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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-24
FIELD LAWYERS
TOGET $96O,OO0
Total Awarded in Litigation
Over Attempt to Break Chi
cagO Merchants Will.
BIG SUM FOR ELIHU ROOT
Stanchfield & Levy of New
York Divide 100000 With
Ex-senator.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-Attorneys fees
totalling $960,000 were awarded by
Judge Foell to-day to eleven lawyers
who represented various interests in
the litigation in which Marshall Field
Sd, in effect, tried to break the will
Of his grandfather, Marshall Field,
by friendly suit In this litigation
Marshall Field both lost and won.
Some of the most noted lawyers of
the country were in Chicago during
the four cornered suit. The expense
of the conclave of expert legal talent
involved the biggest amount of money
that has come up for division in the
courts of the middle West for years.
The action was in the form of bill to
construe the will creating a 100000 900
trust The court was asked to set aside
the trust and turn over the entire estate
to the grandson of Chicago's merchant
prince. Judge Foell refused to do this,
but under his construction of the will
Marshall Field Sd will draw not only
the income from his own original share
of the trust, S60.000,000. but also the
income from the S40.00O000 share of
his deceased brother, Henry Field
The largest fee. 100000. was awarded
to the attorneys of Marshall Field Sd.
These lawyers are Elihu Root and the
law firm of Stanchfield e. Levy of New
York. John S. Miller, Sr., and Edward
o. Brown OF Chicago.
Other lawyers and the amounts
awarded to them are John p. Wilson,
attorney for the trustees Of the estate,
$150,O0O Frank II. McCulloch. associ-
ated with Mr.. Wilson as attorney for
the trustees, $4,000; former Gov. Ed
ward +. Dunno, attorney for Henry
Anthony Marsh. son OF Henry Field by
an actress. Peggy Marsh. $4,000; J. f.
Dammann, Jr., guardian ad litem OF
some thirty minor children of the Field
family. $4,000; John S. Miller. Jr., and
Walter II. Pollak. representing Mrs.
Nancy Perkins Field Tree. former wife
of Henry Field, 100000.
Mrs. Tree claimed her former hus-
bands interest as her own. But the
VIII, according to the courts construc-
ton. left her no dover interest in Henry
Fields share of the trust. Judge Foell
found that the will provided that
Henry's interest went to -larshall
Field Sd on the death of the former
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FIRE HOLDS UP TRAFFIC
ON s BROOKLYN LINES
10000 Watch $I5O,OOO Blaze
in Parker Building.

Police reserves were called from four
Brooklyn precincts last night to control
crowd Of 90 600 persons attracted by
blaze that destroyed the two upper
floors ~ the Parker Building. az Flat
bush avenue and State street in the
heart Of the Brooklyn theatrical district
and ~ block from the Flatbush avenue
terminal " the Long lsland Railroad.
Traffic on two elevated and four surface
lines was held up for nearly two hours
until the FIRE. which did damage esti-
mated az Sl50.000. had been subdued.
The blaze was discovered about Z 80
O'Clock. an hour at which thousands of
persons are making their way toward
the theatres IN lower Flatbush avenue
and Fulton street The shutting down
of elevated and street car service forced
hundreds Of persons To abandon the
trains and cars and hire automobiles to
take hem TO the theatres
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VANDERBILT CONCESSION
CREDITED TO NUCRTEVA
Mortens's Assistant Also
Made OUertures to Packers.
Special Despatch to THE new YoRN IIrAALp
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. u. G.. Nov. 2A.

The deal which Washington ID. Van
derllp has made with Soviet Russia is
understood to have been consummated
70 L. c. A. X. Martens. the Soviet AM
bassador TO the United States.
The concessions which Vanderlip
claims 20 have obtained were offered In
other respects BY the suite OF the Rus
sian Soviet Ambassador. Martens does
not seem 20 have taken an active part
In this campaign Nuorteva who posed
as Martens's secretary. was regarded as
the brains Of the Soviet mission here
He has left the country. although Mar
tens IS still here despite governmental
efforts 20 deport him.
Nuorteva is known % have approached
representatives Of the big packing in-
dustries. making them a proposition by
which they would have a monopoly OF
tho. packing Industry Ia Russia for
periods varying from fifteen 90 twenty
Years At the end OF that time the
business was TO be taken over by THO
state. During the Tie OF the concession
the American packers were 20 be al
icwed TO make sufficient profits to Justify
the investment and she final loss Of their
property.
Presumably the same arrangements
have been made with Vanderlip. other
Industrial leaders besides the packers
were approached with similar PROPOSE
ton. The fact that a representative Of
the Soviet Government could make such
proffer is regarded as an admission Of
the firm discipline which the Soviet mill
tary power has upon the Russian pe0-
Continued on Thi-d PAGE.
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FIRE MENACES
OLD PLYMOUTH
Church Windows Broken as
Blaze Destroys the
Sunday School.
BEECHER WRITINGS LOST
Value of Property Destroyed
Increased by Priceless
Manuscripts Burned.
BEECHER WRITINGS LOST

