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First to Last ?the Truth: News ?Editorials?Advertisements
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy to-day and to-morrow;
not much change in temperature;
moderate south winds.
Full H.-iH>rt on _.._? I'ase
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921
TWO CENTS
tn (.renter New York
THREE ( ..MS i KOtK CENT?
Within 808 Miles I Elsewkei
Inte?
To Fis--?
in
_eiver
Officiais S.?d to Have De?
cided to Oppose Action
of Brake Shoe Company
on Claim ?or $57,074
Scheme lo Raise
Fares, Savs Hvlau
Transit Commission May
Intervene to ProteetCity ;
Hed?ev Denies Collusion
From sources close to the manage?
ment of the Interborough Rapid
Tran.it Company it was learned yes?
terday that the company would fight
??e application : >r a receiver, made by
the American Brake Shoo and Foundry
?empany on an unpaid claim for
$5",n74 for supplies.
Officials of the Interborough have
'eighteen clays loft in which to decid.
what action to take, as under the law
'twenty days is allowed them in which
tc answer after the service of the
papers in the- case.
Mayor Hylan, in a statement last
night commenting upon the situa?
tion, said:
"There is some scheme behind this
?frer-r?-a?!y and handy American
Brake and Foundry Company'? appli?
cation for a receivership. I believe
that this is another attempt through
the Federal courts to raise carfares in
?this city to eight and possibly ten
cents.'1
George McAneny, chairman of the
Transit Commission, declined to dis
euss the effect of the application for
a receivership upon the plans for the
relief of the transit problem in this
city.
Plans Not Ready, Says McAneny
'The plan has not boon perfected as
yet," said Commissioner McAneny.
"and it will not be finished for some
days,"
Another member of the commission,
Major General John F. O'Ryan, said:
''The plans of the commission will
not be in shape to discuss them pub?
licly until next month. I expect that
they will be made public about Sep?
tember 15."
Neither General O'Ryan nor Chair?
man McAneny would comment on the
???gestion of Mayor Hylan that the re?
ceivership application might lead to
an 8 or 10 cent fare.?
Whefher the move made by the
American Brake Shoe and Foundry
Company meets with favor on the-part
of o'her creditors of the Interborough
who?, bills have not been paid will not
be known until to-day, when these con?
cerns open their offices. So far there
hts been no indication of what atti
tade other creditors will take.
Hedley Makes Emphatic Denial
Emphatic denial was made yesterday
by Frank Hedley, president of the In
Urborough, that his company was a
party to the application of the petition?
ing creditor or that the Interborough
wanted a receivership.
In this connection a telegram sen*.
oat on Saturday by Mr. Hedley tc hold?
er? of the extension of the issue of 7 par
cer.t notes, due September 1, was made
public as tending to show that the
company did not desire a receivership.
Thia telegram, it was furth? r po
oat, indicated that the company be
fieved, with the Transit Commission,
-hica authorized the extension, that
fiSe company, if it pi
other year, w< uld be a le not < ? ly to
meet the notes at h? nd of a year,
b_t all . - ? .- oblig ttioi . This tclo
gtair r?
"Ap;. or receivership of In
terbor I by small
<_e_er_: * >-day. No note hold?
en have joined therein. Company has
? . answe r. Situation as
to <y :< * . ? ;. Prompt
? mtial a , ?cpected
ibstantial
?ajority ,-.'- d< ? ?'.."
Try ?:. erenc? ?. ? |ep ... y of notes
? of notes for
tie indorsement of exten ion and
interest.
It was said that the case, if carried
to the F? leral co irta, probably will go
Mayer, _ _o appoi nted I ho
reeeivc r , f the B. R. T.
n some quarters
?VMterd Federal courts
_p] ? .. ? , - ? the inter
Mr< a ire with the
alai of the Tri ion foi
?tii King - ief to the present ! n cl ?n
mn??
Won't Alter Commission Program
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p.o . ' the coi a to be a
fCon-lnu") en n?/t PM9)
Lloyd George Asserts
Cabinet is Overworked
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France Since He Took Office
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Bank Bandits Get $500,000;
Tarry Until Drunk, But Escape
Four "Who Rob Security and Deposit Co. in
Chicago Become Hilarious in Vault Then
Flee Amid Storm of Police Bullets
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.?Four well
dressed robbers, unmasked, to-night
? strolled into the Security Safo Deposit
. Vaults in Masonic Temple, bound and
gagged the two custodians through a
ruse and in the ensuing half hour
broke opon seventeen deposit boxes, ob?
taining loot with an estimated value
escaped through a fussilade of bullets
' tired by policemen and detectives.
They left behind them a half emptied
bottle of whisky and a large hammer
used to open the safety deposit boxes.
Hundreds of pedestrians witnessed the
a!,aso of the bandits by policemen
: through the down town district which
ended when the robbers vanished in an
alleyway. Apparently nono of them
wi s ?r.jurcd by the fussilade of bullets.
