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IVewYorkHas
Triumphal Day
In Loan Drive
Pistrict Gains $237,100,
900, Pushing Percentage
From 41.2 to 58.8, as Na?
tion Goes From 45 to 59
District Is in Fifth Place
Official Figures Reflect
Enthusiasm Stirred by
Parade of 77th Division
A quickening stream of Victory Loan
subscriptions originating in every part
o? the country yesterday flooded na?
tional headquarters. The greatly aug?
mented volume of the contributions to
meet the financial cost of victory
strengthened the confidence of the
leaders that the American people
would again attain the goal set by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
In exact mathematical terms the
country advanced $o'J8,000,000 nearer
its quot? mark, according to statistics
prepared yesterday. Of this gain
$1':J7.100,900 came from the New York
district. Thi.-! sum is the largest ever
raised in this district in any twenty
four hour period before the final two
days of loan campaigns, and is the
fifth biggest amount ever subscribed j
here in a single day.
The latest spurt made the national i
total f>9 per cent of the quota of $4.- |
600,00r?, as compared with 45.79 per !
cert the previous day, and brought the
subscriptions in this district up to 58.8 ?
per cent of its quota, against 41.2 on '
Tuesday. Yesterday's official figure t
reflected the effect of the 77th parade
and of the intensified Red Feather cam?
paign.
New York in Fifth Place
The leap forward carried New York
into fifth place among the twelve Fed?
eral Reserve districts, six of which
have passed the half-way mark. If
New York keeps u-, its present record
breaking pace it will pass its quota of
$1,850,000,000. It needs to average $138,.
!'06,70n daily up to midnight Satur?
day, when the campaign closes. In the
fourteen business days covered by the
officials statistic $2,458.663,000 has ;
been lent throughout the country, and
$794,373,300 in this district. The
standings of the districts follow:
District. Subscription. P. C.
St Louis. $151,205,000 77.5
Minneapolis. 117,522,000 74.7
Chicago. 404.434.000 61.9
Boston . 228,442,000 ?0.9
New York. 794,000.000 58.8
Richmond . 111,686,000 53.1
Kansas City . 95,267,000 48.8
Cleveland . 199,637,000 44.3
Atlanta . 62,251,000 43.2
Philadelphia . 151,505,000 40.4
San Francisco. 112,129,000 *" 37.1
Dallas . 30,421,000 82.1
Oversubscription Is Predicted
New York's excellent showing in yes?
terday's report led leading citizens
here to express the certainty that the
city and the district wouid see the final
popular loan of tho war through.
"The people of this great city,"
Mayor Hylan declared, "will not lag
behind in th?3 Viccory Loan. When the
final count is taken it will be found
that they have oversubscribed their j
quota. They have always been pa?
triotic, and I am sure that they are not I
lacking new. 'Over the top' should be
the slogan of every man, woman and
child in this citv. When Saturday
night comes it will be shown that we
have not been found wanting."
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes said : j
"The people of New York never have !
lagged in their patriotic duty and will
not do it now. They will show their i
feeling of appreciation for their coun?
try by making the Victory Liberty Loan
? gigantic ?neceas."
New Yorkers Not Quitters
According to Nathan Straus, "the sit?
uation with respect to the Victory Lib?
erty Loan is comparable to a horse race
which has almost been won. We |
should be quitters if we did not finish j
it. I feel sure that the people cf this !
city are not that type.
"But I do say thfct people who have j
made their money under the Stars and !
Stripes and refuse to buy Victory notes j
to the extent of their ability ought to I
fet the ?tripes. This loan must not i
sil, and I don't believe the people of!
New York will fail."
An ?nalysis of the statistic? for the !
Second Federal Reserve District fol?
lows :
NEW YORK CITY
Subscriptions Tota! for P.ct. of |
on 14th day. 14 days, quota.
MsnhatUa . .1189.287,880 1567.853,760 61.2 I
Rrooklyn .... 18,989,800 47,284,300 78.9
Qti*?n? . 386,160 3,466,360 48.r>
hr'.r.x. 161,000 910.960 18.3!
Bichwocd ... 115,400 884,550 64.2
Total .?208.919.650 $620.399^900 ?3.0
SUB-DISTRICTS j
Subteripttons P. et. of !
on 44th day. Total. quota. I
Male - U.kTJM 886,871,850 56.3!
R<y.b??ter ... lj 19.060 18.238.200 48.1 i
-UUea M18.660 17,328,460 30.7 !
rt-Elm ?.089.350 8.778,300 61.9 j
Albany . S.072.y6O 26.549,500 61.0 i
i/1 UV4, out
. Y. C, 681.800 4,374,250 63.7!
? <J?r. 14.784,300 62.748,"50 48.8
i ?.rfeM CO'Jn.
* Or?n. :
? ?stclMstar
sad Rwk
l?nd*wr>t!?? 1.988.000 12.085.900 46.6!
Ktw Y'k C. I28.18?.S80 8173,978.400 49.7 j
Total, dltt.f 2*7,1 MJ(K> 1794,372,200 "o8~?j
Points to France as
Example of Loan Zeal j
E. I. Adams Tell* How Nation, \
With Limited Resources "Took j
five Billions of Last l$?ue
Csnnot America do as well as France,
in floating her laxt loan? Thi? i? the
?Mftloil Ma*d by Elbridge L. Adsm?,,
attorney, of M Nes??au Street, In a;
letter to The Tribune.
