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TH$ SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, 'APRffi 8, 1920.',
'SimSerm!
Exhibition
juzlndia
Complete equipment
of 1000 pieces,
also porcelain and
crystal wore
for
Bis Highness
TheMahakajah
oBarwaniJndia
Desjgn of the
Francis I period
Exhibition
APRIL5fliiol2tk
FIFTH AVE.AT 47th ST.
KEED BARTON
CITY HOUSING PLP
DECLARED ILLEGAL
Nicholson Tells Bourcl of Esti
mate llulldliiffs Can't Be
Ken ted ns Proposed.
XEW LAW IS NECESSARY
Mayor's' Committee Urges Tax
j ExcmpMou or Subsidy to En
1 courage Construction,
tfASL'SHtO '9t4
PEODOREB.STffl.ky
AAIS J NEW YORK '
'THirVniS $ AIiCA' j
2y
ihe Bride
and Her
attendants
"Wi& FIND HERE
swum smcious
FOR EVERY DETAIL
OF TiUT MOST
IMPORTANT EVEfrT-
The Wedding!
BRIDESMAID'S
FROCKS
'VEDDIMO GOVNS
'VEILS 'TRAVEL SUITS
AND OThER. NECESSITIES
FOR. THE WARDROBE .
The proposal pencllnR before the
Board of ttstlinato.for the city to ItjIM
dwolllnirs vlth public funds und rent
j them to tiie public will be eliminated as
an Immediate step townrtl relief of the
tioufcltiR nliortaRe when an opinion from
I George Nicholson, acting Corporation
Counsel, declaring audi act Ion uncon
stitutional If preiwnteU to tho boini on
i Friday. The opinion, copies of which
reached m'-mber ot th board rerter-
uay. declarn me city Tinner mo urou
' tuilon "has no power to contract for
I npirtmont houM and rent them to prt
', Vate parties"
The acting Corporation Cnunhel bur
' pr-rta that an amendment be proixsd
i for Article VIII. Section 10. of the Con.
dilution, which reBtricii the city ex
penditure tor buildlncB to structures for
dty occupancy, o that Indebtedne.wsimy
; In. urred for the opo.ed dwelling.
i tv contemplated plan calls for an ap
propriation f JIU.OOO.OOO.
i A bill pendlnp In the legUlflturo 1.' de-
' sljrned to authorize the city to bulkl
dwelllnKS for rent.
1
Settlement Hoard Planned.
I A. J. v. Hilly, chairman or tne
' ilayor's rent committee, announced yex
i tcrday thatthe committee Is arranging
for the organization of subcommittee!"
In each municipal court district, which
shall hold stated meetings at night to
help In the ettlement of rent litigation
and complaint. Kach district commit
tee 4 to t compoel of lawyers and
representative? of the two political par
tics In the district and Influential citi
zens of the neighborhood. The commlt
U meeting, which will be Informal,
will be held in the municipal court
rooms. The chairman expects that the
armngement will relieve the heavy court
calendars and the streps upon the main
rent committee in the Municipal Build
ing. lf
The Tnltid Heal Estate Owner' A
nnt..nn 'i.n tl.r.iln, nnnaittui.fl
yeMeruay tne creation oi a cormniue
with duties similar to those of Jhe May
or's rent committee, which will sit dally
in the association office. The commit -teen
services w.ll be free to landlords
nnd tenants for the settlement of dif
ferences." The committee Is compose ot
, Stewart Hrown. representing fie associ
ation, and the following lawyers: Har-
old Philips. Adolph and Henry Bl'Xh and
Ihaac llman. j
nrcommendotlon i Marr.
The Major's commltU-e on housing
Vc.suuon H'nt (i report to .Mavi J'y
l.iii .-i.wriar ric'ranvr.din :
Tliat all vw tenements here.ifi' r
.instiurted or buildings lt. fcr
i- .i-ro'-nt iurjKse3 be exempted from
U.- law rVMalntng to summary pr'-uri-dings
and that all exist. ng bullr
ings sold or under contract : sale
to tenants upon mutual or coopeia
tive pun be tiempted from the same
law.
