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Exhibition Trig
Of Enemy Ships
Is Abandoned
German Vandalism Has Left
Craft in Sneli Condition
That It Would Be Danger?
ous to Send Them to Sea
Systematic Loot Charged
Captain Hellweg Says All
die Gear That Could Not
Be Stole? Was Wrecked
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.?Owing to
the deliberate damage wrought by tho
crews to the engines and other vital
parts of the live former German war?
ships recently brought to this country
r.nder tho peace treaty allocation,
necessitating extensive repairs to
make them possible of operation, none
of the vessels will be sent on an ex?
hibition tour of coastal cities, as the
Navy Department had hoped to do.
In making this announcement to
dnv, the department included a state?
ment by Captain J. F. Heliweg, com?
manding officer of the convoy which
brought the ships to America, assert?
ing tint even tho dreadnought
Ostfri'esland, the only one of the five
vessels capable of making the trans
atlantic trip under her own power, was
in such condition on arrival at New
York that it would he nazardous to
send her to sea again. Captain Hell
weg attributed the condition of the
ship, the other four of which, tho
cruiser Frankfurt and three de?
stroyers, were submerged at Scapa
Flow, to "deliberate vandalism" on the
part of their former German crews.
Deliberate Vandalism Apparent
"The gutted condition in which we
found these vessels on taking them
over cannot he exaggerated," he said. '
"What had not been stolen was j
wrecked. The vandalism indicated a I
very careful preparation and the usual
roughness of the Huns in execu?
tion."
Expressing the belief that the Ost
friesland had been systematically looted
while in a German dockyard for a year
after her surrender had been called
for, Captain Hellweg also declared the
presence of an "unnecessarily large
crew aboard wfyen the dr. ad nought was
brought to Rosyth, Scotland, indicated,!
in the light of developments, that the
crew ? is sei : with a view to looting:
; . . ? : possibli en route."
Not only did the German crews com- '
mil obvious depredation, Captain He!l
weg 1, "but their preparations
foi itui le by removing sec
! ons of pipe and valves" were respon
le for numerous breakdowns in the
Ostfriesland's machinery on the trip |
across.
Made Voyage With One Engine
He cited one instance in which a
six inch pipe line gave way and flooded
fire room when the vessel was 1.000
miles from the European coast. The
dri a (nought was c< mpelled to make ;
m -?. of the voyage, he said, with only
oni ? ? .- ?:? runn ng, although it towed
the Frankfurt all the way.
By bringing back on tho deck of the
Ostfricsland two 12-inch and two 14
inch guns, ?-..'? ic had formed a reserve,
for the land batteries of the American
. ; during the war. Captain Hell?
weg estimated that more than twice
thi amount appropriated to bring the
'. hi] ci . 10,1 00, was saved in then
transpon,. I ion.
Coney's Smallest Crowd
Has an Unexciting Day
Cone; island 1 died to attract weary j
New ?'orl ? i sterday. The smallest j
crowd of th" season was in evidence ;
and bathers were comparatively few, j
a measure to the inclement I
weather and the extortionate rates
charged for bathing privileges.. These
rangi d from $1.50 to $3.
With the exception of a few rescues
from drowning little occurred to mar;
the unusual serenity of the day.
T'firec nun were arrested, however,
and held for further examination.
Frank McGrail, twenty-seven years
old, of 1616 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn,
harged by Detective Louis Glaser
with plashing water on voung girls
who ventured too near the edge, ?le
was locked up in the Coney Island
police station.
Joseph Levine, eighteen years old,
of 444 East Houston Street, Manhat?
tan, was arrested on Mermaid Avenue
and West Twenty-eighth Street, for
making alleged slighting remarks
about an army uniform which he wore.
Edward La Fleur, twenty years old,
an orderly in the Coney Island Hospi?
tal, was held on a charge of grand
larceny, on complaint of Louis Joseph
son, of Coney Island. According to
Josephson, he sent his daughter, Lil?
lian, to the hospital with $50 in cash
and a pair of eyeglasses, valued at
$10. rhi in ! ructi ?1 her to leave
with Le Fleur, to be handed to a pa?
tient. They never reached the patient,
he charged.
Weather Report
Sun rlsi ?- . . . 6 ; i n ?un st-ts. ... 6:43 pm
?' ? ' : pm Moon. ;-"is. n 000 pm
?'?? le : al ???- ?-?- ni' ? aro standard
time and not New York Stale time
Local Forecast Fair and cool r to day;
' row, w It h moderate tempera?
ture i i)'': : : ? Hh norl Ii winds
Official Record The following official
: ro? i the ? nther bun au nhows
temperatures durlns the last twenty-four
hours lu comparison with the corre?
al" mil ni; dati ul l isl year :
1920. i!>19.
