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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WALL STREET FOUR O'CLOCK. Volume S4 tlo. 321 NEW YOKK CITY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1924. 28 PAGES. THREE CENTS, INCREASING CLOUDINESS TONIGHTj TUESDAY RAIN OR pNOW.

WARMER Tempertlure lodiy. 12 M. (Eagle St.) 25 Yer tgo (cloudy with light tun) Avenge for 10 year, Hue dele 48 Complete JHeport on Page tt BANDITS I.R.T.TOINCREASE Morgan Loses Death Race As Mother Succumbs at 82 ARREST SLAYER FOR CONN. CRIME LAID TO CHAPMAN 2 DIE, MANY HURT, AS WINTRY GALE BRINGS DISTRESS PARKWAY Identification of Man in Man HERE AND NOW witli Late Husband Years Ago. SERVICyEC.

1 Livonia Ave. Shuttle Elim inated 70 New Cars Added to Line. The Transit Commission today or dered a material Increase In service on the Eastern Parkway brunch of the I. R. T.

In Brooklyn, to become effective not luter than Dec. 1. The order follows the hearings held before the Commission beginning Oct. 15 nnd continuing for a number of days. The order requires the elimination of all shuttle service on the Livonia ave.

extension and substitution of through train service, an addition of 70 cars to the whole line, during rush hours, but does not rnqulre Immediate Installation of express service. Chairman McAneny explained that evidence deduced at Ihe hearing indicated that the proposed plan to in stall partial express service from the East Side line past Atlantic ave. would reduce the headway over the lower Brooklyn and Manhattan por tlon of this line, but promised that such express service could be installed during 1925, when un in crease in the number of cars avail ablo would make 'It possible to run all East Side expresses throuirh to L'tlca ave. The discontinuance of tho Livonia ave. shuttle has already been el fected, the R.

T. agreeing to It 'urlng the hearings and ordering It Installed at once. In addition to the Increase of serv Ice In Brooklyn the Commission ordered four more trains during the rush hour past Times Square station In the West Side tubes; through service on the Jerome ave. line between Kings Bridge and Woodlawn In place ot tho present shuttle serv ice, and through service on the Pel ham Bay Park line during rush hours in place of shuttle trains, such huttles to be used in non-rush hours only and then on a 12-minute head way to the Hunts Point station. 100 New Cars Delivered.

The new Increases In service are made possible by the delivery of the second 100 new steel cars which the I. R. T. was ordered to buy fh 1922 Delivery was to be made at the I. R.

T. repair yards. Discussing the question of exprers service over the Eastern Parkway Line In Brooklyn, Chairman McAneny, In writing the opinion In the decision, said; "The first problem approached was with respect to the possibility of full utilization of the four tracks of the Eastern 'Parkway line In Brooklyn, and the Institution ot a through express service on two ot these tracks at present not In use, as (Continued on Page 2.) Crack Trapshooter Loses Arm in Motorcar Accident Kansas City, Nov. 17 K. C.

(Chief) Wheeler of Pawhuska, one of the best amateur trapshooters in the country', has competed in his last tournament. His right arm was amputated In a motorcar accident last week. Wheeler was on his way to Kansas City to enter a tournament when his motorcar, overturned, breaking his arm In three places. L. Klan Gets Warning Against Burning Crosses (Special to, The Eagle.) Huntington, L.

Nov. 17 A warning was today given to officials of tho Ku-Klux Klan of Huntington by the Fire Department to cease liurning "fiery crosses" during the present dry season. In the last month the Fire Department of Huntington Manor waa called out several times to extinguish tho crosses. Boro Chauffeur Seized In $50,000 Gem Robbery Crying excitedly. "That's him, don't let him go, he stole my life's savings," Simon Mazursky, whose jewelry store nt 202 E.

Houston Munhattan, was robbed of Jewelry at first estimated at $125,000 and later nt $50,000 by three armed bandits Nov. 5, pointed to Meyer Rabino-wlts. 23, chauffeur, of 1114 President Brooklyn, who was in the line-up at Police Headquarters this morning. Rablnowltit was in the line up for possible identification by employees of of Jewish Dally Forward as one of of the bandits who held up and robbed the offices of the newspaper ut 175 E. Broadway of $11,385 on Oct.

