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go job 50 not the the the I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919. Enter Hylan, Exit Rats Via a Letter and a Trap Page the literacy rat catcher who, used to drop in at City Hall in the days when the late Mayor Gaynor was alive and discuss Epictetus with him. There is a job for him out Mayor Hylan took a ramble in the Prospect Park way. cool of the evening in Prospect Park recently and marked the number of stray cats in the park.

He a also took note of several large rats in the neighborhood of the lake used for small boats. And, being an observing man. he marked the fact that bird feathers were scattered here and there. So he sat down and wrote to Park Commissioner Harman that park of these pests are not something should be copied rid the only a nuisance but a menace to the feathered denizens of the borough's green oasis. Park Commissioner Harman has followed the Mayor's suggestion and had A number of traps set for the rats, He will also send a man out to rid the park of cats.

This will be a boon to the sweet singing birds which help to make the park a delight. Does anybody know how many kinds of birds frequent Prospect Park? In various visits to Fort Washington Park this vear, according to the ent of A. city daily, the following varieties were catalogued: DAVID W. SYME, 50, DIES IN FLORAL PARK Served Two Terms as President of That Village- -Active Churchman. (Special to The Eagle.) Floral Park, L.

June 20--David William president Syme, of 50 Floral years Park, old, ex villase heart trouble yesterday at his home on the Jericho turnpike, after an illness of several months. Funeral servives will be held Sunday afternoon in the Floral Park M. E. Church, the Rev. E.

S. Jackson officiating. Interment in Evergreens Cemetery. Mr. Syme was born in Brooklyn and came to Floral Park when he was about 14 years old.

When the village was incorporated he was the first village clerk. Although did not seek public office he was twice elected village president. He was subsequently elected village tax collector, from which position he resigned a short time. before Syme his was a death. stenographer con- and Spanish student, and was nected with the firm R.

Grace Co. of Manhattan Cheater number of years. Owing to ill he gave up this position and into the real estate and insurance business here. When he was 17 years old Mr. Syme married Miss Minnie Randall of Elmont.

There were three children by this union--Edmund E. Syme, Miss Floral Syme and Mrs. F. H. Thurston, After the death of his first wife he married Miss Charlotte Parker of Manhattan.

who survives him with four children-David Ruth, Norman and Charlotte. Mr. Syme was a director of the Floral Park Bank for a number of years. He was an active member of the Floral Park M. E.

Church, treasurer and a member of the official board. GERMAN-AUSTRIA RESENTS BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR EMPIRE'S MISDEEDS St. Germain, June 20-(By the Associated Press) -The Austrian delegation has sent a fourth note to the Peace Conference protesting against the Germain-Austrian republic "being made the heir of all the responsibilities of the Austro-Hungarian empire, of which it was the smallest, poorest, most peaceful and most liberal of States. "It points out that at the time war was declared in 1914 the Foreign Minister. his two principal collaborators and almost all of Austria's ambassadors were Hungarian and maintains that the "responsibility for the war is common the States forming the empire hat has vanishhed." The not expresses confidence that the "spirit of justice of the conference will not let the whole burden be thrown upon German -Austria." PLAN MEN TO GET $1,790.

Borough President Riegelmann got permission from the Board of Estimate today to employ ten plan examiners for three months, at the rate of $1,790 a vear. The Board at first fixed the rate at $1,320 a year, but Mr. Riegelmann was unable to get a. single man to accept such a position at the pay offered. Last week the Board raised the rate to $1,500, but Mr.

Riegelmann still could not prowas for $1.790 it has now been cure the men. aHis original request granted. B.R:T. WOMEN AGENTS SEEK LEWIS' HELP District Attorney Promises Aid to Those Hit by LockwoodCaulfield Law. A delegation of women ticket agents of the B.

R. T. representing the League of Equal Opportunity called on District Attorney Lewis yesterday and discussed their standing under the Lockwood- Caulfeld bill. The delegation later visited The Eagle office where Mrs. May Murray, the spokes.

man, said: "We. called on District Attorney Lewis today and asked him if he would not consider the officials of the B. R. T. liable to arrest if they continted to employ women ticket agents.

