The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1922, Page 3

Pie THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1922, MYSTERY INGEMS {CITY BOND ISSUES |Six Happy New York Girls Are Home Again WORTH $29,000 George Quintard Palmer Finds 105 Diamonds and One Pearl Are Substitutes. SETTER ADMITS WORK, But Clues Lead Only to * Woman Whose Address Is Vacant Lot. The theft of 105 stones from a dia- mond necklaco and of a large and valuable pearl from a cravat pin by the substitution of counterfeit gems, the real ones having been insured for $20,000, was disclosed to-day, although the robbery occurred at least five months ago in the Port Chester sum~- or home of George Quintard Palmer, whose town house is ‘No. 1 Hast 73d Street. ‘The police of New York and Westchester, as well as the detectives of the Federal Insurance Company, which made good the loss, have run down every available clue, but as yet there is no direct evdience of who committed the robbery or the manner fm which it was done. ‘The man who took out the genuine diamonds and pearl and substituted the bogus ones has been found by the police, as have two other men who redaily admitted having had the jew- elry in their posseasion at various times. Thq person remaining to be located is a woman whose address, as given, is a vacant lot on the upper West Side. All the servants in the Palmer household have been interrogated, Mr. Palmer vouching for their honesty, and no clue to the theft has come to light from that quarter. Mr. Palmer, who is President of several manufacturing concerns with an office at No, 140 Cedar Street, usually remains until late in the au- tumn with his family in the Port Chester residence, one of the show places in King Street. So it was une day late in November last that he took the pearl cravat pin from a wall safe which was adroitly hidden in his room by silken panels in the decora- tions. He saw that the pearl in it was not the one he had insured for $4,000, but was a poor imitation of the real pearl. He showed it to the members of his family who were at a loss to account for the change in the gem. Am examination of the other jewelry im the wall safe resulted in the dis covery of pieces of glass in place of the 105 diamonds which had twinkled im the necklace. No other jewelry ni the safe had been tampered with in ‘any way. When the Federal people were nott- fled they started their detectives out and notified District Attorney Lee Davis of Westchester, Later the case was given to the police of this alty in the belief that the substitution had been made here. For.three months the police worked on the case and at last located, in Sixth Avenue near 39th Street, a Bower setter who identified both the mecklace and theypin. He admitted substituting bogus gems for tle real ones. His books showed the date of athe work. “I did the work for Harry Hirsh, ‘4 Jewelry dealer,"he said. “He gave mé the imitation stones which 1 re- get, and I gave the heal ones to him, The police hunted up Hirsh, who said he got the necklace and pin from @eviex Rinaldo, another Kealer. Rinaldo, when located, said the mecklace and pin had been put in his hands by a woman, an old customer of his, whose name and address be ve. “This lady,’ he explained, “doesn't like to take her jewelry about wtih her, so she has the real stones re- placed in the settings with imitation stones." When the police went to the ad- dress that Rinaldo gave as tat of the woman, they found a vacant lot. When the Palmer family returned to the home at No. 1 East 78d Street + Wtnaldo was taken there in the guise of a guest to look at the servants, but tailed to identify any of them. The Westchester District Attorney went out of office and was succeeded by Frederick E, Weeks. Mr. Palmer, annoyed that nothing had been ac- complished, appealed to District At~- torney Banton. ‘The latter replied that he had no jurisdiction in West- chester, where the robbery occurred, and said it was up to Mr. Weeks. The feply from Westchester was that the ‘Aisposition of the gems had been ac- complished ins New York, And there it rests, as much of a mystery as ever. tlie PORT CHESTER VOTERS “For the fret Pert Chester, the. Republican ticket will be unopposed in the elections Tuesday, when 9 Village President, Treasurer two trustees will be chosen The Democrats have not put forward Am tleket und with no independent ean- Midates running the election will be a matter,of form only. All the candidates re now in office and are standing for election. ‘They are Village Pres Schick, Village Treasurer Ralph 5, Palmer, and