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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NKVS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET FOUR O'CLOCK. HI Vol am 84 No. 10 NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, JANUARY. 17, 1924. .10 PAGES.

THREE CENTS. FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. COLDER TONIGHT. FRESH NORTHWEST. WIND.

Temperature today, 12 M. (Eagle Year ago (clear) )6 Average for 10 yean, tame date 37 CoiuDlvt Kvport on Pact It ASOUITH TO VOTE MAY BARE FRESH Friends Disinter Body Of Gelen, Noted Sculptor 2 Months in Pauper Grave SHENANDOAH SAFE IN HER HANGAR; CAPT. HEINEN TELLS OF AIRSHIP'S SKY-BATTLE WITH 72-MILE GALE SCANDAL IN PROBE From a grim trench In the potter's Field on Hart's Island, where the obscure lie row on row, the body of Johannes Sophus Oelert, internationally known sculptor, whoso life Course Followed by Runaway Dirigible in Last Night's Gale Giant Navy Dirigible Twisted From Her Mooring Mat in Howling Storm, Fought Most of the Night, After Drifting to Staten Island, to Get Back to Lakehurst -Hangar -Ready for Polar Flight Next, Says Intrepid Commander Ship Not Badly Damaged. (By the Associated Press) Tho world, poked, her nose into her at 4:24 o'clock this morning after flight a ship of her type ever made. 171.

V'i I -ei WIS I 11. tHIP BROKE. A-H. COLD SNAP COMING Pilot and Two Officers Of Airship Shenandoah HERE AND NOW If we want to help the Obrcgon Government by refusing arms to Mexican rebels, why not come right out and put nn embargo on cigarettes? To the politicians It seems to be poIHax revision. We certainly are an adaptable people.

When the country goes dry we become home brewers When bars disappear, barkeepers become bootlegger, and when bootlegging grows they become hi-jaekcrs. Report that the White House is unsafe doesn't seem to havo come from the present tenant. N. II. WILL PROBE DEATH OF WOMAN PATIENT OF CHIROPRACTOR Physicians Report That Miss Wilkin's Life Might Have Been Saved.

Treated for two years by a chiropractic physician whose ministrations were, according to Dr. Johu Raycroft, 9408 Flatlands more harmful than helpful, Miss Florence Wilkin, 49, died yesterday at her home, 9324 Glenwood rd under conditions which have been called to the attention of the District Attorney. Dr. Charles Wuest, assistant medical examiner, held an autopsy at the County Morgue this afternoon. Her death, he said, was due to acute pan-oreatitls.

"I will make a report' to District Attorney Dodd of the eiTCTTpSjiana so tar as 1 nave been aoie to learn them," he said, shall tell him that Miss Wilkin was treated by a chiropractic physician and convey to him Dr. Raycroft's information." Dr. Raycroft was called to attend Miss Wiilkln only yesterday, a few hours before her death. He found, he said, that she was suffering from heart disease when he made his examination, and after having some stimulants administered she died. He questioned the family as to the previous physician and they told him that she had been treated by a chiropractic physician for two years.

He reported to the Department of Health that it was his opinion that the life of the woman could have been saved had she receis-ed treatment other than that of a chiropractor. The Department of Health turned tho case over to Medical Examiner Charles Norrls, who sent Dr. Wuest to hold the autopsy. At the Wilkin home today it was said that the family had no statement to make. The Kings County Medical Society, in close co-operation with "the office of District Attorney Dodd, will in- ugurate within the very near future probably the most thorough and comprehensive campaign for the ex termination of quack doctors and dentists ever undertaken in any city in the United States.

The initial step in this campaign was taken by the society at Its an nual meeting Tuesday night when, after a somewhat tempestuous dem onstration, it repudiated the bill sponsored by the Stato Education Department for the compulsory an nual registration or noctors witn me Board of Regents and sunstituren tor it a "sane and practicable plan. Under the tentative provisions of this plan, as outlined today by Dr. T. S. Walton, 843 Union st chairman Of the society's publicity committee, a fund of from $3,000 to $5,000 will be set aside to prosecute unremitting warfare against charlatans, and each member of the Kings county society is constituted a committee of one to comb his own neighborhood for illegal practitioners.

