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Faces NeuC Hdndicaps
Blazing Jungle Trails

Blazing trails through junglcs,
climbing mountains, crossing raging
streams and rapids; in general, con-
Quoting extensive exploration and
investigation of tho natural re-
sources of South America, the for
mer Senator has been working hard
under greater difficulties and handi-
caps than he has ever faced before.
When not invading virgin forests,
canoeing on alligator-infestcd waters
and fighting malaria breeding mos
quitoes, he has been searching for
mine locations and scaling the steep
sides of perpetually snow-capped
mountains. In addition to these he
has had to find time to meet the
legal requirements and official red
tape of the countries in which he
sought options on property and gov
ernmental concessions for the Amer
ican interests he represented,
Above the grizzly beard he wears
heavy spectacles to protect his afflicted
eyes. He emerged recently from II siege
Of malaria, greatly weakened but with
no other noticeable effects.
Physicians in Bogota and other South
American cities he visited in tho course
Of his duties say he is completely rid
Of the malaria. But. according to the
engineers working with him, all the
doctors plainly told him that unless his
eyes were attended to Immediately and
the operation for cataracts performed
promptly he was in peril of losing his
sight.
Mule riding is one of the principal
means of travel in the interior OF Co
lombia, and Lorimer, with his party of
engineers. Indians and native whites.
has goodly share of that mode OF
travel. 1t requires continuous practice
before it ceases to be a hardS
Eugene Underwood, an frican
mining and construction co..s
brother of Senator Oscar u az %
three engineers and two iILNNN
comp{kse Lorimcr's immediat,So9
its explorations Of the depar ,mens~
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lican and Democratic elements. he was
still power to be feared in a crisis.
The man who had made and uhmade
Governors. who had controlled iass-
lation and State elections. couli not
be dcposed in n day. The turned clown
thumbs Of the United States Senate
could not disrupt the organization of u
lifetime.
One OF tho greatest sctbacks I.orimcr
ever received. according to politicians.
was when Theodore Roosevelt. invited
to attend a banquet at the Hamilton
club. in Chicago. in 1910. notified the
committee in charge that he would at.
tend only on the condition that Boss
Lorimer would not be present The
affair was given great publicity and
Lorimcr, warned by fellow cluL mcm-
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wreck the bank, was sentenced "a y,
years Imprisonment. while rn,,s.s
still kept up his fight. Judge n.,..
finally granted the preliminary mc.,'s
of the defense that the major chs,s
against Lorimer Of conspiracy to ~
fraud be consolidated with the min.
charge of receiving deposits after -.
banks insolvency became known ana y
operating a confidence game. res,,lt,r.
from alleged Misrepresentation Of ~.
institutions assets. The State made =.
objection to the consolidation.
More than two hundred venir.m.,
were cross examined before a Jury 49,.
selected Many of them stated a.
thought "Lorimer should be run on wv
town on general principles. 0tb.wvs ~
admitted that the influence Of othss
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knOlCn in Congress as
Packers Representative

During Lorimer's twelve years IN
Congress he became known as "the
representative of the meat packers"
his most conspicuous fight being that
to introduce legislation favorable to the
manufacture and sale Of substitutes for
butter. lie also was an ardent supporter
for the plan to build deep waterway
from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of
Mexico. and he led the fight which OBJ
tnined the first Federal appropriation
for a preliminary survey and estimate
of the cost for the proposed improve.
ment.
Lorin.cr married Susan X. Mooney,
and seven children, two sons and five
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told. the larger boy disappeared and in
few moments returned with the stolen
papers and started the young merchant
once more on his way. The older boy
was Mike McKenna, later alderman
and saloon proprietor. but an everlast-
ing friend of "Billy" Lorimer, who,
although far superior in station and po-
litical influence. never fought against
Mckcnna in the lattcr's precincts.
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Ascribed Banks Collapse
to Newspaper Reports

