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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920
THE WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness to-day; showers
and colder to-night and to-morrow;
winds south and southwest.
Foil Report on Vont Fag.
* * ** .
?r?*Y> r-inc-ra *,n C'eut?"1 New York ?nd I TIIRKK CENTS
1WU i?i?, vtithln coraraulini distance I Elsewhere
Ebert's Truce Offer
Reported Rejectedby
'Red' Army Leaders
Dispatches From Berlin to
paris, However, State
?Government and Work?
ers Reach Agreement
Russian Officers
Direct Communists
Dispatch to Rotterdam
Says Trotzky Planned
to Reach Berlin July 1
LONDON. March 25.?Essen dis?
patches, forwarded by the Ber?
lin correspondent of "The London
Times," say that "Red" army lead?
ers have rejected the armistice with
the Reichswehr. The "Reds" are
now completely under the communist
leadership of the "Rote Soldaten?
hund," which played an important
part in the Berlin riots in 1919.
PARIS, March 25.?The German
jrovernment has reached a definite
atrreement with the workmen in the
Ruhr Valley, where the general
strike has been paralyzing industry
and where hostilities between sol?
diers and workers have been in
progress for several days past, ac?
cording to news reaching French
semi-official circles to-day from Ber?
lin. The bases of the agreement, the
advices state, are as follows:
The formation of a workmen's
army charged with maintaining
order.
The remodeling of the Cabinet
with labor union participation.
Thr disarmament of the troops
which took part in the recent coup
d'?tat.
The passage of laws for social re?
form and the carrying out of admin?
istrative reforms.
The socialization of the mines,
particularly the coal mines and the
?>ota.?5h workings.
The dissolution of "counter revo?
lutionary'' formations.
Improvement of the food supply
system.
ROTTERDAM, March 25.?The Spar
tacist movement in the Rhir.e provinces
has long been organi_*ed with the co?
operation of Russian aid and the of?
fensive against Poland, with the joint
object that Trotzky, tHe Russian Bol?
shevik Minister of War, would be at
the gateF of Berlin atthe beginning of
July, according to a Muenster dispatch
io "The Courant." Russian "Red" army
officers, says the correspondent, are al?
ready directing the German Spartacists,
v'nose army is being rapidly organized
and armed on the exact model of
Trotzky':?.
The revolution was originally plan?
ned for ?Ma.v 1, but the leaders believed
that the Kapp movement gave them
an opportunity to hasten their plans,
which included the capture of Muenster
and Wesel.
According to the "Telegraaf," the
Dutch government is taking Steps to
prevent "Red" activity.
LONDON, March 26.?The Muenster
"Anzeiger" gives further details of the
plans for a ?Spartacist movement in th?-*
Rhine provinces May l,1 according to a
Rotterdam dispatch to the London
"Times." It says that a conference
attended by three Russian officers de?
cided on JVIarch 13 that the time had
arrived to start a "Red" mobilization
in Germany, which had been prepared
UP to the smallest details.
The workers were to be armed, the
Rovernment troops disarmed. An army
v;a? to be organized on the Russian
Jj;an, 100 Russian officers having been
distributed in the industrial provinces
for the purpose. The workers, who
had already been selected as eligible
ior enlistment, were instructed to
Plunder the munitions stores and, di
'ectly they were armed, to march on
'Muenster. Wesel also was to be taken
?nd a strong "Red" army was to guard
9* Rhine. A list of high political
Personages was drawn up to ?lerve as
hostages.
Will Arm Labor Force
COPENHAGEN, March 25.?A tele?
gram from Bielefeld, Westphalia, to?
day, referring to the agreement be?
tween the workers and the authorities
in the industrial district of Rhenish
Westphalia (Ruhr Valley and vicinity),
'?y? particular emphasis on the de?
mand that the troops of General von
wiettwitz and the otKer reactionary
?"PS must be disbanded and a work?
men's force created.
The stipulation as regards this labor
wee, the telegram states, is that three
g? shall be chosen from out of every
wousand inhabitants from the ranks of
JW organized workers to be responsi
E"e tor the distribution of arms.
"e.aP?n8. munitions and requisitioned
?-captured army material are, ac
it n? t0 the term-, to be delivered
"?mediately to the Communal authori
thi
Jt is further stipulated, according to
nis message, that intensified martial
'?* ?hall be abolished and that neither
the
workmen who took part in the
fighting nor the police, the citizens or
j?e members of the Reichswehr shall
?;.aa? to suffer in any way as a re
SUH of their actions.
