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Legion Is Ready
For Convention
Opening To-day
Soldiers, Sailors and Ma?
rine? of World War Ar?
rive in New Orleans From
A? Part? of the Country
Will Have Political Tinge
Members Are to Deride on
Bonus Policy and Will
Discuss Hospitalizaci?n
NBW ORLEANS, Oct. 15 (By The
Associate-! Press). ? Soldiers, sailor?
?nd marines of four years ago, mem?
ber? of the American Legion, were
gathered here to-night for their fourth
annual national convention, which be?
gin? to-morrow and continues for five
days.
It i* a convention that is scheduled
to accomplish much business and shape
policies that will affect national poli?
tic? as well as the future course of
the Legion.
Last year's American Legion Conven?
tion, in Kansas City, with Marsha!
Foeh, Admiral Beatty,"' of England;
Genera! Diaz, of Italy, and Genera!
Jacques, of Belgium, as distinguished
guests, was a combination of pageant
and reunion on a gigantic scale.
Report Assails Government
Request for a 510,000,000 appropria
tion to equip hospitals now being con
?tructed and to build additional hos
pit?is for neuro-psychiatrie patient:
is contained in the report of th<
American Legion's commission for re
habilitation, to be laid before the con
vention to-morrow by Colonel A. A
Sprague, head of the rehabilitatioi
commission. The report criticizes th<
government achievements to date ii
caustic language.
"The story of hospital constructioi
by the government up to date," de
clares the report, "judging by actua
results, is a tragedy for the sick
a discredit to the governmen
and an affront to the America
Legion. There is not a redeemin
feature in it. Politics, promines, plani
failure to prepare anything but alibi
In advance, red tape, excuses and cor
tentions conspired to defeat the actus
providing of needed beds.
"Back home very little comfort ha
been given to the men who trade
their strong minds and bodies an
valiant spirits for victory and peac?
One billion dollars was voted by Cor
gress to pay for unfilled war coi
tracts canceled at the armistice. Ai
parently many were so busy trying t
figure out how much the governmer
owed them for canceled contracts thf
they didn't have time to.think of tli
hospitals that should have been coi
?tructed."
What the Legion's future policy wi
be on adjusted compensation an
What, if any, criticism will 1
be levelled at the Administration i
Washington because of the defeat of tl
.compensation measure during the la
session of Congress, when Preside)
Harding'? veto was sustained, we
outstanding questions. But they we
by no means the only questions of ir
portance to be brought before the L
gion convention.
Will Discuss Hoapitalizatlon
Discussion of the progress made
caring for the disabled, the work of tl
United States eVtaran Bureau and t
part played by Bn.gadfer General C.
Sawyer, the Presi-ent's personal ph
?ician, in connection with hospitaliz
tion also were scheeluled for sha
discussion.
Colonel C. R. Forbes, head of t
Veterans' Bureau, is here, and I
presence already has brought t
charge from William F. Deegan, he
of the New York convention deleg
tion and a candidate for nationul eo
mander to succeed Han ford MacNid
that Forbes was here to influence t
convention at the instance of the F
Publican administration in Washii
on, a charge sharply denied
Forbes, who said he was here with
staff of specialists to co-operate w:
the legion on problems having to
with disabled men.
Committee meetings went forwi
to-day with completion of the repo
of commissions appointed by i
Legion to deal with Americanizati
rehabilitation, hospitalisation, legis
tion and similar topics having to
with veteran welfare work.
Few Uniforms Are Worn
Meanwhile, the rank and file of
\eteran? here for the convent
poured in in increasing numbers
day and to-night from all parts
the country. It was noticeable t
there were many less men weai
their uniforms this year than has b
the case at previous conventions. 1
haps a good many of the uniforms
worn out?after all. it ha? been n<
!y four years since the fighting in
Argonne and along the Meuse,
? doubtless a good many civilian w
and collar lines are no longer adai
to the military regalia that t
owners brought home from war
years ago.
Another noticeable feature of
?fe. convention was the large numbe
? women who came with their so!
W relatives to participate in (he fes
W *ies, which will accompany the
vention, and to attend the conver
at the American Legion Auxiliary,
women's orgnnization, which meet
ihe same time.
Summer weather greeted th?
vention visitors and under a bril
?un, palm trees, oleanders and r
gave a tropical touch to the settin
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Sicilian Forgers in Cav?
Million Banknotes, Inclu?
American Dollars, Fount
PALERMO, Sicily, Oct. 15
police have discovered in caverni
?ide the estate of the Duke of Ai
a gang of forgers who had pr
more tr?an a million banknotes, in
ing American dollars.
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Hallowe'en Chosen Dale
For Miss Straus's We<l<
Halloween, October 31, has
chosen by Miss Louise K. SI
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Si
of this city, as the date for her
ding to Mr. Seward William El
?or o? Mrs. S. W. Eh rich, also of
York. The ceremony is to be
formed at 7 o'clock in the eveni*
the Italian Garden of the Ambas
Hete! and will be followed by a d
(or SO0 guests in the main rent?
and Louis XV ballroom. Aftei
there will be dancing.
The bride will be attended b>
sitter, Mrs. Herbert Spencer Mi
?? matron of honor, and there
e two maids of honor, Miss Ih
Straus, another sister, and Mio?
?Ired Stern. Mr, Howard, JShrich
serve sa bis brother's best ?an, an
-usher? will include hit ?ou**in
Harold Eh rich; Mr. Herbert Sp?
Martin, Mr. Arthur SeHgman, Mr. i
?Cimbel Mr. Robert Biumenthal
Jt-feert Blum. Mr. Theodora Lniti
kmWUl. tunlatf Brow?.
! Bureau Gets 13,762
War Claims Acted On
Fror? The Tribune's Washington Bureau'
W??iSH-NGTON, Oct. 16. ?
