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HIE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1921. 20 DAWES AND HARDING CHARLES TO RETURN i BRITISH FACTORIES I VITAL RECORDS liriand Urged To Haixling to Send Note on Foreign A fairs Brooklyn Civic Forum NATHAN H.

SEIDMAN. Dimeter Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass Rnbbi of ihe Central Synagogue, Manhaftal "The New Jerusalem An Interpretation of Chesterton' Latest Viewi and Paradoxes." SUNDAY EVENING Doors open 7 o'clock. PUBLIC SCHOOL 84 Cilenmore and fcim avm.

Feb. 20 Mr. EDWIN MARKHAM, Eminent American Poet. CONFER IN FLORIDA; SPECULATION RIFE Banker Believed Out of Cabinet Race May Get Some High Government Post. St.

Augustine, Feb. 12 Charles G. Dawes, Chicago banker, who has been prominently under con sideration for appointment as Secre tary of the Treasury, headed Presi dent-elect Harding's appointment list for today with a conference that started a new train of Cabinet specu lation here. Once conceded to have first call on the Treasury portfolio, but more recently regarded as a less formidable contender for the place, Mr. Dawes has become one' of the mystery men of the Cabinet problem.

It was said at Harding headquarters that his call was not th.e result of a formal ap pointment made at Mr. Harding's re quest, but in some quarters the fact of his coming at this time was inter preted as evidence that he still is being considered for some high Government positiom Mr. Dawes is in Florida to visit relatives, having come directly from Washington where he created a sensation last week by publicly condemning the methods of tho Republican majority in Congress in its investigation of the conduct of the war. Concerning his course in that regard, Mr. Harding and the olflclals close to him have had nothing to say, nor would they make any comment on the slgnin cance of today's conterence beyond the assurance that the President-elect has a high regard for his caller's ability.

Others with whom Mr. Harding had annointments todav included Henrv A. Wise Wood, of New York, inter ested in aviation projects, and a com mittee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce which brought an invitation to the Presidentelect to visit that city. SAYS LAYOFF WON'T AFFECT CAR REPAIRS Public Service Commissioner Alfred M. Barrett received a letter yesterday from General Manager Menden of the B.

R. in response to inquiry made by the Commissioner, assuring him that the proposed two weeks layoff of 1,500 employees of the B. R. T. shops would not result in neglect to keep the cars and equipment of the company in necessary repair.

Mr. Menden wrote, In part: "The number of cars held out of service for repair has gradually decreased during the last two months, and we arc practically back to normal conditions in this respect. Also we have added during the last two months practically 50 additional subway cars, and we therefore believe that the shutting down of these repair shops one week in Februuiy and one week in March will not materially af fect the number of cars held out of service. The shutting down of the repair shops for ono week in the months of February and March cannot materially affect ony deterioration of equipment, and us to duily repairs, it should not be noted that we have not shut down the inspection shops but the shutting down for one week applies only to the general repair shops." SAY WOMAN HELPED TO MURDER FARMER New Brunswick, N. Feb.

12 Three men who are held responsible for the murder of Henry Kouhaupt. a farmer, of Piscat.away township, three miles from Duncllen, are being pursued today by a posse. The police attribute the shooting of Kouhaupt to an old feud. He was first beaten and then shot, they say. They are detaining a woman, Angelina Trimineri.

She denies pariticpa-tion in the crime. The farmer's wife said her husband was digging a ditch, when ono of the men now under suspicion ran water into it, and an old quarrel was renewed. The farmer objected to the neighbor's interference. it is said, he was shot in the ankle. The farmer limped into the house, hud his feet bandaged, limped out into the garage and got into his car to go call the police.

When tha cur was on the road, a shot wns fired, which penetrated tho windshied. It struck Kouhaupt In tho side. Several shots were fired, the bullets finding lodgment in the farmer's body. Tho woman who is held Is accused of having Jumped on the running board of the car, from which position she is alleged to have struck the farmer. WILL APPEAL FROM UNION BANK DECISION That the decision of the Court of Clulms, handed down yesterday, which virtually eliminated tho claims of do-posltors of the defunct Union Bank, would be appealed to the' Appellate Division of the Third Department was the statement today of Max D.

Steuer, who, with Assistant District Attorney Louis Goldstein, represented the depositors In their fight to nave tho State held accountable for their lojt deposits. "The Court handed down un opinion with Its decision," said Mr. Steuer, "but I have not been able to procure a copy. I can't see on what possible grounds tho decision was reached. I am certainly Interested to see the opinion, and I intend to argue the appeal myself before the Appellate Divlrton.

To me it is quite cleiir that the State Is accountable to the si i 'I -i 5. I 1 TURNING OUT ARMOR PLATE FOR JAPAN Submarine Engines Also Being Built No Capital Ships Under Construction Now. (by Cahlc to The Brooklyn Kaole and Philadelphia Public Mgir; Vopvright. 1021.) London, Feb. 12 Sir Auckland Geddes had a long audience with King George yesterday and today Joined Premier Lloyd George for a week-end for final discussions before leaving Tuesday for Washington.

