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FAIR TONIGHT AND ARMJl Z.OMGHT; MODERATE SH.HISC INDS BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE enpntlara today, 12 m. (LsaW WALL STREET ata (Uht) wn foe 10 jm. mm .57 CmIta. Emn Ha 14. FOUR O'CLOCK I Value IS NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927.

34 PAGES. THREE CENTS MY FORCED TO REACT SNYDER MURDER i Character Sketches Show Gray and Trial Lawyer Frieda Hempel Sues August Heckscher for $1,000,000 'Allowance' KELLOGG REJECTS BRITAIN'S PLEATQ 50,000 MORE FACE FLOOD PERILS AS WATERS SWEEP ON TAKES BLUDGEON ON ORDER OF WALLACE AND SWINGS IT TO DESCRIBE HOW HE SLEW HERE AND NOW Rise in Witness Stand and Grips Deadly Sash Weight With Both Hands Mother Is Mercifully Absent as Ha Demonstrates Blows That Killed Editor-Victim. Highlights of Testimony Gray Poured Into Record The most important things developed from Henry Judd Cray as a witness at his murder trial today were: 1 Gray drank to excess, yet he was able to hold to a wonderfully clear memory. 2 Gray did not tell Haddon Gray to destroy the evidences of the murder in Syracuse. He inferred Haddon did so of his own accord.

3 Gray once discouraged an effort by Mrs. Snyder to have him run away and marry. That would be bigamy and Gray didn't want to be a bigamist. 4 Gray admitted that although Mrs. Snyder had made several attempts to kill her husband, none succeeded until he took a hand.

5 Gray admitted he went to Queens Village with murder in his heart. 6 Gray admitted he took off his glasses before the murder because he feared a possible fight. Detailed Testimony Given By Gray in His Third Day On Stand in Own Defense Queens County Courthouse, Long Island City, Alay 5 Following is the detailed testimony given on the stand today by Henry Judd Gray, first in direct examination by his trial attorney, Samuel Miller, and then in cross-examination by Dana Wallace, counsel for Mrs. Snyder: CANCELS We are becoming suspicious of the soft coal strike. It la proceeding al together too softly.

And It Is remarkably quiet In the realm of politics, where there is so much pussyfooting you can hear a hint drop. Suggested title for Republican questionnaire: "Ask Me Another Term." The "Mississippi Bubble" of 1720 was a deception. The present one is the real thing. Testimony seems to indicate that the late Albert Suydcr's death was due to the failure of both defendants' efforts to spare his life. HARDING.

6 IN LDJtfELY SPOT Cabaret Pianist, Arrested After Chase, Is Quizzed on Kane Murder. Benjamin Rosen, 24, of 1769 Park pl a cabaret pianist with the professional name Paul Hardy, was held by the police of the Empire blvd. precinct early today charged with assault and robbery on complaint of Marie Vollmer, 22, a frail, delicate-looking German immigrant girl, employed as a maid at 556 Crown t. Rosen, according to Miss Vollmer's story, seized her by the throat as she was passing through an apartment house courtyard on Albany between Crown and Carroll on her way home from Manhattan at 1:30 a.m., knocked her down, punched her in the face, choked her, robbed her of five $1 bills and, in the end, threw a lighted cigarette In her fact with the cynical regard as he left her: "Here, take a smoke and forget it!" For some 20 minutes the girl fought back with Inadequate strength, snatched and punched at him and screamed for help, which failed to come. When Rosen started away on a run she followed In pursuit, and the 13 he took from the girl, together with the cigarette he threw at her, proved to be conclusive evidence against Rosen as her assailant after he was caught.

In the police precinct Rosen was grilled by detectives as to his knowl-edge'of the brutal murder, following a similar assault as this today of Florence Kane over a year ago, whose dead body was found on an empty lot not far away. He denied, however, having anything to do with that crime. Swope and Four Others Hurt in Triple Collision Five persons were Injured, one' seriously, last night In a triple automobile collision in Yonkers. The injured are Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor of the World, and Mrs. Swope; who were in Mr.

