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New Hands to War
Wives of Soldiers
May Go to France
As Army Nurses
Surgeon General Gorgas
Announces New Ruling
of the Government
Need 50,000 by July 1
Training School Will Develop
Aids to Supplement
Graduates
surgeon General Gorgas announced
jMWtday that young wives of men
?ghting in France will be accepted in
tie Army School of Nursing, which
ii?3 been established by the Army
M??ical Department to supplement the
supply of graduate nurses.
3 It is estimated that 50,000 women
will be needed for service overseas by
July U W19. Most of them must be
trained nurses, experienced and inde?
pendent of ties which make it impos?
able for them to leave home. But the
suopty ?f graduate nurses available
far this work has been far less than
the demand, especially when it was
necessary to refuse wives and
sisters of mea in the service.
The embargo on sisters was re?
moved by the Red Cross some timo
?o, and now General Gorgas offers j
:? receive wives as well, physically fit,'
between the *gos of twenty-one and ':
tairty-rive. to be trained and sent
?broad a* tne need arises. Fully fifteen
?iousand women, says General Cor?
ps, can be used as hospital assist?
as or student nurses in tho United
Slates.
The need for using graduates of a
?sorter course in nursing than the !
regular three or four year course of- j
iered by hospitals throughout the
country, in the opinion of Dr. S. t?. I
ijoldwater, chairman of the war ser- |
vice committee of the American Hos- j
iital Association, is being demon- ?
strated more and more clearly every i
?ay. Dr. Goldwater favors a six j
months' course to be presented by our j
iarge civil hospitals as emergency ?
training to fill the needs of our army :
abroad. This plan, it is understood, ;
?is hitherto been opposed by the New
York State Education Department.
"Yet," says Dr. Goldwater in a re?
cent appeal against this opposition.
"there are army hospital units now
ready to embark to which no nurses
have been assigned."
It is possible that, with an army of
5,000,000 men instead of 3,000.000, the
demand for nurses may exceed the
number originally asked for by at
least 25,000. In that case. Dr. Gold
water suggests, it may be necessary
w resort to the plan, which apparently
has proved successful with Great
Britain, of using nurse aids in groups,
with a graduate nurse in charge to di?
rect and oversee, them.
This, he believes, would not only re?
lieve the situation overseas, but would
enable us to take care of our wounded
men without seriously crippling our
home hospitals by taking away all '?
competent nurses for army service.
First Unit for Victims
Of Gas on Way Overseas
The first hospital unit exclusively for ;
ps victims has just started for France ;
under the direction of the Women's Over- '.
Hosuitais of the National American :
American Suffrage Association. Mrs. j
Raymond Brown, after a survey of the I
hospital field in France, returned to ;
Xew York with a request from the
French Service de Sant? for tho 300-bed
Ipspital for : : sed mer-. Amon? the
members of the unit are Dr. Marie Louise
Lefort, of New York City; Dr. Adah Mc
Mahon, of La Fayette, Ind.; Dr. Irene
Morse, of Clinton. Mass.; Dr. Elizabeth
Bruyn, of Brooklyn, and Dr. Alice
Eirod. of NV,v York. The unit will be
directly under the medical department
? the French army. The equipment
?s mobile arid the women will run their
track? out to the firing line.
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Tennessee Senator Condemned
For His Anti-Suffrage Fight
Senator Shields, of Tennessee, whoso
stand-pat attitude in regard to woman
ufTrage has called forth a personal
P'ea iron-. President Wiison, has re?
efed official notice from the Bar As?
sociation of h - own state that he is
?* representing Tennessee lawyers in
WMBti-suffrage .stand.
Miss Rose Young, of the National
??encan Woman Suffrage Association,
?Bounced yesterday that the Bar As
??ation has adopted a sweeping reso
l*?m supporting votes for women by
S" ? Federal route and apprised
castor Smelds of their action by tele
SPa ? Tne bar associations of Iowa
?Ei " ' '' 50 adopted similar res
'?ntions recently.
Mia?a War Mother? Are
Organizing National Body
I mothers of men
_ vice arc eligible to
?Z!f';P-, There has been a large
hi ..I ?Vjf war mf)lh"H in this state
?W??A r?oni,h8- ''- ?a the plan to
V?g'en?"? bef?re the Pred"
^mp Community Service
Need? Women Volunteer?
*?l5LT0runt*er"ary Uk-f^A hythc
%UJ, ,,P foramunity Service tmme
'^apJr^'^ *"?"?'. inspectors,
KStf?nK ? ,nvc8l??a^rs. New
M 5S*4n '"J"'r's "tf ?tation? are be
?cd
??ilorx.
g^Mcept
i*ria
'< of
^ew Yfcrk for soldiers
Kxperieoc? ?h not neces
case ,,t applicants
invf-stigating and eur
?*? Vk,''r '' '!;>"1 *? &???th,groui
^?fort. ??mJP '-'"?'?unity Service, 1
"?Will *t.re<:>..