WAKE OF STORM it Former Premier Attacks Present Government as Vacillating and Impotent London, Jan. 17 (By the Associ ated Press) Former Premier As-qulthleader of the re-united Liberal party, announced in the House of Commons today that he would vote in favor of the Labor amendment, expressing "no confidence" in the Baldwin Government, and would advise all his friends to do the same. Another Labor amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne besides that of the want of confidence amendment of the Labor leader, Ramsay Macdonald, emanates from 14 Scottish Labor members of the House of Commons, who demand home rule for Scotland. This amendment is regarded as In tne nature of a manifesto, since an the Scottish leaders favor home rule, but the Labor party as a whole has not yet adopted the policy. Thelabor amendment was Intro duced by John R.

Clynes, deputy leader of the Parliamentary Labor party, at the resumption of the de bate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne. The amend ment reads "But it is our duty respectfully to submit to your Majesty that your Majesty's present advisers have not the confidence of the The Prlnceof Wales and" the Duke of York entered the press gallery as Mr. Clynes was speaking. The La- borites heartily cheered the reading of the proposed amendment. Mr.

Clynes, In moving the amend ment. declared the phrases put into the King speech were a mtxturo ot make-believe and contrition. Ho proceeded to criticise in detail what the flovernment had done. Mr. Asquith and former Premier Lloyd George were seated next to Ramsay Macdonald, Parliamentary Labor leader and prospective Prime Minister, on the front opposition bench.

No Sign of Party Feeling. There was no sign of party feeling at the outset of this momentous debate. The House had the air of being stone-cold waiting for the vote on the amendment, which is planned for Monday night, and which is expected to spell the end of the Bald win Government. Large portions of Mr. Clynes" Indictment passed witn- out a single Labor cheer.

Mr. Asqutth'a declaration, now- evcr, created enthusiasm among tne opposition. After announcing his po sitlon the former Premier said: "It is a clear, distinct and unen cumbered vote of no confidence. The government Jnvlted the Judgment and have got It. Whatever theories there may be on other questions, it is clear that the opposition parties were not sent back (in the recent to maintain the present arovernment Vn ornce.

Continuing, Mr, Asquith said "The situation that confronts us the situation of three independent and organized parties, none insignificant in numbers and none commanding a majority of votes Is unexam pled. But under these conditions, unexampled as they arc, the Labor party has the absolute and undoubted right and claim to assume office. "It Is said this will mean that for the first time a Socialist Government will be In the seats of the mighty. During the last month I have been threatened, browbeaten and all but blackballed to step in as the savior or society, i decline aitogetner to believe that the sun is going to set on the power and prosperity of Great Britain on the evening of the day when Ramsay MacDonald takes his scat. "There can be no question ot coalition or fusion betwen the Liberals and Labor, because the difference that divides them on tho.

fundamental Issues 'of 'national policy cannot be bridged or veiled by Insincere accommodation, but on many soclall and national questions there is room for co-operation, not only the Liberals and Labor but, I believe, of many Conservatives." GERMAN, BELGIAN BRICK COMING IN, 3,000,000 A MONTH Price Is $5 to $6 a Thousand Under Domestic Figure-Supply Small Percent of Total Used Now. 1 Brick is now being made in Germany, Holland and Belgium of tho standard size used In construction in this city, and importation of tho foreign brick is now under way at the rate of about 8,000,000 a month. So far as affecting the local market is concerned, the imported brick as yet has had no noticeable effect, the amount coming in being hardly more than a drop in tho bucket, considering tho vast quantity that construction in the city is consumnlg. Hudson Illvor brick 1m moving Into tho city at the rate of 80 barge loads ii week, each barge having a capacity of about 400,000. Thus the consumption is about 12,001,000 brlek a week, or 52,000,000 a month, and nbout 17 Huoson River bricks are used to every one that conies from Europe.