It is stated that both the. Premier and Ambassador intend to canvass the whole range of subjects facing the two countries with special reference given to disarmament. Your correspondent learns on good authority that the British Government has no objections to a conference on a reduction of naval programs with any, or ull, of the great powers, but has no confidence in the results of such conferences. The view Is held that a conference would do no harm, but would be mostly talk, after which the nations would continue much the same as now. What the government hopes to do, through channels more effective than a largely attended conference, is to in fluence the United States to slow up on her building program until Great Britain 8 nuances are in such shape she can start building or at least come to an agreement armed with the power to build ir she wants to.

That power is absent now. In that connection there became available today some interesting facts on what British industry is doing to assist Japan with her naval and military equipment. It throws a different light on the recent sporadic that Great Britain has contracted to build several capital ships for Japan. As a matter nl fact, British shipbuilders have no contracts for capital ships for Japan, but frankly admit they hope to have them soon and to continue to build for Japan as they have for twenty years. The armor plato factories are busy on Japanese orders, however, and engine builders are turning out many submarine engines, while several other factories are making various, military equipment.

The Japanese are reported to have submarines completed except for these engines. It is pointed out at the Japanese that Japunese shipbuilders are young In experience, and besides thut, Japan's present program is greater than her shipbuilding capacity. All these orders are gratifying to England just now if for no other reason than it keeps many factories In running order and reduce unem- ployment. WITNESS DESCRIBES MATEAWAN KILLINGS Williamson. W.

Feb. 12 John McDowell, a Baldwin-Felts employee, present at the Matewan battle last May, was the first witness called by the prosecution in tho pistol battle trial when court convened this morning. The first shot of the battle thut resulted in the death of 10 men came from the doorway of a hardware store near the railroad station, according to McDowell's testimony. He could not lay who was th first man killed. He testified that Sid Hatneld, Matewan pollco chief; Albert C.

Felts and Mayor C. C. Teste.rman were gathered about the doorway. He stated that Kuvce Chambers, one of the defendants, was the only person he saw do uny shooting. Nineteen defendants are being tried on a charge growing out of the death of Albert C.

Felts during a pitched battle on the streets of Matewan last Mav. When ho was turned over to the defense for cross-examination. Attorney J. J. Conlff went back into what has been accepted as the cause of the battle the eviction of miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company.

MoDowell was uncertain as to the number of families evicted by the Baldwin-Felts detectives that day, but inid he believed there were five or six of them. Efforts on the part of Mr. Coniff to bring out the number of women and children who had been turned into the streets were mot by serious objection oi the part of the State. "Y'ou may now tell us about the appearance of Sid Hatfield while the evictions were in progress," suggested Mr. Coniff.

"While a few of us were taking the furniture from a house," replied the witness, "Mr. Felts, who was in charge, said 'two or three of you had better got your rifles for yonder comes the Mayor, Sid Hatfield and a gang of men We did us we were told, Hatfield, Mayor Testernian nnd two or three others came up to where he was and protested against the eviction." ItAISK TEACHERS" SALARIES. 'Patehogue, L. Feb. 12 An increase' of $6,000 has been voted by the Board of Education to the school budget for next year to provide for a raise of $100 a year to the teachers in the Patehogue district.

The Board estimates, however, that this increase will add no extra burden in the orm of Inscreased school taxes, for at the bresent rate of reducing the bonded of the cillngr, next year will see a further reduction of $7,500 on that score. The minimum raliry for grade teachers will he $1,200 for high school teachers, $1,400 to $1,500. AMITYVIIXF, MAN CAS VICTIM. Amltyvllle, L. Feb.

12 An investigation will be made by the local police and Coroner Moore of Suffolk County into the death early this morning of John Boiler at his home here. Holler, who Is unmarried, was discovered asphyxiated with gas pouring from an open Jet. He was 50 years old. IN MEMORIAM ARMOUR In memory of our beloved niece, GERTRUDE PHILOME-NA ARMOUR, who died Feb. 13, 1911, in her 1 3th year.

JOHN and ANNA HICKEY. 12-2 BADER. In sad and lovlnpr memory of mv dearly rieloved son and brother, FRANK E. RADKK, who departed this life Feb. 12.

1920. MOTHER and SISTER. CHAMBERS In memory of JULIUS CHAMBERS, Feb. 12. 1920.

"He talked with us by the way." JOHN A. Patterson, N. Y. DEVANE Anniversary mass for the late Rev. JOSEPH A.

DEVANE, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 10 a.m.. at St. Michael's Church, Flushing, L. I.

GAUS In loving memory of our dear father, JOHN L. GAUS, who passed away Feb. 12, 1915. FRANCIS In loving memory of Corp. RALPH W.

