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FEimUAHY I'O. IMS. 91 PACES. FTVE CENTS ui I it hn nri BROOKU NEW YOR Lindbergh Swoops on N. Y.

In Mystery Flight as New Business Deal Is Rumored I. R. R. DENIED FARE BOOST WITHIN CITY; COMMUTERS VICTORS IN 4-YEAR BATTLE BLACKMER ABROAD TO SA VE STEWART, OIL PROBERS HINT Lone Eagle and Four Companions Veil Purpose of Visit, but Fuelless Motor Is Hinted as Motive of Hop From Detroit Promises Interview to Reporters on Monday. HERE AND NOW ROBBERS ni I Son Admits He May Be Protecting Somebody Avoids Transit Board Finally Decide Against 20 Increase.

Though Commission I The Eagle.) (Special to Curtis Field, L. Feb. 25 carried a threat of snow, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh swooped un-' tubeIiergerset for legislature with nickel fare Untermyer Plan Ready, but City Must Figure Out Path for 5Cent Rate.

By HAROLD J. BLACKFORD. Samuel TJntermyer's program of legislation to make possible the purchase of the B. M. T.

by the city and eventual unification of that system with the municipal subway now being built and such portions of the I. T. R. as may be In the future acquired, either by purchase or recapture, Is ready for introduction in the Senate and Assembly. Last njght was to have it offered in both houses tomorrow night.

Two Part of Plan. In essence it includes two Darts: 1 A bill to broaden the scope of that section of the present Public Service Commission Law dealing with the powers of the State Transit Commission to effectuate unification and known as "Section 6 or Article 6." 2 A constitutional amendment which -would enable the city to exempt from the debt limit any part of its transit bond issue, covering specific portions of its rapid transit system, which could prove that it was self-sustaining. Legislative Conference Held. Conferences were under way yesterday and are being continued today between Untermyer and the legislative leaders. Majority Leader John Knight of the Senate, Speaker Mc-Ginnics of the Assembly and Senator Bernard J.

Downing and Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, the Democratic floor leader, in an effort to smooth the way for the legislation at Albany, where only about 15 legislative days Continued on Page 15. Herbert Hoover has been presented with medal, but not for his reply to Senator Borah's questionnaire. This is merely a suggestion, but Mr. Hoover might come back with a questionnaire addressed to the Senator and worded simply My dear Senator: i. wny aia you send me a ques- tionnaire, anyway? 2.

Why did I answer it in the way I did? 3. Did you think I liked question naires? 4. Do you intend asking me an other? 6. Why not? Questioning, HERBERT HOOVER. Most of the Presidential candidates have now clarified their attitude on the wet-dry issue by the bold, unequivocal and thunderous statement that it is the solemn duty of a Presi dent to uphold the Constitution.

The Hon. Jimmy Walker arrived in New York yesterday, but there was no display of ticker tape such as usually marks the welcome to a visiting celebrity. HARDING. Payroll Padding Charged Against 11 Officers of Army and Michigan Guard heralded to a graceful landing in Wife Sues for Divorce From Famous Surgeon Dr. Serge VoronofT.

Paris. Feb. 25 (TV-Mine. Seree Vor- onofr, the former Louise Imanoff, has meo. sun in me eeme iriounal tor a divorce from the famous gland spe' cialist, charging abandonment.

Mine. VoronofT has been living In Paris, while for the past two years her husband has been at Cannes, where be maintains a little jungle for a snecial species of monkeys whose glands he uses in nis experiments. ELUSIVE; POLICE STILL CONFIDENT Insist on Capture "Soon" as Many Clues Fail. Mystery Woman Aids. By WILBUR E.

ROGERS (Staff Correspondent of The Eagle.) Somerville, N. Feb. 25 Although officials of Somerset County were by no means discouraged tonight, cap ture of the flame killer, who burned Miss Margaret Brown to death near Bernardsville, appeared distant as yesterday's hectic hunt subsided. Prosecutor Francis L. Bergen of Somerset County and Capt.

