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Brooklyn Denominations of $100, $500 and $1000 Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Trustee of This lasue DANIELS REPLIES TO WESTERN UNION SUIT Calls Company "British Monopoly" in Defense of Policy. Washington, Nov. 30-It has always been the policy of the American Government "to prevent the laying of any cable on the shores of the United States which connected with a foreign country in which the cable company had a monopoly of cable connections Secretary Daniels says in a statement filed today in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The statement is a supplemental answer to the suit of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which seeks to enjoin the Naval Secretary from interfering with the laying of certain short cables over Biscayne Bay, Miami, Fla.

Daniels says that the proposed cable from Miami to Bardadoes is to be laid for the purpose of connecting with the system of the Western Telegraph Company, a British corporation, which has a monopoly for inter-port cables in Brazil, to the exclusion of American companies. The Naval Secretary's supplemental answer was accompanied by an affidavit by Secretary Colby of the State Department which set forth that application for a permit to land the cable was pending before the State Department, but that the Department being unwilling to recommend to the President the granting of such a permit. had requested Secretary Daniels to co-operate with the War Department to prevent connection of the cable. OBITUARIES MRS. ROSE VERONICA BRADLEY.

wife of Charles J. Bradley, died on Monday after a long illness. Mrs. Bradley wag born In Brooklyn, the daughter of the late Daniel and Bridget McLaughlin Gillespie, and had lived here all her lifetime. The funeral will be held on Wednesday morning from the residence' of her sister-in-law, Mrs.

William S. Catherwood, 1127 Bergen with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of the Holy Family, 13th near 4th of which Mrs. Bradley was a member for many years, and the interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Mrs. Bradley is survived, besides her husband, by son, Daniel Bradley. and a sister, Mrs. Mary McCue. EDWARD SEACOLE, 70 years old, of 380 7th a compositor in the printing department of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, died on Sunday in the Cumberland Street Hos.

pital. His. funeral services will be held on Wednesday evening, and the interment, on Thursday, will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Seacole was born in old New York City, was.

at one time connected with the Mount Vernon News and was formerly a member of Typographical Union No. 6. He had lived in Brooklyn most of his lifetime and was one of the oldest members of the Bible class at the Bethel Mission of Plymouth Church. He 1 survived by his wife, Mrs. Lockhart Johnson: Seacole, and four daughters, the Misses Ada and Marian Seacole, Mrs.

Harriet D'Ornatas and Mrs. Helen Allard. MISS JULTA MARIE O'CONNOR, 24 years old. of 648 Leonard died on Monday of appendicitis, in the Long Island College Hospital. Her funeral will be held on Thursday.

morning, with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of St. Antony of Padua, Manhattan ave. and Milton and interment in Calvary Cemetery.

Miss O'Connor was born in Greenpoint and is survived by her parents, John F. and Marie O'Connor; two sisters, the Misses Frances and Katherine O'Connor, and two brothers, John and Jeremiah O'Connor. MISS MARY OLIVIA BUCKINGHAM, 70 years old, died Saturday night in the Church Charity Foundation Home for. the Aged. 452 where she had lived for the past two years.

Her funeral services, his, afternoon, were conducted by the Rev. George Graeff, and the interment was in reenwood Cemetery. Miss Buckingham was born, in Labrador and had been a resident of Brooklyn since girlhood. She was an old mem. ber of Christ F.

E. Church, Clinton and Harrison sts. She is survived by a brother, George Buckingham, in Labrador. MISS EMMA JEFFERY, 69 years old, an aunt of Mrs. Frank Bacon, wife of the coauthor and star of died at Mr.

Bacon's home at Fayside, Queens, on Sunday afternoon. Miss Jeffery was born in England, but lived in this country most of, her life, making her home of recent years with her niece. Funeral services will be held at her late home this afternoon and the body will be sent to California for burial. JAMES JONES, 71 years old, a retired business man who resided at the Edwards Hotel, Manhattan ave. and Clay died on Monday in the Greenpoint Hospital of cirrhosis of the liver.

His funeral will be held on Wednesday morning, with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of St. Columbkille, in Dupont and interment in Calvary Cemetery, Mr. Jones was born in Ireland and had been a resident of Greenpoint for many years.

He is survived by a niece, Mrs. Elizabeth, Merckling. MRS. EMMA LAW EDWARDS of 250 Madison wife of Charles H. 'Edwards, died on Sunday after a long illness at her home, Mrs.

Edwards was the last surviving daughter of Nathaniel B. Law, an old restdent of the Eastern District of Brooklyn. She was a woman of fine Christian character and beloved by all who knew her. She and her husband celebrated their golden wedding A year ago last February. Mrs.

