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New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
lSonse Moratorium
Only Affects Bank
Temporarily Shut
Feeling l. General Affairs of
Financial Concern That
Suspended Soon Will BE
Back Upon Solid Base

ROME. Pee. so (By The Associated
pressl. The total liabilities OF the
Banca Italiana di Sconto, which closed
its doors Thursday, and to-day was
granted moratorium of one year in
which to erdeavor to straighten out its
Anancial tangles, will reach four bill
lion lire.
This fact became known to-day by
the publication of the petition of the
bank fos moratorium The petition
added that the moratorium would en-
able the institution to tide over the
present financial crisis, and that the
bank anticipated complete re-estab-
hshment of its credit. The petition
attributed the situation of the bank TO
the general European economic break
down.
The history of the hank was ont
lined in the petition for the mora
torium. Before 1915 it had q capital
Of 100000 lire. Then, by leaps and
the war and in 1919 it had reached
3I5 5000 900 lire The banks holdings
were augmented principally through
prosperous times of the war and tho
activities Of the Ansaldo Company,
which manufactured great quantities
OF munitions.
Minister OF Industry Belott, in a
statement in the Senate to-day con-
cerning the bank, said the public could
maintain confidence that it would be
able TO meet its engagements, while
with regard TO the other great banks
the people could be treasured as 10
their ftty.
The minister added that the people
beth at home and abroad must be
shown that although recent events
zniqht have had an effect on the eco
nomic situation in Italy they could
not fatally hurt it.
Premier Bonori. in q similar state
ment, said the situation now was
clearly defined and that there was no
danger Of Il general crisis which would
effect all the credit institutions. He
added that the government, with full
knowledge &C the facts Of the situa-
tion, could announce the solidity of
italian credit. and say, also. that every
measure had been adopted to meet pos
-lblc pressure by depositors on other
h5rks.
WASHINGTON. Dec 80 (By Tie AS
socated Press). The moratorium de-
clarcd in Italy SIS not a question of
: general moratorium of the Italian
banks, but simply of transitory crisis
affecting only the Banca Italians di
sconto," Senator Ricci the Italian
Ambas sador, explained to-day. His
statement said
"Oficial information which [ have
Just received from the italian govern
mcnt puts me in the position of en-
nhaticaliy affirming that the
temporary closing Of the doors Of the
Ranca Italiana di Sconto has not
caused any panic or any Incident. and
was met by the public in Italy with
the greatest calm and confidence
throughout the country
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
jury Out i'm Girls Suit
Women Detectives CHARGES
Against Miss Frye Denied

WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 3o.-Justice j.
Addison Young. in Supreme Court here
to-day, ordered a sealed verdict in the
case of Miss Marie L. Frye, Of peeks-
kill, against Professor Walter n caea
headmaster of the Hackley School FOR
Boys at Tarrytown. Miss Frye is suing
1or $4,000 for injuries she saws shs
suffered in November, 1920, when she
was run down by the professors auto
mobile. The jury retired at 3:45
o'clock
Miss lelonde Gretchen, OF 6S Jeffer-
son Avenue, Brooklyn. who entertained
MISS Frye at her home last sumner.
was one of the last witnesses called by
Miss Frye to rebut testimony of the
two women detectives employed by the
defense: Miss Gretchen denied allega-
tions OK the detectives that Miss FRYE
asd ever visited Consy Island with anv
cue other than hex friends.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
More Trial Pleas Urged
For Sacco and Vanzetti
Lawyer for Defense Declares
He Has Discovered New
Important Evidence

