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VOL. LXXXVI.?NO. 219?DAILY.
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922.
ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER.
POST OFFICE. NEW YORK, N. Y.
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY.
THREE
WITHIN Mil.as
KOtR CSMYS t. ' -Uhi * MEttS.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN
ENTENTE INDICATED
IN ALLIED DEBT PLAN
British Note That Interest
011 War Loans Be Paid
Shows Understanding.
OF BIGGEST CREDITORS
TJ. S. and Britain Will Have
Paralyzing Preponderance
of Mobile Wealth.
CAN SHAPE WORLD POLICY
Tlatis for Reducing Armies,
Balancing Budgets and
Restoring Trade.
Special Cable to The Nrw York 11 rami, d
Copi/right, 19Si. by Tub New York IIhkai.d.
Xfw York Hrrald Hnrrau. )
London, April 5. f
On the eve of the Genoa conference
Great Britain has made the first open
diplomatic move toward a new en
tente?an Anglo-American under
standing based upon a common eco
nomic conception of the world's fu
ture. That is the interpretation placed
upon Great Britain's note to the Al
lies, warning them that she reserves
the right to collect the interest on war
debts owing her. In diplomatic quar
ters it is taken as showing how Prime
Minister Lloyd George and his closest
advisers view America's final decision
not to participate at Genoa.
According to information given to
The New York Herald correspondent
of this I?loyd Georgian policy, the
Genoa conference becomes subsidiary
to these developments, while any other
International alignment sinks into the
background.
The United States and Great Brit
ain, within a definite number of
months?a very few months?will be
come the world's only two creditor
nations. In the lenguage of post
war diplomacy, or at least in the sense
vised in the present instance, an en
tente means a commfln economic con
ception of thi -future so guid
ing American and British policies as
to make a formal alliance unneces- ;
nary. These two nations will possess j
a paralyzing preponderance of the |
world's mobile weulth. without which |
fighting ships and fighting armies j
are useless.
Point* Worlil Prosperity.
The policy they will press, as fm
bodied In the results of the Washington
conference and the records of Congress
and Parliament, will be the reduction of i
armed forces, the balancing of Income !
with expenditure, the deflation of cur- j
rencle*. the restoration of trade, Indus- !
try, saving and taxing "back to nor- |
malcy." Furthermore, Great Britain's
reminder to the Allies Is not based upon |
any "hands across the sea" sentiment ;
but upon the hard, ebld fact that the !
American Commission authorized to take
up the funding of allied loans will deal
flrft with Great Britain.
Great Britain Is ready for the deal.
It expccts to fund the entire 14,300,
000,000 debt to the United States In
bonds, with a definite and fair rate of
interest and a definite and fair sinking
fund, adequate provision for which will
be made In the British budget for the
next and ensulns years.
Those bonds will be marketable in any
place in the wor^d. In effect, they will
wipe out Great Britain's debt to the
United States.
Referring to the British ra!e of ex
rhangc on New York, as compared with j
any other allied rate, one authority de- |
ilared to-day that It was the truest
measure of the potentiality of any other I
debtor country settling Its obligations ;
and entering the creditor class with I
(ireat Britain and the United States.
Hence it was that the officials of the
Treasury here to-day insisted that the i
memorandum to the Allies was not a 1
demand for Interest payment but a
warning that payment could b? de- |
manded when the three year Interest
postponement expires on April 13.
Therefore Mr. Lloyd George will go
to Genoa with two powerful weapons In j
his hands. The first, that no real ec
onomic reconstruction l.? possible In
PJurope without the United States; ami
the United States has laid down defi
nite conditions which Grent Britain has
accepted In practice ns well as promise.
With the United States absent from
r;enoa Mr. Lloyd George probably can
play the necessity of American ^coopera
tion harder than he could were Arr.erlca
represented, wherefore his disappoint
ment over America's refusal Is not keen.
His second weapon is that no real
economic restoration of Europe Ir pos
sible without the cooperation of Great
Britain herself, and Great Britain also j
may lay down conditions The forecast j
of this poTlcy Is based upon a growing '
tendency here to helleve that the
United States is right In refusing to
come in. after the Cannes stipulations
were fixed, although that belief has to
struggle through the natural first (feel
ing of disappointment. In that President
Harding would not help Mr. Lloyd
George's conference In Genoa, after Mr.
Lloyd Oeorge had so handsomely nelped
Mr. Harding's conference In Washing
ton.
American Hefnsal Hnlntnry.
It is now felt In official circles here
that America's refusal has had a salu
tary effect upon the pie-Oenoa confer
ence atmosphere, and Mr. Moyd George
is not likely to miss any chance to flavor :
the atmosphere of the conference Itself i
with the same salubrious western air.
