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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
HE'S OUT or ARMY.
BUT WAR IS STILL ON
High School Teacher Com
plains of W1e's Grenades.

Discharge from the army did not end
the war as far as Benjamin NJ. Steig-
man, n teacher of English in Brooklyn
high school, was concerned. In papers
filed yesterday asking n separation from
Annette Wynne Stelgman, lie charges
her with lnhuman treatment and asserts
that II Is impossible for him to live In
the same house with her any longer.
Stelgman was an instructor In one OF
the training camps and went to France,
where he acted IN a similar capacity.
He alleges that while living in 164 State
street. Brooklyn, his wife applied abusive
eplthets to him IN the presence OF strang-
ers and on one occasion hurled hatiron
at him. The training he received In the
army enabled him to dodge this, but he
says he was not so fortunate when she
took to throwing chinaware In his gen.
eral direction.
He further alleges that on several &C.
casions the plaintiff caused him to be
late In reporting to the high school. She
would lock the door, he says, and stand
with her back to II so that II was impos-
sible for him to leave the house without
laying violent hands upon her. which he
was forced to do. His hardness in TAX
ing UP his classes brought several repri-
mands from the Board of Education, he
says.
While he was in the army, the same
thing happened on one occasion, he al
leges, with the result that he was
brought before the camp authorities
charged with being absent without
leave. The couple were married In
Greenwich. Conn.,, in February, 1917.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
IS PROMOTIONS ARE
MADE BY ENRIGHT
Capt. Liebers an Inspector as
Tunney Quits.

Police Commissioner Enright lost no
time In filling the vacancy caused by
the retirement OF Inspector Thomas Tun-
ney and in promoting Capt. George G.
Liebers to the rank Of inspector yester-
day he announced fourteen other pro-
motions. Capt. Lebers has been tenn
porarily in charge of the Ninth inspec-
ton district. Staten Island. He was ap-
pointed to the force September /. 1888.
became a lieutenant in 1892 and a cap
tain in 1905. He was an honor man,
having been cited for arresting a MUIR
derer.
Lieut.. Thomas w. Mullarkey, attached
to the Chief Inspectors once, was ad-
vanced to a captaincy. He was ap-
pointed 20 the force in 1897. The other
promotions were: From sergeant 20
lieutenant, James B. Nestor, William A.
Discher. Daniel Kelleher. Charles Burns,
Louis Mahat and John j. Edlwood.
To the grade of sergeant: William F..
Lovett, Matthew Nicely James A. de
Milt, John ]. Ryan. Louis Ringeisin,
Joseph Kennedy and Louis Costume OF
the Bureau OF National Defence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
SEIZED AS FIREBUG
AFTER HOTEL FIRES
Police Say Cleaner Admitted
Setting Four in NeU Grand.

Four fires at the New Grand Hotel.
Broadway and Thirty-hrst street, within
the last forty-eight hours caused the ar
rest last night Of Charles Ginoves OF
344 West Fifty-ninth street. employed
there as a cleaner After a grilling
which lasted all the afternoon Fire Mar
shall Brophy said that Ginoves admitted
he had set them because he liked to see
the flames" He was locked up in the
West Thirtieth street station, charged
with arson.
Ginoves reported for work at 6 40
Thursday morning. Ten minutes later
a fire broke out on the fifth floor. At s
o'clock there was a blaze in the waste
room on the second floor. which burned
through 10 the floor above. At the same
hour yesterday morning an unaccount-
able fire started in the mems washroom.
to be followed at IL :35 o'clock by an
other in the mattress room.
Margaret Mulvaney, a maid, saw Gi-
moves coming out of the door and told
the manager, who laid the matter before
Battalion Chief Ross and Fire Marshal
Brophy. Ginoves was arrested by De-
tectives Jenkins and Schewlng. The
fires did damage estimated at $4,000.
The police say Ginoves recently was
released from the State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane at Matteawan.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
NEW AlNERIcANPARTY
TO BE NATIONALIZED
Texas Democratic Boilers
Will Call a Convention.

