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New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Barrett Child Is
Again Kidnapped
While With Father
I1-Year-Old Som of N. Y.
Physician, Who Is Sep
arated From Wife, Disap-
pears at Asheville, ". C..
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ASHEVILLE, N. c., Feb. 27.-WiI-
liam Hurd Barrett, eleven-year- son
of DR.. Frederick James Barrett, New
York physician, who is spending a
vacation in Asheville, disappeared Fri
day afternoon under conditions that
point to kidnapping. His mother is
divorced from his father.
This is the second time the lad has
been wrested from the possession Of
his father under similar conditions.
The lads mother, Marian A. Barrett,
now lives in San Francisco.
William left his home about a o'clock
Friday afternoon to go for bicycle
ride. lie was last seen entering an
automobile on Cumberland Avenue
about o'clock. His bicycle was found
after midnight Friday.
The police have learned the identity
of the automobile in which the lad left.
An arrest is expected soon.
DR.. Barrett came to Asheville with
his son several weeks ago on a vaca-
tion. He was formerly a colonel in the
medical corps and commanding officer
at Camp Hancock base hospital. He
was chief of the section of internal
medicine Of the Surgeon Generals Office
of the army in Washington during the
war.
The domestic troubles of the Bar
retts first became public in 1918, when
Dr. Barrett brought suit in New York
City for divorce and the custody of
the child.
they were separated and the case
was heard by a referee. But before
the report of the referee was confirmed
the matter was dropped and a recon
citation effected. The court, however,
awarded the custody of the child to
the father.
In August, 1919, they again separated
the father retaining possession of the
child and putting him in school in New
England.
AS soon as the mother learned the
chlld's whereabouts she instituted
habeas corpus proceedings in New
York court in March, 1920. In re-
sponse to this writ the father produced
the child. Another suit for divorce
was instituted and the child became
temporarily the ward of the court.
Three days later the mother is alleged
to have seized the child by force and
then her attorneys started action to
have the writ set aside, as they evil
IDENTIFY had accomplished their purpose
and obtained possession of the child.
A referee was again appointed not only
to look into the divorce suit, but to de-
eide whether the mother should be
held in contempt of court.
AS a result of this action the father
was awarded full legal custody of the
child November '1S, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Senators Will Confer ON
Daylight Repeal Tonight
From a stqr Correspondent

ALBANY, Feb. 27.-Daylight saving,
prohibition, reorganization of the
State Industrial Commission and the
creation Of new tax department are
to be acted upon by the Legislature
this week.
1t was said here to-day that the lead
ers now feel assured they will succeed
in passing these proposals, all of them
part of Governor Miller's program,
end two of the daylight saving and
state dry enforcement plans contained
in the Saratoga platform.
There will be a conference of Repub-
lican Senators tomorrow night on the
Ioman-Betts daylight saving repeal
Till. Word was brought to Albany to-
night that the two votes needed by the
Senate leaders to pass the bill have
virtually been obtained,
The Senate Republicans at the day
light saving conference also will take
Up the measure dealing with the cres-
ton of new tax department to take
over the powers of the present COM
irission and in addition assume charge
of the collection of income and inherit
ance taxes and automobile license fees.
The former functions are now exer-
cised by the State Comptroller, the lat
ter by the Secretary of State.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Veteran, 81, Waits vainly
Fer Girl He Was to Wed
Raunts Station Bedecked With
Flowers for Dolly" Whom
He Had Sent Money
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

BALTIMORE. Feb. Of. Webster
Perkins, of Portland, Ore, eighty.
two years old, Confederate veteran,
came from his Western farm
and for three days has been
haunting the railroad stations here
with rosebud in his coat lapel and
bouquet of red carnations he was to
wear. He has watched anxiously all
incoming trains for the Dolly" he was
to meet here and marry in Washington
on Inauguration Day. Perkins saw
"Dolly's" advertisement in a matri.
monial paper. She was twenty years
old and beautiful, according to the low
ing letters she sent in answer to his
and she was deeply in love with her
venerable hero, for she knew he
fought bravely
On Thanksgiving Day Perkins
bought the diamond ring, which be
sent with 5000 to buy a wedding gown
Syracuse, where Dolly lives. To raise
the money Perkins sold his horse
at left me pretty well broke" he
said, "and l also sold the chickens.
loved the old horse and was lonelier
than ever. But when Dolly's letter
told me she would marry me forgot
all that and made plans for my we'd
ding. She would know me by the rose
bud and her favorite flowers, carna-
tions, and | would recognize her by
the blue travelling suit and black
trimmed hat, with pink flowers. So
bought the rosebud and the carnations,
though they are withercd now like
my dream of happiness"
Perkins departed tonight for the
South, where he will go to friends 20
recuperate
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Cermany's Wall Recalls
Her High Hand i'm Finland
Berlin Government Still Refuses
to Surrender 25, 600, 900 Marks
Worth of Seized Pronersv

