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German Spy
Leader To Be
Arrested Soon
Government Expects Sensa?
tional Revelations When
He Is Apprehended
O'Leary and Ryan
Sought Near City
Careful Guard Being Kept
on Four Indicted in
Irish Plot
The arch plotter in the gigantic Hun
Sinn-Fein conspiracy to start anotb r
revolt in Ireland and cause the, de?
struction of transports and munitkn
ships leaving the United States will in
all probability be taken into custody
early this week.
It has been known since the indict?
ment of the two German spies and their
five Sinn F?in associates on Friday in
the Federal District Court that the real
directing head of the Prussian espion?
age ring had not as yet been taken
in custody. This master mind has an
international reputation as a spy. Prior
to the declaration of war against Ger?
many he directed a system of intrigue
in Central Europe for Wilhelmstresse
that was fatal to the Balkan Allies.
New Revelations Expected
When he is arrested startling reve?
lations are looked for by persons famil?
iar with the evidence gathered by the
Department of Justice. Chief Charles
De Woody would say nothing regarding
any of the persons sought by the gov?
ernment except O'Leary and Ryan, the
fugitive Sinn F?in leaders. He said
that every investigating agency of the
government was working on the case
and the borders were watched. No
definite information as to the where?
abouts of these persons has reached
him.
The hunt made by the State Con?
stabulary of the rural sections in the
vicinity of the Adirondacks and Cat
skills has failed to reveal a trace of
the fugitives. Federal officials are of
the opinion that they may be together
and are being sheltered by persons
not far from New York. If such is
the case, when they are apprehended
the people who sheltered them will
face trial in the Federal District Court
and, if convicted, will be sentenced to
serve seven years in the Atlanta Peni?
tentiary.
Prisoners Carefully Guarded
Mme. Victorica and Lieutenant Karl
Rodiger, of the German navy, who are
charged with bring paid German spies
ir. the indictments handed up to Judge
Hand on Friday, are being kept at a
government port under close military
guard. Albert Frickc and William
Kobinson, the mysterious man_ in the
case, arc in the Tombs.
Nothing additional concerning the
part played by Robinson could be ascer?
tained yesterday. He is thought to be
the man who was commissioned to se?
cure Irishmen to enlist in the British
navy for the purpose of placing bombs
.'board battleships. It is understood
that Scotland Yard will be able to
furnish enlightening information con
ceming his connection with the Sinn
Fein before he goes to trial.
The government may send special
prosecutors to handle the case when it
is called in the Federal District Court.
Jf 8.0, men of the highest legal stand?
ing will be retained land the possi?
bility of the spies and traitors escap?
ing hanging greatly reduced.
Big Falling Off
In Coal Production I
Memorial Day Blamed for
Poor Showing Made in
Week Ended June 1
(Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 9.?Bituminoaa
coal production was less by about 1,
?25,000 tons during the week ended
June 1 than the output of the previous
week, according to figures compiled
by the Geological Survey, made public
here to-day.
Soft coal production for the same
week is estimated at 10,774,000 tons,
as compared with 11,779,000 tons dur?
ing the week of May 25. The decrease
is charged to the observance of Memo?
rial Day in many mining sections,
though this holiday was not universal.
The average daily output for the
week of June 1 was about 1,796,000 net
tons, as compared with 1,966,000 tons
during the preceding week, and a daily
average of 1,918,511? tons during the
month of May.
During the final week of May pro?
duction was nearly 2,000,000 tons short
of the minimum weekly output of 12,
000,000 considered essential by Fuel
Administor Garfield to meet the es?
sential domestic and war fuel demands
during the present year.
Longshoremen Content
With U. S. Supervision
^Little if any labor unrest will result
ffom the Department of Labor's decree
that all employment of stevedores, ma
iine workers and longshoremen must
be handled exclusively through the
United States Employment Bureau, ac?
cording to the local leaders.
Stephen Condon, business agent of
the Lighter Captains' Union, and a vet?
eran member of the District Council
or the Longshoremen's Union, declared
: .he appointment of Captain Thomas V.
O Connor, president of the union, as
d.rector of stevedores and marine
workers, has served to stifle any pos?
ible opposition to the government's
plan, for the present at least
The appointment of Captain O'Con?
nor gives the unions an intimate voice
in the government's labor councils, and
our views can be stated through it"
?aid Mr. Condon.
