The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 1

I TTO V. EAIJ.Iil lNiCAl Fair and warmer to-night. Fair and jcolder to-morrow. LAST EDITION I- fl i TOEm VOL. 141.

BROOKLYN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1923. PRICE TWO CENTS I. 1 .3 WARS ON FRAUD FOES Gas Overcomes Youths as He Sits in Room Wind -Blew Out Flame, Theory Wrangle Over Park Site, Proposed on Church Land, Before Riegelmann To-Day CRAIGS AID DIES OF SHOCK FROM WORRY AT CHIEFS Henry Smith, Senior Depnty Controller, Drops Deai Was Broken Up by Fear Craig Would Have to Go tp JaiL OFFICIAL HAD REFRAINED FROM TELLING WORRIES TO CRAIG ON ACCOUNT OF LATTERS ILLT Borough Presioent Edward, Riegel-lusnn will preside at a public hearing this afteptoon in Borough Hall on th question of a public park At Flatbush avenue and Fortieth street, adjoining the grounds of the Flatiaqds Reformed Church. Much controversy was engendered at the last meeting on this question because of the proposed inclusion of the eenturyxold graveyard of the Church, declared to be the oldest graveyard in America. Several alternate suggestions have been offered for the location of the park.

The citixens of the section sfem deair ou of having a park, but led by th Rev. Fred W. of the Flatlands Reformed Church, oppose the acquiring of the graveyard and of other church Robanoi Majlco, 20 yejtrs old, of No. 82 Fulton street, wan found urn conscious on the floor off his fur nlshed room at that address early to-day. An Illuminating graapjet was open In the room, which was filled fumes.

Dr. Dennis, of tbs Long Island College Hospital, was summonedln an ambulance and ordered the man removed to the Kings County Hospital, whore It was said he would recover. Police lnveetigated and expressed -a belief that wind comlngr through a partly opened window In the room had blown out tbs gas while Msjlco sat sleeping In a chitr. killed; self Revolver 'Found Near Body of.W. M.

Taussig No Reason Known for Suicide." Terrific Battles in Rhineland 'Between Loyalists and Rebels Results Heavy Casualties. Company Takes Action in Retaliation for City's 1 Operation of Trolleys. troperty. The borough authorities on the other hand, declare that all historic spots within the city would be under public supervision. Controller on the death of his belotWl co-worker.

Alderman John Wirtb, Republican, from Gentral Brooklyn, lined up with Minority Leader Jacob W. Friedman st the meeting of the Board of Alder men yexterday defending the action of Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer in sentencing Controller Charles Craig to sixty days in Essex County Jail for alleged contempt of court. A slight flurry of excitement as when Alderman Peter J. Guinness, the Greenpolnt champion, sponsored resolution defending Craig.

Acting President of the Board of Aldermen Williamr T. Collins took the occasion to laud ''Craigs action. Wirth declared that Craig should Lave apologised, and, thst his statements were too strong in the tirxt place. WANTS COURT TO ENFORCE HER DOWERRIGHIS Claims House Was Sold by Ex-Husband Without Her Consent WOMEN WAIL AT FUNERAL OF PICKELNYBOY Funeral Services Held in the Morgue Body Goes to Flushing Cemetery. Governor Charles A.

YONKfRS, N. Nev. 21 Mayor, of Connecticut, has announced a Walter M. Taussig of Yonkers, died thorough investigation will bo made St. Johns Riverside Hospital.

Into practices of alleged diplopia at Yonkers, To-day from a bullet ring. "whereby many, men have, It wound.1 He was found this morning Is said, obtained doctors' degrees alone In the garage In back of hie through bribesy. Many hospitals home. A revolver was In one of his In' various sections are said to be In- hands, of close beside the body, ac- vniv.rt. cording to first Information secured by the police.

They are Inclined to bejieyethe wound was self-inflicted, although admitting that they have learned of no reason why the Mttyor should kill himself. Mr. Taussig was found at about 2:20 a. Immediately after the shot was fired. He died an hour later.

Mrs. Taussig Is reported to1 have discovered the tragedy although this la not 'confirmed. She was beside the bed when he died. Dr. James T.

