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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
LAWN BARBER IS SHOCKED;
TOLD TO FIND REAL JOB
When Franklin O. Bigelow Was Released Because He
Handled Wifes Estate and Garden, Grass
Gutter Was Hopeful.

smile Of satisfaction spread over
the features of william Brazil as he sat
quietly yesterday among the spectators
In the Yonkers Court of Special Sessions
lingering a summons that had come to
him through the operation OF tho States
anti-loafng law. Relief also was re-
heeted from the features of Mr.. Brazil
as with one ear turned carefully toward
the bench where sat Judge William
Bleakley. he listened attentively to what
Franklin o. Bigelow, husband of Mrs.
Agnes Edgar Bigelow. had to say, for
Mr.. Bigelow also was there because Of
The operation of the same law.
Il am busy every hour that I am
awake In looking after my wifes inter-
ests," Mr.. Bigelow explained with pre-
Else emphasis. 1T keeps me busy going
over her property. My wife gave up
active management of her affairs when
We were married"
To this explanation Of his life pursuit
Mr.. Bigelow added that he arranged for
repairs TO Mrs. Bigelows properties !:
that he made small repairs himself, and
of extraordinarily deep interest to Mr..
BrGzil--Mr Bigelow explained also that
he attended to the garden. Also he
collected rents.
ut Is not up to me to decide what
kind OF work is DONE" said Judge Bleak
ley. who added that the object of the
law was to prevent men from loafing on
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
RUSSELLITE GETS TEN YEARS.
italian who Spread Anti-draft
Propaxanda Must Go to Prison.

Giovanni De Cocoa, in charge of the
Russellite propaganda among the Ital-
ians, was sentenced yesterday by United
States Judge Howe in Brooklyn to serve
ten years on each OF tho four counts in
the indictment returned against him. He
was convicted OF having conspired with
seven other followers of the late Pas
tor" Russell, including Joseph F.. Ruth
erford. head OF the sect. to cause mutiny
and disloyalty in the armed forces OF
the country. The court directed that the
sentences be served concurrently. The
penalty Is one-half as severe as that
melted out to the other milleniumites now
in Atlanta penitentiary.
Judge Howe intimated that II William
II. Hudgins, secretary OF the Watch
Tower Bible and Tract Society. purged
himself of contempt of court. the in
dlctment for perjury returned against
him for failing to remember having seen
Superintendent MCMILLAN OF the Bethel.
another OF the sentenced Russellites
write his name, would be dismissed
The court pointed out that for Hudglns
to purge himself would be tantamount
to him pleading guilty to the indictment.
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FLOATING HOSPITAL OPENS.
Boat for Sick Children begin,
Daily Trips.

The floating hospital OF 81 Johns
Guild, which gives water trips daily for
sick children. made its first trip OF the
season yesterday. Excursions will be
made every week day during July and
August Tho Guild supplies one hot
meal for adults with children and milk
for the children for the journey.
Mondays and Thursdays the boat stops
at East Twenty-ninth street at 3 A. M.
at Third street half an hour later, and
at Market street at . o'clock TUESDAYS
and Fridays stops are made at West
Forty eighth street at s o'clock, at West
Thirty-first street at 40 o'clock. and
at Gansevoort street at o'clock.
Wednesdays and Saturdays stops are
made at East Twenty-ninth street at
$50 o'clock, at Metropolitan avenue,
Brooklyn. at S;l5 o'clock. at Hudson
avenue. Brooklyn, at s AS O'Clock, and a.
Hamilton avenue. Brooklyn. at 9:45
o'clock.
The Guilds purpose is to give relief
without charge to sick children without
regard TO creed, color or nationality.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11

the streets and in saloons. So long as
men are busy the law Is not being vlo-
lated. vouchsafed the Judge. Whereupon
the smile on the Brasil features broad
ened perceptibly.
Il am a contractor" explained Mr.
Brazil to Judge Bleakley when finally
his chance had come. IT accept con-
tracts for cutting grass"
What do you do in the winter?'
aueried Judge Bleakley.
Il accept contracts for shoveliins
snow" replied Mr.. Brazil.
Judge Bleakley told him to 70 get a
real job and to report to the court upon
the nature Of his newly found employ
ment.
And Mr.. Brazil strobe dolcfully out OF
court toward his home. with the vision
OF the neatly cared for Bigelow garden
dancing gracefully before him.
Mr.. Bigelow was married five years
ago. His wife was Miss Agnes Edgar.
daughter OF one OF the founders Of the
Arm Of Edgar & Acker, which later be-
anne Acker. Merrall & Condt, grocers.
Mrs. Bigelow inherited a fortune from
her father. Her husband is 40 years
of age.
Altogether twenty-five men appeared
on sunImonses Issued under the anti-liaf f.
ing law. A few Of them were dismissed.
The majority received instructions sim
liar to those bestowed upon the be-
wildered Mr. Brazil
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
Draft Plates Really Needed.
TORPEDO YARN WABBLES.
PASSENGER Alone Saw Peril OF
That Dark and stormy Night.

