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the the 2 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1928: A. A. EXPOSITION CHIEF MISSING INQUIRY BY 0000 District Atterney Quizzes Past Commander and Major on Funds.

District Attorney Dodd today began an investigation into the management of the ill-starred G. A. R. "Historic Exposition" of nearly five months ago, which has brought the boro organization of Civil War veterans to the brink of bankruptcy. Only two men were questioned by District Attorney today.

They are: Amos Hague, past commander and now trustee of the Brooklyn G. A. who charges that "there is criminal negligence somewhere" in the staging of the exposition, and Major Joseph Caccavajo, who ran the exposition in conjunction with two promoters. Albert Steinberg, one of the two promoters, had been summoned to appear by a letter written his home at 1529 42d but he alto not show up. District Attorney Dodd said that re was now getting in touch with Steinberg's attorney, Aaron Kaufman, of 51 Chambers Manhattan, to find out why the promoter was missing.

According to Mr. Hague, Steinberg maintains that at least $15,000 was taken in by the exposition instead of the $11,380 which Major Caccavajo says is the correct sum. On the other hand, Major Caccavajo claims that Steinberg and Harry Berry of 1560 Broadway, Manhattan, the other promoter, ran up a number of bills for trict Attorney Dodd therefore adwhich they had no, authority, Disjourned the investigation today until he can have time to weigh papers already submitted to him, and until he can get in touch with Steinberg. More than $4.000 in unpaid bills still face the G. A.

which has practically no money to them and which maintains that Major Caccavajo is personally responsible. SALT CREEK DEAL HELD FRAUD LIKE TEAPOT CONSPIRACY Continued from Page 1, oil was turned over to the Shipping Board at the average price paid in the Salt Creek field. Fall Changel Arrangement, The Shipping Board in turn traded this crude oil for fuel oil at seaboard for use in its merchant ships. It was thus able to reduce materially its costs operation. Fall did not think much of this arrangement.

He claimed the Shipping Board was not paying as much as he could get from private really corporations. make any course, difference to the Of it did not Federal Treasury what. the Shipping Board was paying for the oil, as it was a matter of taking out of one Government pocket, the Shipping Board, what it put into the other Government pocket, the Treasury. But Fall didn't like it. So he got busy at once trying to get rid of his arrangement.

His attempts were resisted by the Shipping Board through its chairman, Albert D. Lasker, and its oil expert. Joseph A. Phelan. President Harding at first backed up the Snipping Board, but finally, under some unexplained pressure from Fall, agreed to permit the sale of the Salt Creek royalty oil to private corporations.

Oil Situation in 1922. This was the situation in October, 1922, when Fall published his official advertisements for bids on this oil. Seven months before Fall had leased the Teapot Dome reserve to Harry Sinclair, and had received from him $233,000 in Liberty Bonds soon after the transaction was completed. These bonds were secretly pased to Fall by Sinclair through M. T.

Everhart. They were later discovered to have come from the Continental Trading Company, a fake Canadian corporation, which had been formed by Sinclair, Stewart, Blackmer and O'Neil for the purpose of creating a "slush fund" which would be difficult to trace. The Teapot Dome lease was alread, under fire, the Senate having ordered an inquiry into it on the ground that it had been secretly awarded to Sinclair without competitive bidding, as provided by law. Nobody at that time knew that Fall had received money or bonds from either Sinclair Doheny. The Senate merely knew the trans action was irregular and had resolved to look into its legality.

Makes Everything "Regular." So Fall in preparing for new deal determined to have everything look regular, on the surface at least. He, therefore, advertised in the oil journals for bids for the Government's royalty oil from the Salt Creek field. This advertisement specifically called for "sealed bids to be submitted to his office, Interior Building, Washington, D. prior to noon of Nov. 15, 1922." This seemed to give everybody a fair chance and to comply fully with the law providing for competitive bidding.

But let us see what was happening behind the scenes. Whenever Fall had a big deal to pull off which required secrecy, he went to his ranch at Three Rivers, N. a hundred miles from nowhere. Here we find him in the early part of November, 1922. Soon there are visitors-three of them.

They are well known now, but then their names meant nothing outside the oil industry. They were Sinclair, Stewart Blackmer. Stewart and Blackmer came together and left before Sinclair did. Whether the three oil kings who played such a large part in the Teapot Dome conspiracy were all there at the same time is not clear. Stewart says they were not, but the following hitherto unpublished telegrams show conclusively that they were there hours of each other.

Telegram from Blackmer. First we have 8 telegram sent by Blackmer from Three Rivers on Nov. 11, 1922, as fellows: 0. Deitler, "Midwest Refining Denver, Colorado: "Leaving Gold State today. Change my Santa Fe reservations to Sunday, Tell Dines and Clark to meet Colonel Topeka or Kansa3 City Sunday and go East with him.