Gordon, on of his closest friends, had been called to attend him at the garage and was in the hospital room when Mr. Taussig passed sway. The Taussli home la at No. 191 Park avenue, Yonkers. Miss Lucy Taussig, a daughter, was the only member of the family In th house when reporters arrived.

She -said she was asleep at the time HUBBY LOVED MOVIE VAMPS, WIFE DECLARES Fcund Him Living With Woman After He Van- V- rshed, She Charges. Max Kronronts lot Henry Smith, eenior Deputy Comptroller, died suddenly to-day ot shock as a result of wory over the prospect of seeing his chief. Comptroller Charles Craig, sent to Jail. Smith war much broken up yesterday over the situation In which his superior officer -found himself following the decision by the United State Supreme Qourt upholding Federal Judge Julius Mayer's sentence of a sixty-day jail term. Imposed upon Craig for contempt of court.

The Deputy Comptroller refused io make known his feelings to Craig because of the latter's own Illness and, this morning, st 9:20, after being torn by Intense emotion for hours, nropped dead of angina pectoris. A few minutes before he had telephoned to his office. Henry Smith was' married and lived at No. 362 Kiverside drive, Manhattana. He entered the Comptroller' office on Dec.

23, 1020, and his salary was $8,500. Smith wets Park Commissioner in the previous administration. On many occasions during Craigs absence Smith acted as the City Comptroller, and it was planned thst he should officiate In that capacity in thd event of Craigs being sent tO prison. -f Smith was GO years old. The first attack yesterday in his office in tbe Muniipal Building.

His secretary Mrs. MulhsJlon immediately called up tbe, Health Department snd three doctors. WaUh, Pound and Gill- oyle gave Smiths treatment. He was sent home and there bis family doctor W. J.

McBarron, gave him further BERLIN, Nov. 21 (United Press). Terrific fighting in the Rhineland, In which more than 120 Separatists were killed In the last week, wa reported in delayed dispatches to-day from Cologne. Seventy were reported killed In one battle between Separatists and citixens loyal to the German -Reich near Aegidlenberg. Serious fighting was also reported in the Sleben Geblrge district.

Six more Separatists were reported beaten to death by peasants near the town of Honnef. where fighting waa reported Saturday. They were dragged from automobiles, it waa reported. Delay In revelation of the fighting wfls explained by the fact that the district Is almost entirely cut off from communication with the outside world. Honnef waa reported freed of Separatist following action of the French authorities in disarming many of them.

Heavy fighting waa said to be going on in Koenfgswinter. In a battle in Hoevel, peasants surrounded 'thirty Separatists and killed twenty-three, waa reported. Citixens were said to have hastily organized defense groups who were using every means to drive the Separatists out of the In unemployed riot in Silesia, reports to-day said wo were killed Ijy Lignitx in fighting, in which for a time, were held powerless Unemployed were reported plundering In many places Th T. to-day served notice that 11, trolley aervice on the Williamsburg Bridge would be halted on and after Dec. 1.

The decision of the company followed the announcement that the city will Tun it shuttled locals over th Williamsburg pan a week from next Saturday. All lines now operated over the brideg will stop at the Williamsburg Bridge Plaaa. The lines include the Broadway, Held avenue, Ralph avenue, Bushwick avenue, Sumner avenue, 'Grand street, Tompkins avenue and Koetrand avenue lines. i All passengers using these lines and bound for Manhattan will have to take the citys locals across the bridge or walk, The companies operating over the bridge made known their determine, tlon to cease operating cars over the span In a letter to Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures.

Mr. Whalens depart ment will undertake to run the citys locals. The railroad says that thefruichise terminals of all lines operated owr the Williamsburg. Bridge-are in- Brooklyn nd that the company hns run cars over the bridge at a loss. that the city has determined to compete with the company, the railroad corporation ill cease using the bridge; ThA letter to Whalen declares the city's action will greatly inconvenience the traveling public.

The through service will halt at 2 a. m. on Dec. 1. The Brooklyn City, the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company the Brook lyn-Quecns County and Suburban Rail road all join in the determination to atop cars do the plan.

SMOKE RUINS PAPER BOXES Mrs. Margaret Greme, 65 year old. of No. 1095 Union street, to-day asked 8upreme Court Justice Dike to act aside a deed to property at No. 188 Clermont avenue given, without her consent or.

signature, by her husband, Xr. William A. Sullivan, to Henry Schaeffer, now bring at the Clermont avenue address. Mrs. Greme asked enforcement of her dower right iu that property.

