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New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
judge From Bench Denounces
Thief as Unpunished Slayer

sentence you to ten years in Sing Sing
prison"
Cohen. who was thirty-fve years old,
was hat and fur manufacturer, with a
business in this city, and lived at TOT
Broadway, Rockaway Park. On Sunday
night, August 3, 1919, he was lured to
Coney Island, and while walking on
West Twenty-second Street. between
Railroad and Surf avenues, was shot TO
death from behind Harry Korman, OF
19 Clinton Street. Brooklyn, was com
panion of Cohen's at the time, and was
also shot The police have always re-
garded the shooting as mystery.
When reporters sought Judge Ro-
salsky in his chambers for further in
formation the judge refused to make
any other comment. He departed yes
terday afternoon for Washington and
will not return until Monday.
The crime for which Harodner was
sentenced yesterday was committed
or the night of August 90 last. He
was convicted of swindlng Philip
Hente, of 90 Lewis Street, out of 5000
in card game at % Goerck Street.
Harodner was accused of cheating and
in the fight that followed was shot four
times, His assaillant escaped.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
cousin Everett Gets
Is Months i'm Prison
thicagoan, Who Posed as Kim
to Harding. Admits Imper.
sOnating II. s. Official

CHICAGO. June 2.--Federal Judge
lands, sitting as judge and jury, to-
Gay heard the evidence charging "Cou-
sin Everett" Harding with impersonat-
ing Federal officer and with passing
sorthless checks, and after Harding had
ssnanged "not guilty" plea to one Of
guilt" sentenced the budding young
poititian and financier to serve fifteen
pnonths' 8 imprisonment in the Federal
senitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
witnesses told how Harding leased
private cars with one hand and bor-
.o"ed chicken feed" from casual ac-
suaintances with the other. photog-
..spner told how he had done $500 worth
81 q work for Harding, and while waiting
.or payment of the bill stood several
sgsersonal touches" amounting to an
.ser 300. The city passenger agent
the -Pennsylvania Railroad testified
mat he had received q check from
everett for $I,948.48 in payment for
sas private car which he engaged to
ssstend the inaugural. This check was
Asser returned marked "no funds"
All the witnesses told how Harding
aeo posed as second cousin to Presi-
eeent Harding and how he also claimed
- nave been appointed as assistant Sec
.sasry TO the President.
I'm through with politics forever"
nss Harding's comment just before
suoge Lands passed sentence.
. The White House Baby" sister Of
Iaserett's, and his parents, were in court
~psss, fhA trial.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03

Jacob Harodner, twenty-five years
old, of 80 Willett Street, was sentenced
yesterday to serve ten years at Sing
Sing on a grand larceny charge by
Judge Otto Rosalsky in General Ses-
sions. The court charged Harodner
with the murder of Joseph Cohen, who
was shot to death at Coney Island the
night of August 3, 1919.
Before passing sentence Judge Ro-
salsky said to Harodner:
II denounce you not only as no
torious and dangerous criminal, but
as the murderer Of Joseph Cohen, who
you killed at Coney Island.
"That is broad statement for q
Judge TO make, but | know what I am
talking about Mr., Edelson, the As
sistant District Attorney, who con-
victed you, deserves the thanks of the
community fer such great public
service.
81 am told that you covered your
tracks well in the murder case. AL
though you have been arrested seven
times for crimes, you were convicted
only twice for minor sentences. I now
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Plan to s'Synchronize''
Hizzoner Is Proposed
Friends Feel Hylan's Helpful
Sphere May Be Much Extend
ed hy Talking Film

Friends of Mayor Hylan were dis
cussing yesterday at Tammany Hall a
plan to "synchronize" Hizzoner. Their
idea was TO get the Mayor and his
speech, too, before an audience without
troubling Hizzoner actually to appear
in person.
They hope to do this through the
medium of the vocal motion pictures
in which film and phonograph are syn
chrenized, and intend to try to per
suade the Mayor to practice speech
making without notes, us 'ng gestures
and everything, so that the public de-
mand for his appearance at meetings
may be satisfied.
1t was pointed cut that Hizzoner
might save himself some embarrassing
moments by acquiescing in the idea.
At present he reads his speeches, and
since a fatal evening several months
ago, when he lost his manuscript, has
carried three copies with him every-
where he goes.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
of Graft
w illnesses Said
To Be Plotted
HyIan Reported Ready TO
Give Vacations 10 All
Officials Whom Meyer
Committee Might Want
Faurot May Get 364 Days
Enright Grants Self Short
Leave and Connolly Says
He Won't Talk i'm Secret