Those discussing the probable proc?- j
dure to-day emphasized the belief that
Mr. Lloyd George has no Intention of
I ringing any of the nations participate
f ontlnued on Page Two.
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Theatrical and lintel und ft<-?laitrsnt?.
Adv*rU*tnc will Ih? fotmrt m? P?':e li.--Adv.
f N
U. S. and German Envoys
Dine Together First Time
Special Cable to Tub Nkw YotK IIfbai.o.
Copyright,/3ft, bu Tub New Yhik Hbiuld.
Ntw York Herald Burma, )
London. April 3. I
A MBASSADOR HARVEY gave
/-\ a dinner to-night in honor of
Arthur T. Hadley, former
president of Yale University. The
guests included Herr Friederich
Sthamer, German Ambassador to
Great Britain; the Duke of Rut
land, Viscount Haldane, Viscount
Burnham, owner of the Daily Tele
graph; Lord Robert Cecil, Lord
Buckmaster and Sir Gilbert Parker,
the novelist. This was the first
time that the American and Ger
man Ambassadors to Great Britain
have sat together at a dinner since
the war. Mi* Harvey la going to
Torquay for Easter.
V /
OIL FRAUDS CHARGED
TO SIX, ONE A WOMAN
Firm Capitalized at $10,000,
000 Among 7 Indicted for
Misuse of Mails.
RICH GUSHERS CLAIMED
'Producing Holes Returning
$500,000 a Year' Said to
Have Drawn Investors.
Seven oil companies and six indi
viduals, including one woman, are un
der indictment on a charge of using
the mails to defraud, it bccame known
yesterday when sealed findings of a
Federal Grand Jury were released ori
tl".e motion of Maxwell S. Mattuck,
Assistant United States Attorney.
The defendant companies are the
Century Consolidated Oil Company, a
Delaware corporation with an author
ized capital of $10,000,000; the Her
cules Oil Company, the Queen Oil
Company, the Ranger Oil Company,
the Shannon Oil Company and the
Acme Finance Corporation.
The individuals named In the In
dictment are Mrs. Cora Stetson Butler.
Mark S. Matthews and Bonewitz X.
Dawson of New York city; Walter S.
Clarke of Boston, Ernest S. Phillips
of Kansas City, Mo., and Dixie L.
PeterB of Los Angeles.
Wnninn I.ed OrvaniMtlon.
To rarry on n. gigantic stock selling
campaign, the Century Consolidated Oil
Company Tins founed ms the result of a
merger with five oil companies, accord
ing to Mr. Mattuck. who said that soon
?ifter the consolidation two of the con
terns were petitioned into bankruptcy.
The Indictment explains that Mrs. But
ler end Phillip*, while on the executive
committee of the Century Consolidated, j
organised the Acme Finance Corpora
tion with the aid of Peters, t'larke and
Dawson.
11 l?: charged that the promoters listed
Charles B. Manvllle, founder of the If.
W. Johns-Manvllle Company, with many
other prominent men as officials of the
Acme concern. As a bonus in further- :
ante of tne schcme 2.000.0U0 shares of:
the Century Company w< re to be divided
among the group of five in the Acme
Company.
The stock selling representations were
grossly deceptive, according to evidence
presented to tlu Grand Jury by Mr.'
Mattuck, the claim being made by tiie j
promoters that the Century Company ?
had taken over properties in proved ter- i
rttory with settled production of 1001
producing well* and fourteen more drill- ;
ing. The Indictment furthei explains
that the Century Consolidated had only ,
about half a doren wells under its con- '
trol and three of them were the property ,
of the companies in the hands of re- i
reive rs.
Wfll llnlmi urrlarril False.
"The Investigation," said Mr. Mnttuck.
"showed that the oil properties claimed
to have been acquired In Kentucky and
lllinots with ninet.v-four wells producing
a profit of $500,000 anuually, were not
< wned by the Century Consolidated OH i
Company and the same condition applied
to 19.000 acres in other fields.
"Some of the correspondence and lit
erature of the Century company Indi
cated that the registrar and transfer
agent was the National Security Com
pany of 149 Broadway. Yet later the
Century Consolidated OH Compnny eon
tended that the National Security Com
pany was not authorised to issue any
of Its stock. Stockholders In the various
companies Included In the merger were
notified by the Century company that It
would not recognise stock issued by the
National Security Company, with the re
sult that the stock of the Century com
pany was recalled and the stock In the |
original compunles reissued to stock- i
holders. During this period the property j
Is aald to have been neglected, as rentals
were not paid and liabilities fast piling
up "
Edward A. Schwab, until recently a
lost Office Inspector nnd now a special]
investigator for the National Vigilance
Committee of the Associated Advert'slng
Clubs of the World, made the Investiga
tion which resulted In the mall fraud
Indictment.