BaUer Head? New Cabinet
__? ?W* March 25.?The new Ger
?"> Cabinet, reconstructed as the re
__ k j yesterday's negotiations, will
P?~ ed fay Gustav Bauer, the present
r?miw. according to the "Morgen
Ccntinu.- on ?sas tlx
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Belgians Warn
German Workers
BEDERICH, Rhenish Prussia,
March 25 (By The Associated
? Press). ? Colonel Preoux, com?
manding the Belgian forces, to?
day sent officers to the work?
men's headquarters at Wesel
formally to notify the workers
that the Belgians would open fire
immediately if any more shhts
fell in Belgian occupied territory.
Reports show that in addition
to three shells early in the day
six more fell on the island in the
Rhine where the Belgian outpost
is stationed, and a number of
others in the river nearby. There
have been no casualties among
the Belgians.
Socialists in
Germany Deny
Soviet Aims
Government's Concession
to Workmen Results in
Conciliatory Feeling
Among Various Parties
By William C. Dreher
Special (.'able to The Tribune
(Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc.)
BERLIN, March 25.?The situation
in Berlin is approaching normal again.
There is a rush of cabs and drays, but
streetcars are not yet running. News?
papers are expected to resume publica
? tion to-morrow. Restaurants have be
| gun opening in larger numbers, but
j the streets are almost pitch dark at
night, as the supply of electricity is
insufficient. The banks report that
? business is more regular, although the
j Boerse has not resumed. The water
supply failed in the northern parts of
the city and water sold there for five
marks (normally $1.28) a bucket. The
guests at the hotels again rejoice at
having electric lights after a week of
candlelight.
The streets are how almost free of
troops, except in the vicinity of govern?
mental offices, the government having
j agreed to a withdrawal of troops to
! appease the workmen's organizations.
The Tribune correspondent talked
with several Independent Socialist lead
i ers and found a more reasonable state?
ment of facts than has been currently
reported. They utterly denied that
anywhere in Germany an effort has
been made to declare a Soviet republic.
These leaders evince a conciliatory
feeling because the government acceded
to their demands that workmen be ad?
mitted io the safety troops, that Noske
and Heine resign, and that troops be
withdrawn from Berlin, with the excep?
tions mentioned. It is evident that
the Independent and Majority Socialists
are playing a hard game for position.
Demanded New Government
After the general strike had been de?
clared ended without the sanction of
the Independents, they decided they
must do something to squeeze a politi?
cal advantage from the situation. The
Independents demanded that a new gov?
ernment be formed consisting exclu?
sively of men approved by labor .or-?
ganizations. The Majority Socialists,
also fencing for position, agreed to
this, but on .the condition that the
other two coalition parties, viz., the
Democrats and the Catholics, accept
the proposal, knowing that acceptance
by them was absolutely out of the
question. j
The "Frankfurter Zeitung" does i
not hesitate to say that, Ludendorff
was the soul of the Kapp movement.
It appears now that a conspiracy was
conducted jointly with the so-called j
society to combat Bolshevism, the bulk
of whose members did not suspect the
real object of their contributions.
Many bankers and great manufacturers
were regular contributors, who had no
thought of giving money to reestablish
junkerdom. Former army officers,
however, got the upper hand in the or?
ganization and made it the instrument
for camouflaging a farreaching con?
spiracy.
Much satisfaction is expressed in
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Milk Cut of
2 Cents a Qt.
Apr. 1 Likely
Dairymen'sLeague Comes
to Agreement With Dis?
tributors Which Is Ex?
pected to Aid Consumer
Companies to Take
Entire Production
Farmers to Sell Product
at 1.7 Cents Under Price
Received for March
A reduction of two cents a quart in
the retail price of milk beginning April
1 is forecast in an agreement entered
into last, night between the producers
and the distributors. The farmers
agree to sell milk to the distributors
at an average reduction of 1.7 cents a
quart. Under a general rule to extend
the reduction to the consumer it i? ex?
pected that the handlers to-day will
reduce by two cents the present 16
and 17 cent rate for Grade B milk.
Proportionate cuts in other grades also
are expected.
The agreement was announced by the
Milk Conference Board, which has been
in session at the office of the Dairy?
men's League, 303 Fifth Avenue, for
more than a week. The failure of the
board to act last week led to reports
that it was deadlocked. Health Com?
missioner Copeland predicted that the
board would cut off the city's milk
supply.
Farmers Do Better This Year
The reduction in the amount to be
paid to the farmers is said to be much
less than was made at the same time
last year.
Evidence of a warm contest between
the farmers and the distributors over
prices was given in a statement issued
by R. D. Cooper, president of the
Dairymen's League, after the agree?
ment had been reached. The statement
said:
"The producers' price for April milk
will be $2.55 per 100 pounds for milk
testing 3 per cent butter fat, a decrease
of 81 cents from the March or present
price. ?