He said he would not act without an order from the State Industrial Commission "We saw Commissioner John Mitchell yesterday and he has assured District Attorney Lewis that he would not inforce the Lockwood-Caulfield bill against us until a. 'proper' time. District Attorney Lewis said he would the limit to help the women ticket agents who number 2,000. Five hundred have already been laid off. We have also seen Mr.

Dempsey, vice president of the B. R. and he has promised to take the matter up immediately with Receiver Garrison. Mr. Dempsey wants the women workers as they always have given good service-'yes, even better service than the "We are conductorettes and we are not war workers.

We took 110 men's jobs and some of 115 have been on the for 28 or 29 years. There are only conductorettes left at the present time, but there are over 2,000 of us, and we demand a square deal." of of "13" PLAYING GRIM PART IN BROOKLYN CAREER OF HAMBY Justice, Sheriff, Attorney and Detective Have 13 Letters in Their Names- -Crime on 13th. Does the strange sequence of thirteens that have followed Gordon Faweett Hamby since the robbery at the East Brooklyn Savings Bank on Friday, December 13, 1918, forbode good or evil for defendant, who is going on trial Monday for shooting and killing DeWitt C. Peale, an employee of the bank. who had attempted to give the alarm as one of the two holdup men ordered him to throw up his hands? The amount stolen from the bank was Hamby was brought back to Brooklyn on Friday, June 13.

and carried to Raymond Street Jail in prison van No. 13. He admits 13 burglaries at and the Judge who is to preside his trial, Justice Lewis L. Fawcett, has 13 letters in his name, as has Deputy Sheriff James Shortell, who will keep a watchful eye on Hamby during his trial. Incidentally, Detective William F.

Roddy, his capture, also has 13 letters Hamby credits with a leading portions name, as has Frank McCaffry, the attorney assigned to defend him, who, in addition, occupies room No. 1113 at 44 Court st. The stage is all set for the trial of the Supreme Court, which holds only that because of that size of Part 8 of Hamby. It is intimated, however, 93 under normal conditions, and i perhaps 20 more now with the additional chairs that were installed today, the general public will be excluded. District Attorney Harry E.

Lewis will conduct the prosecution personally, The indictment on which Hamby is to be tried is one of two charging murder, first degree. The other alleges that he shot and killed Henry W. Coons, another employee of the East Brooklyn Savings Bank who had attempted to frustrate the rob. bers as they were about to make their getaway. The plan to be pursued by Attorney McCaffry in outlining the defense of Hamby has not been made public, although it is persistently rumored that a plea of emotional insanity may be interposed to counteract the alleged URGES RELIEF FOR BALTIC STATES Col.

Green Says Food Is Needed There Germans Must Be Made to Leave. (By the Associated Press.) Paris, Thursday, June 19-Col. War. wick Green, chief of the American Military Mission to the Baltic States, who left Riga on June 13 and Libau on June 15, on return to Paris, told the Baltic Commission today that the Allies should immediately extend food relief to the Baltic States, send officers to insure the enforcement of the Allied ultimatum that German armies there withdrawn and prevent the Bolsheviki from again overrunning the States after the Germans have left. Col.

Green says there are probably 60,000 regularly organized German soldiers in Letvia and Lithuania, under th command of Gen. von der Goltz. In addition there are several thousand Germans and German Russians, under Maj. Fletcher, military dictator of Riga, who are apparently not under orders from Gen. von der Goltz.

He declares that the present Lettish and Lithuanian governments are "mere creations of Germany and dependent on her for money and organizers." He reports that the reign of terror which the Bolsheviki instituted fore withdrawing from Letvia was far worse than that begun by the Letts and Germans in retaliation. The Boisheviki, he states, killed 1.700 men and women of all ages, many of whom the American mission saw lying in the streets when it visited Riga the first time on May 23. Maj. Fletcher, who imprisoned 4,000 alleged agitators and executed 200, said that it would be probably necessary to shoot 400 more. Col.