Some o' the Investors mentioned as
complainants in proceedings are James
McCoM of 18 Kast Sixtieth street, Man- j
hattan : A. E. H. Bakr-r of 32 I?awrence
street, Brooklyn ; Krnest Kurd Arnold
of Jersey City. Charles Larger of Pas- j
sale, N. J-. and ten others scattered
throughout the country.
KANSAS CITY AGAIN
OVERWHELMS FOSTER
Candidate for Mayor De
feated by 12,000 This Time.
fpf' al DUiMith i Tut New Von lis,-en.
Kansas Citt, Mo., April v XI?tttlew
A. Foster, Republican. tvn.< defeated In
th<' Mayoralty e|e< tion her* n Tuesday.
Frank H. Cromwell. Democrat, winning
by 12,000 majority.
Th;-? was Fostet s Mcond defeat. He
was beate'i for the aine office two
years ago by femes Cowglll, whose ma
jority was 2,000. and who died in office.
fit. Joseph, the third la-gest city of
the State, went Uepubllrs.i toy about
1,000 In SI,ooo votes cast.
OPERATORS DECLINE
TO ATTEND LUTED
COAL CONFERENCE
-
j Ohio and Indiana Owners
Want "Whole Central
Field Represented.
FAVOR LOCAL DEALS j
Pittsburgh Vein Men Ready
to Make Wage Agreements
With Unions Affected.
NAIVE REPLY TO NOLAN
Told I". S. Is Prosecuting' Both
Sides for Attending a Simi
lar Meeting1.
Special Dispatch to Tur New Yobk Herald*
Cleveland, April 5.?Coal operators ,
in this and other States to-day killed I
the possibility of the conference be- 1
tween the striking miners' officials
i and operators of the central competi
tive field suggested for April 10 by :
Representative Nolan for the House 1
Labor Committee.
Eastern Ohio operators and those of
Indiana took identical action. They
rejected the proposal for a joint con
ference unless the entire central com
I petitive field, comprising western
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Illi
j nois, is represented in the conference.
; Other operators' associations had not
\ voted to-day, but now that two of
i the most important districts have re- '
! fused to enter the conference the :
House scheme for settlement of the
i strike seems dead.
The eastern Ohio operators make
up the Pittsburgh Vein Operators As
sociation of Ohio. This association
through its president. Michael Gal
lagher, of M. A. Hanna & Co. wired
to Mr. Nolan to-day:
We do not consider it to the best
interests of the district to meet in
the manner which you propose, and
therefore are obliged to decline.
Nevertheless, we are willing, if the
regular four States conference can
not be arranged, to rrr^et with the
duly authorized officials of the
miners union to negotiate a wage
scale for our own subdivision.
Offer to Meet I.oca I I nlon.
The offer to meet officials of the
local miners' union is the first of the
kind ever made by the Pittsburgh vein
operators.
Mr. "Nolan suggested a conference of
the operators of eastern Ohio, Indiana
and nilnols only, omitting western Penn- I
sy.lvania and southern Ohio. Tlve com
petitive position of the eastern Ohio op- |
erators Is what. stands in the way of
their joining in with Indiana and Illinois
operators in a confcrence looking to a 1
new agreement such as Mr. Nolan sug
gested. members said.
The PittsbutKh vein operators mine in
what is known as No. 8 seam, in Bel
mont. Harrison and Jefferson counties.
This is the same vein operated by west
ern Pennsylvania tnen. and the condi
tions are identical. The product goes
Into much the same markets and each
has a heavy interest In the lake coal
trade.
It eastern Ohio operators joined with
the western fields in an Immediate
agreement with the union providing for
a higher wage scule than the western I
Pennsylvania operators might be able to j
obtain after a long strike, the eastern i
Ohio operators would be in a difficult
competitive position.
Cites IT. S. Pronerntlon.
Toi.kdo, April G.?Thr Ohio Collieries j
Company, largest individual coal oper- !
ating company in Ohio, will not b?* rep- ,
resented In the proposed Joint confer
ence of miners and operators in Wash
ington on April 10.
Replying to the Invitation of Repre
sentative Nolan, Oeorge M. Jones, presi
dent of the Ohio collieries, said:
"No doubt you arc aware that the op
erator* and miners of the four competl- i
tlve Rtfttes have met In Joint conference ;
for som? years to a?re<> upon a labor
rcale. Both ttie operators and miner*
have b?nn Indicted and are being pro?e- |
cttted by the Attorney-General of the ;
United States In the United States Dis
trict Court at Indianapolis for holding '
these conferences.
