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New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
$2,799,476 Rents
aid i'm p Years
To AstOr Trustees
Other Items Collected for
Fund Gave Millionaire
ESecluse an Income for
Period of Near 3 Millions

Charles T. Brown, appointed ref
cree to pass on the accounts of the
trustees of the Henry Astor trust fund
completed his report for the Supreme
Court yesterday. Mr. Astor was a
member of the famous family of mil
lionaires, though he, had been estranged
from his relatives since 1869, when
he married the daughter of a gar
dener The trust was made for the
benefit of himself during his lifetime
and for his immediate relatives after
his death. He died June Z, 1918.
Trustees for Mr.. Astor We're Charles
A. Peabody and Lewis Spencer. Thier
chief duty was management of the
many valuable parcels of land owned
by their principal in New York City
The report shows that between April
%, 1892, and February IA, 1914, the
rents of these properties amounted to
$2,799,476. Other items brought the
total income for this period up to
S2,953,295.
Of this amount Mr.. Astor received
remittances for $2,198,796. The bal
ance was spent for repairs, upkeep
and other expenses.
From February IA, 1914, to May %,
1914, the property yielded $S4,64O, of
which Mr.. Astor received $51 ,592. From
May 2S. 1914. to May /, 1917, the trust
income was S769,74O and Mr.. Astor re-
ceived S7G0,74o. From then to June T,
1913, MIR. Astor received $235,701 from
an income Of 1921 900.
A score of heirs will participate in
the division of the estate The largest
share, one-sixth, will go to Arthur
Astor Carey. This was assigned some
time ago to the Old Colony Trust Com
pany of Boston. Many of the heirs
Will receive as little as one-sixtieth
of the estate. Among them are:
Henry Roosevelt Robinson, James
Roosevelt Robinson ir, Charlotte Au-
gusta Haig, Caroline Schermerhorn
Wilson, William Vincent Astor, Alice
Muriel Astor, John Jacob Astor. Mary
Val Allen Thompson, James Laurcns
Allen, Sarah Steward Collier, Hubert
de Stucrs, Margaret Stuers Oberndorf
Louis Zvorowski, Arthur Astor Carey,
Winthrop Astor Chanler, William Astor
Chanlcr, Louis Stuyvesant Chanler.
Robert Winthrop Chanler, John Arm
strong Chaloner, Elisabeth Winthrop
Chapman, Margaret Livingston Aldrich.
Aida Beekman Emmett
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Magistrate Declares
Underworld Backs
Bonding g Companies
McAdoo Charges Thieves
Loot Is Put Up as Collat-
eral When Surety Con-
Germs Give Bail for Crooks

Chief Magistrate William McAdoo de-
clared yesterday he believed there
exists en- underworld organization
which indemnifies bonding companies
that furnish bail for crooks, out Of
fund collected from the swag of Grim
inals.
"For example," he said, ga group of
men is before me charged with crime.
From their appearance they are gang
sters and from their records they are
criminals. Bail for these men is fixed
let US suppose, at $4,000 each. Almost
Immediately a professional bondsman
Will appear with the necessary amount
"The underworld is now closely
federated affair, beyond any doubt. 1t
appears to ME, from what l know of
criminal operations in New York, to
be entirely reasonable to suppose that
these loft robbers and truck robbers
and kindred criminals have an organi-
cation which supplies the collateral for
such bonds.
1T has been reported to me-I have
not yet been able to investigate the
report, but l shall do so-that one of
the agents for bonding company
doing business with the city courts is
himself wellknown figure in the
underworld and has criminal record.
II think that it is necessary that
not only the professional bondsmen
should be licensed and placed under
careful supervision, but that the
agents OF the companies should also
be subjected to a careful examination
as to their past records and character
Another evil which l would like to
see eradicatcd is the colusion which
some times exists between certain
lawyers and certain professional bonds
men. Working together, in some cases,
the. lawyer and the bondsman can
both make handsome profits out of
even $1,000, which they can make
cover three cases and have released
IN day or so, all ready for use again"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
TabIeauN
Hist0riQues
de Musique
In the Auditorium
Today at 2:3O