Green says that many of these prisoners are undoubtedly murderers who would be executed by any government. but fair trials were not given them, nor were they furnished with decent quarters after the invention of the Allied missions. Conditions in Riga. were found to be improved when the Americans returned on Tune 16. The Allied officers fear a recurrence of Bolshevik attacks as the result of their successes against, the Kolchak forces.

which troops that will be rushed to the Volga district. Y.M.C.A. AVOIDING POLITICS, QUITS OMSK WAR ZONE: WORKS AMONG CIVILIANS Tokio, May 17 (Correspondence of the Associated Press) has been received here that the Young Men's Christian Association has withdrawn its agents from the fighting zone of the forces of the Omsk Government of Admiral Kolchak. At the, headquarters of the Y. M.

C. A. here, which has general charge of the work in Siberia, it was stated that the organization could have continued its work in the Omsk region if it had complied with certain conditions which the Y. M. C.

A. leaders believed would have tied it up to one political party. Rather than do this. it was stated, the association preferred to withdraw from the fighting zone in order to keep itself free to all minister to the needs of men from parties as required. In reference, to the withdrawal of the from its work with the army of the Omsk Government, E.

T. Colton of New York, administrative secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. for Russia, said there was plenty of work left to do among civilians in behalf of all the Allied military units in Siberia -American, French, British.

Czechoslovak. Polish, Japanese and Chinese. Among them the service was welcomed and continued unabated, he said. INFERNAL MACHINE KILLS JUDGE CASTILLO IN I WESTERN SALVADOR San Salvador, June 19-In infernal machine sent to Dr. Manuel Trejo Castillo, civil judge of Santa Ana, in Western Salvador, today caused the death of the judge and the serious injury of a servant.

The explosive was contained in a small box provided with a lock and key. The fatal plosion occurred when the box was opened. The report of the explosion was so loud that it was heard throughout the city. SUBMARINE'S PRISONER ACQUITTED OF DESERTION Ayer, June 20-Pvt. Paul Lester Nace, whose answer to a charge of desertion was that he had been kid.

napped and held prisoner on board a German submarine, was given his freedom today a after the finding of the court-martial acquitting him was approved by Maj. Gen. H. P. McCain, commander of Camp Devens.

Nace has announced that he will ask for early discharge from the Army and go to the home of a sister at Carlisle, Pa. He disappeared from Camp Devens in May, 1918, and on October 16 reported to the military authorities at Fort Story, Va. In the interim, he said he was held by the Germans, who sought to obtain airplane secrets from him. He was finally freed about two miles off Cape Henry, and swam ashore from the submarine, according to his testimony. COMMERCE CHAMBER PLANS ROSTER DRIVE 1,100 Admitted to Membership Since Is Organization's Aim.

The board of directors of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce held its regular monthly meeting last night in the directors room at 32 Court st. and heard reports the various committees and officers of the Chamber. Guy Loomis membership committee reported an increase of 1,100 names since September last and a total enrollment to date of 2,239 names. Sixty -two applications are pending, which will put the membership beyond the 2,300 mark. Plans are being now made for a vigorous campaign in the early fall to increase the membership to 3,000, the goal tablished by the board of directors when the Chamber moved into its new quarters.

G. Foster Smith of the Nassau National Bank reported on the finances of the Chamber, and showed that the expenditures were well within budget of $66,900, which was approved by the directors in February, The new plan of billing members pro rata for the remainder of the year was approved by the board. Clarence B. Smith of the house loom the committee dining map reported room, on and the pointed operations cat out that the Thursday evening dinners, to which women are invited. proving so successful that members have to be turned away.

He said that the new executive offices on the floor below the lounge would be ready for occupancy in a few days. Fred L. Cranford, chairman of the Harbor Improvement Committee, submitted a list of names for the membership of his committee which were approved. They are as follows: William T. Donnelly, Irving T.

Bush, Jas. A. Farrell, Robert Gair, Horace Havemayer, F. Cliffe Johnston, E. T.

Luckenbach, Fred. D. MacKay, C. D. McAllister, E.

P. Morse, R. S. Stubbs, James H. Post, Harvey Williams.

Robert Alfred ed Shaw, William H. Todd, Herman A. Metz, chairman of the Local Transit Committee, reported that the committee was making every effort to push the Ashland pl. connection improvement and that the committee was in frequent conference with Receiver Garrison on the general improvement of the service of the B. R.

