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ALLIE To-Nlght's Weathei SHOWED, COM RENT LAW DECISION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,682 IB BE CONSTITUTIONAL Decision Very Sweeping, Cov ering All Aspects of the Housing ,Laws. ONE JUDGE DISSENTS. includes Even Dispossess Pro- ceedings Stayed by Agree ment Before Oct. 1. (Staff Correspondnt of The Eve ning, World.) - AL.UANV. March S. The constitu tionality of New York State legisla tion dealing with the housing situa tion In New York 'City. ''which pro vide that until Oct. 1, 1922. no land lord snail charge an unreasonable rent nor recover possession of his property, except In certain cases, from any tenant, was upheld In all respects by the Court of Appeals to-day by t to 1. The opinion, which was written by Judge round, says: "The conclusion Is, In the light of present theories ef the police tower, that the Statomay fcgulato a busU Skolliy & Co. Will ill Fight ness, however honest m luelf. if It Is Against tjnjon jn Sweeping or may become an Instrument of i . , . ... r- , . widespread oppression; that the Lust- PeCISlOn by JllStlCe ErtangCr. " " rtnl,DS hm?S tht CUy ,f , Suprvn. Court Justice Krlanger to Vnrk is emorcently such an in- i ... . .. fSt - 1 V. w niment and has therefore become subject to control by the public for j r the common good; that the regulation of rents and the suspension of posses sory remedies so far tend to accom plish the purpose as to supervene the Constitutional Inhibitions relied upon defeat tbo laws before us. "The order appealed from should be , anlrmod with costs." The decision 1s very sweeping, cov ering not only theJiroad questions presented but also actions for rent on leases executed after April l,1 A920, as well as dispossess proceedings in which Mays bad been agreed on, be fore Oct. t. 1920. Chief Judge Hiscock and Judgoa Hog.m, Cardozo and Andrews con curred in Judge round's opinion. Judge franc concurred In the tcsult in n brief opinion of his own basing his vote on "circumstances due to war conditions" only, and Judge Mc Laughlin dissontcd on tho ground that the legislation was .objectlonabla on ill tho grounds utatcd by tho land lords. The decision means that tho Now Tork legislation dealing with the housing situation In Now York City, which provides that no landlord, ex- cent In a few specified cases, can re cover his property from any tenant who pays a reasonable rent, even after the expiration of the term of (Continued on Twentieth Page.) PRIEST DIES AT PRAYER. Rrv. Illlnry Wnluli f St. VlrleU' Monnntery, KlnnnlirlUisr, oincatn Vhllo kneeling In prayer at mass In rhnnel of St. Patrick s .Monaiiery the I'asslonlst Fathers) Sedgwick Ave- ... near Kinirsblld" uoau, mo iirunx hi. momlmr. :tl Hilary Walsh suddenly toppled uvei unconscious Father Alexis, the superior ai uie mon u.tr. rave first aid treatment, but ohm Dr Iloyd arrivea iroro ins nearby hr pronbun-d tne priesi xieaa from heart failure. elher aisn iimii uern ,,,. th Tasnonlst i;racr ior iwinjr- prlast- er II. Ml nrrin Inftri to tn ,,a in Wast HODOKtn, wnrro. im re funeral ui M hwhiiih WARMER. DAILY. '"ffii'&Jm?"' , NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH EVENING WORLD IS CONGRATULATED IN UPHOLDING LAW Senator Lockwood Declares the Court's Decision Is a Most Sweeping Victory. (Si-eoiil From duff OurrmiWhitr of Tli Eieaing World ) ALBANY, March 8. S13.SV ATOlt CHARLHS O, LOCKWOOD said that the victory on the Housing Uw in the Court of Appeals was a most sweeping one and extended congratulations U The Evening World for Its great work an aiding the passage of the measures. STRIKE ENJOINED, dav enjoined the Amalgamated aoth- r strike Jogeph gkony & Co., clothing manufacturers, with a factory at No. 50S Broadway