V* Tamrnany District
?o Dedicate Service Flag
f??*n??lv iV , 0n ,>li,trl<:t of the I2*h
?CAM, tkIrleV which Charl?? K
tNrf^ fj;^: J.".':,,?r' j? Koing to have
S^Mitt ?;'' *?:????* coming i?
?fi?S. A betw*?n FWt Avenue
Mrs. Cohen to Win?
Mere Thought Makes
"Tom" Foley Smile
"Big Fellow" Allows He Knows
His Men, and Mrs. Nolan
Will "Line Up" Women
Mrs. Jennie Cohen may be running
as the designated Republican candidate
for ihe Assembly from the 1st District,
where Tammany long has held forth in
undisputed sway, but that does not
mean that she is causing "Big Tom"
Foley, Tammany leader of the district,
any loss of sleep.
For "Big Tom" believes in the men
of his district as much as he ever did,
and the women he leaves in the hands
of Mrs. Minnie Nolan, Democratic
women's leader for the district. Mrs.
Nolan is the wife of Judge Nolan, who
"learned about politics from her," it
has been said; so Mr. Foley has noth?
ing to fear from the women, he said
yesterday. In fact, he refuses to take
Mrs. Cohen's candidacy seriously, as
may be inferred from his answer to
the question as to whether Peter Ham
mil's woman opponent meant anything
in his life.
"Do I think Mrs. Cohen'll be what?
Elected ?"
The great "Tom" smiled indulgently.
"I guess you're not well," came his
answer.
Mr. Foley was reminded that his dis?
trict played him false once not long
ago. when, contrary to all instructions,
express or implied, the "Old First"
went overwhelmingly for woman suf?
frage. It was "Tom" Foley's boast last
fall that the suffragists could not get a
10 per cent petition for woman suffrage
in his district, and he even promised in
a rash moment to dress up in woman's
skirts and parade around the neighbor?
hood if the petition were obtained. The
suffragettes took his dare, but some?
how the petticoat parade never came
off. and Mr. Foley would not admit his
suffrage defeat until the morning after
Election Day.
A similar breach of faith on the part
of the voters of the First is not ex?
pected again, however, in the case of
Mrs. Cohen.
"You will see Mr. Hammil in the |
Assembly next year," said Mr. Foley.
"No doubt Mrs. Cohen will enjoy hav- j
ing her name on the ballots, however." j
American Women Send |
Comradeship Pledge
Y. W. C. A. Council Cables
Greetings to Mass Meeting
in Paris j
WASHINGTON, Aug 16.?Comrade- !
ship of American women is pledjred in a
cable dispatch sent to-day to the Allied
women's mass meeting at Paris by
headquarters of the Y. W. C. A. War
Work Council.
"The National War Work Council of
the Y". W. C. A. of America sends Allied
women's mass meeting in Paris sympa?
thetic greeting," the message says. "To?
day we stand united in a common pur
porse to win a righteous war and to
bind the wounds inflicted by war. . .
"Inspired and strengthened by your
example, were pledge you a comradship
of loyal service in all your work."
Tagore Maintains Loyalty
Offers Letter From Indian ?
Governor to Disprove Plot
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Ben
galese poet, rlleged to have been con- |
cerned in the piot to foment a r?volu- !
tion against the British government in
India, has cabled his publishers here a j
letter of confidence and sympathy '
which, he says, he received from Lord
Chelmsford, Viceroy and Gov;rnor
Gencral of India. The letter, dated
Simla, June 17, signed by the Viceroy's
private secretary, reads:
"The Viceroy desires to express
sympathy with you on finding your
name dragged into -juch unwarrantable
pro ninence in American papers. He is
well aware there is no foundation
whatever for the suggestions made and
is willing you should make any use qf
this letter you think fit."
Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1913, was knighted by
King George.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. ?No
criminal intent was imputed to Sir
Rabindranath Tagore as a result of his
alleged connection with a conspiracy
disclosed here to foment revolution in
India, Mrs. Annette A. Adams, United
States District Attorney, said to-day.
Foreign-Born Women to Meet
To-day at "Y" Headquarters
A conference of foreign-bom women
will be held at the headquarters of the
national training school of the Y. W. C.
A., 600 Lexington Avenue, at 2:30 this
afternoon. This meeting marks the end
of the tirst course offered by the Y.
W. C. A. in its Americanization cam?
paign to train foreign women to act as
teachers among their own people in
this country, and for reconstruction
work in their native countries after
the war.
Members of several Y. W. C. A. in?
ternational institutes will be present,
and every country of Europe and the
Near East will be represented. Miss
Mary McDowell, noted for her work
in the Chicago stockyards, will speak
at the conference.
School Opening to Take
Girls From War Factories
The opening of schools will create
a serious labor shortage in munition
plants and factories which have been
employing young girls during the sum?
mer vacation. In anticipation of this
??hortage a special appeal is being sent
out by the Queens County branch of
the I'nited States Employment Bureau,
in hong Island <"ity, for girls and wom
! r. to do this work.
Following the impending scarcity
! caused by the opening of school, will
?corne the cribis soon to be precipitatod
by the drawing of men for the next
: draft.