10 Ralilnowltz was held on suspicion of robbing nnd was charged with the Mazursky holdup. This Indian summer has been eav on tho furnace, but hard on the electric fnn. EXTRA! Prohibition Commissioner Roy L. Haynrs has been consistent: In tn-nounclng that he will Ignore the legal decision In the John Philip Hill ease Mr. Hnjoes otnlts to add a warning to others to respect the law.

When the Hill Jurors sent out for a dictionary we )tnnw that the prosecution had lost Its case, "Scoff-law" couldn't be found In any dictionary. Stocks, bonds and the alcoholic content of home brew hnVo gone up several points. Still let your draughts of home-made brew Be very far between and few And, ob, above all else decline The stuff called dandelion wlnel N. H. U.

S. FLAG PLAYS PART IN DIVORCE OF NAVAL OFFICER Attorney Shows Commander Comfort's Wife Did Not "Tear" Banner Orvirle Wright Autographed. An American fiaar. autocranheri hv orvine Wright, was placed In evidence before Justice Hagarty In the equity term of the SuDreme Court in. day by Lawyer.

William S. Butler, In aeiense or Mrs. Helen Edson Comfort, whose husband. Lt. Command er Rowland M.

Comfort, TJ. 8. Is suing ror an annulment of their marriage. Comfort was also confronted with his letters disparaging Josephus Daniels, former Secretary ui me xvavy. Lt.

Com. Comfort alleged ihof found out some time after their marrlare. In lfitn ihnt hi. subject to epilepsy, and he told the -uun mat ma wire naa Men "dls loyal to the United States" by tear inir ud an Amer run An. Afteg the marriage Comfort was transferred tn sea rlntv unit doing recruiting work In this city.

wmie no was malting the rounds of European ports with the U. 8. 3. Utah that his wlfn hi. suggestion, rejoined her parents ai'iuuu.

tiv uauicu ner to return tn this country and Lawyer Butler made htm rnnfnn. fhn. aam i ,7 wci men he had been consulting lawyers aooui an action tor annulment, when she returner he InntnllAl hn i apartment on Columbia jlelghts but uia not nve wnn ner. Comfort testified that the "dis or nlM wife consisted of tear lnK UDNan American flair "It. was autographed, that flag you speak of?" asked Mr.

Butler. "Yes; by Orvlllo Wright, a very prominent American. "TH nnt tM. tha Ann- anA show any signs of having been iiiuuiHieai aemanaea Butler, mddenly productlng a "pocket sire" flag. Orvlllo Wright's autograph was on (Continued on Page 18.) SAFE IN RECORD GET S1, Polite Robbers Permit Vic tims to Keep Personal Cash in Oil Station Theft With cool precision, four young men effected one of the most rapid and successful holdups and rohberie ever executed In this buro when the entered the offlca of the gasoline- filling station of the Parker's Oil Corporation at Queens blvd.

and Ilulse Ht. at this morning, held up the manager and three others, Jlm- miedNtho safe In less than 10 minutes and escaped with $1,500 in cash The four youths, none of was said to ba over 25 years old, drove up to the gas station ii a new motorcar and asked for five gallons of gas. The driver alighted, with the "I'm going Inside to gel warm." Tho other three Collowe I him. The driver- of the bandit car calmly walked over to the manager, James Carson, of 867 Cauldwell the Broni, and, pulling a fun from his pocket, backed Carson against the window and told him to keep quiet. At the same time the other three bandits drew guns and covered tho other three occupants of the office Walter Leahan, one of the Parker's Oil Corporation's truck drivers, and two taxlcab drivers whose names are not known, These three were herded into a rear room and covered by one bandit, With skilled hands and steady nerves the two remaining bandits went to work on the olllce safe.

