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New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Homeless Sailor
So Despondent He
Leaps Into Ocean
Chief Engineer Calls Life
Useless Proposition; Prof.
Bryan Returns from So.
Sea Islands With Beetles

Alexander Tweedie, chief engineer on
the Grace Line steamer Santa Teresa,
jumped overheard while the vessel was
az sea and was drowned. Officers of
the ship, which arrived yesterday from
South American ports, told of his sui
eide
1t was on May s, off Callao. Tweedie
was downhearted and complaining Of
the usclessness Of life without home
"Y oure young yet" replied one Of the
passengers. Maybe So" said Tweedie,
who was forty. Then he walked to the
after deck and vaulted over the rail into
the sea.
An alarm was sounded. but the ship
was going fast and it was some time
before she lay to. John Vandcrchute,
chief officer and D. +. Molony, ships
doctor, put off in boat Twcede was
found, but he died.
Professor William A. Bryan. of the
University of Hawaii. was on board
with boxes full of bugs and beetles
and botanical specimens from the South
Sea Islands. He told of the lcthargy
of the tropical islands, where the
natives. who had not seen a steamship
their heads to look at his ship when
it appeared.
On the Easter Islands he met with
a problem. i've hundred monolths,
carvings on the hewn rock, from eight
20 forty feet high, were found fifteen
miles from the nearest rock forma-
tions. He could not ascertain how
people, without any mechanical devices
or means of transportation, moved
these great pieces Of rock fifteen miles.
Another passenger was William W.
Smith, Of Cincinnati. Charge d'Afaires
of the United States at Lima. Peru.
He is going to Washington to serve
in the Latin-American division OF the
State Department.
He spoke CT the possibilities in Peru.
A branch Of the National City Bank
and branch Of the Bank of America
have been established in Lima, he said,
and American interests seem to be
favored
Mining companies. he declared. are
prepared to spend S3O,0O0oOO for i'm
provements and oil companies seeking
concessions are planning to expend
S70.0O0OO0.
Bishop Jose Maria Caro-, of Iouiqui,
Chill, also arrived on his way to max e
his annual visit to the Pope With him
was Bishop Luis s. Lazalta, of Anto-
fag&sta, Chill.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Passport Agent Warns
Against Men with Pull
Many Persons Fleeced bv Those
Claiming Influence With
State Department

Ira f. Hoyt, passport agent of the
Department of State at the Custom
House, warned the public yesterday
not to pay any unofficial agents" who
asserted that they could expedite the
Issuance of passports by cxcrting in
fuence. He served notice also on all
such "unotficial agents" that they had
become pest and he asked the De
partment Of Justice to rout them.
The number Of persons applying
Tor passports had been increasing
steadily for several months, he said,
and considerable proportion of the
applicants came in with their blanks
made out and confident that he would
have to give them right of way because
they had paid from SO to $50 to a
"fxcr"
81 have given instructions" said Mr..
Hoyt, that no application is to be
received if the applicant has had any
dealings with these gougers. We can
ascertain readily whether any of these
men with pull have had anything
to do with the making out of applica
tion blanks and we refuse to forward
such papers to Washington."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Gang Accused of
Stealing $50O,0O0
Goods From Docks
Prisoner Is Charged With
Presenting Forged Bill
of Lading and Order
for $l.5OO of Hosiery

Chargf>.-Y 9Ast an organized gang Of
thieves has sto4en more than half a
million dollars worth of goods from
North River docks in the last six
months, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant
District Attorney, asked Magistrate
Sweetser. in the jefferson Market Court
yesterday, to hold Eugene Mccormack ,
twenty-three years old, of 49 Ridge
Street. on a charge of attempted grand
larceny. Bail was denied and his ex-
animation set for May 81.
Mccormack is charged with present.
ing bill of lading at Pier 46 of the
Jersey Central Railroad. together with
letter purporting TO be written on be-
half of the Duke Hosiery Company, Of
81 Allen Street, directing the railroad
officials to turn over to Mccormack
three cases Of hosiery valued at 81 500
The letter. it is alleged, was a fake
When railroad officials telephoned to
the Duke Company to obtain q confir-
nation of the order, the police say,
they were Informed that no bll of lad,
ing for these goods had been received
by the company and no person had been
authorized to receive the shipment Nc
Cormack, who, the police say. has been
convicted previously. was held by the
railroad officials and turned over by
them to the police 1t is alleged that
another bill of lading calling for SIS
worth of merchandise routed over the
Erie Railroad was found on the man.
MIR. Driscoll said he believed there
was an organized conspiracy to rob New
York merchants through the prescnta-
ton of unauthorized bills OF lading.
There have been, he said hundreds Of
cases OF such thefts from railroad piers
IN the North River in the last six
months. The bills Of lading, the AS
sistant District Attorney said, were
stolen from the mails and presented by
truckmen who had no right to their
possession. SO frequent had the rob
berries by this means become that the
railroad officials were forced to take
the extra precautions
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Nicky in Court as Boy
Admits Stealing Bonds
Arnstein Pleads Not Guilty to
Handling Securities That
BunOra p;Ifered

