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New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Shipping Board Faces
Serious Oil Shortage
May Ask President Wilson to
Invoke His War Powers to
Insure Supply

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Failure OF
the Shipping Board to obtain bids for
even small proportion of the oil fuel
needed for its ships during the year be-
ginning April 1 brought the suggestion
tonight that President Wilson might
be urged to invoke his war powers to
meet the situation. Restoration Of full
Federal control over the oil industry
might be necessary, it was said.
Shipping Board officials said its
fuel situation was Every serious" On
proposals for 24.00O,0OO barrels they
received to-day bids on 100000 at
prices ranging from 76 to 80 per cent
higher than last year. Existing con-
tracts will expire within three weeks
and the board has a reserve supply FOX
only few days. Chairman Payne is
expected to make special report ia
President Wilson
Market conditions" was the explana-
ton given by oil producers for failure
to submit offers.
The Navy Department will seek bids
on fuel oil for fighting ships on March
IA Secretary Daniesl said he would
recomvene the conference with War.
Commerce and Interior Department and
the Shipping Board officials to discuss
means of solving the problem.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
$4,000 Theft Laid to
2 Taken i'm BROOKLYN
Third Arrest Made in Looting
Of Safe i'm Financial
n;ct,.scs

Two men were arrested last night
on Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, who were
concerned in one of the mysterious f.
nancial district burglaries of the last
few weeksf1 the police say.
They are William Sheridan, of 2521
Madison Street, and Louis Hassais, of
80 Monroe Street, both in Brooklyn.
The charge against them at Head
quarters is burglary. They are accused
OF blowing open a safe in the law Office
of Deering & Deering, 1856 Broadway,
from which securities valued at $4,000
were taken.
Earlier in the day detectives had ar
rested John Corcoran Of $50 Park
Place, Brooklyn, at the brokerage Office
Of Schmidt & Deery, 319 Fifth Avenue.
where he was alleged to have offered
in payment for other securities n
$4,000 Liberty Bond that was stolen
from Deering e. Dcering. The charge
against him is receiving stolen goods.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
34 Mutineers Home i'm Irons

NORFOLK, Va, March 4.-The Ship
ping Board steamship Poughkeepsie
thirty-four of the crew in irons, guarde d
by bluejackets from destroyers, arrived
to-day at Hampton Roads. Department
Of Justice agents brought the prison
ers to Norfolk tonight for arraign-
ment before the United States Com
missioner
Gable dispatches from Hamilton
Bermuda, said members Of the crew Of
the steamer mutinied February 8, when
their articles expired and the United
States Consul General sustained the
contention Of the captain that they must
work the ship to her port Of discharge
in the United States. The POUCH
keepsie was towed into Hamilton in
distress January. %.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Bisbee Juryman Ends Life

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., March A.
s: +. Burnett, a juryman in the trial
Of Harry L. Wootton, charged with kid
naping In connection with the Bisbee
deportations, shot and. killed himself at
his ranch, nine miles northeast Of
CORTLAND, last night, according to in
formation reaching the County At.
torney's Office to-day.
Burnett was juror until Tuesday,
when he appeared before Judge Samuel
l.. Pattee and attorneys for both sides.
and said he had confession" to
make. The confession" was that he
had expressed opinions to his brother
concerning the right or wrong of the
deportation, Of 1,186 striking copper
miners M ana their ssympathizers from
Bisbee, but that when he was exam
ined and passed as juror, these con-
versations with his brother were for
gotten.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Blizzard Hits Chicago;
Cold Wave Sweeps West
New York Likely to Escape the
Storm Which Blocks Traffic
i'm Many States