Keeping Carson covered, the bandit car driver said: "We only want the firm's money. We know you are all hard-working men and we are not going to touch a penny that you nave, we re regular fellows, and if you play fair with us we will treat you square. Just keep ouiet and don't make any noise, that's all we ask." With these words the bandits walked out. Carson Immediately notified the police of tho Hunter's Point Pre cinct. After the bandits had gone It was disclosed that Leahan had on his person a diamond ring, valued at $300; a gold watch, valued at (200, and 1180 in cash.

The taxi rivet also had considerable cash. Carson told the police the bandits were evidently experienced holdup men, for they worked with the precision of well-drilled soldiers. Carson also said the same car with the same men In it had driven up to the filling station two hours earlier to get live gallons of gas. Carson ex pressed tne opinion mat tney ma not hold tip the office then because another machine had driven up behind the bandit car, BANDIT TRIO FELL THEATER OWNER; FLEE WITH $5,000 When about to enter his home at 49 St. Mark's Manhattan, last night, Samuel Levy, 45, carrying a cardboard box under his right arm which contained, he told the police.

approximately 15,000, the proceeds of two Sunday performances at the National Theater, conducted by him at 2d ave. and E. Houston st, three armed men felled him with the butt of a revolver and fled In a motorcar with the money. Levy reported the holdup at the 5th st. police station, where Dr.

De Shonn closed a deep cut in his chin. Detectives Conway and Newklrk, of the 5th ave. station, were told by Levy that when he closed the theater he placed the currency, most of lt In bills, in the box which ho carried under his arm. He said he did not observe, any one following him, but that when he was about to enter his homo a car drew up to the curb three men stepped out with cap peaks down over their eyes and all. displaying revolvers.

He said the leader attempted to grab tho box, but when Levy struggled a second bandit hit him with the butt of a revolver, stunning htm. When he fell to the walk. Levy said, the third gunman grabbed the box and tho trio re-entered tho car. which disappeared east on St. Mark's place.

Levy walked from his home to the police station. He said his assailants were young men between 111 and 25. und that he himself fame near to death in another motor accident. Mr. Croker tells me that if this mnn continues to sue unjustly ho will have two more punishments to face, one of which will cost him his "I understand from my attorneys that Richard Croker Jr.

has again tiled suit against me. It is a habit with him and always happens when am away. I don't know what it is aoout, but will learn soon enough." Mrs. Croker was dressed in black and was accompanied by her mother. Mrs.

M. S. Kdmunston. She regretted being away for the (lection, said. "Al Smith Is one of the most popular men In America," she said.

"He would have defeated CoolldKe had he been notnlnnted bv the Democratic party. He is a man's man. I am sure that had Mr. Smith run the religious issue would not have en lered Into the campaign and his can didacy would have removed lt from ever again beconilnir an issii." With the wind blowlns 80 miles an hour. John Kdward Nelson.

20, an able-bodied seaman on the Antil- tania, was swept Into the swi from tho Aniiltnnia on Nov. 12. Life buoys were thrown lo him, but he was never seen nifiiln after tho wall of water swallowed him. The liner had but two fair days on its passao from Liverpool. A lifeboat was smushed to klndllnc wood on the aft starboard, but tho vessel suffered no other damage.

TIM Girl's Suicide Motive Still Puzzles Family PSA. MISS MADEL HAOCRSTt Lynbrook, L. Nov. 1 7 The cir- cumstances leading to the suicide ot 25 -year -old Madeline Haberstroli are still unknown to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Haberstroh, and brother Arthur, who arc heart broken over her death. Miss Haberstroh was a popular figure in the social life of Lynbrook, and figured prominently lit the affairs of St. John's Lutheran Church, of which she had been a member for the past nine years. The Rev. Dr.

E. W. Hammer, pastor of tills church, will conduct the funeral tervices at the Haberstroeh home tonight. Justice of the Peace Edward T. Neu, Acting Coroner, will not conduct an inquest into the death of the girl.

He Issued a statement Saturday, In which he said the wound which caused, death was self-inflicted. He declared he was unable to find any motive for suicide. All day yesterday messages of sympathy were received at the Habers troh household. The popularity of the dead girl was attested to by the number of these messages. Even her most Intimate friends could not give any reason for her action.

