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America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-08-10
CETIT!I

Istoria Romano de Xenopol
la foileton. In curgere actul
Unirei, cea mai inaltatoare
perioada din istoria neamului.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Bedtime Stories
The Prettiest Twins
By Thornton W. Burgess
Some people k7,o1o not aOhat is fine /;
Their only thought is hoao to dine,
Mrs. Lightfoot.

Boxer and Woof-Woof, the twin
cubs of Buster Bear, were not the
only twins in the Green Forest,
though until the time of the great
fright from the Red Terror they had
seen no others. They saw them for
the first time when all the forest
folk gathered on the shore of the
pond of Paddy the Beaver, but hard
ly noticed them because Of the great
fear of the Red Terror. In fact, no
one noticed the other pair OF twins
at that time.
But after the danger was over and
the forest folk had separated, more
than one remembered those twins.
Buster Bear was one. 1t was the
very next evening. Buster was sit
ting down trying to think what he
wanted most for dinner that night,
and all Of sudden those twins
popped into his head.
"Pretty little things. AS nrettv
little things as sver 1 have a geer.S seen,S
he growled to himself, for he was
quite alone. "Must be tender" he
continued, and scratched his nose
thoughtfully. 81 think / would like
one Of them. In fact, am quite sure
l would. Can't think of anything I
would like better. Funny I haven't
thought of them before. Might have
known there was pair of them
somewhere in the Green Forest. Now,
! wonder where I am most likely to
find them" He scratched his nose
some more and finally shuffled off
among the trees. He was ON his way
to look for those twins.
Old Man Coyote was another who
remembered them. The truth is. no
sooner had the falling rain removed
the fear Of the Red Terror than Old
Man Coyote had begun to think of
his stomach, for with fear gone his
appetite had returned. Right away
he thought of those twins. and his
mouth watered. The thought of them
made him hungrier than ever. He
looked about hastily, but the twins
and their mother had disappeared,
He put his nose to the ground and
ran this way and that way, but the
rain had washed away their scent,
Old Man Coyote sighed.
Well, anyway, know about them
and that is more than / knew be-
FORE" said he. ''It is a bad wind
a very bad wind, that blows no one
good. If the fear of the Red Ter
ror hadn't brought us all together ]
wouldn't have known Of those twins
until they were too big They must
be tender. Ny. how tender they must
be- When this storm is over thir
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Woman Swings Axe to SAGE
Chickens From Lnav and Order
Health and Police Departments Are Forced to
Combine Their Strength to Capture Feath-
cred Proteges Occupying BROOKLYN Home

They did not take many of them, how
ever, because just about that time Mrs.
Walker displayed brisk familiarity
with the axe that was impressive. She
just swung in the general direction Of
the heads of the arresting committee,
1t is alleged, and, fortunately for all
concerned, the two men ducked and
backed out.
The door was once more shut and
they consulted together as TO the next
best thing to do Hughes suggested
calling out the National Guard. Carol,
on the other hand, suggested calling
upon Detective Joseph Benzig, who was
skilled in kicking down doors with his
feet and overpowering people. So they
got hold of Benzig.
Benzig came and kicked in the door,
and when Mrs. Walker made passes at
him with the AK he took it away. After
that it was simple. She was taken TO
Bridge Plaza court and introduced to
Magistrate Geismar.
The Magistrate informed her that it
was against the law to maintain chick
ems in her house without permit She
said she didn't know that.
He told her that it was .felonious
assault to try to massacre cops and
health officials. She was much sur
prised at this and said she would
apologize to them. Anyway, she said,
she had not known who they were
She promised to do away with the
chickens and was fined So
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17

Mrs. Rose Walker, of 166 Skillman
Avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested yes
terday for keeping seven hens and a
rooster in her home. It took police
man, detective and a health inspector
to perform this trick, owing to Mrs.
Walkers objections to being interfered
with in her back-to- the -barnyard move
ment.
Health Inspector Hughes and Patrol
man john Carroll were the first ex-
ponents OF law and order, not 20 say
health, who called upon Mrs. Walker
yesterday. But they did not arrest
her--not that trip.
In response to their loud appeals for
entrance into her combination hen yard
and personal living quarters, Mrs.
Walker opened wide the door and con-
fronted them, armed with a small but
serviceable axe. At first the author-
ties thought that Mrs. Walker had
opened the. door to its fullest extent
that they might enter with ease and
comfort. About thirty seconds after
they saw her they realized that this
was not so. She had opened the door
30 that she could swing the axe with
out marring the woodwork
In these thirty seconds a conversa-
tion ensued conducted solely by Patrol
man Carol. His brief introductory re-
marks were unfortunate.
where's them chickens?" he de-
manded.
And the two men took steps to enter.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Gas Service Condemned
At Commission Hearing
Corporation and Civic Repre-
sentatives Appear at First
Session of Ne1y Roard

