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New York Man
May Be Made
Albanian King
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Receives Informal Over?
tures Front Envoy of
Monarchies Monarchy
Fear Ex-Ruler's Return
'Would Be Big Job for Any
Man,*'' Descendant of Roy?
al French Family Declares*
It is within the bounds of possibility,
it became known yesterday, that an
American trill be asked to ascend the
throne of Albania, vacant since Wil
?:am of Wied, a German monarch, fled
in Switzerland, and thence to the
fatherland at the beginning of the
World War. Informal overtures made
?ri this country by an official of the
Albanlai government, now ruled by
four regents fleeted by Parliament,
would seem to indicate that tho choice
had fallen upon Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte, of 722 Part Avenue, New
York City.
Mr. Bonaparte, who is a great-grand
nephew of the gr?a. Napoleon, admit?
ted last night that he had discussed
the matter with A. J. Chekrevi, high
commissioner of the little Balkan na?
tion. He added, however, that no for?
mal tender of the throne had been
made. He did not know, he said,
whether M. Chekrevi was empowered to
make one and could not say what his
answer would be if it came.
"Would Be a Big Task"
Albania as at present constituted,
Mr. Bonaparte recalled, is a nation
with a let of ready-made troubla in
ill-defined boundary lines and dis?
turbed economic conditions. He thought
it would be a big task for anybody to
essay to govern it. He had met M.
Chekrevi when in Washington recently,
he said, and they had talked of the
matter informally.
A dispatch from Washington last
night said that M. Chekrevi was in
New York, but he could not be found
here to learn whether he was a member
of the commission recently appointed
by the Albanian regents to select a
permanent ruler for the country. Haste
in this selection was said to be desir?
able, in view of the fact that William
is reported to be preparing to return
by airplane and seize the throne.
Mr, Pc".ap".rte was married in 1014
to Mrs. E'anche Pierce Strebeigh, who
had divorced her wealthy broker hus?
band. She has two debutante daugh?
ters, Miss Blanche and Miss Barbara,
for whom she is to give a Christmas
i'.ve reception at the Park Avenue
apartment, which ths Bonapartes took
recently after a residence at the Hotel
Yanderbilt,
Exiled by Bonaparte
The royal blood in Mr. Bonaparte
comes through the marriage in this
country of Elizabeth Patterson, of Bal?
timore', and Jerome Bonaparte, who
wed her following his exile from
France by Napoleon Bonaparte. Na?
poleon refused to recognize this mar?
riage and Jerome later remarried in
Europe and became king of West?
phalia.
One who heard the news of Mr.
Bonaparte's chance to be a king ex?
pressed pleasure not untinged with
sorrow yesterday. Ho is Johnny, the
tow-headed hallboy in the apartment
house at 772 Park Avenue.
"He'd go away from here if he got
the job, wouldn't he?" Johnny de?
manded when a caller?Mr. Bonaparte
was out at the moment-explained his
mission.
"Surely." was the reply. "He'd have
to go to Albania."
"Gee!" said Johnny, "I'd hate to
have him go. He's a trood guy. Gimme
five bucks the first day he came in
here. Hope he stays till Christmas!"
Death of Bronx Girl Due
To Poison, Says Physician
Rabbi. Whose Nostrum Victim
?3 Said to Have Taken, Will
Be Questioned
The result of his investigation into
the death at Lebanon Hospital of seven?
teen-year-old Esther Lander, of 7;*;;
East 160th Street, was submitted yes?
terday to the District Attorney of the
Bronx by Chief Medical Examiner Dr.
Charles Norria. In his report he says
that the girl died from poisoning
caused by the large amount of potas?
sium bromide in a fluid she drank
phortly before her death. Analysis
showed that she had taken ei^ht grams
of ?potassium bromide, one gram of
which is considered a normal dose.
Rabbi B. G. Zucker, of 78 Graham
Avenue, Brooklyn, will be questioned
about his patent medicine advertised
to cure "epileptic fits, nervousness and
convulsions." Miss Lander suffered
from fits, anil shortly before her death
had two bottles of Zucker's patent med?
icine, the first costing $1.50, the second
S?.according to her father. She was
said to have been in a coma for eight
days and was then taken to the hos?
pital, v. here she died.
Dr. Alexander (). Gettler examined
the medicine folloging an autopsy by
Assistant Medical Examiner Riege??an
that failed to reveal the cause of death
Dr. Gettler alleges ho found that it
contained an undue amount of sedative
Dr. Norn? said last night that he
was m somewhat of a quandary as to
Which District Attorney's office should
take the matter up, since the j/irl died
IB the Bronx and the bromide was nur
cnased in Brooklyn. The report "was
finally sent to the Bronx.