BOOTLEGGERS GET Tells Special Senate Com mittee He Will Ask Thorough Probe. Washington, Nov. 17 Chairman Couzens of the Special Senate Com mittt Investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau, declared today he was convinced by the reports of the committee investigators that a large number of industrial alcohol permits had been Issued Illegally and fur nished the principal source for boot leggers, i At an executive session of the committee Wednesday the chairman will ttecommend a thorough Invest! gatlon Into that phase of prohibition enforcement. He said today it did not seef reasonable that the demand for industrial alcohol should have Increased In "leaps and bounds," since the Volstead law became effective. The nvestigators had discovered he said, that strong influences had been brought to bear on the Internal Revenue Bureau to obtain alcohol permits.

Senator Couzens said the committee was centering one angle of its investigation on the of the decrease of 000, 000 In income taxes from 1916 to 1920. He said about $2,000,000 of these taxes had-! been traced tn tax exempt securities and the other had been claimed to be due to depreciation in business. Veteran Bureau Ratings Not Reviewable, Court Holds Washington, Nov. 17 Compensa tlon ratings made by the United States Veterans' Bureau are not re viewable by the courts, the Suprenu Court held today, except when it is shown that they are wholly unsup ported by the facts, and are "caprl clous" or arbitrary. In all othe: cases, the rourt held, the compensa tlon ratings fixed by the dlrevtor of ths Veterans Bureau are final.

were transporting tho skins wn overtaken by the police. On May 12, 1917, I'ale was convicted In County Court for possessing a loaded revolver. At that time It was suid that ho had been arrested on at least six different occasions. Four years later Palo was shot through the right lung In a gars fight in front of 15S Park Row. He was arrested as a material witness.

On June 25, 1921, Pule and- another man were discharged after they had been arrested on suspicion nf murder following the, discovery a heudless body at the corner of 20th st. and Neptune ave. I'ale also achieved notoriety as one of the holders of several plstnl permits Issued by Supreme Court Juatli'e Selah Strong. In 1922 he was arrested und released on a writ of habeas corpus on the finding that Justfce Strong's permission to tote a gun was valid and legal. Because of his record Pate's petition for citizenship was refused by Justice William Hagarty in Supreme Court on Jan.

22, 1923. In addition to his undertaking business Pole was interested In several Brooklyn restaurants. ox 0 PERMITS COUZEN DECLARES Boro Woman Killed, Manhattan Man Freezes to Death. BoaU in Peru, Win dows Crash as 70-Mile Ic Blast Lashes City and Country in Season's First Cold Snap. Winter arrived today with a roar imd a bluster which there was no mistaking.

It slammed Its baggage down during; the night and from it issued a piping gale which reached a velocity of nearly 70 miles and Hurries of rain and snow. The wind punched in show windows, blew lown nicns and fences and at the height of the storm a woman was killed In Brooklyn, her companion seriously hurt, and several other perens painfully Injured. An unidentified man Is dead and an elderly woman is In Bellevue Hospital today suffering from ex-poHure as a result of the cold wave. Tho woman found suffering from exposure in th hallway of the 7th st. tenement Is In a serious condition.

She is described as being about DO years five feet two Inches in height, weighing 105 pounds. She has gray hair and wore a brown coat, blue dress, black shoes and (dockings, but no hat The body of a man about 68 was found early today tn the snapeo alleyway back of 409 Lafayette Manhattan, by William Uusselnian, engineer of the building. A grating over the engine room from which heat usually arises has long been a haven for the homeless on wintry nights and It Is thought the dead man crawled In there to sleep. The maximum velocity ot the wind was 68 miles an hour, or more than a mile a minute, which is what is known as "a high gale," and that speed was maintained with persistence. Tho sea was lifted and tumbled upon the beaches with a pounding force that was heard afar.

