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New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Charge Police Plot Sends
Innocent Men to Prison
Seven New Complaints Alleging
Conspiracy With Stoolpigcons
Heard by Chicago Jury
Special Dispatch to The Tribt.n

CHICAGO, Sept. 8.--Seven new COM
plants were presented to the grand
Jury for consideration to-day in the
investigation OF charges that "stool-
pigeons" conspired with the police to
send innocent men to the penitentiary
The complaints, all practically identical,
charge that innocent men are lurcd into
traps set by the "stools" and then be-
trayed for the sole purpose of initiating
the efficiency records Of certain mem
bars Of the police force.
Denial of the charges was made by
Acting Chief Of Detectives John Norton,
who, with several members Of his crime
squad, appeared before the grand jury
Additional witnesses were interrogated
to-day.
Chief FitzMorris declared that he
welcomed the inquiry.
"lf it is so easy to send an innocent
man to jail, it is wonder all the guilty
men are not now in the penitentiary,
he said. "The fact should not be over
looked that the men who make these
charges have police records If there
is anything wrong with the Police De-
partment | urge an investigation"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
$4,000 Fraud
I'm Stock Deal
Laid to Broker
John Janis Arrested in Suit
That Caused Arrangement
of Herbert Lazarus, Asso-
ciate in Broadway House
PhoneUsedinTransaction
Misrepresentation Charged
i'm Sale of Iron Co. Shares
to Customer i'm BROOKLYN

John Janis, member Of the broker
age firm Of Herbert Janis g. Co., at 152
broadway, was arrested yesterday by
Deputy Sheriffs Murphy and Eisenstein
in an action brought by Samuel Met
calf, an iron merchant at 25 Seabring
Street, Brooklyn, who charges the de-
fendant was party to fraudulent stock
transactions whereby Mr.. Metcalf lost
$4,000.
Janis was released In $4,000 bail.
Herbert Lazarus, his business associ-
ate, recently was arrested in connec-
tion with the same action and was ad-
mitted to bail.
Mr.. Metcalf asserted that Janis, in
PRODUCING himself as son of Herbert
Janis, of Herbert Janis e. Co., brokers.
called on him last December, said his
firm was a member of the Stock Ex-
change, and offered some stock of the
Sligo Iron and Steel Company which, it
is charged, he represented as worth S12
q share and paying a dividend Of So.
Other representations made by Janis,
it is set forth in the complaint, were
that the iron company was ninety years
old and had eighty smelling furnaces.
Mr.. Metcalf bought the stock and
later invested in some more. He says
man calling himself Herbert Janis,
father of John Janis, introduced him
self over the telephone and carried on
some of the subsequent negotiations
for the sale of stock. One transaction
was the sale to Mr.. Metcalf of shares
of the New York Oil Company.
Mr.. Metcalf says he discovered that
the stock of the Sligo company had a
value of only S1.50. 1t was upon the
assurance that he would be reim-
bursed that he bought the oil stock,
he declares. Then, after some investi-
cation by himself, he says he learned
that practically all the representations
on which he was induced to buy the
stock were false.
He charges that there is no Her
bert Janis in the stock brokerage bust
ness and that the man who said he
was the father Of John Janis. was
Herbert Lazarus. He adds that the
Janis company is not member of the
Stock Exchange
Mr.. Metcalf brought similar suit
several months ago against two men
who did business as father and son,
under the name of Oppenheim & Co.,
whose right names, it was charged,
were Kelly and Gutterson.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Postal Robberies Decrease
Since Clerks Were Armed

WASHINGTON, Sept. s.-How postal
robberies have decreased since the arm
ing Of mail clerks was indicated in q
statement to-day by Postmaster Cen
eral Hays that during the last five
months, or since clerks were armed
the losses from robberies amounted to
only S8S,580, of which $4,000 was re-
covered. During the year preceding
arming of the clerks the robberies
amounted to $6,300,000 and the recov-
cries to S3,200,O00.
~ don't know whether this represents
reform wave or what" said the Post
master General, "but the postal in
spectors believe the arming of clerks
has been the cause"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Hylan Says Crime
Increase Is just
Insurance Trick
Mayor Instructs Hirshfield
to Investigate Increase in
Rates and s'Propaganda''
He Says Companies Use

