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The New York herald., 1922-06-14
JEWS GIVE S125,OOO
AT DINNER TO LODGE
Name Fund After Senator
Exceeding City's Quota
of S3,OOO,0OO.

Just before Henry Cabot Lodge spoke
at the dinner given in his honor last
night by the keren Hayesod to celebrate
the unanimous adoption by the United
States Senate of the Lodge resolution
supporting the Palestine movement
Magistrate Alexander Geismar of Brook
lyn called upon the thousand partici-
pants TO make UP then and there the
100000 deficit in the New York city
quota of $4,000, 900 which is to be de-
voted to the establishment of the na-
tional home for the Jewish people in
Palestine.
Samuel Untermyer. postmaster,
started 1t with $4,000. An East Side or
ganization gave $1,000. Nathan Straus
offered $4,000. Jersey City produced
$4,000. Seven thousand dollars came
from the Mount Vernon contingent. and
with remarkable rapidity checks de-
scended upon the Judge until he had
more than S125,000.
Then, to the huge enthusiasm of the
crowd, he announced that this sum
would be known as the Henry Cabot
Lodge Honor Fund.
The Senator spoke of the Palestine
movement. the reclamation Of the Holy
Land by Gen. Allenby. the British pro-
tectorate established over it and of re-
ligious and racial tolerance. In part he
said
1T seemed to me that 1t was entirely
becoming and commendable that the
Jewish people in all portions of the
world ahnnl6 n a a
home for such members of their race as
wished to return to the country which
was the cradle of their race and where
they lived and labored for several thou
sand years running back to days Just ap-
parent in the dim dawn OF recorded his
tory. What could be more praiseworthy
or more appealing than such a desire .
Why should 1t not be gratifled? Surely
the days of religious intolerance have
gone by among all the most highly civil
lied nations of the western world Re-
ligious freedom is one of the corner
stones of the constitutional government
of the United States
Protection will. of course be af-
forded by Great Britain a great Chris
tian nation. thoroughly devoted to the
principles of religious feelings of Chris
tians and Jews alike, to whom the land
is sacred, will be guarded as never be-
fore. The President of the United States
has also recently given public utterance
to the cordial sympathy which he feels
for the wishes of the Jewish people to
have in Palestine a national home. But
strongly as ! believe in religious free
dom and religious tolerance never
could accept in patience the thought that
Jerusalem and Palestine should be
under the control of the Mohammedans,
as thew have been since 1874 with only
brief interval
The other speakers We're Nathan
Straus and Nahum Sokelow. The latter.
who has been touring America at the
heads-of number of European leaders
in the Palestine movement, delivered
the thanks of his associates to Senator
Lodge, and by way of closing drew the
crowd to it's feet by shouting Long live
Senator Lodge - ia
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
/. &. c. FINDS POTATO
EMBARGO UNNECESSARY
Facilities to Handle Days
Produce ProUe Adequate.

Clyde B. Aitohison. member OF the In
terstate Commerce Commission, yester-
day informed the Pennsylvania Rail-
read, the Port Authority and Commits
sioner o'Mailey of the Department OF
Markets that there was no evidence OF
an accumulation Of potatoes N this city
that would warrant the levying of an
embargo. The facilities are Inadequate
e. handle a forty eight hour accumula-
tion OF freight in one day. the commits
sion finds, but says consignors should
remove their stuff from the piers within
tweuty-four hour limit.
f. II. outerbridge. chairman of the
Port Authority, said:
I'VE are naturally pleased that favor
able action has been taken by the In
terstate Commerce Commissions inves-
tigators against the proposed potato
embargo. Ii was fl.st lifted bY the Penn
sylvania Railroad more than 'wo weeks
ago at the request of the Port Author
ity, and subsequently, due to the Port
Authority's actIo:i in engaging special
counsel and laying the matter before the
Interstate Commerce Commission. the
embargo has been obviatcd E"
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
HOBART HONORS FOUR
FOR HUMANE SERVICES
WicAershom, Graves, Forrand
and Sfefson Get Degrees.

GENEVA, My, June 1s.--TIobart Col
lege, at the celebration of its centennial
to-day, awarded honorary degrees to
four prominent men because of human-
itarian services. All participated In the
centennial exercises.
The degree of Ill. d., was conferred
upon George w. WickerJham Of New
York. Attorney-Generai Of the United
States In the Cabinet OF President Taft.
and Frank y. Graves. Commissioner OF
Education of New York President Liv-
ingston Farrand OF Cornell received the
degree of l.. RI. ID. in recognition OF his
Red Cross work in Europe and other
humanitarian service and education.
The degree of s. r. H. was conferred
upon the Rev Caleb r.. stetson. rector
OF Trinity Episcopal Church. New York
city.
Mr.. Wickersham addressed the grad
uating class. President Farrand was the
principal speaker at the centennial ex-
ercises. at which the Rev. DR.. Ststson
delivered tho invocation.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
SLAIN BOYS FATHER
DETAILS KIDNAPPING
NarOtta Asserts Marine. on
Trial, Made Demand of Ran
som for Gang.