CHICAGO, March 4.--Sweeping out
Of the northwest with fifty mile wind
and binding snow storm, blizzard
struck Chicago at noon and threatened
to affect seriously traffic on steam
roads centering here.
The Thermometer fell 10 degrees be-
tween II o'clock and l p. na., and will
reach zero tonight, the Weather Bu-
reau predicted.
The entire district from the Missis-
sippi to the Rocky Mountains and South
to Dallas, Tex, felt the effects Of the
storm to-day. At Dallas the ther-
mometer dropped so degrees in twelve
hours, falling from 80 degrees at
p. m. yesterday to 2 below freezing
at an early hour to-day.
Heavy snow was general to-day from
the Rockies east into Indiana.
New York probably will escape a
blizzard that is sweeping the Middle
West, according to tho Weather Bu-
ing weather and possibly snow fiurries,
was the worst the weather man thought
this city would receive as its share.
He prophesied that before the mercury
began to sink to-day there would be
rain, which would make the snow banks
shrink.
The shrinkage caused by the recent
mild weather has revealed alarming
quantities of filth in the streets, espe-
cially in the thickly populated tene-
ment districts. Children were swarm
ing yesterday over heaps of hardened
snow from which protruded tin cans,
garbage and cats which had seen bet
ter days.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
6. d. Smith, Noted
Book Dealer, Dies
Sitting at His Desk
Buyer Of Rare Books and
Manuscripts Falls Dead
Of Heart Disease in Office;
III. E. HuntingtOn's Agent

George d. Smith, internationally
known book dealer, fell dead Of heart
disease at o'clock yesterday afternoon
at his bookstore, 8 East Forty-fifth
Street. He was sitting at his desk when
the end came. w. Lanier Washington
who recently sold a valuable collection
of books to Mr.. Smith, was talking to
HIM when he collapsed.
Mr.. Smith, one Of tho best-known
dealers in rare books in the world. was
the representative Of Henry e. Hunt
who is reputed to have the finest private
library in existence, with the exception
of the library Of the British Museum in
London.
In 1911 Mr.. Smith purchased the e
Dwight Church collections Of Americana
Shakespeariana and other books and
manuscripts. Most notable in this col.
lection was the original Of "Franklin's
Autobiography" said to be the most val.
liable Of all American documents, with
the exception of the Declaration of Inde.
pendence. The price paid for this col.
lection was 81 ,250, 900. 1t contains, in
addition to the Autobiography" some
letters of Christopher Columbus an6
George Washington; a first edition Of
Millions "Comus" and Paradise Lost
oAN q CUiIlOu VI 0uuydu
grim's. Progress"
In 1914 Mr.. Smith purchased the
library of the Duke Of Devonshire
containing the most valuable copy OF
Shakespeare in existence, a Hamlet
quarto Of 1903. The only other copy in
existence is in the British Museum
For this library Mr.. Smith paid ST..
100000.
In the summer of 1914 Mr. Smith
overbid the dealers in the London
market and spent over half million
dollars in bidding for the Huth col
lection, selected portion of the Earl
of Pembroke collection, and the T. G.
Arthur collection. Mr.. Smith had con-
tended there existed in London an or.
ganization through which dealers there
were enabled to keep the prizes away
from Americans. His unusually high
prices caused the London dealers to
lose courage and he thus succeeded in
breaking up the ring.
Mr.. Smith again came into promi-
nence last January when he purchased
for Mr.. Huntington the Britwell Court
library, containing a small volume OF
the fourth edition of Shakepeare's
venus and Adonis" in London fol
$4,000. He often purchased entire H.
braries for himself as we'll as for col
lectors whom he represented.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Ex-Governor of Kentucky
Denies 'Peddling'P 'Pardons
Special Dispatch 10 Tho Tribune