"Buyers of milk will pay farmers
at the rate of 5.4 cents per* quart for
3 per cent milk and 5.9 cents per
quart of milk containing 3.6 per cent
butter fat.
^ "Four cents per 100 pounds of milk
a"re added for each one-tenth of 1 per
cent increase of butter fat over 3 per
cent.
"Producers now are getting 7.1 cents
per quart for 3 per cent milk and 7.05
cents for 8.6 per cent milk.
"The farmer will receive in April
1.7 cents per quart less than he is re?
ceiving this month. He will get half
a cent per quart less than h? received
* in Apr?, 1919.
Buyers to Take Whole Outpnt
"Buyers will take all the milk of
producers with whom contracts are
made. ,
"The buyers insisted upon a radical
revision of the price plan in use dur?
ing the last year. In this plan prices
are based in the main upon the whole?
sale prices of butter and cheese. Under
the proposed revision the dealers
offered the farmers $2.48 for 3.6 per
i cent milk, or at the rate of $2.24 for
! 3 per cent milk.
"The executive committee of the
league declined to agree to the revi?
sion, as proposed, as it brought the
price far below the cost of production,
with all the advantages in favor of the
j dealers.
"Without any revision in the present
sale plan, the producers' price would
have been about $2.97 per 100 pounds.
The league's representatives agreed to
certain revisions which resulted in a
price of $2.67 and offered to sell league
milk at this price. This concession was
made in view of conditions in the milk
manufacturing market due to the stop?
ping of exports of milk products.
Farmers Oppose Production Cut
"It was suggested to the league by
th? dealers that farmers should use
less feeds and reduce the amount of
milk produced, thus decreasing the
natural surplus in times of an abun?
dant flow of milk. The league officers
declared their unalterable opposition to
such a proposition, arguing that, first,
it would work to the disadvantage of
the public, and, secondly, that if a
cow's flow of milk is once reduced the
full flow can naiur be brought back.
"Farmers in tffe country insisted that
they must have a higher price than the
?dealers offered, and the executive com?
mittee constantly put forth its best en?
deavors to prevent a situation that
might result in a rupture of business
relations. At no time during the nego?
tiations were the officers of the league
in favor of a SO' called milk strike.
"The league- officers regret attempts
on the part of Dr. Copeland to inflame
consumers against farmers by' declar?
ing that the public was threatened with
a milk strike.'
Polish Forces Hold 'Reds'
In Check on 400-Mile Front
WARSAW, March,25?Bolshevik at?
tacks have been launched against the
Polish line at scattered points along
a front of approximately 400 miles, and
the long-planned spring attack by the
Russian Soviet armies apparently has
been commenced.
While the Bolsheviki have made
small advances at some places, despite
the desperate resistance of the Poles,
the latter have been holding the enemy
in check in most sections, say official
statements. The "Reds" have been
compelled to retrtat from several new?
ly acquired positions along the front,
but fighting still continues, the Soviet
troops using heavy artillery, tanks,
armored cars and other apparatus cap?
tured from General Denikine on the
south Russian front.
Most severe fighting took place Tues?
day on the Polesian-Podolian front,
near the Galician fronuer. the Bol?
sheviki concentrating their attacks on
.this sector in an effort to capture
Rovno, an important railroad center,
and Kamenetz-Podolsk, a city highly
prized because of its strategic import?
ance.
Further north, in the region 'of
Rzecyczo and Kalenkowitz northeast of
Mozir, the enemy took several small
villages, which were recovered by the
Poles after a day's fighting.
Heavy engagements also are report?
ed in the vicinity of Zaslava, southeast
of Rovno? and Starp - Konatajntiaex,
where the "Keds" attempted to cross I
the Clutch River. East of Kamenetz- !
Podolsk the battle is still going on,
both sides using artillery and bringing
up reinforcements. Some criick Bol?
shevik divisions are in line along this
*sector, and cavalry is being used.
Rovno is particularly valuable to the
Poles, as through it runs the only rail?
road by which supplies can be shipped
to the army along the southeastern
front. In their drive against this city
Tuesday the Bolshevik hurled two di?
visions ?rito the battle in an attempt
to outflank the Poles. Hand-to-hand
fighting ensued in villages just to the
east of the Slutch River, and the en?
emy was finally compelled to retire.
He resumed the onslaught, however,
and the struggle is still going on in
the vicinity of Bubar and Ostropol,
where, in spite of their use of heavy
artillery in preparation for their as
' sault, the "Reds" have not succeeded
in crossing the Slutch.