Salvatore Varotta. father of the mur-
dered boy. Giuseppe. noticeably grayer
since his appearance last summer when
Roberto Raffaelle, first of the five de-
PENDANTS. was convicted. took the stand
yesterday at the trial OF Antonio Ma
rino before Judge Talley in General
Sessions.
The East Side peddler. VINO lives in
continual fear of vengeance because he
wrecked the plans of Blackhanders to
obtain ransom for his fve-year-old son,
told of the disappearance of the boy,
the demands for money and the arrest
of the blackmailers.
He testified that he had missed the
child on May "a, 1921, when he re-
turned home with newly purchased
automobile and wanted to take him
out for a drive. He said he spent sew
eral days and nights looking for him
and found out definitely on Memorial
Day that he had been kidnapped.
The defendant. Marino. he declared,
approached and told him he would fnc
the boy IL he gave him enough money.
But, I'm poor man." Varotta tes-
tilted he replied IL can raised only
$500"
AT that. Varotta said. Marino de-
clared the gang that had the boy was
bigger" meaning $500 would not be
enough to go around.
Continuing, he told OF talks about
ransom money with others Of the five
under indictment--James Ruggieri. San
tos Cassamano and John Melchione.
Varotta told of letter he had re-
ceived threatening the boy with drown
ing II he did not pay the ransom and
of a visit by Raffaelle on the night of
June ! ordering that the $500 be ready
at 10 O'Clock the following night.
Melchione, he testified, came on June
2 and the money was handed to him
In small bills. As the man was leaving
Detective Pellagrino of the Italian
squad, who was in the Varotta/ home
at 354 East Thirteenth street disguised
as plumbers assistant, arrested him.
Raffaelle. to whom q reprive from
execution was granted last week. will
be brought down from the death house
at Sing Sing to-day and may testify.
The police, who have kept q day and
night guard over Varotta since he
caused the arrest OF the gang by in
forming the police. have redoubled their
precautions since the opening of the
trial.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
TRAILING NEW GANG
OF CHECK FORGERS
Posing as Respectable Business
Men, They Open Accounts
and Swindle Banks.

Besides two separate gangs or clever
forgers and check raisers now operating
in this city, third group is about to be-
gin operations here. This became known
yesterday when specimens of their
work were found by detectives and
agents of the American Bankers Associ-
alton. This latest gang uses method
different from those of the others. and
the public is being warned to take added
precautions to guard against any inroads
on their checking accounts by these
swindlers.
More than fifty banking institutions in
the East and extending to the Middle
West have been vlctimized. A trail OF
bad checks written by these forgers. who
draw checks made payable to each other
and sign the name used by them In
opening accounts, extends across the
country, with high points at Boston. New
York, Omaha, Chicago and 10 the Cana
dian border. More than 100000 has
been absorbed by them within few
months
The system by which the swindle is
operated Is as follows:
One forger goes to Il bank in Buffalo
with some cash and good check and
opens legitimate bank account He be-
comes familiar with the personnel of the
bank and appears to the tellers to be a
prosperous and substantial business or
professional man. In another bank in
the city another OF the gang also opens
an account. He, too, appears to be
highly respectable. Soon the two begin
TO write checks. Finally each writes a
check of considerable size. cashes 1t at
his bank, withdraws his account and dis
appears. When the checks cross the
bankers find the two respectable busi-
ness men, were swindlers.
Another system used by this gang Is
known as the washing method" The
bank account Is opened and the depostor
becomes known. He takes check for a
small amount, IS or $40. and asks one
of the bank officials to O.. X. it for
cashing. The check is then taken with
the o. X. and is washed" OF the original
amount and a larger amount Is substi-
tuted. Nothing is known of this until
the check returns several days later and
the swindle Is discovered.
G. +. Robb of the w. J. Burns De<ec-
tive Agency said yesterday that he un-
derstood that there were. several gangs
operating here. but that two of these were
being rapidly rounded up by the police
and detectives.
One man Is already under arrest and
the police expect to get sufficient infor-
nation from him to run down the others
Some of them are travelling just now in
the sporty Broadway set and frequent
the dance halls along the White Way.
In this crowd are crooks who have Sc
lected affluent bootleggers for their vic
Tins and have been taking large sums
from them. as they are unable to ask
police protection.
Several women known along Broad
way and among the dancing set also are
under surveillance by the police as being
"procurers' and layers" for the male
members of che gang
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
STATEN ISLAND GIRL
MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT
Receiues Bullet in Neck-No
Trace of AssaiIont.

