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THE WEATHER
Cloudy to-day and probably to-mor?
row; no change In temperatire;
diminishing northeast gales.
Fall Report an fji?i Page
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W?* \?urh Tribun? la?-*,)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1920
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TWO CENT8
la Greater New fork
THREE TENT?
Within ?00 Mile?
porn CENT??
EUewher?
15 Liverpool Cotton
m ml "T~*T~ Tn *,H*r****,Kv
\\ are nouses Burned in
Plot Laid to Sinn Fein
Government Said to llave
Founf) Warning of Ar?
son Plot in Documents
Seized in Irish Raids
Parliament Bomb
To-day Threatened
Outrages Believed To Be
Beginning of Reprisal
Program in England
From Thr THtrutf'a ttu'opea* Bureau
Copyright, I?2?, New York Tribune Iiir
LONDON, Nov. 28.?More than *
r\ryzcn cotton warehouses ;>. Liver?
pool were destroyed last r.i;rht by
lire said to have been set by Sinn
?'?iners. This is the first b;ow to
be struck by the Irish republicans
on English soil as ^art of their plan
of reprisai for the deeds of the crown
forces in Irtiand.
One constable was shot dead in
the confusion incident to the fires.
The Liverpool police have sent out a
general alarm for the arrest of two
Sinn F?inera who live in that city
and who are believed to have infor?
mation regarding the origin of the
fired.
The government had been warned
of the attack on the warehouses in
documents captured in Ireland by
the military and police in raids on
Sinn F?in quarters.
Many sensational reports of Sinn
Fein's plan* ?re In circulation. The
most important of these 11 that the Sinn
F?inera had plotted to blow up the Par?
liament buildings and attack officials of
'he government to-morrow. It was evi?
dent to-day that either the officials of
the Irish office have ko?"*" renson to fear
that the Sinn Fein intends to bring ils
warfare to England or that they are
mor* alarmed than the general public
il orer the threats that have been pub?
lished.
Londoners Merely Interested
The government's precautionary meas?
ures in arid ?round Downing Street, the
barricades nd extra guards, seemed to
hR?e aroused the curiosity of Londoners
rather than to have tilled them ?with
fear. Although to-day was gloomy and
j"ainy, a big Sunday crowd inspected the
barricade and wandered around the gov?
ernment building*, just as a similar
throng probably did about forty years
?go at the time of thu Fenian explo?
sions at Scotland Yard.
Ovtr in Dublin to-day conditions are
entirely different. The backfiring of a
motor cycle? there is sufficient to send
the crowds in the streets scampering for
coter.
In contrast with last Sunday every?
thing to-day was quiet. Trams wet?
.running, newsboys w?.-re busy and motor
cars ?vere circulating through the city.
The only indication that Dublin was not
a normal, peaceful city wa i the pres?
ence of truckloads of uniformed men
with rifles pointing in all directions end
tfn- sight of a group of Black and Tans
with a few civilians under guard pass?
ing through the streets. Arrests have
become so common thxt nobody in Dub?
lin pays any attention to them. But
beneath the apparent calm there Is a
high etate of nervous tension
Two fc"!diers were killed and three
wounded to-day in an attack in Fermoy.
That town was panic stricken.
Police Accuse Sinn Peinera
LIVERPOOL, Nov. ZU (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?The numb, r of ware?
house? set on tiro last night in Liver- ,
pool and Bootle, a suburb, is fifteen. !
Two of the cotton warehouses in Liver?
pool were burned out Gasoline cans j
and parallln ?aer?? found about the prem- !
ises. It was said in police quarters that !
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Man Seized us Leader in
$3,500,000 Mail Tlieft \
Keith !.. Coliin* is Arrested
in OkiuJioma and ftill Bel
Taken to Scene of Hyld-l J
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Nov. 28. -Keith i
I* Collins, alleged to be leader of the I
g?ng which last week robbed the trana
jontineuta! fust mail of between $1.
W0.0?0 ?nd J3.W0.000 near Council !
Bluffs, Iowa, was arrested to-day at
"?atville, Okla., according to a mes
?a?**"* received here io-iiight by local
pouoff.ee Inspectors
ColUu?. the report naid. would be
??kei, immediately to Council Bluffs, j
The arrest of Collins brings the '
number of person? detatned in connec?
tion with the robbery to ten. Several
*"*'*" captured within twenty-four
hours after the robbery, the largest in
the history of the postal service, was
discovered Some of the money also
"?s been found.
