The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1915, Page 3

UNDER INQUIRY IN Deposttors in via brody Institu- _fion Make Charges Against € #Acts of Supt. Richards.~ GROEHL AS INQUISITOR. He Will Sift Complaint Re- arding Handling of the Bank’s Funds. oe 1 shat! Wet tumorrow to invest!- gate tho charges made against the @tate Banking Department by the Unton Bank Dopositors’ Association,” @aid Assistant District Attorney Frod- @riok Groshi today, Mr, Groehl was eppointed yesterday by Governor Whitman «a special commissiouer under the Moreland Act»to examine @he complaint made that Eugene Lamb Richards, the State Superin- fendent of Banking, has used the funds of the defunct bank for pollti- “eal purposes and that the affairs of the ban». have been mismanaged by bie deputias. “I expect that I may be able in a few days to get enough facts from the depositors in the Union Bank to/ afford a basis for public hearings,” gaia Mr. Groehl, “Or it may be nec- emsery to engage an expert account- ‘ant to put me in possession of wa facts upon which I shall act. To-da: fam olearing up the cases in the Dis- trict Attorney's office that have been fm my care, so that I can devote all my time to this investigation.” “Will you be able to do anything for the 28,000 depositors who oom- piain that they have not received one cent of dividend although it Is six Fears since the Union Bank fatled?” “| don't know,” said Mr. Groehl. “It is all new to me, I must get the} facts first. Lexpect to be able to be- gin public hearings soon, bat T can't! tell you where. And, of course, the Vaion Bank matter is only one of agement of the banking department | is charged. I intend to go to the bot- tom of the whole business.” The complaint against Superinten- dent Richards alleges among other specific things that Superintendent | Richards sacrificed big claims of the Union Bank for small settlements, and | that in one c: | for a claim of $2 coutd have got more. It also alleces that he removed Edward L. Dodge, the deputy in charge of the liquida- of the bank's affairs, and ap- inted Matthew T. Horgan tw suo- ceed him. Frederick T. Groehl's term as As- sistant District Attorney expires at the end of the year, He was one of Gov. Whitman's most trusted aasist- ints when he was District Attorne and he dug out the evidence in t Tenderloin vice graft prosecutions, as) well as much of the evidence upon which Lieut. Charles Becker and the four gunmen were sent to the chair for the murder of Herman Rosen- thal. SAYS HOT WATER EACH DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY Drink glass of hot water be- fore breakfast to wash out the poisons. is ia not party to live, but to live tell, dignet well work well, Ta ‘to altain, and tor very } F Say it ie It one will only. adopt the ‘morning inside bath. sts sennatemed te feel Folks who dull and heavy when they pata) tng headache, stuffy from id, foul veo may, aren acid stomach, bre ing ae hy PIR goening e sluices the system » each id flushing out the whole “olf a internal poisonous stag- nant matter, Everyone, whether ing, sick or| well, should, cach morning, before breakfast, ik @ glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone hate in it to wash from the stom- i and bowels the iy \ peri indigestible was sour and le toxins; thus clean: ing, vetening and the r rifying before putting stomach, The and limestone ative alimentary canal more food into the action of hot water phosphate on an wonderfully ‘waste aplendid appetite for breakfust W hile ‘vou ate enjoying your breakfast the} and phosphate is quietly ex- getti ¥ thorough flushing of Fall ‘“ inside 8. ote millions of people who are with constipation, bilious ls, stomach trouble, rheumatism who have sallow skins, blood and sickly complexions are to get © quarter pound of lime- Phosphate from the drug store, will cost very little, but is # it to make anyone a pronounced "UNION BAN BANK CASE) ste terining to Dis Mother-in-Law Fetich Is| Minister’s Wife, Modern: celains you half believe when you first moet her that some Chinese magic asked Madam Koo to tell me just what changes the liberal rule of Yuan has browght in the social institutions of her country, and particularly whether Chinese life and the contacts of Chinese men and women have been changed by the fact that China Is to-day at least a titular democracy. $e ing,” “To-day a like an American than she was ten several instances in which miaman-| ¢¢ other in marriage just as yours