FRANCIS. 302d S. Co. E. in France, Feb.

12, 1919. Memories today are sad ones, For our boy who never came home. ICDWIN BATHA. OPRHTlKEB til ATLANTIC AV. TEL.

1259 MAIN PLATBUKU AV. TEL. Fl.AI'. HEiilbUNCJi; XliL. 7li Wi.NUiUll.

TO BUDAPEST SOON, REPORT IN GENEVA i Letter to Hungarian Primate Says He Will Reach There in March. (By cable to The Brooklyn Eaqle and Philadelphia Public Ledger; Copyright, 1021.) Geneva, Feb. 11 Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria, in an autograph letter dated in January, from his castle at Pranglns, on Lake Geneva, and addressed to Johann Esernoch, primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Gran, expressed his belief that the British and French opposition to the restoration of the Hapsburgs on the Hungarian throne has greatly diminished and announces his intention of returning to Budapest in March. The letter was revealed during the last meeting of the Hungarian Government party by former Prime Minister Simonyl, who was dismissed from his post last summer. It caused a sensation and led to a crisis within the Budapest government and the resignation of the Premier, Count Teleky.

C. H. RAMSDENDIES; PROMINENTIA G. A. R.

Post Commander of Mackenzie Post-Memorial Committeeman Charles Henry Ramsden, 79 years old, of 381 Dean past commander of Clarence D. Mackenzie Post, No. 399, G. A. a member of the Grand Army Memorial Committee and.

long prominent in Republican politics In Brooklyn, died on Thursday at his home of Brlght's disease. The funeral services -will be held on Sunday after noon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Thomas J. Lacey, rector of the P. E.

Church of the Redeemer, H. RAMSDEN; v( of which Mr. Ramsden was a member. The Interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mr.

Ramsden was born at 35 Hicks the son of Wright Ramsden, the first licensed master plumber of Brooklyn, and of Maria Brooks Ramsden. of Leeds. England. Mr. Rams den when a young man was a plumber with his rather, ana later wun a brother at 67 Fulton and he ran with old Engine Co.

No. 17, known as the "Grasshopper," in the Brook lyn Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Ramsden went to the front in the Civil War as a member of Co. 13th Hegt.

of Brooklyn, and he was a member of the 13th Reijt. Veterans Association. Mr. Ramsden -was, a pioneer in the gas-fitting trade in Brooklyn, and he gave up plumbing many years ago to take a position with tho Brooklyn Union Gus Com pany, with which he was connected us an inspector of construction for over 20 years. Later he went into the same line at the.

Brooklyn Navy Yard, and for many years afterward, until he was retired on a pension four years ago, he was an inspector for the City Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. Mr. Ramsden lived most of his lifetime in the old 3d Ward, and he was Republican captain of the 17th election district of the 10th A. D. for years.

He was an old member of the G. A. R. Executive Committee, a member of the Knights of Galena, the Society of Old Brooklynltes nnd of Aqua Council of tho water supply service. Mr.

Ramsden was for many years a member of old St. Peter's P. E. Church, on State near Bond. Ho married Mary Frances Griff en in 1864.

and she died in 1883. He Is survived by two daughters, Miss Florence B. Itamsden and Mrs. Hetty Grady of Rockville Centre, L. a granddaughter, Mrs.

Ruth Ackerson of Jersey City, nnd a greatgrand-daughter, Ray Ackerson. BOMB CRIPPLES 3 IN POLITICAL MEETING Woman and Two Men in Motor Flee After Chicago Outrage. Chicago, Feb. 11 The bomb explosion at tho 19th Ward Democratic Headquarters last night, which seriously injured six men, wns attributed to politics today by Anthony d'Andrea, candidate for City Council from that ward, who had a narrow escape himself. A big hole was blowni In the wall of the brick building close to the speaker's stand, but d'Andrea had Just finished speaking to a crowd of about 300 of his adherents.

Two of d'Andrea's precinct captains suffered broken leg.i, one had- his leg blown off und several others were hurt. A rope by which police assert the bomb was lowered from the roof to the place where it was exploded, furnished the only clue to tho bombers. Two men and a woman in a -red motorcar wore seen speeding away from the vicinity immediately after tho explosion, but shots from a policeman fulled to halt them. For several years d'Andrea has con-tcslcd political honors In the 19th Ward with Johnny Powers, but 1'owers has been regularly re-elected. ernment's attention to the ill-advised and ill-natured attempts to cuuse trouble in international relations and the.

advisability of taking measures to check the practice. The poisoned pen movement has evidently large sums of money nt its disporal. Judging from tho lavish manner Id which the circulars are printed and distributed, and Is being run in much the same fashion as the "Gott straff England" campaign, later extended to "and America, too," which was conducted during the war. Among the latest efforts are hysterical articles by Miss Ray Bevcridge, who was a German propaganda agent in the United States In 1914-15, and reprints of abirive cditoriils, from reactionary newspapers. A firm of international stamp dealers, which publishes an international stamp market weekly, is devoting Itself to spreading this literature.

