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New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Thousands Unable
To Be Naturalized;
Not Enough Clerks
Many, Turned Away, Become
Disguised and Abandon
Americanization; Change
i'm Fee Allotment Urged

Between 1000 and 1000 applicant.
for frat and final citizenship papers
are being turned away each month al
the naturalization bureau in the Hal
of Records because the force of clerk,
is inadequate to handle them. Many
of them, disgusted at the delay, never
come back to complete the process OF
Americanization.
Thirty per cent of the new citizens
made each year are naturalized in New
York County, yet the office last year
was allowed only $4,000 to defray its
expenses. During the year it took in
$4,000 in fees.
1.-THE fault" Herman W. Boyer, Dep.
uty County Clerk in charge Of the bu-
reau, explained yesterday, "lies in the
provision of the law which allows us
half the fees up to $4,000 and then
compels US to apply for additional al
iotments to the Naturalization Commits
sioner at Washington. Senator Calder
has agreed to offer m amendment ,
the law, giving US half of all fees col.
lected. Congress never intended tha.
the government should reap a profit
from making citizens, yet the govern
ment has cleared $l,300,000 since the
law was passed in 1906"
Meanwhile, pressure is to be brought
to bear on Richard X. Campbell, Natu-
ralization Commissioner. in an effort tc
persuade him to make more liberal
allotment this year for the New York
County bureau. A slip with the Com.
missioner's name and address is to be
handed to each applicant who is turned
away, beginning this morning, and he
is to be requested to write to the Com
missioner telling of conditions in, the
local office.
Applicants whose petitions cannot be
handled are in many instances being
told to come back as far ahead as =
month from now. AS applicants for
final papers have to bring two wit
nesses with them, Mr.. Boyer pointed
out, this works a treble hardship.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Two Teachers
Killed Fighting
To Save Honor
Evidence Shows Women Met
Death Soon After Leaving
Little High School i'm a
Suburb of Cleveland
Farmers Start Man Hunt
Bodies Left at Roadside and
Are Found by Children
ON Their Way to Classes
spectal pssoatea to The Tribune

CLEVELAND, Feb. 17.-Two high
school teachers were beaten to death
with cudgels in desperate battle to
save their honor soon before nightfall
yesterday, in lonely spot in Parma
Township. suburb of Cleveland. They
were waylaid, assaulted and slain while
en- route to streetcar that would
take them to their homes.
The battered bodies Of the victims
Miss Louise Wolfe, thirty-seven years
old, and Miss Mabel Foote, twenty-four
were found by school children this
morning quarter mile from the
Parma rural school, where the women
were the only teachers. The bodies
had lain all night alongside little
used thoroughfare.
The only clew to the murderers are
footprints leading from the scene of
the double crime into q dense woods.
A posse of more than a hundred
farmers, armed with shotguns, revol-
vers or improvised weapons, are aid
ing Sheriff Stannard and his deputies
IN search of the entire township. A
deserted shanty on the border Of the
woods is believed to have been the
rendezvous Of the murderers. There
the posse found cigarette stubs, burned
matches and other evidence of recent
occupancy.
The search centers around two rough
~ dressed strangers who were seen
hurrying along Ridge Road less than a
mile from the scene of the attack at
dusk. Both were hatless and their
clothing was torn and mudstained.
Indications are that the women had
their battle in heavy downpour Of
rain soon before $3.50 o'clock yesterday
evening. The teachers were last seen
alive when they left the high school. q
few moments after O'clock.
The body of Miss Wolfe was living
near wire fence surrounding an or
chard. Her left arm covered her face
as though to ward off blow. Her
hands and face were badly swollen and
discolored. Eight feet away, face
down on the frozen earth, was the
body of Miss Foote She had been
battered almost beyond recognition
with heavy cudgels.
School books that had been carried
by the teachers were strewn along the
path of battle, and black handbag. in
the hands of Miss Foote, was crushed
and broken as though used as
weapon.
Not even the rings of the slain
women had been removed, and watch
carried by Miss Wolfe was still in
place. 1t had stopped at 5;15 o'clock.
The presence Of the rings and other
1ewelry disproved the first theory that
the motive was robbery.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Cumming and Aid Start
For ". Y. to Fight 1'yp1aus
Surgeon General Intends 20 r AXE
Ouer { quarantine System Here
Immediately Upon ArrivaI