Last summer the consumption of Hudson River brick ran about 45 barges a week 60 percent more than at the present time. The Imported -material is expected to grow during the spring and summer, for, according to the Helnerlck Corporation of Manhattan, which is doing the importing, the cost of the German, Belgian and Dutch brick landed here is $5 to $6 a thousand less than the price of Hudson River brirk. The latter is now bringing: J20 a thous-ind "alongside." The imported brick Is both of red clay and German limestone. A or more ago. when European brick was being offered to builders In this city, fault was found that the bricks were not of the standard American size-.

That shortcoming ha now been corrected. The llomerlclc Corporation has two or three shiploads coming In a month and is selling the brick lo building contractors. The Importers say tho effect of the lower price Is to save the builder the mid dleman's profit. The Pint tint fit. l.onle, The lM Ragle ItKlla Book tella hnw you can build good radio aele.

Juat publlahnd. At Fiagle offlcee, department atorea and newa etanda. rice 26c Adr. NO CONFIDENCE IN BALDWIN PARTY OF TEAPOT POME New Evidence Likely to Involve Big Men in Harding Regime. Eagle Bureau.

901 Colorado Building. By HENRY bUYDAM. Washington, Jan. 17 The Teapot Dome scandal has at last attracted Ihe attention of the country. As a result of sensational disclosures of the past fortnight, publ(o interest is being arousrd to the point where Senator Walsh of Montana, chairman of the Public Lands Committee, is receiving communications that mar lead to important new lines of evidence.

The Senate committee investigating this subject will meet again on Monday, when Senator Walsh will relate his experiences at Palm Beach In obtaining testimony from Edward 1J. McLean, and in attempting to see Albert B. Fall, former Secretary nf the Interior, who was staying at the same hotel, although he was not registered. The contradictory i statements of these two men regarding Mr. McLean's loan of $100,000 to Mr.

Kali is something about which further inquiry will be made. Startling Disclosures Expected. Everything now points to even more startling disclosures, perhaps involving other personalities in President Harding's administration whose names have not yet been mentioned. The committee is aware that a thorough clcaring-up of this entire sit uation is demanded. One of the dif Acuities confronting them, and an argument being urged upon them with Increasing force, is the natural desire to avoid anything that might icflect upon the judgment of the late rrestdent, who signed the Executive order under which the entire Naval Reserves were transferred from the Jurisdiction of the Navy to the In tcrlor Department.

The committee feels that It is making ul) possible progress, and it therefore docs not look with favor upon various efforts which will be made during the coming week to precipitate a general debate in the Senate before final report has been made. Henator IToflin of Alabama, not a rommlttee member, said today that be intended to make a motion next week to discharge the Public Lands Committee from consideration of Senator Caraway's resolution to in alldntr the Teapot Dome lease. This would bring the subject on the floor, if passed. Why Ours Not Fall Come Out Into the Open? Members of the commutes find it difllcult to understand why, If his transactions will bear public scrutiny, ex-Secretary Fall does' not come out with a straightforward story revealing his entire relation to the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases. It is known that Mr.

Fall considers himself persecuted, and the belief exists that his present illness has been brought on by the persistence of the committee in examining into many subjects which he considers bis own personal affairs. Members of the committee are very much gratified that public opinion Is finally being aroused over what is generally considered, on both sides of Congress, one of the most remarkable scandals that has been turned up In years. The committee has been taking testimony for months, in a painstaking effort to build up a background of facts, but it is only during the past two weeks that Teapot Dome has begun to arouse any degree of public indignation. Even now It Is felt that newspaper readers, without any special background on what has happened, do not begin to realize that vast public resources in oil, reserved for future naval emergencies, were turned over to private companies in secret and without any nt-tempt to secure competitive bidding, and this under circumstances of doubtful legality. Teapot Dome Oil Reserve Plan Dates Back to Time' Of Roosevelt's Regime Eaglo Bureau, 081 Colorado Building.

