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The sun., 1918-07-23
SEALED VERDICT IN
DRAFT FRAUD CASE
Father Says Man He Knew as
Lieut.. Simpson Asked 81, 500
to Transfer Son.
CALLED UP "THE MAJOR"
F. S. O'Neil, Boxing Expert,
and Samuel Reichback In
vOlyed With Officer.

A sealed verdict was returned at 500
o'clock yesterday evening by the jury
before which Frank s. O'Neil. former
State Boxing Commissioner. was tried for
conspiracy to defeat the draft The YER
dict, which was reached after two hours
of elaboration. will be opened by Judge
Manton in the United States District
Court ut 10 o'clock this morning.
Although the Government had rested
Its case Friday. George NJ. Curtis. the
Assistant District Attorney In charge OF
the prosecution. was permitted to call
one more witness. He was Samuel
Morel, a draughtsman. who said that an
army officer who had been introduced
to him as Lieut.. Simpson" by Samuel
Reichback. ONeirs alleged runner" had
told him 1t would cost $4,000 to have
his son transferred into non-combatant
branch Of the National Army.
Il asked Simpson II he couldn't come
down a little In the price," Morel testi-
fed. He went TO n telephone In the
restaurant where I hsd met him. and
when he came back he said the Major
insisted II must be all or nothing"
Reichback and Lieut.. Oswald L. Simp-
son Of the Quartermaster Corps were
tried Jointly with O'Neil and their fate
also Is sealed In the verdict.
The defence. which depended on the
success Of an deliberately planned attack
on the Government case. did not intro
duce witnesses. Martin w. Littleton
counsel for O'Neil, told the Jury his
client might be liable for trial In the
State courts for obtaining money under
false pretences, but insisted he had done
nothing to defeat the working Of the
draft
John H. Boyle pleaded In behalf OF
Lieut.. Simpson that It had not been
shown his client received any CT the
money collected by OSeil. Reichback's
defence was that as agent for ONeil he
had acted IN good faith, believing O'Neil
capable Of giving value received for the
fees he got in draft cases.
The sun., 1918-07-23
MARINE SPIRIT SEEN
IN DRAFT FAREWELL
City Sends Away 2,298 Of
Weeks 1888.

New York sent away 2.29S men 70,
the National Army yesterday. The men
we're the first Of 1888 who will leave
the city during the week.
Men. women and children who cheered
the men along the first stage OF their
journey gave every evidence of being in
fuenced by the fine work that Amer
leans are doing In pushing back the
Germans from the Marine salient.
At the Carlton avenue yards of the
Long Island Railroad In Brooklyn the
largest number OF recruits entrained.
There were 1879 Of them. each carrying
an American flag. Ten bands played as
the troop trains pulled out and 5000
persons crowded on the emba nkment
above the yards and cheered,
The effect OF the victory news from
abroad was to take from the scene all
OF the depression that had marked some
OF the former leave takinss. The at
mosphere was altogether different. and
the friends and relatives were as merry
as picnic excursionists The Brooklyn
ties went to Camp Upton.
From the Liberty street ferry S1s
men from fourteen Manhattan boards
went to the Jersey Central station and
thence to Camp Meade.
The sun., 1918-07-23
GIVES POLICE RACE,
NOT EVEN TRYING
In Fact, Speeder Is Saved From
Worse Fate by Being
Arrested.

