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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Slain Burglars
Diary Reveals
$5O0,OO0 Loot
N otorious Silk Mask
Thief, Shot 20 Times in
Fight With Police, Hid
Plumber i'm Warehouse
Is Caught in Chicago
label in Trousers Read
Senator Lorimer, 1917:
Terror of North Shore
Specso, Disootch to The T1byr.

Spec:1, Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, April 26-One of the
mos remarkable criminal documents
that ever came into the hands of the
Chicago police Is being used to-day in
an effort to solve the mystery of hun
dreds of Gold Coast" burglaries. The
document consists of a diary which
was found in the possession of Harry
James, so-called master crook, who was
killed early to-day when he attempted
to escape from the town hall police
station.
James was shot twenty times and
died later at hospital. without maxine
statement. The finding of the book
led the police to a secret warehouse
where more than $4,000 in loot had
been cached. The loot consisted of ex-
pensive furs, silver plate, rings
brooches, Oriental rugs, typewriters
adding machines, personal trinkets, au-
tomobile accessories, mems and WON
ems clothing of all kinds and bric-a-
brac
Society women fiocked to identify ar.
ticles stolen from them.
The police expressed themselves as
astounded that one man could accumu-
late so great an amount of loot The
man had no police record here 1t is
believed that he is an international
crook and only lately came to Chicago
The trousers he wore bore a label
Senator Lorimer, 1911" A tailor later
identified the trousers as part of suit
he had made for Lorimer. A silk mask
found in the mans pocket leads the
police to believe the man was the
notorious "sIlk mask burglar" who ter
rorized North Shore residents for the
last six months.
The diary had list of hundreds of
prospects, The man entered homes
evidently by the judicious use of an
electric light company's inspectors
card, and noted just what each place
might yield.
He listed prospects as good" "plenty
OF Oriental rugs "jewelry," etc. The
diary was kept with minute care in
careful, cramped chirography.
The mans arrest came about through
cocksureness. He approached an Off
Ger and stopped to pass the time Of day
The policeman asked him to step over
to the police station, which James
readily agreed to do. When the police
started to search him he drew his au-
tomato and started firing. Two police
men were wounded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
|. H. T. Men to Decide
On Pay Demand To-day

Officials Of the Brotherhood of Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Employees will
meet at their headquarters, 1855 East
Forty-second Street, this afternoon to
decide whether they will demand an
increase in pay for their members.
The meeting is the sequel to a prelimi-
nary session held yesterday
Patrick j. Connolly, acting president
of the brotherhood, said that there is
no immediate prospect of a strike.
"But we can't tell what may develop -
he added.
When the strike on the I. R. T. was
settled last August the men, who had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Sugar Advanced
Cent by Refiners

NEW ORLEANS, April 2e. - The
american Sugar Refining Company to-
day announced an advance in the price
OF granulated sugar of l cent max
ing the selling price 18 p cents whole
sale and II 1-2 cents retail.
eously with the departure Of United
States District Attorney Mooney and
tour Louisiana planters for Washing
ton, where they will appear Thursday
before the Congressional Committed
investigating sugar prices in this state
and their effect on the market gen
orally.
Five ships laden with 100000 bags
OF Cuban raw sugar, averaging between
2oo and 300 pounds per bag, were at
loading
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