T. Stanley R. Gunnison, chairman of the Street Committee. submitted a report on the lack of sufficient street signs in Brooklyn, and a resolution was adopted, urging the Borough President remedial measures by which street signs at the many street intersections will be so placed that they will render the most service. The board adopted a resolution urging the Borough President to begin at once the improvement of Atlantic ave.

between Flatbush and Bedford avenues. James S. Graham, chairman of the special Committee on Jamaica Bay Improvement. submitted a report recommending that the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce protest against the effort by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to relocate the bulkhead and pierhead lines in Jamaica Bay, as established by the Sinking Fund Commissioners in July, 1917, and approved by the Secretary of War in October, 1917, and that the board urge the city to proceed with the improvement of the channels in Jamaica Bay without delay. The board unanimously approved the recommendation.

The New York Telephone Company in reply to a complaint by the Chamber that the telephone service was inadequate, made an extended reply in which they told of the difficulties in securing competent operators, their inability to keep pace with the increasing demand of the public for telephone service and difficulties which were met in securing skilled labor and material. hTe board voted to hold the last members' meeting, the summer vacation on Thursday, June 26. Those present at the meeting were: John T. Barry, H. L.

Carpenter, James Sherlock Davis, H. H. Doehler. Guy Du Val. Charles H.

Fuller, M. W. Gleason. James S. Graham, William S.

Irish. Ralph Jonas. H. V. Kaltenborn.

Victor A. Lersner, William McCarroll. Charles Coleman Miller. L. H.

Pink. Lewis H. Pounds. Thomas J. Riley.

Charles L. Schenck. Clarence B. Smith, G. Foster Smith, Edward H.

Wilson and Mayo Fesler, secretary. FAWCETT FINDS NEW BRIDGE AUTO ROUTE Northerly Footwalk on Williamsburg Span Should Be Used by Autoists, Justice Says. Mayor Hylan yesterday received a letter from Supreme Court Justice Lewis L. Fawcett, of Brooklyn, in reference to the congested condition of the Williamsburg Bridge during the morning and evening rush hours and suggesting that the northerly foot walk which has not been in use for seven vears be changed so it would be available for a roadway for automobiles. In answering the Justice's letter the Mayor said that suggestion was a splendid one and that he would give it immediate consideration.

"The congestion in the morning and evening hours causes me to make inquiry as to whether it is not feasible to sO change the northerly footwalk which has not been in, use by pedestrians for seven years, so that it may be devoted to a roadway for Justice Fawcett said "it seems to me that it could be made to serve this purpose by the construction of proper approaches. "This improvement would be equiv. alent highway to the in a opening very of busy a much crowded district. It used would for be New an especial boon if were York bound automobiles during the morning, and Brooklyn bound automobiles during the evening busy hours. The adroadway would surely divert considervantages offered by this additional able traffic from and be of relief to the other bridges to this borough.

"The traffic problem, I know, is one of the big and important questions with which your administration has to deal and in making these observations I believe I echo the sentiments of those who have occasion to use the present roadways of the bridge, during the rush hours." FACING PRIMARY BATTLES GALORE NEXT FALL Dowling, Stewart, Valentine Wilmot and Martin Among Those Who May Start pendent Fights. Democratic County Leader McCooey is going to have a lively job on his hands trying to put through the organization slate in the coming primaries, from present indications. At least five "insurgent" Democrats have already announced or are reported to be getting ready to announce their intention of entering the primaries in an independent fight for county nominations on Democratic ticket. The list then headed by George J. S.

Dowling, who is already in the field with his petitions for the Supreme Court. This will be Dowling's third successive effort to buck the machine for the Supreme Court nomination. Robert Stewart, well-known Brooklyn lawyer, who, like Dowling, has previously attempted wrest. a Supreme Court nomination from the organization via the party primaries, is again ready to make the attempt for Supreme Court, his friends declare. Mr.

