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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NETS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, JULY JG. 1923. 26 PAGES. THREE CENTS, FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY; WARMER FRIDAY; MODERATE VARIABLE WINDS.

Temperature toeUy, 12 M. (Eaglt 70 CRAIG WILL ASK COURT TO PUT MAYOR IN JAIL1 ON CONTEMPT CHARGE CITY-WIDE CAMPAIGN FOR SUBWA YS STARTED BY COMMITTEE OF 1,000 Bill Lovett, Gangster Out On Bail and Mary Lonergan Are Being Married Today SEA GATE. BURNED; Controller's Calendar Again Figures in Romance Thousands of Germans Hylan for Crosstown Tube In 1913; Turns It Down in '22; Urges Delay in '23 1913 John F. Hylan made-speeches around Brooklyn against subway. 13.

I913at'th" I'hurch of Incarnation, he said: "Build a rosste.wn siil.w.u in no-oordance with tli" wishes of the people." l'JL'L' Oct. 17, John F. Hylan as Mavor turns down pli a of taxpayers for Crosstown subway because plan permits private opcru- K3 -July 13, John F. Hylan i 1 I Iiy (I) Hill Lovett; (2) Mary Loner. LOSS $10010 Guests in All 58 Rooms Get Out Safely as Landmark Is Destroyed.

littler Inn. a landmark of ex- The estimated value of Is he Whittler Inn generation i headquarters for the sport SPERRY GYRO-PILOT GUIDESSHIPTON.Y, FROM CALIFORNIA For 5,000 Miles No Human Hand Touched Wheel Where "Metal Mike" Worked Pei fectly. oyage helm for taking lie ship in and out of ports the quartermaster, pilot, had nothing to do with steering of the vessel. steamed along as straight as an arrow, tri than any touman hand could hold deviating less than a sixth of a gree from its course. The twiddled his thumbs.

The device completing the le test trip was the Sperry gyro-pilot, to give it its sailor name, "Metal works in conjur with the Sperry gyt the United Stati 'hair, sit down and study ir report to I he captain irders. The gyro-pilot The avro-nllot is so adjusted a gyro-compass that Immediately direction desired there Is set In n. bringing it back into po-The readjustment Is made sltlon. lit of degree. Mr.

Snerrv worked on the gvro- pllot for a year and a half hefon riecung it. saici turner a. Kperry who returned on the Harry a trip through the Company vessels, hbold, the Moffett Tllford. Next Munson liner placed on Munargo. At last we placed it freighters the Luckenbach line.

port, die ''sari 'pedrc York ugh the Panama I gyro-pfiol brought, r-stralght line. HERE AND HOW As Hirntu Johnson arrived from Europe his hat was carried overboard by the wind, but he was not talking through It. coming from Europe? Or is the July quota filled? Summer brings the rambler roses, Summer brings the "summer cold," Summer also brings the doctor To prescribe and si'oltl. Summer brings us fruit and flower a i-npiiio every hour Just as we've been told. X.

H. FEARS WITNESSES MAY DIE; WANTS TESTIMONY TAKEN s. Mary Van Campen of 379 on ave. today asked Justice sey in Supreme Court to appoint one to Immediately take the testimony of Hamilton H. Salmon and William H.

I'rey, both of whom she declares to be in "uncertain health." She seeks to perpetuate their testimony, she told Justice Cropscy in her petition, bocause she will need It to meet the allegations of fraud made by her sister, Mrs. Herminle Peyser of ,0 Prospect Park Wes(, and she fears that Mr. Salmon and Mr. Frey may die before the trio I of Mrs. Peyser's action can he reuched In the courts.

The suit of Mrs. Peyser brought in Supreme Court Is an effort, to set nside the accounting of the estate of Herman Wellbrock. father of Mrs. Van Campen and Mrs. Peyser, who died in IStll.

Tin mm object of Mrs. Peyser's contemplated suit is to set aside the sale to Mrs. an Campen of 175 shares of the O. K. Model Baking Company, said lo he worth about 1.

