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The New York herald., 1921-04-16
0'RYAN NOW SLATED
FOR TRANSIT BOARD
McAneny for Chairman and
Hardness as Member Are
Considered FavOrites.
Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Albany, ApriI Is,

New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. April l5.
Gov Millers appointments to the big
State positions which he Is about TO fill
will not reach the Senate for confirma-
tion until tomorrow afternoon. lie
worked hours to-day trying to complete
the list
Col Arthur Woods. formerly Police
Commissioner OF New York called on
the Governor late this afternoon. 1t is
reported he will be named Conservation
Commissioner TO succeed George d.
Pratt. whose term has expired. Up
State interests have been making hard
drive against Commissioner Pratt.
No word is heard regarding changes
in the slate for the Transit Commits
sioners in New York city. The report
most often repeated favors George Nc
Aneny for chairman. Gen. John Il.
ORyan and Leroy Hardness as mem
bers. Many other names have been
mentioned.
For the Public Service Commission,
the Statewide body which is to have
jurisdiction over all public utilities
excepting transit In the metropolis. the
names heard are William A. Prender-
gast. New York John Lord O'Brian.
Rufflo Charles Van Noorhies, Roches-
ter. and Charles G.. Blakeslee of Bing
hamton The fifth member will be a
New York Democrat. Either Mr.
O'Brian or Mr. Prendergast is expected
to be chairman.
Mr.. O'Brian was Erie countys candi-
date for the nomination for Governor
last autumn. William j. Donovan. Buff
falo war veteran. is also a candidate.
but Mr.. OBran is understood to have
the backing of Fred Greiner, Repub-
lican leader of Erie.
Mr.. Van Voorhis is a lawyer and Mr..
Blakeslee is State commander Of the
American Legion and Corporation Coun-
sci Of Binghamton Mr. Prendergast
formerly was Comptroller of New York
city
The Governor also has the appoint
ment OF the new State Tax Commission
TO take charge of the reorganized tax
bureaus Walter W Law, formerly
State Senator, is said to be slated for
the Craftsmanship. He resides i'm West
chester and William l.. Ward is said to
have presented his name. John j. Mer-
rill, now members Of the Tax Commits
sion, and Walter II. Knapp, formerly
member OF that body, are said to be
probable appointees. Under the Cow
ernor's reorganiza ton plan the commits
sion absorbs several tax collection
agencies from the offices of the State
Comptroller and Secretary of State and
becomes more important than ever.
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
WILL FIGHT LUsx BILLS.

Members of the Civic Club, Il West
Twelfth street, opposed to the bills of
Senator Lusk, majority leader OF the
State Senate, relating to the licensing
or private schools and the additional
certification Of teachers rega riding their
moral and political qualifications. an
nounced yesterday a call for a protest
meeting OF charitable. philanthropic apd
educational organiza tions next Tuesday
at the club
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
WALKER SEES JOKER
IN TRANSIT CHANGES
Moue to Recall Act From GoU-
ernor. Beaten 36 to II
Special Despatch to TILE NEW YoeK HERALD.
New York Herald Rureau,
Albany, April IL.


Senator Walker, minority leader.
charged tonight that joker had been
slipped into the rapid transit act by
Gov Miller making fare increase in
Sew York mandatory and Offered
resolution calling on the Governor to
return the measure to the Senate for
further consideration. The resolution
was beaten, Sc 10 a.
Mr. Walker said that by substituting
the word shall" for may" in the
bill fare Increase was made mandatory.
and that the subject covered in the
amendment was. not contained in the
special message urging TIA change.
Senator Knight said the amendment
meant only that the new commission
must consider certain fare clements In
determining values instead Of leaving
il optional with the commission. SEN
ator Walkers charges caused few
moments excitement in the Senate.
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
COMMITTEE APPROVES
HARVEY AND HERRICk
Senate Probably VIII Con-
firm Nominations.
ccidl Despatch TO TIE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. O., April Is. (

washington, ~. u. sipru 10.
Confirmation of Col. George Harvey
to be Ambassador to Great Britain; Of
Myron r. Herrick to be Ambassador TO
France and of Henry T. Pitcher to be
American representative in the 1nterna-
tional Conference on Communications
was recommended by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to-day, and favor
able action will follow in the Senate soon.
it was intimated by Senator Lodge
(Mass.). chairman.
Additional nominations sent TO the
Senate included that of Peter Augustus
Jay of Rhode Island to be Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Rumania.
Frank White Of Valley City, n. d.,
was named as Treasurer Of the United
States and number OF local nomina-
tions and appointments in the Marine
Corps were submitted.
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
ASKS $4,000 PENSION
FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS
Another Bill Proposes Gen.
eraI Old Age Allowance.

