New-York tribune. [volume], July 15, 1920, Page 7, Image 7

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e Refuses ?
Delay in Trials
Of Profiteers
fiowe Raises Bail in Several
Cates and Orders Lawyer?
for Absentees to Have
Them Return to the City
Refuses Time Extensions
gifey Has Plan to Enable
Hoa*cw*vc9 *? ?uy Sugar
Cheaply in Carload Lots
j_ open season for profiteers was
?iiW?I5y declared by Federal Judge
H?rland B. Howe yesterday, n-hen
?(r?M d-tfendants, indicted for viola
tie? of the Lever food control act,
?ere called to plead. Absentees were
ratified through their attorneys that
?heir trials would proceed without de
Uv. In the cases of Hyman Kessler
tt? hi? wif'? Judge Howe raised the i
ijjjl from $1,000 on the first indictment
m $10,000 in each case. The Ressners
?ere hel? on a superseding indictment
naaVr $5-00? bail on the charge of
sribing "***- A N'icolett, one of Armin
f. Riley's "Flying Squadron."
When the Kesslers were called to
?lead to the superseding indictment ,
Judge Howe asked Maxwell S. Mattuck, ;
Assistant United States Attorney in ?
chirge of anti-profiteering prosee?*- !
tiens, what '?as the bail in the first
ose. Mr. Maxwell replied that it was
$1,000.
"That will not do," said Judge Howe.
?We must put these cases under heavy
toil." '
Held on Bribery ?Charge
The Besslers, who conduct a store at
;m Mulberry Street, are accused of
profiteering in sugar. Nicolett is un?
der $2,500 bail on an indictment charg?
in? he accepted a bribe. Judge Howe
directed that their trial be set for next
Wednesday.
The next case was that of John Mc
E!roy, under indictment for profiteer
in? in potatoes. Attorney John Sam
Bon, ? who presented McElroy, told !
Judge Howe that his client was out of ?
town, but would be at the Saratoga j
rices.
"I don't care for the races," said
Judge Howe. "Bring him here Mon?
day."
Morris Spurt, out on $3.000 bail un?
der indictment charging that he made i
a profit of from 7 to 8 cents in a 50,
CCO-pound sugar deal, had his bail
raised from $3r000 to $5.000, and was
jjiven a week to change his plea.
Further Delay Refused
Judge Howe refused to grant C. W.
ind C. A Kimbal!, held on a potatoe
profiteering charge, two weeks exten?
sion of time to plead and ordered that
they be brought in next Monday. The
Eculston-Beckert Company and An?
drew Roulston, indicted for profiteer?
ing in sugar, were ordered to plead
to-day.
Mr. Riley yesterday told Mrs. Louise
Reed We'zmiller, Deputy Commis?
sioner of Public Markets, that if the
htusewives of New York can get to?
gether and buy sugar ir^ carload lots, I
se can obtain it for them with a guar- ?
antee of no excessive profit and on the [
seme basis as that upon which the ]
eanners are supplied. Mrs. Welzmil
ler said that if groups of women in '
this city can be organized she can ob- |
tain the sugar for them in carload lots.
The sugar is packed in 110-pound sacks
and there are from 400 to 800 bags in
each car.
Summons Law Revived
For Minor Infractions
Police to Decide if Prisoner
Shall Be Locked Up or
Answer Charge Later
Instructions were sent to city magis?
trates yesterday by Chief Magistrate
McAdoo and to police captains by
Police Commissioner Enright to utilize,
for the rest of the summer at least, a
law passed in 1918 which encourages
the issuance of summonses for minor
infractions of the law instead of plac?
ing the alleged offenders under arrest.
The law leaves it to the discretion j
of the police lieutenant whether pris- j
oners charged with illicit spitting or :
smoking, craps shooting and offences ,
of like gravity shall be locked up or .
receive summonses ordering them to
answer the charge the next day in
police court. Under th? instructions
issued yjstarday all such prisoners
who can identify themselves satisfac?
torily probably will escape a cell unless
they ar? convicted and sent to jail.
Although it has been in existence for
two years, the law has not been in?
voked to any extent befojre. It was de?
cided to act under its provisions be?
cause during the summer police courts
dose early and it would be possible
for a man charged with an offence
which would mean only a fine of a
dollar or two at most to spend several
hours in a police station cell awaiting
arraignment.
Picnic Crowd Sees
- Tuo Girls Drown
Youth Dragged Under in
Attempting Rescue; 2
Other Bathers Are Lost
Miss Nellie Holster, seventeen, of
Passaic, X. J? end Miss Ida Donker
sloot, twenty, of Clifton, were drowned
in Verona Lake. Vetona, N. J.. yester?
day while men and women jvho were
attending the picnic of the First Hol?
land Reformed Church of Passaic
looked on.
