The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 3

WIL AMERIANZE OWED OTHERS WELFARE BOARD Teaching Them American Ideals Will Reduce Number of Public Charges, BOON TO FOREIGN BORN Administration of Widows’ Pensions Lays Foundation for Better Citizenship. A movement to Americanize| widowed mothers is to be launched to-morrow night at 8 o'cIck in the City Hall by the Board of Child Wel- fare of New York City, which ad- ministers the Widows’ Pension Law, The Board of Child Welfare is now earing for ehildren and 6,594 mothers, It has found that many Mothers are-ignorant of the first Pudiments of citizenship and have Rot become citizens. It has also found that many dependent and destitute children, born in this country, are excluded from the allowances be- e@use their fathers had neglected to who, become Citizens In Use interest of the children as “future citizens the effort will be} made (0 Americunize these mothers| and aid them in becoming citizens by teaching them American ideals and Principles and assisting them in se- curing full citizenship. The bourd at the last meet solved to divide the city into sectio 80 the mothers may be put to little or] no trouble meetings for} nif pury houses near| their own homes, | A Wederul nt at the first Hall, as gent will be p: meeting in City all the ottig neetin to explain the} methods (r secur ! rs | for those wh t i } It is of utmost importance to ae qua these mothers with Amer! dngtitut and ideals in the of ch r } Sophie Irene Loeb, President of the} board, in an interview to-day ss “The va. mot jove and heep ing the ¢ thei eat Corrective W accomplished in the Widows’ al dy} snsion Law bas clearly atraied the ef- | tleacy ounce of prevention | rather the 4 nd eure, inj) looking ahead to ki minimum the number of public char “Dhe econon ay developed in the work is pres 1 im the forth-| comin the of Child | Welt interesting (tems, | set fort i In its pros. pective, constructive programme for ehabilitating families, putting them on their t it were, and making them i ns, the Board of ems it of paramount importance to begin this k Uy making American mothers, Tho mother's influence in the home and in the neighbo: 1 ©: ot be estimated, und ally nto at ation of an ide esults will fully Justify alt t Made in this direction.” How s of the been red. to tity ‘om- ed in ren int moby at y of some agen © children tind themselves wlien uot properly cared for, the figures of which Miss Loeb quoted | 30, in the sini ne under this number y widows, not re. the city cane n. Prevention one year) ne your end 0 chil bation children Howat were un the probat for the n, for , out of ebildren care Welfare Board, | the jurisdiction As against this num- children, of widows not re- bly to Child septemt Child re under ceiving allowances for the city came before this society, In the Welfare Bureau of the Police Department 57 chile : and vhrowi dren of other widows were brought © the attention of this bureau who were not under the jurisdiction of the Child Welfare Board. Where allowances have been grant. ed by the city to widowed me it has n found that their elildren are pr y cared for, and there are very few cases for complaint, accord | To Amer-| fs another step | ideals in the ing to the at eanize all the promoting: others roper O1e8. speak at the the board will meetin so address these mothers. The mem} the Board of Child Wel-| fare are Sophie Irene Loeb, Prest-| t fbcin Smith, Mrs. 8, Me-! Kee Smith, Prank P. Cunion, P. J.| Menehan, Dr, William Irving Siro- vich, Juin Kosenbrock and Mrs, Han- | nah B. Hinstein, STATE AIDS 55.945 IN AMERICANIZATION Attendance in Classes for Foreign- | ers Doublal Last Year, | , Report Shows. Jan. 31,—Instraction in the und the principles of yn 55,949 non ons of foreign York state in| the last year une direction of the St Department Hducation and nr) pits Show tmmb M19 to 16,951 in! communities rn reguiar choot | poses, | earthed |who could talk about it. d:|to Mme. Sembrich and F found bedded in absorbent cotton and | WOMAN PLEADS CASE, WINS. DAMON VALED AT $4000 SATO. BE UNDECLARED Collector Newton. Has Two} Cases Under Inquiry—Gems | Taken From Aquitania, | The case of Miss JuNette De Coppet of No. 314 West 83th Street, in whose basgage approximately $2,000 worth of undeclared jewelry wus found] after her arrival on the Aquitania yesterday, is the second to be un- on that vessel. Byron R. Newton, Collector of the Port, will take up not only her ea®e to-day, but that of Harry Binder, a second cabin pessenger, in whose