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'Independent ?
Progressive,'
Says Hoover
ConttnueeS from ?.?? ons
bition is to remain a common cltizen,
ready to engage in team play with
any organization and leadership that
has for its objeet the consummation
and maintenance of the great issues
in the forms that I believe are to tho
public interest and benefit. I, of
course, believe in party organization,
but it must be for the promotion of
issues, not of men. I am not a strad?
dler on any issue. I spend most of
my time agitating for issues that I
believe in. It is the privilege of all
of us to hold our own views, and it
is nur duty to express them when
callod upon to do bo. But no man
can be so arrogant as to assume that
he can dictate the issues to the Amer?
ican people or to the great parties
they support.
Prefers to Agitate for Issues
"Fourth?You and your friends
havo urged that I should undertake
to organizc propacanda for myself as
representing issues by enterinv. into
competition for nomination by a
great party. Aside from the reasons
mentioned above, this implies entry
upon a road of self-seeking, whereas
my view is that I should agitate for
the issues, not for myself. You
rightly say that. joining sheer or?
ganization without issues is simply
office hunting without. regard to pub?
lic services.
"Finally, I am not so ignorant as
not to realize perfectly well that
such a course does not lead to nomi?
nation to the Prcsidency, but I would
not be myself if I started out on a
part of self-seeking to obtain any
office. Yours faithfully,
"HERBERT HOOVER."
When iMr. Arnold was seen at the
Hotel Pennsylvania he said:
"Mr. Hoover's friends are not making
any fieht in his home state against Sen?
ator Johnson, or, in fact, in any state
against any one. As stated in his let?
ter. Mr. Hoover is not seekincr dele?
gates. His friends believe that he ought
to !.'> nominated for President on the
Republican ticket. I believe that if the
Republicans get into a deadlock they
will be glad to turn to Mr. Hoover as
the most available man for the first
place on the- ticket. All the leaders ap
pare ntly aref friendly to him, recogniz
ing his fitness for the place."
Half of Princeton's
Professors for Hoover
Specal Dispatch to The Tribune
PRINCETON, N. J., March 0..Half
of Princeton's faculty is in favor of
Herbert Hoover as a Presidential can?
didate, according to the announcement
of Philip Marshall Brown. professor
of international law and chairman of
the recently oreanized non-partisan
Hoover Club at Princeton.
To date fifty-nine members of the
faculty and business administration of
Princeton have announced their pref
en^n.ee for the former food adminis
trator. Professor Brown said at least
fifteen othor members of the faculty
who have- not yet offlcially joined the
Hoover Club would do so soon, bring
ing *he number un to half of the teacn
ing staff of 150.
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Fifty Die in Boiler Blow-Up
Ninety Reported Buried in
Rhenish Pmssian EvnlosJon
BERLIN, March 9.?A dispatch from
Banrath, Rhenish Prussia, says that
fifty persons are estimated to have lest
1heir lives as the result of a large
boiler bursting in the Rhenish Weat
pha mn electricity works. The ex
p osion buried ninety workmen.
Gub Managers Charge
Bolan With Oppression
Magistrate Levine Reserves De?
cision in Police Inspector's
Case Until Next Monday
The methods adopted by Inspector
James S. Bolan to suppreas gambling
in his district brought him into Jef?
ferson Market Court yesterday in an?
swer to two summonses charging op?
pression. These alleged that the in?
spector had closed clubs running in
West Thirty flrst and West Thirty
second Street. Louis Spiegel, appear
jng for the plaintiffs, gave their ver
sion of the inspector's action:
"These buildings are clubs," he
said, "regular clubs, and the action of
Inspector Bolan is in violation of two
sub-divisions of Section 854 of the
Penal law. Ho had put padlocks ou
the doors and refuses to allow mem?
bers to enter under the pretext that
these are gambling houses.
"It is true that the members play
poker for money nnd that they take
out a 'kitty,' but this 'kitty* is only
for the maintenance of the clubs and
does not go into the pocket of any In
dividual."
A number of the club members,
Spiegel said, had been arrested by
Bolan, but all had been discharged in
court. There was no conviction against
the buildings as gambling houses, he
said.
A lengthy discussion as to what
actually constituted gambling then
took place between Magistrate Levine,
Assistant Corporation Counsel Walter
B. Caughlin and Mr. Spiegel. It was
terminated by the magistrate, who
said he desired to consult Chief
Magistrate McAdoo before making any
decision and set the case over till next
Monday in the Tombs court.
