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4 4 THE BROOKLYN PAPER FCRBROGKLYIPEOPLE mm SEVfiXTY-SErEXTII YEAR BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1924 8 PAGES TWO CENTS HOME E0IT10H I THE WEAIUl.lt: I I Clondy; tomorrow rain or mow; warmer. FRANCHISE TAX ADJUDGED LEGAL Mother Is Gravely HI From Grief Over Boy Missing Seven Years A mother, who has been grieving seven years for her son, who mys- Ex-Taxi Driver Admits Attempt to Counterfeit; Learns Art In Library KING WINTER HERE ATIASTONWIS OF 60 MILE GALE UV.U AIDE WROTE WIFE he Wished to -nop off SEC. JOSEPHUS DANIELS mm LAIN Lieut. Com. Comfort Confesses Hatred, on Stand, in An- nulment Suit.

DIES WHILE SON Banker Aboard the. Berengaria 7 Is Notified by Radio of Death. IS VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Widow of Financier Inherited Big Share of Fortune; No Funeral Plans Yet. J. Pierpont Morgan, famous inter national banker, has lost his race with death.

While the banker was dashing to i Br bedside from France on the Ber-nsaria, his aged mother died in her liome ut Highland Foils, X. to- lay. The immediate cause of death was imeumonia, which, because of tho parent's advanced age she was t'i nhVslclans to give up hope. Ueath came shortly after midnignt. Mrs.

Morgan had been unconscious or four days. tier wn nr. Frederick Tilney of rse.v 'York, yesterday called into consultation Major M. McSnyder of the nerflral deoaftment of the Military Academy at West Point. Four nurses were in attendance.

A night and day guard was estaD-ished at the house to prevent any ifamrhance arlslna from intruders. At the Church of the Holy Innocents. which Mrs. Morgan was a member, prayers were ottered ut orvice yesterday for her recovery. The Illness of Mrs.

Morgan caused ler son to drop negotiations with France for a loan ot were in progress when he was lottfied by cable of his mother's criti-al illness. He immediately notified the French of Mils decision to start for Immediately and accordingly ailed last Friday. He is expected to rrtve Thursday. Wireless messages notitying the that he had lost his race with leath were despatched early this fiornlnl. Mrs.

Morgan 'was immensely wealthy, having inherited a largo hare of the estate of her late hus-and J. Pierpont Morgan, former 10ad'ot the great New York banking louse. Plans fur the funeral will not be nnounccd until alter the arrival of he son. Mrs. Morgan before her narrlage was Frances Louise Tracy.

No details of tho death had been ecetvei at the office of the Morgan i. rm here. Mrs. naming nwia nil. i Quietly, bUl is very Weak and Exhausted Marlon, Ohio.

Nov. 17. Uremic has further complicated he case of Mrs. warren It 11 at White uans nam. said early as This, is in addition to in," which she has suffered jel ally.

has caused ner to since the latter part of last ea1 adll: the last forty-eight hours ehe taken Tery lor is been jeen orow nourishment, leading to the fear f.tlo hat the Is slowly supping oma At A. M. Dr. Sawyer Issued ha follow wlpg bulletin: ii.rin rested Quietly last This morning she Is very light, week and exhausted. The kidney and li ivef complications sne is Ishment." nour ft I I I I Al T.mMA r.aDDeaoH muci as Drunk Is Set Free; Judge Scores Seller rh.n John Griff forty-seven, of Marion who habeen arrested time charged with wa called before Magistrate 1 tarry Howard Dale In the Gates avenue-court thl morning the court asked him: "Weren't you broogni oerore Afaaistrate Golden in this conn Fri day morning i The prisoner nodaea assent.

"You gave the name of Peter then, didn't you I read aboat i Vau'v, een It in TIC ir-r i arrested so many times for drunkenness, perhaps five days in the work-liouse wouldn't do you any harm. Tou have reoord a long ae Gates venue.f a 1. a. Ill and uniio HJ didn't think lie could stand prison. Well "'aid the Magistrate, "the man who sold you that last drink of whiskey ought to be lined up against he wall ana inoi.

mifU mn ludire. If you'll let me go I'll ee-a doctor and probably get cured," said the prisoner. 4' guess tne snu-oaiuuu uss horrified when they saw that Magistrate Golden let you go. How-. -n: I'm going to suspend sentence i y'oii.

