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Westchester. First \ LOST EFFICIENCY TELL-TALE WRECK TEAR'CAS GUNS UPLIFT FOR COURT __ Br LOUIS E- TUAIXR — . Jud|a W illiam D. f^ nnnln^ham I who represents the recently indict-1 ed Merooroneck policemen, made - ----------- • t statement, when be WHITE PLAINS HONORS VETERANS ON MEMORIAL DAY-PICTURES APPEAR ON PAGE ®je Tlatlg Press Complete Wire Reports of THE UNITED PRESS Greatest WorlH-WulNewt Service formally filed the resignations of , vnr i Mfi ri the three men with the district at- YUlx. 1 — ^ I IMDEl-CNOEhT KEWBl-Af- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS \These resignations. In effect stats that the men involved realize them have destroyed their efficency as paBce officers.\ There is a thought in these words s efficiency. A n escape punishment o through some technicality or even. succeeaVn convincing a judge or a Jury that there are grave doubts as to his emit. \but. in spite of that, the sunSUon hurts and the charge takes something from that man which 'It will be hard for him to re gain. , It is Important to avoid all ap pearances of evil oe it Is to avoid evti Itself. Perhaps the I -world should be more charitable and-less suspicious but the average! man has it in his very nature to j feel that there must be some fire j where there is much smoke. The | best time to - realize that charges , of wrongdoing destroy one's effi - deny is befors one's integrity has ! ever been questiohed. It is easiei ! to avoid the finger of suspicion in the begini^ng than it Is to turn -that finger aside when once it ho» ” ‘ be«n leveled in one's direction. S - The wrecking of a truck at Tar- rytown revealed that what was supposed to be a load of silk was la reality a load of beer. All is not gold that glitters in these Prohi bition days. So Ingenious arc the bootleggers that almost everything that passes through the police lines has becomes an object of suspldon. Prohibited beverages of every conceivable sort ore camou flaged in every conceivable way and the real nature of many a car go has only been determined by ac cident aa in the came of the truck load of beer at Tarrytowo. Boot- . leggera instruct their truck driven- ' to drive with exceeding care ro j when you eee a truck that ie being j driven through the streets with un j usual caution, you majvbe right In j surmising that there Is a reason ! why the truck driver cannot afford ■ to get into trouble. That Memorial Day passed in Westchester County without a sin gle violent death is a fact worthy Of more than passing attention. That one of the big holidays of the year should pass with such a rec ord. when every week-end Is claim ing Its death-toll, seems almost unbelievable. When we consider that the flay was ideal and that ail our high ways w|rs Oiled with traffic, |t be comes evident- that the abeenoe of automobile fatalities was mors than a coincidence. It Indicates that roost autolsts anticipated the dan gere of the day sod exercised a higher degree of care In their HARRISON MAN DROWNED WHEN CANOE CAPSIZES i Peacox Trial to Start June 24; ConfessedSlayer Calm In Court AsHeMafyes ‘ NotGuilty ‘ Plea Honored the prosecution and defense agreed on June 24 as the date Tor the start of his fight to escape the electric Personally pleading not guilty to the indictment charging him with first degree murder. Peacox stood by in part one of Supreme Court while his attorney, Sydney A. Syme. and. District Attorney Frank H. Coyne, told Jusllc Arthur 8. Tomp kins that they would be ready on that date. Peacox. pale and n bit thinner than' the day he went to Jail, was coftn as he entered the court room With one hand handcuffed to i oty sheriff. He nawered \No; District Attorney Coyne and Defense Counsel Syme Agree to Speed Case. Torch Killer Has Become Thin During Wait In Jail. 100 Extra Talesmen To Be Drawn. Morbid Thrill Frank Aiello, 21, Los- 1 Seekers Crowd Court and Corridors.. es Life in Playland; An early trial for Earl F. Peacox. Lake-Strong Wind Tipped Frail Craft- * ccr ^ n,y ,lxUy wl Body Not Recovered Rye.