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The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Probably why criminals like to do things over in Loose Ahanghelees, is because the attorneys can have the whole thing in the papers the next morning including quarrel between the state, the nation the city and the different attorneys Why commit crime if it can out-movie the nov ies? The murderee never seems to object but the murderer is often gypped out of over ten per cent of his gains. The City of Angels is cor rect-they will make an angel out of you over there cheaper than any other place in the coun- try, and guarantee you won't come back.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
The numerous Volsteaded distillations gath

The numerous VOlSteaded Installations gath cred here and there have many and varied names Some places down south it is designated as "shinney," an abruption of "moonshine." Re- gently colored boy in Georgia who became tainted and was bouquetted by the police said: ,"Dis is 'footloose' liquor; don't you know what footloose' liquor is? It's de kin what ain't bolt ed an boun' wifi de govvment seal.' Of course 'feetloose" would have been more properer on account of the tangulation, but in any event Vol steaded decoctions are about the "footloosedest" things in the country today
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Fatty Arbuckle has been wanting to quit comedy and go in for tragedy for some time and it looks now as though he was headed that way for all he was worth. He is charged with hav- ing caused the death of an actress who attended a party in his room in San Francisco hotel.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

A government expert announces with great deal of satisfaction that there is visible supply of salt in the United States equal to 130 pounds per person per year. The freshness of some people would indicate they were not using their share of this commodity
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Douglas school authorities are very much up- set over the painted condition of their pupils who report for brain treatment with vanished faces, whitewashed necks and vermillion lips We would suggest that they be turned over to the art department.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

We regret to learn that the notorious Billy Sunday is telling his dupes over in Los Angeles that "the world is going to hell at higher rate of speed than can be encompassed by speed art ists" However, Billy is older than we are and will probably have place all fixed up for the rest of us when we come.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

The city of Winslow is thoroughly worked up, according to the Mail, over the action of the state engineer in refusing to permit the city to pave with bitulithic paving, even though the for the work through the city. Wonder what Winslow has done to offend the state engineer? !?
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
THE PRAYER OF THE INEFFICIENT.

70 Government, give us this day our daily pap clothe us, doctor us, wipe our noses, wash our duds, plant the Congressional seed for us, hoe our garden, put the bait on our hooks, reform us nurse our babies and rub the bacon rind on our chiggers. ."-Ex.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Mildewed Mildred says she believes that after a person has been convicted and paroled three times, he should be given an unconditional par don, for it is manifestly unfair to pick on the same person continually.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Mildewed Mildred says she thinks Mrs. Oben- chain is perfectly right in pleading not guilty, for, of what use is the vote to women if she does not extend the right of suffering to her husbands?
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

The Douglas Dispatch admires the slogan: Buy Something Made of Copper" and suggests that more people would do that thing if it was n't for the Volstead act. What makes Volstead act that way?
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

The state district court of appeal, sitting in Los Angeles, has just decided that state officials have no right until duly authorized by state law, to spend one dollar of state money for the en- forcement of any federal statute.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

It's the good friend who stays with SUD- posed friend all the way down the line to the point where he knows he is merely being made a sucker. Then he is the sucker right if he keeps on staying.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Mildewed Mildred says she believes that some men would look whole lot cleaner and better if they changed their clothes half as often as they do their minds.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

The old home town paper reflects the imper factions of the old home town people as perfectly as it chronicles their advancements.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

No real lady will say she "has nothing to wear" unless she is the owner of at least forty gowns, and two handkerchief bathing suits.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Education is great thing in every line of business. Just think what Babe Ruth has been able to accomplish by studying Homer in his youth
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

We are glad that nothing was done about ad- ditional water supply for the city this year We will be able to pay more and get less next year. Education surely does cost money.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

The labor and capital problem will never be settled definitely until there is some way of ac- curately assaying brains.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

/ No errors of opinion can work injustice or become dangerous so long as they are ventilated in the columns of the newspaper.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

We hope that President Harding does not go on playing such good game of golf that he gets America into international troubles with Scot land
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Three Arrested.
$4,000 Drugs
Taken i'm Raid
Police Say One Prisoner
Had knowledge of the
Shooting ofMaxy Gordon,
Alleged Dope Peddler
Another Seized in Fight
Detectives Get ''Sausages"
Filled With Opium on
Ship; Chinese Accused

