The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 1

Covyriah 1020, by The Press Publishing ‘The New York World) NEW “YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920. 66 Entered as Becond-Clans Post Office, New Yorks PRICE THREE CENTS ONLY PULL COUNTS IN POLICE F ORCE, : OTE MURDERED HERO LIEUTENAN T IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT HERE Y BiG CORPORATIONS UNDER - ILLEGAL LABOR CONTRACTS es Sa DANCER IN LONDON j= so st TRANPRLY UN Paid for Delivery of Certain | Maid Says Victims Were Strug- Workers From Europe. gling When Shots Were Fired Over Her Shoulder. hehe of of Newly caval By Martin Green. The ranif. tions of organized ex- ploitation of ii) s°ants and of aliens reach into resident in this country implicate high places as well as low. LONDON, Dec. 18.—A sensational smillionaires as well as cheap grafters. “shooting tragedy in a residential flat Even thus early in The Evening jn gt Street, Piccadilly, was World's investigation the trail feads qigo) morning when a dancer, to yarlous corporations ploying Miss Sophia Erica ‘Taylor, aged cheap labor, which have ente twenty-nine, and Georg Augustus agreements amounting to procuriDg joy aged thirty, of Nebraska were the immigration of able-bodied for-| round shot. Kelly was dead and Miss eigners under contract. Ouly one im-| Taylor died @hortiy afterward. lly served with the American Air grat otion enterprise haa peer srpe promonen eee try is, Peree during the war and lately had been looked up, but the country 8) been tan Soa full of combinations of) American advertising agency large employers of labor and pro-| Miss Taylor's maid is quoted by an moters of immigration, with the un-| evening ey to. ear e saying that 1 the tragedy ocourred last evening derlying design of filling the country! © a She said Kelly had been keeping com. with a surplus of labor, undoubtedly) vith Mtiss Taylor, but recently ob vageeaditaes tle latter had been receiving the at- This angie of the scandal which in-) entiane <c " ; Seats volves thy theft of millions of dollars! * ee ie ss oe yc sieaen ms i t ald dee ollow from immigrants and aliens residen' eae os Ree , In America calls for immediate action we wi y ee Ms Ba je ws srenine by the Committee on Immigration of Hie re E ¢ pees *T : ‘ He Aiko the United States Senate. The agree- ts Un hua ane eG ae ment by a corporation employing |“ : 2 ores Anu a , ct way ied jabor with an immigration bureau to) yes Her ee a Wess ise ‘Taylor take caro of immigrants brought to| repped to the floor. There was an. this country is a plain violation of the| other shot and Kelly dropped dead, Contract Labor Law, but it will re-| the maid asserted quire an authority vested with the) Kelly is said to have been the son powers of a Senate investigation | of one of the leading dry goods deal- committee to ge. the fa as the f ers of Omaha. offenses involve not only transactions | connected them, and vente i eyraene in. diferent states| DIVORCED COUPLE REWED. bi rational in their scope. —— jae a ae reason to believe| Maurice Miller and Uride on Seo- fhat © number vf corporations em-| ed Homeymoen at Atlantic City. ploying great numbers of poorly paid| Divorced in May, aworkmen have entcred into an agree- Rome pes ; Overseas Despatch, an kone awa: sient with the ees: ies with |. TAAL Ja the way the poetical Micnacl immigration piomotion concer ish ruise, Deputy City Clerk, told re headquarters ut No. 191 Greenwie ors about @ ceremony that he por- Street, this city, by which, in consid} ecneq this murhtig eration of $2,500 in h case, the ¢ It was the marrtage of Maurice Mil- Overseas Despatch undertakes » to de-lier, No, 611 West 11ith Street, und bb liver at the plants of the corporations | former wife, Jeannette Miller, No. 68 certain immigrants from Central, |tenox Avenue, They were first married 3 in June, 191 and they have two it Eastern and Southorn Europe 1 REAK| dren. In 1917 t separated and last PLAIN CONSPIRACY TO B May Mra. divoren, Stnee CONTRACT LABOR LAW then Miller's brother, D: No. 4 West 129th Street, tilbert Miller, vas been w started he Overseas Despate ok It about four years and a half ago. ing constantly to bring about a recou began its activities with large COF-| oitiation, He succeeded. After the 1 porations last summer, At the sUirt| marriage the couple went to Atlantic it engaged in the business of en-|City for thelr second honeymoon, deavoiing to persuade the laborers in big industrial plants to bring their =e wives and children to this country. ‘This enterprise speedily branched out Classified Advertisers into Bae ee” "| CLOSING TIME The Ewvonin: World Investigator 5.30 P. M. SHARP ath ey ce the Overseas De- SATURDAY FOR spatch stated that in addition to the Yetter. sent soliciting the bringing over of families from Europe they have