The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 1

BY POLICE WHO RAID ALL OPEN SALOONS . VOL. LXI. NO. 21,662—DAILY. Copyright, 1m oe Co. (The "New Circulation Books Open to All.’’ FF NEW YORK, SA by The Brees listing York Wo TURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, CITY OW ' YONKERS “Circulation Books Open to All.” 1921. YONKERS DRIED UP Squads Under Capt. Brady Gather In Large Stocks of Whiskey and Near Booze. $75,000 WORTH SEIZ Anti-Saloon Leader Anderson, | Who Lives There, was An- | noved by Wide-Oper Sales. | Youkers, the home of Willam H | Anderson, chief engineer of the Anti Saloon League, was mopped day, and by to-night that will be as dry as the inside of a bass up to- fair city drum. Every saloon in town was raided by squads of policemen armed with search and seizure warrants, | and it 1s estimated that the clean-up of whiskey. gin, cordials and colored alcohol is worth, at prevailing prices, 375,000. ‘The largest seizures were made be- fore noon in simultaneous raids on a dozen of bhe leading alleged emporiums. When word got around tomm that Capi. Hugh D, Brady and thirty cops were invading saloon after saloon and graiibing everything im-sight, and also, hidden, incredulity prevailed for a time, then horror, then dremay afd numerous taxicabs, laden with suitcases, valises and par- cels resemtMiing shor boxes, began to Jeave Yonkers for New York City. In the meantime patrol wagons and trucks were drawing wp at Police Headquarters and unloading barrels, oases and bottles of hooch. The build- ing emelled ike a bonded warehouse. Visitore drew deep breaths and many mouths watered as ihe owners there- of watched Sergt John A. Ryer mi ing an inventory of each new con- exgnment. No arrests were made. The hootch nd the evidence will be turned over 40 Federal officials Monday. Warrants will then be lasued where ownership fs alleged and proceedings will be in- stituted to make the sule of liquor in any-of the places raided to-day con- tempt of the Federal court. Mr, Anderson has been consider- wbly disturbed about prohibition en- forcement in his home town, there Appearing to be non- of the same up to this time. A couple of weeks ago policemen wore detailed to get ev dence, From hearsay and observa- ion they concluded that about every epen saloon in the city was selling] hootch and obtained search and seiz- ure warrants accordingly. Among the best known places t entered searched George Michael's “*Hamboo" 213 New Main Street; hooch were and No. Pritz Kossack's @| Main Street and Whanburton Aye- at at No, 1091-2 seph Hassano's nue; James Morris's New Main Street; at No. 192 Linden Sireet; Michael Laily'’s at No, 1! Palisade Avenue: Frank Von Garrell's at No. 31 Dock treet; Phiip Harvey's roadhouse at No. 434 Gouth Broadway, close to the New Yonk City line, and Harry J, Hacussler’s at No. 255 Riverdale Ave- nue. And that isn't ali It became known to-day that when the firemen, in response to an alarm of Gre, en- tered the ostensible furniture and mattress factory of Abruham Wick- stein at No, 50 Palisade Avenue on Thursday night they found, among the furniture and mattresses, ‘five barrels of alcohol, a complete recti- fying plapt and quantities of color- ing Tiquids. The find engendered a suspicion that Mr. Wicketein might have been making hootch, and t suspicion ‘was communicated to Pro hibition Dnfogoemens Ageat Hughes, Mother Gives Her Blood To Save Life At Work in of Girl Shot B. R. T. Office Transfusion Gives Eleanor Crowe Even Chance to Re- cover, Says Physician, VICTIM IS SPRONGER. Typist was Wounded When, Revenue Inspector was Cleaning Revolver. Sireagthened by a gift of blood} transtt from her mother'# velis, | Miss Eleanor Crowe, who was dentally shot yesterday in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's offi she is employed, @as described Brooglyn Hospital, to-day, as ‘an even chance’ for recovery. John J. MoFreeley, assistant sper- visor of revenue inspectors of the B. KR. T., was cleaning ais revolver when was accidentally discharged. The went through the left side of 8 Crowe, # typist, and lodged in the lt was successfully removed but the girl had lost so much blood’ Dr. Jonu J, Jennings said transfusion would be necessary Both parents at . where at the haying bull M liver. once oifered their bfood and the moth wus accepted. She gave almost a pit Threat Is Made Ll. Letter Sent E. T. Stotesbury| Plan to Capture Writer Failed When Police Seized the | Wrong Man. * PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.