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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Housing Committee
Pleads tor Poauer To-day
Lockwood and Unternsyer sWiN
Tell Legislators Why Inres-
tignfi0n Should Be Extended
From a STAT Correspondent

ALBANY, Jan. IA JOINT public
hearing of the Senate Finance Lom-
mittee and the Assembly Ways and
M cans Committee will be he'd at A
o'clock tomorrow on the request of
the Lockwood committee for broadened
powers to go after the alleged graft
ers high~r up in the building industry.
the Lockwood committee that the pow
ers they have asked will be denied
them. The singular feature of the sit
uation is that there has been no op-
poslton---in the ropen--to the Lock-
wood committees request.
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
Lockwood committee, and Leonard M.
Wallstein, its assistant counsel, will
appear at to-morrows hearing to tell
why the committees powers shou ID be
extended to permit an investigation OF
the insurance companies, the banks and
other financial institutions.
They will also tell why the immunity
clause should not be stricken out and
may go into details of the transaction
referred to by Senator Lockwood on
Che floor of the Senate when he charged
that if the committee had the i'm
munity clause it could produce wit
nesses who would tell how 4e rtain Tam.
many politicians and contractors were
to divide 81 100000 in graft on the
stone contracts on the courthouse site
in New York.
The hearing tomorrow promises to
be productive of some important dis
closures.
Senator Lockwood, when he learned
that the joint hearing was to be held,
Immediately dispatched messengers to
inform the members of the committee
to be on hand. Both Lockwood and
Untermyer have anticipated an attempt
to foreclose the case and have made
their p ans accordingly.
Should the arguments before the
committee fail to move the members
of the two legislative committees to
give the Lockwood body the powers
sought and which are declared to be
necessary to its prosecution of the
housing situation, SO as to obtain re-
ults beneficial to the people, the fight
will be carried to the floors of both
branches of the Legislature.
The only open opposition the COM
mittee has so far encountered has come
from Senator James J. Walker, the
Tammany leader of the upper house.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Won5ensto' Prosecute
Women IN Chicago

CHICAGO, Jan. 18.-Robert e.
Grove, States Attorney, tonight
announced that he would appoint
one or more women as assistants,
and that in the future all women
on trial in Cook County would be
prosecuted by Women attorneys.
"The average woman is more
competent to understand the
problems of "a delinquent girl or
woman," said Mr.. Grove, "and
for this reason j think both the
state and the defendant will Sbe
more sure Of receiving justice
with a woman prosecutor.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Dismissal of Communist
Teacher Upheld byCilbert
Acting Commissioner Rules
Buffalo Woman Cannot Serve
State and Party IovaIly
From a staff Correspondent


ALBANY, Jan. 18.--The action of
the Buffalo Board of Education in dis
missing Miss Julia y. Pratt for being
q member of the Communist party and
participating in its activities was up
hold to-day by Frank D. Gilbert, act
ing Commissioner of Education.
Miss Pratt, who had been a teacher
in Buffalo for seventeen years, in her
defense said that she had asked that
her name be stricken from the roster
Of the Communist party because it
would jeopardize her position.
This, Commissioner Gilbert held, was
not mitigating circumstance. He
emphasized that his decision should
MT Re regarded as upholding any act
curtailing political freedom of action,
adding that the Communist party could
not be regarded as political party in
the sense that the Democratic, Repub1i-
can or Socialist parties were political
Or~~n n 90 tiOrs
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Quartet Loots
Chicago Mail
As 80 Look On
HoldUp Men Back Their
Truck Up to Union Sta
ton, Load on u Sacks
and Quietly Drive Away
Loot May Be 500, 600.
Ten of Pouches Contained
Registered Packages; Pos
tai Employees Helpless
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

