The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1921, Page 3

a B now Washing ove ? in convincing most of the men of A. policing, 1OW CHICA Man With NEW YORK CITY MIGHT PROFITABLY §} the Potice Arrest and sto Marguerite Mooers Marshall (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Feb. 16. The functions of the Police De- partment are two: First, to pre- vent crime; second, to catch criminals. ‘ It would take the Lord Him- scif, and not any Police Super- intendent, to suppress gambling. It ig more important to catch the man with a gun in his pocket than the man with @ flask on his hip. Speedy sentences do more than sentences of great severity to de- ter men from crime. As head of the Police Depart ment, I have had little difficulty my sincerity, but God couldn't convince some of them. I want to make it possible for @ny man or woman 10 go any where in the City of Chicago at any hour of the day or night with perfect safety. In these crisp, trenchant sentences the blue-eyed boy—he is only thirty~ six and he looks about twenty-six— who for three months has been Police Superintendent, Charles G. Fitzmor- summarized for The Evening World his policy for cleaning up Chi- ‘ormerly Mayor Thompson's he was appointed Police Chief last November, on Armistice Day, It was War, however, and no armistice, which followed. Since taking office Chief Fitzmorris —probably the youngest man ever tam head a Pollce Department in any) large American city—has done these | UNDER CHIEF FITZMORRIS HAS CLEANED CITY, REDUCED CRIME “It Is More Important to Catch the the Man With a Flask on His Hip.” “I Considered That What We Needed Was MORE PATROLMEN ON THE STREET as a Check to Crime. “Every Driver of an Automobile Must Have a Certificate of Competency From ‘Has Reduced From Two Years to Four or Five Months the Period Between the by May 1 to Try Every One Within Two Weeks After Arrest.” SIE Pe a er RR ETAT kd GO’S POLIC. FORCE | | 6, a Gun in His Pocket Than Department.” ‘ Trial of Criminals and Hopes CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF'S MOTTO “Whether you are unfortunate or incompetent the result is just the same, EXCUSES DON'T GO WITH ME. cCHas. C. FITZMorris Certificate of Competency All Chicago Auto Drivers Must Have DEPARTMENT OF POLICE—CITY OF CHICAGO 1921 No. : NAME ADDRESS AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT COLOR OF EYES COLOR OF HAIR | VISIBLE DISTINCTIVE MARKS IS GRANTED THIS CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY TO OPERATE THE MOTOR VEHICLE THUS DESCRIBED: ! GASOLINE STEAM OR EI 'RICITY MAKE STYLE HP. MOTIVE POWER ———— FACTORY NO. ENGINE NO. STATE LICENSE NO. VEHICLE TAX NO. THIS CERTIFICATE EXPIRES DEC. 31, 1921, AND IS NOT ASSIGNABLE OR TRANSFERABLE. IT MUST BE SHOWN UPON REQUEST OF ANY MEMBER OF |THE POLICE DEPT., MAY BE REVOKED. AND 1S ISSUED TO ABOVE AS TO RELATIONSHIP NAME OF HOLDER OF ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE DATE THEREOF NUMBER THEREOF 1921 PHOTOGRAPH oF MEMBER OF FAMILY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE things: = * He has abolished all “soft” de- tails and put practically every one ‘ef the 5,100 members of the force into uniform and active service. He has abolished political “pull” and favor. He has put in effect a new sys- tem of promotion and demotion based on aciuat acnievements in rather than paper ex- aminations. He has placed in operation an | original method for preventing | automobile thefts and, as a corel lary, the crimes committed with Inctaentaliy, { noted the outset @ distinction between New York's d Chicago's Chief of Police. An [ene who has ever tried to see right Knows his | the aid of stolen cars. He-has almost eiiminated pay- roll hold-ups and has brought * About a steadily growing decrease in other crimes and disorders. as reduced from two years or five months the period trial to fo between the arrest and the of criminals. He hasediscovered and marked ishonest of in- his de- for dismissal 500 d competent members of partment. . Of him the Chicago ¢ mission, composed of Ch prominent business men not friendly to Mayor | Administration, sald recently ‘Although Mr, Fitamorris has been In office a littio more than two months, you committoe fee is that he has made a remarkat showing in is efforts to regener- aio