DEATHS Butjer.Herman Held. Robprt S. Cave, Magdalen Riddle, Edwin B. Conboy, Henry Rowland. Kmnui J.

Copmunn, Jules W. Rutter, Kathleen Huwke, Edwurd J. Slnnott, Katherine Holran. Rosa A. Smith.

Moses It. Klooppcl. Kev. Ltnn, Charles V. Lipplnrott, H.

M. McDonald, Hazel Murphy, Nicho'as Nathan, Mnry R. Ramsden, Charles Starinszuk. Mary Taylor, Edward Thomson, I. McD.

Thompson. Maud Topham. S. E. Wardluw.

H. W. Watson, Elnora BATJER HERMAN. "The Fu-nernl Church" (Frank E. Campbell), B'way.

66th Feb. 12, 10 a.m. CAVK MAGDALEN, widow of Archibald Cave and daughter of Isaac lioeruni, imod 85. Services Sunday, Feb. 13, at 5 o'clock, at her late home, Chauncey st.

Interment at Greenwood. TO HO -On Feb. 11. 1921, HKNRY, the beloved BOn of Hubert and Sarah Conley Conboy. Funeral on Monday, Feb.

14, from his late residence, 550 Myrtle at 2 p.m. COl'MAVN At his residence, Fulton Farm, West Long Branch, N. .1., on Wednesday, Feb. 0, 1921, JULES W. COI'MAN'N.

formerly of Sea Gate, New York Harbor. Services will be held on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2 p.m., in the Chapel at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. HAW'KK Entered into rest mi Friday evening.

Feb. 11. 1921, EUWARD JENNINGS, aped 21 years 1 month and 6 days, youngest son of Jennie U. Ilawkc Kendall nnd the late Francis T. Hawke.

Funeral services will he held Monday at 8 p.m. nt his late residence, 272 Eldert St. HOLRAN On Fell. II. 1921.

ROSE beloved daughter of the late Thomas and Rose A. Holran, and sister of tho Rev. Edward A. Holran. Funeral from her late residence, SS2A Clinton on Monday, Feb.

14, at 9:30 a.m.; thence to St. Stephen's R. C. Church. Hicks nnd Summit where solemn mnss of requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Automobile cortege. KLOEIM'ICL On Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, Rev. WILLIAM A.

KLOEI'-PEL of Patehogue, L. beloved husband of Margaret Fa lion Kloeppel, in his 54th year. Funeral services will bo held at the Baptist Temple, 3d live, nnd Hchermerhorn on Monday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. Interment at Cypress Hills Cemetery.

LINN At his residence, 233 Clermont on Saturday, Feb. 12, 1921, CHARLES V. LINN, beloved husband of Clurrissa W. Linn, nee Lemmer-mann, in his 54th year. Notice of funeral hereafter.

LIPPINCOTT On Friday. Feb. 11, 1921, nt the residence of his sister, Mrs. W. t).

Topham. Brooklyn. N. HAROLD M. LIl'l'INCOTT.

Funeral services will he held In Mount Holly, the home of her mother, -Mrs. Bradeii, 1227 Fulton st, Brooklyn, HAZEL, be loved wife of William H. McDonild. Funeral Monday, 0:30 o'clock. Solemn high mass ut Church of St.

Ignatius. Rogers avo. and Carroll 1 0 a.m. MURPHY On Feb. 10, 1921, NICHOLAS MI'RI'll beloved husband of Anna Maekln.

Funeral on Monday, from his lute residence. 93 Bergen thence to St. Paul's Church, where a solemn requiem mass will he celebrated nt 10 a.m. Interment Holy i loss Cemetery. I NATHAN on Feb.

II, 1921. after a short illness. MARY ROSSMAN NATHAN, widow of Nathaniel L. and beloved mother of Harry, Irene and Nettie Blatt. Funeral from her late residence, 512 McDonough Sunday, at 2:30 p.m.

RAMS DEN On Feb, 10, 1921, at his residence, 3SI Dean CHARLES HENRY RAMSDEN, beloved father of Florence H. Itamsden and Mrs. Hetty Grady, in his 79th yenr. Funeral service by tho Rev. Thomas J.

Lucey, Sunday nt .2:15 p.m.. Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery. RAMSDEN Thirteenth Veteran Association Members: You urc herebv informed of the death of Comrade CHARLES H. RAMSDEN, Civil War Veteran, of Co. 13th on 10, 1921.

Funeral from his late residence. 381 Dean Sunday, Feb. i. at 2:15 p.m. Fraternally, THOS.

R. FLEMING. President. John J. F.

Doyle, Secretary, REID Suddenly, on Feb. 11, 1921, at his residence, Hotel Walton, ROBERT SI'EIR, son of the late Aaron L. nnd Maria S. R.eid, and husband of Anna E. Reld.