underolothing cut diamonds valued at about $4,000 were said to have been found after he had denied possession of them. Miss de Coppet, who is a daughter of the late Edward J. de Coppet, was | permitted to go home, where she said ershe had had trouble with customs inspectors about jewelry, but that her brother, Andre, was the only one He could not be reached, A woman who said she was Mrs, Andre de Coppet said a mistake had been made, but it would be adjusted to-day, when Miss de Coppet explained to Collector Newton. Miss de Coppet shared a stateroom on the Aquitania with Mme. Mar- cella Sembrich, opera singer. The stateroom was in Mme. Sembrich’s name The discovery of the jewelry was made after the passengers had left | their erooms, and the baggage | had been taken to the pier. It came about only by chance. Thomas M. | Hyatt, an inspector, was walking through 9 corrider when he came to | he door of a luxurious room | and in it he found an empty jewelry box bearing the name of a Paris firm Hyatt reported his discovery to his superiors, and the baggage belonging Miss de Cop- pet was searched on the pier, Noth- ing was found in Mme. Sembrich's luggage that had not been declared, In Miss de Coppet’s baggage, how- ever, the officials said, they found a plece of jewelry, set with diamonds, which bad not been declared, and which fitted the box found in the waste basket as If the box had been made for it, Miss Pe Coppet's father died in 1916 at the age of sixtwone, leaving an esiuie of $1,476,585 to his on, Andre Mr. De Coppet was senior member of the Stoc! of De Cop- xchange hol us, ry of the diamonds in rs poswustion came 1ysterious telephone call the Custom How rday. A woman, refusal to give ber name, told the night operator, that was a man named Binder com- the Aquitania with smuggled sds and then abruptly rang off. vnediaicly telephoned to In- tor W go he and Inspectors Kelty and Babcock were awaiting the passenger Binder, who lives at No. 367 Peart Street, Brooklyn, and has an electric fixture business at No, 100 Myrtle Avent 8 questioned about smug- sled goods us soon as he landed, He denied haying anything dutiable and his baggage was searched, Nothing was found and he was ordered buck on the ship for an inspection of his clothing After he had been stripped, still de~ nying that he had brought diamonds oyer, the stones, seven of them, rang- ing from one to four karats to a total welve, valued at about $4,000, were sewed in his underclothing. Binder admitted buying the stones Poland, where he bad gone to to this country pis father-in- law and mother-in-law and their four children, He said that food conditions were such ip Poland that diamonds could be bought for almost a song. As Binder's father died last night he was porinitted to go home _ MRS. W.'L. WASHINGTON SUES Seeks Divorce From Steel 1 ming “Unidentified Woman in bring Iam Lerner nected with several big steel tions in Pennsyhunia and a member of many patrotic socteties, was namod in a suit for divorce toslay In the Supreme Court by his wife, Mrs, May B. Wash- ington, In the papers, Mrs. Washir ton alleges her husband was indisoreet af 4 local hotel between Jan. + and 16 of last y with unidentified nan.” She also claims Mr. Washing ton “lived openty" with this x in West Ninth Street, between July nied Doo, 28 of last year, matt ard and Berwors, Washington, asked Justé appolnt-a referee. He resury Mrs. Washington belleves he ix now living at No, 19 West ashing cons corpur.a+ 13 for Mra. Ampinall to 1 deolsicn, busted jist Stroet « ants Her Two More Months in Forecloned Home, So succensfuily did Mrs. Puutine Borer ad her caso to-day that Justice Aw of the Suprome Court granted permission ve two months No. 442 West Street, Brooklyn, from which the new" land- lords, Louis Hirsch and Joseph had tried to remove her. Jonger in her hom: to Mrw. Borer used to own it fost it through foreclosur ie sald she had a husband and sw Ditdren and had been unwih!s to fad on homie elsewhere was will | wuld, to fay $40 a menth for th: ‘qwoths tenancy, Army of Zion, Headed by Chorus Coming Here to Save Us With SKIRTS | May NOT BE Lie Cea She IMeves Apove Ow FOR cHURCH THE ANKLES COING,ON SUNDAY sey Vy OM Z Z Head of the Church in City of} Sunday Gloom Planning to Swoop Down on New York and Drive Sin From Man- hattan Island Into the Sea. ZION CITY, Il, Jan, 31.