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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1922-08-04
STEPS TAKEN TO
AVOID Bee LOSS
Isle of Wight Disease Cause of
Serious Injury to Industry
in Parts of Europe.
SPECIALISTS HOLD MEETING
All Feasible Efforts to Be Made to
Prevent Introduction Of Queen
Bees From Foreign Countries,
Except Canada.

prepared by the United States Departmes.
OF AGrieulture.)
Serious rarages causing almost com.
plete destruction of the beekeepinc in
dustry in parts of Europe by the Isle
OF Wight disease has started deter
mined action by American beekecpcrs
10 save their business from similar
losses. Thus far the disease has not
gained footh0ld I'm this country or
In Canadn, and 1t is believed that
should the disease become established
here beekeeperS. queen breeders and
manufacturers of bee supplies would
quickly be ruined and horticultural In
tercsts would be seriously damaged
AS a first step toward preventing
this. meeting was held recently at
the bureau OF entomology Of the
United States Department Of Apricul-
ture, which was attended by special
lists from several states and Canada
who are Interested in protective meas
ures.
Prevent Introduction Of Bees.
The meeting decided to use all feasi-
bic efforts to prevent the introduc-
ton OF queen bees from all foreign
countries except Canada, and to dis
courage the Introduction Of adult bees
into the United States except for ex-
perimental and scientific purposes by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture. Since there is no known
Isle Of Wight disease in Canada and
since 1t Is hoped and expected that
the Dominion of Canada will establish
the same safeguards to the beekeeping
industry, 1t Is planned not to establish
any guarantees or prohibitions
against shipments Of bees from and to
Canada.
All the men who attended the meet
ing We're OF the opinion that the Isle
OF Wight disease would be such a
serious menace to beekeeping on this
continent that every possible step
should he taken to prevent it's intro
duction. All importation Of queen bees
should he stopped, they believed. Pend
Ing full legislation in this matter, the
conferees are hopeful that beekeepers
In both countries will cooperate to
the fullest extent by making no at
tempt to Introduce adult bees. ANY
queen breeder who introduced this dis
ease into the country would be doing
9 great damage to the beekeepIpRe In
dustry that would be a serious draw
back TO future business 1t was said.
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WHAT SHE FOUND
BY NETTiE B. TANNING

Two days before the midwinter ban
Quet OF the Grecneville Literary So
ciety. Mrs. Fleming was finishing the
decOllete gown which she had planned
TO wear On that occasion. Ii was be-
fore the time Of backless boGices and
she was afraid she bad been almost
TOO daring In planning that kind OF a
gown when most of the ladies would
wear ~" neck. and their long
sleeved "undIes" would probably show
through their chiffon or crepe de chine
sleeves.
Although not fashionable rs to
clothes, the club was very exclusive
and SO old that Its charter members
had grown white haired or hald-head-
ed, according to their respective sex
II was composed of doctors, lawyers
ministers and their wives, school
teachers of varying ages and few
others. Mrs. Fleming WAS one of the
others. There were two bachelors. Mr..
Black and Mr.. Tilden. the always i'm
maculate principal OF the grammar
SCHOOL. thirty-iive, r:rk-cheeked and
SIX feet two.
Young Mrs. Fleming sighed as she
Sewed. She wished she could do some
thing to wake up the club. They were
100 Snug and comr!acent. They Ind
had the same president for 10 years.
A telephone call INTERRUPTED Mrs.
Fleming's musings. 1t was the chair
man OF the banquet committee. who
said that Mrs Worden would be un-
able to be at the banquet and would
Mrs. Fleming please All In her place on
the program.
Mrs. Fleming promised to see what
she could do, put on her things and
started for the library On her way
she met Miss Davids. a club member,
and stopped to chat with her. AS they
parted few torn scraps Of paper
slipped unnoticed from miss David's
notebook and fell at Mrs. Fleming's
feet. She looked down at them, then
picked them up, tucked them into her
purse and hastily turned toward home,
where she spent some time In neatly
patching the pieces together, picture
puzzle fashion.
Two nights later the banquet pro-
dressed from fruit cocktails to demi-
tAsse Then the tables were cleared
and speeches we're in order.
When Mrs. Fleming was called Oh
ehe arose, looked stea oily at Mr.. TIL
den until he blushed, then unfolded q
aisreputable looking paper, laid 1t On
the table face down and began gravely
1.-Two days ago started for the H.
brary to search for something to read
tonight. little thinking that I would
soon be unravelling a battling mystery
concerning three of our prominent club
members. TO say that ! have been
alternately interested, curious, aston
ished and shocked at what l have
learned, family expressed my emo
tons. Before reaching the library ]
stopped to chat moment with Miss
IaVios. After we parted / noticed
some bits Of paper on the walk. They
must have fallen from her notebook
MS we were TALKING IN ONO ~ tho
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The New York herald., 1922-10-26
KARDOS&BURKEPuT
DEBT AT $2,156,O76
Bankruptcy Schedules List
Assets of Known Value
at $258,076.

