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New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
10 Mem, known by Name,
Sought as Mail Hold-Ups
Said to Have Plotted Robbery
Prior to $2,O0O,0OO Job;
Chauffeur Facing Arrest

The names of ten men, said to have
been connected with a hold-up of q
registered mail truck that was planned
but not executed, are known to the
postoffice authorities. These men, it
was learned yesterday, are now being
sought in the belief that they were the
robbers who looted the registered mail
truck October Cd, at Broadway and
Leonard Street, of $2,o00,oOo in cash,
jewelry and securities.
A chauffeur still employed as mail
truck driver at the City Hall station
of the Postoficc is, sccoring to this
information, the man who supplied the
ten bandits with data concerning the
mail trucks - how to distinguish be-
tween those carrying ordinary and
those registered mails, the hours of
departures and the qualities of the
drivers.
This chauffeur, it is understood, has
been shadowed for several days, in the
hope that he would get in touch with
members of this band. He has not
done so and it is believed now that he
will be arrested.
Two men who were arrested Wednes-
day in Jersey City and held in $4,000
bail were confronted yesterday by
Havranick, driver Of the truck that
was held up. He said he had never
seen them before. They said they
were Michael Arbesi and Frank Gala,
bresc, of Hoboken. The authorities
are still holding them as disorderly
persons.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Garment Men Drop
Pay Cut in Hope of
Averting a Strike
Insist, However, ON 48 or 40
Hour Week; Union Heads
Rush Referendum Plans
ON Walk-Out of 10000

1t was announced yesterday by the
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers
Protective Association that there
would be no immediate reduction in
the wages of the cutters and pressers,
but that after November IA they would
insist on a y-eight or forty-ninc
hour week.
"They have withdrawn one of their
demands; they will certainly withdraw
the two Others" Benjamin Schlesinger.
president of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers Union said, when
informed Of the manufacturers an
nouncement.
1--WE are not discussing piece work
or week work, Or the lengthening of
hours, or the reduction of wages, so
much as we are the violation of the
agreement to hpld a conference on
trade conditions on November l.
"Instead of the subcommittee of
manufacturers and workers coming
, together for this conference, the manu-
facturers promulgated their piece work
idea at meeting at the Waldorf
Astoria. The agreement required that
tuC i&DOr members Ol Lne COmmlCCec
be informed of any new proposals.
When julius Blauner, of the manufac-
turers, told Israel Feinburg, of our
union, about the piece work resolution,
Feinburg told him he had already read
it in the newspapers. Blauner admitted
that the public announcement was a
technical mistake but when Fein
berg said that the proper thing to do
then was to report to the full commits
sion of thirty members, of which the
Subcommittee was a part, Blauner
failed to do it, and then November l
came and the agreement expired. We
arc going ahead with our pans"
| The union leaders were busy yester-
day forming strike committees and
preparing for printing the more than
$4,000 ballots required for taking a
referendum of the workers on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, next.
The ballots will be printed in Yiddish
Italian and English.
A. E. Lefcourt, spokesman for the
manufacturers, said yesterday that the
week work system resulted in unneces-
sarily high prices for women's gar
ments. 1t was admitted that the gar.
ment workers were 100 per cent union
lied, but it was asserted SO per cent
would refuse to strike
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
s'Oust Hylan the I'm
just,'' Say Street Cleaners
Mayor Tried to Smash Union
and Vetoed Pension, De-
clares Appeal to Voters

Incensed at the attempt of Street
Cleaning Commissioner Leo and one or
two labor leaders to influence the uni
formed force Of the Street Cleaning
Department to vote for Mayor Hylan
by calling the mass meeting held at
Beethoven Hall Wednesday night, rep
resentatives of the employees yesterday
sent out circular letter to "all street
cleaners, their families and their
friends" vigorously attacking the
Mayor and the Commissioner and urg-
ing the men in the department TO vote
for Henry II. Curran.
"The time has arrived, the day is
here" the letter said, "when you can
vote to throw out of the City Hall the
Mayor who for almost four years has
been trying to break UP your unions,
who has twice vetoed your just pension
bills and who stood for the dismissal of
$50 of your comrades who didn't know
it was showing on that February Sum
day morning. At the same time you
can vote to make Mayor one of your
greatest friends and man who as
mayor will advise you so that you will
have the good will and confidence of
the people.
"If you vote for Hylan you are vot-
ing for four years more of Leo, the
Commissioner, who publicly called you
and your families 'Bolshevists at heart
Just think of what this means to your
families. There were $50 of your COM
rades thrown out when they couldn't
get work elsewhere. Some of them
were soldiers who never got such treat
ment in the army. Others were years
in the department and paid hundreds
OF dollars to their pensions which Leo
took from them without cause. You
know there are nearly 600 who may yet
be dismissed because they, too, did not
know 1T was showing.
"lf you want to get rid of the un-
just Leo; if you want to save you,
organizations; if you want your dis
missed comrades reinstated as they
should be; if you want to prevent the
dismissal Of the six hundred; if you
want a Mayor who will be lust to the
drivers, sweepers and others, then fo,
Gods sake, go out right now and ash
the voting members Of your family ant
! all your friends interested in decen,
government to do all in their power t.
elect Major Henry H. Curran Mayor Of
our city"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Methods at Ellis Island !.
Denounced by British
Harsh Treatment of Subjects
Repeatedly Protested to Wash
ington, Saws HarmswOrth

