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New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Ocean Fliers Made
Arn, OF u. S. Macy
Commissioning OF seaplanes
Ceremony Without Preceden,
in american Naval History

The NC-1, first of the giant naval
transatlantic flying boats, will make
her first flight to-day, following her
reconstruction. All three seaplanes
are now ready to start on their fight
across the ocean. They were formally
commissioned as "ships of the navy"
at Rockaway yesterday. The cere-
mony marked precedent in naval
history.
1t had been intended to fly both the
NC-1 and NC-2 Immediately after
the ceremony. Hhe "three" was
launched with load Of 28,3OO pounds,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

HELsINGFoRS, May 1.-Defeated
along the entire Eastern front bv the
Siberian armies, the Bolshevik forces
are retiring in disorder, the Russian
newspaper "Russkaya Piisni' SAYS.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

" Z y I II = =
Cloudy with showers to-day. cooler;
showers tomorrow. Fresh winds
Full Report on Page 16
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Four Hurt When Truck
Hits Staten Island Car
Fifteen Persons Swept From
Running Board; Chauffeur
Accused of Reckless Driving

A Staten Island trolley. bound from
South Beach TO St. George was side
swiped by motor truck on Bav
Street, Stapleton, yesterday afternoon.
The car was packed to capacity and
fifteen persons who had been clinging
tc the running board were swept off
Four were taken to Staten Island and
st. Vincemt's hospitals, severely in
!urcd.
The motor truck and the car were
travelling in opposite directions. Ed
ward Ulll, Of 123 Vanderbilt Avenue.
Brooklyn, ran the truck against the
running board. Hill was arrested
charged with reckless driving. The
severely injured are:
Preston Plumb, 462 Ninth Street,
Brooklyn, right leg and right arm bro
ken, Staten Island Hospital; Joseph
Schultz. 204 Greenpoint Avenue, Brook
lyn. concGssion of the brain and in
jurles TO the chest and back, Staten ISL
and Hosp 'tal; Joseph Rocado, 106 Four
teenth Avenue, Newark, six ribs tract
ured. Staten Island Hospital; Joseph
Faganv. 72 New Chambers Street. Man
haitian, concussior Of the brain, ST.
Vincent's Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
FRIDAY Nem 11ork Grib1nre JULY 4. 1919
95 Degrees Hot
And Just Starting
Fourth Promises To Be
S,Ueltering; Hottest July
3 Wns SO in 1898

Yesterday was the hottest day this
year. The maximum temperature was
95 degrees and the minimum "a 1t
broke no records. however. The warm
est July 3 noted by the Weather Bu-
reau was in 1898, when the mercury
reached SO degrees, establishing a rec
ord for that month that still stands.
Nevertheless, the weather man re-
CARDS the heat wave as a healthy in
fant, though probably not a prodigy.
1t is good for several days MORE he
thinks, and will enable approximately y
3,769,854 persons spending the Fourth
in Sullivan County and coast resorts
to remark about eleven times apiece !:
"lt must be awful in the city now!"
Although only in its first stages, the
heat yesterday drove the tenement
dwellers to roofs and fire escapes and
caused a queue of expectant youngsters
to follow the Street Cleaning Depart
ment men from hydrant to hydrant.
The sun beat down through a haze
of heat and dust all day VIII ch dmmed
its brightness without diminishing the
heat 1t set fiery red, which fore
told a sweltering Fourth of deserted,
baking streets, and crowded, noisy
beaches
One death was recorded, James Nc
Griegan, fftytwo years old, a watch
man, of 46 Manhattan Street, who was
on his way home when he collapsed at
Manhattan Street and Amsterdam Ave
nue..
Ten thousand persons slept on the
beach at Coney Island.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Yates Back i'm Cell
Blames Trailing Crook
Believes Blackmailer Turned
Him In When He Quit
Paving