The robbery was staged in the out?
sorts of Council Bluffs. One of the
**n arrested told hovr he had kept
??uard while his compaions boarded the
e?r when the train slowed down as it
entered the city, threw out the sacks
(? e,sc**ped in automobiles.
Collins was sai ; to have piled
?'.000.000 in currency and $500.000 In
liberty bonds In suitcases, put them
,n ? taxicab and drove away. A re-,
*?N of $1,000 had been offered by
--?"government for his arrest.
At the time of his flight Collins wa
said to have been wearing the uni?
form of a captain in the aviation serv
'"? He was reported to have gone
lyst to Columbus, Neb, where his
?.?"j ??,'?8? hut ?e?rch in that town
?Sled to reveal any trace of him.
W*"!**tTR*'r. N. C?Sfith Annirnrmkrr
ST*"*"'1*- Golf and all other ?pons. Through
v ^^?? J*.?nu ?;?? F. H. isA\yr~Ai*C
Irish Murder Tactics
Imitated in England
BELFAST. Nov. 28.--A state?
ment issued to-night from Dublin
Castle, after giving an account of
the Liverpool fires and accom?
panying incidents, adds:
"Read in conjunction with the
documents discovered last week
in which plans for Sinn F?in re?
prisals against the English towns
of Manchester and Liverpool,
among a number, were detailed,
these things have a very sinister
aspect. The fact of the police
being fired on suggests that the
methods of the Sinn F?in mur?
der gang in Ireland are being
employed against the English
people, even if the personnel of
the murderers is not the same."
Harding Sails
For Jamaica on
Voyage Home
Determined *o Have Cana?
Defenses Made as Nearly
Impregnable as Possible;
Gets Experts' Ideas
?Due at Norfolk Saturday
Will Then Visit Washington:
Mrs. Harding, in First Air
Ride, Goes Up 1,000 Feet
CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Nov. 28?
' President-elect Warren G. Harding loft
?the Canal Zone for the United States
this afternoon after a week's visit, in
which he included an intimate study of
the commercial and military advantages
and needs of the waterway and ex?
changed assurances of friendly rela?
tioris with the Republic of Panama
Tiie steamer Pi-stores, bound for Nor?
folk by way of Kingston, Jamaica, left
I Cristobal late to-day with the Presi
j dent-elect and members of his party
aboard. The vessel will reach Norfolk
1 Saturday. Senator Harding will pro
j coed to Washington before his return
I to Marion. His last day in the Canal
? Zone was spent quietly resting.
Senator Harding completed his in
! spection of the Panama Canal yester?
day with a visit to the fortifications at
j its eastern entrance and calls on sev
? eral military and naval stations in the
! vicinity o?' Cristobal.
Studies Problems in Detail
As in the examination of the de
! fen ses at the Pacific end of the. canal
I Friday, the President-elect took great
I interest in small details, asking many
I questions to familiarize himself with
; lite strategic situation.
The fact that tho Atlantic fortlfica
! tions bo.nst only one sixteen-inch gun,
! and that the largest guns on the Pa
! cific side are i'ourteeh-inch was
[ brought to the Senator's attention. Ho
| was advised by military experts that
modern naval vessels equipped with the
latest guns could outshoot these land
batteries and from the Pacific ?idc- i
? could even destroy tho Miradores locks
I of the canal without coming within
i range of the American guns.
Impressed by these details, the
| President-elect is returning to the
: United States with a determination to
| so improve tho canal's defenses as to
make tncBtna nearly impregnable as
possible. ?i
Mrs. Harding in Seaplane
During a visit to the naval air sta?
tion at Cocosolo Mrs. Harding accepted
?an invitation to make a flight in a sea- j
Iplane, spending fifteen minutes over!
Limon Bay in one of the largest NC ;
type planes used by the navy. The j
plane attained a height of about one
thousand feet, and though it was her
first experience at flying, Mrs. Harding'
appeared to enjoy it immensely.
Last night the President-elect was
the guest of honor at a dinner ten- |
dercd him by the merchants of Colon j
and Crist?bal. The affair was the oc- |
casion fur renewal of expressions of i
cornil y between the United States and
Panama and pledges of cooperation to
promote particularly the commercial
value of the canal.
Counterfeiters Taken
In Act on Woman's Tip
Police Find Three Culprits
Drying the Ink on $3,000
Worth of $10 Bank Notes
CINCINNATI, Nov. 28.?-Following in?
formation given by a woman, three po ?
licemen entered a room here to-day i
and arrested two men who were drylng
the.ink on mere than So,000 worth of i
$10 bank notes which had been printed
from copper plates.