Edwards la survived by a large family, of children, grandchildren and great -grandchildren. The funeral services will be held privately at her late home tomorrow ing. MRS. HENRIETTA DEZZENBERGER TETAMORE-RICHTERICH, 57 years old, I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1920.

SOLOVEI ARRESTED; CHARGE HE BRIBED U. S. REVENUE AGENT Street-Opening Bureau Official Alleged to Have Given $500 for Release of Clients. Joseph A. Solovei, once referred to in court as "counsel to the pickpockets' trust," and whose connection with Mayor Hylan and the present city administration has attracted considerable notice at various times within the past three years, has again come into public notice through his alleged activities.

The latest incident was his arrest yesterday in the Federal Building, Manhattan, on the charge of trying to bribe a revenue officer to drop an investigation into the activities of two clients. The accusation was made by' Frank J. Seib, special revenue agent, who is one of the group sent recently from Washington to operate independently of the regular prohibition enforcement staffs in this city. Seib told U. Commissioner Hitchcock that Solovei had offered him $500 to release two of the latter's clients, Benjamin and Albert Gross, brothers, who were accused of having procured and used on fraudulent liquor.

withdrawal permits, counterfeit rubber stamps bearing the names of Charles O'Connor, Prohibition Director for tho State of New York, and Julius C. Strenian, who holds the same position in Connecticut. On Selb's charge Commissioner Hitchcock held Solovei and the two Gross brothers under $2,500 bail for each for examination Saturday morning. All three denied the accusations made against them. Says Solovel Paid $500.

story Seib, was paid him in a The bribe, according to the rollered restaurant on Lafayette Manhattan. In the complaint sworn. to by him he says that Solovei gave him the $500 to release Benjamin Gross, who was at the moment in his custody and to fail to arrest Albert Gross, whom he was on the point of making a prisoner. Albert Gross. the complaint further says, induced Solovei to make the offer.

The traffic in forged liquor permits, by means of which liquor is withdrawn from the warehouses where it is in storage, has. grown to be widespread in this city, according to Federal sources. Millions of dollars, it is estimated by investigators, have been "cleaned up" by those engaged in the conspiracy. Another phase of the dry law violation into which the Federal agents are probing is the printing of illicit revenue stamps. Enforcement agents, under.

the drection of Capt. John S. Tucker, last Saturday night seized a printing set with thousands of counterfeit revenue stamps, liquor labels and illicit liquor paraphernalia. The charge against the Gross brothers does not accuse them of handling liquors but alleges that they issued to operate. The brothers described which liquor traffickers a were enabled fraudulent withdrawal permits by themselves as real estate dealers in Garden City, They and Solovei were represented.

when arraigned, by John J. Curtin, Brooklyn lawyer and poliician, who declared that the three were victims of a "frame-up." Solovei vigorously protested his inno- cence. Kylan's "Transportation Commissioner." The efforts of Mayor Hylan to find a place for Solovel in his administration attracted public attention shortly, after the Mayor took office. The Mayor's insistence that Solovei be named as a deputy police commissioner was one of the factors led to the resignation of Police Commissioner Bugher after 23 days in offce. Later, the Mayor was credited with a desire to appoint Solovei to the City Magistrates' Bench.

He finally found a place for him as head of the Brooklyn Street Opening Bureau of the Corporation Counsel's office at salary of $5,000 a year, where he has been since April 3, 1918. During the war, Solovei again attracted attention as a result of claims made to exempt him from military service before Local Draft Board 86. He claimed exemption on the ground that he supported his parents and thereby secured a transfer from Class 1 to Class 3 of the draft. Investigation disclosed his family to be in comfortable circumstances and the deferred classification was revoked. and Solovei again placed in Class 1.

A few days before the batch of drafted men from his board were due to leave for Camp Upton. Solovei enlisted in the Naval Reserve where as a clerk he received a salary of $30 a month. continuing to draw from the city the difference in pay between that amount and the $5,000 a year paid him as an assistant corporation counsel. Solovei's association with Mayor Hylan during the latter's pre-election campaign led the latter to refer to him familiarly as "my Commissioner of Transportation." He furnished the Mayor a motorcar for tours around the city and frequently acted as the Mayor's chauffeur. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: It looks as though Mayor Hylan is permitting a specific provision of the Charter to be violated by Joseph Solovei, Assistant Corporation Counsel.