OSS1NING, N. Y, July 3.-Hand-
cuffe6 to the guards who had brought
him from Missouri, Chester Yates, who
has broken out Of Sing Sing, the Tombs
and four other prisons since his con-
viction seven years ago of completely
in the theft Of $s7, 900 firm Aaron
Bancroft, reached here today and was
locked in an isolated cell.
He declared that after escaping from
Sing Sing he had roamed through
twenty eight states, but p'Fser had
succeeded in shaking off q New York
rcrook who knew his record and ex-
torted blackmail at every stop. After
settling in Kansas City, Yates said. he
went straight and refused to make any
more payments. That refusal, he be-
lieves, was responsible for his arrest.
81 did not do anything wrong in
Kansas City" he said; ~ decided to
so straight. ] settled down there four
years ago, had nice home and was
earning S45 week. | was married
there. Then along came that crook
who was in on my past and the Sing
Sing escape. He threatened to give
mo up unless I came across with money.
| paid and paid and paid, believe me
until at last | decided to give him no
more. He must have turned me in
then, for the bulls came and locked
me m"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Mayor Appeals for Aid
Against Milk Profifeers'

Mayor Hylan wrote to Robert f.
Dowling, chairman of the Governors
MIX Commission. yesterday, asking
him 10 appeal 10 the Governor and
through him 70 the district attorneys
OF the state for action against alleged
milk proiiteers. The Mayor character
izcd the statement of the milk com
panie- that they you'd be forced to do
business at loss If they did not ad-
vance their prices az one which "no
rcasonable person Will believe"
MIX is most plentiful this time Of
the year the Mayor continued, "and
tnese rrofteers should not be allowed
10 raise the price Of milk II you have
no power 70 regulate the price you can.
hoD ever, appeal 70 the highest power
IN the state to ask every district at
torney in tho state 70 begin vigorous
prosecution that will send the cu,pri.s
that have violated the law TO iai. Wc
tried at the last session Of tho Lcgis-
1ature TO have the law repealed that
gave the Dairymen's League exemption,
bat this was not done, and since thu
Lez,sIature adjourned they are again
at their old pusincss Of boosting pricas
at the expey4s of the public"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Shoots His Wife.
Kills Her Mother
And Then Himself
Whiskey-Crazed Man Fires
at Older Woman as She
Bends Over Daughter ON
Packed East Side Street

Abraham Raphael. who was known
on the East Side as JEFF" and enjoyed
some local renown as a fighter, shot
and killed his mother-in-law. Mrs.
GUssie Hermann. and himself last
night in Sheriff Street, near Delancey.
He also shot his wife, Bessie, who is in
Gouverneur Hospital with a bullet in
her side.
The shooting caused excitement
among thousands who were seeking
relief from the heat in the early even
ing. 1t took place in one of the most
crowded sections of the East Side.
Raphael had been seated on q news
paner at the approach to the Williams
burg Bridge. A short time before the
shooting an old friend, Louis Stecker.
of 34 Columbia Street, whom Raphael
had not seen for a long time, joined
him.
According to Stecker, Raphael had
three quarts of whiskey which he said
he had just bought in Jersey City.
During the five minutes or so that
Stecker sat there with him Raphael
consumed half the liquor, between
gulps adjuring Stecker to "stick" be-
cause he was going to kill some one
pretty soon.
"You going to stick? ?" Raphael de-
manded, glacing down Sheriff Street.
Sure, III stick" Stacker rejoined,
and the next moment was on his feet
IN pursuit Of Raphael, VINO was cleav-
ing passage through the crowds on
the pavement and sidewalk, flourish
ing revolver as he forged ahead He
had caught sight of his wife, her
mother and sixteenyear- sister
sauntering up Sheriff Street.
Ste cker knew that although he had
been married only a year ago Raphael
had not lived with his wife for five
months, and recognized Immediately
that there had been meaning to Ra-
Phaels maunderings concerning kill
ng" and that the unsuspecting victims
were strolling straight toward their
death.
He was too late to prevent the trar-
edy. Raphael was almost within arms
reach of the three women before they
saw him or heard the frantic shouts
of Stecker. His first bullet struck his
wife and she fell. The next two went
wild while people trampled upon one
another in their efforts to reach
safety.
Mrs. Hermann stopped over her
wounded daughter while thrusting her
other daughter. Mary, toward door
way. The next bullet hit the elder
woman and she fell across Mrs.
Raphael's body. Then Raphael pressed
the muzzle of the revolver against his
temple and pulled the trigger. 1t was
| his last cartridge.
1t was all over by the time police
reached the spot. Detectives declared
that Raphael had bought the revolver
in Jersey City, probably when he got
the whiskey. as the weapon was brand
new.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Life of Luxury Ends for
Bobby Asche on Monday
FeinbloOms Plan Fourth of July
Picnic for Him as
Loving Farewell

