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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
3 BOATS BURN
OFF SEWAREN
Flames From Burning Brush
Spread to Boats in
Smiths Creek

WOODBRIDGE. March 29--
Thrl ~ motor boats, the total value
being S10,500 were destroyed by
fire early today, when the flames
from burning brush in the vicinity
OF the Motor Boat Club at SeWaren.
spread to them. The flames are
believed to have started from sparks
from an engine on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, setting fire TO
the grass along the track. which,
famed by the high wind, ate their
way through the brush to the place
at the club where the boats had
been hauled from the water for the
winter.
TheI oats destroyed are ILosc Of
Alfred Simonsen, Hans Hanson and
E. W. Christie. The Simonsen craft
was the first one attacked by the
flames and this vessel, valued at 81.
500, was soon a mass of roaring
flames. The next one to burn was
that belonging to Hanson. This
vessel was valued at $500. The
Christie boat, which was the last in
the path of the flames was valued
at $500, and is also a total loss.
But for the hard work Of the
f1remen the club house would also
have burned.
The alarm was turned IN at
O'Clock and twenty-five firemen re-
sponded. Chief Peter Greiner, Jr.,
and Assistant Chief Leo Goriss, d.
rected the fighting. It was not IN
i'll after a two hour battle that the
fire was extinguished. The firemen
declared they suffered each minute
with the cold while fighting the
blaze.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
RAZOR v|CT|M
WILL RECOVER
Man Arrested in Case on Bail
Will be Given Hearing in
aFeW Days

In two or three days, physicians
say, George Saloons thirty-flve years
old, a Serbian, who was cut across
the throat in the barber shop of the
Garaffa brothers at 293 Smith street
yesterday morning, will be able TO
leave the hospital.
Fourteen stitches were taken in
the wound which extends almost
from ear to ear, but which was not
deep enough to prove fatal. Angelo
Garaffa, forty years old, the older
of the two brothers, was arrested
by Officers Charles Jorgenson and
Nels Lybeck, when he was seen US
ing a stick on Saloon.
Angelo ran back into the store
where he was arrested by Officer Jor-
genson, but his younger brother
Sam and a helper. made a getaway.
Officer Lybeck arrested Thomas
ManglncasaIe, an Italian laborer, a
customer in the store at the time OF
the occurrence.
Ordered to change to plain clothes
Yesterday afternoon, Officer Jorgen-
son arrested Joseph Dragotta, of 4So
Johnstone street, the third barber
in the shop. A search of Sam Ga
raffa's home and the entire Italian
district in the town was without
result.
This morning Garaf1a was released
in $4,000 bail pending hearing,
which will be held when the injured
man leaves the hospital. David T.
Wilentz appeared for the defendant
this morning. Manglancasale and
Dragotta have also been released un-
til wanted. Meanwhile the search
FNr 20 ~ Cara ffa continues.
Two blood stained BARRIERS coats
two razors and a club, are among the
things taken by the police as evil
dence. One razor, it is said. was car
ried to telephone booth several
doors away.
There are numerous stories being
spread regarding the cause of the
cutting match, but the real story
may never be made known. Garaffa
and Saloon were Sood friends, it is
said,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Relief is Promised

NEW YORK. Mar. 29:-With the
Thermometer early :)dey lowering
about the IL above zero mark, two
degrees below vest rday's record low
temperature, the weather bureau
promised surcease from the Storm
Kings grin later in the day.
Yesterday was the coldest March
2S in the New York weather bu-
reau's records. The coldest March
weather previously recorded in fifty
one years was in 1878, when it was
10. From o'clock Tuesday after
noon to midnight Wednesday the
mercury travelled Sc degrees down
ward.
New Workers, who last week
thought they had greeted 1925
spring as a permanent guest, dis
carded light topcoats and silken hose
and returned to mufflers, storm
great coats and woolen hose.
Fair, with rapidly rising temper
ature" was the bland promise for to-
day, but the weather bureau limited
that a promised northwest wind
would bring a disagreeable Easter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