Section 256 of chapter 7, covering the organization of the Corporation Counsel's office, reads: "Neither the corporation counsel nor any of his assistants shall appear as attorney or counsel in any action or litigation except in the discharge of his official duties." READER. OFFICIAL THERMOMETER. NOV. 29. p.m 40 7 p.m .35 8 5 p.m .34 9 6 p.m.

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T. INDUSTRY. Albany, Nov. 30-The Farmers Bond and Mortgage Company, Whitestone, has been chartered. Capital, $10.000.

Directors are Thomas Whittaker, Emil Surgent and Louis O. Trilsch, Whitestone. U. S. Supported at Geneva In Oil-Mandate Dispute By BURNET HERSHEY.

(By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and Philadelphia Public Ledger; Copyright. 1920.) Geneva, Nov. 30-Lively interest is displayed here among the delegates in the published text of the American note to Great Britain regarding the Mesopotamian old fields. Coming. at a moment when council and the assembly committees have the diffcult problem of mandates under consideration, the judicial point raised in the American note as to the competency of a to exploit the raw materials under its mandate for its own advantage is considered by Jurists handling the matter as of the highest importance in fixing the definite status of mandatories in their respective territories.

It is held here by some authorities that the American thesis, i.e., that all nations must have an equal advantage in mandate territories. is a fair interpretation of the letter spirit of the League Covenant as regards mandates. It is recalled that British and American insistence on this point in Paris was largely responsible for the adoption of those clauses in the Cove- I big HARDING TO CONFER WITH G. O. P.

CHIEFS UPON HIS ARRIVAL Will Spend Three Days in Washington Before He Returns to Marion, Ohio. By C. C. BRAINERD. Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building.

Washington, -Nov. 30-Announcement that Senator Harding will spend at least three days in Washington before he returns to his home in Marion, Ohio, for the purpose of holding a series of conferences with Republican leaders, threatens to bring a horde of politicians here. The presto spend Monday, Tuesday and ent program DON is for Senator Harding Wednesday of next week at his home in this city, instead of merely passing through Washington and staying for a few hours. Already it is announced that National Chairman Will H. Hays will be here on Wednesday, Another politician who will be here to greet the returning President-lect is Harry M.

Daugherty, his campaign manager and intimate political adviser. Begide these two, and other Republican leaders who are expected, there will be all the Republican members of the Senate and House, who are anxious to get in touch with Mr. Harding. These conferences while they touch on important matters of party policy, will not disturb the arrangement already made for a series of conferences at Marion, to which certain eminent members of the Republican Party and a few Democrats have already been invited. But they will be preWhile there will be a drive to find out liminary to the Marion meetings.

just how far Senator Harding has progressed in consideration of a Cabinet, it is not expected that any definite Cabinet developments will result. The Republicans in the Senate are particularly anxious to learn from the President-elect his views as to a peace program, not with any idea that anything will be done at the coming winter session, but with a view to being in a position to meet any situation which may arise between now and March 4. It is not yet known what policy President Wilson will pursue concerning the Treaty which is now pigeonholed at the White House. Should he decide to send it to the Senate once more, that body wants an understanding with Mr. Harding as to the course that will be pursued.

Republican leaders in the House, who have the responsibility for initiating all the appropriation bills, are desirous to get Senator Harding's vews as to starting the move for Government economy. In. a rough way, an attempt will be. made to get the policies of the next Administration set under way in Congress during the coming winter. Senator Harding has a number of personal matters that must be attended to in Washington.

For one thing, he will have to arrange for a pair on the floor of the Senate, for he does not plan to attend any session of that body. After Jan. 1 he intends to resign, 80 that the new Republican Governor of Ohio may appoint his successor until March 4. Senator-elect Frank B. Willis of Ohio is slated for the appointment.

Mr. Harding will also endeavor to make some disposition of his house at 2314 Wyoming for which he wit have no further use after he leaves Washington for Marion. He is not expected to return to Washington until the inauguration. Whether he will call at the White House to pay his to President Wilson not ttled.per There is no assurance that the President will be able to receive him. It is not believed that Mr.

Harding would wish to spend any time in Washington without making a call of courtesy at the White House. Such a call, however, would be merely formal and have no political or other significance. While it is possible that Senator Harding may decide at the last minute to upset plans for a stay of a few days here, the Republican leaders are going ahead on the assumption that the present program will be carried out. BOLLING SAYS $600 PAID HIM BY SANDS WAS PERSONAL DEBT Continued from Page 1. and that this machinery, would be diverted to great injustice was being done to his, Mr.

Cranor's, company. I knew nthing about the construction division, 60 in the presence of Mr. Cranor I called Lester Sisler, who was then secretary of the Shipping Board, and explained the matter to him. He said he would look into it, and subsequently told me that he found upon inquiry that the rolls had been promised to Mr. Cranor's company, and would be shipped to them." 'A short time after tifis Mr.

