The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1920, Page 3

~ BILLION SALES OF REALTY INDICATE lg BUSMESS BOOM Investments in Manhattan! Trade Area Point to Great Revival in 1921, A NEW HIGH RECORD. “Money Ring’ Is Blamed for Holding Up Many Build- ing Projects. Buying of Manhattan realty crossed the billion dollar mark for the year this week, establishing a new high record, This is accepted by financiers and business leaders as the forerunner of “ great Wave of prosperity—a fore- cast strengthened by the notable pre- ponderance of business property In the transactions, the downtown fin- ancial and Insurance dirtricts and the high class midtown centres showing particular activity. Never before have jarge business concerns bought so much realty for their own private uses in so short a time. One down- town Yrokerage firm alone—the Charl Noyes Company—has sold more tha $25,000,000 of landmark holdings during the year, It reports well sustained accumulation of the same charaoter, its deals averaging $7,000,000 a month, “There is every indication that the buying will extend through the com- ing year,” said Mr. Noyes to-day. “In our downtown districts the bulk of the city’s financial business must be done for all time because no power can remove the financial and busine seotion from its downtown environ- ment, where all the trade exchanges help to make the markets of the world—the New York Stock Ex- change, Consolidated Exchange, Cot- ton, Coffee, Maritime Exchanges, banking interests, trust companies, insurance and representative big business corporations, most of which must own their home buildings. It is truly the heart of the world, and tor a long time it is sure to control the world’s finance and trade. Recent purchases there involving many mil- lions embrace those by J. P. Morgan & Co. United States Steel Company, Federal Reserve Bank, Sinclair Oil Company, H. L. Doherty & Co. W. RR Grace & Co, American Interng- tional Marine, immense steamship and insurance concerns. “Next year will see much more ‘Duying for occupancy. As the old financial and insurance districts ars getting crowded and sites have passed to permanent holders for oc- cupancy, there is sure to start an unusually strong movement's to pur- chase and bulld on plots along the west side around Hudson, Varick and adjoining streets to Canal Street, then up the Seventh Avenue line, be- tween 80th and 42d Streets, Of course, Fifth Avenue from 46th to 59th $=Streets will hold its pre- eminence in this business expan- sion." More than $150,000,000 has gone into downtown purchases during’ the ar. Improvement of sites, mainly with skyscrapers, 1s taking $50,000,- 000 more, There are such projects as the $15,000,000 extension of the Standard Oil Building over the Bea- ver Street end of Its Broadway-New Ntreet block, the $10,000,000 Cunard Building on the old Stevens House, southwest corner of Broadway and Morris Street; $1,000,000 extension of the twenty-one-story American Surety Butiding on Broadway, Wall and Pine Streets, $10,000,000 enlarge- ment of New York Stock Exchange over the entire Wall Street block front from New to Broad Streets; $1,000,000 new Curb Market overlook- ing Trinity Churchyard on Trinity Ylace, Seaboard National Bank struc- ture on Beaver Street, $8,000,000 Fed- eral Reserve Bank Building on Mal- den Lane, Nassau and Liberty Streets; several skyscrapers for in- surance and marine Interests, $8,000,- 000 extension of American Telephone and Telegraph Bullding on Broad- sway, Dey and Fulton Btreets. Midtown, more than $50,000,000 1s go- ing into new business piles, such as the $8,000,000 offices of thirty stories for August Hechscher on the old Whitney home site at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 67th Btreet, and the $10,000,000 skyscraper for the Liggett syndicate on the northeast corner of 424 Street and Madison Avenue, the remarkable bust- ness expansion of that section being typified by the acquisition of the big Manhattan Hotel on the opposite northwest corner by National City Company and ‘ts remodelling into of- fices at a cost of $500,000, am well as the transformation of the imposing Knickerbocker Hotel on the southeast corner of 42d Street and Broadway by Vincent Astor Into offices. The $1,000,000,000 involved in the year's purchase of Manhattan prop- erties was divided among 16,000 par- cels, It ls nearly twice the amount