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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-26


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The sun., 1919-08-02
BURGLARS STUMBLE
ON WET PARADISE
Forget job in Hand to ReUeI
in Burzefto's Wine.

Frank Burzetta, who maintains a pri-
vate wine cellar in the basement OF n
roomlng house at 500 Grand street, was
distressed last night on passing by the
open doorway TO smell a strong odor
that seemed to indicate one of the kegs
had burst and was giving its contents
freely upon the arid cellar floor.
He plunged speedily down the steps
to investigate and found his fears veri-
fed. Half a dozen wine cases had
been broken open and bottles cracked and
half emptied were holding lonely orgy.
Burzetta made quick tracks to the near
est police station. The police went over
the cellar and adjoining premises and
evolved the conclusion that a gang of
burglars had been at work some time
within the last two days trying to dig
through the wall of Burzetta's wine cell
lar TO the offices of Louis Teich & Sons
on the ground floor of the building.
A hole had been partially cut through
the hath and plaster and a kit of bur-
glars tools was found. The officers de-
cided that the intruders had fallen VIC
tim TO the wine while engaged in their
more ambitious task and had given up
the attempt, staggering away at length.
smashing bottles they were no longer
able to compass.
The sun., 1919-08-02
TORTURE WOMAN;
GET $4,000 GEMS
Burglars Hold Lighted Matches
at Feet of Mrs. C. p. Beck
Near Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. -Four masked
burglars entered the summer home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Beck at Somers
Point, eight miles from here, early to-
day. After vainly torturing Mrs. Beck
in an effort to make her disclose the
hiding place of her jewels they knocked
her unconscious with a blackjack and
tied the couple to their beds with picture
cord and torn sheets. After ransacking
the house the thieves discovered $4,000
worth of Jewelry and $1,000 in cash
hidden in a bag in a closet. They es-
capped with all of it.
Beck retired from the hotel business
in Philadelphia year ago and he and
lis wife have been spending the summer
at the shore. Both are advanced in
years. Last night Mrs. Beck went to a
motion picture show wearing diamond
earrings. a pearl necklace and diamond
rings. all of which were included in the
plumber taken a few hours later.
Shortly after / o'clock this morning,
Mrs. Beck was awakened by a man who
was bending over her bed and peering
into her face. She sat up with n scream
and he seized her roughly, demanding
to know where she kept her jewels.
Mrs Beck refused to tell, despite the
threats of one of the four to kill her.
When she persisted in her refusal,
the burglars held her securely while one
of them lighted matches with which he
burned her feet Perhaps to quiet her
cries she was struck on the head with
a blackjack.
Beck, who slept In an adjoining room,
III Nara. a
came hurrying out into the hall to be
confronted by a masked man with a re-
volver. Beck and his wife were quickly
bound to the bed and the four began
a systematic search Of the house. Draw
ers were emptied Of their contents and
clothing from closets tossed In a heap
on the floor. At length the bag con-
tanning the jewels and money was
brought 10 light.
A wet towel had been thrown over
Mrs. Becks head and, Just as the four
were overhauling the Jewels. she &C.
covered consciousness and pleaded with
the burglars not to take a pair OF opera
glasses. set with pearls, which she told
them was a treasured heirloom. They
eft the glasses behind, as she asked them.
but before they left the man and
woman were blindfolded.
The robbery was committed during the
height of a storm. The Beck cottage Is
200 feet away from the nearest house
and no one discovered that anything was
amiss there for half an hour after the
burglars had escaped. They came and
went in an automobile. The thieves
closed all the windows and blinds In the
house before going up stairs. Their en-
trance was made through the front door
which had been left partly open because
of a defective lock-
The sun., 1919-08-02
u. S. AIRMAN MAKES
T.. I4S MILES AN HOUR
NeW Record at 5000 Feet of
, PCS Miles in I27 Minutes.
Special Despatch TO TIE Sen.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Capt. Glidden
of the Air Service made the following
announcement tonight:
Flying in lie Pere aEplane to-day
at an altitude of 5000 feet Lieut.. J. d.
Corkville with Sergeant ]. R. Cook made
flight from Arcadia. Fla, to Daytona
Beach Fla, a distance Of 1856 miles, in 16
minutes, or at a rate OF 1883 miles an
hour.
Lieut.. r. II. Smith. with Lieut.. w. L.
Williams and Lieut.. r. J. johnson, flew
from Arcadia. Fla, to jacksonville, Fla,
In De Haviland at an altitude of 5000
feet and covered the distance OF 265
miles in 1877 minutes This Is a record
flight between the two points. The tenn
perature at 4 o'clock at the altitude of
5000 feet was 65 degrees, while on the
surface the thermometer registered 90
degrees.
Major w. J. Frank of the admins
trative department of the Air Service,
Washington, in a De Haviland 4, with
Lieut.. Robert f. Midkiff made a flight
from Mineola, N. Y, to Amherst, Mass,
140 miles, In so minutes. The railroad
time between the points named is five
hours.
An aero Photographic expedition. con-
sisting of twelve officers and men in six
Curtiss planes, left Langley Field. Vir-
ginia. at 1855 o'clock this afternoon for
Richmond Va, for a ninety day tour OF
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Del
aware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Stops will be made in forty-six cities.
Following the expedition are motor
truck equipped with all apparatus for
aerial photography in all its phases, in
GLIDING motion pictures. The pictures
taken at various attitudes will be ex-
hibited on the tour.
The sun., 1919-08-02
SHEETS SNATCHED
BY YONKERS SPOOK
Ghost Means, Groans, Rattles
Windows and Skilfully
Eludes Police.
RAMBLEs AT MIDNIGHT
Victim Shivers With Terror,
Then Shakes From Cold as
Bed Is Robbed.

