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The New York herald., 1922-04-14
MOTHERS FLOCK TO AID
OF IL EXPELLED COEDS
Ousted From College for
Social Indiscretions.'

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW yoRK Herald.
YPsILANTr, Mich. April 13.--Oficials
of the state Normal College are begin
ming to hear from the mothers of the
seventeen goods who we're expelled few
days ago for various social indiscre-
tons"
One mother has arrived from West
Virginia, another from Petosky. Mich.
and several from other points TO take
up with Mrs. Ef1ie Priddy. dean OF
women, the charges on which their
daughters were expelled
The goods are particularly angry at
the Women's League. which is supported
by student dues but is governed by
women members Of the faculty and
presidents" of rooming houses.
II was through this organization. Mrs
Priddy said, that she obtained most oi
the Information on which the charges
against the girls were based. She saic
the girls in many cases unwittingly fur
nished Information about friends in dis
cussions with women members OF tbs
league, which the latter turned over &c
the dean.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
DR.. PONDS BLIND CURE
GOES UNDER SCRUTINY
Kings Prosecutor and Physi-
clan Take Testimony.

District Attorney Ruston in Brooklyn
and the executive council OF the Kings
County Medical Society are investigating
charges of deception and msrepresenta-
tion against Or. t. Arlington Pond of
1898 Dean street. The complaint is
made by two patients who were treated
by DR.. Pond for failing vision. DR..
Pond, about a year ago. stated that he
was working upon a serum that would
cure absolute blindness arising from
atrophy OF the optic nerve. His claim
attracted wide attention.
Frederick Dawson. broker, OF
jamestown. y. ". quoted DIR. Pond as
saying that Improvement might be very
SLOW In his case. AT the end | found
my eyesight worse than at the begin
ming" he added. Jacob Engel of Pitts
burgh. Pa. stated that his eyesight Is
worse than Ii was after six weeks Of
DR.. Ponds treatment.
c. y. Plant, counsel for DR.. Pond. said
that the charges were wholly false. DR..
Pond. he said. appeared beforr the
council with six patients and the affi-
davits OF twenty-five others. all testify
ing TO the merit Of his treatment.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
JAPANESE PICTURED AS AIDS
IN SEMENOFF HORROR REIGN
u S. Army Colonel at Senate Inquiry Speaks of Toxic
Financing Cossack Forces in Siberia-He Regarded
Him Heartless Murderer and Robber.

along with Col. Kroupsky, his Minister
of Foreign Affairs"
Capt Earle recited several instances
OF brutality committed by the anti
Bolshevik forces and declared an Ameri-
can Y. NJ. c. a. worker was found mur-
dered near a Siberian railway station.
He said he saw the body himself and
that the eyes had been gouged out and
the tongue cut off. He expressed the
opinion the man had been killed for re-
fusing to give to Semenoffs men cigar
ettes cigars and tobacco free.
In justifying his effort to double
cross Semenoff Capt. Earle said it was
due to the Semenoff doctrine that Might
is right" He declared the allied troops
with which he was operating were vir-
tual prisoners at the time of their evacu-
alton of Siberia. because Semenoff with
held transportation, forced them to dc
without food. land caused them TO walk
from Chita to the seaboard after they
had already walked 700 miles during a
Siberian winter" He asserted Semenofi
was hated more in Siberia than the
Reds
Col. Morrow was called back to the
stand in an effort to show that Gen.
Bergomoletz, one of the Semenoff aids
had tried to prevent the killing of Ameri-
can soldiers. Col. Morrow admitted
Bergomoletz had made that claim, but
he had no definite knowledge on tho
subject.
Senator Borah then asked Col. Nor
row concerning the reputation Semenofi
had In Siberia. I'm Siberia replied Col
Morrow, I'VE regarded Semenoff and his
officers in command of terminal points
as a band of unconscionable murderers
and robbers"
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
MISSING PRISONER BACK
IN COURT AFTER S YEARS
Wiimot Is OlDten Hunted, but
Not Found Until NoU. .

