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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-31

Charleston-The reduction Of the
annual tax levy Of Huntington from
S1.19 on the 500 valuation to about
93 cents, was requested by State Tan,
Commissioners Hallanan in a telegram
to the Huntington Board of Education.
sThe tax commissioner asked the Board
ito reconsider its action in regard to-
the levy, as a reduction is necessary
TO conform TO the policies of the state
and municipal governments
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-08-31

Huntington-The plant of the Su-
perior glass products company was
burned to the ground, entailing a loss
of $150,O00 about two-thirds of which
is covered by insurance.
The evening world., 1922-04-21

surrounded by the enemy and was
buried in an unmarked grave.E
Miss Knapp's counsel declare there
is no doubt of his death, that he was
seen lying on the ground ten days
sick from influenza by a comrade who
saw him taken away in a German
ambulance two days before his death
was reported.
Mason had served with the 23d
Regiment on the Mexican border. He
gave as his emergency address, when
lie went into the World War, the ad-
dress OF his fianccc. When he took
out Government insurance in her ia
vor he wrote her: $50, you see, you
would be pretty well fixed financially
II / dropped within the next five
years"
1t was carly on the morning of
Sept. 81, 1918, that Mason was seated
in dugout in an outpost trench with
Wcstgate, his "bunkie," according to
the latter's testimony before the Sur
rogate. Word was flashed down the
line that the division would advance.
that in few minutes the men would
go over the top. Mason turned and
toiu dpDut INV
ment and said he felt death was near.
"If I don't come through this he
said, "I want Lenore to have all my
estate"
Not long afterward Mason and
Loomis were cut off from their COM
rades and taken prisoners. Later
when Mason lay dying in the prison
camp, he called Looms and told him
the same thing he had told Westgate.
He was taken away to a German hos
! pital then and official news of his
dCath Oct. Is, 1918. came in IA letter
from the War Department to the
Knapp home Aug. ., 1921.
During the argument In court Miss
Knapp wept as the attorneys argued.
Surrogate Wingate said the death GER
tificate furnished by the Government
might not be sufficient in itself but
that there was sufficient proof in ad-
dition to the fact that Miss Knapp had
not heard from him in the three and
a half years that have elapsed since
his reported death
The evening world., 1922-04-21
WIDOW OF VICTIM
SP|TS CURSE At
SLAYER IN COURT
Italian Prisoner Cringes Under
Vengeance, but Takes SEN
tence Unmoved.

Mrs. vito Marciopc, garbcd in
widows woods, shot "A dramatic She'll
ian touch into the proceedings of
Judge Mclntyrc's part OF the Court
Of General Sessions to-day when she
walked up to DominiCk Galati, who
was standing before the Judges
bench awaiting sentence for the mur-
der of. her husband. spat three times
in his face and launched upon him
an Italian curse which made him
cringe. Gahti appeared to be more
affected by the curco than by the
subsequently pronounced sentence,
which was a term from ten to twenty
years in Sing Sing prison.
The dramatic nature of the incident
was rendered the more acute by the
fact that the evidence In the case es-
tablished that the murder grew out
of an attempt on the part of Galati
to protect Mrs. Mhrcion from yossible
injury at the hands of her husband,
who kept "A grocery store at No. 100
On Dec. 2, 1921, Mrs. Marcione,
while serving a customer. spilled some
sugar on the floor. Her husband
reprimanded her sharply. Her reply
angered him and in "a moment fam
lily row was In progress. Marcione
started for his wife threateningly and
Galati interfered.
The grocer kicked Galati out of the
store. Returning in a few minutes,
Galati shot Marcione, who died in a
few minutes.
A plea of guilty of manslaughter
in the first degree was accepted from
Galati. 2 AS Is customary in such
cases, the court summoned witnesses
who would have appeared in the trial
to question them, and among the wit
nesses was Mrs. Marcionc.
Tcarfully and vehemently she as
surcd Judge Mcintyre that her hus-
band was n good and kindly man;
she was not afraid of him; Galat
had no right to interfere: her husband
was wantonly slain. And when she
had finished talking to the court she
took her vengeance.
The evening world., 1922-04-21
"All for Lenore," Mason Said,
Going Over Top, and Later
in Prison Camp.

