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flPivo Admirers
?Of Palisades
yietim Sought
Chauffeur Says Mr?. Schulz
Recently Quarreled With
au Italian Named Joe;
Husband Also Knew Him
uRoy" Another Friend
Man Who Took Slain Girl
Out Night Before Tragedy
Says He Gave Her 2 Ring??
_?Ljdr?matic turn in the mystery sur?
rounding the murder of Blanche, the
tweaty-year-old wife of Frank Schulz,
whose body was found in a vacant lot
at Gxantwood, N. ?., occurred last night
??hen George Harris, a chauffeur, en?
tered the Alexander Avenue police, sta?
tion in the Bronx and told his story of,
the marital affairs of Schulz and his I
muTdered wife.
"While Harris told his story Schals
vas., hysterically calling from his cell
in the Hackensack ? N. J.) prison,;
where he is being held as a material
witness, for paper on which to write a
detailed account of his movements dur?
ing the time intervening between his :
?wife's departure for Keyport, on Sun?
day and the discovery of her body.
The Chauffeur's Story
-To Assistant District Attorney Hat?
ting, who was called by the police, Har?
ri?'told the following story, after say?
ing he was twentv-eight years old and
lived at 475 East 142d Street:
"I have known the Schulzes since last ,
February. I met Mrs. Schulz on Fri?
day last" and took her to a motion pic?
ture show in the Bronx, and afterward
to supper. At that time she told me
she was going to Keyport Sunday, and
invited me to be there en Monday or
Tuesday.
"On Tuesday I did not hear from her,
and became worried, so I sent a tele?
gram to her sister at Keyport. The
following day 1 got a letter from Mrs.
Widmer saying Blanche was not th?re.
"Blanche Schulz always had plenty
of money. Her husband never gave her
any. They were always quarreling and
he treated her badly. On one occasion
I bought her a silk waist at Gimbels
and when she got home she told me l
her husband was sore at her and tore
Up the waist.
"! gave her a gold-plated wrist watch
>rhieh she always wore. I gave her two
rings.
"Last March Schultz and his wife
?l*?ned to go down to Cuba with me,
but the trip was called off.''
Two Other Admirers
Harris also told the Assistant Dis?
trict Attorney that Mrs. Schultz had
recently discarded an Italian chauffeur
named op, who was one of her ad?
mirers. He mentioned a man named
Boy,as another of her admirers.
Yesterday, in Hackensack, Schultz
told Assistant County Prosecutor Mc?
Carthy that an Italian chauffeur, whose
name he did not ?tnow, had been
friendly with his wife. A search is
being made for this man.
Harris told the authorities where he :
purchased the watch and an effort
is under way to trace it, as it was not
{bund on Mrs. Schultz's body. The
reason for the anxiety of Harris con- |
cerntng the woman on Tuesday ap
parantiy has not been determined.
Harris's story about the contemplated
Cuban trip partly corroborates a state- i
ment made Thursday by Schultz.
Harris said that he had read in the I
newspapers that the police were look?
ing- for a man he thought to be him- {
eeif, and gave that as the reason he !
had reported to the police station. He
said he did not wish to have any sus?
picion cast upon himself and wanted
to -tell the authorities all he knew.
'Assistant District Attorney Hatting
got into communication with Assistant
County Prosecutor McCarthy at Hack?
ensack and arranged to have the latter
question Harris in the Bronx at 9
o'clock to-day.
Bergen County authorities learned
from the Rev. Father Anthony Ferretti,
of the Church of the Epiphany, Cliff
etd?, N. J., yesterday that he had
heard the screams of a woman three j
times between 10 and 11 o'clock Sat?
urday night. At the time he heard
them Father Ferretti was visiting the
home of Recorded E. H. Kenny, about
800 feet from the scene of the murder
Father Ferretti went out and looked
around, but was unable to locate the
cries or to see any one.
The statement of Father Ferretti
?e-ts the probable time of the murder
as Saturday niight. Hitherto the au?
thorities have been in doubt as to
whether the crime was committed Sat?
urday or Sunday.
John Storm, a jail warden, and Dep?
uty Sheriff Blauvelt were sent yester?
day from Haekensack to the scene of
the murder to jrake a systematic
search for a knife,'"believing the mur?
derer might have thrown it away.
Assistant County Prosecutor Mc?
