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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922.
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Economy Plaint Collapses
After Perusal of Estimates
for 1923.
RAIS.E IS 35,838,853
Figures Are $173,000,000
Higher Than Last Budget
of Mitchel.
Payiolla of Mayor Hylan'; thirteen
favorite commissioners, according to
tho 1923 proposed budget, will be
J5.838. 853. S5 higher next year than
thev a 'e at present. The commis
sioners arc those whese salaries wero
raised In recent sessions fiom $7,500
a year to $10,000. The Mayor h-mself
suggested this raise behind closed
doors, with an armed policeman on
guard, after he had publicly an
nounced to flrat-grade firemen and
police that he couldn't raise them a
few hundred a year because he
wanted to economize In thn Interest
of the taxpayers.
The proposed budget Is $173,000,000
higher than tho last budget under
Mayor IMtchel.
Mayor Hyan repeatedly has claimed
that practically all payroll and salary
Increases are made by Republican
legislation at Albany. Of the $5,838,-
hr.53.85 payroll Increases about z,3ao.-
781.39 Is for raises In tho Police and
( lire Departments, much of which Is
t mandatory. But the remaining $3,448.-
j 062.46 cannot be classed as mandatory.
lit represents for the most part new
Bjobs nnd swollen payrolls everywhere.
(Continued on Eleventh Page.)
iNOTHER ATTACK,
IS HYLAN'S ONLY
BUDGET COMMENT
ivites Reporters In to Hear
II; Then Invites Them
Out As Board Meets.
Mayor Hylan made no defenso to-
Bay of the new Jobs In the budget.
leyond the usual Hylan attacks. Here
(was his procedure to-day: He sent
le Janitor of City Hall to Room 9.
occupied by reporters, to Inform them
lhat a Board of Estimate meeting
tvas about to begin and that they were
avlted. A number of previous ses
sions had been star chamber affairs
!ehlnd closed doors with an armed
01 "X guard.
When the reporters reached the
leetlng room Mayor nylan attacked
Schieffelln & Co., the head of which la
"resident of the Citizens' Union.
Late yesterday tho Citizens' Union
save out a statement showing that
imong new Jobs created In the 1923
budget wes a $9,00u a year berth of
'Assistant Mayor."
Ho held a pamphlet In his hand as
tie spoke. "Thlu will be of Interest
othe newspapers." The, Mayor then
proceeded to attack a liquor prlco cir
cular of the firm of Bchleffelln & Co.
Ichleffelln & Co. arc druggists.
After he had finished his attack
the Maor told the reporters that "we
ill now go Into executive session."
fhat meant that reporters were
barred. Tho writers at first didn't
understand. But the Mayor, speaking
ltttlo louder, made It quite clear to
them.
Ono of the reporters asked the
layor If the pamphlet he read from
BUtacklng Schleffelln was dated. The
fMayor replied he didn't see any date
(on It, but said:
"I'm going to notify the Police De-
l part men t of advertisements of wines
(end liquors by the Bchleffelln firm."
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GERMAN
PRES DENT
THREE YEARS MORE
Reparations Commission Go
ing to Berlin to Study Na
tion's Finances.
BERLIN, Oct. 24 (Associated
Press). The Reichstag by a vote of
314 to 76 to-day decided to prolong
tho term of Frlcdrich Ebcrt In the
German Presidency until Juno 30,
1925.
PARIS, Oct. 24 (Associated Press).
The entire Reparations Commission,
Including Poland W. Boydcn, the
American unofficial representative
with tho Commission, and Col. James
A. Logan Jr. .acting In a similar ca
pacity with tho Guarantees Commis
sion, will leave for Berlin Sunday eve
ning to confer with Chancellor Wlrth
and other German Cabinet members
on the financial crisis in Germany and
tho threatened total ocllapso of the
mark.
U. S. CUTTER MOJAVE
OUT OF FUEL, ADRIFT
850 MILES AT SEA
Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Huston Aboard ;
Tug Sent to Relief.
BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24. Aid
has been despatched to-day to tho
United States revenuo cutter Mojavo,
with Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Huston aboard, which Is out
of fuel and adrift 850 miles west of
Honolulu.
