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I a a a a a a a a it it it THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1924. 1 3 GRIPPE PREVENTION You know that grippe, influenza and other respiratory ailments are caused by germs taking hold of the weakened body, but do you realize how true is the old adage "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of SCOTTS EMULSION OF PURE VITAMIN- RICH COD -LIVER OIL owes its power to prevent weakness by its ability to nourish and strengthen the system and keep resistance normal. Do not let grippe-weakness overtake take Scott's Emulsion and keep strong and Scott Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J.

23-11 MACHOLD NOW CZAR AS HE STACKS CARDS AGAINST GOVERNOR Smith Has All That He Is Going to Get Session May End in Three Weeks. (Special by Eagle Staff Correspondent) Albany, March 17-Whatever hope there may have been for a harmonious session of the Legislature has been abandoned. Governor Smith ha's got about all he's going to get and Speaker Machold is Czar at Albany. During the first half of the session the Governor forced the Republican Assembly to accept four of his program measures, including the 25 percent income tax reduction, the motor vehicle bill, the statutory consolidation of State departments, and the 48-hour week. From now on Governor Smith will have to' take what Machold gives him, and that will be mighty little.

But the Governor is not worrying. He could not expect to get everything. The Speaker will put his political cross-ruff into play early this week. Bills led from the Senate hand will be trumped off in the Assembly, and those coming from the Assembly hand will be killed off in the Senate. Waterpower, transit and direct primaries will go down to defeat when the deadly cross-ruffing begins.

There are three and possibly four weeks left for the legislators to function at Albany. The Assembly will suggest adjournment on April 5. The Senate may ask for another week. When the home rule bill comes up passage in the Assembly either next week or this, Speaker Machold will be asked to include a section in the measure stating specifically that no part of the bill shall be construed to mean that New York City is to have complete control of its transit facilities. Machold 1 claims that such an amendment is not needed.

Regardless of what action the Republican Assembly takes on the remainder of Governor Smith's bills. the session will end in a victory for him. Last year he got nothing. This year he forced the G. O.

P. leaders to make concessions that he had hardly dared hope they would. H. A. S.

CROWD IN PANIC AS TWO ARE STABBED Many Women Faint as Theater Patrons See Fight. Two youths are in a serious condition in St. Mary's Hospital suffering from stab wounds received last night near the Liberty Theater at Liberty and Stone aves. Four others, two of them young boys, were arrested. The victoms are John Kaplan, 18, of 595 Vanderbilt and Samuel Goldapple, 15, of 820 Union st.

The altercation took place while a. crowd was coming out of the theater, and caused intense excitement. In the crush clothes were torn, women screamed and many of them fainted. Those arrested were Isidor: Popkin, 24, of 24 Liberty who recently was released from Sing Sing; Frank Simon, 16, of 95 Christopher Randy Lubman, 14, of 68 erty and Louis Feldman, 14, of 57 Christopher ave. According to Detective Henry Rieff, who made the arrests, the trouble started in the theater elevator, which is run by Lubman, who resented remarks made by one of the victims of the stabbing.

He ran out, collected his "gang" and' resumed the argument on the sidewalk. Simon and Popkin were held without bail in the New Jersey Avenue Court today by Magistrate Brown. MRS. H. BERRY NAMED CONFERENCE DELEGATE Mrs.

Horatio Berry of Embury M. E. Church, Decatur st. and Lewis who is prominent in Methodist affairs, has been named as a delegate to the General Conference, which will begin a month's session in Providence, R. about May 20.

Mrs. Berry was named at the 39th Annual meeting of the Methodit Home Missionary Society held in Simpson Church, Brooklyn, on Friday, at which the address was made by Mrs. Wilbur F. Thirkhield, wife of Bishop Thirkhield. SCIENTIFIC RELIGION The Rev.

E. M. Lawrence Gould, pastor. of the Church of the New Jerusalem, Clark st. and Monroe spoke at yesterday morning's service on.