BOSTON. Dec. 3o.-Fred II. Moore.
senior counsel for Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who are awaiting
sentence for the murder of payma 8 te I
and his guard at South Braintree. an
nounced tonight his intention of filing
an additional series of motions for a
ne" trial. These he said would be
based upon evidence discovered since
the men were convicted and the first
of the series would be filed perhaps
within a week.
He said several pieces Of evidence
which he considered "of prime import
ance" had been found but refused to
disclose their nature. Judge Webster
Thayer, of the Superior Court, has re.
fused previous motions for new trial
on various grounds and now has under
advisement motion argued last Sat
urday based upon alleged irregulari-
ties in the jury room,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
StiIlman Secrecy Barred
Canada Rules Hearing There
Must Be Public

announcement was made yesterday
that the Canadian hearings in the Still
man divorce action, soon to be held in
Montreal. will be public. Word was
received from Montreal that Eugene
Godin, Crown Commissioner appointed
TO conduct the examinations, had de-
ciared there was nc rule of the Cana
a'sh courts which permitted hearing
TO be held in secret
-, Mrs, Stillman. who left New York
Thursday for Montreal, is reported to
nave eft there yesterday for Grand
Anse. Two prominent Canadian law
gers, Gustave De Saulnier, K. c.. and
~ r. LaFlamme, X. c., have been en-
gagesd by the opposing sides, the former
tios Mss; stt!lman and the latter for her
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Girl Steps Out, Vanishes
Sister Says She Complained of
Being AunOyed hy SIen

The detectives of the Missing Per
ems Buresu have been asked to find
Blanche Thompson, twenty-three years
pld, of 214 West 1Osth Street, who has
5eea missing from her home since
thursday afternoon, when she went out
10 take walk
According TO Miss Lora Thompson
Ter OF the missing girl, for six or
eieht months Blanche has been re-
peatedly annoyed by strange men who
approached her on the street. "srd
mnmbled strange remarks" to her in
passing. She said that the men were
gsuaily dressed as chauffeurs, railroad
conductors or subway guards She said
ser sister had reported the annoyance
70 the police, and that following a
yislt so her home by detectives of the
Fest Tooth &sssss atstion. shs said
tn+s :sysses.ous phone calls, which ska
siso had been receiving. stopped.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Pearl River Bank
Slaycrs Trailed by
Police to Paterson
Car Used by Bandits Who
Killed Two Is Traced to
Paterson, ". j.; 2 Suspects
Arrested i'm Jersey City
Special Dispatch to rho Tribm,e

PEARL RIVER, Dec. 30.--Informa
tion obtained late to-day by District
Attorney Morton E. Lexow and Sheriff
A. L. Merritt, Of Rockland County,
leads to- the belief that the bandits
who killed two employees Of the First
National Bank and wounded two others
Thursday afternoon may be apprchen-
dcd soon in or near Paterson. N. j.
Two arrests were made in the case
tonight in Jersey City, according to
word reaching here The suspects are
said to have been taken into cuatody
by Jersey City policemen on descrip-
tons of the bandits. The men were
ward, and were placed under arrest
when they entered Hudson County
Park. Both denied knowledge Of the
hold-up and said they could prove
alibis
Cooperation of the New York Police
Department, under the fifty-mie sys-
tom adopted II few months ago, is
proving of great valuc New \ York de
tcctives and finger print experts hav~
ing been detailed on the case. lnspec-
tor Faurot, of the Bureau of ldentif~
cation, went to Nyack to-day and is
in personal charge of finger print as
poets Of the Investigations The New
York officials are taking the lead in
pursuit. of many clows received within
the last twenty-four hours.
u was established to-day that the
men WHO slew James 2. Moore assist
ant cashier Of the bank, and SieQfricd
Buzz, head bookkccper, also probably
mortally wounding Otto Miller, watch
man. made their escape in Ford car
with side curtains. The car has been
traced definitely TO within FIVE miles
Of Paterson, and evidence is said to
have been obtained tonight that if
was placed in Paterson garage late
yesterday afternoon.
Six searching parties, working under
{ 'erction Of Sheriff Merritt, secured
the country all night and to-day, pay
ing particular attention to q long strip
OF woodland along the Paterson Road
IN which arc numerous shacks. The
fact that one of the bank robbers was
seriously wounded and bleeding when
the escape was made induced police
theory that aid might be sought for
TINS man on some pretext at farm
mouse or residence as remote as pos
sibe from town. With this theory
in view. every country residence within
a twcnty-m'e area is being visited.
Although detail as to the clews upon
which the police are working was with
held tonight, it became known that
this search had resulted in tracing the
bandit car close to Paterson The
police of Paterson are rounding up
suspects and questioning them as to
their whereabouts yesterday.
! Pearl River is in Zone 2 of the fifty
mile zone system, which it is hoped
by the Rockland County authorities
Will not prove its effectiveness. In
spector Faurot issued instruction 20
leave the scene of the robbery undis
turhed so that his fngerprint experts
would not be hampercd in their work
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Detective Sergeants Freed
Remaining indictments Against
Horan and Owens Dismissed