During the first eight months of
the existence of the national re
habilitation committee of the
Disabled Veterans of the World
War 13,762 claims of former
service men have been handled.
Captain John H. Dykes, chair?
man of the committee, announced
today* Included in thege cases
was one for a patient in Fort Mc-^
I Henry Hospital, at Baltimore,
which netted him an award of
$4,026.16, the largest compensa?
tion check ever written by the
Veterans' Bureau. Last week an?
other check, for $1,920, was ob?
tained for a comrade who previ?
ously had been unable to obtain
action in his case.
Aviation Experts
Meet to Map Out
New Legislation
Government Scientist's t c
Scan Work Accomplishec
in Last Year and Tes
Newly Invented Device
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. ---Recom
mendations for aeronautical legisla
tion, development of airways and land
ing .fields and extension of scientifi
research in many phases of aeronau
tics will be decided upon at the annua
meeting of the National Advisory Com
mittee of Aeronautics at Langl?y Fiel?
Virginia, Thursday, for submission t
President Harding, Chairman Charle
D. Walcott, of the committee, ar
nounced to-day.
The committee, which is composed c
scientists representing the branches <
the Federal government interested i
aviation and leading aeronautical e:
perts, will have a busy day at its se:
sion, which will be held in the Langle
Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. 1
addition to reviewing the work unde
taken during the last year, the con
mittee will outline its 192.3 progra
and inspect the facilities in. use f<
aeronautical research in its laborator
Reports and recommendations on i;
vestigations under way will be made
person by the members of the enginee
ing staff employed at Langley Field.
Special test flights will be made
the air Thursday by pilots of the r
search staff to demonstrate the recen
ly perfected methods of automatical
recording strains and stresses on i
parts of an airplane in flight and du
ing such maneuvers as the "ban
roll," "tail spin," etc. An exact knov
edge of these stresses is necessary
enable designers to strengthen we
spots in airplains and make for great
safety. The members of the comm
tee will witness also the formal opt
ing of the new compressed air wi
tunnel for testing model airplar
under a preasure of twenty atm?
pheres, and will inspect progress
the erection of a new laboratory bui
ing to provide facilities for ?level?.
ment of new types of aircraft engin
including the recently designed fuel
jection engine using crude oil inste
of the expensive aviation gasoline.
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British Grangers Wage
War on Food Profitee
Gouging of Public by 300 P
Cent is Revealed by
Farmers
LONDON, Sept. 20 (By Mail).?"V
is to be waged on food profiteers
farmers in the east of England,
cording to the Norwich correspond
of "The Westminster Gazette."
The Press Committee of the Norl
Branch of the National Farm
Union have issued a statement
which they say that, despite the pr
which the farmer is receiving tl
is no comparison between tnem
the prices which the public, inclut
farm laborers, are paying for the >i
commodities.
The public is charged anything f
100 to 300 per cent above the pr
which the farmer is receiving for
main articles of diet. It Is a sig
cant fact that companies, whose
function is the distribution of i
cultural produce, are paying 26
cent dividends.
The county branch of the Nati
Farmers' Union is developing a sch
of direct supply. The idea Is to ?
retail stores in the principal town
the eastern counties, one in
town, for the sale of meat, (
vegetables, farm produce genei
and, if necessary, bread, with the
ject of guiding the public as to
prices which should be paid. Sei
i undercutting, it Is stated, is not
| templated. The farmers ask their
ployees to support them in this pro
British Lahor Leader
Finds Germany Is Bi
LONDON, Sept. 20 (By Mai
Thomas Kennedy, Labor Membe
Parliament, visited Germany red
to learn something of Ihe conditio:
the working classes there. He tel
"Justice" what most impressed
and he makes some interesting
parisons between German and Bi
workers.
"There are no unemployed in
many," Mr. Kennedy writes." "".
are gloomy forbodings of what
next six months may bring to the
man workers, but so far the Ge
people have escaped the war mi?
and uncertainties that are ou
here. The differences and divisioi
tween skilled and unskilled wc
are much less pronounced in Ger
than in Britain. At the time c
visit, when the rate of exehang?
anything between 4,000 and
marks to the pound sterling, the
age wage was in the neighborhood
marks an hour.
"It would be foolish of course t
gest that there is no poverty ir
many. I was told by those who
close touch with the life of the
! man worker that the general sta
of comfort is lower to-day than
thing experienced by the presen
eration of German workers., Bui
so, although I visited some of the
est part? of Berlin, I saw noth
sorded as the poverty and squa
| the poorest districts of Glasgow,
burgh, Leeds or London,
"The republic is possessed of
mous material wealth and in.ell
resource whicb have not been des
by military defeat. On the con'tr.
may soon be apparent that milita
feat has but ?wakened new powi
ridding the life -of the German
ct the domin?at.!on of th? militari
imperially casta*.?.*
The American Legion
News: L?cala State* National
Convention Opening To-day
in New Orleans I? Ex
> peeled to Surpass Any?
thing Heretofore Tried
Country-wide Reports Favor
Deegan, New York Man,
for Post of National Com?
mander; Girls, invited
Everything is in readiness for the
opening to-day of the annunl Legion
convention at New Orleans and all in?
dications point to the fact that it will
not only be the biggest affair of its
kind ever staged in that city but that
it will far surpass anything hercto
! fore attempted by the Legion.
The American Legion special train,
composed of eight cars, left the Grand
Central Station Saturday at 1 o'clock
with the entire New York contingent
on board. Special stops were made at
various points up state to pick up dele?
gates. It is expected that the train
will arrive in New Orleans early this
morning.
Legionnaires throughout the city
expressed themselves on leaving as
more than satisfied with the reports
coming in from all parts of the coun?
try favoring William F. Deegan, past
commander of the New York Depart?
ment, for the office of national com?
mander. In view of the announced
support of the delegates from Mis?
souri and Massachusetts and from any
number of posts, the New York City
Legionnaires, and particularly those
from the Bronx, and confident that the
next national commander will be from
this city and that his name will be
Bill Deegan.