In sectors where the Poles have re?
pelled the Soviet hordes they have
found great heaps of bridge materials
which were brought up in preparation
for crossing Beveral streams that flow
along the front.
Northeast and east of Kamenetz
Podolsk, near the Dniester R^ver, the
Bolsheviki have been using their heav?
iest guns and apparently have made
slight gains, having captured the vil?
lage of Mohilev (not the important
city of the same name) several days
General Strike ,.
Called in Naples
NAPLES, March 26. ? The
Chamber of Labor to-day decided
to call a twenty-Jour-hour general
-strike as a protest against the
measures adopted by the police
and military to put down the
strike in the iron works.
Two thousand iron workers
had gone out, demanding a.50
per cent increase in wages. Upon
a refusal the strikers took pos?
session of the factory.
Troops surrounded the factory
and shots were exchanged with
the workmen, the workmen using
revolvers and the troops machine
guns. A dozen workmen wei'e
wounded and about 100 arrested.
X
Wilson Disavow
A Third Term
House Democrats Lead in
Applauding Humphrey's
Criticism of President
for Remaining Silent
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 25. ?Demo?
cratic members of the House of Repre?
sentantes, including Democratic Lead?
er Champ Clark and Claude 'Kitchin,
former leader, cheered a demand made
in the House to-day by Representative
Humphreys, Democrat, of Mississippi,
that President Wilson announce wheth?
er he is a candidate for a third term.
Mr. Humphreys declared President
Wilson should not be considered for a
third term, and he criticized the Pres:
dent for remaining silent on the ques?
tion while his personal friends were
actively booming him for another term.
When Mr. Humphreys concluded the
Democrats in the House were more vo?
ciferous in their applause than were
the Republicans. Champ Clark and
Representative Kitchin rushed to him
and patted him on the back, while other
Democrats crowded around and shook
hands with him.
Regrets Silence of President
"I regret that the President has re?
mained silent as to his intentions in
the matter of a third term," said Mr.
Humphreys, "and that he has permitted
so many of his friends, including mem?
bers of the Cabinet, to advocate pub?
licly his reelection to a third term,
and by remaining silent has allowed
the country to believe he was willing
to break the ancient precedent."
After quoting the views of other
American Presidents on the third term,
including those of Jefferson and Jack?
son, Mr. Humphreys referred to Presi?
dent Wilson's declarations on the sub?
ject and quoted the single term plank
of the Democratic platform on which
President Wilson was elected the first
time.
"I do not believe," said Mr. Hum?
phreys, "that Lincoln's heart could ever
have entertained for a moment the sug?
gestion that he should offer him?
self for a third term. It is unthink?
able."
Third Term Condemned
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Kan?
sas, Mr. Humphreys told the House,
adopted resolutions condemning an?
other term when a third term was sug?
gested for General Grant.
"The Republicans of Pennsylvania,"
said Mr. Humphreys, "resolved 'that we
declare a firm and unqualified adher?
ence to the unwritten law of the Re?
public, which wisely and under the
sanction of the most venerable of ex?
amples limits the Presidential service
of any citizen to two terms, and we,
the Republicans of Pennsylvania, in
recognition of this law, are unalterably
opposed to the election to the Presi?
dency of any person for a third term.'
"These are the precedents which
have come down to us from those who
have carried the torch of liberty
through a century of effort to negative
and discredit the theory of the divine
right of kings," Mr. Humphreys con?
tinued. "It was because we sensed
danger in the air and reckoned accu?
rately that this old tradition was about
to be challenged that we adopted a
single term plank in the Democratic
platform in 1912."
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Employers Urging
Vole on Beer Bill
Sweet Told That Unrest
Is Being Caused Among
Workers by Prohibition
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANW, March 25.?Upstate Re?
publican Assemblymen and representa?
tives of large employers of labor, it
was learned to-day, have been bring?
ing pressure to bear on Speaker Sweet
to get him to withdraw his opposition
to the passage of a 3.50 per cent beer
bill. Such a bill can be passed easily
in the Senate and it is declared it has
svi'.icient votes in the Assembly if the
Speaker will let it out of committee.
Speaker Sweet is not asked to sup?
port the bill, but is urged to permit
the Assembly to vote on it on its
merits.
It was said to-night that Speaker
Sweet has been impressed by the dec?
laration of Republican Assemblymen
and the employers that there is grow?
ing unrest among their workers be?
cause they cannot get a glass of beer.
The argument also has been made to
the Speaker that by permitting beer
the Legislature would enact a state
prohibition enforcement law that would
go a long way toward stopping the
wholesale bootlegging in whisky now
going on.
