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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
DEMOCRATIC RING. HE
SAYS, DEFIES u. S. LAW
Lawyer Asserts a due
Keeper Bosses Kansas City.

WASHINGTON, June 9.--Charges that q
Democratic political machine" in Kan
sas City. Mo-, was able to prevent en-
forcement of Federal laws as well as to
bring about the illegal election of Demo-
cratic candidates for Congress were
made before the House Elections Com
mittee to-day by David Proctor, attor-
ney for Albert l.. Reeves, Republican
contestant for the seat in the House
held by William T. Bland, Democrat.
Mr.. Proctor declared Democratic off,
Gals In Kansas City were puppets of
the machine" and that its influence
extended even to the State Legislature.
Protection was guaranteed to leaders of
the machine" who could violate the law
whenever they chose, he contended.
Tom Pendergast, boss of the ma
chine. operates a sub-station for white
slave traffic, and a string OF dives" Mr.
Proctor declared, ''yet he docs not fear
prosecution. So far as he is concerned
the white slave act does not exist"
DO you mean to say" asked Repre-
sentative Welty. Democrat (Ohio), that
the Department Of Justice Is derelict in
its duty in the enforcement of the act In
Kansas City?'
X mean just that" replied Mr.. Proc
tor.
Mr.. Proctor declared that Kansas City
harbored more criminals than any other
city of Its size in the country because
the Democratic machine gave them pro-
lection in return for votes"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Business Troubles.


NATHAN FEUERSTEIN-Involun ne
titlon against Nathan Feuerstein, man
ufacturin6 skirts. ~ East seventeenth
street; liabilities and assets not given.
J. klapper al,219; l.. hanover, E4O
Archibald Palmer. $40 Broadway. is the
attorney.
sIGMUND Observation-Disclosures nett.
ton against Sismund Werner, engaged
in the restaurant and cafe business. I4l6
!2,tOo. Principal claims: Clark 4
tlsS; Charles 0aschot. Sss6. YAnkRuer
a Davidson. 26l Broadway, are the at
MANDiA GROCERY COMPANY, INC
Involuntary petition against Mandla
Grocery Company. Inc. As West Eighth
street; liabilities and assets not given,
Principal claims: Louis Bernstein $500.
the Cudahy Packing Company $500
Wilson a Co, $500. Dashew % Barnett,
10 Park Row, are the attorneys.
Discharges In bankruptcy.
John Viviano, a. Franklin Hanson. 10.
scph Price, Claus Boiling, Jesse Sweet and
Assignment.
NATHAN FEUERSTEIN - Trading as
Commercial Skirt Company at IA East
seventeenth street, assigned yesterday
for the bsneht OF creditors to Motifs
Israel. an
slGMuND WERNER, restsurap, pror,,.
tor at l4l2 broadway. has assigned for
the beneht OF creditors to Marcus Hell.
MANpIA GROCERY COMPANY. INC
Wholesale grocers al 4s West Eighth
street, assigned for the bsnent OF
creditors to Matthew FeldmAn Henry
Il. Halter IL secretary and treasures 81
the company Incorporated iSlA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
FUND WELL SPENT,
GOVERNOR ASSERTS
Not a Dollar Of Big Appro-
priations Will Be Wasted,
He Pledges.
Specfdl Despdtch TO TIE srN

ALBANY, June 9.-Governor Smith to-
day issued a statement to the people Of
the State OF New York on appropriation
bills approved by him which total $685.
b3S,303, an increase OF $14,013,O32 ov,r
last year. He declares that while this
upon It's face looks like an enormous
Increase. the fact Is that s6,266.5s2
charged against the appropriations of
this year should have been made last
year" and that appropriations for new
activities totalled $12,927,573.
After going into details OF bills signed
and vetoed he declared:
II stand squarely upon the statement
that among the bills totalling nearly
100000 that I disapproved. not one
single activity of the State was inter-
fered with; while on the other hand
every dollar OF money represented In
the total appropriation bills accepted by
me Is. In my opinion. absolutely neces-
sary for the proper conduct of the busl-
ness OF the state.
Il am entirely unwilling to make a
record In office of low appropriation at
the expense of the efficiency OF the gov
eminent OF the State. II understand
the public attitude It Is not against
increased appropriations for the pur-
poses OF government, but the people will
not tolerate the waste Of public funds
/ will do what lies in my power to make
every dollar appropriated bring a dol
lars worth OF return to the State"
The Governor shows that the State
Comptroller estimates the revenues for
the next fiscal year at seS,6S2. 06s,
which with the cash balance predicted
for the end Of the present year OF ST.
S27,S73 will make a total resource to
meet the budget of $10l,509,s42.
Governor Smith does not go into detail
to show the s6,2s6,532 appropriations he
approved this year which he says should
have been appropriated last year. but
he does explain the new items for which
moneys were appropriated this year.
These include s1,730.00O for the pur-
chase OF two toll bridges over the Hud-
son at Troy and Albany; 100000 for
the New York-New Jersey vehicular
tunnel $3.ooO.O00 for increases in high
way contract costs: $4,000 for
teachers salaries: $4,000 for Federal
post roads; 100000 for administering
the new State income tax, and various
minor items.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
EXCESS PROFIT TAX
HITS PART MAKERS
Circuit Court Of Appeals Holds
SubcOntractOrs Liable in
Far Reaching Decision.