000, 000. and for an accounting of the profits of i MORSE TESTIMONY ALL IN Washington. July 26 After 14 weeks, the taking of testimony In the Morse case was concluded today, and Justice Stafford announced that the arguments before the jury would i'be jirospei sell the jury Magnus Johnson doesn't go to Washington until December, which gives him ample time to have a dress suit made to order. Petitions Circulated Calling Upon Board of Estimate to Approve Plans and Provide Funds Immediately. The committee of 1.000 citizens, organizing to convince Mayor Hylan of the necessity for actually building as well as talking about the new-Brooklyn Crosstown subway and the extension of the Broadway line in Manhattan to Washington Heights, began the circulation of petitions day.

rhese call upon the members of the. Board of Estimate to approve plans and vote funds immediately for construction work. Frank D. Waterman, president of ntaln Pen Com tltlons in order to impress Mayor stituting action for talk, originate! in the Merchants Association, whose president, Lewis E. Plerson, an nounced the organization of the committee last night.

Mayor Issues Another Attack, Mayor Hylan, when he heanl abou it today, did some more talking. He said again that he believed the sub ways should be built, although couple of weeks ago he had the 60 days on the Brooklyn Crosstown sented was his own and indorsed his own transit committee hea by H. Delaney. The. Mayor voted twei typewritten pages to ways, but consideration of action the Board of Estimate cannot taken up until September under motion for delay which Mr.

Hy put. through the board at its 1 petitions. He said that clock this morning after reading the first of the committee In newspapers, had calle Phone or in person petition blanks to cii Men to Direct ire today at work on the formation if an executive committee to direct This will be Waterman said, would represent In no way be representative leal parties or factions. It wa unofficially today that Edward likely to be asked to serve as or of the Bro-klyn representatives i this ronn The Manhattan Rotai The first aim of the committee will be to persuade the Mayor to translate his protestations of belief be first cenleredon the Brooklyn I he Broadway line in uptown Manhattan. When the petitions have been signed for this they will be presented to the Board of Estimate.

N'o Politics, Says Waterman. The Committee of 1,000 opened work tnts morning in a large of offices on the fifth floor of Uroad'vuy. More than a scor stenographers and typists wer work In one large room addrei ter to citizens all over the city. Two it her smaller suites of offices were c( aided by the executives, Including stalling a moderate sized telephone switchboard anil making changes In office fixtures suitable to the business at hand. In answer to questions a to the permanency of the organlza- the of the Boord "This towt subways, nne digging Asks All sulmnj Itlilcis to I "I wnnt every subway rider I Continued on Pago 9.

"RATS!" exclaimed the Reds. Russia i was so overrun with them that the Reds called for cats. I MarRarct Sperry tells whaj. the cats think IDOUI it in Km hf I Sunday's Eagle 1 A REAL MA Elsie Ferguson Clarke Divorces Husband in Paris ni" Indifference own his wife, hif upkeep of the to discuss It. The gran he elecree was preceded I il formal demand that tl reconciled, which Mi AS PEAGELESSON President, in Vancouver Speech, Says Europe Can Profit by Example.

Vancouver, B. July 26 President Harding, in on address made visit by an American President to Canada pointeel to the century-old friendship between the people of Canada and the people of the United States as proof to the nations of Et jlublle Interna- tvill. not public force, of Canadians gath-Park, "and is It not gratifying cl mi living amlcaniy for more man cntiiry under different to sent the most striking example produced of that basic fact? If European countries would heed the United they would strike prosperity forget to I e-iph Warns Against Annexation. With his emphasis upon the long endship between Canada and the Ited States, Mr. Hasdlng coupled vice to the peoples of the Domln-i against giving encouragement Mr.

Harding a tslt being the first ever made a President of the Cnlt. Stoles I'anada dining a term of office, I with the exception of tho lslts Preeldent Wilson to Europe, on any politically foreign soil. 1 then continued: But eiiceptlond aro required to ne rules. And Canada Is an e.r. ceptlon a most notable exception.

Continued on Page 2. hollies. 'ii lied' I'sii is" moil n't line getting ready to fight the Are as Soon the call came and the Kli'e Hose i 'ompany, No. I under Its ambitious captain, was first to start, first on the Job, and eligible to claim the plaudits of the populace for Its s- and eltleiency. The house, valued u' 13.000.

