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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Writer, Now in Jail Here,
Misses Date With Hughes
Talbot, Alimony Prisoner, Can
not Keep Appointment Until
He Files $4,000 Bail

Hayden Talbot, playwright and au-
thor, now in this country to interview
prominent men for the Lord Northcliffe
newspapers, will not be able to keep an
appointment he has with Secretary
Hughes in Washington. The interview
will not take place because Mr.. Talbot
is now guest of the Alimony Club IN
Ludlow Street Jail and has been un-
able to furnish the necessary $4,000
bail fixed by Justice Whitaker as a
condition precedent to his release.
Mr.. Talbot was arrested on June 9
Oh an order obtained by Mrs. Benedict
Bristow Talbot, his former wife, who
obtained divorce from him and ais
legged that he owed her about SIP 600
in alimony arrears. In default of bail
he was taken to jail
The playwright asked the court to
vacate the order Of arrest, telling of
the engagement he had with the Sec
rotary of State, but Justice Whitaker
refused to release him unless he filed
$4,000 bond.
Following the divorce which Mrs.
Talbot obtained, her husband married
Norma Mitchell, a motion picture ac-
tress, at Nat Goodwins home ~at Santa
Monica, Calf. This marriage was dis
solved early in this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Actor Who Wed 3 Times
Freed of Bigamy Charge
I'll. A. Newton Discharged After
Spending More Than Two
Months i'm Tombs

After spending more than two
months in the Tombs under $4,000 bail
on charge of biganay, H Ashton New
ton, an actor, who was arrested on May
4, was discharged by Judge Talley in
General Sessions yesterday on recon-
mendation of Assistant District At
torney William R. Maloney. 1t had
been alleged that Newton had married
three women without having obtained
a divorce from any of them.
In his recommendation to the court
the Assistant District Attorney pointed
out that at the time Newton married
his first wife, Florence Madeira on Au-
gust 1, 1911, ct Monticello, ILL.,, she had
another husband living to whom she
had been married on January 90, 1900.
She had not been divorced. Newton's
second marriage was to Glenn Argoe, in
the Municipal Building on September
II, 1918, and was his only marriage in
this state. Iva Edmondson became the
third wife Of Newton on September 2.
1919, in Port Huron, Mich.
Assistant District Attorney Maloney
said that if any crime had been com
mltted by the actor it had been com
mitted in the State Of Michigan, and
in no event could Newton be held in
New York. Accordingly, Judge Talley
freed the defendant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Becker Admits Transfer
Of Evidence to Sorro
Borrowed 1t to Oppose Another
Trial for Cohen; Investiga-
tor Also on Stand

Alfred L. Becker, former Deputy At
torney General of New York, and
Philip M. Musica, his chief investi-
gator during the trial Of the alleged
murderers of Barnet Baff, West Wash
ington Market poultry dealer, were put
on the stand by the defense in the trial
of Joseph A. Sorro before Judge Null
queen in General Sessions yesterday
Sorro is being tried on a charge of
perjury growing out of the conviction
of Joseph Cohen in connection with
the murder of Baff.
On cross-examination by Assistant
District Attorney Pecora, Becker ad-
mitted that he had acted as counsel for
Sorro from February, 1920, to Feb
ruary, 1921: He acknowledged that he
had turned over to Walter Rogers
Deuel., who is now Sorro's counsel,
documentary evidence in the Sorro case
which had been borrowed for use by
him in opposing a motion for a new
trial for Cohen. Becker also admitted
hiring Musica as his chief Investigator
knowing that Musica had criminal
record and that at the time he was so
employed he was associated with
Deuel. and that Deuel. was acting as at
torney for some defendants in the
Baff case.
Musica admitted on cross-examina-
rion that he had a criminal record.
He sought to make clear that he was
not stool pigeon but an investigator.
For his work as an Investigator he was
paid $40 day and expenses, he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Bowers Preparing
To Take Internal
Revenue Office
Slated to Succeed Edwards,
and Reports From Wash
ington Say Latter's Resig-
nation Has Been Accepted

