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The New York herald., 1921-08-13
GORHAM co. LOSES
FIGHT ON TAX HERE
State and Federal Govern
nents Held Independent.

A suit brought in the United States
District Court by the Gorham Manu-
featuring Company asking that the
State Comptroller be enjoined from col
lecting tax of 3 per cent. on all sales
made by the company In this State was
dismissed yesterday by Judge Learned
Hand.
The company. which is a Rhode ISL
and corporation, demanded in its COM
plant that a Federal tax of per cent.
which il paid on sales in New York
be set off against the State tax which
II would be required to pay on the
same sales. The amount of money in
volved was only $500. but n was stated
in court that whatever decision was
rendered would he of interest to cor
porations which had paid both taxes.
Judge Hand in disnissing the suit
said: THE United States and the State
Of New York are independent powers
and each taxes and seizes part OF
the same income. but there Is no reason
why either one should recognize the
deductions of the other"
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
SWINDLER GETS AID
FROM INNOCENT BOYS
Mother of One Youth Victim
of Mean Trick.

The American Surety Company of
New York, 100 Broadway. issued warn
ing yesterday against a new type of
swindle in which office boys are being
used as an Involuntary aid. George
Roser OF 510 Second street. Brooklyn, an
office boy OF the company, was APP
preached by a man in the street, who Of
fered to give him a job. The youth said
he had one. and the stranger. who gave
his name as Watts. then inquired for the
names OF Roser's friends who might be
seeking work.
Among the names given by the boy
was that of Kenneth F'allon of 200 Sew
enth avenue, Brooklyn. The supposed
Watts visited Mrs. Fallon the following
day and offered her son a job. When
the offer was accepted the stranger de-
manded $40 as a guarantee. Instead Of
giving the money Mrs. Fallon signed
her name to check presented to her by
Watts, which later was cashed at a meat
market where Mrs. Fallon deals. Young
Fallon kept an appointment with the
supposed Watts at Pine street and
Broadway the following day, but the
stranger did not show up.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
BURGLARS BABY FAILS
TO WIN CLEMENCY
Thomas Donovan Lied About
Prison Record.

Thomas Lee Donovan. a burglar. so
years old, of Boston. pleaded for Glenn
ency yesterday for the sake of his seven
months-old baby when arraigned for
sentence before Judge Flanagan at
Newark.
Il can't. I'm sorry. but you have lied
to the Court" was Judge Flanagan's re-
ply as he ordered Donovan to prison for
two to seven years.
Judge Flanagan reminded Donovan
that he had denied having a previous
conviction and that his record showed
that he had been in prison ten years out
of the past twenty-eight. Donovan con-
tinued his pleas until he was led out of
court.
II can't; I'm sorry" was Judge F'lan-
agan's parting word. Donovan was con-
victed of breaking into house in Mont
clair and stealing $500 worth of cloth
ing.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
TRANSFERS STRIKE
OFFICIALLY CALLED
Declared Against United
States Trucking Corpora
ton by Unions.

An official strike was declared last
night against the United States Truck
ing Corporation by vote of Locals Nos.
2S2 ard S07 of the Chauffeurs and
Teamsters Union, at a meeting In Web
ster Hall, Third avenue and Eleventh
street. The strike began incipiently
Thursday morning, and while 1t proved
effective in tying up the corporation
business, officials of the company took
the attitude that it was unrecognized
and therefore would be ended by the
union leaders themselves.
Recently a wage cut of 81 was inn
posed The wages were s35 week for
chauffeurs and s3l for drivers. accord
ing to the union men. Martin Lacey,
leader of the New York District Coun-
ell OF Teamsters. said there would be no
general teamsters' strike. but at present
only against the United States Truck
ing Corporation.
This is the corporation of which
former Gov. Alfred Z. Smith is chair
man of the board. Mr.. Smith took no
part in arbitration proceedings so far
as appeared Yesterday
James s. Reardon, the vice-president,
was reported to be dealing directly with
the men with a view to bringing them
into a conference during the afternoon.
This, however failed to develop. One Of
the company officials said 1--WE put 1t
up to the brotherhood to send the men
back to work or supply US with others"
The United States Trucking Corpora
tion was formed in January, 1920. by
the merging of twenty-seven of the larg-
est trucking businesses, and has branches
in Manhattan. Brooklyn and Jersey City.
1t owns 2,400 horses, 1900 horse drawn
vehicles and $50 motor trucks.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
CRACKED,
MRS. LIGGETT ASSERTS
Wants Her Money Back From
Fifth Avenue JeUeIlers.