Swope's car; Mrs. Anna Barnes of Roslyn, D. and Philip Allcluo of 2288 Aqueduct the Bronx, occupant of a sedan driven by Mrs. Barnes, and James Reynolds, 1S47 Manhattan, who was in the third car. Mellon, However, Defends Letter to Hibben, Called "Inaccurate" by England Washington, May 6 (fl) Great Britain has an official re statement from the Washington Gov ernment arising from Secretary Mel- Ion's letter to President Hibben of Princeton University regarding the Eritlsh war debt, but Secretary Kellogg, in a two-paragraph note, ha.i replied that the discussion was purely domestic and no desire for diplomatic exchanges is entertained.

To the opinion expressed in the British note, however, that Mr. Mel- lon's letter was in some instances inaccurate and that some declaration seemed advisable "to removeiho unfortunate Impression that has been created," the American Treasury Secretary countered with a lengthy statement devoted to defense of his Hibben communication and a reiteration that cancellation of war debts would place an unjust burden upoa the American people. Complaint by Britain. Specifically, the British note complained against what it termed the misleading impression given by Mr. Mellon that Great Britain's debt payments to the United States will not constitute a drain on England's economic resources and that she is receiving in reparations from other nations more than her payments to the American Treasury.

A chief point of disagreement which appears to have been a leading factor in the new airing of war debts was a statement by Mr. Mellon in his Hibben letter that "all our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the Lnited States." This, the British Government denied as to Its own circumstances and Mr. Mellon, in his public statement, admits that through a typographical error the words "except Great Britain" were inadvertently omitted. He contended, however, that the error was "an obvious one" and was corrected Immediately in the text Surprised at English Altitude. After explaining how the omission was covered in the text, the Treasury Secretary said: "In the light of this very clear and definite statement.

It is rather surprising that the British Government should lay stress on what tho context showed to be a typographical error. Immediately corrected, and go to such length to disprove a statement which was already completely covered." in fact, this phase of the Hibben letter foreshadowed renewal of the debt discussion long before any intimations developed that a formal note was to be delivered. The sentence regarding adequate reparations by "all" other countries to tako care of the American obligations was subjected to wide discussion in the foreign press and was the cause for which frequent questions were directed at British Cabinet members in the House of Commons. British Empire's Reparations. The British note declared that apparently Mr.

Mellon did not take Into consideiation that the British Empire's reparations receipts have to he distributed between Great Britain and other parts of the empire, the share of Great Britain having been agreed upon at 86.85 percent of the total. It further states that "a more important error is contained" In Secretary Mellon's figures of the receipts of Great Britain from Krance. "These appear to the note said, "the sums which were due by the Bank of France to the Bank of England In repayment of an advance made during the war. This loan was a private transaction and la not an lnter-governmental debt. The payments are made to the Bank of England and not one penny thereof accrues to the British Treasury or the British Goverment." Ileal Cause of Disagreement.

To this Mr. Mellon replied: "While not admitting It, the British Government's note does not deny-that the sums specified In my letter were actually paid by the people of France, Germany and Italy, but says In substance that some of the sums paid accrued to the benefit of the Bank of England others to the Do-minions, and apparently from our reading of their figures such items as payments for war stocks are not considered by them as accruing to the benefit of the Exchequer on account of war debt. "This Is the real cause of the apparent disagreement as to facta. Secretary Kcllngg'a Reply. Then, while Secretary Mellon was preparing his statement.

Secretary Kellogg made public a short note to the London government's representative, saying, after acknowledging the debt communication: "The Government of the United States regards the correspondence between Mellon and Mr. Hibben as a purely domestic discussion and does not desire to engage In any formal diplomatic exchanges upon the subject." Statement Particularly Challenged. The statement he particularly challenged In his Hibben leter, Mr. Mellon added, was the opinion of Princeton and Columbia professors that foreign debt payments to this country would Impose a tremendous burden on the peoples of the paying nations "for the next two generations." "The note of the British Government," he says, "makes it entirely clear that I was correct In challenging the accuracy of that statement; for whatever differences there may be as to the payments to be received and made by Great Britain In the years 1926 and 1927. the Brit.

Ish Government admits that after Sept. 1, 192S. It will receive from Its debtors enough to cover current payments due to the United States Continued on Page S. Slew 1S2T Kittle Took Bonk. P'lh tithed.