John J. Lamb of the State Police, who are directing the search, were still, optimistic that the murderer would be caught. Captain Lamb insisted they had a pretty good idea of who the slayer was, and that feeling was echoed by Inspector Coughlin of the New York police. Hopes in Three Places. Their best hopes lay in three places.

The "woman of mystery," as she has been called, who actually saw Miss Brown and the murderer together, is 6till the most valuable witness. But she has not been able to identify the few pictures police have. This woman, a tall person, cultured and well dressed, spent a large part of yesterday afternoon with Lieutenant Roff of the Morris County police. It Is understood that she looked at almost a hundred pictures Continued on Page 2. LI MURDERER Seven of Commissioned Personnel and Four "Non-Corns" Held on Complaint of Secret Service Mon -Statute of Limitations Savior of Fifteen.

Lets Inheritance Wait Till Honeymoon's Over Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Kinsey. Mile.

Anne Marie Vizner, pretty French miss and a Louisville beauty, planned the perfect companionate. marriage, but she didn't take into consideration the plans of her husband-to-be, the Associated Press says. She was married to Gordon R. Kinsey, Louisville lawyer, and Intended to sail the next day alone for France, where she recently inherited an estate from her aunt. These arrangements didn't suit Kinsey, and he pointed out that she could take a trip to France' any time, but that she could go upon only one honeymoon.

So four hours before her boat sailed she dutifully canceled her reservations, took her husband's arm and disappeared from New York on her honeymoon. When they return, Mrs. Kinsey will leave on her belated trip to France. Miss Vizner came to this country when her brother entered the French Consular service, and was educated in Louisville, where she met Kinsey. 'FLIER' FLIER BELIEVED III SEA IN FLORIDA HQP Harry Brooks, Who Took Off for Miami, Thought to Be Fallen Aviator.

Melbourne, Feb. 25 (TP) A small airplane identified by watcheis as of a type similar to the Ford "flivver," in which Harry Brooks hopped off from TUusville for Miami this afternoon, fell into the sea about a mile and a half offshore here laic today. Melbourne is about 80 miles south of Tltusvillo on a direct line with Miami. Fell Into Sea at Dusk. The plane fell Just at dusk and a large searchlight was rushed from Vero Beach.

The tail of the craft last was seen above water, lending hope that the pilot was able to Jump to keep from sinking with it. A Ashing boat which left for the scene could not locate any wreckage. The plane was not to float. Other boats also searched at the scene. W.

K. Scitz, city manager, said the plane passed over Melbourne flying at about 100 feet elevation and apparently In trouble, with a northwest wind at its tail. "The pilot," he said, "seemed to be Continued on Page 2. Yi.V 'A It jk Detroit, Feb. 25 (AP) Eleven officers and noncommissioned officers of the regular army-and the Michigan National Guard (32d Division) have been arrested by United States Secret Service agents on charges of perpetrating frauds amounting to thousands of dol IN CHICAGO GET 133,000 GASH Six Bandits Use Shotguns and Dynamite to Get Banks' Consignment.

Chicago, Feb. 25 iTi Six men held up a Grand Trunk train in the southwestern outskirts of Chicago today, cowed crew and passengers with a fusillade from sawed-ofl shotguns, dynamited the mall car and escaped with $133,000 being sent from two Chicago banks to two In Harvey, nearly industrial center. Of the money, $80,000 was a con-sienment from the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank to the First National Bank of Harvey and $53,000 was Deing sent to the Bank, of Harvey by the First National Bank of Chicago. The funds were to meet the payrolls of four Harvey manufactories which pay by check. Held Vp Year Ago.

Less than a year ago the same train was held up within two city blocks of where it was today, and upon that occasion virtually the same amnunt of money. $135,000, was the robbers' loot. Today's shipment straneelv totaled that figure, but $2,000 was sent by another route. The train was halted at St. Maria's, not a scheduled stop, to permit one passenger with a ticket to that point to alight.

