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a a a a a a a to the a a THE BROOF DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 25. 1926 I 3 McLAUGHLIN WILL OUST CAREY AS DRUNKEN COP Will Question Manner in Which He Left Station House Reserve Detail. Patrolman Francis Carey, whose propensities for absenting himself from duty, imagining holdups and blazing away with his service revolver before Investigating, will be the subject of two police investigations today, faces immediate dismissal from the force, in view of Police Commissioner McLaughlin's plainworded warning that he would not tolerate drunken cops, police authorities declared. Detectives Investigate Escapade. While detectives from' Manhattan headquarters are searching for a few remaining loose ends in Carey's escapade early yesterday morning, in which he is alleged to have accidentally shot himself after brutally cuffing an innocent youth and tearing the coat off a woman, the patrolman's superior officers will be summoned to headquarters for question- halted.

Carey Hospital Prisoner. Commissioner McLaughlin will seek to learn from them how Carey succeeded in leaving the Brownsville station house shortly before midnight Saturday, while he wAs supposed be on reserve duty there, without being detected and Carey is a prisoner in Bellevue Hospital, charged with assault and intoxication. His self-inflicted bullet wound in the right leg above the knee is reported as not serious. The official police report of the escapade, posted at Brooklyn Police Headquarters at 3 a.m. yesterday, follows: Report Charges Intoxication.

"From 7th Precinct, Patrolman Carey, shield 2335, 43d Precinct, married, living at 1827 Washington Bronx, abgent from reserve duty and in uni16th st. between 7th and Manhattan, engaged in an altercation with Charles Carroll, 22, 117 9th Manhattan. Fired two shots from revolver, one of which struck WisE right leg. Removed Vincent's Hospital. On examination by Captain Vincent of the 7th Precinct was found apparently intoxicated.

"Police Surgeon Baldwin, who was called, found Carey suffering from over-indulgence in some intoxicating agent or agents and unfit for duty. Suspended at 1:35 a.m. by First Deputy Commissioner John A. Leach. "Placed under arrest at St.

Vincent's Hospital, charged with assault and intoxication and removed to Bellevue Hospital prison ward." Carey, after shooting himself, went to St. Vincent's Hospital in a taxicab, taking with him Carroll, whose scalp was lacerated from a blow alleged to have been rendered by the patrolman. The hospital Authorities summoned Capt. Brady and detectives from the W. 30th st.

station. Carroll told the police he was walking on 8th ave. shortly after midnight when Carey, brandishing his revolver, ran up to him from behind and shouted, "Hands up! You're the man I want!" No Holdup Reported. The patrolman a marched him into A delicatessen shop at 104 8th ave. and inquired of the proprietor if he had been held up.

When he was told that nothing had happened Carey beat him with fists and struck him over the head with a heavy vegetable tin. Carey's story was that he was passing on a 14th st. surface car when he heard shouts that sounded as if a holdup was being committed. He rushed off the car, he said, and halted Carroll, who was coming from the scene. Several persons started to run, according to his story, and he fired two shots at the fugitives.

The first went wild and the second found lodging in Carey's own leg. Tears Woman's Coat. Mrs. Geraldine Chuloe of 8 W. 101st Manhattan, told the police that she was in store when Carey is alleged to have beaten Carroll, and that Carey roughly tore her coat off her and shoved her aside when she sought to intercede.

According police records, Carey, who was appointed to the departinent in 1923, indulged in a similar episode in 1924. He was then arrested and suspended on a charge of shooting a chauffeur in a Harlem candy store, which he entered in civilian clothes. When brought to trial for his offense, Carey pleaded that he thought the place was being held up. DRUMMOND DENIES SHORTAGE IN COKE OR SOFT COAL HERE Samuel Drummond, secretary of the Brooklyn Coal Exchange, said today that there is no shortage of soft coal or coke in New York City, but that due to prior orders delivery of either the or soft coal by dealers must necessarily be "Persons have complained they were out of coal, that a canvas of the dealers brought an answer that they couldn't get coal or coke," he said. "This is not true.

There is coal and coke. But dealers have so many orders on their books they cannot make a delivery in one day, or two days. "They are delivering according to priority, and these people who have waited to order their coal until their bins are empty should be ashamed of themselves. Dealers have prior orders and must deliver these before they can stop and give an order to someone who comes in at the last minute." "Soft coal is averaging between $9.50 and $10 a ton, coke runs up to $22," he said. "There are a few dealers who have anthracite.

