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The Week in Congress
Congress Planning
Cleanup in Hope of
Midsummer Recess
Hearings on Revenue Bill to ;
Raise 8 Billions To Be
Resumed To-day
Conf errees Begin Work j
Baker to Appear as Witness
for $12,000,000,000 Army
Measure
WASHINGTON. June 9.?With the,
war revenue legislation in the making,;
Congress this week plans a clean-up
of partly finished appropriations and
other bills in the hope of yet securing
a short midsummer recess in July.
Hearings on the revenue bill will be '
resumed to-morrow by the House Ways
and Means Committee. So few inter-,
ests have signified a desire to submit
statements that the committee may be
able about June 20 to begin drafting
the tentative bill designed to raise
about ?8,000,000,000 in taxes as recom?
mended by Secretary McAdoo.
The Senate Military Committee,
with Secretary Baker as its first wit?
ness, opens hearings to-morrow on the
twelve billion dollar army appropria?
tion bill. Several other witnesses will
follow, but the committee hopes to re?
port the bill next week. Prompt action
is expected in the Senate despite some
opposition to the House provision giv.
ing the President unlimited authority
to increase the army.
Conferrees Take l"p Bills To-day
Senate and House conferrees will he
Kin work to-morrow on the $l,filO.
000,000 naval appropriation measure,
and deadlocks between conferrees on
the agriculture, post?nico and rivers
and harbors appropriations bills prom?
ise to be settled during the week. The
Senate is expected to instruct its con?
ferrees to yield and strike out the
Core amendment to the agricultural
bill Increasing the government guaran?
teed minimum wheat price to $2.50 a
bushel.
Another prohibition fight is threat?
ening in the Senate. A meeting of the
Senate Agriculture Committee is
planned this week to strike from the
?511,000,000 emergency food appropria?
tion bill the Randall amendment de?
signed to force President Wilson to
exercise bis authority to stop manu?
facture of beer and wines. Prohibi?
tion advocates in the Senate are pre?
pared to vigorously urge a substitute
iimendment providing for declaration
by Congress of complete prohibition
during the war.
To Consider Rule on Debates
Consideration of the Underwood
rule, proposing limitation of debate
? luring the war, will be resumed to?
morrow by the Senate. Indications
are that Senator Borah's amendment
providing for discussion of treaties in
open instead of executive session will
l>e defeated, but that the Underwood
rule, amended to permit one hour and
a half speeches instead of one hour
:?s originally proposed, will be adopted.
Conferrees on the oil leasing bill ex?
pect to meet early in the week. On
Tuesday the Senate Banking Commit?
tee will begin bearings on the plan of
.Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, chairman,
to maintain parity of American cur?
rency abroad.
Two Billions Due
This Week From
Federal Taxpayers
WASHINGTON, June 9.?The biggest!
outpouring of Federal taxe3 in the his-j
tory of the nation will occur this week.
More than two billion dollar? in in- i
come and excess profits taxes from in
dividuala and corporations is due next ;
Saturday night in addition to the I
half billion which already has been !
paid in this year. Total receipt;! from I
these sources are expected to be about !
?.'J.775,000,000.
More than 6,000,000 separate pay?
ments of income taxes are to be made
and in addition hundreds of thousands :
of excess profits tax payments. Ap-1
proximately three-fourths of the total j
tax will come from corporations, and
about one-fourth from individuals.
Millions of persons will pay income
taxes for the first time.
As an indication of the huge task im
posed on the internal revenue machin- j
cry of the government, with its sixty-1
four collection districts, it is recalled
that last year only 780,000 income tax I
payments were made under a former]
law and $809,000,000 was received on
incomes.
Many corporations and big business '
interests face the necessity of selling
securities or other assets to meet tax
payment? this week, according to re?
ports to the Treasury, and officials are
watching carefully the effect on the
money and security markets.
A method of instalment payments in
advance was arranged under the law,
hut comparatively few corporations
took advantage of it. Under another
plan, however, the Treasury in the
lase six months has sold a great
amount of certificates of indebt?
edness acceptable in payment of
taxes, and these virtually amount to
advance payments. The certificates are
not redeemable until June 25, but the
Treasury has urged corporations and
banks to turn them in this week to
avoid disturbing the distribution of
money.
