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New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
''Silent Mac - Who
Duped Sing Sing,
Trapped in Street
Fugitive Left Dummy i'm Cell
When He Fled and Emp
tied Gun at Sleuths Be-
fore His Capture Here

"Silent Mac" McAllister, who played
lone hahd at Sing Sing and made the
most artful escape recorded in the
annals of that prison, slipped up last
night. Even the quickness Of his fin
ger on the trigger Of the revolver,
equipped with silencer. in his over
coat pocket could not save him from
detectives who spotted him at 15Oth
Street and Third Avenue, the Bronx
1t was just six months ago--June IL
that John McAllister, VINO came to
Sing Sing with the record of one clean
jail break in Jersey City, foiled the
vigilance of three keepers on his tier
with a dummy which now is on exh-
bition in the prison museum. McAllis-
ter, whose tacturnity had won him
the name of "Silent Mac" in the pris-
on, was al adept at sculpture and
worked in the prison art shop.
Ruse Deceived Keepers
Little by little he had accumulated
in his cell dough from the prison
bakery, hair from the barber shop
and paints and brushes from his own
place of employment. During the in
tervals between the keepers rounds
lie modelled a likeness of himself from
the dough, painted its face and hands,
even painting the arms black to the
elbow to simulate the sleeve pro-
tectors he ordinarily wore, and COW
cred the head with hair.
The ruse was discovered June 13
when the prisoners were turned out.
Meantime "Silent Mac" had hid in the
prison yard when his fellows were
,,,I
When night fell he climbed the wall
and swan the Hudson.
Officially he was not seen again until
last night. Detectives McCarton. Muir
ply, Ryan and Dolan, Of the Morrisania
police station, were at Third Avenue
and 105th Street, not far from Nc
Allister's former home at 419 East 151st
Street when something in the furtive
step Of man approaching them stirred
McCarton's memory.
cts Chuck McAllister" Ga name Nc
Allister bore before going to PRISON.,
McCarton exclaimed, and the four de-
tectives separated to surround the ap-
preaching man.
Fugitive Shoots Fast
At their first movement to this end
there was q flash from McAllister's
right hand overcoat pocket, followed
by four more. The bullets all went
wild and the detectives closed in. Even
then McAllister fought fercely and
was overcome only after rough and
tumble struggle.
He was locked up at the Morrisania
police station and admitted his iden-
tity, according to the police, telling
them of hiding in the prison yard and
swimming the Hudson. Where he had
been for the last six months he refused
to say. An indictment charging him
with breaking Jail was found against
him after his escape.
He was sentenced to Sing Sing for
burglary in August, 1918, in the Bronx
County Court, his term being four years
terms in the Elmira Reformatory.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Girl Made Up Yarn
About Shipper to
Get Rid of Pigtail
Schoolboy Admirer Said She
Looked Too Kiddish TOGO
to Movies, So Lillian Used
Shears and Imagination

For the last ten days H. c.. Hansen,
a builder, of Hillside Court, Jamaica,
has been escorting his fourteen-year-
old daughter Lillian to and from school,
He felt himself repaid for the loss of
time from his business thus entailed by
the consciousness that his child was
safe from masked bandit who, she
said, had tried to steal her long braid
Of golden hair on December /, and,
foiled in this, threatened to "get her
and her hair. too," next time.
Lillian will have no parental escort
to school this morning, and, If De-
tective Patrick kehoe interpreted the
situation at TIE Hansen home when he
called there yesterday afternoon, she
may have to do her lessons standing up
On the day Lillian reported an at
tempted theft of her locks she gave
minute description Of the man she said
leaped from an automobile and slashed
at her braid with a knife. She said
she slapped and kicked him and that he
fed to his car, in which were two con-
federates, shouting his threat as it
sped away. The hair had been cut so
that about fifteen inches of it had to be
sheared off.
Detective kehoe was skeptical. Ere
quent interviews he held with Lillian,
however, failed to shake her version
l.ttle quiet inve tigation on the
sleuth's part led to the discovery that
Lillian liked to attend "movie" shows
and school entertainments with Harold
Arnold, sixteen years old, classmate
in School 95. Yesterday Kehoe called
at the school and had talk with Lii
lian in the principals office.
IL think" he confided to her, "that
this Harold Arnold knows something
about the man that tried to get your
hair. You wait here and I'll go and
arrest him and lock him up"
ooh, no; don't do that!" Lillian en-
treated. "I'll tell the truth. l cut it
myself"
"You see," Kehoe says she went on.
ARNOLD had told me he wouldn't take
me out any more because | looked too
kiddish. the way I wore my hair in a
braid down my back. | tried to fix it
up on my head, but there was so much
of it | couldn't get my hat on. l knew
my mother never would let it be cut
short so made UP the. story about the
masked man in the automobile"
After Lillian had cried bit De-
tective Kehoe induced her to write it
all down on paper and sign it. He
took the composition to Mr.. Hansen.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12

