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New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Mrs. Ragona Accused of
Threat to Kill Fiance

Detective Joseph Ryan, of the Homt-
eide Squad, called as a witness yester-
day in the trial Of Mrs. Josephine
Ragona for murder Of Frank 1ucolano,
her fiance, testified to conversation
with the woman after her arrest IN
Baltimore, in which she told him
Iucolano had been killed in a struggle
for possession of revolver.
The statement of the detective
caused much excitement among friends
of Mrs. Ragona- who crowded Judge
Grains courtroom in General Sessions
The defense had announced its inten-
tion Of proving that Iucolano's death
vas due to accident and that Mrs
Ragona was not responsible for the
shooting.
Mrs Ray Nicoletti, a policewoman
somewhat dsmpened the enthusiasm
Ct the defense, however, when she tec-
tilted that Mrs. Ragona had told her
few days before Iucolano was shot
that she intended to shoot him unless
he married her. When Mrs. Nicoletti
finished reading her statement from
memoranda alleged to have been made
at the time of the conversation, Mrs
Ragona rose from her chair in court
and pointing at the witness exclaimed
dramatically:
"That woman lies--I made no such
statement to her or to any one"
The courtroom was filled with spec
tators and many prominent women oc
cupicd seats near the bar, among then
Mrs. Otto Kahn. The prosecution reste(
it's case before adjournment and tn,
defense opens to-day.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Warne Bla11les
Steel Cost for
Crippled Roads
Williams's Letter Accusing
U. S. Corporation OF I'm
justifiable Profits H.
Submitted to Senators
Excess Held $50 a Ton
Rail Wage Increase State !
ment for 1920 Inflated
1850, 600, 600, He Says

From The Trfbunea Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.--One of the
main causes of the high operating costs
of the railroads is the high price of
steel for rails and other needs of the
roads, according to DR.. Frank J. Warne,
economist for the railroad employees,
who continued his testimony before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
to-day. DR.. Warne laid the blame for
this at the door of the United States
Steel Corporation. He held that the
railroads would have been enabled to
make a much better showing this year
if the Steel Corporation had lowered
It's prices along lines urged by John
Shelton Williams, former Comptroller
Of the Currency, in a letter to Judge
E. H. Gary on February /, 1921.
In connection with testimony on in
creases In prices of steel commodities
to the railroads. Mr.. Warne sub
mitted to the committee this letter,
which Mr.. Williams wrote as director
of purchases Of supplies under the
railroad administration. In the letter,
Steel Corporation we're "swollen and
uncomfortable" that the corporation
could we'll afford to sell its products
to the government and to all other
consumers through the remainder Of
the year at net cost; that the corpora
ton could in the year 1918 have
doubled the wages and salaries OF all
it's 26S,71O employees and yet paid
dividends on its preferred and COM
mon stock, with due provision for its
sinking fund; or, could have reduced
it's prices on all finished steel products
$50 a ton and yet paid dividends on
both preferred and common stock,
after providing for interest, sinking
fund and necessary deterioration. Mr..
Williams further stated that the Steel
Corporations profits in the war years
were mot reasonable" and that in the
present condition of the country your
prices are excessive and unjustifiable y
The witness charges that maintenance
hanced by farming out to so-called in
dependent repair shops much of the
WORK in maintenance of equipment.
Summarizing his views as to alleged
defective or fallacious wage increase
figures as submitted by the railroads
DR.. Warne said these figures were mis-.
leading in at least eleven important
particulars Items which he saic
should be excluded were annual sal
aries of general and division officers
exceeding 92,000,000; compensation te
employees engaged in new construc-
tion work which should be charged te
capital account and not to operating
expenses, and which in 1920 is esti.
mated at $370,0O0,00, and number Of
others. DR.. Warne said that because o1
the inclusion of these items the wit
nesses for the railroads before the com
mittee had inflated their wage increase
in 1920 by more than s1,250,000,0 900, o.
nearly "a per cent of the total compen
sation.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Hearst Heads List
OF Contributors
To Hylan League
Publisher Gave 5000 To-
ward Campaign; Total
Fund Was 500, 0,436;
$59,OO5 Was Expended

