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Editorial Novel Comics Theaters Woman's Page NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929. 1 23 89th YEAR No. 161. MUST FIND ANOTHER HAVEN TO PLY THEIR TRADE DQOGASTAX S2, Rich Broker's Daughter CIGARETTE US Cures 'Neurotic Edema' By Debut on Stage Here 1001 PAIN MR I tit 9 4 Helen Luber, 18, Opening in Flatbush Next Monday, Got Her Way and Was At the early age of 4, Helen career, and obtained her first stage role. It was that ol Queen Mab In a children's Shakespeare revival.

Ten years i fess' f'W UA -it -J Minister Quotes Science To Uphold Claim Earth Is Flat and Not Sphere Derides "Horizon" Theory Rev. Geo. H. Dowkontt, M.D., and Claims There Is No Barrier Keeps People and '4 for By WILLIAM WEEK. In New York you would expect to meet the sophisticates the indifferent, the impassioned, the believers on faith, the unbelievers on faith also.

In New York, of all places, you later she was still in amateur Makes Bow Monday Miss Helen Luber. SPANISH WAR YETS BOOM DINEEN -FOR DEPARTMENT HEAD Start Campaign for Brooklyn Leader to Succeed Ltinn as State Chief Honor Dawkins United Spanish War Veterans ral lied to the support of William J. S. Dlneen, Brooklyn's candidate for State Department Commander, when the memorial and executive committee held its regular meeting last night at the Boro Hall Building. The attendance of almost 300 unan: fbusly pledged themselves to help In the campaign.

Elections will be held during the annual encampment at Albany from July 14 to 17, when a successor to ex-Lt. Gov. George R. Lunn, pres ent Department Commander, will be chosen. Dlneen, a past commander of Hubbell Camp, No.

4, at 546 Franklin ave, of which he held every office, is opposed only by Pat rick J. Harney, commander of Post No. 1, Manhattan. Speakers last night argued that the support of Brooklyn and Long Island, as probed by a canvass, will be sufficient to elect Dlneen, besides a large up-State following. Brook lyn's 2,350 members in 15 camps will be represented by 47 delegates, the largest county representation in the State.

Discussion of campaign banners, posters and a boom In Albany was led by George B. Serenbets, legal chairman. A complaint was registered by Prentiss Whiting, commander of Schley Naval Encampment No. 16, against an anegea "lay-on ot vet erans more than 45 years of age at tne Brooklyn wavy yard. The com.

mittee promised to investigate cofr dltlons. It was announced that Col. William A. Dawkins. who presided last night, has been elected permanent aajutant general and chief of staff or tne Memorial Day committee.

it Tariff Bill j. would not expect to meet a man who is a college graduate Commercial fishing is doomed at Manhattan Beach. Some of the craft which muf go elsewhere are shown In the general view (above) and several of the old, but seaworthy "beam-throwers," which net the bulk of the fish brought in, are pictured tied up to the bulkhead (below). Bulkhead Plans Will Oust Picturesque Fishermen of Manhattan Beach Shores Dories, Dredges, Beam Throwers and Other Adjuncts of Thriving Trade Will Soon Bulkhead, According to By O. R.

UUU YET UM Collector and Staff Still Unnamed and $50,000 Fund Is Tied Up. Harrfta. apllnl Halldln. Albany, June 11 With the time limit for the State's first gasoline tax collections, amounting to approxim ately J2.0O0.000, due to expire in a fortnight, Thomas M. Lynch, pres ident of the State Tax Commission, has no organization to handle the collections.

Although an appropriation of 000 has been available since May 1, when the gasoline tax became ef fective, for organization of a Gaso- inc Tsx Bureau in the Department of Taxation and Finance, the bu- reau is still a paper organization, and the hands of Controller Mor ris S. Tremaine are tied so that ha cannot pay out any money for the bureau. It is freely asserted that It is doubtful whether the Controller ha? even been aked to do so. Meanwhile Frank Rvan. Deputy Motor Vehicle Commissioner in charge of the New York City otfice.