was badly damaged hut not completely .1 Uif although he sinned no agreed to nil that Kamraerer said. necortHni to the police. A similar case, prompted by the same rivalry between fire companies, was of four Freepori young men of Rood remit) who some lime a0 set fire to a building at a bathing beach Pass In and Out of Occupied Zone. Valley from the opened at N'o official reports as to thi sumption of traffic had been rec at French headquarters here noon, but unofficial news was effect that thousands of tier were passing In and out of th cupieel region, making haste to anxious to aceompllsh till possible1 ol' roods lint the frontier would I i lose I again in a few days. from Dortmund in the Ruhr, today i i lia 1 1 occupied areas had been raised, month after the beginning of the not until July 1, however, frontiers of the Ruhr and th land were completely closed, the penalties imposed heeaus killed 10 Belgian soldiers and injured This action was eirdereel hy the I P.hinelnnd Hlgn gonueaion ti June 30 that they had de-to suspend for 15 days therein crossings of the frontier except for food ParU 26 The tiers were closed as a punishment for the bomb explosion on a iraie in which Belgian soldiers on loav were going out of the Ruhr on Jum 30, ten of the soldiers being killed The closing made It impossible foi Hermans to pass from occupied te unoccupied territory without i French pass, which was only grant ed in life and death cases, and i prevented Germans also from enter ing the occupied area from unoccu piea ucrma: The cl STEEL EXECUTIVES CONFER ON CHANGE FROM 12-HOUR DAY To devise means for shifting from the 12 hour day to the eight sldlary companies of the United Steel Corporation met in ecutlve session today in the office Judge Elbert H.

Gary, chairman ot the 1 1 of 1 1 way, Manhattan. The pected to last all da; It is principally blast furnaces that 6 vill I of age scale bo that men for 40 cents an hour for 12 houi can earn enough in eight, hours make a living is one of the point under consideration. A dally wage $3.20 is not considered adequate. President Eugene G. Grace th Hethli to in Sto.

i i unman todne or 1 lie Betniencm plan eit si ill I plants of pair Minor the reached UNNAMED WOMAN FIGURESIN FALLON ROBBERY INQUIRY An unnamed "lady friend" of Wll lam J. Fallon, criminal lawyer, fli tired today in the Investigation befo Referee Terence Farley, into the ill appearance from Fa lion's office of -tllicale by 'dTJewelsr0's' t'l lo collector an Cherbourg but when he -all went back to Paris by alrpll hue to catch the Cher boU Fit tr Ignored by Hylan in Sink ing Fund Meeting After Court Order Had Been Issued. Sinking Fund ler was Ignored then Craig at- declared, the sess weeks ago Craig o' the Sinking Fund mlds that the May violoted the injun ular calendar." the Craig calen-he committee of ntroller protest- dd open his mo i Deputy City silting for Chamberlain ll'-rolz- mer. shouted: 1 move wo adjourn:" 'Meeting adjourned." the Mayor quickly responded, and Craig was the Craig rc 1 numb leal document MRS, BROOKE, WIFE OF MAN WITH ROSE; SAILS FOR EUROPE Accompanied by Her Two Chil dren. With Passage Money Paid by Friends.

England on re traveled llgators of the il Surety Com lose" the missing steamship ticket gent who is being searched for by rli-ate detectives. With Mrs. Brooks nd her daughtera went Joseph lewittson, a family friend. Friends of Mrs. Brooke paid her lassage, for she was left practically lestitute, it is said, when her hus-iand disappeared.

She is going to England a eturns completely hen she last talked in. superintendent Investigation of Company, he re-don that her faith mortgaged the In the meant at Brooke There la good that Brooke's nown to the in-on his trail. He an when he dls- 60 DAYS FOR BEATING WIF9 William Wright. 46, a big long-oremnn of :,66 Court kus given 0 days in the workhouse today by Magistrate uneven lor wiunm ins wife. Wright Is a giant compared The Ads That Crowd the Pages Page the Crowds W.

H. White of 294 Sumner nve. is one arnonc hundreds anil hundreds of Brooklyn people who know that crowds are easily paged by Eagle classified nds. Hark 'to the tale of his success with KnRle ads. On June ,10 an Kagle ad sold for him a hrnwnstone two-family house located at (81 Jefferson On July i nil Kaprle ad sold steire property at ll.VJ Fulton st.

fo? Mr. White. The week eiidinp; July 7 Mr, White ran nn ad offering three houses for sale, and two of them were' sold hy the middle of the When VOL uant to sell anything there is nothing like an Eagle nd to page a crowd of pur- i the Raymond st. jail, and ehom I he pretty anil devot a visited with words of encoi riment at the Lonerfan home slippers ami lo maich, a hat of gold colored ribbon straw. "Eddie" McGlynn acted Ixivett got the ring while In imping thin he would be able to i out shortly for tho wedding.

hndo shortly before' the cercmo the moment he got out. He went Miss Lonergan on Long Island anil that she ery happy. The ntmosphor. Lonergan home, tilled with will be tided in the fall on barge of violating the Sullivan La possessing a revolver. NARROWS: FLYER REPORTED KILLED The police of the Fort Hamilton precinct shortly after 2:30 this afternoon notified headquarters that a large airplane carrying a pilot rows at the foot of Fort Fort Hamilton.