and two factoi-ic." in Brooklyn. Justice Er langcr forbids picketing of the shops of the plaintiff in one of tho most Im portant and sweeping strlko decisions handed down in tho locnl'courts since the war. Joseph Skolny & Co., which employs 400 operatives and docs a business of about $3,000,000 a year, asked for nn order rostrnlnlrtg the union from in terfering with tholr business pending tho trlul of a suit against tho union for $350,000 damages. The petition wftH for an order directed ng.ilnst Sidney lllllman, General President of the Amalgamated, the officers and members of local unions. Justice Krlanger denied a motion to dismiss Uic complaint of the clothing manufacturers, and granted the mo tion for an Injunction pendente lllo. Last year the Skolny llrm decided to run Its business on the principle of tho "open ihop." The firm as sorted that H so notified tho Amulga mated on Jun. 27 last and then en tcrod Into written contracts with lt employees not to become members of the clothing workers oi. any other labor orcunlzatlon. "In violation of tno contract rights of the plaintiff," says Justice Br langer In his opinion, "and contrary to the term of said contracts of em ployment, and without complaint grievance or dispute among said em ployees, and with tho Intent and'pur- (Contlnucd on Second Page.) GABIES COME IN BUNCHES. Mother With Twin Followed by One With Triplets." fSlwiil to The DrnJni WwM ) HUMFOItD. It I March S. While Dr. Frank T. Calof was busy at ths home of Mr. and Mrs. l,ongl Christopher 'hero, tho event being tho arrival of twin babies, a boy ami girl, wolglilng m total 14 3-4 pounds. thi phone was limy i allinff- him ac rosi (lie Ki-liotxith lln. where ,oon aflrr h, Brrivul three lutv rirls wghlne four pounds each wore m&de weloome At ths home of Hr ami Mr. Joe IUpohs, A vebaDle and both mothers are ALSO PICKETING BY GARMENT WORKERS OCCUPY THREE RHINE CITIES 1 t " Circulation Books Open to AH." dcai c iinuni no dcmt i aiuc ENDS HIS LIFE IN ! iL McCtirdy, Surety Co. Manager, ' Infatuated With His j Office Assistant. j BODIES SIDE BY. SIDE. i Love Notes to Miss Snowden and Kipling's "Vampire" in Dead Man's Pocket. The bodies of "Willis E. McCuruy, head of tho personnel department of tho American Surety Company, No. JOO Broadway, and Miss Alice K. 1 iSnowdcn, twenty years old, his as sistant and stenographer, were found this morning by Policeman McCllnchy) in a, secluded spot behind a roc near the lake In Central Park known as "Japanese Point." Both had been shot through tho head. An auto matic pistol from which two shoU had been' fired lay between them. A handkerchief clenched In tho gtrl i right hand Indicated that the shots had been firedby the man's hand rather than hers. A nheof of notes, -written in a woman's handwriting on memoran dum slips such as might bo passed across an office desk surreptitiously, was found in McCurdy's pockets. They were signed "Alice," and all Indicated strong feeling for the per son to whom they were written. One of them noted toy the police as char acteristic of all read: "I elmply can not wait until I see you to-night. I love you Alice." With these slips was a letter In an unaddrcssed envelope, apparently In McCurdy's handwriting, which began, Dear Man I do love you. I know I nm fool, but I cannot help it." Thero was also a copy of Kipling's 'Vampire," with the opening lines, A fool thero was" underscored. At the offices of tbo American Surety Company nobody could be found to day who would admit ever having sus pected a secret romance between Mc- Curdy, .who was thirty-two and had a wife and an eight-year-old daughter at No. 537 First Avenue, Astoria, and MIhm Snowden. They frequently loft tho office together when their work was over for the day, as was