"Until this case Is decided It would
not be proper for us to attend any simi
lar conferences. In the meantime we
are willing and anxious to meet the
United Mln* Workers of Ohio to negoti
ate n new mining scale. Anything you
can do to bring audi a conference about
will be appreciated."
For Central Field Conference.
Tien* Haots, April 3.?Indiana coal
operators to-day rejected the proposal
of OtftlMMti Nolan for a Joint wage con- :
ference unless the entire centra; competl-1
Cve field, comprising western Pennayl- !
Xy 'a. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, were
rep> nted In the conference. "Wie op
em tor. viewer, sent by Phil H. Kenna.
secret a f,-* 'the Indiana Bituminous Coal
operator* oclatlon, was:
"Member* 'hia association ready to
meet tnlnerf In Interstate conference of
central competitive field as previously
constituted, but cannot ngree to meet
with only parts thereof represented.
Failing In this we arc prepared to meet
our employees in Indiana."
Miner* Broke Faith'.
PtTTsatiftoir. April -The Pittsburgh !
i 'oal Producers Association to-day con
sidered the ntvltatldn of Chairman
Nolan 'o come to Washington April 10 1
to discuss the coal strike. It was de
cided that an answer would be sent j
to-morrow.
After the meeting the association
Continued on Pag* Eight.
The H**? Writing Pap?r?
are Whit in* Papers.?4rfr.
r~ \
'Bottled Sunlight' Under
Investigation by the U. S.
Special Dispatch to The New York Heqai.d
N'w York Herald liiirrau. )
Washington. D. C.. April 5. )
<(T-) OTTLED SUNLIGHT," the
[) newest thing in stock pro
motion in New York, to
day engaged the curiosity of Gov
ernment officials. Hush D. Sim
mons. Chief Post Office Inspector,
sot about getting a line on the
Delaware corporation which pro
poses to produce in June an electric
light globe which will burn for three
years without connection with out
side electric power.
An attitude of "show us" was
adopted by Government scientists.
The Post Office Department is in
terested in the method of selling
the stock. In case the stock offers
arc not made through the mails the
department will have little to do
with the matter.
DENBY WARNS NAVY'
Secretary Issues Order Telling
of Propaganda to Affect
Service Morale.
WIRES PULLED ABROAD!
.
Insidious Boring Into Person
nel With Disloyal Doctrines
Is Detected.
Special Dispatch To The Nrr? York Herald.
New York Hern Id Btirenu, )
Washington, l>. C? April .V [
Secretary D( nby issued an order to
#he navy this afternoon warning
against propaganda of disloyalty and
disorder which is attempting to in
sinuate itself into the navy.
This order follows a speech made
here last night by Capt, Luke Mc
Xamee, head of the Naval Intelligence
Service, before the National Council
for the Reduction of Armaments
warning ^gainst propaganda for a
smaller navy than that arranged for
by international agreement during
the armament conference.
Secretary Penby's order was issued
as the result of the investigation of
the Naval Intelligence Service and a
coupling of the warning issued by the
Secretary of the Xavy and that by
Capt. AIcNamee Indicates the suspicion
that exists in the Xavy Department
that both inoverfients are being encour
nged from abroad. Mr. Denby's order
is issueu against the activities of Bol
shevist propagandists who are en
deavoring to disintegrate the American
navy by "boring from within."
Tcit of Secretary's Order.
?Secretary Denby's order follows :
"My attention lias been called to the
fact that tbere is sinister propaganda
by societies having their origin in for
eign countries to undermine the morale
of the navy and to Insinuate into its
personnel elements of disloyalty and dis
order.
"I have t4ie mo?t profound confidence
in the loyalty and devotion to their coun
try of commissioned and enlisted men
of the United States naval forces. I
have no fear that men in any consider
able number may at any time, any
where, be seduced from their allegiance
to their country's flag. It is not. there
fore. through any thought or sugsee
tlon that the United States Navy is in
the slightest danger from Bhis propa
ganda that I issue this warning.
"I fear only that some few of our
men may be induced, innocently at first,
when on shore to Join societies having
for their purpose the advancement of
ideas contrary to our form of Govern
ment, or which may result In lawless
ness. There are of course in a per
sonnel na large an I hat of the navy
some discontented men. and ip the hearts
of discontented men false dwctrines find
ready acceptance.
Offender* to He Detected.
"T am trying by this warning to save
a few individuals who might otherwise
afflllat" themselves with societies teach
ing those things which cannot be tole
rated In an organization sworn to up
hold the Constitution of the United
States and to obey all lawful orders.
