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— HE WILL LOOK INTO AMERICAN BOOK CO. Asserts at t History Revision Hearing 'He Understands It’s British Corporation. MAY CALL FOR, BOOKS. y aparees Made That Smaller Publishers Are in Grasp of the Company. Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- field said to-day, during his resumed hearing on the revision of American Orso’ textbooks, that he was “going to look into the American Book Company.” “I may call for its books,"" he add- ed. “I understand it is a British cor- poration.”’ Mr. Hirshfield, whose audience to- fiay consisted of seven men and one ‘woman, had been told, in a speech by George E. Morrison of Newburgh, N. &., formerly a Detroit newspaper man, that the American Book Com- pany undoubtedly controlled — the echool book situation in this country. fe said he had spent ten years inves- gating the connection between t fompany and the public schools of Michigan. “@maller publishers are in_ the grasp of this company,” Mr. Mor- Tison stated. “Senator Truman H Newberry get the bulk of his income from this company although he is the holder of no office in it.” It was at this point that Commis- wioner Hirshfield said that he had ried several times unsuccessfully to e the American Book Company to operate with him in his investiga- tion of the American history books used in the public schools which are declared to have minimized American achievement in the Revolution and War of 1812. Charles Edward Russell, a former newspaper man in this city, ae speaker at Mr. Hirshfield’s thering. He said in part: At the thme of the Venezuela trouble in Cleveland's Administration, ® man tried to interest me in a revi- sion of the schoolbooks used in our schools which would bring about a de- scription of the American Revolution as a trivial family quarrel, The visitor said he had been,sent from England to ald in forming an alliance between the peoples of the two ni: tions and that part of the propaganda “would be the revision of the school histories. “About a week after my visitor left I learned that Andrew Carnegie financing a movement similar to that outlined»by my visitor, Later I was amazed to discover that the histo} had been revised along the lines su gested by the visitor. Since then the books have been making less and less of the Revolution and the War of 1812, cutting out all reference to the American heroes of those times “ was in London five months dur- we the World War-and was so fre- ently approached by English people of importance who wished to further an alliance with the American people that I cume to believe the Govern- ment of Great J3ritain was behind this purpose. 1 believe that changing the textbooks was part of the propa @ESULTS ALREADY SAYS CITS. UNION Aver That All Charges Against Enright Have Been Proven or Admitted. The Citizens’ Union to-day issued the following statement “The Citizens’ Union and ts officers are not interested In the Irrelevant abuse or the threats of the Mayor and his Police Commissioner. 1 sole interest is to compel an improye- ment in police condition by directing f public attention to the maladministra- tion of Commissioner Enright “The Union has reason to believe that its efforts have already produced H results, for the Commissioner has at Jength been compelled to admit the j existence of serious crimes of vio- lence in this city and to bestir him self to measures for combating it, hich he should long since have em- foyed. “Al that the Citizens’ Union ha charged against Enright was estab- Vished by sworn testimony and docu mentary evidence or has been ad- mitted by Enright hims $1, 250 IN CONTEMPT Girl in Court in Habeas Corpus Writ Biss Mary Hinkley, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls at Hudson, N. Y was to-day adjudged in contempt of court by Justice Frank 8. Gannon ir: in Supreme Court in Brooklyn B) Bhe was fined $1,250. Her attorney Went at once to the Appellate Division and obtained a stay of this sentence pending an appeal Justice Gannon held that Miss } Hinkley had falled to comply with a EEiwrit of habeas corpus issued by Jus. Bitice Benedict two months ago requir- }ing Miss Hinkley to produce in court S} Helen Mellor, one of her charges, who had been committed for improper Mrs. Hinkley’s defense was that she jad been advised not to heed the court order by the Attorney-General THE aay WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922 EATRICE TH WiGoins. ~ TALK BY RADIO TELEPHONE FROM FRISCO TO N. Y. Signal Corps Officers Say New Coast Station Will Reach Miss LOUlse BANKS Lor Western Owners, } to Chal- st for Equine SAN FRANCISCO lenge the with New York will be : from the new Signal Corps just opened ‘The horse show season will be open- ed with the big Brooklyn Horse Show at the Brooklyn Riding and Driving Club arena