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New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
eorfy-Eighters Back Women

-. A. II. Hopkins. chairman of the
fsseuti'e committee Of the Committee
~; -e.gn ~-ote yesterday ~ Sirs
siank A Vanderiip, chairman Of the
ague of Women "yoters. extending
ae sympathy Of his organization TO
.as league in Che matter Of the criti
Imm ieEeicd at IL BY Governor Miller
ass weex.
IN saying that such an orga anization
tne League of Women Voters was q
~snace s 70 national institutions unles,
Msanizsd as = political party. wrote
r.. hopkins, Governor Miller meant
ssss y was a menace 70 "that minority
sssr.,san group which. through its
ssasfei OF our credit. our industries
81 our economic situation. like wise
.s!s ..nafojs the Republican and Demo-
vssic parties"
ne sgygegted that the League Of
.s',sen voters start series Of debates
II yns Issues brought up by Governor
r'.Lsf, ana said that th Comm ttee o.
xsgsi.y-sight II gladly would supply the
1oasers 70 uphold the cause Of the
agus Vt Womsn vetsrs.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Krohnberg Freed
Of Marked Card
Gambling Charge
Indictment Dismissed on
Lack of Proof He Knew
Deck Was Fixed; Coler
Plans Big Recovery Suits

The indictment against Louis Krohn-
berg, president of the Bijou Waist
Company, of 3O3 Fifth Avenue, charg-
ing that he cheated in a poker game
by using marked cards, was dismissed
yesterday by Judge John F. Mcintyre,
of General Sessions. This action came
after nearly year of Investigations
into the case. Judge Mcintyre /held
that the District Attorney may re-
submit it to the grand jury if he has
evidence to warrant such an action.
Judge Mcintyre, after reviewing the
evidence given to the grand jury, in a
'ecision thirty-six pages in length
holds that much of it was prejudicial
to Krohnberg.
at is not an offense," his decision
says, "to play with marked cards. 1t
only becomes such when one uses them
knowingly and with intent to cheat or
by making false pretense or by do
ing an act amounting to fraud. The
fendant furnished the marked cards."
The indictment charged that Krohn.
berg on December IA, 1919, in a stud
poker game at his home, 789 West End
Avenue, used cards which he knew to
be marked and was able to read, thus
taking an unfair advantage of the
other players.
1t was charged that by such prac-
tices he won between $4,000 and S12,-
600. He was arrested on the complaint
of Jacob Silverman, one Of the payers,
and was indicted by the June grand
jury. The Indictment was dismissed
on the motion of his counsel, Max
Steuer, who had obtained an inspection
of the grand jury minutes. The de-
fendent would have been tried in Gen
raj Sessions.
At the time of Krohnberg's indict-
ment it was said that he had won as
much as $300,000 in carl games.
Bird S. Coler. Commissioner of Pub
lie Welfare, announced yesterday that
he would go ahead With his contem-
plated suit against the waist manufact-
urer to recover five times the amount
of money it is alleged Krohnberg won
in certain games.
"The dismissal Of the indictments"
said Commissioner Coler, "means sim
ply that Krohnbcrg did not cheat at
gambling. 1t does not mean that he did
not win the money. If it can be proved
that he won money at gambling, then,
under the law, l, as the Commissioner
of Public Welfare, am bound to make
an effort at least to bring suit to re-
cover five times the amount of the win
nings."
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Risks Life Snatching Man From
Death i'm Subway; Refuses Name

A rather short, rather stout man in
his thiities, who looked like anything
other than the heroic types which fill
fiction might have his picture in all
the newspapers to-day and his name
before the Carnegie Hero Fund Com.
mission tomorrow if he had loved the
spotlight enough to answer one oues-
tion in the subway at the Pennsylvania
Station at about $50 o'clock last night.
He snatched an old man from in
front of an express train and ESCAPED
death himself by hair without losing
the smile on his lips, but when some
body asked him for his name he walked
aboard train and went home to
supper.
The subway platform at the Penn
sylvania Station was thronged by a
rush-hour crowd, when John C. Fish,
seventyfour, of 45 Gunther Street,
Corona walked in through the gate to
wait for his train. He edged his way
through the jam of humanity until he
reached point near the edge of the
PLATFORM Eagerly he bent forward
and peered into the darkness. as nearly
everybody in the subway does, to see
II his train were coming. People
nearer the edge of the platform block 4
his view He moved closer.
The roar of the oncoming train was
barely audible. He leaned further for.
ward--then he stumbled over a travel
ing bag. A shout of horror went up as
the crowd saw the old man fall from
the platform into the path of the ap-
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30

