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i ; ■ ■ The Associated Presi Covering World’s Events in Every Issue of THE X^AZETTE t i e t te it ut iff ,a i ; ■■ . r The W eatl^ Peport 'H a in ionight and w a rm er. Colder Tuesday, much colder Tuesday night. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in^the Uppfer Delaware Valley. -VOL.^LVL, No. 192 PORT JERVIS, N. Y-, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1924 PRICE THREE CENTS SHAKE-UP IS EXPECTED IN V COUNHiOBS Pistrict Attorney and Sheriff Their Acts Were Suspicious Considering New Appomtees P o litical speculators and citizens generally throughout Orange county a r e m a n ifesting extraordinary inter est w ith respect to a shakeup among the county’s appointive office holders in prospect as an outgrowth of the gen e r a l election. L a w enforcem ent, or tn e lack o f it, in Orange county during recent m o n ths, has been a bone of conten tion, achieving its rriost spectacular proportions im m e d iately before the election in Novem b er. In TWOBANDTT SUSPECTS HELD AT ELLENVILLE and Chief Barnes Arrested conse- auence, w h a t w ill be the appointive policies o f D istrict A ttorney-elect E l mer H. Lemon and SehrifC-elect H enry H u ll, is causing concern am o n g those w h o are a t present Vested w ith the pow e rs o f law enforcem e n t in the var ious sections of the county; prospec- j suspicion actions of the m en tiv e appointive’ office holders and Uie | a ttracted his attention. W h en brought Bllenville, D ec. 6.— ^Two m en pick ed up here on suspicion Thursday night b yC h ief of Police Harrison Barnes of this village are wanted in A u d u b on, N. J., a suburb of Camden for the alleged participation in th e holdup earlier th a t day of W illiam Bishop, taxi-cab driver of that place w h o m they relieved of $50. The m en under arrest are W illiam H e n r yTracey, 23, w h o gave h is ad dress of- Philadelphi aand Sam p son ■James, 19, w h o said hi® residence is N ew York. T h e m en are expetced to w a ive extradition. The men were arrested by Chief Barnes w h ile eating in a restaurant PORT JERVIS ELKS HOLD THEIR ANNUAL LODGE OF SORROW Exeroses iu Memory of 117 Deceased Brethren— Address By Past Exalted Ruler Frank Failon of Lodge No. 1 of New York—Beautiful Music Port Jervis Lodge 645 B. P. O. E lks held their annual memoriaT ser vices at the E lk’s hom e Sunday even ing. There w a s a num b er of friends in • addition to the mem b ers in attendance The service w a s held in m em oriam for 117 departed brothers. The lodge room w a s prettily decorated w ith A m erican flags, the E lk ’s colors, pur ple and white, and flow ers. The ord er of exercises w a s as follw s: Processional March, Cunniffe’s or^ ehestra. Selection by orchestra, open^ in g cerem o n ies by E x a lted Ruler, a a m e s K inney, R oll ca ll of' deceased m em b ers by Secretary Bierlein, selec-. tion by the Kiwanis Quartette of Mid-^' dletown, selection by th e orchestra, responses and declarations by th e officers, selection by the K iw a n is quar tette, address, “In M emoriam” by P, E. R. Prank Fallon of Lodge No. L DONGREGATION SOLVES CROSS WORD PUZZLE IN ' 15 MINUTES, FINDS TEXT here. A t th e tim e Chief Barnes knew nothing about the^ Audubon ^ York, ^selection b y the orches- selection by the quartette, cTos- ■county’s residents as a whole. • | Mr. Lemon has the appointm e n t of an assistant district attorney. W il liam J. Lamont, New b u rgh attorney, has during th e past few days com e to the fore as the probable appointee, ato suceed R o b e r t T. Plume, of W al- Then, there is to be a change in the office of th e county detective, a su c cessor to Lindsay D. N. H u tchins be in g probable. H e n r y R. Knapp • and Patrolman George F . Finn of M iddle- tow n , haVj,e been talked of. New b u rgh m e n m entioned are J. Frank