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The New York herald., 1922-01-16
SECOND MAN SEIZED
In KILLING OF GARBE
Harry Ricca. 20, Captured at
Highland as He Was Going
to California.

A second man alleged to have been
named by Harry .. Garbe. %. in an
ante-mortem statement to Queens au-
thorities as one Of the assailants who
shot him down October 81 last was ar
raisned yesterday In Jamaica Court and
held by Magistrate Kochendorfer with
out on bail On charge Of homicide He
is Harry Ricca. 20. tailor.
For the shooting of Garbe, who deo
In q hospital few days later. Misc
Guseie Human. %. OF 926 Hatch ave-
nue.. Ozone Park. was tried on a charge
of first degree murder. She was ac-
quilted on December a.
Joseph Labasci, 81, OF ~ Troutman
street. Brooklyn, who was arrested with
Miss Human. is awaiting trial January
2S on the murder charge. Garbe alleged
that he was lured to an ambush, and. it
now develops. said he was attacked by
two men who leaped out OF the bushes
Harry Ricca has been living at 46
Starr street, Brooklyn. He was said to
have been an habitue of the Brooklyn
dance hall to which Miss Human and
Libasci went the night Garbe was shot
Detectives George O'Connell and
Charles Rrummel of the Richmond Hill
station and Frank Banbara, District
Attorney Wallace's secretary. arrested
.Ricca on Friday at Highland. ~ Y
They have been engaged in persistent
search for the man since Garbe's death,
but got no trace of him until they
learned he had been living near Pough-
kecpsie. At the Poughkeepsie post office
they discovered that Ricca had been
getting mail at Aldenia. which is across
the Hudson from Highland. Arriving
at Highland. they started for ferry
and. it was said. met Ricca, accom-
panied by his brother. who had just de-
barked from the ferry. Ricca had a
suit case and $500 and was starting for
California, according to Mr.. Wallace
Ricca has made no statement since his
arrest.
Mr.. Wallace said Ricca will not be
lodged in Queens county jail, where
Miss Human was confined and had
many visitors. He would not say where
the defendant would be kept. Garbe
was the son of Anthony Garbe. former
Sheriff. and lived at 1916 Chester ave.
nue. Woodhaven, Queens.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
POLICE RESCUE FAMILY
IN BROOKLYN FIRE TRAP
Mother and Four Children
Almost Suffocoted.

Trapped and near suffocation IN their
apartment on the ton floor OF three
story building at 613 Sutter avenue.
Brooklyn. Mrs. William Friedman and
her four children were rescued by no
licenan last night as a fire that had
started in the basement and already
had filled the house with heavy.
sitting smoke threatened to creep up
the first floor stairway.
When Policemen Ryan and Rand
reached the fire they were told that
families probably had been trapped in
side the building. While Rand ran
through the second floor Ryan hurr'ed
to the third floor and found Mrs Fried
man and her children lying on the floor
of their apartment near a window.
Ryan took Mrs. Friedman and her
Youngest child in his arms and groped
his way through the smoke 20 the street
with them. while the other children fol-
lowed clinging to the skirt of the Of
fice~s coat.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16

