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New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Bank Robbers Get
Maximum erms
Day After Capture
Two Seized When Posse
Surrounds Milltown In
stitution After 4 Bandits
Stack Up $4,000 i'm Loot

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Dec 21.--
Jersey Justice" struck swiftly to-day
at the two bandits captured by q
posse last night while, with two con-
federates, they we're robbng the First
National Bank of Milltown, village
four miles from this city.
Frank Vorhees and Walter Watson,
the former known in New Brunswick
as "Sailor Boy" and the latter also
known to the police by several aliases,
were arraigned before Judge Peter f.
Daily in the Middlesex County Court
this afternoon within fifteen hours
after their arrest and, after pleading
guilty to robbery, were sentenced to
from four years and eight months to
seven years each in Trenton prison at
hard labor.
This was the limit sentence with the
exception of fine, which could not be
imposed because the men pleaded
guilty An effort by Frank P. Coan,
counsel for the prisoners, to plead for
clemency because both Vorhees and
Watson served in France was com
plete failure.
1t was announced by the authorities
after the hearing that Vorhees is
destined TO spend many years in
PRISON There are eight othc, indict-
monts for burglary and theft hanging
over him and dctainer will be placed
on him at Trenton, so that hc can be
brought back here for trial after his
term expires. lie also is wanted BY
thc police Of other cities.
g. ',cr who guards the plant
of tho Mich pliD Tire COmpany 4oNui
last n:gnl tnat bricks in the rear wall
of the First National Bank had beer
removed and that burglars were a
work inside. Thirty citizens, armed
with shotguns, rifles, rcvolvers. axes
and pitchforks, surrounded the bank
Ihc bandits leapeG through window
There were four of them, and the,
made for the fence in the .ear A
,heir pursuers opened fire on them
Voorhees, and Watson surrendered.
J The marauders, after rinins the safe
hal piled currency, coin and bonds t
She value of $50 441 in the center O
t tie foor, preparatory to carrying
of
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Martens 10 Surrender
To Government Ian. 3
WASHINGTON Dec 21-rn

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-Ludwig c.
A. X, Martens, so-caled ambassador"
to this government from Soviet Russia,
whose deportation was decided upon
last wees by Secretary of Labor Viii
s9n, will be surrendered to the Depart
ment Of Labor on January 8, Charles
Rccht, his counsel, advised Department
Of Labor officials to-day.
The deportation order will be issued
on January and steps will be taken
Immediately to institute habeas corpus
proceedings t. gain the liberty Of
Martens pending appeal from the
deportation order.
Attorney Recht conferred tod ~
with Immigration Inspector A. p Schell
md other officials of the Department
Of Labor. and agreed upon the day for
surrendering Martens and institutin., :,
haheas corpus proceedings
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

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gency investigation" In these jobs
patrolmen are permitted to "try their
hand" at detective work, The expert
cnce of the bureau showing that four
patrolmen usually can bring the re-
suits of one skilled detective.
Many Do Clerical Duty
To clerical duties in the Detective
Bureau or in the offices at Headquar-
ters.
To duty in storehouses and the
home service division, where patrol
men are called upon to count, assort
and pack various articles used in the
department.
To the automobile and bicycle re-
rair shops, where patrolmen expert
ment in mechanical work in lieu Of
skilled mechanics who were to have
been appointed under the civil service
Ian of Commissioner Woods.
To repair traffic stanchions, most of
which are declared to be out of re-
Pair.
To perform the duties Of laborers,
cleaners, painters, carpenters and
electricians.
How many patrolmen are to be as
signed to any especial detail" job, how
long they are to remain on the JOB
end what constitutes such q job are
questions decided by the department.
heads. Some Of the Especial details"
are declared to be indispensable to
the conduct of the department, Dur
never in its history, it is said, have
so many patrolmen been thought nee
cssary for this kind of work. Under
Commissioner Woods recommenda-
tons for the assignment of specially
qualified men to do certain jobs were
honored by him.
Under Mr. Enright recommendations
must not show a preference for any
particular patrolman. The selection
Of the man is question which Mr..
Enright must decide personally. 1t is
declared that police officials frequently
find assigned to them men for whom
they have made no request and for
whom they have no work.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

