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New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

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A- in proposition observed Marty
Mcmahon, the retired bartender
can Pm for it, most as strong as I am for
Henry.
"He's wonderful man. He turns battle
ships into fivvers and fiivvers into dollars.
and now he's goin' to turn dollars into flivver
dollars. An it's all fer the sake of peace
that Henry's doin' it. If Old Man War hadda
known what was really in the back of Henrv's
mind when he was tnkerin' with the first
f1ivver in his bicycle shop he woulda had
right to lay down an die easy.
"As it is, Henry's goin' to lay him out wit
one punch-or maybe two if you count the
outa-the-trenches-by- Christmas punch. IT'S
the energy dollar that's goin' to do it. an it'll
end whole lot more than war. too.
TITS perfectly simple. Everybody knows
just like Henry says, that it's these here now
big international bankers that makes the wars
One bunch Of EN- starts a war to collect the
money that's due 'em, or another because thev
ses chance to make more money by startin'
a war.
That's because the only money there ia
either is gold or silver or stands fer gold or
silver. Now, says Henry, let the gov'mcnt
turn out money that amt backed necessarily
by gold or silver. but by energy. Most anv
gcT'ment's got slathers Of energy. 1t don't
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
REFLECTIONS OF
MARTY MCMAHON
By ROBERT B. PECK

I(1H1S here f1ivver dollar O. Henry
Ford's is an interestin' an uplift-
~ in proposition" observed Marty
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Woman Asks 500, 600
Damages From Hotel Man
Former Lessee of Hotel Belle
claire Sues Present Proprietor
ON Charges of Fraud

Mrs. Elmer r. Woodbury., whose hua-
band owns the Hotel Richelieu In San
Francisco, filed suit in the Supreme
Court yesterday against Robert Black
man, now. manager of the Hotel Belle
claire, alleging that he betrayed the
confidence which she and her husband
reposed in him when they were lessees
OF the Belleclaire, causing them 70
lose the hotel and suffer damages
which she estimated at 100000.
They found Mr.. Blackman night
clerk, and made him assistant man
ager at an increased salary, she al
leges. He was most courteous, she
says, and succeeded in having her hus~
band made knight Templar, but at
the same time was deceiving them con-
cern1ng the amount of the hotels in
debtedness and was seeking to per-
suade their financial backer to ahan-
don them. Also, Mrs. Woodbury. saws,
their new assistant manager advised
guests not to pay their bills.
This, she says resulted in $4,000
due. her and her husband being with
held by guests and caused them. az
Iessees of the hotel, to go into bank-
ruptcy. Mr.. Blackman now controls
the Hotel Belleclaire. Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodbury. were forced for time after
thsir unfortunate venture in this city
TO live in single room, 1t is said. and
did their cooking surreptitiously over
gas jet.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Three Sue for Share i'm
SIS, 900 of LarEkin Bond
German Newspaper and Clan Ma
Gael Treasurer Made De-
PENDANTS i'm Dey0y Case

The New York Volks-zeitung, the
Clan M Gaexand James Dewey, editor
of The Gaelic American, who were
contributors to the $4,000 cash bail
given for James Larkin prior to his
conviction Of criminal anarchy, are
trying to recover their money, it was
revealed yesterday by motion made
before Supreme Court Justice Tierney
by Walter Nelles, an attorney, who is
named as defendant in a suit brought
by Dewey to recover $4,000.
The Clan Ma Gael also claims the
$4,000, asserting that Mr.. Devoy's
claim has been paid. The claim of the
German newspaper is for $50, which
it gave to Patrick Quinlan in behalf
of Larkin.
Mr.. Nelles said that after Larkin's
conviction the $4,000 was returned to
him and Charles Recht, another at
torney. He retained the $1,000 which
is the object of controversy, he said.
and was waiting only until the court
should decide who should get it.
Justice Tierney gave him permission
to deposit the returned bail with the
City Chamberlain and to have the New
YORK Volks-Zeitung and Hugh Mon
tague, treasurer of the Clan Ma Gael.
substituted as defendants in Devoy's
suit. ,,.,r = :
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
O'Brien CaIls Gas Cut
Sop 10 Public Opinion
City to Cnfinue Ills Fight fer
80-Cens Rate, Declares
Cnrnssrasi0u Cs,srugaI

