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.r 4 ? THRIFTY WIVES BDY OP PACIFIC SMELTS Carioafl of Fish Qnlckly Sold it 6 Cents a Pound in Many Stores. i IVEW SHIPMENT OxV WiVY Mayor's Food Supply Commit- tee Aided by Grocers In Jfower Price Crusado. The Mayor's Food Supply Committee fa etytagiwl In \price fixing by publicity,\ la tie cue of rice, hominy, Brailllan dmm .n4 Paolflo coast smelts, and hun- dred of retail dealers In all parts of the Weater ey are cooperating with George W, Perkins, chairman, and his col- leagues in their plan to reduce the cost of foodstuffs. The committee yesterday B\Te notice of a public hearing; for the discussion of the Wlchs market bill next Monday at 3 P. SI. In the rooms of tho Merchants Association, Woolworth UulkJlnr The carload of smelts, which was Placed on raIa tn ratnll itniwa ,t P. ,...,,Im a pound on Thursday, tickled the fancy of the public accustomed to Eastern smelts at from 16 to 20 cents a pound. TJe fish were snapped up eagerly by early morning bargain hunters and thrifty housewives yesterday, and not on of the committee's smelts could be found on the stands at noon. Most of them hail gone Into the frying pan by that time. The committee was so pleased over the manifest popularity of its consignment from tho State of Wash- ington that Mr. Perkins called up the Taooma shipper by telephone nnd or- dered four moro carload for delivery next Thursday or Friday. These fish will be sold by the committee to retailers at 4 csnts a pound on condition that they will place a placard In their stores say- ing that they are selling the fish at 6 cents a pound. Hominy and Brailllan Beans. The sale of the committee's hominy and Brazilian beans will commence next Monday. Every retail grocer buying these foodstuffs from thu committee must promise, to place the following pasteboard sign tn his store: This atore, i cooperating with tn In an effort to reduce the cost of food and lias agreed to sell In bulk, for cash, without delivery the following: ltlCi:. 6 cents n lb. HOMINY, 4 cents a lb. BRAZILIAN HKA.VS, 8 cents a lb. These are. healthful foods that can bo lined in place of higher priced ones. atAYOU'S 'FOOD SUPPLY COMMITTEE. The committee Issued yesterday an an- nouncement in which It said : \We expect the grocers to provide their own rice, which they can do at a price to provide a profit In selling It at 6 cents a pound. As to the supply of rice which we bought some time ago. It Is not necessary for us tr offer-tlits rice now because the retail grocers should bo nble to get It from the regular wholesale Iioubch low enough t allow a fair profit to the retailer at 6 cents u pound \If the retail grocers of this city wll. take this card wo have prepared and display It and scree to sell rice at 6 cents a pound, hominy nt 4 cents a pound and Brazilian beans at 8 cents a pound, we are satisfied they will render the consumers of New York a very great service, for they will ofTcr in tills way three very excellent nrtlclex offood nt very reasonable prices, and if these ar- ticles art generally adopted nnd worked Into the meals that are terved every day In New York city It wjll reduce the con- sumption of other nrtlcleri of food and thus by lesdenlng the demand reduce tho Price of those other articles. Grocers Invited to Cooperate. \All grocers, who will cooperate with Of In this manner are requested to Im- mediately address postal curds to us this fact. Wo will at once send them these placards to put up and tell them how and where they can get the hominy and the Brazilian beans. \Tho committee wishes to Kay that It is not offering charity to the public. Neither is it In business for piotit. It Is simply advancing funds with which to buy articles which In turn nro being offered to retailers in New York at cost, and we trust at a price that will enable the retailer to make n reasonable profit and yet render a real service to the consumer. \Wo wish to take this opportunity to Impress on the people of Now York the functions that a market department could perform If this city had one, be- cause here we as a few citizens have gone Into far distant points, such ns the Paciflu coast. Brazil and the Western States, for these fish, this hominy and these Brazilian beans, and have made it possible for our people to get them at reasonable prices. There ought to be a State and city department cooperating to bring about Just such desirable re- sults as these. Could there bo \a better demonstration than wo are giving of the j aoeoiute necessity of the Immediate pas- sage of some such legislation as we have been recommending and which in now pending before the legislature in the shape of tho Wicks market bill?\ llorott Itrdncrs 1'rlres. Commissioner Hartlgun said yesterday that the drop in tho retail price of po- tatoes from thirteen to Fix cents rcr pound and of onions from nineteen to eleven cent a pound since February 22 \Is due to the common and In- telligence of the ieople of tho city, who In refusing to buy either potatoes or onions established itn automatic boycott.\ \It Is manifest,\ lie mid, \that the unorganized consumer lias the most pow- erful weapon In his poKseshloii to reduce prices from timo to time, as occasion arises on certain food commodities upon Which prohibitive prices are fixed.