Services. All Angels Church, 81st st. and West End Sunday. Feb. 13, at 2:30 p.m.

RIDDLE On Friday, Feb. 11, 1921. EDWIN B. RIDDLE, aged 81 years. He is survived by four daughters and three sons.

Funernl from his late residence, 340 72d Monday morning, Feb. 14. ROWLAND Suddenly, on Feb. 11, 1921, EMMA widow of Charles H. Rowland.

Funeral services will he held at her Into home, 1067 Dom Brooklyn, on Sunday nt 2:30 p.m. Interment at Huntington, IV I. (Long Island papers please copy.) BUTTER KATHLEEN STUART, daughter of Horace L. and Lottn Nugent Hulter. Funeral services Sunday, Feb.

13. 1021, nt 4 p.m., at lute residence. 137 Hicks st. SINNOTT On Feb. 11, 1921, KATHERINE SINNOTT, age 2 years, beloved daughter of Mary F.

nnd William C. Slnnott, at 69 1st pi. Funeral Sunday, 2 p.m. Interment Holy Cross. SMITH Suddenly, Feb.

11, 1921, MOSES R. SMITH, aged 77 years. Funeral services Monday. 2:30 p.m., at his late residence, Franklin Hempstead. L.

I. Veteran of the Civil War, Co. II, llitjh New York Volunteers, STAI'INSZAK MARY. "The Fu-' neral Church" (Frank E. Campbell), B'wny, 66th Feb.

12, 2 p.m. TAYLOR On Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921. EDWARD TAYLOR, aged 75, father of Arthur M. and Mrs.

Lillian M. Keith. Funeral services nt Reeves Chapel. Sumner ave. and Monroe Saturdny, 8 p.m.

TAYLOR Montuuk Lodge No. 286, F. A. M. Brethren: Y'ou are rc- auested to uttend Masonic funeral services of our late brother, EDWARD TAYLOR, at Reeves Funeral Chapel, Sumner ave.

and Monroe Saturday livcn.nn, Feb. 12 1921, at 8 o'clock. ADOLl'H HANSEN. Master. George F.

Malby, Secretary. 1 THOMSON On Feb. 9, 1921, ISABELLA Mcdonald Thomson, wife of the late Robert Thomson of Mitchell, Stratford, Woodstock, Toronto, In her 8 1st year. Funeral from the residence of her daughters, Mrs. Chas.

L. Brondson and Miss Isabella Thomson, at 2 p.m.', Saturday, Alameda, Cal. Mrs. Thomson was mother of John McD. Thomson of Brooklyn.

(Canadian papers please notice.) THOMPSON On Feb. 10, 1921, at her residence, Cll 92d st MAUD, beloved wife of Nicholls Thompson. Funeral on Sunday, at 2 p.m. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Auto cortege.

SOPHAM At Somerville, New Jersey, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 1921, SARAH ELIZABETH, wife of the late Charles R. F. Topham, formerly pf Brooklyn. Funeral services at the Lefferts Place Chapel, 86 Lefferts near Grand Brooklyn, on Sunday, Feb.

13. 1921, at 3 p.m. WARDUW-On Friday. Feb. 11, 1921, C.

B. W. WARDLAW, in the 72d year of his age, at his homo in Westwood, N. J. WATSON On Thursday.

Feb. 10, 1921. ELNORA. widow of the Rev. Dr.

Lorenzo D. Watson. Funeral services at the residence of her sisters, the Misses Lawrence, 164 Bainbridge Saturday evening, Feb. 12, at 8 o'clock. ica will do when she wakes up.

The agreement of Paris risks becoming a deud letter if the United Statca turns its on Eurone and refuses to ra cilitatc the credit operations contingent to the future payments from Germany." The editorial further states that while there exists In America two groups, namely, those In favor of tht Treaty with reservations and those who advocate Harding's Association of Notions, It is necessary to explain to Americans that "France cannot dream tit renouncing the League, which is in- dissolubly united with the Treaty." It Li siiccested that the best way to in form the American people just what France is thinking is for tho chief of the French government nimseir. meaning Briand, to address a coniunlcation to Harding which will be given to the American people. NO TRACE FOUND OF GARDINER $360,000 WIDOW SAYS IS LOST Hearing Fails to Locate Either "Missing" Funds, Checkbooks or "Tin Box." Efforts to locate the $360,000 al leged to be missing from the estate of the late Robert Alexander Gardiner by his widow, Mrs. Nora L. Gardiner, proved to be unavailing at the hearing before Surrogate Robert S.

Pelletreau of Riverhead at the Manhattan offices of the New Y'ork Life Insurance and Trust Company yesterday. Attempts by William Niles to locate Mr. Gardiner's checkbooks also met with no result and caused Grenville T. Emmett, attorney for the company, to suggest to Mr. Niles that the $360,000 might be the result of an overestimate of the estate of Mrs.

