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New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Proposed Alcohol
Tax Denounced by
Enraged Chemists
American Society Speakers
Say Industry Will Be Dom
mated by Dry Agents
and Charge Corruption

The American Chemical Society held
an indignation meeting here last night
to protest against the tax of 1000 per
cent on alcohol for legitimate purposes
and the clauses of the pending Vol
stead supplemental enforcement act
which regulate it's Industrial use.
The speakers were DR.. Martin H.
lttner. chief chemist of Colgate &
Co.; DR.. M. c. Whitaker, vice-presi-
dent of the United States Industrial
Alcohol Company; w. L. Crounse, at
torney for the National Wholesale
Druggists Associations; F. M. Boyles,
chief chemist of Mccormick & Co., and
A. D. Van Buren,, counsel of the legal
division of the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
After declaring that the Wilson Ad-
ministration had shown for all time
the impracticabilty of government
control, the speakers said that the new
legislation would bind the industry
over hand and foot to the dry agents
and proceeded to demonstrate their
unftness for such responsibility. 1t
was charged that they had been so
hastily recruited that convicts had
been found among them; that political
cxpediency had been the one basis of
selection; that they were the tools of
Anti-Saloon League fanatics totally
ignorant of the needs of fundamental
Industries, and that they themselves
know so little of the subject that one
of their chiefs said:
industrial alcohol be damned; you
know it's all booze"
Mr.. Crounse offered evidence to show
haw badly the enforcemenl of the
present statute is working out. He
alleged that of the 10000 permits is
sued 10000 were given to men never
before interested in industrial alcohol,
who had used their allowance for boot
logging purposes On the other hand
he said, all the wholesale chemists en-
loying national reputation have been
held up for as much as six weeks at a
time because some arrogant official
in his great wisdom, opined that they
were using too much"
He further said that ex-officials oper-
ate with the connvance of the existing
authorities a regular system for hold
ing up deliveries until they have re-
ceived handsome fees, and he charged
wholesale corruption in the issuing of
permits.
The walls of the meeting room were
hung with sixty-f foot lists of the $500
medicines for which alcohol is re-
quired. The speakers declared that
alcohol is the prime requisite for
favoring extracts and is essential in
the manufacture of dyes, munitions,
celluloid and films
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Convicted Slayer Smiles
When Verdict Is Read
"Can Walk to Electric Chair as
Well as Anybody" Comment
of Mccormick

George P. Mccormick, twenty one
years old, a plumber helper, was
found guilty of first degree murder by
a jury before .Idge Alfred ]. Talley
in General Sessions yesterday. The
jury was out three hours. Mccormick
smiled when he heard the words that
mean he will be sentenced to the deaf
chair.
Yesterdays verdict was the first con-
viction of murde, in the first degree
brought in Nea York County this
year.
Mccormick was found guilty of kill
ing Edward Shannon, twenty-one years
old, of 2O9 East 104th Street, at Third
Avenue and 117th Street the morning
of March 21. Shannon fell with four
bullet wounds in his body after a
quarrel over a S5 baseball bet made
q year and half previous. At the
trial Mccormick made a plea of self
defense.
McCormick's aged mother and sister,
who live at 238 East Ninety fifth
Street, sat outside the courtroom wait
ing for the verdict, and wept when
Assemblyman Maurice Bloch who de-
Tended the young man, brought them
the news.
On his way back to the Tonlbs
where he will remain until sentenced
Monday, Mccormick betrayed no
emotion. In fact, he was boastful.
81 can walk to the electric chair as
we'll as anybody else" he told Captain
Tanning, the court officer. "This thing
don't feaze me-"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Virgil Decker Given Life
For Murder of Lovett
Farmer Boy Slayer Is in Elk.
cellent Spirits When He
Ia Taker, IN Coll

WARSAW, Ind, June 1o-Virgil
Decker, nineteen years old, farmer
boy, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree in connection with the
death of Leroy Lovett, his associate
by a jury in Circuit Court here to-
night. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Six ballots were taken by the jury
Decker being found guilty on the tirst
ballot and the succeeding ballots being
taken to determine the punishment t
some of the jurors holding out for the
death penalty. The. jury was out less
than three hours.
Young Decker showed no emotion
when the verdict was read to the court
or when sentence was passed. He had
adopted nonchalant attitude through
out the trial and seemed in excellent
spirits when he was taken back to his
CELL
Decker was accused of numbering
Lovett, said to have been his double,
as the outcome of a conspiracy by
members of the Decker family to Kill
Lovett, claim his body as that of Decker
and collect $4,000 in life insurance
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Watchman Shot as He
Tries $4,000 Hold.Up
Hartford Rubber Works Em-
ployee Badly Beaten as
He Seeks PayroA

