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FAIR AND CON TINVFD COLD TONIGHT. FRIDAY INCREASING CLOLDINESiS. Trmpcralura today, 12 M. (Eagle Year ago (Ram) 37 Average (or 10 rears, tame dale 34 L'umplcle ipurt on litfi 10. ROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WALL STREET FOUR O'CLOCK.

1 TeJnaM ic NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, DECKMHKH 10, 1925. 30 THREE (TINTS FIRES ROUT 111 CURTI McCOOEY Duke Wins Legal Separation From 'Dollar Who WasElsieMoore of Brooklyn CONGRESS AIR EXPERTS ASK $100,000,000 SAY MELLON CO. ESCAPED $4,590,385 TAX Former Brooklyn Qirl Who Loses Her Husband, a Duke HERE AND NOW House Committee Agrees on Single Department of Defense, Separate Air Bud get, Survey of All Plane. Accuses Army and Navy of Neglecting Aviation. -Ne yi -Iiii MM Be on the safe side and have the chimneys denned.

Some say that coal will again be used for domestic fuel. If Balzac were living he might muko Mr. "Red" Grange the hero of B.story culled "The Magic Pigskin." Excuses given by criminals are simplicity itself: "We didn't have any money to spend, so what could we do? We couldn't go without It In the bright lexicon of these, youths there Is no such word as work Latest rum ring exposed seems to have had a 12-mtle diameter. N. H.

The Eagle Calendar for 1926 Is Distributed With Today's Eagle 'll'lllUlllll'lill Officers Mahon and Levy Quell Baptist Church Row By Factions Over McCaul INFER III SECRET Leaders Reported in Harmony Will Present Candidates Jointly. John If. McCooey and John J. Curtln. who control the Democratic political plum market In Kings County, have begun their series of post-election patronage conferences nd are well on the way to an anil- cable settlement ef disputes arlsirg from the recent primary contest.

It Is understood that Mr. McCooey has agreed to share his county patronage with the people who supported Senator Walker In the primary fight. This Is In line with Cie suggestion made by Curtln last week, who said he expected his followers to partake of the local partonage In Drooklyn. Conferences Under War. One formal conference and a number of Informal discussions hie been held, It became known today.

Curtln declined to discuss the sub Ject but McCooey verified the fait that the conferences are under way. The next one will he arranged by telephone and held In the near future. McCooey said that he and Curtln are In the habit of meeting frequently, though quite Informally, and that there Is no dispute between them. "We both have the Interest of the party In mind." he said today, 'nnil when we get to the point where we ran be more specific It will be our aim to select the best men for the various offices." Tammany Friendly. McCooey would not verify the report that he had agreed to share his local patronage with his former primary opponents, hut that be will do this Is regarded almost as certain.

According to reports at Tammany 1 nil the McCooey-Curtln conferences have been of a very conciliatory nature. The two leaders. It Is said, have agreed to present the names of their candidates "Jointly." thus getting around the question of who should be the sole patronage spokesman of the organization In Kings. Information In Hth Manhattan, is to the effect that McCooey and Curtln held their first conference the day before yesterday and will bold another one today or tomorrow. The time and place of the confehencea are secret.

While Curtln's followers regard as a victory the reported agreement by McCooey to share his local patronage with them, It was pointed out today that McCooey never has Indicated he wouldn't make such an agreement. LEfiGUTlSl DLTEDBY TU KS Gen. Laidoner's Report Confirms Atrocities of Adherents of British. i Geneva. Dec.

10 lP) Atrocious acts of violence, going as far a have been committed by Turkish soldiers along the provisional frontier of Mosul. In northern Mesopotamia, General Laldoner Usthonla, special League of Nations agent, declared In a report submitted at today's session of the League Council. The Turks refused to attend the meeting, complaining that the Mosul affair had gone beyond the powers of their mandate from the Angora government, which permitted th League mediation but not arbitration of Turkish disputes with Great Britain. Tewflk Ilushdi Bey, Turkish For-elgn Minister, told the Associated Press correspondent today that the Turkish delegation jvould not participate In any further meetings of the Council of the League of Nations for discussion of the Mosul controversy, and would refuse to recognize any decision by It. Report Charges Atrocities.