addressed letters to large em- ployers of foreign labor soliciting contracts to direct a flow of labor to them from Furope for a stipulated fee of $2,600. He showed a iptter from the Alpha Portland Cement Company (with a Now York office at No, 60 Church Street) making the first payment of $1,200, The sum calls for distribution in the various (Continued on Seventh Pegey The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements BRANCH, OFFICES CLOSE 6 O'CLOCK Posttively One, Classified “Advertise- mente will received for The Sunday World after 5.30 P. M. Advertising copy for The Sunday The World office DAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION TURN FOR BETTER INBUSINESS DUE. AFTER NEW YEAR —_——— | Official Washington Believes) Bottom. Has Been Reached | and Talks Optimistically. | BLAMES _ PESSIMISTS.: Both Republicans and Demo-, crats Criticise Penrose for Hard Times Forecast. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Copy- right, 1920)—Business conditions throughout the United States are none too good, but the expectation of official Washington is that improve- ment will begin to be noted about the first of the year. Not since the depression of Decem- ber, 1914, when the outbreak of the European war played havoc with | American commerce, } attention us been so closely fastened upon the na- And while officials in the Treasury and the vari- tional business situation, ous Government bureaus where con- | tact with business is close express | the opinion that there has been some justification for pessimism, the uni- versal jiidgment seems to be that conditions have been made worse by pessimistic talk as well as by the hastily expressed opinions of would- be economists in business men’s clubs and other places where commercial men gather, In other words, the Government— meining most of the official in- fluence in it—have told the writer that the present depression is im large part psychological, It was} stimulated by psychological factors | und Is belng maintained by psycho- logical influences. SAY IT IS TIME TO STOP CALAM- ITY HOWLING. Such predictions as Senator Pen- HOLD-UPS FOOLED | BY MAN WHO WORE 2 PAIRS OF PANTS Searched the Outside Pair But Bank Ro Was in Hip of Inner One. Louis Lenner of Paterson, N. J., put on an extra air of trousers when he had to get up hurriedly early to-day ty xo to the doctor's for his wife. who was ill, The wind was bitter cold. He got to Broadway and Auburn Street, near the Paterson Public Library, when he was stopped by two hold- up men, who pointed revolvers at him and told him to “shell out.” “Search me,” said Lenner, rais- ing bis hands, “I haven't got a cent. The bandits searched the out- side pair of trousers and found nothing, They went on their way growling. Lenner went on to the hos- Pital whistling thankfully, No wonder—he had a fat roll tucked in the hip pocket of the under pair of pants, PAY ROLL HOLD-UP INBROOKLYN FAILS: POLICE GET ROBBER Messenger Attacked, Shots Fired — Pursuit — Bag With 2,500 and Jewels Recovered. | George Goelz, @ eixty-nine year old messonger, carrying a bag contalniny Precious stones and $2,500, was held up shortly after noon to-day near the | Brooklyn terminus of the Bridge ‘The | bas was recovered after wn exciting ebay! Goel? and William MoCann. cgl- ored, were taking the piy money and precious stones from the office of Jund their valuable wares, | by tho present police arrangements | street crosing from 32nd to 70h | Streets, from Medison Avenue to | Broadway. | In order to necomptish thin, Com | ENRIGHT, FORCED 10 ADMIT WAVE OF CRIME, TAKES STEPS TO SUPPRESS IT GN OLD LINES Restores Nine Squad System POLICE LIEUTENANT Which Gives 300 More KILLED SCORNED Men to Duty. RULE OF ENRIGHT ADDS MORE DETECTIVES Increases Patrol in Shopping District and Will be Liberal With Pistol Permits. For the time Polico Commissioner INSIDE STORY OF TROUBLE WITH POLIGE FORGE TOLD BY HERO JUST BEFORE DEATH Lieut. Horton’s 22 Counts in His In- dictment of Enright Rule a Re- markable Summary of Police De- partment Demoralization—“Men, Feel That Hard Work Gets Them Nothing, Only Pull Counts.” Richard EB, Enright has Kfted up a loud voice in deniaa of a prevalence of crime of any kind In the elty. At | the mere mention of “erime wave" he | has shaken head and hands and de- clared that “the police have the situ- ation completely in hand.” But, to judge by what he to-day| promised the jewelers of New York in the way of protection of themsclves he has at awakened to the fact that there Are thieves, murderous ones, here tr the city who cannot be “controlled” Commissioner Enright to-day Dr. Witt A. Davidson, Chairman of the Committee of Five, representing twelve different associations of jew- | elers, that he would increase the de- teotive force in the shopping district to 65 