\ There was u little better trading In potatoes In the wholesale market yester- day. Much of tho accumulations were bought at high prices and would net big losses at present prices: therefore hold-er- e are hanging on. Mulna bags sold generally at $7,110 to $S. The wholesale prices of onions didn't change. Old red Olllons wero quoted nt from $0 to J7 ler 100 pound bag, old white onions at $7 to 18, old yellows at 6 to $7.50, and Spanish onions per rase fS to $10. Tho wholesale live poultry market was stilt tied up by the boycott. Only a few of the seventy-fiv- e or more carloadH of llvo poultry on hand wero unloaded. Prices remained nbout tho same, Tho Mothers Antl-lllg- li 1'rlcu I.catuie received reports yesterday that a mob of women marched to the homo of Itnbbl Jaffo at \07 1,'a.st Broadway uml le. tnandfd that he issue an order to all schochets to Mop killing poultry. Po- licemen scattered the crowd. Women Italil a Flsli Mnrkrt. An excited delegation of \Kufferlng Mothers of Williamsburg\ raided Sam- uel Wnlnwltrh's !Ub market nt 10B Havcinerr stmt. Williamsburg, beat up the. bi.sa and desliujed much of Jil fish. Two women were nrrested, rM Water nnd Jefferson streets the hose was turned on a mob of house- wives who wero demanding a reduction of prices from owners of kosher slaugh- ter houses. John J, Dillon, State Commissioner of Foods and Markets, announced that he will have Introduced tn tho Legislature an amendment to the law creating his department, which will compel commis- sion men and others, who are holding food for speculation to supply the de- partment with detailed Information con- cerning the quantity of food they have, the price they paid for It, where It Is stored and the amount of storage they re paying. $700,000,000 LOST IN KITCHENS YEARLY Secretary of Agriculture Houston Urges Greater Household Economies. Washinoton, March 2. Greater tanA crops and the practice of household economies were urged by Secretary of Agriculture Houston y aa measures to help reduce) the cost of living. Ameri- can families, he estimated In a state- ment on the food situation, waste In their kitchens annually mora than $700,000,-00- 0 worth of edibles. There Is nothing In the situation to Justify hysteria, however, he declared, because there Is no real shortage of food In the country, Mr. Houston emphasUad the impor- tance of the food cost Investigation di- rected by President Wilson and held out hope that Increased acreages this year may Insure, greater food supplies. Wheat and potatoes, he said, were unusually short last year, but nevertheless there will be enough to supply very nearly normal needs. Tlie food problem cannot be solved, In the Secretary's opinion, through price fixing by the Federal or State govern- ments, but by \Intelligent planning and constructive action In conjunction with the operation of normal forces.\ Marketing;. System la Needed. Urging a full Inquiry Into the causes of advancing prices, he said : \A full and satisfactory explanation of prevailing prices Is not possible on the basis of existing knowledge. Where the food supply is located, who owns It, what may bo the difficulties of securing It, whether the local market conditions are due to car shortage, whether there Is artificial manipulation or control, no one can state with certainty. It Is essen- tial that wo have the facts, not only be- cause of the light they might throw on present conditions ijut also because they are prerequisite for the working out of a permanent. Just and economical sys- tem of marketing. The Investigation di- rected by the President ought to be made promptly and Congress ought to give tho Federal Trade Commission and the De- partment of Agriculture the necessary funds.\ Limitation of waste In the kitchen, ho pointed out, would do much toward af- fording partial and Immediate relief from oppressive prices. \As a nation,\ he added, \we seemCto have a disdain of economizing. Of course the waste In families of very lim- ited means Is slight, but In families ot moderate and ample means Is consider- able. Even If tho estimate of 1700,000,-00- 0 waste In the country aa prepared by our experts Is cut In half It would still leave an enormous waste.\ Sustaining; Price Levels. Prices must be maintained at a cer- tain level or farmers will not Increase their output, Mr. Houston declared, and either the Government or the commu- nity must guarantee a reasonable price. \Those who are urging that the farm- ers be Induced greatly to Increase their acreage beyond that which their own Judgment Indicates,\ ho said, \know very little about the psychology of farmers or about the fundamental necessities of the situation.