"Mr. O'Connor represents 800,000 of
the men working around the shores
and while it is probable that he could
not prevent a strike himself, he could
do considerable to bridge labor uneasi?
ness.
"Ho will come in contact with the !
.management of the steamship com?
panies, and this, 'too, will help in main?
taining peaceful relations between cm- i
ployers and the employed."
Mr. Condon announced the National
War Labor Hoard has offered increases j
to certain types of marine workers who i
had made demands. Tidewater boat
men who have been making $70 a j
month have been offered $85. Other I
branches have been proffered increases,
but not equal to demands. Conferences j
will be held this week to determine on j
the acceptance of the increases granted
by the board. j
! Attention of 22,000 Teachers
Focussed on Salary Parley To-day
I _
Representatives of Education and Estimate Board to Discuss
Methods? of Providing Funds for Revision
Upward of Pay Schedules
The attention of the 22,000 teachers,
of the city is focussed on the meeting '?
to-morrow of representatives of the ;
Hoard of Education and the Board of j
Estimate and Apportionment, which has
been called for a discussion as to pro?
viding funds for the revision upward
of salary schedules for teachers.
Of about fifty teachers' associations
in the city, most of them, even those
existing for many years as purely
professional organizations, arc now
actively at work for increased pay.
Since almost all the men in the
educational system have been provided
for by the live amendments to the so
called "equal pay law," it is the wom?
en who have felt moRt keenly the ef?
fect of increased living costs on'
salaries which advance only slightly
every few years.
They have centred their increased pay
endeavors on a campaign for real equal
pay. The Teachers' Welfare League
of Brooklyn has been making an ac?
tive campaign for salaries that shall
be based, so it says, on merit and
justice rather than on sex.
"Every one is willing to admit that
while, some men are better teachers
than some women, the reverse is just
as often the case," said a woman yes?
terday who teaches in a Brooklyn
school. "Hence the utter futility of
basing a salary for a position on the
sex of the incumbent.
"The same line of argument holds
good in considering the question of the
number of dependents to be supported
on a given wage. Where is the com?
munity that has adopted any such rad?
ically socialistic theory as that of
grading salaries in accordance with
the number of dependents to be sup?
ported? And is a woman with four
or five helpless dependents less worthy
of a living wage than her brother with
a like number?
"It is almost ten years since Gov?
ernor Hughes, speaking of teacher;-*
salaries, s;*d that 'gross inequalities
exist.' Yet during the interim nothing
has been done to alleviate the con?
dition. On the contrary, numerous
amendments increasing the inequalities
of the original law have been passed,
until now there is a discrepancy of $?0
a month between the salaries of mer
and women in the elementary schools.
"The wage? of almost all classes of
employes have been increased because
of the abnormally high cost of living.
Director McAdoo, in increasing salaries
for railroad employes, placed men and
women, blacks and whites, on the sanu'
basis.
"While the teachers of this city are
second to none in patriotism, loyalty
and service, more and more are leav?
ing the educational field to enter othei
and more lucrative lines of work. This
does away with the old 'supply and
demand' argument of opponents oi
equal pay, for never was the supply
so low and the demand so great as at
the present.
"Continued injustice and its at
tendant unrest and dissatisfaction mus?
lower the morale of the teachers."
City Faces Strike
To-day of 5,000
Subway Builders
Mayor's Refusal to See
Leader? May Bring
About Action
If subway laborers and mechanics j
1 strike to-day, as some of them threaten j
to do, the trouble, involving five thou- |
sand workmen on the unfinished work
of the dual subway system, will bo laid I
at the door of Mayor Hylan.
The subway diggers demand an ad
vanee in wages. The contractors are
willing to grant their demands, but j
want the Board of Estimate to treat
with them as provided under the Lock
wood law, passed at the last session of
the Legislature, to prevent just the
sort of thing which is now confronting
the city. In their efforts to comply
with the workmen's demands fifteen of
the contractors, accompanied by their
counsel, called on Mayor Hylan, but
the Mayor refused to see them.
Other members of the Board of Esti?
mate, who do not agree with Mayor
Hylan's attitude, are hoping to arrange
a conference at which an agreement
can be reached so as to avoid a strike.