Carthy admitted yesterday there were
several discrepancies in Schuiz's story
that would have to be cleared up.
In his narrative of his movements
Saturday and Sunday, according to Mc?
Carthy, Schulz said that he awoke Sat?
urday at noon and found a note from
his wife asking him to shave Ind press
his clothes.. He said he went out and
returned at 1 o'clock unday morning.
The note had been torn up, the pieces
crumpled and thrown Into a corner.
He says he pieced these together and
showed them to Faulkner. The latter,
questioned separately, declared he
never had seen any note, McCarthy
says. A search of Schuiz's room at
405 East 135th Street failed to reveal
any pieces of paper.
According to the authorities, Schulz
was well known in the neighborhood
of his home, but he was' unable to
name any one who had seen him on
Sunday.
Another phase of Schuiz's story that
is being investigated is his declared
anxiety over his wife's absence with?
in two days after her disappearance.
The authorities are also inquiring
why he did not go to Keyport Sun?
day instead of Monday. They point
out that on other occasions when Mrs. ?
Schulz left her home he displayed no j
anxiety, even when she remained |
away "one time for more than two i
weeks.
Schulz notified the police that his
wife was missing on Monday, after his j
return from Keyport. He also gave
photographs of his wife to reporters |
in the Bronx. He will be questioned i
as to why he was so positive the body'
of the murdered woman was that of;
his wife without looking at it.
Prosecutor McCarthy said these de-j
tails would be inquired into, a3 well |
as suggestions that had been given I
him by Schulz. He advised the au-1
thorities, among other things, to find
a woman he called "Zola."
Although Schulz is being kept in
Btrict confinement it was reported
last night that he had made the follow
ing statement: "If the police suspect:
me of the murder they are wrong. I
would have had no reason to murder
that little woman. As for robbing her, j
why she would always give me money j
if she had it and if I wanted it."
Weather Report
Pun rises . 5:1g a.m. Sun sets.. . 6:35 p.m. i
Moon rises. 5:61 p.m. Moon nets. I::5..m. j
Note?The above figures are standard i
time and not New York State time.
Ix>ral Forecasts.?Cloudy to-d&r; to- ;
morrow, showers; not much change in <
temperature; gentle, variable winds.
Txwal Officiai Record.?The following
official record shows temperatures during
the last twenty-four hours, in comparison
with the corresponding date of last year:
1920. 1919.? 1920. 191?. i
3 a. m... ?? 62' 3 p. m... 74 67 j
G a. m... ?55 6 0 6 p. m... 7 5 70 ?
9 a. m... 70 63 9 p. m... ?3 67 ?
12 noon... 75 62 10 p. in... 67 ?5
Highest, 77 degrees (at 12:30 p. m.);?
lowest, 65 (at 6 a. m. 1 : average. 71 ; aver- I
age same date last year, 64; average samo
dato for thirty-three years, 71.
Humidity
S a. m.... 751 p. m.... 7 6'8 p. m. . . . 65!
Barometer Rending?
S a. m.. 30.28;i p. m. . 30.25!8 p. m.. 30.18
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.?The air prei- !
rure is high but falling In the Eastern '
states, high olT the Pacific Coast and low I
over the Rocky Mountain region and the j
western Canadian provinces. A disturb- j
anee of considerable intensity 1s moving
eastward along the Northwest border.
There have twien showers within the last
twenty-four hours in tho south Atlantic ;
and Gulf states. Tennessee, the Ohio Val- j
ley, and at scattered points In the Rocky
Mountain and northern plateau regions '
and on the north Pacific Coast.
Temperatures are above tho normal
along the northern border from Maine to j
Montana and generally below normal In ;
other regions.
In New England and New York cloud!- \
nesH will increase, clearing Saturday, and !
be followed by showers by Saturday night :
and on Sunday, with moderate tempera?
ture. In the middle Atlantic, south At- I
lantlo and east Gulf states the weather I
will be unsettled Saturday and Sunday, ?
with showers and no material change in ;
temperature. In Tennessee, the Ohio Val
ley and the region of the Great Lakes the
weather will be partly cloudy Saturday j
and Sunday, with local showers and no
material change in temperature.
District Forecasts.?Northern New Eng
lm^? Fair to-day; to-morrow cloudy, with
probable showers; not much change In
temperature.
Southern New England, eastern New
York?Cloudy to-day; to-morrow, shower?;
not much change In temperature.
Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Cloudy, probable showers, to-day and to- :
morrow; not much change In temperature. |
"Western Pennsylvania, western New ,
York.? Ix?crI showers to-day and to-mor- '
row; no change in temperatur?.
Bedtime Stories
Redtail the Hawk and Ol* Mistah Buzzard
By Thornton W. Burgess
Honest folks, alas! alack!
Are oft misjudged for wearing black.
?Striped Chipmunk.
Striped Chipmunk is always frisky
atld usually happy. Now he was fris?
kier and happier than ever. It was all
because he had been so frightened by
by Shadow the Weasel, and then
Shadow had disappeared without dis?
covering him. He raced up and down
the old stone wall and dodged in and
out of the holes between the stones.
He chased his tail. He even ran up
nearly to the top of a little tree, which
is something very unusual for Striped
Chipmunk.
? Peter Rabbit's lost little son watched
Striped Chipmunk and chuckled at the
funny antics Striped Chipmunk cut up.
He was very happy was that lost little
Rabbit. He was very happy, indeed.
Somehow he no longer felt lost at all.
It was all because of Striped Chip?
munk. Striped Chipmunk had proved
Mmeelf a friend, and now the lost little
Rabbit no longer felt lonesome. In
fact, he didn't feel lost any longer
You see, he felt that Striped Chip
munk was very wise in the ways of the
Great World, and that all he need tc
do when in trouble was to run t<
Striped Chipmunk for advice.
Present'}', way, way up in the blue
blue sky, the little Rabbit saw a blacl
?peek sailing round and round. Now
before he left home in the dear Ole
Briar-patch he had been taught tc
twateh out for black specks that salle?
round and round high up in the blue
blue iky. He had been told that sucl
?. ?peck was very likely to be Redtai
the Hawk, and Redtail would like noth
in? better than to dine on tender younj
Rabbit. So now, when the little Rab
bit ?aw that black speck sailing roun?
and round in the blue, blue sky, h<
warned Striped Chipmunk. You see
I be couldn't bear to think of anythini
happening to his new friend. Stripe?
Chinrnunk rolled one twinkling, brigh
?itwe eye up at that black speck ant
tfeeit laughed. "That isn't Redtail,
?mid he. "That is 01' Mistah Buzzard
He wouldn't hurt a flea."
"Oh!" exclaimed the little rabbit
"l fhought it was Redtail the Hawk
Doesn't Redtail look like a black spec!
high up in the blue, blue sky?"
Sometimes," replied Striped Chip
munk. "Sometimes he flies so high tha
lie i$ nothing mora than a black speck
I
! "That isn't Red Tail," said he, "tha
is 01' Mistah Buzzard."
but usually he does not fly so high s
that. Any way, it is easy enough t
tell Redtail from 01' Mistah Buzzar
I supposed everybody knew that,"
For a few minutes Peter Rabbit
little Bon kept his tongue still. He si
there, studying and studying that blac
speck high up in the blue, blue sky.
"How do you do it?" he asked, quit
| suddenly.
"How do I do what?" demand?
j Striped Chipmunk, looking very mut
j puzzled. You see, he had quite forgo
? ten what they had been talking abou
j "How do you tell Redtail the Hav
! from 01'Mistah Buzzard?"
"That's easy enough," replied Strip?
Chipmunk. "I just watch their win_
When I see a black fellow sailii
< round and round away up in the sk
without seeming to more his wings
all, I know it Is" 01' Mistah Buzsai
Redtail can sail for a while witho
flapping his wings, but not as 01' Mi
tah Buzzard can. Redtail will flap _
wings every orco in a while."
"Thank you," said the little Rabb
"Thank you very much, indeed; I'
learned something."
(Copyright, 1?28, by T. W. Burgess)
The next story: "Tha Little Rsbl
Learns Some More."
Taxi Men Accused
Of Profiteering in
Baggage Strike
Woman Charged $5 Each for
Trunks From Hotel to
Pier; Progress Toward
Settlement Being Made
While drivers of the New York
Transfer Company and the Westcott
Express Company, the two concerns
which haul the bulk of travelers' bag?
gage in Manhattan, are on strike, in
dependent baggagemen and taxicab
drivers are profiteering, according to
reports received yeaterdsy by Alfred
M. Barrett, of the Public Service Com?
mission.