Il Fo- few breathless seconds yester-
ser. who up to then had never seen any
thing on wheels he couldn't overhaul.
feared he had met his master. These
were seconds during which Alletzhausser
Twenty-second street to Twentieth street
in the wake of n motorcycle that. traffic
regardless, was making what he guessed
to be about mile minute.
With his reputation at stake, he gave
his mechanical mare the spurs and at
Nineteenth street came up with the other
machine.
Throttle down. he shouted. Are
you crazy?"
eighteenth street)
A pale and agonized face turned fleet
ingly toward the policeman's.
I'D g-g-give anything II I c-c-could.
chartered the speed demon.
Seventeenth street.)
"B-but I've f-f-forgot how!'
Alletzhausser. risking his life, lent a
hand (Sixteenth street) and after grab
bling g!ddily at one lever and another
Fifteenth street) brought his neighbor
to a standstill.
From this runaway MOTORCYCLE tonDled
Morris Schloselman, 374 East Tenth
street. The policeman let him rest
while, but Schlogelman hadn't fully re-
covered his breath when he was ar.
raigned later before Magistrate House in
the Traffic Court.
"It was only my s-s-second ride" he
explained. You can keep the Ndarned
thing"
mo use for It." said the Magistrate
"I'n take s35 instead"
OF 1875 speeders arraiened before
Magistrate House. seven were sent tc
Jail One OF those fined was Howard
Thurston. the magician.
The sun., 1918-07-23
DRIVERS QUIT: STYX
CROSSED BY MOTOR
Plug Hat Functionaries Say
Pay Was Cut so Cents,

Ferry service across the Styx on lines
operating out OF New York was virtually
at a standstill yesterday.
Seven hundred plug hats and seven
hundred formal coats had been put aside
and their owners to be observed ordi-
narily in slow procession to Calvary,
Mount Carmel and similar embarkatlon
points for the trans-Styx trip, had
walked away from their employment.
That meant the abandonment of all
funerals save those In which the offlciat-
ing undertakers were able to rally
around them friends or relatives who
were handy with the reins, or were able
to supply automobiles,
The seven hundred funeral coach
drivers. whose local organization comes
under the protection Of the International
brotherhood of Transfers. said they
were driven to strike because of n cut
in the fee from 81 to $3.50 a round trip
II the old rate Is not restored II Is their
intention 10 seek other fields. they said
Hearse drivers are standing Arm with
the Coach Owners Association, which
has decreed "a fine OF $3.50 for any mem
Der giving in to the strikers. Our pay
has not been cut" said a representative
of the hearse drivers We've always
drawn $3.50 for a round trip to any
cemetery and we get 1t now. The extra
four bits is tackled on because the bosses
recognize that the people We carry
aren't good tippers."
The strikers assert their employers
should raise rather than lower their
funeral fees. since coach hire in the
last year has been lifted from $3.50 to
$3.50 trip.
1t was asserted by some of the strik-
ers that the larger interests in the
Coach Owners Association brought on
the strike deliberately because they hope
to drive small competitors out Of BUSH
ness. Z
The sun., 1918-07-23
SON OF GERMAN, Is, ENLISTED.
Won ChevrOns and Praise Before
Youth Is Discovered.

Fred Neissner. Jr.. whose father Is Ar.
unnaturalized German living at 7l3 Park
avenue. Hoboken. did his level best to
take fall out OF the Kaiser and he had
climbed up the martial scale as far as
the grade Of corporal before the authori-
ties OF Texas camp found that he was
only - years Of age.
Then they gave the boy an honorable
discharge and sent him home to wait I'M
I'll he gets old enough to join the army.
When the war got under way well the
boy was anxious TO take a hand in II,
He ran away from home six months AGO.
changed his name to Happen and care
fully cultivated as much resemblance to
whiskers as he could coax from his
boyish cheeks
Then the boy told one OF those white
lies and declared to a recruiting officer
that he was 10 years old. They took
him to Texas, where he made a FIRST
class soldier and soon won corporals
Chevrons.
When the family located him and ex-
planned how young he was the officers
gave him an honorable discharge, hut
they added that he had been n good SOL
der and that his conduct had been be.
yond reproach.
The sun., 1918-07-23
CONCRETE SHIP MEN
RAP NEW ASSOCIATION
They Repudiate Criticism of
the Government.

