The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1921, Page 3

if Found on Bethlehem’ jooks, They Were Put «AT SHP INgURY, ” : THE-EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1921, There by Auditors, IENTIONS NO NAMES. ucher Was Not for wab’s Personal Expenses. of the gene G. Grace, ehem Steel Corpomtion, in| testimony before thhe Walsh easional Committee at the 1 Pennsylvania to-day, declared there never were any “misplaced is" put upon the books of his| . any were found,” he said, “they put there by the auditors," toning no names, ir. Grace's. statement was made tute the testimony given yester- by Perley Morse of Perley Morse | o., public accountants, of No. 110! iam Street, that his firm's audit | he Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor- Jon's books had disclosed “mis- items” amounting to $339,- President rting to the voucher for $269,- 3, Mr. Grace said the voucher not for personal expenses of les M. Schwab, who was Direc- General of the Emergency Fleet ration in 1918, when it was is- , but for “special expenses.” r. Grace testified that the $269,- 3 voucher was a perfectly proper large. “1 approved the voucher,” he said, ind stand responsible for it being proper account of expenditure to a ompany director.” TEM DISPOSED OF AS PROFIT AND Loss. He also asserted that the item was] sot for the month of October, as itated, but that it was entered in November, 1918. The $109,000 item, he id, was finally disposed of under the profit 4d loss account. “At no time would fan item be allowed as a proper eharge against ship construction to the Emergency Fleet Corporation,” unless it had sup- Tmade af the Bethiehom Shipbuilding Corporation's books by Perley Morse & Co., on behalf of the Luckenbach ‘Steamship Company. The Lucken- tach company had contracted with the Government for geven ships to be built by the Bethlehem compan: was testified, and the audit was held to determine the value of the vessels a charge of $40,000 being made against the Luokenbach company for the work The Bethlehem corporation was dissatisfied with the Morse audit, the witness said, and employed other \eertified accountants, Price, Water- house & Co, to cheok up the i. ERTAIN SCHWAB GOT NO Gov- ‘ERNMENT MONEY FOR EXPENSE FF. A. Schick, controller for the Bethichem Company, who followed Mr, Grace, said he personally had pees a angement with the general auditor of the Fleet Corpora- tion that no personal expenses of Mr. Schwab or any other Bethlehem company official should be charged against contract cost. This arrange- on nite a ment, he said, was made before Mr J{3chwab became Director General of A phe fleet Corporation. He declured hat he believed not even Mr. Grace ‘as aware of ¢he arrangement, and sserted positively that he ‘knew {r. Schwab had never received any toney from the Government for ex- anses, Prior to 1918, the witness nen the Bethlehem Company we erating under a Jump sum contrac me of the expenses of Mr, Schwab's eel Co. Head Says $269,000+ r OM ONE FOOT. JARO HOLOING BROOMSTICIC', IN THE CENTRE, ) pSHE IS ABLE! +, TO RESIST THE EFFORTS OF 2 TWO MEN {PUSH HER « 1, BACK 8 LEON LANSBERG, WHO CAN SHOW "HOW IT 15 DONE” |SAYS DETECTIVES IN STORES HOUND HER = SHE CANNOT BE LIFTED, THe Mi 16 UNABLE (TO. COHER BRE an is STRENGTH... HIS PLAN BAG LIMIT FOR FISHERMEN Law Suggested at Game Confer- ence Would Also Prevent Throw- ing Away Small Cateh. ew law to discourage wanton fsh- Brooklyn Woman, on Second Charge of Shoplifting, Fears Un- fair Trial in Special Sessions. Mrs. of No. Beasie Thomas 793 fishermen be compelled to keep all the He |Court in Brooklyn, The case regularly fish they catch, regardless of size. protect nesting ‘birds from stray de Frederic C. Wal | victed in Special Sessions o prit N ns on AP ntil the Fleet Corporation’s deputy | pecting fron. the Government,” . é tie | for the alleged takigg of a toy dynamo fice were taken up. That, he said, | vacated af 1 TARGDE Hooray, Yel worth $1.75. She Akelaros. whe wae In ts a matter of profit and loss Liab peat A Ps TOR Sree % adh b ae € free puts (ing grounds if all sec-|nocent, and sentence was suspended \s