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The New York herald., 1921-01-26
MULBERRY BEND BLOOMS
DESPITE ZERO WEATHER
Exercises Bring Out Profusion
of FIoUers.

No Fifth avenue wedding. when an
American beauty married an English
earl ever brought out bigger or more
patient crowd. or a greater display OF
flowers than were seen yesterday in the
Mulberry Bend neighborhood. The oc-
casion was the commencement exercises
at Columbus School. Mulberry and Bay
ard streets when 130 children OF Italian.
Chinese and possibly few American
families received their diplomas.
1t was estimated that the floral trib-
utes represented an outlay Of more than
$4,000; certainly it looked as IL every
florists shop below Fourteenth street
had been stripped to mako the COM
mencement festive one.
While the exercises proceeded on the
fourth floor. relatives of the diploma
recipients waited below in the hall ana
outside in the street. their arms blue
from the biting winds, but their faces
bright with anticipation of the surprise
In store for Salvatore or Serafina, or lit
tie Mary Foy, when they walked straight
into tho red and white bouquets that
made the wintry street bloom like June
garden Mulberry Bend never saw any
hung out of the windows and parents
made il a special holiday with a tam
lily celebration which. in many instances.
continued through the evening.
DIR. Antonia Pissani made speech 10
the boys and girls. There we're numer-
Gus numbers on the programme in VIII ich
the pupils themselves took part. Mr..
Hill. who had charge Of the music, and
hts assistant. Mrs. Montgomery, con-
tributed to the afternoons entertain
ment
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
BORDENS CUT OFF CENT
ON MILK FEBRUARY I
Sheffield Farms Company
May Take Action To-day.

4 reduction in the price or milk will
BE- put into effect February | by the
Borden's Farm Products Company,
Patrick u. Fox. president of the firm,
announced yesterday. This carries out
Mr.. Fox's promise of last Saturday that
hie company would pass to the consumer
the benefit of a reduction In wholesale
milk of one and one-quarter cents de-
cided upon by the Dairymen's League
and the economy made possible by the
refusal of a board of arbitration to ad-
vance the wages OF employees. The en-
ployees demands for $40 more week
were turned down last Saturday, and
the Dairymen's League decision to ac-
cept lower prices for February milk had
been taken a few days before.
The new scale of prices announced by
Mr.. Fox reduces the present prices by
one cent Grade A milk. which sells only
In quarts. is cut from 20 TO 10 cents;
Grade r. quarts. go from II to 16 cents
and Grade r. pints from Il to 10 cents
Cream sold on milk routes will be re-
tailed at 81 cents half pint instead Of
81 cents.
Lotion Horton. president OF the Shelf
field Farms Company. said last night
he was not prepared to say what action
hi company would take. but there might
b. an announcement after board meet
ing to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
POOR ON $4,000 A YEAR
PLUS HUSBANDS DOLES
Mrs. Smith Testifies She
Can't Entertain Euen Simply.

The jury in the Queens County Su-
preme Court which has been hearing the
action for an accounting brought
against Mrs. Elizabeth c. Smith by her
husband, Julian c. Smith. was dismissed
yesterday after the attorneys for both
sides had agreed to submit the entire
case to Justice Faber for decision. This
action was taken when Justice Faber
remarked that the jurors were being
deluged with figures and probably
would not be able to digest all of them.
Virtually all of yesterdays session of
the trial was taken UP with the presen-
tation of figures concerning the incomes
of Smith and his wife. Mrs. Smith
testified that she was poor on an in
come of 5000 year from property in
st. Louis and New York in addition to
what her husband had given her. and
that she was unable TO entertain her
friends even In the simplest manner.
She testified that her actual expenses
during her husbands absence in France
with the American Army amounted to
s15,671.79. and that she had received
from him only $9,e62.54. Her expenses,
she admitted, included cigarettes for
her son. who is self-supporing. and her
personal gifts to the Red Cross and
Salvation Army.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
COAL EXPORT FIRM
INDICTED FOR FRAUD
q. S. Charges False Represen-
tation Against Douglas
Barnes Firm.