By HENRY STFTDAM. Washington, Jan. 17 The full story of the Teapot Dome scandal remains lo be told, or at least remains to be put into such connected form that American public- opinion can register Its verdict. The day-today accounts of hearings before the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys of the Senate have failed to give a complete picture of this extraordinary, situation, which is of such admitted importance to the future oil reserves of the United States Navy. The idea of creating certain great oil reserves for the use of our Navy (Continued on Page 14.) BRITISH R.

R. STRIKE IS CALLED FOR SUNDAY London, Jan. 17 A strike of British locomotive men, who havo refused to accept the reduction in wages authorized by the Railway Wages Board, will begin at midnignt on Sunday, according to an announcement made this noon. A New Magazine Different from any other. Editorless and owned co-operatively i)y the writers and artists who contribute to its pages.

Margaret Sperry will tell you all about it in next Sunday's Eagle Magazine. A REAL MAGAZINE! Iloneehnld goods of ipMllty at low prlrci ran secured by readlns CUbbI Settlor, No. 69 in the Claeeined Columna of The Bagle every day. Adv. Bargain In Brdrnom.

Dining Room anil Living Hoom Seta may be bed by purehae-lug through "The Thrift Ade" in our C'laeslned Sertton. Headed Houaehold Gooda. Cleae en. Appearing In The Begle very day. Adf.

and works take up 60 lines of space in Who's Who, was disinterred today to be reburleJ In Lutheran Cemetery. On the Custom House, Manhattan, is a heroic figure of Denmark, symbolizing her power as a great maritime nation: in Ihe Brooklyn Insti tute of Arts and Sciences stands a group of figures representing the Roman civilization, and in parks nnd public buildings nil over tho United States tho beautiful works of his brain and hand testify to his supreme skill. The man who wrought all these, winner of many medals, came to his journey's end in a narrow trench among the nameless dead. It was a strange turn to his great dream, his supreme illusion. This was that he would return in his evening days to be received with great acclaim by the people of his native Denmark.

Memorial Planned. Tomorrow he is lo be burled, not in glory, but quietly transferred from Potter's Field to Lutheran Cemetery, where a brother of his lies. A wreath will be put upon his grave by his friends who are planning a memorial to him. Carl Kric-son of the undertaking establishment of Ericson F-ricson, 535 Atlantic said today that ho had sent a box to Hart's Island to receive the dead sculptor's remains and that George Klrkegaard of 653 Parkstdf who has been Gelcrt's steadfast friend through all his vicissitudes, had gone to identify the body. It was the Danish newspaper Nordlyset, Mr.

Klrgcgaard and George Lober, sculptor, of 6 E. 16th Manhattan, who rescued Gelert from obscurity. They interested a number of sculptors of Gclert's school and the following helped to contribute to insure him a decent funeral: Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Herman MacNell of College Point, Sterling Caldcr, Herbert Adams. Adolph Weinman, Henry Hering, Salvatore Bilotti and Evelyn B.

Longman, all well-known sculptors. Mr. Lober said today that well-known sculptors will pay nine-tenths of the funeral expenses and the Masons the rest. Mr. Lober was Incensed to think that the old man had been permitted to die on Hart's Island and referred to it as a case of "neglect." From what could be learned from several persons interested in the matter, it appears that Gelert's wife did not know he was dead until she read about It In Nordlyset, which has steadily befriended the sculptor and got him into the Denmark Home for Aged at 1065 41st Brooklyn.

She and her husband had separated. She told Mr. Ericson that she had no money with which to bury him. According to Mr. Lober, Gelert has a son who is said to be a prosperous engineer in Brazil; a daughter who has a trood position in Newark, and 1 with the bond brokerage house of Theodore Prince at 20 Broad Manhattan.

