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"A BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FAIR TODAY AND MONDAY RISING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS I TEMPERATURE. 7 SECTIONS. Volllllip MU So. 27 NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3.

1920. 78 PAGES. FIVE CENTS SAID AND DONE WHO GOT 7 kist ProHst' i uui isity Kevenae r. IS SWANNS QUERY meiit figure to about $9,127,000,000. which would still be $019,000,000 or almost billion dollars In excess of THE WEATHER TOMORROW FAIR.

I i i PLAN BUDGET CUT TO KEEP NEW TAX RATE BELOW 2.60 Radical Slashing Must Be Done Fund for New Schools Menaced. Plans are now being made by high city officials to "bleed" the proposed $540,000,000 budget until it shrinks to such a size that the tax rate for 1921 FATHER FIGHTS FOR GIRL 15,10 FALLS HEIR TOJiLLION Child, Twice Adopted, In-herits Bulk of Dr. A. W. Shepard's Estate.

Given in adoption in her infancy, and then given away again by her fosler-mcfthei', Hazel Myers Shepard, at the age of fifteen is the central figure in a legal battle that has been begun by her father, David V. Myers, a poor garage worker, of 101 Troy ave. The legal artillery which Mr. Myers has set In action has a twofold object, one to recover possession of his daughter and the other to break the will of his sister, Mrs. Mary Bnlffen Myers Shepard Morris, who inherited a Jl.000,000 estate from A.

Warner Shepard, the Brooklyn physician and politician who died in 1907 from an overdose of morphine. From facts gathered yesterday it is apparent that the fortune piled up by the old-time physician and political confidant of the late Boss McLaughlin, which brought only a stormy career to his widow, will cause stormy and troublous times for the young girl who has fallen heir to most of it, and who since 1908. by a virtue of a decree of adoption signed by Surrogate Ketcham, has been Mrs. Shepard's "daughter." The city may lose as much as of Its approximate total realty assessment as the result of contested assessments throughout the five boros, according to city authorities. "We do not expect lo lose more that 5 percent through revisions," declared Jacob Cantor, president of the Tax Commission yesterday.

If this hope is realized, while it looks like a big loss to the city In taxable value, tt woul dnot mean very much to the taxpayer who seeks reduction, for the Increases, particularly in Brooklyn, are said to average around HO percent, and run up inmany instances as high as 50, nnd in a few cases 100 percent. An average fi percent cut in such figures would not bring the taxpayer's assessment any-where near as low as a year ago. The 5 percent mentioned bv Mr. Cantor would make the loss and would reduce the total asscss- Swann Will Ask Details of Long Beach Bond Deal Which Netted Big Profits One of the transactions which Controller Travis will be called on to explain to District Attorney Swann tomorrow is the following: In November, 1919, the Village of Long Beach sold at public under sealed bids, $200,000 in water bonds. (Millions Co.

bid 100.19 for the entire issue, which was accepted. On Jan. 20, 1920, Gibbons Co. offered to the Stale Controller $166,000 of this issue at 118.89, or about 18 points above Ihe price paid to the Village of Long Beach. The State Controller accepted the offer at the price of 118.89, and paid for the bonds two months later.

Gibbons Co. did not pay the Village of Loni? Beach for the bonds until March. 1920. in the meantime the Mechanics and Metals National Bank held them as collateral for a loan. On Feb.

13, 1920, the Village of Long Beach issued In bonds. Gibbons Co. obtained them at par. Eleven davs later Gibbons Co. offered the bonds to the State Controller at 114.75, which was accepted and represented a profit of 14 points.