* — The only fatality in t Westchester County over the ( week-end occurred at Play- lind here yesterday after noon when Frank Aiello, 21, of 102 Webster avenue, Har rison, was drowned as his canoe was upset by the wind on Playland lake. Aiello and Pat Larzaro. also of Harrison, had gone In n canoe to- the rescue of Kusso Curso, of Cro-' had been blown away from Hast TH o 'I s Accusedof murdering Mrs. Island out Into the lake. Dorothy H. Peacox in their apart- The boys were members of a me'nt In'Mount Vernon on the night roup of ^Harrison youths who hod o! Aprl l 21. first choking her with ■ hands and then garrotlng ' gone to Playlapd for the day and » CHARLES A. H. TIBBITTS Guest at birthday anniversary dinner given by friends at St. Bar tholomew's Church. UNCLE CHARLIE IS HONORED ON ANNIVERSARY Members S l Bartholomew's Church Pay Homage to Be loved Citizen on His 86th Birthday “ BELONGS TO CITY ” iiad hired cnnoci Playland lak*. Larzaro got Into Curso and helped h ride towel- « He Is also accused of taking her body to ennoe with the woods near Ardslcy and nt- get back.to tempting to burn il. tue snore. Juno IT was first asked for by Meanwhile Aiello, 400 feet from Coyne as the date for starting the the landing float and a shorter dis- trial. lance from the Island attempted to -f Bm VC ry anxious to get-through reach shore. The wind was iitrong with this cose before the summer and came In gusts. recess and l will be ready on June Suddenly watchers on the Don! n/- he said, saw Aiello's canoe Opset anil the PKACOX — Take 3 youth disappeared. “ it Is a physical impossibility for Officer William Kemper of the me to be ready then.\ Syme told Playland force went to the rescue Justice Tompkins, of the youth In.on outboard motor \We should try this case and boat. When ho reached the spot have It over with before summer.\ Kemper sold there wiui no sign of j Justice Tompkins remarked. Aiello. Employes were still grapp — ' 1 — ......... . ................................ ling unsuccessfully ' for the body ' iod&y. - — - - iiderable time to prepare this case and I would like a longer adjournment.\ the at torney for thi defense said. \Three weeks will be sufflclent.''- Justlce Tompkins sgld. *A man of your ability could prepare six cases in that time.\ Every one in the courtroom-ex cept the placid Peacox laughed at To aid ti.e defense counsel, Jus tice Tompkins promised to post pone all of 8yme's civil casrs until he was finished with the Peacox trial. ■100 Extra Talretnpn He also directed that 100 extra talesmen bo drawn for the Jury which will try Peacox. Peacox was then token I. anteroom, where he posed for pho tographers and was then hustled back to his cell In the county Jail. The entire arraignment took only five minutes. Justice Tompkins' courtroom - crowded with persons curious see Peacox and the corridors through which he was taken filled with thrill-seekers. \There he goes, look at quick!\ one woman, who ___ brought her small son. sold os be Interviewed after the arraign ment. both Coyne Syme said The comprehensiveness of West chester County's public park pro gram. rapidity of Us development and the greatly Increased public benefits from new recreational pro jects and motor parkways opened during the post year, have given the county international promln- according to the seventh an- , _ __ report of the Westchester \County Park Commission filed with, she Board of Supervisors at Whitt Plains today. The report which was transmit- 'The State will be ready,\ Coyne sustained co-operation and support said, and added, \but of course, there is always the possibility that such a ease as this will go over.\ \I'll have to be ready.\ Syme said, smiling, when asked whether his (Continued c Page Three) WRIT AGAINST STORE DENIED EMILY KNIGHT BOYHITBY IS BADLY HURT Mayor llctaii s hlin Drclarr, Ar* P. _ C-ll at __ _ ____ i — Bishop Lloyd Praise* Man Who Has Tanght Right Living Can Sell Meat and Fish; Trial Set For June 17 WHILE RIDING A BROKEN LEG Thrown From Ilorse Near | Litchfield Howe, on Bicycle, GAR SUFFERS New Tork, June 3 (OP). — Renew ed demand for various high-grade publlo utility and railroad shares featured quiet but firm stock market at the start of the new New highs on the current recov ery were attained in many sections of the list aa shorts covered con tracts put ou* on recent weakness. New Tork Central and Consoli dated Gas furnished impressive leadership. The latter Issue sold ‘ (Continued on Page Five) Nearly- 80 members of St. Bar tholomew's Episcopal Church, and friends, gathered at the Parish House on Saturday evening. In lion or of one of their fellow members. Charles H. TibbliU, Broad Park Lodge, a lifelong resident of Whlt< Plains, and one of inent citizens. The occasion was the celebration of his eighty-sixth birthday. The affair was so cleverly managed by the Men ’ s Club of St. Bartholo mew's Church, who sponsqred 11. that Mr. Tibbltts hod no intimation of the party until he entered the down for hearing before hail and received the hearty con- June 17. Gcdncy Farms; Back-In jured : In Ilosjfttal Un able to Move Struck by Car Driven by Dr. Frank H. Knight —No Complaint Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor. Jr, today drnl.