Reports that the Hearst Hylan-T am
many administration is preparing to
hamstring the joint legislative graft
investigating committee by granting
practically indefinite leaves OF ab-
sences to city officials who may be of
service to the graft probers or who
are wanted as witnesses reached the
committee yesterday. Senator Schuy-
ler M. Meyer, chairman of the com
mittee, was concerned especially about
Deputy Police Commissioner James A,
Faurot, word having been brought to
hir that Faurot had been granted. or
would be granted. a vacation of 364
days.
1t was explained by Chairman
Meyers informant that under the
charter the longest leave OF absence
which may be granted to city en-
ployee is 364 days, this being the lib
eral construction placed by city of
tcials on the law, which provides that
an employee who is absent from his
work for year loses his job. -
Enright Grants Self Vacation
Police Commissioner Enright, who
alone could say whether the report was
true, LETT. the city yesterday to spend
ten-dsy vacation, which he granted
himself. at resort somewhere in Jer-
sey." Deputy Commissioner Faurot
could not be reached.
In his absence, Deputy Police Com.
missioner John A. Leach, who refused
to be sworn by a subcommittee of the
graft Investigating committee and who
is now waiting to see if he shall be
punished for contempt of court as a
consequence. will act as head of the
Police Department.
Yesterday Supreme Court Justice
Whitaker, who has heard the applica-
tion Of the committee for the punish
ment Of Leach for contempt, postponed
action until Monday, when both sides
are to submit briefs.
1t was evident yesterday that the en-
tire Hylan-K Kearst-Tammany admins
the graft probers at every turn Maur-
ice Connolly, President Of the Borough
of Queens, when he heard early in the
day that the committee intended to
subpoena and examine him before SUBJ
committee in camera, said:
II shall not testify at any secret
hearing. I do not think that the COM
mittee has any right to hold secret
hearings before sub committee of
one. Of course ] would not mind testi-
flying before such body If the news
paper men were permitted to be present
TO hear both sides"
To Protest Secret Hearings
Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, one of
the Tammany members of the COM
mittee, upheld the attitude Of Presi-
dent Connolly, saying:
81 shalt take this matter up with
Senator Meyer and urge the abolition
of all secret hearings. | favor throw
ing the doors open to the public in or
der that it may know what is going on"
Chairman Meyer contradicted the re-
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Senator's Shun Sho,Uy
Luncheon; Fear Voters

rom The Tribuno's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Pol-
itics is causing d serious falling
off in business at the new outdoor
restaurant of tho Senate on the
north portico of the Senate wing
of the Capitol.
Fair weather to-day was ex-
pected to bring a rush of trade to
the establishment, but it did not.
Instead the walters stood about at
ease much of the time, and only
small proportion of the solons
took luncheon out Of doors.
The explanation was vouch-
safed by Senator whose term
will soon expire, and who will be
up for reelection next year. He
said that il he took luncheon on
the palatial north portico he was
afraid the news would get back to
his constituents.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Senate Inquiry
Into Clothing
Trade Likely
Charges of Bolshevis M
and Labor Profiteering
Against Union Renewed
at Washington Hearing
Plot Called Nationwide
Conditions Like Those i'm
Building Industry Are
Alleged by Manufacturers
Front The Tribuns's was1inoto,, Bureau

