Liquor Worth 1200,000 Seized in Raid Here Revenue Agents Cart Away 1.281 Cases of Kentucky Whisky? French Wines and Scotch at 91 Avenue B Five Men Under Arrest Orders Over Phone Bring Reply From Oncers That Manhattan Is Drying Up The largest seizure of liquor stocks made by government agents here to date was reported yesterday by Reve? nue Agents William Lord and Dajiiel Mangin, who have been busy the last two days gathering in the supply held by Arthur Kraus in the building at 91 Avenue B. Lord and Mangin have ?farted 1,284 cases of genuine liquor to the government warehouse at t'i First Avenue. The seizure, if placed on the market at current prices, would net $200,000. Fine old Kentucky whiski.?.?, fcnder seal, French wines and cordials, some '.are old Scotch and a case or two of cocktail bitters were confiscated. The officers arrested Jerome. Krause ' an?! Edward Morris, of the firm of Krause & Morris, of 230 West 107th Street, alleged owners of the stock, and Charles Kurtzmaa, who told the agents that he was a friend of the tirm when the agents stopped him as he was leav? ing the building yesterday with some books and other memoranda tinder his arm. Each was held by S. M. Hitch? cock, United States Commissioner, in $500 bail for violation of the Volstead act. Albert White and Geo.vge Scott, both negroes, who had attempted to remove ? forty-nine cases of the liquor from the i building, were arrested, by the agents I after they had failed to produce a per- ) mit. They also were held in 9500 bail i tach. The revenue agents say that while they were cleaning out the place many orders for liquor came over the t??lephone, but ?rey advised all in ??uirers that Manhattan was slowly dry? ing up. Benson Labertz, forty-three years old, of 73 Johnson Street, Brooklyn, was held yesterday by Magistrate Will iam A. Sweetser, of the Harlem court, in $1,000 bail on the charge of at? tempted extortion, mude by John Grif? fin, saloonkeeper, of 1579 Second Ave? nue. Griffin asserts that Labertz rep? resented himself as a revenue agent, nnd entered his saloon, accompanied by l'eter J. Cravin, a watchman, residing at 47 Johnson Street, and demanded $200 as "hush" money. GrilTin argued the proposal and mean? time sent for a policeman. Patrolman i John Dowd, of the East. Eighty-eighth Street station, responded, and placed both Labertz and Cravin under arrest. The Police Department in Brooklyn as? sorts that Labertz has been an internal revenue agnnt for the last five months. James S. Shevlin, supervising agent for prohibition enforcement in this district, said yesterday that Labertz is not a revenue agent and that he had never heard of the man. $20,000 Worth of Liquor Taken in Elizabeth Raid 36 Prohibition Enforcement Agents Find Whisky in Only 8 of 25 Places They Vidled Thirty-six prohibition enforcement .-.gents from Newark and Philadelphia, armed with a search warrant, made a raid in Elizabeth, N. J.. yesterday and confiscated $20,000 worth of liquor. The raiders assembled outside the city i.nd then swooped down upon it in a dozen squads. Although precautions bad been taken to keep their intention secret, warning had been given of the approaching raid and in only eight of the twenty-five places which their wai-rants authorized them to search did the raiders find I liquor. At these places summonses were served upon the proprietors for their ?.ppearance before a United States commissioner. Summonses were served al the Hotel Burkeley, 221 Broad j Street; at 959 Elizabeth Avenue; on Ewald Brocker, SOI Elizabeth Avenue; Louis KloeiTier. 349 Elizabeth Avenue; Mrs. William Palis, 14 West Scott Place; < arroll & Heinz, 1226 East Broad Street; Charles Heran, 5 Broad Street, and J. J. Bergen, 809 Elizabeth Avenue. George Demo, enforcement agent at Newark, got word several days ago that huge, quantities of liquor were stored in Elizabeth. After investigat ing the report he arranged for the raid with J. G. S. Loneakcr, enforcement agent at Philadelphia. A dozen revenue agents made a search and seizure raid in Pas?