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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1919
Page
4
Advertisement explains a plain English profit sharing contract for cost plus projects. It defines costs and which costs bear profit percentage and which do not. Overheads are aligned with the fee, encouraging lower bids while penalizing overruns. Owners typically save 2 to 3.75 percent. Call Bryant 2908 for details.
More than 4 000 Winnipeg veterans gathered pledged to uphold law and order, deterring Bolshevik activity and pressuring authorities to arrest strike leaders. Mayor Gray asked for 2 000 special constables from returned soldiers to protect labor and provide essentials. Ottawa offered mediation through the Great War Veterans Association to settle the Winnipeg strike.
Vancouver walked to work today as the union street car men voted to join the local strike in solidarity with the Winnipeg walkout.
Western Union announces that cable messages in plain English or French will be accepted for all parts of Germany when relating to foodstuff. Messages are subject to censorship.
Investigators suspect a nitroglycerine explosive set off by acid corrosion. Edward Hammond of West Philadelphia claims he handled the bomb moments before it exploded near the Jagielky residence. He found a package on the street, thought it a prank, and set it down before the blast.
Rome faces a total halt in meals as hotel, restaurant, inn, café and bar staff walk out. By midday, ministries empty, patrons beg proprietors for food with no luck. crowds resort to bread cheese and cherries. The strike spreads beyond dining rooms with transportation and sanitation concerns following suit.
May activity at the Emergency Fleet Corporation shows 136 vessels completed delivering 511,014 gross tons and 768,025 deadweight tons. Another 137 ships were launched totaling 470,654 gross tons and 705,958 deadweight tons with 80 more keels laid. The Shipping Board expects at least 4,500,000 gross tons built this year if labor and materials stay favorable.
Berlin dispatch reports Ernst Toller, a student leader and director of the Bavarian Soviet Government, arrested in Munich after Bavarian troops took the city in early May. Earlier reports claimed he was killed in the fighting but lack confirmation.
Arsenal authorities will reconstruct the bomb site as described by Mr. Hammond to determine the ingredients. They will compare with other city explosions to see if the same explosives were used and manufactured at one point. Government experts traveled from the scene to New York for further investigation. Lloyd E. Leslie was released after arraignment on bomb suspicions with no evidence linking him to the bombing.
Government rests its case against Adolph C. and Adolph E. Pedersen and captain and mate of the barkentine Puako in a murder-on-the-sea trial. A mate testifies that the crew was unruly and would not obey. Defense contends Hansen jumped overboard during a squall and may have died by his own action. defense seeks to dismiss indictments or limit verdict to second degree murder. Captain Duffy explains ship handling and rescue possibilities.
Photographs of a shirt collar marked with K and B are studied by New York police as a possible clue to bomb conspirators. Major Raymond Pullman sent the collar photo to aid tracing laundry patrons. detectives search for tangible links amid post blast wreckage at Judge Nott's home. News covers guards at Passaic and Paterson gas tanks, May Day rioter Gaudet, and back Bay bomb scare with no solid evidence found.
Governor Coolidge asks the Legislature to compensate Judge Albert F Hayden and Representative Leland Powers for damage to their homes from a bombing Monday night. He says the property owners acted as public officials and the public should bear the loss. Ernest Gaudet, jailed for rioting, is held for the Grand Jury by Judge Hayden in Roxbury District Court.
Detectives arrest a suspect lodging at two East Side homes. Authorities seize bottles of acids and LW Wil letter. He admits evading immigration rules and will be turned to federal authorities. A $50,000 reward fund is launched for Mayor Davis bomb case with civic and federal help. Two indictments charge Socialist leaders Ruthenberg Cofford Ked with assault to kill tied to May Day riots.
Ex Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo spoke at a Brooklyn Rotary Club luncheon on the Hotel Bossert roof. He urged education to counteract bomb violence and warned that using bombs to drive reform fails and will be opposed. He pressed for Boy Scout fundraising starting Monday.
Bayonne police under Director Sober J Talbot ordered to prevent Bolshevik or I W W demonstrations. Officers instructed to arrest suspicious persons and stop meetings of foreigners in Cantreville and Constable Hook neighborhoods with many foreign workers in local oil plants.
Jurors and the judge hear testimony from Adolph Pedersen second mate of the Puako age eighteen. He cites a signed statement to Justice R A Lee listing events from the voyage from Victoria to Cape Town in 1918. The cook John Stewart allegedly fell overboard after crew mutinous behavior and poisoned meals are alleged.
The Joint Distribution Committee of the American Fund for Jewish War Sufferers reported by Morris Engelman urges a permanent expression of American goodwill. He recommends loans to communities and food and clothing credits repaid as communities become self-sufficient, with salvaged cloth bought for local manufacture and help tracing relatives abroad.
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