The vaults are Kept open all night for
the benefit of late patrons and arc said
to contain a greater amount of cur?
rency than any other depository in the
loon district. They are said to carry
heavy deposits of South Side gamblers
and sporting men.
The robbers gained entrance to the
vault by renting safety deposit boxes.
They then handcuffed the two watch?
men and, apparently, began a leisurely
inspection of the vault's contents.
The whisky they brought with them,
however led to their undoing for they
became careless of the noise they made
and a passerby notified the police. A
squad of patrolmen and detectives hur
riedto the building, but the noise they
made alarmed the robbers who fled de?
spite the shots tired after them.
In their hurry to escape they loft be?
hind $-10,000 in $1,000 bills which were
in one of the boxes and a diamond
necklace valued at $10,000.
Ernest Jonas, one of the guards, said
that from their conversation he judged
the bandits were after a deposit of
$125,000 which a South Side gambler
was said to have brought in there dur?
ing the course of the day.. At another
time he heard one say: "Let's get that
crap shooterai' box." That their total
loot was considerable, Jones said, was
evidenced from the satisfaction in their
voices. Three suspects were arrested
later.
Checks Forged
??
In Sing Sing Net
Felons $14,000
Attempt to Put Through
Too Larsje a Transaction
Keveals Convicts Oper?
ated Inside Their Prison
Three Now "Solitaries"
Spurious Signature of War?
den Lawes Is Accepted
by New York Banks
OSSINING, N. Y., Aug. 28.?It was
revealed hero to-day that there are
! some dishonest convicts in Sing Sing.
Inmates of the prison have stolen $14,
000 by means of check forgeries within
tho last eight weeks, officials admitted.
The prisoners stole checks and filled
them out for various sums. Three con?
victs were placed in solitary confine?
ment yesterday as a result of these
disclosures.
According to information obtained
last night, the forgeries wore discov?
ered through one particular check hav?
ing been filled out for so largo a sum
that it aroused the suspicions of an
agent of the State Comptroller':, office,
who communicated with Warden Lawcs.
Exposure followed.
It was declared to-day by persons
' close to Warden Lawes that in this
latest outbreak of forgeries within
prison walls the state will not bo a
loser. Losses will fa!! upon banks
which honored the forged checks, it
was said. The men sent into solitary
cells for complicity in the forgeries
ore George Liljewall, serving a term
for forgery; "French" I.?vine, alias the
"Fountain Pen," and J. C. Bennett, who
also are said to have records as check
i perators.
Forgeries Succeeded Before
This is the third tinte in four years
that convicts accustomed to handling
clucks have conducted large swindles.
In previous instances, under Warden
W. II. Mover and Warden E, V. Brophy, '?
tho state had to make up losses in- .
curred. Warden Lawes, profiting by
the experience of his predecessors,
took extraordinary precautions to pro?
tect the state against methods previ?
ously used. The:;" methods had in?
volved insertion by convicts engaged in
the prison office of invoices calling for I
payment of checks to fictitious persons j
or lirais. Finding that way blocked,
the forgers this time victimized per
. ? ca; h ?ng the checks.
After Warden Lawes's attention ha?l |
been called to the forgeri'-.s an imme- j
diatc examination of cancelled checks
was begun. New York Pol ice Depart?
ment aid was enlisted, as the ?-hecks :
a.?? cashed in Manhattan. It is sai?!
that, eight forged checks were, found.
Blank checks arc kept in tho State1
Comptroller's branch office at the ,
pri on. They arc under charge of Davi?! i
Vail, special comptroller's clerk. Con?
victa are employed in the office and i
have access to th? so checks, (nspoc
tion of the checkbook is said to have :
h( wn that ?ara: checks were missint;.
When In! ! arc to la- pan! state
c ! eck ? a rc made out in I he branch
con pt rol 1er' office, over which
pi on officials have no control, and
taken across a hall to be signed by
Warden Lawe The thief who took
the blank checks took those with VVar
?li-n Law? gnature on them. Mr.
'.'.' ?? i toin, of the State Comptroller's
office, Raid the forgeries were executed
expertly, Prison officials have nol ye!
lea - ; ed ?'. hethei I hey wei e v<>u. mitteO
pri n oi v, ?a t her blank checks '?
..... passed to confederates on the
o a .ie by the raen who stole them.
it. wart revealed soon after the ?n
... ? gation began thai certain "trus
?.'?? " who ha\??? acce 'o prison rcc
; ? in the plol. The bogus
i : ? vvei >? made paj able t <? creditor?
of the prison. One creditor was ,1. M.
