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Whitney Opens
Fire on Record
Of "Alibi Al"
Former Public Service ?Com?
missioner Says Governor
So Far Has Been Lucky
to Escape "Checking Up"
Alleges Broken Promises
Asserts Performances Have
Been for Corporations
and Jobs for Tammany
Travis H. Whitney, former Public
Service Commissioner, speaking last
night before the Republican Club of
the Fifteenth Assembly District, made
a vigorous attack upon Governor Al?
fred E. Smith and his record in office,
especially in regard to his handling of
public utility matters in New York
City. He called? him "Alibi Al."
w Governor Smith is exceptional in
that he is a city product and he has
been fortunate in many respects," said
Mr. Whitney. "The story of his early
; life has been exploited many times as
1 a platform upon which he has achieved
j success. He has now, however, reached
i the point where not his early biog
| raphy but his official record should.be
?the basis of his further political career.
"As Governor he has been fortunate
j in the opportunities his political op
' ponents have opened to him. He has
I gotten away with much. He has been
' fortunate in controlling or affecting
: the sources of possible criticism, so
! that he has so far escaped without
: much checking up.
Jobs Were for Tammany
"However, in his campaign for Gov?
ernor he was specific in his criticism
of Republican officials and positive in
his promises. An examination of the
' record will show that his criticisms
have turned out to be prophesies of his
: own conduct and that as to the Public
Service Commission his promises were
for the voters before election. His
performances were for corporations
\ after election and the jobs wore for
Tammany.
i "The Democrats have indicated
: strongly their intention to renominate
Governor Smith and presumably base
? their state campaign on his record as
i Governor.
"He criticised and condemned Gov*
? ernor Whitman for possessing political
'? ambition, alleging that he desired elec
! tion to further his ambition for the
! Presidency. What is his own record
i of office holding? In 1917 he was elected
l for a fcur-year term to the Board
i of Estimate. No sooner was he in than
! he looked for a way to escape such as
! sociations, finally* securing the Gov
; ernorship. No sooner was he Governor
?than his political friends and publicity
I agents sent \ip balloons bearing, further
?political booms; Presidency, Vice-Pres-,
I idency, United States Senatorship, re
nomination for Governor, Mayor of New
York City, leader of Tammany Hall.
"As President of the Board of Al
: dermen, Smith was looked upon as one
who would develop into the strong man
; of the nity administration, but he
i avoided public issues that might create
i factional opposition to his nomination
and election as Governor.
Biggest Budget Ever
"He criticized his predecessor on the
size of the state budget, yet the last
! budget sgned by him is the largest in
the history of the state by a great
! many millions. His alibi is that re
, ductions and economics are impossible
! until a budgetary system and a con
i solidation of state functions are
| adopted as constitutional amendments.
"Because of the situation in New
; York City, he laid great dmphasis on
rapid transit and regulation of utilities
and attacked severely the Public Serv?
ice Commission. That commission was !
in conflict with the Board of Estimate
over the completion of the new sub?
ways and relations with the operating
companies. Smith was made chairman
of the transit committee of the Board
of Estimate. Smith was in an official
position to ascertain the full facts,
instead, he got out from in between
and went out on the stump to promise
what he would do in a light on some
other day. But the promise was just
to get elected."
Lives Up to Nickname
"Bourke Cockran related at San
Francisco with great effect the story
j he had heard somewhere of the early
? days when Smith was a pedler. I have
? been told, I think probably by the
i same people, that in those days Smith
' was so artful in avoiding the direct
'? answer whether he had fresh fish that
! an exasperated old lady clubbed him
I 'Alibi Al.' He apparently used East
! Side methods to suppress the name,
! but has been living fairly up to it.
"He has jollied civic organizations
I and handled publicity skillfully, but
the accuracy of the nickname, harsh as ?
it may be, can be judged by whether
? he answers directly or evades or tries
rough stuff to avoid such questions as
these:
"Why did he lay down on his prom
] ises to complete the subways, even if
I it meant Executive interference with
i the Board of Estimate?
"Why did he promise commissioners
j who would be 'representative of the
I people and not creatures of the cor
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porations they aro organised to con?
trol* and then appoint a commissioner
who has done little for the people and
as much as he could, within or without
.the law, to aid the corporation??
"Why has he allowed Tammany Hall
to take all the commission jobs?
"Why didnt he appoint his committee
of one thousand on fair methods in
politics?
"Why did he throw into tho waste
basket his promise to put teeth in the
public service commission law by rec?
ommending the F o ley amendments?
"Why didn't he force the commis?
sioners to reduce the expenses of regu?
lation and rapid transit?