Sands told me that he had made, or would make, $1.000 in connection with this transaction--though he now states he has no recollection of the matter-: and that he was going to 'take care of I told him would: accept nothing. He then mentioned the $600 which he still owed me in connection iwth the changes made in his house, saying that he had not, forgotten it, and would pay it. He paid me subsequently the $600, as follows: Feb. 18, 1918, $300: June. 26, $200, and Aug.

5, 1918, $100. I have no knowledge of where this money paid me by Mr. Sands came from. "Mr. Sands also made me a loan of $300 on May 21, 1918, for which I gave him my note.

This was repaid by me to him July 14, 1919, with interest. This represents every cent Mr. Sands has paid me since Dec. 31, 1917. "Of the $40,000 which Mr.

Sands says was paid for procuring contracts. I never heard until it was mentioned in anonymous letters, coupled with threats that unless something was done to stop the proceedings of the Department of Justice against Mr. Sands, that my name would be brought into it. Upon the receipt of these letters, I personally reported the matter to the Department of Justice, requesting that an investigation be made of my transactions with Mr. Sands.

Convict's Testimony False. "I feel that it is unnecessary for me to say that I never, by word or deed; tried in any way to assist the Providence Engineering Corporation or any other company, to procure a contract. "Regarding the testimony given betore the committee by Benjamin F. Fuller, who has been indicted for forging and uttering and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years, in which he states that Mr. Sands gave me a check in his presence, I beg to say that statement is absolutely and unqualifiedly false.

I therefore most urrequest the committee to reMr. Sands to immediately produ all of his checks made to me since Jan. 1, 1918." Mr. Bolling said that the committee would And available an anonymous letter addressed to W. G.

McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, and all other records in connection with the affair. Mr. Bolling in reply to questions rowed $7.500 from Sands. and tater testified that in January, 1917, he borrepaid this amount by mortgaging his home. He constantly referred to his a 1 a Burn Gambling Outfit, Find Crooked Roulette Mineola, L.

Nov. 30-The burning today' by court order of $16,000 worth of gambling paraphernalia, which had been seized in raids conducted under the direction of District Attorney Charles R. Weeks and Nell Vanderwater, counsel for the Nassau County Association, revealed that one lette wheel was "crooked." The wheel 1 had a hidden network of wiring so intricately arranged that it is believed to have cost thousands of dollars. The burning took place in the backyard of the County Jail at noon, upon order of Supreme Court Justice Scudder. Articles destroyed included three roulette wheels, five roulette tables, a card table and two bushels of gambling chips.

STATE DEPARTMENTS FACE STAFF CUTS TO REDUCE BUDGET Governor-Elect Said to Be Planning Radical Pruning -May Cancel Contracts. Material cuts in the staffs of the State Engineer's office, the State Conservation Commission, the Highways and Public Works departments and the Industrial Commission have been proposed as one means of economizing by those who are advising with Governor Nathan L. Miller with regard to pruning the State budget. From the legislative budget committee, of which Senator Sage is chairman, came word today that the grand total; of requests from the various agencies totaled more than 000. or $75,000,000 more than the final budget of last year, while estimated revenues for next year total only $125,000,000.

With this before them, and also a hint from the Governor that he wants to see the budget cut to $120,000,000, the leaders are busy trying to dig up ways to do it. Miller will confer with all those who have any information on the subjects. Senator John Knight of Wyoming, chairman of the Industries Committee of the Upper House. came down, to see Mr. Miller todaf.

This commission Is controlled by Democrats and it is expected that cutting here will be generous. May Cancel Contracts. But according to those who are close to the Governor, departments headed by Republicans are going to get the same treatment. State Engineer Williams, just re-elected, is to be requested to cut down his' staff, and if he doesn't the Governor-elect proposes to ask the Legislature to do it. The Republicans claim they have found where cuts can made, too, in the staffs of State Highway Commissioner Greene of Patchogue and in the Department of Public Works.

With regard to highways there is a proposal to abandon virtually all road work until prices come down. It has also been determined to make cuts in the cost of work that is done by using cheaper materials. Commissioner Greene, according to these leaders, is now advertising for bids on six different road jobs, and it is proposed to cancel such contracts if they are made, although just how this can be done is not apparent. The same policy with reference to roads is to be applied to State building, it is asserted, and, if the advice of some of the Governor's friends is followed, not a contract for a new structure of any kind, unless it is proved to be absolutely essential, will be let until wages and prices of materials come down. Radical Moves Suggested.