Mrs. John II. Liggett, wife OF a st.
Louis tobacco man, who before her mar
riage to him in 1914 was Violet Colby.
musical comedy star, started suit yes
terday to recover S9S00 from Il. NJ.
Cattle & Co. Fifth avenue jewellers.
She says she called to look over some
jcwelry. telling the firm she knew notl-
ing of precious stones and was depen-
dent upon it's expert advice. She says
she was shown fifteen carat sapphire,
which was described to her as Of mar
vellous character" perfect except for
certain silk that might appear but
would not he considered a defect" She
bought 1t. she recites. but discovered a
crack in the stone which she claims was
not in Il at the time the stone was shown
her She believes the jewel was falsely
represented to her and is worth only
$1,000. She offered to return the stone
in return for the money she paid but
the firm has refused the offer, she al
leges
Mrs Liggett was defendant recently In
an action for payment OF $4,000 worth Of
gowns she bought from Hattie Carnegie.
Inc. dressmakers. Her answer. stating
that the bill should 20 to her husband,
disclosed that the Liggetts are living
apart.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
SON TO GET TRIPLE
OF DADS INCOME
Sc, 900 a Yeo- Referees
AWord to Young Mclaughlin.

Though Thomas j. Mclaughlin is a
$40 week employee of biscuit COM
pany at l39 Avenue ID, a report yester.
day to Surrogate Cohalan by Joseph
McCloskey. referee. recommends that
5000 a year allowance be granted to
him for his son. David. over whom he
is legal guardian. The money is to
come from a large estate bequeathed
the boy by McLaughlin's estranged
wife, who died April In a luxurious
apartment at 53 West Seventy-second
street. where she lived with the boy.
She was Miss Mary Cecilia Nugent.
daughter of David Nugent, builder,
made a fortune.
application for a $1,000 yearly allowance
for the boy who is not yet In his
teens. is Conservative" Some of the
items approved include tuition at De
La Sale Institute. $500 vacation. $500;
amusements, $3.50; spending money. $500;
books and magazines. $50; clothing.
$500; music lessons. 5000 boys share in
rent of apartment. $1,000; housekeeper.
5000
In addition to the estate from his
mother. the boy inherits from his
grandfather the apartment house at the
southwest corner of Central Park West
end Ninetieth street, which Is ap-'
praised at $225. 900 and has a yearly
rental income of $27.675.
The referee also recommends that the
court reimburse the father for $9l3 he
spent on the boy out of his own pocket
since the mothers death.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
GAS TANK EXPLODES,
1000 FLEE DANGER
Firemen and Police Reserves
Send Flat Dwellers of
Avenue C to Safety.
WOMAN IS SOLE VICTIM
Patients in Willard Parker
Hospital Escape Peril-Dis-
trict Is PatrOlled.