The girls walked out into the water
until it was breast deep and then
stepped into a hole. Roloch Holster, a
cousin of the younger girl, tried to
save them and was dragged under.
Charles Truex rescued him. The bodies
were taken to Martinside Hospital,
whete all efforts to revive them failed.
In Hackensack Mathew Pronski,
fifteen, of 364 St. Paul's Avenue, was
drowned while swimming in the Hack?
ensack River. The body was not re?
covered.
Thomas McCann, thirty, a member
of the New York Athletic Club, was
swimming in Woodcleft Channel, at
Freeport, Long Island, yesterday, when
he sank without warning, probably
from cramps. His body was recovered. I
Seeks Divorce From Wife
Who Quit Him in 2 Weeks
George W. Nichols, of Masneth, L. I.
appeared in the Brooklyn Supreme
Court yesterday with a tale of marital
woe and a request for permission to
serve his wife, Mrs. Katherine E. Nich?
ols, with notice of trial for divorce by
publication.
He said that thev were married on
May 31. 1910. On June 14, he alleges,
she went away and never came back.
When she left, he says, she told him
she had heard that her mother was ill
in Darby, Pa. When she did not re?
turn, her husband alleges, he investi?
gated and found that his mother-in
law was in excellent health. Later he
says, he received two letters from Mrs.
Nichols. One of them said in part,
according to him:
"I have a better chance and I am
coing to take it. I am sorry to let you
know, but I will not be back."
In the oth-^r letter, he says, occurred
this passage:
"Goodhy forever. I jruess you will
be surprised to hear from me as I am
going away and do ?not want you to
bother me again."
Nicholas charges that he found his
wife living in Chester, Pa., witn an?
other man. Justice Van Sielen took I
the order under advisement. [
The Convenient Way
to Colorado
You've always planned to go to Colorado some day.
Why not fix the date of that "some day" for this
summer? It's a wonderful trip and surprisingly
comfortable and convenient. If you go via
Chicago & NorthWesiern Ry.
and
Union Pacific System
You have your choice of three inviting trains leav?
ing the Northwestern Terminal, Chicago, every day.
COLORADO SPECIAL
Leave Chicago 10:30 a. m. today
?Arrive Denver 4:30 p. m. tomorrow
DENVER SPECIAL
Leave Chicago 6:05 p. m. today
Arrive Denver 9:35 p. m. tomorrow
COLORADO EXPRESS
Leave Chicago 11:20 p. m. today
? Arrive Denver 7:35 a. m. 2nd morning
Each of these trains is fully equipped?choose the
one whose schedule best suits your individual
convenience.
For complete information ask any local ticket agent,
?r A. R. Gould, Gen'l Agent, C. & N. W. Ry., 280
Broadway, Tal. Worth 771, or J. B. De Friett, Gen'l
Agent, U. P. System, 280 Broadway, Tel. Worth 1757.
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Girl, 10, in Starchy Frills, !
Dives to Save Little Darky
him I ?
In Her Sunday liest She Plunges Off Pier to Rescue
Boy Who Had fallen Into River "Sowing Off"
4o Gain Her JFaw; Many Witness Near Tragedy
Passengers on a suburb*!? train of
the New York, New Haven * Hartford
Railroad, which left the Gr&id Central
Station at 5:45 p. m., yeettrday, and
Was stalled at the Harlem River by an
accident to a third-rail steine, became
? ?nterested in a scene on a Harlem
iKiver pier at 132d Street ? during the
delay.
On one side of the pier two little
negroes, apparently about ten years
old, were "showing off." They played
leap frog, they stood on their heads,
they played perilous tag ?round the
bu'kheads, they pummelled each other
with shrill cries of mimic ferocity. The
cause s of their antics, a ?rhite girl of
about the same age, dressed in her
starchiest and frilliest. best, sauntered
up and down the opposite side of the
pier, burdened with a blue parasol and
an elaborate indifference to masculine
maneuvers. ?
One of the contenders for her
glances suddenly swung himself out on
a taut hawser that led te the stern of
a barge which the tide had swung out
into the river^a distance ?_ about thirty
feet. Hand over* hand he began to
fling himself along the hawser. His
rival, however, seized the rope and be?
gan alternately to throw his weight
upon it and strive to lift it.
Grip on Rope Grows We?ke*
The result was that the boy on? the
rope soon found himself jogging up
and down above the river, now almost
touching it with his feet and now
raised high above it. He kept on labor?
iously and managed to reach the barge.
He was too exhausted, however, to pull
himself up the steep slant of the rope
to the stern, and began the return
journey. ***
He was goinnr more slowly now. Sev
:. eral times he triad to throw a lee over
the rope to re et his arms, but had not
the strength to do ?o, Halfway be?
tween the barge and the pier he found
that he could not remove one hand for
the next grip without losing his hold
with the other. Hebung rigidly above
the eddying surface of the stream, and
the tenor-stricken shine of his eye?
balls was visible to the passengers on
the trestle. <
The little whit? girl, however, still
was ostentatiouerV oblivious to the
proceedings, strolling Aincingly up and
down, with her parasol cocked over one
shoulder. Not ao? the little negro on
the pier. With a single panicky glance
at the immovable figure on the rope he
took to his heels.
