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New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
Big Interests
W ant Alien
Bars Let Down
immigration Restriction Is
Fought by Large Employ
ers; See Need Of Workers
With ReturningPr

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2e.-Just when
Chairman johnson Of the House I'm
migration Committee is announcing VI
plan to reduce immigration to much
lower figure than now, strong move
rnent has started to relax the immigra
ton laws and increase the number of
admissible aliens instead of decreas
ing them.
Big steel companies, big copper min
ing and smelling interests and other
great employers of labor are back Of
this movement It promises to become
powerful, and indications are there viii
be a sharp clasi, between the pro-
moters of liberalized policy of ad
hitting aliens and those who would re-
strict the influx.
Recently it was indicated that Chair
man Johnson would seek to get the 3
per cent limit cut much lower. even to
one-half Of per cent. Mr.. Johnson
declared the country seemed to want
complete restriction Of immigration.
1t is already apparent there will be
great difficulty in driving any such pro-
gram through Congress.
Shortage Of men competent and will
ing to do the ordinary manual labor
of the mills the furnaces and the
mines is what is alarming the great
employers of unskiled labor 1t is
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
: Dollar
Fraud Charged;
Three Seized
Accused of Selling Clients
Stock for Double Mar
ket Value, Holding Out
a Big Share of Proceeds
Thirteen Others Sought
Crager System Said TO Act as
Agent in Unloading Treas
ury Shares of Companies

The use OF the mails in what Fed
eral prosecutors term zone of the most
stupendous stock swindles unearthed
in years was revealed Yesterday when
two postoffice inspectors ended long
investigation Of the methods and af-
fairs of the Crager System, Inc, with
raid on its extensive Offices at 140
West Forty-second Street Two ar
rests were made on the spot, and n
third man was taken into custody at
z Rector Street half an hour later.
The prisoners were arraigned at once
before United States Commissioner
Hitchcock and held in $4,000 bail each
for examination October 10. Warrants
are out for thirteen others.
More than $1,000,000 is the figure
named by Peter j. Mccoy, the AS
sistant United States District Attor-
ney handling the case, as the profit
which these connected with the cor
noration are alleged to have taken out
or the business in the nine months
since the Crager System started opera
tions.
Disposing of tho unso1d treasury
stock of concerns in need of immedi-
ate cash was the Crager speciality, and
evidence IN the hands of the govern
mehC indicates That its directors sue
ceeded in obtaining price for the
shares in many cases more than double
the market value of the old issues
when theY volunteered the services of
their selling system.
Only one concern is mentioned in tho
complaint filed by Postoffice Inspector
Noile as having retained the Crager
System to relieve its financial embar-
rassmcnt, but the plaintiff alleged that
the STOCK OF many others figured in the
fraud. Mr.. Mccoy pointed out that the
amounts the defendants are said to have
made from each venture were hardly
large enough to arouse suspicion, and
as soon as a quick return had been
made on one proposition the sales cor
poratlon was able to turn to new one
without cleaning after the harvest.
Another advantage cnjoyed bv the
Crager System in its alleged frauds
lay in the fact that new sucker list''
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

railroad man wanted to retire. Then
he reminisced bit:
I'VE used TO load car for the New
Rochelle brewery and the owner would
come out and give US couple of bar
rels If we'd promise not to touch them
till we were off duty. Maybe you think
that beer didn't taste good after we'd
been looking longingly at it all the
way up here. Nothing like that now
The roundhouse was down ut Forty
second Street then They've built
three Grand Central terminals while
I've been with the road,
"When I'd been working tens years
auditor or something like that, He'd
been water boy for section gang in
Texas. He's chairman of the board of
the Chesapeake e. Ohio now, the road
he started for.
About that time Daniel Willard was
track laborer and r. d. Underwood
was a conductor. Willard is president
of the Baltimore & Ohio and Under
wood of the Erie. None Of them think
of quitting. | guess maybe there s
something in it that gets in your blood
My baggage man, Mortimer Geb-
nee, has been with me twenty-nine
years. Course, he's only boy, but
he has the right idea. Find something
you like and then plug at it and you'll
be happy"
The chair stopped rocking, the briar
pipe went out and Stationmaster Kane
was back with the boys watching that
barrel of beer that couldn't be opened
until the run was over.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

