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1 THE SUft AND NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1920. 1 1 I Hi i 4 TRUNK MURDERER IS SOUGHT IN MEXICO Tolice at Border Await Orders to Go After Lcroy, Convicted Here as Thief. I WARBAXT IN DETROIT' Tatuin, to Whom Culprit Trieti to Point Suspicion, Says He Was Trailed. Detectives of both New Toric and Detroit who have beta working on the trunk murder mystery expressed the belief yesterday that the roan variously known as J. Fernandez," -0.

J. Woods" aod "Eocene Le Kor." who Is being sought a the murderer. Is la the rtdnltr of SaltlUo. Mexico. Preliminary ateps have wen laxro obtain the bid'i extradition In event of his capture there, and detectives are ready to cross the border upon receipt of orders.

A warrant charging him with the murder of Kitty Jackson "Le Roy." the trunk victim, has been lrsued In Detroit. A similarity between the handwriting of Le Roy and of P. mar who killed and ribbed Cecil I. Landon. an Oregon loUUr, In the Hotel McAlpin on Aurat li, 1SI.

was noted yejterday by the police. It was remarked alto that the description of the soldier's flayer Ullled with that of the man wasted for the trunk murder However, there have been several crlmea committed In thli city within the Uat year by various men of Le Roy's type, and the of "PourvererV handwriting In the possession of the police is 10 meagre that no definite inference can be drawn from a ceaipirl-on of this with "Le Le nor Skipped Ctrnrt Parole. An examination of the records of the chief clerk of the DUtrict office and of the files of Edward R. Carroll, clerk of General Session, revealed that Le Roy I wanted in thli dty for violating a court parole. Vnder the name of Otcar J.

Wood he was arretted July II. ISIS, charred with the theft of 100 In Liberty bond and Jewelry from George Ursua of I 71 West Sixty-eighth street He was In-1 dieted for grand larceny and remained in the Tombs, being unable to furnish ball. On August 5. 1519, Le Roy pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and on August It received a suspended sentence from Judge William H. Wadhams, who placed him on probation with the stipulation that he should make restitution at the rate of 10 a week.

"Wood" showed his gratitude to the court by leaving the State at the first opportunity. It was then that he assumed the name of Le Roy. A warrant for his rearrest was Issued on October 22, but he could not be recaptured. In asking Andrew J. Branlc, expressman, to erase the name J.

Wood" from his trunk, and forward It to him as Le Roy," care of the Detroit T. II. C. the man gave no Intimation of the bond theft charge. He gave Branlc to understand that be had been arrested for accidentally killing some one while driving an automobile, and that he wanted to get away from the stigma that his arrest had cast upon him.

Objects to Jailbird Boarder. It was learned that upon "Leltoy's" arrival here with his friend Joseph Tanez, he lived on West Thirty-sixth street, and that after his release from the Tombs he lived with Tanez at 117 West 8Ixt'-fourth street. The landlady who knew he had been in Jail, objected to housing him, but consented when Tanez assured her his companion had been unjustly accused. He received mail there both as "Oscar J. Wood" and as "Fernandez." Mrs.

Marie Trumbull, wife of a Detroit policeman, who knew the trunk victim and the man sought as the slayer, said she never thought much of Leroy. iter objection to him was based largely upon the she said, that he was In the habit of powdering his face and saturating himself with perfumes. A brother of the victim has been requested to come on from Sturgla, for the purpose of further fixing the Identity. Allen A. Tatura, whose name was used by be murderer in disposing of the body, told the police of Binning-1 ham, yesterday that KIttv Jirkmn hi tald to him that LeRoy, who was ex- ucuicijr jraious oi nim, naa once "trailed" him with a knife.

"I feel that I'm the motive -for this crime." Tatum said, "hut 1 hardly know why." Detroit police, who have been unable to discover evidences of the crime about the apartment from which the body waa shipped, expressed the opinion that the murder was committed in the bath tub. Tbey think that the missing vital organs were destroyed by acids. UNIONS ARE BEHIND PRISON LABOR WORK Frayne Speaks at Session at Bankers Club. The question of how to treat criminal prisoners so as best to safeguard the public at large, was the keynote of the addresses at the luncheon at th; Bank ers Club yesterday noon. The meetlnr was presided over by Adolph Lewlaohn, pre rid erf of the National Committee on Prisons and Prisons Labor.