Dr. 8ulli-of the shooting, and as yet had re-jean, in defense, said that Greme celved. little Information concerning i had married John Dill In Brooklyn )n Damage Estimated at 000 to $100,000 fc by Warehouse Fir Smoke and water consequent to treatment. His condition waa attributed directly jr which on three alarms brnut to shock at the news of the Supreme PPxratus to 'the Alfred Bleyer at i Court decision sending Craig to jail Company paper and box warehnu jNo statement has been given by the Metropolitan and Flushing her fathers death.w-- -1 Mayor Tanas ig. a Democrat, wae de-fhfftwrfor' re-election on Nov; fl by'lT-rirh Wlesendanger, Republican, Mr.

Taussig was reputed to be wealthy, and was, a brother of Frank W. Taussig, famous poltica! economist, former chairman of the tT. 8. Tariff Commission, end Hefiry Lee' professor at Harvard University since 1901. Mayor Taussig was vicepresident of the Americau Chain Company, and waa interested in a number of large industrial enterprises.

He waa for a'long time a leading spirit In philanthropic work here, and waa formcfly president of the Charity Or-guitfzation Society of Yonkers. Ho wa active in aiding the Young Womens Christian Association and the local Red Cross chspter. I Mayor Taussig entered politics some two years nmv-when he was practically drafted gy the Democrats aa their candidate for Mayor. He Was elected, being; Prospect Park Gets $50,000 the only successful Democratic 1901 and -that Dill had divorced her shortly afters grd, Under that dsprew lira. Greme Wa forbidden, to Temarry within the State of Xew York.

In 1901 she married Henry Greme, with whom she lived for ten years, when he died. In 1911 she waa married to Dr. Sullivan in Brooklyn. Dr. Sullivan contended to-day that her marriage io him Was illegal, and la therefore void because Dflla divorce decree forbid her to remarry.

Louis Brown, ot No. 44 Court street, attorney for the plaintiff, admitted all that Dr. Sullivan aid, but declared that three months after hie clients marriage to Dr. Sulti-ran they went to Jersey City and were again married. This ceremony, performed i New Jersey, waa the lawyer declared.

Justice Dike reserved decision. Rockefeller PARIS. Nor. 21. Tie-Ambassadors Conference was summoned to meet at p.

m. to-day to hear the British view on the proposed Note to Germany de manding rrimposition of Allied control of her military forces. The instructions of the Marquis of Crewe from the British Government arrived earlier to-day. The conference had been postponed twice to await them after France had requested certain minor modifications in the Note a drafted. penchant moving pictures In which eerpen vampires" pictures- in which screen vampires played the leading roles led hint to forget hist fifty 'nine rs antf instilled' Waywardness which actuated his ultimate departure from home two yeora ago, Mrse Libby Kronront, 03, hit wife, testified to-day before Justice Mitchell May In her divorce action in lha Supreme Oonrt Mrs.

Krnnkont said she was marrjed in Russia thirty-eight' years -mid lived happily with her husband until 1Q08, when they came to the United States and he began to attend moving-picture exhibitions with such regularity that he frequently was away from home untl lulte at nlghf. Then, two years ago, he disappeared, Mrs. Kronront snid. Last January she encountered David dendermanken, whom both she and her husband had known in Russia years ago. i I Hu informed hot that Kronront was occupying an apartment at No.

1520 East 108th street, Manhattan, with another woman. Mrs. Kronront. accompanied by Rendermanken, hurried thilhtr, and, she declared to-day, -whe found the situation exactly as described by Spnder-tnanken. She accordingly charges Kronront itli infidelity.

Sendcrninnkch took the stand In court and declared that Kronront told him be had obtained a Jewish divorce from Ids wife. Justice May reserved decision. East Side streets were packed to-day with wailing women when the body of Irving Fickelny, the four-year-old boy who disappeared from his home twenty-six days ago, waa borne to the-grave by way of the spot where hi murder took place and his borne in Grand street. Strict health regulathona tor the protection of the public made even more intense the grief of the childs parents. T7iy could not evrif take the body to their home, nor to a synagogue for the performance off the last rites.