Girl Plunge? lato River
The next moment bis rival dropped,
twitching and striving to recover his
hold. At the splash and strangled cry
the little white girl ran to the end of
the pier, dropped her parasol and
plunged, in all her ?tarchv frills, into
the river. She came up with the
negro boy's head resting on hei
shoulder and a scattering cheer came
from the head-cratrmed windows oi
the train.
Two men who he*n.rd the commotior
ran on to the pier with a rope and soor
hauled both children to safety. Mean?
time the passengers had been takint
up a collection and presently a parcel
well wrapped in newspapers, thumpec
into the street at the feet of the be
draggled little girl. As the train move?
jerkily on its way she clutched ih<
parcel in her arms, gave a drippinj
wave of the hand to the departing can
and started up the street.
That ?3 why two little negro boys
one wet and one dry, got home las
night without a satisfactory explana
tion of their absence and why a littl?
white girl, with Sunday frills virtuall;
?ruined, reached home carrying a wel
wrapped newspaper parcel which con
tained about $75 in bills and silver, am
a story that her parents may or ma;
not have believed.
Mrs. De Cor do va
Killed While
Defending Self
_ (C?ntl?ii?n! fr?m pti? on?)
came from New York to-day to remove j
his body. Geissler and his wife had a |
quarrel last October over her discovery j
of the photographs, Mrs. Geissler said.
"I accidentally came upon two photo?
graphs of Mrs. De Cordova and a lock
of hair among his effects," said Mrs.
Geissler. "The hair was not mine, and,
as I had had some experience in the
hair business, I readily recognized that
the lock had recently been cut. This
led to a dispute between myself and my
husband.
"Soon afterward I called up Mrs. De
Cordova on the telephone at her home
in New York. I told her I hoped she
might help us to a reconciliation, as 1
wished to get along with Mr. Geissler
and was planning that we should own
a home together. What Mrs. De Cor?
dova replied I will not repeat. I can
only quote three proverbs. These are:
" 'A guilty conscience needs no ac?
cuser, 'Still water runs deep' and 'Si?
lence gives co??4S?_?f.'
"In spite of what he did, I am taking
my husband's body bade to New York
to give it a decent burial, for I prom?
ised him I would stick to him through
life."
Husband Says Slayer
Of Wife Was Insane
Arthur De Cordova, whose wife was
murdered by her chauffeur Monday
night near Stonington, Conn., made his
first statement concerning the tragedy
yesterday in this city. He was certain,
he declared, that "Barney" Geissler,
the chauffeur was not sane. Mr? De
Cordova also was able to explain the
apparent evidence of a convivial party
found in the car in which his wife met
her death.
He said the whisky bottle found in
the car belonged to him and that the
cigarette butts found on the floor were
thrown there by him on Sunday. He
also denied that when the car left the
Hotel Griswold, Mrs. Cordova was seat?
ed on the front seat beside the chauf?
feur.
"I would like," he said, "to clear up
some details that have been publ'shed.
A?- to th ? whisky bottl? in tho car. if
i was mine. I always took a flask of
! whisky in the machine. I was out
driving Sunday and smoked a number
of cigarettes, thus accounting for the
the stubs found.
"I have been assured by hotel em?
ployees that the story Mrs. De Cordo?
va was sitting on the front seat when
the machine left the Hotel Griswold
is a mistake. The car was not a
three-seated machine, as stated, but
a five-passenger touring car with a
victoria top. Mrs. De Cordova was in
the .tonneau when she left the hotel.
"Barney Geissler never drank, to
my knowledge, and at times when I
invited him to take a drink he de?
clined because he said he drank
nothing but beer. I am sure he drank
some of the whisky from the bottle
in the car, but his doing so is foreign
to everything I knew, of him.
"He always showed devotion to the
whole family, but never exhibited the
slightest familiarity toward any of us.
The revolver with which he did the
shooting belonged to him. My son tells
me Barney told him on the way up to
New London that, he had a revolver
and offered to stop and get some blank
cartridges so my son could use the re?
volver on the Fourth of July. My son
declined, as he did not want to stop.
"I am positive Barney was mentally
unbalanced. Three weeks ago I orderet
him to bring the car at 8 o'clock Sun
day morning, and he was late. He ex
cused this on the ground that he had
to go to mass and would not miss his
devotions. When he passed a churcl
he would bless himself.
"I did not take these things serious?
ly, nor his opinion that he could d?
anything better than any one else
He thought no mechanic could do s?
much with an automobile, no chauf
feur drive so well as he, and showe?
many signs of exaggerated ego."