Origin! snit testfit recipes Mn nbkah g. ftuffut. At Essie o)rs sad sgokMiltra, lte.1 by mail, SOo, add Monroe, Fights Overflow on AH Sides One Man Drowns When Marooned. Stricken Area Appeals for Workers. New Orleans.

May Fifty thousand persons were threatened today with the wrath of the Mississippi and its tributaries, hurling their swirling; waters from torn Jcvees and backing over lowlands to form an ever-growing; lake which left but the tops of trees above Its urface. More than 12,000 Inhabitants were tieinpr driven from Tensas Parish In the first of the district eince 1882. The towns of St. Joseph, and Newellton were fceins deserted as were dozens of smaller communities In the path of torrents streaming through breach in the levee at Winter Quarters, near St. Joseph.

Heartrending Scene. Aa the rescue work goes forward many heartrending scenes are enacted. Children, dazed by a catastrophe that is new in their lives, cling piteously to their mothers, who fight back their own fears and anxiety to allay those of their offspring. Men struggle along under the "Weight of treasured household possessions, exiled from the homes and fields where their effort of years is bolni; relentlessly wiped out by the fl. I.

casionally as the caravans move slowly to the high land, groups of Tiegroes begin to chant tlieir favorite hymns, their spirits undaunted by even the worst of the many floods they have survived. livestock Follows. With the marchers go norses, pigs and a variety of dosrs. But not all of the livestock will be saved. Many head will 'be caught in the flood to swim until exhaustion has mude them a prey to the murky waters.

As this fight for life procees to the northward, other battles go forward over wide fronts to the south end west. At the bottom of the funnel-shaped flooded area engineers and laborers pit their wits and brawn against the great mass of water bearing down from the north in ihe efforts to divert it back into the Mississippi and so save the rich sugar cane belt in the south central part of the State, 12.000 Persons Affected. Virtually all of Concordia Parish already had been given over to the 1 ackwaters of the Ked and Old Rivers. Twelve thousand residents were affected by the flood in that arish. where 425,600 acres of rich, alluvial cotton and swamp lands covered.

Cldalia and Ferriday, tile section's principal towns, either elready were entirely under water or were expected to be submerged today. A man was reported drowned near Winn Island, Richland Parish, where "4 persons were marooned upon high ground, A swift current prevented boats reaching them, Kayville also was reported In a precarious position, being threatened by the waters of the Bouef River and by the overflow from Arkansas streams. Rescuers Work All Jilght. Five thousand persons had been made homeless In that section In 24 hours. Motorboats and skiffs were utilized by rescuers all night In saving men.

women and children, from housetops and trees. Another ominous threat Impended with various reports of other levees weakening along the Mississippi. Further west and to the south Rapides Parish officials appealed for men and spades as citizens struggled with the waters of Bayou Rapides. An attempt to cut the levees along that stream was believed forestalled with the arrival of armed men to patrol the embankments. New Foe Attacks.

Monroe, In Ouachita Parish, already threatened by the bulging Ouachita, was forced to do an about-face to fight a more Imminent foe. sa Lafourche swamp, filled with waters loosed by the Arkansas River, turned upon the city. Work was started on a levee extension which would place the town behind a harrier that would hold out the water. Refugees streaming Into Delhi, located on a ridge in Richland Parish, filled the camp beyond capacity. They asked Adjutant General Toombs for additional bedding and conking equipment.

Between 6,000 and persons still were to he removed from the levees in the neighborhood of St. Joseph. A plea was made for boats. Barges also Continued on Pass S. A Quick Sale And a Long Life Mr.

C. E. Horn of 2714 Avenue reports an incident of interest in every man who wants to sell his cv who, perhaps, needs the cash valu represents immediately. Mr. Jrn wanted to sell his Ford quiChiy.

He inserted in ad in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. As a result he 17 telephone calls and found a buyer within three hours after publication. By a stranr chance of fate, buyer and seller met some time later. The car hd gone 33.0K) miles and was good fur thousands more. Be guided by Mr.