\ There Is no necessity for alarm over reports of a food shortage, the Secretary thinks, because crops generally were ns largo or larger than the five year aver- age. Grain crops and potatoes fell off In production but other crops gained. \The wheat crop for the current year,\ he says, \was reported to be 640,000,000 bushels, against a five year average of 728,000,000 and the record crop of 1915 of 1,026,000,000. Apparently the pub- lic has compared the crop of 1916 solely with the record crop of 1915 and failed to take Into account the unusually larga carry over from that year into tho pres- ent year of 164,000,000 bushels or more. .Exports After Two Years of War. \Furthermore the public's attention has been fixed on the large exports of the two years Immediately following the outbreak of the war. The export ot wheat In normal times la approxi- mately 105,000,000 bushels. The year preceding tho war It was 145,000,000. In 1914-1- 5 It was 811,000,000 and In 1910-1- 6 241,000,000. Looking only at the crop of 140,000,000 bushels and having In mind the poslbllltles of exports as suggested by the figure of 332,000,000 for 1914-1- 5 the public naturally appre- hended there would be a lack of bread. Dealers and others became unduly ex- cited. \The total available supply, Including both the crop and carry over, aggregat- ing 804.000,000 bushels pnrt of which, it should be said, was not suitable for milling purposes should have been con sidered as well as the relatively small exports for the first six months of the current year. \Up to the first of January exports were only 97,000,000 bushels, and they liave tended to decrease partly on ac- count of the disturbed shipping condi- tions since tho first of January. Our normal domestlo needs for wheat for hu- man food, for seeding purposes nnd for a reservo to carry over Into tho next year require 640,000,000 bushels. As I have stated, the total year's supply Is 804,000,000 bushels. This would give us an available export surplus of 164,000,-00- 0 bushels.\ The Secretary pointed to an Increas- ing meat supply and to a largely In- creased acreage of wheat last fall and predicts a large Increase this spring. A big yield on this acreage, he says, should give the country a 1,000,000,000 bushel wheat crop. MRS. NOLKER OBXY A ITUENTJ. Tlarton 9. Castles Denies Testi- mony of \Baby\ Marlonr. According to Burton 8. Castles, mem- ber of the New York Block and Cotton exchanges, the sick room consolations of Mrs. Ilobert K. Nolker were limited to words rather than deeds of kindness when he lay 111 in his ten room apart- ment at the Ttltz In Paris four years ago. At the deposition taken yesterday, which Is preliminary to the Nolker di- vorce caso soon to open In St. Louis, Mr. Castles emphatically denied that Mrs. Nolker had patted his head or kissed him. It was possible, he testified, that sho or \Baby\ Marlow or Mrs. NoIkers sister might have sat on the edge of his sick bed, but that was all. Mr. Caatles's entrance Into the di- vorce case was the result of testimony of \Baby\ Marlow, made some time ago, In which she accused the rich broker, who hB offices at the Waldorf-Astori- a, of more than passing Intimacy with Mrs. Nolker. Mr. Castles yesterday said that his relationship with thn St Louis matron was only that of an ordinary friend. wsmssmsmsmsmsmsjsmssmsmsMwsmsmswswsmsmsw ' izvmxr N.Y. SCHOOL SYSTEM. ASSAILED BY LABOR \Itockefcller Foundntlon nnd Other Interests\ Said to , Control It, ASK ALDEHMANTC rHOBE Conference on Industrial Edu- cation Bitterly Attacks Estimate Board. Bitter denunciation of the Board of Estimate for permitting tho \Itockefcller Foundation and other corporate inter- ests\ to control the educational system of the city accompanied a demand made yesterday to the Gencrnl Welfare Com mittee of the Board of Aldermen by tho Conference of Organized Labor on In- dustrial Education, for an Aldermanlc Investigation of the public school system. Before the flood of oratory began Peter J. Brady, secretary of the confer- ence, presented a long petition signed by members of the conference, demanding the Inquiry. The Gary system, being In- stalled In the public shools by Prof. William Wirt of Gary, Ind., was also taken to task and condemned. The petition, tn part, read as follows: \We believe, that educational policies shcjtd be free from both the control of politics and also the sinister Influence, of thoso great foundations created ns n result ot ill gotten wealth. Instead of the Board of Education being sub sen-len- t to the city administration, we favor a small elective board, with flnnn clal Independence. Moreover, It should be evident thot expert professional ad vice, sucti as we may reasonably expect from the city superintendent and his associates, supplemented by the best ad vice obtainable from parents and other agencies already Indicated, should liu the basis of our educational policy, rather than the unsupported opinion of un trained laymen or Imported experts em ployed nt exorbitant salary by tho Board of Estimate. Estimate Board Attnckril. The petition went on to say that the present Board of Estimate has refused to appropriate money demanded by the teachers and superintendents and the Board of Education despite tho fact that the demands wero based upon n full and accurate knowledge of the needs of tho situation. It was stnted that tho pics ent \chaotic conditions that prevail in the school system are tho net result of attempted Illegal control and uncalled for parsimony on the part of the Board or Estimate.\ The meeting was well attended by school teachers, representatives of mothers' clubs and other organization, but no members of the Hoard of Educa- tion were visible. Long applause and cheers greeted attacks on tho Mltchel administration and the Rockefeller Foundation. Bird S. Coler, who has been assert- ing for the past three weeks that the Rockefeller Foundation controls the city administration, asserted that agents of the foundation \act like Itusslau Grand Dukes.\ Ho asserted that the educa- tional system of tho city Id \honey- combed with politics.