In the Auditorium
Today at 2:30
Illustrating the development Of
% the Piano; (2) the Dance;
CD the Art Of Music.
First Tableau-The Spinet-
Eighteenth Century-the Boy Mo-
zart plays at Court.
Second Tableau-The Square
Piano = Nineteenth Century -
Jenny Lind's Music Room; the
original Chickering piano made
for Jenny Lind will be used.
Third Tabieau-The Chicken
lng-Ampico Reproducing Piano. A
music room of today.
LINDLAY LENTON and BEA-
TRICE SGUIRES in dances under
the direction of Sergei Partako-
witch, of the Russian Ballet School.
LOIS BENNETT, soprano, as
Jenny Lind.
CLAIRE RIVERS, pianist.
JEROME RAPPAPORT, eight
year-old child prodigy, as the Boy
Mozart.
ALEXANDER RUSSELL and ].
THURSTON NOE, at the organ
and piano.
NOTE-The music, dances, cos
tunes and stage setting will be in
the period of each tableau. Admis-
sion complimentary. All music
lovers invited.
First Gallery, New Building.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Patrolman, Acquitted,
Is Held on New Charge
Morris Is Rearrested on In
dictments Alleging Bribery
and Perjury

Patrolman John Morris of the Alex
ander Avenue station, who recently
was acquitted on a charge of robbery
and later rearrested on bribery
charge, was arrested again yesterday.
A bench warrant was served on him as
he entered the Alexander Avenue sta
tion to make report required Of all
suspended patrolmen.
The bench warrant was handed down
after he was indicted by the January
grand jury of Bronx County on three
counts, one alleging bribery and two
subornation of perjury. After his ar
rest yesterday the patrolman was ar
raigned before Justice Vernon M.
Davis in the Trial Term of the Supreme
Court, Bronx County, and held in $500
bail on each os the counts. This brings
the total bail of Morris at the present
time up to $4,000. He was held in
$4,000 bail by Justice Tierney on his
first indictment on a robbery charge.
Incidents that arose during the trial
of Morris on the robbery charge led
to the recent controversy between
County Judge Louis D. Gibbs and Dis
trict Attorney Francis Martin of
Bronx County.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Mrs. Oppenheimer Drops
Defense i'm Divorce Suit
Master Recommends Decree Af.
ter Hearing of Her Relations
With COresnOndent

photograph of a ladder braced
against the window of her bedroom in
Miami, Fla, bungalow, and the tes-
timony of a former housekecper as to
the use to which it was put, caused
Mrs. Otto H. Oppenheimer, wife of a
wealthy leather manufacturer, to quit
defending a divorce action before Spe-
cial Master in Chancery Nicholas W..
Bindsell, in Newark, N. j., yesterday.
The special master recommended a de-
cree for the husband.
Mrs. Edith F. Alley testified that
Mrs. Oppenheimer had taken her into
her conhdnce in regard to her rela-
tions with Wade J. Harley, the CO.
respondent. She said Harley used to
visit the house when Oppenheimer was
playing golf on the Miami links and
virtually lived there when the leather
man was away on business.
When Oppenheimer was home at
night, Mrs. Alley testified, the wife
would go to her room early, lock the
door and then wait till Harley flashed
signal on the window from his autoI
mobile searchlight Then, the house.
keeper said, Mrs. Oppenheimer would
climb down the ladder and join him
on the beach.
Mrs. Oppenheimer lives with her
parents in Waterbury, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Thieves Rob Messengers
OF So, 600; Escape in Car
Policeman's Taxi Stalls il
Snow1rift and Ambulance
Proves Too Slow

Two messengers carrying the $4,000
payroll of Simon Ascher & Co., deal
ers in knit goods. 2433 Third Avenue
the Bronx, were held up and robbed
yesterday by two men at Lincoln Ave
nuc and 136th Street. The robbers
leaped into an automobile and escaped
although pursued by the police.
Sol Meyer and Sidney Marks had
Just drawn the money from the Twen-
ty-third Ward Bank, Third Avenue and
137th Street. The men attacked them,
and Marks was knocked into cellar.
Meyer surrendered the satchel when a
pistol was pointed at his head. The
pair then leaped into the automobile,
which stood at the curb with its motor
racing and a man at the wheel.
The car shot across 18TH Street to
Willis Avenue and turned south. Pa
trolman Majewski pursued it, first in
q taxi, which got stuck in snow
drift, and then in an ambulance from
lincoln Hospital. but the thieves made
. clean gst1N&N
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Germany Appeals for Food
To Prevent Starvation

Food shipments to Germany during
the next four months are necessary to
prevent starvation among German chill
dren, according to cable message re-
celved from Berlin and made public
yesterday by A. Barton Hepburn, of the
Chase. National Bank and chairman of
the American Relief Committee for
German Children.
The message read:
Gravest food crisis will be in March,
April and May: To prevent starvation
OF many children in Germany food
stuns must arrive in large quantities
during the next four months. Not in
June and July: None here sees way
out un!ess 1ood for thousands of chill
oren Is provided from America"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
City y.Over Peak
As Flu Cases
Begin to Drop
Steady Decrease in InAu-
enza Looked For Unless
Storm Conditions Give
New Life to Epidemic
Cost Not so Great as 1913
Health Authorities Are Win
ming Pneumonia Battle;
Snow Removal Demanded

