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5 % peers “et i & iF sa Re as aa TAXI OWNER Si TWNER CIES |Two Explorers Marooned a Year |SFNATF ALLOWS ~ TO TEST NEWEAW ~ REQURING BROS Will Peed Co Chauffeurs Out of Business, He Says, Ask- ing Injunction. An action was started in the Fed- ral Circuit Court to-day by Willian’ SH. Packard to test the constitution- Tality of the Taxicab Bonding Law April 13 and effective July 1 The suit i# for a preliminary in- Sunction to restrian District Attorney Banton, Attorney General Newton and Wthers from enforcing the new law jprhding a decision on the questions raised. , Judge Martin T. Manton granted an “Order to show cause why the injuction (Phould not be granted, and a hearing ‘po this order will be held Juno 2%. 5 Packard brings hit action as aT the In the Ice Bound Antarctic Members of British Scientific Expedition Res- cued From Andvord Bay, Where They Volunteered to Stay. LONDON, Jane 20.—After having been marooned a year in the Antarctic T. Bagshawe of Cambridge University and M. C. Lester, an officer in the Mercantile Marine, have arrived at Newcastle. They were part of the British Antarctic expedition that left London in September, 1940, intending to chart the weatern shores of Weddell, the vast ‘ce stronghold. where the Jate Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Enaurance was crushed and sunk. Their plans called for a march of 1,000 miles In unknown territory. and Lester the navigator. They Norwegian whalers aid were tanded in December, 1920, om the Const of Graham Land, at Andvord Bay, They failed to cross the fee mountaiims to Weddell Sea because they could not carry suMfolent food. Then they tried to find @ crossing at afother point. They had only @ Hfeboat, which had been given to them by the whalers, and they soon found they could do nothing without @ suitedle craft. In started to Weddell Sea in 4 There were only four members, Bagshawe being the geologist pedition decided to go to Montevideo to charter a small vessel. At this time the second in command an- nounced that he was leaving the ex- pedition. Bagshawe and Lester vol- unteered to remain at Andvord Bay to look after the dogs and collect sclen- tifle data. After the others had gone these two led n life of loneliness on a tiny island In an abandoned boat with only dogs and penguins for companions, At the end of the year a rescue expedition February, 1921, the leader of the ex- ‘found them. (Pwher and operator of four taxicabs. WOMEN TEAR PANTS |CONFEDERATE VETS Ho alleges that the cost of the $2,500 thond reqnired would be $960 for each @ab. Packard also sets forth that taxl- chauffeurs earn only $40 to $35 a at that they are prohibited by law from raising the rates of fare, and at the expense of the bond would rtually put them out of business, _ He submits an affidavit by one Phauffour, Patrick J. Devine, No. 147 Past 197th Street, who says he has eon driving a cab for eleven years, Put will have to give it up if the Bonding Law is enforced. ~ Counsel for the taxi owners argue that the law is in violation of the Fourteenth An...dment of the Con- @tution, in that it diseriminates against taxi drivers as a class, plac: gna on tiem a burden not Imponed on her commen cartiers nor on the of private automobiles. —>————_ BOY TUMBLES OFF PALISADES UNHURT Picks Himself Up After 40- $ 3 Foot Fall Before Rescuers Reach Him. : ‘Vernon Lindstrom, thirteen, was Planding yesterday on a rock atop the Ppeiiesdes at Mth Street, Woodallff, N. J. and pointing to @ steamer passing » $m the Hudson when he lost his balance ‘and fell, ~ Hie companions screamed for help. (ther persons joined them and they Plimbed down. They had gone a lite gray when they saw young Lindstrom from beside a pile of jagged rocks feet below the point from which he a He picked up his cap, brushed clothes Baier aibeediel CHICAGO JURYMEN _ FIND MADER GUILTY SUnion Head Gets Year in £ Jail and $1,000 Fine for i Taking Bribe. © CHICAGO, June 20.