The only remaining indictments
against Martin Owens and Thomas Ho-
ran, detective sergeants of the auto
mobile squad, charged with illegally
accepting gratuities. were dismissed
yesterday by Judge Alfred j. Talley in
General Sessions. The dismissal was
made on the application of former
Judge Leonard Snitkin, counsel for the
policemen, who argued that the testi-
mony of the principal witness before
the grand jury which returned the III
cictm ents was not corroborated.
Tho dismissal of the indictments
means that Owens and Horan, who
automatically were suspended when
the indictments were filed against
them, will return to duty next Tu..
day at Police Headquarters, receiving
all back pay.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
To Suspend Ball Home Head
Woman Will BE Removed Dur
ing Cruelty Hearings

TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 30.-Tem-
porary removal Of DR.. Emma hichard-
son, superintendent of the Mary j. Ball
Home, at Camden, will be the next step
taken in investigation Of charges Of al.
legged cruelty TO children and insanitary
conditions Mt the home, according to an
announcement made yesterday by Bur.
dette G. Lewis, State Commissioner of
Institutions and Agencies. The Com
missioner said this sscp was necessary
in order that children might feel per
fectly free to tell tho entire truth about
their treatment at the home.
II am authorized to say said the
Commissioner, chat the management of
the home and care and custody Of the
children should be at once turned over
to the Camden Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty TO Children, or if that
is not satisfactory, to the board, as
trustees for the children. We are will
ing to assign one Of our administrators
to manage the institution temporarilv.s
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Bears Ate Food of Lost Arctic
Explorers, Says Tragic Note

CHRisTIANIA, Norway, Dec. 80 (By
Tho Associated Press) .-"Bears de-
stroyed our dcpots: we have now
twenty days provisions' So reads
part oil letter, dated November 10.
1919. said by the official Russian Roste
Agency to have been found at Cape
Wild by the Russian expedition under
Rcgitchef, which has been making n
search in the Arctic regions to learn
just what happened to Knudscn and
lessen. two members OF the Amundsen
North Polar expedition, who were lost
during the explorations in the winter
of 1919.
Near Cane Premetny the expedition
reports it discovered the remains Of n
fire on the beach and of what appeared
to be burnt human body. Footprints
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
World Language
Advocated Before
Scientist Session
Introduction of Interpa.
'ional Auxiliary Tongue
Held Necessary; See New
Peril to Man in Protozo.
spoeial Dispatcn % zhe 1s.l......


