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I 5H0UT.RS TON I GUT AND TUESDAY MORNING; WARMER TONIGHT. Temper alurr 12 m. (Eagle Sla.) 42 i V.r hh 1 3 O'CLOCK WALL ca STREET Mean average lor 10 yrar, lame dale 49 'r Complete Report on Page 3. FOUR O'CLOCK Volume it No. 83 NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929.

34 PAGES THREE CENTS BROOKLYN DAILY A fll Ja rrnrnni nrTnim 1 1 nu nr UUIII1LU II L. I Hill mm AFTER FERRARI'S FIRM PROBED BY STATE ON STOCK SALES f't STOCKS AGAIN CRASH DOWNWARD CALL MONEY UP 4 Die as Plane, Lost Hits Tree; 3 Other Spanish Aces Hop in Fog, Deaths; for Brazil 1 BATTLE Rises to 1 4 Percent Bulls i 2v" if Attorney General Acts to Protect Holders in Auto Company Linked to City Trust No Forged Notes in Bank, McMahon Says. Another company In which the late F. M. Ferrari, president of the defunct Cl'y Trust Company, was the guiding spirit Is being Investigated by the Attorney General's olllic for the purpose of taking action to protect its stockholders, it was disclosed today by Watson Washburn, Assistant Attorney General.

This company is the Lancia Motors of America. Inc organized by Ferrari in 1927 to build Italian Lancia cars In this country. Its affairs are Intimately linked not only with those of the wrecked City Trust but also with the Federal Securities Corporation, another Ferrari enterprise. $:00,000 Stock Sold. Sales of stock In Lancia Motors or America, were suspended voluntarily by tho company last January after wo'-lh of Rush to Unload Bears Active.

Stocks crashed downward agnin today. And as thry went down liquidation from all parts of the country poured in and put thrm down further. Losses of five points were common, while more than a score showed declines of 10 points at various times. Trading was the heaviest on the decline that lt has been for months. The ticker tape was 10 minutes late during most of the day.

In the past the tendency has been for the trad ing to slow down on reactions. Call Money at 13 Percent. A swift advance of the call rate to 12 Dercent accplprntrt t.h selling by bull traders and made uie Dears more courageous. It was percent at the opening, rose to percent at middav and t.tinn umped to 1 Dercent In tli onrlv afternoon. And it was expected that lt would go higher before the close.

mere was much ta inriirutn that the outside trading public was losing millions of dollars of cash and paper profits. Some of the biggest declines were in stocks that have been favorites of the public. Anaconda was an example. It broke from an early high above 165 to below 155. Kennecott Copper, another favorite, dropped from 95 to below 90.

Money Rate Up to 14. Shortly after 2 o'clock th rail money rate was advanced tn 14 nor- cent, the highest rate slnco the big deflation in 1920. On July .1 1920. the call rate advanced in that Wni The Jump in the money rate was inougnu to indicate that the banks were needing the warnlmr nf thn Federal Reserve and were not com- Please Turn to Page 2. The Spanish aviators.

Captains Jimenez and Iglesas, have started from Seville, Spain, on the first Transatlantic flight of the season, with Brazil as their destination. Here they are shown with their plane, "Jesus the Almighty," in which UIR FOLLOWS FOX IN Craft Turns Over After Part of Wing Is Torn Off in Flying Low Among Tree Tops. Mt. Gretna, March 25 C41) Four persons were killed when a Ryan monoplane struck a tree while flying low in attempting to ascertain its position while over the National Ouard encampment ground near here today. The pilot had a card In his pocket reading: "John L.

Campion, Eastern factory representative of the Mahoney-Ryan Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis'." Another victim had a card In a pocket bearing the name of Harold W. Lloyd, Worthlngton, Ohio. The pilot apparently had lost nis way in the miyst and fog and was flying low in an effort to regain his bearings. Flying over a hill covered by woods, part of the wing of the plane was torn off by a tree.

The pilot tried to gain altitude, started upward and then turned over, crashing to earth against a tree stump. The machine was a total wreck. It was a Ryan T-l model. No. T208, made by the Mahoney-Ryan Company of Angiin, and bore the word St.