I suppose the Antl-Paloon league will be equally horrified at i. hat I'm dclng. Go home and try i.i lehnve yourfelf." e.Miuu, la tall well dressed and Is employed a a salesman. He was errested 'lust night on Wilson avenue. Ir wa fh thirty-fourth tlm he had MORGAN RACESTO BEDSIDE terionsly disappeared in 1917, is now AXTliO.W V.

seriously ill and grave feara are entertained for her recovery unless the boy returns. Seven years ago An thony Hafusa, a fifteen-year-old school boy. on hia way to Bryant High School disappeared from hit honm it 16S Greenpolnt avenue. Thr family has conducted a sys-tpmiiiic search over the entire country in that time, but all effort have fulled. Racrufla is dangerously III hi Kast Twenty-ninth street, I'latbiiPh, where the family now lives.

She lias set her heart on seeing her hoy. who is now 22 years old, before Thanksgivlna; Day. Nine years ago he grndiiated with hlKh honors from P. S. No.

12ti and was in the second year at JJryant High when he went away. FOUR, UHT SAFER! LLC. DdiK uuanei iiuu near ai Point of Guns, and Escape in Auto With $1,500. Four armed men early today held up James Carson, an attendant at the gasoline filling station of the Parker OH Corporation, Hulst avenue and Queens Boulevard. Long Island City, and escaped the contents of a eafe In the ollitc.

The receipts for Saturday anil Sunday $1,500, were taken. Carson, who lives ut 5 7 t'auld-well avenue. Bronx, later told detectives of the Long Island City De tective Bureau that the four men drove up in an automobile and asked for ten gaTTons of Rasollne. Three of the men entered the office andj Carson followed believing they wanted to buy some accessories. The' men caught hold of him, drew; gilnsi and forced him Into a rear room, where one of them menaced him with a pistol, while the others, who had then been Joined by the fourth man.

forced open the office eafe and took- the contents. They then went out, got into their automobile and drove away. Carson notified the police, who started a search for the bandits, sending out a genei-Hl alarm. Carson had $1S0 of his fiwn money in a wallet in his pocket. One of the bandits seni-ched him and was about to take the and money when Carsun protested the money was his savings.

"Oh, nil right." said the bandit, "we don't want anything of yours; we're regulur And he gave Carson back the wallet and money. Three others were in the when the bandits entered. They were given the same treatment, accorded Carson. One of them, Walter Lenahan, a truck driver for the Parker Oil Corporation, had In his possession a $200 watch, a $300 diamond ring and $10 In cash. These were untouched and with the admonishment by one of the robbers' "Wc want only the firm's money." Walter Johnson in Deal to Buy Oakland Club Oakland, Cal Nov.

Humors were current here today that Walter Johnson of Washington and Geoge, Weiss ot New Haven. have reached an agreement with Del Howard 'and J. Cal Kw ing for the purchase of the Oakland franchise! in the Pacific Coast Baseball Announcement of the sale was: expected today. Beports had It that Johnson and i Weiss aisreed to pay Howard and i Kwlng $300,000 for the club, plus the JS5.OO0 tax due the government, Welis Is here, hut could not be reached and Howard and Ewlng evaded questioners. Johnson la on a hunting trip in Nevada.

HAVEN 0 HELP By W1LMA ROSS i (v Begins Xmas Basket Campaign P.ead All About It on the Woman's Page IV K- i 1., leftist i i I I I i i EJ Upholds New York State Right to Levy on Corporations Out of Its Jurisdiction. GARNISHEE LAW UPHELD Supreme Court Holds Corporations Must Hold Up Pay of Its Employes. Washington, Nov. 17. Article 9 -A of the New York State tax law, the so-called franchise tax on corporations doing business both wfhin and without the State, was held constitutional by the Supreme Court today.

