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26 Governors
Of 'Dry' States
Indorse 4Drys'
Qnly One Chief of Pol ire
o? 19 City Officials
Interrogated Sees Flau
in Prohibition Conditions
Less Crime, All Declare
Statement- Gathered by
Committee Acting for 'Ver?
dict. * a Boston Publication
Twenty-sis out of twenty-eight Gov?
ernors of prohibition states in inter?
views made public by "dry" forces yes?
terday declare that prohibition has
benefited their states. These twenty
US favor the extension of prohibition.
One Governor, (?. S. Larrazolo, of
New Mexico, opposes prohibition. The
other one l the twenty-eight, Will?
iam L. Harding, of Iowa, did not reply.
The "dry" organization which made
public the result of the interrogation
explained that he was ill.
The interviews wore gathered by n
committee of Boston prohibitionists on
behalf of "The Verdict," a dry publica
' tien. The members of the committee
v/ere Lemuel H. Murlin, president o:
Boston University; John L. Hates, for?
mer Governor of Massachusetts;
George W. < oleman. president of the
Open Forum National Council, ami
Henry I. Harriman. former president
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
The Mayors and chiefs of police of
tec large "dry" cities were interrogated
aiio. Washington, D. C, which has nc
Msyor, was one of the ten cities, so
that inquiries were made of nine Ma?
yors and ten chiefs of police -nineteen
individual?.
Seventeen of these officials gave a
verdict for prohibition. One chief of
police did not reply and one other
chief of police gave a verdict against
prohibition. This was Chief F. H. Lan?
caster, of San Antonio. Ho said:
"Crime has decreased, but bootleg
ping has increased. Prohibition doe?
not prohibit in San Antonio. The only
solution of prohibition is stopping the
manufacture of intoxicating drinks."
Excerpts from some of the replie;
from city officials follow:
Detroit, Mayor Couzens. Prohib?
tion has brought a decrease not aioni
in drunkenness, but in larceny, disor
derly conduct, assault, and batterj
non-support, vagrancy, etc.?a ciecreasi
in ail punishable misdemeanors of 26,
140 over the previous year. Admis
1 sions to the poorhouse have decrease!
from 2.214 to S00. Deaths from aleo
holism have decreased from 92 to IT
Savings depi sits have increased ove:
i25.000.000.
Detroit. First Deputy Commissionei
of Police Hutledge.? Drunkenness ha:
decreased by one-half and genera
conditions have greatly improved.
recently read 100 letters from manu
facturera saying they would not gc
back to "wet" under any circumstance;
- the generu .. and mental con
...v,on of their r. ? n was so much better
Washington.. Superintendent of Po
lice Pullman.?Prohibition has brough
good results. Although the law her?
was imperfect up to March 1, whei
|uor could be brought in for persona
-?. drunkenness has been reduced to ?
inimum and crimes growing out o
drunkenness, such as assault, disor
derly conduct, etc., have been greatl;
reduced.
Seattle, Acting Ma>or Lane.?Prohi
bit.on ii a suc?e:.- here from ever
standpoint. Every effort to restor
the saloon has been overwhelming!
defeated. Times" an
many business mer. who opposed pro
hibition ar- now convinced by its prac
tica! operation. Business has im
?ii ? ? ' Ir unke n ne s
have di emarkably,
Seattle. Chief of Police Warren.
person an ::ov ai
Ii formerly manj ?? ? re ser
there hi ? en a decreas
? drui ienness. Bus
c- however are ver
much . and the business sent
ment 1- overwhelmingly in favor c
prohibil n
Indianapolis. Mayor Jewett. -Ot
county w( rkhouse has been abolish^
rim< reduced and social conditior
improved. Prohibition is a success i
Port land. Mayor Baker. When On
-' ' pted prohibition the improvi
men*, everywhere was so marked thi
a year later a law was passed makir
-.ate bone dry. There was tt
cry of ruining the state, but
Portland's bai
. building permi
transactions i
ed.
Portland, < hief of Polire Johnson.
been a sueco:-,.,. Hti
oreda of representative citizens w
voted gainst I are now ardent su
Buildings formerly occupi
by talo .- .- < -.- rented with very litt
months preceding t
oi '.' proh ibil on I hi died ioi
cases of destitut on, and in pr?