Louis on the side. The machine was flying north at the time of the crash and Is be lieved to have left New York this morning. Efforts to identify the bodies had been unavailing a half hour after the crash and officials were trying to communicate with New York air fields in an attempt to ascertain the mentity ot tne trio. Two Die in Plane Collision. Pensacola, March 25 Lt, Frederick W.

Roberts, flight in structor at the United States Naval Air Station here, and Alvln Cross. man Hutchings, flight student, were killed in a collision with another plane here today. Harry Edward Nettnay, aviation metalsmith third class and pilot of the second plane, was thrown clear of the wreckage. His clothes covered witn naming gasoline he was seri ously burned. Lieutenant Roberts was giving Hutchings ground instruction while seated in a plane resting on the field when Nettnay, also a flight student, took off in a three-plane formation.

The Roberts plane was directly ahead, and the two planes struck ana MescoDed. Both lmme dlately caught flre, burning Roberts ana Hutcmngs beyond recognition, Killed by Propeller, Belief. Attendants here believed that Hutcnings was killed by the pro peucr oi nettnay pjane. 1 Dies, 1 Hurt in Crash. Chicago, March 25 UP) A pilot was killed and an passenger injured perhaps fatally in an airplane crash in Ooklawn, a suburb, today.

The victims were William Perkins, who was Killed, and William Dorey, said to be a student polit. Witnesses said the engine of the plane appar ently stalled and sent the plane into a iau spin. JAMES L. BRUSH DIES; WAS IN HIS 93D YEAR James L. Brush of 9233 190th Hollls, L.

one of the oldest residents of that section, died today at his home. He was in his 93d year. Mr. Brush and his wife, Sarah Elder Brush, who survives him, last year celebrated the 66th anniversary of their marriage, me funeral services will be private. Brieger Asserts Harvey Ousted Wrong Men; Wants Halleran and Boro President Snaps Up Public Works Commissioner's Suggestion to Air Charges at Cabinet Meeting After He Tells McMaster and James to Quit.

By FRANK EMERY. Boro President Harvey's cabinet, which has been tryine to get together for three months on a symphony heralded as "Clean Up Queens," hit a new record of sour notes today as members of the official orchestra quit playing their discordant instruments and began to- Reinforcements Are 40 Miles Away Advance Guard Attacks Rebels. What Fighting Is About The present Mexican revolution, like several others In the recent past. Is an attempt on the part of disgruntled military leaders to obtain control of the Government. They charge that the Administration of the ad-Interim President, Emilio Fortes Gil, is dictating who shall succeed him.

A national election is to be held this year to determine who becomes President on Jan. 1, 1930. The rebel leaders demand "free elections" and the exile of ex-President Calles. The Government leaders deny any interference with "free elections" and have made ex-President Calles commander-in-chief of the Mexican Army to suppress the rebellion. Mexico City, March 25 (flV-Help for the beleaguered Federal garrison at Mazatlan was within 40 miles of that city today and danger hw the rebel West Coast army under Gen.

Francisco Manzo was believed past, c.arai reinforcements under Gen A LUl.1 Evaristo Perez, military governor of the state of Nayarit, advancing .1 -A tVlP Small TSDel liuiiuwmu, garrison at Rosario, 40 miles south of Mazatlan, late a brief encounter captured the city. Three rebels were killed before their main body retreated. Gevernment announcements said Viof nrViar. tha Verieral trOODS TJUt in their appearance the Tebel forces had all the citizens lined up with hands in the air submitting to March for money and valuables. The town was thorougniy looica.

Threat Dispelled. ti. time hollnvpri here to XU vaymia have cut short any threat of a rebel advance into tne state oi uuiuuu niih In their possession, the rebels would nave constituted a oennue uucav Calles rear. Tha -dotm. nrcp were the advance guard ol the army of Gen.

