The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1922, Page 4

GLCHRST OPS / WAR ON THEVING ~ TANIA DRIVERS Force of Inspectors Examining = Meters To-Day — Public *~ Asked to Help if Fight MANY METERS “FIXED.” Proof of Tampering Will Mean Loss of License, Declares Commissioner. Fourteen inspectors under the direc. tion of Commissionor of Licenses Gi- christ to-day aro investigating taxical, meters as a result of charges that eome have been set to register over- charges. The Commissioner asks the Dube to ald by taking the puniber of thieving drivers. *{ intend to revoke the license of every taxicab driver whose moter has Wetn tampered with,” sald the Commis- sioner, “That means the drivers 1 find to be dishonest will be forever bared in New York. mizy even take criminal action, if that is possible, 1 shall call the Dis- trfet attorney's attention to any tam- Déring with the city’s seals that we upon taxical meters. If the Attorney #o recommends, 1 go before the Grand Jury. The most common method of cheat- fig, he said, is to substitute what is wn as an “eight-point rachet for the authorized “ten-point” This makes the register turn per cent. faster, or In other words, its im an overcharge of 20. per At present, all taxicab meters are by the city every four months. according to the Commissioner, the purpose of these inspections, “ten-point” wheei Is returned into Meter—and then taken owit again Another four months of thievery. Bays the little fags on the metar ite the prices. carrying a green flag on r is the cheapest in the city. 20 centé for the first falle and 10 cents foreach ad- quarter mile. This is less the legal rate allowed and has Into being as the result\of close k taxi with a white fiag has only h the single tariff. This is r tho first half mile and 10 each additional quarter mile: with & red flag is the highest For only one or two passep- single tariff equal of the cabs with the white ; But for more than two phasen- , the driver is authorized to double tariff, which is 40 cents 6 first half mile and 10 cents for addi sixth-mile. 1"* warned the Com- > greed i don't let the color thé taxieab fool you." poendeaten ecsuieam bt OKIE WILL NOT D R. L. CRAWFORD Engagement Broken on Account of ‘Religious Differences of the Young Couple ‘The wedding of Miss Catherine St. (Clair Duie of this city to Robert Crawford %4 of White which was to have taken placo month, has béen called off. A & WOMAN AUTOIST HELD AGAIN, NOW -FORBOY'S DEATH jailed After Hurting Police- man, Gives Bond When Child Victim Dies. Mrs. Robert Thompson, twenty- nine, a widow, of No. 2117 Hast 14th Street, Brooklyn, was arrested yes- terday on a homicide charge as the result of the death of eleven-year- old Dominick Leo of No. 94 Dooley Street, Brooklyn, one of three chil- (ren injured Tuesday afternoon when the automobile she was driv- ing ran upon the sidewalk in front of No. 2721 East 23d Street, Brooxlyn. ‘The boy died yesterday in Coney Island Hospital, where six-year-old Gerald Fox of the Bast 23d Street address les seriously injured. John Fazio is seriously inured, at his home, East 23d Street and Emmons Avenue, When the accident occurred Mrs. Thompson was out on bail under a charge of felonious assault in run- ning down Motorcycle Policeman Joseph F. Dunn on Ocean Parkway & month ago. Dunn is still in the Coney Island Hospital. Magistrate O'Neill, in the Coney Island Court, fixed bail for Mrs. Thompson at $1,000, Her husband was killed in an automobile accident at Avenue I and Kings Highway thren months ago, Woman Mayor im religion is the cause of 2 being broken, Okie is the daughter of Mrs, A. Schroeder of No. 172 East Street. She announced her 's enagagement to Mr. Craw- who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Crawford jr., last May. ‘was to be an elaborate + Invitations were sent out sev- ‘Weeks ago. Okle is @ member of the Junior @ and is to take part in the en- it “Ready Made,’ to be abe by the league next week at the Plaza. Mr. Crawford was graduated trom » Class of ‘17, and served the 89th Division during the war of field artillery, He is a of the Union, New York Ath- ‘and other