Mr. Adams wit in Paris during the (
last French loan csrnpalirn the fourth
? 'Which was declared e>p*.n on Sunday,
O'.tober 20, and also visitad several ?
e'.her ??U?% and town? faring tbV
month it continued.
"If there wer* any such means re- i
??slad t? in ordtr t? work up the,
fttriotlsm ?cd enthusiasm of tha peo-i
pie as arc employed here in our
'drives' I did not see them." he writes.
"No bands played; no speeches were
made after the initial ceremony; no
streets were decorated and no expense
was incurred beyond that of printing
and posting some very artistic posters.
"French bonds were 4 per cent bonds,
but they were sold at 70.65, so as to
yield about 5.65 interest But as
i against this very considerable advan
! tage to tfio investor, think of the dis
? crepancy in the populaiton and wealth
' of France and of the United States.
"Franca had a population before the
war of about 40,000,000. Her national
1 wealth before the war was about $60,
! 000,000,000. or approximately 30 per
cent of the national wealth of the
! United States. But one-twelfth of the
! area of France, and that containing her
' richest manufacturing and material
, resources, bad been overrun by the
I enemy, and property worth many bill
j ions of dollars had been destroyed and
! made non-productive.
"More than 5,000,000 of her men were
under the colors and about 2,000,000 of
her man power had given their lives
for France, and yet what were the
results? Bonds of the par value of
more than 35,000,000,000 francs, upon
which the French government realized
about 24,000,000,000 francs, or nearly
I $5,000.000.000, were taken by the thrifty
! French citizens, who for years have
j known that nothing is so safe as gov?
ernment bonds, and who also have
! learned to invest a dollar for every
| two dollars earned.
"Shall we, with our tremendous
i wealth, our casualties a mere fraction
; of those suffered by our allies, fail in
! the last duty of the war? If we do, ?
what will be said of us by our friends
1 in France? What will we say of our-'
| selves when we contemplate the rc
, suit?"
Success of Loan
Will Aid Industry
If Individuals Subscribe,
Says Kirchwey* Banks
Can Use Their Funds to j
Boost Trade
An effective way for the individual
to help alleviate the unemployment sit- j
uation is to buy Victory notes, accord?
ing to Dr. George W. Kirchwey, Fed?
eral Director of the United States Em?
ployment Service for the State of New
York.
"Unless private individuals subscribe '
for the greater part of this loan," Dr. ?
Kirchwey said yesterday, "it must be
borne by financial institutions. If these
institutions are forced to place their!
finances in the loan they will not have
money free to advance for the develop- !
ment of industries.
"It is certain that unless industry is I
able to obtain sufficient money from ;
the banks with which to expand its i
activities there will be no relief from j
the present unemployment situation.
"The fact that soldiers are being re?
ceived back at their old jobs in no
way relieves the unemployment prob- !
lern, when civilians, both men and worn- j
en, are being released daily to make
room for these soldiers.
Banks Must Provide Money
"The only way to obtain work for
all is to expand industries throughout
the country. We all know how im?
portant the banks are in this connec?
tion. Without plenty of money free !
for new development, we may look
forward to a continuance of the present ?
serious situation, not only throughout
the summer, but throughout the winter
to come."
As an index to the width of distribu- j
tion of the new notes, Thomas Hildt,:
chairman of the Commercial Banks and ;
Trust Companies Committee, announced j
yesterday that virtually every bank in |
the city has agreed '.o participate on j
a pro rata basis in a carying arrange- |
ment up to $110,000,000 for the sale of i
notes on the partial payment plan
through coupon books.
Loan officials believe a new record
for subscriptions received at a single
meeting may be made to-night at a
great rally at the Metropolitan Opera
House, under the auspices of the Met- i
ropolitan Canvass Committee. Former j
President Taft and former Secretary j
of _ the Treasury McAdoo will be the
chief speakers.
Police Raise $15,000,000
Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner
Frederick A. Wallis announced last
night that the police of the citv have
already sold $15,000,000 of Victory
note?.
Eighty-six additional towns and
cities in the New York Federal Re?
serve district yesterday won honor
flags for filling their quotas, making a
total thus far of 375. Among the new
winners were Cedarhurst, N. Y.; Law?
rence, N. Y.; Hoboken, N. J? and Lslip,
N. Y.
The Woman's Clubs Committee, un- :
der the chairmanship of Mrs. William j
A. Campbell, has exceeded its goal
twenty times. It has already raised
$9,003,100 and its quota is $450,000. i
The gain for yesterday was $1,285,850.
$3,500,000 From Westinghouse
Among the new subscriptions an- !
nounced yesterday, many of which have j
not yet been included in the official
total, the following were for $10,000 or :
more:
Westinghouse Electric and Manufact- :
uring Company and employes, $3,500,
000; William Goadby Loow, $1,000,000,
T. A. Gillespie & Co. (additional),'
$1,000,000; Payne Whitney, $1,000,000;
Felix M. Warburg, $1,000,000; Otto H.
Kahn, $1,000,000; Mortimer L. Schiff,
$1,000,000; Jacob H. Schiff, $1,000,000;
Charles H. Sabin, $1,000,000; Hoboken
Bank for Savings, $1,000,000; J. P.
Morgan (personal, additional), $1,000,
000; B. Altman & Co., $750;000; Lin?
coln Savings Bank, of Brooklyn (addi- :
tional), $100.000; Ocean Accident and
Guarantee Company, Ltd., $500,000-, :
Ada Small Moore, $500,000; William H :
Moore, $500,000; Kissell, Kinnicutt ?fei
Co., $500,000; Domlnick <fe Dom ?nick,
$350,000; Henry H. Rogers, $300,000.