That a Subsidy or tax excrmrtlon be
provided to encourage building and that
mortgage.' tc excrrptert from income lar
, That law be enacted for the porkd
' of the emergency suspentllng such pro
vinorus of the tenement house law a
' may be necf ssary to' prmlt alteration of
, fixtstlng liouti Into quarters for fam.
; tiles.
Mayor IIy:an jesterday apjxjlnted
' Frank Mann, Tenement House Coramis
I siuner, as chairman of the Mayor's com-
!. Ittee on the erection of dwellings, which
has for its ol'eet the encouragemtnt o
Investments In building projects. Other
members of the. commute' will be se
lected from the members of tho liulld
t.ng Trades Council, bricklayers' unions,
building material dealers, banking in-.-.at
real estate money lenders,, tlll
coir.panied and civic organizations
XJTOC r'Vn DA CC ODrAQ'wh0 dled ,n France of pneumonia after
MKD. UCV. DADD KJrCllJ e;ning throughout the war. Redden
CAMPAIGN QUARTERS
Democratic Woman Leader
Will Have Largl Staff.
Mrs. George Ilasa, chairman of the
woiqcn'B division of the Democratic Na
tional .Committee, ctat)llshe4 Presiden
tial campaign headquarter at the Wal-dorf-Artorla
yesterday. Ily next week
she will have a largo staff of workers
quartered on the second floor, which l.i
devoted to club and social 'featherings.
The Western bureau opened In Chi
cago some time ngo will be continued,
Mrs. Hasa said Her first work here will
conrlst of forming various committees
and enlisting wmen speakers for tinirs
after the national convention lias decided
on the Democratic candidate.
MRS. RINEHART TO
RUN FOR DELEGATE
Novelist Wishes to Make Test
in Pennsylvania.
was a noted football ttar at tho Univcr
city of Michigan.
MAY0E.0PP0SES SCHOOL BILL.
Mrs. Mary Roberts Rlnchart, the
novIbt, whose heme Is In Pennsyl
vania, mid hvrc last night that her
name would be filed there fo-day k
a candidate for deltgato to the Re
publican national convention.
Althuugh she was not mire that her
name would be permitted to o on
the primary ballot Mrs. Illnehart ex
plained that she wan taUing her action
so that a test could be made as to
whether a woman could aspire to be
a deleirate fmm n. nrin-KUffratrA tnfe
prior to tho passage of the Federal
tuwragc amendment.
"I do not begin to believe or even
hope that, women will be voting In
July or even in Novenfber." she said
"but I liave lieard tliat women
ciigiuie hh national delegates In non
suffrage State: Ot this, however,
am not certain. My friends know 1
have never been militant in my espousal
of the cause of suffrage, but I bellee
the time has arrived for, woman to take
her place in tho, affairs of the world
Insisting that she had no personal
political desires or ambition Mrs. Itlne
Hart said she was seeking to go as
n delegate to a national convention be
cause of her willingness to do anything
she could for her sex and her country
Soys .Measure Increnlntr TencUrrs'
1'ny la Inequitable.
Mayor Hylan yesterday wroto to tho
New York city members of tho Legis
lature and voiced his disapproval 6f tho
Loekwood-Doncjhue bill to Incrcaso
teachers' salaries. '
He declared the measure does not dis
tribute the Increases equitably, nnd
urgod that "the wholo educational sys
tem In New York be thoroughly Investi
gated before there Is any moro Inequi
table nnd mandatory salary legislation
passed."
Wood's Namr on Oregon Billot.
SAtxu, Ore.. April T Th name of
Gen. Ionard Wood will be placed on
the Oregon ballot as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for President aa
a result of the riling of a petition with
the Secretary of filate to-day.
Con-KllP Plurality 2.117.
Kansas Citt, Mo, April 7. Complete
official returns from yesterdayo election
j give Mayor James A. Cowglll. Democrat,
a plurality of 2,11" wtes for reelection
over Matthew A. Foster. Republican.
Cowglll received 20,513 votes and Fos
Jer :.3H.
of thre Eleven Socfatlrt JMtmtrx SENATE TO INQUIRE
were elected. Jiayor iioan w i
tornt will liold oirico for four yeare.
WISCONSIN CARRIED
BY LA FOIfLETTE MEN
Means Retirement of Gov.
