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SENIOR THE WEATHER LAST EDITION THE Rain to-night, cloudy to-morrow; increasing easterly winds. trull Weather Report on Page l.l NSA6Tjr3'timTlHSM LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN BROOKLYN OF ANY, BROOKLYN NEWSPAPER VOL. No. 155. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY.

DECEMBER 5, 1925. TWO CENTS 14 PAGES DRY DRIVE JUST BEGUN-ANDREWS; MORE ARRESTED RHINELANDER JURY FINDS FOR WIFE ON EVERY POINT INVOLVED IN SUIT FOR ANNULMENT OF KIP? MARRIAGE Principals in Famous Annulment Suit Led Rum Raid Leonard Kip Not in Court WkVerdict Is Announced -Did Not Wish to ace OrdeUl Uearing Adverse Opinion Read, ex-Judge Mills Facing Alice Now to Sue for Separation, Davis Declatfewpal.ty Coj. ored Bride and Members of Family Over Result Decision Reserved on Motion to gi(le Verdict. WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 5.

Leonard Kip Rhinelander mubt remain wed to his partly colored wife, Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, it was decreed by the verdict of the trial jury, returned last night and opened in the Supreme Court here to-day by Justice Joseph Morschauser. By answering seven questions embodying the issues, th jury decided that there was not sufficient grounds to grant tha annulment Rhinelander sought on the allegation that he was decehed about his wifes color prior to their secret marriage on Oct. 11, 1921. In acooidlnce with the verdict (which fulfilled conjectures current after the jurors dispersed to theitf i' Pin Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his partly colored wife, Abie Kilrne Jones Rhinelander as thev appeared in the Rupieme ourt, at White Plains, during the trial of the husbands sensational suit Expect More Smash-Ups in Big Cities Throughout Country Buckner Intimates Corruption of Police and Other Officers in Big Rum Ring Raids Will Investigate Ease With Which Liquor Cargoes Were Landed and Transportedin Metropolitan Area. (By 1 nit Pn WASHINGTON, Dec.

5. We have just begun to fight, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews said to-day, commenting on the great round-up of 'liquor law iola-lions at New York by local and Federal prohibition authorities. That clean-up is just a forerunner of what is expected to follow, the dry czar said. My policy has been to strike at the bootleggers source of supply, and we have begun to hit it. Raids as sensational In character as the New York cleanup, mill he made shortly In other parts of lie country, Andiews Intimated Dry detectives under Andrews have been working on big conspiracy cases In Cle eland, PitDburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore.

Chicago, San Fiancisco and other cities. In addition to the New York cases announced yesterday. Putting the big liquor syndicates out of business will do more towards dicing up the United States than anv other system, Andiews said. The xuw link development ill act as a jnimulus to agents In other parts the nation to equal that record, he bdieved. Andrews branded as false reports Intimating the entire Coast Guard was corrupt in prohibition matters.

He praised the service and asserted it was through the guard alone that the New York roundup was made. Officers of the dry navv detected a few enlisted men dealing with the enemy A thorough investigation began, which led to the (Continued on Page 9) Queens Judge Pronountes Life Sentence for Robbery On Fourth Offense Charge One man was sentenced to life imprisonment on a fourth offense charge of first degree robbery, two others weie sent to Elmira and the workhouse, and two others received suspended sentences in a busy trial day in the Queens County Court. One of the men whose sentence was suspended, is to be deported to Italy. Sam Scianti, 27, abas Boyle of 213 llllh fltec, East llllh fltec, in borne shortly before midnight, Ju tiee Morschauser Is to hand dowi within a few days a formal denying Rhinelander's petition annulment of the matrimonial, by which he is bound to the cabman's daughter. Alice to Sue for Separation.

Mrs Rhinelander now will seek separation, her counsel said to-day? We have prepared summons and complaint In a suit for separation od the grounds of abandonment, Led Parsons Dais. the attorney whd successfully defended her husband annulment suit, declared. We have asked Leon R. Jacobs Rhinelander's associate counsel, to accept service. This he has declined to do without consulting Judge Isaaq N.