American Alliance Insurance Com?
pany, $250,000; Pyreno Manufacturing i
Company, $250,000; West Side Savings
Bank, $250,000: Horace Havemeyer,
8260,000; Bernhard, School? & Co.,
$200,000; Jacob Ruppert, $200,000;
R'?e?alc.r it Hassiacher Chemical Com?
pany, $200,000; McGraw Hill Company
(additionalJ, $200,000; Lee, Higginaon
?ft Co. (additional), $150,000; Atlas
Powder Company (additional), $144,
000; Hamburg Savings Bank, Brook?
lyn (addition*)), $133,000; Babcock &
Wilcox Co. (additional), $100,000;
American Steamship Owners Mutual
Protective Indemnity Association, $100,
000; Asiel & Co., $100,000; Cape, Cruz
<fe Co., $100,000; Mary B. Roger?, $100,
000; David Dows, $80.000; George Lue
d*rs & Co. end employed, $(I0,8M); Em?
ploye? of tho Ocean Aceident and Guar?
anty? Company, Ltd., $55,000.
Hunter Manufacturing & Commis?
sion Company, $60,000; Denver Chemi?
cal Manufacturing Company, $50,000;
Corn Products Refining Company, $50,'
000, Fred Hirshorn, $50,000; Barnf-y
W. La Clear, $?6,000; Estate of Henry
W, Palmer, $26,000; Klkabath D. She
pard, $25,000; Simon Aiichcr ?fe Co.,
In?, $35,000; .TurridinI Expert Com?
pany, ?25,000; Wallnc? D. Phillips, $25,
000; M. Winburn, $25,000; American
Maganese riteel Company, $25,000;
Frank O- Alden, $20,000; employes of
Auto-Strop Razor Company, $20.000;
Ktwtoa K. BhafYar, $20,000; Paerless
(Copyright Underwood A- Vn?lnnro-.d.)
General and Captain Garibaldi arrive in United States to promote
closer relations between this coun try and Italy.
Towel Supply Company, $15,000; T. L.
Malone &. Co., $15,000; Andrew Moli
nari, $10,000; S. Augstcin & Co., $10,
000; Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Com
panv, $10,000; George Frink Spencer,
$10,000; Charles W. Gould. $10,000; H.
D. Ruhm, $10,01)0; Inn?s &. Co., $10,000;
General Laundries, Inc., $10,000; II. M.
Swetland (additional), $10,000.
Neivs of the activities of the Rain
boiv Division will be found on the
business page.
Metropolitan Ra lly
Nets $7,132,130
The interior Furnishings
Trade Committee of
Rainbow Division Goes
Over Top
Amid cheers and flag waving, the
Interior Furnishing Trades Committee
of the Rainbow Division sold $7,132,150
worth of Victory Notes at the Metro?
politan Opera House last night. This
brings the committee's total subscrip?
tions to a sum nearly $1,000,000 in ex?
cess of its quota.
Led by Marie Dressier and Julius
Tannen, who alternated humor and
seriousness, the crowd subscribed its
first million in less than ten minutes.
Throughout the canvassing Rube Gold
berg, the cartoonist, and Ncysa Mc
Mein, the illustrator, drew posters,
which were auctioned off in the inter?
vals when the rush of subscriptions
slackened. A Victory Loan poster au?
tographed by Cardinal Gibbons went
to Sidney Rlurnenthal with a subscrip?
tion of $200,000. Jn addition, Mr. Blu
menthal subscribed $100,000.
x Among other large subscribers were
the Franklin Trust Company, with
$1,000,000, the Bowery Savings Bank
with $1,500,000, W. & J. Sloane with
$122,500. R. B. Berenstoin with $1.175,
000 and Frances A. Foster with $500,000.
General Robert Alexander, com?
mander of the 77th Division; Samuel
YV. Fairchild, vice-president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of
New York, and Bainbridge Colby, of
the United States Shipping Board were
the speakers.
"Every one of the men who left
these shores for Europe was a living
pledge on the part of America that we
would see this thing through to a fin?
ish," said Genera! Alexander.
"My friends there is an even more
sacred pledge than all of that; some
of us have returner! to hese shores
with honors conferred upon us. We
wear the Distinguished Service Cross,
the Croix ?le Guerre and other compli?
ments of the appreciation of our su?
periors. But there is aband upon
whom has hecn conferred an even more
sacred decoration than any of those,
and I refer to those upon whom have
been conferred the Oredr of the Little
Wooden Cross.
"They sleep, those sons and broth?
ers and sweethearts and lovers. They
sleep on the hillisdes of France and
each and every one of them is a mute,
yet living pledge to our Allies that we
will carry this thing through to a
finish, and I know that those pledges,
at least, will not be repudiated by my
fellow citizens of America."
Buys $25,000 Bond
For One Doughnut
Salvation Army Specialty
Booms Loan Campaign
at Wall Street Booth
One doughnut, fried on the steps of
the Sub-Treasury in Wall Street yes?
terday noon, sold $25,000 worth of Vic?
tory notes. The war-time enthusiasm
that carried four Liberty loans over
showed itself again at this meeting.
Hundreds of persons stood in the pour?
ing rain in the early ufternoon, listen?
ing to speakers and crowding around
the booth to buy notes. Later, when
the rain ceased, the srowd increase?!
tenfold.
