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Judges Agree To Be
"Easy" on Victims
Of Rent Profiteers
Members of Municipal Bench
Seek Solution of Housing
Problem; New Laws Are
Sought from Extra Session
Municipal justices at a special meet?
ing yesterday tried to work out a solu?
tion of New York's rent profiteering
problem.
One proposal was that the Federal
government or the state make loans |
to enable mor?? houses to be buiit. The
justices were agreed that the only rea: ?
solution o? the problem is more houses.
und that Governor Smith should call -
R special session of the Legislature to
take up th>; rent question. "It war.'
urged that Senate and Assembly hous?
ing committees begin an investigation ;
of the situation and have a solution
ready for the Legislature about the
middle of June.
Judge Jacob Pankcn, Socialist, pro
nosed that the city build houses and
rent them at co?t. He also suggested
n commission, similar to the Public
Service Commission, which would have
power to regulate rents. He argued
that New York apartments were of a
public utility nature and that there
should be a commission to tell the
landlords what they could and could not
charge tenants. Judge Panken fur?
ther proposed that vents in effect May
1 should prevail throughout the year
and that landlords be compelled to post,
in hallways the rental price of all
apartments.
Judge Harry Kobitzek asserted that
95 per cent ot New York landlords were
just; that only a small pan of them
were profiteers. For this latter class
h?: suggested a public blacklist, so that
the town might know who's who among
the landlords. He asked for a law
which would let judges consider the
reasonableness of an eviction case. As
it is now, he pointed out, the law is
all in the profiteer's favor.
As the meeting broke up the justices
agreed to continue giving tenants every
possible advantage, such as postpone?
ments in eviction cases.
The Mayor's committee is prepared to
inst! ots, if needed to-day, in the
Mel t churches offered by the joint
ennt y committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Captain Charles A.
Goldsmith, of the Mayor's committee,
said families might move into some of
these churches this afternoon, since
evictions which have been delayed since
May 1, may be made by city marshals
to-day. There are about fifty evic?
tions to be made in the Brownsville
section, a score in The Bronx and a
number in Brooklyn.
The marshals have been asked to
notify the Mayor's committee of evicted
tenants unable to secure shelter.
These will be sent to the churches.
City Marshal J. .1. Haggerty has one
eviction case on his list for to-day?
that of Antonia Yarrichecco. a street
sweeper, living at 276 East 173d Street,
with his ten children.
"I will not evict that man if I lose
ray marshal's license for it,"' Haggerty
told the committee.
In Brooklyn yesterday tenants rose
against one landlord. William Max
had gone to the roof of his building
at 548 Powell Street. Stones began
dropping on and about him. He be?
lieves they were hurled by feminine
tenants. As he began to retreat one
tenant made a direct hit with a pail
of water.
?
Gty, U. S. and State
To Join in Drug War
Mayor to Appoint Committee to
Seek Co-operation in Cru?
sade Against Evil
Following a conference at the City
Hall on drug addicts. Mayor Hylan an?
nounced yesterday that within a few
days he will appoint a committee to
confer with the Federal and state nar?
cotic commissions with a view to con?
trolling the sale of habiti-forming
drugs.
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Com?
missioner, declared he believed there
were between 100,000 and 200,000 drug
addicts in this city. He said 2,600
ounces of habit-forming drugs were
sold in December at a profit of $30 an
ounce.
To meet the present unsatisfactory
situation, Dr. Copeland made the fol?
lowing recommendations:
First?To establish a definition of
what constitutes a drug adict;
Second?To compel all who come un?
der this class to be registered and
identified:
Third?To make it a misdemeanoh
for physicians to prescribe or druggists
to sell to any one without this identifi?
cation;
Fourth?To make the mere sale of
narcotics a misdemeanor; and
? Fifth?New regulations by the State
Narcotic Commission or amendments to
the sanitary code.
Dr. M. S. Gregory, of Bellevue Hoa
nital, said, in his opinion Dr. Cope
land's estimate was too high. The
proper way to solve the problem, he
said, was to control the source of sup?
ply. He declared physicians could get
along with a small amount of morphine,
and they did not need heroin at all.