invested during the corresponding Pperlod of 1919, when less than 10,000 parcels were sold. That the entire country, as well as the metropolitan district, Is anticipat- ine @ great business expansior-is (n- dicated’ by statistics of building proj- ects gathered by F. W. Dodge Com- pany and issued to-day for the year to date. They show that operations projected amount to $4,500,000,000, These, adcording to the reports, ure needed to meet obvious business and | residential requirements. But here |s the discouraging part of !t—contracta haye been awarded for only $2,500,000, - 000 of this work. The rest has been held up by the impossibility of flnane- ing it, nis financial hold-up 1» attributed in all quarters to high money rat dictated by the New York money ring said to be controlled absolutely by three men, Bankers all over fas country have been enabitd by the DOWN |N ‘THE CELLAR IN] —WAEN THE AMENDMENT NANTON NS GARMENT TRADE FORCES LINING UP FOR FINISH FIGHT New Wage Schedule in Effect Monday, With Open Shop Likely to Follow. Both sides in the break between the union clothing workers of New York and the manufacturers were lining up thelr forces to-day for what they expect to be a finish fight. The Or- Kanization Committee of the new Needle Trade Workers’ Alliance, rep- resenting 395,000 workers In five big unions, was in session most of the day at No, 81 Union Square, while the Clothing Manufacturers’ Assocl- ation met at the Hotel Brevoort to discuss plans for putting new wage schedules into effect next week. The union representatives were busy outlining thelr organization plans and hoped to select a slate for officers for the alliance, Benjamin Schlessinger, President of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, said the alliance was waiting for the first definite action to be taken by the manufacturers, He said whatever line of action may be de- cided on by the Workers’ Alliance must first be submitted for approval to the unions that compose {t—the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Fur Work- ers’ Union, the Cloth Hat and Cap Makers and the Journeymen Tatlors. Manufacturers to-day received the report of their committee on new wage scales. The employers hold that a readjustment of their labor conditions Is necessary if they are to remain in ‘business. William Band- ler, President o fthe association, said they did not contemplate adding to the forty-four-hour week now in ef- fect. It js planned to put piece work in effect, giving old employees the firet chance at work. After that, It ls planned to throw the factories open for all comers as faat as orders are received, taking on workers regard- less of their unionism or lack of it, or thelr previous employment, ‘The General Executive Board of the Amalgamated Union will mect to- morrow to take up the question of aa- sessing members who are at work for the benefit of those Involved in the local trouble. i iene CLOTHING MAKERS DENY LOCK-.OUT Predict Substantial Drop in Price of Men's Garb in Spring. William Bandler, President of the Clothing Manufacturers’ Asaociation, to-day predicted a substantial reduc- tlon in the cost of men’s clothing neat spring as @ result of the new wage seale and plece work system which manufacturers expect to Install in New York City at an early date. Following meeting of 125 memburs of the association to-day at the Lre- Yoort Hotel, a statement w that the meeting had been canvass the entire mumbership a charges made by the union that a lock- out existed, The charge waa “com- pletely and unequivocably denied by the members,” It was declared ‘The acale committee is still, working: and Mr, Bandler said it probably would render a report next week. bol abd bi PRY COP FROM UNDER AUTO. ‘Takes Firemen Half an Hour to Get Hm Out—Badly Hort. Polloeman Thomas Murray is in a serious condition in White Plains Hor- pital as a result of being struck last night by an automobile at Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains. His right arm was fractured and ‘ternal Injuries are feared. His arm was twisted [n a wheel and his coat caught in the machinery of the car. It took half hour to get him from under the car, Mra. Charles N. Burr of No. 14 Oak- wood Avenue is said to have been the driver of the car. An Investigation is being made. manipulations of the New York ring to exact a rate of § per cent. or better from the great mass of borrowers, No