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ee _ made in the solution and answered: * her but music, and adds that he will hewly established confidence {n thetr woility to clone the preliminary inves. tigation fii week without the help of & sUperseding Attorney General no one has any doubt. Gov, Edwards sald to-day at his oMee at the First National Bank, Jersey: City, that there was a, mis- understanding regarding his visit to New Brunswick yesterday, He had Deen asked to. meet some Democratic women Jéaders ut hinch at the Walker House and had gone instead to tre Parker House in Perth Amboy. “Y have done nothing and can do nothing,’ he said, ‘about superseding the prosecutors. Mr. Beekman and Mr. Striker, themselves asked Justice Parker to designate Attorney General McCran; he has not ruled on that petition: I have no reason to believe they have asked him to postpone the designation. “My only part in this thing has been to send the State police to New Brunswick with orders to find the murderer, They are still there. 1 have been kept in close touch with everything they are doing and the prosecutors ure doing, and 1 haye no criticism to make.” “CONFIRMS REPORT * PAPERS WERE REMOVED. Corroboration has been found for the story of Albert Butler, taxicab chauffeur, thi Edward Carpender, cousin of Mrs. Hall, removed two or three desk drawers filled with letters {rem the rectory a few hours after tile bodies had been discovered Sept 16. Butler's fare had~an errand in the house; as he was getting out of the cab the chauffeur said to him “Wonder what they are moving jut furniture and papers for?! The pas- senger had a good look at the drawers, which seemed to be filled with letters and sermon-like manuscripts. In denying that anything of the sort bappened, Mr. Carpender said he was taking the cassock and robes of the minister to the underetaker's, his statement so far as it soes is truey A slight discrepancy was thought to exist in this explanation, because Mrs, Addison Clarke was known to have taken the vestinents from the churgp. It now appears that Mrs. Clarke took the vestments to the.Hall home and went to the undertaker's with Mr, Carpender. The search for the diary which Mrs. Mills kept when Mr, Hall was uwuy on ais,vacation and gaye to bim on his return ta still in vain. The authorities are more and more :f the opinion that It fell accidentally jato the hands of some one and had no small part in arousing the jealous anger which they belleve caused the murder, PROSECUTOR GIVES SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY. Mr. Stricker was asked if progress had been made in the solution and answered: “Yes, decided progress.” “Do you mean you have devoloped ition that think will lead to & solution?” | . “Yes.” He admitted It had come within the Wt week. The clue on which t rted solu - tion is based ts understood to have come from oa and his partner, Ray Schneider. What hres ‘been learned points to._ woman and two men and an automobile, Tho murder was committed in Somersct County, the story runs, and there is an intimation the old Phillips farm house figures tn it. It is even hinted there is support for the theory tho crime was committed there. In this connection ts pointed out the appointment the rector made in one of bis letters to Mrs. Mills to meet “at our road beyond the Parker house." He tells her h¥ needs not onty bring the victrola and that rive first so she will not in the rain, F Ht is not believed the clergymen would have played a phonograph out- doors, rain or shine. . So it is inferred thers must have been a house to which he carried the key, explaining why if she arrived first, she would have had to wait in the rain, This part of the letter is now taken to mean thet trysting place was in the old farmhouse, It was found after + the discovery of the bodies to be fully furnished and clean and habitable. It i reported that witnesses yester- day told the authorities of hearing poun4ings tn a deserted barn on or near the Ppiitips farm the night of tne murder. One of the victims may have been kept a prisoner until the other arrived and they could be mado to confront’ench other. 