,OQO,000,000 we have estimated actual' expenditures or $2,'275;000,000. In peace days the expenses of the Government amounted to ap- proximately $1,000,000,000 a year. The Evening World's plan adds to this $275,000,000 for natural Increase in expenses and $1,000,000,000 for the cost of the national debt. i ASTOR THEATRE GROUND IS SOLD FOR !;790,000 R. E. Dowline Also Purchases At Auction Bijou and Mo-rosc- o for $350,000. The biggest real estate auction over held In Now York began to-d- Bhortly after noon, when tho holdings of the Henry Astor Estate we're put for sale before 3,000 men and women assembled In the grand ball room of tho Hotel Astor. Tho sale offerings comprised sixty three and four story buildings, thirty-eig- ht tenement houses, thirty-thre- e parcels of land containing privato dwellings under leape, thrco theatres, seven factory ibulklings and six va- cant lots. With the cxcoptlon of the six vacant lots, all tho property is located In the ihcart of the ihotol and theatrical district. Robert E. Dowling, President of the City Investing Company, bought the ground on which the Astor Theatre stands, at Broadway and 5th Street, for $790,000. The building la assessed, at J9G0.0O0. Mr. Dawllng also purchased the UIJou and Morosco Theatre properties adjoining tho Astor Theatre on 45th Street. Kor these ho paid $330,000. The ossossod valuation is $435,000. Bidding on the Astor Theatre prop- erty began at $300,000, and in all nine bids wero made, boforo it was 'knocked down to Mr. Dowling. Tho bidding for the Bijou and Morosco Theatres began at $200,000. Thcro were four bids for thce. The sale wns conducted ns the re- sult 'if court preened ngs to par'it'nn the estate Eighteen will share In the proceeds. Tho Inrgest amount will go to Arthur Astor Coroy, a nephew of tho lato Henry Astor. TAKE DKI.L-AN- S AFTEIl MEALS and sea km Boa GOOD digestion null rou leal. Aor. WIPE Si s DECLARES DANIELS DELAYED PEACE 4 MONTHS Asserts Department Was Un prepared for War, Despite All Warnings. WASHINGTON. March 9.-- Rear Admiral Sims to-d- told the Senate Committee Investigating tho Navy's conduct of the war that the failure of the Navy Department to act promptly on recommendations and to place tho country's entire naval resources at the disposal of the Allies within six months after the United States en- tered tho war prolonged the strugglo for at least four months. He added that it also unnecessarily Jeopardized tho outcome. Declaring that 3,000 llvos were lost and $100,000,000 spent every dav of thn war, tho Admiral said the conclusions from his statement were obvious. Admiral Sims said his criticisms wero directed at the navy's work in 1317 and \had nothing to do with the magnificent way tho navy functioned In 1918, after It really got Into tho war. The navy, he said, was not nmnorlv prepared in April, 1917, and tho ad- ministrative machinery was cumber- some and Inefficient. Ho denied that his statomonts constituted \an at- tack\ on any ono, and cbaroctorl&ed as \ridiculous\ stntomcnts that ho was attacking civilian control of tho Navy Department, which, ho said, was essential. \1 am at tho end of my careor and have nothing to gain and all to lose,\ said Admiral Alms. He wished to bo set right In tho oyes of tho country and to refute widespread criticisms that ho was \throwing mud nt the nnvy,\ Admiral 81ms declared. Decltirini that he had rulvod ques- tions about tnt ul'm-iinc- of tho navy solely because he hud folt It his duty to point out errors in naval ndmiuis-tnitio- n, tho Admirul said ho had been (.Continued on Second rage.) MAYOR DISCUSSES RENT STRK E PLAN WITH LABOR MEN Date for Mass Meeting to Fight Profiteers Will Be Set w. TENANTS ORGANIZING. League Covering Five Bor oughs to Press Fight on Gouging Landlords. The date of a mass meeting under tho auspices of organized labor to dis- cuss a general atriko as a remedy for rent profiteering In New York City, President Edward I. Hannah of tho Central Federated Union an- nounced y at City Hall, is con- tingent upon a conference President Hannah and Secretary Ernest Bohm will hold with Mayor llylun Hannah and Bohm wero closeted with tho Mayor y or twenty minutes. At the dune, of the. confer- ence Mayor Hylan would make no statement beyond the romark that tho rent situation was discussed and that he would see the men again \I don't believe inuoh can Se ac complished by the Gannon (Jersey City) plan In New York,\ said Presi- dent Hannah. \The Idea of the city erecting' apartments Is a sound one, out what we need is Immediate relief. I have a stack of letters In my of- fice from tenants writing of In creases and we are be'lng called on tho telephone all day long listening to the same class of complaints. \In many cases ronta aro being doubled. Men cannot get more pay without breaking their trade agree- ments. That is why wo came to see tho Mayor, to find out If something can't be done quickly.