"Why did he promise to reduce the
state budget if he knew that it was
not possible without a constitutional
budget system and reorganization of
the state department?"
Advocates Marriage
Between Japanese
And Americans
"Potato King of California"
Testifies Before House
Committee; Sen. Phelan
Denounces Japs as Peril
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.?George
Shima, president of the Japaneso As?
sociation of America and so-called
"potato king of California," told the
House Committee on Immigration and
Nationalization here to-day that he is
in favor of intermarriage between
Japanese and Americans. The commit?
tee is investigating the Japanese situh- |
tion in California.
"There may be objections now, but a
hundred years from now wo will look
back upon it as all right," he said.
"When potato seed in this state is no
longer good we cross it with Oregon
seed and the second year there is a
fine crop of potatoes.
"To be sure, a good many Japanese :
don't make enough .money to support j
Yankee girls. They ai'o too expen?
sive."
Shima said he had been a resident j
of California for thirty years and on
his only visit back to Japan he had j
been decorated by the Emperor.
Replying .to questions by Congress?
man Johnson, of Washington, if he had
been decorated because he was the
leading Japanese business man and !
farmer in this country, he said:
"Oh, no, I don't know myself. But ;
Japanese papers have said it was be?
cause my old school teacher, who was !
later the Emperor's teacher, kept boost?
ing me for all the time."
A statement that the California
Mexico Land and Cattle Company of
Imperial County was about to sell 800,
000 acres of its holdings to Japanese
interests a year ago, but tho project
was stopped "because some of the di?
rectors were more patriotic than '
others," was made to the committee by
Senator James D. Phelan. Senator
Phelan introduced a letter purporting
to have been sent from the State De?
partment to T. E. Gibbon, attorney for
the company, March 21, 1919, in which
it was said "the time is not opportune
for such a deal."
The letter, Senator Phelan explained,
was in answer to one sent the depart?
ment by Gibbon to determine the de?
partment's attitude on the proposed
transfer.
Senator Phelan said he had visited
Tia Juana and Calexico to determine
whether Japanese were being smuggled
over the state border from Mexico, and
found evidence that such smuggling;
was going on. He charged the Jap- ?
anese Consul at Los Angeles with con- ;
niving to smuggle Japanese in through
Los Angeles Harbor from vessels ply?
ing between Japan and South America
and touching at that harbor for sup?
plies.
Senator Phelan, during more than
two hours as a witness, denounced ]
John P. Irish, a land owner, as the
paid agent of the Japanese, declared i
that the Japanese in California and the ,
West were a very real menace, pointed |
out the critical situation that has al- i
ready arisen in Hawaii, and quoted ]
figures to show that if the present rate :
of increase continued, the Japanese j
will outnumber the whites in this state \
in ninety years.
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Killed on Way to Operation !
CAMDEN, N. J., July 12.?Police
Judge John Rose, seventy-four years i
old, of Burlington, on his way to the |
Cooper Hospital, in Camden, for an op- I
eration for cancer, was accidentally '
killed to-day when he was struck by a |
train.
Woman in Wanderer
Case Now Sought;
Officer Is Indicted
Wife Slayer, Confronted
by 17-Year-Old Girl, Says
'SheWasOnlySide Issue';
May Be Tried in Month
CHICAGO, July 12.?Carl Wanderer,
former army officer, will go to trial
'within a month for tho slaying of his
wife and an unidentified stranger who
aided him in framing a faKe hold-up,
State's Attorney Hoyne said to-day
after two true bills had been voted )?y
a gi-and jury?
The indictments will not be returned
until later 3n the week on recommenda?
tion of the State Attorney's office, to
permit further questioning of the
prisoner.
Meanwhile the police continued their
efforts to find a woman in the case
and to establish the identity of the
stranger. It was thought for a time
that he waj John J. Maloney, of River
Point, R. I., but the police said a
description of Maloney did not tally
with that of the man whose body is in
a morgue. The unidentified man was
not more than 22 years old, the police
said, while Maloney was said to be
about 40.
Wanderer, who had maintained a
cheerful composure since his arrest, is
weakening under the strain of events,
the police said., When questioned to.
day his i-eplies were halting and he
complained that he had not had a
square deal.
He still insisted that he did not know
the identity of the man he shot.
"I went through the locality where I
met this fellow," he said, "to pick up
the first bum I could get to agree to
accept my offer, determining that, who?
ever he was, I would shoot him to make
it appear that the robbery I intended
to stage was real.
"To make' the whole affair appear
more reasonable, I had my wife draw
? 1,500 from a bank so that it would be
a motive for the man to hold tus up."