The counterfeiting outfit was seized, '
and the polio* say it is one of the most
complete ??vhich has ever been found in
Cincinnati. The prisoners were regis?
tered as Martin Uamman, of Cincln j
nati, and Charles Schwilbe, of Vin
cennes, Ind.
Nine of tho bank notes had been com?
pleted when the polleemep entered the j
room. The men evidently had made \
many experiments, for several $10 ;
notes, which Hamman said were "too j
thick," were scattered on the table. I
The paper used was of the best gra?le ;
and an artificial toughness was added
with glue. Many books on photo- ?
graphic methods, engraving, chemicals
and coloring were found.
Mrs. William T. Llewellyn, pro-'
prietress of the rooming house where
the arrests were made, said she became
suspicious of the men, who had rent?- 1
the room two weeks ngo. When she !
overheard them planning to leave town ;
at 3 o'clock to-day she called the po- ?
lioe on the telephone and the arrests j
followed. I
Denmark To
Be Mediator
In Armenia
"Accepts League's Offer as
Peacemaker in War With
Turks; Nations Hoped
IJ. S. Would Take Tasjk
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright. 1920, New York Tribune* Inc. !
GENEVA, Nov. 28.-*-Denmai!t; is '
understood to have accepted the
league's offer to act as mediator In the
war between the Armenians and the
Turkish nationalists under Mustapha
Kemal.
This is the first affirmative reply
that has been received by the league
in response to the circular letter a. it
out by the league Council asking some
i power to volunteer to negotiate a peace
between the contending factions in
Asia Minor.
Denmark's acceptance will cause con?
sternation in many circles, where it
had been hope-' that tho United States
alone would undertake the task.
Denmark is regarded by some as too
small a country to accept a responsi?
bility of such great importance. ,Her
nceptance, however, will probably be
welcomed, and whether or not she
proves to be able to solve the prob?
lem, Great Britain will have the as?
surance that France will not be unop?
posed as a candidate for mediator.
A curious situation has nrisen.
France, which ordinarily is militaristi
cally inclined, in the Armenian dispute
wants to settle matters by negotiation,
while Cecil's committee is preparing
for war.
France's Position in Donbt
There has been some doubt lately
whether France was prepared to ac?
cept the office of mediator on a purely
philanthropic basis. Her position was
said to be dependent on the outcome of
the Lloyd George-Leygues conferences
in London and the discussions which
Leon Bourgeois is having in Paris over
the week end with officials of the
French Foreign Office.
General Weygand's report on the
Armenian situation has been received
by the Cecil committee. The general
tenor of the report is that nothing can |
be done before April. Tho committee'
is not bound to accept this report, al?
though great confidence is placed gen?
erally in General Weygand's ability to
master problems of this sort. The fear
is expressed by some that Weygand's
view has been tinged by French policy,
for France has little fa'th in the de?
liberations of Cecil's committee.
General Sir Frederick Morris, of
Great Britain- who arrived in Geneva
last night, placed before the special
committee of six, which had been
charged by the Assembly with finding
means of saving Armenia, a definite
pian o? action. Lord Robert Cecil is
chairman of the commttee. Not only
had the expense of working out the
British scheme been considered by its
proponents, but every detail had been
thought out. The plan aims efipecially
at sotting Armenia on her feet at a
small cost to herself, viz., 5,000,000
pounds.
As for the effectives to be nsed in
carrying out the program, these would
consist of Armenians themselves di?
rected by officers and non-commis?
sioned officers of the Allied armies
who saw service in the great war. j
\lthough The Tribune correspondent j
has these estimates, he is not at lib?
erty to give them and may only say i
that they are remarkably small.
Language Differences Called Minor j
As for objections that differences in j
language might be a bar to the success !
of such a mixed organization, exam- ;
pies are cited to show that in the
tlghting in Franc?? language difficulties
had no' appreciable effect. Moreover, it
is suggested that many Armenians
speak French and English, and it would
not bo impossible to have interpreters j
if these were thought necessary.
The Tribune is reliably informed
that the remnants of General Wran
gel's army is not being considered in ,
anv way for use in Asia Minor.
The terms for the Armenian expedi?
tion being considered by Cecil's com?
mittee ev.en go so far as to suggest!
the names of officers to be put in com- i
mand of them. Although I am not at
liberty to divulge the name of the pro- i
posed commander in chief, it is one j
which is likely to cause a sensation ?
wlien it is made public.