Lazaro ricase Turn to Page 4. FOR LOST FLIERS Atlantic City Man Who Saw Plane Dive Leads Searchers Into Woods. The pine woods of New Jersey and the coast line between New York and Norfolk were searched i-om land and sea and air today for the plane in which T. Raymond Finucane, wealthy Rochester business man, and three others disappeared last Friday. Twenty-five members of the Coast Guard were led into the woods near Warctown, N.

by J. A. Walk of Atlantic City, who said he saw a plane fall there Friday afternoon, a report corroborated by a Newby Coast Guard station, according to the Associated Press. Along the shore Coast Guard boats and commercial craft kept a lookout for the plane and aloft as many of the more than 20 planes that joined the search yesterday as could fly to advantage through intermittent rain kept at their task today. Tlanes Leave Rockaway.

Two planes took off from the Bockaway naval air station and three left from Curtiss Field. Two Please Turn to Page 2. 5. S. MINNEWSKA DAMAGED HITTING SHIP DURING FOG London, March 25s OP) The S.S.

Minnewaska df the Atlantic Transport Line, New York for Dondon, had a slight mishap during a fog yesterday evening near the treacherous Goodwin Sands. She was damaged on her port side above the waterline when she touched an un known vessel. Passengers were not disturbed and the liner continued to Tilbury Docks An official of the Atlantic Transport Line said that damage was slight. Westbard sailing of the Minnewaska will not be affected. All her passengers reached London before noon.

It was at firs, reported that the Minnewaska had been in collision with the Danish steamer Nicollne Maersk, but this ship was at the Panama Canal on March 21. $35,000 VERDICT FOR BOY CRIPPLED BY LUMBER TRUCK Samuel Mandclman, 6 years old, of 426 Rockaway pkwy. was awarded S35.000 by a lury In Justice Druhan's part of Supreme Court today for injuries he received on Dec. 21 last, when a truck of the Feldman Lum-hpr nnmnanv ran over him at E. J6th st.

and Newport ave. The lad's father, Joseph, was awarded $7,000 for doctor bills. Samuel's left leg was so badly crushed that he will be a cripple for life. In the opinion of the doctors. His injury also partly paralyzed him.

He was car ried into courv on swetcuer. JERSEY SCANNED ROM AIR 111 HUN MORALS IMPUGNED Assistant Federal Attorney Maurice J. Dlnnerstein made known today that he was utrning over to Federal Attorney Tuttle in Manhattan papers connnrtcd with a proceeding which tho Attorney General hns ordered fnr lon of the American citizenship of Gluseppl DanLse, Metropolitan Opera Company baritone, on the ground that he Is of immoral character. Tho immortality charged against Danise grew out of his having permitted Raiiaela Zelinda Dunlso to get an uncontested divorce in the Kings County Supremo Court on statutory gronuds. Danise lived at 1G37 68th st.

when naturalized. The case is bring transferred to Manhattan Jurisdiction because the singer now resides there. Klein Fired OF Issues Semi-Official Note. Retires Because of Ad vancing Years. Madrid, March 25 (TO Prlmo de Rivera, Chief of the Spanish Directorate, feels that he is no longer young enough to remain at the head of tho present regime.

The dictator Issued a semi-official note foretelling a change in government and stating that he was not young enough to continue for another Ave years at his post. Had he been younger the man who has been virtually dictator of Spain since the autumn of 1923 said that he would have asked King Alfonso to continue his confidence in him for another period of five years. Held Office Since Drc. 3, 1925. Gen.

Primo do Rivera has been at the head of a civil Cabinet of Ministers since Dec. 3, 1925, when, with the consent of the King, the military directorate was dissolved after two years of somewhat troubled existence. The object of the civil cabinet, which replaced a cabinet of high military olllcers, was to promote economic and social reforms. The change did not bring about complete or immediate restoration of previous constitutional guarantees. In Primo de Rivera's Own words, it proposed "(lie substitution for the military dictatorship of a civilian and economic dictatorship, with a more suitable but not less vigorous organization." Wanted to Continue I'ntil 1931.