FRANKFORT, KY, March 4.-Sena-
tor A. O. Stanley, testifying to-day be-
fore a committee of the state Legisla-
ture investigating his conduct during
his term as Governor of Kentucky. de-
MED indignantly, with tears in his eyes,
that he had "peddled" pardons for
money.
"No man ever dared to come to NV
office with dirty dollar in his pocket"
said the Senator.
The denial followed a statement bv
representative Richardson, chairman
of the committee, that three witnesses
had testified Governor Stanley, after
refusing pardon, had later granted
1T on the request of Gates Young. a
politician, who, they said, was paid S1O0
by the liberated convict. Senator Stan
ley, did not even remember the case.
and said he didn't believe Young would
have accepted such money.
The Senator took up other charges
against him. He denied having re-
ccived various articles of food from
the State Reformatory, either as Gifts
or at small cost He said that tho
warden had given him shoat ono
Christmas, and he admitted mockinrlv
that his dog had gone to the reforms, a,
tory and eaten "bones that were going
to waste" eAs
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05

LONDON, March 4.-"The London
Times" announces the death Of Louis
j. Duveen, the London representative
Of the art firm of Duveen Brothers,
Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street,
New York.
The firm of Duveen Brothers, with
establishments in New York, London
and Paris, conducts probably the
largest business In the world in art apd
ant quities Of the rarest and most valu-
lections purchased by the Duveen
Brothers are the famous Oscar
Hainauer collection, which sold for ST.
100000, and the purchase a year later
of the entire Rodolphe Kann collection
for $5,000,000. They bought the coll
lection Of Maurice Kann, Rodolphe's
brother, in 1908 for $2,500,0OO.
Henry Duveen, senior member of the
firm, was intimately associated with
the formation of the collection Of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan, and it was
through tho New York branch Of the
firm that Mr.. Morgan obtained possess
sion of the marvellous collection Of
Chinese porcelains which he lent to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
which the Duveens bought in 1916 for
$3,900,0O0
Other Morgan Purchases
A short time later they purchased
from Mr.. Morgan his famous collection
of Fragonard paintings for $1,O00,OO0,
and following that they bought all of
the eighteenth century furniture and
sculptures in the Morgan loan collec-
tion on exhibition in the Metropolitan
Museum for $4,000,000. In 1916 the
nuveens bought three more Of the Nor
gan collections. The early Italian
bronzes, the Limoges enamels and the
Italian majolicas were purchased by
them for 100000. In 1917 the Duveens
brought to this country the famous
painting Of Judith With the Head of
io!ofernes," by Andrea Mantegna, and
popularly known as the Pembroke
Mantegna," which had been in the COL
lections Of the Earls Of Pembroke since
valued at 100000, a record price for q
painting of it's size, as it measured but
II inches in height by Z inches in
width.
The firm of Duveen Brothers was
started in tho 7o's ic London by Joel
Joseph Duveen, who kept small shop
in Oxford Street, where he sold old
Dutch pottcries and later dealt in
period furniture. He had the natural
intuition to understand the artistic
worth of things and prospered so we'll
that just before his death. in 1908, he
was knighted by King Edward as Sir
Joseph Duveen, in recognition Of his
generosity In building gallery for the
pictures which Turner, the great Eng
lish artist, had left to the nation.
Came Here in 1880
Henry J. Duveen, a younger brother,
came to this city about 1880 and opened
a small art shop in John Street, where
he dealt in antique silverwarc, ivory
carvings, rare porcelains, period furni-
ture and Oriental rugs so successfully
that he was soon taken into partnership
by his elder brother in London. which
was the forming of the firm of Duveen
Brothers.
The present head of the firm is Henry
j. Duveen, and there are several sons
OF the late Sir Joseph connected with
the management in London, Paris and
New York. Louis j. Duveen was the
head Of the firm in London.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
St. Paul Makes Halifax:
To Return to This Port
Passengers Will Be Transferred
to Cedric for Trip TO
Liyerpool

