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',W:'.H,"..MItIJ ' . . ... ..,.-.-1 . i . .... nlun POLIU Of rillAL WIPED OUI IN WALL SI. TO-NIGHT'S Weather CLOUDY. WARMER. TO-MORROW'S Weather CLOUDY, air EDITION EDITION j "Circulation Books Open, to All." "Circulation Books Open to All." VOL. LXL NO. 21,642 DAILY. Copjrlntil, 1021. by The Vrrt rnbUihlaf C. (The Kew York World), NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921. Knternl lit Heeand-rlMn Matter Tost Office, New York, N. T. PRICE THREE CENTS ri lllW,ilfWilJt;l,l fro WHITMAN INQUIRY REVEALS nmm WILD STOCK SPECULATIONS BY BIG POLICE OFFICIALS Says One "High Up" Has Been Practically Cleaned Out in Walt Street. CALLS GRAFF SCIENCE. FTells of Connivance Between Commanders and Fly-by-Night Detective Agencies. Charles B. 'Whitman, Special Apsl taut IMstrlct 'Attorney conducting the Grand Jurj' investigation of city and county affairs, declared to-dny that he had learned that a certain official hfefh In the Police (Department, but not a member of the force, hnd been . MAKlat J ..H.H.IHI J .. . ... ...... Street during the la?t six months. " v reaching hlra that a number of police officials had been wldly oxtravagant In their Wall Street speculations oaused him to investigate. Ho said he hadj confirmed the reports, but that nothing crlrainal along these lines had so lr boon disclosed. Mr. Whitman declared that con nivance between certain poUco of ficers and fly-by-night private detective agencies for the colloctlon of graft had reached the proportions of a "rolontiflc business" In New York. "If a business man reports to the captain of a precinct that his plant is In danger from a strike and asks for pollrc protection," said. Mr. Whit man, "the captain walls about the shortage of his force and refers him a private detective agency. These ;(enctes have spread so mat mere ire one or two now In nearly every jrecinot m the city. Usually they consist of the man running them, a stenographer and a messenger boy. 'The agency signs a contract with the business man. mibralts dally re ports and puts In a bill for 10, 12 and $15 a day for 'operatives' who do not exist. The only guards Bent to the building to be protected are uniformed policemen. If the business man Insists, guards' arc hired trom one of the reputable agencies. "Formerly the police frowned on these private agenolos, but now they 'work hand la glove together, and this condition has been brought about under the En right adminlstra- Mr. Whitman expects to go before do Grand Jury again to-morrow and ft Is declared he will ask for another Indictment Two Police Captains, WGllam A. Bailey and Percy Du Bols, are already under Indictment, charged with accepting Illegal fees. It was learned unofficially that the Investigation baa revealed startling Ir regularities on the part of several do- tfcttves assigned to the recovery of Attorney Smith has been examining (Continued on Pago Sixteen.) Classified Advertisers Important! Classified advertising copy (or Tne Sunday World Should be Id Tao World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication OlatHied AdvcrtUemtntt for Week ' Dayt Krcrived DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication ih following day. EARLY COPY lliuhm Hi. Pr.l.rmc. Wh.n ACnrtlilm Hu 1. Of Onlttii TUB WORLD. Had Meld of 400 in a Jury Room; Law Spoiled It Waiting 'Millionaire Witnesses at BrinJell Trial Saved From 'Cashing" at Pinochle. The discomfort In the cold halls of the great crowd of witnesses gath ered t testify In the (rial of Robert P. llruiclcll was called to the atten tion of Justice McAvoy at the open ing of court to-duy. The Justice directed a court officer to provide a room for them. Four housewrccktng contractors, William Walkel, Samuol Kaufman, I.ouls J. Cohen and Charles Wallts, who do business amounting many millions of dollars a yearT promptly started a pinochle gamo In a Jury room. They would play for fun, but keep a scoro and fix things up at luncheon. On the fourth hand Mr. Kaufman had a 400 meld hlch pays double. He had the cards more than half laid on tho table when the door was .swung open and Court Officer Bohlen, white haired and stem, entered. - "Oat out of here!" he thundered. They got out In a hurry. Kaufman nays some player touched the buzzer. 