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MS Veterinarian, 81, and Bride of 60 WOMAN ADMITS $37,000 LARCENY PREDICT HOdfi WILL WIN VOTE IH TO ATTORNEY AT WW A PRIMARY CHASER HEARING Adriatic Lifeboat Crew Saves Greek in Gallant Rescue After Dredge Sinks Officer, Clad in Pajamas, Aids in Heroic Battle Against Wind and Spring Tide Has Tough Time Arousing Chief Rat Ivcl or on Hoffman Island ta Gain Shelter for Men. Rousing the Chief Rat Inspector at Hoffman Island before daybreak today proved a tough task for Lieut. R. H. Shaw, R.

N. fourth officer of the White Star liner Adriatic, who performed a gallant rescue of a seaman thrown overboard in the sinking of the U. S. Army dredge Navesink off i 'MI "t-t frY "it DREDGE GOES DOWN IN NARROWS CRASH; 44 MEN RESCUED Mr. and Mrs.

Charles T. Phenix, 81 and 60, respectively, whose romance began 50 years ago, were married Saturday at the Municipal Building in Manhattan. The bride was Mrs. Marie L. Snow, who had been married three times before.

The bridegroom, a veterinarian and an old circus man, had been married twice, both wives being former bareback riders. CHASER HEARINGS TO STAY SECRET, LAZANSKY DECREE Continued from Fage xvcitigation by the Bar associations KaiTS. Richmond. Queens. Suffolk and several other counties it finally approved, but stipulated it should be in secret.

Consequently nobody knows what evidence of wrongdoing is being collected by Meier Sieinbnnk, ex-Judge William Bayes and other counsel at work in the matter. It was thought that these private hearings would be followed by public hearings later, as is bein done so effectively by Mr. Kresel. Justice Lazansky corrected this impression today. "There will be no open hearings before Justice Faber." he said, when The Eagle asked if there would be any action on the plea for open hearings.

Will the proceedings and the evidence taken before Justice Faber remain secret for all time?" ha was asked. Findings to Be Published. "The findings will be set forth in a report which will be made public," he declared. "Just how soon that will be I do not know. Then this court Will take whatever steps may be necessary if there is any need for further action, to discipline those attorneys who have been shown to have engaged In unethical practices.

Heretofore when this court has received complaint of misconduct on the part of attorneys the practice has been to have trie official referees Investigate and report, and the hearings before official referees are always public. But it may be that attorneys accused before Justice Faber will consent to have their names stricken from the roll of attorneys, and then, of course, there would be no need for further activity along that line. I cannot tell, of course, what the future will bring in that respect." "Will the Appellate Division take any action with respect to the suggestion for public hearings?" "The request of The Eagle for open hearings was placed before the justices of this court and there was no disposition to vote for public hearings in the present phase of the investigation," said Justice Lazaniky. Fears Harm to Innocent. "What objection is there against public hearings?" "Well, my own objection Is that innocent persons might be injured by open hearings at this time, and the conclusion might be reached, in the event of innocent persons' names being mentioned, that where there is so much smoke there surely must be some fire," said the jurist, "I consider that this is an investigation to determine it there has been any wrongdoing on the part of lawyers, in the nature of an investigation such as the Grand Jury conducts to determine if a crime has been committed.

Grand Jury sessions are always secret and the ensuing trials, If any, or the pleas of guilty are always public." Another Lavyes Witness Reported Missing in Manhattan Inquiry. i new misting witness was reported at the opening of this afternoon's session ot the Manhattan "ambulance chaser" probe when Assistant Prosecutor Harold X. T. Schnurer told Justice Wasservogel that Attorney Abraham Fish, 255 Broadway, Manhattan, wanted for questioning, cannot be located. Fish, It was stated, Is being sought for an explanation of a curious business relationship with Jacob W.

Pas-cou, another attorney. Mr. Schnurer stated that employees In Pish's office have informed him that the lawyer has gone to the country "for his health." The tricks of the trade by which Mbrdecal P. Springer, lawyer, of 299 Broadway, Manhattan, advanced his profession and personal fortunes were given aa airing before Justice Wasser-vogel today in the Manhattan ambulance-chasing investigation. Three of these tricks, Harold T.

8chnurer, who Interrogated witnesses in the absence of Chief Prosecutor Isidor J. Kresel, declared to the Court after descriptive testimony had been spread on the record were larceny, forgery and solicitation. Prosecutor to Get Testimony. After a dozen witnesses had given testimony as to Springer's alleged malodorous practices in the forenoon session. Mr.

Schnurer stated that copies of the testimony would be rushed to both the Appellate Division and the Manhattan District At torney's office for action. Accompanying these transcripts, it Was stated, will De copies ot me lawyer's testimony before the preliminary hearings in which Springer denied ever engaging "runners" or "chasers" to solicit business for him, or violating any of the ethics of the legal profession. Joseph Baraldi, a stem-faced young father of 2840 Bailey the Bronx, gave the evidence that caused Mr. Schnurer to exclaim to the Court: "This would indicate Springer is guilty of larceny." In October, 1924, his then 3-year-old daughter, Eleanor, was run down by a truck and injured, Baraldi testified. She had hardly been brought home after emergency treatment than Springer's own representative, an individual described as "Rose." burst in on him.

