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New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Seek Stevens's
Will in Fight
For or$5,O00,00O
Agents of Heirs Rake Over
Effects of Hermit Scat
tered i'll Tiny Disordered
Room ON Broad Street
Legal Battle Is Probable
Daughter Believed to Have
Joined Husband i'm Atlan-
tic City After Elopement

A legal battle involving property es-
t.mated at more than $5,000,00O is ex-
pected to revolve around the estate of
Calvin Amory Stevens, an aged
recluse, who lived for many years in a
tiny and disheveled room on the top
floor at SO Broad Street, and who died
OF pneumonia on March 20 in Trinity
Hospital, Brooklyn.
The weird story of how Stevens
lived the life of q hermit among the
granite canyons of New Yoyk's fnan-
cial district came to life when his wife
filed petition with the Surrogate of
Kings County for $4,000 from her
husbands estate swith which to finish
the education of her daughter Kate
Stevens Pagan, student at Miss Say
wards school for girls in Philadelphia.
The money has been granted to Mrs.
Stevens by Surrogate Wingate Of
Kings, but there is some doubt as to
whether the girl will return to school
or go to housekeeping with the young
Dartmouth student with whom she
eloped during the Easter holidays.
According to close friends of the
Stevens family the girl was engaged to
an Atlantic City physician and shortly
after Easter went to that resort with
her mother to meet him. The physician
was at the station to greet them, but
there also was young Richard Pagan,
the Dartmouth student, in d racy look
ing roadster.
Miss Stevens, according to the story
told by the close friends of the family,
lodged the outstretched arms Of her
fiance and threw herself into those of
Mr.. Pagan. The tiance is said to have
gasped, but only inhaled lungful of
dust kicked up by the rapidly depart
ing roadster. A justice Of the peace
married the couple that day and later
a formal wedding ceremony was per-
formed at Hanover, N. H., where Dart
mouth is situated. The brides age was
given as eighteen.
For more than a decade Stevens oc-
cupied his little cubbyhole on the top
floor of one of those red brick build
ings which, in the daytime, look down
upon the roar and turmoil of the curb
market. Here he managed the estate OF
Calvin Stevens, his father, who died
twenty years ago, leaving his son near
ly s2,000000.
In the room where Stevens lived
and worked there were yesterday a
shabby and uncomfortable looking cot,
a few rickety chairs, an old and dusty
desk piled high with papers and
ledgers, q kitchen table, small gas
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New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Noon Eclipse Frightens
~ Into Police Stations
.sspite .s,. Cloudy Sky, Super
''''ous Folk Get Premonitions
OF Evil and Seek Refuge

enaa n" 'otal eclipse of the moon fright
the nol;" twenty persons into calling on
sn;, ponce for protection last night. in
asrs.t ol the fact that the entire sky
nobna'o was obscured bv clouds and
ya'ss VA could tell whether the moon
Or - ~. performing according to schedule
d.r rne eclipse began at 1908 a. m. to-
eonnlata % was to end at 4:26 a. m. The
lsstssd lIs.ete observation of the moon
It Is w. rom 2:24 q. m. to 1905 a. m.
psr,;e, sne only total eclipse OF the year.
visihlo' viihl'a, eclipse of the moon will be
phasss uurlng the middle and final
Isss mere October l6,
efaIl,, .lgnt's eclipse was visible pen.
Amsr;. throughout North and South
Mo- M.a and IN the Pacific Ocean.
ow uas shan an hour before the shad.
mrfssss que to steal across the moons
.enss - woman suffering from in
Twen.'e excitement rushed into the East
ana sns%eaty second Street police station
Of disastt.. .hat she had a premonition
,ion a~sier n~s;' and wanted police protec.
the n,oon aMsr' the shadow had passed from
enct Aoon. Other residents of the pre-.
soms some from Fifth Avenue and
the from from First, came thronginQ tc
nand do1ce station with the same de-
sssSuntii score of them were be-
shoyaaas help. Lieutenant Hough
ofoys oa .hem a book on astronomy to
conc ,,.;! tnae he always was ready to
Tat tsai w,'n the situation and promised
ton naey aey would have all the protec.
"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Japan, France
Accept Cable
Views of L. S
Decision on Cuam-Shanghai
Line by Communications
Conference, However, to
Await zap Settlement