A thousand persons living in Avenue
c. between Fourteenth and Eighteenth
streets, were ordered from their homes
by Assistant Chief Joseph Martin "f the
Fire Department last night when the
plate Of a gas tank at Avenue and
Fifteenth street exploded and 100000
cubic feet of gas began to emerge. Tne
residents OF the district hurried from
their homes and fled north and south
Just in advance of the gas which crcpt
into the tenements through open doors
and windows, and Chief Martin SAID
that If they had not left when they did
several hundred probably would have
been seriously affected and many as
phyxiated.
Most OF the people in Avenue c are
foreigners, and they became so excited
when they smelled gas and when the
firemen ran from flat to flat ordering
them to leave their homes that for a
time 1t looked as If a riot might result.
Police reserves were hurried to the scene
from the East Twenty second street sta
ton and. coaxed and urged by firemen
and patrolmen. the stream OF humanity
went from the tenements In an orderly
manner and without any one being hurt.
AlleF dIl HOuI ana d liS Oo.ASOAA
dated Gas Company. which owns the
tank. managed to get the flow of gas
under control and the people were
allowed to return to their homes.
George Morris, construction engineer
for the gas company. said that the plate
on top Of the tank, which held the gas
down and prevented leakage. had been
fractured and enough of the gas had
escaped to cause the explosion. The
gas at once began to pour out. 1t was
first noticed by John MCGUIRE of 267
Avenue c, who turned in a fire alarm
which brought Battalion Chief John
Binns. Chief Binns turned In another
alarm and Chief Martin responded.
While the firemen under orders of Chief
Martin were ordering the tenants from
their homes employees of the gas COM
pany turned off the feed pipe OF the
tank and began pumping a large guam
tity of the gas into another tank.
For several hours after the danger
had passed policemen patrolled the dis
trict and permitted no one to walk on
the east side of Avenue c or to carry
lighted matches within several blocks or
the tank The only injury reported to
the police was that of Mrs. Mary Coyle
of 257 Avenue G, who was struck on the
head by bolt thrown by the explosion.
The patients of Willard Parker Hospi-
tal across the street from the tank,
were in no danger, as very little OF the
gas entered the institution.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
THREE CHILDREN DIE
OF MYSTERIOUS POISON
Toadstools Suspected of Caus-
ing Illness in The Bronx.

DR.. John Riegelmann. Medical Exam
iner for Bronx county, has begun an in
vestigation to see If he can determine
the nature of the disease which killed
Catherine, Andrew and James LennoX.
the children of Patrolman Andrew Len
nox of Headquarters, within the last ten
days, at Fordham Hospital. Catherine,
who was 10 years old. died last Tues
day, and Andrew. who was Q. died two
days later. James. who was years old,
died ten days ago.
DIR. Riegelmann said last night that
he had sent the vital organs of Gather
inc and Andrew to DR.. a. o. Gettler for
analysis and hoped by this means to
determine the cause of death. An au-
topsy showed that the children had
blood poisoning of the throat and intes-
tines, the poisoning being similar to that
caused by eating toadstools. Several
other children In the district of the
lsenox home IN 1907 Selwyn place. The
Bronx are reported to be sufferers from
sore throats and they are being watched
to see If they develop symptoms similar
to those shown by the Lennox children
before they were sent to the hospital.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
ACCUSES 0'FARRELL
OF FRAMING HER
Mrs. Beauley Sues Husband
and Detectives for $250,000
Following Divorce.
CHARGES A CONSPIRACY
Alleges She Was Led Into
Hotel Trap by a De-
tective.