I guess there is bootlegging in anthracite at between $28 and $33 a ton." He attributed the sharp rise in price of coke, with several of the coal dealers, to cessation of the coal conference here in New York recentily and declared that the influx of orders on the coke producers had caused them to jack up their prices. Several coal men declare that the high coke prices are due to the long hauls of the coke from ovens via freight. "We have been buying coke in Troy, N. which costs $2.39 a ton freight to the city; West. Virginia, our freight charges running up to $4.59 to $4.79, and in St.

Louis, where there is one of the largest coke producers of the country and which costs 19 $6.89 a ton for freight," said one dealer, who asked not to be quoted. 6 More Girls Enter Auto Show Beauty Contest are six more Brooklyn girls who have to be chosen at the Brooklyn Automobile Show this The above girls are winners in the elimination No. 1. Miss Marion Barkus, Williams burg; No. 2, Miss Farley, Bedford; No.

4, Miss Helen Hargrave, South Velma Hollister, Cypress Hills. FORTY HEATLESS, LIGHTLESS TENANTS OWE RENT, HE SAYS I They Brand Fashionable Ocean Parkway Apartment House as Firetrap. Due to a difference of opinion between themselves receiver for the premises families in a and, fashionable but bankrupt apartment house at 1901-1911 Ocean parkway, corner of Avenue awoke this morning without a calorie of heat in their steam radiators to ward off the rigorous cold. In addition the tenants had spent the night deprived of electric light in the hallways and stairs of the apartment, which was shut off by the Edison Co. last night for failure of the receiver, Leo J.

Linder, to pay the light bills. The plight of the tenants was revealed when a delegation of 30, headed by Irving Greenbaum, appeared at the Sheepshead Bay police station last night and asked for relief. Calls It a Firetrap. "Can't anything be done?" Greenbaum asked the desk lieutenant. "We are freezing because there is no coal.

and now with no lights on the stairs and hallways the place is a firetrap. Many of the families have sick people in their apartments because there has been no heat, and are having to burn kindling wood in their kitchen stoves. If a fire should start we might not be able to escape." The lieutenant sympathized with the tenants but told them that rellet would have to be sought from the courts. They told him that they summoned Linder to the Coney Island Court last week for failure to supply heat and that the case was put over till this Friday. To lessen the fire hazard a patrolman was posted in the apartment house hallway.

Receiver's Explanation. Linder, a lawyer with offices at 67 Wall was appointed receiver for the premises by the Supreme Court two months ago, when the owners went into bankruptcy. He was not in his office today, but a partner offered the following statement: "The tenants have done everything they could to get coal except to pay the rent. Some of them have not paid a cent since Nov. 1.

Mr. Linder inherited no funds when he took over the house two months ago and spent more than $700 out of his own pockets to buy coal to keep it in heat. Then the tenants banded together and refused to pay the rent. When Mr. Linder made his accounting to Justice May last month, the court tolr him that he under no obligation to pay for 'the tenants' coal if they refused to pay their rent." The tenants' failure to pay rent, it was added, caused Linder to file eviction actions which will be tried in the Coney Island Municipal Court tomorrow.

The claim of the tenants is that they were paid up two months in advance betore the receiver was appointed. When the last of the coal supply gave out several days ago. they said, they collected $70 and bought some coke, the last of which was used up yesterday. Poisoning of 12 Hounds Stirs Brookfield Hunters Brookfield, Jan. 25 (P)- Thoroughly aroused over the loss of a dozen fine foxhounds during the month forces in the Long Hill district today organized to fight the carriers of poison who have accounted for the death of farm pets.

During the last week three hounds, onschf was them a valued winner at in $150 its by class, the owner, have been found dead. Scientists' Dream Comes True; Transmutation of Elements Accomplished entered the lists week. contests in their Virginia Hannah. Flatbush; No. 5, Transmutation of one element into another, the dream of physicists ages, has been accomplished by two Dutch scientists who have changed pure read into mercury and thallium, according to 8.

report endorsed by the Scientific American, says the Associated Press. The discovery of Dr. A. Smits and Dr. A.