The Public Service Commission held
its first hearing yesterday on the ques-
tion of gas rates and the quality of
gas furnished by the various companies
throughout the city. The hearing took
place in the assembly room Of the
Merchants Association, All five men,
hers Of the new commission were pres
ent Representatives Of many civic
organizations appeared and unanimous
ly condemned the service and high
rates now charged by the companies.
for the city and denounced The gas
companies.
William L. Ransom, formerly coun-
sci to the old Public Service Com
mission, appeared for the Consolidated
Gas Company and all it's subsidiaries.
Samuel F. Moran appeared for the
Kings County Gas Lighting Company;
Colonel William N. Dykman for the
Brooklyn Union Gas Company and its
subsidiaries, and Mary Dillon, general
manager, for the Brooklyn Borough
Gas Company. Counsels for the COM
panies brought with them voluminous
papers, which had been prepared in
response to the request Of the COM
mission for data to be used at the
hearings. Chairman Prendergast did
not permit counsel to make any dis
cussion Of the papers submitted yes-
terday.
Frederick B. De Berard, representing
the Merchants Association, submitted
a petition urging the commission to
abolish the present fiat rate charge
Tor gas and substitute graduated rates
plus an equitable service charge.
A definite date for the next hearing
Will be announced later.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17

to enter taxicab at Seventeenth
Street and First Avenue. Cries of
Lynch him!" kill him!" went up.
Patrolmen Faust, Strunk and Valinsky,
Of the Twenty-third Street police sta
tion, arrived in time to pull Zelenchy
from the taxicab and then turned to
fight back the crowd, which was grow
ing every moment.
The arrival of Mrs. Bogbadoff and
few words spoken in Russian momen-
tarily Gained the mob, and during the
lull Zelenchy was pushed into the taxi
cab and hurried to safety. The child,
uninjured, was returned to the mother.
Mrs. Bogbadoff appeared later at the
police station. She said Zelenchy had
been friendly with her in Russia before
the death of her husband, who was
killed during the revolution. When she
came to America he followed and, she
declared, proposed marriage to her.
She told him that she had become en-
gagged to another man, but he per-
sisted.
When zelenchy found her obdurate,
Mrs. Bogbadoff said, he began plotting
way to force her to marry him. It
was with this end in view that he had
stolen the baby, she said.
Zelenchy was arraigned before Magis-
trate William A. Sweetser in Yorkville
court and held without bail for action
by the grand jury.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Marriage by Proxy
Waits as City Says
Fiance Must Appear
Judge Reserves Decision on
Venezuelan's Demand for
License to Wed Foster
Daughter for Absent Man

Justice Donnelly yesterday reserved
decision on the application of Nestor
Arreaza, Venezuelan. living at 1913
West 115th Street. for a mandamus
directing City Clerk Michael j. Cruise
to issue to him a marriage license so
that he might wed his step-foster
daughter, Miss, Eva Margarita Mar
tinez, as proxy for Jose Antonio Gil
a Venezuelan living in Cuba.
Mr.. Arreaza has a power Of attorney
from Mr.. Gil authorizing MIN to go
through with the marriage ceremony
with Miss Martinez, but City Clerk
Cruise said it could not be done.
Miss Martinez was in court yester-
day with her foster-mother. She ap-
pears to be not more than eighteen
years old. Joseph Wheless, counsel
for Mr.. Arreaza, told Justice Dom
nelly that proxy marriages were rec
countries and quoted the judge ad-
vccate general Of the army as saying
in reply to an inquiry that marriage
by proxy had been recognized during
the World War.
The attorney said that a marriage
was only a civil contract and that as
such could be made by an attorney
intact. Mr.. Wheless said Mr.. Gil was
anxious to make Miss Martinez his
wife, but that he was detained in Cuba
by business.
In opposition to the granting of the
mandamus, Russell A. Tarbox, Assist
ant Corporation Counsel, argued that
Mr.. Gil, who is fairly we'll to do,
could come to New York and be pres
ent at his own marriage, or could send
for Miss Martinez to come to Cuba.
Mr.. Tarbox said he could find no
statute that authorized marriage by
proxy, while the law does say that
an applicant for marriage license
must appear in person to answer the
cooocca
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Police Closing
Net ON VarOtta
Boy Kidnapers
Black Hand Leader Known.
and Capt. Fiaschetti, I'm
moved by Death Threats.
Plans for Early Arrests
Child Seen i'm Ossining
Conveyed by Italian, Says
Letter to Father; Posture
of Body Puzzles Officials

