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12 m. the PRICES SHOWERS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING: WARMER TONIGHT, Temperature today, (Eagle Sta.) 42 Year (Cloudy) .66 ago Mean average for 10 years, same date 49 Complete Report on Page 3. BROOKLYN FOUR O'CLOCK No. Volume 83 89 NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929. 34 PAGES THREE CENTS 4 Die as Plane, Lost in Fog, Hits Tree; 3 Other Deaths; Spanish Aces Hop for Brazil and then turned over, crashing to earth against a tree stump.

The machine was a total wreck. It was a Ryan T-1 model, No. T208, made by the Mahoney-Ryan Company of Anglin, and bore the word St. Louis on the side. The machine was flying north at the time of the crash and is believed to have left New York this morning.

Efforts to identify the bodies had been unavailing a half hour after to the crash communicate and with officials were trying New York air fields in an attempt to ascertain the identity of the trio. Two Die in Plane Collision. Pensacola, March 25 Lt. Frederick W. Roberts.

flight instructor at the United States Naval Air Station here, and Alvin Crossman Hutchings, flight student, were killed in a collision with another plane here today. Edward Nettnay, aviation metalsmith third class and pilot of the second plane, was thrown clear of the wreckage. His clothes covered with flaming gasoline he was seriously burned. Lieutenant Roberts was giving Hutchings ground instruction while seated in a plane resting on the field when Nettnay, also a flight student, took off in a three-plane formation. The Roberts plane was directly ahead, and the two planes struck and telescoped.

Both immediately caught fire, burning Roberts and Hutchings beyond recognition. Killed by Propeller, Belief. Attendants here believed that Hutchings was killed by the propeller of Nettnay's plane. Craft Turns Over After Part of Wing Is Torn Off in Flying Low Among Tree Tops. Mt.

Gretna, March 25 (AP) Four persons were killed when a Ryan monoplane struck a tree while flying low in attempting to ascertain its position while over the National Guard encampment ground near here today. The pilot had a card in his pocket reading: "John L. Campion, Eastern factory representative of the Mahoney-Ryan Corporation, St. Louis." Another victim had a card in a pocket bearing the name of Harold Lloyd, Worthington, Ohio. "The pilot apparently had lost his way in the miyst and fog and was flying low in an effort to regain 1 his bearings.

Flying over a hill covered by woods, part of the wing of the plane WAS torn off by a tree. The pilot tried to gain altitude, started upward and then turned over, crashing 1 Dies, 1 Hurt in Crash. Chicago, March 25 (P)-A pilot was killed and an passenger injured perhaps fatally in an airplane crash in Ooklawn, a suburb, today. The victims were William Perkins, who was killed, and William Dorey, said to be a student polit. Witnesses said the engine of the plane apparently stalled and sent the plane into a tail spin.

JAMES L. BRUSH DIES; WAS IN HIS 93D YEAR James L. Brush of 9233 190th Hollis, L. one of the oldest residents of that section, died today at his home. He was in his 93d year.

Mr. Brush and his wife, Sarah Elder Brush, who survives him, last year celebrated the 66th anniversary of their marriage. The funeral services will be private. DAILY SERIOUSLY ILL "Teddie" Gerard. London, March 25 (AP) Gerard, American actress, is reported seriously ill.

She is at a West End nursing home suffering from an affection in her right lung. HAGUE ON STAND DENIES $50,000 BRIBE BY MOVIES Committee Quizzes Mayor on 'Slush Fund' for Sunday Performances. State House, Trenton, N. March 25 (P)-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City today was questioned before the McAllister Legislative Investigating Committee concerning a $50,000 slush fund alleged to have been collected by movie interests to smooth over violation of New Jersey's ancient vice and immorality act in exhibiting on Sunday. It was the second time the Mayor, who is also vice chairman of the National Democratic Committee, appeared before the investigating body.