to-morrow night the most powerful on the coast AS eer ee nen Officers sald thoy ON CHEROKEE PRINCESS, ave Doubts His Thought Waves As Mayor Refuses {o Tell Why He Vetoed Police Pension BUND etter, aueass Mote ts ves | ere mene The tornado last night worked its way into Ohio, cutting a swath we and Allen Counties in Northwestern Ohio, injuring three ns. ‘The tornado cut a path sev- Wert End]eral hundred yards wide, passing the club started giving horse shows the following spring and 8 continued ever since be ridden by thirtieth annual an unusually gramme has been prepared this year’s exhibition wil: cenire in the intense rivalry be- tween Western and Eastern owners of harness horses, saddle horses and The Western owners, . have entered some as weil as carefully open events as well as in the avers In the harness classes A. W son's champion high stepper, famous phaeton tlage horses, Mogul, will try conclusions with the Wanamaker Got His Honor's Cerebral Vibrations From Palm Beach, but Mistrusts Power if Tried on Union Citizens. have to concentrate thick skulls through pionships to thei und The Whip, the former James Cup a monopoly imported by its former owner at a cost of $10,000 and a winner contenders in the on prize winners Hylan to-day had members of yen's Union ¢ and tried to send a wave in which the increased pensians for dependent rela eached nearl policemen killed in. the Seaton Sylv this season Mayor point blank what his rea n’s Union fellows » one of the most en- e and Fairview Killearn Farm's Se : st have bral Hamilton 1 Secretary, with must hi 1would go to Albany he certainly . Bell's Princess 1 as next Gover acknowledged: ‘the interviewer Assistant Secre- Thomas L. of the club, and the members of the Executive Com- Charles F. Franklin B. Jourdan, Blitz, the well known Sunbeam and Misses Constance fan's Willisbrook five times m awyer than I do as Comn Mayor in decisive ean Sala Re pean Ree David Hirshfleld, said to be the « back laughingly ypose you did take n vaudeville Rok Lel and explained he Clark and and Robert Leland’s its guarantee the perfect man- agement of the entire function {s as- an at Palm Beach, don’t you think from the Woodroyd rom i that would pay demonstrate ligh-steppir that gift in vaudevilic field with a smile you think Mayor Hylan‘s mind n that of the Hirshfield was askod 1 I wouldn't say that Ona GIRL, 14, GRANTED $7,750 ALLOWANCE Catherine Vanderpool Given That Amount Yearly for Living and Schooling Cohalan to-« pplication to 7,750 from the Anne Vanderpool, , for her education and main Judging Committee Vanderbilt and ©, yon Heeaebe horses an: sked a reporter asier to read th Numerous entries adale horses and Bell and J. Watson Webb who boomed the Peck's recent di The authoritative fit- and unaseall these well known practical horsemen is acknowledged. North from the seph T. Murphy's xased opinion Richard Halsted ha , Clarence Robbins Poker Part nasi’s Radiant, dell’s Powder Putt Jackson's Highland Belle, Miss outstanding features ss Deeothy H which make this show distinct over any of those in the past are the re- harness classes with half a ms of three and Pflug’s Galiant Deegan's W Mrs. Edwin Bates Ba! Several of these and \ last year's champion Winon Rappahannock and Moonlight four-in-hand n appointed pairs and brilliant high- , the best of which will meet competition Eagle $500 cup, the championship. array of fine saddle horses, eral new-comers of un- the number of over the leading events, bring together a stronger aggrega- tion of thoroughbreds and Kentucky saddle-bred candidates than has been seen in many It is from among these that indt- viduals of champion brand may be ax the surprises are always discovered in the novice events. Hunton's Robert last season. dent Leeming ( the ‘$1,000 stake and will end next Byford Ryan's Meteo girl's father, BEER PRICE SOARS IN BRITAIN; WOE FOR THE DRINKER LONDON, April 1 (Ry Ma ® ever-increasing price of t pionship and reserve entered this year Commodore sn uncle of th Pierson’s Lady C. Kettle jr’s Poppy. is worrying Eng hrow any kind of once graced most humble ‘ous entries in Royal are among numer the road hack class hunting and jumping classes overflowing with the pest trained horses on Long Island there being getting beyond the reach of poor McCashin’s Irish es, and a reduction in tax ation is the only bring it back 14 its monetary but that he cons seventy -four HIGHER UP INCASE} NEARLY 400 HURT a “ Greek Williams, Before} Floods Add t to Losses in Grand Jury, Wants to Make Middle West—Snow in Clean Breast. Colorado. After he had spent an hour before CHICAGO, rit 1s Revised fig- the Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn to-day, it rumored that James ]'res on the Williams, alias “Nick” and “Greek" | eaused by th Williams, victed bootlegger, had offered the