Tho Mojavo was en route from Ma
nila to San Francisco by way of
Guam. First word of tho ship's plight
was received In a radio message
picked up hero.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. Tho
Coast Guard cutter Mojave, reported
in troublo from depletion of her fuel
supply west of Honolulu, still Is able
to proceed "slowly" undor her own
power, according to a wireless mes
sage timed lato yesterday and re
ceived here to-day. A tug has gone
from Honolulu to aid tho vessel.
SMOKE CONSUMERS
FOIL DRY RAIDERS
No Thin Blue Shafts to At
tract "Revenooers."
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct,
24 (Copyright). 1'ho -nion-shlners
of tho Tennessee moun
tains are enlisting sclenco In their
fight to circumvent the dry offi
cials. Tho latest move is smoke con
sume on tho stills. "White
Mule" makers havo been forced
to this by the dry officials who
have been locating the Illicit fac
torlo. from aeroplanes. Small,
suspicious columns of smoke,
mounting far Into tho heavens
from the banks ot streams, moun
tain wclln and clumps of trees, in
the past, have furnished the evi
dence on which raids wero made.
. F.Ttnhnaj Hunt "On Eicltlnc Iflfht.".
Apollo Theatre. Advt.
CLINE TESTIFIES
HE SHOT BERGEN
IN SELF DEFENSE
Invited Actor to Duel After
Confession by Wife of
Attack.
GIRL GAVE
WARNING.
Accused and Wife Weep
Recital of Events Before
, Slaying.
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(Special From a Staff Correspondent
of The Evening World.)
HACKENHACK. N. J.. Oct. 24.
Georgo Cllno took tho witness stand
to-day and told his version of the
shooting of Jack Bergen, motion pic
turo actor, for whose death Cllne,
Charles Scullion, his brothcr-ln-law,
and Miss Alice Thornton are on trial
charged with murder.
Cllne, a stocky, blond young man,
went on the stand at 12.30 o'clock.
His voloo was husky when ho told
how two and a half years ngo In
first employed Bergen as an extra
movie actor at Fort Lee, and how he
had favored him since In employment.
He testified he advanced expenses to
He testified that ho had remarked
to Miss Thornton at a danco to which
ho and Mrs. Clinc had Invited her and
Charles Scullion that ho "didn't like
the idea of her going out with Charles
Scullion slnco sho was Jack Bergen's
sweetheart."
"I told her I resented It because
Jack Bergen was a friend of mine,"
ho continued. "Then she said to me:
'I would not bo too Buro about your
friend. Jack Bergen.' "
Ho said he remarked about this to
his wife, but sho evasively replied:
"You know Jack Bergen is your best
friend." Then he learned on two
other talks with Miss Thornton of
the kissing and ho requested Mrs.
Clino to ask her and Bergen to be
at his house on tho night of Aug. 25.
"Bergen arrived a llttlo after Miss
Thornton. I asked for an explana
tion of the kissing party. Miss
Thornton told what sho knew. My
wife aald sho did not go out for
twenty minutes with Jack.
"I then spoke about my suspicions
and my wife said:
" 'Now, Georgo. I'm going to tell
you the truth about how Jack took
advantage of me In the hotel at Sar
anac Lake.' "
Cllne here began sobbing softly.
His wife sitting beside her children
sobbed also. The courtroom became
very quiet.
"I said, 'That's a fine way for you
(Continued on Eleventh Pago.)
WANTS KISS CLINICS
TO TEACH GIRLS
SOUL OSCULATION
Divorce Courts Full Because
Young Wives Don't
Salute Hubby Right.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.
Establishment of kiss clinics for
marriageable girls, to solve Amer
ica's divorce problem, was urged
to-day by Ireno Bordonl, who
declares that marriage In this
country has become a farce
through failure ot young wives
to kiss properly.
"They klsa with their Hps not
with their soul," sho declared.
"A woman's whole heart should
be put into every kiss she given
her husband. A klsaable woman
will keep any normal man an
chored at home."
To teach girls the value of a
kiss before they aro married.
MIbs Bordonl suggested the op
eration of scientific kiss cllnlca In
conjunction with all Divorce
Courts.