HARTFORD, Conn. June 10.-Ac-
eused of single-handed attempt to
rob three armed guards and get away
With the $4,000 payroll of the Hart
1ord Rubber Works, Henry J. Jordan,
night watchman at the works where he
attempted to carry out the robbery last
night, pleaded guilty to highway rob-
perry to-day and was bound over to
higher court under q bond of $4,000.
Jordan's head was swathed in band
ages and he moved with some effort,
showing to what extent Paymaster
albert M. Congdon and his two assist
ants, Frank D. Sergeant and Anthony
Hayes, had handled Jordan during the
niold-up. Jordan fred several shots at
them, but none took effect. During the
nrst excitement he grabbed bunch of
pay envelopes and tried to get away
but failed. A shot fired by one of the
guards took effect in his leg.
Jordan is fifty-eight years old and
mas wife and five children. He says
ne has no idea what caused him to
attempt the hold-up.
1T was a crazy idea," he saids "If
l had given it sufficient thought
wouldn't have done it." He said he
wasn't "hard up" for money.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
''Doc'' Wright Sentenced
In Nevada for Forgeries
Veteran Specialized i'm Checks
Stolen From Travellers by
PickpOckets He Directed

Ernest C"Doc") Wright, sixty-fve
years old, erstwhile managing director
of company of pickpockets who were
jobbers in travellers checks, has Just
been sentenced to from one to four
teen years in the Nevada State Peni-
tertiary, according to word received
here yesterday from the Bankers Trust
Company of Reno.
Wright was convicted of forging
checks issued by the American Bank
ers Association. He bought them from
pickpockets who were directed by him
and he forged the counter signatures
He was great admirer of his
mastery of penmanship and grew so
bold that on one occasion he attempted
to forge an undecipherable signature
When the bank teller to whom he pre-
sented this check called his attention
to the meager resemblance doc" said
his hand was shaky from too much
liquor. He got the money.
He was caught by an investigator of
the American Bankers Association
who trailed him for months. His
forgeries were strewn thickly through
cut the Middle West.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
First Guilty
Verdict Found
In Rum Court
Jury Convicts Saloonkeeper
Who Sold in Rear Room,
After Two Acquittals
and One Disagreement
U. S. Agents Renew Raids
Brooklyn Office to Reopen:
Jersey Vets Ask Governor
to Review Them July 4

The first conviction for violation of
the new state prohibition enforcement
law in New York County was returned
yesterday by jury in the extraordi.
nary liquor court, which, officials saw,
is costing the taxpayers $3.50 day.
The case was the fourth presented be-
fore Supreme Court Justice Henry V.
Borst and followed two acquittals and
disagreement by the jury, the result
of three previous sessions.
Michael Rofensky. the defendant,
pleaded guilty in the Magistrates
Court on April and later demanded a
jury trial. This fact was said to have
had considerable weight with the jury,
although Rovensky, an Austrian, sought
to explain that he did not understand
the situation when he made his first
plea. The verdict was reached after
the jury had announced it was unable
to agree and had been sent back for
further deliberation.
Result Encourages Prosecutor
Assistant District Attorney Ferdi-
nand Pecora, in charge of liquor prose-
cutions, who was chagrned at the out
come of the previous trials, was. more
cheerful yesterday.
81 have every faith ia the jury sys-
tenn and am not decrying it," he said.
81 think jurors will do what Is proper
for the enforcement Of the law in
liquor actions, as they would do in any
other case"
Rovensky was accused of selling
liquor to persons in rear room of his
saloon, at 312 East Forty-frst Street
and with having in his possession a
quart and two half pints of whskey
He denied that he had handled any
liquor.
Justice Borst suspended sentence un-
til Tuesday. The penalty is a fine of
$500. The foreman of the jury was
The extraordinary grand jury yes
terday returned six indictments out OF
twentythree cases presented by AS
sstant District Attorney Albert B
unger. Mr.. Unger said he considered
this a good percentage.
Federal prohibition agents, disguised
as longshoremen, made four arrests. II
was announced that the Brooklyn pro.
hibition office, which was closed A
month ago, would be reopened and
that fifteen of the former agents would
be returned.
jersey Vets to March July 4
Announcement of parade to be held
in Hudson County on July in oppo-
stion to prohibition was made in Jer-
sey City by Warren Dixon, director of
the Hudson County branch of the Ma
tional Association against the Prohbl-
tion Act. Mr.. Dixon said that Governor
Edwards, asked to review the parade
replied:
III it is humanly possible will be
with you July d While l am thor
ough advocate of the observance of ali
laws, it is nevertheless our duty as
citizens, when we are convinced of an
unrighteous law on our statute books
to use our best endeavors by every
honorable means to remove it,"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Separation Is Refused
To Capt. Cosby's Wife
Court Holds Former Rough
Rider Not Altogether to
RIame for Differences