Gallow, W illiam Joy, Edward J. H ayes, and D a n iel M u lholland. M eanwhile a Port Jervis m an, whose nam e has been w ithheld, is said to have declined the place. M e a n w h ile Mr. Liemon has had little to say w ith respect to his probable ap pointm ents. “W h en they’re anounced, I think you’ll find men w h o w ill do business ifi and' for Orange county h a v e been selected,” is his m o st recent com m e n t. Mr. Lem on is understood to h a v e notified Stenographer to th e Grand Jury Judson A. Hoar, that his services w ill not be needed after the new year. It is hinted th a t the post has been offered to W illiam F. Stan ton, a N ewburgh law yer, and th a t Mr. Stanton has not m a d e know n whether he w ill accept. W h a t m a y happen in th e office of Sheriff-elect H u ll by itself is interest in g m a n y . Joseph W oodburn of N ew burgh, is being considered for the post o f under-sheriff, according to th e spec ulators, but thus far Mr. H u ll has made no announcem ent. One phase of hi^ appointive power, however, is said to be certain. It is understood that the sheriff m eans to make a p r a c tical ly com p lete revision of the existing list of deputy sheriffs. And w h ile the present is being seri- ^ iou s ly considered in a ll sections, m u r- m e r ings of probable can d id a tes' in 1927 are being heard. Perhaps the first nam e to he menI;ioned f o r the R epub lican candidacy of 1926 is that o f John D. M cCoach, present chief of p o lice of M iddletown, w h o w ill soon com p lete a period o f service in the de partm ent that w ill w a rrant his retire ment. R ecently, it has been hinted th a t Chief M cCoach w o u ld be a can didate for sheriff th r e e years hence. ^;D0CT0R HAS “CURE” ^ FOR PNEUMONIA N e w York, Dec. 7.— “Pneum o n ia is over a s far as I am concerned,” said Dr. M edric T. de Gerin, w h o says his treatm e n t for Pneumonia has been accepted by th e French m edical so ciety and is now em p loyed in all the hospitals in France. He arrived yes terday on the French liner Paris. “I know th a t’s a large statem ent, but it is so. My experiments, are fin ished, and m y treatm e n t has been, re cognized.” Doctor de Gerin said he had been urged to return to A m erica and had left his practice in Paris to live here for a year or more. H e has received ^ a license to practice here. He also '^^^aid he w o u ld p u t h im s e lf at the ser vice o f the m edical profession in' gen eral free o f charge so th a t a ll physi cian s m igh t know his pneum onia treatm e n t. to police headquarters the m en were questioned and searched, th e search revealing that neither of the suspects had an operator’s or a licens ecard. Chief Barnes then accused them of stealing the car w h ich they at first denied. They told th e ch ief th a t the oar had only been purchased recently and th a t th e y didn’t have tim e to take out the nece.ssary licenses. T h e ch ief .was not convlinced^ how e v er, and again accused them of the crime. This tim e one of the m en is alleged to have replied “put it th a t vray if you w a n t to.” Later according to C h ief Barnes Tracey adm itted the th e ft of th e car w h ich w a s parked on a street in Camden. A ccording to inform a tion reaching the Plerald from the United P r e ss bur eau at Camden th e bandits escaped in Bishop’s taxi after relieving him of his m o n ey. T h e fa c t th a t the suspects ar rived here late Thursday night driv in g a ' H u d son Sedan, however, leads the police to believe th a t the bandits probably abandoned the taxi, provid ing Of course Sam pson .and Jam es, were im p licated in the hold-up at all, and th e n took possession of the H u d son. _ W h en first brought to police head quarters C h ief Barnes m erely held the m en because they could produce no operator’s licens efor driving the car. C h ief B a r n e s did not