Advise Carruth and Arthur I will be home Monday morning. H. M. BLACKMER." There is another telegram sent by Stewart at the same time, showing he was leaving on the same Then comes the following telegram from sinclair showing that he was Chow Pup Is Zeppelin's Mascot Veedol, a Chow puppy, was of the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst, the return trip to Germany of the in the arms of Knute Eckener, son and the heroic mechanic who climbed fin to make repairs on the flight to in Three Rivers on Nov. 12 and ex- pected to be there until Nov.

15: "Mr. C. E. Crawley, "Sinclair Oil Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma: "Leaving Three Rivers 1:05 a.m., Wednesday, November fifteenth, for Dalhart, Texas. Leave Denver six p.m..

November sixteenth for Casper. Please meet me on my arrival in Denver. If plans are change. I will wire you. F.

SINCLAIR." Important Fact in Revelation. It is a matter of no consequence whether they were all there together or whether they arranged to a gap of 24 hours between Blackmer the the ure of Stewart and arrival of Sinclair. The important fact is that while the legitimate bidders were filing their sealed bids at the Interior Department in Washington, these three conspirators were secretly meeting with Fall at his file New their Mexico bids ranch and arranging to after the others were all in on terms privately agreed to at these New Mexico conferences. This fact in itself is enough to invalidate the contract. That no bids had been filed either Sinclair or by Blackmer's comthe Midwest, prior to the offcial filing time of noon of Nov.

15 is pany, shown by the following telegram which Fall filed at Three Rivers at 3:30 p.m. of that day--three and a half hours after the bidding had offi- "Finney, Interior Department, Washington, D. C. "Think all bids should be held for present. I know each of three Midwest companies will bid and also one for all, also Sinclair, and if we are not too formal and avail ourselves of necessary part of month and half which we have we will get present Midcontinent full differential.

You can use my absence reason making no announcements or referring to mines. Am quite unwell. Bad cold, but will leave via El Paso in two or three days. "FALL, Secretary." Sinclair Makes Admission, Sinclair himself has admitted tha' his bid was not filed until late in the afternoon of the closing day, and then was sent by telegram (later confirmed by letter) after he had left Fall's ranch. There were further irregularities.

Although the Sinclair bid was filed in the name of the Mammoth Oil Company, Fall permitted the substitution of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, which, as we have seen, was Jointly' owned by Sinclair and Stewart's company, the Standard Oil of Indiana. This contract was written to run five years from Jan. 1, 1923, with an option for the bidder to renew at the same price for another five-year period. This option clause, which was not in conformity with the terms advertised, provides the ground upon which the Attorney has just declared the entire transaction void. Basis for Damage Suit.

The newly discovered evidence of conspiracy, secret conferences, and violation of the filing time, set forth above, constitutes new and substantial grounds for cancellation and for a civil suit to recover damages for the Government. We come now to even stronger reason for such action. That is, the circumstantial evidence that Fall received $35,000 in cash in connection with this transaction. It has been known for nearly a year that Sinclair transmitted to Fail through his son-in-law, M. T.

Everhart, the sum of $10,000 in cash while Sinclair was visiting the New Mexico ranch, in November, 1922, and another $25,000 in cash which was paid over at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, in January, 1923, Everhart so testified as soon as was given personal immunity. But the significance of the dates of these payments was not appreciated until this newly discovered evidence regarding the private conferences on the Salt Creek royalty oil deal came presented to members of the crew N. yesterday as a mascot for giant airship. Veedol is shown of the Zeppelin's commander out on the dirigible's damaged America. MAGISTRATES ASK CENTRAL BUILDING FOR ALL COURTS Plan, Approved by Walker, Will Enable Huge Saving, Declares Corrigan.

Erection of a central building to house all the magistrates' courts in Manhattan, with another to follow with the same effect in Brooklyn, was proposed today by Magistrate Joseph Corrigan at a meeting of the Board of Estimate and in principle approved by Mayor Walker. The magistrate who, with other speakers, pleaded for central magistrates' courts building in Manhattan, pointed out that this would result in enormous savings to the city and a speeding up of the disposition of cases. It would be a convenience to the police and the Bar. The mayor asked for a brief setting forth the economies expected, the location. estimated cost and the suggested He said he would refer the matter to the city engineers as to a committee of the Board" of Estimate.

