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The New York herald., 1921-06-28

pest every tour of duty, the theory be-
inS that he would get to know every
rook and corner and hiding place in it.
i.nd be thus better able to protect it
f:olr thieves and other undesirables.
Under the new system, which the police
have already niclInamed the "fly post"
system, he will cover every other post
ir his precinct before he returns to any
one.
The work of cleaning UP the liquor
has been intrusted principally to plain
lothes men, as men in uniform cannot
get evidence However, it is easy
enough for the policeman on post, if he
is friendly, to warn the proprietor of a
cafe Of the impending visit of detectives
1t was said at Police Headquarters
that the change was m lie by Inspector
Boettler on his own initiative and that
other inspectors could follow suit if they
saw fit There is nothing in regulations
or orders requiring or preventing the
system.
Police Inspector Thomas Ryan in Long
Island City also put spurs to his prohi-
bition campaign yesterday. making nine
arrests and seizing 500 bottle of alleged
whiskey.. The largest seizure was 100
pint flasks of the beverage, which the
police say two men in a car were de-
livering to DIR. Paul NJ. Murphy. den-
tist,. at COZ Grand avenue, Astoria. DIR.
Murphy and the two men were held for
further examination by Magistrate Con-
way in Long Island City Court. Queens
has been invaded. it is said, by number
of liquor dealers driven out of Manhat-
tan.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
FEDERAL DRY FORCE
AGAIN NEAR NORMAL
373 Agents Reinstated Out of
74O Dropped in May.
Special Despatch. to rHn New YORK HERALD.
New York HerA6 Bureau,
Washington, n. O., June 81.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Heran Bureau.
Washington, d. O.. June 81.
Officials of the revenue bureau tonight
that the enforcement unit is
being brought gradually back TO its
normal strength through reinstatements
of men previously furloughed because of
shortage of funds 10 pay salaries
An announcement by the bureau said
that in the last week 373 prohibition
field officers were reinsta1ed out of the
total of 740 dropped several weeks ago.
Three hundred and five are prohibition
agents and 6S are prohibition inspectors.
In all Of the larger cities, including
New York. Philadelphia and Chicago, the
plans call for large additions to the pres
ent force of agents between now and
July 1. Most Of the men reinstated last
week were detailed for duty in their
former posts in large cities.
Mrs. Mary f. Parkins, formerly. clerk
in the office Of the prohibition commits
sion of New York city. and Antonio
Pappano of New York, arrested Decem-
Der 81. were indicted to-day by the
Grand Jury on charge Of conspiracy IN
attempting TO bribe Prohibition Agent
Harold II. Stephenson.
The indictment charges that prior TO
their arrest the defendants approached
Stephenson and offered 5000 to him for
each basic Wholesale permit for the
withdrawal OF whiskey from bonded
warehouses that the agent would pro-
cure for them.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
BREAKS LONG SILENCE
WITH THREAT TO KILL
J. c. Reynolds Is Thus Ac-
cused by Wife in Suit.

Mental suffering and torture be-
cause her husband would not speak to
her for periods averaging three weeks
at stretch, and at one time lengther-
ing into nearly sixteen months" is
stressed in the complaint of Mrs. Mar
Saret Reynolds under which she seeking
a separation from James G.. Reynolds, a
part owner of the Mercantile Lunch
Company's chain of cafeterias
He emerged from the slences on June
II. her complaint states, with a threat to
kill her, so she called q policeman and
had her husband arrested for disorderly
conduct She had him arrested yester-
day by deputy sheriffs. on order of Su-
preme Court Justice Donnelly. He was
released under $4,000 bond
Mrs. Reynoldss complaint sets forth
they were married in 1898 and have
three children She says she has
brought several separation actions be-
fore this one, but withdrew them on Mr.
Reynolds's promise to reform.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
PROHIBITION LAW
IS CALLED A CURSE
Convention of Physicians
Hears Vigorous Attack
on Volstead Act.
REPEAL is DEMANDED
Causing Gambling and I'M
morality in Homes. Blind
ness and Disease
HOME BREW A MENACE
Integrity of Profession at
Stake, Asserts DR.. Fritz
(. Of Philadelphia.
HOME BREW A MENACE