' '-"? - case tbe head of the fai
..'-on bill. Ten mont
after the adopt.on of prohibition
cheeked ?eventy-five corner groce
rtonti ' district where most
'fti ' ' ' oi was, and without
sing!?, exception collections from
t*r eent to T? pr>r cent better wt
?ported, Th>- year preceding prohi
average daily arrests (
were twenty-three; t
year fo owing the average per day w
? -?'- ai oi ' ? -..id.
Denver, Mayor Mill*. 1 her. ?g
' ;i* prohibition haw be
<*f ?."-Ht benefit. Money heretoft
now spent for fa
?" ? i . and the home Ufe \
?ably benefited. Ma
???'? reallj homes now that n*
*?re l<u,*.
Soldiers Favor
bry Law Repeal
r.'eu. York Tribun
Wathinoirtr. Burea
WA8HWGTO??, June 1. if the la
**yi,n?r?, holde good throughout !
?'""?try that preYftil* in Massaehus?-?.
?MJl ?r.r- soldier out Ot *Vf.ry 11,000
'/' *vor fj* prohibition, Rcpreaentati
??fiivan, of Manscht!?Us, author
Wti!**la,"if'r' repealing war ihn? pro
Mo? on b*i.r and wine, said tcs-da7
Wa?t the returning soldier has
I . S. Flier und
Lieutenant and Mrs
Perseverance Won
Bride, Says Flier
Lieut. Robinson W rote a
Letter a Day for Eleven
Months; Then Got "Yes*
A firm believer In Dan Cupid's cor?
respondence school of courtship is
Flight Lieutenant Charles C. Robinson,
R. A. F., of Detroit, Mich., now living
at 701 West IVi'th Street, who returned
Saturday on the Carmania accompanied
by his pretty English bride. It took
eleven months of daily letters from the
Italian and Western fronts to convince
Miss Dorothy Jay, who was playing- a
lpading r?le at the London Hippo?
drome, that she was the intended
spouse of Lieutenant Robinson.
"Persistency was my motto," said
Lieutenant Robinson laughingly. "I
say will determine- the action of Con?
gress on President Wilson's request foi
the repeal of war time prohibition af?
fecting ;:!_'Kr wines and beers," Repre?
sentative Gallivan m-edicted. "As fast
as the troops are landing here they are
being heard from, and already the effect
of this sentiment is noted here.
"I have seen the statement made
that it was a dry army which de?
feated the Huns," he continued. 'The
fanatical friends of prohibition have
not hesitated to misrepresent the facts
to prove their case. Every one knows
that our boys in France had their
light wines and beer. It is quite true
that some busybodies tried to deprive
them of even this light indulgence,
but as such an order would have
meant changing the laws and customs
jf France they did not got very far.
"Father Duffy, beloved priest of the
Rainbow Division, who went into the
crenches while the fanatical prohibi?
cionista sitting in swivel chairs and
irawing fat salaries were trying to
cake wine away from the boys, has
chis to say:
" 'Tnere was little drinking among
the men. and what there was did no
harm. It did theni good. When
they came out of the trenches, dirty
and muddy and grouchy, I thought
many times the money of the trustees'
fund could have been put to no better
use than in rolling a keg of wine down
;very company's street.'
''Massachusetts troops in the New
England division are overwhelmingly
opposed to prohibition of light wines
md beers. This is not guesswork. 1
??now whereof I speak. Between
11,000 and 12,000 of them have signed
a petition to the Massachusetts legis?
lature, saying that the national pro
hibition amendment was put over with?
out considering them, and asking that
the legislature legalize the sale of 4
per cent beer.
"Of all those twelve thousand sol?
diers, then in Camp Devens, only one
man refused to sign. One man out or
twelve thousand think of that.
"The chief difficulty that the cir?
culators of the petition experienced
was in preventing men outside of
Massachusetts from signing. In, this
they were not altogether successful.
About 240 men from other New Eng?
land States and from New York, Ore?
gon. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota,
New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, Wis?
consin, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louis?
iana, Florida -yes, even from the arid
and bone dry state of Kansas -signed
the petition."
His British 3ride
Charles li. Robinson
met Miss Jay one evening with some
friends, and invited her to dine. She
declined and the following day I was
ordered to duty on tho Italian front.
For the ensuinr- eleven months I wrote
daily, and when my next leave came she
capitulated."
In addition to winning a bride. Lieu?
tenant Robinson has to l-.ls credit sev?
eral enemy machines, bagged in nearly
300 ?mu! s over the foe's lines. He was
: a member of Flight Squadron No. 66,
| which during May, 1918, had fifty-on?
confirmed enemy "crashes."