Is marking time until a decision is made whether he is to be the New York State Gasoline Tax Collector. Also there are a dozen auditors and inspectors to be named, together with various clerks and stenographers. Who will Get Money? By the end of this month, the bli gasoline distributors must nav to the State the tax on gasoline for the montn ot May, and the question now is: To whom Is the money to be pamz fresumaoiv. in the absence of a Gasoline Tax Bureau, the money will be paid to some other agency in the tax department, unless the $50,000 appropriation is made available speedily and a bu reau is created by June 30. it was saia at tne controller office today that the Gasoline Tax Bureau Is tied up in the budget row between Governor Roosevelt and the Legislaturs.

which Is now awaiting decision in the courts. Row Blocks Approval. The money for the bureau was mnde available In a lump sum by the Legislature and cannot be spent until it is Itemized, showing the dis- tinct purposes for which it Is to be used, and until the Itemization has been approved by the Governor and chairmen of the two I.e-i-Mative fiscal committees. The Governor contends he has sole right to siii the itemization and the two chairmen argue their signatures also are required. Unless the courts rule otherwise, the Controller Is said to have taken the position that he cannot legally pay out any money from the fund without all three sigimtures.

The money Is not available until the itemization Is approved, and that approval has not been given. TURN BROWN DOWN FORSECONDTERMAS CITY MAGISTRATE McCooey Silent on Reasons. Frederick Kopff Said to Be Slated for the Place. Magistrate Mortimer S. Brou whose term expires on July 1, will not be reappointed by Mayor Walker if the wishes of the Brooklyn Democratic organization, under John H.

McCooey, are followed, It was learned today. "Assistant District Attorney Frederick Kopff is regarded as having the Inside track on the appoint ment. Democratic leaders were generally disinclined today to discuss the vacancy coming with the expiration of Magistrate Brown's term, or reasons why the Magistrate Is not slated for reappointment. Magistrate Brown was appointed in 1919 from tlie 6th A. D.

He has since moved to Flatbush. Kopff Is a resident of, the 21st A. p. Mother to Collect $8,500 for Son Killed At Railroad Crossing Surrogate Daniel Noble of Queens County today gave permission to Mrs. Mamie A.

Vogel, mother of the late Francis V. Vogel and living at 2530 Woodbine Rldgewood, to settle an action lor personal damages against the Long IslanJ Railroad for $8,500. Mrs. Vogel arted as administratrix In her son's estate. The youth was killed on March 26, 1925, by a Long Ihland Railroad train as he was driving his machine across the Bar-num I.sland crossing on the Long Beurh near Long Beach.

Mrs. Vogel alleged that the railroad failed to lower Its gates at the crossing until her son drove the automobile on the tracks. In opposing the artlon, which as started on Feb. 3. 1926, In the Queens Supreme Court, the railroad denied negligence and added that It was possible for motorists to see about 1,000 leet each way.

tailor was far out tn his figures, and that several of the ciphers would have to be eliminated the Jupaneso are proverbially bad at figures a.id the court heaved a great ilgh of relief. The claimant declares that, some 40 years ago. he made a deposit with the authorities as security In the purchase of a plot of ground. This money whs not returned, nor ha interest been puld during all th.it perliKi. He claims principal and Interest at compound Interest fibres, which brliiTs his claim up to SOO.OiK) yen Crown officers art busy investigating.

DUE WITH BUREAU ORGANIZED Deep-sea and off-shore fishermen who add a picturesque and sometimes odorous flavor SE The "Instead of a Sweet" Slogan Stirs Mormon to Burst of Oratory. Colorado Bmlldla. By HENRY 6 YD AM. Washington, June 11 When Reed Smoot of Utah, not hitherto famous as a moral reformer, gets up In the United States Senate and attacks cigarettes as a menace to American health, one is bound to search for and explanation. ritr smoot has lust delivered a violent attack on the American Tobacco Company and other cigarette manufacturers for their methods of radio, newspaper and maga-tna advertising, and he proposes an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act, "empowering me xoou, iuuB and Insecticide Administration to proceed against any manufacturer nt a.

rirnir or food oroduct whose public sales claims are partly or Wholly unjusunea ujr ui cicwa. 17. Pa ft Oration. The circumstance that tobacco is not now listed in the Pharmacopoeia as a drug is a minor detail, in senator Smoot's opinion. With quivering emotion, he has read to the Senate a 12-page oration, not attacking the moderate use of tobacco, but denouncing the excessive use of cigarettes.

