The sun., 1919-04-20
DAILY WARNS COPS
+. :.oF CEPROBERS
Orders Inspectors to Close Lid
as,Outside Investigators
Are Busy.
HITS RESEARCH BUREAU
Wallstcin's Men Probably the
Ones Who Are Agitating
Headquarters.

John DAILY. chief inspector Of the Po-
lice Department, sent to the heads Of
the seventeen Inspection districts on
April a confidential order admonish-
ing them to be particularly vtgilant, as
the Bureau Of Municipal Research was
about to start an investigation. The or
der, which leaked out yesterday, follows !:
TO Commanding oncers Of all Inspec-
tion Districts:
Gambling and vice.
Information has been received
that the Bureau of Municipal Re-
search is about to launch a campaign
against the department, especially by
checking up the gambling and vice
conditions You are directed to be
particularly vigilant and prevent
them from utilizing some Of the vi
cious elements OF the city to frame
UP conditions for their purpose.
You will be held to a strict ac-
countability for the existence of vice
or gambling of any kind within your
Jurisdiction which may be discovered
by any outside agency and against
which you should have taken proper
police action.
Keep this matter strictly conf
Dental
"Notify managers and owners Of
all garages that their licenses depend
upon them keeping their places clean
from gambling and vice.
by direction OF the Police COM
missioner.
John DAILY, Chief Inspector
Bureau Denies Charge.
AZ the office of the Bureau Of Mu-
nicipal Research. 81 Broadway, THE SUN
was told that the bureau had not started
or contemplated any sort Of an investl-
cation or Campaign against the Po-
lice Department It was said that in
Quiries into criminal conditions were not
part OF the bureaus work, and that In
addition 1t had purposely refrained from
making any investigation OF any branch
OF the Hylan administration, s 1t
would work out by itself"
On the chance that Commissioner En-
right, who caused Inspector DAILY to issue
the warning. might have mistaken some
other agents for those of the Research
Bureau. other civic bodies were asked II
they were peering into the Police Depart
nlent. DIR. William H. Allen. formerly
director of the Bureau Of Municipal Re
sarch. now director Of the Institute for
Public Service, made a disclaimer. So did
Frederick II. Within. secretary Of the
Committee OF Fourteen. which for many
years has published an annual report on
vice conditions but which, said DR..
Within. was not now doing or planning
anything unusual
A fair guess seems to be that the
-
Fight to be sent out by the Bureau OF
Municipal Research were working in -
half of Leonard NJ. Wallstein. counsel 10
the Good Government Committee of the
Citizens Union. Brother Wallstein has
been scrutinizing the police for some
time, and a few days ago made public
his first criticism. directed at the sub
stitutlon OF the card index for the squeal
book in which the record Of reported
offences was kept under. previous ad-
ministrations OF the department. II will
be noted that Inspector Days warning
was written April 8, about a fortnight
before Mr.. Wallstein published his
statement
Commissioner Enright is In Atlantic
City. Nobody at headquarters processes
TO know where Inspector Daily Is. He
has not been in his Office for nearly A
week. He IL on a vacation; he Is Ill
at home he is in New Orleans attending
a convention of police chiefs; he Is abou,
TO retire. This indicates the variety oil
speculation as to his whereabouts.
May BE Starting Backnre.
Some of the Headquarters gossips-
yes, there are still such in existence
believe there is connection between
Inspector Days order and the forma,
ton. announced on April IL, OF the
bureau of special service of the Police
Department. with John NJ. Shaw at it:
head as a special Deputy Commissioner
1t was officially said that this new
bureau would give time and attention
20 the vicious and criminal element whit
Are disloyal to tho Government ant
who are seeking to destroy law ant
order"
1t was to be a volunteer bureau, com
posed OF men of high standing. Severa
well known business men received q
circular letter asking them to Join, ant
IN some cases they replied that frs
they wanted to know what the idea was
No further information has been giveI
10 the public. 1t was assumed tina
there was going to be a drive agains
Bolshevism.
One police official said yesterday
however. that he thought that the new
bureau would keep a counter check OIL
the conditions which the bureau OF nu
nlcipal research was supposed to be In
vestigating, 80 that II the research peo
pie made an adverse report Mr.. Enrigh
would be able to display offsetting evl
dence. This is all guesswork, however
The only certainty is that Inspecto
DAILY Issued the warning and that tn
very name OF the Bureau OF Municipa
Research Is anathema to Mayor Hylan.
g.. A statement rather favorable to thu
Police Department was made yesterda!
by Charles A. Beard, director OF tn
Bureau of Municipal Research. He salt
regarding Mr.. Wallstein's criticism tina
II would be just as easy to manipulate
Q ''squeal hook" as a card index System
Of recording complaints of crime. Boil
systems. he added, admit OF dishones
practices. and their value depend
equally upon the honesty OF the ad
ministration.
SOLDIER ENDS LIFE AT HOME