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fo ty ‘2 HIGH POLICE OFFICIAL WIPED OUT IN WALL SI ‘TO-NIGHT'S Weather—CLOUDY, WARMER. PINAL f “Circulation Books Open to All,”’ VOL. LXI.’ NO. 21,642—DAILY, Copyrints, 1 Co. ¢ W21, by The Press Publishing The New York World), NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921. BY BiG. PO agen Says One “High Up” Has Been Practically Cleaned Out in Wall Street. CALLS GRAFT SCIENC Tells of Connivance Between Commanders and Fly-by- Night Detective Agenci Apsi- | Charles 6. Whitman, Special tant District ‘Attorney conducting the | Grand Jury investication of city and| eounty affairs, declared to-day that} he ‘had learned that a certain official high in the Police Department, but Mot a member of the force, had been practically “cleaned out" in Wail Street during the last six months. Mr, Whitman said that reports reaching him that a number of police @fficials had been widly oxtravagant tm their Wall Street speculations caused him to investigate. He said he had confirmed the repor but] that nothing criminal along these lines had so iWr beon disclosed Mr. Whitman declared that con nivance between certain police of ficers and fly-by-night private detective agencies for the collection of graft had reached the proportions af a “solentific business” in New York. ‘If a business man reports to the captain of a precinct that his plant is in danger from a strike and asks fof police protection,” said. Mr. Whit- man, “the captain wails about the shortage of his force and refers him a private detective agency. These Viencies have spread so that there dre one or two now in nearly every orecinot in the city Usualty they consist of the man minning them, a stenographer and a messenger boy “The agency signs a contract with the business man, submits daily re- ports and puts in a bill for $10," $12 and $15 a day for ‘operatives’ who do not exist. The only guards sent to the building to be protected are uniforméd policemen. If the business man insists, guards are hired trom one of the reputable agencies. “Formerly the police frowned on these private agencies, but now they WHITMAN INQUIRY | WILD STOGK SPECULATIONS ® “work hand in glove together, and his condition has been brought about under the Enright administra. ton.” Mr, Whitman expects to go before @e Grand Jury again to-morrow and ft ts declared he will ask for another tdictment Two Police Captains, Wiliam A Bailey and Percy Du Bats, are already under indictment, charged with accepting illegal fees. It was icarned unofficially that the fmvestigation has revodied startling tr- regularities on the part of several do- Mak, thotives assigned to the recovery of {stolen automob! Assistant Dist ** attorney Smith has been examining (Continued on Page Sixteen.) Classi ified Advertisers Important! Classified advert! © . Fee sunday world whould bette The World office Mrs, Kaufman was appearing as com- plainant against her husband Frank charging disorderly conduct, Frank was paroled for six months, and it wa while his attorney, Carlin, was protest- ing that his ellent was receiving unfair! | treatme Mrs. Kaufman became belligerent | On or Befare Friday Preceding Publication Claseified Advertisements for Week 7 Days Received DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication the following EARLY COPY Rucstves the Preference When Acvertising Was to Bs Omitted THE WORLD. LICE OFFICIALS Had Meld of 400 in a Jury Room; Law Spoiled It Waiting Millionaire Witnesses at! Brindell Trial Saved From “Cashing” at Pinochle. | The discomfort in the cold halls of the eat crowd of witnesses gath-| ered to testify in the trial of Robert! P. Firindell was called to the atten-| tion of Justice McAvoy at the open- ing of urt to-day ‘The Justice directed a court officer to provide a room for them. Four housewrecking contractors, William Waikel, Samuel Kaufman, | Louls J. Cohen and Charles Wallis, who do business amounting to many millions of dollars a yéar, promptly started a pinochle game in a jury room, ‘They would play for fun, but keep a score and fix things up at} luncheon On fourth hand Mr. Kaufman had a 400 meld » hich pays double. He had the cards more than half latd on the table when the door was swung open and Court Officer Bohlen, white haired and stern, entered. “Get out of here!” he thundered, They got out in a hurry, Kaufman gays soine player touched the buzzer. 