What Mr. Smoot objects to. although he didn't put it that way, is the advertising which urges Americans to reach for a cig- During the 26 years he has sat i- TTnitoH states Senate, Mr. Ill WJ9 Smoot has had one main passion- sugar. The staie oi uvau, wmvu he represents, is a great sugar-producing State.

The Mormon Church, of which Mr. Smoot has been an apostle since iviv, is ww' ested in sugar production. Favors High Sugar Tariff. Mr. Smoot is the arch-protagonist of high protection on sugar.

He is chairman of the finance committee of the Senate which frames tariff rates. And in the forthcoming henrinus on the new tariff Mr. smnnt. i chairman of a sub-com mittee of the finance committee, which will frame the sugar sched 111 OB I A cigarette advertising campaign for a cigarette "instead of a Sweet" hits Mr. smoot ngnt wnere iic uvea, Whatever discourages the consump tion of sugar is something to cause Mr.

Smoot to -view wu.n aiapn. sn It. is no wonder that he is in state 01 tremenoous luunjuuuuu i ahniit current cigarette advertising, wnicn ne proposes ui suujcui. cu-eral regulation, under the Pure Food and Drugs Act. Cigarette Drive Under Way.

The fact that Senator Smoot is a prejudiced witness with respect to -this problem does not alter the fact that there is a great drive against garettes now under way. The to-fcacco manufacturers in the -pinion of some competent oDserv-r of the trend of Dublic opinion. ventured on dangerous ground in advertising cigarettes as a sugar substitute, and In touting the healthful effects of smoking. Such advertisements afford an opening to the opponents of nicotine to denounce tobacco on the ground of nubile health. Where certain great church and reform organiza tlons could not Impress Congress with the cigarette as a moral issue, the way is now clear for these same forces to challenge the cigarette, as now advertised, as a menace to the physical welfare of women and minors.

Rum Precedent Cited. There Is a precedent, which the cigarette advertisers are Invited to ponder, in wnat nappenea to ine iiminr mnntif ariiirers. The liauor interests refused to nomnromlse with the forces of tern perance. Their demand was for no regulation at all, not even with re spect to the open saloon. The re milt was total Prohibition as em bodied in the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act.

The same forces which put Pro ihlbltton Into the Constitution are today lined up against current vig arette advertising, which, it claimed, offers nicotine as a substl tute for wholesome foods, and which urges adolescents to smoke. The fight will on public health, on publio morals. The Women's Christian Temperance Union, Board of TemDerance. Prohibi tion and Public Morals of the Methodist EDiscopal Church, the 'neneral Federation of Women' 'Clubs and other great church and social welfare organizations are opposed to cigarette advertising In its current lorm. These are the same groups, in general sense, which were the back bone or tne rroniouion movemenv.

If a crusade against the cigarette once gets started In earnest the tobacco manufacturers will stand to lose more than the $12,000,000 which Is said to have been spent In the advertising campaign of a single company. Senator Smoot shows how the present cigarette advertising has been challenged In various States where bills have been introduced or passed In State Leglatures affecting the sale of cigarettes to minors and women and to place limits on certain kinds of advertising. In Mr. Smoot's own State, Utah, the home of the beet sugar Interests, billboard and streetcar advertising of cigarettes has been made a misdemeanor. The next step is, of course.

Federal regulation, which Is just what Senator Smoot now proposes. Theater Seat Broke, Woman Seekt $15,000 Claiming she received Injuries when a seat In a theater gave way under her. Mrs. Katherlne Kelly of 35 Madison it- Flushing. Is asking a Jury In Queen Supreme Court to award her 115.000 damages.

The defendants are Bmall and Straus-berg, owners of chain of vaudeville houses. Mrs. Kelly alleges that on March 21. 1928, she attended a performance In the Broadway Theater, at Broadway and 3d Astoria; that the set broke and that she received serious Internal injuries. The defendants claim that Mrs.