Bank Of Commerce of New York, will
present tomorrow
This survey will represent the expert
opinion Of leading bankers as to the
possibility Of extending further finan-
clal succor OF Europe. In view of the
stringent domestic credit situation,
many have become skeptical regarding
the prospects of important develop
ments In international finance in the
immediate future and those who still
hope that Americas trade with the Old
World may be saved from extinction
through depression in the foreign ex-
change market are waiting impa-
tiently for words of ENCOURAGEMENT
from the committee, which has been
studying the situation for many
months.
Other important reports on the rail-
road outlook, the shipping situation.
the question Of foreign commerce ana
domestic distribution will be made In
the morning, Homer L. Ferguson, pre-
ident of the Chamber Of Commerce.
will make the opening address
John H. Fahey, the New England
publisher and honorary vice-president
of the Chamber Of Commerce, at to-
days session revealed plans for the
first meeting of the new international
chamber of commerce, which will meet
in Paris during the week of June 21.
"The new world body" he said, in
his capacity as chairman of the organi-
zation- committee, will afford an op-
portunity to businessmen to remove
the obstacles to a freer movement of
commerce. 1t will give the advantage
of personal contact and show that men
in every country desire to work to-
gether for the common good.
Voice for Business Men
Business men must have some
voice in the working out Of the world
problems. Politicians and statesmen
may meet and devise plans, but the
real work Of carrying them OFT rests
on the business men and bankers
Besides the biennial sessions of the
Of the leading nations Of the world
will be asked to join, q permanent
bureau, which will probably sit in Eu-
rope, will be created and will consist
Of an executive and technical staff rep
resenting each country, whose job it
will be to continuously inform the
business men Of the home country re-
garding world trade affairs
In this connection Mr.. Fahey said in
vestigation in recent months has shown
that there is hardly a country, includ-
ing our own, with statistical material
worth the paper on which it is written
added, will direct particular attention
to financial questions. 1t is already
clear too that shipping, unfair means
of competition, including pirating of
trade marks and stealing of patents,
the tariff and the whole matter of
! legislation in one country which is un-
| fair to another will be discussed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

demanded so per cent Increases in
pay, accepted 26 per cent on the un-
Outstanding that the demand for the
other rs per cent would be submitted
to arbitration. Arbitration was post
poned pending action by the Le9isla-
ture on the jerks bills, which opened
the way for increased fares, but which
were defeated. The men believed that
If the jerks bills passed, their demand
for more pay would be allowed with
out fight
The employees feel that they never
received all that was coming to them"
SAID an official of the l. R. 4. yester-
day: while we believe they will vote
against strike, it is likely that the
executive committee of the brother
hood will recommend a vote on the de-
mand tor the 25 per cent increase,
which they failed to receive last Au.
gust"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Iowa Banker Sought Here
In Alleged 100000 Theft
Snecicl pispatch to- Th- Tribu.-

Specicl Dispatch to The Tribune
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April Go
warrant was issued here to-day for
the arrest of H. c. Beeson. organizer
of the Iowa Bankers Mortgage Com
pany, in connection with the disap-
pearance of 100000 Of the company's
funds.
Benson is believed to be in New
York, and officials of the company were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Three Arrested
AS Profiteers
In Sugar Here
tcsns'nusd trsm pass on.)

,.n states, representing the seventh
against the methods Being s empl plessI bS
agents OF the Department Of Justice
summarily making arrests of small 70.
t sa,lers without first endeavoring tc
correct prevaillng practises and acting
upon garbled information, while stronr
powerful and influential offenders ' are
allowed to continue. a.
This association again offers it's co.
operation and channels of Information
10 enable government officials to pro.
rising tide of prices"
In reply to which J. ]. Price. repre.
senting Mr.. Riley in his absence. said
last night that the flying squadron had
not summarily arrested an small re-.
tailers and could not act through tn
Federal courts on garbled information
He expressed appreciation Of the asso.
cations offer OF cooperation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

advised his arrest was certain The
company is capitalized at $500, 900. and
stock was sold to small investors in all
parts of the country.
Two weeks ago the company was
placed in the hands of a receiver on
motion of Frederick Merritt, Chicago
banker and its president
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Yardn1en's Pay Demands
Fail to Comply With Lac

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The Rail-
road Labor Board to-day refused to
hear the wage demands of the Kansas
City Yardmen's Association on the
ground that the application did not
conform to the provisions of law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
New F'ishbcok Invented