16,000,000 PEOPLE IN N. Y., IS FORECAST Brief in United States Supreme Court Says Population Will Be That in 1960. WASHINGTON., Jan. 10 Greater New York expects to have almost six teen million inhabitants 15,074,000, to be exact by 1060. Attorney General Charles V. Newton of New York so informed the Supreme Court to-day in a brlof asserting that the metropolis had prior rights to sewage ( disposal facilities of the lower bay. The State Is seeking to enjoin the Passaic Valley (New Jersey) Sewerage Commission from constructing a mon ster trunk sewor into the ba. Its waters, the brief said, wore already so polluted as to menace public health and a $40,000,000 emergency relief project Is under discussion, involving an island disposal plant in the lover bay. WOMAN ATTACKS LAWYER IN COURT Gets Ten Days While Husband She Accused Goes Free. Bifll The fist of Mrs. Hose Kaufman of No. 280 Keap Street, Brooklyn, shot out in the Bridge Plaza Court this morning. It struck Lawer John Car lln's midriff, driving him backward over a tabic. Magistrate O'Neill directed that the woman be arraigned Immediately for disorderly conduct and sent her to the workhouse for ten days. Mr. Kaufman was appearing as com plalnant against her husband Frank, charging disorderly conduct. Frank was' paroled for six months, and it wna while his attorn"y. C'arlln, was protest ing that his llcnt was receiving unfair treatment Uiat .Mis. Kaufman became belligerent. ANOTHER GALE OfJ WAY. lint ftrrr From Nnntliwot Tn-Dny, !!!' Wrnllivr llurcmi. The local atlir Bureiu to-day received the following advisory mes iige from Washington: "8 'Uthwesl storm warning, 10.30 A. M. Kinrty llnoU to K.iHtnuit M.. Din iiiibniur rp-illi nl tin '.rent LflUs, moing raftwatU. Strung s'.iith and southwest winds and gale this after nooc and, tonitfhU" UI1 UIU UILLI LII1LIV Their Prospective Grooms Go Down the Bay, Pictures in Hand, to Greet Them. i HAD STORMY VOYAGE. Lots of Battles Aboard Between the Partisans of Constan ,tine and Venizelos. There was a picturesque welcome waiting for the Greek liner Megalli Hellas when the ship docked at South Brooklyn to-day, after a stormy pas sage from Piraeus with 300 picture brides on board. Greek, Russian, Russian. Jewish and Armenian girls who never havo seen their prospective husbands, but have exchanged photographs hvltli them, lined the mil of tho ship and cried their greetings to the awaiting bridegrooms, who had chartered launches and rowtooats to meet the ship. The men carrlud pictures of the brldcB-to-bc and eagerly scanned the blushing faces at the ship's rail ir. an effort to Identify their fiancees. The Impromptu greeting from the boats was hastily organized after the polico had successfully resisted an attempt- to nke the dock by s:orm Many of the brides came in the steor agc und wMl have to go through the routine of 13111s Island before they meet tbiir sweeth-a-ts. Tho trip across the Atlantic was unusually violent, both as to weather encountered and the contests be tween rival factions supporting King Conatantlne's return and tho fortunes of former Premier Vcnizolos, who opposed him. After passing Gibraltar the ship ran Into a scries of hurricanes and hcadscas that sent the crockery crashing. Such part of the crockery as was not destroyed wae used handily by the rival factions, and the rest of the voyage iwae a course pi windstorms, and brainstorms. Master at Arme Thcophlle Dapora too was busy night and day with the belligerents and qualified as a. candi date for Police Commissioner Bn right's Job. He says he will sleep for a wcelc to get over it all. On the night of Jan. 13, New Year's Eve according to the Greek calendar, the ship's officers an nounced they would celebrate by making a record run. The stokers sweated at the boilers and the en gineers d.ld their utmost to drive the ship througg the banging and pound ing seas. At the end of the effort it was announced to the passengers, who bad made a pool on the result, that the ship, Instead of making headrway, had been driven bade half a mile tfrom "where the sprint started. Miss NnLaMe Bogosloweky, member of a family formerly wealthy In Moocow, who 4s travelling here In search of her brother Boris, formerly a. lieutenant in tho Czar's army, was & passenger. The family fortunes completely iwreoked. Miss Bogo slowislcy, who had served as a Red Crow nurse with tho Czar's forces, has no better information to guide her than that her brother Is supposed to be somewhere In America. Miss Bogoslowsky s talented and speaks six languages. GRANDMOTHERS OFF TO CAPITAL BY AIR Are Carrying Electoral otc of Nebraska from Lincoln lo Washington. LINCOLN. 