Karssen of the University of Amsterdam faculty just announced. is of far reaching consequence since it offers support to the theory that the only difference between the elements in the arrangement and number of elections is their atoms, Although there is no present intrinsic value in the achievemant no one can predict the future possibilities of the discovery, the scientists say, BIGGEST AUTO SHOW CROWD WATCHES 30 OPEN EAGLE CHEST Brooklyn's Automobile Show opened Saturday night with the greatest first night attendance in its history, it was announced today by Ralph Ebbert, manager of the Brooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealers' Association, the organization sponsoring the show. The exhibition is being held in the 23d Regt. Armory, Bedford and Atlantic and will continue through this week. Saturday night, according to Mr.

Ebbert, the amount of money taken in on tickets of admission purchased at the armory was almost double the first night receipts of last year. The entire first night attendance, of more than 6,000, was a 20 percent increase Aver the number of persons present on the opening night last year. Treasure Hunt Big Feature. One of the features of this year's show is The Brooklyn Eagle Treasure Hunt, which leads the way to more than $7,500 in prizes. For days preceding the opening of the show Captain Kidd cruised throughout the city distributing many keys to his treasure chest which is now on display at the show in The Eagle Treasure Room.

Among these keys there were 400 that would unlock the chest, thereby winning prizes. All during this week persons who obtained keys may visit the armory and try the lock of the strong box. Saturday night 30 persons were able to unlock the chest, and others are trying their hand this afternoon. Keys Still Available. For the benefit of those who were unable to obtain keys from Captain Kidd during his cruises about town, a.

limited number of keys have been set aside and will be distributed at the entrance to The Eagle Treasure Room at the armory this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon up to 6 o'clock. All treasure hunters successful in opening the lock of the chest are receiving numbered certificates entitling them to the prizes to be awarded on the closing night of the show, Jan. 30. The Eagle is retaining a record of the names, addresses and certificate numbers of these successful treasure hunters. How Prizes Are Awarded.

On the closing night of the show slips of paper bearing these records will be shuffled up in a huge bowl and then drawn out publicly, one by one. The grand prize will go to person whose name appears on the first slip drawn, the second prize to the person whose name appears on the second slip drawn, and so on. Treasure hunters holding prize certificates are urged to be present to receive their prizes on the closing night of the show although they will not lose their awards if they are unable to do so. The complete list of prize winners and their treasures will be announced in The Eagle of Sunday, Jan. 31.

Palermo Police Chief Wins Praise From Mussolini for Ending Sicilian Brigandage By W. STEPHEN RUSH' (Special Correspondence of The Eagle) Rome, Jan. 12-The president of the Council Mussolini has sent eloquent dispatch to the police commissioner of Palermo congratulating him on his active and successful campaign against Sicilian brigandage, which as it now appears has more than held its own against the police in recent years. The dispatch says that brigandage will be rooted out with fire and iron, and that the end of the "mafia" and NEW COAL PARLEY OFFERS NO HOPE FOR STRIKE'S END Lynett Proposal, Rejected by Owners, Is Only Plan for Discussion. Philadelphia, Jan.

25 (N)-Resumption of the conference of hard coal operators and miners, scheduled to open here tomorrow, again vived the oft-shattered hope for an early settlement of the anthracite strike. There was no assurance that this conference would be any more successful than the two preceding ones, which ended in deadlocks. Both Sides Hopeful. Both sides, however, were hopeful that something would develop that would enable them to negotiate new wage scale that would send the 158,000 idle men back Lo work. Despite the announced attitude of the mine owners, the union chief insisted that the call for the meeting be issued.

This was done vesterday by Alvan Markle of Hazelton, chairman of the joint conference. Markle Suggests Common Sense. Mr. Markie, who has no vote in the conference, said he hoped the two sides would "come down to common sense and brass tacks' and find a way to break the deadlock. So far as known the conferees will have before them only one plan -the Lynett proposals.

This has been accepted by the miners as 8. basis of negotiations, but met objection from the operators because does not contain any method of preventing in the future such deadlocks as the one from which we are now suffering." Will Fight Arbitration. CHIROPRACTOR CUT UP GIRL FOUND IN WOODS, CONFESSES Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary -Treasurer of the United Mine Workers, in an address at Wilkes-Barre, declared the miners' representatives would enter the conference Tuesday "with heads erect and ready to fight to the last litch" against arbitration. Continued from Page 1. berment and disposition of her body.