Irene and Gladyr, Mclntyre, of the
Salvation Army, baked the doughnuts
and gave one to each buyer. W. F.
Holborn, of the Guaranty Trust Com?
pany, got the $25,000 cake. E. P.
Gaillard, of 140 Bourdwuy, got one
for $10,000.
Eleven thousand German helmets
seized in Coblonx, which now form
pyramids in Victory Way, will be auc?
tioned off, beginning this morning, at
Victory Loan rallies. In order that
buyers of notes in hII parts of tho city
may have an opportunity to get a share
of tho trophies, all cumpnlgn agencies
will distribute ?orno of them. These
helmets were manufactured in lOIfi for
une by Germans in Paris.
German Cannon an Trizas
Cnptured German ennon will be
awarded ne prize? to enmmunitie? hav?
ing the greatest oversubscription to tho
Victory loan campaign, provided that
at least 20 per cunt of th? r?sidant
population have invested. The prize? '
To-day"s Programme in
Victory Loan Drive
rJPHE following events in the Vic
?*- tory Loan programme will take
place to-day:
RED FEATHER DAY
Victory Way (Park Avenue)
11:30 A. M..Parade by the Knights
of Columbus, Woodmen of the
World, New York and Brooklyn
divisions; Knights of Fythias,
Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, Mecca Temple. Masonic
Temple, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Redmen of America. The
paradera will mobilize at. Fifth
Avenue and Twenty-fifth to Twenty
eighth street and inarch north to
Victory Way through Fiftieth
Street.
12 NOON?Addresses by Martin Vo?
gel and General Ballington Booth,
and five-minute speeches by mem?
bers of the fraternal orders.
Speech by long-distance telephone,
delivered by George F. Moore,
Grand Commander of Scottish Rite.
2 P. M.?Navy Day Parade, post?
poned yesterday because of rain.
3 TO 5 P. M.?Addresses by John
Temple Graves and Colonel Regi?
nald L. Foster.
MEXICAN NIGHT
7 TO in P. M.?Addresses by Pedro
del Villar, chairman of the Mexi?
can division; Joseph Hartigan,
Leopoldo Rebollar, former Minis?
ter of Commerce and Industry un?
der President Huerta; Hans Rieg
and Captain Iciek, chaplain in the
Polish army.
Sub-Treasury
12 NOON?Addresses by Carter
Glass, Blanche Bates, Ed. Wynn,
Janet Beecher, John J, McGraw,
Christy Muthewson, Gail Kane,
Jane Cowl, "Big Bill" Edwards,
G?nerai "Peppino" Garibaldi, Mar?
tin Vogel, "Larry" Doyle. Elizabeth
Marbury, Julia Arthur, Sam Ber?
nard and Thomas Bacon.
"ARGONNE FOREST"
(Times Square)
12 NOON?Addresses by Judge Wad
hams, Mischa Appelhaum, Sheriff
David II. Knott and Lieutenant
George D. Dawson.
Metropolitan Opera House
8 P. M.- "Over the Top" mass meet?
ing. Addresses by ex-President
William 11. Taft, William G. Mc
Adoo, Charlea M. Schwab, Augus?
tus Thomas, Major Guy T. Vish
nishki ami Lieutenant Carl H.
Blanchard.
will be awarded with ceremonies after
! the close of the campaign. Six hun
I dred banking towns and 1,500 non
j banking communities will compete.
One grand prize will go to the bank
| ing town which secures the largest
\ oversubscription. One prize will be
? awarded to towns of 100,000 population
I or more, one to towns of 50,000 to
! 3 00,000 persons, one to towns of 25,
I 000 to 50,000, one to towns of 10,000
I to 25,000, one to towns of 2,500 to
| 10,000, and the last to towns of 2,600
i and under. The non-banking communi?
ties will compete for two guns.
Six thousand members of fraternal
organizations, most of them in lodge
uniforms, will parade up Fifth Avenue
to-day, arriving ut Victory Way at
noon. A Victory Loan meeting will
follow. Among tho speakers wiil be
General Ballington Booth, president
I of the Volunteers of America, and
George F. Moore, grand commander of
I the Scottish Rite of America. Mr.
i Mooro will speak by long distance tcle
j phono from Washington.
Rain Haiku Yeowomen's Tarade
The rnin prevented the scheduled
I parade of the navy's yeowemen on
Fifth Avenue yesterday, but tho girls
went to the Hippodrome instead and
.sold Victory notes during tho inter?
mission. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt made
the largest subscription, $50,000.
General Peppino Garibaldi, famous
Italian soldier, will take the stump to?
day to sell Victory notes. He is a
grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the
Liberator of Italy. He will speak at a
meeting in Madison Square Garden
Saturday night, arranged in his honor
by tho Italian Victory Liberty Loan
Committee.
Part of the prand finale of the cam?
paign Saturday night will bo the of?
ficial opening of the Bronx Exposition
and Amusement Park. The ceremonies
will bo arranged by tho Motor Corps
of tho National League for Women's
Service.
Afibury Park Subscribes
$513,600 at Rally
ASBURY PARK, N. J., May 7.?A $50
Victory note for every one of Asbury
Park's 10,000 residents was subscribed
at a great open air rally at the post?
?nico this afternoon. The total was
$513,600. Tho city has n quota of $831,
800 and hud previously subacribed
$203,000.
