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- <p! eee + Mr, Walistein, looking over his @lasses sterniy “L have ne Jow opinion of the committte,” shouted Senator Down- ing. “My low opinion is of you! After a moment of silence, Mr Wailstein turned again te Mr O'Malley, who had desisted trom his demand to be allowed “ @peech about live poultry. ‘The Mayor, accompanied by his of- fiotal retinue, headed by Police Licut. Bdwart Quinn, was in a siniling mood when he arrived. At his right ear sat Examiner Smith of the Board of Es- timate. Behind Mr. Smith eat Assist- fant Corporation Counsel William B. Carswell, Back of Mr, Carswell sat two clerks from the office of Commis- sioner of Accounts Hirshfield. Seore- tary Sinnott sat ont in front, Other City Hall attaches lined the nearer walls of the northeast corner of the schamber. BROWN SAYS DOCK PROPERTIES ARE WORTH §$212,226,000. Former Senator Bion R. Brown started by asking questions about the city's dock properties, which he said were worth $ 000. “We increased the revenue from that property about $1,300,000 last year,” ob- werved the Mayor. “I don't just know the exact figures.” “of course,” suid Mr. Brown. “No- ody @xpects anybody to carry all those in his mind. Now we find an in- crease in expenses of operation of theso properties fiom $510,000 in 1917 to $1,202,000 in 1920." “There has been an incroase,” the Mayor said, “due to rising costs of scr- vices and materia “The net revenue of the city’s dock | property in 1920 was $5,819,000; the | valuation was $212,819,000," said Mr. | Brown. “Have you considered if this were private property, subject to the ourrent tax rates, it would pay the city but a thousand dollars less than fo make BLLADASIEAS CONGRESS RESTS Anti-Beer Bill Stumbling Block for Several Much Needed Measures. SLOW SENATE BLAMED. ‘Railroad Bill, Too, Must Wait Until Recess Is Over, About Oct. 4, By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 38 (Copy- jright, 1921).—Congreas is in a jam aa | usual on the eve of an adjournment or recess. Again tt is demonstrated that the Senate is at the marcy of small groups. The measure which President Harding and Secretary Meflon requested passed so that ne- goliations might be begun with the Allied Powers to arrange for payment of principal and interest on the $10,- 000,000,000 they owe the United sates 23, 1921. ‘Beautiful Wife Who Divorced Maharajah Because of His Harem has been shelved until after the recess, The bill to anable the War Finance Corporation to handle the emergency sum it now returns from all res?” MAYOR FAVORS CITY KEEPING OWNERSHIP OF DOCKS. “Regardless of revenue,” said Mr. Hylan, re‘sing his voice, “I am in amor of the city’s owning its docks.” =="Bo am I,” sald Mr. Brown, with “Mie appearance of exercising patient “gglf control. “But haye you con- g@i@ered a method of gaining a revenue “Which would be substantially greater ‘Shwe the property would give the city Sim taxes if privately owned?” Mayor again asserted his in- ble belief that the people should the docks. were tied up in three-year Mr. Brown asked what have been made when leases during the Hylan term. ~ ;.4r. Hylan said he and the Dock @emmissioner Aad considered the Ga@@atter seriously and had been en- S@havoring constantly to get an in- revenue. s to particular or referred Mr. Sock Commissioner. The Mayor spoke again. several és Of his duty to maintain the ‘s ownership. | GMAYOR REVEALS HE DID NOT START THE WAR. “APU tell you a secret, Senator,” he ‘ead. “I didn’t start the war in Eu- Tope and the increases in costs which *@ollowed.”” ‘Mr. Brown said he would cable to “doyd George and the other Premiers Sot Burope to get a certificate to that Seffect. The Mayor thanked him, say- jing they would “oome in handy.” He feontinued: “1 did not make the leases under ‘which we were unable to raise rentals 40 meet increasing costs. The Mayor said the present new Jeases, though for long terms, were more profitable to the city than the old—for inatance, he said, lessees nuw pave to do their own dredging. * Mayor Hylan asserted that the last &hree years had “seen more dock building for the city than it had