Rose's promise of "we'll collect some money out of this and split It 50-50" won his employer Baraldi ease, so the father told the Court. Apparently, Eleanor- wasn't badly hurt. Protested Small Check. Baraldi gave the attorney no authority to settle the case, he said, and so was surprised when he got a cheek- lor 60-from Springer a few days later and notice that the thing was all over. He thought Eleanor's Injuries were worth more.

"Is ISO all you got?" the witness was asked. "Every cent," he said. Mr. Schnurer then read In evidence an order directing settlement signed by former City Court Justice Joseph V. McKee, now President of the Board of Oldermen.

This order directed the settlement to be in two amounts, $75 for the nlfant and 129 to the father for loss of his child's services. The lawyer was to be allowed $25 of Eleanor's settlement and $12.50 of the father's Baraldi, however, hasn't yet seen- the $12.50 the Court allotted him, he said, Forgery. Alleged. Justice Wasaervogel showed an ae- the quarantine station early today. "We could go nowhere but Hoffman Island." Mr.

Shaw explained, "after we had rescued a Greek, whose name I couldn't understand. Seven of us rowing could make no headway against the tide, backed by a strong northeast wind. Rescued Man Comes To. "I had nothing on but my pajama pants and a hooded overcoat thai made me look like a Ku-Kiuxer or an inhabitant from Mars. And so.

when Mr. B. E. Holsendorf, the chief rat inspector for the whole of New York Harbor, and his companion, the assistant chief rat inspector, saw me appear at their window they nearly collapsed. "The assistant chief rat inspector opened up, and we brought in our rescued man, the Greek, who was limp and could not say a word.

When they brought him to he said he thought there had been an explosion on board the Army dre'ge before she sank." The Adriatic was lying anchored right outside the Narrows when 3d Officer O. V. Lucas heard a dull crash, then yells and yells and yells. He had with him on the bridge a quartermaster and several seamen. Capt.

V. W. Hickson rushed out in his pajamas. Hullabaloo Prevails. Fourth Officer Shaw came over in his pajama pants and his peculiar hooded coat.

Passengers piled out yelling and ran to the ship's rail, Hullabaloo prevailed. "I thought at first it was trouble among the third-class passengers or possibly a fire," said Mr. Shaw. "I looked out the porthole to see if there was any weird light." Third Officer Lucas was quickly Joined on the bridge by Fifth Officer A. C.

I-Anson and Chief Officer Joe Alcock and the skipper. The Adriatic was lying about a half mile from the exact spot where the Navesink went down, but a strong ebb tide quickly carried out the wreckage with men clinging to it. A mile or so farther up the Narrows lay the Cunard liner Caronla. She sent a boat over as soon as she could. Hops Into Emergency Boat "Follow along," shouted Lucas through his megaphone as the Caronia boat passed by.

"Our motor launch is out and it will bring you back." The Adriatic had already launched two rescue boats, the boat in charge of Lieutenant Shaw, which was an emergency boat, kept always under the bridge on the starboard side, and the motor launch. Shaw had rushed out and hopped Into the emergency boat, just as she was being lowered. "Landing in the water," Mr. Shaw said, "we found we were being carried out to sea by a strong spring tide, augmented by a northeasterly wind. Pick Up Greek Sailor.

"Racing out to sea we saw two men, limp and groaning faintly, on a piece of wreckage. We were about to pick them up when the Standard Arrow's boat hailed us to inform us they had missed one man back of them on the top of a barrel. They asked us to get him while they got the other twp. "We found the man unconscious floating on the lid of a large box. The bos'n's mate, Stewart and I pulled htm into the boat together.

"As we could find no other survivors we headed back toward Sound Beach, buckin? the tude but could make no headway. So we turned about and went with the tide, reaching Hoffman Island at 5:18. It was not yet light. I left the crew, which included besides the bos'n's mate, Jop-lin and Lewis, chief petty officers, and a number of seamen and went to the rat Inspector's house. Greek Had Just Gotten Job.

Lieutenant Shaw thought his difficulties were over. He peered in the window, and shouted. There sat Chief Rat Inspector Holsendorf and Assistant Chief Rat Inspector Omelia. Whether they were dozing, or whether his Ku-Klux appearance made they think they were confronting a lunatic Lieutenant Shaw does not know. "Anyway they didn't come to for a minute," he said.

Finally they awakened and treatei us royally, feeding us and putting the Oreek to bed. "One of Fate's peculiar turns developed In the story of the Oreek when he came to. He said he had only' Joined the sunken dredge five minutes before It sailed, and didn't even know Its name. "Out there at the wreck now all you can see Is three lifeboats bo' torn up, three n.asts and a funnel. The overturned lifeboats give an Idea of the qulckneas4jpt what happened, not giving an opportunity for lowering of boats." "The Caronla was a mile from us.

up stream," said O. V. Lucas, the third officer, who was on watch. "The wreck happened about half way between the Caronla and ourselves. I heard a crunching blow, shouting, and then men and wreckage began to drift by.

