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New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Labor Cost May Halt
School Building Plan
Builder Asks Board of Esti-
mate To Be Relieved of
Ouceus Contract
Queens COntraCt

The skyrocketing cost of labor and
building materials is driving some of
the contractors on new school buildings
to beg for mercy and threatens to In
terfere seriously with the cYty's pro-
gram for the construction of new
schools. 1t was learned yesterday at
the City Hall that Dennis E. Connors,
who bid $794,O00 for the construction
of the Newtown High School in Queens,
has written the Board Of Estimate beg
ging to be relieved of his contract.
Mr.. Connors says he will be f!nan-
cially ruined if he is compelled to go
on with the work. He has certified
check for $4,000 deposited with the
city as guarantee which the city NAV
appropriate if he fails to carry out
his contract, but that is little conso-
lation to the school children of Queens
who feel the great need of new high
school. The first estimate of the cost
Of the Newtown High School was made
by the Board Of Estimate experts in
1914, and the figure was fixed at
$331,205. Mr.. Connors finally was
given the contract as the lowest bidder
of several contractors
Major La Guardia, President Of the
Board of Aldermen, declared yesterday
that prospects Of building new schools
within reasonable time looked dubi-
Gus: He said very few schools could
be built for the s15,oo0,0Oo appropri-
ated for that purpose by the Board of
Estimate under prevailing prices.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Father Called Abductor
OF l2-Year.Old Girl
Foster Parents Say Motherless
Child Was Brought Here
From Their Home

The police and agents of the Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
are searching the city for Thelma
Beatrice Clough. twelve years old, of
70 East Broadway, Haverhill, Mass. She
is the daughter by adoption Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Clough, who told the au-
thorities here she had been abducted
by her father, Harry Clough, while she
was en- her way to school on the morn
ing Ct February 9. Thelma has been
living with the Cloughs in Haverhi]l
for the last two years.
A warrant charging Harry Clough,
also known as Stansfeld, with abduc-
tlon has been issued in Haverhill, and
the police of that city say that Ike is
now living in New York and working
in Brooklyn. In a letter to a friend
in Haverhill Clough said he was living
at the Globe Hotel, 100 Park Row, but
when agents of the society went there
yesterday they were informed the man
had departed on February and had
not been seen since.
The girl has gray eyes, light hair
and a large scar on the top OF her
head. Her mother died four years ago,
leaving four children
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Round Robin Urges
Hearst to Head Sd Partv
Former Bull Mooser, With so
Other Signers, Including
IO Women. in Appeal

Julian 3. Thomas, former Bull
Mooser. with about fifty other sieners
ten Of them women, sent round robin
demand yesterday to William R. Hearst
that he run for President on a third
party ticket. A Tribune reporter who
talked with Mr.. Hearst's secretary la st
night was told that Mr.. Hearst had
not considered the demand"
The round robin praises Mr.. Hearst
for his accomplishments in behalf of
the plain people, and says, among
other things:
We want you to bring back to the
masses sense of duty to themselves
to their homes, to their country. While
we respectfully solicit, we believe it
IS our inherent right as fellow Ameri-
cans to demand that you allow us the
great privilege of presenting your
name to our fellow citizens as our
choice for Presidential candidate to
lead us on to victory in the great DO
iltlcal battle which is about to be
fought. Lead US, Mr. Hearst, so that
we may march on, all hearts resolved
in victory'' W
"lf Mr.. Hearst gives US any enconr-
agement at ALL" said Mr.. Thomas YES
terday, I'VE will begin organizing
throughout the state and proceed also
20 get In touch with progressive or
sahiza'ions In every part of the coun-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Copeland Sees
Move to Cut
Milk Supply
selves, will find an excuse to reduce
our receipts
Continued from sass ems