was furnished them free Of charge
when ',l they undertook any financing,
Inc stockh olders OF record were the
only parties approached, and they were
the more easily deceived, it is2alIeged,
because the sales letters were sent out
TO them on the company's let.erheads
stating that the shares we're being Of
Tered to them exclusively III order to
let them in on the new prosperity en-
pected by the directors Of the con
cern. The letters stated that q reprc-
sentative would call personally within
Few days to explain the advantages of
the proposition the company was max
ing, and with this introduction TO tho
confidence Of the alleged intended VIC
tins 1t is said to have been ensy for the
system to put across it's schem me-
One false statement mentioned In tho
complaint as having been made by the
defendants to induce prospective in
vestors to take stock off their hands
was to the effect that A. b. Helm e. Co.
WAS prepared to market it's new invest
ment at once on the New Yof,s Stock
Exchange. No such concern exists
here, it is alleged.
Joseph +. Doom, the third man ar
rested yesterday, is alleged by Mr. Me
Coy to have been employed solely to
run down companies in such need of
financing that they would fall in with
the Cragcr scheme, which called for
the placing of one Of the SYSTEMS cm-
ployees in the concerns Offices and the
cooperation Of the officers in floating
the stock The Altoona Glass Casket
Company is the company mentioned in
the complaint az one of the many
which retained the sales corporation,
but, no charge is made that it was a
party to the alleged conspiracy.
Benjamin Cragcr, of 710 Riverside
Drive, and his father. Henry Crager,
who lives in West 160th Street, are al
legged to have been the ringlcaders in
the fraud. They were the two men
arrested in the raid yesterday. TIE
others for whom warrants have been
issued are said to have played minor
parts.
Postoflice Inspector Noile investi-
gated the case with Inspector Thomas
Fitch. The Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World made survey of
its own into the Crager scheme, which
was made public Immediately after the
arrests. Is
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
Get a Job You Like and Stick.
Says Railroad Veteran Of 7,3
Station Master Kane, of Mamaroneck, 53 Years i'm
the Business, Wishes He Had 53 More Coming
Misses Car of Beer He Helped Load Now and Then

is my vocation, Hal. 'Tis no sin
FOR man to labor in his vocation"
j. c. Kane, seventy three years old,
ticket agent of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad at Mamar-
oneck, who yesterday finished his fifty
third year of consecutive service with
scornful rejection of the roads offer
to retire him, never read Henry ", but
he is going to, just to read the speech
to Hal.
"Railroading is the grandest of
games, and IT'S the glamor of the thing
that holds you and won't let you CO."
he said last night as he rocked in the
parlor of the cozy home at l2 Palmer
Street which he and his wife saved for
and Of which they are SO proud.
''It's ffty-three years I've been n
railroad man, and its fifty-three more
I'd like to be- he went on owe sen.
four of my boys through college, and
tho pay check looks pretty good when
you go up to the pay. car each week.
But it isn't that. If it was only the
money I'd havi retired two years ago,
when they almost threw me out. They
asked me IL / wanted to work forever
and told them I wouldn't mind.''
The steady rock of the chair stopped
while Stationmaster Kane--the title
that pleases him -chuckled at the
absurd thought of any one thinking a
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

ADVERTISEMENT
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
Borah Threatens to Subpoena
Bahkmefeff if He Returns

WASHINGTON, Sept 26.-W Word from
abroad that Boris Bahkmeteff former
Rus sian Ambassador, was planning to
sail tomorrow for America, was fol-
lowed by statement to-day by Sena-
tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, that he
would call Mr.. Bahkmeteff before the
Senate Labor Committee if he should
come within the jurisdiction of a COM
mittee subpoena.
Before leaving the United States Mr.
Bahkmetef claimed "diplomat:c immu-
ity" when subpoenaed and was support
ed by Secretary Hughes. Senator
Borah said there was "much informa-
ton" he still desired to obtain from
the former Russian Envoy, particular
ly regarding the disposition of Ameri-
can loans made to Russia and taken
over by Mr. Bahkmeteff
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
Hylan's $ Transit
Plans Favored
I'm BROOKLYN
representatives of Civic
and Political Organiza-
lions iscuss Mayors
5000, ,OOO.OOO Program
Ask Crosstown Subways
Assail Cropsey and CAL
laghan for Hindering
Bus Lines by Injunction

