The evening world. Newspaper, June 22, 1922, Page 2

zg ' Saaect ~ PLOT TO INDICT JUSTICES T0 DELAY TRIALS, CHARGED _— Attempt to Incapacitate Court in Corruption Cases Disclosed. PLAN FAILED, HOWEV Attorney General Allen Tells Harvard Alumni otf “Sinister” Scheme. CAMBRIDGE, Mass,, June 22.--An alleged plot whereby three Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court would have been indicted, thus in eapacitating the court in its recent hearings of the cases uf those ‘who were charged with corruption,” was disclosed by Attorney General J. Weston Alien, in an address at the Harvard University Alumni exercises to-day. “The plan in part failed or was abandoned,” said Mr. Allen, “but It was a rinister attempt to undermine the faith of the people in the in tegrity of the courts, a veiled attempt upon the Government itself. Foiled in their purpose to prevent a trial, overwhelmed by the evidence pro- duced against them of corruption and extortion, silent before their accusers, these men have weakly endeavored to claim bias on the part of the court. Stripped of their office, they are be reft of their power and influence which was built upon patronage and rested upon fear."’ Joseph C. Pelletier and Nathan A. Tufts have been removed from the district attorneyships of Suffolk and Middlesex Counties respectively in the past year as the result of charges brought by Allen. Daniel H Coakley, a prominent criminal lawyer whose name was prominent in the removal proceedings, has been dis- barred by the Supreme Court. An indictment is pending against Supreme Court Justice Edward P. Piereg. This indictment and those against certain other judges, Mr. Allen asserted, were not directed against them as individuals, but were part of a plan to hinder the proceed- ings of the court. HACKENSACK RIVER BROCE WRECKED BY SHIP COLIN Five Men Thrown Into Water When Steel Span Is Dislodged. The ocean-golng steamship Glen- daruel, going north in the acken- sack River, ran into the bulkhead of the drawbridge on the Lincoln High- ‘way between Jersey City and Kearny, N. J., at 8.15 this morning, smash~- ing the bow and knocking the heavy ing its bow and knocking the heavy Five men on the draw at the time were thrown into the river, but were rescued by police. The ship, which is 150 feet long, was proceeding to the Seaboard By- Products Company. It continued on it way for more than 1,000 feet be- fore it stopped. The steel draw weighs several thousand tons. ‘The men on the draw were Chief Engineer James McKenna, of No. 201 Monticello Avenue, Jersey City; As- fant Engineer James Sullivan, No. 42 Cole Atreet Jersey City: William Mahon, gate tender, No. 147 Spring- field Avenue, Newark; Daniel Mul- cahey, No, 217 Seventh Street, Je: sey City, and James MacDonough, 244 Grove Street, Jersey City. The last two men were repairing the highway at the bridge. TraMc between Jersey City and Kearny, Newark, and other points was diverted from the Lincoln High- way to the Harrison Turnpike, a mile and a half north of the bridge. Hun- dreds of vehicles were caught in the heavy traffic jam. Two ambulances were sent to the scene from City Hospital and one from Greenville Hospital, both of Jersey City, but the men were found not to have suffered any il] effects from their immersion. —— NATION’L WOMAN'S PARTY PLANS ITS CAMPAIGN Work Dert Pelitt: and Civil a Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont is hostess at her home in Port Washington, 1. 1., eling of officers and members of the National Women's this afternoon at a m Party, of which she ts Prenide Ph those in tendance 6 M Hayemeyer and Miss Alice F wil! be outlined for remode! H quarters, Every phase of woman's determin: ~~ __ Summer for ns tor an intensive summer campaign in Various States for political and civil equality are to be adopted. Among 0. Plans the buildings in Washington, D. ©. given by Mrs, Belmont for a national head- Mien to compel all States to recognize her jegal and political equality with rman Will be discussed aj to-day's micet- HARDING T0 TEST GERMAN SEIZURE OF WAR REFUND Unless Germany Refrains,} proved by the President Personal Property Held by U. S. Will Be Seized. By David Lawrence, (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 22 (Copy- right).