Many cablegrams are passing be-?
two en Cecil's committee and America,]
and I understand that considerable I
(Continua on pags four)
Students Will Boycott
Socialist Professors
ROME, Nov. 28.?Students at
the University of Bologna have
published a manifesto declaring
they wilL refuse to attend lec?
tures conducted by the Socialist
professors Fovel, Leone and Di-.
done, who, it is declared, "dis?
honor the university, staining the '
glory of the illustrious phalanx
of great teachers of whom the
university is proud." The mani?
festo declares tfie students will
refuse to accept their degrees if
awarded by such professors.
Untermyer I
Wants Third
Grand Jury
?._j
New Panel to Consider
Mass of Evidence Con?
cerning Alleged Building
Combines May Be Asked
Thirty Attorneys
To Aid Committee
I Perkins and Train Added
to List of Prosecutors;
Many Cases Are Pending
Roquest for an additional grand jury
to handle the cases arising out of the
investigation of the building trades
combines by the Lockwood Legislative
Committee probably will be made by
the committee a.? a result of a confer?
ence held yesterday in the home of
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
committee, at Greystone".
It developed at the conference that
so great is the muss of evidence and
material unearthed by the committee
that a third jury, in addition to th.:
one now working on building trades
cases and the one which will be drawr
this morning from a pan<?l before Jus
tice .MacAvoy in the criminal brand
of the Supreme Court, probably wil
bo necessary.
Reasons for New Jury
The present plans ore, It is under
stood, to let the additional jury nov
in session, which brought the indict
n.ents against Robert P. Br-indell
president of the Building Trades Coun
cil, and his associates, and Georg
Backer, the millionaire builder, to han
die all the cases arising out of tii
labor end of the investigation. A num
ber of cases involving walking dele
Sates will be presented t?a this jury.
This morning Mr. Untermeyer wl!
appear before Justice McEvoy and a;
sist in the examination of about 20
talesmen in the selection of a jur
which will deal with matters arisin
out of the trust and combine end <
the inquiry. This jury, it is und?*""
stood, will be called upon to examir
evidence and bring indictments again.'
contractors involved in fixing prices ?
materials in the building trades.
The mass of evidence already acci
mutated, it was said, following yeste
day's conference, is so great that tl
third jury probably will be asked fo
particularly since the investigate
will be broadened considerably wh?
Mr. Untermyer and the committee ii
vestigate that phase of the buildir
situation involving the operations ?
life insurance companies and other o
ganizations engaged in lending mtn?
on building trades mortgages.
Perkins to Aid Untermyer
Announcement was yesterday ma?
of the appointment of Charles
Perkins to the committee's legal stai
Mr. Perkins succeeded Charles S. VYhi
man as District Attorney of New Yor
lie will assist in the prosecution
persons indicted. The retention by t!
committee ?)f Arthur C. Train, form
Assistant District Attorney and a It
P-....C1 ??i .ni-, Perkins, was also a
nounced. Other prominent attorne
will be added to the committee's pro*
cuting staff, which will number abo
thirty members. More clerks will
engaged to assist in handling routi
work.
Mr. Perkins will be sworn in as
deputy attorney general or as an i
sistant district attorney, or possibly
both.
The organization will be in eve
way as large as the one which aid
Charles Evans Hughes in his life
surance companies' inquiry. Capal
men will be ?tided to the prosecuti
staff as necessity arises.
Mr, Untermyer has requested t
Board cf Estimate to postpone
meeting with the Lockwood Committ
scheduled for lOi'iO o'clock this mo;
ing, until 2:30 o'clock this afterno
The request has b?en granted. T
will enable Mr. Untermyer to bo pr
ent in Justice McEvoy's court to ass
in the examination of talesmen and
Judge Rosalsky's court in General S
sions, where the Backer perjury ti
is going on.
Sessions of the Lockwood Commit
will be held to-morrow, Wednesd
Thursday and Friday. Developmer
however, aro moving so fast that
committee will not have time to thrt
out in public all of its material,
great part of it will be handed o
to the criminal department of the cc
mittee for presentation to the gn
juries, before whom most of the le
battles arising o:it of the investi
tion will be fought.