4 The whole truth about the bad feel- tng said to have existed between Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Mills ts being learned through the recter’s letters to Mra. Mills, and statements credited to Charlotte Mills. The two women guérrelied tefore the Halls went on Qbeir vacation in August, and there mm emother break after their return, Agvertieg to Florence North, who has — esting as counsel for Chaslotte. Herth is understood, to have weroted up her difference with the Mills family and is again representing them, following Charlotte's repudia- tion of her yesterday, The first trouble occurred last July at the church camp at Mount Pleas- ant and resulted in @ scene between Mra, Hall and Mrs, Mills, It has ‘een mentioned casually from time to time during the Investigation, and is ihe trouble. referred to by the rector fo his ietter from Maine to Mrs. Mills When he said; “Her remarks at Point Pleasant were foolish and entirely uncalled for. I don’t blame you for being hurt—you know how I feel about them, Dearest, don't let it trouble’ you.” According to Miss North, who got her informatibn from Charlotte Mills, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Mills were ‘*qoolly friendly" after the return of the Halls from Maine, but something happened ever ulmost entirely even this: friendship. For a week or ten days before tie murder, the Mills Jawyer said, there was a coldpess between the regtor’s. wife and singer. Charlotte her mother told her that when Mrs. Hall approached her on the Opponite side of the gtreet she appeeret. to avoid her, Where in former days she would have crossed fo talk to bey, She even turned away at Umes, as if she did Aen & je will ar- ve to wait THE EVENI Pastor and Choir Singer Foun Unconventional Love Parallel in Another Keable Novel of Passion The Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills Were Impressed by “The Mother of All Living,” Whose Characters Had Same Experiences as Themselves. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “What ia their absurd man-made marriage law that it should sepa- rate us? You say yourself that you did not know what you were doing. A fig for their commandments and their ridiculous morality! If you feet @ tenth of what I feel that will not weigh with you fora moment, This is reality; the other was a mocking sham, look Him straight in the face with you in my armas and dare Him to do His worst! You are mine, mine! And I am yours. 60 and go does yours, docs it not? Oh, say tt does, my love, my dearf Was this the logic which the Rev. Edward Hall of New Bruns- wick, N. J., used In his reputedly successful effort to persuade his attractive young cholr leader, Mrs, Bleanor Mills, to leave home and husband and fly with him to the Ortent—an elopement perhaps frustrated only by the tragic and myaterious killing of the pair? For the plea of the impassioned lover of a married woman, quoted above, comes from the pages of All Living,” the very last book which Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills are known to have read together, which he gave to her, to a review of which she devoted nearly all of one of the most ardent letters she penned to her clerical lover, The parallel betwen the same author's first book, “Simon Called Pete: and the. real life romance of the murdered couple was shown in The Bvening World yesterday: “Dearle—it is late—there ia so much to talk about In the book,” Mrs. Mills wrote of the second Keable novel, filled. with erotic passages, although written iby an Englishman who, like Mr. Hall, was in the orders of the Episcopal Ohureh, ‘The Mother of All Liv- ing" was published recently by EB. P, Dutton & Co. 'We must take It with us when wo ride and talk about it, espe- clally the marked places,” ocon- tinued Mr. Hall's ardent young parishioner. “Oh, it is sweet, darling—but nothing compared to our love. Take the book with you—or else I will leave it In your room. I don't want to read such hooks again, ever, Why? You know, They make me dream. Yearning for what, perhaps, I miss in this Ife. And to think now and hereafter I will never escape this longing until our souls are at last one,"* Tho main theme of "The mother of All Living’ fs the story of the passionate attachment between Chris, a man who is described born lady-killer,” and @ woman: who married, Ceetly, when very young, Hugh, band whom she and the killer” both “tame.” There's nothing tame about the lady-killer and his methods of wooing. The third time he called —her husband was out—well, this is what happened: “What he saw simply swept him off his feet. There, framed in the doorway, wag the girl he loved, gloriously fushed, her thick black hair tn beautiful dis- array, her dress a light silk wrap whose wide sigeven fell back to reveal her bare arma and through which the flesh of her shoulders and neck seemed to glow, BScarce- ly knowing what he did, he held out his hands and took an eager step toward her, his Ips crying denominate messenger Hall’s lett the sum two times particularly, toward Hall for not giving him not see her, Mrs, Mills told Char- lotte. Charlotte