men could be found and that Enright
could fnd them and handle them.
When the request came before the
Board of Aldermen it was put over
until December 2s, the Republican
members declaring that it was con-
fession Of incompetency for the Police
Commissioner to ask for more men
now.
When a request for an appropriation
of $1,000 for gasolene for the newly
created police flying squadron came
before the board Alderman Abraham
Bcckerman retorted:
at isn't gasolene the Police Depart
ment needs. It's new Police Com
missioner"
Hylan-Enright Regime Assailed
The Tammany members of the board,
under the leadership of Alderman Col
lins, tried to prevent the reading of the
TWO indictments of the Hylan- -Enright
regime. but their introducers, amid the
applause of the visitors in the gallery,
insisted on the reading of the resolu
lions. Alderman Falconer's resolution,
which was read first, follows:
"Whereas, Richard Enright, Police
Commissioner of this city, has lost the
confidence of the men under him on the
police force and of the citizens of this
city; and.
"Whereas, for this and other reasons
y grave crisis exists in the affairs and
the administration of the Police De
oartment; and,
"Whereas, The citizens of this city
have become so aroused at the ever-in-
creasing list of atrocous and appalling
crimes of murder and violence, and the
boldness and openness Of their commits
sion, not only on the streets but in OF
fee buildings, hotels, apartments and
residences, in districts heretofore i'm
mune from such crimes and during
busy hours of the day which ordinarily
make the commission OF such crimes,
without the immediate capture of the
criminal. a practical impossi bility, that
they have called special meetings of
patriotic and civic associations to con-
slider means for the defense of their
lives and property by armng them
selves and their employees in other
ways, and for the purpose Of bringing
authorities to furnish adequate police
projections; and,
"Whereas, The morale of the police
force has broken down, owing In large
measure to the fact that it is suffer
ing from the influence of politics,
favoritism and the qualification of per-
sonal dislikes and grudges, an infu-
ence deliberately introduced into the
department by Commissioner Enright,
and that merit, efficiency and devotion
to duty alone can no longer be relied
upon by the men on the force for
securing recognition and promotion as
was the case under Commissioner
Woods; and
"Whereas, Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady
Fifty Deputy Police Comm ssioner
rourageously resigned that position for
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

Copsuif srlect direct1ry Of husi,rxs
Cards tor yovr wants apten Ing cs!ly In
ne want nd csiusnns Of Ius Tr!bune
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
1000 Favored
Police LOll i'm
Special Berths

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New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
E,x-Av;atiOn Lieutenant
Gets ; Years as Thief

Edgar B. Laferty, at one time a lieu
tenant in the aviation section of the
United States navy, and more recently
addicted to the use Of automobiles that
did not belong to him, pleaded guilty
yesterday in the United States District
Court to an Indictment charging him
with having violated the Federal motor
vehicle law by bringing automobiles into
New York from other states and selling
them.
Judge 4. N. Hand sentenced him to
serve three years in the Federal neni-
Tertiary at Atlanta. The Judge was at
first inclined to impose (, 20 years
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Minute Men Formed
To Curb Crime Waue

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.--
Fort Washington, near here,
where George Washington once
had his headquarters in the
troublesome days of his time, is
arming again. Now it is to
battle against crime that has
come to trouble the peaceful set
tlement. Following a. series of
attacks and robberies, the male
inhabitants have formed them
selves into minute men," and
also have raised $1,000 to organ
ize a police force, the first the
township has ever had.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

mer superior officer, Lieute nant COM
mander Aynar Johnson. q stock hroLar
OF lis Broadway, and con rinced b;,,
that he, Laferty, was innocent lobn
son put up the money for the bond r..
next day Laferty disappeared. "
The broker thereupon proceeded :,
spend $1,000 in having Laferty advor
tised throughout the country. This INK
licity served its purpose, and Iafertv
was captured in Cleveland on Deem
ber l6.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

sentence. but when Laferty said that he
was being bounded by the District At
torney Judge Hand gave him three years.
Laferty was arrested on September "a.
Three policemen arrested him and COM
mented favorably on the struggle
Laferty put up by way of objecting to
arrest. He was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Hitchcock and held
in $4,000 bail
As soon as the amount of his bail was
fixed. Laferty got in touch with his for
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
PERMITS TO AID FLYERS
 IN CHIHUAHUA
Mexicans Delay Order for American Aviators to
 Cross Boundary