Automotive*
Motorists are keenly interested in
knowing what will be the fate of the
motor vehicle legislation passed by the
Senate and Assembly and now before
Governor Smith for his disposition!
i ho-best guesses seem to be that he
Will veto the Kmght-Wheelock bill, on
the ground that the examination and
;!censing provisions should apply state?
wide and not, as at present, to New
Yor* City motorists only, and that he
w.H sign the bill that provides for in?
creased license fees for motor car reg?
istration. The ?t?te needs the revenue
teat would be derived in this way.
The Colt-Strattor. Company has
?-.pened it? books for the general auto?
mobil? course that is to be given next
month. This course is open to all per?
son?, whether or not automobile own?
ers. The purpose ig to give sound
unaamental knowledge of mechanical
construction, care of the car and cor?
rect driving. It is intended to help
Special Notice
ANKER'S BOUILLON
CAPSULES
deliver??? have been resumed if
unobtainable at your dealer.
Telephone Bryant 5244
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! persons not only to understand the au
: tomobile, but to give them information
| by which they will be able to select a
car wisely. In the course will be lect
; uves by representatives of tire and bat
! tery companies, as well as of the
traffic division of the Police Depart?
ment.
There will be two lessons a week for
four weeks, beginning June 2. Morn
! ing, afternoon and evening sections
have been arranged. Class A meets
Mondays and Wednesdays at 4 p. m.
! Class B meets Mondays and Wednes
? days at 8 p. m. Class C meets Tues
: days and Thursdays at 10:30 a. m.
' Class D meets Tuesdays and Thursdays
at 4 p. m. Class E meets Mondays at
10:30 a. m. and Friday at 4 p. m.
Those interested may enroll by com?
municating with the instruction de?
partment of the Colt-Stratton Com?
pany, at 109 West Sixty-fourth Street.
The telephone number is Columbus
7100.
The average automobilist thinks that
too much talc cannot be used in insert?
ing inner tubes in casings, but a warn?
ing against, usin;? more than a mod?
erate quantity is given by the R. P.
Goodrich Company. Whether using'
soapstone, graphite or talc, a super- i
fluity means a collection of the stuff ?
in some one place in the casing that i
will eat into the rubber of the tube. ?
If not enough talc is used, the heat j
generated will in a short time cook I
the tube. The powders should be dust-1
cd into the casing and worked around |
so that no lumps are allowed to form. \
C. E. T. S. j
7,000 Slackers To Bt
Sought in N. Y. Roundup j
Department of Justice to Start
Campaign Against Evaders
of the Draft Lav/
A campaign to apprehend and punish j
several thousand draft evaders who j
tied from New York after the passage i
of the Selective Service act will be j
started here next week. This an- ?
nouncement was made yesterday by !
Ben A. Mathews, Assistant United |
States Attorney, who returned from
Washington where he conferred with
executive officers of the Department of
Justice.
The only obstacle in the way of an
immediate round up is the procure?
ment of the records of the draft boards
which -?-.? now stored in the War De
partr Building in Washington.
ThcKu ?yill be available next week and
then agents of the Department of
Justice will start to make arrests.
"There is a total of about 7,000 draft
evaders from this district," said Mr.
Mathews. "Many of them are return?
ing now that peace approaches. Many
went to Mexico and South America
and hundreds of others went to sea in
merchant ships.
"Legally the war is not over and
even when it is declared concluded
these men, especially those who ran
away because they had no valid excuse
for declining service, will not find the
Department of Justice slacking in its
efforts to punish them."
There are between 250.000 and 300,
000 slackers at large in and out of the
United States.
Saloonkeepers Ask
Wilson to Recall
Prohibition Order
Appeal Cabled From Atlan?
tic City Convention Pre?
dicts Upheaval on July 1
if Bill Goes Into Effect
Special Correspondence
ATLANTIC CITY, May 7.?Speaking
for approximately 85,000 saloonkeep?
ers in the United States, the National
j Retail Liquor Dealers' Association, in
' annual convention here, framed a long
petition, wihch was cabled to President
Wilson in Paris, pleading for the re?
call of the war prohibition order of
July 1.
