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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1920. POLICEMEN RETIRED PHONECO.

PUBLICITY MISS SANDSTED HOME Libel Suit Against Hearst To Be Dropped by Jonas Eif'riTi am of the fact that Nathan S. Jonas was wrongfully accused of 'aiding in pro-British propaganda by inviting James M. Beck to speak in Brooklyn." led Jonas to sever his relations with the committee, resigning as chairman tr the great regret jnf everyone connected with the movement. "The Brooklyn Section of the Evening Journal, which published a lengthy account of this misunderstanding, at the time, has since made a complete investigation and finds that Nathan S. Jonas was absolutely innocent of any intention to aid in tlu spread of such propaganda.

"It is wrong to have the name of Nathan S. Jonas linked in the minds of our Irish-American readers as one who would in any way aid in nmoth-ering the aspirations of the Irish for liberty." Mr. Jonas aws asked today, whether in view of the publication lie would press his suit for libel. He referred his inquirer to his attorneys, Jonas and Neuberger. The latter declined, however, to make any comment beyond the declaration that the news articles in question appeared to be "very nice." It was said that a statement might be made in a few days.

COHALAN-DEMANDS DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH EMPIRE There will be no progei-dtion of Nathan Jonas' suit for libel against William R. Hearst, growing out of the row over the Brooklyn Victory Celebration during the spring of 1919, when the New York Journal said some very utTcomplimentary things abdut Jonas. The Journal on Satui-day printed what is regarded by Mr. Jonas as an "abject apology" and in due time announcement will be made of the withdrawal of the suit. The suit was for $250,000 and Mr.

Jonas declared at the time that it would never be compromised. However, last Saturday the Evening Journal published more thun three columns on the subject of Jonas and his work, with many laudatory references about the banker's viewo onsociology, Industrial unrest and other topics. Sandwiched in betwee were references like th following: "Jonas was chairman of the committee that set out. in the name of Brooklyn, to do this very thing, a year or more ago (erect a soldiers' memorial) at the suggestion of Boro President Riegelmann. An snarl, however, which grew out I EXPORT-IMPORT CO.

FAILURE, $2,000,000, AS COFFEE SLUMPS Hie export and import firm of Hell- nron, v. our of lo wnncnaii nice a voluntary petition i-oay deemed advisable, said an announce- bankruptey in the Manhattan I. h.ment today by tne War Departn)ent District Court, putting its liabilities at T)(, reserve Xational Guard ffl. 1,100,000 its assets at $2,009,000. of the The firm is not one of the newcomer? thP "epaitment have been ordered to in the foreign trade business in jt 4, isn eucn corps areaJuBquarters and ork, having been incorporated thir- advise AFTER 2 YEARS IN EAGLE PARIS BUREAU Girl Who Befriended Hundreds of Brooklyn Soldiers to Wed Lt.

Igoe of Yonkers. Miss Mary E. Sandsted, heroine of hundreds of Brooklyn boys she be friended when, as weary, homesick soldiers, thjey went to The Eagle's Paris Bureau seeking aid or informa tion, has returned to America. She arrived recently on the Lafayette. For two years Miss Sandsted has beeu assistant manager of the bureau in Paris.

During those two years boys from Brooklyn and from Manhattan appeared at the bureau by the score and had occasion to be grateful to Miss Sandsted for kindnesses of all sorts. Some of them she cheered with a smile; to others she gave messages or letters from home; some she sent to the theater or helped in any one of a hundred ways. One, Lt. E. Harold Igoe, of Yonkers, she is going to marry.

Lt. Igoe attended the second Platts-burg Officers Training Camp and was commissioned in the Signal Corps, ar- riving in France in January, 1918. He was stationed in Paris when Miss Sandsted arrived there in July of that year to serve as assistant to Naboth Hedin, who was then head of the bureau. A friend accompanied him to the bureau one day, and a friendship began which evolved recently into an engagement. A reception will civen Miss Sandsted by The Brooklyn Eagle management on Tuesday evening, Nov.

9, in The Eagle auditfl'ini, to which all those parents or bojs with whom she has come in contact are invited. She will speak at the Current Topics talks tomorrow morning in the same place. "The Eagle Bureau," said Miss Sandsted today, "is the most wonderful institution of the sort conducted by a newspaper abroad. Whenever another paper starts a bureau it imitates The Eagle's, following its desire to emulate our Paris Bureau even to the extent of reproducing the decorations of our office. During the war we were terribly busy.

