The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1920, Page 3

7 —— ~ - —_ — THE oe WITTE POLICEMEN VOTE BY BiG MAJORITY AGAINST HOSPITAL en | Only 6 Out of 82 For Project in “Honest Dan” Coasti- gan's | s District. LSEW HERE, Where Cops Were Not In- timidated, They Were Against Enright. SIKE The project of forcing the uniformed members of the Police Department to stand for a charity hospital in which they may be compelled to accept treatment in {Ilness under the disci- pline of the Department went on to day under the guidance of Commis- sioner Enright despite the official re- pudiation yesterday of the plan by the 10,000 members of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association through the action of their delegates in conven- tion, ‘The result of the coercive referen dum taken at station houses by order of the Commissioner is under com- pilation at Police Headquarters and will be given out aa indicative of the sentiment of the rank and file, whereas It was really only a demon- stration of the power of an autocratic head af the Police Department. ‘The referendum showed that in pre- cinets where the patrolmen were al- lowed to vote without suggestion or intimidation from thelr superiors the vote was against the hospital project. The Liberty Avenue Precinct ‘In Brooklyn, of which ‘Honest Dan” Costigan ts captain, returned seventy- six votes agninat the hospital and six tor it. All but three of the patrolmen in the West 138th Street Precinct voted against the hospital, In the West 1bleg Street Precinct the vote was 74 opposed and 6 favorable. In Brooklyn Telegraph Bureau at Police Headquarters appeared to be unani- mously in favor of the hospital after Inspector Brennan had talked to eighteen men who had originally voted “no.” Bureau mously In favor of the hospital Formal notice of the action of the Fatrolmen'’s Benevolent Association will be sent to I. F. Albee, Chairman agers, formed to aid the hospital fund at a dinner addressed by Commis- s:oner Enright some time ago. This notice will be in the nature of an tntimation that the policemen of New York are not mondicants and are tc take care of their own sick and trjured, Evidence that Commissioner En- right, Deputy Commissioner Coleman Du Pont, whose home is in Wilming- ton, Del., and other boosters of the hospital project have organized the city for a “drive” appears in a cir- ved by members of the ate Board of Manhattan, It is signed by Elijah Sniffin, “Chair- man of the Real Efftate Division of the Police Hospital Association.” In speaking of the proposed hospital the circular states: @pline of the Department Maintained there.” It is reported in police circtes that the plan includes a design to make can be the hospital a memorial to Mayor Hylan; ¢ it Is to be called the “Hylan Memorial Hospital’ or some: thing similar, ‘This, how rumor In the rank and fil ee Immigrant Boy a Bank Preatdent, The People’s Commercial Bank opers {te door for business to-day at No. 150 Delancey Street under the Presidency of Sigmund W. Barasch, who came to “America as an immigrant boy in 1884, ‘The other officers are; M. Harasch, Vice ident; Herman Silbie, Cashier, and Bickel, Assistant Cashier. The bank chartered by the Btite‘Hanking De- , is only oAmMeE OF (All Photographs Taken at Polyclinic Hospital.) the, The Bronx Telegraph, also appears to be unani-j} of the Committee of Theatrical Man- | “Phe necessary dis- | PINOCH LE: CONGRESS AT LAST REALLY TALKING OF DISARMAMENT Members Now Realize That} Way to Reduce Taxes Is | to Cut Expenses. HARDING FAVORS MOVE. a ly U.S. Already Has Law Author-| izing President to Call In- ternational Conference. | By David Lawrence (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON Dec. 15—(Copy- right, 1920).