small aid in this respect has been the high discount rate main- tained by the Federal Reserve Bank, and this rate too Js alleged to have been dictated by the same money ring, Real estate leaders and builders vay that this high money rate is one of the main factors in halting home building and in maintaining an ex- tortionate level of re just as it has been the direct cause of throt- {ling all forms of business all over the country and precipitating a liquida- tion which {a driving the general busineas world rapidly into a state of hysteria and panic—all. because the banking ring holds control of the world’s credit resources and \y de- termined to squeeze the last drop of profit out of the situation and at the same time force labor to accept lower wages as a grand finale, ‘that they and their followers may grab an enormous volume of gllt-edged prop- erties at sacrifice prices from the riot 6? the liquiddating saturnalla, 6 | Worth $60,000,000. LooK OUT FoR. FAKE = ‘SUSstiroTes! VANDERLP DENES LETTER TO LENNE FROM HARDING Promoter on Return Says Brit-| ish Wanted Share in Under- | writing Siberian Project. Washington D. Vanderlip of Los Angeles, who says he has a $3,000,- 000,000 concession with the Soviet Government for the development of Northeastern Siberia, arrived here to- day on the steamship Aquitania with a glowing story of what the project- ed development will mean to world commerce, Mr. Vanderlip declared that his concession would not begin to func- tion until the United States Govern- ment had sanctioned the resumption of trade relations with Soviet Russia. He denied a published report that he had carried a letter from President- elect Harding to Lenine In his nego- {lations with the Russian Govern- ment. Mr, Vanderlip said that interests close to the British Government and bankers in many countries of Burope had tried to persuade him to let them underwrite a share of the Siberian enterprise, but that he had refused ond that It would be handled solely by the group of California financiers and business men who backed him in the venture. | “I was not interested in the English Propositions,” said Mr. Vandecl:p, “and was glad to leaye London, which offered a striking contrast to the peace and quiet of Moscow. The press and leaders generally in England ridi- culed me when I first got there from Russia, But three days before I sailed my hotel in London was besieged with manufacturers, members of Parlia- ment and others who wanted to inter- view me regarding the concessions, I was Invited to meet Lloyd Georgu. ‘There was an exchange of tele- grnms between me and the heads of labor organizations all over Great Britain, with the result that circulars were sant to 60,000 working men by their leaders urging them to demand the opening of trade refations with Russia on the threat of laying down their tools.” ’ HORACE E. DODGE DIES IN FLORIDA Millionaire Manufacturer of the Dodge Car Formerly With Henry Ford, New York friends of Horace E. Dodge were to-day tnformed of the death of the millionaire automobile manufacturer at Palm Beach, Fia., yesterday, Formerly assoctated with Henry Ford, Horace and his brother, John, founded their own company elght years ago, Johm Dodge died at the Ita-Carlton Hotel on Jan, 14. John’s death left Horace at the head of their business, estimated to be A few days ago the announcement was made of the engagement of Miss Isabel Dodge, daughtter of the late John Dodge, to George Sloane, son of Mrs. Stanley T. Cozzens of No. 410 Park Avenue. ————_- CLOTHING STORE ROBBED. Brilliantly Lahted street. The attention of Police Commiastoner Mnright te called to the fact that when Henjamin Golden, manager of the Hy- grade Clothing Company at No, 131 West 125th Street opened his store to- day he found that the top floor—the third—had been entirely atripped of stock during the night Thieves hed carried away hundreds of women's cloaks, dransex and suite valued at close 10 $10, The stock js in the block between Lenox and Seventh Avenues, Went 126th Street, ‘This ta the most bri'- Mantly lighted thoroughfare in the city except the Tenderloin strip of Brow\- day, Noonday Illumination flooda it ali night long. Vhen detectives from the Weat 123u Street station visited the place t they agreed with Mr Golden that the third floor of the store was quite empty. a WOMAN ARRESTS HUGGER. Mra, angler Takes Demo: Youth to Police Stat When