While "Nicky" Arnstein was pleading
not guilty yesterday before Judge
Grain to three indictments charging
hlm with grand larceny and receiving
stolen property, Herbert Bunora. a
nineteen year-o old messenger, was plead
ing guilty in another branch of Gen
eral Sessions to the theft Of $4,000
worth of the very securities that Arm
stein is accused of handling.
Bunora and his brother. Rudolph,
who pleaded guilty to similar charge,
will be used as witnesses against Ara
stein, Assistant District Attorney
Dooling said. Judge Malone remanded
the Bunoras to the Tombs for sentence
on May 28
Arnstein, debonair as usual, came to
the Criminal Courts Building with At
torneys Eugene F. McGee and James
". Osborne I'd, who, with William J.
failon, will defend him. Mr.. McGce
reserved the right to make any neces-
sary motions within a week. He init
mated he would apply for permission
10 inspect the minutes of the grand
jury which indicted his client.
Mr.. Doohng called Judge Grains at
tentlon to the fact that when Arnstcin
gave himself up Saturday and was
taken INTO court he had been arraiened
upon only two of the three ind;ct.
ments against him. The third. which
apparently had been overlooked
charges him with criminally rcccivinp
the 22O shares of Crucibe Steel stock
which Herbert Bunora has admjtted Il
stealing.
-Jadge Grain remarked that the
s'o,Voo pan he had set had been based
On the other two1ndlctments only, but
ne sad he would not increase "Nickys
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Denounced by Court as
Miserable Degenerate
Father Of Sister-in-Law's Child
Sentenced to From Five
to Ten Years

Denounced by County Judge Gibbs as
one Of the most miserable degeneratcs
that ever stood before the bar of ius-
tlce,' John J. Nelson. of 1912 Teller
Avenue, the Bronx, was sentenced YES
terday to from five to ten wears in Sing
sing. He had been indicted and had
pleaded guilty to charges brought in
behalf Of Corrine Gerken, thirteen. Of
4ol East 165th Street, his wife's sister.
Nelson. who was a streetcar con-
ductor, was arrested a month ago. when
the police of the Morrisania station re-
celved an anonymous communication
telling them of the conditions in the
Nelson home. An investigation dis
closed that Nelson was the father of
child born to Corrine, who still wears
short dresses and hardly looks her ape
In his defense the prisoner told
Judge Gibbs he was intoxicated when
the assault occurred. Mrs Nelson made
q plea for mercy for her husband. She
said he was good husband. tenn
perate and lovable.' Judge Gibbs or
dered her from the courtroom while he
pronounced sentence.
"The punishment | am going to mote
out to you is hardly adequate for the
crime of which you have been convict
ed" the court said. "You are SEN
fenced to serve not less than five years
and no more than ten years in states
prison"
1t is understood that Ms Nelson has
-. u '--~' - - 49, l,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Court Inclined to Grant
Divorce 10 Mrs. Connors
Testimony on Husbands Diarv
and Convict's Deposition
Will Be JonOred

