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P AT FULTON ST. DEADLIN I LB 1 To-Nlght'i Weathir CLOUDY, ma WALL STREET MMMML Ml'lM EDITION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,673 17- Year-Old s inn Feiners and BRIBERY REACHES THE HEART OF THE VOLSTEAD MACHINE ; MAKES LAW UTTER FAILURE Corruption of Dry Agents All Over the Country More Rampant as Prohibi tion Grows Older Increase of Sui cides Blamed On the Measure. lteack'M of Tho Evening World i of news Items dealing wltli tho which was printed In yesterday's Kvonlng World, will bo intorostcd to . ... , , - ..., , uolc. In the list printed to-day, covering the period from Dec. 1, 1920, to . . Fcb 22, 1321, proof that violations arc increasing In number, bribery and ofllclal corruption are spreading and the illicit manufacture of liquor has become a problem which tho Prohibition enforcement forces aro aPPar - cutly unable to cope with. Federal agents admit that more than $100,000,000 worth of whiskey was released from warehouses on permits bearing tlio forged signature of Knforcement Officer O'Connor of New York. Traffic In forged permits went on for monthsi ocfore the enforcement forces knew anything about it. The records of the New York Police Department show that there were 5,813 arrests for Intoxication in this Hy in 1920, as against 6,657 in 1919. News items show a steady Increase In crimes of violence committed by persons under the influence of liquor. The despatches arc spotted with ac counts of fatal battles between moon shiners and Federal agents In the mountainous districts of tho South, By forging labels rf former popular brands of whiskey unscrupulous boot leggers have been able to sell vast amounts of DOlsonous llauor. The news accounts indicate from the number of seizures made that the manufacture of whiskey in tenement houses, stores, dwellings and ja farms In the vicinity of cities has been taken up by hordes of adven turerswllllng to run a chance of jail for large profits. A nows item states that Collector of the Port Newton finds nils force Inadequate to prevent the smuggling of liquor on ships from forolgn coun tries and that general smuggling has increased since the Volstead act was passed. Another Item quotes the gave a Ufa league as stating that Prohibition Is a contributing cause to the inorease in suicides. A growing demand for patent medi cines is indicated In the' Items of news from various parts of the coun try. Many Items show now and In genious scheme of srwlndjjjnyp which havo been made possible b,-e Vol stead act, but? probably the most In teresting feature of the growing vol ume of news created by the attempt to enforco tho Prohibition Law Is furnished by the repeated Instances of acceptance of money by enforce ment agents and omoers. Tho condensed record of nearly three months of happenings that would not appear in tho press if the Volstead act were not in effect fol low! : DECEMBER. Doc. 1 Three persons charged with counterfeiting and. with marking bogus whiskey labels. Dec. 2 Winnipeg, Canada, newspa per reports that airplanes are use bv bootleggers in border operations, Seven liquor dealers arrested and held after being lndleted by drand Jury in New"ork City for attempt d bribery o agents. n. I Branu.ed fruits selxed In ITouston, Tex. Revenue Agent W. B. Andsraon (Continued on Twen, . Ps.) WARMER. DAILY. Copyright, 1021, br Co. (The Nnr who followed tho astonishing synop- attempt to enforco tho Volstead act. ANTICS OF GHOST Upsets Table, Pulls Out Bureau Drawers and Emptfes a Hod of Coal. IONTXXNDBRRY. N. TL, Fob. 25. The little cottaga in which Mrs. Sed- ley Lowd has lived here for many years was deserted to-day,xcept, perhaps, for tho "ghost" which, by a scries of unusual manifestations. drove tho 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 manifestations that frightened her began lost Sunday. A representative of the Psyhic Re search Library of Boston and "First Selectman Edward K. Kent started Independent Investigations to-day of mysterious happenings. Tho occur ences as reported by Mrs. Lowd have, stirred the town to such an extent tnat the Selectman felt he ought to obtain 00 mo flnst hand information If possible. The "Clhosrt" first