Bobby Asche is to celebrate mis- first
Fourth Of July at a picnic IN some
breezy kill top in Sullivan County. His
would-3e parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Feinbloom, have secured an extension
cl tho tine they are permitted to hold
the child. and will be able to entertain
HIM on bis holiday weekend with the
luxury to which he has been accus-
toned curing the four months he has
been in their home.
at is too bad he is not old enough
so that wo can give him a holiday that
h" will remember the rest of his life"
sighed Mrs. Feinbloom yesterday, "but
there is not much you can do for a
tiny baby except keep him cool We
take him to the country every pleasant
day and spread blanket undcr a tree,
where he has a beautiful time Kicking
and laughing at the grass tops.
eyes: l shall take him back to the
hospital on Monday, as those 4re the
court orders. We have not given up
tie fshy to obtain permanent control
Of this baby but nothing is to be
gained by refusing to obey the court.
II shall take him back myself, for I
cannot bear to lose one minute with
him. shall stay with him to the
very end'
And then Bobby went to sleep, as
cool and contented as if he expected
to sleen III a breezy window and have
somebe dy pet him all the rest of his
life
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Former Governor Is Sait. to
Have Had $1,000 Check
Just Before Insolvent
Brokerage Man Vanished
Stock Exchange to Act
Will Prevent Change Houses
From Operating to Boost
New Issues ON the Curb

A subpoena was issued yesterday, As
sistant District Attorney Kilroe an
nounced, asking former Governor Will
lam Sulzer to call at the District Attor-
ney's office and tell of his trading in
stock with the insolvent brokerage firm
of j. Frank Lilly & Co., 62 Broadway.
Mr.. Kilroe said on Wednesday Mr..
Sulzer received check for $1,000 from
Lilly. This was three days before the
latter disappeared. The Assistant Dis
trict Attorney added that according to
his Interpretation of the books Of the
company, there was debit balance
against Mr.. Sulzer of more than $4,000.
Numerous kilograms from all parts
of the country. Mr.. Kilcce said. have
been received at the District Attorneys
Office, from clients of Lilly's firm, ask
ing that Mr.. Swami protect their ac-
counts. Letters of complaint, he said,
are also flooding the Offices of the COM
pany.
Mail which came to the office yester-
day contained, Mr.. Kilroe said, checks
and money orders for $6,640. 1t is
said Lilly had about 10000 clients.
Frank B. Taylor, thirtythree, of 548
East Fifth Street, said by Assistant
District Attorney Dooling to be the
actual head of the insolvent brokerage
firm of II. c. Loup d Co., 80 Broad
Street. was indicted yesterday for
grand larceny on three counts. The
liabilities of his company are said to
be about $2,000000.
Taylor came to the District Attor
ney's office yesterday and gave sim
self up. Bail was fixed at 900 by
Judge Wadhams and later reduced to
$4,000 on protest Of the defendants
counsel, who said the District Attor-
ney had said that it would not be more
than that amount.
The New York Stock Exchange pre-
pared yesterday to take an active in
terest in the operations on the curb mar
ket emanating from stock exchange
houses and is adopting rigid regula-
tons toward that end.
The announced object is to prevent
transactions in fake stocks and to
eliminate "wash" sales designed TO boost
new issues.
These plans arc being formulated by
a special committee Of which II. K.
Pomroy is the head.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Fall Kills Hotel Guest
Police Insist Mining Engineer
Is Suicide