LONDON, Nov. (By The Associated
Press). Alleged hardships suffered by
British subjects at Ellis Island, New
York, came up for brief consideration
in the House of Commons to-day. Cecil
Harmsworth, Under Secretary for For
eign Affairs, was asked whether repre-
seneations had been made to Washing
ton on this score. He replied that,
judging by the distressing accounts re-
ceived of the treatment of British sub
jects at Ellis Island and the conditions
under which they were compelled to
live. the strongest complaints would be
justified.
Repeated representations made to
the United States government" de-
clared the Under Secretary, "have, /
regret to say, had no tangible result,
but further negotiations are proceed
ing at the present moment which
hope may lead to some permanent i'm
provement."
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Youngster Finds Alibi
For Bad School Report
Runs Away So Parents Will
Forget to Ask for Card,
and Scheme Works

They gave out report cards in Public
School IS, in West Twenty fourth
Street, yesterday. When Robert Nc
Lean, eleven years old, of 249 West
Twenty-third Street, received his card
and saw that it contained two Cs he
promptly tore it up, and to evadc a
promised spanking at home decided to
run, away.
The boy was found wandering about
the streets of Jamaica last night by a
stranger, who took him to the police
station, where Robert told detectives
that he had at first decided to run away
from home for good and get a job or
enter business or something and be-
come q millionaire.
"But, after thinking it over" Robert
said, II got better idea. l was just
going to stay away from home for a
day, and then when | returned my
mamma and pop would be so glad to
see me they'd forget to ask for my
card"
When Robert was returned to his
home by the police he was surprised
to find his scheme had worked in half
the time.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Baby Is Chief Star in Milky
Ways at Emergency Stations
Rich and Poor, in Lines, Eagerly Step Aside foi
Mothers With Infants; Failure to Return
Bottles Threatens Shortage

Of alien tongues that frequently surged
into torrent swept along the line.
Protests and commiseration were reg
istered as one mother told another of
her sick baby at home, her little Tony,
who coughed and had to 60 without
milk for twenty-four hours.
There we're shawls and bare heads
for the most part along the line. This
is the station that serves the lower
East Side. 1t was here that the ped
dler flourished, buying at tho depot,
loading up his cart early. pushing it a
few blocks away and carrying on
lively trade of his own. Mothers were
so glad to get milk that they rushed
for the first bottle in sight. They
pounced like animals on their prey, so
desperate were they in some cases to
get sustenance for their infants.
Commissioner Bird S. Coler yester-
ward Underwood, of tho Salvation
Army, Offering the use of it's buildings
to tho Board of Health or the Welfare
Department. for the distribution of
milk. Commissioners Coler referred
the letter to Health Commissioner
Royal S. Copeland.
Bottles are getting scarce because
they are not being returned. This is
rapidly becoming problem hard to
meet A sign was posted at the Shelf
field stations yesterday requesting all
buyers to bring back the bottles. If
tho shortage becomes serious it will
be made mandatory for an old bottle
to be furnished before new one will
be given out.
The brcakage of bottles by the
grief that surged over the small boy and
spectators at Tenth Avenue yesterday
when he dropped ono of his two bot
ties, which did not break, went to pick
it up and in the act dropped his
second bottle, which did break. He
looked at the wreckage and started to
cry. But a kindhearted man in the
line handed over another bottle so
that "mother wouldn't know what he
had DONE"
One Of the humorous touches Of the
day was the descent on a station ir
the Bronx of man in evening clothes
who got out of an automobile anc
zigzagged his way toward the milk
store. When asked if he had not
already had too much milk to drink
he said he needed it for milk punches
He loaded the waiting car with twelve
bottles and got away with them.
The Department of Public Welfare is
looking after the distribution of milk
to the Angel Guardian Home in Brook
lyn; the Home for Hebrew Infants in
the Bronx and the Brooklyn Nursery
and Infants Hospital
A number of women yesterday volun.
teored to drive trucks CIR their own
private cars with milk to the poorer
sections Of the city.
"Ill gladly do all can to help
said Mrs. Richard M. Chapman, presi-
dent Of the City Federation Of Women's
Clubs. ,.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04