Suits were brought by Bass, Rat-cliff and Oretton, and the Gor-ham Mfg. Company, British and Connecticut corporations respectively, on the grounds New York had no constitutional authority to compute taxes on source beyond its Jurisdiction. The New York act levies a tax on that proportion of the corporations entire business or income which is conducted or received In the State. The Supreme Court held the tax was primarily a privilege tax levied for the privilege of doing business in the State. The Supreme Court also held the New York State law providing for the garnishment of wages to be constitutional.

The suit originated in an action brought in Broome County against the Endlcott-Johnson corporation because of its failure to pay ovnr ten per cent of the wages of employes under Oarnishee executions. The Endieott corporation registered the action on the grounds the Garnishee law of New York was unconstitutional in that It failed to make various allowances and violated contracts. Edwin Gould Announces Marriage of Son Frank to Miss Bacon, of Texas Edwin Gould, son of Jay Gould, announced today the marriage of his rank M. Gould, to Miss Florence Amelia Bascon, of Dallas, Texas. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs.

William Bacon, of Dallas, where the wedding took place, and a niece of Daniel Fpthergove, a director 6f the St. Lou), Southwestern Railroad, of which the bridegroom ia vice president. Brother-in-Law Killed, Warden Lawes Delays Operation on Himself Ossining, Nov. n. Wardon Leis E.

Lawes. of Sing Sing prison, was forced today to postpone a seri ous operation that was to have been performed upon him this morning ot Lexington Avenue Hospital, New York. During the night he was informed over the long distance telephone that James Stanley, of Elmlra, brother of Mrs. Lawer, had been killed by an engine near Elmira. He was a conductor for the Lackawanna Railroad.

John Stanley, another brother, was killed on a railroad several years ago. Mrs. Lawes and the Warden will go to Elmlra. The operation will he performed later this week by Dr. Samuel Gant.

Marine Who Robbed Home of Plunkett to Be Court Martialed Speculation concerning the iden tity of the marine who ransacked the home of Admiral Plunkett, commandant of the Xavy Yard, three weeks ago waa ended today when Navy Yard officers aald the culprit's name would be revealed during the court-martial. Meanwhile, the marine Is irt the Xavy Yard brig. Attempts to reach him have been blocked by an order from the Admiral. The value of the clothes. Jewelry and household goods stolen by the msrlne is considerable.

When Xavy Tard officers failed to obtain a confession from the surpect. Admiral Plunkett sought police aid. Detectives Kelly and Diamond of the Poplar street station were assigned to the case. They quickly drew an admission of guilt from the marine, who told them that all the Jewelry and clothes he atole were given as present to bis sweetheart in the Brum. Taken to the Bronx address, the detectivei found all the stolen articles: Man, 71, Ends Life by Gas in Third Ave.

Room William Rarlington, 7i, of 662 Third avenue, committed suicide in Ms room at noon today from gas rolsoning. Dr. Brokenshlre was sum-ironed from the Methodist Episcopal Hospital after a nelehlw had retorted the rase to tin Fifth Avenue police Btatlon. The end of a gas tube was found In the man's mouth with the other end attached to an open Jet. BY HIGH COURT 'That had gleaned from books borrowed from the Brooklyn Public Library the knowledge which enabled him to make plates for printing coun terfelt money is said to have been eonleased by Edward A.

Lindsay, Tormer taxlcab driver, of 408 Greene avenue, who was arraigned on a charge of counterfeiting today before- United States Commissioner Rasquln. Lindsay. wAlfed examination and was held In So, 000 bail to await the action of the Federal grand Jury. Toiir Secret Service agents who arrested Lindsay at his home Jast Saturday said they had found there sixteen plates for spurious five-dollar notes and a quantity of acids. Inks and paper.

There was no bogus money. Lindsay is reported to have admitted that he Intended producing coun terfeit money. Five months ago, he 1a quoted as saying, he went broke and abandoned taxicab driving. In the F.rooklyn public library he borrowed numbers of books on currency and counterfeiting. Having no money he was at a loss as to how he was to get his materials, but this problem he solved by gotnx about the engraving houses of the city representing himself as a buyer for reputable engraving houses.