LONDON, Feb. 6.--In view of Ger
man lamentations over seque stration
OF German property abroad by the Al
lies diplomatic correspondent Of
The Daily Telegraph recalls Germany's
nigh handed action when the Won der
Soltz 1918 expedition marched against
the Bolsheviki on Finnish soil.
Upon the outbreak of the b,uronr.n
war, in 1914, Germany sequestrated MI
Finnish property held in the Reich, to
the amount Of 100000 marks, Fin
land being one of the Cars dominions.
After the Russian revolution ara the
proclamation of Finnish independcncc
In lsl7, Germany consented to release
some 100000 marks of the total. A
little later, when the Bolshevik stan
dard was raised in Finland, and the
White" government, because OF the
inability of the Allies and the refusal
o oI sweden to assist in combating the
~ked terror" appealed to Berlin, the
German imperial government dis
patched General Won der Goltz and an
expeditionary force; on the Finnish
government undertaking to pay 5000
600 marks.
However, when the German expedi-
tionary force was withdrawn, upon the
insistence Of the Finnish commander
in chief and regent General Manner
nelm, who demurred to Won der Goltz's
desire for prolonged German occupa-
ton, the Berlin government presented
bill for something between 100000.
600 and lS0,000,000 marks
This extortionate amount Helsing-
fors fatty refused to pay though will
ing to defray reasonable expenses, as
originally asked. Negotiations have
been going on ever since, and Germany
refuses to let go of the Finnish bal
ance, something like 25,o00,oO0 marks,
OF the Finnish property originally Sc
questrated.
Berlin, in its present attitude. has no
doubt been actuated by her resentment
at the Ententophile orientation of
Finnish foreign policy. by Regent Man
nerheim and President Stahlberg sue
cessively. 1t is conceivable that, in or
der to create bad feeling between Fin
land and. the Entente, Berlin will offer
the latter the sequestrated Finnish bal.
ance on account of German repara-
tinngf
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Workers Lost 84,665
Days i'm Six Months
State Commission Includes I43
Manufacturers i'm Survey
OF 77.0OO EMPLOYEES

ALBANY, : Feb. PA preliminary
statement ,of the results of an investi-
cation Of sickness among New York
State factory workers is announced by
the State Industrial Commission. The
investigation was undertaken during
the last half of 1919 by the Associated
Industries of New York State with the
purpose of determining the actual loss
in time and wages on account of sick
ness. The records resulting from this
investigation were subsequently turned
over to the bureau of statistics of the
Industrial Commission for verification
and compilation.
The records of 143 manufacturers,
with total of nearly 77,000 employees,
were included in the tabulation. The
total number of cases of sickness last
ing three days to six months was 8,761
for the half year, an average of ia
cases per thousand employees covered,
or monthly average of nineteen cases
per thousand.
Sixty per cent of all cases reported
lasted from three to six days. Only 10
per cent were of more than three
weeks duration. The total loss of
working time involved in the 8,761
cases of sickness was 84,665 days, and
the loss in wages was s32l,S15 This
makes an average loss of approx
mately ten days in working time and
$36.73 in wages for each case of sick
ness.
The average amount of time lost by
each of the 1900 factory workers on
account of sickness was slightly over
one day for the six months period of
the investigations; the corresponding
average loss in wages was $4.20. Fig
ures contained in this summary do not
cover sickness of less than three days
nor more than six months duration.
The annual loss of time per en-
ployee on account of sickness probably
would be greater than double the figure
given above for six months. as it is
usually the case that the prevalence of
respiratory diseases and epidemics of
the late winter and early spring make
the amount of sickness for the first
half Of the year somewhat greater than
the amount for the last half
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Farmers Ask Aid of u. S.
Against Night Riders
Disorders i'm Alabama Renewed
Against Men Who Refuse to
Join Tenants Union