Horn's experience. Phone Wain 6200, ask for ad-taker anq tell the readers of The Brooklya Eagle about the car you have fo sale. Bjr WiLIU'R K. KOGKRS (staff Correspondent of 'the Kanlr.) Queens County Courthouse, lone Island City, May 5 The sordid story of murder which Henry Judd Gr has told in such detail to the Jury which is trying him with Rutti Brown SujMer for the murder of her husband was put tinder red-hot Are here today. Dana Wallace, the energetic ans, keen lawyer for Mrs.

Snyder, who has sat In the background most of the time since the trial started, took the corset salesman for cross-exam ination at 12:05 o'clock this after-noun. And almost at once he had dray fldKeting and twisting in his chair and sparring for time. One of the llrst things Wallace did was dramatic. He made Gray 'stand up there before this crowded courtroom and show Just how he struck the first blow which deadened the resistance of Albert Snyder, the man he hail never seen. lull lies Dooly Saslinelght.

There he stood, his eyes shifting and darting everyhwere, the brutal sashweight clutched In his hands. His body wavered a little, but to do him credit he was game. He went through with it, even raising the sashweight slowly over his head to show how he had dealt that first blow. "I had to two hands." he whispered. "Well, use two hands, then," sneered Wallace, snapping hi glasses off his nose.

Hi) Gray showed the picture. Per-htilis It was lucky for lilm that his mother had left the room a short time before. In any event, as Grav stood up he looked down at where she been sitting and you could almost see his shoulders sag, then recover when he noted she wasn't there. Knits Courtroom Tiethargy. Tho little byplay did nothing to Gray's story, of course, but it put the defendant Gray In a frame of mind which made him easier prey from that time on.

Besides that it recovered Ihe whole case from lethargy and boredoom and made the courtroom snap out of lassitude and quiet. Dana Wallace Is an expert cross-exuminer. He used his first half houf to show Judd Gray that it was to be a battle of minds and to warn the defendant-witness that Gray would have to be alert if he hoped to coma out best. Heglns to WiiriT tiray. He dodged and hopped from subject to subject, never once landing In any particular place fur any length of time.

You see, Dana Wallace was testing the mettle of the man with whom he Is doing battle to save Mrs. Bnyder, for it was known to every one In tha courtroom that on the success or failure of the cross-examination rests the chance of Ruth Hnyder. Out of Gray's mouth she has been branded a Lucretia Borgia, a Lady Macbeth, a vitriolic woman who conspired and hated and dealt In powder, knockout drops and other things which would kill. Out of Gray's mouth she has been pictured as a Virago and a Hoyden who had no conscience and no remorse. Crime Thrown on Wlilow.

Because you see. friends. Gray had thrown the onus of this crime and Its preparation over to her. It was she. he had said, who planned It and it was her dominance over Hint, her Influence and Insidious Influence as it was, which had brought him out of his pathway of life and made him as brutal and cowardly a murderer us the history of crime has known, and incidentally It was Dura Wallace who got from Gray the one cardinal point of Gray's defense.

"It Is." breathed Wallace, "youf contention that she dominated yon until you did exactly what she wished. Isn't that true?" Of course It was. Hut Samuel Miller, Gray'a own lawyer, hadn't brought that out. He had left a decided inference, to be sure, but he had overlooked asking a direct nucttien on the point. Wallace naturally wanted it cleared up.

He naturally wanted so central a Ttolnt from which to work. 80 he asked a defense question and S6t Yes sir," as a reply. (jursllon of harm Evaded. Whnt then, was the situation? Gray had said she was a woman oC charm, a woman of great charm. "Wasn't she a woman of ret charm?" demanded Wallace, Inter, Gray had to admit she was.

Well, when did he stop thinking she wis a woman of charm? Gray, fairly alert, saw the danger. Wallace might get him to admit that she had been a woman of charm until he. Gray, knew her. Then her chatm vanished. That would never do, and Miller for a wonder saw the menace, too.

He objected to the questions, gave Gray time, and between them all there never was satisfactory answer. llarrlixl nn Murder Attempt. Ho Wallace crashed Into anothee topic. Did Gray remember telling of sll those attempts on ttnyder life, all made by Mrs. Hnyder? Gray did, of course.