Trustees, C, Edward Smith snd Daniel H. Koney > PARMER KELLED UNDER TRACTOR, Edward Meyers, a Spring Harbor, L. 1, was killed yes itrday when a farm tractor, with whlen he and his brother, Peter, were trying to pull a stalled motor truck from the mud, turned over on him. His brother wae unable to extricate Meyers, farmer of Cold time In the history of | ARE OFFERED UNDER Sold as Bonds on Self-Sustain- ing Enterprises and They Are Not So. CREATE ONLY DEFICITS. $45,000,000, Tuesday's Offer, on Staten Island Piers That Will Lose Money. Of the $45,000,000 4% per cent. long-term bonds which the city is to offer next Tuesday, $25,000,000 are to cover the costs of the new Statén Island piers built by the city. City officials assert that all of the bouds are for self-sustaining enterprises, the revenues from which are more than sufficient to pay the Interest on the bonds and redeem them at ma- turtty. ‘The report of the Meyer committee discloses a very different state of affairs, Tt shows how the piers, with one exception, have been leased, with |- an optional ten-year renewal clause, for from thirty to fifty years on a rental basis of 7% per cent. of the cost. The report says that the city’ lose on the twelve piers ‘‘will amount to more than $800,000 annually, or it there be no loss from depreciation on machinery on other piers, to mere than $600,000." The report further says that “the city’s revenue on this lease over loss of taxation and depre- clation is 2.8 per cent. of the cost, or about one-third of the legal rate of interest or about one-half the Interest paid om dock bonds issued to raise funds to build the docks,’’ Bonds issued by the city are, of course, good., The question is whether the practice should be con- Unued of frequently representing city enterprisa as revenue producing when in fact, as in the case of ferries taken over by the city, they produce nothing but deficits. It is the repre- sentation that ¢ertain properties are revenue producing that enables the Board of Estimate to plead justifica- tion in authorizing tens of millions of dollars’ expenditure which, however, must come from taxation and add to the crushing burdens that already weigh upon the rent payer. The landlord directly pays the taxes but they are passed on to the tenant in the rents charged. Says New Lovers Look at Church As a Mere Joke Bishop Nicholson Says Sparking Is Done Where Prohibition Is a Laughing Stock. MERIDEN, Conn., April 22.—Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago, in addressing the New York Bast Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, deplored the chan that has come in courting. “In the old days,” he said, “young folk did their courting on the way to church or prayer meetin, It's different with the present generation. They are inclined to adopt the way of Fatty Arbuckle and Peggy Joyce and attend resorts and places where the cburch ts a joke and the Eight- eenth Amendment is a laughing stock. id “In a survey of churches made re- cently I found that more former members of the church had become ‘backsliders’ than were actually mem. bers of the churches. Men are tired of coming to church and listening for forty-five minutes to a dry ser- mon that has no application to their modern problems. “It 1s necessary to make them feel that the church {s something more than a life insurance against perdt- tion, The church nowadays should clean up cities and help to keep the morals of its particular community sound.’ SPIRIT PHOTOS ARE EXHIBITED BY DOYLE Pictures of Ghosts and Ectoplasms Shown at Carnegie Hall Lecture Photographs of ghosts and ectopi mic forms were shown to a large as- semblage in Carnegie Hall last night by Sir A, Conan Doyle, who seemingly did not arouse the enthusiasm shown at his two previous lectures. Ectoplasm, he explained, is a thick vapory, slightly luminous something that exudes from some materializing mediums, Such mediums fre placed in a darkened cabinet, go into a trance, and this vaporous substance surrounds like a fog and can be pho- tographed., In many Instances, he sald, the ectopiasm takes definite shapes, such as hands, feet and faces, ister even breathing and talking. He admitted science doesn't believe in ectoplasm, In daylight ectoplasm melts into invialbility, For an hour he showed stereopticer reproductions of tire pictures, inciud- ing one of Sir William Crooke's arm in-arm with @ spirit named Katie King. 1 wure of Lady It Happened in Miami Where Mayor of Ave- nue C Met Affable Friends Who ‘‘Conned” Him, but Couldn’t Fool Joe Schleider. Fla. In “Papa” luck ington with him? fh, so