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the Bureau, for boy didn't have ver called for Joseph an, and Mis? Elina- ind what had become tohobensel was present. Mr, Untermyer “We want all the cards borrowed the minute counsel table. Mr, Unter- put it back.” growled Mr. “Don’t worry, I'll put it se'd he wanted to be friendly, but Mr. Untermyer wouldn't ‘Ut him. “I'm not a witness,” exclaimed Mr. “I'm not ped examina- “Get out a subpoena na Mr. Con- /* ordered Mr. Untermyer. © Ifthe subpoena was issued it was mot immediately scrved, Messengers were sent for Mr. Penny and Mins ESTIMATES ALL PUT SAME FIGURE. Q. Now pleave describe what hap- Ks pened when‘a member of the bureau, having been asked to estimate on a certain contract, called up and asked ‘the Secretarv whether any estimate been filed on that job. A. She ‘him and he governed himself ac- IN AT iy. @ How? A Generally he put in @n estimate at the same figure as the Did on fle. \ @. Builders like the Fuller Com- Dany have told us of a strange unl- fa the bids on suppiica—all made exactly the same price ‘Was this the reason that copied the first bid filed, at the office of the bureau? Yes, I suppose so. A report reached the bearing from Hodson River brickyard area that excitement prevailed in that because of the appearance of committee subpoena ser- eecking witnessea and records to ve a price-fixing sompinaton ot makers. “ What is the Greater New York Company? A. I have heard of fen I know nothing of it. Q.Asn’t it a fact that every mem- of the Association of Dealers is & momber of the Greater New fork Brick Company? A.I don't Q@ Is there a New York Lumber Association? A. I am clerk of ‘and business manager of the New fork Lumber Trade Journal. 1 was of the Lumber Trade Asso- until last August. It has 160 membors—someo non-res!- ERS OF LUMBER TRADE ASSOCIATION. C. Reid of Leiry & Co., Brooklyn, it; J. H. Burton, Vice Presi- 3 J. ¥., Murphy, Vico President; ¥. : Supplies had any members within a year. A. Yes, Eéen Birch and Supply Company. @. Isn't there c man named Mat- of @ man named Fox in that . &. There may be. Q. Didn’ be testify before the ‘8 Housing Committee and that he couldn't get into association; that he couldn't cement directly; that when he it indirectly he had to empty Ne bags, turn them inside out,» re. ip them and fill them again to, traces of the person tKrough he bought? A.I don't know. didn’t read the testimony, I didn't | my ewn testimony. + Q. But that was the Eten Com- ? A. I don’t know. | Mr. Utitermyer’s aids were elated r, getting thr information that the jen interests had been let into the . tim after the public com- ‘nt of Robert H. Matthews, sales , & year ago, ~ Mr, Treat took up the minutes. : a Untermyer €alled attention to the jutes of the meeting of July 26, Galled to consider amendments to the by-laws. Mr. Untermyer called to the witness's attention that this r followed closely the Mayor's ittee hearing of July 8, 1919, at Mr. Treat and Wright Goss of Empire Brick and Supply Com- pany gave evidence which Mr. Unter- moyer said “indicated @ criminal con- piracy. Vice President C. A. McGuire called meeting by request. Thirteen t of forty-two members were pres- feat. After @ discussion af the By- ms a apecial meeting was called “for the purpose of expunging Article BY of the By-Laws, This was the Article in which members were re- Mtricted to selling and buying ma- ‘Aerials only within the circle of mam- ership firms. YCOTT PROVISION WAS CAN- CELLED. Several meetings were held. ticle 21 was eliminated from the ‘Laws Aug. 6. At the same time je 9, Bec. 9 was cancelled, This thorized directors at any time to west any manufacturer or agent Umit sales to members of the asso- on. It provided for a boycott by members of manufacturers 6 lgnored this request, @. When was the Eden Company Utted to get aboard—following revelation ‘of the Mayor's com- + A. June $,-1990 They ly @pplied a month or so pre- to agreement, with Miss |" BROADWAY EXCITED AS FIRE DESTROYS NEW MOVIE FILM Blaze sinh wu in Longacre Build- ing as Réel Is Shown for First Time. During the projection of a recently completed motion picture in the theaterette of the Metro Film Corpo- ration on the elaventh floof of the Longacre Building, Broadway and 424 Street ghortly before noon to-day, a reo} ht fire and destroyed the contents of fourteen offices, ‘There was no panic, for the 360 employees quietly marched down the stairs or took the elevators, President Richard A. Rowland and