We were the center for Brooklynites and others in the French capital. There was any amouit of mail to be forwarded to the soldiers, and messages to be sent back from France to parents in America, transmitting money from parents to soldiers, and searching for boys whose parents had heard nothing from them. "Since the war's end, we have had the privilege of being of assistance to many parents who came over to visit the battlefields or the' graves of their boys. "One. of our biggest and most painful duties since the end of the war has been aiding and encouraging the hundreds of ex-soldiers who, since leaving the Army, have been failures in America and who have returned to France broken and hopeless, thinking that they can live more easily in Paris." i' Miss Sandsted's work in The Eagle Paris Bureau attracted so much attention both in France and in this country and resulted in sd- many recommendations that she be decorated for her services during the war that the French Government awarded her a diploma and decoration which makes I.er an officer of Public Instruction.

Though one of her chief duties was to cheer the homesick boys who came to the Bureau, Miss Sandsted herself was fora time one of the most home sick persons in France, she said. Mrs. Clara Hickok, mother of Guy Hickok, is continuing Miss Sandsted's work. "There is a little French boy at the Paris Bureau with what we call 'The Brooklyn Eagle point of said Miss Sajidsted. He is Jean Ager, 18 years old.

When I went over two years ago he could not speak a word of English. He has learned, the language through talking to the Brooklynites who visit the Bureau. He is of the opinion that Americana are more po-lito than Frenchmen, an opinion he has arrived at also as a result of talking to Brooklynites. Of course he is coming to America, for he sees a future in America." 20 PLAYERS HURT IN FOOTBALL GAME (Special Eagle.) Rockville Centre, L. Oct.

25 The football game between the Owl A.C. of Brooklyn and the local American Legion Post, played here yesterday, resembled a massacre whllo it proceeded and a riot when it was be, ing interrupted. Referee Edstrom hardly made a decision that pleased the players, and they were quick to tell him so. Men on both sides threatened to annihilate liim more than once, and finally the enraged spectators, with a common enemy, rushed out onto tha field and halted the game. When the smoke had cleared it was found that the score stood 7 to 6 in favor of the local eleven.

Among those carried off the field from Injuries sustained In the game were Del Gallagher, tbe local baseball pitcher, and V. A. Shevlin of K8 Bay 17th Brooklyn, who broke bis arm and was badly bruised. Eighteen other players received minor Injuries. HIiIich! I'rlccn Paid for Diamonds, Pearl Jewelry KXl'KKT AI'l'KAlSIMd 0 aclt'js vCiirtojjini I.AFAYUTTK A VKNl'E Cor.

J'lalbimh. If IMP r-m. KIV mm. CONTEMPT OF COURT SAYS CITY COUNSEL Trying to Influence Public and P. S.

Commission, He Says More "Kicks" Heard. Complaints concerning the quality of telephone service rather than objections to the proposed increase of 85 percent asked by the New York Telephone Company occupied most of the forenoon today in the continuation of the hearing before Public Service Commissioners Hill and Van Names. Many of the complainants were business nen, including a number of Brooklynites, and nearly all of them declared they were willing to pay more if better service could be assured. A violent denunciation of the "attempt of the telephone company to influence the commission and public opinion" was made by Assistant Corporation Counael M. M.

Fertig. after the attorneys for the company had read into the record extracts from advertisements concerning the need for more funds. He charged that the New York Telephone Company had spent last year for publicity. He said this publicity was not aimed to increase the number of subscribers, as the company has already 100,000 un filled applications for the installation of phones. "Before any other tribunal they would be declared in contempt of court," said Corporation Counsel Fertig, addressing Chairman Charles Hill of Buffalo.

Asked what he meant when he said they should be declared in contempt, Mr. Fertig said: "For attempting with these advertisements to influence public opinion and the Public Service Commission." Expert testimony began this morning when T. P. Sylvan, one of the vica presidents of the company was put on the stand. The substance of Mr.

8yl-van's testimony was that the company had suffered extremely in the matter of plant and equipment, and that fully 83,000 applications for or more service are now on the books unfilled. Cross-examination by Assistant Corporation Counsel M. M. Fertig and other counsel representing various interests was not attempted, but Mr. Sylvan was premised a lively tUhe when he had concluded his direct testimony.

Dr. Edward E. Hicks, representing the Kings County Medical Society; George A. Morrison, former president of the Greenpoint Savings Bank; J. P.