Harding Favors Concord
Among Latin Countries
Seeks Policy of Understanding
Regarding Recognition of
De Facto Governments
from The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.?The Ad?
ministration is known to favor a policy
of understanding among the republics
of the Western Hemisphere regarding
recognition of de facto governments, it
became known to-day. The question
arose in connection with whether tiii^
government would recognize tho re?
cently established government of Gua?
temala. Speculation deals with whether
this government will adhere to its
policy of failing to recognize the new
regime in the same manner in which it
ailed to take cognizance of the gov?
ernment set up in 1907.
The President feels that concord of
notion by the republics of the Western
Hemisphere would be in accordance
with the international policy which this
Country is seeking to promote at pres
ont. Secretary of State Hughes is
known to hold similar opinions.
While the President and his Secre?
tary of Slate havo r.ot conferred with
Coolidge's Yankee j
Titan g Amputated
| WASHINGTON, Dec 16.?
j Vice-President Calvin C?olidge
: has almost entirely lost his fa?
mous Now England Yankee naBal
, twang, which has been a delight
| to folks at tho capital since hi3
i arrival. Tho Vice-President was
! forced to submit to a alight nose
| operation recently because of in
I terference with his breathing. It
has practically "mined" the
Yankee twang, (o the sadness of
j some, but to tho gratification of
some Southern Senators, who
| were unaccustomed to it.
Politicians of the Bay State
have said that that twang was
good for 10,000 extra votes for
' Coolidge in every state campaign.
jl-?-_??
. reference to the situation in Guate
! mala, tho Executive lias gone on record
1 as cordially favoring the policy of an
| understanding among Tat m countries
: designed to deal with just such prob
. lems.
Dr. Julio Blanchi, Minister of Gua
1 t?mala, and Francisco Sanchez Latour,
, who represents tho now regime in Gua
? t?mala, to-day issued conflicting state
' merits of the situation in the republic.
I Dr. Binnchi said that tho overthrow
i of tho Herrera regime was brought
! about by the friends and admirers of
\ Kstrada Cabrera, the former President.
Whalen Forces
Transit Board to
Subpoena Him
(Centlniiod from p*S? one")
' Avenue Coach Company was controlled
j by the "traction ring" and was using
! busses with a center of gravity so
I high as to increase the danger of an
I overturn. He again assailed the Tran
: sit Commission and the "traction trust.
i papers.'' declaring they had started
; propaganda against "a system of up
; to-date, well-lighted, well-ventilated
busses for the people of this city at a
? 5-cent fare."
"Their scheme seems to be," said tho
Mayor, "to trllow the traction interests
i to grub the bus franchise privileges of
' the city and charge a ten-cent fare by
condemning the bus plan of thof-fasent
administration for a five-cent fare.
"We appropriated $1,000,000 for the
? purchase of busses of a type which
would permit entrance from the curb.
i The traction interests, through their
j attorneys, got an injunction restrain
' ins: the expenditure of this money. If
the city had not been stayed by the
courts there would to-day be thousands
of commodious busses operating on the
; streets of this city at a five-cent rate."
Flexible Fare Plan Argued
I At yesterday's hearing of the com
! mission, observations were made on tho
' consolidation plan by Gerhard M. Dahl,
? vice-president of the Chase National
; Bank. Mr. Dahl spolie for Albert H.
I Wiggin, president of the bank, who is
' chairman of a committee representing
holders of $20,550,000 of Brooklyn
, Rapid Transit stock. His comment was
! regarded as highly important, in view
' of the fact that he formerly was Street
Railroad Commissioner in Cleveland,
; where the barometer fund method,
,: similar to that proposed by the com
1 mission, is said to have been success
! fui.
The barometer fund, or flexible fare
! idea, Mr. Dahl believes to be both
: sound and scientific. Holders of pref
| erential rights would not surrender
! them with any less a consideration, he
thought.
Mr. Dahl was of the opinion that the
trend of fares, increased throughout
the country as a result of abnormal
conditions, was now proceeding in the
opposite direction.
"The sound basis of operating any
utility," said the banker, "is that the
public should pay the cost of service,
assuming that the cost does not include
the return on watered securities, or,
rather, on inflated values. Your plan
for a flexible rat?.- of fore with the
barometer fund, in my judgment, is tho
soundest solution of the public utility
problem and the relationship between
the cor. s?; m or on the one hand, and the
company that render.-; tho service on
the other that i- possible."
Cites Need of New Subwa> s
Mr. Dahl said th'* most important
clement in the transit situation was
'?? the need for new money for subway
I construction. Because of the magni?
tude of the expense, Mr. Dahl thought,
; resort would have to be had to the
i city's credit, although he disapproved
I of this as a rule. He agreed that uni
I fixation and city ownership of all prop
: erties should be the final outcome.
