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New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Wallis Would Bar
Unfit Aliens From
Leaving Home Ports
Advocates Establishment of
Inspection Stations i'm Eu-
ropean Cities to Prevent
Sailing of Undesirables

Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner
Of immigration, told the Teachers In
terest Organization at the Hotel Penn
sylvania yesterday that the greatest
necessity in immigration service to-
day was the examination of immi-
grants in the European ports before
they were permitted to sail for this
country. He said this country should
station inspectors at every port. and
so spare the anguish to the unfit and
undesirable who reach Ellis Island,
only to be turned back, penniless, to
the land from which they sought es-
cape.
Gently with 162 deportees, he said.
81 can hear their wailing and Shrek
ing nowIt took six doctors to keep
them from throwing themselves over
board"
The Commissioner also spoke of the
menace to immigration of deserting
seamen from foreign ships. In less
than ninety days 1000 seamen nave de-
serted their posts, he said. Another
ships crew, made up OF Arabs, Turks
and Armenians, lost seventy-three OF
its number while here, all OF whom
probably would have been refused ad-
mission il subjected to the immigra-
tion tests. Desertion has become so
heavy that immigration inspectors re-
Gently have begun to examine the sea-
men between Quarantine and the piers
in Manhattan. A similar menace exists
in stowaways, who are coming in great
er numbers than ever before, one ship
recently holding fifty-four, mostly con-
victs and other unde sirables.
Royal S. Copeland, Health Commits
sioner, praised the work of the new ad-
ministraton at Ellis Island, and then
told the school teachers that next to
the Department of Health they were
the most important civic servants. Theo-
dore F. Risley, Acting Secretary Of
Labor, was the next speaker, followed
by Senator Charles C. Lockwood and
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Edwards.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Bombs Thrown at Auto
In Dublin; Boy Killed
Eight Other Civilians Wounded.
but Soldiers, Object of
Attack. Are Unhurt

DUBLIN, June 4.-Three bombs were
thrown at motor car in which soldiers
were crossing Newcomer Bridge here
this evening. A boy was killed and
eight civilians and two policemen were
wounded. None of the occupants of the
car was injured
CORK, June "A workhouse in Mill
Street., until recently occupied by an
auxiliary division of the Royal Irish
Constabulary, was destroyed by fire
last night.
A party of armed men took posses
sion of the building, removed its occu-
pants to an infrmary, and then
sprinkled the premises with petrol, to
which they set fire. The damage is
estimated at 100000.
LIMERICK, June a (By The Asso-
ciated Press).-Thomas Keane, SEN
fenced to death by 'courtmartia, on
conviction of having been improperly
in possession of arms and of having
taken part in an attack on the police at
Singland, was shot by firing squad in
the barracks square here this morning.
Keane met his fate without a CULVER.
AS the execution was being carried out
large crowds outside the barracks Of
fered prayers and sang hymns.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Father Advises
Mrs. Stillman
ToF'igllt to End
Urges Daughter to Make
No Settlement of Divorce
Action With Banker;
Confers With Counsel
May Take Witness Stand
]. r.. Brennan in Charge
Of Case as Second Firm
of Lawyers Withdraws

James Brown Potter. rather o. Mrs.
Anne Urquhart Stillman, who arrived
here last Wednesday from Paris, has
urged his daughter to make no settle-
ment with James A. Stillman and has
expressed himself as being in favor Of
her fighting to the last ditch the
divorce action brought by the former
president Of the National City Rank.
Mr.. Potter appeared actively in his
daughters behalf yesterday when he
conferred with John F. Brenaan, of
Yonkers, new chief counsel fof Mrs.
Stillman, and with John F. Mack, of
Poughkeepsie, guardian ad litem for
Guy Stillman, the thirJy-months-o
child whose legitimacy is questioned
by Mr.. Stillman. After discussing
legal phases of the case, he said he be-
leved Mrs. Stillman would be VIC
torious. He declared no settlement
should be considered.
81 am squarely behind my daughter
and will see this matter through" Mr..
Potter is said to have told the lawyer.
The father of Mrs. Stillman visited
Mr.. Brennan at Yonkers and accom-
TdHieO MIN 10 IaIfyCoWn, Wnere LHe
order substituting Mr.. Brennans firm
for the New York firm of Cadwalder,
Wickersham & Taft as lawyers of
record, was signed by Supreme Court
Justice Morschauser. The order will
be fled in Putnam County tomorrow.
Mr.: Potter later called on Mr.. Mack at
Arlington and retained lastSnight to
his country place at Tuxedo.
MIR. Potter is prepared, it is said, to
give his daughter both moral and legal
support. According to reliable
source, he will make an affidavit set
ting forth that he was living at the St.
Regis Hotel in New York City at the
time Of the birth of Guy Stillman and
that then Mr.. Stillnan raised no ques-
tion concerning the legitimacy of the
child. 1t is also possible that Mr..
Potter will take the witness stand to
testify that the Stillmans lived in mar
ital relations before and after the
birth of Guy
Withdrawal of Cadwalader, Wicker
sham e. Taft and the substitution OF
Mr.. Brennan for John B. Stanchfield
of this city, in the capacity of chief
counsel caused speculation yesterday
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Meyer Says City Government Is
AT Lowest Level i'm 20 Years
Will Determine Why Worlds Richest Municipality
Cant Pay Its Way, and Spare None Guilty of
Waste, Declares Joint Committee Head