\ Tho Tenants' Rights League of Greater Now York Is to be organized to fight profiteering landlords, and if tho hopes and expectations of Its pro- moters are realized, a large member- ship will be enrolled In short order. This scheme to unlto tho rent-paye- rs of tho live boroughs in a defen- sive alliance originated In tho mind of Nomer Gray of 1013 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. Mr. Gray, as a member of the Sons of the Revolution, haa al- ways shown great activity In per- petuating the American spirit and Ideas. Ho Is Secretary of the National Educators' Society, President of tho Association of Men Teachers and Principals of the City of New York and a teacher in the High School of Commerce In Weat 6Sth Street. Mr. Gray dlsclosod tho Big Idea in a speech several nights ago, and a few lines of it got into tho uowj-paper- s. So heavy has been his mall since that too was engaged in sending out a circular acknowledgment of tho let- ters he had received when an Evo-nln- g World leporter ca'lcJ. \I am awaro that thero ure sovaral (Continued on Second Page.) ALDERMEN APPROVE OF BOXING BOUTS Board's Committee on State Legis lation Acts Favorably on McGarry's Resolution. The Committee on State Legislation of the Hoard of Aldermen y favor ably reported out tho resolution ap proving of legalized boxing exhibitions in this State. Tho resolution was in- troduced somo time ago hy Alderman Francis D. MeGarry. It does not com mit tho Aldermanlo body to any par tlcular boxing bill at Albany, but mere ly seeks to place the stamp of ap proval on any boxing nieasuro that shall provide for professional bouts under proper upor lilon and control A lengthy dlsonsMoi followed the committee's report, it does not go into details such an the length of bouts or how they shall be governed. It merely sanctions them. Raoino Entries on Page 2. FRITZ ACQUITTED OF COYNE MURDER After Three Hours' Deliberation Bronx Jury Finds Cabman Not Guilty of Killing Woman. After being out a little more than three hours the Jury in the Bronx Supreme Court .this nftefnoon re- turned a verdict of not guilty In tho case of Ernest Fritz, tho Tuokahoo tux! cab owner charged with tho mur- der of Mrs. Florence Coynd In (Bronx Park on (March 19, 1919. Fritz's wife and mother, who wero In the court room, collapsed and bo-ca- hysterical whan the verdict was announced. Tho trial lasted four weeks, the longest murder trial over held in tho Bronx. DETECTIVE FREED IN ASSAULT CASE Witnesses Unable to Identify Dolan as Man Who Fought in Restaurant. Detective Thomas A. Dolan of the strong arm rquad at Police Headquar- ters, arrested late on Saturday night on the charge of assaulting Jack Dol-gof- f, tho young driver of a taxlcab. In what was said to have been a free-for-a- ll fight in a restaurant at 116th Street and Lenort Avenue, was discharged this afternoon by Magistrate Schwab, In the Washington Heights Police Court. Only three witnesses showed a will- ingness to testify. Alt. Including Dol-gof- f, said they could not remember Dolan os among thos present. The Magistrate questioned them closely, asking if they had been promised any- thing for falling memory or had been approached in the interest of the de- tective. Thoy replied in tho neirajlvo. COPELAND ON BENCH HEARS RENT CASES; WILL AID TENANTS Health Commissioner Plans to Halt Evictions Where Sanitary Code Is Violated. HEALTH COMMISSIONER sat bcsldo Judge Crane on the bench In the Seventh District Municipal Court for half an hour y to listen to landlord and tenant cases. He Intends to visit other courts for the same purpose. \Many of tho cases aro based,\ ho said, \on complaints regarding tho sanitary condition of tene- ments. I am going to confer with the legal division of my depart- ment to see If we cannot get tho codo amended so that marshals shall not evict families for non- payment of rent In premises which aro not properly kept by the land- lord.