At the trial in his own defense l'or,.
inner charged the newspaper reports o.
his trouble in the Senate with being
the cause of the banks downfall. al
though it was also testified that during
| the Washington investigation the Sen
ator had forbidden his stenographer 70
give out to the newspapermen any.
inkling of what had gone on in the
committee room. To such an extent
was this secrecy carried, it was test'
ned. that even Senators making tue
investigation were permitted to nave
only such parts of his speeches as those
in which their own names appeared
1t was also brought out by witnesses
that Munday, without authority, had
signed Lorimer's name to checks per-
mittng the use of the banks fund.-:
l.orilner, it was said, knew nothing
such transactions.
At the conclusion of the sensatl0ni,
trial LOrimer was acquitted OF w
charges. although the majority Of hS
associates did not get off SO Fortunately.
But his financial ruin was complex.
Like other depOsed monarchs. he tooI
to saving wood, with the disastrous re-
suits chrOnicled above.
just what sincerity was in his pea
that he had come to the time OF atone
ment, few Chicagoans We're able to say.
Some of them were inclined to belleve
that the apparently indomitable splrll
of the old "bOss" would bring hin
through in the end. He obtained tne
position as representative in Soutl
America of some of the great tinancis'
interests of the country. 1t was 60.
ing concern with much capital for tns
development of the rich regions OF sew
cral countries. Thus started the eA,
ploratiOns which have seemingly endec,
In another impassse for blond hiil
The question now agitating Chlcaso
is whether the latest moves OF NV
sagacious political boss are based on
sincerity or whether they are Just an.
her of the grand stand plays lo'
which he was famous in his more pow
erful days. VIII successful opera,
ton Gn the eyes cause him to staIs
once more on his journeyings through
the South American businesses to H.
deem his million dollar pledge to nIs
former dcpOsitors? Or will Nature, loD.
go back on him during his final strngsN
and bring low for all time the poh.,o
clan who fought his way to the 10Y
over the political bodies. of his aaye.,
saries only to be thrown down by tn'''
in the end? c.,.
And asking herself that question'En.
cag0 today sits back. wishes neS
Bill' Lorimer the best luck IN ,"'
world, and says, "Well, we'll see
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DiSgraced L. s. Senator and President
of Bank That Collapsed Struggles to
"Come Back at 81 and PAY Every
Dollar Lost by Former Debository
STRICKEN WITH N14L.4RIA
WITH C.4TARACTS ON EYES
BRATES COLOMBIA VII DS
Former Neavsboy, BootbIack, Politician
and FInancier Returns to Chicago for
Treatment Atier Experiences Thrill
ing as an Arabian Night's Tale

IlLOND BILL LORIMER is still trying con-
He blind threatened with
blast dollar
Yet United
hootback,
thrilling wlds
where he of
and his fortunes
forHcr has had 4
political influence
States be
bribery
his
adopted city.
the
of his
and boobak Chcago
mothe and her large
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tnldra> Boyaca. Cudinamarca and
Tulima
Aside from them. hc is accompanied
hy Indians and nAtivc white poems act
Ing a> guides and helpers. They carry
the canoos over portagcs. the tents. the
food supplies and tn" prospecting equip
mCni.
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banking interests said to be opposed to
the Lorimer- Munday combination might
have a bearing on their verdict as they
had accounts at the banks of the Other
group. In the interim Lorimer wis
released in S15, 900 bail.
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before II Ceases 70 De n hardl
Eugene Underwood, an
mining and construction
brother of Senator Oscar L
three engineers and two i
,compltse Lorincr's immediat
its explorations Of the depal
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New York County
New York City.
CasweIl Motor Co.,

CasweII Motor Co.,
651 w. f2Jth ST.. ". Y. G.
Tel. Morningside iT07.
Downtown Sales Co.. Inc.
% Lafayette ST., ~. Y. G.
Tel. Franklin IA.
VIM. Kraus Garage Corr.
10th 81. and Central Park
West. n Y. City.
Tel. Academy 1889.
Fuller Luce. Inc,
1876 Broadway.
Picard Motor sales Co.. Inc,
1859 broadway. n. Y. City.
Tel. Circle 1918.
Riverside Motor sales. Inc.
f5sth 81. and Riverside
Drive, ~. v. City.
Tel. Audubon 6212.
Schariin Bros.
156 I'd Ave. ". y. City.
Tel. Gramcrcy 201O.
John =. Smith.
seth 81. and iftb Ave.
~. Y. City.
Tel. LonEacre $50.
watson Auto sales Corp.
J063 broadway. ". Y. City.
Tel. Wadsworth s6is.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
FATHER kIDNAPS HIS
BOY IN MAMARONECk
Whisks Him From Front of
School; Mother Gets Aid.

