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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
ALLEGED PROFITEER
IN COAL Is NAMED
Two Instances in Sale of
1910 Fuel for $3.50,
Lewis Charges.

Two instances of alleged profiteering
at the mines by wholesale coal concern
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, were revealed yes
terday by District Attorney Harry T..
Lewis of Brooklyn in his investigation OF
coal prices in that borough. The in
stances are not isolated. he said. and the
evidence supporting his allegations will
be placed in the hands OF Attorney Cen
eral Palmer. This mornings issue of
the Coal Trade Journal, reviewing the
anthracite situation. sees reductions OF
SO to 81 a ton in coal produced by the
independents, and satisfactory produc-
ton for December
District Attorney Lewis. whose inves-
tigation is based on shipments of 5000
tons of coal in October to the retail firm
of Rubel Bros, in East New York.
had before him again E. r. Brevoort.
head of Frederick A. Potts & Co. whole
salers, of 143 Liberty street. who sup
Piled the Rubels The District Attorney
produced two original way bills which
he had obtained regarding certain small
lots of these shipments.
Both way bills indicated that the coal
was of the class known as company"
coal mined by the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company. for which gem
eral price of $50 at the mines pre-
vailed. Mr.. Brevoort testified they
bought the coal not from the mining
company itself but from w. j. Healey
of Wilkesbarre, Pa. and that he charged
them $3.50 ton for one lot and S15.62
for another. The Potts concern passed
the coal on to the Rubels at SIG ton.
District Attorney Lewis pointed out
certain data in the bills which he said
would indicate that an attempt had been
made to give this company" coal the
appearance of "independent" coal. which
was selling at from SIS to SIG at the
mines. He characterized this as "out-
right profiteering on the part of the
Healey interests and besides saying
he would submit his evidence to the
Federal prosecutor. ne also gave his
information to Senator Calder with
whom he had a conference yesterday.
Franklin T. Miller, assistant to Mr..
Calder's Senate Committee on Housing
and Reconstruction. which has been in
vestigating the coal situation all over
the country. announced yesterday that
the committee will resume sessions Sat
urday morning In the Engineering So
cieties Building.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
CHILDS ADDS A NICKEL
TO PRICE OF EGGS
Items Containing Milk Also
Increased.

