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VITAL RECORDS DEATHS Batjer, Herman Reid, Robert S. Cave, Magdalen Riddle, Edwin B. Conboy, Henry Rowland, Emma J. Copmann, Jules W. Rutter, Kathleen Hawke, Edward J.

Sinnott, Katherine Holran, Rosa A. Smith, Moses R. Kloeppel, Rev. W. Starinszak.

Mary Linn, Charles V. Taylor, Edward Lippincott, 1 H. M. Thomson, I. MeD.

MeDonald, Hazel Thompson. Maud Nathan, Murphy, Mary Nicholas R. Topham, Wardlaw, S. C. Ew.

Ramsden, Charles Watson, Elnora BATJER-HERMAN. "The Funeral (Frank E. Campbell), B'way, 66th Feb. 12, 10 CAVE--MAGDALEN, widow Archibald G. Cave and daughter of Boerum, aged 85.

'Services Sunday, 1921, at 5 o'clock, at her late home, 494 Chauncey st. Interment tat Greenwood. CONBOY--On Feb. 11, 1921, HENRY, the beloved son of Hubert and Sarah Conley Conboy. Funeral on Monday, Feb.

14, from his late residence, 550 Myrtle at 2 p.m. COPMANN--At his residence, Falton Farm, West Long Branch, N. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1921. JULES W.

COPMANN, formerly of Sea Gate, New York Harbor. Services will be held on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2 p.m., in the Chapel at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. HAWKE -Entered Frievening, Feb.

Entered JENNINGS, aged 21 years 1 month 6 days, youngest son of Jennie B. Hawke Kendall and the late Francis T. to Hawke. Funeral services will be held Monday at 8 p.m. at his late residence, 272 Eldert st.

HOLRAN---On Feb. 11, 1921. ROSE beloved daughter of the late Thomas and Rose A. Holran. and sister of Rev.

Edward A. Holran. Funeral from her late residence, 382A Clinton on Monday, Feb. 14, at 9:30 a.m.; thence to St. Stephen's R.

C. Church. Hicks and Summit where solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul. 11. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

Automobile cortege. KLOEPPEL--On Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, Rev. WILLIAM A. KLOEPPEL of Patchogue, L.

beloved husband of Margaret Falion Kloeppel, in his 54th year. Funeral services will be held at the Baptist Temple, 3d ave. and Schermerhorn on Monday, Feb. 14. at 2 p.m.

Interment at Cypress Hills Cemetery. LINN--At his residence, 233 Clermont on Saturday, Feb. 12, 1921, CHARLES V. LINN, beloved husband of Clarissa W. Linn, nee Lemmermann, in his 54th year.

Notice of funeral hereafter. LIPPINCOTT On Friday, Feb. 11, 1921, at the residence sof his sister, Mrs. W. O.

Topham. Brooklyn. N. services will be held in Mount Holly, HAROLD M. LIPPINCOTT.

to Funeral McDONALD-On Feb. 11. 1921, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Braden, 1227 Fulton st, Brooklyn, HAZEL, loved wife of William B. McDonald.

Funeral Monday, 9:30 o'clock. Solemn high mass at Church of St. 1g- natius. Rogers ave. and Carroll 10 a.m.

MURPHY-On Feb. 10, 1921, NICHOLAS MURPHY, beloved husband of Anna Mackin. Funeral on Monday, from his late residence. 93 Bergen thence to St. Paul's Church, where a solemn requiem mass be celebrated at 10 a.m.

Interment Holy ross Cemetery. NATHAN--On Feb. 11, 1921, after short illness. MARY ROSSMAN NATHAN. widow of Nathaniel L.

and beloved mother of Harry, Irene and Nettie: Blatt. Funeral from her late residence. 542 McDonough Sunday, at 2:30 p.m. -On Feb. 10, -1921, at his residence, 381 Dean CHARLES HENRY RAMSDEN, beloved father of Florence B.

Ramsden and Mrs. Hetty Grady, in his 79th year. Funeral service by the Rev. Thomas J. Lacey, Sunday at 2:15 p.m..

Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery. RAMSDEN- Thirteenth Veteran Association--Members: You are hereby informed of the death of Comrade CHARLES H. RAMSDEN, Civil War Veteran, of Co. 13th on 10, 1921. Funeral from his late residence, 381 Dean Sunday, Feb.

13, at p.m. Fraternally, THOS. R. FLEMING. President.