Drop of 2 Degrees. The mercury went down da' grees in 16 hours or from 47 at 4 p.m. yesterday to Is at 7 clock this morning. It promises to be fair today ana as cold tonight as last night, with a cloudy sky tomorrow perhaps bringing rain or snow and warmer temperature. While the rain was falling last night Ciora Rossman, 23, of 219 Varet and Sophie Lackterman, 17, of 15 Cook started to cross al Grand and Humboldt st.

Miss Rossmaii had an umbrella over her imoulder Witnesses say they stepped from behind a mirface car Into tha I.nth of an oncoming motorcar driven by Howard Wllloughby, 33, ol 114 Evergreen ae. Women Knocked Dovn. The car knocked down both women. The driver stopped an lifted them into the car, afur which lie hurried them to St. Cathaiine's Hospital, two blocks away.

The Rossman woman was pronounctd dead on arrival ind the otuer sustained fractures of both legs and Internal Injuries. Policeman Hulls of the Stagg St. station took Wllloughby into custody on a technical charge and he was afterward balled to appear, today, In the Williamsburg Foltco Court. Windows Smashed. Roaring through the city streets which sucked If in as if through a funnel the gale made a lot of work A 0nHlAB fnr nt frenuemt in- tervals the crash of glass was heard' The damage was not connnea 10 ais-play windows but windows in dwellings also Buffered.

Th.u nwini toai-a Injured hv debris blown Into a motorcar when the wind ripped away a waicnman shanty at 144th st. and Riverside Drive. They were Jacob Patrick of 320 Eastern Parkway, his daughter. Ruth, 28, and Samuel Spector, 25, of yo5 Broadway. They were painfully mm (Via ixn A A i 1 a a rr 1 1 1 of 767 DeKulb was hit on the head by a falling sign ana sugntiy hurt.

The Mascarelll child was playing outdoors when a physician's sign Mew down on her. She was treated and remained at home. Woman Companion Drowns. It was a story of an almost super human struggle that James Letora, 58. captain of O'Brien Brothers barge Romer Light, told the police of the Simpson st.

station he made to save the life of his chance worn an acquaintance when she fell over board while they were trying to board a bulkhead from a rowboat. Letora was taken to Lincoln Hos. pital with a fractured right rip. He was also suffering from exposure and was made a prisoner on a tech nical charge of homicide until an autopsy reveals the actual cause of the woman death. Letora, according to the police left his barge last night and went to saloon where ho bought several drinks, and struck up an acquain tance with the woman.

At 2 o'clock thlR morning Letora and the woman left together to go to the barge. The barge was moored lo a bulkhead under construction by the New Amsterdam Gas Company. The tldo was high when the coimle neared the barge, and to negotiate the wind-swept stretch of water they obtained a small, flat-bottomed boat Fractures Hip. In attempting to go from the boat to the bulkhead, "Julia," according to Letora, supped Into the water. and the latter, attempting to save her.

fell In himself, atrtklng a Iok vlien lie hit the water and fracturing his right hip. Letora told Detective Stapletnn, of the Simpson St. station, and Detective Reppeti, of the homlrlde squad, that he had attempted to find lho woman, but because of the darkness failed. He then swam to shore and dragged himself half a mile over (Continued on 1'agn 11.) The few City Ham Rule Law aad Loral r.nwe enacted art contained In the new nnd reviled edition of the Charter of the City if New York. At offlcea and newt nnJe.

Price 11.00; or mall, 11.05 Adv. hattan by New Britain Po-e lice as One Who Killed Officer in Store Holdup Exonerates Escaped Mail Robber of Participating in Murder. Coincidence worked In a Strang. way today to brlnar about the ar raignment of a man described, us George Stuyvesant. 28, of 512 Troy, N.

identified as none other than the man who tried to blow a safe In Davidson Leven thal's department store at New BrU Oct. 12, and in making hi "getaway" shot and killed Police man James Skelly of that city. First reports attributed tho shoot Ing to Gerald Chapman, master crook, and an Intensive search top Chapman began. Detectives attached to the- heal quarters bureau of Inspector John Coughlln were' responsible for ths denouement which come today, and after he had been identified nnd re-arraigned Stuyvesant was hurried to Police Headquaters to bo questioned about the slaying of Police-man Smith of the W. 68th st.