"The Religion of the Future Will be Scientific." "Religion has been taken out of the airtight compartment it has occupied so long and is looking 10- ward the future." the Rev. Mr. Gould declared. "Orthodoxy has become archaic. "Scientific informatin, which has taught us that the world was made through the ages, and is still being made, and has thus changed our concept of creation from a static to a dynamic one, has changed our thinking.

Our point of view is as far removed from that of Civil War as that of Civil War days was removed from that of the Middle Ages." Brooklyn Daily Eagle Current Topic Talks Every Tuesday at 11 a.m. In The Eagle Auditorium SEATS FREE SHAPMAN, FUGITIVE N. Y. MAIL BANDIT, REPORTED SEIZED Think Kentucky Man Escaped Atlanta Convicted in $500,000 Holdup. Greenville, March 17--A man believed by Muhlenburg County officials to be Gerald Chapman, escaped convict from the Federal prison at Atlanta, where he was serving.

a 25-year sentence for a $500.000 mail robbery in New is being held here today for Federal authorities. The Government agents in Louisville have been notified and are expected to come here today for the prisoner. The man was arrested at Belton, this county, yesterday by Sheriff C. P. Shaver, who had been watching him since soon after his arrival in Central City ten days ago.

prisoner said his name was Charles Chapman, but denied that he was the man wanted. He has admitted a prison record and according to Deputy D. C. Pace, his physical appearance tallies closely with that of the fugitive mail robber. Chapman, according to Pace, arrived in Central City from Union City 10 days ago.

He was accompanied by a woman and two children. a girl 14 and a boy 16 years old. Since that time he has been visiting mining camps in this section, accompanted by the girl, Mr. Pace said. Chapman was born in an adjoining county and 10 years ago was convicted of forgery at Elkton, Ky.

He disappeared shortly thereafter and was not seen for a number of years, according to Pace. His family reported him dead. In March or April last year, shortly after Chapman's sensational escape from the Atlanta Prison, the man now under arrest here appeared in Todd and Logan Counties. He was in a "bad at the time, Pace asserted. Saturday the woman sent a Central City man to Belton with a verbal message to Chapman telling him that he was being watched and advising him to flee, according, to the Sheriff's office.

The messenger was the Sheriff when the suspect was arrested. HUGHES REFUSES TO ACCEPT FRENCH IDEA ON RELIEF CREDITS Formal Note States America Doesn't Need Aid of International Agency. Washington, March 17-The United States, in a formal note to Ambassador Jusserand, made public here today by the State Department, rejects the suggestion of the French Government for the creation of an international agency to deal with questions arising out of relief credits extended to European countries during and just after the World War. The note was signed by Secretary Hughes and dated Dec. 14, 1923.

"While this Government was happy to co-operate with the other interested governments," the note said, "with a view to providing the necessary credits for the purchase of relief supplies to facilitate the prompt and practicable solution of pressing relie? problems arising in Europe after the conclusion of the war, it has never been the opinion of the Government of the United States that it would be necessary to establish any international agency for the settlement of questions arising out of its advances to foreign governments for the purpose of relief or for other purposes, as this Government has believed, and still believes, that any questions that may arise in this regard are susceptible of adjustment through existing channels." The relief credits mentioned in the note have to do principally with advances made by the United States to Poland, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Special Services Double Quaker Church Membership "The Quaker Challenge Toward Character' was the subject of the seventh sermon of the series entitled "The Quaker Method of Applied Christianity," preached yesterday at the Lafayette Avenue Friends Church by the pastor, the Rev. Elden H. Mills. The purpose of the series is two fold, according to the minister, for the education of the Friends themselves and for the unchurched Quakers with a Quaker background who have not yet come into the fold.

The congregation has doubled since the series began. Yesterday there were three admissions to the church. August Carone, and Mr. and Mrs. William Heacock.

Sprinter Charley Paddock Is Reinstated Boston, March 17-Charles Paddock, suspended California sprinter, has been reinstated by the Amateur Athletic President William C. Prout made this announcement today and said that he would issue a statement on the matter later in the day. OBITUARY MRS. MARY THOMPSON, widow of Al- fred Thompson, died yesterday in her 83d year. She was born in England and lived in Brooklyn for the past 77 years.