SpeC1Qt DaSpQtCu 10 1He IrtONne
CHICAGO, Jan. 1s.-Four bandits, all
about twenty years old, hold up tivt
United States postal employees and
two railroad men on the curb outside
the Union Station here early to-day
loaded twelve sacks of mail into q
truck and drove away. Ten of the sacks
contained registered mail and although
officials were inclined to doubt that the
sacks contained any bank shipments
they admitted that the daily registered
mail for the 1880 a. m. train for the
Northwest, of which these we're part
is ordinarily valued at 100000 Early
reports were that the sacks c.uded
a shipment of money from the Federal
Reserve Bank here.
Thirty Innocent Spectators
About thirty persons, including sta
tion employees. taxi drivers, mail
clerks and passersby, witness d the
'holdup without being aware that rob-
berry was being staged until after the
bandits had driven away.
The pouches were on truck at the
head Of a mail chute in Canal Street.
Three postal employees were getting
ready to transfer the sacks to the wait
ing train. The crew of the tuck, which
had backed up to the curb on Y few
minutes before, was standing idly by,
talking to two trainmen. Another truck
drove up, and as it came to a stop
three men jumped out. With a whis-
pered warming to the seven men on the
Gu b to do as they were instructed, the
bandits asked them to load the mail
pouches in the second truck. The mail
employees complied and the three ban
dts climbed on the truck as it was
driven away by an accomplice.
sInsidc Job" Officials Believe
Belief that the robbery was done by
some one ''on the inside" was expressed
in postoffice circles. The crew of the
mail truck said that the bandits tru k
had followed them from the postof4ce
to the station.
Reports differ as to whether the ban
dts brandished revolvers. Some Of the
seven victims of the attack said they
didn't see weapon until an alarm was
tn -eatened as the truck drove away.
These insisted that the bandits had
only given the warn ing, "We're armed!"
Others contended that the bandits mad
used revolvers, holding them low and
close to the body in order not to at
tract attention.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Five Men Required to
Pull Tooth of Lioness
'Queenie' of Brooklyn Zoo Has
Extraction to Cure Case
of Nerves,

"Queenie," nine-year-old African
lioness at the Prospect Park Zoo, had
a tooth pulled yesterday afternoon.
DR.. John S. Gil espie, Brooklyn Park
Department veterinary, pulled lower
left canine from the great feline.
"Queenie," who was presented to the
Zoo by Brooklyn school children two
years ago, has been great favorite
ever since. About two weeks ago She
developed case of nerves. and
roared almost continually. Exanina-
ton by Head Keeper John O'Brien
showed that she was suffering from
tcothache.
The operation was performed in the
basement of one of the principal build
ings. O'Brien and four of his assist
ants put a rope moose around the
lieness' body and other nooses around
each paw, the neck and the tail.
"Queenie" was then rolled over onto
her back, roaring like forty ordinary
l1onesses. 1t was then discovered that
she was not Ear enough over in the
cage to get - the motion pictures.
and she had to be entirely undone and
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

patrol. That WAS when the Hells
Kitchen gang ruled the district.
In those days the patrolmen worked
in pairs for protection, and it was
not uncommon to see them walking in
the middle of the street to guard
against bricks being thrown from the
housetops.
The gang terror existed until shortly
before the war, and disappeared en-
tire!y with the coming Of the army
draft. Since the war the turbulent old
neighborhood has been as peaceful as
suburban village, and the police
patroling its depopulated streets have
had little or nothing to do. Many of
the "bad men" of the section Joined
the army, voluntarily or otherwise, and
not few of them distinguished them
selves in France.
The 18th Inspection District, with
headquarters at 154 Lawrence Avenue,
Brooklyn, also was abolished last night
at midnight.
Many Other Changes
Numerous other changes were made
effective at midnight. The old 10th In
spection District, BROOKLYN, will here
after be known as the 9th Inspection
District; the old 11th Inspection Dis
trict will be known as the 10th; the
old 14th Inspection District, Brooklyn,
will be designated as the 1lth; the ord
18th, Brooklyn, will be known as the
18th; the old 1eth will be known as the
18th, the old 18th will be known as the
14th and the old 18th will be known as
the 18th.
Inspector Charles A. Formoso will
leave the old 18th Inspection District
to take charge of the 9th, in Staten
Island; Inspector Thomas F. Walsh
will leave the cid 9th to take change of
the new 11th; Inspector Bernard j.
Hayes will leave the old 18TH to take
charge of the new 18th, and Acting In.
spector William T. Davis will leave the
old 14th to go to the Headquarters Di-
vision, with offices at Police Head
quarters.
Commissioner Enright to-day will
promote seven lieutenants to the rank
of captain. The seven heading the
eligibu ty list are Michael S. Slattery,
James Walsh, Philip Auer, Michael
Ahearn, Cornelius Carmody. John Nc
Grath and Archibald McNeiu.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
DR.. Crandin Wins Freedom
Paroled From State Hospital by
Supreme C0urt. Justice
Special Dispatch to The Tribun

POUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Jan. 49,
DR.. Egbert H. Grandin, at one time
president of the New York County
Medical Society, consulting surgeon at
shree hospitals and author Of books
and articles On surgical matters, won
his long fight for release from the
hudson River State Hospital here to-
day, when Supreme Court Justice j..
addison Young ordered him paroled in
the custody Of bis son-in-law. For the
est forty-sevdn days DR.. Grandin had
ecn in the Dutchess County Jail, at his
own request, having previously ex-
pressed q violent dislike for the State
Hospital and everything associated
with it.
DR.. Grandin has become widely
nown because of the many writs of
habeas corpus obtained by him in his
forts to get out of the State Hospital.
On each occasion he acted as his own
counsel,
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Civilian Sets Radio Record
Connecticut Message Answered
by California i'm 6h Minutes

HARTFORD, Conn, JaN. 18.--A new
civilian wireless record was established
early to-day when Hiram Percy Maxim
sent message from his STATEN here
to Los Angeles, Calf. and received a
reply six and one-half minutes later.
The messages were reiayed by stations
at Chicago and Roswell, N. NJ.
Tests under the auspices Of the
America. Radio Relay League, Of
which Mr.. Maxim is president, have
terday it was announced that mes
sage had been sent to Los Angeles from
this city and a reply received in one
hour and eight minutes, new civilian
mark for 'crcss- continent wireless re-
lay. The former record was said to
have been one hour and twenty min
ucs est hlished four years ago by the
Maxim station.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
High Heels a High Crime
If This Utah Bill Passes

SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. fs.~-The text
81 9 bill TO prohibit hi9h heesed shoes
In Utah was made ppb'ie to-day at =
meeting Of representatives Of women'g
clubs in conference with legislators at
thS Capitol.
The bill is so far-ycaching that tho
rersan found with pair Of such shoe
~ his possession IL subject to a fine
of fspm e25 TO 1900 for tho first con-
va<fsdn and from $500 to $1,000 Tor
svsry additional eFense, and i'm prison
ment Of from thirty days to ons year.
= drawn 70 taks effect on January
I, 1875. The height Of heels permittsd
- cue And : hsif Inches.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
WOrnan's Nerve Balks
Burglars; One Captured
Awakeped by Thieves in Room,
She Opens Window and
Blows Police Whistle

Miss Helen Smith. who lives on the
third floor of the house at Bank
Street, was awakened by the sound of
her bureau drawer being opened early
yesterday morning. Two burglars were
at work in her bedroom. She sprsng
a police whistle. The men ran from
the room. one of them into the arms
of q policeman in front of the house.
The man gave his name as Henry
Wilson, of 315 East Fifteenth Street.
lie was charged with burg airy. Accord
ing to the police, two rings and e
brooch, identified as hers hy Miss
Smith. were found on him. The other
man escaped.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Grandmother of Russian
Revolution Seriously M

PARIS, Jan. Madame Cather;,.
Bres kovsky. "The Little Grand
mother of the Russian Revolntia.r
who came to Paris recently from ~.
teenia to attend the conferences hsss
of the remnant Of the old Russiss
Duma, is seriously i'll in the Rusa;ss
Hospital at Boulogne, near Paris.
Size was taken to the institution Ia.
week Suffering from general bresis
dwr ~rd Neart affection.
Madame Breshkovsky is in h,
seven y -seventa year. Her revolut,as.
ary activities began when she wss
twenty-six. Forty-four years of rs.
life were spent in prison and axs,as
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

He said it was only after the srevela-
tions made by the Lockwood committee
that members Of his union obtained
work.
''Who was doing the house swrecking
before that?" asked Mr.. Untermyer.
"Dishwashers and everybody" re-
piled Zaranko.
The trial will be resumed this morn
inp
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Edsel Ford Operated On
specias Dispatch to The T,,buns

Specid! Dispafch 10 The Tribune
DETROIT, Jan. 18.-Edsel B. Fo,a
only son of Henry Ford and presidar.
of the Ford Motor Company, andsrs
went an operation for appcndicit;s
Monday at the Henry Ford Hospital
fa hs has sase, been s suffering from the trouble
respond to treatment his physicians
ordered him to the hospital. His co,.d;s
tion is favorable.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Lower Prices-Same Quality