The only person with any real pull
at the milk station Ia His Majesty the
Baby. When he comes along in his
mothers arms, or riding in his i'm
|perial carriage, the crowd makes way
:nstinctively; the man who sells the
milk hunts for the best looking bottle
and every one feels that e good job
has been done when his majesty's face
is turned toward home.
This is where the East Side mother
unconsciously triumphs In getting. a
fast and adequate supply at, the dis
tributing station. She usually brings
the baby along and the response to its
appeal is instantaneous. When there
does not seem to be pint Of milk left
anywhere some one will produce a.little
of the precious liquid so that the in
fant who is entirely dependent on 1t
may not suffer.
Even in milk stations there are con-
trasts. The eternal laws persist in
face of the leveling influence Of q city
wide milk strike and there is as much
differences between the crowds that line
up at the Sheffield plant ut Fifty
sevent Street and Tenth Avenue, and
the Borden plant. at 311 East Eleventh
Street, as between q Fifth Avenue and
a Second Avenue crowd. 1t is true the
elements are mixed at both stations.
They are mixed at every distributing
center in the city, for people seek the
place that is nearest. But the plant
at Fifty-seventh Street and Tenth Ave
nue. has come to be the haunt of the
! well-off because Of Its nearness to tho
sixties, seventies and eighties. Here
the crowd arrived yesterday less an
xious and less early than at East
Eleventh Street, although it was just
as ready to carry away milk III any
kind of receptacle.
| Outside Of the Sheffield plant on
Fifty-seventh Street the scene was
T, Ikea market. Long, improvised eoun-
ters carried cases of milk. White
| aproned men bundled the bottles in
paper bags, while the queue rapidly
pushed its way forward, and every one
was served in turn. BY o'clock yes
terday afternoon more than 200 cases.
been disposed of and the line still
stretched far down the street. It was
heterogeneous line, made up of busi-
ness men, good-naturedly getting milk
for their youngsters. Of gray-haired
grandmothers and young mothers, Of
business girls and teachers. of chauf.
feurs and shopkeepers. Motors lined
the curb all day, and in the morning
a luxurious car drove up, the occupant
of which got six bottles of milk and
departed. Any number of women drove
over from the uptown residential Sec
tion and carried away supplies.
On East Eleventh Street a less con-
ventional, less prosperous, but more
animated crowd was collected. There
were dozens Of babies and small chill
dren. Wagons and pushcarts took the
place of motors and taxis. A murmur
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Senate Rejects
SnOot's Sales
Tax, 43 to Is
CONTINUED from page one)

tIohUHuoo from pRg6 one)
States from one end of the country to
the other" would be the result of the
tax, according to Senator Smoot.
Senator Simmons presented figures,
which he said had been given him by
Actuary Mccoy, of the Treasury De-
partment, in which he sought to show
loss to the Treasury Of 1851, ,0O0, 600
in the calendar year 1922 if the Smoot
amendment should be adopted. Sem
ator Smoot disputed this showing.
Lenroot Disputes Smoot
In long speech, Senator Lenroot,
of Wisconsin,, assailed the sales tax.
Disputing the assertion of Senator
Smoot that rs per cent of the people
were for it, he declared not farmers
organization was for it and organized
labor was against it. He knew of no
ultimate consumer who favored it.
II venture to say that before July
the soldiers bonus bill will have passed
by an overwhelming majority of both
houses" said Mr.. Lenroot.
Senator'S Pomerene, of Ohio, Demo-
crat, and McCumber, of North Dakota,
were among the speakers in opposition.
Senator McCumber offered figures to
show that the tax bill as it now stands
would raise $3.50, 100000 for the next
fiscal year; that the Smoot plan would
eliminate S504, 100000 while the sales
tax would raise $253,Q00,000, and there
would be left deficit of $251 100000.
Senator Smoot denied the correctness
Of these figures and said the Treasury
for the next fiscal year would need ap-
proximately $4,000, 100000 and his plan
would raise $3,411 100000.
Senator Pttman secured adoption of
an amendment to apply to the taxing of
capital stock which is below par. 1t
provided for tax of per cent on each
$40 of value
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Tariff Extension Forecast