Arthur S. Raymond, of Joplin, Mo-,
and Stamford, Conn, a mining en-,
glneer, was killed by a fall from one
OF the upper floors of the Hotel Com
modore to the street early yesterday.
Friends Of the man deny the police
assertion that he committed suicide,
and, at their instance, Medical EN-
amlner Charles W. Norris performed
an autopsy yesterday afternoon. He
VIII report It's result to District At
torncy Swami.
The man arrived at the hotel three
days ago and was assigned to a room
on the eleventh floor on the Lexington
Avenue side. He fell to the street on
the Depew Place side of the hotel, his
body striking the coping of the hotel
at the fourth floor.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
George Washington Making
Only Is Knots While Pres
ident Completes Peace
Message to Congress
July 4 Address at Sea
Wireless Phone to Carry
His Speech to Transports
Within 3OO-Mile Radius

ON BOARD UNITED STATES SHIP
GEORGE WASHINGTON, July 8 (By
Wireless to The Associated Press).-
The George Washington, with Presi-
dent Wilson on board, probably will not
reach New York before noon on Tues
day next. The Presidential fleet slack
ened its speed during the night, and is
now running at about Is knots an
hour.
The weather continues good, al
though the sea was rather lumpy day
and a slight mist was gathering dur
ing the morning.
The President is devoting most of
his time to his message to Congress.
His address to the soldiers and blue
jackets on board on the Fourth of July
will be delivered at 3 p. m from the
cross deck, with the army and navy
men massed on the main deck below
A novel feature OH the occasion of
the Independence Day exercises will
be the first use at sea of the wireless
telephone for transmitting a Presi-
Dental speech. A transmitter will be
placed alongside the President so that
as he addresses the soldiers and sail
ors on board the ship his words will be
heard en- board all transports within
radi,s Of 800 miles. The day will be
celebrated also by soldier games and
army and navy contests.
Final plans have not yet been made
concerning the arrival of the George
Washington with the Presidential party
or as to whether the Presidential train
shall start from Hoboken or the New
York City terminal.
President Wilson to-day sent a mes
sage to President-elect Pessoa of Bra
zil. in New York, expressing his regre-
that he was not in the United States
to greet the Brazilian statesman and
extending his best wishes to him and
the hope that his visit had been a
pleasant one.
The Presidents message read:
II sincerely hope that your excel
lency's visit to the United States has
been in every way agreeable to you.
I greatly regret that l was not there
to welcome you upon your arrival, and
I wish now to bid you a temporary
-oodty with the sincerest best wishes
1t was pleasure to know you in Paris,
and | am sure You must seel how warm
is the friendship Of the people of the
United States for the people of Brazil
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Coz. Smith VIII
Welcome Wilson

Governor Smith will deliver the ad-
dress of welcome on behalf of the
state to President Wilson at the re.
ception in Carnegie Hall in his honor
on his arrival here on Tuesday from
the peace conference
Word was received from WASHINGTON
yesterday that the George Washington
would probably reach Ambrose Chan
rel Tuesday noon. 1t is expected that
the President will land at Hoboken two
hours later from the official welcom-
ing boat.
1t originally was intended the Presi-
dent should land at the Battery. Some
persons here believe that the change
in plans was due to a desire on the
part of the friends of the President
to save him the embarrassment of
being welcomed by committee ap-
pointed by the Mayor, which might in
clude William Randolph Hearst.
Fleet to Welcome Him
The President will be met outside
Sandy Hook by warships of the At
lantic Fleet. headed by the Flagship
Pennsylvania. Most of the President S
Cabinet, it is said, will be on the Penn
sylvania when she steams out to mees
the George Washington
Rodman Wanamaker was substituted
yesterday by Mayor Hylan as chairman
of the Hylan reception committee in
place of Federal Judge Martin T. Man
ton. The reason for the change was
not given. The Mayor appointed him
self and Governor Smith joint honorary
chairmen.
Grover Whalen, formerly secretary
TO Mayor Hylan, announced the change.
but did not make public the list of
the committee of 300 the Mavor has
appointed to welcome the President on
behalf of the city.
Secretary Tumulty Here
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the
President, arrived here last night from
Washington. He said it was the Pres
ident's wish that the George Washing
ton proceed to her per at Hoboker,
and that after arriving there he will
cross in ferry to this city to Twen-
ty-third Street.
The Presidential party, in automo-
biles. will then proceed on Twenty
third Street to Fifth Avenue, to Fifty
seventh Street and thence to Carne-
gle Hall. 1t is understood the Pres-
dent will make only brief address,
after which he will take special train
for Washington from The Pennsylvania
Terminal.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Court Decides Against
Hylan School Inquiry
Auditor of City Board Need Not
Appear Before Hirschfield
for Examination

