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aah <5 Nall aaa dei - . Wak aor ssaeaca dela beads hada alee ene ee Che | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ if i , 8. TROOPS MOVE T! NO, 21 699_DAILY. right, 1921, by The Press Publishiny OTe (Tee New Kerk Warld). “VOL. LXI. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 28, WHILE OFFICIALS CONFER ON ENFORCING DRY LAW ai Armed Bandits in Bronx and Brooklyn Hold Up and Rob Store Managers.* POLICEMAN ATTACKED. Almost Killed in Harlem Riot— Chinaman Barely Saved From -Menacing Mob. While the Police Commissioner, the Corporation Counsel and prosecuting offoers of the five counties in Greater New York were conferring at Police Headquarters to-day over plans for the Police Department to enforce the Voistead Act, the following cases re- quiring police attention were entered on station house blotters in vartou parts of the city: ‘Three armed bandits entered a bat store near 149th Street and Toird Avenue in the Bronx at noon, robbed the manager and the clerk of $900 and made their os cape ‘Three armed bandits entered an Atlantic & Pacific tea store in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, held up the manager and « clerk aad got away with $78. An ex-convict was arraigned in Harlem Police Court on a charge ef trying to kill policemen in a Mot in East 108th Street. A Chimainan who is accused of trying to assault two little girls was barely saved from death at the hands of a mob in Hast 123d Street. AD inquest was held at the Morgue on the body of John Cof- fey, an ex-policeman, who was found dying on the str ot in Har- lem early to-day with nis throat ou Court proceedings were insti- tuted against a Brooklyn man whe shot a policaman dead in a gambling raid These were the outstanding «ame There were hundreds of others. BANDITS GET $900, KICK EMPLOYEES DOWN TRAP DOOR Get Away With Money Ready to Bank at Long's Hat Store in Noon Hold-Up. Trree . armed handite emtered lamg's bat stare, No. 2803 Third Avenue, the Bronx, at noon to-day and stole $900 which the manager, Arthur Lester, wad just sorted out for @epowit in the bank ‘The rob- bers made their escape Lester was at his desk in the rear af the store and David Tuchman, a salesman, Was at the a dark, stubby young and asked to be costing about $5. ‘The young man walked to the door, and, standing there « mor man entered shown hats some nt in view of the street, spat on the sidewalk. Then he hurried back and said he would take the last hat he had tried un, Just then two other men entered the store and immediately drew volvers. One covered Lester, other Buchman They announced re- the they would shoot to kill if any outery was made, and| grabbed the $900 roll The robbers in the rear room ordered their captives out into th ore, There is a trapdoor in the nive of the storeroom opening on a ecp flight of ster ding to the jar, One man raised the | door and Lester and Buchman were front door when | STATE'S DRY LAW WILL CLOG COURTS, CONFERENCE FINDS City Officials Agree on Amend- ment Which Would Make Jury Trials Unnecessary. After two hours of discussion of the proposed State Prohibition En- )'Brien, and representasives of the | Prosecutor's offices of the five coun- |conclusion xt, Potice Headquarters | |this afternoon thet the law jprusent shaps weuld scarcely be | ture will be requested to amend it. Under the law in its present form | persons anvested for violation of the | Volstead Act are to be indicted by the Srand Jury and placved on trial be- | fore a jury in a court of competent jurisdiction, ‘This means trial én this | city in the Court of General Gessions | or the Supreme Court in Manhattan or in the County Court or the Su- |preme Court in Brooklyn, the Bronx, | Queens and Staten Island | All parties to the conference agreed that this procedure would lead to an/ inextricable tangle in the courts. It| | would requtre, for instance, the | tablishment of two additional county | {courts and one Supreme Court in| Brooklyn and corresponding in- | creases in other boroughs and soon | lead to a condition where a defend- jant might have to wait for