.nless there is setback as re-
suit of the storm conditions, the peak
in the influenza epidemic has already
passed, Dr.. Royal S. Copeland, Health
Commissioner, announced yesterday.
Figures on the visitation yesterday
showed a fulfillment of his prediction
on Thursday, when he said there
would be decline all along the line,
as there was decrease in new cases
of influenza and pneumonia. and in
deaths from both diseases. The stats-
tics gathered by the Health Depart
ment for the chart day ended at 10
o'clock yesterday morning, show a
falling off of 51S new cases and eighty
four deaths from THE two diseases, as
against the figures for Thursday The
table follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
3 Sentenced for Auto Thefts

Federal Judge Thomas l. Chatfeld
in Brooklyn, Yesterday sentenced three
men to the Federal penitentiary at At
lanta for theft of automobile acces-
SORES from the government reservation
at Fort Hamilton. George Shinkle,
twenty years old, of $50 Eighty-sixth
Street, Brooklyn, and Carl Hansen,
eighteen years old, of 81 PARROT Place,
were each sentenced to one year and
day. Frank Andre, of 671 Eighty-sixth
Street. was sentenced to two years.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Good morning!
This is February Z!
The weather to-day will
probably be clearing.
A common black
tea pot in
James Watts home

with its lid Tapping up and down
on the hot stove in his mothers
kitchen, is said to have led a small
fourteen-ycar-old boy, born on
January 10, 1896, to realize the ex-
pansive force of steam, and in 1882
he invented the condensing steam
engine.
This incident ranks with Isaac
Newton's falling apple, Robert
Brucc's spider, Galvani's frog,
Galileo's swinging lamp and Ben
Jamin Franklin's electric kite.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
A Delicious
French Perfume
At u very small cost

At q gerry small cost
From Paris came to us, recently new French
perfume which sold quickly because of it's instant
popularity Now we have shipment in three
delightful odors-
-Jasmn -Chypre -Muouat
Put up in the most attractive little French bot
ties SO that it has all the quality and appearance of
an expensive French Perfume at 800
Wanna Ruff-Skin
This indispensable lotion for chapped hands and
1aces makes winter a successful season. Many peo-
pie who have tried innumerabe elaborate and ex-
pensive cold creams and other lotions have taken to
WANNA RUFF-SK1N. 1t has the supreme advan-
tage of not being oily in any way
37c the four-ounce bottle
Main floor, Old Building
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Silk stockings
you neUer car, haze
enough of then,

tull-fashioned silk stockings. with mercerized
top; double toe, sole and heel, in black, white Ha-
vana brown and medium gray, at $3.50 a pair
Al-silk stockings, with mercerized toe, in bronze
= Cordovan negre, medium and dark gray, as we'll as
black and white; also number with Isle toe heel
and welt, in black and white; So 65 pair
prices quoted include tax
Main floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
The City of Boston
also had a Tea Party

that created stir throughout
Great Britain and brought on the
Revolutionary War.
The first use of electric lighting
of store was within the freight
station which we tore down to
erect our Philadelphia building.
The first use of pneumatic tubes
to carry money to the extent of
thirty heavy silver dollars was
patented after we introduced the
service as a saving of time to the
customer.
Great oaken ship timbers have
grown from seeds smaller than
lady's little finger.
Hardly anything in this world
is finished
New York and this Store as
useful part of it are just now
starting on a new career.
All hands on deck to pull to-
gether!
(SigncdD
.9@' 3'''""f
February 7, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
W0n1en's Suits
1880
Three models of serge: :
one of bureIIa cloth

The burella cloth model is in
beige, very simple and attractive,
lined with beige satin to match.
Sim and severely tailored lines
are broken by rows of narrow
folds on the pockets, accented by
buttons of brown bone. There
are pleats and button trimming
in the back.
The serge suits are all ex-
tremely simple models. Two are
quite plain, with tailored and
well-cut notch collars and string
belts. The third is braided. WITH
black silk in a latticed effect over
the pockets and on the cuffs. In
midnight blue. -
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Weather Report

