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TWO t EXTS
in Greater New Yo k and
uitltin commit tine distance
rilliER e lAI'?
Glass Against
New Credits
For Europe
U. S. Has Done All It Re?
lieves Practical to Re?
lieve Financial Chaos
0f War, Secretary Says
Opposes Proposed
World Conference
Holds Meeting Would Re?
vive Hopes, Sur?' To Be
Doomed, of More Loans
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.?The
United States does not look with
favor upon certain features of the
proposed international conference
recently called by a coterie of na?
tionally known financiers and com?
mercial leaders in an effort to lead
the world out of the financial and
commercial chaos into which it was
dragged by the war.
Secretary Glass declared to-nijrhl
in a letter to a committee of th<
Chamber of Commerce of the Unitec
States which had sought a govern
ment expression on the meeting thai
such a conference would serve "t(
cause confusion and revi%-e hopes
doomed to disappointment, of fur
Iher government loans.''
With a note of some finality, Mr
Glass set forth the government',
policy with respect to furnishini
credits, stating that the Treasur;
"is opposed to government contro
over foreign trade and finance, an?
even more opposed to private con
trol.
Opposes Cancellation of Loans
"It is convinced that the credits r<
quired for the economic restoratio
must come through private channel
In this re.-pect this government feai
the proposed conference would mea
many Europeans would assume that tr
United States was about to should?
more of their burdens," Mr. Glass e:
plained.
"If the Chamber of Commerce of t!
United States ?to which were left. ?3?
tails of the conference call) considei
it advisable and desirable to designa;
representatives to attend an unoftiei;
conference," Mr. Glass said, "the Trea
wty Department does not offer obje
tion, provided the scope and charact?
and limitations of such a conferenc
as well as the impossibility of Unit?
States government action,, aje cleat
understood. But there are numero?
suggestions contained in the memori
aent broadcast by the leaders which a
clearly not appropriate for consider
tion, such as cancellation of some
any obligations of foreign governmen
held by the United States, or even tl
deferring of obligations of foreign go
ernments to liens created in favor
loans hen-after made for reconstruct i?
purposes."
Differences in the Calls
Mr. Glass directs attention to d
ferenbes which he discovered in t
forma! call for the conference as issu
"ere and in several foreign countri?
The memorials circulated in Kurot
Mr. Glass sad. apparently advocat
further governmental financial assi;
>nce and requested the respective gc
ernments to designate representative
to those international meetings whi
thus wou d accord it an official eh;
acter. This, however, was omitt
from the document circulated in t
united States and made public in V
>"r!< January 14.
v'r' situation facing Europe, t
Secretary of the Treasury aid. v\
one to be solved by the' activity
those nations and their nationals a
not for settlement by any wor
*uie plan such as the proposed int?
national conferences contemplate.
From the moment of th? cess?t i
tief ?' Mr. Glass added, "1
ireagury of the united Stat? - has pi
SSed a policy of looking toward I
restoration as promptly a^ possible
normal economic conditions, the
noval of governmental controls arid
terferences and the restoration of
dividual initiative and free comp?
?ion in busine: -. The Treasury lc.
?in?, w th th? cooperation of the F
era; Reserve Hoard, removed the <
bargo on the export of gold, thus
?olint? American citizens and, indc
'"? ? ? - ? oi the world, to the
tel t thai ? ? cy nd credit i ere,
finance their purchases throughout
"oild in ca
How Europe Could Get Relief
Sightly or wrongly, a differ
Policy has beci pursued in Kur<
Europea i goven nents have rm
tamed, ?nee th? cessation of host
v*a, ernbargoi upon the export
T'ld. The rectil cation of the
changes now adverse to Europe
primarily in th? hands of E irop
Iftvernment?. The normal method
'?'?*'-'?? g an ad ver ? internai c
Balance . to (yip gold. The refi
: -? p gold ; reventa I he rect i fi ca t
?-an adverse exchange. The need
t*Id ????: :.,;??,' . lie? ?n * he '/pan
tcrrcney and credit ?structure
wrope. Relief wouid be found n
?lament, r< imption of ?nduet
"j? and act m'ty and the imposition
'??"? '. ?-'.' don i ?tic loan?.
The American people should not
??'--' opin on, be called upoi to fina
'_ '?' ???? ild i v i ? -j opinion r<-?p
Vj ? den an?! that they fir anee,
'"'- liren ent* of Europe in ?o far
**7 r? ? from the failure to t
j'??v- nee? ...r? step? for th? rehai
tetion 0f credit."
"<* Gla characterized as '
?fUtleabl? ' international bond ?an
paranteea and international meas
rt?t?W! zati< n of exchange which ?
'? <>'? tak? ? ap ;, ..,. conference, f
toi never would prove workable
Wteyed, -, long a? there exl I
jj"*lltl?a in taxation and diff?re
p-Uw ?xcal policies of the counl
*? ??<?; VV1 < ; theae inequa
F ?" '" ? no longer exiat, rea
W the international meaaure?