COMMUNISTS HERE CLOSELY LINKED WITH MOSCOW REDS Papers Found in Chicago Show Connection With the Third Internationale. Washington, Oct. 2 Evidence that the Communist party of America is "tightly connected" with the Russian Third Internationale, was disclosed in a report received tonight by the Department of Justice on the examination of Witty Shackman, former secretary to Nicholas Lenine, arrested.last week by the Chicago police. Search of Shackman's residence, the report said, revealed a bulletin typewritten In Russian which staled that since the election of John Reed, magazine writer and former International secretary of the Communist Labor part), to the executive committee of the Third Internationale, the United Communist party "is tightly connected with this organization." Minutes of a recent conference of Ihe central executive committee of. the party were contained in the bulletin, which directed that it be destroyed after being read to group meetings.

"A delegate from the executive committee of the Third Internationale personally came to this conference of the central executive committee," the minutes said. "He stated that his main mission Is to unite all the Communist might of this country. He. recommended that a conference be called between the United Communist party and the factions of the Communist party. He Insisted on the necessity of uniting with the Industrialists and with Mexico for the purpose of establishing better communications with the Third Internationale." Officials declared Shackman's arrest, was the most valuable link in the Government's campaign against the spread of Bolshevism In this country.

They attached much importance to a statement of the party's financial condition for July, found on Shackman. Dues of the United Communist party for July, according to this statement, were total inccmie $9,416, and expenses $13,183. Membership dues of the Communist party for the 'month were $706; total income, $4,689, and expenses $5,530. The program and constitution of the United Communist party is being printed In sixteen languages, one of the documents said, Kngllsh, German, i Jewish, Polish, Jugoslav, Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, Lettish, Lithuanian, Ksthonian, Ukrainian, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Armenian. Translations Into other languages are in preparation, It added.

BURIED ALIVE (Special to The Eagle.) Paris, Oct. 1 To prevent premature burial, the Japanese Diet proposes, according to the Kobe Herald, to prolong the interval between death and burial I to 70 hours. Dr. Matushita, a Toklo physician, I advocating the delay, said that the husband of a woman who had been buried 24 hours afler her apparent I death married within a week of the i funeral service, and the woman's Indignant mother had 'the family grave opened to remove her daughter's body to her own graveyard. She was amazed to find that her daughter had I been buried alive.

How City Budget Tax Rate for I i I I I the 1920 total assessment. With the opening of the tax books Friday taxpayers bcan to look over the sums charged against them, with a view to bringing proceedings to re duce them. Taxpayers have until isov, 15 to file applications, which win be heard by the commissioners and decided some time between December and the end of February, 1920. Yesterday it was stated that practically no claims had yet been filed in the Brooklyn office, but it was explained that it was yet too soon to know whether this meant that taxpayers won': daccept the big jump without pioiesc or wnetner there would be contests. Indications of Vigorous Protest.

uoro nniDi.l i UKUl.lUOllS, however, that some vigorous protests ha jm i nuuiurj wnn regard to the increases on apartment Continued on Pngc 5. j'BASEBALL WORLD HERE WANTS HOYNE TO SHOW HIS HAND Rothstem Rumors Will Not Mind" in the Scandal Is Sought. If Maclav Hovne. rtlstriet st jfor Cook County (Chicago), 111,, has evidence that half a dozen major 'league baseball games in the season of 1920 were "fixed" by players being bribed to lose. Mr.

formation that has eluded the Inter- ested eyes and ears of Charles H. Ebbets, Edward J. MpK PPVPr ot-wl Steven W. W. McKeever, owners of tne irooklyn National League Club; William F.

Baker, president of the Philadelphia National League Club, and Joseph E. Lannin, former owner or the Boston Americans, and until yesterday owner of the Buffalo club of the International League. "Old Scout" Larry Sutton, who has been in baseball in various capacities for 44 years, and District Attorney rtarry ui. or Kings County, N. are likewise guileless or nglectful persons who have missed the information which Mr.

Hoyne says he collected while on a two weeks vacation in New York until three days ago, and which he has promised to law before the Cook County Grand Jury "in a few All of those deeply concerned persons are awaiting eagerly the explosion of the bombshell which Mr. Hoyne is to throw Into the Rambling world of Greater New York In particular and of the United States in general, so are. the red hot fans in the Greater New Y'ork While the baseball men who discussed the subject yesterday did not care to belittle the threatened revelations by Mr. Hoyne, they are wondering how, when he was on a mere vacation and taking things at his leisure in New York, he managed to gather so much Information that passed by men who have been in touch ttas.aiew York situation for year. Kotlistcln Humors Still Fly.

