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New-York tribune., 1921-12-08
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

December 6-Last night with Mistress
Viola Shore to see "Good Morning,
Dearie," and found the musick melod-
ick and full of pleasant contrapuntal
merriment. but little else to divert me.
Lay late this morning, and SO to the
Office, where till night, and to dinner
with Mistress Peggy Wood and A.
Woollcott, and had some rice pud-
ding, but there was overmuch lemon
in it, SO l had Sarah the cook give ME
some Indian pudding and very fine it
was. So to Mistress Anne Barton's for
a little while and saw her young baby
Diana, and Ralph come in and we had
some merry talk, and Sc home.
ITO the dentists early, and so to
the Office, and ali day at my stint. So
with Mabel to dinner and to the Play
house to see Bought and Paid For"
On May 6, 1916, we reprinted the
following translation from tho Gaelic
of Padraic II. Pearse, executed May !,
1916, in the Tower Of London:
THE IDEAL
Naked l saw thee,
o beauty of beauty,
And l blindeS my eyes
For fear l should finch.
| heard thy music,
Q sweetness of sweetness,
And I shut NV eers
For fear l should fall.
l kissed thy lips,
O sweetness Of sweetness,
And l hardened my heart
For fear Of my ruin.
blinded my eyes,
And my ears l shut;
I hardened my heart
And my love I quenched
/ turned my back
On the dream | had shaped,
And to this road before me
My face l turned.
| set my face
10 the road here before me,
To the work that I see,
10 the death / shall meet.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08

Our vote still is for the traffic police
man with his inspiriting smile, at
Lafayette and Grand streets. He
should be known 80 The Cop That
Cheers. u y
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08
GuARANrY

sntsrva a. tAs Pcstodscs a New xsrk Z nsesn6
Glass Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08

There are tests also, thinks j. T. S.,
for Westerners, such as speaking Of
John Hopkins, or Smiths College.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08

1t takes, we find, twenty years resi-
dence in this great city before the
average moron stops calling it the Cen
trail Park.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08
Tho Corsicsn,s Quaint Native Tongue

From the Swanton (Vt.) Courierl
The great Napoleon, after one Of his
wonderfully successful campaigns during
which he was striving for world mastery
sent ths following message by courier to
the Roman Senate: "Veni Vidi Vici."
meaning, IT came, l saw, l conquered"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-08

New York. Dec. 8. 1921
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
HER ANKLES MEASURED
IN COURT BEFORE JURY
Woman Asks SIS, 900 for Fall
in Hotel Corridor.

Just before u jury in the Supreme
Court retired yesterday to consider the
case of Miss Lola Baker, who had
brought an action for $4,000 damages
against the Hotel Statler Company. al
legng that her ankle was fractured by
fall in corridor OF the Hotel Penn
sylvania. medical expert for each side
examined and carefully measured both
her ankles as the jurors looked.
Subsequently the defence moved to
dismiss the suit. asserting that both
ankles measured the same The plain
tiff's expert contended that the ankle
alleged TO be injured was an eighth of
an inch thicker than the other.
The court ruled that statistics per-
tanning to ankles raised question of
face and not law and that the jury
would have to decide. The jury will
return verdict to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
APE KISS LIBEL SUIT
BY DR.. GARNER CLOSED
Photographers Take Judg.
ment for sos Costs.

A libel suit against Underwood & Un-
derwood, photographers. begun a year
before his death by DIR. Richard l.. Gar
ner, who for many years made a special
study of anthropoid apes. was discon-
tnued yesterday in the Supreme Court
by the defendants taking q judgment for
S10S against DR.. Gamers estate.
DIR. Garner made several expeditions
into Africa for the Smithsonian Institu-
ton and once lived in a cage in the
jungle for nearly a year to study the
anthropoids and il possible discover il
they spoke language. On his return
he brought several chlmpanzees to this
country and photographs of him and
them were published. .sr. q
DR.. Garner said Underwood & Under
wood sent out photographs with titles
to indicate that he had kissed Chin
panzee. Since libels are personal only,
the action lapsed with the death Of the
plaintiff. Costs were entered because
the motion to discontinue the action was
not opposed.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27