a alight young man approached Mra. Margaret Zangler of No. 410 Stax Street, Brooklyn, early today and began to hug and kiss her she seized him and took him to Stagg Street station. He save his name as Peter Horaskag, twenty six, of No, 918 Stage Street. He was held in $600 ball in Bridge Pl Court on @ charge of disorderly co: uct. ‘The police at Stagg Street Station had recelved complaints that a man had ea. stopping and annoying Women on it Way to trative 1 ork, CHILI dav | ai DENSEL EXPELLED BY CHURCH ELDERS RETURN OPPOSE Move to Reinstate Eloping Pas- tor Will Be Fought by Consistory. The Rey. Cornellus Densel, pastor of the Virst Netherlands Reformed Church, Paasatc, N. J who returned to his wife and eight children Wed- hesday after being away for a month with Miss Trina Hannenberg, a choir singer in his church and a former governess to his children, has been expelled by the Classis in Paterson, but his family 1s not worrying about the future. The Classis is the court of this denomination, “We have not thought shout that, nor has our father," said one of the daughters, a bright-eyed, dark-haired girl of twenty, “We are too glad to have him back to think about any- thing else," she smiled. She was standing at the front door, through which were visible the stairs leading to Mr. Densel's upstairs study. Other women, plainly members of the Densel household, were hurrying up and down the stairs, carrying trays and clothing, happiness showing in their faces. “No, mamma,won't see anybody,” the girl continued. “She's busy wait- ing on papa.” And in the latter, which shows the devotion of Mr. Dansel’s wife of thirty years, who came to this country with him from Holland eleven years ago, close friends of the family see the greatest factor which resulted in the return of the minister who said: “God sent me back" to face his Conaistory. No one knows what the Densels are going to do after the Consistory announces, as it is expected to-mor- row morning, that the minister has been expelled. There is a movement afoot in the congregation, with whom he tg yet highly popular, for his re- instatement, but that will be opposed, sald J. L, Rose, an elder. “It will be a long time, in my opin- fon, before he will ever be granted the right to preach in his pulpit,” he said. It {9 reported that the Hannenberg family, against whom many members of the congregation seem incensed, has been dropped from the colis of the church, and the announcement |6 expected to be read from the pulpit to-morrow, No action has been taken toward the Dense] family, and they are expected to be In their usual places. DECIDES TO STAY IN LEAGUE Policy Adopted at Conference Be- tween President-Elect and Leading Legislators. SANTIAGO, Chili, Dev, 11.—Chill will maintain her membership in the League of Nations, In conformity with the well-defined policy under which she entered it, “although recognizing at the same time, as do the other nations which form the League, the high motives which have served as a basis for the proposuls formulated by Argentina in the A! sembly,” says a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ARMOUR OFFICIALS DEMUR, Attack Le Act in Profiteering Pronecation, Federal Judge Knox will hear argu- ment Monday afternoon on a demurrer| filed by J. Ogden Armour, F. Edson White and the firm of Armour & Co, to fan indictment charging them with pro- (teering in the sale of Australian lamb. ‘The indictment contains 137 counts. According to report to-day, Charles Hvans Hughes will represent the pack- ri, adhe Jadictment was returned Oct, #3 jast. = Nov. 18 Armour and White plen of not guilty, In their G ey contend the Lever Act under ‘which they are. being prosecuted {a urconatitutio: . —-———_—— BOMB AN ACID BOTTLE. ‘The police were notified early to-day there had been « “bomb explosion’ about midnight in front of the Wawbeek Apartments, No. 145 Hast 63d Street, which caused great exoltement for a time. Detectives from the Hast Gist Street Station found a tenant in the houne had been carrying out some paint materials when @ container of acid dropped to the stoop and broke. There was a alight explosion and some fire and amoke, but no damage A A SMO WILL Loo 4 ao INDIAN KER” Ke FORGOT $26,199, BANKED 9 YEARS: HAS CLERK JAILED Bank Employee Jogged Girth’s | Memory, but Got Part of Money, It Is Charged. To have @ balance of $26,199 in a bank and not remember it was