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New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Schools Open
With Record
Registration
New Enrollments Expected
TO Total $4,000 i'm Public
Institutions; 10000 i'm
Parochial Organizations
Holidays Delay Classes
Jewish Observances Keep
Down Attendance; Work
Will Start Next Week

Public and parochial schools opened
yesterday, although the Jewish holi-
days and the failure to complete regis
tration Of public school pupils last
week are expected to cause nearly a
weeks delay in the actual resumption
of work.
Last-minute enrollments, in the
opinion Of DR.. William L. Ettinger, Su-
perintendent Of Schools, probably will
show the total registration in excess of
any figures hitherto published for new
entrants. 1t had been estimated that
$4,000.
Two hundred and nineteen parochial
schools in the archdiocese which in
cludes Manhattan, the Bronx, Rich
monds Brooklyn, Queens and Yonkers,
opened yesterday. The days registra-
tion exceeded 100000. The enrolment
IS expected to pass $4,000 by the end
of the week. The Regis High School
for Boys, in East Eighty-fourth Street,
will open to 1,40o pupils tomorrow.
Total enrolment in public and pri-
vate schools of the city will exceed q
million. No authentic figures on the
public school registrations will be
available until after Wednesday. The
official report by the Department of
Education will not be available before
September 80.
No new schools were opened yester-
day. Because of the lack of accommo-
dations approximately 10000 pupils
probably will receive part-time instruc-
tion for the next two or three months
Twenty-Five new buildings and additions
are still uncompleted.
The opening day Of school usually
means considerable confusion. but this
was lacking yesterday. The adequate
force of teachers this year made the
situation far more encouraging than it
was last September.
Most of the congestion is in Brook
lyn, the Bronx and the upper East Side
Of Manhattan. The Bronx and the
Brownsville section of Brooklyn are
the worst conreSted
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Girls Death Over Cliff
Is Believed Accidental
Yonkers Coroner May Not Hold
Inquest i'm the Case of Miss
.lOsenhine Wifz

Coroner Engel Of Yonkers is unde-
termined as to whether he will hold an
inquest in the case of Miss Josephine
Witt. ,twenty-three years old, Of 100
Hillside Avenue, Mount Vernon, who
died in Mount Vernon Hospital Sunday
night, after falling from cliff at Oak,
wood Heights few hours before.
Death was due to a fracture of the
skull and internal injuries, the au-
topsy showed: The Coroner says that
indications point to an accidental death.
According to the police, Miss Wit.
who was a stenographer, was with her
hance, James Norberg, twenty-four
years old. of 463 Third Street. Mount
Vernon. The couple were ascending a
stony path leading to the summit of
the cliff. Miss WITT, the police sav
was walking ahead of her fiance and
was within few feet of the summit
when she fell over the cliff. She
dropped headlong about twenty-ive
feet.
ofhcers accompanied Norberg to the
seer scene OF the tragedy yesterday. They
SAID there was no evidence there of a
struggle.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Miners Vacation Strike
May Be Called Off Soon
Union Officials Predict Renewal
of Request to President
TO Reopen Award

HAZLETON, Pa, Sept. 13, - The
vacation" strike in the anthracite coal
region will be brought to an end with
in the next few days by the adoption
of policy providing for the ordering
back to work of the miners and a re-
rcwal of the request upon President
Wilson for the reopening of the award
of the Presidential Wage Commission,
officials of the Mine Workers Union
predicted here tonight. They declared
that this action could be taken without
affecting the dignity and honor" of
the mine workers organization.
The proposal will be placed before
the policy committee for final action,
and conservative union leaders de-
clared they have sufficient votes to
adopt the proposition.
The committee at it's meeting to-day
discussed President Wilson's reply to
the request of the anthracite workers
for reopening of the award.
THE Presidents reply" one union
official explained, "was interpreted to
be an answer only to the threats of
the insurgent leaders in District /, who
threatened to remain on strike until the
award was reopened. 1t is not con-
strued by our committee as a reply to
our request for a reopening Of the
award"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