F'orter. Th? warden's signature in thin
i , . vaa. fi ? god <>" t he face of tho \
check and Porter's indorsement who on
; act., ;? ? ?o forg? ' The check.'. ;
were made payable to creditors of tho
Institution, il . ? aid, o that when ;
they were returned bh pa ?I and ran- ?
celed they would not at ? ct attention. '
1 ..; evei ear? ? ?idens at Ring
Sing have petitioned the Legislature to
civ ilian clerks f?.; their office ;
?/,-.,>'r but these efforts have been
ful le
Killed I)v Frciglil Elcvutor
. i n .1?. r. i a to for! '. ' ' ars old,
?,r r\ Third #r?ct, New \)orp, : < it< n
I afital, W8 Cru bed '. ' ' ' ' I ?lay by n
freight elevator at the plant. o| the
l' kbmond Gas < am pa ny ? n '?'.' Illow
(street, Clifton, 11?-. dual in tho ?.taten
!.l?_...j UocpfU... I
?Theft Charged
To Its Cashier
Closes Bank
Mariner's Harbor Deposi?
tory Suspends, While Di?
rectors Seek to Learn Ex?
tent of Riddle Operations
j Has $1,000,000 Deposits
Precautionary Measure, Say
Officials, Who Hope to
Meet Obligations in Full
Officers of the Mariner'? Harbor Na
i tional Bank, of Mariner's Harbor, S. I.,
j with deposits totaling* $1,000,000, an?
nounced last night that the bank would
j not open its doors this morning
land will remain closed ur.ti! such
! time as it can be definitely ascertained
how much the alleged defalcations ol
the cashier of the bank, Sylvanu? Bid
die, who resigned early in duly, actu?
ally amount to. Biddle is now undei
? indictment and awaiting trial in Brook
i lyn.
The action of the officers to close th'
I bank is the culmination of a series <
i conferences of the board of director;
'with Chief Examiner Steams of tin
?National Banking Department and, ac
cording to the announcement, ig simpl
a precautionary measure against an;
' unnecessary and unwarranted with
, draivals.
Officer of Ship Corporation
Early in the month of July Biddl*
| was made an officer of the Johnsoi
Shipbuilding Corporation of Mariner'
Harbor at a salary said to be unusual!;
large for one who was holding the posi
lion of a bank cashier. This is be
lieved to have led to investigations 01
the part of the officers of the bank o
their cashier. They allege that the;
discovered that Biddle had engaged i:
certain investments with the bank'
funds without, the approval of th
board of directors. Public disclosure
were made immediately thereaftt r an
the matter brought to the attention o
Ferlerai District Attorney Leroy "W
Kos;,, of Brooklyn, who caused one al
leged defalcation, amounting to ar
proN innately $22,000, in which the Join
son Shipyard Corporation of Mariner
Harbor was involved, to be? presente
lo the grand jury. Biddle and an oi
<\cer of the shipbuilding corporatio
were indicie,1.
Following the report of the defnlci
tion and the indictment of Biddle,
bank examiner was called in and wer
over the books of the house. TI*
amount said to have been lost throug
the alleged misconduct of the cashi?
was reported at that time ?
$150,000. Following the announci
ment, the board of directors held
meeting nt which it was decided th;
the board, composed entirely of loe
business and professional men of ui
questioned financial standing, wou
make good the loss.
Aids Bank Officers
Biddle was later released in the cu
tody of bank officers for the purpose *
explaining tiie nature and extent of ?
(Cuntlnurd on naqr flvii
Passenger Plane Falls,
Kills 3 Under Wree
Empty Gasoline lank Believe
to Have Caused Tragedy
Near Philadelphia
Special Dispatch to The Tribuna
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28. Thr
persons were kille?! late this afternoi
when ?ti airplane fell 125 feet ai
turned over on them in a field on I
outskirts of the city. The dead a
Conrad M. Fosa, pilot and owner of t
airplane; Mrs. Mary Pussyki, thirt
nind years old, ?if 3167 Richmo
Street, and John II. Pussyki, eight, h
: on.
The plane was one of several at t
Bustleton flying field , which tak
sighl leers mi short flights. It was i
lurning from a fiftccn-minuto :;[
v. lien t he i ngino stopped.
Spectators say the machine poised
the air and then plunged nose do?
ward, turning over when it crashed
the earth and crushing all three occ
pants beneath the engine.
Spectators from the flying field, st
? ral hundred yu rd ? di tant, i an i o t
pol and with difficulty removed I
wreckage ti nd exl ricn t ? ?1 the viel it.
ull of v, iinni wi-i *? dead.
Examination of the machine, pul
?mi./, showed the gasoline tank wan co
pletely empty, and it. ?s believed abn
stopping of the engine during a p?-r
ous momtyit of the descent wait du?'
thut.
i
Blow Struck
I Over Woman
Kills Dancer
_
Cecil Adrian Arthur, of
N. Y., Dies as Result of
i ^ '
Fight Following Annual
Masque at Allenhursl
Chilean Student
At Cornell Held
Victim Escorting Hostesi
When She Refused lh<
Invitation of His Riva
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ASBURY PARK. N. J., Aug. 28,
' Cecil Adrian Arthur, thirty-four yeai
I old, of the Navarre apartments of Ne
York City, died in tho Ann May lio:
pital at Spring Lake to-day of injuri.
he suffered Friday night in an ei
counter with a Cornell University sti
dent in the grillroom of tho Allot
hurst Hotel, Allenhurst. The fig!
brought to an abrupt end the hotel
annual masquerade ball, the most i.
portant social event staged during tl
season by the fashionable beach colon
The ball was attended oy sever
hundred summer colonists and ai
year-round residents, and the co
tumos worn were the most strikii
seen at the resort in years.