Kelly made no claim to them of any accident or Injury for nearly a year afterward, They claim she has no proof that she was injured In their theater. SUGAR nATQR 4Wild Birds" at Werba. Had Breakdown Until She Permitted to Express Self. Luber decided on a theatrical theatricals, and her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry I. Luber, of 263 Eastern Parkway, put their combined foot down on tuch foolishness. Now, at 18, Miss Luber is preparing to make her debut on the professional stage in the leading ingenue role of a play bound for Broadway. This professional debut will be made at Werba's Flatbush Theater when Dan Totheroh's "Wild Birds-opens there next Monday night.

Plays Role of Foundling. The young leading lady will play the pathetic role of a poor little foundling, beaten hither and thither by the rough winds of fate. Those who have seen her In rehearsal say that she acts the part with conviction, that she appears on the stage to be really a poor little poor girl suffering at the hands of a cruel world. The producer, Henry B. forbes, relates that he could not restrain his own tears at the last rehearsal.

If all this Is true Miss Luber goes through a remarkable transforma tion every time she leaves her normal life at home and steps Into her role In "Wild Birds." For offstage Miss Luber is the daughter of a more than well-to-do stock broker, senior member of the Stock Ex change nrm of Luber Shaskin, 39 Broadway, Manhattan. She is, incidentally, married and the wife of a young doctor, Dr. Louis Softer. The young couple live at 277 Eastern a short distance from ner parents' home. "Neurotic Edema" Cured.

There Is, In short, no necessity- no economic necessity for Miss uioer to go out into the wide world to earn a living and hew out a career. Both parents had objected to it strenuously several years ago wnen it Became clear that she was bound for the professional stage. Denied her theatrical activities, she ueveiopea "neurotic eaema," or. In other words, a sort of nervous breakdown due to not being Der- mitted to do what she wanted to do. Eventually, on a doctor's advice, the stage ban was lifted and the "neurotic edema" disappeared.

It has stayed away ever since. From time to time Miss Luber has appeared In amateur roles. She was Hedda in "Hedda Gabler," Paula In "The Second Mrs. Tanauerav." Portia In "The Merchant ot Venice." She Is a graduate of Girls High School and has studied at the Theater Guild School, the Academy oi uramatic Art ana tne Theater Camp at Peterboro, N. H.

Praised by Critics. "Wild Birds" won tile Unlversitv of California play prize several years ago ana was later produced for a brief run at the Cherry Lane Theater In Manhattan. It has been by such literary and dramatic figures as George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Alexander Woollcott, Edna Ferber, Charles Norrls and others. The part of Mazle, which Miss Luber plays. Is that of a poor foundling face to face with the rigors of hard farm life in the Middle West.

Her fate mingles with that of an escaped reform bchool youth. HOLD CHILDREN'S EXERCISES. Wantagh, L. June 11 Frederick Brooks, a student at De Pauw University, was the speaker at the annual Children's Day exercises held in the Wantagh Congregationnl Church. The Rev.

Francis Haydcn presided. Other speakers were Elliott Tomkins, school treasurer, and Claude Hayden, school secretary. Lewis Ross, superintendent of schools, was in charge of the program. Means Big other person engaged In usefuLln- austry the united States. But the revisers of the tariff dli not stop at that.

It was their Him and desire to bring about a condition of affairs which would kill ths present tolerable living conditions of the people of the cities ond make It naraer ior tnem to be able to provide for themselves and their families. Intolerable Situation. I do not want to appear In the guise of a prophet of evil, nor la my desire to scare the public vlth fantastic tales of what dire consequences this abominable tariff M'l will bring about, but how can one refrain from commenting on the Intolerable situation If one sees that sugar, wool, butter, milk; cream, and such other necessaries are made dutiable to a very large extent and impossible to acquire for the mvi and woman rf small means, me householder and the person who earns his living by the sweat of his brow? We ran not all be manufacturers of the articles which the tariir bill seeks to prucect. Most of us, In fact all of us, except a few chosen Individuals, are consumers of the goods upon which the new bill seeking to Impose these hard levies We must buy them In the open market and we do not wish to pav for them more than they are worth. I have shown how the tariff bill does not protect the Interests of the farmer, ind I believe no one can conscientiously assort that this protects the general run of the people of this country.