Mills, according to Miss North, said that Willie Stevens, ec- centric brother of Mrs. Hall, was the who delivered some of ‘8 to her mother during Charlotte remembers It was dur- ing this period that others have told of hearing Willie express resentment much of an allowance ap he wanted. James Mills, husband of the slain singer, now admits that he saw some of his wife's letters to the rector the He said he noticed a packet sticking out of the pocket of her scarf—the one that was over her face when her body was found—and that he took. them out. He thinks they were the same letters found with the bodies, He did nor had her he did not believe at the time that the let- ters were to apy one, but were just things she had jotted down in idle He expresses his present state of mind Io the terse sentenc “They certainly made a sucker out o day before the murde know why she should hav own letters, In fact, he says moments. me."" A. M. the night of the murder, Mills fat, somebody walked up on the second floor. a ocr, 26, it 1s announced, Mills denies that a large automobile stopped in front of his home at 8.45 Mrs, James Kelly, who lives beneath the ‘8 said to have told the authorities that a heavy closed car sfopped in front of the house at 2.45 A. M. and that a few moments later the wooden stoop leading to the Mills apartment JAPANESE TO QUIT VLADIVOSTOK TOKIO, Oct. 20 (Associated Press),— Japanese troops remaining in Viadl- vostok will withdraw in a body Oct, 26, The Japanese com- mander {8 endeavoring to arrange with the victorious Red Army of the Chita Government to take over the city peace- fully. Large numbers of foreigness are leaving. If there is a God at alt 1 will My heart tells me her name. And phe, suddenly aware of all the pent-up >assion of the weeks past, surrendered to him instinctively, She was gath- ered in his arms and be was Dressing passionate kisses on her face and hair as quickly as the moon can sometimes leap from the heart of a black cloud and flood the world with light. ""My dear, dear Cecily,’ he whispered. ‘What have we done? Why, fulfilled our fate, that’s all, Since the moment saw you I have known we were made for each other.* Amd yot love me, darling, darling Cecily, don't you? Oh, I know you do, my love, my queen. Cecily, If life held no more for me than this ft would be enough. I have longed to stroke your hair, your lovely hatr, darting, and longed to hold you In my arms Ike this. Cecily, I can’t hide anything from you. I'm on fire for you, my love.’ * Although Cecily, we read, “surrendered with a little sigh, she dooms manage to remind her Chria that she {ts a married woman, ‘Then comes the first of hin flery arguments as to .the superior rights of love over mere marriage. One cannot help wondering if the following passages are among the “marked placea"’ which Mra. Mills told Mr. Hall they must disours: “"What does it matter? he de- manded fiercely. ‘*You love me. You don’t love Hi at all, you know yor don't. You can't go on living with him, giving yourself to him, Cecily, It horrifies me to see of it. You're mine, not ‘Tt is just fate. You and I were made for this and one another. You talked of sin just now, but I tell you, Cecily, that if there is sin in the question at all it will le in your going back now to Hugh; tf you do go. Ane know you can't fight te. You my .mate,, Cecily; that! why you feel Ite thee And I love that word, It's a big strong word witt no shams about it. And it's the naked truth, dar- Ing, about you and me. * © & It only remains for us to take our destiny in step out upon it, Unlike Mra, Mills, Cecily did not christen her unlicensed - lover “babykins,"* but the Impulse back of the absurd endearment stirred in her. “Oh, how I love you, Chris,’ she @ighs on one occasion, ‘but I want to mother you to-day, you Dig, silly, stupid man!" “tand I! he respond give all knowledge and world and my own life also if T could He with my heag in your lap and‘let you mother me. Do you suppose anything matters be- side that?" There ts one other remarkable corresponderco between "The Mother of All Living’ and the love story so tra@ically ended tn New Brunswick. The lover in tho book plana to elope to the Orient, “From Australia,” he vows, “we'll go on round the Islands, the lands of the sun and coral sands and sea nights, with the palms rustling overhead and the firefiies dancing beneath them. We'll forget the world and the world will soon forget us." Ho even buys the tickets before his last meeting with his lady stateroom in a Jap liner for the Far East." Mrs, Eleanor Mills before her doath confided te more than one friend that she and Mr. Hali had planned to elope to the Far East as “a way out.” At Mr, Hall's foneral a woman member of the congregation ts sald to have re- marked: ‘They'll never go to the Orient now,” Ohris and his Cecily in the Rev. Mr. Keable’s book do not, after all, take thelr flight eaat- ward together, But neither cia Mrs. Mills and the Rey, Mr, Hall! —— GIRL PADDLES CANO) the first woman fifteen hours. swimming director at Bal>oa, day of her canoeing feat, School, ——_.