General Laidoner's report said that the Turks had carried out whole-nfcle deportation of Christians froi.i the villages along the Mosul frontier nu defined at tho HrUHsels conference, occupying villages, confiscating arms. Imposing heavy fines, demanding women, pillaging houses, and In some cases taking life. During the deportations, the report said, the sick were abandoned to die. Others perished of starvation or exposure, while the survivors were left In an absolutely pl'iuble state. The deportations are eontlnulnr.

c.inslrg "fairly serious agitation ana nervousness" not only among the CliilHtlans but among the Moslems favoring Irak's cl.iim to Regarding tho reported btirder raids. General LMdoner found tho situation was not serious, but resulted from mutual tribal Continued on Page a. OUT PATRONAG 11 ES $50,000 Loss in Brownsville Building Astoria Plant Burns. An early morning fire at 285-89 Powell st. caused $50,000 damage and routed about one hundred persons from their homes.

Patrolman Phillip Bernstein of the Brownsville Station discovered the fire while patrblllng his beat. He sounded an alarm and when the fire apparatus arrived It was deemed necessary to sound second and third alarms because of the proximity of a number of wooden dwellings. The fire was brought under control after about an hour's fight but only after the first and second floors Lof the building had been gutted. The building Is owned by J. F.

Freed, who maintains an office there, and Is occupied by the United Refrigerating Company. and Suwajr Tied Vp. A Are at 4. o'clock this morning tied up the Astoria branch of the Second ave. and the Astoria sub way for 20 minutes.

The blase was In a four-story brick building which Is still under construction. It is being built by Rosenwasser Brothers, shoe manufacturers. The blaze was started by vagrants who sought shelter in the building, according to firemen and police who conducted an Investigation. They believe that cigarettes WTsre carelessly tossed Into a pile of paper and building material. The blaie gave firemen a stiff battle.

The flames shot across the tracks of the elevated, making motormen afraid to chance running through them because of the wooden cars that were In some of the trains. The fire was not extinguished for nearly an hour. Passengers left the cars and Joined the street crowds to watch the blaie. The elevated structure was not damaged but the entire first floor of the building was swept and the damage Is estimated at $25,000. Business Meeting of Washington Ave.

Congregation Is Adjourned Four Weeks as Only Solution Issues of Church and State Law Are A policeman, Max Levy of the Claa-son Avenue Station, with his sergeant, Robert Mahon, did more than any one else last night to still an extraordinary row In the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Tho policeman told a throng o' excited men and women who faced one another antagonistically that they ought to be ashamed of themselves to raise such a tumult in a place of worship. The sergeant, after vain attempts had been made to get the meeting under orderly headway suggested an adjournment. The proceedings had reached an Impasse. Obviously an orderly meeting was Impossible.

Both side seized upon the sergeant's suggestion. The motion to adjourn came from each side of the house and finally that of the pastor, the Rev. Robert McCaul, that a recess be taken for four weeks, was carried with evident relief. Telephone for Police. The police had been called by telephone at the height of an unprecedented clamor In which parliamentary rules had been cast to th four winds.

Mr. McCaul Insisted upon assuming the prerogatives of chairman. Those who have been opposing the minister's policies as destructive of the church insisted that W. R. Goodman had been duly elected chairman.

As the police strode Into the auditorium adjoining the church proper all present were on their feet. Perhaps a third were gathered about a Continued on Pago 2. was substituted, uceordlng to Mrs. Duff. Dr.

G. P. Curtis of the Board of Health asserted proof of an actual sale was not established definitely. The local health board, he said! would not act until the State board had been told fully of the transaction and Its advice had been Mrs. Duff said the mother of the baby Is a 23-yenr-old woman who emigrated from Germany with hor father three years ago and worked as a domestic In Hoboken to accumulate sufficient money to bring her mother here.

Mrs. Duff did not divulge the Identity of either th, father or mother. The young mother was destitute and Mrs. Thygesen obtained the child by paying the hos-pltal fee and through the agency of an unidentified man and Mrs. Bolte, who.

Mrs. Duff said, persuaded the n.other to sign a puper under an alleged threat of I p. rwn. at all liad lag erug torea. aav, 1 1 HILT SUBWAY RAFF Torlonia Once Fought Duel With Sculptor Over Bill for Baj-Relief of Beautiful Boro Girl Moores Once Social Leaders Here.