Mayor Hylan yesterday instructed
David Hirshfleld, his Commissioner Of
Accounts, to make an investigation of
the manner in which business is OBJ
tanned by the burglar insurance COM
panies. The Mayor said that the press
agents of these companies were busy
getting out "crime wave propaganda
In order to Justify an increase in their
burglar insurance rates. He also init
mated that the companies insured au-
tomobiles and other property without
properly determining the identity of
the bona-fide owners. The Mayors
letter to Hirshfeld follows in part:
III not that the insurance companies
that deal in burglary insurance and
their press agents are busy giving out
propaganda to try to justify an in
crease in their premium rates. and in
cIdentally to make business better and
thereby grab greater profits from the
pockets Of the people.
"Of course you know that the crime
wave propaganda is often put out to
frlghten people so that they will rush
to the burglary insurance companies to
get their effects insured, thereby max
ing business good for the companies.
This is clever way of advertising for
burglary insurance"
Il understand you can take an
automobile number plate to an insur-
ance company, have your automobile
insured without any further investira-
tion, and, if the automobile is stolen
and the number changed, the automo-
bile can again be insured in the same
company by the party presenting an
other number plate without any in
vestigation on the part of the lnsur-
ance company. A further investigation
of the automobile by the insurance
company would show that such auto
mobile had been stolen, and also the
previous insurance Of the stolen auto
mobile.
II understand that when these in
surance companies insure personal
property, automobiles, jewelry, clotn-
ing and other valuables, they do not
even make an investigation to see if
the person is possessed of or is the
owner of the property and they do not
investigate and give little consideration
to the value Of such personal prop
erty."
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Fire Imperils Six on Launch
Senator Newberry's Sons Party
Wrecked in Lake

DETROIT, Sept. 9.-Six men, in
Guiding Phelps Newberry, son Of
Senator Truman H. Newberry, and
several prominent Detroit business
men. narrowly escaped death last
night when the fifty-foot gasoline launch
Kismet, owned by F. Walter Guibert,
burned to the waters edge in Lake
ST: Clair, three miles off Crosse Point,
a Detroit suburb.
After battling for more than three
hours. against heavy sea the six
men, in a small rowboat, early TO-DAY
reached the Crosse Point Clubhouse
Guibert, badly burned about the hands
and with his lungs scorched by the
flames as he fought the fire aboard his
craft, is in hospital. He is expected
to recover.
=, Others in the party. included James
T. Lynn and Frederick Hanna. De-
troit business men, and Jere H.
Brooks, of Detroit.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Bandits Rob Gem Salesman
Of So. 100 in Hallway of Home

Isaac Lipsky, ffty-fve years old, of
278 South Second Street, BROOKLYN. a
lewelry salesman. told detectives in
the Bedford Avenue police station
last night that he had been attacked in
the hallway of his home by three
men, who knocked him down and fled
with thirty pieces of jewclry valued
at S2,10O which they took from his
pockets.
Lipsky said he chased his three as
sailants through Second Street to
Havemeyer Street, where they es-
capped. The police are investigating
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Historic Warship Doomed
Granite State, Built i'm 1918,
To Be DismantIed

The old United States warship Gran
lte State, one of the first hattleships
built by the United States, is about to
oe dismantled. She left the ways in
Maine in 1918, and for years after her
completion was used as q training ship,
at the foot of West Ninety seventh
Street, where she is now lying.
In her hold are more than 100 tons
OF handmade copper spikes containing
large percentage of pure gold and
silver. The Mulholland Machinery Com
pany, .161 Pearl Street, purchased her
recently. and has had numerous re-
quests for souvenirs before the boat
is destroyed.
Complete historical data can be OBJ
tanned fromk the officer on board, who
has been ins charge of the vessli for
the last thirty or forty years.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
One browns i'm Plane Fall
Naval Machine Plunges Into
Potomac; Pilot Unhurt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 81. L. Nc
Nickle. of this city, civilian employee
of the naval aeronautical testing lab
oratory, was drowned to-day when
navy seaplane fell into the Potomac
River. The body was recovered.
According to a report from the naval
air station at Anacostia, the plane ran
into an air pocket when making turn
and plunged into the water. The plane
was piloted by Lieutenant Hugh M.
Roughley, reserve flyer, who escaped
without injury.
The accident, naval officers said, was
the first resulting in loss of life which
has occurred at the .Anacostia station
since December 1919.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Kills Ex-Wife
And Lawyer ON
Grows led Car
pedham, Mass, Man Cuts
Eyes and Heart Frontier
Picture and Fires Volley
Through Wedding Ring
Pair on Way TO Court
SLAYER Uses Shoulder of
Terrified Girl in Seat
Ahead as Rest for Pistol
saseial niapateh to The Trianns