"Our throe squadrons," said Lieu
tenant Robinson, "liad more than 150
miles of front, to patrol. Instead of
going over the linos in patrols of
eight and ten as we did on tho Western
front, we numbered never more than
five, and seldom moro than throe, to
each group. And for forced landings,
rugged mountains are my last choice."
The most prized of Lieutenant
Robinson's war souvenirs is a note
.from Theodore Roosevelt compliment?
ing him on his bravery, coupled with
the hope of" his safo return.
Schooner in Distress
French Vessel Being Battered
by Gales South of Halifax
HALIFAX. X. S., June 1. A vessel
believed to be h five-masted auxiliary
schooner Commandant Challes, of
Bordeaux. Franco, is helpless with a
broken rudder and is being battered
by gales, 500 miles squth of here, ac?
cording to a wireless message to the
Marino Department to-night from an
unidentified steamer. The steamer re?
ported that two ships would be required
to tow tile disabled craft. Her posi?
tion was given as latitude 3P:12 north,
'longitude 64:06 west.
The Commandant Challes, which left
Galveston on May T for Bordeaux, put
i:i to Norfolk in distress on May 23
and cleared from that port, on May 20.
Drive Doubles Membership
RroadVay Association Is Still
Seeking Applicants
The Broadway Association announced
yesterday that the first four days of
its membership campaign had more
than doubled the number of members.
It is hoped to triple- or quadruple the
membership.
The new members already obtained
are scattered along the length of
Broadway in such a way as to guar
..; tee thi -v.;''--- . of tin a.--o;::aiion?s
.. ,. to ':.:?'.. it membership represen
tai ve of all '.?: Broadway.
Girl, 12, Rescues Another
Of Light From East River
Rose Linsky, eight years old. of 420
Fast Eighth Street, fell into the East
River yesterday afternoon while trying
to climb to a raft on which children of
the neighborhood were playing.
She had gone down twice when
Sarah Mehl, twelve years old, of "JTR
Seventh Street, seized her by the hair
and pulk-d her out.
Woman Leaps to Death
I'nder 3d Avenue "L" Train
An unidentified woman about thirty
five years old killed herself last night
by jumping in front of an elevated
train as it pulled into the Fifty-ninth
Street Station of the Third Avenue
line. Three cars passed over her body.
Hook and Ladder Company 16 removed
the body. It was taken to the Fast
Fifty-first Street police station.
Scouts Are Ready
For Their Great
Drive Next Week
Campaign ?s To Be Opened
With Mass Meeting To Bt
Addressed by Secretary
Daniels and Many Others
Finishing touches were put yester?
day to the arrangements for what
promises to be the most picturesque
? drive in which New York ever has par
| ticipated.
Boy Scout week, which will open
j with a groat mass meeting at the Hip?
podrome next Sunday evening, will be '
; enlivened by a greater series of
; pageants, parades, moving picture pro?
grammes and speeches than its origi?
nal backers thought possible.
Practically every man in public life
i in the United States, from President
Wilson down, cither has begun an ac?
tive participation in the Scouts' cam?
paign for an adult associate member?
ship of 1,000,000 men. or has agreed to
do so at once. The New York commit
tee is composed of bankers, corporation
heads, clubmen, ministers and city of?
ficials.
Next Sunday's mass meeting will be
opened with an address by William
H. Edwards, chairman of the greater
New York campaign committee, in
which he will set forth the purposes of
the drive. Josephus Daniels, Secre?
tary of the Navy, will deliver the key?
note speech of the evening. William
(j. McAdoo, former Secretary of the
Treasury, and chairman of the Citi?
zens' National Committee, will follow
Mr. Daniels.
Among other speakers will be Major
General O'Ryan, Fathei Duffy and
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Mr. Edwards
said yesterday that because of the non
sectarian nature of the Scouts' work
assistance had been offered by every
church in the city. The aid of the
churches, he said, would go a long way
toward carrying the city over the top
with its quota of 300,000 members.
Music for the opening meeting will
be provided by the police band and
grand opera singers of note. John Me
Cormack and Mme. Margaret Romaine,
i of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
were among the first to volunteer to
sing.
Yesterday President Wilson's proc?
lamation of Boy Scout week, in which
he called upon. Americans to aid in
the membership drive, was read in
churches throughout the United
States.
-?