Eran at the last moment the procession was delayed in starting from the morgue, at Second avenue and Twelfth street, Manhattan, because the undertaker had brought a wooden coffin such it those in the Jwish Orthodox faith us in th interment of their dead. The Health Department officials insisted thot the body must be placed in a sealed casket. The funeral route was laid dtong Second avenue south to Twenty-third Mreet, east to Avenue A. south to Houston street, east to Suffolk street i.nd past No, 71, where the child's body wae found yesterday' in a dark sub-cellar where the murder had been committed by a degenerate. For twenty minutes the procession was to halt 'before 358 Grand street, the little boy'e home, where the mourners sat in prayer end repeated the.

sacred rites of burial. Thence the procession proceeded to Delancey street -and across tU Williamsburg Bridge -towards Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, where set vice were held at the grave, with Rabbi M. Greenbaum, of 92 Pitt street, officiating. The father and mother of tbe child. Samuel Julia Pickelny, did not rrrive at the morgue Until after 10 'clock.

Already Second avenue was lined with crowds which were held hark by a detachment of reserves from the Eset Thirty-fifth station under ('apt. William Sheehan. Capt. Cornelius Willemae, who had directed the eearch for the lost boy, was in command of the detective. BOY SPEEDER ADMITS THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE OFFICIALS TOUR JAMAICA BAY ON INSPECTION From the Fund, Dues, Maspeth.

Queens, difl fr $50,000 to $100,000 damage to--J The building Is of brick and 07 story high. Offices of the cone occupy the front. A watchman covered the blase just behind the partition and pulled an rU box on the premises. The fian were quickly subdued, but smouldered in the compactly paper and in the damp cnrdL of boxes, resulting in a second pr LONDON, Nor. 21.

The proposed joint allied note to Germany regarding reimposition of allied military' control has been sent hack to Paris with several alternative suggestion, regarding phraseology, the United Press was informed in reliable quarters to-day. There was strong hobe in official quarters tht some of these suggestions would be acceptable to France and the Anglo-French Eentcntc would thus be preserved. 1 Woman Held tin Bad Check Charges Recently Paroled From Insane Hospital John D. Rockefeller, ha agreed that $50,000 from' a recent fund, given to the board of directors of the Brooklyn Y. M.

C. A oo appropriated to the campaign fund now. being raised for a new building foe the Prospect Y. This subscription jwaa added to to-daya total and It Mrs. Yetta Z.

Cohen, of No. 1602 brings the entire amount subscribed Joseph Schrsmek, 13 years of age, of No. 54 Burroughs avenue. Winfield, pleaded guilty yesterday before Jndfre Boyle in the Jamaica Children's Coart to a charge of stealing a 21.500 automobile from Isidore Kaplan, of No. 5214 Twelfth avenue, from where it was standing Saturday at Forty-fifth street and Broadway, Manhattan.

Judge Boyle remanded him to the Children's Society Shelter, on Sehermerhorn street, for sentence on Nov. 30. Chargee of speeding, driving withonr I llered th car'1'11 a license and crying C'Sr loaded VevoWer, mentioned in the com- 1 nl.tnr th. avenae line was d.srnpte jdiveked to the Newtown Crook 1 which, rfequeutly drawn to permit a third alarm. For ati me it appeared that would spread to the adjoining store: of the H.

C. Kohack Grocery Cumr This wss prevented by the firerrun a heavy brick wall between the ties Drninag ftons of water on the blaze was stopped by the paper, snd when the last apparntn turned to Ita station the water nearly two feet deep over the floor Cause of the fir is nniuiown. plaint with the automobile theft, were not pressed. Motorcycle Patrolman Auto Crashes Into Wagon, Driver Thrown to Street HUNDREDS SEE to 2186,128. Other large subscriptions announced at )at night rally dinner, which was attended by a large number of the campaign workers, are aa foflowi: Frank L.

Babbott. 500; J. R. Van Brunt, 1.000; Edward W. Dufft, Rufus Mermaid avenue.