Corpornl Grnngnr and Sergeant Mc
Mnnus, of thfl 107th Infantry, 27th
Division, both wo? re*? or tho D. ft *^J
spurred sul^r-JJ^JHS?*. "j
3,000 Jobless
77th Men Now
Ready to Work
Employers Asked to Try to
Find Positions for Many
Clerks Who Will Soon Be
Released From Service
Loan Buying Will Help
Advantage of Relieving
Business From Pressure
Is Shown by Kirchwey
Three thousand men of the 77th
I Division who are now being demobi
| -?lied want jobs.
Gordon L. Sawyer, United States em
: ployment agent detailed <o the 77th
? Division Association, 280 Madison Ave
1 nue, said yesterday that these men,
: who were applauded by hundreds of
: thousands of New Yorkers in Tuesday's
I parade, next week will be trudging
through the streets in search of em
' ployment.
"The worst of it is that 50 per cent
of the discharged men now out of work
? ave clerks, and there is no demand for
; clerks," said Mr. Sawyer. "It is a piti
1 able situation which the jobless men of
, the 77th have to face. Most of the
; clerical jobs were taken up by the early
| comers. Hundreds of those now re?
turning are simply up against it. New
? York uses more clerks than any other
'?? city of the world, yet here are our own
; lighters who helped achieve victory and
! made business possible denied a share.
Employers Must Act
"It is up to New York employers to
? come, across. We cannot afford to per
; mit our men to feel the discouragement
of being turned down when they ask
: for work."
Individuals who buy Victory bonds
? are helping to solve the unemployment
! problem, Dr. George W. Kirchwey,
! director of the employment service,
! ?169 Fifth Avenue, said yesterday. He
issued this statement :
"liiless private individuals subscribe
for the greater part of this loan it
must be done by financial institutions.
If these institutions are forced to place
their funds in the loan they will not
have money free to advance for the de?
velopment of industry. It is certain
that unless industry is able to obtain
sufficient money from the banks with
j which to expand its activities there will
j be no relief from the present unem
! ployment situation.
"The fact that soldiers are being
j received back at their old jobs in no
! way relieves the unemployment prob?
lem, when civilians, both men and
women, are being released daily to
make room for these soldiers.
Industries Should Expand
"The only way to obtain work for all
i soldiers and civilians is to expand the
industries throughout the country. Wc
' all know how important the banks are
] in this connection. Without, plenty of
! money free for new developments we
: may look forward to a continuance of
' the present serious situation, not only
throughout the summer, but through
I out the winter to come."
One discharged soldier who applied
j to the Re?mployment Bureau for Sol
! diers, Sailors and Marines. 505 Pearl
Street, yesterday reported that, he had
been looking for work for four months.
| He got a job upstate as an assistant
; chemist at $1,500 a year. Another said
. his former employer had "turned him
1 down" because of alleged impaired
eyesight. The bureau had the soldier's
I eyes examined and found them in good
condition. One hundred men were re?
turned to jobs by the bureau yester?
day.
! Jersey Mills Lack
Labor^ Says Elkus
That there is a shortage of labor in
1 this country to-day, and that mills in
i New Jersey have work enough to run
j day and night, if they could get the
help, was the statement of Abram I.
Elkus, former Ambassador to Turkey,
in an address on "Reconstruction" be?
fore The Bronx Board of Trade yes?
terday.
"New York City is the magnet of the
United .States," said Mr. Elkus. "Sol
j diers, originally country boys, gather
here instead of going home, where jobs
await them. They remain here out of
work and soon go broke."
Mr. Elkus added that tho failure of
j the employer and employe to get to
j gether was due in great measure to the
disinclination on the part of the pros
] pective employes to accept jobs which
jthey do not consider big enough for
' them.
j Idleness From Dry
Law Not Alarming
Kirchwey Predicts Better
Labor Situation in This
City by the First of July
Claims of the Association Opposed to
National Prohibition that 800,000 men
' will be thrown out of work on July 1
' are causing no alarm at the United
? States Employment Service. Dr. George
W. Kirchwey said yesterday that he
believed there would be less unem?
ployment next July than at present, be?
cause of the rapid return of industry
to a more nearly normal basis.
"By July the revival of industry will
i have gone so far as to reduce materi?
ally the present labor surplus," said
Dr. Kirchwey. "From the point of view
of the unemployment situation, there?
fore, the prospect does not seem to be
alarming. If all the men in the brew?
ing industry were to be discharged at
one time, they would make a consider?
able addition to the unemployed. As
they are being discharged gradually
it seems reasonablo to suppose that
most of them will be able to find other
employment before next summer."
Using the figures of the anti-pro?
hibitionists, which are probably not
! underestimated, Director kirchwey an?
alyzed tho situation as it affects his
own district. About 10 per cent of the
unemployed in tho United States, ho
estimated, were in New York State.
Of these about half are included in the
City of New York. Using the 800,000
unemployed attributed to prohibition
by the "wets," thero would bo about ?
80,000 out of work in New York State
and -10,000 in New York City.
These figures are not alarming, Dr.
Kirchwey explained, because more than
40,000 have been suddenly deprived of
work in this city by strikes of the
clothing trades. In the building trades
.?S Ai'jtUjC111 ujioiit 60,000'men aro out of
Hospital Patients in
Corea Taken as Rebels
Police Charge Wounded Men
Were Implicated in Riots
in Seoul
SEOUL, Corea, April 14 (Correspond?
ence of The Associated Press).?Thir
! ty-eight Corean agitators at Pyeng
; Yang have been sentenced to prison for
?periods ranging from six months to
i two years. Similar sentences were im
' posed upon Coreans by the court at
: Taiku. About 2,-iOO agitators who
were arrested at Seoul and its suburbs
have been released after admonition.