Rome. Italy, Dec. 10 Don Marino Torloiia, Duke of Poll, has obtained a legal separation from his wife, widely known as "the Dollar Duchess." The Duke Is 63, his wife, the former Elsie Moore o( Ilrnoklyn, 39. The Duke is a Roman Catholic, and his faith does not permit divorce. Neither do the laws of Italy, which allow only legal separation.

Miss Elsie Moore, daughter of the I Charles A. Moore, millionaire president of Manning, Msxwell Monre, and at one time president of tho Montauk Club, married Torlonia In 1907 at Old Orchard, the Moore residence at Belle Haven, to which the family moved from $th Brooklyn. She la the sister of Charles A. Moore Jr. and of Mrs.

Colby A. Chester Jr. On their return to Rome after their marriage the Torlonlas Immediately became the leaders In the social life of the one-time' imperial city. The Duke, unlike many noblemen who seek American wives, was a man of Independent fortune and brought his wife's family no debts. Coming from a long line of bankers whose title, as titles go In Italy.

Is comparatively recent, the Duke's family has to Its credit a great engineering feat the drainage of Lake Fuclno, which for centuries had overflowed Its banks with disaster to the nearby regions. The Duchess spent her own money entertaining at a series of brilliant fetes. During the-war she gave generously to the cause of the Allies. Ilas-Rellcf Led to Duel. In 1922 she and the Duke ob talned wide notoriety over their refusal to pay Count FUlppo Lovatelll, the sculptor, what he considered a fair price for his bas-relief of the beautiful Duchess.

The Count, the most famous and highly paid sculptor In Italy, was engaged to make the bas-relief, no mention being made for recompense, since It whs not the Count's custom to bargain. The work completed, the Duke and Duchess expressed themselves as delighted. The Count -expected a large fee. It was not for nothing that Ivllnci Moore was known throughout the nation as "the Dollar Duchess." When, however, tho Count received 1,000 lire, the equivalent of $35, with a polite note from the Duke expressing regret that hard times since the war made It Impossible for him to offer a larger sum, the sculptor was furious. In 'revenge he caricatured the original plaster model of the bas-relief In his studio, distorting the lovely features of the Duchess.

He substituted a purse for the Illy In her hand. The purso was tightly clutched and labeled "1.000 lire I have my money." together with the Torlonia coat of arms. This caricature was shown to all who visited the studio and the Duke's note was pasted to it. All Italy laughed. When the Duke heard of the Insult he slapped the Count's face at the ball given by Mrs.

Richard Washburn Child, wife of the American Ambassador, at the Grand Hotel, Rome. A duel with rapiers followed at dawn on the Aventlne Hill. The Duke wounded his much younger adversary In the right arm and they left the field without being reconciled. The Duke was excommunicated, but later the excommunication was abrogated by Cardinal Vicar Pompllj. Charles A.

Moore, father of the Duchess, was In his day the outstanding figure In Brooklyn business and political circles. A ieadlng Republican, he was the frenuent companion of President Mrh'lnley on pleasure and political trips throughout the United States. He was one of the founders of the Montauk Club and an early president of the Young ltniihi-iin flub of Brooklyn, which raised Seth Low to prominence. In partnership with Henry S. Manning and Eugene Lascellos Maxwell ho formed the firm of Manning.

Maxwell Moore, known throughout the world as the leading manufacturers of railway and machinists' tools. For 20 years prior to 1903 he resided on the Park Slope. FLORIDA DRYS RAID U.S BANKERS' SUITE AND SEIZE LIQUOR St. Petersburg. Dec.

10 C4) A room In the Soreno Hotel, convention headquarters of the Investment Bankers Association of America, was raided last night and a quantity of whisky seised. rinellas County officers announced today. The liquor, they said, wns In possession of James E. Cond. executive vice president of the St.

Petersburg ChamBer of Commerce. Mr. Coad wan not arrested last night, but the officers were quoted as saying: "We are leaving for Clearwater at noon to obtain a warrant for Mr. Coad's arrest." Clearwater Is the Pinellas county sent. The whisky was selied In a room used as headquarters of the local Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the Investment hankers.

Rabbi Wise Advertises Loss oi Pearl Necklace A newspaper advertisement today revealed that a pearl necklace, presumably the property of 8te-phen 8. Wise, wife Dr. Wise, the national Jewish leader, was lost In the theatrical district Saturday night, save the Associated Press. The advertisement read: "Lout Necklace; pearl; three-strand, with pearl and platinum Hasps; probably Saturday evening, theater district. Liberal reward.