PHILADELPHIA, June 9-The Govern
ments war time tax on the profits OF
munition manufacturers, contested by
producers Of parts Of shell, who con-
tended that the inpost was intended to
apply only TO completed articles, was
upheld by the Circuit Court OF Appeals
here to-day.
In group Of three decisions holding that
any participant in the abnormal profits
Of munition making must submit himself
to taxation laid upon this class OF in
come the court sustained a Government
policy involving many millions Of dollars
In revenue already collected or in course
of collection. Opposite action by the
court would have necessitated legisla-
ton to make up the consequent deficit
in Federal receipts.
The decisions. written by Judge Buff
fington and affirmed by Judges Woolley
and Haight, who sat with him, sustained
the Judges of the First and Third Penn
slyvania districts, who denied claims Of
the Carbon Steel Company and the
Worth Bros Company, seeking to re-
cover from the Government taxes paid
under the excise tax law OF September
s, 1915. and reversed the Justice in the
Twenty-third District. who allowed a
similar claim by the Forged Steel Wheel
Company, The suits were known as the
part shell tax cases"
Judge Bufflngtons opinion held TINT
the purpose OF Congress was TO tax per-
sons who manufactured the whole or
any part Of shell. everything the manu-
facturers' contention that the legislative
intent was confined TO the production Of
the completed shell or a completed part
Its effect is TO make munItion con-
tractors liable for their prohts, regard
less of sub-contracts, and to place a
similar liability upon all sub-contractors
doing any part OF the work OF producing
a shell, whether loaded or unioaded.
The tax which induced the litigation Is
an annual levy of 1917 per cent upon
the entire net profits actually received or
accrued from the sale or disposition Of
such articles (munitions) manufactured
within the United States" The impost
Is in addition to the income tax.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
ARREST OF 6 FOILS
NAVAL THEFT PLOT
Ensign and Other Officers Said
to Be Involved in Yard
RObberies.

Six men are held as Federal prisoners
and several more are said to be under
| arrest in the New York Navy Yard fol-
lowing police detection OF a plot to steal
| Government supplies
The scheme, In which an ensign and
possibly other officers are said to be
| Involved. was nipped after an automob, ia
chase yesterday when two cars leaving
the naval barracks in Brooklyn were
overhauled by Detectives John MCGOWAN
{ and Harry Walsh.
The occupants of the two machines
which were loaded with naval supplies
\ worth $500, were arraigned before
Unietd States Commissioner Cahonne
and held in $4,000 bail each for examin-
| alton.
They were Walter Kern, %, and An
thony P. Mashin. 80 both pharmacist 6
mates attached TO the New York Navy
Yard: Harry Vaughn. rs, rigger In
the yard; James Ingram. 81 chauffeur
| OF 263 Vanderbilt avenue: John Camp
| bell. 81. waiter. OF $50 Myrtle avenue
and Mathew Carraher, 23. machinist. OF
SIS Thirty-seventh street, Brooklyn.
Carraher when questioned by the de-
| tectives said that a naval ensign had
| approached him few days ago in n
saloon at Waverly and Myrtle avenues,
BROOKLYN, ana Uau ASKED MIN 10 nave
| some automobiles and helpers at the
| barracks at A. NJ. yesterday.
He said he had known nothing of the
purpose OF the plan. and that he thought
| II must be all right because OF the
fact that the supplies, he supposed,
would be guarded.
He said that he got Ingram. Camp
| bell and Vaughn and went to the bar
racks at the appointed time. where he
saw eight sailors leading small car
with goods under the direction Of a man
| in civilian clothes. The same detail of
| sailors, he said, loaded his two cars
after which he was supposed to drive
| to a saloon, where the ensign would
| await him. Police went to the saloon
that he named. but were unable to find
| the ensign.
II was officially stated that there have
been many such thefts recently from
the naval barracks, at F1fty-second
| street and Second avenue Brooklyn
and other army and navy bases
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
VIII Probe Duquesne Escape.