The Board of Estimate and Appor-
,;6nment met yesterday for public dis
,ussion of Mayor Hylan's $500, 900 900
transit program, with special reference
a the Borough Of Brooklyn. Repre-
sentativcs from numerous civic and po-
Iisiesl organizations attended and gen
erally expressed themselves in favor
ot the Mayors project.
III was whispered about. in explana-
tibn, that the board members had taken
allesson from their previous hearing
Asen some pointed criticism was lev
' & at the Mayors plan, so that 1T
ppearcd that only those who were pre-
Yaared to indorse the Hylan plan were
invited to the hearing There was,
sowever, an adverse note here and
here from a few, who thought that
something should be done to remedy
.Es transit situation at once.
assail Cropsey and Callaghan
a large portion of the discussion was
..ken up with q series of attacks upon
;n.erference with transit affairs by in
;,nction. the sallies for the most part
beine aimed at Justice Cropsey and
Justice CalIaghan for their orders re-
draining the operation of busses in
certain sections of Brooklyn.
II hope the citizens of Brooklyn will
remember these gentlemen" remarked
,he Mayor. literally prompting the dis
assion on this point, "who issued the
ipiunctons, so that if they ever run
gain for office the people will know
low to deal with them At another
mint the Mayor said:
eWhen judges in the future are nom
mated we will have to find out how
they stand on injunctions."
Wants Vote of People
r. Cornelius Wanamaker, represent
iug the Flatbush Taxpayers Associa-
ton, while in favor Of the Mayors
glan, said he though tho question Of
4 municipal operation of the subway
q lines should be put to a vote of the
veople. To this Murray Hubert, presi-
Dent of the Board of Aldermen, replied: ::
4 eDon't you think the people voted on
Il last November ?" Mr.. Wanamaker
4 SAID it was rot direct vote.
Thomas A. McQuade, of the 18th As
I sembly District Democratic Club,
| brought up the subject of the lack of
bss lines in Greenpoint, reminding the
beard that the busses had been put
out Of business there by injunction Of
Justice Callaghan.
I e0h, that wasn't Cropsey," com
B Hented the Mayor.
4 No. replied Mr.. McQuade, Crop
q Hy issued the first, taking away some
dnd of transportation, backed by
4 Judge Calaghan. Both gentlemen are
& aembers of the same club"
& alderman Peter McGuinness then
look the floor, lauding the Mayor in
speculative terms, and concluding with
bis tribute to the Greenpoint district
shich he represents: "Greenpoint, Mr.
4 Mayor and members of the Board of
Estimate, is the garden spot of heaven
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

true that large immigration is still
coming into the country, but their rep
resentatives say a great part of it is
unwilling to do the hard work Of the
steel plants, the copper mines and
smelters, the track work of the rail-
roads and the like.
Not long ago the country was aston
ishcd when the United States Steel
Corporation suddenly raised wages Of
employees a large sum in the.saggrea
gate. Much speculation was caused by
this action. It Developed however,
chat the corporation saw n return of
prosperity no; saT distant and shen
found that in order to avail itself of
this it would have 20 put on more men
and keep the old men. Ii discovered
that the shutting down Of immigra-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

ton had tended strongly 70 reduce the
supply of men available TO 60 the hard
work of the steel manufacturing in
dustry. Partly this is due to the fact
that immigration is low from the cont
tries where there are the best workers
and that of the total immigration a
large share drifts nataraily into eity
life. A great deal of talk is current
to the effect that a wave OF prosperity
is Just around the corner. If that, j.
the case big employers are wondering
where they are going to get their sup
ply OF what is generally called COM
mon labor. II the immigration laws
are frightened up still more than they
nre. from. the viewpoint Of the big
employers. the situation will become
impossible.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27

was not in court, and it is believed
that he is living In New York.
Won Hoegen first came into notice
soon after the beginning of the World
War by publicly expressing his sym
pathy with Germany and condemning
the attitude of the United States. He
claimed to have been in the employ of
Captain Won Papen to obtain informa-
tion on contracts being filled by mu-
nition makers in Connecticut for the
British government. He also boasted
of a close friendship with the German
Ambassador Won Bernstorif.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
Treason Charge Against
Won Hoegen Is Dropped
Lawyer Was Indicted After He
Had Boosted of Being a
German Spy

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 26.-The
case against Macmillan Won Hoegen,
formerly New Haven attorney, who was
arrested in December 1917, on charge
of treason, was nolled in the United
States District Court here to-day on
the recommendation of Assistant
United States Attorney Cohen by
Judge Edwin S. Thomas. Won Hoegen
Arizona republican., 1922-06-11
Mrs. MaIlory's Victory