learn till y e s terday that Sampson and Jajnes w ere fugitives from justice and were w a n t ed by th e Audumon authorities w h o believed them to have been im p licat ed the hold-up and, robbery o f Bishop Before they m a d e their escape in the taxi Bishop w a s badly beaten up by the stick-up m en, according to the police. L a te today Tracey confessed to Chief B a rnes that be stole the H u d son car w h ich w as parked on ,a street in Camden. in g cerem onies by Jam e s K inney, E. R., closing ode, benediction by Chap lain R ev. C. H. Kues, recessional by orchestra. P a s t Exalted R u ler F a llon’s address was as follow s; Fallon’s Address. Exalted Ruler, D ear Brothers and friends. As h a s been explained te you, our der decrees th a t the first Sunday Decem b er shall be set aside for E lks to lionor th e m em ory of their departed. To me the m o st beautiful act of Elkdom is,--that on every night of the year, w h e n the ^lock m a rks eleven, E lk s in every part of the land pause and offer this silent toast, To Our A b sent Brothers,” hut this one day w e single out to revere th e ir m em o ry, to pay them a tribute of af- • fection, and to em b a lm in lastin g re- m em b erances their virtues and acts of good fellow ship. To join our great Order you m u st solem n ly declare your belief in the ex- istance of a suprem e beingpand' one . w h o so believes, m u st n^ee^sa-ry lieve in im n iortality,. in whioh. a . C ling- ^ ing faith h a s been a recogn i^ d , attri-' bute of m a n since the birth of human- intelligence. W h ile w e are in no sense a religious institution,, opr un derlying principles are also fundam e n tal in all religious. H e n c e th is service tion w h ich i ELECTION SITUATION IN GERMANY NOT CLEAR (B y The A ssociated P r e s s) Berlin, D ec, 8— T h e outcom e of r^sterday’d general election leaves the :^ fli4.m e n tary 'Situation wholly Merchants’ Bureau TTie w e e k ly m eeting and . luncheon o f the M erchants’- B u reau w ill be held a t th e E lk s ’ Club T u esday noon at J 1 2 :30 o’clock. All m erchants are ■urged’ to atten d th e s e m eetings, as m a tters o f d m p ortance are considered. DRAMATIC CLUB WILL GIVE THREE PUYS Three one act plays w ill he present ed by the D rew D ram a tic Club. Tues day evening, in th eD rew M ethodist H ouse on Broom e street. The m e m bers of th e club have rehearsed faith fu lly and are prepared to present plays w h ich are w o rt h w h ile seeing. This is a first attem p t on the part of the club to present plays since Its organization in September. The m e m bers Will prove that it is possible to present dram a tics under Christian leadership. The plays are first class and th e cast of characters are .deserv ing of good support. The casts of cvharacters are; 1— “The Silent System.”. W ife— ^Dorothy H a rsh. H u sband— Sheldon B ell. 2— “T h e MJhker o f D ream s.” Pierrot— Mrs. H e len Bishop. Pierrette— iSylvia Barber. M anufacturer— V iolet R u st, (?3.-Y“The H o u r Glass”. The W ise m a n — ^LeRoy Brooks. Tiegue the P o o l— ^Alexander Thomp son. ' The W ise m a n ’s W ife— ^Mrs. E'rna V ersteeg. The W ise Man’s^ijChildren— Thelm a Bell, B y r o n Harding. A n A n g e l— Gladys B e ll. P u p ils— Raymond Sharp, R u ssell Sudderley, P a u l Spangenherg, Lyle W ells. Meetmgs Touight The regular mopthly. m e e ting of the Board o f Education and an adjourned m feting o f the Common Council w ill b e held this evening a t the high school building and the city hall respectively. of com m em oration w h ich w e a n d every other lodge of our order are today celebi’ating, is not only an expression of our sorrow for our dead, reviving of sad and happy m em cries, m em o ries th a t sw e eten th e thought o f death, and act as a h e a ling balm to our sor rows, but it is also in a w a y a reli gious service, for it is a