the Police Department amash the opere to. drive s front Chicago. acts was to subject the department to the most thorot shake-up it had experienced thirty years, Throughout the de partment there has been a 0 able improvement in disc ince hie took office, and Cbicaty rs to be well on the road to pening a thoroughly organized and efficient police force He appears to be one of the heads of the that Chicago ever has had, FIRST CAUGHT PUBLIC FANCY WITH HIS SPEED. His first best ment eMicient system’ of tightly and heavi tes Chief Fitz-Morris, one simply in one's card, tien walks t | three WHYS, CVO! door wide apply of uni- uffers being done Ww you “SIGNATURE OF HOLDER | from tip to tip. AT NVTCHEL FELD Circling Course Carrying Food for 24 Hours. Lieut. Ross ©, Kirkpatrick and Max Goodenough, a mechaniclan, pushed off in an Hagle biplane at Mitchel Field, Long Island, at 7.34 A. M, to- day. ‘They. are making an effort to break | the world's endurance record for air- planes, Lieut. Kirkpatrick made a similar attempt to break the world’s record | on Dec, 21. A leaky gasolene line forced him to descend after he ‘had been in the air 18 hours and 4 minutes. ‘The world’s record is held by France, the time beings24 hours, 19 minutes and 7 seconds, This record Was established last June at Ville | Sau Sage La Marmogne by a Farman | Gpliah, ‘This is a two-motor biplane, B. Boussoutrut was principal pilot. The American endurance record is held by the Navy I°-5-L plane. The time {3 20 hours and 19 minutes and was made on April 26, 1919, Fdod for more than twenty-four hours and tanks carrying forty-five gallons of oil and 4% gallons of gasoline were in the plane when it went into the air. Lights have been placed about the field that would throw a 2,000,000 fandle power glare. These lights will guide the two flyers in their constant circting around the field, and will enable them to make a safe landing if they have to come down onto Mitchel Field. Lieut. Kirkpatrick is a United States Alr Service pilot. Goodneuogh is a civilian, an expert pilot and also n expert on Liberty motors, Kirk- Patrick is one of the flyers who made the flight from New York to Alaska last summer, The flight is authorized by Major Gen. Charles T. Menoher to test the endurance qualities of the ship with a Single engine, The ship is designed for 3,200 pounds useful load, but it actually carried to-day when it went into the wir a load of 4,200 pounds. The plane, empty, weighs 4,600 | pounds. The pilots have equipped the in- strument board with a banking in- dicator and an inclinometer, the first instrument enabling them to know the lateral position of the plane an the latter to know the ver to tion when flying at night ‘or during a storm when the horizon is obscured. The machine was made by the Cur- tiss Aeroplane aud Motor Corpora: tion. it is 86 feet 9-inches long and the wings extend for 61 feet 4 inches this comp: nder, tt ‘ung Man W hard jaw, the firm m«¢ © biue esés under dark, cu: ashes any girl might env when we oo ashes any git) might envy, Me aides) ‘Te Nave passed two yours over the bf a plain, flist-topped wooden desk,|Century mark and still be perfectly put the ensive q . Le ee See et rot i ef} happy and contented with life, has! ViizeMorris, so whew you get there teen the a , = you find absolutely no “throne stuff." |”, i at experience of Mrs. Iren: “T have ¢ Nothing more than|Cockefair of No, 215 Belleville Ave- uperintendent could do the man who Is cleaning answered, modestly. nue, Bloomfield, N. J. “If God has sen fit 10 let me live Young Chief Fitamorris, previous to his experiences as head of the for as private secretary to the Mayor and A newspaper min, first captured pub-~ he attention for his speed, Atelghteen| Chief in Chicago is yvyenteen months. . . he was appointed by a Chi §-| So almost cveryt Just stalled| Her brown eyes kindled with ant- paper to mo a trip around the did nothing in order to avokl| mation as she recalled the past, but world in the shortest poss tme. wron thing, and bh softened when she ape of the deaths, He accomplished this feat in sixty id be qasier When the n suit tis and a few hours, beating Jules | ae Sovery” organization} of her husband and three children, Verne by twenty days and estab) | permanent head e#ufters| Mrs. Coc was married to