rtatlon tome time ago. The prisoner has one eye concealed by a glazed glass lens In a pair of tortoise shell glasses ho wears. The police say he lost lt In a gun fight. Detectives Thomas Sheehan and Walter Sullivan of Coughlin's staff picked him up Friday night on suspicion after tho holdup of the Inter-boro RaplcJ Transit Company's booth in Times sq. The police of this city knew him as a "strong arm guy." He vet' red below the "dead line" lecently thrown about the uptown section, so Sheehan and Sullivan nabbed him.

They charged him with participation in the Times sq. holdup, but this was merely a holding charge At Police Headquarters It was remarked that the prisoner seemed to resemble the description sent out of a mnn seen fleeing from the scene ot the New Britain outbreak. Detective McHugh of New Britain ciinie to town today, accompanied by Edward Jackson, a witness of tha attempted robbery and slaying in that citv. Stuyvesant was placed In line at the Wast Side Police-Court und Jackson led In. He briefly surveyed the line and walked without hesitation to Stuyvesant, upon whosa shoulder ho placed his hand.

Beaten, Sleuth Pursues Attacker Until He Drops Although rapidly weakening from a Anting he received at the hands of a man he surprised In the aot, of breaking into a store, John Gro-rianna, a special policeman employed by a Bronx detective agency, gave chase after his assailant early today until he dropped unconscious. Threa shots tired by Ororlanrta in the pursuit before he fell, afracted a patrol-nun and resulted In tne fugitive' arrest. He described himself as Samuel (ilanzruck, 28, of 533 171st the Bronx. Airplane Used in Chase Of Connecticut Bandit Stratford, Nov. 17 Willi Policeman Edward Manchester In a serious condition In Bridgeport Hospital wltn bullet wounds In his head, right arm and one of his kgs, police and posses of citizens are scour-in? the woof'ts anfl meadows of Strat.

tord, sei'kinR tin Pos: Road bandit who Saturday nlirht shot Manchester after holding up a grocery stora and escaping wlt.i $133.16. An airplane flew low over the woods yesterday but neither of tha occupants of the -machine nor the rearehlng parties succeeded In catching the highwayman. MRS. HARDING, UNABLE TO EAT, CROWS WEAKER Marion, Ohio, Nov. 17 Although Mrs.

Florence Kllng Harding was resting quietly, her Kidney and liver complications were more market today. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer salil ln a bulletin Issued ut :30 a.m. from her bedside.

The bulletin follows: "Mrs. Harding rested quietly Inst night. This morning she is very weak und exhausted. The kidney and liver complications arc more marked. She is unable lo take scarcely any nourishment." MOTHER'S TRIAL STARTS FOR BURNING HER CHILD Mrs.

Elizabeth Morris, 21, of 131 Rhine Stapleton, S. who was arrested on Oct, 15 on a charge ot having burned her 0-yeur-old step-Onughter Florence's fingers with matches to punish the little girl for stealing 5 cents, was put on trial this morning before County Judg.o ,1. Harry Tiernan and a Jury in the Richmond County Court, St. Oeorgv, The Proof of the Pleading is in the results which Brooklyn Eagle classified ads bring to tho people who Use them. Judging by a long continued program of uninterrupted successes, Eagle ads are mighty per-suasive pleaders when for the purpose of selling things, renting apartments or hiring help.

One of them went out last week and sped around Brooklyn until it found a satisfactory tenant for the apartment which M. Walker, 297 State wanted to rent. Just about the time Mr. Walker was wondering what his ad would do for him, it sent in a largo crowd of applicants from whom he immediately selected the exact kind of a tenant he desired. It's just as easy to rent an apartment as It is to call 6200 and ask for Bti ad-tikcr.

Sirs, Morgan as She Appeared Highland Nov. 17 Mrs. Frances y. Morgan, widow of J. Plerpont Morgan, died at her home here last night.