men—40 being now on duty— and provide a patrolman for every told a |missioner Enright will order that the | -_LIEUT. FLOYD HORTON. department retarn to the ninespia- J. B, Bowden, a manufacturing jew- eller at No. 15 Maiden Lane, Man- hattan, to the firm’s factory in the Cavanaugh Building, No. 81 Prospect Street, Brooklyn. Goeiz was the carrying bag, rose has made from his isolation at Atlantic City concerning the “hard” times ahead do not sit well on either | who be- of mambers of | Republicans or Democrats, lieve it is the duty Congress to cease calamity howling and give attention to the tarif® and ther economic measures which may | ifford relief in this period of read- justment rhe questions involved are not po-| and the attitude which the| ninent in all its branches ts tak- business situation is Just as many demands from the Democratic Republican West and the Demo- Administration has had the| support of leading Republicans In Congross in refusing to sanction wild- cat remedies, The most striking fact which im- teal ov" ing toward the non-political have South for relief measures come as from the ratio presses itself on the investigator here s the almost unanimous judgment that the “retailer {s blocking the| fame.” It is contended that in the| midst of @ falling market, when the (Continued on Sixth Page.) ARMENIA ORDERS U. S. MISSION OUT Workers Told Leave | an Instructions from Moscow. CONSTANTINOPLE, Arm ) Government, acting on orders from Moscow, has notified the Admin- istration of the American Commission Relief to Erivan Dec. 18—The ws of this action has reached Con- meantinopia, a RM stem ote | Pearl Street, three blocks distant which was attached to his wrist by! , a leather thong. McCann was walk- ing in the rear, acting as lookout ‘The two got off a Brooklyn Bridge ear at Sands Street and walked to At Pearl and Prospect Streets two n with caps pulled low over their eycs and brandishing revolvers suddenly darted at Goeln When one of the thieves sought te tear the bag from the elderly messenger he resisted an: one of the robbers fired a shot in thy air, After a struggle they succeeded in getting the bag und mn. Nelther of tie messengers was armed, but MoCann had a pol whistle, which he began to blow, This attracted Sergt. Patrick Curran, who took after the robber with (be mone bag. The thief turned trom Prospec. into |'Main Street. Sergt. Curran drew his|to, saying it was impossible as it revolver, but was afraid to fire be- cause of the presence of a large num- ber of chiktren on the street. The thief. finding that the Sergeant was| gairing upon him, suddenly darted | toon j Arthur Woods. Jinto effect and which Paright super | sloner for the ation of the delegate: system at midnight to-night And this means nothing less than his acceptance of the system which as Commissioner, put PARK BANDITS ROB WOMAN IN TAXICAB seded with the ten-platoon system ying that the former was “poppy cook,” of something like that ‘The return of the force to the nine Next to be inscribed on the list of heroes of the Police Department, in the grand entrance hall at Headquarters, is the name of Lieut, Floyd Horton, who found hold-up men at work in West 146th Street Thursday tight, attacked them singlé handed, killed one, wounded another, and, as he was dying, with a bandit’s bullet through his lungs, wrote on a staine.. sheet of paper for police information the license number = automobile in which his murderers sought'to escape. Because of the la conscious action of this intrepid fighter for the protection of the people New York City his assassins were arrested. fitential capacity under every Commissioner from, Francis V, Greene to | Arthur Woods, there was no member of the force who had more intimate. | know! ledge of the inner workings of the department. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE POLICE? Only a few days ago Lieut. Horton was asked by The Evening World niswer to the question “What is the matter with the police?” And in his written reply, which is in the possession of this newspaper, he re- cords the most damning indictment of the department under Richard Enright’s administration that could be presented. Lieut. Horton is dead. Here is what he leaves behind in a remark. able summary of police demoralization. His twenty-two counts of the indictment of Enright rule are presented just as he wrote them. They represent what every good policeman writes at the end of a report, “CASE CLOSED”: (1) There are fifty Lieutenants and Sergeants doing su-valled welfare work. “They are known in the Police Department us the Order of the Crutch and Order of Public Nuisance. Some can hardly put one foot Vefore the other, and others don't even try te, (2) Police Band and Glee Club, about 150 strong, uever works for OF HER JEWELRY oeies Doctor’s Wife Believes