Sarah T. Gardiner, mother of tho deceased. Under tho will the $4,899,000 estate of the mother was divided among three children and the late Mr. Gardiner was allotted $1,315,454.05. It was brought out In testimony that ho had dealings in the stock market which may have resulted in this amount decreasing.

David Gardiner, brother of the deceased, denied that he had taken any papers from the home of Robert at Lakewood, as was alleged by the widow. He also denied the existence of a dispatch box, referred to by the widow as a "tin box" in which it wns alleged Importunt papers which are said to be missing were kept. He admitted that Mrs. Gardiner had given him some papers which he said he turned over to the company. He denied knowing where his brother's Lhe turned over to the company.

uenien Knowing checkbooks were ENGINEER W.S. COOK VANISHES-ALARM OUT Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Winfleld Scott Cook, chief engineer of the Ward Line steamer Ca-maguey. Cook, has been missing since the arrival of the ship fr.un Tninpico, Sunday: On that day he came ashore in the pilot boat with his assistant engineer, Frank Pennea landing at the Battery. Ho wns bound for his homo nt 582 Throop nve. He left Pennea nt the Nevins st.

subway station and has not been seen since. The cuse was placed in the hands of the police by his wife, Mrs. Elvira Lane Cook, on Monday night, when Lincoln Harvell, an oiler came to the house with a message for Cook. Up to that time his wife believed that he had been detained aboard. Mrs.

Cook said that it was not unusual for her husband to drop in suddenly on the family to surprise th.m. For tins reason she had not worried when no message was received' from him Sunday or Monday. The only clue that the police have to work on is a telephone call received by Mr. George Traver of 670 Macon st. Wednesday morning.

A man who said that he was Cook asked to speak to Mr. Traver and not finding him at home, promised to call later. The call was traced to Bloomfiehf, N. where persons identified photographs of Cook ns those of a man who was seen in the L. station.

Mrs. Cook said today: "It is simply a lapse of memory. My husband was worried and not well. When ho visits the tropics he is always subject to attacks of malaria; Young said he had broken down several times on the way up from T.impico." When asked how she accounted for the telephone call Wednesday she said that he had probably had a tem porary flash of memory, the said fie would have no reason to disappear purposely. "Hn loves h's home nnd his little daughter Virginia" she cried.

Cook' was horn In Maine but has made his home in Brooklyn for the past 16 years. During the four years his married life he has lived at the address on Throop ave. Cook Is 5 feet 8 Inches in height, has brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair The back of his neck-'ls slightly scarred nnd he has a sear an luph long on the third finger of the left hand. At the time of bis disappearance he was wearing a dark blue "ii't with a light nln stripe, a brown soft. hut.

rrray-blncH overcoat with a velvet collnr and dark Ivnwn shoes. It is believed ihft bo did not have more than $2 in his pockets. CONCERT AT ST. JOTTN.S A concert of unuiiurU merit was enjoyed last night at the St. John's M.

E. Church, Bedword ave. nnd W1I- son i t. The program included vocal instrument .1 music and dramatic rciicTigs. The artists were Prof.

Hleh-I nrd T.aslcey. Edith Mill'trnn Kiwfcr. I'-abel May, Dorothy 1). Taylor and Lester May. with Mrs.

Florence Brown Laskey as nccom-i pnn'st. The evening closed with the '(hiring of "Auld Lan Syne" by the a.udicncc. OFFICIAL THERMOMETER. FEB. II.

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11 Now that the French Parliament has voted confidence in the Government's foregin policy, French opinion again considers that the next important step is "to talk to the American people." The Potit Parisien. with its largest circulation in Europe, leads the van in editorial opinion, today by pointig- out that since the war the case of France has bofcii neglected (ind tl.nt It Is nocesdnry to build up friendship for France among the American statesmen soon to take Important posts in the Harding administration. The editorial says: "The United States is like the Fable of the sleeping beauty, which is going to nwnke March 4. It is more important than ever to know what Amer WOULD FREE BROOKLYNITE DYING IN PRISON (Special to The h'aole.) Ossinlng, Feb. 12 An application has been made to Gov.

Miller, it was learned today, to pardon Dominie. Da-masco, a Brooklyn prisoner in SinK Sing, because he cannot recover frbm heart disease. The prisoner, who has been in Sing Sing for three years for assault, has been bed-ridden in the prison hospital several weeks. Dr. Amos O.

Squire, head prison physician, and his assistant have reported to Warden Lawes that in their opinion Dnmusco is dangerously ill and has no chance of recovery. The Inst hospital patient who was pardoned dropped dead as he was being dressed in street clothes to go home. He also had heart disease. OZAKI PERSONALLY DISLIKED IN JAPAN; READ OUT OF PARTY By GLFAN BABB. () Cubic to The Umttklyn Kaile and Phila delphia Public Ledger; copynpnr, jusi.i Tokio, Feb.