George wilmot. 40. pickpocket. who
Is known under several aliases. was
about to be arraigned on a charge Of
grand larceny one day six years ago
when he walked out Of jefferson Market
court. a police search for him was
dropped soon and the case was forgot
ten until 1918, when a man whose pocket
had been picked went 10 the rogues'
gallery and identified a photograph Of
Wilmot as being that of the man who
had robbed him. Another futile search
for the fugitive followed.
A few nights ago a stranger was ar
rested as a suspicion character when
Headquarters detectives found him
lettering in the lobby OF Broadway
theater. When arraigned IN Jefferson
Market court yesterday the detectives
who had arrested him produced a record
showing he was Wilmot, who had van
ished six years ago. He was remanded
for trial in General Sessions on the old
charge of grand larceny.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
OLD .TOHN LAYS WREATH
IN OLD BETS MEMORY
Prodded Out Of Iden That the
Wreath Isn't Food.

Old John. veteran elephant or the
firplng Brothers. Barnum e Bailey
herd. completed his pilgrimage ycster-
day and placed a wreath on the monu-
'nent erected at Somers. y. v. to Old
Bet said 10 be the first elephant ex-
htbited In this country. This was in
1915.
The placing the wreath wa. seffected
only after Old John had been prodded
into the idea that 1t was not given him
to cat Ii was great day in Somers
An elephant had not been seen there
within the memory OF the oldest In
ha abitant. Consequently. Yesterdays
ceremony attracted men. women and
children from the countryside for miles
around. and tho gathering at the monu-
ment to Old Bet. in the public square
at Somcrs. numbered at least 2.Coo
persons.
old John started his pilgrimage from
Madison Square Garden Sunday. He
reached the outskirts of Somcrs on
Wednesday night and was quart In
barn on the estate OF Mrs. Simeon
Brady, having Travelled fifty miles Ills
sojourn was one long reception. tho
guests being the children OF the sur
rounding towns.
At r. M. yesterday Old John with
drum corps In front and Dexter
I Fellowes OF the circus MS grand mar
shall. started for the pnblic square with
most Of Somcrs behind him. Appropriate
exercises were hel dat the square.
chorus from the Lincoln Agricultural
Scaoo asng. William Bailey of Somers
q descendant OF Hackaliah Bailey.
owner of Old Bet. was master OF cere-
monies. Talks were given By Oscar
Bailey. Hackaliah's Rreatgrandson: tho
Rev. T.. y. Comfort, John g. Coylc and
Dexter Felowcs.
Then old John placed tho wreath at
Old Bets monument. and he himself
received hamper OF peanuts. bananas
and apples. the gift OF Mrs. Brady
Old John will not attempt tho hike
back 20 New York. lie viii ride back
TO tho Garden IN state. IN the largest
truck tho Ringlings can find.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
MILK ADULTERATORS
GET LIMIT ON 18TH FINE
Excuse of Queens Compan,
Disregarded.

A fine Of 500. the severest penalty pos
sible for selling adulteratcd milk. was
inflicted yesterday on the Raw MIX
Company OF Middle Village. Queens. BY
Justices Freschi, IIcaly and O'Kecfc in
Special Sessions.
Harry Danziger. secretary Of the cont
pany. explained that the adulteration
had been caused by "A defect In the
bottling apparatus. which caused an un-
even distribution OF milk and cream.
but. according TO Justice O'Kecfc. the
company had been fined for tho same
offense sixteen times In the last two
years. and the court disregardcd the
excuse
The charge was made by Henry ~.
Corker. Health Department inspector.
and was prosecuted by James ID. O'SuI-
livan, counsel for the department. Chem
lists Of the Health Department said an
analysis OF the company's milk deter
mined II 10 be 2 per cent. low In tonat
solids and IS per cent. deficient in fats.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
WAITS TO Be SORTED
BY CLEARING HOUSE
Edwin Gould Presents Home
for Unique Institution to
Charities Organization.