do, ed THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, BANK DEPARTMENT Woman’s Life in China Has More of Joy Under Baby Republic, Declares Mrs. Koo (UILIY. BACKERS ARE BEING SOUGHT cover Herself and Take Her Proper Place in the Human Family. Going, and a Bride No Longer Need Take Or- ders From -Husband’s Parent. in Thought, American in Ways, Can Tango, One-Step aud Hesitate —All but Turkey Trot. He = CHINESE So QieNes By Nixola Greeley-Smith. She is the most modern daughter of New China, but sho looks ike @ figure on a Ming porcelain, and as her father is a famous collector of por- has brought ono of the collector's daintiest vases to life in a New York hotel. You know, of course, that she is Mrs. V, K. Welling: ton Koo, wife of the newly arrived Chinese Minister to this country, and when a very small hand reaches out from the full sleeve of a wonderful Chinese dress of gray brocade and a very grave but charming voice says “How do you do?” in English which has no accent at Sf all, the spell is broken and you realize that you are, | eh /, in 1915, in the suite of the Chinese Envoy at the Hotel 7 Biltmore and that the exquisite young woman seated opposite to = Is his wife. Because the oldest among nations is the baby among republics I “The ideas of our women are chang- Mme. Koo admitted frankly.) mother-in-law jokes in China—very Chinese woman is more|funny ones,” she added. For a mo. — whe feces to be about to tell one. Imagine my anticipatio ‘hen the ‘col shadow of saree intervened. Perhaps she thougnt vat | the mother-in-law joke is not an am- bassadorial subject. Anyhow, she did not tell it. And the next thing I knew we were talking about her nobby for collecting porcelains and then about her admiration for the music of Bee- thoven and Schumann. You see: Mme. Koo is not the wife of a =| matist for nothing, After Schumann came fashion. I admired most sincerely Mme. 2, costume of grave gray brocade witn | and | years ago. She has a soctal life for- | merly unknown to her, She Interests | herself in philanthropy and gives ba- ‘aurs for charity. She dances with men, Formerly this was not thought She ts allowed to see her husband before marriage. To-day our young | people fall in love and choose each except that always with us the con- sent of the parents must be given. “We have Suffragista and three women from the Province of Canton vote in Parliament. “The old ideal of life for the Chinese woman was that she must live for her husband and children,” Mme. Koo added, “and think onjy of making them happy. To-day she still lives mainly for them, but she realizes that she has the right to be happy herself.” HER PARENTS MODERNISTS, SHE EDUCATED IN AMERICA. HER DRESS MAKES HER LESS EXPENSIVE TO THE HU: leds comfortable than American dress, I think; but of course your costumes are ynore alluring, One thing the that fashions change in China as in Paris and New York. But the dif- ferences are alight. To your eye they would not be perceptible. The differ- Mme, Koo herself has no children, jences are in width or length of the the trial of the Hamburg-Amorican though she ts one of a family of and skirt and in he trimming Company and its other officials. —— eleht, having five sisters and two and the buttons, We have not the eee with « . ” r i i , cena I) as modern as herself, lent changes of s‘uropean fashion— Charged with conspiracy to defraud) Men Taken After Attempted Rob- brothers, @ a Chinese lady is less expensive to the Government in clearing ships er for her parents had advanced tdeas|her husband,” she added smilingly. trom this and other port. Ah ail bery at the Colonial Are Held ‘and believed in Western education.| “I like the American ladies I have ports with coal i : one Koo went to school in Spring. |™et so much, They seem to me to be 40d Provisions for German warships, in Heavy Bail, Mme. s0 sincere, to mean what they say so was resumed. field, Mase, much more than the women of Fu-| Assistant United States Attorno William Eliott, Charles Hoffman She was preparing for Vassar when | rope.” For a moment Mure, Koo for-| poger y. Wood eae ¥! and William Clark, charged by the a message from her father summoned | St she was a Minister's wife and a | Bower 3 ett test | olice with having robbed banks and 2 Chinese lady with a hundred genera-|Mony bearing on the agreement be- her back to China. ,|tions of impassivity behind her, Shoe tween the Hamburg-American Line Dost offices all over the country of “I