Claiming that it holds fish more
securely than the usual type Of hook,
a Norwegian has patented a fishhook
with the barb at one side of instead
Of inside the point.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Repre-
sentatives Of large sugar retineries and
Department of Justice officials con
ferred here to-day and discussed the
whole sugar situation. The conference
Will be resumed tomorrow.
Howard Figg, assistant to the Attor.
ney General, said the question Of prices
would be taken up onl y in it's relation
to the obtaining Of sufficient sugar
stocks to meet the public demand. It
developed, however, that much of the
days discussion bore directly on prices.
ketiners said there had been "mucn
talking bnt no action Government
officials would not indicate what cf-
forts were under consideration toward
hating further sky-rocketing in
prices. Refners declared they could
not guarantee adequate supplies with
out further increases. The abnormal
demand for sugar has forced them into
hard competition with foreign BUYERS,
they said.
Mr.. Figg's recent efforts in connec,
tlon with the sugar situation have
been directed at developing sources of
supply.
1t was said that Mr.. Figg had made
Several propositions" to the trade rep
resentatives which would be consid-
cred further tomorrow. Three sub
committees were named, but informa-
ton as to their missions was limited
to the statement that each would study
it's proposition In detail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
BACK TO OLD VIRGINN.Y'

This is all very well, The soundness of the News Leaders criticism is incontest- able. But just what does the News Lead CT mean when it speaks of the average negro "who had gene from Virginia plantation to the south?' Has Virginia seeded from the south too? Has it gone back on its old friends? Apparently it re- gards itself as being a part of neither north nor south, for at another point in the editorial quoted it mentions the north in a sense that indicates 1t meant to ''up north.' Geographically, Virginia is rot part of the far south. It is not a part of the cotton south. But it is an all-southern commonwealth historically, politically, sentimentally and otherwise. At least we had always supposed that Virginia was southern, and rather proud of it. Perhaps the News Leader can throw sene light on it's presumption of non-kin- ship with other states of the south, We should like to know exactly what vir- ginias attitude is so that if the worst is true We can proceed to concoct some admirable form of reprisal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22

 Presidential booms are exploding with loud detonations, much to the alarm of timorous citizens who live in fear of the reds"
 Words cannot describe the look on the face of a prospective tourist who says. he Is going to Florida and "may eventu- ally get over to Cuba"
 4 * * Judging from results in the preferen- tial primary. Georgians don't believe Hoke Smiths Americanism during the war could stand the acid test. < < < Of course the civil war is over and has been over for long time. but talk of ao-cent cotton is about to get the Yankees up in arms again
 ~ * * If something isn't done for tbeir relief, school teachers will be justified in taking short course in plumbing. briclslaying or carpentry.
 * * The failure of outlaw strikes is get ting to be somewhat monotonous. Yet they furnish plenty of excitement while they last
 Considering the amount of money Uncle Sam has loaned to European powers. it's high time he was resuming his seat in the supreme council.
 < * * Alas, we fear it is true that marked cards are being used at San Reno. with perhaps a few other bits of pasteboard concealed about the person.
 < # # Newspaper sentiment seems to be all most equally divided on the overall aues- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22

The outlook waA not brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two VIII ou'
 one inning more to play And then when Cooney died al iirs' sAl'o
 Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons
 of the game. A struggling few got up to go Tn deep
 despair; the rest Clung to that hope which springs eternal
 in the human breast; They thought if only Casey couiu pus
 get a whack at that They'd put up even money ho" "ieh
 Casey at tn ebat- But Flynn preceded Casey, so did aiso
 Jimmy Blake; And fhe former was a lulu. and the iatter
 was a cake .,... , sa mon that stricken multitude grim
 melancholy sat;N For there seemed put ii9'a
 Casey at the bat. But Flynn let drive slas'e' ~ eiie
 wondernent of all, And B,alre7 the much despised. tore the
 cover off the bah' And when the dust had hf.eo, ana they
  ,',as Iirnmy safe at second, and
 Flynn a-hugging third. ,r,oa fro,, the thousand threats and n,ora there rose a lusty yell; It runahled through the valley. it rattled
 in the dell; It knocked upon the meuntalns ana re-
 coiled upon the flat. For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing
 to the bat. There was ease in caseyas manner as ne
 stepped into his place; There was pride in casey's bearing and
 a smile on Casey's face, And when. responding to the cheers, he
 lightly doffed his hat No stranger in the crowd could doubt it
 WAS Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he
 rubbed his hands with dirt. Five thousand tongues applaGded when he wiped them on his shirt;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
One Alien Who Did Not
 Turn Against America