-d the mo tion of Mortimer C. O'Brien, atlor- icy for George Mcar. of this city. ] Eml|v K nlght 17 of Hathaway * Ten-year-old Litchfield Howe, 80 or an injunction against the ( anc Gniney Fs-rne was seriously ■ 8t * rlln * avenue. received a broken Tortlex Really Company of thix lnjur ^i when ^ , h rowh from ! rl \ ht lc * and multiple contusions .ty and the Great Atlantic Sc T»- h ,r horse while riding with a party face when he was struck by i :lf)c Tea Company, its tenant. to of high school friends yesterday \ u, ,° d \ v ' n , Dr ' Kr * nk , • “ ....... .'revent the operation of a meat afternoon. Knight. 1 New York avenue, shortly prom- - n< * flB * 1 department In that store (h „ xvt ,„„ ; after 7 o'clock last night. the corner of South Lexington p,' aln , „ Mpltlll where E i Mar tine avenues. ker BIllll , |cr b(lck wttJ , ,, to the White Dr75» S. Par- Justiqp Taylor denied the motion Is unable to move today but Dr. on the basis that an Immediate Parker would not may Just how ser- trial be sought, and on nppllenUon lous her Injuries were until ho had to Supreme Court Justice Joseph taken X-rays later today. Morsohauser; the cose ivns set The girl's mother. Mrs. Lester B. on ; Knight, told The Daily Press that the party of six was riding FAITH IN A GREATER WHITE PLAINS We, of the Peoples Bank and. Trust Co. believe in White Plains. The complete banking ser- vicfe-and personnel of this bank are at the service of the men and companies who are also showing their faith by seeking to build a Greater White Plains and a Greater Westchester. NATIONAL B/ rZ)epcfl •Pla, WHITE TRUST COMPANY , aV JHariinc P lains xtMiis rxSISAL Btssnvi x Meor. a denier in meats and fish. Gednejr Farms when Emily ’ s horse seek* to enjoin the Marties Realty I became frightened and ran away I Company from continuing Its lease j “ nd \ hr was unable to cling to his I I to the A. Sc P. Company on the j back. | grounds that It violates the con-1 _ ________________________________ ! tract issued to him wherein he , chums It was slated no other busi- ' ness of a similar nature was to be located in the same building. He also seeks to enjolp the ten com pany from further operation of the Fred L. Reis, president of the Martiex Company, states that he had made no agreement of such a I nature with Mear. and-even at that j lime, February, 1929. had been con templating asking the A. A P. to | enlarge Its qunrters in the build ing. with the Idea that perhaps a meat and fish departmi ' Installed at the Ume 3 for a contract, this not hpen established, tjat Jlear is putting up thi , According to tho report made by \ Dr. Knight to the police, he wai ! driving west on Lynton Place whet the lad, who was riding a blcycl* on the wrong side of the street, cul In front of his car and he was un able .to avoid striking him. Dr. Knight took the boy to thi White Plains Hospital where he was treated by Dr. E. G.Ramsdell. His condition was reported aa \bet ter\ this morning. The boy's parents made no com plaint against Dr. Knight. : z Late News Dispatches By Direct United Press Wire Jersey City. N7J.. June 1 (UP). — Havana.'Cube. June 3 (UP), recount of the votes cast for city ] President Gerardo Machado mmiuimvr, in this city May 14 | Cuba declares his purpose of w Democratlc ticket, i operating fully with tho United ** '- *» m suppressing the liquor smuggling traffic from his country to the United States as .he takes up the reins of government for his second six year term. WORLDWIDE PROMINENCE FOR COUNTY Recreational Projects and Parkway* Have Attracted International Attention Commission Report* WOMAN THROWN FROM CAR; HIT BY AUTO SUCCUMBS NEAR SELF SUPPORTING Returns. From Concessions Equalled 95 Per Cent s. of the Operating Expenses ASSESSED VALUATION Unprccedcnt Increases Due Largely to Parkway Development of the board of supervisors which, since 1023, has voted 333.000,000 In county funds for the park program. DRIVER FLEES CRASH; CAUGHT FIXING A TIRE William Foster of This City Prove* Detective irv Iden tifying Hit-Run Driver - — Hearing Set A shattered pieceytf a board and a hubcap torn from a car by the force of a collision, were the means by which John CockreJl. 