A great many public market places
? in the country have been closed, be
[ cause it was found that disturbances
j arose on market days.
Three Corean patients who were iin
. dergoing treatment for wounds at the
Severance Missionary Hospital have
' been removed to jail, the police charg
i ing that they were implicated in riots
j which broke out in the outskirts of
] Seoul.
There were charges against three
| other hospital patients, but their con?
dition was such that they could not be
1 moved. A number of other patients
j have left the hospital, fearing that
! they would be arrested.
King Promises Voters
To Bare Trolley Evils
; New Jersey Man Announces
Platform on Which He Seeks
the Governorship
PERTH AMBOY, N. J., May 7.?
? Warren C. King, of Middlesex, presi
! dent of the manufacturers' council of
j New Jersey, announced his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for Gov?
ernor in an address here this evening.
Mr. King accompanied this announce?
ment with condemnation of the Public
Service Corporation, which he promised
to subject to a complete investigation,
if elected.
He charged the corporation not only
abrogated contracts entered into with
, private customers, but also by a sur
! charge of 25 per cent on its power
i rates, added earnings of more than
: $1,800,000 in excess of the increase de
, elated necessary because of the war.
"These facts," he said, "indicate that
i the attitude of those controlling the
! interests of the Public Service Cor
! poration is not to serve the people
S but to make the people serve them.
j It is to remedy this I have been asked
! to be a candiilate for Governor at the
I forthcoming Republican primaries. I
accept this challenge. 1 will serve Ihe
I people if they wish me."
Other planks in Mr. King's platform
j include recognition of the right of all
j men, employers and employes, to or?
ganize; establishment of a rural police
i force, and opposition to the passage
of any constitutional amendment un?
less it first has been submitted to the
vote of the people of the states.
Police Accused as Robbers
Harvard Students Hold Men
Who Say They Sought Thieves
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7.?Har?
vard students who were initiated last
night into the Institute and the Dickey
Club arrived at their rooms early to?
day in time to chase and capture two
policemen who are alleged to have
stolen clothing, jewelry and cash from
the quarters of Osgood Hooker, of
j Burlingame, Cal. The policemen are
charged with breaking and entering
? and larceny. They are Charles H.
| Doyle, of the Harvard Square police
j station, and Patrick MeXamara, who
| was pensioned some time ago for m
] juries received in the arrest of a gun
; man.
The policemen declared they were
I innocent and were mistaken for the
j burglars when they joined the chase.
I Hooker's property was found near the
i dormitory.
?
! Police Medal Winners
For 1918 Are Chosen
Detective Who Killed Waiters*
Club Robber- Wins
Citation
The annual citation list of the Po?
lice Department was issued yesterday
giving the names of the medal winners
for 1018.
Acting Detective Sergeant Bertram
Maskiell is awarded the department
medal of honor. On th night of Sep?
tember 7 he broke in upon five robbers
who were holdijjg UP the Waiters'
Club, 787 Sixth Avenue, killed their
leader, wounded another and pursued
and captured a third.
The Rhinelander medal for bravery
is awarded to Acting Captain John D.
Coughlin, commanding detectives of
Kings and Queens. He chased Achille
Serra, an ex-convick who had shot a
i man on Henry Street, September 19.
I Serra fired three shots, wounding Cap?
tain Coughlin in the thigh, and es?
caped. He was later captured.
Patrolman Michael Enright, of the
Traffic Division, wins the Isaac Bell
medal for bravery. On December 16,
near the Wail Street subway station
he captured a mentally deranged sol?
dier, after forcing the maniac to drop
the revolver he had aimed at the pa?
trolman.
Acting Detective Sergeant Gustave
Schley receives the Peter F. Meyer
medal for bravery in rescuing Michael
Reilly, a laborer in the Department of
Docks, who fell down the coal chute at
St. George, January 27, 1918.
The Automobile Club of America
medal goes to Mounted Patrolman John
? E. O'Brien, who on May 4 pursued and
| captured Jeremiah Sullivan, who was
j forcing the door of the Bronx Consum
I ers' Ice Company when O'Brien came
? upon him.
"The Brooklyn Citizen's" medal is
? awarded to Patrolman Schawaroch, who
captured Nino Verna on Bushwick Ave?
nue November 19, after the man had
shot and mortally wounded Gidio Ve
ducia.
10,000 Jobs Found Daily
V. S. Employment Bureau
Places Many Workers
WASHINGTON, May 7.?Placements
by the United States Employment Serv?
ice during the week ending April 26
averaged more than 10,000 a day, the
Department of Labor announced to-day.
During the week 94.325 applied to the
service for jobs, 83,226 were referred
to vacant jobs and 63,283 notified the
service, either directly or indirectly
through their employers, of their
placements. Of those placed 20 per
cent were soldiers.
Curds from overseas troops in need
of jobs on their return are being re?
ceived by the service at the rate of
6,000 a day. "As a result of the nation?
wide drive begun on 'Employment Sun?
day' by the churches," Baid Edward
Easton, jr., national superintendent for
Returning Soldiers and Sailors Bu?
reaus, "soldiers' placements should be
materially facilitated."