urty of his associates were wit- nossing a screening of the picture “Polly With @ Past." Ralph Jones, the operator, in the projection booth, was startled by a @ash and found a reel of fim on fire. He hurled the reel into the ‘auditing office. Tae, fire quickly spread. Jones, secking to save other reels, plunged through the smoke into the booth and was overcome President Rowland car- rled the unconscious operator out. William Ornstein, an offlee boy, surned In the fire alarm. The ap- paratus drew a big crowd to Timos Square, and it was necessary for Captain McCauley of the Weat Forty- ‘onth Street station to call out the rves to hold the throng back. Many valuable records were burned and officials of the film corporation said it would be some time before they could form an estimate of the damage. Water flooded two fluurs. —— DANCER’S JEWELS FREED. Did Not Intend to smage Leonora Hughes, dancing partner of Maurice, will not have to pay duty on her $30,000 worth of Jewels, seized by Customs officials, when she safle from here to-morrow on the French | liner France. And she will take the je with her. This was decided to- ay Collector Byron Newton. Miss hes will have to pay dyty only on out 400 worth of her belongings. which ane ook with her when she debarked from te Olympic mbout a week ago. In ren ion, Collect.¢! LD jects Newton said he believed Miss Mug'sus Semen that she had no intention to concent Jewels and that she ended to a id with her when she nailed on = tions as to the amount of the bids tiled with the bureau by members. Miss O'Dea's salary and the print- ing and other expenses were paid out of assessment dues. Each firm in the bureau paid an mitiation Tue 01 92,00 which was invested \n liberty bond: Maj. Sicele said there was ns’ pupply Bureau in Brooklyn dd Queens which had the sam nctions as the Builders’ Supply Bu u in Manhattan and the Bronx. Richmond had po such organization. Mr. Untermyer asked what the witness knew about brick, especially if he khow of a State-wide compbina- tion of brick makers, Major ‘Steele said he knew of the Hudson River Brick Association, in which he did not think yards farther up State were interested. Q. Don't you know that nobody could buy brick from any Hudson manufacturer except a member of one of these trade associations or combinations? A. ‘That was so in 19. Q. And a man cannot sell any brick except to a member of the Dealers’ Association? The builder must buy brick and cement of th He cannot buy a pest source | accountant who audited the books of every member, Arthur Hammond? . Yes. Q. Who got his reports? chairman, Mr, Philbrick, Mr, +Untermyer called for Ham- mond’s reports under the subpoena duces tecum. There was no response. Q. What was the’ purpose of this auditing? Was there an ineurance fund? ‘A. I"had no knowledge of tt, PHILBRICK AGAIN HELD IN CON- TEMPT. Q. It hag been testified here to- day thet there was a syscem of cards by which estimates were registered oy the Bureau, A. I decline, to kns- wer on the same grounds as I de- clined to answer yesterday. Q, You had change of those cards aa Chairman, A. 1 decline to answer, Q. Did you destroy them? A. I did not 4. Have they been destroyed? A decline to answer. Q Did you know of thelr destruc- tion before they wore destroyed? A No @. But you knew of it after thelr destruction? A. 1 decline to answer. Mr, Philbrick was adjudged in con tempt. This is the seventh contemp, charged aguinst him: what purpose did Mr, Ham it the ounts of the meimn- ‘A. [ decline to answer. Q. Did you handie any “insurano fund distribution” among members? A. decline W answer ..18 the bureau still in opera: tion? A, It is. | should be-glad to have you come to on of our meeting @. De you want me indicted? A. (No answer). Q. Has the bureau's A. The method of operations been changed? A. d de- line td answer, Q. Are the cards” ptill used in the same way? A I-deoline to answer, (Adjudgment in contempt No, 8 for Mr, Philbrick). “You don't think you can manage to give us these oc asked Mr. Untermyer, ding! Mr, Phitbrick. —~ Really,” sald the gray-bearded Mr. Lilbrich with deep earnestness, “I oan't—I have not got them.” J. Morton Halstead of John Mor- ton's Sons Co, of Brokirs, ‘@ mem- as he excused y } cumstances that resulted in the death 4}endar for early in January. . CLARA S. HAMON, SOUGHT ON CHARGE OF KILLING ‘OIL KING’ POLICE SEEK NCE TO SOLVE DEATH OF VILLIONAIREHAMON Prosecutor to ‘Charge Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon With Uncle’ 's Murder, oo ARDMORW, Okla, Dec. 1—Tre- mendous Influence and wealth are baffling the State officers who are fighting to solve the mysterious cir- of Jake L, Hamon, Republican Na- tional Committeeman from Oklahoma. Mrs, Clara Smith Hamon, former- ly" married to a nephew of Hamon, will be formally charged with the miurder of her employer upon her ar- rest, Prosecutor Russell B, Brown announces, While te Prosecutor would nbt divulge the source of his information, he declared he had positive evidence that the woman was in the Hamon suite of rooms when Hamon was shot, She was known as Miss Bmith at the hotel, where she had a room adjoining Hamon’s, and the trail led in her direction despite the eamou- flage set up this friends, it has been learned for the first time that the woman fied in an automobile In company with her sli ter, Mrs, V. D. Walling of Wilson. Okia,, and a mysterious "man with andy: hair.” The party left at 4 o'clock in the afternoon a weék ago Monday. Short- ly after 9 o'clock in the evening the arty drove up to the Atwood Hotel, Burant, Okla. They spent the night there, ‘Mrs. Walling registered un- der her own name., Miss Smith used the name of “Mrs. Joe Tucker,” but the absence of a wedding ring was noticed. ‘The next morning Miss Smith left Durant alone ip a car driven by George Miller, a livery chauffeur. Mrs, Walling’ and the man_ with “sandy hair’ returned to Ardmore. Miller since has not returned to bis home. Tho identity of the sandyhatred man Is still unknown, ni ASS oa TO TRY HIRSHFIELD SOON. loner Likely to Be ,Tried Early in January, On behalf of David Hirshfield, Com- missioner of Accounts, indicted on a charge of having published a libel against James HE. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Nelson Olcott of Olcott, Ponynge, McManus’ and Ernst, appeared before Justice Weeks in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to-day: “We had intended to ask permission to inspect the Grand Jury minutes, but have abandoned that intention,” sald Olcott. “All we want ts an immediate trlal. Mr, Hirshfield inalate on an early trial.” Justice Weoks maid that the case could not go to trial in December, but thought 1t might be placed on the cal- EAST SIDERS GET TOGETHER. The Grand Street Boys’ Association, Inc., held a j'get together” meeting with a beefsteak dinner at the Aldine Club, No, 200 Fifth Avenue, last night. Moro 1 1,000 east siders or persone who once were east sliders attended, ‘The “association was organized eight months ago to do charitable work, uf a member of the orgaaibation dies, $500 is seat immediately to hls family, and the organization also looks out for thoir welfare the rest of thelr lives. Among those present were Judge Rovalsky, Judge Muiqueen, 8 gong, Magistrate Levine Congr Bullivs idney Livingston an . Cohen, —_——~ tm tm Triy Audience © Fire in More than @ hundred patrons of the Rome Moving Picture Theatre, No, 22 Park Row, marched in order through the exits to the atreets when a fire broke out in the operating booth of the theatre shortly after noon to-day, There was no panic. ‘The fire was trivial and was confined to the oeprating booth The operator extinguished a- dlaging film before the firemen arrived by nw don the flames, AGENT OF DOWNEY CONTRADICTS PART OF BOLLING STORY But Backs President's Brother- in-Law in Denying $40,000 Bribe Charge. Contradiction of a sworn statement made by R, Willmer Bolling, brother- in-law of Presidem Wileon, was em- bodied tn testimony given today be- fore the Walsh Congressional Com: mittee at the Hotel Ponnsylvania by John F, Cranor, assistant to Wallace Downey, President of the Downey Shipbuilding Corporation. Mr, Bolling testified yesterday that at Cranor’s solicitation he communi- cated with Lester Sisler, then Secre- tery of tho Shipping Board, seeking an adjustment of the diversion of some “bending rolls’ maohinery that should have gone to the Downey Shipbuilding Corporation. As a result of the muccosn of his request for a proper adjustment, Mr. Rolling sald, Tucker K. Sands, who had sent Cranor to him, offered to “take bare of him" tn tho $1,000 com- mission he, Sands, informed him he was to receive, Bolling sald he re- fused to participate in any commis- sions received for business connected with the Government, CRANOR SAYS HE DID NOT SEEK , BOLLING'S Alp. Cranor swore that he never applied either to Sands or Bolling for ald in connection with the shipbuilding ma- chinery, He sald he saw Senator Tom Martin, who