Six men, disguised in khaki coveralls and masks, dashed upon the train. Five of them carried sawed-off shotguns and began firing indiscriminately, while the sixth rushed to the end of the mail car and placed a bomb which blew out an opening in the end of the car. Mail Clerk Beaten. 'Two nf the robbers herded the en glneer aVd fireman to the rear of the train, while the other three, acting under orders of one identified as the leader because he wore a white mask while the others wore black, sprayed the steel sides ot the coaches with slues. John Kelly, veteran mall clerk, who was in charge of the car roooea last year, offered resistance, despite the terrific concussion he suffered when the car was dynamited, and was beaten insensible.

George Peters of Battle Cree'x the other clerk in the car, was nvemowered and with Kelly was bound and gagged. Escape in Auto. With the clerks disposed of and the four robbers outside effectively sub- lusating crew, passengers and pas sersby, the two robbers who invaded the mail car calmly, but swiftly searched among the mail sacks until they found the money pouches. They walked toward the station, the gang leader whistled shrilly and the men guarding crew and passengers joined them. All dashed to a closed automobile parked nearby, the pouches were tossed in and within 12 minutes from the time the train ground to a stop the holdup had been perpetrated and the robbers had escaped.

The alarm was not spread quickly because all telephone wires in the vicinity had been cut. Fireman Drops Dead as Alarm Rings; No Fire When the fire alarms rang in the quarters of Engine Company No. 274, Murray st. and Madison Flushing, last night. Fireman Bernard Reilly, sprang to his feet only to fall back into his chair, an instant later, unconscious.

Fellow firemen telephoned to the Flushing Hospital. Rr. Brettbart, pronounced Reilly dead, from a sud den heart attack. Reilly was married, 62 years old, lived at 79 Elm Flushing, and had been a member of the Fire Depart ment, ior au years. There was no fire.

It was a false alarm. Porter Killed by Fall Into Elevator Shaft Vincent Ricarrfl, 55, a porter em ployed In the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Building, 66 Court was killed yesterday when he fell hito the elevator shaft. Rtcardl was missed after 9 a.m. and search was started for him. Late in the afternoon some one put a drop light Into the bottom of the elevator shaft and discovered Ricardi's body.

He had been dead some time, Rlcardl lived at 91 Coffey sireei. All her applications have been filed tvithln the past two weeks. On Feb. Ill Miss McCormlck filed applications for building permits for 165 frame two-story one-family houses to cost S4.000 each and on Feb. 23 she filed applications for 511 similar structures.

The total estimated cost is $2,704,000. AH Utese houses are to be built In the center of old Newtown, in the vicinity of Maurice, Jay, Mth. 3.1th and 56th aves: 60th 05th and UOtli to 65th Elmhurst. Rrfrlirratlas Sjalrmf. Nrw Artldr IS at chapttr 10.

adopted rcfmbfr, and itiflKTama, contained In Coda o( Orrilnaneta. in -t with 11)27 amendmanta. At j. by uial, 11,10. Adf.

Specific Reply Because of Humiliation Senate Seeks Fourth Continental Partner. Eagle Bureau. 901 Colorado Building. By HENRY Sl'YDAM. Washington.

Feb. 25 That H. M. Blackmer, former chairman of the Midwest Refining Company, has remained abroad since 1924 to protect r. W.

Stewart, chairman ot the Standard Oil ot Indiana, was suggested today in questions the Senate Investigating Committee asked Myron T. Blackmer. the missing witness ton. Stewart, on the other hand, is showing equal consideration lor Blackmer, it was uBgeswd, inr isk-ing a jail sentence rather than reveal his information concerning the distribution of S3.O80.0OO pronto of the Continental Trading Company, no-7 under Senate scrutiny. Admits Protection Possibility.

Blackmer's son was chief witness at today's hearing before the llnate Public Lands Committee on thirtl scandal. The committee forced him to admit that his father, whose share ofthis $3,080,000 fund was J750.000. may be remaining in Europe to protect some of his associates. The lorcing process was not a pretty tpectacle. it was said.