Wife of James J. Hill's
Son to Seek Divorce
Admits Suit Will Be Filed, but
Refuses to Discuss Grounds
of Action
Special Comapondtne*
LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 7.--That
she will file a suit for divorce against
Walter J. Hill, youngest son of the
late James J. Hill, of St. Paul, within
a week was admitted by Mrs. Hill this
i morning at her country home in
I Granada Park.
Mrs. Hill would not discuss the
| grounds on which the suit would be
! filed.
"The fact that I am filing a suit and
j that I am assured of being granted a
I decree makes it unnecessary for me
| to say anything further about it, I
' think," she said.
Mrs. Hill has been living for the
. last year and a half in Granada Park
'?? with her little daughter of ten years.
: "I am anxious that no notorious pub
| licity be made of this," she said, "on j
i my little daughter's account. She will
! learn what she will soon enough."
j Before her marriage Mrs. Hill was
Miss Dorothy Barrows, daughter of
one of St. Paul's best known lawyers. ,
Walter Hill served the government ?
! as a dollar a year man during the war.
He now is cruising southern waters I
in his private yacht.
U. S. Turns May Day
Protests Over to the
Armv Commanders
I Department Heads Said to
Have Authority to Order
Courts Martial if Men's
Actions Deserve Penalty
X'W York Trthun*
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May T.?Protests
filed with the Wa r Department against
! the use of tanks to disperse crowds
which gathered in numerous commu
! nities on May Day were to-day re
i ferred to the military commanders in
districts where such government prop
I erty was utilized.
Likewise, the protest from "The New
i York Call" against the activities of j
?persons in uniform against Socialists
i in New York were sent to Major Gen- j
eral Barry, commander of the Depart?
ment of the East, by Secretary Baker
? for a report. If it is found that the
! uniformed men were still in the ser
| vice and amenable to court martial pro
j ceedings. General Barry has authority
j to punish the offenders.
"1 have received several protests,"
I Secretary Bafcer said, "but I have no
I knowledge of what actually happened.
j I have referred the complaints to the
? department commanders for proper ac
i tion."
War Department officials deprecated
! the participation of men in uniform in
the May Day riots. Secretary Baker,
j however, does not contemplate issuing
? a general statement denouncing the
i participation of soldiers in the riots,
; unless it is found that men still in
? the service were guilty of acts that
1 might bring the service into disrepute.
It was denied at the War Depart
j ment that Arthur Guy Empey, now on
| the staff of the magazine "Treat 'Em
Rough," which formerly was the ser
I vice paper for the tank corps of the
I army, had been reprimanded for his
i outspoken advocacy of "rough" treat
! ment for all Bolsheviki. Officials of
: the adjutant general's office declared
the former tank magazine was a pri
I vate enterprise and the War Depart -
I ment had no control over its editorial
j or news columns.
Cooperation of all publications hav?
ing to do with any branch of the mili?
tary service is desired by the War
Department, officials of the recruiting
division of the Adjutant General's De
partment said, and letters have been
! written to numerous magazines sug?
gesting the free distribution of the
publications in recruiting offices where
prospective recruits may read them
with a view to getting additional in?
formation about military setvice.
It was acknowledged that such a let?
ter was written by the department
to the publishers of "Treat 'Era
Rough," but no authority had been
given them to use the phrase "Of?
ficially connected with the War De?
partment."
U. S. Transports Invited
Czechs Out of Siberia
Disabled Soldiers To Be Taken
Home by Way of Pacific
and America
New York Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 7.?The United
States has undertaken to assist in I
transportation of the Czecho-Slovaks !
from Siberia to Czecho-Slovakia at the i
. request of the authorities of Prague, i
it was learned from an official source '
! to-day. One hundred invalids are al- ?
' ready on their way across the Pacific
: and are due to reach the United States ?
i about May 26. As rapidly as ships j
are made availble tne Czechs will be J
transported until all are repatrited. i
There re about 5,000 invalid Czech j
I soldiers in Vladivostok. Three ships j
are on their way to these invalids :
across the Pacific. The Czechs have i
I all been withdrawn from the fighting
j front in Russia.
There are at present in Siberia ap- j
I proximately 40,000 Czech soldiers, rep- j
[ resenting what is left of the troops '
I that deserted from the Austrian army,
i and who fought against the Central
Powers and then against the Bolsheviki
when they were betrayed by Trotzky
and L?nine.
?
Jail for May Day
Rioters at Roxbury
Court Excoriates Bolshevism in
Sentencing Seven Women
and Three Men
BOSTON, May 7.?Three men and
seven women, including Martha H. |
Foley, a suffragist, were found guilty i
in the Roxbury municipal court to-day'
of rioting and assault with a knife
upon Patrolman Samuel Hutehins dur?
ing the May Day radical demonstration
and parade in the Roxbury district.
All but two were given jail sentences
ranging from sixth months to a year
and a half. They gave notice that
they would appeal to-morrow and fur?
nish bail for their appearance befare I
the Superior Court. Two defendants
were fined and nine were found not
guilty.
Sentence was imposed after Judge
Rayden had denounced radicalism and
Bolshevism and had expressed the
hope that the Legislature would enact
laws to check the menace. Miss Foley,
who was sentenced to six months for i
rioting and one year in the House of j
Correction for ass-jult, did not take ad?
vantage of the suggestion by Judge
Hayden that he would be disposed to
give her more lenient treatment if she
would repeat the oath of allegiance t?
tho American flag and agra? to terms
Jaid down by him.