The Walker-Gillett beer bul con?
tains provisions for state-prohibition
enforcement. No other prohibition en?
forcement bill can pass either House,
and without state aid it is pointed out
that the small Federal force in the
state can have little weight in stopping
violations of the prohibition amend?
ment* , u .. ..
So strong is the sentiment for a
beer bill among members of the Legis?
lature that some of them are predict?
ing that even a motion to discharge
the committee could be carried. This
would have to be done over Speaker
Sweet's head.
you ean ?till buy ^ranberri*?. They ewt
leas tban last ymr.?Aavt.
Henry Makes Attack on Smith
In Police Vice Hunt Scandal;
Swann Aid Hits Back in Denial
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Smith Says High Police
Official Gave Order
That Inspired Inspector
to Make Attack on Him
Asserts Inspector
Got Gimson Bail
Declares Greater Sensa?
tion Than City Has Seen
Is Forthcoming Soon
James E. Smith. Assistant District
Attorney, replying lato last night to
charges made against him in affidavits
made public by Inspector Dominick Hen?
ry, in command of the 4th Inspection
District, declared that the reason for the
"vicious and unfounded attacks" was
that, according to information which
he, Smith, had received last night, a
high police official now under investiga?
tion had sent the word to "high police
officers throughout the city that if they
did not come to his assistance at once
he was going to 'squeal' and tell every?
thing he knew about the Police Depart?
ment, from bottom to ton."
"In the words v.f the high police
official in question, Mr. Smith said he
is going to 'blow up the works' if his
friends of the Police Department didn't
come to his assistance post haste. That
is the reason for these attacks upon
me."
"Henry upholds Gunson, the detec?
tive, whom I have indicted," he added.
"They are all working together, high
and low, and before we get through
with them we are going to show
them that the people of this city
have a right to know what rottenness
is going on in their Police Department.
"Graft and Vice Flourish"
"Graft and vice have flourished un?
der their noses for months. I raided
gambling houses and other 'joints' in
the Tenderloin district over Henry's
head a good many months ago, and he
never has got over it. When I got
Gunson, one of his collectors, he swore
h6*d attend to" me. Gunson, whom
Henry has told he will help through
all his trouble, is at the present time
indicted and will be convicted.
"I wonder if the public knows, as in?
formation of the best kind has told
me, that after the indictment of Gun?
son Inspector Henry arranged for bail
for the notorious John Gunson and also
for his lawyer?
"No power in God's country can save
this higher police official or Gunson.
In a short time I expect to make public
the name of the high police official
who will be indicted."
Mr. Smith declared that "never in
the history of New York has the Police
Department been more inefficient, more
desperate, more vicious or more cor?
rupt than at the present time, and
they know we're going to get them.
These foul and vicious affidavits by
Henry will -not hurt us."
Never Spoke to Henry
He? said some of the affidavits were
two or three years old, and added: "I
never spoke to Henry in my life, on any
subject, at any time. His attack is in
line with the letter written by the
Mayor on March 12, 1919. It is a com?
bined effort to make me stop our cru?
sade against grafting in this city.
"Henry knows he is under investiga?
tion. Every statement he makes is ab?
solutely false," Mr. Smith continued.
"But the police system compels him to
make them to hold his job. He is like
a rat in a corner crying for help.
"Such vicious attacks as these will
cause the people of this city and county
to demand that every last grafter is
brought to the bar of justice. We're
going to break the system. Just tell
them that."
Inspector Henry, when told late last
night that Mr. Smith had said he was
a "madman and had become desperat?,"
replied:
?'I wasn't desperate when I made
those affidavits, two years ago. The
.' aa- it.?, wore made when Smith was
trying to open up the Tenderloin dis?
trict. That was about the timo .??*??*?,
gambling house that Smith ran at 256
West 105th Street, known as the Civitas
Club, was closed. That club was run by
him and his brother-in-law and was a
notorious gambling house."
"Inspector Henry lies!" shouted Mr.
Smith when this remark was repeated
to him.
"The Civitas Club," he said, "never
was a gambling club. It was a political
club, pure and simple. I was simply a
member of the Civitas Club until 1916.
: The club was known as the Civitas
Democratic Club and there never was
any gambling in it. There never was
? a i.i-?y' there. The members may have
! played a little poker or pinochle, but
| that was all."
Root Will Sit
On League Board
I Agrees to Aid in Fram?
ing Constitution for
World Arbitration Court
By Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribune's European Bureau
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON. March 25.?Elihu Root
has accepted the invitation tendered
by the league of nations to become a
member of the commission which will
meet at The Hague in June to draw
up a constitution for a permanent
world court of arbitration, it was an?
nounced to-day.