Contracts for snow removal this winter were awarded by the Committee of the Whole, as follows: Brooklyn, 1st district M. S. Hickey Company, $.465 per cubic yard. Brooklyn, 2d district--Highgrade Building Supply Company, $.429, Manhattan, 2d district--Melrose Contracting Corporation, $.461. Manhattan, 3d districtCorporation, $465.

The Bronx-Melrose Corporation, $.475. RADIO SUIT LOST BY WESTINGHOUSE Washington, Oct. 29 (P) -The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company today was denied title to "regenerative" or "feedback" circuit, a basic feature in radio amplification, used in many receiving sets. The Supreme Court announced without opinion that the decision of the lower court was affirmed on authority cited. NEWSPAPER CLUB BACKS POST IN FIGHT ON BAN The Board of Directors of the Newspaper Club today adopted a resolution in support of the Evening Post's injunction suit to compel Police Commissioner Warren to admit its reporter, Louis Davidson, into Manhattan Police Headquarters.

"The members of this club extend every legitimate aid to any reporter who may hereafter be improperly discriminated against by any public offithe resolution states. to light. It is now noted that the first payment of $10,000 coincides with the time at which Fall permitted Sinclair to file his bid after the official filing time was closed and that the second payment of $25,000 follows soon after the beginning of the actual delivery of the oil to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company on Jan. 1, 1923. We thus find this Salt Creek royalty oil deal surrounded by the same evidences of irregularity, fraud and corruption that characterized the Teapot Dome lease.

which the Supreme Court has denounced as leaving "a trail of deceit, falsehood. subterfuge, bad faith and corruption" And the principal actors in both transactions are substantially the -Sinclair, Stewart, Blackmer and Fall. 2 Boys, 15, Seized in Robbing Diner Facing Police Station Two 15-year-old boys who had the nerve to burglarize the lunch wagon across from the Snyder ave, police station, 8 favorite eating place of cops and plain clothes men, will be arraigned in the Children's Court this morning. lunch wagon, known as the Court Diner, is closed on Sundays and a pedestrian who knew this reported the presence of the boys to the police, who otherwise would not have known what was going 011. A 8 o'clock last nigl Thomas Nosson, 15, of 501 W.

49th hattan, and his pot, John Edler, 15, of 553 W. 53d Manhattan, who had WOMAN ENDS LIFE IN SUBWAY JUMP; 200 SEE TRAGEDY Gussie Licht, 24, Leaps in Front of I. R. T. Train at Sutter Ave.

Station. Miss Gussie Licht, 24, of 128 Rockaway pkway. committed suicide at 7 o'clock this morning, according to the police, by leaping in front of a Manhattan-bound I. R. T.

train at the Sutter ave. station. Her body was identified by a orother-in-law, Charles Chase, of the same address, who said the young woman had been ill and despondent for two months. Two hundred persons on the station platform saw the girl killed. According to witnesses, she had been pacing up and down nervously.

As the train entered the station she hurled her pocketbook to the track, they told the police, and then leaped. Motorman Ernest Gunno applied the airbrakes and brought the train to a stop after it had pushed the young woman along the tracks several feet. The wheels did not pass over her but an ambulance surgeon from St. Mary's Hospital said she had died of a broken neck and a broken back. Traffic was halted for 15 minutes on the line.

ZEPPELIN SIGHTED OVER ATLANTIC ON RETURN VOYAGE Continued from Page 1. sen, keeper of the lonely Santaky Light, the first beacon sighted by incoming transatlantic liners. Small Crowd Sees Takeoff. In contrast to the big crowd that the Lakehurst hangar arrived two weeks ago on hand to witness departure. All day yesterday the time of detime first set at 5 p.m.

and then parture Made remained in doubt. The advanced to midnight. But no one seemed to believe the ship actually was going to take off. But midnight came and action followed with breath-taking swiftness, the Associated Press reports. The passengers were bundled aboard, chatting feverishly and grinning with something of desperation in their smiles.

Ground Crew Walks Ship Out. The ground crew of more than 300 sailors grasped the air monster as unceremoniously as a mother pushes a baby carriage. An officer harked a terse command. The great ship stirred through its whole length of 778 feet, its 111 tons of weight seemed to heave it like a giant sighing at the thought of activity expected of him. Out of the hangar the sailors walked the Graf Zeppelin as though it were a little blimp.

At 1:35 the Graf Zeppelin was clear of the hangar and so had passed one of the most perilous moments of any flight, for one of the greatest dangers is the possibility of some errant gust of wind pushing the ship against the hangar walls and ripping its silver flanks against the steel bulkheads. Zeppelin Shoots Upward. Under the sailors' expert guidance the Graf Zeppelin twisted to a hollow far enough from the hangar so that there no danger of being blown "against the towering steel I structure. "Weigh ship!" an officer bellowed. The ground crew released its manyhanded hold.