WASHINGTON. April 15. - A proposal
that former Presidents be paid annual
pensions of $40. 1000 was introduced in
the Senate to-day by Senator Calder
(Rep., n. Y.). and in the House by Rep
resentative Dyer (Rep., MOI.
Another pension plan introduced in the
House was that OF Representative Rick
etts (Rep., Ohio) providing from Sc to
Sf4 a week for persons over sixty-flve
years Of age with incomes not exceeding
SO a week
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
NAVY GETS YACHT Cup WINNER

WASHINGTON. April 15.-William u.
Swami. representing the Eastern Yacht
club Of Boston. called on Secretary
DENLY to-day to offer the schooner
Yacht America famous old cup winner.
to the Government for preservation at
Annapolis. Mr.. DENLY said that the
vessel would be accepted.
The New York herald., 1921-04-16
BURNED TO DEATH
IN FALL OF PLANE
Special Despatch TO The NEW YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c.. ApriI Is.

Lieut.. James ]. Langin, an army avia-
tor stationed at Boiling Field, near
Washington. was flying 200 feet high
to-day when the single seated scout
plane fell into a side slip and crashed to
the ground. The gasolene tank exploded
and flames burst all through the wreck
age. burning Lieut.. Langin so severely
that he died within few minutes after
he was rescued.
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
PARCHED Jurors
SAY mot GUILTY." "
DRY LAW FAILS
Many Arrests, Huge Seizures Of
Forbidden Fluid, But Few Con-
victions in New York.

NEW YORK, June 12.-Inability to
get jury without a personal thirst
threatens to invalidate the new State
prohibition enforcement law, according
to opinions expressed by officials here
today. The belief based on the results
of the first weeks trial of cases under
the new law was said to be shared
by the authorities in other parts of
the state.
Jurors apparently resent the law
and the enforcement officers fear this
resentment, as already evidenced. will
be translated into a refusal to con-
vict regardless of the evidence.
The police department, upon which
rested the burden of enforcement
after the new law went into effect,
has not been backward about obtain
ing evidence. Hundreds of raids have
been conducted and hundreds of thou
sands of dallars' worth of liquor
seized.
There are nearly 5000 cases now
awaiting trial-enough at the present
rate of turning them out to keep the
courts running for months.
At present the district attorney Is
obtaining an average OF about 20 per
cent in convictions. This is not re-
garded as an unusual bad showing !.
but, according to officials, the ratio is
steadily decreasing. And they blame
Il not on lack of evidence but on the
refusal of jurors to consider the evil
dence.
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
TOURISTS SHUN JAPAN,
SAY STEAMSHIP MEN

TOKYO, June 12.-Hotel men,
steamship employees and others con-
cerned with travel estimate that the
influx OF tourists to Japan has fallen
Off by at least 20 per cent. This Is
at the time of the year when, owing
to the famous cherry blossoms, the
tide of pleasure travel Is generally
at its height. Owing to the placing
of many fine steamships on the runs
between the United States and the
orient, accommodation are better
than ever before, but IL is estimated
that about 20 per cent OF those who
booked are canceling their passages.
This is substantiated by the big tour
ist agencies which state that they
are reducing the tours conducted by
them to very considerable degree
While some believe that the war
scare may have had some effect on
tourist travel to Japan, IL is gem
orally thought that this cause is
losing effect, and that the main rea-
son for the absence of the pleasure
seeker Is the money tightness' which
is now general throughout the world.
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
NEW YORKER, SO YRS. OLD,
SWINGS A MEAN FOOT

SARANAC LAKE, n. Y, June Ia
John Hathaway, eighty-eight, hasn't
much use for these newfangled
dances, but he can shake a mean
foot when IL comes to reels and
other venerable numbers.
Hathaway still constitutes the
most popular dance orchestra in the
Lewis section of the Adirondack.
He and his battered fiddle are al
ways in demand by the country folks
when they feel itchy-footed.
Whenever he can find someone
qualified to substitute for him he
takes a vacation from his orchestral
duties for a brief period and pro-
ceeds to show tho youngsters of the
middle forties and the infants nf
mere twenties how TO "aleman left"
and swing your partner
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
.LETHAL GAS WILL
PUT CRIMINALS TO
/ SLEEP IN NEVADA
Stupefied by Drugs, They Will
Meet Painless Death in
Air-tight Cells.
BY III. w. YARADAY.
International News Service.