Corporation Counsel O'Brien, In a
statement issued yesterday, declared
that the announcement of 9 proposed
reduction in gas rates by the Conaoli-
dated Gas Company from $1.60 TO S1.2S
wss not prompted by aitruistic mo-
tives. Ho said 1t was so familiar STRAIT.
egy Of utility crnopanies.p
"When 1t feels Che touch Of Che hand
Of Nemesis" said Mr.. O'Brien, ain she
shape of vigilant opposition Of Mayor
Hylan and bis cabinet, backed by pub
lie opinion, it attempts to break the
fall by adopting ruse In which Ii
appears to accede TO the wishes Of the
public in the shape of mild or mod
crate reduction In the price. This
method was adopted few years ego
by the New York Edison Company
when, extraordinarily, they reduced
their rates to avoid deeper and wider
slash in their prices. Likewise the
New York Telephone Company, when
they were threatened with forced ye-
duction OF 80 per cent In their pricea,
threw sop to the public In similar
reduction Of per cent.
"This reduction Of ths Consolidated
company will not abats our effcrts In
the slightest to have che 80-cent gas
law sustained In full. Up to May /
there will be practically $13,000,000 I'm
pounded, to be returned to the con-
sumers in New York City By the several
gas companies in the event of our sue
eeeding in the United States Supreme
Court
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Collins, Sought
In Shooting OF
Reid, Still Here
Ex.Convict Said To Be i'm
Hiding, Awaiting Result
of M anu { factur e RS
Fight Against Death
Victim i'm Sanatoriam
Ohio Police Records Are
Said TO Show That He
Had Been Arrested There

Hunted for four days by the polices
Don Coilins has remained carefully
secluded in New York City. This WAS
learned from an authoritative source
yesterday.
Collins, whose real name IS Robert
Teurbillon, is suspected Of having shot
John II. Reid in q fit Of jealousy and
drunken rage last Sunday morning.
Reid, with five bullet wounds. was re-
moved from 1892 University Avenue,
the Bronx, to the Fordham Hospital.
Following a gay party in the Uni
vexsity Avenue house, in which Reid,
Mrs. Hazel Davis Warner, owner OF
the house; Miss Lila Wiley, her cousin,
George Kuriger. their uncle. and Fran
els T. Boylan took part. Collins is al
legged to have made his appearance
without invitation and shot Reid.
Collins Is said to be following closely
the course of Reid's struggle against
death. Should Reid recover he is not
expected to press charges against his
assailant, but in the event of his death
Collins may strike for the open and
walk into the police net spread for his
capture.
Reid Moved 80 Sanatorium
In an attempt TO save his life Reid
was removed yesterday from the hos
yital to DR.. Lloyd's Sanatorium, at 8
ST. Nicholas Place, where three nurses,
Tn addition to surgeons, will be in att
Tendance. Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Crakow,
s ssepfather and mother Of Reid. ap-
piiei for permission to move him yes
terday, and DIR. Alexander Nicoll, visit
ing surgeon at the hospital, issued q
certificate which said that Reid needed
careful nursing which could not be
given him in public ward.
After a conference with District At
sorney Edward J. Glennon, County
Iudg Gibbs was requested TO commit
Reid as a material witness and to fix
bail so that he might be moved TO pri-
vata saniearium. The amount of bail
was set at $4,000, whioa was furnished.
Victim Has Record. Charge
A high official at Police Headquar-
ters In touch with all phases of the
shooting, yesterday showed records just
received from Ohio, said to involve g
man raned John Fl. Reid in criminal
sffenses. Besides his own name this
man is said to have used an alias, John
Reagan. On July IS, 1918, the records
show, he was arrested in Toledo as
suspicious person. 1t was alleged, ac-
cofding to the papers, that he had
picked pocket. He was fined $50 and
sentenced to thirty days in Jail. Three
years earlier, on October 81, 1913, he
Is said to have been arrested in Dallas,
Tex. He also was arrested, it is said,
in Youngstown, Ohio.
Earlier in the day, before permission
was granted to move Reid to a private
sanitariurn, DR.. Clinton Fl. Martin, resi-
dent surgeon at Fordham Hospital, said
Nlas an X-ray showed that Reid had
suffered frontal fracture of the skull
ahsineh and half long, from the nose
seward the left eye. The surgeon said
his tongue was only injured at the tin.
and he would be able to walk IL he re-
covers. According to the X-ray, the
surgeon said, there are no bullets in
She head.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Ruin He Laid to Thieves
Turns Suspicion ON Self
Hotel Patron, Arrested, Admits
Wrecking Room TO Escape
Bill. Police Saw