Mr Wnviui nlAn Kill health to Arnold itothstein, the Manhattan gambler, who was named by Abe Attell, former featherweight boxing champion, an dan active gambler, as one of the heads of the syndicate which bought eight of the Chicago White Sox players in the World's Series of 1919. He is said to have met Rothsteln and to have accepted his denials of the Yorker's connection with baseball gambling, but the rumors about that connection will not down, and Rothstein is still a Continued on Page 4. RUSSIAN WORKERS STRIKE TO FUT END TO SOVIET RULE Helsingfors Reports Peace Movement in Red Army on Western Front. London, Oct. 2 Reports of serious disturbances in industrial establishments in Soviet.

Russia and of a peace movement in the army on the Western Russian front are contained in a Renter dispatch from Helsingfors, daled Friday, based on advices there from Narva, near the Russo Ksthonian border. Two commissaries were killed in the factory outbreaks, it is declared. Nearly all the factories In Petrograd are affected, the workmen striking with the object of overthrowing the Soviet Government, according to the reports. Large meetings arc being held among the troops fthc western So vlot army demanding peace, it Is as sorted. Twelve delegaes from the army who were sent to Moscow to urge the making of peace, howeer, were summarily shot, it is declared.

"Consternation reiuns in the Mos cow government," the Narva reports adds. Paris, ct. 2 Reports received here from Russia represent Premier Lenine and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin disturbed oer the successes of the Poles and Gen. Wrangel. The Soviet Government, it is decla.red, has Issued na appeal sifsned by Gen.

Brussiloff to all olllcers of the former Imperial regime urging them to oln the Soviet army for the defense of Russia. Increased Past 10 Years Brooklyn Postoflioe failed to blow up as per warning. More delay In Mr. Burleson's department. Tlie New York crowd that in anticipation of seeing the Custom House blown up was lucky not to hav been asked to pay an amusement tax Baseball wants no crook pitchers, I it seems to need some crook-catchers.

Mr. Root returns from iibroud anil has nothing to sny, thereby Indorsing Col. House. There are so uiuny people blowing their own horns that it's hard to hear the ones on speeding autos. N.

H. POLES HALT DRIVE ON VELNA AT ULLAJIIER Reach Temporary Agreement with Lithuanians. 25,000 Russian Prisoners Taken. Riga, Oct. 2 The I'oles have leached a temporary agreement with the Lithuanians at Suwalki and mili lary operations uuvc been arrested, according to this morning's Polish official statement, which adds that the Polish forces now occupy the River 1'lla region, northeast of Grodno.

Accoring to the official Polish military map here, the I'oles have actually changed the direction of their drive m'tiy having pushed toward Vilna as far as Lida, about 50 miles south. The abandonment of the Vilna campaign may be the forerunner of a change in the entire military policy, which would brighten the prospects of peace. Olllclal Communique. Warsaw, Oct. 2 Northeast' of Grodnq the Poles have reached the Hlver IHla, halfway between Grodno and Vilna, the Lithuanian capital, says the official statement on lighting operations issued today.

The Polish second army captured 25,000 Russian Soviet soldiers and took 100 cannon between Sept. 20 and 30, the statement adds. "Pursuit of the Bolshevist' divisions routed below Lida continues," the statement says. "The group of Col. Dabiernackl approaching Novo-Groden.

