The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 1

VOL. UXT, NO. 21,627—DAILY. + PROHIBITION AGENT ADMITS KILLING — MONK EASTMAN AFTER ROW; POLICE SA\ U.S, FLIERS START RETURN CRAIG CHARGES LARCENY OF CITY FUNDS BY CLERK Alleged Shortage of James T. Harris, Missing Three Days, May Be $30,000. SEIZED. HIS PAPERS $3,000-a-Year Employee of ‘Comptroller’s Office Said to Have Used Contractors’ Cash Comptrotter (Craig this afternoon announced that the employee of his office against whom he had preferred charges of rind larceny in connec- tion with cily finances was Jumes T. Harris, @ $3,000 a year clerk living at No. 467 St. John’s Place, yn, He added that attaches of his office had gone before the Grand Jury to < testity as to (Harris's Irregularities, investigation is being made to dis- cover ‘whether other employees are implicated. Harris, who has been th the city’s employ since 1898, has not been seen at his desk since 4.15 o'clock last Fri- day afternoon, and all efforts to locate im, the Comptroller said, had failed. Harris's deak was broken open by the Comptroller's orders, and papers and memoranda obtained which, according to Mr. Craig, indicate that the trregu- larities may run as high as $30,000. ‘The specific charge against Harris Is) the larceny of $600 worth of Liberty bonds, deposited wa sureties lo cover 4 olty forage contract bil of Charles fichaefer & Co., fecd dealera of Mes- erole Street, Brooklyn. ‘These bonds, Mr, Craig stated to-day, were taken by" Harris to a money lending concern and there fhypothecated for a loan to Harris, ‘Tho unearthing of the trregutarities came through Midhac! Del Balso, 4 Bronx contractor, Del Baiso some time ago turned into the keeping of the Comptroller's otrice $9,750 In cash as surety on an asphalt con*ract bid Later he wanted to substitute for the cash a surety company bond. There- upon Harris, according to Information the Comptroller has received, ‘talked about the bush” and did not make the requested stibatitution. This per- plexed Del Balso and he wrote @ letter of camplaint to thé troller. After this, Harris the cash and “urned it o' Balso. The result of this whs an order from Comptroller Craig to Chiof Auditor Kenlow to make an tmme- diate investigation of Herre ace counts, Kenlow went to talk to Harris on Friday last at 2 o'ol demanding an explanation of the Del Balso mat- ter. Harris, the Comptroller said, “cloned up like a clam." An hour and a quarter later he had feft. Comptroller Cratg said to-day that | the protection of | Harris was under the Civil Service, but he had not been able to find out thet’he hed passed an exam!nation. CARDINAL GIBBONS AT HOME. ever Prelate Moved From Union Milix to ee madereieodsorgery’ n'.'tha Baltimore—Stands ip Well i After ae h = pS BAUTIMORM, Jan, %—Cardinal| acne he wont ty ninenio te vias Gibbons was drought home from) Ot" went to Albania to visit Union Mille, M4, to-day, Mi | relatives, “Had he returned to t the archleplacopal resi a United States within x months snotor car about 12,30 He! he would have been ypt from mile journey without discomfort, His two doctors and his secret nde with him and two other ma- chines bearing friends, including | Aishop 0. B. Corrigan, ale oar, was reported to have atood the forty- | Conran 1981+ by The Pees —— Werld). NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921. Entered a Post oft pecewe- the Matter New York, N. ¥. MISS SELFRIDGE TO WED CLERK IN Vicomte de Sibour, Prospective Bridegroom, Belongs to Old French Catholic Family. LONDON, NNOUNCPMBNT that Violet Selfridge, daughter of Gordon Sel- fridge, department store keeper, is to wed Vicomte de Stbhour, member of an old French Catho- ie family. The prospective bridegroom has been tn the em- ploy of Mr .Selfridge for several Jan, 3. months, Mr. Selfridge came to London in 1909, after retiring from the firm of Marshall Field & Co, Chicago, and from the first in- ception of his great department store in Oxford Street his busl- ness has been a prosperous one. The merchant married Rose vialt to London, ———— Understood gag Says Draft Veteran, | Under Literacy ‘HE ui | Orders xcluded ; Test, United States him from the country on the acy test. The case will be ap Labor. Robos was wounded twico w France as a Corporal. cannot read forty language. He wort came here was drafted, When understood fongiish he replied: the Iteracy test alien, — aoltagronta, erat Wg accompanied | Cioai BY ees Ser a Saad = ~~ FATHER’S STORE ts made” Buckinghain of Chicago, who died In 1918, and has tnree daughters and one son, His Londoh house {is {n Carlton House Terrace. Among his homes {s Highcliffe Castle, which the Kaiser occupied on his last WOUNDED FIGHTING FOR U. S., BARRED NOW AS “ALIEN” drafted Demetrius Robos for mill- tary service in 1918, and the United States to-day excluded ter- pealed directly to the Secretary of hile fighting for the United States in But he was net born in this country and he in any n 1910, and was in Philadelphia when he asked. if ho He 1s legally an BY DOG SLED Three Naval Balloonists Not Expected to Reach Rail Head Until Saturday. INDIANS BRING NEWS. Americans Missing From Rock- away Since Dec. 13 Rescued by Trading Post. . COCHRAND, Ont., Jan. 8—The three American naval balloonists who were forced to land at Moose Factory on Hudeon Bay after having been miss- ing aince Dec. 13, dollowihg’ thelr de- parture from the Alr Station at Rockaway, N. ¥, probably will not reach Mattice, on the Canadian Na- tional Trans-Continental Ratlway, beforé Saturday. Latest reports received herd to- day stated the party, which started on Dec. 27 by dog-sled for a ral head, was making slow progress ‘because of extreme cold and deep snow. Indian runners despatched by the Hudson Bay Company to the nearest telegraph station after the filers had been found reported that the Amer- icans—Lieuts. Walter Hinton of Belle Harbor, N. Y.; Stephen A. Farrell of New York, and Louls A. Kioor Jr, of New Orleans—were in excellent spirite and apparently none the | worse for thelr adventure, safety, the aviators at once set about preparing for a trip back to civiliza- tion, With the ald of the trading dog teams mobilized. It is expected the party will follow the same route taken by the Indian runners they sent in advance to Mattioe, but the alr- men are not expected to make the same speed attained by redskine ac- customed from earliest youth to mak- ing thelr way over treacherous trails of snow and ice. ‘The party is expected to come down the of the Missanab! River, eventually striking the Hudson Bay post at Mattice—a distance of 00 miles, ‘When arrival of the Indian runners at Mattice became known, whites hastened into the Iittle settlement from miles around, eager for word of the balloonists and a verbal ao- count of their aerial adventure. From the few gutterals uttered by the Indians residents of Mattice communicated here the opinion that, due to Heavy winds, the balloonts toe (Continued on Second Page.) Over combined, ..... oe with because they are World's Sunday and Byening folds. ‘After notifying the world of thelr) post Indian guides were recruited and | Morning, Sunday and Evening World. . Evening Journal and Daily and Sunday Times ‘The Evening Journal and the Morning and Bunday AFTER SAFE LANDING ON HUDSON BAY HYLAN INQUIRY BIGGEST FEATURE OF ALBANY PLANS Moves in Both Houses of Legislature to Put City | Rule Under Fire. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan %—Tho legisiative mosphere was laden to-day with more or leas atithorized guesses at tho programme to be outlined by Goy. Mil- ler in his message to the Legislature Wednesday and with direct demands for a sweeping investigation and re- organization of the government of New York City, which Jast were jointly ut- tered by Senator Theodore Dougins Robinson of Herkimer and Assembly- man’ Joseph Steinberg of Manhattan, A cheering intimation for taxpayers, {f not-for those who are walting eagerly to serve the people at people's expense, Is that the Gove nor has a constructive plan for con- solidating the management of the penal and charitable institutions of the State, putting the offices of the Superintendent of frisona, State | Board of Charities, State Prison Com- mission aud State Probation Board under a single head, with a joint pur- chasing and fiscal department, Violent disapproval of the plan ex- tends outside of office-hunting circles tc the eupply houses which have been favored by the separate purchasing agengjes and fiscal deposit tnetitu- tuona in the past. A Prohibition enforcement act en- acting the Volstead act into a State law is in preparation and It Is under- stood bas the ful! approval of the Gov. ernor. There are authentic reports that Gov. Miller has convinced himself that one of the crying needa of the State is not an elght-cent fare for New York transportation lines The legislators promise the intro- duction of @ joint resolution for a thorough Investigation of the gov- ernment of New York City, The an- nouncement of Samuel Untermyer @aid that such an Investigation was needed and the Lockwood Housing Committee had not time to conduct it was recalled, and it was added that the indictments of contractors | (Continued on Page Sixteen.) 