The Graf Zeppelin lifted its head slowly as though sniffing the relish of the morning air, and then a roar of five great engines split the night. Propelled by those engines the Graf Zeppelin shot upward toward the moon, and circled majestically overhead. Once in the air all its sluggishness seemed to have vanished. It had suddenly became a fairy thing, light and graceful and utterly scornful of the human help which had been so needful to it on the ground. Passenger Radios All o.

K. Columbus, Ohio, Oct 29 (AP) --Mrs. Donald M. Casto today received the following radio message from her husband aboe the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight to Germany: "Daybreak, heading over lantic. Motors perfect.

Wonderful weather." Eckener Thanks Mr. Coolidge. During the first hour of flight Capt. Hugo Eckener, pilct of the Graf Zeppelin, dispatched three messages of thanks for the reception given the dirigible crew while in America. One was addressed to the commanding officer here, one to the Secretary of the Navy and one to President Coolidge.

Three United States Navy officers are aboard the Zeppelin as guest observers on her homeward flight. They are Commander M. R. Pierce, executive officer of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station; Lt. G.

W. Settle, engineer officer of the Los Angeles, and Lt. C. E. Bauch, watch officer of the Los Angeles and flight officer of the station.

In addition to these are Mrs. Clara Adams, Tannersville, wife of George L. Adams, retired business man; Donald M. Casto of Columbus. Ohio; Joseph D.

Jessel of York City; Col. Allen Miller, New York end London financier; Paul M. Marko of Brooklyn; Richard J. Burke, Big Bear Lake. and the following who were passengers on the Alight from Germany: Ernest Brandenburg, German Minister Transportation; Dr.

Denkendorf of the German Aeronautical Institute: Dr. Krueger, Aeronautical Testing Institute; Karl von Tyszka, Engineer Bock, Engineer Schirlitz, Dr. Ludwig Dettman, Rolf Brandt, Walter KAlfler, Theodore Mateiko, Rudolph Hartmann. a News Reel cameraman, and Meier a German movie cameraman. Lady Grace Drummond Hay, who made the trip from Germany, 1'e- mained in the United States.

So did Karl von Wiegand, newspaperman. Expect 50-Hour Flight. One unexpected passenger was a 6-weeks-old chow dog presented to Capt. von Schiller, one of the officers, few hours before the dirigible sailed. Thirty-two bags of mail were loaded aboard.

The letters and postcards had been collected in New York, the letters prepaid nt the rate of $1.05 and the cards at 53 cents each. Although regular freight service is not be inaugurated until the Zeppelin's nxt American visit, tour special consignments were accepted 101 this voyage at $5 a pound. Among the shipments were a bale of cotton. two portable typewriters, a case of engraved copper plates and a case of silk cloth. Their total weight was 311 pounds.

Dr. Eckener expected the return to Germany would take 50 hours, 'FLYING DOWN IN SEA, REFUELS TO CONTINUE HOP TODAY Bermuda-Bound Fliers, Forced to Land in Barnegat Bay, Prepare to Resume Flight. Atlantic City, N. Oct. 29 -Refueling of the seaplane Flying Fish for the continuation of its round-trip flight to Bermuda via Hampton Roads was started at 11 o'clock today and hope was expressed by the crew that it would be able to start.

this afternoon. Mechanics from Ireland Airport factory, which had followed the plane yesterday after its takeoff from Port when it was forced to alight in BarneWashington and came to its rescue gat Bay several hours later, worked throughout the morning in making adjustments to the motor. Capt. Harry Lyon, the navigator; Lt. W.

N. Lancaster, George Palmer Putnam, the publisher and passenger arrived at the hangar about 10 o'clock in readiness to leave just as soon as the mechanics pronounced the Flying Fish ready for the air. Neither Captain Lyon nor Lieutenant Lancaster had any comment to make on their forced landing yesterday, but Mr. Putnam declared that it had been due to water in the gasoline. He said that he had at once communicated with the factory at Port Washington and an investigation was being made to determine who had been responsible for the carelessness.

COP PLEADS GUILTY TO OPIUM CHARGE Harold Butler of 81 Cumberland a suspended patrolman, pleaded guilty today before Federal Judge Robert A. Inch to possession of opium and was released in $5,000 bail to await sentencing after the trial Nov. 12 of 13 other persons under indictment in the same case. Butler's pleas is the aftermath of his seizure, Sept. 11, on Pier 36, Brooklyn, of $300,000 worth of opium that was allegedly smuggled from the British steamship Kendall Castle, then moored to that pier.