The leader of the Black Hand band
which is believed responsible for the
kidnapping and subsequent murder Of
little Giuseppe Varotta Is known to the
police and important arrests may be
made within few hours, according to
statements made yesterday by Captain
Michael Fiaschetti, head of the police
Italian squad engaged in hunting down
the slayers,
Evidence that the murdered boy was
seen alive with several Italians in
Ossining several days before he was
thrown into the Hudson River, has
= been placed in the hands Of the police,
with coed descriptions of the men.
This information was contained in
letter delivered to Salvatore Varotta,
father of Giuseppe, on the day Of the
funeral. The missiye which is signed
by Thomas Riley, who gives his occu-
patton as a travelling salesman but is
without address, goes into detail in
describing the child and his captors.
According to the letter, the boy ac-
companied by several Italians was seen
on CRTeS occasions Ia the ltall6H QlS-
trict of Ossining.
Riley says he attached no Importance
TO the incident until after the body
had been found at Piermont last Sat-
urGay. Several New York newspapers
published photographs of Giuseppe, and
It was through one of these that he
made the identification.
The letter strengthens the original
theory of the police that the boy was
kept alive by his captors several days
after being taken from in front OF
his home, and also holsters the opinion
that he was kept in some small town
along the Hudson River above New
York. 1t has been decided by the
police that the boy must have been
thrown into the water at point about
halfway between Ossining and Haver
straw 1t also is believed that Giuseppe
was taken to the middle of the stream
in boat and dropped overheard in the
swift current.
A battling point is still unsettled.
When found the body was at Piermont.
DR.. Otto ShultZ, who performed the au-
topsy, said that he had never before
known drowned body to be discovered
face upward and accounted for the phe-
ncmenon by saying that rocks in the
vicinity of the pier might have been
responsible. The fact that the body
was found three feet above the high
tide mark has not been explained. A
survey of weather conditions showed
that the river was calm for more than
iifty-six hours before.
A theory that the lad was drowned
by being held under water and then
placed where the body was discovered
has been advanced. 1t was the opinion
Of DR.. Shultz that Giuseppe had not
been dead for more than week.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
DecoyTrucksTo
Be Used to Stop
Silk Robberies
Vehicle Stolen at Time Eye
witness Was Murdered Is
Found, $4,000 Cargo
Gone, 3OMiles From Scene
Guards Frustrate Hold-Up
Special Squadron Conveying
Merchandise CaravanPuts
Highwaymen to Flight

Silk bandits operating on highways
out of New York are due for surprise
something like that accorded U-boat
commanders during the war, when Brit
ish Suicide" ships dropped their false
sides and brought masked batteries into
action.
Decoy trucks will be used to lure the
robbers into open engagement, accord
ing to the latest plans of the insurance
interests, which have declared war on
organized'rings Of merchandise thieves.
When the land pirates drive alongside
truck, expecting no resistance, they
may be confronted by armed men
emerging like jumping-Jacks from dry
goods cases.
This measure was announced yester-
day by j. j. Windle, an insurance ad-
juster, who has handled heavy losses
recently. 1t will supplement the plan
to police the highway from New York
to Philadelphia with squadrons of mo-
torcycle guards.
AS result of making off with the
Sussex Print Company's truck and the
murder of Charles Costa near Newton,
n. j., last Tuesday, operators yesterday
cut down the night schedules Of trucks
conveying merchandise from this city
TO Philadelphia. 1t was reported that
highwaymen approached one caravan
near Trenton Wednesday night, but fled
On catching sight of special guards.
Authorities Of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania yesterday continued search
for the six bandits who escaped with
the car of the Sussex company. The
stolen truck was found yesterday near
Frenchtown, N. j., thirty miles from
the scene Of the murder and robbery.
the $4,000 consignment of silk to an
other rruck and continued toward
rendezvous in Pennsylvania.
Windle said that measures proposed
by the insurance people and shippers
the wholesale robberies were made nee
essary by the fact that all other meth
DDS have failed, and that losses in a
year am mounted to $50,000,00O.
He cited losses suffered by Insurance
companies since the latter part Of May,
n addition to those revealed Wednes-
day. This loot was valued at $4,000,
he said. In each case bandits ap-
preached trucks in automobiles, over
powered drivers and, after leaving their
victims bound on lonely roads, drove
the trucks into New York, where the
vehicles were found empty.
"The frequency of these crimes and
the boldness of the thieves are anaz-
ing" said Windle. "The bandits seem
to be able to get information as to
when valuable consignments are leav-
ing mills, warehouses and terminals,
and to know just where to overhaul
trucks at secluded points,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Constance Bennett Elopes
With Chester Moorehead
l7-Year-Old Society Girl and
Chicago Student Married at
Greenwich. at l2:l5 A, M.

