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New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Boy Held as Thief
Says Film Taught
Him Safe-Crackins
Lads Ia and ii Years Old
Accused of Looting Store:
Elder Said to Have Com
mitted Nine Burglaries

Howard Ward, fourteen years old, OF
215 Smith Street, Brooklyn, who, ac-
!cording to the police, was re-
leased recently from the Catholic
Protectory, where he passed six
months for nine Brooklyn burg
laries of which he was found guilty
was arrested last night on charge of
entering a Myrtle Avenue. Brooklyn,
shoe store and stealing $50 worth of
shoes and rubber heels. Oscar Ander-
son, eleven years old, of 119 Dean
Street. Brooklyn, was arrested with the
Ward boy and held on a similar charge.
Detective Reardon was leaving the
Adams Street police station shortly
after o'clock last night when he was
accosted by breathless pedestrian. who
told him that two burglars had entered
the shoe store Of Jacob Harris, at 30
Myrtle Avenue, and were then work
ing on the safe of the store The pc
destrlan said that he had tried to enter
the store, but found that large pack
ing case had been moved against the
door As he hurried away to report to
the police, he told the detective that
he heard the regular beat of a heavy
sledge on the steel door of the safe.
After hearing this report Detective
Reardon returned to the station and
enlisted the aid Of Detective McKenna
in the desperate adventure which
seemed ahead of him
A block from the station house the
two detectives saw the Ward and
Reardon boys scrambling hastily over
back fence. Becoming suspicious
they chased the boys and caught them
after a lively race.
With their two prisoners the detec
tives then proceeded to the shoe store.
There, they allege, they found a full
set of burglars tools before the safe,
the combination of which had been
Knocked almost off. According to the
oetectlyes, the safe had every appear
ance of having been attacked by expert
crackers.
When asked where they had learned
to crack safe in such fashion, Ward
is said to have confessed that he
learned the trick from motion pic
Jure ~ ne had seen while in the Catholic
ProtectOry
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Harvey's Views ON War
Declared Not Soldiers

"The distinguished American who
told the English the other day that
America entered the war for safety
first and to save our skins may have
voiced the views of the government
but he did not speak for the boys who
offered their lives in the army" the
Rev. DR.. Herbert Shipman, Of the
Church of the Heavenly Rest, declared
yesterday, referring to Colonel Har-
vey's recent address before the Pilgrim
Society in London. DR.. Shipman ad-
York letter carriers assembled in the
Temple Emanuel for the annual memo
rial service for their comrades who
died during the year.
Nobody could have persuaded one
Of those boys that this great country,
so remote from Europe, was in the
slightest danger" DR.. Shipman contin-
ued.
THE man who says they we're fight
ing merely to retain our prosperity
TO gain from the worlds distress. de-
nies the whole spirit of knight err
rantry and conservation which actuated
them. And that spirit was not imposed
by law, but grew from belief in God.
1t is to-day. as ii always has been, the
God-given strength Of this country
DIR. Shipman was followed by DR..
Joseph Silverman, of Temple Emanu-El
who declared that the way to honor
our dead patriots is not by hag~waving
but by carrying out their ideals.
Before the service the letter carriers
in three battalions marched up Fifth
Avenue. from Twenty sixth Street to
the temple at Forty-third Street,
headed by their president Peter j.
Walters. All were in uniform.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Homes for 1920
Families Started
Since Tax Relief
Increase Of l57 Per Cent
Over Last Year Reported
by Curran; Many Lending
Reasonably, He Declares