1,1 aav? ?-a? ihed, < < ai ?erted
fotnwiy for Exchange l'u/./le
.ft ??Did be "folly and unthloka
'' '* II upon the American peopl
?P*4'/ the preaent InequalUlea in
'.^"?v ? Theae inequahti??, mean?
. ;*"''*'.iori ,,r which formed one ol
g*?'pa] biMn f?r rr? confer?
"* born >,f ?, policy o? taxai on
i ''a'?in/id on page three
Morgan 's Grandson
Elopes and Weds
Laurens M. Hamilton Is
Reported Bride groom of
Pretty ^Mrs. Warren"
The romance of a runaway marriage,
in which Laurens M. Hamilton, the
nineteen-year-old grandson of the late
J. Pierpont Morgan, enacted the leading
role, was unfolded yesterday. The
marriage took place last Monday some
? here in the seclusion of rural New
Hampshire, despite the efforts of Mrs.
William Pierson Hamilton, mother of
the young man. to prevent it.
it was through her efforts to fore?
stall the ceremony that news of the
marriage became known. An interest?
ing air of mystery shrouds the-identity
of the bride, who is xaiil to be a Mrs.
Gertrude Warren, well known in Eu?
rope and this country.
Mrs. Warren, who is also referred
to as Mrs. Gregory Warren, was a
guest at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton until
the elopement. As far as can be
learned, it was in that hostelry that
young Hamilton first met his bride.
At the Ritz-Carlton yesterday it was
admitted that Mrs. Warren recently
had been a guest, but further informa?
tion was refused. From another source'
it. was said that Mrs. Warren was a
native of Louisville and was about
thirty-two years old. She was de?
scribed as being beautiful.
Nothing could be learned about, her
former marriage, nor the identity of
Gregory Warren. It was said that, dur?
ing the war Mrs. Warren was engaged
in war work in this country and abroad.
William Pierson Hamilton, father of
the young man, declined last night
to discuss the marriage.
Senate to Take Up
Sims Navy Charge
Daniels To Be Asked to
Report on Conditions
at Outbreak of War
WASHINGTON", Jan. 29. Charges
made to-day by Rear Admiral William
S. Sims that the navy was not prepared
to enter the war in 1917 are to he
investigated by the Senate subcommit?
tee already entrusted with inquiry into
the navy's conduct of the war. which
has been criticised by the same offiper.
Acting on a written suggestion from
Admiral Sims. Chairman Page, of the
Naval Committee, asked Secretary
Daniels to submit, lull information as
to the condition of the navy just pre?
ceding the entrance of the United
States into the World War.
After conferring with Senator Hale,
chairman of the sub-committee. Sen?
ator Page wrote Mr. Daniels asking
that he transmit a detailed statement
showing the location of American war?
ships two months anel one month prior
to the declaration of war, and their
location upon the actual day this coun?
try entered the war. In addition Sen?
ator Page asked for the names of the
ships ready for distant service when
war was declared ayd the names of
Ciose not ready, and the reason for
their unpreparedness.
Investigation into the naval awards
controversy was to have been resumed
to-morrow with Secretary Daniels
testifying before the sub-committee,
but owing to the illness of Senator
Trammel], Democrat, of Florida, a sub?
committee member, the hearing was
postponed until Tuesday, at which time
the Secretary will appear. The wider
inquiry into Admiral Sims's charges of
unpreparedness and failure to co
operate fully with the Allied navies will
be made bv the same sub-committee
later.
Bergdoll Is Insane.
Is Plea of Defense
Millions Will Be Spent, it Is j
Said, to Obtain 4equittal of
Alleged Draft Dodger
Counsel for Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, charged wi'h draft elodging, won
their first skirmish in his defense yes?
terday when Lieutenant Genera) R. !..
Bullarel prepared to appoint a board of
medical examiners to inciuirc into his
sanity.
Frank A. Spencer jr., Bergdoll's civil?
ian counsel, filed an application for an
inquiry anel announced that the ele
fense would contend the prisoner
was insane. Under Article 219 of the
Manual of Courts Martial. General Bill?
iard is required to appoint a board of
examiners upon such application.
This will delay the court martial
until about February 25, if it does not
prevent, a trial altogether. An insane I
man cannot be tried by court mania!.
The inquiry is expected to begin within
two weeks.
'?'here is every indication that huge|
sums will be spent to prove the young!
millionaire insane.
Mr. Spencer anel Captain Bruce!
Campbell, Bergdoll's military counsel.
will represent the inter?-!:-' of the |
prisoner af the inquiry. Lieutenant
Colonel Charles G. Cresson is th?
prosecuting judge advocate. He will
be assist?e! by Major Louis Kohn, Cap?
tain Robert K. Hannay and Captain
John M. Weir.