Tho student, Salvador Laborde,
Chilean, is held without bail in t
county jail at Freehold. Two of i
friends, who have been occupying
cottage with him at Deal were releas
in $500 bail each. They are Jose Ma
tune, of 790 Riverside Drive, Manhi
tan, and Manuel Fernande?-., of If aval
Victim Danced With Hostesa
; Arthur, whose mother is said to be
married to a titled Englishman, was
the guest, at the ball of Mr. and Mrs.
J. S. Sutphen jr., of 107 Corlies Avenue,
Allenhurst. Arthur, it is said, was
dancing with Mrs. Sutphen when La
borde came up and claimed her as his
1 partner.
Arthur is said to have resented the
Chilean's manner and words passed.
"Go away and do not annoy this lady,"
Arthur told the Cornell man. "I will
settle with you lat^r." Mrs. Sutphen,
who i< about twenty-live years old and
attractive, declined to dance with the
, Chilean.
Arthur and Laborde later met in the
grill. They began arguing again, it is
said, and came to blows. Labor?.!??, it
is said, struck Arthur a smashing blow
: in the face and as Arthur fell his head
struck the cement floor, fracturing hi.
skull.
\ Arthur is a friend of .1. Harry Foley.
. seen tary to Governor Edwards, ?and at
Mr. Foley's request, according to re?
port, the Governor ordered that a thor
oui.h investigation be made of the case.
Arthur was a ?Tealer in automobile
accessories and is understood to have
. been a member of the Edison Ecometer
firm at 1777 Broadway. He left his
apartment Friday afternoon and came
hen- to pass three days with the Sut
phens, who live at Broadway and
Ninety-eighth Street, New York City.
Mr. Sutphen is vice-president of Rid
i ley's, confectioners, itt ?-19 West P'or
tieth Street.
Prisoner in Junior Class
Laborde is a member of the. junior
class ai Cornell. His home is at Ha?
vana. He has been living in Ithaca, N.
Y., at. A1 ."> Stewart Avenue.
(aunty Detectives Charles 0. Davon
; port, .1. B. Rue and .lack Smith have
questioned many persons in connection
i with the case and announced to-day
'that developments were expected. This
afternoon they arrested Manuel Pan
; neil, head waiter of the hotel, who is
declared to have told the police that
: Laborde sent Arthur to the floor with
a hard blow In the face.
Pannell was released in $500 bail as
! a material witness.
Police, Doctors Fail
To Arouse Sleeping Boy
Child Found in Central Term?
inal, Awakened, Gives Name,
Then Slumbers Again
. A patrolman* of the East Fifty-first
Street police station found .lames Pis
catulle, ten years old, of 527 F '
Thirteenth Street, asleep lal >c
night on a bench in the Grand ? ? l'aai
Terminal. The efforts of a woman am?
bulance surgeon, several patrolmen,
station detectives and special officers
to rouse the little boy were in vain.
An ambulance was cf_lle?l and he was
sent to the polie?: station. On the way
Jimmie slept soundly.
At the police station, the. little fellow
was aroused long enough to give his
name and address. When asked if he
was hungry, the boy only shook his
head. The next minute his eyes wen1
closed. At an early hour this morning
he was sleeping on a table in the police
station, the combined efforts of ?;e
tectives and two doctors to arouse him
again having failed.
'ding i_aus
c.
nference to
oliless
Heads of Leading Indus?
tries Will Be Invited
to Washington to Dis?
cuss Immediate Relief
Seeks to Avert
Any SuflferiHg
Speeding Up of Factories
and Publie Works Are
Among Solutions Urged;
From The Tribune Washington Bureau ?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.?President
Harding to-day stepped into the middle
of the unemployment problem and will
undertake to place as many men as is
humanely possible in the various in?
dustries of th^i country before the win- !
ter months. Secretary of Labor Davis ?
recently advised Congress that the
number of persons out of employment \
in the United States had reached a
total of 5,735,000, although it has been !
pointed out that this "rough estimate" j
does not taka re-employment statisics
into consideration.
Through Secretary of Commerce ?
Hoover, President Harding has called I
a national conference at Washington .
on unemployment. The large employ- j
ing industries of every part of the ?
United States will participate in an :
attempt to speed up employment. The j
announcement of the coming confer
ence was made by Secretary Hoover, I
who said:
''Tho President has decided to call a !