Clarence J. Shearn, special counsel
! of the commission, placed in evidence
! recent reports of the traction lines to
j show that their financial condition was
I improving to a degree that would make
! (-asier the commission's tusk of bting
j inp: about the unification and at the
same time restoring an actual 6-cent
j fare.
According to these specimen figures
the not income for September of this
! year for all rapid transit and surface
! lines in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brook
! lyn, Queens and Pichmond, with th<:
! exception of four small companies, was
j $2,906,446. For the s.?.me month in 1P29
j the item amounted to $148,337,
Chairman rrlcAneny explained that
this enormous gain was the result of a |
? $500,000 reduction in wages made in
August, the decreasing cost of materi?
als and miscellaneous savings.
On Poor Service, Says Shearn
Mr. Shearn pointed out that while
trie figures were encouraging the?
were, predicated upon the poor service
that the companies were giving and
up"n the fact that there was consid?r?
ai)!?* deferred maintenance.
"In other words," said Chairman Mc
Aneny, "when the service has been re?
stored to the standard that wo shall
insist upon at the proper time and de?
ferred maintenance" is made, those two
processes will involve, of course, addi
tional expense that will affect the net."
Improvement of the Second Avenue
Railroad was testified to by Charles E.
Chalmers, receiver of the company,
who, unlike other receiver?, aaid he
took an active part in operations. The
line tarries 20,000,000 passengers a
year, and its annual receipts amount to
$1,000,000.
Mr. Chalmers said he was presented
a hard job when the line was turned
back by the Metropolitan people. The i
equipment ?.vas in bad condition, trans
fers had been cut off and the road war, I
virtually choked to death, he said.
One-Man Cars Save $111,000
Service and equipment gradually had !
been improved, ha testified, until they :
were now in very good shape. A sav?
ing of $114,000 a year was realized ?
from the use of one-man cars, which
Mr. Chalmers said proved highly satis- i
factory to the public.
At the suggestion of Mr. Shearn '
Chairman McAneny announced he
would request the receivers of the New
York Railways Company and the inter- !
borough Consolidated Corporation to i
submit statements of their expendl
The investigation will bo resumed o?
49 La?ayotte Street at 10:30 o'clock
Monday '?'orninta'.
"Just Gifts From Friends," Says
Actress Arrested as
Smuggler
Muriel Spring, an actress, who pays
she has appeared in Famous Players
photoplays and in the Midnight Frolic,
gave herself up to Herman L. Falk.
Assistant United States District At?
torney, yesterday afternoon after n
I warrant had been issued for her ar
| rest on charges of smuggling and dc
j frauding the government of customs
j dues. It is alleged that she failed to
| declare $15,000 worth of clothing and
? jewelry which she brought to this
' country on the Olympic November 1,
Miss Spring did not appear unduly
annoyed when sho was arraigned be?
fore S. M. Hitchcock, United States
i Commissioner, and released in $2,500
I bail for a hearing January 8. lier
t explanation of her failure to declare
I tho valuubles was that they were eifts
from admiring friends and that she
had understood that gifts could b<5 im?
ported free of duty. Amone tho articles
in question were a sapphire ring, a
diamond anklet, a diamond brooch, a
pearl necklace, gowns, fans and furs.
She would not give the names of any
of the "many admirers'' who had mado
her presents.
After the arraignment Miss Spring
talked fluently with reporters, declar?
ing that it was nothing less than a
cheap shame to arrest her.
The proceedings against the actress
were commenced by a telephone call
early in November, informing the cus?
toms authorities that Miss Spring had
not complied with the requirements as
to declaring the contents of her hag
page when she landed. On November
7 her rooms at. the Hotel Ambassador
were searched and tho gowns and
jewels specified in tho telephone call
were discovered.
i Packing Strikers
Ready lo Return
During Mediation
Offer Made in Intervention
Plea Sent Davis; Profit?
eering Plot Is Charged
in Letter to Daugherty
Letters asking the intervention of
Secretary of Labor Davis and Attorney
Genera! Daugherty in tho packing
plant employees.' strike were sont them
yesterday by tho New York strikers.
Secretary Davis is urged, "as a pub?
lic duty in a time of national emer?
gency," to exert his powers to obtain
the consent of the packing companies
to submit the entire controversy to
arbitration. The strikers add that "in
the event of an agreement between
I both sides to arbitrate we shall return
I to work immediately."