Judge William H. Wadham Addressed the fifty business men who attended the luncheon. He said that the blggert problem In connection with criminal was not so much how long they should be sent to Jail, but what Is to become of them ofter they get out of Jail. The beckbone of crime Is the second offender. To do away with the second offender 1 would be to break the backbone.

To do this the Judge said It was necessary to I 3 GERMAN PLANES RACING FOR COAST All Three Machines Make Cleveland Without Mishap on Pirst 3Iail Trip. JtlCKENBACKER OX BOABI) 'Ace of Aces' Joins Pathfinders on Transcontinental Flight for U. S. Three big all metal monoplanes. fit men in prison with some way of earn-1 trought to this country from Germany, opened yesterday the first Atlantic to laciflc air mall service by flying from NEW B.R.T.

TUNNEL SCHEDULE IS GIVEN Many Important Changes Xotcd in Service Begins ning Sunday. FIRM CHARGED WITH SUGAR PROFITEERING Indictment Includes Treasurer of Hobohen Concern. SPECIAL EXPBESS TRAINS Brooklyn and Coney Island to Benefit by Two East River Tubes. Ing a living after they get out. Hugh Frame of the American eaer ation of Labor, also made a brief talk.

In view of the fact that the general im pression Is that Labor is opposed to prison labor on the ground that It en croaches upon the field of the free la borer, the statement of Mr, fTayne tnat orranlsed labor Is behind the national committee and cooperating with It wherever oosalble. was quite significant Mr. Frayne also touched on the neces sity of paying the prisoner a wage mat ho might be able to take care of his family while he Is Imprisoned and also upon the desirability of vocational training In the prisons. CUBA GIVES $100,000 TO ROOSEVELT FUND Committee Presents Check to Aid Memorial. The fcnnal presentation of a check for HUMS, contributed In small amosata by the people of the Republic cf Csba to the Roosevelt memorial fund, took place yesterday afurr.oon at the national headquarters of the Roosevelt Memorial Association at 1 Madison avenue.

A committee of the Rocsevelt Memorial Association of Cubo, consist ing cf CoL Aurelio Hevia. Secretary of the Interior and of War In the adminis tration of Gen. Wood, who is president of the Roosevelt Memorial Association of Cuba, and Representative Fre-aerico G. Morales, was received formally by William B. Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and members of the executive committee.

Including William Loeb, and CoL Raymond Robins. In making the presentation CoL Hevia told of the efforts the Cuban Govern ment is making to show its appreciation of the great services Theodore Roosevelt rendered the Cuban republic He mentioned four laws passed by the Cuban Legislature all tending to give public recognition of the late CoL Boose-velt's services. He said also that at present there is being considered a bill calling for a donation of 109,000 by the Cuban Government to the memorial fund. Among other things that are being done to perpetuate the memory of Col. Roosevelt is the custom of reading every day in every school room In Cuba of some passage from one of the Colonel's works.

In a short speech of acceptance, CoL Thompson commented upon the unusual event of "a people of another race, another language, another tradition" bringing a tribute of devotion to the memory of "one who was the greatest citizen of a neighbor nation." BRINGS FROM FRANCE STOWAWAY AS WIFE 'STOWAWAY MIKE'S' SPONSOR IS 'BROKE' Mrs. Gilhooley Curry Borrows Money to Aid Him. Mrs. Marlon Gilhooley Curry, or 111 i.uj-tcuui ireti. wno gave a inina jot me entry of Mike Gilhooley, Biuwawny, is "DroKe." has to borrow the money on which Mike bi maintained at the home of Mrs.

Milton C. Vincent, 209 West lHth street Mrs. Curry's plight came to light yesterday when she was examined In the tuprcme Court In proceedings supplementary to a Judgment for 11.500 due Edward B. Toole, a broker at J17 Broadway. He lent her money at various times, and the Judgment represents a balance still unoald Mrs.