Coney Island, who waa held yesterday by Magistrate Golden in Brooklyn -for further examine tion November 27 on a charge of passing worthless cheques, was paroled last year fro mthe State hospital for the insane at King's Park, L. David NEGROTO DEATH Zimmerman, her brother, to-day In- 0ri ,000: Herbert W- 11.000. age of river craft, further imped progress of the heavy stream of lar and pedestrian traffic alidad Uyed by the enforced detour. formed Arthur McGrath, clerk of the -Coney Island court. Magistrate Golden yesterday held xtiagiBtraie uoiun yesterday nem n.

i 1 Mr. Cohen In $500 ball which ah. fireman opttmt Ankle He Carries Hose to Blue was unable to furnish. Zimmerman Wilson Still Believes In Union cf Nations, He Writes Boro Democrats Following a tour of Jamaica Bsy by city and borough officials, Borough President Edward Riegelmann stated to-day that the FJatbush avenue extension to Barren Island and the Cross Pay Boulevard to Rockaway Beach will be completed by next spring. He r.lsjyesaid that a ferry will operate for vehicle and pasengers between Barren Island rfhd the Rockaways.

The inspection of the Improvement bf Jamaica Bay "was made yesterday. In the party were: President Riegelmann, Grover A. Commissioner of Plant and Structures; Frank Fogarty, secretary to flag president; Dock Com missioner J. H. Delaney, Public Works Commissioner Josenh Guider, Chief Engineer Philip Farley, Chief Engineer A.

8. Tuttle, of the Board of Estimate; Chief Engineer Kellr, of the Dock Department, and Chief Engineer Byrne, of Plant and Structures. They hoarded the P. S. boat Mncon and went In Barren Island where they passed through the plant where the ineintra tors are located and viewed the new layout of Flnibush -avenue extension which, is to be extended to the further most Ipoint of Barren Island.

Th1 road fa planned to be 100 feet wide. Tin ns for the ferry will lie submitted In the Board of Estimate Saturday, and work wj 1 bw in progress early next spring. 1 llenstire, seekers who nre anxious to visit Rocknwny, will be able to motor through Flatbusli avenue ami those without autos will bs able to secure buses which will run from Flatbush and Nostrand avenues to the starting point of th pmposedJferry. After the investigation of Barren I-Iand the party made a Visit to the new Cross Hal Boulevard which is 8 While driving a horse-drawn vehicle, Lopia Herehson, SB years old, of No. IB Major street, wee thrown from 4he wagon, when an automobile crashed Into the vehicle at Union avenue and Bayard street, taat night Hersheon received contusions and abrasions of the face' and hand.

He went home after treattnent The car was owned and operated by Wasx Maaraopo, of No. 524 East Thirteenth Street. Automobile Hits Man Crossing the Street When attempting to crow Church and New York avenues last night, Beniamin Thiel, of No. ISO Troy avenue, waa hit by an automoblio of Jacob Greenberg, of No. 88 -Erasmus street.

After treatment by Dr. Garber, of the Kings County Hospital, for lacerations of the ecalp he was able to go home. said to-day that he would not put up the requisite ball and that upon his sisters rearraignment he would that she be recommitted to the hospital. 1 Shortly after her release from the hospital last year, he told McGrath, he gave Mrs. Cohen 8325 which ehe spent lj less than two hours.

After that she began drawing checka on Fireman Daniel Morrison, of No. 2154 State street, attached to Truck Company No. 110, fell down flight of stirs and oprained his left ankle while carrying a hose to a fire in the basement billiard parlor of James Spinelii, si No. 76 IJvingston street, early to-day. Ho was carried to the street by his banks in which she did not have ac-1 comrades, and after rereiving medicsl counts and Zimmerman said she attention returned to duty.

The fir, of Barney Mtwcurello, 21, of N. 1704 St. Mark's avenue, was arrested last night by police of the Brownsville precinct on a charge of having stabbed to death James Cobbs, 40, a Negro, of No. 73 Bartlett street, at Barrett street and Pitkin avenue. The murder was witnessed hy hundreds of persons returning home from work nd mnny Women shopped.

Muscarello was chased six blocks by detectives before be wns caught. According lo the police Muscarello admitted having stabbed Cobbs during row over a girl. Men and women stood horror stricken an they saw the knife flash through the air and plunge hit oColibs neck. Miiscoreflo rail downEast Jfw York avenue, with men am women shouting nt his heels. He sped up Rockaway avenue, mirth to Eastern lnrkway.

