The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1921, Page 1

a 7 a ef $50,000 HOLD-UP AT FULTON ST. DEADLINI To-Night'’s Weather—CLOUDY, WARME! ’ WALL STREET The EDITION [*Cireutation Books Open to AIt?”| VOL. LXI. NO. 21,673—DAILY. r “To-Morrow’s Weather—CLOUDY, WARMER. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUA 21. RY 25, “Circulation Books Open to All.’ Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. 19 ) 17-Year-Old Boy Robs Bank of $670,000 in Bon | Sinn Feiners and Crown Force in Fierce Battle PRISON SENTENCES HARDING PEEVED — LIBERTY BONDS HAA } TIE MSEUUORE ‘10 BE ASKED FOR IN| BY HOOVER'S TALK | WORTH $670,000" yin bees MAKES LAW UTTER FAILURE | — GERMAN OFFER . CUTS INDEMNITY NEARLY IN HALF Want Allies to Reduce It From | $56,000,000,000 to About — | | | | | - LOOKHOODCASES OF APPOMTENT, st.» STOLEN BY BO | preme Allied Council a proposition to pay 120,000,- 000,000 marks (about $30,000,000,000) in reparations when the Allies — Deputy Attorney General Says| | No Pleas of Guilty With Expresses Surprise That His, {William Dalton, Seventeen Own Announcement Was Rn :'s of news items dealing with the uote, in the list printed to-day, cove Feb. £2, 1921, proof that violations a official corruption are spreading and ently unable to cope with. The records of the New York Police Department show that there were 5,813 arrests for intoxication in this ‘ty in 1920, as against 5,657 ip 1919. News items show a steady increase! in crimes of violence committed by persons under the influence of liquor. The despatches are spotted with ac- counts of fatal battles between moon- shiners and Federal agents in the mountainous districts of the South By forging labels ft former popular brands of whiskey unscrupulous boot- leggera have been able to sell vast amounts of poisonous Liquor. The news accounts indicate—from number of seizures made—that the manufacture of whiskey in tenement houses, stores, dwellings and on farms in the vicinity of cities bas been taken up by hordes of adven- turers,willing to run # chance of jail for large profits. A news item states that Collector of the Port Newton finds hlis force inadequate to prevent the smuggling of liquor on ships from foreign coun- tries and that general smuggling has increased since the Volstead act was passed. Another item quotes the Save a Life League as stating that Prohibition is a contributing cause to the inorease in suicides. A growing demand for patent medi- cines is indicated in thé items of news from various parts of the coun- try. Many {tems show new and in- genious schemes of swindling which have been made possible b, ge Vol- stead act, buf probably the most in- teresting feature of the growing vol- ume of news created by the attempt to enforce the Prohibition Law is furnished by the repeated instances of acceptance of money by enforce- ment agents and officers. The condensed record of nearly three months of happenings that would not appear in the press if the Volstead act were not in effect fol- lows: DECEMBER. Deo. 1—Three persons charged with counterfeiting and, with marking bogus whiskey label Dec, 2-Winnipeg, Canada, newspa- per reports that airplanes are use@ by bootleggers in border operations. Seven liquor dealers arrested and held after being indicted by Grand Jury in New ork City for attempt- ed bribery agents. Deo. %—Branu.ed fruits selzed in Houston, Tex. Revelue Agent W. B, Andersen (Continued om Two, Page.) » Corruptionof Dry Agents:All Over the “Country More Rampant as Prahibi-| the) | tion Grows Older—Increase of Sui-; cides Blamed On the Measure. attempt to enforce the Volstead act, which was printed in yesterday's Evening World, will be interested to ring the period frofm Dec, 1, 1920, to re increasing in number, bribery and the illicit manufacture of liquor has become a problem which the Prohibition enforcement forces are appar- | Traffic in forged permits ANTES OF GHOST DAVE AGED WOMAN FROM HER HOWE Upsets Table, Pulls Out Bureau Drawers and Empties a Hod of Coal. LONDONDERRY, N. FL, Feb, 25.