Senator Sage, chairman of the committee which assembles the tentative budget, in a statement from Albany, recommended several radical moves to effect economy. Among them were these: Increase the motorcar tax to such a point that it would meet the cost of all State road work. Abolish the Board of Port Wardens. Tax the users of the big State parks -hunters, fishermen, campers' sufficiently to get enough money to support completely the State Conservation Department. While the new Governor has been devoting most, of his time to financial matters, he has had some conferences on the general New York City situation, with reference to the proposed legislative probe and the work of the Lockwood investigators.

He is said to look with disfavor on a legislative probe of the city and is inclined to feel that if anything is done in way of a probe it should be in the line of appointing a special commission of citizens to study the charter and propose revision. CHARLES McCRODDEN, OLD OYSTERMAN, DIES Charles McCrodden, 81 years old, of 8906 Flatlands of the oldest oystermen of Bay, died on Sunday of pneumonia. His funeral services were held this afternoon, the Rev. Clifford S. Kidd, pastor of Grace M.

P. Church, offciating, and the interment was in Carnarsie Cemetery. Mr. McCrodden was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to the old village of Canarsie in 1853. He had since been in the oyster business, with beds of his own in Jamaica Bay, until he retired some years ago.

He was for 55 Church years a. member of Grace M. P. and for most of that time chairman of its board of trustees. He was a Sunday School teacher for many years and his main interest in life was his church.

Mr. McCrodden is survived by four sons, John Albert Howard S. and Elmer A. McCrodden: two daughters, Mrs. Philip Miller and Mrs.

Lida A. Kurtz; twelve grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. INSURANCE MONEY FIGHT amount. VAN DERVEER JEWISH FORUM. Albany, Nov.

30-The Van Derveer Jew- (Special to The Eagle.) Jersey City, N. Nov. 30-In the Court of Chancery, Vice Chancellor Lewis directed that the $1,070, representing an insurance policy taken out by Leendert Baan of Brooklyn, be deposited with the Clerk in Chancery at Trenton pending final settlement of the controversy. Baan died Dec. 5, 1919, the American Naval Base Hospital at Guantanamo, Cuba.

He had named Lillian Jurich, whom he described as his wife, as sole beneficiary. She now lives in this city. She later married a man named Lizzati. Baan left a will in which he left all his property to his son, Dirk Baan of 6217 5th Brooklyn. Dirk Baan now claims the insurance money as also does Mrs.

Lillian Jurich Baan Liztati. The latter has filed a suit in Supreme Court for the recovery of the money, The insurance company has offered to divide the money, but each party has refused, claiming full Ish Forum, Brooklyn, has been chartered by the State Department, to do community work, etc. Directors are Louis Wersan, Morris Feldman, Ralph Holtzman, and others, Brooklyn. CAPITAL INCREASES FILED. Albany, Nov.

30-Certifcates of increase of capital have been filed with the State Department by Brooklyn corporations, as follows: Thomas A. Digan, from $75,000 to Nachio Real Estate Company, from $5,000 to $50,000. TIFFANY Co. 48646 0. FIFTH AVENUE 37 STREET WATCHES AND OF GOLD AND PLATINUM INJUNCTION HALTS CONNOLLY'S ATTACK ON NICHOLS PLANT Copper Co.

Gets Restraining Order From Justice Faber in Laurel Hill Street War. The militant attack which Boro President Connolly, of Queens, backed by 100 laborers of the Highway Department, launched late yesterday afternoon on the plant of the Nichols Copper Laurel Hill, with the intention. of opening to the public two streets which the copper company has closed on the ground that it own: them, was called off suddenly this morning, when the Nichols Company obtained an injunction from Supreme Court Justice Faber in chambers in Jamaica. It is a an ex-parte order and restrains Mr. Connolly from making ex any further move in the direction of forcibly opening the streets pending the return of the order before re Justice Faber in the Queens County Supreme Court, Long Ilsand City, next Monday morning.

The application for the order was accompanied by several amdavits made by attorneys and officials of the copper company, but just what their contents was could not be learned today. was rather' unexpected by Mr. ConThat the Nichols Company's move nolly is evidenced by the fact that he went directly from his home in Corona this morning to the company's plant. The Highway Department laborers also ordered to report there. They had a big tractor and other road paraphernalia on hand and were all ready to proceed with the work of tearing down the gates the company has erected across Creek and River and tearing up the narrow gauge railroad -tracks the company hag laid in these two streets.