16,000,000 PEOPLE IN N. Y., IS FORECAST} Brief in United States Supreme Court Says Population Will Be That in 1960 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Greater New York expects to have almost six+ teen million inhabitants—15,976,000, to be exact—by 1960. Attorney General Charles D, Newton of New York so nformed the Supreme Court to-day in a brief asserting that the metropolis had prior rights to sewage ,dispesal facilities of the lower bay The e is seeking to enjoin the Passaic Valley (New Jersey) Sewerage Commission from constructing a mon- ster trunk sewer into the bay Its waters, the brief said, were already no polluted as to menace public health and @ $40,000,000 emergency relief project in under discussion, involving an island disposal plant in the lower bay. WOMAN ATTACKS LAWYER IN COURT REVEALS 300 PHOTO BRIDES Gets Ten Days While Husband She Accused Goes Free. Biff! The fist of Mrs. Rose Kaufman ot No, 280 Keap Street, Brooklyn, shot out in the Bridge Plaza Court this morning. It struck Lawer John Car- lin's midriff, driving bim backward over a table Magistrate O'Neill directed that the woman be arraigned immediately for disorderly conduct and sent her to the workhouse for ten days. ANOTHER GALE ON WAY, Due Here From Southwest To-Day, says Weather Bureau, The local Weat Bureau to-day eceived the following advisory mes- axe from Washington | ithwest storm Warning, 10.90 A. f. Sandy Hook to Gastnort, Me, Dis tu nor the Great Lakes, joving eastward, Strong south and southweat winds and gales Uuls after-| nook and to-night” N BEAUTY CAR ON IG GREEK LINE Their Prospective Grooms Go Down the Bay, Pictures in Hand, to Greet Them. HAD STORMY VOYAGE. ts of Battles Aboard [Between the Partisans of Constan- stine and Venizelos. Lo There was a picturesque welcome waiting for the Greek liner Megalli Hellas when the ship docked at South (Brooklyn to-day, after a stormy pas- sage from Piraeus with 300 picture brides on board, Greck. Russian, Russian. Jewish and Armenian girls who never have seen their prospective husbands, but RESOLUTION VOTED FOR CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT Borah Measure, Reported to Senate, Calls for Action by Three Powers. SLIGHT CHANGE MADE. Proposed Now to Provide Such Reduction as Can Be Agreed Upon. WASHINGTON Senator | Borah's resolution proposing negotia- | tions for reduction of naval buildings b> the United States, Great Britain | and Japan was reported favoraibly to- | Jan. 2. day by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In lieu of the original proposal that the negotiations look to a reduction have exchanged photographs pwith them, lined the rail of the ship and cried their greetings to the awaiting bridegrooms, who had chartered launches and rowboats to meet the ship. The men carried pictires of the brides-to-be and eagerly scanned the biushing faces at the ship's rail in an effort to identity their flancees. The impromptu greeting from the boats was hastily organized after the polico had successfully resisted an attempt to take the dock by siorm. \Many of the brides came in the steer. age and will have to go through the routine of Eltis Islind before they raeet their sweethearts Tho trip across the Atlantic was unusually violent, both as to weather encountered and the contests be- tween rival factions supporting King Constantine's return and the fortunes of former Premier Venizelos, who opposed him. After passing Gibraltar the ship ran into a series of hurricanes and headseas that sent the crockery crashing. Such part of the crockery as was not destroyed was used handily by the rival factions, and the rest of the voyage was a course ef windstorms and brainstorms Master at Arms ‘Theophile Dapom- tos was busy night and day with the belligerents and qualified as a candi- date for Police Commissioner Bn- right’s job, He says he will sicep for a week to get Over it all. On the night of Jan, 13, Ne Year's Eve according to the Greek calendar, the