on the excess above earnings OF so per
cent. instead of earnings above 40 per
cent. as at present This was voted
down AZ 70 81. The second Reed amend
ment provided for retention OF an excess
profits tax Of 20 per cent. applying only
upon earnings above 80 per cent It
was defeated AZ TO 33.
After approving the excess profits tax
repeal the Senate entered into unani-
nous consent agreement for a vote at
4 p. N. tomorrow on amendments to
the section increasing the present fiat
tax on corporation earnings from 10 per
cent. TO 15 per cent.
Senator Wadsworth IN. W offered
new amendment to-day imposing a tax
on beer used for medicinal purposes, as
provided under the new regulations OF
the Treasury Department. This amend
ment also applies 10 other alcoholic bev-
erages.
The Wadsworth amendment imposes n
tax of so cents a wine gallon on ''in-
toxicating malt liquors containing one
half Of one per cent. or more of alconol.
manufactured as provided by regulations
of the Treasury pursuant TO the national
prohibition act. brewed or manufactured.
and hereafter sold or removed for con-
sumption or sale within the United
States"
The amendment imposes tax Of sI.25
a wine gallon on 'vinous alcoholic medic
inal preparations fit for use for bever-
age purposes authorized to be manufac-
tured by the regulations of the Treasury
Department pursuant to the national
prohibition act
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
FINDS
RICH HEROIN CACHE
Box Contained 249,000 Tab
lets With Vending Value
of S25, 900.
PART OF ASTORIA LOOT
Drug Was Hidden i'm Bushes
on Vacant Lot in The
Bronx.

Patrolman Cornelius Cahill of the
Simpson street station in The Bronx
found wooder box hidden underneath
clump of bushes last night in 2 vacant
lot at Hunts Point avenue and Randall
avenue. The Bronx. He dragged the box
out and opened it. He found it to
contain five bags. and the bags con-
tanned heroin aggregating 41,667 grains
in one-sixth Grain tablets. a total OF
$4,000 tablets. The stuff was said later
by Dr. Carleton Simon. Special Police
Commissioner in command of the Mar
cotic Division. to have street vending
value Of about $4,000.
Many Of the bottles in the bags bore
the label of the American Drug Syndi-
cate Company of Astoria. Queens, and
the police believe that the drugs are a
part of the stuff stolen from the company
by four men on the night Of November
2. 1920. The thieves bound and gagged
two night watchmen at the Astoria plant
and then stole large quantity of raw
morphine, heroin and cocaine from the
vaults.
On October the police arrested Peter
Polgano of 215s Second avenue. The
Bronx, and locked him up charged with
having narcotics in his possession. Ac-
cording 20 the detectives some Of the
stuff that Polgano had bore the labels
of the Drug Syndicate and were believed
to have been part of the lot stolen from
the Astoria plant. The police believe
that persons associated with Polgano in
the distribution Of the drugs to addicts
became frightened when he was arrested
and abandoned the drugs In the vacant
lot, fearing to be caught with II in theii
possession. The drugs found by Patrol
man Cahll also tally with the inventory
of the lot stolen in Astoria, although the
thieves obtained u total of 1000 bottles
valued at $4,000.
When DIR. Simon examined the box ot
drugs at Headquarters he found 167
cartons containing $4,000 tablets an6
412 bottles containing 1000 tablets.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
WORLDWIDE TEST FOR
RADIUM AS CANCER CURE
College of Surgeons Asks
Physicians Reports.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-The Aneri-
can College of Surgeons Is to devote a
year of intensive research work in an
effort to establish the value of radium
as a cure for cancer, DR.. Franklin H.
Martin of Chicago. secretary general of
the college. announced tonight.
The college is divided as to the value
OF that mineral as a permanent cure
and ii was decided that specialists all
over the world should be asked to fur
nish statistics on results obtained in it's
use
DR.. william T. Clark OF Philadelphia
to-day introduced to the college six pa
tients who. he asserted, had been cured
OF malignant cancer by application of
radium. Surgeon-General Marritt w.
Ireland of the United States Army de-
clared that surgery and radium have a
large place in the treatment Of cancer.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
YOUNG ARSENAL FOUND
IN CONEY BARBER SHOP
20 Shotguns Among Weapons
Where Man Was Wounded.

The police of the Coney Island station
said last night that when they entered
the barber shop Of Anthony Eposto in
2S15 West Fifteenth street, Coney ISL
and they found in the back room seventy
shotguns, four revolvers and 400 boxes
OF shells and cartridges. They went into
the place after Alfred Russo of 2766
West Fifteenth street, who had been
shot in the abdomen.
Russo was shot while passing the
place. and the detectives believe that
the bullet was intended for some one
else. Neighbors told them that they
saw four men drive up to the shop In q
touring car and then enter the place.
Soon afterward they heard several shots
and then saw the four men run to their
machine. One of them, they said, limped
as IL he had been hurt.
Russo was found lying on the sile-
walk In front of the shop. with n re-
volver few feet away. Eposito disap-
peared after the affair and the police
are trying to find him.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
SKIRTS TO REMAIN SHORT,
SAY WOMEN LEADERS HERE
Twelve Inches From Ground About Proper Height
Because American Feminnity Is Athletic and
Must Ignore Paris Word, Is Consensus.