John J. F. Doyle, Secretary. REID-Suddenly, on Feb. 11, 1921.

at his residence, Hotel Walton, ROBERT SPEIR, son of the late Aaron L. and Maria S. Reid, and husband of Anna E. Reid. Services, All Angels Church, 81st st.

and West End Sunday, Feb. 13, at 2:30 p.m. RIDDLE--On Friday, Feb. 11, 1921, EDWIN B. RIDDLE, aged 81 years.

He is survived by four daughters and three sons. Funeral from his late residence, 340 72d Monday morning, Feb. 14. ROWLAND-Suddenly, on Feb. 11, 1921, EMMA widow of Charles H.

Rowland. Funeral services will be held at her late home, 1067 Dean Brooklyn, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Interment at Huntington, L. I. (Long Island papers please copy.) RUTTER KATHLEEN STUART, daughter of Horace L.

and Lotta Nugent Rutter. Funeral services Sunday, Feb. 13, 1921, at 4 p.m., at late residence. 137 Hicks st. SINNOTT--On Feb.

11, 1921, KATHERINE SINNOTT, age 2 years, beloved daughter of Mary F. and William C. Sinnott, at 69 1st pl. Funeral Sunday, 2 p.m. Interment Holy Cross.

SMITH--Suddenly, Feb. 11, 1921, MOSES R. SMITH. aged 77 years. Funeral services Monday.

2:30 p.m., his late residence, 265 Franklin Hempstead, L. I. Veteran of the Civil War, Co. 114th New York Volunteers. neral Church" (Frank E.

Campbell), A "The FuB'way, 66th Feb. 12, 2 p.m. TAYLOR--On Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, EDWARD TAYLOR. aged 75, father of Arthur M.

and Mrs. Lillian M. Keith. Funeral services at Reeves Chapel, Sumner ave. and Monroe Saturday, 8 p.m.

TAYLOR-Montauk Lodge No. 286. F. A. You are requested to attend Masonic funeral services of our late brother, EDWARD TAYLOR.

at Reeves Funeral Chapel, Sumner ave. and Monroe Saturday evening, Feb. 12 1921, at 8 o'clock. A ADOLPH HANSEN. Master.

George F. Malby, Secretary. 1 THOMSON-On Feb. 9, 1921, ISABELLA McDONALD THOMSON, wife of the late Robert Thomson of Mitchell, Stratford, Woodstock, Toronto, in her 81st year. Funeral from the residence of her daughters, Mrs.

Chas. L. Brondson and Miss Isabella Thomson, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Alameda, Cal. Mrs. Thomson was mother of John McD.

Thomson of Brooklyn. (Canadian papers please notice.) THOMPSON-On Feb. 10, 1921, at her residence, 92d MAUD, beloved wife of Nicholis Thompson. Funeral on Sunday, at 2 p.m. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.

Auto cortege. TOPHAM-At Somerville, New Jergey, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, SARAH ELIZABETH, wife of the late Charles R. F. Topham, formerly of Brooklyn.

Funeral services at the Lefferts Place Chapel, 86 Lefferts near Grand Brooklyn, on Sunday, Feb. 13, 1921, at 3 p.m. WARDLAW-On Friday, Feb. 11, 1921, C. B.

W. WARDLAW, in the 72d year of his age, at his home in Westwood, N. J. Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, ELNORA, widow of the Rev.

Dr. Lorenzo' D. Watson. Funeral services at the residence of her sisters, the Misses Lawrence, 164 Bainbridge Saturday evening, Feb. 12, at 8 o'clock.

of of of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1921. e. Briand Urged to Send Note To Harding on Foreign Affairs (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and Philqdelphia Public Ledger; Copyright, 1921.) Paris, Feb. 11-Now that the French Parliament has voted confidence in the Government's foregin policy, French opinion again considers that the next important step is "to talk to the American people." The Petit Parisien, with its largest circulation Europe, leads the van in editorial opinion, today by pointig out that since war the case of France has been neglected and that it is necessary to 'build up friendship for France among the American statesmen soon to take important posts in the Harding administration.

The editorial says: "The United States is like the Fable of the sleeping benuty, which is going to awake March 4. It is more portant than ever to know what Amer- WOULD FREE BROOKLYNITE REPORTED DYING IN PRISON (Special to The Eagle.) Ossining, Feb. 12---An application has been to Gov. Miller, it was learned today, pardon Dominic, Damasco, a Brooklyn prisoner in Sing Sing, because he cannot recover from heart disease. The prisoner, who has been in Sing Sing for three years for assault, has been bed-ridden in the prison hospital several weeks.

Dr. Amos 0. Squire, head prison physician, and his assistant have reported to Warden Lawes that in their opinion Damasco is dangerously ill and has chance of recovery. The last hospital patient who was pardoned dropped dead as he was being dressed in street clothes to go home. He also had heart disease.