"I met the girl Tuesday night outside my office on 17th in Philadelphia," Marshall began. "She said she did not feel very well. I proposed that she go up to my office--I told her the door was unlocked-and lie down, I said I was going out to get something to eat. Girl in Bathroom, He Says. "I was gone about an hour.

When came back I went to my office, but did not see Miss Dietrich. She was in the bathroom. I tried the door after I had waited a while, but it was fastened. "I sat down and read for 10 or 15 minutes. Then I knocked on the door of the bathroom, and when she did not answer, I pushed in the door which was fastened with a catch.

"I found Miss Dietrich on the floor in a heap, unconscious. I picked her up and carried her to the operating table in my office. I tried to revive her but could not. I worked on her until she died. Driven by Panic, He Says.

"Then I became frightened and panicky. I didn't know what to do. have a wife and child and I feared would be blamed for her death. "I kept the body all that night in my office. Early next morning I came back and then I cut off the head and legs with a hacksaw and a knife.

I destroyed the knife. (The hacksaw was found bloodstained in a closet in the chiropractor's office several hours before he confessed). Scattered Parts of Body. "On Wednesday night I distributed the body. I forgot the head, having left it in my office when I took away the body and legs.

I remembered it Thursday morning, and I took a paper that the date of Sept. 11, 1924, and wrapped it up and then took it and threw it under the trestle. "I burned the Friday afternoon. I took the and the artirug cles that belonged to Miss Dietrich and disposed of them, burning these things Friday." District Attorney Taylor asked if Miss Dietrich had any reason to end her life. Says New Yorker Was Cause.

Marshall told the authorities Miss Dietrich had been disappointed in a love affair by a wealthy New York man named Nichols. Investigation showed that Miss Catharine S. Girling, the milliner who employed Miss Dietrich, had heard her speak of a man named Nichols. The chiropractor, known to have been one of Miss Dietrich's admirers. was under suspicion from the time V.

L. Lanning, a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman, told investigators he had seen a man throw a bundle away near Naylor's Run. Discoveries Linked Marshall. The police learned that Marshall's home overlooked the ravine through which the small stream runs, and when the head was found there Saturday, suspected he was concerned in dismembering the body. Early yesterday souvenir hunters discovered a bucket with charred beads and some bits of woman's finery, including a silver heel of a slipper, near Naylor's Run, about 1,500 yards from Marshall's home.

The bucket also contained part of the party dress Miss Dietrich wore the day of her death, and the charred remains of a woman's silk undervest. Rug Find Shakes Marshall. Authorities last evening searched Marshall's house from cellar to attic. They found a portion of a rug. Mrs.

Marshall, asked where the rug had come from, said it had been there "since we took the house." Marshall reminded her he had brought it from his office recently, when he "put in some new furnishings." This was the first sign of a "break" in the armor of Marshall's defense. The inquisitors then took Marshall to his office in Philadelphia. His operating room and a women's dressing room had their floors freshly varnished. Bloodstains on Closet. also the torso.

Glibly Answers Stains Quiz. They found bloodstains on the white paint of a small closet off the dressing room, a hacksaw, new and shiny, which looked as if it had been bought recently; also a bit of bloody paper bearing the telltale date of Sept. 11, 1924, the same date as the paper which wrapped the head and "That's blood in that closet," said one of the questioners. "Yes, said Marshall. "I had a party here and somebody got a bust on the nose.

That's his blood." Former District Attorney Hannum examined the newly-varnished floor. are bloodstains under that varnish," he declared. "It's from the man busted in the nose," answered Marshall. "You know the blood got on the hardwood floor and I thought it REPORT OF HUGHES COMMITTEE DUE WITHIN 3 WEEKS Somers and Clayton at Odds Over What to Do With Movie Censors. By HOWARD A.

SHIEBLER (Staff Correspondent of The Eagle.) Albany, Jan. 25 The report of Hughes Reorganization Committee, for which the Legislature is marking time, will' not ready for two and possibly three weeks from today, according to well-informed committee members. No call yet has been issued for a meeting of the committee 0.8 whole to pass on reports of the ous sub-committees and agree upon recommendations to the Legislature. Movie Board Cause of Split. A controversy has developed over the question of what to do with the functions of the Motion Picture Commission, which ultimately will be abolished.