A sea traveller who arrived yesterday
at an Atlantic port suspected NAT he
had seen two torpedoes fred at the
steamship he was aboard when she was
of Hatteras Monday evening. He re-
vealed his impressions. with ultramarine
trimmings, TO a ship news man. and
they were spread in type all over the
boroughs.
The facts OF the case do not At the
printed story. 1t is true that the liner.
with eighty-fve passengers and a big
cargo OF nitrate. arrived from South
American port. but she was not threat
ened by torpedoes and none OF the ships
company. including the skipper all his
officers and crew. saw any signs of q
U-boat or torpedoes.
Another steamship that came into the
same port from which the yarn was sent
out reported that she also saw nothing
OF enemy submarines and had received
no wireless warnings OF their proximity
to the American coast. Her skipper
said that Monday night was stormy and
pitch black and anybody who could see
anything in the dusty sea then must
have had supernormal, telescope vision.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
PROFITEER FLOUR
FIRM FINED $1,7S4
Several Grocery Concerns Also
Closed for Three Days for
Food Violations.

P.Lenane & Bro. wholesale flour dealers
at 3o7 and 3os West street, have been
directed to contribute S1.734.s5 to the
Red Cross for exacting excessive profits
on sales Of horse feed bran in violation
of the Federal Food Boards regulations
regarding profiteering. Though the
Arm does an annual business of ap-
proximtely 100000. its sales on horse
feed bran constitute only about per
cent. OF the total.
Evidence presented at the hearing be-
fore the board showed that between
January l and May IS. 1918. the FIRMS
purchases of bran aggregated 415.970
pounds, costing S7.6o5.o3: and that the
sale OF this amount Melted a gross profit
Of $2.7S1.65. or SO per cent.
The West street house was but one
Of many violators of the Food Boards
rules for whom various degrees Of pun
ishment were announced yesterday.
Philip A. Johann. head Of the boards
bureau OF complaints, recommended
these suspensions:
Bell Economy Store. grocer, IA
Columbus avenue. found guilty Of SELL
Ing sugar in excessive quantities. three
days E. & L. Kaufman. grocers. 81 and 80
Avenue d. found guilty Of selling Hour
without substitutes, three days. Louis
Weingast, restaurant 1906 Madison
avenue. found guilty of serving quaint
ties of bread to patrons and baking with
out license, three days. Cantor & Schin-
demann. grocers. 1868 Park avenue.
found guilty OF selling -four without sur
fcient substitutes Darling & Son.
grocers, Port Jefferson. L. l.. found
guilty Of selling -four without sufficient
substitutes. violating the labelling rule
and selling groceries whole without a
wholesalers license. three days.
In addition to these several butchers
and bakers were ordered to suspend
business for from one to three days for
infractions OF the rules
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
]. A. SOLOVEI ENLISTS
IN NAVAL RESERVE
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Prefers Bounding Main
to Upton.