As Miss Mary Garner she was an active member of the Strong Place Baptist Church, and for many years was a Sunday school teacher for the infant class of 300 children. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ernest Seymour, at whose home, 193 Maple funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. MRS. MARY A.

MARSHALL, widow of Edwin Marshall, died at the Sawyer Sanitarium, 1648 Ocean ave. She was born in Westchester County, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Carpenter Miller, both of Quaker descent. Her mother was a member of the old Quaker family of Carpenters in Westchester. She was a birthright member of the Society of Friends and was a resident of Brooklyn for 56 years. Her brothers, B.

C. and J. G. Miller, were wellknown Brooklyn house movers. She is survived by a son, Dr.

Eugene Walton Marshall, and two grandsons, Charles and Reuben Marshall. JAMES M. SINNOTT, retired, and well known in the wallpaper business throughout the East and Middle West, died yesterday at his home, 394 E. 21st in his 64th year. He was born in Wexford, Ireland, Oct.

26, 1860, and came to Brooklyn at the age of 15. He was for 20 years with the firm of George Halbert, interior decorators, and was later president of the Peter H. Reilly Corporation. He 18 survived by his wife, Mrs. Martha Sinnott; three sons, J.

Colnas, Edward J. and Victor R. Sinnott, and a brother, John H. Sinnott Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon, wth interment in Greenwood Cemetery MAP OF ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT MAP OF PH 6003 PACIFIC Course mapped out for is about 30,000 miles, the trip INFANT, FOR WHOM GIRL GAVE HER LIFE, DIES IN HOSPITAL Mildred Green Is Fourth Victim of South Ozone Park Fire--Funeral Tomorrow. Mildred Green, tiny ten-monthsold daughter of Mrs.

Marion Green of 148th st. and 117th South Ozone Park, died today at the Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, from the burns she received in the fire which totally destroyed her home Saturday. She is the fourth fatality of the fire. Her mother, badly burned, is in the hospital in a serious, but not critical. condition.

It is expected that the of the four victims will be tofuneral, morrow at St. Mary's Church. The Jamaica Council, Knights of Columbus, has offered to care for the funeral arrangements of the stricken familles, and have purchased four burial plots in St. John's Cemetery. And the Catholic Big Sisters of Queens have come forward to give aid to the living members of the two families whose homes were razed in the conflagration.

Elizabeth Hanley, 16, whoa gave up her life late Saturday, telephone operator in the Jamaica exchange. Elizabeth plunged through the -filled house with little Mildred in her arms as her younger sister, Katherine, 12, died in a vain attempt to rescue the other child of the Green family, Dorothy, aged 2. George Green, husband of Mrs. Marion Green, and the father of the two little girls whose lives were snuffed out, is prostrated with grief. His brother, William, who lived in the next cottage, and his familyBeatrice, his wife: Richard, 2.

baby not yet christened-and the two Hanley girls are being sheltered by neighbors. A big wood stove set near the doorway of George Green's cottage is believed to have backfired and started the conflagration which wiped out the two homes and killed the four children. A dead collie dog was found in the ruins of the Green cottage near the bodies of the two little children who, it is believed, it had tried to lead to safety. MEXICAN FEDERAL FORCES ON WAY TO RETAKE ACAPULCO Mexico City, March 17 (By the Associated Press)-War Secretary Serrano, with an expeditionary force, is proceeding to Acapulco consequence of the reported capture of that port rebels under Candido Aguilar, according to information given out War Department. He is expected to reoccupy the place without difficulty.

Gen. Francisco Manzo, sub-secretary in charge of the department, said the government had received unconfirmed reports that the commander of the federal garrison, upon the approach of the rebels, requested the captain of the U. S. S. Cincinnati, anchored in the port, to land a detachment for the purpose of preserving order.