Riverside 0071." Rabbi Wise declined to discuss the matter and sold It was nobody's Revenue Bureau Refunded to Oil Con-cern and Failed to Collect $594,305 Additional Tax, Senate Committee Engineers Charge Standard Oil of California Under Fire. Washington, Dec. 10 G4 That the Guir Oil Company escaped $4,690,385 In Federal taxes during the years 1915 to 3 919. when Secretary Mellon was a chief owner, Is asserted by engineers employed by the Senate Committee Investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau. The record In the Gulf Oil case, 8s made before the Committee last March, was made public today upon Its prestation to the Senate.

The engineers' asserted that the Revenue Bureau made an erroneous refund of $3,996,080 to the company and failed to collect additional taxes of $594,305. Case Rushed Through. H. Fay, a Committee engineer, testified that the Gulf Oil Company's case was rushed through the Bureau and closed within seven working days because Mr. Mellon desired to have all outside interests with which he was connected closed before he took office In March, 1921.

Open defiance of both the Internal Revenue Solicitor and Commissioner Blair by division chiefs In the handling of the tax of the Standard Oil Company of California also was charged in testimony before the Committee. Mean to Stand Pat. The Standard Oil case Involves an over assessment or refund for the year 1918 of $3,378,000 and hinges on whether the company should be allowed to change its methods of charging development costs from capital to expense. Commissioner Blair ruled that the change could not be made, but the division chlelfs disagreed and Informed representatives of the Senate Committee that they proposed to "stand pat." Underwood Condemns Inheritance Tax Plan As Being Communistic Washington, Dec. 1 0 The Federal Inheritance tax provision of the pending revenue bin was attacked In an address here today by Senator Underwood, Democrat, Alabama, as in principle and an unwarranted Interference with States rights In taxation.

Senator Underwood opposed particularly the feature of the proposed tax by which the Federal Government would follow a credit up to a maximum of 80 percent of its estate tax against that eollected by a State. "Tell me the Senator said, "the Federal Government should levy a death tax on the estates of all the people In the United States, and then say to the several States, It you will levy a tax within the terms that we prescribe wo will pay back to you 80 percent of the tax that wc have levied: If not. It shall alt go to the Federal Treasury and not be distributed for the particular benefit of your own State. "In other words, why should the Federal Government suy to a State like Florida, that If it is your policy not to tax- the Inheritance of the citizens of your State, we will place burden on them that will force you to levy such a tax. Such taxation Is entirely inconsistent with any theory of government except that of the communists." OF 2 COMMITTEES a and Nelson Dropped Langley, Dry Law Violator, Removed.

Washington, Deo. 10 OP) Houss Republicans today ousted two members of the Republican Insurgent group from chairmanships of committees. In completing Its organlratlon, the majority party removed Representative Lampert from the head, of Its Fatents Committee and deprived Representative Nelson of his place as chairman of the Eloctlons Committee. Both are Wisconsin Republicans. Keller Is Returned.

The Committee on Committee to--jiy disposed only of the of the regular standing committees. Lampert and Nelson were the only members of the insurgent group who held chairmanships In Uin last session. The committee also discussed today the question of party regularity ef Representative Keller of Mlnne. but he was returned as chairman of the RallT.aya and Canals C-jniiree, 1 1 VI Representative Vestal of Indian was made chairman of the Patents Committee and Representative Vincent of Michigan chairman of the Kindlons committee. Representative Beck ef Wisconsin, another Insurgent, wns In line for chairmanship of the Labor Committee, but the position whs given to Representative Knpp of Iowa.

Representative Langley of Kentucky, who has been convicted of violating the Prohibition laws, was removed as chairman of the Public Buildings Committee and Representative Elliott of Indiana given the place. INullEN HEADS OUSTED IN HOUSE Women Simply Cant Estimate Time Why Men Have to Wait llaltuuore, Dec. to (- the old iuestlon. "W'by does a woman kect you watting'" lias been Soled. Johns HopktliH t'litverslly announce.