OF Liquor in
East Barred
Bonded Warehouse Per-
mits Halted by Kramer
in Seven States, Including
New York and New Jersey

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga ban or
Withdrawals of liquor from bonded
warehouses in Maryland, Pennsylvania
New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Massachusetts, and New Jersey was
announced tonight by Commissioner OF
Prohibition Kramer
Industrial alcohol, wines for sacra
mental purposes and five cases OF
whisky each to retail druggists are
the only exceptions to the ban, it was
announced.
One Of the purposes of the order is
to withhold supplies from the manufac-
turers of patent medicines, lctions
tonic and other preparations. The linn
iting of Withdrawals is expected to
drive illicit dealers from the market.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is
of the opinion that the allowance of
five cases of whisky to each licensed
druggist on single. permit represents
the minimum on which the druggists
will be able to take care of their lcgti-
mate business.
VIII Reduce Supply Here
1t is certain that the order will re-
duce the volume of whisky released to
various sources in New York City.
Revenue officers have decided that
the amount of liquor which has been
wet belt" was so large that it could
mean only one thing-its use on a
large scale for illicit purposes. Com
plants about alleged violations of the
aw have been frequent enough to give
substance to such a conviction.
The so-called Eastern "wet belt" has
given more grounds for concern to the
enforcement officers about the effec-
tiveness Of their work than any other,
with the possible exception of Chicago
and other points in Illinois. With
tion to the quantity Of liquor which
the Internal Revenue Department be-
lieved was necessary for legitimate use
under the provisions of the Volstead
act.
1t was learned here tonight that
agents of the prohibition enforcement
bureaus have been instructed to keep a
close watch on all druggists and to can
eel licenses to sell even for medicinal
purposes when the slightest suspicion
in connection with sales arises.
Drastic Action Held Necessary
The abuses which have been practiced
in some Of the states. in the wet belt,
according to enforcement officers, have
been SO fragrant that the agents have in
MANY instances had little trouble in OBJ
tanning evidence.
1t is admitted that the present orders
are drastic, but it is held that they are
not more farreaching than the condi-
tions demand, if any effort to enforce
the law is to be successful.
1t is probable that considerable
stocks of liquor are now in the hands
of some of those who engage in illicit
trade, but this quickly will be exhaust
ed, and the Internal Revenue Depart
ment announces that there will he
no loosening of the strict regulations
from this time.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30

been reading late and had entered the
bathroom, where a man stepped from
behind the door and fired twice. Turk
then ran to swife and cried, "Clara,
Clara, Pm shot"
Mrs. turk told the police that her
husbands cal had awakened her from
sleep so sound that she had not heard
any shooting; that she summoned d..
Paul Tower from the floor below and
then shouted for help, thereby attract
ing the attention Of neighbors, who
blew police Whistles At this point
Patrolman O'Brien, who had heard the
two shots, rushed into the house and
found Turk on a couch with a bullet
wound in his stomach.
Patrolman O'Brien awakened Miss
Adele Turk, niece, who had slept
amlned the rear of the house. He de-
cided that Turks assailant probably
escaped by climbing . fence into Z
Henry Street yard and running through
the cellar of another house.
Mrs. Turk, who has three small
daughters, Jean, five years old; Hida,
three, and Celia, fifteen mon his. was
questioned yesterday at the Madison
Street station. She said that Turk had
ihIciueu tO pass L1e nlSn- at IOrk-
lsh bath. but changed his mind after
closing his drug store at 259 Broad
way, about 1 o'clock. She said she re-
tired soon after her husband came in.
After questioning at her home, Mrs.
Turk was taken to the police station,
where Captain George Busby and de-
teetives of the homicide squad ques-
toned members of dozen families in
the neighborhood.
Mrs. Mollie Glickman and her daugh-
ter, Beatrice, of 257 Henry Street, said
they had heard light footsteps in their
hallway, descending to the basement,
but found no one there. Ten minutes
later they saw NAV enter the court
yard from the building where Turk
lived, pass through their basement and
cut to Henry Street. Just after that
they heard screams.
Mrs: Glckman was sure she had
seen the same man in her hallway last
Wednesday. He told her then that he
was putting up clothes lines but he
departed when she ordered him to 60.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Two Arrested i'm Forged
Liquor Permit Plot
Men Taken by Revenue Agents
in Pittsburgh Are Charged
With Conspiracy