—Although President Harding] entirely has decided to follow the humane course which has been traditional in American history, in returning the;be said, however, that a permanent policy has yet been evolved, for until Congress approves the legisiation be- ufted by Colonel Miller and the Departments of State and Justice and some idea is obtained of the attitude of the German Government toward the 30,000,000 worth of property re- 4, the whole subject will be more SECOND-DEFEAT FOR LLOVD CEOREE BY COMMONS VOTE Not Believed, However, That It Will Force Premier’s Resignation. cobb private property of citizens of an enemy country, the painful trith Is that, In the instance of the German nationals, practically all the property now held by the United States will come into the hands of the German government and eventually will be transferred to the allied govern- ments as reparation money This is because the German Gov- ernment has on its statute books a tax on capital which would virtually con fiscate the property about to be re turned by the American Government to German citizens. President Hard ing and his associates realize this, but it was stated at the White House in response to an inquiry that the United States Government is power- less to intervene as between German citizens and the German Government Irhere has been «ome discussion of the possibility that the Ameri United States. For the moment, however, Amer- lean officials will not intervene, Un- spokes- officially, German embassy that the tux on capital would tionuls having Heved a si exemption The situation vital because the comes, Unite partion worth of prop about ninety-thr y own property estima Should the tieally conti it would hay rman ate th vernment prac property Americans who have claims the Gerr Lu man finances they have litt they have property of to pay American ¢ The Presle have been opps ‘ tras Government German Goy governments as reparation payment representatives American Gov be to hold pay American claim ants. The objection to this has been the fact that many persons with small amounts of property were being made to suffer unnecessarily The compr plan worked would, with German nationals all property under $10,000 in value and on large estates The prospects are that the owners of the large estates will not wish them divided so as to | set $10,000 and will decline to ac- preferring to keep their least $10,000. cept the sum, estates intact. The President has followed almost recommendations Colonel Miller, who for months has reorganizing alien propert n Gov- ernment might make as a condition of the return that the Germon Govern. ment waive the tax on capital or that the Department of State use its good offices to secure exemption for Ger- man Nationals having property in the Government the National Health Insurance Bill in Commons to-day, The committee im mediately adjourned in order that uh not be enforced against the Germun na- roperty returned to] ® them by the United States Govern. ment and it may be that this will be the case, but there is nothing definite to guarantee such an outcome and it ia) law would have passed in Germany to cover the The amendment the Government by The defeat is considered in political quarters as of no greater House of Lords yesten to lead to modification of Government's policy the Government the House of Lords yesterday on (he question of the Palestine mandate in- ly States plans to return approximately $80,000,000 which takes in per cent. of the people interested in getting property back. Th remaining seven per cent in value at from $350,000,000 to — $450,000,000. and its effect on the man- date question cannot be judged until day's debate in the House of William Jovason-Hicks , Plans to raise the question of ihe concession to Pinehus Ruth project on the first $30,000,000 Jordan River an Important bearing on the disposition of the remainder of the ply, Is expected to be mo: as outlining the ¢ HARDING REFUSES PLEA TO FREE PHILIPPINES pvernment's policy sinst vernment, — either through the death of relatives on the jtania or elsewhere in the war and through the loss of property know that in the present state of Ger chance to collect their claims. ‘That's why been insisting that the ionals be used t and his colleagues | idependence d oto this on the ground that American tradition was against confiscation of private prop erty of enemy citizens, but American claiinunts declare that If the American joesn't confiscate it the nment will and the pro ceeds will not go either to, American claimants, or