Henry R. NJ. Cook, auditor of the
New York City Board of Education.
need not appear before Commissioner
of Accounts Hirshfield for examination
in the investigation into the accounts
and methods of the Board of Educa-
t:cn which is tseing conducted by the
Hylan a1ssqeestration.
The Appellate Division Of the Su-
preme Court so decided yesterday in a
prevailing opinion, written by Justice
Page and concurred in by Presiding
Justice Clarke and Justice Merrill
Justices Laughlin and Bowling dis
sented. The majority of the court de-
cided that the law provided sufficient
checks and safeguards against unlaw-
full expenditures by the Board of Edu-
cation and that the Commissioner of
Accounts could not compel the attend
ance of Mr.. Cook at any investigation
nor the production of his books or
papers. Supreme Court Justice Hotch-
kisss order for the examination was
vacated
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
]. C.. Brownstone Is Held in
$4,000 Bail for Alleged
Effort to Purchase Silence
of Revenue Agent Croffer
Enters Not Guilty Plea
Two Other Defendants Are
Held Under $1O,OOOBond
Each in War Tax Cases

j. c. Brownestone, of "a Fifth Ave-
nue., was arrested yesterday by opera
tlves of the internal revenue service
and arraigned before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock on COM
plant charging him with attempting
to obstruct justice. Assistant United
States Attorney Benjamin De Witt told
Commissioner Hitchcock that Browne
stone had offered to pay Internal Rev
nue. Agent Nathaniel Gropper $500
II ne would so testify as to destroy
1he governments case against Jay We
Der, secretary of the Pictorial Review
Company. Weber was arrested and in
dlcted on charge Of falsifying in
come tax returns, and is now out in
$4,000 bail awaiting trial.
- The complaint, sworn to by Internal
Revenue Inspector R. H. Oyler, charges
"on information and belief" tnat on
July l Brownestone offered to pay
Gropper the sum mentioned if he would
change his testimony. Oyler explains
that the sources of his information and
the grounds for his belief are official
Investigations made by him and GER
between Gropper and Brownestone He
said Brownestone offered Gropper
money with which to leave the coun-
try until the case was finished, and
frequently sought to obtain informa-
tlon from him as to the evidence the
government had in the Weber prose-
cutlon. Most of the alleged conversa-
tlons in which Brownestone offered
money to Gropper were overheard by
other government agents, according to
Mr. De Witt
guilty before Commissioner Hitchcock
and was held in $4,000 bail for the
Federal Grand Jury A surety COM
pany furnished the bail
Isaac Weinstein, a furrier of 121
West Twenty-seventh Street; A. N.
Leventhal, furrier Of West Thir-
tieth Street, and Samuel Bloom, a
dealer in woollen goods, of 34 West
Twenty-seventh Street, who were in
dicted by the Federal grand jury on
Wednesday on a charge of conspirinr
with the Sterling Accounting and Audit
Company of 366 Fifth Avenue, to de-
fraud the government in the payment
OF income taxes, yesterday appeared
before Judge Knox in the Federal Dis
trlct Court and entered pleas of not
guilty. They were held in $4,000 bail
each. According to the Indictment
ment out of approximately 100000 in
income taxes.
Morris Rachmil and A. Lincoln Sam
uclson, partners in the Sterling Com
pany, who were named as co-conspir-
ators in the indictments, also appeared
before Judge Knox and entered tenta-
tive pleas of not guilty. They were
held in $1,000 additional bail for each
Indictment, making their total bail
$4,000.
Other prosecutions are pending
against clients of the Sterling concern.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Teacher to Pay Cost
OF DIR. Wilkins's Funeral
Believed in His Innocence,
Though She Did Not Know
Him, and Orders Cremation
SDeciaI Corrcsnondence

