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New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Splinter i'm Wife's Hand
Causes Man To Be Drowned

CALDWELL, \. j.. Aug. 3l.-A splin-
ter in the hand of his wife resulted
IN the drowning OF r. II. Bowles of s
Macopn Avenue. Upper Montclair, in
the Passaic River late this afternoon,
and nearly caused the death Of Mrs.
Bowles and her year-old son.
They were rowing in the river
when splinter from the oar pene-
trated the hand Of Mrs. Bowles Her
husband left his seat to get the splinter
out and in doing so upset the boat.
Men on the bank heard the screams
of the woman as she went overheard
and they managed to rescue her and
her son. but Bowles was drowned. The
body was recovered by the use Of
graphing hooks tonight. Mr.. Bowles
is said TO have been iii business in
New York
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Typical Sea Spout
Wrecks Clubhouse
AT Belts island
Seven New York Yachtsmen
Slightly Injured; Second
Story Of Building Hurled
Several Hundred Feet

NORWALk. Coma, Aug. 31.-What
seasoned mariners declare to have been
watersDout of proportions as great as
those of any observed near the euua-
torlal line visited this district yester-
day, tore the Belts Island clubhouse
from its foun dations and whipped the
entire second story several hundred
feet into the air.
Seven members OF the Atalanta
Yacht Club of New York, who came
here in their yacht Annie, were in the
clubhouse when the spout struck it,.
Two of them, George Connors and
Daniel Collins, were borne aloft with
the second story of the building, half
drowned and deposited in some bushes
thirty feet away. They escaped with
out serious injuries. John Duncan,
steward of the club, was hurt bv fall
ing timbers. The five other yachtsmen
received cuts and bruises when the
building began to rock and finally to
collapse.
The spout first appeared off ROTOR
Point, half mile off shore Travelling
rapidly eastward it passed close to
Belle Isle, where James A. Farrell, Of
the United States Steel Corporation.
has his summer home. Pilot Island
and Keysers Island were passed in
turn by the spout before it reached
Belts Island.
The New Workers. yacht was caught
twisted around like top and the en-
tire deckhouse torn off and born aloft
Boards and timbers of the clubhouse
were found two miles from the site
of the building.
Besides Collins and Connors, the
yachting party included A. B. Mawbcy
John Reid. George Neuheisel and
Arthur Pfeitfer.
The waterspout, those who saw it
say: was fully $50 feet in diameter at
ITS base and lowered to height of 300
| feet.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
War Department
Gives Out Record
OF First Division
Resume of Its History Con-
firms Distinction Won on
Battlefield and i'm the ADJ
Vancement of Officers
Photo. Underwood & Underwood.

The War Department yesterday au-
thorized the publication of a brief
resume of the history of the 1st Di-
vision, which was issued in advance
of the booklet being prepared by Of
ticers of the division. 1t says in part
"This division, composed of troops Of
the United States regular army, is
justly proud of its claim of being
first division IN France; first in
sector; sirst to fire a shot at the Ger
mans; first to attack: first to conduct
a raid; first to be raided; first TO cap
ture prisoners; first to inAict casual
ties; first to suffer casualties first to
he cited singlv in General Orders; first
in the number of division, corps and
army commanders and General Staff
officers produced from its personnel
ut was composed of the 10th. 18th
Goth and 2Sth Infantry regiments; the
26 and 2Sth Infantry regiments; the
5th. 9th and eth Artillery regiments; :;
the 1st Engineer Regiment and Train :;
the I'd Field Signal Battalion and the
Sd, 4th and 5th Ambulance companies
and Field Hospital.
"On the morning Of November II it
through Lorraine and Luxembourg
the Rhine December IA, 1918.
'OificiaI statistics as given below
furnish data on the achievements of
so justly proud:
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New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Young Women
Accuse Police
OF False Arrest
Also Say They We're Subject
to Indignities While Being
Taken to Station House
in an Open Patrol Wagon