No Benefit to Average Man. If the present administration believes that this tariff bill will bring about prosperity, they are tar from correct. It may result in a temporary swelling of the coffers of some Industrial Interests which wlil aln the benefit of a high tariff for their own selfls ends. It may enable some chosen corporations to procure large dividends on their closelv held stock, but It will not benefit the average man and woman of America, tan Beach will soon be expelled from their favorite selling South Pole and 150-Foot Ice Ships From Falling Off Edge. To Quit Bench Magistrate Mortimer S.

Brown. engineer ever allows for the curva ture of the earth In laying founda tions and so on? Why does he work as If the earth were flat? And it works out all light!" He referred again to his home made map. 'Where," asked this lnterlewer, is your South Pole on this?" But ne had his answer. "There Is No South Pole," He Says. "There is no South Pole.

There Is only the North Pole, which Is In the center of the earth. Then there are all the land masses, up to the equator. Most of them are north of thj equator. Then outside there, outside the equator, you have mostly water. And It spreads away out.

People sometimes ask me. If the earth Is flat, why doesn't somebody sail right off the edge ot It and fall off? Well, I'll tell you. I read of a ship only the other day I can't recall Just which It was that sailed In a straight line lor 22.000 miles and was still down there near what they call the South Pole. "You know why?" Your correspondent didn't know why. Ire Barrier Around Ed(e.

"It's because of the Ice barrier. Byrd found an Ire barrier 150 feet high. You don't find that near the North Pole, but you do find It down there. There it Is this huge Ice barrier 150 feet high, that runs all around the edge of the world ond that's why nobody can I all off." The listening correspondent was ama.ed. "Why.

this thing Is foolproof," he concluded. Of course, if Byrd or Wilkinson or some other flier should start from the South Pacific and, flying south, come out on tie edge of the South Atlantic. It might be cllfflrult even lor Dr. Dowkontt to prove that there Is no South Pole. But that haMi't yet been done.

Boost to Cost of Living By SAMUEL DICKSTEIN (R.t N. (In the House of Representatives.) a graduate in medicine withf M.D. after his name, who will tell you, seriously, that he knows the earth to be flat. Such a one Is George H. Dowkontt of 421 56th Brooklyn, a "reverend" well as an M.D.

In his Manhattan office on the second floor of 16 Fulton where he directs the Fulton Street Noonday Prayer Meeting and has done so for years, he said, blandly, that of course he knew It, and believed It. Has Football Player's Build. Dr. Dowkontt Is a Princeton man, class of 1894. He played football at Princeton back In the days of Phil King, and he still has the build and figure of a football player, modified a little by advancing years.

After Princeton he studied medicine as well as theology, but he turned finally to the ministry, to the healing of souls rather than bodies. He was a foreign missionary. He was pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Manhattan and then of the Memorial Baptist Church, 8th ave. and 16th Brooklyn. He has studied the Bible closely, he said.

for 25 years. He had heard of the devil who could quote Scriptures for his own purposes, and yesterday he quoted science for what he called the purposes of the Bible. For in the Bible Dr. Dowkontt pointed to the "fact" of the earth's flatness, and when confronted with the most generally accepted "fact" of science that the earth is a drift lng globe in a vast sea of emptiness in which similar globes of earth or tire drift on he said: "Very well, Let's take this claim of science and subject It to the methods of science, and see what we get. He continued: Sees, Mighty Little in rronfs.

"Science boasts that it tests all things, that it takes nothing for granted, even the words of the Bible. All right. Let have a clean slate, Let's not take even the claims of science for granted. The Bible says the earth is flat, and so docs mv common sense. If they come along and say it Isn't well, what have they go to prove that? Examine their proofs, one after another, and you nnd mighty He "examined the proofs." He took up tne-matter or ships that clrcum navigated the globe.

He said, "You know, no ship has actually sailed around the globe, setting out in one direction and continuing until It came to its starting-point. It couidn do that, because of the con tinents in the way. Well" He took a pencil and on a sheet or white paper he drew a large circle wnicn he marked "North roie. rne circle he marked "Eaua tor." Outside that he drew a larzer circle, which for the time being he aian i mnrK. Ship Sal In Circle.