Frank K. Bowers. chief examiner in
the Office of the President of the Board
of Aldermen, was preparing yesterday
to assume the duties of Collector of
Internal Revenue for this district. to
succeed William F. ("Big Rill') Ed
wards, the Democratic incumbent. Mr..
Bowers has been slated to succeed Col
lector Edwards and reports from Wash
ington said that Mr.. Bowers's name
would be sent to the Senate yesterday
and Mr.. Edwards's resignation accepted
by the President.
Confirmation of the reports was not
received by either Mr. Bowers or Mr..
Edwards last night. Collector Edwards
said that his commission read that he
was Collector until his successor was
appointed and sworn in. 1t was report
ed that Collector Edwards had been re-
luctant to leave the Office and pressure
had to be brought to bear in order to
persuade him to submit his resignation
to President Harding. Big Bill how
ever, denied that there had been any
discussion of his resignation.
My resignation has been in Wash
ington some time" he said "and when
1T is acted upon | will be the first to
congratulate my successor and help
nlm III every way possible. 1t Is GUS
tcmary for all collectors of internal
revenue to file their designations fol-
lowing change of administration"
Mr.. Bowers has been active in Re-
publican politics in this city for thirty
two years. He is at present a Re-
publican district leader He was born
on March IL, 1867, at Easton, Pa, and
moved to New York in 1888. He was
superintendent of Assembly documents
at Albany from 1899 to 1902 He was
appointed law clerk in the County
Clerks Office here in January, 1906
From 1909 to 1921 he was transfer tax
appraiser in the State Comptrolle1ss
Office at different intervals. He was
Under Sheriff of New York County from
1914 to 1916. Since January l, 1920, he
has been chief examiner in the Office of
Aldermanic President La Guarda. He
has been a Republican district leader
for the past fifteen years. For seven
years he had charge of the speakers
bureau of the Republican State and
National committees. He is member
of the National Republican Club and
of many local Republican district or
ganiZation clubs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Hundreds Ask for Baby
Mother Must Give Away
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July s.-Mrs.
Agnes Cutler, nineteen years old, is
examining hundreds of replies she re-
ceiyed to her advertisement offering
her two-months son for adoption,
trying to ascertain which one of all
the applicants is most worthy of such
a fine boy. Now that parting with her
child seems really imminent, she finds
her resolution weakening.
II hate to give him up" she said
to-day. Hes as good as gold But
I've got to earn my living. and the
only way ] can do it is by housework.
OF course ! can't take baby with me,
and the only alternative is to sur
render him to some one who will give
him mothers care"
Mrs. Cutler was deserted by her
husband six months ago. She sup
ported herself by working in laun-
dry until she had to go to st. yincent's
Hospital, in preparation for the birth
of her child. Since then she has been
living on the savings she laid aside
while employed in the laundry These
are almost exhausted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
May Railroad Earnings
S7,997,OOO Over April
Total Is 37.246,OOO, Being
2.4I Per Cent ON /. C. C..
Valuation

WASHINGTON, July s.--Railroads
OF the country earned S37,24e. 600 in
May, or s7,997,ooo more than in April
according to reports filed with the In
terstate Commerce Commission by the
carriers and made public to-day by the
Association of Railway Executives.
Earnings for May amounted to PAL
per cent on the valuations tentatively
fixed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for ratemaking purposes. as
compared with % per cent in April,
the executives said. Operating ex-
penses in May amounted to sS5.4 per
cent of the revenues, against $3.50 per
cent in April The reduction, the state
ment declared, was brought about by
various eficiencies" which the rail-
roads have placed in effect since the
traffic slump began late last fall.
Total operating revenues in Nav
were s444, $4,000, while operating ex-
penses totaled s379,715,0o0. Carrisrs
in the Eastern district earned S17,644-
900 in May, or 2.29 per cent on their
tentative valuations. operating reve-
nues being $2o3, $4,000 and operating
expenses S173 500 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Peggy Must Worry
Along With $3.50
A Month AIirnony
Chicago Judge Pares De-
mand for $4,000 From
Joyce; Cuts Legal Funds
from 500, 900 $4,000
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