I national conference at Washington on
unemployment and has instructed the
I Department of Commerce to formulate
1 plans for it. Its personnel will bo
! made up so as to represent the country
' geographically and, so far as possible,
to embrace representatives of the
i greater employment industries. The
Department of Commerce will cooper?
ate with the Department of Labor on
! representation of labor.
j To Study Economic Measures
"It is desired for working reasons to
i keep the number of the conference as
small as possible. It is intended to in?
vite representatives of the greater
groups of industries and thought, and
the cooperation of their national or?
ganizations will be sought in their se?
lection.
"The object of the conference will be
to inquire into the volume of needed
employment, the distribution of unem?
ployment, to make recommendations as
to measures that properly can be
taken in coordinated speeding up of
employment by industries and public
j bodies during the next winter, and, in
j addition, a broad study of the economic
: measures desirable to ameliorate the
] unemployment situation and give im
| pulse to the recovery of business and
commerce to normal. Many construe
five suggestions have been made to the
| department by employers, the Gov
; ernors of states and city officials.
Would Prevent .Any Suffering
"Whiie the business situation is
steadily improving, yet some section!
of the workers may have exhausted
their savings by the coming winter an,
they must be a matter of extreme solic
it'.ide.
"It is inconceivable that America
, with its surpluses in food and clothing
with housing- though crowded?anc
with an abundance of fuel, could allov
any suffering amongst those of our owi
people who desire to work. It is neces
sarj that we should be forehanded ii
the preparation of such measures a
will prevent any such suffering.
"It is expected thai the full plan o
the conference will be ready for thi
President within about ten days."
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Allies Notify Germany
Troops Go Into Silesii
Berlin Required to Transpor
Soldiers; League Council
( ,'onvenes To-dav
BERLIN, Aug. 28 (By the Assc
ciated Press). The British, Frene
and Italian ambassadors have informe
Germany of the decision of their go\
ernments to send reinforcements int
Upper Silesia.
Germany has been asked by the an*
bassadors to make the necessary at
rangements for the trnsport of the re
inforcements.
GENEVA, Aug. 28 (By The Ass<
ciated Press). -The Council of th
League of Nations will meet to-mo
row morning at 10 o'clock. It will tak
up as its tirst work the Silesian que;
tion, referred to it by the Inter-Allie
Supreme Council.
Viscount Isi'.ii, president of tl
council, to-day told The Associait
Press that he personally would preset
the c;xfic. An early decision is not e:
pected, as the members will requii
time to studv the nacer?.
Doctor and 3 Women Killed
When Auto Is Struck by Train
SOMERVILLE, N. .T.. Aun- 28. A man
and three women, members of the same
family, were killed instantly this even?
ing, when an automobile in which th. y
wore riding was struck by a 'rain of
: !.. South I'.i anch Railroad, on the man
line of the Central Railroad of New
,1. . cy, at Tine Crossing, one mile from
this place.
Th?- dead:
Dr. A. G. D'Amico, thirty years old,
of 102 West End Avenue, Somerville,
N. .1.
Mrs. Maria Rosaba Abri?le., eighty
yea?? old, his grandmother.
Helen D'Amico. twenty-two years
old, a Bister,
Mari.? Mcaria Sansome. eighteen
yeai i old, a niece, of si Thompson
Street, Manhattan, who was visiting h -r
uncle.
Dr. D'Amico lefl his home at ?'.:'_.
o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied
by the three women, for a short ral
before i upper. They v.-.-nt t hrough
Duke'u Park, on tin- opposite side of
th?' Raritan River, approaching Tino
?a a | lr)g from th?. south. This ?:-, n
public highway an.I the crossing is pro
tec tod only by n hell.
An tho D'Amico party left Duke's
Park th?' South Branch train nulle?!
out of the Somerville station. It is
; not known whether the bell at the
crossing failed to work or .whether the
d? or believed that ho cotrfd pass be
f i ?? t he train reached the road.
Fhe locomotive struck the car
squarely and hurled it fifty feel away,
i break Ing it in two,
Hr. D'Amico and his sister were
caught on the pilot of the locomotive.
Mrs. Abri?la and Miss Sansomc weie
found ?lead in the rear of the machine.
Engineer Thomas Hartman biought
?his train to a stop immediately. D
? was thought at first that the doctor
anil his sister were still alive. "t n>'
I engineer backed his train into the
station, where the two bodies were
remo\ ed from the pilol
Authoritici have h.-:'.m an investiga
t ?on of t he accidi nl.
PEEKSKILL, !.. ... An?, . 28 Mrs. A
\. St.- nbi a. u.a. kill? ; and her t? a
year (???I son Finnk va? seriously m
jured here lo-Cay '(ton they were run
down by an automobile The drive?
of th?- car, lia!.!. Mec. a. ..,' Pcekakill
wai h'-hl m $2,600 ba?? on a cha'rgo ol
homicide.
