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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
BOY BURGLAR GETS
3 YEARS 8 MONTHS
Robbed Woman, Then At
tempted to Shoot Her.

A sentence of three years and nine
months in States Prison was imposed
yesterday by Judge John F. Mcintyre
in General Sessions upon Jacobo Oss-
baum, alias Charles Greenberg and also
known as 1.-The Boy Burglar
Ossbaum, who is 10 years old, pleaded
guilty to burglary in the third degree,
the charge growing out of robbery
which he committed. in company with
another man. at the apartment of Mrs.
Edith Kingsley. at sos West 1s7th
street. on October Q.
1t was stated in court that Mrs.
Kingsley had been informed on return
ing to her apartment, after a brief alb
sence, that two men had just departed
from the premises. Her neighbor. who
had seen these men leave, called her a
few minutes later to say that they were
on the sidewalk outside
Mrs. Kingsley followed the pair to
1STth street and Amsterdam avenue,
where they parted company. She then
gave an alarm and a general pursuit
started, In the course of which Oss-
baum drew revolver and twice at
tempted to shoot. One attempt, when
the revolver was pointed at Mrs. Kings
ley, resulted in a misfire The other
time the cartridge exploded. but the bull
let went wild.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
BAN ON FREE WIRES
STIRS UP CONGRESS
ENJOY Here to Seek Explana-
ton by Western Union.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The Western
Union Telegraph Company has stirred
up hornets nest in Congress with its
notice that the practice OF permitting
Senators and Representatives to send
messages from any Office in the country
with the Government settling for the
bill monthly would be abandoned jan
uary /.
Chairman Ireland of the House Com
mittee on Accounts announced to-day
that he would leave tonight for New
York for a conference with Western
Union officials. He also announced he
would have the Federal statutes exam
ined to determine whether the Western
Union could not be forced to accept the
messages as heretofore.
Chairman Ireland said he was "sus-
picious" that the company's action was
due TO the dispute with the State De-
partment over the landing of the Bar
bados cable at Miami. He added that
the telegraph companies were compelled
under law TO accept Government mes
sages at 40 per cent. less than the COM
mercial rates because of land grants
given years ago. and that he hoped a
statute could be found which would pre-
vent the Western Union from carrying
out its announced intention with regard
to messages filed by members of Con-
gross.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
DEFENDS PEASANTS IN
SEEING ITALIAN LAND
Act Not BoIsheUik, Asserts
Viftorio FaIorsi.

There was nothing of .Communistic,
Socialistic or Bolshevist nature about
the revolt OF Italy's working classes last
summer. according to Vittorio Falorsi,
formerly attached to the Italian EN-
bassy in Washington. in an address to
guests Of the Italy-America Society at
Luncheon in the Bankers Club yester-
day.
Actually. the taking over of the fac
tories by the workers resulted In a
slight raise in wages for the laborers
and in the admission that the workers
were entitled to know what the condi-
lions OF profit or loss are In the in
dustry in which they work" said Mr..
'Falorsi. IT do not attempt to disguise
the fact that this Is n movement which
aims at giving the working man larger
share OF the profits of industry"
Mr.. Falorsi granted the justice of the
peasant revolt against the system that
permitted the capitalist class in Italy
to possess and hold without cultivating
or residing on land that might be Gull
tivated by the peasant. ii was sucn
lands. he explained. that the workers
occupied forcibly. He continued TO say:
"It is not, however. the intention OF
the Government to allow the land to be
taken by the farmers without >compensa-
ton to the owners. In Rumania a plan
has been put into effect for the grad
ual payment by the farmers for the
land either forcibly occupied by them or
confiscated by the Government. Some
thing similar will soon be worked out In
Italy. In America the farmers work
their own land. We want the same to
be true in Italy. and we think that this
programme does not deserve the term
revolutionary" so often applied to IT,.
Tho disorders In Italy last September
were described In the foreign press as
being a blow to the private ownership
Of property. Nothing could be further
from the truth. All the italian laborer
wants In a chance. which the American
laborer hae. to educate his children and
to better his condition.
I'VE believe IN Italy that the social
and economic regeneration of Europe
must be based on n general willingness
to forgive and forget. AS long as we
talk OF allies and enemies we can have
no progress in Europe. The war has
long been over and we must bury out
hatred and work for the common god.
'If. az has been the case heretofore. the
wealth OF the nation is unevenly divided
among the people, most Of them cannot
live in decency. II the national wealth
is unfairly divided there Is not enough
to go around"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
HARRY KEMP FREED IN
BLUE SUNDAY CASE
ShoW o. X. Is Giuen for Club
Members Only.