An increase of 5 cents on all egg
dishes went into effect at the Childs
restaurants in New York city and else
where Monday. On November the
Childs chain of restaurants announced
price reductions of from IL to % per
cent, the reductions affecting roasts.
chops, entrees and various meat and
vegetable combinations. Mondays In
crease on thirteen egg and milk items
on the menu is made necessary. accord
ing to James Hulshizer, general man
ager of Childs. because of an appre-
ciable increase in the wholesale price
OF eggs. butter and milk.
Armin W. Riley. special assistant to
the Attorney General. in charge OF price
Investigations. said yesterday that he
was aware OF the increases on the Childs
menu, but that 1t appeared to be justi-
fed on account of egg prices. He said
he will confer with Childs' executives
in an effort TO induce reductions on
other items.
IF they follow the market up they
ought 10 follow it down." he said. II
feel that reductions can be made in
other items. such as breads, buciwheat
cakes and butter cakes"
Two eggs-boiled, fried or poached--
now sell at 80 cents in the Childs res
taurants. Saturday they were 80 cents.
Several dessert dishes have increased.
The reason given is the increased price
of eggs and milk. Milk does down cent
to-day
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
OPIUM FOR NEW YORK
HALTED AT NORFOLK
1000 Pounds Seized From
Chinese Sailors Escaped
From British Steamer.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
NORFOLK. Va, Nov. 30.-But for the
timely arrival of custom officials, New
York would probably have had more
opium within its confines than 1t ever
had at one time in its history.
Fifteen Chinese from the British
steamer liver Heath, who made their es-
cape from the vessel. had made all prep
arations to take 1000 pounds of the
contraband drug to New York, and six
OF them were actually at the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad station preparing to
leave for that city when the customs Of
ficials arrived and arrested them.
They had the 1900 pounds Of opium
stored in several trunks. There were SAG
tin containers filled with the drug and
II was so carefully sealed and packed
away that the stuff could easily have
been carted off after the Chinese ar
rived in New York without attracting
the least attention. There were twenty
three pieces Of baggage checked at the
railroad station, but only one OF these
contained opium.
Officials declare the snugglers had
arranged to throw officers off the track
by submitting this baggage to inspec-
ton while the trunks containing the
drug went on their way to New York.
In New York, officials say. the stuff
would have been sold for probably $500
a pound. The foreign value of opium is
$50 pound. custom officials stated to-
day
seven Of the fifteen Chinese when
arrested wore belts that were filed with
opium. The drug was in fiat shaped
cans, and when the belt was strapped
tightly around the body it looked like any
ordinary belt.
Custom officials to-day entered a fine
of $4,000 against the steamer Ivei
Heath. This. they said. represented the
value of the opium on the foreign mar
ket Unless this fine is paid by to-nnor'
row the ship will be attached and held
until 1t is paid.
Choo Foo, New York man. believed
to be the ring leader OF the opium SNUG
glers. came to Norfolk officials say. &c
arrange for shipping the drug When
arraigned before custom officials to-day
Choo Foo was asked IL he wanted a
lawyer. He replied that he did not need
one When the Chinese were arrested
they disclaimed ownership Of the trunks
In which the drug was found. They viii
be arraigned for a preliminary hearing
next Monday,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
BOOTLEGCERS OUTWIT
DRY AGENTS IN BUFFALO
Small Force Unable to Cope
With Booze Traffic.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YoaK HERALD
BUFFALO. Nov. 30.-Six months work
in the Buffalo district has convinced
Edwin Waters. chief prohibition agent.
that he and his squad cannot cope with
the Bookkeeping situation. To-day the
enforcement squad took stock of its
work and found that IT had at various
storehouses in Buffalo more than $780,
600 worth of liquor. 100 whiskey stills,
twoscore of automobiles. while chalked
up on the books of the agents are more
than four hundred arrests for violation
of the Volstead act.
Besides the work OF the prohibition
agents in this time. customs and immi-
grafton officials have seized one private
yacht with 400 cases of whiskey Chief
Waters lays his inability to cope with
the bootleggers upon the small size Of
his squad, which totals just eighteen, in
Guiding four office men and stenog-
rapher
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
CLEANUP OF RADICALS
BEGINS IN CHICAGO
80 Alleged Reds Arrested
and 8 Are Held.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-Thirty-eight al
legged radicals were arrested in raid
by detectives at /. w. w. headquarters,
at 951 West Madison street, late this
afternoon. Documentary evidence said
to be OF sensational nature was con-
fiscated.
II intend that Chicago shall be cleaned
of reds as well as crooks and thieves"
said Chief Hughes, in commenting on
the raid.
After the men had been questioned
concerning their activities in "red cir
cles' thirty OF them were released. The
other eight are said by the police to
have prison records and are being held.
Among those Is Glenn Roberts, who.
the police declare. served term of ten
days in Leavenworth penitentiary six
months ago after he had been sentenced
by Federal Judge Lands for anti-patri-
otto activity
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
RECEIVER APPOINTED
Obligations of S657,25S In
uoIUed in Proceedings.