Political upheavals were predicted ;
for cities as soon as the people had
the opportunity to express at the polls !
resentment of the victory of the anti- j
saloonists at Washington and in state
Legislatures. The appeal cabled to
President Wilson in Paris read3, in
part:
"Whereas, the financial assets of i
more than 85,000 retail liquor dealers
are seriously menaced by the possi?
bility of wartime prohibition being
enforced on and aftpr July 1, 1919,
entailing a monetary loss appalling
in its magnitude, thereby dealing to
a legitimate national commercial en?
terprise an uncalled-for deathblow,
notwithstanding that demonstrative
sentiment of a public character pres?
ages no desire on the part cf a vast
majority of our citizenry that such
an injustice be perpetrated, owing to
the fact that the future of our coun?
try and our alliej has now been made
practically safe; and
"Whereas, if this drastic and vicious
wartime measure is enforced on the
date mentioned, an inexcusable injus?
tice upon the part of the government
will have been enacted against 85,000
of its business men that has no paral?
lel in the civilized world's history; and
"Whereas, we have valid reasons to
believe that with the present unsettled
labor situation of the country, menac?
ing the manufacturing and commercial
future of the nation's reconstruction,
this multiplying sentiment of discon?
tent will be further augmented by
glutting the labor market with an ad?
ditional army of over two million peo?
ple engaged in the liquor industry
. . . if national prohibition becomes
a fact:
"Therefore, be it resolved that the
retail liquor dealers of the United
States appeal to the President of the
United States. Woodrow Wilson, to
seriously consider the advisability of
exercising the power vested in him as
President to legally provide against
the enforcement of this appalling, un?
fair and uncalled for wartime prohibi?
tion, . . .
International Dry Congress
Is Called for Washington
A convention of "dry" leaders in
the United States and Canada, includ
ing delegates from fifty countries, will
usher in the advent of prohibition in
the United States, according to Will?
iam H. Anderson, superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League of New York.
His association is cooperating with
j the Dominion Alliance of Canada in
i arranging the convention in Washing
| ton June 4. The Canadian Alliance
j will have its convention in Toronto
| on May 21 and 22, which will be fol?
lowed by a nation-wide tour of the
delegates before they attend the in?
ternational conference in Washington.
William Jennings Bryan will be
among those who will stump the coun?
try for the "drys" between May 19
and June 4. Others will be Wayne
B. Wheeler, Howard H. R?ssel, founder
of the league, and P. A. Baker, gen?
eral superintendent.
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Dead Woman's Husband
Is Held as Witness
Autopsy Discloses Body Found
on Sidewalk Was That of
Murder Victim
Michael Troy, of 1455 Amsterdam
Avenue, was taken into custody last
night by Detective Sergeant George
Thompson as a witness in connection
with the death of his wife, Mrs. Bessie
Troy, whose body was found on the
sidewalk in front of her home early
Sunday morning. An autopsy, accord?
ing to Dr. Otto H. Schultze, medical
adviser to District Attorney Swann,
disclosed that the woman had been
brutally beaten and then strangled to
death.
Mrs. Troy was twenty-one years old.
She had been married only four
months. Her husband is a government
munitions inspector.
The body of Mrs. Troy was found at
2:30 o'clock in the morning. The dead
woman was clad only in her night
clothes. Her husband, who was bend?
ing over the body, was similarly
clothed. !
When questioned by the police Troy
declared his wife had fallen or jumped
from a front window of their apart?
ment, which is on the third floor. An
investigation by the police disclosed
the fact that, according to the neigh- ''
bors, there had been a dispute in the
apartment occupied by the Troys.
Express Men Strike
Railway Employes Object to the
Wage Award
Several hundred employes of the
American Railway Express Company
went on strike yesterday to enforce
their objections to the wage award re?
cently made by the wage board of the
United States Railroad Administration.
Their objection to the award, as stated
at a mass meeting in the Amsterdam
Opera House, is that under it they lose
double pay for holiday work, vacations
and the sick benefits.
In consequence of the strike, the ex?
press companies limited the volume of
business they would accept.
It was announced that the dispute
would be referred to the labor division
of the Railroad Administration for ad?
justment.