months before his case could be reached. The conference decided to ask that the law be amended to allow the ar- raignment of alleged violators in a magistrate’s court and that the mag- strate be given power to send the case to the Court of Special Sessions for immediate disposition. This would do away with the jury trial Teature and expedite prosecutions in the judgment of thé conferees. Assistant District Attorneys Ander- son of Kings County and Johnstone of New York were chosen a commit- tee to draft an amendment to the law and report back to the confer- ence on Wednesday or Thursday. ‘Then the amendment will be taken to Albany and submitted to the Legis and the Governor, Others | who were in the conference were As- jsistant District Attorney Joab Ban- |ton of New York, District Attorney |Dana Wallace of Queens, Assistant | District Attorney Hemstreet of Kings. District Attorney Edward Glennon ot lature |the Bronx and District Attorney | Molloy of Richmond. | It ts antictpated that the Anti- Saloon League, which is the real force behind the proposed State en- forcement measure, will oppose any amendment such as the conference |sugmests. The Anti-Saloon League, it is believed, will fight a proposition that would make the offense of sell- ing or possessing liquor anything but a felony | —_ rthquake corded, WASHINGTON, Maroh Severe Shocks Re- 28,--Earth- !quake tremors characterited as “very re were recorded to-day on seis onraphe at Georgetown Univ y he hndientod nee from Wasting ton was 1 n © disturbance Ken at 255 A, M. and Insted until after 6 A M., with maximum setivity ais a M 1921. Post Office, Butered ax Second-Clars Matter New York, N. ¥. WOMEN IN MOB BEAT CHINAMAN ACCUSED BY GS East 123d Street Laundryman | Nearly Killed in Attack by ; « Parents and Neighbors. AVED BY DETECT! VE | Police Use Clubs Before They | Can Drag Tut Lee Through Frenzied Crowd. The opportune arrival of two detec tives saved Tut Lee, a Chinaman, from being beaten to death by a mob in his 182 Bast 123d Street to-day, after two little girls had ac- laundry at No. cused him to trying to drag them into the backroom of the place. The father of one of the girls led the attack on Tut Lee. A crowd followed the detectives and tion house to Hurlem Police Court, forcement Act, Police Commissioner the Chinaman to the East 126th Street | Richard Enright, Corporation Counsel Station house and later from the sta-) where he was arraigned on a charge of attempted criminal assault. house to the police court an attempt the custody of ths police officers. | Ana Burkhardt, thirteen old, of No. 2021 Lexington Avenue, entered Tut Lee's laundry al |o'clock with a package of soiled jclothing. ‘They say Chinaman | motioned to them to step through a} | door in a strong wire screen stretch- | ing clear across the room about 5 feet | from the front door and extending | from the floor to the ceiling. They went behind the screen. say, and Tut Lee grabbed them and | tried to drag them into the back |reom. Helen Burke ®roke loose and | managed to reach the front door, where she screamed. Tut Lee cau, urht | hold of her agnin and this time suc- = | ceeded in getting both the little girls into the back room and closing and locking the door in the wire screen. | Passersby had heard the screams of Helen Burke and soon a mob, mostly composed of women, surged into the laundry, Frantioany the invaders | crashed against and tore at the screen. Excitement spread up and down the block and soon extended to the saloon of Michael Burke at ‘Third | Avenue and 128d Street. He is the father of Helen Burke. With his bartender and several patrons behind him Michael Burke jran to Tut Lee's laundry, through the mob of screaming women and children, hurled against the screen and tore it loose from its fastenings. Then he charged imto the back room where Tut (Continued on Tenth Page.) 1,200 FAIL TO SEE HARDING WHEN EGG-ROLLING IS ON President Turns Them Away to Witness Chikdren’s Frolic at White He WASHINGTON, March 28.