Mills, chief counsel Asked if the proposed separation suit would Include financial de4 mands, Davis replied. Certainly. Questions and Jurys Answers. The questions and the jury4 answers were these: 1 At the time of the marriage of the parties, was the defendants coi ored ond of colored blood? Yes. 2 Did the defendant, by silence, conceal from the plaintiff the fact that she was of colored blood? No.

3 Did the defendant, before tht marriage, represent to the platntifj that she was not of colored blood?" Nc. 4 Did the defendant practic such concealment or make such rep resentatlons with the intent thereby to Induce the plaintiff to marry her No. 5 Was the plaintiff, hy sucli concealment or by such leprcsenta tlons, or by both, Induced to marry the defendant No. 6 If the plaintiff had known th defendant was of coloied blood LA FOLLEITE REFUSES WASHINGTON. Dec 5 Senator Robert La Folletle of Wisconsin failed to attend the caucus of Republican Senators to which he was Invited to-day.

The caucus lasted less than half an hour and there was no mention of the welcoming back of the Insurgents or the failure of the young Wisconsin Senator to accept the proffered olive branch. In failing to attend, young La Toilette followed the precedent established by his father, who did not attend a Republican caucus for twenty years. EWE SODECL R'lMi; Dec 5 "No moie wedding bells for me vnv ed Signora Caruso, widow of the great Lnuco Caruso, Italian tenor, to-day in an Interview with the United Press in which she denied lunioia of engagement to a Spanish prince kinsman of King Alfonso of Spain. I am not onlv not engaged to a Spanish prime. she said, but I have hrmly decided that there shall he no moie wedding bells for me I intend to devote my life to the caie of my two childien I want Gloria educated in Italv.

she has shown signs of inheriting hei fatliei voice, and I intend to give her eveiy help possible to dc-v elnp as a singer Ch.nles Fm henther 42 vears old of 5123 Second avenqe died of blood poisoning vcMerdav while being lushed to Norwegian Hospital in a tavhab In lie rah with him weie two neighbors, Otto Miller and John I etersnn. VXy Calls Good Beer an Excellent Antidote For Bad Cooking LONDON, Dec. 5 Beer is an excellent antidote for bad cooking, according to Sir William Milligan, medical expert In a speech her. If all the young women were taught. Instead of botanv, psychology and kindled subjects, how to cook a potato and how to roast a piece of beef there would be less drunkenness," he declared Manv a workman drinks beer to minimize the effects of his wife's bad cooking He declared alcohol lias come to stay and that, ued moderately, it is beneficial.

LI. SMOKE USEE Theie was anothi development to-dav In the situation Involving the statutory outlawing of tenn iail-load operation within the in limits on Jan 1 next undei the Kuifmann railroad electrification edht It was4he declaiation that unless the so-called smoke nuisance prevalent at the Morris Talk airts of the Lon Island Railioad was abated on Jan 1 pmmpt protest was ceitaiu to be lodged with the Public Servhe onimlsqnn According to lr Howard president of the Mori Is Paik Citizens' Association this imisniKc was one of the main tensons whkh actuated hundieds of small home ownciS In the Mouis I.uk section te give their diungM hacking to the effort to enact the kuufinann law. The act was pl.ur.l on the statute hooks in IV. nnd became effective June 2 of the same ear Di Howard aulluuliy for the statfinent that hundieds of dwellings. built pioxinutv to the i a 11-load jarde.

are covncd wiih (Continued on T.tge 9 French Premier Wins Greatest Victory of His Career-Senate Paasses Tax Bill 205 to 26. ffiy United PrcwiV PARIS, Dec 5 Premier Biiand today was hailed as having won probably the gieatest personal victory of his career when the Senate, by a vote of 205 to passed the measure which adds 7,600 000 000 new Danes to Frances alieady swollen currency and provides foi Inct eased taxation to care for Inflation. While yestet day it gievv apparent that the measure would pass the Senate, the extent of the victory geneially was attributed to Bnand personality and his singled-handed fight to keep his Government from falling He still faces a considetable test in the chamber on Tuesday when i II 1 l-( -n I itnl, AIM nul til Finance Minister Loucheuis main financial projects aie This piojeet is intended to care for future needs, w'hereas the measuie Just passed was of emergency nature to meet rapidly matuiing currency needs of a treasury now virtually empty. Loiuheur had assured the Senate that this new inflation would be the end of Jhat expedient, adding that if we continue skidding down this hill," It would ruin France before the end of another year BERLIN. Dec.