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-surgeor
General Cumming. of the Public Health
Service, accompanied by Or. Lavinder
chief of the hospital division. started
for New York tonight to take steps to
guard against typhus IN New York.
The situation is so serious. as a ne.
suit of conditions at Ellis Island, that
Federal authorities intend to take over
the entire supervision Of quarantine in
addition to the supervision they al
ready have over immigration.
The Surgeon General expressed con-
fidence that arrangements would be
made promptly to give the Public
Health Service complete control of the
quarantining of immigrants. Two
conferences looking to the assumption
OF such control by the Public Health
which members of the House Commit
tee on immigration and Frederick A.
Wallis, Commissioner of immigration
at New York, will be present and one
at which Surgeon General Cumming
will meet New York officials.
The decision to take immediate &C.
ton was due to messages which DR..
Royal 5. Copeland, Health Commits
ssioner of New York, sent to-day to
Speaker Frederick H. Gillett and AL
bert johnson, chairman of the House
Committee on Immigration. Commits
sioner Copeland protested vigorously
against the admission of vermin-in-
tested immigrants and the utter lack
OF suitable cleansing facilities.
representative johnson addressed
the House on the matter at once, urg-
ing prompt action, but defending the
Public Health Service, saying that it
was unfair for Commissioner Copeland
t, undertake to pass the buck TO the
United States Public Health Service"
THE United States will stamp out
typhus at once" he said. "If it does
not the deadly fever germs will spread
from New Orleans TO Boston before
many weeks. But, if so, do not pur-
pese to let the blame be against the
United States Public Health Service
or this House of Representatives if
can prevent it. Neither do I want to
see the deficiency money that we will
appropriate go as the $1000,000 for the
deportation Of evolutionary aliens
went"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
French Ship Held i'm
Quarantine Eight Hours
Doctors Seek Typhus Cases,
but Do Not Detain Any Of
the I.3O6 PASSENGERS aboard

The French liner Chicago from
Havre was held in quarantine eight
hours yesterday while doctors from
the staff of Health Officer Cofer made
g careful observation Of her passen-
gers in search of possible Eases of
typhus and other infectious disease.
She carried 362 cabin and 944 steerage
passengers but none was detained.
The detention of the Chicago held
the steamship France at her. pier be-
yond her schedule sailing time. The
latter vessel, which arrived here Sun.
day, had been unable to dispose of her
steerage passengers and these were put
aboard the Chicago soon after she ar
rived at her pier
among the saloon passengers on the
outbound France was Whitney Warren,
architect, who is on his way to Bel
gium to confer with a committee for
the restoration of the library of Lou
vain, which was destroyed by German
she'll fire. Mr.. Warren said he expected
to meet Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the mill
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Craig for Tax Exemption
Bill Passed by Aldermen
Comptroller's Support Favors
Measures Adoption by the
Board of Estimate

Comptroller Charles L. Craig an
nounced yesterday that he was in ia
vor of the tax exemption ordinance
passed by the Board of Aldermen this
week. and hoped that the Board of
Estimate and the Mayor would approve
it as speedily as possible. The Comp
troller's declaration that he will vote
for it brightens the prospect for its
adoption by the Board of ESTIMATE, Of
which there was some doubt when it
was passed by the aldermen.
The Comptroller pointed out that the
ordinance does not exempt any land
from taxation, nor property from tax
ation for state purposes and for local
improvements, such as sewers, side
walks, pavements, etc. He said that
whatever loss of taxes may result
from the exemption of new dwellings
up to $4,000 for limited period of ten
years would in all probability be
equailed or Offset by the enhanced
value of the land upon which the
dwellings are erected, and of the land
and property in the neighborhood that
will be built up under the encourage
ment of this ordinance
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Dead Baby in Handbag;
Probably Kidnapped
Girl Three Weeks Old Appar-
emily Suffocated and Aban-
doned on Creek Bank
Special Dispatch TO The Tribune

P0UGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Feb IT,
The body Of three-weeks-old baby
girl, richly dressed, and apparently
the child of wealthy parents, was found
in a handbag on the bank Of Fallkill
Creek near the Washington Street
bridge, Poughkeepsie, Wednesday. The
body was discovered by Emmet Green.
a ffteen-year-old boy, while on the
way to school. The finder called a
esomrade and they telephoned the po-
lice.
The handbag was new and cheap.
There was no mark on any of the cloth
ing which could lead to identification.
Coroner John A. Card said that the
infant had been perfectly formed and
in good health: DR.. H. P. Carpenter
and DR.. A. w. Thompson, who held an
autopsy, were of the opinion that the
child was alive when put into the
handbag, and was uffocated.
There are two theories. One is that
j.. the child was kidnapped and acciden-
/ tally suffocated by the criminals, and
the other is that the parents were the
murderers. The infant apparently was
of American parentage. Judging from
the position Of the bag, it evidently
had been thrown from an automobile
to the creek bank while the machine
was in motion.
Coroner Card began to search all
the hospital records between New York
ind Albany.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Fire Clerk Is
Indicted on
BriberyCharge
Continued from ssss sns)