Ground is to be broken within few
weeks for the erection Of a clearing
house for orphans and destitute chill
dren to be erected at Stillwell avenue
and Pelham Parkway North and to be
known as the kingsland Avenue Chill
drens Home. it was learned yesterday.
The institution is the first of its kind
in the country. and Is to be put up BY
Edwin Gould The financier. Of $50 Fifth
avenue. He has not only donated the
site. but has contributed the money for
the erection OF the building.
The cost OF the building. which will
be capable of taking care of seventy
five inmates. as we'll as staff of ex-
pert childrens physicians and nurses,
Is estimated at $l6o COO. Plans are to be
filed with the Building Department
within a few days.
THE institution is designed to receive
children assigned to other charitable
inasitutons and do the preliminary
work of grading and classifying until
they are ready to go to their final
home with clean bill of health"
said Walter ID. Blair the architect.
oOilipittt lttoTuS Will bt iiiddt VI tntii
family history. pccul!arities of tempera-
ment and intellectual standing
The institutions for which the Kings
land Home will act as a clearing house
are the Sheltering Arms. the Society
for the Relief of Half Orphans and Des-
titute Children both OF New York city
ard the Leake & Watts Children's
Home Of Yonkers.
The structure is TO be a two and a
half story building OF brick and lime
stone 20 feet long with wing project
ing back l0l feet. There will he extern
sive quarters for doctors and matrons
and the children will have senarste bed
rooms. twenty-five on each floor
In addition to Mr.. Gould. among the
officers ot the institution are Dave IT,
Morris. 10 East Seventieth street. vice.
president. and Mrs. Lydia c. French,
80 Park avenue. secretary.
Mr. Gould's sister. Mrs. Finley j.
Shepard. has been interested for many
years in chsldren's homes. II will be
remembered that in 1915 she adopted a
4 year old boy taken from st. Christo-
prer's Home. in Dobbs Ferry. and some
time later adopted two other children
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
SONS WARNING NOTE
ENDS DIVORCE HEARING
HARVARD Boy in Court Threat.
ened a Tragedy.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
PROVIDENCE. II. l.. April IA warn
ing from their nineteen-year-old son, a
Harvard student. brought TO a dramatic
close the hearing of cross suits for di-
vorcc of Josiah II. Harvey, 63. and Min
ME Harvey, AZ, to-day
The father was testifyng when Dep
uty Sheriff Tillinghast hurried into the
room with q note written on the back
of bank check that had just been
handed to him in the corridor by the son.
Harold !. Harvey. The message. adj
dressed to Mrs. Harvey, read:
"If you love me as you say. and II
you continue the case. you'll have re-
grets. I'm leaving now for Howell street
If don't sec you in nine minutes, good
by"
sobbins. hurredly left the courthouse
together to go to their son in their How
ell street home
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
CASH BEoUEsT TO WESLEYAN
W. II. Hall Gives Daughter Key to
Wet Goods Cellar.

WIHsTED. Conn. April william RI.
Hall Of wellington. formerly state Sena-
tor. whose will was filed for probate in
rittsheld. Mass. yesterday. bcauoaths 20
Wesleyan University s25. 900 as an ath-
ietic fund and a Greek fraternity OF
Wesleyan $4,000 az an endowment. Tho
widow receives 100000 outright and
each of ave children $4,000
ono paragraph reads ~ give 10 my
daughter, Doris. the keys to tho brick
vault IN my cellar and I give her and
Ter alone tho entire contents OF said
vault. consisting % wet goods put W in
bottles. the same TO be hers forever
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
WIFE HAS HUSBAND
HELD FOR LARCENY
Governor Miller Issues Extra
dition Papers to Get j. H..
Walker Back to Queens.