sented to him. It was my purpose to
be a servant in a difficult situation.
This he has declined.
"His position is not judicial. He is
autocratic."
Service Much Improved
The conference between the Governor
Mr.. Gompers and Mr.. Vahey began
shortly before o'clock. 1t was also at
tended by Guy Oyster, secretary to Mr.
Gompers.
Mr.. Gompers, in leaving the hotel
denied himself to intervlewers and
photographers, saying: II have more
important business on my hands just
now" He referred all inquiries con-
cerning the situation to the Governor.
Service on the lines of the company
yesterday reached the highest point of
efficiency attained since the strike was
called. There were 737 SURFACE cars in
comprising 944 cars were being run over
the elevated and subway lines.
Company officials said ample pro-
vision had been made for transporting
the crowds to and from the Coney Island
Mardi Gras. Passengers were carried
over the West End line to Bay Park
way and from there to the island by
shuttle. The Culver, Brighton and Sea
Beach lines were operated to the Coney
Island terminal throughout the night.
One line, the De Kalb Avenue, was
added to the night trolley service. This
makes total Of seven lines in night
service. the others being the Flatbush-
Seventh Avenue, Flatbush Avenue,
Park Slope, Green and Gates and two
local bridge lines.
$500 and 5000 employees who went
out when the strike was called had
returned to their work and chat the
company was carrying on an intensive
advertising campaign In various sec
tions of the country to obtain qualified
men to take the positions yet to be
filled.
"lf all the men who went out could
understand how definite is the courts
determination to eliminate the Anal
gamated," the receiver said, 81 believe
many more would return to work. They
are fearful that the Amalgamated may
win and that they will then be marked d
by the association if they &c rot re-
main on strike.
They can reenter the service of the
company as lndlVldualS and be men,
bers of anything they choose, so long
as 1T is not un-Amercan. But the
Amalgamatcd is not going to be recog-
niZed again as long as I am the re-
ceiver."
A report of the conference between
Governor Smith, Gompers and officials
of the Amalgamated was read at a
meeting Of strikers in Brooklyn Labor
Lyceum last night, and brought forth
great cheering. Representatives of
the newspapers again were refused ad-
mittance, but at the conclusion of the
meeting it was said by labor leaders
that the strikers had every reason to
be optimistic. Hugh Frayne, organizer
for the American Federation Of Labor.
addressed the meeting.
Charles Solomon and Louis Wald-
man, ousted Socialist Assemblymen,
also spoke.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Stolen Auto
Fells Wonnan:
Six Men Held
Car Hurdles Curbstone i'm
Erratic Course Through
Brooklyn, Knocks Down
and Runs Over MatrOn
Driver Tries to Escape
Police Chase Machine and
Take Prisoners After
Shots Halt Their Flight

Six men were locked up yesterday at
the Adams Street police station, Brook
lyn, charged with felonious assault
and violation of the motor vehicle law
in running over a woman and trying
to escape. There also was the addi-
tional charge Of grand larceny against
four of them, who are accused Of the
theft of the car that they drove.
The prisoners said they were Harry
Russell, of 21 Cumberland Street: John
A. Mclean, of l Duffield Street;
Edward Churchill, of "a Chapel Street
nue.; Michael Gallagher. of 1874 Myrtle
Avenue, and Dominick Ferrara, of 1872
Hudson Avenue, all in Brooklyn. Mrs.
Ellen Pharan. of 1913 Bridge Street,
Brooklyn, the woman who was hit, was
taken to Brooklyn Hospital. Her skull
and leg were fractured and she was
injured Internally.
The car was hired by Mclean,
Churchill, Cullen and Gallagher at q
garage at 240 Vanderbilt Avenue.
Ivory Stephen, who accompanied them
as chauffeur, said that they gave him
the slip at Myrtle and Vanderbilt ave
nues. where he got out to telephone
to the garage. He noticed as they
drove away that two more men joined
the party.
Mrs. Pharan was run down at Will.
loughby Street, near Bridge Street.
The car that struck her had been pur-
suing an erratic progress through
Bridge Street and on turning into
Willoughby Street hurdled the curb
and cut across the sidewalk, knocking
down the woman and running over her,
Its occupants kept on up Willoughby
Street.
Several persons had caught the num-
Der of the car, and Acting Detective
Captain John Gallagher set out in
search of it in an automobile with sev-
eral detectives. They came upon it at
Park and Clermont avenues, mile and
a a half from the scene of the accident.
The six men stapted to run away, the
police said, but were halted by bullets.
An automobile killed Cosman De
Gano, seven years old, of 211 East
111th Street, last night at Third Ave
nue. and 1l1th Street. Charles j. Ritt,
of 1100 Stebbins Avenue, the Bronx,
owner and driver of the car, was locked
up at the East 104th Street police sta
tion, charged with homicide.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
|CorOner::'s Jury
Frees Kuehling!::
Is Rearrested
Witnesses Testify That Pris-
oner and Wife Who Lost
Life While Canoeing With
Him Lived Unpleasantly
She Threatened Divorce
Elk Husband of Heiress
Tells of identifying Body;
New Inquiry On To-day