Starvation Threatens
Part of Newfoundland
Mariners, Win? Walk 17 i- Miles,
Report Winter-Bound Towns
Are Near Famine
HALIFAX, \'. S.. .Ian. 29. Inhabi?
tant!) of southwestern Newfoundland
are threatened with .starvation on ac?
count or thn terrible wintry conditions
along the route of the Reid Newfound?
land Railway, according to Captain
Pettipas and Captain Shaw, two
weather-beaten mariners, who reached
their homes here to-day. Their schoon?
ers, the Itasca and the Cecil L. Beck, |
were frozen in at North Bay. N. F.,
and in r>nicv to reach Port-aux- i
Basques fo g? ? ? steamship for Syd '
...-.- ??' >'., they were obliged to travel
17-,'mil?-- of the ice-bound railway by
,'?,',' and ?led.
Town? and village? between North
Bay and for', aux Lasquen ai- running,
out of pro-..-:o." . <; "V said, and there
,.. a?? pxtrern?: hortage of flour. I os
, ibil ty of having the supply replen |
??he?] v/a? ren., they <i?c ?red, be
cau?e the railway i? completely blocked
v/ th Ice? and ?now und it will be many
week? before traffic can bo rcHumcd.
They ?leucrifted condition? as ap
palling " . - . f
"I don', know what is to become of
th? people," ?aid Captain Pettlpo?.
?. ?,.,?,-?' ?'?II UP
t,?>?? >l?irtiliiK e.lrl I'-'. ..'"i '??""">
U. S. Steel Raises Wages;
275,000 Share in Increase
Pay of All Day Laborers to Advance 10 Per Cent;
Independent Companies Put Up Prices;
Gary Opposed to Higher Rates
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, an?
nounced yesterday an increase of in per
cent in the wages of the day laborers of
the corporation, effective to-morrow.
Wages of other workers, he said, will
be "equitably adjusted." The advances
will affect about 275,000 men.
Coincident with the announcement of
Mr. Gary it was learned that inde-,
pendent manufacturers of steel are pre?
paring to put in effect to-morrow price
increases averaging 10 per cent over cur?
rent quotations. This advance will fol- ,
low increases already in force over the
schedule agreed upon with the War
Industries Board last. March.
Demand Causes Price Raises
According to E. G. Grace, president of
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, that
company's present price list is on the
average $4 a ton above the prices
?ltioted during the war emergency.
Other independent companies, owing to
the urgent demand for steel, ure under?
stood to be charging even more be?
cause of the willingness of buyers to
pay stiff premiums 1o insure quick de?
liveries.
The united States Steel Corporation,
however, has as yet made no change in
its price policy of adhering to the
schedule of the War Industries Board.
In a statement issued shortly after the
first of the year Mr. Gary opposed fur?
ther increases on the ground that they
would tend to increase the cost of
living.
The reason offered by independent
Hamby Dies
6Game'; Cries
4Here Goes!'
Robber Who Killed Two in
Bank Hold-Up Here Faces
Death Smiilingly, With
Cigarette Between Lips
Cordon Fawcett Ifamby, a cigarette I
between his lips, walked blithely into
the death chamber at Sing Sing prison
shortly after 11 o'clock last night and
paid the penalty for the murder of De
Witt C. Peale, paying teller of the Fast i
Brooklyn Savings Bank, which Ham by
and a confederate, who has ne'er been'
captured, held up and robbed of $13,500
on December I'd, 1918. Hamby also
killed another man during -he robbery.
He went to the chair without spirit- ;
ua! consolation. Just as he had cour?
teously asked the prison chaplain.-, ?lur?
ing his stay in the death house to re?
frain from attempts to discuss religion
with him. he civilly requested them at
the last to ief him go to his Maker
without their prayers.
"I'll Stand Like a Man," !!?? Says
"I shall stand before Ilini like a
man." he told tile Rev. Dr. A. X. Peter?
son, Protestant chaplain, "an?) take my
medicine like a man. You're too good
a friend of mine, doctor, to go in there
with me. 1 know you won't go." He
was accompanied to '.he chair by Prin?
cipal Keener Martin .1. Dceley'and two
guards.
A woman, Mrs. Nellie Seaman, bet-i
t?-r known under her pen' name of
"Nellie Hly," saw him ?lie. Mrs. Sea?
man, who writes for the Hearst paper:-,
stn.iv? t" the last moment to have Cov?
ern-" Smith reprieve the condemned
man. She walken arm in arm with
Warden Lewis K. Lawes at the head of
the solemn iitt!?- procession. Hamby
came next. He walked the few paces to
the death chamber with a firm, un?
faltering tread. His slow, even puffs
at. his cigarette spoke of iron nerve.
Two keepers brought up the rear of
tlie death march..
The doomed man's companion'? of the
death house, their gaze mercifully cur?
tained off, managed nevertheless to
catch a glimpse of Ilamhy. or as they,
in deference to his wishes, always
called him, .lay B. Allen.
"Good by. Jay." one shouted. "Gooil
by, u<>?'< by," the confraternity of
killers t?jok up the cry.
The Last Look a Smile
Hamby had reached the threshold
of the chamber. He paused, smiled,
looked hack over his shoulder.
"Here goes!" he call?-.I. "Good by,
?very one."
The door closed behind him.