Before the opium was turned in at the Hamilton ave. station, according to Assistant Federal Attorney Lindsay Henry, Butler lugged it around town for six hours, trying to sell it. CITE MAYOR HAGUE FOR CONTEMPT IN NEW JERSEY QUIZ Continued from Page 1. can just as well be answered after clection as they can before election. "If you will now fix the date immediately after election I will then gladly answer your questions 4 have been ready to do since last July." Calls It Political Move.

The letter opened with the statement that the committee was created last April and that when Hague was subpenaed on July 16 he was obliged to wait until 30 minutes before adjournment before being called, and then, the letter pointed out, the Mayor was called only upon the insistence of Assemblyman Morris E. Barison, one of its Democratic members. "Since that time," the Mayor wrote, "four and a half months have elapsed. It is now evident that you delayed calling me until the event of an important election. The delay until this latter date cannot be construed for any other than political reasons." Chairman Case had previously announced that Mayor Hague would be adjudged in contempt of the committee if he failed to appear.

Russell E. Watson, counsel to the Commission, after the letter was read, asserted that the "time had come to decide who was bigger, Hague, or New Jersey." U. S. to Probe Registration. Washington, Oct.

29 (P)-Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were ordered today by the Department of Justice to examine into the reports of widespread fraudulent registration of voters in New Jersey. 1,700 Voters Restored To Lists by Ferguson in Jersey Registration Quiz Jersey City, Oct. 29 -Superintendent of Elections John Ferguson today announced that 1,700 names which he had challenged have been restored to the voting list. work of restoring voters by affidavit went on today. Mr.

Ferguson gave out a statement in which he said: "Whatever defects the Jaw may have. it was enacted to prevent ballo box crools of all kinds from fraudulent voting. I an. not concerned with the politics of any one who comes here who is on the advertised list. My sole concern is to see that their rights are safeguarded inasmuch as I can do it.

"There are manv names on the advertised list of voters which will be taken the registry tomorrow night (Tuesday) after 8 o'clock if these voters do not appear to show the bureau they are legally entitled to vote." 5TH AVE. ROUSED BY SHOTS; THREE BANDITS CAUGHT Continued from Page 1. card game at 216 W. 43d st. in which he had lost $4.

He said that on Oct. 19 he held up patrons in a restaurant at 116 W. 46th escaping with $3,000 in cash and jewelry. The prisoner, police said, also admitted other holdups in the theatrical section, Washington Heights and on the East Side. "Fence" Now Sought.

John Collins said Taylor held up 3 speakeasy near 34th st. and 7th ave. and got $23,000 in cash and jewelry. A "fence," said to have taken their loot, was being sought today. During the questioning the younger Collins, who came here recently from Northfield, N.

and seemed to have played a minor part in the only crime he admitted, fell asleep during Taylor's long story. EMPIRE CITY RESULTS First--Grace 112 (Kelsay), 13-10, first; Fliterman, 110 (Bernhard), 7-1, 3-1, 7-5, second; Blue Aster, 112 (Schriener), 30-1, 12-1, 6-1, hird. Time, 1:10. Chester Park, Byway, Munning, Bunnykins, Royal Lot. Rovegen, Slow Poxe and Patsy Mac Donald also ran, Ex-Actor Freed in Burglary Despite Another Crime in 1905 White Plains, Oct.

29-Emile Edwards, 49, a former vaudeville actor, withdrew his plea of not guilty to an indictment charging third-degree burglary before Justice Walter G. C. County Court here today, pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence. He admitted that on July 10 he broke into the office of the Gebereaux Realty Company, Yonkers, and took 50 cents from the, safe. He declared that for the past years he had been in vaudeville, operating shadowgraphs, in which, by the use of his fingers, he was able to throw shadows on a screen depicting various characters.

Last spring, he said, he could DR. THOMAS WALSH, POET, HEART VICTIM Stricken on Steps of Home on Clinton Street. Dr. Thomas Walsh, an assistant editor of the Commonweal and widely known as a poet, critic and authority on Spanish and Latin-American literature, died suddenly this morning of heart disease on the steps of his residence, 227 Clinton st. He had been suffering from heavy cold but, feeling somewhat recovered had visited friends, from whose home he had returned when he was stricken on the stoop of his own residence, where his body was found by a patrolman.

Born in Brooklyn, Oct. 14, 1875, the son of Michael Kavanagh Walsh and Catherine Farrell Walsh, he was eduGeorgetown and Columbia University, He took the degrees of Phd.D. at Columbia, Litt.D. at Georgetown and LL.D. at Notre Dame.

