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-_—a~z “abandoned, but. when the troops ap- ‘ “Circulation Books Open to All,” | VOL. LXI. NO, 21,625—DAILY, 1920, by The Press Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER: 30, 1920, Vt ®. (The New York World), Flying Squads” to’ Keep. New Wear Celebration Dry. > acannon acsiconens ensnmnpinnmmichanied bn tsbanil aces roo FIVE SEIZED HERE IN LIQUOR BRIBERY PLOT ee D’ANNUNZIO GONE AFTER ANNOUNCING FLIGHT BY PLANE Declares in «Statement That He! Does ‘Not Think Italy Is | Worth Dying For. GIVES UP HIS,.POWER.| Belief Exists That Officials of! City Will Accept Terms Offered by Government. ROME, Dec. 30.—No word has been Meosived to-day of the whereabouts) ef Gabrielle D'Annunsio, the poet, who announced yesterday that he| was leaving Fiume in an airplane, after stating that he did not consider Faly worth dying for. It is regarded as certain that Ricardo Gigante, Mayor of Flume, and Capt. Hostventuri, Director of National Defense at the tity, will ac- cept the ohlef condition prescribed by Gen. Cavigiia—namely, the complete recognition of the Treaty of Rapallo, A description of the Inst phases of | the struggle in Fiume received here | show that the logionaries opened fire against the troop@ who were merely holding the positions | they had taken Monday night. The fight®ssumed the character of guerilla warfare all along the line ‘The legionaries took advantage of the natural resources of the terrain for laying ambuscades. As the regulars were advancing aross orchards they were enveloped fire from machine guns which had been sunk to the level of the ground and cleverly camouflaged, The houses seemed to haye been re- proached, the legionaries, hidden be- hind windows, behind chimney- stacks and on balconies and roofs, suddenly opened fire. Even women were found working machine guns. The legionaries ultimately tried to force the regulars to retreat. in order te relieve pressure on the city, but failed owing to the stubborn resist- ance, especially of the Carabineers and Alpine troops, who fought cour- ageously for moré than three hours. The struggle was bitterest near the > railway station and Inside the Flume Cemetery, which was virtually de- stroyed. D’ANNUNZIO LAYS DOWNFALL TO GREED Says in Preclamation Dated Yester- day, “I am Still Alive and Inexorable.” LONDON, Dec. $0.—A despatch to the London Times from Milan dated yesterday quotes Gabriele d'Annunzio in a manifesto as saying: “T am still aljve and inexorable. Although I ‘prepared myself yes- terday for sacrifice and already had comforted my soul, I feel tor day disposed to defend my life by ail means, “1 offered it hundreds of times emilingly In my war, but it is not worth »hile to throw it away in the sel\vice of a people who could not be distracted even for a mo- ment from their Christmas grecdi- ness while we were assassinated by their Government.” The Evening News's Rome corre- bpondent says to-day that D'Annunzio has accepted the terms of Gen. Cavig- a for ending the’ Fiume war, D'An- nunzio's legionaries will be dissolved, but will be granted amnesty, the cor- respondent says, adding that It la ex- pected D'Annunzio will go to South CARUSO “VERY, SAYS HIS SECRETARY, ZERATO; TANKS OF OXYGEN SENT FOR The failure of his pliysicians: to issue the promised bulletin as to En- rico Caruso's condition to-day, and their activities about the Hotel Van- derbilt, where the singer Is lying 4), indicated to many of *hoss who are watching the course of the tenor's aicliness, that he is in very serious condition, It was announce! ft the Hotel Vanderbilt at 2 o'clock this afternoon that Carpso had been sleeping quictly since noon and that his condition was unchanged. ‘There will be a consulta- FINDIN WISCONSIN. CLUE TO AUTHOR OF WALL ST. EXPLOSION Prisoner in Penitentiary Says He Has Data to Warrant Perpetrator’s Arrest. MILIVAUKE of solving the mystery of the Street which . killed thirty and maimed hundreds, Goy- ernment secre service men and pri- vate agency detectives are hurrying to Waupun Penitentiary in Wi: according to@ story