Since announcing Substantial Reductions
in the price Of Shirts to measure and in other
departments, we have been more than
pleased with the hearty response of our
esteemed clientele.
We want our patrons and friends to know
that, although our prices are lowered, the
high quality and unusual character of our
merchandise is strictly maintained through
out every department. of our establish
ment.
In both our New York and Paris Sho,s
our policy has always been to do our full
part in making readjustments to meet the
exigencies of changing business conditions.
&. Sue&n 8 @ona,oaY
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

done up again TO get her iuoo focn.
O'Brien pried the animals moufS
open with an iron pipe. and Dr.. CH-
cocaine. Park Commissioners John + =
Harman continued this treatment c,,tEE
a long stick with cot Il at the era sa
Then, with large psi of pliers. ~ H.
illespie with great effort pulled -.
ko0fb suo
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

&1nrsne~10snts than ali fhe efES~ S2nse 49,
3 s.as ~ g1SNfa e2ntbjfec. Theps JssskraAn
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Hell's Kitchen
Station Gone i'm
Police Shal1eup

tcsntIoasd from nrst vpass)
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
APPEALS FOR OLDEST
METHODIST CHURCH

PHILADELPHIA. June 14--An
impassioned appeal not TO deface
historic St. Georges Methodist Epis-
copal Church. the oldest church OF
that denomination in America, by
moving it from its present site TO
make way for the proposed Szs. .00o,-
600 bridge between this city and
Camden, n J., was voiced yesterday
by Bishop Thomas b. Neeley at the
FIRST public hearing OF the Bridge
Commission
Should the engineers carry out a
plan to have the Phil2d elphia terni-
rus at Franklin Square, st Georges
Church would be included In prop
erty that would have to be condemn
ed Bishop Neeiey scoffed at a srg-
gestion that the cnurch would be
moved safely to another and more
popular part OF the city.
The graves OF some OF Phfladel-
phia's earliest settlers are located in
the cemetery surrounding st
Georges Church.
Tho Franklin Square site was fav.
ored by Mayor Moore. the PhilaoeI-
phia Chamber cf Commerce and
oher business ORGANIZATIONS
Evening journal., 1921-06-14

criticisms thereon or the text OF any
Official instructions, reports or letters
upon any subject whatever or furn-
ish copies thereof TO any person
without the express permission OF the
Navy Department"
Admiral Sims reproduced the
above extract from the regulations
In the course OF an official request to
Secretary Daniels, dated two years
ago today (June IL. 1870. for per
mission TO publish a book on the ao-
tivities Of the United states Navy
during the great war" In the sec
ond chapter OF the book Admiral
Sims deals at length with the inces-
SAINT anti-American activities Of the
Sim Fein element OF the Irish popu-
lation OF Queenstown, whore the
American destroyer forces, under
his command. were based during the
war.
on page 81 OF the Victory at Sea"
Admiral Sims pays a warm tribute TO
his officers and men who were of
Irish e,rseaction." He says;
THE Sim Feiners apparently be-
lieved these so-cailed Irish h-Ameri-
cans would sympathize with their
cause; in their widest moments they
even hoped our naval forces might
champion H. But these splendid
sailors were Americans before they
were anything else; their chief am
bition was the defeat OF the Hun and
they could not understand how any
man anywhere could have any other
! aim in life They were disgusted
at tho large numbers of abie-bodied
men whom they saw on the streets
lin oueenstOwn). and did not hest
tate 20 ask some OF them why they
were not fighting on the western
front"
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
HURT in MIMIC
GAS ATTACK
P. M. c. Visitors Struck by
Pieces of Shells Ex-
ploded
SMOKE CLOUDS SCARE
CHESTER CITIZENS

Several persons were injured and
the city OF Chester was filled with
smoke last night when a detachment
OF United States soldiers staged a
sham" gas attack at the Pennsyl-
vania Military College.
The demonstration was the FIRST
Of the closing exercises OF the col
lege. Flying particles OF the shells
used in the demonstration few into
a crowd Of 1000 persons that lined
the football held where the shells
exploded.
The shells were filled with smoke
tinged with phosphorus instead OF
with gas. Trench mortars were used
and the smokc-fillod four-inch shells
were fred from behind the college
buildings 10 the football and drill
field, where students and friends
had assembled 20 watch the war
demonstration.
There were 100 shells fred by the
soldiers. They exploded when fifty
feet in the air. the body Of each
falling TO the field. while the noses
and caps few of into space II was
the flying shell particles that struck
several OF the spectators
The smoke liberated from the
body Of the shell chung in dense
closds over the field and caused
great excitement when II hoated
into the city Of Chester. causing
many FIRE scares and instiiling fear
into the persons who did not know
OF the demonstration and who
snuffed the strangely scented atmos-
| phere-
The first person struck by a shell
was Samuel Deitch. OF rs East
Fourth street. Chester. He was in
the crowd watching the exploding
Evening journal., 1921-06-14