If Deegan is elected to that office
it will.be the first time since the for?
mation of the Legion that a New
Yorker has been made national com?
mander. Posts throughout the state
have instructed their delegates to vote
for him.
Deegan has gained his great popu?
larity from the fact that during nis
period of office as stato commander he
has always shown that his aims are
the aims of the ex-service man and
that his one desire is to see that the
veteran gets a square deal.
Advance reports from the committee
in charge of the arrangements for the
convention indicate that there will be
150,000 ex-service men and women and
their friends in New Orleans through?
out this week. The largest parade
ever held in that city will take place
on Wednesday, when 40,000 members
of the Legion will march down Canal
Street in review in column of platoons.
A cenotaph commemorating the sol?
dier dead has been erected on the par?
quet of Canal Street, directly opposite
the tribune of the gold star mothers,
and all veterans will pay tribute to
their fallen comrades with a salute as
they pass by. The route of the parade
will cover a distance of, about four
miles,, and it is expected that the head
of the column will reach its destina?
tion before the rear guard has passed
the reviewing stand.
Sculling Championship
An interesting feature of the various
athletic events scheduled to take place
during the convention at New Orleans
is a sculling race between Walter
Hoover, of Minnesota, the world's
champion singles oarsman, and Gran
ville Gude, of Washington. Hoover
recently challenged any Legionnaire to
a race at any tipie during-the conven?
tion, and the delegates from Washing?
ton are backing their favorite to the
limit.
It is reported that Gude began scull?
ing only four months ago, but aston?
ished the rowing world by winning
tbreo events in one afternoon last
August at the Middle States Rowing
Regatta. Gude took up the sport with
the avowed intention of defeating
Hoover within three years, but he has
come along so fast that he is willing
to make his stand now.
The race will be rowed over a mile
and a quarter course, and if Gude
should defeat Hoover he will not only
become the American Legion champion
but world's champion as well, since the !
Southern A. A. U. recently passed a j
resolution making records made at New
Orleans official.
Sham Air Battles
As a part of the program of the con- ?
vention a number of the best army
and navy aviators in this country have
promised to participate in the air
maneuvers which will be in progresa
each day throughout the week.
Twelve of the largest seaplanes in
the United States Navy will participate
in the battles, and night flights will
be a ? daily feature. Major Frank i
Brown, commanding officer of the
Montgomery Intermediate Air Depot,
will pilot a De Haviland. Six planes
will be sent from the 22d Aero Squad?
ron and five from the Alabama Na?
tional Guard. These will be commanded
by Major J. A. Maissner, one of the
aces of the A. E. Ft
These will also be machines from
.Kelly Field, Texas, which will be on
exhibition at all times when not in
flight, and from the Tennessee National
Guard. There will be no end of stunt
flying and parachute descents, and there
will also be a race over a triangular
course of eighteen miles, for which all,'
planes in the city are eligible.
Overseas Girls There
Girl comrades of the soldiers in
France, comprising the membership of
the Women's Overseas Service League,
will meet with the boys they formerly'
aided for the first' time at the annual
convention of the Legion.
Although they served with the men
in France, the overseas girls, includ?
ing in their ranks canteen workers,
searchers, hospital hut workers, en?
tertainers and librarians, are not eligi?
ble for Legion membership because of
their civilian, status during the war.
Already 2,000 of these women in
thirty cities are enrolled in the or?
ganization formed a little more than a
year ago, according to its officers. Red
Cross, Salvation Army, Y. M. C. A.,
Y. W. C. A., Jewish Welfare Board,
National Catholic War Council and
American Library Association women
are included in the membership.
A bill to incorporate the league is
row before the Senate Judiciary Com?
mittee, the House having passed favor?
ably on the measure. Miss Louise*
Wells, of Chicago, national president,
| announces that the organization is non
political and will undertake no legis?
lative program.
"Our aim is to give government rec?
ognition to the women who were asked
to serve their country," said Miss
Wells.
Bronx County Election
There will be a regular meeting of
the Bronx County Legion on the night
of October 20 for the purpose of elect?
ing a new county" commander. This
meeting will be held in the Bronx
County Courthouse, 161st Street and
Third* Avenue.
Frank Clay Bryan, the present com?
mander, in announcing the meeting,
?aid that it was imperative that all
posts be represented at the meeting
.and that each post have its full at
tendance of delegates, as action mutti
be taken on mutters of extreme Im
l?ort(uice io the Legion in Bronx
County.
HioHSon Post Smoker
The fourth annual smoker of the
James S. Slosson Post will be held this
year on Armistice Night, November 11,
ut the Staton (??land Coliseum. The
! committee In charge, which is under
the chairmanship of Edward T. Giefer,
I has promised to make the affair the
| moat memorable in Hit history of the
i post.
In addition to n vaudeville show
! given by professional talent, there will
! be boxing bouts in which Bobby Glen
son, Welterweight champion of the 27th
Division; Al Roberts, heavyweight
champion of Staten Island; Billy Mur?
phy and Gene Smith, both members of
the Slosson Post; Fnmkie Fleming and
! others will take pnrt.
Following the smoker there will be
? n dinner for the members of tho post
an?i their friends.
Gentle Post to Meet
There will be a meeting of the Dnyid
i W. Gent?o Post to-morrow evening nt
j its quarters in the Congregational
| Church at 411 East 143d Street. It is
j announced as a "get together" meet
! ing, and both old and new members
have been nsked to attend. The Wom?
en's Auxiliary will also meet at the
same time and place.
United Service Post Meeting
There will be a meeting of the United
Service Post this evening for the pur?
pose of installing1 new post officers.