3 n. m. . 70 :: p m. . 81 S3
,; ??' ? ? 71 | (5 p m . 77 84
?' " c.i. .7" 7 ; 3 ;,. ,.,. . 75 7g
? ; - 10 p m. . 7 4 7 s
? ' ' 2:30 ] ii l; low.
? ' ' ".'.-. ..,,( 1 15 A Mi. avi ::,?;?? 76
? - ? ?? date lasl yoai 7-,
? ??' ? date for thirty
tli: years. 72 degrees
Humidity
'?- '? '.? ' S2 ! S p. m... 83
Itarometer Koudliigs
1:89 : p in.29.SS S p m.29:S7
fjpnernl Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Pressure is
low over the A i tul hlgl , the
: ?'.:'..' and Roi ky
mountains I low over thi l'ai lfl, Blopo
A disturba! of moderate inti : - Ity ?mi
lay night over s ml hern New
Englai , Ing ? ast ? ml. There
have 1 ' ? i w ii hin : he lasl iw my
hoan Vtlantie and ? iulf stal a
th" ' Hi ? ' an i the i. glon of the
Client 1 .? . . '..::? \\. at hi r was general
in otlu '*
The ? ii hi iwi ver ha a been mo con -
Bid' ib i the Intel : states east
of l i;..'-. i ;uif
suit s. Tin ;. ? been :. ! ui ' hi :' riso In
ten peral uro ov>-i l he Roi ky Moui tain re
i ml tl northern pla In si att s
In thi middle Atlantic and New England
? les the v. eal her will I i r and
Monda) and fair with moderate temper
atui " Tuesday In Tenues? ? , the Ohio
?\ alley and I he I' ? i r ke region : he
v .: her will be ' ? ? Mond i ?? and Tuesday,
with hu;?!"t temperature Tuesdaj In the
upper lake region Hi" weather will lie
i,. ii : warrwor Monday and Tuesdaj In
tin- soul h Atlai . i .ist i lull si al a
the weal I" ?? w 111 be fair ? II k moderate
tern) ? ratun and Tui sdn j ? xci pi
that there will be local showi rs in Florida.
District I'oreru?!?K?stern New York,
Bouthern NVn Rngland, eas ern I'ennsyl
vanta, Ni iv Jersey and Delaware -fair
i Monda; t'uesdaj fair, with |
?ii?d rature
Vori nnd western Penn- ,
sylvan ' ' ? Mi n la) and Tuesday . ris
: ; ? t -j : , I
1* a. m . .
8 a n !
Guest Day on Visiting Warships
A deck scene yesterday on the U. S. S. Pennsylvania of th? Atlantic fleet anchored in the Hudson River.
Women Slapped by
Grocery Thieves to
Silence Their Cries
Four Men Captured in Auto
Chase Attack Customers
Who Gave Alarm; An?
other S50,000 Robbery
Four in o n. who, tho police charge, en?
tered a crowded grocery store in the
Bronx and slapped the faces of women
who attempted to scream while the
storekeeper was being robbed wert?
held in $3,000 bail each by Magistrate
Francis McQuade in the Morrisania
Court yesterday morning.
Carl Larson, who said he was a chauf?
feur, of 989 Amsterdam Avenue, pleaded
guilty. The other men (?rave their names
as John Lancer, 145 St. Nicholas Ave?
nue; Herman Triemony, -10 West 115th
Street, and Alois Rodlingi 49 Fast 127th
Street.
Riding up to a store at 2035 Webster
Avenue in an automobile Saturday af?
ternoon, four men, .according to the
police, entered the place with drawn
revolvers. A dozen women customers
who began to scream were slapped, bul
kept up the alarm until the men picked
up weights from a scale and began tc
hurl them.
Police Sergeant George Burnell and
Patrolman James J. Bowdcn came tc
the rescue. Their appearance was the
signal for an attempted escape of the
men, who ?jot into their automobile am
started away. The police comman?
deered a machine and ?rave chase. Tin
men arraigned were captured a fev
blocks away. The amount taken fron
the store was small.
August Schneider, of 946 Columbus
Avenue, was arrested last night at
.Manhattan Avenue and 111th Street
The men arrested earlier are though'
to h-jve given the information which
caused tho police to look foi
Schneitier.