The folks who live in the four story
Yonkers. are all really nice people and
don't drink drop OF anything that Mr..
Anderson wouldn't like. which Is a fact
OF Importance in view of what has hap
pened. 1t seems that there are ghosts
in this apartment house, although 1t
may only be one ghost, but, at any rate,
II is a spooky being who rattles windows,
groans and means and even goes 50
far as to pull the sheets of its shrinking
victims. The Yonkers police force,
which doesn't drink either, can't find
out what II is any more than the
tenants can.
The first of the non-drinking police of
Yonkeps heard of the ghost was when
James zest, who lived on the top floor
OF the apartment house, although he has
now gone away from there and won't be
back until the ghost has gone, came to
detective Lieutenant Dennis Cooper and
gave him the low down on the ghost. II
seeps the night before, at midnight ex-
actly, the sheet had been snatched from
his bed by an invisible hand. He
couldn't find anybody in the room.
either. But he lay down again without
the sheet, and pretty soon there came
a tapping on the window. and then Test
looked and saw a white shape pressed
against the window pane. 1t was at that
exact moment that he decided 10 go at
once TO police headquarters and tell the
cops about II.
Lieut.. Cooper sent Detectives GILBERT
and Mccormick to rout the ghost Thurs
day night. They stood in the hallway
and at midnight heard the groans and
tappings. They promptly decided they
could be of more use outside, SO they
went across the street and stood in the
shadow of building. They saw nothing
and since they did not go again into
the house they heard nothing further.
Test didn't hear anything or see any
thing that night either. He didn't sleep
there.
Joseph Schwartz, who owns the apart
ment house, told the police that at first
he didn't take any stock In the tales
of his tenants. but one night he went
and had look for himself.
II heard things" said Mr.. Schwartz
land I saw things too. 1 don't know
what 1t is, but there is something"
Mrs. Josephine Burhell, who has lived
in the house for many years, told the
police that a woman and daughter were
burned to death there some years age
Whether the mother and child are
haunting the scene of their demise the
police do not know. but they are keep
ing a sharp lookout for kids who think
it's smart to "tick-tack" peoples houses
And II they catch a ghost instead, SO
much the better
The sun., 1919-08-02
SUBWAY STATIONS ORDERED.
Contracts Let for Pelham Bay and
brighton Line Work.