The Appellate Division yesterday
sustained the finding that Mrs. Vir-
ginia D. Cosby was not entitled to a
decree of separation from Captain
Arthur F. Cosby, formerly Of the
Rough Riders, and former Assistant
Corporation Counsel. Captain Cosby,
a son of the late Admiral Cavill Cosby,
was chairman of the Military Training
Camps Association.
In deciding against Mrs. Cosby JUS
tice Giegerich said that she was not
altogether free from blame for her
differences with Captain Cosby, and
that he was always in financial posi-
tion to provide for his wife and family
as Mrs. Cosby thought he should. Mrs.
Cosby complained that her happiness
was destroyed by finding a letter ad-
dressed to her husband by woman
in California
Captain Cosby said that thereafter
for two or three years his wife con-
tinually brought up the subject of the
letter and that he could not go to
another city, as his business required,
without his wife expressing the fear
that he was going to see the other
woman.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Bombers Try to Kill
Enforcers of Dry Law
Wreck Home of Ohio Prose
cutting Attorney and Also
Attack Another Official

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, June
10.-~Bomb throwers tried early to-
day to kill Russell Bowers, thirty-year-
old prosecuting attorney OF Tuscara-
was County and l.. o. Haug, safety di-
rector of Dover, both of whom have
been active in enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws Of Tuscarawas County.
A dynamite bomb was thrown on the
front porch of the Bowers home in
New Philadelphia at 80 o'clock this
morning from q passing automobile.
1t exploded, blowing the porch to
splinters and wrecking the house, but
no one was injured A dynamite bomb
also was thrown on the porch OF the
Haug home, in the nearby town of
Dover, at about the same time, but the
fuse did not burn and the bomb failed
to explode.
Authorities Immediately started
search, trailing the automobile, and
placed Nick Nigro and his son, Chaun-
cey, under arrest as suspects. The son
was found hiding under the porch of
the Nigro home in Dover. Both men
are being held in the Tuscarawas
County Jail here.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11

that the beating should end in murder
Kaber, she said; was unclvii and churl-
ish, and she wished to force him te
alter his conduct.
Chief Christensen did not reveal
whatever may have been said by Mrs
kaber in her confession regarding the
giving of the arsenic to Kaber The
indictment gainst Mrs Kaber charges
doses of arsenic from March until his
death in July.
Quiet on Return Trip
Mrs. Kaber spent the long afternoon
on the train gazing out of the car win.
dow She was quiet and apathetic
The wrist into which she jabbed tn
manicure file in the Harlem prison or
Tuesday was bandaged. and clos:
watch was kept on her to prevent any
possible attempt to jump out of tn,
window.
Her daughter seemed to be in good
spirits. She passed the time with mag
azines and in telling Mrs. Christen
sens fortune with cards. The cards
foretold a happy future for the police
chiefs wife, which seemed to affort
Miss McArdle some melancholy amuse
ment.
The long grilling that wrung from
Mrs. Kaber the story of her husband Z
murder began about o'clock Thursda,
afternoon. She had been taken t.
Police Headquarters Immediately upor
the completion Of the extradition pro
ceedings in the District Attorneys of
fee. Marian McArdle, the daughter
followed her mother TO headquarter.
about three hours later.
Ends at in Morning
AS early as o'clock in the evening
stenographers went into the room OF
the second floor of headquarters, bu
the questioning continued for hour,
, afterward. At AIS yesterday morning
thirteen hours after the party haC
locked themselves in the room the,
| emerged.
A patrol wagon was sent for ant
the women were taken to the Wes
Thirtieth Street police station, wher,
Mrs. Kaber and Miss McArdie wer
locked up, Shortly afterward an ambu
lance arrived, probably to attend Mrs
kaber, although no exact information
could be obtained.
When the time for the train arrived
a touring car took the prisoners ant
police to the Grand Central station
The two women bought books and som,
candy before boarding the train.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Gets 10 Years for 8 Wives
Army Private Admits Bigamy +;
Deserves Medal. Saws TIdoe