\ He asserted that at present thousands of children ire un- able to obtain seats in the schools and that thousands of children are forced to attend \half sessions and double shifts.\ Jilts at Jiorkefrllrr Control. \It all links together,\ he asserted. \It means a Hockefeller control of your schools, a Hockefeller control of your bodies through medical departments, and finally a Itockcfeller Ideal of Neltzsche's supermen who are too superior to be bound by tho 'slave morality' of tlie common herd and who must bo fed and developed by the toll of the docllo niunv. That Is what Itockefcller control of your scnoois means. After Mr. Coler finished, a number of women Jumped to their feet and nil tried to lam at once. Alderman Harry Kohlt-ze- k, chairman of tho General Welfare Committee, threatened to close tho hear ing unless order prevailed. Mnnv snir. gestlons were made as to the kind of in- quiry to be made. H was mistreated mat Hearings be Held In each of the boroughs nnd the committee took tills under advisement President William O. Wllleox of th Board of Education was severely crit- icised for his \Inactlesj.\ A representa- tive of tho Brownsville school district pointed out that that section has been trying to get a high school for nine years without success, although recently the Board of Estimate appropriated Jooo.ogo for a school building on Staten Island, where Mr. Wllleox live. Thi. building, said the speaker, will enro for but 1,400 children, while fi.DOO children in nrownsviuo are lert without adequate school buildings. COTTER WILL HELD INVALID. Document Denied Prnhntp for Sec- ond Tlrar In Thrre Venn, For the second time In thieo years tho document offered as the last will of Mrs. Amelia Gertrude Cutter, whoso husband Henry T. Cutter, organized the rtlker-Ilegem- drug stores, was denied pro- bate yesterday. A Jury beforo Supremo Court Justice Orcenbaum found that tlie Instrument dated April 3, 1914, leaving to George Ramsey nnd W. MoMnster Mills, executors of her 31,600,000 estate, J200.O00 and 1100,000 respectively was Invalid. Relatives of both Mrs. Cutter and her husbnnd, among them James H. Mont- gomery, the playwright, contested the will In October, 1911, and Surrogate Cohalan sustained their contentions. Ills decision was reversed last December by tho Appellate Division of tho Supreme Court, which ordered a new trlnl hv jurj COIN MATCHERS FOUND GUILTY. Oet f 1,000 From d., I a TV. Con ductor by Old Game. Floyd It. Knotts, who snld ho lives at 21G East Thirty-fift- h street, was con- victed In General Sessions yesterday of grand larceny. He and unother man George W, Cook of Syracuse, a Delaware, Lackawanna and Wcstorn conductor, In a coin matching game in which Cook won $1,000. Instead of get- ting his money he was told to show $1,000 un proof he could hnve paid If he had lost, Cook got the money nnd deposited It with a third man as proof. That was the last he saw of the money. Knotts will be sentenced March 9. X. Y. Detective for Innugarnl. Twelve New York detertfvAn nmnni, them men who know tho faces of moro ! pickpockets, crank and anarchists than any other men In the country, left for Washington yesterday to assist in guarding the Inauguration from any un- pleasant Incident and In protecting the crowds from crooks. It In believed men with unsavory records will llock to Washington under the lure of big crowds. THE SUN, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. RIVERSIDE SCHEME GOES BEFORE COURT Justice Cropsey to Examine City and Railroad Officials ' on Terms. CITY CHARTER INVOKED r Mitchel Hints Politics Is Back of Order, but Says He Welcomes It. Tho controversy over the proposed West Sido agreement took an unusual turn ycBterday when Justice James C Cropsey of the Supreme Court, Brook- lyn, granted an order requiring Mayor Mltchel, Comptroller Prondergast and oilier city department heads nnd officials of tho railroad company to appear be- fore him March 10. They ore to sub- mit to examination concerning tho con- tract. Tho application for trie order was made by William M. Bennett, former Stato Senator and counsel for the So- ciety for tho Prevention of Municipal Waste, and was made under section 1.134 of the city Charter. This section of the Charter has been Invoked only onco since Its adoption and that was when William J. Caynor In 1900, then a Supremo Court Justice, signed un order requiring Mayor Van Wyck and Dock Commissioners Murphy, Cram and Meyer to appear before him for a public ex- amination concerning tho leasing of cer- tain city owned docks to the American Ice Company. Mayor Hints nt Politics. Mayor Mltchel nnd Comptroller Pren-dergn- st when notified of the action of Justice Cropsey did not appear worried. Mayor Mltchel, In fnct. Intimated the ac- tion of tho Justice was n political move In the interest of his candidacy for Mayor. 'That's nil right,\ said the Mayor when notified. \We always obey the mandates of the Supreme Court. By tho way, have there been any new xMimll dacles announced for the coining elec- tion? Of course I'm not asking It In any relation \ The Mayor did not finish the sentence, but his meaning wns clear. Comptroller Prendergast asserted that ho would be glad to appear und \en lighten tho court.\ \What difference docs it moke?