Front The Trtbune's washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Archibald
E. Stevenson, counsel of the New York
Clothing Trades Association, who was
associate counsel in the Lusk investi-
CATION, and President William A
Bandler Of the New York Clothing
Trades. Association, appeared before
Senate Committee on Education and
Labor to-day to urge the committee to
make an inquiry into the clothing in
dustry.
The committee was told that the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America had brought about higher
costs in clothing; that the organiza-
ton is working in conjunction with
certain employers; that the efficiency
of labor and the amount of production
have been reduced by it, and that the
clothing workers organization is un-
American in it's methods and Bolshe-
visit.
Similar charges were made in the
Senate sometime ago when Senator
Moses, of New Hampshire, offered a
resolution for an investigation into
the strike in the clothing industry
The Moses resolution and the Borah
resolution, both Of which look to an
investigation into the clothing indus
try, were before the committee.
Expected to Favor Inquiry
The committee will report for an in
vestigation later, it is said. The Borah
resolution or its substance will prob
ably be reported. However, the COM
mittee did not act finally to-day. After
hearing the two representatives of the
New York Clothing Trades Associa-
ton, the committee decided to call in
as witnesses officials of the Clothing
Trades Association, officials of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
ployers who have signed up agreements
and some who have not signed.
Further testimony on the reasons
back of the proposed inquiry and why
it should be made is wanted by the
committee.
Mr.. Stevenson made the principal
statement. He criticized the alleged
un-American methods of the clothing
workers and said that through them
and the organizations affiliated
total of about 600,0 600 m members-radical
and un-American propaganda was be-
ing disseminated. He alleged condi-
d.tion had been brought about in the
clothing industry similar to that in the
building industry.
Says Costs Have Been Raised
"I appear before your committee to
urge the clothing investigation with
two points in mind" said Mr.. Steven
son. First, because conditions exist
creased the cost OF clothing, and this
affects every man, woman and child
who wears clothes in the United States.
These high costs were brought about
largely by the control gained over the
clothing industry by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America. That
control brought about under produc-
tion of all kinds Of garments.
Furthermore, it has tended to pro-
duce abuses similar to those existing
in the building trades industry. The
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Senate to Vote Bonus.
War Veterans Are Told
Legion Spokesman Urge Early
Action at Committee Session
Behind Closed Doors

WASHINGTON, June 2.--Colonel F.
". Galbraith jr.. commander, and other
spokesmen for the American Legion
were before the Senate special commit
tee which began to-day an investiga-
tion of the whole subject of bonus leg
islation for former service men. The
session was behind closed doors.
The Legion representatives were un-
derstood to have pressed arguments for
early action on legislation providing for
adjusted compensation on the grounds
that increasing unemp ployment was ag-
gravating the condition of thousands
of former service men.
Members of the committee were said
TO have assured the Legion spokesme
that it was the intention of Senate
leaders, irrespective Of party or sec
tional affiliations, to pass bonus legisla-
tinn. at this session
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Gee, Glad It's Over Boy
On Trial for Life Yawns
Jury Takes Case of Indiana
Youngster Accused of Slay-
ing Playmate
Special Dispatch to 77ls Tribune

KNOX, Ind, June 2.-Stark County's
juvenile trial and the feud between the
children of the Slavin and Burkett
families are marking time tonight
while a dozen citizens are trying to
decide whether eleven-year-ol Cecil
Burkett is guilty of killing seven-year-
old Benny Slavin last November.
The case went to the jury at 1925
O'Clock this afternoon. Although Cecil
was indicted for first degree murder,
which would involve death in the cleo
trio chair as q possible penalty, a ver-
dict of second degree guilt or man
slaughter may be returned. In any
case Judge William c. Pentecost could
assign the punishment. No agreement
had been reached when the jury was
locked up for the night.
But the little Burkett boy is not
worried. He yawned as the grizzled
jurors passed him and walked out with
his sad faced mother
Gee, I'm glad it's over" was his
only comment.
Atlantic City Trains EarIier--Besinnine
Sunday, June 5. Pennsylvania system
through trains to Atlantic City will leave
spDroXinats{v ora hour earttsr Aayt
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Goes Mad, Kills Eight.
" ouS,ds 9 Vifh Slpord

TOXIC, June 3 (By The Asso-
ciated Press).---A Corean tram
way conductor named Lihanno be-
came suddenly insane last night
and killed his wife and seven
Japanese, including women and
children. with sword. He
wounded nine others seriously.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
Builders Forced To Paw
1868 for Loans; Couged
For: Biz Fees, Bonuses
builder Pays for $4,000 Loan,
Gets Only $9,O5O, Inquiry 'SIsoscs

According to testimony given before yes
efday here typical of what happens when goes
mortgage broker in this city for a 5
Amount he expects
Bonus deducted by broker giving ... $4,000
Balance (SlO,000l paid in Liberty bonds only 90
making further loss of Observation-Disclosures.
oAoi Ice VI per cent $500
little examination fee of l $3.50
lie pays cent interest however, the
The loan from insurance bank probably
would forced vacant
by the institution part o the loan
New-York tribune., 1921-06-03
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Warmer to-day; unsettled Tomorrow
probably showers; cooler at night;
fresh south winds.
Full Report on Last Page
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24