Nice-Chancellor Lewis of JERSEY C;ty
announced yesterday at the conclusion
OF testimony in the divorce snjt
brought by Mrs Elizabeth coppell Con-. CON-.
nors. Of Tenaly, against Robert D
,Connors, that he was inclined to gram
her petition. He said he would ignore
testimony dealing with Connors's
Diary and the deposition OF a convict
both Of which were introduced by coun.
sci for Mrs. Connors.
Connors left the diary in the safe in
his wife's home when she ordered him
out in October, 1919. Witnesses said
that before departing he took a re-
yolver and some money from the safe.
lhe deposition Of the prisoner was
tnat he had met Connors at hotel in
Newark with woman whom Connors
introduced as his wife
Mrs. Connors, who is the dauohte,
OF George Coppcll, railroad builder.
named Helen May Oakley, Tenafly
m'Illner. as correspondent. Miss Oak
ley testified that Connors never had
displayed any etfection for her nor had
she for him. Connors, a chauffeur in
the Coppell household before his mar
riage, testified to the same effect. He
said his wif" didn't talk enough, but
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
-Four M,ynaen Are Guests
At Hen1:ys Victory Dinner
300 Friends of the Recently Acquitted Po
lice Inspector Entertain in His Honor
Surprsed He Says, But Had Prepared Speech

Friends Of Inspector Henry, includ-
Ing four members of the jury that ac-
quilted him at tho courts direction of
neglect of duty last Friday, gave him
n victory entertainment and recep-
ton" last night at Academy Hall, lis
West Seventy ninth Street
1t was explained in the invitations
that the party was in honor of In
spector Henry, whose acquittal BY
the highest tribunal has brought Joy
to lovers of righteousness and jus-
tice.' In returun, about thre hundred
of the lovers of righteousness and JUS
tice brought JOY and Inspector Henry
to Academy Hall.
Surprise to Me. Says Henry
They brought their wives, too, if
they had them to bring, and Inspector
Henry brought his and led the grand
march to the buffet supper with her
at midnight. Inspector Henry said it
was all a surprise to him. He admitted
at 1905 a. m. that he had a suspicion
that somebody might ask him to make
speech. If anybody should ask him,
he said, why he'd make one, but he
couldn't tell until he got started what
he would say.
ut all came as big surprise to
me-" he said. 81 didn't hear anything
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

about 1t until this morning. Then I
asked the persons who invited me what
it was all about, and they said it was
a mplimentary dinner in the form
of victory dinner
II asked who was giving it and they
said the business men Of the district
were giving it,"
Four Jurymen Present
The members of the Henry jury who
attended were James f. Simpson. fore
man; Walter II. Marshal. Clarence c.
Nichols and James Goldstein. William
+. Murphy, who was associated with
Bourke Cochran as counsel for Henry
and used to be a police scrcant, was
another lover of righteousness and
justice.
With the exception of the guest of
honor. police officers of higher rank
than captain were conspicuous by their
absence Of the four captains present,
only one, William Davis, Of the West
Tooth Street police station, comes fran
Inspector Henry's district.
There were numerous ieutenants
and policemen of lower rank among the
guests, and the Fire Department was
represented by Chief Kenlon and
Honorary Deputy Chief Robert II.
Manner
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Case of r. Cuglielmi
How He Was Detained as Wit
ness Only and Soon Released

Ihe Tribune some time ago publish ed
an article given out by the District
Attorneys Office. telling of the arrest
and detention OF Rodolfo Guglielmi,
under an order of the Court of Gen
eral Sessions. as a material witness
against a policeman who had been in
dicted on charges OF accepting bribes
from keepers of questionable resorts
III the Tenderloin The article quoted
the District Attorneys office as saying
that it was expected that Mr. Gugliel-
mi would disclose information of i'm
portance in it's investigation of vice
and blackmal conditions.
Mr.. Guglielmi was not taken into
custody upon any criminal charp.. The
Tribune did not assert or ir.end. to
assert the contrary and it neither made
nor intended to make any reflection
upon him. He was detained only as an
expected witness against others. and
when 1T appeared that there was no
charge and no evidence that he had
committed any offense, he was speedily
rs'H%Sed from custody by order of the
Supreme Court Mr.. Guglielmi, for
merlv a professional dancer, has re-
Gently entered the motion picture field
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Jelly Dance Is Barred
White Plains Police Order Nine.
Muscle to Stop Exhibitions