While the contractors and some
members of the Board of Estimate, to
! gether with members of the Public
! Service Comission, are trying to avoid
a strike, the leaders of the men say j
that they are ready to quit at a mo- |
ment's notice and that that moment
may arrive to-day.
Michael Carraher, secretary of the j
International Tunnel and Subway
"Workers' Union, declared that if the j
advance agreed to by the contractors j
is not forthcoming immediately, a I
strike will be ordered.
"The men/are united," said Carraher.
"The union is in a position to enforce
demands for fair wage conditions be?
cause all employes on the subway work
are members of unions, and a general
strike can be called which would in?
stantly put a stop to all work."
The Lockwood law provides that all
contractors on municipal work made
prior to the entrance of the United
States into the war may be amended
or cancelled by the city authorities if,
in their judgment, the price of labor
and material has 60 increased since the
contract was made that bankruptcy
would result in the contractors at?
tempting to carrying on the work under
the terms of the contract.
The "fublic Service Commission is
going ahead with the work of prepar?
ing data as provided lor under the
terms of the Lockwood law, despito
the Mayor's refusal to act under it or
discuss the situation with the con?
tractors.
Frederick L. Cranford, president of
the Contractors' Association, said:
"The Board of Estimate has repudiated
its promise. We feel that we are
j within our rights in demanding im
; mediate action by the proper author?
ities. The situation is one that must
| be settled in hours, not months."
| Jersey City Protests
I Hudson Tube Increase
Following Director General McAdoo'^
statement that the contemplated 100 per
cent increase of fare*- on the. Hudson
tubes is not to go into effect at once,
the Jersey City Chamber of Commeice
? is preparing to take action to prevent
it being adopted at all.
The body therefore will take the mat?
ter of the raisinjr of the fares from 5 to
10 cents to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for a final ruling that will
definitely forestall any future attempt
by President Fisk of the Hudson &
Manhattan Railroad Company to in?
crease the rates
-?
4 Men and 2 Women
Hurt in Auto Mishaps
Esther von Maurer, a young actress,
of 201 West Seventy-first Street, was
injured seriously yesterday when the j
taxicab in which she was riding col?
lided with another automobile, driven
by William Hilson, of 203 East 119th !
Street. The actress was taken to the j
Knickerbocker Hospital, where it was !
found that among other injuries she,
had suffered a fracture of the jaw.
One other woman, Mrs. Katherine
Wolf, of 28 Elmore Avenue, Yonkers,
was injured in an automobile accident
yesterday. Mrs. Wolf was riding with
lier husband when their car was struck
by a northbound Broadway surface car
at Broadway and N?eg1e Avenue. She
was thrown out onto the pavment. A
passing motorist took her to St. Lau?
rence's Hospital, where it was said she
had been injured internally. ,
Early in the day an automobile mail
truck driven by Patrick Walsh, at 168
Forrest Avenue, collided at Second
Avenue and 118th Street, The Bronx,
with an automobile driven by Samuel
Weinstein, of 1279 Stebbins Avenue,
The Bronx.
Weinstein and three friends, Isaac
Ginsberg and Max and Louis Mosko
witz, were thrown out of the car. All
were painfully bruised, but were able
to go to their homesv after receiving
first aid treatment.
Striking Carmen
In Bronx Willing
To Settle Dispute
Workers Agree to Accept
Decision of Federal
Arbitrator
That an amicable agreement between I
the Union Railway Company of The
Bronx and their striking employes
would be reached in a short time was
evident last night, when representatives
of the dissatisfied workers signified
their willingness to abide by the de?
cision of Clinton Reeves, Federal ar?
bitrator called in to adjust the diffi?
culties between the company and em?
ployes.
In a conference between Reeves,
Louis Fridiger, counsel for the strikers,
and William B. Fitzgerald, general
organizer of the Amalgamated Associa?
tion of Street a.nd Electric Railway
Employes, the strikers made several
proposals to the representative of the
Department of Labor. Reeves, how?
ever, was unable to get into touch with
officials of the company to set the mat?
ter before them. I
Although Fridiger said yesterday the
men are sticking to their original de?
mands and that the number"of striker^ !
is being augmented daily, the street
cars in The Bronx were running on
schedule yesterday. The company was
well able to handle the situation at
149th Street and Third Avenue, where
the congestion was greatest.