__-—_ MISSING MAN'S BODY FOUND, GLOVERSVILLE, N. ¥.. Qct. had been dead a long time, THROUGH PANAMA CANAL Miss Bisie K. Grieser, daughter of Bugene Grieser of Whitestone, L. L, ts to paddie @ canoe through the Panama Canal trom the Atlantic to the Pacific, forty-two miles. She did this against @ strong wind iy Miss Grieser ts visiting her brother, Canal Zone, and her trends recelved word to- She fs a na- tive of Whitestone and a graduate of Public School No. 79 and Flushing High 20.—| The body of Fred Fritcher, forty-five, well known Gloversville man, who dis- appeared Sept. 3, was found to-day in the Cobleskill Creek. Schoharie County, The condition of the body indicated be BUS VICTIMS CLAIM $1,350,175 0F CITY IN DAMAGES, TRANSIT INQUIRY SHOWS <———— — ____———— (Continued.) sonally by the individual bus oper- ators. Edmond 8. Quinn, No. 1427 Doris Street, the Bronx, Secretary of the World Mutual Sasualty Insurance Company ‘inaa rother of Alderman Willlam F. Quinn, testified under subponena that the company is owned by his brother and himself. The company in a few months secured more than 1,000 automobile operators to take out policies in the company. ‘To-day there are 4,000 mutual mem- bers in the company, most of them operators of taxicabs and buses. He testified to the various rates of pre- miums charged, as fixed by regula- tions promulgated by the State Insur- ance Department. He admitted that a person getting a verdict for any amount over $2,600 could not collect any more than that, because that is all the Highway Law calls for, ‘Asked how he found out who was going to be granted a hus permit so as to canvass the operator for insur- ance, Mr. Quinn said the operators came to him, that they were can- yassed by the brokers and the busi- ness came in through the brokers. He sald he did not know how the brokers found out who the bus operators about to receive permits from the De- partment of Plants and Structures were: James Pau! Sinnott, No: 78 Schenck Street, Brooklyn, son of Tax Com-~- missioner James P. Sinnott and brother of John F, Sinnott secretary and son-in-law to Mayor Hylan, testl- fled he has been in the insurance business under the firm name of Sin- nott & Canty since November, 1921. Sinnott said his firm did not solicit bus insurance especially, but took it trom brokers or any one else who might bring it in. He testified that most of the motor bus insurance came from Frederick A. Grein, an in- dependent broker, who has nothing the firm of Siane & to do with Canty other than to in their office as cusindians only. For 50-50 on commissions. operators. He promised to ask Mr. Green to call at the Transit Commis his office. After Mr, Sinngtt was excused doc umentary proof was placed in evi dence to the effect that the firm of business in bus policies, vote at the previous election, Shotkin registered but did not vote because he did not have one year's The others are not citizens and could not vote residence in the State, He said he saw Alderman Stand and Senator Ber. anyhow. Murray W. got back as a bus operator, Patkench, who came here from Austria ten years ago, is not yet citizen. He was taken off the bu service for not voting. an inde Shear in his family but that he ts ygndent voter, when Judge & d if they were ‘‘all se¢p his veemnds this custodian service Grein splits Sinnott sald he did not know how or where Green got his information that a permit had been issued to bus sion the next time Green came into Sinnott & Santy did $10,600 worth of Samuel Shotkin, Sannel Rothkench and Hyman J. Hagler all testified that they were bus operators but were laid off last March because they did not nard J. Downing in the 4th Assembly District on Kast Broadway and finally Hagler said there are twenty votes good Tam many votes?" He estified be obtained his permit to operate after seeing Ben- jamin Yalkob, a district captain, ia the club rooms of the John F. Ahearn Association on East Proadway. ae HYLAN’S DAILY DAILY IS ON BUS INQUIRY Mayor Hylan issued to-day the fet- lowing statement attacking the Tran- sit Commission's investigation of mo- tor bus operation in this city: “The traction ring and their agents are again busy. They have started an Investigation of the buses under Mil- ler's State Transit Commission, and gave out the statement that a man lost his position because he failed to vote for me, The man lives in New Jersey and could not vote in New York if he wanted to, “I do not think that the people will be misled by the traction ring's State Transit Commission, c mposed of McAneny, Harkness and Company, in theirp cheap investigation of the bus system, just before election, to help re-elect Gov. Miller so that they can hold on to their State Transit Commission jobs'’ paths MILLER DISMISSES FARMINGDALE CASE Governor Drops Charges of Inefficiency. ALBANY, Oct. 20.