Mime. Muscle, who has been doing
Jelly dance" at a carnival in White
Plains. was instructed yesterday
by Police Commissioner Frank Jarvis
of that city, to put the dance on the
shelf.
She had been jelly dancing since
Monday and even the Chamber of Com
merce saw her The Chamber of Com
merce decided unanimously that the
Plains and sent committee to de-
scribe it TO the Mayor. So faithful was
,he description that the Mayor called
~ tho Police Commissioner at once
i hc Police Commissi sioner called
Gown W. Nr~clo
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Chauffeur Held i'm Murder
Admits He Drove Four Men TO
Fishbein Home

Louis Shapsai, 1876 South Second
Street. Brooklyn. admitted, yesterday,
according to Assistant District Attor-
ney Dneen, that he had driven four men
to the home OF Solomon Fishbein, IT
Second Avenue Sunday night, before
Fishbein was murdered. Shapsai was
committed to the House of Detention
as a material witness.
Mr. Dineen said the chauffeur failed
to identify Joseph Herman, of St.
Marks Place, one of four men under
arrest, charged with the murder He
would not say whether the witness had
been able to identify the others. He
said he is satisfied the case is cleared
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Humidity
e. 50 p. M. 81 sp. m
Barometer Readings
d. m "o'oi p. n. 5000 sp m. .
General Weather Conditions

General Weather Conditions
" WASH1NGTON, May 19-Pressure ra-
mans generally low, although rising in tha
upper lake region and the North,ve,,
mere are, however. distu-bances of
Gus ooaseouehce. Cloudy weather prevails
oeer @ the eastern half of the country. ox-
cept in tho Sou,h, and there we're genara1
showers in the central vall.va M lsta
region. the south Atlantic states and -
south portion OF the middle AtIantic Az
,ilct In the northeast and the extreTne
Nesl the weather was generally fair.
Aehpera tures are higher, as a rule, ex-
cept IN the Northwest and in the Son, :
vest and extreme West they are much
above the seasonal average
There VIII be local showers Thursday In
me lower lake region and the middle Al
lanNo states. reaching New England bv
lhursoay night. Local showers are also
prooa ble Thursday in Indiana and south-
INC weather Will be generally fair Thurs
day and Friday east OF tho Missjsstnni
RlveT- 1t viii be somewhat warmer Thur
day in the interior of the south Atlantic
States-
Cloudy Thursday. proba bly, local showers.
FRIDAY partly cloudy
Delaware and New Jersey-lInsettled
Thursday, probably showers; Friday part
ly cloudy, little change in temperature.
Eastern Pennsylvania--Cloudy Thursday
prooab bly, showers; Friday. partly cloudy.
little change in Temperature
Southern New Engiand-CIoudv Thurs
cloudy. "''''
Western New York-Local showers
Thursday, Friday. partly cloudy
western PennsylNania-PartIv cloudy
Thursday end Friday, ii'tle change in tom
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Stop to think II over and
get busy

All storekcepers and creators of ner-
Chandise have had three or four active years
in which they were compelled by sea. :ities
and rising wages to pay just what the
makers Of goods demanded.
So it was that everything mounted higher
and highez-and the prices soared
Now we have come to stopping place
1t is possible to unite with the manufac-
turers, commission houses and selling agents
to begin lowering prices, if even only little.
The people ct the top have had long turn;
then let the people at the bottom have
at least beginning Of their turn, to get some
consideration.
Let the first hands speculating in raw
materials take smaller profits and the high
wage people speed up their machinery to
add to the output that costs may be reduced,
and the retailers will do their part to reduce
expenses and bring around lower cost of
living.
We getting in Some new goods every
day to fill up the places Of what we sold
last week, which we turn over at the slight
ly lowered figures.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Speaking for the
Manufacturers

Stanley A. Sweet, of New York
City, president of the international
Association of Garment Manufacture
ers, is reported in the New York
World to have said at the annual con-
vention at st. Louis: "The manufact-
urer is as anxious for price reduc-
tions as the consumer, and present
prices will decline when readjustment
is brought about in other lines"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