WASHINGTON, April 81 (By The
Associated Press Japan and France
are understood to have accepted the
American principles of distribution of
the former German Atlantic and Pa
citic cables at session of the Interna-
tional Communications Conference,
held late to-day at the State Depart
ment.
: While details of the operations of
the cables to be allocated have yet to
be worked out, the acceptance by Japan
and France Of the American view is
expected to make possible an early
agreement on all such questions.
Actual working out of the distribu-
tion of the Pacific cables by which, it
is understood, the United States will
receive the line from Guam to Yap, and
Japan that part of the line from zap
extending formerly to Shanghai. it was
indicated tonight, will be deferred
pending the clearing up of the status
Of the Island of Yap.
In addition to the cable from Guam
to Yap, and that from New York to
Brest, now in possession of France, the
United States is also expected to re-
ceive from Great Britain the cable now
extending from Halifax to Penzance
and which previous to the war was laid
from New York to Emden, Germany.
In exchange, it is understood, Great
Britain will receive one Of the present
American cables connecting Canada
with Great Britain.
Details OF American participation
with Italy in the construction of di-
rect cable from Naples to New York,
via the Azores, have also to be worked
out by the conference, in order that
the rights of Italy to a share in the
former German cables may be sust aimed
to her satisfaction. Other arrange
ments are understood to provide for
the ALLEGATION to Frarce of the former
German cables along the African coast.
Norman Davis, former Under Seore-
tary of State, who since-the conference
has acted as chairman, presented his
resignation to-day and it was accepted.
Under Secretary of State Fletcher was
elected as chairman in his place.
Resignation of Mr.. Davis as commits
sioner has yet to be accepted by Pres
ident Harding.
The international Communications
Conference is without Jurisdiction in
the controversy between the United
States and Japan over the mandate for
zap. The conference was set up by
the Treaty of Versailles to decide on
the disposition Of the eight trans
oceanic telegraph cables that belonged
to Germany before the war and which
were either cut or captured by the
Allies. One of these cables passes
through Yap and this fact contributes
to making that island of strategic i'm
portance. The mandate for the island
(but not for the cable) was awarded to
Japan by the Allied Supreme Council
in Paris and is now contested by the
Washington government on the ground
that America, as one Of the FIVE powers
which helped win the war, is entitled to
take part in the disposition of the
former German colonies, of which zap
was one. AS the United States had no
part in the awarding of the mandate
to Japan, the United States now refuses
to recognize that award.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
$lO.a-Month Farm Hand
Plows Up $l4,9O3 Hoard
Virginian Finds Coins, Latest
Dated 1928, Buried in Metal
OH Mountainside

SALEM. Va, April 21.-Henry Dam
eron, twenty-five years old, descendant
of pioneer Virginia eettlers, who works
on his uncle's mountainside farm near
here from sunup to sundown at $40 a
month, often dreamed, he said, of find
ing treasure and buying farm of his
own.
April 8, while blowing near the ,cot
Of Brush's Mountain, his plow un-
earthed peculiar looking object. In
vestigation revealed it to be q small
metal pot wrapped in buckskin contain
ing gold and silver coins valued at
$14.903. About $4,000 was in gold,
$500 in silver and the balance in cur
rency, so badly disintegrated that the
denominations could not be distin-
guishsd The latest date on any Of the
coins was 1928.
Young Damerou was fearful that his
fortune might be taken from him, and
kept his discovery a secret until TO-
day
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Psychic Prof.
Is Arrested as
Witch Doctor
Woman Charges Bagonye,
High Priest of Weird
Chapel in Jersey, Took
Her Money for a Charm