Mrs. Christian II. Davidson of 10 High
view avenue, MamaronecS. reported to
the police there yesterday that her hus-
band, formerly a grain merchant of
Kansas City, had kidnapped their 4
year-old son, Albert, from in front Of
the Mamaroneck avenue school. When
last seen, she said. the boy and his
father were in an automobile going
towar,. the Connecticut State line.
Mrs. Davidson has been separated
from her husband for some time and
with her son has been living with her
father, Albert Oliver. presidend OF Al
bert Oliver 6 Son, Inc, manufacturers
of concrete reinforcements, l East
Seventh street. Mrs. Oliver said that
her daughter had not been legally sepa-
rated from her husband and that She
did not know why Davidson had taken
the child. He had not seen the boy in
several months.
Margaret Merole. daughter of n
Mamaroneck policema1, was talking to
Albert Davidson when. it wa ssaid. the
boys father came up in an automobile
and persuaded the child TO enter the
car. The Mamaroneck police have. sent
out n general alar mthrough West
chester county and asked the aid of the
police in Connecticut.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
NEW GIRL WITNESS
MAY CLEAR RICHARD
Chum of Promoters Accusers
Neither Saw Nor Heard of
Improprieties.

Tex Rickard. boxing promoter and
appear in the West Side Magistrates
court this afternoon to answer the
charges made in behalf of Alice Rucll,
15, of 225 East Twenty-fifth street by
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children.
The name of a new witness in the
case was announced yesterday by Vim
cent Pissara, superintendent of the So
ciety. She is Mary Horbbeth, IL. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Horbbeth,
241 East Twenty-ffth street. This girl,
according to Mr.. Pissara, was with
Elvira Renzi, also II. one of the other
witnesses in the case, when Elvira is
alleged to have told RiclSard of the
plight of the Rucl girl and her chum,
Anna Hess.
The Horbbeth girl is known to have
been a chum of the other three girls in
the case. She frequently accompanied
them to the swimming pool in Madison
Square Garden conducted by Rickard
last summer. She was questioned yes
terday by Assistant District Attorney
Richard III. Gibbs and then sent TO the
rooms of the Children's Society pending
the hearing of the charges to-day.
her story was SalQ not TO De UanaS-
ing to the boxing promoter. She is
understood to have told the Assistant
District Attorney that while she visited
Madison Square Garden tower in COM
pany with the other girls Rickard never
had exhibited any undue familiarity
toward any of them in her presence.
She also said she never had heard either
Of the other three girls say that Rickard
had acted in any improper way.
On one ion. the Horbbeth girl
told Mr.. Pissara, when she went to the
Garden tower with the Renzie girl the
Hess girl and the Ruck girl were in
another room with Rickard. She opened
the door to tell the others that she was
going home and said that RiclSard was
sitting on q table in the center of the
room, while the Hess and Ruck girls were
sitting beside each other some distance
from him.
Both Richard and his counsel. Max d.
Steuer, maintained their policy of
silence and declined yesterday to discuss
the case in advance of the court hear
ing. The charges against Rickard were
not referred to at the regular meeting
of the State Athletic Commission yes
terday. Chairman William Muldoon hold
ing they were not a matter for discus
sion at this time. ..
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
LANDLORD GUILTY IN GAMING

In charging the Essex County Grand
Jury at Newark yesterday, County
Judge Fred G. Stickel said that the
owner of building who knowingly per-
mitted it to be used as a gambling
house was as much a violator of the
law as the persons who operated the
resort. The jury w i'll have to investi-
gate the recent raid on a house in
South Orange avenue, Newark. where
1875 men were arrested and large guam
tlty OF gambling paraphernalia and
liquors confiscated.
Judge Stickel told the jurymen that il
they felt the proper evidence had been
presented to show the owners OF the
building knew IL was being operated as
a resort they will in duty bound to find
indictments against them.
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the way Of making synthetic gold ac-
cording to latest atomic theories. How
-ey.er. he believes the process would cost
much more than the gold is worth.
Gold From the Sea.
The effort to extract gold from the
SEA was made by Herr Saemsch, Prus-
sian Minister OF Finance, in the last
year of the world war. These efforts
were made under the direction of the
Silver Bureau in Frankfort. EVERY
cubic meter of sea water. so scientists
have declared contains half a milligram
of gold, and they assert that various
waters of the world conceal enough gold
to upset the gold monetary system tests.
Herr Saemsch told THE NEW YORK
HERALD correspondent here that he had
proved gold could be extracted from the
sea.
The tests ordered by Herr Saemsch
showed that the waters of the North
Sea were much more impure than those
of other oceans, and consequently the
process was more difficult. In all cases,
he declared, the process was too expen-
sive to be profitable. He said he under
took the experiment because he wished
to obtain gold guarantee for the Ger
man paper mark
made of other gold resources at Ger
many's disposal. 1t was brought to
light that virtually all German rivers
contain some gold. From the Rhine
above Karlsruhe gold was panned fifty
years ago, while the Romans coined gold
that had been obtained with the aid of
a pickax from a small tributary of the
Weser. But the cost of this gold also
was too great and the quantity of gold
to be obtained in this way too small to
inuence Germanys financial position.
Since Prof. Fishers first statement
that German had succeeded in making
gold, he has been inundated with letters.
He also has been offered chance to get
rich quick through an Italian invention
to make gold extract containing per
cent. of gold derived from sea salt taken
from the ocean on the Gold Coast of
Africa.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25