done +4m the preceding thirty years.” By Mr. Hrown—Only nineteen docks? A. These nineteen docks when completed will in area and city be just about 19 per cent. of ail the city’s dock facilities, % @. You are familar with the report “et your Commissioner of Accounts wuying 71-2 per cent. was an insuf- {ficient return for the docks? A. Per- “haps the Commiagioner did not con- wider the matver of policy that rentals lanust never be so high as to drive commerce to other ports. Q (By Senator Downing) Are there not other ports offering free Vdoeks to draw ocouunerce from New York? A. Yes. David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts, received two subpoenas from the Meyer Legislative Investi- gating Committes to-day requiring him to produce all testimony taken vby bim in his investigation into the Department of Markets, One of the Vwubpoenas asked for the names of all witnesses examined in the Markets Department investigation, alphabeti- cally arranged. ‘The alphabetical ut, Commissioner Hirshfiwld said, was not supplied, and the commit was told if it wanted an alphabetical list of witnesses it could prepare one iteuif. ; > contracts the Brown to the x Mead of L. 8. Red Crons in Salontht | Dies From Burns. SALONIKI, Greece, Auk Dr, Russel) Stewart Wingtield of Va, medical head of the American Red "Cross unit here, who was seriously burned on the night of Aug. 15 in a fire | tan the Red Croas Child Health Clinie in | Kalmaria Park, died of his injurics sat- | urduy. | The funeral: which held | Monday, was attended by authorities, and milita tpaid the dead van hmand, the honors )Peter Cooper Hewitt Holding His) Own, PARIS, Aug. 33.—The condition of Peter Cooper Hewitt, American scientiat and eicotrical inventor, who was Qperated on here for whdominal trouble Qn Tuceday last, has been complicated by 4n attack of pusumonia. He was Feported to-day to be holding his own in the American Hospital. ‘Tariff and Revenue Bills, in the railroad situation by paying large mums to the railroads which have been due thom as war claims 1s also sidetracked. The money wus to have been spent by the roads in Duying equipment and might have given business as a whole a general stimulus this fall. Congress, ‘thow- ever, influenced by the agricultural group, which wants a reduction in freight rates before helping the rall- Toads, was unable to get the legisia- tion through. ‘The real stumbling block, however, thas been the so-called Anti-Beer Bill, ‘The House passed the conference ro- port substantially as the Amti-Saloon League leaders wanted it. But in the Senate great constitutional objections have been raised wherein the Fourth Amendment is beld to conflict with According to the latest reports, the beautiful Maharanee of Ka- purthala, who is said to be the third richest woman in the world, has obtained a Paris divorce from the Maharajah, nicknamed “the Modern Solomon.” It is alleged that the Maharajah has five other wives in India and when he re- GREAT DIRIGIBLE BOUGHT BY THES. STARTS TRIAL TRIP No Mishaps Mar Beginning of Final Test With Two Crews Aboard. MAY LAND ZR-2 TO-NIGHT Air Ministry Reports Her Ar- rival Over Town After Two Hours’ Flight. HOWDEN, England, Aug. 23 (As- sociated Press).—The dirigible ZR-2, purchased from Great Britain by the United States, began a trial trip at 7.10 o'clock this morning. British and American aerial officers were In charge of the giant balloon, which will start on its flight across the Atlantic to America as soon as prac- ticable, It was intended that to-day's Might would be the final test of the great airship before Commander Louis H. FORGERY CHARGED IN PETITIONS OF BRONX FUSIONISTS Affidavits of G. O. P. Candi- date Filed with Election Board and Prosecutor. Charges of fraud and forgery were made in affidavits filed to-day with the Board of Elections and with Dis- trict Attorney Edward J. Glennon of Bronx County, by Joseph P. Murphy of No. 465 East Tremont Avenue, the Bronx, who ts chairman of the Roose- velt Republican Clab in the Bronx and also head of the Representative Republican Organizations of Bronx County. He alleges that in the pe- titions of some of the coalition