Mr. Lober was especially incensed at Alfred who, he said, had told him about his father's death and had informed him that the body was1 to be dissected. Son's Attitude. A man who said he was Alfred Gelert and that the sculptor was his father answered the telephone at the office of Theodore Prince today, and raid he d4d not expect to attend the funeral. He confirmed the report that Gelert died on Hart's Island early in November and when asked how he came to be buried in Pot ter's Field declined to go into de tails, saying, "It can't make any dif ference now." That the sculptor was burled in the Potter's Field was discovered by the merest chance by Mr.

Lober, who said: Some money was sent to my father for Gelert, who had taken me under his wing years ago. I knew that he had gone to the Kings Coun ty Hospital, but' I could not locate him there, got noia or persons who knew where the son was and the son told me he had been buried in Potter's Field. I was thunder struck. It did not seem to me possible that it could be so. Gelert was a deep student of art.

a verv deep student. He was always studying and he could write in French and German as well as he cnnld in Enelish. The works he wrought with his hands were things of surpassing Beauty. suppose nc made 500 figures in torra cotta. "His later life was embittered and he often told mo his troubles.

He thousrht he was In the way that there was no place for him any longer. "He had creeping paralysis, but even when he lost the use of his right hand he worked with his left and he would creep over to his Manhattan studio and lose himself in his work. He always dreamed that he would go back to Denmark to die and that he would be rocelved with honor. There he had won the Roman prize for sculpture." many and Mrs. Dantes on a Dutch Ship in Antwerp.

As the quotas of both the Netherlands and Belgium were filled she could not come in under eithor and although the children were entitled to come In under the German quota board of special inquiry excluded them after a hearing over the ciause ithat they were "likely to become public charges." In spite of an appeal taken to the Secretary of Labor, all of them were ordered deported, when Representative John J. Kindred of Astoria stepped In and had the case reopened. The upshot of It all was that tho children were permitted to remain with the father, but the mother was ordered sent back. Mrs. Dantes departed, weeping bitterly.

Mrs. Poulsen said today that she had a sister In Belgium to whom Mrs. Dantes might make her way, but as her husband was born a German, Mrs. Dantes would come under the Belgian rule, which would permit, her to stay there only six weeks. The mother was terribly shaken when her baby was taken from her and the baby has been Inconsolable.

"She should he sent bark on the very next ship." said Mrs. Poulsen. Vr. Dantes said he did not know what to do. The rule which parts families is a conundrum to him as It vms a huge injustice.

Lakehurst, Jan. 17 Shenandoah, largest airship in hangar, at the naval air station completing1 the most remarkable TROOPER SAYS ONE OF SHENANDOAH'S CREW IS MISSING Trenton, N. Jan. 17 According to Information brought to Stato Police Headquarters here, this afternoon by Trooper Wilton, who spent last night at Lakehurst to co-operate with the United States Naval authorities in tracing the Shenandoah, one of tho members of the crew is missing and believed fo have fallen to death a few minutes after the dirigible broke loose. SHENANDQAH TO BE MADE READY SOON FOR POLAR VOYAGE Washington, Jan.

17 Naval officers who have had doubts about using the great dirigible Shenandoah for the projected polar flight appeared to be completely converted today by the performance of the big ship in riding out last night's gale after being torn from her mooring mast at Lakehurst. Secretary Denby telegraphed his congratulations to the crew of the Shenandoah, who brought' her back In safety after her wind-driven flight. Mrs. Denby was so greatly Impressed by the story of the night that she also sent her congratulations to the airship personnel. The Secretary also issued a formal statement outlining what was known so far at the Navy Department, of the Incident.