gnsTON, Sept. 9.--Cutting the eyes
.,s ~hears" out of his divorced wife's
s,rsure and scrawling across the face
!. the photograph, Beware of this
roman. she has no eyes and no heart"
Charles Antoine Wells, of Dedham, ad-
;.s.ed his wedding ring about the
Aarrel of his revolver and went in
,..ycb of her. He found her with her
LAWYER, A. Louis Altmeyer, in crowded
.r,llev car, at Grove and Washington
streets. West Roxbury, and killed them
both
Mrs. Wells died instantly and the
,avyer shortly afterwards in the Bos-
ton City Hospital, where he had been
rpsbed in the hope of saving his life.
Couple on Way to Court
The couple were on their way to the
pedam Court at the time to ask for
an order restraining Wells from inter
sering with his former wife; to dis
posses him from the house where he
lived snd which she bought: to force
him to pay alimony awarded her when
she obtained her decree, February II,
1921, on the ground of cruel and abusive
treatment, and to compel him to give
up the custody of their three children.
With the fash of the revolver G. G.
GiHard, of Hyde Park, who was in the
rear Of the car, sprang upon the
SLAYER, who, weak and trembling, made
no effort to escape Gillard turned the
man over 10 the police.
The car had scarcely started from
the corner of Grove and Washington
streets for it's run to Dedham when
Wells was seen to draw the revolver.
Resting it on the shoulder of girl in
the seat in front of him, the latter
being too frightened to move or pro-
test, and while the passengers were
numb with horror, the man rained FIVE
shots in rapid succession at his wife
and her lawyer, who sat across the
aisle from her.
Each Shot Twice
As the gun barked the woman across
the way crumpled up in her seat from
two wounds in her head. A moment
later the man by her side fell side
ways to the floor, also shot twice in
the head. The fifth shot crashed
through the window by their side.
Women shrieked while the motorman
sped of for the police.
A passing automobile was requisi-
toned and Mrs. Wells's body was
rushed to the Emergency Hospital,
where doctors said death had been in
stantaneous
In his cell at the West Roxbury po-
lice station Wells related without any
apparent trace of nervousness the Incl
dents that had led up to the Staying,
how his wife had divorced him, how he
had wanted 30 keep the children and
at last, driven to desperation by her
threatened action for a court order.
had decided to kill her and had planned
the details.
Mrs. Altmeyer all but collapsed when
Informed of the death of her husband.
Nothing, apparently, but the presence
Of their twelve-year-o daughter kept
her from going completely to pieces.
Mr. Altmeyer, who was born in Nancy.
france, was a graduate of Boston Uni
yversity and was affiliated with many
'irasernal organizations, including the
hasons and Elks.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Jersey Auto Bandits Hold Up
Deliveryman and Get S4OO

Two highwaymen jumped from an
automobile last night in Ravine Road.
Jersey City, and at the point of re-
volvers ordered Arthur Baifford and
William Miller, who were on de-
livery wagon of the Tom Tobacco Cons
pany, of Jersey City. to stand and de-
liver.
They took from Miller $4o0 which he
had collected on his route, but over
looked $3.50 which Baifford had in an
inside pocket. The highwaymen's auto
mobile had not stopped when they
jumped out. and after getting the
money they made their escape afoot
in the direction of Hoboken.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Belgians Recalled From Ruhr

BRUSSELS, Sept. 9.--The Belgian de-
tachment sent into occupied Germany
some time ago with view to the occu
patton of the Rush Basin, has been re-
called with the consent of the Allies,
The detachment will return to Belgium
September 10.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Soldiers Day Tomorrow

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. "A procla-
nation designating Sunday, September
II, as service mems Sunday, and rec
ommending that the day be dedicated
in each community to observances ode
signed to honor the men, living or dead
who upheld the national existence in
the World War, and vindicated the
hereditary principles of the American
citizen" was made public by Governor
Miller tonight.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Woman With Gun at Her Head
Tricks Robber Out of 10000