ship's officers an nounced they would celebrate by making a record run. The stokers eweated at the boilers and the en- Kineers did their utmost to drive the ship througg the banging and pound- ing seas. At the end of the effort it was announced to the passengers, who had made a@ pool on the result, that the ship, instead of making headway, had teen driven back half a mile ¢rom where the sprint started, Miss Natafie Bogoslowsky, member of @ family formerly wealthy in Moscow, who is travelling here in search of ‘her brother Boris, formerly a Heutenant in the Czar’s army, was a pamenger. The family fortunes ¥ wrecked, Miss Bogo- complete! sl y, who had served as a Red Cross nurse with the Czar's forces, has no better information to guide her than that her brother is supposed to be somewhere !n America. Miss Bogoslowsky is talented and speaks six languages. —_ GRANDMOTHERS OFF TO CAPITAL BY AIR Ave Carrying Electoral Voie of Nebraska from Lincoln to Washington. LINCOLN, Neb, Jan Mis. H H, Wheeler Lincoln, Neb. grand mother, who is carrying the ate electoral) yote to Washington by a plane, hopped off from the Lincoln Aviation Field shortly after noon on the first leg of her joure The start was delayed by | low hanging clouds and fox. which made the vielbility poor. Mrs, Wheete uy and ordered tot Helcen tek off six © a granimot ud Mr w ‘s companion, will fly in un ether plane, with pilot Bullock noe men- alien of 50 per cent, in future building for five years, the committee proposed that the negotiations provide for such reductions as can be agreed upon No record vote was taken on the Borah resolution, but that offered by Senator Walsh (Democrat, Montana) proposing that the United States have an American representative partiel- pate with the disarmament commis- sion of the League of Nations was de- feated, 8 to 3 on a straight party alignment [The passage of the Borah resolu- tion ‘is a most important step along the lines of the campaign which The New York World has been conducting for some, time for gencral disarma- ment.] AS approved reads “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of the United States is requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to ad- vise the governments of Great Britain and Japan, respectively, that this Government will at once take up directly with their gov- ernpments and .without watting upon the action of any other na- tion the question of naval dis- armament, with a view of prompt- ly entering into a treaty by which the naval building programmes of each of said governments, to wit, the Borah resolution that of Great Britain, Japan and the United States, be re- duced annually ¢ < the next five years tom | an extent and upon such ins as may be agreed ur “Bection 2. That this proposi- tion is suggested by the Con- gress of the United States to ac complish immediately a substan- tial reduction of the naval arma~- ments of the world.” Chairman Lodge sald tt possible to say when the resolution could he brought before the Senate, ‘out that he hoped it would be at an early date was im The committee finally decided to limit the proposed negotiations to the UMited States, Great I n and Japan, voting down 4 proposal by Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, to extend it to include Frdnce And Italy, Sentiment of the commit tee was represented as being that the jother nations would follow the lead of the three prineipal powers The committees struck out the pre J amble of the Borah resolut ich | declared that a Japan 1 had DISARMAMENT: RESOLUTION IS [“ciroalation Books Open fo Ani" ‘Circulation Books Open to AL Entered ae Mecond« Vost Office, New York, N. ¥. 