Curry testified that her financial embarrassment is temporary and that she expects to be able to liquidate the debt by August 12. For this reason her further examination was adjourned until that date. She said she was Interested In 3 business venture which she hopes will Improve her fortune considerably. Mike Gilhooley. who was unofficially adopted by Mrs.

Curry, tried to ir. entrance to the United States via thei Carl Petshelt, Oiler on Ship, Hides Her in His Berth. When Carl Petshelt native American and oiler of the American freighter Remus, was In Bordeaux last September he married a French girt, and she cam back with htm yesterday In the Remus as a stowaway. Petshelt smuggled h-ir aboard at Bordeaux and hid her In his own berth. She had not brought change of lingerie and after washing It her husband hung it up In the engine room to dry.

That gave Petshelt's plot away, and Capt Prankard sent the young wife to Ellis Island, where a special court of Inquiry let her land after her husband proved that he was a native and that ehe was his wife. She said that she had become tired of trying to reach America In the regular way and decided to stow away when her husband returned to Bordeaux by the Remus. WOMAN CAED PLAYER HELD, Collection of "Kitty" Spoiled Her Defence of Sociability. Ruling In the matter of women play lng poker from the standpoint of has-. ards It puts upon domesticity, Magis trate TODias yesterday held Mrs.

Florence Schlesslng. r. 45 years old. In 1500 ball on a charge of maintaining a gam bling house. Mrs.

Schlesslnger was said by detectives of Inspector Cornelius F. Cahalanes staff to have been entertaining a roomful of women at card tables when they called at a house In West 113d street near Broadway, Wednesday night Mr Schlesslnger said the playing wan purely social, but Magistrate Tobias remarked that hostesses under such circumstances furnish free refreshments. The court was Informed women paid Mrs. Schlesslnger $20 for 118 worth of chips, the 12 balance being a levy for "refreshments." SON BORN IN PARK TO MR. AND MRS.

ACKBAR Mother Licks the Baby; Father Roars Delight. Central Park, L. to Cleveland, Ohio. The monoplane piloted by Bert Acosta outstripped tbo other two, reaching Cleveland at 3 In the afternoon. Th others arrived at 5:30 and 7:15.

The thr "ships" will take off from Cleve land to-morrow and top to reach Chicago by noon. From tbero they will go to Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Rent and San Francisco. When the regular transcontinental service Is opened In September It la ex pecttd that mall will reach San Fran cisco on the morning of the third day. and possibly, later night flying will get It to the Golden Gate on the second day. Planes Leave Together.

The transcontinental mall trail break ers left Central Park together at yesterday morning on th 2,701 miles flight across mountain ranges, plains and rugged country. Although they will make fewer stops than the transconti nental racers whoe coum' they are fol lowing, they do not Intend to try to smash records on the westward trip. The flight to Cleveland, wonderful as It would have been a fiw years ago, now Is rirardri is mere routine. Lieut B. W.

Maynarc, winner of the cross continent race, reached Chicago the night of his first day In the race. The three monoplanes, with passengers comfortably housed In commodious, enclosed cabins, hopped off almost at the same Instant To make sure their motors were humming along properly all circled the field, rapidly mounting a they did so. and then roared westward. A dozen other planes, including seven Imported JL-S monoplanes, rese after them and escorted them for a few miles. On board were about 100 pieces of mall, a very modest beginning for what Is to be the world's longest and one of the most Important air mall routes.

Most of the letters were special delivery from New York, while others were from Otto Praeger, Second Assistant Postmaster-General In charge of alr malL to the Mayors of Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Ban Francisco, and to various chambers of commerce along the route. Passenirera on Board. The complete list of the transcontinental party Is as follows: Piano 1 Pilot 1L T. Lewis Capt Harold E. Hartney, head of the Department of Training, V.

S. Air Service: Major Leonard B. Lent general superintendent of the air mall service, and tapt. Mute Rlckenbacker, American ace of aces. Plane 2 M.

EmIL pilot; John M. Larsen. Importer of the J. L. plants; E.