selves, will find an excuse to reduce
our receipts
ut is shame to think that the up
state members Of the New York Legis-
lature should bow to the will Of the
milk trust and refuse to give even the
slightest consideration to the milk bills
pending in the Legislature at the pres
ent time.
"Why not permit this milk to be
brought into the city? !. certainly is
better for the farmer to have the milk
taken at any price than to have it
thrown away and wasted so far as
human need is concerned. The cti-
dernourished children, would gladly
have the milk that, under the operation
of the rules and regulations of the
Sheffield Farms Company, will be kept
from this market.
Nobody in this city wants the
farmer to produce milk at a loss The
members of the Fair Price Milk Com
mittee have stated on every possible
occasion that it is their desire to have
written into the law such unmistakable
language as to insure the farmer a
just return for his product.
ut is significant that the Federal
Commissioner lives in Buffalo, and the
Health Commissioner of that city
sent long letter to the Legislature
protesting against any interference
ton. l wonder if he feels quite so
enthusiastic now over the milk trust
as he appeared to be when he wrote
that letter?"
Lotion Horton, head Of the Sheffield
companies, said last night:
"This is just one of Copeland's
grandstand plays, and is absurd in so
far as it attempts to make it look as
if we held back the milk to increase
the cost.
Owe still got my senses. You can't
give milk away. In the milk business
you've got to figure close and bring
Between now and June / the supply
of milk will increase 100 per cent, due
to spring and fresh cows.
eff we brought all of it in the peo-
pie wouldn't buy it. We send notices
like these out usually every spring
| when fresh cows begin to produce and
the farmers all try to unload their
milk on us. We don't want to accept
their stuff until we have a chance to
inspect their farms and see what facili-
ties for production they have and what
their milk standard is.
whether we take on lots of these
new dairies will depend also on what
price the farmers will ask next month
We've got all the milk we can sell
right now if the trains get it in to
us, and if we took all that the farmers
can produce the railroads would never
get it in to US.
"Another reason for sending out the
notices was that there's been a bic
drop in the export end Of the business
we can't begin taking everything the
farmers unload on US until we know
where we stand. You can't do business
anv other way"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Hezrris07.s' Cook
Stages q Jubilee
Irish Ellen, so Years in
Seruice, Cives Mistress
Extra Good" Dinner

1t was Ellen McCarty's golden jubi-
lee yesterday. She celebrated it by
cooking an extr. good and extra big
dinner, at 161 East Sixty-frst Street,
for the Harrisons, for whom she
has cooked, served and "readied
up" for fifty years. Miss Teresa G.
Harrison, who Ellen, as a fifteen-year-
old nursemaid, used to take out in q
perambulator in the '70s, sat at the
head Of the table and around her were
her brothers and s1sters-children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Harrison, who
hired apple-cheeked Ellen fifty years
ago last highland their children and
their children's children.
Sixty-five years old, Ellen is, but as
spry as ever she was, while her white
hair merely intensihes the ruddiness
of her cheeks and the sparkle in her
blue eyes. A CLINT of moisture gave
an added brilliancy to those Irish eyes
when aunts and uncles and children
and grandchildren and nephews and
nieces, both plain and grand, came
trooping down to the kitchen after din
ner to make much Of Ellen and give
her their anniversary presents.
Somewhat reluctantly, but with a bit
of modest pride, Ellen told something
OF her career.
~ keep this whole four-story house
without any help" said she, "and |
cook"-at which the assembled Har-
risons smacked their lips in corrobora-
tion. Hard work is it? l like hard
work-my, yes! like housework.
Mrs. Harrison taught me all know
and I brought up her children and
watched them bringing up their chill
dren.
II like to keep my kitchen just 50
and do my chores and tend to every
thing myself. think girls who CON
slider housework beneath them are very
foolish But l don't mix with them
much, I just keep to my work and
keep busy"
Although frank in her admission
that she liked housework, Ellen did
not allow her personal affairs to be-
come part of the conversation, and
when asked why she never married
parried with a twinkle which must
have wrought devastation among the
sparrow cops in the old days, saying:
"An' how could I be marryin' when
nobody ever asst me? Am l sorry they
didn't? Not mel"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Boy Immigrant Awaits
Mother, Lying in Morgue
Happy, He Says, Because She Is
Going to Show Him
s'Presidenta Wilson,,