Mind wot,ld select w6ntan for che
81 s,sI ftfon, and have selected Mrs. Cure
ton. who IL q woman OF business -.
nacity. One 0f the reasons selected
woman Is that they criticized me 30
much because selectsd man for my
secretary. l didn't ask Jim Harris,
the stata chairman, or any Of the rest
Of the organization about IL. and if
any one raises any question shout IT
shall tell them this is my own politscAl
The husband Of Mrs. Cureton. ac.
cording to Miss Robertson, isn't pleased
oyer the fact that his wife Is slated Tor
postmaster. !,
"He says he can support his WIFE
added Miss Robcrtson.S
While Miss Robertson hasn't con-
suited any Of che political powers
about The naming Of the postmaster in
her own home town, she doesn't pur-
pose to be insurgent sB rule.
"In all the other matters of patron
age shall follow along with the or
ganixation," she said.
While she finds some pleasant things
about being member Of Congress
Miss Robertson finds others not Sc
pleasant. She said she wasn't sure but
in a few weeks she would conclude she
didn't like being member.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24
Former Salesman Leaps
Into Sea and browns

Richard F. O'Riley, q former silk
salesman, thirty-four years old, of 72
Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, commit
ted suicide yesterday by jumping into
the sea from the boardwalk at Brighton
Beach.
O'Rifey, who was cousin of the
Rev. John T. Belford and a nephew os
the. late Police Captain Miles O'Riley,
had been suffering for some time from
nervous exhaustion. Miss Helen Baird,
of 1887 Coney Island Avenue, saw him
jump over the fence and into the water.
She informed the police, and the body
was recovered.
Mrs. O'Riley, who lives at the fore
going address, was seen late last night.
She identified the description given Of
the dead man as that Of her husband
She said he went with her to New York
yesterday and left her at Thirty-eighth
Street, saying he would be home later,
but did not come.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24
Miss III On
Picks Nv oman for
Home r ostlnaster
Member Of Congress Notifies
the White House Of Her
/ Choice; Ignores Party
Leaders; Job for Man
rro,, ~. Tyibure,s weshinoto,s Bxrsa.

from 31DtSItG -
5 WASHINGTON, March 23.--Miss
Alice M. Robertson, Of Muskogee, Okla,
Representative Of the I'd Oklahoma
District in the House and the only
woman in Congress, has disposed OF the
only two matters of patronage in which
she is greatly concerned. She calleo
at the White House to-day and SAID
that she had picked woman to be
postmaster Of Muskogee and had done
It without consulting the Republican
organization. The office IS not yet va
cant, but when it is she said she would
lindorse Mrs. o. n. Cureton, vice-chair-
man Of the Republican Organization OF
Oklahoma and we'll known In the poll
tics of the state.
Miss Robertson advised the White
House, moreover, that she favored, as
"a personal matter, without regard to
politics, the appointment OF J. George
WRIGHT as Commissioner of Indian Al
fairs. He is in charge of the valuable
property Of the Osages and Miss Rob-
ertson says he has made good rec
ord.
"He opposed me once for school su,
pervisor," said Miss Robertson. Il
got the place anyhow. But after got
it he gave me the fullest support. He
has made a fine record in his present
position, and + am here, as personal
matter, you understand, not political,
to give him my Endorsement.
"They told me that when the time
came could select the postmaster at
Muskogee, my home town. Well, soon
found was swamped with applications
from a long list of men who wanted
the Office. I filled the Office Of post
master there, you know, for eight years.
BY hard work brought it up to a
state of efficiency. So made up my
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24

tho cusfew hour lprlns the Easssr hols-
days Will be set foryeA IA "a q o'clock.
With The object o3 preventing demon
strations for the anniveraAry of thN
ssIrish republic.v
A Dublin dispatch says that new
development, to have grave conse-
q,iences, Is expected as result 81 Mon
day nights general attack on Ufiaonla8
houses In the Rossiea district.
Fermanagh, III which Russia il situ-
ated, IL ono Of the six counties In
cluded In the new Ulster Parliament
area, and it's population is about evealy
divided between protsstAnts and Cath
olics. Rosslea is q notorious atorn1 cen-
ter, being the scene of repriHals III
February, when armed men. said; I'd
have been Ulster volunteers, burned
ten houses belonging to Catholics, tol.
lowing the woundipg Of Unicnist
shop keeper.
The high partisan feeling in the Dor.
der counties is aggravated by the
southern boycott Of Ulster trade which
the banks imposed In retaliation fol-
the forced unemployment of Belfast
Catholic workers since the riots last
summer.
It Is feared this will lead to another
explosion Of partisan feeling in Ulster
calculated to hamper ccriously present
efforts to effect rappsochement Of the
north and south with q view to their
agreeing on political settlement.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24
N. Y. Society Honors
Japan's Envoy to
League at Dinner
Baron Megata Sees Benefits
in World Fraternity and
Regrets Absence of U. S.;
Speakers Deplore War
Talk