the nassacres and crusades OF the Middle
Ages and the Spanish Inquisition."
Mrs. Alexander i<ohut. chairman OF
the reconstruction committee OF the Ma
tional Council Of Jewish Women. de-
scribed some OF The conditions she wit
ressed during a recent journey in CEN
trail Europe.
II have seen thousands OF starving
Jewish children, their faces as white an
me walls of this room.' she said. "On
one street in Vienna ! saw a little heap
OF Jewish children huddled together 10
keep warm and I found that two OF
them were dead"
David A. Brown OF Detroit, who Is
chairman of the entire drive. quoted
figures showing the progress made in
other cities. many OF which have OK
ceeded the amount they were asked to
raise
James Becker OF Chicago. former
European director OF the joint distrihu-
ton committee, declared there were
100000 Jewish war and pogrom orphans
in eastern Europe Jewish families.
fearing pogroms in the small con,nuni-
ties. have ioclied 10 the larger cities. he
said. so that some cities that formerly
had 1000 habitants have 100000 to-
day. a great portion Of whom ARE with
out shelter without homes, foodstuffs or
clothing unless we proNlde Tot tneh.
Mr. Becker declared that in practically
every community in southern Russia
there have been Anywhere from six TO
as many as twenty-five distinct, separate
massacres.
Other speakers were Louis Marshall.
Felix NJ Warburg, julius Rosepwald.
Rabbi stephen s. Wise. who referred to
Henry Ford as that little velocipede
manufacturer" and Or. Nathan krass.
David r. Bressler is to be the associate
chairman in active charge Of the drive.
assisted by several prominent Jewish
busne SIS men and financiers.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
BOW-WOW YELPS RIVAL
Foo FOO JAZZ ON SHIP
One Dog, Hypnotized by Mad Melody, Chews Holes
in Tarpaun Head of Barrel Bass Drum When the
Caronia's Stoke Room Musicians Halt for Breath.

The grotesque Foo Foo band of the
Cunarder Caronia, in yesterday from
Mediterranean ports. had rivals in two
wolfhou1sls belonging to A. Guy Piscopo,
mere to take charge of the Lancia auto
mobile agency in America. The band
Is made up of stokers with faces painted
enthusiastically, and their speciality is jazz,
in which a bass drum made of barrel
coveped with tarTaulin lis the superlative
instrument
The dogs were taking an airing on
deck the second day out when the band
started on its rounds When the animals
heard the rrst outburst they stopped.
sat on their launches. lifted their noses
toward the zenith and assaulted the
empcreap with howls and walls that
startled the whole ships company and
even made the bass drummer pause.
The band was close to the dogs when
they were hypnotized by it's home made
mad melody. and when the bass drum
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
BAD TASTE IN WATER
MAY VANISH IN 4 DAYS
Copper Sulphate Treatment
Requires Time for Results.

The Department of Water Supply,
Gas and Electricity expects to learn
definitely In about four days the results
OF the chemical warfare IT has been
conducting against the coil bug" or
synura, which for the last month has
put a cucumber" flavor in New York 3
water.
w. w. Brush. chief engineer OF the
department, said yesterday IL would
take about four days for the water
recently treated I'm Ashokan Reservoir
20 flow into the city distributing sys-
tenn. Mr.. Brush had hoped that the
water would show a marked improve
ment in taste, but could make no fore
cast. since treatment OF water for sy-
nura is virtually new field.
Mr.. Brush pointed out that samples
OF water taken at Hillview. nearly 100
miles below where the water was treat
ed with copper sulphate at Ashokan.
showed Improvement
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
HOTEL FIRE SCARE
ENLIVENS FIFTH AV.
st. Patrick's Worshipers and
Others Watch Smoke i'm
the Buckingham.

