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Post Promises
Relief at Once
At Ellis Island
Acting Secretory of Labor,
After Inspecting Quarters,
Says He Will Recommend
121 Additional Workers
Thousands Sleep on Floor
Steps Will Be Taken to
Prevent Arrival of Desti?
tute Immigrants Here
Louis F. Post, Acting Secretary of
Labor, inspected the immigrant quar?
ters on EUis Island yesterday and con?
ferred with Commissioner of Immigra?
tion Frederick A. Wallis with a view
to affording some measure of immedi?
ate relief from the overcrowded con?
ditions there.
He announced before his return to
Washington iast night that he would
?prepare immediately a special requisi?
tion providing funds of the Labor De?
partment to be.used in increasing the
staff of employees at the immigrant
station to facilitate the handling of
the tremendous increase of aliens ar?
riving here.
"Congress has not furnished suffi?
cient funds to make Ellis Island a de
eent home for immigrants detained
there, pending admission to this coun?
try," said Post in an address at the
?pen-air concert held for the aliens
in the afternoon.
After his conference with Commis?
sioner Wallis, he said: "I suppose I
?take the chance of a second impeach?
ment proceeding being brought against
me, but I am going to furnish the
money for additional workers for ninety
?ays. After that the matter will be
up to Congress. I shall prepare a re?
port for Congress at once."
To Protide Extra Workers
Commissioner Wallis asked the act?
ing secretary of labor to provide for
salaries for 160 extra workers. He
?aid additional workers are needed in
almost every department. Mr. Post
eat the number down to 121. "But that
is the absolute minimum and it may be
imperative to furnish more, he said.
One comment of Mr. Post after his
tour of insgection was: "If the head
tax of $8 charged every immigrant was
devoted to their comfort they would
find things better than they do on Ellis
Island.'* He praised the work Commis?
sioner Wallis has done with the pres?
ent appropriation.
Mr. Post, whose department super?
vises the admission of aliens to the
united States, was informed that 2,000
steerage passengers were forced to
sleep upon the tiled floor of the main
bonding at Ellis Island a week ago and
en Thursday night 1,000 slept upon
this floor without blankets. Since then
Commissioner Wallis has borrowed
blankets from the War Department.
The new appropriation is not large
enough to buy blankets for all of the
Immigrants, it was said.
More Rigid Policy Planned
In his address to the 2,000 immi
?rrants and visitors attending the con?
cert. Commissioner Wallis intimated
that a stricter immigration policy is
being formulated. It is understood
that United States consuls abroad will
be asked to use greater care when they
vis? passports because of the great
number of immigrants who are arriv?
ing destitute.
"Aliens will not be admitted here?
after unless they measure up to every
letter of the law," said Commissioner
Wallis. In the last four weeks, he
said, three steamship lines brought to
this port 1,767 steerage passengers who
had no money at all and 2,636 who had
less than $20 each. The amount aliens
are required to have before gaining
admission to the country is $50.
He has been informed by many im?
migrants arriving from Danzig and
Warsaw, he said, that their money was
taken from them forcibly by the au?
thorities of those ports before embark?
ing. He said that partly explains the
fact that in recent weeks more desti?
tute aliens have arrived here than ever
before. Ellis Island receives 88 per
cent of all the aliens who come to
the United States.
Cox Calls Harding
Brewer Apologizing
For His Holdings
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 26.?Sena?
tor Harding, Republican Presidential
candidate, was characterized, as "a
brewer who is apologizing for his hold?
ings" in a statement issued to-night
by Governor James M. Cox, before the
latter's departure to continue his cam?
paign to-morrow in Nebraska.
Governor Cox discussed the prohibi?
tion positions of himself and Senator
Harding and charged that Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel for the na?
tional Anti-Saloon League, had acted
to "protect" Senator Harding and was
a "mere chattel of Republican head?
quarters."
The Governor's statement follows:
"My attention has been called to a
dispatch from the East which quotes
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of
the Anti-Saloon League, as saying that
he has submitted questions to both
Harding and ' myself, and that I had
not responded but Senator Harding
had.
