Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
STATE AID ASKED
TO DOWN CRIME
Will Request Governor to
Give Defense Council
Police Control
THIEVES STILL ACTIVE
Burglar Insurance Jumps and
Philadelphians Are Hiding
Their Valuables
THIEVES STILL ACTIVE

Their aluables
Former State Representative Isadore
Stern viii confer with Governor Sproul
in Harrisburg and ask him to supply
state aid in checking gime in Phiadel-
| phia.
\ The Daix bill. restricting the sale Of
/ firearms has been referred by the state
Legislature back to committee for a
hearing because Of the protests of hard
ware merchants and dealers.
! Representative G. A. Michel. of Alle-
gheny, has introduced bill providing
ten-year penalty for automobile
thieves
/ Mr.. Stern, who was iominent in
causing the arrest of Mayor Smith and
others in the Fifth Ward election con-
spiracy, said today he was going TO ask
the Governor to place the police sitia-
tion here in the hands of the PeSlsyl-
vania council of national defense.
Can city Police Incapable
There is only one way to stamp out
| the holdups outrages and disorder in
! Philadelphia" Mr.. Stern declared, "and
that is for real detectives and police
men TO get on the job. The Philadelphia
police as now managed, are incapable
of looking after our citizens. II several
good slueths are sent there, / am sure
that the scoundrels who are responsible
for all the disorder will be run down.
| 81 have several addresses to give
| the Governor. II is useless to ask the
Philadelphia police to aid. and that is
the reason ! am here. 1t is a fact that
there was talk of bombing the homes of
prominent men several weeks before the
actual crimes were committed.
These radicals should be run down
ana then'run out of the state and coun-
Try ] am in favor of deporting them.
am sure the Governor will aid our city
and make it n place where women and
children can walk the streets in safety"
Because of insistent demands for a
nearing by hardware merchants and
dealers of small firearms, Senator Daix
moved that his bill to restrict the sale Of
the weapons be referred back to the COM
mlttee. to give dealers chance to ap-
pear ard present their arguments Some
minor amendments to correct the phrase
ology of the bill might be made he
| said.
The Neary bill, whieh is similar in its
| provisions to the Daix bill, eXcept that
| II requires an applicant for a revolver
/ or small arms to get a license from the
sheriff instead cf the police. was amend
ed and given a second reading
The Michel bill defines auto thievery
as felony. and the extreme penalty
or ten years would apply to any person
knowingly implicated in a theft 1t is
much more severe than the bill intro
duced by Representative Cox, of this
city along similar lines.
fhiladelphians Hiding vaIuabIes
Thousands of PhiIadelphians are hid
ing their vaiuables in safe places. ac-
ctrdng TO the banks of the city. which
announce largely increased demand
for safe-deposit boxes Prevalence Of
crime and The Liberty Loans are held
Jointly responsible for the demand,
Burglar insurance also has taken a
Jump. according TO several companies
Payroll messengers, bank runners and
wealthy men and women are the prin-
clpal holders of the new policies
Automobile policies were boosted yes
terdaN 100 per cent in price.
During the services in the Walnut
street Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
was learned today, a sneak thief
entered the choir room and stole n fur
coat valued AT $3.50 belonging to Mrs
Maybele Addison. The theft was re-
ported by the Rev. A. j. MacCuuum.
pastor of the church.
, Shot at BY Highwayman
]. @. Johnson, of 1927 Cedar avenue,
: reported to the police that a highway
man fired a shot through the windshield
of his automobile because he refused to
stop when commanded. The bullet mar
rowly missed his head. The attempted
hold-up occurred on Fitzwater street
near SEVENTH
[ Bernard Goldberg, of 1853 st. AL
bans street reported today that he
was held mp at Fifth and Market streets
about o'clock this morning by a man
in uniform, who asked him for a
quarter. The man walked down Fifth
street with him, he alleges, and at Wal
nut pointed what appeared to be a re-
volver at him from the pocket OF his
coat and demanded SS, which Goldberg
gave him The man fed
, A sneak thief entered the home of
II. D. Hauffier, 17iO North Twenty ninth
street. while the family was at supper
. last night according TO a report made
! TO the police today, and stole four over
coats, a smoking jacket and other wear
ing apparel that was hanging in the
hallway.
Motor bandits held up and robbed NJ
Ward, of East l.ansdowne. Of $50 at
Lansdowne avenue and Marshall road
as he stepped from trolley car last
d night. according to Chief of Police
, Munich.
skebbe HoId-up Suspects Freed
George Holt, of COllingdale, his brother
William and Joseph Geutter, of Phila-
e delpEia. were arrested and given hear
A ing before Magistrate Robinson, of Lans-
downe, in connection with the Skebie
hold-up on Saturday night, All three
4 denied any knowledge Of the robbery.
They were discharged for lack of evil
= dence. George Holt is brother-ln4law
. Of Mrs, Skebbe,
Lad Held on Arson Charge