In this way he secured steel and copper plates, and also acids and inks. The materials he had charged to.khe ac- OROERSI. R.T.T0 INCREASE SERVICE Demands More Trains in Rush Hours by Use of New Cars. The Transit Commission this morning served upon the Interbor-ough Hapid Transit Company orders requiring various improvements in service, rendered possible through the recent delivery to the company of the second consignment of 100 new subway cars out of the total of 850 ordered under the Commission's direction. 1 The new orders were developed aa the result of the public hearings before the Commission, begun on October 15 and continued through several days thereafter.

In order to provide for the carrying out of their requirements, the company is directed to submit for the Commission's approval revised schedules of train operation, to be effective not later than December 1, covering the following: 1. The operation of all Broadway-Seventh avenue express trains during the rush hours, both morning and evening, upon such increased headway as the use of seventy of the new cars will permit, to or from New Lots avenue, Utica avenue or Flat-bush avenue stations, as the case may be. 2. The operation Of four additional trains during' the rush hours, both morning and evening, past Times Square etatlon, on the local tracks of the Froadway-'Seventh avenue line. S.

The operation of through service on the Eastern Parkway line from Pennsylvania avenue to New Lots avenue, and the discontinuance of the shuttle service now operating between said stations. 4. The operation of through service on the Jerome avenue line, between Klngsbrldge road and Wood-lawn and the discontinuance of the shuttle trains now operating between said stations. 6. The operation of through serv ice from or to the Pelham Bay Park I station on the Pelham Bay Park line rluHnir thm ruah hntlrji.

both morn ing and evening; the discontinuance of the shuttle service between Hunt's Point road and Pelham Bay Parkj during such houra and the operation! of the shuttle service between such stations during other hours of the day, on twelve minute intervals, to provide a more regular connection at the Hunt'a Point station. Two Officials Accused by Bakers' Association Morris Tomashefsky. of 807 Pant avenue, and Herman Adelman, of 55 Graham avenue, respectively secretary and cashier of the Greater New York Bakers' Belief Association, with offices at 23 Bartlett street, were arraigned before Magistrate Short today in the Bridge Plaxaj Court Each waa held in Dan for examination Friday, Tomashefsky on a "charge of forgery and Adelman for alleged grand larceny. 'Alexander WeUjs, chairman of tho association's -investigating committee, the complainant against the men, charged that Tomashefsky had stolen $7,000 of the association's funds-during the past three years, i He said he forged and cashed checks made by the association to the order of its members. Adelman, Weiss alleged, had appropriated to his own use the proceeds of a check for 1200, which was sent to the association, but cashed by, Adelman.

Connolly Nams Patten Queens Boro Secretary Borough President Connolly of Queens today appointed Bernard M. Patten, of Astoria, borough sVr tar)', at 16.000 a year. Mr. Patten la now Deputy Comptroller formerly tfenatir.tepf fscritlng Queens, Mercury Hovers Near20-Degree Mark and Wind Causes Damage All Over Boro. LIGHT FLURRIES OF SNOW Manhattan Man Dies of Cold and Woman Reported Dying; Half of Country Shivers.

Ice-Coated Ship Here From Southern Seas Is First ot Season The Ward liner Slonterey, the first Ice-coated ship of the eeason, its decks and superstructure fantastically coated In heavy ice, ar-, rived today at Pier 26, at the foot of Congress street, from Mexican ports and Havana. Captain McGinnis said the temperature had dropped between thirty-five and forty degrees as the vessel neared port yesterday. Many of the passengers were lightly clad when the Monterey docked and had to hurry to clothing stores to get heavier apparet Real winter that blew into these parts last night on a slxty-eiglit-mtle- an-hour gale, settled on Brooklyn today. The mercury early today-hovered around 20 degrees. In Manhattan 18 degrees was reported.

The temperature dropped to 19 degrees in the gale last night, but was up to 2:1 at noon today, when the wind was blowing at thirty-five miles an hour. The weather man promises fair arid cold weather for today with continued hoavy winds. Prospects of snow are not so good Mr. Searr said. The first snow of the season fell last evening, but there was not enough to the Weather Bu reau to record.

i The wind blew at sixty-eight unlet I from 1 1 lock last night until 5 A. M. A stiff northwest breeze was still blowing this afternoon. I Much Damage In Brooklyn. Yesterday, officially, was the warmest November 6 in twenty years.