made its pres oneo known by causing a hod of coal to empty Itself. Lator a neighbor who called upon Mrs. Lowd was startled to see throe drawers of a bureau shoot out of tho cabinet and hnrl the contents on the floor. Several neighbors were called In nn effort to solves tho mystery, hut the "supernatural" kept at work and with unseen hands turned over tho dining room taVJo. Neighbors assort that later on the same day three loaves of the dining table which had been standing in a cornor were lifted into the air and transported across the room On Tuesday Mrs. Lowd sent for her san, William. He spent the night In the little cottage and was aroused uhortly after midnight by a loud orasli on tho lower floor, The doors and windows of tho cottage had not been disturbed, but on tho top of the pld mahogany table were three crooks (Cautioned en Beoond Page.) DRIVE AGED WOMAN FROM HER HOME "Circulation Pooka Open to All." The rrni Publljldnr York World). NEW Boy Robs Bank of $6 70, 000 in Bond prison sentences 10 BE ASKED FOR IN Deputy Attorney General Says No Pleas of Guilty With Fines Will Be Accepted. LONG LIST TO BE TRIED. Hettrick Greeted by Brindell in the Tombs, With Whom He Has Long Conference. Deputy Attorney General Samuel Bcrger, who Is now In full charge of pHmlnnl nnuHunHlnna mnwlti- ... v. nt ...., 'the Lock-wood commlttco lnvcstlga- ' tions, announced to-day that here- .. after no picas qf guilty would bo ac- captcd fpom 3 under Indlct- j mcnt with tho understanding that the 1, wouId ol off with ia Ilne and no.Jail sentence. Ho would ' press for a jail sentence of every con fessed offender, he said, hereafter. Mr. Berger- explained that the pleas of thirty cut stone men were accepted at the outset with an understanding that tho punishment would be limited to imero fines because the assistance of tho guilty men was necessary In gathering evidence for jmoro im portant prosecutions. The confidence pf the Prosecutor in imposing more drastic conditions was strengthened by the conviction and sentence yesterday of John T. Hettrick, tho "Code of Practice" pool manager, and bis associates. Two Hundred and nfty-srlx Indict ments have been found as a result of tho Lookwood investigation. Five have resulted in convictions; four (for contempt of the committee) have been dismissed and throe others may meet tho same disposition; one re sulted in a mistrial; thirty cut stone men and Arms pleaded guilty and were fined. Of the remaining 213 Indictments four are against Hettrick and several urn nan.ln.it chapman, one of the walking delegates Convicted with him yesterday. Flfty-ono plumber clients of Hettrick Arms and Individuals are to bo tried March 7. Thirty or more firms and Individuals in tho building material trade await trial March 15, Martin Cpnboy will make motions to morrow before Justice. McAvoy as a basis of attacking their indictments on the ground that their documents were seized and therefore they were forced to furniflh testimony against them selves. Justice McAvoy has already ruled against somewhat similar con tentions. John S. Murphy ft Co., Tnc, members of tho Hettrick code combination p poarcd before Justlco McAvoy to-day and through John H. Murphy pleaded guilty to violating the Donnelly act Henteneo was deferred until other In dictments of tho same nature are dls. posed of. Mr. Murphy was not In dicted as an individual. Robert P. Brlndell, President of the (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) STORM FORECAST AT INAUGURAL BY WEATHER PROPHET HAfcLUTON, Pa, Feb. 15, Tllifl beginning of the Harding regime will be s'.ormy, ac cording to James II. Youger, Haileton'a weathor prophet A bllaaid will start twenty four hours before tlie inaugural, he said to-day, tying up tho Eastern States, Bleet and snow trill eontlnuu to (all until ifaroti It, hesald. LOCKWOuD CASES YORK, FRIDAY, Crown Force in Fierce HARDING PEEVED BY HOOVER'S TALK OF APP0INTW1ENT Expresses Surprise That His ; Own Announcement Was Forestalled by Appointee. NEARLY SPOILED PLAN. S, t. Augustine Report Says Can cellation of Appointment at One Time Seemed Likely. ST. AUGUSTINE, Flo.. Feb. 25.