Sun rises. :01 a. m. Sun sets. . 5 20 y. m.
Moon rises. 9 :22 p. m. Moon sets. S:27 a. m
Local Forecast.-Clearing to-day to-mor-
row partly cloudy. not much change in tenn
perature; diminishing northwest winds.
Local Official Record.-The following Of
fetal record shows temperatures during the
last twenty-four hours in comparison with
the cOrrnanOD1ipo date Of lae+ x,oo,.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.--The Atlantic
coast storm is now centered between Boston
and Portland, where the barometer has
cropped more than an inch during the last
forty-eight hours. There is no other well
marked storm center within the field of OBJ
servation and the barometer is generally low
east of the Rocky Mountains
Snow continues in northern New England
and eastern New York and rain still is fall
ing on the Massachusetts coast Elsewhere
near the storm center the weather has
cleared The temperature is close to the
somewhat above in the Missouri Valley and
portions of the Rocky Mountain region and
the plateau regions
The weather during the next forty-eight
hours will be fair except in northern New
England. northern New York and along the
Great Lakes, where snow is probable Light
snow is also probable in the Ohio Valley
tomorrow, and in southern PENNSYLVANIA
Maryland and the District of Columbia Sum
day. 1t will be somewhat cooler in New
Englands-Elsewhere the changes will be un-
important
Storm warnings are displayed on the At.
lantic coast from Eastport. Me-, to the Della
ware Breakwater and on the Washington
coast.
Forecasts for Special Observation-Disclosures
New fork-Clearing Saturday: Sunday part
ly cloudy. not much change in temperature
Eastern Pcnnsylvania--Fair Saturday, not
much change in temperature; Sunday unset
tied probably snow fiurres.
New Jeisey--Fair Saturday and probably
Sunday.
Southern New England--Clearing Satur-
day, slightly colder: Sunday fair
Western Pennsylvania and Western New
York-Snow furres Saturday; Sunday fair.
not much change in temperature.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07

I1IEHest temperature yesterday, 33 degrees
lat = p. m.) lowest, rs degrees (at a. m.) :
fverage. 29 degrees; average same date last
year. 81 degrees average same date for
thirty-three years. 80 degrees.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
New Wool Jersey Suits, $29.5O

If you in doubt about what sort of Spring suit
to get, you cannot make mistake in getting one of
these wool jersey suits to fill in until you have come
to decision because jersey suit is useful the year
round These suits in smart, severely tai
lored model, and come in plain colors and heather
'h'A'ures' Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07

The little suit-frock is the fashion of the
hour-and it's vogue will surely continue
throughout the Spring. 1t looks like a suit,
but has all the convenience of .one-piece
frock, as the accordion-pl -pleated skirt is joined
to the white crgandie guimpe and under
bodice, and the Eton jacket is fastened to the
underbodice of silk. Illustrated.
We have had this chic little costume made in the
new cross-barred worsted (Fashon's latest favor
ite), in navy blue with lavender, also plain navy
blue serge, tan with violet. $4950.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Humidity

s a. m.... 95l1 p. m... 1918 p. No.. 81
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
FrOCks of Tafefa, $39.75

Sketch shows the attractive use of tiny pleatings
we'll the smart silhouette of the model. Taf
feta is of commendable quaity--n dark brown
copenhagen and navy blues.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
General Weather Conditions

barometer Readings
a. ms 29.52l1 p. M. 29.42l8 y. M. 29.3S
New-York tribune., 1920-02-07
Today

the floors will hold thousands Of
answers to the eager question Of
New York home-makers, Where
can get GOOD furniture at low
price,?
Living-room and Library Furniture,
Fifth Gallery, New Building.
Bedroom and Dining room Furniture,
Sixth Gallery, New Building.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
Ponz Freed on
Cash Confidence
of Italian Friends
(By Universal Service)

BOSTON, Aug 15.-Loyal Italian
friends. who continue to believe that
Charles Ponzi is the wizard he once
appeared, have found for him a new
bondsman and the young sensation
will be brought from the East Cam
bridge Jail tomorrow morning and
released. His present bonds are $685.
900.
But according to the program.
the Italians tour Of liberty will be
short. The state Immediately will
confront him with fifty-three new
complaints on which he will be ar
rested. SO unless his friends, have
found a bondsman who is willing
to produce at least $25,000 more for
bail, Ponzi will go back to Jail.
Despite the boasts Of the Italian
yesterday that he would be out by
night and would pass Sunday mo
toring with Mrs. Ponzi in his new
limousine" the wizard" remained
in his cell. His continued environ
ment has not. made him unhappy,
however, and he seemed to be fairly
cheerful, passing the time reading
the Sunday papers and smoking Gig
arets.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
FIND STOLEN SILKS
AT P0CATELL0
Silks Stolen From Dye
Nero. at Firth Found
IN Deserted Building

