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Daily News from New York, New York • 4

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Daily Newsi
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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY SO, 1922. LasclVs Girl Captain Faints After Winning Race WHITNEY STATUE TO BE UNVEILED; VETS WILL MARCH In reverence to those who died) defending their country, elaborate Memorial Day services are being. fc held all over' New York and Brooklyn today, i The public squarts cemeteries and various 1 houses will be; utilized by vest groups of csti-1 zens and war veterans who: NEGROES ROB PRIEST, DARE DEATH TO ESCAPE Skipping over the deadly third rail half a dozen times and dodging behind pillars while whizzing trains missed striking them by inches, two Negroes managed to elude capture yesterday in the subway station at Ninety-sixth Street and Broadway, only to rush up the stairs and into the arms of Patrolman Thomas Donegan, East 104th Street station. The Negroes, who gave the names of Homer Clower, forty, 295 Third Avenue, and William Jackson, twenty-four, 453 East 175th Street, were, according to the police, detected robbing the Rev. Theodore Vhepeleffi, 867 Kelly Street, Bronx, who had fallen asleep oh a bench.

When a newsboy told Charles Schade, ticket agent, of the robbery he started for the alleged thieves, who jumped to the roadbed and ran across the tracks, narrowly escaping death. Schade blew a police whistle, and Patrolman Donegan was on hand when the Negroes rushed upstairs. The Rev. Vhepeleffi, a Russian orthodox priest, told the police he had lost two gold watches, a wallet V-y 1 i will dedicate the day to niiii-; tary and civii-j ian spectacles expressing the' spirit of the i I-avne Whitnev entice the; commemorate, The bronze monument done by! Mrs. Harry I'ayne Whitney in memory of the soldier, the sailor; j.r,d the marine, will be unveiled in Mitchel Square, at 16Sth Street and Broadway, in the presence- cf the! sculptress, who returned from Eu-j iP) by Kryalone) IX THE LASELL SEMINARY canoe races on the Charles River, near Boston, Miss Genevieve Tiernan (right captain of the senior crew, fainted after winning first race, but that did not prevent her from leading a winning canoe crew in the next race.

She comes from Port Scott, Kan. land a gold fountain pen. Avenue, to the stadium. Rev. Ryan Tope on i-aturday to be present at the event.

War Veterans to The work represents several years' labor on the part cf Mrs. Whitney, and is a powerful anl human representation of the- immense feeling of brotherhood that si-ted among the American service men in the World War. William Hayward, accom Arraigned on a grand larceny "charge before Magistrate McGee-han, Clower and Jackson pleaded guilty and were held in $3,000 each for the Grand Jury. Supreme Court Gives Weeks Right to Retire Officers Washington, D. May 29.

John W. French, former colonel of infantry, today lost in the Supreme Court in his legal fight against an order of Secretary of Wrar Weeks J. McEmepart, assisted by Rev. Daniel F. O'Suliivan, will conduct the ceremonies.

The thrilling deeds of the World War heroes will be celebrated, in every part of Brooklyn. The Kings County Posts, Grand Army of the Republic, will parade from Bedford Avenue to the Soldiers and Sailors' Arch in Eastern Parkway. A group of Spanish War veterans, led by Commander William A. Daw kins, will march in their panied by World War vet- erans, will parade through Wash-j ington previous to the unveiling of the statue, vhit will begin with fitting ceremonies at' o'clock. Stockbroker Awarded in Law Suit Against Former Wife A verdict of $30,000 in favor of William Sherman Gill, stockbroker, 81 Nassau Street, late yesterday, marked the end of a bitterly contested suit brought by Gill "to recover his share in $75,000 of furniture, jewelry and securities, alleged to have been appropriated by his former wife, Mrs.