published to-day by the Milwaukee Journal. The officers, according to this ac- count, mean to interview a prisoner’ who 1s said to possess information that will lead to the arrest of the| nerpetrator of the blast ‘The prisoner, who fs serving a leng sentence In Waupun, has told a story which tends go accuse a former “prison pal” of having caused the explosion for reyense. have information which would posi- tively Identify, the suapect to the po- lee of several eastern cities, J FIFTY P. €. CUT IN SHIRTS. The Manhattan Shirt Company bomb explosion ‘onsin, ia to again cut the price of its products, The new schedule of price: tive on Jan 4, will be 50 per cent. under prices In foren up to Nov. 15 when a 20 per cent. cut was made. Retallers entire stocks will he oft at th Shirts that Hered will be radu penal ts will other prices are effective throughout the eatire country . $10 A BAD WORD; OWES WIFE $2,000 ON CUSS ACCOUNT bo} have an agreement between us that every time he snys a bad word he must pay me $10, He owes me 000," sald Mra, Nagera Saleeby to Magistrate Reynolds in the Adams Street Cout, Brook- lyn, pleaded ~ for clemency for her husbahd, John ee to-day, as she Saleeby, twenty-elght years old, of No, 292 Clinton Street.» She fad had him arrested on the churge that he struck her last ‘Thursday, but when he was ar- raigned to-day she begged the Magistrate to give him “another chance.” She said she felt sure he would stop using the wicked words and beating no rs sympathy with er sald the Magis. trate. 1 ought to send» him to jail where he would be fed on bread and water.” He suspended sentence, how- “I have wife | America, ‘ gver, and ‘put the man on pro- bation for six months, EB, Dec, 30.—In the ‘hope! Wall) He claims to} VERY ILL,” Physicians Busy’ at His Bedside, but Issue No! Bulletin as to Famous Tenor’s Condition. tlon of his physi¢ians during the afternoon. Bruno Zérato, his secretary, sata! “Yes, Mr. Caruso ts very, very tL." During all the forenoon the phyal- clans attending Mr. Caruso were jp and out of his apartment at short intervals, Out side the door &¢. the |apartment are several oxygen tanks, but it could not Se leatned whether the gas had been administered or not. The “tapping” operation on Caruso's chest yestérday was said by one of the physicians to have yielded more than a quart of fluid. FIRST ARRESTS INANEW WAR ON "PIER ROBBERES i ars ae {City and U. S. Officials to Stop Thefts of $3,000,000 a Month, Three men arraigned before United States Commissioner Hitchcock day to- on 4 charge of defrauding the Government of duties are/ the first to be arrested campaign of the Federal lauthortties and the New York pajice | to check pler warehouse rob- | beries in the Port of New York, which are said to amount to $8,000,000 w | month, The men arrested are Robert Snow, a truck driver of No. 1938 Bryant Avenue, the Bronx; John McNamara, a truck driver of 16th Street, each of whom pleaded not guilty and were held in $3,000 ball, and Costas Pompas, a jeweller, of No. 802 Righth Avenue, Who also pleated not gullty and wag held in $6,000 bali, | According to Emmet 8, Kyte, a Spe- cial Customs Agent, Snow and Me- Namara received a case of 400 Swiss watch movements Dec, 20 at the An- chor Line warehouse, Ninth Avenue and Sixteenth Strrct, and instead of delivering it to the Appraisers’ Stores carried it to Pompas's piace of busl- ness. Detectives Hooks,-M and Devine of the West 20th Police Station, wha were ¥ with Kyto, made the city officials turned the the Federal authorities. a GOV. SMITH 47 YEARS OLD. by Clearing Up Unfing Juniness in Hin Office. customs Jalleged to be jin a new and are: mon over to ALBANY, Dec. 20.