Mr. Root's position on the commis?
sion is unique in that he is the only
representative whose country is not
a member of the league of nations.
His acceptance gives the greatest en?
couragement to those interested in the
league project, ?S* they.believe his de?
cision to accept membership on the
commission will have great influence
in the United States.
The old and new "Florodora ?sextette.
See them both in the rotogravure eec
tion of next Sunday's Tribune. This ?reat
e.*U of all musical comedies will be revived
at the Century Theatre Apr. 5t__?Advt.
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Bill Stripping Enright of Control of
Detective Bureau Offered in Senate
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 25.?Members of the department, disgusted with
the manner in which Police Commissioner Enright and Mayor Hylan
have been placing favorites in good berths, especially in the Detective
Bureau, had Senator Charles C. Lockwood, of Brooklyn, introduce a
bill to-day taking control of the Detective Bureau away from Enright
and Hylan.
The bill, which has the support of civic organizations in New York
City, as well as the important police organizations, creates a division
of detectives, headed by a superintendent appointed by the Civil Service
Commission after competitive examination. The bill provides that
Candidates for Superintendent of Detectives shall be at least of the
rank of lieutenant and shall have served at least six months in the
twelve months prior to their taking the examinations as members of the
present Detective Bureau.
Doctor Is Lured
To His Death in
Double Murder
Brooklyn Physician Called
on Mysterious Errand ;
Found Slain in Room
j With an Italian Lodger
A man who seemed to be in a great
I, hurry ran up the steps of Dr. Vincent
! Campisi's home at 46 Stagg Street,
1 Brooklyn, late yesterday afternoon. Dr.
! Campisi's brother, Samuel, heard him
! ask the physician to accompany him to
i Lorimer Street at once. He said a
I man there needed medical attention
| right away. Dr. Campisi got his medi
> cine case and went.
It was about half an hour later that
; Frank Ambrose, who lives at 498 Lori
! mer Street, heard a crash of glass and
j the tinkle of fragmens falling in the
yard bf 496 Lorimer Street, a furnished
; room house next door. It seemed to
; him also that he heard the confused
sounds, of a struggle in an upper room
of the house. He went out to look for
a policeman.
Neighbor Gives Alarm
He was not more than fifteen min
,utes, he thinks, finding Patrolman
Lander, of the Herbert Street police
station. It was just a quarter of 7, the
patrolman remembers, when they
climbed the stairs of 496 Lorimer
Street with Mrs. Dorothy Parker, the
landlady, toiling along behind then*,
explaining at every step that there
could not have been any trouble in her
house, which, everybody knew, was
above reproach.
They stopped at the first landing at
the door of a small rear room from
which the crash of glass had come.
The door was unlocked and the patrol?
man turned the knob. After moving
four or five inches the door jammed.
Lander looked through the aperture,
ejaculated something under his breath
| and turned sharply to the still ex?
postulating Mrs. Parker.
! "You'd better go downstairs, ma'am,"
i he said. " 'Tis no sight for a woman
in there."
; Then he opened the door, shoving
back into the room with its motion
the body of Dr. Campisi, which had
lodged against it, face up on the floor.
The physician was dead, stabbed twice
and blackjacked. Another dead man
lay across the bed as though he had
been thrown there in a struggle. He
had been choked to death.
Evidences of Struggle
Otherwise the room was untenanted.
There were some evidences of a
struggle. A chair had been overturned
near the bed and the whole lower pane
was missing from one of the two win
: dows. A rug near the bed was
rumpled.
The entire detective force of the in?
spection district was summoned, and
Continued on page nineteen
Hylan Probes
Fire and Police
Wage Crusade
Two Organizations Accused
by Mayor of Improper
Political Activity and
Also Misrepresenting Him
Mayor Hylan yesterday ordered
Commissioner of Accounts Hirs?ifield
to begin an investigation of the activi?
ties of the Patrolmen's Benevolent As?
sociation and the Uniformed Firemen's
Association, both active in the fight
for increased wages for firemen and
policemen and the improvement of
working conditions.
In a letter addressed to Commission
' er Hirshfield the Mayor accuses the
I two organizations of Illegal and im
I proper political activity and of mis
| representing him in statements to the
j press. The Mayor's arrow? were di
I rected particularly against "one Joseph
I J. O'Reilly," social secretary of both
! the patrolmen's and firemen's organiza?
tions. He accuses O'Reilly of trying
? to foment a strike ol policemen and
firemen last summer.
In reply to the Mayor's charges Mr.
! O'Reilly said last night that both as?
sociations will be glad to submit to
any investigation. He denied any il?
legal activities on the part of either.
