Evening star., 1923-06-05
From the Home 7own for Visiting Mobiles Shrine Convention
NEW YORK.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Counsel for
| Detective Robert McAllister. the po-
lice athlete held by Judge Grain on a
| charge of perjury. was attempting
today to get a writ of habeaS corpus
so that supreme court justice might
| review the case.
Judge Grain. who has been sitting
as committing magistrate in the
/ police bootleg graft inquiry, fixed
| McAllister's bail at $1,000 yesterday.
Ferdinand Pecora. acting district
| attorney, announced meantime that
1 he would ask the grand jury today
| for an indictment against McAllister.
| The detective stands cleared of the
charge OF bribery brought against
! him by Mrs. Mary Castro.
Judge Grain adjourned his hearing
until Friday at 1880 o'clock.
In White Plains Assemblyman Louis
a. Cuvillier asked Justice Frank
lie Young for a change of venue in
the civil libel actions brought against [
and argument on the motion was set
for June IS.
Commissioner David Hirshfield's s
feW denunciation of school histories
of th~ United States now In use in
the pubic schools of this city as pro-
British brought out the fact today
that Prof. David Saville Muzzey's $
American History, which was espe-
ciaEG singled out by the commission
er of accounts for attack is now be-
ing considered by the board of super
intendents The hoard will take. up
the work for final examination at
meeting next Thursday afternoon:
The Earl of NortheSk. in melan-
cholv splendor at the Ritz-Carlton to-
day, contemplated his we'll polished
nails and the tangle of American d.
vorce laws. He and Jessica Brown,
the dancer. cannot marry IN Ne"
York state. because of a technlcality
in the procedure under which she got
her divorce at Chicago. Nor can they
marry in Illinois until next October.
when a year will have passed since
the decree was granted. In other
states-"Why not?'
His lordship and the fair, Jesslca
v ould have furnished Jesse Lynch
Williams with a subplot for the play
which equity put on for him last
winter.
Striking bricklayers and contrac-
tors on public school buildings have
been called for a conference today
with a special committee of the board
of estimate. to work out plan where
by bricklayers may be obtained Tor
the twenty-one school buildings un-
der way and the twenty more that
are proposed. Already five months
delay has been caused by the short
age of bricklayers and where ii was
contemplated that 10000 more would
he available by fall, the estimate now
is 10000.
The Administrations whole school
building program, calling for the con-
struction of forty-one schools. at
cost of S66 100000, is threatened.
Infuriated with the motorman of
I'd avenue trolley car. who had run
over and killed a boy. a mob battled
for half an hour this morning with
policemen and reserves at I'd avenue
and 99th street. Officers with drawn
revolvers stood the crowd back, part
of whom We're yelling. Lynch him
The panes of the trolley car windows
were shattered by a hail of stones.
The motorman was vindicated later
by the police and released when it
was found he was not responsible for
the accident.
Two-year-ol Soloman Silzerberg of
311 East 99th street. stepped from
pile of dirt, near where the founda-