The sea dogs of the Naval Reserve
gained a recruit yesterday in the person
Of Joseph A. Solovei. Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel and protege OF Mayor
Hylan
Mr.. Solovei, who is 90 years old. had
been under the jurisdiction OF Local
Draft Board Sc since this country en-
tered the war and found himself in a
situation between Yaphank and the deep
sea when his board. dsallowing his
claim for exemption on the ground of
dependent father and mother. moved his
name UP into Glass IA Baruch Miller.
the chairman of the board. said that
Mr.. Solovei would have gone to Camp
Upton between July Is and "a II he had
not enlisted.
Mr.. Solovei after Mayor Hylan took
office was mentioned for several i'm
portant city posts and was appointed
chief Of the Brooklyn bureau of street
openings when Mayor Hylan concluded
not to make him either a City Magis-
trate or a Deputy Commissioner OF
Police 1t was the Mayors urgency Of
Mr.. Solovei's qualifications for a deputy
ship under Police Commissioner Bugher,
which among other considerations caused
Mr.. Bugher to resign.
Mr.. Solovei's billet in the Corporation
Counsers Office pays a salary OF $4,000
a year 1t was stated that he would
not lose the number OF his mess ashore
by enlisting for service on the bounding
main. He will be allowed a leave OF
absence without pay and should Mayor
Hylan's incumbency outlast the clash OF
arms he will find his post waiting for
him upon his return to civil life.
Solovers father at one time was said
to be worth 100000. but series OF
business reverses so depleted his for
tune that very little remains. The son
will report to the Naval Reserve every
day until he is assigned to one of the
training stations.
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with q bank roll of SS6,000-plus the
original $500 "stake''-with which to
begin his invasion OF the Eastern tracks
That Invasion was spectacular. Ryan's
reputation for pink shirts. or. In fact,
almost any kind OF shirt, so long as u
was highly colored, was almost as great
as his utter fearlessness In the amount
OF money he waRered. 1t was such a
shirt he wore when he flashed into
Saratoga In the summer Of 1903 and
startled the Spa with a great collection
OF diamonds flashing their brilliance
from the shirt which was part Of a
yachtsmsn's costume. the white fiannels
and their owner going to the track In
a big automobile.
Bet con His Judgment"
He said he bet ION his judgment" and
whether he did or not, he soon had the
bookmakers fearing him with even a
greater fear perhaps than they did the
visit to the tracks Of the famous Pitts
burg Phil. who was operating about the
same time. He said himself that he stood
on the boolSmakers stool at Saratoga
that year and saw Africander apparently
not winning the race In which he bet
$4,000 on that horse alone at odds of
81 to 1. He thought he had lost. but
was agreesbly surprised later when Afri-
cander's. number was flashed as winner.
The race meant $4,000 to "Plugger''
Ryan. and he cashed.
Ryan said that the gambling fever
was In his veins and that he could not
resist the temptation to wager. He adj
mitted that he won 100000 in that sin
gle racing season at Saratoga. He bet
$4,000 on Irish Lad at Saratoga for
what, UP to that time, was the largest
bet he ever had made.
Subsequently Ryan was said to have
operated as an adviser for George Con-
sidine in the latter's bookmaking at the
local tracks. In the meantime Ryan was
declared to have been busy also playing
his own lunches" and cashing win
nings which made the bookmakers gasp.
He had the reputation in the betting
world of being absolutely honest. and
was declared TO have been rated as
safe for a daily credit OF 5000, 900 for
a single days operations at the tracks.
Met Woman in Detroit.
It was in 1915, Mrs. Ryan alleges.
that her husband sent a telegram to
her home at Detroit telling her he had
been called to- Cuba on business. She
learned, she alleges now. that he left
Detroit with Florence Reynolds, and at
fdaivts were filed with her divorce Pc
tition. stating Miss Reynolds had been
introduced as Mrs. Ryan" at various
hotels In this city and other places
whore. Mrs. Ryan alleged. they lived
together.
At Farmingdale last night Mr.. Ryan
said he had filed an answer denying all
of his wife's allegations. He said he
was giving her 5000 a month before she
sued for divorce, but that II she only
wanted S25 a week he was willing. He
said he was "out OF the racing game"
that war contracts had not brought hin.
another fortune. but that instead ''he
was cleaned out-broke." He said the
separation from his wife dated much
further back than 1915. that he never
Intended to be a plunger again. and that
lie could not understand all the fuss that
was being made over his private affairs.
But he was certain he said. that Mrs
Ryan would not be able to substantiate
In court the allegations made in her COM
plant
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
SWAMI BEGINS QUIZ
OF BANKS AFFAIRS
Officials of Broadway Savings
Institution Accuse
w. II. Rose.

District Attorney Swami yesterday he.
gan an investigation into the affairs n
William II. Rose, secretary and treas.
urer OF the Broadway Savings Insttu-
ton OF Park place.
Horace T. Hutchinson, presider; o.
the bank. and Richard Kelly, its cttor-
ney, were examined. and Mr.. Swami says
they told him Rose had taken 500 oo'
from the bank. The money was in ths
vault to which Rose had access. ard
was taken during n period OF one month.
the officials said. The discovery was
made when Rose failed TO report To-
work.
The District Attorneys investigation
was the result OF a report that
William II. Ryan. who was arrested
July 2 by Detective William c. Wha,en
and held on a short affidavit charging
him with having stolen $4,000 from the
Broadway Savings Bank, in reality Was
William II. Rose.
Rose. according TO n statement by n.
District Attorney, when arrested gave
his name as Ryan. His arrest vas
brought about through a complaint mIdA
by Andrew Carl, who ia said to be =
representative OF surety compaNF
Following his arrest, Rose was released
on $4,000 bail accepted by Justice Page
OF the Supreme Court. The case cam"
up July before Magistrate Corne. IN
the First Magistrates Court and pr
over until July s, when a further ad-
journment until July IS was agreed
upon. The District Attorney said tha'
he would present the case 10 the G-ari
Jury on Friday
Rose has wife and two children VIII
whom he lives at 700 Riverside Drive
He is said to be president ~ the Harlem
Republican Club. lie had been IN the
employ Of the bank twenty-seyen years.
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Lexington subway Open July 4,