The police questioned Miss Julia
Schmitt, a stenographer, after it was
learned that Wanderer had written a
letter to her, but she was later re?
leased. Both Wanderer and the young
woman denied anything more than a
casual friendship between them. Miss
Schmitt said she did not know Wan?
derer was married.
Believing that an alleged love alTaii
with Miss Schmitt might furnish th?
possibility of a motive for the doubl?
slaying, the seventeen-year-old girl to?
night was taken again to the Crimina
Court Building, where Wanderer was
made to confront her.
Wanderer admitted having taken th.
girl to an amusement park several times
"Was she the cause of your killing
your wife and the stranger?" he wai
asked by Assistant State's Attorne:
Prystalski.
"No; she was merely a side issue,1
Wanderer responded. "I was tired o
married life."
Later Wanderer was subjected to ?
mental test and pronounced sane.
Arm Believed to Belong to
Stephens's Body Founc
NIAGARA FALLS, TV. 1'., July 12.
The right arm of a man was take
from the Niagara River, near th
Canadian Maid of the Mist landin
late to-day. It is believed to be pai
of the body of George C. Stephens, c
Bristol, England, who was killed yes
terday in an attempt to po over th
Horseshoe Falls in a ban-el.
Tattoo maries were on the arm, bu
no one who saw Stephens here wa
able to make positive identiticatioi
Finding of the arm revived hope ths
the rest of the body might be foun
ar.d watchers on the banks prepare
for another all-night vigil. The gret
electric searchlights were kept playin
on the water at the base of the fall
Practically all of Stephens's cleat
craft has been found. Most of th
pieces of the barrel have been carrie
away as souvenirs. Small bits of th
barrel were picked up in the low?
river near the whirlpool rapids th
afternoon.
Bobby Leach, of this city, who wei
over the Horseshoe Falls in 1911, sai
to-day that he might try another tri
over the cataract late th:s month ?
early in August. Leach said he woul
Germans Offer Allies
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PARIS, July 12.-?A Havas dis?
patch from Spa says that Ger?
many will offer to pay the Allies
50,000,000,000^ francs in repara?
tions, in fifty annual instalments,
20,000.000,000 of which will be
payable in building materials and
merchandise.
make the attempt if ho could get a
steel barre: similar to the one in which
he made his previous trip. From the
first Leach condemned Stephens s
wooden barrel as unsafe for, the 158
foot drop over the fulls.
'Farmer' Dunn Will
Run for Congress on
Six-Word Platform
Americanism, Local Option,
No Entangling Alliances,
Is What Weather Expert
of New Jersey Stands For
Elias B. Dunn, better known through
the country as "Farmer Dunn," famous
weather forecaster, is going to try to
pull down the last Democratic major?
ity in the 9th Congressional District
of New Jersey to a Republican victory
next November. He will run for Con?
gress from that district on the Repub?
lican ticket, provided he wins the
nomination in the primaries. Present
indications are that he has a good
chance of getting both the nomination
and election.
The Republican orcranization in Essex
County is squarely"back of "Farmer
Dunn." The leaders believe his popu?
larity will mean a Republican victory.
Under the laws of New Jersey, each
candidate is allowed to put opposite
his name not more than six words to
let the voters know how he stands on
important question". Mr. Dunn has in?
corporated a whole platform in those
six words, and one, which his friends
believe can't be beaten. It reads:
"Americanism; local option; no en?
tangling alliances."
His Stand on Liquor Issue
The liquor question in his district is
an absorbing topic. Although he re?
alizes that both the great political
parties sidestepped the question in their i
platforms, he does not feel he can af?
ford to do so in his district. He has
expressed his views freely on that sub?
ject, and believes that it can be set?
tled by Congressmen according to the
instructions of their constituents.
"The people have a right to say
whether or not they want to tako a
drink," said Farmer Dunn, "No one
questions the right of the government
in having started it to enforce prohi?
bition as an after war reconstruction
measure, but i here are a large num?
ber of voters in my district who be?
lieve that the people should have been
consulted on the question before the
Eighteenth Amendment was rammed
down their throats as a war measure."
He believes that all Congressional
candidates at the forthcoming election
should have the courage to stand up
and be counted.
Started as Printer's Boy
Like Warren G. Harding, the Repub?
lican Presidential nominee, Farmer
Dunn began life as a printer's boy. He
started in Brooklyn. After learning
his trade ho passed the civil service
examination for a position as printer
in the government service. It was not
long before his ability was recognized
and he was sent to the New York sta?
tion of the Weather Bureau in a minor
position. He became assistant ob?
server and in less than ten years was
placed at the head of the New York
Weather Service, making weather fore?
casts for New York and New Jersey,
the most difficult section in the country
to forecast.