E. Allyne, head of a Cleveland aluminum company, and Ernest Buhe. Plane 3 Pilot Bert Acosta; Gould Dletz, president of the Aero Club of Nebraska, a member of the Harding notification committee; Lieut Charles Colt William B. Stout designer of the bat wing type of plane, and John Bock-horst moving picture photographer. It is expected that the pilots and ob servers will gather valuable information concerning landing fields, atmospheric conditions, territory paswd over, air maps and other matter wlilch will be of use not only to the air mall service but to army fliers as well.

Before the jegular service Is started in September much flying Information concerning the route Is desired. Two of the three planes are scheduled to remain In San Francisco, as they are owned by the army. They prob acy win tw tested out for forest patrol work. The third. It Is announced, will try a one stop flight from Pacific to Atlantic The stop will be made at Omaha.

One of these planes, ll will be recalled, recently flew from Omaha to Philadelphia, so the feat Is possible. Schedules and chanre Incidental to the opening at 2 o'clock Sunday morning of the R. R. two new tunnels under the East River were announced yesterday. Through the new Montague street Brooklyn, tube an express service will be ran from Brighton Beach to Fifty-seventh street Manhattan, and thence via the new Sixtieth street tube to Queens bo ro Plata, except during rush hours, when trains will stop at Fifty-seventh street Until all the new construction Is completed this service win originate at Kings Highway, Brooklyn, during rush hours.

A special express rervlce "will be run from Times square to Prospect Park over Manhattan Bridge, excepting on Sundays and holidays, during rush hours, or from 7:54 to A. M. and 4 :40 to P. M. There alto will be local service over the Brighton line, but It will terminate at Franklin avenue.

Brooklyn, necessitating changing cars. Through service, to Coney Island over the Brighton line via Fulton street as now operated, will be discontinued. The express stops on the Brlthton line will be Prospect Park. Church avenue, Newkirk avenue. Kings Highway, Sheepjhcad Bay and Brighton Beach.

Sundays, holidays and dally between 20 P. M. and 12:10 A. M. expresses via what will be called the Broadway-Brighton route will be run from Times square over Manhattan Bridge and out the Flat bush avenue extension instead of through the Montague street tube.

These trains will not go to Fifty-seventh street or beyond to Qaeeasboro Plaza. Between 12:41 and 5:0 A. M. every day these subway trains over the Broadway-Brighton route will terminate at Prospect Park, and passengers for points couth will change to locals. An Important change in existing routes Is made on the Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, line, which will run through the Montague street tube Instead of over Manhattan Bridge, as It always has, so that It will stop at Whitehall street or South Ferry.

Instead' of at Canal street Thla line, which now has its terminus at Fifty-seventh street will operate through the Sixtieth street tube to Queensboro Plaza. The Sea Beach line will continue to use Manhattan Bridge, but during the summer and excepting Sundays and holidays It will make no stops between Kings Highway and Fifty-ninth street. Brooklyn, between :17 and P. M. The West End line will als? con'jnue as at' present, save that during rush hours alternate trains will run from Bay Parkway to Times square and from Sixty-second street Brooklj-n.

to City Hall. Manhattan via the Montague street tube. On this line during rush hours the through service will not cx tend south of Bay Parkway until more steel cars, delayed In construction, are available. Test trains were run yesterday over the new routes and will be up to the time the changes go into effect to test safety devices and perfect the new system. Another Indictment alleging profiteer Ing In rugar was returned yesterday by th Federal Grand Jury.

It contained three counts acalnst Fisher A Co. of Hoboken. and the firm's treasurer, Asher C. Fisher, who are accused of making more than 100 per cent profit on two oi tne three counts. One count alleres that an Miir 7 100 bag of sugar bought for JI0.23 a bag were sold for I2I.JS a bag.