Disputes between him and Russell E. Watson, chief of the committee's counsel, began early in the interrogation and showed signs of continuing during the day with increasing asperity. Alleged Demand Cited. The attorney reached the subject of Sunday movies with the query as to whether they were permitted in Jersey City. said the Mayor.

"How long?" asked Watson. "Since they changed the Republican prosecutor for a Democratic prosecutor in January, 1924," replied Hague. "Now," began Watson, "we want to find out if you have any knowledge if city officials were paid by the movie men for the privilege of opening Sunday. We have testito the effect that Joseph S. Bernstein, a member of your Board of Education, called a meeting of the movie men and told them they would have to pay and told them how much." Hague Makes Heated Denial.

"That sum ran into $50,000 or $60,000 a year. They began making payments and immediately the movies opened." "I know nothing about Mr. Bernstein's business records," the Mayor said heatedly. "You have charged me with everything under the sun, whether it took place in Jersey City or not. This has been going on for a year.

I have been humiliated by Please Turn to Page 2. Son Has His Aged Mother 'Put Away' to Stop Begging; Tells Judge She Has $20,000 When she was much younger than she is today--and more eager and -Rachel Smolowitz came to the United States. She came in the great wave of immigration that swept millions of harried human beings from eastern Europe to the shores of what was to them the modern Promised Land. In the lands they came from, Russia and Austria and Poland, life had been very hard, very close to the starvation line. Here in the new land it continued, for the first months for years, to be a hard and cruel life.

Owns $20,000 Realty. Rachel Smolowitz learned then the bitter lesson of thrift. If one but had money, things would not be SO bad. And so, when the burden lifted, when the promise began to be fulfilled, she made certain that never again would she find herself helplessly penniless. She nor her children.

She worked hard. She spent little. She saved much. Children came and later grandchildren. Today, at the age of 87, she is the mother of two sons and a daughter, 27 grandsons and granddaughters.

And the owner or real estate in Brooklyn worth $20,000, with an income of $400 a month. And today they brought Rachel Smolowitz into the Essex Market Court, an old, old woman, dressed in nondescript rags, her shoes full of holes, leaning on a wane cut from a broomstick. "What is the charge against this defendant?" asked Magistrate Willlam Farrell. Patrolman Kain of the Clinton st. station answered.

The charge was soliciting alms. He had found her at the corner of Delancey and Suffolk sts. yesterday, two crusts of stale bread in one hand, a battered tin cup In the other, 113 pennies in the cup. Words came from her, disconnected words about the need of saving, about the dread of hard times. 'Are there any relatives in court of this poor old lady?" asked the magistrate.

There were. Aaron Smolowitz stepped up. Aaron is a son, a prosperous moving contractor, of 339 Thatford ave. 'Do you wish to take your mother home?" asked the judge. Aaron shook his head hopelessly.

"I want your honor to send her away." Wouldn't Touch Savings. The court was shocked. But Smolowitz explained. In, no other way was it possible to keep old woman from going into the streets begging for more coins. She had enough now to keep her in comfort, to keep poverty from her door as long as she lived.

But the specter of poverty haunted her. But none of this, none of her other possessions, would she touch. She still saved and saved, spending not more than 10 cents a day for herself. He and his brother and sister, Smolowitz said, had tried to do everything possible for her. At one time they suggested that she go to an institution, where her old age would be insured.

And she left them and went to live alone at 209 Livonia in a house that she owned. At Smolowitz's request, his mother was confined to the Home for the Aged and Infirm. Starting in Today's Eagle Jane Arden's Adventures--Jane is the prettiest girl in the entire world of comic strips. Felix the Cat, the best known animal in the films. Both on the Comic Strip Page of The Eagle STOCKS AGAIN CRASH DOWNWARD CALL MONEY UP Rises to 14 Percent -Bulls Rush to Unload -Bears Active.

dropped from 95 to below 90. Money Rate Up to 14. Stocks crashed downward again today. And as they went down liquidation from all parts of the country poured in and put them down further. Losses of five points were common, while more than a score showed declines of 10 points at various times.