-aic, backing a moving van up to two hotels on Main Avenue nnd taking away twenty-live eases of liquor. The places raided were the Hygenia Hotel and the Park Hotel. The former is conducted by Otto Kessel and the latter by Mi? chael H eu man. Main Avenue is the principal thor? oughfare of the city and the crowd witching the proceedings became so dense and so noisy that the police re acrves were called to maintain order. -,-o Soldiers Beat and Rob Host; Get 3 to 15 Years Indeterminate sentences ranging from three to fifteen years were imposed in the County Court at Somerset, K. J., yesterday upon Harry Leon and Wil? liam T. RosselH, soldiers of the regular army, who were convicted of assault? ing and robbing Henry S. Wright, of Liberty Corners. N. J., after Wright had befriended them. Leon and Rosselli were members of ?rmy units at West Point. On ?the day af the June commencement exercises at West Point, Wright, it was testified, .was driving in his motor car near Somerville when he came upon Leon, Kosselli and two other soldiers. He invited them to rido nnd nfterward look them to Duke's Farm and paid for their dinner. Be then started back to West Point frith his guests. He had proceeded fnly ? short distance, he said, when ?the me? attacked him. They beat him Vto Insensibility, it way charged, and furled him out of the car after they ad nobbed him. Leaving Wright oil ie road, the soldiers drove away in their host's machine. Leon, who has a record of service with tho British army in Egypt, was sentenced to from live to fifteen years. Kosselli was sentenced to from three to fifteen years. The others involved in the hold-up charge have not been apprehended. Partners Held in Silk Fraud Hyman Abesbaum, who said he lived at 1981 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, and Morria Glasman, who gave 50 East 100th Street as his addles:-, partners in a silk factory, were held for the {?rand jury yesterday in Jefferson Market police court on a charge ?,i receivin?^ $7,000 w?>nh of ?ilk stolen from Nathan Scb!essel,*of gJM Hopkinson Avenue. JSrooklyn. J I New York Still Harbors f Well-Known King in Exile Though His Palaces and Pretzels Are Gone, Followers of John Barleycorn May Find Him Even Up to Dawn By Heywood Broun 1 The king is not dead. They have torn down his palaces and carted away the mirrors and the pretzels and the pictures of the dryads, but he is with Us in lis i le. Anybody who keeps regu? lar hours should have no difficulty whatever in getting a drink, but we had been told that night life in New York was gone. We investit) per cent upward. There were two of us, but we could not get up so much as a mild argument or even agree very vio I lently about anything. It seemed to us j that he talked less keenly than he did j ten or twelve years ago in that very room. And vet it would be unfair to suppose that in the old days folk came to Joel's primarily to drink. There was Harry Lang, for instance, which is not his name, who would sit up until -1 or 5 every morning and order sarsapa rilia every time. He had reason to be timorous about alcohol. His system of temperance in everything but hours find conversation failed him finally, but it was not his fault. About. 5 o'clock one morning he said, as doggedly as ever, "Bring me another bottle tit sarsaparilla." It would have been his twenty-fifth, but the waiter answered "I'm sorry, Mr. Lang, but you've just had the last bottle of sarsaparilla.' "I've done my best," said Lang dole fully. "Bring me a highball." Anc after that evening nobody no, not even his employer- saw him again fol ;>. week. Most of New York's drinking to-daj is not convivial. Liquor goes to lonelj men in hotel rooms. The proprietoi of one of New York's best knowi restaurants was informed lit" othe: day that a trusted employee was : mug gling whisky throughout his estab j lishment. The proprietor discharge: I him but first he mentioned with regre his lack of loyalty. "I don't see hov i you could have forgotten that you wen ? with me seventeen years," he said "That's true," replied the bootleggei ' "but in the last six months-?I hav made more money than I did in th whole seventeen years." Broadway is filled with gossip abou the fortunes which have been recentl. acquired in the liquor traffic. Wl.ethe I the rumors have any foundation in f'ac ! or not we do not know but Broadwa believes that there ?jre some revenu officers who are profiting prodigiousl; One man told us a story of bavin been sent to an illicit dealer to gi brandy. "How much do you want?" ask.? the dealer. "Two cases," replied the man. "I can't fill that just yet," explain? the dealer. "You see I'm a revenu officer, and I know a place where thei are twelve cases. When I get ordei for the whole lot I'll go and confu cate it." Another revenue man, according the story, for which we do not voue is said to take orders to deliver liquo and upon collecting for it at the poii of destination confiscate the lot a? drive away again. All this is rumor, tale and innuend but it seems fair to say that Jol Barleycorn is no exception to the Sc vation Army's well known logan, ' man may be down, but he's never oui Bedtime Stories Boomer Makes a Good Guess By Thornton W. Burgess Who from hi* h.xrm*. doth run away May never run another day. ?Boomer the Nighthawk. - ? "Well, I never!" exclaimed Boomer' ! the Nighthawk, as he caught sight of ! 