Atlantic County and Mayor-elect Of
hammonton. while filing the radiator
OF his muddy roadster in his sideyard
this afternoon stopped long enough to
say:
Prosecutor Gaskill has bedevilcd
this case up until he doesn't know
what its all about Pm county Off
clal, and / suppose some people would
say ] oughtn't to talk that way about
another county official, but the prose-
cutor wouldn't have lifted a hand in
this case if hadn't stirred things up
with the inquest.
Coroner Explains Theories
"Gaskill and are agreed ON just one
thing. The body was planted in the
swamp in the place it was found. We
established that by several things.
The vegetation under the body was
for more than a week. But it had not
been there more than two or three
weeks. That was certain, because Of
the condition of clothing and the bones
and flesh. There were several other
conditions that proved that. But what
has that got to do with Charlie White ?"
G. Arthur Bolte, counsel for White
and Mrs. Jones, said to-day he was
going to urge Gaskill to hurry the case
so that there could be an early trial
"The question of putting the case
tirely in the prosecutors hands," he
said. Because of it's unusual charac-
ter, the judge (Robert Ingersoll, of
Nays Landing) will give him lot
of latitude, think. I haven't learned
what the prosecution has in the way
OF evidence. I expect to find out when
the grand jury indicts, if it does in
dict. Some of Whites friends have
urged me to gain his release through
habeas corpus proceedings. Both he
and l are agreed that the important
thing is to have jury listen to all
the evidence and then clear his name
for all time.
"I don't know what is Gaskills
mind, so l can't say at present what
shall do about finding out why they
accuse my clients. If l took any ac-
ton I'd be shooting up in the air
haven't talked with Gaskill in two
days. He didn't give me any informa-
tion when did. l can't imagine on
what evidence he is holding White and
Mrs. Jones. I've read in the news
paper that handwriting experts may
figure in connection with letter Of
coincidence written by Mrs. White to
Mrs. Dansey and an anonymous letter
containing false clue mailed from
Newark, n. j. If there are any such
letters Pm going to ask the Judge to
let me see them at an early date.
~ had heard some gossip about Dan
sey's dog Jack. This was to the effect
that when the dog was directed to
Find Billy" he would run to the edge
of the dahlia field and then stop and
whine and tuck his tail between his
legs. That doesn't sound very conclu-
sive, and if the dog had any such fear
he has gotten bravely over it, because
when I visited Whites house day or
two ago the dog was running about in
the dahlia field as if he belonged
there"
Detectives Wilson and Nusbaum de-
MED to-day they had told any one that
the peculiar actions Of Jack the fox
terrier had directed their attention to
Charles White.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Sugar Profiteers Face
Lever Act Prosecution
Federal Official Here Going
After Dealers Hoarding Stock
for a tKillink' After Dec. 81

Tor q 'MlIllnk Alter DcC. ol
Sugar dealers who are holding large
stocks preparatory to dumping them on
the market at high price when the
Sugar Equalization Board passes out Of
existence. on December 81, will be badly
disappointed, Assistant United States
Attorney Ben A. Matthews declared
yesterday.
Mr.. Matthews is preparing for an
organized Aght against the sugar
profiteering orgy which is expected to
ensue with the lifting Of regulations.
the district attorneys Of the counties
under his jurisdiction on Tuesday and
outline plans for combating excessive
sugar prices.
He said he had invited the prosecu
tors of the five New York City counties
and of Orange, Putnam, Duchess,
Greene, Sullivan, Ulster and Westches-
ter counties to the conference. Arthur
Williams, Federal Food Administrator
for greater New York. and II. E. Tre-
man, the Federal Food Administrators
for the rest of the state, will be pres
ent.
1t is understood that some price un-
officially will be fixed as maximum.
Dealers charging more than this will
have to show that their profit is not
excessive. Prosecutions, it was point
d out, may be begun under the Lever
act, which, as amended makes profiteer-
ing in foodstuffs punishable by fine
of $4,000 or two years. Imprisonment mt,
or both.
Merle Starnes, of 571 Jefferson Ave-
nue., was held in $1,000 bail for exami-
sonen Louis ON Dfie%0sl Sea n prooRyn yese
day, charged with selling 1900 pounds
Of sugar at 20h cents pound.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Film SsPeg'' Is Enjoined