Yesterday afternoon they cleared out a pile of lumber stored in the streets. The assault was to have been resumed this morning with the arrival of the Boro President on the scene. When he did arrive a representative of the copper company handed him the restraining order from Justice Faber. Realizing he had been checkmated temporarily, at least, Mr. Connolly called off the attack and sent his forces back to their regular jobs.

He announced, however, that he was not licked by any means and more interesting developments might be expected. The first development came 800n afterward, when it was announced that Mr. Connolly had called a mass meeting to be held at the boro hall Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock for all residents of Laurel Hill and others interested in bringing about the open ing to the public of Creek and River sts. Mr. Connolly's raid on the Nichols plant has given Queens the biggest thrill in the way of an administrative act snce 25 vears ago, when Mayor "Battle Ax' Gleason led in person an assault on a fence which the Long Island Railroad had erected in old Long Island City and personally wielded an ax in chopping down the fence.

President Connolly did no manual labor yesterday, but issued the commands which directed the workers and also debated the situation with representatives of the Nichols company, The nearest he came to the spectacular was when he mounted the steps to a tower where the mechanism was located that controlled the big railroad-cross gates that shut off traffic from River with the intention of forcing the mechanism and opening the gates. He found the door to the tower locked, and looking through a window he saw the mechanism was so stalled that it could not be operated. He then came down the steps from the tower and directed the laborers of his department to raise the gates by main strength. The gates were raised and the trucks and carts that were to be used passed under and onto the bed of River st. The street over which the controversy has arisen extends from Creek st.

to the water front of Newtown Creek in the Laurel Hill section. It is about ten blocks in length and has been included in the final map of the city. It is lined on both sides by property of the Nichols Copper Company and would be used by the public only to reach the waterfront. At the present time it is occupied by a narrow gauge railway by a section of a fourstory coal hoist and by big piles of lumber, iron and other material used by the Nichols company. The street has been open to the public for years and it was only within the very recent past that the company has endeavored to exercise exclusive control over it.

The company did this by erecting big railroad gates at the end of the street where it runs into the tracks of the Montauk division of the Long Island Railroad. Since this new move of the company watchmen have been stationed at the head of the street to warn outsiders to keep off. AMERICAN: CAN'T MANAGE SHIPS, SAYS ENGLISHMAN (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and PhiladelPublio Ledger; Copuright, 1920.) Cardiff, Nov. 30-T. H.

Mordea, president of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Shipowners Association, who has just returned from two months' visit to the United States and Canada as delegate of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, said today: "While our builders are steadily regaining the lead in construction, the American yards are getting few orders because of the enormous cost. British owners need not fear American shipping competition. The Americans have proved they do not know how to manage ships." notebook before answering questions. Alonzo Tweedale, controller of the Board, sat beside Mr. Bolling and frequently conferred with him during the time Mr.

Bolling was testifying. his general 'denial Mr. Bolling said he had nothing to do with awarding contracts or making payments in the Shipping Board; that no one in the Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation or any outside organization had approached him in connection with contracts or financing, and that no appointments were made through, him for the Shipping Board or Emergency Fleet Corporation. Mr. Bolling said his position with the Shipping Board was "assistant treasurer of the division of operations." He gave his.

age at 41. 765 "Model Landlord" Leaves Ten Homes to the Blind Harrisburg, Nov. 30. rick H. Vaughn, "model landlord," who refused to raise rents numerous properties during war period, in his will, probated here today, set aside ten live rent free.

worthy blind may be permitted houses in which the familles A 0100 The will also provides that of his $200.000 estate there is to be provided a home for aged women. and that a $10,000 fund is to be set aside, the income from which is to be distributed equally between Girls, Sylvan Heights Harrisburg, Home the for Paradise Orphan and Protectory for Boys in Adams County. M. E. FINNIGAN DIES; LAWYER, POLITICIAN of 232 Ridgewood wife of Robert Richterich and a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, died on Saturday following an operation in the Long Jaland College Hospital.

Her funeral services were held last evening, the Rev. D. W. Peterson of Trinity Lutheran Church, Middle Village, and the Rev. J.

G. F. Blaesi of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on Bedford officiating, and the interment today was in the Lutheran Cemetery. Mrs.

Richterich was born in Brooklyn. Her Arst husband was Henry Tetamore. She is survived, besides her husband, by her mother, Mrs. Jacobina Dezzenberger, 91 years old; a son, Henry L. Tetamore, organist of St.

Peter's Lutheran Church, and two grandchildren. MRS. ELLEN M. DAVIS, widow of Capt. E.

M. Davis, died at her home on High Port Jefferson, Saturday. She was 74 years old and was a native of Miller Place. L. I.