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., April 21.---
Eugene Ignacy Bagonye, who styles
himself professor, describes himself
as doctor Of spiritual healing" and
is regarded as the necromancer of
Hungry Hill, was arrested to-day at the
big yellow house in the shadow of
Hungry Hill, Milltown, where he has
chapel whose fittings are a strange
mixture of Romanism and demonology.
He is charged with pretending to
practice witchcraft, sorcery and en-
chantment and receiving S. for a
powder for doing the same A war
rant for his arrest was obtained by
Mrs. Hilda Hobschaizt, of LAG Codwise
Avenue, New Brunswick. Frank Kirby,
the deputy sheriff who served the1Ear-
rant, saa that the magician beamed
upon him in greeting and announced
before discovering his errand that
Frank need worry no more, all would
be we'll with him.
Thus treasured, Frank produced his
warrant and took his prisoner before
Justice of the Peace Charles w. Sedan,
who held him for the grand jury which
will meet next month. The sorcerer's
father, Frank, who is workman in =
tire factory here, furnished $1,000 bail
for him.
Mrs. Hobschaitz. whose parlor table
is decorated with copy of Cupid's
Messenger, explained this evening how
she came to make charge against
Bagonye. She was interested in spirit
ualism, she said, and with others had
been attending seances given by him
since last December.
At various times, she said, she had
given him sums of money for which he
had asked her,. the total being about
$50, including IS for a good luck
powder. Recently, she said, she de-
manded her money back, and it was re-
fused. This convinced her, she said,
that Bagonye was faker and that the
factory employees, mostly of foreign
birth, who attended the seances in his
chapel, were his dupes.
In justice to them, she asserted, she
obtained a warrant for Bagonye's ar
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New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Miller May Call
Special Dry Court
Says Extra Session Would
Clear Docket of Jan, Of
Liquor Charges Here
From q Staff Correanondent


ALBANY, April 21-~An cxtraordi-
nary term Of the Supreme Court to try
cases of violators of the dry law in
New York City will in all probability
be called by Governor Miller.
This was indicated by the Governor
to-day in an interview on the large
number of arrests of violators Of the
Nolstead act under the new state dry
enforcement act by the New York City
authorities
The attention of the Governor was
called to statements made by judicial
and prosecuting officers in the city
that the arrests had already cuttcred
up the calendars so that it would be
two years or mo.e under present CON
ditions before those already arrested
for bootlegging could be brought to
trial.
The Governor said he believed that
the New York City authorities were
unduly alarmed, that there need be no
crowded calendars because of the ar
rests Of the Volstead act violators. On
the whole, he thought, things were ex-
aggerated.
What can be done to clear the cal
endars?" 2" the Governor was asked.
IAN extraordinary term of the Su-
preme Court could be convened and
justices assigned to help clear the
calendars in other courts,' he replied
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Fiance Held When Girl Dies
After 2 Wedding Eve Drinks

Miss Josephine Rasan, Bohemian
girl. thirty-two years old, is dead at
her home, 422 East Seventy third
Street, supposedly from the effects OF
poisonous liquor, while her nance is III
iail at the Fifty seventh Street police
station charged with homicide.
George Ferger, of 511 East Eighty
frst Street, was to have married Miss
Rasan tomorrow. She died in agony
early yesterday morning after having
two small drinks Of liquor bought by
Ferger from a bootlegger at Seventy
first Street and Third Avenue. An
autopsy is being performed to deter
mine the cause of death.
Hysterical with emotion, Ferger, who
is forty-two years old, appeared in
Yorkville court yesterday and said he
was willing to drink the rest Of the
contents of the bottle of whisky to
show that it was harmless. Max Stein
hart. his counsel, told the court it was
the contention of the prisoner that
Miss Rasan committed suicide by tax
ing poison after he LETT her. He sa
she had spoken of ending her life to
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22

other employees of the cigar factory in
which they both worked.
Mr.. Steinhart asked that his cIient
be allowed to taste the whisky. s;nce
he believed it had nothing to do VIII VIII
the death of his fiancee. Maristrata
Norman J. Marsh denied this reouest @ st
and held him without bail for hear-
ing on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the ljnuor
will be analyzed. -'41oA
Ferger and Miss Rasan had knowr
each other for years. Eighteen month $. .
ago they announced their engagement
and were on the eve of marriage On
Tuesday night the girl complained Of If
having cold and Ferger obtained som q
whisky in the street for her. Thev Vent
to visit friends at Long Island CIV '
Altogether Miss Rasan had onlv two
small sips Of liquor during the eyeninr
Ferger said when arrested. He had
one small sip. W
The girl retired shortly after mid
night and half an hour later Complained
to her aunt, Mrs. Louise Haiek. with
whom she lived, that she felt III. With
in an hour she was dead. Mrs Haiek
notified the police and Ferger was ar
rested. The whisky flask was taken
from him. 1t vas found to be nearly
full
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Caruso Drives With His
Wife Through the Park
Opera Tenor So Much I'm.
proved He Will Sail for
Italy ON Nav %