The second count Involves the sale on the aamo day of ninety bags purchased at the rate of toi-j cents a pound and sold for 22 cents a pound. The third charge alleges the sale of 100 tons on May 18 at the rate of IS cents a pound, three cents more per pound than the cost price. The Department of Justice Flying squadron, commanded bv J. J. Price.

obtained the indictment It is contended mat In wholesale transactions 2 cents a pound Is an adequate nroflt In continuing their scrutiny of produce prices agents visited Ganievoort Mar ket yesterday. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE SCHEME OUTLINED War Memorial Board Hears of Ambitious Project. Plans are being prepared for the con struction of a bridge over the Hudson River from New York dty to New Jersey ASKS ROTARIANS' AID FOR DISABLED IN WAR Arthur Woodward Praises Work at Fox Hills. WOMAN, 87, GOES UP 2.000 FEET IN PLANE Yells 'Higher to Pilot as He Starts Downward. Mrs.

C. J. Goff, years old, tried out flying yesterday at Camp Edwards, Sea C'Irt, N. and gave It her entire sd- proval. "Am I too old?" she asked Lieut Paul Mlcelll as she presented herself In front of the flier's plane.

"Jot a bit he assured her. and care. fully strapped her In the parsenirer's COCitpit The Rotary Club, at luncheon In the McAlpin, yesterday a report of a special committee sent to investigate conditions at Fox Hills Hospital, Staten Island, and was urged to aid actively the disabled men of the war. The problem of rehabilitation as handled at Fox Hills was Indorsed. Arthur Woodward, one of the committee, said he had satisfied himself that the Government was helping the men get on their feet with an effec tiveness that Is above criticism.

"There la, however, a splendid opportunity for business men to open the way for these men to find a useful place In commercial life," said Mr. Woodward. He said a plan was being evolved which would require no financial outlay but only a little time whereby Rotary clubs could take a more active and useful part In the work. Dr. Clinton E.

Achorn. presiding, said the Injured and crippled soldier should be shown tnat ne is not nor need be a beggar, but that he will receive the aid to which he Is entitled to fit him for civilian life. The other speakers were William H. Brady. William Gettlnger.

Col. J. H. Ford, commandant at Fox by private capital according to an councement yesterday by Gustav Unie.l- thai of li Church street to the Mayer's Committee on Permanent War Memorial. The backer of the proposed bridge, he said, is the North River Bridge Company, of which he Is president and his company's plans include a toll arrange ment for railroad, freight and passen ger service, agreements with the city of New York and Jersey communities to pay their share In yearly rentals, the construction of a union passenger eta tlon In Manhattan tor all railroads and a west side elevated xallroad, with freight stations and warehouse facilities.

The undertaking, he said, would be amor- tlxed, and the United States Govern ment would become the final owner at cost price In exchange for 3 per cent tax tree bonds. After outlining his plan Mr. Linden thai suggested to the committee that the treatment of his "colossal Hudson River bridge as a war memorial, as recommended by the Mayor's committee. Is a matter of separate consideration." He told a reporter for Tux Sot and Niw YosK HrZAin that his company proposes to build the bridge under a per- petuat Federal charter granted to It In and that the War Department has no objection to the construction of the bridge across the river. Twenty-three of the 250 members of the Mayor's committee attended yesterday's meeting and adjourned until August without action, FIGHTS SON SEEKING TO HALT DEATH WYE George Taylor Breaks Hold and Falls From Window in Home.

RESCUERS ARE TOO LATE he rushed Into the room. Just as he reached th window the father began slide out head flrtt. William grasped his ankles. "Let tan go, William. I want to die," said Taylor, William renewed his grip on tho ankles and began to shout for help.

Ills father was 0 feet tall and heavy and he knew he could not hold on long. Taylor refused his son's entreaties to help by holding to a projection on the wall and he slipped free and fell Just when the door of the room opened to admit the rescuers. Salesman, Grieving for Wife, Probably Will Die From Injuries. Seized by the ankles when he tried to jump to death last night from a win dow on the fourth floor of the rooming house at 121 East Eighty-seventh street, Georie Taylor, a salesman, pleaded Ith his son, William, to let htm drop, and finally when the boy wss exhausted kicked his feet free and plunged to the rear yard. His skull was fractured and his Jaw and left leg smashed.