He said it was curious the Mayor
should refer to him as "one Joseph J.
O'Reilly," when Mr. Hylan came to his
office at 5 Beekman Street on the eve
of the last mayoralty election and
pleaded with him to swing the firemen's
and policemen's votes in his behalf.
?Mayor Peeved, Says O'Reilly
Mr. O'Reilly attributed the Mayor's
order for an investigation to the fact
that "the Mayor is still sore about the
defeat suffered by his crowd at the last
election, which, he realizes, has been
accomplished through the votes of city
employees, who are disgusted with his
conduct and his unscrupulous failure
to fulfill his promises to them."
Mr. O'Reilly branded the Mayor's
accusation against him and officers of
the firemen's and patrolmen's organiza?
tions as fomenters of a- strike move?
ment as "a piece of dastardly calumny."
"If there was any person who was
opposed to the idea of a strike by city
employees that person was I." said Mr.
O'Reilly.
Mayor Hylan in ordering Commis?
sioner Hirshfield to make the investi?
gation directed the commissioner to
report to him as speedily as possible
whether O'Reilly is being paid by the
firemen and policemen or has any con?
nection with political organizations
or has promised the support of police?
men and firemen to legislators favor- ,
ing increases of salary or any other i
thing to further what he styled their
own selfish ends.
Commissioner Hirshfield said last
Continu?- on next pago
j4Dastardly Plot,9 Says Lawson,
Held as Stock Law Violator
Special Dispatch to The Tribuns
I BOSTON, March 25,?Thomas W.
i Lawson, who smilingly described Wm
i self as "farmer and author," was ar-'
i rested here to-day, charged with vio
! lating th? law regarding the listing and
advertising of mining stocks.
L. C. Van Riper, formerly secretary
to Lawson, was one of four brokers and
operators arrested yesterday. He and
Lawson had been promoting silver
stocks, the prices of which had shown
heavy fluctuations within the last few
weeks.
' Within a few hours after his arraign
; ment and release on $2,500 bail for
: hearing on April 6 Lawson turned his
; heavy artillery on J. Wesley Allen, At
! torney General, on whose initiative
? Lawson was arrested. The financier
; charged the Attorney General with
| "playing politics" and termed him an
j "agile vote chaser, who has his eye on
: [Governor] Cal Coolidge's job."
Calls It "Dastardly Plot"
In newspaper advertisements Lawson
? charged that his arrest was a "dastard
I ly plot" to prevent him from going to
the Republican National Convention as
a delegate-at-large. He hinted that the
arrest was held over his head as a
i threat to make him change his mind
, about running for delegate. The At?
torney General's only comment on the
charges was that he didn't know Law
son was a candidate.
In a letter to William Jarvis, chair?
man of the Governing Committee of
the Boston Curb Exchange, Lawson ad?
vised telling "the State, Federal and
Pushmush Center sheriis to go to??"
and to let the Attorney General "lump
it" if he didn't like the way Jarvis
ran the curb. Lawson also advised
Jarvis to tell the Attorney General te
"mind his own business if he inter?
fered with the activities of the curb."
Lawson's attack on the Attorney
General was in connection with con?
ferences which have been held at the
State House between the Attorney
General and curb exchange officials, as
a result of which important changes
in the regulations of the curb market
are expected.
Drew Big Crowd
It was a big day in court for Law
son, and he drew a bigger crowd than
a circus parade. He surrendered him?
self shortly after 10 this morning
and appeared at Police Headquarters
in Pemberton Square accompanied by
his counsel, Homer Albers.
"Tom," beaming merrily, wore a neat
fitting morning coat, striped trousers
and a white carnation in his lapel. He
took his trouble lightly. He waved
friendly greeting to persons in the
crowd in the Court House Square in
response to the chorus of "Hello,
Tom." During questioning by Inspecotr
Gleavey, he joked with those in the
room.
"This is better than a wedding,"
smiled Lawson. "Wait until I come
out of court and I will have handcuffs
on," he said to the newspaper photog?
raphers. There was a big laugh and
when it died down the financiei
shouted: "Have you any silvers, boys?'
Theie was a chorus of answers, every^
body roaring.
The arraignment had plenty of in?
terest.
"Thomas W. Lawson," shouted th<
clerk, and Tom took the stand. .
"Good morning, Judge," was Tom'1
cheery greeting. Judge Murray grinnei
from ear to ear and returned "Goo?
morning, Mr. Lawson." Attorney Al
bers asked to have Lawson released 01
his own recognizance. The court sail
that "though he had no doubt of Mi
Lawson's appearance, he would fix bai
so that there would be no discrimina
I tion." *
Inspector Says Assistant
Prosecutor Sent Broth
er-in-Law to Him in Be?
half of Gaming Houses
Judges and High
Officials Named
-?
