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The evening world., 1920-05-27
PRICES OF FOOD
IN 70 BROOKLYN
STORES TO Be CUT
Action Follows Conference
With Head of Flying Squad
rom and Prosecutor.

The Federal Food Stores with a
chain OF about seventy stores in
Brooklyn and Long Island, win make
a sweeping reduction in prices to-
morrow. This was decided upon fol-
lowing a conference between officials
Of the concern. Arnin w. Riley. head
of the 'FHying Squadron" rounding
up alleged prohteers. and United
States District Attorney Ross OF
Brooklyn.
Fresh eggs win be sold at 80 cents
pound: best butter at SO cents n
pound: best loose oatmeal Ave cents
a pound: pink salmon. II cents a
can: ripe tomatoes, Is cents n large
can; best quality pruncs, IS cents a
pound; fancy rice, 15 cents a pound:
white granulated sugar. 20 cents a
pound
1t is expected that other stores
dealing in the same line OF goods will
follow suit.
Market Commissioner O'Maliey to-
day opened at Jamaica. between
Pennsylvania and Jamaica Avenues.
the first public market at which
farm produce from Long Island
will be sold at wholesale and retail.
The plan Is 10 establish such markets
in suburban districts whore the farmers.
by short haul can reach the con-
sumers. The markets will be open from
A. NJ TO 2 Z. NJ
The other attack was by the flying
squad" OF the Department Of Justice
when Armin w, Riley. head Of the
squad, questioned representatives OF the
wholesale and retail produce trade. A
special squad under the leadership of
John J. Price investigated retailers
prices. Wholesalers say they have ma
torally reduced prices and that con-
aumnrs omghL 10 be EeLtLmE tho hcnolLL.
The evening world., 1920-05-27
Rejection of Wood ANGELS"
Offer to Princeton Started
Him on Political Road.
RECALL 1T GLEEFULLY.
On Account of Controversy
Over Strings to Gift Wilson
Resigned Chair.
By DdUid Laurence.
Special Correspondent Of The Eve
nina Worldly


WASHINGTON. May 81 Copy
right, 192O).--wllliam Cooper Proc
ter's half million dollar contribution
to the campaign fund OF Gen. Leon
ard, Wood stirred fond recollections
here to-day in the minds of many
friends OF President Wilson. who
pointed out that another half million
dollars contributed just ten years ago
this month in another cause had as
much to do with electlng Woodrow
Wilson to the Presidency as any
other circumstance in his political
journey to the White House.
Mr.. Proctor gave 100000 in 1910
toward to the establishment OF
graduate school in Princeton Univers-
ity. OF which Mr.. Wilson was then the
President. but later turned the gift
down because tho Cincinnati soap
MANUFACTURER attached certain condi-
tions TO the expenditure OF the money
which involved tho retention OF GER
tain personnel in the college.
Mr.. Wilson argued that gifts should
come without strings attached. and
the incident provoked such a contro-
versy among Princeton alumni that II
led Mr.. Wilson reluctantly to resign
the Presidency OF the college, and ac-
cept the gubernatorial nomination
which the Democratic leaders in New
Jersey were eager for him to take.
Again and again that half million
dollars has been facetiously referred
to among Princeton men as the "first
important contribution" toward Mr..
Wilson's first campaign for the Pres
idency.
The evening world., 1920-05-27
Seeks to Establish Peace With
out ExaCting Any Action
From Germany, He Adds.
INFINITE WRONG DONE
"Have We Sacrificed 100000
American Lives for Purpose
We Cannot State ?"