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. 27.-Re-
newed activities of night riders in
jackson County, Ala, caused residents
of Stevenson, near here, to appeal to
the Federal authorities to-day for pro-
lection of farmers against attack in
their homes following warnings to join
the Farm Tenants Union or take the
consequences. Residents Of that town
sent a petition to the United States
deputy marshal at Scottsboro express
ing fear that unless authorities under
took to prevent further disorders "con-
ditions will become bad" and "some
good citizens will get themselves in
trouble"
Reports reaching here to-day de-
clared that during the last few days
there had been numerous instances of
farmers being dragged from their
homes by night rider gangs and Sc
verely whipped and beaten. A number
of arrests already have been made by
the state authorities.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Reds 1mprison Khan of
khiva and His Premier
Members of Military Staff and
Other Dignitaries of Court
Locked I'm

~, COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8 (By MaiD.-
The Khan of Khiva, his Prime Minis
ter, members of his military staff and
dignitaries of his court are imprisoned
In Moscow. says Danish business man
who recently arrived here after having
Keen in a Moscow prison for about a
month.
The Khanate of Khiva, of which the
city of Khiva is capital, is in Russian
Turkestan and formerly was an inn
p!ortant kingdom Of Asia. In 1873 it
virtually became subject to Russia,
though for time thereafter it main
tanned certain amount of independ-
ence.
That the Soviet government of Rus.
sia has been active in Turkestan has
been Indicted by recent wireless mes
cages from Moscow, stating that a
congress of young Bolsheviki was re-
Gently held at Tashkent Other Mos
COW dispatches have told of meetings
Of some of the Mahometan races Of
central Asia, ostensibly for educational
pUrposes
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Miller May Issue
Message ON Water
Power Development
Has Consulted Experts on
Plan to Protect Rights Of
State From Federal RuI.
Over NavigabIe Streams
From a staff correspond.nt

ALBANY, Feb. 27.-Goyernor Min.
this week may submit special Ma.
sage to the Legislature dealing VIZ.
state water power development. IT,
Governor has given this question ...,
ors consideration, and has from ~.
to time consulted with experts in y.
hope a way may be devised which -.
alone would tend TO end the controva..a
over water power development, but .l..
result in the protection Of the stat.,,
rights against authority assumed h.
the Federal government oyey powss :.
velopment in boundary waters .Sa
nayfgable streams. "a
Action to test the authority ~ q.
Federal government in water nor.s r.s
matters has already been institntsd .l
Attorney General Newton by diroc,,g,s
Of Governor Miller. The Attorney Cav .sa
eral has brought suit to contes. ~.
constitutionality Of the Esch w,...
power act.
so Tar as state water power deyeloD
ment is concerned, legislation is my,
being prepared which would pave tSa
way for harnessing the vast amount ~
energy going to waste in the stresns
and rivers of the state, as we'll as NAV 1.oo
the barge canal. One feature of ftgs h.
plan, which has been submitted Ia tbs
Governor, will establish, it is sais
state licensing agency for the LEASING
of water power in public streams snS
surplus barge canal waters.
Other steps planned in this psrtics.
lar connection are regulation Of strs.r.
flow and the building of reservoirs $50 sn
as to create a reserve supply of wstsr
to be let through streams on which
power is being developed during The
summer, when the natural flow is
rather low. Legislation along thess
lines has been recommended in thu
past by the State Conservation Com.
mission, but never got anywhere. The
dispute over how the water power
question should be settled has gone on
for nearly twenty years, and the on.
posing sides have constantly succeed.
ed in defeating each others objects.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