rich, and down here for an out- Coleman. fine each. ter above The Mediterranean cruise {s one of the most popular forms of out- door sport this season, and the Mauretania has just brought home @ group of New York girls who have completed the tour. were Miss Isabel Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Rockefeller of No. 300 Park Avenue; Miss Mary Lincoln, Miss Mary Thayer and the Misses Babs, Jane and Marion White, “Papa” Burger Thought He’d Won $150,000 Wiretappingby Wireless; Wise Son-in-Law Saves Him$25,000 Joseph Burger, the “Papa” Burger who for thirty years has been known as Mayor of Avenue C, 1s glad he, saved his $25,000, but sorry a son-in- law prevented the capture of a gang of wireless wiretappers. the east side is a well known rendez- vous for politicians, * Papa" was on his way to Miami, the stranger made friends with him, called himself M. Pelligino, a French- man, temporarily in America to get rid of some of his money. Monsicur went, to the hotel had two or three days the two were to- her nearly every *Ah, I thought s Sieur one afternoon as he encounters @ limousine jammed traffic. “Well, if it Isn't my old friend Col. Webster, of Boston. -isn't Mr. Coleman of Was , “Papa” Burger is made ac quainted with Col. Webster and Mr. They have been having a rk beating the races. they do it by catching the racing re- sults out of the air by radio before the bookmakers get them, bookmakers are playing for suckers, and why shouldn't they yp the bookies if they can? Two weeks have elapsed. vacation is to end in a few days. accompanies his friends to what they call “the club.” lot of ready cash with him. He stakes each to $500. The radio is working in one room, unknown to the bookmak- ers at the club, and advance informa- tion on the first “Papa” and the others clean up $3,000 Glenconnor with a mass of white mat-| HULBERT DECLARES which was the pictur: dier she did not know Among them “Now play Coombs in the second, advises Mr. Coleman; “he's a sure winne: Place the $3,000; he's a long shot. And remember, gentlemen, all 1 ask for my bit is 25 per cent. of your winnings, Is it agreed?” "Certainly," responds “Papa” Burger, along with the others. Coombs winal “Papo bit is $150,000. He gets a marker for It. Mr. Coleman just couldn't take 25 per cent. of that. He'll be satisfied wits $25,000. But he won't let the bookmaker pay the $150,000 until “Papa” Burger hands over the $26,000. The same goes for Monsieur Pelligino. Pelligino decides to start immedi- tely for New York to get the eash from his bankers, “*Papa’ Burger decides to follow his example. They make the trip together. At the Pennsylvania Station they part, agree- ing to return together the next day. “Papa” Burger takes a taxi to his tavern at No. 20 Avenue C, FE blusters*in and announces to his so! in-law, Joseph Scoirtder, that his life's ambition is realized. He Is a rich man. Explanations follow. Schleider's comment is: You're crazy. These guys are wiretappers. You should notify tte police His place on Pullman a genial He In Miami, where reser and for ations, here, ejaculates Mon- in @ maze of And—what Both rich men— True, t day, shortly before the tim fixed for "Papa’’ Burger and M. Peill gino té return to Miami, the Frenct) man calls “Papa's” tavern on the telephone. He wants to know wh) “Papa” isn't at the station with ti $25,000. You're a .crook, a wiretapper blurts Son-In-Law Schleider, whe answers the telephone “Papa” says he is glad he was dis illustoned before he handed over tl: $25,000 but regrets his son-in-law “spilled the beans,” for he had ar ranged with the police to accompan him to the station and meet the suav M. Pelligino, but the the public “Papa's” He Mr. Coleman has a race {8 received. in the centre of of a young 50! Later a father head, HE WON'T RESIGN identified it as his son lost in the war, ; Aldermanic Prestdent to Keey This identification was after the boy's Job and Practice Law spirit had told him his picture had at Same Time. Been taken with Lady Glenconnes When Murray Hulbert, President of here also was a picture of Sir Arthur With an cctanlastic picture of his ncn {tte Board of Aldermen, announc above his head that he was going to resume the prac Sir Arthur suid incidentally in r2-] tice of law on May 1, it was generally tly to Mayor Hylan's criticism about | peeved at dealing in shekels, “I have nevor belleved that what he meant was that taken a shilling on the lecture piac- | he would resign. Mr, Hulbert was at form."" hereafter. there Is an cal talent organizing ored boys. berths are may lu quartetioa ——— PULLMAN PORTERS WILL SING BABIES TO SLEEP (CAGO, April man car is not The Pullman Company will sing. Guitars 4 @ to sleep by svoth ng | . Clark Smith, a and compore: Watkins Glen visiting his mother when he made the announcement. It followed Gov. Miller's veto of the the salaries of Ma Hylan, Comptrotler Craig and I're! dent Hulbert. Hulbert now says he'll continue as Aldermante President While the elty charter is silr the question of an Aldermanic |’ dent—practising law, there are acts prohibiting Surrogates, Sheriffa and District Attorneys from doing +0. has ‘been erroneously bron casted that I am getting $10,000 year,” said Mr, Hulbert.