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The New York herald., 1921-03-07
WARES by DISABLED SOLDIERS

Novelties made by disabled soldiers
In tinware, basketry and carving are 10
be placed on sale at the International
Flower Show in the Grand Central Pal
ace. which opens March IA. The ar.
ticies have been made by men for whom
employment was secured by the Dugout
Club in $50 East Sixty-flrst street.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Dismissal of 100000
Suit for Death Upheld
U. S. Court of Appeals Snstains
Manton's Ruling in Action
Begun by SaIsedo's Widow

The United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals yesterday sustained Judge
Manton's dismissal Of 100000 action
brought against A. Mitchell Palmer as
Attorney General. William J. Flynn as
local head of the Department of JUS
tice agents and George F. Lamb,
Charles j. Scully and John Francisco,
special agents, by the widow OF Andrea
Salsedo.
Salsedo, held prisoner in the Depart
ment Of Justice Office in Park Row,
ended his life May 8, 1920, by jumping
from widow. His widow alleged that
he leaped from the window to avoid
further torture Judge Manton dis
missed the suit on the ground that
Salsedo's suicide relieved the defend
ants of all responsibility for their al
legged brutality.
1--WE concede," it was said in yes
terday's opinion. Chat n source Of
either mental or physical torture or
both combined may cause death, and
we also concede that the same course
or courses of torture may produce a
frame Of mind that desires death as a
means of relief. 1t is conceivable,
therefore, that tortured man may kill
himself, but if he kills himself deliber-
ately we hold there is an intervening
act Of his own will for which the New
York act affords no remedy"
Judge Rogers wrote the opinion.
which was concurred in by Judge
Hough, Judge Mayer dissenting.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Lacombe to Hear Charges
Against T H. rockingham

Judge Hand in the Federal District
Court yesterday appointed E. Henry
Lacombe, former judge Of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, special
master to take testimony In the in
voluntary bankruptcy proceedings
started Monday against Thomas H.
rockingham, former member of the
Stock Exchange. The action was
brought by three stockholders in the
Ell Salvador Silver Mines Company,
Inc, who charged that rockingham in
duced them under false pretenses to
purchase the stock and that they had a
legitimate claim against trust fund to
which the broker transferred S1,5O0OO0
in the interest of his wife and other
preferred creditors.
Judge Hand signed an order restrain
ing the trustees from disposing of the
property until the status Of about forty
investors in the company is deter
mined.
An affidavit signed by Mr.. Frothing-
ham was made public. 1t declared that
he had provided for all his creditors in
the trust fund. Counsel for the plain
tiffs in the bankruptcy proceedings
pointed out last night that he did not
admit that the Ell Salvador stockhold-
ers had claim against him and he
denied that any false representations
had been made in promoting the sale
Of these shares.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
l33 Cripples Examined
By DIR. Lorenz at Clinic
Fears to Visit Chicago Because
He's Been ''Torn to Pieces''
There. He Saws

DR.. Adolph Lorenz examined 1873 Grip
pies yesterday at the Health Department
Building, sos Pearl Street, and then had
his picture taken with Dr. Royal S.
Copeland, Health Commissioner, and a
motion picture actress.
II am just waiting for the permit or
license which hope will get" said Dr..
Lorenz.
~ have told the DOCTOR" said Com
missioner Copeland, chat I believe that
he will get his license, and that I formed
this opinion after talking with Dr..
Downing, Of the State Board Of Educa-
ton. We will all be glad when he gets
his license and hope that he will stay
with us the rest of his life"
Dr.. Lorenz said he was afraid to 20
to Chicago, as he already had been "torn
to pieces" there. Dr.. S. H. Weintraub.
of Chicago, who watched him yesterday.
said he hoped to prevail upon him to
visit that city, however, and a similar
wish was expressed by DR.. M. Kohler. of
Cincinnati.
DR.. Lorenz's Health Department clinics
start at 10 a. m. and applications will
be received from $3.50 to o'clock. To-
morrow morning DR.. Lorenz will be at
the Health Department Building in
Brooklyn, Willoughby Street and Flat
bush Avenue Extension. Next week he
will be at the Health Department in
Manhattan on Monday and Friday. and
in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Plea for Brazie Respite
Too Vague Miller Insists
Finds Nothing Tangible in Evi.
dence Offered to Halt Slayer's
Execution To.night