streets should be attended to by US and
not by 4 state commission"
Senator Johnson, who has been en-
ployed by Mayor Hylan to fight the
traction legislation, yesterday made
public the second chapter" in his
serial, "The Traction Tragedy The
first chapter" was made public Satur
day after the Senator had announced
he intended to give out daily Install
ments dealing with some phase of the
pending bills.
The new Chapter" reads: "Yester-
day it was suggested that you ask
yoNselves if there was any limit to
the power of the traction commission.
is embraced in the words, TO agreed
provisions for service or compensa-
ton These added words make it COM
pulsory on the commission, in deter
mining the new or increased rate of
fare, to have due regard not only to a
reasonable average return upon the
value of the property actually used in
the public SERVICE but also 'to agreed
provisions for service or compensation
that the companies may be the present
beneficiaries of.
"This discovers the so-called prefer
entails and so, in Increasing fares,
tne commission would obviously be
compelled to fix them so as to yield a
return to the rapid transit companies,
not only upon the value of their invest
ment in the city owned subways, but
so as to preserve to them, in some form
or other, the benefit of these iniquitous
pre- erentials,' which, as is we'll known,
were extorted by the companies in 1918
from the City of New York without
being based in the remotest| way upon
actual investment.
1--WE can answer now our first days
query. There is limit to the power
of the transit commission--a limit
harmful to the city and most valuable
to the companies"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Drvs Will Demand
M re Effective
Enforcement Act
Next Congress Will Be Urged
to Pass Supplemental Bill;
Says No New Radical Meas
ures Will Be Pressed

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-More rigid
enforcement of prohibition is to be
asked by the Anti-Saloon League.
In statement issued to-day the
league said the next Congress would be
urged to pass a supplemental enforce
ment act to make more effective the
present laws. No new radical prohi-
bition legislation will be pressed, the
statement said, although doubtless
other measures will be presented.
Reviewing the fight for prohibition
legislation during the present session
of Congress, the statement said, ap-
propriations on the whole satisfactory
to the dry forces had been made in the
various supply bills.
Whisky and other liquors may be
used in the manufacture, under permit
of certain patent medicines and toilet
preparations, Attorney General Palmer
has ruled in an opinion submitted to
Secretary Houston.
Suggestion by Mr.. Houston that Con-
gress in permitting the use of liquors
for such purposes meant to limit the
word "liquor" to alcohol was contro-
verted by the Attorney General. Liquor
as defined by the prohibition act, Mr.
Palmer ruled, includes alcohol, brandy,
whisky, rum, gin, ale, porter and wine,
but not such liquids containing less
than one-half Of l per cent of alcohol
The products in which, under the
ruling, whisky and other liquors may
be used are medical preparations manu-
factured in accordance with formulas
prescribed by the United States Phar-
macop@ia: patent and proprietary
medicines unfit for use as, beverages,
and toilet. medicinal and antiseptic
preparations unfit for beverage pur-
poses.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Both Factions
Firm i'm Threat
OF Port Strike
Tugboat Men Determined
to Maintain Present Wage
Scale, While Owners Say
Reduction Must Be Made
Unions Act This Week
Employers Assert Wa1kout
Is Not Feared Because
Business Generally Is Dull

The possibility of strike Of engi-
neers, masters, mates ana pilots en-
ployed on tugboats operating along the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts loomed up
more ominously than ever yesterday
Officials Of the Atlantic Coast Tow
boat Owners Association stand pat on
their demand that the engineers and
other workers accept a reduction in
wages beginning March /. The Marine
leaders of the Masters, Mates and
Pilots organization insist that there
be no reduction in wages, and that the
wage scale under the agreement Of 1920
be continued This agreement expired
on December 81, and the request of the
union workers that it be continued
until at least March 81, by which time
they hoped to have come to another
understanding, was denied
The executive committee Of the two
union organizations had met at Wash
ington recently and decided that the
1920 scale Of wages should be continued
for the present year. This the tugboat
owners declined to do, on the ground
that they could not meet the scale be-
cause of present business conditions,
and that wages were going down in
all lines of industry. Instead, the boat
owners notified the employees that the
wages of engineers, beginning March
/, would be reduced $50 month on
oceangoing tugs and $35 month on
port and Sound tugs.
At present masters get $500 month +;
first mates, $205; second mates, s165:
chief engineers, 1915, and first assist
ant engineers, $205.
William A. Maher, general manager
and secretary Of the Masters Mates
and Pilots Association of this port
said yesterday that his men were de-
termined to maintain their present
wage scale and that the attempt of the
owners to force them to accept q lower
wage would be stubbornly fought. He
was unwilling to disclose the plans of
his association, but declared there
would be joint meetings with the en-
gineers some day this week, when a
plan of action would be decided upon.
Charles G. Hanna, president of the
Atlantic Coast Towboat Owners Asso-
citation, II Broadway, said there was
no change in the situation. He denied
however, that the union leaders had
proDosed any conference on the matter,
or that such a conference had been
denied. From other sources it was
learned that the boat owners had little
fear from a strike, because business
generally was slack and that many of
the men would be without work any
how.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Hair Brushes Cause Disease
Breeding Places for Bacteria,
Declares DerlnatoIooisf