It was six mir uies after eleven when
he came to a half beside the grim con?
trivance by which the state exacts its
utmost punishment. Hamby glanced al
the chair with a sort of appraising
curiosity. Mrs. Seaman covered her
face up to her eyes with her mini.
Thus she saw the i'^>\.
Ilamhy let his eyes wander over the
thirty or so witnesses, mostly news?
paper men and physicians, and then
tinned to Warden Lawes.
, "May I say something?" he asked.
"Of course," Lawes replied,
"I want to thank you. warden," the
doomed man said in a voice that, al?
though a trifle husky, was noticeably
firm, "for all you have done for me
while I have been here. And I also
want fo say, regardless of whatever
lias been said by any one who ever had
the misfortune and it was always a
misfortune financially -to he in iron:,
?if .1. B. Allen's gun he always had a
chance, an?! a good chance."
This finished, the condemned man
submitted quietly, unconcernedly to be?
ing adjusted m the electric chair, and
did not appear to voluntarily move a
muscle from then until the current was
switched on.
The indifference to his fate that
Continued on paye ten
Platform Contest
MORI-, than 800 Planks!
The; Tribune's Repub?
lican platform e:onte:st lias al?
ready brought that number.
More are; coming in every
day.
The platform page to-day
is page (^
-_ . i
steel manufacturers for their con?
templated price advances is a material
increase in the costs of production due
to the strike last fall, inadequate
transportation facilities and an ex?
pected increase in freight rates after
I the railroads have been returned to
private ownership on March 1. Steel
men believe that this increase will be
about 25 per cent.
Rail Equipment to Advance
I Higher prices for steel will prob
I ably be followed by further advances
i m the quotations of railroad equip
i ment, and other products in which steel
| forms one of the main ingredients.
j The wage advance announced yes
I terday by the Steel Corporation is the
j first since October, 1918. In that year
three general advances were made.
j On April lt> an advance of 15 per cent
and on August 1 an increase of 10 per
cent were made in common labor rates
On October 11, 1918, the plants of the
subsidiary manufacturing companies
I were placed on the basic eight-hour
; day, with time and one-half paid for
: overtime.
The total amount of the corpora?
tion's payrolls in 1918 was $452,663,
I 5714, the largest in its history up to
I that year. Last year they were larger,
j owing to the accumulation of the ad
1 vanees. The largest number of em
I ployes in any one month on the pay?
roll was 283,414? while the average
daily wage for the year was $5.38,
compared with $4.10 in 1917.
It is understood that the important
independent companies will follow the
lead of the Steel Corporation in ad?
vancing wages. This has been their
custom in the past.
Big Financiers
May Be Called
In ?.R.T. Quest
Board Is Told the Expense
; of Financing Loans Was
SI 7,523,941; Value of
the Assets Is Questioned
--. /
The Roard of Estimate's traction in?
vestigation yesterday took a twist in
the direction of Mayor llylan's charge
that the Interborough employees strike
of last year was part of n conspiracy
to force an increased fare from the
city. The charge was dropped by the
extraordinary grand jury recently on ?
the ground that there was insufficient ;
evidence. !
Edward F. J. Gaynor, auditor of the!
Interborough Rapid Transit Company,
testified that the Interborough spent
more than $2,000.000 to breitk the strike
of 1916, which lasted several Werks,
but that, so far as he knew, no con?
siderable sum was spent to combat the
labor trouble of last year. Corpora?
tion Counsel Burr asserted that the
leader of the employees gave the strike
order over the Interborough telephone
from Interborough headquarters, and
also posted the order on the Inter?
borough bulletin board.
Three I. K. R. Men Summoned
District Attorney Swann said last
nighl he had issued subpeenas for
three men who resigned from the em?
ploy of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company on Friday last. They are
David \V. Ross, who was ?i vice-presi?
dent of the company; Frank .J.
Delaney, who was chief clerk in the
purchasing department of the company,
and Mansfred Fuhrer, former assistant
to the vice-president of the 1. R. T.
These subp?nas are returnable
to-day. There was much mystery
about the purpose of this move, Mr.
Swann making no statement other than
saying he had information which, if
correct, warranted an inquiry.
Request summonses were aiso issued
for R. R. McDonald and \V. G. Straight,!
superintendents of economy for the!
company. These men are still con-;
nected with t he I. It. T.
The fact that flic other three had
quit the company was brought to light
in the transit inquiries. Mr. Swann
indicated that he was on the trail of
something important.
Big Rankers to Re Called
Yesterday's session at City llalli
brought out the admission by Mr.
Gaynor that the total banking and.
financing expenses in the flotation of
all the Interborough loans and bond
issues amounted to $17,523,911. In
connection with this financing anil!
other phase? of the traction inquiry it
is almost certain that members of the
firm of .1. P. Morgan <fc Co., John D.
Rockefeller and August Belmonl will ;
be asked to appear and testify.