Plans for homes 70 house 1929
families have been filed In the five
boroughs since February %, when the
tax exemption ordinance took effect,
according to records compiled by the
building bureaus Henry II. Curran.
President of the Borough of Manhat-
tan, who made the figures pubic
yesterday, pointed out that this rate
of 1000 q week fer the first three
months that the tax exemption ordi
nance has been in effect was an increase
OF 157 per cent over the same period
year ago. hir. Curran's statement
follows:
New homes in New York at the rate
OF 1000 families week is the net
result Of the first three months build
on February 25. Figures from the five
boroughs show plans filed for this first
quarter of the tax exemption year which
will take care OF 1929 families, as
against 5,l71 families for the same
three months Of year ago. This is an
increase of 8,l06 families, or 157 per
cent.
while the number of apartments
planned has taken a sudden jump the
most encouraging feature to me of
the building that is going on all over
town is the great number of one and
tWo-famlly houses that are under way.
Out of the 1929 families provided for
In the last three months 1869 families
will live in the little houses, as against
6,720 in apartments. That means q
substantial increase in the number Of
New York families who own their own
homes. The more we can have Of these
little houses, where people can go up
stairs to bed and downstairs to break
fast and begin to live like human
beings instead of cliff dwellers, the
better off we shall be.
"The pace that tax exemption has
set Of 1000 families q week must be
not only maintained but increased.
This means money, and more money,
at reasonable rates of interest The
estimated cost of these 1900 new
homes is a little over $63. 100000. Such
total means that while there has
been prohteering in some quarts
there must be somebody around town
who is lending money for new homes
at decent rates. It takes q lot Of
people to hand over Ss3, 900, 900 at rates
that are bearable, and those who have
proved their wisdom and public spirit
in this field ought to receive full
credit. l believe there is plenty of
honest money in New York and l know
it is sorely needed for new homes.
The housing shortage is not yet over
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Lapland Brings In
1,43l Passengers;
Two Born at Sea
u. 5. Cons sul at Antwerp,
Among Arrivals, Tells of
High Retail Prices Pre-.
vailing at Belgian Port

The Red Star liner Lapland, from
Antwerp. Cherbourg and SOUTHAMPTON
arrived here yesterday with 1,431 pas.
sengers. She passed the health exam.
nations at Quarantine and landed he,
travellers in the forenoon.
Among the saloon passengers was
George 5. Messersmith, the American
consul at Antwerp, who returned with
mis- wife on leave after a service ot o.
two and half years at the Belgian
seaport. He said that high retail
prices such as existed during the war
prevailed now in Belgium, and thai
there seemed no likelihood of imme.
diate reduction.
Another traveller on the Lapland was
Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews, u. S
~, who was in command of the Adri.
attic squadron. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Andrews and his son-in-law
and daughter, Ensign and Mrs. C. c.
Champion.
Two children were born on the run
across the Atlantic, one of the infants
dying of measels and pneumonia short
body was buried at sea.
The Toloa, of the United Fruit Com
pany, came to port yesterday from the
West Indies with William McPhee,
novelist, as chief engineer. Mr.. Nc
Phee had been in the service Of the
company for several years as second
in command in the engine room and on
the trip north received his appoint
ment as chief engineer.
Among the 1874 saloon passengers was
General Garcia Valez, Cuban Minister
10 England, accompanied by his son
and secretary. Also on board was
Mrs. Eleanor Puyol, wife of the quar-
termaster general of the Cuban army.
She was accompanied by her son and
daughter and will spend the summer
with them in this country.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06

wintering in Florida. The skipper said
that he gave Smith supply of water
and provisions to last him q week and
sent radio to Key West at Smiths re.
quest asking shat tug or coast guard
cutter be sent to pick him up.
Mrs. Smith, who carried $4,000 worth
of jewelry and clothing with her, had
these transferred to the tanker before
she went aboard herself
She said last night that she and her
husband, accompanied by Jackson and
Brown, left Stuart, Fla, which is near
Palm Beach, on Tuesday morning.
When they were fourteen hours out
on their course to Atlantic City, where
they were to take the launch, the en-
gine became disabled and they sig
nailed for help. They were not OBJ
served until Thursday morning, when
the Solitaire came by and offered as
sistance
Mrs. Smith said her husband was
confident that the launch could be
saved and he insisted on staying with
1t until help came out. While dis
abled the craft had drifted out of its
course with the Gulf Stream and was
about 140 miles northeast of Palm
Beach when the Solitaire came by.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Dead in Lot, His Head
Almost Severed With AK
Fifty Cards OH Brooklyn Victim
Bear Name of Owner of
Cafe lust Closed

man was found dead last night, his
head almost severed by blow from an
ak or cleaver, delivered from behind, in
a vacant lot at Twentieth Street and
Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn. The body
was lying within ten feet of the side
walk, and blood still flowed from the
wound when it was found.
Michael Mommones, watchman for
the Independent Coal Company, whose
yard adjoins the lot, saw the body and
telephoned for the police, thinking that
the victim was intoxicated and had
fallen.
The body was that of a man about
twenty-five years old, apparently an
Italian. He wore new gray suit and
new black oxford shoes. Fifty cards
inscribed "Venezia Restaurant & Cafe,
1921 kenmare Street. Proprietor, Sill
VIC Melchiorre," were found in his pock-
ct. Silvio Melchiorre has run a cafe
at that address for three years, but the
place was closed last night.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Hylanl Prepares
10 Obstruct
Meyer Inquiry
(contlnued from PAGE ons)