Hearings in the novel will contest
over the estate of Ernest Charlton
Mason, former member of the 108th
Infantry. the old z3rd OF Brooklyn,
will be resumed on May 16, Surrogate
Wingate decided to-day. Mason's es-
tate was disposed of by him through
verbal instructions given a buddy
in a German prison camp. He di-
rected that all his possessions
amounting to some $4,000 in cash,
and real estate holdings in the West,
should go to his sweetheart. Lenore
r., Knapp, a pretty brunette stem
ographer, OF No. 2O29 Ryor Avenue
the Bronx.
Miss Knapp's efforts to carry out
her fiance's instructions are being
contested, by his uncle, Henry j. Ma
son, wealthy silk merchant. Mason
claims there is no proof of the death
of his nephew and further contends
that the verbal will is not legal.
information of Mason's verbal
will" came to Miss Knapp from the
lips Of a buddy" who had been cap.
tured with him during the terrific
ssauit OF the New York Division OF
the National Guard on the HInden e
burg line in September. 1918. 1t is
verified by another conlrade who was
also taken prisoner. This man told
Surrogate Wingate a graphic story
OF his experiences In the Brooklyn
Surrogates Court yesterday.
ERNEST and l were engaged TO be
married" said Miss Knapp. I'VE set
tied that in September, 1917. When
the division started to move out of
| Spartanburg he thought they'd stop
at New York long enough for him to
come home, and we planned u hasty
| wedding.
IL am sure he relied on our being
able to carry out our plans, and thus
did not write out a will. But he made
his wishes clear TO his comrades. He
and Oscar l.. Westgate were insepara-
| BILE. He told Oscar just before the
drive that he felt something might
happen to him. He asked Oscar to
see to 1t that his property and posses
sions went, to me. He lates made the
same request OF Joseph Loomis, an
other member OF his company, who
was captured with him. l do not see
why his uncle contests IL, when it waA
Ernest's dying wish
| The War Department has listed
Mason as being dead. although no
trace can be found Of his grave. His
two "buddies" testified that he was
removed from the Prison Camp. dyinG
from influenza
Attorneys for the contestant con
tend that the certificate OF death is
sued by the United States Govern
ment is not sufficient under the stat
ute Of New York, TO prove that Ma
son is dead and that seven year.
must elapse before death can be as,
sumed They held that II he died
ne died IN q German prisaR hospiIa
The evening world., 1922-04-21
JUDGE made SICK
BY FILTHY HARLEM
FLATSSTOPSRENT
He and Court Officer Over
come When Inspecting
{ 20-Family Tenement.
ROOF ONLY IS CLEAN.
Menace to Health of Neigilbors
as Well as Tenants,
He Says.

Declaring conditions in a twenty
family tenement at No. 14S East 121st
Street were so filthy they made him
and an oficer OF the court sick, Justice
william Blau in the Eighth District
Municipal Court to-day advised the
tenants not to pay their rent to the
Aiger Realty Company, of which
Helen Fuld is President, but TO de-
positNit with the clerk of the court,
to be held until conditions are i'm
proved.
The only clean spot in the house,
the Justice said, was the roof, which
is swept by the wind.
The Aiger Realty Company has pre-
viously been in court for various
housing violations. few days ago
they summoned to court tenants at
the East 121st Street house for failure
to pay their rent The tenants said
conditions at the house were unsani-
tary and therefore they had not paid.
Justice Blau declared he would in
spect the premises, accompanied by a
court officer, and then would an =
nounce his decision.
I'm all my experience as Justice,
have never seem such an unspeak-
able place to live in" he said in
court to-day. How men, women and
children can live in such house, and
survive is beyond me"
Both he and the court officer, the
Justice said, were made i'll by their
visit to the place, and the court off,
Ger was unable to report for duty
after the experience. The Justice
continued:
IT have been in places where cattle
sleep with human beings, but never
before have I seen such a filthy place.
It beggars description.
ut is not only a menace to the
health and lives of the tenants, but
10 the people of the immediate COM
munity.
"In one apartment found a woman
lying sick in bed. made i'll by the CON
ditions which exist in that house
When the dumbwaiter door Is opened
the stencil is sufficient to overcome
any healthy person. There is not
even cold water in the apartments:
plaster hanging from all the ceilings;
wall paper Is filthy and dirty.
The evening world., 1922-04-21
PARROT SETS FIRE
TO S. |. HOUSE
Left Alone, Plays With Matches
and Blaze Is Seen by
Neighbors.