—Gov, Smith was forty-seven years old to-day. He cel rthday by clear- away je at t ry to Iny= ing aside ernment on Saturday sor, Nathan 1, Miller’ of # office th : aery At a farewell dinner to the ret itive NO ACTION YET ON ENRIGHT AS. HEAD OF POLICE Commissioner Has Netther | signed Nor Been Removed | ' ° Up to Date. T 5 O'CLOCK this afternoon Richard EB. Boright had neither resigned nor been removed as Police Commissioner by Mayor Hylan or Gov, Smith. Ing Ex- Re- i uxiness in ira TWO WOMEN ARE ACCUSED OF TAKING LIQUOR BRIBES, THREE MEN WITH CONSPIRACY | _—_—_ Clerks in Office of Dry En- forcement Agent O'Connor Involved in Plot. AGENT, ACCEPTS $6,500. Arrests of Five Follow McAlpin ‘Hotel—Another Held. in Washington, in Four men and two women have | been arrested by Federal authorities as 4 result of alleged bribery in con- | nection with liquor permits issuéd by | the office of Charles R. O'Connor, Prohibition Enforcement Officer for New York State. Other arrests are expected and it is alleged that a teandal of huge gproportions will de- velop, Five of the arrests were made at the Hotel McAlpin last night and the Other was made in Washington yesterday, a ‘The prisoners are Mrs, May Parkins and Miss Regfna Sasonne, clerks in the Prohibition Enforcement Office; Raward Donogan, a wealthy contrac- tor, of 84th Street and 12th Avenue, | Brooklyn; Sigmund Rosenfeld, iden- | tiffed as /Beanay” Rosenthal, and de- scribed as an “alleged gambler’; George Stibbenson, a whiskey broker, and Anthony Pappano, a Washington, PD. C., broker, Pappano is held under $10,000 ball in Washinton on a charge of offering bribes to employees of the Prohibition Enforcement of- ieer's staff. \ The two women are ghunged’ with accepting bribes and the three men arrested with them in the McAlpin are charged.with conspiracy to de- fraud the Government by offering ‘bribes, Mrs, Parkins inst night rented a voomt at the Hotel McAlpin. The reo madjolning waa in the name of Edward Donegan, During the eve- ning Prohibition Enforcement Agents Mifrphy, Golding and Sieb called at Mrs, Parkins's room, With her was Miss Sasonne and Donegan, Ros- enfeld and 8t)bbenson, T@ 1s charged by the three officers that théy were offered a bribe of $6,500 which Golding accepted, Hav- ng the money he then notified the group that theyt were under arrest They protested and offered a further bribe of $25,000. When this money had been passed the arrests were made. As the officers and their prisoners were about to e the hotel Done- lea’ gan asked prmission to leave some money with the clerk, This was granted and Donegan took $39,000 from his pocket, which was locked in| the hotel vault. According to the information given | out by the Federal officials, Mrs, Park: | ins and Mis# Sasonne had charge of the telegrams at the prohibition en forcement office. It is charged that in reponse to telegraphic requests for liquor permits that they made out the | documents permitting liquér to be moved and turned them over to the three men und arrest. charged that Pappano, rested in Washington, mita in this manner. After the arrest at the hotel the | prisoners were taken to the Delancy | Street jail, where they were held for |the night. Late this afternoon they were taken to the Federal Buikting Ite is alno| who was ar-| obtained per-| | “| tor arraignment, "FLYING SQUADS” WILL KEEP CITY. DRY NEW YEAR'S SEVERE MEASURES FRAMED BY JUDGES TO SUPPRESS CRIME Amendinénts to Penal Code Are Drafted by General Sessions Jurists. QUICK ACTION URGED. Changes Will Be Introduced Into Both Branches of Assembly Next Week. Judges of the Court of General Ses- sions to-day announced drastic changes enw ee 7) New Enforcement Chief Or- ders Night Duty to Prevent Old-Time Celebration. . Plans to clamp the lid on any, at- tempt to celebrate the New Year in New York's time-honored fashion came to light to-day when more than 100 Prohibition enforcement agents assembled at No, 55 Wiest 27th Street were directed to go home and report back for duty at 6 o’cloek this even- ing : Jotin Murphy, one of the special as- sistants brought from Chicago by D. J, Chapin when he took over the du- tles of supervising agent a couple of weeks ago, Issued the orders. ‘They were taken to mepn that the 100 agents will be split up into “flying squads” for night duty to suppress any New Year joy of the kind that comes in bottles, The Prohibition agents who worked with J. Fy McGuinness, the agent found on the sand at Bayonne with a revolver clutched in his hind anda bullet through