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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
CABLE OPERATORS
START NOVEL STRIKE
Forty-eight Hour Shutdown
Every Week.

An intermittent strike that viii take
in every week end from Friday y Ehl 70
Sunday night until their demands are
met has been inaugurated by the 'ams
operators at the coast stations o' Inc
Commercial Gable Company IL =
unique affair. this strike, with no nara
feelings on either side. The men "o'"
from Sunday midnight until Frida' ma
night and then close their keys and .Hs
strike is on again. Besides the men
refuse to do any overtime work,
The men demand the same WAGES 81
the operators on the European 'N1 "
the cables receive. They sa. ;S5 o?r'.
tors on the east side OF the AtaH'.
a so per cent. bonus each year ana No
month for subsistence. The operator,
| on the American shore get oHt '
per cent. bonus.
Offcials OF the company say t'. s,,N4
has caused some delay, but has not t''
up traffic.
We've been advancing war'a ign
along said George Clappert"n We,
| president Of the COMPANY Nfsis.aAl
but OF course there is a limit be g
| which we cannot increase our .\pthsr
unless rates are advanced, and tha' "'''
1 has been reached
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
ANNA HELD'S GOWNS
TO GO ON SALE HERE
Jewefs and Other Personal
Effects Included.

Anna Held's costumes and Jewels. to-
gether with some other personal effects
which the late musical star acquired,
will be offered for sale at an exhibition
TO be held at the Waldorf-Astoria be-
ginning on Tuesday.
Charles F. Hanlon, who was personal
attorney for the actress. and Thomas
keough. another lawyer. will conduct
the sale in accordance with the terms OF
her will. under which the amounts re-
ceived are to be held in trust for her
daughter. Lame Carrera, until she
reaches the age of IS. The exhibit will
include the peacock costumes" which
the star wore In Follow Me-" riding
habits. Paris gowns. art works and Jew
elled ornaments of rare pattern.
Miss Held's entire estate is valued
according TO the lawyers. at s250,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
HANDY EAGER TO AID
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Slayer Helps Attorney in
Framing Appeal.

Gordon Fswcett Handy, convicted of
killing De Witt Peal and Henry Coons
while robbng the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank. has decided to cooperate with his
attorney in preparing the appeal to be
taken to the Court Of Appeals for a new
trial.
Handy saw his counsel. Frank Y. Nc
Carry, yesterday in Sing Sing prison
death house and discussed the appeal
with him. After McCaffry left, Handy
said he was going to help his lawyers
all ne could Formerly he was indiffer-
ent about having an appeal taken.
Handy Is passing his time reading
newspapers and smoking cigarettes. He
has sent out no communications yet, nor
has he received any.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
BOY CAUGHT AFTER
ROBBERY OF $1,000
Market Mans Son Attacked
/, on Way to Bank.

For several days, according to the po-
lice, as eighteen year-old Herman Smen-
sky made his way from Wallabout Mar
ket in Brooklyn to the Peoples Trust
Company on Myrtle avenue nearby,
Michael Rajecki. 90, sauntered carelessly
behind him. Finally Rajecki decided
his opportunity had come. He attacked
the messenger and is now in the Raymond
street jail charged with the robbery OF
s1,76o.
Simenskya father is a member of the
produce firm Of simenslVy Bros at the
market It was the sons duty to carry
the days receipts to the trust company.
He had s1.700 in a package under his
arm Friday and was passing Myrtle and
waverly avenues, when a blow threw
him to the street.
The package fell from his hands. In
a daze. he struggled to his feet. dimly
conscious that some one had run past
him. He almost shouted with Joy when
he beheld what he thought was the pack
age lying In front OF him. He picked II
up, only TO discover that II consisted OF
cardboard and newspapers, tied together
in imitation of the little bundle he usu-
ally carried.
A passerby had seen the holdup man
run down Clinton avenue and secrete
himself in a house near Park avenue
Detective Quinn was called from the
Flushing avenue station, and after a
search came upon youth. who ran. but
was cornered on Myrtle avenue. He
said he was Michael Rajecki. 20. of 80
Eldridge street, Manhattan, of late not
working. The money Is said TO have
been found on him.
In his pocket, the police say, was q
letter which in effect declared Simensky
RrOs Thought fhey xvera 'v-iA that 10
the prisoner. intended to rob the messen.
ger to show it could be done and that he
would return the money. He has no po-
lice record. He was held by Magistrate
Walsh in the Adams street court for q
hearing Tuesday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Filters May Get Medals Now.