Senator Schuyler NJ. Meyer. chairman
OF the joint legislative committee in
vestigating the Hylan administration,
in an official statement in The Metropo-
lis, political publication, says that il
only portion of the charges lodged
with his committee are true, the Hylan
administration has sunk to the lowest
level in twenty years.
I'VE do not propose to tolerate OBJ :.
struction to our work, and we shall be
merciless toward any offenders against
the laws says Senator Meyer. His
statement follows:
''The joint legislative committee an
pointed to investigate the city govern
ment of which | am chairman, are
not approaching their arduous task in
a spirit of hostility to the city, it's
governors or its interests. We intend
to try to help the city and specially
to determine why it is that the richest
city IN the world is unable to pay it's
way. If we find evidence of dishones
IN office or waste of public funds, we
shall endeavor to expose the culprits,
but the object of the committee is
'"uen more than hunt Tor graft and
glafters.
Not Satisfactory" Too Mild
Il think that sensible men of all par
ties will admit that the city govern
ment, irrespective of personalities, is
not satisfactory. In fact the phrase
not satisfactory is too mild to de
scribe the situation adequately. The
city government, as it is formed and
conducted is extrayaCant a,J ;raA
cient. Nobody seems to know whv this
should be so, but most competent critics
agree that it is. We are going to
make an effort to find out why it is SO
and the factors which bring it about.
1T may be that personalities of Of
ficials are the dominant factor. In
that case, I suppose, you could not
hope to have a satisfactory government
if you elected an inefficient admins
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Gas Candles NewW eapon;
To Be Tossed i'm Dugouts

CHESTER, Pa, June 4.rCaptain l..
D. Hutson, Z. S. A., speaking to-day
before students OF the Pennsylvania
Military College, described new wea-
pons of war devised by the United
States. He came here to perfect plans
for a night gas attack, to be staged in
connection with the colleges centen-
nial commencement exercises on
June 13.
Zone new invention is the toxic
smoke candle" he said. (which when
burned sets loose clouds of dust par
ticles, temporarily incapacitating those
that breathe the dust The infantry
will be equipped with these candles,
and they will be used in advance TO
smother the personnel of machine gun
nests and the enemy huddled in
trenches and dugouts"
He told, also, of new warfare gas,
three drops Of which will kill, within
thirty seconds, the person whose skin
it touches S.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Mother Leads
Quiet Life at Home Here

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Rumrill Still
man, mother of James A. Stiliman, who
is suing his wife, Anne Urquhart
Potter Stillman. for divorce. has been
living for the last two months at 102
East Th.rty-ffth Street. Miss Tucker,
a lifelong friend, and housekeeper
are the other members of the house
hold.
Besides the quiet. narrow house in
Thirty-hfth Street Mrs. Stillman has
a country home in Cornwall. She
motors back and forth between the
two. Mrs. Stillman has FIVE children,
James Alexander, Isabel (now Mrs.
Percy Rockefeller), Charles Chauncey,
Ernest and Elsie, who is Mrs. William
g. Rockefeller. 1t is said that Mrs.
Stillman sees little of her children and
has never met Anne Urquhart Still
man. The older Mrs. Stillman leads a.
quiet life and is the object of devoted
attention from those nearest her.
For many years Mrs. Stillman and
Miss Tucker lived in Paris and
Travelled in all parts OF the world ex-
cept America She returned 70 the
United States in 1919, more than
year after the death of her husband,
James Stillman, senior.
According to the housekeeper, Mrs.
Stillman and Miss Tucker motored to
the country yesterday morning.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
$4,000, 900 Given
Carnegie Schools
By Fund Trustees
Corporation Presents Huge
Sum for Development end
Maintenance of the Two
Institutes at Pittsburgh