Mrs. Harriet W. Beauley. Staten ISL
and dancing teacher, who recently op-
tanned from Supreme Court Lehman an
order for retrial of the action in which
William j. Beauley. was grantee
divorce, began an action yesterday for
Valerian j. O'FarrelL head of de-
tective agency, and half dozen private
detectives. During the month OF May
1918. she alleges. "the defendants con-
spired together for the deliberate design
and purpose of manufacturing evidence
against the plaintiff in order that VIII
lam j. Beauley could obtain a divorce
from the plaintiff"
According to her complaint. one OF the
detectives, Samuel j. Maloney, called on
her May 12, 1919, in her home at S69
West End avenue. pretending interes.
in renting a room in her house. On May
p. 1918. she continues, Maloney and an
other detective defendant. Thomas Max
well, took rooms in boarding house she
Staten Island, but at the time they posed
under the aliases "Col. Morton" and
"Col. Madison" she says. "Col. Madi-
son, falsely representing he would intro
drce her to a friend who would lend her
sufficient money to pay off mortgage"
brought. her to the Hotel Manhattan and
induced her to enter a bedroom TO
"primp up" before meeting his friend.
Soon after there entered her husband
and other detectives Louis Selles, Harry
B. Beck. Nathan Solomon and Charles
p. Cooney. she recited. who discovered
the plaintiff and the defendant Maxwell
in a condition from which an offence
could be inferred" Papers in the di-
vorce action were served on her Octo-
ber 80. 1918, and the case came up be-
fore Alfred II. Townley. referee, on Feb
ruary "a, 1920 There. she asserts. her
husband, Selles, Cooney, Beck and Solo,
mon perjured themselves by testifying
the alleged correspondent was unknown
to them, and as a result of their perjury
her husband won a final decree August 8.
Her complaint refers to an action she
brought before Deputy Comptroller Will
lam J. Maier for the revocation of the
O'Farrell detective agency license. which
is still pending. at which she alleges
Maxwell was produced and perjured him
self by testifying he never registered at
the Manhattan and was not the man
found with Mrs Beauley, and that Beck
and Cooney perjured themselves by tes-
tifying Maxwell was not the man they
saw in the bedroom. and that OFarrell
perjured himself by testifying he knew
nothing about the occurrence.
This testimony of the defendants Mrs.
Beauley alleges. deprived her of her hus-
band. left her without means. utterly
ruined her reputation and made her ap-
pear "in the eyes OF the world and all
her friends and associates as woman
OF evil repute."
Mrs. Beauley said a portion of the
evidence OF conspiracy she has gathered
was stolen from her recently In Chicago.
when she was attacked In hotel. The
Beauleys were married August 4. 1897.
in Milwaukee, Wis. Since the granting
of the decree. Beauley, who has large
income as a portrait painter and COM
mercial artist, has married another di-
vorcee.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
TOMATO MYSTERY
DISTURBS ASTORIA
Miss Campbell Says 1t Came
From Home of Neighbor:
Absurd Says Mrs. R0os.

Did Mrs. Madeline La Compe Roos
her home so that it nearly struck her
neighbor, Miss Adele Campbell of 105
Woolsey street. Astoria. in the summer
dress?
small boys?
Miss Campbell, who is the daughter
of Peter p. Campbell. secretary of the
Queens County Republican Committee
and an aid to District Attorney Dana
Wallace, says the tomato came from
Mrs. Roos's home. She saw window
close just as the tomato dropped, she
said yesterday before Magistrate Harry
Miller, and the Magistrate found Mrs.
Roos guilty despite her protestations of
innocence The court room held most of
the elite Of Astoria as an audience.
"Charmingly absurd" declared Mrs.
Roos. who is the wife of Charles Roos,
a copper broker, when ii came her turn
to testify. why, I was entertaining
company in my summer parlor when
this tomato dropped. ] am sure l do
not entertain my guests by throwing
vegetables"
When Magistrate Miller pronounced
his judgment and said he would SEN
tence Mrs Roos on Monday she de-
clared with emphasis:
I'm being railroadedt'
Take that statement down for con-
sideraton when ! impose sentence the
Magistrate commanded the court ste
nographer in n stern voice.
Mrs. Roos swept from the room and
the audience. which had come in costly
limousines, with footmen and chauf-
feurs, filed out slowly after her. Not
in years has Astoria had such a SEN
sation.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
FUNERAL FLOWERS
OUTSIDE; WINE IN BOX
Suspicious Cop Arrests Three; ;
TUo Held for Grand Jury.