William r. Hearst, with a suhscrip-
tion of $4,000, heads the list of con-
tributors to the Hearst-T -Tammany cam
paign chest, as reported yesterday to
the Secretary of State. The total re-.
ceipts of the Hylan League, which bore
the brunt of the work for the re-elec-
tion of Mayor Hylan, were $69,436 with
total expenditures Of S59,005. There
were 648 contributors.
In addition to this total Tammany
Hall spent about S12s,450, almost
wholly for the election Of it's county
ticket.
The principal contributors to the
Hylan League were the Business Mems
League and William r. Hearst, $4,000
each; A. H. Woods. Nicholas M.
Schenck and Emmett Mclaughlin,
$4,000 each; F. ]. Godsol. $4,000; Jo-
seph V. Lemare, $1,05o; L. j. O'Reilly,
Daniel Meenan, ]. M. Silverman, Joseph
Marrone, William w. Cohen and Lee j.
Shubert. $1,000 each: Frank Mann, Max
Dick, A. v. B. Voorhees,. E. S. Menehan,
Anton Sondheim, John Welz, Joseph ].
Howell, w. J. Gallagher, john F. Sin
mott, Grover A. Whalen, Samuel
Flesheim, John M. Shaw, H. l.. Cud-
dihy, James Butler William E. Dono-
van. Frank K. Houston. Frederick A
Wallis and D. A. Harrington, $500 each ;
Maurice Simmons, S400; Henry l.
Joyce, $3.50, and W. S. Alien, David
Greenblatt and Sam H. Harris, $500
each.
Principal expenditures Of the Hylar
League were: Printing, $22,600; per
sonal service, s6,165; organization ex
penses, $4,000; Office rent, 1855; ad
vertising, $1.940; postage and mailing
81, 500; buttons, $1,000; banners, $3.50
music, 334O; auto and truck hire, $661
Julian D. Fairchild, treasurer of the
Kings County Democratic Committee
yesterday forwarded to the Secretary
Of State list of contributions and eX
penses of the last campaign. The con
tributions amounted to $6S,000, and ex
penses, chiefly for advertising an
meetings, $4,000. The largest gift wa
So 1000, by George W. Loft. treasurer o
the Hylan League. Mrs. Loft is
Special Deputy Police Commissioner Il
| the Hylan administration.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29

edly an important factor in causing
him to shoulder the work which he
later assumed in behalf of numerous
former soldiers or their dependents.
Although, as was natural, ex-soldiers
had first call on Colonel Whittleseys
sympathies, he always was ready to
offer help to those whose straits struck
him as pitiable. About year ago he
took up the case of youthful stow
away from Germany, who WAS slated
for deportation at Ellis Island and
gave much of his time to the case until
he had succeeded in getting new
hearing in Washington.
On December "a, 1918, the Congress
sional Medal of Honor was bestowed
upon him on the Common, in Boston,
while thousa'Ss looked on and cheered.
Harvard gave him the degree of Mas
ter of Arts the following June. Last
August he was appointed to the com
mand Of the 30Sth Infantry, 77th Di-
vision, Organized Reserves, a reserve
force whose personnel virtually was
that of his old regiment. He returned
from France lieutenant colonel He
was member Of the Williams Club and
the Harvard Club.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Urge Woman for Examiner

Mrs. katherine Fl. Notman, chairman
of the League of Women Voters of
Brooklyn, made public yesterday q
letter which the organization has sent
to Aiming S. Prall, president of the
Board of Education, reque sting the ap-
pointment of a woman to one of the
vacant places on the board Of exam
iners. The appointments are to be
announced at meeting of the Board
Of Education to-day, after having been
put over from last week.
The letter says that two women have
passed the examination for examiner
and are, therefore, eligible for appoint
ment.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29

Penrose Easter, streetcar conducts,
Of GIL Park Avenue, Hoboken, Boyis,
and Dobtins. accompanied bv So
men, who, he believes, were Italssns
boarded his car in Paterson las. r '~Ss'
He said the five men were arrnias
" hen tEe men finally got off, and -
on. he said he saw them
fighting in the street. I
s~e.ns oNAd later on the. side
walk unconscious. He died from jos.
OF blood through a severed artery IN.
der the left arm. He was autiya !,
politics and was judge Of elections
acre lor many years lie is survives
by his wife and a son.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Three Sought in Killing
OF Paterson Politician

PATERSON, N. j., Nov 2s.-Polica
have sent out general alarm for three
foreigners, believed to be Italians, who
they allege, are responsible for the
death last night Of John A. Dobbins,
Democratic political leader. John
Boyle, twenty-four years old, who was
with Dobbins when he was stabbed,
is in st. Joseph's Hospital in serious
condition.
According to q story told the police by
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and elsewhere, in anticipation of tariff restrictions in this country, offers
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are ept to think will be worth discus sion later.
 At any rate also. we surely have reason to be grateful that we seldom see here engagements at the plain and simple boarding house in the coal town when the daily bath had 10 be engineered in the kitchen with the help of the wash tub.
 Lucky, too. we are that it's at least bad form, if not impossible, for the commercial editor to talk of "a good supply of yarns for working class use" or the unavoidable raising for workmen's fares"
 It goes without saying that all the foregoing recognition of the power of the class halter contributes another knot for the lettering of the situation. it discourages initiative and increases still further the tightncss of jobs As rapidly as the scarce job gives to security a rating higher than oppor- tunity with it's risk of losing all less and less thought is certain to be giv- en to obtaining the rewards-the risky rewards-of the inventor and the pio- neer. But it is. after all the prime function of the inventor and the in
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the entire season.