clubs. oo MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS ON TRACKS OF SUBWAY JHA MoClemons, thirty-six, of No $18 Christopher Street was to-day found unvonscious by employees of tii Inierborough between the north A south tracks of ihe subway near at 145th Street and Lenox se ‘When the man was revivou Sad all he conid remember wis he had been struck by a train. could uot explain huw his over- happened to be on the platform time he wus fou. » Druckman, summoned from Hospital, ¢0« him to that {1- suffering frum a fracture of and @ frecured right arm. ———— Wear make comrrawr, 60 WOMAN ts InsCHARGED, Wert Horner twenty-tout, of No. 126 Meet Wist Strest, charged with eus- ” ond Young- of No. 509 West Ror. 10 ‘net, was discharged LM ag Phe) Bimpron in rt, Younghand refused complaint, declaring he had Tilts With Foes Of Bobbed Hair Why Not? She Asks—Whose Busi- ness Is It, Other Than That of Girls Themselves? FAIRPORT, O., Jan. 21.—Charges against the modern girl are all wrong, Dr. Amy Kaukonen, pretty girl Mayor of Fairport, told the United Press to- Surprised as Stork Gets Busy Sons Are Born to Daughter and Daughter-in-Law Within Six Hours, When Mrs. Mary Dolan, No. 152 William Street, Belleville, N. J., an- swered the phone in her home at noon | yesterday this is the message she re- | ceived: i | “Mother, this is Dick, It's a boy!" Dick in this case is Mrs. Dolan's| son-in-law, Richard Flanagan of Prospect Street, Belleville, Mrs. Dolan lost no time in going to see her first grandson. At.6 P. M. Mrs. Dolan was called to the phone again and this is what she heard: “Mother, this is Dick, It's a boy.” “Why, Dick, what's the matter with you?" Mrs. Dolan asked. “Don't you remember that I saw the baby?" “Saw him? How tn the world could you when he arrived only five minutes ago?"’ Dick sald. “Wh-h-h-o Is this?’ was Mrs. Do- lan's next question, “Why, Dick, your son,’ was the reply. This Dick is Richard A. Dolan of Terrace Place, Belleville. * —— STATEN ISLAND SEEKS SUBWAY AID Delegation Will Confer With Gov- ernor as to Inclusion in City's Extension Plan. Arrangements were made to-day hy the Staten Island Chamber of Com- merce and the Civic League to send delegations to Albany Tuesday to talk sHE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929, | i MISS a 3 MURIEL VANDERBILT A* D2 SPANISH DANCER NEW POSTMASTER OF STATEN ISLAND LONG IN SERVICE Foggin Started as a Clerk and Got His First Appointment From President Harrison. Frank Foggin of No. 61 Clinton with Goy. Miller about the desire of Staten Island to be included definitely in the city’s subway extension pro- framme. The conference has been ar- ranged by State Senator Wrnest Smith, who has introduced a bill en- larging the authority of the city to construct a Staten Island subway. Senator Smith told his constituents to-day that he found Gov. Miller In- clined to believe that certain poli- ticlans of Staten Island were joining hands with the Administration of New York City to embarrass the State Ad- day. “Some folks are so narrow there isn’t room to stick them between the eyes with a pin,’ Mayor Kaukpnen declared, “The modern girl is charged with bobbing her hair, shaving her eye- brows, powdering her nose, rolling her stockings and discarding her cor- set. “Why shouldn't a girl bob her hair if she wants to? Nobody sets up a howl when the men do it, and look at the men you see in the front row of the theatre and the back row at chureh, with heads as devoid of cov- ering as an egg. “Furthermore, | recommend a close hair cut for every married woman, 6o if hubby comes home all lit up from moonshine whiskey and just itching for a fight he won't be able to got such 4 firm grip on wife's hair whep the marital battle begins. “The girl of to-day is criticised for wearing short skirts. 