12 By an overwhelmingly adverse vote the resolution favoring armament restriction presented by Yukio Ozakl, considered to be Japan's most advanced liberal, was defeated yesterday In the House of Representatives. The vote was 285 to 33. Ozuki's resolution was most conservative, proposing only that, "Japan's naval construction program shall be limited according to an agreement reachable between the Governments of Japan, America and Great Britain." While it is unlikely that any arma- ment reaucuon proposal wuum nuu solid bucking in the present parliu-1 ment, regardless of tho authorship, the overwhelming character of the defeat of Ozaki's resolution should bo taken rather us an indication of the author's unpopularity than showing any such one-sided opposition to the i naval, holiday Idea. Ozaki recently was read out of his owji party, the Kenselkai, owing to his advocacy of policies regarded as too radical at tho. present day in Japan.

The only supporters of the Ozuki resolution were members of the small Kekumlnte party nnd a few independents, while the Seiyukai (Government party), and the Kenaeikai, tho chief opposition party, voted solidly against it. MANUAL HIGH FRATS SPLIT ON ELECTIONS Progressive Faction Endangered. New "Party" Possible. The general organization elections at Manual Training High School are expected to cause more than the usual activity displayed in such events through a split in. the agreement between two fraternities at the school.

The split which became known today is Eald to endanger not only the life of tho Progressive Party, but may effect the existence of high school fraternities which received a new lease of life folowlng the decision of the Corporation Counsel that they are not banned by the Board of Education. The Progressive Tarty at Manual has been successful in the last two cars because of the agreement between the Sigma Lambda Nu and the Omega Alpha Pi fraternities which havo presented a united front In the general organization elections. Feeling, however, is said to have arisen between tho two, and the former objects to the Omega Alpha l'l group URlng tho name Progressive. Another fraternity, the Omega Gamma Delta, has entered into the dispute, and may ully Itself with" the Sigma Lambda Nu. Dr.

Horace Mann Snyder, principal of tho school, is considering the possibility of abandoning the existing parties owing to the dispute and organizing a Blue party and Gold party, named after the school's colors. At a meeting of the present Progressive party, Edward Kelley, Marjorle Rey nolds. Lucien Waddell and Ulric Cal-vosa, have been nominated for officers of the (5 O. The feeling between tho fraternities, however, has reached riieh a stage that the election of this ticket is said to be doubtful. As result, Dr.

Snyder may clamp down further the lid on all fraternities at the school. Aid in Making Tax Returns Internal Revenue Collector Bertram C. Gardner announced today that he had assigned deputy collectors to desks in various banking institutions throughout the boro, where they will I assist taxpayers In preparing income tax returns. PLANES SEEK MISSING CROSS-COUNTRY FLIER El Paso, Feb. 12 Army planes from evrry tation in Texas, New Mexico end Arizona were to leave Fort Bliss at duwn today to search for Lt.

Alexander IVarson, who has been missing since he left here Thursday at 10 a.m. Wireless and telephone nics-ays have been scut to ull stations and iters along the route between El a end Houston, a distance of 80n in an effort to locate the missing pilot, who expected to land at Houston late Thursday. A new chunk Miuft was fitted in Pearson's machine at Columbus, N. 90 miles west of here, on Tuesday, and officers at Fort express the fear that hearing. may have run hot and caused u.

idden and possibly disastrous lending some remote place in the sparsely settled country of west 1 Cflfl. Lt. Pearson, when he left here, was en route to Pablo B-ac'h, from which poi: i. lo 1-e a turns- continental flight to San Dlogo, in an eiloi to e. a A.coi'il for the flight from tiie to the IV? Lie.

llir the opinion the fl Hht I I 4 r. 1 5 SISTERS OF MERCY PROTEST TAX LEVY Claim Convent Is Exempt. Aspinall Refuses Writ. Justice Aspinall, in Supreme Court yesterday, refused the application made by the Sisters of Mercy for a peremptory writ of mandamus, which sought to compel the Controller and tax officials to withdraw taxes levied against the convent buildings, on 12tli from 63d to 65th sts. It is claimed by tho members of the order that their property is exempt from all taxation as a religious body, and that its buildings are used entirely for religious and charitable purposes.

The Corporation Counsel opposed the issuance of a writ, claiming- that part of the buildings are devoted to other causes, such as a school, and that revenue is derived from other activities carried on there. The Sisters emphatically denied the Corporation Counsel's statement. Justice Aspinall declared that in view of the dlsp.ute, he could not issue the mandamus, and that the levy of taxes against the property of the order could be reviewed by a certiorari proceeding or by an action in The Woman Voter Queens Republican women have en. thusiastically taken up the educational program of the Republican Women's State Executive Committee and eleven different organizations have started the Vork. The Queens Village Women's Republican Club was the first to present a program with Mrs, Rosalie Loew Whitney as speaker.