nobody's business, tions’ of the itry | ow ps 7 P But afterward, when the Bethle - = ) Dec. 1 she was again arrested in ¥8 contracts. were changed to th another departinent store in Brooi ly wt plus b all of thoxe expenses |auditor had said an item was a proper| by the re detective, who alleged re eliminated, and the policy never ler@the contr 3. Mra, Thomas had sto a pair of # been changed since, the witness nee was made @y Chairman Mra. Thomas insisted ohe had ferted, 15 ; apurring of riveters t0 | bought the gloves previously and was “Wor the purposes of the recor t meetings which Mr seal Au Sica Oude ed aN id Chairman Walsh desire to b addressed, and the witr taking them back: to\sschange: them, k you this: Although there may if the cost of meals claims she ia @ victim of store de- vouche in the files of the Beth 3 on such occasions tectives. 16m Company, and there may. be charged to ship constru “My future as*a wife, as a mother son the books showing ex Tho witness replied that he|and as a citizen, depends upon the de sex of Mr. § waib at various | did n: know lon to be made on this motion," she nes and for various amounts, you! W. A. Hauck, Assistant Controller | declared. Decisionswas reserved ate here definitely find positively |6f the Bethlehem yCompany, corrob . ft none of thase vouchers, none of | « 1 Mr, Shick's testimony ait pse @htries on the books for those| Mr. Schwab is expocted to testify] PROTESTS RENT QUERIES. rticular items, were at that time! ter in the day - at any ti Subsequently ¢ a Really Association Saya Lockwood josated Yor charged t0 809 S0"| LAW WOULD END Gommattien Biousta Fond, ‘1 do," Mr. Shick replied « 7) Stewart R, Brown, President of the The witnes red that one SHIP ‘COST PLUS United Real Estate Owners’ Agsocia- this Gsalatnnts, HaoK 1B: | a tion, has sent telegrama:to Gov. Miller, ned him that al matters + la 7 7 Perley Morse had ques-|Senator Edge Introduces Bill to | Senator Charles A. Hewitt, Chairman of ined during the Bethlehem audi Abolish. Such Contracts. by |the Logislative Finance Committee ire entirely foreign to Government | ADOUS. SUG) BIS DS Senator Charles R, Lusk, Assemblyman Ap costs, and that hey were taking Shipping Board. Josef A. McGuinness, Chairman of the formation out of Beth! boo! Ways and Means Committee, and to At did hot enter into Mle | WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.—"Co: Speaker H. Edmond Machold, prote in worl ‘ Ho = i plus’ contract letting by the Ship-|ing against the "high-handed and Mr. o D 68 eee eee ee rie ey ato es" | ping Board would be abolished un=|legai actions and misuse of public {iintants were asking questions|der « Will introduced in the Senate |funds by the Lockwood ‘Committee in yut vouchers, and we feared that'qo-.day by Senator Edge of New | sending two questionnuries to office and bby were going to use this Informa- | jomey. loft building owners, asking tenants’ ‘ n some other way against , a " i r tithe did in the Wore River Yard's | ‘The till requires the Shinetng pare ke {t for the Luckenbachs, Board to ask tor bids for all con- | spaces y Bria were many items in the tracts of $5,000 or more for con- The telegrams also called attention *boks of the Bethlehem Company. struction, repairs, materials and|to Mr. Untermyer's request for a C Iany of these, We explained to the , labor. ment of income and expense for each ountants of Perley Morse & Co,| ‘The iniquitous coat plus system your for five years p Lint o into xhip costs, But thew has cost the taxpayers unc dn’ nt th nformation.” millions of dollar eud To Care ow bh Ooe Day Bills never We ubmitted to the | Bdge his bill restores a i thy i Yy fleet Corporation, the witness said, deal that bveiness is justif cx fy tebinte, TNE aunulny Boars, BROMO.) 806.