The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1922, Page 2

ye 4 TELLS HOW HE GOT BY iit Ex-Ndvy Officer Says King at Her 'Behest Gave Him Rich Copra Rights. HAD “TALKING SCEPTRE” Lieut. Com. Keep Sues Backers He Charges Dropped Him in Samoa Deal. A talé of the South Seas is bing Unfolded in the Brooklyn Supreme Court! torday, with Kings Prlucess, {wo corporations and an ex- Navy oMlcdr a8 the personnel and with « fortune in copra as the stakes of the game. Former Ifeut. Commander Howard 8. Keep is suing the South Seas Pa- cific Company and the Pacitic Dev ‘pment Corporation for the plans and options on the copra tmde that he won from a King through the inter- cession of the Princess. a salary of $6,000 a year, 15 per cent. of the profite exceeding a 10 per cent. re- turn, and a lum, sum money, $100,060, to compensate him for his Fetirement from the navy Lieut. Commander Keep was on the witness stand this moraing, telling how she got the option in the first place “and how he i" ou he ‘says, he was drugged and ma- rooned at Bermuda. “1 was stationed for a time.” he said, “tat Pago Pago on the Islund of Tutiila, in command of the U. 8. 8. Samoa. There I became the friend of King Melictoa Fanu Mafili and of his begutifal daughter. “It was at her solicitation that the King gave me a sacred stick callod tho “‘fue’ or ‘talking sceptre,” which symbolized the freedem of the realm and énabled me to go anywhere with assyrance of safety and welcome. “Thus equipped I made a thorough investigation and learned of the great Possibilities. that lay in scientific de- velopment of the copra trade, I talked it over with the King and the Princess and it was once more through her ‘intercession that the King gave me the option in writing. “mapped out the whole plan of campaign, came home and pi lcd to interest capital. In June, 1919, ‘when the option still had two montiw and @ of ont to run, an agreement was reached by | which I was to have not only my @x- Ponses and salary as manager of ihe - enterprise but also my share in the HARLEM WANTS OPTION ON FORTUNE: POLICE STATION AID OF PRINCESS — 10 BE REOPENED ‘Board of Commerce Points to “Imperative Need” of La | Salle Street Station. | ii The Executive Committer ‘of the: a Harlem Board of mmerce At mocting to-day in ii rooms, No. 280 Lenox Avenue, adopted resdlutions asking that the La Salle Street Sta- ' tion be reapencd.. Jt was ome of those abolished by ‘Commixstoner’ Bhricht, The resolatiods, after vetting forth that there is 10 station between Looth Street ‘aud JH Street on the Wasnt side, a’ distance. of three miles, | antl calling attention “tothe portation,” business, rhereantile and educational, Interest’ in the dlhgtict, declare the { La. Sallg Btieat: Mattog 40 be ¢f'lm: “ perativgly” nénde th on actount! of, Wore Them Here a Week Age. GIVEN. HER AS: REWARD, Hushatid Grateful to Her for Helping’"Him Achieve Wealth, The mystery: ‘of $1,500,000 peal ne who owns Kluce, the the sale of Which is fhe object of litigation in| New Yorks dppurentty was cleared up| to-day by a degyitch (rom Detroit thas | UW belotigs to*Miw, Horace B. Dodge, Widow of..the iitomobiie mamutac turer, who died anure than a year ago, leaving iw ed estimated at $50,- | 006,000,” | the bustnény idleristi, conventangezor | Mcall apd the best efficiqney: of -the Police Deparunent.", The Police Com: | missioner is asked to restore the sta-| tion with a full force of men. i} In case the station is restored, Dr. | J N\Gardner Smith, President of the | nssociation, sald 2 request would. be. made that Capt. Gargan be sent back to command it. Francis Wright Clin- presided at the meeting. A copy of the resulutian will be sent to Com- missioner Enright, to the Mayor and Presidont of the’ Board of Aidermen. ietiinenee— TOBACCO FMS CHARGED WITH PLT TO KEEP UP PRUES (Continued From Virst Page.) | to Tobacco. Company und the Seott Dition Company. “Certain ‘of these manufacturers, in combination with the jobbers, refused to welt to those jobbers who cut bi léw the prices established by the Jobbers', associations. This refusal Brew oUt of the fact that previous to the &pring of 1921 -commpetition was resulting in a material lowering of the prices which jebbers charged retallers and, in turn, of the prices which retailers charged to consumers, which apparently caused the manu fucturers to*fear that these price ductions would mean that the manu ‘fucturers should be compelled sults