New-York tribune. [volume], September 09, 1920, Image 9

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err Co* Savs
Harriman Tries
So Divert Ships
g&arges American Corpora?
tion Ordered Steamer
Kerlew to Sail Over the
gaxnbnrg-American Line
L$eek More Injunctions
f?i Attempt to Tie Up
S ?Other Vessels Before Al?
ii leged Contracts Expire
??> Quote* that the American Ship arid
.?jfjuffMna Corporation, owned by the
?agnimun interesta, which recently
?Loilit for $4,900,000 the minority
H3T of tka Kerr Navigation Corpo
rtuon i? trying to divert to the Ham
Sry-American Line certain ships in
'SJ control of the Kerr Steamship
flmpany were made yesterday by
; Alfred E. Clegg, of the Kerr interests.
?L Clegg announced that the reason
-''Us company obtained a temporary in?
tention restraining the Harriman in
'Lf?sts from taking possession of the
?Lamer Kerlew was that before the
LgaeJ left South America the steam
Mb agents there had received in
, ?raclions to prepare for a voyage
f to lamburg, Germany, under the con
<?&.?4>f the American Ship and Com
**%*** Corporation.
.'?Rflrt American corporation has a con?
tort "-t* t**e Hambure-Amer*ican. Line
w which the latter concern acts as
aees* f?r the American shippers in
Sreiany, and the Harriman interests
?t for the German interests in New
trwken the Harriman interests paid
W?m\t. Clegg and H. F. Kerr $4,900,000
st August 28 for stock in the Kerr
jfeviMtion Corporation, Clegg ex
Sfeiiae?, the Kerr Steamship Company
Sfijj held contracts giving it the con
Iteel of certain vessels. The Kerlew
3?1?W?ne ?* t^10 ves3e^s- Several others,
a-jjji said, are due to arrive in New
'f?t%. When they reach this port, it
I?? declared at the Kerr offices, in
toirtions will be asked for to keep
SSt out of control of the Harriman
?;aJhi Kerlew injunction, granted by
SaysConstantittePloUed
Death of French Sailors
s- y!' m i .
PARIS, Sept. 8.?Vice-Admiral
Dartige du Fournet, who com?
manded the Allied fleets before
Athens, when King Constantino
was requested to relinquish the
throne, in a signed article in La
Presse this ?evening, says:
"?Constantino was personally re?
sponsible for an ambush in which
fifty-seven French sailors lost
their lives."
The article is in reply to state?
ments recently made by Con
stantine, in which he repudiates
all responsibility for Greek acts
of violence.
Judge Richard H. Mitchell, of the Su?
preme Court, .?calls for an order to show
cause why it should not be made ef?
fective until October 25, and is return?
able to-morrow morning. The date in
October marks the termination of the
contracts by which the Kerr interests
claim control of the vessels.
Meantime the $4,900,000 paid by the
Harriman interests but seized by the
government as it was being paid over
the counter of the Chase National Bank
is being withheld from Mr. Kerr and
Mr. Clegg pemfing action by the United
States Shipping Board to determine
whether the money is subject tc, the ex?
cess profits tax. No move was made by
the government yesterday to indicate
when the funds would be released.
At the office of the Kerr company,
44 Braver Street, it was said that
"more injunctions undoubtedly will be
sought to restrain the Harriman inter?
ests from gaining control of Kerr ves?
sels before the contracts releasing;them
expire." It was said the sale of the
Kerr Navigation Corporation stock did
not include a surrender of the contracts
giving the Kerr firm the right to oper?
ate the vessels. The contracts are to
remain in force until October 25, It
was asserted.
No statement was made at the Harri?
man offices? 180 Broadway. W. Averill
Harriman, president of the American
Ship and Coinmerce Corporation, previ?
ously had said that his firm's agreement
with th? "Hamburg-American Line had
v <?en ftporovvl bv tho Shiopitig: Board.
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Death Reveals $126,000 Estate
Of Gty Lodging House Guest
When Peter Vidovitch, one of the ?
comparatively few ?guests that the
Municipal Lodging House has had since
prosperity bloomed in the land, died
yesterday in Bellevue Hospital, it was
discovered, that he left an estate val?
ued at about $126,000, nearly half of
which he carried on his person in the
shape of Liberty bonds, currency and
jewelry. Relatives living in Austria
will inherit his wealth.
Peter made his stake in Alaska by
the hardest kind of toil and the rigid
thrift that is the heritage of tha Cen?
tral European peasant, if the evidence
of calloused hands and frugal habits is
of any weight. Either he had set a fixed
sum as his goal or the news that travel
routes to the homeland were open again
made him uneasy :$i the land where he
gained his wealth.
* Whatever the reason, Peter. Vido?
vitch put his affairs in ord>8T in Alaska
and went out with the ice, or soon af?
terward, setting his face toward Aus?
tria.- His appearance and his actions
after his arrival in this city lend au?
thority to the g-iffess that Peter came
down the coast as a steerage passenger,
or perhaps as a deckhand and that he
traveled across the continent in a day
coach, or even a "side-door Pullman."