public declara tion of our belief in God and im m o r tality. F o r w e are born to die, and we die that w e m a y live. It is a beautiful thought th a t today one m illion E lks of diverse nationali ties, creeds and professions are knit as one in the strong hope of im m o r tal ity, for a s M ilton w r o te, “R em em b er those w h o m death to better life hath yealded,” and it is tru e th a t softly over our spirit there com es today— ‘A' feeling of sadness and longing That is no takin to pain. And resem b les sorrow only As the mist- resem b les rain. B u t it is a gentle m ist, that does not so b lur th e heavenly w indow s of the soul that w e cannot see th e faces of our absent brothers sh in e forth in the K ingdom of our Father. It is a m ist of tears th a t cleairs no clouds, the vision. W e see m u ch w ith w ide open eyes, m ore w ith h a lf shut* eyes and m o st w ith closed eyes. The spirit of th e E lk is the’ spirit of St. M artin of Tours, w h o in a -win ter ston -■« h a lf w w e a lth anc „ . ., tion privileges, or other sources of power, w e are worthy,^only in so fa r as w e strive to he of h^lp to others by doing w h a t w e can to help th e m up to the level o f our own vantage ground. Care not w h o is richer or m ore learn ed th a n thou, i f none 'be more gener- < C ontinued to page live) The Rev.. George F. McEIvcin. pastor of the .Krioxville Baptist Church, in Pittsburgh. Pa., sees possibiilties for good in the cross word puzzle craze and nas put the cross worders to work in his church. He arranged a great blackboard w ith the text Of his serm o n in the squares to be filled in. The preacher allowed his con gregation fifteen minute.s to solve th e puzzle but the text w^as cor rectly si>ellcd cu t in less than a v.uarter of an -hour. clarified, as the new party line-up in th e R e ichstag precludes the form a tion of a three party coalition com posed of th? Socialists, C lericals and Dem o cratic in th e opinion of politi cal leaders. According to the latest returns, these three parties have elected a total or 227 members, and with only this num ber to depend upon, the leaders fear the liberal com b ination would be un- abTe to com m and a dependable m a jority even if they w ere given the sup port of the B a v a r ian people’s party with their nineteen votes. woma F injered WHEN AUTOS COLUDED The autom o b iles o f Louis Grassey,' of Paterson, N, J., and 'Benjam in Coss, of Bridgeport, Conn., collided on the top of the m ountain on the Slate' H ill road about noon Sunday. Mrs. Coss received cuts about the body that necessitated her being tak e n to D eerpark Sanitarium w h e r e she is be ing treated. ■ Other members of the both parties w ere shaken up and re-, ceived minor bruises. Mr. and Mrs. Coss are former residents of this city. The cause of the accident is said to be due to both m achines skidding as the drivers attem p ted to pass one an other. '' The property of E liza W a n ton, 1(?2 Franklin street, w a s sold this after noon at H o tel M itchell to G. W. Car penter for $2,100. EXPECT SEVEN MORE BOOZE MEN TOBEINDICTi) _____ _ , Dry Leader Says Trail in Jer sey Ring Leads to Washington At least seven more indictm e n ts are expected tom o rrow from the new H u d son County Grand J.ury at Jersey city as 0 . result of the investigation into tlie alleged conspiracy in whicli large suras of m oney are said to have been paid to N e w Jersey police and offic ials by a bootleg ring for protection in landing over $50,000,000 worth of liquor on the W eehaw k en w a ter front. The men w h o wall be indicted, it was t-aid yesterday at the office of County Prosecutor John M ilton, w ill include three H o b o k en policem en, two mem bers of the Hudsn County police and tw o Federal .Prpliibition agents oper ating from the N ew York office of C.