District Attorney Swami announced
yesterday he had assigned one OF his
assistants, Alexander l. Rorke. to an
investigation of the circumstances con-
nected with the escape two weeks ago
of Capt, Frits Joubert Duquesne from
the prison ward OF Bellevue Hospital
Mr.. Swami said that he expects to lay
before the June Grand Jury certain in
formation already In his possession. to-
gether with any additional evidence
gathered by Mr.. Rorke, who will be as
sitsed by detectives from police head
quarters. Mr.. Rorke intlmated yesterday
that there are indications that the escape
was engineered from the inside and that
a woman was involved in II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
TENNESSEE HERO IS
NOW COL. YORK
State Also Presents Medal to
Fighter.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. June Sergeant
Alvin York, the Tentress county hero, IN
new Col. York by virtue OF a commits
sion conferred upon him tonight in the
presence Of thousands Of cheering Ten
nesseeans at the Auditorium here. Ser
geant York arrived here early in the eve
ming TO be the guest of the state for two
days and to receive a medal commence
rating his heroism which was ordered
cast In his honor by the last Legislature.
He was met hundred miles from the
city by Gov. Roberts and Mayor Gupton
and as his train pulled into the station
he was met by crowds which blocked
traffic in the street surrounding ths
depot Sergeant York's party. consisting
of his bride. his sister and his mother,
was taken Immediately IN q motor car
70 the Governors mansion, where an
Informal dinner was given for them
They then went to the Auditorium,w where
the presentation OF the medal and a
number of other gifts which had been
prepared for York and his bride was
made.
The presentation speech was made by
Gov. Roberts, who extolled the heroism
Of the young man, who comes from the
same section OF the State as the Gov
ernor. York was vislbly affected at the
demonstration in his honor. and in his
response TO tne GONeFnoT ADDRESS MS
voice trembled as he thanked the people
Of Tennessee for the honor which they
had rNld him.
Tomorrow York will ne the guest OF
honor at dinner given him by the
commercial organizations of the city
and in the afternoon he will pitch the
first bail In a game between New Or
leans and Nashville. II u extremely
probable that tomorrow night York will
leave for New York to consider a num-
Der OF offers which have been made to
him from moving picture and vaudeville
managers 1t is probable that all Of
these offers will be turned down and that
after his honeymoon in New York the
young man will return to his Fentress
county farm. which IL being purchased
for him. and settle down to q prosaic
life. This is the advice from Gov Rob-
erts, who has urged him not to allow
himself to be exploited
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
SHoRTENs PRESIDENTS TERM.
Guatemaln's New Constitution Pro-
vides for Popular Election.

SAN SALVADOR. June 9-The term of
the President of Guatemala Is reduced
from six to four years under the clauses
OF the new constitution OF Guatemala,
promulgated recently and published in
the newspapers here. The new consti-
tuition mobiles the constitution OF 1879,
and the important charges affect the
Presidency and the methods OF election.
1t is provided that the President shall
be elected by direct vote of the people,
The elections will take place on the
last Sunday in November. In addition
to reducing the Presidential term It is
provided that the President may not be
reelected nor shall he be eligible for
reelection until eight years after he re-
linqushes the post. These provisions
also apply to a President elected to fill
the unexpired term of another, II the
former has occupied the Presidency for
more than one year.
The new constitution repeats the pro-
visions OF the previous one. that all
creeds shall have liberty Of worship
and that the State recognizes no creed.
The newspapers here comment favor
ably on the new coiis,iLulion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
OLER IS CHILLY TO
PLAN FOR FREE ICE
Fears IL Would Go to Persons
Able to Pay.