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Acquittal of Peggy Beat
For Slaying "Sheik Lover
Invokes New Unwritten Law
s
Jury Hears Dramatic Story of Wrecked Romance
Dead "Sheik" Boasted of Breaking Fifty Hearts
Before She Met Him.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 24. "Sheik love" was recognized along with the
unwritten law to-day aB provocaUon lor murder. Tho unique plea was
given cognizance for tho first tlmo In legal history when a Jury in Judge
Ralph S. Lathsaw's court acquitted diminutive Marie L. ("Peggy") Beal
last night for tho murder of Frank V. Anderson, "professional sheik,"
who. Bhe said, boasted he had broken the hearts of fifty other womon.
Leaping to her feet as the verdict
was read late last night, Mrs. Beal
thanked the Jury and asserted, "Now,
I am going to stay right here In Kan
sas City and make good. I'm going
to send for my little boys In Terro
Hauto and make a good homo for
them."
The court ordeal waa comparatively
brief. There were fow witnesses and
the testimony was adduced speedily.
She took tho witness stand, pallid and
nervous, and the story of tho shoot
ing was drawn from her by tho at
torneys. From the first meeting In Dayton,
O., Mrs. Beal, a young divorcee, re
lated In chronological order Incidents
of their association which terminated
In her fatally shooting Anderson and
seriously wounding herself In a room
which they occupied In a local hotel,
Juno 3. He lured her there, she said,
with a promise of marriage.
She bad been reading a passage in a
romantic novel In which a woman
killed her lover. She shot Anderson,
aB he lay upon the bed and turned the
revolver upon herself, sending a bul
let Into her breast.
"I met Anderson In a restaurant In
Dayton, O.." sho testified. "He asked
me to marry hlin before ho left Day
ton and I told him I would give him
my answer in June."
Twice sho visited him In Kansas
City. They moved to the hotel where
the tragedy occurred. Bhe asked him
to marry her, sho said. "I waB neorly
stunned when he told me he could find
no grounds for divorce," she said.
"I asked him what I was going to
do," she told tho court, "and ho said,
"Do aB you please!" Sho asked him
why he had sought her love and ho
answered, she declared, "because I
am a devil."
Sho said that she could not recall
shooting him, but remembered shoot
ing herself.
Acquittal came after one of the
shortest trials on record. Tho Jury
reached an agroement on ltn fourth
ballot. Just twelve hours after the
trial of the girl was called.
"ENFORCE LAWS, PROTECT
WOMEN," SAYS PREACHER
Statutes Enough, ITe Declares, bat
Not Made EnclTe.
CHICAGO, Oct, 24. "Enforcement of
the law would protect women like Mrs.
Peggy Beal, who was acquitted of slay
ing Anderson," Rev. John H. William
son, well known Chicago clergyman and
recently chief "law enforcer" of the
Chicago Police Department, declared to
day. "We have enough laws. What we need
to do la enforce them and prevent such
sordid tales."
JUSTICE DAY RES'CNS
FROM SUPREME COURT
Ta Devoir nia Time German
Claims Arbitration.
WASHINGTON. Oct 24. Justice
Day of the Supreme Court to-day
presented his resignation to President
Harding, to become effective Nov. 14.
Ho resigns so that he may devote
all his tlmo to his new work as ar
bitrator of American and German
claims growing out "f the war.
Day has been a Supreme Justice since
March 2, 1903, when he was appointed
by Preldent Itoosevtie. Ho was third
ranking member of the Court In length
of service. He Is a native of Ohio,
being "born at Ravenna, April IT. 1849.
the son of Judge Luther Day of the
unio uupreme ctiurt.
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6-2.
Referee Changes Mind on De
cision at Saturday's Foott
ball Game.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24. Will
iam N. Morice, referee of the Colum-
bla-New York University football 1
contest played at South Field, New
York, last Saturday, to-day an
nounced that he had changed his rul
ing on a play which gave tho gamo to
New York University by a score of 7
to 8, and that the score should be 6 to
2 In favor of Columbia.
Th play occurred In thn first period.
With the ball on Columbia's 20-yard
line a Columbia player kicked, and
when the kick was blocked the ball
tell behind the Columbia goal posts
and went Into the stands. A New
York University player fell on the ball
and the referee at the time allowed a
touchdown.
(For other details 8ta 8portlng Pag)
LAUREL RESULTS.