—The| Army of Zion, headed by a chorus of | 400 in flowing white robes, chanting “Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep| It Holy.” will soon be marching down Broadway. Indications here in the City of Sunday Gloom to-day were that W. G. Voliva, owner of Zion City and head of the Church of Zion, plans to swoop down on New York to drive sin from Manhattan Island into the harbor. Voliva's triumphant entry into New York will not be a fiasco, his follow- ers promise. The church of Zion ha a large ‘war chest” to fight for blue laws, they said. WEATHER DELAYS SHOPPING TRIP 4YQUNG WOMEN MISSING, POLICE T0 ‘Two Blue Law Angels already are on the Way to prepare the task of HA ] ving New York and making it inte a J a large edition of Zion City. ‘They are = Helen Buhman and Belle Scheliborn, <a Here are scaue of Voliva’s rules in Zion City Wife of President-Elect Re-}Three Disappeared in One THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1921.” of 400, Blue Laws IT 19 FORBIDDEN TO ose Tosacco GRAFTING BANKER SENT TO SING SING One of Kind Who Stole Country- men’s Savings Exposed by Evening World. ieorge Baldo, who at one time con- ducted a private bank at No. 247% Arthur Avenue, pleaded guilty to-day to Justice Gibbs In the Bronx Supreme Court to an indictment charging grand larceny, He was sentenced to serve not less than five years nor more than eleven years in Sing Sing. The indlet- ment recited that Baldo accepted $900 from Rafael Balzoni of No. 2475 Arthur Avenue, for transmiasion to Italy and pocketed (he mone Bado was a type of the money trans- nitter who establishes himself in the onfidence of his countrymen’ and steals their savings. He posed as a banker, although he had no license, Complaints filed with t Bronx District Attorney's office indie that he stole probably $14,000 from people who entrusted mone to him for delivery to relatives In Haly ‘As a result of The Evening World's campaign against dishonest self-styled “pankers’” and “brokers” Baldo will protably soon be joined in Sing Sing by more of his sort of financiers. No movies Ne church but fuses Visitors, Insisting She | », Day; General Alarms jo theatres ow ~ : i No drug stores No gambling Wishes to Rest. Out for All. No doctors No Hite music - a as No oysters 0 Sunday motor- . ‘ No tobacco ing Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of | The police are to-day searching the Ne pork hab No Fondly P'fa| the President-elect, remained in her} ity for four young women who have © peekaboe unfriendly to ss + Fema i waists nvciva, pitt Toms at the Ritz-Carlton to-day, | Ht yen reported as missing and of eaching chil- yhereaibo « + may Ne ealbene Na pound indent} UsTself to the reporters and photog- | Mve honed to aa them from lo beer, not even No ind e pe homo their relatives are In ignorance, Vo of i percent merchants 8 who swarmed about the co aii & | ipedanier,. Owe: are No secret society ‘No factories but but could not get beyond] * ewan oe See mine No vaccination those controlled Jey HaMkes. the Wacesdl eernicn gecety se War ans tees (ies lo card playing y 1 “at app ad 01 jan. 2 ‘ pele No dancing ee as a: the afternoon, her husband, Josepl, Do these blue laws sound Ike 8 The shopping trip for which the] ee iog she has dark hair and joke? P Fifth Avenue merchants had hoped brown eyes and wears a platinum ‘cores of persons who have smoked! Was postponed, partly due to the| wedding ring, When she left home or chewed tobacco within the pre-| weather, it was said, and purty be-| ine wore a short seal cont, black cinets of Zion City have been sent to| cause Mrs, Harding simply wanted | gitin slippers, black silk stockings prison or fine |to rest up after her journey to New | qaq brown beaver hat with a tassel Women have been driven from the | York he is 5 fect 3 inches tall and weighs streets for appearing in moderately! She had breakfast in her rooms ‘ys pounds low-necked waists. Voliva sent the) with Mrs. Harry S, New, wife of the Helen Trevala, seventeen, of No wife of the chief of police with an/Indlana Senator, and Mrs, Edward 3g Carmine Street, loft home al 8 armful of shawis to throw them/ B, McLean, wife of the Chairman o'ojock A, M. the same day in a dark around the necks of women who did/ of the Inaugural Committee, blue dress and black shoes and not wear high-coliared waists, The| This is Mrs. Harding's first visit stockings. She wears a school class Overseer himself announced he would|to New York since her husband's ring, Her eyes and hair are dark go forth to slap the faces of any | lection, and it is expected she will and she is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weigh- women in Zich whose costumes did|Complete her wardrobe here before