his head, have come to the conclusion he took his own life, McGuinness, whose wife is a cousin of Joseph P. ‘Tumulty. ‘secretary to President Wilson, had applied for appointment as supervising agent in New York State. Instead of the pro- motion he expected, MeGuinneas was demoted by D. J. Chapin, when tue latter came from Chicago a couple of weeks ago, from supervisor Bf feld agents to a squad leader. ~~ CALDER INTRODUCES U.S. HOUSING BILL WASHINGTON, Dec. 302A bill creating & Federal Housing and Con- struction mmission was introduced y by Senutor Calder, New York, onstruc en makin , whic an invextigatton of the housing situa- tion throwghout the country —— KILLED IN IRISH AMBUSH. in the State penal laws which they have framed ta be presente’ tn Amendments to be introduced at the forthcoming session of the Legislature. The amendments are aimed to strike at the heart of the crime wave which has held New York City in its grip and to bring terror to all evildoers, At @ meeting of the Judges jas night with Aswomblymen Maurice Bloch ‘of the Sixteénth District and Solomon Ulman of the Sixth District it was arranged that the two latter should introduce the bills embodyiiug the amendments at the first session of the Legislature ‘hext week, Similar measures will be introduced in the Senate, and both houses will be asked to immediately pass the amendments. Penalties for various crimes are doubled, in many cases the maximum being life. Following are the changes recommended ; Murder in Second Degree— Present penaity, twenty years to life; proposed penalty, life im- prisonment solely. Robbery, Firat Degree—Present penalty, imprisonment not ek+ eding twenty years; proposed penalty, imprisonment of not less that ten years to life imprison- ment. Robbery, Second Degree—Pres- ent pehaity, not more than fifteen years; proposed penalty, not more than twenty-five years. Robbery, Third Dogree—Pres- ent penalty, not more than ten proposed penalty, not more than fifteen yea Burglary, First Degree—Pres- ent penalty, not less than ten years nor more than twenty; proposed penalty, ten years to life. (This crime entails forcing an entrance into an occupied dwelling between sunset and eun- rise.) ° Byrglary, Second Degree—Pres- ent penalty, not more than ten years; proposed penalty, not more than twenty-five year Burglary, Third Degree— Present penalty, not less than five yéars, proposed penalty, not less than fifteen years. Assault, First Degree—Pres- ent penalty, not more than ten years; proposed penalty, not more than twenty y, Grand Larceny, it Degree— S cORK, Dec. 30—Armed slvitians ars reported to have ambushed a polles pa trol in Middletown, Count ke, Jnst| aight killing one policeman art wonnd Ing several others At the wame time another »mbueh curred on a Cork road in which it ta] bel soldier was shot ed one LOSS OF FRANCE IN POPULATION WAS 4,000,000 Reduction During the War Leads to Protective Measures for Children, PARIS, Deo, 30. HE population of France was reduced by 4,000,000 during the wor, said Loule Mou- rier, the new Director of Public Assiatande, to-day, Measures ore to be taken by the Seine Departmental Council to reduce infant mortality, ~ > (Continued on Tenth ee Classified Advertisers Important! Glasrisied navertia 7 fr @ Sunday Wor! in The World office On or Before Friday advertising cc oul Preceding Publication ClassiNed Advertisements for Week Days Recewed DAILY AFTER 8 A, M. For publication the following day EARLY, COPY Rewsiven the, Protaras nce When Advert as te Be Omitted ig THE WORLD. TO FIGHT BRIN wood Committee under a bitter ing! all day to-day, lieved Mr. vbich has not been forthcoming, BRNDELL MUST STAND TRALN NEW YORK cI Justice Burr So Orders—Het- trick, Doran, Chapman and Smith Again Indicted: Justice Burr of the Supreme Court fo-day refused a change of venue to Robert P. Brindell, head of the Build~ ing Trades Council, and unless this decision be reversed by a higher | court Brindell must stand trial in this county on the several indict- menta found against him. Martin W. TAttleton, attorney for Brindell, presented his plea for such