5 The Luther Cabinet resigned to-day Following out Its pledge of last week to retire after It had disposed of the Locarno signing, It met to-day and determined formally upon the lesignation which was offered to President von Hindenburg. President von Hindenburg will ask Luther to form a new government and It Is believed certain that his regime will be drawn from Rtrese-manns Folks party, the Centrists and the Democrats with the (Continued on Page 9 1 SEVERE GILES, El Will Continue Over Sunday, Is Forecasters 'Warning Cold Spell Promised, Beginning Monday. And the end Is not jet. Refolding to the Weather Man. After five days of almost continual rain and intermittent gajes of varying but marked intensity, his forecast for the weekend Is not reassuring.

Ram and eastcily winds pmbably reaching gale force and shifting to southwest to-night," is his dislum Sunday, cloudy and (oUlei, with stiong southwest winds probably shifting to northwest The prophesied cold weather which was to ariive in town tomorrow, according to the bureau, has been delayed and will not get here in full force unoi Monday morning. The meicury is not ex-pcctd to go below 40 degrees during the babbath, but will then undoubtedly go considerably below the fieezlng point of 32 degrees. Southeast storm warnings weie displayed at 10 A. M. to-day from the Virginia Capes to New York City and northeast from this city to hastport, Me.

Meanwhile New Yorkers aie slipping and skidding on wet, muddy streets, and whenever the wind diops, feeling then way through a modor- ate but, unpleasant fog, w.dch Is seriously Impeding ferry boats and other river traffic and somewhat en- darger ng railroad ttavel dt.e to the difficulty of seeing the block signals. 'lhe entire eastern half of the continent is suffering the 6ame inclement weather in varying degiees. Kansas City awoke this morning to find itself blanketed under five inches of snow, which demoralized street and railway tiaffic and caused several automobile accidents. The precipitation was genital over western 4Iissouri and parts of Kansas A storm of marked intensity Is central over the southeastern part of Wisconsin and secondary disturbance is generating over western Virginia. Both aie traveling northeast nnd are said to agencies which are hiinging the cold wave.

The mor-cuiy rescind and a few points below, In North Dakota to day and dropped far below in fanadi. The barometric pressure In Brnok-ln at 8 yesteiday was 2 S7 and the tempeiature was 47. At 9 A. to-dav the pressure wns 29 88, nnd the temperature was 44. MAC VEAGH TO PRESENT CREDENTIALS WEDNESDAY TOKIO, Dee.

6. Charles Mac-Vengh, of New Yoik Americas new Ambassador to Japan will present his credentials to the Prince Regent next Wednesday. Ex-Brooklyn Officeholder Out $1,905 Through Operations of Mrs. Josephine Conte Mystery in Case. Much mystery.

it Is said, attaches to Mis. Josephine Conte, a widow, 27 years old, who to-day confessed herself a forger before County Judge Reuben L. Haskell. The Conte woman gave her address as the Y. W.

C. A but apparently within the last six months sho lias made her home In so many places that any one of them might be picked at random as her leal place of abode. It Is known that Mrs. Conte could make somo Intel eating revelations, but the belief was expressed to-day that she will keep quiet and take her inedkine Judge Haskell will sentence her on next Tuesday. While the woman sought to mulct Wall Stieet broker, it develops that her real victim was a Brooklyn tl a I.