‘ is that, while the Board « increased the salary to tt vy. Miller preventes me ng the in me, Hew Inw. But f wit nee izes Quartettes uployees, —Life on a Pull- to be *0 monotonous t on discovers that ndance of mus porters and mong the and while t these ROCKEFEL) Fe MARY THAYER, MEMORIAL HOSPITAL over Fine Institution Will Care for Un- fortunate Master Masons and Families. (Special to The Evening World.) UTICA, April 22,—Masons from all New York State, wives and families, have been arriv- ing here since last night, to be pres- ent at the dedication ceremonies this afternoon of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Hospital, the first complete- ly equipped hospital erected by the Masons In the United States. Every lodge, chapter, commandery and Scottish Rite body in New York has had a hand in Its upbullding and every one of them is represented here to-day, and the dedication is a big event in the history of the fraternity. with their Most Worshipful Robert H, Robin- son, Grand Master of ree and A: cepted Masons of New York, will con- duct the ceremonies, assisted by Most Worshipful William 8. Farmer, last Grand Master of the State, and other high offlolals of the Grand Lodge and the Masonic bodies of Utica, Dr. Charles H. Johnson, Secretary of the charge. ersity, ontinuous vaya. cnown, worm and inue to gh after ‘tmospheres, ‘ea, bacteria, The ind decaying wood. called luciferin, ‘The probl Master Masons, The staff physicians and will be the best that can be supplied and those of the Masonic order who may be in need of immediate cars will find a home rather than and the best of attention, No Mason of New York State shail ever be compelled to go to the poorhouse because of physicial infirm. ‘les and meagre a hospital means. New York State Board of Charities, will deliver, the prirfclpal address, While the structure 1s a fine and imposing pile of brick and stone, the |” principle upon which it is founded is still more lasting, for it carries the provision of taking care for life of unfortunate widows and their orphans. of surgeons, their nurses free of . After Making ‘‘the Mediterranean Cruise”’ ABS WHITE. MASONS FILL UTICA |RENT LAWS PROTECT TO DEDICATE A NEW | ONLY OLD TENANTS Emergency Measure Does Not Ap- ply to Movers Seeking New Flats, Says Court An interpretation of the emer- gency rent laws tn favor of the hand- lord Is contained in a decision handed down yesterday by the Appellate Di- vision of the Supreme Court, The decision, which held that the considerations” of emergency which led to the adoption of the laws did not operate in case of the man who did not have an apartment and was out seeking one, was unanimous, all Justices of the Appellate Division concurring in the result, and only Justice Laughlin dissenting from the opinion, which was written by Jus- tice Page. In the case before the court, Will- fam R. Posner, ocupying an apart- ment at No, 2178 Broadway, was sued for one month's rent. It was alleged and apparently not denied that Mr, Posner had signed a two-year lease tor the apartment, calling for a rental of $4,000 a year, in October, 1920, and had paid the rent up to and including the rent for the month of June, 1921, He then refused to pay the. rent for July and pleaded as his defense that the rent was excessive. The Appellate Division points out In the opinion of Justice Page that ‘in tho case under consideratioon the ten- ant voluntarily signed the lease and agreed to pay the rent reserved, and paid it without question for eight months. Now on the theory of the duress he secks to escape from his contract and have a fury make a con- tract for him that will be binding on the landlord, In what did the alleged duress consist? In this, that he could not obtain similar accommodations in the locality that he desired at a less rental and perforce must pay the rent the landlord demanded Cold Light Scientist Produces Glows Continuously in Flask cold light. It would make a