In the request OF Gov Miller last night
that John II. Walker be released from
the town lookup in Media. "a. so New
York detectives may fetch him back tC
his home. Astoria, an extraordinary tale
OF marital chaos was revealed.
Mrs Walker charges ner husband
with grand larceny in the second degree
She specifies that while she was fighting
her way out OF Kings County Hospital
whittier Walker had managed to I'm
prison her on the plea that she was
insane, he fled from his home. ASS Third
avenue, Astoria, taking with him his
ten-year-old son and all Of his Wife s
personal property.
An indictment based on such charge
has been returned against Walker. Mrs.
Walker says he decamped March 81,
1921, and that she has been looking for
him ever since. Locating him In Media
she caused his arrest there and followed
that by fetching the boy back to New
York.
The Walkers were married twelve
years ago. Trouble started in 1919. Mrs.
Walker says that in that year her hus-
band stole and hid the boy. Then. she
swears. he hustled her to Bellevue and
had her detained in the psychopathic
ward. She had gone TO the hospital,
she SAYS. because he told her 1t was a
day nursery. Later he managed TO have
her committed to the Central Isllp Asy-
lum.
She fought for and won release. In
February. 1921, according to her affi-
davit. Walker caused his wife to be
taken to the Kings County Hospital.
where alienists observed her. Then he
started action for separation. Mrs.
Walker says he also installed another
woman in the Astoria home, telling
folks 1t was his sister. Mrs. Walker
was released from the Kings County
Hospital, and started counter action for
separation. alleging cruelty. Justice
Fawcett heard her side of the story and
dismissed Walkers suit. granted Mrs.
Walkers application and allowed 81 a
week and custody of the son to her.
Then Mrs. Walker started forth tc
find her husband and her son. District
Attorney Wallace of Queens applied T.
Gov. Miller for, extradition proceedings
the moment Mrs. Walker reported that
she had cornered the missing husband
and had seen him locked up in Media
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
Special Dispatch 10 THE NEW York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
WashincfAn. Id. O.. Anril IL. 4


Strong intimations that the Japanese
supported Gen. Semenoff's regime in ST.
IBERIA. during which. it is charged many
thousands were slaughtered or tortured
to death, were made to-day at the hear
ing by the Senate COMMITTEES on Educa-
tior, and Labor. The committee is con-
sidering deportation Of the Cossack chief
as an undesirable.
Capt E. L. Earle of St. Paul. who was
in Siberia as a British railway officer,
told the committee he would forget his
instincts of square dealing in order to
double cross the man who had caused
untold suffering ard distress in Siberia
by masking his murderous designs under
the false title OF Prince of Mongolia.
Capt. Earle admitted he seI:t telegram
to Senator Borah (daho), chairman OF
the committee. offering to pose as Sem
enoffs frierd in order TO get some real
information in reference to Toxic"
Further testimony to support the
theory the Japanese were backing Sem
enoff in Siberia was given by Lieut.-Col.
Charles III. Morrow. commander of the
Twerty first United States f giment.
which clashed with the Semenoff forces.
Col Morrow said he was averse to dis
cussng the political aspects Of the case.
but "the press reports tell Of nation
who's Prime Minister admitted that his
country had QUILTED Semenoff and sent
his troops into the field
John kirkland Clark, attorney for
Semenoff promised to have his client
appear before the committee next wtek
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
LIVING 54,7 PER CENT.
HIGHER THAN IN 1914
Conference Board Survey
Shows Sharp Decline in
Prices Has Slackencd.
SLIGHT MARCH DECREASE
Total Drop From Peak of Costs
in July. 1920, Has Been
Oil Per Cent.
SLIGHT MARCH DECREASE