RENO. New, June 12.-Thudding
crash of bullets or sickening drop
from scaffold will not longer bring
legal death in Nevada Instead,
drugged into Inconsistencies crimi-
nails will be placed in an air-tight
chamber. where death will come in
stealthy approach of a tasteless, odor-
less gas.
Prior to January of this year a man
condemned to death had choice of
one OF two ways to die. He could
select the bullet or the hangman's
moose. Choice was removed by the
last legislature, meeting in Carson
City early this year. when IL passed
bill decreeing death penalties
should be exacted through the use
OF a deadly gas.
A new tier of cells is rapidly near
ing completion at the State peniten-
tiary in Carson City. In that tier
of cells are three which to outward
appearance correspond exactly with
thhe other cells in the prison house.
Written over the entrance of each
cell, unseen except by eyes that must
soon face death. is a legend of an
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
STEAMSHIPS

NEW YORK TO EUROPE
saaiaos from Pier ~, Skth ST.. N. q
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AMERICA:
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PLYMOUTH-BOULOG
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OLD NORTH STATE: Jsiy ". Aug. 10. Ssst. u
BREMEN-DANZI0
POTOMAC (Ex- Antigone June I 5, Jsly y1e, Sspt. I
HUDSON July u. Aus. -. oet I
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PoCAHoNTAs: June 20. AnE. II. Ssst-
u. s. MAIL STEAMSHIP co.
Stewart Bldg. Baltimore
Phone Calvert 346e.
Is Broadway. N. T.
The Washington times., 1921-06-12

1
guish. for the three cells are death
cells.
Death ellis in literal truth. for the
cell in which the condemned prisoner
passes the last days on earth is the
ell where death will steal on him or
her sometime during the fateful
week which has been set apart rs
the week of death.
INVISIBLE GAS PIPES.
Close by the death cells lies th&
executioner's room. There are no
switches to swing into contact here
no buttons to push which will release
a drop beneath the prisoners feet.
Instead, great tanks of death dealing
gas stand waiting the day Of carry
ing out sentence pronounced as PEN
atty for crime. Pipes lead from this
room to each of the death cells. Their
outlets cannot be seen by the eyes
of the condemned. yet through the
openings leading into the cells death
will rush when the signal has been
given.
Provisions in passing sentence will
be the same as provisions under the
old infiiction of death penalty except
for phrasing "shot until dead or
hanged by the neck until dead I" for
a room filled with lethal gas, there to
remain until dead"
In all three cells arrangements
have been made so ventilation nEy
be cut OF. and in each door is
heavy glass window. Witnesses will
use 1.-The window through which 10
view the unfortunate passing from
life to death.
OPIATE IN LAST SUPPEB.
In passing sentence death is desig-
mated to take place within week
Under Nevada's new law, when the
final week arrives any meal may be
the condemned mans last meal on
earth, for In the food on the fatal
day will be a strong opiate. AZ Ee
finishes eating drowsiness will close
his eyes in sleep, the window 20 his
cell will be closed air-tight. the cloce-
fitting door will swing on him for
the last time, witnesses will tahe
their places, and as the deadly gas
is forced into the death cell the con
demned man will go to his Maker
without ever having known that
Anal payment is being made.
The Washington times., 1921-06-12
Frisky Young Bobcat
Being Reared As
House Pet

POCAHONTAS, w. Va, June
12.-Roscoe Bennett, Of this place,
is the owner Of young wild cat
which was caught by some woods
men coming through the forest
from the Cranberry lumber camps.
They saw a couple Of old wild
cats and two kittens, and they were
able to capture one of the kits. 1t
is a pretty gray little thing. about
as large as a half-grown kitten.
1t eats well and is playful. 1t is
the ordinary wild or bob eat,
known in the books as the bay
lynx.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
RISE IN VALUES
HELD TAXABLE
United States Wins High Court
Ruling on Corporate
Tax.
LARGE AMOUNT IS INVOLVED
Increased Value of Capital Asset Must
Be Considered in Levy on Prof
its, Is the Unanimous Rul-
ing of Judges.

