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SER SNe THE EVENING WORLD, TH URSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921. Iie charged thu ie P as witnesses {The checks were lost during the in-| PRINCESS XENIA LODGE APPEALS ‘He charged that Mr. Purcell was On| vestigation of Queens affairs by for- BECOMES LEEDS’S Chairman Meyer ented this. TO PRESIDENT 10 mér Gov. Whitman. 3 | Mr. Connolly addressed the commit. |Seudder If in’ golng through | Mr.| BRIDE ON SUNDAY Jtee emphatically of Queens politics [Connolly's office ax an inveat|gator : BROWN, ce ! A CONTRACTOR'S CASH y James Carroll, President of the) business.’ My friends told me ° Counell, predicted last] would have to work the rest of ms aking in{night the new compensation bureau keep her In whiskey.”” ed, only| will contain about 18,000 members Haskell denies the count: mplica-| before Nov. 1, when permanent head- Supreme Court Justice Was quarters will be established. appointed William W. Pelle The new bureau will charge mem- to pass upon Haskell’s ability ments which it will be difficult for some Republicans to yote against: | Laborers’ All the troubles of tariff: the old days have been with ever 0 many more tions aid combinations. The crisia means more to the Re Assemblyman Black asked Mr tenldent! uulvan tage publican Party at this moment than| bers 25 cents a y tead of $1, and alimony | ne quiet," shouted Mr. Brown, | Horna f Mr, Scudder | |the Democrats, for the former have|membership will be voluntary | and Your turn will come, Now tundéte |e gone; Canney Or the responsibility of puwer. The fight|not compulsory as under Brindell and how all Queene rings with your | Syj we Queens, said he knew between the Republicans represent-|Its books and records will be ope | nvlwet Le a ea Niel aaey |in agricultural States and. thox: [for the Inspection of any one. 7 aamiaaasilpponcs M pnoll _ nuring, | vent . i . tourke e¢ = |coming from the populous Eastern | bureau also will assist, free of charge, : Mt, Connolly sat down, murmuris |aceing Bim before the O'Rourke « —— constituencies, where big. business |&ll members of foreigh birth desiring Ne F (Continued From First Poze) John J. Creem verified Mr. Sigret- men RSG iy (Continued From First Page.) i manufacturing jenterbrises re.|tc become American citizens, ee to's testimony as to the transfer of | py\i1 " —_— | side, is only in its infancy. the 5ist Street contract and the pay sa} P the agricultural Republicans would! Te Same lines of cleavage are also @ecaucus, N. J, who had the contract |ments to Phillips, He sald he madelphe jenew Mr, {thillit ta AED form a coalition: with Garttain’ Dam | eorarent an the conieversy, ovee He $300,000 DIAMOND 6; t sewer in|all payments of cent ov be La ‘| > UnY ANE i Si ad Fu ig . he st for the $400,000 Gist Street sew payments percentages over|ar the Lock Joint Ph npany and crats who feel as thed do and bring|erners say freight rates must come THEFT CALLED FAKE Queens in 1918, told of his relations} 69,000 to Philips, at Sigretto’s re- las a Democratic f quest. ~~ with former Under Sheriff John M.{° A” Gerk named Walters, formerly Phillips, He was questioned matnly |employed in the Borough President's| 30,000 EX-SERVICE MEN by Samucl A. Berger, Deputy At- | office of Queens tn 1918, said str. Phil. | EXPLOITED, NOT HELPED, Ds was tround the office and often clerks. ‘When, questioned the about,the passage of amendments to| down before they will help the rail- sa eislss the ‘House Bil) which would greatly! [080% Jf President Harding and] Mra, Joseph Haskell, wife of a dia- A, Senator Lodge citn preserve tho soii-| mond dealer af No. 18 John Street, fori = “TIMES SQUARE” embarrass the Republican programme.|darity of the party, however, in the| Wino is suing lor separation, charged that’s the Senator Watson appealed to his| Senate on tax issues, they will hay | iy an affidavit filed yesterday in WuRUIZER torney General. Republican colleagues trom the Wert] achieved a great moral victory and) support of a motion for alimony thresh things out on one atde of| thelr prospects of wetting the rait-linat her husband's talk of being jroad bil through Will be correspond-| ishbed of $300,000 worth of diamonds the aisle in the Senate and forego the] inwly brighter wpe “ 1 while. en route from Pitteburgh to humiliation of party division on the| But it looks to-day as if the agri-| New York recently is false, and part first great issue of the Harding Ad-| Cultural Republicans were converting lof a plan to deprive her of adequate 1 rw the Basterners to thelr viewpoin! ind | support ministration, His appeals were heeded,!that the true leadership of