"Let me direct the notice of the pub?
lic to this significant circumstance: I
was asked whether I was for or against
any proposal to change the Volstead
law. Senator Harding was asked
whether he stood by his recorded vote
on the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead act. This sharp difference
will be noted: The question to me was
based upon future developments: the
one to Senator Harding was not. I was
asked what I would do in the future:
Senator Harding was not."
"The habitual trickery of Wheeler,
which we are used to in Ohio, by the
way, is obvious in the face of his oft
repeated statement that the Anti
Saloon League was only interested
now in what might be done with the
Volstead act, and yet he made no at?
tempt whatsoever to ascertain Sena?
tor Harding's stand on what he,
Wheeler, himself says is the real is?
sue. This would all seem to be a
carefully devised partisan plan. In
fact, one would have expected it from
Will H. Hays, the Republican chair?
man. That it was prpared as a pro?
tection to the Republican candidate
rather than as an attempt to ascertain
his views is perfectly clear. _
"If Mr. Wheeler is an honest man.
why does he not present the records of
both Senator Harding and myself on
the liquor question and then submit
to us the same question, with an
agreement to print our replies there?
to without deceitful comment?
"I would also like to ask Mr.
Wheeler what change has come over
the record of Senator Harding that
has enabled Mr. Wheeler, as the
spokesman for the Anti-Saloon League,
to withdraw the condemnation uttered
by the Anti-Saloon League against the
Senator before his nomination. How
can he explain to the conscientious
members of his organization his sup?
port for the Presidency of the United
States of a brewer who is apologising
for his holdings?"
Prices Fall
All Over U. S.
In 11 Lines
(Continuad from pmea on?)
nounced that Mayor Thompson had I
authorized the use of the $1,000,000
municipal pier as a fruit and vege?
table market.
Michigan fruits and vegetables will
be sold at cost, plus the water freight.
Seven boats nave been obtained to
bring the products to the city. Fruits
are rotting in Michigan because "the
produce men will not pay high enough
prices to warrant shipment.
Factories to Fight High Prices
Along with the general downward
price movement one hundred women's
wear manufacturers here have organized
the Manufacturers'Board of Trade, with
facturers here have organized the
Manufacturers' Board of Trade, with
its chief aim to smash high prices.
Headed by Eugene Loeb, a waist manu?
facturer, the organization has opened
headquarters at 731 Arch Street, and
the members have besun to'lend their
efforts to the fight against high living
costs.
The new association also has plans
under way to lease a seven-story
building, in which will be shown the
products of the members and the pub?
lic will be given the opportunity to buy
retail quantities at manufacturers'
prices.
Records will be kept of sales, and at
the end of th.e year, after each exhib?
itor has figured his overhead expense,
a dividend will be paid to the pur?
chaser. It will approximate 5 per cent,
according to Mr. Loeb.
"The public is at the end of its reck?
less extravagance," said Mr. Loeb, "and
it is clearly up to the manufacturers to
give more for the prices asked or see
their sales fall off."
High-Price Speculators
Are Warned by Houston
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.?The Fed?
eral government will not be a party to
any undertaking to held commodities
off the market to maintain war prices
?or higher than war prices, Secretary of
thew Treasury Houston declared to-day.
I? a statement issued by the Treas?
ury Department the following views of
Secretary Houston are given:
"I am in favor of every legitimate
effort to promote the orderly market?
ing of all commodities, but the govern?
ment cannot be a party to an under?
taking to hold commodities off the mar?
ket to enable the owners artificially,
for speculative purposes, to maintain
war prices or higher than war prices.
"As a matter of fact, the banks of
the country during the last twelve
months have been extending large
credits to meet the demands from in?
dustry and agriculture. Since August,
1919, the loans and investments of
about 800 reporting member banks in?
creased more than $2,500,000,000. As
these reporting banks represent about
40 per cent of the resources of all the
banks, it is estimated that the total
increase in loans and investments since
August, 1819, has been more than $5,
500,000,000.
