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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23

Henry A. Wise. the former United
States attorney for this district De
called upon 20 serve as Justices lawyer
Mr.. Wise explained over the tele-
phone that he was unavailable, but ne
sent up Carl E. Whitney, one Of his
partners. n
Justice was willing 10 retain Mr.
Whitney. but in the mean time news
Of his arrest had reached the Office OF
John 3. stanchfeld, counsel for hoenig,
and Abel I. Smith, from that firm, at
tended 10 the legal necessities OF the
Through the Hamburg-American
Line the bail of $4,000 imposed by the
Commissioner was furnished and
Justice was released.
The wording of the complaint against
Justice is identical with that upon
which Koenig was arrested. =,
Il is charged that Justice participated
in military enterprise directed
against the Dominion OF Canada and
set on foot in this country. Justice IS
accused Of having gone to Quebec on
September 10, 1914, in company with
Frederick Metzler. e secretary OF
Koenig. 10 ascertain the number OF
troops that were being transported
from ports in Canada TO ports in Great
Britain and France. the names Of the
steamships and the kind and quantity
of supplies that were being carried
aboard. Il is also charged that
Justice entered the United States
again and met Koenig at Burlington,
Vt.
II. snowden Marshall declared yes
terday that the testimony OF Samuel
- cd
Grafton of Labor, and its secretary,
Frank Morrison, had strengthened the
governments case against several men
identified with Lsbor's National Peace
Council.
Mr.. Marshall and his assistant, Ray
mond Sarfaty, spent the day with the
grand jury that is considering the case
of Labor's National Peace Council
None Of the original documents. letters
or other tangible evidence procured by
the District Attorney were used yester-
day, but photographs of them were
substituted. IL was said that the eN-
hibits are of such legal value that they
have been put away in a safe deposit
vault six blocks away from the Federal
Building This precaution was taken.
a. il was feared that they might be
NiblFI ny iNl ilidll hbNiiNo htiSNAA w ~
been lettering around the building.
Mr.. Marshall is in possession Of
copy of resolution adopted by La
boris National Peace Council authoriz-
ing officers and members of the exec
utive committee 70 receive contrlbu-
tions and assessments from various la
Dor organizations for the maintenance
and. support of every worker involved
in a strike or lockout, for the purpose
of parslyzing the traffic in arms and
munitions Of war in this country.
Otto 7. Matilda, the detective ser
geant, who was suspended because
memoranda relating 10 him had been
found in Paul koenig's effects, will be
brought TO trial at Police Headquar-
ters on Friday. It is expected that
Koenig and Metzler will be called as
witnesses against him, as he cannot be
dismissed on the evidence Of the memo
randa alone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23

sibility, said he had read the accounts
Of the dinner at the home of ex-Judge
Gary. Of the Steel Corporation, attend
ed by Colonel Roosevelt. with consid-
cradle interest, but saw no political
significance in the gathering. He ad-
mittcd, however, that he had talked
with one of the eighteen guests pres
ent at the dinner soon after his ar
rival. He declared that he understood
there had been no general discussion
on any political or economical subject
among the Gary guests.
Ex-senator ". Murray Crane. Of
Massachusetts,, had left the city before
Senator Burton arrived. Senator Boies
Penrose, OF Pennsylvania, who was ex-
pected at the Waldorf, cancelled his
reservation yesterday. Charles d.
Hilles, chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, denied that the pres
encc of so many Republican national
committeeman in the city smultane-
cusly had any political significance or
that any conferences had been ar
ranged.
$50 far rs | know said Chairman
tion in the report that prominent Re-
publicans are gathering here for con-
ference. Several of the national COM
mittcemen are still in town on their
way home from the recent meeting of
the committee in Washington. There
is no political significance in that"
M lIillcs said he expected James X.
Reynolds. secretary Of the Republican
= q 4 ri To- = in
to-day. 10 complete arrangements for
issuing within a few days the call for
the national convention.
Among the Republican national COM
mitteemen in the city yesterday were
X. II. Cameron, Arizona; II. 3. Max
son, Nevada, Charles A. SpieSs. New
Mexico: Philip A. stanton, California;
Ralph L. Williams, Oregon. and Newell
Sanders, Tennessee. Victor Resewater,
Of Omaha, a former member, and Wal
ter Dickey, state chairman of Missouri.
who IS 4 candidate Tor the United
States Senate. were also in town.
Several Of the committeeman called
al the Waldorf 10 offer their condo
lences 10 Mr.. Maxson, who was struck
By a taxicab on Fifth Avenue Tuesday
night and severely bruised. Asked If
they saw Colonel Roosevelt as a Re
publican candidate for President, in
the light of the Gary dinner, Mr.. Max
son said:
IL decline to answer. on the ground
that IL might tend TO incriminste me.
But / will say that the candidate chosen
by the Republican party is going 20
have a united support in our part Of
the country. The Progressives out
there. as IN most parts of the country,
have disappeared, except for n few
generals. Roosevelt or any other man
who gets the nomination will have
united party back Of him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
Germany Evades Issue
of Safety of Lifeboats
Iron The Tribune Bureau