\ queried tho Comptroller. \I don't know what Is In the court's mind, but I won't refuse to oblige tho Supreme Court on any account. I think the court can stand enlightenment. The order heads off a decision re- cently reserved by Justice Cropsey on nn application for a temporary Injunction against tho Board of Estimate, pending trial of the suit to nullify the contract between the city and the railroad, and Is Intended to supplement nrguments had on the application for the injunction. Those cited In the present effort to gather evidence, besides the Mayor, Comptroller, Public Service Commis- sioner Travis H. Whitney, are: Corporation Counsel Lamar Hardy, Dock Commissioner R, A. C. Smith. Chief Engineer N. P. Lewis of the Board of Estimate, Deputy Dock Commissioner R. C. Harrison, the Manhattan Borough Consulting Engineer, E. P. Goodrich, Dock Department Chief Engineer Charles Stanlford, the Finance Depart- ment realty expert, Charles A. O'Malley, Assistant Corporation Counsel E. j, Frecdman, If, P. Nichols. Ira A. Place, first for the New York Centra, nnd George A. Hnrwood, chief engineer of the Central electric zone Im- provements. Allege Rift of Waterfront. Senator Brnnet, commenting on the order yesterday said : \I and the men I am appearing for charge that- the administration Is giv- ing away waterfront land to the rail-roa- The Mayor pays this Is not so. This examination will determine to a great extent who is telling' tho truth. \WHen the Burllngame resolution was ofTered In the Senate the Mayor and Comptroller Bald they would welcome an investigation, but did not wish to have It conducted by mountebanks. Very well ! This proceeding is before a Supreme Court Justice.\ The City Club, through Miles M. Daw-so- yesterday submitted to the Board of Estimate at the public hearing in City Hall a lengthy memorandum ap- proving tho adoption of the contract with certain amendments, Tlie fltv club asserted the contruct us present drawn, with certain amendments. Is \hn.ni.i nnd ndvnutngeous to the city.\ Hearings will be continued Monday. Compromise In 9115,000 Snlt. Trial of the suit of Mrs. Josephine V. Furlong ot the Park Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, against tho Nassau Electrlo Railway, a II. It, T. subsidiary, for $3G,O00, ended abruptly yesterday In Brooklyn In a compromise. The amount of the settlement could not be learned Mrs. Furlong had testified that she wa thrown from a car by a motor-ma- n when she sought to enter by way of the front platform. The motorman then caused her arrest and she was prosecuted un- successfully. Dr. Ilnl.-e- r Imprisoned for Life. Putmoutii, Muss..March 2. Dr. Ralph ;,M.altcr? d!mlM,t- - wll \''Ot and killed M. Cushlng ut Oreen Harbor last October, was sentenced to life im- prisonment Ho will go to the Stato Hospital for tho Insane at Bridge-wate- r, Vonnv Appeals Sfordlca Will. Trenton, March 2. George W. Young has appealed to the Supreme Court from tho decision of the Monmouth County Orphans' Court In the matter of the will of his wife, Lillian Nordlca, opera singer A will made In 1910 gavo Young the bulk of Mme. Nordlca's $260,000 estate A will executed In 1914 excluded him. 91,000,000 Gift Completed. Ciiicaoo, March 2, Dr. Joseph B Hlngeley, secretary of the board of con- ference claimants, announced y tho receipt of $300,000 from the estate of Mrs. Willis James of New York, whloh completes her gift of $1,000,000 to the pension fund ot tlie Methodist Episcopal Church for the care of preachers and widows and orphans of deoedent min- isters. THE SEAG0ERS. Arrivals br the French liner La Touralne from llordeaux: Hobert Cowan. Paul Horning, Lieut, do Vals de Che- - Count Burma d'Hsr. vlrue, court, Copt, snd Mrs. Orsn- - Harry Kerby, vllle Korteseue. Louis Nathan, John Dos l'aisoa. Warren Byrne. L. W. Warner. Salllnj- - to day by the Ward liner Havana, for Havana i Sl'l- - J!r--- Mrs. Kalpb C. W. Wahburn, M, Cant, and Mrs. Cam. It. li. Da Witt, plv'' M\- - B- - A. Hill, Beard. C. 8, Howell. Dr the l'orto Elee liner Carolina, fer San Juan: Mr. ami Mrs. L. H. Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Otfford. Sklnnw. F. L. Jordan, , Dr. W. W, King, Dr. and Mrs. I. M, Mr. and Mrs. F, A. llulwinUrl. Dllllnrham. Mr. and Mrs. L. J, Mr. and Mra. F. B. Proctor, Hatch. Col, A. S3. Lasaleme, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Peck, CHILLY SUNSHINE SPURNED ROMANCE Husband Complains Wife Lacked Warmth Her Name implied. Mark J. Samuels, former partner of Gustave Madero In financing the Mexican administration of Francisco Madero, rep resented to Supreme Court Justice Bljur yesterday that although his young wire's first name wan Sunshine, she liudYt Drought any of It into his life. He wanted his marriage annulled because after tho ceremony he had to repeat his courtship. Guided by his counsel, Mlrabeau L. Towns, the financier told of being united by a civil official on July 31, 1907, to the daughter of tho Countess Speya de Bessa, who had a large fortune In Mex Ico City until tho Madero revolutionists heard about It. On the honeymoon to New York, according to his story, his wiro decided that she needed a religious ceremony to make her feel like a wife, and then decided that she didn't. Even after It was performed, he said, Sunshine was still cold to him. Finally In 1912, ho said, she left the Mexican capital and sailed abroad with her mother, but without :i husband to look after