MMIKE DRAGICH of Los Angeles gVU was an Austrian, but in his case the melting pot had done its work we'll. Mike quarreled with an ac- ouaintance who threatened to have him deported. Perhaps it was only a joke, for Mike was evidently no turk ing foe to America, although he bore a foreign name and was born in a country which fought with the Hun against the worlds democracies.
 Whether an idle jest or intended seriously, the threat had tragic re- suit. Mike brooded over it all night. The next morning he placed two American flags in the window of his room, and then shot himself. When other occupants of the house reached him the dying man was muttering "My United States, my United States"
 Poor Mikel He was victim of his own ignorance, but he was loyal tt the land of his adoption, the country which sheltered him from Hapsbure oppression and gave him home Mike would have made difficult Z rrnseluta fnr. a fred :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser. |MN NE learn from the esteemed Rich
 WNW mond News Leader that wheth-
 v V CT virginians like it or not. Bands Garry Me Back to Old Virginia has in some sense become the state song of Virginia. The strains of this song more than any other carry former virginians back to the Old Dominion. By thefmusic millions are given an impression of vir-f gria.' But the words--stars alive The News Leader wishes the words could be entirely rewritten. But 1t knows that would be futile, so it suggests that the words be revised as they stand, One verse of this piece is enough to show that it needs revision. This verse reads:
 Garry me back to old virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and 'taters grow, There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
 There's where this old darkey's heart does long to go.
 There's where labored so hard for old Massa
 Day after day in the field of yellow corn
 No place on earth do I love more sim
 Than old virginny, the place where was born.
 l The News Leader makes frightful on lsIaught upon these words. Never have 1 we seen the words of song spoken of
 more slightingly. The outraged editor proceeds to dip his pen in venom and say: Now, anyone who has the least famil-
 iarity with negro dialect knows that the 1 few words of dialect in this doggerel are
 not virginian. Our negroes never have said 'Massa,' which is common in South 1 Carolina, but alwys 'Marster. Besides, I no native negro ever said 'Virginny, but rather 'Ferginyar,' accenting the gin.
 .Warble is a word likely not to occur 1 in the conversation of negroes. Cotton is
 more Carolinian than virginian. The av- craze negro who had gone from a Vir- ! ginia plantation to the south, as presun- ably the singer of this ballad had, would Have had better recollection of tobacco lfeld than of cotton. Yet not an echo of I the weed in the song! The phrase love lnlore sincerely is of course absurd. But
 perhaps the worst offense of all is the reference to yellow corns that which makes it of all the most delightful cereal, 1 is that it is not yellow. Every Virginian who has been heguiled into attempting to feat the cornbread of the north, made of lyenow corn and sweetened-think of it. sweetened, instead of salted!--knows tsfSt yellow corn is not corn at all. so far
 as human consumption should be con
 cerned.
 "will. not someone take this wretched Jingle and, at least, put it in form true to Virginia life and to the dialect or the Virginia negroes2"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE
Mhnt They NIean

Final plans for la4nching the cam paign for s75,oOO for the support or cooperative business home for ousl- ress girls in the Methodist churches next Sunday were made at a meeting of the finance committee at the flrst Methodist Church yesterday
 In speaking of the home, before the committee Mrs. S. s. Yielding said;
 Let us give all honor to the busi- ness girls who are so important 10 the daily life of our industries.
 'Nobiy they did their part during the war. serving as nurses and work CTS over there, and ir the Red cross' rlotor service and i'll other fields over here. Many, indeed, laid down their lives for their country.
 I've needed them them we need them new. Suppose every girl in Fir mlngham should fail 10 turn up at her fost of duty. What would be the condition of our. commercial and in drstriaI life by night7 We would De practically paralyzed.
 "The cooperative home for eiris will safeguard the girls not only physically, but mentally and morally. It will be a home of inspiration and sympathy and there will be fewer girls in the city who shall say, 'on' IT had only known that someone in Birmingham cared for me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
CASEY AT THE BAT