Officials of the company continued to
ignore the strike. It is said this at?
titude hampered the work of the gov
j ernment arbitrator, as he was unable
to place any proposals before them.
Although there have been no attempts
, at violence, police reserves were still
at their posts at transfer points, car
barns and near grades.
Taft Wins Newark
Streetcar Strikers to
Arbitration Plan
NEWARK, June 9.-?William IT. Taft,
i one of the chairmen of the War Labor
| Board, held a preliminary hearing to
: day in the Robert Treat Hotel here in
! the dispute between the Public Service
! Railway Company and its employes.
| At the suggestion of Mr. Taft repre?
sentatives of the employes agreed to
submit the question to Mr. Taft and
Frank P. Walsh, the other chairman of
the board, who constitute a section of
the war board dealing with street rail?
way matters, rather than burden the
entire board with it. Thomas N. Mc
Carter, president of the company, said
that he thought his directors would
agree to that method of procedure.
i Mr. Taft obtained an outline of the
situation and asked both sides to ?raw
I up petitions setting forth the demands
I and the matters in dispute. Mr. Taft
was accompanied by B. L. Worden,
general manager of the Submarine Boat
Corporation and a member of the War
Labor Board. Henry Carless appeared
as counsel for the employes, several of
whom were present.
Bishop Hayes at Merritt
Dedicates New.Visitors' House
Presented by Catholics
CAMP MERRITT, N. J., June 9.
Bishop Patrick J. Hayos, Chaplain
Bishop of the American expeditionary
forces, who sails for France next
month, dedicated a new visitors' house
here to-day. The house, located at the
northeast entrance to the camp, was
presented to the government by the
j National Catholic War Council and was j
' accepted on behalf of the government !
by Major General Shanks. A
Several thousand visitors to camp I
and soldiers witnessed the ceremonies.
Among the prominent Knights of Co- ?
lumbus officers present were John F. ?
O'Neil, deputy secretary of New Jersey,
and Thomas F. Neftvy, general secretary ?
of Camp Merritt. Among those who j
took part in thi ceremonies was j
Colonel cirons, commander of the camp. !
Jchn G.-Agar, secretary and treasurer j
, of the National Catholic War Council ?
made the form.il presentation of the
building to the government after the |
dedication ceremonies.
Anderson Attack
Causes Drys to
Support Leader
Anti-Saloon League Board;
Defends State Superinten- j
dent as Efficient Head
Praised in Resolution
State Executive in Fight for
Prohibition Made Liquor
Political Issue
The attack on W. II. Anderson, state j
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
Longue, by the National Dry Federa?
tion, of which William J. Bryan is
president, and the Rev. Charles Senn- i
Ion, of Pittsburgh, the moving spirit,
seems to have resulted in making Mr. |
Anderson stronger than ever with the ;
New York State organization, which j
has moved into new and larger quar- ?
ters at Broadway and Twentieth Street, j
The Anti-Saloon League of the nation
now has 1,000 paid employes giving all j
their time to the work and is supported |
by sixteen denominational bodies.
Following the hearing before the
New York Legislature on the prohib?- '
tion ratification amendment, at which ;
hearing William J. Bryan spoke for i
the temperance forces, W. H. Anderson
attacked Mr. Bryan in a statement, ;
charging that he was. with the aid of
William R. Hearst, attempting to get !
back into politics. This attack was re- ?
sentcd by Clinton M. Howard, prohib?- i
tion leader; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, prcsi- j
dent of the Woman's Christian Tern-j
perance Union, and others, and the Na?
tional Anti-Saloon League mildly cen- ;
sured Mr. Anderson for attacking Mr. !
Bryan, at the same time praising him j
for deeds accomplished. ;
Discussed at Meeting
The Anti-Saloon League state board
took the matter up at its annual meet- j
ing in May, passing resolutions in j
which it said: "Superintendent Ander- |
son has shown himself an unusually ;
able and efficient leader, as evidenced ;
by the results achieved under his lead- ,
ership in New York and elsewhere." j
Continuing, the state board said:
"When William H. Anderson came to
New York prohibition was here a po- j
litical jest. He has made it the ad- I
mittedly dominant political issue. He
found New York the most backward |
state. His faith and organizing ca
pacity and indomitable will have made
it a leader. He found the cities of the
state disfranchised on the liquor ques
tion. His assurance and political
sagacity have brought about their lib?
eration. To his efforts the nation owes
the fact that New York furnished !
enough additional votes in Congress to
submit the national prohibition amend?
ment to the states for their ratification.