Stewart was to have entered the primaries in 1917 but was deterred because of the war. Beeing an Annapolis graduate he immediately tendered his services to the Government and served throughout the war as a naval lieutenant. Thomas ilmot. of the 15th Assemly District. is said to have his eye on the Shrievalty nomination, and former Municipal Court Justice John A.

Valentine of the 17th Assembly District of the Surrogateship. Wilmot made the attempt for Sheriff, A few years ago, and though defeated, piled up a good -sized vote. Valentine broke with the organization last year when, with the nomination for Municipal Court in the Second District in his hands, he withdrew from the race. charging County Leader McCooey with "trafficking with the fifth Democrat who is understood to be anxious to try his luck in the primaries, if unsuccessful in landing nthe organization slate, is former Assistant District Attorney George A. Martin, who opposed Reuben L.

Haskell in the Tenth Congressional District fight last fall. Martin, it is said, would like to get a nomination for County Judge. There is still considerable talk among independent Democrats of the possibility of effecting EL fusion with the Republican ticket. The law forbidding the withdrawal of a candidate nominated in the primaries and the Alling of his place by a committee on vacancies, which makes it necessary for any fusion candidate to run the gantlet of a possibly hostile party primary has thrown considerable cold water on the fusion talk. One way of getting around this bar.

rier, however, it was pointed out today, would be to withdraw a designated candidate at the last minute before the primary and fill his place with the fusion choice. This would prevent the entry of an opposition candidate in the primaries who would make his appeal to the voters on the ground that he was a member of their party and the fusionist was not. Such a plan, if successful, could then be followed by the entry of an independent ticket at the general election sponsored by the indenendent Democrats and containing the names of the fusion candidates. Some News Features in Next Sunday's Eagle FREDERICK BOYD STEVENson writes about Bonar Law's assertion that 23 wars are going on in the world. C.

C. BRAINERD WRITES A close-up of Senator Philander C. Knox. FEDERAL LAWMAKERS TALKing about lower taxes and less war. ARMY AIR SERVICE ASKS help of American inventors.

HOW FATE OF THE LEAGUE of Nations rests with President Wilson's talking power. UNCLE SAM TO PROTECT holders of Liberty Bonds from wildcat schemes. RAYMOND B. FOSDICK SAYS all social work 111 Army should be done by Government. MARY SANDSTED TELLS HOW graves in France of Brooklyn 106th Inf, Regt.

heroes were decorated on Memorial Day. WINSTON CHURCHILL. BRITish Secretary of State for War, reviews the military situation, part.cuiarly in Russia. IS THE SAAR VALLEY DECIs10n a violation of the 14 points? How the treaty disposes of these rich coal lands. MISS ADELLA POTTER, PROhibition campaigner, tells why the country will go dry on July 1.

HISTORY OF KEELER'S Hotel, noted Albany landmark, destroyed by fire. PRESIDENT ANNING S. PRALL of Board of Education urges prompt prosecution of building program as board's first duty. DR. WILLIAM BRADY WRITES on broken bones, gastritis and eating.

GUY HICKOK GIVES FURTHER examples of German brutality in France. FULL PAGE OF BOY SCOUT news. S. DAVIES WARFIELD WRITES on control of railroad management. ANOTHER O.

HENRY STORY. MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN says U. S. prestige in Europe is suffering from attacks in America on President Wilson. CHARLES D.

MITCHELL'S FAmous cartoons. NEWS FROM THE SUMMER resorts. JULIUS CHAMBERS ASKS FOR a psychopathist who can cure Senatorial neurosis. Belted kingfisher, downy woodpeckhairy woodpecker, flicker, crested er, Ay-catcher, Acadian fly-catcher, star- least fly-catcher, wood pewee, bluejay, ling, crow, purple grackle, orchard oriole, Baltimore oriole, redpoll, goldfinch, pine siskin, white throated row. chipping sparrow, field sparrow, tree sparrow, chewink, slate colored junco, song sparrow, rose breasted grosbeak, indigo bunting, cedar waxwing, scarlet tanager, red eyed vireo, yellow throated vireo, solitary vireo, black and white warbler, worm eating warbler, blue winged warbler, Tennessee warbler, Parula warbler, Cape May warbler, yellow warbler, black throated blue warbler, black throated green warbler, myrtle warbler, magnolia warbler, "chestnut sided war.