West Point "June Week"
WEST POINT, N. Y., June 9.?The i
"June Week" exercises werg ushered ;
in to-day with the baccalaureate ser-j
mon to the graduating class delivered i
by the Rev. H. Percy Silver, chaplain ?
of the academy. The big church on !
Chapel Hill was well filled with the
corpa of cadets and their friends. The
last Sunday evening parade for the
class of 1919, which will graduate a
year ahead of time next Wednesday,
was largely attended to-night.
The standing of the graduating class
has been officially announced. Cadet
John Paul Dean, of Worcester, Mass.,
is honor man. Patrick II. Timothy,
Ohio, is No. 2, and li. J. Casey. New
York, No. 3. Cadet F. V. Kimble,
Texas, is "goat," or the last man in
the class. He is a brother of Major
Kimble, of the Engineer Corps, who
was killed in Fiance last month and
who graduated No. 2 tn the class ot
1916. Cadet Ken Wang, a Chinese,
will graduate high up on the list, his
standing being given as No. 12 in the
official reckoning.
To-morrow morning the annual out?
door athletic meet will be held on the
ijlain, and in the ufternoon the Army
iiasebull team will play its final game
of the season with a team from Camp
MerriU, New Jersey.
West Point Graduates
Class of 1 36 Wednesday
Week's Programme Will Open
To-day With Sermon by
Chaplain Silver
WEST POINT, N. V., June 0. Exer?
cises attendant upon the graduation of
the class- of 1919 from the United
States Military Academy will begin to?
morrow, when Chaplain Silver will i
deliver the graduation sermon in the j
chapel. The class of i019 will be ,tho i
third to bo graduated in fourteen I
months. It contains Uifi nun.
Two members of the class of 1918,
which was graduated last August, have:
received the Croix do Guerre and men- ?
tion in official dispatches for oxcep- '
tional gallantry.
The only social event this week will |
he the "hop," which will fake place
on Wednesday evening. That morning
the class will be graduated. On Mon?
day there will be an outdoor meet,
and on Tuesday, alumni day, there will
he the reception and review by the
Secretary of War.
Three hundred and fifty Belgian sol?
diers arrived this noon from New York
to visit the academy.
Covenant Opens
Its First Factory!
For Filling Shells
Three Others, Costing Five
Millions Each, To Be in
Operation Soon
(Special Dispatch to The Tribute)
WASHINGTON, June 0.?The Ameri?
can government's first plant for the
filling of shells with explosives has
been completed and is now in active
operation, Rrigadier General G, C. Will?
iams, acting chief of ordnance, an?
nounced to-day. The plant was con?
structed for the government by a pri?
vate company. Its location is withheld
for military reasons.
A second plant is expected to start
operation later this month, with a third
beginning in July and the fourth in
August. All of them, it is thought, will
be in operation within six months from
the date on which construction was be?
gun. They were authorized by Con?
gress in December' to cost $5,000,000
each, and they will range from 2,000 to
6,000 acres in extent.
Plans call for a total daily loading
in these four plants of 100,000 75-milli?
metre shells, 48,000 155-millimetre
shells and 16,000 S-inch and larger.
Two of the plants will, in addition, be
called on for 15,000 4.7 shells daily.
Private Plants Busy
These shells will be in addition to
the heavy production of private plants
working on government contracts. Six
plants are loading 75-millimetre shells,
| two 155-milimetre, four 4.7 and two
| 8-inch and larger. Three private fac?
tories already are loading 150,000
? fuses and boosters dally, and a fourth
| plant is almost ready for production.
; Four government plants will be added
to these as rapidly as they can be built,
i Five plants are busy loading shrapnel,
j turning out a total of 75,000 daily, di
! vided among 75-millimetre, 155-milli
I metre and 4.7 sizes.
The ordnance department expects an
important part to be taken by women
in this work. Of the 16,000 workers
who will start on shell loading for the
government, 4,000 will be women. Ul?
timately it is expected that 60 per cent
of the total employed will be women.
Women are to be engaged in prac?
tically every phase of the work, follow?
ing the British and French practice.
They have been found available for
everything from painting and cleaning
to the actual pouring of the explosives
for the biggest shells.
New Device Increases Output
One distinctly pleasing factor to the |
War Department has been the success- j
ful use of machinery to replace hand
labor. One of the best instances is in
the case of shrapnel loading. The old
way used in Russia and other F.uro
pean countries called for the pouring
of the explosives by hand. After the
laborer poured the explosive into the
shell, he sat down and jolted the
shrapnel for several minutes on a
wooden block. In this manner he was
able to toad seven an hour.