— ‘The little cottage in which Mrs, Sed- ley Lowd has lived here for many years was deserted to-day, except, perhaps, for the “ghost™ which, by a series of unusual manifestations, drove the aged woman and her six- year-old grandson from their home in terror. Mrs, Lowd, who is seventy- two years old, left the cottage last night. The that frightefied her began last Sunday. A representative of the Psyhic Re- search Library of Boston and First Selectman Edward FE. Kent started independent Investigations to-day of mysterious happenings. The occur- ences as reported by Mrs. Lowd have stirred the town to such an extent tat the Selectman felt he ought to obtain some first hand information If ponstble, The “Ghost” first made its pres- ence known by causing a hod of coal to empty itself, Later a neighbor who called upon Mrs, Lowd was startled to see three drawers of a bureau shoot out of tho cabinet and hurl the contents on the floor. Several nolghbors wero called in an effort to solves the mystery, but the “supernatural” kept at work and with unseen hands turned over the dining room table, Neighbors assert that later on the same day three Iéaves of the dining table which had been standing in a corner were lifted into the air and transported acmns the room, = , On Tuesday Mrs. Lowd sent for her san, William, He spent the night in the little cottage and was aroused shortly after midnight by @ loud erasi om the lower floor, The doors and windows of the cotiage had net been disturbed, but on the tap ef the old manifestations Fines Will Be Accepted. LONG LIST TO BE TRIED. Hettrick Greeted by Brindell in the Tombs, With Whom He Has Long Conference. ers of The Evening World who followed the astonishing synop-| Deputy Attorney General Samuel Berger, who is now in full charge of criminal prosecutions growing out of the Lockwood committee investiga- tions, announced to-day that here- after no pleas of guilty would be ac- cepted from individuals under indict- ment with the understanding that the guilty persons would be let off with Federal agents admit that more than $100,000,000 worth of whiskey |q tine and no jail sentence. He would was released from warehouses on permits bearing the forged signature press for a jall sentence of every con- of Enforcement Officer O'Connor of New York. went on for months sefore the enforcement forces knew anything about it,| Mr. Berger explained that the pleas fessed offender, he said, hereafter. of thirty cut stone men were accepted at the outset with an understanding that the punishment would be limited to mere fines because the assistance of the guilty men was necessary in gathering evidence for more im- portant prosecutions. The confidence @f the Prosecutor in imposing more drastic conditions was strengthened by the conviction and sentence y@iterday of John T. Hettrick, the “Code of Practice” pool manager, and his agsociates. pwo Mindygd and fifty-six indict- ments have Dten found as a result of the Lockwood investigation, Five have resulted in convictions; four (for contempt of the committee) have been dismisged and three others may meet the e disposition; one re- sulted in a mistrial; thirty cut stone men and firms pleaded guilty and were fined. Of the remaining 213 indictments four are against Hettrick and several are against Chapman, qne of the ing delegates Tonvicted with him yesterday. Fifty-one plumber clients of Hettrick firms and individuals are to be tried March 7. Thirty or more firms and individuals in the building material trade await trial March 15, Martin Gonboy will make motions to- morrow before Justice. McAvoy aa a basis of attacking thetr indictments on the ground that their documents were seized and therefore they were forced to furniah testimony against them-~- selves, Justice McAvoy has already ruled against somewhat similar con- tentions, John & Murphy & Co. Inc., members of the Hettrick code combination ap- peared before Justice McAvoy to-day and through John §. Murphy pleaded guilty to violating the Donnelly act Sentence was deferred until other tn- dictments of the same nature are dis- posed of, Mr, Murphy was not tn- dicted as an individual, Robert P. Brindell, President of the (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) STORM FORECAST AT INAUGURAL BY WEATHER PROPHET HMAZLIGTON, Pa, Kev. 26, HG beginning of the Harding esime will be stormy, ac- cording to James 8. Yeuger, Hauieton’s weather prophet. A bdiisward will start twenty- four hours before the inaugural, he said to-day, tying up the mahogany table were three eracks (Continued om Geoond Page.) Sittegsoe Hastera States. Bleet and snow Wil eoniidue te fali unui Maren 84, he said. | Forestalled by Appointee. | NEARLY SPOILED PLAN.