Organizations seeking to enforce sol
called Sunday blue laws met defeat yes
terday when Magistrate Corrignn in the
Jefferson Market Court dismissed a
summons obtained by Capt. James r.
Shaw OF the Mercer street station
against the Provincetown Players of 1873
Macdougal street charging them with
violating the Sabbath law.
Harry Kemp, poet and playwright.
and James Light, both members of the
Players, were allowed 10 leave court
after detectives testified they had tried
to obtain tickets for contemplated
performance next Sunday. but were told
they would have 10 get membership
cards admitting them to all perform
ances during the season.
The Magistrate said he saw no viola
ton of the law In a performance where
only members could attend. Capt. Shaw
said action had been taken as q result
of communication sent TO Police Head
quarters about the proposed perform
ance. Light said that this was the
doing of certain people who would like
to take the sun out OF Sunday" lie
showed a letter from the attorney for
the New York Sabbath committee stat
ing that the Players circular about the
performances had been forwarded to the
Police Department.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
HENRY FORD SOUGHT
IN TRIAL OF RUMELY
Government Agents Wait for
His Private Car in Wset to
Serve Subpoena.

United States special agents, it was
learned Yesterday, are seeking Henry
Ford to serve him with subpoena to
appear as a Government witness in
the trial of DR. Edward Rumely, former
publisher OF the Evening MdtL
despatch from Los Angeles last night
said Ford was aboard n special train
due there soon and that the Govern
ment agents were awaiting him. His
testimony concerning certain letters pur-
ported to have been written by Or.
Rumely is regarded as important by the
prosecution.
More than a score of witnesses were
summoned yesterday by the defence.
Those who testified. for the most part,
were newspaper men who had peen
members of the editorial staff of the
Ereni,tg Mail during the regime of DR..
Rumely.
"Rube" Goldberg, cartoonist, testified
that he had served the Erening Mail
since 1907 and that during DR.. Rumelys
control he drew number of cartoons
depicting the Kaiser in a ludicrous man.
ner He said DR.. Rumely approved the
cartoons, never offered any objection,
and sanctioned his cartoon efforts to aid
the various Liberty Loan drives and
thrift stamp campaigns.
Isaac Russell who wrote special arti-
Giles for the Epenin1 Nal during Dr.
Rumely's direction. testified that he had
been instructed by DR. Rumely to eX-
pose the German dyestuff combine In
this country. The publication of the
article in the Euo'iin0 Mall. he said.
caused a bitter attack on the paper
bv German interests. Later the article
was published in the Congressional Rec
ord, he testified.
All of the newspaper men who testi-
fed yesterday declared that their arti-
cles never were changed by DR.. Rumely.
nor were they ever told by him to play
up the German side of the issue.
Frank NJ. OBrien testified that as
editorial writer for the Evening Nal
he wrote n series of articles at DIR.
Rumely's request. These articles were
printed under a heading "Unorganized
America" and advocated that the United
States should prepare for war.
George Ehret, Jr.. of the New York
brewing firm of that name. told of DR.
Rumely's attempt to interest him in the
purchase of stock in the newspaper He
said they held a number Of interviews.
but finally he told Dr. Rumely 1t would
be impossible TO make any investment,
because the prohibition movement was
then threatening 10 curtail the brewing
industry. Ehret said DR. Rumely ex-
pressed an intention to present both
sides of the war fairly through the
Ereninq Mail George Ehret, Sr., was
then in Germany having gone there in
May. 1914.
The trial will go on Monday.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
BROOKLYN HOSPITAL
HAS TOO MANY GOATS
Community Scheme Carried
Too Far, Say Officials.