The meeting will be held in the North
End Democratic Club, 1S)5th Street
and Webster Avenue, at 8 o'clock.
Harry C. Fassig, comniandor of the
post, makes a special appeal for a 100
per cent attendance on this occasion.
64 New Yorkers in
List of Founders
Of Woman's Partv
a?
Names Will Be Inscribed
on Tablet in Washington;
Will Meet Nov. 11 to Draft
Declaration of Principles
P'rom The Tribune'.* Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.?Sixty-four
New York women are included in the
list of 152 founders of the National
Woman's Party made public to-day by
the organization. These founders will
meet here for the first time on Novem?
ber 11 and 12 to draft and sign a dec?
laration of principles, "as far-reaching
and as significant as the declaration of
sentiments adopted by the first wom?
en's rights conference, held in this
country in 1848," said the announce?
ment of the party.
The names of the founders are to be
inscribed on a tablet to be placed in
front of the national headquarters in
Washington, "as a reverent tribute to
the service which the founders have
rendered in making possible the work
of the Woman's Parly for the freedom
of all women."
Among the women listed as founders
are Mrs. Oliver H. P. Beimont, Mrs.
Emily Crane Chadbourne, Mrs. Robert
Goelet, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, Mrs.
Julia Hoyt, Miss Doris Stevens, Mrs.
James A. Stillman, Mrs. Michael
?Strange, Mrs. John Winters Brannan,
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, all of i
New York; Mrs. William Kent, Mrs,
A. F. Ganz and Miss Maud Younger,
California; Mme. G?nna Walsku, Illi?
nois; Miss Lucille Atcherson (first
American woman diplomat), Ohio; Mrs.
Robert Adam son, Mrs. John Aspegren,
Miss Eleanor Brannan, Mrs. R. J. Cald
well, Mrs. Julia T. Dick, Miss Emma
E. Elliott, Mrs. Charles Ewing, Mrs, !
Julia Ellsworth Ford, Mrs. Herman |
Frasch, Miss Adaline Havemeyer, Miss
Doris Havemeyer, Miss Rebecca Hour
wich, Mrs. Lillian M. McAdow, Miss
Marion May, Mrs. Dunlevey Milbank,
Mrs. Charles Oppenheim, Miss Ada
line E. Peters, Miss Ruth Pickering,
Miss Vivian Pierce, Mrs. John Rogers,
! Mrs. Alfred S. R?ssin, Miss Marion D.
? Shainwold, Mrs. Ralph Shainwold, Miss
Electra W<?bb, Miss Cora W. Week, Mrs.
John Jay White, Mrs. Lloyd Williams,
Mrs. C. W. Kress, Mrs. Marcus M.
Marks, Mrs. A. J. Rose, Mrs. Emma
Schwartz, Mrs. Clarence M, Smith, Mrs.
W. L. Wellington, Mrs. E. C. Witherby,
all of New York City; Mrs, Marion
Holmes, Miss Olivia Holmes, Mrs- Lucy
A. Abercrombie and Dr. Jennie V. H.
Baker, of Brooklyn; Miss Julia Hoyt,
Mrs. Katherine. M. Meserole and Mrs.
Preston Satterwhite, of Long Island.
i Woman Causes Arrest of
' Youth as Purse Thief
Charges Him With Taking
$7.50 and Leaving Her
Stranded at Rhinecliff
While returning to New York yester?
day aboard a Hudson River Day Line
boat, Mrs. Theresa Inanau, of West
New York, N. J., recognized as a fel?
low pass?rger a young man who, she
alleges, robbed her of $7.50 at Rhine
cliff, N. Y., on Saturday.
Mrs. Inanau said that'she missed the
boat ?Saturday morning and at the. sug?
gestion of Louis Fargest, eighteen
years old, of 81 Main Street, Brooklyn,
whom she had just met, took a train
hoping to catch it at Rhinecliff. She
wanted t.p go to the Catskills to look
at a farm that was advertised for sale.
Fargest, she said, seized her pocket
book while crossing a field at Rhine
cliff after leaving the train, but when
she screamed returned the bag but
kept the $7.50 it contained.
Left with only 40 cents, Mrs. Inanuu
said she was cared for by a Rhinecliff
woman who loaned her enough money
to get back to New York' on the boat.
Fargest, when arrested, denied the
charge. He was taken back to Rhine?
cliff by a state trooper, and Mrs. Ina?
nau says she will go there to-day to
press the charge of highway robbery
against him.
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Many City Girls in France
Are Going Back to Farm
LONDON, Sept. 20 (By Mail).?The
baek-to-the-land movement has been
making considerable headway recently
among the city girls of France, reports
the Paris correspondent of "The Daily
Telegraph," and many have left offices,
workshop? and domestic employment to
work on farms. The shortage of do?
mestics in the country has led to a
great improvement in wages, which now
compare very ' favorably with those
offered in the cities. Another tempting
bait to girls is the prospect of inde?
pendence which farm work offers. They
are being paid in' some districts about
3,000 francs a year, almost the whole of
which may be saved, as they have no
expenses for food aud lodging. Ten
years of such work will leave a thrifty
girl with sufficient capital to start on a
small farm of her own or set up busi?
ness in a village.
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Record in Broom Corn
Wichita, Kan., claims the distinction
of being the largest broom corn market
. in th? world.
Mayer Explains
Status of B.R.T.
Reorganization
Legal Obstacles Still in the
Way, but End of Lines''
Receivership Is Near, De?
clares Federal Judge
Urges Creditors to Wait
Those Holding Claims for
Damages A s s u r e d of
Money in His Statement
_
In n statement issued yesterday
United States District Judge Mayer, of
Brooklyn, declared that although the
end o?r the receivership of the Brook?
lyn Rapid Transit Company is in sight,
many important legal and financial |
problems remain to be worked out.