1 wear short skirts myself and I don't sec why a@ girl should hide her ankles any more than her elbows, There [an't a man living who doesn’t approve of short skirts on some other man's sweet- me yor sy ca tee ‘were found toge! io Central had ® bullet wound in lay in orner's heart or wife. “As far girl inviting weehaure by oract—this is sheer Puritanical nonsense and pru- ery, Corsets, as every physician knows, should have been abolished long ago What do I think about dancing? “Well, the crash of the cymba the moan of the saxophone and th Joyous melody of the violin always make me feel like moving my feet, so ministration by obstructing the plans of the Port Authority. Senator Smith asked for public aid in making it clear to the Governor that the agita- tion on Staten Island was due to a fear that under the Port Authority plans there would be no passenger Avenue, Port Richmond, 8. I, is being congratulated over his appoint- ment by President Harding as Post- master of Staten Island. The Senate has confirmed the nomination. The appointment of a Postmaster has been held up for several weeks because the Republican County Com- mittee was unable to agree on a man for theposition, Finally the conte sifted down between Thomas Brani secretary of the Republican Commit- tee and cashier in the Tax Depart- ment of the Borough of Richmond, and Mr. Foggin. A vote gave the de- cision to Mr. Foggin. Mr. Foggin has served thirty-two years in the Post Offices in Staten Island, Starting as a clerk he ad- vanced himseif to assistant postmaster Fron: FOTOGRAMS The annual play of the Junior Young Women ot New York Society *s Junior League Rehearsing Their Play, ‘‘Ready Made,’’ at Home of Mrs. Vin League for charity will be presented this year at the Plaza of three evenings, Jan. 26, 27 and 28. FOR BEATING MAN; CALLED “POOR LIAR” | Magistrate Declares He Found Prisoner’s Body a Mass of Bruises. Denounced by Magistrate Corrigan as a “poor Har’t in his testimony, Policeman Patrick Lennon, twenty- six years old, one year on the force, | attac hed to the West 30th Street. Sta- tion, is under parole to-day to appear for examination Thursday on a charge of disorderly conduct. Owen W. Watkins. thirty-eight, seaman, of No. 27 Lincoln Avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested by Lennon Wednesday in a restaurant neq Tenth Avenue and 36th Street. Lennon’s story was that several men earlier in the night had attacked him, and that Watkins had knocked iim down and kicked “him on the nose. , So when he found Watkins in the restaurant he arrested him Police Inspector Underhill, in charge of the Second Precinct, waid that (charges against the policeman for beating Owen W. Watkins, a sailor, | Whom he had under arrest, were to be investigated on Monday, The in- spector sald the policeman had been examined at tha time of the arrest by | not intoxicated. Watkins testified he was sitting in the restaurant waiting for a friend when Lennon and another policeman came in and accused him of being a hold-up man. He said Lennon beat him with bis nightstick all the way to the station. Magistri'e Corrigan, who heard the case in Jefferson Market Court, said he had examined Watkins Thursday and found him to be a mmss of black and blue marks, and that he had been beaten unmerci- fully. He dismissed the charge agaist Watkins, “There is no question in my mind of Port Richmond, wh position he held for sixteen years, President Har- that the defendant, Watkins, was brutally assaulted and beaten by su" vay connection between Staten|rison appointed Mr. Foggin Postmas-| Lennon and that the evidence shows Island and the rest of the city, Mr, Smith asked the civic organizations to convince the Governor that Staten Island was not taking sides as be- tween the elty plan and the Port Au- thority plan so long as it got a pas- senger subway connection as soon us possible, ae <a $4,000,000 LIABILITIES; $100,000 QUICK ASSETS Receiver Thus Rates Stock Firm of B.D. Dier & Co. An investigation into the financial af- faira of B. D, Dier & Co. the New York Curb and Chicago Board of Trade okerage house against Which an in- voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed this week in the Pederal District Court, Is in progress before Convmis- sioner Gilchrist In the Federal Bullding, Among the witnesses thus far examined are Fred Andrews, who was Dier's con- fidential man, and J. J. Delaney Manfred W. Bhrich, receiver, said to. day that Dier ig expected to testify be- fore