—Deter tives early to-day inadvertently spoiled the capture of a man alleged to have uttempied to extort money from i, 'T. Stotesbury, widely knowa banker and member of J, P. Morgen and Company, New York, on a threat of harm to him and his family A letler bad been sent to Mr, instructing him to plice a sum of money in a black box at the | entrance of a certain chureh. Detec tives carried out the instructions and bid in a dark corner, When a man came along and picked up the box he was covered with pistols by the detec- Stotesbury tives. Thinking he was being held up by bandits the man started to hand over his money and watch. He cluimed he was on his way to work when he saw the box The police after an investigation found his story true and released him. "There is no clue to the writer of the letter, Detectives said a number of per sons socially prominent have recently received similar letters. Mr. Stotes- bury is in Florida. LAWYER FIGURES IN NEW KIDNAPPING B. I. Hobbs, Tarred and Feathered at Houston, Carried From Alvin. HOUSTON, Tex by, 12.—Bi mashed men kidnapped B. tL Hy former Houston attorney, on the atracts of Alvin to-day, and d to the country, according to reports from that place. A Sheriff's posse which staried in pur- suit lost the trall and’returned to Alvin, Hobbs was kidnapped in Houston last Saturday night and tarred and feathered and ordered to leave Houston within three days. He went to Alvin last Monday, a who went to Yonkers yesterduy and seized the aleohol and the still Late last night Hughes and other agents centered the battered old barn of the Standard Express Compa across the street from Wickstein’s place and found there five barrels of what they declare to be alcahol. Louis Goldstein, Wickstein's brother-in-law, owns the Standard Express Company and the prohibition agents think he owned the alcohol. He and SWick- stein Were arrested ahd held fn $500 tule |a fourteen-year-old boy KIDDIES. BITTEN BY DOG; BLUECOAT PUTSHIM TO DEATH One Tried to Save the Others and the Animal Nipped Him on the Hand. A dog, apparentiy, suffering from bit rabies three sn children and who went to the assistance of the little ones at noon to-day in front of the apart- nent house No, 2905 Righth Avenue. The children at Harlem Hospital t to their homes and the dog was shot by Policeman Her- man J, Lusson West 135th Street Station Thomas Gallagber, aged No, 2905 Righth Avenue: Georgiana MoGarry, aged five, No. 124 Brad- burst Avenue, and Joseph Peters, aged three, No. 201 West 151st Street, were playing on the sidewalk in front of the Gallagher boy's home when the dog, which bad been running around the neighborhood for half an hour, suddenly attacked the group. ‘The Gallagher child was bitten three and s¢ of the four, of times on the face and the MoGarry and Peters children were bitten on the hands Youms Miller, attracted by the cries of the children, ran to their and the dog bit him on the hand. Then the policemaa arrived, kicked the dog int vestibule’ of the house it CANNOT PROVE HE IS ALIVE. War Department Cites Him for “Giving His [Afe on Battlefield WALCOTT, D., Heb. 12 ativ of Henry 0, Magenton, former soldier now living h eceived 4 notice to- day from the War Department eltir Magenton for bravery n giving his life on the battlefields of ne Mag ns # * to correct a War Department notice to his fanily: in 1914 that he had been killed in action ve so far proven futile — CONGRESS-LADY WONT TALK "Will Keep Eyes pee, Mouth Shut,” Saye Minn Alice Robertson. MUBKOGER, Okla,, Feb. 12—In ta ing her oft , Klghom: Mis# Alice Congre va sto Wash mouth shut “You wont hear much f me at the marl” abe sald, BOOTLECER SLAN ASPAROF LOTT HOE AUTO GRAFT This Is Belief of Mr. Whitman} and His Aide in Probing Murder of Frank Walsh. | | | LIKE KILLING OF ECKERT. | | Prosecutor in New Jersey Joins Forces With New York Offi- | cials to Solve Crime. With the eatnest beliet that Frank | | Waish, known bootlegger and pros pective bootlaggers and automobile was shot by band on informer against thieves, a membervof his own Lincoln Highway Bruns- wick, N. J., Friday night, Prosecutor |J. EB, Stricker of Middlesex County | Informed the New York authorities to- the near New \day he was ready to begin co-operu- tien with them to the utmost. Former Gov. Whitman, who had arranged to get testimony from Walsh regarding band who under bis seized a truckload of whiskey a few hours earlior and murdered Leo Suamandra of Trenton. He is of the | opinion that Salamandra, offering | $500 to the bandits to spare his life, wi. shot by them in order to make 4 appearance that Walsh, already | doomed