The statement follows:
"So many conflicting rumors have
been current as to the reorganization
or readjustment of the Brooklyn Rap?
id Transit system that it seems ap?
propriate to state what is in progress.
"It is desirable, of course, that the
receiverships should be -?nded as soon
ns practicable, but before this result
can be accomplished various legal and
financial problems must be worked out.
"These problems are different in
many respects from those which were
presented by the lnterborough Rapid
Transit. Compnny situation. The B. R.
T. system consists not only of subway
and elevnted ronds, but also of surface
roads, and thus the groups of security
holders nnd creditors who must be con?
sulted before any plnn is finally pre
senteel are more numerous than in the
case of the lnterborough.
Various Plans Being Drafted
The questions involved have been
under study for some time and out?
lines of plans for reorganisation are
now being prepared by different
groups. These proposed plans, when
drafted, will be the subject matter of
conference and, in due course, the sit?
uation will be taken up with the
Transit Commission.
"In view of what was said by the
court and various counsel at the hear?
ing at the beginning of the receiver?
ship the court has no doubt that any
plan ultimately submitted will mnke
just provision for claims of tort cred?
itors?that is, death or personal in?
jury claims.
"While the court has fully appre?
ciated the hardships suffered in many
instnnces by tort creditors, the delay
in disposing of these claims has been
due to the legal complications neces?
sarily incident to the receiverships. It
is hoped, however, tnat these cred?
itors will not sell their claims to spec?
ulators. Not only are the interests of
the tort creditors' committee has
been untiring in its efforts to secure a
just and fair disposition of these
claims.
"Fortunately the increase in the net
earnings of the B. R. T. system has
made the winding up of the receiv?
ership a practical question, and, while
it is impossible to predict when that re?
sult will be attained, the time has come i
when efforts to that end have been,
soriously undertaken."
Emil Lindorf, president of the Con?
course bus line, announced last night ?
that his company is ready to install, ?
without any financial aid from the city, !
routes along any streets or avenues |
designated by Mayor Hylan.
The company has just completed a
new one-man double-decked bus, seat?
ing fifty-four persons. A periscope
allows the operator to watch the upper
deck, and the vehicles will be put in
operation on Grand Concourse, the
Bronx, within two weeks at a five-cent
fare.
Wile Slayer Hides pause
Until Daughter Dies
Attorney, Seeking Partlqn, Says !
Man Killed Her Because
She Was Unfaithful
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PITTSBURGH. Oct. 15.?After keep- j
ing the real story of his crime locked j
in his breast for twelve years and ex-j
pecting to go to his grave without re-1
vealing it, Jack Edwards, former
Johnstown policeman, serving a life j
sentence for wife murder, in the peni-j
tentiary here, has bared what he de- ?
clares to be the truth, following the I
news that his daughter, who was In?
volved; was dead. Steps have been
taken to obtain a pardon. 0
On the clay of the tragedy, Edwards
walked into the Johnstown police' sta?
tion with the announcement that ha
had killed his wife. She was found
dead in her home, with four bullet
wounds in her chest. Edwards pleaded
guilty to a charge of murder and re?
fused to help his counsel. He was
found guilty of murder *in the first
degree and was sentenced to be
hanged. Hia sentence was commuted
to life imprisonment.
Samuel H. Gardner, retained as coun?
sel for Edwards, said to-day: "I expect
to convince the pardon board that Ed?
wards discovered his wife was unfaith?
ful and that the man in the case was
known to him. I am convinced there j
were extenuating circumstances which i
he refused to make use of, because he
had resolved not to let his daughter j
know of her mother's shame."
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British Fail to Heed ,
Rhine Troop Complaint
LONDON, Sept, 23 (By Mail).?Many
members of parliament, reports "The
Morning Post," have received a circular
letter from the "Struben Society of
America," of which the "Secretary
General" is "F. 0, Dettman." It asks
them to support an appeal against the
employment of "French colored troops |
on the Rhine," and a photographic- i
reproduction of an address presented ?
by the Society to M. Briand and Mar?
shal Foch when* they visited America
last year is enclosed. This^document
states that for "decades" l?efore the
war "it was the wish of the over?
whelming majority of American citi?
zens of German descent that the same
cordial feelings existing between them
and their fellow-citizens of French
descent should unite the French and
German peoples placed side by side in I
the heart of Europe."
tl goes on to refer to "that noble
Englishman, Edmund D. Morel" (the!
name is printed in capital letters), the
statements in whose "Horror of the
Rhine" the society accepts as the result
of "an accruate study of the actual
conditions." Finally, it declares that,
should the French representatives at
the Washington conference "depart
from our shores without indicating
your willingness speedily to procure
the withdrawal of the uncivilized
troops" from the occupied regions "no
lasting bond of friendship can bind our
country to yours."
Apparently the Struben Society has
not received the assurances it de?
manded. Hence this circular to British
members of parliament. Its probable
effect may be judged from the com?
ment of one of them who has been for
many years in the House of Commons.
He says: "There must be a peculiarity
in the mental structure of these people
to suppose that, after all they have
ben guilty of, they can complain of
disciplined troops being quartered oh
them, whatever be the color."
Mayor Sends Hurry Call
For Traffic Jam Report
Telephones at Midnight and
Wants Details, Especially
on Posts Without Police
Mayor Hylan telephoned to the tele?
graph bureau at Police Headquarters
at midnight last night to send out in?
structions at once to all traffic pre?
cincts to turn in reports by 8 a. m.
Tuesday as to traffic jams observed
yesterday, particularly as to those oc?
curring where no traffic patrolmen
were on post.
The traffic squad, owing to the na?
ture of its duties, works on a schedule
of its own, which gives a largo pro?
portion of the men their Sundays off,
numerous posta in the business sec?
tions of the city being regarded as un?
necessary on Sunday.