He stopped in San Francisco to have
a will drawn up. The Union Savings
Bank and Trust Company of San Fran?
cisco was named as executor and Pe?
ter's relative? in Austria as heirs.
It was a frowsy and unkempt sour?
dough indeed who landed in New York
about a month ago. and neither con?
fidence men nor tax i cab drivers con?
descended to notice him as he plodded
through the streets, bundle in hand.
Peter was sick and he knew it. Also
he was wealthy and he knew that.
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that was to go to th?; home folk?.
He asked a policeman where a stran?
ger could get a night's lodging with?
out being robbed and the policeman,
probably with a twinkle in his eye
at the caution of thi<$ tatterdemalion,
directed him to tne Municipal Lodg?
ing House. ?
The ruby in one of Peter's rings was
worth $6,000. The diamond in the
other was worth $3,000. The nugget
scarf pin that held together the rem?
nants of his "four in hand" was worth
$200, and underneath, in Peter's shirt,
was a diamond stick pin worth $2,000.
Peter was admitted to the lodging
house without question, for it was evi?
dent that he needed ,shelter and it
tfeemed equally obvious that he had
no means to pay for it. He was too
ill to leave the next day or the day
after. The day after that an ambulance
surgeon said "diabetes" and took Peter
to Bellevue Hospital, smiling at his
patient's solicitous queries concerning
his clothes and his bundle.
The clothes and the bundle were
opened yesterday when Peter died. Be?
sides the jewelry and the will, there
were disclosed Liberty bonds aggre?
gating $50,000, $1,900 in currency,
bankbooks showing $60,000 on deposit
in Alaskan banks and deeds to real
estate in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Everything has been turned over to
the public administrator. It is prob?
able that after the Comptroller has de?
cided whether the estate is taxable in
New York/lthe will will be probated in
San Francisco and the heirs in Austria
notified of the fortune that awaits
them.
Bigamist Sentenced
To State Prison on
First Wife's Charge
J. H. F. McGraw Given Not
Less Than Y-ear and Nine
Months nor More Than
5 Years; Pleaded Guilty
John H. F. McGraw, thirty years old,
of 142 East Fifty-seventh Street, who
married a second time without attend?
ing to the necessary formality of losing
his first wife, was sentenced by Judge
Mclntyre in the Court of General Ses?
sions yesterday to Berve not less than
one year and nine months nor more
than five years in state prison.
McGraw pleaded guilty to a bigamy
charge last week. He was arrested on
complaint of his legal wife, Agnes K.
McGraw, of 567 Sixth Street, Brooklyn,
to whom he was married in 1915. He
married Lina H. Schierbaum on April
13 of this year.
The prisoner was an advertising so?
licitor for The Advocate, an Irish week?
ly. John C. O'Connor, the publisher, in
a letter to Judge Mclntyre, described
McGraw as a valuable man to the com?
munity and said McGraw had com?
mitted bfgamy on the spur of the mo?
ment.
The marital troubles of Mrs. Mar?
guerite B. Miller, twenty years old,
of 18 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, were
reviewed yesterday before Justice As
pinall in the Brooklyn Supreme Court
in an action brought by Mrs. Mary
Bush, the girl's mother, who seeks an?
nulment of the marriage.
Testimony showed that th? younj
woman married Joseph Miller on
November 28, 1917. Miller's real name,
it is alleged, is Joseph Bettinger- He
entered the army a year after his
marriage and confessed to his bride,
it was testified, that he had another
wife. in Philadelphia. Mrs. Bettinger
testified at yesterday's hearing that
she married Miller, whom she knew
as Bettinger. in 1915, and had not di?
vorced him
Miller is said to have been court
martialed and sentenced to one year
at Fort Leavenworth after army au?
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Justice Aspinall reserved decision in
the annulment proceedings.
Cox's Dry Declaration
Surprises Liquor Men
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept 8.?Members
of the New Jersey Liquor Dealers' Pro?
tective League, in convention here, re?
ceived in surprised silence to-night an
announcement made at Leeds, N. D., by
Governor Cox that he would not in?
terfere with the Eighteenth Amend?
ment and had voted dry whenever op?
portunity offered.
George F. Carroll, of Jersey City,
president? of the league, said" that it
had not sought to have either Presi?
dential candidate declare himself for
or against prohibition, but that the or?
ganization had hoped that one or both
of them would express readiness to
sign an amendment to the Volstead act
legalizing light wine and beer.
The 200 delegates at the convention,
representing 3,600 members of the
league, voted unanimously to support
anti-prohibition candidates for Con?
gress in November.
"Through such a plan, followed con?
sistently by liquor men from the At?
lantic to the Pacific, lies our only hope
for the future of our temporarily i
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be able to bring about the repeal of
the Volstead act, providing that in the
mean time the country has not become
60 well satisfied with prohibition that
it never will be possible to undo that
legislation, n the mean time wa might
as well mark time, for without votes in
Congress our cause is hopeless."
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