Sam- ing @ now world's record, AS reor ame trouble. uel Cockefair in 1812 Her husband Kaniser Of Ene en one tela you that no out-| gieq in 1887 and the last of her three | is simply provin all the speed there ix; ly ng two truths as to wi has grown wear the present Administration—tft a Police Culef can be “on the say and on the job; second, that a 1 Force ean back t er-the-war Iawloss all ou being Chiet Pitamorrie toous person and one wh mind! = own business, vedMage fh se the Mmient oi New Vo conducted. Hut any New Yorkers knows anything about wor which means any New Yo han read the papers for months—and who now side. story of the C! will make his own criticisn clean-up, Hand draw his own conclusions, It is necessary we given unihnited | ‘is long am happy to be 80 power sen given it—and| staced,” she explained, as she eat provided he used it busily knitting heavy white woollen PREDECESSORS PUSSY-FOOTED|*0cks in a room flooded with sun- +v4RUUGH FEAR. |shine. She turned to her nurse and see et the other feliowa|CoMtnucd, "Why, wouldn't you want hod the power but|to live to be 1022" 1] In reply to the other's vehement 1| put laughing "No, 1 wouldn't,” she said: ® “Well, I have always been happy. I lived on a farm where we had every ; 4 thing we wanted—fresh vegetables seve (Re aToAne and fruit al! the time. Our clothing eee hee eee whet We was made right on the place. We knit, trouble with Police Departa apun and wove our own clothin| told him I did dyed it and pressed it ourse Wwe “And how did you diagnose 12" I) naa no tailors in those days.” asked . nswered, | Mt® Cockefair was born in Hillton, ey ain fear’ he aPiepart: | Mass, 102 years ago yesterday, but } ment was a f wetting into trou-|she does not appear the least feeble, | bie politically. Iverybody under t although she admitted she felt her know that the average life of a Pol ihe police system, the depar' ook the he whole depart- But | knew daughters in 898, Her eyes have not become sullen or heavy through senile troubles but are I know and I'}! cn under me| Keon and observant. could run at van my job | prove | 19 hold them responsible rthe| Having becn asked by the nursg eMeiency of his own fivid. As ior the} |. aa aay qusstons , ied Mee ey te aT the atart that 7) pot to ask any qu if ’ would use 4 long us 1 could, as| lowed me 1 viet hee charge a few long af it would vo-operate with me] goconde, L let her tals at random, in getting the work done. When it! suddenly she turned moe eee would put in a ayatem of my | Sudden a own [find at i've ad to introduce asked wn eyetom,” he added, with @| “Have you an earache?” dey Why, no.” | answered, wondering The most ir ng part of You hve your eam cove 4 that sys is simply that this they cold-—or—haye you any . amazing young man is running a ‘Then | understood she referred to my modern hairdressing and knew (Continued on Sixteenth Puge.) tbe answer lo my Unasked reporloral “‘Where Are Your Ears??? — ‘Asks Woman 102 Years Old. Of Modern Girl Reporter And Mrs. Irene Cockefair’s Own Aural Appen-) dages Defiantly Stand Out in Opposition | to Dame Fashion, While Her Neck Peeps Out Shyly. | @lestion as to what she the modern girl vera almost a century a proved I Fe Mrs. thought of the girl of So § childishty lid have ears, - \e ‘oketalr ja decidedly ag: it the short dresses of the girl of ta, (na her nurse ajso admitted, bw qihost everybody else is too," she ws- Mrs. Cockefair hus hor her own hair pulled back, not ght comingly, and her ears i ly displayed. She w simple black dress, wit but—it was opencd at th & trifle, “L dressed white | but be- © generous Pressed inn i sleeves, neck Just in sueh a morning,” she pol ozine made a futile npt to fy mM it The nurse confidentialiy would be surprised If | coi. seo ho White and well preserved tior neck Mrs. Cockufair is up at 8 o'clock every morning, reads papers ani Knits unt} 6.5, when she retires, Her appetite '4 excellent, she can cat A t, 6 an cal an thing she desires. “4h her daily | voutine, it is to these : . i 4 ese regul: habits ‘she attributes her longevits She is satisfied to live too, provided she is kept busy than sixty wash cloths for “our boys" with needles her husband whittled out of wood many rears ago. Just at present she is contempiat herself a spring dees = Making HOPE you too