The American liner st. Paul, whose
boiler tubes became leaky and forced
her to abandon her trip to Southamp-
ton, arrived last night at Halifax. She
reported by wireless yesterday that she
was ninety miles southeast Of that port
at noon and expected to arrive about
8 p. m.
Temporary repairs enabled the ves-
sci to Increase her speed from nine to
eleven knots. This information, re-
ceived from Captain Arthur Mills, her
master, was regarded at the American
Line office as an indication that her
boiler trouble was not serious. Never
theless, as precaution, the St. Paul
will return to this port and undergo
another overhauling. Shortly before
her departure for Southampton she had
been overhauled and refurnished.
Tho St. Paul's passengers will be
taken across the Atlantic on the Ce-
dric, which will leave this port to-nnor-
row and call at Halifax on her way to
liverpool. Accommodations also have
been arranged for some Of the St.
Paul's passengers aboard the steam
ship Canada.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Odd Tangle in Bigamy
Case Puzzles Judge

When Albert Graubard, twenty-eieht
and streetcar conductor, was ar
raigned before Judge Rosalskv fo,
adding: eN''''
Your honor, my first wife, Sadie
Graubard, who makes this complaint
against me, gave me money enough to
hlre dress suit for my marriage to
Mollie Blaustein."
Mollie is eighteen, pretty and said to
chant. Graubard, who married his
first wife in 1912, Is said to have mar
ried the girl early this year. On the
stand Mollie said:
Judge. when he flrst came to me-
he brought her (Mrs. Graubard) to
my house and they discussed nv mar
rlage. She told me that she was his
sister," wac ''''
.,. us that true, sadie?" Judge Rosal-
sky asked the first Mrs. Graubard.
Yes. He told me to do it, Judge"
This is too much for me-" ayerred
Che court. l will remand YOU until
March II for sentence"
Probation officers will seek to ce+
the facts concerning Graubard's two
marriages. '"o
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Europe Facing
Disaster Over
Labor Unrest
Strike Threat by Us, 900
Transport w ork ers in
England Latest Move to
Force Industrial Crisis
Aid Urged for Germany
Liberty League, Formed to
C. o m bat Bolshevism,
Alarmed by Situation
By Arthur S. Draper
From Tho T,i1uns's European Bureau

From, Tho T,Ibuns's European Bureau
Copyright, 1870. Now York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, March 4.-The threatened d
strike Of 175,000 transport workers in
England is only another manifestation
Of the industrial unrest that Is sweep
ing Europe. The same spirit was be-
hind the French railway strike and
lesser difficulties in this and other
countries.
From Paris comes the account Of a
strike of $4,000 miners in tho Marles
district. These various labor out
breaks are Independent, but are thor
oughly symptomatic of the Industrial
unrest all over Europe Scottish iron
molders have just decided against di-
rect action, by majority Of single
vote, should the government refuse to
natlonalize the mines. Sixty thousand
miners are out in Wales.
Tho Liberty League, which is being
formed by Rudyard Kipling and H.
Rider Haggard to fight Bolshevism
means that these men and their asso-
ciates consider the situation here seri-
GUS. From the peace conference there
shortly will come report on economic
conditions which undoubtedly will
throw much light on the industrial un-
rest in Europe. It will emphasize the
necessity, for helping Germany, not
only for her own good but for the pro-
lection Of the Allies themselves.
In France there is q growing num-
Der who, though their hatred of the
German is hardly less bitter now
frankly admit it would be poor policy
to prevent Central Europe from reor-
ganizing. With both England and
Italy dealing with Germany, the French
see no future for themselves unless
they also resume commercial relations,
In all the Allied countries there will be
a labor disturbance until there is a
situation,
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
George W. Pearsall, Brooklyn
Real Estate LAWYER. Is Dead

George W. Pearsall, seventy-nine, one
of the oldest real estate lawyers in
Brooklyn, died Wednesday from a COM
plication of ailments following an ILL
ness of three months at his residence,
449 Ninth Street, South Brooklyn. Fu-
neral services will be Saturday at 8
o'clock. 1nterment will be in Green
wood Cemetery. Mr.. Pearsall is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Percies S. Pearl
sall a daughter, Mrs. Blanche Elliot,
and a son, Harold E. Pearsall.
Mr.. Pearsall was born in Livingston
Street, Brooklyn, on Christmas Day,
1840 He was graduated from the Law
School Of New York University. He
had devoted his entire training to the
real estate business and was widely
known as an authority in that line.
He was familiar figure in the Borough
Hall section, where he had his Offices
for the last fifty years.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Rent Fighters Offered Land
Chicago Company Has Site for
Community Apartments