The new International Concrete Shin
Association which has been organized
tentatively by number OF interested
men who consider that concrete as n ship
material finds an insufficient place in the
plans Of the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton will have to get along without the
cooperation OF Kenneth Mcleod. Harold
p. Brown and Albert Oliver.
The three men sent word yesterday 10
Victor c. Coxhead, who presided at a
meeting called at the Hotel McAlpin last
Friday for the purpose of organizing the
international association. informing him
that they would not have any connection
with 1t. They consider that the men
Interested in organizing It have adopted
an attitude critical OF the United States
Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet
Corporation and that this attitude is I'M
fair. Their communication was as fol-
lows:
Upon your request, We or our repre-
sentatives attended meeting last Fri
day which. we were informed was called
for the purpose of organizing an asso-
citation OF concrete ship builders In
stead il developed into an, Indignation
meeting OF a few against the United
States Shipping Board.
I'VE recognize and appreciate the
great work tnat mas peen done by Con-
gress In the way Of making apnroprla-
ton for the construction of steel, wood
and concrete ships. and we apnrnciate
the sn'endId work OF the Shipping Board
and OF the Emergency Fleet CORPORATION
In pushing forward the construction Of
means Of water TRANSFORMATION or va
rious kinds. We therefore refuse TO have
any connection with the proposed or
Ranizatinn."
Mr.. Mcleod IL president OF the Giant
SDphnlding COMPANY Mr.. Oliver IL
rresident Of the Albert Oliver & Sons
Cement Comnanv and Mr. Brown is an
engineer who has been Identified with
concrete construction for twenty years,
The sun., 1918-07-23
FOOD BOARD WARNS
BEEF RULE DODGERS
Hours for Service Must Be
Printed on Menus to Avoid
Prosecution.

The Federal Food Board gave warn
ing yesterday that It will proceed
against proprietors OF hotels and restau-
rants who do not print on their menus
daily the hours during which beef will
be served.
The last modified beef regulations.
which went into effect on July S, pro-
vided q. and these hours will be
at the, option OF the manager q. .
and shall be explicitly and prominently
stated on each copy OF each days cur
rent bill OF fare. and II instead OF a
bill OF fare changed each day there be
used set bill of fare this shall contain
statement Of the hours for each day
OF the period for which this set bill, is
to be used"
1t was announced yesterday that the
special Food Administration regulations
governing the handling Of cold storage
butter. issued on June 10. 1918. and
amended July IL. 1918. as to the maxi
mum margins OF profit that dealers may
take have been extended to cover fresh
butter.
THE rules applying to handlers OF
cold storage butter. which from now on
also apply to handlers OF fresh butter -
the Federal Food Board says, provide
that dealers may add to the cost
price IA cents on lots between 1000
pounds and a carload; Ia cents on
sales OF 200 10 1000 pounds. and not
more than ga cents on sales under zoo
pounds.
"The dealer in figuring cost canno,
include anything except the purcha Sc
price. transportation charges. IL airy
insurance charges. storage charges. II
any. and interest during the storage
period and the cost of making prints 1.
the butter is put into this form"
The sun., 1918-07-23
DUTCH PASSENGERS SEARCHED.
Government Officers seise Book.
and Papers on Frisia.

Most OF the ESQ passengers who landed
yesterday ut an Atlantic port from the
Royal Holland Lloyd liner Frisia were
Dutch merchants and planters bound
for the Fast Indies or South America.
The Fris!a was held up day while the
customs men and officers Of the Naval
Intelligence Bureau searched thoroughly
persons and baggage. All papers. books
and manuscripts were taken from the
passengers. The property will be re-
turned to the owners II 1t is found to be
innocuous
Three Roman Catholic missionaries
bound for Tibet were voyagers. They
are Fathers G. Geisler. +. Franken and
NJ. Boetz, who until the outbreak Of the
war had headquarters in Belgium. The
order 10 which they belong has 200 mis-
sionares in China The priests will go
from San Francisco to Shanghai and
Tan Su, whence they will proceed on
horseback to their destination. Their
journey will compel them to ride three
months
The sun., 1918-07-23
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