II is the hope of the Department of
Justice that foreign firms which are
considering the purchase of American
coal will learn of the indictment yes
terday by a Federal Grand Jury OF
Douglas Barnes and Joseph Vein
handler, officials of the Douglas Barnes
Corporation, a concern doing a coal bro
kerage business at 305 Fifth avenue.
The defendants are charged with having
made false representations and engag-
ing in unfair practices and with i'm
proper use of the mails in respect to a
consignment of coal which was shipped
to Sweden last June.
The evidence against the defendants
was supplied, in great measure. by GER
tain coal dealers in this city who state
that they themselves have refused to
sell cargoes of coal they had, but which
they regarded as inferior for export to
Europe. In the Indictment IL is charged
that Barnes and Weinhandier sold the
firm of Jensen & Cox $500 tons of
steam coal at $32.75 ton, and that at
that price the defendants were making
a profit of s6.29 ton. The indictment
sets forth that such profit was excess
SlNe anu UNFAIR ana tnat profit of VI
ton would have been about right
Last June there were Il number of
representatives of foreign firms trying
TO obtain coal in this market. princi-
pally because the supply of English coal
was scant on account OF labor troubles
and mine suspensions in Great Britain.
Jensen & Cox, firm with Offices in rs
Broad stree, was trying to get coal for
one of the largest shipbulding and
docking firms in Copenhagen. and got
into communication with Barnes and
Weinhandler. who agreed TO sell them
$500 tons of "Kenawah g. one of the
best steam Goals obtainable. Later the
arrangement was changed when Barnes
and Weinhandler declared they were un-
able TO obtain coal of the grade stipu-
lated. and Jensen & Cox agreed to take
good grade Of small anthracite. When
the coal finally arrived in Sweden the
Ghipbuilding firm which was to buy il
complained that the coal could not be
burned At the price at which IL was
cold. which included freight and insur-
ance. II had cost its purchasers 5000.
II was stated yesterday that q con-
come from Europe lately concerning
cargoes Of coal which have been sent
there from here. Several million dollars
within a few months have been made by
certain firms which have been speculat-
ing in inferior grades of coal for export.
Some of these firms are made UP of men
who have turned coal dealers overnight
and know practically nothing about coal.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
FROZEN IN ICE,
WILL HA We TO BE CUT OUT
Cake Will Be Sliced Around Flyer Towed 500 Feet to
Keyport, N j., Shore and Thawed - Three
Rescue Attempts Fail

The Ponce de Leon, a flying plane
with 1l0 foot wing spread and a
fourteen passenger cabin. will be cut
out of the ice off keyport. n. j.. to-day.
towed ashore and thawed out. The sea-
plane with two pilots and five mechanic
tans aboard was frozen in 500 feet of
shore on Monday night. during a thirty
mile freezing gale. Three attempts to
bring her in failed. C. j. Zimmerman,
the pilot; +. r. Sanborn. a relief pilot,
and the mechanics remained aboard.
Pilot Zimmerman was taking a trial
flight preparatory 10 starting for Palm
Beach. where the craft was to be put
into passenger service When he came
down he found the craft would not move
through the ice inshore
Attempts to turn the plane around
and go up again, seeking a better land
ing place, were unsuccessful Zimme--
man signalled ashore, and a motorboat
put out, in an attempt TO tow the sea-
plane through. but the motorboats rud-
der was broken in the ice, and the boat
had to be poled back.
The Ponce de Leon was resting on her
pontoons in open wate~ up to midnight.
when another attempt to get to her
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
SAYS SISTER MARRIED
FAKE GERMAN BARON
Troubles Told in Trial to
Break Her Will.

Miss Eliza Even testified yesterday
before Surrogate Foley and n jury that
she did not persuade her sister Maria
Louisa Even. to omit from the latters
will their nephew, John Even. lawyer
residing IN Yonkers. The nephew is try
ing 10 break his Aunt Maria's will. dis
posing OF 100000 estate upon the
ground that she was unduly influenced
by her sister.
Miss Eliza declared that she and her
susie" had decided not to name their
nephew - a legatee because ne contest
ed the viii OF their other sister. Caro-
lire Even. who bequeathed the bulk OF
hei fortune to societies for the protection
OF cats. She also testified how she had
tried TO persuade her sister Maria not
u marry Boto Won koenitz. an alleged
German baron. She said that Maria took
this step out OF sympathy for the
'Barou's" lameness and against her adj
vice. and then stuck 20 her husband
until she learned he was q fake
ncbleman and untrue TO her She
admitted that Maria gave the Baron"
100000 and said that Maria had refused
10 take back any of the money, as she
made IL a rule never TO take back any
thing she had given. The case will be
continued to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
HAYS FIXES QUOTAS
TO WIPE OUT DEFICIT
Zen Cents for Every Repub-
tican Vote Will Pay Har-
ding Campaign Cost.