There he wuh token into custody "by several detectives who had given chase in an automobile. He io alleged tp have toid detectives Maser arrested Schramek as he speeding at forty-fira miles in hour on the College Point causeway Saturday night a few hours after KapDn reported the theft of hi sautomobile. The Manhattan Federal authorities are investigating to determine bow Scbramek carried when arrested a $8,500 check drawn on the National City Bank by the Oswego Shade Cloth Company to the order of G. C. Boyce, superintendent.

They arc anxious to determine if the check was stolen from the mails. Schrsmek worked aa a shipping clerk with Frindle perfumers, No. -G7 Fifth avenue, Manhattan. James Lambert, of No. 1(81 Have-j meyer street.

Corona, and Ha.rues Pow-j ell. of No. 54 Edeon treat Coron. each and HroihllesW Wore, Woodhaven, Judge Bo.vle to on. os Nov.

1., for Sp(lciai on to truck ci for Ma(rtrtlfct oXelll in the speedier touring car. in a web they drove Battery Tark. Manhsttwn, nuo urt to-day on 8 her. they were arreted. Judge Boyle; by remanded them to the Children', Society Connolly- nf the WlKn Shelter for aentrnee on Nov.

23. ion- who h'" The complaint was made hy Mrs. of Blearing monev Mabel B. Dayton, of Bay itreet. Bay- chanSe box of a blind new -side, who missed her car from In front 'ckff and Myrtle etetw of the Iltblie Library oa Elsie place.

Ra(tile. It Is charged that the boysj PoCr-ns drote off in a truck owned br Charles! Ajclio, of No, shlh PARIS, II Cttronn, uftcr fiiobnir ir at o. IP! Ktnx- vt Austria, i linear ir4t. TNn Iro'o. it n' "i I ill' IU I unknown origin, did dnmnge ewtlmatefl st 2,000.

That his hope for a union of nations will be realized, is the prediction made by former President Woodrow Wileou In a letter to-day to the Twelfth Assembly District Democratic Club, of which Timothy L. Griffin is leader. The Wilson letter waa a reply to one sent to him by South Brooklyn Democratic, indorsing the eentiments expressed by the former President in hia Armistice Day speech by radio. In hia reply, addressed" to Secretary Joseph G. Saundera, Mr.

Wilaon rays: "I am deeply gratified by the generous preamble and resolutions of the Regular Democratic Club, and beg that you will express to the members of the club my great satisfaction In the thought that we shall bo comiadea in the great work which lira immediately abend of the Demo-tiufc r.trn work wh.oh 11 in tuv I i pv'Mt nt would recommence the same practice If ehe wae liberated. dm. Mon Is Injured by Taxi While Crossing Street George Module, 6( years old, of No. 417 Eleventh atreeth, was ptruck and knocked down bv a taxicab, at Mans Sknll Is Fractured When Auto Strikes Him Automobile Strikes Man. In attempting to cross Fifth ave-nua and Eighty-second street, Edward Yulke.

a was Injure last night when he walked In front of an auto. Eugene Kune of No. IO Cltrmont avenue, waa crowing Myrtle avraut nt Vanderbilt avvnue. to-day, when waa at the Brownsville hotne ttmt Hr Prlupect Park southweat last night Coblm had been frirmht until the Th man Buffered abms'ona of the jam! uwlvr conMnntin Jamica Uny. iNorro bee me jvulous of a imitvuil friend face.

Much pin un ciirn to fmnnis-ainer theirs. (VI 1( credited odNt I I Th 1 fH iliiH I with tojf -1 a 1 i nt boni i it. i 'l i in Ip' ti i' i i 11 struck snd knocked down by an auto-(mobfl and was knocked down. Dr. mobile driven by Lendoude, of Idvinpreton.

of No. 822 Seventy-sec. No, XV i Non mflnue. Lendnnde Knne iu lit car mu) tHk him to ii fiimU 1 l7rei'ifal. hrro 1 1 oml street, treated him for a coni-pound fructuie of hts richt arm nd lion in him to home mu 1 I i 1 7 He wfin attended at the 'Meth-DpKoopal Hospital and went The toxl wa owned bv RnU- i of No 1'ifi HroobUp i ii- i.