to death, might seem to have | | been killed in a battle between the! lsmugglers and the bandits, | | ‘The position of Walsh's body when found by the New Brunswick police huddled in the back of a Cadillac roadster on « lonely road near New Brunswick, Mr Stricker said, indi- cated that Waish was silting on the | rumble seat of the car and that the shot was fired by some one on the front seat. The powder marks prove it was @ contact wound—that the re- | volver was pressed to Walsh's right e*)> at the moment the weapon was | discharged. On the other hand, the Wedera) Pro- hibition officers whe regard New Brunswick as 4 great clearing house for bootlegging operations kuow that there were bitter rivalries within the Wega business. ‘The opposed groups made headquarters of different restau- rants and could be heard openly curs- ing their competitors. The Saimman- dra liquor had been on the market for some weeks, and it was imown that (Continued on Fourth Passe.) STORM IS FACTOR | | | | | Management of System There and Troy Hampered in Effort to Start Cars ALBANY, N. ¥., Meb, 12—The! | Weather has become an important [factor in the street car strike in Al-| bany, Troy and nearby mynicipalities. | ‘The immediate ability oftthe Unitea | ‘Traction Company to obey the order | jot the Public Service Commission to! operate 's apparently depends upon the weather. A car, preceded by | than twenty strikebreakers with| shovels and picks, from the North} Albany barns by hard work proceed Jed at approximately the rate of less | | than a block an hour this morning More wire cutting took place last night and ea to-day in Albany Troy, Island and Watervliet In 8 y strike sympathicers sawed any poles supporting trolley wires. The poles were the| property of @ telephone company, the murder of Frank P. Eekert, | master bootlegger and keeper of an automobile fence, on Staten Island last August, will accept Mr, Stricker's offer, Mr. Stricker said to-day that he had dispelied all doubt t Waish | was murdered by members of the leudersitp had | IN ALBANY STRIK) & gang of less |" Vin th ATTEMPT 10 WRECK WEST SHORE TRAIN - FOILED BY ALARM Money Car With Collections From Many Stations At- tached to Train Soon Due. RAIL ALMOST REMOVED. Former Brakeman Discovered Gang at Work—Armed Posses Search Neighborhood. : the at An apparent attempt to derail | West Shore train to which ts tached the “money car,” nightly collects the receipts of all to Wee- thou, eve- station agents from Albany hawken, amounting to many sands of dollars, was made last |ning near ‘Tappan, N.Y A gang of six flashlights drew the apikes of the inner southbound rail, removed one of the angle burs supporting it and Pet had the rail off the tles L-tme had an warn not dis- | Peres them For more than an hour ali trafti | both north and south, wa: halted on that part of the line, and for some time after a wrecking crew of the road had reset, and secured the rail ail trains crept past ‘Tappan at a spoed of | not more than five miles «a hour, | walking up the track from West Nor- | wood, two miles to the southward. He noticed the recurring glow of a flash. light beside the track about 200 feet | below the ‘Tappan station, His railroad experience told him that these were not regular trackmen or members of a repair wang, so he crenh Glower to see what they were about. When he was conyinced of what the men were doing he dodged into the deeper shadows beside the track and, stipping by, nuede off as fast as he could for the ‘Tappan station When he had related his discovery to the station master the latter im- mediately communicated with the chief train despatcher at Weehawken, who flashed an order to hold all southbound traing above Tappan and Stopped all those bound north, Then & wrecking crew was summoned and hastened to the soene. News of the attempted wreck {spread quickly in Tappan and some- lone, through ignorance, rang the fire |alarm, summoning all the townsfolk and thereby giving the wreckers time to flee. The train which, apparently, tt was intended to derail is known as No, 18 and has four express cars, the “money | car’ and four passenger cars, It wan due to pass ‘Tappan about half an hour after the time Kaufmano discovered the wreckers at work, —_ | SCHOOLMATES TRY TO LYNCH BOY OF 10 | Was Being Hanged When Rescued —Accused of Be a Bully IQNGMONT, Col, Feb, 12.