continued my studies at home") spoke warmly, impulsively. “Your and the German Admiralty — be | tens of thousand of dollars by fishing she told me, “but I did not tind the| Women are so'kind, They are such stricken from the record. | with rattan canes, pinhooks and bees instructors so good.” good hostesses. It is not here as in| Attorney Rand, for the defense, de- 4x through cashiers’ windows, were . eae | England, where your hostess does not clared that the agreement could not | held in 000 cach by Magistrate Stull, those instructors must have) introduce you to any one 4\d you be produced in court, for the reason Simms in West Side Court to-day. been very good indeed, for the wife of | are left to shift for yourself, and at |that It contained the code and signal | Te high ball was fixed at the request the Chinese Ambassador speaks fault-|dinner you may talk only to those /aystem of the German Government |of Assistant District Attorney touls Mrenc! and it would not be fair to expose it | Bieler, who said that he hoped, before leap apilahy Fepie: See Raye et to the enemies of tae country,” the examination of the men fixed for piano well and—yes, | might as well teil It at once—she can waltz, two-step, one-step, hesitate and fox trot. She admitted it herseif. And she says everybody's doing it in China to-day. You kaow the kind of Everybody (all in capitals) that I mean, 1 asked about the turkey-trot, I thought it might have had time to reach Peking, and I knew that as it had gone away from here it must be mewhore. But Mme. Koo shook the mall head, wound with ink black hi in which I caught here and there th jeain of brilliant studded combs. “The turkey trot may bave reached China,” she admitted, “but it is not done in socivty, There we have the one-step and the two-step, the walts and the hesitation, And I bave just learned to fox trot.” I don't know how you feel about this latest news from China, but I| was simply thrilled by it. Can't you) see the stately mandarina and their | diamond-eyed partners for-trotting sedutely to the aggravating air of “Goodby, Girls, I'm ‘Through’? THE MOTHER-IN-LAW LOSES America,” she added, Koo, perhaps you know, was educated at Columbia, and as I told you, I lived in Springfleld, Mass, and spent four months in an American family to learn English. So to me, to both of us, it seems like ‘coming home.’ ” — CHINA’S NINE-YEAR-OLD EX-EMPEROR TO WED of Yuan Shi Kai, Soon to Be Emperor Himself. SHANGHAI, China, Emperor of China ha: betrothed to a daug! Yuan Shi Kat. nine years old next Februs Yuan HER TERRORS, years ago and Ro Yuan, having been | ment was Mme, Koo's next announce ment that China “has solved the mother-in-law problem.” Maybe you know that particular conundrum has always had peculiar difficulties for the because custom exacted that shter-in-law should live with | Decrease in Rates her husband's mother and obey her in | ainwa 4a wixe Coara, everything “Formerly,” Mme. Koo said, “tt was | WASHINGTON, Dee. necessary for the daughter-in-law to live with her husband's mother. Her only chance to have her own home came if her husband was sent on a foreign mission, The fact that the two ladies must live together and ene | mus bey the other made difficulties. But now they may live apart and everything 1s well." M suppose there is no such thing as o mother-ia- Joke in China,” year aae. 0 ber cent hazard It would be impossible for a Chinese to be humorous about any- tnd infer cent Blaher than thing so sacred as a mother-in-law, | iiogs ave would it not?” on Nov. 16. A very moses. mile irradiated the Bi ber Zone Smo) beet corte’ maak Seonbie Dor sent. “lowars! sheep, _. MEAT ANIMAL PRICES CUT. ducers decreased 7,8 per cent. from Oct, 15 to Nov. culture to-day announced. five yea period 4.2 per cent. is 9.3 per cent. lowe! on the subject of internal eal: ‘Adve. ot] iat we have many per 676) finally became an audible chuckle per sent oie hight Ob, na’ be paid, er gent hisBee, 8 nd chick Dec, 1,—Several Chinese newspapers report that the ex- been officially ter of President Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of China, will be monarchy and become Emperor himself. 