Fairchild, vice president of the Kings County Trust Company; James Skinner, treasurer of the E. W. Bliss Manufacturing Company, and W. M. Parka, chairman of the Telephone Committee of the Fhttbush Taxpayers Association, were in the Brooklyn delegation.

Dr. Hicks, speaking on behalf of 2,300 medical practitioners in Brook-lyn, declared that the proposed increase in rates was not so strenuously objected to here as Is the plan of the company to abolish the "unlimited service," which at present costs a month. "It would work a tremendous hardship on medical men," he said, "especially as much of their telephone work is of a semi-charitable nature. There are always calls to be answered without charge. If the company cannot furnish service at the present cost the profession Is willing to pay a just increase, but it objects very strongly, indeed, to the abolition of the unlimited service'.

At the present-time the service is a trocious." "Quick consideration of the claims of both, company and the pubc is what we want," Mr. Skinner averred. "If the company needs more money to restore its service to an efficient standard, for heaven's sake give it them! The Commission will do tha public, and especially the business men, a very great service indeed if it can bring about a return to tha standard of service it was as nearly perfect five or six years ago as it could possibly be and is now as inefficient as it could possibly be which we enjoyed beforo the war." SMITH AND MILLER HERE THIS WEEK Brooklyn will be the scene of a determined battle between the heads of the opposing State tickets of both major parties during the closing weeic of the campaign. Both Governor Smith and his Republican opponent. Judge Miller, will devote practically all of their remaining time from now until election in this city, and much of it in this borp.

Commencing tonight, when Miller is scheduled to speak here, the drive wilLeontinue tomorrow and will reacll its highest point Friday night, when both contestants will appear on the stump in Brooklyn at the same time. Judge Miller speaks tonight at New National Hall, Kckford st. and Drigga and tl.en goes to Arcadia Hall, Halsey near Broadway. Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State Frapcis.M. Hugo will also speak at tho meetings.

Gov, Smith will make his first speaking appearance here during the present campaign tomorrow night at Palm Garden, Greene and Hamburg and Then at Erasmus, Flatbush, near Church aves. Tomorrow night also, Franklin D. Roosevelt, DemoJ cratic vice presidential candidate, will speak at Bay Terrace Hotel, Cropsey and 18th aves; Erasmus, Congress Hall, Vermont and Atlantic and Palm Garden. Roosevelt made an appearance In Brooklyn also this afternoon, speaking before the Cox-Roosevelt League of Poly at the Polytechnic Institute on Livingston st. On Friday night the Democrats will firo their big gun of the campaign with a Smith rally at the Academy of Music.

In addition to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor Harry C. Walker, candidate for U. S. Senator, will speak. Mrs.

Alice Campbell Good will preside. Other speakers will be Elisabeth Marbury, Assistant U. S. Treasurer Martin Vogel, George Gordon Battle, Alexander I. Rorke, Rabbi Stephen S.

Wise and Lillian B. The Miller meetings on Friday night are as follows: Palm Garden, Congress Hall, P. S. No. 171, Lincoln and Ridgewood nd the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, 8 Kevins st Judge Miller was the gueSt of the Rev Allen Macrossie at a luncheon of Methodist ministers in the Madison Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, this noon.

He made no speech, however, because his voice ha. been strained by the fit rpn nous carnpnib" weekend he has been advised that h. must rtst himself daytimes if he Is to ntinue sneaking nightly until the end of the campaign. MRS. MILLER DINED Mrs.

Nathan L. wife of the COP. canaluttltt lur uuveruui, wcui entertained at luncheon today in the Vanderbllt Hotel, Manhattan, by the Women's State Executive Committee. More than 150 attended. Mrs.

Charles Snhln of Suffolk County presided, arid Introduced Mrs. Miller, who made a few brief remarks, thanking the women for their work in behalf of her-husband. Mrs. Mabel T. B.

Falco spoke for Brooklyn and Mrs. Charles H. WinHlow for Queens. Following the lunotieon there was a reception this afternoon, at which Judge Miller appeared met ths pomeiy BEFORE AGE LIMIT, BROWNE DECLARES Realty Man Gives Causes of High Budget and Mayor Calls for Proof of Charges. "This city administration is not con-posed exclusively of angels nor were the preceding administrations all devils," Stewart Browne, President of Real Estate Owners Association of New York, told Mayor Hylan today at the initial hearing before the Board of Estimate for the reduction of the $360,000,000 proposed 1921 budget.