Announcement OF the gift of ST.
OO0.O00 for the maintenance and devel.
opment of Carnegie Institute Of Pitts
ourgh and the Carnegie Institute of
Technology was made yesterday by the
Carnegie Corporation. In discussing
the gift DR.. James r. Angel, president
Of the corporation, said:
"The appropriation which the Car
negie Corporation is making for the
Carnegie Institute and Carnegie Insti-
tute of Technology at Pittsburgh is
in mere financial magnitude one of the
greatest gifts ever offered to an Amer
important. we believe that the manner
in which it is to be consummated prom
ises rich returns to our citizens car
rying out the spirit of the founder
OF the Institutes, who desired that
they should be rooted deeply in the
affections and appreciation of the pub
lie.
"The records OF the two Institutes
may we'll be source of pride to Pitts
burgh. Nowhere else in the world is
there concentrated such a combination
of facilities for public education in
science and the arts for the advance
menu ol kHoWIedgc ana Tor Cne appre-
citation of beauty. The corporation has
made this gift after long and careful
study of the situation and in the con-
fidence that nowhere else can it make
an equal expenditure to such advant-
age.
$50 closely knit are the interests of
the various parts of our country that
whatever benefits one region inevita b.! y
exercises wholesome influence upon
the entire nation. and the corporation
feels that its gift will carry both the
spirit and the letter of its charter, in
which Mr.. Carnegie directed his trus-
tees so to use the resources he had
contided to them as 'to promote knowl-
edge and understanding among the peo-
nle OF the limited States ~
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

(contlnued from page on.)
committee impounded after examining
him on May "a.
The order is returnable Monday
morning. This will disclose the pur-
poses of the impounding of the books
and documents in question: Goldberg
in an affidavit swore they have no
bearing upon city affairs or the inves-
tigaticn Of the city officials and de-
partments. The answer of the COM
mittee promises to be startling.
That the committee intended to go
hot-foot after the Queens County con-
tracts was evident from the number of
individual subp9nas specifying certain
contracts. One subpoena calls for the
production of all papers and documents
relating to the contracts let to the
Ano1oc Construction and Engineering
brother of Borough President Con-
molly, is said to be a large owner.
Other subpenas call for papers and
documents relating to:
The grading of Park Lane, by Frank
Tinker.
The contracts let to the Holding
Realty Company.
The Linden Street sewer contract let
to the O'Rourke Construction Company.
Inc corona ana ooQndFen sewer
contracts let to Angelo Paino.
Many Awards To Be Probed
The Genesee Street sewer contract
let to the Joseph Rotti Company.
All contracts let to Sigretti &
O'Rourke.
The filling in of private property in
Ahrens Park.
The Laurel Hill sewer contract let to
Frank L. Paino.
The Genesee Street sewer contract let
to James Ferry.
The Flushing Avenue sewer contract
let to Angelo Paino.
There was also served on the Comp
troller subpoena calling for the pro-
duction of all papers in the purchase
by the city of 200 White autom $bile
trucks by the Street Cleaning Depart
ment. The Comptroller some time ago
issued statement announcing that he
had held up the final payments on these
trucks on the ground that the price at
WHICH they were sold to the city was
excessive. Upward of $l,500,000 is in
yolved in the purchase of these trucks
which was approved by Mayor Hylan's
Board of Purchase and Supply.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Passaic Raids
Trap Gangs of
Boy Hoodlunls
Moon Riders and Black Rid
ers Had Plundered East
Side of City for Weeks,
Taking Refuge in Sewers
Non-Me1nbers Their Prey
Quantity of Stolen Goods
Is Discovered i'm Treas
ure III us e i'm Sandpit