tately to reduce their own prices “Combinations of jobbers aguinst | price-cuttera were greatly encouraged by certain circulars sent to the trade by some manufacturers named, in (which the company mgde clear that profits, which promised to be large | jobbers were Cte eal eens When the papers had been signed 7) Sout! be cut otf from. the company's resigned from the navy. Met of customers, There were mvet- “We bought a yacht, the Ajax. and | ings held at which #he members ut started for the island. At Bermuda I! associations welt encourngi Ue othe was left behind and the others welt) manufacturers to keep prices up and ahead. I was virtually marooned.” | were, Sagured that eee aia dented 0 were bein : e a eer ate ee oe the aa) list of customers to whom the mant- fense, who said the only reason Key ‘was left behind was because he “‘cel brated" too much and missed the boa, ‘The option is especially valuable, Keep contends, because {t covers not the copra directly controlled by tagitemd. put through jonal arrange: that. con- by sixteen other Kings ofthe boring islands. | facturer would sell A few oases were found where the jobbers went so far as to enter inte ner a signed agreement with each to maintain prices. Such an ug ment wis made by Rhode Island job vers together with certain Massachu setts jobbers. The commission in Its possession the original ment signed by eighteen J Letters im the possession of the commission show cases of jobbers be- {ing actuatly retused supplies by some }oA.these manufacturers in order to ‘his | trol net rt H, White was made Presi- ‘of the South Seas Pacific Com- | Keep has started a separate against him and the company alleged desertion at Bermuda, the yacht salled away carry- of his clothes and his valu- e trip to Bermuda,” Keep said, more like a pledsure jaunt than jous undertaking—as long as I wasion board. The yacht was luxuri- ous well stocked with liquors, | Bveryp erson on board was registered a8 a member of the crew at $1 a) month to evade the Maritime Law, which forbade us to carry passengers. “Who was the navigating officer?” Justice Callaghan asked. ~ “Properly speaking,’/we had none," maid Keep. ‘‘White tried to navigate, but he was not good at it. He lost his ‘way before we got to Bermuda. But! we atrived there on Dec. 14 and stayed until Dec, 24 | “On that day, two members of the company, one of them a physician, in- @uced me tc go axhore, and it is true that I drank a littic, only four Scotch highballs. I invited these two men (o have dinner with me at Somers Inn and they accepted, but insisted we should nave one more drink first, 1} lost consciousness, after taking that Grink, which I believe was drugge TOUCH HEARTS ON SHOPLFER' DA (Continued From First Page.) from Ireland a few months ago said she had never stolen before. But when she saw more pretty things than she had ever seen in her life and nobody appeared to be watching them and it looked so easy she picked up a few articles, “Sure she said, wouldn't miss the A school teacher from a little town up-State said she stole because the saleswomen wouldn't wait on her. An elderly woman offered this excuse: “My handbag, containing all the money I had saved for Christmas Presents for my children, was stolen from me in the store. I couldn't go home without the presents, so I tried to steal them." “1 thought they Wesn I awoke, the ;ucht was go "I got vome money trom the Amer- jean consul and returned to New York, where I culled on J. H. Bari- man, Vice President of the company, and tol dbim 1 was ready to go with my contract and would seil from “94 was busily engaged in storing dan isco. Hut he would have away stolen articles when she was oe mrewie woe, wih money to buy arrested, An attendant from the T never satiad in Lowell, Mass, on the yacht es ect He was gradi from Annapolis in Several cases of seventeen and panos |e $115: seid, Siehteen-year-old girls, who said they meee oar th @ copra enter- One of the accused is an inmate of @ sanitarium at Stamford, Conn. She escaped from the ganifarium the diay before Christmas, came to New York Sanitarium described firmed kleptomaniac. her as & con- had not told their parents they had been arrested, were placed in the hands of the women probation offi- # of the court, ve The neckiace was sold I the ppring.