Eastern New York-Fair, continued
warm to-day; local showers at night or
tomorrow. gentle to moderate winds
New Jersey--Partly cloudy; continued
warm to-day; showers at night or 10.
morrow: gentle to moderate winds.
Northern New EnEland--Fair TODAY:
to- morrow partly cloudy; probably shower.
In New Hampshire and Vermont: no de-.
clded temperature change; gentle to mod
Southern New Eng.and-Falr: continued
warmer to-day; ta-morrow partly cloudy.
gentle to moderate south and southwest
winds.
Western New York-Local showers TO.
day, except fair in southeast portion. not
quite so warm near the lakes; tomorrow
partly cloudy.
WASHINGTON. July :2.-Pressurs {,
high In the East and South and low else
where, WIFI principal centres OF depression
over tho northern plateau and the Cana.
dian Northwest. This distribution resulted
In generally unsettled weather through
out the country, except in New England,
There were thundershowers mostly light.
In the upper lake and west lower lake
regions, the Ohio Valley, Tennessee, the
south Atlantic and east Gulf States tn.
south Rocky Mountain region and ths
north Pacific States. while elsewhere the
weather was fair.
Temperatures have again risen In ths
extreme West. except in the Pacific state,
and they continue high to the eastward.
Unsettled showery weather Will prevail
quite generally during the next two DAYS
cast OF the Mississippi River, although l,
will be fair Tuesday in the middle Atlantic
and New England States. and probably on
Wednesday In the -uper lake and west
lower lake region.
High temperature will continue as a
rule.
The sun., 1918-07-23
ST. PAUL TO BE RAISED TO-DAY.
C"recned Tr"n:port's wreckers
Have Job Nearly Finished.

The task OF raising the American
liner st. Paul. which careened at her
pier at West Twenty-frst street last
April and went to the bottom resting
on her port side in the Hudson mud.
may be completed to-day. Men of the
Merritt & Chapman Derrick and
Wrecking Company said that the ship
might be on level keel tonight. The
wreckers have spent three months
building a trestle the whole length Of
the pier and putting into use twenty
donkey engines to help in raising the
St. Paul. The engines were started
hauling on cables attached to the liner
and she has been raised several feet
The work will continue all of to-day.
When the st. Paul sank she was re-
turning from Brooklyn dry dock.
where she had been overhauled and
fitted for Government transport SER
vice. The responsibility for the mishap.
In which several lives were lost. has
not been fixed.
The sun., 1918-07-23
MOTOR CAR INJURIES MAN.
Passenger on Trolley Car suffers
in Collision.

Alexander Karlan. so. a tailor. OF
"a Norfolk street. Manhattan. was in
jured seriously early yesterday when
Franklin avenue car returning from
Coney Island was run into by an au-
tomobile at South Eighth street and
Wythe avenue, Kapfan was standing
on the running board with scores of
other men and when the machine APP
preached the other passengers stepped
between the already crowded seats,
The driver OF the automobile. Arthur
Meccone OF 1875 willoughby street.
Brooklyn. tried 20 stop the machine but
was too late. Kaplan was thrown to
the pavement. The passengers made a
demonstration against Meccone. who
was rescued by Policeman Nikola of the
Clymer street station. Kaplan declined
to 60 to the Williamsburg Hospital and
friends took him home. He was In
ternsiiy injured.
The sun., 1918-07-23
WOMAN SCALDED HER NIECE
BROOKLYN Judge Sends Mrs. Grant
TO the Penitentiary.

Mrs Mary Grant OF 29l oakland
street, Brooklyn, found guilty of as>s..l
in the second degree for having pau''a
scalding water on Helen, Multi, T.. he'
niece, was committed to the e!..'r-..A''
yesterday by County Judge MJpcrw''.
Th!s means a term OF from three ..onI -
to three years.
Had the Jury not reconm' Led
mercy" said Judge Nc Dermot' 90! No..
send you to Sing Sing for two years a'.
half, The crime of which son SARA
convicted Is the cruellest OF which 'a''
heard during my experience a. 1I3Z" n
this court. And that you were ga..'H .
have not tho slightest doubt"
Mrs. Grant protested her i10oc", '
and Judge McDermott said he rsgl' %
her story OF the scalding as ridiculous
and observed that the jury evident
felt the same way.
The sun., 1918-07-23
JURY SEES FAKE MONEY MILL.
Carpenter on Trial on Charge of
Fleeing Poles Out of $1,000.