Twelve bolts Of silk and . cheap
watch, goods identified, as having
been stolen from the Dye Mercan-
tile store of Firth, Wednesday morn
ing, August IL, were found Sunday
in an old foundry building north of
Pocatello now in use az a storage
warehouse. The sheriff's office
at Blackfoot was notified when the
owner Of the building happened up
TN the loot. A man who was sleep
ing in the old building was placed
under arrest on general suspicion.
The circumstances surrounding
the robbery at Firth have not as yet
furnished any clue as to the Of
tenders. Jack Kelso. army deserter,
who was held for a few days by
Sheriff Simmons as a suspect. dis
claimed any connection with the
theft, altho he had been in compa-
ny with two characters of porch
climbing propensities on the very
day Of the robbery. These other
two were never located from that
day to this. a a I'D
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
Stoclunen Will
Discuss Home
Hay c Consumption

On the evening of Saturday. Sep
tember 4, the stockmen's banquet
will be given at the Eccles hotel to
get acquainted with the representa-
tives of the buyers and packers who
come from the nearest big markets
1t is move made by our local
people to get in touch with these
firms and their methods Of handling
the business; to see what they want
and when they want it, how it should
be fed to get the best results, and
to enable farmers and stockmen to
plan for the fall and winter feed
ing to convert their abundant fodder
and pasturage into meat products.
Another matter which all farm
ers should keep in mind is that the
alfalfa weeyil is here, and it is go
ing to make lot of trouble in the
meadows. That will prevent our
shipping it out of the state, and it
becomes necessary for US to find
means of consuming the hay at
home. The weevil finds shelter in
trash, and If the fields and ditch
banks are all pastured off close,
and the fields cultivated it destroys
the weevil.
The man who raises crops and
hauls them is going to find the wee
Gil increasing until it swamps his
operations, so the remedy for this
trouble is right in line with the sub
jects to be talked of at the ban
quet.
Invitations are being mailed out
to more people than can be accom-
modated in the dining room, and
those who send in their acceptances
will be listed for seats around the
tables for that evening.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
Mex. Accuse
u. S. Business Men
lnciting Revolt
(By Universal service)

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. - Mexi.
can authorities here today accused
powerful American business inter
ests of attempting to foment new
revolution against the provisional
government in Mexico. These au-
thorities admit that trouble has ac-
tually occurred in the west coast
state of Jalisco, that the governor
of ezra Cruz is in rebellion and that
Governor Cantu of Lower California
refuses to bow to the de la Huerta
government. They state however
that none of these incidents is i'm
portant. I.
The American interests, they al.
lege, however, are using them in
propaganda to convince the Mexican
people that the government cannot
stand.
Captain s. S. Hopkins, legal rep.
resentative of the provisional gov.
ernment in Washington said to.
day:
"I have read the statement that
all manner of trouble is brewing In
Mexico, but nothing could be farther
from the truth. With the exception
of the troubles in Lower California
Jalisco and Vera Cruz, all of which
are local, the provisional govern
ment is stronger than ever. The peo'
pie of Mexico are more united than
at any time since Porfiro Diaz and
intimations that de la Huerta is te
seize the government and that the
September election will be called of
is without basis Of fact"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16
AMERICAN FALLS
RESERVOIR ASSURED
Actual Preparations On
to Start Preliminary
Construction

The work Of securing options on
the right Of way for the great reser-
voir to be formed at American Falls
when the Snake river is impoundeA
behind dam at that point, has pro-
gressed rapidly under the direction
Of the U. 8. reclamation service. Pre-
iminary work for the actual con-
struction Of the dam is also being
carried on in satisfactory manner.
Developments have reached q
point where there is no longer any
question as to the construction Of
the dam. There is, however, some
uncertainty as to how high it will
be built, or as to the capacity of the
reservoir. While sufficient contracts
have been signed for storage in the
reservoir to warrant its construction
they do not cover the full capacity Of
the site at American Falls, and un-
less others come into the scheme,
the reservoir may not be built to CO.
pacity.
The further Development "a
southern Idaho depends more upon
the construction Of the American
Falls reservoir than upon any other
condition. More land has already
been put under cultivation than We
have water for, and thousands Of
acres will have to be abandoned IL
this source Of supply is not devel-
oped. At the present time the Mini
doka project is the only irrigated
section of Idaho which has a full
supply Of water, even the Twin Falls
tract being cut to 70 per cent. The
great advantage of the American
Falls reservoir lies in the fact that
it will relieve the shortage all around
and supply water for practically all
the irrigable lands in the Snake riv-
er valley.