| or summe just pri Jing his death, and it is understyod he bought it as a suitable gift for the woman who had struggled up with bim through | poverty “when 4 machinist earned very titt Mrs, Anna lhompson Dodge, the widow, was in New York at the Ho- tcl Ambassador last week and was, wevn to be wearing a pearl neck! ! “iat some observers described as the) finest they had ever seen, “a perfedt | stunner,” i | It is believed io be the same neck- lace that Benquiat Brothers, art) dealers, suy was suld for more than | 500,000 by Carter, Inc, who say got $826,000 tor the five be | tin strands of 489 pearls, only Acvording to the story of her iriends in Detroit, Mra, Dodge first wore the pearls at the marriage ot ler daughter, Delphine, to James I is nwell of Philadelphia in June, 1920, The New York jewellers de- clined to deny or confirm’ the report that Mrs, Dodge is the owner, and }whe declined to say anything in Detroit While there is reason t believe} the neodace may once have been the | property of Catherine Il. of Russia, its history has not beeg revealed by A friend of the late Horace BE. Dodge suid to-day that Mr. Dodye told him just before his duughter Del weddiig gift, and that he had pact $100,000 for them It was announced a few days ago by one of the Ben- gulat brothers that the person who paid $1,500,000 for the five-strand pearls ut the same time paid $100,000 for another necklace, so the story of the Wedding gift is taken in corrobo- ration of the one that Mrs. Dodge owns the other necklace, Liadlab hc DEBT BILL FIRST, BONUS SECOND Republicair Senators Decide to Press Important Measures in That Order. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Decision to press first the Allied Debt Refund- ing Bill and next a Soldier Bonus Dill was reported to-day by Republi- can Senators in their first conference of this session of Congress. A second conference was called for to-morrow to discuss details of the two measures, Opposition to a Soldier Bonus Biil devploped, but it was announced offi- clally thut the motion to place this fegisiation second in the list was car- ried by ‘*1 large majority."” Eliminn- tion by the Finance Committee of the requirement in the Allied Debt Bill for vemi-annual puyment of interest on the bonds to be accepted from the foreign debtor nations also was dis cussed, but a decision on this feature of the ‘bill was deferred It was reported that the vote in favor of passing a bonus bill was 31 to 2, with several opponents of such logtelation withholding their votes, While the conference did not approve the pending bill, some Republican leaders said the measure to be passed loubtedly would follow the general principles of the measure now before the Finance Committee serseecae Ah LENIN OR CHICHERIN TO HEAD DELEGATION Soviet Announces Its Pian to Attend Genoa Conference, MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (Associated Pres), Wither Premier Lenin or Foreign Min- ister Chicherin will head the Russian Soviet delegation to the Genoa Beonomla Conference, it was offlcially announced to-day, TO RESTORE GOVERNOR'S ISLAND TO PRAOK BASIS, FURTHIEF SLAW: |telephoned to Reilly ee Op those who know it, ki went to that corner and hid himself! pitals to u '$1,500,000 NECKLACE’S OWNER IS MRS. HORACE E. DODGE, SAY FRIENDS IN DETROIT Widow of Automobile Man} WIDOW FOR WHOM HUSBAND BOUGHT $1,500,000 NECKLACE —— ALLEGED BAND OF ROBBERS 1 SEZED (Continued From First Page) last night from nth Avenue and 36th Street that tutler and his crowd were getting eady to go somewhere.” Reilly went to the neighborhood, got infor- mation from a stool pigeon that “the phine’s marriage that he was going | mob’? was going to a place on West | $8 to give her a string of pearls as a|2 Mth Street near Fifth Avenue, Reilly under a blanket in the rear of the car. | At 7 o'clock John Garie, _MHE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1922. These are the official records given out, and the ad dresses given by the men arrested: Francia MeArdie, No. 268 Weat sth Street, March 27, 1916, burg lary, suspended sentence; April 1916, grand larceny and ¢on- apiracy. no disposition on record; June 1, 1916, petty larceny; penitentiary: Aug. 27, 1920, burg. lary, case pending. John Donnelly, No. 415 West 1th Street, June 18, 1919, grand ony, discharged; Jan. 28, 1920 grand larceny, discharged; Jun, in Bronx, no 1920, felon. reed; Ovt 1, discharged; Jun cation, ne dispo- acquitted. ide, sition; 921, robbery, ne dispositions John J. O'Mara, No, 363 West JOinyStreet, March 8, 1906, sent New York Cathbio Protec- Sept. 29, 1914, grand ta nira Reformatory; March disorderly conduct, six Sept. 1° 1916, violation arole, Elntita Reformatory; y . 