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Il ' rr?,w-r;;:-f.-v , , , ,? , r THE E V I! Hi'I'IC B vffO KL'D M U JN UAYj DECEMBER lg', 1921. r.4 ' I? 1M ' A A CITY DEFRAUDED OF THOUSANDS IN EDISON FINDS FORD SCHEME AT MUSCLE SHOALS "GREAT"; WOULD KEEP UP ARMS TESTS BIG WATER GRAFT One Inspector Arrested and Sensational Revelations Ve Promised as Inquiry Begins Xlnhrilns J. IIiim. ("mpmiHslnnpr rf Wnter supply, iV.n tiinl Klcctrk'lty, lins dheovereil tliat tin- city lias los-t Vmtli'i-'lM of thousands of dollar" throuEr'i avstcmittk' InmpnrlnK with jratcr m-icrw located In concern HTho-"- .mnual wutfv bills nie unusually Jorsc A1, n result n sweeping; Inwtl- ! Cation lias been ordered. ! Th first .tip taken by the cnirmtb- 1 don'M' was the unest of John Klapp. l city water muter Inspector, who will bo nrnisrictl latj1 In the Jefferson Market court on a charge of vlolat- ( Ipg Section 1132 of the Penal Cod,; This i one mis tampering with water meters. SenS of sixteen wate.r meters in the Bron: aionc hae been discovered to have been lumper 1 wltli. Like cond.- 1 Wons l ivc been found la Manhattan and in o'iici boroughs. A frecial probe fci bcli.s made of Urooktyn. ' A concern which manufactures ' water meter seals called up Commli- ' . uloncr Hayes last -Monday and said a, man Riving- the name of "Clarkson" had called and wanted to buy a water seal wlf.1i a ceitaln serial number. The commissioner told the manufacturci '.o aira-y ,i further meeting and Clnrknv-iitaincd the seal he asked for. The 'serial number It contained, Investigation showed, was the same as that installed In the Armington Cor- ! poratlon, a steam laundry at Nos. M0-5I8 West 5Sth Street, Manhattan. W.hcn "Clarkson" cadea for thu meter seal at tho office of the manu facturer two detectives were hidden In the room. Thomas M. JIurphy, Chief Clerk of tho Department of Water Supply, Gas and Eloe'triclty, hay?, 'ClarUMin" and Klapp ura the same. "Our Inspectors visited the plant oi th'. Annington Corporation." naid Mr. Murphy, "and .ho soil which had been handed to Klapp as found on the Armington motor. The counter of the meter show ! evidence of having been tainiiirul .ih 't'l.at is, one of the points had oefii pushed back." Cummlssioncr Hayes colled Com missioner of Accounts llirshtlcld to hlh ,ud The latter Issued subpoenas foi I'lesidcnt Armington and Sccrc taiy IVrguson of the Steam Laundry Comp.in . The Accounts Commissioner claims that on Monday last Ferguson made out a check to cash for $123 and that the rlieck is credited to "gratuity" in the laundry company's books. Back From Inspection Trip. He Approves Fertilizer Plan Heartily. WANTS U. S. PREPARED. BIT. BANKRUPTCY LAID TO PAYMENTS SLAUGHTER'S LOOT LEFT HIDDEN IN TIRE Was to Have Told Where S 102,500 Lay Buried, but Death Oamc First. PINK BLUFFS. Ark., Dec. 12. Buried somewhere In an automobile tiic in 'Northern Texas Is $102,500 worth of .securities, Tom Slaughter's share of loot obtained by bis band in numerous bank lobberles, accordinf to A. W. Mills, agent for an insurance company. .Mr. Mills said he had had an ap pointment to meet Slaughter at the penitentiary to-morrow, and tho bandit was to have told him the hid ing placo so the money could be re turned before Slaughter went to the olectrlo chair. Following Slaughter's conviction he professed religion anil was told he would havo to return the money be foie he could bo forgiven. The out law had Agreed to do this, but he saw his chance to escape and did so, being Wiled in the attempt, without revcal tng the hiding place. James C Howard, fellow convict, who killed Slaughter, was hurried to tho penitentiary here for safe keep . ng. Feeling against him was running high Jind officials said to-day there Tiad been talk of lynrtilns him. Inventor Says America Should Continue