OZAKI PERSONALLY DISLIKED IN JAPAN; READ OUT OF PARTY By GLENN BABB. (By Cable to The Brooklyn Copyright, Eagle and 1021.) Philadelphia Public Ledger; Tokio, Feb. 12-By an overwhelmingly adverse vote the resolution favoring armament restriction presented by Yukio Ozaki, considered to be Japan's most advanced liberal, wag defeated yesterday in the House of resentatives. The vote was 285 to 33. Ozaki's resolution was most conservative, proposing only that "Japan's naval construction program shall be limited according to an agreement reachable between the Governments of Japan, America and Great While it is unlikely that any armament reduction proposal would find solid backing in the present parlia- I ment, regardless of the authorship, the overwhelming character of the defeat of Ozaki's resolution should be taken rather as an indication of the author's unpopularity than showing any such one-sided opposition to the naval- holiday idea.

Ozaki recently was read out of his own party, the Kenseikai, owing to his advocacy of policies regarded as too radical at the present day in Japan. The only supporters of the Ozaki resolution were members of the small Kokuminte party and a few independents, while the Seiyukai (Government party), and the Kenseikai, the chief opposition party, voted solidly against it. MANUAL HIGH FRATS SPLIT ON ELECTIONS Progressive Faction Endangered. New "Party" Possible. The general organization elections at Manual Training High School are expected to cause more than the usual activity displayed in such events through a split in.

the agreement between two fraternities at the school. The split which became known today is said to endanger not only the life of the Progressive Party, but may effect the existence of high school fraternities which received a new lease of life folowing the decision of the Corporation Counsel that they are not banned by the Board of Education. The Progressive Party at Manual has been successful in the last two years because of the agreement, between the Sigma Lambda Nu and the Omega Alpha Pi fraternities which have presented a united front in the general organization elections. Feeling, however, is said to have arisen between the two, and the former objects to the Omega Alpha Pi group using the name Progressive. Another fraternity, the Omega Gamma Delta, has entered into the dispute and may ally itself with the Sigma Lambda Nu.

Dr. Horace Mann Snyder, principal of the school, is considering the possibility of abandoning the existing parties owing to the dispute and organizing a Blue party and a Gold party, named after the school's colors. At a meeting of the present Progressive party, Edward Kelley, Marjorie Reynolds. Lucien Waddell and Ulric Calvosa have been nominated for officers of the G. O.

The feeling between the fraternities, however, has reached such a stage that the election of this ticket is said to be doubtful. As a result. Dr. Snyder may clamp down further the lid on all fraternities at the school. Aid in Making Tax Returns Internal Revenue Collector Bertram C.

Gardner announced today that he had assigned deputy collectors to! desks in various banking institutions, throughout the boro, where they will assist taxpayers in preparing income tax returns. PLANES SEEK MISSING CROSS FLIER El Paso, Feb. 12-Army planes from every station in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona were to leave Fort Bliss at dawn today to search for Lt. Alexander Pearson, who has been missing since he left here Thursday at 10 a.m. Wireless and telephone messages have been sent to all stations and postmasters along the route between El and Houston, a distance of 800 miles, in an effort to locate the missing pilot, who expected to land at Houston late Thursday.

A new chank shaft was fitted in Pearson's machine at Columbus, N. 90 miles west of here, on Tuesday, and officers at Fort Bliss express the fear that bearings may have run hot and caused EL sudden and possibly disastrous landing at some remote place in the sparsely settled country of west Texas, Lt. Pearson, when he left here, was en route to Pablo Beach, from which point he was to a transcontinental flight to San Diego, in an eltort to tablish a record for the flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He expressed the opinion the flight could be made in less than 24 hours. DAWES AND HARDING CONFER IN FLORIDA; SPECULATION RIFE Banker Believed Out of Cabinet Race May Get Some High Government Post.

St. Augustine, Feb. 12-- Charles G. Dawes, Chicago banker, who has been prominently under consideration for appointment as Secretary of the Treasury, headed President-elect Harding's appointment list for today with a conference that started a new train of Cabinet speculation Once conceded to have first call on the Treasury portfolio, but more recently regarded as a less formidable contender for the place, Mr. Dawes has become one' of the mystery men of the Cabinet problem.

It was said at Harding headquarters that his call was not the result of a formal appointment made at Mr. Harding's request, but in some quarters the fact of his coming at this time was interpreted as evidence that he still is being considered for some high Government position. Mr. Dawes is in Florida to visit relatives, having come directly from Washington where he created a sensation last week by publicly condemning the methods of the Republican majority in Congress in its investigation of the conduct of the war. Concerning his course in that regard, Mr.

