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New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Inquiry Into Rent Strike
Conspiracy Begins in Bronx

attended by Chairman Arthur J. w.
Hlly Of the Mayors committee, Leo
Kenneth Mayer, it's counsel; Frank J.
Seid, Of the "red squad" of the United
States Department Of Justice, and De-
tcctive Sergeant Jeremiah Murphy. rep
rcsenting Deputy Police Commissioner
Leahy.
Mr.. Hilly said that while definite
plans for meeting the situation had
been formulated, the Department of
Justice asked that they be kept secret.
He admitted he had given to police
officials the detailed evidence which has
come to him, including the names of the
agitators. All these, it is Understood,
will be interviewed and kept under sur
VIGILANCE. He said these agitators in
clude woman Socialist in the Bronx
and man who has been Socialist
candidate for the Assembly. Confer
cnccs will be held daily until the dan
ger from the Bronx and Brownsville
rent strikes is over
District Attorney Martin of the
Bronx announced that the first step in
his inquiry into the rent strike would
be to nsk Mr.. Hilly to lay before the
grand jury the information in his pos
session. A subpoena has been issued
asking Hilly to appear Friday morning.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
1000 More Carranzistas Revolt

Aqua PRIETA, Sonora. April 2S.--
Approximately four thousand Carranza
troops at Parral and Jiminez, Chi
huahua, revoltcd yesterday, according
to information given out here to-day
by General P. Elias Gales, commander
of the revoutionists in Northwest
Mexico.
The troops at Parral were command
ed by General Antonio Amarillas. and
the troops at Jimincz by General A..
Gomez. They rcvolted simultaneously
with the infantry regiment commanded
by Colonel Francisco del Arco at an
other point in chihuahua. The troops
were undc the supreme command Of
General Joaquin Amaro, who also was
said to have joined the revolt.
The newest revolt in chihuahua. it
was said, ill give the revolutionary
army large quantities of ammunition
and other war supplies. Airplanes in
Ch hunhua u ed by the Fcdcrals against
Franc SEQ Villa also have fallen into
the bands of the rcvolutionists, it was
said.
The Chihuahua revolutionists, it was
announced, aow outnumber the men
President c: rranza has massed on the
Chihuahua border for an attack on
Sonora.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29

The start Of an investigation into the
alleged rent strike conspiracy by Dis
trict Attorney Francis Martin Of the
Bronx and arrangements for coopcra-
ton among the United States Depart
ment of Justice, the Police Department
and the Mayors Committee on Rent
Proftecr.ng marked the awakening Of
officials to this phase Of the housing
situation yesterday.
Dcnials Of charges Of profitcering
came from moving van men. in answer
to statements from julius Applebaum,
Of the Mayors committee. The moving
people predicted May ! would see fewer
families changing their abodcs than at
any similar time for many years past.
A threat of n strike by the van workers
on Monday added to the complication Of
tho situation.
The day also brought to light new
scheme for ousting tenants. The plan
involves creating violations Of the sani-
tary and tenement house laws, and thus
getting official backing for clearing out
the apnrtmcnts.
Official rlans for meeting the rent
strike were made at a secret conference
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Curranzn s Fall
Believed Near
Changes in Federal Com
nruutis Ordered as Men
Continue to Join ReuoH

From The Triburo's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 28.-Continued
military activity Of the revolutlonists,
additional dcfcctions Of Federal troops
and changes in commands Of loyal
forces ordered by President Carranza,
communicated to Washington in official
and priva.c dispatches from Mexico
to-day, .ierc interpreted as advance
moves toward the final capitulation of
the Carranza regime in the southern
republic.
Reports received through official
channels told of additional clashes be-
tween the rebel forces and the Fcdcrals
and disturbed conditions in cities not
heretofore mentioned in the dispatches
from Mexico City.
Federal troops have been dispatched
from Vera Cruz in an attempt to re-
take the city of Alvarado. now in the
hands of the rebels, according to in
formation coming through official chan
nels. Disorders were reported from
Salina Cruz, where the revolving troops
been suspended there and all lines of
communication have been cut.
The War Department disclosed to-
day that the Mexican government had
sought information from the American
air service forces on the border for
the expansion Of the Mexican air
service General Gustavo Mirclcs, with
other Mexican officers, recently visited
the Goth Aero Squadron at Eagle Pass,
Tex, for purposes Of inspection.
Landing fields have been established
at numerous points over the State of
Coahuila, and three airdromes have
been constructed in towns along the
border between Coahula and contigu-
Gus Mexican states.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29