"We have struck." rpads a portion
of the letter, "because the employers
have refused to continuo the methods
of collective bargaining which have
i kept peace in the local industry for
: the last twenty year?, and because they
? have embarked cm the same anti-union
j campaign which has forced tho strike
j in the West and South. As n result of
; this action by the packing firms, the
i oeople of New York have been suffer?
ing from an increase in the wholesale
prices of meal produc?s averaging
locally between 20 and 30 per cent.
"We are authorized to state to you
on behalf of our members on strike
in this vicinity that they will gladly
submit their case along with that of
our members on strike in other cities
to any impartial board of arbitration
; which'may be fairly chosen."
The letter to Attorney General
j Daugherty charges that the union is in
possession of information that the local
subsidiaries of tho "Big Five'' packing
! firms "have conspired to restrain trade
i in the slaughtering of meit" by limit?
ing the amount of livestock^ killing
done by independent concerns, in order
"to maintain prices of meat products
at a profiteering level."
"We urge upon you," it concludes,
"the necessity of an immediate and
i thoroughgoing investigation of the
facts, arid, if the facts warrant it,
criminal prosecution."
Both letters are signed by .lohn J.
Walsh, chairman, and Julius Pfeiffer,
secretary, of District Council No. 2,
? Amalgamated Association of Meat Cut?
ters and Butcher Workmen.
Professor Cuugrfit Peeping
At Co-eds in Dormitory
: G. L. Wench, Noted Chemist, j
Ousted After Incident Out?
side Girls' Bathroom
Special Dispatch lo Tlie Tribuno
i HICAGO, Dec. 16. Professor Ger-|
1 aid Louis Wendt was forced to resign j
.from the faculty of tho University of
Chicago to-day for peeping through a |
bathroom window* of the co-eds' dormi- j
tory at Kenwood Hall. Professor Wendt j
was caught peering into the window of ,
the gills' bathroom between 11 p. m.
and midnight on Tuesday night. A spe- ?
cial policeman and a watchman saw ?
him, "but fellow professors happened
along and saved him from arrest by :
! vouching for his character.
Professor Wendt explained to his j
! captors that he was making a special j
investigation into the protection afford- j
I ed to girl student'*, from night prowl?
ers. This investigation was rudely in- ,
terrupted by the special policeman and ;
the watchman, he said. On this expia
nation he was allowed to go to his
home.
The matter war; reported to President i
? Harry Pratt Judson, who conducto?! a
faculty investigation. To-day, after j
publication of a "Peeping 1 urn" story, ?
President Judson announced that the
i professor's resignation had been re- |
j quested and received. President Jud- '
[ son. refrained from announcing Profes- |
! sor Wi-ndt's name-.
Professor Wendt was known official- '
ly as assistant professor of the chem- i
i-try department. He was recently
promoted in recognition of his distin?
guished research work. He is a grad- ;
uate of Harvard, is married and has
a small son. Mrs. Wendt and tho son j
]?')> Chicago for Davenport, Iowa, on '
Tuesday to visit Wendt's mother.
-.
N. Y. Broker Held in Texas
F. j. Lilly Is Charged Here With
Absconding With $80,000
A New York broker, known to the
police as Frank J. Lilly, and who is'
s;iid to have been a fugitive from jus- I
tice for more than two years, is under'
arrest in Dallas, Terr., according to ;
word received at the District Attorney's ?
O'T.co yesterday. Lilly, who is also said .
to have been known under tho name of
J. B. Franklin, is being held there pond?
ing tiie arrival of detectives of the New
York police force. According to the
police, Lilly is wanted on a charge of
grand larceny for absconding with $80,
000 given to him to invest. It is re?
ported that he has confessed to the
charge.
The alleged swindle, which may
amount to $1,000,000 in all, occurred
two years ago through tho operations
of a brokerage firm of which Lilly is
said to have been the head. Following
his disappearance an indictment for
first degree larceny was handed down
against him by tho grand jury.
? ? .? .
Red Band Captured as Bank
Looters hy German Police ;
BERLIN, Dec. "l? (By The Associ-!
ated Press). The criminal police to?
day announced the arrest of thirty ?
members of an alleged Communist:
band which has been, systematically
plundering banks, business offices and
postoffices in Prussia, Saxony ami Ba?
varia. The men aro said to have ?
offices in Berlin ana to have main- '
tained a regular courier service for
carrying or. their work. It is ?harged
by the police that the men utilised pa- j
rades and labor unrest, which they !
themselves stirred up, to gain their
ends. All of them possessed false'
identification papers.
Their leader, who ?s described as a
wandering Communist orator named j
Xnr! Robert Plaetner, escaped capture.