When the campaign closed, we had
deficit of about s1.5oo.0o0 and surplus
of some 1000 600 in votes" said viii
II. Hays, chairman of the Republican
National Committee. last night. speaking
of what had been accomplished so far in
raising the money TO square the books.
Since November enough has been
ing to 100000. TO pay the interest to
January l on the $l.400,000 borrowed to
round out the campaign and to pay a
dividend on the latter obligations Of
some ) per cent The last checks on
these partial payments went out yester-
day All this money has come in as a
result of personal appeals sent out by
letter and the appeal OF Chairman Hays
published in the newspapers throughout
the country.
What remains to be collected-be-
tween s1.20O.000 and $1,000, ,O0O-has
been apportioned among the various
States on The basis of the Republican
vote cast in each. 1t amounts to little
less than 10 cents a vote, the total num-
bor of votes cast for Harding being
about 100000. For instance. New
York state is expected to collect
$50 Oo0
The collection Of each Sta,e's quota
has been placed in the hands of the ma
tional committeeman from the State
without Instructions of any kind. II VIII
he up to him to get the money in any
way he sees fit. although it is felt the
$1,000 limit has been so we'll estab-
lishel by Chairman Hays that contribu-
tons above this amount are not likely
to be taken.
r. he a.
the budget cost something more than
$500. 900. About two months before
election money was coming 40 slowly
the finance committee was faced with
the problem of deciding on one Of three
courses-to abandon some of the work
mapped out, raise the limit for single
contributions above the 81 900 ark. or
go out and borrow money. The latter
course ives adopted. Among the banks
and Individuals from whom the money
was borrowed were: Chase National and
Liberty National of Now York. First
National AMI Colony Trust Company IF
Boston. Croker National of San Fran
cisco. Continental and Commerce of,
Chicago, Daniel G. Reid. Mrs. John T.
Pratt. w. H. Crocker. former Senator
John W. Weeks and Walter Dickey OF
Kansas City.
Following the fling of the financial
report by F. w Upham. treasurer. on
November 25. Chairman Hays sent let
ters TO a selected list of contributors
asking them to send another $1,000 for
1921 The response to this appeal was
good. but the result OF the newspaper re-
quest for funds brought n flood OF small
amounts. This letter came from Haw-
lsinsville. Ga:
II saw your appeal in the Atlantic
Independent 7 am n poor man and
has wife and to children. my earn
ings are very small. Sometime ! don't
no what ] am going TO do for n living.
I have no work at present I am send
ing you a check for the amount Of one
dollar would send more " ] had II.
! voted for Hon. Warren G.. Harding
and want him 10 succeed | feel happv
over groat victory J asked one old
man dd he vote. lie said no but he
went down on his knees and God ans
wered his prayer Prayed and voted
10. Hopeing Great Success and II
there is anything that J can do am
ready to do So
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
SEEK GIRL STUDENT;
DISAPPEARED MONDAY
Father Of Florence SpeIlman
Appeals to Police.

Benjamin Spellman OF West Ninety
second street. a lawyer with Offices In
1i5 Broadway. reported to the police OF
the West Tooth street station last night
that his daughter Florence, rs years
old. student OF Columbia University.
had been missing since Monday morning
at o'clock when she left home for
school.
Mr.. Spellmau said last night that the
last he had heard from his daughter
was about ? O'Clock Monday afternoon.
when she telephoncd him at his office
and said she was IN "a millinery store
then and was going to buy hat She
had about $50 IN her pocketbook. he
said. ard wore diamond ring and other
jcwelry. Mr.. Spellman said that all
though the girl had been nervous over
the midwlntcr examinations at Column
bia she mad not been III. lie said he
knew Of no reason why she should leave
home and believes that something has
happened 10 her
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
PRISONER BRISTLES
WITH SHARP WEAPONS
Dagger, Razor and Scissors
Found on George SonueIs.

George Samuels Of the Mills Hotel.
Seventh avenue and Thirty-sixth street.
was arrested last night by Patrolipsn
Trivero OF the West tooth street station.
charged with using abusive and indecent
language TO Miss Violet Guiberti of SO
East Tooth street. The police say that
when they searched Samuels they found
in his pockets hacked razor. a six inch
dagger and a pair of scissors.
Miss Guiberti told the detectives she
found Samuels annoying a little girl In
the hallway Of the apartment house in
which she lives and that when she
demonstrated with hin, he slapped her
and used abusive language. samuels
denied the charges He said he had been
employed 10 place handbliIs la letter
boxes
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
LABOR GRAFT INQUIRY
STARTED IN NEW JERSEY
Theatre Building Said to Haze
Been Held Up.