Present import Duties "Even
Partially Responsible" Says
Democratic Chairman

WASHINGTON, March 29.--
While the tariff commission was pre-
pairing for broadened inquiry to de-
termine, in accordance with Presi-
dent Harding's instructions, where
present import duties were 'even
partially responsible" for high sugar
prices, Cordell Hull. chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, de-
clared in q published statement TO-
day that it had become the duty of
the commission to report "immedi-
ateiy" to the President that it was
partially responsible"
Chairman Hull asserted that on q
Buyers market" fifty per cent re-
duction in the sugar tariff, which the
President would be authorized 10
make under the flexible provisions
of the tariff act would certainly re-
duce the retail price between two
and three cents a pound"
although the President finds it
hard to believe that the tariff is re-
price of sugar." Mr.. Hull said, "the
tariff commission should neverthe-
less do its plain duty in the matter,
in order that the President may car
ry out his promise and thus give the
public some measure of relief.
when the government gets in dis
tress as a result of this tariff infla-
ton on sugar as we'll as other COM
modities, it would do something to
relieve the situation and not sub
missively continue to take its share
of the loot"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

WASHINGTON. March 29.-The
March lion and the March lamb,
who have been playing hide-and-
seek during tho month, today
seemed to have completely reversed
the traditional order of things and
in some sections a. least the month
gave every indication of going out
with q wintry roar.
Weather bureau officials, in maxi
ing public record eaking tempera-
lures in the east and middle west for
SO lato in the season, also announced
that this March had taken the
palm" from all others, notwith-
standing that the month is noted for
it's tickle temper.
Some of the thermometer readings
telegraphed in today, all of them
marking new low points, We're:
Washington, IS; Harrisburg. Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia, IA; Erie, s.;
Albany. N. Y, zero; Buffalo, 6; Fort
Wayne, Ind, IA; Greenyille, Maine,
IS below, and White River, Ontario,
so below.
Weather bureau officials said the
shifts had been sc rapid this month
tina: they had been kept 'on their
toes" In many instances it had
been necessary to predict cold and
warm weather for the same twenty
four hours, due 10 lightning like
shifts. This was illustrated in a re-
port of conditions now existing in
the atmosphere.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
HEARING MONDAY
FOR PATROLMAN
Officer Louis Hansen Will
Come Before AIdermanic
Police Committee

Notice has been served on PATROL
man Louis Hansen to appear before
the aldermanic police committee in
the council chamber at City Hall
next Monday night at Z o'clock to
answer charges preferred against
him by Sergeant Frank Kasprzak.
There are several counts TO the
charges against the officer. one of
the last appointed TO the local force.
The sergeant, according to his re-
port, heard the jingle of money in
passing a Washington street estab-
lishment early one Sunday morning
and, going to the front window, saw
the officer conversing over the bar
with the owner while three men
were seated at table playing cards.
When ! sen opened the door to
leave the building the sergeant walk
ed in and arrested the three men
for playing cards and the proprietor
for conducting a disorderly house.
Cards and a sum of money, over $40,
were seized. The owner of the estab-
lishment was acquitted but the three
men were fined.
City Attorney David T. Wilentz
viii conduct the case for the city.
1t is not known who will represent
the officer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
DOCTOR IS HELD
FOR GRAND JURY
DR.. CobIe Pleads Not Guilty
Valves Hearing in Police
Court Here

Harry S. Medinets, representing
DR.. Morris S. Coble, of State and
Washington streets, entered a plea
of not guilty to the charge of crini-
nal abortion made against the doctor
by Joseph Reder, of Lewis street, in
the local police court at a special
session this morning and then
waived a hearing.
Recorder Harold E. Pickersgill
ordered the doctor held in $4,000
bail to await the action of the grand
jury following the action of the
physicians attorney. Medinets was
in consultation with Assistant Prose-
cutor John Z. Toolan before he in
formed the court that he would
waive a hearing.
Coble was arrested on complaint
of Reder who, it is said, claimed that
his wife Eva died following "a oper-
alton. An autopsy was performed
upon the disinterred body of the
woman last Friday afternoon and
peritonitis, it was reported, was
found to be the cause OF her death.
The autopsy was performed by DR..
Frank c. Henry, Sr.
Following his arrest bail for Coble
was fixed at $4,000 pending hear
ing. The hearing was originally
scheduled for last Monday morning
but was postponed at request of
counsel.
This morning Leo S. Lowenkopf,
counsel for the complainant had as
sociated with him Edmund Hayes of
New Brunswick. They were pre-
pared to start questioning City Ply
sician DIR. j. v. Smith when the an
nouncement by Mr.. Medinets was
made.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
PRISON TERM
FOR BANDIT IN
R. R. ROBBERY
Man Who Robbed Station
Agent at CliffWood Near
MataWan Sentenced
Is TO IL YEARS TERM
Another Example of Swift
Jersey Justice This Time
in Monmouth