So we sent out our boats." D. 8. Robinson, first officer of the Cunarder Caronla, had charge of the boat that put out from that vessel The Caronla i boat looked all over the masts and rigging of the dredge for possible survivors, then went out beyond Hoffman Island, but found none. AT TISCH'S STORE But Attorney Say Clerk Has Civen Back $23,000 of Money Taken. Miss Florence Johns.

S3, of Valley Stream. L. for 15 years cashier for Charles Tlsh. of 93 Rockwell pi, Brooklyn, was arraigned in County Court today on two harges of grand larceny from her firm. Officers of the company said the amount of her larcenies, which, they declared, ran over three years, would easily reach On the other hand.

Lawrence Mc-Goldrick, attorney tor the woman, told the Court that not more than $37,000 had been Umen and he insisted that his client had made restitution of $23,000 of that since the first of the year. Miss Johns pleaded guilty to the indictment which charged her with taking $160 on Nov. 29, 1927. but she pleaded not guilty to one which accused her of taking $155 on Jan. 13 of this year.

The arrest was made early this morning in Brooklyn by detectives from Inspector John J. Sullivan's staff. They acted on a bench warrant signed by County Judge McLaughlin last week after the Indict ments of the Grand Jury had been nanaed up. BIG AFGHANISTAN CONCESSIONS WON BY U. S.

CAPITAL Continued from Fage 1, in about six months we will be ready to start worn. This development of the country by Americans, Mr. Strachan pointed out, fell in perfectly with Amanullah's plans to avoid domination by either Russia or Great Britain, both of which have for years been Dlottlnf and counter-plotting to Bet a foothold in tne strategic land above the Khyber pass ana in the shadow ot the Himalayas. Great Oil Resources, "By bringing in Americans instead of either Russians or Britishers, he win avoid entangling alliances of a political nature. All that the Americans are interested in Is the industrial development of the country, and that Is exactly what King Amanullah wants to see.

He is for that reason extremely friendly to America and to our group." preliminary surveys based on the structure of the Afghan mountains ana streams nave already shown that mere are great oil resources in the country, which have not been tapped at all. Other mineral resources Mr. Strachan mentioned gold as one nave Been mined lor ages in the primitive Oriental manner that has not changed since the Afghan "Scourge of Gold" swept westward into Europe. To Have Free Hand. All of these are now to be produced with the swift efficiency of the West.

Whatever we need," Strachan said, to help us out in the work we will be permited to have. Until now all railroads approaching Afghanistan have stopped outside the boundaries. King Amanunan nimseil never rode In a railroad train before last November and never saw motion picture before tnen. we win De permitted to build railroads if we need them, although most of our transportation will be done by motortruck. As another Indication of the mod ern turn of mind of this Eastern monarch, he has already had motion pic ture nouses bunt in tne country so as to give his people the advantage of tnis lorm ot entertainment which they had not had before." Natives to Be Taught.

One of the provisions of the conces sion contract, he said, was that as many of the Afghan natives as possible be employed in the new works so that gradually they might len to carry iorwara tne industries themselves. He concluded: "Afghanistan has some of the most fertile and some of the most valuablu territory in the world. Its opening to American capital is comparable to the opening of Japan under like circumstances, although in a different way." It was only one example, hi thought, of the past-war trend capital from London to New York -the world capital of finance. Official U. S.

Approval Of Afghan Contracts Awmtt Further Data Eag.e Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. Washington, May 7 At the Stat3 Department here today it was said that a letter was on file from Donald C. Strachan of Brooklyn ana Wellington telling in general terms of contracts having been obtained by the Afghan-American Trading Com-pany lor oil and other mineral concessions In Afghanistan. No official approval of the venture has, however, yet been given. Mr Strachan was asked for official authentication ot the agreements, copies of tne contracts and copies of tne certificate of incorporation of the new company.

Although this request was made late In Maich, no reply has as yet been received. It was pointed out at the same-time that approval by the State Department is not required for un American firm to do business abroad, except for the value ol lib "moral sanction Keluctunce to Iwiue approval at this time was In part due, it was said to the feeling In the State Department thathe Afghanistan ruler might bi-playing for recognition as an independent conutry by means ol American concessions or the promise of ucii concessions. CURTIS OUT TO WIN HE TELLS. PROBERS OF CAMPAIGN FUND Continued from Page 1, cr.nliibiitlons, providing they were (artfully accounted for. The York Curtla-for-Presldcnt Club re-ported contributions of and expenditures of $2,803.

Of the contributions $300 given he said, by Matthew Quay president of the club, and Htelnburg treasurer. Curtis explained that John D. C'lrrry had opened lieadnnarters In he Waldorf-Astoria In New York in his behalf. None nf the 01a7er.H'em-borg fund had been used In Ntw York lor publicity. Curtis t-i'ld the rjmrr.lt t-e that Instead of rmklnt an active bid ir d.