The dictator was recently reported to have desired continuation of his rule until 1931, in which time he believed he could cure national ills. He expressed himself as ready to resign office then. Lady Astor's secretary, speaking for her, said this afternoon that alcoholic bevrages had been served at the Rhodes entertainment, but added: "Lord and Lady Astor's views on the liquor question are too well known to require comment. But they do not attempt to coerce guests, ana tnose wim wish alcoholic beverages may have them in her house." Lady Astor frequently addressed meetings of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and has long been an opponent of the liquor trade. RIVERA TO OU! DICTATOR SPflNlSH REGIME "Tcddie" Gerard.

London, March 25 "Tcddie" Gerard, American actress, is report ed seriously ill. She is at a West End nursing home suffering from an affection in her right lung. DENIES SUN Committee Quizzes Mayor on 'Slush Fund' for Sun day Performances. State House, Trenton, N. March 25 (P) Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City today was questioned be' fore the McAllister Legislative In vestigating Committee concerning a $50,000 slush fund alleged to have been collected by movie interests to smooth over violation of New Jersey's ancient vice and immorality act in exhibiting on Sunday.

It was the second time the Mayor, who is also vice chairman of the National Democratic Committee, appeared before the investigating body. Disputes between him and Russell E. Watson, chief of the committee's counsel, began early in the interrogation and showed signs of continuing during the day with increasing asperity. Alleged Demand Cited. The attorney reached the subject of Sunday movies with the query as to whether they were permitted in Jersey City.

uioi "Yes," brtid the Mayor. "How long?" asked Watson. "Since they changed the Repub lican prosecutor for a Democratic prosecutor in January, re Dlled Hairue. "Now," began Watson, "we want to find out if you have any knowl edge if city officials were paid by the movie men for the privilege of opening Sunday. We have test! mony to the effect that Joseph Bernstein, a member of your Board of Education, called a meeting of the movie men and told them they would have to pay and told them how much.

Hague Makes Heated Denial. "That sum ran into $50,000 oi $60,000 a year. They began making payments and immediately the movies opened." "I know nothing about Mr. Bern stein's business records," the Mayor said heatedly. "You have charged mo with everything under the sun whether lt took place in Jersey City or not.

This has been going on ior a year. I have been humiliated by Please Turn to Page 2. charge was soliciting alms. He had found her at the corner of De lancey and Suffolk sts. yesterday, two crusts or stale bread one hand, a battered tin cup In the other.

113 pennies in the cup Words came from her, disconnected words about the need of saving, about the dread of hard times. "Are there any relatives in court of this poor old lady?" asked the magistrate. There were. Aaron Smolowltz stepped up. Aaron is a son, a pros perous moving contractor, of 339 Thatford ave.

"Do you wish to take your mother home?" asked the Judge. Aaron shook his head hopelessly, "I want your honor to send her away." Wouldn't Touch Savings. The court was shocked. But Smolowltz explained. In no other way was lt possible to keep the old woman from going into the streets begging for more coins.

She had enough now to keep her in comfort, to keep poverty from her door as long as she lived. But the specter of poverty haunted her. But none of this, none of her other possessions, would she touch She still saved and saved, spending not more than 10 cents a day for nerseu. He and his brother and sister. Smolowltz said, had tried to do everything possible for her.

At one time they suggested that she go to an institution, where her old age would be insured. And she left them and went to live alone at 209 Livonia in a house that she owned. AtSmolowltz's request, his mother was confined to the Home for the Aged and Infirm. ON STAND BRIBE BY IVIES they are making the flight. Expected on S.

American Coast by Midnight. Takeoff Is Secret for Flight. Madrid, March 25 The Mo roccan Department of the Ministry of War received a wireless telegram from the Spanish South Atlantic airplane Jesus del Gran Poder stating that it had passed over Cape Juby, Rio de Dro, shortly after midnight, flying with a favorable wind. Cape Juby is on the west coast of the Sahara opposite Fuertcventura, one of the Canary Islands. It is approximately 900 miles from Seville, indicating that the Spanish fliers, aided by a favorable wind, were making about 125 miles an hour.