will live te age,” "was her parting wiah to mor” As I left the room, f ers and fruit, the birt Lrances of her neighbors, }how many of us would } and sweet aa Mrs jdid attain that age. Covkefair if we BRIDAL PAIR IN 1696 HOUSE, Marriage An | of Mine st The to A. marriage of Mina dia usr © Shear of thin city Goodell of Greenwich took 1 # Just boon annie Edward DW It wie part of the Al grant fror William and M In its recent restorution newspapers dating back to 1728 were found buck of the pimatering. RISE OUT OF POLICE Kirkpatrick and Goodenough | Burglars on ‘this Visit Take $5,000 in Booty From Mr. Chegnay’s Stock. The police of the Charles Street station were notified at 7.45 o'clock | this morning of a burglary {n the) silk dyeing plant of Henti Chegna No. 125 Christopher Street, and | Was three hours later, after a repo: to Headquarters, that an investiga- tion was started, About for several hours, Joining buildings or backyards, ‘They opened three desks from which they obtained tools, some small change ‘They left some silk seattered about the floor, and bits of It, with fragments of lace, and un clectric toreh, oft were found on the roof outside. $5,000 worth of silks and laces had been stolen and there was | evidence that the burglars had wosked 1 is believed that they entered through one of the ad- Bya Woman 93 Years Old wreciindss Miss Mary Saul Has Lived | Through Horrors of Three Wars — American Legion | Posts Asked to Write Five: | Letters to Friends Outside Organization—Fashion Re- vue to Aid Evening World’s Plan. By Lilian Bell. If you will guess the age of the , Woman who sent the first dollar to our deficit, I will give you the dollar and replace it out of my own pocket. Give it up? A young lady of ninety-three sum- mers—Mise Mary Saul She ia a Sure enough war veteran, having lived through the horrors of three war—the Civil, the Spanish-American and the World War, Her dollar was the first to reach me and it was marked for the Soldier Out of Luck Deficit, So we took her picture, that you} % it rt | action to prevent an employer hiring on this way | During the war she knitted more! “his is the fifth time I have been robbed,” Chegnay told an Evening World reporter, “‘and I never have had any satisfaction from te police. The four previous robberi@™were in the place 1 formerly had at No. 97 Bank Street.” | His brothar-in-law, whose name Is Denny, said that on Monday night as he was locking*up there were several men about who looked like thugs. One of them, he suid, called to the others: “Look, he's got the keya—I'a like to have a look inside that plant.” A policeman came along then, Denny said, and the group hurried soldiers that dollar, she gives us our firs wo shall begin a column of acknowl! edgment. Now I am‘going to ask the Amer! can Legion Posts throughgit th their members to write five letters each to five outside friends Legionaries but persons outside thei posts who would be interested in @ matter which so vital Other dollars are rolling in and soon State and inenearby States to ask not likely to be concerns that most precious charge of the American Legion—the disabled might see the face of a woman near- | ales ing the century mark of age and yet sig who takes suc EA o takes such an interest in wounded | 93 veees it Legion's Service House No. 1. |. L have been asked to speak at the Harlem Post of the American Legion next Monday evening and I have ac- -|cepted. Commander Richardson is ¢| going to allow me to ask his post to do this, and 1 hope all the posts will heed my request, Por we want the first Service House of tho aplendid young American 7 | Legion to be a corker, In my mind's eye, it stands there already equipped, ready for the eager ¥| boya we are going to make so happy there. Won't you help? away, He said he would recognize yoldier—to wend in $1 each to The] MONS’ P some of them if he saw ‘them again. Hvening World's Service House Fund bial ditdrala ® — }to rent and equip the American .. selbst UNION BRINGS SUIT) ny cf FOR CLOSED SHOP GHOST WON'T WALK, Applies for Injunction to Enforce Alleged Agreement to Employ | Only Organized Men. j The first case on record here of an attempt through Supreme Court Rocky Trip This Spanish Opera Company Took. any workers not belonging ¢o a union , Wo on the Leon XIII. of the