I .1 politician, who formeily held an elective office, which not long ato he relinquished Her victim, it is known, was entirely innocent of the hemes of the woman, whom ho had apparently tried to befriend by lending her money It was alleged against the woman that he had foiged the name of L. Fianklin, a VS all Btreot broker, to a check 905. TItf check was deposited in the bank of thi ex-poltcal office bolder, and was made pat of a sum paid id the Citv Controller Witn the revtlalior of the forgery, the Riooklyn pollD" aj, now find? luniseif compellol tv na! good the $1,906. It Is said that the defendant deposited the check ift the bank account of the Brooklyn politician to make 0Od the money which he had lent her. Mrs Conte, according to statements made to Assistant District Attorney Harry Sullivan, carried out the for-I gery with a knowledge of affairs which only an insider might be ex- (Continued on Page 9 LIFE'S SEA DERELICT T.

Eddy of Sympathy Catches Franz Kierdorf, Taken in Bootleg Raid Tells Naive Story of Adventures. Floating bedgiggled on the great human tide, Franz Kierdorf, 44 vcais old, naive, a bit fearful and a bit patronizing by turns, bobbed up In the Fedeial Building yesterday afternoon a prisoner Half an hour later an eddy of sympathy caught him, and earned him gently out again, a fice man. Federal agents found him in a lonely house near Roosevelt, Queens, when they raided the place Wednesday night on advice of the local police. On the ground floor Franz was keeping watch. Upstans the agent found thirty-five gallons of alcohol, eightv-four quarts of alleged Scotch whiskey and an elaborate Iaout of counterfeit coiks, labels and lead raps beaiing the names White lioise Cellar, Old Neither the owner nor Franz's employer could be located.

Fianz told the agents his boss, who he didn't know even hy name, had picked him up on the Bowery two works before, on an offer of $30 a month, to watch the Roosevelt house. Duiing his stay there, he had lived on anv occasional loaf of bread and rice pudding lie cooked for himself. No money bad been paid him. estei day afternoon, waimed by a (Continued on Page 9) I Tniiolnian John Hcrlihy Green-point station was passing the four-story fiame tenement building, which houses tyventy persons, at 109 Clay street, early to-day when he saw smoke Issuing from the cellar Investigation showed a fire among some rubbish In a coal bln After arousing the occupants. Herlihy rushed for a nearby firebox ttf summon the engines.

Instead of running Into the streets, the women, after thev had learned'' the fire was not a serious pne, foPmed a bucket brigade and soon extinguished the flames. When the firemen arrived they discovered tliete was nothing left for diem to do and returned to quarters. The cause Is unknown and the damage was slight. REPORT CHAMBERLAIN WILL MEET SOVIET MINISTER BERT. IN, Dec.

B. Reports were mi lent here to-dny that British For elgn Secretary Sir Austen rhnmber-Hin will meet Soviet Fcrelgq Minister TchltcJieiln In Venice between Christmas and Nsw Years Photo 1 he Prohibition enfoieement operatives who the other day smashed what is thought to be an enoimous liquor syndicate were said to be led and directed by Major Walton Green (above) William Dwyer, noted promoter, was at rested during the raids SIMM! A sweeping Grand Jury Investigation into the liquor traffic and cor-luption of those charged with the enforcement of the Volstead Law will oe started on Monday, according to a statement issued late to-day by United States District Attorney Einory R. Buckner. William SUvenson. Hetman T.

Stlckman and John M. Harlan 111 aid in this investigation. 1 "We will take up the leads which have already been opened to us, said Mr. Buckner, and will follow them out to the end The whole thing may last thirty davs. Under Section 30 of the piohibition law' we are able to grant immunity to anv person who gives us any information, and with this assistance we should get between fiftv and sixty indictments before the month is out, certainly more than the foity-three for whom warrants have already been ifisued The evidence for these raids was gathered in a raid last August on the premises at 20 Leonard street.

Manhattan, according to the District Attorney. Mr. Buckner added that there was. evidence to show that the bootleggers were able to cariy on a mail order and express business in between six and twelve States using New York as the headquartei s. HMMOTON, Dec.