Battery Fires
On Destroyer
Shells Aimed at Italian War
ship Near Fiume, in
Reprisal for Blockade.
Fail TO Reach Mark
Message for the Premiers
Poet Plans to Inform Next
Council of Aims of the
League by Airplanes

F1UME, April % (By The Associated
Press )-Gabriele d'Annunzio's battery
opened fire Monday evening on an
Italian torpedo boat destroyer in the
vicinityyof Fiumc. The shells, of which
twenty were fired, fell one thousand
yards in front of the course of the
vessel. There were no casualties. The
destroyer did not turn from her course
and made it's landing safely
D'Annunzio's action was in reprisal
tor the complete blockade of his strong
mold ordered by General Cavigia.
III seemed apparent that no effort
was made to hit the destroyer and that
the firing on it was to ntimidatc its
commander and bring about the sur
render of the boat. The destr ,yer at
the time was right under the 14.incb y, h
Dattcrles of the Italian drcadnoupht
Dante Alighicrj.
commander Trioni Of the destroyer
was w praised in General Cavigla's order
OF the day for brave devotion to dutv
~, Annunzo's "forcign office" gave TO
Inc Associated Press to-day the text of
a message which will be dropped from
alrplanes on the next council of nro-
miers. DAnnunzio planned to shower
.'e Dan kemo conference, but did not
start soon enough. The message reads:
Message for Premiers
"Ihc eague Of Fiume, a coalition oe
peoples oppressed and wronged bv
Anglo-Saxon hegemony. by the pseudo
league Of nations and by the peace
conference, has been constituted
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, defender of
ltaly's eastward march, is it's chief.
ne has already obtained the adherence
OF Ireland, Egypt, India, Persia. Al
ghanlstan, the whole of Islam and the
oppressed peoples of the imperialistic
Belgrade government, including the
Croats, Montenegrins, Albanians, Bull
gars and Macedonians. These will find
at Flumc the support they lack to or
game fight against their despots.
"lhc league will combat the govern
ment of Hungary, defiled by crimes.
which )" is the shame of Europe, and Of
Turkey, coveted by rapacious mcr-
chants. In contrast to the psucdo
league of nations, it will cause the
rights of nationalitics to prevail.
"The peoples cnslavcd by the British
Empire and by the United States must
be delivered. The Germans made sub
jcct by hateful governments thirsty for
vengeance must be restored to their
country. The monstrous cdifice built
by the international bank over the
bodies of 100000 dead must be, de-
StrOyed."
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Miners May Quit;
Ask Better Offer
Operators Proposal That
President Name q Spe-
cial Board Is Rejected

Unless the representatives of the an
thracite operators in joint conference
with representative Of the hard coal
miners at the Union League improve
on their counter offer covering the
wage demands of the mine workers
there vii! probably he stoppage of
work in the Pennsylvania hard coal
fields within the next few days. lead
ers of the United Mine Workers de-
clared yesterday.
The miners representatives. on the
subcommittee of the conference ap-
pointed to draw up a tentative agree
ment informed the spokesmen of the
operators last night that the operators
offer of an approximate net wage m
crease OF Is per cent has been unari-
mously rejected by the workers. gen
eral scale committee. They called
upon the employers to submit more
satisfactory proposition.
The miners also rejected proposal
by the operators that President Wilson
appoint a special anthracite coal CON-
mission to settle the situation.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Force in El Paso Ordered
to Act in Event That
an Uprising in Juarez
Endangers the Populace
Rifles Are Issued
To Police of Citv
Customs Funds in Mexico
Removed to Texas; f;
1000 More Join Revolt

Ell PASO, Tex, April 28.-American
troops in FL Paso tonight were ordered
to be prepared for action in event a
threatened uprising in Iuarez in SYM
pathy with the Sonora revolt endangers
this city.
Military police in the city have been
issued rifles and ammunition, and the
city police have made arrangeme to
patrol deadline in the lower part Of
the city, beyond which civilians will
not be permitted, to go in the direction
Of the Rio Grandc.
Funds of the customs office in Juarez
were brought to an Ell Paso bank late
this afternoon.
Carranza officials in FL Paso and
Juarcz tonight were prepared to move
against threatened attempt to swing
the Juarez garrison into line with the
Chihuahua revolution to aid Sonora,
which was launched in the state capital
yesterday.
JUAREZ, April 28.--Troops at Salina
Cruz, commanded by General Alejo
Gonzalez, have revoltcd and taken pos
session Of the port, one of the most
important on the isthmus, according to
a report received here tonight
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
With 81 Precincts Out.
General Has 81, ,4O2 to
SO, 700 for Johnson;
Charge of Fraud Made
Ohio Names Seven
Wood Delegates
Massachusetts Selects
Only e Instructed Dele
gates, Several for Wood