Plymouth Church, one Of the most
famous in the country and the edi-
flee in which Henry Ward Beecher
attained his worldwide reputation as
preacher. was threatened with de-
struction by fire early this morning
when flames burned through the
Sunday school building adjoining. In
the building to which firemen tried to
confine the fire were priceless manu-
scripts left by Mr.. Beecher, collec-
ton of civil war relics that cannot be
replaced and other property inti-
mately associated with the history OF
the old church.
The firemen found it difficult to at
tack the flames from the street be-
cause they were confined at first to
the basement Lines of hose were
taken into the church after the doors
had been broken down. Other lines
were run through the famous collec-
ton of stained glass windows and vir-
tually all of them were broken.
The loss in the destruction Of the
windows alone was placed at about
$40. 900. Soon after the water had
started through the lines of hose the
flames came through the floor Of the
school building and got temporarily
beyond control.
At three o'clock the fire was still
burning but it was said that the
church probably could be saved.
The fire burned through to the roof
and the contents were destroyed.
How the fire started was "A mystery.
II was discovered by passersby when
the smoke penetrated to the street. BY
the time the first apparatus arrived
great clouds OF smoke were rolling from
the Sunday school, a building holding a
place in Brooklyn history almost as Inn
portant as the church.
Three alarms were turned in before
the firemen considered there was suffi-
Gent apparatus to prevent more serious
damage. At that time the old church
was flooded with water and hose lines
had been led through the Arbuckle Me
mortal building on the grounds close by.
The location of the church and other
buildings on the block bounded by Gram
berry, Orange Hicks and Henry streets,
places II In the centre Of the old Colum-
bia Heights residential district. The
streets were thronged in a few minutes
after the first alarm had been rung.
many OF those who hurried from their
homes being members of the congrega-
tlon. The Rev Newell Dwight Hills,
pastor OF the church, was reported to
bs out Of town.
plymouth Church was built in iS47.
ard Henry Ward Beecher was called TO
it's pulpit For almost half century
hlc famous sermons attracted Congrega
tionallsts and men and women Of other
faiths there from every part Of tho coun-
try The Beecher-Tilton scandal re-
volved about the church and It's congre-
cation. and the names Of many Of the
best known men and women of the day
were brought into the news, as they
were called as witnesses.
Dr. Lyman Abbott. another clergy
man whose name was known Throughout,
the country was called to Plymouth
later and after an Interval he was sue
ccodcd by Or Hills. the present
pastor
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FRENCH LIVING LOWER
DUE TO UNITED STATES
Reduction Laid to American
Initiative by Banker.

PARIS. Nov. 2S.-The French Govern
ment has passed the word to the banks to
tighten up on credits, according to the
IntrnnsiOcdnt to-day, and as result the
cost OF living in France already has
ceased it's upward flight, If it is not ac-
tually starting downward.
Tho Governments word TO the banks
was not to cut off credits, but to ration
them, supporting honest firms in tenn
porary need but denying further credit to
Spectators. for whom new loans would
be only an encouragement to maintain
high prices.
Georges RobinCau, governor of the
Bank OF France. is quoted as saying It Is
certain that reductions are on the way by
a slow doYnward curve "rho drop" the
newspaper quoted the director as adding,
was brought about by American initia-
tive ana the lowered cost of raw ma
terials that the United states furnishes
r.e
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JUDGE CONTRADICTS HYLAN
ON HIS KNOW WING HETTRICK;
WfIALENDEFLES UN7ERMYER
Hettrick's Deposits Kept Bankers Busy;
Names of Many Women in His Accounts