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Delafield Estate $674,671.77
Maturin L. Delafield, of 82 East Sev?
enty-ninth Street, who died on Novem?
ber 5. 1917, left a net estate of $674,
P7I.77, according to a report of the
Transfer Tax Appraiser, which was
tiled yesterday in the Bronx Surrogates'
< ourt. His jewelry is appraised at $64.
Mrs. Mary Coleman Delafield, his widow
and chief beneficiary, is to receive
: $^58,636.38.
Rector Proud of Red Cross
Tent in Trinity Yard
Dr. Willium T. Manning, rector of
Trinity, made an addres? yesterday ut
the opening of a Red Cross war work
I tent in Trinity Churchyard. Work in
? the tent will bo carried on by United
State| FxprenH Building Auxiliary 36.
"I am glad and proud," ?aid Dr. Mtin
j nirig, "to have thin tent under the Red
; Trox? flag rai?ed in the shadow of
' Trinity Church. It in moat fitting that
: it should b? placed on this hintonc
! ?.pot clone by the graves of Alexander
Hamilton, Captain Jame? Lawrence.
Robert Fulton and other great Amer?
ican?. We know how the?? men would
have ?i?-i. fhc issues of this war and
' we thank God that our country to-day
J la meeting tho i?aue ?a they would
j hav?.w
Women Needed in
Large Numbers to
Save Farm Crops
Return of Teachers to City
Brings Situation to
Acute Point
Volunteers Wanted
Applicants Must Pass Physical
Test Before Being Placed
at Work
, Another call for women to go on the
| farms of New York State this week
1 was made yesterday, this time by the
Industrial Commission of the New York
State Department of La^or. The call
reads:
"The farm situation is acute and un?
less the women of leisure enlist at once
and go out to help harvest the crops
much of the farm work already done
will have been in vain.
"There is a real need to-day for sev?
eral hundred women to go out on the
farms this week, and the situation
looms more serious as one contemplates
the return to the city of hundreds of
school teachers who have given their
entire vacations to the production of
the crops that now nee-1 harvesting.
"The farmers prefer women between
the ages of eighteen and thirty-live.
The women f re well housed and fed
and paid for their work. It is a real
patriotic call for volunteers and we
prefer women who are not employed in
essential industries. Any normal
woman can do this work. Before leav?
ing the city each applicant undergoes
a physical examination and is classed
according to her general physical con?
dition. We do not send out any one
to work on a farm until we have the
physician's approval."
ALBANY, Aug. 16.?The problem of
transporting farmerettes from their
unit camps to farms where they are
employed for day labor will be one of
the chief questions that will be raised
at the conference of the New York
State Women's Land Army, to be held
here August 20-21.
The army has thirty-eight camps
throughout the state, and houses about
1,000 girls, who are taking the places
of that many "farm hands" now gone
to war. The girls live in camps by
squads under the care and supervision
of a leader or matron, which necessi?
tates travelling to and from work in
automobiles. The increased cost of
gasolene and reapers and the difficulty
of geting trucks and cars have lately
made the transportation problem more
acute.
Plays and Players
"The Eyes of Youth" closes to-night
at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. The
play will reopen at the Shubert Riviera
Theatre, at Ninety-seventh Street and
Broadway, on Labor Day.
The Hippodrome has broken sacred
precedent and abolished the ancient
and honorable post of "call boy." In
bis stead they have established the
call girl.
The leading juvenile r?le in "Light
nin'," Winchell Smith's new produc?
tion, which opens at the Gaiety Tnea
tre Monday night, August ?6, will be
flayed by Ralph Morgan, who has for
two seasons past played in "Turn to
the Right."
Eugene and Willie Howard, who are
appearing in "The Passing Show of
191V will be seen at the free perform?
ance given for soldiers and sailors at
the Casino to-morrow afternoon.
Julia Dean and Edwin Arden will
soon be seen together in a new photo?
play, "Ruling Passions," by Abraham
S. Schomor, author of "To-day" and
"The Yellow Passport."
Lieut. Nicol Weds Miss Ames,
Y. M. C. A. Worker in France
SUMMIT, N. J., Aug. 16.?Word has
?been received in Summit of the mar
; liage in France of Miss Amelia C.
?Ames, daughter of the late Mr. and
| Mrs. Oakes Ames, of Milton, Mass., to
? Lieutenant Carlisle Forrest Nicol, son
! of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Nicol, of
? Summit.
Mr. Nicol was a student at Stevens
?Institute and in 1914 went overseas as
jan ambulance driver, later entering the
| aviation service. The bride is engaged
i in Y. M. C. A, war work.
Lieut. H. C. Pynchon Takes
Miss Hyde as Bride To-day
Miss Mary Hyde, daughter of Mrs.