CHICAGO, July 8.-Peggy Hopkins
Joyce must struggle along with paltry
s27,5oo for solicitors fees, $4,000 for
other legal expenses and $3.50
month temporary alimony from her
husband, James Stanley Joyce, million
aire lumberman.
This was the award made to-day by
Judge SABBATH. Peggy had asked for
100000 attorneys fees and $4,000 a
month temporary alimony Her re-
quest was based upon the statements
of her husband during their honey
moon that he was worth s40,0o0,00o
and wanted her to live accordingly
assets would not exceed 100000.
Mr.. Joyce had asked for the return
of jewelry worth many thousands of
dollars which he had given Peggy, and
also the home he built her in Miami,
Fla. He has since given title to the
Miami property to his brother. The
judge made no mention of jeyelry or
money in his award. He said that if
it should subsequently Develop that
actual and necessary expenditures were
more than the $4,000 allowed for
taking dispositions and hiring detec
tives and Investigators, he would en-
teEGdlU iAILHGE iNVtlOUS. OH LUlS pOlIlC
the court said
Charges made against her involve
investigation in many of the countries
of Europe as we'll as in many states
in the Union. Because of the serious
nature of the charges, she ought to
have every reasonable means of meet
ing them.
The suggestion of counsel that the
complainant ought not to be called on
to pay more money because the de-
PENDANT committed many offenses may
perhaps be worthy of consideration
should the court eventually find her
guilty, but the allowance here contem-
plated is for the purpose of enabling
her properly to present her side of the
case sothe court or jury may have all the
facts before them upon which to deter
mine her guilt or innocence"
Joyces attorneys had sought to pre-
vent the allowance of any attorneys
fees, insisting that Peggy had suf-
fcient money of her own with which
to prepare her case. After the award
had been announced they asked per-
mission to file an appeal from the de-
cision. This was granted and a bill
of exceptions will be filed within forty
days. Joyce will give bond of $4,000
to insure the payments and then the
case will be taken to the Appellate
Court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
East Siders Too Heat Wenry
To Hunt Cats for Bouaties
Prescribed Animals Rest in Peace Baking Side
walks as Thousands Revel in Hydrant Ceysers,
Then Try to Sleep Roofs and in Parks

NO, We won't have no trouble on the
East Side tonight" the patrolman
said, lazily swinging his stick as he
leaned against the lamppost and gazed
down the sweltering darkness of the
side street. They're all too hot to
make fuss with anything but a fan.
They're too hot even to take a bath"
Even the children sank into noisy
and quarrelsome inaction when it be-
came too dark to play baseball or to
throw vegetable stalks from one to an
other. Babies, too hot to hold, lay
quiet beside their mothers on the
steps. Boys and girls collected in
swaying groups on the corners. Old
men dreamed of Russian SHOWS on
their campstools. And the cats, re-
CARELESS of the bounty which has been
placed upon their heads, stretched I'M
molested by the curb
Only a light here and there in an
upper window showed where some
mother had braved the heat of the tene-
ment to prepare her baby's food The
occasional white fash of a fan betok-
ened an invalid sitting in the dusk to
avoid the heat of lamp, and now and
again a head leaned far out over the
street to catch some passing breeze.
For the rest, such East Siders as had
not fled to the beaches had sought the
open air of the roofs or were blocking
the narrow streets as they rocked
backward and forward on chairs and
crowded around the steps. Even the
Oldest of the fat, unkempt gossips was
silenced by the torrid night
Fire, the terror of the tenements,
became almost luxury, bringing as
it did the chance of misdirected spray
or the bursting of a hose Children
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Bride Costs Him Pulpit
Young Pastor Is Ousted fol
Posing as Single Man
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

PHILADELPHIA, July 8.--Love and
ambition FLASHED for the Rev. Mr.. Clar-
ence Gilbert, q secret bridegroom of
year, who has just been ousted from
his charge at Bellevue, Del, because
he posed as a single man.
Mr.. Gilbert, preacher of the local
Methodist Episcopal Church, married
Miss Helen Berry in Washington in
July, 1920. The young minister was
admitted TO the Wilmington Confer
ence last March and was assigned as
a supply at Bellevue. He told the
church authorities he was unmarried.
AT the home of his wife's parents
to-day Mr.. Gilbert told of his ambition
to enter college or theological sem
mary and how he had planned to take
his wife to parsonage aftsr hs had
been assigned to larger congregation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Hylan's School
Middle Halls
Building Plans
Orders to Go Ahead Reveal
That Craftsman Staff
Is Too Small for Tasks
and Inadeqaately Housed
Coney Site Held Up Again
Prall sWhitewash' Report of
Mayor and Denunciation
of His Critics Out To-day