Detectives Higgins and Cur1ey, of the
Narcotic Squad. acting under direction
of Deputy Police Commissioner Carlo
ton Simon with Revenue Agent Ralph
Ouler, raided the top floor of a house
at rs West Twenty-fifth Street lats
yesterday and seized $1O,O00,000 worth
of heroin and cocaine after the occu-
pants Of the place had tried to dispose
4, OF the drugs by throwing part of them
into court from the window.
Three men arrested charged with
having drugs in their possession were
Salvatore Tranticosts, alias Sam Spi-
nelli, who is declared by the police to
have been connected with the shooting
Of Maxy Gordon, drug vender. and
Josef Cartilcno, his associate, on Octo-
Der II last; Robert Clarke, who lives
at 243 West Forty-ffth Street, and
James Harrison, of 116 West Forty
eighth Street.
The detectives say they had been
watching the West Twenty fifth Street
place for many hours without result,
but finally adopted ruse, sending one
This officer signaled his associates
below and the raid was made.
Clarke and Harrison are classed by
the officers as drug purchasers. Checks
totaling $1,000 in value were found on
Tranticosta. One of the other prison.
ers had 5000 in bills and checks in his
possession. Commissioner Simon ques-
toned Tranticosta, who is said to have
admitted that he was present at the
shooting of Gordon and Cartileno.
Detectives Moffett and Sails had a
running fight before they apprehended
Josef Sorrentino, of East Second
Street. The man was taken at 80 James
Street on charge of drug vending.
He broke away and ran to the Bowery
before being overtaken. He Out I'D a
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Leaders Select
Upstate Judge
For Dry Chief
Fl. L. Hart, of Binghamton,
Is Picked by Republican
Heads for Enforcement
Post Held by O'Connor
Appointment Is Assured
Expect Mellon to Announce
1t Next Week; Status of
Chaplin Still Mystery

City Judge Harold l.. Hart, OF Bing-
hamton, has been selected by the Re-
publican state leaders for the post OF
Federal prohibition director Of the
State of New York, the place now held
by Charles r. O'Connor, of Hobart, N.
Y. The salary is $4,000 and the Office
is regarded by the Republican leaders
as the most important one OF its class
in the country.
1t is expected that the appointment
wiN be announced by Andrew W. Mel
Ion, as Secretary of vne Treasury, be-
fore the middle of next week. Mr..
O'Connor has said that he wishes to
retire at the earliest possible opportu-
nifty. George "A. Glynn. chairman Of
the Republican State Committee, in
commenting last nignr on the choice of
Mr.. Hart, said:
"While the appointment is Federal
one, and will be announced from Wash
ington, it is no secret among the state
leaders that Mr.. Hart is the organiza-
ton selection. l cannot speak IN too
high terms of Judge Hart. He will as
sumo the Office at great personal sac
rifice, but he is young and desires to
make a good record, and it means that
the state organization will support him.
Broome County is a district with
marked prohibition sentiment, the peo-
pie there believing in the enforcement
of law .JuNpp Hart ia not fanatic
but he believes in the enforcement of
the law. and his appointment, when
made, will be a guarantee of efficient
law enforcement and freedom from COL
lusion between bootleggers and men
higher up"
Status of Chaplin Question
The exact status of Daniel J. Chaplin.
the Federal prohibition officer who
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Coal Dealer Denounces
Legislative Interference
John E. Lloyd Says. ''BoIshevik
Committee" Introduced Cal
der Regulation Bill