? Seymour Hyde, of 375 Park Avenue,
i will be married to Lieutenant Harold
1 Cooper Pynchon, U. S. A.? this after?
noon in Christ Church, Greenwich,
Conn. The ceremony will be followed
by a reception at the country home of
\ Mrs. Hyde in Greenwich. Miss Ger
: trude. Flesh will be the maid of honor,
! and the bridesmaids will ke Miss Beat?
rice Pynchon, Miss Mary K. Lincoln,
1 Miss Hester Hyde and Miss Elizabeth
; Hyde.
Charles Pynchon will serve as his
I brother's best man.
i Miss McAlpin Weds To-day
The marriage of Miss Flora B. Mc
? Alpin, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. George
, L. McAlpin, to Lieutenant Charles Pierce
1 Barton, jr., takes place to-day at the
home of her parents, Dune Alpin, East
Hampton, Long Island. The ceremony
will be performed at noon and will be
followed by a breakfast for relatives
and intimate friends.
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Miss Anne Thompson Married
: To Lieutenant Thomas Kemp
I Mis3 Anne Thompson, daughter of
; Mrs. Charles Thompson, of Whitestone,
! L. L, and Lieutenant Thomas Thatcher
i Kemp, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
j Kemp, of Washington, were married
j yesterday afternoon in Grace Protest
i ant Episcopal Church, Whitestone,
, by the Rev. Charles A. Brown, rector
? of All Saints' Church, Bayside.
Miss Martha Thompson was brides
! maid. Lieutenant William McMullen,
! of Whitestone, was best man.
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? Robert Taber, Actor, Weds
j Irene Hayes, of "Follies"
j Miss Irene Hayes, of 215 West
Ninety-first Street, a member of the
"Follies," was married yesterday to
Robert Taber. of the Lamb's Club, by
City Clerk Skuliy. The bride was
given awuy by Patrick Kyne, who later
gave them a wedding dinner at Mur?
ray's.
Mr. Taber. an actor, has just re?
turned from France, entertaining the
soldiers. He and his bride will start
soon for Frunce to continu? war work.
Stage Stars Obtain I
$5,000 for Navy Fund I
Raymond Hitchcock and Others
Appear at Meadow Club
in Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 16.?A
dozen prominent actors and actresses
appeared at the Meadow Club to-night
in an entertainment given under the
auspices of the Women's Naval Ser?
vice for the benefit of the naval air
station and reserve base at Montauk
Receipts amounted to nearly $5,000.
Thomas Wise acted as master of
ceremonies. Among those participating
in the programme were Mme. Blanche
Dumeld, of the Metropolitan Opera;
John Drew. Miss Louise Drew, Rex Mc
Dougall, Louise Dresser, Tom Dobson,
Raymond Hitchcock, Christie McDonald
Laurette Taylor, Edith Taliaferro, Ed?
ward Mordaunt and Agnes Patterson.
The entertainment was provided by
?the Stage Women's War Relief. Mrs.
| Josephus Daniels is honorary president
i of the Woman's Naval Service, Mrs.
George Dewey the national president,
, and Mrs. Adolph Ladenbury chairman
of the Long Island Division.
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Food Administration
To Save Perishable?
Measures to prevent delays in the
delivery of perishable fruits and vege
i tables as well as fre,?h poultry and
| eggs when shipped to dealers will be
; taken up at once by the United States
i food administration at Washington,
! following a meeting of the New York
? State food commission, held here yes?
terday. Members of the commission
! reported that there was serious wast?
i in all perishable articles now being
i shipped throughout the state, owing to
\ congestion at shipping terminals.
James B. Stafford, Erie County Food
Administrator, was most emphatic in
! urging that immediate action be taken
in the matter of delivery delays. He
told the commission the loss in Erie
County alone was unusually great.
The commission a'so discussed the
matter of prohibiting manufacturers
from placing misleading brands upon
patented foodstuffs. One result of
? their deliberations will be the formu?
lating of a rule requiring manufactur
; ers to state the ingredients in all con
j centrated cattle foods offered for sale
in the state.
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$7,000,000 Pledged
In W. S. S. Campaign
The National Council of Travelling
Salesmen, which plans to sell $25,000,
000 worth of war savings stamps ?iur
I ing the week beginning next Thursday,
! organized the Limit Club yesterday, to
| which it will elect all who pledge
themselves to buy stamps to the limit
allowed by law?$1,000 for the in
j dividual.
"There are at present only a few
more than 4,000 people in New York
City who have even pledged themselves
I to purchase the limit of war savings
stamps which one person is allowed to
hold by law," said Charles F. Hall,
chairman of the committee. "There
should be 40,000 at the very least, and
our first efforts will be directed tow
j ard increasing the membership of the
1 War Savings Limit Investment Society.
; as the Limit Club is officially known."
William (hilds, jr., chairman of the
I restaurant committee, reported that his
; trade would subscribe $2,000,000, and
a similar amount was pledged by
Charles Haring, Manhattan chairman
of the Moving Picture Committee. The
Shoe Manufacturers' Association of
Brooklyn, representing only a small
proportion of the shoe trade in the
city, underwrote $22,500 worth of
stamps at a meeting held on Wednes?
day night. Total reports to date show
nearly $7,000,000 of the $25,000,000
minimum already subscribed.