Corporation Counsel Burr declared
that $50,000,000 worth of Interborough
securities, carried as assets on the
hooks of that corporation, were not
really assets, but investments in out?
side securities, many of them of doubt?
ful status. These, he showed, included
a $7,000,000 deficit incurred in the
construction of the Belmont tunnel,
$6,000,000 for acquisition of hases and,,
$11,000,000 invested in the Subway
Realty and Queens Cmunty Railway
companies.
Mr. Burr spent a larg? part of both
morning and afternoon sessions get?
ting material from a prospect . of the
Interborough used as prop ? n.da in
floating the last Interbi i loan.
He was able to get the iu!n.. on from!
the Interborough official, after several
hours of examination in detail, that
statements in the booklet, were "mis?
leading."
$18,872,070 Surplus Possible
Wood D. Loudoun, a Deputy Commis- j
sinner of Accounts, the first witness,
said he had made an independent in- '
vestigation, and had concluded that
if th<' Interborough had confined its
dividends to a ~ per cent basis between
1904 anil 1919 it would now have a sur?
plus on hand of $48-872,070. Approxi?
mately the same figures were given
the day before by Mr. Gaynor, for the
company.
Commissioner Loudoun testified that
an investigation of th?'Manhattan Rail-,
way Company's records showed that
the Rockefeller General Kducation
Hoard held 20,278 shares; the Rocke?
feller Foundation, 10,000 'hares; the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Rp
search, 6,356, and the University of I
ChicnKO, 5,400 shares.
(.- || La Guardia, Pre ??dent of the '
Hoard of Aldermen, wanted to know
Continued on /mgr ten
Flu Drops to
4,706 Cases;
100 Deaths
Situation Still Serious.
Says Dr. Copeland; Re?
minds Every Citizen to
Obey All Health Rules
Lull is Temporary;
Peak Not in Si^ht
Decrease Offset by Gain
in Mortality; Nurses To
lie Trained Hurriedly
Tlie Health Department yesterday re?
corded a decrease in the number of cases
both of influenza and pneumonia. In
?.the twenty-four hour period ended at
I 10 a. m., 4,700 cases of influenza devel
i oped in the greater city, a drop of 883
i from the previous chart period. The
: pneumonia cases also declined, 649 being
reported, against OSO in the twenty-four
i hours preceding.
The death rate, however, showed a
I jump. One hundred perse is succumbed
! to influenza, an increase of thirty-three
over the day before. Pneumonia deaths
totaled 136, or eighteen more than on
Wednesday.
Dr. Royal S. ConeeVmd, Health Com?
missioner, said last night that the ap?
parent lull in the development, of the
| twin diseases had no significance.
Scourge Reaches Midway Point
"The figures mean nothing," he said.
| "We are in the midst of an epidemic.
Unless material increases or decreases
are recorded the statistics are not sig?
nificant."
The situation is serious, the Health
Commissioner declared, and must not
be minimized by the public.
"In my opinion the peak of the epi?
demic will not be reached for some
day.-." Dr. Copeland said. "Reports to?
day indicate increases in the number of
deaths, and the number reported to?
morrow will probably be materially in
excess of these figures. The situation
is such that every citizen must ap?
preciate his personal responsibility to
do those tilings which will protect his
own health and refrain from ?loing
things which will endanger the health
of others."
Other indications of the spreaet of
the epidemic in the greater city in?
cluded:
? Reports at the offices of the Public
Service Commissioner that 2,402 men
were on the sick list of the Interbor
ough, the B. It. T.. the New York Kail
ways Company and the Third Avenue
"L" line. This is nearly 10 per cent of
one total number of employees of the
companies.
Pleas from the telephone company
that necessary calls only be made, the
system being hampered by the absence.
of 2,000 operators.
The determination of the Health De?
partment to start a training school for
practical nurses for us?! in the emer?
gency. !
Declaring that the "greatest need in
the control of the epidemic is nurses,"
Commissioner Copeland announced a
plan developed by the Health Depart?
ment for combating the shortage. He
said:
"it is impossible to supply the neces?
sary number of graduate nurses, and
practical nurses are being used in
great numb?:-;. In order ?hat we may
have at our disposal within ten ?lays an
unfailing supply it is our purpose to
establish at the Department of Health
an intensiv? course of training.
Lessons Will lie Practical
"This work will be m charge of Miss
Louisa M. Webster, who bad charge of
the War Service Training School for
Women during the sun.mer of 1918.
Miss Webster has taken an office m
the Department of Health head?iuarters
and is preparing to begin the course
next Monday at -i p. m. Applicants may
register at any time between 3 and
5 o'clock in the afternoon from Mon?
day to Friday at Miss Webster's office.
Lecture.-, will be given by Health De?
partment physicians. Practical demon?
strations of bedroom work will be given
by a professional nurse and dietary
work will be directed by a dietitian.
"The first class will be prepared for
practical work in one week, although'
some members who have had experience
and who are particularly well qualified
to adapt themselves may be able to
complete the course before that time,
Assignments will be made at the rate
of $4 a day, to lie paid by the Depart
Requests for 125 nurses reached the
department yesterday. Dr. Copeland
was able to supply eighty. He urged
that noor families indicate their need
of nurses to the Health Department.