Evelyn Fariss Gill Bennett, motion picture actress, while "he was in London on a business trip. During Gill's absence abroad his wife procured a divorce and married Raymond Bennett, a wealthy banker, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Gill sued before Supreme Court Justice Burr and a jury for his share in the property his former wife took South. retiring him from the army. Ked 1 svn.o service uniforms.

Many will hear Gov. Miller speak allied heroism, will be placed at A. M. at exercises neld by the foot of the Soldiers and Sailors'! i U. S.

Grant Post 327 cf the G. -uonumeni on i.rsvc, in an immense wreath, bv member- i A- ac uram. iomo. ot the etc ran-; of roren-n Wars i ire men oi Drwuiwi anu now wreaths wii! be kn will join their ceremonies in imuitaneousiv French retirement was recommended by a special examining hoard, working under the army reorganization act of 1920. Counsel for French contended that only the President can discharge or retire an army officer.

The court also held that Secretary Weeks had the right to discharge Col. William F. Creary. Creary claimed he was discharged without adequate hearing. WOMEN FAINT AS JANITOR WRECKS RED CROSS OFFICE Fighting two policemen in an attempt to wreck the office of the American Red Cross Society at 586 Madison Avenue yesterday, Peter O'Donneli, janitor," 119 East Eighty-sixth Street, was finally overpowered and removed to Believue Hospital in an ambulance.

The janitor, thought by the police to be insane, thrust his right arm through a glass partition in the office, severing two main arteries. His condition is critical. Sixty office workers, many of them women who fainted during the excitement, witnessed the strange actions of O'Donneli as he came into the Red Cross office evidently to apply for relief. The janitor became violent and thrust his arm through a glass partition in one of the smaller rooms. Women screamed and men rushed to his aid, but he shoved them aside.

Patrolmen Kenny and Jaeger were then summoned, and with the help of several of the men employes subdued the janitor. $25,000 Goes Up in Smoke Fire yesterday destroyed the 25,000 refuse removal plant of the Borough Developing Company, near the Long Island Railroad tracks ai East 35th Street. and exercise to be held lail a para ie a le on ir.e lonio oi tne i nknown in Paris, and at the t-rave in lioixiken. the b.rookjyn members of the Volunteer Firemen will assemble at Borough Hall at 8 o'clock and take the ferry for IIo-l ken. Cadets from the Roosevelt Military Academy at Englewood, N.

will honor the memory of Theodore Roosevelt- by special ceremonies to be held at the former President's grave in Oyster Bay. (Other pictures on page 11) Supreme Court Kills Texas Mandatory Phone Rate Washington, D. May 29. the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. A Boy Scuut Service.

Mayor Hylan and other city officials will review a parade of ex-service men of the Seventy-seventh Division, "New York's from special stands erected on Fifth Avenue. An impressive service will be I Id at the City Stadium ly the Catholsc Bureau of Boy Scouts. Typewriting 'blachines The City ordinance of Houston, fixing a telephone rate of $3 a month to Houston subscribers A mass in honor ot the and restricting telephone service profits to 8 per cent, was held invalid by the Supreme Court today. The decision is in favor of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and sustains increased rates the company put into etfect in Houston in 1920. Train Kills Man Frank Korvicik, truckman, 27 East Nineteenth Street, Bayonne, N.

was killed by a train on the tracks of the Central Railroad c.f New Jersey at East Twenty-first Street, Bayonne, yesterday. The type and machine are easily cleaned with a cloth or brush dipped in Carbona Cleaning Fluid it dries instantly without wiping. Keep a bottle in your desk. out who died in the last war be participated in by of Catholic boys. Th pa-lade, in uniform, wsil march down Momingside Avenue into Convent Land is Knows Marbles as Well as Baseball Judge Cannot Bern or Explode Long Ship's Short Stay-Washington, D.

Mav 29. IT. M. S. Raleigh, flagship" of the British fleet -in West Indian and North Atlantic waters, and the longest ship that ever anchored off Washington in the Potomac River, is here for a week's stav.

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