Has Clear Field
To his vision, resourcefulness, frank
nesB and courage the prohibition forces I
of this state owe the near approach i
to ratification last winter and the fact ;
that the state to-day has a clear field '
and a fair chance to ratify. His verac?
ity, integrity and sincerity have never
been successfully assailed. His ability
to detect political fraud and his readi?
ness to expose it in whatever quarter
and at whatever personal risk are de?
serving of grateful appreciation, in?
stead of censure. He is the incompar?
able leader. To him we pledge the un
quajified support of the organizations
,y$& represent, and move forward to final
victory.
"So long as the Anti-Saloon League
offers a leadership which wins vic?
tories where preveiously there has been
only futility, opposition to that leader?
ship can serve no purpose save to
jeopardize the cause. If these object?
ors will recognize what is clear to
everybody except themselves and con?
fine their efforts to 'those phases of
activity which they are qualified and
equipped to handle, we pledge them
full opportunity, fair treatment, cordial
recognition and harmony."
Pershing's Men Send
Message "Over Here"
"We'll Break German Line if
You Break German Propa?
ganda," Word to Police
Corporal Harry H. Welcome, one of
General Pershing's wounded veterans,
thrilled 3,000 persons at the annual
memorial services of the Metropolitan
Police Benevolent Burying Association
at Cypress Plills Cemetery yesterday
when he delivered what he termed a
"message from every one of Pershing's
fighting men."
"They told me to tell you that we'll
break that German line over there if
you will break the German propaganda
over here," he said. <
Corporal Welcome, who has been aid?
ing in the Thrift Stamp campaign, was
the hero of a twelve-day siege by the
Germans. His squad was cut off and
for that length of time fought from a
shell crater, subsisting on the rations
which they had with them.
Police Commissioner Enright dis?
cussed policemen and the war.
"Already G00 policemen are with
Uncle Sam's legions," he said. "In a
! short time 1,000 will oe enrolled. Ulti
j mately 23 per cent of the city's force '
! will be in the fighting service."
| A tribute to the policemen who have
given their lives was paid by former'
i dean George W. Kirchwey of Columbia
University. He also eulogized the
: patrolmen who aid in the winning of
, the war by their efficient performance i
of duty at home.
The three chaplains of the police de- !
partment, the Rev. John A. Wade,
Father John J. Coogan and Rabbi'
Abraham Blum, conducted the religious
ceremonies. The Rev. Herbert Lowe, a
former policeman, assisted. Inspector
Dominick Reilly presided. The instru?
mental and vocal numbers were ren?
dered by the Folice Band and Glee Club
Colonel T. L. Withrow, of the war sav?
ings committee, lHuded the police for
their assistance in 'stimulating and
making stamp sales.
Per iONTB ON
PLEDGE OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY
THE PROVIDENT LOAN SOCIETY
OF NEW YORK
Applications for loans of large
amounts will be considered at
the office at Fourth Avenue
and 25th Street.
?U.1XHATTAN
Fourth Avenue, cor. 25th Street.
Eldridfe St., cor. Rivington St.
East Houston St., cor. Essex St.
Seventh Ar., bet 48th & 49th Sts,
Lexington At., cor. 124th St.
Grand St., cor. Clinton St.
E. 72d St., bet. Lexington & 3 Ati
Eighth Av., cor. 127th St.
BRONX
Cotirtlandt Av., cor. 148th St
BROOKLYN
Smith St., cor. Livingston St.
Graham Av., cor. Debevoue St.
Pitkin Av., cor. Rockaway At.
Wotdd Advertise the
Shortage of Teachers
W. H. Allen Says That Is the
Way to Fill the
Rank a
While admitting the importance of
increasing salaries for teachers, n ,
question which is to be considered at i
:i o'clock this afternoon by rep- j
resentatives of the Board of Education j
and the Board of Estimate and Ap-1
portionment, William I!. Allen, director
of the Instituto for Public Service, be?
lieves other methods of meeting a
threatened shortage of teachers should
not be overlooked.