Miss Louise Russo. "a and attractive.
of 215 Harbor Road. Mariners Harbor,
was shot mysteriously yesterday morn
ing in the left side of her neck while
she stood on the porch Of her home, she
told the police. At the Staten Island
Hospital. where she was taken. a 80
caliber bullet was extracted. and it was
said last night that she will recover.
Detective Sergeant William England
was unable to discover any one who
heard the shooting. nor could he find
any footprints. The girl said she saw
no one and that she had no enemies.
After returning from a grocery at Rich
mond Terrace she paused on her front
porch when attracted by something
down the road and at that instant she
lelt sharp pain in her neck.
Then she ran into the house and col
lapsed.
Detective England thinks there is n
possibility that the assailant might have
hidden in a clump OF overgrown weeds
I'm the lot adjacent to the house.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
COLLEGE FACES MONEY
LOSS OVER EVOLUTION
Discharge Teacher or Make
Him Reconf, Is Warning.

NASHVILLE Juno 13.--Unless Prof. c.
w. Davis. member Of the faculty of
Union University, Baptist institution
at Jackson. Tenn, Is eliminated from It's
teaching staff, or declares publicly his
repudiation OF the theory of evolution.
all financial or moral support of the
Nashville Baptist pastors conference
will be withdrawn from the institution.
according to resolutions adopted by the
conference yesterday
The resolutions declared the theory of
evolution dangerous and destructive and
out Of accord with the teachings of the
Baptist Church.
The action Of the board Of trustees in
the reelection Of Prof. Davis after IL
had been tried upon charges of teaching
evolution was condemned by the con-
ference.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14

OF Steve Dasaro where he expressed
wish to go to New York. but said that
he did not have the fare.
He says a Mexican approached and
made date with him to meet him at
the over the Rhine" restaurant at Span
ish Fort. and that when he told the
Mexican he was penniless the Mexican
gave him 81. Nuccio says he went to
Spanish Fort, met the Mexican and the
woman in an automobile.
"She said that if i went to New York
and killed Ward she would pay me
WELL" Nuccio swore to the police. Il
said / don't care for that kind of
money. whereupon the Mexican knocked
me flat and when / came, to all had
disappeared"
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
1863 STOLEN films
SEIZED MRAID HERE
First Blow in Nationwide
Campaign to Get Million
a Year Theft Gang.
LABORATORY PILFERED
Pathe Exchange Complains
of Heavy Losses-TwO
Arrests, More To-day.
FEDERAL LAW Is URGED
Plotters Send the Purloined
Movies to Mexico, South
America and Orient.
FEDERAL LAW IS URGED

Officials of motion picture companies
and the police of the West Forty
seventh street station believe that
with the arrest last night of two film
dealers and the recovery of 100 films
valued at SIS, 900 severe blow was
who annually get away with nearly
S1000.000 worth of pictures and who
form one of the most battling prob
lens of the industry.
Detectives Flood. Ferguson and
Fitzpatrick of the West Forty seventh
street station, acting on the complaint
of Louis Innerarity, representing the
Pathe Exchange, Inc, of 35 West
Forty-fifth street, arrested and locked
up Leopold Singer, 81. film dealer OF
IL Dawson street, Newark. and Will
lam Pizor, 33. a film broker, living AZ
1144 President street, Brooklyn. Singer
is charged with bringing stolen prop
erty into the State of New York and
Pizor is charged with receiving the
property.
For some time the officials of the
Pathe Exchange have been missing films.
both comedies and serials, from one of
it's laboratories in New Jersey. They
would not say last night what the names
OF the pictures were, but they did say
Il at they were valuable--and that the
actors and actresses appearing in them
are we'll known.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
F. x. BENEFITS WILL UPSET,

jury before Surrogate wipgate, in
Brooklyn, yesterday upset the will of
Frank X. Bennett, former Alderman and
Assemblyman In he Bushwick section
OF Brooklyn. leaving an estate of $780,
600 TO his wife, Anna Barbara Bennett.
~ 115 Woodbine street. The will was
broken previously, in February. 1921.
Bennett. who was "a. married Anna
Barbara Haas, 30. on October 80, 1918.
ia May, 1919, they made Wills bequeath-
ing their individual estates TO each other.
Adolph Rugcr. ,'opresenting Bennett's
seven brothers and sisters contended
that Bennett said to lawyer az the
time:
"we'll go through with this to humor
fer TIL be down to your office later
and make my Will"
Mrs. Bennett new will receive one
half Of the $4,000 personal estate and
cne-thrd Of the $4,000 realty.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
RALPH WARD WON'T TALK
OF PLOT TO GRAND JURY
Continued from First Page.