"Even from January 23, 1920, when
the increase in discount rates went i
into effect, to August 27, 1920, the loans ;
of about 800 reporting member banks,
exclusive of loans secured by gover>'
ment obligations and other stocks and
bonds, increased about $1,250,000,000. |
This would reflect a total increase of
commercial loans in all banks, it is es- !
timated, of perhaps $3,000,000,000. i
Since the crop moving demands camel
on the bills discounted and purchased
by the Federal Reserve banks have in?
creased at the rate of about $50,000,000 I
a week, and the Federal Reserve notes
at the rate of from $30,000,000 to $40,
000,000 a week. The increase in the
volume of Federal Reserve notes from
January 23, 1920, to August 27, 1920,
?was $360,000,000."
Detroit Workers Carry
Lunches to Cut Costs
Laborers and Office Workers
Unite in Move; Difference
in Prices is Demonstrated
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
DETROIT, Sept. 26.?Residents of
Detroit are determined to foree reduc?
tion in the food prices charged by
practically every restaurant in the
city. The "carry-your-lanch" cam?
paign, which got a start last week, is
growing by leaps and bounds. Not
only are the laboring men in the fac?
tories returning to the dinner bucket,
but tr?e campaign has been taken up
by the office employees, and especially
those in the City Hall.
Cardboard boxes and napkins serve
as lunch containers that Detroiters are
carrying to work.
One City Hall employee's Saturday
lunch which she brought from home
cost j-ust 18V? cents. The same ar?
ticles which she bought at a popular
restaurant for her Friday noon lunch
cost 82 cents. Here is what she had
each day: Two ham sandwiches, one
tomato, one cake, two cookies, one apple
and a pint of coffee.
Baltimore Restaurants
Agree to Lower Prices
Foodstuffs Cheaper, but Mary?
land Farmers Resent Cutting
of Rates by Commission Men
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BALTIMORE, Sept. 26. ? Baltimore
hotels and restaurants have agreed
after a conference with Fair Price
Commissioner Bienneman to make a
reduction in the price of articles on
their bill of fare. The agreement was
that the prices would be more severely
cut than the size of the portions.
In the markets and the stores, how?
ever, there has been a considerable re?
duction in the cost of many vegetables
and provisions. Commission men have
taken advantage of the unusually large
crops and the sentiment for low prices,
and while they are making a small re?
duction in price to the retailer they
are cutting the farmer to a rate be?
low cost of harvesting and bringing
to market.
The result has been that truckers
who are themselves unable to bring
their products to market are turning
them under or allowing them to rot
in the fields. The trucker who mar-1
kets his produce is keeping up the
prices. In the stores the cost of food?
stuffs is generally held up.
Wholesale Prices Only
Fall in San Francisco
Declines !Sot Reflected in Re?
tail Stores or Restaurants;
Vegetables and Fruits Advance \
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.?Al
though some reductions in wholesale
prices of foodstuffs have been made
within the last sixty days, they have
not been reflected in prices at res?
taurants or retail markets and stores.
In fact, the prices- of meats of various
kinds have recently advanced and are !
moving higher.
At some of the restaurants there has
been a slight reduction in prices of i
portions for which' there has been a,
large daily demand, but at most places
the rates are practically the same as
have ruled for months. ?
Meats in the retail markets and
stores have in the last thirty days'
shown an advance of several cents a
pound. Poultry, although at the mo?
ment slightly off, has been at a price
that has attracted Eastern shippers
here. Vegetables are decidedly higher,
with prices of fresh fruits higher than
ever? while butter, dried fruits and
beans have been steady. Sugar and
flour are lower in the retail stores and
markets.
Three Balloons Heard From
Contestants in National Race
Trials All Still in the Air
Reports from three of the cpntestants
in the national balloon race, which be?
gan Saturday night at Birmingham,
Ala., to determine American entries in
the international James Gordon Ben?
nett trophy event there next month,
were received last night by the Aero
Club of America.