5 Nine towns sent file apparatus to St. Marys Cemeteiy, between BeMmawi and Brooklawn, yesteidny, wheie a big barn and many gaulcning implements weiv destioved The exnc ignited, and the flames spirari rnpidlv About 2 000 mntouMs blocked the mad The West Hie fne tiuck iiame into collision th an nuti- ho mobile diiven bv Gem go Hubl was ariested and fmpd great' than that given by any botanic garden in the woild. It Is equaled by only one or two museums. Classes from schools, to the number of ab(u! 60,000 pupils annually, visit the Garden regularly as pait of theh school work, receiving Instruction from members of the Garden staff In addition, there are regular Botanic Garden classes and lectures for adults and children, with an attend ance at present of over 25,000 annually. In in scientific research the Garden has emphasized the important work of pant breeding and plant diseases, including a survey of the tree diseases of the Diooktyu pHiks and lie Garden co-operata regularly with the city Board of Health in its educational work on plants that cause hay fever and on poisonous plants growing within the city limits The Garden has been Instrumental In seeming State legislation for the protection of native wlldflowers It is supported in part hy amiual appropriations In the tax budget of the city, but It is now necessary for the Garden authorities to provide about 40 per cent, of the annual budget (Continued on Page 1) I ANTWERP, Dec.

The steamship Federal collided to-1 spilled on a new -filled lamp became loss has not been determined Oil dn with the Riitish steamer Ashton In the Stimuli, sinking the Ashton. The captain pilot and three of the cievv of the Ashton aie missing and four weie rescued tenced to A life terra In 3ing SI, was take to jriu'ir at Ossimng today. He was anf'tcd May 9, with brother, Frank, and Furlo Ciumcntl, both of Manhattan, charged with holding up nine men on the roof of a Long Island City shoe faotoiv. Currency and jewelry, totaling $135, was taken from the men. Police at the trial testified that the trio confessed they had planned to hold up the pavioll messenger, but arrived too late.

Scianti was said to hft'c Induced the men to go to the roof to gamble, as he was employed in the factoiv. He was slightly wounded In the forehead when police gave iase His record, police sav, shows twelve arrests and four convictions The hold-up occurred sKtv-nine days after he was released fiom Sing Sing and two weeks after he was di'u harged In a Manhattan couit on a charge of having a revolver. In the face of this evidence Continued on Fnge 9) Mas Dec 5 Three prisons are dead line to-dav and another leioveilng from In a hospital, following a grad noting auldent near the Boston and Mine Railroad station in Lancaster The dead Pertlv-J Frankin 60 Oi kranklin Ifi Melvin Franklin 14 Eighteon-yenr-old Mihltcd Cook, the fourth victim, to-dav was reported testing eomfoitahly at Ciln-ti Hospital Her InVnlcs were not kc1 ,0 fala1 plnsl rln. snlrt strident ottered ea.lv last'! wll cn tC i1rM tlmk rranUhn. to vans and Ml-, rok vl(rp rllll hv Height 1 1 alii.

The wrecked automobile was tarried quaitcr of a mile on the engine pilot. B-M. T. TIED UP DURING MORNING RUSH HOUR MmIihiiUaI double on a Brighton BMidi R-M tialn bound for Manhattan the tunnel, caused a tn-mlrnte delav on that line during the moimng uish hour to-dav. The tialn was topped nenr the Court street station There was no confusion SCRATCHES TO-DAY.

JMFKRS(VV. Fusl Kme Remnant Ft Quentin Worthington, Hidden Jewel Medmi Rlennet hnssett Pgionl Rate Tear Not. Allta Allen Rose FmphuoI unt fauna Third Race Gee Soldier II, War-atuh. Mnonhrook. LIewelln, Cromwell.

Fourth Race Bitter Fifth Rare Water I lag Sixth Race Orpheus Gad Seventh Race None Wenthri clear; track fast. Detective Bureau Solves Mystery. of Kew Gardens) Find No Murder Committed Conditional $250,000 Gift To Brooklyn Botanic Garden Pledged by Rockefeller, r. John D. Rockefeller, has made a pledge of $250,000 to the permanent funds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, on condition that the authorities of the Garden shall secure an equivalent amount for the same purpose by Dec.