1t was announced yesterday that ser
vice on the Lexington avenue sub
way between the diagonal station" at
Forty-second street and l67th street
and Jerome avenue Will be- started
at p NJ. Wednesday, July II. Until
the complete III" Is In operation pas
sengers may change to and from the
present subway at the Grand Central
Terminal Until then the completed
branch of the Pelham Bay branch and
the l49th street connection between the
Lexington avenue line and the West
Farms branch OF the old subway will
not be placed in ser Woe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
JEWISH AID RECRUITS SOUGHT.
Volunteers Needed for summer
Work In Cantonmcnts.

Col. Harry Cutler. chairman ~ mo
Jewish Welfare Board, issued yesterday
a call for volunteers TO give AZ least <
weeks OF their summer vacation To d
work OF the board in the camps and can.
tonments. This appeal IS directed par
ticularly to school teachers and others
who are unemployed during the sImm"'
The Welfare Board announced recently
that II would send 100 men to France 10
work among the Jewish soldiers th"r'
Since the first quota OF these men VIII No
recruited from the workers who are l'N
engaged IN camps and naval trHU.u +
stations in this country men WI Pc
needed in short order to MI the VacaHe g.
temporarily, at any rate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
SENTENCED FOR ARSON.
Saloon Keeper Imperilled Lives of
n Family by Burning Building,

On charge OF arson in the second
degree Carmine Scibelli OF 10 Rock
away road. Jamaica. Queens, was SEN
fenced yesterday to Sing Sing for a term
OF from 10 to % years.
Scibelli pleaded guilty. He set fire
to his saloon at Ocean and Liberty
avenues. Ocean Park. the night OF July
s, 1917. There was $1,000 insurance on
the stock and fixtures.
A family OF Italians with three small
children were asleep above the saloon
when the FIRE was discovered by a fire.
man on a passing train.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11

George II. Chiovis OF $40 Broadway
complained in letter to Chief Magis-
trate McAdoo yesterday that he did not
get an opportunity to be heard when a
truck driver was arragned for killing
his twelve-year-old daughter on May l6,
The driver OF the truck had been ar
rested, and was discharged. The Chief
Magistrate sent copies OF the letter TO
the city's various magistrates with the
suggestion that in future pains be taken
TO have some representative OF the fam
lily present before disposition Is made Of
similar cases
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
WOMEN FOR WAR LABORATORY
Take Oath Necessary 20 Appoint
ment rs Army Technicians.

Misses Gertrude and Effie Cohen OF 8
West 10th street appeared before Mag
istrate Groehl in the Washington
Heights court yesterday and took the
oath required by the Government be-
fore the acceptance Of their appoint
ments as laboratory technicians
The young women, the first to be
named for such places in this country,
were appointed by tho War Department
for work at Camp Wheeler. Ga. They
are attached TO the base hospital at that
camp. Both leave to-day to assume
their duties.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
DENoUNCEs RATES; DIES.
Henry Diehl succumbs After
Speech Against BENEFITS.

Henry Diehl. SO, OF 220 VERIFIED
street. williamsburg. died late Tuesday
night in n hall at 4l4 Hamburg avenue
during a meeting OF the Clothing Cutters
Relief Circle. Diehl had for years been
one of the active members of the go
ciety.
He made an address asserting in We
hement terms that the death benefits
we're too high.
After finishing his speech and seating
himself he began to gasp and toppled OF
his chair. Before the arrival of doctors
he was dead
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
FIVE POLICE CAPTAINS MOVED
Commissioner Enright Issues Or
der without Comment.