cin- didates for city, borough amd county offices im the Bronx, irregularities are such as to warrant criminal prosecution. Murphy, who is a candidate for County Clerk on the straight Repub- lican ticket, deolare sthat ihe has ex- amined the petitions of Joseph M. Levine, designated for Borough Prest- Maxfield of the United States Navy, and his crew formally took charge of the craft. The ship's control car contained Commander Maxfteld, Brig. Gen. S. M. Maitland, the Brit- ish Air Marshal, and Col, Campbell, who ewpervised the work of design- ing the dirigible. Distributed through the vast interior of the balloon were five other American officers, seven engiheers and four riggers, in addi- tion to the regular British crew. ~ MARA NEE KAPUR Tet LA KEYSTONE fused to give them up his wife sought a divorce. The Indian Prince is a Colonel in the British Army, and was wounded and decorated for ex- treme bravery on the west front in the World War. The 1 -incess is famous in Paris for her won- derful collection of jewels. GUNS AND AXES USED the Eighteenth Amendment. The Beer Bill faced temporary defeat. , The friends of beer have this advantage in a postponement: If the bill isn’t considered until after the recess, regulations will have been issued meanwhile by the Treasury Depart- memt permitting the manufacture of Deer for medicinal purposes. Once these chances of altering them by subse- quent legislation are slim. Togulations are made, the interests still wait action on The Senate has been in ses: ion have been, augmented this time by the clash in interests between the Eastern and Western Republicans, ‘The latter have played the better stratexsy and have managed to get but the Basterners have not had ef- fective leadership. As 4 consequence there is an admission now that much more progress would have been made if the Tax Bill,had been given right of way in both Houses and if Presi- dent Harding bad insisted upon such priority. ‘There has rarely been a time when 80 much bitterness and personal feel- ing was evident in the cloak rooma, It is not confined to one party but an evidence of what happens when one individual or group gets behind pet pieces of legislation and resents the obstructiveness of another individual looks like delay. Ultimately it means Coltdes rked Mrs, Florence was probably nd her With Two Others Stanhope, N. J. Magie of Andover, N. J. mortally injured to-day, son William, and Wiliam § Slater were injured when their auto- mob) crashed into othera parked at Stanhope. The parked cars were near the sor Morris Canal and belonged to per- attending a dance at the Palace Court Hoth empty cars were pushed into the caval and the car in which Mra Magie was riding was overturned, Mrs. Magic did not recover consctous eas for hours after her removal to th Morristown Hospital, Her skull le thought to be fractured. Her son's in- {Juries are internal and. serious, while ir, Slater was only slightly hurt. Se Bishop McDonnell Left Ketmte to Prelates, ‘The entire estate of the late Bishop Charles KE. McDonnell of Brooklyn, who Cut in Song Writers Alimony. Ref Leighton Lobdel! to-day sub Mitied a report to Justice Davin r @mnmending that the alimony of FE eed Mra watelte ce Bijur inet ebr Bisined © separation {rom Hur) Car. the @ong writer, be reduced to $50 ome ne be a 1 by died at Lrentwood, lL. L, on Aug &, filed for probate Brooklyn to- | | The estate, which is described An "more than $6,000 In personality, and {more than $5,006 in realty.” is left to | Archblahop Patrick J. Hayes of New | York and Bishops Thomas J. Walsh jand Joho & xs fe “rR Of Trenton and otively, | wee [anced ‘Foo. ty " union man and the men under him ‘The only measure which has been) were all members of the union. certain of passage is the bill enabling the War Finance Corporation to lend/etopped at Port au Prince and Port large sums of money to agricultural] de Paix, Hayti the export organizations. The farm-|anything but a port of peace. ers have had their way this session, | majority of the m..abers of the crew though manufacturing and ®usiness| wert ashore, loaded up with rum as the |bailast, quantities aboard ia bottles. only a few montha, but the usual| fore the Allianca was clear of Port de troubles of a new Administration] Paix. man, hit him latter ran on caught him. lowed—in McDonald broke Mason's jaw. A cook ©. a passeng: Cooney was having a the Colombian, Cooney, Melo ld eunalenlal: Bienes: ie and Magon and locked them up int booby hatoh. In the height of the WOMAN AND TWO MEN shindy the ‘smoke of | the ‘Atlantic Meet was scen in the distance. HURT IN TRIPLE CRASH.