Below Baranovitch Posen troops captured a thousand prisoners and 36 machine gus. "In the region of Suwalki all action has been suspended as a result of a Polish-Lithuanian agreement." HARD COAL MINERS PLANNING TO REOPEN RECENT WAGE AWARD Hazleton, Oct. 2 Thomas Kennedy, president of the Policy Committee of the Anthracite Miners, announced to day a meeting will be held with Secretary of Labor Wilson at Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, at the request of the United Mine Workers for the reopening of the recent wage award. Them iners say the award is inadequate. Secretary Wilson is on a tour Ohio and neighboring of PALMER ORDERS SWEEPING PROBE IN ELECTION CASES Federal District Attorneys Directed to Examine Into All Charges of Fraud.

Washington, Oct. 2 "Thorough investigation" of election irregularities of every nature by all United States' attorneys was ordered today by Attorney General Palmer. The orders specified that Federal agents should take cognizance of local situations where accusations of fraud have been made whether or not a Federal investigation has been requested. It was understood that fraud and graft charges arising out of several primaries were included in the investigation, but the localities in which these have been ordered were not disclosed. The Department of Justice has received scores of communications asserting fraud had been practiced in State primaries, but most of these have been turned over to district attorneys who are empowered to conduct such investigations without specific direc tions.

Instructions of the sort sent out todayi therefore, were declared to mean extra vigilance on the part the Government. The new instructions were de scribed as of a sweeping character oesignea to cover any campaign irregularity and were said to have stressed the need for close scrutiny of the use of monev. District At- were informed that rhurireft I Keeping Step With Falling Prices You hear on every side the talk of falling prices. Large manufacturing concerns and mail order houses announce radical price-reductions, of which you read in the headlines of the newspapers. The question comes to your mind: "Ought not my dollar begin to go farther, too, when I spend it at A.

Jo this we answer emphatically "Yes!" THE STORE ACCOMMODATING is peculiarly well fitted, by its method of merchandising, to take advantage quickly of any changes in market conditions and to give you, its customers, promptly, the benefit of them. In merchandising language, our "turnover" is quick, compared to that of any other organization selling directly to the public. We distribute huge quantities of merchandise daily. Our stocks are always new. We have from the first passed on to you the economies due to lowered wholesale prices just as rapidly as they have occurred, and shall continue to do so.

THE STORE ACCOMMODATING, with its large cash purchasing power, is in an unique position to take advan-age of and give you the benefit of every successive step in the decline of wholesale prices of which you are now hearing so much. And it is doing so. October Victor Records are here This is a group of records that will meet the demands of the most enthusiastic music lovers, a selection that ranges from Heifetz to the latest Follies' tune. 74633 Faust Dio possente (Even the Bravest Heart). Giuseppe De Luca; Gounod $1.75.

74R33 Valse (from Serenade for String Orchestra), Jascha Heifetz; Tschaikowsky $1.75. 64899 When You're Away (from Only Mabel Garrison; Victor Herbert $1.23. 64901 Honour and Love (from "Monsieur John McCormack; Ross-Mes-sager $1.25. 64897 fiypsy Love Song, Reinald Werrenrath Harry B. Smith-Victor Herbert $1.23.

18689 Beautiful Hawaii Waltz; Frank Ferera-Anthony Franchini. Hawaiian Twilight -Fox Trot; Hawaiian Trio 85c. 35698 Zlefrfeld Follies of 1920 Medley Fox Trot (introducing "Bells" and "Tell Me, Little Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra. Cuban Moon Fox Trot; Joseph C.

Smith's Orchestra $1.33. 18687 Tell Me, Little (iypsj John Steel. The (Jirls of My I)rcnms; John Steel 85c. A. St 8.

Fourth floor. 'WViu. IN TRAVISPRDBE Chief Justice Kernochan to Preside at Hearings Beginning Tuesday. Chief Justice Frederick Kernochan. sitting as a committing magistrate, will preside at.

hearings which will begin at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning in Tart VI, Special Sessions, Manhattan, to sift the charges against the office of State Controller M. Travis. District Atorney Swanti, who is in charge of the inquiry, aiyl who wishes to determine whether or not there Is any basis for alleged (regularities in the conduct of the Controller's office, Stated last night that he was prepared to proceed from day to day until the matter is disposed of. He wishes It disposed of as speedily as possible in Justice to all concerned. "We are making," said he, "an investigation of specific alleged acts in violation of the penal law.