TORONTO, Dec. S0.-Undong bss.l
was a task begun to-day with a..
ton Of resolutions putting the Ans:
can Association for the Advancar,.~.
OF Science on record as |avoriny ,bs
Standardization and introduc.;hn
an international auxiliary LANGUAGE ~
committee, headed BY Fredericl
Cottreei, Of Washington, conterae;
mat a searching and base study ~
the principles involved must be nsda
and, secondly, that anthorjtat;,a 0Ge'
tefnatona9 agreement must be reaebes
so that no later variations ts'u touat5
new and worse babel might later de-
velop. That none Of the exjrt;no.4e
vented languages is likely to be 49,. ~
ed was indicated by the favor ,ri.t
which the attack Of Professor An.
Guerard, Of Houston, Tex. on es,a.
anto, volapuk ido, latino and romsn,l
was received ''"o'
Man need not fear the elephant and
the whale, but the bacteria and the nrn-
tozoa are often 80 powerful that h.
mtst run away. This lesson was ON
phaslzed from many angles at the fnsl
session Of the convention this aftsr-
noon. Plant doctors. self-stvled nbv.a
pathologists, delivered fifteen nane,.
outlining menaces to crops. The snos~
maple industry Of rural New York =
IN peril from tiny billions, accordipr
to Glenn W. Horrick, Cornell UDjvsy,
sity. Quiescent for the last sirt.
years, the maple case bearer f;ny
caterpillar, has broken out again with
evef-lncreas.ng ferocity during tie
last three seasons
One million words were uttered h-
speakers and debaters at the cenven.
ton before the last professor packad
his technical papers and lantern .ljaos
away after the four-day session whicS
enoed here tonight. There were one
thousand addresses and papers. The
average time Of delivery was ten min
rtes. About seventv-iive words wers
spoken minute. Extras and discns-
sions added 250,000. Total. ore mil
lion. And laymen understood only one
word. the last one, adjourn
Graduates OF schools of so-called an
pled or practical science arc rotten
business men, according to the aeon
sation brought before the association
this afternoon by Works Commissions,
Roland Harris, the little Napoleon al
the Toronto Civic Administrations
Their ideas are not practical, he said
They do not know how to judge or
handle men. They make estimates
which are three or four times TOO low.
They are poor mixers
Far more fortunate than most moy-
tails in ole respect is. or rather was.
a rare specimen of shark or dogfsn
which Professor Edward E. Prince.
Canadian Commissioner Of Fisheries.
showed the Association to-day. This
fish had double brain. said Dr. Prince.
His audience gathered around to see
such a sight. but We're told that the
brains we're now missing from the
skeleton on exhibition. Using MS own
from the conformation OF the sharks
skull that it had once harbored q
double brain.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

OF only one man were discovered. One
rifle and cartridges OF the Norwegian
191a pattern also were found.
The Begtcheff expedition was es
Cape Wild on July % last.
Several weeks ago radio dispatch
from Moscow told OF the finding by the
Begitchef expedition Of the bodies Of
Knudacn and Tesscn. The place where
the bodies were found was vaguely
described Az near the mouth Of the
Jcnesoy,' which has taken possibly to
refer to the Ycnlsei River, which rises
i'll Northwestern Mongolia and flows
northward through Siberia where it
cmpties into the Arctic Ocean.
An expedition to search for the miss
ing explorers WAS also sent out some
time ago by the State Council OF Nor
way, but this party returned last sum
mer without tlnding trace Of Knudsen
and lessen NJ Cape Wild, whcrc they
wore supposed 60 have been.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Chicago Petition Filled