presidente Wilson. the biggest mar
IN the world and the ruler of America
was uppermost in the mind of Vincenzo
rIerl.o, SIX year-old Italian boy, a,
Eiils Island, yesterday, as he watche ed
small army Of immigrants hustle
aalong TO the ferryboat tnat was to take
mem ashore. lie sat patiently on a
pehch dangling mis- feet and looking
OCCASIONALLY at mis- hat, which had
around ITS crown q black ribbon bear
.ag IN gold letters the words "Presi-
dente Wilson"
~ de was all alone in the world, but he
ala not know it. His father is said
oe living somewhere in California
ana .I;. MS mother, who brought him to
". s,''s .. country, was lying in the morguc
a. as sne island. She died of pneumonia,
aao although Injured to tasks of sor.
;s," ;v" none of the employees on the
OF his loss.
40 she INN grant horde passed by
young Italian woman who had come
'Il ~. on the Patria with the child in
soiuafy rushed from the line and
naa' aasseo MIN. He said he was happy be-
Lsshe sse ms mother, no bought him the
,r.pahd .ra..", IN Naples, had told him she
eOma avu.u snow him the great Mr.. Wilson
,iae DAY when the President marched d
n parade. .
In PRESENTLY an agent of the Italian
,b5nlgrant s5aagnt Aid Society took him in
>'afse srs and started for the ferryboat.
-. oome'' he said in the child's tongue.
ind ind VIII viii 60 to the city and try and
,b..nsrzo bsncenzo ran along beside him
S,stsluily S,c in clothes and shoes far too
tsf t 'or him, saying: eyes! And YOU
Wilson," ''' 'ne Dig Fresidente
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
FOresee Peril !
In Bond Issue
For Bonuses
Secretary Houston and AS
sistant Assert Increase
in Indebtedness Would
Create Financial Crisis
Less Harm in More Taxes
Senate Committee Told
Issuance of Certificates
Would Benefit ssSharks''

WASHINGTON, March 11.-Oppos-
ing former Secretary McAdoos plan of
reducing taxes by additional bond is
sues, Secretary Houston and Assistant
Secretary Leffingwell to-day told the
House Ways and Means Committee
which is considering soldier relief leg
islation, that any increase in the pres
ent government indebtedness would
create grave financial situation.
Secretary Houston predicted that o
bond issue Of ,5O000o,ooo, necessary
under certain plans of adjusted COM
pensation now before the committee,
might result in disaster" while Mr..
Lettingwell said "the worst thing possi-
Bile would be to give bonds to former
soldiers, as great majority Of them
would cash their holdings immediate-
ly."
Increased Taxes Least Harmful
Both suggested increased taxes as
"the least harmful wav" to extend re-
lief, the Assistant Secretary asserting
that even a tax on normal incomes
would add to the cost of living and be
directly felt by those least able to
bear it.
Any future bond issue would have to
bear 6 per cent interest. and would be
"a much more serious proposition than
it was during the war" Governor
Harding of the Federal Reserve Board
told the committee.
First. there would be a lack of pa
triotism which helped in selling bonds
during the war;" he said, "and, second
ly we would come into competition
with all sorts OF commercial invest
ments"
Present Situation Not Critical
Even under increased taxes, Secre-
tary Houston said, the proposed ex-
penditure of $2,0O0,OOO,0 1000 "would be a
serious one for the people to confront
at this time"
"The present financial situation is
not critical" Mr.. Houston commented.
"Ecoromy by the people, avoidance of
waste in expenditures, economical ap-
preparations by Congress and prudence
in handling these appropriations will
naturally relieve the situation"
Discussing the bond plan, Mr.. Letting
we'll said bonds given to former serv-
ice men, while increasing the nation IS
Indebtedness, also would bring about a
recurrence of activities of "sharks," !"
similar to those used against Liberty
bond holders after the armiStice.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Germany To Be Punished
For Cruelty to Officers
Must Impose Penalties for Out
ragds Against Allied Com.
mission in Baltic States

PARIS, March 1.-THE conference,
OF ambassadors to-day decided to send
the German government very firmly
worded note, demanding immediate an.
plication Of the penalties promised for
the outrages suffered by officers Of the
inter-Allied commission to the Ra,+,,
states during the German evacnation
OF that region, which punishment has
hitherto been delayed.
Inc conference has sent precise in.
structlons to the commissions Of con.
troll IN Germany. as the German rov-
ernment has contested their right n
visit forGesses which are not to no
destroyed. The control commiss;ons
were meant to have the right to visit
all German fortified places.
,bERLiN, March 11.-Prince Joachim
Aibrecht Of Prussia, cousin of the
former German Emperor, and Capta;n
Won Platen are still being detained in
the Moabit Jail for the part they plaved
IN the attack on members of the French
commission in the Hotel Adlon dining
room here last Saturday night, Joachim
Aibrecht was confronted to-day bv
count Metternich, an Austrian, who
was In the dining room at the time of
the attack, The meeting was in the
presence OF the states attorney. and
Meeternich reiterated his original tes-
timony that Joachim Albrecht not onlv
shouted Throw out the swine! Kill
the dogs if they refuse to go!'' but
that he also threw crockery and rlass.
ware at the French party.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
New Industrial Court
Successful, Allen Saws
Kansas Governor Declares Tri.
bunal of Three Settles
All Disputes