the experience of Willlam Girth of No. 47 Bank Street, Newark, N. J., who, after a lapse in memory of over nine years, yesterday became aware of his account in the Fidelity Trust Com- pany of Newark, and whose complaint resulted in the arrest of Ralph M. Kutz, thirty, of No, 1156 Broad Street, chief clerk of thé banking institution. Kutz {s charged with larceny and embezzlement. Mr. Girth's unusual experience dates back to 1911 when he made a deposit in the bank, bringing the total to $26,199. He suffered an attack of apoplexy the same day and forgot all about his account. Kuts, It is charged, noticed that the account re- mained inactive during the nine-year period and made it a point to look up Girth. “Have you got any money,” he asked, “I have not,” wan the answer, “and I'm badly in need of tt.” Kutz, it is further alleged, then agreed to get him money if Girth would sign two blank checks, which Girth did and which Kutz Is alleged to have cashed for $10,199. When Girth asked, “Where do I come In,” Kutz ts said to have told him of his account and said, “So you see you have $16,000 left.” Girth pondered a moment, recalled his long forgotten account, and the arrest of Kutz followed, NEW BOY WIZARD LINGUIST. Speake 6 at Thirteen and Expects to Learn Mah in Two Weekm, A thirteen-year-old boy Is ¢x- pected to start Wert to-day under the care of a@ train conductor for |Whittler, Cal, where his father (works, On the way he will try to ‘pick up enough English for ordinary usage, and expect# to speak the tongue in two weeks. He ts Josef Laczko, Hungaria’ who arrived yesterday on the Mon- Rolla, His fad is languages. of which he speaks five. During tho last elght ars he has seen a good part of Hurope. His father came to America and left Josef with relatives until he could get started, Then the war (started and Josef's adventures be; Finally representatives of the Vacuum O11 Company, for which his father worke, located him in Trieste and he was started westward, eee ARMY MAN A SUICIDE. William C. Taylo: En Slek Leavy Life in Bronx, No motive was known to-day for the suicide of William ©, Taylor, who wes & Captain In the Finance Division of thie | Quartermaster’s Department during the war and re-enllsted aa a field clerk. In his uniform he went to @ vacant lot at Morria and MoClellan Aveniies, the Bronx, last night, and shot himself in the breast with a service platol, Some boys who were bullding @ bonfire found the body an hour later, | He lived at No, 2070 Morris Avenua. His wife sald he had been on sick Wave from Governor's Island since he fell and hurt bis head Thanksgiving. FUNERAL OF MILES O'REILLY Police and G. A, KR. Kacorts Fol Former Captain to Grave. ‘The funeral of Miles O'Rellly, former Police Captain and Civil War veteran. | took place to-day at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Brooklyn, with « jnolemn requiem mass, The pallbearers were Capta, William A. Sullivan, |Georne Kauff, Jacob Van Wagner and Thomas Palmer. All four had worked with Capt, O'Reilly, A police encort of forty-ax men, headed by Cupt. David Kane, marched after the hearse, followed by the Police Department Glee Club and veterans from U. &. Grant Post, G. A. Kt. Three carriages were filled with flowers. In- |terment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, SALOON MAN SHOT. Bye, Re With Police, An ambulance wan called from the Holy Family Hospital at 2 A, M. to-day to No, 162 24th Street, Brooklyn, where Charles Hogach, twenty-seven, who lives over his saloon there, was found with a bullet wound In hie left eye. He was taken to the hospital and the police of the Fourth Avenue Station were notified. bow he received Ww Bogach, 2 to Talk ogaah refused to tell th wound, Moo, “PHONE” PRONE ANEW SUBHAY SHELL CAE Bridge Station Has Two Coin in Slot Instruments With No Wires, Along with the rulyber clothes hock that permits wearing apparel to slide to the floor, and the set of iron pool balls bolted to the table no they won't “break,” may now be added the coin In the alot tolephone of the subway. At the Brooklyn Bridge station are two of these instruments, At all hours of the twenty-four, perfectly sober men and women endeavor to get numbers by dropping nickels in the slot. They hear the register of the coin as it hits bottom and then walt patiently for Central to say “Number, Please.” About the time the person jn the Dooth Is geeing red and