Theodore J. Keane OF 20e4 Fifth ave-
nue. was appointed yesterday a receiver
IL equity for the Standard Steamship
Company, Inc. of 2 and Stone street,
by Judge julius NJ. Mayer in the United
States District Court. The receiver was
appointed in a suit In equity brought
for $4,000 against the company for
services by Carter & Weeks Stevedor-
ing Company of West Virginia. The bill
OF complaint states that the outstanding
obligations of the defendant company
are s657.25s.
The assets are said to consist OF yes
sells purchased from the United States.
cargoes and valuable shipping con-
tracts.
@. G. Jackson. president Of the stand
ard Steamship Company. Inc. joins In
the request for receiver. Nicoll. Ana
belle, Fuller & Sullivan of 81 Broadway
are attorneys for the complaining COM
pany.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
COED PLAN DENOUNCED
BY CORNELL STUDENTS
Failure, They Say, Demand
ing Separate Colleges.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
ITHACA, n. Y. Nov. 30.-Calling CO.
education an accident" and maintaining
that it has succeeded nowhere. not even
in the West. a committee of nine prom
inent Cornell seniors representing the
Student Council and the two senior hon
orary societies. Sphinx Head and Quill
and Dagger. issued to-day a report rec
ommending "a limitation on total uni
versity enrolment to turn out higher
grade of graduates and a proportional
limitation on the number of women stu
dents until such time as separate col
leges may be provided for them"
Although denouncing co-education in
vigorous terms as cheap. unscientific
and indefensible." the report recognizes
that the women are here and cannot
be at once turned out" So II insists
that limitation on their numbers must
be made Immediately.
Women should be provided with
proper schools of their own and not
dragged through the co-educational pro-
cess" says the report. 1T has absolutely
no association with women's rights. 1t
should properly be associated with wom-
ems wrongs"
1t Is pointed out that women on all
almost all. of the student publications.
leading football rallies and singing
Cornell songs on New York ferry boats"
Is not the worst of it, The real danger
is that II something Is not done at once
we shall never be able to check the idea
that Cornell Is a woman's school,"
Cornell Is and always has been essen
TALLY not only mans but a he mans
school," the report says. THE greatest
pride of the undergraduate is the athletic
prowess OF Cornell. What will happen
when the women begin to equal or out
number the menu" The main grievance
is thus summed up: Where are the
promising athletes going? Not to Cor
nell. And when our athletic prowess
declines. where are any of the red blood
ed youngsters, athletes or not, going i!
Not to Cornell"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
Polish Alderman Finds
Board Here Playful

A LDERMAN ABRAHAM RAT
MAN of Warsaw, Poland,
visited the meeting of the Board
of Aldermen of New York yes
terday for edification, but found
entertainment only. After hear
ing charges and counter charges
of inefficiency and bad faith
given and received, with smiling
complacency he said:
"The trouble with the New
York Aldermen seems to be that
they are too playful. In War
saw the Aldermen are serious.
They are in deadly earnest about
the city's business and welfare;
so much so that they quarrel
and not infrequently fight. The
loss of few teeth or black
ened eye over some question of
public welfare is not unusual"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
POWER COMPANY OFFERING.
Issue Is s4,OOO,ooO of Niagara
Falls Bonds.

Spencer Trask & Co. Z. II. Rollins &
Sons and Schoellkopf. Hutton Co. are
Offering S4,000.000 OF the Niagara Falls
Power Company's first and consoida-
ton mortgage series "A 6 per cent.
bonds. due on November /. 1850. at s71R
and interest yielding more than per
cent.
The company owns and operates all
hydro-electric power plants on the Amer
lean side of the Niagara River in Mag
ara Falls and controls the power plant
on the Canadian side of falls owned and
operated by the Canadian Niagara
Power Company.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
Income Taxes Must Be
Paid Dec. IS; No Grace

Special Despatch TO THE New York
HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C., Nov. 80.
THE last spike was driven in
the hope for deferred Decem-
Der tax payments when the
Treasury Department to-day
called attention of taxpayers to
the fact that December install
ments of income and profit taxes
were due and payable in full on
December Is.
Failure to make payment in
full, it was stated, would make
the taxpayer liable to penalty,
as no grace was allowed, and all
sums due must be in the collec-
tors hands before midnight of
the fatal day.
The statement sought to cor
rect a misapprehension in some
quarters that ten days grace
was allowed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
Fire Record

A. NJ Loss.
2:35-52 East Fordham road. The
Bronx: unknown. ......... Unknown
2;35-54 East Fordham road, The
Bronx; l.. Iindholdt. Unknown
s15-T5e Melrose av., The Bronx;
q. Lepaco. ..s..stsss. sss.s.. unknown
10 30-i71 Mulberry st.; unknown. None
+. NJ.
i.20-4p3 CaInbreling av., The
Bronx; Thomas Ricciaidelli. .Trifling
210-2O0s Lexington av; Catherine
2:10-20os Lexington avenue. Gather
Inc PasSO ts.sss.ssss ...... Unknown
2.f0-25i West Nineteenth street,
Craftsman Film Com. Unknown
3:35-23B West i23d street. J. Beliste,
Unknown
4:4o-2o55 First avenue. owner un-
known .s.ssss.........In Unknown
4.45--43s Broadway, Greenberg Co,
Trining
6:45--42s East Tenth street. Star Sash
and Wood Co.................Trt fllnr
Correction.-The record OF November n
showed fire as having occurred in the
premises Of the Holland Rubber Company, at
335 broadway Tho Fire Mershsi's Bureau
finds that Il was In the premises OF another
concern.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
KAYsER INCOME DECLINES.
Labor Troubles Affect Company
for Seven Months.