Governor Henry ]. Allen of Kansas.
vlce-president of the National Leonard
wood League and a national figure on
account of his handling of the state
VIDE coal strike in his state last win
ter, was the speaker yesterday at a
luncheon at the Lawyers Club ar
ranged by r. J. Caldwell and attended d
oy many prominent employers of labor
and we'll known lawyers. Governor
Allen discussed the new industrial re-
Iations court of three, organized by
hims
AT the present time" said Governor
Allen, the board has two lawyers and
one editor In its personnel and is set
ting disputes of an industrial nature
winch may be brought to it's attention.
1T has the same authority as a crimina |
court. The court is equipped with full
authority to send to jail or otherwise
penalize persons found guilty of con-
spiracy to halt the production of anv
vital necessity of life for the purpose
of increasing wages or the cost of the
same.
Only the Supreme Court of the state
may be appealed to from the decisions
OF the court. The success of the court
in settling disputes is causing general
satisfaction and benefit to the com
munity up to the present time. 1t has
shown it does not deny labor the right of
profitable bargaining or other funda-
mental rights. The right of the state
to insist on the continuation of the pro-
duction of necessities and to see that
those actually responsible for efforts
to bring about discrimination are
controlled is supreme. I think we are
foolish if we don't build against any
great proscriptve political society
whose purpose threatens our govern
rnent "
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Suit Over Woolworth Home
Alleging Title Is Unmarketable.
Bache Wants $4,000 Back

Jules S. Bache, banker, obtained
from Justice Erlanger yesterday per-
mission to sue H. T. Parson, as com
mittee of the estate of Mrs. Jennie
Woolworth, widow of Frank W. Wool
worth, and an incompetent. to recover
$4,000 Bache paid on entering into a
contract to BUY the Woolworth resi-
dencc at 800 Fifth Avenue. The price
OF the property was to be $500 900.
Title was to be passed on January g.
but, according to Mr.. Bache, he learned
that the front wall of the building
encroached on Fifth Avenue in semi
circular form for the length of 21.3
feet, to an extreme depth of three feet
from the first to the fourth stories. 1t
is alleged that there is also an en-
croachment on the Eightieth Street
side Of the house.
BECAUSE of these encroachments, says
Mr.. Bache, the title is unmarketabie.
He also alleges on information and be-
lief that the Federal and state in
heritance taxes have not been paid on
the estate Of Mr.. Woolworth and that
these are liens on the property.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Ha!t-Pound Baby
Gains 4 Ounces

Jeanne Ousset, who weighed
eight ounces when she and a twin
brother were born to Mrs. Louis
Ousset, Of 229 East Thirty-fifth
Street, sixteen days ago, is thriv-
ing. She tipped the scales yes
terday at three-quarters Of a
pound.
Doctors pronounce the case un-
paralleled in medical annals. The
twin, who weighed three-quarters
of a pound at birth, died, and
there was no expectation that
Jeanne would long survive. The
infant is perfectly formed and,
save for her tininess, seems nor
NAL in every way. DR.. Henry
Koplif, of 80 East Sixty-second
Street, an authority on obstetrics.
said the nearest approach in med
ical records was the case of
baby weighing trihe less than q
pound, who lived.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Walker Urges
Drastic Chance
At Bath Home
Lieutenant Governor Ques.
tions Aged Veteran on
Alleged Brutalities of
Attendants and Nurses
Says Old Rule Must End
'SDoped," ," Witness Declares:
Tells How Aged Soldier
Was Choked by EMPLOYEE