Washington, Dec. 22.-Germany has
evaded the attempt of the State De-
partment to settle the status Of life
boats as "place Of safety" for the
passengers and crews Of vessels at
tackled by submarines. This, il Is un-
derstood, Is the salient feature Of the
note Just received by mail from Am
bassador Gerard in reply to the Ameri-
can note of October II, on the sinking
OF the William P. Frye.
Both governments have consented to
submit the legality of the act 70 arbl-
tration. the only disagreement being
as 10 Germany's conduct with refer
ence TO American vessels pending the
arbitral award Germany has offered
TO spare vessels carrying conditional
contraband, but reserves the right to
destroy carriers of absolute contra
band. The United States, without ad-
hitting the legality of such action, has
agreed TO permit it, provided the Ger
man government will agree that "the
requirement of the Declaration OF Lon
don. that before the vessel is de-
stroyed, al persons on board must be
placed in safety is not satisfied by
merely giving them an opportunity TO
escape in hfeboats.'
The State Department has refused TO
make the German note public for the
present. II is understood. however,
that the German government holds the
question TO be irrelevant. II asks
merely that the United States acknowl-
edge the temporary right of Germany
10 destroy contraband carriers, and
that the disposition OF the persons on
board be left 10 determination accord
ing 70 the merits Of the cases that may
arise.
Germany holds and 20 this extent
is supported by the opinion of the
State Department-that in certain con-
ditions Of weather and proximity TO
shore lifeboats may be an adequate
place Of safety. To debate their avail
ability in other circumstances is held
20 be beside the point, as the German
government may be depended on 10
c-ercise the right 70 sink vessels &C
c3cdng 20 the principles of interna-
tonal law governing such cases.
Secretary Lansing has not decided
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
BOoTBLACK SHOOTS HIMSELF
Had No Money TO Buy Food for Fam
IL, mr. Medicine for Diving Child.

Michael Barbarie, 455 West Forty
sixth Street, q bootblack, attempted
suicide by shooting himself yesterday
morning.
Tuesday night doctor told Barbarie
that his two-year-old son Pietro could
not live. He was in debt for three
months rent and had no money to buy
food or medicine.
Barbarie in the morning kissed his
sleeping wife. She woke up and asked
him what was the matter. lie an
swered: Nothing; ! 20 to think, l
cannot sleep" Out in the hall, where
he thought no one would hear him, Bar
barrie shot himself.
Mrs. Barbarie found her husband
gasping on the floor. A policeman sent
him to the Polytechnic Hospital, a pris-
oner
Almost a year ago Anton, the oldest
child, ran away and has never been
heard from. But Pietro seemed TO
make up for everything. Just before
noon Yesterday Pietro died. Relatives
nut the mother to bed. Her daughter,
Antoinette, nine years old, tried to look
out for the five-months-old baby, but
because there was nothing with which
to feed him he cried most Of the time.
Playing around the bier where Pie
tro Law in his best white dress and his
first shoes, were Mary, three, and Joey,
five years old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
BuriaH May Consult Kaiser
Over Reply to u. s. Note

London, Dec. 22-The Exchange
Telegraph Company's Amsterdam cor
respondent says: -.
"a dispatch received here from VI
emma says that Austria's reply 70 the
American note regarding the steamer
Ancona is expected within two days
but that It is possible Baron Burian'
the Austro-H Hungarian Foreign Minis
ter, will visit Berlin before the an
swer is delivered"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
Senator Burton Here,
with Ear to the Ground

Senator Theodore t. Burton, of Ohio.
came TO New York yesterday with his
car close to the ground. When seen at
the Waldorf he said he had not come
East for a conference or discussion Of
politics with any prominent Repub-
Leans who happened 70 be in the city.
lie declared he did not intend TO talk
politics until he spoke before the Kings
County Republican organization in
Brooklyn on January IL.
The Ohio Senator, who has been men
toned frequently as Presidential pos
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
THINKS WILSON IS AFRAID
Meyer London Says Congress Should
Force War Intervention.