Constance Bennett, daughter of Mr..
ana Mrs. Richard Bennett, OF $50 Park
Avenue, was secretly married to Cbes-
ter Hirst Moorehead, of Chicago, at
Greenwich, Conn, early yesterday
morning. Though their engagement
had been announced, the marriage Of
the couple came as surprise to their
parents and many friends.
The couple left New York City on
Wednesday afternoon and went to
Greenwich, Conn. They were married
by Justice of the Peace William S. NJ
Fiske in the Pickwick Arms Hotel there
at 1915 o'clock yesterday morning
After the ceremony they returned to
New York. phe bride gave her age as
twenty-one, though she admitted in her
home last night that she was but
seventeen. The bridegroom, according
to the bride, is but twenty-one, though
he gave his age as twenty-five.
Mr.. Moorehead is student at the
University Of Virginia, and is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick B. Moore
head. The couple will not leave on
their honeymoon until the return Of
the brides father from California,
wheres he is at the present time.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
"Well, GnyaUay, I knoW about them,
and that is more than kneto
BEFORE" said he.
will do little hunting in the Green

! will do little hunting in the Green
Forest"
And SO it happened that just about
the time Buster was scratching his
nose and thinking about those twins
Old Man Coyote was leaving his home
IN the Old Pasture headed for the
Green Forest. He, too, was think
ing about those twins.
Yowler the Bob Cat was the third
who remembered them. Just about
the time Buster Bear started to look
for them and Old Man Coyote was
leaving his home in the Old Pasture
for the same purpose Yowler yawned
and stretched on the doorstep of his
home. Then, like gray shadow, he
nolselessly sneaked away, and in his
fierce yellow eyes was hungry look.
He also was starting out t, look for
those pretty twins.
They were pretty. They were the
prettlest twins in the Green Forest.
At least, that is what their mother
thought, and for once mother was
right. Their dainty coats yere beau
tifully spotted Their legs were slim
and long, Their eyes werc big and and
soft. And until the Red Terror
threatened to destroy the Green
Forest their mother had Kept them
so well hidden that no one knew Of
her secret. You see, she knew Just
how Buster Bear and Old Man Coyote
and Yowler the Bob Cat would think
OF her babies. Can you guess who
those pretty twins We're?
Copyright. 1921. by T. w. Burgess,
The next story: Buster Bear Sees
Without Seeinpn
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Police Fight of Mob to
Saue Kidnapping Suspect
Crowd Eager TO Lynch Man
Fleeing With Son Of Woman,
Who Refused to Marry Him

Quick work by the police probably
saved the life of Anatole zelenchy,
Russian living at All Stone Avenue,
Brooklyn, yesterday morning after he
had been surr rounded by mob that tried
10 lynch him because they said he had
attempted to steal Virgen Bogbadoff,
the two-year-old son of Mrs. Agona
Bogbadoff, Of 401 East Sixteenth Street,
Manhattan. The supposed attempt at
Varotta home is said by the police to
have been admitted by the prisoner, who
is being held in the Tombs without bail.
The East Sixteenth Street neighbor-
hood was aroused by the screams Of
Mrs. Bogbadoff. People rushed into
the street in time, they assert, to see
Zelenchy running with the baby in his
arms. They Joined in the chase and
closed in on Zelenchy as he attempted
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
81 Antique American
Hook Rugs at Half Price
AU OUATRfEME