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Detectives Capture 114
In Raid on Craps Game
Three Patrol Wagons Busy for
Hour Hnuiing Brooklyn
Prisoners to Cells
Detectives Woelfle, Balsch and O'Con
nor, attached to a special squad from
.Manhattan, last night in a raid cap
tured 114 men charrjed with crapshoot
ing, n record for Brooklyn.
Police had been recoiving compltfints
that gangs of men had been seen going
into an abandoned house at 19 Presi?
dent Street. Thjk detectives went to
the address shoWy before midnight
and placed the men under arrest.
The prisoners had to be distributed
among the Butler. Bergen and Amity
Street police precincts. Three police
patrols were kept on the go for an
hour or more. The men probably will
he arraigned in court this morning.
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Accepts Osborne Resignation
Daniels Namcs Wadhams as the
New Naval Prison Head
WASHINGTON. March 9..Lieuten
ant Commander Thomas Mott Osboroe's
administration of the Portsniouth,
N. H., naval prison was commended- by
Secretary Daniels in a letter to-day ac
cepting his resignation as a member of
the naval reserve force and prison com
mandant.
"The policy of helpfulncss.and hope
which has characterlzed your admin?
istration will be continued." the Secre?
tary %vrote. "You have taught the navy
and the country' that prisons are to
mend prisoners and not break them.
It must be a sourco of gratification to
you that so many young men who had
violatcd naval regulations or been con
victed of wrongdoing have found them?
selves through your friendship and
leader hip, and that al! over t ?? coun?
try in every walk of life they are
making good "
Commodore A. V. Wadhams U. S. N.
; retired), was designated by Secretary
Daniels as comrr.andant at the Ports
month nr:so-i
Weber. Paid Him
Bribe, Says
Income Tax Expert
Gropper Testifies "Pictorial
Review" SecretaryWanted
to Conceal Fact Money
Was Spent in Speculation
Nathaniel W. Gropper, chief govern
iqent witneBs in the trial of Jay A,
Weber, secretary and director of the
Pictorial Review Company, testifying
yesterday, said that the defendant, who
is on trial for attempting to bribe in?
ternal revenue agents to falsify an in?
come tax return of the company, asked
him and Isadore Schlanger, another tax
expert who was going over the books
of the company with him, to omit from
their report their discovery that funds
of the company had been used for spec
ulativo purposes without the knowl?
edge of the stockholders.
T_he overlooking of these irregulari
ties and also the omission of dividends
paid by the company in their report
were the acts for whlcti he and Schlan?
ger were to receive the bribe, Gropper
testified.
Gropper, in his direct examination
before Judge Cushman in the Federal
District Court, testified that when
Weber had intimated to him that it
would bo worth his while to falsify
his report, that he had conferred with
Colonel Daniel L. Porter regarding the
proposal, and upqn advice from his
superior continued the' negotiations.
He narrated events which 'led up to
the paymeftt of $500 by Weber in the
washroom of the Hotel McAlpin on
June 6 last, when Weber, Schlanger and
himself had luncheon in the hotel to
j gether.
\ Gropper said that during the pro
I posals, when he demurred about b?ing
I detected if he sent in a false report,
i Weber told him that William P. Ahnclt,
| president of the company, would see
to it that he and Schlanger would be
amply protected, and in the event they
I got into trouble would provide good
| counsel for them.
i "Did he mention who the lawyers
were?' Mr. DeWitt asked.
"Yer.," rcplied the witness. "One was
i Mr. Stanchfield and the other wa3 Mr.
McAdoo."
At this. Mr. Stanchfield, who is one
| of the attorneys for the defendant,
j smiled and bowed slightly.
After the $500 had been paid over to
him by Weber, Gropper said that three
revenue agents detained them as they
were lenving the hotel and took them
to the Custom House in a taxienb.
Two of the agents had searched him
twice before he went to the luncrnon,
Gropper declared.
On the way downtown, Gropper testi?
fied thai Weber cautioned .him to say
j nothing and that everything would
come out all right. At the Custom
House he declared that Weber denied
he had given him any money when
fi GLOVES
Gray,
Kid,
Euckskin
<o,\j'n'o^ ? For Mca and Women
World's Greatppt Leather Store*
Iflh Ave, New York; 253 Broadway
!3o3ton?1.5 Tremont Street.
inflr.n
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Tlh? Store ns closed at 5- P. M. darly
MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Th5rty=fouirtlh Street Tharty-ffifth Street
A Prelimiiiary Spring Sale
Mee9s Silk Shirts
to be comt'nued to=day (Wednesday) on the
First Floor,-offfers
FSne Silk Shirts
made of superior-qwiality lustrous taffeta and silk crepe
(in satli^stripe effects); and imported Japanese habimtai
showing smart strSpes ln plain colors,
at the extraordflnarily Eow price off
$9o(Q)0 each.