the Re- tto anid, had heen | Wat Sigretto business |orders, Phillip & alwayr sus. | C01 Forbes May ¢ tm Queens, on the basis of 6 per cent. [talned, he said. Method en the face of all contracts, Phillips, |CONTRACTOR O'ROURKE KNOWS | wasnt he said, did “all the outside work" for ALL THE “RIGHTS.” | reorgan! Contractor John F. O'Rourke of the | method Hitating: ex-service as t, the contractor > . Haske = \ the firm, This m ie: ony O'Rourke fengiteering & Colstruction |1n expected to result trom the report of | however, only when he signified alpublican Party is coming out of the wena rig Warancnonte: bee, bese STOP said, “figuring on estima mr. [Company. builders of the Linden | Col. Charies N liek, head of the Vet« willingness to surrender to the West-| West even thoigh the titular leader- | ctolen from a satchel, She alleges he Ye ) “What do you mean?” asked Mr Btivat Rewer, In Gueaia: WaK, asked | @: to President Harding. ern Republicans on some essential] #htp may be vested in the Enstern | iiwava carries them In two wallets, ‘ou can get every rr. why he paid $8,500 to “Doc” Mat- z oautt-of tot roints. group. Her husband states that If his story known Musical In- t mae 1d not leave the work, 1] tinws of Queens. | wide tour tod that “fully, 90,000 PiThe Weatern Republicans indicate STRAT was untrue the detectives and inaur- 5 \ It 1 cou Naw York to vee |,"Becnuse,” sald the venerable con- | 4 por hat “fully 30,000, is publicans indicated) — AMEND BRINDELL PLAN fAnce company to whom he turned strument at the would send him to New Yoi tractor "ne went around buttonhol. | TAN are being ted rather than ra- to-day that they were very much en- * J over all his records would have found Wurli St te the estimate was ready or go to|ing everybody preaching Ue gospel of | habilitated.” Tho Nest step prohabty couraged by the results of Senator =n t out before this. urlitzer Store. the engineer and ask him about it Cat ret Une « peeeoauGn Ae oe wilt be to aboltan the present Practica | Capp conference and the intoriaal| Bove. Wc en a edd Bechure, she says, her husband's You won't have i t pind ani 6 | of sending the r soldiers to “mush statements of Adm(tistration leaders sly income is at least $600 a week, Mrs. when it was done—things like that” @. Do you mean the monthly pay- ment from the Comptroller's office? A. Yes. Mr. Phillips was at the same time the OF Wun sewer contra tourke Company | quatrint No om’? educationn din only aim, | truth Princess sould be got trom the | cording to Col, Forbes, tx to profit ac} 3 IA bel got rate #08 the expense of (he Government XENIA of GREECE _ PAIUS, Oct. 6.—William Meanwhile, the Democrats are play- ng their usual shrewd tactics, As a minority party they always have managed to get along better than as |movement to replace the Building Trades Council with a compensation department as a continuation of the old Brindell bureau. The plan for a compensation de- partment for the Building Laborers’ Haskell rejected his offer of $125 month for support, She says she lives on an income of $110 a month derived from railroad securitles left her by her former husband, Haske!’ in his reply says: to shop elsewhere . 120 West 42nd St. Between Bway & 6th Ave. « because I] ¥outh Pleads Hanger Drove Mim the Princess Xenia of Gree Tt have had a hell.on eayth betwee agent of the Lock Joint Pipe a majority. Senator Simmons of|Union was adopted at a meeting of an ag a : thorght he was right,” insisted Mr. to Hob store. martied next Sunday. The ceremony North Carolina, Demos the District Counc! of that body|her drunken debauches and sudden Ware, wigs tto said that In 1918 Bor- O'Rourke Frank White, elghteen years old, of | WH! Uke place at 4 o'clock in the after: pba vhol lot Hote rae cid Monday night. Bricklayers’ Helpers | disappearances, 1 pleaded with her Mr. Sigre “You mean he was in right?" asked South ‘Phird, Strent, Heooklyn, {008 in the Russian Orthodok Churen, KAOWS & whole lot about taxation, Is jocal 110 tudorsed tho plan Tuesday 'to stop drinking, but the only answer framing some plausible tax amend-\nlght. eugh President Connolly ordered him | asgeniblyman W to go ahead with the Sist Street] “Oh, ‘in-right,” ali 1 got was, ‘It's none of your damn {The wedding will be private. nright, out right! In the Brooklyn County Ce Mr. Leeds |s a son of the Princes An- had broken tn gewer. Sigretto was at the time tied Bo mney ‘em all,” lwughed the con-|'' i Binkelford, astasia of Gre He Is eighteen years ep at Camp Miles, he said, and con- | 00s pain TO SCUDDER broly His bride-to-be Is twenty-three , tinued: WERE LOST. nierely seaking food pen a = ATTA TAT TT a ‘go I asked Mr. Phillips and Mr.