One group, headed by former semblyman Walter F. Clayton, Insists the function of the commission should be transferred to the new Department of State, Another group agrees with the belief of Arthur 8. Somers of Brooklyn that the functions of the commission should be placed In the new Department of Education. The matter is far from settled, although Speaker Joseph A. McGinnies is reported to be of the same opinion as Mr.

Clayton. Neither McGinnies nor Clayton, however, is A member of the Reorganization Committee. Mr. Somers is a member. Education Controversy.

A second controversy has come up as to whether or not it is within the province of the Hughes committee recommend ways and means for financing education. At present this is one of the State's biggest problems. Education is demanding more and more each year from the State. It has been suggested that there be no income tax reduction this year order to meet a new $15,000,000 education demand. The possibility of a municipal income tax to finance school costs is under discussion and also a plan to have the State take over the whole educational function and leave the localities free to use their money for other purposes.

Jurisdiction Doubted. General opinion is that the Hughes committee has no jurisdiction over this matter, although it has been brought up at committee meetings. With respect to the functions of the motion picture commission, Arthur S. Somers, a member of the Hughes sub-committee on education, today declared emphatically for transfer of picture commission's duties to the new Department of Education. "The only way we can get proper regulation is to put the functions of the picture commission in the hands of the Department of Education," said Mr.

Somers. have insisted combing ho all along. favor I the know State there Depart- are ment to handle motion picture reg- ulation, but I cannot agree." Secret of Clayton's Visit. Former Assemblyman Clayton, father of the movie regulation law, was in Albany last week. It became known just today that the purpose of visit was to insist that the regulatory powers of the picture commission be vested in the Department of State.

"There is little it any relationship between education and moving pictures that need Clayton told friends. of the chief functions of the commission today is the licensing function and this should be in the hands of the Department of State." Clayton expressed his views in no uncertain terms to Assembly Speaker McGinnies and left the capital convinced that he had brought the Speaker around to his way of thinking. See Political Unity. Republican members of the Hughes Committee see no reason for any partisan disputes between Governor Smith and the G. 0.

P. Legislature as a result the recommendations thus far determined upon. Practically all recommendations are being kept secret for the time being, but committee members familiar with them say they will be accepted without much quibbling by both parties. Members of the State Probation Commission have written to the Hughes Committee asking that a bureau be set up within the new Department of Corrections to handle the work now being one by the Probation Commission. The commissioners object to being merged with the Prison Commission and Parole Board on the grounds that their work is dissimilar.

would cost 100 much to get it scraped, so I varnished it Soft Words Shake Marshall. After the questioners had reached the point of exhaustion, Deputy Sheriff Sweeney turned to Marshall said in a very quiet voice: and, "Listen to ine, man, I know you're in a jam. I'm a married man like you are, and I can see your point of view, but you want to remember Bill Tay'or here's a white man. He'll tree you square. If you tell him the truth, he'll do all he can to help you.

But if you lie to him, he'll do all he can to get you plenty. "We're going to go out of here and leave you alone with him. Now it's up to you." Sudden Break Dramatic. With that the questioners filed out of the office, all but the District Attorney. He sat at one side of a table, Marshall at the other.

Both men were tired and pale. but Taylor's face was relentless and confident, while Marshall's showed signs of a dropping will. For a few moments Marshall sat staring into space. He moved a little in his chair, sitting straighter and gripping the edge of the table. Then the words his confession began to tumble out.

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Name Address LIFINE? PHOTO for the honor of Goddess of Transportation respective sections of the boro. They are Crown Heights; No. 3. Miss Dell Miss Emma Balfe, Bushwick; No. 6, Miss LOVE FOR CHILDREN DELAYS BOMBING OF ITALIAN NEWSPAPER Anarchist Editor and Mussolini Foe Arrested Here Carrying Deadly Machines.

Vincenzo Capuiano, 35 years old. of 95 Prince Manhattan, who said he was a printer and editor with anarchistic ideas, according to the police, was arrested last night at Van Brunt and Carroll sts. The police said he was carrying a black satchel containing two bombs and declared that he confessed to the intention of blowing up the plant of the Corriere D' America, an Italian newspaper nt Lafayette and Houston Manhattan. 1 The arrest was made by Patrolman Emanuel Luchs of the Hamilton ave. precinct, who said that the man's black bag aroused his sus- picions.