—AdvR would comb tourt*of Spec! said’ most’of the fish hooked and then eras ing the Cours ee p ain unexplained alfility to increase or returned fo the water because they ure potest Gia save S8°) diminish the force of gravity,” Mr en bts re ia). Mt. ‘Thomhs, who lives with her Lansberg came to the office of The al Billsoly of Virginia #44 jusyand, Richard Henry ‘Thomas, and| "ening World for the purpose of the State law there was doing much (0/4 son thirteen years old, was con2| proving that there is no such “fore AGAIN HE 1S UNABLE TO BRING HIS STRENGTH INTO. PLAY, AND THE HELD DOWN BY SLIGHT PRESSURE OF OKE HAND. Photos by Evening World Stat Photographer.) BOY Under Instruction of Leon Lansberg, Student of Witchcraft and Mechanical Tricks, She Per- forms the Stunts of Annie Abbott, “Georgia Magnet,” Which Have Mystified Scientists. ‘Control of Natural Laws of Force Easy, As Proved by Evening World Woman Writer AND HIGH WIND” GIVE CITY CHILL WHILE SHE IS PERFI BALANCED, THESE THREE MEN 39 DEGREE DROP — Snow and More Cold Promised After Mercury Hits Lowest | Mark of 4 Above. A drop of 29 | Bureau at noon to-day, with a prom- ise of continued cold to-day and prob- | ably to-night | unday at noon the mercury stood at HL degrees above xero; to-day at the same hour the thermometer 12 degres above. ‘Thix was § degrees higher than at 6 A. M,, when the temperature was 4 degrees above and a biting wind Added to the discomfort of the early morning crowds. At midnight it was 16 degreos. In the subway, although many of the cars were properly heated, there was considerable eomplaint against frigid cars by rush hour passengers, Phe cars, stanging in the yard over- snow and to-morrow. showed TLY CANNOT PUSH HEfe TOWARDS THE DOORI. | night, were cold when put on the early run and passengers suffered until the cars had been in service long enough to get warmed up. Large numbers who usually travel to Manhattan on the B.R. T. elevated line from Jamaica used the Long Island Railroad. The result was that the trains were overcrowded. Conductors on some trains aban- doned all efforts to, collect tickets and fares, being unable to get through the crowds. The passengers on the first Long Island train leaving Rockaway Beach for Miatbush at 5.06 had an experience none care to repeat, There were six or #6: ars in the train, and heat in only one, Shortly after it left East New York and passed into the tunnel, an accident of some kind tore all the “shoes” off the train, thus destroy- ing connection with the third rail, and it stopped in the middle of the tunnel. The motorman got off and made temporary repairs, ‘There was only ne fuse left and this blew out be- fore the train had proceeded one hun- ired yards and the cars came to a halt again. What little heat was in the one car soon disippeared. The passengers who had newspapers contributed them and a bonfire was made on the concrete floor which provided some heat for a short while. When news of the accident and the block reached headquarters a Ja- maica local was routed over the other track on ite trip to New York and stopped in the tunnel to take on the half frozen passengers from Rock- away. The latter had yet another thrill coming. They had to walk over the third rail to get the train, which they found already packed ‘They arrived at Platbush at 7.40, t hours after they were due. F. W. Baum, postmaster at Howard Beach, one of the unfortunates, sald: “D’'ve been in Africa and the wilds egrees in forty-eight |hours was registered at the Weather| BECAME BAND AT WIFE'S ORDER YOUTH TESTIS Son of Pittsburgh Judge Says Bride Made Him Rob Taxicab Driver. only twen- nd said to be the son Arthur ty-one years old of a rich manufe formerly a Judge there, told to-day in the Magistrate's Court fn story which rivals the deeds of auto- mobile banditry the papers datly record in this neighborhood Naynor, wi 805 Heath | held in $5,000 bail for robbery after he had told his story, which incidentally tmplicated his wife. He said be left her in Pittsburgh ‘The change against Naynor was the rabbery of Jacob Anton, a taxi driver ot Jackson Avenue, Mineola, on Oct. 27. Naynor practically admitted the change and told this story of it: He said that after service in the World War and re-enlistment, he was eont to Leavenworth for some tnfrac- Stanley Naynor pturer in Pittsburgh, maica a at No Avenue, Pittsburgh, was 9 sald he Hived she said to me it wasn't necessary, and suggested I use a lead pipe I told gier I didn't Ike that sort of business. Buf