investigation into graft charges made
by The Tribune, which resulted in nu-
pierous indictments, asked that certain
policemen in whom he had confidence
be assigned to assist him. The Mayor
changed his attitude, however, when
Mr.. Whitman threatened to put some
one in Jail if his request was not com
piled with.
The fact is that the mandate in the
resolution creating the Legislative corn
m.ttee was written for the purpose of
preventing the Hearst-Hylan- -Tammany
administration from refusing to assign
men in the city employ whom the leg
islators could trust
The present attitude of Mayor Hylan
and his administration toward the graft
Investigators is held to be complete
reversal of his professions of willing
ness to help, which he announced on
April he and all his subordinaates
Investigating committee.
On that day the Mayor made public
statement, in which he said:
TO facilitate the efforts of the leg
islative committee have directed every
othclal and employee under my juris-
dlctIon to furnish the heartiest and
most helpful cooperation"
City's Expenditures Cited
Yesterday the committee issued q
statement in which it announced that
the constructive side of it's work would
include:
Search into the accounts of the city
to determine, with fair allowances for
increased living and construction costs,
how moneys are being spent and
whether the volume of the expendi-
lures is fair, prudent and justifable." !"
The statement went over the receipts
and expenditures OF the last ten years
and showed that the net debt of the
city o-day was 1,139,00O,oOO, COM
pared with S753, 100000 ten years ago.
In this period the citys expenditures
were 1888, ,645,2l5. Using this sum as
a 100 per cent basis, the committee s
accounts showed that the Hylan admin
lstration spent approximately 1o.5 per
cent IN 1918, 100 per cent in 1919 and
148 per cent in 1920.
In the ten-year period covered by
the committees experts it WAS shown
that the city's cash receipts up to the
end of the term, December 81, 1920.
were $5,4S2, ,932,667, inclusive of 49,
lel ,988,456 borrowed, leaving an aggre-
gate IN taxes, assessments and rents,
interest on taxes, etc, of $780, ,e34, ,20s.
The largest single item during this
period was $2,79S,923,259 for debt re-
emption-almost double the cost Of
running the city government.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Skipper, Adrift ON Crippled
Speed Boat, Refuses Rescue

Anxiety was expressed last night for
the safety Of William Smith. pilot and
engineer of the forty -fiye-foot power
boat The Breakers, which became dis
abled twelve miles off the coast of
Florida on Thursday.
Mrs. Smith, his wife, who was res
cued from the disabled craft Thursday
morning, was brought to port last night
on the tanker Solitaire, of the Texas
Oil Company, which stood by for sew
eral hours on her run north from Port
Arthur, Tex.
The Solitaire came to an anchorage
off Stapleton. s. l., last night, but Mrs.
Smith, Harry Jackson and william,
Brown, who we're rescued with her, did
not como ashore. Mrs. Smith made in
quiry as to the fate of her husband,
who declined to leave The Breakers
after the others had been taken Off.
Captain Morris, master of the tanker
said that he offered to take off the
entire party, but that Smith insiste /
on standing by the boat. which is owned
by Charles R. Meyers, a wealthy hotel
man Of Atlantic City, who had been
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06

police affairs in New York. The oc-
casion WAS the fftieth anniversary Of
the founding Of the little Catholic
Church in the hamlet and the only
other speakers of the afternoon were
members of the clergy.
Father Robert Walsh, Of Salamanca;
Father Edward Britt. Of Buffalo, and
Father William r. Doran, of Elmira,
praised Commissioner Enright as an
example of a small town boy who had
achieved success by adherence to prin-
ciples of honesty and integrity.
Mr.. Enright said tonight that he
had intended TO take a ten-day yacs-
ton, but as there seemed to be con-
siderable stir in New York over his
absence he would return tomorrow.
"I'll be back on the job some time
Monday, and if any one has anything
to say to me they know where to find
me-" he said.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Art Treasures Stolen From
Morgan Memorial i'm Hartford

1AKIFORD, Ionn., june 5.-Sev-
eral thousand dollars worth of valua
BILE tapestries and paintings were
stolen mysterlously last night from the
Morgan Memorial, the costly ediiicc
erected in this, his native city, by the
late j. P. Morgan in honor of his father,
Junius Spencer Morgan
The buildings are supposed to be
closely guarded. Although the police
and the trustees of the Memorial re-
fuse to talk, it is believed that the
thieves effected an entrance through a
rear window OF the Wadsworth Ath;e-
neum. which is connected with the
Morgan Memorial, and rushad the loot
out Of town in AUTOMOBILES.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
L Cleaned Up New York.
Enright Says in Church
Police Commissioner Speaks
From Chancei Where He
Was Christened
Special Dtspatch to The Tribune