According to the police, who said they cut the satchel open, it contained two bombs described by detectives as the deadliest they had seen in some time. Children Prevent Explosion. According to the alleged confersion, Capuiano intended to wreck Corriere D' America. office vesterday afternoon, but was deterred by the presence of numerous small children in the neighborhood who he feared might be hurt in the eXplosion. Capuiano said, according to the police, that he desired to destroy the Corriere D'America because it favored Premier Mussolini.

Capuiano's alleged statement conVincenzo Capuiano, tained the assertion that he left South America five months ago to escape prosecution and that he had been imprisoned frequently while an editor in Italy. the immigration laws. Blames Dictator for Hard Times. Held in $50,000 Bail. Capuiano, an unprepossessing looking man with long, unkempt hair and a hawklike face, was arraigned before Magistrate Golden in the Fifth Avenue Court today and held in $50.000 bail for violation of the Sullivan law.

The police say that either one of the bombs he carried was powerful enough to destroy :1 12-story building. Detective Vincent Giordano of the Fort Hamilton station questioned him in the Italian languago and learned 'that he had here as la sailor without a passport, landing at Philadelphia and circumventing He told Giordano that he was opposed to Mussolini because he thought the latter was responsible for hard times in Italy. After he decided to abandon his intention, for the time being, of blowing up the Italian newspaper. he journeyed to Brooklyn to visit friends. He had been toting his deadly engines of destruction about the streets of the crowded city for several hours.

MRS. HOWARD GREER DIES. Mrs. Aberilla. Ecoff Greer, mother of Miss Florence Greer, principal of Brooklyn Heights Seminary, died suddenly yesterday in Southern California following a heart attack.

She was born near Pittsburg, and was one of the earliest women college graduates. She devoted her life to the education of her family and had the honor of seeing all her six children graduate from leading colleges and take prominent part in educational work. For 14 years there was one or more of her daughters survived by her husband, Howard registered at Vassar College. She is Greer; a son, Paul Ecoff Greer, and four daughters, Mrs. Juliet Greer Bridwell and the Misses Edith, Lily and Florence Greer.

Funeral services will be held at Pittsburg on Wednesday, with interment in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburg. Lisbeth Higgins, Society Girl, Soon to Dance Professionally At the Ritz-Carlton Hotel By DU BOIS K. WIGGINS. "My aim, eventually, 19 to be a musical comedy star," say's Miss Lisbeth Higgins, who, beginning Wednesday at the daily tea dances in the Ritz-Carlton, will again be, although a noted Brooklyn society girl, a professional dancer. "With the constant taking of lessons," she says, have improved much in eh singing and have, of course, kept up with my dancing.

I should never be content unless dancing. Henry W. Herrman and I are to appear at tea-dancing time, from 6, at the Ritz, commencing the 27th. Mr. Herrman, my partner in the Ballroom Charleston which Lopez is to feature there, is a Manhattanite, an experienced professional dancer who at one time was an instructor for Ned Wayburn." Behind a single word printed on the program of a Broadway theater in August, 1924, was the romantic story of this boro society girl.

The word on the program of "Sweeney Todd," the production in which Miss Higgins was appearing LISBETH HIGGINS as premiere danseuse, was "Lisbeth." it is the same name which Vincent Lopez announced at the Ritz-Carlton Saturday afternoon. Miss Higgins, who lives at 101 Prospect Park West, may not be the only society girl in the world to seek out a career as a dancer, but there have been few. Perhaps her example induced Elizabeth and Lawrence Starbuck, brother and sister, Brooklyn society couple, to take up professional dancing at the supper club of the Waldorf recently. Noted for Dignity. At the Borough Heights Seminary, where Miss Higgins received her education, she was voted by her classmates the most dignified of their number, but she confesses that she has become more independent and more expressive since having had professional experience A8 a dancer.