Detective Fitzgerald saw him a
107th Street and Manhattan Avenue ant
arrested him, after a chase of foui
blocks. He was looked up at the Wes
100th Street police, station.
Two men wer" held at the Wes
Thirty-seventh Street police statioi
yesterday in connection with the thef
of $00,000 worth of silks and jewelr;
from a warehouse at 531 West Thirty
fourth Street. Passersby noticed tw
men taking packages from the ware?
house Saturday night anil notified the
police. Detectives, who rushed to the
place in a taxicab, arrested Joseph
Gagliano, 303 East 105th Street, and
Girolano Russo, 330 East 105th Street,
who were said to have been Been leav?
ing the warehouse in a truck,
_-a
B. R. T. Men Accused
Of Beating Passenger
Man Found Unconscious After
He Is Alleged to Have Tam?
pered With Brakes
After an argument on the rear plat?
form of a Third Avenue trolley car in
Brooklyn last night Henry Post, Ml
years old, of 225 Sixty-fifth Street,
Brooklyn, was burled to the street and
then beaten into unconsciousness by
three B. R. T. employees, according to
the police. Rost was taken to the
King's County Hospital, where he was
reported to bo dying.
Rost, according to the police, was
tampering with tho brakes of tho trol?
ley car when the B. H. T. men remon?
strated with him. Rost continued med?
dling with the brakes.
At Sixty-fifth Street, the police say.
Post was thrown from the car, the
three alleged assailants following him
tc the street
Three nun were arrested and taken
to the Fourth Avenue station house,
charged with felonious assault. They
are: Herman Holzenagle, twenty-two,
a motormah, of 427 Putnam Avenue;
Rein Leisenberg, twenty-four, a con?
ductor, of 541 Fifth Street, and James
Wallace, twenty-seven, a motorman, of
5518 Sixth Avenue, all of Brooklyn.
The prisoners denied the charge.
2 Field in $100,000 Theft
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.?Chicago police
to-day made an armed raid across the
state' lino into Indiana and arrested
Frank Miller, a h?rtender, at Burnham,
in connection with the theft Friday, at
Pullman, of a mail pouch containing
$1110,000.
As the detectives loft the resort at
which. Miller worked, a crowd gathered
and demanded his release on the
ground that the Chicago police could
not make an arrest there. The
detectives drew their rims and went
through the crowd in hollow square
formation with Miller in the center.
Later, they arrested his roommate,
John C. Heinnie.
Bedtime'Stories
The Little Rabbit Finds He Has Neighbors
Bv Thornton W. Burgess
Good neighbors arc a source of joy;
The other kind always annoy.
?Peter Rabbit.
The willful little Rabbit, who was so
sure he knew all there was to know
when he ran away from the dear Old
Briar-patch and was quite able to take
care of himself, had learned the iirst
am! most important lesson in life. He
had learned that the only way to really
gain knowledge is to nave an open
mind. Having an open mind is simply
bi ins ready and willing to learn from
others and from experience.
Not since he ran away had he had a
chance to learn from others, but he
had had many chances to learn from
experience and he had learned. The
latest thing he had learned was that
seme black shadows were quite harm?
less, while others had sharp claws, so
1 her.'fuie it was not safe to tru,st too
much to appearance. Of course the
Biack Shadow with claws which had
Ought him this was not a Black
Shadow at all but Spooky the Screed:
Owl.
Hut this the little Rabbit did nol
know. All he knew was that he ha<
si en a Black Shadow drifting towarc
him and suddenly sharp claws hat
seized him. They had torn his coa
and they had hurt, but they had don?
him no real harm. In fact they liai
done him some good, for they ha<
t: tight him that things are not alway
what they seem and are not to 1>
trusted unless they are thoroughl;
known.
Von may be sure he didn't ventur
to so much as poke his nose out agai
from his hiding place in the old ston
wall that night. He slept a little, bu
most of the time he nursed his wound
from the sharp claws which had tor
his coat and wondered and wondere
how it was possible for a fellow t
know a harmless Black Shadow froi
a dangerous one.
At last jolly, round, red Mr. Sun b<
gan his daily climb up in the blue, bit
sky and the Jolly Little Sunbeau
came creeping in among the bush?
growing along the old stone wa!
They peeped in between the big stom
oi the old wall and at last one of the
found the willful little Rabbit. Sam
hew he felt better for being foun
The truth is he was beginning to fe
very lonesome. He wanted some 01
to talk to; he was tired of talking
himself.