Schedules in the bankruptcy OF
Kardos & Burke, brokers of the Con-
solidated Stock Exchange, were filed
yesterday in the United States District
Court. showing liabilities Of $2,156, 076.
The assets. whose valuation is fixed,
total $25S,076.
The schedules were filed after hear
ing before Referee Peter B. Olney, Jr.,
6S William street, where creditors
raised such a rumpus that the ap-
pointment of an accountant to go over
the books of the firm was authorized
over the protest of the trustees attor-
ney. Such an appointment heretofore
has been left to the discretion Of the
trustee.
There were present twenty or
twenty-five creditors whose claims
amount to s165,000. Feeling against
David W. Kahn of 100 Broadway, at
torney for the trustee, was so strong
that Benjamin Bulmer of 32 Nassau
street, attorney for creditors present,
appealed to the referee to direct Kahn
to display more friendly attitude
toward the creditors" The referee dis
missed the request as improper One
of the creditors told Kahn: "You are
the best attorney the bankrupt has"
Kahn opposed the demand for an ac-
CT untant with the representation that
those making the request were only IAN
infinitesimal part of the creditors" The
referee obtained an estimate of their
claims showing the s165.000 total. and
replied:
You may call that infinitesimal II
you like. but l do not"
Mr.. Olney fixed Wednesday as the
date when final arrangements for an
accountants examination of the books
would be made.
Mr.. Ross said the bankrupts would
welcome such an examination. He said
his clients believe the assets to be
S5S. III, exclusive of real estate of John
Burke, formerly Treasurer of the United
States, partner with Kardos. The real
estate is in North and South Dakota
and Iowa. 1t has not been appraised.
Kardos said the liability figure included
sl.500o00 of unsecured claims. He ex-
planned that the expenses of his firm
were 81, 800, 900 q year and that losses
In departments were heavy. The run"
on the firm lasted a month. he said,
before the firm went under. and in that
month he paid out 81. 800. 900 to customers
The schedule figures are not greatly
different from the estimates at the time
the involuntary bankruptcy petition was
filed. The firm owes creditors who held
securities s655.169. Among them are the
following stock brokers. with whom
Kardos & Burke did business: Sexsrnith.
s23.65o; +. Meyer, $685.: Rodney &
Co. s2.1oo: S. S Ruskay. se.14s: Thomas
II. Cowley & Co.. 1912; e. NJ. Fuller.
$5.302 Howell & Wales, 81 2s2 Kohler,
Bremen e. Co.. ss.s40: II. T. Greenwood
S11,175. and the Mercantile Trust and
Deposit Company of Baltimore. So, 900
No list of the securities is given.
The list of trade account balances
totals 81 492,242. The assets listed consist
4 fixtures. furniture, &c, s6s 900, and
balances due the firm from trading ac-
counts, s190.076
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
HERMIT FOUND DEAD
UPON LONELY ROAD
Mystery Man. With 1865 in
Pockets, Believed Rob
bers' Victim.

EGG HARBoR, n. j.. Oct. 25.--John
Ditch so years old. an eccentric and al
ways considered mystery man." was
found dead late last night.
Henry Lehneis and August Weber. two
young men returning from duck hunting,
discovered the body ten feet from the
main road between here and Green
Banks The body lay on its back. the
arms stretched above the head. Finger
nail gashes on both wrists were the only
marks
Twenty feet away was a burlap bag
in which Ditch was taking home his
weekly purchase of provisions. He made
these trips on foot.
Ditch had in his overalls pocket 1866.
Police are working on the theory that
some one who had seen him exhibit the
roll of bills while making purchases held
him UP on the lonely road.
The finger nail gashes on the wrists
lead to this theory. Death followed, 1t
is believed. as a result of heart failure
in the struggle.
Ditch had $1,000 in a local bank. He
arrived here about forty years ago. For
thirty EIGHT years the hermit made his
home In a dugout back In the swamps
away from civilization. Ditch was we'll
educated and spoke eight languages
fluently. He had no relatives except a
brother in New York, with whom he did
rot correspond. He was born in France
During a spell of good humor unusual
with him he confidsd to an acquaintance
here that he lived the hermit life because
he had killed a. sailor during brawl in
Spain.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
BROKER TRIO CHARGED
WITH $4,000 SWINDLE
Client Declares He Got
Neither Stock Nor Money.