"I've been robbed" said Charles A,
White last night as he exhibited his
chaotic room in the Hotel Pennsylyania
to detectives he had called from the
West Thirtieth Street police station.
"You've been typhooned," amended
Detective Phelan, as he regarded the
complete and artistic ruin.
So comprehensive was the havoc that
the detectives could not believe that
mere burglars had devoted their time
toned Mr.. White painstaking1y, and
he tol dthem, so they said, that he had
done it himself because he needed a
good excuse for not paying his hotel
bill Of $74.73. He was locked up.
He said he was steamship mechanic
and came from Canada.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
House Votes President
Power to License Cables
Measure to Prevent Unauihor.
ized Landings Goes to Com
ference fnr Revis;nrn

WASHINGTON, May 18-The Sen.
ate bill giving the President authority
over cable landings on American shores
and empowering him to issue licenses
for cable operation was passed to-day
ence for smoothing out differences be-
tween the Senate and House before il
goes to the Presidnt.
The measure has been pressed by al
least two administrations and is de-
signed to remove any doubt as to the
right of the Executive to prevent un-
authorized cable landings, This right
has been questioned for half century
and several court actions have result
ed. The latest controversy over the
question arose last August. when the
Western Union Telegraph Company
undertook to land at Miami Fla. it's
cable connecting at Barbados with
the British cable to Brazil
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Two OF for Prison Hour
After They Sold Drink

A record for quick action in arrest,
trial and conviction was made in the
Hudson County Court yesterday when
Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City; and his
barkeeper, Emil Bornberg, were arrested
at $3.50 p. M, tried and convicted and
sentenced to three months in the county
Jail at Laurel Hill, all within an hour.
The men started for the penitentiary at
exactlyl3:30. tr"& - 80:
The expedition with which the case
was handled is due to the new state
law, which authorizes trials without
juries in certain offenses, among them
that Of illegal sale of liquor. The ar
rests were made on warrants issued by
Judge Mccarthy.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Police Arrest Author
AIS Swindler of Brokers
Bogard Said TO Have Confessed
He Was the Bogus Millionaire
for RnveA ssf Tx.mnLa


Milo T. Bogard, indicted on charge
of grand larceny In connection with q
swindie practiced upon brokers by q
ring composed OF tiy-by-night security
statesmen and bogus millionaires, was
arrested last night mt his home, 31a
West Fifty-first Street.
He is &ifty~nine years old and we'll
fitted in appearance for the part of
q wealthy stock dabblers which ha is
alleged to have played. He is accused
ia ths indictment of giving worth
less note for $4,000 TO James Morrow,
q broker, OF 35& Fifth Avenue, 60
finance stock deal.
According to Detectives Mayer and
Brown, who arrested Bogard, he ad-
mitted not only this deal, but others,
and said that he got $50 OF the $3.50
commission which Morrow paid to
the Salesman" who introduced him.
He expressed profound sorrow, the po-
come TO his family and to himself, the
author Of The Book of America, The
Redemption Of New York and other
works.
He also was the author, the police
saids of the Loyal League of Amer
ica, which the District Attorney broke
up, distributing the money collected
among war charities, and of the Base
ball News Service, which the undis-
eliminating courts held to be loA-
terry. They say he served time in Illi-
noNs forty years ago for grand larceny.
Eight Of his alleged accomplices In the
swindling OF brokerage houses have
pleaded guilty.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Hundreds Hunting
Lost Child; Trail
Ends mt River Bank
Parents of Missing Airing
tom, N j., Boy Refuse
TO Relieve He Has BEEN
Drowned and Spur Search