Commissioner Gilohrist next week. ter of Port Richmond. sixteen years in that capacity. succeeds Frank O'Driscoll is $6,000 a year, —_—s—— POLICE GUARD WOUNDED BANDIT Big Escort From Jersey for Hold- Up Man Who Shot Detectives Detectives Flynn and Caso of the “remont Station, Bronx, took to Fordham Hospital last night Josep Vates, twenty-four years old, of No. 220 East 119th Street, who had meen @ prisoner in the Engtewood, N. J., Hospital since Dec, 24 Oates waa shot Dec. 28 by Detective McCarthy after a hold-up in a cigar store at Southern Boulevard and Tre- He served He The salary mont Avenue, and his companion, Nelson Levy, was killed. Both detec tives were also wounded and are just out of St. Francls Hospital Oates escaped tn a taxicab to En @lewood, but was arrested at the hoe- pital there. When he left the Englewood Hos- rital Oates was placed in an ambu- lance and accompanied by the two de- |tectives, Chief of Police Pye and nine }patrolmen of the Englewood Pones Department, to Fort Lee. There I~ certainly IT am not antagoniytic to dancing f “We find," said Mr. Ehrich, “that ED. Diér & Co. probably owe the wibitc about $4,000,000. The qutck reallsabje assets do not amount to very much, perhapy not over $100,000. Dier had 8,000 or more accounts. He started in business about seven years agu, BABYLON WOM BS AT 108, | Mrs. Hiiza Holmes, 408 years ola, | died ‘Thureday in &t. Catherine's In: firmary, Babyton Township, of acute bronehitt was born in the United States, the daughter of Michant and Johanna Broderick Mead Mee Chief O'Brien of Fort Lee and a party of his men Joined the others and the defendant should be discharged and a complaint taken against Len- non," said Maginstrate Corrigan. “I have taken complaints against officers for unnecessary brutality two or three times and sent them downtown to a higher court. The results have not always been eatis- factory. “Because I think there might be djMculty in establishing a perjury charge to the satisfaction of a jury, 1 am going to have Lennon placed un- a physician who reported that he was| POLICEMAN HELD. NEWARK SPURNS. COLDSTORAGE tts “SHPPEDROMNY Thirty-One Per Cent. of Big Consignment Found to Be Unfit for Use. As a result of the open weather and the drop in the price of eggs, as well as the limitation of the cold storage period for eggs, which usually expires in April, New York wholesale prodiice merchants are attempting to dinpose of the storage product without re- gard to quality, according to Samuel G, Sharwell, “head of the Food and Drugs Division of the Newarc Health)! Department. Mr. Sharwell has embargoéd by greement a quantity of New York storage eggs recently shipped to the Newark Beef Company of No. 11 Ward Street as a part of an order of 375 crates, each containing thirty dozen eggs, after finding that 16 per cent, candled bad. As the shipme st was interstate in Character, the Prederal food and drug authorities in New York have been notified and Inspector Joseph F. | Dunn of that department, after an j inspection of five crates, announced | 81 per cent. unfit for sale. The New York Department of Health began an inspection to-day of the balance of the Newark concern's order, which is still in storage in New York. These remained {n New York when the beef company refused to accept the bal- ance of the order, which was priced wholesale at $11.40 a crate, or 38 cents a dozen wholesale. The Newark department ofMfciais are now at work securing the evidence of the interstate ghipment under which, they said, the Federal food and drug authorities can bring action against the New York wholesaler in the Fed- eral Courts. Five per cent. ts the limit of bad eggs to a crate permitted in interstate shipments, the Newark authorities said. pe PHULADOLPHIA BROKERS IN RE- CEIVERS' HANDS, . PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.—Recolvere were appointed to-day for the stock brokerage firm of EAwin E. Kohn Con pany on a bill in equity filed in Common Pleas Court by creditors alleging insol- vency, The bill claimed the concern’s Mabilities would reach at least $600,000 & member of the New York Conaoll- dated Exchange, SSS t= HIS NEW ADDRESS IS “C. F. MURPHY, der arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct, which I shall try.’ POLICE SCHOOL CHANGES, Police Commissioner nounced last night that the mental training branch of the departmeat training school would be transferred Monday morning from Headquarters to the old West 20th Street Station, ‘The phys! ining branch of tne schoo! will remain tn the gymnastuin at Headquarters for the present, until the Commissioner selects another place, Enright an. al ee VASSAR FUND GETS $25,000 FROM MRS. STRAIGHT, The targest individual gift for the new year to the Vassar College salary fund’ was made yesterday by Mrs. Wil- lard Straight, who pledged $25,000, This brings the amount subscribe to date to $2,489,010.76, leaving $566,989.25 to reach the $3,000,000 goal. An award of $500, given by the Edison Company te Prof, Margaret Floy Washburn of Vas- accompanied the detectives and their prisoner to New York aa: for the best essay on the psychology PX nese, wae turned over to the tune HAMPTON BAYS” Post Office Department Re- names Good Ground Af- ter 184 Years, The name of the post office of Good Ground, L. L, best known perhaps as the home of Chart F. Murphy, has been changed to Hampton Bays by the United States Post Office Department and will be known by that name hereafter. The change was made after many citizens of Good Ground had signed a petition to the Post OfMfice Department, pointing out that Good Ground, now Hampton Bays, had wonderful bays and was joined to the other Hemp- tons of Long Island. The vil- lage has been in existence % Good Ground sinee 1738, cent Astor) BY SMOKE AT FIRE ONE BADLY BURNED pa BN | Mother Scorched as She ‘Tries (o Réach Child—Firemen Save Both. Hosa Waragadso, six years old, Was | badly, and her mother, Mrs, Salvatore | Firagasso; slightly burned, during |fire at No. 878 Atlantte Avenue, Hrooklyn, early to-d rar 9 has a grocery on the ground Moor and lives on the second floor “of the thiée-story butlding. There Was a farewell party and Jennie, seven, were put to sleep downstairs in a room back of the in the} |apartment last night and Rose, six, | ASKS COURT ACTION ONGIRL WITNESSES ~NARBUGKLE TRIAL ‘Brady Bitterly Resents He Tried to Force False Testimony | | SAN FRANCISCO, 21, —Dis- ltrict Attorney Brady wan aroused to- diy at the charges of two State wit nesses tliat he and his deputies had Jan |intimidated them into signing false jstatements against Roscoe (Fatty) | Arbuckle! being tried for the death of Virginia Rappe Brady announced he would demand jot Judge Harold Londerback to-day |that Zey Prevost and Alice Blake Orne Are started In the rear of ine |*HOW &irts, whode testimony at tis store. Jennie was aroused and tried| tal proved to be somewhat of | 1 {to wake her sister, but Rose was un-| “boomerang,” be legally classed ar | conscious from smoke. Jennie ran |up to her mother, who was overcome | jand slightly burned trying to get jdown to Rose. ‘The mother was car- ried out by Fireman Frank Dowling | of Hook and Ladder No. 105. Capt. James McManus of Engine No. 219 found Rose and carried her ito the street. The two were treated | ‘by an ambulance surgeon und went) |to the home of friends. The fire did | little damage. Two other famitles xot | out without difculty. FIRST GAS RAISE SET FOR MARCH 1 Public Service Commission Signs | Order for Newtown Company in Brooklyn. | The first permanent increase in gas | rates for this city granted by the new Public Service Commission will go into effect probably March 1, as a re- | sult of an order signed by Chaman| Prendergast. The Newton Gas Vom- | pany, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn Union, was permitted to increase its | rate from $1.10 a thousand cubic feet to $1.15. Mr. Prendergast's statement yes- |terday that the telephone and gas j1ate decisions were being delayed through the dilatory tactics of the city officials was echoed by jor Gen, John F. O'Ryan of the Transit Commission. The former leadsr of the 27th Division characterized the attitude of the city as an “amazing lack of comprehension by publte oft. clals of logal principles" and as:"more Iposé thinking and talling."