SEARCHING further John T. Hek the lawyer
clearing for contractors the Lockwood
yesterday that its accountants deve into his several
with Clarke Brothers bankers extern
July that would take several days
Clarke informed the committee x
are at work compiling the information will
turned to he committee in a few days
Hetrick
maintained deposits in the of
The of many appear
n his az
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New Limits on Mailed
Gifts for Soldiers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-
- New limitations on the
weight and size of Christmas
packages for soldiers stationed in
Germany, Porto Rico and the
Panama Canal Zone were fixed
to-day by the Quartermaster-
General. Packages for Porto
Rico must not weigh more than
fifty pounds or have a combined
length and girth of more than
eighty-four inches. Packages
for Panama must not exceed
seventy-two inches in length and
girth.
Packages for the army in Ger
many must not weigh more than
twenty-five pounds or have a
combined length and girth of
more than eighty-four inches.
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SOUTH AMERICA WOULD
WAIT FOR HARDING
Think ReUision UnUise in Ab-
sence Of United States.

GENEVA, Nov. 23.--In the debate on
the subject Of amendments to the cove
nant OF the League of Nations at this
session OF the Assembly. In the Commit
tee on General Organization, the Scan
dinavian delegates insisted upon the con-
sideration Immediately of amendments
they proposed, but they were outvoted.
The South American delegates accepted
Mr. Balfour's suggestion that special
committee be appointed to report on
proposed changes at the next meeting
Of the Assembly all the more readily
because they are Of the opinion that
any amendment Of the covenant should
await propositions that are expected
from the United States after President
elect Hardlngs consultations on the sub
ject. They declared it would be entirely
out OF order 10 revise the covenant In
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-24
WOMAN JURY WEEPS
FINDING DEATH VERDICT
Hold a City Official in an Au-
tomobiIc Fatality.

Special Despatch 10 1Hr NEW YORK HERALD.
ERIE. Pa. Nov. 23.--Despite his dec
laration that he was home and in bed
when an automobile last week killed
William Schultz. traction company EN-
ploye. coroner's jury OF women to-day
found Martin G. Cornell, city solicitor,
responsible for the fatality.
The jury of women. the first in the
history of the city, was very grave as
IL returned the verdict. Most of the
women were weeping openly as the fore
man announced the verdict.
Cornell was released on his own recog-
nlzance, County Detective Watson an
nouncing he would prefer charge Of in
voluntary manslaughter against him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-24
Shoe That Pinched Hid
Jewels Valued at 81, 500
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov.
23.-Because a prospective
customer complained she could
not get her foot into one of a
pair of shoes at the Eastern Star
rummage sale here last Friday, a
clerk investigated and found in
the toe a small oblong box which
contained four diamond rings
and a brooch valued at 81, 500.
The jewelry to-day was traced
to Mrs. Thomas H. Jones, who
had placed it there as protection
from burglars and had forgotten
about it until it was returned to
her.
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FIreproofers I'm CombinatIon.

After these rapid and vivid explosions
and flashes Mr.. Untermyer turned to tho
operation Of the Greater New York Fire
proo1ng Association. in which twelve
big dealers bound themselves by hard
and fast agreement to let combination
estimating bureau prepare contracts. A
general overhead charge Of 10 per cent.
was added Mr. Untermyer brought out
startling evidence relating to the work
OF that association
Testimony was given { $4,000 moro
was paid into the Brlndell ring through
two agents who were tied UP to the
transaction
After running through this series OF
sensations and conflicts the committees
session ended at o'clock with Martin
Conboy. counsel for the Building supply
Bureau, on the floor beside Mr. Inter
myer fighting hard against the admls-
sion Of that associations books. This Ia
the concern with fourteen members. one
Of whom Is John a. Mccarthy. formerly
partner OF Charles r. Murphy. Tam
many leader.
Mr. Conboy said the committee had
no right TO delve into tho books. which
were .on the big mahogany table IN plain
view Of all The documents were taken
before the committee by Miss Elizabc'n n
O'Dea after a legal battle. Tho ques-
tion was not settled and u was agreed
to allow Mr. Conboy 90 keep the books
over night This association Of building
material dealers Is making the hardest
fight the committee so far has expert
euced in the effort 70 keep It's affairs Sc
crct.
Magistrate OReilly. aged and feeble.
was summoned 20 the hearing on a sub
pmna Back IN 1901 TO 1904. when no
was sitting in the Even street court.
the three men around whom much OF hs
housing inquiry has centred were promi-
ncnt In the police court. Mr.. O'Reilly
said he was In the Even strcet--ls-gr
the Manhattan avenUc--cOutt most = 3
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JAIL ron ATTACK ON FRENCH