The Cincinnati's commander wirelessed the United States Navy Department for instructions and also sent a message to Secretary Serrano, who was known to be en route to Salina Cruz, with several thousand men. It is understood that the Mexican War Department sent a message to the American capital saying that the federal authorities at Acapulco had 110 authorization to request foreign armed assistance and that such a request, if made, would be considered treason. The Cincinnati to have put to sea upon receiving the War Department's message. SOCIALISTS BADLY BEATEN IN POTSDAM ELECTION Potsdam, Prussia, March 17-A decided swing to the right was shown in the Potsdam municipal election held yesterday, the complete returns today indicating that the Socialists and Communists had lost approximately 60 percent of their strength as recorded by the poll of 1919. The population, which consists mainly of ex-officers of the army, retired officials of the old Imperial government, officeholders and members of the aristocracy, took a keen interest in the election, the result being 9.000 more votes polled than tour years The total vote yesterday was 31,000, or 77 percent of the voting population.

BAY 01 BENGAL 21281 DA 622946 U.S. MITCHELL OCEAN ANTIC the Army fliers, who started from Clover Field, today. The distance covering about four months. OFF FOR WORLD FLIGHT One of the Planes That Started Today in Flight Around the World. Mrs.

Ellis, 84, Wins 36-Year Fight for Chapman Estate A torn flyleaf from a family Bible and an ivory that belongs to her parents again won for carving, Mrs. Louise Chapman Ellis, 84, the right to claim a share of the 000,000 Chapma nestate. Mrs. Ellis is the daughter of the late George Marcus Chapman, Brooklyn millionaire, who died in 1887. The Appellate Division has denied an appeal from its own decision upholding a decision rendered in 1922 by Supreme Court Justice Burr declaring that Mrs.

Ellis is the legitimate daughter of George Chapman. This marks the defeat of a third attempt to prove that Mr. Chapman was not married to Jane Compton Wells in 1858 at Gretna Green, a Scottish border town, to which young English couples frequently eloped. The decision means that Mrs. Ellis is entitled to $100.000 in cash from the Title Guaranty Trust Company.

representing the accumulated cash of the estate. She is also entitled to one-half of the real property belonging to the estate, which amounts to approximately $750,000. But more important to her is the right she won to be buried with her father and mother, in Greenwood Cemetery, the dearest ambition of her life. Until Justice Burr's decision, she was even denied the of placing flowers on their graves. This decision of the Apellate Division to deny an appeal from its former findings marks the end of a 2 ALLEGED REVOLVER CARRIERS ARRESTED Peter Lawrence, 24.

of 65 Grove Flushing, was arrested early today at Bedford and Flushing when a revolver was found on his person. He will be arraigned for violation of the Sullivan Law. Another man, Joseph Witkonski, 34, of 27 Bushwick was arrested on 2. similar charge when it was reported that he had threatened to kill his wife. Mrs.

Witkonski rethe prisoner, but held for fused to make any complaint, against violation of the Sullivan Law. INJURED IN FIRE. Fire broke out yesterday in the two-story frame house at 102 Park and in endeavoring to extinguish the flames Josephine Annuncio, 21, was burned on the hands, chest and thigh. She was taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital. The premises are occupied by Dominick Grosso.

will contest that has lasted in the State courts for the record time of 86 years. From the slopes of Gretna Green where the Chapmans were the story follows on until Chapman married, left his wife to live with a woman by the name of Louise Wythe and to whom was a born a son, Hawley Chapman. This son was named as the heir in Chapman's will. Hawley Chapman is now confined in a sanitarium at Whitestone, L. where he was sent 30 years ago after the late Justice Edgar M.

Cullen had adjudged him insane. But shortly before his death, the eldr Chapman had a change of heart. He returned to his wife and child, but failed to make any provision for them except a life estate which he bequeathed to Mrs. Ellis. He refrained, however, from referring to her as his daughter or from describing in any way who she was.

In 1915, Mrs. Ellis began an action to break the provisions of her father's will and it was claimed by the defendants that Mr. Chapman had never recognized the legitimacy of his daughter. After a long search, She unearthed a a a a a a a a sheet from a family Bible that bore the inscription, "Louisa Chapman, from her papa, G. M.

1851." An ivory carving from the Chapman home at 68 Willow st. was also introduced as evidence by Mrs. Ellis. It had written on it, "Madame G. M.