Four fearful young women from Man.
haitian who were arraigned yesterday
in Jamaica police court told Magistrate
Miller that they and boy companion
had been arrested late Saturday night
without cause at Rockaway Beach by
patrol wagon, which was wrecked dur
ing fiftcen-mile trip in the rain, and
then detained them for hours in the
Richmond Hill police station without
permitting them to change their wet
clothing.
The girls said they were Ruby New
ms. twenty; her sister, Betty, eighteen;
Mabel Helwig, twenty, and Helen Mills,
twenty-one; but they gave no address
except Manhattan. They said they had
been spending weck-ends at Rockaway
Beach for long time, and that on Sat-
urday night two went to a dance, while
the other two Joined bathing party.
The two attending the dance we're
caught in a shower on the way to their
hotel and stopped in bungalow occu-
pied by their escorts to procure UNI
brellas. One sat on the porch while
the other went inside few moments
later, they said, Detective Laye burst
into the bungalow with three other de-
tcctives and placed them under arrest,
alleging disordcry conduct.
Thrust into an automobile, they were
being hurried to a police station when
Betty Nevins saw her sister, Ruby, out
side their hotel, waiting. She called
to the gir on the sidewalk, and the
latter and her girl companion, with
James Mccarthy, an escort who ques-
! toned the detectives, were also placed
under arrest The two girls who had
been in bathing were still in their
bathing suits, over which they had
slipped skirts.
The five, according to their story
were taken to Far Rockawny, the de-
tectives Offering the girls various in
dignities on the way On arrival al
cided to send the prisoners to Rich
mond Hill, a distance of fifteen miles
1t was still raining. The clothing of
the entire party was drenchcd by the
tine the patrol wagon reached Merrick
I Road and Locust Avenue, Jamaica.
At that point it colided with al
automobile driven by Austin Cochran
of 80 Storms Avenue, Jersey City
Cochran was arrested, charged with
driving on the wrong side of the road
by the police chauffeur, who then trans
ferred the girls and Mccarthy tc
Cochrans car and continued on to
Richmond Hill. There the entire party
was held until the police court opened
Each of the girls demanded a jury
trial, and Magistrate Miller adjourned
the case until tomorrow Afternoon
when the elder Miss Nevins said their
families would have attorneys present
to look after their interests and deter
mine whether it is not possible to pros
ccute Laye and his companions in the
raid
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Girl Hit by Bullet Fired
In Italian Wedding Fight

A revolver bullet fired by one OF
eight men who were quarrelling on the
street last night struck Miss Rose
Ponzo, of 213 East Fnty-sixth Street
in the arm. She was standing III front
Of her home at the time.
The men who were quarrelling were
guests departing from an Italian we'd
ding in Mannerchor Hall.
Patrolman Stang arrested one OF
them, who, he says. was running from
the scene and took him to the East
Fifty-frst Street Station. Miss Ponzc
was removed to Flower Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Girls Diary Gives Jealousy
As Motive Of Double Traned1

CHICAGO, Aug. 3l-Finding to-day
of diary kept by Miss Marie Meyers
a stenographer, whose body and that
of her employer. Charles W. Richards
vice-president of manufacturing con-
Germ, were discovered in her apart
ment last night, both shot to death, in
dicated that for year she had nour-
ished feeling Of jealousy. The diary
which named several other women
showed the stenographer had kept
Richards under surveillance for more
than year, and the police believe she
had long planned the double tragedy
Richards was married
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Lynar's Latest
Brain Child Is
A New Airship
Prisoner Thinks 1t Would
Be Ideal Way to Leave
TOmbs If He Could Have
1t Built and Then Get Out