- Presldcnt-elect Harding's selection of , Herbert C. Hoover to be Secretary of 1 Commerce was confirmed to-day by Mr. Harding after a scries of devel opments that at one tlmo seemed like ly to lead to cancellation of tho ap pointment. Mr. Harding broke his alienee re garding Mr. Hoover after "ideated efforts to secure confirmation of the" statement Issued by the former Food Administrator In Now York last night. Mr. Harding expressed surprise that Mr. Hoover had made a statement on the subject. Tho President-elect said he had intended to announce tho appointment here to-day, but that his prospective Secretary had acted within his privileges In taking tho initiative. Asked about the condition laid down by Mr. Hoover, which, included in dorsement by Mr. Harding of a defin ite policy for reorganizing tho Com merce Department, the President elect replied; Wo are In perfect accord about what tho department ought to bo made. I wouldn't wan) 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 tho case ex cept tho publicity given It. Every other prospective Cabinet appointee, he said, had discussed with htm tho 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 call thom stlplatlons." Herbert C. Hoover, at his office, No. 42 Broadway, refmod to-day to amplify his statement of last night concerning his appointment as Hoc- rotary of Commeroe. Ho Is clearing the way for taking up his duties In Washington. Mr. Hoover was at his desk shortly before 9 o'clock to beRln a fourteen hour day, sVoordlng to his assistant, George Barr Baker, who said his ohlef was busy and would not have anything more to say on hts nomi nation. "The matter now 1, in the hands of offlolal Washington," said Mr. Baker. It wonld prtibably be Inappropriate for Mr. Hoover as a subordinate to talk on tho problems that beset the Administration or those ha will be obliged to meet when he takes I) la post." Asked how Iris chief would find time for his additional duties, with tho many he has already, Mr Halror smiled reassuringly, "Mr. Hoover begins his day," bald Mr. Baker, "by meeting some one on business at breakfast, and has W10 nowBpaperu read by the time he rcaohoa his officu." ORI.D tbavei, otmmv, LA fiM 14 I FEBRUARY 25, GERMAN OFFER v CUTS INDEMNITY NEARLY IN HALF Want Allies to Reduce It From 56,000,000,000 to About 30,000,000,000. PARIS, Feb. 25. GERMANY will offer tho Su premo Allied Council a nronosltlon to nnv 120.000.- ,,000.000 marks (about mooo.000,000) in roparations wnen tno Ames and Germans meet at London next week, says tho correspondent of tho Journal, who says ho ro celvod his Information from a "parliamentary source." This payment would be made In thirty installments of 4,000,000,000 marks each, either in cash or goo da, according to conditions de cided upon'' at tho conference. Thp reported German proposal 'would practloally cut In halfv.(ho 226,000,000,000 marks (about $50, 000,000,000) fixed by the Allies as tho amount of roparations exclu sive of tho 12 per cent, tax on exports. CONFESSES PLOT Mackenzie, Employed by Chemical Bank, Tells How Robbery was Planned. John Mackenzie, former messenger of tho Chemical National Bank was arrested at his home. No. 2075 Soventh Avenue lost night, charged with com plicity in tho robbery by which 1149,000 of monoy and securities belonging to tho hank were taken from him Doc. 31. To-day, according to Inspector Ooughlln of tho Detective Bureau, the young man made a full con fession. Mnckonzlo's conduct was Investi gated by the bank, by a surety com pany and the pollco Immediately after he reported tho robbery. It was given out that he was not to blame, though ho was dlstnlsood from the bank's employment. A week ago photographs and de scriptions sent broadcast by the De tective Bureau hero caused the arrest In Chicago of Joseph Tlernan of No. 243 Eighth Avenue non of Mike Tler nnn, a1 famous baseball player of the 80's. Lahey went to Chicago to bring Tlernan to New York, and from him got Information which led to the ar icst 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 nx tradlted. Information furnished by -these two led to yesterday's arreat of Mackenzie. According to Inspeotar Coghlan the young man suld the rob bery had boen discussed for weeks In a flRt in Hnrlem and was fixed for a day when ho expected to ham $0,000 In