Revised returns in all but S4 dis
tricts in New Jersey give Major
General Leonard Wood a majority
of 612 votes over Senator Hiram w.
Johnson, of California, in the pref
erential Presidential primary held
yesterday.
The vote was: Wood, 81, ,4O2; john
son, 5O,790.
The johnson men charged their
candidate had been robbed in Cam
den, Morris and Essex counties.
General Wood probably will have
16 of the states % delegates to Chi
cago, and Senator johnson 12.
In Ohio, General Wood continued
to maintain his showing against the
states "favorite son." Senator War
rem G. Harding. In STAT out of
5,S82 election districts Harding's
lead was less than 14,313. Wood
was expected to have from 7 to 10
of Ohio's 48 delegates.
While Senator William f. Borah,
a supporter of Johnson, heads the
Big Four" Idaho Republicans, in
convention at !Couer d'Alene yester-
day, elected two avowed Wood men
and one who is non-committal.
The complete vote of Massachu-
setts did not change the indications
from earlier returns that the organ
ization big Four" slate, headed by
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, had
triumphed.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29

l am IN receipt of your request for
statement of what I consider to be
the most important issues before the
Republican convention.
The platform will doubtless be con-
structed around two general themes,
first, the party view as to the many
measures before the country; sec
ond, the less tangible but of even
greater Importance, the ideals that
the party will represent
Never before has it been so i'm
portant that the party should con-
vey its position in these matters to
the public through definite and posi-
tive proposals, in order that con-
viction may be given not only Of
sincerity, but in demonstration of the
vital necessity Of the party itself to
the nation.
The war has stirred our old con-
cepts of moral and economic issues;
it has created anxious dstrust of
the old methods and has raised
complex Of new visions. Not since
1860 has there been such a loose
ness of party ties, such lack If
confidence in party machinery and
methods, such scrutiny and search
ing of parties, of their promises and
of their purposes. Our people are
cropping for something far greater
than election platitudes.
Constructive Methods Needed
A discussion of the many issues
could not be set out in the space of
a newspaper article, for such state
mcnts are valueless unless they en-
brace specific, direct, constructive
methods of solution
In fact all the different party
platforms will urge some form of
league Of nations, business reor-
ganization of Federal administra-
ton, an economy in government,
national budget, readjustment of
taxation, reduction of cost of living,
suppression of profiteering, better
ment of agricultural industry, I'M
proved relations between capital and
labor, better distribution of wealth,
an American merchant marine,
maintenance of civil liberty, extern
sion Of education, improvement of
waterways and many other items.
am for all Of these things, but |
wish to call attention to the fact that
they will be put forward in every
party; that even the Socialists on
one extreme or the groups frankly
in favor of special interests on the
other extreme could also conscien-
tiously adopt this same favorable
attitude.
Therefore, the Republican party
must do something more than emu
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Mrs. Samuel Wagstaf
Files Suit for Divorce
Action of Former Pauline Leroy
French Will Not Be Contested.
1t Is Understood
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PROVIDENCE, April 2S.-It was an
nounccd to-day that Mrs. Samuel j.
Wagstaff, formerly Miss Pauline Leroy
French, has filed suit for divorce in
the Superior Court at Newport. The
grounds upon which the action is based
we're not given. 1t is understood the
suit will not be contested.
Mrs. Wagstaff is now residing at the
Commodore Hotel, in New York, hav-
ing recently returned from White Sui
phur Springs. Rumors that suit for
divorce was to be filed we're circulated
in Newport some time ago, after the
couple had separated. Mr.. Wagstaff
was graduated from Harvard in 1908
and, it is said, has not found the at
mosphere in the Newport society COL
ony to his liking.
Efforts of The Tribune to reach Mrs.
Wagstaff at the Commodore Hotel last
night were unavailing.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Egyptian, Bluebeard
Kills 20 Women

CAIRO, Egypt, April 28.-Ths
work of a modern Bluebeard, who
burned the bodies of women, but
preserved their heads, has been
discovered at Tanta, fifty-four
miles northwest of Cairo. Twenty
heads have been found in a house
in that city, which is noted for it's
Mahometan festivities and fairs.
According to the authorities,
women were enticed into the
house on the pretext of meeting a
wealthy admirer. Instead, they
were robbed Of their Jewels and
murdered.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Cost of Living Scared
95P. {. Since July, 1914
National Industrial Board Says
Increase in Last Twelve
Months Is 81 Per Cent