Expected at Midnight. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, March 25 MP)- Radio advices received on the Island of Fernando Do Noronna off the coast of Brazil, from Dakar, state that the Spanish transatlantic fliers, Capts. Francisco Jimenez and Ignaclo Iglesas, are expected to reach the Brazilian coast about mid night or shortly thereafter. The Latecoere Company has or dered night lights on all fields from Natal southward to Rio Janeiro to guide the airmen while the navy is co-operating, directing all naval ves. seis along the northern coast to re port sighting of the plane.

Unsighted at Dakar. Dakar, Senegal, March 25 (T) The airplane Jesus Del Gran Poder which was expected to fly over Da kar by 11 o'clock this morning had not put an appearance by 3 o'clock this afternoon, but no anxiety was felt as It was thought possible that the machine may have started out over the Atlantic. The proposed route was Cape Spartel, Cape July, Saint Louis and Dakar, the pilots intending to land at Dakar only if weather conditions were unfavorable for an Immediate attempt to cross the South Atlantic. It was estimated that the flight from Seville to Pernambuco would take about 33 hours and that consequently the plane would be due along the Brazilian coast about 1 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Took Off in Secret. Seville, Spain, March 25 (P Two Spanish, aviators, bachelors and neither over 30, this morning presumably were winging their way southward across the Atlantic Ocean In an attempted nonstop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The fliers, Capts. Francisco Jimenez and Ignacio Iglesas, Spanish aces in the Moroccan campaign, left Seville in a secret take-oft yesterday afternoon at 5:42 (2.42 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) in their Spanish-made airplane, Jesus del Gran Poder.

They have not been reported since. Their course lay down the west coast of northern Africa to Capo Blanco, Mauritania; thence across Please Turn to Page 2. uik nna occn sold units of I snare 01 common and share of preferred at $27.50 per unit, accord- to Micnaei LonKO, Brooklyn lawyer, a former member of the board and a large creditor and stockholder. Not a single motor car has been built by the company. Not only did the Federal Corporation, which held a largo block of City Trust stock, sell stock: In Lancia Motors but it deposited part of tho proceeds from the stork sales with the City Trust and this money is still tied up, according to Mr.

Washburn. He said he was unable to state what the amount was. What action the At oral's office will take will be announced within a few days, he as serted. Troniises Justice. ''But we are going to see that Justice is done," suid Mr.

Washburn "Ferrari was the guiding spirit in Lancia Motors. Federal Securities and City Trust." Jeremiah T. Mahoney, of counsc' inr Frank If. Warder. State Superintendent of Banks, told The Eugle on Saturday that Ferrari was resnpnsl.

siblo for whatever wrongdoing there was in the wrecked City Vincent Ferettl, lawyer, who has been retained to reorganize Lancia Motors, blamed the present situation of Improper underwriting, "Federal Securities was to have underwritten tho company," said, "but 1t was found that Federal Securities was not in a finan cial position to do so. No underwriting contract was made witlt tliem. I was retained recently to reorganize the company and obtain proper underwriting." t'okker on Hoard. Mr. Lomro disclosed Mint.

Anfhrmtr H. C. FokCP. airnhin mnnnf was a member of the oresetn ho.mi an dthat Hugo V. D'Annunzio, son of the famous Italian poet, had been a member but resigned seven or eight months ago.

Vincent Lancia, heart nf t.ha Italian company, was rhairmnn nf the board. He resigned last January iwnowiiiB a neatca quarrel wltli Ferrari, but his resignation never has been accepted. Anthony M. Flockcr, an automobile encinner. is president of the American company.

Other members of the bnnrrt James Martin of the Martin Tlra Company, James B. Taylor Ralph De Palma and Dr. Victor Racca, according to Mr. Lontro. who said: The Whole trouhln rin In Mia failure of Vincent Lancia to live up io ins contract wiui tne Amerlcon company and deliver motor parts as he had agreed by Jan.

1, 1929. Mormy Meeting Held. "Lancia Is the solo owner nf tha Italian company and agreed to give the American company tho use of all its patents to supply the Amer ican organization with motors, transmissions, dilferentials. iront suspensions and steering gear. The purpose was io buu dhero a Lancia car that could be sold for $3,500 or $4,000.