Trading was the heaviest on the decline that it has been for months. The ticker tape was 10 minutes late during most of the day. In the past the tendency has been for the trading to slow down on reactions. Call Money at 12 Percent. A swift advance of the call money rate to 12 percent accelerated the selling by bull traders and made the bears more courageous.

It was 9 percent at the opening, rose to 10 percent at midday and then jumped to 12 percent in the early afternoon. And it was expected that it would go higher before the close. There was much to indicate that the outside trading public was losing millions of dollars of cash and paper profits. Some of the biggest declines were in stocks that have been favorites of the public. Anaconda was an example.

It broke from an early high above 165 to below 155. Kennecott Copper, another favorite, Shortly after 2 o'clock the call money rate was advanced to 14 percent, the highest rate since the big deflation in 1920. On July ,1 1920, the call rate advanced to that level. The jump in the money rate was thought to indicate that the banks were heeding the warning of the Federal Reserve and were not comPlease Turn to Page 2. O'CLOCK WALL STREET FEDERALS RETAIN MAZATLAN AFTER TWO-DAY BATTLE Reinforcements Are 40 Miles Away--Advance Guard Attacks Rebels.

What Fighting Is About The present Mexican revolution, like several others in the recent past, is an attempt on the part of disgruntled military leaders to obtain control of the Government. They charge that Administration of the adinterim President, Emilio Portes Gil, is dictating who shall succeed him. A national election is to be held this year to determine who becomes President on Jan. 1, 1930. The rebel leaders demand "free elections" and thine exile of ex-President Calles.

Government leaders interference with "free elections" and have made ex-President Calles commander-in-chief of the Mexican Army to suppress the rebellion. Mexico City, March 25 (A)-Help for the beleaguered Federal garMazatlan was within 40 rison at miles of that city today and danger by the rebel West of its capture Coast army under Gen. Francisco Manzo was believed past, Federal reinforcements under Gen, Perez, military governor of Evaristo the state of Nayarit, advancing northward, surprised the small south rebel of Mazatlan, late yesterday, and in garrison at Rosario, miles a brief encounter the city. Three rebels were killed before their main body retreated. Gevernment announcements said that when the Federal troops put in their appearance the rebel forces had all the citizens lined up with hands in the air submitting to search for money and valuables.

The town was thoroughly looted. Threat Dispelled. Its capture was believed here to have cut short any threat of a rebel advance into the state of Jalisco where, with Guadalajara in have their constituted a definite threat at the possession, the rebels would Calles rear. The Perez forces were the advance guard of the army of Gen. Lazaro Please Turn to Page 4.

JERSEY SCANNED FROM AIR IN HUNT FOR LOST FLIERS Atlantic City Man Who Saw Plane Dive Leads Searchers Into Woods. The pine woods of New Jersey and the coast line between New York and Norfolk were searched from land and sea and air today for the plane in which T. Raymond Finucane, wealthy Rochester bustness man, and three others disappeared last Friday. Twenty-five members of the Coast Guard were led into the woods near Waretown, N. by J.

A. Walk of Atlantic City, who said he saw a plane fall there Friday afternoon, report corroborated by Coast Guard station, according to the Associated Press. Along the shore Coast Guard boats and commercial craft kept a lookout for the plane and aloft, as many of the more than 20 planes that Joined, the search yesterday as could advantage through intermittent rain kept at their task today. Planes Leave Rockaway. Two planes took off from the Rockaway naval air station and three left from Curtiss Field.

Two Please Turn to Page 2. S. S. MINNEWSKA DAMAGED HITTING SHIP DURING FOG London, March 25 -The S.S. Minnewaska df the Atlantic Transport Line, New York for Dondon, had a slight mishap during a fog yesterday evening near the treacherous Goodwin Sands.

She was damaged on her port side above the waterline when she touched an un: known vessel. Passengers were not disturbed and the liner continued to Tilbury Docks. An official of the Atlantic Transport Line said that damage was slight. Westbard sailing of the Minnewaska will not be affected. All her passengers reached London before noon.