her largo amc.i ut of baggage. After chasing his romance throughout Europe Samuels told of catching up with it onco more in Now York, only to find that his wife still felt sho could never bo moro than a. sister to him. Mrs. Samuels, who did not appear In court, protested through, counsel that the financier had been cruel to her after her mother held on to $100,000 that at tracted him. Justice Bljur reserved de clslon. SWANN IN DEFENCE ASKS INDICTMENTS February Grand Jury Con- tinued to Hear Evidence in Labor Case. Nine witnesses In labor' cases now In the District Attorney's office will be brought Ibefore the Grand Jury within the next two weeks on charges of perjury. and subornation of perjury. This be- came known yesterday when tho Feb- ruary panel, which has become familiar with the labor troubles In the last month, was Instructed by Judi;e Mclntyre In General Sessions that It will be continued for the special purpose of hearing pleas for the Indictment of the accused men. The action Is District Attorney Swann's latest answer to the charges mado against him by the City Club and by Delehanty, based on his ac- tion In dismissing ball for twenty-seve- n labor leaders accused of having hired gunmen and thuss in tho cloakmakers' strike of last year. Its aim Is to show-tha- t Judge Swann was Justified in free- ing the accused union men since events have shown, by confession of the pin Involved, that their testimony as wit- nessed was bought and that they were coached and drilled In the parts they were to play on the stand. Of tho nine indictments which will be asked four hark back to tho Lelberwltz murder In 1910. which was tried during tho term of District Attorney Perkins, resulting in nu acquittal for seven men In September, 1915. These four wit- nesses, uccordlng to Judgo Swann, liavo now confessed not only that they were not present ut the murder but that they never knew of tho crime until four years after Its commission. Then they wero hired to testify, taken to the place of the killing, tnught to identify various exhibits nnd rehearsed In details of the crime. T.he live other witnesses are connected with the twelve laboi cases which figure In the Delehanty-Breckcnrldg- o Investiga- tion. \The presentation to the Grand Jury will show not only that the testimony against these lalwr lenders for whom 1 dismissed ball was worthless, as I claimed,\ said Ju2go Swann last nlsht. \but tho very witnesses who gavo that testimony now confess they perjured themselves. Five have already pleaded guilty and four more have confessed. Before wo are through with this matter others higher up wilt be Implicated. Just now I cannot name them. \Max Sulkess, the private detective who worked under Mr. Hreckenrldgo on the liilwr cases, is now In tho city prison for subornation of perjury on one caso nnd Indictments In practically all of the other cases will be sought against him. Tho witnesses have sworn they weie coached by Sulkess as to their testimony and that they committed perjury at his orders. These men, Ignorant, unable to read or write, were told the District wanted them to do this work and there was good money In it, \I have been after Sulkess since Octo- ber, 1911, when I had htm before me during my term as Judge charged with selling Justice. Now I believe this whole vllo scandal and libel wlll be cleared up definitely. It constitutes a blot on the city and lays bare a state of rottenness that Is absolutely Incredible.\ N. J. NOT HETTY GREEN'S HOME. State Glvce Vv Fla-h- t for Inheri- tance Tax on Estate. Trbnton. March 2. Newton D. Bug-bl- c, State Comptroller, decided y thut Mrs. Hetty Green did not have her legal resldenco In New Jersey and that In consequence the State will make no attempt to collect nn Inheritance tax from tho millions left by her. The decision wns reached after Inves- tigation and after Alexander M. Oreen, Mrs. Green's son, had made affidavit that his mother's legal residence was Bellows Falls, Vt. Now Jersey has re- ceived $60,000 from the Hetty Green es- tate as a transfer tax on stock held by Mrs. Green In New Jersey corporations. She lived at various times In and near Hoboken, SUIT UNION CEASES TO EXIST. Merced With National Woman's Party nt Annual Convention, Washington, March 2. There Is no longer a Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. It passed out of existence to- day, the first day of Its second annual convention. With not a dissenting voice, with scarcely tho formality of a discussion, the organization which has done more to make President Wilson nnd the Demo, crntio party uncomfortable than any- thing in tho world except perhaps German submarines was merged with the National Woman's party and took tho lattcr's name. As the National Woman's party the women are expected to go right on wor- rying Congress and tho President, Factory output 1916, 47,520,000. Jn. crease over last year. 8,585,000. Largest selling brand of 10c. Clgan In lb world. Factory. Manchester, N. H. ASKS COURT TO STOP ALIENATION SUIT Butts Wanta Injunction to Prorcnt Wife Snlng Women for Damages. PAID $50,000 FOR QUIKT Denies tho Braxmars, Mother and Daughter, Lured Him From Home. George W. Butts, yachtsman and of the Hudson Trust Company of Hoboken, contoads that when a man pays his wife $SO,900 not to pester him, that man has a right to his money's worth In peace