A. w. King received the contract yes
terday for eleven stations on the Pei
ham Bay Park branch of the Lexington
avenue subway at a price of $S10,279.
All except one of the stations will be
located east of the Bronx River and be-
tween Whitlock avenue and Pelham Bay
Park. The work must be done within
six months.
Construction Commissioner Delaney
also let q contract for building a new
station at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues
on the Brighton Beach line, which is to
come through Flatbush avenue and then
swing under the Long Island Station
and over to Willoughby street on its way
to Manhattan by way of the Montague
street tunnel. The successful bidder was
P. N. Brown & Co. at sS5.7S1.
Authorization was given to the New
York Consolidated Railroad Company to
contract for a hundred additional steel
cars for operation on its subway and
elevated lines at n total cost of $1,62S,-
900. This represents a cost OF $12,049
for each car and s2,117 for each motor.
This is 20 per cent. increase since the
first order for cars was placed. The
| company now has 500 and deliveries are
about to be made on an additional hum
bred ordered last July. The new lot will
be ready in about fourteen months.
The sun., 1919-08-02
KOLCHAK'S TROOPS
ARELOSING MORALE
Admiral Prepares to Move the
Seat of Government From
0msk to Irkutsk.
CZECHs DEMORALIZED
BOlsheviki Not Gaining Much,
but All Russian Forces
Grow War Weary.
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, Aug. 1.-The All-Russian Gov
eminent of Admiral Kolchak is prepar-
ing to move from Omsk to Irkutsk, ST.
IBERIA, and the morale of the Kolchak
army is becoming so bad that there is
little hope of 1t regaining the territory
recently lost to the Bolshevlki, accord
ing to dispatches received In Paris.
The dispatches indicate that General
wal WEAKNESS rather than Bolshevism
is weakening the Kolchak forces. The
Czecho-Slovak troops, which were the
backbone Of the army of Admiral Kol-
chalk, have shared the general demoral-
ization, and most of them insist on re-
turning to their newly established coun-
try, refusing to fight longer in Russia
Recently green army of consider
able dimensions was organized In Siberia
as we'll as In European Russia. This
army was recruited from both Red and
White armies and pledged itself not to
fight any more, saying the world war
was over II is attracting many men
from the Bolshevilxi as we'll as the anti
Bolshevlk forces, it's missionaries spread
ing as far west, as the Pskov front.
Bolshevik propa gandists in airplanes
ere showering the northern Russian
army in the Pskov vicinity with leaflets,
declaring the Americans and British are
imperialists. according to dispatches re-
ceived here to-day from Lieut.. A. A.
Granstadt of Kansas City, dated Pskov,
July 26.
Russian officers retaliated by sending
bread and American white flour through
the Bolshevik lines. with the result that
the Bolsheviki are deserving to the we'll
fed -Bolshevik forces in large num-
hers, according to Lieut.. Granstadt.
Lieut.. Granstadt is directing the Ameri-
can relief work at Pskov.
The sun., 1919-08-02
DEMOCRATS NAME SLATE.
Nassau County Meeting Selects
Cun for District Attorney.

The Democratic committee of Nassau
county named Thomas ]. Cuff, a former
Assistant United States District Attor-
ney, to run against District Attorney
Weeks at a meeting in Mineola last
night. Neil II. Vandewater. the attor-
ney who acted for the Nassau County
Association in raldtng the fashionable
gambling resort at Lynbrook last Sun
day morning, was strongly favored in
the discussion, but when the ballot was
taken he received only one vote.
The other nominations for the prl-
maries were Franklin c. Hill of Merrick
for Sheriff Robert Dibble of Valley
Stream, County Clerk William J. Hof-
mann of Massapequa. County Treasurer ;
Franklin p. Taylor of Hampstead.
County Comptroller, and DIR. Mabel
Scott Weed of Garden City. for Superin-
tendent of the Poor. Dr. Weed was the
official Red Cross physician during IRE
influenza epidemic.
The sun., 1919-08-02
$4,000 SILK LOOT
PASSES WATCHERS
Burglars in Newest West Side
Cloth Robbery Seem to Have
Been Invisible.