By the American method a pneu?
matic vibrating machine was intro?
duced to substitute for the hand-jolt?
ing process. This machine enables one
man to work on five shrapnel shells
simultaneously. Instead of loading
only seven an hour, therefore, one
man's capacity is increased to fifty.
Gov. Edge at Sea Girt
SEA GIRT, N. J., June 9.?This place
has become again the summer capital
of the state, Governor Walter E. Edge
arriving today with members of his
military staff. The entire adjutant,
general's department has been trans?
ferred to Sea Girt, and to-morrow a
school for officers and non-commis?
sioned officers from the state militia
will open.
The possibility of the state reserva?
tion being used by the army as an avia
! tion station is becoming more likely
! in view of the aerial coast patrol
I which was started last week. Already
\ many of the 'planer, have found this
j level stretch an ideal place to alight.
150,000 Flock to Coney
Crowd Stays Late Despite the
"Lights Out" Order
Coney Island had a big crowd yes?
terday that stayed late de3pite the
"lights-out" ord2r. It was estimated
there were more than 150,000 persons
at the resort.
John Leach, First Deputy Police
Commissioner, passed most of Satur?
day night and the early hours of yes?
terday morning talking the situation
over with business men of the island,
i His visit was the result ofa call made
I on him by a man who said he repre
I sentod th? Coney Island Board of
; Trade and had come to Headquarters
| to protest again -t Sightless nights at
I Coney Island. The Deputy Commis
| sioner was informed that his visitor
! did not represent the Hoard of Trade,
? which had decided that it was the part
of patriotism to make no complaint.
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j High Winds Postpone Return
Of Boston Air Mail Pilot
SAUGUS, Mass., June 0.?Postmas
ter William F. Murray of Boston wa>
on the aviation field here this after?
noon, ready to fly to New York in the
airplane that last week brought r
large quantity of mail from that citj
to Boston. Because of the high wind
Lieutenant Torrcy H. Webb, the pilot
decided to postpone the return nigh
until to-morrow morning. Postmastei
Murray said he would make the flight
then.
CLOCKS/^ TRAVELING.
Boudoir,or- desk./"
Gold. Silver. ?^
Leather. Cases
Reed & Barton
Established 1824
Jewelers and Silversmiths
Fifth Avenue at 32nd Street
4Maiden Lane
Bridegroom, Tried as Deserter,
Fears Bride May Soon be Widow
Private Czarnecki, Who Couldn't Resist Call of the Girl in
Brooklyn and Left Camp to Wed, Anxiously
Awaits Verdict of Court Martial
With a light farewell to a soldier's ,
life, Private Franklin W. Czarnecki
swung coolly out of his camp at Avia?
tion Field No. 2, at Mine?la, on Feb?
ruary 23, and went forth to his wed- :
ding day. Two months there were of
the stolen sweets of a honeymoon
"without leave" or other military
authority for the prolonged absence
from camp, and then one day a stocky
little soldier with "M. P." on his arm
appeared at the home of the bride and
bridegroom, at 1577 East Forty-fifth ,
Street, Brooklyn, with a message from
the commander of the camp. ,
Last Tuesday in the sunshiny quiet j
of the camp courtroom at Mine?la
Czarnecki faced a court of majors,cap?
tains and lieutenants, on trial for his
life for the military crime of desertion
from the army.
It -#as clearly just another victory of
that old offender, Cupid, against his
standing enemy, Mars. The ears that
were ringing with the soft, insistent,
summons from the direction of Brook?
lyn and The Girl simply could not hear
the bugle blast of military duty. So it
was on that February day that Private
Czarnecki threw away his gun and,
armed with nothing but his audacity,
went out to becorhe Mr, Czarnecki,
bridegroom and vagabond at large.
Colors ?of Romance Painted Out
But the adventure that was glorious
in February became a crime that wac
frightful as Czarnecki sat through the
four hours of his trial last Tuesday. A
vigorous prosecution by the camp judere
advocate painted out all the warm colors
of Czarnecki's romance, and left a stark
picture labelled Deserter that was not
soothing to the eyes of the subject.