He concluded with a paragraph disclosing the determination of the Navy Department to get tho Shenandoah ready promptly for the polar expedition she is lo make this summer. "From all our information," Mr. Denby said, "it. may be asserted with positive certainty that there is hardly a possibility that this ship will encounter in her arctic expedition any test, so severe as that she has already met successfully." Department officers were of the opinion that a strengthening of the moorsng equipment in the ship's nose could be worked out to meet any future storm emergency such as that ot last night. DONOVAN ARRESTED FOR CONTEMPT BY O'NEILL'S ORDER Magistrate O'Neill of tho Fifth Avenue Court, called the "most in- Competent Judge that ever sat on the Brooklyn bench" by Attorney Daniel L.

Donovan on Tuesday, ordered the arrest of tho attor ney for contempt of court. The war rant was made out by Charles Uraeser of 514 Glenmore a court attendant, signed by O'Neill, and Donovan was placed under ar- reHt by Warrant Officer Brown. BROOKLYN FACTIONS SPLIT ON ROUTE OF CROSSTOWN SUBWAY A large delegation of Brooklynltes attended the hearing held atJhe City Hall this afternoon on the proposed Brooklyn Crosstown subwav, pith Acting Mayor Murray Hulburt In chair. The group was a unit in de manding prompt action by the Board as to the construction of the line, but on the question of route it split Into two factions with the representa tives of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce maintaining an Impartial attitude in regard to "Tlie Chamber of Commerce holds no brief." sail) a statement submitted to the Board, "and it should not hold one for any political partv or division then of within the boro or the city. Wei are not urg ing Lafayette ave.

or Fulton but we insist that if either route is adopted I hat tho Ashland pi. connection tu the Fulton st. elevated railroad he made an Integral part of the plan." W. .1. secrelnrv of De Long Council.

No. "ft. Royal Arca num, pent a letlcr opposing nny roule except thai along Itedf.ml ave. to Fullon st. CALIFORNIA via New Dries na.

Dally nnipn rtmiMit. Drawing Room Cars. Con necting Willi lie nnl Mexico polnla. Summertime all the way. Southern Hy.

Byetcin. 13 W. 42 St. Bry. Adv.

the KILLED 5 20 Degrees by Nightfall rffs Prediction Tide Rips Up Coney Beaches. WinoT whipped and rain soaked New Tork City is facing another setto with the elements. This time It will take the form of cold weather with the mercury dropping to 20 degrees by nightfall. Yesterday's 72-mlle gale and torrential downpour-resulted In the death of five persons, injury to many and created havoc generally throughout the city. A turbulent sea sizzled and foamed along the coast, tearing away great sections of beaches and wrecking many small eraft.

Pedestrians were blown about the street and half blinded by the rain many of them walked Into the path of motor vehicles. Subway jams were so acute that reserves had to be called out to handle the mob. One of the dead is Frederick G. Donohue, secretary and treasurer of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. He stepped on a live wire that had blown down and was shocked to death.

David young, a negro, 25, of 260 W. 47th Manhattan, slipped on the wet pavement and fell under the wheels of a truck. He was crushed to death. Blinded by the rain William Quay, a mechanic, was struck by a motorcar and killed. Augustus Kingston.

Ihe driver, was killed when his Salvation Army wagon overturned, fhe body of a man about 80 years old. believed to have been run over and killed by a motorcar, was found In ihe roadway in front, of 271 41st st. I His skull was fractured. Properly Damages at Coney Island. The greatest property damaee was at Coney Island, where the fury of the storm seemed to havo concentrated.

Great curling combers ploughed into tho beach and thun dered against the boardwalk. Whole Continued on Page a. WHICH The flight was a ficht aeainst the most stubborn element or nature, a wind that blew at 72 miles an hour at times. This gale twisted the giant craft from her towering mooring mast at 13:52 oclock last night and swept her on a mad chase up the Atlantic Coast to Staten Island, New York City, where Capt. Anton Heinen and his men turned her nose into the teeth of the storm and manuvered her back to her home port.

She arrived over Lakehurst at 2:20 A.M., but it was two hours later before she was moored. Not a man in her crew of 22 was injured, not aman was downhearted. Kach of them declared it was the finest trip he ever made and eacn was loud in his praise of the Navy's pride. They took it as a joke and won the envy of their mates who had watched them drift away into the darkness. Battered, Scratched and Covering Torn.