Mr. Browne had charged that it was the practice in the Police Department to promote members of the force just before they reached the age for retirement In order that thoy might draw larger pensions at the expense of the taxpayers. "Tell me who ppint out a specific case," the Mayor exclaimed, "and I'll direct the" Commissioner of Accounts to make an investigation at once." Mr. Browne said he was not prepared to mention names, 'but "knew it to be a fact." "That may have been done during preceding administrations, but it is not the practice now," Mayor Hylan declared. Mr.

Browne then made the above remark which ended the discussion of that particular subject. I Mr. Browne had the floor practi cally to himself during the forenoon session of the board. Ho said the pro posed budget has swollen almost beyond the endurance of the taxpay ers and pointed out how the proposed expenditures under the head of "personal service" could be largely reduced without interfering with the proper functioning of the city departments. He'd Fire 'tfm, He Says.

"If I were the Mayor," he said, "I would fire every department chief who claims that he cannot reduce his budget estimates for 1821 as now before us." "Yes," retorted Mayor Hylan, "and the next day you'd see big headlines In the newspapers stating that the Mayor can't get along with his commissioners. "I have too much work," the Mayor added, "and I need more help. I wouldn't want to take the responsibility for the whole Mr. Browne declared that the city was mulcted out of thousands of dollars every year for telephone, tolls alone, by 'city employees using the phones for private business. "Here is an item providing for an appropriattio of $43,000 for telephones in the Board of Education," he said.

"Tell me how. the Board of can use up nearly $50,000 in telephoning in twelve months for official business. The thing is inconceivable." "Hardest Working Controller." Mayor Hylan looked serious, but Controller Craig smiled. Browne had just stated that Mr. Craig was the "hardest working Controller the city has ever had.

He works day and night in the interests of the city." "In my examination of the proposed budget I have found numerous posi tions that are superfluous," he continued, "and" At this point Controller Craig started to say something about his own department and the many new-positions he has created there in connection with the new city employees' retirement system, but Mr. Browne hastened to remark: "I don't include your department in my criticism." BOYS GO HUNTING; ALMOST SHOOT MAN When Peter Raich of 1090 Lorraine in the New Lots section of Brooklyn, rolled out of bed yesterday morn ing, a flying bullet crashed through the window pane of his room, whizzed over his head, broke its way through an intervening wall, and finally lodged in the wall of an adjoining bathroom, where it barely missed hitting one of Mr. Raich's daughters. Raich looked out of the window, where the glass had been broken, in time to see three boys with rifles in their hands makjng oft toward the swamps. Going out of the house, lie got Patrolmen Ruckert and Laut of the Miller ave.

station to give chase The boys, however had made their getaway into the marshes, and It was not until after a strenuous half hour's search that the pursuers were able to catch up with them. When finally arrested the fugitives as well as tyie policemen were dripping with seml-liouid mud. The three gave their names as Peter Schramm, 17, of 309 Montauk Kenneth Denby, 17, colored, of 305 Montauk and August Hirsch, 17, of 290 Montauk ave. Charged with discharging firearms without a license, they explained to Magistrate Dooley in the Miller ave. station today that they had hunting permits a'nd were out Iiunting they didn't much care what for when the bullet which entered the Raich home was discharged.

Their permits did not give, them the right to hunt within the city limits, however, and they were fined $5 each. The rifles were con fiscated. ARONSTAM SAYS HE IS OUT FOR COX Charles S. Aronstam, Brooklyn lawyer and Republican, has again bolted the Republican party, this time for Cox and Roosevelt. Mr.

Aronstam was one of the vanguard in the Roosevelf defection in 1912 which led to the formation of the Progressiva party, and succeeded the late Timothy Woodruff as County Chairman of the Bull Moose inOBfyjoklyn. He later returned to the Republican fold-Jdr. Aronstam has sent a letter to Conuty Leader Livingston, resigning his membership on the Republican County "I cannot conscientiously support Mr. Harding in view of his recent unequivocal statements, as I view them, that he is against the League of Nations." and as a result was transferred to another part of the city. Capt.

Isaac Frank became chief of this station and the custom flourished during his regime. He ncvor mado an attempt to stop it. Capt. Costigan became commander of the precinct about a month ago, succeeding Capt. Frank, who was retired.

Saturday night and last night two plainclothes officers went into the district with new summons books. Complaint had beon made by shopkeepers In that section that the dealers were blocking their Bhow windows and rushing prospective customers off the sidewalk. The 47 arrested will bei examined this afternoon by Magistrate Dooley. Joseph doldttH has been retained ftS cotmsel-liy th4il9faaiitB. WAR DEPT.