At Reception Hospital It was said he could not live. Taylor's attempt to kill himself aroused the entire neighborhood to a high tiltch of excitement Th window from which he fell was In full view of nurses, tia tlents and surgeons In Mlserlcordia Hospital at 531 East Eighty-sixth street His fall and the brave efforts of the son to save him were seen. While Taylor's son held to his ankles he screamed for help. The door of their room Jammed and persons who rushed from nooTM below could not reach them until v.as opened. Taylor was employed by the Henry Cade Corporation, dealers In paper and twine, at 24 Broome street Kor many nnnths he had been 11L Ho suffered j'omach trouble and grieved also for his wife, who died when his son, William, was a small boy.

As the son told the story he returned fram work last night to find his father more melancholy than usual. William tried to cheer him up, asking him questions about the friends he met In Central Park and In his walks around the neighborhood, but Taylor continued to talk' in a moody strain. He finally asked If he was going out after supper. "Sure." William told his father. Tm going to a dance." Taylor said something about "good times" and then went down to supper.

An hour after the meal the boy was ready to leave the house and his father followed him to the door of the room they occupied on the fourth floor rear. "Good-bye, son, good-bye," he said. grasping William's hand. his father's actions strange and turned back to the rm to watch him. At that moment he raw his father lean out over the window sill and look Into the yard.

William nad long been uneasy about his father's condition and DAUGHTER OF JUDGE ACCUSED OF THEFT HYMN'S PRESS 'GAG' INCLUDES PUBLIC Court Told Nobody Has iogel to Attend Cjty Hoard 3Iccting, REPORTER'S CASE HKAJID Solicited SOc. Subscription; "is Counsel Shows Mayor Is Committed for Observation. Wrong by Quoting Prori- Mrs. Myra Stevens, tall, dignified, well educated and attractively gowned, stood yesterday before Magistrate Miller In Jamaica Court and heard herself accused of stealing fifty In giving her name and address and other bits of In formation to the police, she had de scribed herself as a daughter of the late Justlco Van Buren of the Louisiana Clr cult Court and a niece of the late Sen ator Joseph Blackburn of Kentucky, It was alleged that Mrs. Stevens, rep resenting herself as president of the "Women's and Children's Rescue League," solicited fifty cents from Miss Florence Ruhnke of 25 Union Hall street.

Mlrs Genevieve McLaughlin, detective on the staff of Deputy Com missioner Ellen O'Grady, told Magistrate Miller that the prisoner admitted tho "Women's and Children's Rescue Jague" was a phantom. While In court Mrs. Stevens, who claims also to have appeared on the stage under the name of Myra St Moore, began to talk rambllngly about the seventeen room house she occupies at 1155 Guln avenue, Richmond H1IL Sho said It was haunted and that on rainy nights spirits flit through the rooms and bothtr her. When she finished Magistrate Miller committed her to the observation ward at Kings County Hospital. htevens said her husband was the late John Stevens, a produce mer chant and that until recently she was financially Interested In a concern which makes cold cream.

HAFFEN DENIES RENT CLASH. Xot nt Mayor's Meettniri Demands of Son "Fair." Louis F. Haffen, formerly Borough President of The Bronx, corrected yesterday published reports that he attended a session on Tuesday of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering, at which tenants protested against rent advances which they said Mr. Haffen proposed to make In an apartment building at 3IW-302 East l2d street It was stated that Mr. Haffen left th meeting, refurtng to accept a compromise, taking his son, Henry L.

Haffen, agent for the property, with him. "I was not within twenty-five miles of City HalV" said Mr. Haffen. and he added, "I am not getting a fair deaL The rent demanded by my son, Henry L. Haffen.

who is the agent, is fair. The house is not now "carrying Itself." sfons of Law Code. Neither the preas nor the public dsj any right to be present at meetings of the Board of Estimate and are per-mltted to attend such deliberations only at the gn ct the board, according to the views cf Mayor HyJan, submitted yesterday In a brief by John P. O'Drlen, Corporation Counsel, before Juntlca "awcett In the Supreme Court in Brook-! lyn. The corporation Counsel appeared' as th Mayor's attorney li.