All Royal Air Force officers and other
ranks now resident in the United States
or any of its possessions who have been
awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
or the Air Force Cross and are not yet
in possession OF the same have been
asked TO communicate without delay
with the British Air Attache. Air Com
modore L. f. o. Charlton, C. B., C. NJ.
c.. d. s. o., at the British Embassy,
Washington d. C. The request also ap-
plies 10 American fiers who have been
mobilized.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
ALTON PARKER OFF TO EUROPE
Millinery and Clothing Buyer.
Also Sail ON Baltic.

Sailing yesterday for Liverpool on the
White Star liner Baltic were former
Justice Alton b. Parker John H. Nc
Fadden, a cotton operator of Philadel-
phia and Liverpool Sir John Laird, head
of the Canadian Bank OF Commerce, and
Lady Laird.
Paul l.. Renhart, who will visit Eng
land and France to establish motion pic
ture studios. was also a passenger, as
were a number OF buyers for millinery
and clothing concerns. The ship car
ried LAO passengers, of whom 275 were
first cabin, 4l5 second cabin and 1850
steerage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
RATES CUT TO LATIN AMERICA
shipping Board Meets Competition
of Foreign Vessels.

Reductions in freight rates ranging
from 81 to $40 a ton on commodities
from American Atlantic and Gulf ports
to Mohtevideo and Buenos Ayres were
announced yesterday by the United
States Shipping Board through Its South
American department. The cut, officials
of the board said, was made to meet
foreign competition and is effective i'm
mediately.
a ton. a cut of 81 from previous tariff;
barbed wire and asphalt, $40. a cut of
$3.50; agricultural implements, auto
mobiles, lubricating oil. machinery. wax.
glucose. burlaps. now $50 ton. repre-
senting a cut OF S..
Rice is cut from $50 to $25 and rosin
from $40 TO $40. For cement a reduce
ton of 81 a ton is made, making a
total reduction OF 50 since July Is.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Rockefeller Institute Praised.

Surgeon-Generai Ireland OF the United
States Army, in letter to the directors
and trustees of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, made public yes
terday. expresses his thanks FOR your
work of patriotism and your generosity
in placing so fully at the disposal Of the
Medical Department your great and pro-
ductive facilities for research, for teach
ing and for the care of the sick" during
The world war.
The sun., 1919-02-14
5000 NEGRO HEROES
TO PARADE MONDAY
Secretary Baker Will Be in
One of ReUieWing Stands.

New York city will have n chance to
pay tribute TO the valor of its negro regi-
ment, the 36ath Infantry OF Gen
Pershing's army. formerly the Fifteenth
National Guard. when that famous or
eanlzation parades on Monday under
the auspices of the Mayors Committee
to Welcome Homecoming Troops Ser
rotary Baker has promised 10 honor the
regiment. which made such a record in
France, by coming over from Washing
ton.
Col William Harvard will lead his
men UP Fifth avenue from Twenty-third
street To 10th street, thence over to
lenoA avenue and up through Harlem TO
l45th street, where the parade viii he
dismissed The boys will go then to the
Seventyhrst Regiment Armory. where
n chicken dinner viii be provided The
parade is scheduled to start At II o'clock
In the morning and the mon will be on
their way back to Camp Upton al 3
o'clock.
Reviewing stands will he al Fifth ave
nue. and SiNteth street and at LenoN
avenue and both street. The REVIEWING
officers, in addition to Secretary Baker.
will be Gov. Smith, eX-Gov Whitman.
under whose direction the Fifteenth was
organized; Major-Gen. Shanks, Major
Gen. Thomas Barry, Robert J.. Moran.
Acting Mayor. and Daniel c. Reid,
chairman of the executive committee of
the Mayors committee.
About 5000 men are expected TO he
In line
The sun., 1919-02-14
DIES AFTER GIVING
STRANGERS $1,000
Rich Texas Man Had Deiir-
iun Preceding Influenza.