Spants came tbefore Justice Ford to-day in| 1” Gadiz, which docked at Pler an application by Henry Kohn. | Brooklyn, to-day to take on more pi treasurer of the New York District | sengers. Council of the United Brotherhood of | Forty-two members Carpenters and Joiners, for an in junction against Henry J. Cohen, a, table manufacturer, at No, 71 Goerck Street. Kohn's motion will be argued to-morrow ‘before Justice Bijur. i Kohn asserts that on*Sept. 16 last Cohen entered into a contract with the union to employ only union men and to pay $5 a week increase. Jan 27, the union asserts, Cohen notified the men a@ reduction in wages was necessary, and on Jen. 31 a cut of per cent. was put into effect. men refused to accept this and non- union workers were hired. Cohen belongs to the Table iManu- | facturers’ Asvociation, it ia charged, | which organization is trying to break up the union, BOY IS would walk. Not since the company left Madr three months ago has any member of buriness who manager, took tried to keep the company going, hetps get passage whoard the Leo NII : GONE AGAIN; VICTORY CLAIMED ; FOR THE OPEN SHOP Fiott Wchener, Who Ran Away ————— From Philadelphia, Disappears From Spokane. (Special to The Brening World.) PHILADBLPHIA, =F 16. -E Miche fourteen, paroled after he tle Boanl of Control of Building Metal Trades Says Men Are Returning to Work. STARS FAIL TO SHINE In Fact, It Was a Wet, Cloudy, Operatic barnstorming in the 'Latin- American provinces produced a tale of Royal Mail Line, bound from Vera Cruz of the Viaaco Opera Company of Madrid stood at the rail wishing fervent Spanish wishes they had never left home dnd glaring bale- fui Spanish glances at Eduardo Viasco, quondam manager, for not being enough of & business prophet to foresee a mora- torium in Havana and times so dispirit~ ing In Mexico City not even a ghout deen paid, declared Ramon Vives, acting charge after Viasco had given up. Kind-hearted membern of the Catuluna Society, who | WAS OUT ON PAROLE =| The first big concern to offer its services to our beloved cause of housing the wounded is the Revue de Fashion, Inc., of No. 1400 Brond- way. ‘They are going to hold a monater revue on the roof of the Pennsylva- nia Hotel from noon, Saturday, Feb. 26, to midnight of March 6, Sunday excepted. Here will be exhibited the lavt wort in everything periaining to woman's amart apparel, from the topmost hair of her head to the high French heel of her slipper. Advance sale of tickets, which may be obtained either by mail or by call- Ing at the office of the Revue de Fushion, No, 1400 Broadway, Room No, 401, will be $1 each. But if you wait to buy them at the door, they will be $2 each, Now take this matter up seriously, for the prodits are to go to The Eve- ning World's Service House Fund, so here id your chance not only to boost our fund but also to get something for your money. I believe no one will deny the cour- age und bravery of our soldiers, therefore I am not afraid that the public will misunderstand mo, when 1 way that twice recently I bave seen big fellows burst into tears and weop like children when. telling mo their story of Government neglect and hos- pital inhumanity S It always hurts me te ser aA oinan cry, and men themselves Aate to do it, TL only mention it so that yuu will know how badly thev are off when they break down apd sob on their folded arma, One boy, to whom the Government owow $5,000 back pay, was taken from the poorhouse yesterday. Another smidicr with two years’ buck pay owing eame into my office to ask if 1 could do anything, I will do something! And L saw the photograph of the boy who committed suicide at Fox Hilly by stabbing himaghf ninetenn times with a pair of shears, the most pathetic picture { ever saw If the public could only know what brought to ma in one of these h jd} it a mia Board ot Gontrollor ‘she aniea |tfam thls Olly: Inst Noventter, la having’| sempalins 06 Sunagy Je Would. 