NSV"u"uou tQW 6Aee ehs}
lar application made in behalf of Ser
geants Owens and Horan, and upon
which Judge Grain reserved decision
Wednesday.
Regardless Of the action taken
Wednesday in the examination of wit.
nesses by Mayor Hylan and other mem.
oers OF the Board of Estimate in the
city contract seandal--wIsnesse known
to have been questioned by Arthur M
King, Mr.. Whitman's assistant - the
progress of the investigation at the
Criminal Courts Building was not ma
terially hindered, it was said.
Frorm one who is known to be close
to Mr.. Kings investigation The Trib-
une learned that the evidence brought
out by the Board of Estimate was in
direct variance with that in the pos
session of Mr.. King,
Testimony Varies With Facts
The questions asked by certain
members of the Board Of Estimate. -
The Tribune informant said, "clearly
indicated that concerted effort was
made to steer into the proper channels
the answers of the eight witnesses
called. The questions were asked SO
that each witness appeared to testi!r
that he had not received and had not
paid any money to any one in conneo-
ton with city contract. This testi-
mony does not in any way jibe with
the facts as outlined in many cases by
the same witnesses to the Whitman in
vestigators."
The report that Ex-Governor Whit
man and one of his assistants, Fred.
erlck j. Groehl, were being guarded by
heavily armed detectives was based. Il
developed yesterday, on the fact that
both officials Wednesday night con.
tinued their Investigations after leav-
ing the Criminal Courts Building. and
merely took the detectives with them
in the event of the necessity of making
an arrest: Death threats, however, ar
rive at the Criminal Courts Building
1or both men every day.
Held in s2,500 Bail
Kelly, the indicted fireman, is thirty-
six years old, married, and lives at $50
west l24th Street. He has been as
signed to a. clerical position at head
quarters because of injuries suffered
at fire. He was held in $2,500 bail,
which was furnished by surety COM
pany.
He is charged with having asked for
and with accepting bribe of $3.50
from Joseph Imbroiscia, who was re-
tired early in January last year on the
ground that he was totally unfit for
flreman's duty as the result of an in
jury he suffered in the performance of
his duty. Imbroiscia had been a FIRE
man ten years, is married and the
father of three children.
Kelly is charged with having OBJ
tanned $400 from Imbroiscia December
II, 1919, the day on which the Italian
fireman made application for retire
ment He received the other $50, it is
charged, when the application had been
approved
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Kills Woman for Sneer,
Then Shoots Himself
Man Fires After Court Rules
Against Him in Fight for
Possession of Dogs
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

NORFOLK, Feb. 17.--Because Mrs.
Frances Artie Holland smiled derisive-
ly at him after court trial over the
possession of two dogs, Thomas Toyas
shot the woman TO death to-day while
she was seated in an automobile in
front of the courthouse.
Toyas said Mrs. Holland stole two
dogs from him. He had her arrested.
To-day the court decided that the man
would have to enter civil suit to re-
cover his pets. The woman said Toyas
gave her the dogs.
When Mrs. Holland left the court
she took seat in an automobile and
glanced back at Toyas, who was stand
ing in the courthouse door. She smiled
at him in defiant manner Toyas
drew revolver from his hip pocket
and fired twice. One bullet went wild,
but the second one struck the woman
in the neck. She died before she
reached a hospital. Toyas turned the
weapon on himself. but the bullet
grazed his chin and chest, making only
flesh wound.
T'oyas Is cigar manufacturer and
wealthy.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Bills Aim 10 C,iva
L ar1lfnlany Central
Of Violent Dea,h.
Offered by Walk.
Make swann's Med;ss1,
Assistant Superior 20 a.
City Chief Exam;ns1' 70 3
From a stag Correspondents