But at 7 P. the temperature began to drop. At 10 o'clock last night the skies cleared. At 11 o'clock, another gale came up and raged all night. A terrlffc gale also swept Long Island from one end to the other, the temperature in some places falling as low as fifteen degrees.

Signs and fences were blown down and a number of plate glass windows were broken In Brooklyn by the gale early today. T'iate glass windows in the store of the Strand Clothing Company, 4922 Fifth avenue, were broken and dummy figures were carried onto the car tracks in trie street by the wind. While Patrolman Thomas Dowd and Sergeant John O'Neill of the Fourth avenue station were gathering up the "dummies" and pieces fo wearing apparel, the big plate glass window In Goldberg's clothing store, at 4523 Fifth avenue was broken and clothing of all sorts blown into the street. A plate glass window In a vacant store, formerly a saloon, was blown out at DrlKgs avenue and Grand street. A big "dispensary" sign on the sidewalk in front of St.

Catharine's Hospital, Ten Eyck street and Rushwick avenue, was blown down and smashed. Patrolman John Christy, of the Clymer Street Sta-tlon, waa walking on his post when he saw a portion of tin cornice swing from the roof of the five-story building at 200 Broadway. A number ot pedestrians and a woman pushing a baby carriage were In street below. The patrolman shouted and those on the street got out of the way Just in time aa the cornice fell. Windows in homes were broken and portions of chimneys, were rntinaed en Pollewlitc Pace.

Liner Adriatic Here 12 Hours Late After Battle With Cyclone The White Star liner Adriatic tr rlvVvl here today from Liverpool and Quecntfown, delayed twelve hour by a cyclone- encountered at P. M. November 11, which, lasted until 11 A. M. the next day.

I An eighty to nlnety-nille-an-hour gale waa blowing constantly, with waves forty feet high dashing against the ship. One lifeboat van smashed, and on 'the morning of Xoveinbfr 12 the seamen were ordered to lash the other lifeboats. While working with the lifeboats, John Edward Nelson. 21. an able, teaman, was washed overboard, and ail efforts to rescue him were fruit-1 less, Xelson wan making his lt trip to I New York, having decided to Join tho Liverpool police force op his return.

1 Among th 54 passengers wss Mrs. l)ula. widow of Klchsrd Croker.j former chief of Tsmmany Hall. Mini t'reker spends half her time in land and half here. She is to pro-1 ceed to Palm Beach, where litigation: of her huiband'a will Is still under 1 Mrs.

Violet Cloths Is Killed in Apartment Where She Had Gone for Refuge. Violet Cloths. DO, of 696 Henry street, was found beaten to death this morning at 1M Centre street, the residence of Mrs. Loretta Schenck, where ehe has been visiting since Friday. The police are searching for Jack also known as "Belgian Jack." The slain woman and Her gus had lung been friends.

The woman's body was a mass of bruises and a gash on the head indicated death was due to a fracture of the skull. According to the police, a terrific fight took place in the Henry street house last Friday night when Mrs Cloths ts badly beaten by Bergus. She ran screaming from the apartment at that time and sought refuge in the house of Mrs. Schenck. It Is said that Bergus called there last night and renewed his quarrel with Mrs.

Cloths. Dr. Vance, ot Long Island College Hospital, said the woman probably died from the beating, although she had been drinking heavily. An autopsy will be performed today. Detectives McCarthy and 1.

Pusi- ano, of Hamilton avenue station, have been detailed on the case and will arrest "Belgian Jack" on sight. "Bel gian Jack" and Mrs. Cloths are well known-to the police of the Ked Hook section. Mrs. Schenck.

who found the body, said Mrs. Cloths engaged a room Friday and yesterday told her she had been twice beaten by a "man friend." She 'said nothing to indicate that her Injuries were serious. Mrs. Schenck not spend last night in her apartment and knows nothing about the alleged killing, of which there were no witnesses. GOODYEAR FIGHTS OF Rubber Firm's Attorney Holds Parent Company Blameless for Acts of Subsidiary.