If tin- applicant is not able to pay, the
Health Department will settle the bill.
"The prevailing rate of nursing serv?
ices is $6 ?i day. Hut if a family is
pleased with the work don?' and is will?
ing to pay more, it can enter into
other arrangements with the nurses,"
said Dr. Copeland. "A very few nurses
are reported as making exorbitant
charges.. We have been informed of
one cas?' where a man charged $35 for.,
a day and a night. The Health De?
partment wants to know of any such
instances."
Commissioner Copeland asked that,
instead of writing to the department,
persons prepared to aid in the tiprht
against th* epidemic as trained or prac?
tical nurses report in person to head?
quarters and "go right to work."
Sprea?! of Epidemic, by Boroughs
Figures for the chart ?lay ended at
10 a. m. yesterday, as given out by the
Health Department, are:
Influenza Pneumonisj
BoroURth. ?'rises. Deaths, t'nips Deaths.
Manhattan . .. 2,101: -I:'
Rron.x . ''.IS II
Brooklyn . 1.427 .17
Qu.' i . 27'.' 7
Richmond . I"?'1 '?
Total?. L706 100
PreoediiiK 24
hours' totals 5,589 i>;
Grand totals
i ; ce -Ian. 1 24.-|t.9 426
Cor'npond'n 'ln,p
pu s epidemic
(Ocl 101 .. 3,077 157
Reports from the pub
Continued on page six
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IS IS
221 30
40 10
IS 4
1.040 136
r.86 us
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5.180 1.553
306 185
lie school:, Dr.
Democrats Join Roosevelt
In Fight for Ousted Five;
Reform of Socialists Urged
l?xico May
-e an issue
n Campaign
Republicans Possibly Will
Make Question a Plat?
form Plank ; Demo?
crats Lack a Policy
By Wilbur Forrest
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 29. That the
Fall Senate committee now continuing
its border inquiry into Mexican affairs
here is very effectively creating Re?
publican Presidential campaign ma?
terial has become apparent to political
observers. Irrefutable documentary
evidence that the Democratic Adminis?
tration has consistently lacked any
definite policy for a number of years
with regard to Mexico must inevitably
be made in Senator Fall's report to
the Senate, based on the committee's
'. Undings to date, it is pointed out.
Even if the chairman of the investi?
gating committee were pro-Administra
, tion in politics he would be forced to
admit in bis coming official report
that the Administration's lack pf
"handling" of Mexico is largely re
! sponsible for the present state of chaos
in the southern republic. This report,
| it is understood, will be brief and
I strictly to 'the point.
Mexican Piedge Predicted
Coupled with all this comes news
: from Washington that Senator! Fall
? has been appointed a member of the
Republican platform committee which
will frame the pledges with which the
party must go before the people in the
? coming elections. -This angle, in view
'_ of what those close to the Mexican
! investigation are privileged to know,
made it appear that the Mexican situa?
tion may become one of the main issues
in the Republican campaign and may
form a pledge to long-suffering Ameri?
cans in border states and in Mexico
itself that Mexico will be "handled"
should the Republicans win.
The Republican candidate who
promises to apply a dash of "Roose?
velt ism" upon the Mexican mess will
at least find himself overwhelmingly
popular in American border states, not?
withstanding Democratic proclivities of
'hese states in the past, according to
the observations of The Tribune cor?
respondent. His popularity should also
spread throughout the United States on
this pledge alone, those in touch with
the Senate committee revelations be
lieve.
Witnesses Are Intimidated
Rounding up of witnesses who will
testify before the Senate committee
here beginning Friday continued to?
day with considerable difficulty due to
what, must be termed a rather clever
intimidation campaign being carried on
by the Carranza government. It is
highly possible that much valuable
evidence bearing on the iniquities of
the Carr?nzistas and Villisias in this
sector must be given to the commit?
tee in secret sessions, if at all.
The columns of El Paso's two Mexi?
can newspapers ?re now filled with
dire threats of what will happen to
; either Mexican American property
owners in Mexico if 'hey appear before
the Senat- committee. This intimi?
dation propaganda is also reflected in.
the two local English language journals.
which publish copious interviews with
Se?o-,- Sandoval, th?' Mexican Consul
here. Sandoval today engaged an
American stenographer to record the
name of every witness and copy his
testimony for the Carranza government.
Rush ;<> Serve Subpoenas
As a result Judge Kan Jackson, mem?
bers of the Department of Justice and
others engaged in. corraling persons
who have had intimate though unfor?
tunate association with Mexican mur?
der and destruction across the border
during tlii' last few months and years
were working V ntically to-day with
subpoenas to catch ;ome of their pros
pective witnesses before they e ca ??
to the tail timber. Son-,- have already
left town, i* ,'.. - lea rned.
A majority of those on the witness
list still have property interests in
Mexico and nave become terrorized at
the last moment in Cue fan- of the
Mexican intimidation campaign.