With watchmen to right of them,
watchmen to left of them, watchmen in
front Of them and a policeman patroling
the beat gangsters smashed their way
into the Victory Waist Company on the
fourth floor of the building at 16 West
Nineteenth street early Wednesday
morning and stole a mass of silks esti-
mated In value at $4,000.
The burglary was said yesterday by
business men in the neighborhood to be
part OF campaign of terror and intimi-
dalton which thugs have been launching
at silk and cloth houses. Although
fearing to make public statement lest
they be marked as victims for gang ven
geanee. certain merchants stated frankly
that hard looking characters had visited
their places recently and forced upon
them tickets to alleged balls in which
they were in no degree interested.
Understanding perfectly that this
ticket sale was the means employed by
the silk burglars of collecting tribute,
and having little confidence in the ability
OF the police to protect them should they
refuse. most of these merchants have
made a general practice of buying the
tickets. for which they had no earthly
use.
News OF the robbery of the Victory
Waist concern did not leak out until yes
terday because of efforts on the part of
the police to keep 1t secret. It was
learned, however, that the thugs had
worked with elaboration. They had
jimmied open a metal door leading from
a stairway to the floor on which the
concern is situated. Then finding the
private door to the Victory establish
ment difficult to open in the usual way
they forced II of its hinges.
! Inside the place they worked with
care and skill, selecting the plumber that
best suited them, and wrapping 1t into
bundles.
Just how they got the goods away is
not known, but 1t is believed that the
plumber was carted away from the front
door In an automobile. as Is customary
nowadays. Anyway it went out of the
front door, because there Is no .other
exit through which It could have passed,
but neither the Waterman in front of 2
West Nineteenth street on one side of
the place, nor the Waterman at the side
door of the Greenhut Building on the
other side, nor private Waterman
across the street. nor the patrolman on
the post saw anything of it.
The sun., 1919-08-02
PRESENT LEAGUE FEARED.
Rhode Island Folk Do Not Approve
of Form, Governor Says.

PROVIDENCE, Aug. 1.-The people of
Rhode Island approve League of Ma
tions, but not a surrender OF our SOW
ereign rights" Gov. Beeckman said to-
day in a letter to United States Senator
Lebaron B. Colt. 1T is my own personal
opinion" the letter said. land the opin-
ion of the people of the State that a
League of Nations is generally approved
but there is an overwhelming opposition
to and terrible fear of the League of
Nations as contained in the proposed
treaty.
ut seems unbelievable that we are in
danger of joining In a covenant with
other nations whereby the other nations
will decide for us whether we make war
upon q people with whom we have no
grievance. Also political questions which
are purely domestic policies of this
country must remain in our full control.
such as immigration, tariff and the Mon
roe Doctrine"
The sun., 1919-08-02

litigation In this district. represented
shuldinger and Dumont in court He
gave out the following statement In de-
fence OF his clients;
The indictments against Mr. Dumont
and Capt. Shuldlnger are entirely dis
connected with the large and fiourishing
exporting business of Morgensen q Co.
They relate exclusively to n controversy
between the Railroad Administration
and small business conducted by Capt
Shuldinger under the name of the
United States Brokerage Company
which was organized by Mr.. Dumont
long ago. and with which he has had
no active connection since the large
corporation of Morgensen & Co. has alb
sorbed his attention, except that while
capt. Shuldinger was serving in the
army during the recent war Mr.. Dumont
seems to have attended to some details
In a perfunctory way.
The transactions complained of all
occurred relatively recently and during
the period in which Mr.. Dumont was not
only not conducting the brokerage bust
ness. but was drawing absolutely nothing
from IL.
Furthermore, when the claim of the
Railroad Administration was brought to
Mr.. Dumonts attention in March of tho
present year, he Immediately made a
large deposit of cash with the Govern
ment to indemnify the Administration
against any loss which might attach be-
cause OF any possible Irregularities in
dulged by the brokerage company In
handling unclaimed freight for the rail-
roads. so that there Is no pending or
future liability which can come upon him
either to confuse or financially embarrass
the firm OF Morgensen Co., which he
is now conducting as managing part
ner."
Shuldinger ana Dumont are unmar-
ried They live together at West
Eighty-fifth street The indictments de-
scribe them as officers and agents OF the
United States Brokerage and Trading
Company
The sun., 1919-08-02
LENINE TO CHANGE
POLICY. THEN RETIRE
One Condition Is Trotzky
Stays Head of Army.
BIZ the Assocfated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1.-The Srenskd
Ddgbtddt is informed by persons closely
connected with the Russian Soviet Gov
eminent that Nikolai Lenine. the Pre-
mier. intends to begin a drastic change
of policy and then retire. One condition
of his retirement will be that Leon
Trotzky, the Bolshevik War Minister, be
left in command of the Red army.
At recently held meetings of the
Soviet commissaries, the newspa per's in
formants say. the question OF giving
power into the hands of other Socialistic
parties was earnestly discussed, but
Lenine declared that the best way to
check reaction, as represented by Ad-
miral Kolchak. head of the All-Russian
Government at Omsk would be to drop
power for a time in order to prove that
no other party was able to reorganize
Russia.
This Lenine contended, would
strengthen the Bolsheviki and enable
them to resume power. Lenine's views
were shared by George Tchitcherin, the
commissary for foreign affairs; NJ.
StoutchSa. commissary of justice, and
Prof Podrovski. commissary of the in
terror.
The sun., 1919-08-02
FLEET OF 100 TO CARRY COAL
Anderson Explains Purchase OF
ships From Governments.