Talcs in New York dr-cul-d to bo sa'isfietl with an up.iiitructcd Watson Worried as Drift Shows Californian May Get 33 Delegates. Eagle Bureau. 901 Colorado Building. By HENRY Sl'Y'DAM. Washington.

May 7 There is a strong prospect, according to well- informed opinion In Washington, that Herbert Hoover will win a majority of the preference vote in the Indiana primary tomorrow, which would auto matically give him the 33 delegates from that State to the Republican National Convention. If Mr. Hoover wins it will be prac tically impossible to prevent his nomi nation. He will have gone into the heart of the agrarian territory and won a machine-controlled State that nobody conceived he could win a month ago. The argument will he advanced that Hoover's strength In farm States is greater than is ordinarily supposed.

A second result of a Hoover victory in Indiana would be to put the ouietus on the persistent attempts being mads 10 arait rresiaent uoonage, or to induce Charles Evans Hughes to accept a nomination, it offered. Raises Hope in Pennsylvania. A effect of such a victory would be to give Hoover some prospect of winning delegates in Pennsylvania. The 79 delegates of that State are to caucus on Saturday of this week. Secretary Mellon is still hoping that either Coolidge or Hughes will prove the nominee.

Senator David A. Reed Is for Hoover, but predicts in private that the President will be nominated. The Hoover people hope that a demonstration ot strength in Indiana would finally win over Secretary Mellon to an outright declaration in Mr. Hoover's favor. From all indications, Senator Watson of Indiana and his supporters are very much worried over tomorrow's outcome.

Under Indiana law, the candidate who receives a majority of the entire preference vote for President receives the entire delegation of 3 It is reported that northern Indiana, including Indianapolis, inclines to Hoover, and that Senator Watson must depend on southern Indiana for his strength in the preference vote. Victory Significant Senator Watson has always been powerful vote-getter; he has sometimes carried the State by as much as 180,000 In a general election. In 1928, however, when he was re-elected to the Senate, he won over a virtually unknown opponent by the narrow margin of 11,000. The Indiana campaign has revived the issue of the Ku-Klux Klan, the League of Nations and the Anti-Saloon League. the wreckage It looked like a raft of some kind.

As we nosed In closer, riding hard on the choppy waves, the two men fell off. We lost them, and we had to report that they were surely drowned." The Standard Arrow had better luck. It got 21 men from the Navesink and took them ashore. But it had to land thera well down beyond Fort Wadsworth, because the tide swept it that far almost two miles from the accident, before it could get into land. One ot the men picked up on the Arrow's boat was Sims.

His leg was badly injured. In his ears he could hear echoing the cry of "Jack I Jack from his young cousin, Jim Greenlag of New Bedford. "You see," he said today, "I had got Jim the Job and he was sailing with us because we were great pals. I tried to get him out before the ship sank. But I heard him calling to me as we Jumped off." Sims wanted to stay around the fort until he was sure of Greenlag and bis safety.

But they hustled him into an ambulance and took him up to Marine Hospital, where he was said to bs suffering from terrific shock and in a serious condition. Swim to Safety. Meanwhile 18 of the men from the dredge had leaped into the black waters of the harbor and started to swim. Luck was with them. They had only to go with the tide, and it carried them, spent, sore and very weary, but safe, to South Beach and that vicinity.

They were hustled up to Sea View Hospital as quickly as they landed. In all the hospitals warm blankets, hot coffee and hot water bottles were used by the doctors and the nurses. None of these men was hurt. Sims told a clear story, picturing the difficulty he had in handling the Navesink as she bore down on the Swlabume. His story shows how he fought to avoid a crash, fearing an exploilon because of the fuel tanks which the sandsucker carried forward of her wheelhouse.

Avert Explosion. "A strong ebb tide and a northeast wind caused It," he said as he lay In his bed In the Marine Hospital. "We were drawing about 25 feet of water and had 2,200 cuble yards of wet sand and rocks aboard. I saw the Swinburne ahead of us and knew it would be hard to handle my ship. I waa afraid of a crash because we had fuel aboard, and If we hit the tanks an would have been a certainty.

"So I ordered full speed astern. Our ship has only one speed astern, but it didn't answer Immediately. Then the tide and the wind swung us over and we crashed. Luckily we were broadside to the freighter. Our tanks were not hit.

Crew Halls 8avlr. "After that there was nothing to do but hope. I sent a man down into the ship and he reported that she was all right. But within four minutes of the crash we were settling. 8o I grabbed the whistle cord and then came the heavy lurch which caught my leg.

I think I was the last man off the ship." The Navesink' crew agreed that It was Sim who actually saved them. For It was that loud, crashing roar of a whistle held down which pulled them to the d-cks and gave them a chance for their lives. If Blm had not lumped for the whistle cord It la hard to tell what would have kag-pened. PERSONALS Continued from Page 1. almost impossible to get a coherent and accurate story of what had hap pened.