ing 125 pound not conform to his ideas. tuking her place in the White House: Bessie Andreas, sixteen, has been Voliva controls the polities of Zion|March 4, Mrs, Harding arrived here | absent from her home, No, 262 West City absolutely, fe bosses ne ay from Washington, {15th “Street, gince Jan, 9, leaving nools, police and al) City Govern | Mrs, Harding and her friends have! there with a girl Who is supposed to cat absolute dictatos}® Suite on the twelfth floor of the be a telephone operator. Bessie is pe os ; ak eat ee riton, with two maids to look 5 feet inches tall, weighs 106 and enforces his blue laws rigidly. their ‘comfort. ‘They will re- pounds and has brown’ har and fair True, his have failed in}main several days, but do not know, complexion, She wo ‘brown suit Two or three|exnetly how long. On the police slip she is listed us itis, have suc-| The wife of the next. President! an “operator.” mri tht [Was courteous and cordial when xe-| Ger ie Ebert, seventeen, a nunre- sane AS THERE ER AD scr met her us she Dped “oft | maid, bas not been see: home, Zion City the Jast Pullman car of the train] No. 277 West 182d Street, since Jan When it comes down to teaching the |!n the Pennsylvania station. ater M has blue eyes and F wa lian thei n|_ “Oh, I just love you all!” she sald,|prown ‘hair, is 7 feet 6 inches tall s AaB % }with her bright eyes smiling behind|ind weighs 120 pounds, She was y of a flat the ovals of her pince-nez and tol in @ blac plush cout, a brown d Dp 1 of a round one was enune|- | prove It she literally hugged a woman} and tun suede shoes. he Paporte Mrs, Fanny Heitner, whe came to . 1, |. “But,” Mrs. Harding went on, “P'm| this vily a few days ago from Bacau, arth couldn’ r 41! | not going to talk te you now. Lean’s| Roumania, usked the police to find her the water would run off and the peo- | really, I'm tired, and there isn't any-| son Adolph, thirty-one < sate tala WOU HARE tai en thing 1 can say, I'm just going toljq jiving with jer Sioa Auatiaie woul have to weer) tated and re TL have no definite] pyilip Kubrin, ut No. hooks on thei t to keap from fall to w m going to do, be-| Street, Hor son. she ing off. How could the Lord ascend) p. but for to-night I'm not] grom sehool when} ind deacend from Teaven if t + | Boing to do anything at all. and went muminy. : | Whereupon, accompanied by a Se-| tit. he aa thee Ts ‘sa globe wiring ¢ A Vl ores Service ‘agent who came along! ip y hospital and that ho went to imimate from Washington and a hotel rel atier that believes he came does Voliva forbid’ tte tx tative Who was waiting at the sta- as Mea. Hoitne Rowe eiive Sarna sia Lady-of-the-Land-elect and] {/)* Cts ker ie kindof hear tn) Alon’ Clty nds boarded # limousine and]. it < pass rough ¢ h yiot Ritz-Carlton. |} | ter by a persons whe Har wore tthe woman| Hier ip Roumania te trans beer throught eh id a i Chicago gallons “slightly military ky va Veliva's policemen, who poured It smal! and adorned with plumes wii ORDERS CURTAIN down the Wer, it have been r n's ess blue, or In addition to all these prohibitions, | maybe they were “Hurding blue,” as) TO CONCEAL FAIR Voliva anat twids Ww me of the modist n try do not come through with the tithes a ‘ farion JUROR’S ANKLES he demands. He usually ess-| blue” as other to ful In making Zion Cityites loosen up.| term tt in he town With the Zion City regulations im-| whence comes y r ‘ 7 = iain’ poxed on New York City and. ens| Sho wore a long coat of deep-brown| Ohio Judge Heeds Plai That forced by policemen and Mugistrates| cloth, with a heavy seal collar that Women Cannot Cross Their completely obedient to the Overseer, | was fastened, of he Leite how would youtlike to live hero® owning can’t be here described. Feet in Court. generate th the tact in Alex OPPOSE NEW DRY BILL. SPRINGFIELD, 0, Jan. 31.— ander Dowle, founder ¢ n ¢ ig - Common Pleas Judge Geiger has and the “Christian Catholic Apostolic | promised women:members of the Church in Zion." now ruled by Vo-|OBlections Raised to Giving S.J.) Tin pase ierapere oF. 8 liva, failed «attempt to Zioni Maxintrates Jurisdiction : could hase: New York {n 1903. Maybe the ang TRENTON, tain erected along the front of sent by Voliva will have no better] oujcuions to the the jury box at Inast waist high. tuck aaibigman’ doa Women jurors complained that ~OP- aida ance | it was impossible for them to 000 SIIk Recovered: Two Meld. | iil : [| youees ;armeealnentoes thane ss ie ac : bs f male toway at a| sitting position withont oora BADR. BY SONOS aettes Nh | the Joint