The Japan Society gave dinner at
the Hotel Astor last night in honor
Of Baron Tanetaro Megata, Japan's
delegate to the League of Nations con-
ference at Geneva, who is on his way
home with his report for his govern
sment.
All the speakers dwelt upon the
fundamental unity Of purpose that
should bind Japan and the United
States as friends and dsplored mis-
understandings and lingo outbursts of
war enthusiasm. Baron Megata ex-
pressed regret that the United States
was not represented at the Geneva
meeting, and said that his nations in
clination was to work with English
speaking races to further the aims Of
the league.
II believe" he said, chat everybody
has come away from the Geneva meet
ing with the impression that appreciable
progress has been made toward the
establishment of an international asso-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24
O'Connor Is Elated
! Over Laws Making
Police Dry Agents
Federal Director Declares
u. s. Force in State Is Not
Big Enough and W elcomes
Cooperation of Local Men

Charles r. O'Connor, Federal pro-
hibition director for New York State,
expressed his pleasure yesterday over
the passage Of the Mullan- Gage dry
laws in the State Legislature. These
bills, which write the Volstead act into
the state statutes, when signed by the
Governor, will place responsibility for
their enforcement upon police authort-
ties.
Mr.. O'Connor said the Federal dry
officials, handicapped by lack Of ap-
preparations to increase the staff of
agents, will welcome the cooperation
Of the police.
1t was said at the office of Police
Commissioner Enright that the Com
missioner would not discuss his plans
for. enforcing the new laws.
w. n. Hirst, counsel for brewers in
terests, expressed the opinion yester-
day that the new bills are less strin-
gent than the state prohibition law (the
Walker 2.75 per cent beer law) that
they superseded. In abolishing the
state enforcement bureau, he said, they
leave the law open to an enforcement
that will not be uniform, since it de-
pends upon the temper of the authori-
ties in different localities.
Federal Judge Edwin L. Garvin, in
Hoboken, yesterday denounced as out
rageous illegal" seizures of liquor by
enforcement agents and the compelling
of owners to pay warehouse fees be-
fore they could get back their property.
Judge Garvin's remarks were occa-
stoned by motion to punish Chief En-
forcement Agent Harold B. Dodds for
contempt, for alleged refusal to obey
the order of the court to return seized
liquors. Dodds said he had not in
tended to disobey the court order, but
that he had merely followed the Gus
tom in such cases.
Judge Garvin yesterday signed Sec
ond order for the return of confiscated
goods.
Dr.. Donald McCaskey, Of % West
Fifty-ninth Street, yesterday wrote to
John F. Kramer, Federal Prohibition
Commissioner, urging that physicians
should he given greater latitude in
prescribing liquor for patients, DR.
McCaskey said in his letter that The
needs Of patients could not be filled
in many instances with the legal limit
of pint Of liquor every ten days. He
referred to the New York prohibition
Office as "a madhouse."
New-York tribune., 1921-03-24
I 4 4 3 h ] !

ciation whoss principal aim Will bs to
prevent and lessen Che chances Ok war
30 we'll rs promote friendly relations
between states.
"Tho League Of Nations has given
healthy signs OF good intentions and
potential success. Japan, on her side, Is
ready TO give II all It's support and an
couragement, and Is willing, further-
more, to collaborate in all movements
destined to promote peace and justice
among nations.
Henry w. Taft, who presided as head
Of the Japan Society, said that destiny
intended. Japan and the United States
to work together harmoniously in the
Orient for the good Of humanity. The
nature OF the Japanese people was
closest Of kin to that Of the American
people Of all the nations Of the Orient,
lie said.
"The Japanese people, he said, econ
stitute the only nation in the East in
which civil liberty is based on the will
Of the people. India, the Philippines,
China, Mongolia, Manchuria and ST.
beria--none of these is self-govern-
ing ntate. Japan alone has any pros
pect of becoming a representative de-
mocracy ruled by public opinion"
Other speakers were George w.
Wickersham and DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president Of Columbia Univer-
sity.