the owners & Gorman ouch action. President's 1 in A conferen Caused Collapse BANTONREPEATS |SOLDOLSTOCKS HIS “LICENSE TO \ON'SCHWAB'S NAME, STEAL” CHARGE) INDICTMENT SAYS Answers President Cromwell of Stock Exchange on Brokers’ Methods. District Attorney Banton in answer- ing to-day statements made by Sey- mour L. Cromwell, President of the New York Stock Exchange, at a luncheon of the New York Electrical League yesterday, reiterated his charge that the Stock Exchange form of brokerage contract, which gives the broker the right to hypothecate his customers’ securities, is in effect a license to steal. The District At- torney said “1 do *not & tituting penalties provided by the New York Stock Exchange, or any other ex- ve in suk change, for the penalties provided by law against unlawful practices. The law of New York (Penal has made it a felony for a broker to hypothecate his customers’ secu ties without the customers’ consent “Now, Mr. Cromwell « rts that a contract signed by the customer, which releases the broker from the inhibition provided by the statue against the hypothecation of seeuri- ties, does not give to the broker a free hand to steal those securities and not be prosecuted and convicted for his crime. “J still repeat that if any customer of any brokerage firm is foolish enough to sign the new contract, and thus place in the hands of the broker the power to misappropriate securi- ties placed with the broker as col- lateral, he puts it in the power of the broker to steal those securities, and yet prevents the prosecuting offi- cer from taking action nst the broker for such misconduct “Lt agree with Mr. Cromwell that securities may be dealt in ‘when, as and if issued.’ This privilege should be accorded only in cases where, if possible, steps have been tu insure the issue of such securities. It should not be permitted, re- cently it was permitted by the Curb Market Exchange, in connection with the anticipated issue of securities of a corporation which not only had not been organized, but which existed only in the minds of certain persons As to whether a broke should ulate at the same time he repre- sents his customer is a matter of ethios. I believe a brok should b broker, and if he pluns to be any thing else that he should advertise that fact and let it be known to his prospective customer 1 should dis- like to repose discretion with a man vho may be gambling a nst me As long as the law permits brokers to gamble and limits their transac- tions to the provisions of the Penal Law which prevent their trading against custom rders (Penal Law vection 954) no one can complain while they keep strictly within the law Following are some of the points made by Mr. Cromwell in his address and touched upon by the Distriet At tovney _ LABOR OPPOSES COURT VETONS. RE June (Assoctated Press), — Cathal O' Shannon. CUBS ful Labor c Louth and Meath, declared in a speech at Drogheda last night Wat there was ndidate for Parliament in one point in tin proposed Constitution for Ireland which the Labor Party would oppose to ¢ ' fon that any Judge and a Ireland could decid by the Irish Pariiame s illegal of unconsltuilonal, Six Charged With Use of Mails to Defraud Investors of $600,000. The Federal Grand Jury to-day re- turned an indictment charging six men concerned in the promotion and sale of bonds and stock of the Petro- leum Producing and Refining Com- pany, Nos, 489 and 601 Fifth Avenue, which became bankrupt In January, 1921, with using the mails to defraud investors to the extent of $600,000. Those indicted are William A, Stu- art, President of the company; Henry P. Bope, Secretary and Treasurer; Richard Kirby Long, James G. An derson, bookkeeper, and George Hynson and George L. Derr, stock and bond salesmen. Bope was at one time Vice Presi- dent of the Carnegie Steel Corpora- tion and the indictment charges that in the sale on bonds and stock of the Petroleum Producing and Refining Company the names of Charles M. Schwab, W Corey and Harry Sin- clair were used as indorsing the man- gement of the ofl company and that these statements were misleading and entirely unjustified The indictment, which contains eighteen counts, charges that the de~ fendants in the exploitation of the company and sale of its 7 per cent coupon gold bonds and stock made false «representations as to its finan- cial standing and the production of its leased wells, The