"Toil the truth about the shortage,"
he advises, "and tell high school boys j
and girls the truth about teaching as
a profession and as a stepping stone, j
Telling the truth about the shortage
is new. Our country's military unpre
paredness when we went, to war does
not compare with our present unpre- [
paredness for maintaining our schools.
In the Sou!h al-ne there is to-day a?
shortage of 13,000 teachers, according;
to President Bruce R, Payne of Pea- ;
body College for Teachers, Nashville, j
Tonn. Yet few of our leading educators
even hinted at such a shortage before
it was too late to forestall it. In our |
own state, where normal registration
has fallen off in its many schools from j
thirteen to thirty-seven per cent, the j
shortage is not mentioned in the re- ?
port just out for 1917, but the. low
salaries are."
The best plan for "selling and ad?
vertising" teaching as a profession, he
said, is in use at the Illinois Normal
School. Likely high school grnduates
in nearby schools are urged to con-?
sider teaching as a life work, and a
large number actually enroll each year i
for training in teaching.
"To increase salaries $50 a year when
their purchasing power has shrunk filty
per cent is not only insult, but fails
in holding teachers," he added.
Praises Parents of
American Soldiers
POUGHKEEPSIjE, N. Y., June 9.?In
the baccalaureate sermon before stud?
ents of Vassar College this morning,
the Rev. Robert Elliot Speer, D.D., of
New York, said: "It is not only the
fearlessness of the boys abroad that
will win the war, but also the fearless?
ness of the parents sacrificing sons to
a cause they know is right.
"We, who are fighting to-day, do not
need fearlessness cf our outer foes at
present so much as we need this inward
courage which Christ had?this courage
to stand unflinchingly for our prin?
ciples and the naked ideals of human?
ity."
This evening the college choir gave
its annual concert in the chapel. To?
morrow a symposium on "Vassar women
in the nation's programme" will take
the place of usual class day exercises.
This being a wartime commencement,
the senior class voted to abolish all
festivities.
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Train Kills U. S. Sailor
Christian P. Danieloon, twenty years
old, a sailor attached to the United
States hospital ship Comfort, was run
over yesterday morning by a New
York, Boston & Wcstchester train at
the North Avenue sta'ion in New
Rochelle. He died nt the New Rochelle
Hospital last nigh':.
Daniclson had cone to New Rochelle
to visit two of his friends, Edward
Conway, n shipmate on the Comfort,
and Vincent Cooper of the U. S. S.
Mexico. Just as the train which was
to take him back to his chip drew up
to the station Danielson fell off the
platform and w.as run qyer.
He was conscious to the hi3t, and
told Dr. John Stclin, the coroner, he
was "feeling fine" just before he died.
His home was in Furman, Utah.
Armours to Issue
$60,000,000 Bonds
To Aid War Orders
Company to Become Open
Corporation and Expand
its Business
CHICAGO, June 8.-Armour & Co.
to-night announced thst it would
change from a closed corporation to a
stockholders' company by issuing $00,
000,000 in debenture bonds, exchange?
able for 7 per cent cumulative pre?
ferred stock, as a part of its $314.174,
135 of assets, in order to procure ad?
ditional capital for *thc expansion of
its business to take care of war or?
ders.
The bonds, which are to be issued at
0 per cent, have been underwritten by
Chicago banks, and the transaction
constitutes the largest single piece of
financing ever cared for exclusively by
Chicago financiers.
The bonds are to mature in six equal
installments, from June 15. 1919, to
June, 1024, callable at par at the op?
tion of the company, but convertible
at any time at the option of the holder
into stock. Armour & Co.'s announce?
ment of the plan says that the new
bonds constitute the: only lien on the
; concern, except the first closed mort?
gage for $50,000,000, due in 1939, and
that the entire proceeds will be used
to reduce the company's current lia?
bilities.
To induce the public to purchase the
new bonds they will be issued in de
nominations as small as $100.
Canoeing Students Drown
CARIBOU, Me., June 9.?Four stu?
dents at the Caribou High school, two
boys, and two girls, were drowned
; when their canoe overturned in the
Aroostock river to-day. They were:
Mona Davis, aged sixteen; Georgia
Lyons, aged seventeen; Max Simpson,
aged seventeen; David Hitchings, aged
eighteen.