200 Families Building Homes
With Own Hands in Rent War
Every Member of Eacb Household in Bronx Colony
Turning Self to Task, With Women the Most
Eager to Escape Exactions of Landlords
Scores of families in the Bronx, tired
of crowded apartments and high rents,
are solving the housing problem in
primitive fashion. They are putting up
homes by the toil of their hands and
the sweat of their brows. Every one,
from grandfather to the toddler, is lend?
ing* a hand. Within the last two months
a village, complete in itself, has sprung
into being in the Throg's Neck section,
where Tremont Avenue sweeps toward
the Sound.
Families are living on the ground, al?
though the work is far front finished.
Plans for two hundred homes are being
carried out. The land was part of the
Costar and Brown estates which were
cut up recently and sold in lots me
ing approximately 25x100 feet. iden?
tically the same thing is being done on
the high ground at East Chester, neai
the Gun Hill Road station of the New
York, Westchester & Boston Railroad.
It is now no novelty to see an entire
family at work in the suburbs on tht
business of creating a home. They ap?
pear to be striving for artistic effect
as well as for space and alt modern con?
veniences.
The buildings are elaborate or sim
pie, according to the taste and cir
cumstances of the owner. One-storiet
frame structures flaunt green and whit?
I coats of paint. Stucco fronts rival more
| ;o!id looking brick buildings of two
stones.
Clumps of trees on the property ; dd
to the appearance of the little ?
wiiich will presenl a fair face to the
eye of the observer if the prophecies of
come of its dwellers are fulfilled.
Contrasting a crowded tenement home
in the Bronx with the open spaces and
: alluring promise of her new home, Mrs.
G. M diet-, the mother of six children,
sat on her veranda in Otis Avenue yes?
terday and said:
"It seems too good to be true. My
.' husband is a policeman and we were
paying $77> a month for our home in
-.he Bronx. Nothing but people every
way you turned. The children had no
place to play. .Most of the time when 1
let them out I was ranging over the
window to see thai they were all safe.
Life was nothing hut a burden. Mow 1
can look forward to years of content?
ment an?! no worry about ,n*. 1;; eight
, or ten years this place will !>?? paid ft :*.
?even if we only pay .-550 a in,.::;;',;. We
have more rooms. It is our own. Look
at. th?' children! In the city you have
almost to apologize for their exis
1 tenee."
The youngsters were playing happily
i on the strip of grass ouiside the veran
| da. It. was country to them. A dog
; frolicked around. Every one was wel
; come. Although the la-^t coat of paint
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Graft Board to
Hear O'Maiiey
On Wednesday
Intimated Commissioner of
Markets Will Be Given
Chance on Stand to Reply
to Witnesses' Charges
Hirshfield May Be Called
Investigations Said to Have
Cost City About $500,000
Subject of Inquiries
Edwin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of
Markets, whose department is involvec
in the jrraft disclosures before the
Meyer legislative committee investi
gating the city administration, is tc
be given an opportunity to defend him
self on the witness stand on Wedr.es
day, according to intimations yester
The committee, upon resuming its
session in the City Hall to-morrow
morning, will delve further into alleged
stories of graft in the markets denart
ment. tho headquarters of the legisla?
tive body, at 38 Park Row, having been
overwhelmed with witnesses the last
few days who were anxious to reiat.
thcir experiences with the markets bu?
reau officials. The committee expects
to occupy to-morrow and part of
Wednesday in placing a few more of
these tales on record, and will then
give the Commissioner the chance he
has been demanding to make whatever
statement he desires.
Question of Immunity
Under the circumstances, it was
pointed out, if the Commissioner takes
the stand of his own volition he will
not be granted immun;';-, and will thus
be answerable to any incriminating
charges that may be brought against
him. 1 !' he refuses to waive immunity,
the committee, under the resolution
creating the legislative body, can force
him to take the stand, nevertheless, by
granting him immunity.
Tho committee, it was intimated,
also has been collecting a mass of evi?
dence in connection with the conduct
of nearly all the other departments di?
rectly under the control of the Mayor,
particularly the bureau under the
charge of Commissioner of Accounts
Hirshfield. A close study, it is under?
stood, is being made of the numerous
alleged investigations that have been
made by this department and their al?
leged expensive nature compared with
the results, if any, attained.
It is the contention of members of
the legislative committee that the c". i
dence so far shows that these investi?
gations have cost the city about $500,
000, and have in tho main been noth?
ing more than whitewashing expedi?
tions. It was said that Commissioner
Hirshfield himself will be called to
testify in connection with this phase
of the committee's inquiry.
With regard to the counter inquiry
of Commissioner Hirshfield and the
charge of Raymond Smith, one of the
witnesses, that, the committee's attack
against the markets department is the
result of an effort of a so-called food
trust t?) destroy the department, mem?
bers of the committee yesterday
pointed out as strange that although
O'Malley and Smith say they have
known this for three years they have
waited until this moment to rush the
facts bofore the public.