From, The Trtb1nc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. ia coroner s
jury to-day exonerated Roy Harper
Kuehling of blame in the drowning of
his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Viger Kuehl-
ing, heiress of million dollar estate
in Detroit, who lost her life last
Wednesday night when a canoe padded
by her husband capsized in the Poto-
mac River. Although Kuehling was re-
leased by the coroner's verdict, he was
rearrested at the request of Assistant
District Attorney Archer and tonight
spent his fifth night in cell.
Kuehling will be taken before the
grand jury Tomorrow morning. A num-
ber of witnesses have been summoned
and detectives who have been working
on the case will present testimony pur-
porting to show the unpleasant rela-
ticns that existed between the Kuehl-
ings a short time before the river
tragedy.
Victims Sister Testifies
The principal witnesses at the in
HASSo So-doy Wc1c MIS-. + rcllC1a Ryan,
OF ITO Holbrook Avenue, Detroit, sister
of Mrs. Kuehling; Howard B. Osgood
also of Detroit, and Mrs. Kuehiing's
divorced husband; Miss Lulu X. Cam
eron, of Woodside, Maryland, with
whom the Kuehlings lived until last
July g.; Policeman Carroll, DR.. Fred
erick Nolan, who performed the au-
topsy yesterday, and headquarters de-
tectlves who have investigated the
drowning.
Mrs. Ryan testified that shortly after
kuehling's marriage to her sister she
was called on the telephone by Mrs.
Kuehling, who said that she had run
away from her husband and had
sought refuge in downtown hotel in
Detroit. She said that Mrs. Kuehl-
ings Detroit attorney had advised her
to get divorce.
liar to that of Mrs. Ryan. Miss Cam
eron told of Kuehling choking his
wife. She said that he followed her
about the house and that Mrs. Kuehl-
ing told her several times that she
was virtually prisoner.
Campbell Darlington, Kuehlings at
torney, objected to all testimony pur-
porting to show that the married life
OF Mrs. kuehling was unhappy. His
objections, however, were overruled
by Deputy Coroner Carr and much of
the inquiry was into the affairs of Mr..
and Mrs. Kuehling.
Held Captive by Husband
Frederick c. Faust, Washington at
torney, told the Coroner's jury that
last Wednesday, the day before the
drowning. Mrs. Kuehling appealed to
him over the telephone to do something
for her. She said, according to Faust,
that she was very unhappy and was
held prisoner by her husband.
DR.. Charles F. Whitney, with whom
the Kuehlings lived after July 6, gave
testimony favorable to Kuehling. He
said that Kuehling and Mrs. Kuehling
had been up the river on numerous oc-
casions and that the couple seemed de-
voted.
Howard Osgood, first husband of Mrs.
Keuhling, testified that he had identi-
fed the body of Mrs. Kuehling, which
was recovered yesterday by riverman.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Douglas Estate $1,167,DO
Appraisal of Late Sportsman's
Property Is Filed

The appraisal of the estate Of tbs
late William Proctor Douglas, Nsv
York sportsman, was filed yesterday BY
the Deputy State Comptroller. Total
assets are estimated at $1,167,eso. Mr.
Douglas, who lived at IL West Sixty.
sixth Street, died at the age of seventy.
seven.
Twenty-nine 5enefciaries are named.
Among them are: Adelaide L. Douglas,
his wife, of 81 Park Avenue, who will
receive legacy of $4,000 and life
interest in an estate of $2lT,00o;
James Gordon Douglas. his son, OF
Newport, s24,047 and life estate In
$39s,458; Mrs. Edith S. Whitehouse. his
daughter, of 1876 East Seventy.third
Street, who receives the same as her
brother; Herbert C. Plass, his friend,
of 800 Central Park West, who re-
ceives a legacy Of $4,000. His en-
ployees and servants also receive be-
quests.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Colts Get Contract for
600 Submaclline Guns
Weapons Are of the New Model
Recently Adopted by New
York City Police
Special Dispatch to Tic Tribune


HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 13.-The
Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing
Company, Of this city, has been awarde j
government contract calling for the
manufacture of $4,000 submachine gums,
according to announcement made to-
day by Colonel William C. Skinner
president of the company.
The guns to be built under this con.
tract are of the model invented by Gen
eral John T. Thompson, formerly OF
the United States Army. Weapons OF
TINS type have been adopted by the
New York City Police Department as
riot guns.
The submachine gun is an entircl,
new type. 1t uses the small cartridpe
commonly used in the automatic pistol
yet Is built along tho general fines Of
the machine gun and has the similar
rapid firing possibilities.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

the name Of Frank Edwards, was con-
ductor of Moneys car, told the Dis
trict Attorney he had seen the motor
man throw away his number and cap
before entering the park.
Munroc &. Brown, civil engineer,
of 440 St. Johns Place, gave informa-
ton, Mr.. Salvaggi said, which leads him
to believe the missing motorman might
have Intentionally sped into a collision
before abandoning his car. Mr.. Brown
and Butts are among those held as
witnesses.
Several accidents of minor conse-
quence yesterday caused the holding
Of Patsy Mardona, 145 Nineteenth
Street, in $500 bail on charge of
felonious assault, and prompted Ed
Borough of Brooklyn, 10 send letter
to Public Service Commissioner Lewis
Nixon urging that motormen be sub
Jected to the most thorough cxamina-
ton before being intrustcd with cars.
Mardonc was driver O. an automobile
truck which side-swipcd a trolley at
Third Avenue and Thirticth Street
yesterday morning. Several passengers
were knocked from the running board
Seven persons were treated at the HOLY
Family Hospital as the result of the
aCClQent.
Harry Barton, 5000 Third Avenue, a
striker, was arrested yesterday on com
plant of Charles Browns, 416
Thirteenth Street, motorman, who
refused to 60 out on strike. Browns
alleges Barton threatened to "kick his
head off" last Saturday. Barton was
held in $1,000 bail for a hearing Thurs
day.
Frank Cannon, laborer of 1870
Park Place, Brooklyn. was arrested last
night after he is alleged to have as
saulted William Mitchell, loyal B. r,
1. conductor, as the latter was oper-
atlng his car in front of his own home,
Mitchell was knocked from the plat
form, witnesses say.
After the assault it is said that Can
non fled into Mitchels hallway, where
the conductor overlook him. When
Patrolman Frank Sallo, detailed as
guard on the car, reached them an
other battle was in progress. Friends
and neighbors of Mitchell became so
menacing that the patrolman was
forced to draw his revolver and hold
his prisoner behind the closed doors
OF nearby bootblack stand while
awaiting the patrol wagon.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Boy Is Seriously Wounded
While Playing With Pistol

Abraham Kesden, fifteen years old,
of 27 Grafton Street, Brooklyn, was
shot in the left side and seriously
wounded last evening while he and a
companion, Milton Kafker, thirteen
years old, Of 1468 Pitkin Avenue, were
playing with revolver which the boys
had found in a vacant lot near the
weapon was in Kafker's hands when
it was discharged. Kesden was re-
moved to st. Mary's Hospital. Kafker
was held at the Brownsville station on
a technical charge Of juvenile delin-
quency.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Caught After Years Search
Nam Indicted as Slayer Located
i'm Long Branch

After search of one year, during
which every state in the Union was
covered, Herbert Stirling. who was In
dicted here last September for mur-
der in the first degree, was arrested
yesterday in Long Branch, N. J.
P. Francis Mario, Assistant District
Attorney, asked Governor Smith 10
sign an extradition warrant. As soon
as the warrant is signed a represents.
tive of the homicide bureau of the
District Attorneys Office will 20 %
Long Branch for the prisoner.
Stirling is twenty-four years old and
ilVed at 451 Lexington Avenue In the
indictment he is charged with having
shot and killed Isaac Miller. a peddler,
OF 2lE East 102d Street. According 10
the indictment, Stirling and another
went to the basement Of the peddlers
house and after robbing him shot him.
He died the next day.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Reds Force Way Into u. s.
By Underground Rouis
Bolshevik Stowaways Have AZ.
completes ON Shipboard.
According eN Uesarsavs

Edward Hughes, former peHs. A. ]
spector, who is head Of q 6eseet,.,.5
agency employed by steamship 49,.
panies, told Frederick A. Wallis, cor.
missioner Of immigration, yestard,v
that criminal radicals in Euroc..s.
ports had developed an "undeMrarrss
railway" by which stowaways entsrsS
the United States. ses
Members of the ring had ssc.,.
plices on shipboard, he said, and Ss"ss
able to inspire members Of the crs,s ss
or even officers with such fear tsss
they acquiesced in the plans for ~ ~
stowaway's comfort, even il thev ,vsss sss
not accredited members Of the esrn
He said that he got his informss;as.
from a stowaway who entered by a tSa
underground"
Mr.. Hughes was invited by tha To-.
migration Commissioner to sttsns
conference at Ellis Island to dissr..
the amazing increase in etowsvssSwsss
and methods of dealing with ths ssSsi
Others at the conference were Rs,ns
II. Uhl, Deputy Commissioner; chsrlss
McGee. head Of the deportation diviss
sion Of tks immigration servies . ss
Ellis Island, and Superintendent Ratsg
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Canadians Act ON Ireland
Trades Congress Considers Res.
olm&ion Against OccupafioYa