The (authorities OF the Peck Memcria
Hospital in Brooklyn have made direct
appeal to Borough President Riegelmar
in the matter of several score OF goats
which are maintained as domestic ami
mails in the neighborhood of the institu-
ton and which have been making the
hospital lawns their banqueting place.
The hospital Is at Albany avenue and
Crown street, and in its immediate
ncighborhood are the homes OF divers
persons of European birth or extraction
who cling to the idea that the milk OF
goats is the only proper food Cor chill
dren of tender age and that its flesh IS
delicacy and Its coax incomparable. II
would seem also TO be the consensus
among these people that If you possess
goat you are under no obligation TO
feed it, At any event, it is their custom
every morning to turn their goats loose
upon Brooklyn at large.
The sagacious animals, as soon as the
chill of early winter set in, discovered
that practically all grass and foliage in
their section of Brooklyn had turned
sere and yellow save only the well kept
hedges and lawns of the Peck Memorial
Hospital. SO there they went, and, a.
though the police impounded number
of them and their owners were duly
fined, enough goats to constitute quo
rum can be found on the hospital
grounds any time between sun and sun,
II. G.. Warfield, superintendent of the
hospital. called Mr.. Riegelman on the
telephone yesterday and informed him
that from the window where he stood he
could count twenty-eight goats upon the
The privet hedges cncir-
cling the grounds looked as though a
blight had been laid upon them. he
said. and Various ornamental shrubs and
young trees were already dead ana
others dying. President Riegelman
promised that he would take the matter
up with the Board of Magistrates and
the Commissioner of Health, and that II
would be arranged that those owners
who did not keep their goats out OF the
hospital grounds would lose the permits
which city ordinance requires that
they must have in order to keep goats
at all.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
ELDER WILL OPPOSE
DENSEL'S RETURN
Presiding Church officer Says
Pastor Will Be Denied
Right to Preach.

John Rose, presiding elder of the
Netherlands Reformed Church at Pas
sale, ". j., said yesterday that he would
oppose any effort to reinstate the Rev.
Cornelius Densel as pastor of the con-
gregation. The Rev. Mr.. Densel returned
to his wife and eight children late
Wednesday night after a mysterious alb
sence of more than month. Miss Trina
Hennenberg, a member of the church,
and prominent in the sewing circle, also
returned to her home. They disappeared
at the same time. after the Rev. Mr..
Densel had left letter resigning his
pastorate.
IT have heard of movement to re-
instate Mr.. Densel," said Mr.. Ross
but / for one will oppose 1t. / cannot
understand the action of our pastor, and
can't understand how he got up enough
nerve to come back"
Mr.. Rose declared last night that at
q meeting of the church Chassis in
Paterson last week 1t was voted
unanimously to GUST the preacher be-
cause of his mysterious absence. The
Chassis includes not only the Passaic
church. but n church in Prospect Park
ter can be reinstated, Mr.. Rose said. he
must have the approval Of the Chassis
as we'll as Of the consistory of the
Passaic church.
'It will be a long time, in my opinion
said Mr.. Rose, before Mr.. Densel will
ever again be granted the right to
preach in the pulpit
"All the ministers In the country, not
only of our denomination but all others.
are watching us. and God is also watch
ing US. / do not think Mr.. Densel VIII
be allowed to return to the church. After
members of the consistory think over the
matter they will stand as unit with the
Lord and see that the proper thing Is
dore II lose every gray hair in my
head, I am going to see this thing come
out right We are going 20 stand with
God"
No statements were issued yesterday
by either the Densel or Hennenberg lam
lily. Miss Hennenberg took a walk IN
the morning. but the preacher has not
left the rectory since his return, except
on Wednesday night. when he and Two
OF his sons attended meeting OF the
consistory, where he announced that tIod
had sent him back 10 Passaic, AFTER
which he wept and asked to be forgiven
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
MESSENGERS DUMB
DURING ROBBERY
Two Boys Made No Cutlery
When Attacked and De-
spoiled of 81, 587.
STUNNED, THEY EXPLAIN
Newsboy Saw a Scuffle but
Did Not Suspect a
Holdup.