Judiciary at| sionally crossing thelr lags. They Sr en ne Baty Membery af the Anti-| Ooveupy elevated posit n the worth op ne tented te hearing tn| court room, and even wits H he rear oF and nnorinced | knees uncrossed the ant No ‘ ' ait ty 8 noticed ! i # charge of burglary, ou eon! rig Important Clearance—Tuesday To Close Out Remaining Winter Stocks é 50 M Values to 59.75 Fur Trimmed and For Women and Missts For Women and Misses For Women and Misses For Women and Misses For Women and Misses For Women and Misses For Women and M sses WALK IN THE SNOW INS. AS PROTEST TO 8-CENT FARES ae Citizens Plan to Fight 20 Per Cent. Increase by Rapid Transit Company. Staten Islanders walked in the storm to-duy the Municipal Ferry rather thgn pay the eight-cent fare demanded on the local lines of the Staten Island Rapid Transit. There will be a n@eting to-night at Borough Hall, St.0George, to regiater formally the objection of the people to the 20' per cent. fare increase, Borough Prysident Van Name said that one of “the chief arguments against any fare wt is the fact that the steam lines of the company run over some of the main highways. A suggestion has been made that the Staten Island Civic League's 4,500 members, acting in concert with other indignant citizens, demand that the railroad be compelled to elevate itetracks, ‘The company charged a six-cent fare before the order for the 20 per cent, increase was lesued > --—-- TWO CASHIERS ARRAIGNED. Held on Employers’ Chareen Thefts of Firms! ands, Herman J. Gerken, thirty, of No. 218@ Tiebout Avenue, Bronx, was one of two cashiers for stock brokers arraigned to- day before Magistrate Simms in Tombs: Court, charged with stealing money from their firms, Gerken. who was arrested at his home last night by De- teotives Fleming and Kathfleisch, was held in $5,000 bail for examination Thursday. The complainant was Mar- shall Leff, No. 25 Trond Street, for whom he worked two years up to Now, 1, when, It was alleged, he took $100. Aasistant District Attorney auld $13,000 was nilesing. ick Epstein, thirty-tw wood Street, cashier for Ni ger, Henderson & Loeb, No. way. arrested by Detective Dunthy on complaint he had been stealing Urough the petty bash account, waived exam- ination and was held 1 $3,000 bail for the Grand Jury, No. 18 100 Tiroad - OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & C 34th Street—New York 100 Fur-Trimmed Coats Formerly to 85 Straightline Coats Formerly to 59.75 38.00 95 Afternoon and Street Dresses Formerly “to 75 Higher-Cost Gowns Formerly to 200 Tricotine and Velour Dresses Values to 35.00 13. 75 175 Smart Tricolette Dresses Values to 37.50 18 00 isses’ Evening 75 Misses’ Coats and Wraps Formerly to 65.00 25 .00 Tailored 75 Wool Plaid Skirts Regular 15,00 -| 9 | pany of 15 Rxchange Place, Jersey Of Frocks Reduced to 25. 00 SDRY AGENTS RAID WOODMANSTEN INN Dine, Drink Highballs, Send Guests Home and Then Seize Thousands in Fine Liquors. Woodmansten Inn, on the Williams bridge Road, Bronx, one of the best known rondhouses in the five bore oughs, was fled with fashlonadle diners shortly before midnight whea three couples in evening dress drove up ina handsome jimousine and were shown to a table. During dinner, after they had bean served with refreshments, the three men arose, told the waiter he was under arrest and that Uncle Sem temporarily was in charge, There was a little excitement at first, but a night of the Government badges caused the crowd to get wraps and motor away as quickly as posible, ‘The three men in swallow talls were Mose Smith, Izzy Einstein and Her man Wittenberg of the flying squad- ron under Prohibition Supérvising Agent Chapin. The walter arrested gave his name as Pascal die, No. & Hast 119th Street. A summons was the proprietor, Joseph L. served on Pani The Government agents sald to-day’ it didn’t look much like Prohibition times in the inn. ‘They allego they paid $1 for straight whinkey and $1.25 for ginger ale highballs. They said thelr search after the arrest revealed several thousand dollars’ worth of fine liquors, including champagnes, and what appeared to be pre-war beer, on tee. They remained on guard at the inn all night waiting for trucks to haul it away. > Aig Increase tm Capital Stock, TRENTON, N. J, Jan. t1—A cortl: te of Inorease of capital stock fron 000,000 to $20,000,000 was filed with the Seoretary of Stute to-day by the Standard Sanitary Manutact@ring Com nexiore Ahrens is President of the Company, and J. W. Oliver Secretary, 98.00 68.00 68.00 35.00 #.0 50.00 Values 9.75 eA