Submarine and , Gas Experiments. ! Thomas A. Kdlson, who has bee. looking Aver tho Mussel Shoals pro Jcct for whloh Henry Ford has madC an offer to tho Government returned to West Orange to-day. "Foid Is a great mechanic, but he Is a little shy on chemistry. .That Is the reason he asked mo to go down there," said the Inveptor." I think It's a great project. This country needs fertilizer: needs It for its cotton. You see, cotton seed In some places just suiouts and dies. 1 am heaitlly In favor of the scheme." Mr. F.dlson. turning to the Arms Conference, declared himself for go ing ahead In experimentation with death-dealing materials. "America must keep ahead of the other fellow," he said. "It would be a great 'mistake to slop experimenting. 1, for one, oukt have It ahead of any. other country in lis experiments with gases and sub marines." Discussing an Invention by his son, Theodore, tljo Inventor said of the War Department that it was like u. man with concussion of tho brain, dazed by the war. It accepted noth ing and adopted nothing. He described the Invention as a gyroscope run wild. It is a machine gun in tho form of a wheel 3 feet in diameter with a velocity of seven miles a minute. It is run by a Ford motor. "We tried It out at iMontclair and we tried it on an island near Key West," said Mr. Edison. "Wc strung wire entanglements 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep and then set tho gun to work on thm. It penetrated them." It was when he was asked whether the War Department had Ucccptcd the Invention of the son, who Is a student at the Massachusetts Tech, that the Inventor gave his characterization of the War Department. "The country," Mr. Edison sa'td, "is coming through its fifth period of de pression that I have seen, I expect pre-war conditions to bo reached In four or five years. America Is Ilko a great curve, the angle being 14 de grees. It go ahead, swings down and then comes up. Things are Im proving now. "I hope the Irish peace comes through. It is hard to get two Irish men to agree. The Irish Parliament will bo a real argumentative tody. There will he plenty of real hot stuff there and tho American nowspapcr men that cover It specially will not lack for live copy." OF DIVIDENDS Receivership Might Have Been Avoided if Constituent Line Mad Cut Annual Per Cent. The Transit Commission's inquiry to-day revealed that the now bank rupt Brooklyn Ilapld Transit Com pany might possibly have avoided a ivceivcrshlp had the stockholders of the Brooklyn City Railroad, one of the constituent Unts, taken less than an annual dividend cf 10 per cent, and put some of the profits hack to form a surplno against Impending hnrd I lines. For many jears, the inquiry dis closed, the Brooklyn City Hailroad was a moneymaker and up to Juno 30, 1910, paid an annual dividend of 10 per cent. Tho Brooklyn City Railroad amounted to 44 per cent, of the B It. T. system. 'Nobody ever suggested to I he directors and they never brought up tho matter themselves that the divi dend, In the light of the outlook, should bo decreased?" Clarence Shearn asked W. S. Menden, Gcnornl Manager of tho Jl. 11. T. for Ite.n-lvcr Llndloy M. Garrison. "Not to my knowledge." replied Mr. Mcndcn, the witness through whom Uio condition described was spread upon the iccord. Because tho directors of tin- Hiook lyn City Railroad collected their 10 . per cent, per annum right up to the I time when the gilp of the B. It. T. slid off the end of the financial line j upon which it had been long sus pended, the sjstem was disintegrated. I many hundreds of transfer points 'were abolished und extra fares ,vvie I Imposed nil over the borough. I Before Mr. Menden took the stand Mi. Hhcarn road a letter from James It. Sheffield, tmstee in bank ruptcy for tho Interborough-Consoli-dated Corporation. Tho