| Cant Stone instructea Harry Smith, BY NUTS REM ON THE ALLANCA (Continued From First Page.) On the retrrn voyage the Allianca ‘The last named was A and carried considerable Hostilities opened below decks be- Arthur McDonald of New York, a water tender, charged that Edward Maron of New York, a fire with a redhot grate bar and burned most of the skin off his back. Dr. Thomas F. Joyce, the ship's consideration for most of their bills,|#Urgeon, treated McDonald, who im- mediately went after Mason, The ck, where McDonald In ,the fight that fol- sight’ of passengers interfered when McDonalil started to jump on the prostrate Mason, wher upon McDonald grabbed up’ an axe and chased the cook all around the deck, Ida BeileJohnaton of Lronton, who witnessed the a complaint ‘to the pursuit, sent Captain. In the mean time the unpopular lot of trouble below decks and suddenly he ap- peared on deck in company with Seeturino Gruesco, a Colombian fire~ man. Gruesco had a revolver and Was apparently bent upon shooting Cooney full of holes. or group. The Renate hasn't been| First Officer Lawrence Nelson the happiest family these mid-sum-| Waded into the disturbance, knocked cer dave, (The retene Munertininiy out and disarmed Grucsco and with the ald of other off ‘ers put irons on the wireleas operator, to send out distress signals. After un hour the battleship Connecticut approached at full speed, circled the Allianca and stopped. ‘A boat was lowered froin the battleship and @ Captain of ma- fines came aboard the Allianca and conferred with Capt, St The passengers sa wthe Captain of marines return to the Connecticut soon after a detachment of twen- ty-two marines under command of Veut, Voght, left the battleship in a Jaunoh and boarded the Allianca. All was quict on the liner by that time. Lieut. Voght posted guards and the rest of the voyage was peaceful, On the arrival of the Allianca Deputy United States Marshals took the prisoners off the ship and locked them up in the Hoboken jail, No formal charges were preferred against thom although It was re- ported that an entry on the ship's jog charged James Cooney with “in- citing to mutiny.” mati of Fish Die From Lack of Oxygen in Water, BIRCHWOOD, Wis, Aug, 2% —MiM- Jona of fish in Wisconsin lokos died this EDTH WEBB BRIE OF STABLE GROOM, NARRED_ JUNE (Continued From Finst Page.) of the voice said she was Mrs. Thomas Leonard, “My sister was married to George Miles on June 14,” she said. “Mr. Miles, a groom for Benjamin Behr?” “Mr. Miles is not a groom,” came the answer. “What is his business?" “He is not a groom, “Is he a gentleman “He most certainly is!” was the emphatic reply and she hung up the receiver. The wedding, according to news re- eelved here to-day, took place four days after the closing of the Chicaxo Horse Show, at which the bride cap- tured more blue ribbons with her fn- mous mounts. The romance of the bride's sister, Louise, created no Kittle stir at the time and Mr. Webb stormed over it while society and the rest of the world read of the movements of the happy pair with keen delight. Mr. Webb, it was said, had other ideas for his charming and spirited daughter, but the lady preferred her big, handsome policeman to any foreign diplomat or any other kind of a husband, Mr. Webb, friends declare, after his return from a cruise in his yacht, found consolation in the fact that his other daughter, Loulse, was wrapped up in her horses and in- different to the attentions of men, Hut evidently, the right man had not vet put in an appearance, and he had to be a lover of horses, as she herself ‘s. Her friends describe Mrs, Miles as an aristocrat, more beautiful than her sister, and extremely popular with the