16, the Department of Agri- In the last the prices declined in like On Nov, 16 the in- dex figures of prices for these meat ani- nals Was about 5 per cent. lower than forse than two nan four years ed $6.85 per 100 pounde Basrwons | forecner does net know generally is; Dr, Kar! Bride Picked for Him a Daughter ry. managed to depose -him about three —The aver- |age of prices of meat antmals—hogs, jcattle, sheep and chickens—pafd to pro- r ago; beef cattle $6.85, or $7.8 69, or iad chishen) $11.60 NO MOTHER-m LAW Prose = crina Hon ONE ComPOATABLE amenican NESE Oe ALLURIN = BUF REFUSE I SHOW GERMAN CODE IN SEA RAIDS TRIAL Production of Dr structions from Germany Would Reveal Secrets. Buenz again took the stand this morning in the United States District Court before Judge Harland B. Howe and a jury, when Buenz’s In-| bility, The Hamburg-American Com- r with it." | fal wetting Ue | sions and cou | That's a hard question. At first 1] had to use my own mon T spent about $60,000 before 1 got any from “Did you have any Intention of! getting out these ships by having 6 manifests made?” 1 did not.” Did you have any intention of} violating any of the laws of the United States?” “I did not. It was my understand- ing that T was acting within my rights in sending out these ships to load the warships for my govern- ment “You were,” agreed the Court, “per- fectly within your rights, but) there was a way of doing the thing and It is because of irregularities in evading the Inws that you are here.” ee TRACING BANK THEFTS TO TRIO UNDER ARREST “How are we to know without it what the instructions were to the Hamburg-American Line?” demand- ed Mr. Wood. “How are we to know that the instructions didn’t order the issuance of false manifests?" The Court ruled that no further tes- timony would be permitted as to the eement unless the paper was pro- juced, Dr, Buenz, on direct examination, started to tell again of the instruc- tions received by him on July 81, when he was interrupted by Mr. Wood with the same objection. Attorney Rand #aid that his posi- tion was the same in this regard. “We can't produce the agreement,” he said, “for the reason that we haven't got it, The German Ambas- sador demanded it and the agree- ment is now in the German Embassy. We will give you a translation of it, “The agreement speaks for itself,” retorted Mr, Wood, “If we can’t have the agreement we don't want any ref- erence made to it.” The Court ruled with the Govern- ment. Dr. Buenz said that he instructed Koetter, his chief engineer, to char- ter the ships and to have them cleared for the nearest port of dest!- nation in the vicinity of where it was expected to meet the German war- ships. He was sure that he had been positive as to the port of destination, word instructions, but the Court per- mitted it, Then the doctor told that he didn’t want the name of the Hamburg Amertean Line mentioned in connec- the vessels sent out. wa, was that?” asked Mr, Rand e} of warships outside Sandy Hook. If | were known that the American Company was in the vessels, suspicion would imme- diately arise that the German Gov- ernment was behind the work.” Hambure- as many neutral he had used ships of the Hamburg- American Line. them cleared on my ODW reaponal- Mr, Wood objected to the use of the | tion with the chartering and clearing | p, the port was full of spies | skin of the allies and there were hostile | quickly. t| interested Dr, Buenz told how he had secured ships as possible, and when he couldn't get any more P| ogee thee veg tamiburs - American | genoy Laboratories, 82 West 25th “Oh, no, I cleared them, or had! New York City. Sold by all Druggi Friday, to have many bank }in court who coul y The men were caught yesterday in |the New Netherland Bank, No. 41 West Thirty-fourth Street, after they had fished unsuccessfully across the counter of the Colonial Bank at Eighty-first Street and Columbus Avenue for a package containing $1,500. John R, Clark, elevator man tn the Brooklyn Dime Bavings Bank, from the counter of which $10,000 tn bills was stolen on Feb. 9 last, positively identified. the three prisoners as men who had loitered about the bank that day. Eillott lived at the Hotel Endicott Clark lived at No. 640 Riverside Drive, decked out his pretty wife with diamonds and furnished her with an automobile for her separate use POSLAM FAMED FOR ITS EFFECT ON ECZEMA | Justice Wee Four = pan DRESSING 1s USS ve tet owewss | WERE L Talks With the Men Who Admit Ao Them, ONG _ IMMUNE. Investigation to Find Out Why t he Without Game Flourished Detection, Following pleas of guilty made to- for iday in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court by four men accused of being the heads of a policy gang whdse operations in New York and Brooklyn have netted them thousands of