1 that half-grown Rabbit down on the . ! Green Meadows. "Now, who is that and ! ?where did he come from? It must be, he came from the Old Briar-patch, of course! There is no other place near enough for him to have come from. And that must mean that that little scamp belongs to Peter Rabbit! I haven't heard thai Peter and Mrs. Peter have a new family, but that must be the fact and they have managed to j keep it a secret, and that little scamp . down there is one of them. I do be? lieve he is running away." And right thm Boomer remembered Reddy Fox hiding over in the tall grass on the edge of the big patch of sweet clover. "Gracious!" exclaimed Boomer. "That young scamp ought to turn right around and scamper back home as fast as his legs will take. him. Outside the Old Briar-patch is no place for him. If Reddy Fox sees him he'll never have a ?ehance to run away again. I believe that red-coated rascal knows Peter's secret. If he does, It explains what he is hiding over there for. He knows that in every family there is bound to be one or two more bold or heedless than the rest. He is hiding over there on fhr chance that one of. Peter's young? sters will get tired of staying in the Old Briar-patch and will venture out on the Green Meadows, just as this foolish little chap is doing, to look for new patches of sweet clover. "I wouldn't be surprised if he hides there every night. He knows he would have small chance of catching one of them close to the Old Briar-patch, and so the old sinner is simply waiting, sure that sooner or later one of them will run right into his mouth. Well, that youngster isn't headed toward Reddy at present, so I guess I don't need to do anything about it. It is none of my business, anyway. Still. I would hate to see anything dreadful happen to one of Peter Rabbit's chil? dren. 1*11 keep an eye on him." Of course, it was the willful young Rabbit who thought he knew all there was to know, whom Bo.omer saw. You remember, he had started out to find that distant big patch of sweet clover. But he didn't know just where it was, and it happened that ho headed in quite another direction. For a short distance he ran as fast as his legs would take him, for he wanted to get away from lie discovered thai he didn't know where the dear Old Briar-put cl? iva*, lie iras lost. the Old Briar-patch before he was missed. But running in tall grass was a "cry different matter from running along the nice little paths m the dear Old Briar-patch, and before long he had to stop to rest. When he had rested he started on, but soon had to rest airain. This time he sat up to look around. But he couldn't look around! No, sir, he cvH'ldn't look around. You see, he had got in tatl grass, and even when he stretched as high as he could he couldn't see over it. Right then he pot his first, dreadful fright. He discov? ered that he didn't know where the dear Old Briar-patch was. He was lost: Then he did just what most lost folks do, the most foolish tiling they can do--he began to run. And because he couldn't see where he was heading for he began to run in circles. At last he lay down, too tired to run another step, and big tears rolled down his cheeks, for he was a badly frightened little Rabbit. He was lost, utterly lost! And all the time he was only a little way from he dear, safe Old Briar patch. (Copyright, 1920, by T. W. Bur-jpss) The next story "Boomer Gives a Great Fright." End of Liquor Wholesaler in U. S. Is Hinted FJ i in i mi! inn of Dealers in Quantity Is Suggested to Simplify the Work of Prohibition Enforcement Kramer Assails Tactics More Operating INow Than Before Volstead Act; Number Being Reduced WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (By The As? sociated Press).?Elimination by the government of the wholesale