natural, their associates thought Soon after the bodies were partly identified through papers found In McCurdy's pockets and marks on tlicJ. girl's clothing, Charles II. Mills of N'o. 493 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, appeared at tho Arsenal Station. He said ho was cugaged to marry Miss Snowden and had given her tho dia mond engagement ring which was found on her finger. She had com- (Continued on Tenth Page.) RR. HEAPS CONFER WITH MEN OVER CUT Representatives of 35,000 Unskilled Workmen Meet New York Central Official. representatives of W.000 unskilled employooa of tho Now York Central Wnc.i mot to-day with managers of tho railroad at tho Grand Central Terminal to discuss a contemplated reduction in wages ranging from 13 to 20 cents an hour. W. J. Fripp, New York manngor of the road, and A. S. Ingalls, manager of tho lines wwat of Buffalo, presided Jointly. Statistics were presented to explain the reduction was Justified y the les sened cost of living. No definite action was taken or dute set for tho cut though April 1 has len suggested There will bo another meeting March ;i. Tho workers 1ll take lh proposal back to tho men tor an expression of their views. The unskilled emplojees include sta lion men. clerks and eon I passers. Their present wages under an award made by tty? War Labor Hoard last year run front iu Ui (0 ecnu u sour. . CENTO PARK tHLtf Ul HULUO 111,111 ImHIWU MRS. W. E. D. STOKES WHO TESTIFIED IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE MRS WE T Smoke From Raming Oil in Forging Machine Fills Cor ridors and Rooms. Boiling oil burst into flape in a. forging machine In n classroom at the Stuyvcsant High SchooV East 15th Street, this morning and smoke began to pour through corridors and rooms. The action of students, teachers and principal was Instant and efficient. One student ran to the second floor and notified the principal, Dr. Paul Von Nardors, who sounded tho school flro nlnrra Thn well drilled students responded with true military snap and i in less than threo minutes tho school had been emptied of 3.600 boys with out a sign of disorder. Meanwhile tho students in the forg ing class, under tho direction of their teacher, Ernest Schwnrtzkopf, dumped sand on the blazing oil and succeeded in blanketing tho flames. Mr. Bchwartzkopf then set In motion large exhaust fan, which sucked tho smoke from the room and hallB and sent it through tho ventilating apparatus into tho street. An alarm nau tiueu iiuucu in, um when the apparatus urrlved most of the excitement was over. Firemen carried Jut the machine containing the burning oil and dumped the oil In the gutter, where it was quickly extinguished. Studies wore resumed a short time after the original flash of the oil. Mr. Schwnrtzkopf said he believed the Are was caused by a spark from a nearby anvil or that another forg Ing machine sot flro to tho oil. Ho declared tho oil had a "flash point" of 800 degrees, but Ignited to-day when its tempernture was only G75 degrees. ITALY IMPORTS SPAGHETTI FROM UNITED STATES! Forced to Turn to This Country to Get Kind That Pleases Her Palate Best. ITALY is Importing spaghetti from tho United Statos. Fifty tons of It 1,000 cascfl, or enough to make half a million liberal plutofuls wore In the hold of the steamship Princess Aia tolka when she sailed from New York to-day for Naples and other Mediterranean ports. Italy formerly seourwi front nitirhv a suppry of Semolina wlfoat. a hard grade, for the man ufacture of spaghetti, but internal troubles In Iluwsla cut off the juipply. America now produce the same grade of wheat and also manufactures the ipagheJU. lifti 1 ! i n - Jt i - - i D STOKES I STUYVESAN BOYS WELL DRILLED NB HIGH SCHOOL FIRE SAW IS. STOKES kiss cousin m; AND