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The Senate
Finance Committee, resuming hearings
to-day on tariff questions, ordered a
favorable report on the House resolu-
tion extending the emergency tariff law
to February l., or until such time as
the permanent tariff schedules are en-
acted into law.
The committees intention to hold
hearings on the permanent bill prob
ably will be changed, however, and the
hearings postponed after to-day until
Monday, because of the consideration
by the Senate OF the tax bill, which re-
quires the attendance of the Finance
Committee members.
T. c. Atkeson, representing the Ma
tional Grange, the only witness heard
to-day, reiterated the stand of the
farm organizations that so LONG as the
policy Of the government was protec-
ton farm products must share in it.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Mix Trucks Guarded
BY Motorcycle Police


Yonkers has solved the problem
of the milk strike by the simple
plan Of furnishing motorcycle
police escort for the big trucks
that haul the milk from the rail
road stations. There is plenty of
milk and there has not been sign
of trouble.
The trucks and their motorcycle
guards carry the milk to distrib-
~uting centers. To these centers
the storekeepcrs go, and to the
storekeepers go the housekeepers
for their daily needs Of milk. All
milk vehicles move over prear-
ranged routes, and they carry
ample supplies. There is but one
inconveniencc-the disseminating
Of doorstep deliveries.
The Board of Health has opened
special stations for invalids and
babies.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Finnish Envoy Comes
TO America i'm Steerage
Fails to Explain Mode of Travel
as Surprised Officials Per-
nit Him 10 Land

r. Waesland Eager, special mes
senger from President Stahberg OF
Finland to the Finnish Legation in
Washington, arrived here yesterday in
the steerage of the Swedish America n
liner Stockholm from Gothenburg.
Just why he did not come over as a
saloon passenger was one of the secrets
which Eager took with him to Wash
ington1 There was room for him in
the first cabin, but he bought steer
age ticket and did not disclose his
identity or the object of his mission
until detained here by the immigration
inspectors.
When he came before them Fager
said he was. a messenger from the
President of Finland and showed dip
lomatic passport signed and sealed by
the Foreign Office and special iden-
tification document. After looking over
Fager's credentials the immigration
officials permitted him to land without
sending him through Ellis Island.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Five Slain i'm Arab Raid
On Jews i'm Jerusalem
Bomb Is Thrown and knives
Drawn in Disorders, Later
Brought Under Control

JERUSALEM, Nov. 3 [By The Asso-
ciated Press).-Five persons were
killed and thirteen others were wounded
in disorders here yesterday, which in
cluded the throwing Of bomb. The
trouble, the police report, originated
in an attempted attack by Arab rioters
on the Jewish quarter. Of the killed
four were Jews and one an Arab.
There were few cases of knitting,
and shots were exchanged between the
factions.
The police frustrated the Arab at
tack. Later, while troops patrolled the
city, the Governor, with the officer
commanding the troops and the princi-
pal Moslem potables, walked through
the streets and restored order
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Wanamaker Presents Cup
Is Made Honorary Colonel of
London Police Reserves

LONDON, Nov. 3.--Rodman Wana-
maker, who was in charge of the police
reserves Of New York during the war,
to-day, through Colonel Wood, pre-
sented loving cup to Sir William
Norwood, Commissioner of Police at
Scotland Yard. The chief of police and
other officials attended the presenta-
tion. The cup is inscribed to Sir Will
liam Norwood and all the ranks of the
metropolitan police "in recognition of
their efficiency and loyalty"
Mr.. Wanamaker has been made an
honorary colonel of the London metro
politan police reserves, while Sir Ed
ward Ward, head of the special con-
stabulary. has been made an honorary
colonel Of the New York police reserves.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Women Pledge
Sufferers Help
In Getting Milk
Mrs. A. vi. Palmer at Head
of Republican Workers
Who Will See That Sick
and Babies Are Supplied
Campaign to End Sunday
Chief Candidates To Be at
Meeting; Mrs. Hamilton
Accepts Tammany's Dare