Churchgoers at ST. Patricks Cathedral
and crowds in Fifth avenue at Fiftieth
street gathered yesterday at fire at
the bottom Of service elevator shaft on
che Fiftieth street side OF the Hotel
Buckingham. Smoke came out thickly.
filtered into windows at the front of the
hotel and got into the lobby. In the ho-
tel were e35 guests, most of whom fled
to the street.
The alarm was sent from the private
box inside the hotel by Edward Galligsn,
the cashier and the telephone operator.
Miss Anna. Connolly, notified guests on
all floors of the nature OF the fire. The
hotels fire alarm system was set off.
Sir Philip Gibbs. the British author
Lord and Lady Auckland, Mrs. Nelson
'Shaughnessy. wife of the former
Charge d'Affaires in Mexico Edward
Hatch. formerly of Lord & Taylor. and
others appeared soon in the lobby.
Quick Work stops Flames.
Quick work by Ernest Beetig. as
sistant engineer at the hotel, and CALI
gan prevented the spread Of the flames
which were traced to waste which had
gathered oil at the bottom of the shaft
The two men got crowbar and forced
open the door of the elevator and car
rled water in pals from the hotel base
mellt They succeeded in putting out
the FIRE before apparatus arrived. Five
engines and other apparatus answered
the alarm. and f1remen made a thorough
search of the basement to make GER
tain that the flames were extnguished.
The passage of fire apparatus in Fifth
avenue caused excitment among those
passing. and crowd gathered on the
steps of st. Patricks Cathedral Mem
bers of the National Democratic Club.
next door to the buckingham. also came
out to watch. Many of the guests left
TN ehotel temporarily during the fire.
returning later. The hotel management
said that none of the guests appeared to
be greatly alarmed and that there was
little excitement
Small Blaze In Claridge.
Traffic in Broadway between Forty
second and Forty-ffth streets was
blocked for twenty minutes last night
as result of fire in room on the
eighth floor OF the Hotel Claridge at
Forty-fourth street. A curtain caught
fire. the flames spreading to the wood
work of the window sill The room was
that of Frank Harris Of Nashville, Tenn,
who was out at the time.
The arrival of the fire apparatus
caused large crowd to gather in
Broadway. Patrons of the Hotel Astor
watched the flremen from the windows
of their rooms. The blaze was ex-
tinguisled with chemicals.
Reserves from the West Forty-seventh
street station cleared the crowds away.
Although the Criterion Theater. which
is across the street, was filled with pat
rons. none was aware Of the fir.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
GET $4,000 IN Is MINUTES.

Trustees of the Beth David Hospital.
Lexington avenue and 18th street. an
nounced yesterday that through the geii-
erosity Of Louis Margolies they ta1
raised s25.000 to meet a payment due
on the construction OF an addition to the
hospital Mr.. Margolies preferred s10..
900 provided that the remaining mem
bers of the building committee would
contribute the other $4,000 Fifteen
minutes after the offer was made the
money was raised.
The hospital already has expended
s17s,oo0 on the annex. which will have
eighty beds and will have total cost CT
s315.0oa
The New York herald., 1922-01-16

ner stopped one of the hounds also
halted and made a dash for the drum.
Before he could be restrained he had bit
ten several mouthfuls from the tar
paulin drum head, much improving the
tone OF the instrument. Then they tied
up the hounds, but not far enough from
the jazz orchestra to prevent the canine
yells from adding to the weird SYM
phonies.
The band leader said his musicians
had been locked in the "Gal,eria Um-
berto' for disturbing the peace of Ma
pies, but the caretaker let them out after
they had rendered in jazz tempo several
Italian operate airs and told them to
please go home quick. The next day,
according to the veracious leader. the
band was invited to play aboard the
American pattleship Utah. anchored in
the Bay of Naples, and the leader re-
ceived from the Utah's commander sill
yer baton
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
DEATH HOUSE INMATES
WILL SEE LAST LAUGH
MoUie Will Be ShoUn to Men
About to Die.

the motion picture machine which
THOMAS Meighan. actor, presented to
Sing Sing prison. and made OF reduced
size so that II could be set up in the
narrow corridor of the Sing Sing death
house to show pictures for the amuse-
ment OF those about to die. is to be
used for an exhibition of THE Last
Laugh" within a few days, ii was re-
ported unofficially last night
Only two previous motion pictures
have been displayed In the death house.
and these were several months ago. The
nature Of The Last Laugh" was not
announced. but some OF the death house
prisoners were reported as having
relished the announcement.
Among those who will attend the en-
tertainment are Harry Givner and Floyd
Slower. scheduled to die In three weeks.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
BABY IN TRAVELLING BAG
DESERTED IN STATION
Cries Reveal Presence of Lit
tie Stranger.

a woman waiting In the Pennsylvania
Station last night heard cries issuing
from travelling bag on one OF the seats
and her investigation disclosed boy
baby neatly tucked away inside. The
top of the bag had been left slightly
open to permit the child to breathe.
The baby, said later by physicians to
be three weeks old, was taken TO Belle
vue Hospital He avas dressed in q
white slip. white stockings anil white
cap With blue ribbon.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
FORD'S MOTOR PRICES
ARE CUT AGAIN TODAY
Reply Is Thus Made to Per.
sistenf Rurnors.