The fleet of 100 ships sold to the An
derson Overseas Corporation by the
United States Shipping Board for about
$4,000, 900 will be used as coal carriers
between the United States. France and
Italy it was announced at the offices
of the corporation yesterday. The fleet
measures total of 100000 lightweight
tons.
According to a statement issued by
the corporation, the firm, which is
Anglo-American, was organized for the
sole purpose of taking title to the ships.
1t is headed by J. Herbert Anderson,
who also Is at the head of the Ander-
son Company of New York. the Ander-
son Company OF Canada and the Ander-
son Overseas Company of London. all
engaged in the general shipping business.
During the war the New York concern
acted as agent for the French govern
ment in the purchase of steel tonnage
in the United States. Since the armis-
tice it has purchased a large number
of trawlers from the British Govern
ment and is now building nifty ships in
Canada.
The sun., 1919-08-02
BRITAIN HAS AIR MARSHAL.
King George Is Chief of Aerial
Forces.

LONDON. Aug. liking George has
assumed the title of chief of the Royal
Air Force. New titles for the commits
stoned ranks in the air force have been
given by King George. namely, Marshal
OF the Air. corresponding with a Field
Marshal Air Chief Marshal. correspond
ing with General; Air Marshal, corre-
spending with ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; Air
Vice-Marshal. corresponding with Major
General, and Air Colonel-Commander
corresponding with Brlgadler-General.
The idea in giving the ranks is to pre-
serve the independence and integrity OF
the air force as a separate service. The
titles-i will come into operation imme-
diateiy.
The sun., 1919-08-02
MOUNTAIN RESORTS CROWDED.
Hotels and Cottages Filled with
Summer COIOnists.
speciol pespqtch 10 THn Sun.

BRETON WOODS. N. H., Aug. 1.-The
great influx Of August visitors into the
White Mountains has filled the large
hotels, and cottages. The annual lawn
tennisl tournament at the Iron Noun
tain House, jackson. will begin on Mon
day, and the tennis ball win be held at
the Casino on Friday evening,
Mrs. John r. Moron of New York.
who is at her country home in Little
ton, has given n complete athletic and
playground equipment to Remich Park
in Littleton for the use of the children
of the town.
Mr. and Mrs Walton II. Marshall of
the Hotel Vanderbilt, New York, ac-
companied by Mrs. Walter Close. will
arrive at the Mount Pleasant on Monday.
The sun., 1919-08-02
VISITORS FLOCK TO SPRINGS.
white Sulphur Reports Record for.
One Days Arrivals.
Special Despatch 10 THE So

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va.
Aug. 1.-Trains from the north and
south brought more than 100 persons
here to-day. making the largest number
of arrivals in one day this summer.
Among those from New York are Mr.
and Mrs Edward Livingston Burrill and
Edward Burrlll. Jr., Mrs. Benjamin C.
Porter, Mrs. Frank Spencer Witherbee,
Mrs Henry OIlesheimer and party. Mr..
and Mrs. James H. Benedict and Miss
Stella Benedict
Mrs. william II. Randle, Miss Ethel
A. Byrd, Mrs Isaac w. Kemple and
Mrs william G. Collins of Philadelphia
have come for the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harvey Close OF
New York entertained twenty-five friends
at the Greenbrier last evening in honor
of Mrs. William Willett McAlpin.