CHICAGO, Dec 3O.-Petitioning cred
itors appeared before Judge X. NJ. Lam
dis to-day and filed an involuntary petit
ton in bankruptcy against E. w. Wag-
ner & Co., grain and stock brokers,
which failed to-day
The petitioners are Joseph Anderson.
II. Ernest and the Wood Repp Com
pany, all doing business in the Chicago
Board of Trade, from which the Wag-
ner firm was suspended to-day The
petition declares that the estate of the
company has substantially $4,000 in
assets, and for the preservation Of the
estate It ls necessary that receiver
be appointed.
There is in the hands Of debtors Of
the bankrupt large amount Of stocks
and bonds which it is necessary to be
gathered together and hels bv the re-
celver for the benefit of the estate" the
petition said, and also declared the
company holds securities Of large value
, which must be conserved for the cred
itors.
Judge l.andis appointed the Central
Trust Company as receiver, with powc G
to take charge of and hold the estate
and 'to continue said business and for
such order as shall be just and law
| full"
Long on Grains
E. W. Wagner, president of the sus
pended firm, criticized the New York
Stock Exchange. He said The exchange
had promised to take no action until
after 2:15 o'clock this afternoon, but
had failed to keep the promise.
e. W. Wagner & Co., he said were
long on stocks which were being closed
out. The grain division of the com
pany, one of the largest brokerage
houses here, will be closed out in the
regular way. The company was long
100000 bushels Of Germ, 10000
bushels Of wheat, 100000 bushels of
oats and 100000 bushels Of rye.
The Chicago Stock Exchange sus-
pended the firm later this afternoon.
j. T. Mauff. secretary of the Board
Of Trade. notified all members of the
Clearing House, at the request of f.
w. Wagner & Co., to close out all open
contracts In grains. provisions or cot
tonseed oil in which the firm was in
terestcd.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Wagner 4 Co.,
Brokers,A Asst ON
For$7,50O,OOO
tCentinusd from psse cne>

half of the firm, expressing confidence
in its ability to take care OF its obi
gationa. The statement said:
"The firm of f. W. Wagner have
been in business for thirty-seven years
and we hope that the liquidation of
our affairs win justify the confidence
that has been placed in US. UnJortu-
nately our business was overcXtended I'd
and our capital became, in the judg-
ment OF the New York Stock Exchange
authorities, insufficient to assure com
plete protection to our clients.
"1he business is out of our hands
but we shall render every assistance
possible to those in charge If prop
erly and gradually liQuidated we be-
lieve our assets will be ample to take
care of our obligations"
Inquiry was made IS to whether the
receivorsh;p would result in any cur
tailment OF the thirty-scvcn branch Of
fees which the firm has throughout
the country, but Mr. Hays said that
it was too early TO make any predic-
tions. Mr. Sheppard, the receiver, was
in conference throughout the after
noon With members Of the firm, but
was unwilling to make q statement.
The firms branches include Offices in
Akron, Ohio; Auburn, n. Y; Brook
lyn, Buffalo. Cedar Rapids, Mich :;
Champagne, H.; Chicago. Cincinnati
Cleveland. Detroit, East Liverpool
Ohio; Fort Dodge. Iowa. Geneva, n
-; Iowa City kankakee. H.; Kansas
City, Mo-; Lexington, Ky; Lima, Ohio;
Mason City, Iowa; Milwaukee,, Min
Surgh, Rock Island, H.; st. Louis
Sioux City, Iowa; Spencer, Iowa: SYRIA
cuse. Toledo, Utica. n. T.. and Water
loo, Iowa
Trading Undisturbed
In addition TO Mr.. Wagner. the mem
bers of the firm are Ernst Tietgens, G.
A. Johnson and Frank w Donaldson
beside being members Of the Stock
Exchange the firm has memberships on
the Chicago Board Of Trade. the Cleve-
land Stock Exchange. the Winnipeg
Grain Exchange, New York Cotton Elk.
change, New York Produce Exchange
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
New Orleans Cotton Exchange anc
Chicago Stock Exchange.
The failure did not come as com.
plete surprise to the financial district
as rumors were current Thursday that
All important BROKERAGE assignment
was sooA to oe announced. Yesterday.
stock market was little affected by the
faliure. Prices advanced in the morn
ing ard showed some unsettlement ir
the last hour. but the declines were moi
sufficient to wipe ont the earlier gains
Reports from Chicago soon after
O'Clock Indicated there was heavy sell
ing as result of the failure At on,
time the market was down az TO 3as
cents from the early high point.
The failure was attributed to srecia
causes affecting this firm. and, in tn,
opinion Of bankers, indicates no gener
ally critical situation.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
2 Chinese Slain: f:
White Wife of
One Missing.
Continued from paor ons>