99. Fim Rullding Metal 7 dtrieg mat | another adventure, ; SObAtIGHR Liay tie mney for thia afternoon at No West PH dieseeeecr Se eee rvies houne but others Hircet 10 divcuse the open ahop policy | Washington, where his father tives, Tho nee ibe Des Eee which hes been put in. effect’ permn-| cider Michener reported the disappeur-) ail our wounded nen were properly | ance of the son anid the theft of a piste nently in 106 shops. It was announced and $12,000 in Liberty Bonds to the ind suicides front loneliness a) y would be unknown. by J, Ro Schwinger, a member of the | focal police to-day. Hor the second time | is a typical letter from a Board of -Control, that some of the! within three months a national search | soldier: shops already were manned up to 75) 18 being made for him. Dear Miss Bell 1 have fuat ae : per cent. of normal n discharged from Fox Hil “hye are taking ail expericnced me THINK LOST MAN A.M.FISCHER| 1 nd been tern ainco, inst No ehanics who opply in angwer to our taking vor atia tul teminiban but advertisements,” sald Mr, Schwinger,” Victim of Ammesia May Be injured) (eXinn vorutionsl lralning: Bee irrespective of whetherathey belong to Canadian Army Officer. moved from the pay roll of the sorta on this cuimber of Tinlon men. whe| Police of tie Afiaaing, Forsine Burnstl|, Wederal Heard and pul, baake f mie back on their old jobs.'* to-day believe ‘that the tall, well- begat fe Up te the presen » trouble in the industry etarted | areased , thirty-six, found wandering |‘ Fi Ray? a 1 when, about: 2.500 workers quit drone Ceeiyn Hirldge yesterday utter | {all from Bureau of ey all e n ee! n a “4 | he Reren met ing from amnesia iy Aleistuir M. Fisher," y merited te « former Canadian officer who) Washington have received no + employers disputed | wax injured in the war. He has awear| reply My reat js overdue and I tinea roan lon the left side of bis forehead and| am > you If you will please alent otea. eanetion hin right hand is partly paralyze | ne can do to help me. een given the men in w baggage check found in his clothing} | Ww: to the Red Cross but they incr amgunting to 50 pero pe Dass 14 they could de nothing. ‘They nereases ameuntin i pe A ice ke ea alacavery “on latlare ort wald they could de nothing. The wages of the ornamental iron and | (ed to the discover ee eines) nald 1 mitt wait ull they could bronze workers run from a minimum) D. B. Fisher montioned a Beatrice who write to Washing But, Miss of $44 to $59 a week, the man said was bis daughter and that re I need help now and od it <o- the address A.M. Fischer, Staff House, | badly, Tam willin pay you TAKING BATH, CEILING FELL.| Kenowamt, Province of Quebec, waa k when I ge ie at bs - his. = wounded in the seed. 1K telegram has been sent to Keno- Thanking you ia tandlord Sued for $25,000 by) oii in an effort to cleur up the case.) for ys boys’ Chrigtmas and oui Injured Bather, ~ ing an eurly re I am R wee ry f vo! reg, Sohulte of No, 1001 Brigan Av LOST $85 AFTER FLIRTATION. | Mully yours, nue, the Bro! 1a8 brought si) ! J i ‘ ne, brought sit |n | 2491) N ¥ Int, formerly 16th N wpreme Court 19° young Woman Arrested tn Breok-| yo yyf) co. M. M. & IL. lealt lye After Maw f Pocket © Come over to the World Bullding, he Mi in! BIBL OAs ha hate Following « flirtation In Fulton) 0d 1 will help you out. Bring your hangon that 0} Girest, Brooklyn, on the afternoon of | JMchArKe papers with you and dont hile In the buthre dice ory e are yo riende—the The ceiling fell” Michael Sobuie of NO TW) kind of friend) who dig down. into cussion of the vith + Manhattan, found| eur p wand help while the help unconseiou ving of Wis coat pocket had | ing ol Thove is no ved tape yoen end $85 was gol about The Ev ng World. * ove mm t Adama With us, t is « determination to Mra. amily & they Aven| Brooklyn. iduted Iroad : denied stealing any money Krookiyy Supreme Bou uiman fumed at th nm hulman sald they had somethin HOM, ‘V. subway 4 yout, atrotled strect, pa form and being w and then he notived hia Vaneral of Don Marauia's Bey Mel 1e wounded out of the Hole ‘ eo to it that chey don't be name © Hou and n you of our house will be of such on to belongs to ttoa da ” Sun! Sunvick HOUSE FUND ROR Nolte thite: ee . Hoek WOUNDED SOLDIB ROOM NO. this, Mr. Hout went aboul failure yee attack 13% i lus affairs as usuel “of moasics. bO IT NOW. ———S—_————e— somty ae! 4. foe OFF CUBA, THIRD AITHIN A MONTH aa mshi Captain and Crew Reach New York With Report of Menace. Capt. Joseph G. Cook, of the four. masted American schooner Charles _ G. Endicott, with his crew of ning ~ negroes arrived here to-day on the Munson liner Munamar from An- tia, Cuba, after