Fort WORTH, Tex, Aug. 15.-Plans
for Matchmaking the new American
party" organized here yesterday by q
group of Texas Democrats dissatisfied
with their old party. will be put into
effect upon appointment OF special
committee for that purpose, it was stated
to-day.
Meanwhile the other faction Of Demo-
Gratis, which determined yesterday on
a campaign of reconstruction within the
party, went ahead to-day with plans for
a DEFINITE line Of attack under the lead
ership OF former Senator Joseph w.
Bailey.
Judge c. r. Greenwood of Dallas,
chairman Of the Bailey meeting" ex-
pected to appoint at once an executive
committee which will set a time and
place for a State convention.
Political observers declare the fac
lions simply are divided as to the means
to attain a common end and find sig
nifcance in the following utterances by
Mr.. Bailey
I'VE intend to follow the principles
adopted yesterday wherever they may
lead US. II the Democratic party. State
and na.ional, comes to these principles,
then we are with the Democratic party.
II not, as say, we will follow these
principles wherever they may lead U.S.
Chairman w. =. Sebastian of the
American party conference declared to-
day he would devote VERY careful
thought" to the selection of the COM
mittee to deal with the national organi-
zation. He would not say when this
committee would be named. A Texas
convention OF the party will be called
by the executive committee at a date not
yet decided upon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
Lays JERSEY PHONE
DELAYS TO STORM
Bethel Says Gale Disrupted
Fifty Trunk Lines.

+. II. Bethel, first vice-president n,
the New York Telephone Company. IL.
sued formal explanation yesterday a,
the reported delays In phone messas es
TO New Jersey points. laying the blame
especially upon the storm of "Wednesday
in which he said fifty trunk linea ana
1000 telephones. most OF which were IN
Monmouth county, New Jersey, wera
impaired by falling trees.
He insisted that mo delay" service e
being maintained In handling Jersey
calls under ordinary circumstances al.
though the wire trafic has increased
considerably this summer. Seventy no.
sitions have been added TO the Jersey
toll board, and forty-hve moro operators
have been assigned to handle the Gala
he said. During the holiday rush at the
close of juno traffic from New York 10
Monmouth county increased 10 per cent
between 10 and II o'clock mornings and
the evening traffic to New Jersey resorts
Jumped 147 per cent
Under such conditions IL Is almost
impossible to provide quick service on
all calls" Mr.. Bethel said. Judging
by past experience they are likely to be
duplicated around Labor Day. What.
ever buzzing sounds were heard Wednes-
day and Thursday when making calls to
New Jersey were caused by the wire
trouble due to the heavy wind storms
and were quickly remedied. as we keep
close watch for such conditions and can
speedily do away with them" E
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
MRS. LILLY CALLS
CRITICISM STUPID
Can't Reconcile Attenfiueness
With "Poor Voting"

As might have been expected, Mrs
Mary M. Lilly, one OF the first two wo-
mon ever TO sit in the Assembly of the
State of New York. was not at all
pleased with the appraisal OF her record
by the Citisens Union. OF her they said {:
Attentive to duties and of some abil-
ity, with very poor record of votes"
Mrs Lilly has written to Walter T.
Arndt, secretary OF the Citizens Union,
to express Der mind on that body. She
exhibited the correspondence yesterday.
beginning with a letter dated July 81,
from Mr.. Arndt giving her the oppor-
tunity Of calling at his offioe 70 ex-
anime her record on August / or 4. She
was out of town. When she got the
letter on August 6 she wrote that she
would be glad to call. but she supposed
II was too late, but she was "sure that
what you will do will be all right"
But II seems she was too trusting ever
to make a good politician.
After the publication of the Citizens
Union records she again wrote to Mr..
Arndt:
when wrote my letter of August
believed that you were Just a body of
patriotic citizens, but your criticism of
me Is SO inconsistent that to me It seems
the most stupid persons in the world
would aslSithe question: How could a
person be attentive to duty In the Legis-
lature and have poor voting record7'
''Of course II you have some peculiar
standard of the way votes should be cast
1t seems to me that you should inform
me at least, II not the public. what that
standard is. I should be very glad in
deed to know what the meaning OF your
criticism might be-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
HE'S Sc. BUT HE'LL
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Oldest Rutgers Graduate
Builds DUN Platform, Too.

Advocates OF the osler theory should
read this. Ezra F. Mundy of Metuchen
has announced that he will be an inde-
pendent candidate for Governor of New
Jersey. although he has passed the Bib
lical age of three score and ten by just
sixteen years.
Mr.. Mundy, who says he is the Oldest
living graduate of Rutgers College, Is a
Republican. but will run on a platform
exclusively his own. In the first place
he wants the speed OF all automobiles
limited in cities to four miles an hour
and in the country to fifteen miles. He
believes in the reduction of the salaries
OF public officials and increasing the
stipends of teachers.
His only aim, he said in a statement
yesterday. Is ito place on the shelf all
partisan politicians. whose only aim Is
personal reward. and to advocate all
plans and laws that may promise to
promote the vast and higher interests of
all citizens, not the representative and
tool OF any political party"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
DAYLIGHT HOLDUP
OF PAY CLERK FAILS
S2,IzS Recovered and Arrests
Made After Chase.