Anollicr Section
Of Body Is Found
In Torso Mystery
? New Portion Discovered in
Long Island City Said to
Fit Dismembered* Frag?
ments of Woman's Corpse
Laborers cleaning a sewer catch
I basin at Skillman Avenue and Van Dam
Street, Long Island City, yesterday dis?
covered the mid-section of a wmian
wrapped in oilcloth of the same pattern
as that which incased the head and
torso found in a pond near Queens
Boulevard, about 500 feet from the
catch basin, October 22.
The upper part of the body, with a
pair of iegs cut off below the knee
which were found later in Van Cort*
landt Park, have been preserved in a
chemical solution at the morgue and
the section found yesterday fitted them
exactly.
Part of a ribbed undershirt which
? clung to the flesh found yesterday is
| of the ram? material as the upper part
of n similar garment found on the
? torso, while the tops of stockings
! found on the tipper part of the legs
I match the parts found on the lower
! legs which were found in Van Cort
i londt Park.
"The weight of that part of the
body found this morning and the.
?weight of the legs found in Van Cort
i landt Park total forty-three pounds,"
' said Dr. Charles Norris, me-Iica! ex
! aminer. "This would make the entire
? vcight of tho victim about ninety-three
; pounds.
"The part found this morning an
! the legs fit together perfectly. Ther.'
, is also a similarity in the part of the
, stocking round on the thigh and the
, part found on the lower part of the
i corresporpding leg. A careful examina
; tion wil' be made to determino the
; cause of death."
The catch basin in which the dis
i cc very was made yesterday is in an
! undeveloped section. Rushes and rub?
bish heaps quite hide the manhole
i cover from view and detectives who
! searched the vicinity of the pond after
the torso was found never stumbled
i upon it at all.
It is the belief of the police that
: who ever disposed of the body was
| thoroughly familiar with the n?igh
? borhood.
Building Union* Favor
60-Day Wage Extension
Proposal of Employers to Re?
tain Present Scale for Two
Months Is Well Received
Christian G. Norman, president of
the Building Trades Employers' Asso?
ciation, said yesterday he had request?
ed '?<? prompt reply from the Building
Trades Council and unatfiliatcd building
workers' unions as to whether the pro?
posal of the association for a sixty
day continuance of existing wage
agreements, pending arbitration of the ;
points of difference between the em- j
ployers and union men was acceptable. ;
The proposal was delivered yesterday. ;
Mr. Norman said he thought, the
workers'officials would receive the offer
favorably, as it was absolutely impar- !
tial from the viewpoint of either side.
It was ascertained that spokesmen '
for the various unions, both in and '
outside the Building; Trades Council, :
regard the proposal us the best way
out of a situation that: had begun to
grow tense with the expiration of
present agreements at hand. An official
(pf the Plasterer.;' Union, which with :
the Bricklayers', Painters' and Stone?
cutters' unions will act on the pro- |
posai separately, said the action of the
Building Trades Employers' Associa-'
tion was encouraging to the labor lead- ;
ers generally. The plasterers will meet :
on Monday night to consider the plan. I
Spanish Sink One and
Seize 2 French Ships
Gimhoat Reports Operating
Against Vessels Carrying
Arms to Morocco
MADRID, Dec. 10 (By TI e Assoc ated
Press).?-The Spanish gunboat Bonifaz
has captured two French sailing vessels ;
which were conveying consignments of
arms and munitions to the Moroccan |
insurgents and sank another vessel en?
gaged in the same occupation, it was
announced in an official report received
hfrc to-day.
The report states that the captures'
and sinking were effected off Alhuce?
mas, on the Mediterranean coa t of
Spanish Morocco.
The Spanish gunboat Bonifaz is a !
vessel of 787 tons, built in 1911, with
a battery consisting of four 14-pound- !
ers and two machine gum-. She carries ?
a complement of 121 mei\. She has I
been engaged for some time in opera
tien against the Moors oiT the Moroc?
can coast.
Blackmore Award Reversed
Camera Dealer is Held Party to
Conspiracy He Charges :
An opinion written by Judge Julius!
M. Mayer and concurred in by Judges
Henry Wade Rogers and Charles M. !
Hough was filed in the United States '
Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday re?
versing nn award of $25,000 grar,t?'d in
the District Court to J. Edward Black- ,
more. The latter had brought suit!
against the Eastman Kodak Company:
under the anti-Sherman law, alleging i
that the camera corporation had re- '
fuser to sell to him during the period
from 1902 to 1905, and that his retail |
photographic business had suff( red in
consequence. ?
The Circuit Court held that inas-'
much as it was apparent that from,
190S to 1913 Blackmore had acquiesced
and actively participated in the East?
man company's so-calh ! restrictiva'
Rales system, he must be considered as I
n parly to the conspiracy in restraint'
of trade and consequently cannot re?
cover damages for losses resulting
from tho system.