She was a daughter of Edward. N. Miller and Catherine O. Miller, her. being among the old settlers of that place.

She was one of six children, three of whom are still living. They are Samuel H. Miller of Miller Place: Nathaniel B. Miller of Ivorytown, and Charles E. Miller of Port Jefferson.

After her marriage to Capt. E. M. Davis, who was master of deep-sea vessels sailing in the foreign trade, Mrs. Davis went to sea with her husband and sailed to many distant points, and on one voyage rounded Cape Horn.

Capt. Davis died Feb. 16 last. Five children were born to Capt. and Mrs.

Davis, three of them surviving. They are Clara Miller Davis, an. structor music in the Port Chester Public School; Mabel E. Davis, who lived home with her mother, and Harold E. Davis, assistant cashier of the Bank of Port Jefferson, Funeral services were held at Mrs.

Davis's late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Ivan G. Martin, pastor of the Port Jefferson Presbyterian Church. Interment was in the Congregational Church burial grounds at Mount Sinal, L. I.

MRS. MARGARET DEERING of 130 86th Bay Ridge, widow of Patrick C. Deering, died Saturday night at her home. Her funeral was held this morning with a requiem mass in the R. C.

Church of St. Patrick's, 95th st. and 4th of which Mrs. Deering was an old member, and the interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs.

Deering was born in the County Carlow, Ireland. She is survived by a daughter, Marian Deering; a son. Howard J. Deering of Detroit, and two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Deering Koehler of West New Brighton, S.

and Miss Marie Deering of Dublin, Ireland. WILLIAM EDWARD LYONS, 66 years old, of 1094 Flatbush for 27 years emof the Lawyers Title Insurance ployed in the search and map department Company and formerly in the tea business in Manhattan, died on Sunday of pneumonia. His funeral services this evening in the chapel at 896 Gates ave. will be conducted by the Rev. Robert M.

Moore, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church, and the interment tomorrow will be in Evergreens Cemetery. Mr.

Lyons was born in Brooklyn and was a member of Brooklyn Lodge No. 302, F. A. and of St. Mark's M.

E. Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Georgianna Lyons; three sons, William W. of East Orange, N.

a real estate dealer in Manhattan; George W. and Gilbert I. Lyons, and a daughter, Mrs. Carrie Maude Heath. MRS.

LUCY AMBERY HALY, 72 years old, of 79 Cumberland widow of Richard J. Haly, died on Sunday of pneumonia. Her husband, who was a retired machinist and an old resident of Brooklyn, died on Sunday, Nov. 21, and Mrs. Haly was then too ill to attend the funeral.

Mr. and Mrs. Haly came here from England. They were members of the P. F.

Church of the Messiah, Greene and Clermont aves. The funeral services will be held this evening. and the interment, tomorrow, will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. NATHAN ROSENTHAL. 59 years old, of 215 Clarkson Flatbush.

an accountant connected with the firm of Aaron Aron in Johnson died on Sunday of heart trouble. Mr. Rosenthal wAS A. member of Tuscan Lodge, No. 704, F.

A. and of the United Brethren. He was born in Warsaw, Russia, and came here six years old. He is survived by a stepson, Louis J. Levy, The funeral services were held this afternoon, with interment in Washington MRS.

MARY COYLE. 85 years did, became ill in her home, 179 Myrtle early this morning and died before the arrival of Dr. Houston, who was summoned from St. John's Hospital. He believes Mrs.

Coyle's death was to apoplexy. Old- Time Democrat and Former State Assemblyman. Michael E. Finnigan, 81 years old, of 180 Dover Manhattan Beach, one of the best-known lawyers of Brooklyn for the past 30 years, and an old-time Democrat. died on Monday after an illness of five weeks.

He had been able to be at his law offices at 44 Court st. until a few days before he was taken ill. funeral services, will be held on Thursday morning. Mr. Finnigan is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Delia A. Wolerman Finnigan, with whom he celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in January, 1918; two daughters, Violet E. and Augusta and two sons, Frank E. and Florence E. Finnigan.

Mr. Finnigan was born in the old 9th Ward in Manhattan and was educated in the old Mott Street Public School and at St. Francis Xavier Academy. to Brooklyn early life was and for settled in leader Flatbush, in where Democratic lea affairs. He was a foreman in the construction department of Prospect Park when the park was laid out, and the big Prospect Park lake was formed under his supervision.