Instead OF the usual child setting
the house afire with matches, n
parrot performed the age-old opera
tion on Staten Island just before noon
to-day. Incidentally, it almost killed
the parrot.
The bird, belonging TO Mrs. George
Goess of No. l59 Franklin Avenue,
New Brighton, had been left on the
kitchen washtubs while she went out
shopping. Shortly afterward neigh
bors saw smoke coming from the rear
of the house and, failing to gain an
entrance, turned in an alarm which
brought the Fire Departments of New
Brighton and West New Brighton.
When they broke into the kitchen,
which was all ablaze, the parrot was
lying in the cage almost overcome.
IT revived after being taken out. The
fire did about $500 damage to the
house.
The evening world., 1922-04-21
DENTIST HAD DIARY.
OF MARTIAL ACTS
DESERTED HIS WIFE.
Gambled Away at Craps si5-
500 of Her Money, but Gave
Her Note, He Admits. af

When the trial OF the annulmeut
suit of Mrs. Blanche Rettenberg
against her husband. Or. Bernard
Rettenberg, a dentist OF No. 2050
Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. upon
the ground he had deceived her as TO
his wealth and gambled away Ss5. coo
he had borrowed from her was re-
sumcd to-day before supreme Court
Justice Morschauscr at White Plains,
a diary written by the dentist cover
ing his marital experiences was off,
fered in evidence by the defendant.
In the diary the dentist had written
at the head of ono of the pages DIARY
of Marital Acts" ras
DIR. Rettenberg, who lives at NO.
rs West 10th Street. Manhattau,
wrote on Aug. 3, 1919: blanche in4
formed me her father was million-f
airc and would arrange for n divorce
when desired In order to refute
the charge of his wife that he waa
not ian honest man and OF moral
standing" the defendant called sew
eral character witnesses One of these
was DR.; Milton b. Shafer, a New
York dentist, who said the reputation
of Rettenberg was excellent. FoSs
II consider him honest and of good
moral character said Or. Shafer. -
And you say this despite the fact
that Rettenbcrg gamblcd away $2s,5oo
OF borrowed money on July i2, 1890,
and left his wife for good on that
date" iEH-
IL do" said the witness. Foc1
Lee Parsons Davis, as attorney for
Mrs. Rottenberg, who Is the daughtee
of Henry Il. Dejongh, millionaire head
of a chain of New York lunch rooms,
had Dr. Rettenbcrg write comnariso
of his handwriting on a sheet of paper
to show he changed his handwriting. ,
"Did you have more than 50, 900 Of
your wffes money when you went to,
Mount Kisco and lost 1t In crap
game?" Rettenberg was asked by Mr..
Davis, sqsi
~ had $23.500, 1t was all my money.
My wife had loaned me SIS, 500, gave
note for 1t, the money was mine.ss.sr
he replied. Ga,.
Rettenberg said that as he had
given his wife a note she could get
a judgment against him. fgE'
In rigid cross examination the
attorney for the plaintiff sought, TO
make Rettenberg admit that he did
| not, after all. gamble the full $25 900.
but still has II in his possession, or
the greater part Of II. DR.. Retten-
berg denied this. 81
The evening world., 1922-04-21
TEST MACHINE GUN
FOR EXPRESS CARS
Will Spray l8-Foot Radius of
Shot From Trucks Carry
ing NaluableS.

President c. w. Stockton and other
officials of the American Railway Ex-
press witnessed at Police Headquar-
ters to-day a demonstration of a new
type OF machine gun which the com
pany contemplates installing in it's
already armed trucks which convey
valuable packages.
The gun, which may he fired either
from the shoulder, hip or from a
mounting, uses steel -jacketed bullets
or birdshot. The latter was suggest
ed for the company's purposes, as at
so feet the shot spread over an area
of IS feet and is guaranteed to bring
down the man aimed at without kill
ing him. Bystanders could receive
only slight flesh wounds. it is said.
The demonstration was made by gun
!Smpany officials and Patrolman
Charles Wash, who is in charge of
the pistol range at Headquarters.
The evening world., 1922-04-21
TWO NEW COLORS
ARE CHOSEN FOR
SPRING MILLINERY