Teacher Critic of Trenton
Principal Not Dropped
TRENTON. N. J., Aug. 16.?J. Milnor
Dorey, English instructor in the high
school here, who was accused of carica?
turing William A. Wetzel, the prin?
cipal, as a "German-American school?
master" in a pamphlet which Mr. Dorey
; wrote for the Vigilantes, was found
guilty of insubordination last night by
the School Eioard, which decided, how
I ever, not to suspend him.
Accusations of pro-Germanism made
? against Mr. Wetzel by Mayor Donnelly
: will come before the board at another
session.
Prison Association Willed
$5,000 by Mrs. Emerson
The will of Mrs. Sarah Hopper Emer
! son, who was president of the Women's
Prison Association, was filed yester?
day in the Surrogate's Court. Mrs.
Emerson bequeathed $5,000 to the
Women's Prison Association, $250 to
the New York Diet Kitchen Associa?
tion and $100 each to the American
Social Hygiene Association and the
Martha Schofield School for Colored
Children.
Mrs. Emerson established an annuity
of $500 for Sarah W. Adams, "an old
friend," distributing the rest of her
estate among relatives.
Clothiers Elect Officers
Officers were elected at yesterday's
session of the National Association of
Retail Clothiers in convention here.
They are William A. Bodenhausen, St.
Louis, president; Fred Levy, Louisville,
Ky., first vice-president; Andreas Burk
hardt, Cincinnati, Ohio, second vice
president; A. Frankel, Des Moines, la.,
Treasurer; Charles E. Wry, also of Des
Moines, secretary.
New Haven Changes Schedule
The Washington and Bar Harbor ex?
press of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad will make ?'s iast
trip north to-day and its last trip sou'h
Tuesday. Beginning Monday trie N?w
York-Bar Harbor express will leave the
Grand Central Terminal at 7:30 p. m.
instead of 7 p. m. Changes in the
schedule affecting Pittsneid, New
Haven, Canaan and other towns also
will take effect on the New Haven on
i Monday.
Religious Services Held at
Grave of Quentin Roosevelt
PARIS, Aug. 16.- Religious services
beside the grave of Lieutenant Quentin
Roosevelt, near the spot where he fell
to his death in an air combat last
month, wsK held to-day by Bishop
Brent, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and the Rev. t'hurles S. Mac
farland, of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America.
The service took place after a visit.
to the American front at Fismes.
PARIS, Aug. 16. ? Major Theodore
I Roosevelt, jr., was cordially received by
I Premier Clemenceau to-day. Major
Roosevelt's wounds are still unhealed
I and ho is using crutches._
German Head of Paper Firm
Gets 7 Months for Perjury
Admitting that he had perjured him?
self in making a citizenship claim
through which he hoped to be enabled
to import German-made photographic
and carbon papers into this country,
Ferdinand Schurmann, president of the
Felix Schoeller Paper Company, was
sentenced to seven months in the Essex
County, N. J., jail and fined $1,000
yesterday, when his case carao up be?
fore Judge Julius M. Mayer in the
United State? Court here.
Lewis to Open His
Campaign in Sixth
District Wednesday
Will Make First Speech at
Federal Republican
Club in Avenue C
Rakes Governor Again
Attorney General Issues State?
ment Explaining Why He
Is a Candidate
Attorney General Merton E. Lewis
will make the maiden speech of his
campaign Wednesday night at the Fed?
eral Republican Club, 44 Avenue C.
This is the headquarters of the reg?
ular organization of the 6th Assembly
District, of which Samuel S. Koenig,
the Republican county chairman, and
one of Governor Whitman's backers, is
executive member.
The scheduled appearance of the At?
torney General at the Federal club does
not mean there has been any change
of sentiment on Chairman Koenig's
part. It is the result of a letter written
by Mr. Lewis calling attention to the
fc-.ct that he is an enrolled Republican
and a candidate for the nomination for
Governor in the Republican primaries,
lind saying that he would like to have
an opportunity to address the voters
of the 6th Assembly District.
Last night the Attorney General sent
out letters to other Republican leaders
in Manhattan, who are almost solidly
for Governor Whitman, making similar
requests.
Statement Issued
Mr. Lewis said he had been asked
frequently to set forth his reasons
for opposing Governor Whitman. This
he has done in a statement which reads
in part:
"As a result of my experience of
more than three years in the office of
the Attorney General, where I had ex?
cellent opportunities of observing the
operations of the executive chamber
of the state, I reached the conclusion
that Governor Whitman was more in?
terested in promoting his own political
ambitions than in caring for the inter?
ests of the state and the welfare of
the people of the state. I saw from
the start a tendency on the part of
Governor Whitman to build up a per?
sonal organization, devoted to him and
to his political success rather than to
the welfare of the party itself. As a
result of my observations I charge:
"That the Governor made appoint?
ments to important public positions
of men conspicuously unfitted, but who
by reason of their political affiliations
and experience could help him in get?
ting a renomination and reelection."