ATLANTIC CITY, June 21.--Declaring
that the volstead act had proved a
curse TO the public and to our coun-
try" which had cost more lives to
enforce. in proportion to the number
of men employed than the world war,
DR.. w. Wallace Fritz of Philadelphia,
president. of the Allied Medical AS
sociations of America. in an address
to-day at the opening of the tenth an
nual convention of that organization
here. called for the repeal of the pro-
hibition enforcement act and the de-
feat Of the Volstead Campbell beer bill,
which passed the House to day and is
now before the Senate.
/ DR.. Fritz also criticised the Ameri-
can Medical Association for its "strad-
ding attitude toward the Volstead act
and It's failure to take a definite stand
on prohibition.
Attacking the prohibition law. DR..
Fritz said:
1T is teaching the public to drink
secretly. 1t is causing, gambling and
blindness to scores. 1t is causing those
who used to take a nghtcap at bed
time to take dope. 1t has caused a
large increase in the sale of narcotic
drugs and daily increase in the army
of dope fiends. 1t is making imbeciles
of many and before long the insane
asylums will be overfilled. 1t is caus-
ing diseases of the stomach. liver. kid
neys, eyes and heart, all due to con-
sumption of home brew containing
fusel oil. wood alcohol. copper and other
deleterious substances.
The medical restriction of the Vol
stead law constitutes an indictment of
the integrity Of the profession. 1t de-
MES the physician the right to select
his remedies and decide what dose each
patient requires. II the profession
values its therapeutic liberty 1t must
make a protest that will command at
tention.
Are We physicians going to make a
stand for public health and for our
country or are we going TO sit quietly
back and suck our thumbs? We must
decide whether prohibition and home
brew, or free use os light wines and
beer properly made under Government
standards is the greater evi.'
DIR. Fritzs address provoked frequent
and enthusiastic applause from the dele
gates The convention will be in ses-
sion four days.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
BROWN TO SPEED UP
MEYER COMMITTEE
Continued from First Page.

out Buchler's heart Cor starting the
trouble.
Senator Robinson took all Of the re-
sponsibility for Sohr.
II wish to take the full responsibility, F"
the Senator said. 81 obtained his en-
ployment by the committee knowing that
he had served term in Sing Sing. Sohr
was recommended to me by personal
friend. who believe. AS do. that the
man should have chance to make good.
did not inform Senator Meyer of his
record, and therefore no responsibility
should rest upon him or the committee.
My only comment on the matter is that
apparently certain city officials found
out about Sohrs record before the COM
mittee knew of his record. The ely
officials did not report their findings to
the committee but withheld their infor-
nation in order to cook UP an attack
upon the committee
Senator Robinson's statement disposed
of Senator Meyers charge that there had
been q ffameup by some one in the city
administration and the head detective in
p big department store to embarrass the
committee.
1.-THE moment Senator Meyer was In
formed Of Sohr's record he ordered the
man examined and dismissed. The COM
mittee acted In the interest OF the pup
lc" Mr.. Robinson added.
The name of the ex-convict was given
to Senator Robinson at a birthday party
on April 2S The Senator was told that
Sohr was in desperate circumstances.
that his family was on the verge OF star
walton. A collection was taken up at
the party and 800 raised for Sohr.
Robinson obtained work for him and he
proved to be so efficient that his salary
was raiser last week from s25 to $40
{. week
Answering Senator Meyers statement
that Sohr had been used by the commit
tee only for serving subpoenas, Com
missioner O'Malley said
why does Senator Meyer not tell the
truth? Sohr's credentials stated he was
an investigator. He was In my office
for three weeks daily. and daily would
telephone TO Leonard Wallstein or
others on the committee He insisted
upon having a stenographer. Sohr went
to the Department of Licenses, where
he spent two weeks. Then he worked
on police records.
"Why this dishonest attempt to mis-
lead the public In the face Of the past
record of his activities, and why this
insistonce that he is a mere process
server? II the head of the committed
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
CHEW GASSED AND HIT
ON HEAD, WITNESS SAYS
Under Shell Fire I3 Hours,
Defence Contends.

Officers and men who served in Franco
testified yesterday at the court-martal
of Capt. Beverly Grayson Chew, on trial
at Governors Island for forgery and
other offences, that Capt. Chew fire.
uently accompanied an ammunition train
to the front line. that he was under shell
fire and was gassed. that he was struck
on the head with the butt of a rifle at
bayonet practice and rendered uncon-
scious and that he frequently asked for
active duty.
These witnesses were introduced to Off
set the contention OF the prosecution that
he had shirked hard or dangerous SER
vice overseass and to prove that his ex-
periences were such as to make him
irresponsible. Among the witnesses were
Capt. Bertrand Morrow OF the Fourteenth
Cavalry, capt J. Z. Campbell of the Six
teenth Infantry Medical Corps. Capt.
Ralph Mclean Of the Sixteenth Infantry
and Capt c. r. Irwin of the Twenty
ninth Infantry. Capt. Morrow swore that
Capt. Chew was with him during the
first day of the st. Mihiel drive and that
they were under shell fire thirteen hours
Other witnesses yesterday testified
that Mrs. Chew. known as Jean H. Soth-
ern on the screen. was not the woman
who forged a check for S57 given to 4
West Forty-fifth street milliner.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28

cannot stick to the truth. who connected
with the committee in its work can be
depended upon to do so?"
Mr.. O'Malley said he was forced to
the conclusion that the man had been
deliberately placed in his office to use
his criminal propensities to carry on
such evil purposes as some of the COM
mittee or its counsel had in mind. The
statement that the presence of Sohr on
the committees payroll is a plant
was characterized by Mr. O'Malley as
"a pretty plea of gross incompetence
on the part of Senator Meyer"
David Hirshfield. Commissioner of Ac-
counts, sent letter to Senator Meyer
last night offering to cooperate with the
Senator In riddng the legislative COM
mittee OF Objectionable characters.
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
5000 VERDICT FOP
MAN FIRED BY TORCH
Explosion of Gasoiene Cause
of Gripping RiUeter.

jury before Supreme Court Justice
Squ.ers in Brooklyn yesterday returned
verdict Of $4,000 In favor OF John
Danielson. 1s years old. of 326 Twenty
first street, Brooklyn and against the
Morse Dry Dock ard Repair Company.
Danielson was Nirning away a rivet
on the smokestack of the steamship Nor
man Bridge at the company's plant last
November when his gasoicne torch ex-
ploded. A tongue of flame set his cloth
Ing afire. He was in the Norwegian
Hospital four months and now walks
on crltches
The New York herald., 1921-06-28
OPPORTUNITY: 70

SPLENDID OrPORTt NIFTY: For financial
society or capitalists: Building Land IN
most aristocratic place and important ave-
nue. of the town OF Barcelona Convenient
for Hotels. Ths atres. Clubs. etc. Particulars
from JUAN ELIAS. Aribau os. Barcelona
tSpain) .--Adu.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Sewn PIyWood.

In England there has recently ap-
peared a special plywood material for
aircraft construction. This material,
we are told, must not be COMPOUNDED
with ordinary plywood, for it is some
thing infinitely superior. 1t is a super
plywOOd, so claims its manufactures,
which is actually sewn together. The
layers are first cemented together with
waterproof material and then stitched
through in parallel rows about IL
inches apart. This gives a rigidity and
residence unattainable by any other
method. Weight for weight, it is the
strongest material yet evolved. The
sheets are made to any desired size or
shape up to s feet wide by 60 feet
long, and from One-eighth to five
eighths inch thick, thus eliminating
waste in the conversion.-Scientif
American.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Read Secrets of Parchment.

Much of the lore of ancient palimp-
Sests-parchment manuscripts from
which the original writing has been
erased and written over at a later
date-is about to be laid bare by the
mysterious power of the ultraviolet
light produced by the mercury-vapor
lamps. Previous to 1914 the discov-
erer of a new method of using the
rays, a Benedictine monk of the Bava-
rian order, had made such progress
that many of the ancient parchments
in the Benedictine abbey of Wesso-
brunn had been made to disclose their
secrets.
In principle the new method is quite
simple, being based upon the peculiar
ity, possessed by many organic sub
stances, of fiuorescing-glow with
pale canary-colored light-when
brought under the influence Of the in
visible ultraviolet rays. The old
parchments possess this property to a
remarkable degree, while the ink of
the older writings upon them, contain
ing ingredients insensible to the ac-
ton of the rays, remains dark and
forms contrast of sufficient intensity
TO register clearly on a Photographic
plate. Old paintings, overlaid with
new ones on the original canvas, have
also been discovered by this method
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Society Plays Craps.