Marks Asks Daylight
Hearing Be Postponed
| Repeal Action Scheduled With?
out Giving Opponents Time
to Appear, He Says
Asserting that, with only a day's
i notice, the Interstate Commerce Com
j mittee of the House had scheduled for
? to-day a hearing on the question of re?
pealing the daylight saving law, Mar?
cus M. Marks, head of the National
Daylight Saving Association, announced
here Iasl night that he was telegraph?
ing to Washington, requesting post?
ponement on tiie ground that pro
: ponents of daylight saving would be
unable to reach the capital in time to
attend the hearing.
He added that Sidney M. Colgate,
manufacturer, who left for Washing?
ton last night to represent him at the
hearing, also would ask that it be de
I ferred until next week.
Calls Reds' Theories Crazy
Dr. van Dyke Applauds War
Against Paganism
"The wonderful thing about the
world war was the way it. united the
conscience and religious faiths of men
in resistance to the Cern?an paganism
of unrighteous power." said Dr. Henry
Van Dyke at the Brick Presbyterian
. Church, Fifth Avenue and Thirt.y
. seventh Street, yesterday. Dr. Van
Dyke was occupying his former pulpit
on behalf of a movement to raise a
fund of $3,200,000 for the relief of
? Protestant Churches in France and
Belgium.
"Bible teachings, beginning with the
prophets of Israel, culminating in the
words of Jesus and continuing through
the apostles shows a heavenly common
' sense in working out the doctrine of
beneficence. It is at the opposite ex
| treme from the crazy theories of the
i Bolshevists and anarchist* who deny
God, degrade man, and destroy that
: which they propose forcibly to divide,"
he said, in urging the congregation to
: give freely.
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Seven Yonkers Families
Made Homeless by Fire
Fruit Storage Plant Destroyed;
Five Other Buildings Wrecked
by Gasolene Explosion
YONKERS, June 1.? The city fire
apparatus was called out to-day when
a gasolene tank exploded in the whole?
sale fruit storage plant of C. & R.
LeLello, at 19 School Street, just be?
fore daybreak. The storehouse was
destroyed and live other buildings bad?
ly damaged. Seven families were
driven into the streets in ?heir night
clothes. Their houses were ruined by
fames. The cause of the explosion is
unknown. The estimated damage in
?200,000.
The tank went up with a roar, shak?
ing houses for several blocks anc
bringing their occupants to tht
streets. The flames completely envel?
oped the two-story brick storehous:
and then spread to two wooden dwell
ings on School Street. They soot
spread to a warehouse iind ther
jumped to Morgan Street.
\\ ooden ties and girders on the Put
tarn Railroad's two-track trestle oi
Morgan Street caught lire and the fire
men had difficulty in preventing a tie
up on the road The flames were gain
ing such headway that Deputy Fir,
Chief Farrington turned in a genera
alarm. After three hours the fire wa
under control.
?
Bootlegging Declared
Legal in Cincinnat
CINCINNATI, June 1.?Bootleggei
can operate in Cincinnati streets, eve
though Ohio went into the prohibitio
class. That is the opinion of Georg
S. Hawkr, attorney for the Hamiltc
County "drys." Hawke stated that, ?
far as he knows, there is no state la
to prevent bootlegging under ce
tain conditions. In striking mann
he portrayed how the sale of liqu
can proceed openly on the streets
Cincinnati without fear of inte
ference, after the government's r
quirements have been met.
"If a man goes to the internal Re
enue Office at Cincinnati and pa
Uncle Sam $1,000 for a Federal licen
to sell liquor in a dry territory, th
man could peddle whiskey through t
streets of Cincinnati," Hawk dec?an
"So far as I know, lie would be v
touched by any law and unmolest
by any 'dry' workers, provided he (
not make two sales of liquor at t
same place, if iie were selling
wagonload of liquor, and made 1
horse move forward one step af'
each sale, I think the man would
violating no law, and I do not see h
vvc could stop him. I do not think
could even get a court to gran: us
injunction to stop him, because
CONY
MOTOR GASOLINE
Tonic food for
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fulFkickln every
drop ? ?????.
See Saturday's issue of The New York Tribun?
for a list of dealers who display the SoCOny sign.
The sign of a reliable dealer
and the worlds best Gasoline
junctions can now be granted only ! made two sales at one place, and thus ! liquors for the long drouth. The
where a man's property rights are en- ; established a place of selling liquor, passing of liquor from the Queen
(Lingered, and who would say the ped- , then we could stop him." City was unmarked by rowdyism of
1er would be endangering any one's ? Cincinnatians spent more than any sort, but with many farewell
property rights? But if the pedler $1,000,000 in laying in their supply of parties.
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