It was at firs. reported that the Minnewaska been in collision with the Danish steamer Nicoline Maersk, ship was at the Panama Canal on March 21. $35,000 VERDICT FOR BOY CRIPPLED BY LUMBER TRUCK Samuel Mandelman, 6 years old, of 426 Rockaway pkwy. was awarded $35,000 by a jury in Justice Druhan's part of Supreme Court today for injuries he received on Dec. 21 last, when a truck of the Feldman Lumber Company ran over him at E.

36th st. and Newport ave. The lad's father, Joseph, was awarded $7,000 for doctor bills. Samuel's left leg was so badly crushed that he will be a cripple for life, in the opinion of the doctors. His injury also partly paralyzed him.

He was carried into court on a stretcher, FERRARI'S FIRM PROBED BY STATE ON STOCK SALES MORALS IMPUGNED Attorney General Acts to Protect Holders in Auto Company Linked to City Trust--No Forged Notes in Bank, McMahon Says. Assistant Federal Attorney rice J. Dinnerstein made known today that he was utrning over to Federal Attorney Tuttle in Manhattan papers connected with a proceeding which the Attorney General has ordered for cancellation of the American citizenship of Giuseppi Danise, Opera Company baritone, on the ground that he is of immoral character. The immortality charged against mitted Raffaela Zelinda Danise Danise grew out of having get an uncontested divorce in the Kings County Supreme Court on statutory gronuds. Danise lived at 1637 68th st.

when naturalized. Then case is being transferred to Manhattan jurisdiction because the singer now resides Brieger Asserts Harvey Ousted Wrong Men; Wants Halleran and Klein Fired MISHRIN GUISEPPI DANISE. Boro President Snaps Up Public Works Commissioner's Suggestion to Air Charges at Cabinet Meeting After He Tells McMaster and James to Quit. By FRANK Boro President Harvey's to get together for three months "Clean Up Queens," hit a new members of the official orchestra instruments and began to throw them at each other. Harvey himself ran out on the turbulent concert during the forenoon for the more placid tremolo of the Board of Estimate.

Then Superintendent of Street Cleaning Fritz Brieger, the bass drummer all along, let it be known that he didn't think the members of the band discharged by HarveyDeputy Commissioner of Public Works Frank J. McMaster and the Boro President's confidential inspector, Edgar K. James-had been responsible for the disharmony at all. The pair summarily ousted by Leader Harvey yesterday, Brieger inferred, may have been responsible for a few squeaks from the back row of the orchestra, but had little to do with the general discord. Mager Was Rewarded.

These charges, communicated to Harvey by Brieger and to Higgins by Harvey, were that Mager had been rewarded for aiding Harvey's campaign with seven corporation Please Turn to Page 2. HELFAND RESIGNS FROM STATE BAR UNDER TUTTLE FIRE Marcus Helfand, lawyer, today submitted his resignation as a member of the Bar of New York State to Presiding Justice Victor J. Dowling of the Appellate Division, according to an announcement made at the Federal Building by United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, Tuttle had completed a set of charges he planned to file against Helfand with the Bar association. Mr.

Tuttle said he had arrived at his office early this morning in order to have time to draw up the charges and that he had completed them I some time before he met David P. Seigel. Helfand's attorney. The latter told Mr. Tuttle he had sent Helfand's resignation to Justice Dowling.

Mr. Tuttle announced that in view the resignation he would not file of the charges. EMERY. cabinet, which has been trying on a symphony heralded as record of sour notes today as quit playing their discordant RIVERA TO QUIT AS DICTATOR OF SPANISH REGIME Semi- -Official Note. Retires Because of Advancing Years.