SOMERVILLE, N. j., June 10.-Pri-
vate Will H. Hahn, U. S. A, stationed
bigamy before Judge Frank Cleary in
the Somerset County Court to-day, and
was sentenced to from one to ten years
IN the penitentiary.
Hahn admitted having three wives.
His first wife, he said, had married
fgain without divorce; his second re-
fused to travel with him from one army
station to another, and he married the
third at Raritan last July.
Hahn appeared in court in full uni
form, with several war decorations.
Judge Cleary told Hahn in sentencing
him that he ought to have another for
his matrimonial engagements.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
School Federation Urges
Wallis 10 Run for MayOraItv

Ihe Pu0l,e u hoSia sGhooi IN Nelghborhood led Fed
of Frederick A. Wallis, immigration
Commissioner, Petitions with the
following heading are ready for circu-
lation:
1--WE, the undersigned, citizens of
greater New York, approaching the
public service rendered by Honorable
Frederick A Wallis in the Police De-
partment, in the Liberty loan campaign,
at Ellis Island and in other positions,
respectfully request him to become a
candidate for the office of Mayor of
this city, and hereby pledge him our
full support"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Wife Admits
Hired Thugs
Slew Kaber

CONTINUED from page onH
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Kings County Gaining

Tire efforts of the Kings County
Membership Committee, of which f.
|. Franklin Is chairman. are meeting
with great success. During the last
month hundreds Of veterans have en-
rolled because of the thorough work
Of this body. assisted by the local
posts and goal Of fifty thousand has
been set.
One Of ire committees of Kings
with which Leglonnaires IN that county
are greatly concerned IS the welfare
committee, @. which General George
4. Wingase $ chairman Under his
direction tne various posts each have
adopted 3 ward in ore Of the gov
e-nmeu- hospitals and are caring for
their wounded and disabled comrades.
The county officials have not failed
TO look after the social welfare Of
,nes- able-5odied members. The head
quarters AZ l23 Schermerhorn Street
IS splendid clubhouse and most Of
the posts hold their meetings there.
Brooklyn veterans are most interested
al present IN plan TO form a Legion
athletic league, which will conduct
baseball, basketball and football tour
a2ments among post teams.
A county employment officer is con-
s'an.y on duty az headquarters and
teT veterans who visit him leave with
oll Jo1. = they need one.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Hickman Post Plans Show

The members OF the Walter Heck
nan Pos, rave IN rehearsal musical
comedy 10 be given at Hunts Point
Palace the Bronx, on the evening of
APrl Is, which promises to be one Of
ne best amateur productions the Lee
giol mas gwen.
Edward Powers IS coaching the cast
and ne has as principals Joe Pow
eTs, Billy Stanton. Joe Ennis, Jack
he.ly- Jack Perlman, Frank Powers
JACK Horn. Edward Walsh. Edward
Geary and Harry Sharpe. The posts
aux. AIRY. which has contributed much
Ct the talent for other amateur pro
cc1etio1s II the Bronx, IS represented
sy the Misses Loretta Petty, Louise
larlucci Louise Kraus, May Keisling
Ruth Lippe, Gertrude Collins, Mae
aecAmal and Helen Schroeder and
Mrs. {. 7 Kerns.
The Hickman Post will meet to-
night at the Valcour Club, 1905 Bath
gate Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
National Commander Gal
braitl, To Be Honor
Guest Tomorrow Night
at Legionaries Banquet
Kings County ShowsCain; ;
Athletic Teams Active:
10000 Posts in Z. S.;
Many Charters Asked

All Lerionnaires Of New York will
tsvs An opportunity tomorrow even
;rr 70 n,eef their national commander.
Trederck " Galbraiih j.. who is to
h the honor guest at q banquet and
sance a. the Hotel Pennsylvania. The
junction : being given under the au-
sn;ces Of the New York County Legion
and il IS anticipated that all two hun
d-ed ot the posts under its jurisdic-
.;on W. have representatives there.
Among other guests will be Major
General Robert Lee Ballard, Rear Ad-
MIRA H. McP. HGSe, Major General
John 4. Lejeune. United States Sem
stors Calder and Wadsworth and Lieu
tenant Commander John Phillip Sousa
Miss Marcella Johnson Will sing the
national anthem.
The natiora. commander has been in
New YORK during the fight on the pro
German propaE aEandists who organized
the Horror on the Rhine" mass meet
ing snd re may be expected 10 have
something pointed to say in regard 20
the Legioa'S course Of action in fu-
.ure a.fasrs of tha. kind
This " be the first time Legion
mares Of tbs county have met their
chief executive formally. He com
mandeG an 0..o regiment OF the 37th
Division during the war. was wound
ed twice and decorated three times
for yalOr
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Another Legion Page
In The Tribune Sunday