WASHINGTON. May 27.-The Re-
publican peace resolution was vetoed
to-day by President Wilson. Such a
method of making peace with Ger
many, the President said, would
place an ineffaceable stain upon the
gallantry and honor of the United
States"
without announcing his intention
regarding the Treaty Of Versailles. the
President declared that the treaty
embodied the important things An.t-
ted by the resolution and that by re-
jecting the treaty, the United States
had declared in effect that 1t wished
''to draw apart and pursue objects
and interests OF our own"
The text of President Wilson's
message follows:
ITO the House Of Representatives:
Il return. herewith, without my
signature, House joint resolution 32I
intended to repeal the joint resolu-
tion of April 6, 1917, declaring u state
of war TO exist between the United
States and Germany, and the joint
resolution of Dec. Z, 1917, declaring
a state of war TO exist between the
United States and the Austro- Hun
garian Government, and 10 declare a
state OF peace.
II have not felt at liberty to sign
this Joint resolution because 1 cannot
bring myself to become party to an ac-
zion which would place an ineffaceabIc
stain upon the gallantry and honor OF
the United States. The resolution seeks
to establish peace with the German
empire without eXacung from the Ger
man Government any action by way
Of Getting right the infinite wrongs
which it did to the peoples whom 1t at
tackled and whom we professed it our
purpose to assist when we entered the
war.
"Have we sacrificed the lives OF
moro than 100000 Americans and
ruined the lives Of thousands OF
others and brought upon thousands
of American families an unhappiness
that can never end for purposes
which we do not now care to state or
take further steps to attain? The
attainment Of these purposes is pro-
'vvided for in the treaty Of Versailles
by terms deemed adequate by the
leading statesmen and experts of all
the great peoples who were associated
in the war against Germany. DO we
now not care to join in the effort 10
secure them?
r 1--WE entered the war most rcluct-
antly. Our people were profoundly
disinclined to take part in a European
war and at last did so, only because
they became convinced that it could
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The evening world., 1920-05-27
KNOX PEACE RESOLUTION
VETOED AS "INEFFACEABLE
STAIN ON HONOR OF J.. S.
HARD COAL MINERS
VOTE WILSON PLAN
Presidents Offer Called "Compul-
sorry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Offer Rejected Unanimously.

WILKES BARRE. Pa. May 27,-The
proposed wage agreement submitted by
Secretary Of Labor Wilson. containing
the maximum offer Of the anthracite
coal operators, was unanimously re-
jected here to-day by the Tri-Dstrict
Convention Of hard coal miners. Ac-
ceptance Of this contract had been rec
ommended by the International Officers
OF the United Mine Workers.
The convention agreed to adopt the
proposal made by President Wilson Tor
appointment Of q commission 10 adjust
the dispute. 4 similar commission In
vestiSated the bitumlnous mining con-
ditions and awarded 81 per cent. in
crease in wages.
The convention stipulated that Il
would accept the Presidents PROPOSE
ton. not because II was a desirable Of
fer but as compulsory arbitration"
The evening world., 1920-05-27
SCHOOL CHILDREN FLEE FIRE
T.. :. 30 EmDtied Because Of blaze
in Hoe Plant.

Ignition OF vat Of whale oil In which
SAWS were being tempered in the plant
of r. Hoe & CO., No 20 Sheriff Street.
this afternoon caused frc which drove
several hundred employees from the
company's buildings and quickly emp
tied Public school No, 9G at sheriff
and Rroomc Streets.
The children were marched out with
fhc steady precision of % 0rr driu and
the school Wa closed FOR tle day So
great wps tne. crowd Tint 90 WAS nee
cssary tu c1' oui the reserves OF the
Clinton street station
The evening world., 1920-05-27
PRocTER SHOWS HE is AN
ENTHUSIASTIC GlVER,

Mr.. Procter's testimony In defense
Of his expenditures for Gen. Wood
did not create the impression that he
contributed large sums Of money for
any selfish purpose. lie contributed
heavily to the Hughes campaign in
1916. Cross s-cNamination on the stand
rather led to the conclusion Of dis
interested observers that Mr.. Proc
ter is the kind Of a man who was
persuaded by ardent and enthusiastic
friends Of Gen. Wood that he ought
to use his fortune TO help advance
the candidacy Of so vigorous a char
actor as Gen. Wood
OF course the game OF roplng men
n
The evening world., 1920-05-27

WASHINGTON May 2A total Of Sii3 100 has been raised for
the campaign of Senator Harding Republican Ohio and Sio77o4
spent the committee told by Harry NJ Daughery representing
Senator
Dr. Buis Jenkins publisher of the Kansas City Post member
The McAdoo Committee testified there McAdoo and that
had pay his way to Washington Judge John Davies
York placed the fund of Dr. Butler o5So and Da Wood
West Virginia. said only $4,000 had been spent State
He asserted that 100000 would not be considered large for Senator's
campaign in that State.
The evening world., 1920-05-27