Speaking at a meeting yesterday Of
the Mayors Ice Committee for the Re-
lief Of the Poor, in City Hall, Wesley M
Oler, president Of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company said IL any attempt were
made TO distribute ice free that 30 per
cent. OF It would 70 to those who really
were able to pay for II. The ones who
would get 1t would be those who got
there FIRST he declared.
There are people In New York who
ought to have ice given TO them" said
J. C. Day, Commissioner OF the Depart
ment Of Public Markets. "and 1 under
stand IL Is the idea Of the Mayor that
they should get It."
The Mayor has instructed me TO give
Ice to the poor people and they are go
Ing to get it, broke y Philip Berolz-
heimer, chairman OF the committee,
Furthermore, Mr.. Oler Is going to help
us. II there 10 not enough Ice the per
son who can buy II must do with q lit
tie less so that his less fortunate neigh
Dor can have some"
When Mr.. Berolzheimer said that the
committee would prosecute any one they
found taking free ice II they were able
to pay Mr.. Oler added:
go a little further and prosecute the
dealer who Is profiteering."
II WILL" was the reply. 1T am going
right away after a dealer who IL said to
have charged seventy-fve cents for an
ordinary five cent piece of Ice My
information came in an anonymous let
ter, but hope that the man later will
send me the address of the dealer"
Commissioner Day said It might be a
good plan to have stations established
by the Board of Aldermen where Ice
could be sold for IS cents a hundred to
those who could not afford TO pay more.
President Moran OF the Board of AL
dermen suggested there should be a
thorough investigation Of all persons
that apply for free Ice.
John A. Boone OF the Elks said his or
ganlzation had undertaken TO provide
free ice to the poor and had found 1t diff
fcult TO prevent those who could pay
from getting the free tickets.
There are only 100000 tons OF natural
Ice In the Hudson River icehouses, Mr..
Oler stated. and half of that amount is
needed In Manhattan alone.
There has been no increase in the
price of ice during the war;" Mr.. Oler
said, and I think It 10 the only COM
modify which did not advance in price"
Mrs Henry Zuckerman and Mrs.
Joseph Slevin were named vice-chair-
men. Major Jennie II. Ward of the SAL
walton Army was named secretary and
President Moran Of the Board OF Alder
men. treasurer. Mrs. John +. Hylan
was made honorary chairman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
4 TENEMENT FIRES
LAID TO INCENDIARY
Rubbish Used to Start Third
Avenue Bldzes.

Fires in the Railways OF four tere-
ment houses In upper Third avenue, DIS
covered early yesterday at intervals Of
five or ten minutes and all within la 2
an hour, have convinced the police there
Is pyromaniac in that section OF the
city. Four other blazes within the last
week are believed to have been Of SINH
lar origin.
The first fire yesterday was at 1924
Third avenue. a FIVE story tenement Tina
others were at 1881, 1856 and 1893
Third avenue. In each instance rubbish
and the contents OF ash cans had heen
ignited and placed under the s'epA
Scores of jewellers IN the four buildings
were aroused and hurried 10 tho street
In their night clothing.
man seen by the fremen 10 leave
the hallway OF 1898 Third avenue '9sT
az they arrived was questioned by \
police. He said he was an ei-vat. 4
guard on his way TO work and Nai
stopped to light his pipe. He was not
detained
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
SO MISSIONARIES FETED.
Union Entertains
Workers About to Depart.

Slxty-elght Presbyterian missionaries
who are about to leave for foreign coun-
tries were guests last night at the an
nual missionary dinner of the Presby-
terrain Union of New York. In the Hotel
Pennsylvania. There were about $50
members present.
DR.. CIrving Fisher president OF the
Union. was POSTMASTER. The speakers
included DR.. Robert i. Speer. secretary
of the Board of Foreign Missions. the
Rev. E. Il. Weld of the Ewing Chris
tian College at Allahabad, North India,
and the Rev. "A C. Salley OF the Mac
kenzie College at Sac Paulo. Brazil.
The invocation was delivered by the
Rev. II. d. Grlswold. former secretary
of the India Council of the church.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Rossbach Had 100000 OF Loan.

In addition to the single 500 Liberty
Loan bond listed among the assets OF the
$2,S00,000 estate left by Leopold Ross
bach, importer. whose State transfer tax
appraisal was filed last Friday, It is
tated by friends that at the time OF
Mr.. Rossbach's death on March 8, 1918
he owned 100000 In Liberty Loan bonds
through his partnership interest. This
was not listed separately In the tabula-
ton OF assets. Since his decease the
executors OF the estate have invested an
additional amount in excess OF 500, 900
In Government bonds
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
SwARTHMoRE HoNORs PALMER
College Also Confers Degree on
Gov. SprouI.