FREEHOLD, March 29.-Cap-
tured Saturday & few hours after he
had attacked seventy-year- old
Charles Clark, station agent at Cliff
wood, near Matawan, and stolen SIS
from his pockets, Frank Misiak,
twenty -one years old, yesterday
waived indictment and pleaded gull
ty OF robbery and was sentenced by
Judge Lawrence to six to twelve years
in state prison. M.siak appeared at
the Cliffwood stati )n few moments
after Mr.. Clark had opened and de-
manded all the money in the place.
Clark at first thought Misiak was
fooling with him, but was quickly
tisillusioned when N;siak grasped
him by the throat ana choked him
and went through his pockets and
took his money. An alarm was
sounded and Misiak was captured
by railroad detectives as he was
crossing the railroad bridge at
Morgan.
In 1919 Misiak was sentenced to
the state reformatory at Railway for
robbing Casey's lunch wagon at Key
port. When arraigned yesterday he
told Judge Lawrence he had moth
ing to say beyond the statement that
he was guilty of the crime now
charged In answer to the courts
questions, however, he said that his
parents reside in Trenton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
OFFICER R|EDY
STILL ON DUTY
IN TRAFF|CHU
Naming of Riedy Causes Diff
ficutly Between Waters,
Mayor and Chief
aTANGLE is NOT AIRED
Likely to End in Lengthy and
Heated Controversy Before
it is Ended
>TANGLE IS NOT AIRED

Officer John Riedy today took up
his post as traffic officer in the
booth at Fayette street and NeY
Brunswick avenue, succeeding Chris
ian Hansen, who completed his ac-
tive term of service on the local
police force yesterday. The naming
of Officer Riedy to the post of traf-
dc officer is reported to have caused
some difficulty between Chief Niels
J.. Tonnesen, Alderman Albert G.
Waters, the chairman of the police
committee, and Mayor Wilson, as
the chief is said to have selected
Officer Riedy for the position and
instructed him to commence work
soday without first taking the matter
7irectIy up with Alderman Waters
The tangle has not been aired in
public as yet, but there seems to De
possibility of a lengthy and heat
ed controversy in order to determine
who has the authority to make
changes and give orders in the po-
ice department.
AS far as can be learned the name
of Officer Riedy, who is a son of
Alderman Benjamin A. Riedy, was
suggested by Mayor Wilson to Chief
Tonilesen as the successor to Traf-
fc Officer Hansen. The chief is re-
ported to have acted favorably upon
the suggestion and is said to have
been told that Alderman Waters did
not object to Officer Riedy's being
given the post. The fact that the
chief did not first consult the chair
man of the police committee is now
said to have resulted in the chiefs
receiving instructions from Alder
man Waters not to allow Officer
Rtedy to continue on his new post as
traffic officer. Officer Riedy was do
ing duty this morning, however.
The question which may be set
tied once for all, if the controversy
takes the proportions it now threat
ems to take, will be whether the
chief or the chairman of the police
committee is supreme in managing
the affairs of the department. There
have been numerous squa bibles In
the past as to whether the mayor or
the chairman of the aldermanic po-
lice committee is the head of the
department but now it seems likely
that storm is brewing which may
result in the exact status of the chief
being made known. Friends of the
chief declare that if he is forced to
carry out the orders of the chair
man of the police committee or of
The mayor, he is merely figurehead
In the management of the depart
ment with little or no authority to go
ahead on his own initiative.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
RUM RUNNERS
SENT To JAIL

TRENTON. March 29:-New Jer-
sey's. rum fleet again came into
prominence in the United States
District Court here today when Peter
]. Walsh was given ninety days in
the Monmouth county Jail at Free
hold; NeIs Christensen was SEN
fenced to thirty days and Charles
Darby fined $25 by Federal Judge
Runyon for having in their posses
sion eighteen cases of whiskey and
IFS separate bottles of the liquor.
The trio from Atlantic Highlands
were picked up in boat off Sandy
Hook, having just come from the
rum fleet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Unite To Solve Staying
of Broadway Beauty