I American Legion
Delegates Expect
Many Controversies
Veterans From New York
Favor Repeal of Prohi?
bition Amendment;
May Keep Nurses Out
Staff Correspondence
ST. LOUIS, May 7.?There is every
indication, judging from the temper
: of the New York City delegates to th?
? national caucus of the American Le?
gion, which will begin a three-day ses?
sion here to-morrow, of a spirited con?
troversy over resolutions desired by
New York delegates favoring a"repeal
of the national prohibition amendment,
favoring a preferential percentage in
civil service ratings for members of
the legion and favoring a rigorous law
against any organisation or any one
in public assemblage advocating opposi?
tion by force to any law of the country.
The New York delegates will caucus
at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning at the
Hotel Jefferson. A preliminary infor?
mal caucus was held on the train, which
reached St. Louis near midnight, three
hours late. Colonel Wade H. Hayes,
of New York City, presided at the
caucus. It was not much of a plac^
to hold a caucus, as thV train was mak
ing fifty miles an hour, but th?
speeches were of the kind that went
over the top.
"This is a self-constituted soviet,"
said Chairman Hayes, as the debater?
tried to tangle him on motions and
amendments. Captain H. Nickerson
read all the resolutions, action on
which was deferred until to-morrow.
Lieutenants O. E. McKainc and D. Lin
coin Reid, negro delegates, former
members of Colonel Hayward's 15th In?
fantry, said to-night that a color line
fight was sure to be started by the
Louisiana white delegates.
"Judge. Parker of New Orleans" has
sent word to Lieutenant Colonel Roose?
velt and others that the Southern white
men will not stand for full equality in
the American Legion for the negro sot
diers," said Lieutenant McKaine. Colo?
nel Roosevelt, Major Wickersham end
Captain Hayes have assured me that
there will be no discrimination against
the colored soldiers."
Doubtless an effort will be made to
obtain membership in the. legion for
the woman army nurses' corps, as they
were a part of the army in France.
The New Jersey delegates in caucas
to-day on the train decided to vote as
a unit and to favor in convention
limiting membership in the legion to
men. Lieutenant D. B. Mulliken, of
Leonia, is chairman of the delegation.
F. J. Knob will present a resolution for
the creation of a legion roll of honor
containing a record of all who died in
the service. Major William F. Deegan,
of New York, strongly favors govern?
ment aid for unemployed soldiers.
At present there is no prospect of n
fight over the plan of the New York
delegation to make Colonel Theodor*
Roosevelt permanent chairman of thf
convention. As temporary chairman he
is to call the convention to order and
make the opening address. The South
em delegates generally would like to
elect Colonel Bennett Clark, of Mis?
souri, son of the Speaker, permanent
chairman. Acting together, the dele?
gates from the Northern states will
control the convention.
Canadians Solve
Helium Gas Secret,
Discovered in U. S.
McGill University Scientists
Work Out Invention That
Would Have Given Amer?
ica 'Mastery of the Air'
WASHINGTON, May 4.?Great Britain
has the secret of helium ?gas, the dis
covery of an American, and up to thi*
time the exclusive property of the
United States government.
No charge is made that a Federal
employe was responsible for the
British government's acquisition of th*
non-combustible chemical, or that it
was obtained by unfair methods. Sci?
entists at McGill University, Montreal,
Canda, it was stated recently, simply
"worked out" the process.
Perfected by Americana
The gas was discovered by a
Washingtonian named Hilderbrand and
perfected by American scientists. It
was shipped to Europe in large quan
tities while the war was on. It is ab?
solutely non-inflammable and was in?
tended, bad the war continued, to be
pumped into dirigibles, which would
then have been immune from explosion
even if hit by shell fire.
Sole possession of the ?gas would
have given the United States "the
mastery of the air" and would have
revolutionized aerial warfare.
It is now being developed at spe?
cial works in Texas and has been
supplied to a number of the new air?
ships of the British admiralty. These
are Zeppelin types and some of them
have a flying or floating radius of ?,
000 miles. In construction many of
them have greater length than the
greatest dreadnoughts. Helium gas w at
relied upon by armp and navy authori?
ties here to provide the United Statte
with sufficient force to back up both
Great Britain and France.
Re-discovered by Canadians
It is said that there wag little
question but that the process
had been "re-discovered" at McGill
University, and that the new British
airships would be equipped for act?
ual service with the invaluable gas.
The Canadian physicists, it is be?
lieved, renewed their search for a non
inflammable gas when they realized the
potentialities of helium gas as a war
asset.
Scientists here are unwilling to ad?
mit that the British gas is, in all re
8pects, comparable to the American
gas, which is now being manufactured
secretly. They are certain, however,
that Great Britain has a ncn-combust
iblye gas and that it is helium.
The research incidental to the dis?
covery of helium was conducted by the
Bureau of Mines here during the war
and also by a special commission af
experts named by the War and Navy
Departments. The gas is evolved from
a certain kind of natural gas, which
was supposed to have been found only
in certain parts of Texas, Oklahoma
and Kansas. It appears, now, how?
ever, that sufficient quantities of tha
natural gas required for the produc?
tion of helium have also been located
in Canada.?Detroit Free Press.
Berlin Forces Ready
To Occupy Leipsig
Workers Strike as Protest
Against Mobilization
in Saxony
LONDON. May T.?It is reported ttf
Leipsie that a great force of govern?
ment troops has been concentrated in
Saxony with the intention of occupy?
ing Leipsie. The workmen of Leipsie,
as ? result, have decided on a general
strike, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen oaya.