—A small boy with an armful of Easter eggs dodged a policeman and rapped on the window of President Harding's office to-day. Mrs, Harding came to the window and received several of the brightly colored eggs and chatted a few minutes with the lad Shortly after noon President and Mrs, Harding came to the south por Lee tico to view the frolic. “Laddie Boy” appeared between them with his fore- feet on the railing of the portico “Are you having a good tim: Mrs. Harding asked. "You bet!" the children shout ba Mr Harding shook handa w 600 visitory int xeoutive wut was compelled to turn away double that number in order to get tme to view the egg rolling * dived | himseif | At one | thes in Greater New York came to the stage of the trip from the station! in its | WA made to take the ipaner trom | | years | | workable in this city. The Legiala- old, and Helen Burke, twelve years | they | 10 | The ‘Niftan Saportas early NUSS MARI PROTO BY CriaRio Marion Tiffany, Who Will Wed Martin Brown Saportas in June “oS os., engagement of Miss Marion y t marry Martin Rrow in June las been an nounced frey Miss Tiffany is a grandd. by mother, Mrs. the young Henry Fletwl womans | her God ushier 0! \ \and Mrs D. | sisters q NWTIFFANY PaArmcht..8. Theodore A. Havemeyer and has |) ¢ sclive in the fashionable outdoor i ebout Roslyn and Southampton, L, 1 is a daughter of Perry Tiffany. Mr. Saporta. a eon .f Mrs. R, ‘own Saporta: Mrs. FF. Alexandre Ll. Van Buren are his is CHURCH ROBBERS BLOW ALTAR SAFE; GET $2,000 LOOT |Thieves Abandon Stolen Communion Service on H. P. Whitney Estate. MINKOLA, lars broke Chureh at stole church $2,000, The burglars forced ing wo several windows in the chureh blew open the gafe on the altar, that it knocked several p ter off the wails and b! foot square twelve feet above the the L. ly inte the Manhasset last ni articles valued the de robing room and harge being so = through the safe Part March 2 Christ Ppiseopal top of the the slate roof, oft burs ight and at about por le: a open They errific plas a hole a SUPREME COURT DECIDES FOR U. 8. IN INGOME TAX CASES pet Profits (® Trust Funds Made From Selling Taxable as Income. WASHINGTON. March %8.-—The Government won a string of victories to-day in Incom’ ‘Tax decisions handed down by the Supreme Cotrt Solleitor Gen | Frierson deciared the Government's position had been upheld completely. The effect of th rulings, he added, was that any main derived from corporate bond or tal asset Investments was taxai! the neome, amount of income sul ject to such taxation still to be exti mated from Mare} 1, 1913. The court held its realized from From the safe the robbers took thc silver communion set of four pieces, Later one of the pieces was found in side the chureh and another one on the grounds of the Harry Payne Whitney estate. The robbers alno ti the or collection plates, but the money from them had been taken away for safe keeping y also touk the prayer books #tand, a brass cross cut glass bottle, four la brass flower vases, a large silver alms basin and broke open several closets and took a bottle of communion wine mabile in the nity of the eh about Ll o'clock last might and 1} o'clock this morning, and believe they heard the noise of the explosion when the robbers blew fhe safe the sale of assets of a trust fund are taxable under Income and Bxcew Profits Law. The decision of the Court directly affects several cases now in litiga tion and indirectly affects thousand. trust funda, It was given in the eppeal brought by the Merchants’ {oan and Trust Comp: as trunter f the extate of Arthur Ryere n tien of Minois, Ryerson left as part of h apital tock in the firm of Hye: son & son valued af $580.000, Pour r afte s dow ch anid $1,280, and (he cash obtained | was added to the ostate. The Goy (Continued en Becond Page.) ANOTHER WOMAN MAY BE NAMED oe Lawyers Said to Have Found | Her and Revelation Will Be Great Nek age | Banker ienores Last Chance to Offset Leeds Charges With Affidavits. Counsel for Mrs, Anne Unganart Potter Stillman were reported to-day jlo be preparing = for another legal move against James A. Stillman, but} [its exact nature and the time it 19 to be launched ure not intimated | The most interesting rumor in n-| nection with it is that it is designed