It was with none of his former
jauntiness, therefore, that Czarnecki
faced his trial. He had become, in?
stead of the careless and impetuous
lover of a few months ago, a subdued
and graven-faced prisoner, who listened
to the indictment of. Judge Advocate
Roy 0. Jackson in his summing up
with downcast eyes and fingers twitch?
ing under the protection of the army
hat on his knees.
A court martial is no light experi?
ence. The judge advocate may be
young, as Lieutenant Jackson is, but
that does not make him less stern.
The prisoner's counsel may be earnest
in his plea and eloquent in the plead
ing, as Czarnecki's counsel was, but<
that hardly changes the fact that under '
the 58th article of war absence with- |
out leave, coupled with intention, spells i
desertion and death.
The president of the court may be
fair and reasonable in his rulings, as
Major Campion was, but that doesn't
alter the fact that he is first of all
a soldier to whom military discipline
is prime law.
Czarnecki knew that he might be
shot as the result of the deliberations
of that June afternoon. That was
enough to make any man look far away
at the blue sky of Mine?la, beyond the
guardhouse and the barracks.
Hadn't Told His Wife
Only once did the s?.llow face or the
sober blue eyes show any change.
When his frightened young wife was
culled into court as a witness, Czar?
necki's face grew white. When in an?
swer to a question as to the reason
for his continued absence from camp
she said simply; "He said be hated to
leave me," be looked up at her for tho
first time.
Czarnecki had not told his wife that
he was "A. W. O. L." (absent without
leave). The little war-bride had just
thought she was luckier than most
girls were in having a husband who
: could stay away from camp at such an
auspicious time. She testified with
shaking hands and brimming eyes that
her husband had always said he was go?
ing back to camp "soon," and taiked
frequently about going overseas.
"I never knew until the night the
| military police came to take him away
! that my husband was doing anything
? wrong. A girl doesn't know things
about the army, you know."
Witness after witness was called,
i those of each side making exactly con
? tradictory testimony. Soldiers who hart
;, seen him during the honeymoon stated
that he had boasted that he was
\ through with the army. His wife and
i the members of her family all swore
j that his intention to return to camp
j was definite all the time he was away
, from Mine?la.
The fate of Franklin W. Czarneck
; was decided that afternoon, but nobodj
; but the court and the judge advocate
' knows what it is. When it is approved
; at Governor's Island and Washington
; the world, including the accused him
? self, may know. Meanwhile in th<
! guard house on Aviation Field No. 5
; and in a Polish home in Brooklyn tw<
I young persons are waiting to know
i what answer military justice will mak<
1 to a man whose sweetheart meant mon
i to him than his country.
Urges New Yorkers
To Open Homes
To Fighting Men
H. F. Lutz Declares 2,000 j
Were Forced to Sleep in
Parks Saturday
Unless New York lives down its
< reputation for coldness to the stranger
and throws open the door3 of its homes
to the thousands of men from the
I training camps, naval and army, that
. flock here weekly, the boys in blue and
I olive drab will be sleeping on park
I benches all summer.
This was indicated yesterday by
j Henry F. Lutz, of the New York War
j Camp Community Service, who said
, that the organization to which he be
j longed was unable to cope with the
. great influx of men to see the sights.
Within striking distance of N?ew
1 York City there are four great army
camps?Mills, Upton, Merritt and Dix
,.and the soldiers from these pour into
; the city on their days of leave to go
I sightseeing and spend what little
j money ?3 left to them after allotments
j are paid and Liberty bond instalments
! are deducted.
The first few hundred to arrive are I
afforded shelter in some of the com-1
munity service hotels and barracks.
Those that follow face the choice of
paying $2 or more for a room in a
hotel or else of sleeping in the parks, j
Two dollars means a lot to the average j
soldier. Usually they take to the
parks.
This is all right on nights when the
stars shine and the air is warm. On
rainy nights, the men just don't sleep
at all. So far no definite solution of
j the problem has been reached, although
' there is a movement on foot to request
j the Governor to throw open the city's
! armories to the troopers.
At least 2,000 men of the army and
! navy slept in the parks last Saturday,
: Mr. Lutz said yesterday.
"Small wonder, that we couldn't nc
; commodate them," said he. "They are
| crazy to como to New York whenever
they can get leave. Saturday, the fine
' weather, the eclipse, the usual Broad
1 way attractions, brought them down
! here in droves.