ALBANY, Dec. 14.--Nothing tangible
in the way of newly discovered evi-
dence was presented by counsel for
George Bra5ie, awaiting execution in
Sing Sing prison tomorrow night, Gov.
ernor Miller said to-day at the con-
clusion of hearing on an application
for respite for the condemned man.
The Governor added, however, that he
would consider all the records of the
case, but indicated that he would not
interfere with the carrying out of the
death sentence unless he became con-
vinced there should be communication
of that sentence.
What has been termed newly dis
covered evidence was "altogether too
vague" Governor Miller told James
Byard, counsel for .Brazie.
Brazie, an aged Cooperstown farmer,
was convicted Of staying Anna Van
Patten. his connnion-law wife.
Mr.. Byard, in seeking a respite, said
he had learned recently that the body
of the woman had been exhumed and q
secret autopsy performed by the OF
sego County authorities in an unsac-
cessful effort to find second bullet,
Guy Hughes, farmland, having testi-
fed at the trial that Brazie shot the
woman twice. This move, he said, in
dicated the prosecution was not cure Of
Brazie's guilt, Mr. Byard said.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
City Battles Girl Scout

Anna Handley, fourteen years old, Of
Denver, Girl Scout visiting New
York with delegation from Colorado
walked into the police station at AS
toria yesterday and told Lieutenant
IMcHale at the desk she was lost.
II was at the Grand Central Station" )"
said Miss Handley, land there was such
a crowd | BECAME, separated from the
could not find them. Then 1 saw d
uniform getting on q car, so I ran for
the train and got on. 1t was the wrong
uniform. Now I don't know where
am. 1t is SO very different from Den
YER"
Miss Handley was turned over to
the station matren, who notified the
Children's Society.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The '''Tale of a Stocking''
Clears Him, Wife Faints
Child Shows Papa Where Her
Mamma Hides Roll and Ends
Non.Support Case

Mrs. Sophia Lerrbas, of 1928 Pal
metto Street., Ridgewood, tainted in
the arms of Probation Officer George
Campbell yesterday in Jamaica police
court when at the conclusion of a pa
thetic story Of her husbands failure
to support his family, Lernbas pro-
duced a roll Of sl55 in bills which he
told the court he had just found in a
stocking belonging to Mrs. Lernbas
at their home. -
"Your honor, i've been giving my
wages to my wife right along" Lern-
bss said. "a day or two after / had
given her money she would tall me
she had none. After she went to court
my little girl cried and told me her
mamma had lots of money. She led
me to bureau and there found the
stocking with this money wadded into
the toe"
Mrs. Campbell, after being revived,
explained that she had saved the
money out of her husbands wages to
buy farm. She did not think it
ought to be spent for ordinary living,
she said. The case against Lerrbas
was dismissed,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Angry at Husbands Trip,
Mother Kills Daughter
After Shooting Girl Ii Years
Old Buffalo Woman Tries
D. to End Her Own Life

BUFFALO, Dec. l4.-Leaving a note
Tor her husband, business man, Mrs.
Julius ]. Rieman is alleged to have
shot and killed her eleven-year-old
daughter, Alta, and to have attempted
to end her own life Tonight
Mrs. Rieman will recover. The
daughter died instantly. Mr.. Reman
went to Niagara Falls to-day and had
not returned at late hour. The note
addyeseed to him indicated that his
wife vat displeased because of his
trip. Il said:
"God grant you may 60 to the Falls
Il you will. Loretta MRS. Rieman)
and Alta are no more"
Riennan's brother. who was first to
enter ths. house after the shots were
fred, took the pistol from Mrs. Rie-
rnsn. he told the police. Then, he said,
she ran into bathroom and locked
che door. He forced the door and
Sound her on the flapr with her mouth
cvsr : gas outlet, he said.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Florida Girl Enters
Fight for $225,O
Estate of Recluse
New Claimant Sends An
other Will Alleged Made
by Mrs. Easton; Wants
the Money for Orphans