Mrs. Morgan, who was 82 years old, was reported to have suffered a stroke 10 days ago, followed by pneumonia. She had been unconscious for the past four days. Efforts woro made to prolong her life until the arrival of her son, J. P.

Morgan, from a European trip. Ho Is expected to reach New York Friday. Arrangements for tho funeral will be held in abeyance until his arrival, lt was said today. 5 Victor Despite Opposition of Hylan, Riegelmann and Nicholson. The question whether or not the local Legislature should adopt the Craig bill providing for municipal operation of bus lines Is to ba threshed out at a serlcH of public hearings.

That Is the decision made: today by the Committee on Local Laws o' 'he upper brancn of the Municipal Assembly after a long and, at times. heated debate betv een Ihe Controller and Boro President Riegelmann. While Mayor Hylan took no pait In the discussion as to the legality of the measure under the. Home Ru'ft Act, he managed to insert remark uncomplimentary to the Controller. who retaliated by showing how tho Mayor was tiylng to make a scrap of paper out of the city's new char ter In his readineta to hand out bus franchises to corpontttonii Riegelmann Hacks Hylan.

"We have the opinion of the Corporation Counsel," said Hylan "that we haven't the right to operaU bus "I move," suid Riegelmann, "that the bill be reported out unfavorably uecause tne Municipal Assembly n.is no power to confer upon the city the authority to establish and opei- ate a bui system." Let hear from the Corporation Counsel," said the Mayor. "This is not. tho Board of Estimau but a committee of the Municipal Assembly," Craig countered. "The Corporation Counsel has no rtanding here." "Anybody that wauls to be heard here can be heard," Hylan shouted. "This is a public meeting." "I move," interjected Riegelmann, "that the Corporation Counsel be Invited to participate In the discussion of the Controller's bill and give us his view of it." Craig offered ns a substitute, to Rlegelmnnn'H motion that the meeting be dissolved and a public hearing held in the matter to be followed by other publlo hearings." "No!" thundered the Mayor.

"This Is only camouflage on the part ot the Controller." But, as already indicated, Craig won out In the end. Says City Has Power. The discussion between Craig and Riegelmann turned on the point as to whether the Home Rule Law gnve the city, through the Municipal Assembly, the power to amend the Greater New York Charter. The Controller Insisted that the local legislature had such power, while Riegelmann denied it. That Is to say, Controller Craig contended that If the Home Rule Act did not specifically ilotho the city with the power to operate its own bus lines, the charter could be amended so as to prov.Uo the necessary authority.

Corporation Counsel George P. Nicholson stated that In his opinion the Municipal Assembly could not amend Ihe Hume Rule Act. "If you keep on bickering over this matter." said the Controller, "the LRepulillcan Legislature this winter will take good care to puss a bill hibitlng. the rlty from operating bus lines. The proper thing to do Is to refer this question to tho courts.

We tan have decision from the Court of Appeals by the middle of February." "Then It will be two years more before we can give Ihe peoplo transit relief," the Mayor said. "We can get a decision quickly, the Controller Insisted. "1 urn sure "Why didn't you discover all this before? the Mayor broke In. "I won't let you interrupt me!" Craig exclaimed, hotly. "You can ay all you want to In the towpr of he Municipal Building over tho tadlo." II WIS FIG FOR OPEN HEARINGS OPERATION Mrs.

Morgan also Is survived by three daughters. Miss Anne Morgan Mrs. Juliet Hamilton and Mrs. Her bert L. Satterlee, all of whom had been at their mother's bedside for the past week.

Mrs. Morgan abhorred publicity. When she.returned from her numer ous trips, both abroad and In this country, she was always met by a group of but Invariably she replied. I have nothing to say. Mrs.

Morgan lived a quiet and retiring life, devoting considerable time to tho study of music and art. When her husband died, in 1913, Mrs. Mor gan was left the Income for life from a trust fund of $1,000,000, with power to dispose of the capital by will. Wilbert Robinson I. Attack of Pleurisy i 1 4, A p4 pf- W' Wilbert Itoblnson.