One women, Mr. ?Barrett learned,
was charged J5 each for the hauling
of five trunks from a Broadway hotel
to a steamship pier. Similar extor
tions were reported from many quar?
ters.
Mr. Barrett conferred with repre?
sentatives of the Teamsters' Union
yesterday, but said he was not at
liberty to divulge the nature of the |
arguments. The conference lasted
three hours. Mr. Barrett said some
progress was being made. The team?
sters on Wednesday were asked to
modify their strike demands. This
request has not been acted upon so far,
according to Michael Cashell, team?
sters' internationsl vice-president.
Mr. Barrett will discuss the situa?
tion with the employers to-day. The
demand for an eight-hour day is the
big issue, Mr. Barrett thinks. And the
employing companies point out that it
is difficult to arrange eight-hour
shift? for drivers.
Baggage continues to accumulate in
railway stations and piers, although
some of it is being removed, Mr. Bar?
rett says.
Hypodermic Needle Sends
Woman to Penitentiary
Prisoner Sentenced to Not Less
Than 6 Months Nor More
Than 3 Years
After she had been found guilty of
having a hypodermic needle in her
possession, Hattie Gompers, thirty
four years old, of 307 Reid Avenue,
Brooklyn, was sentenced yesterday by
Justices Freschi, Mclnerney and Ed?
wards in the Court of Special Sessions
to serve not less than six months nor
more than three years in the peniten?
tiary. She told Miss Mary A. Mangan,
probation officer, that she was a cousin
of Samuel Gompers, the labor leader.
Alexander Gompers, a son of Samuel
Gompers. later said he knew the
woman, but that she was not in any
way related to his family.
She was arrested August 12 last on
board the steamer Correction, which
is used for carrying prisoners to
Blackwell's Island. Margaret Reilly,
a matron on the boat, made the arrest.
She noticed the Gompers woman and
decided to search her. The needle
was found in her possession and her
arrest followed.
Legion Plans Information
Bureau for Immigrants
Americanism Commission Out?
lines Project to Wallis* to
Rircord Newcomers
? Arthur'Woods, head of the American
commission of the American Legion,
outlined yesterday to Frederick A. Wal?
lis, Immigration Commissioner, a plan
to organise ' the legion to help In '
hastening the assimilation of immi?
grants.
The plan calls for the establishment
of a bureau of information at Ellis j
island by the American Legion, which
would obtain the name and a brief
record of every immigrant and forward
this information to the post situated
nearest to the place where the immi?
grant intendad to make eis home.
It would bo the function of each post
to inform its alien charges concerning
the ideals, customs and opportunities
of the land to which they had moved.
The social welfare committees of the
various posts in each state would per?
form this work under the direction of
a state chairman.
Mt. Woods said that if the Federal
government was unwilling or unable
to maintain the information bureau at
Ellis Island the legion would provide
the necessary funds. It is his inten?
tion to organize a clerical force for
the work immediately.
Commissioner Wallis expressed ap?
proval of the plan, but said he had
no power to authorize the establish?
ment of the system. He promised to
submit the proposal to the Labor De?
partment at once.
Wason Gets Another Chance
Court Suspends Sentence on
Man Who Took Hospital Funds
County Judge Haskell suspended sen?
tence yesterday in Brooklyn on George
W. Wason, formerly treasurer of the
Good Samaritan Hospital, Brooklyn,
who pleaded guilty of the theft of
$7,000 of that institution's funds.
"I am going to be ray own probation
officer in this case," said Judge Has
.kell, "and I am going to keep in touch
with Wason. The court has looked
into this case carefully and feels there
is very little likelihood of a repetition
of the crime. When there seems to be
no likelihood of a man yielding to
temptation again his danger to society
becomes very slight. We ean, there?
fore, afford to give him another
chance."
Supposed Torso Victim Alive
The Jersey City police withdrew yes?
terday an identification of the woman's
torso found in the river a few days
ago as that of Bertha Miller. Bertha
Miller is alive and well. She is living
on a barge at Perth Amboy, N. J. It
was J. Frank Parker, a barge skipper,
who told the police that he torso was
hers.
? ? ? e
$30,000 Fire Halts "L" Trains
A fire which broke out about 2 a. m.
yesterday in a six-story building at
463 Greenwich Street delayed Ninth
Avenue elevated trains for about half
an hour. The top floor of the building, :
occupied by the Merritt Manufacturing j
Machine Company, waa burned ont. The ,
loss wma estimated at $30,000.