Washington, May 1S.-The govern
ment won in the, Supreme court its
contention that increased value of any
capital asset must be considered in a
corporations profits when taxes were
computed.
The courts decision WIS given in
the appeal of La Belle iron works
from ruling of the treasury that ore
lands purchased for $4,000 in 1904
must be returned in the 1917 report at
$10,0O0,000 and profit tax paid on
the difference. The opinion sustained
this ruling.
''The meaning of the act as to in
vested capital is clear" the court said
ut was to cover actual cost of prop
erty, disregarding anything that does
not change the form of the invest
ment"
The court was unanimous in its de-
cision, except that Justice McReynolds
concurred only in the result. Associate
justice Pitney read the opinion.
Hundreds of millions Of dollars in
excess profit taxes were involved in
the case, which was characterized by
high government official as "the
most important legal suit affecting
federal finances to arise in several
decades"
Practically every American corpora
ton Of any size was interested vitality
IN the case, counsel for the iron COM
pany said, when asking the court to
expedite hearings in the case. Lumber
companies, steel foundries and in
dividuals joined with the iron COM
pany as friends of the court" in the
effort to show that the natural en-
hancement in value of the company'S
holdings could not be considered prof
it's.
The estate tax provided in the rev.
enue act of 1915 was held valid by
the court in passing upon the appeal
of executors Of the estate of the late
j. Harsen Purdy of New York
Estate taxes paid under state laws
cannot be deducted from the met es-
tate" upon which a tax is affixed UNI
der the federal revenue act of 1916,
the court ruled in affirming DEGREES of
federal courts in New York in a suit
brought by the executors Of the Purdy
estate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
Three Year old
Washed ASHORE
Mrs. DIngman Tells of Adventure
of Childhood When Fathers
Ship Was Wrecked.
RELATES LATER EXPERIENCE
Declares That the Way TanIac Re-
stored Her Health Is More Re-
markabIe Than Anything She
Has Ever Had Happen
to Her.

I've had some remarkable expe-
riences in my life, but none more Won
derful than the way Tanlac overcame
my troubles and made me gain twen-
ty pounds" was the statement of Mrs.
Christina X. Dingman, 1915 Alice ST.,
Oakland, Calf. One of the experiences
to which Mrs. Dingman refers is well
known to her friends. When q child
OF three years, accompanying her ia
Their, noted sea captain, on an ocean
trip, the vessel was wrecked, but she
was almost miraculously. saved, the
small box into which she was put be-
ing washed ashore. According to her
statement, Mrs. Dingman enjoyed the
best of health until three years ago
when she began to suffer from a bad
form of stomach trouble and later
from rheumatism. How she was COM
pletely restored to health is best told
an her own words:
Nobody knows how / suffered for
the past three years. No matter how
carefully I ate / would endure ago.
mics afterwards from smothering and
O4liAll1S SHC4lSsf hoOIuCL1111CS bLOJ WOAO
so severe would fall to the floor and
would have to be carried to bed. l
went for days at time without eat
ing, as dreaded the misery knew
would follow, no matter what I ate.
Then rheumatism set in and my shout
ders and arms hurt me so couldn't
comb my hair. My back felt like it
was breaking in two.
81 was almost in the depths Of de-
spair when began on Tanlac, but this
grand medicine has made me a well
and happy woman. I'm not even trOu-
bled with constipation now, thanks to
the Laxative Tablets, which are far
superior to anything of the kind ever
tried. 1t seems almost too good to
be true, but here am in the best of
health and spirits after l had given
up hope, and I'll always praise Tanlac
for it."
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere Advertisement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20

/ consent that Philip should lift the
stigma heaped upon her by the Curtis
women.
80 I did," admitted Philip. soberly,
''but you see now this has happened.
You must release me from that prom
| ise." q
ST can't" sighed Tony. Then turn
| ed her face to Pendlehaven.
you'll trust us" she pleaded, wav-
ing her hand toward Philip. "Please
trust him and me-"
"Ha!" shrieked Mrs. Curtis. "Trust
you"
"shut up, Cousin Sarah snapped
Philip at the angry woman. Then ne
addressed himself to the doctor. i
did promise her I wouldn't tell how
we met. And won't! In fact it isn't
any ones business. Is it. Cousin
John?"
..Not that can see," came in rather
drawing answer.
! 'I'll repeat what / said before,
Philip took up hastily. Il didn't know
she lived here"
sWe're ready to believe that-n1t,
cried Katherine.
Captain MacCauley stared at her.
Was this frowning angry girl the smil-
| ing, yielding Katherine he had known
or thought he had known?
s'You can believe it or not, Kathie, :
he told her savagely. ut makes no
difference to me. But It's true, just
the same'
'Wait here for me, Philip" said the
| doctor, in a low tone. "Tll be back
| in moment.
Then he took Tony by the hand and
they went out together.
For several tense moments silence
too dreadful to describe settled down
upon the dining room. Katherine
twisted her fork sulkily and Mrs. Cur
| tbs still shifted in her handkerchief.
Philip looked from one to the other,
wishing with all his heart he could
say something that would clear the
atmosphere.
'I'm sorry, Cousin Sarah" he said
abruptly, trying to smile. 1T certainly
was awkward. wasn't it?"
'sAwkward?" repeated Mrs. Curtis,
wrinkling her face. Awkward isn't
the word, Philip. It was disgusting. >
The gorge rose again in his throat.
''Tonnibel Devon is the best girl ]
know" he asserted. "Poor little thing,
/ pity her with all my heart"
''Pity is akin to love, my dear Phil
| fp," sneered Mrs. Curtis.
Mother" cried Katherine. "Philip
] rrn11ldn,t co far forget himself and his
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
"YoU, you HUzzY!"