WINDSOR. Ont, Sept. 8 George
Allen to-day has $4,000 he would have
lost but for his wifes nerve. Kneeling
before safe in her home at the rob-
ber's command, with a pistol at her
head, Mrs. Allen opened the door and
swept $4,000 into her lap. Then she
handed the robber 5000, with which he
escaped in an automobile.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
TREATIES ARE INDISPENSABLE

THE possibility of the cmcrgcncc of Il
i four Power Pacific agreement from the
Washington sessions is exceedingly strong.
When the facts are known it is not unlikely
that the recent meetings in the capital
will prove to be among the most mOmcntous
in the annals of American foreign relations.
AS the Conference was not summoned to
spin engaging theories. considerations of
common sense demand specific solutions of
specific problems.
1t is understood that the reported treaty
between the United States. Great Britain,
France and Japan will not bind any of the
parties to the application of force should
infractions of the terms ever become
fragrant Presumably the pact will define
the interests and relationships of each of
the four nations in the Pacific Ocean and
the Far East, and it is limited that ratiti-
cation by duly authorized agencies will
render the disturbing Anglo Japanese
Treaty permanently invalid. Settlement of
this vexed question was undoubtedly one of
the aims Of the Conference.
As for the treaty bOgic, that is curious
phenomenon which Is partly the result Of
much undgcsted thcOrizng, due perhaps to
the sense shattering influences of a world
uphcaval. The cabinets of the Department
of State are stocked with honorable treaties
in force between the United States and sister
nations.
1t is prcpostcrously absurd to anath-
ematizc treaty making when that provides
the only clear escape from a situation too
long clouded by dcusion and distruSt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
"FlLTHY LUCRE"

TAR. WHITE, of the Laboratory of Hy-
~ giene. will undoubtedly relieve n great
strain on the public mind when he an
nounces that, although bacilli have been
known to live eighty days on penny and
seventy one days on a nickel, coins are not
great factors in the transmission of disease,
Much of value might be learned from
tAese economical bacili. The average per-
son in these days would be delighted to know
how 10 live ten minutes on cent and
nickel together.
n The doctor also makes n valuable cOntri-
button to the public peace of mind when he
further announces that he does not know
Of a single case of illness which was trace
able to the handling of money. He is prob
ably right. With money as hard first to
ret and then to keep, against the insistence
qf the butcher, the baker, the Candestck
maker and n varied assortment Of other
tradesmen not mentioned in the famous
nursery rhyme, the likelihood Of infection
IA lowered to the equally well known ire
dncible minimum.
Furthermore, although there are no re-
liable statistics at hand, 1t is believed that
there Is not case on record of any person
having refused money of any sort because
"a the probability that it contained germs Of
any description.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
EQUAL RIGHTS TO TOBACCO

T7tIE cO-eds of the University of Chicago
l. are up against Il hard proposition. Mo-
ticc has been posted in their dormitorics
that no smoking is to be allowed in the
building. Now the question naturally arises
if the girls may not smoke in the dormi-
tories, where shall they smoke?
So far as is known they have not VET
begun to sport cigarettes in the street. And
also far as is known the boys in the
university are allowed to smoke what they
will in their dormitories.
We do not suppose that the university
authorities think they can prevent the girls
from smoking by the new rule. Nor do we
suppose that the mepbers of tie faculty who
smoke intend TO give up their tobacco in
order to set the giSls a good example.
Some way out will have to be found that
will recognize the equality of the sexes. 1t
is not likely TO be the way adopted in n
boarding school for boys on Long Island in
which smoking was forbidden. The custom
there was for the members of the faculty to
assemble in room in the basement after
dinner, light their cigars and blow the
smoke up the chimney Of n fireplace. while
the boys assembled in room on the ton
floor, lighted their cigarettes and blew the
smoke up the same chimney, which opened
from another fireplace on that floor. The
Dlan worked to the satisfaction of every one
concerned
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
LlBORIO DELFlNO
On Aiding the Blind