Harding a and the officials close to him have had nothing to say, nor would they make any comment on the significance of today's conterence beyond the assurance that the President-elect has a high regard for his caller's ability. Others with whom Mr. Harding had appointments today included Henry A. Wise Wood, of New York, interested in aviation projects, and a committee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce which brought an invitation to the President to visit that city. SAYS LAYOFF WON'T AFFECT CAR REPAIRS Public Service Commissioner Alfred M.

Barrett received a letter yesterday from General Manager Menden of the B. R. in response to inquiry made by the Commissioner, assuring him that the proposed two weeks layoff of 1,500 employees of the B. R. T.

shops would not result in neglect to keep the cars and equipment of the company in necessary repair. Mr. Menden wrote, in part: "The number of cars held out of service for repair has gradually decreased during the last two months, and we are practically back to normal conditions in this respect. Also we have added during the last two months practically 50 additional subway cars, and we therefore believe that the shutting down of these repair shops one week in February and one week in March will not materially affect the number of cars out of service. The shutting abele of the repair shops for one week in the months of February and March cannot materially affect any deterioration of equipment, and as to daily repairs, it should not be noted that we have not shut down the inspection shops but the shutting down for one week applies only to the general repair shops." SAY WOMAN HELPED TO MURDER FARMER New Brunswick, N.

Feb. 12-- Three men are held responsible for the murder of Henry Kouhaupt. a farmer. of Piscataway township, three miles from Dunellen, are being pursued today by a posse. The police attribute the shooting of Kouhaupt to an old feud.

He was first beaten and then shot, they say. They are detaining woman, Angelina Trimineri. She denies pariticpation in the crime. The farmer's wife said her husband was digging a ditch, when one of the men now under suspicion ran water into it, and an old quarrel was renewed. The farmer objected to the neighbor's interference.

Thereupon, it is said, in the ankle. The farmer limped into the house, had his feet bandaged, limped out into the garage and got into his car to go call the police. When the car was on the road, a shot was fired, which penetrated the windshied. It struck Kouhaupt in the side. Several shots were fired, the bullets finding lodgment in the farmer's body, The woman who is held is accused of having jumped on the running board of the car, from which position she is alleged to have struck the farmer.

WILL APPEAL FROM UNION BANK DECISION That the decision of the Court of Claims, handed down yesterday, which virtually eliminated the claims of de. positors of the defunct Union Bank, would be appealed to the' Appellate Division of the Third Department was the statement today of Max D. Steuer, who, with Assistant District Attorney Louis Goldstein, represented the de. positors in their fight to nave the Stale held accountable for their lost deposits. "The Court handed down an opinion with its decision," said Mr.

Steuer, "but I have not been able to procure a copy. I can't see on what possible grounds the decision was reached. am certainly interested to see the opinion, and I intend to argue the appeal myself before the Appellate Division. To me it is quite clear that the State is accountable to the depositors." CHARLES TO RETURN TO BUDAPEST SOON, REPORT IN GENEVA Letter to Hungarian Primate Says He Will Reach There in March. (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and Philadelphia Publio Ledger: Copyright, 1921.) Feb.

11-Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria, in an autograph letter dated in January, from his and a addressed Johann Esernoch, castle at Prangins, on Lake Geneva, primate of Hungary and Archbishop tone of Gran, expressed his belief that the British and French opposition to the restoration of the Hapsburgs on the Hungarian throne has greatly diminished and announces his intention of returning to Budapest in March. The letter was revealed during the last meeting of the Hungarian Government party by former Prime Minister Simonyi, who was dismissed from his post last summer. It caused a sensation and led to a crisis within the Budapest government and the resignation of the Premier, Count Teleky. C. H.

RAMSDEN DIES; PROMINENTIN G. A. R. Post Commander of Mackenzie Post--Memorial Committeeman Charles Henry Ramsden, 79 years old, of 381 Dean past commander of Clarence D. Mackenzie Post, No.

399, G. A. a member of the Grand Army Memorial Committee and long prominent in Republican politics in Brooklyn, died on Thursday at his home of Bright's disease. The funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon at o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Thomas J.

Lacey, rector of the P. E. Church of the Redeemer, CHARLES H. RAMSDEN of which Mr. Ramsden was a member.

The interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mr. was born at 35 Hicks the son of Wright Ramsden, the first licensed master plumber of Brooklyn, and of Maria Brooks Ramsden, of Leeds, England. Mr. Ramsden when a young man was a plumber with his father, and later with a brother at 67 Fulton and he ran with old Engine Co.