Judge julius NJ. Mayer granted an in
junction yesterday in the United States
District Court to ]. Hartley Manners
author of peg o My Heart" restrain
ing the Famous Players Iasky Corpora
tloA from producing or releasing the
play IN picture form or making any
changes in the picture.
Judge Mayer -said that in the motion
picture the "Irsh Republic question
was emphasized to an extent quite out
of proportion to the references to it in
the stage version. The injunction was
granted on the ground that the agree
ment for TIE production of the play in
picture form had not been adhered to.
The litigation involves a contract
dated January 10, 1912.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Mrs. Borden Asks Divorce
Niece of Charles Steele Sues
Former Army Officer

Mrs. Ruth w. Borden, of l57 East
t.ighty-first Street. daughter of the
late Rev. DR.: j. Nevett Steele, who was
vicar of old Trinity Church, filed suit
for divorce in the Supreme Court yes-
terday against Lieutenant Joseph c.
Borden, U. S. A. R. Because of the
rule sealing all papers in divorce cases
the details Of the action could not be
ascertained. Cadwalader, Wickersham
d Taft are attorneys for the plaintiff.
Mrs. Borden. who is/ niece of
Charles Steele. member of the firm of
}. P. Morgan & Co.. married the de-
fendant in 1907. They spent their
hONcNmOOn IN F.urOnc
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Porto Rican Sugar Crop
Put at 478.OOO Tons

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. IL
Two Porto Rican centrals are now
grinding cane, the sugar from which
will be ready for shipment by Dec. Is.
l6 cents pound. The new crop is es-
timated at 478000 tons, or 10000 tons
larger than the last crop.
railroad strike is delaying the
grinding season at Guanica, where
Porto Rico's largest central is located.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Fight of Union Carpenters
Starts John Doe Investigation

Magistrate James j. Conway, in ia
maica Court. yesterday began John
Doe investigation in an effort to de-
termine the Identity of the .ifty men,
believed to be members of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, who
drove to Hollis, Queens, in autos De-
cember and attacked 100 workmen
engaged in the erection of row of
cottages on Farmers Avenue The
workmen belong to rival union.
Magistrate Conway said warrants
would be issued for several persons
whose identity was not revealed The
hearing will be resumed to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Killed in Elevator Accident

An unidentified woman, Of Orange.
N. j., was killed yesterday when she
was caught between an ascending ele-
vator and the wall Of the shaft in the
World Building, 63 Park Row. The
car had just left the fourth floor when
the accident occurred. John Meehan,
of 3l3 East 124th Street, the operator,
was held in $1,000 bail for examination
on December 10.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Sugar Board Inquiry
ASKED in BAY State

BOSTON, Dec. 1.-THE state House
of Representatives to-day adopted res
olutions calling upon Congress to in
vestigate the Federal Sugar Equaliza
tion Board in order to fix RESPONSE
bility for the sugar shortage. The res
olution also suggested that Congress
attempt to relieve the shortage by pro-
hibiting the export of sugar.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12

Domestic cheviot
Otter and nutria collar,
muff and patch pockets; 500,
$95 and $125.
Imported cheviot
Otter and beaver collar.
muff and patch pockets; $3.50,
$195.
Imported cheviot
Marmot-lined; otter collar,
muff and patch pockets; $3.50
and $500.
Imported cheviot
Muskrat-lined; otter collar;
S400 and $3.50.
Motor Apparel Shop
Burlington Arcade floor,
New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
To keep men warn,
Beaver and
Otter collars

on finely tailored over
coats of the best heavy i'm
ported and domestic chew
iots-some with fur lin
ings-look very good.
They were ordered
last May
before prices scared, and
the thermometer dropped,
and have arrived just in
the nick of time to permit
of an outlet for those
whom the season has i'm
bued with kind and gen.
erous impulses towards
their friends, their rela-
tives, or their own ward
robes.
Double-breasted
ulster models
with half belted backs,
muf and patch pockets, in
just the proper shades to
blend with and bring out
the rich quality of the furs
with which they are trim
med.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12