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Humphrey Withdraws
From Primary Race
County Judge Bert J. Humphrey,
whose petitions had been signed and
who had been selected as a candidate
in the primaries to oppose Borough
President Connolly of Queens for the
Supreme Court, withdrew from the race
yesterday, to the discomfiture of more
than one hundred lawyers who were
managing the primary fight. Judge
Humphrey issued a statement in which
he said that the bad feeling that would
be engendered by his candidacy might
impair tho chances of the Democratic
candidate on the state ticket, and in
the interests of a united party he
thought it better to withdraw.
Judge Humphrey stated that he with-'
drew from the fight at the urgent so?
licitation of Alfred E. Smith, the
Democratic candidate for Governor.
The withdrawal of Judge Humphrey
leaves only one independent candidate
in the field. George J. S. Dowling, a
lawyer, of Brooklyn. County Judge
Robert Roy, of Kings, is the other
"regular" Democratic candidate, having
been indorsed by the county organixa
tion.
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Automobiling
By C. E. T. Scharps
Motorists light lamps to-day, 8:26 p.m.
After the war a number of plants
in this country now engaged in the
manufacture of chemicals will apply
their space to making stuff to mix
with gasolene with an idea of produc?
ing a lower priced and at the same
time more efficient fuel. These ele?
ments, such as benzol, alcoh?late and
the like, will be manufactured in
quantity.
Chemists have been working right
along to produce not substitutes for
gasolene but substances that will
tend to stretch the supply of that
fuel. Several combinations already
have appeared on the market, but the
public, as long as the supply of
straight gasolene appears adequate, is
not keenly interested.
If the new combinations are ef?
fective in keeping down carbon and
making the engine run better than
the very low grade fuel now avail?
able there should be a great demand
for them. We will hardly get back to
the good grade of gasolene that used
to be common five or six years ago.
There is, therefore, all the larger field
for good combinations that cost less
and are more efficient than the fuel
now being sold.
The War Industries Board is pre?
paring a circular to define what are
essential and what are non-essential
uses of motor trucks. On this basis
will be determined priority ratings
for commercial vehicle manufactur?
ers, so far as steel and coal and ma?
terials are concerned. The maker
who produces trucks for essential
uses will rate higher than the man
who does not. Of course motor
trucks directly or indirectly for war
uses will go in Class B-4, which in?
sures priority. Curtailment so far as
possible will be avoided in the case
of manufacturers whose trucks go to
essential uses in civilian industry.
Warnings are out about a man who
advertises in various towns that he
will buy cars on the part payment
plan for any one. without publicity
being given to the transaction. His
scheme is to get the "down payment"
in his hands and then to plead slow
delivery of the car on account of
freight conditions. After getting
enough money and about the time the
buyers become most pressing he
leaves town. His scheme includes
non-payment of office rent and other
expenses, as well as departing with
the cash of the intending motorists.
Which again points the way to be
sure of the man you are dealing with
and of his financial responsibility
every time.
This department will be discon?
tinued until September 2, as the
editor thereof leaves to-day on his
vacation.
Old Parties Combine in
2 Long Island Districts !
Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, Be- i
publican, and Congressman Charles
Pope Caldweil, Democrat, are likely to
be returned to Congress from Long
Island next year without much effort
by themselves, on account of an agree?
ment by the main party leaders. The
two Congressmen represent the 1st and
2d districts, respectively. Mr. Hicks's
district takes in Queens, Nassau and
Suffolk, which he has represented for
the last four years. He lives in Port
Washington.
Mr. Caldweil, who lives in Forest
Hills, has represented the 2d District
for four years. The Democrats and ]
Republicans had named candidates to ?
oppose both Hicks and Caldweil. In :
tho 1st District the Democrats had
designated Donald McKellar, of Nassau,;
while the Republicans had selected i
Charles Hantusch, of Ridgewood, as
Mr. Caldwell's opponent. \
The party leaders have decided, in j
view of the good records of the two
meflf; to swap indorsements. Mr. Hicks
is. at present in Europe with other Con?
gressmen on war work.
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Congress Fight in
21st Offers Puzzle
Tho Renublican district leaders of
the assembly districts comprising the
Twenty-first Congress district were in
session at a late hour last night try?
ing to retire *ve of the six candidates
for the Republican nomination. The
leaders were Valentine J. Hahn, of
the Thirteenth; John J. Lyons, of the
Nineteenth: Moses H. McKee, of the
Twentv-first; John A. Bolles, of the
Twenty-second, and Collin H. Wood?
ward, of the Twenty-third.
The candidates in the race until last
night were Max S. Grifenhagen, An?
drew B. Humphreys, a prominent mem?
ber of the Republican Club; Martin C.
Ansorge, lawyer, who was a prominent
candidate for the nomination at the
special election last spring; Reverdy
C. Ransome, Melville A. Hays and
John A. Bolles, who was defeated for
Congress in the special election last
spring.
The near-agreement worked out yes?
terday, with the aid of County Chair?
man Koenig, was for all aspirants,
with the exception of ex-Alderman
Bolles, to retire. Another feature of
the near-agreement was for Ward V.