The inscription Funeral Flowers on
a large box which a man In front of a
hotel at Beach Ninety-second street and
the Long Island Railroad was shifting
wearily from one arm to the other.
caught the eyes of Officer Barron. who
wondered why flowers should be so
heavy. He found the explanation In
fourteen bottles of champagne. He ar
rested Frank Brown of 3l4 Degraw
street. Brooklyn. bearer Of the burden.
and George Casazza of Duffield street
and James Cunningham of 32l East
Twentieth street. Manhattan. who ar
rived at the hotel with Brown in an
automobile.
They were all arraigned in the Far
Rockaway Court. and all denied owner
ship Brown said a man stepped on
the running board of the machine and
asked them to take care OF the box
for a little while. Brown and Cunning
ham were held for the Grand Jury in
$500 bail each.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
PIDGEWAY WILL STUDY
SUBWAYS OF EUROPE
Engineer Goes for Ideas for
Use of Transit Board.

The Transit Commission announced
Yesterday that Robert Ridgeway It's
chief engineer will start to-day on ths
Olympic for Europe to spend five weeks
in study OF methods of construction and
oparataon of subway and other rapid
transit railroads in the principal Euro
pean cries. Among the centres which
he will visit ans London. Paris ana
psr,,n M Ridgeway will be accom-
panied by Clifford NJ. Holland. chief
engineer Of the New York and New
Jersey Bridge and Tunnel Commission:
,,,ho poes abroad to study methods of
construction and ventilation OF wshicu-
lar tunnels in London and elsewhere.
The Transit Commission stated that
Mr.. Ridgeway.s studies will take on
special significance in the relation they
may bear to the mensunes proposed for
the construction of new lines In the
ultimate plan of the commission for the
solution of the New York transit prob
lem.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13

An express car. guarded by twelve
men armed with rifles and carrying a
quantity Of gold bullion reported to ex-
ceed 81 ,250ooo in value and bound for
the United States assay office in New
York. rolled into the Harmon station
of the New York Central Railroad yes
terday morning attached to No, 8, fast
train from Buffalo. While the train
stopped at Harmon to change from a
steam engine TO an electric a platform
trainman knocked at the door OF the
car in which the gold was placed and
told the guards that two men were
riding the blinds on the outside of the
car
The guards said that this was impos-
sible because there were twelve men in
side and they had gone over the car
thoroughly at every stop out OF Buff
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
OPENS CITY HOSPITALS
FOR OBSTETRIC CASES
Coler Says High Fees of Prac.
fitioners Force Action.

Bird S. Coler, Commissioner OF Public
Welfare. announced yesterday that be-
cause Of the high fee demanded by OBJ
stetricians he had decided to open the
city hospitals for confinement cases as
a means Of relief to families whose in
come ranged between $500 and 5000 a
year.
Mr.. Coler said that the privately owned
hospitals of Brooklyn and Manhattan
had become purely business institu-
tions" and that, while the poor could
receive free treatment and the rich
could afford 10 pay fees OF from si5C
to $3.50. there was no place for the pa
tient OF moderate means to 90 and still
retain self-respect. The charge at the
city hospitals under Commissioner Col
er's new plan will be $3.50 a day.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
NINE HURT IN CRASH
OF TRUCK AND TROLLEY
Brooklyn Surface Car Was
CroUded When Struck.

Nine persons were hurt. two seriously.
yesterday when a coal truck struck a
crowded lone man" trolley car at Third
avenue and Sackett street, Brooklyn,
knocking 1t from the rails. James
Perretta. "a. OF $50 Fourth avenue.
driver of the truck, was arrested when
passengers and other witnesses de-
clared he was driving at great speed.
Only two of the injured were taken
to a hospital They were Batista
Rugetta. 80, of 143 Ninth street, left
thigh broken, and Nicola Bastite, 40. of
143 Ninth street. side injured. Both
are in Cumberland Street Hospital. The
other injured, six of whom were women,
were attended by ambulance surgeons
and went home. After striking the car
the truck Slowed around in such posi-
tion as to prevent the trolley car over
turning. which It threatened to do after
leaving the rails.
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
TEN BANKS VICTIMS
OF CHECK RAISERS
) Men Arrested on Charges
Involving $4,000 Lost in
Last Two Months.