Blackmer fled to Europe in February, 1924. leaving behind his profit from the Continental Trading Company deal, hidden in a safe deposit box in New York. He came fwi.i in 1H2I5 to confer with his attorney and his son, but for four vears he has not set foot within the iiirisdiction of the United States. He as finally subpenaed in Europe, un-oer special legislation making this hut ho refused to obey the iubpena and has been fined $100,000 lor this onense. Young Blackmer told the committee that his father had directed him to regard the.

whole subject as con-l V.iUal. Son Still With Midwest. i. Against this background of Black-tier's evasion his sou appeared today. Vnnnir Blackmer is a slim and hesl- tant young man of about 35, who ha neen conneciea wiui win mmweow infilling Company since his graduation from college' in 1914.

He is now Its vice president. He said that, his father had told Mm that he had an interest in the Continental Trading Company and that his profit had been $750,000, as was testified sensationally oy mac jner's attorney yesterday. Never Talked of Onus Here. Young Blackmer saw his father at Montreal in June, 1926, and again in Europe in 1927. Not once, he said, did he discuss with him the position in which BI maimer's flight to Europe had left him in the public mind.

Nor did he question his father about his part the continental Trading Company deal. "I didn't think It was my place to ask questions," said Blackmer. "Not even with a view to exculpat ing your father?" Senator Walsh of Montana asked. "As far as my father's connection with this affair is concerned, I have nlways thought it was honorable," Elackmer replied. Feels Trouble Deeply, He Say.

"You know that the whole world is condemning this transaction," remarked Senator Walsh. "If your father, or if Colonel Stewart were to tell the whole story, it might be found have been a legitimate and honorable affair. What steps have you taken to exonerate your father?" "None," said the witness in a low voice. "Is It a matter of Indifference to you whether your father is exoner ated? asked Senator Walsh. The witness waited.

"This trouble of my father," he said, "Is of very real concern to me. I leel it deeply. Knows What He "Ought," "My lather told me what I ought to know," replied Blackmer to another ouerv. Young Blackmer testified that he had several tunes discussed his fathers situation with Stewart. "I told Colonel Stewart what the situation was, and what progress was being made in my father's litigation," young Blackmer said, referring to the Senate's efforts to bring Blackmer buck from France.

"Colonel Stewart, was Interested. My father had complete confidence in htm." "Colonel Stewart left the impression with this committee," said Senator Nye, "that he had little confidence in your father." "I know no differences between them," the witness replied. Admits Protection Probability. "I have the highest respect for your attitude toward your Senator Nye Bald. "Has It ever oc Continued on Page 22.

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Junior tail'. 1 L. Down from a dull, gray sky that! the gathering dusk here this after noon at the end of a mystery non stop flight from Detroit. This time he did not come as the "Lone Eagle." In his Ryan brougham plane were H. M.

Bixby. president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; H. K. Knight, -who backed Lindbergh's New York-to-Paris flight; Frank M.

Robertson of the Robertson Air Mail Contracting Company, and B. F. Mahoney, builder ot the Spirit of St. Louis. Mystery Cloaks Visit, Two automobiles awaited the party.

Colonel Lindbergh entered a motorcar with T. L. Pickenpack, a Curtiss flying pilot, and drove to Pickenpack home in Floral Park for dinner. Colonel Lindbergh, woo was to spend the nignt at the Pickenpack home, de clined to see newspapermen but sent word he would see them Monday at the Manhattan offices of the Guggen heim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics. The purpose of their visit was shrouded with the same mystery that had enveloped the trip itself, the destination of which, when Lindbergh and his companions, left Selfridge Field, Detroit, was said to be Mil waukee.

Lanphier Forced Down. It was reported, howover, that they came to New York in connection with incorporation papers to be filed in this city by Henry Breckenridge, attorney, for a corporation to develop the electro-magnetic "free energy'' motor invented by Lester Hender-shot, of Pittsburg, which has been tested by Colonel Lindbergh and Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, commander at Selfridge Field. Major Lanphier, who took off from Selfridge Field and was to have landed with Colonel Lindbergh, was forced to descend earlier in the afternoon at Buffalo.