WINDSOR. Ont. Sept. lathe Irish
sItuatlhn was discussed at the opening
here to-day Of the annual convention
Of the Trades Union Congress OF
Canada.
The nachinists' section OF the con-
Rress introduced resolution demand
ing withdrawal OF British troops from
ireland and urging English workers
no decline TO send war materials for
use against the people OF ireland.
Council presented d resolution indors.
tng the attitude Of British labor
toward Soviet Russia.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Porter Trial ON Oct. Is
His and Cunson's Cases Post
!. pOned Till Same Date

Judge James T. Malone yesterday
postponed the trial of Augustus Drum
sioner, until October l5. The retrial
was on the General Sessions Court CAL
endar for yesterday, but when court
opened Judge Malone announced the
postponemcnt. The trial Of former
Detective John j. Gunson, of the
Fourth Inspection District, was also
postponed until October Is.
Colonel Porter is charged with neg
lect of duty and Gunson with bribery
and extortion.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Grapple for Body i'm Falls
Searchers Unable to Find Man
Who Fell Is Feet
Special Dispatch 10 The Trib,

MIDDLEToWN, N. Y, Sept. 49,
searchers are graphing for the body
OF Amos ketcham, Of Port Jervis, who
was killed at Mongaup Falls when he
ie!l seventy-five feet into the swirling
rapids. 1t is believed that it will be
necessary to dynamite the eddy to
bring the body to the surface.
ketcham and girl companion had
gone to the falls for an outing. AS
they walked along narrow path
kctcham slipped over the brink. The
girl cried for help, but when assistance G
arrived no trace of the body could be
found. Ketcham was twenty-one years
old and the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Netcham, of ID Pearl Street, Port
JerYia
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Alleged Counterfeiscrs Held

Two men and woman, arrested by
operatives Of the Secret Service and
charged with raising 81 notes to $40.
were arraigned yesterday before United
states Commissioner Samuel Hitchcock
ana held In $4,000 bail each. They gave
TneIr names az Joseph Dnisewich, Dora
Dn,ssew'eh, a,,ns his wife, an4 Leon Knyny-
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Thief Sells Boat Tickets
While Pal Loots Office
Robbers Accommodate Patrons
of Carrison-West Point Line;
Force Silence ON AGENT

GARRISON, N. Y, Sept. 13.-While
two robbers were looting the ticket
ofhce of the Garrison-West Point
ferryboat line this morning. two pa
irons appeared at the ticket window.
One of the burglars checked his regu-
lar operations for the moment and sold
ferry ticket to each Of the patrons.
The other robber was enforcing ST.
lence upon a frightened agent. 1t is
said the robbers got $50 in cash and
quantity of tickets. A description
of the men was sent to Sergeant <. C.
Roberts of the State Constabulary.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Jurlketers Sail for Home
Japanese Dignitaries i'm Fare
well f0 II. s. lawmakers

YOKOHAMA, Sept. 13.-The Ame.i'
can Congressional party, which he's
been visiting the Far East. sailed to-
day on the transport Madavaska for
San Francisco, by way of Honolulu. The
transport was crowded and more than
100 passengers will be compelled 10
sleep in the troop dormitories.
A committee from the Diet and other
dignitaries bade farewell to the Amer.
cans. both at the Toxic station and
on the pier.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Sfeinwender Left 1888, ,523

When Surrogate James A. Foley was
petitioned yesterday by Charles Arndt,
OF 325 West End Avenue for judicial
settlement of the estate of the late
Julius Steinwender. it was disclosed
that the estate is valued at 1888, ,523. is
will be divided among Steinwenders
five daughters.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Landslide Hits Train: S Die

GRAND JUNCTION, COL, Sept. 13.-
Five men were killed yesterday when
wy.esthound Rio Grande passenger train
NO. was struck by landslide near
De Beque, Col
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14
Smith Fails
AS Arbiter i'm
/ B. II. T. Strike

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New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

hDG1R Il ~. CULLEN, Chatrnsou.
"ihLahD .%ARTLETT, Ytee~rhssr,naa.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

sented to him. It was my purpose to
be a servant in difficult situation.
This he has declined.
"His position is not judicial. He is
autocratic."