evening. but American women have
known the comfort and cleanliness OF
the short skirt for the street, and they
will never be hampered again by an
ankle length skirt. We go in for sports
and wear sports clothes. The French
women are not athletic. SO they can
dress in a more hampered way and not
mind it. But let us have long flowing
draperies for the evening""
Mrs. Frank r. Keefer, wife of Col
Keefer of the staff OF Major-Gen
Henry T. Allen, commanding the Army
of Occupation. has just returned from
Brussels. Paris and London. At the
Astcr Hotel she said
What joy it is to get back to New
York where you see good style, beau
tiful clothes and beautiful women. In
Paris they are wearing longer skirts bu,
cannot say they are really popular
over there. 1 know they will not be SC
here"
Miss Laura Skinner of the women's
Republican State Committee asserted
The dress interests are back of this
movement for longer skirts. Womer
themselves aren't paying any attention
to what Paris says about wearing
longer skirts. We are going to wear
whatever we want, and most Of us want
short skirts
Miss Elsie Janis. recently returned
from London and Paris. had this opinion
Not the slightest possibility or oul
following the edict from Par1s. The
American skirt is the briefeset garment
of its kind worn in the world to-day
except, perhaps, the kilt. Last season
the American women in Paris would
have none Of the longer skirts. The
American woman has a way of getting
what she likes and bowling to no one
and that means the French dressmakers
No. longer skirts are not in sight ovei
here"
Mrs. Lillian r. Sire, president of the
Womans Democratic Political League
said
"A pretty good length for street skirts
Is twelve inches from the ground. Amer
lean women are entirely too Independent
to follow the dictates of any foreign
fashion creators. We want our skirts
short enough so we can walk freely ant
easily and we are going to wear then
that short
Dr. Mary Halton offered this view:
American women are such babe.
that they have felt they had to do a.
every one else did and go to Paris fol
their artistic ideas. particularly dress
designs. Now they are beginning tc
grow up and they are becoming indie
pendent of the French designers. Sports
have spoiled them for going back to Ions
skirts"
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
PRIEST IN DAKOTA
LURED TO DEATH
Body Found in Highway With
Bullet Wound in Heart and
Head Bruised.

LEAD, s. D., Oct. 26--Tl,e body OF
Father A. B. BelIS- ap. rectcr Of st. Pat
riclS's Cathedral: here. was found to-day
on Poor Mans Gulch" Highway. neal
the city limits If Lead. A trllet from a
large calibre revolver had pierced his
heart. The priest had been lrred to his
death by n man who a few minutes be.
the last aacran.ents of the church to g
sick man.
Tonight the authorities OF Lead were
without clue to the identity of the
slayer. Bloonnounds were on the way
from Mitchell, s. D., and wien they ar
rive search FOR the murderer will start
Throughout the Dlack Hills scores OF
men are ready to form pos es.
1t was about 3 :15 o'clock this morning
when q man rang the bell at the door
OF Bishop J. J. LAWYERS residence. where
Father Bellsnap lived. The young priest
answered the call. Father Thomas Hobep
and Father Belknaps parents, also liv-
ing at the Lawler home heard man
ask Father Belknap to come with him to
the home OF a sick friend who was about
to die and who desired the sacrament
Of extreme unction administered.
Father Belknap went TO his garage to
get his automobile. His visitor accom-
panied him. The starter on the car
would not work and the two left afoot.
That was the last OCCUPANTS of the
Bishops resilsnce heard ot the priest
until his body was found half an hour
later. 1t Jay IN the roadwa' face down.
ward. A largo bruise on the back of
the priests h,ad Indicated he had been
struck from behind with blunt instru-
ment Residents OF the vicinity told the
police they hal heard shots.
Bishop Lawier said Father Belknap
had no enemi IS and never lad received
any threats.
No description OF the map who called
for the priest vas obtainab', authorities
say.
An examina Gon OF Father Belknap's
automobile in1.cated 1t hal been tam
pered with, according to his friends, q
switch connecting the starter having
been removed.
Rewards totalling s1,50o for the ap.
prehension of TIE slayer have been Of
fered. Father 1elki ap was born In Iowa
July 4. 1891.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
POSSE STILL SEARCHES
FOR ALLEGED SLAYER
Hunt to Find Vicensio Is Con-
Quoted in Jersey Woods.

a posse headed by Detective John III.
Galatian of Union county continued to
search the woods near Clark Township.
n. j.. yesterday for some trace OF Palo
Vicensio. who is accused of killing his
father-in-law, Carmello Amelio. with an
AK late Tuesday afternoon.
The police say that Amelio's wife and
daughter witnessed the killing. which
was said to have been the result OF a
family quarrel Amelio's widow was ar
rested and locked in the county Jail She
refused to talk TO the detectives.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
BLAZE ON BROADWAY
FROM ELECTRIC SIGN
Firemen Halt Dancing Party
for a Spell.