ARLINGTON, ~. y.. May 1s.--Archie
Northrcp, three-and-a-haff~year-old son
Of Archibald 81. Northrop, who has been
missing from his home since esrly
Monday morning, when he started for
q nearby candy store to spend the
nickel his mother had given him, ID
still being sought by hundreds of
Despite the feet that hound owned
by CHIEF of Police Heuiihan of Glen
rock has three times followed the
chiid's trail from his home to the river
bank near the Belleviile Boat Club,
Mrs; No5throp remains firrn in her ,c2n-
viction chat the little boy has not been
drowned, but is In the Keeping Of per-
sons who found him wandering. Mrs.
Northrop is near collapse at her home
from anxiety and sleeplessness.
Last night new dog was enlisted
In the search. This animal, of Bel
gian breed, is owned by Louis De Win
ter, Of Eagle Rock. 1t followed the
same trail that other dogs had found
until approaching che river bank, when
II swerved and stopped at an irrigating
ditch, in which there is about fifteen
feet OF water. Led away from the ditch
the dog returned to IL. Michael Con
roy, q friend Of the Northrop family
NsFSN cOFpl8a tllttC6p Uut SoQIiu uo LAACS
Of the. missing boy. Joseph Kearns, a
United States sailor, OF Kearny, also
made several dives. The ditch will be
searched with grapplers this morning.
The last report OF the child's having
been seen was o'clock Monday night
when watchman at the Bellevilie
Boat Club warned him away from the
river. Repeated efforts to pick up an
other trail by dogs have failed. All
have found their way to the same spot
on the river bank, Graphing has been
going on since Tuesday morning, but
so far no trace of tho body has been
discovered, and Archie Northron sr.,
who has watched the work, is as en-
phatic as is Mrs. Northrep in declaring
that his child did not fall into the
river. At intervals he returns to the
home in an effort Go reassure the moth
eT, who keeps repeating:
HE Is nos In the river. You WON'T
find him there. Wen find him safe and
sound somewhere"
Boy and Girl Scout parties are work
ing In relays and have searched the
country for miles around, calling on
every family in the effort to find one
with which the child may have taken
refuge.
Imprints Of the child's sandals In
soft soil were found on the trail fol-
lowed by dogs at distance Of mile
and quarter from his home.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19

dislcyaity because she subscribed ia
the platform Of the left wing of the
Socialist party.
William l.. Ettinger, Superintendent
OF Schools, brought tho matter before
the board in o letter in which he in.
closed an opinion of the Acting Cor
pcration Counsel, George P. Nichol-
son, MIR. Nicholson advised prompt
action in the case and said chat the
board should take the position that II
the teacher took the oath OF loyalty
merely to gave her job it did not re.
lseve her Of responsibility for opinions
expressed before the act requiring tha
oath WAS passed.
Samuel Untermyerse letter OF May 70
to Mayor Hylan, asserting that BOARD
of Education contracts for plumbing
and heating had been obtained through
coilusive bidding, was read and re-
ferred to the committee of the whole,
IL was decided to form $4,000 schoo
children In double ranks, one on each
side of the route to be taken by Presi.
dent Harding when he visits this city
May 20, all the way from the Brooklyn
end Of tho Manhattan Bridge Go the
23d Regiments Armory, on Bedford
Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
LewisC.,annnpaiegrn
For Mayoralty
Opens Tonight:
Kings District Attorney VIII
Address the Republican
County Committee ON Po-
litical Issues of she Day
His 1913 Vote Recalled
Conference Board Will BE
Appointed to Discuss
Coalition Candidates