9 TO-MORROW'S Weather—CLOUD Y. ——————— ines Matter PRICE THREE CENTS Peggy Marsh, Who Was Wedded | In Secret to Albert L. Johnson ALBERT L. JOHNSON. BRINDELL WANTED ABET’ ON SALVAGE JOB IN 230 STREET > — Louis J. Cohen, Housewrecker, Tells How Labor Czdr Pushed Him Till He ‘Got It. The trial of Robert P, Brindell on| the charge of extortion before Justice | McAvoy in the Sypreme Court opened | to-day with Louls J. Cohen, a house wrecker, on the stand Mr. Cohen's testimony covered the} circumstances made familiar through | other witnesses of the efforts of PEGGY MARSH JOHNSON. Brindel to force the Polish or Za- ranko housewreckers into Brindeli's| new union and the subsequent black. | listing of the Zaranko men and of contractors who employed them. Mr, Cohen said that he reported to| Brindell that the men of the old union at work on the Manhattan Hotel) building refused to join the new union| and Brindell said: “You tell thei that if they don't sign I'll pull every wrecking job in New York City.” ‘This was in April, 1920, and began the battle which ended with the driv- ing out of employment of the 1,800| experienced men of Zaranko's union! though they were organized under a! charter of the American Federation! of Labor. Mr. Cohen repeated the story he had told to the Lockwood Committee of Brindell’s ordering him to reduce his offer of $2,500 for sulvage on a building in 23d Street to $1,000. ! “T makes $1,400 for me he| said Brindell said. “Phat's a bet.” | | Coben said he paid the owner the (Continued on SEEK B, R. T Simpson Second Pose) | —>—_ | . INVESTIGATION. | } Senators and Harris to Posh for Legis re Action. | State Senators William on} rnd Maxwell & | said Uhat Ja ld not concent to} | naval reduet on without action py the | Anothe amendment made wa , on. T t ) A + Poultry Show | Madivua | Wauare Garden ym proved # Simpson ’ promised that the flieh tat Baton would be senewed at Albany, \ bone ee PEGGY MARSH SAYS NO'S50,000 A YEAR HAS BEN OFFERED — Nor Is There a $100,000 House From Fortune of Henry Field 2d. Marsh, in an orange negli- pink Miss Alston's Street, where Peery gee, Propped against a in @ rose-filled room of pillow sanitarium in West 61st she is recovering from to-day ning World reporter that an operation for appendicitis. told an Eve there was the Field family of Chicago had made a sett no truth in a report that ment either upon her or her four- year-old son, Henry Anthony Marsh, who at that moment playing about his motlier'’s bed with a most disreputable looking rag doll Miss Marsh is now the wife of Al bert L. Johnson, a nephew of the late Tom Johnson, four times Mayor of Cleveland, who im stopping with her aunt, Mrs, Chrystie, at the Great Northern Hotel, They were married on Jan. 5 at Greenwich, Conn., by a Justice of the Peace, Misa Marsh hav- ng returned m England a fow weeks ago in connection with her contest in the interest of her son for 4 part of the fortune of the late Henry Field % On the table beside Miss Marsh's bed were a jarge picture of her smal) on and a brand new checkbook. how also of flowers. ‘There has been no settlement on son,” said in court me The my Miss matter will come Marsh up next month. The Field family have expressed desire to do the right thing by me, and I believe they will, but as for any settlement $50,000 un me and the building of a $100,000] house, that's fantant The family have asked me to do certain things for the last four years | 1 won't what were—and Ww 1 arry they'd not be so ut at, i'm What are your future plans? | BEFORE SENATE — WASHINGTON LOBBY SCARED. = OVER REVELATIONS SHOWING: PLANS OF SUGAR GAMBLERS Fordney Measure’s Tax of $366,000," ~ 000 Would Cover Shortage of In- terests Due to Collapse of Plans Now Exposed by Evening World. . (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.—The ultimate consumer received due notice of what Congress was going ‘to do to protect the sugar interests, which, through greed and the exerci immense losses, as long ago as the end of last September. se of bad judgment, had sustained At that time Edwin F, Atkins, an official of the American Sugar Retining Company, who has since allied himselftyith an interview: other big sugar concern, said in an “The fall in raw sugar prices between July 1 and Sept. 15 of this year (1920) has. caused a loss of $250,000,000, WHICH SOME ONE MUST STAND.” * OBREGON GIVES WET ANSWER TO A DRY QUESTION Spoken to About Making Mexico Dry, Asks What Correspond- ents Will Have. MIXICO CITY, Jan. 20. RESIDUNT OBREGON of P Mexico answeved newspaper men’s inquiries on reports that he intended to make Mexico dry, by calling a servant. "See what the gentlemen will have,” he commanded. When they had been served, President