The ship herself lay In her hangar like a naughty schoolboy whoso truancy had brought him ill luck. Her nose was battered and she was somewhat scratched up. A hasty lnspco-tion showed that her front castells, or gas bags, had collapsed when she was torn away by the wind: the covering of her upper fin had been stripped off and wrapped srounfl the rudder, making the crntt exceedingly difficult to steer, whi'a there was slight damage to her outer covering, the material being rent nearly up to her nose. Captain Heinen, who Md anen the Shenandoah built and bad cried out more than 100 otic air; raft el their maiden voyages, landed that without a iubtths Navy craft was the stronger'. eon.

structed ship of her type evn- made. Shows Her Fit for Polar Trip 4. uo not oeiievfl any otner sui in which I have flown would hav successfully gone through the gal sne did last night," he said. "There is not a Dir or nouDt nut wnat sns will successfully complete her Polar Kegion flight planned for next month. We shall not likly experience such a terrific storm as was raging along the Atlantic Coast yesterday.

If we do we can easily enough run around it. "We had the ship under perfect control within five minutes after the nosecap was torn off. We rose BOO feet, and continued flying at that ele-vatiton until we reached the coast. near Summit, N. when he went up to about 1,200 feet.

"The fying conditions were unfa vorable, as it was raining hard. How ever, when we reached New York the weather cleared and we found we had reached the port side of the storm. We headed out over Slalen Island nnd thenceforth nosed tho ship against a 25-mile wind and flew to Perth Amboy. From there we drifted somewhat to a point over Key-port nnd then nosed the ship into the wind again until we reached freehold. From there to Lakehurst we rode with the wind." Naval Officers Jubilant.

Captain Heinen voiced enthusiastic praise for the work of Lt. Command. 'r Mayer, who acted as Inspector olllcei-while the ship was in the air. His duties called him to every part ol the monster dirigible and he never faltered, although he was forced to walk the narrow gangways while the ship careened and swayed with the wind. Naval officers at the station were too busy to comment this morning, but all of them were visibly jubilant at the safe return of the Shenandoah.

About the only worse thing that could have happened to her. one of them declared, would have been for her to have broken in half and come flying back in two pieces. hen the craft broke loose last night there was a furore of excitement at the station. She had been moored to the 166-foot mast, which was built In the shape of the Eiffel Tower In Paris, and was undergoing a 10-day test of her actions in such a position in preparation for a flight to the North Pole. Eight minutes moro and she would have been fastened to the mast exactly four days.

Tore loose with a Crash. Capt. F. R. McCrary, commandant of the station, and Commander R.

I). eyeroacner, who designed her, had just come from aboard the ship, descent being made by way of the mast, and gone into their quarters for dinner. Suddenly there came a erasn mat boomed out over the whining of the wind and the sound of pouring rain. Officers and enlisted men rushed from barracks in various degrees of uniforms Just in time to see the Shenandoah lurch from side to side, then irradnal.v ascend, sending down upon them a shower of fragments of her turn outrigging. lelp was impossible, and all the awestruck sailors and marines could do was watch tho airship drift into the storm.

At that time the wind was blowing from the southeast at about 60 or 65 miles an hour. There was soma consolation from behind In the fact that the ni would carry the craft Inland Instead oi easiwara to tne sta. Hole Ripped in Her Trow. There was a hurried rush to the top of the mast to determine If possible what damage had been done. There if was founl that the melnl nosecap, Into whL-h ronverK-eil I ho craft's entire frn.tuewnrk.

had been lorn away and left dangling on Iim innst. Then enme speculation ns to whether the ship would ho nhb to weainer Ihe storm with this hole In her prow. The radio set nn the Shennndoah had been out of working order during the day and no wnnl came for nn hour. Telephone nnd telegraph wires about Lakehurst had been blown down by the storm and officers Dr. Alma Powell Plans Health Institute for Scientific Rejuvenation Take Mother From Her 5 Children; Send Her Back to CoolidgeAid No.

