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New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Carry Skipper
To Shore After
Fighting, Fire
Captain Miles Of the Van
Buren, Reported Seriously
I'LL of Fumes He Endured
While Subduing Flames
Crew Lodges Complaints
Charges Violence i'm Death
of Pantryman, Accused
of Going Amuck ON Deck

When the steamship President Van
buren. of the Snipping Beard, operated
By the United States Lines, came to
port l>st night from London, Cher
bourg and Queenstown, Captain C. H.
Miles, IS. n. r. F., her master. was
said to be seriously i'll.
No official announcement of the ma
ture Of his illness was made public,
but according to a friend who was a
passenger on the Van Buren,, the cap
tain is suffering from the effects of
gas, to which he exposed himself while
fighting fuel oil fire aboard ship for
several days on the run that ended yes
terday.
The excursion Of the Van Buren, to
London was one of great tribulation
for Captain Miles. who recently had
been assigned to the command of that
vessel. He took her out of New York
June 21, and when in mid-Atlantic a
pnntryman named Baxter became men
tally unbalanced and OH deck bran
dished razor. His dementia was con-
strucd as menace to the passengers
and he was overpowered and put into
the brig. When his condition did not
improve he was put into a straight
Jacket and after that he was restored
t. normal mentality. With this re-
storation, however, he showed signs of
physical illness and was treated by
DR.. G. w. Farquahar the ships sur
geon.
On June 2s Baxter died and was
buried at sea, but the feeling caused
by his death did not end with the
burial, in SO far as his mates were con-
cerned. 1t is said that when the Van
Buren, docked in London large num-
Der of the crew appeared before Robert
P. Skinner, American Consul General,
and protested against the manner of
the mans death. Mr.. Skinner is said
to have taken many affidavits from the
crew, purporting to show that Baxter
was beaten.
Reports were current on the pier in
Hoboken yesterday that the facts in
the case were transmitted to the au-
thorities in this country and that the
matter would have all airing before
a United States Com missioner, either
in Jersey City or in the Southern Dis
trict of New York.
Two agents of the Department of
Justice went aboard the Van Buren
as soon as she docked at Pier in
Hobcken, but whether they were there
in the matter of the death of Baxter
was not disclosed.
On the run across. Captain Miles
Truesdale, lawyer with offices at
149 Broadway, and he engaged Mr..
Truesdale as his counsel. Mr.. Trues-
dale passed great deal of time dur
ing the voyage interviewing the ships
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Mrs. Forsytlle's
Retirement Due
TO Ill Health
Resignation as Assistant SUI
nerintendent of Schools
Had No Political Signif-
icance, Friends Assert
Elected After Hot Fight
Charges of Political Pres
sure Made; Ettinger OPP
nosed to Her Candidacy