Tolbert, backed by two Assembly dis?
tricts, to retire from the race ?or State
Senator in the 20th district, leaving
the field open for Harold C. Mitchell,
of the 21st district. At a late hour
neither Mr. Humphreys nor Mr. Ran?
some had assented to the plan to re?
tire from the contest. In his note to
Chairman Koenig Mr. Ansorge said:
"In the interest of party harmony
I beg to decline the designation as Re?
publican candidate for Representative
in Congress in the Twenty-first dis?
trict. These are war times, and not
times for party controversies or the
realization of personal ambitions "
President Plays Golf
In Bay State Resort
MANCHESTER, Mass., Aug. 16.?
President and Mrs. Wilson had another
delightful day for their brief outing on
the North Shore. Affairs of state, ex?
cept for a few conferences with Colonel
E. M. House, who has a. summer home
roar by, apparently were dropped.
The President remained out until n
late hour this evening. Before break?
fast he strolled with Mrs. Wilson under
the pines. Later he had a round of golf
with Dr. Cary T. Grayson, his physi?
cian, and lunched with Colonel and
Mrs. House. During the day Governor
McCall dropped in for a few moments.
Word that the President was here
drew hundreds of automobile parties
to this resort, but the marine guard
extended their picket lines and all ma?
chines were barred from the road lend?
ing to tho estate. This evening the
President and Mrs. Wilson went on a:
long motor ride with Colonel and Mrs.
House
Mrs. Colt Sues Husband
Mrs. Elizabeth Bowne Colt, grand?
daughter of the late Walter Bowne,
former Mayor of New York, filed a suit
for separation yesterday in the Su?
preme Court against Harris D. Colt,
New York lawyer.
Mrs. Colt alleges that she and her
husband have lived apart since 1911,
"without her consent," and that Mr.
Colt has failed properly to support
her or provide her with a home. She
says that on July 17 she offered to re?
turn to Mr. Colt and demanded that he
support her. Mrs. Colt placed her hus?
band's income from his profession at
from $40,000 to $50.000 a year, adding
that he has real estate valued at $150,
000. She asks for $200 a week ali?
mony, $5,000 for counsel fees, and the
custody of her seventeen-year-old son,
Harris D. Colt, jr.
Domestic Clash Settled by
Court on Patriotic Basis
The domestic differences of Igidio
and Irena Delari, 570 Hamilton Street,
Long Island City, were compromised
in Magistrate Kochendorfer's court
yesterday when they agreed to invest
their savings in Liberty Bonds instead
of clothing.
Both Delari and his wife arv*. em?
ployed in a cigar factory. According
to Mrs. Delari, her husband bought
bonds with their mutual earnings and
refused to make her a dres? allowance.
In the future ;. Delari's bonds will
be taken in her own name, and she
agreed to get along with such clothing
as she already owns.
Palmer Puzzled by Ashes
Of Dead Willed to Alien
A. Mitchell Palmer, Custodian of Alien
Enemy Property, has a problem on his
hands. One of his duties is to take
charge of all legacies to persons living
in Germany. The will of Richard Muel?
ler, filed yesterday, directed that his
body be cremated and the ashes sent
to his brother, George Mueller, in Leip?
zig, Germany. The direction of the
testator were carried out so far as
the cremation was concerned.
Whether the ashes may be sent to
Germany or shall be impounded by the
Alien Enemy Custodian for the period
of the war must be decided by Mr.
Palmer, who will say whether the trans?
fer of the ashes would come under
the trading with the enemy act.
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Knitting Machine, Loaned by
Mrs. Morgan, Breaks Record
HIGHLAND FALLS, Aug. 16.?A knit?
ting machine loaned by Mrs. J. Pierpont
Morgan sr., whose summer place is at
Fort Montgomery, has enabled the
Highland Falls Red Cross organization
to break all records for making wearing
apparel the past month.
Miss Myra Mandigo, one of the
women who used Mrs. Morgan's ma?
chine, knitted thirty pairs of socks, an
average of one pair a day. Mrs. Mor?
gan gave nine pairs of socks. The
members of the organization also
knitted many other articles, including
eighteen rweaters, which will be worn
by draftee from Highland Fells. !
Chemists to Give Ambulance
The chemical trade if raising $2,500
to buy nn ambulance for the National
League for Women's Service, which has
been notified to make ready for the
transportation of increasing numbers
of wounded soldiers after the middle
of August. Checks may be sent to Mur
phv & Brewster, 40 Cedar Street, or
to "the Rector Chemical Company, 2
Rector Street.
Schoeneck Sees
Roosevelt About
Case of Tolishus
Lieutenant Governor First
Pays Visit to Whitman
Headquarters
Sentiment Up State
Jefferson Cpunty Farmers Are
Said To Be Solid in Sup?
port of Governor
Lieutenant Governor Edward Schoe?
neck, of Syracuse, yesterday dropped
into Whitman headquarters, in the
Manhattan Hotel, and then, with
Chairman Cocks of the Whitman cam?
paign committee, went to the Langdon
Hotel to call on Colonel Roosevelt.