DECIDES ON REORGANIZATION OF GUARD AT ONCE ashington, Oct. 23 Immediate re organization of the i with the corps area command- era fltld fVlA Cti.o eienPe tnH onrnTiitition nf i.uaru divisions allocated to the various corps areas. The table of tentative allotments has been prepared, showing the number of troops to be organized in each State, under the National Defense Act. A minimum enlisted strength of approximately 427,000 men must be provided as the peace organization of the National Guard. What is to be done with such regi-ents as the 14th which has not been authorized for Federalization, will he lamed when the officers from Washington, the corps area commander and the State authorities have finished their conference in about a month.

New York State is in the 2d Corps area along with New Jersey, Delaware and Porto Rico, and the conferences will determine Just how many troops this State will organize for itself and for attachment to the States of a lesser population, within the 2d Corps. CANVASSSHOWS COX HAS MADE GAINS IN "DOUBTFUL STATES" Continued from Page 1, observers State. that Cox cannot win the In Ohio, where the personal bitterness and vlleness of the campaign transcends all national issues, there are also signs of better spirit among the Democrats. But nobody has yet been able to measure a drift that will give the State to Cox. Harding' still represents the tide in Ohio, while Cox continues to play the role of King Canute.

In Illinois, owing to the violent factional troubles of the Republicans, there is some evidence of a gain for Cox. But Illinois is so heavily Republican, having been cirrried by-Hughes by approximately 20, 000 in 1916, that this Democratic improvement has little or no chance to affect the result. James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic candidate for governor, is rated to have an excellent chance because of the Thompson-Lowden feud. Harding is said to have committed a blunder by campaigning through the State in company with Len Small, the Republican candidate for governor and a Thompson nominee. Yet any notion that Harding can lose Illinois is scarcely entertained, even by the most on- Jtimistic Democratic leader.

Look to West for Victory. The Democrats, having little hope of doing much in the East, are speaking with emphasis concerning Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, California and even Iowa. Most of them see their only hope of victory in the West. The best judgment that can be given at this time is that their Western hopes are placed far too high. continue to indicate that solidified state of public mind which is calling for a change of parties in the National Government.

It is probably true that whatever sagging there has been in the Republican campaign for when there is an improvement on one side there must be a sagging on the other dates from the Des Moines speech. When Harding flouted the League at Des Moines a single paragraph of his speech was widely- circulated by the Democrats and unquestionably it hurt Harding-among real believers in the League But the extent of the damage does not yet appear at all formidable. It does not seem to have altered the probabilities in a single State. As a counter to the effect of the Des Moines speech there is much talk of Elihu Root's speech in New York and his telegram to Governor Cox. The Cox drift, one iwimuiii.c.11 p.

is, Degan at Des Moines and ended when Root made his speech on the League. However that may be, the improvement in the Co situation does not yet appear to have gone to the vitals of the Presidential fight, and the chances are against the probability that.lt will do so. All polls, both partisan and non-partisan, reflect the Republican dominnce that has existed from the beginning. It still remains In all outward aspects, a one-sided contest. 1IOM) AXXITAI, DAXCK.

'flic llrai'isu l'lil Knpim Fraternity held flrst annuul dance Saturday evening In the mum imuruom or uio Hotel Bossert. be buried is known as "Republic Plot," which has been reserved for Irish Nationalist soldiers. A friend of the MacSwiney family who accompanied Mrs. MacSwiney when she visited Brixton Prison this morning-, said the Lord Mayor's telegram of Oct. 18 to the Cork hunger strikers with reference to the death of the hunger striker Michael Fitzgerald, in Cork jail, in which he referred to Fitzgerald as having died for his country and joined the immortals, characterized the family's attitude.

"Mrs. MacSwiney and the Lord Mayor's sisters, Annie and Mary, who were not present when the end came, entered the cell, kissed the Mayor's heek, knelt silently in prayer a few moments and then left," the friend said. "There was not a tear shed by the Mayoress, who preserved the same stoical self-possession she has shown throughout the long ordeal." South Iivluiul Mourns. Cork, Ireland, Oct. 25 Feverish interest in possible developments caused by the death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney of this city, which occurred in Brixton Prison, London, this morning, is mingled with the grief in which his death has plunged south Ireland.