men and women of her set. She might have had her choice from a long line of men of distinction, hrains or titles had she so elected. Aut none of these seemed to appeal to her. She thought more of her horses and the blue ribbons that they won for by eS DIDN'T TOUCH SALARIES OF SHIPPING BOARD HELP. m 1921 Defetency Bill $45,500,000, WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The Ship- ping Hoard Dcficieney Appropriation BUI, carrying $48,500,000 for use by the Lonrd this year, and with the elimina- tion of all restrictions as to what 4al- aries might be paid officers and coun- sel, Was passed to-day by the Senate, —_—_»—_—- Mre, Adams Held as Receiver ef Stolen Property, Mra, Beatrice Adams of No. 47 Irving Place, mother of Elwood Adams, was held in $5,000 batt for the Grand Jury to-day on the charge of criminally re- ceiving stolen property. It is. alleged that Elwood Adams and another man Senate Pa lack summer from of oxygen in the wi Brayton A. , Conservia~ tion “Commissioner, reported — to-day Mr. Webster said hot weather and fow winds had out off the water's supply of entered the apartment of Myrtle ‘Tanne- hill an actress, of No. 246 West 75th Street. last January and stole jewelry 4nd other frticles valued at” $1,606, If the conclusion of to-day’s test should be successful, Commander Maxfield, with the concurrence of the Navy Department in Washington, will take over the craft, The next step will be the training of the crew ja one or two fifteen or twenty hour flights, then, barring unexpected diffi- culties, all will be ready for the jump- off toward America. Immediately upon taking the air the big dirigible made two circuits of the airirome and then, with an American bluejacket perched in the machine gunner'’s nest at the very tip of the ship's stern waving goodby, the craft headed due west and at quickly gath- ering speed was soon lost to view. Before the start Gen. Maitland said he intended manoeuvring the ship over the North Sea, where ehe could show what ability she possessed in combatting the wind, and then to make a southward swing to Pulham, where he expected to tie the ZR-2 to her mooring mast at 10 o'clock to- night. During the trip it was planned to have fuel consumption tests which wouki furnish valuable data for the trans-atlantic flight. LONDON, Aug. 23.—The Air Min- istry reports that the ZR-2, Ameri- can dirigible, passed over Skegness at 9 o'clock to-day, and was nearing Pulham at noon. oo AUTO DRIVEN BY MAYO KILLS CONNECTICUT MAN. New Yorker Held in $5,000 Said to Figure in Matrimonial Case. GREENWICH, Conn, Aug. 23.—An automobile operated by Virginia F. Mayo of Stamford struck Frank Hugu- mer, forty-five, of Cos Cob at the corner of the Boston Post Road and Mead venue in Cos Cob last night. Huga- Aer died” in’ ure. Greenwich Hospital this morning, Mayo was held under 000 bail. He rnished a cash bond hia appesrance pending an inquest. f Mr. Mayo is_& member of the New York Athletic Club, Elks lodge, Masonic Jodge and Magles of New Hayen and said to be the same Mayo who has been in the limelight because of his matri- monial troubles. J JUDGE MANTON IS VEXED AT DELAY IN TRYING MAN. Calls It Unfair te Keep Defendant 34 Days in J Judge Manton to-day in Brooklyn, criticised delay in bringing John J. Dunn, of Huntington, W. Va., to trial on a charge of stealing three palm beach suits from a ehipment on Staten Island. Dunn ts been in jail thirty-four days. United States At- torney Collins, when the case was called to-day, azked for a further delay as the Government was not ready to proceed. aid it wes unfair to Iso long and set down slay. came to New York to rpentier fight. He bundle lying on the ground near a railroad track and picked it up, Federad nin ja strat for Thu dunn el ghten peti Adare, rs hed trom them, rs. Adama in default of beak was Woolved UTA > are 170 specific frauds and forgeries in both the signatures of witnesses and the endorsers, dn many respects, he alleges, the dates on the petitions are premautre, the petitions having been printed on the dates of several days in ad- vance, he says. Similarity of hand- writing on eight sheets bearing 100 