—Gov. Miller has dismissed charges of mismanagement and ineffictency filed’ against the Trus- tees of the State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale, L. I, No comment was offered by Governor. the The Farmingdale trustees are Wil- Nam M. Baldwin, Henry P, Tuthill, Wiliam W. Niles, Irving J. Long. Jacob W. Hineman, Carl Fowler, Hilda, Ward, John Ahgleman and Katheryn Reed Perrepont. They were summoned to appear before the C. Zimmer, who investigated charges. His repott showed the fail- ing of the trustees was their implicit confidence in Albert A, Johnson, the director, The investigator recom- mended the removal of Johnson and a complete change in the management One of the storm centres of the In- vestigation was the use of money sup- plied by the Federal Government for the payment of vocational training of soldiers; was charged, was used to increase Johnson's salary. The Governor told Johnson he had nothing to do with his case, as the trustees were responsible for his ap- pointment STEAMER UPSETS, n in St. John River. ST. JOHN, N. B,, Oct, 20.—The passenger steamer Dream upset and sank in the St. John River to-day, Two women passengers were re ed drowned. yovernor upon the report of Edward the $3,750 of this amount, it TWO WOMEN DROWN Passenger Boat Goes Down NG WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922, d |Brave Firenen Who Risked Lives In Gale Atop Manhattan Bridge FIREMEN BATTLE. 100 FEET UP WITH BLAZE ON BRIDGE Nine Brave Death Pulling Hose to Manhattan Span Scaffold. Doing feats which no movie direc- tor would ever dare to require of the most foolhardy stunt actor, and with a crowd of spectators far greater than fa theatre roof can cover, the men of Fire Truck No. 118 risked life and limb more than 100 feet above the roadway of the Manhattan Bridge and swayed on cables in a roaring gale to put out a tiny fire which threatened the cables out beyond the Manhattan towers. When the job was done, Commis- sioner of Plant and Structures Whalen, shaken with the thrills and his fear that it was impossible for one or more of the men to escape a horrible death, went to Lieut, Sam- ple of ‘Truck No. 118 and congratu- lated hin. “It's all in the day's work; Com- missioner,"’ said Sample with a tired grin, and climbed aboard the truck. The blaze started at 10,80 o'clock Iast night in a scaffold, swinging In a high wind between the two cables of the north roadway, avout 100 feet east of tha Isrooklym tower. It was raging among paint pots and other equipment on the scaffold when 2” motorist discovered tt through the sparks that fell to the roadway, What followed kept the growing erowd of spectators alternately filled with fear und admiration, They not only saw firemen fighting their way to flames high in the air In a terrific gale up a 75-foot extension ladder but a little later watched them work while perched on top of one of the giant cables that support the bridge. Meanwhile big sparks were drop- ping into the Burns Brothers coal pockets at the river front. north of the bridge. Then the crowd of spec- tators’on the promenade called to the attention of Commissioner Whalen that something unusual was about to happen by cheering. He turned and saw the firemen ‘limbing the north cable. They were Igeut. Francis J. Sample and Fire- men John Zablotney, Paul Hennessy, James Deegan, Michael Dineen, Frank Misak, George Pool, J. Garrle and James Rowan, all of Trick No. 118. When they reached a point within a few feet of the blaze they lowered a rope and dragged up several hose lines, which men of Engine No. 207 had ready. (eS NEW BRITISH PREMIER CAUSES FEAR IN PARIS PARIS, Oct. 20 (Associated Press). —There is no tendency on the part of the French Government to rejoice over the passing of Lloyd George ani his Cabinet. This was given definite assertion {in official quarters. In general, the feeling seems to be that while Lloyd George was sometimes bad enough in his attitude toward the French position, Andrew Bonar Law might be