The balloon in charge of Warren
Rasor passed over Paducah, Ky., about
300 miles from the starting point, at 9
o'clock yesterday morning. The balloon
in charge of Lieutenant Burt, U. S. A.,
which passed off Nortonville, Ky., near
Paducah, was traveling northeastward
at an altitude of 500 feet, but no re?
port was made as to time.
The balloon Goodyear II, with Ralph
Upson in command, passed over Cass
ville, Ind., 600 miles from the start, at
4:50 yesterday morning and was pro?
ceeding north at an altitude of 3,000
feet.
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St. Louis Merchant Kills Self
TRENTON, N. J? Sept. 26.?M. A.
Singer, a merchant of St. Louis, who
registered at a local hotel here on
Saturday, shot himself through the
head early this morning and died al?
most instantly. It is believed that
financial reverses caused his act. In
his pocket was a book of postage
stamps, four pennies and a gold ring.
Boston Banks
May Declare
A Moratorium
Sixth Institution dosed
as Result of Flurry of
Withdrawals Caused by
Recent Ponzi Episode
Coolidge Calls Council
Trust Company Remains
Open at Night to Meet
Demands of Depositors
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BOSTON, Sept. 26.?-So serious has
the banking situation become in this '
city as a result of the closing yester;
day of the sixth bank, the Cosmopoli?
tan Trust Company, within a compara?
tively short time that Governor Cool?
idge to-day called the leading bankers
of the city into conference.
In consequence of the conference
certain banks or trust companies may
declare a moratorium on withdrawals
for ninety days. Such action is likely
within a few days, perhaps to-morrow.
Regardless of what pians Bank Com?
missioner Allen may have had, no clos?
ing notices will be posted on the doors
of any savings banks or trust com?
panies to-morrow morning, at least.
Bankers in conference with the Gov?
ernor included representatives of
? some of the most powerful institu
tions in the city, who expressed their
! feeling of responsibility for the
! maintenance of sound and solvent con
; ditions.
The matter of a moratorium was the
! chief subject of discussion, and in or?
der not to reflect on any one or more
; banks it was suggested that the au?
thorities ask all savings banks and
; banks conducting savings departments
i to join in invoking the privilege. The
| representatives of the stronger banks
j did not favor this action. It was ac
I cordingly decided that each bank
| should make its'own individual choice
in the matter of announcing an exten
| sion.
It is certain that a number of banks
; are seriously disturbed at the steady
: growth of withdrawals in recent weaks.
| The "wave" got its start when the
Hanover Trust Company was closed in
connection with the Charles Ponzi
"get-rich-quick" collapse.
It was particularly heavy throughout
the city yesterday, following the clos?
ing of the Cosmopolitan Trust Com?
pany. The Tremont Trust Company
? faced a "run" that continued through
! out the day and until 11 o'clock at
I night, Simon Swi^, head of the board
j of directors, ordering that the bank
a remain open to pay all who came.
Max Mitchell, president of the Cos
mopolitar Trusts received communica?
tions from New York bankers to-day
offering to make his institution such
loans as it needed to see it through
its present trouble, an official of the
bank announced to-night.
Bronx ?Church Dtedicated
St. Thomas's Lutheran Church, Top?
ping Avenue and 175th Street, the
Bronx, was dedicated yesterday with .
ceremonies in which H. H. Webber,
secretary of Home Missions of the
United Lutheran Church, and other !
prominent church leaders participated.
The cornerstone of the edifice was laid
a year ago and its officers announced
yesterday that s parsonage will be !
built. /
Building Cours? to Open
Rudolph P. Miller, Superintendent of
Buildings for the Borough of Manhat?
tan, will open the building construc?
tion course at the City College at 8
o'clock to-morrow ni?-ht with a lecture
on "The Building Code." The lecture,
which will be followed by others at
weekly intervals, is open to the public.
5
>th ANNIVERSARY
1870 ? 1920
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