liquor dealer as a means of simplifying pro? hibition enforcement appeared, a possi? bility to-night, with the announcement by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer that the issue of wholesale permits in the future would be "rigidly re? stricted." Mr. Kramer"*dcclnred that the whole? sale traffic pr#senti'd the greatest prob? lem with which enforcement officials were confronted. Wholesale dealer?, he asserted, resorted to subterfuges which perplexed government agents and which made the dry law difficult to enforce. This phase of prohibition j enforcement was said to hnve developed I consideration by officials of the Inter? nal Revenue Bureau of a plan by which the quantity dealer would be driven out of business and the liquor transfer made direct from bonded warehouse to retailer or consumer. Although no decision has been' reached, and probably none will be im? mediately, the approaching period when wholesale licenses are reissued for the next calendar year is expected to bring the question "to a head. Ap? plications for wholesale licenses must, be in the hands of Federal officials by October 1, giving the government the three months prior to January 1 in which to investigate the responsibility of the applicant. Will Cut Number of Licenses Officials said that regardless of the bureau's decision with respect to elimi? nation of the wholesalers, the num? ber of licenses issued for the ensuing year would be smaller. In event the government permits the wholesalers to continue in business, it was said, a policy of investigating the record of the applicant "and all of his affairs" would be employed. Treasury records reveal that more. wholesale licenses are in existence now than immediately prior to the effective date of the Volstead act. Commis? sioner Kramer said that while the wholesalers were being watched closely drastic action had been necessary in certain localities. \'o licenses have been issued in Chi? cago for wholesale trade in the last six weeks. Mr. Kramer said. Other officials reported that similar checks had been placed on the number of wholesale dealers elsewhere. Mr. Kramer's visit to the New York dis? trict early this week was said to have resulted in a tightening of restriction? there. More Men Sent to Maryland The situation in Baltimore resulting from the ruling of Attorney General Armstrong that no Maryland slate or Baltimore m inicipal official could aid in dry law enforcement work has com? eo!!? ?1 the transfer of additional Fcd iral agents to the Maryland district. Mr, Kramer said that enforcement work would be pushed everywhere re? gardless of local cooperation. Wholesalers and "plain bootleggers," it was asserted by prohibition enforce? ment officials, have combined to com? plicate the enforcement of the law in Baltimore, and the conditions there have entered largely into the develop? ment of a program to abolish the wholesale license. . As another step toward strict en? forcement officials were said to be drafting regulations defining the status of Federal enforcement officers, and liso to be inquiring into state law pro? visions to determine what duties the local authorities could be required to assume in upholding Federal laws. These questions probably will be put up to Attorney General Palmer, and it is understood that officials of the In? ternal Revenue Bureau and members of Commissioner Kramer's staff soon will confer with representatives of the Department of Justice and the Treas? ury Department. Police Can .irrest Dry Laic Offenders. Says Frier son Special Dispatch to The Tribune BALTIMORE, Aug. 6. -Policemen have full authority to make .arrests for violation of the Volstead prohibition law, Solicitor Genera! Frierson, of the Department of Justice, said today, commenting upon the opinion of Attor? ney General Armstrong that the Haiti more police do not have the power to make arrests under the enforcement law. While city police may make arrests, the prosecution for violation of the Volstead law must be conducted in Federal courts, Frierson declared. He said confusion over the law in Mary? land may have arisen from this fact. Members of the Baltimore police de? partment will arrest violators of (he Volstead .act when the violation is com? mitted "in the view of an officer" under terms of a general order to the depart? ment made public by Commissioner Gaither this afternoon. The order prohibits the