Madrid, March 25 (P) -Primo de Rivera, Chief of the Spanish Di-1 rectorate, feels that he is no longer young enough to remain at the head of the present regime. The dictator issued a semi-official note foretelling a change in government and stating that he was not young enough to continue for another five years at his post, Had he been younger the man who has been virtually dictator of Spain since the autumn of 1923 said that he would have asked King Alfonso to continue his confidence in him for another period of five years. Held Office Since Dec. 3, 1925. Gen, Primo de Rivera has been at the head of a civil Cabinet of Ministers since Dec.

3, 1925, when, the consent of the King, the tary directorate was dissolved after two' years of somewhat troubled existence. object of the civil cabinet, which replaced a cabinet high military officers, was to promote economic social reforms. The change did not bring about complete or immediate restoration of previous constitutional guarantees. In Primo de Rivera's own words, it proposed "the substitution for the milltary dictatorship of a civilian and economic dictatorship, with a more suitable but not less vigorous or- ganization." Wanted to Continue Until 1931. The dictator was recently reported to have desired continuation of his rule until 1931, in which time he believed he could cure national ills.

He expressed himself as ready to resign office then. British Drys Rap Lady Astor For Giving Champagne Dinner London, March 25 (P)-The fact that champagne and other alcoholic drinks were served at Lady Astor's recent party for Rhodes scholars has aroused hostile comment among British Prohibition leaders. Referring to the party during a speech at Accrington today, S. M. Holden, president of the British Local Option and Women's party, declared that Lady Astor should not be allowed to appear on any temperance platform in the future.

I Another company in which the late F. M. Ferrari, president of the defunct City Trust Company, was the guiding spirit is being investigated by the Attorney General's office for the purpose of taking action to protect its stockholders, it was disclosed today by Watson Washburn, Assistant Attorney General. This company is the Lancia Motors of America, organized by Ferrari in 1927 to build Italian Lancia cars in this country. Its affairs are intimately linked not only with those of the wrecked City Trust but also with the Federal curities Corporation, another Ferrari enterprise.

$500,000 Stock Sold. Sales of stock in Lancia Motors of America, were suspended voluntarily by the company last January after $500,000 worth of stock had been sold in units of 1 share of common and share of preferred at $27.50 per unit, according to Michael Longo, Brooklyn lawyer, a former member of the board and a large creditor and stockholder. Not a single motor car has been built by the company. Not only did the Federal Securities Corporation, which held a large block of City Trust stock, sell stock in Lancia Motors but it deposited part of the proceeds from the stock sales with the City Trust and this money is still tied up, according to Mr. Washburn.

He said he was unable to state what the amount WAS. What action the Attorney General's office will take will be announced within a few days, he as- The Spanish aviators, Captains started from Seville, Spain, on the of the season, with Brazil as their are shown with their plane, "Jesus they are making the flight. Expected on S. American Coast by Midnight. Takeoff Is Secret for Flight.

port sighting of the plane. Unsighted at Dakar. Madrid, March 25 (AP)-The Moroccan Department of the Ministry War received a wireless telegram from the Spanish South Atlantic airplane Jesus del Gran Poder stating that it had passed over Cape Juby, Rio de Dro, shortly after midnight. flying with a favorable wind. Cape Juby is on the west coast of the Sahara opposite Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands.

It is approximately 900 miles from Seville, indicating that the Spanish fliers, aided by a favorable wind, were making about 125 miles an hour. Expected at Midnight. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, March 25 (P)- -Radio advices received on the Island of Fernando Do Noronna off the coast of Brazil, from Dakar, state that the Spanish transatlantic fliers, Capts. Francisco Timenez and Ignacio Iglesas, are expected to reach the Brazilian coast about midnight or shortly thereafter. The Latecoere Company has ordered night lights on all fields from Natal southward to while Rio the Janeiro to is navy -operating, directing all naval vessels along the northern coast to re- Dakar, Senegal, March 25 (AP) The airplane Jesus Del Gran Poder which was expected to fly over kar by 11 o'clock this morning had not put an appearance by 3 o'clock this afternoon, but no anxiety was felt as it was thought possible that the machine may have started out over the Atlantic.