BREsLAU. Germany, Nov 23.--Fifteen
persons accused of the recent attack on
the French Consulate here have been
found guilty and have been sentenced
to terms varying from one TO twelve
months In prison Five of the accused
persons were acquitted.
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London, Nov. 90.
The great contracts which Wash
ington d. Vanderlip has obtained de-
pend entirely upon America opening
trade relations with Soviet Russia.
But they have nothing to do with the
recognition by the United States of
the Soviet Government
Mr.. Vanderlip made that unqualified
statement this evening when he was
informed of the despatch to THE New
YORK HERALD that at Washington it
was suspected there was a string tied
to his concessions for the development
OF 100000 square miles in eastern ST.
IBERIA, and contracts for $4,000, 100000
worth of commodities. Mr. Vanderlip
laughed at these suspicious, and said:
"Of course we can't ship the goods
unless the Government lets u.s.
He added that recognition of the
Bolsheviki was an entirely different
thing Regarding reports that he had
not actually obtained the signatures
to his contracts, he said Moscow had
advised Ludwig c. A. K. Martens,
Soviet representative at New York,
three weeks ago by cable that the
contracts had been signed. He said
the question of recognition of the So
Wet Government by the United States
was never mentioned.
Fears England May Act First.
MY contracts were duly signed ana
sealed by the Soviet Government in
Russia. but naturally they cannot be-
come operative until trade relations ara
restored between Russia and the United
states. Nothing was said regarding rec
ognition of Russia. which is matter
solely between the United States Cos"
ernment and Russia, and has no beartng
on my contracts whatsoever"
The $3000.000.000 contract Mr.. Van
derllp said he deemed Of so much i'm
portance to all Americans that he be-
lieved enough Democrats could be lined
UP In Congress to overwhelm President
Wilson's veto If he does use It on trade
relations with Russia.
"If this Congress procrastinates Eng
land will gain a distinct advantage,
said Mr. Vanderlip. "as l fully expect
she will s,.n the trade relations agree
ment now pending
Speaking of the fear at Washington
OF dealing with Bolshevik Russia. Mr..
Vanderlip said
There is more actual Bolshevism and
communism in the White House than
| here is in Russia to-day"
Sails for Home December 2.
Mr.. Vanderlip plans to sail on the
Aquitanla on December 3. and intends
going direct TO Washington to lay the
| facts and figures before Congress, asking
that America be allowed to do business
n Russia before il is too late. He said
no ratlfcations Of contracts were needed
,xcept permission to carry on trade as
private company under the natural
order of things without any Government
responsibility entering into it.
lie admits that under the present con-
dItions he can't do business even with
payments IN gold but he hopes to con-
r.nce Congress Of the wonderful opportu-
rlty 10 give new lif to the trade busi-
ness generally and TO offset the sweeping
oppression, and all this entirely at his
,wn risk.
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% ARE STILL UNS0LVED
Burglaries and Thefts Are
Marked by Daring-Insur-
ance Rates Likely to Rise.
HOLDUPs ARE NUMEROUS
Many Cases Filed Away and
Detectives Turned to
Other Inquiries.