The last shipment of bottles of this sold in lust one
day. They those small Opaque bottles with charming
flower shoppers.
We have been particularly anxious have these arrive
here by Christmas time many people have asked US for
them. Now beautiful collection of them awaits YOUR visit
Au QudNieme.
In Three Designs
All made eXquistey small with slender necks and in
yellow lacquer red turquoise blue white pink and
two shades of blue, at 1915 and $4
Besides These
there are charming little opaque candesticks match
color; price $3.50 and Sc. Fourth aoor c,d R,;dnu
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Christmas ban0kfrrbiffs

VDrt3l1na5 Da110kHrrbtftS
Come from all over the world to Wanamakers
to be the charming gift with which every
man woman is invariably delighted
From France
have dozens of dainty 'kerchiets of almost
every type-beautifully made by hand with the care
and fneness which are Enthusiastically French.
Hand-spun linen, hand-embroidery, hand-work of
every kind is of the finest workmanship Sc to S25.
Real vaensiennes si I lace edges handemtroidered
kerchlets, $4 to $27 Colored border or solid color
kerchlefs, too, come from France with hand-roed or
hemstitched hens, $5 to $3.50
Armenian handkerchiets
are very scarce and the hand-work and lace edges
OF some of them are very fine, 81. .25 to s3
Madeira 'Kerchiets
are handembroidered or hand-hemstitched 75c to So
Switzerland
too sends kerchefs which close second to the
French 'kerchefs in workmanship of embroidery and
draWn-Work, 75c to $40.
Porto Rico
according to designs and directions the
Porto RlcanS send 'kerchefs directly to us ard we
can tnas get and sell them for less than the average
merchant can. File in borders or corners and drawn.
WORK IN met patterns are characteristics of these ker
chiefs, 81. to $3.50.
sends hand-embrodered handkerchefs 75c to $3.50
Erin herself
sends the largest workman
s @ is s9e and of great Svarehoe hand
Plain sb;r % eaty ta aaf ,; ga,tS a2c to 69 each
Aerchlefs with hand-roned hens, 35c o 75c ~
Japan
sends fane eoorsd silk kerchefs which gay touch to
rolled Nen er sra;g tap tape hemshe
Main floor Old Building
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Normandy or
Brittany lace

Normandy or
Brittany lace
has been used in profusio
and in many pleasing ways
under glass in trays Of ever
conceivable shape and size
trays bound with gold and ros'
buds, 81 to $3.50.
ON pillows, large and small
for the boudoir, $3.50, So
$50, etc.
Hair receivers for the que:
room would blend with any colo
scheme, being Of gold and lac
and flowers, Sc.
Powder boxes, too, would Ell
hance the charm Of the dressin
table, SIS.
Boxes for gloves and baske,
and boxes for handkerchiefs al
confections Of gold braid an
lace, either of gold or from No,
mandy.
Scrap baskets, too, have bee
created out of these same fral
lie, lovely materials.
Among the prices of
these gifts, $14, $23, $46,
SIC, etc, are examples. -
Pillows ~
for the chaise Tongue, ,NE
the floor, the couch I'M
are of taffeta in soft NV
pastel shades-of gold Co s s
and black bro IN r ~
cade-of velvets \a('~JM|
and other rich .z5sMYo}Nx
materials - cres- az
cents, oblong, o
square, round,
oval and many al
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12

indescribable shapes. Colors
are daring or soft-as the
character of the pillows may
be.
$23.75 is a frequent price.
For the chaise Tongue
is cover created out of faille tat
feta, Normandy lace, and ribbon
{used in loops around the edge
and the center medallion), SITS.
The pillow to match is $3.50.
A stunning lamp shade
betrays an Oriental influence.
Its shape is dome-like; from
this miniature dome hangs a
depth of the rose silk and blue
chiffon of which the lamp is
made, edged with red balls
and blue glass beads; $55.
A unique gift
would be the little electric light
doll: very CAV and dehOnair.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12
Petite
but pleasing

are the gold lace
and ribbon powder
boxes which Milady
can tuck into her
bag or muff; 75c to
$1.75.
First floor,
Old Ruildirv
New-York tribune., 1919-12-12

of silk and ribbon.
She seems too spright-
ly to be called a lamp
shade, yet we must
call a spade a spade! +!
$17.25.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-07
"Uncle Joe" Cannon Philosophical On
Difficulties of Capital and Labor