Republican women added new de-
partment to their campaign activities
yesterday when Mrs. A. M Palmer was
appointed chairman of committee to
help in the milk crisis. Mrs. Palmer
organized the Pure Milk League several
years ago, and has been active in the
work of the Maternity Center Asso-
citation, She will reorganize her COM
mittee at once to- assist in. the task of
carrying milk to hospitals and the
homes of the Sick
1--WE arc not at all interested in the
pro and con of the strike," said Mrs.
Palmer, "but we are interested in see
ing that the children and the sick do
not suffer because of inability to OBJ
tain milk. If this strike is not settled
within twenty four hours we shall take
steps to obtain supply of milk, and
if necessary we shall personally de-
liver it at the centers where it is most
needed"
Busy on Meeting Plans
The official activities Of the women
in behalf of the Curran campaign will
come to an end Sunday night with the
mass meeting at Cooper Union, at
which Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robin
son and William Travers Jerome will
be the headliners.
Two hundred and fifty clergymen of
the city have been asked by Mrs. Ed
ward Van Zile, chairman Of the Wo-
mems Cooperative Anti-Tammany
Committee, to announce the meeting
from their pulpits at their morning
g. VI h.
issue in the campaign against Tam
many.
Lockwood and Vincent Gilroy, the
heads Of the coalition ticket, will be
guests of honor at the meeting. The
three women candidates. Miss Helen
Varick Boswell, for County Register;
Miss Marguerite Smith, for the AS
scmbly, and Mrs. Mabel T. S. Falco,
also for the Assembly, will be on the
platform.
Democratic women who are coop
Grating with the Republican women in
arranging the meeting are Mrs. Sarah
Gilroy, mother of Mr.. Gilroy; Mrs.
James Glasgow, Mrs. Samuel f. Hy-
man, Mrs. Emma Khone, Mrs. G. P.
Russell, Mrs. Katharine Sullivan, Mrs.
Frank Volz and Mrs. G. Wright.
The Women's Harding and Coolidge
Club gave q luncheon yesterday at the
Hotel Marie Antoinette. In the after
noon there was reception for Miss
Boswell at the Murray Hill Hotel, un-
der the auspices OF the Committee of
One Thousand Clubwomcn, Of which
Mrs. Elmer Blair is chairman.
Tho Committee of One Hundred,
Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard, chairman,
participated in the automobile parade
last night, which passed, through Times
Square at the theater hour and dis
solved into street meetings on the
various corners.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Brooklyn Business Men Asked
For Ideas OH Borough System

All of the $500 members of the
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce yes
terday received questionnaires from
that organization asking for an ex-
preston of their views as to the kind
of borough government they prefer. :.
The members are given an oppoIk
tunity to vote in favor of the present
form of borough organization, COM
plete decentralization or modified
plan of Capitalization. Ballots have
been printed on postal cards and a
spirited contest is expected among
the advocates of the various plans.
The result of the balloting will be made
known in few days.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Dollar Now Buys 2lO Marks
American Holders Reported To
BE Unloading Ranidlv

BERLIN, Nov. 3.--The dollar reached
210 marks to-day, the highest record,
with reports that American holders of
the mark were unloading heavily Lo-
caliy the unusually steady fall in Ger
man currency was accredited TO "our
uncertain political situation and Ger
many's great poverty"
The newspapers complain that the
depreciation is causing serious losses
to German firms which are under con-
tract to purchase raw materials abroad
or facing the necessity of purchasing
foreign products.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Japan to Decorate Realty

WASHINGTON. Nov. s.-The EN-
peror of japan has ordered that the
decoration of the Grand Gordon of the
Rising Sun be conferred upon Admiral
Earl Beatty, First Sea Lord of the
British Admiralty. according to infor-
nation received here to-day.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Berlin Faces General
Strike to Aid w alters
Special Gable to 1'hs Trbuns

Copyright 1871, New York Tribune INC.
BERLIN, Nov. 3.--Officials Of
the Federation Of Trade Unions
of Greater Berlin to-day dis
patched an ultimatum to pro-
prietors Of all restaurants and
hotels, warning them that a gen
eral strike of all union workers
in the city would be called unless
the wage demands Of the hotel
walters were granted imme-
diately. The walters walked out
five weeks ago.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
G. O a |

We furnish their coal now
on yearly obligation to keen
them comfortably supplied
with coal that our expert saws
fits their furnace.
We shall be very much sur.
prised if that coal bill does not
come down a long, long way.
OWENS & COMPANY, Inc.
Foot of East 49th ST., N. Y. c.