If the- charges arc true, it is just a common, ordinary garden variety of grand larceny. "The charges arise out of transactions involving bond purchases for Sinking Kunil Investments amounting to about $40,000,000 in State and Municipal bonds. It Is alleged that the losses to the State are above $1,000,000 that there wnro misappropriations of more than "We got the first Information about the matter from the Brooklyn Times. They and their attorneys placed a great many facts before us. We Investigated them.

As a result we are starting this John Doe proceeding to determine whether a crime has been committed. "All the witnesses who can give us any facts are asked to come and give them. The defendants. If as a result any persons are mado defendants, will have, the opportunity to come and be heard, too. The inquiry will center around the- bond purchases and we are determined to find out who got the money.

There was a profit of $1,000,000 at the expense of the State, Who got Judge Swann laid stress on the point that the reason for holding a John Doe inquiry was to give every body concerned a chance to be heard. Asslsstant District Attorney Ferdinand l'ecora will be in charge of the investigation for the District Attorney's of fice. Judge Swann said that Chief Justice Kernochan could Issue subpoenas for the attendance of any witnesses needed and that he could also issue warrants for the appearance in court of possible defendants and, if the facts warranted it, could hold any defendants for the action of the Orand Jury. has been alleged that for several years special privileges have been allowed to favored Individuals by the Slate Controller's office in the purchase of bonds for the Sinking Fund of the State of New York; that the favored dealers and agents have been paid, by4he State Controller, prices far In excess of the highest prevailing market value for bonds in which State sinking fund moneys may be invested and that such prices have been paid by the State when It was a matter of general knowledge among bankers and bond brokers, tljat the bonds could be bought In the open market at lower figures. Several attempts to reach Controller Travis last night were unsuccessful, the Controller having left his home early in the evening.

REPORT BERGDOLL IS SEEN MOTORING ON JERSEY HIGHWAY Department of Justice Probes Rumor-Roads to Philadelphia Are Closely Watched. Freeholder Robert M. Smith of Sussex County, N. reported to the sherilf at Newton, N. yesterday that he had seen Grover Cleveland Berg-doll, wealthy draft dodger, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

He BerKdoll was driving an automobile on the road from Andover to Hackettstown. He said he had seen Bergdoll before and was certain of the identification. An alarm was sent out to watch the road. The Department of Justice Bureau in Manhattan announced tt would notify the Philadelphia Bureau at once that Bergdoll was reported seen speeding from Andover toward Hackettstown, on the road leading to Philadelphia. Bergdoll's home Is In that city.

AMERICAN OIL MEN FORBIDDEN TO VISIT MESOPOTAMIAN FIELDS (Rl Cable to Thr Brooklyn F.aolr ami Philadelphia Public l.rtlifr; C.npurlaht. 1020.1 London, Oct. 2 Representatives of American oil interests, who went to Mesopotamia to investigate the oil resources of that country, have been detained at Bagdad, according to ad vices reaching here, and have been forbidden to Journey to the oil fields. Further reports state that the Brit- ish have' several hundred thousand troops in Mesopotamia, mostly Indian regiments, and that tlie present strat egy or me military icauers is 10 protect the pipe lines into Persia. EX-KING LUDWIG'S HEALTH IS CAUSING ALARM Berlin, Oct.

2 The mental and physical condition of former King Ludwig of Bavaria, says the Lokal Anzieger, is giving rise to some anxiety. Former King Ludwig, who in January celebrated his 75th birthday, returned late in April to one of his castles in Bavaria from Switzerland, where he nad iived slnce tne revoiu. Hon. EX-KAISER TO PAY TAX ON 1,500,000. GUILDERS The Hague, Oct.