safe nlners or others working in explosive It might possibly sup plant the electric light, as it requires \ great expenditure of power to pro- luce any kind of a hot light. Prof. Harvey's light firefly, the ow, luminous lamp eight for experiments con erned the luminous principles of fire erustacea and ot suah organisms of which forty are producing sub stance that has resulted is dissolved in water and contained In a flask. It looks in an otherwise dark room like water burning with a biue flame, and one Can read by it, The substance, which glows without heat, comes from a small crustacean vbout the size of a flea that Prof. Harvey imports from Japan. It Is imilar to that which ights the glow- will o the wisp The substance is m was to make it con- If kept from oxygen if united with Prof. Harvey of Princeton University Suc- ceeds, After Eight Years of Experiments. PRINCETON, N. J., April 22.—Prof. *. Newton Harvey of l’rinceton Uni- experimenting years, has succeeded in producing a There is no »ractical use for it in its present stage out Prof, Harvey hopes to intensify It, naking it cheap and valuable in many tack by oxygen eventually deadens tt. Prof. Harvey discovered a process by which the luciferin 1s taken, away from the oxygen almost as fast as It unites with it, thus keeping the cold fire burning. At intervals, however, the luciferin must be renewed, The chemical process by which the union, disunion and rountc of tuci terin with oxygen is cifected ts Prot Harvey's seeret, The substance which liberates the luciferin from the oxy gen {8 metallic, he said, and forms a part of the Inner surface of the flask which contains the water and lucifer in, The formula wil! not be disclosed while efforts continue to intensify cold ight. “It ts purely setentific work," said Prot. Harvey in explaining he had no TUQUORCASES 'STATEEDUCATION OUT OF S4 DROPPED BY BROOKLYN JURY ichgonsiish One of Them May Resul in Action Against Sergeant for Arrest. Seventy-two cases of alleged viola- tion of the Mullan-Gage Prohibition Law out of ninety-four presented were dismissed by the Kings County Grand Jury, {t became known to- day, when twenty-two dismissals were filed in the Chief Clerk’s office. ‘The dismissals were based largely upon incompetent ar insuffictent sup - porting evidence, and one case dis- missed, involving the searching of a private automobile without a search warrant, may result in action against a Poltco Sergeant by the Grand Jury. Assistant District Attorney Snyder, who presented the cases, refused to comment on what went on In the Grand Jury room beyond saying that Grand Juries have proved that they are ready to do their duty. In many cases, it {4 understood, no witnesses to alleged sales of lquor were available, the police having taken names that afterward proved ficitituos. MEN OF LETTER HERE FROM FRANCE Two Specialists in Trachoma Also Arrive to Attend Conference In Washington. M. Maurice Donnay. dramatist, Chancellor of the French Academy and M. Louls Chevrillon, critic and essay ist, delegates to this country from the French Academy to participate in the ter-centenary celebration of the birth- day of Moliere by the American Academy of Arts and eLtters arrived to-day by the French Liner Paris. While here they are the guests of the American Academy. They were met by the French Con- sul and were driven to the Rita. They will attend dinners on the 24th, 25th and 26th of April, by Columbia Unt- versity, the Academy of Arts and Let- ters and the Theatrical Managers’ Producing Association and Authors’ League. Also on the same steamer were Prof, F. de Lapersonne of the Uni- versity of Paris and Dr. $. Gemblath, @ specialist {n trachoma, They are here to attend conference of ophthat- mologists to be held tn aWshington. Dr. Gemblath said while the special- ists gained much from their expert- ences in the war they were not mak- ing progress trachoma, incsindgticiaanaithal KIRK RUSSELL NAMED MOVIE PUBLICITY HEAD Hays Taken Old Post Office Asaist- ant to Help Reform Filme. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Kink L, Russell, director of the Bureau of Infor- mation of the Post Office Department, has presented his resignation to Post- master General Work to take effect May 1, when he will become publicity director for Will Hays, who heads the motion picture industry. Mr, Russell entered the postal service eighteen years ogo. —— WASTED ENERGY, (From the Loutsville Courter-Journal.) “What keeps Flubdub poor?” “Dunno. “Seems to be an energetic cuss.” “Wastes too much time looking out for his rights, I understand.” in the treating of “GETS 33 PER CENT papa aes $43,487,177 Out of $133,- 147,807 to Go for Schools— Institutions Come Next. ALBANY, April 22.