Two messengers for the G. c. Kerr
Company, investment securities brokers
of Rector place, left the Office shortly
before noon yesterday with a check
drawn for $1.577.S2 for the weekly pay
roll and personal check for $3.50 writ
ten by one of the employees of the com
pany. They carried leather brief case
in which to bring the money back from
the Mechanics and Metals Bank. 20 Mas
sau street. The messengers were Alex
ander BuschlSo. 532 East 14Sth street.
10 years old, and Henry Riccardi, II
years old, 719 East 219th street.
They obtained the money and started
back, and as they stepped from the curb
at the northeast corner of Rector street
and Trinity place Busch<o was set upon
by two unknown assailants, according to
the story he related to detectives from
the Old Slip precinct. He was struck on
the head. and the brief case, which con-
tanned the money. was torn from his
hand. Riceardi says he was struck also,
probably with blackjack. Both We're
stunned and frightened, they said. but
neither was knocked down
One of the assailants dashed into the
subway kiosk at the street intersection
and disappeared. The other got away
in the monday crowd. When they were
attacked they made no outcry, the boys
said because they were unnerved. Their
assaiants. too. robbed them without a
word ora command, then fed. Riocardi
hurried upstairs to tell Mr. Kerr of the
robbery. Buschko entered the subway.
but he says he saw no one who answered
the description of either of the men
who attacked him.
Mr.. Kerr says he instructed the mes
sengers to carry the brief case as he
regarded it as safer than a leather
wallet commonly used to, carry securities
in the nancial section. Buschko said
the brief case was not snapped to his
wrist. ~
A newsboy at Rector street and Trim
ity place told the police that he saw
ascuffle but as nobody cried out he did
not suspect a robbery. He saw man
run intothe subway and later told
Buschko.
The loss was covered by bond
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
2 FREED IN DEATHS OF
BARBER AND WATERS
No Murder Evidence Against
Noak and Kohn.

Roland Noak and Edward Kohn, who
were arrested during the inquiry into
the murder OF Leeds. Vaughn Waters
In the Plymouth Hotel on November 4
and that OF Frank Barber in Central
Park on November %. we're discharged
yesterday when arraigned before Mag
istrate Bernard Douras in the West Side
Court. Noak was released after AS
sistant District Attorney John Hennis
had Informed the Magistrate there was
no evidence against him. but Kohn was
held as material witness, although
discharged OF the homicide charge
The two other men under arrest in
connection with the murders. John
Reidy and Charles Benner. were held
for further examination next Tresds-.
Mr.. Hennls said the Grand Jury was
considering the cases OF these two men
and that Benner would be charged with
the actual killing OF Barber and Reidy
with that OF Waters.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
". Y.-SEATTLE WIRE
BREAKS LAND RECORD
5000 Mile 'TlDo Channel Is
Put in Operation.

New York and Seattle were Joined
yesterday in instantaneous Geographic
communication over single wire of the
Western Union system. This is the
longest single land connection known In
the world of telegraphy. Within the
last year direct communication with
Los Angeles and San Francisco has been
esta blished. but the new line opened
yesterday is longer by 200 miles than the
San Francisco circuit.
In the presence of company executives
and newspaper men Mayor Hylan's con-
gratulatory message was winging west
ward at the same time that a similar
message from Mayor Hugh NJ Cald-
well annihilated the 1900 miles separat-
ing him from the East. Charles T..
Gwynne, secretary of the New York
Chamber of Commerce exchanged COM
mercial Fluctuations with S. r. Hedges.
president the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce.
The demonstration of this long distance
1.-TWO channel took place on the fifteenth
floor of the New York Telephone Com
pany Building in "a Walker street. On
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
AGEuMIT HALTS
CITY HALL SCRAP
Van Name Twenty Years Too
Old for Hubert to Punch
IA Jaw.

Although the Board of Estimate Tor
weeks has been running an inquiry in
competition with the Lockwood COM
mittee, it was not until yesterday that
the hundreds of spectators who daily
attend Samuel Untermyer's performance
were brought to realization of the en-
tertainment possibilities of the board.
With Lockwood room at premium,
Mayor Hylan's inquiry has played to
empty seats.
The irony of yesterdays surprise was
that 1t did not grow out of the Board
of Estimate building inquiry at ALL but
from the threats of Murray Hubert,
Dock Commissioner. and Calvin D. Van
Name, President of the Borough of
Richmond, to put on fist fight outside
the Lockwood Committee door. When
they failed to make good their threats
the crowd apparently thought their first
judgment of the city side of the hall
indicated and returned to the Lock-
wood chamber.
When Commissioner Hubert appeared
before the Board of Estimate to speak
in favor of the repeal of resolution
authorizing the acquisition of part of a
street in Staten Island President Van
Name opened the hostilities.
IF the Commissioner speaks / am
going to tell some of the things that
have happened in Staten Island under
the Hylan Administration" he said
Hubert replied that he would do as
he jolly well pleased about speaking
and dared Van Name to say anything
The Mayor interviewed and Hubert paid
his respects to him, as follows:
IT have my rights here. [ have been
accused of something and am going
to answer"
"Oh, you are very nice man." Van
Name then conceded to the Commits
sioner, but added. but you haven't got
any sense"
After the session Van Name and Hull
bert repaired to the corridor between
the Board of Estimate chamber and the
Lockwood committee quarters, where
Hubert expressed the ardent wish that
Van Name were twenty years younger.
so he could break his Jaw" Van Name
said he did not mean to imply that
there was anything wrong with the
Commissioners official acts.
The Commissioner informed him he
would get copy of the Board OF Esti-
mate minutes and the next chapter
would be continued in court.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
THEFT AND BIGAMY
LAID TO SCHAEFFER
Two Women Say Candy Store
Man Wed Them and Took
Their Money.
MAY BE FOUR OTHERS
Made Love in Same Way, Say
the Alleged Wives, Com
pairing Notes.