Chapman et sa fille," or, in other words. Mrs. Jane Compton Chapman and Louisa Ellis. CRIPPLES' SALE NETS $1,514 ONE TAN FINO The revolving fund financial statement the committee on handicrafts of the crippled of the Brook- lyn Bureau of Charities, which has just been issued for month of February, shows that the total receipts from the sale of goods made by the cripples amounted to 82. Against this the committee had disbursements of $1,006.37 for materials, wages paid to cripples, leaving a balance on hand March 1 of $508.45.

BREAK INTO COTTAGE. Halesite, L. March 17--The summer home of Arthur Beges on Vineyard rd. here was found to have been broken into recently. Mr.

Beges, a Brooklynite, visited his cottage terday and found everything in disorder but nothing stolen. It 19 thought that children used the cot'tage as a playhouse. Negress Buys Fiske Terrace House; Neighbors Excited The purchase of the handsome frame residence at 1910 Glenwood Flatbush, by Mrs. Carrie Greenlee, a negress, has occasioned much excitement in the block, and civic associations are up in arms. The house was owned by Meyer Rosenthal of 1815 Glenwood who sold it last autumn to Jeremiah Harrigan, of Manhattan, for the latter's own use.

Harrigan sold it to Mrs. Greenlee, who paid $19,000 for it. A delegation from one of the civic associations called on Rosenthal yesterday to protest about the matter. and were reassured by Rosenthal that he had no intention whatever of selling it to any but white occupants. Mrs.

Greenlee is a highly cultured woman, and lives with her husband and daughter. the house being furnished in the best of taste, with a remarkable library. "I have owned property in Flatbush before." said Mrs. Greenlee today. "I lived in the East Midwood section for five years and had lovely NO AIR WAVE IS AVAILABLE FOR CITY RADIO PLANT Whalen May Have to Buy Out a License; Fight on "Remote Control." is no wave-band available, between limits set for vacant, broadcast transmission, for the new city radio station planned by Grover A.

Whalen, Commissioner of Plant und Structures. But Arthur Batcheller, local radio inspector, stated today that he would endeavor to arrange time for Mr. Whalen from the time of some other local station, probably one of those operating on the very low waye lengths -below 300 meters. The city plans to use its own wires--police and department lines--for remote-control purposes (broadcasting from the Municipal Building affairs that occur at City Hall, or in Central Park, or any other location distant from the station) because the New York Telephone Company placed what Mr. Whalen termed a "prohibitive price" on the installation of such service.

Use of the city wires and city -built remote-control apparatus probably means the opening of another big fight between the city on one hand and the A. T. and T. and the New York Telephone Company on the other, because the latter corporations claim absolute ownership of patents involved and will probably claim infringements as has already been done in the case of station N. These were two big developments today in the fight of Mr.

Whalen to establish a municipal broadcasting station. He stated yesterday that the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company agreed to install for him in the Municipal Building the station used during the Brazilian Centennial Exposition at Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Batcheller said that as yet Mr. Whalen had applied to him for a license.

"When the city does, I will endeavor to find him a wave length upon which he can operate. It will probably be a short wave length, in Class he said. "Is it not true that there is 1 no wave band open which the city can have exclusively?" Mr. Batcheller was asked. "Yes.

that is true. But it may be possible to arrange for some time for him from the time of some other station, if a station can be found with more time than it uses." It is also possible for Mr. Whalen to get an exclusive wave band by buying out one of the stations, and thereby acquiring the wave length license. Also, it is pointed out that the Poughkeepsie station, operating on 263 meters, is not operating at all now. The snarl over remote control may be more serious.

The remote control apparatus is the system by wi'ch a concert or other event at a g. ren place can be picked up, carried wire to the broadcasting machine perhaps miles away, and then put on the air. The Municipal Building, where Mr. neers, because of the steel frame of Whalen plans to locate his plant, is regarded a as very poor by radio engithe structure and the steel of the Brooklyn Bridge--all of which seryes as a huge receiving aerial and absorbs a large part of the sound before it has a chance to reach distant points. Mr.