They were 400 feet from EhoTe and
a short distance above the dam when
their boat upset. No one saw the acci?
dent, but a crowd, drawn to the banks
of the river by their cries for help,
saw the canoeists sink before assist?
ance could reach them.
Lewis to Attack
Whitman's Stand
On Prohibition
Active Campaign of Speak?
ing Arranged at Con?
ference Here
Green Book for Votes
Attorney General's Diary Con- '
tains Interesting References
to W. R. Hearst
The plans for the primary campaign
of Attorney General Merton T. Lewis
virtually have been completed. These
include an attack on Governor Whit?
man's advocacy of prohibition as in
sincere and adopted solely as a vote !
catching device. The plans, which
were shaped at the conference Wednes- ;
day at the Lewis headquarters, at j
which William Barnes, jr., Henry W.
Taft, Jacob A. Livingston and United
States Senator James W. Wadsworth, \
jr., were most conspicuous, call for a j
state-wide campaign. Senator Wads- !
worth and other noted speakers in the i
Lewis camp will make speeches in
every county of the state.
And the big note which will be i
sounded in every speech will be the
Governor's advocacy of prohibition.
Literature also will be sent broadcast
assailing the Governor's attitude as
camouflage. And the discussion at an
alleged conference between the Gov?
ernor and the Attorney General on De?
cember 21 last will be made known,
i the Lewis managers say, to every en?
rolled Republican long beiore primary
i day.
Telle of Conference With Governor
This conference, Attorney General
Lewis has told his friends, took place in
the Executive Chamber. As the Lewis
' people tell it, the Governor asked the
Attorney General for his legal advice
| on what course he could take on the
j proposed bone dry amendment to the
i Federal Constitution, which Congress
! had just then passed. The Governor
! explained, the story goes, that he was
| desirous of knowing if he could with
propriety send a message to the Legis?
lature when it met in January asking
it to ratify the proposed amendment.
The Attorney General, his friends say,
answered that it was purely a legisla?
tive function, in which the Chief Ex?
ecutive could not interfere, and that it
did not come within the province of the
Governor in any way, shape or form.
To all this, the Attorney General told
his friends, the Governor agreed, say?
ing that he would not take any part in
the controversy.
Campaign Monition in Green Book
"The details of this conference were
dictated on the evening of December 21,
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stenographer," one of his friends ??id
yesterday. "In doing this the Attorney
General was following a rule and prac?
tice of his daily work since he went
into the Attorney General's office. He
keep3 a diary, which he makes up at
the close of each day's work, and in
this diary, which is bound in green
cloth, are many other interesting inci?
dents which we believe will win him
many votes."
In this little green book, which bids
fair to be one of of the big features
of the Lewis-Whitman campaign, is the
story of the Attorney General's in
vestigation of Bolo Pacha's activities
in this country, which resulted in the
spy's death in France. And in it alw
?are some interesting references te
William Randolph Hearst, which alts
may be made public during the cours?
of tho campaign. It will be recalled
that one of the chief reasons for Bolo
Pacha's visit to this country, as told at
the time, was to meet Mr. Hearst
Liquor la Big Issue
The liquor question promites ta
overshadow all other issttes, not only
in the Republican primaries, but in the
general election. The Democrat? are
seizing it for all it is worth, openly
taking the side of the wets. One of
the aspirants for the nomination for
1 Governor on the Democratic ticket,
Charles E. Treman, of Ithaca, has been
eliminated because he made a contrib?
ution of $50 to the dry campaign in
Ithaca.
The Democrats feel with respect to
the general election that it is going to
be a sacrifice fight, and for that reason
they are looking around for some one
willing to be the sacrifice. Some of
the men who are being talked of are
Harry C. Walker, Mayor of Bingham
ton; Charles B. Alexandre, president
of the Democratic Club, who has en?
deared himself to many upstate Demo
I crats when they visited this city by
his hospitality at the club over which
he presides, and Oliver Cabana, jr.,
millionaire varnish manufacturer, and
gentleman farmer, whose blooded Hoi
stein herd is well known to cattle rais?
ers and farmers throughout the state.
Mr. Hearst, those high and low in the
Democratic party declare, has been
eliminated from all consideration be
? cause of his war record.
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