It was thought from the tonor of
the Mayor's message that his car had
been caught hi a jam yesterday at
some place where no traffic patrolman
appeared to be on post, and that a re?
form was imminent.
Financiers Will
Meet to Discuss
Better Business
Economic Leaders Invited
hy ?)avid S. Houston to
Important Conference in
Washington, Oct. 16-19
From The Tribune's Washington Buraau
WASHINGTON,' Oct. 15.? Davis S.
Houston, former Secretary of the
! Treasury and chairman of the Boll
Telephone Securities Company, who is
chairman of the board of trustees of
the Better Business Bureau, of New
York, is bringing a large party of New
York financiers and business men to
the annual conferences of the Na?
tional Better Business Commission in
Washington, October 16 to 19.
The activities of the New York Bet?
ter Business Bureau, in co-operation
with the New York Stock Exchange,
the American Bankers' Association and
the American investment banks, will
be the subject of discussion by Mr.
Houston, by H. J. Kenner, director
of the New York bureau; by Clarence
W. Barron, of "Barron's Weekly" and
"The Wall Street Journal"; Harry D.
Bobbins, investment banker; Clarence
Witman, "New York Commercial";
Jerome Simmons, national counsel of
the National Vigilance Committee;
Carl Hunt, general manager of the As
i sociation Advertising Clubs of the
| World; Alexander Wafker, president
of the National Sheep and Wool Bu?
reau; John B. Stevens, president of the
National Association of Woolen and
Worsted Manufacturers of America,
and Professor Henry Traphagen, of
Toledo, a foremost American chemist.
H. J. Kenner, the director of the New
York Better Business Bureau, will dis?
cuss the recent frauds which he prose?
cuted in New York.
Jerome Simmons will talk on stock
frauds, particularly the reloading sys?
tem, and will emphasize it in explain?
ing the methods used by the Crag?r
system which was recently indicted in
New York.
Paraguayan Ship Shells
Rebels for 18 Hours
! Insurgents Reply With Machine
Guns, Raining Bullets
on Craft
POSADAS, Argentina, Oct. 15.?A
Paraguayan gunboat has been bombard?
ing the Paraguayan revolutionary gar?
rison at Punta Gomez, across the Pa
Tana River here, for the last eighteen
hours. The revolutionists have replied
with machine gun fire, the bullets of
which spattereof the vessel.
The revolutionists at Cahi Puente arc
still holding out. Paraguayan govern?
ment troops have bean bombarding the
town since last Friday.
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Man Being Cut to Bits
In Effort to Save Life
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Sufferer From Wasting Disease
Is Victim of Splinter in
Finger
LONDON, Sept. 15 (By Mail).?The
story of a man being gradually e?t it)
pieces by surgeons in order to save his
life is reported from Lausanne to the
Geneva correspondent of "The Daily
Express." Albert Froidevaux, who re?
cently underwent his forty-seventh op?
eration,-has In the last ten years suc?
cessively suffered the amputation of
his fingers, toes, hand?, feet, arms and
legs.
Froidevaux, who is forty-three years
old, was born near Neuchatel. He joined
the French Foreign Legion when young,
and served in most of the French colo?
nies. He participated in many fights,
and received two medals for bravery.
While he was engaged in erecting a
palisade in Tonkin In August, 1910, a
bamboo splinter ran Into his finger, and
the terrible and incurable disease
known medically as symmetric gan?
grene set in. None of the lnternaf or?
gans was attacked, and through all his
sufferings the man's brain remained
clear.
Froidevaux has just completed the
dictation of a book on his life, entitled
"Patience." Two sentences may be
quoted as epitomizing his views.
"Life is very beautiful. One must
cling to life and in great troubles have
patience and faith."
German Potash Mines
Incur Big Obligations
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (By Mail).?Unless
the coming six years see a radical im?
provement in the value of the mark,
Germany's potash industry probably
will be seriously embarrassed in liqui?
dating stock shares held abroad which
must be paid in currency of the coun?
try from which the capital was sub?
scribed. Other industrial concerns are
said to be bound by similar obligations
contracted during the war.
The potash mines of Wintershall,
Alexandershall and Saxon-Weimer are
reported to have taken up 10,000,000
marks capitalization each at that time,
repayable in 1928, at tit? rate of 1,200
Swiss, francs to every 1,000 marks
With the fall of German currency it
would require to-day no less than 3,
050,000,000 paper marks to fulfill these
agreements. This sum exceeds, it is
said, the total capital of all ?he Wln
tershall mines.
Owing to scarcity of labor in the
potash fields of the Werra valley, in
Central Germany, a large number of
university students are spending their
vacations working in the minea. Many
of them are housed in barracks.
German Mariners Lucky
To Get Small Commands
PETROGRAD, Sept. 1 (By Mail).
The port of Petrograd, principally
frequented to-day by small German
steamers, furnishes striking illustra?
tion of what the confiscation of Ger?
many's biggest liners by the Allies has
done to the old officers of tho German
merchant marine.
Once pacing the bridge of Atlantic
liners carrying thousand., of passen?
gers, these officer? are now command?
ing, or ?t?ndln* ?araichos on tiny tuba
that skirt tho ?bar?a of the.Baltic
4,000 Boo as
Police Arrest
Salvation Girl
(Ceattnuas tram p?a? on?)
choked with men and women, who
yelled insults at the policemen. Be?
yond Eighth Avenue the crowd became
still larger. It surged about the steps
of the police station, booing and jeer?
ing. Stray members were cast up on
the very steps of the station; small
boys perched on the window sills.
The police station reverberated to
the din. Lieutenant Sheehy, endeavor?
ing to take the pedigree of the pris?
oner, found himself unable to hear a
word she said.
"Get the reserves out and clear that
street!" he ordered.