Ms Grace Strachan Forsythe, who
..xivned yesterday as associate super
;,.snaent of schools, a post to which she
-. elected against strong opposition
lee. January, was declared last night
= : member Of her household to have
.s.nsoued her work solely because of
ii health.
woman who said she spoke for
yrs Forsythe at the latter's home, 255
w.st Seventy second Street, said that
Mrs. forsythe was too ill to hold
,.,sonal conversation.
az Mrs. Forsythe were able to re-
..;ve visitors" said the friend, "she
xoaId not be retiring from her position.
q, has suffered prolonged illness
,.sber recovery has been so slow that
.s. was forced TO regard retirement
.s The only course open to her. 1t
ssonId be added that Mrs. Forsythe
bas taken this step only after mature
delberation.'
Selection Caused Protest
Mrs. Forsythe was elected by the
posrd Of Education over the protest of
surerintendent of Schools William L.
r.t;nrer. Her selection aroused a
torn Of comment and there were
charges Of political influence. The vote
Il favor Of Mrs. Forsythe was four to
shree. the full board having been pres
eat. Her candidacy was said to have
ben sponsored by Mayor Hylan, who,
on previous occasions, suggested her
for vacancies which would have meant
promotion for her and extension of the
Mayors political control over the
school system.
DR.. Ettinger declared Mrs. Forsythe
unfit for the duties of associate super
intendent. He said her record as a
district superintendent in Brooklyn
did not compare favorably with the
records of other district superin-
tendents
Aside from her activities as a dis
trict superintendent in Brooklyn, Mrs.
Forsythe was president of the Inter
borough Association of Women Teach
ers, and in the latter office is said to
have been politically active. AS head
Of the teachers organization she was
said to have contributed in large
measure TO the support given the Hy-
Ian administration in the last election.
She was appointed to the board of ex-
aminers by Mayor Hylan, but filed her
application too late for the examina-
sion required of that body.
Thirty-fve Years in Service
Commenting at the time of her cleo
ton on charges Of political influence
among teachers, Mrs. Forsythe said
she regarded teachers as citizens and
that they ought to take an interest in
the politics Of their communities. She
added that much of the animus against
her was due to the fact that she was
the first woman to be elected associate
superintendent.
Mrs Forsythe's retirement came
alter thirty-fve years service in the
Shoots. She is graduate of the State
Normal School of Buffalo, and entered
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Landlord Jumps City's
Rent, Hylan Jumps Him
''You're Out!'' Mayor Shouts at
Lot Owner, Who Isn't Even
Permitted to Explain

Mayor Hylan stopped what he termed
a hold-up of the city at the meeting of
the Sinking Fund Commission yester-
day. Ray Harris, owner of plot on
Mermaid Avenue, between West Thirty
first and West Thirty second Street.
Coney Island, upon which the annex of
Public School No. 80 is situated. an
peared before the commission and
wanted to increase the rental for the
land to the city from $3.50 annually to
$4,000, an increase of 515 per cent. He
attempted to make an explanation of
the increase, but was interrupted by
the Mayor.
you're through" shouted the Mayor,
"You are out Of court. You haven't a
chance. You can't hold up the city"
Harris afterward stated to the re-
porters that the increase was justified,
in his opinion, because the assessm ent
valuation levied by the city for 1928
was $4,000, against a previous valua-
tion of S8,400.
The Board of Education was given
permission to move the annex building
to another site at the northwesterly
corner of Neptune Avenue and West
Thirty-second Street. Coney Island.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Taft, Back From England,
Says Crisis Is Passed
Jnrist 1r5 Arrives in Quebec ON
Way to Murray Bay, Where
lie Will Pass Gu,,,r,.
speetai ptspotoh 10 rhs rrsn..,

orI pSpdfoh To The Tribute
QuESEC. July 1s.-Chief Justice
aae, OF the United States Supreme
ssourt' arrived in Quebec this morning
from Europe, on his way to Murray
nav' where ne will spend the remain
yer OF the summer. Mr. Taft, on dis
emoarking from the White Star liner
Canopic, gave no formal interyiew hut
said that he and Mrs. Taft had a nleass
ant voyage
We were received i'm England and
Scotland :, with open arms" said Mr..
Iafs, and highly appreciated the many
nohors showered upon US, but I must
say--and / am sure that I am also
voic'ng the sentiments Of my wife
ehat | am very happy to be on the good
Old North American continent once
more. We do not realize how fortu-
nate we citizens OF Canada and the
United States are.
i had not been in the United King
dom since 1888. no less than thirty
Iour years ago, and I noticed many
changes The British people show a
oetermination that will bring them
through this critical period in which
we are eli living TO peace and prosper
NY lhey have passed the worst and
are on the road to the recovery of their
pre-war position. Everywhere In Enr-
land and Scotland found not optimism
alone but courage and indusry, those
two factors which are SO vital to the
welfare of any nation"
Mr. Taft said that he went to Eng
land in order to study the British law
code, with the idea of including some
parts Of it in the American legal sys-
TEN. he would make no statement
concerning his legal research until his
official report is published.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Mrs. Maclay's Funeral TODAY