Max Lynar Passy de Chimang, alias
Count Lynar, announced from mis- cell
in the Tombs yesterday that he has
just perfected a new type of dirigible
alrshlp which will carry 300 passengers
from New York to London in twenty
eight hours. The new aircraft is ca
pable of going 125 knots in all kinds of
weather, according to Lynar, and if he
only had working model he would
show the world that the Tombs is as
good place as any from which to
launch fight.
Lynar's commitment to the Tombs
last June on charges of grand larceny
and forgery was the latest incident in
career checkered with fantastic
crimes. In April, 1916, he received a
prison sentence for bigamy after he
had pleaded guilty to having three
wives. subsequently he was credited
by the police with having posed as a
count who owned castle on the Rhine
and with having been German spv.
Eighteen months ago he announced the
invention Of an anti submarine boat
which he offered to the government as
evidence thai he vas opposed to Ger
manys submarine warfare.
Not His First "Invention'
After having strewn his wake with
''lnventions' whenever he came out of
prison, Lynar was apprehended in St.
Louis last June and brought to New
York on. charge of forgery. He was
remanded by Judge Otto Rosalsky to
the Tombs.
Prison life inspired Lynar's dream
of conquerlng the air Day after day
in his cell he pored over his pencil
sketches and, utilizing experience
which he says he obtained while EN-
ployed in the Zeppelin plant in Ger
many, he devised the craft which he
calls the Cruiser.
will be known as the birthplace of an
arship which will revolutionize aero
nautics.'
Lynar drew from the recesses of his
cell mass of blue prints, sketches and
a written description OF his invention.
Instead Of the cigar-shape type Of
gasbag, Lynar has adopted a bag
shaped like an arch with its open end
downward. thus providing a channel
through which the air is to pass
Gets Rid OF Vacuum
The engines and propellers are in
side this channel and the air is dis
placed by the forward movement Of the
vessel" said Lynar. The ordinary
Gasbag is so bulky that in its forward
movement it causes an impact of air
at the nose and a vacuum at the stern.
My gasbag, shaped Ike an inverted T.,
exposes only q small surface to the
wind and thus reduces friction to a
minimum The propeller in front,
drawing the air into the channel, pro-
duces vacuum in front, while the
propeller at stern not only eliminates
a vacuum there but creates an air pack
which helps push the airshlp forward" "
There will be no seasickness on his
ship, he says, because rocking and toss
ing of the ship is to be prevented by a
two-ton gyroscope in the centre Of the
craft. The carrying OF water ballast
is to be done away with entirely and
the waste Of gas caused W letting it
escape to lower the machine will be
avoided, says the imprisoned inventor.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Brooklyn Woman Saved
From Brink of Niagara
Would-Be Suicide Battles Will,
Rescuers in Rapids; Refuses
to Give Name

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. Aug. 31.-A
young woman, who said that she was
from, New York and refused to tell her
name, was taken from the Niagara
River at the brink of the Horseshoe
Falls. off Goat Island, tonight by Will
lam H. Kretzer, of Sharpsburg. Penn,
and Alvin Meyers, of Rochester.
The two men were on Goat Island
when they saw the woman in the shall
low rapids near the island. They
waded out thirty feet and brought her
to the shore, although, they say she
resisted their rescue efforts.
In the womans handbag, which was
found on the bank of the river, was
a card on which was written "Nenia
Fedestowa, No. 70 Hicks Street, Brook
lyn Heights, n. Y"
The woman, suffering from nervous
shock, was taken to a hospital.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Manufacturer Held as
Fence for Pier Thieves

Jacob Stern, shrtwaist manufact-
urer living at 1877 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, was held in $4,000 bail yes
tcrday, charged with having received
goods stolen by an organized band of
pier thieves led by John Quinn, of 1880
Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn. a checker
employed by the Lehigh Valley Rail
road at Pier 80. North River. Stern
also was charged with having offered
d detective $50 to "tix the case"
Quinn was arrested after a stolen
package of silverware had been traced
to Stcrn's establishment, at 1877 Woos-
ter Street. Quinn signed a confes-
sion duplicating Stern, Mathew Tracy
of 2S West Thirteenth Street: Bcr-
nard r. Curran, Of Hoboken, and Will
;am p. Jones, Of 345 West Twenty.
first Street, a truck driver. Quinn
Curran and Tracy each were held ir
81 500 bail and Jones in $500 for ex.
animation in ombs Court Wednesday
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
CITY Officials to Welcome
Whalen Home This Morning

Friends and city officials have ar
ranged welconN for Grover A.
Whalen, COMMISSIONS of Plant and
Structures, when he returns from Eu-
rope on the French liner Rochambeau
this morning.
Mr.. Whalen left New York month
ego to study port conditions abroad
The plans for the reception have been
arranged by Alfred J.. Meehan, score
tary Of the Board of Purchase, and in
clude trip down the bay of the police
boat Patrol with members of Mr.
Whalen's family and number of Off
cials A welcome also Will be given
200 American veterans of the Czecho-
Slovak army who arc on the same vcs-
sell
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
De FactO DrOuth Hits
Many Long Island People

The nation wide drouth Ode jure but
not de facto) which set in July was
as nothing compared to that which be-
set the residents of Manhasset, Lake
vile and the southern part of Great
Neck, l.. L., when the Manhasset- Lake
vile pumping system which supplies
the section with water became crippled
as the result of main bursting.
Sunday motoring trips were called
off in order that the machines might be
pressed into service carrying water
from the northern Great Neck district.
The dry spell was ended late last night
when workmen, after working twenty
four hours, repaired the broken main.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Bank Messenger Drowned
While Bathing at Coney