Additional complications developed
yesterday concerning disposition Of the
estate Of Mrs. Margaret Easton, who
lived many years recluse In her
home at 80 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn.
The value Of the estate is said to be
$225,O0O.
Surrogate George A. Winfate has re-
ccived from Miss Jessie A. Owens, Of
Starr, Marion County, Fla, documents
supporting her claim to the Easton
estate, including new will said to
have been signed by James M Easton
and his wife, Margaret Easton, on Jan
uary 2, 1900, under the provisions Of
which all their property is left to Miss
Owens. The witnesses to the will are
given as Thomas Perry and Charles
Thomas. In this will Mr.. and Mrs.
Easton are purported to have written
that their only daughter, Florence, died
In childhood. The notary attesting the
Justice of the Peace" Of Starr.
Letters are attached to the will The
writer's of which vouch for Miss Owens
as member of we'll known Florida
family, her father having been General
w. A. Owens. One of these letters is
signed by Demas Howell and Lclita
Seabrooks, who in turn are attested
by j. N. Simmons, notary public Of
Starr.
Miss Owens says that If placed in
possession Of the estate she purposes
to devote large part of it to support
of orphanages and hospitals in Florida.
On December 10 Mrs. Josephine
Easton Johnson, of Bloomfield, Ohio,
appeared in Surrogate's Court, Brook
liyn, claiming the estate. She said
Mrs. Easton was her stepmother. Mrs.
Johnson appeared in support of q
scrawled will purporting to have been
executed by Mrs. Easton, which be-
queathed the entire property to her
stepdaughter. 1t was claimed that Mrs.
Easton had destroyed will which had
been left by Mr.. Easton, leaving all
the property to the daughter Of his
first wife.
In behalf Of Mrs. johnson legal
measures were begun to remove the
estate from control of the present ad-
ministrators, Allen j. Mcdonald, Mrs.
Eastons nephew, and his mother, Mary
Mcdonald. Mrs. johnson is represented
by Jefferson M. Lew.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Mack C,onsults Canadian
Counsel Of Mrs. Stillnan
He Hears Testimony Beauvais
Helped Collect for Presenta-
tion at Montreal in January

MONTREAL. Dec. 14.--John e. Mack,
Of poughkeepsie, guardian ad Item
for Guy Stiliman, arrived to-day to
make preparations for the hearings in
the divorce suit of James A. Stillman,
which are to begin here January IL.
Bringing records of testimony taken
in the United States, Mr.. Mack passed
most Of the day In consultation with
Gonzales Desaulniers, Canadian counsel
for Mrs., Stillman.
When John +. Brennan, chief counsel
for Mrs. Stillman, and Mr.. Mack re-
turned to New York from here ten days
ago Mr.. Desaulniers went with Fred X.
Beauvais, named as correspondent in
the suit, to Grand Anse and Three Riv-
ers to get the testimony of witnesses
who will figure in the Forthcoming
hearings. The results of this trip were
before Mr.. Mack to-day.
A request to exclude all except law
yers and witnesses from the Montreal
hearings is expected, although techni-
cally the session has been ordered
open" So far all hearings in the
Stillman case have been secret.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Mrs. Sanger in Boston
To Urge Birth Control
Says Bay State Needs Such a
League Because of Its Many
ssUndesirabless'
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

0peeNt 0sSpotcR 20 JRe Irteure
BOSTON, Dec. 14-Mrs. Margaret
Sanger, birth control advocate, accom-
panied by Mrs. Clara Rowe. arrived
here tonight. The purpose of her
visit, she said, was to form birth
control league in Massachusetts,,
Mrs. Sanger said that Massachusetts,
was badly in need of birth control, as
1t was state which received large
proportion of undesir2bles from the
"slums" of foreign countries.
Mrs. Sanger will address gathering
Of socio!ogists, scientists and physi-
clans here tomorrow night, at which
plans are expected to be formulated for
Organizing birth control league In
the Bay State. Following thes meet-
ing. she will return to New York.
When questioned Mrs. Sanger ad-
mitted that she was seeking funds to
carry on birth control work, but she
denied that she contemplated visiting
financial men Of this city for that pur-
R0SGs
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Girl With Powder-Laden
Dog Held as Drug Vender
Pair Seized When Detectives
See Mysterious Package Taken
From Poodle's Collar

Poodle dogs, which have been under
the suspicion Of detectives OF the mar
cotics division ever since report
came in six months ago that one was
used by q drug vcnder to carry his
days supply, may rest easy. It is be-
lieved that the only drug-carrying
poodle in the city Is locked up at the
East Sixty-seventh Street police sta
tion.
Detectives Spotke, Falls and Muir
phy, always alert for poodles, saw this
one yesterday coming down Lexington
Avenue, at 117th Street, with Stella
Fiegel, Of 37b East i3Sth Street. Ralph
Oliver, Of S05 East 1o3d Street, stopped
to speak to Miss Fiegel, and she called
the poodle TO her.
For moment, the detectives say,
her fingers were busy with the poodle's
collar, and then she handed something
to Oliver, who walked on. Falls and
Murphy stopped him and found he had
package OF powder, which they be-
lieved to be heroin. spotke gathered
in the young woman and the poodle,
the latter having two similar packages
in receptacle In it's collar
Miss Fiegel and the poodle were
locked up at the East Sixty-seventh
Street police station, the former
charged with selling narcotics. Oliver
was booked at the East 104th Street
police station as drug addict and
then taken to Police Headquarters.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
ST. Day Hand Made Rich
By Oil, Keeps ON Working
''Poor" Land Bought by La.
borer Adds $50 Every "a
Hours TO His Income