A series of tests IiivoIMiik I equally divided between llien and Wolllin 111 seen I Olle'es selected tbtoiighout tile country. have shown, tbe iinnouni etnent that women as a rule show lnO percent error In bow long It will lake then) to dress for all engagement or i form any task. Men show an nveraise of 4j percent error. the oiher hand, while women were wide of tbe mai III M.I-nmtlim time. It was shown thai In following Instructions tiny were as accurate as the men acd morn careful.

mm hotel TO BE ERECTED 01 II Orr, Woodruff Homes on Remsen St. Bring $300,. 000 for Site. Another big apartment hotel Is planned for the Heights section, where fine old mansion: are stesdlly giving way to the demand for multl-fumlly structures Involving millions of dollars and transforming the locality from a neighborhood of private homes to an opnrtmcnt district of the most modern character. The latest project In tho movement Is a $2,000,000 structure to be erected at the soothfast corner of Henry and llemsen on the site of the Alexander Orr and Woodruff mansions, two historic residences of the Heights, which for many years played an Important part In the social life of old Brooklyn.

The old hrownstnne dwellings will be demolished by the Hrnnew Holding Corporation, of which Kdward Brandt Is president, the present owner of the property, and on the plot there will be built a 12-story apartment hotel. Old landmarks on Silo. The plot now occupied by the two old landmarks measures 7 feet on llemsen st. and 132 feet on Henry extending back to Hunts Alley, where stables, used by tbe two families many years ago, are situated. The corner house was formerly th home of the late Alexander tirr.

and the adjoining house was occupied by the Woodruff famllv. They are among the most Imposing residences In the boro. Ten years ago the Orr homo was sold, and subsi quently It became a boarding hmn. Later on the dwelling, and the adjoining property, was purchased by Mrs. Mabel Jackson, through the real estate firm of John I'.

Ar Suns. About three months ago both parcels were purchased by Nathan llnlperln of this boro. who disposed of them today for a price close to In the deal, which has just been closed, Mr. Brandt was represented by Gettner. Simon Asi her.

Th -brokers in the transaction were A. C. Wolf and Simon and Greenbui Realty Company. The G. W.

Gahen Associates Is the name ot tbe piinent holding corporation. 3 Girls Hart as Big Car Is Overturned by a Ford The police of the Hunters point precinct are looking for a Ford touring car which struck the machine of Rassey of Hellmore, L. I a glunrlng blow as he drove along QUcena blvTl. The Ford car mine out of Hull st. and overturned Itas-sey's automobile.

Three girls were In the ear with Tbev were Helen Tnthlly. 16. of 15 Humboldt Jamaica; Loretto Yamlaskl. 17. of Itelmar Iteltnar, and her sister.

May, lit. of the mime address. The occupants of the car were treated for cuts and bruises by an ambulance surgeon from St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, and then went home. Farm Bureau Federation Elects Coolidge Critic Chicago.

Dec. 10 0l The American Farm Bureau Federation has chosen as Its new president II. Thompson of Uulncy, a leader of the forces advocating a Federal Kxport Corporation and a critic of President Coolldge's agricultural speech made here The convention passed a resolution favoring a law based on the Farmers' Kxport Corporation principle. This resolution, the last on a list of 37, was the first to be passed after Thompson's election had done sway with prospects of a strenuous fight on the subject. Carlow was picked up with possible fractures of most of his bones.

He wms taken to Gou-j verneiis Hospital, here his condition 1 Is grave. hsrler nf the fltjr of ew York. Iselarf. ins Amss.lm.nta with tha Cily Home Ittlls Us an4 LiM-a! Ul t-r tha Munlrlpsl Amhlr. At Kagla idtliea ari newsstands I'llie II.

by mall It Hi Ailf. HEIGHTS Washington Dec. 10 Jp pendlture of 1:0 OdO e'iO annually for live years for procurement of air. raft for the Army ami Navy Is recommended In the report of the special House Aircraft CorninBlee us agreed upon today. The recommendations, which ron-template creation of a Department of Naiioroil Defense, cohering land, sea and air.

were concurred In by all members. Bepre-entatlie Relit of MInms. com t-mnr'lal counsel for Col. William Mitchell, will file a supple, mental brief advocating a unified Air Service. I.qual Status Not Awurrd.