31, 1926, it was announced to-day. Rockefellers pledge was made after a thorough Investigation of the to the public and pnvate schools of the city is on a scule said to be other i would he have married her Yes, 7 Did the plaintiff cohabit with the defendant after he had obtained full knowledge that the defendant (Continued on Tage 9) RURWN'HT vard be't nig il pneumonia Lngland Dec I Rud I s-ed I st nl-M th has id in lake1 ta He stronger this foienoon Clear weather alter the fog of yes teid.iv aided his mnditn said Gallagher. I understand from the detectives who have investigated Hit case that Randall and several companions whose Identity the polite dn not yet know, left a party they attended at a hotel somewhcie on Long idand about midnight. They weie riding in an automobile and a dismsslon arose over some matter The three men decided to get out In the road wav and settle their differences. Thev left Randall at the loadable after the argument was over, and he had to make his way home alone.

He did this hy engaging the xervices CHINESE SHELLS FALL IN FOREIGN QUARTER LONDON, Dec. front Chinese warships fell without damage or cnsualty tn the fmplgn set tlenient at Cefoo. yesterday, ae cording to a dispatch from Tientsin to the Dally Mall. American and British fdllbOftti pve Arrived In Chefoo 'I he Kew Gardens Murder Mystery is splved to-day, according to Capt. John Gallagher, of the North Shore Detective Bureau.

There was no murder, and unless someone comes in and makes a charge there will be no arrests. The police icceivcd a repit. ear1 ership before we give It to any Thursday morning fiftfn a taxhab 1 1 1 i that he had seen two men diag body Into a lot on Inion Lculevaid, Forest Hills Detectives sraiched the plate and, although they foupd no body, thev picked up a diamond ring, said to be worth 000, bits of a oioken eyeglass and a wallet. Further Investigation disc Iqsed that a man had staggered into a gat age near the stone of the supposed mmder. hiiod a taxicab and Died Randall, of 147 lleikimcr street.

'Detectives from niv office went to this addles, said Capt Gnl lngher, "and found Randall in bed They secured sufficient Information to convince me that Randall was the man who wan in lhe 4i-cinliy of Foiest Hills Wednesday and who owns the hat and eve- glassrs. 1 am not an sure about the ring, and a Its value Is considerable, we will require positive proof of own- Botanic Garden organization activities and finances and Its plans for future development. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, originally 'conceived by the late Prof, Kiunklin W. Hooper, was made possible by the late Alfred T. White, It as Mr.

White who secured from public-spirited citizens of Brooklyn (he initial endowment fund of $60,000. 'This was the condition oil which the city of New York entered into an iieement with the trustees of the Brooklyn institute of Arts and Sciences to turn over to them the land now occupied by the Garden to administer as a botanic garden and aiboreLin. The Garden baa become the moat hen lit fi.i spot in Brooklyn, It not in the entire city of Greater New York, and is vhjlted hy mdre than half a million persona every year. The service wdilch the Garden gives IIOW TO KEEP WELL1 See rage 2 NIVGvRA LLS Dee 1 -At-UiUuuns hu rn nr life ot TnZ constant use of tohco Mm Nam mauled and beaten. Tluough the drill mnkp a complaint ngilnst (Black Squincl) Millet, oldest squa'v dnv ei i this tan, Capt.

Randall on the Indian reei atlnn. been diiven into Brooklyn. lie Kild. they found that the man was of a taxicab at the Colonial Garage, refuses to die. Client prepositions me being made hy the Seneia tribes on the ic'eivat tlnn for her 117th hhthdnv Meanwhile Namy smokes hei old clay pipe and node lomplatentlv al the bourns now being showered nn her She navs the use of tobacco has given her many ltnuis of good boot Nancy Millei nnqurstlnmihh Is the oldest living Indian wnm.m and per-! haps tk oldest person, In the United! State I TO-DAYS 0.

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