dollars, Juatice Weeks began an investieation of the methods by which the gang was able to work here for years without detection. In announcing that he would make ch a wide-spread inquiry, Tuatioe Week said The Court fecla the most Important ‘guty It owes the community tn con- nection with these cases ix to ascer- tain, as far as possible, the methods! enabling this iniquitous crime to be continued without detection. a considerable period I want to get at the syatem which has protected pol- fey playing In this city.” It was intimated that the object of the inquiry Is to uncover men “higher up. who It ls said have been backers and, protectors of the operations of the gang headed by John J. Saul, old, a heretofore L. tl at Benoa 5 | To spread Poslam over an angry, itching eczema surface makes one fec! | that here in reality is a healing influence which the affected skin demands, Every evee ‘oslam ble td relieve the suffering in- cidental to this annoying ailment of the Poslam allays itchin, ‘Treatment is oftentimes very short, an improvement may be noticed every day Poslam is harmless. Use it with confi- dence for pimples, rashes and similar eruptional disorders. | A word about soap—-Poslam Soap, medicated with Poslam, is the soap you should use daily for toilet and bath. For samples, send $c stamps to Emer- Adv, nd soothes | ae (ison | sixty-five | highly resp we, who w Street, forty-one, of No, 412 Weat| Doesn't Consider Wine Is Liquor, Forty-second Btreet, forty-seven, third Street dicted last June for having policy) slips in their possession, which is a} felony, years sted citizen of Jamatea, | as one of the four men who pleaded guilty to-day. ‘Tie other prixoners who admitted ir quilt were § forty-two yeara old, Jomon Goldschmidt, | of No. 918 Ma Brooklyn; Peter Mat- i Frank Sauer, of No, 341 East Forty- All the men were tn- Sixteen others were arrested the same time and some are al- The <> = 2 arrest Seg ready serving terms in Sing Sing. Golfachmidt, of Saul, Approved by Hecthatings Wiley, Nuyj 1918. Ss POLICY GANG HEADS ping Bpimag of | Matthews and Sauer. resulted tast| almost « summer from investigations made by| !#." he Howard Clark Barber, superintendent ‘estone of the Soclety for the Prevention of| the Crime. ch According to Barber, Saul and his| ine Hqwors my doctora associates have filled the place as a was nal ‘ braina and head of the policy «ang left SAILING TO-DAY. vacant by “Al” Adame, the “Policy King,” when he was sent to Sing Sing. | Bermudian, Bermuda . Am, With the conviction of the four men | Almirante, Jamaica . 2 who pleaded guilty to-day, Barber de- | Baltic, Liverpoot clares, policy in New York will be| Czar, Archangel . Practically wiped out. Cure Se. Vv. Hayti conic weer! ARE YOUR Nostrils Clogged? polley playing Justice Weeks closeted ingity, arrctalts te trot himeelf in his chambers wth the four confessed policy men, their ‘attorneys, Abraham Levy and Mark Alter, and Assistant District Attorney Weller, and the investigation was begun. "I dom’ intend to ask these nee ee aan intend to ask tl men | ire mgntins to turn informers,” Justice Weeks | Nr! eaten Fayre cme announced In open court. “I am not going to ask them questions regard- ing any particular persons, but what I want to get at is the ‘system.’ Be- fore sentencing these men I want to ascertain whether they are entitled to any clemency, and this will be de- termined by the extent of their open- ich cl neas and frankness. I want to know | the throw te thon tn the ae of Ma hf whether they will make a clean breast | "t regarding the conducting of polic: erate Me anaes te games, and whether they are willing | fate pend na he i et ae amen Wron, lone the com- munity by making it mare easy. form 0 ide No, 8 Myerson st, Broote of the law to prevent a repetition of such crimes.” aprrieres 8 Visits | for $5 PRISON BOARD TABLES rial cpa Se beats REPORT ON OSBORNE ee se Fe ey a ey ae A= | At Stormy Session Divides 4 to 2 on Findings of Diedling Recom- mending Dismissal of Warden. ALBANY, N. Y., Deo. 1.—The spe- olal report of Dr. Rudolph Diedling of Saugerties, a member of the Prison Commission, criticising the conditions at Sing Sing Prison and recommend. ing the removal of Thomas Mott On- borne, the millionaire Warden, wan ordered laid om the table at a meeting of the Prison Commission to-day, Piru be" pian Sill cost jou" wotiiing fora adriee, DR. J. C. McCO |Candler Building 220 \ Ww. 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