The nickname "Farmer" was given
him when the Weather Bureau was
ph.ced under the Agricultural Depart?
ment. He resigned from the New York
Weather Bureau twenty years ago and
entered commercial life. Although he
has never been in politics before, his
friends believe he will prove to be as
accurate a political forecaster as lie
was a weather prophet when he pre?
dicts that he will win.
Thirteen Arrested
In Liquor Round-Up
Ry Federal Agents
Saloonkeeper Charged With
Drawing Revolver on Rev?
enue Man When He Took
Bartender Into Custody
Thirteen saloonkeepers and bartcnd
! crs arrested Sunday by Internal Rev?
enue agents were held in bail upon
arraignment yesterday. Five arrests
were made in the Brooklyn district and
live in Yonkcrs. John Herald, pro?
prietor of a saloon at 31 Dock Street,
Yonkers, was held under $1,000 bail by
United States Commissioner Hitchcock,
of Manhattan, on a charge of "oppos?
ing, impeding and interfering with a
revenue agent."
The complaint against Herald, filed
by Peter B. Olney, Assistant United
States Attorney, alleges that Anthony
Copollo, a revenue agent, purchased a
drink of whisky from Frank Tremble,
Herald's bartender, and that when
Copollo placed Tremble under arrest
Herald drew a revolver, aimed it at
the officer and pulled the trigger.
According to Copollo the weapon was
loaded and only the jamming of the
trigger saved his life. Tremble was
arraigned before Commissioner Hitch?
cock and held in $250 bail. Others
arraigned were:
Philip J. Harvey, 434 South Broad?
way, Yonkers, arrested by Revenue
Agent Herman Wittenberg; Joseph
Kalil, 65 Main Street, Yonkers, arrest?
ed by Revenue Agent Felix Re?s
enberger; Christian Schlobohm, 1C
Buena Vista Avenue, Yonkers, arreste?:
by Revenue Agent Isadore Einstein;
Sylvanus Bailey, bartender, 11 Palisade
Avenue, Yonkers, arrested by Revenue
Agent Afred Ketcham. All were hele
in bail of $250 each.
Arrests in Manhattan were: Charlef
Knichrihn,2171 Eighth Avenue, in whose
saloon revenue agents seized eighl
bottles of whisky; Mitos Chrondro, 1V?
James Street, arrested by Policeman
Cornelius J. Dwyer. Commissionci
Hitchcock held these men in bail o!
$250 each.
Arrests in Brooklyn and the Brook?
lyn district were: Joseph Fetel, 111C
Manhattan Avenue, and his bartender
David Schwartz. United States Com?
missioner McCabe held Fetel in $1,00(
bail and Schwartz was required to fur?
nish bond in the sum of S500 for serv?
ing liquor. William Schildt, 1806 Ber?
gen Street, was held in $500 bail foi
possession of liquor. Gusta'/e Weiler
1243 Myrtle Avenue, and Gustav?
Coluris, 1 Broadway, Elmhurst, wer.
held in $1,000 and $500 bail, respec
tively.
Revenue agents report that the sal.
of liquor in the metropolitan distric
is becoming more open each day. Six
teen informations were filed agains
liquor law violators yesterday in th.
Federal District Court in Manhattan
All had been previously arraigned.
Vote on Dr. Tildsley
Expected To-morrow
Name of Mrs. Forsythe Als?
Will Be Presented for
High School Post
Nomination of a candidate to fill th
post made vacant by the expiration o
the term of Dr. John L. Tildsley, as- i
scciate superintendent of schools in
charge of high schools, is expected to
be made to-morrow when the Board
of Education holds its regular meeting.
The names of both Dr. Tildsley and
Mrs. Grace Strachan Forsvthe, admin?
istration candidate, probably will be
presented.
Although several members of the
board are away on vacations, it was
pointed out yesterday that the July 14
meeting must be held in accordance
with the by-laws. Mrs. Murray is ex?
pected to be present for the meeting, as
is also Mr. Yeska, who has been ill,
Mr. Somers, Vice-President Ryan, Mr.
Wilsey and President Prall. Dr. John
Ferguson, the other member, had in?
tended to leave on his vacation to-day,
but probably will wait until after the
meeting.
The American Legion, as well as
those citizens who have seen in Dr.
Tildsley's record as a public school of?
ficial, an unquestioned stand for loyalty
to American ideals and American insti?
tutions, will be represented at the
meeting, when testimonials will be of?
fered in Dr. Tildsley's behalf.
Dr. Tildsley, whose term expired
June 30, is taking no part in the con?
troversy concerning his candidacy. A
committee from the Board of Truste?
of the American Defense Society has
been appointed to attend the meeting.
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