1920 Display Advertising Gains 1919 886155 Cols: 8,383'2 Cols Excess of gain of the Morning, Sunday and Evening World over the Morning and Sunday Times and Evening Journal 477°4 Cols. ‘Times are tha Mdratng, gumreat competitors LAGUARDIA WARNS THAT 1922 TAXES MAY SET RECORD Imprudent, ‘He Says, to Ask Legislature to Raise Direct Levy for & Schools. |NEW COAL-BUYING PLAN Recommends Reorganization of City Government in His Annual Message, financial condition of the city, Alder- manic President La Guardia in his annual message to the Board of Al- dermen, which organized at noon to- day, recommended a general organization of the City Government the retirement of a great many old employees “who cannot or will not work,” the ridding of the municipal payrolls of {ncompetents and the promotion of deserving employees. President La Guardia discloses in his message that the Board of Alder- men jnst year authorized the purchase of $1,000,000 worth of coal without pub- Ne bids, A Commissioner may appear before the board and on some excuse obtain permission to buy coal where his judgment ts the prop is understood that Preside din proposes to investigate this sys- tem. He recommends that the elty buy coal direct from the mines and establish supply stations at conven- fent points Inthe five boroughs, Referring to the $27,000,000 short- age in the Department of Education budget, President La Guardia said |e would be “imprudent .and inadyisa- bie" to as the Legislature to raise the money by tevying a direct tax’ on this olty. This tax would be Imposed in 1922, the Aldermanio President pays. “{ need not point out that the 1922 tax rate will be the large In the history of the city without imposing this additional burden,” Mr. La Guardia warne In order to save tho taxpayers the additional $27,000,000 in 1922,Presdent La Guardia recommends that the plan he and Mayor Hylan devised, a 7 per cent, cut In the expennen of all city departmentr, be carried out. Work on this plan ts now being car- ried on in all the Mayor's depart~ ments. TELLS WHAT CITY SPENT IN PORT DEVELOPMENT. “There seems to be 4 concerted r price. t La Guar (Continued on Page Twelve.) iio MARTENS GIVEN UP BY HIS ATTORNEY He Be Deported | Jan, 20, WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—1 jmentative in thle country, A. K. Martens, Russian Gov portation han been ord: dered here t of Labor, | Hardwick of Ge |had been in the custody of his atto hla arrest aeveral months asc Immediately atte nder Mar tons wan released on hin own re He asked that arrangomentn for ed, was formally wore | his our ance ‘Other Expressing concern for the future|” and from whom he sect fit at what In| It! H | Later Is Released Again—Asks That BANK BURGLAR ESCAPES FROM WEST SIDE JAIL Bitzberger ‘Leaps to Safety After Bar Is Sawed, T= ently From Outside. GENERAL BREAK FOILED. Inmates Rush Head Keeper But Are Checked by Rifles and Revolvers, ‘Investigation of the incredtbty swift escape of Henry Lloyd Bitsberger, bank burglar, Prison this morning through @ cor- ridor window at which an inch bar of steel was sawed and bent aside, tins led to the bellef that this was an “outsile” Job and that it may have been for the purpose of a general jail delivery. Color ts given to this view by the fact that soon after Bitaberger got away the other prisoners on the first tler rushed the keeper who discov- cred the escape dnd were only sub- dued by the arrival of half a dozen other keepers armed with rifles and revolvers, Another prisoner tried to eacape af- ter Biteberger, but was caught. In view of the fact that this man, Thomas Hunt, is likely to be a long reatdent of the prison, his pal in the saloon Yokl-up with which he Is sharged being in Bellevue Hospital severely wounded, the police are scek- itg to-day “o find out whether any of Hunt's friends outelde could have ut the window bar, Another bar with @ out an°elghth of in It was found in the same window. Hunt was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Levine in the West Side Court charged with attempting to escape and vith aiding and abet- Ung escape, “Only fifteen minutes elapsed from the time Bitzberger was released from his cell for morning exercise and the time the bent bar wns discovered, In that interval, Princtpal Keaper George Anton was on a tour of Inspection of the cell block, which held twenty prisoners, He came ground the block after Biteberger had escaped, but just in time to see Hunt, who fa accused of | having stuck up # saloon at Colum- bux Avenue and 83d Street, halfway through the nine-tnch aperture by which Bitvborger ha won freedom, Anton drew his revolver and shout- ed to Hunt: “Come out of that win- dow or Tl blow you through it!” Hunt obeyed, dropping to the floor of the corridor. At that moment tho nineteen prisoners, lined up agninst the wall by Anton’s gun, rushed him, He blew his whiatle and seven keopers dashed tnto the corridor, armed with rifles