their ship had bean Diown wp in the matn route of South American trade off Cape Maysl, Cuba, Feb. 9 by a floating mine. Capt. Cook was informed hin was the third vessel destroyed by vagrant mines within a few weeks Capt. Cook said be was making for Manzanillo, Cuba, with a cargo of coal from Newpot News when, with a calm and favorable breeze, the deck upended and threw him from the wheel on bis face. The negroes were so frightened he had to drag them to a lifeboat and manhandle them into wetting It overboard. ak whole etar- board bow was torn off And she sank» in three hours. * ‘The ten men landed on the Cuban coast sixteen miles from Antflia, whore they learned of the previous disasters. VOLK’S STATEMENT WRONG, SAYS CRAIG Shows Loan to B. IR? T. Was Not Kept Secret, but Given Wide Publicity. 5 Comptrolier Charles 1. Craig called the attontion of The Evening World to- day to an inaccurate charge in the statement given by Congressman Les- ter D. Voli of Brooklyn to this news- paper yesterday relative to a loan of $17,000,000 made on June 17, 1918, by the War Finance Corporation to the pe a ‘The Congrossman’s statement in effect, that the loan was made in secret. & “Comptroller Craig." said the Con- greauman in his statement, “gare his approval to this gigantic loan in @ let. ter which bas remained private and neoret until revealed in the course of my investigation.” ‘The records in the Comptroller's pt- fice show that the loan was made iv dull publicity, On June 20, 1918, fa the financial section of the New Youk Amor-~ foun there agpeared « two-column arti- cle relative to the loan and im this article were printed copies of lstt:s indorsing the loan written ®y Comptroi- ler Craig and Oscar 5. Gtraus, thon Chairman of the Public Service Commis- sion, ‘The Comptrollar eays a copy of his letter was printed in another nows- paper, but he was upable to produce the clipping to-da Al the New York newspapers on June 20th, tho Comp- * aroller says, curried @ despatch from Washington wating that the loan hal bern made. ease SRS a M’COOEY? WITNESS NEVER HEARD OF HIM | Demoeratic “Boss” of Brooklyn an Unknown Quantity to Man on Stand. Vietor Vigarito, No, 140 Wo Brooklyn, @ witness ugwins Burke, No. 11 St. Marks Avenue, toalt fled before County Judge ‘lashell iy Brockhn to-day, he did not Know who John H. MeCooey is and he “never heard” MoCuoery was Democratic leader of Brooklyn. Burke was acrused by Vigarito of oie | talning $126 from Mrs, Mary Vigarite, | bis aunt, of ‘No. 207 North sixth Stresi, for “politteal influence" to obtala 4 orisoner’s release. Benjamin Cohen, ate” torney for Burke, asked whut sort of politieal Inflienre les to be used, ane witness suid Burke told him he was see MoCopey.” at Macoory ? asked the attorney. tdon't know,” antd Vigarit n't you know who Join Mee ot, A auld the wil= ness, ‘The trial wont ony oe — > Resume Inquiry Into Balloon Pilght, ‘The Naval Court of Inquiry invest!+ gating the balloon flight by Liew! Walter Hinton, Stephen A. ufarrell and ~"! Lauls A. Kloor reconvened this afte noon at the Rockaway Point Naval Sin- Uon. It was suid qu asked? ax to who o what tie reason for whether there was any the start to fly over Canadi William Stoffel of Hempstead Dend, William Stoffel died suddenly 1 his home {n Prospect Avenue, Hemp- stead, last evening while from a visit to his son's nearby. |was sixty-six yoars old ident of the Nomau n'a Association, F and an Odd Fellow. e Mr, Stoffel was a barber fortune which he later iner real eatate and inuurance business, returning: He M1 Taken in Rald Freed, nirty-one who were arrested early this morning a parges of din- orderly cond following @ rah by de- | tectives of Inspector Thamar V. Under | hills atare in th ont of a bullding lin test 125th Str were dischang it ay | Magistrate Rosenblatt beowuse of lack of nine detectives had alege! the they men were playing curds and Uvat found money on the tables. | oe dicted a Second % Assistant Conporation me. Vormer sel A. Solovei and ‘Albert A indicted for the séeond time charged with offering a hell bition Agent Frank J. Sieh jrant last Noveu prosecuting Ben! i Violation o: the Volstewd Act indictment was nuashed ee @ tecnplcal, detest, Lodi Prohts Browde ‘ ‘or | previoun \ouuse of * “an eS eee -ERed2 34 eee ee TRS in enn ae ———————