asklnr ts. court to dissolve the Umporary InJunc- rwira upon peuiion of Ui tiOTl Standard Unlet to restrain the Mayor i vim cjcvuus iu reponer, uiarence Wordtn, from the preas pit of the Board of Estimate, which they my tlSo i UAH sought to do because Worden had writ. a muirr ujbi aispieated tha The Court a. dslon yesterday. The Slayor', effort to establl.h his right to hold star chamber sessions nf any division of the city Government was set forth in the following graph" from the Corporation Counsel's page unex "The plaintiff has no right to havs Its representative otcmir a in section (the press well of the Board of ptlmat chamber).

The public. Including newspaper representatives, has legal right to be present si of a municipal governing body." The brief continued that the rMw.i. ers are privileged to sit in the well of the chamber only by courtesy of th Board, but the Corporation did not explain why the Mayor overruled efforts of board memw. let the board decide whether u-(. should be denied the press privileges of the chamber.

Meiir Steinbrlnk. counsel for th. newspaper, expressed surprise that 'the chief law officer of the dty does not know the provisions of the Ordinances," and to prove the right of the public to attend board meetings referred to section article 2. ch.t. i of the dty which says; "All meetings of boards or commissions constituting departments nf iv, government of the city shall h.M openly and shall In all cases be to the public.

They shall be held at such times and places as the board or commission shall designate and due notice thereof shall be published in th City Record." With ecknouledgmtntt to K. C.SL Here wheiie -we call a spade jus The nhne mar-! aXnnv tht ground, ehot Into the atmo.nhcrc and and dtotrict vo- nr w. I 11.. cumoca zenimwara. At 2,000 ct th pilot turned and looked at his passenger.

fcne tow Mm to go higher. II came down In a few dives and spirals. 'Was that ten minutes Mrs. Goff Queried as she was helped out She was assured that that time had also flown. 'Well, I'm coming" back Sunday," she announced as she left the field in an automobile for Asbury Park, where ehe Is passing the summer.

A Hon was born early last evening In Central Park not more than 100 yards from Fifth avenue. Ackbar, who has lashed his cropped tall and grow'el stowaway route seven times before hi Kr'at fearsome earthquakes of wrath succeeded. On the last trip Mrs. Currv I t0 ma" children and grownups came to hl rei. I with his fierceness, was the fond, rrrflrl be deported.

She filed a i00 bond with. Ackbar bellowed, but It was for CMl WlWil the Ellis Island officials and he was per- 0 iniu. aince mat time she has icen responsioie tor his education. support and A report was circulated that Sirs. Curry had asked the immlgra-tlon officials to deport Mike, but this retort was denied later.

It waa explained that she intended to travel abroad with Mlko and was Inquiring about J.la passport arrangements. Itnlnlk Kxonerated. Magistrate Joseph E. Schwab exonerated Nathan Rolnlk. 34 Second place.

Brooklyn, of alleged connection with Borden Milk Company robbery on July 20 hy stating In West Side Court yester- ujr was possioio io issue- ail "honorable" discharge from a court he wishes to do so In Rolnlk's case. Although the car In which the bandits fled waa Identified as Rolnlk's, the Magistrate held that Oils evidence proved to be auprficlal. and that Rolnlk was miles from the seen of tha crime. The bandits, said the Magistrate, rode in a car stolen from Ro'siJc some time ago. Joy.

Helen, the mother, lick! tho luity youngster affectionately and proudly, for the son of Ackbar and Is strong. He Is Helen's forty-flrst child. Two of Helen's babies died, but the others are scattered throughout the coun try zoos. 10.000 FUR STRIKERS AT SLAIN MAN'S BIER Rabble Parades After Jewish Services for Yurman. catlonal officer of the Federal Board for yocatlonal Training.

Col. Ford spoke of the cheerfulness of the men. describing their singing the "Song of the Cripple" to Jeer at their injuries, and said such men were worth saving. When the vocational board finishes with them, he said, they would be a sound business Investment with the percentage of risk reduced to a minimum. TENANT MUST PROVE THAT HE'S MAROONED Cooperative Clothiers Open.