'Leading Drys
i Enlist in Blue
Sunday Fight
Wheeler, Dinwiddie, Da
vey, Upshaw, Empring
liam and Mrs. Boole Join
the Lord's Day Alliance
_
Societies Linked
| By Reform Burean
; Dr? Manning Says Attempt
Is Based on Narrow View
of the Christian Religion
i _
The same highly organized force:
! that made -the United States dry ar?
j now functioning smoothly in a well
! laid plan to make the American Sun
' day blue. Tho International Reforr
Bureau, of Washington, is the connect
ir.g link between the Anti-Saloo
League and the Lord's Day Allianc?
The bureau has conscripted from th
league it? most effective lobbyists an
has turned them loose on Congress an
state legislatures to put across th
? rogram of the alliance. ?>
The Rev. Wilbur Kirk Crafts, supei
intendent and treasurer of the burea?
founder of the alliance and author c
many of the league's pet laws, const
I tutes the high command that has witl
drawn the army of reform from ?
| ruins of dismantled saloons, deserte
j breweries and darkened distilleries ar
' mobilized it for attack on those wl
disagree with the Puritan conceptit
of the Sabbath.
Officers of the Anti-Saloon Leagr
notably William H. Anderson, ha
been at great pains since the allian
announced the beginning of its cr
sade to deny that there is any connc
! tion between the two bodies. To su
I port this denial they rely entirely
I the fact that, so far as can be discc
? ered, there aro no official relations t
! tween them.
The Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, genei
secretary of tho alliance, told a Tr
une reporter last Friday that m
prominent in tho league in seve
states had given him to understo.
that the league would support i
! move for blue laws "if tho time con
when we need it3 nelp and we ?
j for it."
Mr. Bowlby's Statement
Yesterday Mr. Bowlby sent tho i
lowing prepared statement to 1
Tribune: .
"There have been a number of n
leading statements in the daily pr
connecting the Anti-Saloon Lea
with the Lord's Day Alliance of
United States and concerning whic
have already stated to reporters se
ing information along these lines t
we were informed that no official act
: had been taken by the Anti-Sal
: League which would in any way c
nect them with our present campa
for a more sane and sensible obs?
anee of our American Christian ?
bath. I feel it necessary, in order 1
. there may be no further misun?.
| standing, to give out the follow
, statement to the press:
" 'We are informed by an officia
1 the Anti-Saloon League that there
! been no departuro whatsoever from
? traditional policy of concentrating
I clusively upon the destruction of
! liquor trailic and the enforcement
the Eighteenth Amendment.'"
The circumstance that reveals
Pprohibition and blue law organiza
j as having almost identical personne
I not any departure of the league f
its traditional policy, but rather
| departure of so many of its lea
? lights from the victorious anti
ranks to battle under the banner ol
I International Reform Bureau and
Lord's Day Alliance.
Drys in Blue Crusade
Here are a few of them:
Wayne B. Wheeler, chief couns
the Anti-Saloon League, who will
one of the opening guns at the Int?
tional Reform Bureau conferenc
Washington next week, when im]
will be given the pending blue lav
for the District of Columbia.
Th? Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie, lej
tlve superintendent of the Anti-S)
League, whose telling work as a 1?
ist v tnt far toward ??.-curing enact
i Cinti. rft on n.\<*-i n ? n ? ">
Man Who Made 7,00<M\ffle Trip
To Vote Will Pass Harding at Sea
While President-elect Harding Is on ?
his way northward to Norfolk this week -
on the United Fruit steamship Pastores, j
ho will pass the Lamport & Holt ;
liner Vestrls, which is bearing to !
Buenos Ayres a man who traveled 7,000
'miles to vote for him.
The traveler on the Vestris is James
P. Kelley, seventy-two years old, a :
wealthy ranch owner of the Argentine
Republic, who for thirty-eight years has
returned to Boston from South Amer?
ica to vote at the Presidential election.
Although his interests are largely cen?
tered in Argentina, Mr. Kelley has
maintained his citizenship in the United
States.
When Mr. Kelley boarded the Ves?
tris with his wife Saturday he re?
ceived an enthusiastic greeting from
the ship's officers and crew, and at sea
a special dinner will be given in cele?
bration of his fortieth voyage on steam?
ships of the Lamport ?fi Holt line.
It is believed aboard the Vestris that
with the exception of seafaring men he
has traveled more than any living
American.
He is known throa?hout Brazil and
tue Argentine ?s Dr. Kelley, but he ex?
plained that thii title stuck to him be
cause he is' a doctor of laws and \ra3
for four years president of Holy Cross
College in Buenos Ayres. ?
The stalwart globe trotter is more
than six feet tall and is as vigorous as
a man of fifty-five. In appearance he
resembles the late Mayor Gaynor.