Miss Higgins has bobbed brown hair, blue eyes and likable but reticent disposition. Her hands are small, with pointed fingers. A few years ago, in riding costume, she might often have been taken for a boy, but now her femininity is ap- Man Temporarily Blinded As Trolley Wire Flares Up Confined to a bed in the Cumber-, land Hospital suffering from temblindness as the result of a peculiar accident, John Quirine, 25. of 182 Hall is resting quietly and physicians expect that some time today he will regain his sight. Quirine was crossing Fulton st.

and Flatbush ave. yesterday afternoon, when suddenly overhead trolley wire fell and landed a few feet in front of him. There was a blue flash. as the wire struck the parent, She talks quickly, smiles readily and has long dark eyelasher, In personality her outstanding qualities, are tenacity and frankness. head is broad, indicating determination and endure ance.

Charleston Beautiful. "As it should be danced, the Charleston is beautiful, with nothing in It objectionable. Dancers are sometimes at fault with it. but the dance itself is not to blame. Ned Wayburn, to whom the dance cane about three years ago and who Supervises the dancing school I attend.

ed, emphatically favors it when done correctly, and he should know how. having introduced it in the Follies improved and developed it since, Sissle and Blake, colored stars of "Shuffle Along," brought to him colored boy of 12 in return for kindness Mr. Wayburn had done them. The boy had picked 11, on the Mississippi levees, a step with an off -time beat. Mr.

Wayburn developed this into more than 20 different ways of dancing. The latest tion is the Ballroom Charleston, which is more stimulating and graceful than even the and, in my opinion. 88 in Wayburn's, is tango, destined to be the dance of the future. Society in Brooklyn. "As to society in Brooklyn, with its bridge parties, dances, dinners, teas and various other social affaire, find that while Brooklyn soctety girls and men are constantly going over to Manhattan and Manhattan girls and fellows coming over here to various events, Brooklyn society members are content with their own groups in this bore.

There 1s no pushing or shoving to get into hattan social circles. "Another thing which 1 have 110- ticed, which perhaps has been due largely to the World War's effect on so-called society everywhere, and that is that the groups change rapidly. You do not see the same faces year after year, do not dance with the same men, go with the same girla in groups to the theater, engage in summer athletic sports--of which, incidentally I am very fond--with the same partners or companions. This is to inv view an improvement over the past, for I like novelty and va- riety. Deb at Sherry's.

This heroine of the glittering society ballroom is as much at home in her dancing class costume of rompers, white socks and soft shoes as she was at Sherry's when formally introduced to society on Dec. 21, 1923, at which time she wore a gown frosted silver cloth veiled in white chiffon. with narrow bands of ermine outlining the neck and sleeves. In her appearances at the Carlton she will wear evening dress, De Luxe Touring Cars Are Displacing Sedans Detroit, Jan. 25 -A revision from the De Luxe closed car to the De Luxe open models is seen by automobile officials attending the silver anniversary automobile show here.

In other years the closed car Was the type picked by those with rich purses. Consequently these models were produced in less quantity than the open cars. With public preference now undergoing change, the open cars assuming AL place in the De Luxe class which closed cars once held. There is a sentiment among automobile men that the open models soon may cost more than closed cars as manufacturers extend themselves to reflect in the open cars the prevailing sport characteristics. tall its evil works must be hastened, no matter what the cost.

"It is shameful," the telegram concludes, "that five millions of honest and hardworking islanders are hold in terror by gangs that at the most consist only of a few hundred desperadoes." broken gangs have been completely up and the third it is hoped will be rounded up shortly. All these bands had their headquarters in the Madonian mountains, not far from Mount Etna, and had terrorized and biackmailed the farmers there for many years without serious ference from the Government. ground. Quirine screamed and threw his hands up to shield his eyes. Several pedestrians ran to his side and led him to a nearby store after he excitedly told them he could not see.

Dr. H. H. Beers, prominent Manhattan eve specialist, to whom the facts were recited, said the case sounded like one of "electric he said, "but I never saw a case in which permanent damage ensued the eyes. It is somewhat I similar to snow blindness." Chorus Girl Wills Ukelele To Leaving Brother; a note Then asking Kills that Self her ukelele be given to her young brother, Charles, of Wilkes- Barre, Katherine Smith, 21, a chorus girl in "Rose-Marie." killed herself in her room last night by drinking silver shoe polish.

A friend, Marian Bonnell, also in the musical production, found Miss Smith and called a policeman who administered an ineffective antidote. The note left by the girl, addressed to Miss Bonnell, said, "I am very, very sorry to do this. Give my uke to Charlie and pay the landlady the $14 I owe her.".