'eb., Jan. SO... Mr. H. H. Wheeler, Lincoln, Neb., grand mother, who is carrying the Htato'. ele.ctoraJ vote to Washington by air plane, hopped off from the Lincoln Aiat!on Held shortly after noon to day on the first leg of her Journey. The start wns delayed 5y low hanging clouds and fug, which mule the vit.1b.lity po6r. Mrs. WheoHi Una 11 y rmme dnious over th dr lay and onltrcd I'.lot Hclc'cn") to tsV ' off. Mr Dm per Sui'lh, !io i sixl a'.x. ulo a gr.in 'moth"!1 nd Mrs Whceter's companion, -Mill fly In an other plane, c-llh pilot Bullock. 0LUTI0N RESOLUTION VOTED E T 'Borah Measure, Reported to Senate, Calls for Action by Three Powers. SLIGHT CHANGE MADE. Proposed Now to Provide Such 'Reduction as Can Be Agreed Upon. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. -Senator Borah's resolution proposing negotia tions for reduction of naval buildings b- the United States, Great Britain and Japan was reported favorably to day by tho Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In lieu of the original proposal that tho negotiations look to a reduction of 50 per cent In future building for five years, the committee proposed that the negotiations provide for such reductions as can bo agreed upon. No record vote was liken on the Borah resolution, but that offered by Senator Walsh (Democrat, Montana) proposing that tho United States have an American representative partici pate with the disarmament commls blon of tho League of Nations was de feated, S to 3, on a straight party alignment. The passage of the Borah resolu Uon "la a most important slop along the lines of the campaign which The Now York World has been conducting for some, time for general disarma ment. As approved the Borah resolution reads: "Resolved toy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress aebcmMcd, that the President of the United States is requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to ad vise the governments of Great Britain and Japan, respectively, that this Government will at once talte up directly with their gov ernments and .without waiting upon tho action of any other na tion the question of naval dis armament, with a view of prompt ly entering into a treaty by which the naval building programmes of each of said governments, to wit, that of Great Britain, Japan and the United States, t-h " be le duced annually the next five years to w .an extent and upon such ..iins as may be agreed ur u- "Section That this proposi tion la suggested by the Con gress of the United States to ac complish immediately a substan tial reduction at the naval arma ments of the world." Ohalrman Ixxfee aid It was Im possible to say when the resolution could be brought before the Senate, but that he hoped It would be at an early date. The committee finally decided to limit the proposed negotiations to the United States, orcat Britain and Japan, voting down a proposal by Senator MaCumbcr, Republican, North Dakota, to extend It to include Frsfnco and Italy. Sentiment of the commit tee was represented as being that the oWicr nations would follow the lead of the three principal powers. The cnmmittco Mruok, out the pre amble of the Borah resolution, which declared that a Japa.nc.io ofntfl.il had wild that Japan could not concent to raivnl reduct on without notdon by the l;nltnl States. Anothor umendnient made wns in, minor (ihinHcolngs to limit Un; mg. tlat.ons tn nnwd disarmament and ex clude all (.oiiT.dt ration of military re duW.on. This wn's the Intention of Krnalor llnr.ih, but noun uiembi-in felt that Hi1' oi i.mcnugr w.is no; cli nr. l'.iullr Shuti All I Vrrl.-. MiHjn tmuar Uwass. A. U..10.S0 V. U. FOR CONFERENC ON DISARMAMEN IS Peggy Marsh, Who Was Wedded In Secret to Albert L. Johnson ALBERT l JOHNSON. L A 'BET' ON SALVAGE JOB IN 23D STREET Louis J. Cohen, Housewrecker, Tells How Labor Czdr Pushed Him Till He 'Got It. The trial of Robert p. Brindell on tho charge of extortion before Justice McAvoy in the Supreme Court opened to-day with Louis J. Cohen, a houso wrecker, on tho stand. Mr. Cohen's testimony covered the circumstances made familiar through other witnesses of the efforts of Brindell to force tho Polish or Za rarrko housersrreckcrs Into Brlndell's new union and the subsequent black listing of the Zaranko men and of contractors who employed them. Mr. Cohen said that he reported to Brindell that the men of the old union at work on tlje Manhattan Hotel building refused to Join the new union and Brindell said: "You tell thelu that If they don't sign I'll pull every wrecking Job In New York City." This was In April, 1920, and began the battlo which ended with the driv ing out of employment of the 1,800 experienced men of Zaranko's union though they were organized under a charter of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Cohen repeated the story ho had told to the Lockwood Committee of Brlndell's ordering him to reduce his offer of K.