For hours, it was said ana witn a certain amount of official backingthat the Cunarder Caronia had clipped the dredge. But the Caronia naa been lying ciose to tne wniie Star liner Adriatic In Quarantine all night and was not involved in the crash. She sent out a rescue boat for the Navesink's crew. It wasn't until John Sims, second officer of the Nave sink, was found at Marine Hospital that it was learned definitely that the Swinburne and the Navesink had crashed, and that It was the Nave-sink's awkwardness which probably caused the sinking. Crash in Gray Mist, The Navesink never was built for beauty or speed.

Nor was she built as a ship to be easily handled. She was a trundling, pounding old hooker, with a great steam shovel forward, capacity for 2,800 cubic yards of dirt forward and aft, and, when heavily loaded, a hard ship to handle. About 4 clock this morning, In a gray mist which hung low over the lower harbor, the Navesink was lumbering along off Staten Island, going about her usual task of keeping the ship lanes clear of sand and rocks pulled in by the terrific tides tnat sweep through the Narrows. It was a daily and unheralded task she was on. Sims was on the bridge.

He was about to turn over command to H. G. Lahew, first officer, for It was near the end of his watch. His dredge was lumbering along at perhaps 10 miles an hour under her own speed, but getting an easy 5 miles an hour more under the rushing ebb tide that was hammering out toward the sea. Tide Catches Off his starboard side, Sims saw the mist-shrouded hull of the Swinburne.

He figured on clearing, but the tide ran too swiftly. Some 50 feet from the stern of the freighter, Soms saw that he couldn't clear. He pulled at his control bell. "Full speed astern," he ordered. But the Navesink made no headway against the tide.

She was carried off to starboard, swung a little, and smashed up against the Swinburne. It seems that the Navesink can do only two things In the way of move' ment: she can go forward and she can go back. She goes "full speed either way and that makes her even harder to nandle than ner own awK wardness. Quick Action Saves Sleeping Men. She was well down by the bow, 81ms said, with 2,200 feet of muck, sand and rocks and not a little water.

It was a dead weight. But even now they don't know what caused her to sink, for Sims, In a hurried examination by members of his watch, learned she was apparently not knifed or wounded in the crash. Within four minutes after the smash, however, the Navesink was settling. Arid then Sims, realizing what was going on, showed the stuff tnat these men who follow this pre carious Job of harbor-dredging usually do show. He took one leap into a shattered wheelhouse.

He grabbed the whistle cord and began to pun. And then the Navesink gave a vicious, heavy lurch. Sims was thrown against the wheelhouse and his leg was Jammed In behind the wheel. He couldn't pull It free. But he stood there, the leg smashed in and bleeding, his hand on the whistle cord pulling it aown.

It was that ear-splitting warning wnicn saved so many or tne crew. Ten or 15 of them were working on the dredging. The rest were tslcep. But the noise of the whistle brought tnem on the deck. Radio Sounds 8 O.

S. There was excitement, some panic and danger. That, heavy load of muck taken from the bottom of the river was pulling down the bow. Her main decks were awash. It was evident that the Navesink was going down by the neaa and going down fast.

"We tried to get off boats," said Sims, "and found It couldn't be done. So the men Just Jumped. There is a radio operator car ried on each of these sandsucker barge-dredges. Aboard the Navesink a brief SOS was sent out. Then from the liners Adriatic and CarO' nla and from the Standard OH tanker Standard Arrow, which were anchored nearby, boats were dropped.

The Arrow saved most of the Nave- sink's crew. She had been laying at anchor above the spot where the two ships crashed and her small boats could reach the spot, since the fast' moving tide helped them. Two Men Slip Off Raft. "We couldn't make any headway at all aia nst the de." said men from the Adriatic this morning. "We nosed Into some wreckage, however, on which we saw three men.

Trying to hold our boat close to the wreck age was a difficult lob. But we man' aged to pull off one man before the tide pulled US away. "Then we fought our way back to Ocean Fliers trance clear, Finally at 12:30 o'clock the doors opened and Mayor James J. Walker, In high hat and Immaculate evening clothes, stepped out. followed by three friends.

The crowd surged forward, broke through the police lines, and nearly pushed the Mavor from his feet. He finally got Into tits ear with the aid nf the police. The crowd still refused to disperse nd allow the Mayor's car to start. rillrirrrn waving clubs walked In ont of the ear and pi'shed the crowd away, but the Mayor had spent niore than five minutes In gettini from the theater entrance into 43d it. and out of the crowd.

his promise to "get enough to pay the hospital expenses" or not was not brought out. After being injured In a motorcar crash and landed by "Rose," Miss Babette Guth, 248 Audubon Bronx, aon actress, was notified by Springer in 1922 that he had arranged a $650 settlement for her injuries on a 50150 basis. Then, Miss Guth testified, began her troubles getting her $325. First, she said, Springer gave her a check for $100. Later, when she insisted the account be squared, he came across with a post-dated check for $22.