Joseph Kendall. a tinanc.er Of Dallas.
Texas, came TO New York TO expand his
wealth. hut a delrlum which resulted in
his death yesterday morning in Bellevue
Hospital drove him to dissipatins 1t.
Had he rot been restrained he would
have given away his fortune in S. $40
and $50 bills
Since boyhood he had toiled for his
dollars. Beginning as a stenograp her,
lie had amassed more than a half million.
Coming to New York where he pur-
posed to nationalist the scope Of his
business. he was discovered Sunday
night near the RitZ-Carlton Hotel giving
away bank notes to passing soldiers and
sailors. Some got s.. some SO, some
S20--and some Not more.
Before he was checked by policemen
called in by his wife. the Dallas financieI
had lavished approximately $1,000 or
men in uniform He was sent to Belle
vue. where he was found TO be deranged
from excessive fever preceding the at.
tack Of influenza, from which he died
Mrs Kendall was ut the deathbed The
body will be taken to Dallas this morn.
ing On special car and the funera
viii be held in that city Sunday.
Mr. Kendall was president of the Mis-.
souri, State Life Insurance Company
having been elected recently. He once
was "A stenographcr for Col. Henry u
Lindsey. now chairman of the Soldiers
ana Sailors War Risk Bureau In Wash
ington.
Accompanying the body to Dallas this
morning will be his wife and mother
| George Graham of Dallas, vice-presi
| dent OF the Missouri State Life, and o
| F., Carlton, president of the Great South
ern Life Insurance Company of Texas.
The sun., 1919-02-14
ACTRESS IN SEPARATION SUIT
Nurse Testiies Against RawsOn
VnderhilI. Banker.

Miss May Rivers. trained nurse,
was the star witness for the plaintiff in
the suit for separation brought by Mrs
Justina Mills Underhill against her hus-
band. Rawson Cnderhill. member OF the
New York Stock Exchange and head
of the banking house OF Underhill &
Gilmore. who lives at 305 West Seventy
sixth street
She testified that the defendant main
tanned an elaborateiy furnished and eN-
pensive apartment In West Seventy
second street for Marion DorA an act
rcss. and showered her With expensive
gifts OF jewelry. flowers candy and
fruit Miss Dorr also went South. Miss
Rivers testified, just before the banker
departed for Florida.
Asked what conversation she had
overheard between the banker and Miss
Dorr regarding the purchase OF an au-
tomoble Miss Rivers said:
Mr.. Underhill said he was going TO
buy Buick for her. She wanted a
Cadillac"
What was purchased"'
"a Cadillac-and il was cared for in
! the same garage that Mr.. Underhill
daughter kept her car" the witness re-
sponded.
Mrs. Underhill took the stand and
testified briefly concerning her alega
tons Of i'll treatment by the defendant
and also OF his abandonment of her
The trial will continue to-day.
The sun., 1919-02-14
PUTS HIGH MILK ON HOOVER
Federal Investigator Make
Charge of DETERMINATIONS.

The dairy farmers Of New York state
have been Disseminated against by
Herbert G. Hoover. formerly Federal
Food Administrator now in charge OF
the food supply for Europe; David #.
Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, and
George Chapman, head OF the Depart
ment of Farm Feeds under Mr. Hoover,
according 10 charges made yesterday by
Raymond Smith, an invest gator for the
Federal Food Commission. who was for
merly employed IN similar capacity by
the state Department Of Agriculture.
Mr.. Smith testified at the John Doe milk
inquiry being held by Chief Magistrate
NcAdoo.
II was asserted by Mr.. Smith that the
American Feed Manufacturers -issocia-
ton, of which Mr.. Chapman had been
president prior to taking his position
under Mr.. Hoover. had "fXeh" the feed
ma rket so that up state farmers found
II impossible to purchase feed direct from
Western mills, but had to buy II at much
higher rates from dealers In their re-
spective localities This was one of the
contributing causes OF the present high
| price OF milk 80 John T. Doolng. the
Assistant District Attorney appearing
for the people. said he would show
The sun., 1919-02-14
Fight In Prison Camp.