(exclusive of War tax.)
In view of the high prices now prevailing in the silk shirt
market, this Sale presents a rare pmrchasing opportmnity
to men who like silk shirts for Spring and Summer wear.
As a matter of fact, B. Altman <& Co. were able to pnarchase
this sjradal lot cf shirts tinder unustmllly advantageous
conditions, and are glad to gnve thear patrons the foenef&t
of this transactlon.
Colonel Porter asked the latter if he
had paid Gropper $500.
Gropper said that when he had com
plained to Weber that $500 was a
small payment, that Weber promised
to bring it up to $7,500 the next day.
Weber explained the small payment by
saying that it was all the money the
cashier had on hand, Gropper declared.
The trial will continue to-day.
Gropper will be cross-examined by Mr.
Stanchfield. **? -
Boy Blown High in Air
By Explosion in Manhole
Brooklyn Lad Suffers Fractured
Skull When He Lands in
Street; Two Others Hurt
A seven-year-old boy, stahding on a
manhole cover at Twenty-ninth Street
and Ninth Avenue last night, was borne
into the air as high as the "L" struct
^ure when a gas pocket in tho 'conduit
'exploded.
The lad, Willie Driscoll, of 433 West
Twenty-eighth Street, suffered a frac
tured skull when hc landed on the pavc
ment. Henry Anderson, elevon years
old, of 435 West Thirtieth Street, who
was standing near by, was hit by a
fragment of the manhole cover and his
jaw broken. John Craig, six, of 410
\Vest Twenty-ninth Street, was cut
about the forehead. The Driscoll and
Anderson boys were taken to Bellevuo
Hospital.
The explosion blew up two manhole
covers at Thirtieth Street and Ninth
Avenue at the same time. The vents
in the covers have been choked with
snow, leaving no escape" for accumu
lated gas.
There was excitement in the neigh
borhood, and Patrolman Hackett called
out the reserves from the West Thirty
seventh Street station.
Diamond Given Six Months
LONDON, March 9.?Charles Dia?
mond, editor of "The Catholic Herald,"
whose trial on a charge of inciting the
attempt to murder Viscount French,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and others
in an article in his newspaper, opened
at the Old Bailey Court. yesterday, was
found guilty to-day. He was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
WATERFORD, Ireland, March 9.-A
large party of masked armed men last
night attacked the Higginstown Village
police barracks, killing one policcman
and seizing rifies and ammunition.
DUBLIN, March 9.?Edmund Otlwyer,
director of the Irish National Insur?
ance Companv and prominent as a Sinn
Fdiner, has' been arrested. It is un
dcrstood that he will be deported.
Hundreds Killed
In Tiflis Quake
Thousands Homeless as
Residt of Shock; Geor^
gia Votes a Relief Fund
? TIFLIS, Feb. 24 (Via Constantlnople
March 9) (By The Assoclated Press"*.?
Several hundred persons are dead and
thousands of others are homeless as a
result of an earthquake to-day which
destroyed Makhet, Grakali and other
villages within a radiua of sixty miles
west of Tiflis.
The city of Tiflis was shaken and
many buildings were severly damn^ed.
Thousands of refugoes are pouring
into Tiflis. Tho Constituer.t Assembly
of the Republic of Georgia immedintclv
voted 20,000,000 rubles (nominally $10.
000,000) for first aid to the sulferers.
The railway between Tiflis and Ba
toum was soverely damagcd by tho
enrthshock, while tho station was abso
lutely destroyed at Gori, a short dis?
tance northwest of Tiflis. The town of
Gori was virtually wiped out and a hun-i
dred dead have already been recovered
from the wreckage.
Twenty persons were killed at Up
lisjin. Smoke is reported to be issing
from the summit of the mountain where
the monasteryo Gorla-Djavri stood and
two great sulphur aprings have ap
peared. #
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Jobless, Welcomes Triplets
Former Soldier Over joyed When
Stork Raps Thrice
Tho prize optimists of greater New
York were found yesterday in a littlo
<,hiee-room flat at 406 East Sixty-fourth
3tro';t. They aro Frank Cangemi, for?
mer holdier, and hia wife, parents of
r\K children.