Among his numerous books were several volumes of poetry, "The Prison Ship," "The Pilgrim Kings" and "Don Folquet" being perhaps the best known. He was editor of the Catholic Anthology and of the Hispanic American Anthology. Mr. Walsh had been highly honored by many learned societies of Spain and South America, having been given the Grand Cross of Isabei Catolica and the Honorary Medal of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, before which society he read the ode on the battlefield of Antietam, Sept. 15, 1910.

Of late years he had added the studies of Scandinavian, particularly Swedish, literature to his work. He is survived by two brothers, Frank H. and Edward N. Walsh, and two sisters, Miss Lorna and Miss Lydia Walsh. He was a member of the University Club and the Columbia Club High mass of requiem will be celebrated at the Church of St.

Paul's, Court and Congress on day ment will morning be in at Holy 10:30 Cross o'clock. Cemetery. 100 INDICTMENTS RETURNED IN QUIZ OF VOTING FRAUDS Continued from Page 1. for the Democratic County, Committee, announced that he sent out numerous letters to first voters offering, in the event that their votes are challenged, any assistance to which they are legally entitled. Mr.

Hertz also has about 20 complaints that persons who registered in different sections of the boro, cannot now be found at the addresses that they gave. Policemen were sent to all such addresses to make a check and the names were placed on the challenge list. So far, the Brooklyn challenge list has gone well above 150. and will probably go higher But, Mr. Hertz pointed out, the courts might decide that some of those whose names appear on the list could vote, since their presence there was caused by the inefficiency of election boards, which registered first voters without demanding diplomas or literacy tests.

One such board wrote in the registration books that applicants showed diplomas. The registrants themselves, that in large numbers have testified the were not asked to show them, even though many actually had them. Wife of Enright Aid Gets Rum Fine Cut to $1 After Week in Jail After a week's imprisonment in default of $250, the Volstead Act violation fine of Mrs. Margaret Hackett, 32, of 3185 89th Jackson Heights Manor, was reduced, today by Federal Judge Robert to $1, which she paid. Mrs.

Hackett, the estranged wife of John C. Hackett, Police Department secretary throughout the regime of former Commissioner Richard E. Enright, was advised by Judge Inch that "you must find different associations for the future. I am informed that you are in danger of becoming nothing better than a common bum." Mrs. Anna Meyer Falls Dead in Husband's Arms Mrs.

Anna C. Meyer, wife of Frank W. Meyer, former member of the Board of Education and sister of Dock Commissioner Henry A. Meyer, died suddenly last night at her home, 528 E. as she was talking to her husband.

He caught her as she collapsed from a heart attack and she died in his arms. Mrs. Meyer was widely known for her charitable work and was a member of the Intermission Society and St. Paul's Lutheran Church, where she was for nine years prasident of the Ladies Aid Society. She was born in Williamsburg and is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs.

Anne Tomlinson and Miss M. Tietjen. Services will be held at her late home tomorrow night at 3 o'clock. The Rev. Dr.

Louis Happ will officiate. no longer obtain employment, as the public is no longer interested in his form entertainment. "I don't know whether I am making the greatest mistake of my life, Justice Otto said. "You committed a crime 23 years ago in Brooklyn and under the Baumes Law it is necessary for me to send you away for 10 years or else give you your freedom. "I have talked with your wife and I know how you lost your position I have also seen the Belgian war baby that you have adopted and I suspend sentence in the hope of saving a human soul." Edwards has been promised work by a White Plains theater manager, who will attempt to revive interest in shadowgraphs, Justice Otto said.

G. O. P. INTENSELY WATCHING SMITH AS DRAWING CARD to the first lady of New York. Defeatist Atmosphere Vanishing.

Continued from Page 1. a luncheon in her honor by the club women. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the last Democratic President, also was a guest of honor at the luncheon. Hundreds Cheer "First Ladies." As the wives of the two standard bearers Democracy rose from their places of honor to be photographed together the hundreds women cheered.

Mrs. Smith wore a brown flat crepe frock with a small hat match, while Mrs. Wilson wore black satin and a tri-cornered black hat trimmed with small green feathers. The head table was banked with flowers, gifts As this unparalleled campaign of 1928 enters its final week, the basic situation favors Herbert Hoover's election, but Governor Smith appears to be gaining strength. The defeatist atmosphere that earlier surrounded his campaign is speedily disappearing.

The widest difference of opinion exists with regard to the effect of Mr. Smith's invasion of Pennsylvania. The aggressive Democrats, such as Chairman Raskob, believe that the Governor has a good chance to win that State-a belief much reinforced since the great Republican city of Philadelphia gave Mr. Smith such an extraordinary welcome. A Tremendous Task.