1917, grand tareeny, enitentiary; Sune 20, 1919, rob-, bery, no disposition; May 1919, No dispo tory; con, fe % months; Hine 27, 1919, rubbery, sition. X ¢ Jolin ¢ Np. 456 West 18th Street, 915; grand lateeny ed; Sopt. -30, 192t, grand I ¥, Six months, probation; Dec. 28, 1921, grand Jarceny, on $4,000 bail. imothy O'Mara, No. 414 West street, December, larceny, vetormato: 1912, robbery, disc Sept lureeny 29, 1914, altempted grand Imira — Réformatory; robbery, dis- 1919, burglary, 21, burg- 3 jo disposition. William Butler, No. 491 West 34th Street, Sept. 12, 1917, bu alary, Queens County, no disposi tion: April 18, 1918, burglar: suspended sentence rch 2 1919, grand lareeny, discharged! Jan. 28, 1920, burglary, Queens County, discharged; Aug, 24, 1921, grand larceny, discharged; Noy, \ 15, 1921, attempted burglary, out on $2,500 bail Charles Boylan, No. 454 West id Street, according to the po- he has been arrested as Mike jan, his record showing: July 1919, grand larceny, no dis- position; Aug. 9, 1919, grand jurceny, no disposition. fiocuioh bhai BURGLAR IS FOUND WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL 1 Boyl Youth Shot by Policeman Caught When He Applies for Treatment. Policeman Kugene O'Connor of the Elizabeth Street Station saw a man In ‘a clothing store ot No. 176 Hester Street ‘The next instant the tA. M. to-day. the man made for al light went out and the rear. O'Connor ray through a hallway and a man climbi @ back fence. i¥ several shots, but the man di: a a peared, nnor was So aure he hit him h alarm was sent to hos- watch for a wounded man. At A. M. a youth who descr! himself as Louls Stangile, seventeen, ui N tt berry an asso- | 3 Street, went to St. incent’s ciate of Butler, walked up to the one | Homplta te Hare be sae hie: comitey and looked’ it over but did not dis-| O'Connor shot him as he was escaping cover the detective. Then Butler | 7m the store. drove up in a car with McArdle, John! our ON PAROLE, HELD AS Donnelly and Timothy and John J BURGLAR. O'Mara, brothers. After talk with) Further evidence of what is aaid to Garte all but Butler got out. McArdie| be ineffielency and inacouractes in ct | sturted west. \ hiding place, caught the Butler car and firing a shot in the air, ordered Butler, Butler yelled Duck!" and, bending low, stepped on Governor's Island {8 soon to take on ita normal, peace-time appearasce. All the warehouses not Aid necessary th the railroad 4 en er Tighest. bide RUM CASES ATTRA ON. United States District Attorney Gregne of Brooklyn to-day ordered that the corridore about his office be r of @ class of lawyers, boot- onal "bondamen ome looking tor 4 0} picking up what in nformation there was to be ob- T HANGERS. ——-___ f lo | gaatite GER ane ‘soon | there. \ tained. He ruled that they were to remain away unless they had bu equipment not be determined by the p shots after the back“curtains and one of them O'Mara at Broadway. ook a crowbar from Butler's car and attacked the front door of the Import Fur Company, Street No. 18 West 29th The burglar alarm rang. The Joor was too strong for McArdle, who an back to the Butler car, which Reilly leaped from his who was driving, to stop his accelerator and the. car shot away. Keilly fired five it. ‘Three went through killed McArdie. Reilly caught Tim The other detective who had fol- lowed Butler from Tenth Avenue trailed John O'Mara until he met Donnelly and Garie at Madison Ay nue and 3st Street. There they ar- rested them, Butler was arrested later by Detective Moririty at Kighth Avenue and 30th Street. McArdle was taken, dying, to New York Hospital by Charles M. Boylan later in the night, and dicd a few minutes later. Boylan was arrested for concealing informstion of a felony from the police. He was not with the band in the attempted rob- bery, according to the detactives. The car used by Butler was found in 384 Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, early to-day. Under the seat were the license plates num- bered 261,056, which had apparently been discarded after the brush with Reilly Friday morning. There were several iron bars in the car and a| quantity of burlap bagging | The abandoned car was found to have belonged to Isador Braverman of White Plains who reported Jan, 7} it had been. stolen from in front of | the Hotel Pennsylvania, Records given out at Police Headquarters show the slipshod methods of keeping records of crim- inals and alleged criminals. It could! e from are ¢ nold to the sir own records Srv cpete driveway end # bridle pal their own records just which of these a he natrycted The sate will men were out on bail, whether the er 6% AuCtiON, Offers to G , the, bigs jira ind calenee ge charges had been dismissed, or) buildings have sMcunted to $45,000, bur Whether they had been tried nl these wore not acm sidered large onuigh: = —— - Se | ‘he best motion picta ont Hroedwar ie cOrpbens ot the Settee ot World). Apollo Theatre now.