Three of tho children are newly-bom.
trip ets?all girls-^and the reason Mr.
nnd Mis. Cangemi take all honors for
optimism is that despite the fact that
he is out of employment they accept
their rare gift with deep gratitude nnd
believe themselves lucky. The new
babies are Mabel, Catherine and Gene
vieve, and they have been card-tagged
to avoid a mistake.
The landlord of the tenement house
in which the Cangemis live has agrer.e!
Le> k.ep the family until fortune amiies
on them. Frank can always get enough
to buy food and the mother and r>ab;os
are doing well. He was in Mexico with
the 12th Regiment and can do anything
equiring honesty, muscle or bravery
FOUNDED 1856^=i
:;:\\RICES of Spring clothes are somewhat
^JJ higher than last year.
Increased wages and advanced costs
of materials always are reflected in
the charges to?the consumer.
Since you are called upon to pay
more, you have the right to erpect
more.
For more than three generations
we have been committed to the
uncompromising policy "Fabric
quaiity, lining worthiness, tailoring efftciency and
the vending of genuine value."
That same policy is an outstanding feature in our
showing of men's and boys' Spring clothes.
Brokaw brothers
1457-1463 BRO\DWAY
AT FORTY-SECOND STPEET
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?-9J?BCHi-K?b.^
3ftankl(n 5imon a Co.
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
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RECISTERED
SUITS FOR EVERYWEAR
?For WOMEN and MISSES
Suitahle Weight for Immediate Wear
LOCHSPUN, THE PIONEER, HAS BEEN
IMITATED BUT NEVER AFPROACHED IN
QUALITY, APPROPRIATENESS, OR VALUE
35.00
TAILORED FOR FRANKLIN SIMON & CO. TO MEET THE DEMANDS
FOR ASUIT'PRACTICAL AND TRUE TO FASHION FROM A FABRIC
UNIQUELY OUR OWN, THESE SUITS PRESENT AT THIS PRICE WHAT
WE BELIEVE TO BE THE GREATEST SUIT ECONOMY OF THE HOUR
OCHSPUN are ours. We discovered them,
intro duced them. and established their
practicality. But thou&h Lochspun suits are
imitated under a variety of names, the copies come
no nearer to Lochspun than do the new-fan?led
names they ?o by!
It is the New York woman herself, however, who
introduced Lochspun to life on the Avenue, and
initiated it into the soeial and shoppmg, activities of
the city, as well as to the &olf links and roads of the
country. Lochspun suits are fashioned for style
and service, not cut to save material in order to be
sold at a price.
Lochspun Suits are made of a fine soft knitted fabric,
with a smooth brushed surface, that can be rolled up
and packed and unrolled and worn, without any
trace of a wrinkle or any need of an iron. Tailored
beautifully, the Lochspun suit is modelled on lines
which extend, rather than limit, the sphere of its
propriety for all times, all place, and all occasions.
The collection emhraces the darker
shades of heather mixtures in
brown, blue, green, or Oxford.
FEMININE SPORTS APPAREL SHOP-Fourth FI
oor
Jfranklfn Simon &4o.
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
For WOMEN
BASQUE DRESSES
OF TAFFETA AT
59.50
prove ori&inality and
smartness are not re
stricted toa hi&h price.
DDED to the quaintness of
old Spfoin is the finesse of
France, and there you
have the basque, originated by the
women of the Pyrenees Mountains
that separate, France and Spain.
Franklin Simon & Co. have added a
happy#se3ection of fabrie?taffeta,
crisp and proud, that holds first place
in the fashions of the season. Some
times these new basque dresses have
pin tucks, pleatin&s, puffin&s, or a
Zouave hem, often they are em?
broidered or beaded, always they
have the cachetof a fashion approved
by Paris.
Black, Navy Blue
or Brown Taffeta
59.50 to 110.00
WOMEN'S GOWN SHOP-Third Floor
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ffranfuin Simon a Co.
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
Women's En Tete
Low French Heel
PUMPS
With Lower Heels for Smartness
Low Prices for Economy
10.50
^IRST a capricious whim of
fashion, now an established
_ vo&ue is the Baby French
heel shoe. To see it in En Tete shoes
is to be captivated Jpy its &race, to
wear it is to be convinced of its com?
fort, to look over the Franklin Simon
& Co. collection, all With hand sewed
turned soles, is to realize its suitabil
ity and smartness for aivy occasion.
Pumps of patent leather or dull black.
ONE EYELET TIES of brown or
black suede, patent, dull black or tan
Russia leather. Priced 12.00 to 15.00
WOMEN'S SHOE SHOP-Third Floor
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