Two more arrests in connection with
the alleged conspiracy TO forge and
deal in liquor permits. which was
brought to light on December 80 and
which involved several women employed
as clerks in the Office of Charles r.
O'Connor, prohibition director, were
made yesterday in Pittsburgh by George
Golding and Walter Murphy, agents OF
the special intelligence unit of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The persons arrested were Benjamin
L. Moses and Herman Sattler. They
are charged with conspiracy, according
to word received yesterday by Hugh
McQuiiian, chief OF the special intelli-
gence unit.
Beer in 1872 sugar barrels was seized
yesterday in freight car in the Bronx.
According to the prohibition agents
making the seizure, it was consigned
to Sofia Brothers warehouse, 1921 In
tervale Avenue, the Bronx.
One hundred and twenty-five cases
marked vinegar and said to contain
liquor were seized yesterday at Pier 9,
North River. They were consigned to
St. Louis.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30

preaching express. He fell head first
against one Of the rails Women closed
their eyelids to shut out the sight of
the tragedy they felt was about to he
enacted. Suddenly they were func
aside by a man who neither was horrj.
fed nor excited.
What happened next was too ou;cl
for fingers and typewriter to detail
short, rather rotund body leaned
down to the tracks. two short arms
snatched the inert body of the old man
from the roadbed and fairly hurled it
back to the PLATFORM In another in
stant the rescuer WAS UP among the
crowd again, still smiling. The front
car brushed his coat as his feet
touched the smooth concrete again. but
he didn't seem to be even breathing
hard.
Two women were shrieking as the
crowd rushed to the rescuer as crowds
always do.
Don't mind me-" he said, laughing
softly, "look after those crazy women
and that poor old man"
Whats your name?" said a man
next to him.
Then the smile left his face,
Never mind" he said. "Don't
bother me; let me pass; that guard is
closing the door and I'll be late for
supper if l don't get in"
Patrolman Russell, of the West
Thrtieth Street station, took the in
jured man, Fish, to New York Hospi-
tal,. where. it was said last night. he
S believed to be seriously hurt and
may not live. His scalp was cut and
bruised and he was injured internally.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Cohen Asks for New Trial
In Murder of Barnet Baff
Man Under Life Sentence Con.
tends Evidence of Perjury
Will Prove Innocence

Jonah j. Goldstein, counsel for Jo.
seph Cohen, serving a life sentence in
Sing Sing Prison for the murder OF
Barnet Baff, West Washington
Market poultry dealer, obtained from
Justice Wasservogel an order to show
cause why the convicted man should
not have new trial, which is asked
on the ground that new evidence has
been discovered which it is stated will
prove Cohen inr ocent.
Cohen was convicted in 1917 of muir
der in the first degree. He was sem
fenced to be alectrocuted, but after
several rep1ieves Governor. Smith com
muted his sentence to life imprison
ment. Following the conviction of
Cohen char yes were made that several
witnesses for the prosecution had com
mltted perjury and John Doe proceed
lngs were held before Judge MCINTYRE
which resulted in charges of periurv
being made against several persons.
Joseph Sorro recanted in a sworn
statement testimony he gave against
the convicted man and was indicted for
perjury.
District Attorney Swami was served
with the order to show cause issued
yesterday. The order is returnable to-
morrow in the Supreme Court. Among
those whose presence is asked by Mr.
Goldstein is Justice James O'Mal ev
of the SuI rene Court, who as special
Assistant Attorney General prosecuted
Cohen; Judge Mcintyre, Joseph Sorro
and Ferdinand Pecora. Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney, who conducted the John
Doe proceedings
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Two Killed as Auto
Bearing ing Kidnapping
Suspect Is Wrecked
Detectives Are Trailing Car
in Search for Abducted
Los Angeles Woman When
1t Collides With Trolley
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Los ANGELES, Jan. 29.-Develop-
ments coming thick and fast in the
kidnapping last Tuesday night of Mrs.
Gladys Witherell, wife of an inve stment
broker, to-day bid fair within the next
twelve hours to clear away the clouds
OF mystery surrounding the case. &c
cording TO the announcement of police
and private detectives.
Prominent among these is the un-
derstandIng that the wife, who is TWEEN
ty-three years old, will be returned to
aer family early next week; the BELIEF
saat the gangsters who abducted her
VIII communicate with members of the
family tomorrow, and the fact that a
man under surveillance in the case was
Killed while being trailed by detectives
wnen his autom obile crashed into a Los
Angeles streetcar at Grand Avenue
and West Thirty-ninth Street early
mis- morning.
The most sensational developm ant
Vas the crash, when the automobile
0rand Avenue streetcar. Beverly, who
was formerly business associate Of
"itnere!i, husband of the kidnapped
woman. was instantly killed, as was
s. MS. Aita Westrem Tenney, Wither-
si!s stenographer; Happy Llazier and
Mss Mary " estenberg, other occupants
., the car. were seriously injured.
iney we're taken to the county hos.
pital.
A few minutes before the crash, the
machine was being followed by an
antomobile loaded with private detec-
aves, led by Juan Fuentes, X. L. Nor
'enson and e. A. Bacon.
Beverly had been under surveillance
sincs the Kidnapping and was twice
Questioned by the police and private
detectives. Believing that he had
ssnowledgs Of the case, the officers kept
am constantly under watch. Previous
the automobile accident, the party
81 four had been at the Vernon Couns
~ Club. The detectives followed
.sse'srly's machine until it outdistanced
me automobile, according to wit
assses, was travelling very rapidly
x xxnsn 1t crashed into the streetcar
=, ~s'.ner the motorman nor the driver
y = t'e car could see the approach Of
as other vehicle.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Fists Fly After
for
$25O,000Fraud
Witness Against Shippers
Who Raised Bills of Lad
ing on Goods Consigned
to Greece Is Assaulted
Two Are Found Guilty
Court Clerk and Deputy
Marshals Rush to Aid of
Ex-Secret Service Agent