It was learned afterward that the
Lieutenant Governor desired to say to
Colonel Roosevelt that if there was
anything he wanted to know about his
connection with the case of Tolishus,
the law clerk in the office of Mr.
Schoeneck, in Syracuse, indicted for
seditious utterances, he would be glad
to enlighten him. The Lieutenant Gov?
ernor talked the matter over with the
Colonel for fifteen or twenty minutes.
He said last night at the Republican
Club that his call was largely social
and that the Colonel seemed glad to
see him.
Reports All for Whitman
Edward N. Smith, proprietor of "The
Watertown Daily Standard," who called
at the Whitman headquarters yester?
day, reported that the sentiment in Jef?
ferson County was all for Whitman.
Mr. Smith said:
"Governor Whitman will have an al?
most solid vote in the primaries in my
county. Ho has the support of all the
newspapers, and although we have a
contest over the nomination for State
Senator, the friends of both candidates
are for the Governor. We who are in
touch with the situation in the north?
ern part of the state expect to see a
very large primary vote this year, with
Whitman the leader by a big margin."
Mr Smith said ex-Assemblyman
Augsbury, of Watertown. in order to
test the drift of sentiment among the
farmers of Jefferson County, decided
to ask the first fifty farmers he met
how they were going to vote in the
primary and later at the general elec?
tion. Mr. Augsbury reported that the
entire fifty declared for Whitman.
Democrat Out of Race
Kings Parties May Combine to
Defeat Socialist for Congress
Representative Reuben W. Haskell,
of the 10th District of Kings, probably
will succeed himself as a result of the
withdrawal yesterday of George W.
Martin, designated by the Democrats
as a candidate for Congress against
Haskell. It is understood that the
Democrats will indorse the latter.
? This action is due to the fact that if
both Haskell and Martin ran for Con?
gress the Socialists would have stood a
good chance to elect Assemblyman
Shinlacoff. Two of the three Assembly
districts comprising the Congressional
district are now represented by Social?
ist Assemblymen. The district is
largely in the Brownsville and upper
Bushwick sections of Brooklyn, where
the Social'st vote predominates.
Obituary
ALBERT METIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. Albert
Metin. head of the French economic
mission now in the United States,
former Minister of Labor in France and
Minister of Blockade, died here at mid?
night last night from a stroke of apo
plexy.
-M. Metin was stricken early in the
evening, shortly after his arrive! here
with the mission, oi which General
! Paul Gerald Pau, noted r rench mili?
tary leader, was joint head.
Physicians who attended M. Metin
asee t ed the stroke to exhaustion
brought on by his journey to this
city. He was found lying uncon?
scious on the fioor of his apartment.
| He died without regaining conscious?
ness.
M. Metin, who was forty-nine year?
old, leaves a widow and two small chil
? dren in Franc?.
FRANK W. SPENCER
Frank W. Spencer, filing editor of
The Associated Press, died suddenly
Thursday night at his summer home at
New Dorp, Staten Island. He was forty
years old and lived at 816 Eighth Ave
nue, Brooklyn. He had been employed
by "The Indianapolis Sentinel," "In
dianapoiis News." "St, Louis Star" and
"Newark Star." For eight years he had
been with The Associated Press and at
i one time was night desk manager.
U.S. Jury Convicts Woman
Isabella Feder Found Guilty
of Conspiracy to Defraud
Isabella Feder, vice-president and
manager of the Acme Equipment Com
j pany, and Michael Polsky, a manu
facturer, were found guilty yesterday
1 in the United States District Court in
j Brooklyn of conspiracy to defraud the
! government. They were charged with
: attempting to bribe government in
i spectors to pass defective barrack bags.
Miss Feder had contracts to supply
barrack bags at '.) cents each and sublet
? them to manufacturers at a price of 8
( cents a bag. The jury was out an hour.
: The defendants will be sentenced to
: day.
j Thomas J. Cuff, the Assistant United
I States Attorney who prosecuted the
case, was informed of the verdict by
wire. When the jury came in he was
on his way to Camp Lee, Va., to join
his regiment, having started imme
i diately after the summing up on
; Thursday.
Talk Sends Waiter to Cell
Adolph Liesering, a waiter, born in
this country, was sent to the work
? house for six months yesterday by
? Magistrate Koenig. in the Domestic
; Relations Court, for saying "Germany
is as good as the United States." "We
j have enough trouble with alien en
? emies," said Magistrate Koenig, "with
? out being bothered by native-born dis
? turbers."
Gardiner Climbs for K. of C.
Harry Gardiner, "the human fly,"
climbed the front of a ten-story office
building, at 32 Union Square, yester?
day, wearing a white uniform with th?
inscription "K. of C." across his
shoulders. While he climbed and a
crowd of thousands gaped and shud?
dered, young women made collections
fer the Knights of Columbus War
Fund, and the band of the land bat?
tleship Recnnt played patriotic airs.
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