63 Martine avenue. White Plains, was IdenUOed as the hit-and-run driver who crashed against the car of William R. Foster, 2 -BMItchell place. White Plains, on the Dobbs Ferry Road, this morning. Foster reported to the Green- burgh police that he had been driv ing on the t>obbs Ferry road, when ahother automobile traveling In the oppoaited direction crashed into him about 200 yards east of Wyle's estate. The\ other driver failed to ■top. Foster got out of his car and found a piece of running board add a. hubcap and started off ta pur- ; suit. Ho overtook Cockrell In Ard- sley, where he had slopped to change a Ure. The parts he had fitted Cockrell's car. Foster will appear In Greenburgh court Wednesday before Judge Seely to press a charge against Cockrell. LA COSTE IS CHAMPION Roland Garros Stadium. Auteull. France. June 3 (UP). — Rene La Coste won the French hard courts BULLETIN Word was received in Pleasantville today that Countess Bernadotte, the former Miss Estelle Manville, whose wed ding last year was the outstanding social event of Westchester County, is seriously ill on the steamship Kungsholm, now enroute to this country. She is the daughter of H. E. Manville of . Bedford road, executive 'v of the Johns Manville Corporation, ^servants at the Manville home said that Countess Ber nadotte was expected to arrive tomorrow but de nied any knowledge of her illness. Josephine Lawrence, Yonkers, Dies An Dobbs Ferry Hospi tal — Hit by Auto of Elmsford Man, Who Is Paroled p Dobb* Ferry. — A not* signed “ J. J.\ and written on stationery of the G«tty House. Yonkers hotel, fur nished the-only clue which police had today to the per son or persons believed to have thrown 25-year-old Josephine Lawrence, of that city, from a car on the Saw Mill River road early Sunday morning. -HRS. HOOVER FAYS VISIT TO WESTCHESTER First Lady of Land Sunday Guwt at Camp Edith Macy in Briarcliff; Praises Vork LUNCHES, MAKES TOUR Join* With' Student* at Girl Scout Camp in Sun day Afternoon Activities In Traken who said that a Jo*. cpbln* Lawrence, dMcripUon of the young had registered there on ' morning and checked out Mr. Herbert Hoover yeeterdny' F™m information given by-the i poUe* attache* and other available ■ made her flrot official visit to Wert- clue^( including the note, police running eh*rter County oinee becoming Drat hoped today to apprehend tbeae re- ehorily pfter staggered into the path of another automobile. She died at the hospital here yesterday her. William Higglna, . was held by the Ardeley police after he had ruahtd the >-»ung woman to the hospital, and then reported the Incident. He wax later paroled when he gave a full descri pti on at the accident to the police. jttcording to hie story he wangl ing north on the Saw Mill raw sounded his born a avoid her but a ditched his o woman In the Her Identity r »r some time unUl the a ____ communicated with the hotel people ■nded by Mayor Frank Hague, de- _____ ated a fusion ticket by an average inplled plurality of about 24.000, was begun . . 1 H — r — tnHni. hv “ * - — i 'subterfugo to break hi. own O.llo, (UP) — The plan, l polar expedl- Graf Zeppelin apring have been .lightly mod- 1 Ifled and preparation, will go for- Ufe ward immediately, he raid here I for Fridtjof Nansen'. | tion In the dirigible C day. I Boy Scout Saves Little Girl ’ s I Port Cheater — Sarah Gartora, 8. Washington, June 8 (UP) — Mua- today probably owed'hcr life to the 1 c Ie Shoals Is one of the cause, for presence of mind of fthe boy across l the attempt of the \great combln- the streets.\ Martin Learned, a Boy ! otlon of power companies\ to In-. Scout. 1 ; flunce public opinion. Senator Nor- | Sarah was playing yesterday with ’ r1 *- Republican. Nebraska, charged I her dolls' house. 1 which woo fitted ,od *y ln thc arglculture commlt- wlth candles. Her dre»s enught I report on hi. resolution to au- io lives ihortze government operaUon of grabbed (Ire and young Learned, across the etrect, ran overri the girl and rolled h^Kon the ground until thc Domes had been The girl was Buffering from se vere burns about the neck and body today ln United Hospital. Clearing House Statement New York. June 3 (UP) — Bank clearing. 