Sav?age Co. Says It
Discharged Actor
For Anti-U. S. Talk
Other Players Threatened to
Quit on Account of Paul
Ker, Charges Answer to
Breach of Contract Suit
Henry W. Savage, Inc., filed an
answer in the Supreme Court yester
dty to a breach of contract suit
brought by Paul Ker, an actor, alleg?
ing that the discharge of the plaintiff
from the "Head Over Heels" company
was due to his pro-German sympathies
and anti-American utterances and at?
titude.
Ker's contract with the musical
comedy began in August, 1919. In
October he received a two week's
notice, as provided in the contract, that
his services would be dispensed with.
He brought suit for the rest of the
time he was to play, at $160 a week.
The Savage company says on informa?
tion and belief that Ker is a German
subject, and that he frequently ex?
pressed himself as being in sympathy
with the cause and aims of the Ger?
man Empire and opposed to those of
the United States.
Ker is quoted in the answer of the
defendant as saying in effect to mem?
bers of the company: "The Kaiser is
all right and he is a good man. It is
Wilson that ought .j hang to a lamp?
post."
Another alleged statement of the
actor was, "Burleson and the postal
system here are like everything else in
thu damned country?no good."
It is alleged that Ker said he was
going to get all tin money he could j
here and then return to Germany. He
complained, it is charged, that he was
"treated like a dog" in the United
States and under suspicion all the
time, while his two brothers, who were
American citizens, were treated like
gentlemen in Germany.
It is alleged by the Savage company
that the attitude of Ker caused him to
become the object of suspicion and dis?
like among members of the "Head
Over Heels" cast, who said they would
leave the company if Ker remained.
Tl.ic situation threatened to disrupt
the organization and ruin the business
of the defenAs.ii, it is said in the
answer, ar.d Kir w~as given two weeks'
notice.
Ker made a Oaim for salary for the
unexpired term of his contract. The
matter was submitted to arbitration.
Louis Mann was arbitrator for Ker,
and Harry Davis acted as the Savage
arbitrator. The two decided on Novem?
ber 7, 1919, that the Savage company
was justified in dismissing Ker and
that there was nothiv due him.
Gits Company to Sue Gty
If Rate Raise Is Denied
Bronx Concern Is Threatened
With Loss of $5,000 a Month,
Says Attorney
Justice Richard H. Mitchell in the
Bronx Supreme Court yesterday heard
additional arguments on the applica?
tion of the city for an injunction to re?
strain the Bronx Gas and Electric Com?
pany from increasing its gas rate from
$1.60 to $1.75 a thousand cubic feet.
V. J. Blackman, of counsel for the
company, said that the granting of the
injunction would mean a loss of $6,000
a month to the company for six months.
Mr. Blackman declared that the com?
pany eventually would have to sue the
city for this amount. He thought it
would take six months to settle the
rat? dispute.
When Justice Mitchell remarked that
it was the intention of the company
to increase its rate to the city from
?5 cents to $1.75 a thousand, Mr. Black
man answered that it would agree that
his company would not send any bills
for gas to the city if the court would
deny the injunction. The city's trade
was a neglible quantity in his com?
pany's business, counsel said. Justice
Mitchell requested the attorneys to
submit all papers in the case and re?
served decision.
?
Trial of G. C. Bergdoll's
Guards Is Postponed
Ch&nge of Army Divisions
From Departments to Corps
Is Cause of Delay
The trial of Sergeant John O'Hare
and Sergeant Calvin York for neglect
of duty in connection with the escape
from their custody last May of Grovet
Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy draft
dodger, did not begin yesterday, as
was scheduled.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Cres?
son, assistant departmental judge ad?
vocate, announced that there would be
no military trials on Governor's Isl?
and until after September 1. The rea?
son, he said, was the changing of th?
divisions of the army from depart
merits to corps.
Sergeant O'Hare, in charge of th?
guard which took Bergdoll to Phila
delphia, was recently sent to the Wal?
ter Reed Hospital, in Washington, foi
observation.
?