BOSTON, Feb. 27.-Hair brushes NAV
be useful as parental implements of
discipline, but their field of activity
should not be the head. Dr. Charles ]
White, dermatologist, in a lecture to-
day at the Harvard Medical School as
serted that brushes were breeding
places for bacteria that caused serious
skin and scalp diseases. Horn or tor
toise she'll combs he listed in the same
category.
In giving advice on the care of the
skin, DR.. White said that rouge did
little harm and that powdering the face
might not be dangerous if the skin
were dry.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Burglar Suspect, Accused by
Police. Held in $4,000 Bail

Samuel Friedman, thirty eight years
old, who detectives from the 4th Pre-
cinct said they saw attempting to break
into 81 Walker Street on Saturday,
was held in $4,000 bail yesterday in
the Tombs court for further examina-
ton.
The detectives told Magistrate Man
cuso that they saw Friedman, in the
company of two other men, enter the
Walker Street building and were sus-
picious of their actions. They said
that they followed them into the build
ing and up to the third floor, where
they saw the three men attempting to
break into the loft occupied by Stoub
Brothers, necktie manufacturers. The
two men with Friedman escaped.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Thieves Rob Legless Man; {;
Girls Warning Too Late
Exchange Operator Hears
"Throw Up Your Hands,
After phone EoI1s

ATTLEBORO, Mass, Feb. 27-A
i,egiess storekeeper of the Germantown
district, Philip st. Germaine, was
two men who gained entrance through
window and covered him with a re-
volver while they took $50 from his
cash drawer.
Over a telephone that toppled to the
floor when the men pumped through
the window Miss Emma Jameson, an
operator in the Attieporo exchange.
heard mans voice say "Throw up
your hands" and then Give US your
money" She Immediately gave the
police st. Germaine's address, but when
four patrolmen arrived at the store
the men had gone.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Finland to Admit Russian
Envoys After Quarantine

From The Trjbinss Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The Soviet
Russian diplomatic mission, designated
to go TO Finland to negotiate for the
resumption of trade between the two
countries, is to be admitted after com
plying with the stringent conditions
laid down by the Finnish authorities,
the legation of Finland was advised to-
day.
Sixteen of the Russians will be per-
mitted to proceed to Helsingfors, where
they will be kept under medical OBJ
servation for short period. The re-
mainder OF the personnel of the mis-
sion wiz be held in quarantine at the
frontieasor three weeks, the dispatch
60 the ntkation said
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Coolidge Quits Home To-day

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Feb. 27.--
Vice e-President-elec Calvin Coolidge
will leave here for Washington on the
Colonial Express at $3.50 a. m. to-mor-
row with Mrs. Coolidge. Although there
will be no formalties in connection
with his departure it is expected that
there will be a large gathering of resi-
dents of his home city at the station to
give him hearty send-off.
With his entire family he attended
the Edwards Congregational Church
this morning and afterward made q
brief visit to the Northampton Club,
where many of his friends had gath
cred for an informal farewell reception.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Accused of Burning Home to
Hide Sister-in-Law's Murder

HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. 27.-When
firemen had extinguished fire in the
home of Rafaele Pietrillo here to-day
they discovered the body of his sister
in-law, which had escaped the flames.
Her head had been crushed with an az,
which lay nearby.
Pietrillo was arrested, the police
saying that they had learned that he
had found fault with his sister-n-law
because breakfast was not ready when
he got up. He is accused of killing her
and setting fire to the house to conceal
the crime.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Town Builds Hotel

RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. 2s.-Besides
owning and operating it's own water
works, electric plant, ice plant, opera
house and railroad four miles long
the little city of Warrenton, Warren
County, N. Cs with q population Of
less than LOCO Ia also building hotel
TO cost sI4o,oeo, to be paid FOR by u
bond issue.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
2-Hour Quake Recorded i'm us.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-An earth
quake, described as rather severe"
and at an estimated distance of 4,2OO
miles from Washington, was recorded
at the Georgetown University Seismo-
logical Observatory to-day. beginning
at 2:18 p. M, the disturbance lasted
until after o'clock, reaching its maxi
mum intensity between 2:18eand 2:22
%. m.