The entire force of reserves charged
the mob east and west with night?
sticks swinging. Men and women
jostled and trampled each other in
their haste to retire. Nevertheless,
individuals and group? turned snarl
ingly upon their pursuers here and
there and catcalls and jeers continued
almost unabated.
Jack Shreve, who later said he was a
performer by profession and lived at
the Longacre Hotel, was arrested by
Patrolman Foster who said he heard
him yell: "Come on and get her out!"
He denied the acusation, but was locked
up on a charge of disorderly conduct.
' Police Establish Line?
Police lines were established at
Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue and
no one . was permitted to approach
nearer than those streets to the police
station unless he could give a good
reason for doing so. In the interval of
peace thus obtained. Lieutenant Sheehy
proceeded with his interrogation of the
prisoner.
When the mob of her supporters had
been driven back she turned suddenly
pale and sagged weakly against the
railing in front of the desk. Lieutenant
Brady, believing she was about to faint,
ran for a glass of water, which 3h'i
sipped before replying to Sheehy's
questions.
"I am very sorry," she said to Pa?
trolman Taylor when her pedigree had
been entered in the blotter, "that you
had to be the one to do this. I am
very sorry for you."
Bail in the sum of $500 was fur?
nished for her promptly and she went
home in a taxicab, avoiding the still
congested corner of Forty-sixth Street
and Broadway, where the Salvation
Army meeting still was proceeding
vigorously, the audience fully as large
as before Captain Crawford had been
arrested.
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Burned Ship's Voyagers
Due in Port To-day
Transport Thomas Near? Los
Angeles With Passengers of
the City of Honolulu
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15.?The army
transport Thomas, bringing the pas?
sengers of the steamship City of Hono?
lulu, destroyed by fire at sea Thursday,
will not reach Los Angeles before day?
break to-morrow. She had been ex?
pected here this afternoon.
Orders were sent the Thomas by
radio to slow down, as even if she
reached port to-night, she could not
pass quarantine until to-morrow.
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Great Efficiency Seen
In New Battle Plans
British Type Known as "Cura
boo" Will Range 1,000 Miles
With Explosives
LONDON, Sept. 22 (By Mail).?Great
claims %re made on behalf of several
new airplanes about to be tested by th?
British Air Ministry. Among them is a
new type of maehine which, it is pre?
dicted will place an entirely new as?
pect on the aircraft versus battleship
controversy. It is known as the "Cura
boo." Fitted with a very powerful en?
gine it will have a range, It is saiel, of
over 1,000 miles when fully loaded with
bombs or torpedoes.
This ig a three-Beater machine, and it
will be a most effective weapon, when
operating in large numbers, in repel?
ling not only invading aircraft, but sea
craft as well.
When engaged against the latter the
new machine, it is claimed, will be able
to dart down, discharge its torpedoes
at the enemy vessel and climb out of
range of anti-aircraft guns in no time,
Its ability to Climb rapidly will enable
it to destroy quickly any Zeppelin that
it sights. t It is credited with a speed
of three miles a minute.
Great secrecy is being observed about
another machine, a four-seater known
as the "Bi6son,'' which, it is also pre?
dicted, will do wonders. It has been
specially designed for landing on and
taking off from the deck of a battle?
ship or aircraft carrier.
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II. S. Seeks to Sue Oklahoma for
Funds Lost in Bank Crash
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.?The Fed- I
eral government will ask the Supreme !
Court to-morrow for !ea\% to file an i
original bill of complaint against the j
State of Oklahoma to recover from the i
State Bank Commissioner in charge of
the insolvent Oklahoma State Bank
$42,000 deposited therein by the Secre?
tary of the Interior belonging to in?
competent and restricted Indians,
members of the Five Civilized Tribes.
The government contends this money
should be paid prior to discharge of the
bank's other obligations.
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British Coastguard Fails
As a Picturesque Force
LONDON, Sept. 25 (By Mail).?The
probable passing, in the near future,
of the present soastguard force will
not mean, as stated in some quarters
the disappearance of a picturesque and
romantic body, remarks the "Way of
the World" columnist of "The Morning
Post. That event has already hap?
pened. In 1919 what is termed a "fore
and aft rig" was substituted for the
bluejackets? dress, while since the old
smuggling dayB the coastguards' duties
have been prosaic rather than romantic.
Coastguards have always been known
in the navy as "gobbies," the genesis
of which nickname is obscure. It is
generally supposed to have originated
from the fact that further promotion
is denied to officers who join the force
and who have therefore been given the
'go-by" in a service sense.
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First Aid Kits Replace Ax
And Hammer on Pullmans
The old-time hammer and ax emer?
gency kit in railroad cars, a, familiar
objeet to every railroad passenger, has
outlived its usefulness. The new order
is a compact, modern first-aid kit to
be installed in all Pullman ears.
With the installation of these kits
all employees of the company will be
instructed in first aid. This instruc?
tion is now under way in the Chicago
district.
"The first-aid kits, with wihch all
Pullman cars soon will be -equipped,"
said Dr. Thomas R. Crowder, director
of sanitation and surgery of the com?
pany, "will contain two first-aid pack?
ages? bandages and dressings, iodine
swabs and a small bottle of aromatic
?pirita of a!Mm?atft,,,
Head of Woman,Mistafet?a
For Partridge, Blown Off
State Hospital Inmate D?^
Hunter Said to Have ??*,. '
fessed His Error
NSBURG, N. Y., Oct
orty-thrce years ol
;y, an inmate of the
r the Insane here,
? the woods near t
this afternoon with the top of . ;
blown ofT. n?a?