—Disarmament—or to be | exact, reduction of armaaments: at last coming to the front in Con remedy for the | financial and economic crisis which the whole world faces. It is beginning to be renilzed in the national capital that the way to re- duce taxes is to reduce expenditures, and the way to sell cotton and wheat and other commodities abroad ts to make it possible for foreign countries to pay for our exports, The demand from business men that taxes be re- duced and the outery of the farmers and cotton growers that foreign mar- kets be provided has brought out the fact that the whole world situation is affected by the enormous sums of money that must be spent on war- making apparatus and personnel. From Senator Borah, one of the jead- ers of the group of “irreconcil which has been opposed to any sort of internationalism, comes the Iatest proposal for an agreement bev Great Britain, Japan and the United States to limit the size of armaments. Simultaneously, the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva takes action recommending to yarious Goy- ernments the reduction of armaments Behind the action of the Leagu Geneva is an even more specific sug- gestion from the financiers of the world who met at Brussels recently and con- sidered how the world situation migiit be improved and normalcy in trade estored. ‘There >me suggestion here that Great Britain and Japan and France will use 4s an excuse to retan their gress as a concrete armaments the fact that the most |powerful nation of all—the Uniled States—refuse to join. President-elect Harding $8 com mitted to a reduction or armament His campaign spevches, as well a the Republican platform, have urged it. There's a provision on the stut ute books to which autho: the President of the United States to cali an international conference on disarmament himself cause he hoped same thing through Armament Commission of the League ot ations, to which Ame recently inyited to send delega The subject tg passing oat of the realm of the p because It su vitally affects taxation and the do- mestic prosperity | ae WOUNDED IN CAFE HOLD-UP Former Roadhouse Employee Ques- toned Aboug $15,000 Robbery. Edward Taffe, No. 435 West 234 Street, was found unconscious Giaribotto's roundhouse, early to-day, gnd ts being questioned by the Bayonne police about the hold up of 200 patrons in the roadhouse lasi night, when masked bandits with re volvers escapéd with loot estimated at $15,000. Tufte formerly was employed at the roadhouse and said he happened to be In the place when the robbers entered. He was struck over the head, he said, and fell unconscious. An auto- mobjle ‘nearby was sald by Tatfe to be his propert: lay Mr. Wilson didn't de the avail of this privilege to accomplish . the ‘There “were ix or ¢ the Kang. While they: patrons, a shot was f hotel and in the se robbe — EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1920. ee STRINGING BEADS GARY THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE AND ‘SLIM,’ WOUNDED-SOLDIER, AID EVELING \'. ORLD XMAS FUND By Lilian Bell. If you want the real thing that happens once in a while in lite and yet that sounds as if it had been taken right out of the movies, read this telegram from Judge Gary, President of the United States Steel Corporation and then the letter from “Slim, a wounded soldier, just discharged after two years and one month spent in army hospitals, Here they are. Read them: Managing Editor, Evening World! Will contribute $500 toward muking suitable provision for Christ. mas 1,500 crippied and wounded buys sull at Government hospitals. EB. H. GARY. You don't have to ask Judge Gary twice If the cause is worthy. He makes up his mind and acts with a promptness which makes his contribution twice valuable. 1, personally, wish to thank him for myself and The Evening World for all these things, as well as for the most welcome five hundred. Then I received the following from my friend “Slim,” whom I do HERE'S ANOTHER ~ SAMPLE OF SLOW ~_ DETECTIVE WORK | Reach the Scene of an Uptown} Robbery Nine Hours After the Theft. Evidence of pdlice inefficiency came to light to-day on the complaint ot Nat Mendel of the firm of Uhry é Mendel, dealers in jewelry and leather woods at No. 421 Broadway. Thieves smashed two holas in thi plateglaas windows of the store earls yesterday morning. They took jewelry and other goods worth $1,600. At 4 o'clock @ passing milkman eaw nen hurrying away from the front o che store. He saw the smashed win 20s and get out to find a poi!cema: remember .ery well, Why shouldn't I remember a boy who. stood leaning on two crutches for an hour while we waited for a King and