The funeral of Mrs. Robert Maclay,
VINO died last Sunday at her country
home at Millbrook, N. Y, will be held
this morning from her town residence,
5West Fifty-seventh Street. The
services will be conducted by the Rev
Ur. Malcolm James Mcleod, pastor Of
the Collegiate Church of st. Nicholas.
Mrs. Maclay was daughter of AL
fred' Barmore, for many years presi-
dent of the Knickerbocker Ice Com
pany Her mother was Aeffie Onder-
donk, of Rockland County, N. Y. Her
husband, the late Robert Maclay, was
at one time president of the Board of
Education Of the City of New York.
She was a member of the Colonial
DANES Of New York State. One SON,
Alfred Barmore Maclay, of New York
and Millbrook, survives her. He is
president of the National Horse Show
Association
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Shoots When Called "Scabo

WILMINGTON, N. c.. July 1s.-H. j.
Southwell, Atlantic Coast Line engi-
neer, was shot and fatally wounded to-
night by Fl. E. Dallas, yardmaster and
special guard at the Atlantic Coast
Line yards, when, it is alleged, South
well referred to Dallas as a "scab."
Dallas was arrested and held without
bond
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Resignation of Dover
PIeases Reform League

From The Tribuae's Washington Buyeau
WASHINGTON, July f8.-H. C. Marsh.
of New York, secretary of the National
Civil Service Reform League, in a state
ment to-day on the resignation of
Elmer Dover as Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury, held it would have salu-
tary effect. Mr.. Marsh gave out his
statement after it had been announced
at the White House that Mr.. Dover had
resigned, but the President was toe
busy with other matters to take it up.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19

the New YORK school system as grad.
.eachsr in Brooklyn. She hecas,s
prancipaI and later assistant sunerir. :
.sssuenn t. @ ni the old Brooklyn school avs
sem. s Mhen the systems were conso,i-
asns darea sns was district superinten-
and and haos Sa sne greater New York system
leader Of the teachers orranizatiorr 90
New-York tribune., 1922-07-19

tan. He was born in West New
Brighton and lives at 604 Delafield Ave-
nue.. He was educated in the public
schools.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
THREE TEAMS FIGHT
FOR LEAGUE HONOR
CITY 1EAGUE FIGURES

Parkside and st. Mary's are but
one full game behind Mt Vernon for
the lead in the City Basketball
League as result OF the first de-
feat Of the league season handed Mt.
Vernon on Saturday night by st.
Mary's. The rest OF the teams are
hopelessly out OF the race for the
first half honors which will come to
a close this week. the Pioneers and
Seventh Ward being tied for last
place with one victory and seven de-
feats each.
Mt. Vernon has the better break
in the schedule in the final lap over
the other two contenders. Although
they are up against Parkside tonight.
they meet Seventh Ward tomorrow
night In its other game OF the
week Parkside must meet st. Marys
on Saturday night The Cats will
be up against Brownson on Friday.
A Victory tonight would cinch the
honors for Mt. Vernon but a defeat
would make the race 50 close that II
would not be decided until Saturday
night.
Parkside has the toughest row to
hoe, going up against both Mt. Yer
non and st. Marys
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
Chopped HIS
HEAD NEARLY
OFF With AXE
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and brother-in-law. The body was
then discovered" and they had a
man notify the detective bureau.
Detectives Sutton and Kempski
we're detailed on the case and when
they entered the Thatcher street
house. Hattie, Lettie and Harrison
followed them in. The officers sus-
pecting the wife to be the murderer,
then locked the doors and held them
prisoners.
WhenNtaken to the police station.
Hattie at first denied the charge but
later admitted killing her husband.
She signed a written statement to
this effect.
In her confession. Hattie said her
husband came home intoxicated
about 5.35 o'clock Saturday night,
whereupon she upbraided him for
drinking. He quarrelled with her
about her failure to have anything
ready for his supper, she said, and
then words followed as to his al
legged abuse of her and her mother,
during which her husband threat
ened to shoot her. The wrangline
continued and, between 9 and $40
o'clock, Leggias lay on the couch
It was then that Hattie according
to her own admission obtained the
axe and killed him.
She said that. after slicing hei
husbands head with the axes she
rolled him to the floor to ascertain
whether or not she had killed him
"If he hadn't been dead I'd b,
pounding him yet" she told the de.
tectives,
1t was after IL o'clock, she said
when she went to her sisters hom,
and told them OF her fear" o.
something having happened" at hel
home.
The blood-stained axe was produc
ed as evidence before the Municipa
Court and the Grand Jury this morn
ing.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16