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Harding Notification Train
To Be Run in Two Section!
John J. Lyons, chairman of the Nev
York City delegation which will partici
pate in the notification ceremonies fo
Senator Warren G. Harding, Republi
can Presidential nominee, at Marior
Ohio, July 22, said yesterday that th
demand for reservations had been s
great that a second section of the spe
cial train will have to be made up t
accommodate the delegation.
The train will leave Grand Centra
Station, on the New York Central, a
4:30 p. m. (standard time) on July 21
arriving at Marion at 7:30 o'clock th
next morning. It will leave Marion s
4:30 p. m. on July 22, arriving in th i
city ;n 7:30 the fo iowintr morntntr.
Physicians Deny
Being Influenced
ByHammer Verdict
Bronx Grand Jury Told No
Operations Are Refused j
to Save Women's Lives j
Owing to Doctor's Trial ?
The July grand jury of the Bronx
] yesterday began consideration of the
cases of numerous physicians in that
borough, who, H was said, have refused
to perform certain operations to save
women's lives because of the outcome
of the Dr. Julius Hammer case.
Dr. Hammer was recently convicted
: of manslaughter because he performed
? the operation in question on Mrs.
i Michael Ogonesoff, of 230 Riverside
! Drive, who died thereafter. After his
| conviction, protest was made b7 many
| physicians in the borough and a state
: ment was issued in which certain doc
| tors were ruoted as saying that they
I were now afraid to perform certain
! delicate operations, even to save pa
[ tients' lives, because of the verdict in
; the Hammer case.
Physicians examined yesterday by
! the grand jury denied that they had
! any knowledge of or were parties to
i the assertions credited to them in the
I statement issued.
At the conclusion of yesterday's ses
! sion, the jury adjourned until next
; week. It first, however, subpoenaed
j for examination at that time a number
, of physicians who appeared yesterday
but whose testimony was not heard.
Among yesterday's witnesses were
Dr. Alexander Isaacson, of 1480 Cro
tona Park East; Dr. J. L. Rubcnstein,
i of 1667 Washington Avenue; Dr. J.
I Lachowski, of 1485 Washington Avenue,
' and Dr. Bernard Antin, of 1225 Boston
Road. Dr. William H. Handelmann, of
1227 Union Avenue, also was sum?
moned, but forwarded _ certificate
signed by Dr. H. Pike, of 1412 Crotona
'?venue, saying he wni indisposed.
Arch Slayer Sentenced in Berlin
BERLIN, July 14.?Schumann, char?
acterized by the "Vossische Zeitung"
as one of the cruelest and bloodiest
murderer? of all time, has been sen?
tenced to death. The jury found him
guilty of six murders, eleven attempt?
ed murders and a number of other
atrocities.
Here's The
"Business lunch"
For Yon!
Your business efficiency la
Summer depend? ? whole lot
on what you EAT.
Eat LIGHT and you'll feel
RIGHT.
You should eat Wheat?
woith Crackers and Milk for
breakfast or Puncheon. The
..moat cooling, refreshing and
nourishing COMPLETE
MEAL you could possibly eat
on a hot day.
D?ysn't tax you? digestion??
doesn't "heat you up"?yeX
supplies ALL the muscle
n-.akir.g, bone-bui'ding, nerve.-?
restoring elements of th?
whole grain.
Sealed Iru?iiHdual Service
Packages at Fountain*,
Lunch Rooms, Restaurants.
? 'our Grocer Wi? Supply Your Borne
leatsi
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adjustment showing veac?aCM? of mtenor of car by auction. C?Wesm weather ad jusca?oc Arrows show
circulation of air. D?Storm-proof adjustment indicating disposition of ram, snow or dust and ventilation
of interior of car by suction. Note dear vision space betwtsen outer sections of shield marked with an X.
All Motor Cars Eventually Will Have
The Vacuum Storm-Proof Windshield
Rain, snoir or mist cart not befog it?Clear vision under all circumstances?Ventilates interior
of car by suction process?Instantly adjustable?Adapts itself to all weather demands?An
inve ition introduced by Cole ?twelve months ago now adopted in the ciero-ElGHT
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Among the distinctly new and useful features introduced
in the cyiero-EiGHT all-season cars is the Vacuum Storm
Proof Windshield. Motorists long have hoped for just
such an improvement, and it seems
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The Vacuum Storm-Proof Wind
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mist may be dense or the wind blow in a gale, a clear
vision space?unobstructed by glass?is maintained con?
stantly on a direct line with the driver's
eyes and yet, not a drop of rain, nor a
flake of snow nor a particle of dust
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There is another adjustment for warm
weather driving, still another for mod?
erate weather and a third for cold
weather. Each of the four adjustments
is simple and requires but a moment.
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