Three stock brokers. doing business
as Morgan. Stern & Co.. 80 Broad
street. were arrested yesterday and ar
raigned in police court. Jamaica. l.. T.,
on a charge Of swindling Richard c.
Sack of Jamaica out OF about 100000
worth OF stock.
The brokers are Harry Klein and
Simon S. Robins or Brooklyn and Harry
Parker, lis West Seventy second street.
They were held in $4,000 for hearing
this morning.
Sack said on June | he gave them
1.SS5 shares OF Empire steel and Tube
stock to sell. The brokers informed
him. he said. that they could dispose of
block of $500 shares to a prospective
customer. and he sent them s5.e67.50 TO
buy the additional shares. In July. he
said they offered to exchange the stock
for United Food Products on the plea
II would be easier TO dispose Of. and he
consented. He said he had never been
able to get stock or money.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
DR.. w. w. KEEN SAYS DISEASE
IS BEING CHECKED AT BIRTH
Noted Philadelphan Gets Medal for Conspicuous Con-
tributions to Advancement of Surgery-Re-
views Sixty Years of Sciences Progress.

BosToN, Oct. 25.-Dr. William w.
Keen of Philadelphia tonight received
the Henry Jacob Bignlow medal for
conspicuous contribution to tie advance
ment of surgery at a meeting of the
Boston Surgical Society held in connec-
tion with the clinical congress of the
American College of Surgeons.
The award, the second made. was de-
livered by DIR. Harvey Gushing. president
of the American College. The first
award was 70 DR.. William ]. Mayo. the
medal fund having BEEN established in
1914.
DR.. Keen. who began his study of sur
gerry in 1860, spoke on Sixty Years of
Surgery-1S62 to 1922" When he was
a medical student anaesthesia was first
coming into use, methods OF checking
blood flow in operations were primitive
and germs and gern,icides were un-
known
He mentioned as one of the first cases
at which he assisted. an operation per-
formed on an army officer who had
been pierced with an Indians arrow,
clinical thermometers were making the.-
advent and the physician observed fever
by placing his hand on the patient $
neck and arms. Hospitals. he said. were
avoided as if leprous instead of serving
as the surgeons best refuge.
Vaccination (May a. 1850. anaesthe
sia October 16. 1Si6), and antisepsis are
the three greatest blessings in the reatn
OF medicine conferred on man since tbs
Christian era began" said DIR. Keen.
Pasteur's work was fundamental. LIS
ters genius applied Pasteurs discover
les to surgery. This wrought the great
est revolution surgery has ever W.T.
messed. The germ theory of disease is
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
VOTE ON DIR. FOSDICK
PROTEST. WAS SPLIT
Philadelphia Presbytery Stood
~ For, 21 Against
Complaint.
OVERTURE MADE PUBLIC
Asks Special Action to Make
First Church Preaching
Conform.
OVERTURE MADE PUBLIC