a change last Tue “In my judgme to send these indictments for trial to y t jt Is not necessary to enable the de- to enjoy any other county fendant Rrindell his un doubted right to a falr and Impartitl ants of Robert P. Brindell, and Her- bert Smith, Prestdent of the Master Plumbers’ Assoulation, pd again, were to-day indie this time by the Ex- } | Gaordinary Gr 1 Jury, on a charge of restraint of trade in violation of the Donnelly Anti-Trust Law, ‘This 4 the third indictment for Hutteick, Doran and Chapman and the second for Smith, Al ve were arraigned before Jus- {tee McAvoy of the Supreme Court and, pleading not gullty, gave $6,000 bail each. They ure charged with a series of | onspiractes to prevent employers from: obtaining Journeymen plumbers, It ts alleged that on Sept, 15 they trig to compel certain master plumberMto become members of the Master Plumb-|BUT THERE WAS A WAY OF iis ers’ Association organized by Hettrick, threatening them that if they refused they would not be able to secure jour- eymen plumbers, trial Jonn ‘T. Hetkrick, author of the “Code of Practice,” William J, Doran | and William H. Chapman, ten- | BUILDERS RING DID NOTHING. DELLISM, SAYS FLT, THE CHEF, ON STAND Couldn’t Get Union:Men on Jobs ~ Unless the Labor Czar Consented «~ ~—Record of War Housing Inquiry ~ Touched On Before the Lockwood Committee by Mr. Untermyer. Otto M, Eidli(z, recognized leader of the Master Builders of New York City and of the country, sat in the witness stand before the’ Lock« uisition by Samuel Untermyer nearly Mr. Untermyef had left Mr. Eidlitz to be the last witness*to come hefore the committee in Its study of construction trade conditions The passages between’ witness and counsel were embittered by their nego. tiations at the outset of the committee’s- work, when Mr, Untermyer Zidlitz meant to throw all his prestige in the buildirig business inta action to aid the committee obtain general building of homes—aid., The questions of Mr, attacked Mr, Eldiitz as the ruling spirit in the forming of the alliance betwoen ¢he Building ‘Trades Bme Association and the Build ing Trades Council, which Robett P. ployers’ means of an absolute dictatorship over building trade labor conditions within a short twelve months. Mr Untermyer charged Mr, Eidlite with condoning the activities of Charles 7, Kelly, Chairman of the Board of Gove ernors of the Employers and sharing benefits with Brindel! whom he aided, He charged Mr, Eidlita with so ‘etre enethening the grip of Brindell om | tractor could remain in business without membership in the Employes j@rs’ Association because of his inas bility to procure union labor except through Hrindell. Mr. Eldiitz denied, sometimes ane grily, many of the charges implied by |Mr. Untermyer, He showed especial resentment over insinuations that he wan the dictator of the Employers? Association; that he approved of @ie~ j ‘torial and illegal action by Brine |doll, and that he sought to"drive non. members out of the trade Besides Mr. Hulse, of the firm of his | brother, Bidlitz & Hulse, Francie M, Wellman avcompanied Mr. Eidiite to the City Hall as counsel, They did not attempt to Interfere tn the battle of words and wits between the wite |nese and the Committee Counsel, After a genera’ inquiry into the ee [ations between Mr. Bidlite and the jemployors and Hrindell and his Meu tenants Mr. Untermycr began asking | {questions In an effort to bring home | the actual responsibility for the bonds on building and construction, ‘If you were a great builder, ag you are now," asked Mr, Untermyer, “but tf you were not a member of the Mavon Builders’ Association and, through that, of the Employers! Ags | sociation, could you get skilled ” should try," sald Mr. Bidlite, nd if you could not,” continued Mr. Untermyer, “you would have to [wo out of business?" | “If 1 could not," acknowledged Mir “I should have to go out of | Eldiita, | business.” GETTING LABOR. “Now, do you know of any large bullder not a member of the bears tne Trade, nena Intermyer Brindell as President has made the — jthe butlding trade so that "no come. Ett ES sf Xe