HORNELL, n. Y, June 5.-Police
Commissioner Richard Enright of New
York stood within the rail of St.
Joseph's Church in the adjoining viii
lage of Campbell this afternoon and
from the chancel of the edifice in
York one of the cleanest cities in the
world.
He recalled his boyhood days in the
little hamlet and said he never had ex-
pected to be cast into such tumult
as had followed his administration of
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Connolly Ciues Queens
Officials q Clean Bill

Borough President Maurice Connol-
~ OF Queens, in statement which he
issued last night in reference TO the
subpoena served on Comptroller Craig
on Saturday by the Meyer legislative
committee, said the committee would
IND nothing irregular or improper III
the actions of any Of the Queens off,
cials.
All of the matters and things in
Queens referred to in the subpoena -
the statement said, "were inquired into,
in turn, first by District Attorney
O'Leary of Queens, while he was run
Craig and Governor Whitman, and /
understand that these matters were
presented also to the Lockwood com
mittee and to the Almirall grand jury.
The result in every case was the
same. Nothing irregular or improper
was found involving anv officials of the
Borough of Queens, or any subordinate,
and what is more, nothing will be
found now.
when the Legislative committee
was appointed and given 100000 of the
taxpayers money of the City of New
York to spend, the people and the
press had right to believe that there
would be an end to suspicion and to
accusations by innuendo and secret in
Quiry, and that the full light of day
would be thrown upon all of the activi-
ties Of public officials and public
bodies
"The result is most disappointing.
The committee insists upon excluding
the press and the public from hear
ings. They seem to seek the darkness,
they fear the light.
st is we'll understood that this COM
mittee is being prompted by Comptrol-
ler Craig, whose hostility is under
stood, and that he has for several
months past been engaged in private
consultation with counsel for the COM
mittee. 1t is a remarkable coincidence
that the Meyer committee suggests its
intention of Investigating ali depart
ments but that nothing is said of in
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Firemen Respond as Toy
Balloon Sets Boy AbIaze
Youngster of Four Seriously
Burned as He Touches Match
10 Playfiing and III ExpIodes

Charles La Bella, four years old, %
321 East Forty-fifth Street, was seri-
ously burned at his home last night
when a toy balloon with which he we 5
playing exploded. The explosion. it
was said, resulted when the boz
brought lighted match in contact
with the balloon.
Tne poy's clothing caught fire and
he was badly burned about the BODY.
The screams of the mother attracted
the attention of neighbor, who ex-
tinguished the flames by wrapping a
rug around the boy. In the excitement
a fire alarm was turned in. The fire
men arrived as the lad was being re
moved to Bellevue Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Boy, l3, Hangs Himself
After Spat With Rrofber

~, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., June g.
,i!hlrteen7,year-oid 4 Leopold Fiabach took
his own life to-day by hanging himse,f
from rafter in the garret of his
home, 3l5 Wayne Street, Highland
Park, suburb of New Brunswick.
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
l'labach. can assign no motive for the
deed He had had quarrel with his
brother shortly before he committed
suicide, they said, but the incident was
unimportant- He was in his third year
in high school and had passed his ex-
aminations for promotion,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06

Patrick j. Sullivan. motornsn Of The
train. was unable TO say whether the
man jumped to the tracks or fell. The
platform was crowded and persons
seeking to watch efforts to extricate
the body caused such a jam that patrol
men were sent from the East Fifty
first Street police station TO hold them
in check
Trains were delayed fifteen minutes.
Y. NJ. G. A. card in the mans pocket
bore the name of Sumner W. Robinson
of Waltham, Mass, and the return ad-
ress on package he was carrying WAS
Sumner Robinson, 75S st. Bataipo
Street. Boston"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Bostonian Killed i'm Subway
Accident Causes jam on Grand
Central Platform

A man believed to be Sumner ".
Robinson. of Boston, was killed by
northbound express train last night
AZ the Grand Central subway station.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
CHILDS DE LUXE