"We put 200 extra beds in the Hotel
' Earlington, our house on Twenty
! seventh Street, and sent about S()0 more
; to our branch clubs around town. At
i that we had men sleeping on top of
: desks and all over the floor. Our ac
! coinmodations are normally from 1,500
; to 1,600. Now, with the camps all filled
' up, it looks as if we would have to ex
? pect a regular Saturday and Sunday in
| flux of 2,500 or more."
\ Austrian Government Takes
Flour From Its Peasants
So great is the shortage of flour ir
' Austria that the government has beci
' empowered to take from the peasant:
i the supplies which wer? to cover theii
j own requirements, says a Vienna de
! ?patch to the Berlin "Tageblatt," i
j copy of which has been received here
Artists Protest at
War Crosses and
Medals of U. S
National Sculpture Society
Criticises Government's
Decorations
Paul W. Bartlett, president of th<?
National Sculpture Society, has wired
[ an official protest to Secretary of War
; Baker against the war crosses and
medals with which Uncle Sam is pre
, paring to decorate his heroes "over
: there."
This action came as a result of the
scathing criticisms of the new insignia
expressed by members of the National
Sculpture Society at their meeting in
: the Fine Arts Building Friday evening.
| It also came, members of the society
were explicit in pointing out, in re
; sponse to emphatic criticism voiced by
j the boys themselves in France.
These criticisms, according to artists
in this city who claim to be in touch
with the situation, were simultaneous
with the arrival of the lon^-awaited i
emblems on the other side. Tue result
is that the entire first set, consisting
of 200 Distinguished Service Crosses !
and Distinguished Service Medals, has
been recalled. A new imprint is now !
being struck off and the men already !
decorated will have emblems from this j
later issue substituted for those al?
ready awarded at the earliest possible
moment.
Second Issue Opposed
However, the National Sculpture So?
ciety's protest is as much against the
| second batch as the first.
"It amounts to a national disgrace,"
! declared Augustus Likcman, secretary
i of the National Sculpture Society, yes
I terday, "that our boys, who risk life
and limb and brave the tortures of
hell, should receive in return insignia
that are positively contemptible, from
'the artistic standpoint, in comparison
j with the decorations awarded to the
I soldiers of our allies. In France, Italy
I and England it is recognized that the
j very highest artistic talent is none toe
; good for the devising of decorations
1 thut shall embody the nation's uppre
1 ciation for deeds of conspicuous valor
There are plenty of men here able tc
design fit emblems, and they are onlj
: too eager to give their services gratis
if need be, to this work, but the troubli
; is these men have never been consult
; ed in this matter.
"Under President Roosevelt a star
I was made toward establishing a Na
; tional Commission of Fine Arts in thi
1 country. Under President Taft tha
I commission was given an authoritativ
standing. The commission was to b
consulted on memorials and all matter
of national artistic import.
Art Commission Ignored
"But when the subject of these met
I als came up a subject unmistakabl
within the commission's province?th
; fine art3 body at Washington was sin
: ply ignored altogether, while the W?
j Department ?-ushed uhend on its cw
responsibility and put out the present
atrocities."
The new Distinguished Service Cross !
*- for it is the cross that has most con- j
Bpicuously excited artistic ire in this
city-- has been pictured muny times in
the newspapers since the first con-'
demned set was struck.
Designed by a Philadelphia jewelry (
house, it centred an eagle on a cross i
liberally garlanded with oak leaves.
The wholp spirit and conception of it,
according to sculptors, are meaningless j
as well as remote. As one man ex- !
pressed it, "For an Archbishop the
thing might bo all very ./ell. For a |
soldier it is simply absurd." The sec- I
ond set, now under way, has merely ;
eliminated r.omc of the oa'c leaves.
Course in Patriotism
Arranged for Teachers I
Work Will Be Extended to !
All Schools of
Country
A laboratory experiment in patriotism,
the purpose of which is to develop a
system of teaching Americanism in j
public schools throughout the country,
was announced yestetday by the Na-;
tiorial Security League.
With the cooperation of the Law?
rence (Mass.) Board of Education and;
the Massachusetts State Normal School i
at Lowell, the league is about to open
in Lawrence a course especially de- i
signed to fit public school teachers for'
work as instructors in patriotism.
The course was devised by Dr. !