While reports from Philadelphia,
Chicago and other large cities through
out the country indicate that vigor-
Gus measures undertaken by the police
have checked materially the wave OF
lawlessness, crimes Of violence con-
time to increase in this city. There
have been forty murders in the five
boroughs since October l, twenty-five
of which have thus far defied solution.
One of the most brutal of these un-
solved crimes was the killing of Leeds
Vaughn Waters, millionaire son of the
late Horace Waters, piano manufac-
turer, who was beaten to death in a
room in the Plymouth Hotel, in West
Thirty eighth street, on November 3.
Mr. Waters was struck repeatedly on
the head with a heavy club. crushing
his skull and breaking the bones Of
both jaws and nose.
Burglars and thefts have so in
creased and have been marked by
such daring it has been rumored for
some time that the insurance COM
panies have been considering ad-
vancing their rates for theft insurance.
Few parts of the city have escaped
the lawlessness. The F'latbush section
of Brooklyn has proved a playground
for house burglars for several months
and similar conditions have been re-
ported from Forest Hills. Holdups
have become so numerous in certain
sections, particularly in the Westfield
section Of Richmond that men and
women hesitate to go outside their
homes after dark.
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ARE YOU RUN DOWN?
Nervous Dyspeptic? or Anaemic?
Try nEWEN's srANDNED TONICS.
los Fulton ST.. n. Y sAdc
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O'Reilly Tells of Hylan, Het-
trick and Hirshfield in
Old Even st. Court.
LIBEL THREAT is MADE
Whalen Is Stirred by Ques-
tions as to His Old Firm
Wasting City Money.
GRAFT IN FIREPROOFING
Building Supply Bureau, With
Tammany Members, Fights
to Withhold It's Books.

Frank E. oReilly testified before the
Lockwood committee yesterday that in
1902, when he was sitting as a Magis-
trate in the old Even street police court
in Brooklyn, John F. Hylan was prac-
tising law there at the same time that
John T. Hettrick, the lawyer -manipu-
lator for the limestone ring, was ste
nographer of the court, and David
Rirshfield, now Commissioner of Ac-
counts, was in almost daily attend
ance.
Through Magistrate O'Reilly's state-
ments, Samuel Untermyer. chief coun-
sci for the committee, challenged tho
Mayors testimony given last week be-
fore the committee when he stated
that he never saw Hettrick In the
police court and at that time was run
ming an engine on the elevated rail-
road in Brooklyn.
The young men-the three HIS OF
the old police court days in Brooklyn
were just getting a start in life. The
Magistrate said that Hylan, then a
young lawyer, was at the court three
or four times a week; Hirshfield was
was employed taking stenographio
notes OF their cases, which he fur
nished to them IL they wished.
Tends TO Contradict Mayor.
When he was on the stand last
81
that he never had seen Hettrick, could
not pick him out If he were in the
room aud never had had any COM
munication with him. He asserted he
was sure he was not practising law
when Hettrick was the court stenog-
rapher
Other sensations developed during
the day as Mr.. Untermyer led the
committee through wide and varied
fields of the housing inquiry. The law
yer and Grover Whalen, Commissioner
OF Plant and Structures. clashed vio-
lently when Mr.. Untermyer delved
into the Court House excavation and
asked about the refilling OF the big
hole back of the Municipal Build
ing. Commissioner Whalen denounced
what he termed were insinuations
made by the counsel that the Commis-
| sioner had been interested in per-
mitting Holland g. Co, ash removal
contractors. to use the Court House
site as an ash dump in 1918.
Denouncing Mr.. Untermyer. the Com
missioner threatened to sue for libel II
the committees counsel went any fur
ther with his insinuations. Mr.. Inter
myer brought out that the city already
has paid S352.oO0 for removal OF ashes
dumped In the cellars by Holland & Co.
The Commissioner admitted frankly
having inherited half ownership in the
Holland company from his father. but
swore that he had assigned away his in
terest in the autumn of 1917 when he
knew he was going into politics. He
said there was no record of the trans
action. not even a cancellation OF the CO.
partnership agreement, but he received
no compensation for his holdings and
the business was OF little or no value.
He denied repeatedly having the slight
est interest in the ash dumping which
has proved so expensive 10 the city and
so lucrative TO contractors.
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THE BEST IN ITS HISTORY.

The New York Herald, with all that was
best of The Sun intertwined with it, and the
whole revitalized, is a bigger and better
and sounder newspaper than ever before.
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VANDERBILT SAYS
RECOGNITION IS
NOT INVOLVED
Right to Trade With Soviet
Alone Asked of L. S.
Government.
URGES SPEEDY ACTION
Fears England May Step In
and Seize Huge Con-
tracts.
MARTENS KNEW OF DEALS
More Actual Communism in
White House Than in Rus
sia,' He Says.
[ARTENS KNEW OF DEALS

Special Gable 10 THE New York HERALD.
Copyright, 1920. by THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

Cloudy to-day and Tomorrow; no char
in temperature; fresh northwest wind
Highest temperature yesterday, At; lowest,
Detailed reports will be found Editorial