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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
6
Investigators in the district attorney’s office receive daily complaint letters from small investors about fraudulent oil stock schemes. Indictments against five alleged promoters are expected soon as authorities press a broad crackdown on wildcat stock selling tactics and misleading circulars.
A. C. Pleydell of the New York Tax Reform Association outlines key provisions of the new state tax laws enacted at the recent session. He questions constitutional validity, noting nonresidents face different exemptions, withholding rules target salaries, and potential litigation over taxing income earned before enactment and cross state taxation. He also summarizes changes to investment tax, corporate income tax, and inheritance law.
Four men including captain Charles Smith and mate John Murnane were held on $1000 bail after being charged in General Sessions Court with robbing the barge Advance at Gansevoort Street and stealing $6,000 worth of leather. The crew said the barge was moved on orders. 89 bales of leather were reported stolen over the past year.
Senator Clayton R. Lusk of Cortland, chairman of the Legislative Joint Committee, said the first public hearing will be tomorrow at 11 in the City Hall. The probe aims to determine if Bolshevism is treasonous or a worker remedy, its propaganda, and remedies, with subsequent hearings planned in Buffalo Rochester and Syracuse amid social unrest.
Brooklyn babies gathered at Borough Hall for prizes from Borough President Riegelmann after Health Department awards. Alice Wolff, 2, won the first all around prize. Gladys Hosen, 30 months, won the first Brooklyn health prize. Marjorie O'Brien died of influenza before presentation. Riegelmann kissed the babies.
The first peony show in New York will run Wednesday to Friday at the Museum of Natural History under the Horticultural Society of New York. The free exhibition has no prizes and aims to display progress in peony cultivation over the last decade to the public.
Colonel Henry Breckenridge and the Navy League defend their role and criticise Secretary Daniels as the worst obstacle to a strong Navy. The group claims Daniels blocked preparedness, while praising him for wartime efforts and arguing $700 million overrun harms the American people. The annual meeting also announces new officers and board members.
Frank Abramowile a 25 year old Brooklyn tailor was arraigned in Long Island City on a charge of abandoning his five year old son Frank. He said he gave the boy to a man to avoid keeping him and could not obtain bail for examination. The boy wandered North Beach June 1 and was taken to Astoria Police Station then Children's Society. A rumor led to the boy’s identity through lodging women who reported the matter to police. Abramowile said his wife died last October and it cost him five dollars weekly to board the boy.
Jesse M Weissman aged 45 president of Assesa Sales Company shot himself in his desk on the tenth floor of 220 West Forty second Street. He had been in ill health and a personal letter to his wife was found in his safe box but not disclosed.
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