FRANKLIN, KY, Dec. 14.--James po-
teet, Of Simpson County, Kentucky, is a
dollar-a-day farmland, yet his income
is $51 day. Land that he paid SO for
several years ago now is yielding oil
that brings his daily income to what it
takes him fifty days to earn on farm.
But Poteet keeps on working for 81 a
day, board and lodging. He deposits the
royalty checks and lives on the dollar
he earns. He is married and has two
children.
Several years ago Poteet was working
for II. I. Davis on his Simpson County
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

farm. Mr.. Davis he'd sixty.four-acre
tract Of poor land that he wanted to
sell. Poteet gave him $40 for it, and
kept on working for Mr.. Davis.
Recently oil prespectors invaded Simp-
son County and leased all the. property
they could. and Poteet's land was in
cluded. Two wells soon were completed.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Buffalo Orders Nickel Fare
Bill Drawn for LeSisIature

BUFFALO, Dec. 14--The first step in
a campaign of the cities of Buffalo and
New York for state legislative action
charging more than a five-cent fare
was taken this afternoon by the
Council.
Corporation Counsel William S. Ram
was directed to draft bill to be in
troduced at the next session of the
Legislature to make it illegal for COM
panies in first and second class cities
of the state to charge more than five
cents for fare and requiring them
to give transfers without an additional
charge.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
sorry condition. He declared this had
ssA.s.

sorry condition. He declared this had
been greatly improved.
1t was shown that the New York
Railways Company was realizing q
profit of 18 per cent on the power
which 1t furnished the New York s.
Harlem Company. Break-downB on the
lines numbered 1900 annually, it was
cohtended by Mr. 2Shearr. The exam-
iner summed up the condition of the
New York & Harlem when the lease
was broken by saying:
"The New York Railways allowed
the taxes to 60 unpaid to the extent Of
a quarter Of, a million dollars, used up
the cars and permitted the tracks and
streets to get into disorder"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

A third well Is expected to b ~.
in within day or two. The das.s,ss.a $500
royalty from the production !, = saAa
wells nets Poteet the $50 4 dav sAsss
It Is said Poteet has never
either Of the wells, although h;s Inspected
sr'y adJoins that Of the man for for vIp ptIop.
Evening star., 1921-12-28
Harvard University Orchestra

The Harvard University Orchestra.
symphony of more than sixty pieces.
with Nine. Helen Stanley, soprano. as
soloist, appeared at the National Thea
ter yesterday afternoon. After playing
Mendelssohn's "Fingars Cave" and
Schuberts Unfinished Symphony in
8 Minor" as the first two numbers. in
experienced style, with Nine Stanley
in seven delightful songs, one of
which was an encore, the afternoon
took on a dignified air and the audi
ence ceased to regard the performers
as amateurs.
Nine. Stanley made a very favor
able impression. especially in the vi
Sacious SO 1nnamorate di due Giovi-
netti" and the 'Dansant la Gigue," a
piece OF equal brilliancy. In the
Zine Of Parting" "ps,'0a Were aecepted and
with even more applause. "Quando
Il Rivedro" and ''Transgression."
written by Crews and dedicated to
Nine. Stanley. also brought forth pro-
lonsed expressions of approval. Nine.
Stanley was accompanied by Imosen
Peay at the piano.
Resuming it's program, the or
ehestsa enc ar;p played see G!1cks Ballet Suite.
toned. perhaps. being the best num-
her rendered, although "Ealse Triste,"
by Sibelius. and the Hungarian March
from The Damnation of Faust" came
very close to the premier honors.
At the conclusion of the program
the audience did an unusual thing. il
remained seated and called back Wal
ter Piston, the conductor three times.
Apparently they were satisfied that,
under the continued masterful leader
ship Of Mr.. Piston. the present Har-
ward Orchestra bids fair to secure a
place In the exclusive small circle of
distinguished amateurs
Evening star., 1921-12-28