Blachburnian warbler, pine bler, warbler, poll warbler, palm warbler, prairie warbler, hooded warbler, black, Wilson a warbler, Canadian warbler, Connecticut warbler. oven bird, Northern water thrush, Maryland yellow throat, redstart, catbird, brown thrasher, Carolina wren, house wren, brown creeper, white breasted nut hatch, chickadee, ruby crowned king. let, wood thrush. Wilson thrush, hermit thrush and robin. Most of these varieties may be found in Prospect Park and all bird lovers who love them and their song should be interested in protecting them.

PRISON KEEPER HELD ON GRAFT CHARGES Indictments State H. A. Anderson Sold Good Behavior Marks to Penitentiary Inmate. Harry A. Anderson, 36 years old, a well's Island, keeper in the penitentiary, on Blackby the Grand Jury in Manhattan, charged by James A.

Hamilton, Commissioner of Correction, with attempting to obtain money from certain prisoners by promising them to (add marks for good behavior to their records. Anderson was arraigned before Judge William H. Wadhams in General Sessions and held in $2,500 His home is at 389 Twelfth Brooklyn. Commissioner Hamilton stated that he had been advised that grafting of the foregoing character was being attempted in the prison, about two months ago, and that he called the attention of the District Attorney's office to the information. Investigation of the charges resulted in Ander- the indictment returned against son yesterday, and he was at once suspended from his position.

Anderson was formerly a member of the Aqueduct police force, under the direction of the Department of Water Supply, and was transferred to the Charities Department in 1916. There are two indictments against Anderson--one for having received on August 22, 1918, $15 from Isidore Titkin, and the other for receiving from Titkin on or about December 23, 1918, the sum of $10. Titkin at that time was a prisoner sentenced by Judge Roy of the County Court of Kings County for criminally receiving stolen goods and serving an indeterminate sentence, and paid this money to Anderson by two postoffice orders made payable to Anderson, one for $15 and the other for $10, obtained at Station Brooklyn Postoffice. He paid this money, the indictment charges, in order to' obtain certain credit marks as a reward for his good conduct and efficiency, as an inmate in the penitentiary. Nixon Approves B.R.T.

Notes Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon announced yesterday that he will shortly approve an order to permit the surface lines companies of the B. R. T. to issue lease warrants for notes for 80 per cent. of the value of 200 or the 300 new cars which the company must buy by order of the Commission.

The companies are to pay 20 per cent. of the value of the cars in cash, each car to cost $5,600. The total cost including interest and discount, it was stated by A. M. Williams, of counsel to the B.

R. T. companies, would amount to $1,245,696.30, divided as follows: Brooklyn Heights, Railroad Company, Nassau Electric Railroad Company, Coney Island and Brooklyn, 28: Brooklyn, Queens Company and Suburban, total, 696.30. "I want to facilitate this matter in every way possible." said Commissioner Nixon. "That this system needs additional cars has been amply shown on several occasions before the Commission.

It will be possible, if matters are expedited, to have all of the 300 cars called for Commission's order in service by the heaviest rush of winter traffic. They will add greatly to the passenger carrying capacity of the B. R. T. lines, and thereby contrib.

lute greatly to the comfort. and convenience of the traveling public. President T. S. Williams of the B.

R. who was present, said delivery would shortly begin of the first 100 cars. all trailers, and that delivery of the 200 cars involved in the company's application for lease warrants or notes would begin within sixty days of the placing of the order, and would be completed by the end of October. JOSEPH G. POLLARD DIES.

Joseph Gardiner Pollard, 69 year old, of 85 Hawthorne Flatbush, one of the oldest manufacturers of contractors and plumbers' tools in Brooklyn, died this morning of chronic rheumatism and bronchitis, after an illness of five and a half years, Mr. Pollard was born in the downtown section of Brooklyn, on July 11, 1849, and had lived here nearly all his lifetime. He was the son of Simmons S. and Annis Wheeler Pollard. His father started the tool manufacturing business on Fleet near Myrtle in 1837, and the son.

inheriting the factory from his father, had continued the out business at 141 Raymond for the past 50 vears. Mr. Pollard had been a member and trustee of the Lenox Road Baptist Church for many years, and formerly was a trustee and deacon of the old Cestral Baptist Church on Bridge near Myrtle of which his parents were constituent members. Mr. Pollard is survived by his wife.