BOSTON, April 28.-The average cost
OF living for American wagc-earS-rs
rose per cent between November,
1919, and March, 1920, according to a
preliminary announcement made to- day
~ The National Industrial Conference
Board. This marks total increase Of
about 81 per cent since July, 1914, and
an increase of II per cent within the
last iwetvc months. These figures are
,ne result OF the boards sixth survey,
eomp!ete report Of which Will be
a7ail&ble within a few weeks.
incrcase between July, 1914, and
Xafch, 1870, in the cost Of each u the
iyee major ltems making UP the family
bDcZet we're az follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Law Student Expelled
For Socialist Activity
Frop, a Staff Corycspoudcut

ALBANY, April 2S-Jacob NJ Col
denkoff, an Albany Law School student,
was to-day expelled from that institu-
ton after he had been adjudged guilty
by faculty committee of having par
ticipated in ultra Soc ialistic and un-
American activities. The committee
consisted of Dean Newton J. Fiero.
Registrar John c. Watson and Professor
Frank White.
The expulsion of Goldenkoff is the
climax OF series of incidents tending
to make Goldenkoff unpopular among
his fellow students 1t began when he
frateTnized with the five Socialists
during the Assembly trial One of The
complaints was that he shook hands
with and congratulated Morris Hill
quit, counsel for the ousted Assembly
men, after Hillquit had made his sum
ming up in defense of socialism.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
$40, 900 Robbery
liz West Side Home
Burglars Get Valunbles
on Eighty-sirth Street.:
$4,000 in apartment


Despite redoubled efforts of the police
to keep reports Of all robberies secret
1T was learned yesterday that the home
Of Mrs. Gertrude Russell, of 1c West
hlighty-sixth Street, had been robbie.
OF OF valuables SAID to be worth $4,000;
that attempts have been made by bur,
glars to enter several other houses in
that neighborhood, and that the apart
ment of MIR. and Mrs. Oswald Jimenis.
of Ala Madison Avenue, had been robbie /
of $4,000 in jewels and cash a week
ago.
At her home last night Mrs. Russell
who is the widow of Max Rosenberger.
a Maiden Lane jeweler, and who changed
her name during the war. admitted her
home had been plundered, but would
had forbidden it, SO vigorous have the
activities of burglars in that district
become that residents have engaged an
extra night watchman to guard them.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
johnson Men Cry
Fraud In Jersey
" iuiunl p. VerdOn A.
leges Irregularities in
Count in 7hrepCOunfies

With General Leonard Wood holding
a slender lead over Senator Hiram w
johnson last night, twenty-four hours
after the primary polls closed in New
Jersey, one Of the most prominent
Johnson leaders in the state charged
that the Californian had been robbed
of votes in three counties.
Returns from 1921 out Of zoos di7-
tricts showed Wood 6l2 votes ahead
of johnson. The count stood:
W ood ..'.'.. .-........... 81 'fo2
Johnson ................... 50.790
Sevcntyfour of the eighty-four
districts are in counties whcl,
have given Wood a majority in tho
returns. Virtually all of
them are located in rural and outlying
sections of the state and their vote
will not be available until to-day
Figures at hand Indicate that Wood
has carried ii counties and johnson
seven.
Indications were that Wood had won
eleven district delegates and johnson
ten. Three unpledged district dele
gates were chosen. One of the latter
won in the 1st Congressional District.
carried by Wood on the preference
vote, and the other two were elected in
the 4th District, which gave johnson
Its preference. 1t is understood they
will abide by the preference in their
United States Senators Joseph 8.
Frelinghuysen and Walter f. Edge, who
said they would abide by the prefer
ence vote, and former Governors Ed
ward c. Stokes and William n. Run
yon. both pledged to Wood, will COM
pose the states big four"
Assuming that Wood is the final win
ner of the Presidential preference, Now.
Jerseys twenty-eight delegates to the
Republican National Convention proba-
bly, will be divided as follows:
Wood, is; Johnson. i2
Comedies Wood Victory
The charge that johnson was the
victim of fraud was contained n a
statement issued last night by William
p. Nerdon. Republican leader of Hud-
son County. who was elected as a John
son delegate in the llth Congressional
District. Nerdon made public the fol
loving telegram he sent to Senator
Johnson in Richmond, Ind, where he is
"On the face Of partial returns Wood
will win the preference by between ZOO
and 500. You Will have eleven dele
gates at the very least, out of twenty
eight.
You were robbed in Camden. Morris
and Essex counties. You may quote me
on this
dispatch from Senator johnson 81
Richmond, Ind. last night. quoted him
as saying, in reply to Verdon's tcle-
gram:
II make no charges, but | have a
very lively recollection of the fraudu-
lent Minnesota primary and have
wired my friends in New Jersey for
detailed information"
Verdon's telegram to Johnson was
in reply to one from the Senator. in
which he asked the Hudson politician
to send him his opinion whether tho
count"
In explaining his charge OF fraud
Ncrdon said:
The manner in which the returns
have been coming in indicates plainly
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Penrose Is Recovering;
Will Attend Convention