indictment explains that the Petroleum Producing and Refining Company was incorporated in Dela- ware in 1919 and after establishing offices first at No. 489 and later No 601 Fifth Avenue, began floating a $1,000,000 7 per cent. gold bond issue to lease oil wells in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Bonds to the extent of $600,000 were sold to investors m this andjother States, it is charged on certain development sfepresenta- tions and that the company’s stock was being sold on the market at $25 per share and would goon rise to $60 It was also represented, the indictment specifies, that the pipe line connec- tions and transportation facilities to all the company’s wells were excep- tionally good; that a 500-barrel-a-day gusher had come in on the Kansas lease, and when the wells produced 1,000 barrels a day the annual income would be $1,277,500. The indictment charges that re resentation’ as to the production of oi! from leased lands was misleading and unjustified because it was not more than 10 or 12 barrels a day; that the company falsely represented that, at the end of 1919, the wells were pro ducing 127 barrels a day, when a sa matter of fact the company had a shortage of $209,000 and the output of the wells was triffing Assistant United States Attorney Polakoff, who investigated the affairs of the now bankrupt company, says that instead of going into the treasury of the Petroleum Producing and Re- fining Company, most of the money derived from the sale of the bonds and stock Was used up paying high, salaries to the officers and commis sions to Hynson, one of the latter, said, received a salary of $ 4 year and Presi- dent Stuart's salary was raised from $12,000 to $20,000. Bope, the prosecutor says, was at one time vice-president of the Carne- gie Steel Comp: and since then was con concerned in the formation and promotion of three companies, all of which proved financial failures. They were. Mr. Polakoff says, The Pathfinder Motor Company, ¢ mat ding Company, and the A. Btar Grover Company.. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922, ” Hackensack River Drawbridge Wrecked by Ship, And Vessel Whose Collision AMIERICANS STILL N MAKING, SAYS HEAD OF HARVARD —— Not Yet Finished Product, Needs More Foreign Strains, Lowell Declares. N. Y. MERCHANT YH OMERCHANT BUICCVEAIT CHIC A VISIT TO PARIS ON SHB CARRYING. PLENTY OF LiQURS Government Control of Booze Is Fake, Famous Dry Declares. [i MBRIDGE, Mass.. June 22 American colle ender an in- dispensable service in blending the different racial groups that pour into William of ing to-day on the Cunard linet Scythia for Queenstown and Liver- pool. He wouldn't sail on an Amer- ican ship because of the sales of liquor, but he can get all he wants on the Scythia, in case of iliness Secretary Weeks said what f would expect him to say," he de clared concerning the recent speech of the Secretary of Way favoring beet and light wines. “He Is too old to change, now." Protesting the sale of liquor aboard American ships, Mr, Johnson, when reminded of the ioss which would be incurred were American ships not to sell booze on their voyages across the oe sald: be unworthy of « university. “Well, the Shipping Board has al- His remarks were interpreted by ready lost $50,000,000 of the people's the alumni as referring to recent re- OE teu aes Ag more millions will matter. [ don’t ports that Harvard planned diserim- think that the has any Government ination against the Jews and barred Negroes from freshmen dormitories. (Pussy foot) Johnson gy 20 cabin passengers sai scan 9 was on the country. said President A. Law- rence Lowell, of Harvard University, in an address at the alumni exercises at the Harvard commencement to- day “To leave out of sight the interests of any group whatever, to fail to con- sult members of that group about its interests, would be wrong,’ President Lowell ass to an actual problem of this kind and ignore its existence. or to refuse to grapple with it courageously, would erted, “To shut the eyes more right to be a bootlegser than an LU Individual, Taw is law, whether on sea or on land. Government contro} of booze is a fake, The Government newcomers were assimilated in the shouldn't engage in a business that's earlier period of the country, Presi tov dirty for an individual to handle, dent Lowell continued It's better to sink ships than to sell " liquor on them.” ‘Of late