Now, then," he said, "you know no snip can start out steaming east, set her rudder and continue that way. Presently she'd be going off mis way. sonewnere toward toe equator. Every ship's master knows nes got to nave a port helm. And If he sails bnck.

westward, he's Rot to set a port helm. Why Is tint? Became the chin's sailing actually in a circle, like this:" And he drew an arc Just Inside of his "equator. "If.t much more sensible, Isn't It to say that that -ship sailing in i circle and thst that's why the cn tain has to give her the helm, or she go oir tnere?" He smiled blandly and shook his head at the possibility thi the helm mlqht be necessary because of that curve of the globe and the tug or gravity foward the center or It, Drriries "llorlon" Theory. He took up other proofs, which he thought no proofs at all. The Fchool-book proof that a ship sinks put, or sent below the horizon.

"Do thy still teich that lake?" lie asked. "It's only perspective, that's what It Is. I''l to the ahore with you and with my glasses I'll bring bark any of them. Or e'll pick up a wisp of rmoke and through the gln.ises vou II ree the ship. He dismissed the matter of ac curate predtctlne of ecllpsrs.

"They did that In China and tn Egypt 2.0on years H. "And look here. If scientists be llcve we live on a round earth, and not flat, why la it that no civil Be Unable to Tie Up at the Dock Department Officials. PILAT. to the correctness of Manhat yet.

Don't let 'em kid you. Some people don't like to see anyone en Joy themselves or make an honest living." To Gus Fure, on the Big Ben, which came In yesterday with 2.000 pounds of fluke, the situation is mure serious. Sees Need of Union. "If we had a union this would never have happened." he said. "Some of these fellows scrape fish on the bulkhead and never clean up afterwards.

Things get slimy. Look at that fellow over there with the flopping skate tied to the mast, like a flag. No wonder the people object to the smell. I never touch trash fish like skates and dogfish and hackle-head sea-robins. Some of the men spoil things when they mend their nets, too, right on the sidewalk.

Handiest Place. "I don't know where we'll go. This is the handiest place from Montauk to Cape May. You can get in and out at night, and there's a big channel. "It a hard life.

You live on board and work day and night. Then when flsh are high some of the fellows sell low and leave you In a lurch. When the price Is low the stores across the way buy from Fulton Market and you're left In the lurch anyway. "If there was a union, or something, those market fellows wouldn't make all the money." Good Range In Prices. Fish being sold along the beach side and along Emmons ave.

these days, range from bluefish. at 30 to 45 cents a pound, to fluke, which goes as low as 10 cents. There are also weakflsh, seabass, blackflsh, lobsters, soft shell crabs, eels, por-gles and shrimp. Instead of the handful of boats which used to dock a year or so ago. more than 60 fishing craft of every shape and variety now appear dally In the tiny bay.

Chamber Head Names Committee Chairmen Howard O. Wood, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, yO. day announced the chairmen of the various committees In the organization. Positions and those selected are: Civic bureau, Clarence Kempner; Industrial bureau, Andrew J. Brls-lln; membership, Irving Wright, merchants burrau.

Walter Burden arbitration, Granville H. Rome; automobile parking, Harry Oertz; civic promotion, Percy G. James; educational work, Charles Dounhty; insurance. Ray Woodln; Jamaica Bay Improvement, J. Sheldon Fos-dick; legislative committee, Ward J.

Ooodeneough; military aflalrn Major Oscar Erlandsen: national affairs and councillor. Barton it. Smith; public bulldlnns committee, Thomas Austin; public health committee. Dr. Julius Kane; traffic committee, Sol Schlldkraiit; water, iws and electrlritv, Valentine inning.

Clifford V. Booth, and city planning, Wilbur C. Wltherstlne. grounds. Racy lobster dories with airplanes engines, squat lobster dredges, high-bowed old beam-throwers which net fluke, mackerel boats which work under a black moon and eel catchers which jack at night under the lure of bright kerosene lamps are no longer welcome to tie up at the bulkhead along the beach or even along Emmons ave.