1. C'apt. Anton Helncn who was pilot on the runaway flight. No. 3.

lit. Commander Maurice G. Pearee, in command during flight. No, 3. Commander Frank II.

Me-C'rary, of Shenandoah, who wan not on board when the dirigible broke Its moorings. He said today the Incident would not interfere with plans (or tho flight to the North Pole next summer. tem may be hud by those desiring this who are not under any other treatment. Resident pntients and convalescents under outside physicians will lie cared for with strict observance of such physician's trcat-mcrt. "Those who seem to lack the elements of a successful life will b' given regular courses in health, I-flrlency tind grace of mind and body.

We sbal aim lo Increase the knowl edge, health nnd success qualities cv all patients, making the weuk Ill creatures of greater mental aud physical powers than were possesse 1 before health tailed. 'T shall use the nniae of Dr. A. 1. Webster ns shorter.

I -mean to assist in the uplift of human life. Much money lias already been Invested in my preparation and a rich experience will enable in1 to find and cure some of the ills nf humanity. "The large nnd extensive residential nnd fanning equipment owned by A. .1 Powell, George D. Powell, Mary U.

Powell and myself in Jolnl ownership will he used far recreation nud trenliueiil. The Inrge estatr of Wlllinm audi Mary Halni, adjoining, will lunibih the dormitories and Many New York physl-einns aro Interested In behalf of city patient'." I r. I'oll Is a Brn'lMRle of o-lunibla and New Ynrk rnhersllies. ns well as Ihe llutsnu Institute of Kleel ronopnl hy. She holds the doe.

tor of philosophy as well ns D.E., B. nnd LL.B. (Special to The llnglc.) Stale Line, Jan. 17 Dr. Alma T.

Webster Powell of Brooklyn expects to establish a health institute shortly on her properly, which extends from N. to West Stockbrldge, Mass. Tho chief object of the Webster Mountain Health Institute, as it Is to be called. will be scientific rejuvenation, using psychic, medical and electronic systems. "Our Intention is lo Investigate scientific rejuvenation and apply when desired," said Dr.

Powell; "ulso to test all healing systems which are new. Music is to be united with the healing plan, as have tried lo bring It to puss during the past years of my life. "The Institute will be a retmit for those recovered but recently from illness, and for persons in need or recuperative treatment by the newest methods, for the iittnlrimenl ol health nnd elllclency. culture, music, muscular nnd mental developineiil will be tliughl lo putlents, To He 0H-n All Year. "The institute Ml he men nil the year round, with tents for treatment and winter sports In the cold wrntlier.

Scientific health I'flleleney iiml lieiinly nhn In nil pnr.linentH are to be feinures. There will be rcgulnr medical r.n-n, chiropractors and psychic treatments, ns desired by pntlents. Th newest radio-activity, elsotronlo sys Mrs. Kristen Poulsen of 15042 Deer sister ot Mrs. Mary Dantes, who has been deported to Bremen under tho quota rule while her five children have been admitted to this country, said today that she would write to President Coolidge to ask him if he would not rectify the injustice that had been done.

Such a. rule as that is not human," she said. "Without a cent and with out clothing they are sending her back to Bremen where there is no one she can turn to In her trouble. Her clothing Is at Ellis Island. The five children are with me crying for their mother.

Is that Justice, I ask you?" Mrs. Poulsen says she will ask the President to intervene so that Mrs. Dantes can be sent back in order that she may rejoin her children, the youngest of whom Is 2 and the eldest 9. Eighteen months ago Frank Dantes, who is German, came here from Europe and is now employed at an airplane factory in Long Island City. He has been staying at the homo of his slster-ln-law, who told today how he had labored to build a little borne for his family and sent them money to come over only to encounter the unforseen obstacle of the immigrant quota law.

The children were born In Ger.

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