The proposed National Defe'ise I lepnrtaiient would supplant the present War and Navy Departments, nod would not necessarily give aviation a ro-equal status with land and ee arnm menls. tther committee recommendations Include: A purnle budget fur all aiia-Hon i iHllles. A buna ii of cltll aerunaulli In Ihe lM-paniiienl of iMiiim-nr. One procurement agency for all air actli lilcs. liH-n-Mst'd representation fur the air unlm on In- rmy General Slalf and the Nay General Ibmril.

dote rtiiiiciH aid In I lie rtah-llsluiient til alrwa) and air Mrts. Sunry of all airplanes nun In uv and ili-t rui Ion of thiw found ii iti fc. real Inn and maintenance of an adequate air reserve. Increased promotion oiwrtu. nltles fur air iiflii-ers, and pay commensurate with the liaiard- of heir work.

Asks Test Work Transfer. The reports also reiommends that ciperiuicutul and development woig now done at the Naval aircraft fa' -tory at Philadelphia, and nt i Field, Dayton. Ohio, be transferred as far as possible to the Bureau of Standards. It does not, however. wK fur the closliic of the factory or the Mi Cook Kiel.

I work. legislation Is recominerded to pro. villa a way for inventors In the aircraft Industry to secure redress for infringed patents other than In the Court of Claims. The Army and Navy are nccunl In the report of failure lo give proper recognition to aviation as a factor In the national defense. Tlin-e Sub-Clilrfs Xot Airoicl The new secretary national defense would be empowered to takrf such steps as necessary to brin about complete co-ordiuatlnn of ad defense forces.

A prnpoaal to pro. vide for three auh-secretarles. wltn authority over land, sea and air sc. tlvltles, was not approved by ti committee. Commercial aviation Is held In Unreport to be of prime Importance an adjunct to national defense, and the proposed bureau of cixii aeronautics would In- directed to take a I sieps necessary for commert ml dc elopmenl The IJii.iiOn.fifiO io be spent annually for new equipment would h-dlvided equally between the Army and Navy.

Advisory Group's Report Dispel Aviation Fears, Coolidge Tells Congress Washington. Dec. 10 M) -Creation of a llureau of Air Navigation In the Department of Commerce to reti-late and encourage commercial aviation, continuance of a policy of sli-i-raft development In the light of 'he loss of the Shemthdouh, and extenson of the Air Mall itorVice to alt section' of the country, weis recommended In the annual report submitted to ongress today by the Nntlonal Ad--. isoiy Committee for Aeronautics, headed by Charles l. Walcutt.

secretary of the Smithsonian Instltu- n. Indorsing tbe report In a letter transmittal. President Coolidge de-i -tared a statement by the committee, that "America Is at ast ahres-t -f other progressive nations In it if tei tinlcal development of slrcraft -military purposes," should "dlsp-l ihe Impression'' that this country Is lagging In this respect. Tbe committees opinion In this regard was commended to Congress ns the "most authoritative that ran be hn.l Pmgrcfc from lli-rarcli. The President agreed with th-committee that "substantial progre- In iieionauti'-s is dependent largely upon si (entitle research." and added: "I believe that the work of tie loninilttee Is the most fundamental activity of the Government In connection with the development of aeronautics and that Its continuance is essential If America ts to maintain lis present advanced position In aircraft development.

"The condition of the aircraft Industry and the prospects for the development of commercial aviation on a sound basis have materially Improved during tbe past year. To encourage the development of commercial aviation 1 wish especially On the Inside Edward Cusliing'i Mujic Review, Page 8, Alfred E. Pierei on Anti-Military Slogan in Japan, Page II. Feature of Internl to Women, Page 14. Sihoo! and College Newi, P.K l.

Radio Ptograms, Page 4.. Duchess Torlonia. (Formerly Miss Klslc Moore) OF FRIES' POISON Burton and Borah Stirred to Action, by General's Propaganda. Kagle Bureau. 901 Colorado Building.

By IIF.XRY StYDAM. Washington. Dec. JO The War Department may become Involved 'n serious difficulties with Congress and outside through the conduct of Brig. Gen.

Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, who Is engaged In conducting, officially and at public expense, what appears to be a propaganda agnlnst Senate rat locution of the prutocol which the United States signed ot Geneva lust summer prohibiting poison gas warfare. Burton Amazed Will Ask I'rosl-dint's Action. The Fries latter and pamphlet were brought to the attention todsy of Senator William E. Borah, chair man of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Representa tive Theodore Hurton of Ohio, whi Is chairman of the American delega tion and signed the Geneva Protocol outlawing poison gas In the summer of his year.