Harold w Carpenter a messenger
employed by the Chase National Bank
was drowned while bathing at Coney
Island yesterday afternoon. He lived
at 1854 Sixty-second Street, Bath
Beach With his younger brother
Wilbur. and two boy cousins he
plunged into the surf at the foot OF
Ocean Parkway.
The younger boys went too far out
to suit Carpenter and he swan out te
warn them back. He became excitcc
when the lads refused to turn shore
ward and in his struggle to react
them became exhausted and suddenly
sank Several bathers tried to rescue
him, but failed
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
ROOmers Held After Death
Of Woman During Quarrel

John Garabadian and Garabed Dar-
derlan were held without bail in York
vile Police Court yesterday pendin,
the result Of an autopsy on Mrs. Mary
Schoenbach, of POI East Twenty sixth
street, whose husband found her dead
Immediately after quarrel with the
two men.
Schoenbach said his wife had rented
a room to Garabaoian and objected
when he attempted to bring in Dar-
derian. Both men became excited and
the husband says when he entered the
hall he saw his wife on the floor, with
Iarabadlan standing over her and his
companion running toward the door.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Boston Equity Actors Plan
TO Open Their Own Theatre

BOSTON, Aug. 81. Members of the
Actors Equity Association will open
theatre OF their own III this city
abou; the middle of .his week. Talent
from this city and from New York will
participate III entertainments pre-
sented by themselves.
Scores OF the local actors and
actresses have expressed themselves in
favor of taking part in the big Labor
Day parade tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Twentieth Century
Limited i'm Wreck
Locomotive Derailed and Engi.
ncer Killed, but No Passen-
ger Is Injured

CLEVELAND, Aug. 31.-Two cars on
an eastbound freight train buckled on
an adjoining track to that on which
the eastbound Twentieth Century was
running just east of Painsvile, twenty
six miles east of this city, at o'clock
tonight. They landed directly in front
OF the oncoming passenger train.
The locomotive of the Twentieth
Century was derailed and its engineer
killed The passenger cars remained
on the track, and no passengers were
injured.
After a delay of two hours the train
was gotten under way again.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Children Find Shell and
Try to Open 1t; 2 May Die
Sunny Piece of Iron Expiodes
When Yonkers Youth
Hammers 1t

YONKERS, n. V, Aug. 3l.-Nictor
Moslar, twelve years old, found a
funny piece of iron" in the lot be
hind his home, al Al Yonkers Avenue,
to-day. He called his brother Fred.
six years old, and his sister, Tessie,
eight, to look at it. They wondered
what it was.
Victor went to the house, got d ham
mer and proceeded to break the object
open. A minute later the neighb borhood
was startled by a violent report. The
"funny piece of iron" WAS an unex-
ploded three-inch shell.
Victor and Fred are in ST. John 5
Riverside Hospital Fred with one eye
blown out and Victor with she'll frag-
ments in his abdomen. Hospital physi-
clans say there is small chance for
their lives Tessie Will live, but viii
be dlstigured for life.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Bow Crab Fisherman and Man
Irving to Rescue Him Drown

When Bernard Masinsky, an eight
yearold boy, fell out of the boat
from which he was fishing for
crabs in the Kill Won Kull yesterday
Matthew Malkovitch, thirty-tive years
old, of 23 Pine Street, New Brighton.
S. L., who took the boy on the Grabbing
expedition, jumped in after him.
Neither the boy nor the man came to
the surface. Several fishermen dove
in after them, but failed to find either
An hour afterward, by dragging the
spot, the body Of Malkovitch was re-
covered. The boys body was not found.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
s; at@{t&$l[AB, g ! !: ;I,[li!$Il :,

TNHE "healthmobile" is the latest de-
L vice to be utilized by the State
Department of Health in its war
against disease.
The new health agent consists of a
motor truck equipped with motion
picture projecting machine, which is
to be used in showing the work being
done by the division of public health
education of the Department of
Health.
state carrvnn w' from fpur the the
scientifically trained to the medically
ipnOrant" "
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Will Aid Actors Campaign