denouncing slot maahines, some one of the em: Ployees of the subway, usually a watohman, asies: “Did you put your money in?" knowing at the anime time you have done that same thing. Then he ex plains: “You see those phones are not con- nected up yet. They are just boxes. No wires." Some contributors to this fund take the larceny good naturedly or swear Just a little, while others protest long and loud, because the nickel has ceased to clroulate, Whether the In- terborough or the telephone company will eventually get it It Is not stated. The only certainty is it doesn't come back to the contributot. : HARVARD ELECTION MIX-UP UNTANGLED Excess of 50 Votes in Announced Result Due to Negligence in Counting. CAMBRIDGE, Maas, Dec. 11,—The Student Council of Harvard University met to-day to conalder the mix-up tn the asenlor class elections by winich fifty more votes were credited than | there were ballots cast, A second eloc- | tion bad been ordered for next Mon- day, but this may not bo necessary, Probable duplication of the counting of certain groups of ballots was salt to have been discovered, due apparent- ly to negligence rather than fraudulent Intent, An official recount shows that Henry |. Faxon, varaity football tackle, would retain his unqestioned lead for First Marshal of the class, but Dennis F. O'Connell, Captain of the track team, would displace Robert M. Sedgwick, tne football guard, as Second Marshal. John Sesstona, football manager, would re- tain hia election a» ‘Third Marshal, POLICE FIRE UPON CROWD. Eighteen Pe Woended Doi Trouble at Pragne. PRAGUE, CaechoBlovakia, Deo. 11, —A detachment of police which was en- deavoring to clear away a crowd of demonstrators from in front of the Par- Hament Bullding yesterday, finding It- self surrounded and attacked, the au- thorities report, fired upon the crowd, wounding at least eighteen persons, four of them seriously. ‘The Government buildings are now being suarded by troops. Despatches from Prague Friday re- ported upward of fifty casualties among policemen and olyillana tn fighting for possession of the central offices of the Social-Democratio Party, the Fught Wing of that party finally succeeding in overcoming the Left Wing and tak- ing possession of the bulldings. ‘Tir mesaago added that a general strike wad ordered as u reault of the clash, oe FLEECED SOLDIERS, CHARGE. Vocational Education Kmployee In- dicted as U. %. Check ¥ It became known to-day that William K. Moulton of the Federal Board for Vocational Education in charge of the rehabilitation of injured soldiers was Indicted for forgery and graxd larceny in September, arrested and pleaded not gullty in October, He was charged on ten counts with compensation checks amounting to $2,456.87, made out to four soldiers who. are wards of the Vocational Board The caso has twice been set for trial the last time on Dec. 6, and each time has been postponed. He is under $2,000 bail. Look Ont for Fake Fireman. Fire Commissioner Drennan to-day issued a warning to the public that an imposter wearing # fireman's uniform tn soliciting contributions to a Chri mas Fund for the fire laddies. J) givo him @ cent, ia te Commianione: fommand, hut tum nins over to the po- t forging United Staten} | | TAXATION 10 BE CUT ON ALL DWELLINGS UNTIL JAN. 1, 1922 — oe New City Ordinance Would Exempt Small Structures on First $10,000; Big Ones More A mubstitute ordinance providing for tax exemption to the maximum of $10,000 valuation per apartment on all dwellings until Jan. 1, 1922, will be introduced at Tuesday's meeting of the Board of Aldermen by William T. Collins, Democratic majority leader, Single family houses are, by the new ordinance, exempted to the extent of $10,000, and if such a house be valued at $12,000 the owner will pay on a valuation of only $2,000, the excess over the maximum per family. in two-family houses the maximum exemption provided in $20,000. High class apartment houses will, under the plan, be granted the sahie amount of exemption as those of more modewt type, If a twenty-family apartment house should be valued at $400,000, or at the rate of $20,000 per apartment, the owner would be ex- empted one-half the valuation, having to pay only on the $10,000 excess over each $10,000 valuation. ‘The object in granting similar exemptions to own- ers of sumptuous apartments and owners of cheaper houses ia to avold the charge of class legislation. ‘The plan has the support of Sena- tor Calder and Horough President Cur-| Fo: ran of Manhattan, ate attainment |MOVIE MEN VAINLY AWAIT MISS SMITH Hamon's Niece Fails to Appear in Texas, as Was Expected. FORT WORTH, Tex., Deo. 11.