Casualty List
WASHINGTON, May 7.?The follow?
ing casualties are reported by the com?
manding general of the American ex?
peditionary forces:
Killed in action, two; died from wounds,
two; died in aeroplane accident, one; died
of accident and other causes, eleven ; died
of disease, sixteen ; wounded severely fifteen ;
wounded (degree undetermined), sixty-seven;
wounded slightly, 260 ; missing in action,
three; total, 377.
The casualties for the army and Ma?
rine Corps are now 291,918.
Army and Marine Corps Casualties to
Date
Reported
May T. Total.
Killed in action. 2 35,053
Wounded . 342 204,060
Died of wounds, accidents and
disease, and lost at sea. 30 41,747?
Missing . 3 6.??31
In hands of enemy. ? 2.7,
I'l-isonei-s released and re?
turned . ? 4.504
Totals . 377 291,918
NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITY
Wounded Severely
EYONS. Frank, sergeant, West Chazy,
N. Y.
HOLLINGSWORTH. Roberl C, private.
37 Jay Street, Newark. N. J.
Wounded (Degree Undetermined)
BRUNER, Rudolph, Forgeant, 846 Chest?
nut Street, Richmond Hill. N. Y.
TULL?S. Aaron, corporal. 400 West Fifty
seventh Street, New York ?City.
PUTTLITZ. Max, corpora), 1S3 Russell
Street, Brooklyn.
BOLAND, Thomas V.. cook, 313 East
Sixty-eighth Street, New York City.
FAXON. Frank, private, 244 West 109th
Street. New York City.
HAUSEN. Wilson M., private, 36A Hamp?
ton Place, Biooklyn.
KENT. Michael, private, 210 West 148th
Street. New York City.
KLOCK. Charles, privte, 12? Worth Ave?
nue, Solvay, N. Y.
COHILL, Thomas W.. private, 310- West
122d Street, New York City.
DODGE, Alfred, private, Main Street,
Whitehall, N. Y.
HESS, GeorsreF., private, 1412 Second
Avenue. New York City.
KRANERT. Edwin Paul, private, 300
West 120th Street. New York City.
M'MAHON, James P.. private, 668 Wash?
ington Street, New York City.
SEWARD, Morris \V., private. Bergen,
N Y.
. SWEENEY, Martin, private, 406 East
Twentieth Street. New York City.
?LEIOWITZ, Louis, private. 23 South
Fourth Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
O'BRIEN. Charles J.. private, 332 Penn
Street, Burlington, N. J.
WHILTON, Milledtce G.. private, 705 West
1 Tilth Street New York City.
Wounded Slightly
KLINE. Lieutenant Charles L, 163 Wins?
le w Avenue, Buffalo.
POTTER, Lieutenant Warwick, Smith
town, N. Y.
CRAFT. Sergeant Samuel, 657 Wythe Ave?
nue. Brooklyn.
PRICE, Sergeant Harry H., 005 Boulevard
Street. Astoria, N. Y.
SCHIENER. Sergeant Edwin Arthur, 146
Fifth Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
BUCKLEY, Corporal Thomas, 407 West
Fiftieth Street. New York.
KOPELWICH, Corporal Alexander, 205
Woodland Avenue, Syracuse.
OUCHIE. Corporal Arthur Frank, 147 Ne?
vada Avenue, Buffalo.
I'ONZO. Corporal Louis P., 350 East 166th
Street, New York.
O'DONNELL. Cook Thomas, 105 Tenth
Avenue. New York.
YEAGER. Private Walter J., 344 Penn?
sylvania Street. Buffalo.
ARALLE. Private William, 23 Mitchell
Street. West Orange. N. J.
BULL, Private Earl Corliss, Fredonia.
N. Y.
COHEN. Private Harry, 440 East 141st
Street. New York.
DOHERTY. Private Thomas F., 0S0 Sixth
Avenue, New York.
HARRINGTON. Private Vernie, Adams,
N. Y.
HOGG, Private Joseph, 505''2 Park Place,
Bradley eBach. N. J.
HOPKINS, Private Michael J., 056 Second
Avenue. New York.
KINNEY, Private eLon A., 101 Florence
Street. Waverly, N. Y.
ALLEN, Private Vincent, 420 Prospect
Plai-e, Brooklyn.
BROWN, Private Ellis Worth, Trumans
bursr, N. Y.