2 The Dutch Government, after a long investigation of the former German Emperor's re- sources, nas oecmeu no must pay taxes on an income of 1,500,000 guil- ppr year. As his Income admlt- tedly fluctuates, owing to the instu- of foreign exchange, however he has been granted a dehiv uiitii Nov. 1 for a definite reassessment MaoWIIMF'V'Q POWniTIOM vwikui I iwin REMAINS UNCHANGED London, Oct. 2 Tonight bulletin, issued by the Irish Self-Determlnation T-aguc, says the condition of Lord Mayor MacSwIney of Cork Is un- changed. map be kept down to' $2.60 or less.

Unless drastic action Is taken the city is faced with a possible tax rate of $4. Such action would be along the line of what happened last fall when the tentative $350,000,000 budget was "sin to pieces" till the remains amounted to about $237,000,000. Word that an understanding to this effect had been reached among the city officials was received on the highest authority last night. I'ntll specific plans are worked out, however, no member of the Hoard of Estimate would make any statement. How the big cut is to be accomplished in view of the fact that for salaries and supplies alone the heads of departments have requested upward of $280,000,000, The Eagle informant was not prepared to say, but he indicated that Mayor Hylan and the members of the Hoard of Estimate votine with him might take the bull by the horns and regardless of actual requirements cui tnese estimates in half.

Even if the departmental estimates for personal service, supplies and other necessary running expenses should be drastically reduced by the Committee on Finance and Budget, say to there remain the city's debt service of $117,000,000, the State tax of $22,000,000, the cost of new school-houses and the cost of keepink the city's ipavements in decent shape, all of which must go Into the 1921 budget. Must Provide for New Schools. Some provision for new schools must be made. The Board of Education has requested $46,000,000 for new construction. If only half of this sum Is granted it will add $23,000,000 to the budget.

For repaying from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000, will probably have to be allowed. This mere skeleton of the tentative budget for 1921 would amount to about $300,000,000. Rut it is not believed that the budget can be kept down to that figure. The most conservative, estimate that could be obtained yesterday from men who have made a thorough study of the subject Is that the 1921 budget cannot be less than $350,000,000 without seriously blocking the normal operation of the city government. Even at that figure necessary public improvements, it was said, would have to be cut out to the detriment of the growth of the city.

$50,000,000 ltcvenue Outside of Taxes. With the excise tax eliminated by the Prohibition Amendment, the. city's revenues, outside of tax money, will probably not amount to more than and this Includes the city's share of the proceeds of the State Income tax. Hence, on the basis of a $360,000,000 budget, the city would have to raise approximately by the tax on real and personal property on a total valuation of That means a tax rate of $3 per hundred. By what process, therefore, a tax rate as low as $2.60 can be obtained.

even if departmental estimates should be cut in hnlf and proposed improvements, except some new schoolhouses and urgently required repaying, be eliminated from the budget altogether, nobody outside of official circles has been able to figurn out. But a rate of 3 percent or more Is "unthinkable," according: to one official. On the other hand, the prediction is made that a tax rate of less than 4 percent will not produce the funds the city government will actually need to carry it through next year, unless the construction of urgently needed new schoolhouses Is shelved, pavements are allowed to go to ruin and other proposed improvements upon which the well being of tho community depends are put off. Agg ogaU' Assessments for 1 1 Years. The aggregate assessments on real estate for the entire city during the past eleven years were as follows: 1910 $7,044,192,674 1911 7,858,840,1 64 1912 7,861.898,890 1913 8,006,647,861 1914 8.049,859,912 1915 8,1 08,760,787 1 916 8,207,822,361 1 917 8,254.549,000 1 91 8 8,339,638,85 1 1919 8,428,322,753 1920 8,208,409,973 The aggregate assessment on real estate In the entire city for next year totals $9,608,017,467, an Increase of $1,399,607,494 over the preceding year.

SHE WILL SHOVEL COAL (Special to The Eagle.) Bedford, N. Oct. 2 Mrs. Anna Hedges Talbot is to shovel coal this winter. Mrs.