Much opposition to any more legisla-
tive interference with the coal bnsi-
ness was expressed by speakers at yes
terday's regional meeting Of the New
York State Coal Merchants Associa-
tion at the Hotel Pennsylvania. In
this the most vehement speaker was
John E. Lloyd, president of the Ma
tional Retail Coal Mechants', Associa-
tion and a dealer of Philadelphia.
"If the coal men can't run their bust
ness right, how do you expect the gov
ernmcnt TO do t?" he asked. "Legisla-
tion cannot cure our ills; the more we
have the worse off we arc. 1t would
be better if Congress spent it's time
cutting out some of the harmful stat
utes now on the books
Mr.. Lloyd said he hoped every dealer
would oppose the Calder bill, which he
called can entering wedge" introduced
by a "Bolshevik committee composed
of men who could not get job any
where else"
Mr.. Lloyd's attitude was at variance
with that OF John Reimer, a member Of
the associations, who advocated regula-
tion as necessary and demanded by the
public. "rhe time is coming" he said,
toward public regulation for all basic
necessities. The beginning has been
made with coal"
The association held dinner last
night at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Michael +. Burns, president of Burns
Brothers, presided. Harry I. Peters
was POSTMASTER. Former Governor
Alfred Z. Smith was scheduled to
speak, but was unable to attend be
cause of illness.
The Rev. Father John L. Belford, of
Brooklyn, spoke in praise Of Governor
Miller. "The Governor" he said "has
made wonderful start and l take my
hat off to him. He has tackled the
traction interests against the advice of
his political counselors."
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04

that the District Attorney should be
vigorously held to observance of tho
laws and respect for the exclusive
rights of the grand jury to exercise
its own powers and privileges. Several
alleged abuses are pointed out.
Anarchy Declared Checked
"Thc least defensible acts" said the
presentment, "arc influencing grand
juries by prejudicial statements before
or during the hearing Of cases--fre-
quently of the records; failure to call
witnesses and incompetent presenta-
tions of cases; improper or ignorant
calculations of the law. taking advan-
tagc of II not abetting considerable
lack Of knowledge cf grand jurors in
regard to the power OF grand jury;
not promptly filing with the foreman a
copy CT the transcription Of the min
utes of the preceding session and
awaiting digest before asking q
judgment. delivering to grand jury
in advance of a vote the prepared in
dictment or dismissal papers, thereby
anticipating the verdict. An undue
advantage is taken of the public igno-
rance of official power and the law, in
consequence of which homes within
and without the county are invaded
without due process of law"
Regarding the indictments and con-
victions for criminal anarchy. the pre-
sentiment said: "The principal results
of the indictments have been the SEEM
ing disorganization of these political
groups. checking of the open ad-
vocacy of criminal anarchy, stimu-
lation of activity by the public au-
Federal authorities. carefulness in the
acceptance by job printers and direct
ing attention to menace of criminal
anarchy"
Rorke Is Complimented
In this connection the grand jury
paid its compliments. to Alexander l.
Rorke, formerly Assistant District At
torney, who presented and prosecuted
the criminal anarchy cases.
Mr.. Banton gave out statement with
regard to the presentment which in
part follows:
81 am great believer in the election
of our public officials by the people,
and to do otherwise in the case of the
District Attorney would mean that the
State Constitution would have to be
amended. | quite agree that Assistant
District Attorneys should not have the
privilege OF law outside of the prose-
cution of criminal cases.
"As to money from private sources
being used to prosecute defendants
charged with crime, that cannot be done
now. don't quite understand the sug-
gestion for a bureau of audit and ac-
counting. ] think we've got the best
possible under John Buckley
"Now the reason why stenographic
notes of examinations by the District
Attorney outside Of the grand jury
room are not taken before the grand
jury is because such evidence would
be hearsay evidence and as such ille-
gal. 1t would be a good ground on
which to ask for the dismissal of the
Indictment.
~ heartily agree that the people, as
we'll as defendant, should have the
right of appeal from the dismissal of
an indictment by judge where oues-
tion of law is involved"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04