private John kool of the Sixth Infan-
Try. Regulars. was discovered by the
Germans while Oh scout duty and they
hurled thirty or more hand grenades
in his direction, The Americans nut
down n harrage to help him. but the
Germans were ahead of the barIagc and
got him After tho second night of his
captivity ilc tried to get away, fighting
four enemy soldiers and getting his lef,
arm broken in the scrlmmage He re.
manned in prison camp until the armi.
stice.
Lieut. w. S Wilson OF Brooklyn. l6sth
Infantry, fought in the Champagne
Chateau Thierry. 81 Mhiel and the Ar.
gonne. lie was gasse1 on October %
He said fine things about the Rainbow
Division.
Lieut.. c. =. Young. business addres.
III broadway. was with the Ninety
sixth bombing Squad, engaged Chiefly In
the Nerdun and Toule Hsectors. In a
bombing expedition over Contains in
September eleven German machines at
tackled his own formation Of four. /,
man directly astern of Lieut.. Younl
divcd to escape FIRE. and the pursuers
concentrated on his machine sending =
bullet through his Observers hip ant
Kidding the machine He landed be
hind the American lines and took hi.
observer 10 a first aid station
The sun., 1919-02-14
FIGHT TO REPRESENT DANNY
Lawyers Are in Battle Over Iol-
man Estate Claim.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. IA legal bat
tie already is being waged over who has
the right TO look after the affairs of
Danny" Tolman. sailor claimant TO the
estate left BY Daniel II. Tolman OF
Montclair. TIA" advertisement which led
the sailor TO think he is n grandson OF
the late loan shark king led Danny" to
ask Phillip Herman, a lawyer of this
city. to look up the case. Herman did
and subsequently Danny gave him a
power of attorney
But the new claimant eventually got
into touch with the Red Cross and on
the ground that he was in the military
service 1t ordered Herman TO vacate the
power Of attorney. Then fine Red Cross
assumed charge Of "Danny's" affairs and
designated Harry J. Alker. Jr.. of the
Fed Cross counsel to handle the case.
Herman now contends the Red Cross ex-
ceedcd its authority in making the
change of lawyers and as n result eey-
eral lawyers have been drawn into the
dispute over who hes the rightful claim
to Danny" as a client
The sun., 1919-02-14
Troopships Due To-day
TT s. CRUISER CHARLESTON

TT s. CRUISER CHARLESTON
~ from Brest January 81, with
thirty-four officers and ,196 men
of the Fiftieth Regiment Coast
Artillery Corps, Regular Army;
thirteen casual officers Of the Air
Service, and seven other casual
officers.
Finland from st. Nazaire Feb
ruary 1. with 1853 officers and
men, chiefly casual companies
from New York, New Jersey,
Connectic ut, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ken
lucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Okla
homa, Missouri and Iowa; also
more than 900 convalescent i'll
and wounded, s5S of whom re-
quire no special attention.
Anchored in the bay last night
and will dock this morning.
Matsonia from Bordeaux Feb
ruary s, with 3,345 officers and
men, chiefly of the Sixty-eighth
Regiment Coast Artillery Corps,
Coast Defences of Long Island
Sound, and eleven casual COM
panies.
Sixaola from Bordeaux Feb
ruary 2, with forty-seven officers
and men, including six officers of
the Air Service and one of the
Tank Corps. All the officers are
convalescing from wounds or ill
ness.
Hickman from Bordeaux jan
uary 81, with Detachment Casual
Company 80, one officer and
twenty-eight men from Missouri;
three enlisted men of the Medi-
cal Corps, and nine casual Of
ficers.
Woonsocket from Bordeaux
January 2N with one officer and
twenty men of Detachment Gas.
ual Company II from Illinois.
The sun., 1919-02-14
GIRL PICKET CLUBBED,
SKULL FRACTURED
ShirtWaist Strikers Blame In
identified Cop.