The only reports that cou tained from Fort Hamilton the plane had made a lost in the crash. No word At first It was said that the plane belonged to the police aerial station, but the police refused to verify this. ARMOUFISEASY WINNER AT GOLF Westchester-Biltmore Country Club i. ..1.::. proline-, not line in tin of startling surprises, oil of hes winding up about as The sole Long Island representatives left in the tournaments were eliminated In the morning round, Dr.

A. T. Haight of Lido was do-tented by Harry Scharff, 3 and I. ami A. C.

liregson was forced to bow to Richard Lounsbury, 2 up. SELYAGGllAMED ASS'T U.S. ATTORNEYi new dull, al on. Mi Selvaggi I'lillie I York Law School, fro cell eil bis degr in I DlMtrlct Attorney of King' Lew fa and John C. Kusion TO ACT ON $15,000,000 REQUEST FOR SCHOOLS TDM FOLEY SAYS MONEY MEANS TO HIM Gave Fuller and McGee $15,000 as "Gift," He Testifies at Probe.

i F. Kher of New York County and prominent Tammany political first witncM called today when the bankruptcy hearing In the cai K. M. Fuller bucketeers, resume before Referee Harold counsel for the trustee, Mr. Folej said he was Introduced to McGee Nellie Sheehan.

He did not know turned from Europe. He did nol know if her married name was Her-rick but volunteered the information that Miss Sheehan had gone to Europe with a man named Herrick. The witness said the bankrupts ppealed to him for "tide that I the terest he had ir "Was a Pool," Says Foley. ruder ciuestloning by counsel for he creditors, Mr. Foley said th lee "I was a damn fool and had ardlng giving people money.

Fol sld that McGee pleaded with hi or the money, held the lapel of 1 "For i sake, Tom, toney. Of co I a damn fool. Foley said he knew Arnold Roth- tbat Hothsteln had never asked him to do any favors for either Fuller or McGee. After Fuller McGee got into trouble and Foley's name was mentioned, Foley said he Just "eliminated himself from the case en- The witness could not recall if any nppeals had on behalf of Fuller McGee since In. bankruptcy.

"Just general talks," he said, wat all that was discussed about the bankrupts. He said he met Roth stein only at public places going ir thought, Foley i A. Stoneha help them. "Don't Know nOM. former Citv Magistrate, talk ing to him about Fuller A McGee.

He did not know whether Fuchs had over visited Fuller and MoGM in Ludlow st. Jail and never heard that Foley, who admitted he ent In Liberty Hoods A Letter From Home every day of your if you tell your newsdealer to Bend you The Brooklyn Eagle while jou arc away Phone Main C200. 30c week. Volunteer Firemen Set Torch to House to Prove Efficiency of Service Auditor Insists Jewels, By U.S., Were Bought Here July 26 Elite Hose I Cupt. otto Kammei ilgneil In the Hempstead Court morning before Justice of the Peace ill ouch for the action oi he (irand Jury.

The charge )s ursoi: the third degree. Rivalry between the fin ompiinles of Floral Park, and all nrrweenlng ambition to see ompany arrive first at a Are, led Kammcror and Due to stage the flrf or I he especial benefit of i heir com pany, and then, beat'ng nil other Hmim'tTr'H clerk 'ill 'tile' It. station al Floral Park and DUtf Phillips. Kam enter said that lend of 'all the 01 mpanj reoor. Frank Auditore.

1 be "mllltonalr ion. explain to the customs officials Manhattan the history of wols valued at llOiylOO, ere token from among his effects customs men last night when he Auditore Insists that the Jewels olfe purchased In this country. The morltlU sny that he neglected to them when he arrived, tmrnlhf from Burope Hint be wu ij the way here with the Jewel, two t-eclal mollis went down Hie buy 'i board i the ship at Quarantine. Deputy collector j. t.

O'Connor aid it among the pieces of seined ewclry was I elliimond drop valued i lien lo a-lvd udllon loi nid I tie Htiiff shroud us a fiancee. Miss Morehrud, of corporate stock..

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