He was later superintendent of the old Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad, and it was under his supervision that the first open horse car was run to Coney Island. Mr. Finnigan studied in the offices of Anthony Barrett, and wag admitted to' the Bar when he was 51 years old. He was prominent as' title search and realty lawyer. Dur.

ing the McClellan administration he was an Assistant Corporation Counsel, in charge of the Bureau of Street Openings. He formerly lived in the 8th Ward for many years and WAS twice elected a State Assemblyman there on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Finnigan was. a member of the old Carleton Club, the old Constitution Club, the Emerald Society, St.

Patrick Society, Society of Old Brooklynites, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Arcanum, and was for several terms a member of the Kings County Democratic General Committee. EMIL HONSTETTER. 29 years o'd. the electrical supply business in Manhattan, 10 is dead at his residence, 134 Carlton ave. Honstetter was born in Brooklyn on June 1891, the son of Elfrieda Bohl Honstetter and the late Charles Honstetter.

He was educatedot at Public School No. 12. He was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Washington near DeKalb and his funeral services, on Wednesday afternoon, will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. W.

A. Snyder. The interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr. Honstetter is survived by his mother and five brothers, Ari.

William, Richard, Joseph and Charles Honstetter. MRS. NANCY E. NEWINS died Sun- day night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Howard S.

Conklin of Patchogue. I. Mra. Newing was born in Patchogue In 1834. She was the granddaughter of A.

Smith who owned practically all of the land in Patchogue lying between Main Ocean ave. and the bay. He was known far and wide for his eccentricity of thought and dress. He wore fox-skin jackets and rooster skin headdresses, with the head and tail In prominence, it 18 said, and his altercations with the authorities of the church were favorite material for anecdotes among the carly settlers and their descendants. On her mother's side Mrs.

Newins was the granddaughter of Joseph Robinson, one of the first settlers of East Patchogue. Mrs. Newins WAS A lifelong member of the ant Congregational Church. During the Civil War a she was an energetic worker in the Sanitary Commission, the organization that corresponded to the present day Red Cross. Forty imont mediate descendants survive her, five sons andod daughters, nineteen grandchildren and siX teen great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at the home of her daughter chert Rider Wednesday afternoon at 2 the Rev. I. H. Johnston of the Congregationabdh Church officiating. 3 MRS.

BRIDGET O'NEILL of 489 St. Mark's wife of James Walsh isa a native of the County Roscommon, and for 30 years a resident of Brooklyn, died me on Saturday at her home. Mrs. Walsh is vived, besides her husband, by two daughters. Frances and Alice: three sisters, Mrs.

Marion Rowan, Miss Margaret O'Neill and Patrick O'Neill. funeral was held thied8 Thomas Hyland, and, two brothers, Martin and morning, with a requiem mass in the R. el at Church of St. Teresa, Classon ave. and Sterling and interment in St.

John's Cemetery. 904 of CAN'T ATTEND INAUGURAL. nant which define the powers of a mandatory as those of a trustee, and which, in so far as they failed to administer trusteeship, were revocable. It is pointed out further that the framers of the Covenant certainly had in mind the policy of trusteeship as distinct from that of possession when the mandate scheme was devised. The League is, at this moment, in an igregular position as concerns the mandate question.

The Covenant has endowed it with power over mandates but the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers still has to draw up a charter for the administration of mandate countries. The United States desires a voice in this charter before it goes to the League Council. The British contention that the mandate question "can be discussed only by the Council of the League and by the signatories of the Covenant" ignores the fact that the League has up to now no power as regards mandates. If the Supreme Council transfers its powers to the League then there will be a committee of nine which will be qualified to examine such matters as the American bil note and Germany's con munications of the last week regarding her colonies. Washington, Nov.

30-If George Summerlin, American Charge at Mexico City, attende the inauguration to morrow of President will be in unofficial capacity. It ad was learned today that the State Department had instructed Mr. SumAd medlin to acknowledge receipt of the invitation to attend the ceremony, but to make it plain that he could not attend in his official capacity, though he would be pleased to do so unoffi- cially. REFEREES APPOINTED. By Van Siclen, Butler re.

Leavitt, Walter L. Stillwell: Grees F8. Schroeder, Nicholas M. Pette: Friedman vs. Oppekofer Joseph G.

Meadow: In re Margaret M. Sievers Charles C. Johnson; Kennedy 1s. O'Connell Mortimer W. Byers.

SUPREME COURT, SPECIAL TERM. PART IXI. TRIALS. Day calendar, Dec. 1.

Before Callaghan, Gluck Markowitz: Engels Engel; DjannistDJannis; Levy Saltmant Donsky Wexler: Campbell Browne: Holders Holder: Waters Waters: I. Holding Co. Realty McDermott AdamstAdams. Highest number reached on the regular call No. 3103..