| graryin Scudder, an accountant, {U4 Monday for sent Fe eon Ee | _—< emma hii vit HN eA TE Purcell if they could sell this contract | was culled to for me, because I could not start it {paid to William F i They found Mr. John Creem. He said |("Rourke | Construction ¢ oribe the checks = Matthews by the| Senator Kenyon De pany, Judgenhip. wa de rai/has been effect here for some days called off yesterday, the ” y passed through his hands sevy- WASHINGTON, Oct 6.—# ator | Strikers returning to work, Before he would take the een and f months age enyon, Republican, Iowa, informed | the men returned to their posts some was glad to give It to him for noth 000 and the other | ay that he conta | Extreme Nationalists at Ine, if he Tad wanted it. He made|was for 48,500," he ald. "The $5,000 Vromident Harding to-day that be could | headquarters of the Republic NoConnection With Any Other Establishmeat in the World ‘ . he said, was indorsed over to|ceptance of the Federal Judgeship of Nationalist was killed and Phi hed by him. ‘the Northern Town istrtet wounded . an offer on the contract of around | $20,000. Q. Just going back for moment, Mr, Sigretto, You recall that you were examined before a sub-commit- tee of this committee at No. 38 Park Row on May 20, do you not? A. 1 Believe 1 was. @. Do you recall me asking: | “Did Phillips pay any money into this bsiness when he became @ partner? A. No, sir. “Q. What did he put in? A Nothing. Q. What did you put in? A My plant, money ana my ability, “Q. What did he contribute to the partnership? A. Just to get | the payments through.” | You remember that answer? A. | That is what I said a litle while ago, payments and estimates. * Previous testimony by Mr. Sigretto before a sub-committe was read to ghow that Mr. Creem paid $15,09) down and 4 per cent, on the succes- sive payments from the Comptroller's “Ta © THIRTY-FOURTH STREET BROADWAY-FIFTH AVENUE Best & Co. Fifth Avenue at 35th Street-—N.Y. Epeltuhed 165 Because Women and Misses have shown such enthustastic appreciation of the values—Wwe are ANNOUNCE FOR FRIDAY Continuing on Friday and Saturday the Sale of NEW AUTUMN FROCKS 1000 more Frocks are reduced from our newest stocks to, in many cases, below wholesale cost Q.5 We announced a few days ago that the purpose of this great reduction sale was to stimulate business now. Well—it is doing it. Women and Misses are choosing not just one dress, but two or three—realizing that these models will be shown and worn all winter and that this is an opportunity not likely to be duplicated all season. office. Q. How much of the payment did u turn over to Mr. Phillipa? A. I Lirned over the full amount, $15,000, and he gave me $1,000 to pay tie bond. | Q. Was not Mr. Purcell the person that brought you and Creem together? A. He was, | ‘Mr. Sigretto said he could not re- | member what Mr. Phillips said he was going to do with the money. The following record of his former testi- | mony was read to him: | “He said he was going to put | that money in the Connolly cain- | paign.” Q. Who is Connolly? A. Mau rice Connolly, Borough President of Queens. Q. So that in order that we may have the records clear, Phil- ips told you that he had to have “at $14,000 for Connolly's cam- paign. Is that right? A. That is what he said. “Do you recall testifying to that | effect?” asked Mr. Berger, “I believe be sald that, but 1! wouldn't believe him under oath. He id say that,” replied the contractor, | Senator Robinson—You do not believe anything he said, do you? — | Mr. Sigretto—No, sir, I wouldn't | because Phillips ts a notortous liar. Q. In other words, you want this committee to understand that you took thts man in for a partner fo the sole purpose of getting money | for you from the Comptfoller—is that | what you mean? A. That is It. | PAID 6 PER CENT. ON CONTRACT BY PHILLIPS. Q. How much money did you pay | him for that service? A. Five per cent. on the contract. | How much did you pay Phillips | fer collecting your city money? It must have been around, outsid: the $14,000, something like that, The | whole total was $47,000 or $48,000 Q. Did you ever talk with Borough President Connolly about your con tracts or bid. A. No. | Borough President Maurice Con-| molly rose in the audience to offer to | go on the witness stand to be ques. | tioned regarding his campaign fund | im 1918 or any other time. He was) told his time would come Mr. Connolly sald he was amused ty Mr. Brown's statement the com: FUR COLLARS ee could not find Thomas F. Pur — | [MPECCABLE tailoring is the outstand- $960 CASH ing feature of these new suits. 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