Had not he outlined each and everv on of them and given the details of lh-m? "And isn't It a fact." thundered Wallace, with his glasses off and his rumpled hair waving In the hreeies that blew through the open windows. "Isn't It a fact that the only attempt ever made on flnydor which was successful was when you mixed up in It?" Gray mumbled hi" answer. 1. in the nature of. thing an affirms- Argument of a motion today before Supreme Court Justice Edward J.

Gavegan revealed that Frieda Hem-pel, opera star, is suing August Heckscher, millionaire philanthropist, on account of a pre-marital contract providing for the payment to the singer of 4,800 a month for the remainder of her life. The aged millionaire, whose engagement to Miss Hempel has been frequently rumored, sailed early this week on the Leviathan. Argument by counsel for Mr. Heckscher on the motion, which was ior an amended complaint. Indicated that the action involved at least $1,000,000, the assumption being that this figure was based on the amount that would accrue in time from payments, under the alleged contract.

Telephone Girl Wins $35,000 Accident Verdict Miss Mabel Boehle, 21, of 104 Hymen corut, Gerrittsen Beach, who was a telephone operator, was today awarded 135,000 damages by a jury before Justice Strong In Supreme Court 'against the Nassau Electric Railroad. The girl was injured Jan. 16, 1926, wheiTaBWot the Kings Coach Company, in which she was a passenger, was struck by a car of the Ocean ave. line. The base of her skull was fractured and as a result of the injury she has become a victim of St.

Vitus dance and her eyesight Is almost gone. Her mind has been wrecked and she has delusions and believes even her own friends are persecuting her. The bus concern was named as defendant in the suit but was released from liability when the evidence showed that the motorman of the trolley car was to blame for the accident. BOARD FINALLY Acts on Zoning Matters and Fixes Vacation June 16 to Sept. 29.

The Board of Estimate today confirmed the action of the Committee of the Whole Monday in approving tho specifications for the construction of the Brooklyn Central Library at Prospect Park Plaza. After considering various zoning matters, the board stepped to consideration of Its own summer vacation and Anally decided on adjournment from June 16 to Sept. 29. The zoning matters Included the adoption of a change from a detached house to an apartment area of the section along Ocean from Ave. to Ave T.

This was opposed by the Catholic diocese o' Brooklyn. In spite or the appearance of a large group of Flatbush property owners, asking that the area of assessment for widening Clarendon rd. be enlarged. Boro President James J. Byrne Insisted that action be taken to acquire title.

man. I'm a good salesman still. The new management doesn't know." There Is something besides "the 'new management" against whom Mr. Bass feels bitter resentment. That's the Government.

No War Pension, Either. "We ought to give the Government the devil!" he said. He explained that though he served In the Civil War and was wounded, because of some technicality involving a regular discharge from the Army he receives no pension. "It was with the Third Excelsior Brigade under General Sickles." he said. "I went Into action with the rest of the hoys at the Battle of Gettysburg.

And 1 got shot. They put me in a hospital and nty father came and took me home and wouldn't let nie go back. "I couldn't get a regular discharge unless 1 reported myself, and father sr.ld I mustn't do that. 1 didn't re.illy desert, but do I get a pension? I do not. "I was born on Atlantic ave.

I've lived in Brooklyn, except when traveling, all my life. I enlisted In the Army In Brooklyn, and now the Government- I've lxn married 60 years, this la the first time l'va beta without a Job," Q. Mr. Gray, last evening you told us about the burning of certain articles. What else took place on March 20 at the home of Albert Snyder? A.

As I said, I was in Mrs. Brown's room trying to put the studs in the shirt Mrs. Snyder had given. me. Mrs Snyder left mo to go to the cellar.

When she returned I asked her to cut the buttonhole in the shirt. She got JjaJc o.C BClssorsand cut a hole In the shirt. I put on the and we went downstairs. Gray described. In almost the same language he used yesterday, how Mi-b, Snyder took him to the bin to show him the sashweight and how he sprinkled it with ashes.

Asked if Husband Was Demi. "Then she turned on the thermostat to bring up the tire," the witness testified. "I think we then went into her room and sat down, or else In her mother's room, I ant not sure which. Then we went into the front room again, as I recall It. At this time I asked her about the revolver and It was also at this time, I believe, that she asked me if he (Snyder) was dead.