Every Friday at noon Samuel Brus-
kin. a clerk employed by Charles r.
Wyamb. a stationery manufacturer at
% Howard street, goes to a nearby
bank and returns with ;2.17S.33-the
weekly pay roll-in a small black bag.
He went as usual yesterday and re-
turned at 1880 o'clock. carrying the
money. AS he entered the building
four men followed him. One of them
turned back to the street, but the other
three drew revolvers and threatened 10
shoot IL he moved or made an outcry.
Selling the bag. the bandits separated
on the sidewalk.
The man with the money dashed up
the sidewalk to Crosby street and then
to Grand street, where he handed the
bag to the one who had withdrawn just
before the robbery and who afterward
said he was Steven Senft of 20 Jackson
street, a machinist. Senft ran to Grand
street and through \the crowd there to
Broome street, across Broadway to
Mercer street and then to Spring, where
he tossed the bag into a wagon standing
beside the curb
Patrolman George Magmussen of the
Elizabeth street station saw Senft run
ming and saw crowd giving chase. so
he Joined In the pursuit. He came up
with the fugitive shortly after the latter
had thrown away the bag with the
money and took both it and his prisoner
to the station house. Senft was later
taken TO Police Headquarters charged
with robbery.
According to the detectives Senft said
the plans for the robbery had been made
by James Deller OF 236 Cherry street, a
clerk employed by the Wyamb firm.
Deller was also arrested on charge OF
robbery. Senft gave the names OF the
other two bandits. who are being sought
by the police.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
DEANS SON ADMITS
FORGERY CHARGE
Hammond Took Check From
Harvard Club Member.

Donald Hammond, twenty-four-year-
old son of Dean Hammond of Cornell
University, entered plea of guilty
yesterday in General Sessions before
Judge Wadhams to an indictment charB-
ing forgery in the second degree. The
indictment charged him with having
taken a check belonging to Norman
Bradford, Jr., a member of the Harvard
Club. forging an Endorsement, and after
getting a cashier at Delmonicos to sign
another Endorsement converting the ne
gotiable paper into cash at the Harri-
man National Bank.
Hammond returned here last fall from
France. where he sustained severe
wounds while serving with the Royal
Flying Corps. During the intervening
period since then he Is alleged to have
beat number of the leading hotels in
this city out OF bills. His father Is
known to have made great personal sac
rif1ces to make up for his sons various
offences.
Hammond was remanded to the Tombs
for sentence next Friday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
3 RUSSIANS TAKEN
IN RAID ARE HELD
Nine Taken From "PeOple's
House" on Suspicion of An
archism Released.
GRILLED FOR FIVE HOURS
Literature Seized Advocates
Dictatorship and Destruction
Police Stations and Churches.

Three of the alleged Reds" taken
with twelve others in a raid Just before
midnight Thuryday night at the Russian
Peoples House, 1913 East Fifteenth
street, were arraigned in Yorkvllle Court
yesterday charged with suspicion OF be-
ing criminal anarchists. They are Peter
Brakey, 26, a Russian editor Of ais East
Fourteenth street: Naum Stetanuk. So.
a secretary Of ISL East Fifteenth street,
and Hyman Perlxus, $50 East Twentieth
street. All three are Russians and have
not been naturalised. They were held
by Magistrate Ten Eyck in $4,000 bail
each for examination Tuesday.
Following their arrest in the raid, the
accused Reds were taken direct to the
District Attorneys office where they
were subjected to a fve-hour "grilling
until four o'clock yesterday morning by
Assistant District Attorney Alexander
Rorke, A. e. Stevenson, of the Joint
Legislative Committee investigating
Bolshevism, and Samuel A. Berger, OF
the Attorney Generals Office.
The raid and the arrest, said Mr..
Rorke. resulted from alleged anarchistic
utterances contained in literature ema-
mating from the Russian Peoples House.
This. he said. Is the headquarters Tor
the publication KHeb-y-VoivG, which
translated means Bread and Freedom.
In a supplement on which the raid and
arrests were based Mr.. Rorke said, there
appear articles advocating dictatorship
OF the proletarist, armed rebellion de-
struction of power, property and capital
the burning Of police stations, barracks
and churches. The destruction of reli-
gious edifices. said Mr.. Rorke. was called
for because God is as bad an enemy OF
the people as the gendarme."
Twelve persons taken in the raid were
released
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
FIRE AND CONFUSION
SPREAD BY STORM
Perth Amboy Oil Tank Ig-
nited and Coney Island
Is Darkened.