Although the people appear stirred to the highest degree of bitterness, it is regarded as extremely improbable that there will be any outbreaks or disordcrlyl demonstrations in this city. It is expected, however, there will be a considerable extension and intensification of guerrilla warfare against the police and military forces, which, anticipating reprisals, are doubling their vigilance, especially in remote districts. Cork jail, where a number of hunger strikers are in a grave condition, is guarded Inside and out by soldiers equipped with machine guns. There is an exceptionally large garrison here. It is equipped for any eventualities, has a number of tanks and armored cars and is ready for instant service.

Military forces are so strong that it is considered improbable that any attempt at force will be made here. It is understood the Irish Parlia ment had been making appeals to all elements of the population to refrain from violence. This is also believed to be the policy of various influential leaders, of the Sinn Fein movement, whether such counsels will be followed by the younger element by members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, one of the most militant of Irish secret societies, remains to be seen. The news of Lord Mayor MacSwiney's death, received in private telegrams to his friends, traveled with lightning speed throughout the city. A meeting of the City Council to di-cuss the situation arising from the Lord Mayor's death was called for this afternoon.

History of the Strike. MacSwiney's hunger strike was begun on Aug. 12 when, with ten of his associates, he was arrested by soldiers in Cork while attending a session of a Sinn Fein court. After trial by a Courtmartial under the regulations of the Defense of the Realm Act, he was found guilty of sedition and sentenced to two years imprisonment. When arrested on Aug.

12 Mae-Swiney managed to escape to the street from the back of the City Hall, which soldiers had surrounded, but was captured outside. He was taken to the military barracks and came up for trial on August 1H. The court-martial found him guilty of having control of the secret police cipher, of having in his possession a document likely to cause disaffection, namely, a copy of a resolution of the Cork Corporation pledging allegiance to the Dail Eireann, the Irish Republic Parliament, and of having made a seditious speech on the occasion of his election. Already weak at the trial because of his refusal to food, MacSwiney disputed the jurisdiction of the court saying: "I am the Lord Mayor of this city arTd its chief I declare this court illegal and those taking part in it liable to arrest under the laws of the Irish Republic." Deported to lCngland. The day following his trial Lord Mayor MacSwiney was deported to England aboard a destroyer, under a heavy military escort, and was lodged in Brixton jail.

The government announced on Aug. 19 that he. was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. MacSwiney's hunger strike brought numerous solocitations and protests to the British authorities, many of the appeals being from sympathizers in the United States, even a threat from the Sinn Fein in Ireland, that, in the event of his death, a general strike and serious disturbances would prevail throughout the island. An appeal was taken directly to the King, but this also proved unavailing.

During his imprisonment, the Lord Mayor received numerous messages of encouragement and also petitions to abandon his strike. He replied to the latter that if ho gave up his fight he would "give away Irish liberty" and that he would "rather die than do that." Replying to reports that sustenance was being given Mayor MacSwiney, the British Home Ottiee declared "if be is being fed we do not know it," while members of MacSwiney's family denied categorically that food had been given him. l'eter MacSwiney, of New York, a brother of the Lord Mayor, Is an official ol the American Commission for Irish Independence. lYil Last Work, Within the past week, when it began to appear that the Lord Mayor was approaching the end, he was given liquid nourishment by the prison doctors during periods of unconsciousness. This fact appeared in statements by both the Irish Self-determination League, which had been issuing regular bulletins on MacSwiney's condition, and by the Home Oftlce.

The League's statement showed the Lord Mayor as becoming extremely indignant upon regaining consciousness and realizing that he had been fed. "They tricked me, and I didn't know it," he exclaimed. The League's bulletin on Oct. 21 contained this statement: "It should be made clear that the meat extract given the Lord Mayor during hi. delirium on the 69th day of his fast was the first nourishment which passed his lips since his arrest on Aug.

12." With regard to the theological aspects of the Lord Mayor's hunger stride and tlmt of the Irish prisoners in the Cork who began a similar abstention from food shortly before! MacSwiney's fait started, it was stated! in a Rome dispatch on Oct. 17 that Pope Benedict had refered the pro-Hem of the status of these hunger Striking prisoners to the Congregation of the Holy Odice. Many Appeals to Pope. ITis Holiness had received many urgent appeals to make some pronouncement regarding these cases from- persons of opposite viewpoints, imploring the Pontiff to reach diametrically opposed decisions on the question whethef the deaths of the prisoners as a result of their hunger strike would make them suicides. He bad found widely divergent opinions also, it was added, among learned cardinals and other prominent figures in the church with whom he had discussed the situation, and, therefore, had laid the problem before the Congregation thajloly OfflceTClUclbaeU Says Lloyd George's Treatment of MacSwiney Gives New Proof Action Is Necessary.