she persisted wish to go to New York, #0 we got Anton and me a taxicab driven by tored to New York We came back in the evening and Queens Road, When deserted spot we got out of the road we p my wife said t the head,’ 1 if you mias him I'll hit him me fell Then we took al the money he had, $ car back to New York we w I sold the cat for Pittsburgh. lived in 6 till all the m then went to live few days ago I left my came to Mineola, and there I was ar. rested by Detective Christoph Nehiling.” unconscious. furnished room > Jone The Krening Work) Conn (Seecial QREENWICH, and Mrs side, Conn. ward was mai e of New in her my wife told the driveg to go along we came to a By the side | = ee ked up stones and You hit him on aning the drfver, ‘and “So { hit him on the head and he , and I drove the From ¢here nf to Philadelphia, and there for $100 and took the ney was gone and with my family, A wife and Wedding of Mine Marjorie Denison Jan, 5. Mina Marjorie Deniton Jones, daughter of Mr Henry Eugene Jones of River- HUBBY’S SOLITAIRE LED TO SEPARATION, MAYBE DIVORCE Mrs. Hoffstaedter Says He Was Irascible When He Played Because He Always Lost. Separated from her husband be- — ciuse he played solttaire al night and was peevish when he lost, whieh was always, Mrs. Ethel Hoffstaedter, No. 200 Weet 58th Street, to-day filed suit for divorce, charging that he had abandoned gol\taire long enough to play a duet at love with an unnamed woman, The husband, Hugo Hofstadter, in @ manufacturer and has been pay- ng his wife $260 a month since last May when they separated under an agreement, Mrs. Hoffstacdter in ber complaint, filed by Attorney. Alex- ander Slater, alleged that the baneful effects, of aire made her married + life intolerable and kept her husband in a constant state of trasctbility. On Christmas, 1919, she charged, they had a party and although Hoff- stacdter took advantage of the fact that Prohibition was not yet, and tion of regulations and was dis- charged from the army. He came to| Under lauid Inspiration tried to kiss a) Sie vung |2l the women at the party, he ob- Mineola .and there met a young |‘ oq when a male gtcet tes woman whose home was in Hemp-| ding Mrs. Hoffstuedter a formal good stead and married her. night, “One day my wife said she wanted tn to fod fo os ee | my to go to New York,” Naynor went |¥! ie de in Carre on, "I didn't have any money, so Hoffstaedter allgges her hus- said. ¢ also said she was émbarrassed by the attention paid them by Secret Service men because her husband de- fended the sinking of the Lusitania and otherwise expressed sympathy for the German cause. The alleged offense upon which she demanded a divorce occurred after the separation, she stated. Hoffstacdter entered a general de al to her conwplaint and asked for a decree of separation, | LUCKY STRIKE cigarette n 9 of other countries, but it was the| Episcopal Church, S 0a e & worst experience I ever had, ax far | neon 2 bride ww | By Grace Nicholas. aes ced Any. Sect Ae he ae suffering was concerned.” Mildred pial ca Bro . oto! ie ‘The of odging Houne ast | Ronor J Ts there something supernatural or | fressed my fingers tightly upon his|, The Municipal Lodging Houne In ro waa beat mai unusual about the de stration as a ig goer night cared for men, sixteen al abe he demonstration as neck. Again he was off balanes and} eon and three children: Bowery d Cross given at the Hotel Adtor on Sunday was unable to concentrate his foree. | Wi\tyn, : Salvation Army during the AS IE Pew G by Miss Annie Abbott, known as the |The only force he could have shown | \y- ‘ . y, seventy- with the . Georgia’ Magnet’? would have been downward, where |‘ 107; Corgia Magne balance would have been restored, | 00 S008 That it is merely a study of me- Lifting up, with no balance or chanics applied to physical strength, strength is his arms, he wus useless, andtere Since Johnny Coulon revived dis- 1s the o 1 400) Ansberg, an te Pinion of Loon Lansberg i, (cussion of the “force” recently in jole student of witchcraft, Indian culls | paris various selentife explanations : jand mechanical tricks. j have been offered, just they were | Thirty years ago, according to his statement yesterday, this man, then teacher of modern languages in Bir- mingham, Ala, first saw the “Georgia | power of weight resistance and of her as rep nted. In order to convine ond all pos sible question of doubt he directed «| test similar to that given b he] Magnet,” and which has mystified many persons, including scientiats | Under his, guidance, together witt two men and a youngster we per formed the wink t In the first I clutched a broom stick in the centre, while, the me held either end of it, In this man ner my hands acted as a tance, | nerely held it tightly in place whil the two men, pushing with all their trength pushed against eneh other As long as the force on both end. [kept up, f was wble to bold my bal Jance with no il) result Next he requested that IT face the wall, placing both hands flat against its surface. I was in this way equally balanced and able to retain a firm posture. One man_ placed his right hand upon my right shoulder and the second man placed his left hand the left shoulder of the one holding |me. In this way the force was lost Jas it was not concentrated. ‘The | strength being in their bodies, when their hands were olitatretched, they lost thelr balance and it Was Wasted completely Following these demonstrations 1 stood at the end of a board, my heels caught ut its end. One of the men Ittien attempted to lift me, but. my | force being concentrated downward I ad something to catch on ‘The man's force w nd hold 8 suspended te \He had no way of balancing and ns- ing his power, In this instance the [etrength » n his bady and there! mained ne whatever in his | wier, upon the back of whose neck | in years past She says she cannot explain St COUNTY DETECTIVE ON TRIAL. artnet “inh suewest by Pre Magnet." Ten ye ater, in this of- pay Smet bhadlic Pa ‘Branklin Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day ap-| oe tae Oe) Nathan TQ Maller of the Aw 5 jfice, he showed how the stunts were Fisheries Society to-day at the piles Sor Cone mn Coury, Just oe AIDE ae | y y i vro. {21 Brooklyn, for permission to be tried hi i conference of the American Game Pro- Vostord: tien Sead © thel tective Association at the Waldorf. He jon the: 'p larceny charge now pend- : Pigs . v suggested a bag limit be imposed and |{"& 8ainst her, by a jury either injdemonstration which Miss Abbott | ed 7 Leche |the Supreme Court or in the County) calls “control of natural laws by her! for $200 at his request by two men who told him it was a stolen car, | District Attorney Charles R. Weeks charged in the Supreme Court at Mineola to-day. Plant is on trial on} an indictment containing three} conspiruey, erimina re- | stolen property and failing| m his sworn duty | of the men alleged to have boug the car ts Matthe O'Neill, | now serving a tert in Sing Sing receiv olen property is W Hoffman who| Abraham Golaber No. 528 Boule- | urd, Tha © was held to-day in 000, bad Gates Avenue Court or om hearing = Thursd iw y tolon the saute t Leopold Ar y's Roman Cath Kent Avenue The ‘ove hia car to a gar ut No Clason Avenue, B: | ant sing and, according to the po: n Miss »hott’s case. her- If; Mr. Lansberg claims he can, barged Nasanan County Officet| Knowingly Bought Stolen Ante. | Carman Plant, former Nassau} ty detective, personally used a en automobile which was bought r charge, PRIEST'S CAR STOLEN. ra Hearing, the car wu ninutes later een at Park dberg loe driven out 4 At midnight and Chesson arrested SKATING TO-DAY; RED BALL UP IN 13 CITY PARKS Avenu The Most | Remarkable Value We have ever offered | KATING + permitted toe | Help Hoover feed the children of Europe. Wednesday, January 26th, and do your bit for humanily. . PPENHEIM; CLLINS. 34th Street—New York Atlend a Pre-Inventory Clearance Wednesday 800 Pairs Women’s Shoes Formerly 9.00 12.00 and 15.00 Reduced to 3.90 Odd Lots. Comprising Various Styles. Not Every Size in picture theatre, No Exchanges Credits or : Approvals Each Model. ss ft Sophy f Accumulated Bronx, Van Cortland and ¢ aa tona parks All Sizes, but ay outed, dD i \ a - ny Ton Si Highlagd perlen. | . F ae iy t Stores ows ee ate antl er