Oueen to have the honor of shaking hands with fitcy of our bravest American soldiers? Dear Miss Bell: I seen your story in to-day's Evening World and I sure want te tell you that I thing it 1s great fcr you to keep on and keep on after so many wounded has been discharged, but many left in hoppitals. Them that {s left are the worst of all and they sure deserve a good time, like you promise, Maybe you won't remember me, but I was one of them that heard you tell of your war work at the Waldorf and I was at your table when the ladies of the Frees Club gave us that fine dinner ac that big hotel. And I was standing next to you when you got the King and Queen of Relgium (o come downstairs and shake hands with us, The Crown Prince too. You got them to come. T was a tall fellow on crutc’es so maybe you will remember because you laughed when I sald I was perfeckly willing to give Alf and Lizzie the once-over. Now, Miss Bell, what T want to say ts this. Tam discharged and have got a Job where I can sit down some of the time, because my legs are not strong yet. I did the best I could, but the best I could get was $20 a week, I was two years and one month tn hospitals Now Miss Bell, Iam sending you $5 to help buy a present for some poor fellow who js still In hospltals and I sure am glad I can give ‘t for while Lam not what you mirht say well off, yet all the xame 1am out of hospita's, So please take the money, Miss Bell, and spend \t yourself, You know what the boys want. And many thanks for doing same, I am, your respectfully, "SLIM." It seems to me that this $5, one-fourth of a whole week's wage, of a man who has already given more than life, is very precious. But that {s the spirit of our soldiers who went over and learned in a practical way just what the true brotherhood of man really fs, and came back with the precious her'tage of THE VISION. To ehare their all with their buddies—the broken men to whom the world owes endless homage, !: to them all in a day's work—nothing to boast about or notioe, but they never fail to live up to the creed they learned by bitter experience over there. The following dignified determination to ploy the man and to take tenly six years of age a man's part in the world, came next. Dear Miss Tell: Tam a little boy six years old and my grandma Is writing this letter for me because T cnn only print She gave me a whole dolinr to spend on anything I want to and I want to give it to a sick soldier, Tt is a now dollar, Please tell him Merry Christmas for me and I hope he will soon be well and get a good Job, Yours troly, JOHN SHERMAN INTWORTH, sured six years, There, Mr. John Sherman Wentworth! Aa children often do uncongetous of their clear vision, this child of six has touched the vital spot in this whole ¢ampaign of gratitude. “J hope he will soon be well and GET A GOOD JOB!" So do I, John Sherman Wentworth. So do I! If every man and woman who sends ws even $1 would appoin’ himself and herself chairman of a committee of one to see to it that ust one ex-service man gets “a good job,” we Americans could hold up our heads with more pride. As it is, as long as one ex-soldier has «1 WORSE Job than he had 4efore he went over, or as long as even one has NONE AT ALL, we are a nation of ingrates and we bave no right to be proud of ourselves on ANY count. So, after we have given the wounded in hospitals a Cbrist- ras, let's bestir ourselyes in “arnest on the job question. Don’t wait for them to ASK for jobs! Seek them out and offer, ind out what they are able to do and find or MAKE places for them. You'd be everlastingly grateful if some great hearted man went through the hospitals and picked out YOUR son or YOUR brother rnd vffered him a job that he could hold, wouldn't you? You BET you would! Well, then, take to heart the lesson of universal brotherhood these soldiers brought back with them and treat these men as if they were sour buddies. They are, Didn't they fight for you and for me? In the mean time keep the home fire burning by sending us all you ean spare for our Christmas Fund. And DO IT NOW. (de toured Broadway as Car north a 12d Street without seeing a patrol- man and then went to the West 1520 Street station and notified