Talbot's regular job Is quelling the turbulent spirits of the Inmates of the State Reformatory for Women here, but there is no money given the institution for a janitor this year. "In the absence of a janitor," said Mrs. Talbot, "I'm prepared to handle the job myself." Previous superintendents of the Reformatory were spared this work. They all lived in the Reformatory buildings when they were here, but Mrs. Talbot is to occupy the residence included in the Rockefeller institution leased to the Reformatory, and the State supplies no money for service there.

Mrs. Talbot's home is at 185 Emerson Brooklyn. X-RAY FINGER PRINTS (Special to The Eagle.) Paris, Oct. 2 An improved method of taking criminals' finger-prints by X-rays has been invented by Dr. Henry Beclcre.

The process consists of rubbing tho ends of the Angers with red lead, which is opaque to X-rays. On being X-rayed, a photograph of the finger-tip, like an Ink thumb-print, Is obtained, but it is much more accurate and can be enlarged with precision. Moreover, the X-rays photograph the bones, which vary slightly in different individuals' lingers, and tho internal shape of the nails, which is also a varying characteristic. Thus each finger-print can be Identified In three different ways. $10,000 D.

S. C. FIRE Fire dirt (i 10.000 ilnmnir tuM night hi ihr lwA iiwpil hy 1 hi Strpt iH'pfirtmetit, nt tiif fKt of Amitj an lntn fur hIim ttn-I utrct't ecpltin. Two cow at the dock were pmm-whHt HMHVbwl ht'f'vrp ttiry mitp tmtwt nut Into thf Htrwim. Tho one story ImthlliiR ovpr tti- dork wan (omrtvy dpstrnjrert.

Cnn a pfimt rltlrrn mak nn rrretT Set The Corlo of Criminal Procedure with ItCO Amendment. At Kafl offices and nawistands, 60c Adv. Brushing aside tlie legal complications, the girl is really the niece of the woman who left her Iho bulk of the fortune whlc'u Dr. Shepard passed along, and her own father, whom she would not know if she were to meet him face to face, has Instituted the fight tor an equal brother's share in the Shepard estate, but more lor the purpose of regaining his long abeent daughter. Notice of Will Contest Tiled.

The first inkling that the Shepard fortune would cause still further trouble and family strife came when Arlolph Ruger of 90 Livingston attorney for David -W. Myers, filed with Surrogate Foley in Manhattan, a notice that the will of Mrs. Shepard-Morrls, offered there for probate several days ago. will be contested on the ground that the testatrix was a victim of undue influence at the hands of persons "now unknown." The will makes mention of a number of brothers and sisters and nieces of the deceased woman and then gives to Hazel, described in the document as "my daughter." a fund of $400,000 and hull' of the residuary estate for life, she to collect the income therefrom until she is 30 ytars of age. l'raik B.

York, formerly uf Brooklyn, son of Bernard J. York and associated with his father in Manhattan in the. practice of the law. is named us reenter without bond. Frank 1).

York has long been attorney for Mrs. Shepard. or Morris, which was the name of her last husband, and it Is from control and custody that Myers Seeks to regain his daughter. Vhilo MyrrVs main reason for up-rttin the will of his sister is to get aik his own daughter, it Is also a Jact that he 'was not mentioned at ail. although several of his sisters and cli'ddrcu of a deceased brother a.e rc-m ni'jered in $5,000 rums.

Gave Baby Away After Wife's Death. "It was after the death of my wife, in 1906, that I gave my baby girl to my mother for adoption." said Myers yesterday, "knowing that she would be well cared for. At that time my sister Mary was housekeeper for Dr. Sheyard, and they lived In the old house at Gold and Willoughby sts. Mary had been housekeeper for Shepard for twenty years or more and when the doctor bought a house on 1st st.

my mother moved with them, taking Hazel. About a year later they all went to the big house which the doctor bought at Shore road and 9lst and It was there that Dr. Shepard died. "After my mother and sister had left the old neighborhood, I often went to the Shore road house to see how my baby was getting on, but because of various excuses which were made I did not see her and came away only with assurances that, she was fine and doing well. My mother left the Shore road house for a time and had a homo by herself on 3d but when Hazel remained with my sister, Mrs.