A heavy electrical storm passed over
the city and environs last night. the
lightning setting Ere to one OF the huge
tanks of crude oil at the plant of the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company at
Maurer. N. j., few miles from Perth
Amboy.
The bolt hit the tank at 8 80 o'clock.
Sheets Of fame which could be seen over
the country side for miles Immediately
shot high into the air There were nine
teen other tanks, containing $4,000 gal
Ions of oil in all. at the plant and the
entire Perth Amboy Fire Department
at once began a desperate fight TO pre-
vent them from being ignited.
The heat from the blazing tank kept
the fire fighters at a distance. but they
began deluging the other tanks with
streams of water to keep them cool.
Whether or not they would succeed in
localizing the fire was still in doubt
shortly before midnight.
The crowds at Coney Island were
thrown into confusion when the lights
went out at $40 p. NJ. Save for two
short intervals. the resort remained in
darkness for an hour. The rain had
driven the pleasure seekers to the motion
picture theatres, the restaurants and
other resorts and great difficulty was ex-
perienced in preventing trouble at some
of the places when the electricity sud-
denly failed. A near panic at Hender-
sons music hall was averted through the
GOODNESS of Corporal Julius Levy OF the
police reserves. on duty there.
The B. r. T. lighting system was not
affected. and trolley cars passing along
a..a s,sa IL.
a slight illumination. Hundreds of mo-
torists, too, turned on their headlights
and helped to restore confidence among
the throngs. Feltman's restaurant
! which Is lighted from a private plant,
was the only resort not affected.
/ The heavy downpour clogged the
sewers and flooded the streets in Brook.
Ign at Nostrsnd avenue and Fultor
| street and in the Wallabout district Of
| Flushing avenue. An Ocean avenue cal
| was delayed for fifteen minutes at the
| Fulton street stop because of the inabil.
| ity of the motorman to find the switch
under the now OF water. Passengers oil
| the cars of four lines that pass at THU
point were unable to alight. Those wait
| ing to ride home had not sufficient cour
age to attempt to board the cars by
wading through the flood.
In the Walabout district many cellars
and some of the sidewalks were flooded
| Lightning struck feed wire in the
Poplar street police station. putting the
telegraph board connecting the police
line with Queens and all parts Of
Brooklyn out OF commission for ter
minutes, Lieut.. James Clare and foui
policemen were in the room but were
uninjured.
| The crowds on the sidewalks in Man
hattan's theatre district scattered wheI
the rain began and taxicabs were a
premium and almost impossible Il
obtain for a good part of the evening.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
JURY DISAGREES IN
INCOME TAX CASE
Delibcrates Six Hours Over
Fraud Accusation With
out Verdict.

The jury, which sat at the trial Of
Morris Rachmil and A. Lincoln Samuel
son, who were accused OF conspiring to
defraud the Government out of income
taxes, was discharged by Judge Rufus
Z. Foster in the Federal District Court
at 1880 o'clock last night after it had
reported an absolute inability to reach
a verdict. The jury was out six hours.
. Rachmll and Samuelson, partners in
business as the Sterling Accounting and
Audit Company at Ses Fifth avenue,
were charged with having prepared a
false income tax for the Coastwise
Warehouses, Inc. which would have de-
'frauded the Government out of $4,000
on the 1918 tax. Morris Rosenblunl,
an Internal Revenue agent named as a
codefendant, pleaded guilty and was
witness for the Goverpment at the trial.
The jury first reported its lack Of
agreement at o'clock. Judge Foste'
asked what appeared to be holding up Il
verdict. Nathaniel NJ. Drake, foreman.
said that 1t was hard to, explain the
reasons for difference. He said the
jury had been in controversy from the
moment 1t began TO deliberate.
The question is not one of figures,
explained the court. You are not ex-
pert accountants and you are simply
to use your judgment as to whether
Rachmil and Samuelson, both of them,
conspired to make this claim to the
Government a claim which the Gov
eminent alleges to, be false. If the re-
turn was untrue in any particular, II
was a false claim. II you reach agree
ment on this the question OF intent
enters. II the defendants, knowing the
claim to be false, wilfully. presented 1t
with the object of deceivlng the Gov
eminent they are guilty on this charge.
II you find otherwise, they should be
acquitted"
The court instructed the jury to retire
for further consideration of the case
He said that the trial had taken two
weeks, had cost much money and that
both sides were entitled to verdict.
In summing up for the defendants
William ]. Fallon declared that they
made deductions from the profits of the
Coastwise Warehouses with the advice
of Rosenblum. He said that they believed
they had the right to mako use OF the
advice OF one familiar with income taS
matters, and presented the company;
return In good faith.
Benjamin P. De Witt, Assistant United
States Attorney, In summing up, de.
fendeds the course of Adolph Pricken
vice-president OF the Coastwise company
who conducted the negotiations that led
to the arrest Of the defendants
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
FIRST PATHFINDERS
OFF ON LONG FLIGHT
Four More Planes Will Leaue
Mineola To-day.