arrest by a state officer when the crime is not com? mitted in his view. Mrs. Charles M. Relyea (iets Divorce Decree Illustrator's Meeting With Veiled \\ oman at (?rant! Central Wrecks Home A decree (if absolute divorce was granted yesterday to Mrs. Eloisc Rel? yea, of Rochelle Park, New Rochelle, front Charles M. Relyea, the. illustrator, by Supreme Court Justice Seeger, at White Plains. Alimony was fixed at $25 a week. Joseph Klaw. son of Marc Klaw, the ?theatrical manager, and son-in-law of Mrs. Relyea, testified that on July 4 a detective called him by telephone to a hotel in New York. In company with James Whittendale, he testified that he saw a signature, "('. M. Reiley and wife, Philadelphia," on a hotel register. The couple were assigned to room li'l'J. Klaw testified that he recognized the handwriting as that of R. lyea. John Ranyon, a detective, testified that he began to shadow Relyea last May. On July 4, he said, he saw Rel? yea meet a veiled woman at the Grand Central Station, and followed them to the hote!, where Relyea, he testified. registered as C. M. Reiley and wife, of Philadelphia. The detective said the couple went into rr-om f>32 and locked the door. The Relyeas were married in Sche tndy County in 1892, By the terms of the decree, she retains the use of the N-'?w- Rochelle house. Relyea liver- in a studio at 2447 Mor ri Avenue, the Bronx, ?Fight Opens on -?rilhert Finding in Gns Kale Case Defendants File Exceptions lo Decision Tliat 80-Cent Price Is Confiscatory Exceptions to the findings of A. S. Gilbert, special master, that the 80 cent gas law is conliscntory nnd un conslitutional, were filed yesterday in (he United States District Court by the defendants in the ease of ?ho New York nnd Queens Gns Company ngainst Attorney General Charles l?. ?Newton, District Attorney Denis O'Leary, of Queens, and Lewis N'ixon, of the Pub? lic Service Commission. Mr. Gilbert holds that during the twelve months ended December 31, 1019, and for the first five months of 1920 thooporating revenue-? of the company were instifficienl lo pay thi expense of gas manufacture rind dis? tribution and to provide -i reasonable return on the valuation of the com? pany's properly. The defendants assert that Mr. Gil? bert, in selecting the years 191?, 1919 nnd the first five months of 1920 as the basis upon which to reckon costs in the manufacture and distribution of gas necessarily had to include in his estimates the abnormal prices prevail? ing during this period, which are de? clared "unusual and unprecedented." In normal years, the defendants assert, th?' company has been able to earn large revenues. 'Brewer Asks High Court to Ex? Dry Act Decision [Newark Man, in Petition for Reconsideration of Rul? ing, Says Tribunal Failed I to Pisclose its Reasons ? ?-' WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.?William D. Guthrie and Elihu Root, counsel for : Christian Feigenspan, a brewer, of Newark, N. J., to-day filed with the United States Supreme Court a peti? tion for a reconsideration of the court's decision, June 7, sustaining the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment '? and parts of the Volstead enforcement act. The petition contended thai the ! Eighteenth Amendment was designed ; to deal exclusively with intoxicating ? liquors. Mr. Feigenspan, in his orig : inal suit, sought to prove that beer oi j 2.75 per cent alcoholic content was not , intoxicating. The latest petition points out Un? importance and magnitude of the con? stitutional questions involved tind de? clares that so far as the petitioner has i been able to ascertain "there is no ! record of any important modern case involving such vital questions being | disposed of by a court of final resort without explaining its conclusions." The brief continued : Tends to Invite Criticism "Not only is it quite unprecedented i in the history of this court for it thus i to dispose without opinion ot great constitutional questions, but, as em? phasized by Mr. Justice McKenna in his dissenting opinion, it is difficult to I measure the force of the conclusions i stated by the court or the deductions : properly to be drawn from them. ' Furthermore, the conclusions do not completely answer questions actually . involved in the litigation and sub? mitted for decision. "As stated by the learned Chief Jus j tice in his concurring opinion, the ? court was deciding a case of great mag ? n'itude and passing upon 'an amend? ment to the Constitution of the United ?States dealing with the power.