The ti1S.OOo Harding fund Is tn,
third largest 80 far developed. Col
Procter's testimony yesterday showed
that the Wood fund was nearly $1,000,
900 ana It has been testified that the
LOwden fund exceeded $500. 900. mostl,
contributed by himself.
John 7. King, the Wood man
ager who was displaced by Col.
Proctor, testified to- day that Dan
r. Hanna Of Cleveland, O.. agreed
to 90 out and raise half a million
dollars to finance the Wood cam.
paign.
This was more than a year ago.
Hanna did not say how much II
the $5oo,oo0 he would give him
self, nor did no know whether
Hanna was instrumental in get.
ting William Cooper Proctor of
Cincinnati to put into the Wood
campaign the $4,000.
Mr.. King said Hanna's sugsss-
tion was made at a meeting at
New York between himself, Mr..
Hanna and William Loeb,
former private secretary Of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. Mr.. Hanna
was "tO 90 out and gather II in
for 10 months work." Il was not
discussed with Gen. Wood.
King said no took charge Of the
Wood movement at Gen. Wood's
request and raised about $4,000
Of which $4,000 was contributed
and $1,000 on his own note.
FACTS OF DINNER BY HENRY c,
FRlck BROUGHT OUT.
King was asked about a dinner re-
ported 90 have been given by Henry
9. FriolS at which, according to rs-
ports a group Of milllonaires pledged
themselves TO back Wood, He said
II was merely a complimentary din-
ner 10 Wood Mt II. c. Frick's New
York home, at which politics was not
discussed. He branded as pure "fic
tion" the story OF the underwriting al
the Wood campaign by a ooterie Of
rich men.
There were about 25 or 80 mer
present" said Frick. George Per
kins was one. A man named Blair
was another. That's all remern-
Der. The dinner was given in the
spring, a year ago"
$50 far as you are concerned. the
story about the underwriting OF the
campaign is pure fietlon?" asked
Pomerene.
TT Is. AS a matter Of fact. Mr.,
Frick was not for Gen. Wood fos
President"
Senator Reed questioned King at
length about the FriolS dinner. Hanna
was not there, King said There were
no speeches and no discussions either
OF politics or OF public afrairs OF
Presidential possibilities were not
touched on. he said.
TELLS ABOUT HARDlNo'S CAM
PAloN IN ONO.
Mr. Daugherty opened hls testi-
mOny BY reading a prepared statement
The evening world., 1920-05-27
HEADS OF OUTLAW
STRIKE INDICTED?

Ten leaders in the recent railroad
strike in New Jersey have been in
dicted by the Federal Grand Jury at
Newark, 1t was reported to-day.
Twenty-seven indictments altogether
were handed up in the United States
District Court.
Nlne railroad leaders are named In
one Indictment. according to the re-
port ana ono man was named in
another true bill.
II is said they are accused OF hav-
ing interfered with and obstructcd
interstate commerce and are charged
with conspiracy
The evening world., 1920-05-27
Gaby DesIys's Mother Here,

Madame Anna Caire. mother OF the
late Gaby Deslys, and her daughter,
Nine. Fernan Conlll. arrived here to-
day on La France on their way 10
bsSlSs S' left i5 900. 600 francs to- 70 the eS pooI
Of .PfrlA IN her WILL
The evening world., 1920-05-27
RQlR5bRQiD(:

- suu don't believe It--rcad
what brlinN college professor
who tanned crook and had as
pal beautiful woman thief IN
THE MASKED WOMAN"
!3y Johnston MCCulley,
which begins In The Evening
World, Tuesday. June /.
WORLD REsTAURANT.
tIrcihl iuf iu-day. HhunatB Ma n 1920
chlcken froa,sse. Nth rcu, Sc paprkl o
Yeil, gypsD, 53C tahls d'hnte dluHaI. bOs ittl
u1si. MUr4d baaaina -Aalt.
The evening world., 1920-05-27
WOOL TRUST HEAD
PLEADS TOMORROW
TO PROFITEERING
Indictment Against Wood and
American Co. Charges Ex-
cess of 3OOP. c. Over 1919
TO ASK HEAVY BAIL.
Evening World Laid Facts and
Figures Before Attorney
General on March a.