A short circuit developed in a zig
electric sign on the roof of the three
story building at the northwest corner
OF Broadway and Forty-sixth street las.
night and the firemen in putting out
the fire that followed turned on so much
water and cut into the roof with axes
so that the water went through into
Wilson's Dancing Academy. on the third
floor The dancing stopped, and when
the water stopped trlckling, the floor
was rewaxed. Then the party started
ali over again.
Passage of fire apparatus in Broad
way was somewhat impeded by the
crowds. The fire damage was slight.
Some water seeped through to the first
floor. occupied by drug store and a
Chlds restaurant
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
LET BEER DRINKERS
THIRST, SAY M.D.'S
Surgeons at Philadelphia Con-
vention Will Oppose Pre-
scription Writing.
ARE NOT DRYS, THOUGH
Believe i'm All or None in Fur
nishing Alcoholic Drinks
to People.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-Physicians
attending the American Congress of Sur
geons intend to battle nightly with the
demon rum. The recent ruling of Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon will not ar
feet them.
I'VE will prepare to resist to the death
the wiles of thirsty customers who are
waiting until we can get home to deluge
us with a supply of special prescription
blanks and birthday fountain pens" one
surgeon said to-day.
But 1t was declared also that the
College Of Surgeons Is not preparing to
take any official action on the matter.
Most of us are against prohibition.
said DIR. James Wellborn Of Evansville
Ind. but we won't subscribe to beer
through the prescription route. Prohibi-
ton has either got to go altogether. or
we will have nothing to do with It,"
DIR. Welborn said he had completed
a hasty canvass of surgeons attending
the convention. In nearly every case he
found q firm determination not to write
prescriptions, no matter how thirsty a
force might be brought to bear against
a physicians good nature.
perhaps per cent. of the physicians
of the country will traffic in beer, be-
cause they cannot make a living a:
anything else" DIR. Wellborn added
But it will be the same crowd that has
always dispensed dope when nobody else
would"
DR.. Melvin NJ. Franklin, a surgeon oi
this city, laughed at the idea OF ply
sicians turning barkeepers.
Nothing doing" he said. II know
none of these men here will consider il
for an instant, and their influence Is
enough to restrain less eminent physi-
clans from following a similar course"
In the meantime there is fear among
the surgeons that medical supply houses
will begin beating scalpel knives into
steel pens and will suggest new types
of office apparatus that will accommo-
date varying sorts of taps.
DR.. William c. Anderson, president #
the New York Pharmaceutical Confer
ence. which is composed of representa-
tive druggist societies throughout the
State. declared yesterday that the me-
dicinal beer ruling is thoroughly OBJ
ectionable to most druggists, unless
other means of dispensing beer than
through their shops is devised
THE retail druggists almost to a
man." he said. strongly oppose being
made the source for beer. There may be
few men in the drug business who
were formerly liquor dealers and who
will dispense beer under the new regu-
lations They are not licensed druggists,
however, but employ licensed druggists
as clerks"
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
SURGEON IS GUILTY
OF NUMBERING WIFE
w. A. Hadley Was Formerly
in the u. S. Army.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. ga verdict
Of guilty of murder in the first degree
was returned by jury in Henrico
County Circuit Court here this afternoon
in the case of Dr. Wilmarth A. Hadley
former United States Army surgeon,
charged with the murder of his wife
Mrs. Sue Kathleen Tinsley Hadley.
The body OF Mrs. Hadley was found
in the James River near here about
three years ago.
The verdict. which was returned after
the jury had been out less than forty
minutes. carries with it sentence OF
death in the electric chair.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
TWO ARMY AIRMEN DIE
AS PLANE CATCHES FIRE

HONOLULU. Oct. 26.-Lieut Uric Bou-
quet Of Brooklyn and Staff Sergeant
Vernon II. vickers of Montgomery, Ala,
were killed to-day when their airplane
broke into flames while they were at
tempting to join flight .c-mat:on at a
1000 feet altitude. The bodies and air
plane were badly burned.
Lieut.. Bouquet was IL years old and
commanded an intelligence unit. The
accident occurred at 1896 A.. NJ, the
exact hour that Major Sheldon Wheeler
was killed In similar accident here last
July. according to air service officers
here.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27