John Markewisi. a carpenter living at
234 East Sixty-third street, was placed
on trial yesterday before Judge Null
queen and a Jury in General Sessions on
charge Of conspiracy to commit grand
larceny. Alexander I. Rorke, Assistant
District Attorney. declared that Marke-
wish built n money making machine by
means Of which he fieeced various Polish
persons out of 5000.
The machine was exhibited to the
jury. II was an ordinary wooden box
about two feet long and a foot deep
contdining batteries and other mysteri-
Gus looking electric apparatus that
flashed green lights and spluttered cleo
trio sparks when the switch was turned
The sun., 1918-07-23
PACZFZSM ALL BOILED. OUT,
WANTS AIR AT ANY PRICE
Young Man Who Forgot About QUESTIONABLE Decides
1t Is Better to Take Chance in Army Than
Smother to Death in Cell.

tionnaire and fight for this country
Seppi replied. according to the police
version OF the scene before the draft
board. that he did not: that. In fact. he
had no desire to fight for any country.
in any place, at any time.
whereupon the draft board decided II
would need time In which to make UP
its collective mind regarding what dispo-
sition was to be made of the case, and
Sept was hustled back into the patrol
wagon and unloaded soon again into the
blistering, whitening heat Of the police
station cell
That was early yesterday afternoon.
and when he shifted the torrid atmos-
phere OF the calaboose seppi expressed
family at first--the idea that maybe
the army and the open air were much
better than some things he had expe-
rienced recently.
"Sit down and cool off," said the cop
as he turned the big key in the door
TO Seppis cell. and that young man OF
pacific tendencies embarked upon an
other boiling process II was three and
a half hours later that Seppi was found
eroaning in his cell and endeavoring to
find a corner where stray breath OF
cool air might penetrate.
He was hauled out Of the cell again.
nut was IN sucn CONDITION tnat Ut. Iar-
roll had to be summoned with an ambu-
lance from Knickerbocker Hospital. The
doctor said Seppl was on the verge OF
being overcome by the heat and admin
istered a restorative.
I've changed my mind" volunteered
Seppi half an hour after the doctor had
gone. and he laid aside newspaper
which told him that not only were
American troops fighting in Italy, but
that Italian troops were aiding in the
successful allied drive in the western war
theatre. III your boys are fighting for
my country / guess l can go fight too"
He will be given his chance to make
good tho promise this morning, when
he will be taken again before the draft
board. Sept said he came to this coun-
try from Italy fifteen years ago. He is
a photographer. q years old. and lives
at 572 Pacific street. Brooklyn.
The sun., 1918-07-23
BLACK ON WAR LABOR BOARD.
Special Corporation Counsel
Chosen rs waIsh's Alternate,

William Hartman Black. special cor
poration counsel in charge OF condemna-
ton proceedings for the Catskin Aque-
duct. has been appointed Frank p.
Walsh's alternate on the National War
Labor Board, according to advices from
Washington which reached the Corpora
ton Counsers office here yesterday.
Since he came to New York from
Georgia in 1900 Mr.. Black has been
politically active. He was at one time
Commissioner Of Accounts, and In 1910
was appointed by the late Mayor Gay
nor to prosecute accounting suits against
the companies owning the electric light
and telephone conduits. involving 500
100000. Later he was an Assistant Dis.
trlct Attorney under Judge Swami.
The sun., 1918-07-23

On the eve OF Ter densrture for Wash
ington to take a position with the Ru-
reau Of War Trade Intelligence. Miss
Sarah Stenhenson Of BROOKLYN, a LAWYER.
announced Yesterday that she Is seeking
appointment as Justice OF the Court q,
Snecial Sessions with IT, exnressed hone
Of being assigned TO the Children's Court
The Downtown Democratic Club will
present Miss Stephensor's claims this
afternoon tn Mayor Hylan. Last Feb
ruary the Mayor ignored a petition for
Miss StepheRson which was signed by
5 200 persons.
The sun., 1918-07-23
DRY ZONE AT HOPATCoNG,
Ten Drinking Places Near Train
ing Camp Must Close.