Craps no longer can be referred to
exclusively as African golf" 1t is
just at the moment the amusement
par excellence of debutante New York
that is, at such times as there are
no men about to make dancing elimi-
nate the fascination of the little ivory
cubes. Nearly every jewelry store
and novelty shop in town is displaying
sets of these cubes in silver and gold
cases, fit for a place in any mesh bag
carried on the Avenue. And it has
even been suggested by some f1ippant
soul that with the present length of
skirts worn by the girls in question
artistically embroidered knee pads
will have to come next. For no real
crap player of the days when it was
confined to quiet alley corners would
be without his pads to protect his
knees while he knelt on the hard
stones to ''shoOt." -Pittsburgh Leader.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Says Americans Avoid Sunlight.


One feature struck me in the schools,
and it also struck me in the hotels and
in private houses, and that is the
avoidance of sunlight. A well-cOnduct-
ed window in America must have lace
curtains drawn across it, and two
blinds, one brown and one green,
pulled accurately halfway down.
Even in the great country houses,
where no one could look in, and no
one look out without seeing spacious
lawns and flower beds, the curtains
are closed and the blinds are drawn
halfway down. Living in them is like
living in the house of an owner who is
half dead.
The electric light is all the time
turned on full. Even in the hotels if
you leave your room for half an hour,
having raised your blinds, you will
find them carefully drawn down again
on returning. The large number of
folks-clerks in offices, workers in fac
tories, attendants on elevators, bell
BOYS and hotel clerks-whO live their
life in artificial light forms large
percentage of the population, and this
absence of outdoor life may account
to some extent for the pallid and sal
low complexion of those who have to
endure it, 1t certainly cannot be
healthy.-Sir Arthur E. Shipley in the
Outlook.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Bait That Will Tempt Rats.

Where rats are well fed, it is found
that they are liable to be finicky in
the matter of food. To make bait
effective therefore, the United States
biological survey recommends that
meat food, vegetable food, and a ce
real be selected, and combined with
barium carbonate in the proportion of
one part poison to four Of food. A tea
spoonful of each kind is then placed
on a strip of paper or strip of board,
where the rat, travelling along his run
way Is likely to come upon the tempt
ingly laid three-course meal. Usually
one of the three bats appeal to the
victim. The bats must be kept fresh
and attractive, and uneaten portions,
as well as others, should be replaced
by others Of the same class. Expert
mentors have found barium carbonate
to be the most suitable poison, as it
is tasteless, odorless, effective, and
can be obtained at any drug store.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Didn't Do the Expected.

'It is hard to forecast what a per-
son will do or say under Stress" said
a former army officer.
1--WE were taking troop train
through a town in Kentucky during
the war, when a sergeant came up to
me and said that the town was the
home of one of the men, who had been
married just before he joined the army,
and that if we were going to stop for,
any length of time, perhaps the man
in question might be permitted to see
his wife.
81 hustled around and got word to
the wife that her husband was on the
troop train. She came a few minutes
before the train was ready to leave.
The soldier rushed out to meet her
and instead of throwing his arms
around her he reached into his blouse
pocket and handed her a handful of
cigars! Rather peculiar thing to do
after leaving your wife and enlisting
and being under sealed orders that
probably were taking you to France
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Great Bridge for Frisco

A bridge across San Francisco bay
will be constructed at a cost of $685.
100000, according to announcement
of A. ]. Rich, local financier, who
said the money for the project had
been subscribed.
Engineers plans have been COM
pleted and the terminals have been
selected, according to Rich. The
structure will extend direct from San
Francisco to the Alameda county
shore line.
Rich said the bridge would be eight
and One-eighth miles long, 200 feet
wide and, besides caring for traffic
of all kinds, would carry oil, gas and
water pipes and electric conduits for
public utility companies.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
TOO LADYLIKE FOR "GRRMPA"
Old Gentleman Couldn't Recall Sailors
in His Time Doing Anything
Like Skipping Rope.