The cost Of living in the United States
at the middle of March, so far as wage
earners' families were concerned. was
5f.7 per cent. higher than in July. 1914.
according to figures made public yester-
day by the National Industrial Confer
ence Board of 10 East Thirty-ninth
street. whic hhas just completed a sur
vey of the changes in the cost OF living.
But since July. 1920, when the peak of
the rise in cost was reached there has
been a decrease of 24.f per cent. and a
decrease of 10 per cent. was noted be-
tween the first of February Of this year
and the middle of March.
In statement containing the figures
the board declares that they are par
ticularly significant at this time. when
the cost of living Is en- important feature
in some of the current wage arbitra :
tions, such as those in the coal industry
and before the Railroad Labor Board.
The figures of he board indicate. the
statement says, that while the sharp de-
cline noted when prices first began to
fall has slackened considerably, there
has been a slight but steady decrease for
a year. with a total drop since. March.
1921 OF per cent.
The figurese on which the boards esti-
mates are based were obtained from
practically every city having a popula-
tion of $4,000 or more. and from many
smaller towns. The United States Bu-
reau of Labor statistics index number
CT retail food prices were used as indica-
tive of changes in the cost of that item.
The most important item. the board
says. in which a decrease was shown is
rents. which have declined all over the
country on an average of 2.5 per cent
SINCE November. 1921. or 163 cities
which reported on rents. fifty nine in
dicated that there had been a decrease
iii rents since last fall
According to the boards figures there
has been a drop Of Sc per cent. in food
costs within sthe last four months, and
decreases also in fuel prices. Clothing
prices continued to show a decline, the
tctal increase in the cost of clothing
over pre-war prices being 54 per cent
in March of this year. as against III
per cent. in March, 1920. Food prices.
according to the board. are now 80 per
cent. above pre-war prices. Rents are
Go per cent. higher and clothing 81 per
cent higher.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
MRS. MCCORMICK NEED
NOT PAY DUTY ON LACES
Threatened to Return $50, 900
Antiques to Sutherland

WAsHINoroN, April 1s.-Antique laces
valued at about $4,000 which Mrs.
Edith Rockefele" Mccormick Of Chicago
declared she would send back to Switzer-
land rather than pay .uty upon. nave
been held to be free from duty by the
Treasury. Assistant Secretary or the
Treasury Dover wrote to-day to Niels
JUL, Collector of Customs in Chicago. TO
release the laces from duty "as artistic
antiques in existence more than 100
years"
The Board % General Appraisers here
held that sewing the laces togethe~ for
exhibition purposes win another piece
of rare lace reduced to thread did not
make them duti5ble.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
EVERY DAY A BABY
GOES TO STRANGERS
Given or Sold Without Any
Regard to Infants Future,
Under Lax Laws.

A baby day is given away. or some
times even sold, to absolute strangers
who accept them without suggestion OF
legal formalities. according to a report
just prepared by the Child Placing
Agency of the State Charities Aid AS
ISOLATION
During the last six months says the
report "a careful investigator has been
following up advertisements appearing
in New York newspapers offering to give
away--or even sell--children for adop-
ton to anybody who applies for them.
and advertisements seeking children to
adopt, although adopt is scarcely the
word. The study shows these children
are taken from their mothers by strang-
ers without any legal formalities and
oftimes they are returned or passed from
one person to another for such trivial
reason as that they cried In some
cases all traces of the identity of the
child arc lost and it has not vestige
OF legal standing during the years TO
come
A record OF the organizations investi-
cation OF number OF advertisements
will appear in the forthcoming number
OF the State Charities Aid Association
Ncos in support of a campaign for leg
sation to prevent the indiscriminate
transfer OF children. The report adds.
"The brief study made by the State
Charities Aid Association has disclosed
some Of the many evils involved in the
careless giving away OF children through
newspaper advertisements, but the fact
that such practice Is not illegal is only
another Indication OF the inadeauacy and
confusion of the New York State laws
relating to children. The Association
realizing this engaged an expert some
time ago TO compile all OF the provisions
OF the law relative to children. now scat
tered through many statutes and codes
"a thing which has never been done be-
fore-and after bringing together and
comparing all legal provisions in rcla-
tion to each phase of child welfare. to
draft the necessary legislation TO clarity
and supplement these laws. Some i'm
portant legislation so drafted was en-
acted at the session just closed and
other bills await consideration next
wear
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
ANSWERS 'CHAUTAUQUA
LECTURER OF FLORIDA
University President Won't
Glue Religious VieUs.