In return tha American company ogrced to give Lancia $100,000 for the use ot tha patent rights. A check for $110,000 was sent him in keeping with this agreement and as a contract binder. "Last January Lancia came to this country and said ho would not be in a position to furnish the parts until January of noxt year. Officials of the American company became wrought up and there wer stormy meetings. "Lancia offered to return the money we had sent him and cancel the contract.

Ho also offered his resignation as chairman of the board. We would not let him cancel the contract nor would be accept his reslirnatloa. Legal action to enforce what we believe are our rights under the contract are in contemplation. Dodd'i Excuse Hit. The excuse offered by District Attoniey Dodd for failure to go after the causes of the collapse of the City Trust Company, with losses running into the millions, was punctured today by Edward Ward McMahon.

counsel to the State Banking Department for Brooklyn and Long Island. There Is a do-nothing policy in the District Attorney's otflce, on the ground that to stir up the scandal now might cause the group of bankers who have pledged themselves to take over the wreck of the City Trust to abandon their plans, anil thus cost the depositors their savings. Officials are saying secretly that the ill-fated bank was "flllerl with forged notes" nnd millions in frauds are talked of in this connection. Penles Note Forgeries. The only definite information on forged notes has come from Humbert J.

Fugazy. sports promoter and friend of Ferrari. Fugazy announced that a note for $129.00 hearing hl3 name was a forgery. This was followed by whispered declarations In official circles that other forgeries would total more than $1,000,000. Mr.

McMahon today assorted thai Tlease lurn.tn r.ise 1 Son Has His Aged Mother 'Put Away' to Stop Begging; Tells Judge She Has $20,000 Less Than 25 Percent of Films Planned by Big Firms Will Be Silent. The whole movie world has gone ''talkie," It was learned today, following announcement by the Fox Film Corporation that it will produce no more of the "silent" pictures. Most of the lother large producers have not yet completely dropped the non-spcaking pictures from their production program, it ap peared, something less than 25 percent of the total being scheduled without voice or sound, lor the benefit of the nonEnglish speaking exhibitors. 54 Talk, 15 Don't. Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was learned, are planning 45 talkies each as against 15 silent pictures.

Pathe will have 20 talkies and about half as many of the silent kind. Radio Pictures, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, plans to produce 30 talkies during the year and no silent pictures.and Warner Brothers, owners of the Vltaphone process, are similarly planning no silent pictures, with the possible exception of silent versions of talkies for foreigl exhibition. Universal Conservative. Universal appears to be the only large producer which still considers silence more golden than mechanical speech on the films. Its schedule calls for 2 Otalkles and 40 silent pictures during the coming year.

First National, controlled by Warner Brothers, expects to make 40 talkies and none of the other kind. The revolutionary announcement of the Fox organization that it has Please Turn to Page 2. TWO MEN INJURED AS CRANE FALLS AT ST. GEORGE HOTEL Two persons were badly hurst at 2 p.m. today when a crane at work in an excavation for new addition to the Hotel St.

George at Cranberry and Hicks sts. collapsed, according to a report sent to Brooklyn Police Headquarters. A hook and ladder company was sent to the scene to perform the rescue work. Judge Bondy interrupted to say he had to perform the "most unpleasant" duty he had ever had to carry out as a Judge. He pointed out that Rockwood, because of his position, could not plead ignorance ot the law and that since he had enjoyed the friendship and trust of men in all walks of life, especially of the Bar, his failure to file his income tax returns was all the more reprehensible.

"I have had letters from men all over the State, from men who re spected him as I have," said Judge Bondy, adding that he did not think the sentence was too severe. Rockwood declared that no charge had ever been made against him before, that he was not pleading for a suspended sentence and that he only wanted time to go to Washington and get his taxes adjusted and paid. He said there had been no wilful intention on his part to evade his tax payments. "What will Duttini me in lull three months do, but destroy me destroy me as a lawyer and take away my earning power," said Rockwood. DM throw them at each other.