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 25 - Nineteen
members of the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia objected TO the action Of the Pres
bytery last week in sending an overture
to the General Assembly protesting the
sermons the Rev. DIR. Harry Emerson
Fosdick is preaching in the First Pres
byterian Church, New York. Despite
their protest the overture was author
lied by vote of ~ to 81.
The protesting members included the
Rev. DIR. Alexander MacColl, Walter S.
McInnes, the Rev. DR.. Edward Yates
Hill, the Rev. Edward b. Shaw. the Rev.
DR.. John A. MacCallum, Isaac Porter.
the Rev. DIR. George L. Barnes, George
w. Magee. the Rev. III. Alfred Boggs,
the Rev. Clifford l.. Leduc. the Rev. Ar
thur Phillips. Harry c. Troutman. the
Rev. Herman p. Guhse. the Rev. DIR.
John Allan Blair, DR.. Collin Foulkrod,
the Rev. DR.. j. Gray Bolton, John Bax-
ter, the Rev. Walter Lims and the Rev.
Almer w. Karnell.
The overture. published this morning
in the Presbyterian, asks the General
Assembly Ito take special action as will
require the preaching and teaching of
the First Presbyterian Church of New
York to conform to the system of doc
trine taught in the confession of faith"
DIR. Fosdick is not mentioned in the
overture.
In addition, the Presbytery calls at
tention to a pledge made by commits
sioners representing the New York
Presbytery at the General Assembly of
1915 at Atlantic City. when an over
ture from the Presbytery of Cincinnati
py.ou ulNufa he
exscinded from the Presbyterian
Church because of it's action in licensing
candidates for the ministry whose opin-
ions did not conform to the confession
of faith.
The overture points. out that the COM
missioners from New York Presbytery
expressed their pain and grief that
such summary action should be pro-
posed, and upon their written pledge that
the New York Presbytery would conform
hereafter to Presbyterian standards the
matter was dropped.
'Exscind" Is the official language of
the Presbyterian church for casting the
New York Presbytery out Of the Pres
byterian family.
In his description of the proceedings
at the adjourned meeting in Chambers
Wylie Church. at which the overture
was adopted by Philadelphia Presbytery.
the Rev. DR.. David S. Kennedy declares
that the Rev. DIR. Clarence Edward Ma
cartney originally intended his protest
to be fraternal communication to the
New York Presbytery.
Objection by the liberals that the paper
was in the nature of a complaint and
therefore out OF order. as one presby-
ery~could not complain to another pres
bytery both being courts Of equal Stand
ing, made 1t necessary for the Philadel-
phia Presbytery to appeal to the superior
judicatory--the General Assembly.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
WILL DEPORT SON, 10,
LEAVING PARENTS HERE
Ruling Made in Case of Amer
icon War Veterans Child.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25.--Despite ju-
dicial sympathy the immigration laws
were found infiexible to-day in the case
of Michele Fornabaio, aged 10, who was
ordered deported back to Italy from
Ellis Island last summer in spite of the
entreaties of his father and mother. who
were allowed to remain.
The father, who served In the United
States Army during the war. succeeded
with a writ of habeas corpus In having
the son released from Genoa bound
ship as she stopped at this port en- route
from New York. Ground for the de-
portation order was mental deficiency.
After indicating his sympathy for the
family's plight Judge Dickinson. in the
United States District Court, ruled that
the decision of the Federal medical au-
thorities is final. and suggested that IL
the father. mother and son desire to
remain together the alternative Is to
return to their native country.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
ALLEGEDCONFESSION
CLEARS STOCK THEFT
Irving Miller, %, of Jersey
City, Said to Have Got Job
So He Could Steal.

Irving MILLER alias ~. S. Gordon" 23
mitted last night, the police say that he
got job as messenger with Clark
Childs & Co, brokers, of 165 Broadway.
in order to make for himself an onpor-
tunity for security thefts. The oppor-
tunity came after he had been with
the company only three days and when
a thousand shares of negotiable stock
of the Great Northern Railway Company
were intrusted to him for delivery to
customer of the firm he disappeared.
According TO Miller's story he was the
dupe of another man He had never
had any experience with brokerage
houses, but one day he met a man who
gave his name as Moskowitz, he said,
who suggested that he get a job with a
bond house. saying that he had broker
through whom stoleE securities could
be disposed of at approximately 10 per
cent. of their value. He went 70 work
for Clark, Childs & Co. last June, under
the name of j. S. Gordon.
On the first and second days I was
'ntrusted with only securities of small
value" said Miller, but on the third
dsJ my employers turned over ten GER
'ificetes of 100 shares each of the stock
Of the Great Northern to deliver to a
customer. took 1t directly to my home
H. Jersey City and sent for 'Mosko-
witz'"
The stock at that time had a value
If about 100000. 1t is worth more than
that now.
Miller said that "Moskowitz" stayed
1t his home for about week. putting
on from day to day the matter of in
Producing him to the broker who would
dispose of the stock. Finally he gave
HE stock to "Moskowitz," he said, and
TIE latter promised to take it to the
broker and return with half the pro-
teeds. He never returned and Miller
has not received anything from the
stock. he declares.
One of the certificates has since been
recovered, but it's recovery did not
throw any light on the identity of
"Moskowitz." Henry Spering, 30, of 325
Lexington avenue. formerly manager of
the Harlem office of f. d. DER e. Co.
defunct brokerage concern, was ar
rested when he attempted to dispose of
It on September 2s. Spering declared he
had come into possession of the certifi-
cate through a legitimate transaction.
He Is now under $500 tail pending a
Grand Jury investigation.
Detectives Mayer and Brown arrested
Miller in his home last night after be-
ing on his trai. since June. He has a
wife and a little boy
Had II not been or them I would
have committed suicide" the prisoner
told the police.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
c. w. MORSE TESTIFIES
IN SHIP BOARD CASE
Appears in Virginia Company
Suit for Sc, 100000.