Mrs. Helen A. Dornett Pollard, a. son. Walter D.

Pollard; a grandson. and a sister, Mrs. Mary J. Fanton. 3 DISPUTE LUMBER EVIDENCE.

The session of the trail of the fifteen officers and employees of the Coastwise Lumber and Supply Company before Federal Judge Thomas on charges of lumber frauds was enlivened today by the demand by John J. Curtin, chief counsel of the defense, that all the testimony of George D. Langford of the John C. Roper Lumber Company, which occupied the better part of a stricken from the record. The Court reserved decision.

VILLA WILL MAKE NO REPRISALS ON YANKEES IN MEXICO Secretary Baker Authorizes Recruiting of 26,450 Men for Service on Border. El Paso, June 20-Villa will make no reprisals upon American property and lives in Mexico, because American troops drove his men back from the border Sunday night, a courier from Villa's camp. near Villa Ahumada, who arrived here last night on an important mission, declared. He also had a communication from Gen. Felipe Angeles for Brig.

Gen. James B. Erwin, district commander. The courier said Villa was afraid the Carranza soldiers would fire into El Paso to force American troops to cross and it was for this reason that he remained outside of Juarez three days, hoping that the Federals would come out from the town and give battle in the open. The courier said the first.

Villa knew of the American expedition was when he heard bursts of shrapnel, whereupon he ordered his men to evacuate the town and leave for the foothills at once. Villa was more than mile from town at the time left imme. diately for his base, near Samalayuca. It is not reasonable, according to the courier, to believe that Villa's men would snipe across the border into El Paso when Villa hesitated to attack Juarez for fear bullets would fall in El Paso and bring about complications with the United States. The courier said Villa did not participate in the first night's fighting but led his men in person Sunday evening and directed the fighting in the streets and around the Custom House at the time.

Villa had 2,400 men in his entire command but only 1,600 participated in the attack, he said. The Villa officer confirmed the death of Manuel Castro and Alberto Jiminez, two Villa generals who were killed during the fighting in Juarez. He said Villa lost 70 men in the fighting and had 110 wounded. He denied reports that Hipolito Villa, a brother of the commander, had died at Samalayuca. He said he was improved in health.

The officer had nothing to say about Villa's future plans but said the rebel command-chief would issue a statement as soon as he had obtained all facts which resulted in the expedition against his forces in and near Juarez. Washington, June 20--Announcement was made today that Secretary Baker had authorized the recruiting of 26,450 men for service 011 the Mexican border. They will replace and now eligible for discharge. men enlisted for the war emergency Men will be enlisted for the following arms and corps, not to exceed the numbers indicated: White infantry, 8,000: infantry, negro, 2.000: cavalry, field artillery, engineers, 800: medical corps, 1.200: ordnance, 150; signal corps, 300; air service, 500. and quartermaster corps, 1,500.

TWO MEN GET DIVORCES In the Queens County Supreme Court Justice Van Siclen yesterday heard the testimony in the action for separation which Mrs. Rose Stanley of Fulton Jamaica, brought against her husband, Peter Stanley, who is now living at 41 North Washington Jamaica, According to Mrs. Stanley's testimony she has been compelled to help earn her own support for some time and has been to live with ner husband. Stanley testified that for some time has been giving his wife $50 of his salary of $90 a month. He denied his wife's allegations.

Justice Van Siclen directed that an oder for separation be handed up and said he would fix the amount of alimony and the when the father could see his children. Martin Slattery, of 397 Pierce Long Island City, but formerly of College Point. was granted a divorce from his wife Clara Slattery. Charles Greiss of Campbell Jamaica, was granted a divorce from his wife, Alice Greiss and given the custody of his 10-year-old daughter. W.