NEW YORK, Marcn 29:-United
for the first time in their search for
the murderer of Dorothy keenan,
since the woman's body was found
two weeks ago, the police and the
district attorneys office started today
on a joint expedition retracing the
steps each has taken in separate in
vestigations.
Every person already examined by
each of the two organizatio tions was
under recall to undergo requestion-
ing by the combined force. The in
vestigations will begin at the bottom,
the officials said, Indicating that ali
the individual stories must be retold
under thorough rechecking.
The two separate organizations
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

have up until now been proceeding
on different theories. The police
held the murder was the bungling
of a burglar seeking gems and furs
who did not know how to use chlo-
Iroform. The district attorneys Of
fee proceeded on the basis that Miss
keenan, was killed in some ramifi-
cation of a 100000 blackmail plot
devised to victimize John kearsley
| mitchell, son In law of z. 7.
Stotesbury, of Philadelphia.
The investigation will aow be
conducted along the broad lines
of the combined theories. without
| either agency predicting the proba-
bility of an early arrest in any phase
of the case, murder blackmail or
thievery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. March 90
(By The Associated Press)-WiIliam
y. Foster, charged with criminal
syndicalisn, took the stand in his
own defense this morning. Foster
testified he has been member of
the I. w. W. Seamen's Union, Car
mems Union and other organizations.
He quit the l. w. W, he said, be-
cause he no longer agreed with its
policies and program
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Rebels Are Cantured

DUBLIN. March 20 (By The As
sociated Press the en-
tire staff of the third southern divi-
sion of the regular army was cap
tureS yesterday at Nenagh, accord
ing to an official statement today,
and other important captures were
made at Toomavarra. Both the
places mentioned are in County
TiDperary,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
PRIESTS CASE
IS CONSIDERED
Appeal for ClemenCy to be
Considered by Commit
tee at Moscow

MOSCOW, March rs (2:S0 P. Nd
-(By The Associated Press) The
appeal for clemency of the Catholic
prelates and priests, sentenced last
Monday, will be considered at the
first meeting of the Central executive
committee, to be held either tomor-
row or next week, The Associated
Press was informed this afternoon
by the governments amnesty de-
partment committee. Meanwhile
the temporary stay OF sentence for
the condemned IS applicable and
they Will remain in prison.
Moscow advices had indicated
that the execution of Archbishop
Zepliak, head of the Roman Catholic
church in Russia. and Vicar Gen 'ral
Butchkavitch, who were condemned
to death by the Soviet court on
Monday would be carried out today
Thursday if there were no action
extending amnesty or granting a
stay Of sentence.
One Ton Ford truck; almost new; new
tires. $3.50 531 State Street.
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P. A. Hdwe. for Baseball Uniforms.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Coolest March 20 in History

NEWARK, March 29:-With un-
official thermometers registering
from twelve to nine degrees above
zero, Newark today experienced the
coolest March 29 in the history of
the city.
The coolest March weather previ-
ously record was in 1871" when the
mercury dropped to nineteen de-
grees.
A record or speed in the drop in
temperature also was established
here. In thirty-o one hours ending at
1901 A. M. to -ay the temperature
fell thirtY-six degrees.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
GOVERNOR IN ATTACK ON LEGISLATURE
Relief From Severe
Cold Weather Near

morning they felt the sting of the
wintery gale which swept over this
section yesterday afternoon and last
night causing the mercury to go
down to about twelve above the zero
point. Ice formed along the shores
of the Raritan Bay and Staten Is
land sound over night and every
thing had the appearance of real
winter weather.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
In Perth Amhov Toda1

Governor and Mrs, George s.
Silzer will spend Easter Sunday at
Atlantic City. Mr.. Silzer was at his
Office in the Perth Amboy Trust
Company here today, and will leave
for the famous seaside resort on the
Atlantic City express OF the Central
railroad, which will be stopped here
at APO o'clock at his request.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Belgian Troons TO Act

BRUSSELS, Mar. 29-The Belgian
government has instructed its mill
tary headquarters in the Rhineland
and the Ruhr that the Belgian
troops shall participate actively in
operations for the conflscation and
shipment of coal and coke from gov
ernment-owned mines in the occu-
pied territory, it was announced to-
day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
To CONTINUE
PEACE FARLEY

GENEVA, March 29.-(By The
Associated Press 1.-The peace uego-
tiations between the allies and Tur-
key viii be resumed at Lausanne
some time between April 5 and 90.
This announcement was made today
by the secretary at which the powers
left at Lausanne at the conclusion
of the recent conference,
The announcement said that the
opening session would probably be
held on the last named date.
Inasmuch as the secretary was re-
Gently notified to prepare to leave
for Constantinopie, the sudden
change in scene is considered proof
of the conciliatory attitude of the
Turks. 1t is understood here that
the negotiations will be resumed at
the point where they were dropped
when the Turks and allies failed to
reach an agreement.
The forthcoming conversations are
not expected to be of long duration.
P. A. Hdwe. for Baseball Shoes.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
NEWS
BY A. P. WIRE