Monthly meetings are planned in all parts of the boro, with an all-day program in April, under the direction of Mrs. Nettie P. Schwerln, vice chairman of the 4th A. D. Queens Chairman Joseph C.

De Bragg a and 160 Republican workers will attend the Inauguration In Washington, Mrs. Etta M. Wins-low, vice chairman, is a charter member of the National Women's Republican Club. The County Committee' meeting last night was a social affair, with music and dancing. The reception given to Mrs.

Winslow by the Betsy Ross Republican Club of Elm-hurst was attended by 100 women, Mrs. Winslow being made an hon. orary member of the club. Mrs. Lillian Bradley of the lltb.

A. D. was one of the first Brooklyn women to become a charter member of the National Women's Republican Club. Miss Reba Swain of the 11th A. D.

Republican Club and a practicing law. spoke yesterday morning befora the Universalis! Women's Alliance at the Church of Good Tidings, Madison on 'The Relation of Law and Justice." Miss Swain pointed out cases In which justice had not been attained, citing among other cases the passage of the Transportation Act. She described the work of the Woman's Court and drew hearty applause when she paid a tribute to the work of Magistrate Jean Norris, New York City's only woman judge. Miss Helen McCormlck, Assistant District Attorney, will speak at the Kings County Republican Club, -203 Patchen on Tuesday evening. Miss Sarah Stephenson was unanimously indorsed for Magistrate at the lost meeting of the Women's Demo-cratic Council of the 4th A.

D. Mrs. Mary E. Dennen, of the Women's Democratic Council of the 4th A. is the proud mother of a little girl born a month ago.

Mrs. Dennen, when congratulated today, said: "This is my fifth child, my oldest boy is now in high school. I am a living example to prove that a woman can be a mother and be interested in politics, too, for I have kept in toucli with the club either by attending the meetings or by telephone." Then she added, with a laugh, "and my family has hot suffered either." The current bulletin of the League of Women "Voters contains a copy of the letter sent to Governor Miller after his attack on tho league at Albany, with the comment: "We publish the letter which bids fair to become an Important historical document in tho league's archives." There is also a statement by Miss Maud Swartz, chairman of the Women in Industry Committee of the State League, who says that at a conference in January at Albany under the auspices of the Women's Trade Union League, delegates representing 31 working women's organizations, 10 cities and 260,000 working women voted unanimously for the eight-hour day and minimum wage bills. A plan to help the up-State League of Women Voters raise their quota of $10,000 for the State League expenses has been formulated by Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, treasurer und Includes speclpl activities for each month, beginning with $10 subscriptions during February.

A prize of $10 each month will be given the Assembly District raising the most money by the official plan. March will be card party month; April, bazar and rummage sales; May, cake sales; June, picnics. The civil service class held by the Women's Democratic Club of the 17th A. D. at the clubhouse, 6110 Gutes met last night with many new members and uiMlimlnlshed enthusiasm.

Mrs. Louise M. Harty, investigator at Kings County Hospital, laid out a regular course preparatory to examination for social service investigator. The class studies arithmetic, spelling, city departments and special branches necessary for an, investigator to know. Miss Sarah Stephenson has been elected commandant of the Mora Mc-Cloy Unit of the Women's Club of tho Service Mag, which is making a specialty of providing fresh eggs fo the wounded boys at Fox Hills an other hospitals.

A delegation from the 9th i Women's Democratic Club will visii Fox Hills tomorrow and tuke a supply of smokes, candy and other luxuru to the boys. The reception for Republican women on Monday afternoon nt headquarters 26 Court Is under tho auspices of the 6th Congressional District the 10th, 11th and 12th A. D. The 'plans are being kept ns a surprise although no formal speeches are This is the monthly social affair of the county, and all Republican women and their friends are invited whether or not they are members of the county- committee. Women's Political Culcnclar Tonight.

Eighth A. D. Junior League of the Columbus U' publican Club Annual reception, Imperlnl. Tenth A. D.

Washington Club, 241 Prospect pi. Confetti carnival arsf dance. Germany's Poisoned Pen Wielders Once More Active IBu Coble to The tlronklpn Fcnle. and Phila-dr'ph'a Ledger; CnnyrMlif, 1021.) Berlin, Feb. 12 German poisoned pen wielders, who, up to Amerira's entrance Into the war, filled Ihe mails to America with virulent abuse of the United States and its policy and Indulged in a recrudescence of their activities when postal communications were reopened after the armistice, are nt work, nnd have Induced many business men to include In their letters to American correspondents copies of an old type of abusive cl -euiurs and reprints of propaganda articles vehemently nnd ven Indecently assailing the motives and acts of their oppo-nr i i 1 1 the lato war.

Tho American Commission ho-e. has rec Ived rop'is of a mass of tht-i literature from angtred recipients in the United States, and has called the Gov 19 Relative humidity. could be made In less than 24 hours,.