PAY HIS BILLS Nurse, Witness in Divorce Case, Testifies They Were Very Affectionate. CABLED HER. "CARROTS." Mrs. Stokes, She Swears, Threatened to Shoot 'Her if She "Told on Her." The maid or nurse who almost in variably flgures'on the witness stand In prominent domestic entanglements j was- not mlsslDg when the action which W. K. D. Stokes has brought against his .wife came to trial to-day before Justice Finch itr tho Supreme Court. This one was Juliette doss i nor, who used to take care of the two Stokes ohlldron, and she told all she knew of Mrs. Stokes's comings and goings and. those wiyi whom. -she spent the time when Mr. Stokes was not In her company. She related much about Mrs. Stokes's cousin, Hal BUlig, who is named as one of the co-respondents, telling of iweok-cnd trips In Colorado, on which, however, tho Stokes children and Mrs. Stokes's slater always went. Also she told of a party on one Now Year's Eve when Mr. Stokes ordered Bllllg out of the Stokes residence. That night Mr. Stoke nailed up the door leading to j his wife's room. I But the sensation, of the day, aside from bits of testimony here and thore, was the appearance of Mrs. Stokes on the stand as the first witness. She was a3kcd to Identify a (batch of pho tographs of herself and various friends, some of the pictures having been taken three years ibeforo'aho was married to Mr. Stokes. Tho pictures showed her In wlilto overalls working " sardcn ana aiso syiarKing wiib one oi inu uiiuiu mciiHitiD i u consln house party. Mrs. Stokes could not even remember the names of some of the people In tho pictures. Mrs. Stokes, a handsorao yoong woman, was modlshly dressed In fur cape, brown velvet hat and lace wnlst looking not unlike a fashion plate in a French paper. She was called to the stand by Francis Wollman, Mr. Stokes's attor ney, but as soon as she hnd nnswered his first question, aJ to her marriage, on Feb. S, 1911. Martin W. l.itUeton, her nHorney, arose In Immediate ob jection Mr. Littleton protested against hp calling of the defendant as uu ui. mpt of Mr. Wellman to shield his ,. n client by not putting the hitter on e stand. But the Court overruled Mr. i. ttleton and the ques tioning of Mrs. is akes procooded. During tho examination Mr. Stokes (Continued on Second Page.) NATIONAL CITY BANK AIDS ARE ARRESTED Seized in Connection With Disap pearance of $100,000 in Matanzas, Cuba. HAVANA, Cuba, March 8. Threo employees of tho Matnnzas branch of tho National City Bank of New York wore placed under arrest last night In connection with tho disappearance of 8100,000 In currency from a regis torod mall package supposed to con- tuin 8219,000 sent from tho Matanxaa brnnoh of tho bank last Saturday. Tho men under arrest aire the pay. Ing teller, the receiving teller and his usslstant. Loss of the money was not dlscov ered until the. package reached the Havana bank. TliC packuge bore no evidence of having been tampered with enroute. An nffleial of th" National Cltv n said to-day word hud been racalved hat a linrtasr of J 100.000 had bari rilunn, . : red In a refislered mail package, sent tam the Matanxaa branch, but the panic HHa not oenn iKuna o m 'i4t of any employee, , . ...... t" Circulation Books Open to All." v 8, 1921. aWWak; 2S PRICE THREE CENTS ;9 CHARGES HIS WIFE CHEWS TOBACCO Also Smokes Cigars Offered to Give Them Up if He Quii Cigarettes. Mj-.. Lucy B. Kcksteln applied to Slip re me Court Justice Van Hlclcn In Brooklyn to-day for alimony and counsel fees landing trial of her ac tion for reparation from her husband, Bernard, of No. 70 Montgomery Street, Jersey City. Koksteln stated In his affidavit that his wife smoked cigars and chewed tobacco. "Wlien I told her to stop," he swore, "she said to me: 'You smoke olgar elles, don't