fom TIC Tf'6nne's Washinoton Bureau
WASHINGTON. April 2s - United
States Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl
vana, is recovering from his prolonged
illness at satisfactory rate of prog
ress and Will attend the Republican
National Convention at Chicago with
bells on" the Senator's brother and
physician. DR.. Charles B. Penrose, of
Philadelphia, to-day telegraphed to the
Senator's friends.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29

merate issues they favor. This is
not only vital to the party, but, as
| will mention more particularly
later on, it is fundamental to the
working of our democracy to give
confidence to the values of party
government.
Policy of Higher Purpose
The people will value a platform
as higher purpose if it is tangible
and definite in the proposals for So
luton of it's items. For instance,
it is not enough to denounce prof
iteering; statement of the specific
economic steps by which the rise in
prices must be checked and equilib-
rum restored is required. Prof
iteering justifies great denunciation,
but constructive steps do not lend
themselves to oratorical presenta-
ton.
They involve such dull things as
reduction of imitation, readjustment
of taxation, better distribution
through organization of the agricul-
tural industry, better transportation,
the practical reduction of losses and
margins and risks between producers
and consumers.
Above all, the problem involves an
understanding that profiteering is
the effect, not the cause; that the
solution must be economic, and that
the Attorney Generals policemen
cannot overtake an economic force
allowed to run riot in the country.
Want Ideals Demonstrated
Eut there is an infinitely deeper
movement of the waters than that
to be stirred by putting ahoat in
the party program even so speciti-
cally developed a solution of issues.
Our people are only secondarily in
terested in the remedies and adjust
ments which all sides will promise to
promote.
1t is not alone the solution of to-
days issues, but necessity to COM
mand faith of right solution of the
new problems that may confront US
tomorrow.
They are craving for a demonstra-
ton of the moral, social and economic
ideals that are to dominate the solu-
tons of these questions. They want
a touchstone by which all measures
brought forward may be publicly
,ested and upon the execution of
which they shall be judged.
No greater mistake can be made
than the assumption that our people
have lost their national aspirations
and idealism because they have gone
back to business. In defining these
Continued on next page)
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Pardoned, E1tertains
Sing Sing ''Lifers''
ecial Hspotch - Tb. r,,h,,,,,

opee'"e AISpdtch TO Ihc Tribune
OSSINING, N. Y, April 2s.-
William Perry, of Manhattan,
who has just been pardoned by
Governor Smith after having
served fifteen years of a life
sentence, gave a unique banquet
IN the prison residence this even
ing to seventeen other offers" in
honor of his departure to-mor-
row. The room was decorated
with flowers, flags and bunting.
All the "lifers" who have served
more than twelve years in Sing
Sing with Perry were on the
guests list.
Warden Lawes, Mrs. Lawes
and Father William E. Cashin,
the chaplain, spoke. Perry has
been the waiter in the warden's
residence for several years.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
House Passes 2.75 Beer Bill

BOSTON, April 28.-Thc House Of
Representatives to day passed bill to
make 2.75 pcr cent bccY available for
sale in thIs state, subject TO Federal
Legislation. The Senate previously had
passed the measure. which now goes TO
the EOYGrnOr.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
President Rides in Park

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-President
Wilson took advantage of the bright
sunshine to-day for long automobile
ride through Rock Greek Park. He rode
IN an open car accompanied by Mrs
Wilson and Dr.. Grayson.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-29
Wood Leads in jersey by 612; !
Harding 1000 Ahead in Ohio:
Hoover Outlines Party Issues
P People Demand Action,
Not Words, Says Hoover

Herbert c. of
poon issues of the Presidential compaign? The Tribune
dressed the question other leading candidates
am nomination President and publish
By Herbert c. Hoover