— Cla Barton Smith, cha: with mu r in connection with death of Jake L. Hamon, National Re can Committeeman from Oklahoma and millionaire ofl and railroad man, has failed to appear, as had been ex- pected. All arrangoments hai fan’ oare offices day with newspaper men. Motion picture cameras were set up in the street. Mies Smith was not to be arrested while in Fort Worth, it was under- tood, but waa to be permitted to returh to Ardmore, Okla. where It le charmed she fired’ the shot Noy, ai|! as caused Mr. Hamon's death joy. 26. EIGHT OUT ms Ak: Civil Service Com- The Municipal mission, in ® deciaton rendered to-day by its President, Morris Cukor, refused to place In the exempt class, 132 of the 140 positions Comptroller Craig asked to ve removed from classification, But 1 ReenU A olght ex emptions the Commission f to have ‘riven the Comptroller ati "he ex: pected or desired, Tho ponitions affeeted by the decision are those held by the Collector of City Revenue, the Collector of Assessments and Arreara and their deputies, and the Kecelver of Taxes. Those whi atatua remains unchanged are chiefly mess- engers and clerl Civil Service e POLICEMAN BEA HM AS HOLDUP NAN FLED HESAYS Battered Youth’s Story, Con- firmed by Witnesses, Will Be Told to Prosecutor. ‘The case against Policeman Willan Howard of the West 177th Street gta~ tion, accused of clubbing Bert Greene, nineteen years old, of No. 1054 Frank- lin Avenue, the Bronx, will be taken to the District Attorney's office to~ day or Monday. Howard haa been sus pended and Inspector Underhill is ina ventigating. Greene to-day displayed a bloody coat, collar, necktie and hat he said he wore last Wednesday night whea the alleged attack occurred. On the left side of his head there waa a gash in which several stitches hag been taken, i According to Greene, he and Mise Sadie Blumenthal, his fiancee, at- tended an uptown theatre Wednenday evening and were walking at Third Avenue and 118th Street when a man sprang from a dark corner and com- |™manded Green to put up his hands, Mina Blumenthal screamed and the bandit disappeared just as Policeman Howard ran from acrons the street, | Greene says the policeman struck him & heavy blow in the face. T yelled: ‘What are you doing? There goes the man who held me up,’ but Howard pald no attention and drew his revolver,” said Greene, “I grabbed him by the wrist and the weapon was discharged, the bullet solng into the air. If I had not grabbed him I would have been shot In the chest. Then Howard began to beat me on the head and Miss Blum~ enthal became hysterical.” According to Greene, Charles Black= burn, a keeper in the Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Isiand, walked up and protested, whereupon the polloe= man watked all three to 120th Stree near Lexington Avenue. it is oh: he stood them againet wall, sea: the men, took a fountain pen from Blackburn and then arrested Greene, charging him with attacking an un- known man and with resisting the officer. At the station house Howard with+ drew the charges against Greene. Howard then wae examined by Police Surgeon Dillon, who said he was drunk, and his suspension fi rina) of — intoxloatt against Howard have been foi to Palicoe Headquarters. Wall of the East 67th ant! “Howard already is under sion on a Charge of intoxication. allegations inst him will be ‘Tuesday ue Beane at ens charges may ought, in the conse will be laid on the face up. Special De Luxe Boxes ($6 contain a combination of Specialties. You can select no more pleasing Christmas gift. SATOH TIE PAYS THE PARCEL Post™ 3.on the West Side of Brood near in Herald 45th, $2d and 9th Ste, Send for booklet, Telephone Piteroy #44, Square, 6th aves noe te “I'll Tell Wilson What’s What” THIS WAS THE BOAST OF Franz Rintelen, Master Spy, When he left Berlin for the United States in 1915 to plot for the tying up of munition works, the bomb- ing of ships and the stirring up of war with Mexico, READ THE TRUTH ABOUT RINTELEN THE TRUTH about who he was. THE TRUTH about what he did. THE TRUTH about the money it cost him. THE TRUTH about his Penitentiary. BEGINNING MONDAY MORNING IN rn ee release from the Atlanta Ove EPH satorio ; '