This ?s Forget-Me-Not
Day for War Cripples
Governor Miller has designated
to-day as Forget-Me-Not Day, to
be devoted to raising* money for
war cripples. Agenta of the Dis?
abled American Veterana of tho
World War will seek funds for
the maimed and the blinded, and
will offer artificial forget-me-nots
to those who give.
"These boys represent the men
who bled for their country," ?aid
William P. Deegan, state com?
mander of the American Legion,
in a statement given out last
night. "Wo hear a great deal
from persona in governmental po?
sitions and others opposed to ad?
justed compensation for the cx
scrvico men that nothing is too
good for tho wounded and dis?
abled.
"Yet these men find it neces?
sary, to obtain aid for their
wounded and disabled comrades,
to appeal directly to the public.
I firmly believe that tho great
heart of the American public
beats true in its sympathy with
these saviors of our country. Let
us not fail to answer their call for
help."
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Destroyer Hit
By Liner; 6
a!
Men Injured
(Continuad fr? m pan? on?)
Panama saying that she was proceed- i
ing under her own steam to port and
expected to arrive in Quarantine at 1 ?
a. m. The message said that the mine- ?
sweeper Sandpiper, with surgeons on j
board, would soon bo alongside and
give aid to Bio injured men who are
being cared l'or aboard tho Panama.
According to the midnight radio from
Captain Oakley, the number of men in?
jured is six.
The Graham is being towed slowly to i
port by the tugs I. J. Merritt and tho \
Willard, of the Merritt-Cbapman ;
Wrecking Company.
It was said at the naval hospital that !
the destroyer which wont, to the scene |
of the collision with a doctor aboard |
was not expected back until after day?
light. It was a long trip, it was point?
ed out, and with a physician fully
equipped for any emergency aboard
there would bo no need for extreme
haste in reaching this port. If some of
the cases were found to be serious, it
was said, they might be landed at the
marine hospital en Staton Island.
Tho Graham, which is in command
of Commander W. P. Amsden, left port:
yesterday bound for Charleston, S. C,
The Panama, which has boon out of
service for nearly four months, was
?m her way to this port with 107 pas?
sengers, chiefly employees of the Canal
Zone.
She had been in dry dock at Balboa,!
on the Pacific side of the isthmus,
whore she had undergone a thorough
overhauling and had been equipped
with new boilers.
The Panama, which was originally1
the Havana, of the Ward Line, was
buitl by tire Cramns in Philadelphia
in 189"8. She was taken over by tho
Panama Railroad Steamship Li?o in
1907, when the late Theodore P. Shonts,
was head of the company an?! chair-j
?nan of the Isthmian Canal Commission. '
Mr. Shonts war-, obliged to make fr??
quent trips to the isthmus, and always
'raveled on the Panama. He had a
special room do luxe built for his use
on the boat deck aft, and always oc
cupied it when ho went to Cristobal.'
rhe Panama is a vessel of 5,638 gross
tons, is zm feet loop and has a beam
of 50 feet. For many years she was in
command of Captain Benjamin Corn-,
ing, the senior master of the Panama
fleet.
$1,803,364 Mining Award,
New Idria Wins Suit Against
New York Company
PROVIDENCE, Dec 16.?A verdict
for $1,803,364.05 was awarded the
plaintiff to-night in the suit of the
New Idria Quicksilver Mining Com?
pany of California against the British
American Manufacturing Company of
Now York. The jury considered its
verdict for four hour?;.
The verdict follows ten days of testi?
mony in the $2,500,000 suit of the New
idria Company which alleged that the
British-American Company h;;d en- ,
tered into a contract with the plaintiff'I
company for the purchase of about:
11,000 ilasks of quicksilver, but had'
failed to fulfill the agreement.
Georgia Republicans Split
Over Stale Chairmanship
Special Dispatch ta 'Jin- Tribune
ATLANTA, Dec. 16.?There was a
split in the ranks of the Republican
party in Georgia at a meeting held
here this afternoon, at which, the res?
ignation of J, Lewis Phillips, state
chairman, was demanded, and a com?
plete reorganization planned.
There has bren dissatisfaction in
the state, for some time over the dis?
tribution of Federal patronage, and it
came to a head to-day when Charles
Adamson, a leading Republican, de?
clared to the delegates assembled that
Mr. Phillips "apparently considers the'
organization his personal property."
The meeting was attended by twelve
of the forty-eight members of the com?
mittee. After anjournment announce?
ment was made by a representative of
Phillips, who is now in Chicago, that
ii? would ignore the demand for his
resignation.