Should there be any such men in the
navy to-day it Is almost certain that
If they do not disentangle themselves
from affiliation frith such organizations
they will ultimately be detected.
"I am trying to lesson the number of
prisoners In naval prisons. I could not
hope to show leniency, however, to any
msn who, in combination or alone. In
violation of his oath, committed acts
of disloyalty to his country.
'Because I have been one of you I
know that all men have their periods
of unhappiness?of Imagined ill treat
ment, home sickness nnd discontent.
Such periods come to civilians as well as
to men In the naval service. They are
a part of life. We must net let them
lead us into such folly as desertion or
resistance to lawful authority nor par
ticularly into revolt by word or deed
against a form of government that has
proven in the main a government of
liberty and Justice.
"Mo 1 appeal to the officers anil men
of the service to be ever alert In guard
ing themselves ashore and afloat from
the preaching of Sovetlam. Communism
?uid anarchy."
Changed Status of Woman
Recognized by Prayer
Book Revisers.
PROMISES IDENTICAL
More Than 250 Alterations
Are Submitted in Con
vention IJeport.
for seven new offices
New Forms Designed to Meet
Religious Needs of the
Present Day.
Recognition of the changed status
of women by striking from the Epis
copal marriage ceremony the promise
to obey and eliminating the compul
sory giving in marriage, was proposed
by the commission on revision of the
Book of Common Prayer, in a report
made public Mat night through the
Associated Press.
Gaining equal rights with men in
their marriage vows, however, the |
women would.lose a special privilege
now accorded them. For the proposal
to change the ceremony, also provides
for striking out the bridegroom's
pledge, "with all my worldly goods I
thee endow." , .
The commission'* report, published in
the form of a 23" page book and pro
posing more than 250 .ilterstlons and
the inclusion of seven entirely new or- ,
fices. or forms of worship, will be sub- ;
mitted to the triennial General Conven
tion of the Church in Portland. ^>re?
next September. L'nder the constitution
of the church it cannot tot adopted until
it has been approved ?>' wo genera
conventions, but members of the com
mission hope to s^e the oi.anges finally
ratified at the 1925 convention.
MnrrUKc Pledge" 8*n?e.
Six pages of -he report are devoted
to proposed changes In tne marriage
ceremony, the first h,l,t ?f ^ ^ltow
o! the revision appearing in the follow ^
' "Make tl?? promise of the man and-?*
the woman identical in form . i
" 'Wilt thou love hhu, comfort him,
honor and keep him In |
health: and. iorsaking all others, keen
thee only unto him, so long as ye both
"?Si present 'he woman promises to ;
"?tS n"xf change.' eliminating the com- j
putsory giving of a. woman In I
would makr it possible for the clrg. ,
'""Who gi'veth 'his woman to be mar-;
rled to this man?" and would Provide
for the singing f a hymn or anthem at ,
'b'inoHier proposed change would strike
"obey ' from the sentences of espousal.
The r^pf rt continues:
"Amend the sentence in regard to the ,
ring by omitting the wo.-dg and with all
my worldly goods 1 thee endow.
King I*lrH?r?? <
This change would maV.e the ring
pledge of the br.degroom read:
"With this rlns, I thee w<>d : In the
Name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
There are fifteen changes In all in
the propbsed amendment to the cere
mony, including a number of minor al
terations and .jfovislons for alternative
closing prayers. A prayer for the bless
ing: of the wedding ring also Is proposed,
which reads:
"Bless. O Lord, this ring, that she
who wears It may abide in thy peace,
and continue In thy favor, unto her
life's end: through .lesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.'*
Besides the revision of the marriage
ceremony, the proposed changes Include:
Rearrangement of the contents, mak
ing for more convenient iwe; permissive
shortening of some of the services ; ad
dition of many new prayers, such as
"For a State Legislature." "For Mem
orial Days." "For Social Justice." "For
Every Man in His Work." "For Our
Country"' and "For All Nations'' ; addi
tional) collects, epistles and gospels for
?g>ecial occasions, including Independ
ence Day; enlargement of the catechism
and its transformation into a cate
chetical office of Instruction: a form of
service for the burial of a child ; pray
ers .if permissive use In commenoration
of the saints and for the departed, ?nd
a special form for missionary service.
BOY KILLED 'HOOKING'
RIDE ON MOTOR CAR
He Leaps Off Beneath Wheels
of Truck.
, Joseph Cleary, 9. of 622 Second ave
! nue. Jumped from an automobile on
' which he had "hooked" a ride yester
dn: afternoon Into the path of a truck
in front of 24R Mast Thirty-fifth street.
He was run over and died In Bellevue
Hospital. Oscar Bondy of 104 Penn
sylvania avenue. Rrooklyn. driver of the
truck, was held on a homicide charge.