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Jan. 29.- Several aviators of the Eighth aero squadron at McAllen, Texas. tonight were awaiting permission from the Mexican government to cross the in- ternational boundary and carry oil and gasoline 10 Lieutenants F. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes, who made a forced landing 30 miles below the Zapata county, Texas, border yester- day Maj. Torres, acting commander of Mexican troops in the Matamoras district, telegraphed the MeXican war department today recommending such permission be granted.
 Grimes and Davis still are at Guer- rero, a Mexican village l40 miles west of Matamoras, according to lat est advices at Fort Brown. It was said the two flyers probably would remain until they are able to bring out their machine, the landing of which was forced by exhaustion of the supply of gasoline after the aVia- tors had become lost in a fog. They are not prisoners, except in a tech nical sense, it was said at Fort Brown, and are being shown every courtesy by Mexican officials.
 The rescue" squadron planned to proceed to Guerrero late today, but failure of Major Torres to receive a response from Mexico City to his recommendation delayed the pro gram. It was hoped the flight might he made early tomorrow.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
TO SUE
 WATER USERS

PHOENIX, Jan. 29.-Difference of opinion between the state authorities and the Salt River Valley Water Us CTS association concerning the legal existence of a contract for the asso- citation to furnish the state with a certain amount of horsepower at Sacaton, for transmission to the Florence penitentiary. will go to the courts in the near future for deter imitation, according to announcement today by Governor Thomas E. Camp bell.
 The governor called in F. J. K. Me Bride, assistant attorney general, for a conference concerning the contract and instructed Mcbride to proceed with the measures necessary for car rying the case through the courts.
 At present the state is deriving power for the Florence penitenuary from an old steam plant. The need for the electric power, contracted for is said to be urgent at this time as the state is not inclined to rebuild the steam plant when it has what the authorities consider a proper claim for electric power on a contract basis The water association claims that the contract is officially dead.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
RAILROAD MEN DECLARE BILL TO RETURN ROADS TO OWNERS
 IS CONSPIRACY OF CAPITAL
President of Trainmens Union Makes Yelled Threat of Great Strike If Cummins Bill Becomes Law If the Government Acts As It Did in Settlement of the
 Coal Strike; Opposes Arbitration

NEW YORK, Jan. 29-Direct charges that certain railroads" were planning to reduce wages as soon as the roads were returned to private ownership, were made by Timothy Shea, acting president of the Brother hood of Locomotive FiTemen and En- ginemen, speaking at the 2Oth an nual meeting of the National Civic association here today. MT. Shea denounced the Cummins bill now be fore the senate, and joined with Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. in an attack on compulsory arbitration. Referring to the Cummins bill, he said:
 Calls Bill "conspiracy"
 "This bill is the outcome of a con- spiracy to reduce wages below their present inadequate level when the roads are returned to private owner ship"
 The alleged conspirators, he con tinued, proposed to make a cut ln wages, and if a strike followed, at tempt it's suppression by wholesale prosecutions.
 We have positive evidence, fur
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30

with the same conditions.
 ''In announcing the new ruling, Di- rector Chomeley-Jones desires to ep- phasize the fact that war risk insur- ance may now be made payable to any of the following new and en- larged group of beneficiaries:
 Parent, grandparent, step-parent wife tor husband), child, stepchild, adopted child, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, broth CT through adoption, sistes through adoption. step-brother, step-sister, parent through adoption, uncle. aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in-law, sister inlaw, persons who have stood in the relation of a parent to the insured for a period of one year or more prior to his enlistment or induction, or the child or children of such per sons, parent, grardparent, step-par- ent, or parent through adoption of the insured's wife or husband.
 War risk term insurance may be converted into United States govern ment insurance, now or at any time within five years after the end of the war.
 Converted insurance may now be paid in a lump sum at death, if such method of payment is designated by the insured"
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
Scientist Says Venus May Be Flirting
 With Wireless Operators on Earth,
 But Mars Is Too Cold to Send Signals