best to get orders where a short tino
ago they did not know where thew
were going to get the shoes to fn
their orders"
FROM ST. LOUIS: 'No sweepinc
assertion can describe the present
trend Of prices, although it seems to
be the general belief among the lead.
ers in the business, manufacturers
wholesalers and retailers, that the
peak of high prices has been reached
and that prices on all necessities will
soon go off the high places and 90
back to normal"
FROM OMAHA: Lumber has
dropped 10 per cent. in the last ten
days."
FROM CINCINNATI: "The heav.
lest price sacrifices in merchandise at
retail known in this city during the
past quarter century,"
FROM DETROIT: Nearly every
retail advertisement for the past few
days announces reductions averaging
20 per cent"
FROM LOUISVILLE: -Four or
five Louisville merchants have put
into effect cuts in goods here, mostly
shoes and seasonable merchandise,
which has had a strong influence on
prices in many other lines of goods"
FROM SAN FRANCISCO: "The
department stores are in the midst of
price war which has resulted in a
drop in clothing, mems and womens
furnishings and notions ranging from
20 to SO per cent"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
will carry business back to
normal conditions"

Its course may move slowly at the start,
but it must go forward decisively when all
holders of merchandise
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
"There is a general feeling

that the series of price reductions
sporadically announced in various parts
of the country indicates the inminence
of a movement that
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

TTIshfst Y degrees Cat Il:15 a. my:
lowest. 90 degrees tat a. N); average
% ueBfres, average same date last wear
~ degrees; average same date for thlrtv
three years. 60 degrees '''' -
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

.WANAMAE
Broadway at 400
he wallarlaker '20per cent. Off E7
waue nov sweeping the country is the
getting frontpage spreads in great
I'm SSDite of nothing
[imid Reactionaries o "'"s'
this Effort to Set The best to get
InWqr Prices Chicago % ns 'e ;
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f1 @ ?aas % cities spfsa hs % 1ey'fos to assertion n %
of promised reductions be gene
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Guaranty from its own correspondents reports and that
COMPANY that the % s1eat preeuins wvs back nor
include included % Such s towns the Tsst Sss+s as
Knoxe o"ma City, ssn %n dropped 10
% ;$: were fro" 20 50 per cen" lest EsGs sss
East and West-from Boston to San FROM D
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New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
The New York Times

announces the "price-cutting wave in
East and West-from Boston to San
Francisco-that a "wide range of
goods is now affected, and that in
some cities is resulting IN very SEN
sible reduction of the cost of living"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
The Merchants Page

of the Sunday New York Times an
nounced under the heading Prices
are down to stay" that retail prices
have come down to stay and the pri-
mary markets will have to accommo-
date themselves to the new condi
tions."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

ora shows temperatures during the last
tWehty-tour hours, in comparison with the
COrreS eSNON0inC date of la
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Weather Report

Sun rises. :35 am Sun sets .. I'LL pm
Moon rises. 657 am. Moon sets. $50 pm
The hours given above refer to standard
and not New York city time.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
The New York Tribune

announces that bankers of tie coun-
try attending a conference with the
Federal Reserve Board in Washing
ton pledged themselves to help in the
drive on high prices, Governor Hard
ing stating that "it is evident the
country cannot continue to advance
prices and wages, to curtail produc-
tons, to expand credits, and attempt
to enrich itself by non-productive
operations and transactions without
fostering discomfort and radicalism."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Striped Silk Bl0uses

Tailored blouses in vivid colors and
in black and white; very smart for
tennis and other sports and particu-
larly suitable to wear with the typical
sports suit. In cherry color and white
yellow and white and combinations of
blue and green. Also in black and
white. $8.75.
GO per cent. Off
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
I'm Spite of
Timid Reacti0naries
this Effort to Set
Lower Prices

is telling favoraby from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast.
A Wall Street circular says:
underlying conditions are not right
Everything is artificial and fictitious, and
it is inevitable that before there can be
any further sound expansion i'll industry
rcadjustmcnts must take place. This
price reduction begun by John Wana-
maker is an important sign. 1t has only
started the coming wave Of denation."
The Great Guaranty Trust
Company
of New York, says, according to the Sun
Herald of Yesterday:
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

Local FOrccast-Cloudy to day, probably
local showers; tomorrow partly cloudy
moderate south Winds
New-York tribune., 1920-05-20

from it's own correspondents reports
that the "great price-cutting wave"
included such towns in the west as
Topeka, ST. Louis, Tacoma, Seattle,
San Francisco, Omaha, Minneapolis,
Knoxville, Oklahoma City, San An
tonic, and Waco, where reductions
were from 20 to so per cent.