Thinking Of Juying an automobile! or
selling on exchanging your old ones You
oct qaick action 10 Thc Automobile En.
ohonDc--Wont Ad. Section Of THE
NEW YORk HEpHLD.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
SCHOOL SHOWS 'PEPPY'JOKES
COST PROFESSOR HIS JOB
Burlington N j.. Parents Shocked When Teacher Adds
Bit of Jazz to What He Called Slow
Performance by Students.

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
BURLINGTON, n. j., Jan. 24.-Tnomas
w. Smith of Harrisburg. Pa, teacher of
physical education and science in the
high school here. was dismissed by the
Board of Education to-day because dur
ing an entertainment given by the boys
of the school last Friday night he in
.troduced a number of Jokes that the
audience and his fellow teachers con-
sidered indecent.
Vann II. Smith, Supervising Principal
of the City Schools. issued an order to-
day dropping Smith from the rolls. and
his action was Immediately indorsed by
the Board of Education.
The High School boys gave two per-
formances of their entertainment last
Friday in the Guild House of St. Mary's
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Protestant Episcopal Church. and Smith
introduced the jokes because the first
performance, to his mind. was slow and
needed popping up" That night he
peped it H. The audience was made up
OF boys and girls of the school and their
arents, and the fathers and mothers be-
came more and more indignant when
Smith began introducing the alleged
laughable features into the action OF
the show.
Several times other teachers in the
school told him TO stop as he would get
into trouble. but Smith replied. it is
said, that the show was dead and mad
to have some jazz injected into 1t. The
next morning an avalanche of COM
plants reached the offices of the prin-
cipal and 10 the Board of Education, and
Smiths dismissal followed.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25


Copyright, 1899, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, Jan. "a.
The final chapter of the quest of
Prof. Irving Fisher Of Yale for syn
thetic gold was written to-day when
the economist gave out a statement
acknowledging that his information
that German had succeeded in max
ing synthetic gold might not be trust
worthy. He then said he had learned
that the alleged inventor was a fraud
and man with prison record.
Prof. Fisher, it appears, visited the
alleged inventor, who offered to give
demonstration, and said that the
cost of producing a certain amount of
gold was only 10 per cent. more than
the cost of an equal weight of silver.
He said he extracted it from mercury
in an electric vacuum furnace of his
invention in which an extraordinarily
high temperature was obtainable.
Inventor States Claims.
as long ago as 1917, but it seems he
uses his apparatus also for several
other important processes, from which
he has become wealthy. Why the in
ventor had not gone in for the manufac-
ture Of gold on a commercial basis Prof.
Fisher declined to say. II am bound
rot to reveal what has been told me in
confidence" said Prof Fisher, who in
a. prepared statement outlined the sit
uation as follows:
II am surprised that my first state
ment on the possibility of making syn
thetic gold should have caused so much
comment. ! simply said that a gentle
man, who to the best of my knowledge
i3 reliable and sincere, had told me that
he believed this feat had been accom-
plished and that he knew personally the
man who had accomplished it. I have
met the man and talked with him.
"He said that in 1917 he had sub
mitted samples of gold which he is al
legged to have made to the Reichsoank
and that they had found it to be real
gold. In a talk with President Haven
stein of the ReichsbanlS ! learned that
this was correct. though Herr Haven
stein had no proof that the gold was
artificial.
'But distinguished German scientist
just tells me that the man is fraud
and has a prison record. My friend,
who originally gave me the information,
had known the alleged inventor for
years and assured me that the one thing
he was sure of was that the man was
not fraud, however mistaken he might
be about his supposed invention. l am
now disposed to believe that my friend
was mistaken"
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
COLLEGE SKIER IS KILLED.

SCHENECTADY. Jan. 24.-Harold Lewis
Turner, 20, freshman in Union College.
was killed to-day while skiing in Rotter-
dam. Coming down a steep incline, the
pole which he carried caught in the
snow in front OF him and the other end
struck him in the abdomen. Turner lived
in Batavia.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
THIRTY YEARS A PRIEST.