Spcctr! Dtspdtch to The Tribuns
CHICAGO, March "A twentieth
century Moses appeared to-day to lead
tenants from the Egypt of exorbitant
rents to the promised land of own
ing their own homes. Claude w. Nor
ris real estate subdivider, made this
announcement:
"To-day's newspapers run a story rel
ativa to the purchase of a six-apart-
ment building by six different families.
to be known as the Community House.
This prompts us to make the following
offer: If six families will get together
and Immediately erect six-apartment
to them, absolutely free, the necessary
ground in one Of our subdivisions. We
mean just what we say, and the only
string attached to the donation is that
construction must start within sixty
days from this date"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
OBITUARY NOTES

ISAAC WILLETT BOVINE. seventy. a
member Of one of the Oldest families of
Hospital following operation. With his
brothers, he conducted the Ireland Mill, at
the head of Flushing Creek, and also man.
! aged the Bovine Homestead Farm, one OF
tho most successful enterprises on tho
North Shore. He is survived by a son,
Wilett Rogers Bovine.
THOMAS DUMBLETON, seventy, Of 61S
Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, known through
out the country as builder OF bakers ovens
and head Of the firm of Thomas Dumbeton
dropsy. He is survived by two sons and five
grandchildren.
MATTHEW ]. HERMAN JR.. thirty-six,
q New York curb stock broker and q meul-
ber of the Curb Brokers' Association, is dead
Of eryspeas at his home, SIG East Fifteenth
Street, Flatbush. He is survived by his
wife, four children, his parents, two brothers
and three sisters.
SYDNEY d. ADAMS. sixty. Of $50 Wash
ington Avenue Brooklyn, died Tuesday at
for eighteen. years salesman Tor John
Wanamaker in this city. He Is survived by
his wife and brother.
MRS. EMMA DIAMOND DRUCKER. Of
657A Degraw Street. Brooklyn. a niece of
Joseph M: Weber, member Of the famous
team Of Weber and Fields. died Tuesday of
complications which set in after an opera
tion and developed into pneumonia. She is
survived by her husband, Frank Druckers q
son. her mother, four brothers and two
sisters.
SIMON MOHR, thirty-fve. of 19 Bay
Thirty-second' Street, Brooklyn, CONNER
| cial traveller in the cutlery trade, Is dead in
Cincinnati of injuries he suffered in hotel
elevator accident. He Is survived by his
wife. son, his parents. two brothers and
five sisters.
ANNIE s. HEWINS. forty-seven, an
actress who formerly appeared on the vaude-
Vile stage in the circuit controlled by Mar
! Gus Loew, died Wednesday in the Swedish
Hospital, Brooklyn. of sleeping sickness
which followed an attack Of influenza.
MRS. CATHARrNE FRANCES STREET.
| seventy-three, of I'LL Dean Street, Brooklyn
died ona Wednesday at her home of heart
disease. She was connected with several
Sroodyn societies, among them the old
Amaranth and Gilbert Dramatic societies.
MRS. MARY WOOD. eighty-dve, died Of
OLD age at the home Of her niece, Miss Edna
Whalsy. Greenwich Street. Hempsted, L. T.,
on Wednesday. She is survived by Eve
nieces and nephew
:, EDWARD T. GILDERSLEEvE, sixty.six.
died Yesterday at his home. in Nichols Court,
Hempstead, L. 1. He suffered q stroke OF
81 former Sheriff F. e. Gildersleevc. Of
Mas Nassau County, He is survived by niece,
Mrs. y. X. Smith. of Hampstead
MhS: MARY J. OETJEN, ffty-two. owner
ot OK OetJen's restaurant, in Flatbush. died On
tuesday at her home In Parkville. She l.
survived SUI. by five children, two brothers and
COLONEL SAMUEL C. CURTIS. e;vh+v
native OF Omaha, Neb., died at Paiyn
neach. Fla. Wednesday. Of heart diseesA ~
he had been i'll for several davs. - =
survived BY two daughters.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Women Reject Resolution
To Fight Against Wadsworth