Only half dozen spectators gath
cred at Hazlehurst Field, Mineola, yes
terday to see Lieut. Kenneth G. Leggett
and Lieut.. Carl d. Gunther start in
Curtiss b!planes on the first leg of the
pathfinder flight to San Francisco. They
rose 800 feet and stood away over Long
Island Sound, EN- route for Bustleton
Field, Pennsylvania, their first stopping
place. They will find a complete emer-
gency OUTFIT awaiting them there and
any necessary repairs will be made SO
that they may continue their journey
to-day. Four other fiiers will start from
Hazlehurst to-day and the last three
will get away Sunday.
Each party will make its own maps
for the purpose of establishing Aging
Highway and locating landing places.
which are TO be illuminated at night by
searchllghts which can be seen 10
miles. Cameras for aerial work and n
complete cooking outfit are on each
plane.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
FIFTY HEROES TO Be
HONORED THURSDAY
Soldiers, Mostly From New
York, to Be Decorated in
City Hall.
ALLIES TO Participate
Col. James A. McCrea Will Be
Made Officer of Legion
Of Honor.

Col. James A McCrea. son of the late
president OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
and now vice-president OF the Bankers
Trust Company, who served as deputy
director Of transportation with the
American ESpeditionary Forces in
France, has been made an officer In the
Legion dHonneur. according to infor-
nation given out by Col Wilder, head
Of the army recruiting service In the
New York district.
This information came with the an
nouncement Of the staging of presen-
tation ceremony in City Hall at IL $50
o'clock Thursday, in which a number Of
American men and officers who saw ser
vice in France will be awarded the
crosses and decorations of the French,
Italian. Belgium and United States Gov
ernments.
only a partial list OF those to be so
honored was available yesterday. 1t Is
expected, however. that before the time
OF the ceremony upward OF fifty New
York men and officers, many OF them
members of the Twenty seventh and
Seventy seventh divisions, will be deco
rated by their own or the allied Govern
ments. Representatives Of the latter will
make the presentation addresses and
read the citations.
mitted to this ceremony and members Of
various patriotic organizations will re-
ceive cards emitting them to be present.
Music by army bands and addresses by
city officials and prominent army officers
will also be features.
Medals of Officer OF the Legion OF
Honor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
Knight Of the Order of Leopold, French
Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre,
T1tN I'd of
Distinguished Service Cross are included
in those that will be presented.
To First Lieut.. Thorndike Deland, 22o
West Forty-sixth street, who served with
the 34oth Field Artillery. Eghty-ninth
Division will be presented the Cross OF
n Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and
the Croix de Guerre with palm. The
citation accompanying the latter tells Of
his cutting OF ard capturing seventeen
Of the enemy while engaged in the haz-
ardous task of laying telephone wires VI
| to the most advanced positions.
Others to be awarded Chevalier of the
Legion OF Honor medals are Major
Arthur Jarvis Slade, liz East Seventy
second street, and Capt Henry NJ. Day
| 10 East Seventy-seventh street TIL,
Croix de Guerre list includes Lieut.
| Romer Shawhan, 80 East Thirty-fourtf
street Sergeant Reider Waller, formerl,
of the 105th Machine Gun Battalion
who rescued q British officer and mer
from a blazipg>tank under direct enemy
fire; Sergeant William Norman, for
merly OF the 307th Infantry, ITO Chsun
cey street Brooklyn, and Mechanic
William II. Raney. formerly with thu
623d Sanitary Unit, whose home is II
| 10 East 18th street
| Corporal William Richkind, 22S Henri,
! street, and Corporal James O'Connor
| 500 Ninth avenue. will receive italian
Crosses OF Wan and Sergeant James W
Coubert. Schroon Lake. n. Y, and Pri
vate Edwin 7. Van Duzer. 1898 Fifty
ninth street, will be awarded American
| Distinguished Service Crosses.