The report OF Julius Kayscr & Co. for
the year ended August 81 shows net
income available for dividends OF ST.
007.353. which compares with s1.455.s32
In the preceding year. Net income after
charges was s1.112,353. against s2,o55.-
S32. and Federal taxes amounted to
s105.00o. against 100000. The surplus
after dividends, &c. was s1S0,513,
against s625,6s2. bringing the total
profit and loss surplus as of August 81
up to s5.37o.704.
Labor troubles existing In some Of the
company's mills the report says, con-
tinued to large extent during seven
months of the fiscal year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
NEW TRANSATLANTIC LINE.

The Royal Mall steam Packet Com
pany, which has line OF steamships
running from London and New York to
South America. announced yesterday
that IL would establish next spring
transatlantic passenger and freight SER
vice between here and Southampton,
Cherbourg and Hamburg. The steam
ships Orduna. Orbita and Oropesa will
be put on the new route.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
WAGE CUT, BOSSES REPLY.
Brockton shoemakers Would Arbi-
trate with Men.

BRocKToN, Mass, Nov. 30 - The
Brockton Shoe Manufacturers Associa-
ton, in responding to-day to a petition
by dressers and packers for increases in
wages. made a counter proposal for re-
auctions and asked that the matter be
the subject Of arbitration. Approx
mately 900 operatives are affected.
Dennis z. Mccarthy, agent of the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union, said that the
manufacturers proposal contemplated
reductions OF 10 to 80 per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
READING IRON STRIKE ENDS.

READING, Pa. Nov. 3O.-After being
on strike nearly five months the pud-
dlers OF the Reading Iron Company to-
day voted to accept s1s.25 ton offered
by the company and return to work.
The men wanted a higher rate. Nearly
5000 men were involved when tho strike
started and the wage loss amounted 20
more than $500, 900.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
MERCHANTS TO HEAR NIvELLE.

Gen. Nivelle. the hero of Verdun. will
be the principal guest and speaker at
the regular monthly meeting tomorrow
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York. Other guests will
include Gen. Pershing. Col Paul Azan.
Lieut.. Col Raymond Sheldon and Gas
ton Liebert, French Consul General
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
BUYS FOUR BLOCKS AT ooNEY.

Meister Builders. Inc. purchased four
square blocks OF property at Coney ISL
and avenue, including avenue and
avenue Y, East Tenth and East Eleventh
streets. the property being about 1000
ment.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
RAILROAD STRIKERS ON TRIAL.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3o.-Four members OF
the Chicago Yardmen's Association,
which called the railroad strike last
April, were placed on trial before Judge
K NJ Lands to-day charged with inter
fering with interstate traffic by stealing
trains and turning the locomotives loose
to run wild.
Four others indicted on the same
charges recently pleaded guilty and are
awaiting sentence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
o KILLED IN HUNTING SEASON.

AUGUSTA, Me-. Nov. so.--Nine persons
have been killed by accidental shooting
during the big game hunting season
which closes In Maine tonight. The
total Is the same as that of last season.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
Fear Fraud would Result.

Mr. Stone said he had no objection to
turning over a portion to Federal hos
pitals, but he was not so sure of letting
other agencies have it. He said ii had
come under his observations that in
many cases where liquor had been re-
leased to other than Government agen-
cies a practice had developed of extract
ing part OF the contents OF containers
intended for medicinal purposes. filling
the container with water and selling or
using that taken out.
ut would he calamity to release all
this whiskey without the most stringent
regulations being enforced" said Mr..
Stone. "and I am opposed TO taking
chances with IT. IL would cost almost
as much as we could get for 1t to mar
ket It,"
There are two warehouses in use by
prohibition forces In Baltimore, IL is
understood-one where liquor taken In
raids under war time prohibition by De-
partment of Justice agents is stored and
another where liquor taken under the
Volstead act has been placed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
SEIZED BOOZE STOCK
WORRIES DRY AGENT
Asks Judge to Rule on Dis
pOsa1 of Vast Stores in Bal
timOre Warehouses.