Mrs. Harding has received many mem bers of residential society also At parties nowadays I invariably hear some one ask some one else Have you been received by Mrs. Harding yet? We'll, do write and ask for an audience with her She is just charming. found her de- iightfull You really miss something if you don't know her!''
 Usually the other says she has left cards at the White House-most of Washington society, not to mention many visitors from other cities, have all ready done that-but have not written for an audience. Then, the first speaker usually tells how she wrote little note to Miss Laura Harlan, Mrs Harding s social secretary and was received about two days later And then she invariably goes on to explain how Mrs. Harding only asks very few for the same hour, as she wishes to have real visit and really get acquainted with each guest
 RECEPTION IS GIVEN
 Mrs. Harding had an opportunity to meet the wives of all the members of both Houses, old members and new at the delightful reception at the Congress sional club Friday afternoon when the club entertained in her honor Like all parties given by the club it was a bril- liant affair attended by a distinguished
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MARKETING IS NOW GREATEST PROBLEM
 FACED BY FARMERS
Wallace Sounds Warning That Continued Arrival of Foreign Products Will Endanger
 Farming in America
By RALPH BARTON Special Correspondent of The Age Herald (COpyright. 1921, by The Age Herald)


 Washington, April Special )-7 Marketing of their products is the great problem now confronting the farmers of the nation. A few months ago the cry was still produce, pro- duce," but now, faced with the difficult job of disposing of large surplus of almost every variety of crop, the farmer is wondering, first, how he can finance his operations for the present year, and, second, assuming the matter of financing to be satls- factorily provided for, how far he dares commit himself to production in the current season.
 Figures issued by James J. Davis, Sec retary of Labor, indicating that the mid dlemen of the country gets 1 cents out of every dollar paid by the consumer for his household and other expenses. have reayealed to the farmer one reason for the trouble he is experiencing in market ing his goods High transportation rates present another. AS an example of this, it may be mentioned that a ton of farm produce can be shipped more cheaply from Texas to Holland than from Texas to Kansas. The influx of grain and other
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company. It was the first party given for Mrs, Harding since she has been liv- ing at the White House. Mrs Coolidge and Mrs. Frederick Gillett, wife of the speaker of the House. received with her.
 So far she has not had any time, ap- parently. for recreation or exercise, ex- cept for an occasional motor ride. She does not accompany her husband when he plays golf as Mrs. Wilson used to do Mir. Harding usually goes off with some senatorial cronies or some one who hap pens to be around when he is ready to play The President slips out for an early morning walk occasionally, and about once week he and the first lady manage to see show.
 FLOCK TO CAPITOL
 Tuesday Mrs. Harding and the wives o all the officials. in addition to many diplomats and resident society women and men. too-flocked to the capitol to hear the President make his first ad- dress before Congress. Mrs Harding was greeted by cheers almost as enthusi- astic as those given for her husband when she appeared. She was accom- panied by her close friend Mrs, Edward Beale Mclean Mrs. George B. Christian, Jr., wife of the Presidents secretary who has always been a friend of Mrs. are much closer than the wife of the chief executive and the wife
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SEE HO W
 TOOTH TASTES
 |NJURE ENAMEL
Here's a Test You Can Try Yourself = Proves Gritty
 Dentifrices Cause Decay

Many dental authorities have been saying for years that tooth pastes and powders are harsh and harmful to teeth and gums. Try this test for yourself and see. what they do. Take little tooth paste the tip of your finger and rub for a minute on your mahog- any table The little scratches that remain can be seen with the eye. In the same way the constant rubbing of tooth pastes and powders on your teeth causes tiny holes in the enamel. which is Natures protection against germs. These little places offer the first loophole for germs to enter. Tooth paste and powders are all made from some gritty abrasive substances as a base. They also cause raw open gums, which offer another point of attack for germs. No germ can work in un- broken skin. In spite of the warning of authorities, such tooth troubles as pyorrhea, etc., continue to occur. and many ascribe them to tooth pastes and powders. Evidently. there is truth in this because pyorrhea was almost unknown before these preparations used.
 The safest. most antiseptic way to care for the teeth is to use mouth wash that keeps the mouth thoroughly antiseptic at all times. Now that Steroline be obtained at any drug store, this becomes simple. The greatest germ killing agent known during the war is the basis of Steroline. This is DobelPs Solution, for fifty years officially approved germicide at physicians conven- tions. But Dobell's Solution is unsuitable for general use-and it's disadvantages are overcome by Steroine which contains other ingredients that make it such delight in brushing, and that soothe and allay nflam- nation, and cleanse the teeth. Steroline also stops bleeding gums.
 Tooth pastes and powders cannot reach more than 50 per cent of the surface The other 40 per cent is decaying constantly. Only . liquid antiseptic, like Steroline, can get all through the mouth and cleanse the hidden surfaces. Start trying Steroline to- day. Lose time. Go to your druggist, buy bottle of Steroline and avoid further danger to your teeth.--Adv.
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Negro's Place in Industry