Chauf-| feur Was Implicated—Gun- man Shoots Wa ar Veteran. platoon system will be recognized throughout the force as “dap In the} face.” «a retaliution of th Commi» of the Patrotmen'’s Association tn vot ing almost unanimously against the Enright police hospitm idea When Commissioner Woods office he had the nine an effect as best In every way to pro tect the lives and property of the cit izenx of New York, By thia eystem a patrolman had thirty x hours duty every ninth day, The rank and was ly Platoon mystem Two of the most daring series of hold-ups, in the tong | in one of which a man was mortally shot, and in the ether @ prominent phywiclan's wits | file of the Department wanted him to {Tbbed while riding through Central change to a ten-platoon system, by |Park In a taxicab, came last night] which a patrolman had thirty-#x |ynout the same time Mayor Hylan houra off every sixth day, ‘This the | ing police Commissioner aright then Commissioner refused to listen we © announcing to the public iaat Ne police are fully able to cope with the situation, | would take 300 more men off duty at p’ the same time. When Enright became Commissioner! ars. Thomas Webster Edgar, of No. he declared that he intended to make|7§§ West End Avenue, was the view the job of a paticeman a “white man's! ttm of the Central Park hold-up. Her In‘ the door of a house, jo," and one of the first thingy he| husband, who has a tilich standing as| Curran followed, The thief went | did to bring it under this category was!@ modern practitioner and performs through the house and into 4 rear! to Institute the ten-platoon system, | sland o ations of the Voronoff type, yard, Here he crawled over a fence! phe ru an and |KO writes extensively and ix us to the yard adjoining and ran back | (he tke wh Ave coourred th ciate editor of the Western Medial | through the house to Main Street Journa When Curran reached Main Street hy (Continued on Second Page.) Carl Medemann, « wholewte auto- | suw the robber running into No 64 —— noble nan of No, 2350 David Ho followed and in an upper room he| PREDICTS WET CHRISTMAS, |078 S¥enuc: the Bronx. was shot by confronted the (thief with tis revol- | 4 bandit posing as a detective while | ver. ‘The man had the money bag in| Prophet Vise Says Dee, 27 Will walking down the long Kort Gos hix hand | mridy Hill toward the Dyckman Street Sub- At Police Headquarters the robber Wet; turn now." was the | WAY sald he was Vincen! Pariscandola of | ¢;¢jq: tion to-day ot| Mrs. Edgar was on her way to @ Tie, Fee nary ure Brooklyn. De- | andrew J. De Vor, the Hackensack, |dinner and ball of the American who had been arrested a short time |N J» weather prophet {Criterion Svctety at the Hotel Com. ago on a charge of assault and rob-| On Dec. 37 the frat blizeard of the | modore when she was held up, Her bery, bat who was let go on a sgs- | winter wil arrive, he declgred, but Serena Bemded sculence Hew Xoar’e will be clear and eold. ~~ (Continued on Second Page) just play oud sing, even ging to watside cities, (83) ONE THOUSAND USELESS DETAILS COULD EASILY BE ABOLISHED. (1) Some twelve or fifteen Lieutenants recently detailed te ‘Traffic Squad as Observation Officers. Not one seems to kavw what he is doing. Of courye, It is to provide soft berths, (5) Inspector Henry was convicted of a felony and is onder sentence to State’s Prison, He {s still a member of the foree. This violates Section 284 of Greater New York Charter. (6 THE DETECTIVE BURPAU IS DEMORALIZED, LOOK AT THE FIRST GRADE DETECTIVES! ONLY INFLUENCE COUNTS. ABOUT EVERY DETECTIVE FEELS THAT HARD WORK WILL BRING NOTHIN ONLY A “PULL” COUNTS, AND THAT IS WHAT THE DEYPCTIVE ¥ RES ON, (7) Lahey, known as the ach” and the “Bull.” (8) The Detectives’ Bill—Enright'’s pet measure—threw con- sternation {nto the ranks of all It was the climax tw the time when everybody got Knright’s number. (9) Indictments of Porter—Henry—Solovei, (10) The athletic funds, or s large part of them, conundrum, and “Who got it!” Is a frequent question, (11) BURGLARIES AND ROBBERIES REPORTED AS PETTT LARCENY WHE ER POSSIBLE, THIS DONE TO CAMOT. FLAGE AND BEPOG REPORTS TO THE PUBLIC. IN SPITE OF IT, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN FIGURES, HOLD-UPS HAVE { JUMPED TO A STAGGERING STATE j (12) OVER 90 PER CENT. OF TO ENRIGHT AND ALL H TAN (18) DUE TO SO MANY US S DETAILS AND EX. CUSALS, PRECINCTS HAVE BEEN LEFT FOR HOURS AND HOURS WITHOUT A SINGLE PATROLMAN ON POST. IT IS SO SERIOUS A POLCEMAN DARE NOT TELL HIS BEST FRIEND OF TRUE CONDITIONS, (14) Every competent former Police Commissioner we need no additional legislation to manage the “th negd is management——that’s all, ae a) The police as a whole mover Berl: Wye 4 = athens om to be = HE FORCE ARE OPPOSED FOR, A policeman for more than seventeen years, having served in a con cme = a