Ephraim W. Adams, of Leland Stanford
Jr., University, who is a member of the
Security League's National Patriotic '.
Educational Society. It will be con?
ducted, with Lawrence teachers as
pupils, by Bernard Sheridan, School Su?
perintendent of Lawrence; John J. Ma
honey, principal of the Lowell Normal,
and Blanche A. Cheney and Alma Mc
Crum, of the Normal school faculty.
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Senate Committee
Pleased by Output
Of Liberty Motors
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Engines Nearing Quantity
! Production in Four Plants,
Investigators Find
i WASHINGTON. June 9?Members of ;
? the Senate military sub-committee in-j
: vestigating airplane production re- j
I turned to Washington to-day after j
i visiting plants in Buffalo, Detroit, In
I dianapolis, and Dayton, Ohio. They !
brought word that the plants visited '
I were rapidly reaching a quantity pro- i
duction basis.
Members of the sub-committee, which '
: is composed of Senators Thomas, of ?
, Colorado; Reed, of Missouri; Smith, of
Georgia; New, of Indiana, and Freling
1 huysen, of New Jersey, declined to
anticipate their report by a detailed
account of the trip. They expressed
: themselves, however, as pleased with
the showing now being made, and pre?
dicted that from now on there would
' be a marked improvement in the sit
1 uation. The production of Liberty
motors, they said, was increasing
steadily and very shortly would reach
a point where it would meet American
demands.
The Senators witnessed a number of
j tests of the Liberty motor. While
; there are certain questions yet to bo
worked out in order to improve and
? perfect it further, they said, the tests
were very satisfactory.
Because of the army appropriation
1 bill now pending before the Military
; Committee, plans for resuming the in?
quiry are uncertain. Members of the
sub-committee said their work had
only started, however and that before
beginning the hearing of testimony in
Washington they expected to make
other inspection tours. Plants in New
Jersey may be visited later this week.
Photos of Eclipse
Show New Star!
BAKER, Ore., June 9.?A new star
in the Constellation Aquilla, reported1
last night by Professor C. T. Oliver, of;
the University of Virginia, at Char-.
lottesville, was observed here at 1:20:
a. m. to-day by Dr. GeorgeN Y. Peters ?
and Professor W. M. Conrad, of the ?
United States Naval Observatory. It j
was discovered while the scientists were
developing photographic plates of the
eclipse, each seeing it at the same !
moment, between Alataire and Vega.
If the new star is what scientists
here believe, it is the first of this typ?
visible since 1900, when one was seen j
in England. The term "new" does no*. |
mean the creation of a new star, but
merely that the body has become bright
enough to be visible. It may ulti?
mately fade and disappear in a few
months or even weeks. The discovery
of a star of this type is regarded as
very important, however.. It is the
third one of this type reported in three
hundred years, and of mysterious char?
acter and intense brightness which
they believe a little later will make
it visible in daylight. In the sky it
is placed at 18.45 right ascension, de?
clination plus 1 degree.
Germans Aid Argentina
BUENOS AYRES, June 9.?The
"Navegaci?n," a weekly shipping jour?
nal, says that Count Donhoff, the new
German charg?, has obtained permis?
sion from the German Ministry of Ma?
rine for the German sailors of the
steamship Babia Blanca, recently
leased by the Argentine government, to
disclose the hiding place of parts of
the machinery which were secreted to
prevent use of the vessel if requisi?
tioned.
This will greatly facilitate the work
of making the repairs. X
Medals of Honor j
To Bet Presented
By Gen. Pershing
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War Department Names ;
Expeditionary Chief as
One to Confer Awards
Service Cross for Allies
Formal Ceremonies of Deco
?
ration Include Review of
Troops When Possible
( S pi rial Dispatch to The Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, June 9.- The presen-'
tntion of medals of honor and distin?
guished service crosse? and medals to
American fighters will be made by Gen?
eral Pershing himself wherever prac?
ticable, the War Department announced
to-day. Instructions issued by the com?
mander in chief of the overseas forces
to guide his officers in awarding the
decorations for gallantry and heroism
at the front describe the acts for which
recognition is given.