R. HOWE HONORED. Syracuse, June 20-William R. Howe, of Woodmere, was one of three men elected Phi Beta Kappa at Hobart College, commencement. BRIDGE TO REPLACE WINFIELD TUNNEL Queens Residents Tell Board of Estimate Passage Under L.

1. R. Is in "Obnoxious A large delegation from Elmhurst including 25 women, members of the Omerind Democratic Club, appeared before the Board of Estimate at its meeting today to protest against the "obnoxious condition" of the pedestrian tunnel at Card place, between North Railroad ave. and South Railroad ave. J.

E. Dunningham, chairman of the civic committee of the Amerind Democratic Club, told the Board that his committee had inspected the tunnel on June 9 and found all the windows at the entrance broken, and boarded up. "The wall," he said, "was defaced by disgusting drawings and immoral writlings, two out of the three electric lights were broken, and I was myself obliged to use a flashlight to enable me to see my way through the tunnel, notwithstanding the fact that it was then 12 o'clock and the sun shining." Mr. Cunningham said he had written a letter to Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad, calling his attention to the conditions in the tunnel. He read President Peters' reply, which is as follows: "We have received your letter as chairman of the Civic Committee of the Amerind Democratic Club, in gard to the tunnel under the tracks in the vicinity of Boroughs Winfield.

The matter. will have our prompt attention. experience we have had in all of these foot passageways has been about similar to this one Winfield. We are unable to keep the unruly element out or under control, which, of course, is impossible. "The police help 1S very much, and I am glad that you have called upon Capt.

Kelly of the police precinct to co-operate with us." At the request of Borough President Connolly the board voted to change the city map so as to eliminate the tunnel and provide for an overhead crossing at grade, and the secretary a of the board was instructed to notify the Public Service Commission of the change. Construction of the proposed overhead railroad crossing falls under the jurisdiction of the commission. Before the commission can take any action in the matter a public hearing must be held at which the Long Island Railroad Company will have all opportunity to present arguments against the proposed improvement. LEWIS IN CLASH AT PALMER PROBE WITH TWO SENATORS Overman and Walsh Rebuke Former State Attorney General for Legal Statement. Washington, June 20--Public inquiry into charges made against Attorney General Palmer in connection with his administration of the Alien Property Custodian's office opened be.

fore the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee with a clash between Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and former Attorney General Merton E. Lewis of New York, regarding statements as to the right of the custodian to sell property. Mr. Lewis testified last week at an executive session of the committee. which is considering Mr.

Palmer's nomination, and Senator Walsh contended he had neglected to give committee a full statement as to the law regarding sale of property. "It was my, purpose," Mr. Lewis said, "to make' a statement in correction of my statement of last week and to apologize for the fact that entirely unintentionally I had left an impression on the committee which at that time was my understanding of the Senator Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, if in view of his servMr. Lewis did not think it improper AL Attorney General of New York to quote only part of the act. Mr.

Lewis explained he had come into the case hurriedly, without full opportunity to examine the statutes. "As for myself," said Senator Walsh, "I accept unreservedly your statement. You will realize, however, that we will scarcely be able to rely hereafter on anything you may say." Mr. Lewis appeared as counsel for Harvey T. Andrews of the Bosch Magneto Company, whose plant at Springfield, was seized and sold by the alien property custodian.

He read into the record a number of reports in support of charges that the property was sold at much below its value. Attorney General Palmer interrupted Mr. Lewis several times to ask that he put the complete balance sheet of the company into the record and not pick paragraphs at random from the prospectus prepared in connection with the sale. Senator Walsh also frequently interrupted to remind Mr. Lewis that certain documents he was offering already were in the record.

This WAS after he had read an account of the Bosch sales as published in a Springfield newspaper. He also read a number of newspaper articles to show that the price of magneto stock on the New York Stock Exchange advanced from 65 last January to 104 on June 14. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED IN HAMBURG HARBOR ZONE Copenhagen, June 20-(Germany) -Martial law has been proclaimed in the entire zone of Hamburg Harbor as a consequence of an increase in raids upon food depots. MARRIAGE LICENSES. MARRIAGE LICENSES.

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