Check raising operations said to have
involved more than $4,000. in which ten
or more banks were victimized within
the last two months. were charged yes
terday against three young men arrested
in a printing shop at 81 First street.
Harvey H. April, 114S Longfellow ave-
nue. The Bronx, who conducts the print
ing shop, was said to have tainted after
making a statement at Police Head
quarters. The others arrested were
Samuel Mehl. "a First avenue. and
William v. April, 1425 Grand Concourse.
The Bronx.
Detectives Browne, Newman and Nee
han of the bomb squad said they had
information concerning twenty-seven
checks alleged to have been forged by
the defendants. These checks originally
were said to have been for amounts
varying between $500 and $1,000 and
were sent in by patrons of the printing
shop.
Among the banks on which the fraudu-
lent checks were drawn the police listed
the Irving National Bank, American
Trust Company. Merchants Bank. Brook
lyn. Commonwealth Bank of New York,
Chatham and Phenix Bank. Third ave-
nue. and Fifty-seventh street; Greenwich
Bank. West Broadway, and the Fulton
street branch of the Corn Exchange
Bank.
After having the forged checks cer;;-
fled by the banks, the detectives said.
small purchases were made with them
which left large cash return. A check
on the Commercial Exchange Bank for
s643 was passed Thursday at William
Barthman & Co. jewellers. la Broad
way. It was charged.
LealT. White, who was arrested Thurs
day night on charge of forgery, was
held in $4,000 bail yesterday in West
Side Court for examination Monday.
Whites trouble was dancing craze, ac-
cording to the police. that led to a desire
to curry favor with women. He was
said to have made a confession admit
ting that he had made purchases of a
baby grand piano. a $1,000 automobile,
1850 living room tapestry set and rings
and other jewelry.
He gave Leo Bernstein. one of the
proprietors of the Rose Garden, Broad
way and Forty-ninth street. a check for
$301.07, drawn to Bernstein's order and
signed r. 3. Zabriskie, the police charge,
which was returned by the Pacific Bank,
Seventh avenue and Forty-ninth street,
White was arrested at the dancing acad-
emy on complaint Of r. B. Zabriskie. a
flour merchant
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
BODY OF YOUNG BRUCH
is WASHED ASHORE
Found off CoIlender's Point
on Long Island Sound.

The body of Russell Bruch, "a, of
New York. who disappeared Sunday
night while canoeing off Sound Beach.
Conn. was picked up last night off Col
lenders Point and was taken ashore at
Lands End. the summer home of Dr.
John A. Harriss. special Deputy Police
Commissioner. Bruch and his mother.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bruch OF the Hotel Peter
Stuyvesant, this city, were spending the
summer at Sound Beach.
Mrs Bruch offered a reward of 5000
for the recovery of the body after a
search along the shore and inquiry OF
many vessels had failed to show n trace
of the youth or his canoe 1t was thought
at first he might have been carried out
to sea and have boarded passing ship.
The young man was an expert swimmer
and canoeist and as he wore only a
bathing suit his drowning was consid-
cred unlikely.
The body brought ashore was identi-
fed by Chief Of Police william II. Bren-
nan OF Stamford
The New York herald., 1921-08-13
DUMBWAITER BETRAYS
DRUGS TO DETECTIVES
Sleuths Make Haul by Using
Shaft Burglars Tactics.

Detectives Cruger. Schumacher and
O'Brien of the narcotic squad used the
methods of dumbwaiter burglars last
night to find secret storage place of
drugs in house in East 109th street.
they declare. In the dumbwaiter shaft
between the first and second floors, they
say. they found a shelf on which reposed
a package of powdered drugs worth
about 5000,
few minutes before they had ar
rested In the same neighborhood John
Munroe. %. of 1881 Lexington avenue.
after he had sold a package of white
powder for 81 to Detective OBrien. No
arrest was made in connection with
the finding of the concealed drugs.