Rule 81. Section 7-If a batsman
hits at a pitched ball and It hits him
afterward is he out? Only II Il
was the third strike.
Rule Sc. Section 9--Is a runner out
IL tagged with any part OF the hand,
which holds the ball. even with the
tips OF the fingers? Yes.
Rule 54 Section 4-How many
bases can be taken on strike miss
ed by the catcher? All a runner
can get unless special ground rules
have been made to cover the play.
Rule S5. Section s-If the first
batsman drops foul fly and the
batsman afterwards gets safe on first
is il an error? Yes. whether the
batsman gets a base or not
Rule Sc. Section 14-(A w. b.
How can a base runner be retired
under this rule? Suppose a runner
to be on second when time is called.
and then he takes his stand on third
when umpire starts up game again.
he may be declared out IL his action
is discovered before pitcher delivers
The ball TO the batsman.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
women ACTIVE
FOR POOR FUND
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Palmer, and Misses Negendank and

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Palmer, and Misses Negendank and
Mullln
Team No. Miss Frances L.
Range. Community Service.
Team No. 5-Mrs. r. W. TomlIn-
son and Airs. Harlan G. Scott.
Team No. 6-Mrs. Alice r. Abra-
hams.
Team No. Mrs. David Lindsey
Jr. -
Team No. s-Junior League.
Misses Esther Ward and Elizabeth
Halliday.
Team No. s-Mrs James Bailey
and Mrs. John Richardson. Jr.
Team Mo- 10-Mrs. ]. Monteith
Jackson.
Team No. 11-Mrs. F., H. Mccor-
mick.
Team No. 12-Mrs. B. c. Grommon
and Mrs. L. r. Hall.
Team No. 14-Mrs. Julia Ash
brook.
Each team numbers from a half
dozen to thirty and forty members.
so that the field of non-contributors
should be pretty well covered in the
next few days. The women will meet
again on Thursday morning at head
quarters, S36 Market street, second
floor front, but all contributions as
! speedily as obtained, are to be turn
ed over to Mayor Harvey.
4 Many women are helping with the
campaign. Mrs John P. Nields
! chairman, and Mrs. c. c. Knlen
executive secretary. are optimistic
enough to expect many thousands OF
dollars will be obtained by the
teams. There are some expressions
that possibly the remaining fifty
thousand dollars may be obtained.
The contributions received by
Mayor Harvey today totalled close
to five hundred dollars. The dia-
mond State Telephone Company sent
a check for one hundred dollars and
the Bedford Club sent another hun
dred. In addition to these there
were several other large donations
The latest contributors are: Dia-
mond State Telephone Company
800; Jeanette Eckman, $40; The
Bedford Club, 800; Edmund
Mitchell, $40; Frances. West, $40.
employees OF the Wilmington Ca
Company, s3O1.75.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
GEORGE HAS new
nations LEAGUE