and quiet. Furthermore, It Isn't right for the wlfo to begin a suit for alienation of affection\. Butts filed complaint In tho Vnltcd States District Court yesterday asking that his wife, Mrs. KUzabeth A. Butts, bu enjoined from prosecuting a suit she has brought against Mrs. Minnie A. Vrnnmar, president of tho C. O. lirax-m- ar Company, manufacturing Jewellcrsof 10 Maiden lane, aud her daughter, Miss Ucssle Braxmar, for $150,000 for aliena- tion of Butt's affections. Mra. Butts's suit became known last Monday when she started action In tho Supreme Court, alleging the Braxmars, mother and daughter, had lured her husband away and were even then en- tertaining him \Us a permanent guest at their home, 25 West 13 2d street. The rase gained greater (prominence tho next day when It became known that A. ltogers Wood, a process' server, had a lively meeting with a ferocious bull- dog to the detriment of his trousers, while attempting to serve papers on thn Braxmars. Now Butts wants the whole thing dropped. He declares that he wasn't lured away from home, but broke off relations with his wife because she mado things unbearable for him. Sho told stories about him that assailed his char- acter, he alleges, ami finally began ac- tion for a separation In January, 1916, In the New Jersey Court of Chancery. To avoid the distasteful publicity of a suit. Butts says he paid his wife $60,000. for which sho agreed never to bother him again. Thereupon Butts pre pared himself for a life of quiet and cairn. Mrs. uutts had other plans, how-ee- r. Harving settled with her hus- band, she set out after tlie Braxmars. Manifestly a suit for alienation of affections eon have no port in a pro- gramme of quiet for tho ono alleged to have been alienated. Furthermore, since Butts Is not made a defendant in tlie suit together with the Braxmars, he has no standing In the case. Ho cannot refute the charges Mrs. Butts Is making against him, some of which, ac- cording to the complaint, reflect seriously on his character. Ho Is being hit with his hands tied. Butts complains, even though he did pay $50,000 for protec- tion. INCOME TAX MAKES RECORD. Second District Upturns Exceed 67,000 In All Classes. Edward J. Path. Deputy Internal Rev enue Collector In charge of tlie Income tax In the Second District, estimated yesterday that returns up to March 1, the closing date for filing, had amounted to 30,000 individual, 19,000 corporation nnd fi.nnn utnnr Th- - numbers are a new record. ' Two thousand Individuals and cor porations, granted a fifteen dav exten sion because of a shortage of blanks, are still to be heard from. A few others navo thirty day extensions because of Illness or absence from this country. The Second District represents tho most wealth of any In tho United States, taking m the lower part of Manhattan. SMUGGLED PEARLS AUCTIONED. (Jems Seised by N. V, Inspectors Net Government 915,4(10. Pearls large and email which are be lieved to have been the property of r Parisian Jeweller now fighting .\in the trenches netted Uncle Sam $15,450 yes- terday when they were sold at publlo auction In the old post office building. There were two necklaces that brought $9,950 from a Maiden lane Jeweller and one black pearl that fetched $1,173. The latter was valued nt $1,S52. On the sale of the entire outfit, which consisted In all of 201 Jewels, there was, according to the appraisers' valuation of $18,589, a sacrltlM of $3,1S9. The property had been seized as con traband, having been smuggled Into the country by Ten-an- t Messla, an Armenian salesman. Popular Sleet 30 x 3 30 x 3121 x 3a 35 x x 4 BOUCK WHITE AWES JURORS BY ORATORY Social Idealism and Many Other Isms Lot Loose at Flnff Burning Trial. WORDS DAZE HEARERS Four Men Ticked to Try the \Trench er'' and Ten of His Followers. \Social Idealism,\ as Bouck Whlto terms It, is going to bo n stumbling block In his trial for flag burning, which began yesterday before Judgn Mclnytro In Gen- eral Sessions. Likewise syndicalism. In ternational Industrialism, anarchism, free love and tho war-to-b- e are things wltn which the Jurors must wrestle If the un- - lavclment of Mr. White's caso takes the form that was Indicated by his oratory of yesterday. Mr. White early overcame Assistant District Attornev Borke when he was questioning a etolld raturallxed English man. William Harvey, as to his mental condition. Mr. Harvey got past tho question nbout an International fellow- ship of the cltlrens of the world by faintly nodding his head In a noncom mittal sort of way, and then Mr. White plunged Into the subject of social ideal- ism. I Ind Mr. Harvey experienced his mind much In tho matter of social Ideal ism? Had he read much of political science? Did the words social Idealism mean anything to him? Mr. Whlto put theso queries carefully, gazing rap- turously at tho ceiling. Mr. Harvey's answer wns a collective \No.\ Mr. Itorke could stand no more. Asks for Plain I.anRnaae. ' \Put It In plain United States nnd per-hap- H ho can understand It,\ said Mr. Itorke. \Perhaps the District Attorney would put It Into plain United States,\ said Whlto suavely, gazing nt Mr. Itorke as If ho wero rather Interesting. \I confess I am unable to think of any expression that would more fully convey my mean- ing.