AS the result Of clash between an un-
Identified policeman and u group of girl
pickets on duty ia connection with the
strike of garment workers one girl was
SO severely injured she may die Renja-
min Schlesinger, president of the Gar
ment Workers Union, announced last
night that he will appeal to-day to the
Board of Aldermen to investigate. Union
leaders allege the attack upon the girls
was unprovoked.
The appeal to- the Aldermen. Mr..
Schleslnger said. has been made neces-
sary because of the refusal Of the Mayor
or the Police Commissioner to give the
strikers relief from what Schlesnger
said Is worse than brutal treatment. 1t
will be based principally. he said. upon
the fight in which policemen welded
their clubs vigorously late yesterday
afternoon outside the garment making
, establishment of the Simpson Gown
Company. II West Thirty-eighth street,
just off Fifth avenue.
| In that fight Marie Witcoff OF 342
Broadway who the strikers say was an
! inoffensive picket. was struck on the
! head and later carried away uncon-
scious DR.. NJ. Schambler OF 236 Sixth
avenue examined nef III ner nome ana
found her senseless, he said. from q
triple fracture Of the skull
| AZ soon as DR.. Schambler said tht
girls skull was fractured her cousin
Joseph Butensky. with whose family she
lives went TO the West Thirtieth stree
police station and placed "A forma
charge against an unnamed policeman
with Butensky was Rose Grand O
1916 Lexington avenue, who said sh,
saw the policeman beat Mise Witcoff.
The sun., 1919-02-14
NINE QUIT BROOKLYN
VICTORY COMMITTEES
Three Vice-Presidents Indorse
Stand Made by Jonas.

Nine more designations from the
Prooklyn Victory Celebration Commit
tee. which has been disrupted by what
the friends of Nathan =. Jonas former
chairman, call the attempt of the Hearst
interests TO manage its affairs. were
received yesterday at the office of the
new chairman. Representative John j.
Delaney. who is in Washington. Those
who withdrew are George w. Henderson,
Or Leon Louria, ex-senator Charles L.
Murphy, Republican leader OF the Tenth
Assembly district: Benjamin j. Conroy,
Il department store superintendent John
l.ittleton. Charles l.. Morse, Walter II.
Crittenden, Oswald w. Jacobs and Mrs.
Maud Mayne.
Other designations not heretofore an.
nounced are those of Thomas l.. Lem
ing, president Of the Brooklyn Academy
az Music Darwin II. James. Jr., and
Julius b. Davenport. real estate man
Messrs. Lceming, James and Morse and
DR.. Louria were honorary vice presidents
of the committee.
In a letter TO Mr.. Jonas Mr.. James
said 81 was IN entire accord with the
position taken by You and resented. as
YOU properly resented. political inter
ference I'm the management Of the COM
mittee organized for the purpose OF en-
tending welcome to the boys returning
from overseas"
Mr.. Jonas also made public a letter
received by Brooklyn friend George
Miller. from Lieut.. Walter + Clips oi
the S0ith Machine Gun Brigade. now
IN France. in which Lieut.. Clips. after ex.
pressing aversion to Mayor Hylan and
Mr. Hearst. wrote we wan; rcd
ask nothing more. Do we deserve any
lasso"
The sun., 1919-02-14
SUPREME COURTHAS. FILM -
SHOW IN ACCIDENT CASE
Two Pictures of Theodore Marston, Movie Director
Seeking $4,000 Damages, Displayed to Help
Defence-Taken Without His knowledge.