The Harry Il, Lewis boom for Mayor
will be launched tonight at the
monthly meeting of the Republican
County Committee In Bryant Hall,
when the District Attorney of Kings
County will address the committee on
the issues Of the day, especially on the
matter of the combating of crime.
District Attorney Lewis In 1918 car
ried Kings County by 74,00o when AL
fred Z. Smith, the Democratic cam
didata for Governor, carried 1t by
$4,000. Ever since then the District
Attorneys friends have talked about
Mr.. Lewis as an eligible candidate
against Mayor Hyian.
The meeting tonight will do more
than hear p speech from Mr.. Lewis. A
resolution will be put through author
izing President Koenig to appoint a
conference committee to meet with
similar committees and with ;ndepen-
dent bodies such as the coalition COM
mittee appointed by Joseph M. Price
looking to the selection Of an anti
Tammany slate for the mayoralty
campaign.
La Guardia VIII Rum
The boom for MIR. Lewis adds one
more to the eligible receptive candi-
dates for the anti-Tammany mayoralty
nominetion. The Republicans are fair
ly we'll assured now that F. III. La
Guardia, President of the Board of
Aldermen, and former Senator William
M. Bennett are going into the Repub-
iican primary for the mayoralty nom
nation. Major La Guardia has made
tsln not ho Irna rao& Il
nomination. He wants to run against
Hylan for Mayor. He asserts that the
traction issue will be the leading issue
Of the campaign, and on that issue he
says that he stands for a five-cent fare
and the scrapping Of various obsolete
surface railway lines that are not
paving their keep" lsS
Mr.. Bennett says that he intends to
enter the Republican primary for the
mayoralty nomination, but that if he is
beaten in the primary he will drop out
of sight
Mr.. Lewis is receptive candidate
for, Mayor on his record as q prose-
cutting officer for the last six years.
His friends say that he is the one best
bet against Hylan and that his nomi-
nation would mean an assured victory,
Lewis Is an organization Republican.
Duo 10 NV Oh very close terms with
Livingston, his county leader
Woods's Friends Still Active
The other receptive candidates are
Darwin R. James, of Brooklyn; Martin
Sake, former State Senator and mem
Der Of the State Tax Commission, and
Justice James G. 5Cropsey, of the Su-
preme Court, Brooklyn. The friends of
Colonel Arthur Woods, former Police
Commissioner, have not abandoned the
idea of bringing about his nomination.
The commissioners and heads of de-
partments under the Mitchell admins
ttration will meet at q luncheon. at the
City Club on June 2 to hear a report
from a committee on the painting of a
portrait Of John Purroy Mitchell and
to talk over the prospects of the com
ing mayoralty campaign. Darwin R.
James has number Of powerful
friends among the Mitchell co1nmis-
sioners-men who are ready to begin
missionary work for him In the various
boroughs.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
BoySaves Baby Sister
knockesA Unconscious as He
Pulls Carriage Away

Joseph Levine, fifteen years old, of
1851 Lexington. Avenue. was seriously
injured yesterday afternoon. on The
East Drive in Central Park, near 102d
Street, when he saved the life Of his
baby sister by pushing the baby car
riage in which she lay from the path
OF speeding bicycle ridden by Stephen
Secary, of 896 Second Avenue.
The boy. and Secary were thrown
to the. roadway. Both sustained pain
full injuries. The baby in the carriage
was unhurt. Both boys were taken
unconscious to the Mount Sinai Hos
pital. The baby and carriage were
taken care OF by Patrolman Classon.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
W. Irving Glover Named
Third Assistant to HAYS
Englcwood, ~. j., Man Given
Postoffice Department Place
by Harding