Supreme Court Justice Daniel Cohalan was deeply affected whon informed today of the death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney. Justice Cohalan said: "Terence MacSwiney has joined tbe immortals and Lloyd tleorge's name has a new distinction for wanton, savage cruelty that centuries will not de-st roy. "MacSwiney has shown the world anew the deathless devotion of Ireland to liberty. Lloyd George has given a new proof that the British Empire, the last stronghold of tyranny, must he destroyed In tlio interests of humanity. The death of this young man will fix anew upon Ireland the eyes of the world, and mankind will be staggered by seeing the campaign brutal murder that England is carrying on there.

"England's rule in Ireland is the negation of Government and the antithesis of civilization. "Thousands will spring up, inspired by the example of MacSwiney, to fight for liberty, and England will fail in this light, as she has failed so often in the past, and not the least of her failures will be in that she is opening the eyes of America to the kind of rule that we are asked to guaranty under Article of the League of Nations." A citizens' mass meeting will be held on Sunday, Oct. 81. at 2 o'clock, at the Polo Grounds, 155th st. and 8th Manhattan, it was announced today, to denounce British treatment of Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork, who died today, and his fellow hunger strikers, and also to protest against the attacking of towns and cities by British police.

"President" Eamonn de Valera and Frank P. Walsh will be among the speakers. Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the War Labor Board, andvchs.ir-man of the American Commission on Irish Independence, declared today that the British Empire has suffered a terrific blow at its own" foundations by reason of the tragic death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney. He said that MacSwiney's death "already has convulsed the world; in time it will shake the British Empire to its foundations.

The sacrifice of this hero in behalf of his native land arrests the attention of all. It has stirred men's minds to a recognition of the menace the British Empire holds for liberty over all the world. Millions of Americans, deeply moved by his tragic death, stand unable to do anything, All we can do is to admire his tenacious courage, regret his loss, and share ill the condolences all civilization offers his young wife and child. But let America remember his fate. Let America learn from his fate the hideous danger of imperialism to republican and democratic institutions in every part of the globe." AMERICAN IS SLAIN BY MEXICAN MINER Washington, Oct.

25 M. T. Sevrey, an American, was murdered in Can anea, Mexico, last Wednesday1, the State Department was' advised today. The American Consul at Nogales has been instructed by the Secretary of State to request the local authorities there to take all possible measures to apprehend the murderer. The.

Consul in his report to the department said press dispatches reported that the murder was committed by Raymondo Navarre without provocation and that- Navarre, a miner, who had been discharged by the Cananea Copper Company, had es caped. A reward has been offered by the Cananea Company for the capture of Navarre and Mexican troops are engaged in a wide search for him, the Consul said. Sevrey was a resident of Blabee, Ariz. TWO MAGISTRATES IN TRAFFIC COURT So heavy was the business in the Traffic Court today that Magistrate Steers after completing the calendar in the Domestic Relations Court, which is one block away, went to the assistance of Magistrate Fish. While Magistrate Fish disposed of cases ii, his private chambers, Magistrate Steers marie way for new arrivals in the courtroom.

Without Steers's assistance it would have beer) necessary to put some cases over until tomorrow. The temporary assignment by Commissioner En right last week of 2 5 bicycle patrolmen to handle minor violations in needed points, in the boro lias resulted in greatly increasing the work of the Traffic Court since las'. Monday. Whereas the average was formerly 3ff0 a day it is now between 500 and 600. Most of these are of petty cases, such as failure to have proper lights or inability to produce licenses.

The largest fine imposed today. $100, was paid by James Saullo of 175 loth who was arrested on Oct. 23 for speeding on Ocean Parkway. It was Saullo's second offense. Louis Edelman, a painter, of 92 Leonard was held in $1,000 bail for a hearing on Wednesday on a charge, of driving while in an intoxicated condition, brought against him by William Whidden, a chauffeur living at 78 Clarkson st.

VOTE ON" BOXE DRY LAW. Toronto, Ont, Oct. 25 Four Canadian provinces Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan today are taking a general plebiscite on tbe question of prohibiting the importation of liquor from other provinces, and thus making themselves more literally "bone dry." ties questions of faith and morals and judges hereby. There has been np Indication as to when a decision might be expected from this body. The first death among the hunger strikers occurred on Sunday, Oct.