Court Rules insurance on
Hanged Man is Collectible
ATLANTA. Dee. 16,?The fact that a'
man has been legally hanged does not;
invalidate an insurance policy which
carries a clause making it incontesta-i
ble for any cause after a year, the '
State Court, of Appeals has decided.
The decision was made in a suit tiled
by Floread Murphy, beneficiary under a
Metropolitan police to Willie Reynolds, ;
a negro, who was hanged in South Car- !
olina on July 11, 1919. The company j
contended that it was against "public
policy" to pay such insurance.
Boland Called to Irelami
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.?Harry J.
Boland, representative of the provi?
sional Irish government in Washing?
ton, received instructions to-night to
return to Ireland for the session of
the Pail Eireann. lie will sail from
New York December 24. He returned
from Ireland after a brief visit only
last October.
Greeks Repulsed by Turks
ANGORA, Dec. 16.?An official com?
munication issued to-day at Turkish
Nationalist headquarters says the
Greeks attacked the Turks with con?
siderable forceo to the east of Eski
Shehr, but that after desperate fighting
they were forced to tall back, suffering
heavy losses.
BishopShipman
Co-Defendant in
Woman's Suit
Charged With Maurice Leon
?nd Other? of Conspiring
Against Name and Repute
of Mis? Mercedes Smith
She Demands $200,000
Plaintiff Was Chairman of
Americanization Work in
War-Time Defense Society
The Right Rev. Herbert Shipman, suf?
fragan bishop of tho Episcopal diocese
of New York, is named as co-defendant
In a suit for damages for $200,000 filed
in Supreme Court yesterday by Miss
Mercedes McAllister Smith, who was
chairman of the Americanization Com?
mittee of the American Defense So?
ciety.
The defendants, besides Bishop Ship
man, who, Miss Smith declares, wore
in a conspiracy to injure her good
name and reputation, are Maurice
Leon, member of the law firm of
Evarts, Choate, Sherman & Leon;
George W. Burleigh, of 27 Cedar
Street; Barry N. Smith, of 1 East Fif?
ty-seventh Street; Bronson Batchelor,
of 1 Madison Avenue; Roger B. Jen?
kins. 1 Madison Avenue, and Anna E.
Guerin, address not given. Papers in
the suit have not yet been served on
Bishop Shipman or Miss Guerin.
It is charged by Miss Smith that the
d?fendants conspired to injure and de?
stroy her good name and disqualify
and discredit her in certain patriotic
and charity work. Another purpose of
tho persons Bhe is suing, said the
plaintiff, was to destroy her "high
standing and reputation socially." Be?
tween May 3 and May 9, 1921, it is as?
sorted, the defendants issued or caused
to be issued the following statements:
"She was convicted and served a
term in prison in France," also, "She is
the samo person who under the nanv
of Duchess de Villanda was arrested
in March. 190fi, *n France, for embez- ;
ziement, found guilty and sentenced to
a term of imprisonment."
Miss Smith says that not only were
these statements false but, she asserts,
on information and belief, that tho do- ;
fendants know them to be false when
they were issued.
Mr. Leon when seen at the Hotel
Biltmore last night refused to make
any statement on the case.
"I feel," he Raid, "that in such mat- ,
fers no comment should be made be- ?
foro the case is brought to trial."
"Is it true," Mr. Leon was asked,
"that Bishop Shipman is a co-defendant
with ycu in this suit?"
"Yes, it is, but I have nothing to
say on this matter at all."
The Americanization committee of
the American Defense Society is one of
tho- newer committees formed in the or?
ganization, which was active in many
patriotic enterprises during the war.
Women Held as Rioters
Four Arrested After Disorders
at K??nsas Coa! Mines
PITTSBURG, Kan., Dec. 16 (By The
Associated Press).?Four women said j
to have participated in demonstrations j
in which non-striking union miners
were driven from work early this week j
were arrested to-night and aro in the
city jail here, under charges of un?
lawful assemblage.
Although the offense with which they
aro charged is bailable, the clerk of
the District Court closed his office be?
fore the women wore brought to Pitts
burg, and it was therefore impossible
for them to get bonds accepted before
morning.
One man also was arrested to-day.
He is charged with assault and bat?
tery, the County Attorney's office said.
Kansas National Guardsmen, sent
here to assist in preserving order, to- I
night continued to patrol the coal
fields.
Dozen for Shopman's Place
Heavenly Rest Vestry Still Un?
able to Name Successor
Selection of a successor to the Rt.
Rev. Herbert Shipman as rector of the
j Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fifty
i fifth Street, near Fifth Avenue, is still
! a matter of discussion in vestry meet
ings, it was learned yesterday, with
the names of twelve or more clergymen
under consideration. Charles A. Clark,
?unior warden of the church, admitted
?.hat among the candidates the Rev.