there have come to us is After recalling the ease with which aha ? os Another passenger was Dr. Henry from every part of SBS AMULS N. MacCracken, President of Vassar antipathies among men bred in the Carlene; WHO te to aiendl ehe MONEE Ola World ve must, if we can, see . . F Fad echo saan fs 20 da = ter He will yer at the In here 37 H i mony Given by F: 0 ernational E to A ULAWIEDIG Cele SWB leNans ameUe ny en by Family of [ternational 4 a) Conference “ct : n Geneva, of Americanization as if the American Accused on Stand. Switha® <b) a “Ravanken of “the were a finished product. The Ameri === hitch: of Our bady of Recker can has been in the making ever since the first white man set foot upon our shores and will continue to be in the] murder of five-year-old Guiseppe Va- making so long as streams of for-Jrotta, who was kidnapped for ransom eigners pour’ into our b d “Americanization does not mean merely molding them to an already settled type, but the blending together}summing up Assistant District At of many distinct elements. No oneltorney Brothers will sum up for the of the peoples that have come from Europe to our shores is devoid of qual- ities that con enrich our common heri-| “et May be tage and some have already con-| noon tributed greatly thereto.” To- after a number of charac- it Taerence 1 MEXICO WILL PA A eoy ein Corel a eee GIFTS 10 HARVAR $70,000,000 DEBT No, 102 so sailed. He is to visit Ireland and Rome, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn MeGee and their two bables were on board. They took three cases vw itsfot a special kind of milk for the defense ie | youngsters Mrs. Clara Novello Davies, mother ® of Ivor Novello, who wrote “Keep the Home Fires Burning,” was anothe: State to-morrow morning and a ver-|passenger. § was accompanied by » received to-morrow after-| Wo of her musical pupils, Miss Helen Grudy and Lawrence ed ‘he trial of Antonio Marino for the | Brooklyn and drowned a year ago end. This afternoon the ‘on: dertker, No. Fourth Avenue, to the stand to attack a part of Marino's Agreement Drawn Up‘ With] sbi claim REACH 4 96 000 International Bankers, Reletives of Marino had testified ’ ’ ie . yesterday that on the night of June 4 de la Huerta Says. } they sant to (the funeral of Mi HEAD ANNOUNG Mexico will agree to pay her ex-| Antonio Rosello, leaving Marino at ternal debt of $700,000,000, according | home, and that Marino was still there hen they returned The State con- to th: agreement drawn up by!” s : . 1p PY) tends that Marino attended a confer- —— Finance Ministe ence of the kidnappers that night and a committee of international] The unde Adolfo de la Huerta ker westified from mem-|Donations Made Known in bankers headed by Thomas W. La-|ory and written records that the} mont, tt was indicated to-day by de| funeral of Mrs, Rosello had been hela! Commencement Address of e la Huerta, in the morning of June 2 and that Seacicl ai TT ARPANOA ‘The agreement probably will be ap-|she was in her grave at Calvary President “Lawrence. proved by President Obregon. Official etery at the hour at which Mar- ete announcement of the acceptance ts] ino’ tives claimed to have at CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 29— expected in a few day tended her funeral a of 34,92 De la Huerta was scheduled to meet Roberto Raffaele, already con- Lamont at 3 o'clock this afternoon to|demned to death for the murder, was transmit to him several comments on] recalled to the stand by the lense. | A the agreement forwarded from Presi-| He testified that part of his first} mencement day address to the dent Obregon. The comments are] Statement to the police was false and} gjumni this afternoon. This amount understood to propose slight modifica-| that he made his statement of his} included $100,000 from the class oft tions. cwn freew ill after being promised] is97 as a mark of its Twenty-fifth Provision for the return of Mexican] @M early release on bail Anniversary, $1,281,784 from the railroads to their former owners will ——— Rockefeller Foundation for the use of be included in the debt agreement, de] 7,000 CONFEDERATES the School of Public Health, $794,987 ae SPOS Lee PARADE IN RICHMOND | ®s «1 additional payment under the Se - will of Joseph RA Delamar for the JAMAICAN LAWS DRIVE CHUNS-] oo allo qinaing Sun to| Medical School, $250,000 from the MEN SESE Hold Reylew. general education board for the KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 23.