PASSA1C, N. j., June 4--Herman F.
Weber,, chief attendance officer Of this
city, made a raid to-day among mem
bers of the Moon Riders and the Black
Riders, organizations Of youthful hood
lums who have been making life mis-
cradle for'non-m members, young and old,
on the east side Of the city for weeks.
Twenty members Of the two gangs,
ranging in age from six to fifteen years,
were arraigned by Weber and his as
sistant, Stephen V. Koret, before Police
Justice Costello. The attendance Off
GERS likewise discovered treasure
house Of one or the other of the gangs
across the Passaic from Garfield in an
abandoned sand pit, and recovered a
large quantity of stolen clothing, trim
kets and fruit. Most of the fruit was
past redemption.
The Moon Riders are said to be the
original gang and the Black Riders an
offshoot or rival organization. The
Moon Riders took their name and their
costumes from motion picture OF that
name which was shown here several
months ago.
Gangsters Wear Masks
Neither organization rides anything
except their victims, but members of
both wear tall, conical headdresses of
black and black masks covering the
entire face when on the rampage. Ac-
cording to the attendance officers and
other witness, there is seldom mo-
ment when one or both gangs are not
on the rampage.
Children running errands for their
elders have been held up by hundreds
and robbed, petty thieving in stores
goes on night and day and the First
Ward Park, in the heart of a oongested
district, has been made intolerable for
law-abiding children and their mothers.
Heretofore it has been almost i'm
possible to lay hands OH either a Moon
Rider or Black Rider, for when close
pressed he would pry up mani ole
cover and vanish into the sewer. The
prisoners taken to-day were betrayed
schools and were captured at their
homes.
Photographed in Full Regalia
Some of them had photographs of
themselves in full regalia. They said
that little danger attended dropping
into sewer in that part OF town be-
cause there seldom was much water in
any Of them, and all OF thelh emerged
at the river within few blocks. The
only precaution necessary was to give
every rat one met half the road.
Several Of the children said a couple
Of men had trained and advised them
in theft Weber said he hoped to dis
cover the identity of the Fagins and
cause their arrest. lie also would call
upon the juvenile police, organized in
every school from chief to patrolman
to harry the Moon Riders and Black
Riders, he said, giving them no rest
until both gangs were broken up.
AS there was no specific charge
against any of the prisoners taken yes
terday, Police Justice Costello warned
them that they would be dealt with
severely if brought before him again
and let them go.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Pol lish Flyer Executed
AS a Spy for British
Lieut.. Iwanicki One of Several
Accused of Stealing Secrets
of Mobilization

WARSAW, June 4 (By The Associat-
ed Press Lieutenant Henry Iwanicki
Of the. Polish Flying Corps, convicted
by court martial of high treason ia
dispcsing of military secrets to British
agents, was executed Friday by firing
squad at the famous Warsaw citadel.
Lieutenant Iwanick, who was en-
ployed at the War Office, was accused
of stealing mobilization and other mill
tary plans for English representatives.
The court martial lasted three days.
Soon after the. speech delivered in
the House of Commons by Mr.. Lloyd
George, the British Prime Minister, in
which he criticized Poland for not pre-.
venting the Upper Silesian insurrec-
tisn, several Poles accused of being en-
ployed by British intelligence agents
were arrested by the Polish military
authorities, Lieutenant Iwanicke being
ene of these. The others are now being
held for trial.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
American Arms Entered
War i'm October, 1917
War Department Corrects Err
roneous Belief That u. S.
Was Not Engaged Until 1913
f,rotn Thn Trihil1ln,a Wnahin fna, R,lren1

From The TTibnnc's Wnshin1to,t Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 4.--American
forces first entered the actual battle
line the night Of October 2t 1917, and
the frat American battle casualties oc-
Cured November 3, 1917, the War De-
partment disclosed to-day in state
ment authorized by Secretary Of War
Weeks, correcting an erroneous i'm
preston that American arms were not
effective against the enemy until 1918.
According to War Department records
OF the World War, the first Americans
killed in battle were Corporal James
b. Gresham, cf Evnnsville, Ind; Pri-
yate Thomas F. Enright, of Pittsburgh
Pa. and Private Merle D., Hay, Of
Gidden. Iowa, all of Company F, 10th
Infantry of the 1st Division, who lost
their lives November 8, 1917.
The War Department records show
that the troops of the 1st Division
entered the line in the Sommerviller
81, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