"He told me he was having business troubles," the actress said. "And he was using your money to settle his own troubles?" asked Mr. Schnurer. "Yes." Charges Falsehood. Eventually she cashed the check.

Abraham Sokofsky, 2330 Washington Bronx, testified that in his injury case he was solicited into Springer's fold by the lawyer's brother, Maxwell P. Springer. Brother, he said, told him Sokofsky's own cousin had sent him around. Later, the witness found that this was false and when Springer tried to arrange a settlement of $50 for him he got another lawyer. Thomas J.

Banks, 975 Sherman the Bronx, went through the usual processes of Springer's clients lined up by "Rose," and Teceived $100 out of the lawyer's $200 settlement. Alfred Franke, however, wasn't so explicit. "I got $100. I don't know what Springer got," he said. Springer will probably be asked to fill in this gap.

After this lawyer tooK over ner case she was injured in a fall Mrs. Yetta Goldblang of 116 Simpson the Bronx, testified she was told by Springer: Lawyer Lost Her Case. win tnirA what. Give vou and (l nn nuestions. or I'll give you nothing." She took $72.

"The settlement was iau, ivir. Schurer told the court. It was "Rose representation oi lf nf mnnpv" that led her to sign up Springer, Mrs. Goldblang testified. The other witnesses were uimuti Wagner, 1077 Sackett st the Bronx, vnviflr 2H whose troubles were guided into Springer's hands by "Rose." Mrs.

Celia Fein-erman, 2258 Creston the Bronx, iiRui hnrt smirnpd Sririntzer's offer to settle her injury claim for $50. and that the lawyer nao iosi, nei case in court. INDORSING KIN'S CHECK ADMITTED BY MRS. KNAPP Continued from Fage 1. she had an arrangement with MIas Knapp to cash the latter pay checks and.

use tnem in accuruam-c agreements between the two. Miss Knapp testified last week that she did not know of the existence of most cf her pay checks and had not authorized any one to Indorse or cash them for her. Mrs. KnaDD told of why she had sent some of the checks or proceeds from checks in favor ot Miss Knapp to the "Bodkins" cMary L. Bodkin, Bedford.

is her sister). "In 1925," Mrs. Knapp raid, "Mis? Knapp suggested that srie'would like to do a little bit more for the Bodkin girls. 'I she said, 'I will use the money I earn from the census for them." "I told her what she did with that money was entirely up to her, but it would be very nice to do so if she wanted to. So.

practically ail oi mat money was sent to Mrs. Bodkin. Direct Examination. The direct examination of Mrs Knapp was concluded in an hour. Taxing up the cross-examination, George Z.

Medalle. chief prosecuting attorney, gave his attention to a letter to the Secretary of State from the Civil Service Commission April 73, She said she hid brought the letter here, adding it was probably a copy made lor her by an employee of the Civil Service Commission. This letter, Mrs. Knapp said, the kept In her Syracuse office and was not among tne material aeMroyra after she left office. The letter read by Medalle authorized a Civil Sr.rvtro CommLnslon resolution exempting Mrs.

Knanp's sister, Julia A. Hinith, Irom com petitive examination for the position lor wnicn sne naa tx-en paia in iuii some months before. Mrs. Knapp several tims would not answer questions directly. The Judge Instructed her to an to.

"I fhall be very glad to." she said. "Well, let's see you do it," the Judge kald. Judge Aka lllrrrt Answer. Medalle questioned the witness closely as to payments to Mrs. Knapp's sister.

Julia A. Smith. The prosecution kcd Mrs Knapp what was the specillr Job referred to In an affidavit by Mrs. Knipp after the Moreland Art Inquiry Into the census work tor which Julia Hmlth was hired and for which she received a total of "Whatever. In my discretionary power.

I might assign to her, Mrs. linn tin moiled mean the specific Job." Medalle said. The witness repeated the same anawrr. "And vou call thnt specific?" Medalle aV-d "I do -in th ma'tcr of 111" rrirus Mrs Kmbpp f'c-inr ntlv on claboiatlng her answers. Medalle Continued ea Page IT, MOTORS AND PLANES HIT RECORD MARKS IN WILD TRADING Stocks were bid up in spectacular fashion in another record-breaking bull market on the Stock Exchange today.

Advances ranging up to $20 a share were witnessed, with nearly a score of stocks up $5 a share or more during some part of the session. Trading was on an enormous scale. Blocks of 10,000 shares were common, while transactions were seen. It was evident that the buying demand came not only from small speculators but big cnes as well. FIRMS HERE DOWN SEWER RING IN QUEENS BIDDING Continued from Page 1.

that Beggio Graecco, a Brooklyn contracting firm, underbid the estimates of the Queens engineers by $32,000 on a contract to construct a sanitary sewer on 115th ave. from 155th st. to 145th st. It underbid seven other contractors and, from an unofficial checkup, was awarded the contract at $94,000. The engineer's estimate was $132,000.