authorities the most com-]OVer the Central States yesterday and prehensive expose of one section of|last night indicated at noon to-day the local bootlegging game which has }inat the loss of life would not be as yet been Inid before them. Because of the secrecy maintained in Grand Jury proceedings, the report figures showed wenty-eight known could not be verified, but before he}dead—thirteen in IMinois, thitteen in entered the jury room Willlams ex pressed a desire to make a clean breast of his activities and “get t men higher up," for whom, he de-} dame clares, he “held the bag,"’ when the | dollars law closed in on their. activities. Warden Harry Honeck found a re flection of the recent threat that] {he Middte Western States the storm, Williams would “never have to go to} which had its origin in the Rocky Atlanta’ when guards at the Ray-| Mountain region Sunday, passed over mond Street Jail reported Saturday | ¢),),, they had found an eight-inch hack saw in Wittlame’ oatts He was death and much destruction Promptly moved to ‘Murderers’ Row, d rains sent streams, then where it is believed there is less} swollen, coursing far beyond their chance of escape. As only Willlams’s | usual channels. A drop in the tem- brother, ©, D, Williams, and his A counsel, Alex TP. Drescher, have seon | Petature to below the seasonal normal the prisoner since his conviction, it]added discomfort to those whose was decided to revoke the brother's] homes had been destroyed by wind or ualties and damage form which swept great as at first reported. Latest Indiana and two in Missouri—three to four hundred injured and property running into millions of Sweeping northeastward through to-day. leaving in its wake pass to visit hrm. made uninhabitable by flood and are A stylishly dressed woman attempt- | jjying in tents or huts. ed to the prisoner Sunday after In Missouri, Iowa and Kansas the the brother's pass had been revoked, | storm Sunday lacked the intensity but without avail later shown Outside inte , friendly to several] Over Indiana there were two dis- politicians Williams has threatened| tinct tornado belts, southern and to name in his expose, have tried to}northern, In the latter was a convince Williams that his best inter-] wind swept strip with many dead ests lay in silence, depending upon} Warren Coun in the western part political Influence to shorten his sen-| of the State, reported 12 dead; in tence after imprisonment M on, in Central Indiana, four, After Williams returned to jail to-| ‘The death toll was greatest In day it was announced he had not] central Tllinois. Irvington and Plain- completed his statement to the Grand] field were badly wrecked and several Jury and would return again to-|were killed. Other fatalities were In morrow rural communitie The Grand Jury also is investigat The gr Ing the case of owner of the yacht Edith, which was}imap. Eight persons were killed. captured at Bayville, L. 1, with a] Sie large cargo of liquor humorist, was a aged DIVORCED COUPLE Plainfield, 11, was literally picked nd blown away, without fatalities, up FIGHT FOR CHILD) however. for Custody—Child Sides With Mother. thro n Augle Mrs. Eloise Drake Frego, who lives with her mother at No. 672 Avenue, and her former husband, | south of Lima and continuing north Kenneth L. Frego, travelling man, fe#sterly. Houses and barns were ‘ demolished before Supreme Court Jus ; appe tice Cohalan to-day in a fight for the onto farmers custody of their — seven-year-old dauchter, Bloise. The couple was di vorced in Nashville, ‘Tenn, a ye making prer frost, possibly to-night ca tego told of following hi wite #2") Kansas and Nebraska, Missouri and baby" for nearly a veur, finally 10-| tow pelted with hail which cating pan re. Ade ue ‘ “re caused great damage to property and sel, he had seized the child, who pro crops tested, placing her ‘vith the Childr a Society pending court decision on her guardianship In telling why his wife was unfit to rear the child, oO alleged con- ditions in her New Orleans home. where he said he saw number of women immoc tly walking around in negligee. In adjourning the hearing «until to- morrow, ustice Cohalan aid he would award the child to her mother unless shown she was unfit. He al lowed the mother to take the child to lunch, but she must remain: with the society until his decision As she left the court room the girl stuck her tongue out at her father MISS BAKER TO WED McCORMICK MAY 4 Woman Who Left Him Warting at Church Buying Trousseau in Paris PARIS, April 18 —Mary Landon aker of Chi poned marriage has been the subject of society di cussion since first she left him wait ern Arkansas and extreme tornadoes swept Altus, O tou and other small villages go, whose much post to Allister McCormicic ing at the chureh Jan f this year has “‘named the da Miss Baker arrived here