Obregon remarked! “The only vice I recognize is that of excess.” COAL PROFITS WERE BEYOND ALL REASON New York Dealers Bought at $18 and Sold tothe Public for $25 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Now York and New England’ retail- ers made profits “altogether beyond | reason,” in uytng coal for $18 and selling to consumers for $25 per ton, A. W. Riley, of ‘the Department of Justice, to-day told the Senate Manu- factures Committee considering the Calder ooa) regulation bill, Retailers profits do not explain all the excessive prices to the consumers, he added, He read agpeemtna whereby agents were pledged to une thetr best efforts to get high prices; not to sell below market prices; to show books to mine representatives at any time; and withhold coat from delivery when prices go down. - Some | | Producers fixed schedules that agents agreeds not to undercut. ‘The agents profits were 25 per cent when they obtained high prices. SEEKS TO PREVENT “BLIND” MARRIAGE Brother Demands Qustody of Italian Girl Coming to Wed Man Mother Chose. | Because he has ceased to respect the | ‘old Italian custom of parents selecting | husbands for their daughters and hopes to atop the marrlage of his twenty-year. | old alster to a man she has never seen. Thomas Munganelli of Syracuse apo'led Commiastoner of Timmnigration Wall's 4 the ‘Travellers’ Ald this afternoon | for help in getttig custody of his inter when ahe arrives here The girl, Am is com: | Ua Manganelll ron narder ffuiln of Brook mothers had ats| ding. Manganello ist he girl would object to the mar- The “some one” who has been ses tected by the sugar interests and thelr Gnancial allies and thelr allies in the + Congress of the United States to stand the loss been identified. He is the Purchaser of sugar at retail and, as The Evening World revealed, yeaters ay, he is expected to pay off the lone at the rate of four cents a pound, which is the increase in the price of | sugar the Fordney Emergency Tarift Bill would bring about Sinoe the time Mr. Atkins gave out his interview the losses of the sugar interests have mounted to approx- mately $5 000. ‘That the Ford- ney bill would impowe a direct tax of about $366,000,000 on’ the people ts iustrative of the fact that ‘the gentle- men who prepared the sugar amend- ment are In pretty close touch with the sugar Interests that want to be retm- bursed by the people for their business lomnes, The statement of The Evening World that the passjge of the Ford- ney Bill would automatically raise the retail price of sugar four cents a Pound has been attucked by the sponsors of the sugar amendment, as a matter of course. But The Evening World’s statement is based not only on information obtained the best authorities in the « bp on the amendment FIGURES PROVE CONTEMPLATED FOUR CENT RAISE. ‘The amendment provides for a tax on raw sugar material not above 7% degrees test by tho polariscope of 2 13-100 cents a pound—this in addi- tion to the existing tax of 1.004 cents @ pound on imports from Cuba and 1.256 cents a pound on imports from from untry tsel other countr: object of the bill is to drive Cuban sug ‘om the market in the United Stat unau! the present surplus supply is ex- hausted. The bill further provides that for every additional deg test over 75 degrees there shall be imposed an additional tax of 78-1000 of a cent It happens that practically all the sugar affected by the sugar amend- ment in the Fordney bill is 96 per mt. test. Therefore the bill actually invposes 9 tax of 2.13 cents a pound pius 21 times 78-1000 a cent, making a tax of 3.77 cents per pound, In other words, the bili,” which professes to tax 75 per cent. sugar ually taxes % per cent eur and the difference between 96 points and 75 points ts 21 points and these 21 point i 1.64 cents to the nominal rate of 2.18 cents, The sugar experts say that when the beneficiaries of the Fordney legia- lution tack the extra tax on thelr price, they will make It an even number addition and charge 4 cents instead of 3.77 vents. Of course this able of an extra profit when the vast amount of sugar involved is taken into, consid> eration. it amounts to almost a amount will 7 Genel en te ee ee