He wired that he would come to New York by train. Before taking off, Major Lanphier announced he was interested in the corporation to be formed but declined to. mention others similarly interested. He said that Colonel Lindbergh was not connected with the enterprise in any way. according to en Associated Press dispatch7 from Detroit.

Mystifying Dispatches. Tills statement puzzled persons Interested in aviation here, since Breckenridge is Lindbergh's attorney. In view of the actual developments, they also were somewhat mystified by Detroit dispatches which quoted Major Lanphier as stating just before he took off that he understood the destination of the Lindbergh party was Milwaukee. Reports published yesterday of the successful test of the electro-magnetic motor resulted in weakness in Wright and Curtiss airplane stocks on the Stock Exchange. Selling pressure carried both Issues to new low levels.

Selling was heaviest in Wright Aero, which had risen spectacularly during 1927, coincident with Colonel Lindbergh's successful flight to Paris. This stock lost 6 points and Curtiss lost 5. "Alotor in Infancy." Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, is spending six weeks in Santa Barbara, Cal. In an Associated Press dis patch he is quoted as saying that the new motor is too infantile In its development to warrant predictions as to its effect on locomotion.

The motor was brought to his attention several weeks ago by Major Lanphier. "I suggested that the patent rights be secured before anything further was done," said Mr. Guggenheim. "The Guggenheim Fund will be glad to carry on investigations and ex- Continued on Page 2. Sept.

5. she said, he definitely declined to establish a home for her "just now." Then she sued for separation. "The parties to this action entered Into a prenuptial agreement by which they agreed to live separate and apart during the time defendant attended school and until he was graduated with the degree of M.D.," Justice Callaghan declnred. "After they had lived apart for some time, she requested him to provide a home and live with her, and she now Insists that she desires to repudiate the prenuptial agreement. Ho raises no objection to living with his wife, except that he Is unable to support her.

It is against publlo policy to enforce such an agreement. He Is a medlciil student, supported by his parents, and earns nothing. That, however, dws not. relieve him of the obligation to support his wife. If It in necessary for him to give up his studies, he must do that In order to support his wife.

But the alimony will be made with due regard to the situation of the prrt'e. and Inasmuch as she i-i i 1 1 i' a cmfni table Income i be at CI Still Withholds Ruling for Nassau and Suffolk Saved by Fight. Salient Features of Fight Over L. I. Rate Boost Plea What tng kland Railroad asked A 20 percent increase in commutation, school and family ticket rates.

Duration of fight Nearly four years, since June 24, 1924. What increase would mean tn commuters About $3,000,000 yearly in additional fare charges. Number of commuters involved Approximately 75.000, who organized to fight the increase. Jurisdiction of city fares Transit Commission, which decided against the. company yesterday.

Jurisdiction in Nassau and SuffolkPublic Service Commission, which is expected to decide this week. Self-appraisal of Long Island Railroad property $264,000,000. City appraisal of same property $127,500,000. Application of the Long Island Railroad to increase commutation rates 20 percent within the city limits was denied by the Transit Commission yesterday, but decision was withheld by the Public Service Commission as to whether the increase shall be allowed in Nassau and SntTotir counties, thls.latter body having Juris- uicuon outside the city limits. The company also sought a 20 percent increase in school and family ticket rates, whichwas also denied by the Transit Commission.

It has been p.crimar.ri tHaf ing the proposed increase. Long Island wuiuiura nave saved themselves about $3,000,000 a year, or $12,000,000 since the application was filed four years Possible Decision of State Board. It is believed the Public Service Board will follow the trail blazed by its contemporary rate-making body, although there is no assurance that this is so. This decision, it is expected, will be announced this week when the Public Service Commission holds its formal business session on Tuesday or Wednesday. Accompanying the Transit Commission's decision was a lengthy opinion by Commissioner Leon G.