Mary Lelfert. 3, of Linden, N. died
In St. Elizabeth Hospital^ Elizabeth,
yesterday from Injuring received when
run down by an automobile operated by
German Shapiro of 7!) Van Ness street,
Newark.
Change in Address
The Herald Square Branch of
THE NEW YORK HERALD
18 Now at Broadway and 37th Street
Second Floor?Entrance 1367 Broadway
Telephone Worth 10,000
For HERALD Want Ads.
GO V. MILLER WARNS BANTON
AND POLICE TO HAL T CRIME;
ENRIGHT'S REMOVAL ASKED
CITIZENRY UNITING i
TO CRUSH lawless;
Police Head Inefficient, Says'
Yorkville Club, Telling' of
Merchants' Fears.
MILLER TO (JET APPEALSj
Brooklyn Commerce Body to
Demand Rigid Yoke on
Gunmen.
Tlie protest of the Washington
Square Association against the failure
of the police to control the criminal
element of New York, rising from the
robbery on Sunday of* the home of
Albert R. Shattuck of 19 Washington
Square North, grow yesterday to wide
proportions. Among proposed meas
ures arc two appeals to Gov. Miller for
relief, and one of those appeals is to
request the removal of Police Commis
sioner Richard K. En right.
Two separate efforts in addition to :
that of the Washington Square Asso
ciation were announced to obtain bet
ter police protection. The Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce executive com
mittee is to meet next Tuesday to con-;
aider recommendations for improve-1
inent of conditions, including an appeal
to Gov. Miller for aid.
The Hell Gate Republican Club of
417 East Eighty-fifth street started a
petition among Yorkville residence and
business people asking the Governor to
remove the Commissioner. The York-i
vllle protestors have planned a big |
mass meeting, on a date to be an- j
nounced, under the auspices of the I
following committee appointed by the
executive committee of the club:
Joseph Goldsmith, lawyer, of 1270
Broadway, chairman; Abraham Ober,
Walter Nadolny. Lewi* Ellsworth,
Charles Kogle. Mrs. Emma Angerman
and Mts. Martha ConBtauce.
Justice lsador Wasaervogel of the
Supreme Court is a member of the Hell- j
gala Republican CIul>.
Only Wnnt Protection.
Mr. Goldsmith made It clear that
while the movement is sponsored by a
Republican club and Is directed against
a Democratic commissioner, it Is non
political in Its motives, and is deagned
solely to obtan better police protection
for Yorkviile.
The prlnelpa; complaint of the people
of Yorkviile Is that a condition verging
on panic has arisen in that section as
a result of increased danger from crim
inals since Commissioner En right abol
ished the Kast Elghty-eightn street po
lice station.
Mr. Goldsmith issued the following
statement:
? The petition which was started In
circulation to-day Is nirected to Gov.
Miller, and asks for the immediate re
moval of Commissioner Knright. It
probably will be presented to the Gov
ernor next week when he is expected to
be in tills city attending an important
meeting.
"About three months ago the Yorkviile
Chamber of Commerce adopted a r esolu
tion protesting the closing of the Kast
Eighty-eighth street police station, which
was forwarded to Mayor Mylan. A
month later Commissioner Knright ap
peared before a public meeting held by
the Chamber of Commerce a', which he
attempted to Justify his action. At that
time he said that the closing of the Bta
ion house had not worked any hardship
on the citizens, as the same police ef
ficiency was being maintained. At that
time we as an organisation, were ad
vised by Hugo Klem. chalrcan of that
meeting, to lie low for the present.
<?('0111 in Ion loner Inr flic I r nt."
?"Conditions relative to holdups and
crimes have become too alarming for
this organization to longer withhold from
aggressive action. At a meeting held on
Tuesday evening of our committee It was
voted to draw up the ptitlon and launch
an aggressive campaign that will bring
about either a restoration of the Eighty
eighth street station or the removal of
Commissioner Knright.
"The petition circulated directly
charges the Tolice Commissioner with
Inefficiency. It sets forth, in addition
to his abolishment of the pol.ee station,
that he has weakened police protection
by abolishing old systems put In vogue
by his predecessors, which we demand
be re-'.ored until the lawless eleme.it Is
curbed.
"Crime In this district, which Include*
a residential section In which live on Its
Fifth avenue border a group of citizens
whose wealth will exceed $'<00,000,000,
has increased 50 per cent, since the po
lice station was abolished.
"Hundreds o? sforekeepers hove visited
this committee In the last ten days and
asked for advice. Their fear nf holdups
has reached the stage of a panic. They
are now contemplating as a par in l
means of protection the forming of a
vigilance committee, and we have ad
vised them to do so. pending our en
deavor to secure the removal of Com
missioner Enrigiit, who is Incapable and
wjio has an utter disregard (or the pub
lic at large.