Commissioner Enright issued an order
yesterday transferring five police cap
tains, as follows:
Capt. Frank A. Tierney, Grand ave-
rue station. Brooklyn, to West Sixty
eighth street station, Manhattan; Cant.
James &c. Shore. West Sixty-elghth street,
to Simpson street, The Bronx; Capt
Patrick ONeil. East 12sth street, 10
Clinton street; Capt. John ]. Noble.
Simpson street, to East 126th street
Capt. Daniel F. OConnor. Clinton street
to Grand ayenua Brooklyn
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11

Word was received IN Mincola %"s'e'.
day that Sergeant Thomas H'tche.'..
Jr,. son Of Major Thomas Htchc2'N. m
command OF flying at the iIazelhGrNl
Field, Mineola, had been made Lieu
tenant for services rendered 10 France
before he was compelled TO land IN MS
airplane behind the German lines after
pursuing two enemy bjplancs, Lieut.
Hitchcock is in a prison camp In north
ern Germany,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11

The Better Speech Club of America
will hold its second regular meeting this
evening in the auditorium OF p. s. No 81.
West Forty-second street. There Is no
charge made for membership in this club,
the object being to give instruction In the
use OF better style OF speech and voice
STRENGTHENING.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Lecture rs This a Capitals, War" Or
David Goldbiatt. p. S. No. 81. $50 East
Tenth street. $3.50 p. VI.
Lecture, Our Loyalty to America" "
p. Jones. auspices Educational Alliance
Claremont Park. p NJ
Convention International Association OF
Display Men. Waldorf. A. NJ.
Y. NC. A. Drive for overseas seor..
taries.
Funeral services for Major John Pur.
roy Mitchell u. s. r., ex-Mayor OF New
York, st. Patrick's Cathedral. 10 A. NJ
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
KiIilea Succeeds MacBride.

Thomas r, Killca was appointed
member Of the civil Service Comm
sion yesterday TO succeed James =.
MacBride. resigned. Mayor Hylau de-
ignated Morris Cukor, who has boo
member of the commission since tie
first OF the year, president
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York, fair ,o.d,r
slightly warmer In the interior: n.
morrow fair; gentle to moderate
winds, mostly west.
For New Jersey. partly cloudy TODAY
Ialr Tomorrow; gentle to moderate south
west to west winds '"'
For northern New England r,n,r,u,,
Ialr to-day and tomorrow; gentle to mol
crate south and southwest winds
FOR southern New England ran.rsu,
lair to-day and tomorrow; gentle TO n,na
crate south to southwest winds
FOR western New York, partly cloudy
To-day; fair tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, July 1o.--show.rs con.
tinuso quite generally In the central ava
norm Rocky Mountain regions and ih.
horth Pacific States. and there vers
also showers in the central Plains stat,
western Missouri, Arkansas, New Fns
Iand, the middle Atlantic States FlorIs.
apd locally In the Ohio Valley
high temperature changes were rot do
eided Temperatures continued la lin.
Southwest. with maxiunf OF l05 degree,
With the exception of local ,how.-,
In Tennessee. Georgia, Florida and tho
east Gulf States the weather will be rs re
orally fair Thursday and Friday east q,
the Mississippi River, without tempera
ture changes OF consequence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
United States Toast and Geodetic Survey
Standard Time.
sun rioes... ...6:3i A NJ Sun sets.....S.SPM
Noon sets .....l0:l3 Pm
HIGH WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook. 1914 A NJ Gov. Island. II n AN
Hell Gate ......l:0OPM
LOW WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook. ..4:45 A NJ Gov. Island. .e:A AM
He'll Gate ......7:s2 M
Note-The foregoing table has been corrected
TO conform TO the new artificial time"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-11
SOLDIERS ASKED TO
SEEK MISSING GIRL
Mother Fears She Left to Sing
for Fighters.

Viola A. Davidson. a pretty miss OF
is years. told her mother Saturday she
was going to the front door of their
home at 80 Gates avenue. Brooklyn. The
mother. Mrs. Edward +. Davidson, wife
OF an oil prospector and broker, told the
police yesterday her daughter had not
returned. She asked aid in finding the
girl.
The Missing Persons Bureau sent out
a general alarm. and a request was
made to the army officers in this city to
see II they could find trace OF her. The
latter request was due to the fact that
Miss Davidson. who Is an accomplished
musician. a dancer of graceful ability
and a singer, had often gone to the
camps in Texas. where they lived before
coming to Brooklyn for the summer. to
entertain soldiers. Mrs. Davidson said
her daughter visited Texas cantonments
three times. but had always returned
safely at night.
Mrs. Davidson also said her daughter
cherished an ambition to become n
moving picture actress and that she had
often urged that she be permitted to go
to work. When Viola did not come home
Saturday night search was started,
with private detectives in charge.
The girl was described as being s feet
2 inches tall and weighing 1923 pounds.
She wore an old rose sweater. a white
crepe dress. a white straw hat. b,ach
stockings and black button shoes.
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An order for twelve new freight
steamships of 1900 tons each has been
given by the Government to the Todd
shipyard Corporation, 10 Whitehall
street. The company announced yester-
day that the ships would be built In the
yards at Tacoma. Wash. and that the
Government would enlarge the yards