the matter ad- Justed through Edward F. Hurley and Rear Admiral F. T. Bowles, the former of whom was then Chairman and the Iatter an executive of the Shipping Board. Cranot corroborated tn other re- spects testimony given by Treasurer Bolling and Lester Sisler, former Sec- retary of the Shipping Board, and flatly contradicted the statement made last week by Sands that a $40,000 “commission,” later settled for $25,000, had been the considera- tion fOr seouring shipbuilding con- tracts for the Downey, company and that Bolling, Lester Sisler/ and Cranor had been paid part of the money. A $25,000 commission was paid to Sands, the witness said, but he con- tended that it had nothing to do with shipbuilding contracts. In giving his version of the commission the witness corroborated a statement made some time ago by Mr. Downey that the money was pald to Sands then Vico President and cashier of the Com- mercial National Bank of Washing- ton, for securing a credit of $125,000 in that bank. ‘The loan was made to the Provi- dence Engineering Company, a sub- sidiary of the Downey Company, Cranor said, and really was in the nature of a working capital, the Providence company being described as possessing insufficient funds to handle big contracts. FORCED SANDS TO COMPROMISE ON $25,000 FEE. Downey was sald By the witnesa to have balked at $40,000 being charged a8 @ commission by a banker for putting through a loan in his own bank, considering $30,000 as ample, Later, Cranor sald, a com Promise was effected for $25,000 and that sum was paid. After establishing the credit, ac- cording to Cranor, Sands wrote to the Shipping Board's Credit Depart- ment, stating that there was $125,000 in the Commercial National Bank on deposit to the credit of the Providence Engineering Company, and that he would back the integrity of the com- pany and its ability to carry out con- tracts, ‘The establishment of the credit in the Commercial National Bank served to overcome the Shipping Board's objections to award a con tract to the Providence company for duilding ten steel bugs at $255,000 each, the witness said, and it finally secured the contract, which before it had vainly sofight. Replying to'a question by Chairman Joseph Walsh whether he had entered into an agreement to split a $40,000 commission with Bolling, Sands and isler for securing this contract, Cra- nor denied that he ever had paid or arranged to pay a fee to anyone for aid in securing a Shipping Board con- tract, Furthermore, he said, he ne met Bolling or Sisler until after the tugboats contfact had been awarded. SAYS HE TOOK WHISKEY TO BOLLING'S OFFICE. Cranor, in deser.ding his re! with Bolling, sald that he frequently went to the latter's office in the Shipping Board and put a quart of liquor in one of the drawers, There were some subtle verbal ‘ashes between the witness and Representative P. J. Kelley of M’chi- kan, who sat with Chairman Walsh Qnd these were punctuated by laugh + from those at the bearing, At one time, after he had been questioned bs oir.» Keiley, Cranor sald: “It seems to me that I cagnot un- Aerstand you and you can't under- stand me, and I don't know which one of us is thick.” Mr. Kelley's eyes twinkled and his lips pursed, but that was his only re- sponse to the sally. When questioned regarding his expense accoum in Washington the witness said it fever had been néCessary for him to do u tions THE EVENING ‘WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920. . CHARLES CE ee WINNER OF NA LIFE SAVING MEDAL Bronx Middy Rescued Boy Who Fell in River and Was in Peril of. Death, ‘The Lifo Saving Medal of the navy, together with a special letter praise from Secretary Daniels, was awarded at Annapolis to-day to Charles A. Schenck of No. 2114 Daly Avenue, the Bronx, a student at the Naval Academy. Schenck, while on his way to enroll at Annapolis last August, Jumped into the Elizabeth River at Norfolk, Va, and réscued a boy who had fallen between a pier and the churning propellor of a tug- boa Schenck 1s 19 years old. At the start of the war he. enlisted In the navy while under age, and re-enlisted when his term was up, serving on the U. 8. Oklahoma, where his skill as a radio expert won recognition. He waa one of fourteen sailors chosen to take the course at Annapolis, Schenck {s an of expert swimmer, ! os Won many prizes while a ber of the Stuyvesant High School team. The presentation was made by Rear Adntiral H. Seales, Superintendent of the Naval Aca- demy. on a flat