ing Justice Van Siclen to allow the
pictures to be shown as evidence Of
Marston's condition.
Marstons attorney at first objected
to the exhibition before the jury ard
the talesnen were ordered from the court
room while a private view of the films
was given. They disclosed that Mars
ton limped. and his counsel at once
withdrew the objection. The court Or
dered that the pictures might be shown
the jurymen as indicating Marston' s
general appearance.
Screen on Wall.
A moving picture screen was rugged
up on one OF the court room walls. The
witness then placed his protector i'll the
centre of the court room. He was In
front of the jurymen. however, and SO
chairs were procured. set In orderly
fashion and the jurors filed out of the
box 20 occupy them as the official audi
ence. The moving picture ma chine was
now at their backs.
The operator started 1T and a picture
flashed across the screen. Everybody
Judge. jurors, spectators, court attend
ants. lawyers. not to mention Marstor
himself. gaZed interestedy as he dreaded
his way through crowd across thu
screen Automobiles sped by IT wai
near the Belasco Theatre and the crowd
was typical of broadway. Marston'
back was turned. Broad and husky Che
once acted the spectacular part of UrsR
in "Quo Nadis"), he was conspicuous
| figure. He wore an ulster. carried s
cane and had a little dog with him. HI
| walked slowly. The second pictur,
| showed him at his garage, there agaii
| unconscious of the attention bestowed
upon him.
| MIR. Dawley asked that the picture
be shown twice again, and Frank y
McCaffrey, Marston's lawyer. offered n
| objection The screen was then takei
down and the juSy returned TO the jur
box. The case IL being continued.
The sun., 1919-02-14
SILLY BOY BANDITS.
SHE TELLS JUDGE
Red Gross Worker Declined
to Be Held Up.

Mrs Claire Crohan of Gao Riverside
Drive. a Red Cross worker and mother
in-law of Richard Blaine Dawson of 1il
Broadway appeared in West Side Court
yesterday to testify against two young
men, one n sailor, who she charged at
tempted to rob her at the point of re-
volvers Friday night Magistrate Cor
rigan commended her bravery in re-
sistlng the attack.
May / suggest. madam" he said.
that you offer your services to the
Police Department"
The prisoners were william II. owen,
IS. an elevator boy. and Jacob Cutler, q,
a sailor, both of 507 West street. Both
confessed, according to the police. Mrs.
Crohan said she was returning from
Red Cross meeting Friday evening when
she was approached at Ninety-ffth
street and Riverside Drive by two young
men, each of whom thrust revolver
close to her face They demanded her
hand bag and jewelry.
why, YOU silly boys" Mrs. Crohan
said she replied do you think l am SC
foolish as to do that?"
The guns were then pressed closer and
the boys grew more menacing.
Il guess you'll have to turn over those
things one of them said.
II guess l won't" Mrs. Crohan flashed
back
There vas a brief tussle for the pos
,esssion of the hand bag, in which Mrs
Crohan was slapped in the face. APP
parently frightened at this act the boys
took to their heels. Mrs. Crohan pur
sued calling Police"
Weren't you afraid when you saw
those revolvers pointing at you?" Magis
trste Corrigan inquired.
Not in the least Those men nevel
| shoot" Mrs. Crohan answered.
The prisoners pleaded guilty and were
| held for attempted robbery in $1,000
! hail eaCn
The sun., 1919-02-14
FOR NEW WEST SIDE SCHOOLS.
One Site Recommended Is i'm Wash
ington Heights Zone.

That the new high school building for
Washington Heights should be in the
district bounded by West 17Sth street.
ST. Nicholas avenue. West 1S4th street
and High Bridge Park. was the recon-
mendation made to the Board OF F,duca-
ton yesterday by Frank d. Wilsey IN
his report on new SCHOOLS to he provided
out of corporate stock authorizations for
1919 and 1920.
The building Of n Manhattan training
school for teachers vat l4lst street and
Hamilton place, on site owned by the
city. was another recommendation. The
building would provide 1000 seats and
relieve schools 49, 81 and 1s6 of present
congested conditions. Regarding the
zone between West 1S6th and 1880
streets and between broadway and Am.
sterdam avenue. Mr. Wilsey urged that
nothing new be planned because Of in
sufficient transportation.