worse. The Foreign Office declined to make any statement on the downfall of ihe Lloyd George Government, Officials who frankly resented the attitude of Lloyd George toward France on many occasions pointed out to-day that France might find her- self faced with a new British Cabinet much more severe toward the French position than Lloyd George had ever been. ees CLARENCE UNDERWOOD FINED FOR SPEEDING Artint One of Four Autotsts Found Guilty by Magtateate. Clarence F, Underwood, artist, of No. 196 West 65th Street, was fined $25 by Magistrate Frederick B, House in Traf- tle Court to-day when he pleaded gullty to driving his automobile twenty-seven miles an hour on Manhattan Avenue. Charles EB, Harding, forty-six, of No. 740 Riverside Drive, Assistant Vice President of the United Ct Stores Company.’ was fined $25 for speeding on Riverside Drive, and A. Panahy, forty-six, of No, 149 Street, chauffeur for Joseph 1. Widener, Philadelphia millionaire, $25 for speed- ing in Central Park, Convicted as a second offender, Fri Terlizal, twenty-nine, of No. Hughes Avenue, Bronx, will serve ten days in the workhou Sea CHORUS GIRL WILL TELL OF “PRIMITIVE MURDER” Former Chum of Clara Phillips Chief Witness as Trial LOS ANGELES, O¢ lips faced her accusers went on trial to-day, ch Alberta Meadows, @ love pot and mer Peggy Caffee, former chorus girl chum Mrs, Phillips, will be the principal witness for the § She will repeat her supposed eyewitness story of the quarrel between Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. eadows, which resulted in the alleged primitive murder," aaiepeer WOMAN NOMINEE ISSUES CHALLENGE TO SENATOR Anna Dickle nee for the day challenged to a series of Newberry attitude Mara Phil NMOY with luring al, to to death of ST! PAUL. © Oleson, firat w United States Ser Senator Frank debates on th cave and the Administration on the soldier bonus. The challenge came as a cilmax ‘one of the most energetic campaigns for & Senatorial seat on record. Kellogg Was at Redwood Fi the challenge at noon, to Senator Is this morning and had not been reached with MAYOR AT LAST TALKS QF PAY GRAB FOR HIS CABINET $7,500 Commissioner En- titled to Raise in Salary, Ife Declares, ~* As a result of criticism arainst the city Administration, when it became known that salary increases for thir- teen department heads and other higher officials were contemplated by the Board of Estimate, Mayor Hylan to-day issudd a statement: : “In the making up of a budget, ap- plications for increases in salary come from all sides and in many instances the increases are advocated by the men who do the least work. Some of these men spend a great deal of their time in pulling wires to increase sal- aries. “There is an earnest desite on the part of every member of the Board of Estimate to help the Deserving and hard-working man and woman in every department who do not watch the clock and are giving the best that is in them to ald the people by work- Ing night and day. However, when this cost was totalled I found it would amount to several hundred thousand dollars, which made thepgranting of theso increases an impossibility. “The Commissioners and many oth- ers in the city administration are en- titled to Increases in salaries, and if it were possible to give it to them, I would do so. “The financial condition of the city owing to mandatory legislation passed at Albany makes it impossible to, do anything for them this year. There is a three million dollar mandatory increase in salarigs in the Educational Department, the result of a bill passed at Albany. “In Hunter and City College, after they received the increase granted to every other city ployee, they we to the Legislature and a bill was passed allowing them another in- crease. The salary of the President of the City College ts $12,500 a year. He is living in a house belonging to the city, the rent of which woulJ probably be about $10,000 n year, and in addition he is furnished with coal, electricity and gas free of charge. He has only been here from Texay six or seven years. A portion of his time is spent in giving those under him in- creases in salaries under mandatory law passed at Albany. This {s only one instance of many that could be cited,” Mayor Hylan has not yet denied that it was he who secretly recom- mended that thirteen of his favorit» $7,500 a year Commissioners be raiseit to $10,000 a year, after he had repeat- edly announced at public hearings that “there will be no salary increases this year."" It was expected that the would have something to say ubout salaries at to-day's meeting of the Board of Estimate, He disuppointel many who expected a denim that he had started the salary grab carnival! at a star chamber session of the Board. ——_>—_—__. \ GOVERNMENT SEEKS RETURN OF $454.188 i 7 Ohio Concern Sued for War Money After Chicagoans Restore $500,000. WASHINTON, Oct 20.