Philipp and Possibly Lenroot.
Spteai to The Bex and N'tw Yoaic HitD.
Milwaukee, April . La Follctte
candidates for delegati-a nt larre to
the Jlepuldlcan national oonrsntlon
liavo carrlel Wisconsin by a majority
of two to on, according to latest fig
ures. With only a few precincts from
Milwaukee county mtsslng, Gov Philipp
haji been beaten In bin iionie county
(Milwaukee) and Superior, home or
Senator Lenroot. has also gone to La
Folletle by a huge majority
Politicians a Keen that if the final
vote manifests tho early La Follette
strength It means the retirement of
Gov. .Philipp nnd the defeat of Senator
Lenroot In the September primaries.
La Follette, by putting across his ticket
for delegates af large nnd district dele
gat, will nam,e the national committee
man from Wisconsin. In Milwaukee
county James Thompson, who heads tho
La Follette delegation, polled 22,107
votes and Gov Phllrpp H,30.
Mayor lloan of Milwaukee, Socialist,
was reelected for the third consecutive
term. He was swept into office hy
majority of about 4.000 over Clifton , This Is the first tlmo the Government
Williams, non-partisan candidate. Honn , lias appointed a representative, accord
received 41.317 and William 57,221. , lng to a statement lsud yesterday by
The non-partisans, Inrwever, tfll doml- the National American Woman Snrtrago
nate the Common Council by a majority I Association of 171 Madison avenue.
BONUS J?0R FARMERS ASKED.
Capprr OITers lt25O.OOO.n00 PHI
for Wtoeat Grower.
PfttUI IS Tn Sex xn 2irv Van Hcbau,
WAJiHtNOTOK, April 7. The farmers
will ret a wheat bonus, ir a bill intro
duced by Senator Copper Kan.) to-day
passes. It proposes to make koo1 to
the wheat srofc-era the losses ther sur
fcred by reason of the fale of their 1M7
crop at Uio Oo"crnmnt price of 12.20
tin bushel, when tho free market Ince
would have ben much higher.
Under tho terms of the bill, the sec
retary of Agriculture Is to Investigate
the whole matter, and administer the
act, determining who arc entitled to re
imbursement. It la estimated the total
loss does not exceed $250,000,000. ,
TJ. S. IN SUFFRAGE "CONGRESS.
Mrs. Daniels to Represent Nation
nt GntherlnB In Genetn.
I'resldent Wilson has appointed lira
Josephus Daniels an offlcL-fl reprosenta-
live of the United SlateR uovcrnmcni io
tho elghtli congress of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance, to be held In
n I Geneva, Bwitrerland, frtm June c to i:.
INTO SHOE PRICES
Clothing Basmess investiga'
tion Alt Proposed.
Uptdil ia Till Sex ax-d New Yosk IIztilD.
WASiilNaroK, April 7, Present high
prices of nhocs trill bo Invesligatod
under the resolution introduce) by Sena
tor McNary (Ore.) nnd passed by tho
Senate. A job-committee has been
named by llw CommUleo on Msnurac.
turoa, wiiWt will take np the Inquiry
en Ftlaak.
IknaVar Kenyon" (Iowa), who hd
been active in tho antl-profltccrlng cam '
palgn, declared to-dar that as toon ov
poslble It wa hoped tb start anothc
Imjulry, Into hi clothing business and
prices, nnd that still others would b
set hfoot with, a view or getting at re.
spor.slblllty 'for high prices, and deter
mining remedies.
The ho4 sub-committee compriM4
Senators McNary, Kcnyon, Gronna ex,
D.), RcpubJIcans, and Reed (Mo.) nnd
Jones (N. V.), Democrat.
MIUi J
lire J
non-
r. il.
NO HOOVER MEN AT
HOOVER CONFERENCE
Secrecy and Mystery Shroud
Move of Boosters.