The long and the short OF the skirt
question is this: Are they to be worn
short or long. or only longer?
Paris already has decided. so far as
she is concerned. Paris says longer
And in that centre of fashion manikins
are wearing them. fashionable folk are
said to be trailing about in them and
every steamship from there brings
models that reach to the ankles. Will
the American woman, who apparently
has found the short skirt comfortable
unresistingly adopt a style so radical
from last seasons?
These questions are low stirring the
heart of the feminine world. Foreign
Ministers of State and Premiers may
come to discuss the subject of limitation
OF armament, yet what they have to
say cannot possibly be If such momen-
tous interest as the number of inches
by which the fashionable skirt should
clear the ground.
To ascertain the feminine attitude
toward Parss latest decree that skirts
shall be long numerous women repre-
senting the arts and professions. women
in business and on the stage. club
leaders and others were consulted. The
consensus Is that the American woman
is prepared 10 Stanu Il) In HeT SnOr'
skirts and unflinchingly cace the Paris
creators. She declares she will wear her
skirt from to 12 inches from the floor
So there And this Is what she has to
say about her Independent attitude:
Marjorie Rambeau. star "Daddy's
Gone a-Hunting," exclaimed:
I'm for longer life ard shorter skirts
than Paris DEGREES. Short skirts mean
long life. The skirt length has worried
along through many vicissitudes in life
and now it's time for a change. Skirts
will come down with prices, tut only
far enough to be becoming and comfort
able. The correct length is IL inches
The one foot off the ground skirt suits
me. but I want the other foot firmly
planted"
The political skirt. as approved by
Miss Helen Varick Boswell. coalition
candidate for New York county Regis
ter, is likewise short, but not quite sc
short.
She said: What French dressmakers
have to say about the length of oui
skirts doesn't worry me in the least
I've always worn my skirts six inches
from the ground, and I intend to wear
them that length the rest of my days
I've never gone higher than that on the
dress question"
Miss Rita Weiman, authoress, gave
this view:
Longer skirts are graceful for the
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
PAIR TOOK STOLEN GOODS.
Popinskys Had Them I'm own
store. Jury Declares.

Hyran Popinsky and his wife, Rose,
OF 5S6 Grand street. Brooklyn. were
found guilty of criminaly receiving sto-
len property by jury in General Ses-
sions yesterday afternoon. On August
g the cloak and suit loft of Morris
Aaronson at 55 West Sixteenth street
was broken into and $4,000 worth OF
cloaks and suits stolen. Detectives
found tho goods in Popinsky's store at
SO Bedford street.
The jury recommended clemency for
Mrs. Popinsky. who had a six-months-
old baby in her arms. Judge Talley
permitted her to remain on $1,000 bail
pending sentence with her husband Mo-
ven1bcr z. He was remanded TO the
Tombg.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
EXCESS PROFITS TAX
TO CEASE JAN. 1, 1922
Senate Votes for Repeal After
Defeating Two Amendments
for Modified Levy.
Special Despatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Oct. GO.
The Senate to-day voted it's approval
Of the repeal of the excess profits tax,
effective January I. 1922. Similar action
has already been taken by the House, so
that the excess profits tax repeal is now
definitely settled.
Two amendments proposing to retain
the excess profits tax in a modified form
were offered by Senator Reed (Mo.), and
both were beaten. The first provided
that the rate of 20 per cent. In the first
bracket of the excess profits tax should
apply on earnings in excess OF Is per
cent, instead of in excess of per
cent. as at present, and that the rate
Of 40 per cent in the second bracket
of the excess profits tax should apply
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
TEN CLEARED AS sLACKERs.

Ten men whose names appeared in
the War Department Stacker lists have
been exonerated on charges of desertion
according to announcement yesterday
from Governors Island. They are John
Kenny, Ernest Heas, Giuseppe Federico
Andrew Bayer. Jr.. Angelo Argentine,
Anizada Stiatdas. George Painter. Vande
Toonl. Lee Conrad Thaler and Cataldo
Darcangelis.
The New York herald., 1921-10-27
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN DIES.

A woman about So years old. well
dressed and wearing considerable Jew
elry. was seized with a hemorrhage at
Broadway and Barclay street yesterday
and died last night at Broad Street Hos
pitel without regaining consciousness.
She has not been identified. She had n
black silk dress and q dark satin
trimmed hat. An eyeglass case was
marked with the makers name, Il.
Shaul. 395 Central avenue, Jersey CITY