An stiestion OF reports that large
sums Of money have been paid labor
leaders in Essex county New Jersey. e.
settle strikes and TO avoid prospective
ones was started IN Newark yesterday
by Prosecutor j. Henry Harrison. De-
-sctivc fTsrgan. who II In charge ~ the
investigs ton. said he was satisfied that
8 200 or more was paid by the owners
xg the Brsnford Theatre In Newark. r.
Entity opened TO settle labor difficulties
during the construction Of the theatre,
The Prosecutor has been ted ,hee
when 3.f00 seats purchased for the the
afro arrived there n business agent Of q
building trades union threatened TO call
= strike, claiming that the seats were
made IN a non-union plant. and that a
large sum Of money paid In cash
straightcned out the difficulty. Officers
Of the Fabian Fucker Steiner Company.
whiqb owns the theatre, refuse to con-
nrnaSr deny the story.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
SCHIRMER REPUDIATES
ANY DEBTS OF HIS WIFE
Music Publisher So Announces
in the Newspapers.

Ciustave Schirmer Jr.. who Is con-
nected with the music publishing house
OF Schirmer & Schirmer, 3 East Forty
third street announced i'm a newspaper
advertisement yesterday he would no
longer be responsible for any debts con-
tracted by his wife who lives In 40
East Sixty-second street. either in her
name or my own" At Mr.. Schirmer's
oficc ~ was said he was not living at
the Sixty-second street address. and that
there was nothing TO add to the state
ment IN the advertisement
In 1918 Grace Fisher OF Detroit. sued
Mir. Schirmer for $4,000. alleging that
he promised 20 marry her while they
were dining in hotel. February H.
1914. but that on December 13 of that
year he married Florence Powers. The
suit afterward was settled.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
BUILDING LOAN BANKS ASKED.
Alderman Haubert Wants Legis-
Iature to Act on Housing Shortage.

Alderman Charles II. IIaubert intro
duced yesterday in the Board of Alder
men a resolution asking the Legislature
TO enact legislation authorizing the
state TO establish bank in every
county for the purpose Of lending money
at per cent for the construction OF
dwellings, as a means of relieving the
housing shortage.
The profits of the bank would be
shared on a pro rata basis among the
depositors. The resolution was referred
to the committee on state legislation.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
INJURED FIREMAN DIGS
OTHERS OUT OF WRECK
3 Hurt When Patrol Upsets
in Avoiding Collision.


Although his shoulder was dislocated
Albert Brewer. SO, fireman. refused at
tention for himself and tried to help ex-
tricate two others of his crew when a
passenger car got in the way of Tender
10 at st. Johns place and Howard ave-
nue., Brooklyn, yesterday. causing II TO
swerve sharply and overturn. pinning
them underneath. Brewer and the two
others. William Malloy of 79S Myrtle
avenue and Thomas Flynn OF 679
Franklin avenue, were taken to St
Mary's Hospital. Flynn's hip was
thought to be fractured. John Hanse OF
IL Celia place and William Van Burklen.
who also were on the tender escaped
with bruises.
The passenger vehicle was driven By
Henry Greenblatt of 76f Saratoga ave-
nue.. lie got out of the path OF the
tender. which was hurrying TO a fire.
Just IN time TO escape being hit He
was arrested and held on a charge OF
reckless driving made by Henry Reichen-
bach. driver of the tender.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
ARCTIC DAY RIDES IN
ON NORTHWEST GALE
Temperature Drops to Four
Above for Second Time
This Winter.

For the second time this month the
mercury dropped to four above zero
when at o'clock yesterday morning it
reached that point. sticking icily there
for nearly two hours, until the sun was
more than half an hour above the
horizon. Unofficial thermometers in open
places OF the suburban boroughs were
much nearer the goose egg. The cold
seemed bitterer to folks afoor because 1t
came at its worst on a northwest gale.
The flercest blast. 81 miles. was recorded
for the five minutes ending at 20 A.
NJ. when the temper ature was degrees.
A feature of the day was the high ba-
rometer of 30.35, which made the air as
bracing as Rocky Mountain town.
The two four degree days will prevent
the month from achieving distinction for
unreasonable warmth. the Weather Bu-
Iseau declares. 1t is likely that the aver
age temperature may be about "a, or one
degree below January, 1919. The nor
NAL average for the month in the fifty
years Uncle Sam has been keeping tabs
on the weather is 80. The warmest
january was in 1890, when the mean
temperature was 40.2 degrees, and the
coolest was 216. in 1918.
Folks who felt most severely the sud-
den drop Of temperature toward zero
were travellers from the equatorial
places arriving by the Lamport and Holt
liner Vestris, in yesterday. DIR. Anon
Jenkins the ships surgeon, said that the
change from tropical apparel to thick
woollens could not counterbalance the
effect OF the plunge. in an ice-incrusted
ship. into the zeroish weather of New
York Bay. The voyagers left Rio per-
spring ainder 9s, and even at Barbados.
the last port touched by the liner, the
temperature was semi-tropical.
DIR. Dorfee Of New York Hospital who
was called to attend John Ryan. As, Of
III West 105th street, who died of heart
disease while riding on Broadway sur
face car, said the sudden cold in sharp
contrast with the recent mild weather,
induced the attack that killed Ryan. and
that sudden changes in weather were
likely to affect those subject to heart
trouble.
The early hours Of to-day. the
prophets said, would be not so cold as
yesterday. and the mercury which may
fall to 6, will rise in the afternoon higher
than 1t did yesterday. 1t is probable
that the wind will shift to north-north-
east. bringing snow. before the end Of
the day.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
BOHAN LOSES HIS SUIT
AGAINST EX-INSPECTOR
Don1inick Henry and Aids De-
feat SIS, 900 Action.