NEW LONDON. March 29.-The
tug Elmer A. Keeler and the barge
Maurctania, both Of the Keeler Line.
eperating out of New York, foundered
III Long Island Sound near Bart
let's raef. late last night during the
terrifiJ gale which swept the sound.
The clew Of the tug, which struck
= rock and sank within twenty min
utes. took to lifeboats and landed
safely at New London and Goshen,
Conn
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

Winter weather which prevailed
over the entire east last night and
this morning is expected to make Its
bow this afternoon when the tenn
perature. according to the weather
man will again rise in the thermo-
meter. With Easter Sunday but
three days off it is hardly safe 10
say what will be the prospects fer
that day, but the weather man is
holding out that the weather will be
moderate.
When early risers got out this
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
NEW STRIKE
IN THE RUHR
$1,000 Miners Quit Work as
Protest Against French
Occupation

GELsENKIRCHEN, Mar. 90 (By
The Associated Press)
thousand miners are on strike in the
Gelsenkirchen district at all mines
occupied by troops, according to es-
Inmates made in German quarters.
The men quit work as a protest
against the occupation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Inspector Is Arrested

TRENTON, March 29.-Willam
S. Cooper of this city, an inspector
in the state department Of motor
vehicles, was arrested today on
charges of extortion, and held in bail
for a hearing. He is accused of de-
manding money from trucksters en-
route from Philadelphia to New
York.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Six B low Zero

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, March
29:-A drop to below zero at
Millbrook early today bro.ie records
of the past inetccn years for March
29 in Duchess coInty, according to
local weather observers. AT other
points the mercury registered from
zero to two below.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

ATLANTIC CITY, March 29.-
United States Senator Edge, in an
swer to letter of DIR. James K.
Shields. state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, today said the
debate with Ex-Assenblyrnan Ho-
bart on the non-efectiveness of the
Volstead law, to b3 held in Newark,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

HAVANA, Cuba, March 29-The
six UH-ted States army aviatUrs on
a test 4Iight from San Antonio.
Texas, 10 San Juan, Porto Rico. and
from there to Washington, D. c.,
left here this morning at 9:15 p. N.
for Miami
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Pass Army Service Bill

PARIS, March % tBy The As
sociated Press)-The army service
bill, as amended by the senate, was
adopted by the Chamber of Deputies
today by vote of Ala to 154. The
period of service thus becomes eigh-
teen months.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
AGROUND
DURING STORM

CHATHAM, Mass March 29.-An
unidentified five-masted schooner.
heavily laden and bound north, went
aground on the western edge of the
New channel, OFF Stone Horse shoal.
during the night. The coast guard
cutter Acushnet was standing by to-
day. The sea was too rough to per-
nit the coast guardsmen from sta
tions tc go out to the vessel, which
grounded at high water and was in
a dangerous position
p. A. Hdwe for Mits, Gloves. Balls.
23OSS-3-27. q
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
80 BeIOw Zero

SARANAC LAKE. March %
The cold wave hit the Adirondack
region in earnest last night, driving
the mercury down to thirty degrees
below zero. blizzard condi-
tions prevailed for time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
Calnarnnn Very Ill

CAIRO, March 29.-Although the
physician attending the Earl of Car
narvon issued no bulletin today, it
is understood that his condition is
critical. the infection having reach
ed his lungs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29
ParrH Writes Letter

NEWARK, n. j., Mar. 29:--State
Senator William H. Parry, in a letter
to the Newark City Commission To-
day, suggested that a meeting Of the
governing bodies and attorneys or
the municipalities through which the
Morris canal passes, together with
members of the legislature from the
counties tapped by the canal. be CALI
ed to prepare the necessary bills te,
provide for the disposal of the Nor
ris canal. These bills, he proposes 4
shall be introduced at special ses
sion or at the next regular session ot3
the legislature. The meeting. hsl
suggests, should be held in NewarIa
and should be called without am
delay. He suggests Frank III. Som
mer, OF the former Morris cana
commission. as adviser.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y,
March 29.-It was ten degrees below
zero here this morning, the coolest
on record for this time of the year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-29

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