SYRACUSE, N. Y, March IL
Lieutenant Governor Harry C. Walker
after questioning Reuben A. WRIGHT
seventy-seven, Civil War veteran. here
to-day relative to alleged brutalities
and thieving tactics Of attendants and
nurses at the Soldiers and Sailors
Home at Bath, disclosed at previous
hearings, said drastic changes in the
management of the home would have
to be made.
For more than an hour the Lieuten-
ant Governor and Cortland A. Wilbur
OF Binghamton, questioned Mr.. Wright
as the veteran lay i'll in bed. When
mr.. Wright in his sworn testimony said
that while at the home "they tried to
make me out insane," Mr. Walker
whispered u guess your mind is as
The witness declared he was "doped"
at the home on his birthday, December
Ia, 1917, and that he was insensible
for five days. He said he saw an old
soldier named Pierce choked by an at
tendant when he refused to take medi-
cine Immediately, as ordered by an at
tendant. "Pierce took the medicine u
Ms. Wright said, "and l guess he is
dead now"
Describes Loss of Money
Mr.. Wright said attendants took
money fright from in front of the vet
Grams and when they asked for it thew
would say it's around somewhere"
II saw another man." Wright con-
tinued, named Mike Dillon lose money
in this way Poor Mike is dead now
The old soldier describing the loss
Of $40 himself, said:
About the 10th or 18th of January
1913, l suffered stroke and was taken
to the hospital. | was unconscious for
several days and when I came to |
found that about $40 had in a pocket
in my clothes was gone.
About two weeks after I missed the
money nurse told me he was going
on vacation and said to him: I
rou Will refund the $4l' And hn avs:
Won't you tell anybody?' says,
Why, no.
Feared Complete Breakdown
We'll, that was all that was said at
that time. He went on the vacation
and was gone about two weeks. When
he came back says to him, How much
OF my money have you got?' why
about 81, guess And that is all
that was said. He didn't say he would
give it back to me-
1T went along about a week after
and l said, How much Of my money
have you got?' He says, 4 haven't got
any at ALL SO l was out"
Mrs. A. P. Ripley, Wright's sister
testified Wright was brought to SYRIA
cuse in September, 1919. She said he
was taken out of the hospital because
Of fear on her part and other rela.
tives he would break down completely ly
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
'Uunnson to Campaign Here

John.osna States Senator Hiram W.
aom,n.., candidate for the Republican
New YIN w.. s"r President. will open his
AZ saa,@ a,vr@ campaign on March "a with
II NV; M,.i.ss u the Brooklyn Academy
lows: Can. and other meetings as fol-
March SSooper 90 Union, March 25; Utica,
ester ~ -; Syracuse. March 27; Roch-
ady amd ana buffalo, March 20; Schenec-
aset;nnn ana Troy, March 80: wgmen's
80; Rrsa carnegie Hall, New York.
formsoss Arcadia Hall, April /.
ths aer Mr Senator William M. Renns++
list NV nis, York johnson manager. said
aish,ni'snt that there will be almost %
t,let 'onnson meetings in every dis
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
u 5. Will Press Pending
Antitrust Proceedings

!. .ws.AsHlNGTON, March 1.-THE De-
sl nl'sneht sa OF Justice will proceed against
gs,STa ,dSvTrporatlons alleged to be trusts, re-
Snns' SSess OF the recent decision by the
esas r'e'ne Court in the Steel Corporation
,;on nature study" of the Steel Corpora
d~,o"aas se ueeaision, the Attorney General said,
~, ,s'osed no weakness in the Sherman
f1s.;Noer On under which the suits were brought
dsc;s;als dssals explained that the four-to-three
ea.oh-the ea.a vote in the Steel Trust
thst thVcould .Sould not be construed as meaning
on tsn snat Iva was the view Of the high court
,n,,s ae Sherman law. Nine anti-trust
ste before the Supreme Court.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Held for Abducting a Wife
Prisoner Says Husband and Pa.
rents Agreed to Advancement

Eustachio Tardibuono, of 81 Oak
Street, was arraigned in the Tombs
Court yesterday, charged with the abb
duction of sixteen-year- old Madeleine
Di Carlo, wife of Joseph Di Carlo, of
Al Cherry Street.
Tardibuono, who is twenty-five years
old, told Magistrate Marsh he took the
girl away from her husband February
IA last because he had an understand
ing with Di Carlo that he could do so.
The girls parents, he axlded, also con-
scrted to this arrangement.
Di Carlo married the girl December
last, Tardibuono acting as witness. The
husband testified that soon after he
married Madeleine she told him she
loved Eustachio, and that divorce ac-
tion was started. Madeleine told the
court she loved Tardibuono, who was
neld in $1,000 bail to await the action
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