Mr, Stillman’s at- | ath further to weaken tack davits by submitting additional naming & woman other than Mrs, Morence H. Leeds. been bints of asother woman, and it There huve is reported Mra Stillinan’s lawyers have found her and that her natne Will be GA great a surprinw to Mr Stiliman's lawyers is were the Lends affidavits. Tt is not likely Mr Suita how vers will make their uext meve uatil Justice Morschauser hus decided the] alimony question, which he has under | ladviewment this week Plans tur it are suid Wy have been made at a cou ference lust Mriday | | ‘Tho purpose of tne uow mot | | might be tu strengthen Mra, Still inan's “aitirmative defense’ by piling up charges of infidelity against the banker. In this connection, particn- larly With reference to the fact that the new motion ia based on new dis- pveries, it has been recalled that since the publication of the Stillman story in the newspapers, the wife's counsel have received many letters, anonymous and otherwise, giving in- formation of great value to the de- nse. The mysterious “second wom an" in said to have been mentioned in one or more of these letters. ‘The in- formation contained in the letters waa checked up by detectives who, it is said, had been trying bard to find the olber woman for some time. MAY BE MOVE FOR COUNTER SUIT FOR DIVORCE. Another possibility inv that Silman might ask permis w amend her anywer again and file uw counter-claim, either for divorce separation. It can be suid definitely that i is not a motion tw diseontinue or to throw the case out of court, Mrs. | Stillman is determined not to end the Nght until the courts establish the right of her gon Guy to the namo Stillman and bis share of the Still- man fortune, gd John EB. Mack, guardian ad litem of the boy, ts equally determined not to drop the fight until uy’s name is cleared. Mra. Florence H. Leeds nas not Mrs. or (Continued on Tentt ee BLUE SILK SOCKS | WERE HIS UNDOING Page) non Pannio, a sro, wlhteen, | of No. 4% Weat 4 Str a former | employee of the Criterion ‘Theaten, whol 1 was being questioned by detectives in| regurd to the theft of a $2,000 violin | from Drago Jovanoditeh, leader of the | orchestra, March had told sueb « straight story tat he was about to be | rased when he atretohed his leg and divclosed a pair Of blue silk socks Thy detectives learned over Ue Lele phone ut Jovanoditeh tad loat uch a pair with tie violin, and Pannio was to-day in the West Side Court in $2,000 bail by Magistrate McQuade for the Grand Jury, ‘The violin, ines | recovered, hnd wold for $is uw font to Phi where it wa | being used t 0 | au Harkin € THE WOKLD TRAVEL HURKAL grade, Vubiise iWolwl Washing, dots Vara How ye ie Heekinan 4000, | Chas roam for cs ea io as td | ney elieen’ ohectoa on ait AMERICAN ARMY POLICE RISING IN OCCUPIED ZONE 2 MORE PE ACE RUMORS, Berlin Communist Leader Captured Hiding Under Altar of Church— Feared Workers in Saxony Plan to Attack the Big Industrial Centres, CUOBLEN March 28 (Associated Press).—A Communist uprising 66 curred this morning in the American Bridgehead area, at Montabaur, ot miles northeast of Khrenbreitstein, Provost Marshal and An baur restore order HALLE, Germany, March 28 ( A riot call was answered by the erican Military Police were despatched to Monta- Associ od Press)--Federal artery | wa. king a prominent part to-day in dewing with the insurgent Com- muniats in this disturbed section of Saxony. The artillery shelled the Commuhists who were grouped on the hills to the west of Eisleben, dis- Torsing them MORE PLUMBERS GO 10 PRISON; ONE FIRM FINED $10,000 Charles A. Murphy Gets Three Months and John L.. Knight Pwo Months, Deapit 4 recommendation for merey made by the jury which con victed Charle A. Murphy, President of the Wells & Newton Company, plumbing contractors, and John Knight, President 6f the Master Plumbers’ Association of Manhatten, of violations of the Anti-Trust Law in connection with the Hettriok ‘code of practice.” Justice John V, McAvoy imposed prison sentences on both men in the Supreme Court (his afternodn, Murphy was sen- tenced to serve three months in the ‘Tombs and Knight to