Enrico Caruso drove through Central
Park yesterday afternoon with Mrs.
Caruso, this being his first outing since
apartments in the Hotel Vanderbilt.
The distinguished tenor was recog-
nized by many persons as he drove
through the streets and after he en-
tered the park. At one point where
his equipage was stopped for moment
by traffic, greetings shouted at him by
pedestrians compelled him to bow many
times.
Signor Caruso's secretary announced
later that the singer would depart for
Italy on May %.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22

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New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Comrades Rescue Pilot
Beneath Blazing Plane
Postal Machine Crashes 50 Feet
and Bursts Into Flame at
Mitchell Field

A 4OO-horsepower De Haviland air
plane, in which Elmer Vanatta,. pilot
in the posta! air service, had just as
cende d, "backslipped" yesterday when
only so feet above Mitchell Field, Min
cola, L. l., and crashed to the ground
bursting into flames as it struck;
Vanatta was pinned beneath the
blazing airplane. Lieutenant Lucas
Beau and others who were on the field
rushed to his assistance. With %he
greatest difficulty they managed to
drag him free of the wreck, receiving
numerous slight burns themselves.
A heavy leather coat had kept the
flames from Vanatta's s body, but his
face and hands were severely burned
He was taken to the base hospital and
is expected to recover. He is TWEEN
ty-seven years old, an experienced
aviator and lives in Millmont, Pa. The
airplane, valued at $4,000, is almost a
total loss. 1t is believed that one OF
it's ai1erons collapsed.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-22
We Are Printing The Adjacent Letter As Paid On Account Of The Appearance Of The Fo|| itOriaI of A Recent Date
EDITORIAL FREE PUBLICITY

The world is sick of prop aganda. We have had it fed us for years. Even in the papers of highest repute, free advertising in the form of propaganda, has insinu- ated itself into the news and editorial columns.
 Whenever a propaganda story is sent in to the editor 1t should be turned over to the advertising department and an opportunity to insert advertising, at regular rates, should be given the sender of the story.
 Even such big corpora tions as the American Rail- way Express Go. try to work the free publicity scheme. A cleverly worded letter, ac- companied by a lengthy article of unadulterated propaganda was recently sent by this corporation to THE FOURTH ESTATE, and no doubt to newspapers generally in New York and elsewhere in an endeavor to get free advertising on a move started to improve it's service.
 It is time that reputable business learns that there are no free columns in a newspaper for a compromise of news and advertising matter.
 There is enough real news and enough real writers to fill the newspaper columns with material that is worth while. Editors do not need to resort to cheap publicity matter to fill their pages and jeopardize their regulations among the thinking public, and they should discourage all forms of free advertising and force those who want it to revert to the legitimate method of buying space at card rates. - The Fourth Estate.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-22
HOWARD M. PEEK
 PHOENIX, AHlz.
Duckworth Co.,, Savannah, Ga,

Savannah, Ga.
 Gentlemen :-
 For the past two weeks there has been better inquiry in the market than at any time this year Sales made ten days ago at 3012c to 31c landed for Extra The sellers found difficult and advanced their limits to basis 32c landed Recent business has been done at 34c to 35c landed for Extra
 AS is the in all situations like the present (when cost of production has been much higher than the market and loans also at higher vaues) the least ad- in price with small demand causes owners and holders to feel that they may out better by waiting at least refusing to sell except at prices which not possible to get Before the recent advance good many interests would have been glad to take the prices ruling today but refusing to sell at the prices. This is largely due to the fact that the tariff legislation is still unsettled and growers feel that it's passage will increase the price long staple cotton We would appreciate expression of opinion to what effect 7c tariff on Egyptians would have the market.
 By the time this letter reaches you arrangement will be completed whereby the selling of all cotton bank loans will be in the hands of seller. When this is done will be possible to offer firm in any quantity needed We feel that this will work to advantage of all concerned and enable the shipper to get more even selection in all shipments
 We quote BIC CIF Liverpool on Extra.
 Very truly yours, HMPp PEEK FLEMING N B-Price quoted landed does not include necessary deductions for freight insurance, commissions etc.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-22
Phoenix, Ariz. Dear Sir:

Phoenix Ariz.
 Dear Sir:
 The situation just past prompts to write this article Will you please give it publicity.
 On account of recent speeches and articles relative the cooperative marketing association being formed there tendency feeling of prejudice against the cotton buyer merchanhe speuator he has been termed in these articles and speeches.
 The reader will note that nothing has been written in defense of this business by those engaged and have wondered why The because it established legitimate business which has good for it's existence business might that line is there higher integrity better of business morals than there the buying and shipping of between the shipper and the mill because contracts call times for such large risks that word has be good practice on the demand side integrity and then the supply side develop petty sesness and utter disregard is speculation the cotton buying business than other line of business that has legitimate for existing
 But the point wish bring out in this article Do Not Lose Confidence in the Established Methods Now Operating Your Valley Mutual understanding and hepuness the ends strive for in the situation First before you throw the present methods get something place. Any nothing benefits and integrity of purpose for it's existence. Anything built up by destroying confidence of kind is not apt to succeed and the same basis likely to lose confidence the thing trying to establish.
 Referring present situation now experiencing sections of the country November Do think by moving to another place that will find different conditions might add that have greater confidence the Salt River Valley today than had with conditions they year. We nearly normal and things will right themselves just they will be healthier condition than had the extreme prices of cotton kept and land values gone beyond all
 This my home. My firm Phoenix real estate own home, also ranch property in the valley The valleys prosperity prosperity it's failure failure and if those institutions bulwark manstay valley go down. go with them do not away from the dangers that affect household much less lend hand tear them down. We will forget these troubles just other section of the country will and then will wonder why we had lost faith for second
 1ours very 1lny I1ny1 Apn \, DEFY
Arizona republican., 1921-04-22
This Letter Expresses The True Con- dition Of The Cotton Situation As It Actually Exists Today---t Was Written By Us To The Trade
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Exporters Of And Dealers In SEA ISLAND, STAPLE, ARIZONA AND cALIFc
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-20
Brotherhood Course of Lectures.

The Brotherhood of the United Congre gational church have planned a course oi lectures for the winter beginning Novem- Der 7th, with Newell Dwight Hillis of the subject of "America of Today and Tomorrow" Dr. Hills is ration knowr platform orator. widely travelled and a1 author of distinction. He has lecturee 2.s00 times and in every state in the Union. During the last war he toured the country on every oneof the LrSer4s Loan campaigns and four million copies of his second Liberty Loan speech were distributed by the British Information Department. He perhaps is the best known as the successor of Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of the famons Plymouth church, Brooklyn. and is the most distinguished figure in the Ameri- can pulpit today. This lecture will bs followed by one on January 18th. hy John Kendrick Bangs. His subject 'Ths Incorrigible Optimist." will furnish this author. humorist and lecturer the ve- hicle for a rare evenings entertainment James W. Gerard of New York city. whe represented this country at Berlin at the outbreak of the war will follow MT. Bangs in April and give his hearers noi only his own experience as American an. hassador at this time but his ohserva
 tions from q recent trip to Germany and  the devasted regions of France. Tfif course of three lectures is to be had fof S1. Similar 10 the course nut on br the Brotherhood during the winter of 1918 it Is aimed to make this within the meant of all. The object is not to make none, but to furnish the citizens witout recard to creed. the opportunity to hear distin. guished men on ID tO date subjects Mem. bers of he Brotherhood which now nur,f -ka r+=M fr ffs sale The price of admission for sinri4 lecture VII be 75 cents. The course VIII be held at the Community house. The response was so generous and the ap- preciation so marked at the close of ti1e last course given that # Is expected that all Of the tickets will he sold be- fore November but arrangements wfrl bt made later for the sale of tickets st some public and convenient place Harry Nj Clark. as chairman of the committee arranging for the course Is to be con- graduated at securing this talent and the community in general may anticipate rare treat 70