Harvey himself ran out on the turbulent concert during the forenoon for the more placid tremolo of the Board of Estimate. Then Superintendent of Street Cleaning FriU Brieger, the bass drummer all along, let lt be known that he didn't think the members of the band discharged by Harvey-Deputy Commissioner of Public Works Frank J. McMaster and the Boro President's confidential in spector, Edgar K. James had been responsible for the disharmony at all. The pair summarily ousted by Leader Harvey yesterday, Brieger Inferred, may have been responsible for a few squeaks from the back row of the orchestra, but had little to do with the general discord.

Mager Was Rewarded. These charges, communicated to Harvey by Brieger and to Higglns by Harvey, were that Mager had been rewarded for aiding Harvey's campaign with seven corporation Tlease Turn to Page 2. HELFAND RESIGNS FROM STATE BAR UNDER TUTTLE FIRE Marcus Helfand, lawyer, today submitted his resignation as a member of the Bar of New York Stato to Presiding Justice Victor J. Dow-llng of the Appellate Division, according to an announcement made at the Federal Building by United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, after Tuttle had completed a set of charges he planned to file against Helfand with the Bar association.

Mr. Tuttle said he had arrived at his office eaily this morning in order to have time to draw up the charges and that he had completed tnem some time before he met David P. Holland's attorney. The lat ter told Mr. Tuttle he had sent Holland's resignation to Justice Dow- "'mV.

Tuttle announced that in view of the resignation he would not file the charges. When she was much younger tlian she is today and more eager and energetic Rachel Smolowltz came to the United States. She came in the great wave of immigration that swept millions of harried human beings from eastern Europe to the shores of what was to them the modern Promised Land. In the lands they came from, Russia and Austria and Poland, life had been very hard, very close to the starvation line. Here in the new land it continued, for the first months for years, to be a hard and cruel life.

Owns $20,000 Realty. Rachel Smolowltz learned then the bitter lesson of thrift. If one but had money, things would not be so bad. And so, when the burden lifted, when the promise began to be fulfilled, she made certain that never again would she find herself helplessly penniless. She nor her children.

She worked hard. She spent little. She saved much. Children came and later grandchildren. Today, at the age of 87, she is the mother of two sons and a daughter, 27 grandsons and granddaughters.

And the owner or real estate in Brooklyn worth $20,000, with an Income of $400 a month. And today they brought rtachel SmolowlU into the Essex Market Court, an old, old woman, dressed io nondescript Tags, her shoes full of holes, leaning on a cut from a broomstick. "What is the charge against this defendant?" asked Magistrate William FarrelL Patrolman Harry Kaln of the Clinton st. station answered. The Ex- Judge Rockwood Fails To Escape Tax jail Term British Drys Rap Lady Astor For Giving Champagne Dinner Nash Rockwood, for 13 years County Judge at Saratoga, N.

and for 37 years a member of the bar, today lost before Federal Judge William Bondy in Manhattan a motion for suspension of his three months sentence imposed on his plea of guilty to failure to file income tax returns, and was also denied further delay in the execution of the sentence. He arranged to surrender to the United States Marshal this afternoon to begin serving his sentence In the new Federal house of detention at West and 11th sts. Judge Bondy refused a further stay of execution of sentence alter extended pleas in Rockwood's behalf by his counsel, John W. Davis and David P. Slegel, and the fomer Judge himself that he needed more time to straighten out his extensive practice.

Mr. Davis insisted that Rockwood had committed no crime Involving moral turpitude; that there had been no larceny or embezzlement. "If every man who is delinquent about his taxes is to go to jail we'll have to build vastly larger Jails," commented Mr. Davis. Starting in Today's Eagle Jane Arden's Adventures Jane is the prettiest girl in the entire world of comic strips.

Felix the Cat, the best known animal in the films. Both on the Comic Strip Page of The Eagle London, March 25 W) The fact that champagne and other alcoholic drinks were served at Lady Astor's recent party for Rhodes scholars has aroused hostile comment among British Prohibition leaders. Referring to the party during a speech at Accrlngton today, S. M. Holdcn.

president of the British Local Option and Women's party, declared that Lady Astor should not be allowed to appear on any temperance ylatlorra In the future..

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