Smith Mentions No Names
"And you must remember, too,"
added one committee member, "that
Smith is now a deputy commissioner
of markets, and that, what he said
was nothing more than a mere glitter?
ing generality, not, mentioning the
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l'ordney Expects Bonus Lan
Looks for Congress to Pa. s the '<
Measure by December
SAGINAW, Mich., Aug. 28.?-Belief
that a soldiers' bonus bill will be passed ]
by Congress by December was expressed :
to-day by Representative Joseph W. |
Fordney, chairman of the Ways and
Moans Committee, who has just arrived
here from Washington.
"Pa: a ;;.? of the bonus bill is the only
honorable thing to .1?.," he said. "The
bo; de erve it and shall have it."
ihe Republican Hou e id? ? aid he
favored a 1 per cent wholesale sales
ia. as ?i means of raising money with
which t.. , . 'la- bonus,
I m icu . ng : ho tarit!', Mr. Fordney
said that with the exception of the
wool schedule he expected the tariff
bill to be but little chanced from the
form in which it passed tho House.
Greek Right
Wing Cut Off,
Turks Report
Moslem Strategy is Said to
Have Plaeed Coustaiitine
Army in Awkward Posi?
tion ; A 11 a e k Continues
Men and Supplies Lost
Athen;,, However, Declares
Enemy Line Broken and
Counter Move Repulsed
PARIS, Aug. 28 i By The Associate
Press). -The right wing of the Greel
army which was attacking the Turk:
along the Sakaria River in Asi;
Minor has met with disaster and beei
completely severed from' the mail
body of the Greek troops, according tt
a dispatch from the correspondent o
"L'Information'' at Constantinople.
The dispatch adds that the entir
Greek army is thus placed in a mos
difficult strategical position. Th
Turks are attacking and seem to hav
olentv of ammunition.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 28 (By
Tho Associated Press). After three
days of fighting the Turks have forced
the Greeks to retire across the Sakaria
River into Asia Minor. The Greeks lost
; many prisoners, much' material and
cannon and transport wagons.
The entire pian of campaign formu?
lated by the Greeks has been tempo?
rarily held up.
The Greeks are said really to have
been defeated by the Salt Desert, lack
of water and many men stricken with
[ malaria.
It appears probable that active mili?
tary operations by the Greeks and
.Turks will be halted for weeks ow nj
; to lack of water at the front. Tin.
I Greeks are making strenuous e?forts t<
supply their troops, sending to the
front in automobiles thousands of win;
' barrels and skins and wooden tank,
| tilled with water. The Turks, who art
; suffering ?s a result of the efficiencj
1 of the Greek trar.sport system, are of
fering rewards of $1,000 for the cap
I ture or death of a chauffeur and $3,001
I for the capture or death of a moto
' captain.
Turks Organize Nov.* Line
ATHENS, Aug. 28. The Turl
! organized a defensive line which part
at, '.7.- confluence of the '.' : ak wit
the Sakaria River, near ancient t\?.*
diu.m, says an official statem
garding the military situation in Asi
Minor disseminated, by the Creek OtV.
cial Agency.
1 From tho regi in <s Cordium th
line runs south along the right ban
of the Sakaria to tin- village of Ktn
| kcuy. From Infl?chit it runs east unt
it reaches a point a little to the nort
i of .the rivers Gheuk and Kathrand
'. The line forms ?n eighty kilomet?
front, and there also is a second lir
of defense which the Turks ha
fortified.
Tho Turks aro equally fortified
| the north of Cord i urn. along the rig
? bank of the Sakaria River, and on tl
heights of Atbouchen, Inkirma a7
Yoslenikgithes. The rest of the Tur
ish forces are divided over the sect
oa?-t of the Sakaria, where they
fortified positions. The Turkish ma
force is held in th? or?
the rivers Gheuk and Kathrandi, wi
probably fortified positions at the c
treme right.
Counter Attack Repulsed
The GreTek detachments which a
marching south of the Sak ir?a, sa
the statement, occupied last Mond
the Turkish advance posts south
tin- Gheuk and Kathrandi rivers. T
Greek right wing broke through t
Turkish line Friday *
Gheuk and occupied positions north
the river. Tho Turks launched
counter attack, which the ; tati mt
says was cas]!;,* repulsed.
The statement .* ert that the Ttr
ish positions south of the Kathrai
also were occupied by the Greeks aft
a battle, and that the lurks retreat
toward th< ir mai r? north
the river.
A dispatch sent out last Saturt
from Athens by I 'tin
New s Agency said I he < !n eks in A
Minor had come in contact with
main forces of the Tuvl
t.h?' Sakaria Fiver, and that in
Salt ' icsert they had foun 1 I he Tu
m si rong po! it ions a!, n.g the Hi
Kiouk. Tin* dispatch added thai th
had I
Turks in this rejrion for sev^r?.! da
but tho Ottoman forces hadiyheen
featcd m all encounters.