\ \You tell him what It means and he will tell you whether he knows what it means or not,\ said Mr. Itorke, retiring from the field as gracefully as possible. Mr. Harvey was challenged for cause. A moment later Mr. Whlto started on Harry W. Martin, 600 West 169th street, nnother prospective Juror who fell by the wayside. Mr. Martin got safely past the point where he had admitted that the state of mind of tho people Is ab- normal nt present because of Inter- national relations. \Ah said Mr. White. \Have you ths strength of mind to stand out against tho popular wave of sentiment? Have you ever stood for a truth when It was not popu- lar? Would you have said with Henry Ctay, 'I would rather bo right than President'? Would the power of con- temporary opinion swerve you from wnnt you knew to bo the right?\ \No.\ said Mr. Martin, rather feebly. \You recognize the vastness of con- temporary times?\ asked Mr. White softly, his tall, nattily clad form tn roung woollen swaying slightly ns he turned his fare upward as It addressing some high intelligence. \Suppose your children's children should ask you fifty years from now \ \I shall be dead then.\ Mr. Martin became almost agitated. Vfnrtlil Overrrlirlmed. fr Vnrlln wna. nm.l,A1 M a.1 . J . be managed to pull himself together long enough to say he would decide the case on the evidence, but Mr. White gavo signs of resuming his placid way when Mr. Itorke came to the rescue. \In other words,\ hn snld, \you will decide, by the court law rather than by mob law.\ \Precisely said Mr Martin, fasten- ing upon the word like one who hnd almost lost hope. \Ah but that was not contained In my question,\ protested Mr. White mildly. \I want to find out If he can stand up against a wave of contempo- rary hentlment.\ \Now gentlemen, suppose we divide this Into three parts, like Gaul,\ snld Judge Mclntyre. who had worn a slight smile during Mr. White's peroration. But the net result was that Mr. Martin was excused. Four Jurors were chosen. Those who arc being tried with Whlto arc Kdwfcnt A Ames, Louis Chcrloff, Ilttnrlch Weber, Itoje Fein, Amanda Hull, Kozo Suglynma, Itobert W. Davis, August W. Henkel, George Harris. Domlnlck Slnlsl. They nro charged with burning the American flag with other flags in the back yard of their church In West Twenty-firs- t street on July 9, 1910. The trial will be continued Monday morning. PRICE ADVANCE Fabric Automobile Casings and Inner Tubes Effective as of March ist, 1917, our prices will be advanced to the consumer and the dealer. This move is in accord with our announced policy that during the period of prevailing uncertainty we would only advance prices to consumer and dealer by such moderate moves as the cost con- ditions imperatively demand. New prices to dealers will be provided by our nearest Branch. Users' PricesMarch 1, 1917. 32 34x4 410. 36 Smooth Tread $11.10 14.40 16.85 24.10 33.95 34.50 Squeegee Tread $11.65 15.10 17.70 25.30 35.65 36.25 4)kneai RiriAoit Qtood$ MISS RANKIN SURE OF WORLD SUFFRAGE Enthusiastic Audience Greets Congresswoman-elec- t at Carnegie Hall, Miss Jeannette Ttanklit, \the lnnt Montana,\ as the Speaker of u,0 t,exl House of Keprcsentutlvea will refer to her. was greeted last night In I'arnrde Hall by un enthusiastic audience in,j-u- p chiefly of women. It was Miss lluiiklti'M first lecture since her election to fnngic, inn .1,. Impression created by tlie cuter f,i(vs the men nnd women In the audience w.i that most of them came to mo and applaud tho \only woman ('niigri'ssinan \ as Mrs. Carrlo Chapman Cult called her rather than to hear her nieak. ' Desplto the snowstorm a crowd that more than half filled the hall was pre... ent when Miss Hnnklii uml Mrs appenred on the platlorm Mrr c,t, rend a letter of regiet fiom c.i) iilo'tc. vclt, In which ho wished Mm., li.uikln success. The Congrcsswoman-olcc- t in her dress, which was on the subject \i.ft the Peoplo Know,\ did not touch .r future nctlons concerning tin- - problems whloh now engross thn attention of i on gress. Her address, how ever. ,is prn gresslve in tono throughout. Sho sp0le In favor of the Initiative referendum. r. call, direct primary, Statu and national proniDiuon, popular election of the President nnd proportional repi crema- tion of all parties In llio legislatures \Woman suffrage Is coming all n, the world,\ sho said. \Nothing cm Mon u cuuiiiiK iiui ecn 1110 1'eniooratlt party. No nation lias u right to claim for Itself a democratic government wh.n half tho people nro without tho fran- chise.\ Miss Itank!n wns applauded when I. closing she said : \Wo must havo democracy In Inrlustri That is tho vital problem of tho dav Is by tho peoplo who labor that the can talnB of Industry nro to bo choren to he their servant and not their masters In dustrlal democracy may seem Impracilca ana visionary, to some, but It will conn-a- s quietly and much moro quickly than the political democracy wo now liuw\ NEW YORK'S PRIVATE SCHOOLS TOIINO Mi:N ANI ItOT.N. RrRk'VI . ...... ''From 1'rimsry to ' College. d'vin 8r1mmln nPonl. etc. :17th jear. auj-t- i w! 83U Bt. Tel. fclnoler 4Mti. ItlVEIUHI.F. crtUNTItr SCHOOL. 14cr. near n f'ortlandt I'k. nt 2M st Day Jc Hoarding llos F N. Ilacket llcvl muter, I ultimate teaching byhiholarly Mm T1IK KOIIUT .SCHOOL l Olt IIOI s. Hlverdate-on-lliidso- n. ;(C7 Klnmlirblgr. A country day and boardins fr younger boys. XlAHUY J. KlJtii:!-- . 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