39X1,000.000: clearing house balance 3152,000,000; Federal Reserve Bank credit balance $147,000,000. e properties there. Rome, June I (UP) — 'Rafael Bes- dandl, celebrated Italian seUmoiog- ist. predicted to the United Press today that there would be violent earthquakes during the month of June. Today he said, there will be earthquakes ln the Southern Pa cific region, and on June 7 and 8 In the Mediterranean. On June IS, he predicted, the Balkan States will suffer. There will be nil Im portant tremors In Mexico or South America during the month, 'dandl stated. Moscow, June 3 (UP) — The reports of a rupture In tha diplomatic re- lotion, between China and Soviet Ruula were denied on reliable authority here today. Athena, June 1 (UP) — Admiral Paul Coundouriotis was re-elected president of Greece at a Joint ses sion of the senate and chamber to day. New Orleans. June 3 (UP). — The Peruvian good-will Diem, CapL Carlo. Martinex Di Plnlllo. and Lieut. Carlos Zegarra took off from Callender Field at 8:05 a. m. today on a' non-stop Sight to Mexico City. The Beilanca monoplane carried 330 gallons of'gasoline. The Otero expected to arrive at Mexico City by a coastal route In from ten to twelve hours. New York. June 3 (UP)Ajohn J. Raekob expects to remain at his poet of chairman of the Democratic National Committed unM the next presidential candidate of the party la nominated, despite th* attacks- of Southern dry leaden In the party, It was made known here to day at hU office. . Borotra fl-S. 3-6. 6-0, 2-6 lady of the land when .he wo. a , «pon»lble for the girl's plight guest at Comp Edith Macy. the I death. National Qiri Scout Leader.' camp in Brlarcllff Manor. Greeted at noon by Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippln, National Girt Scout director,, she enjoyed a luncheon! with the sixty-eight students and. old friend, who were present and j later toured the camp. Mrs. Hoover is a former presi dent of the girl scouts, for four V- ------- — , <\ year, was a chairman of the m - I John E. O ’ Brien, for many ydaro tlor.nl board of director., and Is » “ • ° f > he lending real .slot* o*d now honorary head; | •surrogate lawyers in New York , . .. . .. _ ' State, a former partner of former X ,VVL r U !L Daniel F. Cohaian and a dent ’ s wife said that the camps to- : of x n.her avenue, this Duence was felt throughout the uty for lh , three year*, died , JOHN E O ’ BRIEN SUCCUMBS HERE TO OPERATION i spirit i - ----------- _. ___ aver leader cherished. It Is a wonderful thing for us to know that we are aiwaye here.\ .he raid. \Now not only people from.all porta of the world come here but Camp Macy haa sown .cede which have resulted In the establishing of similar centers In other parts of the United State*.\ Mr*. Hoover ’ * arrival was a com plete surprise to tjte students, as at her request no publicity haa been gtven th* visit. Before leaving she (Continued on P*gs Seven). Sinclair Guilty Supreme Court Decide* He Must Serve Six Month* for Jury Shadowing; Day Given Four Months; W. J. Bums Freed Washington, June 3- (UP) — Harry toe actio F. Sinclair must serve a six months |(ov>mni« Jail sentence imposed on him for Jury shadowing, the Supreme Court decided today. Sentence of toe oil multi-millionaire's associates In the Jury shadowing episode, were also upheld. Sinclair is now serving a three months Jail sentence for con tempt of the Senate. Henry Mason Day, a Sinclair of ficial who directed the ehadowlng wax sentenced to four months anil Shermar. burns, to pay a 31,000 fine. The court held that W- J: Burn#> sentence of 15 days in Jail moil b^j reversed ax th* evidence . did not how him guilty of overt acta. . The decision was unanimous am ong tha eight judges participating. Justice Stone did not sit in this cap*'. action complained.of by th* frnment calls for Justice Mc- Rsynolds said, discussing to* een- Saturday afternoon at the 1 Plains Hospital following aa ope.\ atlon for “ circulatory strangula tion-\ He was ln his BOto year. Mr. O'Brien wax bead of to* dos ing department of th* Title Guar antee and Trust Company for U- yearo. During Justice Cohalan's Mr. O'Brien s ______________ ____ wTien Justice Cohaian retired __ to private practice In T Mr. O'Brien becar with him at 43 Cedar streat - Born In Newmarket. N. H, toe son of Thomas and Katoert** Dr. Payaon orgaa 1 rtae above to* erased. ngs s Christian flag p r e sent e d to at. Paul a Church. Z*ga 6 John E. O'Brien dlee after u pd r * tlon. TVttw X honors* esi Now Showing-Marquette-The Companion Car To Buick Qp*!? Phone 533CL533I BROWNS BUICK SERVICE 61 South Lexington Avenue THE AMAZING BARGAINS IN .USED CARS — r-Lj