I am not positive that this was before or after we had come up from the cellar. The things that took place at this particular time are indefinite In my own mind. "I said 1 did not think he was dead. We started to muss up the room. She asked me to help her put the wire around her husband's neck and I did try to help but I was so shaky that 1 could not.

1 was intoxicated, "Where were you when you tried to help horY" asked Justice Scuddet. "In the front room, Your Honor." "Mussed Up" Rooms. had more liquor there and mussed things up In the rooms." Gray continued. We stayed downstairs until it began to get daylight. She said that I would huvo to leave.

We went up to her mother's room. She asked me If I would hit her over the head and I said I could not. 1 bound up her ankles with some rope she had brought up from the cellar and tied her hands behind her back, loosely. I put cheese cloth over her mouth with a little waste In it. Then I took up my hat and coat and covered her with her overcoat.

It was fast getting daylight when I walked down to the end of the street to get the bus." Met Policeman. He told of his meeting with the policeman at the bus stop and of seeing an elderly man and a younger man. Gray did not have his glasses on then, he said. He boarded a bus and went to the Jamaica station where he learned there would lie no train for New York until 8 o'clock. He called a taxliab and was driven to 59th st, and Broadway, Manhattan.

"I asked him to change a $10 bill end he could not, so I gave him what change 1 had," he said. He boarded a train at Grand Central Station for Syracuse at 8:43 a.m. "I tried to read, but could not. he continued; "I tried to sleep hut I could not. I did not have glasses on.

I tola tne conductor i was going straight through and he said he would remember me. I had on a gray suit and gray hat with a black band ana the nat came uown over my eyes. Threw Cao In River. "Near Poughkeepsle I threw the briefcase Into the river. 1 still had Continued on Page 2.

In drawing Judd Gray (above) the artist lias shown his restless eye, anil the pompons Samuel 1. Miller, Gray's attorney, is shown below in a natural pose. The sketches are by an Eagle artist. FULLER RECEIVES HZETTI APPEAL Petition Does Not Ask Mercy Six Affidavits Charge Court Prejudice. Boston, May 6 4) The fight for freedom which Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have waged with unramittlng vigor since their conviction for murder six years ago entered, a new phase today.

Gov, Alvan T. Fuller, for the first time in the long h'tlgation, had before him a written plea for liberty backed by six striking affidavits which brought into the open charges of prejudice by the trial court never before published. The plea, was Vanzettl's own. The affidavits were from prominent persons who testified unanimously to allegations of bias, prejudice and Impropriety by Judge Webster Thayer, presiding Judge, who, after being upheld by the Supreme Court In his refusal of a new trial, recently Gentenced both prisoners to death. Sacco's "Fallli" Interferes.

Sacco's decision not to Join In the petition for clemency was attributed by William G. Thompson, and Herbert B. Ehrmann, defense counsel, and Dr. Abraham Myerson, Hoston psychiatrist, to a conviction that to do so would bo against "his faith" as an anarchist. Vanzetti, however, called for an Investigation on behalf of both.

Specifically refusing to ask "mercy," his petition again and again de--manded "only justice." The plea of the doomed man anil the accompnnylng affidavits and statements of counsel added more pages to the already voluminous literature of the celebrated case which has attracted International Interest. It is the latest of many such petitions which have called upon the Governor to exercise hts constitutional privileges of appointing a commission to determine the facts, Ijist Stand of Defense. The defense has admitted that it has exhausted its last legal recourse before the State courts with the refusal of the supreme Judicial bench to grant a new trial. Signers of the affidavits included George U. Crocker, prominent Boston attorney and former City Treasurer; Robert Benchlev, dramatic editor of Life: Elizabeth R.

Bern-kopf, newspaper reporter; Frank P. Sibley, who covered the trial for tho Boston Globe; John Nicholas Beffel, trial reporter for' the Federated Press, and Lois B. Tlan-toul of Jamaica Plain, who represented the Greater Boston Federation of Churches at the trial. Vanzettl's petition was written In his cell In the Dedham Jail, where lie Is awaiting transfer to the State prison for the electrocution set for the week of July 10. With assistance from his counsel only In the matters of English grammar and reference, he set forth In detail the history of the ease and ended with a plea for freedom.