you? Well, when you stop smoking cigarettes 1 will stop smok ing cigars and chewing tobacco.' " Decision was reserved. PETROGRAD IS HELD BY REBELS; 100,000 Ex-Premier- Kerensky ...Said .to. Be Directing Operations , at Kronstadt. LONDON, March & (UnUcd Press). All Bolshevik commissaries In Pet- rogrod have been killed or taken prisoner by revolutionaries, accord ing to Foreign Office advices to-day. Despatches from llclslngfors con firmed Tcports thai all Petrograd, ex cept the fortress of Saints Peter and Paul, was In rebel (hands. LONDON, March 8 (Associated Press). During a recent bombardment of the workmen's quarters In Moscow from artillery placed on the hills over looking the city, says a Central News despatch from llclslngfors to-day, sev eral hundred persons were killed and numbers of others wounded. More than 100,000 men and women, the despatch asserts, are now on strike In Moscow. . The bombardment, says the mes sage, followed a call ior a general strlko issued by leaders of tho work men, and a domand for the Immedtato convocation of the Constituent Assem bly. COPENHAGEN, March 8. Alexan der Kerensky, Premier of the Russian Provisional Oovcrnment, which was overturned by the Bolshevik late Jn 1917, Is said to be at Kronstadt, Ker ensky, it is declared, is directing the revolutionary offensive against Petro grad, with that fortress as a base. irrJUNOSFOaS. Finland, March 8 (Associated Press). The revolution aries are bombarding Petrograd and Soviet batteries at Bevonncna and Tarbovka are bombarding Kronstadt. says a despatch from Vfeborg re ceived her. Bed troops, aided by Chinese mer cenaries, attempted to stem a rebel (Continued on Tenth Page.) HEITLER CONVICTED IN WHISKEY DEAL Found Guilty in U. S. Court of Conspiracy to Violate Pro hibition Law. CHICAGO, March 8. "Mike do Pike" Heltlcr and live otners were found guilty by a Jury in Federal Court here to-day of conspiracy to violate tho Prohibition law in 'a $100,000 whiskey deal. Blx defendants were freed. 'Jklfl. No s;ro Trnopa Sent In lllilnr PARIS. Ms-roll i KUtad Press i. lfA than 15.000 li.wis were used In carrying out th- n ipation of addi tional lierman wn to.:, n was sin ed at the Foreign O'ipe tins afternoon. Colonial forc anil no nejio irovp whatever were ineludwi tfi thU num ber, so that the Oar man would have no bull for criticism oa .this ground. N MOSCOW STRIKE NO RES STANCE BY GERMANS M AS ALLIED FORCES MARCH IN NO DISORDER IS REPORTED French Commander Establishes Headquarters Near Duesseldorf and Issues Proclamation Saying Movement Is Not Hostile- Offers Aid to Workers, Especially in Food: RENCH MILITARY HEADQUARTERS, MAYENCE, March 8 (AssxiaKi Press). Ojciipatioii ot the additional German, territory whfcli ' the Allies had announced they would take possession of as one of the penalties for Germany's failure to meet the Allied reparation demands"' was Mrried out to-day. No belligerent incident marked the eastward move of the Allied troops, so far as reports showv ' Ucti. IMioutto Imueil a proclamation In ulilcli be declared . lhnfcciip.tlon wus not it measure of hostility iifrnliiiiOtlie populo.'"" Ilm:, Ij tit one Intended tn compel the (.'o rrii tttfiit of Germany to carry out Us obligations. So oliilnclt Would bo raised n?nllist Hip carrjlntr on of I lie economic life of tho region, lie declared, ; und the Allied authorities were read) to aid tliu workers in Im. . ' prorlnp their condition, especially as regarded prot (stoning. t The occunktlnn of thn iti. nt n,,-.. ARMY ORGANIZATION PLAN ANNOUNCED To Be, Made Into "One Harmo .nious, Well Balanced and Effec tive Force," Weeks Says. WASItrNClTON, 'Muroh 8. The policy of the Wur Department under the new Administration contemplates organization of the Nation's military forces