signatures, some without dates, is an- other assertion in Mr. Murphy's affi- davit, and ‘he makes similar charges against the petitioners and the no- taries who handled the petitions of Coalition Candidates Harold Knoep- pel for District Attorney and Ephraim Kauffman for Sheriff, John R. Voorhis, President of the Board of Hections, laid the matter before District Attorney Glennon after he and Chief Clerk McGowan examined the petitions. Mr. Glennon advised the Board of Elections that| Assistant District Attorney Cohn would conduct an examination of the entire matter at the Board of Elec- tions to-morrow. Mr. Voorhis said that if the oharges made by Mr. Murphy are sustained comebody in Bronx County might go to jail. feeble MA. Baty MINISTER SUES FOR BURIAL FEES Asks $423.29 for “Saving” and Burying Mrs. Gourley’s Body —Estate Was Worth $10. The Rey. Charles W. Dane, pastor of St. Mark's Congregational Church, No. 461 Decatur Street, Brooklyn. to- lay filed a clahm mm Supreme Court, Brooklyn, for $250 which, he said, he paid out for burial expenses, and for other charges amounting to $182. —a total of §432.29—against the s- tate of the late Anna S. Gourly, No. 250 East Sth Street, Brooklyn Mrs. Gourley died at Kings County Hospital Feb. 3 and the Rev. Mr. Dane said her grandniece, Miss Irene Gourley, requested him “to help her in securing the body of the decedent from the hands of non-blood supposed dent on the Coalition ticket and that} in seventy sheets of the petition here | Aug. 11 and the signatures bearing! SEEK ROOKE COP AFTER SHOOTING ~——_INAPOOLROOM (Continued From Firsi* Page.) statement was in effect as follows, the Lieutenant said: | Clayton was talking to a friend |at 11.15 A. M. yesterday in the Third Avenue poolroom when he suddenty felt a pain on the inside of his right leg and looked down to see blood trickling through his spirdl legging. ‘He had heard no report. He then walked to 76th Street, where he met | a friend named Archer, who put him | in a taxicab, gave him 50 cents for fate and sent him to the Lenox Hill Hospital. Later he walked to the 104th Field Artillery Armory at 68th Street and Broadway and was advised by a Sor- geant Major to go to the West 68th Street Station. ‘here, he said, a Ideutenant advised him to go to the , East 67th Street Station. At 745 o'clock Inst night Clayton visited the East 67th Street station and there refused to identify Moran as the man who did the shooting. Clayton explained, Lieut. McMahon said, that the first person he saw Jafter being shot was Policeman |Moran and that in hin excitement jhe assoctated Moran with the shoot- jing. Police Moran, the Lieutenant added, admitted he was in the pool- room, but denied any knowiedge of the shooting, saying he had left his own revolver at the station house and that he had neither heard the report nor seen any one with a revolver. “In view of the statement by Clay- ton,” the Lieutenant sai, “I saw no reason for further detaining Moran and let him go. Where Moran ts remains a ques- tion and no information could be ob- tained at either the 47th or 67th Street Stations, Capt, Donahue sai policemen had called at Moran's home, but could not find him there. ‘The Police Department records in- dicate that Moran has been a police- man for less than a year. He was born in 18%, became a policeman on Jan. 10, 1921, was a chauffeur before his appointment to the police force and lives at No, 249 East 77th Street. No charges have ever been made | against him. DOG, SHOT TWICE, DANCES; THIRD BULLET KILLS IT. { Animal Snapping at Crowd Also/’ Withatood Blows With Club, i A little white dog, that from its an tics might have been in a circus, took three heavy blows fram the night stick Patrolman Martin Kenny, of the eenpoint Police Station, Brooklyn, to- day, and two revolver bullets, and still lived. A crowd was watching the dog at Manhattan and Greenpoint Avenues, amused by its dancing on its hind leg but the dog became vicious and snapped at several men’s legs. Patrotman Kenny was called and struck the dog with his club, but the animal came rushing at him furlously. We fired two shots and the dog rolled over. Kenny went to