NtOntiHucU Wonl pdNN Vhc'
wife They also found among the mans
papers book which contained the ad
dresses of white girls living in Msnhat
tan and Brooklyn.
He Told of Drug Raid.
from Mrs. Dolsn the police learned
that Hon was an American born
Chinese and that he always seemed to
have plenty of money She said that
wheu he last paid his rent. on Decem
Der 4, he had peeled the money from
a large roll of bills. She cold detec-
tives that her conversation with Hon
at that time had dealt mostly with II
detectives Of the narcotic division
HON, she said, had assured her that
they would fasten rotnlng ON him and
the incident was closed.
HON was strange character.
Neither Mrs. Dolan nor any Of her
hoarders could throw any light on The
business of the many fashionable men
and women, most OF whom arc reported
to have cone in automobiles. some
driven by veried chauffeu~T who Wis
tied HONS apartment on occasions,
mostly at night. Mrs. Dolan said that
HON talked perfect English, a little
broadly, however, as if affecting an
English accent. If the Orienta's
ment meant anything Shew was ex-
tremely we'll read.
The only definite information he po-
lice obtained on HON Mrs. Dolan had
earncIed from frequent conversations
with the cir. who visited Shew as his
wife.
Girl Said He Had "Doped" Her
'she was a sweet kind of a child"
Mrs. Dolen said, "and because l liked
her ] scolded her once for marrying ii
Chinese She said that she couldn't
help it, and told me that Shcw had
'doped' her"
The girl, according to Mrs. Doan,
was noticeable for her beauty, particu-
larly for her eyes. She said the Wis
itor had told her that her mother and
sister lived IN Brooklyn
On the occasion of the last visit OF
Homs wife to the boarding house the
girl told the housekoeper that she had
first met HON in q chop suey restau-
rant, and that he had offered to show
her the sights Of Chinatown from the
inside" While on this trip, accordn. =
TO the girl, Hon had prevailed upon
her to try an opium pipe Just for
/ fun 1t was while under the inf]u-
ence of opium. the girl added, that she
married Mrs. Do]an's wealthy hoarder.
The girl ended her recital of how she
was married to HON with the threat
''to get him some day if | can
The detectives conducted thorough
search Of the apartment for drugs.
An opium outfit was found on a
tabouret in the living room, but no sup
ply OF narcotics. The assassin ap-
peared to have left the apartment by
the front door, which was locked after
the flight.
Other Man Not Fully Identified
All inquiries failed to reveal the
position of the man who was mur-
dered with Hotn. He vas unknown tc
members Of the alliance, who knew
HON by name at least.
Mrs. Dolan said that HON had been
her tenant for more than two years
She understood he had some connection
with q restaurant in Broadway, near
157th Street. She explained that she
had heard he was waiter there, but
that she had never believed this, for
the reason that Hon always had more
money than she imagined a waiter
would have. A boarS~r told detectives
he had heard that HON had worked ir
a chop sucy restaurant on Sixth Ave
Evening journal., 1921-12-15
GOOD NEWS FOR
CITY'S JOBLESS
Harlan to Build Cars; Viii
tex Co. TO Give Jobs to
300 Women
MANY MORE MEN
ASK FOR WORK

omcials in the once Of the Pub
lie Employment Bureau az the old
city Hall reported at noon that
while the number OF men applying
for work today was larger than
usual. the number OF women appli-
cants was about normal. despite the
fact that positions for three hun
dred or more women are now open
The bureau began advertising foI
the women workers today, they be-
ing wanted as sewing machine op-
orators for work shortly after the
first OF the new year.
Announcement that another new
industry employing women was tC
locate here was gratifying news
and. coming on top Of the an
nouncement that the Harlan plan
OF the Bethlehem shipbuilding Cor
poration had obtained q contract e
build thirty passenger coaches an'
FIVE combination passenger and bag
gage coaches. indicates that man.
now out Of employment viii be a
work soon.
The cars are to be constructs
for the Philadelphia and Readin
Railway Company. and work o.
hem will be started next month
Continued on Pagc la5