Lawrence A.. Schaeffer, president OF
the Cnain Candy Stores at III Madison
avenue and stock promoter. with Of
fees in % Broad street was yesterday
held for the Grand Jury in $4,000 bail
by Magistrate Douras in the West Side
Court on charges of bigamy and grand
larceny. Two women who assert
Schaeffer married them and took theft
money appeared as complainants. j.
H. Gilbert of 220 West Forty-second
street, counsel for the two alleged
wives. told the court he was investi-
eating a report that Schaeffer married
a third woman in Philadelphia in 1917
and that he may have a fourth wife
in Bridgeport. Conn.,, and two more in
Brooklyn, making an even half dozen
in all.
Schaeffer has been living In a well
furnished apartment at 200 West Sew
entieth street with Estelle Farrell
Schaeffer. who says she was married
to him by the Rev. Father Patrick
Hoey at the Paulist Fathers Church,
Fifty-ninth street and Columbus ave-
nue.. January 20 last. According to her
story she had about $4,000 at the time Of
the wedding, which Schaeffer, she said,
has taken from her
Mrs. Estelle Schaeffer's suspicious
were aroused some weeks ago, she
said. through letters from other women
which she found in her husbands pos
session. She consulted Mr.. Gilbert and
detectives were employed. Early this
week, according to Mr.. Gilbert, they
found young woman living at 348
Watkins street, Brooklyn, who produced
marriage certificate showing that
Schaeffer married her July T. 1919, at
Secaucus, n. j.. the ceremony being
performed by the Mayor. Her name
was Florence Flamberg and she was
but 10 years old at the time of the al
legged wedding.
The two young women came together
in Mr.. Gilberts office for the first time
Thursday morning and compared notes.
According to the lawyer they found that
Schaeffer had used Identical terms Of
endearment in wooing both of them.
The Flamberg girl said Schaeffer had
taken $500 from her and had then left
her after a brief honeymoon. She went
home, she said. and took up life with
her parents without ever telling them
of her marriage.
Mr.. Gilbert told the court that Schaef-
fer had been convicted OF burglary be-
fore Judge Fawcett in the County Court,
Brooklyn. in 1905. and sentenced to the
Elmira Reformatory. a representative
of the District Attorneys office Joined
with Mr.. Gilbert in asking that the bail
be fixed at $25, 900 in each case. Schaef-
fer spent last night in the West Side
Court prison and will be taken to-day
TO the Tombs.
At the time of his arrest Schaeffer
wore a badge showing him TO be a
deputy sheriff of Kings county. He
also told the police he was a friend of
Harry r. Lewis, the Kings county
District Attorney, but Mr.. Lewis said
yesterday he had never heard OF
Schaeffer.
In addition TO his activities in connec-
ton with the Chain Candy Stores, the
prisoner is president of the Apollo Pic
lures Corporation and the Liquidating
and Financing Corporation. both of 20
Broad street
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11

the same floor are similar. connections
with st. Louis. Chicago. Los Angeles
and San Francisco Remarkable as is
the two channel set to Washington.
there are others like 1t and some even
with three channels which enable the
sending of six messages over single
wire.
Fifty-three words can be sent a min
ute TO Seattle and seventy-nine mes
sages an hour over each of the two
channels in the set. The multiple de-
vice is a development of the French
Baudaut system, supplemented with the
improvements of the Scotch scientist,
Donald Murray. from whom the West
ern Union purchased patent rights and
worked out the present achievement
through its own engineers. 1t is APP
plicable to cable as well as land work