One of the surprising results of the invasion was the forcing down of the bids of the Queens contractors, who never bothered to cut prices under the old order of things in Queens. It is understood that the Kew Con tracting Company, of which Joseph Phillips, brother of "Jack" Phillips, is president, put in the lowest and the winning bid on the contract to build a sanitary sewer on 146th from 120th ave. to the railroad station at Jamaica. There were 13 bidders for that contract. Boro President Bernard M.

Patten presided in person at the Queens Boro Hall at the opening of the bids on six sewer projects. It was the first time in the memory of many of the cld-time Queens municipal employees tnat a Queens Boro President so pre sided. Considerable confusion ex isted. Dozen Firms In Fight Another element of surprise was the large number of bidders. Today more than a dozen Individual firms fought for the awards.

The "high" during the recent years of the reign of ex-Boro President Maurice E. Con nolly, resigned, was said to be five bidders or pseudo-bidders. president Patten personally checked all of the bids. want to see how this is done, and to make sure that it is done right," he said. "We want to be certain that the bidding is fair and that the low est firm gets the contract.

There is no desire to waste the people money in Queens." Most of the bids called for the smaller pipe construction work, with the pipe running to some 20 Inches in diameter. Phillips, the big pipe and sewer man. today possibly awaiting criminal indictment for his activities in Queens, specialized and is said to have monopolized in person only the large Queens sewer pipe field. The Phillips "lock joint" and pre-cast pipe ran from three feet to a greater diameter. Most of the contract specifications called for bids on two types of pipe, the bltrifled a glazed pipe and the cement pipe.

This was done, according to the Boro President, in order that competition might be stimulated. Apparently It was. There were six contracts which called for bids as follows: 1. For a receiving basin for the sewer in the Thomson Hill and Sunny-side sections. Nine bids were received.

2. For a sewer on Roosevelt at 60th In the Woodside and Jackson Heights area, 11 bids. 3. For a sewer and appurtenances on Roosevelt around 84th 11 bidders. 4.

For a receiving station at 32d In Flushing, five bids. 5. A sanitary sewer at 146th from 120th ave. to the Jamaica Railroad station. 13 bidders.

6. For a receiving basin at Edge-mere at Beach. 35th the Korkawavs, three bids. Most of the bids were for the bltrifled type of of pipe. COLUMBIA PUPIL KILLS HIMSELF 0H 'LAST PROBLEM' Continued from Page 1.

call Mayer, whom he knew had not been leelirg w.ll. although both usually had breakfast together. But when Cork returned to the dormitory at 10:30 and found his friend's door was Mtn Ir.iked he railed tne floor maid, and tney forced the door Mayer's body. liilly cloUird and covered with blankets, lav on the bed. A phial, which had contained a deadly i -nison, as beside the and the lass from which he drank was lipped on Its side near Hie bot'le.

Two notes 're found. One was addressed "to whom It may concern" and contained the reflection on the list great xpcrl'riil. The o'h'r was addiessed to Cock and gave him Hie power of attorney over Maver's ilfairs and left some general directions about, burial and the disposal t.f the body which were not made Mayer received an AD and MA degree from the tlnlversl'v of Pou'h- ern and rfinie to frilionhm to cet his doc'or's decree. II, home was In ttt AhKc'es I'roles-or homik efter Mayer's drain nd the young man was one nf the best atudents of chemistry In the entire university. tive interest in this larceny charge.

1 The alleged forgery was testified to by 18-year-old Lillian Axelrod, Fex the Bronx, who got a bumy on the head when some plaster from a celling fel lan her five years ago. Springer's man "Rose" went after the case and landed it. There was a settlement arrived at this way: Lillian was to get $100 for her injuries and her mother, Mrs. Edith Axelrod, was to get $65 on the legal "loss of services" procedure. "How much did your mother gel?" Lillian was asked.

"Seventy dollars," the girl answered. "Is that all?" "Yes." Mr. Schnurer then produced two cancelled checks, one to Mrs. Axelrad as Lillian's guardian, and the other to the lawyer for the mother's claim. Both were from an Insurance company, but the two bore Mrs.

Spnng-f era indorsement in different writings. Both also were cashed. The girl identified the indorsement on the larger check as in her mother's handwriting. Not Her Handwriting. "I this Indorsement also in your mother's hand?" Mr.

8chnurer asked, exhibiting the $85 paper. "No, It. is not," replied the witness after examining it. "It is a forgery?" "Yes." "That Is exactly what It would appear to be," said Mr. Schnurer.

By the settlement order. Springer was to get $35 of the child's money and $25 of the mother's. The testimony was to the effect that he got his due of the first, and all of the second. Mr. Schnurer was conducting the MEHLH0RN LEADS EARLY STARTERS IN BRITISH OPEN Continued from Page Prince's course, said that the conditions there were very difficult because of a heavy Channel wind and considered his 83 there a good score.

T. A. Torrance, Scottish amateur, finished with a score of 74 over Prince's course, taking the lead among the amateurs. Britisher Shoots 89. J.

