New-York tribune., 1918-07-12

on the board of directors, and, accord
ing to Mr.. Delahanty, the business Of
the institution will be conducted in
such a way as to protect all depositors.
The following were Mr.. Palmer's ap-
pointees j. A. Bower, vcc-president
of the Liberty National Bank; Frank S.
Hastings, banker, of 80 Broadway, who
was executor of the will of Grover
Cleveland; William r. Barbour, II law
yer; John +. Calhoun, q real estate
operator of The Bronx, and Ernest
Stauf1en, an officer of the Liberty Ma
tional Bank.
Charges Not Disclosed
Neither Chief De Woody nor Mr..
Sprague would make any statement as
TO the charges against the arrested
men, except to say that all were being
detained as enemy aliens pending an
investigation. That the prisoners are
considered men of Importance was in
dicated by the fact that they are being
held in different penal institutions
whore communication with one another
would be impossible.
Printer, looked upon as the most
dangerous man of the quartet, is held
in the Raymond Street Jail; Gomary
and Szekcly are detained in different
parts of the Essex County Jail, at New
Mercer County Jail, at Trenton.
All the prisoners are we'll connected
in official hungarian circles. Since the
outbreak of the war there have been
many rumors concerning the part
played by Printer in the Teutonic
system Of intrigue which was spread
over the country. In December of 1913
he fought pistol duel with Emil Ter
kowitz, a Hungarian government off
cial, in Budapest. After the men had
empted their pistols neither was in
jured, and their seconds stopped hos
tilities.
Vouched for Rintclen
When Captain Franz Rintelen, who
now is in the Tombs after his convic-
tion for conspiracy to blow up the
Wclland Canal, came to New York,
Printer vouched for him and intro
duced the Prussian espionage agent
around the city under the alias Of Han
sen. Later, prior to the time the un-
dersea merchant ship Deutschland ar
rived at Baltimore, he directed that
advertisements in the name of the
Transatlantic Trust Company be put
IN Hungarian newspapers all over the
country offering to transmit money to
Hungary by the submarine. The insti-
tuition was then looked upon as Hun
garian official bank
The custodian, when he took control,
retained as directors II. Rieman Duval,
president of the American Beet Sugar
Company; Walter Luttgen, member
Of the banking firm of August Belmont
& Co.; Walter G.. Oakman, president of
the Hudson Companies and director of
other railroad properties, and II. B.
FONDA, representing the Mutual Life
Insurance Company's interests.
Last Tuesday the Alien Property
Custodian added to the directorate
Sterling W. Childs, a lawyer; William
English, vice-pres dent of the Empire
Trust Company; Henry G. Hawk, local
representative of the Post Cereal Com
pany; Alfred Smith, President of the
Board OF Aldermen; q. A. Freeman, a
former official of the Liberty National
Bank, and James A. Delehantv.
IN making the announcement of the
taking over OF the property, Mr.. Dele
hanty said the action was taken to
facilitate the work of the Alien Prop
erty Custodian. All the directors had
rendered their designations, and it was
suggested by the retiring members of
the board that those who mernly held
qualifying shares, ten shares being
necessary to qualify, be left off the
new board.
Printer and Others Dropped
AS result of this suggestion the
following directors, who had resigned.
were not retained: Or. Arpad Gerster.
August Lenssen, Morris Cukor. Gustave
Leve and President julius Pirnitzer.