Pebble and Killarney are
the new colors finally Sc
lected for special attention in
the retail openings during the
week OF May s. The Metro
politan Display Mems Club
yesterday decided to build all
its schemes around these col
ors, leaving the dozen selected
by the Textile Color Card As
ISOLATION and mentioned in this
column some days ago, in sec
ond place.
The millinery men will lead
the color drive, and retailers
throughout the country viii be
furnished with color schemes
for displays along lines sim
liar to those used in New
York,
The evening world., 1922-04-21
HOTEL GUESTS ROUTED
BY HEMPSTEAD FIRE

Fire which early to-day destroyed a
barn OF the Liebmann Brewing Com
pany, in the heart of the business sec
ton of Hampstead, L, IL. caused damage
estimated at 100000 and for a time
threatened destruction OF the old Hew-
lett Hotel. A high wind carried sparks
over houses in the residential district.
and the Fire Departments of Garden
city. West Hampstead and South Hemp
stead were called.
The Hewlett Hotel was slightly dam
aged when ne roof took fire. Guests
On 70 the street In night attire.
The evening world., 1922-04-21
TRAIN ROBBER SHOT
IN DUEL WITH COPS
One OF Five Looting Car In West
shore Yards Hit-All Escape.

More than twenty shots were ex-
changed between five train robbers and
West shore Railroad detectives to-day
in the yards at the foot OF 18th Street.
Hoboken. The robbers we're caught
lootlng "a frelghs car. Tho police believe
one OF them was wounded.
The five had boarded the train I'm
the yards. and at 18th Street they.pulled
the air brakes. forced opened the door
of the car and began to throw cases
on the ground. -Four had been pitched
out when the detc ctivcs appeared.
A score OF shots wero exchtnged be-
fore the robbers started to run. The
detectives followed. firing as they ran,
for nearly half mile. The men dis
appeared over a hill,
The evening world., 1922-04-21
2 KILLED, a HURT
IN FALL OF ARCH
Huge Brick Kiln Under Construc-
tion at Metuchen, N. j.,
BurieS Workmen.

Two men were killed, one is be-
lieved to be dying and three others
were severely injured when a brick
arch in a huge brick kiln under con-
struction at the plant OF the General
Ceramics Company at Metuchen, N.
j., collapsed, yesterday afternoon,
burying number OF workmen.
Thomas Tobiason, No. 16 kerlyn
Court, and Henry Munson, No. All
Morris Avenue, both of Elizabeth,
died in the Perth Amboy City Hos
pital.
The injured, who were still in the
hospital this morning, are:
James Smith, No. IL Wcstcott
Place, Elizabeth; Patrick Bradley, No.
lO7 Broad Street, Perth Amboy;
stephen McIntyre, No. 220 Marshall
street, Elizabeth. and Ernest Schu-
man, No. 3s5 Park Avenue, Perth
Ampoy. Smiths condition is serious.
The kiln was about thirty feet high
and contained sixteen large compart-
ments. The men had finished nine of
he compartments and were working
On the tenth when the arch collapsed
The evening world., 1922-04-21
BY Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

tNVTE SHALL always have crime pocketbook,
~ person. will always be the the criminal class
Until reform from to bottom the administration
Of law which the individual
of society" .....-..
This conclusion been reached who studied
lifetime the relation between society the individual who
recognized authority in his chosen field NJ
Binder Phi d. head the Department Sociology
The evening world., 1922-04-21