Never London, Representative from
the 18th District, explained his stew
ardship last night TO 1000 Of his iol-
lowers in the auditorium OF Public
School Z, at Rivington and Pitt streets.
Dir. London, the only Socialist in Con-
eress, is initiating this scheme to con-
plete his own education as well az the
voters he explained. lie will hold
monthly meetings hereafter.
Mr.. London stated his belief That the
United States should intervene to bring
peace and that the President was afraid
TO take active steps toward interver-
ton. .,-,.s
81 take II our President is frightened;
II were o cruel mana mean mani
should say he was trying 70 steal the
thunder Of the Republicans By coming
out for preparedness and not interyen-
ing" said London. ,,
"My theory is that Congress should
enable-should force-the President 10
intervene. The collective will and con-
science Of the people should force Con-
gress." =,
An explanation Of bis proposals, in
troduced in Congress on the first day
of the session, 10 insure peace was tol-
lowed by a unanimous vote lndorslhs
the scheme in its entirety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
800 DIE IN EXPLOSION
Women Victims of Disaster in Powder
Mill in Westphalia.

London, Dec. 2.-According to ad-
vices TO the Amsterdam "Telegraaf,'
forwarded by Reuters correspondent,
q powder factory and several ammuni-
ton depots at Muenster. Westphalia,
have been blown up. Great damage was
done TO the town, the newspaper adds.
According to late accounts 800 of
the 500 women employed in the powder
mill were killed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
STEAMER FULL OF MILK
FOR HUNGARIAN BABIES
Citizens Committee Purposes to
Charter Ship to Rush Food.

Pending resumption of parcel post
service between this country and Ger
many and Austria Hungary, the citi-
zens' committee on food shipments
purposes to charter a steamer to sail
under government supervision with
10000 cases of condensed milk for
suffering babies and young children.
The National American Red Cross has
offered its assistance in making dis
tributions after the milk has arrived
at Hamburg or Bremen.
At a meeting of the committee yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23

Samuel Untermyer. 675 Fifth Avenue
il was voted TO send out a natlon-wlds
appeal for 100000 20 prosecute this
relief work.
Every minutes delay may mean the
life of an innocent baby in Germany OF
Austria-Hungary," said Dr. Edmund
Won Mach, executive chairman. BE
cause of shortage of grain to feed the
cows, the milk situation is almost IN
believable. If we would save the lives
of 100000 babies we must set out %
d big scale"
Measures for bringing relief 20 l,5oO
refugees who have been driven from
Serbia into Montenegro were consid'
cred yesterday afternoon at a meeting
at the studios Of A. Anderson, 50 West
Fortieth Street. The Montenegro Re
lief Association was established, with
headquarters at 105 West Fortis''
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23

what answer this government will make
to this note. The State Departments
interest in the case arises principally
from the bearing it is expected TO have
on the whole question of submarine
warfare The safety Of lifeboats is
question that may arise At any mo-
ment. through the destruction Of q
merchantmen BY submarine. Some
officiols of the department believe that
the American objections to this means
of escape are not founded any too sol
idly, and a definite agreement with
Germany on this point is therefore
eagerly sought.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
ARMS PLANT FIRED BY SPY
Hastings Factory Ablaze Twice; Inside
Work. Officials Say.

Two fires within twenty-four hours
at the plant of the National Conduit
and Cable Company, in the village of
Hastings, where small arms are being
manufactured for the Allies, has re-
suited in a search for spies in the viii
lage. The fires originated in the same
building. and with TO apparent reason.
Investigation after the second fire
early this morning resulted in the
statement by officials of the company
that somebody inside the plant was re-
sponsible for il. No statement could
be obtained as TO the grounds for this
belief or the extent Of the search Tor
the alleged spy. No arrests had been
made last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
SHUN SUBWAY, WOMEN TOLD
Perilous for Christmas Shoppers in
Rush Hours, Says Consumers League.

IF you must do your shopping dur
ing the rush hours for the next two
days, avoid the subway; use other
means Of transportation" was the
warning issued yesterday by the Con-
sumers' League 10 women shoppers.
"A frightful accident that cost the
life Of a woman occurred on Monday
night through the overcrowdlng Of the
subway platforms" the organization
saws. an that crowd undoub edly
were a number Of late shoppers.
Therefore, for your own protection
and for the protection of those VINO
have TO work late I'm the stores 10 care
for YOUR needs, do not use the subway
during the hours the subway is
crowded the morning and evening
rush hours and the hours devoted -
going to and from theatres"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
( INFLUENZA SWEEPS CHICAGO
Eighty-Five Thousand Pupils Unable
10 Attend Public Schools.