Senators Fall and Smith., both of
whom made flying visits to their
homes, respectively in. New Mexico and
?Arizona, are expected here early to?
morrow in time to inaugurate the re?
sumption of the Senate inquiry before
noon. A sufficient number of witnesses
to keep the committee busy .several
days are. however, on hand, The
Tribune correspondent learned.
Detzer's Judges Reach
Verdict in 5 Minutes
Speed of Decision Leads to the
Belief That Captain. Has Been
Acquitted of ('harpes
The fact that the seven, officers com?
posing the general couft martial at
Governor's Island took but five min?
utes yesterday to come to a decision as
to the guilt or innocence of Captain
Karl W. Detzer, charged with cruelty
to prisoners under his control in
France, led to the belief at the army
post that he had been acquitted. Court
martial decisions are not made public
until announced by the commander of
the department.
It is customary, however, when a ver?
dict of innocent, er one of guilty carry?
ing with it so severe a penalty, is
reached, to restore the accused to the
privileges of his rank almost imme?
diately. Detzer predicted last night
he would be so favored within twenty
four hours.
The Detzer trial extended over eight
weeks and took up twenty-nine court
days. The captain, who was in charge
of criminal investigation in the Mans
area, contended the charges against him
had been framed up m much the vnnp
manner that he was accused of obtain?
ing evidence against army prisoners.
Wilson Proposed *
For Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, -Ian. 29.?The
interparliamentary Socialist
group in the Rikselag has decided
to recommend to the Norwegian
Storthing Nobel committee that
it support President Wilson and
Christiane Langa, secretary of the
interparliamentary union, as the
candidates for the 1919 and the
1920 Nobel peace prizes.
I The Socialist group includes
j Hjalmar Branting.
Democrats to
Spare No Cost,
Says Thompson
S 50,000 Beins Spent Month
I y on Money-Begging Pa;
Roll, He Charges; Millioi
Letters Printed a Da
Colonel William Boyce Thompsoi
chairman of the Ways and Means Con
mittee of the Republican National Con
mittee, charged yesterday that tl
' Democratic National Committee i
Washington is keeping busy three hin
deed men and women soliciting funi
for the committee.
He says that this money-beggn
pay roll is $50,000 a month, and th,
the I'lectrical equipment installed the
by II. D. Jamieson, director of finan
of the committee, cost $L!00.000, and
capable of turning: out 1,000.000 lette
a day.
Tins charge by Colonel Thompson
confirmation of the ofticial declarati?
made by Mr. Jamieson in August In
year to a Tribune reporter, and pu
lished at the time, that he expect
to collect from $5,000.000 to $10,00
000 for the Democratic campaign fu
this year.
Democrats Good Spenders
"The Republican party can comp?
with tho Democratic party in ma
things," said Colonel Thompson, in
talk at the Union League Cluh yesti
day to t^ie ways and means commit!
of the state committee.
"Some of us are pretty well c?
vinced that the Republican party, 1
instance, is going to be able to co
pete with the Democratic party si
cessfully in the next national electi
Hut we might as well make up ?
minds that we can't compete with i
gentlemen who have been steering i
ship of State on its zigzag course
the past seven years we can't. <??
pete with them. I say, in one thin?
and that is spending money.
"It can't be done. You have he.
it said of men that they spent moi
like drunken sailors, but I tell ;
that the Democratic party is spend
money in a way to make a druni
sailor by comparison look like
cautious old maid.
"1 am not speaking of the wastes
Democratic officials. 1 am not speak
of ;h<- people's money. We all ki
how they have been spending that.
"i am speaking of the leaders of
Democratic party and of the way t
are spending their own money, fo
gives an indication how thev are ach
to spend some more of yours.
"The Democratic party" has h?
quarters in Washington. That, is a
should be. .But is it as it should
thai there are now, ten month-; be!
election, three hundred men and woi
working at those headquarters, s?
ing out twelve thousand letters da
"Is it as it should be that an elee
cal equipment, '.vor!!-, as much
$200,000, should be installed there,
pable of turning out a million lette
day? Is it as it should be that
monthly pay roll at that office is
ready $50,000?
"I know your answer, and ? ask
this: Is that political ortranizatio:
is it propaganda? Is it democracj
is :' a bohl attempt to throw back
rushing waters of disaster with a
of dollars ?
Don't Ca.'?? for Expense
"Whatever it is, what ??oes it ?in
It tn.eans this, that from a dollar
cent standpoint certain men feel
they have got to win the next elec
They don't care what it is goin
cost them -twenty million, twenty
million, thirty million, any sum at
They have got to win.
"Fellow Republicans, what is
answer to that challenge? Is
call to the rich men of your part
match thousand with thousand
million with million? I think
This next election is not going t
fought with checkbooks, at least
by the Republicans.
"Dollars are important, dollars
powerful, but they are n-ot omnipo
Principles are more important, loi
America, a holy passion for
America stands for ar" more pow
than all the dollars which a ere
frightened profiteers can muster
frantic effort to stave off their
deserts.
Go to the Fight
"Go to the fight with the lo\
America in your hearts. Go to
right knowing that you are figl
for open and upright government
the principles on which this coi
was founded.