Mayor Walker, at the Instance of the Manhattan Beach Property Owners Association, has told the Dock Department to restrain and eventually oust the commercial fishermen. Will Be Forced Out. "Within two weeks we are going to begin repairing the bulkhead on the Manhattan Beach side, which will force the fishermen who tie up there to get out," said John Mc-Kenzie, chief clerk of the Dock Department, today. "We have $35,000 to put in 264 feet of new bulkhead near Falmouth and 1S9 feet near Beaumont st. Later we expect to get S100.000 more for the remaining necessary replacement.

"We will eliminate the fleet, all right. However, we need co-operation on the part of the Government to change the present anchorage ground and also a squad of men to see that no one ties up to the bulkhead." Unless the city promptly keeps Its present promise, the Manhattan Beach Property Owners Association will beein a mandamus proceeding to make the officials live up to their duty. Harold O. McLear, secretary of the organization, said today. May Find Temporary Refuge.

Along Emmons opposite the beach side, the city will eventually put In 10 new piers, each 20 feet wide. 200 feet Ions. Half of this property Is now privately owned. It cannot be acquired until fall, as the Board of Estimate takes Its vacation soon. Though unwelcome, some of the commercial fishermen may find refuse there temporarily.

The fishermen have heard too many rumors which turned out to be only rumors to believe tney are now to be ousted. "Some fish, lady?" old Ed Donnelly, of the Susan was saying to a dowager who had Just stepped from a taxi near the Manhattan Bench bulkhead. "What kind?" "Nice fish, ma'm, nice fluke. A big one? Ill give you good weight." Three women with a handful of children, attracted by the colloquy, had stopped to look. too.

The fish could be seen swimming around in the well Inside the beam-thrower. "Are they thick?" said one youngster. Gets Big Fish Free. "No. miss, thev've run in schools," rejoined Donnelly, with an Infectious grin.

"I'll give you this one free." And he did. so delighted was he at his own Joke. Undecided a mlnut later, one of the customers said, "Well now." "Whale, now? Sure we have whales. Look at therm and cheap. 10 cents the high-pressure salesman said.

Soon he had made anot her sale. said they were going to get us out of here before, and they didn't do It. we ll be here lor ages The long and short of it is that this present bill is going to result in a tremendous increase in the cost of living. Vou have, for instance, raised the duty on sugar and it is the opinion of one of theJargest wholesale grocery dealers In the United States that the price of sugar is now advanced from five cents to seven cents per pound. You have increased the 'duties rice, and it Is estimated that 'ha cost of rice to the public will advance from nine to 12 cents ler pound.

Fanner Also Container. Do not forget, gentlemen, that In addition to being a producer the farmer is a consumer and that thate very articles which he consumes and which go to the making of his home rnd the purchase of his necessities will be covered by Increase In the tariff bill, that when the farmer produces and can dispose of produce directly with a consumer, like tn the cane of potatoes or live cattle, you havrlrlt the tariff ey't Is and given him no protection whatsoever, but where he Is a consumer and is obliged to go Into the market to purchase articles necessary for his home you have put a tariff wall which will make It mors expensive for him to obtain the very articles which are needed for his dally use. You have raised tremendously the duties on building materials, thereby compelling the farmer to build of wood instead of brick and to -ise cheaper materials In the construction of his dwelling, and the result will be that the farmer will not the same measure of comfort in his home vlilch he was accustomed to heretofore. I therefore have no hesitancy to vote against the bill as a whole, because I consider it unscientific, patchwork of no benefit to the public at large, and not truly for th i relief of either the farmer or any Japanese Government Sued By Tailor for But He Meant Only $300,000 By AI.IRCn K. I'ltKKS Special Corrtspandrnv ol The Eagle.

Toklo, May 23 iMiUD 8ult the Imperial Government, clalmln; 600.000.000 yen (about $300,000,000) has been filed In the Toklo District Court by a tailor of Yokohama. The court was amazed at the hum-(Wure. whlrh would completely hrea: the bbgest financial Institution in the country, namely the Nippon Olnko (Bank of Japani, whlrh Is ti Japan what, the Federal Reserve Bank Is to the United State. Inquiry elicited the fact that the.