The Rev. Patrick II. Drain, who sue
ceeded the Rev. Joseph Il. F'lannery IN
May, 1915, as rector of st. Veronica's
Roman Catholic Church, Christopher
street. observed yesterday the thirtieth
anniversary of his ordination to the
prieSthOod
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
Kings County, BrookIyn)

Ashley Motor sales Co.,
2 Ocean Parkway,
Brooklyn. N. V.
Tel. South $3.50.
Curth Auto sales Co.,
Broadway and Saratoga Az. ,
Tel. Bushwick 1864.
Brooklyn. ". Y.
y. y. Hart.
1868 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Decatur 40.
Hohsrst-Haff. Inc.
$50 18th ST.. Brooklyn.
Tel. South 1902.
Jos. 4. Haas Motors. Inc.
Bedford Ave. and Eastern
Parkway, Brooklyn.
Tel. Prospect 500.
r. II. keIsay Auto Sales Co.
2s62 w. sth ST..
Coney Island.
Tel. Coney Island $50.
Ia-ky Motor Car Corp.
- Montrosc Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Stays So.
lyrsEb & Magee.
e3s Bergen ST., Brooklyn
Tel. Prospect 52cO.
NacRobcrts Auto Co.. Inc.
2i6i Bedford Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Flatbush 1875.
Morris Auto Co.,
1926 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn.
Tel. Fiatbush $500.
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Macdonald Auto Sales
Kings Highway and Coney
Island Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Wildwood 1893.
Mahnud Auto Sales Co., Inc,
9th ST. and 4th Ave.
brooklyn.
Tel. Sunset JT5i.
Ormonde Garage.
90J Lorlmer ST., Brooklyn.
Tel. Grecnpoint 50.
Reliable Service Auto Co.,
Inc,
1TT5 Pttkin Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Glenmore 5000.
Iidgewood Auto Co.. Inc.
2i3i Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn.
Tel. Evergreen %.
RoeblinE street Quick Service
Garage, Inc,
341 Rocbling ST.. Brooklyn.
rel. Williamsburg 1891.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
Use SLOAN'S TO
WARD OFF PAIN

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unless warded off by an applica-
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Gprains and strains won't fight long
against Sloan's Lininent.
Always keep it handy for instant use.
For more than forty years, Sioan's
Liniment. has helped thousands the
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tion. 1t certainly does produce results.
You just know from it's stimulating,
healthy odor that it will do you good.
Ask your neighbor.
At all druggists-35c. 7Oc. 81 40.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
PROF. FISHER DOUBTS
GOLD HAS BEEN MADE
Talked With Man Claiming
to Have Extracted 1t
From Mercury.
BANK RECEIVED SOME
Later Was Told Man Was
Fraud and Had a Prison
Record.
TAKEN FROM SEA WATER
This Process Possible, He Says,
but Too Expensive to Be
Profitable.
BY RAYMOND SWING.

Special Cable TO THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, Jan. "a.
The New York herald., 1922-01-25
Might Destroy Gold standard.

Prof. Fisher also referred to an at
tempt which the Germans had made to
extract gold from sea water and put
i'm a word pointing cut the bearing that
the making of synthetic gold would
have on the gold standard "in which
all contracts of the world are made"
He argued that II synthetic gold existed
or IL gold could be extracted profitably
from the ocean the fallacy OF a gold
standard is patent. If such gold was
possible the Germans by up to date
alchemy could settle the reparation
claims outlined in the Versailles Treaty.
which. according to these ironclad terms,
must be paid in gold.
Prof. Fisher argued that no one can
foretell what gold will be worth few
years hence. and that indeed unless new
gold sources are found the gold dollar
may not be stable. In America 1t
bought 100 cents worth of goods before
the war. 40 cents worth in 1920 and
20 cents worth last year
Prof. w. Neernst, winner last year OF
the Nobel prize for physics and the best
known professor of physics in Germany,
Is of the opinion that nothing stands in
Evening star., 1922-05-16
WILLS FOR PROBATE.

The will of Maj. Gen. Clement A. F.
F1agler. U. s. A., dated March 22,
1917, was fled yesterday for probate.
He leaves his entire estate to his
widow. Caroline Dewitt Flagler, and
names her as executrix. By the terms
for probate her entire estate is de-
vised to her husband, Josiah L. Carr.
The husband Is also to act as execu-
Evening star., 1922-05-16

16hx18h Cretonne Covered Chair Cushions,
filled with good cotton: tufted with ten buttons;
light or dark colors. in floral, bird and tapestry
designs-Fourth Floor.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-26

When friends meet hearts warm.