—Frea Mader, ‘President of the Building Trades Cou Soil, was found guilty by a jury last night Sat his trial on charges of conspiring to Setraud the Wémen's Exchenge, and of Wwonspiring (0 halt construction on a Rotel. His punishment was fixed _ Polioligadsy prison and 1.000 also Is facing trial with two ther labor leaders in connection with slaying of two policemen. ne ‘WIFE OFTEN BEAT HIM, + SAYS F ORMER BANKER ‘Seeks Diverce From Daughter of Millionaire Cigar Man. _ CHICAGO, June 20.—Reymond L. Redheffer. former Vice President of the ‘Becond Security Bank and more recentiy im broker, has filed sult for divorce from ‘Mrs, Elisabeth Moos Redheffer, daugh- ‘ter ef 3, ®, Moon, millionaire cigar gmanufacturer of Lake Forest. = Redheffer bases his plea for freedom wn the alleged cruelty of Mrs, Redhef- Yer, who, he asserts, on numerous oo- Casions beat and struck him. The cou- ‘Pie, married On April 6, 1915, have three ehildren. EC RFT overad tn'sclone Bis MIS stands high in the lexicon of gifts that the most charm- ing gifts are to be had in GB csciogs number at Ov- ngton’s and that the pricés are the prices of justice and common sense. me Rt VINGTON'S Gift Shop of Fifth Avenue” Filth Avenue et 39th Street <a et OFF COP IN BATTLE FOR RUM HE SEIZED) 4,000, Grays ca Then Lend Him a Skirt When Reserves End Fight for Bottle of Hooch. BOSTON, June 20, Polteoman John Conroy pur- chased a bottle of what he al- leges was liquor in an apart- ment occupied by three women. He put the bottle in his hip Pooket, and then revealed his identity. According to Conroy, tlre women undertook to recover the evi- dence and in the course of the struggle separated him from his pants. But when reserves ur. rived, Conroy, pantsless but tri- umphant, was holding the bottle above his head and keeping the three women at bay. He borrowed a skirt to return to the station. IN 32D REUNION om Governors Wreath for Davia. RICHMOND, Va., June 20.—Rich- mond belonged again to the fast thin- ning ranks of {ts once defendant army to-day, when the United Con- federate Veterans opened their thirty- second annual reunion with addresses by Gov. E. Lee Trinkle and Mayor George Ainslie. Besides the 4,000 veterans, 50,000 relatives and friends were here. Following the reunion address by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader, speakers Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, and Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee University also spoke. A reception at the Governor's mansion and the laying of a wreath on the Jefferson Davis monument this afternoon and a reunion ball was the programme NAVY 86,000 MEN ISBLLS LL IS PASSED Both Parties os Spit C Over Reso- lution to Quit Hayti, Which Loses, WASHINGTON, June 29.—The an- nial Naval Appropriation Bill, car- rying approximately $296,450,000 and providing for an enlisted personne! of 96,000 men, Was passed late yes- terday by the Senate. It was sent to conference with the House. Action on the enlisted personnel, now about 115,000, Is final, as the Senate accepted the House decision, and the question has not come be- fore the conferees, who will deal prin- cipally with Senate increases of about $44,000,000 over the House bill. There was no record vote of final passage and no effort was made to reduce tho enlisted personnel. Unsuccessful efforts to end Amer- jean occupation of Hayti, the Do- minican Republic, and Nicaragua and to launch a Congresstonal investiga- tion of navy administration marked the final day's debate. An amend- ment by Senator King (Dem., Utah), providing for withdrawal of Ameri- can marines from the two Republics and Nicaragua Dec. $1 next was re- jected, 42 to 9, after a nearly all day debate, in which the American policy of intervention was both attacked and defended, Controversy on the Haytian and Dominican intervention policy divided both parties. Five Republicans, Sen- ators Borah (Idaho), Johnson (Cal,). Ladd (N. D,), La Follette (Wis.), and Norris (Neb.), supported Senator King’s withdrawal amendment, and four Democrats, Senators King, Over- man (N_ C.), Walsh (Mase.), and Walsh (Mont.), voted in its behalf. Another amendment by Senator King to cut the Marine Corps from 19,500 men to 17,500 men was rejected without @ record vote. GB. Altman & Cn. 