The Shattuck robbery, which
still remains at the crest of our
local wave of crime, took place
not more than a stones throw
from DR.. Binders office at the
University in Washington Square.
We spoke OF that extraordinary
incident, and of others almost
equally sensational, before /
asked this keen and experienced
observer of modern conditions to
discuss the causes and the cure
for the outbreak of lawlessness
about which all New Yorkers are
talking and fuming today.
These are DR.. Binders chief
points:
Our law itself is a basic reason
for our lawlessness.
Before Prohibition, the Ameri-
can people were in the main a
abiding people, but now their
whole psychology is in process OF
change.
The administration OF our law
protects the criminal at the OK
pense of society.
Most criminals are physically,
mentally and morally below par,
and society should protect itself
permanently against them as it
now protects itself against the
insane.
More than any one factor in
crime waves, ! blame the tangled
up confusion, the slipshod admin
istration, OF our laws" began DR..
Binder. 1T has been estimated
that, in the last few years, no
less than $1,000 Federal State
and local laws have been passed
in this country. The honest man
cannot tell whether he is break
ing the law or not. The crook
can always hire a clever lawyer
to show him how to get around
the law; or, IL he breaks one, how
to find another that protects
him.
mot only do we pass a surplus
of asinine new regulations, against
personal habits instead OF crime,
but we never can lose a bad law,
no matter how old and out OF
date 1t has grown. You remem-
Der the other day, in England, II
was argued that a woman was
innocent of a certain offense be-
cause, according TO a ruling by
King Canute, no married woman
has mind enough to commit a
crlme-she must be directed how
to do it by her husband. 1t is
absurd-yet no more absurd than
other legal practices dating from
the Fifth and Sixth Centuries and
still ruling us. in the Twentieth
Century.
America, especially, suffers
from a mania of law-making. l
do not think there is anything
like 1t in any other country. A
few OF us see an evil. we pass a
law against it. then we go on our
way rejoicing that the evil is
ended. We seem to think that
the mere act of making is
enough. that laws enforce them
selves"
DIR. Binder paused a moment,
and his brown eyes twinkled.
Let me give you an instance
of our national psychology" he
said. Several years ago. there
was a certain convention OF
women's clubs in Pittsburgh
After discussing with some fervoi
the oppression to which woman
is subject. these ladies'. in all
seriousness and good faith. passed
the following resolution: RE.
solved. that drudgery be abol'
ished.'
"Appreclating the humor Of tn,
incident. Irepeated it to my clasI
The evening world., 1922-04-21
THREE SUDDEN DEATHS IN MAN
HAITIAN.

Three sudden deaths In Manhattan
were reported to the Medical Examiner
by the police to-day Garcia Winkler,
forty No. 3i6 East 50th Streer died
suddenly while visiting at No. iol East
4Stn street JOSEPH Doyle fiity- five.
address unknown. Gicd suddenly in
front OF No 50 East l2ith Street und
an unidentified man Gied suddenly on
the elevated station at 18th Street and
Third AYenuA
The evening world., 1922-04-21
DOYLE TO SHOW
PHOTO OF SOUL
LEAVING BODY
Promises to Exhibit Picture OF
Astral Form Departing
at Death.

Hotldi IOIlll DCpdi tiiIS
at Death.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will
deliver his third lecture, IRE
cent Psychic Evidence" at
Carnegie Hall this evening at
$50 O'Clock. He promises to
throw on a screen what he
considers to be the most re-
markable psychic photographs
ever produced.
One of these photographs
all of which. he explains, were
taken under the strictest scieh-
tific conditions-wilI show the
astral form leaving a human
body at the moment of death.
He also will show photo
graphs of the mysterious ecto-
plasm, which is supposed by
some Investigators to be the
basis of the materialized forms
seen at seances,
The evening world., 1922-04-21
ONE BELOW FREEZING,
NOT AN APRIL RECORD
No More Cold Weather In slight
Warmer Week End.

The temperature was one degree be-
low freezing at o'clock this morning.
It also touched this figure. 81 degrees.
during the night. Although this sounds
cold. In April. 1874. the thermometers
OF the Weather Bureau registered 20
degrees. In April of the following year
the cold went to 20 degrees.
Bat the weather man said thls morn
ing that there was no more cold
weather in sight. 1t will be cloudy to-
night, with little change In tempera-
tlge from what it was last night. and
tomorrow afternoon II will be warmer.
The storm from the West that was
promised New Workers. went on its way
elsewhere yesterday.
The evening world., 1922-04-21

here at the University, to illus
trate the very point which / have
been discussing with you. Hard
ly had l finished the little story
when one of my most brilliant
girl pupils arose and commented.
as seriously as the dear ladies in
Pittsburgh. Thank eaven.
they've got that far anyway
I'VE need to clarity. simplify
and cut down the number of our
laws, as a first step to protecting
society against the criminal" he
summed up. IF we are to enforce
any Of them, we should repeal
those we cannot or ought not to
enforce"
The evening world., 1922-04-21

"NOt only do We pass
n surplus of asinlne
new laws, but we
never can lose q bad
old law"
The evening world., 1922-04-21
First 'Ref0rn, the LdlU,
Prof. Binder Suggests, and
Check the LuU Brenkilq

Head of N. Y. U. Department of Sociology
Says We Have Too Many Laws That Can
not Be Enforced-Craze for Law Making, as
Evidenced by the Prohibition Law, Is Chang
ing the Psychology of the American People.