On the other hand, Pennsylvania gave President Coolidge a majority of almost in 1924. To make a gain of 500,000 votes in a State that has not voted for a Democratic candidate for President since the Civil War is a tremendous undertaking. The Republican headquarters in Washington are watching the great Eastern crowds that turn out to greet Governor Smith with intense interest, although no good Republican will admit for publication that these crowds mean anything. However, the change in Mr. Hoover's plans tells its own story.

His decision to speak at St. Louis on his way to California is evidence of how close the race is in Missouri, which has 18 votes. Ths St. Louis address, according to Mr. Hoover's friends, will satisfy those who have been demanding a more aggressive and affirmative campaign on the part of the Republican nominee.

The decision for Mr. Hoover to speak at Pueblo, Nov. 3, is due to the need for a direct appeal to the Mountain States, which Mr. Hoover has hitherto ignored, but where Governor Smith made two speeches in September. The declaration of Senator George Norris of Nebraska for the Democratic candidate is responsible for the elimination of that State from Mr.

Hoover's itinerary, It was felt that Mr. Hoover could not speak in Nebraska without confusing and endangering the situation in that State still further. Mrs. Wilson on Platform. The speech tonight, to be delivered in the Fifth Regiment Armory, where Woodrow Wilson was nominated in 1912, will be broadcast over the nation beginning at 9 o'clock Eastern time.

Governor Smith was notified that Mrs. Wilson would be on the platform. In view of the nominee's statement that he intended to employ the final week of the campaign in a summing up of the issues, it was believed that he would devote at least part of his single Maryland speech to Prohibition as he did in the big ballot center of Philadelphia. Some thought he would take another oral fling at Herbert Hoover, probably in connection with his extra session statement on farm relief. I After overnight stay in Balti- more, Governor Smith will return to New York to prepare for his second speech of the week at Newark, N.

Wednesday night. On Friday, the Academy of Music at Brooklyn, he will deliver an address on State issues, and on Saturday nicht wind up his speaking campaign with a general appeal to the national electorate from Madison Square Garden. Scores of telegrams had reached the Governor today praising his Philadelphia speech. Payton and Winchell Named in Padlock Suits Corse Payton, matinee idol in also produced, and Walter Winchell, end 30-cent melodrama, which he Brooklyn in a the heyday of 10, 20 columnist of the Graphic, are named with eight others in padlock proceedings which have been instituted by Assistant Federal Attorney piro in Manhattan, against the Artists Social Democratic Club, at 256 W. 48th Manhattan.

The ten men are named as directors and officers of the club, which, according to Mr. Shapiro, has been operated solely as a drinking establishment and not for political purposes. MRS. GRACE McLENNAN DIES. Tyringham, Oct.

29 (P)-Mrs. Grace Tytus McLennan, writer, died at her home here today. Two weeks ago she fractured a hip while playing tennis. Later pneumonia developed, causing her death. She was 53.

Boy Who Set School Afire To Get Sanity Examination Justice Peter B. Hanson in Brookyn Children's Court today ordered an examination into the sanity of 14- year-old Matthew Angelo of 305 Nostrand when the boy was brought before him on a juvenile delinquency charge for setting fire to P. S. No. 3, Hancock st.

and Bedford which he attended as a pupil, in order to destroy records of "bad marks" and truancy against him. The boy, thin and bewildered looking. entered a plea of not guilty through his attorney, with the right (to change the plea later, ALLEN TESTIFIES BEFORE GRAND JURY WITHQUESTIONNAIRE Reiterates His City Graft Charges and Brings Data on Campaign Pamphiats. William H. Allen, director of the Institute of Public Service, appeared before the Grand Jury in Manhattan today with the announcement that he had what he termed "good and sufficient evidence" in support of his recent charges of wholesale graft in city departments before the Board of Estimate.

Allen was also armed with a sheaf of papers containing 20 questions he proposed the Grand Jury to ask him, and a collection of miscellaneous literature on the Presidential campaign. There was no inkling as to whether the Grand Jury put the witness' questions to him, but Allen, as he left the courtroom, handed reporters the list with his answers. Sees Fear of Reprisals. The campaign, literature Allen "begged to his inquisitors included a book, "Al Smith's Tammany a pamphlet, "Smith and Hoover Boyhoods," and a number of postcard bulletins issued by his tnstitute. Allen's list of questions opened the way for a reiteration of his sweeping graft claims, with added allegations that fears of reprisals, increased assessments, police "frameups" and other sources of embarrassment deter citizen who know of alleged graft from making complaints.