PHILADELPHIA, June 9-Those who
try TO purify politics and do not take
the trouble TO vote were criticised to-
day by Governor Sproui in an address
at the Commencement Day exercises at
Swarthmore College. The degree OF doc
tor OF laws was conferred upon the
Governor and United States Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer.
A gift of 100000 by w. P. and ]. g.
Worth of Gainesville. Pa. to the million
dollar jubilee fund was announced.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
SERBIAN ACCUSES BULGARs,
Declares They Drought Loot ia
This Country to Sell.

WASHINGTON. June e.-CharginG that
the Bulgarian Government has placed
on sale in the American market loot
taken In the occupation of Serbia, DR.,
V. NJ Yovanovitch. Director Of the In
formation Bureau of the Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. declared in
formal statement to-day that two
agents Of the Bulgarian Government,
Zlatan Zhechkoff and Konstantin Hadil-
Stoyanofr. who arrived In New York May
10. brought more than fifteen tons OF
medicinal opium which they proposed to
sell In tho United State
The opium. he said. was a three year
accumulation OF the poppy crop in
Serbian Macedonia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Cotton Yarn Prices Decline.

PHILADELPHIA, June e.-The decline
In the cotton market last week showed
the yarn situation as being far from as
strong as spectators have endeavored
to make buyers believe. and there are
Indications that "bluff' has been an inn
portant factor in forcing prices to their
present level
Spinners who on June l claimed that
their entire production was sold up TO
September / and that they could not
possibly make deliveries on new con-
tracts before that date late last week
offered dealers 10000 tn 25 moo pounds
of yarn for immediate shipment from
the mills at from 8 to cents below the
pricos they had quoted the previous
week for fall deliveries
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
MORE BARTENDERs SOUGHT.
Calls Received NJ Reem-
pIoyment Bureau.

Increased demands for bartenderr ara
for employees in the brewery and liquor
trades are being received at the Reem.
ployment Bureau for soldiers eailors
and marines. at sos Pearl street, 1t be-
came known yesterday. Whether the
calls are due TO optimism that war time
prohibition will be averted before July /
OF to a desire to have plenty OF help to
handle the eleventh hour rush OF busi-
ness Is a matter for speculation
The Bureau. since It opened last April.
has placed many former bartenders as
soda water dispensers. Travelling sales
men for liquor houses have also secured
territory for soda water at good salaries
Jobs in one line or another have been
found for 43.7 per cent. OF the 1897 men
who have applied there for work.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Deliveries of Gray Goods Late.

Tho inability of many converters to
secure deliveries OF certain grades OF
gray goods. especially fine combed yarn
cloths, is reported to be causing con-
siderable confusion in various quarters
of the local market. Reports reaching
the market from manufacturing centres
would indicate that there Is no prospect
OF an Improvement in the situation for
some time. and some factors believe that
the matter may even become more Sc
rious.
The resumption OF operations at the
New Bedford mills this week IL is hoped
will improve matters to some extent.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Mystic shriners Gather.

INDIANAPOLIS. June Especial trains
arrived all to-day In Indianapolis. bring
ing thousands OF members of the Mys-
tic Shrine for the annual meeting here
this week. The programme to-day was
preliminary. One of the days features
city of Indianapolis by Ell Kauf Temple
ot Spokane,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
10000 BACK IN NEW BEDFORD
Three Weeks Cotton Mill Strike
Ends in n Compromise,

New BEDFORD, Mass, June 9.-Thirty
thousand operatives resumed work in
this city's cotton mlllse to-day after a
forced shutdown of three weeks, due to
a strike Of engineers for wage Increase.
The original demand OF the engineers
for minimum rate Of $42 weekly de-
veloped into n contest on the issue OF the
closed shop. the strikers being sup
ported by the fremen and oilerh
The textile council agreed agreed that
the union operatives should return and
work with non-union operatives. while
the manufacturers agreed to take back
all the strikers and adjust wages later,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
VIII Sell Navy DIue Flannel.

WARRINGTON, June 9.-The sale of
S36,235 yards of eleven ounce navy blue
flannel at the Brooklyn navy yard on
June IL was announced by Secretary
Daniels to-day. Sealed proposals will be
accepted for the materials at that time,
II was said.
This stock Is the entire remaining ex-
cess quantity Of this grade OF material,
and, according to Secretary Daniels, cit
Is believed that this large offer of mate
rial In excellent condition, ready for im-
mediate shipping. will be greatly taken
up by clothing manufacturers who have
been unable to take sufficient textiles to
maintain operations at full force and that
1t will be Of equal interest to all retail
ers of this grade of woollens"