"Go to the fight in that spirit,
all the dollars in the world, pile
as a bulwark against you. will be
tered like dust before your triumi
onrush."
In sketching the scope of the
and Means Committee, of which
chairman. Colonel Thompson said
"The Republican party want
clearly understood that no small i
could, if they would, gain the voi
party counsels which great cont
tiona have won at times in the pi
"The Republican part y^, wants
? 'ont ' tued ? *> poge four
Rand School Director and
New York Lawyer Tes?
tify for Prosecution;
Counsel in Hot Debate
Claesseiis Talked
Re voll. Is Charge
Wasserman Says Accused
Assemblyman ^ oiccd
j Faith in Bolshevism
Staff < 'orrespontUne*
ALBANY, Jan. 29.? Following
the announcement in to-day's Trib
, une of the selection by Republican
leaders of Colonel Theodore Roose
velt to head the fight to reseat the
five ousted Socialists, Republicans
and Democrats, many of them hith?
erto leaders in Speaker Sweet's
| camp, to-day announced their inten
Ition of following the son of the late
j President.
Roosevelt and his co-leader in the
movement to reseat the Socialists.
?Simon L. Adler, majority leader of
?the Assembly, appear to be in com?
plete control of the situation.
The insurgents, led by Roosevelt
and Adler, anticipating the reseat?
ing of the Socialists, are now map?
ping out legislation to correct some
of the obvious shortcomings of the
Socialist party machinery.
Ponoliuc Ready
To Buck Roosevelt
These proposed measures, which
will be offered by Colonel Roosevelt,
aim ;?t. preventing aliens or minors
from having a voice in party con
trol and from permitting candidates
for public office from signing theil
resignations in advance as a pre
requisite to receiving the party's
support.
Assemblyman Charles D. Ilono
hue, leader of the Democrats
minority in the lower house, an
Inouneed to-day that he stood read;
j
to rally to Roosevelt's standard.
''This is not a question of politic!
| but of observance of the laws of th<
i land, which have been violated n ?in
'seating the Socialists," said Mi
?Donohue. "The Democratic minorit
of thirty five, almost to a man, wil
support Colonel Roosevelt in anj mov
he may make to reseat the Socialist?
If he is ready Monday night we wil
back him then. If he believe! if i ip
portune to wait a day or two longe
we, too, shall wait."
Mr. Donohue !?-?l 'he previous figh
to reseat the Socialists. lie ?
muster but thirty-three votes. Thi
was before the trial. The rhajoritj
including a number of Doi
party, were held in check by Speake
Sweet's promise that proof of I
sonal guilt of the five Soc
be adduced.
Socialist Literature
Read into Evidence
This proof has not been pr?><lnc??d t
date. In its stead,? musty old ?loci
ments have been dragged from
and filing cabinet!? and introduced i
evidence. To-day's session w, ?!?
voted almost entire'y to the readin
of Socialist and kindred literature int
the record.
"I would not be fnirpri ed," xiid or
Republican leader in close touch wif
the prosecution, "if the .Tmliciai
Committee should file ;i majority r
port early next week recommendii
the reseating of all five Socia
any even!, I am confident that the A
. ? mblj will ?i-? that."
The prosecution quickened its pa
a little toward the end of to-day's -r
r-ion. Besides what genera] tharg
against the Socialist party may be ei
bodied in the mas? of material re
into the record, counsel for the coi
mittee launched two attacks agair
the defendants, each having a d?fini
specific purpo! ?-.
?lohn B. Stanchfield and his asi
ciates attempted to show 'hat the pla
forbidding sabotage, stricken frjm t
Socialist platform immediately aft
America's entran? ? il to the war, w
removed at that time for the purpo
of hindering this cour try's particij
tion in the conflict.
New York Lawyer
Called by Prosecution
Frank Wasserman, a lawyer at
Beekman Street, New York, also -v
summoned as a witness for the pro
cution. li?> te tified that he had hei
two of the defendants, August Cla
sens and Charles Solomon, prod
? revolution ami the overthrow of
government. ?
He quoted Claessens as calling \
Constitution "a scrap of paper," s
said that Solomon had proclaimed tl
he was a Bolshevist and indorsed
principles of Bolshevism.
Wasserman spent a bad half hour
; the hands of Seymour Stedmai , rh
counsel for the Socialists, who cro
I examined him, but he emerged w
his original assertions unshaken.
Most of the day, when counsel w
not reading into the record, was oc
i pied with direct, cross and redil
| examination of Algernon Lee, direc
of education of the Rand School
Social Science.
The (?uestion ?jf the sabotage p!?
intruded itself early in Mr. ?
examination and was returned to ag
and again throughout the day.
Arthur E. Sutherland, of counsel
the committee, first referred to it in
direct examination of Mr. Lee by re
ing the following from the. "Ameri
Labor Year Book- for 1?U7" concern
the Socialist convention ut St. L<
in April of that year:
"John C. Kennedy, of Illinois,
ported for the constitution commit
a number of minor change? in the
constitution were made. The
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