to-day and was met at the station by \ and Viscountess Janz ! or he will stay while in I In ar view she said I shall remain in Paris for tive weeks, buying my trousseau and doin other shopping inch ton ding with Alli ter, 1 am gor over the fence for a home run immediately upon my arrival! Ma the fans know it’s a real lucky a wil probably be the a he ad strike. < A * —— - When we discovered the toasting urn NEW YORKER WASPEIS Mabel ‘ae ate : ake . d. a lucky strike for us. of dtcatman , Gare tre 'pann| | LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE Avenue, was found a and ate the streets of Philadeip! ' The father was in was sent for th She disappenred ye 0 to ache Her lives in Philadelphia It’s toasted. Godfrey Preece's Lockwood's and R. Lawrence Coralie will be among the make their initial appearance. in the trial Chairman of a big forty-seven to try over The light welzht hunters are thirty in number, while the Corinthian class teams of three horses to be ridden by in hunt club costume will form the most spectacular incidents of the week excessive tax on cis and sparkling wines, GREENWICH. in these commodities, he s beer will be the next to g 1914 the brewers the cleverest and only daught Becky Lanie panions Rollin ordered sent to shows edoven huntersand Jumperséo Cannie Jook and Caunsie Jean, More ight weights Byfo eed SEMENOFE RE DPFF Supreme Court Justi reserved decision followins of ounsel writ fight te Ludlow inthmat It's toasted, st fury of the storm was ntonio Cassese, | felt when Hedrick was wiped off the n, the home of George Ade, the so seriously dam- Twenty square miles of territory With the storm apparently over, nd fruit growers were tions to fight a heavy killing,"’ predicted for Snow and sleet covered Colorado, Storm damage over Missouri, West- astern Kansas totalled hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Western Arkansas baby rk, Mani- When a heavy hitter lifts it process for cigarette tobacco it was goes through just one more process, we believe, than any other brand. Of course this extra process costs us more. But the toasting seals in the Burley flavor, and costs you no more. Try Lucky Strike today. N Cae Magistrate Is Told Jacobs Re- sented Complaint to Land- lady of Noisy Parties. Mra. Elizabeth Castellano, of No. 1877 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn: and Miss Mae Whitmoyer, twenty-two, of the same address, were charged with disorderly conduct in Coney Island Court to-day by Patrolman Wil- llam Jacobs, of the Fifth Avenue Sta+ tion, Brooklyn, who lives with his famtly In the same house. * Mrs, Castellano had a bruised left eye and declared that she and Mis« Whitmoyer were beaten by Jacobs yesterday afternoon on the porch of the house. Both women pleaded not guilty and were paroled until April 26. They said they were going to the District Attorney's office and also to In- spector Sweeney to make a complaint against Jacobs. The Jacobs family live on the sec- ond floor of the house. According te the witnesses who accompanied the defendants to court, complaints had been made to the landlady of noise coming from the Jacobs apartment. Jacobs was said to have been told to keep his household quieter. Magia trate Brown was told that the police man accused Mrs, Castellano of hay- ing made the complaint to the land: lady and began to beat her, and that Miss Whitmoyer was struck by the policeman when she endeavored to aid Mrs. Castellano, TRUCK KILLS BOY; COLLISION FOLLOWS 5Two Chauffeurs Badly Hurt When One Tries to Avoid Accident. Malvin Franklin, four years old, was killed to-day at 77th Street and New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn, by a motor truck. In striving to avold the accident, the driver swerved his ma+ chine, crashed into another and he and the second driver were badly hurt. Young Franklin, who lived at Na, 1651 78th Street, was struck by @ truck owned by the General Render- ing Company, of No, 816 First Ave- nue, Manhattan, and driven by Will- lam Mohr, No. 1080 Second Avenue, Manhattan. Mohr swerved his truck and collided with a truck of the Henry Henjes Coal Company, of which Ed- ward Powell, of West 14th Street, Coney Island, was ¢hauffeur. Powell was flung from his seat and badly cut. about the face antl body. Mohr's truck kept on, surmounted an embankment and plunged down into a vacant lot. Mohr was severely cut about the face. i eeameailgaas PREDICTS NO UNUSUAL INCK IN TAXATION, There will be no unusual increase in taxation in this city this ye: Ing to President Henry M. Président of the Tax Board, because of the law passed at Albany thie year a mitting rent to be based on the assess valuation of property. President ¢ fogle does not believe any landlord dt apply to have his assesament inc veaded and #ays one that did woud be looked upon with suspicion,