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-If wire less messages are being received on the earth from some other planet, as suggested by Wm. Marconi, it is not Mars sending the signals. but most probably Venus, says pr. c. G. Abbot, director of the Smithsonian Astro. physical observatory and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian institu tion
 Dr. Abbot makes no claim that the mysterious wireless signals do come from another planet. but says if they do Mars is eliminated as a possibility because known conditions on that planet probably would not permit the existeace of any form of living crea ture.
 Tn the first place." says Dr. Alb bot. lon account of the greater dist ance, nearly two and one-half times less radiation from the sun reaches Mars than reaches the earth. It is probably nearly 100 per cent colder on the average on that distant planet than on the earth. Knowing what low temperatures occure on this earth in the course of the winter sea son, it will readily be realized what 100 degrees colder would mean. In the second place, even if any form of life could withstand that degree of
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
Farmer Service Men May Reinstate War
 Risk Insurance Until July 1, 1920, By
 The Payment of Two Monthly Premiums

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Former service men may reinstate their war risk term insurance at any time be- fore July 1, 1920. under new ruling of the bureau of war risk insurance, announced today by Director Cholme- ley-Jones.
 Applicants will be reinstated, re- gardless of how long their policies have Iapsed or how long the former service have been discharged, pro vided two monthly premiums ocean pany the application and the appli- cant is in as good health as he was when his policy was issued.
 In announcing the new ruling, the bureau issued the following state ment:
 ''The new ruling is the most i'm pcrtant liberalization of war risk in- surance since the passage of the Sweet bill, and is designed for the special benefit of service men who failed to reinstate their insurance prior to the new law and who have been discharged more than IS months. Men who nave been discharged less than IS months may still reinstate their lapsed term insurance at any time within IS months following the month of discharge by complying
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30

nished by our local agents, of certain railroads whose managers have said that they would only continue the present wage scales during federal control" declared the speaker.
 Denies High Fay
 Denying the statement of a speaker at the opening session, that the rail road men were the highest paid class of workers in the country, and that one engineer received S25O monthly, MT Shea declared that the man might have received this amount, but that no would have had to work IA hours a day, 30 days a month, to get it. Wages have increased approxi- mately 45 per cent for this class of workers, he said, whereas, the cost of living has increased by 90 per cent.
 Makes Strike Threat
 "There is no danger of strike on American railroads unless it is pro- voked by such legislation as the Cum mins bill or such an attitude of the government as in the coal strike" the speaker said in conclusion.
 MT. Gompers, defending organized labor, asserted that the unions had done more to prevent strikes than any other agency.
 "If absence of strikes meant con- mercial prosperity he added, "then China ought to st\nd at the head of civilization.
 That which the employer con cedes is almost invariably that which the emplOye presses home hardest. Only those are heard who make them selves heard. This question of re- pressing the aspirations of the work CTS will not succeed. The citizen ship of our republic will refuse to al- low it. For it would be better to sui fer the inconveniences attending in- dustria1 strife, than uproot the prin- cipIes of the republic. Any attempt, particularly by legal means, will not only fail, but will be the cause of many disputes which otherwise might be avoiad."
 Speaking of the proposal for a na- tional board of adjustment, supple mented by regional boards, as sug- gested at the presidents second in- dustrial conference in Washington, MT. Gompers said that political changes would have so great effect upon these boards that their worth would be destroyed.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
GLASSDECLARES EUROPE FANS MUST WORK THEIR OWN Fl FINANCIAL W [ AL Secretary Makes Plain That Government Will Extend
 No More Credit ALLIES HAVE POWER
 TO RIGHT EXCHANGE Disarmament, Work, Proper Taxation Among Remedies
 For Situation
ALLIES HAVE POWER
 TO RIGHT EXCHANGE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. - The United States treasury does not look with favor upon certain features of the proposed international conference, recently called by coterie of na- tionally known financiers and com mercial leaders in an effort to lead the world out of the financial and commercial chaos into which it was dragged by the war.
 Secretary Glass declared tonight, in letter to committee of the chamber of commerce of the United States which has sought a govern ment expression on the meeting, that such a conference would serve "tO cause confusion and revive hopes, doomed to disappointment, of further government loans"
 No More Loans
 With a note of some finality, Mir Glass set forth the governments s policy with respect to furnishing credits stating that the treasury ''is opposed to government control over foreign trade and finance and even more opposed to private control. It is convinced that the credits required for the economic restoration must come through private channels" In this respect, this government fears the proposed conference would mean many Europeans would assume that the United States was about to shoul- der more of their burdens, MT. Glass explained
 ''If the chamber of commerce of the United States (to which were left details of the conference calD considers it advisable and desirable to destignate representatives to at tend an unofficial conference" MT. Glass said. "the treasury denartment does not offer objection, provided the scope and character and Limitations of such a conference, as we'll as the impossibility of United States govern ment action, are clearly understood But there are numerous suggestions contained In the memorial sent broad cact by the leaders which are clearly not appropriate for con SideratiOn such as cancellation of some or any obligations of foreign governments held by the United States, or even the deferring of obligations of foreign governments to liens created in favor of loans hereafter made for recon struction purposes"
 MT. Glass directs attention to diff ferences, which he defined, in the formal call for the conference as is sued here, and in several foreign
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EXPECT SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM PERSH|NG II
 BIS 5 [ |
Look for Big Crowd from Warren District to
 Greet General