\ Q. Merrick, DivisionaJ Prohibition Chief, who is in charge of enforce m ent w o rk in N e w York and N ew Jersey. Indictm ents already have been handed down against Harry J. Stearns Chairman of th e W eehaw k en Tow n ship Police com m ittee; W iliam E. Griffin, a Jersey City insurance bro ker; Captain Charles M cNamee o f the County Boulevard Police, and nine W eehaw k en policemen.' “W e already have sufficient evidence to obtain convictions on all tw e lve of these indictm e n ts.” A ssistant P r o s e cutor A loysius McMahon said. Prominent figures in the political life of New Jersey w ere accused last night by Sam u e l W ilson, A ssistant Superintendent of the A n ti-Saloon L eague of being the ch ief figures in the bootleg syndicate. , “The trail of the Hudson County li quor ring runs straight to W a shington said Mr. 'WStlson. “Its m embers con trol two banks in Hudson County— one in Jersey City and the other in Hoboken. These banks are financing th e -operaforsi o f the bootleg -ring and they are flooded w ith bootleggers’.,, notes. “The m u n icipal governm ents of at least three of th e b iggest cities in H u d son County are controllpd by the ring. Griffin is sim p ly the syndicate\ m a n a g er. Its membership includes the names of several high officials know n to practically every voter in N e w Jersey. FAITHFUL HORSE IS PENSIONED TO OWNER’S FARM Animal Helped Him to Get Rich So Rest of Its Days WjU Be in Ease 1 Russia Posts Notice That ^^Our Comrade, the ^ Ambeissador^* will Occupy Embassy in Paris %'ir' ..L MAGICIAN WILL ENTERTAIN TONIGHT E. C. D a v is, “The Man W h o M ys tifies” w ill entertain at the Mechanics H a ll this evening. This is the second entertainm e n t of the M echanics’ Ly ceum Course. Mr. D a v is is consider ed one of th e cleverest magiciaim in the w o rld. A fter the entertainrnent, dancing w ill b e enjoyed. M u sic w ill be furnished by the H a r m o n y Club Orchestra. WILL HOLD COURT IN GIRE’S SCHOOL / • ----------- . Carmel, D ec. 7.— S h e r iff W a llace Secord ofl Putnam County announced today tha|^_he had aranged w ith Dr. Clarence M cClelland, President of D rew Seminary, a fashionable board ing school for girls ir\ Carmel, to h a v e the tem p o rary use of Sm ith H a ll there for a court house. T h is w ill give college girls a chance to study at first hand the adm inistration of justice. Judge J. Bennett Southard of P u t nam Goun’iy, court w ill hold court on th e college property Tuesday to or ganize th e Grand Jury and to start th e trial of civil actions. This w ill be the first term of court held in i Cai-mel since the olfi court house w a s partly destroyed by fire th r e e w e e k s ago. N ew York, D ec. 8-—The partnership betw een Bob, a horse that understood, and A d o lf Deutscli, w e a lth y fu fniture dealer, has been dissolved. A fter years of association Mr. D eutsoh in sisted that Bob get out of harness and retire to pea,ce and plenty on a farm near Baldw in, L, I. ' T h irty-four years ago the now pros perous senior m em b er of Deutsch Brothers, operators of a chain of big furniture shops here and in other cit ies, w a s laying th e foundation of his business in a basem ent at 58 A v enue A. It w a s a sm a ll store and so wa's the business. It m eant worry and hard work for the. “partners,” and Bob, then a tw o -year old chestnut, shouldered his share like a m a n — ^no, better than that, like a horse. . E v e r y m orning even before the shaw led w o m en w h o m poverty drove to an early m arket for a bargain w e r e toiling through the streets, D eutsch and Bob were out on their rounds in the east side. Hard tim e s often p r o -, duced cx'ises and. Mr. D eutsch believes th a t Bob used to know w h e n the pull ing w a s hard for the m aster as w e ll as for him self. T h e business grew, however, and each year saw Bob and life on better term s. L ighter grew his