William NJ. Wood, President of the
American Woolen Company of Mas
sachusetts and the American Wooden
Company of New York. will be pro-
duced by his attorneys before Fed
eral Judge Hand in the District Court
at IL A NJ. tomorrow to plead to
indictments charging him and the
companies with profiteering. Heavy
bail, II was announced to-day, will
be asked.
The Evening World. in It's fight
against gouging. under the caption
us This Profiteering?" published
facts and figures on March last Of
the so-called "Woolen Trust" which
were laid before Attorney General
Palmer. The accuracy of its analysis
and conclusions is shown by the in
dictment yesterday by the Federal
Grand Jury for this district of Mr.
Wood and his companies under the
Lever law
The American woolen Company of
Massachusetts manufactures one
fifth Of tho wooden cloth in this
country. The American Woolen
Company of New York Is the sales
organization of the parent concern.
Fourteen separate acts are alleged
in the indictment against Mr.. Wood
and the two companies. The trans
actions are alleged TO have taken
place in 1920 and to show that in
each case where bolt of cloth was
sold the purchaser paid twice as
much as it cost to make or more.
PROFITS JUMPED 300 TO 400 PER
CENT.
Herbert c. Smyth. Special Assist
ant to the Attorney General, said
that the Department of Justices in
vestisltion disclosed that the woolen
firms profits in 1920 exceed on an
average from 800 to 400 per cent
those OF 1919" when profits were
$l5,5l3.414,7O, in spite OF strike
tying up most OF the mills for five
months.
Through his attorneys, Hays
Hershfeld & Wolf, No. 1I5 Broadway.
Mr.. Wood issued the following state
ment to-day:
Il do not care to reply at any
length to the newspaper statement of
Assistant Attorney General Smyth. /
am advised that II might be wanting
in proper respect TO the court for me
to comment upon pending legal pro-
ccedings. What have to say In
these respects must, OF course, be said
in court.
1T may be proper for me, however,
to say that Mr.. Smyth's statements,
while no doubt he believes them, are
founded upon misapprehenslon Of
the facts. What the real facts are
will all appear in due time.
81 stand absolutely by the statement
which Mr., Smyth quotes in his inter-
view. There is absolutely no Just
ground for the uggestiun that this
company has charged excessive prices
for its cloth, or has gained an un-
reasonable or excessive profit.
Besides enormous" salaries from
(COntlnucd on SecynG papel
The evening world., 1920-05-27
WOODS OEPOSEO MANAGER
SAYS DAN HANNA OFFERED
TO RAISE FUND OF $5OO,OO(
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN GREATER NEW YORK

John T. King Tells Senators His Side
of the Wood Campaign-Harding
Manager Insists Ohio Campaign
Cost Only $4,000 or $4,000
Details ofFrick's Dinner toWood.
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DoSE 8, Fslsse.-LSs. RsllsP. sS. water Sure Rssi
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ta'eIns Entries On Pss. aAl
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-06
Delay in Decision
BY Court Permits
Buses to Continue
Affidavit Signed by Whalen
Has Earmarl1s of Fraud.'
Says Lawyer Opposing
City's Plea for Time

Continuance Of the operation Of mum
icipal BUSES was assured temporarily
at least, when the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, yester-
day reserved decision on the applica-
ton of the city for a stay of Justice
Cropsey's injunction order restraining
the operation of the buses in Brook
Ign in competition with the lines of the
Brooklyn City Railroad Company.
William B. Carswell, Assistant Cor
poratlon Counsel. represented the city,
ana jackson A. Dykman represented the
railroad, when the argument on the
city's application came before presiding
Justice jerks and Justices Mills, Rich,
Blackmar and Jaycox. Mr. Carswell
asked for a slight delay to allow the
CITY to make long atfidavits which will
be presented to the Appellate Division.
or until such time as the case is tried
II the Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Since the application was originally
made BY the company for an injunction.
he said, several things have transpired
20 make the continuance Of the buses
Imperative. Conditions on Staten
Island, owing to the suspension OF selv-
Ice by Midland Railway Company,
were SuCH, Tic Sdlu, tnat DuSSeS were
necessary
Mr.. Dykman objected to an affidavit
signed by Grover A. Whalen, Commits
sioner of Plant and Structures, which,
he said, "has all the earmarks Of fraud. y
He declared that, according to the best
information and belief obtainable.
Commissioner Whalen was in Atlantic
City at the time the affidavit was sup
posed to have been signed under New
York date. Commissioner Whalcn
asked for more time to prepare the
c!ty's case and Mr.. Dykman referred to
this request as the "extrcmc forehand-
edncss" of the city in preparing for
delay. He praised Justice Cropsey for
having the courage to grant an injunc-
ton which apparently was detrimental
to the city's interest. He charged that
the city was being sold out" by the
adm nj ST rati
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-06
Circus Tickets, Ice,
Pie, Prunes, Pills
Keep Hunters Busy
Man Who Pays 8 Gents
a Bottle for Root Beer
Also Makes Complaint
10 s.Flying Squadron