raah in his bag. He actually had but (5,000 In cash when the plot win carried out. Mackenzie was arraigned In the Tombs Court to-day and held with out ball for examination with Tlernan and Dealy Monday. LEGLESS TENANT WINS. Morrl Itomwtti, his wife and. five children cannot be evicted from their title eandy store and two living rooms at No. 413 Livonia Avnnuo, Brooklyn, It was doolded te-day by County Judge Hayes, to whom the landlord, Utt. An nie Cohen, appoaled from twe Munlcl pal Court decision. Wben Herowlts lout both Inwt three years ago, friends raued a fund and Cohen t)4 W evict him, but the Iu. nlsipai ue ourt and pa ueiifi neeiiiom wr FSSWtt fa Jltfs said tha matter naj liiTn"i Wl in 1111 lis wr rsfusad te rePi Ml! $149,000 HOOT ffiE;MESSENGER Q3t0tl& "Circulation Books Open 1921. Knttrrd u Serend-ClaM lfatte To! OMrr, Mew Xerk, M. V. S STOLEN BY BOY William Dalton, Seventeen Years Old, 'Robs Northern Trust Co. in Chicago. WAS PAID $65 A MONTH. 'Had Worked- Three Years In side Securities Cage of the Bank. CHICAGO, Feb. 3! .The rcMbery of a bank of Liberty Bondu bearing a market value of $670,000 rwaa dis closed to-day -when the pollco begn scarohlng for a sevontron-year-old boy. The Northern Trust Company an nounced that William Dalton had IKrappeared -with' the txinds at noon on Thursday. Dalton's wngo was 0G a month. A number of other em ployees are believed to havo boon im plicated. No trnce of Datton haa. been found. Wires were went to pollco all over the country to-day notifying thmn of tho thoft. A reward of $25,000 was offered for return of tho bonds and of 31,000 for the npproheiudon of Dal ton. The bank's loss was covered in part by an insurance carried with Lloyd's, the British insurance agency. W. 8MllIer, attorney for the bank. said Dalton had been employed at the bank for three years In tho eo- curlty cago as a clerk. Datton lived with his mother ana sister. They wero closely questioned by detectives, but said they had not seen William since he disappeared, f Dalton had charge or tne wonc 01 exchanging tho temporary bonds for permament ones, and In this way was able to get hold of so large an amount at oneo. LANDLORDS IN JAIL; BROKE RENT LAWS Maximum of 10 Days Imposed on Three Owners Who Failed to Provide Service. Three landlords were convicted un der the now housing laws in Special Blon this afternoon for failing to provide hot water, heat and telephone service In tenements. Every one waa given ten days in the Workhouso and fined $.260, with an alternative of spedlng thirty days In Jail. The landlord! were Jacob Denner. who lives In nil tenement at No. S3 Mangln fltreetj (Meyer Blumfeld. No, 67 East 100th Street, owner of the tenement at No. 333 East 101st Street, and William Brldgea, colored. No, 2461 Beventh Avenue, who owns tho tenement at Son. tS and 11 West lSOth fltreot. The first two were convicted ef fail ure to provide hot water to tenants. and Brldgea also to provide heat and telephone Mrvloe, $60,000 VERDICT FOR BOY ACTOR After being out ten mlnutea this afternoon, a Jury in Justice Cohal an's Ibranoh f tho Hupreme Oourt returned n veniint nt 0,000 In faver of fleorge Woloott, nine years old, No. 1HJ West (0th Htreet, an actor, Tho verdfnt wm against the Vor- petent lleatty Company of No, 1J3 Went 4?th Htreet, owners of t lie-prem ise at that address, where tha boy waa iiuarea in an.eievator aeeiaont alls LIBERTY BOND WORTH 11670,000 Tomorrow's WALLSTOEE n m EDITION to All.", j 2 S AT FULTON Member of Firm at Struck on the BANDITS WITrJ BLACKJACKS I j ROB JEWELLER OF $50,0001 a Tried to Close Is Rifled- The fp Thieves Get Safely. Away. ... Joseph Malrono, junior partner, Who has a ono-fourth Interest ln,th! Jowclry manufacturing firm of Hatzkopt Bros. & Co., In Hoom MuJjo. 20G Broadway, was alone 1n tho office a few mluutcs after noon lo-dqr. Two men camo In. They wero roughly dressed. Ono looked' to 'Mr. Malrono Uko an Italian, he satd afterward. Ue started for Uiq safe, looking Dack ovor his ahouldor. Both men drow revolvers and blackjacks from their pockets. Leaping to the safe. Mr. Malrono tried to close tho seven-foot doors. Before the doors net " ho was struck on tho head and ovorythlng became black. 