| St. Augustine Report Says Can- cellation of Appointment at | One Time Seemed Likely. | | ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 25—| |President-elect Harding's selection of | Herbert C. Hoover to be Secretary of Commerce was confirmed to-day by | Mr. Harding after’a series of devel- | opments that at one time seemed like ly to lead to cancellation of the ap-| pointment. Mr, Harding broke his silence re- garding Mr, Hoover after repeated efforts to secure confirmation of the statement issued by the former Food Administrator in New York last night. | Mr. Harding expressed surprise thai Mr. Hoover had made a statement on the subject. The President-elect said he had intended to announce the appointment here to-day, but that his prospective Secretary had acted within his privileges in taking the initiative, Asked about the condition laid down by Mr, Hoover, which, included jn- dorsement by Mr, Harting of a defin- ite policy for reorganizing the Com- merece Department, the President- elect replied; “We are in perfect accord about what the department ought to be made. I wouldn't want Mr. Hoover or any other Secretary to take a de- partment unless he intended to do things with it.” He added that he saw nothing out of the ordinary about the case ex-| cept the publicity given it. Every other prospective Cabinet appointee, he said, had discussed with htm the matter of permanent department poli- cies. “Has any other laid down stipula- tions as Mr. Hoover has,” he was! asked. “I don't like the form of your ques- tion,” was the reply. “I wouldn't oall them stiplations.” Herbert C. Hoover, at his office, No. 42 Broadway, refused to-day to amplify his statement of last night concerning his appointment as Seo- retary of Commerce. Hoe 1s clearing the way for taking op hie duties In ‘Washington. Mr, Hoover was at hia desk shortly before 9 o'clock to begin n fourteen- hour day, according to his aasistant, George Barr Buker, who said his ohlef wan busy and would not have anything more to say on his nomt- nation. | “The matter now is in the hands of official Washington,” sald Mr. Baker. “It wonld probably be inappropriate for Mr. Hoover as @ subordinate to talk on the problems that beset the Administration or those he will he) obliged to meet when he takes his| post.” Asked how his chief would find time for his additional duties, with the many he has already, Mr Baker smiled reassuringly, “Mr, Hoover begins his day,” said Mr, Baker, “by meeting some one on business at breakfast, and has the newspapers read by the time he peaches his office.” | | | i |31, and Germans meet at London next week, says the vorrespondent of the Journal, who says he re- ceived his information from @ “parliamentary source.’* ‘This payment would be made in thirty installments of 4,000,000,000 marks each, either in cash or goods, according to conditions de- cided upon at the conference, "The reported German proposal would practically cut in half.the 226,000,000,000 marks (about $56,- 000,000,000) fixed by the Allies as the amount of reparations exclu- sive of the 12 per cent. tax on exports, $149,000 HOLD-UP AFAKE; MESSENGER CONFESSES PLO Mackenzie, Employed by Chemical Bank, Tells How Robbery was Planned. John Mackenzie, former messenger of the Chemica! National Bank was arrested at his home, No, 2075 Seventh Avenue last night, charged with com- plicity in the robbery by which $149,000 of money and securities belonging to the bank were taken from him Dec. ‘To-day, according to Inspector Coughtin of the Detective Bureau, the young man made a full con- feasion, Mackenzie's conduct was investt- gated by the bank, by a surety com- pany and the police immediately after he reported the robbery. It was given out that he was not to blame, though he was distmiseed from the bank's employment. A week ago photographs and de- scréptions sent broadcast by the De- tective Bureau here caused the arrest in Chicago of Joseph