them of the robbery. The West 125th Street station, In which precinet the robbed siore Is located, was notified, At 7 o'clock, three hours after the robbery, Mendel, who lives at No. G00 West ith Street, was notified of the theft by telephone. When he reached the store the policeman on duty told him he had been trying since 6 o'clock to reach him by tel- | ophone, At 1.80 o'clock yesterday afternoon, nine and a half hours after thesrob- pery, detectives from the West 125th Street Station arrived und made a Superficial survey. Mendel says they efused to pay any attention to a on | Jewel box In the window, which bore | ingerprints, thieves, This is the third time the store has been robbed in three years, = WOOD ALCOHOL _CASE TRIED. Breskiyn Dre. wl =. Him in Court, The trial of Samuel K. Saleeby, drug- kist, formerly of No. #4 Court Street, Brooklyn, charged with minslaughter In the fliat and second de to-day in the 1 before Justt charge Sui evidentiy made by the transported ‘to Connecti Anthony Chiayaovien of Harttord frank it and died. One of the t examined said he wus a many f wood, sicohol Mrs, Sai & pretty blonde, went up to her Rusband dure aie reven and kissed bi and patted his cheeks CALLS HIM “MEANEST MAN” Leterty, Whe Jumped 410,000 Bond, Held Without Bail, to who sina turer “You are the meanest man that ever sayne ‘© me during my sald United States Commisstoner Hitch- cock to-day when Edgar H, Laferty, under Indictment by the Federal Grand fury for bring! stolen aul New York an posing of then nrratgned before him. Laferty wan arrested Sept. 24 had been an ensign iw the hin former comma f No. 115 Hroadw $10,000, Laferty dinay dand John son «pent $1,500 tracing him. He wax arrested in Cleveland on Monday. Thix time Commissioner Hitchcock held ferty without bail career,” He AVY, anil Aymar Jobe non y, went his bail. tor r. tenanta, on Monday, One report, un-/ ported to-day to the police of the Stoge| Commissioner Drennan are sald to have | substantiated, had it that the balloon Street Station, Brooklyn, that he waa eeu one es _ie DS wea Santa sar |chloroformed sind robbed’ tat midnieht — Fesned (nto) Faris MOuntainy Gear i teats men al the drug store of Dr.| Pamhiteh te Chosen President of Wella, N.Y. fast night, “Anotiier also | ilmon Now 4 Unton, Avenue, New Jugo-Siav Assembly, ndefinite, was Uhat the gas bag had muon ‘obtained 888, Bobowaki walt “LEST Wik FORGET,” YOU CAN MAKE THEIR CHRIST1AS MERRY as a wil CT ARN Li. MOLOWMG MORNING Cray et NAVAL BALLOON | gains, however, Might nave delayed the return of the other pigeons tp case ae worn released 6 balloon was last reported from [wets wheres {t flew within [200 feot of the ground and the bes. HYLAN TAKES AWAY. ENRIGHT'S POWER ; OF REINSTATEMENT. Following complaints that Pollée hat a signal fire was lator s This | Commissioner Bnright has made wholes Was | denied » despatch from| Mle cainstatements of policemen dite 1 the force hy former Come Another niione Says Missit Ab 8 | the Galleon were Leute, Mayor Hylan has taken ., ° Walter Hinton, Stophen A. Farrell y Bag Struck Fork Mountain |and sa. 1, Kigor. who. was in com- oon tearned to do? GT } 0 | mand. Hinton was a member of the s Near Wells, N, Y. jerew of the NC-4 on Its historic | Ponting & Board of three members, the [transatlantic flight. The mixing bal- oration Counsel, the Fire Commis= |ivon is A-5598 Tt Is well provisioned and the Chief of the Fire Dee Conflicting reports reached the t, tO pass on appileations for nent in the Police Departe United States Naval Air Station at | QT ‘DROP’ WITH GUMD0Ps. Rockaway Pont taday co: b M ath Com- Rockaway Point today concerning the | yw wnery Ordered Them, Saye Drag dere the ‘Glitet inspector ot PRG tate of the balloon which started on a} hee and the Cor Clerk, Then Drew He Benjamin Bobowak!, inte ‘peers Counsel te flight to Canada with three Heu- Bepattment.. Hercutatenonte, by, Fae a drug clerk, re- eet ea erae| VIENNA, Deo. "13.—The new con. allen Into Saranne Lake and ordered | atituent Assembly of Jugo-Slavia to= The wirmen had three cargier! # - loiy me TOU Wet Pieunel Kola Be plapone and one of these has returned | [f)! 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