Five cotton mills filed suit In Supreme Court today against the Goodyear Cotton and ltubber Company to recover $3,000,000 for alleged breach of contract. The firms suing are Stockton Eatonton Cotton Milla, Morras Taunton Manufacturing Company and Thlstlo Cotton Mills. The Goodyear Company today applied before Supreme Court Justice Lewis to set aside service of the summons of complaint. Counsel for the Goodyear firm claimed Its principal business la the manufacture of rubber tires and that Its plant Is located in Akron', Ohio. There is another company, it la alleged, known as the Goodyear Cotton and Rubber Company, a Delaware concern, which has an office at 120 Broadway, Manhattan, and selling plants throughout the couptry.

The iittornev alleges this is a sals agency and a subsidiary of the parent company. Therefore, he argued, the' service of papers in this State was In- 1 The plaintiffs contend that one fi the principal activities of the com-; puny Is finance and stock selling andj that this is conducted by the concern ran a vrv Inrvji HTRl In thin Si ri I I The chairman of the Board of Di rectors hue hla office at 120 Broad-dny. It Is and these facta rive the court Jurisdiction. Decision was. reserved.

Burglars Rob Store of 150 Fountain Pens Bandits touted the store of K. J. MoDonottgh at 180 Montague street, last night. The bandits entered the store by crashing a targe hole In the plate glass ot the door and ransacked the store, stealing about 139 fountain pens, valued at about 300. However, they missed -150 golds pens and pencils.

The robbviy was not discovered by the police and uo report made of the robbery until this morning when one of the'em-i ploytrts of the McDonough Company 'appeared to open the store. POLICE SEEK MAN COHON MILLS HE SEEKS SEPARATION Says Wife is Epileptic and Once Threw Flag in Trash Can. Lieutenant Commander Rowland? M. Comfort, U. S.

formerly navaf aide to the Into President Woodrowf Wilson, admitted on tho witness stand In the Supreme Court today that he had once expressed a desire to "bump off" Josephus Daniels, then Secretary of the Xavy. The desira was expressed in a letter which Lieutenant Commander Comfort auniitM he had written. His admission vva made on cross-exanilnutlon durins lHfl testlniOnv In lii anil fr rnnnt ftla r- fc l(J jib. nt-ieii hi Comfort, of Columbia Hc.ii;lit. Comfort alleged that after he and' his wife were married he learned shi) was subject to epilepsy and would bu unconscious at times forty-five minutes.

Before their marriage, he declare his wife's mother told him that faint? ing spells, to which the girl was sub Ject, were meroly Incidental, to nn operation and were unimportant. He said he and his wife have not lived together since he discovered hor enn-Itlon in November, 1922. The couple have a son, George Francis Comfort, 20. Comfort, who was formerly a naval aide attached to the White House, claimed also thnt his wife deceived him into believing that tliu was loyal to this country. He paid she had been born and had spent a number of years In Germany.

At Avon, x. In August, he said she told him that she and her family were loyal to this country. He claimed that In January, 1921, she told his sister she had torn nn American flag autographed by a prominent American off the wall of her father's apartment abroad and had thrown It Into a garbage can. Comfort characterized his wife's renresnntaf ion roL.ui-ilinn- loyalty as "social lies." He quoted her as having said once "To hell with fh( I'niterl StnteR flao- have one in my house." Mrs. Comfort denied all the allegations.

Her attorney William. M. Butler, cross-examined Comfort and confronted him with the flag which he claimed his wife had torn from tho wall and thrown Into a garbage can. Butler held the flag up to the gaze of all In the courtroom to show that It waB not much torn. It was not soiled and the case was oontlnued.

Continuing his cross examination of Comfort, Butler brought out that Comfort had written letters to h's wife and relatives of hers admitting that she had been a great help to him In his social relations in Wash- Ington and advanced his interests In that way. The lawyer read to Comfort an extract of a letter written bv him In Kebruary, 1921, In which "he said: "I'd like to pop off J. D. I would MKe to mann his race In for what he has done to me." "Who waa J. Butler asked.