Shepard, I went again to make inquiries concerning her ajid finally I was cast aside with an absolute refusal. "In 1909 my sister was married again and my mother returned to the Shore rd. house, but all my efforts to see my girl brought only abuse and threats. For some reason my sister turned against me, and even when my mother died in 1914 I did not learn of it until a long time afterward. Eventually Mrs.

Webber, as she then was, abandoned the Shore rd. house nnd established homes elsewhere and at various places, and I still continued mv efforts to see my daughter, but always met with a refusel or was told she was out. Balked in Efforts to See Daughter. "When my sister lived in Livingston st. and when she, moved later to Al-lenhurst, where she died, I again kept up the effort to see my daughter, but without success.

I gave my daughter Hazel away to my mother, I knew she would be well taken care of. but I had no idea that she would get into the hands of my sister Mary. If I had known that mother would give her over to Mary I never would have consented to her adoption at all, and no one even asked me for my consent that Hazel should be given to Mary. I had four children and I looked after the three, older one, but I thought Hazel, who then was only a few months old, would be better off in the care of my mother. "I heard several times that little Hazel was not happy at my sister's home, and now that Mary has gone I want to get my little girl back if I can break the influence that is keeping her beyond my reach.

I am glad that she is inherting so much money, that she is inheriting so much money, have control of the Shepard estate to keep control of Hazel, too, and I have been given to understand that plans have been made for her to attend a school in Connecticut and to keep her as a ward of those who will direct the disposition of the fortune that was left by my sister." Second Adoption Rworded. Bearine out Myers's story are rec- ords in the Surrogate's office which of vote buying and accusations of show that In 1906 Hazel was given in 1 bribery should be given especial at-adoption by her father to Mrs. Mary tcntion wherever the Federal Govern-Hyde Myers, the child's grandmother, nient had jurisdiction. Greater City Brooklyn Brooklyn Year Budget Assessment Tax Rate 1921 (Tentative) $540,000,000.00 $2,348,200,561 1920 273.689.485.13 1,850,791.156 2.54 1919 248,025.434.88 1.741,263,302 2.36 1918 238.662.514.18 1.703,039.741 2.40 1917 211.115.016.82 1,666,307.845 2.07 1916 212.956.177.54 1.632,038,807 2.08 1915 198,989.786.52 1,596.057.767 1.92 1914 192.995.551.62 1.571.486.932 1.84 1913 192.711.441.16 1.559.094,532 1.85 1912 181.090.256.51 1.556,281.439 1.87 1911 173.967,835.16 1.555.782.483 1.75 1910 .163.128,270.37 1.286.374,421 1.81 iiu ui, her in adoption to Mrs. Morris, wtioicorps of agents was "far below the then was Mrs.

A. Warner Shepard, number required," sufficient widow of the famous physician and appropriation was not provided by tho politician. The reason for the sec-1 last Congress. The Bureau of Inves. ond adoption given to Surrogate I tlgation has than 1,000 agents Ketcham was that Mrs.

Myers was with which to do Its work, It wus getting old and feeble and that Mrs. said. Shepard was of ample means to pro- Federal agents will work In co- vide well for the girl. The latter operation with State and local au- document shows that Hazel's father thorltles and, where possible, the'Stale had no part or voice in that pro- courts will bo Riven jurisdiction to ceeding. avoid further jamming of the over- Aiding Myers in his fight are his crowded Federal courts.

Hut prose- ivo sturdy sous. Warner Shepard culions will be aided by Federal at- torneys where they cun render as- Continucd on rage 4. 'sistanco, Mr. Palmer said. I (Continued on Next Page.).