Hardly had the Jolly Little Sunbea
found him when a pair of the bright?
eyes in all the (?rent World peep
in and discovered him. "Well, we
well, see who is hen ! " exclaimed
merry voice, and a very active, sm
pet son wearing a striped coat sat
on a stone of the old wall and star
down at the willful little Rabbit.
"Wall, who is there?" demanded
''Don't you know that tltis old stone
vail belongs tit Striped Chip?
munk and myself?"
sharper voice, and another small per?
son in a red coat came scampering
along the old wall to join the first
speaker. Of course you know who the
first one was; it was Striped Chip?
munk. And of course you have guessed
who the second one was; it was Chat?
terer the Red Squirrel.
Now, as you know, Chatterer is never
so happy a>- when he is making some
one uncomfortable, lio guessed right
away that that little Rabbit had run
away. And he knew without being told
that he knew nothing of the Croat
World. So Chatterer pretended to be
very angry.
"What are you tloing here?" he de?
manded in a very cross-sounding voice.
"If you please." replied the little
Rabbit timidly, "I'm not doing any
harm. I didn't know any one was liv?
ing here and I thought I would make
my home here."
"Did you ever in your life hear any?
thing lik< that ?", demanded Chatterer
of Striped Chipmunk. Without wait
ing ft r a reply he rattled on: "Don't
you know that this old stone wall ho?
lt ngs to Striped Chipmunk and my?
self'.' No one has any right here but
ourselves, so the sooner you take to
those long legs of yours arid get away
frcm here the better for you."
'"t'es, sir," replied th.'? frightened
little Rabbit. "I'll do it right away.
11 vou please, sir, where can I go atul
be safe?"
(Copyright, 1920, by T. W Burgess)
The next story: "The Little Rabbit
Four Are Drowned,
One a Suicide, in
New York Waters
Body of an Unidentified
Woman Is Washed Ashore
at Fort Wadsworth; Man's
Shir! Over Fare Only Clew
Four persons were drowned and two
others were rescued with ereat diffi?
culty in waters adjacent to New Yori
yesterday.
Max Lerner, twenty-two years old,
of 341 Bcekman Avenue, the Bronx
became exhausted while swimming ni
Orchard Beach and sank before his
cries for help could be heeded. Pa?
trolmen from the City Island police
station later recovered the body, but
when Dr. Drioblatt, of Fordham Hos?
pital, arrived he said life was extinct.
W. E. Weingold, twenty years old,
of OSO Prospect Avenue, the Bronx.
lost his life while swimming in the
Hudson River on th'1 Jersey side near
Dyckman Street. He was seen to dive
into the water from a motorboat, but
failed to rise to the surface. Friends
tried in vain to recover his body. The
police of Harbor A were notified and
an attempt will be made to-day to drag
the river.
Edward Hammer, twenty-four years
obi, of 1102 Loii'j-wood Avenue, (he
Bronx, was drowned while swimming
at Glen island. He was seized with
eramos and screamed loudly for help.
Before rescuers could reach him, how?
ever, he sank. His body was recovered.
During the World War Hammer
served with distinction in France. Of
?ate he had been employed by the
United States Rubber Company and
lived with hi:' widowed mother.
Th" body of an unidentified woman
was washed ashore at. Fort Wadsworth,
Staten Island, early yesterday. For a
time it was thought she might be an?
other victim of murder as was the
young woman whose mutilated body
was found floating off Communipa'w on
Tuesday.
Following an autopsy, however, per?
formed by Medical Examiner Mord, of
Richmond County, he rendered a ver?
dict of suicide and said that in his
opinion the body had not. been in the
watei' for more than an hour.
A clew to her identity may be found
in a man's shirt with blood stains on
it which covered the woman's face
when her body was discovered by
fishermen. She is described as being
about thirty years old, live feet, live
inches tall and weighed led pounds.
In one of her shoos was a label bear?
ing the name "Alfred Kohn, Fifth
Avenue."
Max Baer, twenty-two years old, of
350 Keap .Street, Brooklyn, was
rescued from drowning while swim
mini, off West Twenty-third Street,
Coney Island. He was taken to the
Coney Island Hospital by Or. Merlh
man, of the Cumberland Street Hospi?
tal. His condition is precarious.
Seaside Resorls F?an
War on Floating Oil
?
Mass Meetings Called to Combat
Nuisance Which Is Ruining
Property Values
SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 22. .Mass
meetings arc to be held this week in
seaside communities between San ly
Hook and Atlantic City to protest
against the flood of crude oil which
has been invading beaches and to de?
cide upon some method of abating tho
nuisance.