Investigation into the alarming stu
alton which confronts the public
schools of the city because of the in
difference of the Hylan administration
during the last three years shows
that even in the eleventh hour rush
to Jay down construction program,
red tape, departmental clashing and
building of schools.
At the last meeting of the Board of
Education Aiming S. Prall its pres-
dent, told the Superintendent of Build
iHgs to 60 ahead with his plans under
the appropriation of S52,00O,0OO. In
adequate headquarters for drafts
men under the superintendent make
the completion of plans impossible In
addition the staff is too small to han
die the situation.
Another retarding influence is the
distribution of authority between the
Board of Estimate and the Board of
spperlntendents. which has been en-
phaslzed in the controversy between
Comptroller Craig and DR.. Shallow
over the site selected for school in
Neptune Avenue, Coney Island. All of
this inefticiency and red tape Is not
only holding up school activity and
dangerously crowding the school chill
dren under insanitary conditions, but
is retardilg the return of the city's
workers to normal state. Thousands
OF men in the building trades indus
try could be put to work if the build
ing program was under way
At the meeting of the Board of Esti
mate yesterday the controversy over
the Neptune Avenue site, which was
scheduled for discussion, was put over
tor week upon the motion of Presi-
dent F. Fl. La Guardia of the Board of
Aldermen.
: In moving postponement, Major La
Guardia said:
THE conditions in this school dis
tr1ct are the worst in the CITY. and I
would like to have this matter laid
over for week. If we refer it back
to the Board of Educat ton we will be
playing into the hands of certain per-
sons who are trying to obstruct the
construction of the schools"
1t had been moved to refer back to
the Board of Education the school
sites on Neptune Avenue which the
committee on Finance and Budget had
recommended.
resolution selecting Hampton Avenue,
between Irwin Avenue and Jeffray
Street, Brooklyn, as a site for school.
and rescinded it's action of January %,
when plot of ground between East
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth streets, on
Clarkson Street, Brooklyn, was Sc
lected.
PRESIDENT Prall has prepared a re-
port for Mayor Hylan to enable the
latter to reply to his critics on the
school situation. 1t is the first report
issued by the Board of Education since
the Hylan administration went into
Office.
The document will be made public
this afternoon, it was said at the Board
OF Education. 1t is understood that it
completely whitewashes the whole sit
uation and gives the lie to the report
OF the several women's civic organiza-
tons that recently was made public
showing the insanitary and unsafe con-
dltions of forty Of the schools in the
city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09

fought for the places next to the street
sprinkler, and on corner after corner
jovial firemen played the hose upon
the crowds.
Some of the smallest dashed through
the stream lost in their mothers bath
ing suits. Boys soaked their everyday
clothes in the cooling water. Girls.
more timid, merely waded in the gut
ters. Full dressed women moved close
to the spray, and men in straw hats
and wooden trousers drenched them
selves in the full force of the hydrant.
On Houston Street one crippled child
sat weeping on the curb, unable to
join the rush for the waters. Finally
passer by lifted him to his shoulders
and held him minute after minute,
laughing and shouting, in the center
OF the spray.
Apathy reigned in the movies. Even
when the moustachioed villain seized
the beautiful girl the coatless men
ard hatless women had eyes only for
the ice cold lemonade man as he
moved up and down the aisle.
AS for clothes, only the eternal femi-
nine of the most beautiful was proof
against the heat. For children under
ten one garment, som etimes accom-
panied by shoes, seemed to be all that
the law allowed. A collar manufac-
turer would have despaired of his trade
as he wandered block after block in a
vain search for his product.
In the parks by. 9 o'clock it was hard
to find room on the grass, and whole
families already had shown that they
had come for the night
They all sleep out on the grass
once" the patroiman said, "but after
the pickpockets get through with them
they know better. There won't be no.
body sleeping indoors tonight. They'll
all be on the roof or the fire escape"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09