Secrecy and mystery shrouded a would
be conference of Hoover for the Repub
lican nomination for President boosters
yesterday. Not a lisp about it was
uttered at the former Food Administra
tor's headquarters in thu Hotel Vander
MIL From perfectly excellen sources, how
ex er, it was learned thnt Kuch meeting
was scheduled at the Hctel Astor. Two
strangers, who did no give tlwrr names,
acknowledged they hi 1 cVme to attend
sucli a conference, but not enough Jht
sons had arrived In the city to make 1t
worth whi.e It probablv would be hi'ld
"to-morrpw " 15.poe ls night were
that Mr Hoover himself would tie pres
ent, and perMii-ill nu'llne his views
to Uie tnio ho are bar,di togelber to
get Jiim the nominal. on at Chicago
DEMOCRATIC ZLUB
APPEALS TO HOOVER
PRESS CLUB DINNER
PLANS COMPLETED
Wants to Know if He Will
Accept Party Nomination.
HOST", Arr.l 7. Chandler M Wood.
chairman of the exefutlve committee of
tlw remocrate State Committee, made
public to-night n letter which he had
sent to IJerlcri Hoover a.liny whether
Mr. Hoover woulJ accept the Democratic
nomination for Tree-dent if it were of
fered to him
In the letter Mr. Wood said he had
assirttd in the organization of the Hoo
ver Democratic Club of Massachusetts
and added :
"Since the formation of our club I
hate seen a statement purporting to
emanate from vou in wiiich you said you
would accept th nomination of a Re
publican convention. I feel that the
Democrats, who are active participant,
in the movement for your nomination
Upon their ticket, are entitled to now
whether or not you will accept the Dem
ocratic nomination f offered you."
Presidential Candidates In
vited to BigAnnual Event. ,RESlGNS OFFICE FOR
COLONEL'S WIDOW
An Adicrturttttnl m the l.vtt anil
Found Columns ot TiTB SI'S ASH XKXT
YOKE HKliALU ojjrrt e rtal ponnlUU y to Pifjsiduit Wilson,
0 recovering your lort piowcrtv.
Arrangements have ben completed for
the forty-elgiitli annual dinner of the
i New York Press club, which win be ; War Veteran Gives Up City 1
ling. May i. inviutions have hec ex-! Uerkahtp in Her tavor.
j fnded to 11 aspirants for the Demo- p
cratic and Republican nominations for1, "a.nii.u:, iih, April . uuy Kitchen.
President, anil many of them have , member of Rattery A, 143th Field Ar
agreed to attend provided they are In tuery, commanded by the late Col
or near New York the night of the din- Cunls Q Re(Uleni who wa fIccted
Several novel features are Iwing Clerk or Danville at yesterday's elec
planned fr the dinner, which will be the ! tlon, rei-lgned to-day In favor of his
largest, in point of attendance the club
ever has held. The Press Club was
organized December 4. 1S72. Its guests
at the annual dinners have InclucWl
everv President from President Grant
with the exception
of President Garfield.
Colonel s widow, who was left with three
Email children to support.
Kitchei. who fought In eleven battles
In the world v.ir. was nominated on the
Republican ticket for the purpose of
winning tno election and turninc over
the losltion to the widow of ftie.r chkf.
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IT is easy to get to our offices and after you
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service in any matter of banking and trust.
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$5.89
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Styles are agreeably varied and include all
the desired Spring blocks.
Latest colorings in seal, tan, olive, pearl,
nutria and dark green.
Lightweight
$4.89
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The good dresser often changes off from soft hat to derby.
The smart model we are featuring is a lightweight
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Cther derbies at 5.98 and 6.92
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Men's
all wool
trousers
$9.75
Many a man has lengthened the life of
his favorite suit by matching it up with
a pair of all wool trousers which we have
heretofore featured.
This sale constitutes another oppor
tunity for getting real value.
Blue flannels, black and oxford
ca&simeres, fancy striped and
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Sizes 28 to 44.
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The new ssliections for Spring and Snimmer are
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Among the outstanding features are
omsize
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Porch Rtsgs in the most attractive designs and pSain tones.
.Cotton Rugs in Eight, dainty flora! effects.
Broadfloom Seamless Chenille (from 9 to 30 feet wide)
nn
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Room-size Chenille Rungs (seamless) in choice Oriental
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Linoleum in plain colorings, inlaid-tile and parquet designs.
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And when the better features
of the better kind of coats
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perfection by good tailoring,
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Single and double '
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