Complaints came Yesterday to the
headquarters of the Flying squadron"
in the Federal Building that many Of
the best seats for the circus in Madi-
son Square Garden have fallen into the
hands of spectators and are being sold
for exorbitant prices.
One man wrote that he had tried to
get 75-cent seats and was told at the
box office that they were all sold. When
he turned away, he says, ne was but
tonholed by man who told MIN he
could get all the tickets he wanted in
a nearby drug store. There he was
charged more than twice the box office
price for the tickets.
Another letter charged that the cir
Gus was encouraging spectators to buy
up the best seats and was charging
them extra for the privilege. This
matter is under Investigation.
AN official of the circus said last
night that there was no way to prevent
tickets from getting into the hands of
SPECTATORS, and he would be glad to
have it proved if any one in the box
office was in league with ticket "high-
BINDERS"
From Lisbon Falls, n y, came the
distressed wall Of a thirsty man. who
wanted concrete reason to explain why
he has to pay eight cents for the root
beer that used to cost him five.
One of the flying squadron" was
dispatched yesterday to cat prunes in
one OF the chain restaurants to ascer-
tain If complainant's statement were
true that three prunes cost Is cents.
BY simple mathematics the complain
ant figured that to this restaurant one
prune was worth five cents. For his
part, he declared that no prune in the
world was worth five cents
SADIE tale sent an agent to inouirc
into the relative costs of pie taken as
whole and by the slice. 1t appeared
rom correspondence read yesterday by
j: j. Price, who took A. W. Riley's
place while he was in Washington, that
man entered a restaurant and ordered
piece of unidentified pic. He liked
IT and, as it was a small slice, he or
GeNcd another and fell over backward
when ne was handed a check for so
cents.
Many more complaints were regis
tered, touching matters from pills to
the price Of collars
tivc members of the Dairymcn's
League arc expected to appear today
before Assistant United States District
Attorney Henry A. Cutler to explain a
resolution said to have been passed bv
the Watertown, n. Y, local of the
league at its March meeting, in which
curtailmcnt of the production of milk
is SAID to have been advised.
The flying squadron" is reported
unofiicially to be investigating the in
crease in the price Of ice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-06
Hudson Tubes to File
1O-Cent Fare Tariffs
Commerce Commission Agrees
to New Schedules From
Hoboken and Jersey CITY

WASHINGTON, April 5.-Pe.mission
was granted the Hudson e. Manhattan
Railroad to-day by the Interstate Com
mcrcc Commission to file tariffs provid-
ing for fare Of 10 cents from Hobokcn
and Jersey City stations TO uptown New
York and SIX cents from the same sta
tons TO the downtown terminal in Man
haitian.
The commission said the suspension
Of the proposed fares Of from seven to
eight cents last Saturday was without
prejudice 10 the road, and that an e.
pertinent for from three TO six months
with the new tariffs might obvato the
necessity OF a prolonged investigation.
Confirmation Of the foregoing dis
patch was contained yesterday in Il
statement issued by Orcn Root, prosi-
dent Of tho Hudson e. Manhattan Rail
road Company Mr. Root said the com
pnny viii file ii tariff following the sub
stitutc plan proposed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
John bentley, Corporation Attorney
for Jersey City, on learning Of the de-
cision wired to Washington for add
tiona information lie snid, however.
that he would oppose the lO-ccnt rate
70 the uptown stntiona. He said he Will
appear before the commission IN person
- do o.
!. Edward Hermann, counsel for the
NcV jersey Public Guilty Commission
mo opposed the proposed eight cent
Fare before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, has received an order from
the commission suspcndinR tho eight
cent rate, it was announced ut his Office
Jcrscy City ycsterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-06
Cupid Winks at High Rents;
800 Bridal Licenses Issued
Neither Profteering Landlords Nor Buccaneering
Butchers Serve to Check Flow of Couples
City Figures Far Exceed Those of Last Spring

The open season for spring brides
started with a rush yesterday in spite
of the rain, the high cost of living and
the housing shortage.
Three hundred and ninety couples
applied for marriage licenses in the
five boroughs. to the astonishment of
the license clerks, who looked for a
dull year, owing 20 the presence in
our midst OF the profteering landlord
and the buccaneering butcher
1t appears that Cupid has been as
technique which has suffered change.
Far from being the pert conceitcd
person of old. wont to boast Of his
accomplishments, he has become sly
and mysterious.
More couples have married this
spring than last. but they dare not tell
where they arc planning to live. lest
they be followed and the apartment
rented over their heads before they
can rush down to the marriage chapel
and back again.
Queens Clerk Puzzled
~ can't find a house to live in my
self said Thomas McCabe, County
Clerk OF the Queens office, "it is a
mystery to me where all these young
couples think they are going to find
flats. Out there is standing offer
OF S25 to any one who viii find fiat
to rent, and nobody apparently finds
the flats. yet our marriage records are
way ahead Of last year The young
sters keep it dark when they do find
place. It's all we can do to get
them to tell us their address,"
One hundred and ninety licenses
were issued in the Manhattan office
yesterday, as against 1871 of the Mon
day after Easter a year ago. In the
Bronx, fortytwo licenses were issued
yesterday and nineteen year ago. In
Queens, the record for the entire sea-
son. so far, is 100, as opposed to G32
last year. At the Brooklyn office, l27
licenses were issued yesterday. The