Into "one harmonious, welt balanced and effectlvo army, consist ing of tho Kegulur Army, tho Na tional Guard and the organlied re serves," Secretary Weeks announced to-day. The Regular Army and the National Guard will bo developed to Ui Mr mirth authorized iby law, the. announcement said, and tho reserves will be organ ised as divisions and auxillury troops, with full officer complement and ouf ftclent enlisted strength to o capable of rapid recruitment to full strength. PENNSYLVANIA R. R. HAS LAID OFF 61,000 Total Number of Employees Re-; duced From 279,000 to 218,000 Since December, PHIUADWM'lllA. March 8 it was learned at the Pennsylvania Railroad olnceH bere to-day that since the company begun It re trenchment policy, 'at December, 61.000 men throughout ths- system have been laid off up toMarch 1. re ducing the totul number of employees from 279,000 to 218,000. ONE-HALF OF BREAD IS SHORT WEIGHT 680 Out of 1,137 Loaves That Were Tested Failed to Balance Scale. AU1ANT. N. V.. March 8. Mpre than half of tho loavNi of bread weighed recontly by agents of the Foods and Markets division of the D partment of Farms and Markets were under weitsht. Commissioner liugene N. PortUT made known to-day. Injveatlgatloni Into tho weight of wrapped loaves showed, he Ha Id, that out of 1.137 tested, 680 warn short weight from ono-half ounce to one-halt pound. SS'J were overwJlfhl and 1S6 Ylghed exactly as marxeu. illuriHnK SelerlK 1'rmonnl Phyxlrlan. WASHINGTON, March S - rr-.den. llardins Man ai.p "- i E. ' jtiawyer or Minion jim visonal phy sician and expe. ts. to nominate him i tar th rank of U)gadltr Cfnral In U Army. cdlcH Corps, . . T0"Mrr0Wf" Waalh6rH0WEB8' C0LDER jB seldorf, the largest of the cities taken over, wus completed this morn ing, und that otDulsburg and Run. rbrt, comprising together the chief port of the ltuhr coal and Industrial region, this aternoon. The entire movement was effected In a wuy to obviate, so far as possi ble, n show of force, but tho French und British Hlilno flotillas were pre pared for eventualities. The troops moved forward afoot, In camions and on board French and ' British river craft. The Belgian ' troops entered Duesseldorf by way of tho bridge over' tho Rhine. Th J French und British proceeded by way ol tho Cologne bridgehead, marching along the cast bank of tho Rhine and entering Duesseldorf from the south and east. Dulsburg was occupied by French and Belgian troops, while possession of Ruhrort was taken by tho Allied, Ithlno flotilla. Tho. headquarters of Gen. De Goutte, who as Commander In Chief ot tb i French forces along thu Rhine carried out the orders from Marshal Foch for the advance, are situated at Neuss, , or ine KWn oppo At Duosseldorf the Inhabitants were warned In a proclamation by ths Mayor against taking a provocative attitude toward the Allied forces. Gen. Beurcln of the Uqlgian Army assumed command at Dulsburg and Ruhrort. Tho l-Vench contingent of occupation is a battalion of chasseurs, who arrived In river craft, disem barking at the Ruhrort docks. The military experienced no difficulties with tho Gorman railroads, tralJlo on which moved smoothly without ex ception. AMERICAN TROOPS STAY AT COBLENZ AS THE ALLIES MOVE ON' Economic Penalties Already Beingi; Enforced at Duesseldorf on i Order of Lloyd George. . DUBSSBliDORF, March (Asaoi elated Prow.) Ths American troops. In tho Coblenz area are remaining at Hialr old positions, on ordarff- from Washington. Dueselforf was quietly entered by Alliw) troops surly to-day. Many curious persons'' wer on thu street comers, sm if they had bmn waiting up all night for the evsnt. but thy only laoked with appArtpt indifference at Ui tfoqna us thyi passed. laUr groups of pWcf&gavi, lh.. ps of(Pofc ii3 '1 'n f r- , - -3.