"Vigilante Kuml Already- $il,nnO."
"As public spirited citizens of the
Sixteenth Assembly district we have
taken the Initiative and Intend to Ugh?
the campaign to a finish, We have
$2,500 already subscribed as a nucleus
of n fund to wage the campaign.
"We Intend to make Impossible the
present conditions whereby a section ot
the city In which 200,ooo people live
shall he without its own police precinct.
At present the citizens tf this district
must depend on the police from the Kast
Sixty-seventh and East 104th street sta
tions for protection."
It was stated that hundreds of mer
chants, bankers and professional men
and wealthy residents of the Fifth and
C'ontlnned on Page Two.
Four Young Men Receivc
Jail Terms of 137 Years
SENTENCES aggregating 137
years were imposed yester
day by Judge Kleakley in
White Plains 011 three young men
who pleaded guilty to robbery and
one guilty of grand larceny.
r?eo Borkowsky, indicted on
seven counts for holdups and
carrying .i revolver, got seven in
determinate sentences, extending
from forty to sixty years. Charles
Cannon, robbery, got seven years;
James Smith, indicted on four
counts, got from twenty to forty
years; while Melford Schuster, on
three grand larceny charges, got
fifteen to thirty years.
LAW STIRS STATE
Demand for Copies of Statute
Exlinust Supply and More
Will Be Printed.
HOPE FOR THE DESERTED
Aet Provides Second Ground
on Which Divorce May Be
Granted in New York.
Special Difpatrh In The New Took Hctju.d
Xpw York Tlrrnld llurntii. I
Albany. April V j
Letters at the rate of nearly 100 i
day are pouring into the office of the
Secretary of State asking for Infor
mation about the so-called Enoch
Arden law.
The bill, which was introduced by
Senator Swift of Buffalo and signed
last week by Gov. Miller, makes it
possible for a. person to obtain a di
vorce if the husband or wife has been
absent from home for five years. On
the assumption that the absentee is
dead a petition for a dissolution of
marriage can be granted by a Su
preme Court Justice.
The demand for copies of the bill
has exhausted the supply in the
docket rooms of the Senate and As
sembly. and it may have to be re
printed. Secretary of State Lyons is
preparing to have a big supply printed
for Iris office.
"Never before has there been such a
demand for Information about a new
law," he xald to-day. "About 30 per
cent, of the requests we are now re
ceiving are for matrimonial or hous
ing laws but the popularity of the new
divorce law is far ahead of any other."
Th* lively Interest in the law, which
provides a second ground for divorce.
Is an indication that there are thou
sands of deserted husbands and wives
in New York State who want to enter
Into a new matrimonial venture.
The new statute will bring solace to
thousands of deserted husbands and
wives whose marital partners walked
out of their lives more than five years
ago never to return.
The new law reads as follows;
"A party to a marriage may present
to the Supreme Court a duly verified
petition showing that the husband or
wife of such party has absented him
self or herself for five successive years
then last past without being knowr; to
such party to be living during that time;
that such partv believes such husband
or wife to be dead; and that a diligent
search has been made to discover evi- i
dence showing that such husband or
wife is living, and no surh evidence has
been found.
"The court shall thereupon by order
require no.tlce of the presentation and
object of such petition to be published
In the same manner as required for th>
publication of a summons In an action
in the Supreme Court where service of
such summons Is made by publication;
such notice shall be directed to the hus
band or wife who has so absented him
self or herself, and shall state the time
and place of the hearing upon surh pe- ;
tltlon. which time shall be not less than
twenty days after the completion of the
publication of such notice; and If the
coort. after the filing of proof of the
proper publication of said notice and
after a hearing and proof taken. Is,
satisfied of the truth of alt the allega
tlorrw contained In the petltfon. It may 1
make an order dissolving such mar- ,
riage. This act shall take effect Im
mediately."
PORTUGUESE AVIATORS
AT CAPE VERDE ISLES
Successfully End Second Leg
of Flight to Brazil.
Sr VlNCHNT. ("api-- Verde Inland*.
April ."> (Associated Press)'The Portu
guese ?via torn Who are attempting a
flight ar row" tli" Atlantl from Lisbon
U> Bread Arrived here thla afternoon
at 6:20 o'clock from Lax Palmaa,
Canary Islands. Ttley left, Glntfo Bay.
near Las I'-ilmae. at 8:30 o'clock thin
morning They thus completed 'he
second Icr of their Journey of nbout
700 milc?. The first leg from I.labon
to the Canaries *?? about 1.000 miles.