CLEARY, Private John J., 7 Stuyvesant
Street, Binghamton, N. Y.
COHEN, Private Moses Isaac. 840 Kelly
Street, New York.
COLLINS. Private John F., 53 Danforth
Street. Buffalo.
HAUSLE, Private Frederick G. W., 574
West 176th Street. New York.
KLOTZBACH, Private William, 326 East
Ninetv-third Street, New York.
NARSON, Private Louis. 513 East 144th
St:-?et. Now York.
NOONAN. Private William Francis, 36
Judson Street. Binphamton, N. Y.
PORKTT?. Private Joseph, 5 West End
Avenue. Lawrence, N. Y.
QLARANTA. Private Joseph, 404 Lefferts
Avenue. Brooklyn.
SCHREIER, Private Arthur J., 27 Weld
Street. Rochester.
STEDMAN. Private Gordon M., Corinth,
N. Y.
TERRY. Private Max. 1RS Monroe Street.
New York.
UHLENBUSCH, Private Arthur, 288
Ninth Avenue, Brooklyn.
Died of Disease
BARON, Sergeant William A., 48 Priscilla
Street, Rochester, N. Y.
CHANGES IN STATUS
The following cabled corrections are
issued as an appendix to the regular
casualty lists:
Killed in Action, reviously Reported
Missing in Action
ALBRECHT, Private Albin Albert. 129
Koons Avenue, Buffalo. N. Y.
Died of Wounds, Previously Reported
Died
MANNING, Corporal Earl J., Stillwater.
N. Y.
Killed in Action. Previously Reported
Missing in Action
IRISH, Lieutenant Eugene J., 76 Marviue
Avenue, Auburn, N. Y.
Returned to Duty, Previously Reported
Missing in Action
KERNEY. Private John Dunlop, 39 Clove
Street, West New Brighton, Staten Island.
MAIELLA. Private Tony, 7 New Street,
Clavton, N. J
REINOLDO. Private Phillips, 277 Mott
Street. New York City.
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New York Woman Gives
$5,000 to Stop Lynching
A $10,000 fund has been raised to
fight lynching in the United States, it
was announced yesterday at the head?
quarters of the National Conference
on Lynching, 70 Fifth Avenue. Of this
$5,000 was contributed by Mrs. C J
Walker, of New York City, and $1,000
by Scott Bond, a wealthy negro'farmer
of Arkansas. The remainder of the
amount was subscribed and pledged in
amounts ranging from $5 to $100.
The National Conference on Lynch?
ing is proceeding to appoint a commit?
tee, to represent every section of the
country, which will draw up an ad?
dress to the American nation on the
subject of lynching.
Moorfield Storey, of Boston, ex-pres?
ident of the American Bar Association,
will announce in a few days the names'
of a committee of lawyers who will
frame a Federal anti-lynching law.
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AGREAT many persons enjoy the rare luxury of
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If you put enough power underneath the bonnet
you'll get over any hill this side of the Alps.
But big engines don't make the best hill-climbers any
more than a bear can climb a tree faster than a cat.
Take the Hot Spot Chalmers. You- don't have to
make up your mind a quarter of a mile away to turn loose
the power for a fast run up the hill.
You can slowdown and take it at a slow speed. For it
"hangs on" and goes over without a whimper. That is
the real test of a hill-climbing car. Try it.
Just why a Chalmers flattens the hills is explained in
three major words: Hot Spot and Ram's-horn. These
simple little devices mean that for every pint of gas that
goes into the engine out comes every bit of power that
Mother Nature stored away in that pint.
It means you're getting more for your
money every time the engine "turns over"
than with any other car.
Which ought to make anyone buying a
car now take a look at this present day Hot
Spot Chalmers.
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OPEN EVENINGS
'Tis done. We have fought the good
fight. We have won. So, let us rejoice,
as becomes the Victors.
Put the Victory Loan over with a ?
smash. Pay our debt of gratitude right
royally. Come across like Men.
Then ?face the future unflinchingly.
Readjust ourselves ? put our houses in
order?get down to Business.
It is the pleasure and privilege of all
motorists to get behind?and push. As a
matter of Loyalty and Judgment.