Charles Cyrus Coombs. past master
of the New Jerusalem Lodge, No. 8,
was last night elected by the Grand
Lodge to be the grand master of
Masons Of the District of Columbia
for the new Masonic year. Other
officers Of the Grand Lodge. elected
and appointed, include Mark F. Fin
ley, deputy grand master; Charles F.
Roberts, senior grand warden; Roe
Fulkerson. junior grand warden; Ar
vine w. Johnston, grand secretary:
Past Grand Master Charles f. Bald
win, grand treasurer; Thomas H.
Young, grand lecturer; Rev. John c.
Palmer. grand chaplain; Rev. Caleb
r. Stetson, assistant grand chaplain
Sydney r. Jacobs. grand marshal
Gratz f. Dunkum, senior grand dea-
con; James T. Gibbs, junior grand
deacon; Arthur Carr, grand sword
bearer; Wisdom D. Brown, grand
pursuivant: James A. West. of PEN
talpha Lodge. No. %. senior grand
steward: C. Fred Cook. of Temple
Noyes Lodge, No. 32. junior grand
steward: Warren c. Bickford, grand
tiler, and William p. Herbst. assistant
grand tiler.
New Officers mstaiIed.
The new officers were installed by
retiring Grand Master Charles j.
O'Seill. George F. Hoover. president
of the Association of Worshipfua
Masters for 1921 on behalf of the con-
Evening star., 1921-12-28
JAPANESE regret
RAIL CONTROVERSY
Many at Home Fear Loss of
Prestige by HaggIing Over
Settlement.

Instructions have come from Toxic
to the Japanese delegation, stating
the governments position on the
Shantung negotiations. However. all
the questions which the Japanese
delegates propounded to the Toxic
Kasumigaseki when the conversations
with China were interrupted have not
been answered and further cabling
will be necessary
Masanao Hanihara, who has been
representing Japan in the converse
tions, said that on this account no
date can be set at present for re-
sumption Of the meetings.
The chief stumbling-b block to an
agreement for the return of Shantung
peninsula to China is the Tsingtao-
Tsinan railroad. 271 miles long. Tho
ceased to have any voice in the opera
ton of the transportation line the
Chinese will discriminate against
Japanese interests already established
in Shantung and dependent on the
railroad. They want China to agree
to employ a Japanese superintendent,
traffic manager, operations chief and
auditor, and to stretch the payments
for the road over ten wears. instead
of three. AS proposed by China.
Even among their own people many
Japanese are convinced that the rules
which the kasumigas has laid
down for the return of the railroad
have not increased Japan's diplomatic
prestige. In the first place. they con-
slider that 271 miles of railroad is too
small matter for a great nation like
Japan to haggle over. especially when
1t has become such q national issue
with China that 1t promises to be An
everlasting cause Of bitterness.
They also feel that Japan has placed
itself in an eQuivocal position by
Offering to sell the road to China and
then hesitating when it is discovered
that China can pay
Copyright, 1921. by Chicago Daily Ncws)
Evening star., 1921-12-28
RAP F|NGERPR|NTS
WTHP.0. SAVINGS
Some Prospective Users of
System Object to This
Requirement.

Protest against the recently estab-
lished system of taking fingerprints
of depositors with the United States
postal savings has been made to the
Post Office Department it was learne-
ed today.
1t Is charged that the system, as
used IN city post Offices, is both in
sanitary and offends against deposit
ors, who resent being "hnserprinted."
feeling that the science has in the
past been used only for the identihca-
ton OF criminals.
New depositors, 1t is understood, in
some instances have refused to open
accounts with the postal savings
when they learned that they must
submit to having Impressions taken
that depositors. in some cases. are
refusing to make any more deposits.
All new depositors and old depositors
making new deposits must make
their finger prints.
An ink pad is presented to all
patrons alike, and each must dab his
or her index finger on the pad. and
then make his or her print" on the
proper papers. The process Is a
somewhat messy one. IT is declared. /.
one which women, in particular, do
not like.
AICcf tnC pFtHlS are IuduS Tic SlC1 n
offers some gasoline and then a
sponge. The same ink pad and the
ame sponge are used for all patrons,
according to the protestants.
General Protest Unexpected.
Officials had expected some little in
dignation on the part Of depositors
who might harbor the idea that, since
singerprinting has been conflaed in
the past almost solely to criminal
Identification. 1t was an insult to ask
them to be fingerprinted. But it is
understood that officials were not pre-
pared for any general protest against
the system.
1t Is felt by off1cfals that the prac-
ttce OF fingerprinting depositors is of
equal service to patrons as to the
postal savings system, and that there
is no real reason for protest against
the practice. To date no choice is LEFT
the depositor-he must either submit
to making his finger prints or stop
depositing.