and re- Inued on Page Sixtean,) row ON SALE] ON SALE | 1921 World Almanac Facts and Figures By the Thousand 50c a Copy—By Mail 65¢ Presidential Election Returns 920 Census. Sporting Records (Co Published hy NEW YORK WORLD LITZER SUILDING New York City WHEN Fie an inch deep} who had been | and Structures, on Doe lg tat the work In the Strect Clean- department t# too much for him dug two The salary | Comminntonar ta $7. | ton | doora to-day on order of tate Commissioner, stun i gifored, fa cn a FEARED FOR HIS OWN LIFE. KILLED EX GUNMAN IS BOHAN'S ALLEGED P “Dry” Agent Says Row Started i Cafe After He Had. Been Drink ing With Eastman, According 1 Confession Given Out by Police. Jeremiah W, Bohan, an Internal Revenue agent, confessed tram tie West side |that he is the man who shot “Monk” Eastman, former gangster and 1 lately a soldier of France, at Pourth Avenue and 14th Street early Su morning, Dec. 26. Bohan’s confession was made public by Acti spector Coghlan of the Detective Bureau, Y Bohan gave himself wp to Acting Capt. Daniel Carey of the Street branch of the Detective Bureau in Brooklyn With him Joseph Polo, knowit fn the night life at both ends of the Bridg? as “Joe the Polack.” “BANDITS’ COURT” OPENED FOR TRIAL OF HOLD-UP CASES Quick Trial and Speedy Justice, It is Hoped, Will Deter Criminals. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8. NEW TRIBUNAL, known as the “Bandits’ Court,” was opened to-day at City Hall, Only hold-up and robbery cases, of which there have been an unusually large number the last few months, will be heard. ‘Phe court was instituted at the @uggestion of District Attorney Rotan, who said that ft was neo- essary to give quick trial to bandits and that speedy justice would act as a deterrent to crime. Magistrates have been instructed to make tmmediate returns of hold-upa and robberies and the District Attorney has announced that he would urge severe sen- tences, One of the Common Plena Judges wit! preside. faethe MAC STAY GETS OUT OF STREET DEPT. | Resigns Because of IN Health; Gets Easier Berth; No Suctessor Named. Mayor Hylan announced this after- noon that Arnokt B. Macitay has re- signed aa Street Cleaning Commianioner, MacStay ‘evomes a Deputy Corpinia~ sioner in the Department of Public Wel- fare, succeeting Patrick J. Carlin. Carlin has been made a Deputy Com- missioner in the Department of Plant thus filling one of the new jobs provided for in the 16a | budget . ; In a letter to the Mayor, MacStay says that since returning to hie duth 16 lust, after a long Iltneas 6 plow con alesence aft the Street 00 a yeur. taken In’ the paxa $5,000 0 wa a Deputy Connectiont Bank Closed. SHELTON, ( Jan, 3.—The Sh Bank and Trust Company closed ita! ‘oll fi Weatigntion coer OR aie a The two men were at once sent to hattan and put under examination by Detective Lieut. Funston and ing Inspector Coghlan, . —#. Bohan who has a wife and as a protector for etrikebreakera the longahoremen's strike. Bohan to be* Crlbaret at No, 62 East 14th he Cleaning Mie job partment of | Carita n> Department of Plant hae been announced for + | shooting wad also held back, Bank he action WAS | atarement He Wwe of the illiagn ohildren lHving in Godth Third Brooklyn, said he had become quainted with Bastman, whose name is William Delaney soon the former gunman returned from A. B. F, Bastman was then working at the same time for strikers. i The two met tn the Count Cafe Broadway and Driggs Avenue, lyn, on Christmas night, according: the statement given out by , Coghlan and both drank Monk Eastman uggested things were xotting slow in Brooklyn and an gutomobile and invited Bohan nocompany him to the Blue Manhattan, whore Eastman eald Be was a favored patron of the: and there was more carly gayety, table in the Manhattan Cafe, lug to Coghlan'’s version of story, though it did not appear what source the liquor wae quarrel, Coghiand could not get ‘a han to admit easily the cause of the) Aiapute, he sald, But Bohan remembers, #he tor sald, that “Monk” Bastman him a name which was plainly w start o tree fight. Bohan said loft the party and the place walked toward Fourth “Avenue Lith Street, ‘ “Monk” Eastman and hie followed, Bohan said, and at the, nue Eastman caught him by the and swinging him right amd left peated his epithet. “T knew what his methods Bohan told the Inspector, “and hod bis friends with him, thought he was going to start thing which woud end in my killed. So I drew my revolver shot him and made my getaway." Acting Inspector Coghlan held reserve (he explanation made | Yohan of the ease with which he caped capture tn the crowd of sone which poured out on the immediately after the nel was aroused by the six shots he The part of “Joe the Polack”