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settlement similar to that reached
at Washington.
?. The Genoa economic confer
ence must be made a real medium
for European economic reconstruc-
tion. II must be made to produce re-
suits which the dissentient OF no
one can destroy.
3. An association OF nationS in
cluding the late enemy States and
Russia and il possible the United
States, should be the outgrowth OF
the Genoa parley Lloyd George be-
lieves
Lloyd Georges idea for wider
entente was said to be that the pres
ent alliance of Britain. France and
Japan, Italy and Belgium will II II
remains ultra-eXclusive. preclude the
Possibility OF European co.
operation.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
TOday'S Sport Angle

From New York comes the re-
port that Babe Ruth is to play first
base for the Yankees
To my way OF thinking that is
pure dunk"
In the first place I can see no
reason why a change from Waliy
pipp should be desired. He is a first
baseman OF major league calibre.
For years they have been replacing
Wally Pipp at first Each spring.
however finds him back on the job
as the regular first baseman.
Pipp Is a mighty fine fielder. an
excellent target for the rest Of the
inheld to throw at. Pipp has nice
style at the plate. and it always has
been surprising to me that ne didn't
finish with a higher batting average.
Why. then. shift Ruth to first
base. when the position Is being most
acceptably filled by Pipp?
In the second place IL Is my opin-
ion that shifting Ruth to first would
rob him Of much Of his value to the
club.
Ruth is never going to he the Hal
Chase type Of first bsseman. Ruth.
always anxious TO get results would
perhaps use brute force in making
plays at first that would often re-
suit in serious injury.
I recall one game in which he
PLAYED first base for Boston. He
really saved the game by blocking
arst base. and allowing the runner
to slide into his leg instead Of the
bag. He was badly cut as a result
and was out for about ten games. II
was very costly experience.
Ruth's place is in the outheld. The
big fellow has really developed into
a very fine fielder. II he would use
some care as to his diet, Il would b'
very easy matter for him to re
duce at least twenty pounds A losi
OF that much weight would MAKE
him much Improved ball player II
all departments.-B. II.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
Through the office Boys Eyes
Szeup of Big Business Leaders from New Viewpoint
BY XE CooNEY. 10