\ , Dr. Copcland said Now York had 100,000 more families than homes and that In 57,000 houses families are \doubling up\ two families In one apartment. BURGLAR ALARMS FOR CELLARS NOW; TREASURE'S THERE. Installation Business Booming and Strongboxes Are Resorted to as Added Safeguards. BURGLAR alarm company A at Newark reported y that It is being flooded with now business. Most of the now customers want tho bulk of the wiring in their cellars. Among them aro many dealers with permits to keep liquurs for medicinal purposes. Ono aplicant first built a cabinet around his treasures and then ap- plied for an alarm. Yesterday a Newark man re quested tho discontinuance of his alarm while painters wero at work. This morning ho called tho burglar alarm company on the telephone. \Ict tho connection remain so far us the cellar concerned,\ he said. \I'vo decided to do no paint- ing m that part of the houst.\ WOKI.il IlB.ST.tUII..Vr, frvrtll toe JWUir. MmbIi 0. J20 t- -t d r.tlni Unii. mint vtiMaJil., M; JVm. 4LV, 4c IU& ft. Wotld Wil-X- drt. Anderson makes FRESH ATTACK A C CHURCH Denies Certain Statements in Answering the Letter of Archbishop Hayes. DRY. LEADER FLAYED. Prelate Hopes None Will Be Deceived by \Un-Americ- an Brewer of Bigotry.\ William H. Anderson, SUito Super- intendent of the Anti-Saloo- n League of New York, to-d- replied to Arch bishop Hayes who, In answering tho attack of Anderson on tho Catholic Church, referred to Anderson as \tho sinister figure In American politics, a sower of strife, who sinks so low as to play tho role of a brew- er of bigotry.\ Anderson's state ment follows: \If an charged by the Cuthollo Archbishop of New York, It makes mo a 'sinister flguro,\ a 'sower of strife' a 'browor of bigotry' to Htnto tbo truth about tho attlttido ot noma loaders of tho Catholic Church with rewpect to enforcement of tho Pro- hibition Amendment, then by tho In- herent force of his own statement, so rriueh tho worse these loaders. \Not even the Archbishop of New York can obscure an Issue by talking about something else, and tho denial ot Bomothlng else, while falling to deny tho specific thing that I said, constitutes a confession of tho truth of my statcmont. I did not say that \tho Catholic Church Is affiliated with any political organization,\ nor did I say that \tho Church Is in con- spiracy to contravene directly or In- directly tho law of tho land.\ There la groat distinction between \the Catholic Church\ and \spmo Catho- lics.\ What I did say Is that \moat of tho officiary of tho Roman Catho- lic Church In this Htnto\ are \In sympathy with\ tho Tammany ef- forts to destroy tho Prohibition vic- tory, which Is a very different matter. '\The conclusive proof of tho truth of this ntatemont Is found In the fact that on tho very day that It was sont out. Cardinal Gibbons publicly, specifically declared for permitting tho manufacture of beer nnd wlnn. Further, tho Archbishop might sim- ply have declined the Invitation to bo presont at our law and order moot- ing, but when ho wont out of his way to rebuke tho singling out of tho Prohibition Lnw for enforcement when it had been ningled out for vio- lation and nullification and whim the Federal Government had s'ngied It out for support he apparently under- estimated tho diBcernmont of tho public. \The Archbishop can refuto the Anti-Saloo- n Ieaguo's statement on this point In ono way and ono way only. H ho will declare that ho him- self Is opposed to and bellovoi that (Continued on Second Page.) KING GEORGE WEARS TROUSERS CREASED DOWN SIDE OF LEG Fashion Was Set Years Ago by His Father, but Never \Took\ in London. IXJNDON, Maroh 9. GEORGE'S latwt KING allow that ho has revived a fimhlon set long ago by his father, Klnjf Edward his trouiio aro cronsol nt tho Hide tnotead of down tho contro. This style of crease novcr at- tained great poimlurity except among a few oldorly oourtiors, and tailors now say that, in tholr opinion, must mou will stick to tho front creaao. Imported I'omiirUn Othc Oil U sure, uluiti ollT ell, i4rt, , ANDERSON JOHN D. JR. PAYS ANDERSON SALARY OF $15,000 A YEAR M II TELL ASSEMBLY WHY Cuvillier Declares the Anti-Saloo- n League ChiefReceives Check for $1,250 a Month From Millionaire New Wet Bill Backed by War Veterans. ALBANY, N. Y., March 9. John D. Rockefeller jr. will be ailed as a witness in the Assembly's investigation of the Anti-Saloo- n League, Assemblyman Cuvillier said to-da- y. Cuvillier issued the following statement as his reason for calling Rockefeller: \lthascometomynotice that John D. Rockefeller jr. pays as a salary to William H. Anderson, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloo- n League, the sum of 5515,000 per year at the rale of $1,250 per month b check through the Fifth Avenue branch of the Com Exchange Bank, New York City.