came here from Chicago a few months
ago with Che avowed intention Of max
ing the city dry, is . mystery. He has
been absent In Washington for the last
few days, and yesterday there was a
persistent rumor that he had been re-
m owed from office. This rumor was
considerably strengthened when Harold
B. Dobbs, the Brooklyn enforcement
officer, moved over into Chapin's office
in the darlington Building, on West
Twenty seventh Street.
Chaplin, according to some of the
agents, went to Washington in an ef-
fort to get appointed Internal Revenue
Commissioner under the new Adm nis-
tration. He is Republican and was
one time chairman Of the Republican
State Committee of Illinois.
Mr.. Dobbs refused to discuss the
status Of Mr.. Chaplin, except to say:
"I'm in charge Of the New York dis
trict. / am also in charge of my old
Brooklyn Office. / don't care to speak
Of any changes in the prohibition per-
sonnel. You may simply say that l am
filling In, while Mr.. Chaplin is away on
a business trip"
The absence of Chaplin in Washing
ton comedies with the importation OF
forty prohibition agents from Boston
to conduct series of raids here. 1t
was admitted last night, however, by
Dennis Hurley, the agent in charge of
the Boston raiders, that their spectacu-
lar descent upon the city had not
stopped the sale Of liquor at the places
raided
One Of the afternoon newspapers
charged yesterday that the inporta
tion of the Boston raiders had cost
more than $1,000 and all that could
be showed for it was the seizure of
about SIS worth of liquor Hurley de-
MED the latter part Of the statement
was true. While he could not give any
exact figures, he said he thought at
least $4,000 worth of liquor had been
cCnfiscated
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
$4,000 Bonds
OF Million Loot
Turn Up Here
More Arrests Expected To.
day as Liberty Paper
Stolen i'm Toledo TrickIes
Into X e serve Bank
Will Question Brokers
ID Already Under Bail in
Connection With Postal
Hold-Up 3 Weeks Ago

Ihirty-f1ve thousand dollars in stolen
Liberty bonds, part of the 81 600 600
haul of the bandits who held up the
Toledo, Ohio, postoffice three weeks
ago, trickled into the Federal Reserve
Bank in New York yesterday. This
brings the total amount Of the securi
ties recovered in this city to $41,5
all in the last three days.
Bank officials, postoffice inspectors
and police detectives at once began
checking up the channels through
which the bonds came. They range in
denomination from $50 to $1,000.
Further arrests are almost certain
to-day, the authorities said. The po-
lice believe that a large number of
agents have been used by the men who
have undertaken to dispose of the
Toledo booty in New York. They hope,
however, to establish the identity Of
most of them by questioning the brok-
ers who have purchased the securities
and who can. probably be traced
through the Federal Reserve Bank as
the stolen bonds continue to come in
to that institution. Sooner or later,
it is anticipated, some one of the pur-
breast of it and furnish the informa-
tion that will lead to the ringleaders
and eventually to the bandits them
selves.
Four Free on Bail
Jacob C"Lippy") Cohen, alias Harry
Appelbaum, who was taken into GUS
tody Wednesday when he came to a
Delaney Street brokers' Office for the
alleged purpose of selling $1,700 Of the
bonds, was arraigned yesterday before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
and released on $4,000 bail to await the
action of the Federal Grand Jury. An
drew Folz is at liberty on $4,000 bail
and Frank Miller and Joseph Fisher,
alias Vogel, on $4,000 each.
The charge against all four, as it
now stands, is having in their pos
session matter known to have been
stolen from the mails. On this charge
they cannot be removed to the Ohio
jurisdiction, but would, providing the
government makes out a case against
them, be indicted and tried here. How
ever. there is a possibility, postal Of
fcials said yesterday, that when the
trict hears the evidences it may decide
that the defendants should be taken
to Ohio and prosecuted on charges in
volvlng more direct completely with
the actual plotters Of the robbery.
Ten Held in Toledo
The Federal and local officials here,
as we'll as those in Toledo, are under
stood to have concluded that the search
for the bulk of the S10OO,OOO booty
has narrowed down to New York and
that the clews that are expected finally
to run to earth the real perpetrators
OF the hold-up will be uncovered in
this city.
From Toledo yesterday came the re-
port that several lawyers and bankers
are likely to be arrested charged with
aiding to dispose of the stolen bonds
Ten persons suspected of completely in
the crime are now being held in that
city.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Jas. LIE B. Johnson
Falls IL Stories to
Death i'm 5th Ave.
Former Episcopal Minister,
Whose Elopement With
Nurse Caused Sensation,
Found Dead i'm Courtyard