shells as they lighted up the dark
nold, when one OF the hying moses
struck him squarely in the chest.
He was taken to the Chester Hos
pital Another casualty victim was
Benjamin Lister, OF Upland, four
teen years old, whose arm was
gashed. He was treated at the col
lege infrmary.
other persons also were injured
by the pieces. The noses" weighed
from three 20 four pounds each and
they few with great velocity when
the shells exploded. The "exhibi-
ton" was under the direction OF
Captain l.. II. Hudson. OF the gas
reserve laboratory at Edgemont
Arsenal, Maryland. A detachment
Evening journal., 1921-06-14

Of soldiers accompanied him 10 show
the graduating military cadets how
TO stage real warfare.
The crowd was composed OF the
students OF the school and their
guests. as well as residents Of ches-
ter.
Mr.. Deitch was standing with a
group Of friends intently watching a
brilliantly bursting shell. lie clutch
ed his chest and fell. exciaiming.
I'm struck" He was hurried 70
the Chester Hospital in an automo-
bile.
The exercises marked the opening
OF closing week OF the college. Cen
eral Pcrshing will address the stu
dents today on the field where the
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
woU1D-BE SLAYER CAPTURED.

CHESTER. Pa. June 1.-THE po-
lice department received word that
Rascario Messenio. charged with
shooting his fathcr-in-iaw on Feb-
ruary 10. because he complained OF
the noise made by a crying baby,
has been arrested in Reading. The
father-in-law. who was in a serious
condition, is now IN Utica. n. Y.
Messenio win be brought here to-
morrow.
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
GEORGE IA AUSTIN DIES

CAMBRIDGE. Nd. June IA
George l. Austin, 20, son Of the late
Col George Austin. died yesterday
morning at the home of his brother,
Arthur K Austin. near town.
A son. Fred Austin. Lynch Mines
W Va; three brothers-Fred Ans
tin, Charlottesville; Edward Austin,
Greenwood, Miss; Arthur X. Austin
Cambridge-and sister. Mrs
George p Jones. East New Market
survive.
Evening journal., 1921-06-14

injuries were caused last night. To-
night comes the annual hop as a
finale TO the exercises.
Evening journal., 1921-06-14

NOTEs-The Gillette Com
pany assumes full responsibility
for the service of Gillette Blades
when used In any sesHiHs Gil
lette Razor either old type
OF New Improved Gillette. But
with fmff0fions of the genuine
Gillette, IL cannot take respon>
Sibiity for service of Blades.
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
MeNezU h1znuUed Gillette
Patented January Ijth, i9lO

So today you cannot name railroad, steamship
line or caravan route but is carrying its quota of New
Improved Gillettes and Gillette Blades.
The New Improved Gillette Safety Razor is as avail.
able TO the planter in India, the prospector in Alaska,
the ranchman of the Argentine as to the citizen of
Boston, San Francisco, London and Paris.
All over the world the New Gillette is making
friends at sight None more sincere than the old
Gillette user-the man who respects his oId.type
Gillette, and welcomes douby the fine precision of the
New Improved Gillette.
Evening journal., 1921-06-14
In Our Hardware Dept.

We have Just added this new line and can
supply your wants in hardware, saving you
time and money. Garden Hose. Chicken
Wire. Screening. Nails, Screws. Bolts. Locks
Hinges. Rakes. Hoes, Garden Spades, Files.
Hatchets. Axes. etc.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-04-08
Local Happenings

Dr. Burkhart made short visit 70
Wcnatchee Saturday evening.
Tailoring, cleaning, pressing and
repairing at Browns Mems Shop. o.
Don't forget the Apron and Overall
dance given by Cooperative Society
April 10Th. 1e-2tnn
Good tumble apples 75c box At
Peshastin. Express shipment where
acknowledgements Fruit & Ware
house Co. Phone POS, Peshastin. (2te
The Bilcs-CoIeman Lumber Co. at
Omak expect to start their box fac
tory next Monday and will turn out !
million boxes this season. Their saw
mill started last week.