—Author tex to-day {nvedtigated the attempted lynehing here of James Rush, ten, by more than a dozen of his schoolmates, whose ages range from ten to fourteon Rush was attacked by hi ymaten whoo! yard, a rope placed re ny him oft the oued the ue other boys, nevk and the wouldsbe lynchors araw ground, A patrolman ,res- t was loarned, had @ bully by the which | men working with) Armed possi headed by Sheriff Blakely and several unteers scoured the countryside in motor care until after 2 o'clock this morning, but the! potential train wreckers were ni caught Discovery of the men at work was made by C. L. Kaufmann, proprietor of @ moving van service in Tappan and a former West Shore brakeman, who at %15 o'clock last night was ~\ to buy $200,000,000 farm l Full Power of State to Be Put) Behind New Com- mission, NO CITY OPERATION. Actual Present Value of Roads to Be Basis of | “New Deal. | By Joseph S. Jordan. Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | ALBANY, N.Y, Feb. 12.—Guessing | is ended as to Gov, Miller's position situwtion of Greater on the transit New York. | He wants « thrée-headed commis sion Which shall be vested with-abko- | tule power over the situation. The commission shall be selected from Greater New York The city will participate tn the’ formplation of a plin to remedy the |situation and in the negotiations (o [put it date effect | But the commiesion must be given | the whip hand over al! concerned and clothed with the powers which the State can give it Hl He wants ali inter-company leases eliminated ‘He wants the city to take over all| lines not owned by the city { He wants the provisions of the dual | contracts for preferential payments eliminated ' Aa an incentive to @Mcient manuge: | ment he wants an increased wn on capital ax fares are decreased and 4 reduced return as they are ip- creased, He makes no suggestion as tomporary boost in fares, So rnuch discussion and criticiom of the Governor's proposed traction meamire has arisen from all over the State that his advisers suggested that a way be found to make to the pub- lic a more detailed and comprehensive explanation of it than was contained in his traction measure sent to the Legislature three weekn ago. The way was found through an epen letter to Brig. Gen, Oliver B. Bricg- man of No, 66 Broadway, New York | City, m answer to his request for a brief outline of what the Governor expected the commission, if ap- | pointed, to undertake. | ‘The Governor's reply does not | change his recommendations in tia message, but does throw more light on his meaning, and tells where the eity will stand and where the transit companies will stand under his con- templated reorganization plan. He | says that no inquiry was needed 1o demonstrate the necessity of creating all to | (Continned on Second Pagan) $200,000,000 FARM LOANS. Committee Mak tons for Two Years. H WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -arrving | provisions to muke $205,000,000 avalia- | ble to ald farmers in the next two years | the Agrioultural A ppropriatic Bit wilt be reported to the Se uy, Ben- ator Gronns, North Dakota, announced | today. | One provi ® vie on authorizes the Treasury n bonis in| king that sum Another je seed | the nqxt two years,thus rm: avaliable for farm credit. | propr 95,000,900 to pro: farmers in drought-asteicken areas, | money to be secured by liens on The House provision of $310,000 | need was eliminated | all, t bill ‘carried mes| the 34,000,000, an increase of $2,900,600 more than tie House. voted. Rotered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. DRAINED OF RUM BY POLICE RAI MILLER SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON HIS TRACTION PLANS; NOT TO COERGE THE CITY HAYES 10 BE NEW CARDINAL, ROME PAPER ANNOUNCES — eee New York Archbishop Will Get Red Hat, Declares I Giornale d’ltali ROMB, Feb. M—Il Giornale D'Ltalia, a leading paper of Rome, to- day said it is almost certain Arch- Dishap Putrick J, Hayes of New York will be appointed 4 Cardinal at the censistory in Rome. ‘The duio set for the consistory is March 7 Archbishop Cardioal When He Archbishop Hayes left last month for the Vatican to make to the Holy See. at the time he was his periodical visit ft was rumore to be elevated to the Curdinalate, but he announced he was unaware of any such intention upon the part of the Ponuff. going to make his customary report He declared he was merely on ecclesiastical matters. Archbishop Pawrick Hayes, porn a litte yearn eon Hayes in this city, was prepared for the priesthood at Manhattan © loge, in this city, St. Joseph's Heai- nary, Troy, and the Catholic Univer- sity at Washington. Hé received the degree of Doctor of Divinity trom Rome in 1904, was ordained in 1892 and became Chancellor of the Dio- cese of New York in 1908. He wan