Representative Burton expressel himself as amazed. Ho will bring the Fries propaganda to tho attention of President Cnolldge and Secretary of State Frank H. Kellogg at once. It was under ttie specific Instructions of the President and Mr. Kellogg that Representative liurton signed the Geneva poison giis convention on behalf of the United States.

While not yet in a position to make a public statement. Representative Burton Is prepared to silt to the bottom General Fries' behavior, which he regards as unprecedented and totally unjustified. Borah Ready to Move. Senator Borah was also preparing today to take action wlih reference to General Fries. Both Hurton and Horah were shocked that a high of.

fleer of the War Department snould be conducting a propaganda In opposition to the clear policy of his Government. Mr. Borah is especially Interested In the fact that General Fries will get about during the coming year for manufur. turlng and experimenting with poison gas. Mr.

Borah regards thlH as an Interesting commentary on the Administration's devotion to pecce and disarmament. The spectacle of a major pen-nil of the United States Army otllclally conducting a propaganda designed to defeat the Intentions and desires of hla own Government, unci doing all this at public expense. Is one th.it Is arousing Intense resentment. It Is probable that the entire subject will be brought to the attention of Congress. Method Is Adroit The method being used by lirig.

General Fries Is at least adroit. Instead of sending his propaganda to the various newspaper utiles in Washington, where such material la usually thrown Into the waatc. basket, he Is writing personally to each Washington correspondent at his home. Each man gets an original letter, with an original slgnuture. announcing that the Geneva protocol will come before the Senate at this session, and that therefore tho "truth" about poison gas as a humane weapon Is Important.

Accom- Continued ui Pace 2. WHY WALK A MILE FOR AN ANIMAL WHEN YOU CAN FIND HOUSEHOLD PETS IN THE XMAS ADS ON PAGE 5A EOS COURT DIRECTS A Jury impaneled to try Frank Audltore of Brooklyn, at one time a millionaire stevedore and partner of his brother. Joseph, for failure to make correct returns of his Income tax for the year 1922, today was directed by Judge Augustus N. Hand, in the United States District Court, to return a verdict of acquittal. The jury did as directed.

Audltore's escape from trial was due to Judge Hand's decision that the Audltore, even If he possessed the sum against which attempted assessment was made, could not have been taxed for Its possession, as It did not belong to him. Audltore was committed to Raymond Street Jail by Supreme Court Justice Cropsey here up his failure to turn over to the estate of his brother, Joseph. $331,000, which the executors of Joseph Auditore's estate charged the surviving partner with taking from the partnership. Audltore claimed at the time he was unable to pay over the amount demanded as he no longer possessed 10 After several months In Raymond Street Jail he was released. McCormicks Give Million To Y.

W. C. A. in Chicago Chicago, 10 P) A gift of $1,000,000 by Cyrus II. McCormlck and his sons, Cyrus Jr.

and Gordon, to the Young Women's Christian Association, In memory of Mr. Mccormick's wife, was announced today. The money will be used to construct In Chicago a residence hull for women and girls. JURY TO AC VI FRANK UDIO Unwed Immigrant Mother Forced to Sell Baby Under Deportation Threat, Charge Manhattan Bridge Riveter Falls 75 Feet and Survives; Lands in East Side Crowd Union City, X. Dec.

10 OP) A remarkable transaction whereby a baby girl born to an unwed mother, was sold by one woman to another for the sum of $50, came to light In Union City yesterday. According to Mrs. Evangeline Duff, a member of the Union City Health Board, the baby, four and a half months old, now bears the name of Laura Agnes Thygesen, and Is accredited on records of the Union City Board of Health as the child of Mrs. Llllle Agnes Thygesen, who gave her age as 61 on July 29, the date of the child's birth, and her address as 614 Lake this Mrs. Duff's Investigation has revealed, she declared tonight, the fact that the child was born in a maternity hospital conducted by Mrs.

Bertha Bolte at 61 Palisade Union City. It further revealed the story that the child was sold by Mrs. Bolte to Airs. Thygeson for 150 and tnat tho noma nna and r.r lnrai. i.

i iu ma iiiuinnr Tumbling from the undersid.eiof the Manhattan llrldge. here he as working. Thomas Carlnw. a riveter, nboul 11:30 o'clock this morning fell over a distance of 71 feet, with his sledgehammer dropping beside him. He struck the roadway at Madison and Illrmlngham streets amid a score of trucks and motor vehicles and crowds of Kast Side pedestrbirs.

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