THE New YORK HERALD received a
telegram last night from CASTOR
Plaintiff OF the Ford Motor Company.
stating that the following prices on Ford
motor cars, (. o. b. Detroit, will become
effective on January 16: Touring car.
regular. $34s: runabout. regular, 1919 I;
chassis. s2S5: coupe. $3.50; sedan. s645 !;
truck chassis, $3.50: tractor, 1925 The
starter will remain at $40 and demount-
ables $25.
Persistent rumors relative to our
reducing prices,' says Mr.. Plaintiffs
message. makes reduction advisable.
despite present rock bottom prices"
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
STONE AGE RELICS FOUND.

BERLIN. Jan. 15. - Necklaces OF
wolves and dogs teeth were among the
relics Of the early stone age reported
TO have just been discovered IN West
phalia. near Hengiarn, by scientific IN
vestigators A stone chest containing
stone vessels was unearthed
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
G. o. q /

1.-THE gentleman ,oho called upon me
,cih reference TO securing the account,
personally saw TO ii that everything wos
conducted IN the most satisfactory man.
ner. I beg 10 express my appreciation
Of his aud your courtesy"
Truly yours--
The customer, who recently
wrote that, has described the
ideal of service we are trying
to live up to.
OWENS e. COMPANY, Inc.
Foot Of East 49th ST., N. Y. c.
The New York herald., 1922-01-16
People do Like
Courtesy

It's sometimes hard to make
a man see what coal service
really means.
This letter makes the expla-
nation easier.
Gentlemen:
In enclrsino MT chect feel cam
strained 10 er-ress "a uou slr sense Of
the copytesu and attention rhieh yos
paid me ir fillirc mr ordss for
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
MccAuLLEY 90. EXTENDS.

George W. McCaulley and Son.
Inc. who for many years have con-
Quoted a plastering and thing bus
mess. have opened a new depart
ment in connection with their pres
ent business. This is an electrical
wiring, Lighting and fixture depart
ment. The new department will be
In charge OF thoroughly competent
Illumination engineers who will be
In position TO take care Of every
need IN the electrical line. Nc
Caulley and Son. Inc. have their
place OF business at 1913 West Eighth
street.
Il is the plan OF the corporation
to do all work in such manner
that II will stand the most rigid in
spection in every particular. and
meet full requirements OF Insurance
inspectors. Engineers are on hand
AT all times at the offices OF the cor
poration 10 design anything In the
way OF a lighting system that a pa D.
iron might require. Nothing but
quality workmanship and standard
materials will be handled.
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
IS FIRES IN
HAUNTED House
Flame Ghost Causes Nova
Scotian Couple to Quit
Old Home
CATTLE UNITED
WHILE IN BARN

HALIFAX. y. s. Feb. %. - The
Isolated farming community OF Au-
tigonish, In Northeastern Nova
Scotia, has a haunted house in
which thirty-eight mysterious fires
followed one another in strange pro
cession during one night
on several other nights more fires
occurred. starting in walls. under
caves and IN furniture. Neighbors,
and in one instance a police detec-
tive. hearing the stories the aged
farmer. Alexander Macdonald, his
wife and their adopted daughter.
Mary Allen. recounted OF their ad-
ventures with the nocturnal visitant
kept watch and testified to the
flame ghost"
So intense is the interest that "A
reward Of $500 has been offered for
proof that the battling manifesto
tons are not Of supernatural origin.
The aged couple and their adopted
daughter. who lived I'm the home
stead for twenty years, became so
terrified that they have abandoned
#.
The first signs OF the unnatural
were in 1916. when cattle and
horses. left securely tied in the ad-
joining barn. were occasionally
found united and wandering out Of
their stalls IN the morning.
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
i. 5. CENSORSHIP.
FOR THE MOVIES
Appleby Bill Would Investi-
gate AmuSement'S Edu-
catiOnal Values
MEASURE NOW
IN THE HOUSE