Five Fined in Move Against
Dirty Soda Water Glasset
v A crusade in the Eastern District o
Brooklyn against dirty soda wate:
glasses resulted in the fining of fivi
persons $6 each yesterday by Magis
trate McCloskey in the Bridge Plan
Court, They were Bella Kaplan, of 13
Division Avenue; David Greenbcrg, 10
Division Avenue; Morris Epstein, 91
Roebling Street; Joseph Waldman, 3:
Roebling Street, and Abraham Suss
man, 41? Bedford Avenue. The com
plainant was Health Inspector Johi
Foran, who said the five had washe?
dirty glasses in cold water.
50 Held at Bay!
By 2 Thugs in
$4,000 Robbery
Paymaster Confronted by
Masked Bandits as He
Passes Out Envelopes to
Laborers in Daytime
Three Escape in Auto
Commander Machine of
Brooklyn Doctor and Quit
That for Touring Car
Masked men held up the paymaster
on a construction job at Fifty-fifth
Street and Second Avenue, Brooklyn,
at 4 p. m. yesterday, two of them hold?
ing off a crowd of fifty or more labor?
ers at the point of revolvers, while
the third got the money from the pay?
master. Pursued by the workmen,
they forced a physician to help them
escape in his automobile.
Ralph Geddings, of 130 South Sixth
Street, Mount Vernon, N. Y., assisted
by R. W. Winslow, took the pay roll
from the Manhattan office of H. D.
Best & Co., contractors, to Fifty
fifth Street and Second Avenue,
where the company ia building an ad?
dition to the factory of the American
Machine & Foundry Company.
$12,000 in Payroll Box
The wooden box which contained the
pay envelopes for the men on that job
held also the pay of the workmen en
another job which the contractors are
handling in Brooklyn. In all there was
$12,000 in the box.
Mr. Geddings opened the box in a
room in the unfinished building to
wtrich the laborers gained entrance by
a plank, used ordinarily to enable the
men to bring wheelbarrow loads of
mortar into the building. He had paid
out enevelopes containing about ?1.000,
when a masked man with a revolver
in his hand strode up the plank and
into the office. Outside two others,
also armed and masked, were sweeping
the crowd of workmen with their re?
volvers.
Without a word the intruder shoved
the money box under his arm and de?
parted. Joining his two companion?,
they started down Fifty-fifth Street
toward First Avenue, where a touring
car was waiting. They turned and re?
traced their steps, however, on seeing
a motor truck which was turning
around in Fifty-fifth Street, blocking
the thoroughfare.
Flee In Touring Car
As the robbers passed them for the
second time, stuffing into their pockets
envelopes which they took from trs
box, the workmen snatched up spade?,
trowels or?d other weapons and gave
chase. When almost at Third Avent;??
the furitives discarded the money box.
A physician was sitting in his auto?
mobile near the cornet of that avenue
as the bandits reached it. Without
hesitation, they jumped in beside him,
poked him in the ribs with their re?
volvers, and remarked, "Let's go!"
The physician started his car, but at
the corner of Fifty-sixth Street his
passengers ordered him to stop while
they got into a touring car which was
approaching Third Avenue from the
direction of Fir^t Avenue and is
thought to be the one for which the
robbers started imm?diat?!/ after th*
hold-up. They jumped in and drove
away.
When the money box *m T*rr*yT*rrt,
it was found still to contain $7.004
which the bandits ?iad overlooked III
the excitement of the chase. As $'.,000
had been paid out before the hold-up,
Mr. Geddings figures that the robben
got about $4,000.
The police would not even adn- I I
there had been such a robbery and de?
clined to teil who the physician was
??hos* car the fugitives impressed.
Football Injuries Are Fatal
Youth Hurt in School Gamp
f.a-t November Die?*
Otto Louis Huber, eighteen years
old, whose spine was injured last N'c
vember in a football game at St. Paul's
School, Garden "City, died yesterday *?
te home of his mother, Mr?. Hat tie
Bossert Huber, in Clinton Avenu?, Bay
Shore, L. I.
After his injury Huber was taken to
Nassau Hospital, at Mineo'.a. where
he remained fourteen week? without
showing any signs of improvement. A
weak heart made an operation irri?
sible. He was taken to his mother's
home.
Huber was born in Brooklyn. He at
tended Adelphi Academy and the Ta't
School, at Watertown, N". Y.
Man Charging Bigamy Admits
He Never Married Defendant
Frank P. Hynes, a hotel owner, who
made a charge of bigamy yesterday in
Coney Island Police Court against Mr=.