A collection of fine old hook
rugs, some of them from well
known collections of American
antiques, are now Au Qua
trieme at half price. There
are small rugs, just large
enough to supply a spot of gay
color and a bit of quaintness to
a room in the country house.
long narrow rugs suitable for
halls and large square rugs that
may be used as an important
rug in living room in a coun-
try house.
The collection includes the
following:
An interesting medium size
rug in buff with black scrolls,
colored flowers. Was $22,
now $li.
Another the same size is
very gay with vines and foliage
and flowers. Made with a
black border. Was $3.50,
now $13.75.
A large square rug in buff
color with design Of thistles
and roses and clovers. Was
$50. now $50.
An interesting almost square
rug with a design like a kalcido-
scopic shower Of red and green
on buff colored ground. Was
800, now $45.
A rather good size rug with
huge design of roses on a cream
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17

colored ground. Was $3.50,
now $o.75.
A little very gay mat has
design of roses on snuff col
ored ground. Was $40. now SIS.
A little hook rug with Indian
motifs. Was $I4, now 81.
A small buff colored rug
with design of roses. Was
$3.50, now $l3.75.
Another rug with design of
great roses and scrolls. Was
$l6, now So.
A large beautiful square rug
with a most interesting design
of scrolls and flowers in gay
color. Was $400. now 5000.
a rug with interesting dia-
mond-shaped motifs in many
colors. Was $40. now $40.
A small rug with design of
butterflies and roses. Was
$50, now SIS.
Rug with wildly colored
geometric design. Was $40,
now $40.
Most interesting lug III
magenta. orange and buff color.
Was $i6, now So.
Rug with design or small
red and white flowers against
dark background. with
black edge. Was $l4.50.
now $7.25.
Fourth floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Soldiers Who Have
Returned Home

from the battlefield say that cow
ards in time Of battle were almost
always in the greatest danger.
Now that our cities and towns
have become battlefelds of read
justment of finance, manufacturing
and distribution of fabrics and
wares through jobbers and retail
ers, we need courageous men
bravely to face the situation of re-
ducing the high cost of living.
The merchants have made good
beginning in lowering prices. So
far, SO good. Now let the Govern
ment at Washington give distinct
relief to the public by taking of
merchandise and merchandisers
the heavy taxation that Washing
ton still collects, now two years
after the war ended.
Heroic, uncowardly action is the
call of the hour from the business
world, willing to make every effort
to do its part in the readjustrnent
Of prices, depending On readjust-
ments Of costs.
(Signed)
nj b&n~*f
June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
General Weather Conditions


WASHINGTON. June le.-Pressure con-
ttnued low to-day over New England. the
Canadian Maritime Provinces the upper
lake region and from the Mississippi River
westward over the plains states and the
Rocky Mountain and plateau regions, and
II is relatively hiGh along the north Pa
cine Coast anG from the lower lake region
southwestward to Florida. This pressure
distribution has been attended by general
showers within the last twenty-four hours
In middle and northern sections west OF
me Rocky Mountains and by generally
fair weather east of the Rocky Mountains
except for widely scattered thunder show
ers The temperature WAS higher to-day
IN the upper lake regions the upper Mis-
s,ssippi Valley and the middle and south
erh Rocky Mountain region, and 1t was
lower almost generally west of the Rocky
Mountains.
Readings were decidedly above normal
yo-mght almost generally east OF the
NoSAy mountains except iii New England.
oisturpance OF moderate intensity was
central over the western Caribbean Sea
ns near .ne -, coast of Honduras tonight. ap-
the outlook is for partly cloudy weather
friday and Saturday in the states east OF
the Mississippi River and local thunder
showers are probable in the lake region
ana AT widely scattered points elsewhere
There WIN be little change in tenn
Forecast by Districts.--Eastern New
iork--Psrtly cloudy to-day. probably local
showers IN extreme northern portion. to-
morrow partly cloudy and probably un-
settled weather. not .nuch change in tenn
perature
Southern New England. eastern Pennsyl-
Yanis, New Jersey and Deiaware--Partly
cloudy to~day and tomorrow probably be-,
coming unsettled little change in tenn
perature.
Western New York--Genera,lv c,o,av
to-day and Tomorrow. probably local
showers to-day; little change IN tempera-
tpre,
Western Pennsylvania-Partly cloudy
and somewhat warmer to-day: proba bjv
snsettled near Lake Erie; Tomorrow part
ly cloudy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-17

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