\ & WIFE WON'T LET ? LEGISLATOR FLY TO SAVE SUFFRAGE Antis Hope lo Break West Virginia Deadlock Before Bloch Can Reach Charleston by Special Train. CHA11L133TON, W. VA.. March 9. TATK iUlVATOH A. It. n MONTGOM BUY, listed as on st, urrlvod In Charleston y, and It was announced by opponents of tho Anthony Suffrago Amendment that ho would break the H to 14 deadlock In the Senate this after- noon and aid that body to adjourn before Senator Modi, tho st, who Is hastening horo from California, would arrive to vote for ratification. Illoch loft Chicago by special train at noon y In an effort to savo tho Suffrage Amondment. Illoch took tho train Instead of a prorfored olrplano when his wifo objected to tho danger of tho aerial trip. Ho ald ho would reach Charleston In ample tlmo to voto to ratify the Suffrage Amendment. JERSEY OIL PLANT WIPED OUT BY FIRE Carteret Co.'s Establishment at Roosevelt Is Destroyed With a Loss of $250,000. Th Cartarot Oil lleflnlng Company plant at lloosevelt. W. J., was a total Inaa by fire y, at an estimated dam- age of :50,000. Tho plants of the Mexi- can Petroleum Company and thn Chemical Company, adjoining, wero in danger. Tile lloosevelt Volunteer Flro Depart- ment was aided by tho 250 employees of the Cartaret Company. Tho flro in believed to havo boon caused b a boiler explosion. RUN DOWN ALLEGED THIEF. I'MKitlvr trniaril of IMrnllnB ir.O lllaiiifiml lllnica From Jewrllrr. After an exoltlng chaso In Flatbyih .Uenue. Uiuoklyn, this afternoon. Philip Waldnin, a elerk, of No. 645 lHth Street, Ulrooklyn. was captured by the police of the Jlcrgen Ktrcct Station at Flatbuaa Avcnuo and St. Mark's Place. The police accuso Wuldron of stealing HjO worth of diamond ring from the Jewelry store or Kellian uroit., -- o. SI Flatbuah Avenue. RETRIAL FOR MRS. STOKES. ST. LOUIS. Mo., March 9 Tho United States Circuit Court of Appeals y rvercd the verdict by which Mrs. Hose Pastor Stokes, wealthy New York So- cialist, was convicted iu Kansas City In Juno, 1918, of violating the Espionage Act. and remanded tho case for new trial. Mrs. Htokes was sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment, Assemblyman Mauriet Dloeh is pre parinn to introduce in the Lsgislatur a bill pormittino tht of beer containlnn 31-- 2 par cntT alcohol. The bill is modeled after that recently adopted by the New Jersey Legislature. Learning that tho attltudo of the legislative loaders Is adverse to pas-sag- o of a light wine or beer bill. As- semblyman llansom 11. Glllctt, a world war veteran nnd Introducer of ono of tho bills, will attempt iu line up the thlrty-flv- o men In tho Legislature behind this bill. A conferenco of these men has been called for this afternoon and Glllctt will oak them to endorse his measure. (Should tho thlrty-flv- e service men endorso the bill Glllott feels that It stands a good show of possago in the Assembly, believing tho thlrty-fiv- o Democratic members would vote for It as well as fifteen or twenty repub- licans from Now York City. If Speaker Sweet does not appca.t voluntarily as a witness In (he As- sembly Inquiry Into the Anti-Salo- League he will bo subpoenaed, accord-In- s to Assemblyman E. A. Kverett. Kverett, a member of tho Judiciary Committee which will conduct tho In- vestigation, desires to havo the spot- light thrown on a conference between Speaker Sweet and William H. An- derson, Superintendent of the league In New York State, two years ago utULARES ANDERSON SOUGHT TO PREVENT INVESTIGATION. According to Kverett, h had in- troduced a bill which would havo re quired tho Anti-Saloo- n League to mako public statomonts of tho moneys it collected and expended. Ho charges that Anderson urged Swoot to use his influence to defeat tho bill, but this Sweet refused to do, and it passed both houses, but was not signed by tho Governor. Assemblyman Cuvillier Is sUll re- - celvlng lotters from clergymen com- - mondlng the action of the Assembly and also has received from do Allied Tobacco Leuguo of Ohio an offor to furnish evldouce concerning tho meth ods of tho league. Attorney-Gener- Newton Is expect- ed to confer with the Judiciary Com-mitt- o within tho next few days on the evldenco and outline tho plan of procedure for the Investigation. Millionaire \angels\ of the Antt-Sa-loo- n Leaguo and tho lcglsl.tlvo \slaves\ of lloss Anderson aro to be lined up for investigation. Cuvillier also announced he Intends to mil so far as posalblo all members of tho Legislature past and present, who pledged support of Prohibition Ilatlflcation and Prohibition Enforce- - if ment Hills to Anderson in writing 7 prior to tholr election. It Is assumed I that more than 100 legislators bavef dono this during the past tlvo years n \Tho reason for subpoenaing these lawmakers,\ explained Cuvlllle; \should bo perfectly patent to peril. sons who have followed the trial the five suspended Socialist Aase: mil blymen, One ot the rtUQM I i I