ALEXANDRIA Va. Oct 25.--Seizure by
the Shipping Board OF nine vessels be-
longing TO the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor
poration, the basis Of suit by the cor
poration to recover $4,000. .000 was due
to alleged violations of contract by the
shipbuilding concern, according to tes-
tlmony in Federal Court here to-day by
Rear Admiral Benson, retired, a Com
missioner and former chairman OF the
board. Admiral Benson asserted that
the corporation had broken three
clauses OF it's contract which was re-
garded as warrantng the Shipping
Board i'm taking over the boats involved.
Charles w. Morse Of New York. for
mer president Of the Virginia corpora
tion. was a witness to-day FOR brief
technical details on contracts.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26

no longer a theory but an abundantly
proved fact.
'Our then so-called sanitation was in
effective because our real enemies-the
bacteria--were unknown, Now santa
ton is our principal reliance, because
its sound basis Is bacteriology.
''On the head, the chest and abdomen
was writ large, Hands off. and no
wonder. Before the days of Lister
death from meningitis, from violent
pleurisy or pneumonia and from viru-
lent pleurisy was almost always the re-
suit OF any operation in these three
cavities.
"One strange exception was trephin-
ing. Archaeologists have found even
prehistoric skulls with multiple trephine
openings in the same skull the margins
of the openings in the bone from pre-
vious operations being soundly healed.
After single battle In the Russian
campaign Larrey, Napoleon's great sur
geon, performed not less than 200 ampu-
tations. To-day. of 200 similar cases.
sometimes with wounds involving joints.
we can conserve the majority of these
useful limbs without amputations.'
Passing to the exposition of recent
surgical advances by which the head.
the chest with its vital organs. the abb
domen and even the spine are invaded
by the surgeons knife with only mod
crate danger in the most severe cases,
DIR. Keen said
I'VE are gradually throttling disease
at its very birth and preventing it's on
slaught upon the health of the world
At noon Prof. II. j. Hamburger of
Groningen. Holland. noted Dutch physi-
ologist, addressed a meeting OF the Har-
ward Research Club at which delegates
to the surgeons congress were present.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
HARDING APPROVES
OBJECTS OF NAVY DAY
Says Fleets Record Is One to
Inspire Pride.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Presiden,
Harding's approval OF the celebration OF
Navy Day on Friday is expressed in the
following letter to Secretary Denby:
MY DEAR SECRETARY DENNY:
Thank you for your note which
brings assurance of the notable sue
cess which seems certain to attend tho
celebration of Navy Day on Friday.
October 81. In commemoration of past
and present services OF the navy.
From our earliest national beginnings
the navy has always been, and de-
served to be, an object of special pride
to the American people. It's record is
indeed one to inspire such sentiments
and ! am very sure that such COM
memoration as is planned will be a
timely reminder.
II ls we'll for us to have in mind
that under a program of lessening
navy armaments there Is a greater
reason for maintaining the highest
efficiency, fitness and morale in this
branch OF the national defensive serv-
ice. l know how earnestly the navy
personnel is devoted to this ideal and
want you 10 be assured OF my hearty
concurrence.
Yours sincerely,
WARREN G.. HARDING.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
Pennsylvania Railroad
Is Back on 6 P. c. Basis
QUARTERLY dividend OF

A QUARTERLY dividend of
~ IL per cent. was declared
yesterday by the directors
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. an
increase of one-half of / per cent.
over the last previous dividend. 1t
is payable on November 29 to stock
holders of record of November l.
Pennsylvania stock sold at 491a on
transactions of 2,700 shares inn
mediately after the announcement
of the dividend, an increase of more
than a point over Tuesday nights
closing prices.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
SUAfMONSES AGAINST
TWO BROKERS DISMISSED
Magistrate Clears Mckenno
and BroLDn of Larceny.

Magistrate Smith in Tombs court yes
terday dismissed grand larceny sum-
mons against william n. McKenna and
Algernon Brown, partners in the bank
rupt firm of William II. McKenna &
Co. stock brokers. Benjamin Levine OF
1913 East Twelfth street, Brooklyn a
customer, alleged that he paid $4,000 for
Loft stock through the uptown office of
McKenna & Co.. 25 West Forty-third
street, but was unable to obtain de-
livery.
Magistrate Smith held that the COM
plainant failed to show that McKenna
or Brown had personal knowledge Of
the transaction. which. Levine said. took
place through an agent.