Synopsis.-Lonely and friendless,
Tonnibel Devon, living on canal
boat With brutal father and
WORKOUT, discouraged mother, wan
ders into a Salvation army hall at
Ithaca, N. Y. There she meets
young Salvation army captain,
Philip MacCauley. Uriah Devon,
Tony's father, announces he has
arranged for Tony to marry Regi-
maid Brown, a worthless compan-
ion. Mrs. Devon objects, and Uriah
beats her. Their quarrel reveals
that there is a secret between them
in which Tony Is the central figure.
Tony refuses to marry Reginald
and escapes a beating by jumping
into the lake. She finds baby's
picture with offer of reward for its
delivery to Doctor Pendlehaven.
With the Pendlehavens, a family
of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, cousin,
her daughter and son, Katherine
Curtis and Reginald Brown. Kath-
crime is In love with Philip Mac
Cauley. Tonnibel returns the pic
ture to Doctor John, and learns 1t
belongs to his brother, DR.. Paul
Pendlehaven. It is a portrait OF
Doctor Paul's daughter, stolen in
infancy. Doctor John goes with
Tony to the canal boat. Mrs. Devon
is deeply agitated and makes Tony
swear she will never tell of Dew
on's brutality. The older Devons
disappear and Tony is taken into
the Pendlehaven house as a COM
panion to Doctor Paul. Philip
fights with Reginald on the boat
and saves Tony. Uriah appears.
orders Philip off and locks UP Tony.
Philip again rescues her. They ex-
change love vows. Doctor Paul i'm
proves and the Curtises are furi-
Gus over her presence. Philip and
Tony unexpectedly meet in the PEN
dlehaven home.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
ed like to kill her."
(To BE CONTINUED
MAN "THE CHEAPEST ANIMAL"
In West China He Is the Universal
Bearer of Burdens, for Simplest
of All Reasons.

Not a wheeled vehicle is seen in all
west China except the wheelbarrow,
near Cheng-tu. Thousands of tons Of
commerce pass over these highways
annually, all on the backs of men !;
and as we approach the centers of
population we find the sewage and the
water Of the city are on their backs
also.
The Back of Man" is the unwrit-
ten epic of this land; for, Atlas-like,
it bears the world upon it. The coal
and other minerals from the noun
tains; the cities, with their walls and
towers and all that they contain; the
wood on the hills and the grain of the
plain-all, together with the pigs on
the way to market and the men who
can afford tall have ridden or ride
upon the back of man.
The reason is not far to seek. It is
purely economic. Man is the most eff
ficient machine and the cheapest an
imal, and so it comes to pass that he
is the universal animal, the omnibus
OF commerce anu the pack LHule VI lne
race.
It is cheaper to wear men down
than keep roads up. When he falls,
few care and still fewer pity, for 9th
ers are eager to fill his place. Should
we offer to take the burden from his
shoulder, he would regard it as taking
the rice from his bowl.-Dr. Joseph
Beech in the National Geographic
Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-20
Do you remember when you used t

Do you remember when you used 10
see SIS goldpieces in circulation?
Ever notice how happy a clothes
presser looks on rainy day? What's
one mans meat is another mans poi
son.
History repeats. Old styles return.
Everything travels in a circle. Elm
stein may be right about there being
no such thing as a straight line.
The feyerish haste with which
wrecking crews tear down buildings
probably is due to curiosity about
what kind of bottled goods are under
the cornerstone.
Maybe what the Germans want is to
pay the indemnity in paper marks in.
stead of gold marks.
If you ever paid for a cablegram,
YOU don't wonder that so many coun-
tries want to own the lines.
Maybe the people of zap would pre-
fer not belonging to either side. but
rather to themselves.
Chicago meat packer says prosperity
will be back by October. Yes, yes,
what year?
Tobacco man says julius Caesar
smoked weeds. This proves that the
world never changes.
Hat checker says he wouldn't mind
prohibition if it hadn't taken all the
quarters out of circulation.