CpeceGb correspondence
MINEOLA, L. l., July 3.--Mrs May
L. Stacy, Of 435 Bergen Street, Brook
lyn. has provided funds for the crema-
tion of the body OF DR.. Walter Keene
wilkins, convicted wife murderer and
suicide, and for the burial of his
ashes beside the body of his wife. I'm
til Mrs. Stacy gave the money it was
believed Dr.. Wilkins's body would be
inferred in potter's field for lack of
burial money.
The cremation will take place Satur-
day. Interment of the ashes beside the
body of Mrs. Wilkins in Woodlawn
Cemetery is in accordance with de-
sire expressed ir her will.
Mrs. Stacy is a music teacher She
did not know DR.. wilkins, but fol-
lowed the course of his trial with in
terest and sympathy and was con-
vinced of his innocence. She wrote sew
eral letters expressing her belief in
Aim which he received in the county
iail here
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Jury, Out 8 Hours,
Acquits Mrs. Skeels
Frees Nurse L'lndgren, Who.
Propped in Pillows, Denied
Giving Fatal Potion

LAWRENCE, Mass, July 3.-Mrs.
Bessie M. (Skeels) Lundgren, charged
with having murdered Miss Florence
w. Gay, Of Andover, in December, 1917.
while acting as her nurse, was found
not guilty by jury here tonight.
Mrs. Lundgren became weak while
waiting nearly nine hours for the Jury
to report, and was attended by her
physician. She was pale when brought
into the court room to hear the YER
dict, which was announced by Foreman
Perry A. Newhall at 9:32 o'clock. The
jury had been out eight hours and
fortyfour minutes.
Judge Thayer cautioned the fiftv
spectators against making a demon
stration, but there was applause when
the foreman said Not guilty"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
n. Y. Woman Is Fatally
Hurt When Car Skids

MORRIS, Conn, July 3-Mrs. Eda
A'kush. sixty-hve, of New York City.
was fatally hurt in the upset Of IN
automobile to-day, and Edward Mcae
her, an instructor at Camp Columbia.
and Miss Dorothy Langdon. both Of
New York. were injured Mrs. Frank
Mc!ndoc. daughter Of Mrs. Arkush, who
vas driving, and Murray Saunders, a
student at Camp Columbia, received
contusions.
The party we're returning from m
entertainment at Camp Columbia to
their stopping place, during the niyh..
1he machine skidded in sandy place
and toppled over an eighteen-foot bank
to dry culvert. All were pinned under
tho machine ~ several hours.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Troops of Rhine Army
Return ON Wilhelmina
Men of 5lst Pioneer Infantry
Among l,8Ol Who Arrived
Yesterday

The transport Wilhcfmina b1Ought
home yesterday 1901 officers and men
of the A. E. F., the a;ority of the
soldier passenger complement being
men of the 51st Pioneer Infantry
winch had been with the army of occu-
patton since the signing of the armis-
tice. Their chief duty in German terri
tory was guarding railroads and
bridges. The men returned in COM
inand of Colonel James Gilbreth of the
regular army.
Captain H. B. Anderson, of the old
10th Infantry of Albany, the Pioneers
regimental adjutant, said although the
organization had gone through the St
Mihiel, Argonne and Meuse offensives
its casualties were not large.