hang the inventor. They predicted
that there would be no more harvest
hands to swing the cradle and bind
the wheat and oats and rye.
THE dod-gasted reaper would
take the places OF the human reap
crs and there would be no more
work But with the development OF
the reaper and the mower, the self
binder and other labor saving ma
chincry on the farms, we have con-
tinued to increase our harvests un-
til we have been able to feed all the
people of Europe since the war.
The same pessimism met every
piece of machinery that was in
vented for years, but the machines
we now have are said to represent
l50,000,000 horsepower, and that
power is able to do as much work as
5,000000,000 human beings without
machinery.
Plenty of Work.
so. we have machines able TO
do as much work as rs times our
population and 20 times as much
as Our industrial population, and
still have work for all who will
work.
This industrial development in
this country represents co-operat,
ion. willing cooperation and good
will-co-operation of men and ma
chinery, too the man learning to
manage the machine and the ma
chine responding to the intelligent
direction of the man.
The men who invented the ma
chimes and developed them have
their capital there and many OF
these men also operate the ma
chimes, for many industrial con
Germs have the employees as stock
holders and part owners to make
the cooperation complete. They
make the products, sell them and
apportion the sales money to wages,
upkeep of the plant and interest on
the investment.
Goodwill Suggestion Pertinent.
81 think Mr.. Gompers' cooper
alton and goodwill suggestion SO
pertinent that l wonder why he or
any other man should think that
this cooperation can be transferred
by both sides to an outsider or
outsiders, however wise they may be,
or however alteruistic.
"Co-operation that includes, all the
world, the Christian and the infidel.
the pagan and the savage, is all
very we'll for the idealism of the
brotherhood of men, but it is too
idealistic for the settlement of
strikes, or the practical handling of
the manufacture of necessities by
one group of workers and the use
of them by another group.
1T is no more logical for a man
who learned the cigar trade, or
professional agitator, who never
learned any trade, to dictate to the
management and the men in a mill
or a mine just how they must CO.
operate"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-07

their savings and are part owners
of our industrial enterprises.
Capital is very general COM
modify III this country and it is Just
as impossible to separate capital and
labor as it will be to separate the
sheep and the goats for the last
summons, beyond the power of hui
man mental or moral comprehen-
sion. The division will have to be
made by omnipotent wisdom"
Machinery Increases Production.
But, Uncle Joe, these big indus
trial plants have machinery to conf
pete with men" t-...
"Oh, yes: when ! was a boy some
of the pessimists called the reaper a
labor-d isplacing machine and want
CO to destroy all the reapers and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-07
UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
Director General of Railroads
Chicago St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad

The shortage of locomotive fuel makes it necessary
to temporarily discontinue the following trains, begin
ming Monday, December 9Th, 1919:
No. 2O1--Day, leaving Minneapolis 6:15 P NJ, arriv-
ing Omaha, Union Station, 7:45 A. NJ
No. 202-Day, leaving Omaha, Union Station, 9:15
P. M, arriving Minneapolis 1920 A. M.
No. 3-Daly, leaving Sioux City 2:3O P. NJ. arriving
Omaha Webster St. Station 80 P. M.
No. 4-Except Sunday, leaving Omaha, Webster St.
Station, $40 A. M, arriving Sioux City II 10
a A. M.
No. 1O-Daly, leaving South Norfolk 80 P. NJ.
irving Emerson $3.50 P. NJ, Sioux City 4:50
P. M.
No. 9-Daily, leaving Sioux City $40 A. NJ. arriving
Emerson $50 A. M, arriving South Norfolk
IL 20 P M.
No. 6-Sunday only, leaving Omaha Webster st. Sta
ton 1870 A. M, arriving Sioux City 1890
P M.
For additional changes consult Agent, Consolidated
Ticket Office, 1416 Dodge St.. Omaha, Neb.
Trains remaining in service may be taxed to more
than their capacity and patrons may expect crowded
and perhaps serious delay We urge the public to
refrain from unnecessary travel until normal service
can be restored
G. H. MacRAE, General Passenger Agent,
st. Paul, Minnesota.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-07

Every Man Who Saves Dollar Is a Capitalist Says
Former Speaker Wonders>Why it Is Necessary
For Man Who Never Worked in a Steel Mill to
Call Steel Strke-One Group of Workers Can
not Dictate the Whole Scheme of Life