17, when Michael Fitzgerald, one of the eleven striking prisoners in the Cork Jail, succumbed to the results of his self-imposed fast. He had fasted 68 days. Several other of the Cork prisoners are declared now to Lie la a critical- state, teen years, nor is large houses in its Mne. Lcopoia, Wolff, vice president and treasurer, is the active head of the concern. The company's export and Import business has been between the I'nited States and Colombia, South Amerieu, and one fthe motors that forced the company into bankruptcy was tbe great slump in the price of coffee.

Colombian coffee has dropped from 33 cents to 1 4and 15 cents a pound, green businesn men of Colombia have been unable to pay their debts now falling due. It was reported lust week in' fact that a moratorium similar to that declared in Cuba was imperative in Colombia. truckmeFtofight owners' efforts to force 10-hour day Continued from Page 1. to the driver of a 6-wheel tractor; $42 to the driver of a 6-ton motortruck, and down to $38 to tne driver of a one-ton motortruck. Truck helpers to receive $34 reekly.

The ow; -rs flatly rejected the terms of the new agreement. Their stand is the first in the history of the Labor movement in this city. This morning there was nothing else talked about in Labor circles. It was felt.that.au attempt was being madi? to edge in a wedge which would drive wages down along the line of union scales in all trades by an extension of working hours. While leaders- of other trades were reluctant to comment on what did not apply to their own unions, they claimed to sense an initial attack on the 8-hour day.

The employers in presenting their demands -took some of the edge out of their unexpected refysal to consider the union proposals by emphasizing to Labor leaders that the "ultimatum" was not an ultimatum. The Manhattan locals, however, were not inclined to view the matter in that light. Expect Arbitration. Michftel J. Cashal, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, did say, however, that he expected that the controversy would be referred to a board of arbitration.

James J. Riordan, president of the Merchant Truckmpn's Bureau, who presided at the meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, stated that his organization was not. concerned. whether the union could present a new agreement acceptable to the owners or not. J.

C. Lincoln of the Merchants Association told the truck merchants that the situation had reached such a stage that many large companies would reire from this city unless the cost of transportation was reduced. Charles M. P.atterson, president of Austin, Nichols declared that the period of readjustment had reached the stage staple merchandise was selling cheaper, which meant cheaper returns to business men. He felt that the time was ripe for Labor to shoulder some of the burden.

There was a disposition among some of the union men to view the em-plovers' move as an effort to force a strike. They recalled that the B. R. T. men, the van workers and furriers had lost their strikes this summer, and felt that their bosses were confident they could beat a truckmen's strike.

This interpretation aroused considerable heat and bitterness among the men themselves, but the union oflicials ridiculed the idea. They expressed themselves as confident that the matter would be readjusted after a few conferences, to the satisfaction of both parties. WOUNDED DETECTIVE DYING Detective Richard Meyer is said to be dying in St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, from a fractured skull suspained from a blow during a raid at 51 Tearsall Laurel Hill, yester-dav morning. Meyer and other otlicers raided the, place in response to a riot call.

Three men were arrested. Adam Pltthaclr'and Anthony Adamsky were held Hi $10,000 bail ech on a charge of felloivlyus -assault and Adam Makow-sky was held in $500 bail on a charge of disorderly conduct. travisInItand again in probe State Controller Eugene M. Travis was again on th stand this afternoon at the inquiry before Chief Justice Frederick Kernoehnn, while Assistant' District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora quentloned him about his private financial transactions. There was no inquiry during the morning as Justice Kornochan was obliged to sit in the Court of Special Sessions.

As soon as the investigation i was resumed at 2 o'clock the tunny or the conironur was continued. He had already told how ho kept no data bearing on his privute fin ancial transtactions and that record oT his income tax returns was kept on sera lis of paper. Albert L. principal source of bond purchases during the Travis Admlnlstralln, had also testified that he kept no record of his private finan cial transactions. This was considered so Important a development that Mr.

Pecora announced his lntalntion ef going Into the matter more full, Brownsville Curb Dealers Rounded Up by Costigan Tolice Cept. "Honest Dan" Costigan of the Brownsville station, began today breaking up a custom that has existed in Brownsville for 10 years, curb dealing In building material. On his orders, 47 dealers were brought into the New Jersey ave. court this morning on charges of lounging and loitering. More tbnn 10 years ago, between 50 and 100 dealers in building material begarrrnnsactlng their business at Stone and Pitkin aves.

It. has been a miniature and less wealthy Broad-and Wall corner. This corner was their meeting place and the deals have run Into millions of dollars. When the custom was started a Brownsvlllo precinct officer attempted lo break up Hie practice, Ho failed.