Tiernan of No. 243 Kighth Avenue, ton of Mike Tier- nan, ® famous baseball player of the 80's. Lahey went to Chicago to bring Tiernan to New York, and from him got information which led to the ar- rest in that city of Benjamin Dealey of No. 385 Lenox Avenue, this city, brother of a youth serving a term in Sing Sing for a “framed-up” highway robbery In Brooklyn. Both were ax- tradited. Information furnished by there two led to yesterday's arrest of Mackenzie. According to Inspecter Coghian the young man eald the rob- bery had been discussed for weeks in a flat In Harlem and was fixed for a day when he expected to have $60,000 in cash in his bag. Ho aotnally had but $5,000 In cash when the plot waa carried out. Mackenzie was arraigned in the Tombs Court to-day and hold with. out ball for examination with Tiernan and Dealy Mon LEGLESS TENANT WINS. Morris Yorowits, his wife and five children cannot be evicted from their tittle candy store and two living rooma at No. 489 Livenia Avenue, Brooklyn, it was decided to-duy by County Judge Bayos, t whom the landlord, Mrs, An- nie Cohen, appealed from twe Munioi- pal Court decisions, Whon Herowits lovt both lows three yearn ago, friends raised @ fond and Dim D. 1p, buainegs, ooently Mra. on, ty pviet him, ‘but the Mu; pal rt decisions were pyeinst “iy id tha matter ni oat in or * te Foepen the nas, ed iney at that ad Years Old, Robs Northern Trust Co. in Chicago. {WAS PAID $65 A MONTH. (Had Worked Three Years In- Aide Securities Cage of the Bank. CHICAGO, Feb, %.—The robbery of a bank of Liberty Bonds bearing a market value of $670,000 was dis- closed to-day when the police began searching for a seventeen-year-old ‘boy. ‘The Northetn ‘Trust Company an- nounced that William Dalton had Wisappeared with the Bonds at noon on Thuraday, Dalton's wage was $66 a month. A number of other em- ployees are believed to have been im- plated. No trace of Dafton hag been found. ‘Wires were sent to police all over the country to-day nojifying them of the thoft. A reward of $25,000 was offered for return of the bonds and of $1,000 for the apprehension of Dal- ton, ‘The hank’s loss was covered in part by an insurance carried with Lloyd's, the British insurance agency 'W. S. Miller, attorney for the bank, said Dalton had been employed at the bank for three years in the se- curity cage as @ clerk - Dalton lived with his mother and sister. They were closMy questioned by detectives, but said they had not seen William since he disappeared. Dalton ‘had charge of the work of exchanging the temporary onda for permament ones, and in this way was able to get hold of 90 large an amount at one. a ee LANDLORDS IN JAIL; BROKE RENT LAWS Maximum of 30 Days Imposed on Three Owners Who Pailed to Provide Service. ‘Three landlords were convicted un- der the new housing laws in Special Seasions this afternoon for failing to provide hot water, heat and telephone service in tenements, Every one was given ten days in the Workhouse and fined $260, with an alternative of speding thirty days in jail ‘The landlords were Jacob Denner, who lives in his tenement at No. 58 Mangin Btreet; Meyer Blumfeld, No. 67 Bast 106th Street, owner of the tenoment at No. 325 East 101nt Street, Jand Willlam Bridges, ocotored, No, 2463 Beventh Avenue, who owns the tenement at Nos. 85 and 37 West 120th Btreet, The first two ware convicted of fuil- ure to provide hot water to tenants, and Bridges also to provide heat end telephone service, _— $60,000 VERDICT FOR BOY ACTOR After being out ten minutes thie afternoon, @ jury in Justice Cohal- an'’e branch of the Hupreme Court returned @ verdint of $90,000 in favor of George Woaleott, nine years old, of Struck on the Jogeph Mairono, junior partner, Two men came in. He 300 AMBUSHERS ROUT POLIGE; KILL No. 116 Weat 45th Street, an actor, ‘The verdict was aguinst the Ver- | potent Realty Company of No, Lis | West ¢5th Street, owners of the nrem- Battle Continues Two Hours— Reserves and Battle Air- planes Rushed to Scene. MACROOM, Ireland, Feb, 25 (Asso- elated Press).—Three hundred men in ambush atiacked a large party of auxiliary police between Macroom and Ballymooney, County Cork, this morning and compelled the British Crown forces to withdraw after a two-honr battle in which the casual- ties af the Crown detachment included their Major, who was killed, apd the wounding of a number of bis men, some of whom bad to be left on the field. 