tration. On the other hand, it may be
that the structure of the government
is so distorted and clumsy that genu-
inely efficient government is next to
impossible. Or. what is more likely,
1T may be that the situation is a prod
uct of both factors. | mean that the
organization of the city government is
inefficient or overlapping and that the
extravaganza resulting ls made more
pronounced by the individual ineffi-
cheney of members of the administra-
tion--or perhaps by the inefiiciency of
the general policy of the administra-
tion.
Not Seeking to Persecute
ut is an involved subject, especially
II you wish to treat it fairly. as we do.
And in this connection should like to
emphasize the point that the commit
tee intends to be absolutely fair We do
not propose 10 tolerate obstruction Of
our work, and we shall be merciless
toward any offenders against the laws
and the principles of civic honor. But
we are working for the good Of the city
and not for the persecution of any man
or group Of men. The committee is
typically representative of the city OF
Its total members nine are residents Of
the city.
"The Legislature was moved to au-
thorize the committees appointing Mt
because of the reports of irregularities
in certain municipal departments, be-
cause of the alleged breakdown of the
Police Department last winter and be-
cause Of the tremendous increase the
city administration made in the city
budget. Personally, regard the finan-
cial phase Of our investigation as fun
damentally the most important. l do
not intend to minimize the gravity OF
the other causes which combined to
bring about this investigation. If only
portion of the charges made are true,
then the city government has sunk &c
the lowest level in twenty years. But
dishonesty or ineiiciency are only con-
tributing causes to the most serious
shortc oming in the city's affairs, the
steadily mounting tax rate"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Use of Rod Forbidden
In Pittsfeld's Schools

PITTsFIED, Mass, June 4.-The use
by school teachers of lengths of rubber
hose, straps and whips TO discipline
school children is ordered discontinued
in a bulletin issued by Superintendent
of Schools John G. Cannon. The bulle-
in says that a eight rattan applied on
the palm of the hand should suffice"
Complaints concerning the form Of
corporal punishment used by some
teachers was given as the reason for the
issuance of the order. ''If pupil re-
fuses to take his whipping send him
home and report the case," was fur
RI err n structiofI.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Bankers Face
Building Loan
Investigation
Denial of Gouging Charge
by Several Expected to
Result i'm Summons TO
Tell Facts at Inquiry
Stories Widely Different
Prudential Contradicts Tes-
timony of Mortgage Brok-
er on Money Deals

There is possibility that the heads
OF some of the largest savings banks,
insurance companies and other finan-
cial institutions in the state will be
examined on the witness stand before
the Lockwood committee this week in
connection with the sensational dis
closures respecting exorbitant demands
made upon builders who sought loans
for house building operations.
The subp9naing of several of these
financial leaders to appear before the
committee is expected to result from
the depials issued by some of them of
the testimony of witnesses last Thurs
day. It was declared that many OF the
largest savings banks and insurance
companies in TIE city bad compelled
borrowers to take "cat and dog" lots,
property of dubious value. and Liberty
and Victory bonds at par as part of
loans, in addition to forcing the bor-
rowers to give back y substantial por-
tion of the loan as bonus.
Edward d. Dufield, president
and general manager for the Prudential
Life Insurance Company. denied that
his company had ever made the pur-
chases of properly by the borrower as
as was testified before the Lockwood
committee by Sidney W. Hughes, of
Hughes e. Hammond, mortgage loan
brokers.
Hughes, on the other hand said in
his testimony repeatedly that "he was
not able to interest the insurance COM
pany in making the loan" unless the
purchase of company property was in
cluded in the deal. Hughes further
replied to direct questions by Samuel
Untermyer, chief counsel to the Lock
wood committee, that he had never
sought out institutions for the loans
which he knew wanted to unload 'un-
desirable properties.
1t was further learned that, coming
in the nature of. reply to these de-
malls, the committee is being deluged
with the stories Of builders from all
over the city who tell Of being held up
at every point by exacting mortgage
loan brokers and others when they
sought loans for building purposes.
1t is known that the committee has
the loan transactions Of about 489
firms, in which, it was declared, more
than 1000 instances of so-called ex-
tortion are cited.
The conditions imposed by the iinan-
clal people en- the builders, it was tes-
tilted, not only sent the cost of build
ing sky high, but practically paralyzed
the industry. Members of the commit
tee assert it was the prime reason for
the housing shortage
Pending the resumption of this phase
OF the inquiry on Tuesday morning in
City Hall, the problem of readjusting
the fire insurance situation here is be-
ing considered. 1t is understood that
conferences are to be held between
representatives of the big fire insur-
ance firms and members of the Lock
wood committee and that conclusion
Will be reached in the near future.