serve two montha Murphy was also ined $5,000, and the firm of which he ix the head was fined $5,000. In asking the court to disregard the jury's plea for morey Deputy Attorney General Kenneth Spence changed that Murphy committed deliberate perjury while lostifying in hia own defense W. G Corel’ & Co, Ine. which pleaded guilty, was fined $10,000, Hd- ward Slouson, the active member of the firm in the Hettrick combination, was sentericed to serve ten days in the Tombs Henry Hemlin of the firm of Bom lin & Smith surrendered himaelf to he Sheriff to-day to serve bis term f thirty days in the Tombs, When he was sentenced Just MoAvoy offered to suspend the execution of he sentence until his partner, Her- bert Smith, who was convicted after trial with Hettrick and two repre- sentative the Plumbers’ Unioa, as released from the penitentiary ut Hemlin ed to start his im- sonment 4t once and get it over The kin Bronx firm of Marcus & Bar- fined $400 William whi usked for lenien the firm dic shop and ast 178th ¢ for $75 McAvoy said he was ! two apartments such committed Jays. wa furkin, his Counsel for who partner 7 #0 pleaded guilty pleaded not guilty on the ground that oss Chat their t No two apartments Street 4 month, ed to lea and & stor urp co rent the Tombs fo fine of $10,000 against the srneil corporation is the large which has been imposed ip the La aa. a The - | After a brief engagement the town |Of Sangerhauson, southwest of Biss leben, was occupied by Federal forges, which now control that place. Count Poninski, Coloned of Balter in the Mansfield district, has taj charge of the operations around Bis- [loben, BERLIN, March 3 (Assootated Press).—The rioting activities in the Communist uprising in Central @ér- many are concentrating now on Bit- terfeld, where the Extremists bave succeeded in disarming the Toqal police and occupying the public buildings, according to an offielal communique \agued sbertly bdefore OOn to-day. During Sunday, anys the stati » | bandits looted the bank and the | |office at Gangerbausen and put ee jlocal telegraph offices out of com: mission, (Sangerhausen has been eb- cupied by Federal forces, “a to a Halle despatch.) whieh sbrmelty Through trains traverse the Halle section are beth re-routed, owing to the sabotaging of the trackage and bridges by the Communists, who are continaing to spread terror as they proceed weat® ward and northward from Halle, with the Security Police at their heels. ‘Troop reinforcements are coi ly arriving at different points riot area. The Government ann that it does not propose to enter imto a truce, and that ft will also the unconditional surrender of arms aod munitions held by the munista With the der of the Comment. jats im jail, the situation ts @ligntly relieved to-day after a day and might of rioting, during which the police fired on the mob, kiling two of its members and wounding @ number of others, Hildebrand, the imprisoned leader, was captured under the altar of a church, where he had taken refuge Tho Communistic outbream tw the industrial areas of Central Ger- many and the concerted attempt by the German Bolshevists te provoke a general strike throughont the country are viewed by the Government as am unmistakable symptom of a deter, tined and systematic plot, the inapt- ration of which is directly tracesible to Moscow, and whove single purpose is the establishment of a German Soviet Republic, a Government spokesman declared. oe COLD WAVE DUE TO-NIGHT. Reavy Overevets Will fe Necded ‘To-Morrew—Suuwing Up State, A drop to Mreesing tenperature by to-morrow inurting Was forecast to-day by the Weather Bureau. ‘The sunshi and xpring breezes that ushered in week wili be followed late this ufter- noon and evening by rain, after whieh 4 cold northwest wind will set in. It will be cold to-morrow, but the worst will be over by to-morrow even- ing and after that it will grow gradu aby warmer. In the northern part of vw York State, the Bureau reported. there will be heavy snows. A warning from Washington suid? “Hoist Northwest storm warnings Pr. M., Atlantic Coust, Eastport, My to Cape Hatteras. Winds will abif ata a i. ——