Former Police Inspector Dominick
Henry and Detectives John ]. Gunson
and John Maloney won the Supreme
Court action yesterday brought against
them by John Bohan. private watchman,
for $4,000 damages. lie charged them
with false arrest and malicious prosecu-
tion. asserting he had been beaten up"
by the police.
His arrest grew out OF a raid Henry
and his detectives made at 239 West
Slxty-ninth street. Bohan was suspected
OF having tipped off the proprietress of
the house before the police got there.
After being discharged by Magistrate
he brought civil action. The defendants
testified they acted in discharge Of their
official duty. and that there was no cvi-
dcnce that Bohan had been assa ulted by
any one while under arrest.
The Gaze was tried before Justice Tier
ney and a jury.
The New York herald., 1921-01-26
BANK LOANS HELD UP
FOR LABOR REFORMS
Clarence T. Kelsey Tells Con-
ferees Building Prices Must
Be Made Honest First.
DEMANDS GRAFTERS' ROUT
Hugh Frayne Protests Against
Bankers Attitude Toward
Union Workers.
DEMANDS GRAFTERS' ROUT

Though mortgage money is available
banks and loan Institutions will continue
to refrain from lending money for build
ing purposes until honest prices for ma
terials prevail and dishonest labor is
routed, Clarence T. Kelseya first vice
president OF the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company. declared yesterday to
group of general contractors. sub-con-
tractors. building material manufac'
turers and dealers, architects. engineers
and labor representatives.
The conferees met in the Engineering
Societies Building TO form a permanent
local body that will be part of che Ma
tional Congress of the Building and Con-
struction Industry. This is designed as
IAN gency for self-examination and re-
search TO the end that the industry
may be purged Of profteering and graft
and that all it's elements may work In
cooperation instead of competition
committee of two representatives fhom
each Of these elements was appointed to
perfect the local organization.
IT'S a bold man." Mr.. Kelsey SAID.
who will proceed with construction lnl-
til combinations of materials men are
disbanded and until real competition Ia
assured and labor comes to its Senses
The fundamental principles Of the labor
unions must be reformed. The more
employers pay to labor In dollars the
less they get in service. Labor must
take steps to get rid of the inefficient
worker in its ranks"
Mr.. Kelsey attacked the States erner-
gency rent laws as blocking housing
construction. He expressed the opinion
that they either will be repealed or dis
regarded within year. Hc said capital
,i.. hui ditac
and that there would be no difficulty In
obtaining it il materials prices become
fair and labor becomes honest.
Hugh F'rayne, general organizer OF the
American Federation of Labor. who was
one of the labor representatives present,
took objection to Mr.. Kelsey's attitude
toward labor. He said the bankers
lack OF knowledge of the labor prob
lens" was one of the strongest argu-
ments for permanent and nationwide
organization in the building trades to
study the needs of the industry and pro-
mote cooperation.
'If labor is getting too much pay,
doing too little work or is failing to do
it's full duty we should know of it, he
said "If not, labor cannot settle this
problem It must be the fault of the
management or the contractor. 1t is not
up to labor Wages are not too high.
In the past they were too low. and we
are not going back to the pre-war stand
ard"
Robert D. Kohn OF the reconstruction
committee of the American Institute Of
Architects. who presided. explained that
the building industry is suffering nation
ally from general disorganization and
loss OF morale
I'VE must find a new way of carrying
on" he said. ''The only means OF dis
covering that way is to get the entire
Industry together not to boost the in
dustry, but to find out what really is the
matter and why the industry is not
functioning. This we think the confer
ence will do"