"I would net line to claim the world's
record as a traveler," he said, "but
during the last thirty-eight years I
have covered on the sea alone 800,000
miles. I was born in 181S, and for a
time practiced law in Boston, having
been admitted to the bar in lSTO. I gave
up my law practice to raise cattle and
sheep in the Argentine, and my wife,
?A'ho is a native of Buenos Ayres, has
accompanied me on all my trips during
the thirty-six years of our married
life. We have crossed the Equator
sixty times, have made 400 ocean voy
ages and traveled over six continents.
We pick our own routes and sometimes
we have made comfortable trips on
freighters.
"In all our journeys we never have
been ill a day. We are both philoso?
phers and accept conditions as they
come. The ocean furnishes no wonders
for us. We are never alarmed by storms
an 1 above aii we have learned how to
'.ravel at sea without annoying the
chip's officers with silly questions. We
made eight trips through the war zone
when the Germans were operating their
submarine.? and with our faith in God
and our philosophy were not in the least
perturbed."
Crime ^
T?
% ' \ y
7ave Growing
e Siirvey Shows
.s Under-Policed
594 Men Cover 7^ P^ts1
in 26 Precincts, 21 m
Manhattan, From Mid?
night Until 8 A. M.
One Patrolman to
Nine or 11 Blocks
-
j 155 on Leave, Special De?
tail or at Meetings of
Band and Glee Club
_
Is the city underpoliced?
In an effort to obtain an approxi?
mate answer to that question The
Tribune twice last week sent out a
staff of reporters to check up on the
number of patrolmen turned out on
the midnight tour, which comprises
the hours from midnight to 8 a. m.
and which is conceded to bo the
most'important tour of the day.
The investigators counted the
number of men as they left the pre?
cinct stations. The- figures wer?
then checked against the number oi
posts, or zones of patrol, into whicr
each district was divided.
Twenty-six precincts were covered
twenty-one of thorn in Manhattan. 74f
posts included in those districts wer?
being patrolled by 504 men. In othei
words, in twenty-six precincts alone
out of the eighty-seven in the citj
there were 155 men short on the mid?
night tour. The survey showed:
Only one precinct?the West 152c
.Street station?reported a full quota.
One precinct was short one man.
One precinct was short two men.
Two precincts were short three men
One precinct was short four men.
Eight precincts were short five men
Three precincts were short six men
One precinct was short seven men.
Three precincts were short eight mer
Two precincts were short nine mer
One precinct was short ten men.
One precinct was short twelve mer
One precinct was short thirteen mer
Reasons Given
The question arises, What become
of the men who would, under norma
conditions, complete the midnight tour
The answer, so far as it may be ob
tained from reticent police officials, i
I that they are on special duty, on do
tail, or, for some reason or othei
have been granted leaves of absence
All such assignments or leaves ar
granted by the Police Commissione
or the chief inspector.
None of the precinct commander
would say why it was found necessar
for the Commissioner to assign me
to duty considered more importar
than the midnight tour. All admitte
that the midnight tour was the moi
Important part of the department
crime prevention system, as most <
j the violent crimes, the loft robberit
and the hold-ups, occur between mit
I night and daylight.
! Several of the desk lieutenants, wr
: nre, in the absence of the captain, con
manders of the precincts, said thi
j there was too much of the leave i
j absence privileges. They said thi
members of the Police Band, membei
of the Police Glee Club and mernbai
of various other police organizatiot
who had to attend m?*etings, rehearsal
etc., were excused from active dui
from 4 p. m. to 8 a. m. It'was sa
? that these men could take care of tl
i outside work up until midnight ar
! still do their regular police work.
On the special detail assignmc
I none of the men would ta'k, referrir
: all inquiries to headquarters, Oi
i man said he took his cue from tl
attitude assumed by Commissioner E:
right and Mayor Hylan, when Enrig
asked for 500 additional patrolmen b
fore the budget committee of ti
Board of Estimate.
At that time Henry H. Curran, pre!
dent of the Borough of Manhattan, i
siated upon knowing the number
; men the commissioner had in speci
(Continued on pmjo throe)
U. S. Envoy Is Best Gun a
French President's Hu?