Combie, British player, who went around with McHugn, had an The American amateur, who was out in 40, had a 6 at the seventh hole, where he was bunkered, and finished the round with three 5s. Joshua Crane, the veteran amateur of Boston, was the first American to start at St. George's and could do no better than a 91, his card being as follows: Out 4 4 I 3 4 5 4S In S6SSS744 4 18 91 Barnes) Ont in 39; Falters. Playing the fit. George course, "Long Jim" Barnes had a perfect pat 35 on the outward nine.

Coming In the lanky pro took three putts on the tenth and eleventh greens and failed to get up with his second shot on the fifteenth. Jim was forced to take a 5 there and still another on the eight eenth, where he found a bunker. This ran the homeward nine total up to 33. I 'la card: Oat 4 111431 438 1IIH114 3a 74 Larry Nabholtz, Sharon, representative on the American professional contingent, took an unimpressive 80 for the first 18 holes. He was out in 42 and back In 38.

His card: Out 8 4 3 7 3 4 43 In 4 4 4 4 4 8 1 4 83880 Armour Scores t77. Tommy Armour, open champion of the United States, needed 77. His card: out a 4 4 8 4 3 .,48448444 33777 Bob Stupple, Chicago pro, who had only two days of practice, never got going and used 81 strokes for his round. Stupple's score over the Prince's course was a mixture of both good and bad golf. He was out in 43.

A bunker caught his second shot on the second hole and three putts nailed a seven eoto his card. At the sixth and eighth holes Stupple again took three putts. The mid-west pro made up for these lapses a bit on the long eleventh and twelfth holes, where he drove a long ball and was up to the green with a fine mashlc niblick. Hagen, 76; Compston, 77. Walter Hagen, American professional, opened his drive to regain the title he has held twice with a snappy 76, one over par for the Prince's course.

Hagen won the British open In 1922 and 1924. Right behind "the Halg" came Archie Compston. British profession al, who recently trounced Walter It up and 17 to play In a special match, with a 77. Silas M. Newton, amnteur from the United States, ran into all sorts of trouble and finished with a score of 93.

He waa driving beautifully but could not handle his clubs amund the iireens. He had 6 i at the seventh and eighth holes and at the ninth had to get down a 40-foot putt for a 7. He lost a ball at the lath and took another 7. Jack Smith, long driving British pro, was Just behind Mehlhorn with 73. Arnaud Masse the French pro, was around In 74.

Harry Vardon required 84 and Ted Ray, his former playing partner, had a score of BO. Robert Harris, former British amateur rhamiHjn, returned a score of 8.1 Hagen dropped a 25-footr for a birdie three at the ninth. His card: Oil ,,.4 4 I 8 4 4 4 44844488 4 30 -14 Compston went over the first nine in 39, but managed to shave a stroke cfT that total on the homeward trip. His rard: 844811448 11 In a 4 4 8 4 4 4 4 4 71 nrjfvr Weihered, nritlsli ama'eur itnr, ran Into difficulties In his first test, shooting a poor 87. Police Save Mayor From Mob questioning today In the place of Mr.

Kresel, who Is to leave for Albany to argue the contempt proceedings against Lawyer Alexander Karlin in the Court of Appeals Wednesday. Karlin mas Jailed for contempt early In the Inquiry for telling Justice Wasaervogel he wotildn answer Incriminating question as to his practice. The Appellate Division, however, freed the recalcitrant attomev pending his appeal. The lue before the high court Is to be the authority or Justice WaMervogcl's probe, and if this la sustained. Mr.

Krevl will see that Karlin la promptly Jailed without gloves there to stay until he Is aad to talk. Chased Lawyer's Aid Away. After she had chased Springers "Mr. Rose" out of her hou when he sought to have her retain the lawyer In the case of Injuries her father received In a theater, Mrs. Maiy Hohnsted, 2105 Michigan ave Bronx was won Into Springers clientele bv that lawyer's determination, she lolil the Court.

"He kept calling me on the phone I got tired ot it, and he said he would get enotign out of It to pav father's (vwpital expenses," she said fn his first imnortunaMnn to her, Mrs. Hohnsted declared. Chavr Ro beat the pollcman bearing new of the accident to her door He told her he "hart seen the ambulanre leaving the place Whether the lawyer made good on Milling to See Reports circulating around Broadway that the crew of the Bremen and Prince Potenttanl, Governor of Rome, were attending the Green Room Club benefit In the Oeorge Cohan Thea. ter. Broadwya, near 42d st Manhattan, lst night brought a crowd of nearly 1.000 persons to the door nf the theater.

Extra police were ruflied from the 47ih st. station to mu'ntatn order. The crowd overflowed ln'i tlia street and stopped traffic. While the crowd sot je I hn-fc op'" forth and chants of T.ve t' come" and "There's Ts.zz" arose, the police Joined hands to keep the en fntrwnt eaat ini.ft.il fm.r Jnln mill frlfndl. X-38, Button aia i TO WHOM rr MAY ccmcmM MM.

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