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Charges of stingines: nat two ap- parently well-to-do huabands were told in the Jersey City Chahcery Court yes- orday Fatlure of Mra, Laurie Rader, of No, 425 Avenue E, Bayonne, to account for a cent epent for @ postage stamp was one of the causes of a stormy quarrel with her husband, Leavitt, an official of the Tidewater Oil Company, accord- ing to her testimony before Vice Chan- cellor Griffin, She is suing for separate maintenance, Mra. Rader said that her nd allowed her fifty cents and umes only @ quarter a day for xchold expenses, and made her keep i of every penny she expended. Rader said he gave hia wife #0 much money he had to buy hia etothes on the instalment plan. Chancellor Griffin or- dered him to pay his wife $25 a week to run the household, an they are still liv- ing In the same home. Emélina Capone, of No. 613 ington Street, Bayonne, testified her husband, Raphael, head of the ral Contracting Company, of No. 808 Mighpoint Avenue, West Hoboken. ‘was #0 stingy that sho had to pawn her wedding ring for food. She also charged that under a pretense of having her knee treated he put her in the Laurel Hill In- sane Hospital for three weeks. The Vice Chancellor allowed Mrs. Cupone tem- porary alimony pending inquiry as to Capone's resources. ————— WOMAN HuRT BY TRUCK GETS $25,000 DAMAGES Jaws Fractared, Lost Teeth and Broke Elbow. A verdict of $25,000 was awarded by 4 Jury in Justice Mitchell's part of Su- preme Court to-day to Mrs. Sarah Scheckler of No, 2099 Eighth Avenue for injuries, she received on Jan. 15 when run down by an automobile truck owned by Gabaeff Brothers, dairymen, of No. 111 Bast 112th Street. The accident occurred as Mra, Scheck- ler was about to board a trolley car at And was confined to Roosevelt Hospital for six weeks. COURT CUTS ALIMONY TO RATE OF $8,000 A YEAR Wife Accuses Ship Head in Divorce Suit. Supreme Court Justice Cohalan to- day temporarily reduced alimony and counsel fees George T. Williams, head of the Williams Steamship Company, was ordered to pay his wife, Isabelle, for the maintenance of herself and her four-year-old daughter, Gladys. The court ordered Williams to pay alimony at the rate of $5,000 a year for five months. The previous award was $1,000 a month. Mrs. Willlama, who re- sides at No. 924 West End Avenue, ac- cuses her husband of misconduct with his former wife, now Mra. William J. Lester es BROOKLYN COURT IMPOSES sicv- ERAL SENTENCES. The foHowing sentences were imposed by Judge Haskell in 4 | Brooklyn, : to-day: Groae cant ‘Ana Henry Street, one yoar in City ees for attempted grand larceny; Chernestanko, 1480 38th Street, Buck: lyn, one year fn the City Prison for at- tempted burglary phia Shapiro, 37 Orchard Street, 50 fine or Ofty di jail .for petty larceny, and Ant Dowkont, 160 26th Street, Bri $100 fine for ponsessing intoxteating liquors, a@ a gecond ¢ “ender. ———— GIRL, ILL, PLUNGES' FROM WINDOW TO YARD Just Out of I al, Family Think Her Fall an Accident. Miss Anna Fishbers, twenty-one years old, jumped or fell early to-day from @ third-story window of the family apart: ment at No, 302 Kast 6th Street, She was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in « serious condition, She had recenfly returned home fran @ the hospital and was in poor heal Her family believe she went to the wii dow for alr and fell. They knew noth- ing of the occurrence tntil nelghbers who had heard her atrike Jn the yerd notified them. 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