Joseph Graveline, a hunter g8?,i ,
had found the body, but w,??.,, ,'
rested and questioned by District It
torney Ingraham, is said to have c2
fersed that ho had shot at what h
thought was a partridge, and Hi.?.
cred that he had killed a won**
The woman was reported m i ?*-,?*
from the hospital last night. She wal
committed to the Manhattan Stat*Ho^.
pitr.l in ?903 and removed to the ?v.i
institution the same yr.ar. Hospitu] ??
thorities believe her mother resin?. U
New York. e" :1
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'Caveman9 Husband
Dies From Wounds
In Mystery Assault
Is Shot in Own Doorway
Wife Says He Kidnaps
Her, Forced to Marry Him
?Other Women in C*e
Joseph San tor. whose wifo M-, i
j forced her to marry him in true tsn,
; man fashion ?(!Vfn yparr? ago, died 1
1 the Harlem Hospital laut night tnt?
. three bullet wounds inflicted by ft!
j identified assailants early yesta*r_,
' morning. He was shot aa he was en?*.
i ing: the doorway of his home, 362 F; ??
i 105th .Street. Santor wag'a con'ne.
! tor, thirty years old.
I At 2:30 o'clock yesterday momin?,
Patrolman Blats, of the East 10-iti,
! Street station, heard several fl),ots
j fired, and upon investigation saw san
j tora collapse in the doorway and thr???,
| men disappear around the corner. H?3
j had a bullet in the abdomen and ona
i had penetrated each hand. He was tel
I moved to the hospital. Mrs. Santorj
! who was asleep, said later that her
j husband constant?y attended dances
j with other women, and went to an
j affair on Saturday night with a girl
I whom he hoastingiy described u a
?'swell chicken." The wife said ?he I?,
: lieved the shooting was the result of
' his attentions to girls he had met io
j dance halls.
"Seven years apo, when I was only
| sixteen," she declared, "Santoro and
I three other men kidnaped me from ir*
1 front of my home in Eighty-fin?.
Street and took me to West New York,
where they forced me into a wedding.
Within two years my husband fcefan
flirting with other women.
"Several days ago he asked ?my
brother, Joseph Rizatto, to go to a
dance to be held Saturday night at
the New Star Casino. He said he had
a couple of 'swell chickens.' My
brother respected me more :han my
husband did and refused to go. Bu.
Joseph went anyway."
The Santoros had two children, 3
boy of six and a girl of three.
Vanderbilt Tax Mix-Up
Due to Idlehour Sale
Purchaser and Former Owner
Each Thought Other Was
Paying Lew
RIVERHEAD, L. I., Oct. 15.-Tk
mix-up which resulted two weeks aga
in the sale of Idle Hour, the estate ?f
the late Wiliiam K. Vanderbilt, at Oak
dale, for taxes was explained to-day.
It became known that title to the 75?
acre estate passed to "Idle Hour, Ine*
last December, and the place is to be
| come a country club.
County Treasurer Scudder acknow!?
I edged that he had received a check for
j the unpand taxes from I. M. Pntnain,
? president of Idle Hour, Inc., and it
I was learned that the corporation h?3
I reimbursed the real estate man who
bought in the estate at the sale for
$18,180.14. Taxes became due at abeu?3
the time the corporation took ?tie,
and it is said that Harold F. Vander?
bilt, son of the former owner, believed
the corporation would pay them, while
the corporation officers thought -ii.
Vanderbilt already had paid them.
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Horses to Run 300-Mile
Army Endurance Rare
j Annual Test To-day Will Decids
Best Breed Suited for
Cavalrv Use
BURLINGTON, Vt? Oct. 16.-Mor?
j than a score of sturdy mount? were
quartered to-night in the stables st
Fort Ethan Aller., awaiting dawn }??
the morrow when thev will start w
the 300-mile grind that"is to detenc'C?
for the third successive year the or?*??
of horse best suited to the WWW
States Army's use. Three of the totes
entries, Pathfinder, Vagrant an?i_Go.?
Review, are veterans? of last yeari en?
durance race.
Disappointing to horse love? w
tho announcement that Kingfisher,..,'
prade Arab charger on which Ooio^1
Frank Tompkins followed Villa ?cross
Mexican spaces, would be unable, u
compete because of an injured leg. "J*E
fisher won second money in the ??
event, but did not run last year. IJ?>
nel Tompkins will ride his son's moun>,
Colin, a crossbred Arab. ,
Rusten Bev, a crossbred Arab, owne?
by W. R. Brown, of Berlin, N. H., and
veteran of all the long runs, will be on
the mark despite a recent lameness
which followed a sprung tendon.
Two More Slayings Mark
Campaign Against Crnae
Victims Policemen Who At?
tempt to End Gun Battle
in Rock Island
*ROCK ISLAND, III., Oct. ^r th?
more slayings to-night marked im
campaign against crime begun a w .
ago in the killing of John C. Loo?e>
jr. in a ?run battle between under?
world factions. _ ,. _,..
The latest victims were ,?ol,ce"^
James Green and Edward Minor, ?v
were shot and killed when the* ?
tempted to end a gun fight "i"?"?,
two negroes. Policeman G us ?'^L
was seriously wounded, and ye01j-r
Scott, a negro, probably fatally
J0re*^* a ?TO
The traaredv occurred in the ne?
section where the police have d?*?
suppressing bootlegging and garno???
for several weeks. . _w
John Locney, father of young Looney
who was ?lain a week ago, was M??,
caded in his home to-night surrc-iao*?
by armed guards to protect biro."*
case of an attack. There have hew
six killings in the local camP?*^
against crime in the last few moa?f
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Havana to Name Street j.
As Tribute to Bra??
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. Id <By M*d/;
?To compensate somewhat f?r,c?;!?!f,
failure to send a special diplowaw
mission to the Brazilian Cantenow
and erect an exhibit at Rio de J?a^'
the City Council has approved *W*~
tion to change the name of ?en,*%
Rey Street to Brazil. The change^
be made with appropriate w-_*f-S
as aoon as the Mayor approvea to? **aw
nance.