The airmen reported a very satla
fartory flight. Tliey were Accorded a
One reception by Hie people. A* yet the
time of their departure for the third
leg of the Journey ha* not been fixed.
i?!*n<>.v. Anri! r. (Associated Press*.?
The arrival of the Portuguese aviators
i'apt Coutlnho etui i'apt. Sacadura. at
the i a/ie Verde Islands was the cause
of Rrcat popular enthusiasm In Lisbon.
To-morrow the h\droalrplane tv HI
proceed to the isian I of Sao Thlago
(Santiago). one of thi Cape Verde
group, and on the following day I#
weather condltlona are satisfactory will
continue Its flight to the Island of K< r
nando Noronha. off the coast of Braall.
a distance of 1,I??0 miles acrwes the At
lantic. ,
AX OVER HIS 1IKAI)
Signing District Attor
ney's Two Rills Tells
Him He Will Hold
Him Responsible.
GIVEN ALL Hi: ASkKl>
Allowed Si\ Kxtra Assis
tants to I us u i*o Speedy
Trial of Bandits.
BAIL SCANDAL DENOUNCED
i Told to Work With Police in
Putting Stop to Epidemic
of Law Breaking".
Special Dispatch to Tub Nrw Yn?K
New York llrrald Bamit. '
April A. (
District Attorney Banton of New
i York county now has all the powers
he sought from the Legislature to
bring criminals of the city to speedy
trial and punishment. In signing
two of the "crime wave" bills to-day
Gov. Miller sent to the District At
1 torney a letter declaring that the re
sponsibility is up to him to make a
| quick disposition of pending indict
i ments so that admission to bail will
"no longer be equivalent to an ac
quittal."
The new laws permit the New York
District Attorney to make up his own
calendar, which function had been
performed by the General Sessions
Court, and add six additional Assist
ant District Attorneys, giving him
twenty assistants at salaries of $12.
000 for three, $10,000 for eight and
! $7,500 for nine.
The Governor made it plain to the
District Attorney that with the co
operation of the Police Department
Mr. Banton. under the new laws, can
do much to make New York safe from
1 gangs of criminals, and he declared
he would know whom to hold respon
sible if it were not made safe. The
Governor has the power to remove
both the District Attorney and the
New York Police Commissioner.
Gov. Miller's letter to District At
torney Banton follows:
(?ov. Miller'? Warning.
All of the measures which you
have requested to enable you speed
ily to bring law breakers in your
county to justice have now l>een
provided. Provision has been mad*
for two extra criminal parts of the
Supreme Court and for two addi
tional parts of the General Session*,
the increase of your staff by six ad
ditional assistants has been author
ized and you have been given the
power to control the moving of the
trial of indictments.
The responsibility is now upon
you to make speedy disposition of
the pending indictments to the end
that admission to bail shall no
longer be equivalent to an acquittal^
as is often tlie case. With an effi
cient police force properly directed,
an adequate number of courts and an
energetic, efficient and courageous
enforcement of the criminal law
by the prosecuting officer there is
no reason why New York should
not be a safe place in which to live
You can do much to make it safe.
The Police Department can do
much to make It safe. Together
you can make It safe. We shall
now know whom to hold responsl
| hie if it is not made safe.
Gov. Miller said the calendar hill re
stored to the District Attorney of New
York county the control over the trial
of indictments possessed by all other
District Attorneys in the State. Tt
was transferred to the General Ses
sions Judges in 1910, the Governor
said, to correct grave abuses.
Mfnuof of flail Cases.
"However," he added, "there can he
no doubt that the power to move the
trial of Indictments by the District At
torney will irreatly facilitate his work
In the preparation of cases. The present,
delay in bringlmr ball cases to trial, du<?
to the number of pending Indictments, is
a menace to personal security In the
city of New York. Men under halt are
continuing their criminal practices al
most with impunity, ss a second offense
msy not greatly aggravate their punish
ment for the first tlrpe If they are ever
convicted of It, and the delay lessens
the chances of conviction. The memory
of witnesses fades. Witnesses dlsni>
pear. The desir? of complainants to
prosecute wanes, and sometimes, upon
sufficient inducement, disappears. More
over, the deterrent efTect upon law
breakers the first reason for punish
ment, loses Its force If too long a delay
ensues between tile offense and the pun?
Ishment.
"The matter of paramount Importance
at the moment Is the speedy disposition
of pending Indictments. I sin endeavor
ing to give the District Attorney every
needed faclflty to bring lawbreakers to
prompt Justice. The responsibility will
then l?e upon him to produce results, for
whi? h he will h?? held accountable.
"I therefore spprove this bill. When
the present condition has been remedied
it will be a simple matter to amend the