No. 17, known as the "Grasshopper," in the Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Ramsden went to the front in the Civil War as a member of Co. 13th Regt.

of Brooklyn, and he was a member of the 13th Regt. Veterans Association. Mr. Ramsden was a pioneer in the gas-fitting trade in Brooklyn, and he gave up plumbing many years ago to take a position with the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, with which he was connected as an inspector of construction for over 20 years. Later he went into the same line at the.

Brooklyn Navy Yard, and for many years afterward, until he was retired on a pension four years ago, he was an inspector for the City Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. Mr. Ramsden lived most of his lifetime in the old 3d Ward, and he was' Republican captain of the 17th election district of the 10th A. D. for years, He was an old member of the G.

A. R. Executive Committee, a member of the Knights Galena, the Society of Old Brooklynites and of Aqua Council of the water supply service. Mr. Ramsden was for many years a member of old St.

Peter's P. E. Church, on State near Bond. married Mary Frances Griffen in 1864, and she died in 1883. He is survived by two daughters, Miss Florence B.

Ramsden and Mrs. Hetty Grady of Rockville Centre, L. a granddaughter, Mrs. Ruth Ackerson of Jersey City, and a greatgranddaughter, Ray Ackerson. BOMB CRIPPLES 3 IN POLITICAL MEETING Woman and Two Men in Motor Flee After Chicago Outrage.

Chicago, Feb. bomb ex19--The plosion at the 19th Ward Democratic Headquarters last night, which seriously injured six men, was attributed to politics today by Anthony d'Andrea, candidate for City Council from that ward, who had a narrow escape himself. A big hole was blown in the wall of the brick building close to the speaker's stand, but d'Andrea had just finished speaking to a crowd of about 300 of his adherents. Two of d'Andrea's precinct captains suffered broken legs, one had his leg blown off and several others were hurt. A rope by which police assert the bomb was lowered from the roof to the place where it was exploded, furnished the only clue to the bombers.

Two men and a woman in a red motorcar were seen speeding away from the vicinity immediately after the explosion, but shots from a policeman failed to halt them. For several years d'Andrea has contested political honors in the 19th Ward with Johnny Powers, but Powers has been regularly re-elected. Germany's Poisoned Pen Wielders Once More Active (By Cable to The Brooklyn Ecole and de phia Public Ledger: Copyright, 1021.) Berlin, Feb. 12 German poisoned pen wielders, who, up to America's entrance into the war, filled the mails to America with virulent abuse of the United States and its policy and indulged in a recrudescence of their activities when postal communications were reopened after the armistice, are again at work, and have induced many business men to include in their letters to American correspondents copies of an old type of abusive circulars and reprints of propaganda articles vehemently and even indecently assailing the motives acts of their opponenta in the late war. The American Commission here has recrived conies of a mass of this literature from angered recipients in the United States, and has called the Gov- a a BRITISH FACTORIES TURNING OUT ARMOR PLATE FOR JAPAN Submarine Engines Also Being Built--No Capital Ships Under Construction Now.

(By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and Philadelphia Public Ledger; Copyright. 1021.) London, Feb. 12-Sir Auckland Geddes had a long audience with King George yesterday and today joined Premier Lloyd George for a week-end for final. discussions before leaving Tuesday for Washington. It is stated that both the Premier and Ambassador intend to canvass the whole range of subjects facing the two countries with special reference given to disarmament.

Your correspondent learns on good authority that the British Government has no objections to a conference on al reduction of naval programs with any, or all, of the great powers, but has no confidence in the results of such conferences. The view is held that a conference would do no harm, but would be mostly talk, after which the nations would continue much the same as now. What the government hopes to do, through channels more effective than a largely attended conference, is to in. fluence the United States to slow up on her building program until Great Britain's finances are in such shape she can start building or at least come to an agreement armed with the to build if she wants to, That power is absent now. that connection there became available today some interesting facts on what British industry is doing to assist Japan with her naval and military equipment.

It throws a different light on the recent sporadic reports that Great Britain has contracted to build several capital ships for Japan. matter of fact, British shipbuilders have no contracts for capital ships for Japan, but frankly admit they hope to have them soon and to continue to build for Japan as they have for twenty years. The armor plate factories are busy on Japanese orders, however, and engine builders are turning out many submarine engines, while several other military factories equipment. are The making Japanese various are reported to have submarines completed except for these engines. It is pointed out at the Japanese Embassy that Japanese shipbuilders are young in experience, and besides that, Japan's present naval program is greater than her shipbuilding capacity.