By asking himself what kind of graft evidence he had to offer Allen got his examination of himself under way by stating that he could produce direct testimony, "circumstantial evidence which can by inquiries be quickly turned into direct evidence. of crime," and the names of persons possessing "convincing circumstantial Sees Charity Bureau Perils. Then Allen asked himself what types of reprisals keep citizens from complaining about, graft replied: "Buyers manufacturers of oil tanks are afraid that ways will be found by officials to injure them if they openly. ight what they know is unreasonable rejection of all but one favored tank. "Contractors and landlords are afraid that objections to illegal exactions other than by hiring political lawyers for 'under cover work' will destroy the profit of their enterorises, "Trustees of private, charitable and educational institutions to receive $9,000,000 of city money next year are afraid city payments to their institutions will be held up." In turn similar reprisals are cited as being brought to bear against newswho fear "increased assessed valuapapers, corporations and industries tions." Dr.

Allen was in the Grand Jury room 20 minutes. He brought four witnesses. NIGHT CLUBS DIE AS RACKETEERS OUST 'SUCKERS' Continued from Page 1. needn't necessarily die of ennui when they visit here. If undressed ladies, daring redheads and steaming hot singers what they're looking for, there are plenty of surviving clubs where these same features can be found.

But Back Bay and Herkimer and Dubuque must mingle with Chicago beer racketeers, confidence men, badger-bound women, Bowery bouncers and the Broadway-wise mob. For the most part your "ladies of the night" are now the "ladies of the night club." For the most part, they get their man. Mrs. Willebrandt hasn't, and it's because we around a bit, and know. done a great deal of good.

True enough, protection costs more. But it also protects with greater zest. A few months ago a gentleman who was presumed to be a stranger visited one of the most notorious clubs in New York. The hangers- on at this club, whose business it is to scrape up acquaintances with the mcre prosperous-looking patrons, gave him the glad hand. On the second drink the stranger got friendly, On the third he got downright jovial.

It, was the fourth drink for which they waited. On the fourth he got talkative. It was then that he was escorted up a flight ct stairs, $40,000 in whoopee money was taken from him and he was given the works. Playing the Sucker Game. poses of publicity.

Public Saving Its Money, But although he was a stranger he' wasn't exactly helpless. It seems that he had a little pull, too. And so next morning he visited the hostess of this particular club and, as Broadway has it, squawked. His "pull" evidently helped her to see the light. At first, having pleaded absolute astonishment, amazement and innocence.

she changed her tune and agreed to see what she could do about it. It was barely possible that she might be able to help him recover his roll-but--it would cost him $5,000. He agreed, and went home. And three hours later he had his roll back, minus the six. Life is like that.

At least your modern night club life is. Nor is there any reason for the agitation of the public concerning the frequent shootings and -candals in connection with New Yorks night clubs. Taken by and large, they aren't a whole lot different than the frequent local "gang killings." With those who frequent the present typa night club, recruited chiefly from the ranks of the underworld, the fights are generally of the private variety. Your night-roving public wasn't born yesterday. It knows that there isn't any Santa Claus, that the only storks In the vicinity are those found In the zocs, and that even the surestfingered gunman misses on occasion.

It knows, too, that a night club that is on the up-and-up doesn't need gorillas for protection, gunmen for patrons and internal warfare for pur- just gotten out of the Cathole Protectory in Wes VT, decided to celebrate. They placed a ladder against the diner's ventilator and climbed through to where the "big eats" awaited them. They ate almost an entire chocolate cake and demolished a pie, made coffee and took $3 worth of cigarettes. Then they were observed by the passer-by. When the detectives arrived the boys had departed.

Half an hour later they returned for more eats and were arrested by the waiting detectives. Charles Muller, proprietor of the diner will appear against them today, Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy testitied that the youngster, after firemen had put out a blaze in the principal's office of the school and in two classrooms on the top floor of the east wing, had told him he had started 'he blaze for the purpose of destroyng the incriminating school records. He got into the school building Saturday night by climbing over a back fence. The Court thereupon remanded the hoy to the oustody of the Children's Society and announced that a sanity examination would be made before his next appearance in court on I Nov. 8.

Also, it appears to be turning that knowledge into dollars saved. Twodollar ginger ale and $20 tips have lost their kick. "Hello, Sucker" is a threadbare battle cry. Henna-ed hostesses are no longer the expensive luxuries they once Floor shows with 110 more to them than a lack of costume, nave proven decidedly dull. Roughnecks and sters make questionable playmates, confidence men and come-ons who work the old must-get-the-fur-coatout-of-storage and sick-mother gags are passe and, finally, there's a lot more kick, so far AS the average New Yorker is concerned, in reading about a shooting than in participating in one.

It was a good racket while it lasted, but it's all over now The night club is dead. Long live the Brownstone front. life shifts to tha digniNed "Brownstone.