Declares uCzar of Courts
Building" Caused Ar?
rests of Many Innocent
Inspector Dominick Henry, com?
manding the 4th Inspection District,
commonly known as the Tenderloin,
called reporters to his office in the
West Sixty-eighth Street police sta?
tion yesterday afternoon and laid be?
fore them copies of affidavits charg?
ing Assistant District Attorney
James E. Smith with conniving at
the very conditions of vice and un?
derworld graft Mr. Smith has laid at
the door of the Police Department in
the present grand jury investigation,
Smith Makes Denials
All of the affidavits were made b*>
Inspector Henry. They are on file
he says, with Police Commission
er Enright. They purport to shov
that" Mr. Smith not only propose<
that Henry wink at vice condi
tions in the district under his com
mand, but that he (Smith) sen
his own brother-in-law to Henr.*
with the proposal that Smith be per
mitted to open a few gamblini
houses that might bring him mone;
when his term as Assistant Distric
Attorney came to an end.
These charges brought vehemen
denials last night from Mr. Smitr
who branded Henry an unspeakabl
I falsifier.
In the first of his affidavits Inspect*
Henry tells of an alleged meeting wit
Dennis Quinn, the brother-in-law ?
Mr. Smith, who represented himself i
the prosecutor's emissary in arrangir
for the opening of gambling houses ;
the Broadway district.
According to the inspector. Quir
promised on behalf of his brother-ii
iaw that there would be no raids t
the District Attorney and said thi
"Jimmy" had the District Attorney "i
his vest pocket," could slip the repr
sentative of the Rockefeller interests
piece of change and knew all the new
paper men and could "fix" them. Tl
alleged meeting took place March 1
1919.
The "next affidavit purports to te
of a meeting with Assistant Distri
Attorney Smith February 15, 1919, i
which Mr. Smith is quoted as interce?
ing for a "friend" who ran a "litt
restaurant" in Forty-eighth jStreet.
Tells of Meeting "J. E. S."
A meeting with "J. E. S." Februa:
12. 1918, is described in the inspector
third affidavit, in which he quot?
"J. E. S." as saying that he had Di
trict Attorney Swann muzzled, cou
"handle" Costigan (Honest Dan,
Rosenthal fame), and if Inspect?
Henry wanted to "do a little busines
with Christians in his district it wou
be all right.
The next affidavit tells of an inte
view Inspector Henry says he had Jui
19, 1919, with S. Klafsner, of 145 Ve
milyea Avenue, the Bronx, in which A!
Klausner is said to have repeated
threat he said Mr. ?Smith made to p
Henry ''behind the bars."
The initials "J. S. S." and "J. E. i
A. D. A.," appearing frequently in t!
affidavits, stand in every instance f
James E. Smith and James E. Smil
Assistant District Attorney, Inspect
Kenry told a reporter for T
Tribune. The initials referred to a
alleged to have begun in the r?gime
Arthur Woods as Police Commission!
though the majority of them are und
dates since Enright took office.
Henry's Statement
In a statement prefacing the ai
davits Henry said:
"Having read in th? New York pre
in numerous publications insinuatioi
inferences and innuendoes relative to 1
police management of the 4th Inspi
tion. District, which I have been co
manding since January 23, 1918, b*1
public scandalmonger whose tong
and hands are steeped in the slime
human corruption 365 days in the ye
and having on March 10, 1920, mi
application to the District Attorney
be permitted to appear before
grand jury for the purpose of giv
an explanation relative to my mana
ment of the district of two and o
half years and of my thirty years
police service, in said applicat
I volunteered to waive all in-imun
and to answer all questions appert
ing to my public and private life.
"Not having been accorded that pi
Hege to date, I deem it my duty a
public official to lay before th
through the courtesy of the pul
press, a little inside information, sht
ing as it will the almost insurmou
able obstacles which confront a ?
trict commander who is giving his I
efforts to clean up and keep tbe dist:
in a clean condition.
"When I assumed command of i
district I found prostitutes and th
who are living from their degra
lives in great numbers, and a consii
able number of gambling houses
operation.
Free of Gambling House?
"Through persistent and energ
work twenty-four hours a day this
trict is free and dear of all gamb
houses, there is not one disord
house operating to my knowledge,
has there been for the last i
months. The appearance of a pr<
tute on the streets or public place
this district is a rarity and not
rule, as it was when I took comm
In that I challenge contradiction.
"In the early part ot 1818 an Asi
ant District Attorney took it upon 1
self to periodically invade the dist
making wholesale arresta of ?en