Special Despatch to TIE New YORK HERALD
BALTIMORE. Nov 30.--Whether to de-
stroy the vast quantities of liquors taken
in raids or to sell the stock to qualified
agencies and thus place on the market
hundreds of gallons of whiskey now tied
up In warehouses here is the problem
Judge Rose and District Attorney Car
man of the Federal Court have been
asked to pass upon by Thomas E. Stone,
prohibition enforcement director for
Maryland. Ohio and the District OF Co.
lumbia.
These stores, Mr. Stone pointed out,
have grown to such proportions that they
constitute not only a burden to him In
the matter of storage space, but an
actual menace to the department and the
public, should the warehouses be broken
into and their contents carted away. Mr..
Stone was much concerned over the latter
phase. and asked that action be taken
quickly.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
Judge Returns Case.

Judge Rose is understood to have adj
vised that the District Attorney and
Mr. Stone make their recommendations
in regular form to the court. a con
ference followed In the office of Mr.
Carman. but the only conclusion arrived
at was that Mr.. Stone is to get in touch
with the officials of the United States
Public Health Service to see how much
or the liquor they will be able to use.
Mr.. Stone would not say how much
liquor he has In storage here. nor would
he attempt to estimate its value. Judg-
ing from cases of record. however, not
less than 100000 worth of whiskey
has been confscated in the last several
months. not counting recent raids which
have not yet come before the court and
which probably would swell the total
to 100000. it is believed.
Mr. Stone was of the opinion that the
liquor should be destroyed, but District
Attorney Carman thought it should be
sold at auction to authorized agencies
and the proceeds turned over to the Gov
eminent for use In the department,
which is short of money in the prosecu-
ton of liquor cases. Mr.. Carman also
suggested that some of the liquor be
sold to Federal or State hospitals at
nominal sums.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-16
Eleven

tress, the shortage Of paper, the in
crease in the cost of labor, could not
be met. On the Goth Of February,
1920, in the 37th year of its exist
ence, the "Wochenschrift" announced
that its publication was indefinitely
suspended. The editor will try to
find the means for resuming his
work, and will probably visit this
country. He ought to find willing
helpers. Man does not live on bread
alone. Austria is reduced to beg
gary. Sending money will do some
good, sending food drafts is a great
relief, but there is the hostility Of the
combined racial ond clerical anti
Semites, and, as was proven recently
on the occasion Of a strike in a large
bakery owned by Jew, even the rul-
ing Socialist party is not immune
against anti-Semitism. After the ter
rible slaughter Of the crusades a poet
exclaimed, in view Of all the misery:
Who shall fight the battles Of the
Torah?
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-16
TIE JEWIsH MONITOR

material. With the growth Of the
Zionist movement it lost in influence.
Herzl had published his first plan Of
the "Judenstaat" in this paper, but
as the latter represented the senti-
ment Of the official Vienna "Kahal,"
which was uncompromisingly anti
Zionistic, the younger element drift
ed away from it, turning to Herds
"Die Welt" which up to the founders
death was published in Vienna. Then
came the great war. The paper had
to support it. 1t was a patriotic du-
ty. After four years the inevitable
catastrophe occurred. Austria fell to
pieces in November, 1918. Three
fourths Of the Austrian Jews, and
perhaps nearly as large a proportion
Of the subscribers Of the "Oester-
reichische Wochenschrift" were now
Poles, Czecho- Slovaks, Rumanians or
Italians. The designation "Oester.
reichische" was dropped, and the
named changed to "Dr. Bloch's Wo-
chenschrift." But the general dis
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-16

daily, the Allgemeine Zeitung, which
afterwards turned anti-Semitic. His
articles created a sensation and made
him so popular that upon the death of
Rabbi Simon Schneider Of Cracow,
whom the Poles nominated member
Of the Austrian Reichsrat for the
district of Drohobycz, he was, in
1884, nominated and elected for the
same district in spite of the opposi-
ton of the Polish party. In the
Reichsrat he continued his cham
pioniship Of the Jewish cause with
marked success, although the liberals
who did not like to see the Jewish
question being given such prominence
also antagonized him.
His attacks on Rolling eliminated
in the statement that the professor
could not read line in the Talmud
correctly, and that having offered