President of the Cathedral college for eleven years, was conse- orated auxiliary Bishop Oct, 2, 1914 and in the following year became rector of St. Stephen's Church, He was appointed Archbishop of the dio- cese March 19, 1919, Nov. 4, 1917, he became Chaplain Bishop for the United States Army and Navy. Archbishep Di oo PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 bishop Dennis J. Dougherty, who, reported, Is to be clevated to the ( dinatate next month, has definitely de- cided to leave for Rome next Saturday, sailing from New York on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam. He will be accom- panted by several priests trom the Phiia- delphia Archdiocese. jetiad oceuns' SEE SMALLEST PLANE TAKES A FLIGHT Joseph than sixty-three go to Daniel and Mary Glee- more sail Next Only Seven Feet Long With a Wing Spread of 20 Feet. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.>The “smallest airplane in the world was flown in Lincoln's Birthday exercises at Bolling Field to-d The piane, which is seven feet long and bas only a twenty-foot wing spread, is designed as an “aera! mo toreyel for messenger work. The fight accompanied laying the |“corner stone” for the first nation: alrway-—an identification mark "D. ©. | 1" at the starting point of the Wash- ington-Dayton (Ohio) route svon to be cutablinhed. { COPELAND FORCES HALT IMMIGRANTS IN WAR ON TYPHY 236 Ryndam Steerage Pas sengers From Ellis Island Seized at ‘Battery. KEPT AT FERRY HOUSE, Order For Further Inspection By City a Surprise—Quar- antine Lines Tighten, Health Commiasioner Copeland, with 109 city policemen and twenty-five men and women medical inspectors under Dr. H. McAdams and Dr, Louts I. Harris of bis department, to-day | begun seizing al) immigrants landing jat the Battery from Ellis Iskand, to [put them through an additional ta spection * Dr. Copeta prise, He announced that until ale danger of bringing contagious and Infectious disease epidemics into the: United States has ended every immix grant landing in New York City will undergo ripid inepection regardles® of previous investigation by other | authorities ‘The first contingent of immigrants, who came on the Rhyndam of the Holland-America Line, reacher the Battery soon before 1 o'clock. There were debarked at the They were im- mediately » tite 99th Street Ferry tullding by the policemen, The immigrants had been through aweries of inspections at the hands of port health authorities, Ellis Island doctors, and many had been through fumigating and steam plants. Dr, Harris, Direct of the Bureau of Preventable Diseuses, eald Dr, Cope- land had ordered that any quspicioun cases be sent to one of the elty inst tutions, The immigraois were taken to the upper flout of the ferry house and there the men and women were eep- arated i@to different growps. As there was much confusion at (heset and another ferry toad is due from Ellis [slaad later in che day, it is probable the inspection will com Unue well into the might The Ryndam passengers had twice been refused admission to Bilis Is- land and Onally were accepted after two compartments of the steamer were turned into,fumigating rooms aod the inmigrants were cleansed. \Dr. Copeland said: ‘t had hoped to eimplity the pre- ceedure secessary for the admission) to the city of New York of immi- ~ grants ®y having representatives of the ‘Health Department stationed at flix island. Falling In our effort te make this arrangement, the Health Department, has taken the ground” floor of thé 39th Street Forry at the Battery and converted it into @ res eéiving station to inspect the imant~ grants. Medical and sanitary, é- spectors of the Health Department will Inspect the immigrants and male such examination of their effects as to satisfy the Naw York City Health . Department that they are fit oemsone to mingle with the population, “We have been led to take this stand because of our sad experienes at last week when he found two pa- | tients ‘wit typhus fever, ~who ; been sent to Long Island College Ee pital, supposedly | pneumonia “Later one of the second-eabin pas- sengers af the | from whieh the other two were taken, | was found in Harlem (Hospital uffers ing from typhus. ‘The List of pag — sengers given to us by the officers: herded n were unable to locate more than 26 per cent of the passengers whodand-— e4 giving New York City addremes! “So defective and unreliable was the : i's action was a sur suffering from Presidente Wilson, — of the Presidente Wileon was @0 @@-, © fective as regards addresses that mre ae ee me ers cenertauhgan namin pense