formed ring, encouraging both fight
ers alternately. "Cozy" Dolan, Giant
coach, yelled at his namesake to "play
for the Stats" while Frank Snyder,
Catcher Smiths "sidekick" behind the
plate, besought Smith not to kill the
poor boob
Phil Douglas, Rube Benton and
Long George" Kelly pleaded with
misery before the cops come"
Detective Dolan made good at
tempt, but he was overmatched. Sud-
denly the big, brawny fist of Catcher
Smith caught the piainclothes man
just as he was staging a rally. 1t
landed precisely on the bridge of Mr..
Dolan's nose and turned him end for
end. 1t was the finish. Dolan rolled
over twice, got to his knees, then to
his feet, and walked off. He managed
to guygle out that he would return later
with reinforcements.
Players Wait for More
The players hung about for more
than an hour expecting further mani
festations of police activity, but none
were forthcoming. Manager McGraw,
who was absent from the Polo Grounds
when the affair took place, was later
make.
Anybody that knows me is aware
I'm not quarrelsome," remarked Catcher
Smith after the ARRAY. "If this man
had come here in the regular way with
search warrant I would have made no
objection to the search. The ruling, as
understand it, is that private premises
cannot be searched without a warrant.
The lockers here are private premises.
They contain the private property of
the players. | tried to explain this to
Dolan, but he was insulting and
abusive. He invited me out to fight,
and that was no part of his duty, if
understand police regulations. When
stepped out of the clubhouse he rushed
me, and had to defend myself. That's
all there is to it, guess"
Teammates Back Him Up
Pitcher Phil Douglas and Rube Benton
substantiated Catcher Smiths version
of the affair. So also did "Cozy" Dolan,
who said the detective "got what was
coming to him." Frank Snyder, the
big Texas catcher, remarked that he
thought Smith had been very gentle
with Dolan.
While the fight was in progress, Ed
the Giants, made frantic attempt to
separate the men and as a result was
tossed about like chip. He pleaded
with Dolan to ego away before you get
killed." and alternately urged Smith to
let the detective go. Aside from gen
eral shake-up, Brannick emerged I'M
injured. He announced last night that
he would never again referee bare
knuckle contest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Fire in Adjoining Building
Ernpties Picture Theater

About half of an audience of 800 in
a motion picture theater at 200 Park
Row picked up their hats and children
and hurried out last night when fire
engines clattered up to extinguish a
prevailed upon by the manager of the
house and patrolman who ran in to
keep their seats. Nobody was hurt
in the rush..
The fire burned out three floors of
the building in which it started. The
damage was estimated at $500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09

William Jacobs, . lawyer, of 2es Broad
way, to assist them in bringing about
berger's release. Bergers relatives
tEen deposited $3.50 with me, to be
transmitted to Jacobs If he was sue
cessful. Mr.. Jaohs, as the records at
Albany will show, tried to get Berger
pardoned, and when Governor Smith
refused to release the man | returned
Ine stoo to Mrs. Gordon, and have her
receipt fer it.y
Dr.. Buchler threw bomb into the
committee when he exposed the Grim
NAL record of one of it's investigators.
whom he recognized as an ex-convict.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09

clean recreation on Sundays is not
seeking wide-open European Sunday
as the Crafts organization would in
dictate. Neither is it seeking a Craft
arian, blueshevik, puritanic Sunday
which is just as foreign and un-Amer-
lean as the Continental Sunday We
want an American Sunday, in which
we can worship God according to the
dictates of our own consciences and
participate in Gods open air and sun
shine on the same day.
Il direct you to conduct such cam
palgn as necessary at once to defeat
the opposition's dangerous program.
If we do not act at once America will
awake some morning ere long to find
the air outside of an exceedingly blue
hue"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
Anti-Blue Law Forces
Urged to Get Active
From The Tribune.s Washington Bureau

FFVHe TIC L f1oGNeS W uSNthUtoU RUTeQu
WASHINGTON, July Washington
headquarters of the Anti-Blue Law
League of America was instructed to-
day TO line up all forces co meet the
delegation representing the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which will
visit here July IA to urge the passage
of national blue law. Crawford H.
Ellis, president of the league and head
of the Pan-American Bank of New
Orleans, wired F. C. Daley, in charge
of the headquarters here, that prompt
steps must be taken to defeat the
opposition's dangerous program"
In his message Ellis criticized DIR.
Wilbur F. Crafts and the international
Reform Bureau, which is agitating
"closed" Sunday The attempt of the
reform organization to stop the Demp-
Carpenter fight was referred to by
President Ellis as "forerunner to
their campaign for blue laws that will
be nationwide in effect" Continuing
Eilis's message said:
"The American public that desires