burdens and th e more than lOO drivers w h o han dled him had their natural considera tion for the old horse, quickened by know ledge that the eye of th e “big boss” w a s on Bob. B u t not even the autom o b iles that suplanted his horse com p a n ions ousted Boh fro m h is job. On Saturday afternoon, in' the pres ence of 300 em p loyes of the D eutsch store at Third avenue and 124th St., including a deputation from th e store at 58 A v enue A — n o w about a h a lf block lon g —The ^ r n e s s 'was lifted ■from. Bob for the- ia«t tim e--an^ w reath w a s pideed where th e collar pads had rested for years. In state he was escorted to the farm. “That horse,” said Mr. .JDeutsch, “w a s one of th e m ost faith fu l anim a ls I have ever seen. H e w a s such a w ill ing .worker and helped me in the old days to bear my troubles and sorrow?. I am now going to let him share m y joys and prosperity. I’m goin g o u t ^ s often as I can to the farm , because I’m sure he w ill be missing me.” . R elations betw een France and the Soviet goveriim ent having been resum ed, th e Russiam embassy in the French capital was prepared ■for occupancy as the h e a ^ n a r ters •C the Russian diplom atic eerps. A b o v e Is shown a notice, printed in Russian and French; announc ing that “Our Comrade, the Am bassador” will ' shortly establish residence theria.. , FIRE IN HOUSE AND BARN AT SAME TIME Sussex, N. J., D ec. 6.— ^A fire oc curred Decem b er 5, a t 7:30 a. m. on th e farm occupied by Jacob Snook, owned, by_ M iss L., R eed, located near Papakating, N ; .J., about 6 m iles from here burning down-“the main^barn with 20 head pfc:' c a ttle w ith a |l produce and m a chinery. *When the fam ily came to th e .house after m ilking they found that, th e upper p a r t of a Gamp which they had left burning low w a s lying broken on th e floor ,and , the floor w a s on ffire, th e lower part of the lamp w a s still on the table. A fter putting out this fire ih'the* h o u se th e y looked out of'^the w indow and found th e barn all oh fire. Cause of fire un- kho-wn. ^ ' ' MAY TELL SEX BEFORE BIRTH London, Dec. 7.— D e term ination in advance of th e sex of children w ill be com e an accom p lished fact w ithin the n e x t fifty years, according to Ju lian Huxlqy, w e ll know n biologist and grandson , o f the fam ous 'scientist. T h eoretically, h e declared, in a le c ture a t Brighton, . ante-natal detei*- m ination of sex is possible now. “It is a very m iscroscopic and d if ficu lt th in g to do,” h e warned, “but it seem® to m e th a t it is easier to determ ine sex th a n to do the things th a t have been done in the w,ay of construction of airplanes- and phono graphs.” n e t o a S r ' office WRECKED IN KANSAS (B y The A ssociated Press) Coffeyville, Kan., D ec. 8.—^An ex plosion early today w recked th e plant of^ the Coffeyville D a ily D a w n , a morning new spaper,. a n d tw o adjoin ing buildings. No one w a s injured as the new spaper office w a s deserted at the time. P o lice say the explosion w a s either the resu lt of an accum u la tion of gas or th a t the office w a s •bombed by persons antagonistic to th e paper’s policy of supporting the K u K lux Klan. The dam a g es wast-^even- ty-five thousand dollars. POLICEMAN CURED BOY OF HICCOUGHS O v ^ In W illiam sport, Penn., a six teen year old boy w a s attacked by hiccoughs. F o r - fou r days th e a t tack continued and doctors w e r e baf fled. Then a uniform ed police officer entered the h o u s e ,/took the hoy by the collar, hurried him outside, plac ed him in th e patrol wagon, and five m inutes later he ■was before the court. B y th e tim e he w a s in Court th e hic coughs had ceased. The boy stopped crying and laughed at the joke that had been- played on h im to cure the hiccoughs. The cure seem s perman-t ent as h e 'h a s not beehr troubled since..