Wallace Brings Down 125 P?en
of Game Out of Total of 650:
Marshal Retain Second
PARIS, Nov. 28.-~Hugh C. Walla?
the American Ambassador, proved t
best gun of fifteen pronvnent hunte
who attended President Millerand's fii
official game shooting party on t
Presidential preserve in the Forest
Rambouillet yesterday. Mr. Walla
accounted for 125 pieces of game out
a total of 650 for the entire par
Marshal P?tain was second and Gene:
Duba 1 third. Marshal Foch was amo
the also rans. Baron de Gai?ner d'H?
troy, the Belgian Ambassador, and P
feet Austrand, of the Department of t
Seine, were members of the party.
President Millerand, like forrr
president Poincare, is not a hunter,
was represented by General LaiT
head of the Military Cabinet at t
Palace of tho Elys?e.
-,
Corean Hunger Strike,
Survives Only 13 Day
TOKIO, Nov. 28.?The fin
hunger strike in the Orient o
record, that of a prisoner incai
cerated in connection with th
Corean independence movemen
ended fatally to-day when th
prisoner died in the Seoul jai
He had fasted thirteen days.
Summary of Thefts
Since First of Year
The following is a summary of
robberies committed since the
first of the year, compiled from
newspaper files:
Rob- Hold- Total
Month. beries. ups. loot,
January ... 14 9 $82,000
February ... 116 20 368.000
March .30 19 247,000
Aoril. 11 CJ 366,000
May. 10 5 88,000
June . 16 6 226,000
July .34 13 306,000
August. 18 14 253,000
September .. 9 6 209,000
October _ 16 12 80,000
November ... 17 12 800,000
Totals_201 124 $3,115,000
Cut in Income
Tax Predicted
By Wadsworthl
Believes Single Men Will Be
Exempt Up to 82,000 and
Married Ones $4,000;
Wants Immediate Change
Says People Need Relief
New Administration's Chief
Domestic Concerns Will
Be Taxation and Finance
United States Senator James W.
j Wadsworth, in passing through this
city to Washington yesterday, said
that he believed that the Federal in?
come tax on small incomes would be
lifted, and that single men would be
exempt up to $2,000 and married men
up to $4,000. At present, incomes
above $1,000 of single men and in?
comes of marrifd men above $2,000 are
taxable.
Senator Wadsworth said that there
must be immediate changes in the Fed?
eral tax laws to bring relief to the peo?
ple and to restore the country to a
peace-time basis.
"The chief concern of the new Ad?
ministration in domestic affairs," he
said, "will be taxation and finance. The
present tax la?vs are unsatisfactory.
This is true of the excess profits tax,
which will prove to be a grave disap?
pointment as a revenue producer.
Luxury Tax Unsatisfactory
"Then, too, the so-called luxury tax
is a hit-and-miss affair, and is neither
wise nor consistent. Many of the so
called luxuries that are taxed under
this law aro really necessaries, and
these taxes may more properly be called
consumption taxes. There is consider?
able discussion of a tax on gross sales
to supplant all other taxes on business.
"There ?3 a general feeling among
Republican legislators that people of
small incomes should be relieved of the
exactions of the Federal income tax
act. The disposition seems to be to
make the maximum of exemption $2,000
in the caso of single men and $4,000 for
married men."
Legislators believe that such an
amendment by Congress would be fol?
lowed naturally by the passage of a j
similar amendment in this state,
where the state income tax law is,
I with respect to exempt-ons, patterned
I after the Federal income tax law.
Senator Wadsworth sa.d that the
! heavy surtaxes now imposed should
| be reduced in order to release money
for investment in productive enter?
prises.
Too Many Departments
"It will take two or three years to
work out the problems of reconstruc?
tion," said Senator Wadsworth. "Much
will be done through departmental or
1 ganization. There are too many de
| partments and commissions, many of
j them overlapping and duplicating the
! work of others.
j "Then, too, there is too much un
i necessary centralization at Washing?
ton, and a halt to this sort of thing
: should be called. Simplification, rather
j than elaboration, should be the watch
! word."
Senator WadBWorth said he believed
the budget bill would be one of the
I first acts of the coming session of
I Congress. That, he said, would mark
; the first step toward reo;gani?;ation on
I a peace basis. Thousands of useless
? jobs, he added, would be eliminated.
WUen asked about the League of N?
| tions, the Senator sa'dy he hoped that
\ when President Harding called a spe
! cial session of Congress the Knox
' peace resolution or a similar mcasuro
? would be passed.
E-x-Kaiserin Has Relapse
I Augusta Victoria Suffers a Turn
for the Worse
DOORN, Holland, Nov. 28.-?A turn
? for the worse in the condition of the
German ex-Empress, Augusta Victoria,
I occurred late to-day.