All these orders a are gratifying to England just if for no other reason than keeps many factories in running order and reduce unemployment. WITNESS DESCRIBES MATEAWAN KILLINGS Williamson, W. Feb. 12-John McDowell, a Baldwin-Felts employee, present at the Matewan battle last May, was the first witness called by the prosecution in the pistol battle trial when court convened this morning. The first shot of the battle that resulted in the death of 10 men came from doorway of a hardware store near the railroad station, according to McDowell's testimony.

He could not say who wits first man killed. He testified that Sid. Hatfield, Matewan police chief; Albert C. Felts and Mayor C. C.

Testerman were gathered about the doorway. He stated that Reece Chambers, one of the defendants, was the only person he saw do any shooting. Nineteen defendants are being tried on a charge growing out of the death of Albert C. Felts during a pitched battle on the streets of Matewan last May. When he turned over to the defense for crass Attor.

ney J. J. Coniff went back into what has been accepted as the cause of the battle the eviction of miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company. McDowell was uncertain as to the number of families evicted by the Baldwin-Felts detectives that day, but raid he believed there were five or six of them. Efforts on the part of Mr.

Coniff to bring out the number of women and children who had been turned into the streets were met by serious objection on the part of the State. "You may now tell us about the appearance of Sid Hatfield while the evictions were in progress," suggested Mr. Coniff. "While a few of us were taking the furniture from a house," replied the witness, "Mr. Felts, who was in charge, said 'two or three of you had better get your rifles for yonder comes the Mayor, Sid Hatfield and a gang of We did as we were told, Hatfield, Mayor Testerman and two or three others came up to where he was and protested against the eviction." RAISE TEACHERS SALARIES.

Patchogue, L. Feb. 12-An increase of $6,000 has been voted by the Board of Education to the school budget for next year to provide for a raise of $100 a year to the teachers in the Patchogue district. The Board estimates, however, that this increase will add no extra burden in the orm of increased school taxes, for at the present rate of reducing the bonded Indebtedness of the cillage, next year will see a further reduction of $7.500 on that score. The minimum salary for grade teachers will be $1.200 for high school teachers, $1,400 to $1,500.

AMITYVILLE MAN GAS VICTIM. Amityville, L. Feb. 12-An investigation will be made by the local police and Coroner Moore of Suffolk County into the death the early this morning of John Boller his home here. Boller, who is unmarried, was discovered asphyxiated with gas pouring from an open jet.

He was 50 years old. IN MEMORIAM ARMOUR-In memory of our beloved niece, GERTRUDE PHILOMENA ARMOUR, who died Feb. 13, 1911, in her 13th year. JOHN and ANNA HICKEY. 12-2 BADER-In sad and loving memory of my dearly deloved son and brother.

FRANK E. BADER, who departed this life Feb. 12, 1920. MOTHER and SISTER. CHAMBERS In memory of JULIUS CHAMBERS, Feb.

12, 1920. "He talked with us by the way." JOHN A. PETRY. Patterson, N. Y.

DEVANE-Anniversary mass for the late Rev. JOSEPH A. DEVANE. Tuesday, Feb. 15, 10 a.m., at St.

Michael's Church, Flushing, L. I. GAUS- In loving memory of our dear father, JOHN L. GAUS, who passed away Feb. 12, 1915.

FRANCIS--In loving memory of Corp. RALPH W. FRANCIS. 302d S. Co.

in France, Feb. 12, 1919. Memories today are sad ones, For our boy who never came home. EDWIN BAYHA. UNDERTAKER 219 ATLANTIC AV.

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ica will do when she wakes up. The agreement of Paris risks becoming a dead letter if the United States turns its back on Europe and refuses to facilitate credit operations contingent to the future payments from Germany." The editorial further states that while there exists in America two groups, namely, those in favor of the Treaty with reservations and those who advocate Harding's Association of Nations, it is necessary to Americans that "France cannot dream of renouncing the League, which is indissolubly united with the Treaty." It is suggested that the best way to inform the American people just what France is thinking is for the chief of the French government himself, meaning Premier Briand, to address a comunication to Harding which will be given to the American people. NO TRACE FOUND OF GARDINER $360,000 WIDOW SAYS IS LOST Hearing Fails to Locate Either "Missing" Funds, Checkbooks or "Tin Box." Efforts to locate the $360,000 alleged to be missing from the estate of the late Robert Alexander Gardiner by his widow, Mrs. Gardiner, proved to be unavailing the hearing Moral before Surrogate Robert S. Pelletreau of Riverhead at the Manhattan offices of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company yesterday.

Attempts by William Niles locate Mr. Gardiner's checkbooks also met with no result and caused Grenville T. Emmett, attorney for the company, to suggest to Mr. Niles that the $360,000 might be the result of an overestimate of the estate of Mrs. Sarah T.