Grampa served in the navy quite
while ago-under Admiral Farragut or
John Paul Jones or some Of those per-
sons. In those days, you remember,
all sailors wore Horace Greeley
whiskers and had either profane
parrot, a wooden leg or a girl in every
port. Grampas granddaughter, Cor
della May, keeps company with ma
chinist's mate, first class, on the de-
stroyer Dyer, now with the other de-
stroyers in the Hudson river.
His name is Buck.
Buck thought Cordelia May would
like it if he invited Grampa to come
along with her to visit the Dyer. Cor
della May didn't like 1t at all, as
matter of fact, but Grampa accepted
with alacrity.
How'd you like it, PAP" inquired
Cordelia Mays mother, when Grampa
got back home. "Djhave good timer"
Il did not" said Grampa.
'sWhat did Cordelia May do?" Ma
thought she knew right away where
to hang the guilt. But she was wrong.
"She didn't do nothin' except gawk
at that lubber of her'n," said Grampa,
"but the navy's gone thell, that's
what
mo such a thing" demurred Ma.
"They leave here first O. May for New
port, an you heard Buck say that your
self"
"Sissiesl Old ladies Milk an wa
Ter boys!" Grampa exploded. "Why,
Mary, guess what the first thing l saw
on that frigate WASP"
Ma had never served on destroyer,
so, of course, couldn't guess.
"Why, see a great big hub of lad
and what was he dom but skippin'
rope! Skippin' rope, mind yet A
sailor skippin' rope! l looked about
me expecting to find the rest of the
crew playin' postoffice with one an
other Skippin' rope"
Grampa groaned at the thought.
Buck meanwhile had arrived and
overheard. He gave the loud, raucOus
laugh of machinists mate, first class,
who is amused at something.
''Don't say word to him." he eau
toned Ma and Cordelia May later,
when Grampa had gone to bed to
dream of John Paul Jones playing It'd
dlywinks with Admiral Farragut on a
rose-bedecked battleship. Don't say
a word, but the guy he saw skipping
rope is Soakem Slocum, the heavy
weight champion of the flotilla. He's
getting in trim for the bouts up at
! Newport New York Sun.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
THEY CALLED HIM "WARRY."
Appalling lrreverence That Shocked
Oignified Butler on Duty at the
White House.

One of the most imposing buffers
now in captivity south of Boston or
New York buttles at the White House
Heshas been on the job for long time.
and nobody of his race in the world
could wear bis uniform of blue and
gold with more distinction or hauteur.
He would take fat part, TO speak in
stage parlance, against any kind of
emperor, and a whole flock of princes
would be pie for him in any COMPETE
ton for the limelight. He is over six
feet tall, and dignity is his middle
name. Life, at least while he is on
duty. is a terrible serious affair for
him, and the smile he gives those he
knows is not one that means anything
more than welcome.
The wives of two senators called at
the White House not long since. AS
they left, after leaving their cards. as
is the custom at times, one of them
turned and thought she saw the Presi-
dent himself behind the curtain of a
nearby window. She had known
President Harding when he was in the
senate and didn't believe very much in
dignity and the putting on of dog and
such things.
why" she said, there's Wary
now" The butler overheard He
gasped. The senator's wife turned to
him.
isn't that Wary there?" she asked.
The butler almost dropped to the
f1agstOnes of the pOrticO.
Yes, mem; no men," he said
rapidly. Il think it was not the Presi-
dent"
well, l think it was" insisted the
senator's wife, land when you see
Wary you just tell him we caught
him that time"
Do you suppose that butler delivered
the message?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
SeaI-Hunting Dangerous Occupation.

The annual seal hunt is on for New
foundland, and the season occupies
from May to November. Schooners
carrying from II to 20 men sail for
the lodges and anchor there, putting
out their crews in pairs, in fiat bot
toned boats, called dOrieS, which con-
tain travis, or long lines fitted with
hundreds of baited hooks that the fish
swallow and are caught with These
travis are ''set" by the men, being
stretched along the ocean bed with
anchors at each end, and are "over-
hauled" daily, the fish caught on the
hook being removed and the hooks re-
baited. While the men are off at this
work, fogs often arise and obscure
the regions, leaving them to drift
about the ocean in a vain quest for
their vessels. These crafts are also
liable to be sunk by speeding steamers
In the fog or swamped by popping
seas, and few years pass without ten
or twelve vessels and $50 men being
engulfed in the waves.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Know Little of Their City.

Many of the lifelong residents of
New York city know little of the city's
rapidly expanding transportation sys-
TEN, says the New York Sun. They
are acquainted with those minor sec
tons they use daily, but if they have
occasion to travel to unaccustomed
quarters they are as puzzled as the
stranger. 1t is usually the newcomer,
the resident of a few months or years,
who even pretends to know the SUBJ
ways or the streets of any consider
able section of the town.