George y. Pteriotis, president of the
American Company Of Commerce., who
yot approximately $250OOO through a
fraudulent bill of lading scheme, and
his partner. George Brouzos, we're
found guilty yesterday by jury in the
United States District Court.
Pteriotis, Brouzos, John V. Sakeler-
roulos, Anthony Dritsas and Ernest
Tkeodession were charged with fraudu-
lcrtly altering and forging bills of
.ading.
.rr!ic tsst two were found guilty on
all of the fourteen counts in the in
dctment The maximum penalty is
Ave years imprisonment on each count
The jury returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of Dritsas. Judge
Dietrich dismissed the case against
Theodession after Benjamin A. Mat
thews, Assistant United States Attor-
ney, had completed the presentation of
his case against him. Judge Dietrich
also ordered the case against Sakeler-
poulos dismissed before charging the
Jury. In' both the cases he based his
action on lack of evidence.
Fists Fly in Courtroom
After the jury had returned it's YER
dict against Pteriotis and Brouzos and
Judge Dietrich had set next Tuesday
as the day on which he would sentence
them deputy United States marshals
prepared to escort the two from the
courtroom. The officers were taken by
surprise when Pteriotis rushed at
James Weitsman. formerly of the Secret
Service, who was one of the wit
nesses, and punched him two or three
times before the man attacked could
put up his hands to protect himself.
Whalen got into action and Clerk Leary
joined them. Presently Pteriotis found
himself on the floor. Handouts were
slipped on his wrists and he and Brou-
zos were led to the Tombs.
The scheme by which Pteriotis and
his companion obtained large sums in
volved alterations of bills of lading for
the shipment of merchandise to Greece.
By representing to concerns in Piraus
that he could supply them with sugar
at price below the market price at
that time-which was last May
Pterotis obtained orders. The Greek
concerns established credits with. banks
here amounting to $500 900.
Raised" Bills of Ladlng
Pteriotis filled an order by shipping,
IN one instance. two bags of rice. He
then changed the bill of lading to read
1900 double bags of fine granulated
sugar, presented it to bank here and
collected the money to pay for that
amount of sugar.
The end of the case closed a chapter
in the career of Mr.. Matthews, chief
assistant to Francis G. Catfey, United
States Attorney. His resignation, tend
cred recently, took effect with the close
of the case
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Connecticut Women Call
Governors Stand Unfair
Members Say League of Voters
Is Organization for Political
Education. Not a Menace

HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 29.-Gov-
ernor Miller Of New Yorf was unfair
in his criticism of the New York State
League Of Women Voters, to the effect
that 1t was a menace to the institu-
tions of the country, according to
prominent women members Of the Con-
necticut league, who deny it is a par
tisan political organization.
"The League of Women Voters is
practically an organization for political
education," said Mrs. Joseph w. Alison.
niece Of Colonel Roosevelt and dauph.
ter Of Douglas Robinson, of New York.
IF it ever takes on q political ASPECT
| shall be most decidedly opposed"
Miss Mary Bulkley, of Hart ord an
officer of the league and one of its
organizers, said Governor Miller's
speech would make the good work the
league was trying to accomplish more
difficult for his criticisms were not
fair. Referring to the Governors ex
pressed opposition to certain welfare
measures which are before the New
York Assembly, such as measure to
prohibit the employment of women at
night in certain industries and pro-
posals for health and old age insurance.
Miss Bulkley said:
"Of course, if Governor Miller is op-
posed to humanitarian legislation, as
he says he is. it is natural he should
be opposed to the League of Women
Voters. The league is meeting with
opposition in several states where
either the Democratic or Republican
parties are domnent and grasping for
more power. But the league will con-
tinue in its chief purpose, which is to
pick up the threads of legislation
which are of special significance to
women and attempt to have them
woven into the legal and political fab
ric Of the state or nation"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Life Termer's Riches Grow

The Equitable Trust Company, as
trustee of the property of Alphonse j.
Stephanie, rho is serving life SEN
teNce in Dannemora Prison FIR the
Criminal Insane for the murder Of
Clinton Reynolds twenty years ago,
filed an accounting with the County
Clerk yesterday for 1920 The report
showed that en- January l. 1920, Ste
phanie had $135. .469 to his credit
His income for the year amounted to
sS,672, on which the life prisoner paid
state and Federal income taxes amount
ing to 500 There was spent in behalf
of Stephanie 1890, of which $500 was
turned over to the superintendent of
Dannemora for the purchase of COM
forts and luxuries allowed inmates.
The trust company reported it had in
vested $40 400 of Sterhn nnies funds in
Liberty bonds during the year.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Hibben Goes to Defense
Of Students Cigarettes
Princeton President Smokes
Them, He Says, and Cannot
Advise Others Not To
Special Dispatch to The Trsbun,


. SYRACUSE, Jan. 29.-The lowly
cigarette has resulted in clash of two
great minds. These were the minds of
DR.. john Grier Hibben, president of
Princeton University, and DR.. James
Roscoe Day, chancellor Of Syracuse
For heavens sake, be men, be big
ger than a cigarette" Dr. Day said to
his students yesterday.
Il cannot consistently tell my stu
dents not to smoke them because I use
them myself" said DR.. Hibben to-day.
Dr.. Hibben came here to lecture be-
fore the university club and before 60
ing there paused to comment on Milady
Nicotine.
Il have found out" said DR.. Hibben
that it is best to smoke with. modera-
tion. | don't believe in OVERRIDING the
thing. l smoke myself and could not
consistently tell my students not to
smoke. That would not do at all"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Bandits Hold Up Jeweler

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-~Fivc armed ban
dts robtcd the jcwclry store Of J. w.
Siegar, in Cicero, suburb, Of $4,000
9eirY to-day and escaped in an
automobile. One Of the men stood
quad over Siegat with q pistol while
the other four rihsd the showcases.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-30

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New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Two Murders
lnaDay Here
Battle Police

fCcn.'aued from pase ons)
The evening herald., 1921-03-26

Several seventh grad" boys spent
Thursday afternoon cleaning Up the
school grounds. Their excellent rec
! suits may %, seen amy time
The evening herald., 1921-03-26

tain their banners for perfect attend
uutr.
Mrs Butrs first graders were busy
Thursday afternoon making Easter
eggs ana huuuios tu take home to ala
them to realize what the season
means Mrs Butts also explained to
them the sirnifiDano. uf Easter
AIothu Wilson. iu Miss Kuss'lrs
room, has had pyirct spelling i's-
sons Tor week.
Mrs. Moorc's pupils who have had
perfect spelling lessons Tor tht week
are: Horace buchanan. Florence
Bifnn, Lena Vuiu. Elniliano ncrca
Alice valdez, John Haynes, Edith
Johncock. Amuia ortiz Emma Pun
man ana Isabel Guy
Pupils In spelling in Miss Schupp''
room who have perfect records are
/ Maria Gallardo. Mars Martin. Viz
ginia MilcoN, carl Sicklor ". -
/ GftNptt
The evening herald., 1921-03-26

The primary teachers OF the school
attended the lecture of Mr.. Burbank,
of CHM and Company publishers,
that was given at the high school
auditorium last Tuesday afternoon,
tn, subject of Mr. Burbanks talk
was letters aud their formation reia -
tive to thor importance In the teach
lng of the English language, and was
particularly applicable To- conditions
~ teaching u local schools. The
t,uch.r- cleaned not q little valuable
information from the talk. as well is
finding In n very pheasant change
Iu the routine OF the week.