TT IS easier to train the blind man than IL
i is to educate the public to aid him, ac
cording to Liborio Delfino, field officer OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Institution for the In
struction of the Blind, who is in charge OF
the salcsroom and exchange maintained Dy
that school Mt 204 South Thirteenth street.
"a handicapped man or woman who Is
Industrious, courageous and ambitious ana
willing to work should not fail to have the
practical, sympathetic cooperation or the
public in any field of usefulness says Mr.
Dclfino. "No person is properly rehaoih-
tated until he is placed in some useful ana
remuncrative employment in accordance with
his ability and qualifications
every Handicapped person restored to
economic usefulness is an asset to the COM
munity, and the restoration OF the personal
happiness and comfort of the individual Is
another goal to be reached.
'The blind have demonstrated their abil-
ity and efficiency in various fields. AS
typists, musicians, piano tuners, lawyers,
merchants and in certain mechanical proc
csses in factories where opportunity has
been given, the blind are making good today
What Blind Can Do
eve have, too, many engaged IN various
handcrafts. such as chair Gaming, rag and
carpet weaving, brush making, broom
making, basketry, knitting and crocheting..
'The blind of Philadelphia could easily
recane 10000 chairs Il year with the best
workmanship and material If they were
given the work by the public. Many of them
are very proficient in rag carpet and rug
weaving, too
"Piano tuning is q field in which the
blind excel. Many of the best piano stores
and factories employ blind piano tuners, but
there is still much room for expansion. Not
all the dealers are sufficiently interested to
give the blind tuner an opportunity. We
everywhere.
''IIcre at the sacsroom We sell many
products made by the blind. Last June was
the decennal of the salCsroom and exchange
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10

the anthracite mines, have used the wage
scale as the principal reason for advancing
prices on coal. Any move which will tend
to clarity conditions in this field and make
known the real situation will be a step in
the right direction.
The two years mine wage agreement ex-
pires on March 81 next, and unless some
action is taken now long chickering's, with
the possibility Of a strike, are certain to
follow before new agreements are reached
Any suspension of mining is n serious mat
ter. AT the close Of March, with the cold
weather virtually over, the inconvenience to
those who use coal only for heating pur-
poses is not so severe, but to\the industries
of the country 1t is as bad as at the be-
ginning of or during the winter. And at
present It Is of the first Importance that
there be no more disturbance of industry.
The coal situation, both in the anthracite
and in the soft coal fields, is a complicated
and delicate matter in other respects than
the labor aspect, although this is probably
the most vital single question involved. The
intimate relation of the public, both as
householders and as manufacturers, to the
coal industry makes 1t Of especial impor-
tanCe that it's interests be guarded. The
step now proposed in Washington might be
the opening wedge to that thorough survey
of coal conditions which Is so badly needed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
Member Of the Associated Press
THE ROOTS OF THE TRAGEDY

NHIE impossibility of accurately apprais-
4 = ing human life in terms of dollars il
demonstrated in AgnCw L. Dice's estimate
of SIT ,000, 900 as the cost of supplanting the
wooden cars of the Philadelphia and Read
Ing Railway with modern steel coaches.
The sum is far from triiling. Since the
war the financial condition of American
railroads has not been sufficiently healthy to
warrant enormous expenditures for rehabili-
tating obsolete equipment
In one sense this may be regarded as an
excuse for existing inadeluacics In an
other it totally fails to square with human
Responsibilities. 1t is known beyond the
reach of argument that antiquated wooden
coaches are potential death traps. Their
elimination as promptly as possible is an
\ imperative public duty of the railway MAN.
agements.
Security at sea has been vastly increased
by the Government regulation compelling
all steamships. of whatever nationality,
calling at American ports to carry wireless
nequipment. The ruling has involved a con-
siderable outlay of money by ship owners.
But the gain i'll safety has been so i'm
measurably out of proportion with the ma
iterial expense as to be unworthy of serious
debate.
Modernization of the railroads is unat-
tainnble overnight What is needed is the
Enforcement of a consistent policy Of i'm
provement directed toward the goal of all
steel passenger cars on all lines, trunk, or
suburban.
4 The recommendation of the Interstate
Commerce Commission is unqualified. The
use of steel coaches is described in its an
nual report as "reQuired.
y 1t is shrking the issue to focus entire
blame for the horror at Bryn Athyn upon
the laxity of the train conductor. The
magnitude of the tragedy was due spccih-
Ically to single trackagp and notoriOusly in
f1ammable coacnes The most elaborate
prosecution of the inquiry cannot in deccncy
dodge these shocking facts.