ALBANY, Feb. i7.~-Tbe 60
rious forces in Tammany Hall tbss ss
years blocked the bills which 1es
to iegislate the coroners Of N.,-
City out of Office are back Of tw -V'S
ures introduced to-day py SIS. '-
James j, Walker, Tammany je.da' !.
the upper house. ~
The bills, which have The "o y. !.
Tammany Hall on them. strin -. y
medical examiner Of New Yort Gag ~.
DR.. Charles Norris, of prac,ic.l,. y. J.
authority and vest it in DR. ot.. -
Schu!tze, medical assistant to n;.,.'' :
Attorney Swami. wv
This power IS taken from T)r ".
by one bill which provides that j.
investigation of ali violent and .S aS
picious deaths the authority Of 'as' -
chief medical examiner shall not sun.s
sede the medical assistant of tba s' H.
trict Attorney. Dis4
4h ms DIV, ho"ever, IS not as radical
as the SECOND. which gives to Djstriaats
sN"A my - ann . medical aSSigtao ~ ~ :
whip hand whenever he wishes, 'aa
The second bill provides thai av,.
ever such medical assistant sbaiI -.
as to any matter in the exercise NJ S;s SSs
powers and duties, such action .bsn III
suspend the power of the chief me5;s.i
examiner of the City of New Yorl - :.
act as to the same matter" y
his latter measure is regarded bs,.
as one Of the most insidious rinnss
measures ever offered in the Ieei.. Ig,s
lature. BY its terms the District a.
torney of New York County, through Ws
medical assistant, will be able -
silence the chief medical examines -
tn city, who is not a political ar-
pointee, but a product of Civil Ssg.
vice examination.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Drastic Measures General

PARIS, Feb. 17.-Drastic measures
are being taken in the examination Of
passengers bound to America from the
principal European ports, so that sll
steamers may have clean bills of health
on their arrival, it was announced to.
day at conference here of heads Of
transatlantic steamship companies with
Dr. Rupert Blue, former Surgeon Gem
cral of the United States Public Health
Service.
All second and third class passen-
gers on their way to the United States,
1t was explained, are being subjected
to thorough medical examination by
increased STATS of doctors, under new
ly adopted regulations. The new re-
quirements are especially stringent as
regards disinfection of baggage, which
is put under heavy steam pressure, and
in the personal cleansing processes
adopted for insuring against infection
from parasites.
The. new regulations mean that the
second and third class passengers must
reach the port of embarkatlon at least
four days before the departure of their
steamer, said DR.. Blue this afternoon,
ir explaining the tremendous task in
volved in examining as thoroughly as
is now required the thousands of per-
sons sailing weekly.
Passengers are at once inspected and
their baggage disinfected, and they
board disinfected ships, according to
Or. Blue, eliminating the possibility of
recurrence of vermin during the voy-
age. Most of the steamship companies
have installed disinfecting machinery
at the docks in Antwerp, Cherbourg,
Southampton and Danzig, and wher-
ever these facilities are not obtainable
the examination OF emigrants will be
conducted in municipal hospitals.
DIR. Blue said the companies had
eeen cooperating with him since last
May, but that the difficulties were
many, including q shortage of disin-
fccting machinery, unframed employ
ees, and the inability to get them to
examine passengers thoroughly. The
companies now are receiving the ma
chinery from the armies of the various
governments,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Cavell Nurse Kills Self
Facing Treason Charges
Woman Who Served With Eng.
lish Martyr Said to Have De-
bounced Co.workers

PARiS, Feb. 17.-Louise Telliez, who
during the war belonged to the nurs-
ing organization headed by Edith
Cavell, the English nurse executed by
the Germans, committed suicide to-
day, she having been called to appear
before magistrate to face charges
of espionage and treason. It is al
legged she denouAced several of her
co-workers to the Germans in the days
of the war.
Some of the Paris newspapers re-
ported it was Mile. Louise Thulier, a
Belgian school teacher, who had been
awarded several decorations and who
also served under Edith Cayell, that
committed suicide. According to dis
patches to the Havas agency, Mile.
IhnlierS who lives in Lille, was greatly
affected to-day by the false report.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
New Drug Rules of
State Held Up ON
Doctors Protest
Less Drastic Amendments to
Regulations To Be Drawn
by City Medical Mem and
Offered to Narcotic Board