300 AilUStlERS ROUT POLICE; KILL Battle Continues Two Hours- Reserves and Battle Air planes Rushed to Scene, MACROOM, Ireland, Feb. 25 (Aeso- elated Press). Three hundred men In ambush attacked a large party of auxiliary police between Mac room and Ballymooney, County Cork, this morning and compelled the British Crown forces to withdraw after a two-boor battle In which the casual ties of the Crown detachment Included their Major, who was killed, and the wounding of a number of his men, some of whom bad to be left on the field. . Later the battle was Tenewe d when hundreds of reserves were hurried to the scene by the military, battlo air planes assisting In the attack on thp Irish contingent. DUBLIN, Feb 26 (United Tress). Eleven auxiliary police were killed to-day In a Sinn Fein ambush at Macrootn, County Cork, It was of- 'Uclally announced. Official rports described the am bush as the biggest yet attempted. BHLFAST, Feb. 25. A creamery in Inver, County Antrim, ana a co operative store In Mouiitchnrlcs, County Donegal, have been bumod as a reprisal for the shootings of a constable from ambush. PENNA. RR. PLANNING NEW CUT IN WAGES Two Previous Reductions, Aggre pttlnff 20 Per Gent., Not Enough, It Is Said. PUTLADBLrmA, Feb. 15. It wu learned at the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad here to-day that tha ocmpny U oeneldering a further curtailment In working fotves and oy ratlng expenses to become affective In March. lst December tha eetnpany made. a 10 por eent, eat In expense, followed br another 10 per cent. In Januaiy. These two out a. It was salt) at the company of floe , have not produced the necessary reduction to meet Una re t!!td. rnlns1 The extent of ths pext tM has net yet been determined. It will fffpei, we n leu, It vu learnod, the entire ayftom, w LEADER AND 1 0 MEN Weathir CLOUDY, WARMER. PRICE THREE CENTE Battl ST. E No. 206 Broadway- Head and Safe 4 A persistent rapping on the glass of tho corridor door arouhed him. lie found he was lying on the floorj in front of tho .safe. Its content , had been pulled out. Muny tissue papr wrappings of diamonds and some in portnnt papers were scattered about him. Mr. Mnirono crawled to the door flhd unlatched It. The door was opciiedjjby Mrs. Hilda Kohn, a customer of Sis tirm, who had called to have a brooch repaired. Mr. Malrono told her line place had been robbed, and bho ratCt on elevator nnd went down to j3m street to give the alarm. 5 Mrs. Kohn found Policeman Fee ncy of the Old Slip station, In fr&t of the building and he accompanied her back to the llatzkopf store, where Mr. Malrono, whgwa,8 3ar5y oioie to taiK, toiu ntm tne. story asm a hero recounted, a moment later Silas M. Ratzkopf of the firm ar rived and mado a hurried estimate of tho loss. lie ald that as' nearly as he could tell about 350,000 worth of diamonds and platinum were miss ing. AlUof it, he said, was covered by burglary Insurance. jj An ambulance In charge of TJr. Alvaroz of Volunteer Ilqspltnl took; Mr. Malrono to that Institution Jar treatment The blow 011 his head had left a severe wound. T Mr. (tatzkopf told detectives who fc warmed Into the place within. MKlf nn hour after the alarm was glvenlhe thought from Malrono'n description that one of the robbers was a nun. who had visited the plaoe frequently lately, pretending to bo a cut-rate salesman for Jewelers' stipnltes. M SAYS HUSBAND MADE HER WEAR HIS SOCKS Wife of Banker's Son, Asking Sp aration, Testifies She Was For bidden to Laugh. Mrs. Grace M. Prlsoo applied to jie Brooklyn Hupreme Court to-day for sep aration from her husband. George TV. PrUro, son of a private banker at No. IS Mulberry Street, Manhattan. She raid after their nurrUfit last June he made her wear her mother-jji-law's old clothes and his own old sacks, ordered her not to laugh, refused to peak Bngltsh In her presence and woke her up at night to tell how much jja loved a certain "Miss X." j The husband in his answering affi davit said she lured him ts elope wjth her becaues she thought n was rlcK. He said she smokes cigarettes and onee spent $11 In a beauty parlor to have fcer hair flxei. ft Decision was reserve,! on h$r tltlon far ISO a wiek-fllmotj 11 DEADLIN hut, for i kL&Jssi yJJsjjjAlBjfclflBiliHsMxMsxW