CLEAR AND FAST.
FIRST RACE Five and a half fur
longs. Noon Glide (Barnes), 123.00, 18.40
and 14.90, first.
Pennon (Marine)!!), 13.90 and $3.10,
second.
Rosle H. (McLane). 16.00, third.
Off at 1.43. Time. 1.09 2-5. Non
starters: Buslana, Billy Gibson, Oold
Mount.
COLUMBIA BEAT
UN VERS TY
S NEW RULING
U. S. SHIP COULDN'T
SAIL FROM BRITAIN
WITHOUT BRANDY
England Wouldn't Let Ship
Sail Without Supply for
Steerage.
TRIED TO OBEY LAW.
President Adams, U. S. Liner,
Reaches Port With First
Dry Law Problem.
A new and complicated seamanship
knot was presented to tho Prohibition
authorities for untanglcmcnt to-day
when the Shipping Hoard steamship
President Adams, operated by the
United Btntes Lines, came Into port
with -five gallons of brandy aboard.
The knot has two turns to It. Tho
first one Is that It Is now against the
law for uny vessel to como to an
American port with liquor aboard,
Tho second ono Is that no vessel with
British subjects In the steerage can
clear from London without taking
uboard a gallon of brandy for each one
hundred ot such passenneru. It la for
use In illnesu only, of course, but the
law Is Iron-clad. In fact, when Cupt,
Jonas Pendlebury of the President
Adams sought to get away from Til
bury docks without the brqndy ha wus
refusod clearance papers.
When the vemel was about to sail
from London, Oct. 14, as tho first
American vessel off for thla country
under tho now Prohibition ruling as
to transatlantic craft. Skipper Pendle
bury was notified to set ashore al! tho
liquor his vessel carried. And, while
John Stelncr, the ship's bartender,
wept, tho contraband was carried
down the gangplank. Four nours
were required to put the liquor over
side, becauso It comprised 4,36$
bottles of wines and liquors, 400
bottles of Scotch whiskey, 119 bottles
of nle and six barrels uf boor.
Lying besido the President Adams
at Tilbury Docks was tho Union
Castle liner Touton, ready to Rail for
Capo Town. Tho moment tho de
harking of the liquor was understood
the Teuton's band was piped on deck
and for four distressful hours played
dirges and funeral inarches. On the
President Adams a young miss In the
first cabin contributed a black silk
petticoat to tho mourners aboard that
vessel and tho door of the barroom
waa appropriately draped In black.
When Capt. Pendlebury encoun
tered the official of the British Board
of Trado and learned about the
brandy retirement ho had no recourse
but to take aboard the five gallons,
because he had a large number of
eteerago passengers on his list.
During the voyago to this port
John Stelner said ho sold nearly five
hundred bottles of ginger ale. "But
It was taken to the staterooms and
drunk there," ho added, "whloh may
mean something or may not. Just at
you look at It."
None of the passengers aboard
knew of the existence of the ftvn
gallons of brandy, which Skipper
I'endlebury kept not only under lock
and key but also scaled.
The Sunday World
First in Number of Ads.
The number of separate ads.
printed by the New York
newspapers last Sunday wasi
THE WORLD 9,240 ad..
The Tims. 8,199 adt,
Th Herald 3,326 ad..
rha American 1,699 ad.
Tb Tribune 769 ad..
THE WORLD'S plurality 1,041 ad..
THE SUNDAY WOULD printed
I, SUB more adi. than eorreipond
ing Sunday of last year.
Ml SEEN SHOOTING HALL
AND IS. ILLS BY WOMAN,
NOW WARNED TO BE SILENT
Jane Gibson, Farmer, Hunting Corn Thieves on
Phillips Farm, Is Declared to Have Seen Two
Couples Quarreling- and Heard Shots and
Man's Name Used in Protest by Woman.
Mule Eye-Witness Rode Stopped to Look as
Voices Drew Attention to Dispute Under
Crabapple Tree New Prosecutor and His
Investigator Arrive and Take Charge.