James lie Baron Johnson, once as
sistnnt rector of Grace Church, who
was deposed from the Protestant E2is-
copal ministry at his own request, was
killed yesterday by fall from a
twelfth floor window at 70 Fifth Ave-
nue.. An employee of the building dis
covered his body in the courtyard. 1t
was identified by 4. w. Jeffry
Mr. Jcffry has an Office on the
twelfth floor and was expecting 4 cfil
from Mr.. Johnson. Mr..Johnson was in
po,r health, he said, and probably had
been stricken with weakness and went
to the window to get air, losing his
balance and falling out.
Funeral services will be held at II
a. m. tomorrow, at the Church of the
Ascension, the church in which Bishop
Potter directed that the announcement
of his deposition from the ministry
be read more than twenty years ago,
although Mr.. Johnson never had been
connected with the Church Of the
Ascension.
Mr.. Johnson was fifty-one years old,
the son of the late Rev. George D.
Johnson, archdeacon of the Protestant
Episcopal Church and for twenty ight
years rector of Christ Church, New
Brighton, Staten Island. He was or
dained in the ministry in Seattle,
come assistant rector of Grace Church
in the nineties.
In Seattle he had been a member of
the volunteer fire department and his
interest in the Fire Department of this
city was keen from the day of his ar
rival. He was appointed chaplain of
the department, installed fire alarm
gong at his home and bought a horse
and buggy in order to attend all the
big fires.
His interest in fires and instant re-
sponse to alarms are said to have
caused differences with his wife, who
was Mabel Van Rensselaer,, daughter of
Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer,, of 12
East Thirty seventh Street. He per
nitted nothing to come between him
and what he regarded as his duty, how
ever.
When the North German Lloyd piers
burned in Hoboken the young fire chap
lain spent many hours of hardship and
nervous strain. This experience was
regarded as responsible for nervous
collapse, which he suffered soon after
ward. Shortly after he returned from
a sanatorium, in 1900, he informed
Bishop Potter of his determination to
leave the ministry and disappeared.
Several weeks later it was discov-
cred that he had eloped with Mary
Hoffman, nurse at Bellevue Hospital.
His wife obtained divorce and he and
Miss Hoffman were married. Mr.. John
son went into the insurance business.
In 1908 he investigated the Fire Depart
ment for the Merchants Associa ton.
His home was at 96 Grove Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Woman Dead in Woods

Thomas Lenihan, who lives in Sta
tion Place, found the body Of we'll
dressed woman in the woods near
236th Street and johnson Avenue, the
Bronx, as he was on his way to work
yesterday.
Lenihan notified Patrolman Herr
man, of the Kingsbrdge Station, who
called an ambulance but when it ar
rived DR.. Collins, pf Fordham Hospital,
pronounced the woman dead. The body
appears to be that OF woman weigh
ing about $50 pounds, with brown hair
slightly gray at the temples, large
nose and high cheekbones. There is a
wart on the forehead between the eyes
and five gold teeth in the upper jaw
Assistant District Attorney Frank
Oliver, Of the Bronx, after examining
the body, declared that he had found
no evidence of violence.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Jury Questions Offers
OF Bribes to Met Carthy

BOSTON, March 9.--The Federal
grand jury reported to-day that 1t had
no grounds whatever for believing that
any attempt had been made to bribe
William ]. Mccarthy, supervising pro.
hibition enforcement officer for this dis
trict, or any of his agents.
The report said the grand Jury had
taken cognizance Of certain newspaper
interviews in which Mccarthy was rep
resented as telling Of rejection of bribes
amounting to moro than a million dol
lars offered on condition that he would
permit violations Of tho Volstead act.
Tho jury reported that the testimony
Of Frank flanagan, assistant to Nc
Carthy, furnished no evidence of any
attempt to hribe Mr.. Mccarthy.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04

hard fight before he was subdued bv
the detectives. ~
Chains Of sausage skins packed With
opium and colored to resemble he
logna were seized on board a steam sbi,
lying at her pier in Greenno:nt
Brooklyn. Ten pounds of the sun'
posed sausage were confiscated soa !.
thorough search Of the ship is to bs
made to-day.
Inspector o. A. Hokensen, who with
a force Of detectives made the rs;d
said that the crew OF the stcsm.,
Chinese coolies from Calcutta. bad
brought large quantities Of drugs for
distribution in the United States.