Next Sunday, March 13, The
New York Tribune again will
publish full page of American
Legion news, as the official Le-
gion publication in the New York
department.
This feature page, which is
published on the second Sunday
of each month. will include i'm
portant activities of the organ
ization in this state. as we'll as
such national news as is deemed
Of special interest to Legion
naires. 1t has been approved
officially by Department Com
mander Charles G. Blakeslee and
other state officers.
Contributions to the Tribune
page should reach the American
Legion editor not later than the
Wednesday preceding the date of
publication.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Post Acquires Hospital Beds

Members Of the Lieutenant Feigl.
lst Division, Post have purchased a
bed n perpetuity, which will be avail
able for them n the event of Illness.
Il IS n the Lutheran Hospital. at 144th
Street and Convent Avenue, and is but
me first O. several the organization
plans to buy
Colonel Feigle, father Of the officer
lor whom the post was named, has
contributed bronze tablet to be
placed above the bed.
Inc post Is after members, who
nay apply 20 William J. Delaney. at
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
State Income Tax Explained
Changes To Be Shown at Meet
ings in Public Schools

Changes in the state income tax law
will be explained at addresses to be de-
livered each day next week at series
Of meetings in public schools through
out the greater city. John H. Elliott.
metropolitan director of the State In
come Tax Bureau, made arrangements
with the Board of Education for the
meetings.
B. j. Rice, an assistant director. has
been assigned to have charge of an in T.
come tay branch in Room 200, Munici-
pal Building, which will be opened to-
day
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
Play Library for Vets

Veterans who wish to give Soldier
shows the productions that amused
them overseas, may acquire them now
from the A. f. F. Play Library, at IS
West Fortieth Street. Entertainment
information viii be dispensed gratis
20 veterans applying there.
survey has been made of more
than 9 thousand Legion posts by c.
S. Clancy. director Of the Play Library
and in almost every instance veterans
have expressed II preference for plays
depicting life in the A <. F.
"Sittin' Pretty" Dustin EN- Off,"
"Who Can Tell" and Eyes Right are
some of the plays ready for distribu
ton at nominal fees
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
LEGION ATHLETICS

the basketbA, team Of Captain Belvi-
dere Brooks Post. The latest victim is
the U. S. S. Granite State five, defeated,
54 to Ia.
The 7lst-1O5th Infantry Post basket
ball team wolld like to arrange games
on opponents courts. Address II NJ
Vernon, 2357 Eighth Avenue. city.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

The week ending February rs was
one OF the most successful in the his
tory of the American Legion and Wo-
mems Auxiliary of that organization
from the standpoint of new posts and
units. Eightytwo posts of the Le-
gion and seventythree units of the
Women's Auxiliary were added. Ap-
plications for thirty-two charters for
the auxiliary were received in one day.
There are now 10000 posts and 2,15o
units, according to national headquar-
terS.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07
NATIONAL LEGION NOTES

Proof that disabled veterans appre-
ciate the efforts of the Legion in their
behalf is provided by statistics show
ing that Of the number of ex-service
men confined in hospitals of thirty
states onethird are Legion members.
The figures were obtained from a re-
port Of the service division of national
headquarters. based on a Legion ma
tiona census.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

Arthur Viens Post will meet tonight
in the Arthur Murphy Club, s62 East
fremont Avenue, when they will be
addressed by Miss Lillian Bell, wei
fare worker; Vice Commander William
F. Deegan and Commissioner of Chari-
ties Hamilton.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

A Bal des Camouheurs will be given
by Evcrit Herter Post on April 3
at the Biltmore Hotel Members of
the post are veterans of the 40th En-
gineers, Cam outage.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

Dolly Madison-Frances Warren Perish
ing Post will meet on March Is at i23
Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

Alvin ". Owsley, of Austin. Tex.
who was pioneer in American Le-
gion organization in the Southwest,
has been appointed assistant director
OF the Legion's Americanism commits
sion. Owsley's efforts we're response
bic largely for the passage of bill
in the Texas Legislature providing
sl,5oo, 900 for a hospital at Kerrville
TnX
New-York tribune., 1921-03-07

lin Avenue, March 1s. may be procured
from Miss A. Spies, 1886 Bathgate
Avenue.
George Dahlbender Posts auxiliary
has chosen the following committees:
Executive committee, Misses Rose
Grossman, chairman; Anna Pere and A..
Gotliffe; welfare committee. Misses
Ada Cohen, Arna Pere and Alice T..
Grossman and Mrs. p X. Levy. Miss
Ada Cohen IS the delegate to the Bronx
County welfare committee.