—Return to the Government of $ 188 in connec- tion with war cont ts was asked in a suit filed at the direction of ney General Daugherty | nthe Federal Courts at Cleveland, Ohio, to-day against the Cleveland Bra and Cop- per Mills, Inc., and their sureties, the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, The collection of “more than half a million dollars’’ from Briggs & Turivas, Chicago dealers in iron and steel, has been mode by the Depart- ment of Justice. ‘The return of this sum to the Government is made with- out legal action and withofit grant'ng immunity against any further action The claime grew out of contracts for shell forgings purchased as sur- plus war materials trom the War De- partment after the armistic Mayor tor- a FREE STATERS CAPTURE’ RE COMMANDER AND 100 MEN, BELFAST, Oct. 20.—The capture by Free state forces operating in North Galway of Commandant-Gen, T. Me- Quire, member of the Dall Eireann, and 100 men under Sim fs announced in despatches re d here to-day ABE SSS WASHINGTON 20,—Ar \ trade for September showed a . the De- Imports totalled $232.000,000, while ex- mar “Standard of the World” Best known and finest cycles ever made—and at reasonable’ prices Bunt tke » Bicycle Ask Your Dealer to show you “Columbia” THe Kedl-Cycle,Fedi-Car, Cyclet, ees ee ce: CATALOG on request, STEINFED, lnc,, 116 W.32dSt., N.Y. partment of Commerce reported to-day. OWSLEY ELECTED “HEAD OF EBON INLIVELY FHT Deegan, of New York, Sec- ond in Ballot, Victim of Combination. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20.—Alvin M. Owsley of Texas, to-day was elected Commander of the American Legion at the annual convention here. ‘The vote was Owsley, 574; Deegan, 251; Thompson of Pennsylvania, 205, and John A. McCormick, Colorado, 12. A combination of Westera and Southern States put Owsley over and he walked away from William “F. Deegan of New York, h'1 chief op=" ponent. Owsley was a major in the 86th Division and recruited his own battalion in Northern Texas, A crowd of legionnaires, deprived of sleep by the noisy celebration’ of their buddies, organized for reprisals, At dawn they paraded through hotef corridors singing: “You Kept Us Awako All Night. Kept Us Awake, the Night “We'll Keep You Awake To-night, if, We Never Get Sleep Any More.” The women of the American Legion Ausillary will conclude their sessions jay after listening to reports of committees and the nomination and election of officcrs for the ensuing year Thw representatives of the veterans of eight of the Allied nations to-day made their plea to the American Legion to help them end war for all time. The city last night witnessed the wildest carnival of the woek, which continued throughout the nigat; there was continual din in the hotels and downtown streets. Capt. Earl De Fords won the Legion's aerial derby, in which four planes participated. Zale ticcmee SALVATION LASS WINS ENRIGHT’S AID Capt. Crawford Gets Pledge of Co-Operation. Capt. Rheba Crawford, Salvation ” Army, who was arrested Sunday eve- ning on the charge that her meeting in front of the Gaiety Theatre, 46th Street and Broadway, blocked traffic, bearded Commissioner Enright in his den to-day and got his promisé of co- operation. Accompanied by Major Edward Un- derwood and Brigadier Charles Camp- bell, Miss Crawford uppeared at the Commissioner's office and demanded an interview. She got it, and told Enright she had been holding meet- ings in front of the theatre for nearly two years and never before had been inturrepted by the police. She added the police were her friends, but that somebody had béen misguided. q Commissioner Enright replied he would have his assistants look Into the matter und intimated he would at- tempt to select another meeting place which would be just as appropriate, but which would not result in blocked traffic, ee es MARKS, 4,000 TO DOLLAR, REACH NEW LOW RECORD cen In Berlin Jamp 500 q 1,000 Per Cent, Security P to ‘There was a further heavy slump In the value of German marks to-day and, uccording to cables received In Walt Street, consequent demoralization on the Berlin Boures In this market the quotation was 5) marks for $1, a new low record for all time In Berlin, where speculation in marks has been prohibited by Government de- cree, security prices soared on an aver- age of from 500 to 1,000 per cent., ac- cording to cables. 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