—Of the $138,- 147,807 appropriated by the last Lag- isiature for the coming fiscai yoar, education will receive the largest © amount in the budget. The sum of $43,487,177, or 82.7 per cent., of the total will go for schools. The next largest item is for instl- tutions, including hospitals and prie- ons, the total being $22,335,049, of 16.75 per cent. Then comes high- ways, with @ total of $12,181,895. An interesting item in the analysiw 4 ty the amount It costs the State fo col- f lect taxes. This ix fixed at $2,685,448 and ail municipaities of the State , benefit, as approximately $79,000,000, fe turned over nanually to them by the Stae from direct and Indirect. taxer. State police and National Guard account for another $2,796,394, while $1,000,000 im appropriated for rettef of sick and disabled World War veterans. : Operationa and administration of the } barge canal system this year will cost $7,502,296. | ‘The chief officials of the State make : @ poor showing when it comes to ex- penditures, for all the Governor and i other elective officers and the Lesi lature are allowed is $4,396,119. It will cost $1,042,020 for the Banking and Insurance Departments. q eae TWO MORE HOSPITALS FOR DISABLED VETS : Signing of $17,000.00 BIIl Aseures Local and Mountain Sanitartame, Preafdent Harding's signature to the! Langley bill, on Thursday, authorizing an additional appropriation of $17,000,- 000 for hospital facilities for dixabled veterans, according to Major Leon | Fraser, director of the Veterans’ Bu- reat for the New York district, means . two more hospitals for the tubercular ox-servico men—one in the city and an- other in the mountains. At the new Kingsbridge Hospital for\ nervous cases, he sald, there are now 58 pationts and he expects within three months to have 900 quartered there. ‘The wed nite for a new hospital on the Connecticut border, three and a 4 half miles from Port Chester, has been 4 abandoned owing to the objections of property owners. The Bureau, the (+ Major satd, iw sticking to fts policy of employing ex-service men tn all ite de- partments, the number of employees now being 6,600. ratecteceleiner talents: DR. GRANT AND VESTRY IN ROW OVER FINANCE | Treas © of Ascension Churchy Whe Differs With Recter, Resigns. Burton ¥. White, for years treasureq i has offered his resignation as « result U of differences over the financial policy i of the Church of the Ascension between the rector, Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, and the vestry. Another member of the vestry, & former Government officiah says he also will resign. ‘The dissension has been growing since October, when charges were made the 1 church was spending beyond its income, At last Thursday's meeting there are reported to have been hot words bLe- tween Dr. Grant and at least one voe- tryman. It was said Dr. Grant wae hostile to suggestion of retrenchment, though his salary is not involved. Ne action has been taken on the treasurer's resignation, EEE : he dising or advertising New York. MODERN MERCHANDIS- ING MIRAC. title of a very interesting | brochure which has just been issued by the Mer- H chandising Department } of THE WORLD. | It conv sort of information that ought to be in every man- | ufacturer’s hands before | is the s the definite launches a merchan- campaign in Greater Briefly, it describes the campaign that sold $1,000,000 worth of Van Camp's Milk } at a time when New as a stagnant market. York was looked upon Sixty salesmen, backed up with a 30,000- — j line advertising campaign in THE WORLD | and THE EVENING calls in thirty days They carried the one of the most powerful sales-helps ever put into the hands of a salesman. Their sales totalled a million dollars in just one hundred days. The advertising, co: practical purpose in mind when be began experiments, other work in pure seience, however, no one knows whether the pract results will be slight or far-reaching.’ apeipen as 10 TO 20 YRARS FO SHOOTING Wire, William Stenger, « r of Ren more, L. L.who was ok of first degrae mags: ane. tion with the shootin, * wife on Dec. 13, was sentenced 19 to 20 years in Sing Sing py lige Lewis J. Smith tw enger claimed tha Macharené when he v native cost of carrying stocks over a dull period, cost practically nothing. And there is nothing about the plan that is not applicable to any business. MORNING 352,852 SUN WORLD, made 17,000 “World Plan Folder,” mpared with the alter- DAY 609,290 4 0. Ammwed dnote sees