"I don't remember," Comfort re-Plied. "Wasn't it Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Xavy?" Butler asked- "Yes, it was," replied Comfort. The case was continued. TRIAL DENIED Justice Dike Says Trial Would Depend on Husband's Own Testimony. The application of tralsabelle Alklnson.

of .691 Fourth atroet, for new trial of the suit brought by Ulanchard P. Atkinson, a wealthy 1 medicine manufacturer. In which' be was granted an annulment In June, was dented today by Supreme Court Justice Dike. The Atkinsons were married in 190V. Atkinson obtained an annulment on the ground that In 1S87 his had been married to a man named Robert H.

Boyd. Boyd disappeared for many years but finally turned up and testified at the trial In asking a new trial Mr. Atkinson suited she had only recently learned that. In 1873 Boyd had contracted a common-law marriage with another woman. Boyd made an affidavit confirming this claim.

Mis. Atk nson this fact made her marriage to Boyd void and her marriage tl Atkinson legal. For this reason, she said, Atklnion'e decree should be set aside and that she should be given another trial of the case. Justice' Dike said tout if another trial were granted the claims regarding Boyd's aliened common-luw ninrrinvte would have to be subntnu-tlated ultmwt entirely by Buyd himself. "Any fsctH that must be supported br he testimony of Boyd lore, a probative effect "with mo." Junk pike siitl, "as I consider hat utterly unrciiaoie.

NEW ANNULMENT MRS ATChiNSOi AXDKIiW LINDSAY. AboTe is the picture Lindsay drew of himself while in court today. count of the firms whom he claimed to represent. He started to work at 408 Greene avenue. In the beginning he spoiled many plates and just about the time he felt he was making progress information about him was relayed from underground sources to the Special Service Bureau.

Lindsay seems to be rather vain about his artistic ability and for the benefit of the newspapers drew several pictures which are supposed to represent himself at work In his chosen work. The special agents nabbed him before he had time to make any spurious bills. POLICE CONFERENCE IS I But Shake-up Is Impending as Commanding Officers Face Enright. It was stated at Manhattan Police Headquarters today that the summoning of the uniformed commanders, from sergeantH up, to appear this morning before Commissioner Kn-ripht, was due to the request of Fire Chief John Kenlon. Chief Kenlon, it was explained, tcld Commissioner Enright that he was seeking the co-operation of the Police Department in the suppression of Ores and had some suggestions to make to members of the department.

In addressing the commanding of-cers of the Police Department, Chief Kenlon requested they Inform the patrolmen of the co-operation he lb seeking. The chief explained what a policeman would "be expected to do when Informed of a Are and what to do when the firemen arrive at the scene. Ciller Kenlon Is of the opinion that a bette feeling will exist between the Fire Department and the Police Department if each understands the work required of the other. Police Commissioner Fnrlght addressed the commanding officers In regard to better police protection for the coming holidays. The Commissioner wants every policeman to be vigilant and alert and to arrest every known crook or criminal on sight.

Now that the holidays are approaching, this city might attract some out ot town thieves, Kniight said. In an effort to forestall their coming, the Commissioner desires to sound the warning that the minute a known thief is found in this city, a magistrate will be requested to send him to the workhouse or order them out of town. Despite the foregoing explanations of the unusual order requiring all the commanding officers of the department' to appear before the Commls sioner today, it Is generally understood, as told In yesterday's Brook lyn Times, that a big shake-up is coining In the department in the near future and that many men high in the department are shortly to be retired. Coolidge Outlines Aims to Farm Board Washington, Nov. 17.

After a brief executive session in the Cabinet room at the White House, where Jhey were addressed by President Coolidge, the special Commission appointed by the President to draft a legislative program for the stabilization of agriculture settled down to mislness at the Agriculture Department today. Mr. Coollilgc's remarks were not mnde public. He Is understood to have outlined what he expects ot tne Commission, hut members refused to say whether he had made any specific recommendations for their consideration. Robert Carey, former Governor of Wyoming, chairman of the Commission, said that most of today would be devoted to exchanging views and deciding on methods ot attacking the problem.

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