The special train for residents Of the Warren district who will parti- cipate in the celebration for General John J. Pershing at Douglas will leave Bisbee at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, Lowwel at 10:40 and War ren at 10:45, arriving. at Douglas at 11:45 a. m. The returning train will leave Douglas at o'clock. The fare for the round trip is $324, and re- servations may be made at the War ren District Commercial club or by telephone No. 112.
 The celebration tomorrow at Doug las is almost in the nature of a south ern Arizona affair and every citizer of the district should be on hand to welcome the hero of the entire coun try, Black Jack, as he is known to the troops who served under him The program will give ample oppor tunity for everyone to both see and hear the commander-in-chief of the American armies in France, the mar whose name has been on every tongue since the first contingent of the A E. F. went overseas.
 General Pershing may have mes sage of peculiar interest to this com munity and it behooves everyone tc go and hear what the great soldier has to say. As a man whose name will be in every school history in the land no one should miss the opportun ity of gaining some first hand knowl edge of him.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-30
HUNGARY HANGS
 THREE IF REDS
Hired Murderers of Bella Kun Make 27 Executed
 At Budapest

BUDAPEST, Wednesday. Jan. 2S.- Three Communists were executed this morning, making total of p to date. All were duly tried and it was shown that they were responsible for mur- ders. Two of the three, named Per govic and Terebo, red guards, carried out the orders of Bela Kun, and shot two Ukrainian officers and robbed them of a large sum of gold. They then threw the bodies into the Dan ube. The officers were charged with anti-bolshevik propaganda.
 The third man executed was LadIs- las Szamuely, who was the third or three wealthy brothers, who were af- filiated with the Communists. The others two brothers committed sui eide. Ladislas had a unique history. As judge he kept an express train Of three cars waiting constantly at the depot, so that whenever occasion arose he could proceed throughout Hungary to condemn to death anti bolshevists. There were 42 illegal ex- cautions charged against him, though the exact number for which he was responsible will never be known.
 The eAoCullOhS lOOh Pi1CC HI NAAO snow-covered courtyard of the prison at Budapest, where crowds of friends, relatives and curious minded gathered. There were several hundred civilians and officers within the courtyard and many crowded without. They were for the most part sufferers from the bolshevik regime. So they came not as idlers, but with grim faces to see justice done.
 It is estimated that the bolsheviki executed more than 600 of those who opposed them. There are now await ing trial 450 terrorists.
 The government today demanded for the seventh time that Austria give up Bela Kun, the former Hungarian Communist leader, and others charged with murder, larceny and forgery.