BY JOE COONEY. 10
Onice Boy OF Edward Morris, Presi-
dent OF Morris y Co., Chicago
Packers
Mr.. Morris tells me that though
I'm just an office boy right now
his Office boy-I may be president
like him some day, II l keep plug
gine
1 like working for him. He treats
me just as IL were his own boy.
He's always cheerful and never
yet has missed saying good morn
ing" when he comes in.
At first I thought / wouldn't be
able to stand the stockyards smell
down here. but Mr.. Morris told me
+ I ought TO feel / was part OF the
big machine that's carving up the
dinner meat the rest OF the world
/ lives on.
After that I didn't mind the smell
much.
lie likes kids and he likes his
wife. too. for he calls her up every
day on Nhe phone.
He's great on talking about efn-
cheney with every one he meets.
Mr.. Morris taught me to keep
my hair brushed all the time. And
he always looks over my cards in
continuation school to see how I'm
getting along.
NY boss never puts on any airs.
When it's hot he takes Off his coat.
And he wears suspenders. Some
times he even runs his own errands
When big men come in to see
him. Mr. Morris is always as calm
as a turtle and treats 'em all like
good fellows.
lie never orders me about in a
rough voice. He always saws
please"
Democratic7 Even II he is a mil
lonaire he comes down in the office
dining-room and eats with the rest
" u.s. And after lunch he goes
into the gymnasium and plays with
the kids
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
WOULD WIPEOUT
MARRIAGE Mill
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'Continued From First PaceD
that OF the Delaware law and ad-
monished folk who cannot marry
ton"
Doctor Anderson said:
II have a number of letters. from,
couples who were married here.
Several say they insisted upon go
Ing to a Methodist minister. and
were assured by the taxicab drivers
they were being taken there. and
did not know the difference until
after they were married"
The minister, in opening his SER
mon, said he would endeavor-<o fol-
low up his efforts to have the pres
ent marriage laws OF Maryland
amended. He said:
Marriage is the first and oldest
Institution in the world. When we
want to speak OF the extreme age
Of something, we say II is as old
as sin, but the institution OF mar
riage is older than sin.
Back In the sinless and beautiful
purity Of the Garden Of Eden II
was Instituted; God himself or
dained it and presided at the mar-
riage Of the first pair.
I'm the prime OF the sinless pur-
ity Of the human family we beheld
just two institutions: the Holy Sab
bath and marriage. or the home
and these two institutions have been
loved and upheld by pure-minded
people in every generation. Then.
all through the ages OF history.
there stands that beautiful institu-
tion preserved by God and honored
throughout the centuries. Now II
you drop down 10 the Christian era
1t Is mighty interesting to note
What Jesus thought OF the insti-
tuition OF marriage. Before He had
ever asserted His supernatural
power. He and His disciples we're
invited to a marriage In Cana OF
Galilee. and with all the beauty and
majesty OF His character He adorned
that marriage and chose this as the
occasion for His first great miracle.
It is a serious fact that every good
thing Is sooner or later attacked by
evil.
by those away from here I have
been asked. What is the matter
with the Maryland marriage law p
Now II comes to pass that when
wicked people see At. they can de-
volop a copdition in spite OF the
law. that is a stencil in the nostrils
OF respectable society.
Therefore. in spite OF tthe law
we have a Gretna Green. Newspa-
pers have called It a marriage
mill" This is, perhaps, not bad
/ figure After all IL is not the num-
Der OF marriages which brings re-
proach upon our fair name. but tho
| fact that the sacred right has been
commercialized. And the method
by which It is done. IL Is the
method and not the number tha
makes the shame. The half ha,
never been told exclaimed thu
/ Queen Of Sheha; so with the mar
riage mill here. There is probabl,
not another place between th'
/ oceans where minister known q
have been expelled from his churcl
could settle down and perform mar
riage ceremonies without being in
terrupted by the federal authorities
II has created an atmosphere tina
COMPROMISES every regular minis
ter Of this town. II jeopardizes hi
reputation, and almost every act !
interpreted in the light OF this mat
ter and II he is down town fabou
train time, suspicion is aroused"
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
MRS. RAE A. WYATT.
FORMER RESIDENT, DEAD

Word has been received in this
city that Mrs. Rae A. Wyatt, wife
OF James II. wyatt formerly Of
Smyrna and Dover, but in recent
years residing at 1910 West Chester
Pike. Kirklyn, Delaware county, Pa,
is dead. Her body will be buried in
Fernwood Cemetery, near Philadel-
phia, tomorrow afternoon. following
services at the house at 2 o'clock.
Mr.. Wyatt. is a son OF p. II. T.
Wyatt, well known in Delaware.
Penn's Grove and Salem, a nephew OF
James ]. Wyatt and Mrs. Andrew l..
johnson, of this city. and a broth
er-in-law OF George Carter, Of New
ark Mrs. Wyatt, who was skilled
pianiste, had been in failing health
for several months.
Evening journal., 1922-01-16
SENATOR BALL HEADS
DELAWARE SOCIETY
Special to The Evening Journal.


WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.-Senator
L. Heisler Ball was elected presi-
dent OF the Delaware State Society at
the annual meeting held in the viii
son Normal School last week. The
other officers elected are
Thomas Lodge. OF Magnolia. first
Wce-president; Mics A. r. Piser.
second vice-president; Mrs. Jennie
r. Green, executive secretary: Miss
Olive Mole, recording secretary:
Mrs. 2. L. Sitter. treasurer.
Standing committees were an
pointed by the chair. following the
Installation OF officers. The next
meeting will be held January 2i at
the Rochembeau and all Delawar-
cans in Washington are urged to at
tend. AT this meeting the question
OF change OF meeting place from the
Wilson Normal school to the
Thompson School, at Twelfth and L
streets, will be taken up. and the re-
vision of bylaws and constitution OF
the society will be considered.