salary basis, half the time for one company and half the time for the other. ONLY DREW ONE SALARY ATA TIME. , “Were you ever on the payroll of both companies at the sume ti ie?" asked Mr. Kelley. “Unfortunately, no,” nor. “Do you understand that it was customary for banks during the war to charge 40 per cent. on loans?" “No,” answered Cranor, “but after twenty-five years’ experlonce with bankers and banks I know that they charge all they can get, and the greater the necessity the ‘more they charge. Downey kicked like the devil about the charge of $40,000, but he probably thought it was as good as he could do himself here in New York, or else he would not have gone through with it.” Lester Sisler, formor secretary of the board, testified to-day that many ship contractors besieged ‘his office “to get inside information” regard- ing pending contracts.* He admitted that many contracts, especially those involving large sums, were consum- mated outside of the contract division of the board. Mr. Sisler said smil- ingly that he and Mr. Hurley, at one responded Cra- ume Chairman of the board, ex- pressed very strong views of one another. “I was met with rebuff many times,” continued Sisler, “when I in- sisted on members of the board at- tepding sessions One instance of the haphazard man- ner in which the Shipping Board func- tioned, according to Sisler, was the commandeering of all private vessels of 2,500 deadweight tons or over before there was 4 Division of Operations to handle them, Sister admitted that “the bourd was woefully weak” In all ac- counting departments. “There were many errors and tre- mendous losses," he said. Sisler told Chairman Walsh that he would vouch, for Mr. Bolling’s integ- rity in anything, GILLEN SAYS COMMITTEE IS DO- ING GOOD WORK, Martin Gillen, who served as chiet assistant to Judge Barton Payne, onec head of the Shipping Board, submitted some corrections of his original testi- mony, given two weeks ago befor: to the committee, Mr, Gillen told newapaper reporters that the Walst Committee was doing the largest ‘leanest piece of constructive war in extigation that had occurred since the war. They are proceeding alony ‘wo distinct lines, he sald. Graft, in efficiency and waste has been dis ‘josed, and the Department of Justice has a ater nd large duty to per: vorm, The evils found in the Gon traction and Operating Department: ye concluded, are choking the growth sf our Merchant Marine—evils that be eradicated fearlessly by legis. William Denman, former Chaipma of the Shipping Board, who with Gen pethals, al former member of board, resigned the same day because of adverse criticism directea against them in the conttoversy of building wooden ships. was callga tr the stand, Mr, Denman requested thr board.to put, into the record hi constructive suggestions” in the matter of building up a merchant entertaining. In fact, he said, he never expected te have any expense while there, except to have a drink or so with some good-looking Con- >: pote alan straight at Mr, ran declared he fated had re- any commissions f: ba from eltbor ut ot ‘oopanies, but marine. Mr, Walsh told the forme) chairman he would be called later Mr. Denman testified that he and Goethals signed contracts in 600 ships and — §300.000,00" t #0 much a8 a scrap’ of Wing authority,” ‘Phe committee adjourned, but wi) be reconvened In Washington in two weeks, AMENDING THE CHARGE. (From the Kansas ity Star.) Judge—You are charged with con- BACKER EVIDENCE AT HOUSING PROBE IS READ 10 JURY Counsel’ for Defendant Has Some Parts Excluded at Perjury Trial. Tho fight by the prosecution to get into evidence the official record of Georgé 8. Backer's testimony before the Lockwood Committee was taken up to-day when the trial of the wealthy butider on a charge of per-| jury was resumed before a jury in) Judge Rosalsky’s Court. The fury spent the night at the Murray Hill Hotel. | Samuel Bruckhetmer, official stenog- raphor of the committee, testified that the record offered by Emory R. Buck- ner, Special Prosecutor, was correct by comparison with his Shanband rT] notes. Mr, -Bruckhelmer and his er's testimony when he swoi $15,000 obtathed from eas aye 10 pay to.Robert P. Brindell as a strike bribe on the Nore eos Backer sald he gave the @ “couple of strangers” “Mutt and Jeff." The session was taken up by read- ing Backe?’s testimony to the jury, interrupted frequently by ‘chjections ie rested Backer, who succeeded in having some parts excluded. GARAGE IN PLACE OF STORAGE