From "The Industrial Revolution ana
 the Negro" by John l.. Sewall, m
 Scrihner. M
 No one can dispute the fact that through many decades of their history negroes have been workers Emancl- nation left them owning little but themselves. which at first was quite as much liability as ain asset. Forced by necessity they continued universal habits of toll as when slaves. The fact that in half a century they have come to a race status where 30 per cent Of those over ten years of age are report ed by government statisticlans as ln- dependent of gainful occupation sug- gests a race-power Of productlNlty which may well be our foundation for further inquiry as to their economic value in coming years, when more widely distributed and tested by greater variety of tasks.
 We have, however, ample and strik- ing statistical proof, in the successive records of the census of the negro's right to a distinct place in any estl- mate of the nations industrial poten- tiality Naturally the most extensive line of facts will be found in the realm of agriculture. Here Doctor Thomas Jesse Jones, in his summary of facts brought out by the census of 1910, will be an undisputed authority:
 Negro farmers cultivate 42,500,009 acres of southern land. Forty per cent of all agricultural workers in the south are negroes. There are in the south approximately two and third million negro agricultural workers; S90, 900 are farmers owning or renting their farms. Negro farmowners of the south own and cultivate 15,702579 acres, which they have acquired in less than fifty years. Add to this the land owned by negroes of the north, and the total land d-ownership of the neg roes of the United States undoubtedly aggregates 20,000,000 acres in 1910. The total value of land and buildings on farms owned or rented by the col ored formers of the south Is almost a billion dollars.p
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of his secretary usually are-was also in the executive gallery.
 Tuesday evening, society spelt with capital IS" went to the Russian ball given at the beautiful home of former Third Assistant Secretary of State a, Mrs. Breckenridge Long in Sixteenth. street. the mansion that the late Mrs. Franklin McVeagh gave to her husband when he was Secretary of the Treasury. and which was the abiding place of the King and the Queen of the Belgians when they visited Washington. It was one of the most charming benefit balls ever attended. The cream of society was there in good looking gowns and picturesque Russian head dresses that invariably were becoming to the fair wearers. Some of them wore complete Russian costumes.
 The ball was the opening gun" of the campaign for the relief of Russian reru- gees all over the world, which ran throughout the week, with one big en- tertainment scheduled for each day
 CABINET DOES BETTER
 The cabinet is figuring little more in society each week The Secretary of State and Mrs Hughes entertained at dinner this week and the Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks gave dinner party ir honor of the Hughes. MT, and Mrs Hughes asked their guests to meet Rene Viviant the former French premier.
 Washington has had many interesting visitors lately. some attracted here for the Gridiron dinner or for the conYen- tion of the League of American Pen Women, which opened last Wednesday, and was marked by a costume ball last Friday evening The Daughters of the American Revolution convene here Mon day, and is bringing many visitors from all parts of the country. Prince Albert of Monaco is due here this week te re- ceive the Alexander Agassiz gold medal awarded him in recognition of his scien- tific marine researches. Of course, his first act will be to pay his respects to the President, who may entertain for the distinguished foreigner
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The American Worker

From Full Upr-The Precious Job
 the Pub, and the Three R's,' by
 Whiting Williams, in the Scribner : In any event 1t is safe to say that the worker in America is better off today than his British fellow even though there has been enormously less enmity and conflict here than there. The reason is surely to be found large
 ly in the lessened gap between the status of employer and employe, fol- lowing the freedom of that individual elevator of the job up from the one to the other. Whether that is due so much to the genius of America as we
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dustrial pioneer to create new jobs whether by creating new products or by cheapening the process and widen ing the market for old ones. Thus 1t comes about that millions of Ameri- can workers are now engaged in mak-
 ing or outftting the automobiles which were unknown In the early nineties.
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Washington Society Clans Show WhirllUind Symptoms;
 Week Is Pretty Crowded
According to Betty Baxter Those Who Fail Receive n- vitation From Mrs. Harding, Employ Simple But
 Effective Strategy of Asking for One
By BETTY BAXTER Special Correspondent of The Age-Herald. Copyright, 1921. by The Age Herald.

Washington, April 16.-(Specia )-Mrs Harding is bend contact with for the four years particularly those with whom she will have intimate relations She has already added perceptby the circle she when her band in the Senate and in short month has about onefourth of officadom task generally spread the season.