&OO for salvage on a building in :3d Street to J 1,000. "That makes 1,500. for me!" he said Brindell said. 'That's a bet" Cohen said ho paid the owner the (Continued on Second Pajc.) SEEK B. R. T. INVESTIGATION. Arnatnrn Slmtnn "nil llarrla to I'lmli fur l.rarlsloturr Artlnn. State Senators William T. Simpson and Maxwell S. Harris wro both in Hrooklyn to-day organlslnR a cam paign for nn Invostltration of the M. It. T and th Drookljn City Railroad, with a view C arousing n Kenernl public de mHiiil for improved rlrn. Senator Simpson iiitroiiied a reso lution IhbI Mnnilay ank'iiK for a 1ejrls, latlve Investigation of thi Hrooklyn transit situation le a i.J hr would jencl the dn r'OiimiitInK Willi bends ' ilx.c 01 Kaiiiiatlnrm. Senator Harris YiAt lo fee Dt'puh f'uWIo Snn Ice Coin niUaloner 1 tarn It rrgHrUluK the frnn ehlea of the transit eotnpanlft. flolh promised that the f I if lit for nn InwctJ galluu would, be tmewtd at Albany, BRINDEL WANTED BEfORE PEQQY MARSH JOHN80N. Nor Is There a $ 00,000 House From Fortune of Henry Field 2d. reggy Marsh, In an orange negli gee, propped against a pink pillow In a rose-filled room of Miss Alston's sanitarium in West Cist ytrtot, where she is recovering from an operation for appendloltls. to-dny told an Eve ning World reporter that there was no truth In a report that the Field .family of Chicago hnd made n settle ment cither upon her or her four-year-old son, Honry Anthony Marsh, who was nt that moment playing about his mother's bed with a most disreputable looking rag doll. Mlso Marsh Is now the wife of Al bert L. Johnson, a nephew of the late Tom Johnson, four times Mayor of Cleveland, who Is stopping with her aunt, Mrs. Chryntle, at the Oreat Northern Hotel. They were married on Jan. S at Greenwich. Conn., by a Justice of the Peace, Miss Marsh hav ing returned fiom Knglnnd n fow weeks ago In connection with her contest In the interest of her son for a part of the fortune of the late Honry Field 2d. On tho table beside Miss Marsh's bed were a largo picture of her small son and a brand new chookbrok, also a bowl of flowers. "There has been no settlement on me or my son," Miss Marsh said. "The matter will rAme up In court next month. The Field family huve expressed a desire (o do the right thing by me. and I belirvo ihey will, but an for any settlement of $50,000 on me and tho building of a JIO0.00O house, that's fantastic. "Tha family have asked me to do certain things for the last four cars I won't nay what they were and I've done them all." "Were you ankoi) not to remarry?" the reporter naked. "No, tho'd not be so unreasonable as that, I'm sure." "What arc your future plans?" "I hue signed u contract with Al Woud. to appeal is bCgond lend In u show that n-lll op"n shortly In Chi- (Continued on 1050 Sixteen.) PEGGY MARSH SAYS N0 50.000AYEA HAS BEEN OFFERED WASHINGTON LOBBY SCARED OVER REVELATIONS SHOWING MS OF SUGAR GAMBLERS ' - - Fordney Measure's Tax of $366,000,- 000 Would Cover 'Shortage of In terests Due to Collapse of Plans Now Exposed by Evening World. . (Sptolsl from a Staff Corrstpondsnt of Tht Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. 'The ultimate consumer received due notice of what Congress was going to do to protect the sugar interests, which, through greed and the exercise of bad judgment, had sustained immense losses, as long ago as the end of last September. At that time Edwin F. Atkins, an official of the American Sugar Kctining Company, who has since allied himjelr'ith another big sugar concern, said in an Intfrview: "The fall in raw sugar prices between July 1 and Sept. 15 of thli year (1920) has-caused a loss of $250,000,000, WHICH SOME ONfi MUST STAND." OBREGON GIVES WET ANSWER TO A DRY QUESTION Spoken to About Making Mexico Dry, Asks Miat Correspond ents Will Have. MKXICO CITY, Jan. 20. PRESIDENT OBIIKGON of Mexico answered newspaper men's Inquiries on reports that he intended to