Both the medal of honor and the dis?
tinguished service crosses are awarded
for gallantry in action. The medal of
honor is awarded only to officers and
soldiers in the American army. The
award of the distinguished service
cross is confined to any one who may
distinguish himself or herself by extra?
ordinary heroism in connection with
! n ilitary operations against an armed
? enemy of the United States under cir?
cumstances which do not justify the
?Ward of the medal of honor, and may
I be awarded to any person who, while
j serving in any capacity with the drmy,
| shall distinguish himself or herself.
Allies Are Included
The distinguished service medal is'
awarded for exceptionally meritorious
service and will be confined to any one
who distinguishes himself or herself
by exceptionally meritorious service to
the government in a duty of great re?
sponsibility in time of war or in con?
nection with operations against an
armed enemy of the United States. The
War Department holds that the award?
ing of the distinguished service cross
and medal be made to include officers
and enlisted men of the Allied forces.
The following tests are to be applied
to all cases recommended for the medal
of honor: ,
"Men who have performed in an
action deeds of most distinguished per?
sonal bravery and self-sacrifice above
and beyond all call of duty, so con?
spicuous as clearly to distinguish them
for gallantry and intrepidity above
their comrades; service which involves
risk of life or the performance of more
than ordinarily hazardous service, and
'.he omission of which would not justly
subject the person to censure as for
shortcomings of failure in the perfor?
mance of his duty."
Troops To Be Reviewed
When it is impracticable for the com?
mander in chief to be present at the
ceremony of presentation, the army,
corps or division commander will be
asked by the commander in chief to
make the presentation in his name.
When practicable the actual presenta?
tion of the. medal of honor, the dis?
tinguished service cross (?r the distin?
guished service medal will be accom?
panied by a formal review. If prac?
ticable not less than one battalion will
j take part in the review. The division
commander will receive the review and
personally present the a\vards.
Army Needs Mechanics
Urgent Call for Them Is Sent
From Texas Fort
The big repair shops of the army I
at Fort Sam Houston are in urgeat^
need of skilled mechanics. Word was
received yesterday from Major Mark
L. Ireland, who is in charge of the
shops, that the following were wanted
especially: Auto repairer, battery re?
pairmen, blacksmith, carpenter, har- !
nessmaker, harnessmakcr helper, mo?
tor vehicle inspector, machinist, ma?
chinist helper, magneto repairer, '
mechanical engineer, mechanical auto
repairer, mechanical wood worker,
motorcycle repairer, . painter, sheet
metal worker, plumber, tire repairer,
automobile trimmer, welder, wheel- j
wright, electrician.
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Eva Booth Going to France
Commander Evangeline Booth, of the
Salvation Army of America, will sail
for France soon. She wHl inspect the
equipment and determine the future
needs of the Salvation Army workers
at the front.
Fourteen volunteer workers from the
Middle West are also to sail in the
near future. Dr. Charles T. Wheeler,
of St. Louis, who gave up his practice
as a physician to engage in the unpaid
work, is one of them. Another is Dr.
P. H. Howard, a St. Louis dentist, and
a third is S. P. Van Sant, president of
a bai\k in Sterling, 111.
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Cleveland's Son Enlists
Richard Folsom Cleveland, son of the
late Grover Cleveland, twice President,
has enlisted in the Marine Corps, ac?
cording to Dr. Thomas J. Preston, jr.,
the young man's stepfather. Mi-. Cleve?
land is not yet twenty-one years old,
and, at the request of his mother, fin?
ished his junior year in Princeton Uni?
versity before enlisting.
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Patriots in Autos
Rout Gloom of
Soldiers at Upton
A. A. A. Free Transporta?
tion Service Proves Boon
to Fighters* Relatives
The American Automobile Associa?
tion's free transportation service to
("amp Upton demonstrated conclusively
yesterday that, all obstacles notwith?
standing, it is the unfailing link,con?
necting scores of new National Army
men and their homes.
The early morning sunshine seemed
to Morris Brownstion, of the Depot
Brigade, as pure mockery, "rubbing it
in," as the army puts it. To fully
seventy-five others the promise of a
perfect day had the same dreary sig?
nificance.
Private Brownstien had conJdently
expected a visit from his sifter and
her tiny daughter, to whom he had
been literally a daddy. But tbc night
before a stunning telegram?Private
Brownstien is very new to the army
' and has thoughts that persist in wan?
dering homeward and to his loved ones
?had been received by him. The big
busses, of the American Automobile
Association in which Baby Pearl and
bis sister were to come, would be un?
able to make, the trip. The chauffeurs
had been pressed into service to run
trolley cars because of some strike,
some place.