New rules relating to the admins
tration and regulation of drugs, drafted
BY the State Narcotic Commission. Of
which Walter H. Herrick is chairman,
and scheduled to become effective yes
Serday, have been suspended until
March 10, according Co an announce
meat made yesterday from Albany.
Suspension Of the new rules followed
the visit of delegation of Brooklyn
physicians and druggists to the capital
to protest against the enforcement of
the rules, which they declared were
drastic and detrimental A conference
of Brooklyn and other New York medi-
cal men has been called for next Mon
day night, at which time an effort will
be made to draft amendments less dras-
tic than the rules scheduled to go into
effect yesterday. After the amendments
have been drafted they will be taken
to Albany by another delegation of
physicians and presented to Commits
sioner Herrick.
The rules as proposed not only affect
practicing physicians, but also affect
hospitals Of the state, according to a
statement made last night by DR..
Thomas Howell, superintendent of the
New York Hospital. One clause in the
proposed rules which specifies that no
narcotics may be administered in hos
pital unless such narcotics have been
legally issued by the hospital drug
eist is especially drastic, according
10 DR.. Howell.
Protests against the enforcement of
the new rules have been sent to Gov
crnor Miller by the Hospital Confer
ence of New York City, the Profess
sional Guild of Brooklyn and the State
Dental Society. The proposed rules
also specify that each issuance of drugs
must be recorded through five pre-
scriptions, two for the government and
three for the state,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18

OF the investigation will be gone into
thoroughly, it was said.
The police say that Davis and Bridg-
etts evidently struggled for posses.
sion of the rife before the shooting oc-
cured and that in the struggle the dead
man was struck blow on the forehead
Davis suffered an injured finger. Al
Headquarters he was questioned by In
spector John Coughlin and Deputy
Commissioner John Cray. AT Brook
lyn Hospital last night it was said the
wounds of McGlone and Horan were
not serious.
Davis is forty years old, married and
the father of two children. He lives
at "a Crooke Avenue, brooklyn. He is
member of the Crescent Athletic Club
and came to Flatbush from Virginia
several years ago.
years old. He was appointed patroi-
man December 81, 1905. He is sur
Vived by his wife and six children. He
was assigned to Parkville Station oc-
tober 19, 1919. His body was removed
to the morgue and an autopsy will be
performed to-day.
Davis, the police say, denied last
night that he collected insurance for
the theft of the car.
Assistant District Attorney Everett
Caldwell took charge of the investiga-
lion Of the shooting last night, After
talk with Davis he said:
Davis told me that when the truth
comes out you will find that it will
simply be case of self-defensp
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Female Lookout Aids Bandit
Who Beats and Robs Woman
Police Report Omits Fact That Hold-Up Was Purpose
of West Side Attack; Burglar Gets $3.50
Jewels of Victims Friend

A hold.up man, accompanied by g
woman who looked on while the rob-
berry was committed. knocked Miss
Mary J. Sheehan unconscious at the
door Of her apartment house at 1T
West Eighty-sixth Street and made off
with her handbag Tuesday about
midnight. When police from the West
Tooth Street station learned about the
hold-up they also found out about a
burglary the day before, in which the
home of woman friend of Miss
Sheehan, living near by, was looted OF
$3.50 worth of jewelry.
Miss ,Sheehan, who is forty-six years
cid, conducts tea room. She went to
a drug store at Eighty-sixth Street
and Columbus. Avenue shortly before
midnight Tuesday and purchased
some articles, having $50 bill
changed. She was followed by man
and woman. she says, and quickened
her pace, but they hurried also, and
caught up with her at the door of her
i come.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Man and Child Are Killed
i'm Automobile Accidents

Michael Koiogiros, forty years old,
8 iaborer, of 14s Amsterdam Avenue,
was struck last night by an automo-
bile truck at Battery Place and West
Street. He died while being taken TO
Broad Street Hospital He had ar
ranged to sail for his home in Greece
to-day.
Joseph Cantasano, five years old, Of
S5 Mulberry Street, was fatally injured
when struck last night by an automo-
He died while being taken to the
United States Health Service Hospital.
psspey Tominareo, the driver of the
as8zs was arrested on charge of homi-
New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Conduit Covers Blown Up ON
Crowded Street; No One Hurt

Exploding gas blew two manhole
covers between Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Streets on Fourth Ave-
nue., about twenty feet in the air early
last evening. Although the street was
crowded, the heavy disks shattered
themselves on the pavement without
striking any person or vehicle.
AS such explosions frequently give
rise to others and make streets dan
gerons for an hour or more, all traf.
tic, including that in the subway under
Fourth Avenue, was stopped and fire.
men and police reserves were called.
No more explosions came and after ten
minutes traffic went on as usual.