ROCHESTER. N. T., March 4.-Rep-
resentative women voters of eleven
counties, meeting in the Hotel Seneca
here to-day in the NTH regional con.
ference of the League Of Women Vot-
ers of New York State, turned down a
resolution opposing the reelection Of
Senator James w. Wadsworth because
of his opposition to woman suffrage
and prohibition. They adopted reso-
luton "that New York State should
send to the Senate for the next six
years a man Of progressive ideals and
broad vision" Considerable discussion
preceded adoption Of the substitute
resolution,
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Reds Execute Leader of
1905 Russian Revolution
khrussaleff Nosear Put to Death
for Writing Pamphlet on How
Trotzkv Sold Out

LONDON, March q. - Khrustaleff
Nossar, the chief organizer Of the first
Russian revolution, has been executed
by order Of tho Soviet authorities be-
cause of his authorship Of pamphlet
entitled "How Trotzky Sold Russia.''
Information to this effect Is contained
in o Moscow wireless, which says news
Of the execution was received from
Kiev.
Khrustaleff Nossar was regarded as
the brains Of the first revolutionary
movement in Russia in 1905. He was
arrested in Petrograd at that time for
his activities in connection with gen.
eral strike. He was tried and SEN
fenced to exile in Siberia in January,
1906. In April, 1907, it was learned he
had escaped from Siberia. He was
next heard of in September, 1917. when
he proclaimed complete autonomy of
the Pereyaslav district of Little Russia.
The death penalty was said to have
been abolished by the Bolsheviki.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Negro Girl Gets ST., 900
Special Dispatch 10 7h. Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
MUSKOGEE, Okla. March "A
millionaire for three hours. Sarah Rec
tor, OF Muskogee, the richest negro girl
IN tne United States. signed deed of
to the care of her guardians The
negro girl came into the money TO-DAY
when she reached the age of eighteen.
1.-The spirits might get it," she de-
clared as she voluntarily executed the
deed of trust. The girls mother, Rose
Rector, has filed n petition declaring
the heiress incompetent of handling
her own affairs. b
The girl is entitled to the money
through oil leases in the name of her
1atner e1 and herself. following discovery
less land near Muskogee, allotted to
her from Indian lands. She is part
Indian.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Dempsey Gives $1,5OO
Bail i'm Draft Plot Case
Kearns Released Also, and
Both Will Plead ON
March 20

LOS ANGELES. March 4.-Jach
Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the
world, and his manager, Jack Kearns
to-day furnished $500 bonds each be.
fore United States commissioner here
to appear in the United States District
Court in San Francisco March 20, to
plead to an Indictment charging them
draft law.
Warrants were served upon Dempsey
and Kearns in the commissioners court
room by deputy United States mar
shall. The attorney for the accused
men waived q hearing in their behalf.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
British to Keep West Indies

LONDON, March 1.-THE proposition
to sell the British West Indies to the
United States to help balance Great
Britain's war debt has evoked little
comment. The proposal is not sup
ported in any responsible quarter, and
unless the attitude of Premier LLOYD
George has changed recently is certain
to be unfayorably received by the gov
ernment.
Viscount Rothermere, brother Of
Lord Northcliffe, a few weeks ago
made such suggestion in a newsnaner
article. 1t is reported that Premier
Lloyd George denounced to his init
mates the proposition In vehement
terms.