Then, while the writhing pitcher ground
 the ball into his hip, Dehanee gleamed in Casay's eye a smear
 curled Casey's lip. And now the leather-covered sphere came
 hurtiing through the air. Ahu casey stood a-watching 1t in
 naughty grandeur there SIose Dy the sturdy batsnlan the ball rIn-
 needed sped- That ain't my style, said Casey. Strike
 one! the umpire said From the benches, black with people. (
 tnere went up mufhed rear, Like the beating the storm waves on a
 stern and distant shore NH him. Kill the umpire!" shouted
 some one on the stand; And US likely they'd have killed him,
 had not Casey raised his hand. With smile of Christian charity great
 Caseys visage shone; lie stliied the rising tumult; he bade
 the game go on; He signaed to the pitcher, and onco more
 he spheroid flew, But Casey still ignored it. and the lese,
 pire said, Strike two.'' "Fraud" cried the maddened thousands.
 and the echo answered "Fraud.'' But one scornful look from Casey and the
 audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern And cold,
 they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let
 that ball 50 by again The sheer Is gone from Casey's lips. his
 teeth are clinched in hate: He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the nitchex holds the hall .ra now he lets it go. And now the air is shattered with the ferce of casey's blow. O, somewhere In this favored land the sun is shining bright. The band is playing somwhere, and some where hearts are light. And sonfUwhere men are laughing, and
 somewhere children shout. But there is no joy in Mudvillo- -miwhty
 Casey has struck out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

We have pretty good memory, We can remember as far back as when a girls skirts rustled when she walked
 A man does a heap more Investigating when he wants a girl to work for him than he does when he wants a girl to marry him.
 Now that the Eighteenth Amendment prohibits the Antidote. why not Nine teenth Amendment prohibiting snakes from biting people?
 And why does young widow think it is up to her to act like she had never even spoken to man in her life?
 The fellow who relies on his friepds to prepare an opening for him soon finds himself in hole.
 A husband who has to hook his wife's dress up the back can't understafld why the eyes are always made two sizes smaller than the hooks.
 If you could get a photographic record of your own conversations you would discover that you make a lot of noise without saving anything.
 The Honeymoon is over when he starts to go out after supper and doesn't offer to take her along.
 husband knows that there aint no such animal as Si0 hat. But that doesn't keep his wife from paying that much for one.
 We do not know much. But we do know that we would have more money if horses would win on form the way Girls do.
 If a he always remembers that But II ne ioses' his Nd-
 tc sny will make tlmost any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-22
UNDERWOOD IN EscAMBrA.
Iobile Register,

From the Mobile ReGiSter.
 Eighty per cent of the vote of Escam- bia is claimed for Senator Underwood by Mr. W. w Barbour, former state senator and now county manager for the senator Even Captain Hobson's manager inNthe last campaign, MT. L. c. Brooks, is backing Underwood to win.
 Mir. Q. M. Gordon. banker, gives the reason, speaking succinctly and saying: IT can tell you why am going to vote for Underwood. He is big man. He is as big in the other states I go to as he is in Alabama. I have been an Under wood man from the first, but every day find new reason why should be for Mr. Underwood's speech in Montgomery
 I'm sure didn't know-that he intro- duced the alien property law which turned German assets in this country to work for the allies MT. Underwood is a great man. I don't believe we could do without him. He gets bigger every day. As for prohibition. we've got it, and we couldn't change it if we wanted to-"
 Mir. H. c. Rankin, lawyer, makes a strong point when he says: we prohib- itionists are inconsistent of don't let prohibition stay out of politics now that we have got it out
 MT. Underwood will carry the county by large majority. says Judge M. R. Mcclellan. Hes one of the ablest men in the Senate. says he. He should be kept where he is. I have talked to peo- pie from all sections of this country and I believe most of hem feel he same way
 | II will be safe to list Escambia with the other counties of southeast and south- central Alabama that are for Underwood by a large majority