-; and ? duties of national and state govern? ments and intimately concerning the welfare of the people.'" ? The petition declared that the mean I ing and effect of such an amendment ! were necessarily the "subject ot discus I sion and concern in the forum of pub ; lie opinion, and the failure of the court ? to assign any reasons for its decision ; has tended naturally to invite criticism | and create much public dissatisfac : tion." Asks That Reasons Be Given "It seems, therefore," the petition \ continued, "that it is not irrelevant or improper to urge, in support of a plea ' for a rehearing, that public opinion has i dcubted and challenged the fitness of 1 summarily deciding ;kk1 disposing of a : great constitutional controversy, in? volving vast property interests and long established legitimate industriel ; and intimately concerning the welfare of the whole people, without disclosing the reasons for such disposition." New Line to England in Sept, Service From Providence To Be Confined to Freight A new steamship line operating be- : tween Providence, R. I., and Manchester and Liverpool is to be established in September by D. T. Gilmartin & c , 77 Broad Street, this city. Four ships are to be allocated to the firm by thi Shipping Board. They are vessels of the lake type and their tonnage will i between 4,000 and ?1,500. The service, which is to be fort? nightly, will be confined to freight ex? clusively, and will be the only regular transatlantic line operating out ol Providence to England. The Providenct ; office of the company will be in charge of D. T. Gilmartin jr. Weather Report Sun rises. . . 4 :57 a.m.:Sun seta . . 7:06 p.m. j Moon rises. 11 :14 p.m. Moon sets.12:52 p.m I Note.- Tin?? above figures aro standard i limo ami not Now York St at?; timo. f.onil Forecast.?Portly cloudy to-day 1 and to-morrow; probably occasional show : era; nol much chango in temperature; gen '. tlo south winds. Local OfneinI Record.?The following of I'.clal record shows temperatures during Iho lasl twenty-four Jiours. in comparison with the corresponding date of last year; 1920. 101 il I?120. 1919. Barometer Hemlines 30.19 1 !>. ei . 11,0. ! 7 \ p. m.. 30.11 General Weather Condition? WASHINGTON, Auk. ': Air pressure Is | high off the .Ml..r.v..? coast and ow-i the northern Rocky Mountain region and it Is relatively low In the region of the Great : Lakes, the Mississippi Valley and along the .s,?i?t hern border. There bine been local ram-? w?hin the ? last twenty-four hours In the Atlantic and Ciulf states and wldelj seatti red showers in ili'? great central valleys and the upper lake region, l'air weather prevailed in Fa: Western dist ricts. The temperature remains near the nur mal i; nerally over the United States, i-i cept In the Far Northwe.-n and the Pacific states, where readings are i bnve normal The outlook i.i for considerable cloudi? ness and shosvers over practically all dis? tricts east of the Mississippi River during iho n"\t forty-eight hours No Important temperature changos am Indicated for the eastern half of the coun? try ?luring Saturday and Sunday. Oistriet Forecasts.? Eastern New York. Southern New England, Eastern Pennsyl? vania, Now Jersey, Delaware and Maryland --Partly cloudy to-day nrnt to-morrow probably occasional showers; not much i ha nge In t? mperal un Northern Nev, England Partly cloudy to day and to-morrow; local showers, not much cluing.? in temperature. Western Pennsylvania and Western New York?Local thunder Bhawem probablj to? day and ?? morrow; not much change in Police Puzzled Over Death ?f Traveling Man ?C7 Found Ufriconscious, With Skull Fractured, in Room of Hotcf in Jamaica, L? I.; Was Senseless ?H Hours Ha?! Reported Auto Stolen Machine Found abandoned; Time and Piaot Where He Was injured is Mystery The police of Jamaica were trying to determine last night just how Louis Purchase, forty-eight yearn old, a trav? eling salesman, received injuries which caused bis death late yesterday after? noon at Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica. When brought to the hospital Ptir chase was unconscious. He was suf fering from a fracturad skull, a deep laceration of the sculp and an ai?rasi?n over the left eye. No one has been able to sat' when he '.sas injured, or in what manner. Late Thursday afternoon Purchase reported to the police that his automo? bile had been stolen from in front of an office building in Fulton Street. He gave a description of the machine and left the police station. A short time later he engaged a room in a hotel at 388 Fulton Street, Jamaica. According to the hotel management he had a gash over his eye when he entered the hotel. but otherwise his appearance would not have attracted attention. He i?p peared to be perfectly calm. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Pur? chase's room was entered by a bellboy With a pass key. Purchase, in hi? night clothes, was lying acro7-s the bed unconscious. He had not left the room since being assigned to it Thursday afternoon, and apparently had beer, unconscjous about eighteen hour.-'. Detectives are trying to learn where Purchase ?.vent between the time he repotted the theft of his automobile and the time he made his appearance ;?t. the hole!. The police said last m.'.ii; that they had been told that Pur i hnse had been 3een to fnll after enter? ing the hotel. The report was not con firmed. The hotel clerk who war? on duty when Purchase registered insisted last night that the salesman sustained bis injuries before arriving at the hotel. Just as Purchase di'*ti yesterday after? noon the police locatetl his machine. It had been abandoned. Purchase lived in n fashionable boarding house. The Tower, on Church Street, near St, Ann's Avenue. Rich? mond Hill. It is under the. manage ill' nt of his sister. She was unable to throw any light, on the mystery sur? rounding h?r brother's death. Repatriation to Begin Soon First of War Prisoners to Leave Siberia Augusl I ?"?> Plans for ths repatriaticn of nearly 3i>,000 former soldiers of the Central I'".'..!-.-;, held as war prisoners in Si? beria, were announced last night by the Siberian War Prisoners' Fund in New York. Allied governments, with the? eo operation of several American relief organizations, have arranged for a ship to leave Hamburg for Vladivostok Au? gust 15, to return the first contingent of prisoners, it was said. Arrangements for repatriating all the prisoners, are. being marie under the direction of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who investigated the matter ai the request of the council of the League of Na? tions. Nearly 750,000 prisoners origi? nally wore sent into Siberia, but of this number less than 35,000 remain. In addition to prisoners in Siberia scattered bands of Germans and Aus tro-Hungarians still are held in the Caucasus and Turkestan. Rev. Dr. Shelton Held Here as Fugitive on Larcenv Charge The Rev. Dr. Richard S. Shelton, forty-two years old, colored, who says he is both a minister and physician, was arraigned before Magistrat" Brown in the Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn, yesterday as a fugitive from justice. He was remanded to the Raymond Street jail for thirty days, pending ex? tradition to Newark, on a charge of grand larceny. Mrs. Ada Griffin, of -120 Clayton Street, Newark, testified that Shelton paid her a professional visit July 24 :ind that he and $107 vanished at the same time. While he denied taking the money Mrs. Griffin said that he later sent her two checks for ?HO each. (Jar Smashes Truck; Policeman Injured. Hundred in Panic Driver Said to Have Turne?? Heavy Vehicle Into Track in Path of Trolley and Is Placed Under Arrest A patrolman was seriously injur???? three others were slightly hurt an?? 100 passengers, the majority of th?m women, were thrown into a pane tt <; o'clock ins? evening, when ? rjortl Third Aven ic trolley car plunged into an autom'ob :? " Street Cries o? the women pass g ? heard at the East 104th .-;7 r?.'t star?. and ?i squad of reserves were s?nt ou; The jammed trolley car and motor ; truck were soon surrounded by ?crowd I that blocked both sides of Third Av?. ? nue. Edward Schmidt, thirty-seven, th? | injured patrolman, was riding on ?he i front platform oft,the trolley car. The . motor truck, driven by Henry Swiinaju ! of 418 Oak Street. New Haven, ?u | headed in the same direction a? -h? ear, but when near II ;?;-, Street. is?st . : mann, who had been using the rieht ; side of the roadwav, ste,?reri h;i car ; into the track of the surface iin^ tne : police- say The car wat upon it before Thomas Pi? rce, ,f 102 Si venth '?. \ Brooklyn the motorman, co?;!d eh?;'?' ; his power. The body of -'"." tr