NJ 1lLLjC LIE LOAE
Another CHIDS restaurant
has been opened on Fifth
Avenue, New York, situated
in the former Holland House,
near 3Oth Street.
The spirit OF refined hospi.
talityw whichmade this famous
hotel the mecca of celebrities
is still maintained within its
historic walls.
For this new house of
CHILDS is an eating place
de luxe, providing the best
of food in truly delightful
surroundings,
Fla~orfuI fyuita. saeergsss
vegetables, pure milk. and
strictly fresh eggs
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05
DIAMOND HAS MANY VIRTUES
But According to Superstition the
Gem Must Be Gift to Person
Who Wears It,

According to superstition (and to
fact also), the owner Of a diamond
is lucky. indeed. The diamond should
be worn upon the left side, for it is
Of greater virtue there. for the
strength Of it's growing is toward the
North. that is the left side Of the
world, and the left part Of a man
when he turneth his face toward the
East. He who carries diamond will
have strength and manhood; it will
keep him from harm, especially from
broken limbs. 1t will give him vic
tory over all his enemies if his cause
is righteous. It will keep him from
strife and riots, and is Il talisman
against entertainments. In fact, if an
anchanter tries to work Il spell upon
the possessor of diamond he will
ind it will work upon himself instead.
No Wild beast will attack the diamond
owner It heals all manner of mental
troubles. If poison be brought near
it, the diamond will become moist and
sweat. In order to be of the greatest
cirtue, the diamond must be given
freely instead of being bought.
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05
EAGLE EASILY KING IN AIR
Has No Trouble in Distancing Air.
plane Travelling at Speed Of
Sixty Miles an Hour.

The eagle. according to aeronautists.
is not merely the king of birds, but
in flying quality the swiftest Of all
birds. A French "hyer" from the
French naval station at Salonica In
February. 1916, had match with an
eagle near Mount Olympus. The eagle
competed Of his free will. Il wcs
followed by the eagle" writes Com
mander Larrowy, "at a distance OF
about one hundred feet. Our machine
was making her full measured sixty
nautical miles an hour In comparison
with us the bird seemed SO perfectly
at standstill that 1 was able to pho
tOgraph it with an exposure of half
second, as the sky was cloudy, and
the plane gave an absolutely neat re-
production. For two minutes the bird
practically did not move its wings,
and seemed to glide, except every ten
or twelve seconds, when it made
very slight and careless sort Of row.
ing motion as if to keep flt When the
bird abandoned all thought of attack
ing its strange rival it went full
speed ahead, and covering much more
than sixty miles an hour soon disap-
peared."
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05
Hedge Solves Fencing Problems.

61COUC 0VIVSS VuStuS VtVStVubOs
More and more Americans are ap-
preciating the value Of privacy in their
gardens. 1t is sane idea, this
that we plant lovely lawns and grow
shrubs and trees, not to form a park
for the admiring gaze Of motorists and
neighbors, but to furnish us with a
little kingdom Of outdoors all our
own, where we can live and breathe
and have our being unbeholden and un-
molested.
Very frequently, of course, privet
and other hedge shrubs seem to be
planted only for the sake of divid-
ing one property from another or
one section Of the garden from an
ing the hedge clipped back. But
the hedge that is built for the pur-
pose of giving protection should be
clipped only enough to give the roots
strength and to give it trim ap-
pearance.
Much is being done nowadays with
frs and other evergreens for hedges.
Nursery men have gone to the ends
Of the earth for trees and shrubs
that would withstand the extremes of
our climate. A recently introduced
fir has come from the east coast of
Asia, where they are accustomed to
q hotter summer and colder winter
than we have here, and are therefore
sure to Withstand our extremes. Great
expense has also been taken to get
shrubs and trees suitable for wind
breaks in the trying seashore climate
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05
Value Of Community PLAY.

Community play is being promoted
by local governments because it has
been demonstrated to be a practical
business proposition. City officials ac-
cept as an axiom the statement that
the leisure hours Of the city must be
either an asset or liability. The peo-
pie Of this county have about a bill
lion hours a day to pass outside of
work and sleep. In this leisure time
most Of the crime, vice and delinquency
occur.
Middletown transcript., 1921-11-05
Success and Failure,

Il met Barrie" said an editor, cat
2 dinner party in London. What big
head he's got, to be sure!
"'Sir James, l said nervously, toy
ing with the stem Of my wine glass, I
suppose, Sir James, that some of your
plays do better than others? They are
not all successes, imagine?
Barrie leaned his big head on its
little thin neck toward me. His sau-
cerlike eyes twinkled.
"'No,' he said, some Peter out and
some Pan OUT"