—advt. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. ETE ‘When De; Call "Columbus 8200" [FRANK £. CAMPBELL. “he Funeral Church"inc., » CHON-SRCTARIAN ‘at 66th Se, the criminal records of the Police De~ partment was revealed to-day in the record made public by the Brooklyn police of @ prisoner with @ record. Edward Schaffer, alias Max Goldberg, sGeictciioraetaie ee Was arrested after a chase in Brook- M, and held without bail for th: rand Jury on gharges of burglary. Ths Poles records show an arrest in 1916, disposition not known,” and a conviction in 1920 for burglary, with In the pent- rovides that ry. As the statute @ prisoner cannot be sent to thy penitentiary for a definite period, the dentence prona “from six Months to three years" and the dis- charge within those limits was In ths Province of the Parole Commission. Schaffer released from the peni- fentiary recently ais THIEF NEAR DEATH AFTER HARD CHASE Strained His Heart Trying Elude Pajama-Clad Pursuer— Was ‘Out on Parole, io Heights, Brooklyn, this moyning, a Negro who had robbed a house in Hicks Street of money and clothing, collapsed on the floor of the Poplar Street Police Station, An ambulance Surgeon Worked over him for an hour and a quarter without avail, He said he thought the thief was surfering from dilatation of the heart and sent him, still uneonscious, County “Hospital. to be identical with those of an ex- convict, now on parele from Sing Sing, John La Crus, The latter was sent to the pénitentiary in December, 1917, for burglary, and in the same month a year later was returned there for another burglary, this one committed in Brooktyn to Sing Sing on April 12, 1920, for two and @ half years for a burglary committed in Manhattan The man was discovered leaving No. 74 Hicks Street by Mrs, McCon- well, the landlady, who called to | Robert Hurley, a steamship company employee, whose room had been en- tered. Hurley, elad in po and a pair of trousers, gave c! ie. At Fulton Street Detective Powers joined in and fired two shots and the runner made for the Heights hill, where Patrolman J. J, Miller ot the Poplar Street Station, a former sprinter of the Pastime Athletic Ciub, fired a halting shot and finally caught the fugitive The Negro said he had no name. A loaded revolver was found near where he was caught. In his pocket was $61.40 belonging to Hurley fies Denes ASK $108,297,590 MORE THAN GIVEN LAST YEAR inde amas mt OMces Appropriations Reported in Hor WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—With a| total of $108,297,590 in excess of the appropriations for the same offices for the current fiscal year, the an- nual Independent Offces Appropria- tion Bill, carrying $494,304,238, wos | reported to-day in the House. The amount is9$9,529,47§ less than that re- quested in the budget. The bill, which provides for ex- penses during the fiscal year begin- ning Rext July 1, recomp ends $377,- 414,622. for the’ Veterais' Bureuit, 7100,459,000 for the Shipping Boanl, $4,869,500 for the Interstate Com- nyerce’ Commission, $1,050,700 for the Housing Corporation, $270,000 for the Allen Property Custodidn's office, £850,000 for the Railroad Labor Board, 329/480 for the salaries of the Presi. ont’ and Vice President and tor White House expenses, $855,000 .or the Federal Trade Commiasion, $300, - 000 for the Tariff Commission and $210,000 for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Sing ho! for Home and | White Rose! ROSe The all-Ceylon Tea SEEMAN BROTHERS, Proprietors of "White Rose” Coffer Inc., Mew York Caught after a chase up the steep| bill from Fulton Street to Columbia | Kings | The pfisonet’s Angerprints proved | He was sent | |AMERICA HONORS ITALY’S “UNKNOWN” Congressional Medal Conferred on Him—Ambassador Child De- livers Oration. 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