FTUHb 4 ete 4 fEONWSS u w uSfstnULoTs dRT6GU
WASHINGTON, May 18.--The Presi-
dent to-day nominated w, Irving
Glover, of Englewood, N. J.. to be
third Assistant Postmaster General.
Mr.. Glover was born in Brooklyn
October 2, 1879. He has lived in
Englewood for the last fifteen years,
He has been connected with several
large business enterprises in New York
and is now treasurer of the Alton
Holding Corporation Of New York City
8 large real estate corporation. In
addition, Mr.. Glover has many other
of the New Jersey Legislature in 1920,
He is married and has family of
three children.
At the same time the President an
nounced that John Edwards, of
Mitchell, Ind, had been appointed
solicitor for the Postofice Department.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19

fully End scientifically corrs...,
adjusted according 10 lonei,sssa lo;isa atI
tude and elevstioll above ass sas, s, las
Bell and Wadswcrth were fsssis f.svsis
the movement TO revoke ths lsasss 1
the city, of Hartford for asa.s;aazes aazses {
light saving time, and thsv sssihg daj
TO put Through law to ana sec sec tsis.
saving sima. '0 " dsyiigit
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19

vounAsa wssh hesyy hammer ~ee that
the brass pointer registered daylight
saving sirne-
Nethsr Bell Ber Wedsworth brought
up che matter la sls open House, and
II ia poesihie that the whole affair Tnay
oe rsfnedied by che State Comptroller,
10 whona Mr.. Bell said be would make
4 report. Tfss SUN dial 10 the prodnci
of New York Azm and has been care
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19

introduced the resolution, sald church
goers were hipetoting liquor. and that
crime and insanity were increasing
because il was easier TO hide strong
drink Shen beer.
Monnel Sayre, of Madison, N. j.. ep-
posing the resolution, said Il was un~
aecessary Tor q body of church people
to demand obedience to the Constifu-
tion and laws of the land.
A resolution was passed condemning
the Forthcoming Dempsey-Ca Carpenter
fight in Jersey City.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Sum Dial Bent to Give
Daylight Saving Time
State Instrument at Hartford.
Beaten Out of Gear, Anglers
Foes of Measure
Speciol Dispatch to The g-y,,b,.,

a5Vetsd5 DtsDdtt7E 20 IFe y1bWfse
HARTFORD, Conn, May ls.--Repre-
sentativas Wadsworth, of Pennington;
Bell, of Salisbury, and other sturdy
opponents of daylight saving were fu-
rious to-day when they discovered that
the famous state sun dial on The lawn
south of the State CAPITOL had been
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Omsk Reported Lost bvReds

COPENHAGEN, May 1s.-Advices
from counter-revolutionar sources are
TO the effect that Omsk, Siberia, has
beer. captured and that the counter
revolutionary General Billov, with
10000 men, is marching on Tomsk.
Part Of the Soviet garrison at Omsk
Joined Billov's forces.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Board Will Try Teacher
Accused of DisIOvaltv

Commissioners Harry B. Chambers.
Samuel Stern and George ]. Ryan were
appointed as a trial board yesterday at
the meeting of the Board of Education
to take up the case of Sarah Hyams, a
cooking teacher. who is charged with
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
w. L. DOUGLAS STORES IN cREArrp

.65 Nassau Street.
s4z Broadway, near 18th Street.
*i3B2 Broadway. corner 36th Street.
k4sS 'sroadway CFimes Sqnara).
9S4 Third Avenues 81 yr3 8s 81
A1452 Third Avenue.
gS1Q2 Third Avenue, corner f20kh Sc.
Hsa1s ihsrd Av., bstween 1ASsh & H47sh See.
Gaawam xsn na..I
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19
Church Rejects Dry Plea
Jersey Pastor Charges Congre

cations Are Hip .Toters' :
u A resolution introduced at the New,
ark Episcopal diocesan convention ii
Newark yesterday calling for obedi,
enss TO the Eighteenth Amendment
failed to pass.
The Rev. DR.. G. T. Tinker, rector o,
Grace Episcopal Of Nutley, N. J..Fwhe
New-York tribune., 1921-05-19

347 Eighth Avenue.
~ ESQ West l25th Street.
BROOKLYN
a06 Broadway, near Thornten Street.
aAool broadway, corner Gates Avenue.
A1s Fifth Avenue, corner Ixth Sfrees
sS9 Manhattan Avenue (Grecnpointl. Il 4
449 Fultcn Street.