HOUSE M girl Ex-Assistant Corporation Counsel Whalen Asked to Explain Al- leged Violation of Permit. John Whalen, No, #8 West 150th Street, former Corporation Counsel ind School Trustee, is to be called pefore the Board of Appeals of the Department of Standards and Ap- ohe case, last” April, ‘GIRL WHO TOLD ; OF BEING TORTURED HELD ‘IN GEM THEFT MINNIE WINNIE GALUERDER sasstitinog, “TORTURED GIRL”. HELD FOR THEFT OF DIAMOND BROOCH from Edmund L. Mooney,’ defending Minnie Gallander, dipnie: Polta Say, Admits Throwing Gem From Emptoyer’s Window. innle Gallander, in. the Brooklyn has been {the care of the Children's Society, | was sent to the Harlem prison to-day by Magistrate Toblas in default of $2.500 ball pending examination Fri- day on a charge of stealing a $500 diamond brooch. little interested In the court proceed- The girl nineteon, the since which until yesterday + FLEVATORGIRL, ILL, FALLS AT HER POST: CRUSHED TO DEATH Operator in Broadvy Build- ing Had Refused to Quit Work When Dizzy. As the, result of an attack of vertigo, from which she had suffered pertodic- ally afl morning, Mra. Charlotte Wi- son, twenty-two, of No. 286 West 1634,” Street, an elevator operator in the twelve-story building at No, 877 Broadway, fell helpléss at her post at 1 o'clock -this afternoon and wes crushed to death between the floor of the ascending oar and the sill of the elevittor shaft door at the eleventh floor level. Nancy Bailey, another operator, who saw the accident from her cay a& jt passed that of Mr, Wil- son, fell In a faint to the floor, but kept her grip on the lever and gehut off the power as sho fell, the car stopping midway between the tenth and/eleventh floors. ; Another eyowitness was Mildred Solomon of No. 144 East 168th Street, in response to whose signal Mrs, Wil- son had run her car up from the ground to the eleventh floor. Dr. Levin of Broad ‘Street Hospital at- tended Misa Solomon and Miss Bailey and pronounced Mts. Wilson dead after her body had been cut out of the car by the pee Squad of the Fire Departmen Employees of the building say Mrs, Wilson had been tomplaining of dix- ziness, but refused to listen to eug- gestions that she should give up her work for the day. Following the ae- cident, which caused disarrangement of the elevator power, the elevator service was suspended by police order and tenants had to climb and deseend_— the stairs until late this afternoon. ARMED MEN HOLD UP NINE IN BROOKLYN Force Storekeeper and Patrons to “torture” time appeared peals, it was announced to-day, to IM&S. | = + Give Up $500-—~Two lain why, as alleged, he built a She was engaged yesterday moro- $1,500 Burglaries. et Me ‘ ing as a maid by Mrs. Helen Mc> arge garage at Nos. 465-467 West 155th Street, back of a public school. According to Capt. John P. Leo, Chairman of the Board of Appeals, Mr. Whalen obtained a permit from he Bullding Bureau to construct a storage house on the premises, but pt. Leo says he found fifteen auto- mobiles stored therein and was in- ‘ormed by’ the man in charge that sine more were kept there. No per- mit for maintaining a garage there iad been granted, Capt.’ Leo sald, and yone would have been given. Mr. Whalen will be required to show why the permit to build a storage house should not be rescinded by reason of violations. Mr. Whalen was not in his office when his version of the matter was sought and his seoretary would ven- ture no opinion. ALIMONY ALLOWED WOMAN PHYSICIAN was tron, M Dr, Charles Hancock to Pay Dr. * Bugenia G. Hancock $125 4 Month Pending Trial. Alimony of $125 a month and a $600 counse] fee were awarded to Dr.. Bue genfe Gobell Hancock of Polyclinic Hospital to-day by Supreme Court Tustice Glegerich, pending trial of the suit for annulment browght by | husband, Dr.Charles Hancogk, ner tion. Dr. Hancock tn hts suit charged his vife had induced him to marry aa ity new Dermott of No. 621 West 112th Street to care for her two babies Mrs McDermott lives on the sev- enth floor and soon after she missed the brooch last evening called in the police. The girl was questioned for hours &t the West 125th Street -ta- tion by Detectives Kammerer and Hauptman before she admitted taking the brooch. As goon as she said she had thrown it out the window search was made, but It was not found. She the East STth Street station, wheré there is a ma- sked up on a charge of grand larceny. then taken to , and 1c innie’s father, for mistreating —————— VOTES. TO ADMIT AUSTRIA TO LEAGUE Commission on