Godley who urged denial of the application, broadly speaking, because the railroad had failed to prove its case. Failed to Segregate Rates. Specifically, Godley points out that the company failed to segregate the cost of its commutation services from other operating costs. Chairman John F. Gilchrist and Commissioner Charles C.

Lockwood concurred in the opinion. The company assumed the cost of carrying a commuter was the same as carrying a straight-ticket passenger, and submitted its case on this basis. Frendergast Declines Corn.iient. Chairman Prendergast of the Public Service Commission declined to comment or) the Transit Commission's refusal to grant the applicatlon within the city limits. All that he could be drawn into saying was: "The application is on our calendar for Tuesday's or Wednesday meeting and will be disposed of at that time." It has been evident right along that the Transit "Commission decision would have been announced months back had the Public Service Commission been ready.

However, although the hearings closed last September and the Transit Commission announced its preparedness to decide on the case within a month or so afterward, repeated requests for delays have been made by Chairman Pvendergast. Commuters Joyful Over News. News that the Transit Commission had decided against the railroad Was received enthusiastically last night by Maurice Hotchner, chief counsel of the Association of Long Islind Commuters, an organization formed four years ago, when the company filed its increased tariff with the two commissions. The commuters' association, which has a membership of more than 75.000, was organized chiefly to combat the proposed fare Increase. Mr.

Hotchner in commenting on the decision pointed out that much of Continued on Page 7. Ironed Out! It was nn unforeseen and unfortunate circumstance that changed the plans of Fred Morgan, 153-07 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, and caused him to seek the able assistance of Eagle Ads. Ill health forced him to Jisposv of a profitable business. After establishing himself securely in the conduct of a Hand Laundry at Jainuica, lie found it impossible to continue. So he wisely souplit a buyer through the "Business Opportune rtiea" columns of The Kagle.

The initial appearance of his ad brought immediate results, the Imsint'ss has transferred ownership and at least one of Mr. Morgan's difficulties has been suc-cessfully ironed out. For owners who wish to sell stores, factories, garages, or secure partners with cnpltul, here is au excellent market that is widely consulted for profit and reliability. In seeking prospective buyers, remember The Kagle and an ad to Main lars by payroll padding and pay check forging. Eight of the officers were arraigned late today before U.

S. Commissioner Tanley E. Hurd. Seven waived examination and were ordered held under $1,000 bond and one demanded exam ination. He was released on $1,000 personal bond.

1 Time Lapse Saves 15. The plot was revealed today by Bert C. Brown, district chief of the United States Secret Service. Due to the statute of limitations. Brown said, at least 15 former National Guard officers will escape arrest.

The investigation was started about three months ago. Brown said, when a private complained that he had not received his pay check for drills he had attended. The officers are charged with steal ing pay checks of privates and intimi' dating those who complained with threats of court-martial and personal violence. It is charged also that checks were cashed with forged 1 dorsements and some of the money spent for liquor bought in blind pigs. Payroll padding was accomplished, it is charged, by including on the rolls the names of men who had not ap peared for drill.

List of Those Arrested. Those arrested are: Capt. John C. Brand, Co. 125th Capt.

Joseph -R. Lane, Hdq. 125th Capt. John Walsh, Co. 125th Lieut.

Richard E. Russell Hdq. 125th Lieut. George C. Ford, Service 125th Lieut.

Harry L. Marling, Co. 125th Lieut Fred L. Stover, Co. M.

125th Inf. (stationed at Grand Rapids; Fcrgts. Robert H. Long and Edward Vana, U. S.

Army: Sergts. Charles Collins and Ralph -Collins. Hdq. 1115th Inf. as Croesus'; OF CONTROL SOLD BY TO Manufacturers Trust Not Included in Deal Billion-Dollar Merger Off.

Control of the Bank of America, which has been the subject of negotiation between A. P. Glannlni of the Bancitaly Corporation and Ralph Jonas, chairman of the Financial and Industrial Securities Corporation, for the past two weeks was sold last night by Mr. Jonas to the Giannlnl Interests. Other including the Manufacturers Trust, which were thought to be subjects of merger negotiations in the formation of a billion dollar financial organization, are not included in the agreement.