It was announced at Doom, the resi
; dence of the former Emperor and Em- !
; press, on Friday last that the immedi- j
! ate danger point in the illness of the ',
?? ex-Empress had temporarily been, passed, j
! although her condition remained seri- !
! ous. She *>vas able then to receive mem- |
bers of the family at the bedside, it j
? was said. The ex-Empress has experi- !
! enced several severe heirt attacks, her I
1 life each time being despaired of, and |
; it has been feared more than once dur- j
? ing the present attack that the end was j
[ approaching._ _
XtniM Card?, dUtinetiv**. In KW?t *r***.ri?*-?t*r ? '
ctJunrtar? ??y th? woriJ'i tw.****. pairuer?. Cor
I tie?, Mtcy A Co- 7 B. 4Sth at.?2D John ?*-.
[ ?AdTt.
Hold-Ups and Robberies
in 11 Mouths Represent
Over 83,100,000 Loot:
100 Murders unsolved
Politics Charged in
Detective Bureau
Many Crimes Withheld
From Records; 1 Kill?
ing Every Third Day
The crime wave that is sweeping
New York City shows no sign of re?
ceding. On the contrary, there ia
every indication that it is growing
and that never before in the city's
history have its crimkials been so
daring.
Figures compiled by The Tribune
show that since the first of the year:
There have been 325 hold-ups,
robberies and thefts, representing
a property loss of more than $3,
100,000.
The unsolved murders alone in
the greater city total more than
100 and killings have gone on at
the rate of one every third day.
Many Crimes Not Listed
The list of these depredations
printed in to-day's Tribune is in?
complete, because the police have
failed to list many of the crimes and
have admitted others only after the
victims made them public.
In view of these facts, The Trib?
une has undertaken an inve*Ygation
of the present organization of the
Police Department?its general
force, trie patrolmen, whose duty it
is to prevent crime, and the detec?
tive bureau, to which is given tho
task of running down criminals.
This "investigation indicates :
First?That many sections of the
city, including the more important
ones, are under-policed.
Second?That the detective or?
ganization built up by former
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods
has been broken up.
Shortage of Patrolmen
The disclosure, that the city is
under-policed is the result of an in?
quiry into the number of patrolmen
turned out on the midnight tour, ad?
mittedly the most important tour of
the day, as it embraces the favorite
working hours of the criminal class.
This showed that in many ?nstanos
policemen are required to cover two
or three posts because of the short
ago of men. A detailed account ?f
this phase of the investigation im?
printed to-day.
The breaking down of the detec?
tive organization built up by Arthur
Woods includes such moves as the
shuffling of the special squads and
the aholition of the branch detective
bureau system. This will be treated
in detail in a later article.
$890 000 Robbers' Loot,
November Record Alone
Heads of Burglary insuranro
Concerns Say Politics in Dr
tectiveBureauIncreasesCrime
New York's record of crime during
1920 is traced through a series of S25
hold-ups, robberies and thefts, which
netted criminals more than $3,100,000,
and through a list of more than one
hundred unsolved murder?.
In November alone thieves and hold?
up men obtained more than $800,000.
This is the largest total loot obtained
in any of the last eleven months. The
list, it mubt be borne In mind, prob?
ably is incomplete, because under the
present police administration man;
robberies become known only when
further r-ippression is impossible.
The figures are reducible to some
extent by subsequent recoveries, but
firms dealing in burglary insurance and
others in position to know say that a
smaller proportion of robberies and
thefts has been solved during the last
eleven months than at any other period
in their experience.
January had one cf the lowest totals
of any month during the current year.
Its fourteen robberies and nine hold?
ups netted thieves and highwaymen
$82,000. During February the crime
barometer rose precipitately and a
total of $368,000 was stolen. In ?March
the record rose again to $366,000, and
:n subsequent months, with the excep?
tion of May and October, it bus v*-.rUd
between $200,000 and $300,000.
Police Record? Are Incomplete
Increasing crime In New York Cltr*
has been made the subject of frequent
discussion by tho heads of concerns
dealing in burglary insurance.
It is a mutter of official record
that the increase in the amount pal-l
in looses by burglary insurance con?
cerns in 1919 over that of the praviou?
year was more than IS per cent. Thi
increase this year, insurance men as?
sert, will be even more imposing.
"It is impossible to procura from the
police records any accurate concept!?:,
of tho thefts and robberies actual'
committed," the bead of one larga un