Five Mingo
Miners Shot
By Troopers
Slate Police and Deputies
Escape Trap Laid by
1.500 Armed Men; des?
perate Fight in Dark
Exchange Volleys
Eight Feet Apart
Eleven Prisoners Taken,
but Some Break Away;
Citizens Are Aroused
STATE POLICE HEADQUAR?
TERS, ETHEL, W. Va., Au?. 28.?
Five men fell in an encounter early
this morning between an armed band
and state troopers on Beach Creek,
Logan County, near the Boon.
Logan County line, Captain J. R.
Brockus, commanding the state po?
lice and deputy sheriff, reported this
afternoon. There was much shoot?
ing on each side, he said.
Whether .ill the men who fell were
killed Captain Brockus was unable
to state. He added that after his
men had seen those who had fallen
picked up and carried away by their
companions the state troopers and
deputies retired, because some of
their number were in civilian clothes
and it was difficult to distinguish
them in the darkness from the men
comprising the armed band.
Fight at Ten Feet
The clash was at close range, ac?
cording to Captain Brockus's report,
the men firing at each other when
but eight to ten feet apart.
Prior to the fight, Captain Brockus
said, eleven prisoners had been taken
by the patrolling party, which set
out from Logan yesterday, ostensibly
toward Blair and Sharpies. !*Vur of
the prisoners escaped during the en?
gagement, it was said, and one of
them is believed to have been killed.
Captain Rrockus was at the head of
the advance guard of troopers and
deputies. It was this detachment, com?
prising twelve men, that engaged tho
armed band. The patrol, while pro?
ceeding toward Sharpies, Captain
Brockus reported, ran across five men
on foot. All were armed with ride.
and one had a shotgun, he said.
"Wo called upon these mon to dis?
arm, which they did," ihe captain con?
tinued. "We placed them under arre t
and proceeded down the road. Further
on we met two automobiles and placed
six additional armed men under arre st.
Shots Answer Challenge
"With the eleven prisoners wo
marched on toward Sharpies and cam?'
up'jn another squad of five armed men.
: Some one called to us that we would
! not be allowed to pass. We called up-?/,
thi-m to surrender their arms, but ? ?
ceived in reply a voliey of shots.
"Our men returned the fire, and in
i the fight five men fell to the ground.
We waited until we saw that they were
picked up and carried away, and then
(.'(tided to discontinue the advance tor
: th" present. It vas very darK and
of our deputies were in civilian
: clothes, hampering our distinguishing
them.''
Captain Brockus could not defii -
whether the five men were killed,
'but said that "probably four'1 wer.
ile said that later reports from
rples indicated the state police I
"played in luck" in stopping whei
. they did.
"We learned rrom Sharpies
there were la tween 1,500 and 2.(>!,:>
an led mn r wai? ?ng : or us to wi
into a trap," Captain Brockus said,
? if we had advanced if seems a>
'. surcd a very serions situation would
af.fi."
Ail along the way, the state police
ots" were be?
ing to.ken at the officers from men
len ia houses and 1:1 ambush.
Governor Hears of Clash
CHARLESTON. W. Va., Aug. 28.
"Possibility of serious trouble" in the
j Blair-Sharples region of Logan County
was intimated in a telephone message
to Governor Morgan to-day, he an
j nounced early to-night. Half an hour
after the Governor made this an
I announcement Adjutant General Jchn
11. Charnoek and three Cni,ed Mine
Workers officials departed for Logan.
where -they will attempt to pacify the
miners.
Armed men have captured three c)t>p
-??? 'T of Sheriff l'on Chafin's
Logan ' ml and are holding
them ' Governor said.
Fee] i n? ... tense thai I Ihafin i;
?ng trou'ole in holding l.ack arme i
Is of citizens of Logan, the county
. who are .: they be y.
lowed to attack the armed forces a?
a the Governor t.yz. .
PITTSB1 i:.;:.. Aug 28.?Sheriff Hill
. over the I?
one early to-night that
to the effect that four
ar five men had :.a killed in an en
* a, . 5, close to th"
Boone-Logan border in Logan County.
fteen miles from Madi?
son, the o y seat of Boone County,
where President C. F. Keeney of the
United Mine Workers last Friday
ed hack the men who were march
I jng from Marmet to Mingo County a*
.-. protest against martial law in the
latter county.
Miners Well Organised
It contains about a thousand peo
; pie and is only a short di. tance fr? m
; Blair. The miners in this section, are
! organized.
evcral week?, ago a detail of -tato
heriffa wer,- sent
fr ?".' Logan ta e tablish ?: post of th.?.
? tion. When they
.! Sharpies they were met by a
i me:-, who surround? ?
and surprised them, and, according to
it from Logan, they wer.
disai 'ai,.,-,.(j out ,,f t;.,e coun?
ty. They arrived in Logan early the
next morning and reported the incident
t?- Sheriff ('hafin.
Late yesterday Captain Brockus. with
' .g. largo detachment of state polic?