As a result of the termination of the negotiations, the Manufacturers Trust retains its identity as an independent institution and so does the Financial and Securities Corporation with the banks it controls. Bank 116 Years Old. In acquiring the Bank of America, the Bancitaly Corporation, which controls the largest group of banks In California and the Bowery rid Continued on Page t. Blackmer 'Rich AMERICA Gil Court Rules Wife Free To Break Companionate Marriage Agreement Decides Young Medical Student Must Support Better Half Despite Prenuptial Pact to Live Apart Until He Graduates Awards $5 Weekly Alimony to Mrs. Robert Gelin.

Won't Return for Oil Probe That a wife is not bound by law to live up to prenuptial agreements to be a companionate wife until her liusbund has completed studies and begun a professional career is the effect of a decision Woman to Build 676 Houses In Queens at $2,700,000 Cost Eagle Burr.au, 53 Rue Cambon, By GI IUCKOK. Paris, Feb. 25 "I never intend to go to Washington to testify and I don't Intend to talk about this thing over here." This admission was wrung today from Harry M. Blackmer, missing oil witness, who bangs doors, hangs up the telephone receiver or rushes away In his Rolls-Royce whenever questioners succeed, by heavy tips and careful Instructions to hotel personnel, in breaking through the great Isolation barrier he has built up about himself. The former chairman of the Mld-Mfht Refining Company, who has jitat Admitted to the Senate Teapot Doiivj OJ Investigating Committee thro'iuh nis New York counsel that he rccelvej as his shire of the Continental Trading Company deal, reprc-M-nted by Liberty Bonds now on deposit in New York, will never be forced to return to Amertra for lack of money.

A banker who fs familiar wltn handed down yesterday by Jus-" tice Stephen Callaghan in equity term of the Supreme Court. Ihe decision grants a decree of fipHratioii to Mrs. Frieda Bernstein Oeiln of 234 Floyd but awards her only $3 week alimony. In view of the fact that her husband, Robert Oelln of 1652 Madison Manhattan, is still studying medicine. Now that the wife lias elected to repudiate her agreement, and want to live with her husband, and wants him to provide home for her, it may be necessary, Justice Callaghan said, for the husband to abandon his studies and get Job.

for the law compels him to support her as long as they livo apart. Down Bay on Honeymoon. The couple were married June 22. 1927. Their honeymoon consisted of a summar afternoon excursion down the bay.

Then she went back to her position and he returned to his books and studies, fhe raited him to HI- regain tiw Ml if o. j. Blackmer's financial arflalrs said of him today: "He's rich enough lo buy Croesus cut and et him up In business again." The Eagle learns that. James L. O'Netl, a still more elusive missing oil witnpM, has established his family at Villa San Antonia, at Cannes, on the Riviera.

O'Nell was president of the Prairie Oil and Company and his profit from the Continental deal, the Senate Committee has learned, was also about $750,000, which he restored to his compnny when he became conscience btrlckcn. To a correspondent sent by Th" Eagle to Nclls villa, Mrs. O'Neil said: "Mr. O'Neil Is traveling on I do not know where he Is nor when he will return to Cannes." Sho denied her husband was 111 when she was reminded It had been testified before the Senate Committee thnt when he made restitution of the $800,000 In 1925 his doctors had given him but few months to live. It is believed O'Neil travels Incognito, as nobody ran be found who hn seen him during the last two years and until The Eagle located his villa his address was unknown.

A woman builder plans to erect houses costing more than $2,700,000 In Queens. She Is Miss Margaret McCortultk, who ha3 filed with the Queens Building Bureau applications for 676 houses to be erectrd in the Elmhurst section ct a cost of $4,000 each. Where Mies MiCornilrk got her experience, whether she represents herself or a syndicate, and where she obtained her capital are mysteries which rival builders are tumble to silve. When a representative of The fcaulc called on her she refused to ive out nnv Information other than vi'l stKrt bulletins;.