A. B. Gregson Leads Golfers in Lido Play especial to The rnale Long Ileneh, L. 1., Muy A. 11.

Gregson of the home club led the eniiy starters toduy In the Invitation golf tourney of the Lido Country Club. Hi-scored an 81. Murk Siuait. St. John's College star, hid an fur the next best score, FOR AIR MAIL Levine, Backer of Bellanca Plane, Involved Action After Probe.

Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Washington, May Postmaster General Harry New cancelled the air mall contract of the Kaess Aircraft Engineering Corporation of Lindenhurst, L. it was learned authoritatively today, because of the character of the financial representations to the department about the concern and because of ho my persons connected with it. The- Kaess company, nominally owned and operated by L. It. KaesH, was awarded a contract by the Post- office Department on Nov.

8, 191:6, to carry mail by air from Cleveland, Ohio, to Ioui8viIle, via Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Postmaster General New announced late yesterday that "as the result of informaion obtained from a thorough investigation by the office of the Chief PostoiHce Inspector," the Kaess contract would terminate June 17, or 45 days after notification. No service had yet been started over- this route by the Kaess company, though it had been holding its contract for almost six months. Simpit'ion Aroitsrd. The Postofflce Department be came suspicious of the Kaess con-' cern when, shortly ufter the contract was awarded, the Postmaster General began to receive letters from persons along this proposed air route informing him that A.

B. Norwalk, representing the Kaess company, was trying to sell stock In this concern. Mr. New at once put a PoHtumce inspector on the case, and the facts which led to the cancellation of the contract were. subsequently developed and made public today.

According to the Posiofflce Department, it was learned that the original contract was awarded to the Kaess company when its officials, after making the lowest bid, exhibited a bank book on a New York Hanks showing eaHh assets of $100,000. The inspector later found out, how ever, that this deposit bad been put In only for a day or so and then withdrawn. Jxnino's Conner! ion. The inspector Investigated the com pany plant at Lindenhurst, He learned lint Charles Devlne held a mortagsRe on it, and that be was the chief promoter of the concern, though not through stock ownership. It was also learned that Levine bad put tip the $2,000 cah bond for the Kaess company at the time the contract was awarded.

The Postolnce Department learned that the Department of Justice, after Continued on Face 2. "The constables have orders to serve the commitments today," said "Those who fall to pay face arrest." The levy Is known as a peisonal tax and Is used for township Improvements. Mr. Hhaw said that of the 200 or more still on the delinquent list, 1 0 were women. He added that the great majority of these had promised to pay "when they gel the tlionev." Tuo women who have steadfnstly refused to pay the tax and have declined to admit deputy collectors to their homes were among those slated, for arrest today.

Oldest Salesman, Laid Off at 90, Says He's Spry and Seeks a job To Make Women Tax Rebels Pay for Their Own Arrest Although 90 years old, rather deaf and almost blind, Abraham Bass wants srlob. He lives with his wife, who is to, in scrupulously clean though cheaply furnished rooms at 219 smith and wants any kind of a Job he can get. He Insists he's good for a lot of work yet. This man, who three months ago could rightly claim to be the oldest "traveling man" on the road, peered out from behind his heavy glasses, and told an Eagle reporter yesterday that he was out of woik that he had to have work to live. "They laid me he exclaimed bitterly.

"They laid me off after I went blind In Buffalo on my last trip three months ago. They laid me off and they didn't give me anything hut what they had to give. Was that fair, after I had worked for them 26 years?" It was the Newark Steel and Iron Works In Newark that Mr. Bass berated for "laying him off" without a pension. "It's on account of the now man.

neement there." he said. "I sold Iron for that firm In every State In the I'nlon except California, but the new management doesn't cere about that. I built iid the business for them, because 1 was good aalea- Darby. May I (Pi Darby's Inx "rebels, chiefly women, raceu the prospect of paying for their own arrest. Itotiert A.

fthnnv Innnshlo Utx col lector, served notice nn the delln quents that he hnil prepared com mitment pnpers culline. Tor tneir arrest sml that they would lie com-nttiiiwi i.t us re serving the pApers. Instead of pay ing S4.HS. which Inciuiteii a 211. cent will now ht forced to pay 17.11, Shaw said..