The proposed route was Cape Spartel, Cape July, Saint Louis and Dakar, the pilots intending to land at Dakar only if weather conditions were unfavorable for an immediate attempt to cross the South Atlantic. It was estimated that the flight from Seville to Pernambuco would take about 33 hours and that consequently the plane would be due along the Brazilian coast about 1 a.m. tomorrow morning. Took Off in Secret. Seville, Spain, March 25 (AP)-Two Spanish, aviators, bachelors and neither over 30, this morning presumably were winging their way southward across the Atlantic Ocean in an attempted nonstop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The fliers, Capts. Francisco Jimenez and Ignacio Iglesas, Spanaces in the Moroccan campaign, left Seville in a secret take-off yesterday afternoon at 5:42 (2.42 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) in their Spanish-made airplane, Jesus del Gran Poder. They have not been reported since. Their course lay down the west coast of northern Africa to Capo Blanco, Mauritania; thence across Please Turn to Page 2.

Jimenez and Iglesas, have first Transatlantic flight destination. Here they the Almighty," in which GINEMA WORLD FOLLOWS FOX IN TALKIE PROGRAM Less Than 25 Percent of Films Planned by Big Firms Will Be Silent. The whole movie world has gone "talkie," it was learned today, following announcement by the Fox Film Corporation that it will produce no more of the "silent" pictures. Most of the lother large producers have not yet completely dropped the non-speaking pictures from their production program, it appeared, something less than 25. percent of the total being scheduled without voice sound, for the benefit of the nonEnglish speaking exhibitors.

54 Talk, 15 Don't. Paramount and Metro-GoldwynMayer, it was learned, are planning 45 talkies each against 15 silent pictures. Pathe will have 20 talkies and about half as many of the silent kind. Radio Pictures, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, plans to produce 30 talkies during the year and no silent Warner Brothers, owners the Vitaphone process, are similarly planning no silent pictures, with the possible exception of silent versions of talkies for foreigi exhibition. Universal Conservative.

Universal appears to be the only large producer which still considers silence more golden than mechanical speech on the films. Its schedule calls for 2 Otalkies and 40 silent pictures during the coming year. First National, controlled by Warner Brothers, expects to make 40 talkies and none of the other kind. The revolutionary announcement of the Fox organization that it has Please Turn to Page 2. TWO MEN INJURED AS CRANE FALLS AT ST.

GEORGE HOTEL Two persons were badly hurst at 2 p.m. today when a crane at work in an excavation for new addition to the Hotel St. George at Cranberry and Hicks sts. collapsed, according to a report sent to Brooklyn Police Headquarters. A hook and ladder company was sent to the scene to perform the rescue work.

Ex-Judge Rockwood Fails To Escape Tax Jail Term Nash Rockwood, for 13 County Judge at Saratoga, N. and for 37 years a member of the bar, today lost before Federal Judge William Bondy in Manhattan a motion for suspension of his three months sentence imposed on his plea of guilty to failure to file income tax returns, and was also denied further delay in the execution of the sentence. He arranged to surrender to the United States Marshal this afternoon to begin serving his sentence in the new Federal house of detention at West and 11th sts. Judge Bondy refused a further stay of execution of sentence after extended pleas in Rockwood's behalf by his counsel, John W. Davis and David P.

Siegel, and the fomer Judge himself that he needed more time to straighten out his extensive practice. Mr. Davis insisted that Rockwood had committed no crime involving moral turpitude; that there had been no larceny or embezzlement. "If every man who is delinquent about his taxes is to go to jail we'll have to build vastly larger commented Mr. Davis.

serted. Promises Justice. "But we are going, to see that justice is done," Washburn, "Ferrari was the guiding spirit in Lancia Motors, Federal Securities and City Trust." Jeremiah T. Mahoney, of counse! for Frank H. Warder, State Superintendent of Banks, told The Eagle on Saturday that Ferrari was responsi sible for whatever wrongdoing there was in the wrecked City Trust.