Bathing and fishing in this vicinity
have been spoiled by the oil and prop?
erty values have suffered in conse?
quence. The situation is the worst
since 1017. when the steamship Kel
logg was torpedoed off Bayheaa.
Fishermen along the Ambrose Chan?
nel report that the oil drifts out from
the Lower New York Ha:- with the
tide. Wncn the tide shifts the oil is
borne back and deposited along the
Jersey shore.
Private estates as well as public
beaches have suffered from the plague
of oil and shore dwellers of all de
grees of wealth and poverty will join
in the protest meetings.
Slayer Reprieved Again
Wants Cassaliiio to Testify
Against Alleged Accomplice
Governor Smith has granted a fur?
ther reprieve of fou. months to
Michael Cassalino, who was to die in
the electric chair at Sing Sing Thurs?
day. He acted on the recommendation
of District Attorney O'Leary of
Queens County, who said he desired
to use Cassalino as a v'tness against
an alleged accomplice in the killing
of Mr. and Mrs. Holbach at their hotel
m South Ozone Park, L. 1., last year.
Arrangements had been .completed
to send four slayers to the chair
Thursday. Unless further siay.s are
granted, Frank Kelley, a negro, who
murdered Elizabeth Dunn last winter
in Brooklyn; John Egan, who killed
i oui Klein, anil Andrew di Cjtrlo,
shiver of Wylie Hughes, colored, will
then pay the extreme penalty.
It was said at th? prison yesterday
that attorneys for Egan are seeking to
have his sentence commuted.
Slavin Has Better
Than Even Chance,
His Physician Says
Actor Found Injured Near
McGraw Home Abte to
Speak Few Words; Dura?
tion of Coma Sets Record
Thera was no appreciable change in
tho condition of John G. Slavin, the
actor, at St. Luke's Hospital yesterday.
Dr. Austin W. Hollis. a specialist,
after an examination, Bald: "I should
say he now appears to have better than
an oven chanco of recovery."
Slavln's mind has not fully cleared
and ho has not been conscious for any
length of time since ho was picked up
in front of the home of John J. Mc?
Graw, manager of the Giants, on Sun?
day morning, August 8, and taken to
the hospital suffering from a fractured
skull. He has spoken a few words to
his wife and son, who visit him daily,
but has been unablo to tell how ho re?
ceived his Injuries after the fight at
the Lambs. It was said last night that
tho police probably will not be per?
mitted to question him this week.
At the hospital it was said the actor's
case has been unique nmong those
treated there. Never before at St.
Luke's has a patient with a fractured
skull remained in a coma more than
eight days and lived.
?
No More Boy Prisoners Will
Be Sent to Yorktown School
Boy prisoners no longer will bo sent
to the New York Training School for
Hoys, at Yorktown, it was announced
yesterday. Many escapes recently and
inadequate facilities for keeping tho
boys in restraint werr given as tho
causes.
The Institution at Yorktown has
been usod for several years as an aux?
iliary to the reformatory on Randall's
Island, where boys convicted of minor
crimes wero sent to learn practical
farming.
LaGuardia Asks Aldermen
To Study New City Budget
Florello 11. La Guardia, President of
tho Board of Aldermen, yesterday sent
a letter to each member of the board
asking them to familiarizo themselves
with the budget, this year, in order
that care and scrutiny which the
charter contemplates shall be actually
oxercis.'d by tho Hoard of Aldermen"
Tho Aldermanlc President said ho
had arranged to have copies of the
departmental and borough estimates
available for the aldermen's inspection
nt his office at any time during the
day. He pointed out that under the
charter these estimates should be sub?
mitted to the Board of Aldermen by
August 1, but that they were coming
in every day now.
Examiners for the Committee on
Finance and Budget of the Board of
Estimate will go over the estimates
between now and SeptembeT^T^
the Finance Committee will "iw **
sessions on September 27 to d?-;jn ^
partmental request?, Clde ?t
The Aldcrmanic President saiH ?
was anxious for every eldern?. ?
keep ?n touch with the situatS *
it progressed before the Finance r *
mittee and the Board of Estimate
that the wholi! budget will not be "_J
denly thrust upon them when it
pawed by the Hoard of Estim?t? J
referred to the Hoard of Aldirtae,/
By reason of the
DEATH OF MRS. JOHN WANAM?KER
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in NeW York, Philadelphia, Paris and London
will be closed till Tuesday morning
.. August 24th
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