Baltimore, Nov. 17 Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Brooklyn Su-perbas of tho National Baseball League, Is seriously 111 with pleurisy. Robinson is In bed at his home here. Tho Brooklyn leader contracted the Illness during a hunting trip in the South last week and was forced to return home. His condition grew worse and today he is suffering from a high fever.

GUARDS PATROL SEA IN SEARCH OF MISSING L. I. BOAT "Hercules" With Crew of Six Lost Since Thursday After Fishing Trip. (Special to The Eagle.) Montauk Point, L. Nov.

15 Following a mysterious telephone message to the V. S. Coast Guard station at Hither Plains lust night patrols are searching for a high-powered motnrboat described as the Hercules, which, with its crew of six men, was reported to have been missing since last Thursday. The man who telephoned the message, to the station refused to give his name, nnd hung up tho line before he could be questioned on the disappearance of the vessel. He Mated, according to District Superintendent Simon R.

Sands, that the Hercules, with Its party of six men, set out on a fishing trip from Long Island village. Coast Guard ofllelals report that heavy gales have raged off thx Long Island coast since the time the Hercules was reported to have set out. RECEIVERS NAMED FOR ALAMAC HOTEL Receivers were appointed for tho Alamac Hotel operator! of the Hotel Alimac, "1st st. and Broadway, Manhattan, and owners, of a hotel and o.her properties at Lake Kopatcong, N. J.

Federal Juillte Franc's A. Winslow appointed E. Bright Wilson and Daniel F. on i bond of $50,000. Robbers Loot Store Near Big Boro Banks Working In the shadows of several of the boro's largest banks and office bulldlims, and within a stone throw of a number of police posts and special watchmen, thieves early today crashed the plate t.loss window of the stationery store of 'E.

J. McDonough, at ISO Montague st. and entered the store. They up Ihe entire display of fountain pens In the store, valued at $500 and left through the broken door. Mrs.

Croker, Landing Here, Says Husband Rules Her Life; Is Now a Spiritualist Boro Undertaker Caught In Chicago Gangster Raid Mrs. Bula E. Croker, widow of Richard Croker, for many years leader of Tammany Hu 1, has become a spiritualist. Arriving today on the Aqultanla of tho White Star Line, she announced that Mr. Croker was with her although he Is more wUh her in Ireland than America, he nevertheless was, she said she felt, with her on this voyage and drew particularly close to her as the steamer approached New York, the cltx Mr.

Croker so Moved. i "Ho prefers Ireland to America, because lt Is so tranquil and peaceful," said Mrs. Croker. "He Influences me In all I do. I get my Instructions by vibrations.

Kspeclnlly powerful are the vibrations in the gardens of Cork Castle, When I walk among the roses which ho planted and tended so carefully." Mrs. Croker spends six months of the year at Cnstle Cork and six In America, under her husband's directions, she, affirms. "Persons who gnlnsay the wishes my husband Invariably suffer," she said, telling of an Instance where a real estate man In Florida brought suit against her for (100,800. "When he brought this suit against me I knew he would suffer," said Mrs. Croker; "I knew that 111 luck would befall him.

I learned that whllo I was away his favorite son was killed la a motorcar accident (Special to The Eagle.) Chicago, Nov. 17 Caught ih the police dragnet which rounded up more than 1.000 gun toters nnd gangsters In this city during the weekend was Frank I'ale, a Brooklyn undertaker who has figured In police news for years. Vale admitted possession of a revolver. When he was arrested he said that be had a permit to carry the gun in New York and that he came here lust week for the funeral of Michael Merlo. an Italian leader.

He wore several large diamonds when he was captured In a raid on poelrooin at ti W. Tuylor st. In 1915 I'ale onl a companion escaped a 20-year sentence for robbery in Brooklyn when after being In-dieted for the crime they were freed on the confessions of two brothers who admitted that they were the guilty ones. The following year Vale was one of seven men arrested charged with stealing about $500 worth of sheep and goat skins from an express wagon. The men were arrested fvhcu the motorcar In which they.