Actors Fund announced yesterday
that William Howard Taft, Charles +.
Hughes, Charles II. Sabin, president of
the Guaranty Trust Company; Henry
=. Dawson, of }. 7. Morgan & Co.,
and George r. Wilson, vice president
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety, have agreed to serve on the cX-
ecutive committee of the Actors Ma
tional Memorial Campaign. Every Fed
eral Reserve Bank governor, Mr.. roh-
man added, has agreed to assist the
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Schwab Invited to Address
Conference ON Workers. Unrest

will be discussed at a luncheon CON
ference to be held next Saturday at
the country residence of Mrs. Henry
?. Dawson, Peacock Point, Locu st
Valley, l.. |. Charles M. Schwab has
been invited to address the meeting
and many others prominent in in
dustrial fields are to be present
They will be told what the Com
munity Councils of National Defense
is doing to solve problems relating to
the relations of employer and en-
ployee.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Five Killed at ROmulus. y. y,
When Train Crashes Into Auto

SYRACUSE, \. Y, Aug. 31.-Five
persons were killed at Romulus, near
Geneva, late to-day, when the au.o
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by a train at a crossing.
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Wheeler and son, Walter, and Mr. and
Mrs. Edward W. Quinn, all residents of
.Iunius
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Briefs

'"The Fundamentals Of citizenship a
ffty-page primer of Amcricanism, issued
yesterday by the National Catholic War
Council for distribution among the millions
Of foreign born residents of the United
States. In short, simple sentences in Eng
lish and other languages the primer gives
the essentials of American history and the
ideals upon which the republic founded.
Veterans of the first Battle of the Marine.
September 6, 1914, will entertain Americans
who fought with the French forces ut Il
Marnc dinner Saturday night at the Fifth
Avenue Restaurant The dinner, under the
auspices of the Fede ration of French War
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

Veterans will mark the fifth anniversary of
thrust at Paris was turned aside
The PershinR Club now quartcred in the
old st. Bartholomew's Church. which is to
be demolished to make room for the new
twenty-fve-story Christian Science edifice
will be moved to-day to the Speyer mansion
at 26l Madison Avenue Mr. and Mrs
James Speyer have contributed the use or
two adjoining buildings which will remain
in possession of the National League for
Womens Suffrage.
Clarence Donovan. lawyer. of 224 Keap
Street. Brooklyn. arrested in connection
With the theft of 81 600 In bonds from the
Ronfort Publishing Company last April! was
held under 81. 500 bond for hearing Wedncs-
day in the West Side Court. William Honey
man, an expressman of 518 West Fifty
third Street. arrested in the same case. was
placed under similar bail
Charles Prescott Robinson. Deputy State
Attorney General. will actively cooperate
with the Mayors Committee on Rent Profit
eerinR in its efforts to check unwarranted
increases in rentals.
Whcthe- the lessons learned by France
and England a result of their study OF
the problems relating TO capital and labor
can profitably be applied in this country
will be- discussed at meeting of the Ma
tional Civic Federation in the Metropolitan
Building. September / and II.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
War Veteran. l9. Drowned

Joseph Scherden, nineteen Years old
a boy scout, Of 456 Fifteenth street,
Brooklyn, Was drowned while bathing
in Glover Lake, West New Brighton
Staten Island, yesterday. He was
seized with cramps He recently was
discharged from the army after SER
vice in France.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01

Veterans, will mark the fifth anniversary of
the struggle in which the first German
thrust at Paris was turned aside
New-York tribune., 1919-09-01
Politicians and Their Fol
lowers Battle for Con-
troll and Bulk of Voters
Seem to Be Indifferent
Socialists Are Badly Split
La Cuardia Bennett Con.
test and Dry Fight in
Brooklyn Main Features

At 8 O'Clock tomorrow night, when
the last late-comer has cast his or her
vote, the most apathetic primaries this
city has witnessed Will come to an end.
The voters have shown little interest,
despite numerous contests.
The Socialists in al boroughs are
split wide open, and Lei: Wingers and
Right Wingers are battling for control
OF the party. But the ba-.le, as in the
case of the two older parties. IS con-
fined almost exclusively to the profess
sional politicians and their personal
followings.
Insurgency is rife among the Demo
Gratis also there being weil-dehned re
volts in Brooklyn, Richmond ard
Queens. And IN each Of these bor-
oughs the insurgent leaders are plan
ming. if defeated in the primaries. 70
carry the fight To the polls Novem-
Der. There is no revolt among the Re-
publicans, though there is 4 handful OF
contests