Gardiner, mother of the deceased. Under the will the $4,899,000 estate of the mother was divided among three children and the late Mr. Gardiner was allotted $1,315,454.05. It was brought out in testimony that he had dealings in the stock market which may have resulted in this amount decreasing. David Gardiner, brother of the deceased, denied that 'he had taken any papers from the home of Robert at Lakewood, as was alleged by the widow.

He also denied the existence of a dispatch box, referred to by the widow as a "tin box" in which it was alleged important papers which are said to be missing were kept. He admitted that Mrs. Gardiner had given him some papers which he said he turned over to the company. He denied knowing where his brother's checkbooks were. ENGINEER W.

S. COOK VANISHES- ALARM OUT Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Winfield Scott Cook, chief engineer of the Ward Line steamer Camaguey. Cook, has been missing since the arrival of the ship from Tampico, Sunday: On that day he came ashore in the pilot boat with his engineer, Frank Pennea nassistant the Battery. He was bound for his home at 582 Throop ave. He left Pennea at the Nevins st.

subway station and has not been seen since. The case was placed in the hands of the police by his wife, Mrs. Elvira Lane Cook, on Monday night, when Lincoln Harvell, an oiler came to the house with a message for Cook. Up to that time his wife believed that he had been detained aboard. Mrs.

Cook said that it was not unusual for her husband to drop in suddenly on the family to surprise them. For this reason she had not worried when no SCOTT COOK message was received from him Sunday or Monday. The only clue that the police have to work on is a telephone call received by Mr. George Traver of 670 Macon st. Wednesday morning.

A man who said that he was Cook asked to speak to Mr. Traver and not finding him at home, promised to call later. The call was traced to Bloomfield, N. where persons identified photographs of Cook as those of a man who was seen in Mrs. the Cook L.

said oatation. "It is simply a lapse of memory. My husband was worried and not well. When he visits the tropics he is always subject to attacks of malaria; Capt. Young said he had broken down several times on the way up from Tampico." When asked how she accounted for the telephone call Wednesday she said that he had probably had a temporary flash of memory.

She said that he would have no reason to disappear purposely. "He loves his home and his little daughter Virginia" she cried. Cook was born in Maine but has made his home in Brooklyn for the past 16 years. During the four years of his married life he has lived at the address on Throop ave. Cook is 5 feet 8 inches in height, has brown hair, hazel eyes and 41.

fair complexion. The back of his neck is slightly scarred and he has a scar An inch long on the third finger of the left hand. At the time of his disappearance he was wearing a dark blue soft suit velvet hat. with collar a light gray-black and pin dark stripe, overcoat brown a with brown shoes. It is believed that he did not have more than $2 in his pockets.

CONCERT AT ST. JOHN.S A concert of unusual' merit was last night at the St. John's enjoyed, Church, Bedword ave. and Wilson st. The program included vocal and Instrumental music and dramatic readings.

The artists were Prof. Richard Stoelzer, Walden L. Laskey, Edith Milligan Kive. Isabel E. May, Dorothy D.

Taylor and Lester May, with Mrs. Florence Brown Laskey as accompanist. The evening closed with of "Auld Lan Syne" by the audience. OFFICIAL THERMOMETER. FEB.

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Nathan Krass Rabbi of the Central Synagogue, Manhattan "The New Jerusalem An Interpretation of Chesterton's Latest Views and Paradoxes." SUNDAY EVENING Doors open 7 o'clock. PUBLIC SCHOOL 84 Glenmore and Stone Aves. Feb. 20- -Mr. EDWIN MARKHAM, Eminent American Poet.

SISTERS OF MERCY PROTEST TAX LEVY Claim Convent Is Exempt. Aspinall Refuses Writ. Justice Aspinall, in Supreme Court yesterday, refused the application made by' the Sisters of Mercy for a peremptory writ of mandamus, which sought compel Controller and tax officials to withdraw taxes levied against the convent buildings, on 12th from 63d to 65th sts. It is claimed by the members of the order that their property is exempt from all taxation as a religious body, and that its buildings are used entirely for religious and charitable purposes. The Corporation Counsel opposed the issuance of a writ, claiming that part of the buildings are devoted to other causes, such as a school, and that revenue is derived from other activities carried on there.

The Sisters emphatically denied the Corporation Counsel's statement. Justice Aspinall declared that in view of the dispute, he could not issue the mandamus, and that the levy of taxes against the property of the order could be reviewed by a certiorari proceeding or by an action in The Woman Voter Queens Republican women have enthusiastically taken up the educational program of the Republican Women's State Executive Committee and eleven different organizations have started the work. The Queens Village Women's Republican Club was the first to present a program with Mrs. Rosalie Loew Whitney as speaker. Monthly meetings are planned in all parts of the boro, with an all-day program in April, under the direction of Mrs.