mako Mexico dry, by calling n servant. "See what the gentlemen will have," ho communded. When they had been served, President Obrcgon remarked! "Tho only vice I recognize Is that of excess." COAL PROFITS WERE BEYOND ALL REASON New Yori! Dealers Bought at Si 8 and Sold to .the Public for $25 WASHINGTON. Jao. 20. Some Now York and Now England' rwtall ers made profits "altogether beyond reason," In buytng coal for IIS and selling to consumers for 125 per ton, A. W. Illley, of the Department of Justice, to-day toCd tho 'Senate 'Manu factures Committee considering the Colder coal regulation WU. Betailera iprofito do not explain all the excessive prices to the consumers, he added. He read agfeemtns whereby agents were pledged to use their Ibcst efforts to get high prices; not to sell below market prices; to show books to mine representative at any time; and withhold coal from deUverywhen prices go down. Producers fixed schedules that agents agrccds not to undercut The agents profits twere 35 per cent, when they obtained high prices. SEEKS TO PREVENT "BLIND" MARRIAGE Brother Demands Custody of , Italian Girl Coming to Wed Man Mother Chose. Ileraus he has crM to repeet the 'oil Italian custom of parents selecting husbtnns for their daughters and hope to stop the marriage ot Ills tiwenty-yi'ii--oM sister to a man khe has never seen, Thomas Mangnnclll of Syracuse apo'le,) to Commissioner ef Im.nlKratlon Wall's and the Travellers' Aid Mils afternoon for help In settlin the custody of his Hlster when she arrives here. The girl, Amelia Manitanelll, Li erm ine froni ttal oi the Cunarrler f''lr . to marry i.onar(io Minetuio ur llrook 1 lyn. The rrpctl e mothers hud at rangwl the wcdrilnx. Msncannllo W I wire the girl would object to the mar 1 tUgo. s ENATE The "some one" who has, been se lecttd by Uie sugar interests and their financial allies and their iillloa in the Congress of the United Ktatcx to itand the losn has been tdontlfleil. Ho is the' purchaser, of sugar at retail and, as Tho Evening World revealed yester day, ho la expected, to p.iy off the loss at tho rale of four conts a pound, which is the Increase in the price of sugar tho Konlney .Emergency Tariff Ulll would bring about. 8lnoo tho time Mr. Atkins gavo out his interview tlin losses of tho sugar Interests have mounted to approxi mately $365,000,000.- That the Ford ney bill would Inipnua a direct tax of about ,J3tiO,000.000 onv tho people is Illustrative of the fact that 'tho gentle men who prepared tho sugar amend ment are in pretty close touch with tho Hugnr Interests that want to b reim bursed by the peoplo for thetr business lOHSCH. The statement of The Evcnlnr World that the passage of the Ford ney Bill would automatically raise tho retail price of sugur four cents a pound has been utuicked by the sponsors of tho sugar amendment, as a matter of course. But The Evening World's statement Is based not only on Information irtiUined from the boat authorities 111 the country, bifi on the amendment itself. FIGURES PROVE CONTEMPLATED FOUR CENT RAISE. The amendment provides for a tax on raw sugar material not above 76 degrees test by tho polarlscopo of I 13-100 cents a "pound this In addi tion to the existing tax of 1.001 cent n pound on Imports from Cuba and 1.356 cents a pound on imports from other countries. Tho object of the bill Is to drive Cuban sugar from tho market In the I'nited States until the present surplus supply U ex hausted. Tho bill further provides that for every additional degree of test over 73 degrees there shall be Imposed an additional tax of 73-1000 of a cent. It happens that practically all tbs sugar affected by the sugar amend ment In tho Fordney bill Is 98 per cent. test. Therefore tho bill aotually Imposes n tax of 2.13 cents a pound plus 21 times 78-1000 of a cent, making a total tax of 3 77 cents per pound In other word, the bill," which profe,s u tax 75 per cent, sugar, actually taxes !6 per cent sugar and the difference between OS points and 75 points Is 21 points and these 21 points add 161 cents to the nominal rato of 2.13 cents. The sugar experts say that when the beneficiaries of the Fordney legis lation tark thr extra tax on their price, thoy will make It an oven number addition and charge. 4 cents instead of 3.77 cents. Of course this will Hiuount to considerable of an extra profit when the vast amount of sugar involved is taken Into, oonsld 'cxatlon. XX amounts to almost a J ; J ..J W...ML,