stances OF his talk with Ward lawyers.
He was asked about the investigation OF
the case up to date. but not in a critical
spirit. Criticism OF the Westchester Of
ficials who are conducting she Ward
case has come so far from outside
sources.
report that an attempt had been
made to tap the telephone wires in the
White Plains Court House cannot be
confirmed. The headquarters of the
New York Telephone Company said
merely that the matter was being in
vestigated.
Eiwood Heffner and Alfred e. Blute
whose names were introduced into the
case Sunday, when Heffner was arrested
In New Rochelle on a charge OF passing
a worthless check and on whom was
found letter from Walter Ward to
blute, were at White Plains ready to
testify. but were not called.
Check Charge Holds Henner.
Heffner was brought over from New
Rochelle in the custody of two police
men. He Is still under arrest ON the
check charge. Blute was subpened
Monday in his home in Hollis, L. /.
While waiting outside the Grand Jury
room he was asked what he thought Of
the theory that Ward may have killed
Peters to evade the payment of gam
bling debt. lie said
Gamblers don't WEIGH on a gambling
debt and | never knew of a case of a
gambler trying 60 collect a debt with
a gun"
The Pinkerton detectives who have
been checking the movements Of Clar-
ence Peters found one of the four men
who three or four days before he was
Killed We're discharged from the Marine
Corps at Paris Island. N. c.
He Is Robert S. Heating of 20 Wynd-
ham street. Woodhaven, Queens. He
says that when he left Paris Island on
May IL Peters was still there. Heating
said it was the custom to give each dis
charged man his railroad fare as far as
Philadelphia. All unsuccessful recruits
from the North are shipped to Philadel-
phia and must make their way home
from that point.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
RICKENBACKER ENDS FLIGHT

SAN FRANcrsco. June 13.---Capt Eddie
Rickenbacker arrived here at s.16 A, NJ.
to-day by mail airplane from Reno. New.
after an attempted flight from New
York with messages from President
Harding and other notables for the
Shrine convention. .His own plane was
abandoned In Nebraska.
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
Ward Tale From New or,enn,

Ward Tale From New Orleans,
Specicl Dispatch to THE NEw YonK HpeAn
New ORLEANS, June 13.-Nicholas
Nuccio, butcher, told Jerry Wallace. act
ing captain of detectives. to-day. that
man and woman tried to hire him to
go to New York to kill Walter S. Ward.
Nuccio says he is out of work, was
standing at Rampant and Canal streets
Monday. and went to the butcher shop
The New York herald., 1922-06-14
An Inside job Suspected.


Investigators fof the company believe
that. like most large film thefts. the
disappearance of the films was an inside
Job, and that at least one employee of
some person or group of persons on the
outside.
Information was obtained which led
detectives to visit Pizor. who has an Of
flee on the eighth floor of the building
at 729 Seventh avenue. He is said by
the police to operate under the name OF
Capitol Productions. When the detec-
tives reached his office late yesterday
they found 169 films, or cans there.
1t is not the custom of the Pathe com
pany to sell films. They lease them.
Pizor told the detectives that he had
bought the films in good faith from
Singer and that Singer had brought them
TO him from his office in Newark. Pizor
said he was willing to help the detec-
tives. He called UP Singer and asked
kim to come to New York "a When he
got off the train at the Pennsylvania
station the detectives met him. They
took him to Pizor's office and asked him
He admitted they were. The detectives
then arrested both men.
Inneraritz. representing the Pathe
Exchange. identified the 1863 films as part
of those that were missing. Detectives
to-day will search for the other missing
Aims, the value of which is not known.
1t was said last night that two or three
more arrests might be expected to-day.
All the larger film companies have
found that II is difficult to trace stolen
films and that after persons finally have
been arrested they can be tried and sent
to prison usually only for petty larceny.
That ia because only the intrinsic value
of the films--a very few dollars each--is
taken into account by the law.
The National Association of the Mo-
tion Picture Industry for three or four
years has been working for the re-
covery of stolen films. many OF which
haNs found their way to Mexico, South
America, China and Japan, and in ad-
dition have worked for the passage of
a Federal law which would make con-
victions easier and would insure heavier
penalties than now are possible
The value of stolen Aim is difficult
to estimate. The film itself may not be
worth more than a few dollars or few
hundred dollars. but IL 1t is a good fllm
copies of II may be made and be trans
ported to somo other country, and the
profits OF the thieves will be enormous.
In addition, the producers of the pic
lures will find that when they try to
put their picture in some other country
the field already has been covered and
there is no demand.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-11
FL Fiscal General
LCdO, Sama|Ga