a telephone to arrange for the removal of the dog's body, when an excited man ran up and told him the dog was leaping upon pass- ersby and trying to bite them. Kenny went back, and as he ap { i | made @ speech in the House contending that such contests constituted a moral danger, As no paid any attention \to his v he went after the proof. He cire ad the youns women whosd nani pictures appeared in a Washington newspaper and he, con- VOUTHASKSTOBE ILE ASFORGER “SOHECANEAT New York Prosecutor ‘Turns Him Down—Brooklyn Obliges Him. George Carl, nineteen years old, who said he was a high schoo! student in Long Island City last spring when adventuring, gave himself up at the office of District Attorney Lowis in Brooklyn to-day, with a request that he be imprisoned. He sald, according to Mr. Lewis, that he decided to go he had forged four checks on the Greenpoint National Bank “LT went to the District Attorneys office in Manhattan, and they told me you were the proper authority,” said the young man to Mr. Lewis, "so I came over here. Didn't an officer bring you?" asked, the District Attorney, My, no, I came by myself.” Carl said he had massed boges checks on hotels in Richmond, Roan. oke and other cities in Virginia und Bristol, Tenn. Mr. Lewis stated. Hts trip started last June. “Finally | decited they would cate me sometiine, and I might as well go back,” Carl sult, ateording to Miz Lewis, “Bur when 1 came here & found it would be hard to get a job. Vd rather eat in jail than go hungry on the streets.” He said he had been staying at the Fawards Hotel in Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn. He is in Raymond Street ail. FINDS BEAUTIES EASY TO “DECOY” New Congressman Gets Many Re+ plies to Marriage Ofters to Newspaper Contestants. (Special to The Brening Work!) WASHINGTON, Aue. 3.—Reproseas tative Manuei Herrick, a new member of Congress from Onkinhoma, observed “beutity contests" being conducted in several newspapers ip tris section and own that most of then d the young women efor the “whole whole soul, love and hand > enter uctive rick says., 4 is holding in confi<, dence a batch of replies which he wilt present to the JudiciaryCommitteein support of his bill to prohtbit suah contests, A score of Washington girls are irdignantly protesting ——— WAHAT IS DOING TO-DAY IN CONGRESS HOUSE. Considers conference report om Anti-Beer Bill. SENATE. Continues debate on Deficiency Bill carrying $48,500,000 for the proached the dog stod on this hind legs. ‘A third shot killed him. ‘Vhe marks o: Te other two shots were found in his body. friends and undertakers, and this saved and prevented the same body from a disgraceful and ignominious ‘burial Counsel for the administrators said Dr. Dane's services which he per- formed over the body were worth $10, and no other charges made by him would be paid. The estate of Mra. Gourley was said to be about $10,000. sip TICKET CHEATING $90,000 A YEAR IN ONE SUBURB. New York Central Extends Photo Identification Syatem, Photographs on commutation tickets are to be required from many more sta- tions on the New York Centre! after Sept. 1. The tower level of the Grand Central, given over entirely ¢o suburban service, now has its own photograph gallery. Placarés announcing the extension of this system of identification were sur- rounded by commuters. The announce- ment said trial of this plan resulted in a decrease of over 40 per cent. in the sale of commutation tickets at a single station, The company deduces that at this one station the road was being cheated out of $90,000 a year. FLINT QUALITY DEPENDABLE FURNITURE The few remaining days of the sale still permit abundant selection with the same advantages of priceand value afforded at the start. PERSIAN & CHINESE INCLUDED OFF, RUGS ONK - HALF AT Flint 6 Horner Co.1se. 20-26 West36% se eohttcdona ster tah any” Shipping Board and $200,000 for disarmament expen: Finance Committee continues hearings on the Tariff Bill. The odor of Lifebuoy is “ the odor of the greatest health principle ever put into a soap. It means skin health and skin beauty. No other soap has it, Pare, sobloeried. pele oil gives color. Lifebuoy its