Admission of New States Makes Unanimous Recommendation, GQDNEVA, Dec. 1 (Associated Presa). |.Austria was unanimously voted a member of the League of Nations by owner of the ind of her counter sult for #eP@F8~\ 14. commission for the ‘admission of house States here to-dey. “It is expected the Assembly will rat- this action. who was a clay modeller in vaudeville, is serving a term case her. attracted wide attention at the time, it being charged her tatner and her stepmother, now dead, stuck needles in her, threw things at her and otherwise tortured her. At that time she insisted she was ooly sev- enteen years old, Included in several burglaries in Brooklyn Saturday night and Sunday that have not been made public by the police was a hold-up by two men in the bootblack and hat cleaning shop of Tony Bastone at No. 4805 Fifth eAvenue. The hold-up men, with revolvers, forced Bastone. and eight patrons to turn over $500. They escaped in an automobile. At No, 4918 Fifth Avenue, less than a block distant, the store of Siman Mendelson was robbed on Sunday of $1,500, The burglars entered through— a window and stole $1,600, worth of goods, chiefly !eather novelties. At the store ‘of Jacob Kulakoss, No. 4418 Fifth Avenue, $1,500 worth of goods were taken. The burglars bored a hole in the wall of a hall leading to the store. From the small size of the aperture, it was believed, a boy took out the goods. The articles stolen com- prised chiefly “pencils, pens, razore, clocks and watches, The GUILTY OF ARMY THEFTS. Four Convictt decker, Wa: | house Owner, Exonerat A verdict of guilty was brought into Federal Court, Brooklyn, to-day against John Sonand, Morris Rosenberg, Ber- nard Schenstack and Lawrenge Pupple, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government. They were implicated in the thefts of army shirts, shoes titor woods trom” tho army ‘agen in Bay Ridge. in all, close to $100,000 worth of goods was ‘taken. ‘The jury acquitted ‘Max Ladecker. Riverdale St re Ware: in 127th Street, Manhattan, John MoMahon, an ‘employee. Stok goods ‘aro said to have been found fhe warehouse. . Those found gull were civilian employees of the.army. and sy “false and untrue statements” ani (Iso that she took drugs and was subject to hallucinations, The wife denied these charges and said the trouble #tarted when her husband iiscovered @ “soul mate.” “In September, 1918, while I was dining in the Hotel Wolcott,” Mira: Hancock's affidavit, “my hus- rand told'me he wanted me to go to Reno and get @ divorce. He confessed ie was in love with another woman, | later, he said if I did not get a) divorce he would leave me; but if 1 tid #0 he would support me hand- somely, Once, when he was drunk, he said 1 would make it easier for \im if T would die." EDISON’S PLANT DROPS 900 MEN \nother Big Batch to Go This Week, Is Report—Business Slump Blamed: Workers in Thomas A, Edtson's in- dustries here are being lald aff by hundreds. Chiefs ‘of departments are being dropped with their subordinates. K Mark M. Jones, who organized Mr, Edison's big personnel depaftment, and John R. Rogers, Mayor of West Orange, who held an important place, have fOst their jobs. Nine hundred were dropped a few days ago, Another big batch of men «nd women, it is sald, will go this w There has been talk that places of high paid offi- cials have been filled with young col- lege men, This is dented, howe’ at the plant, The general Industrial depression is blamed for the’ waprecedented act. ‘The slump et the big plant is affect- duetin; sully iwoner (confidently). ph Aae, cet uk we EE sek Mee me of chance, Guilty gr not ‘Not gu! Shane the |heaeeat trons |chiet {ng busintas in Orange and West Or- ange. nore eis when other factories 3 togeth Boxes, all put up in one case, ready for the Kiddies’ Christmas tree, Churches, Sunday Schools, Public 'Institutions— 3 Candy Committees and Donators! ta POUNDS—Fer $7.65 we will sell you 30 pounds of Very Excellent Candy, r with 60 Half-Pound $7 65 Come and get them Our Big Daily Special for Thursday CHOCOLATE COVERED LOG CABINS—The: licious confectio: Molasses. The finishi Chocolate, unrivalled in Added Thursday Feature Milk Chocolate Parlays v 98¢ roots 5 Lh for the under regu- Prige. produced f December ?nd—. are big | bars of dew from Pure, Open Kettle New Orleans ure is a covering of our famous 24¢ hness of flavor and fragtance. “SPECIAL, POUND BOX, We are also offering Chocolate Covered Molasses Butter’ Sticks tim, 64 ae Stores: New York, lyn, Newark,