WASHINGTON. Feb. IA bill
providing for establishment Of a fed
eral motion picture commission with
censorship powers over an Aims en-
tered In Interstate commerce. was
introduced in the House yesterday
by Representatives Appleby, Repub-
lican. New Jersey
The commission would be under
the Bureau OF Education and IN adj
dition 20 its duty as public censor
would be directed TO make inquiry
into the recrcationai and educa-
uonal possibilities OF motion pic
lures and the dissemination Of such
Information.
Declaring that the picture thea
tres are paironized today largely
by children. and vast army of
i'liteutes and the ignorant" Mr..
Appleby added 10 was incredible "to
think the Federal Government will
longer permit the creation OF LAST
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
DR.. HILLS TO SPEAK
HERE NEXT TUESDAY

Invitations were sent today by the
Chamber Of Commerce to members
OF the Rotary. Kiwanis and Lions
clubs and those OF its own organiza-
ton to attend luncheon-meeting
ncNt Tuesday. at which the Rev. Dr.
Newell Dwight Hills the famous
Brooklyn pastor. will be tke speak
CT. The meeting will be held in thu
Hotel DUPONT.
Doctor Hills had arranged to ad-
dress a luncheon-meeting OF the
chamber two weeks ago. but was
taken ill and the engagement was
cancelled. His subject will be bet
ter America" Doctor Hills nils the
pulpit Of Plymouth Church. Brook
Ign. at one time occupied by Henry
Ward Beecher. and is regarded as
one OF the foremost orators and lee.
turers OF the day.
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
GEORGE c. Herring, JR.,
ADMITTED TO BAR

Georr' C.. Herring. Jr., executive
secretary of the Building Loan In
formation Bureau. was admitted TO
the practice of law in the State
courts at Dover yesterday. He was
r. gistored here with Caleb +. Burch-
email He will practice IN this city at
tho completion Of his work with tie
Building Loan Information Bureau.
Mr.. Herring is a son OF George c..
Herring. of FELTON,. a former State
Representative and at present one
of the three Levy Court Commits
sloners of Kent county. lie was
graduated from Dickinson College in
1917 and from the Dickinson Law
School in 1921. During the war. he
served as pilot In the air service Of
the American EXpeditionary Forces
in France and Italy. After gradual
ing from law school. he was admit
ted TO practice at the Pennsylvania
bar.
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
TODAY's BEAUTY TALK

You can enjoy a delightful sham
poo with very little effort and for a
very trining cost. II YOU get from
your druggist a package OF canthrox
and dissolve n feaspoonful In a cup
of hot water. This makes a full cup
OF shampoo lQuid-cnough 80 q is
easy 10 apply Il TO an the hair In
stead OF just the top OF the head.
Your shampoo is now ready. Just
pour a little at a time on the scalp
and hair until both are entirely COW
cred 10y the daintily perfumed prepa-
ration that thoroughly dissolves and
removes every biz OF dandrun. excess
oil and dirt. After rinsing. the hair
dries quickly with a nufnness that
makes 10 seem heavier than Il Is. and
takes on a rich luster and a softncss
that makes arranging 70 a pleasure.
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
FINE WINDOW DISPLAY.

one OF the handsomest Washing
toms Birthday window displays ever
shown I'm Wilmington was that at
the Crosby and Hin Department
Store. SOS Market street Its cen
terpiece was a lfe-size oil painting
Of Washington. which had been
loaned for the exhibit by Santa
Maria Council. knights OF Column
bus This was nanked by a large
Illuminated History OF the Centen-
niai OF the Inauguration OF Wash
ngton." and by fintlock guns such
as were carried IN the Revolution.
American flags. large coat-of-arms
and tri-colored festoons. all OF silk
formed the background and base of
the display. which won admiration
OF hundreds OF passersby
Evening journal., 1922-02-23