letter explained certain points in the loan made Dec. 31, 1919. by Air Sheffield to tho Interborough Hap Id Transit Company. Tho letter denied up any doubt about tho In terborough Consolidated loaning the I. R. T. $1,000,000 after collecting $500,000 "which left the account Just as it was 'before the checks were In terchanged." It was also shown by Mr. Shearn that the entire funds in the hands of Receiver Sheffield out of which he made $1,000,000 loan on New Year's eve to the I, R. T. lo avoid a re ceivership, came in part from his col lection Just previously made that same day from tho Interborough Rapid Transit Company of $500,000. Mr. Menden said that when the disintegration of the B. R T. fol lowed the receivership the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, composed of 44 per cent, of the entire mileage, was dropped from the system. Mr Shearn showed that the Brooklyn City Railroad had been paying its waV until tho lease was dropped. Tho dropping of this lease, Mr Shearn pointed out, could have been ivoided by a slight reduction of the 10 per cent, dividend on the stock and thus enable tho B. R, T. lo maintain .Mr. Ati'iiduu said hu could not tell who was responsible for the fallutc to ngrce to n continuation "f t nut iters between thu disintegrated lines, no denied that the motive behind tho dropping of the Brooklyn City Knll- toail fiom thu U. It. T. system was lo discontinue the free transfer privilege. .Mr. Menden admitted that tho fcc- ond fare zone on the Coney Island line from Delnncey Street was tin ed larther west. "io that more people v .iiil.l pay n double f.ue than they did before." Similar westwaid movements ol double fare points were made on Franklin Avenue and other lines 10' c.nct more double ft re-. rim witness said th.it the faro zones havo resulted, In additional levenut'H at 10 cents per passenger. Mi. .Menden supported llecelvei (lar- rlson's testlinons to the effort that 1.370 tiansfcr points bad been dropped through tho breaking up of tho It. K T. system. The averngo faro per passenger In 1919. Including transters at two cents, double fares, &c. was .03.2 cents. The average fare per passenger to-day on nil lines operated by tho Receiver, including two-cent trnnsrers mm iiounlc faro transfers is .04.2 cents. CirnsM earning "' . I! I! T. in the past few nn "i I h-, h.ic mipioved ; eeordm 1,' tin- iMHIi'. opera t inc expenses have accreaaod, and there baa been an lncrcaso in tabor effi ciency. Surface cars ,iro 'carrying more passengers with less cars. Mr, Mondon said he had no quarrel with the Transit Commission's plan, ;nd ho thought It desirable to pool Joint expenses o as to distribute tho maintenance charges, etc, It developed that when tho Brook lyn Olty Railroad was dropped out of tho B. R. T. system, the Brooklyn City had to lilro 600 cars from the B. H. T. Mr. Mcndcn denied there was CITY AHA1N SIIFS it difference of, 50 cents a ton between v1 1 1 VH' OUW FOR LOST RECORD Suit Instituted Against tho coal prices nu,ld bv tho II. It. T. and tho I. R. T. "'t would bo a decided benefit lo the public and some material. advan- c..,,! tngo to the company In tho matter of I Otcona costs said Mr. Alenden In answer IVtlKvill Mm Wlm PlMrml I In to the question, of existing franchises ' OtlSVIIle .Mall WHO HlcKed Up wft- disregarded and nil tho Brook- lyn lines rerouted for more economical and more efflsent service. The flnan reports of the Saw York Consolidated were put in evidence. GERMANS SEEK TO PUST U. S. FILMS IN EUROPE I i IIIb OrBnlr-Jitloni Unite to Com- J pete 'Wltli American Proilnet. BDRUN', Nov. 21 (by mail). German I motion picture manufacturers have pcr- rcciea a co-operative organization, one of the prime purposes of which is to capture tha European trade held by American producers. They are endeav oring