Whalen first planned to locate his antennae in Elmhurst, to avoid this impedimenta. Such a location necessitated service from the New York Telephone Company. When that concern was asked to aid the project, it sent a letter of expressions of desire to co-operate, and then said: "The cost of Installing such service will be $4,900, to be paid down when the contract is signed; you will not be permitted to use the service for more than four hours out of any Mr. Whalen considered this price as exorbitant, and abandoned the plan temporarily. He had no city wires leading to Elmhurst.

AGREE ON TERMS FOR ABDICATION OF GREEK KING Athens, March 17-A semi-official statement confirms newspaper reports that an agreement has been reached among the political leaders prescribing the conditions under which King George will be allowed to abdicate voluntarily. These include the right to retain he title of King for life, power to draw four-fifths of his civil list allowance, the right to dispose freely of the Crown domains excepting the Tatoi Palace, which the State will buy, and renunciation of the rights of succession by all the members of the dynasty. The government has telegraphed the conditions to the Greek Minister at Bucharest for transmission to George, who is in exile there. A telegram from ucharest today states that King George is determined Bnot to surrender his rights voluntarily. MRS.

H. W. BERGSTEIN SEEKS BIG ALIMONY Mrs. Hannah Wexner Bergstein today asked Justice Callaghan in Supreme Court to make her husband, Morris Bergstein, pay heavy alimony pending trial of suit for her separation. She told the court that Morris left her and their child without support and courted Sadie Siegel of 392 Marcy making her believe he was single and that he wanted to marry her.

Decision was reserved. RETURNING JUDGE FINDS WIFE SEEKING HIS JOB (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, March 15-After an absence of five months, Judge E. Smith returned here Monday to find his wife entered as a candidate for his office in the primary election to be held March 19. The judge told friends of a shipwreck which caused him to remain two months on an unnamed island in the West Indies. MAN AND WIFE INJURED.

Harry Knell, 27, of 1249 DeKalb and his wife Edna were inlast night when Kneil's car collided with another at Rodney and 5th sts. They were attended by an ambulance surgeon and were able to go home. OVERCOME BY COAL GAS. Peter Cook, aged 45; John Austin, aged 35, and Edith Johnson, aged were all overcome by coal gas yesterday at their home at 179 Adelphi st. They were attended by a surgeon from the Cumberland Street I Hospital.

Watch Repairing FOR ninety years we have been Specialists in Watch Repairing. Our large staff of skilled workmen is at your service Your watch, when entrusted to our care, is assured of being repaired in a thorough manner. WILLIAM WISE SON ESTABLISHED 1834 Jewelers Silversmiths 10 Flatbush Avenuc Brooklyn Nevins Street Subway Station at Our Door a Boro Street Casualties KILLED ON ST RI FT. SLOW UP FATAL ACCIDENTS THIS YEAR FATAL ACCIDENTS THIS DIE 49 WHATS YOUR HURRY? INJURED YESTERDAY BROOKL SAFE BROOKLYN SAFETY COUNCIL LONG BEACH FORMS BOARD TO DEFEND CITY FROM ATTACK New Organization to Take Up Criticisms and Inform Public of Facts. A group of influential businessmen of Long Beach have formed all organization for the purpose of defending Long Beach from attacks and slander by those who would injure the welfare of this community.

The policy of the organization will be to take up unwarranted criticisms and inform the public of the facts. Some of the members of the new organization are Max Peck, Eugene Blumenthal. J. Bolton, James J. McCabe, John McCabe, Edward J.

Farrell, Peter J. De Vine, E. Goldstein, Charles Klein, James J. Farrell. Gustave Weyl, Isaac Wolff, Louis Wolff, Frederick J.

Knobe, Adolph E. Karthaus, Irving G. Warschauer, Harry Grasser, Irving Molitor, Morris Schaefer and Irving Halpern. These men believe that politics are responsible for most of the charges that have been filed with Governor Smith concerning the administration of Long Beach, and that politicians are sacrificing the good of this community in prosecuting personal quarrels. They believe in the government now in power in Long Beach, but they will be quick to demand reforms if any wrongdoing is apparent.