2 Later the battle was renewed when hundreds of reserves Were hurried to the soene by the military, battle air- planes assisting In the attack om the Irish contingent. f DUBLIN, Feb % (United Press).— Fleven auxiliary police were killed to-day in a Sinn Fein ambush at Mo oom, County Cork, |t was of- ticlally announced, Official reports described the am- ‘bush as the biggest yet attempted. BBLFAST, Feb. 2.—A creamery in Inver, County Antrim, and a co- operative store in Mounteharics, County Donegal, have been burned an a reprisal for the shootings of a constable from ambush. — PENNA. RR. PLANNING NEW CUT IN WAGES Two Previous Reductions, Aggre- gating 20 Per Cent., Not Enough, It Is Said. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—It was learned at the general offices of the Pennsylvania Raliroad here to-day that the conipany 14 considering « further ourtatiment in working forces and op- erating expenses to become effective in Marph, Last December the company made 8 10 por cent, cat in expense, followed by another 10 por cent, in January. These t company offices, have not prodaced the neconwary reduction fo meet tthe re- duced earnings, The extent of the here the boy|pext out has net yet been derwemined. it i “ acoident Teak gains" *" “ersion semitone cal, thy"shaly Seam ARMA es ROTC rt RRM : Member of Firm at No. 206 Broadw: Tried to Close Is Rifled—The Thieves Get Safely Away. Jewelry manufacturing firm of Ratzkopf Bros. & Co., in Room 916) 206 Broadway, was alone in the office a few minutes after noon to~ They were roughly dressed. Mairono like an Italian, he said afterward. arted for the safe, looking pack over his shoulder. Both drew revolvers and biackjacks from their pockets, Leaping to the safe, Mr. Mairono tried to close the seven-foot doors. Before the doors met he was struck on the head and everything became black. Mr. Mairono crawled to (he door . \ unlatched it. The door was open Nan Mra, Hilda Kohn, a customer of “ outa, it wae said at the | th Head and Safe ' < who has a one-fourth interest in, One looked’ to A persistent rapping on tie glass of the corridor door aroused hit. He found he was lying of the floor im front of the safe. Its contents timd been pulled out. Many tissue papem — wrappings of diamonds and some im+ portant papers were scattered about him. i firm, who had called to have a repaired. Mr. Mairono told her place had been robbed, and she an levator and went down to street to give the alarm. Mrs. Kohn found Policeman ney of the Old Slip station,im of the building and he her back to the Ratskopt where Mr. Mairono, who" was able to talk, told him the story ‘e here recougted. A moment Silas M. Ratzkopf of the firm rived and made a hurried es of the loss. He said that as” as he could tell about $50,000 of diamonds and platinum were ing. AMvof it, he said, was by burglary insurance, An ambulffnce in charge of Alvarer of Volunteer Hospital Mr. Mairono to that institution for treatment. The blow on bia bad left a severe wound. 5 Mr. Ratakopf told detectives swarmed into the place within an hour after the alarm was gt thought from Mairono's. deseript that one of the robbers was a man. who had visited the plage frequently lately, pretending to be a cut-rg salesman for jewelers’ shpplies. SAYS HUSBAND MADI HER WEAR HIS SOCK’ Wife of Banker's Son, Asking Sis | aration, Testifies She Was bidden to Laugh. Mrs. Grace M. Prisco applied to the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-day for #@p- aration from her husband, George W. Prisco, son of « private bankur at Na, Mulberry Street, Manhattan, She sald after thelr marriage lent June he made her wear her mothor-in- law's oid clothes and his own old socks, ordered her not to laugh, refused fo speak English tn her presence and wale her up at night to tell how much ihe loved @ certain "Misa X. 4 ‘The husband in his answoring a davit anid she tured him to elope He eaid ah kes cigarettes and pont $21 In a beauty parlor to her hatr fixed, was reserved on her tition for $80 « week counsel fea, ab > hie ———— =