MADISON. Wis, April 13.--The de-
mand of William j. Bryan made in a
letter recently. that President 70. a..
Birge of the University Of Wisconsin
state his views on certain religious doc
trines for the benefit Of the taxpayers
of Wisconsin," was answered to-day by
President Birge in a statement saying
that he did not believe that the tax
payers have now designated a chau-
tauqua lecturer from Florida to start a
theological Grand Jury Inquiry of this
kind in their name"
Mr.. Bryan months ago declared
President Birge to be an atheist. Mr.
Birge to-day said that he had lived in
Wisconsin nearly fifty years and the
taxpayers "have seemed wholly content
that / should lead my religious life in
freedo mwithout interference and in ac-
cordance with the guarantee OF our con-
stitution.'
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
PARDON CRUSADERS
MOBILIZE IN ST. LOUIS
Wives of War Prisoners to
March to White House.

ST. LOUIS. April 1S.-The vanguard
of the "Women's and Children's Army
which will leave here Monday on a pill
grimage to Washington to ask Presiden-
tial pardons for husbands and fathers
serving prison sentences for violations
of war time acts. arrived TODAY.
From the Southwest came six women
and seventeen children Several scores
of crusaders" are expected for the
start and others will be picked up on the
way.
The Crusade" was organized by Mrs.
Kate Richards O'Hara Of this city, So
cialist leader
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
GIRL STUDENT WINS
SUIT, BUT DENIED WRIT
Face PoUder Ban Ruled Un-
lust: Can't Reenter School.

CORNING. Ark. April 1S.-Althougb
last night he held that the ruling OF the
school board at Nnobe forbidding girl
students using face powder was
unjust Circuit Judge w. W Eandy to-
day refused Miss Pearl Pugsley's appli-
cation for writ Of mandanue to COM
pol the board TO readmit her to high
school following her dismissal last Sep
tomber.
In his decision Judge BanGy held that
face powder did not interfere with the
health Of the pupils and they could use
il if they wished.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
TINT BLAST RAINS TONS
OF ROCK ON UTAH TOWN
PoWder Explosion Kills Three
in Charleston, S. c.

SALT LAKE CITY. April 13.---One and
one-half tons of TINT exploded to-day
near Helper, Utah. and threw hundreds
OF tons OF rock upon the town. No fatal
tiles were reported. The explosion oc-
Cured during blasting operations and
damaged the business district heavily,
One rock weighing about five tons
buried itself six feet deep alongside the
State road. Pebbles rained through
windows.
CHARLESTON. 5. c.. April 15.-Three
workmen are reported killed and several
others injured IN an explosion OF 10000
pounds of powder this Afternoon In a
building near the Charleston General
Ordnance Depot, ten miles from here.
The New York herald., 1922-04-14
SENATE VOTES Sc, 500
TO KEEP IL HOLSTEINS
Cuts $4,000 for 'Poulfryman
With No Poultry

WAsHrHGToN. April Is. = Proposals
that $12.50o be appropriated for the
Woodward, Okla. live stock breeding
station of the Department of Agriculture
rpused the sardonic ire of Senators to-
day and only $500 was allowed.
The station has only twelve Holstein
cows said Senator McNary (Ore). Re
publican. This proposed increase would
provide for poultryman when there is
no poultry to keep"
1T would make Congress the goat, :
said Senator King CUtah). Democrat, to
a suggestion that goats be propagated at
the station.