Their puris not to fight the battles of Mayor Reynolds, but to defend Long Beach. Several of the members of the newly formed a group called on The Eagle today and stated that a misapprehension might be created by The Eagle's report of the meeting Saturday night at Long Beach. The Eagle stated that Reynolds had dodged answering questions submitted by the Long Beach Taxpayers' Association. It was asserted that while Mayor Reynolds did not refer to the questions prepared by this organization, he in fact answered all the important points raised by it in his general and specific analysis of charges against him and Long Beach. As a result of the Saturday night meeting, the friends of Long Beach believe the situation is summed up as follows: "It apparent that by a unanimous expression on the part of all the taxpayers, citizens and voters.

they believe that the Mayor and his administration have conducted themselves in an honest and upright manner, and that the charges lodged against them are false and without foundation." Tobey Thinks Reynolds Weak. Long Beach, L. March 17- "Rather weak." is what Carl P. Tobey, secretary of the Long Beach Taxpayers' Association, thinks of the speech made by Mayor William H. Reynolds on Saturday night.

the first time since I have known Reynolds." said Tobey, "he read his speech. With his own words he made the reason obvious when he said, Imust be careful because there be a Usually he has been may a fire-eater who has gone so far as to mount a platform and break up opposition mass meetings. But Saturday night ho roared as gentle as any suckling dove. "We were given to understand that the hide was coming off Judge Cropsey and Attorney General Shermon fortwith, and that the 'motives' of Governor Smith in ordering the investigation would be exposed as nakedly as Irvin Cobb's canary. It turned out that any of the three could a most take Reynolds' speech and use it as a recommendation for re-election.

It is a good omen. "Reynolds' statement that the budget of Long Beach is only about $400.000 is refuted by publication in the Long Beach Life, his own newspaper, and regarded as the official organ of his administration, and by the tax bills which his administration has sent to the taxpayers of Long Beach. His newspaper said that the proposed budget was more than $1,017,500 and that is the figure which appears on the back of the tax bills which Long Beach citizens are asked to pay." HURT IN BARGE CRASH. Mrs. Anna Aken.

46, wife of Capt. James Aken of the coal barge Bella, was badly injured early today when a New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad float rammed the barge in the East River at the foot of Dupont st. Mrs. Aken was thrown to the fioor when the forward cabin was crushed. WILLS FILED MATILDA C.

O'KEEFE. 47th died Jan. 25, 1924, leaving an estate of $20.000 to her hushand, Augustin V. O'Keefe: two nephews, William Griffith and William J. Crampton, and others.

PATRICK NEVINS. 241 Baltic died May 4, 1924, leaving an estate of $1,000 to two daughters, Catherine J. Flannery and Mary Nevins. JACOB SILVERBERG, 105 73d dien March 5, 1924, leaving an estate of less than $12,000 to his widow, Florence berg, and son, Joseph Silverberg. BERTHA GAUS.

497 Halsey at 1 March 9, 1924, leaving an estate of over $10,400 to three sisters, Sophia Gaus, Maria Gaus and Daisy Gaus, MRS. FERGER, GUILTY OF BRANDING GIRLS, APPEALS TO COURT NORTH HOW neighbors. However, we are not seeking sociability with my neighbors. I could live here 100 years and not know their names. All I ask is the free right to live.

"When I first moved in a man called who told me he represented the Fiske Terrace Association. He asked me a lot of personal questions. When I asked him if he catechised all new residents like that he said no. He finally admitted he had come on his own hook and would not like the Fiske Terrace Association to know he had called. "This house was badly run down when I purchased it.

I have put in $1,000 worth of new plumbing and will paint the entire house in the spring. I am objectionable to my neighbors I'll sell the house and move out. My price is $35,000." Commenting on the mass meeting in Madison Square Garden last night dealing with the "Back to movement, Mrs. Greenlee laughingly added that if any of the neighbors had a tract of land in Africa she would consider a "swap." Asks Certificate of Doubt to Avoid Going to Jail for Burning Children. Mrs.