All America will be pleased to hear of Mrs NAL
lorys tennis victory yesterday in her defeat
Beanish. But fear that our JOY will not be
shared by Miss Suzanne Lenglen the French tennis
champion who was defeated by Mrs. Mallory when
the former visited something year ago.
The defeat of Mile. Lenglen the more pain
full following as did upon the unrestrained
ances of the young Frenchwoman who could not
quite conceal her contempt of tennis players
We all feared that if her skill in the tennis court
was in any way indicated by her volubity, she
would return to sunny France with Mrs, Maory's
scalp attached.
Mile. Lenglen did not give opportunity to
poses though had impressed We could not
how graceful person, one who would photograph
well in clothes and gestures could be other
wise than world beater Her match with Mrs. NAL
lory was not concluded Mile. Lenglen had sudden
pain in her stomach something Anyhow, she
out of form
We noticed the other day that in one of the
preliminary matches in which Mrs. Mallory suffered
a reverse at the hands of player who had once
been conquered by Mile. Lenglen, the latter in
comment stated in effect that she had expected no
other outcome of the event since she had played
with both. Altogether her remarks premature,
unsportswomanlike, catty and nasty.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-11
Annual Picnic OF
Pennsy Society
Enjoyable Event

The Pennsylvania Society of Ari-
zona held its annual gathering at The
Maricopa Country Club Thursday,
June s, its large membership turning
out in good numbers to enjoy the oc-
casion, &c counties of Pennsylvania
being represented. Under the shade
of the clubs beautiful picnic grove
the sons and daughters of Pennsyl-
vania renewed old acquaintance and
told and retold tales of the Old Key
stone state. Many enjoyed the
plunge in the cool swimming pool,
and finally all regaled themselves
with the good cheer of the bounteous
baskets, topped off with delicious
lemonade.
After the picnic supper a short
program of speaking was heard, fol-
lowed by the adoption of the new
bylaws of the society. An election
Of officers for the ensuing year then
took place, with the following result:
President. J. c.. Reed vice president,
Captain Charles H. Corrigan: secre-
tary, Ralph G.. Lewis; treasurer. DR..
C. G. Culver.
Following the election the members
adjourned to the dance pavilion and
devoted the remainder of the even
ing to dancing.
An item of great interest to all
Pennsylvanians was the fact that
Mrs. Anna l.. Swain. a member of
the Lovett family, one Of the Oldest
and best-known families of Bucks
county, was present and described
the original land deed granted TO
one of her forefathers by William
Penn himself and carrying the sig
nature of the great apostle of peace
and friendship.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-11
Free Youth Movement

a soft pillow. There is nothing to
resist.
Reports show that the underlying
causes of the Free Youth movement
are deeper than any questions of the
war or the reparations The revolt
is against the entire system Of re-
preston of which the militarism
which caused the war was but a
part. The world is familiar with the
exacting discipline of the German
army and the mechanical precision
of German efficiency.
From One Extreme to Another
The Free Youth throw off the en-
tire yoke and, as might be expected
have gone to the opposite extreme of
absolute liberty. II is certain that
middle ground will be found, but
it is declared to be equally certain
that the Free Youth will never re-
turn to the old strict discipline. 1t
is reported that bands of them walk
through the spring fields singing
folksongs and picking up recruits
from the farms and villages as they
pass. Everywhere throughout the
land these groups of the Freie
Deutsche Jugend can be found and
all of them are jolly and happier
than ever they have been in their
lives. 1t is national lark for a part
of the new generation.
Fantastic as it may sound, the
movement has impressed itself upon
responsible officials so thoroughly
that lengthy reports have been for
warded not only TO our own state de-
partment at Washington, but to the
chancelleries and foreign offices of
all European nations interested in
central European affairs.
The writer has seen an official
cablegram more than a thousand
words long reporting to washington
on an aspect of the movement This
is mentioned to indicate that it is
regarded seriously by the highest
officials
An interesting aspect of the move
ment is that it is being supported
by certain adults of Germany and
Austria. College professors. leading
Socialists and others of a liberal
Arizona republican., 1922-06-11
The Noises of Phoenix

Phoenix is said to be the noisiest of its
size in the United States. That is reputation for
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo gave it when
he driven out by the tuInult and it has been
since sustained. But most if not practically all the
noise is made by hicks driving automobiles and
trucks with the cut-out They evidently choose
that tunlultuous method of letting the world knew
that they have somehow raised the money to pay the
first installment truck motor
The traffic department is reorganizing the
"hicks' in the congested district and has already
accomplished great deal and is keeping the cut
outs closed in that part of town AS possible
the reform is to be extended beyond the inner bus
ness section so that householders persons with
frayed nerves may enjoy measure of peace
both by night and day.
The Eucalyptus Tree and we have had many
conversation the subject of the cut-out We
should like to print what the Eucalyptus Tree has
had to say about the noises in "Our Alley" but
have to depend largely upon the United States mail
facilities for the distribution of The Republican, so
dare