Margaret B. Hynes, of 2380 Ocean Ave?
nue, Brooklyn, acknowledged to Mag?
istrate Geismar that the defendant
never had been married to him, but de?
clared that she was his common-law
wife.
The magistrate informed Mr. Hynei
that common-law wives had been legia
lated out of existence and reserved his
decision.
Brooklyn Man Convicted of
Stealing Portable Hou*e
William Kelly, a civilian employee
at the navy base in Brooklyn, was con?
victed yesterday in the United States
District Court, Brooklyn, of the theft
of a portable house. He declared that
a contractor had told him he might
have it.
Kelly will be senetneed September 8.
He lives at 45 Diamond Street, Brook?
lyn.
X^r* Written the day before the Proclamation of the
Secretary of State.
Hearty Congratulations
to all the splendid women of America, and espe?
cially the efficient committees of New York and
Pennsylvania, who stood the storms of opposi?
tion and succeeded in amending1 the Constitution
of the United States to give women the right
to vote.
For many years past the old men, the rich
men, the slackers, who never voted on a rainy
day, have left the elections in the hands of the
millions of young men of the cities, States and
Nation.
The coming to the front?and staying there?
of the noble women of each State has brought on
this day of a just and righteous freedom which
has dawned upon the United States.
It ushers in the new era devoutly prayed for.
It raises a golden star of hope in the sky that
means much to the world around, which has
been laboring and fighting for a golden age to
come to manhood and womanhood. May it not
be that the wise men of the East will again follow
the star and find in the United States the answer
to their prayers?
Great opportunities beckon.
The horizon enlarges itself to make room for
enlarging souls bent upon the making of the.new
world that Theodore Roosevelt preached fit for
every man and woman to live in.
The serious and difficult questions yet to be
settled by patience and hard thinking will be
faithfully met and adjusted in time and expe?
rience.
There are men and women still living who
can be safely trusted as of the spirit and wisdom
of the fathers of this Republic who found George
Washington as later the people found Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roose?
velt in their need.
Are there not dangers ahead?
Most assuredly there are, but not as great as
the perils which we have lived through when
demagogues and corruptionists of political
parties held sway at times since the Revolution?
ary days.
We are safer now than ever before, and the
better days are coming soon.
(Signed)
August 28, 1920.
The "Reds" Are On
The Run
The gallant struggle of the Poles to save their capital from capture has at last been
crowned with success, and the Bolshevist reverse bids fair to become a rout, according to
an arresting article in this week's number of THE LITERARY DIGEST, dated August
28th, on this spectacular turning of the tide of war. The Minneapolis Journal is quoted as say?
ing that "the Bolshevik menace to Western civilization, if any, is now political," while an
Eastern paper is sure that "Bolshevism has shot its bolt.'' The Newark Evening News asserts
that the "lowering of Bolshevism's prestige will naturally be followed by reactions within Russia/'
and the New York World declares that "it was not merely a battle that Poland won in front
of Warsaw, but the right to assume a position of equality at the peace table."
Other articles of more than usual interest in this number of THE DIGEST are:
The American Woman Voter Arrives
A Summary of Opinions From Friends and Foes of the Suffrage Amendment Called
Forth by the Recent Decisive Action of the Tennessee Legislature
British Labor's War on War
Bursting of the Ponzi Bubble
How Will the Turkish Treaty Work?
Canada's Care For Her Veterans
France's Terrible Black Troops
Sizing Up the American Musical
Invasion of London
The Work of the Junior Red Cross
Canada's Labor Church
Bolshevist, "Aristocratic" and "Militant"
Villa, Subdued Bandit, Devotes Him?
self to Ranching
William Marion Reedy's Last Story
Trees as Home-Makers and Memorials
Topics of the Day
Who Will Build Five Million Homes?
Paying More for Expressage
France's New Ally
Fishing in the Salt?n Sea
Health on Tiptoe
The Commercial Value of Sunshine
Putting Argon to Work
Recalling the Romantic Drama
Medical Literary Criticism
Wilbur Wright in France
The Church's Duty to the Leper
A Convict's Defense of Prison
Cruelty
Canada's Absent-Minded Premier
Best of the Current Poetry
Many Interesting illustrations, Including Maps and Humorous Cartoons
August 28th Number on Sale To-day?News-dealers 10 Cents?$4.00 a Year
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