Josephine Ferger of Corona, was convicted in the Jamaica Court of Special Sessions and tenced to three months in the Pent. tentiary for branding her two stepchildren, Anna, 9, and Pauline, 6, with a hot iron, today asked Justice Callaghan in Supreme Court for 2 certificate of reasonable doubt, 80 she will not have to stay in jail pending her appeal to the Appellate Division. She is already out on $1,000 bail, which was allowed by Justice Carswell in the Queens Supreme Court, until the decision of this motion. The sentence was imposed by three different justices than were on the bench when she was tried, and her contention is that that was illegal and that her conviction was not justified by the evidence. Her story now is that the burning of the children was entirely accidental, as she had been cooking something in al pot and was stirring it with a knifesharpener by mistake.

Anna pinched Pauline and the latter, who was sitting on the tubs, kicked Anna. Mrs. Ferger said she intended to hit Anna on the knuckles when the child put up her arm and was burned just above the wrist, and that Pauline made a kick at Anna and Mrs. Ferger struck her on the leg. The burns, she declared, were "superficial and not.

penetrating." Moreover, the girls had been "very bad." Lawyer Nathan Chadsey told the Court, and she had the right to whip them. "I don't regard that as proper said Justice ghan, who has children of his own. Assistant District Attorney Conroy of queens told the court that Mrs. Ferger's own testimony showed beyond question that she was guilty, and that she had admitted at her trial that she heated the sharpener over the gas stove and burned the girls because they were "naughty." Decision was reserved. A.

H. SMITH'S WILL LEAVES ESTATE TO WIDOW AND SON Value Not Given in Document Offered for Probate in White Plains. (Special to The Eagle.) White Plains, N. March 17-4 The will of Alfred Holland Smith. for a number of years president of the New York Central Railroad Company, who died on March 8 from injuries received when thrown from his horse Central Park, Manhattan, was filed for immediate probate today with Surrogate George Slater.

It disposes of a large estate, but the value is not given. The will was offered for probate by Hays, St. John Buckley of 43 Exchange Manhattan, and is said that the reason it was filed here was because Mr. Smith owned a large country estate at Chappacua, in northern Westchester County The will bears the date 6, 1916, and the witnesses were J. Alger of 415 W.

115th Manhattan, and M. L. Richards, 954 Westfield Elizabeth, J. The transfer tax affidavit gives the value of the real estate as "over $5,000" and the personal property as "over $5.000." The will gives the widow, Mrs. Maude Emery Smith, of Chappaqua, 75 percent of the income from the residuary estate for life, while the Emery Holland Smith, of 485 son.

Park Manhattan, gets 25 per cent from the residuary estate during the life of the widow, with remainder of entire estate on her death. The will, which is very short, was typewritten in green ink on two ordinary business sheets of paper. MRS. BOWMAN SUES TO REGAIN PROPERTY Mrs. Bowman came before Justice Mitchell May in the equity term of the Supreme Court today with suit against Thomas B.

Gilchrist, a lawyer, asking that a deed made by her husband, Dr. Arthur M. Bowman, a dentist, to Gilchrists conveying property at 417 56th be set aside. Mrs. Bowman's husband left her after signing a separation agree ment in which Bowman acknowlcaged that she owned the property, and she agreed to let him have the use of the property as long as he would pay her $50 a week.

He stopped the payments and went to Reno and later served her with papers, indicating a Reno judge had given him a decree in June, 1921. Then he married Ida Schmidt in New Jersey and remained out of this State. When Mrs. Bowman sought to regain her property she found Lawyer Gilchrist in possession as the owner. I Gilchrist testified on the witness stand that he was aware of the separation agreement before he took the deed from Bowman and said the latter had epxlained that he, and not she, owned the property and that he had signed the agreement setting forth the reverse "when was in a hurry to catch a train or something." Lawyer Gilchrist also said he was familiar with Bowman's affairs, having been his attorney, and that he took the property in lieu of $500 which, he said.

Bowman was unable to pay him. Bowman holds the mortgage on the property, however, the lawyer told the Court, and he pays the interest to Bowman. I Justice May, after hearing the eviidence, reserved decision..