The first large cooperative cloihlnr raciory anu selling establishment backed by workers was opened yesterday to the public by the New York Clothing Cut ters union or ui Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The factory, which Is In the Cutters Bulldlnsr. 44 East Twelfth street Is able to haiidl a consiucrauic quantity ox ousineis. Ser Fast Fund $03,070. Contributions to the Near EasfRellef for the week ending July 27 amounted to 153.070.

The New York committee turned In There were gifts from the missionary organisations of the Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal churches. Ten, thousand striking furriers made a demonstration yesterday at the funeral of Max Yunnan, who was shot and killed by a policeman after a furrier had been attacked In an upper Broadway shop. Hebrew services were conducted at Beethoven Hall, 210 Fifth street, under the auspices of the International Fur Workers Union. From that point tho cortege, which consisted of many carriages and a great rabble following In semoiance oi paraue formation, proceeded In Second avenue to Suffolk street moving past Yunnan's home at No. 137, then continuing on to the Will-famsburg Bridge.

The followers dropped out at the bridge, the carriages going on to Mount Hebron Cemetery, where burial was made. There was one arrest that of a youth nho' mingled In the crowd In front of Yurman's home and was said to have Jostled some of those nearest the curb. was David Noman of 3 Avenue B. He told the police ha had been out of work for six weeks because of a slump ill uiv aiuiio Belling u.uo. The body of Yurman, In flag draped casket, rested In Beethoven Hall four hours before the services.

A constant procession of strikers and sympathizers moved In single file past It Ninety no. llcemen kept order. Yurmans war service waa slrnifl by a flag and forty former service men were escorts. Court Reverses Decision in a Dispossess Case. The Appellate Division In Brooklyn held yesterday that the mere statement of a tenant that he cannot obtain suitable quarters elsewhere Is not sufficient, nlthln the meaning of the new rent laws, to Justify the Issuance to him of a stay of dispossess.

The higher court discontinued iiiv of the execution of a dispossess warrant obtained from County Judge McDermott by William A. Davis, a captain In the Fire Department, who lives at 75 Bay Twentieth street Bensonhurst. Legal evidence must be shown, said the court, to tho effect that "the tenant cannot secure suitable premises for himself and his family within a neighborhood similar to those occupied." It must be fhown also that the tenant "used due and reasonable effort to obtain such other premises. "The statement in the affidavit submitted by the tenant that he has made most diligent effort to obtain apartments Is a conclusion without facts stated to support It." ays the higher court THE POET ears a rose. BY.

ANYother name. WOULD SMELL as aweeL AND THAT'S all right BUT CALLING. SOMETHING ELSE a roieC WONT CHANGE Its small, OF COUR8E not, AND I'M not knocking. BUT JUST telling too. RIGHT OUT.

THAT THERE are THREE GRADES. OF tobacco. FIRST, GOOD Turkish. WHICH IS mighty gooi, AND ALSO expenslT. AND SECOND.

POOR TURKI8H tobacco. WHICH IS lets expensiTO. AND NOT so good. AND THIRD, tobacco. CALLED TURKISH, which.

NEVER SAW Turkey. BUT. GREW thousands. OF MILES away. a AND DOESNT even.

TASTE LIKE Torkiah. AND ITS the good Turkish. THATS REALLY from Turkey. THAT YOu'get. IN THE cJgarettei.

THAT 8ATI8FY. 1. 1 OtJR resident buyers in Turkej are expert. They know we want tie best and we get It. And the nine with Domestic Blend them togethei by that can't-be-copied method and yon get a cmoke 'that actually doei Sirs.

Schmidt-Barker's Estate. Surrogate Cohalan granted letters of administration yesterday to Harold O. Barker, residing at J7 Fifth avenue, upon the estate of his aunt, Adele E. Schmidt-Barker. She resided at the Savoy Hotel and died Jin July iO while at Magnolia, Mass.

Her ettate Is esti mated at 129,000 in personal propertj'. fSSSSSSSSSSSSSBBBSSk SI My, Chesterfield tsW CIGARETTES t6aUezi(S .1.

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