Twenty-four employees OF the
Franklin Printing Company. OF Phil
adclphia. were entertained hy Off
cinis OF tho Jcssup and Moore Paper
Company yesterday. They were given
luncheon az the Hotel DUPONT. a.
which George n. Ernest an official
of the local concern. was toast
master.
Following the luncheon. the Wis
itors We're taken In automobiles TO
the main plant OF the paper com
pany. where they were conducted
through the departments the vari-
GUS processes OF manufacturing
paper being explained 90 them. IL
is planned at later date TO have
employees OF tho paper mill return
the visit
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
$4,000 JEWEL
ROBBERY, FAKE
Hostess of Deal, N. J., Din
ner Party Now Under
Arrest
SAY PURSE WAS
PAPER STUFFED

LONG BRANCH. y. j.. Feb. 23
Mrs. Sarah II. Robertson, who Sat
urday night reported to the police
that she had been dramatically rob
bed OF $4,000 worth of jewelry dur
ing a dinner party she was giving
at her home in Deal. last night. stood
charged with taking the holdup in
order TO obtain the Insurance money
on her Jewels.
Arrested also were John Bailey. a
Long Branch youth. who was al
legged by the police to have told them
4 that he had been offered $1,000 to
invade Mrs. Robertsons home and
rob her. Samuel Gasm, a tele-
'eraph operator. was arrested on
icharges Of having entered the con
|spiracy and aided the supposed rob
her. He was released on $4,000
Chail.
This bail also was set for both
Mrs. Robertson and Bailey. but
neither could get anyone to free
1 them when they faced the magis-
trate. II was announced n the bail
vNs not forthcoming both would be
taken 10 the county jail at Free
'hold.
Mrs. Robertson underwent lonr
4 grilling by the police who placed
before her their charges that the
l. ahorately described pistod used by
The bandit" was only a leather
zpipe case and that the bag Of
4 Jewels she handed over contained
5only tissue paper She steadfastlv
No. niaincd her innocence Of the two
4 onsp.racy accusations lodged against
5 her.
. Harry c. Faber. OF Bellmore. who
Was one Of the guests al the marty
i saturday night was quizzed by the
police, who quoted him as saving
vat month ago ne was approached
by Gasm and asked 10 do the hold
Nup stunt. He said he refused. ac-
n cording 20 the police. who added
Il that he told them that when he saw
Il The 'rohher" al the dining-room
door Saturday night. he immediately
3rcct llcd the request upon him and
II realized that the hoidup was a fake
Il Tie was IN tears the police said
Il when they entered his home thi.
morning, and he explained that he
a had been unable 20 sleep since the
A Incident Saturday night
N Davis s. Meyer real estate
n broker Of Long Branch. who also
was a guest that evening. was re-
Fl ported TO have lost $50 in the rob
T" berry" The police said he had told
them that when the intruder or
4 dered him 10 pup HIS money on the
4 a. bic. he obeyed. The money fell
. into dish of tomatoes and he
claimed never to have seen IL again
Bailey. the police said, denied
@ taking the $50 and said not ONLY
4 hac he not received a cent from
Mrs. Robertson, but>was out IS tax
4 fare
d Mrs Robertson Inquired IN a law
! sui; with the New York stock brck
f erage firm in 1914. the firm recov
i ~ring 100000, which was paid gfte
she brought a counter suit for S125.
a 600. during the controversy II be
came known that i'm 1911-12 Mrs
II Robertson had made a profit %
n S125.C0O by selling Union Pacih
n and I nlted states steel short. bu
the market latss went against her
Evening journal., 1922-02-23
How You Can Make
Hairs Quickly Disappear

Even a stubborn growth OF hair
viii quickly vanish from the face.
neck or arms after a single treatment
with delatone. To remove hair from
arms. neck or face make a stn paste
with a little powdered delatone and
water. apply TO hairy surface and
after about two minutes rub on.
wash the skin and 1t will be left
free from hair or bicmish. To avoid
disappointment bee quite certain you
get real deiatone and mix fresh.