Hotels and drinking places around
Lake Hopatcong. n, j.. are affected bv
an order made yesterday by United
States District Attorney Lynch TO United
States Marshal Bollschweiler to enforce
the military training camp zone rule
about the Picatlnny arsenal.
The order covers Ave mile dry zone
in and around Picatinny. where LOO
soldiers are now doing guard duty. BY
the order liquor cannot be sold about the
grounds.
Incorporated towns and boroughs not
within half mile OF the arsenal NAV
sell, The ruling does not AFFECT the
hotels AZ Mount Arlington and Hooat
cong borough. where some Of the largest
places Mt the lake are situated.
Ten drinking places are affected.
The sun., 1918-07-23
O. M. CORPS NEEDS TYPISTS.
Chauffeurs, Auto Mechanics and
Firemen Wanted at Once.

Male stenographers. chauffeurs and
auto mechanics who are with In the dra II
age may enlist in the Quartermaster
Corps of the army for immediate service.
according to n recruiting ruling made
yesterday by the War Department.
The corps is IN immediate need of
stenograpi ers, typists. firemen. chauf-
feurs, auto mechanics. horseshoers,
butchers. laundrymen and refrigerator
plant men.
Men having experience in any one OF
these lines and who wish to enter active
service within two weeks may do so by
applying to Capt. NJ. f. Rovin. in the
offices of the Mayors Committee on Ma
tional Defence, Room 6l5. Hall of Rec
ords. New York city.
Men who have been classified as el!gi-
bles in classes .. 8. 4. 6 and those in
Glass IA limited or In special service
are acceptable.
The sun., 1918-07-23

Enoch II. Crowder. Provost Marsaa
General does not agree with the Splt"~
Dakota Council OF National Deft0. =
which held that men engaged soieS
the sale Of insurance were not ems pei
In an essential occupation under
work or fight" order. lie wrote u 70
ter to Haley Fiske. vice president q e.
Metropolitan Life Insurance conlA'
which Mr. Fiske gave out yest'-.+
stating that life insurance agent are
not In the non-productivs occupations
The sun., 1918-07-23
JEERs TROOPS; sENT TO JAIL.
sneerins German Gets DrubbinE
and SIX Months.

Arno Zimmerman. German. OF 1914
Seventh avenue was sent to the work
house for six months yesterday by
Mancusco.
He was riding on an eastbound
Fort Schuyler car Saturday night when
a number of soldiers got on board.
Somebody. remarked that the boys
looked healthy and strong. and Zim-
man said that It was no wonder be-
cause they were combination OF cat
tie and jackgss.
A number of soldiers jumped on the
German and gave him a drubbing. After
he was rescued he was arrested.
The sun., 1918-07-23
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Standard Time
Sun rises. A NJ Sun sets 18Th N
Moon rises. :05 PM
HIGH WATER THIS DAY
Sandy Hook, 500 A VI Gov. Island. $50 4 NJ
He'll Gate. 10 09 M
LOW WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook 500 A NJ Gov. Island. 2.sAN
He'll Gate. >. = :2s A NJ
Note-The foregoing table has been corrected
to conform TO the new artificial time
The sun., 1918-07-23
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Sale Of war relics. American Fund for French
wounded. 723 Fifth avenue
Lindsay =. McKinlay speaks on "Our Bows
and Equipment In the Allied Drive" Y W
Z. A., $40 Lexington avenue. p. II.
The sun., 1918-07-23
LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS.

Highest temperature. 90, at Z p. NJ
Lowest temperature, ~, at $3.50 A. NJ.
Average temperature, So.
Observations yesterday at United States
Weather Bureau stations showing atnlos
pl1sric conditions in the various cities: