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New-York tribune., 1919-07-22

terday He wasn't IN, and Mr. Michaels
had no idea when he would return
Before going down stairs to wait for a
man getting out of a taxi packard, the
reporter obtained the following infor-
nation from mysterious Mr. Michaels
concerning his equally mysterious en-
ployer:
Mr.. Batolin has been in this country
for eleven months now. He landed
from Russia at San Francisco, and out
side of little notice in the society
columns of papers there he has never
been in the papers.
Later, coming East, he visited
Colonel House at Washington. AT
that time, at the request of the State
Department, both The Associated and
United Press representatives decided
not to say a word about him. I may
say that he is one of the two richest
men in Russia and is here in a semi
official capacity.
II can't tell you any more than that
The reason why I can't say more at
present is that we may have to GO
back and feed the people of North
Russia this winter"
After announcing further that he
himself was graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan, Mr. Michaels
closed the door of the suite upon the
reporter, who went down stairs to
puzzle over the statement he had re-
ceived and wait for a man alightine
backward from taxi to pay the driver
with $500 bill. Up to late hour
last night the parsonage had not ap-
peared.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22

partner, Victor K. McElheny, went be-
fore the Board Of Estimate to oppose
them. DR.. Day has favored terminal
markets.
What Everybody Knows
Don't you know that your law part
ner called Mayor Hylan liar?" Mr.
Goldman asked
Before the witness could answer
Commi ssioner Hirshfeld interposed
with: "Everybody knows the Mayor is
not q liar"
DR.. Day testified at the morning ses.
sion that he deposited three checks
one for $3.50 and two for $3.50 each, in
his bank at Tyron, Penn. Mr Bennett
charged tha. these checks on the city's
money were drawn by the Commits
sloner and tae .aoney withheld fol
four weeks.
Mr.. Bennett charged that DR.. Da,
drew out the city's money, violating
the terms of the Charter, which specify
that only the Controller has this
power. DR.. Day said the money was
not expended for his personal use.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
COMMISSIONER of Markets
| Declares All His Troubles
! Are Result of Honest Ef-
I fort to Cut Food Prices
Called Ifirshfeld Brutal
Saws He Didn't Know Name
Was Used to Sell Stock in
| Plaza Community Club

The inquiry into the charges of mis-
conduct in o1sce made against Or. Jona-
than C. Day. Commissioner of Public
Markets by former Senator William NJ
Bennett, WAS concluded yesterday with
vigorous and sweeping denial by Dr.
Day. lie occupied the witness stand
during the entire afternoon session.
Dr.. Day stressed his opinion of an
inquiry at which the object of it was
not permitted TO speak in his own be-
half. He referred TO the hearings held
by David Hirshtield, Commissioner Of
Accounts, into the Plaza Community
Club. of which Dr.. Day was president
He declared that no explanation was
asked Of him until the report Of Com
missioner Hirshhold had been printed
and ne received a letter from Mayor
Hylan.
Commissioner Hirshheld, who has
pres ded at this inquiry, thought it
Days reply to the Mayors letter in the
record DR.. Day in the letter de-
scribed his fellow member Of the. Hylan
cabinet as brutal and mean as a man
can be
Wanted TO Lower Prices
1t was his honest effort to obtain
food at lower prices that got him into
his present pleasantness, DR.. Day
eyowed. The Plaza Community Club,
he explained, was to purchase coopera-
tively and sell at small profits. He
never Intended that his name, as a
city official, should be affixed to the
projec1, he insisted. He added that he
had no knowledge that solicitors went
about showing his name to give official
color to the projecl and sell more
Etock- lie said ne repeatedly told those
interested in the company that unde,
use OF one OF the markets under his
iurisdictlon.
Had | been given the opportunity
10 testify al the previous hearing be-
fore the Commissioner OF Accounts
upon which his conclusions were
based said Dr.. Day, 81 believe tht
Commissioner Of Accounts would no
have made the statement that he die
about my violating the law.
Il realized then, and | know now
that il was a tactical error on my par
to have been identified with any co
operative movement dealing with tn,
purchase and sale of foodstuffs to th'
inhabitants Of the city" he said.
Howe Assails Hirshfield
Ben Howe. who was associated with
DR.. Day in the Plaza Community Club
testified that he had always under
stood DR.. Day was not a member as
public official, but as private citizen
Mr. Howe became angry when Mr.
Hirshtield read from the record of
previous hearing a declaration tina
Howe lived on money borrowed from
friends. He wanted to know what Mr.
Hirshheld meant by pryins into hi!
private affairs
Mr. Bennett, who has been acting a,
inqusitor during the proceedings, tool
the stand and was questioned as to hi
connection with food firms by Mcye
Goldman, DR.. Days attorney. He sait
he was at one time president of liv,
poultry association and is now a d
rector in fruit auction concern. Nj
Goldman asked him if his charges wer,
inspired by his opposition to termina
markets. reminding him that his Law
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Cashier Is Ordered
Held for 100000
Shortage in Bank

HARRISBURG, Penn, July 21.-The
phia, closed by the State Banking De-
partment last Friday as unsound, has
shortage of 100000, and Cashier
Ralph 7. Meyer has been ordered ar
John S. Fisher. The Commissioner said
that his information came from Ro-
ceiver James W. MacBurney, in charge
of the banks affairs by appointment
of the Commissioner, and that Meyer
had confessed to MacBurney that he
had falsihed the books by substituting
loose leaves into the ledgers when
State bank examiners appeared.
The Commissioner made known the
facts of Meyers confession as reported
to him by Mr.. MacBurney tonight.
He was in touch with Governor William
C. Sproul, who directed him to go to
the limit in investigating the affairs
of the bank and ascertaining where the
responsibility lay for its wrecking.
The Commissioner at once directed Re-
ceiver MacBurney to secure warrants
for the arrest of Meyer from the Dis
trict Attorney Of Philadelphia.
According to what the Commissioner
learned, Meyer admitted that the pecu-
lations had been going on for two
years. The Commissioner said that
the task now was to find the proper
records and to ascertain where the
money had gone. He said that the best
information at hand was that the bank
had over-extended itself and made bad
loans, but could not give any details
as yet. The persons who received any
money illegally will have to make res
titution, he said.
State officials said night that Meyer
would be charged with perjury. embez-
Element, misappropriation of bank
funds, rehypothecation of securities
destroying and mutilating records and
accepting deposits when the bank was
insolvent.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
West Pointers Reach Rrest

BREST, July 21,-Two hundred and
sevcnty-five members Of the West
Point graduating class arrived hero
Sunday on the United States army
transport LeviatfNn. The cadets are
TO make a tour hrough France, re-
turning to the United States about
September J..
Last night they were given recep-
zion and were ttn dinner guests of
the Y. NJ c.. A. At the dinner the
guests Of honor were Roar Admiral
Alexander S. Hasteao, Commander Of
American Naval Forces in France
Erigadier General Smedley d. Butler
L. S. ID. c., commanding Camp Pont-
anszen near here, and Major General
Eli A. Hc!mick.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Banker arrested on
Conspiracy Charge
Isudor Hers Accused of Aiding
ing Aliens to Obtain Fruz1du-
lent Permits TO Go abroad

The Federal Grand Jury yesterd ay
returned indictments charging Isador
Herr, private banker and steamship
agent, with Offices in PA West Thirty
fourth Street, with engaging In a cor
spiracy to obtain illegally pren;.s by
which aliens could leave the country.
Other persons named in the indict~
ments are under bail. which they gave
when arrested several weeks ago, when
a large number oe Serbiuns, Rumani-
ans and Austro- -Hungarians were found
on the French liner, Rocham beau, bear
ing Greek passports. Herr entered a
tentative plea Of not gully. He was
held in $4,000 bail for final pleading.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22

orders for whiskey from more than
one physician he is not only liable to
prosecution, but will find it impossi-
Bile to get his medicine in the future"
1t was said yesterday there will be
no difficulty in obtaining wine for
Catholic Church services, for the Jew
ish feast of the Passover and for med
icinal purposes, no matter how strin-
gent the rules governing prohibition
enforcement become. Not only is
there an almost unlimited stock of
liquor of all kinds in bond in the
United States, but the law permits the
manufacture of such liquors after the
present supply has been exhausted.
Coney Island Is Anxious
Statements of United States Dis
trict Attorney James D. Bell, of
ecute the sellers of 2.75 per cent beer
if complaints we're made to him did
not result in the filing of complaints
yesterday. The threat caused much
Of a stir, especially at Coney Island
and the beach resorts that have been
supplying their patrons with this SUBJ
stitute for hard liquor during the days
of wartime prohibition.
The Federal prosecutor made it
plain, however, that he did not intend
to start a campaign against the dis
trbuters of this supposedly alcoholic
beverage, but that ne would act only
on complaints. Francis G. Caffey, Fed
eral attorney for Manhattan, did not
accept the view of the Brooklyn pros
ecutor. He said that he had had nc
orders from Washington to prosecute
saloonkeepers who sold beer contain.
ing only 2.75 per cent alcohol and
that he would not take action until
he had such orders.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Clemenceau at Verdun
On Reconstruction Tour

PARIS, July 21.-Prcmier Clemen-
ceau spent yesterday in the Meuse dis
trict, where he listened to the express
sions Of leaders there on economic re-
constructive work. He asked the people
to have patience and not to despair
France, he said, will be rebuilt in all
her grandeur and historic nobility. M
Clemenceau returned ~ Paris last
night.
The Premier had a great reception
when he entered Verdun- He was ad~
dressed there by the Deputy Mayor
NJ. Clemenceau announced that the
Austrian government two days ago had
offered to send competent workmen to
aid in the task of reconstruction
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Two Subway Cars
Jump Track; Only
One Man Is Hurt
Lexington Avenue Express
Derailed Near Brooklyn
Bridge, Causing a Long
Delay in the Service

Subway express service to lower
Manhattan was stalled for two and q
half hours yesterday afternoon when
southbound Lexington Avenue cx-
Iress struck defective rail and two
cars jumped the track north of the
Rrooklyn Bridge station at Las D. m.
No one was seriously injured and an
investigation by District Attorney
Swami and representatives of the Pub
lie Service Commission showed that the
accident was unavoidable.
The train had just crossed the switch
to pull into the station when the next
to the last car left the track, dragging
the last one win It. One of the cars
fell sideways, leaning against the steel
pillars in the tunnel. The next to the
last car butted platform support out
of place and ground off part of the
concrete platform ledge.
The motorman applied the brakes,
and as the train came to stop, guards
went through the cars to calm the pas
sengers and prevent hysterical women
from trying to crawl through the win
dows The fright of the women was
increased by the shutting off of the
power. which left the cars in darkness.
Dominick Collazalla, twen ty-seven years
old, a guard, was thrown down and
bruised
Ambulance calls wyere sent in to
me Reception and Volunteer hospitals
Police reserves were called to the sta
ton to clear the platforms and pre-
vent panic wrecking crew was
on the scene almost at once and began
lacklng the derailed cars onto the
tracks Travellers attempting to buy
tickets were warned that service be-
tween Manhattan and Brooklyn was
| suspended.
Shortly after the accident was re-
ported District Attorney Swami ar
rived with John F. Joyce, of the Homi-
eide Bureau They declared that only
the use of steel cars had prevented a
serious smash-up. The District At
torney questioned the motcrman, Al
bert F. APPEL, of 434 Bronx Park Ave
nue., regarding the possibility of the
switch being at fault 1t was shown
that the wrong switch could not have
been thrown, since it was locked at
that point
Frank Hedley, general manager of
the lnterborough. reached the station
within a few minutes. After question:
ing both the towerman and the motor
man, he said that the trouble was due
! to defective rail Edward J. Glen
non and Alfred M. Barrett, of the
Public Service Commission, also made
an investigation, and decided that
there was no negligence.
The block was cleared at 4:20 p. m
While the repair work was going on
express trains from uptown were run
over the local tracks and much delay
resulted.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Airship Afire
Hits Chicago
Bank; lode
Continued from page l

sisted of carrying freight of various
kinds, under the direction of govern
ment officers.
Was on Third Cruise of Day
The dirigible had started on its third
cruise OF the day from the landing in
Grant Park
Boettner, who after giving orders to
the passengers to jump, leaped from
the balloon and landed safely on the
top of a nearby building, was taken in
custody tonight and an investigation
was started. Coroner Hoffman en-
panelled jury.
Persons who witnessed the departure
of the dirigible from Grant Park re-
applied to the propellers before the
craft Pose into the air in order to re-
move surplus oil from around the pro-
peller bearings.
Owned by Goodyear Company
The dirigible was the property of
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany, of Akron, Ohio. 1t was built for
experimental and advertising purposes
and was operating here under the d.
rectlon OF Goodyear employees, with
Major Clark Maranville in charge of
the Akron Government Flying Field, in
charge of the freight carrying exper-
iments. Major Maranville was not a
passenger when it exploded.
agree that the explosion occurred at
a height of about 500 feet, possibly a
little more. The dirigible was sailing
On an even keel when puff of smoke
was observed near the stern, where the
l engines were located.
Almost Immediately, eyewitnesses
declare, there followed the sound of an
explosion and the machine was en-
yeloped in flame. THE passengers must
have been all ready to jump" said one
spectator. From the moment | no.
tjced the smoke, the parachutes began
dropping. Some of them caught IRE.
saw one burn completely and its
occupant fall, also a mass Of flames"
Late workers in the bank had no
warning of the catastrophe. mans
body came hurtling through the sky
light, followed Immediately by the
blazing framework of the balloon and
the engines. The entire roof of the
bank building, an elaborate structure
Of Of Grecian design, was literally torn out
The damage both by the impact of the
dirgible and by fire will run into hun
dreds, of thousands of dollars.
All of those killed in the bank and a
greater number of the injured were
working in the cages in the centre of
the bank. The dead were crushed and
burned by the balloon itself. The in
jured are for the most Part slightly
burned and bruised by the heavy wire
gratings dragged down upon them by
the dirigible.
Prompt action by the police pre-
vented a panic. There was an imme-
diate rush away from the bank build
ing, and by the time the police arrived
the street was cleared. 1t REQUIRED sew
, eral hours to extinguish the fire anc
the search for bodies was continuing
at midnight.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Airship Would Hare Gone
Into PASSENGER Serricf

AKRON, Ohio, July 21.-The dirigi-
Bile destroyed at Chicago was built on
the same plan as the A-4, the first air
ship to land on q building in the United
States, Willard Seiberling, head of the
balloon department of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company, said to-
night. He added the balloon was de-
signed to carry ten persons, and was
to have made a flight to Akron next
week for possible use in the Cleveland
Akron passenger service.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Massachusetts Town to
Become Real "(itv of Trees

New Bedford, Mass. has set out
800 trees this spring and this Gown
claims that it almost holds tho record
for tho number u trecs It. Possesses
in proportion 10 street milea9s, ac-
cording TO q report 70 the American
Forestry Association, Of Washington.
whoHe campaign for memorial trecs
for soldiers and sailors il nation wide
and which Is registering I'LL such troes.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Woman Swallows Poison
In Mistake for Medicine

Mrs. Grace A. Powsen. nineteen
years old, was taken to New York
Hospital from her rooms in the Hotel
Waldorf Astoria yesterday suffering
from bichloride Of mercury poisoning
She said she had taken the tablets in
mistake for cough lozenges. Mrs.
Powsen asked the police to notify her
mother, Mrs. G. A. Radcliff, Of Bristol,
Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
Sick Folks Are Getting
Their Whiskey at Saloons
Drug Stores Which Prepared
for Rush Of sPmies,ts'' Shu
Haze Their Stocks on Hand

New York's "sick" have had no dif
Aculty in obtaining in saloons all tho
whiskey prescribed for them by their
physicians. Drug stores that added
to their store of hard 1iuuor in an
tidpation Of big demand by the pre-
scriptfon route have found that their
Investments have brought small returns
as yet
Visits to numerous drug stores yes
terday failed to reveal one that had
profited by the clause In the wartime
prohibition measure. which allows a
physician to authorize ii quart Of whis-
key month to a patient.
at looks to me as if the sick were
getting everything they need at the
same old saloons they used to patron
ize," said one druggist "Of course
isn't legitimate drug business, but
merely one phase Of our prescription
work. However, we did prepare for
it by buying large quantity of whis-
key. This was partly due to the fact
that we feared whiskey might go up
n price or be unobtainabl for med
lcinal purposes.
Duplication a Difficult Art
"a physician who signs an order for
quart of whiskey for patient must
be certain that the patient actually
needs such treatment; he must make
cut the prescription in duplicate and
send d copy, with the name and ad-
dress of the patient, TO the Collector
Of Internal Revenue. There the name
Is kept on file for future reference. IL
5he patient is getting similar medical
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
100000 Soldiers Entertained

During last week the number of men
of the Overseas Forces, including con-
valescents from hospitals, who have
been entertained by the Overseas Hos
pitality- Fund in London, has reached
100000.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22
II Horse Sense''
Economy

Business men who carefully select a
$4,000 truck are Saving at the spigot and
wasting at the bunghole' if they shoe it
with so-called inexpensive" tire equip
ment.
The inexpensive" tire invariably de-
velops into the most fragrant extrava-
gance-as repair bills for broken mechara-
ism will substantiate.
Quality insists its level.
That's why makers of trucks of high first COST.
and low ultimate costeher equip with advise the
equipment of their trucks with GOODRICH DE LUKE
Truck Tires.
Because DE LUKE Tires conserve the "novxer
plant and oad-and thus widen the truck range Of
service and economy
Bmly and slow-wearng resilient and lively.
they the right complement the high priced truck
and safeguard to the vehicle of lower first cost
Mileage Adjustment: 10000 Miles
We Sell and Apply De Luxe Tires
Akron Rubber Tire Co.,
324 w. Sind Street,
Phone Columbus 1865
Dalton, C. T.,
Goth ST. & 1st Ave-,
Phone Lenox $3.50
Douglas Dean Company,
594 East 134th ST.,
phone Melrose 273O
Schoonmaker Co., Inc,
80 Walker ST.,
Phone Franklin 1918
Serber Rubber Co., Inc,
451 w. 18th Street,
Phone Farragut 7110
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22

sisted of carrying freight of various
kinds, under the direction of govern
ment officers
New-York tribune., 1919-07-22

No industry has equaled the automobn,
for it's surprises. And judged by the way
people everywhere have taken to 1t, no ca,
has equaled tho Essex In tho quickness witt
which It has gained its leadership.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20
TRUCKS, WITH FOOD FROM
COUNTRY, HELP CONSUMERS
ln Philadelphia ERE Prices Came
Down within Reach When Mig
Nnchine Reached City.
When the huge motor truck. loaded

When the huge motor truck. loaded
to capacity: rolled into Philadelphia
eighty five crates OF fresh laid eggs,
weighing 1900 pounds. for delivery us
city. the event was made the basis for
celebration at which Fourth-Assist :
ant PostmasterGeneral Blakeslce pre-
sided.
That one event at Philadelphia in
augurated an era in America which
Will prove of the utmost Importance. .
the Bethlehem Motors Corporation. Of
Allentown. Pa, who returned TO the
plant from an extensive trip through
the South few days previous 20 the
UtomentouS event.
motor trucks CARRYING food by par
eel post service Will bring direct TO
the consumer not only eggs bu; all
otner produce OF the farms. and at
prices which will be as much lower
were tho eggs brought into Philadel-
phia March q. Those eggs Went di-
rect TO the consumer at 81 cents per
dozen. When the markets of Philadel-
phia were charging 30 TO go cents per
dozen. Householders are going TO APP
preciate such saving methods and pat
ronize the motor truck food routes to
an extent not 10 be computed in mere
figures.
America IS large country and
there are many thousands OF miles
or road 10 DC covered. so many mill
lions Of farmers TO provide the pro-
trucks Will be put into use for this
service alone.
MY investigation has demonstrated
to me that the future OF the motor
truck INDUSTRY was never brighter.
The Bethlehem Motors Corporation in
has proven beyond 4 doubt that the
limit in growth OF our company is far
from being in sight. Our demand is
not at all exceptional. for other truck
makers arc benefiting from the new
order of things and thousands OF mo-
TOR trucks will be wanted this year
that will be unobtainablc until the
makers have increased their produc-
ton.
1.-THE man who advised the makers of
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20

turing and to store every truck pos
siolc to make pending the opOniuE Of
the seasons demand spoke from actual
knowledge, for that demand is now at
hand and in excess OF actual produc-
ton. AS the season opens up and the
farms produce their products Tor the
this service alone will exceed the
possible supply in tho country The
shortage promises to lie excessive and
far Beyond the expectations OF even
the most optimistic.
The eEthlchcm oMtors Corpora
ton. after the conclusion OF the work
Tor the government In the nanufnc-
iurc of Glass l. rucks. has placed it's
house in order and started promptly
upon production on 4 scale far beyond
previous figures. The demand will
take every truck made without a
doubt"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
New Industries Along tho Norfolk and
western tailwny-Mnny New Co,,l
Companies Start.

ROANOKE. VA. April 1o.-Notwith-
standing government control OF the
railroads OF the country. and the con-
seqnSni cessation OF industrial and cX-
conSidcrable industrial development
along the lines of the Norfolk and
w cStern hallway, as shown by the
company's annual report for the year
l?lS. which has just been published.
The company reports that there have
been started up new industries as fol-
lows; Nine manufactures of mineral.
metal and other products; sixteen
manufacturers of lumber products {;
ScNontccn manufacturers of farm i'm