—To : ; f= - Schol of Education, $278,973 as prevent Chinamen and other Aslatica] RICHMOND, June 22.—Surylyors of legacy from the late Mrs, James ¢ landing here the Government hus de-|the armies of Lee and Jackson paraded] breeman, and $97,250 as an addi- cided that would-be immigrants must] lere to-day at the annual reunion cf} tional payment under the will of pass Mterary teste. A number of China-| the United Corifederate Veterans Mrs, Henry Draper for the astro- men are reported to be leaving for the] Nearly 7,000 veterans bra * het} pomical observatory United States by way of Cuba Wecaurc| sun to pass in review of the Generals] "a nong gifts of $25,000 and over of local legislation restricting business] who led them in the battles of the Civ} Tee cieg from Misa Julia Lyman ameter: oe of $57,649; from the will of Dr. Will- iam 25,000; from tae will of Lawrence for Moonshiner, 70, Kills Minister scnoranhipe, $9800; from the wil of Museum, $25,000; gifts of $50,000 and iff: Th Lif $28,574, respectively, from twa n eri . J en n S wh e anonymo: donors; 50,000 from e pases George F. Baker for a professorship , of economics, $25,000 from William ‘ Stands Off Posse, Bids Wife Goodby and|7et (or cNsna tne same amount Shoots Self After Raid on Still. from Siew upeteln f0r'® Ioan Shs ge the law school ALBANY, Ore., June 22 00 to Harvard Uni- versity were afinonnced by President wrence Lowell in his com- —Three bodies torn by gunshot wounds were The aggregate of gifts less brought here to-day. They were those of the Rev. Roy Healy, pastor of|than $2 et F . Bitte if “e) os Shar 5 Fates of subsertptions to the endo mi the First Christian Church of Albany; Sheriff C. M. Kendall of Linn] ot suvmenblote oy i es! te County, and Dave M. West, seventy years old, rancher and trapper. —_——_—$ Their deaths were the rerult of a@ raid on West's moonshine still yester-| Co other oner for a would-be captor, no ef- day afternoon by Sheriff Kendall, ac- | fort was made N Vacation have Thi " ' Mr. Healy,| West. an oxpert shot with the rifle , = : ile companied by the Rev from his long experience in hunting World follow you. Ma The Sheriff and the minister were) wig animals, shot and killed boti very day to your summe: shot and killed instantly by the aged| Kendall knd Healy without warning nddress rancher, who, afte. barricading him-|while they were perhaps fift: yards ; seif in his house and holding off a|fom him, He fired only twi WORLD SUMMER RATES Sheriff Kendall left Albany yester- Per Per posse for hours, crept from the build-} a... for the West ranch’ armed with : Week Month ing when night came and in his barn} search warrant and accompanied by | ||Morning & Sunday. .35 $1.00 ended the episode by blowing off the|the Rey. Mr. Healy, who desired to| ]|Morning Seiko: 5 rt 4 with bis rife. see a raid on a still to obtain material | ||/Evening World.... .25 ‘ top of his hea for a story which he was intending | || Sunday World 10c. per Sunday ‘The killings of Sheriff Kendall and|,) write. ‘The minister went merely meme een te ae the Rey. Mr. Healy happened at 3.30)as a spectator Address changed as often as desired, . % After the shooting West returned Your ictal arena ee o'clock and until the body of West f to the house and sat down jn a chair Mt for you, or remit direct to barn, the nf 5 was found In the barn, the bodies Of) ii ie rifle between his knees Cashier, New York World, his two victims lay where they fell As long as it remained daylight he Park Row, New York City. inside the West yard, members of tho|burricaded himself in his house and . to enter the premises|defied the possemen to capture him, posse fearing {Cc out when night fell, he bade farewell = and remove them. to his wife, who had remained with pike West threatened any one W#'th/him, telling her to go away where sue ens . eneuu e ; 4 -|harm would not befall her. BPFERR.—LOTTA, OA heal death who should attempt to ap — Ne ee a ores eye! he NERAL CHURCH. Thursday, 13 nocte said us he Kissed her and showed EYLER.—GEORGE D. CAMPBELL FU« said, could remove the bodies of the her through the door of the house, FERAL CHURCH, Friday, 2 P.M men oe had killed. Fearing, how-| Shortly afterward. he reached the | BARHAM.—G. B. CAMPBELL FUNERAM aver, tbat Weel might mistake she!barn, where he killed himagit, GHURCH. Vail Thuraday, proach except the Coroner, who, he