to develop a "screen humor," which heretofore lias bean lacking in their productions. Virtually all Teuton Alms, until recently, have dealt only wltli historical, legendary and romantic subjects. Some of tho German companies have engaged American directors, and are striving to put American "pep" Into their plays, to meet homo consumption lis well as export dsmands, for Ameri can films smuggled Into the country during the last several months proved ' surprisingly pcrpuiar. II oAmeruxw Sorfuwcnt Sficckdutv " QPPEHHHM. LLIMS & 34th Street New York Introducing New Exclusive Model Slippers For Women and Misses A Clever Dance Model Equally Smart for Street and Evening Bronze Kidskin, Patent Leather, Black Satin, Black Suede and Gun metal Calfskin, also a combination of Patent Leather with Black Suede. Complete with hammered metal buckle. Exceptional at 10.75 Also on Sale in Our Brooklyn and Newark Stores Noiv's the Time You Need It! Sauce 'to give you n cold-M'cather ap petite, and adtl relish to fish, oysters, s o u y s and chowders. MADE IN U. S. A. At Grocers and Delicatessen Stores E. Pritchard, 327 Spring St., N. Y. nigral KK.XTtrCKV LAW IS IT9UT, WASHINGTON, rw. 12.Thc Ken tucky law requiring eorporatlona to re Jstcr 'before doing business In UihI State cannot apply to a corporation en gaged In Interstate commerce, the Su premo Court 'neld In a declflon handed down to-dflj . Book as Antique. I'OTTSVILE, Pa.. Doc 12. Tho City of New Vork. through local coun sel. to-day filed a second suit against Jacob iSpanuth of this city to recover Deed Book No. 1 of the City of New Vork. which S'panuth plcl.'d up as an nntlque collector whllo in tho metro polls somo years ago. In the first suit the city's bond of 110,000 to corer an action In repl v was fou n 1 1 to bo defective. The book contains the only legal rocdrd ul . ownership of millions or UolhurV worth j of Astor and other properly holding. It bad bcon thrown out as junk fol ! lowing the transfer ef records to the new Municipal Bulldlnr In New York.. Spanuth demands $3,000 for Its return. TWO TIIV sLICnJK BY GAS. Jsoits Bozrfr. fifty, ef No 34 1 We.,1 ::d Street and an unidentified mm, about fnrty-elcht. fire fst nine Incite, sray hair and eyes, attempted suicide at Bozer'j address to-day. Thty were removed to Bcltevue Uoiplta! tufferlnc from Ulumlnatlnr ba polionlnf. " V1TAMINES " What Are They? Indescribable little somethings, almost imperceptible under the microscope. Yet, without them, there can be no health or growth. Milk is the greatest vitamins food. "PHILADELPHIA" CREAM CHEESE is milk and cream in semi-solid form. Eat it every day. Only the genuine is labeled "PHILADELPHIA." rmm .-rrt r-a- iffi'TrTW- mil- u '" COCKTAILS AT HOME Yon can have just as fine Oyster, Clam of r- i. 1 f i.-m- at home as In the best restaur ants. A really wonderful dressing, is made with 2 porta of 'Lea & Pcrrlns' Sauce and 4 porta of catsup! Be euro yorUfoXj Store Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Until After Xmas QPFENHEiM, LLINS & 34th Street New York A Special Purchase and Sale Tuesday 650 Women's High Grade Silk Blouses Values to 15.00 5.90 Exquisite Georgette Blouses, trimmed with Real Filet and Val Laces, in flesh, white and bisque. Tie on and Costume Blouses in fashionable shades and color combinations. Long and short sleeve models. 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Hlankels and Comfortables -To be used and appreciated at once. Automobile Robes and Motor Sets Always welcomed by any motorist. Dressing Gowns, Neckwear, ? For the Man who is hard to please. N Try sliopping before 11 A. M. It's ever so much more pleasurable Fifth Avenue New York 34th and 33d Streets IUg. Trad JLart MS I I .in-.jii . i u ,1 I, .i - . , i i ,,,,m-J, i.,. - mi iitii. i-i i r-.i-i;flri - - wrm fin ma r niMmi