** qu The déciston of ithe Pubtic-Service Commission in the Newtown case is believed to forecast action on the many rate cases now pending b.fore that body, ee ee $50,000 NEEDED FOR ORPHANS’ NEW HOME { put | “hostile witnekses.’’ : Miss Prevost asserted the prosecti- | tion tried to influence her to give ad- | verse testimony. Brady ald he would Captain of Detectives Duncan | Matheson and others on the stand to impeach her testimony. Both she and Miss Biake deveioped a forgetfulness during the retrial which clearly éxas perated the prosecution, ‘who Thursday called Miss Prevost the stand in the n on from dle of her testi- mony Presentation of evidence by the State neared a close to-day, Only a few more witnesses are to be called The principal point still to be de veloped by the prosecution is the matter of fingerprints on the door in Arbuckle’s room at the § Francis Hotel alleged to have been made by | Arbuckle and Miss Rappe in what the Mother of 5 Gets Another Chance; | Keeps Children a Need Not Submit to Steriliza- ; tion, Rules Court, Blaming 1 Husband, Too. ; DENVER, Jan. 21. — Mrs | Cossidente will be allowed to keep be {five children and she need not | mit to sterilization. | A decision in the famous case lias }been announced by Judge Royal R. Graham, who gaid Mrs. Cossidente will be given ‘another chance.’ | ‘Phe proper place for children is with ‘the parents, especially t!» mother,"’ said the Judge. ‘‘It is alway Clyde | the intention of this court to leavs 150 Children Tramsferrea from (Children with their parents, but It City tarvytows. |up to the parents to prove that thes are able to care for them One hundred and fitty ehildren of the | “""up 1 were going to recommend St. Vincent de Paul Institution for] sterilization 1 most certainly would Freneh+Amerioan orbphans have béen | not recommend it alone for the wife transferred from their New York City home to the Tarrytown property re- cently bought from the John D, Arch- bold estate. There are fourteen acres fronting on the Hudsorl. Both French and American children are eligible for admiasion and both languages are to be used in their education: Monoy is still needed, about $50,000. to complete the equipment. Miss Marie La Montagne is in charge of raising the fund. Subscriptions may be sent to her at the Colony Club, Park Avenue and 62d Street, and will be acknowledged. —_—_ HUSBAND HAS DOUBTS OF COSTA BOY’S STORY } but also for the husband and each of the offspring proved to be feeble minded or dangerously defective | Juvenile Judge Ben B. Lin who was called Into conference the case by Judge Graham, ed | statement after the hearing declaring that he favored birth control. Cossidente told the court that since jthe November hearing he had re ceived 286 letters from all parts of |the world telling him how to prevent further additions to his family. He added that he felt quite competent to meet the situation. Mr. Bal Bellevers Kuows "SEAL, England, Jan. 21 Where Hin Wife, ,_ Jean steamship Schoodic was driven AH. Bull, @ teller in the. Harrl-| sihove of Dungeness during the night man National Bank, said to-day he/ and is calling for assistatice TH did not believe his wife, who disap- peared from their home, in Ridge- wood, N. J., New Year's Bve with thelr seven-year-old daughter, was dead, and he still thinks Ralph Costa | can throw light on her whereabouts, | “L believe that sooner or later I'll hear from her direct,” he added, “The boy's return is only the begin- ning. I thine she will arrive sooner or later, just as he has arrived.” Costa, who is seventeen, came back from Toronto yesterday and is in Ridgewood. There he told his story to Police Chiet Blackshaw, who said he believed the boy disclosed ail he knew, ea RUSSIAN PRESS “FREE” WITH SOVIET CENSOR Re erve Right to of Workers. Jan, 20 (Jewish Tele- eraphio Agency).—The Soviet Govern- Schoodic is a vessel of 5,784 tons, owt by the United States Shipping Bon) ment haa confirmed the introduction of {freedom of the press for all political wroups in Russia, it ia officially an~ uounced. 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