Dr. E. C. Chorley, of Garrison. N. Y.;
the Rev. Harry V. B. Darlington, of
Newark, N. J.; the Rev. Dr. Alexander
G. Gumming, of Poughkeepsie; the
Rev. Harold Adye Prichard, of Mount
Xisco, and the Rev. Richard T. lien
sbaw, of Rye, are prominent.
"Wo are proceeding as rapidly as is
possible to the selection of Bishop
Shipman's successor," said Mr. Clark.
"It is impossible to say how soon the
selection will be made. The decision
may be reached within a,week, and it
may take a year."
8-lOOJ???WM Is Broken
.5 Smith Children, Left $25
Each, Force Fourth to Share
i
A jury in Surrogate Wingate's court,
in Brooklyn, decided yesterday that the
will by which Mrs. Ellenor Elizabeth
Smith left $25 to each of three chil
dren and about $400,000 to her fourth
child was the. result of undue in?
fluence everted by the principal bene?
ficiary, Mrs! Jennie E. Miller, of 22
East Seventh Street, Brooklyn.
The document, accordingly, was nul?
lified and the estate will be divided as
though Mrs. Smith had died intestate. ?
lier other children ere Charles and
Owen Smith and Mrs. Elizabeth Bates.
The will which they contested was
executed April 21, about four months
before Mrs. Smith's death. She w&3
eighty-one years old.
? .?
House Pays Tribute to Eleton,
Found Dead in the Potomac
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.?The House
adjourned to-day until to-morrow out
of respect for Representative John A.
Elston, o? California, whose body was
found last night in the Potomac River.
Immediately ai'tir convening the House
adopted resolutions of regret and
authorized selection of a committee of
eighteen members to accompany the
body to California in case burial is
made there. Funeral arrangements
were being held in abeyance to-day
pending receipt of instructions from
members of Mr. Elston's family.
Transit Company Gets Writ for
$1,750,000 Claim on City
Tho Appellate Division yesterday de
cided that the Rapid Transit Subway
t i m.truction Company was entitled to
a writ ?i mandamus directing Comp?
troller Craig to draw a warrant for
$1,750,000 on the Chamberlain in favor
of the company.
The amount claimed by the company
represents the cost of installing a
multiple unit car door control in 9S2
cars of the Interborough subways.
Comptroller Craig refused to p^y the
claim on the ground that the city was
not liable for this additional work on
tho subw.iy.
Seized as Liquor Carrier
Nomad, Captured Near Cam
den, N. J., Said to Have Had
Mueh Whisky Aboard
TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 1C?Chief
United States 'eputy Marshal Wood
bury P. Snowden to-doy seized ?-the
convertible bubmarine chaser Nomad,
formerly United States submarino
chaser No. 71, at Cramer Hill Basin,
Camden, on a warrant issued by the
I United States Court eiiarrinT^Tr"" ?
of the Federal custom* K ???? '
Volstead act in carrying ?i-*,,-! d th*
A large quantity of whisk? B,
the vessel was confiscatod LA*
to Snowden. Two United St?u'C?rd,a*
marshals havo be-n pinc-l -X d?5?y
veasal pending furth/r ord rS ^ ^
court. Search is now being ? V*
the own-T? of the veM,|, -X?,t ht
are withhold by the authority" tV**1
on hoard were arrested. hoi?
Th9 Nomad arrived ??> r.
I Basin last night and " S."?S
ha?? cleared from th? B.h?"^*
ARN
FOURTEENTH ST. Founded 1827 WEST OF FIFTH AVES.
The House of HE'A'ffft
Buys for Gash
i
The best manufacturers and the biggest mills are
eager to sell goods to H?ARN, and to meet
IM E A R N? S exacting standards for merchandise.
The average number of salesmen visiting our sample
rooms daily during November for the past three
years was:
74% more in 1920 than in 1919.
120% more in 1921 than in 1919.
And on November 15th last ice had the greatest
number of visiting salesmen in the 94 years'
history of this store.
The House of H E ? R:S3. !
Sells for Cash
Except in Selling of Phonograph*.
Our value-giving policy has remained unchanged for
ninety-four years. A constantly growing patronage
has resulted, necessitcUing more buildings and more
employes to take care of more customers.
The House of ill EARN is appreciative of past
loyalty and optimistic toward the future.
|UR standard assort?
ment of Bonbons
and Chocolates at $1.50
per pound contains many
varieties that sold at a
higher price last Christmas.
New York's foremost fine candy
The 2-ton Pierce-Arrow chassis
at $3200 costs $1100 less than it
did a year ago. It has a cab and
electric lights and is fully painted
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