Nettie P. Schwerin, vice chairman of the 4th A. D. Queens Chairman Joseph C. De Bragga and 150 Republican workers will attend the inauguration in Washington.

Mrs. Etta M. Winslow, vice chairman, is a charter member of the National Women's Republican Club. The County meeting last night was a social affair, with music and dancing. The reception given to Mrs.

Winslow by the Betsy Ross Republican Club of Elmhurst was attended by 100 women, Mrs. Winslow being made an hon. orary member of the club. D. Mrs.

was Lillian one Bradley, first of the Brooklyn 11th women to become a charter member of the National Women's Republican Club. Miss Reba Swain of the 11th A. D. Republican Club and a practicing lawyer, spoke yesterday morning before the Universalist Women's Alliance at the Church of Good Tidings, Madison on 'The Relation of Law and Justice." Miss Swain pointed out cases in which justice had not been attained, citing among other cases the passage of Transportation Act. She described the work of the Woman's Court and drew hearty applause when she paid a tribute to the work of Magistrate Jean Norris, New York City's only woman judge.

Miss Helen McCormick, Assistant District Attorney, will speak at the Kings County Republican Club, 202 Patchen on Tuesday evening. Miss Sarah Stephenson was unanimously indorsed for Magistrate at the last meeting of the Women's Democratic Council of the 4th A. D. Mrs. Mary E.

Dennen, of the Women's Democratic Council of the 4th A. is the proud mother of a little girl born a month ago. Mrs. Dennen, when congratulated today, said: "This is my fifth child, my oldest boy is now in high school. I am a living example to prove that a woman can be a mother and be interested in politics, too, for I have kept in touch with the club either by attending the meetings or by telephone." Then she added, with a laugh, "and my family has hot suffered either." The current bulletin of the League of Women Voters contains a copy of the letter sent to Governor Miller after his attack on the league at Albany, with the comment: "We publish the letter which bids fair to become an important historical document in the league's archives." There is also a statement by Miss Maud Swartz, chairman of the Women in Industry Committee of the State League, who says that at a conference in January at Albany under the auspices of the Women's Trade Union League, delegates representing 31 working women's organizations, 10 cities and 250,000 working women voted unanimously for the eight-hour day and minimum wage bills.

A plan to help the up-State League of Women Voters raise their quota of $10,000 for the State League expenses has been formulated by Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, treasurer, and includes special activities for each month, beginning with $10 subscriptions during February. A prize of $10 each month will be given the Assembly District raising the most money by the official plan. March will be card party month; April, bazar and rummage sales; May, cake sales; June, picnics. The civil service class held by the Women's Democratic Club of the 17th A.

D. at the clubhouse, 590 Gates met last night with many new members and undiminished enthusiasm. Mrs. Louise M. Harty, investigator at Kings County Hospital, laid out a regular course preparatory to examination for social service investigator.

The class studies arithmetic, spelling, city departments and special branches necessary for an investigator to know. Miss Sarah Stephenson has been elected commandant of the Flora McCloy Unit of the Women's Club of the Service Flag, which is making al specialty of providing fresh eggs wounded boys at Fox Hills ana other hospitals. A delegation from the 9th Women's Democratic Club will visit Fox Hills tomorrow and take a supply of smokes, candy and other luxuries to the boys. ernment's attention to the ill-advised and ill -natured attempts to cause trouble in international relations and the advisability of taking measures to check the practice. The poisoned pen movement has evidently large sums of money at its disposal, judging from the lavish manner in which the circulars are printed and distributed, and is being run in much the same fashion as the "Gott straff England" campaign, later extended to "and America, too," which was conducted during the war.

Among the latest efforts are hysterical articles by Miss Ray Beveridge, who was a German propaganda agent in the United States in 1914-15, and reprints of abusive editorials from reactionary German newspapers. A firm of international stamp dealers, which publishes international stamp market weekly, is devoting itself to spreadling this literature. The reception for Republican women on Monday afternoon at headquarters, 26 Court is under the auspices of the 5th Congressional District, the 10th, 11th and 12th A. D. The plans are being kept as a surprise although no formal speeches are This is the monthly social affair of the county, and all Republican and their friends are invited whether or not they are members of the county.

committee. Women's Political Calendar Tonight. Eighth A. D. Junior League of the Columbus Republican Club--Annual reception, Imperial.

Tenth A. D. Washington Club, 241 Prospect carnival ant dance..