La Investigation del caso presenta-
90 ante el Supreme por eq I.odo. Mo-
lima Saint-Itemy, contra cl L.cdo. Anon
tie de San Juan Y sHumacao respec-
tivamente V que esta a cargo del De-
p%artamento de Jllsticia, serd hecha,
! segdn Sc informa por el fiscal general
especial senior Zam&lea Iglesias, por
haberse inhibido de aquell& actuaci6n
ell fiscal del Tribunal Supreme Lcdo.
l.. J, Figueras.
i MANIFESTATION DE DUELO
Eel entierro en- FajGIilo del desgra-
ciado ndufrago Antonio Delgado. del
drama del "Perrillo'', de que inform0
aver Ell IMPARCIAL, efectuado en-
Fajardo a la tarde del domingo, result
to una manifestation Ge duelo publ
co, concurricndo nutrida presentation
de aqucl vecindario Y Otros elementos
que fuerOn de San Juan V de Huma-
Gao.
Ell presidente del Senado senior Bar
cello, y ell Lcdo. Cervoni-Gely, Gosp;-
dieron el duelo con sentidfsimos CON
ceptos, expression del duelo pfblico por
la gran desgracia.
No habiendo aparccidc hasta aver
los cuerpos de los dennis naufragos.
Sc les considera perdidcs Y contintan
Las %pesquizas ii largo de las costas
ell busca de los rest0s, 81 es cue como
Sc cree pereciercn todos los o~cupantes
del velero.
Ell Lcdo. Lopez Cruz, spcretario del
Supreme, asf como Ia familia del fl
nado Antonio Delgado, estdn recibien-
10 numerosos y eXpcresivos mensaies
y demostr&ciones de duelo Y 10 mismo
los deudos de Reyes Y Majfa.
Una lancha con policfas contin1a
hacienda crucero en- aquellas aguas en-
brsca die. los cuerpos perdidos.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-11
Los POETAS LAUREADOS

En- ell Certdmen literario organiza
do para conmemorar cl quinto Gniver-
sario de Ia muerte del ilustre patri
clio Jose de Diego. ell jurado Ge YER
so, tornado pGr los seiiores Jose S.
Algeria. A Nicolas Blanco Y J. Perez
LOsada. do 81 laud0 que va conOcen
nuestrcs lectores, por haber Sido pu-
blicadO aver.
va colrocido el audc, So. ha sabidp
que ell autcr del canto Il Ii; indai}2n-
dencia que ha obtenido 81 premio es
ell poeta Luis Antonio Miranda. ell 50,
neto premiado. del licenciado Ramirez
~Santib&Iiez, ell Accesit Gel canto a la
1ndependencia, de Pepito BalSeiro V
ell del saneto de Jose Yumet M6ndeZ.
Han Obtenid0 mencioneS de honor,
Jesus Maria Lugo, ell Padre Rivera y
ell licenciado T%orregrCsa. entire les que
sc conocen hasta ahora.
a la hora que escribim0s estas no.
tas, sc ignora adn quien es eli auto1
del C&nto a la Bandera. que es otrd
primer premio.
, FL accesit es del joven poeta Vi
cente Geigel Polanco.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-11
Cpiniones de los medicos.-Los sinto'
mas no eran de tetanos.

Nuestras informaciones, que han
causado enorme sensation entire TODD
ell p1blico, la han producido mucho ma
yor entire, los medicos.
Hemos hablado con muchos de ellos,
que han dado la razon al alumno de
Medicina cuyas dudas despues de la
muerte de Evans Lefevre han sido ell
origen del suceso.
Muchos coinciden en- dudar tambien
de que ell fallecimiento fuera produ-
edo por ell tetano.
Anaden tambi6n' que los sintomas
&c quienes mueren por tetanos no son
los que resentaba Evans Lefevre, y
que observe muy oportunamente ell
alumno inferno que lie acompano la
Ultima noche.
Ademas, ningun tetanico padece do
lores de vientre, y tanto por confession
del alumno como por Ia de las seno-
ras de la casa donde murio Evans Lee
fevre, Sc sabe que este los padecia, y
muy intensos, desde ell dia anterior.
que fue cuando Sc agravo.
Para aminorarselos es para 10 que,
segun parece, lie fue administrada la
morfina y ell opiosan, que, como va he
mos dicho, Sc lie aplico.