(Special From, a Staff Corres pondent of The Evening World.)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 24. Mrs. Jane Gibson, a
widow farmer who with her nineteeVyear-oId son works a farm at
the eastern end of De Russey Lane1 at the opposite end from Easton
Avenue so that one going tofrher farm from Easton Avenue must
pass the Phillips Farm, whercuhe bodiestaf the Rev. Mr. Hall anJ
Mrs. Mills were found Sept. 16 has made a statement in the prose
cutor's office which is of viial importance to the investigation.
Tlierc is reason to licllore that Mrs, Gibson has hecn told that If bhe
discusses what sho saw and heard with any one excopt tho officials in
charge of tho case sho nil! he arrested; taken from her farm and locked
up as a material witness.
Special Deputy Attorney General Molt and his investigator. County
Detective James Mason of Newark, arrived at Soniorvillo at noon and
began a consultation with Prosecutor neeknmn.
ONLY SEVEN DRYS
OF 86 IN N. Y. RACE
Wets to Predominate No
Matter Which Party Wins,
Association Says.
ALBANY, Oct. 24. New York's
next Congressional representation Is
bound to bo overwhelmtngly wot, no
matter which political party elects a
majority, according to a report of the
Association Against tho Prohibition
Amendment.
Out of tho ctghty-slx candidates for
membership In tho Itouso of Repre
sentatives, all of whom havo been In
terviewed or approached In somo way
by tho organization as to their lean
ings on tho question of modification
or repeal of the Volstead law, only
seven havo stated their position as
dry, and nine others have refused to
state their position.
All tho others have como out avow
edly wet, the association claims.
The association to-day completed
plans for a campaign to stop Into the
districts whera a wet candldato Is op
posed by a dry candidate, nnd throw
their support to tho wet. This sup
port will consist of speakers and prop
aganda. Within a day or two the first drive
will bo opened In Schenectady, ac
cording to Col. n. II. Glllett, General
Counsel for the organization In this
State, and steps will be taken to help
along tho campaign of Georgo H.
Derry, a Democrat, who is opposed by
Dr. Frank Crowther, the Incumbent.
Politics In Albany wus enlivened a
bit to-day by reports that William
Barnes, Hepubllcan boss, Is planning
to announce bis retirement at a din
ner to be given hero within a few
weeks. Barnes, however, has not ac
tively participated In local politics for
tho last five years.
FOR CONGRESS
Brandy
Prosecutor Strieker received a re-
quest from Mr. Mott to go to Som
crvlllo at noon. The Special Deputy
Attorney General's talk with him fol
lowed that with Mr. Beckman. Thy
did not talk with him together.
Mr. Mott said that after a day or
two In Somervllle ho thought ho
would move his headquarters to Now
Brunswick to be nearer tho spot
where tho crime waa committed and
moro convenient to tho witnesses.
Mrs. Gibson, rorty-nve yeara oM
a woman of pleasant manners anJ
cultivated speech, Is an outdoor
woman whj haa developed her pny
slque by driving a tractor, plounghjng
behind a span of horses and shocking
corn rather than with a tennis racket
and golf clubs, sho Is among the
number of persons who Bat In the
prosecutor's office a week ago yester
day when Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall
was required to remove her hat and
put on the long gray cloak found In
her home.
It will bo remembered that other
In tho room were Mr. Sopcr, who saw
two men and a woman driving in .
car Into De Russey Lane at about
10.30 o'clock tho night Mr. Hall and
Mrs. Mills were last seen, and Watch
man Williams, who saw a woman In
a long cloak, unaccompanied, enter
tng tho Hall homo at 3 o'clock the
next morning,
HOW WOMAN HAPPENED UPON
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
These persons sat quiet while Mre
Hall waa confronted by Mrs. Zulles,
wtfo of a farmer who keeps a oow
and ekes out a precarious living on
the Phillips farm and who aald she
saw a strange woman making a sur
vey of tho farm Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Zulles left the prosecutor's
room shaking her head. Indicating aha
did not recognize Mrs. Hall. The
presenco of the othor three witnesses
did not become known until long
afterward that of Mrs, Gibson not
until to-day.
It became known to-day only be
cause of the questions which hare
been put to her neighbors by deteo
tlves seeking corroboration of the
story, Mrs. Gibson herself refused to
deny or affirm tho current version of
her statement: County Detectives an
werud Inquiry regardlnc the Gibson
narrative by angry comments thai
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