Vincent Feretti, lawyer, who has been retained to reorganize Lancia Motors, blamed the present situation of improper underwriting. "Federal Securities was to have said. "but it found that Fedunderwritten with company." he eral Securities was not in a financial position to do so. No underwriting contract was made with them. I was retained recently to reorganize the company and obtain proper underwriting." Fokker on Board.

Mr. Longo disclosed that Anthony H. C. Foker, airplane manufacturer, was a member of the presetn board an dthat Hugo V. D'Annunzio, son of the famous Italian poet, had been a member but resigned seven or eight months ago.

Vincent Lancia, head of the Italian company, chairman of the board. He resigned last January following a heated quarrel with Ferrari, but his resignation never has been accepted. Anthony M. Flocker, an automobile engineer, is president of the American company. Other members of the board are James Martin of the Martin Tire Company, James B.

Taylor Ralph De Palma and Dr. Victor Racca, according to Mr. Longo, who said: "The whole trouble is due to the failure of Vincent Lancia to live up to his contract with the American company and deliver motor parts as he had agreed by Jan. 1, 1929. Stormy Meeting Held.

"Lancia is the sole owner of the Italian company and agreed to give the American company the use of all its patents to supply the American organization with motors, transmissions, differentials, front suspensions and steering gear. The purpose was to buil here a Lancia car that could be sold for about $3,500 or $4,000. In return the American company agreed to give Lancia $100,000 for the use of the patent rights. A check for $110,000 was sent him in keeping with this agreement and as a contract binder. "Last January Lancia came to this country and said he would not be in a position to furnish the parts until January of next year.

Officials of the American company became wrought up and there were stormy meetings. "Lancia offered to return the money we had sent him and cancel the contract. He also offered his resignation as chairman of the board. We would not let him cancel the contract nor would be accept his resignation. Legal action to enforce what we believe are our rights under the contract are in contemplation.

Dodd's Excuse Hit. Judge Bondy interrupted to say he had to perform the "most unpleasant" duty he had ever had to carry out as a Judge. He pointed out that Rockwood, because of his position, could not plead ignorance of the law and that since he had enjoyed the friendship and trust of men in all walks of life, especially of the Bar, his failure to file his income tax returns was all the more reprehensible. "I have had letters from men all over the State, from men who respected him as I have," said Judge Bondy, adding that he did not think the sentence was too severe. Rockwood declared that no charge had ever been made against him before, that he was not pleading for a suspended sentence and that he only wanted time to go to Washington and get his taxes adjusted and paid.

He said there had been no wilful intention on his part to evade his tax payments. "What will putting me in jail three months do, but destroy medestroy me as a lawyer and take away my earning power," said Rockwood. The excuse offered by District Attorney Dodd for failure to go after the causes of the collapse of the City Trust Company, with losses running into the millions, was punctured today by Edward Ward McMahon, counsel to the State Banking Department for Brooklyn and Long Island. the District Attorney's office, on the There re is a do-nothing policy in ground that to stir up the scandal now might cause the group of bankers who have pledged themselves to take over the wreck of the City Trust to abandon their plans, and thus cost the depositors their savings. Officials are saying secretly that the ill -fated bank was "Alled with forged notes" and millions in frauds are talked of in this connection.

Denies Note Forgeries. The only definite information on forged notes has come from Humbert J. Fugazy, sports promoter and friend of Ferrari. Fugazy announced that a note for $129,000 bearing his name was a forgery. This was followed by whispered declarations in official circles that other forgeries would total more than $1,000,000.

Mr. McMahon today asserted that Please Turn, to Page Lady Astor's secretary, speaking for her, said this afternoon that alcoholic beverages had been served at the Rhodes entertainment, but added: "Lord and Lady Astor's views on the liquor question are too well known to require comment. But they do not attempt to coerce guests, and those who wish alcoholic beverages may have them in her Lady Astor frequently addressed meetings of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and has long been an opponent of the liquor trade. 9.