The news came to his seventy-five
comrades also. And they,, like Brown?
stien, decided to "put a bid in'' for a i
pass, if only for a few hours. But
again they met a disheartening barrier, j
The railroad special privilege fare,
they were told by other gloomy sol?
diers, had been withdrawn and ?4.22
stood between them and home, even
if they did secure the coveted passes.
It was a night of mourning.
But in New York James A. Hem-1
street, manager of the A. A. A. tour?
ing bureau, and Miss Nettie Miller
were ruthlessly disturbing the sleep i
of numerous car owners by persistent I
?telephoning. As early as 5 o'clock they j
Bagan their soliciting for cars, and
more cars.
Some had been obtained at the
eleventh and twelfth hours on Sat?
urday night and the deficit was made
up. Persons who had previously trans?
ported relatives of soldiers were peti?
tioned first, because they had seen
what it meant to the visitors and the
visited.
William S. Gahagan, of 41 Ridge
wood Avenue, had expected to take his
family for a run to Philadelphia in
his seven - passenger machine. Four i
weeks ago he had taken five people !
to the camp. He heard Mr. Hemstreet's
appeal and without a moment's hesita?
tion offered his car and the services
of his daughter Ethel as chauffeur. It
was Miss Gahagan who carried the
sister and foster child of Private
Brownstein into camp just before
noon.
Veteran Unable to Fight
Is Going Back to France
John F. Moran, of 209 Dyckman
Street, who fought for three years and
three months in a Canadian battalion i
and was relieved of active duty on ac?
count of wounds, is going back. He
quit his job with the British and
Canadian recruiting mission, announc?
ing that 220 West Forty-second Street
was altogether too far from France and
i he had received a commission as field
! secretary in the Knights of Columbus
i overseas forces. ,
Minors in Service
To Start Move for
Full Citizenship
Boys at Camp Dix Want
Honor Before Going
Abroad
CAMP DIX, N. J., June 9. American
boys under twenty-one years of age
who have volunteeered for service in
special military units training at Camp
1 Dix hope for the satisfaction of going
to Europe as full fledged citizens of
their country. The recent Congres?
sional ruling permitted aliens serving
j with the Stars and Stripes to win im
, mediate citizenship, without regard to
I the time they have been residents of
J America, has apparently been largely
' responsible for starting the agitation
i for the conferring of full citizenship
! upon American-born soldiers who are
! minors.
! There are, of course, no minors in
j the National Army, but there have been
many and will be many more ;n spe
I cial organizations made up of volun
I teers who will train here. There are
i also thousands in other camps.
Instead of making an appeal to Con?
gress, which would involve much red
tape, as their petitions would have to
go through the regular military chan?
nels, minors here are asking relatives
and friends in civilian life to bring
this issue to the attention of their Rep?
resentatives and United States Sen?
ators. In this way they hope to get
action on the subject before Congress
adjourns.
A score of nationalities are repre?
sented among the 1,000 aliens who have
been granted their final papers as
American citizens here during the last
fortnight. The pride with which these
soldiers regard their new honor was
shown to-day when, in a score of in?
stances newly naturalized men held
family parties in the barracks in cele?
bration of their new won citizenship.
Police Arrest 101 as
Registration Slackers
All-Day Hunt Lands Netful
of Foreign-Born
Shirkers
Policemen of the Elizabeth, Clinton,
MerQer and Fifth streets stations put
in a busy Sunday hunting men who
had failed to register for military ser?
vice. They covered the territory be?
tween City Hall Park and Fourteenth
Street and caught 101 men. They will
be arraigned to-ray before a United
States Commissioner.
Most of the prisoners were foreign
born. The raid began before dawn and
lasted far into the evening. Seventy
two men were taken to the Fifth Street
station, overcrowding it to such ?a
extent that several had to be sent
elsewhere.
The government pays a reward of
$60 for every draft shirker captured.
When the police are the captors half
of the reward goes to the pension fund
of *the departmont. The prisoners
themselves earn the money to pay the
rewards by enforced labor.
Uruguay Minister Coming
MONTEVIDEO, June ?.?The Uru
! guayan Foreign Minister, Dr. Baltasar
j Brun, will start for the United States
I on board a warship lato this month.
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