Chicago, Dec. 22.-Approximately
$4,000 pupils of the public schools are
absent on account of influenza, accord
ing to reports to the Health Depart
ment. which considered the epidemic so
serious that an investigation has been
ordered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
MOTHER MOLLY" A SUICIDE
Woman Who Sold Fruit and Candy at
School SO Dies from Gas.

Woman Who Sold Fruit and Candy at
School SO Dies from Gas.
While the laughter of children play
ing in the street came up 10 her window
yesterday, Mrs. Molly Feidelsohn,
sixty years old, who for years
had sold fruit and candy TO her young
friends at Public School SO, lay dead
in her home. at 7l3 East Ninth Street.
"Nother Molly" never failed until
Yesterday 70 come TO her door at recess
TO see the children. At noon the odor
Of gas leaked from her room, and Pa
troiman Ludwig, who battered in the
door. found Mrs. Feidelsohn dead, with
the jet turned on.
Motive uncertain" reads the police
blotter at Union Market station, where
the suicide is recorded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
GERMANS AND ALLIES
SUE CHEMICAL co.
Receiver Appointed for $1,000
600 Connecticut Corporation.

New Haven, Dec 22.-Eforts OF both
Germans and Allies to control the out
put of the Niddlesex Chemical Com
pany, Of Chester, to-day led to a petit
tion for receivership by Harry DIETRICH,
OF Hartford, representing the German
interests, and a 100000 suit by James
T. Shaw, Of Haverhill, Mass, represent
ing the Allies side. The Germans have
been securing the picric acids and other
chemicals manufactured by the com
pany and using them in Zeppelin
bombs and gas shells. Shaw, who is
said 10 represent a New York syndicate
headed b. August Belmont, on behalf
of the Allies contracted for 1000 tons
OF picric acid, and shipments for the
Germans stopped.
Resnonding 70 Detrich's petition.
Judge futile, of the Superior Court, in
Hartford, to-day appointed Colonel
George Pope temporary receiver of the
company. Shaw alleges in his suit that
the company has failed to deliver acid
as contracted for He says the contract
called for acid valued at s4S0,OOO.
A director of the Middlesex Chem
ical Company said last night that the
appointment OF Colonel Pope as re
ceiver would be followed by q friendly
reorganization which would involve the
raising of additional capital by New
York financial interests. He admitted
that the company had been unable TO
live up 70 some Of its acid contracts,
which precipitated the receivership.
The organization Of the company was
completed last August, with capltali-
zation of 100000. The directors
elected were j. p. Devine, OF Burao;
Percy c. Magnus, of this city; John
T. Hettrick. F. A. Palen and Z. NJ. Da-
visor. August Belmont & co. were
appointed fiscal agents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
Chr Grfbutte
First 10 LaSf-fhe Truth:
NeWG--EdifOriaIs--
Advertisements

the quarrel are not altered-the United
States is the aggressor. and will be so
considered by the world"
London. Dec. PA Vienna telegram,
forwarded from Amsterdam by Reuters
correspondent, says that delivery to
the Austrian Foreign Minister of the
second Ancona note from the United
States is announced by the "Neue Freie
Presse.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
Swallows False Teeth; Dies.

Alfred Hilton. sexton Of Christ
Church memorial buildings, at 344
West Thirty-sixth Street. swallowed his
false teeth while in commissions Satur-
day. lie died yesterday in New York
Hospital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23

Tor every letter printed
l in the Advisor
Department in praise or
criticism of advertisers
methods. excepting only
patent medicines, The
Tribune offers a prize OF
81, payable in an order
on any Tribune adver-
tiser. Each month a
special prize of $4,000
will be awarded for the
most constructive or de
structive letter printed.
Any one is eligible to
compete and any number
OF letters may be written
by one person. Your
name will be printed or
not. as you prefer, but
unsigned letters will not
be read, as they provide
no means for making the
awards. which are an in
tegral part Of our cam
paign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
u. S. OFFICIAL,
INSANE, KILLS TWO
RI. Knox. Surveyor OF Customs
at New Orleans. Shoots Friend
and Stranger.

Ration Rouge. La. Dec. 22.-Robert i.
Knox, Surveyor Of Customs for the Port
Of New Orleans and a prominent
Louisiana attorney, shot and killed
BENJAMIN Foster, OF Hattiesburg, Miss
a close friend and former business
associate. and Alexander Fraenklin, be-
lieved to be from Natchitoches, La, in
the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail
road station here to-day.
According to witnesses, Knox walked
into the crowded waiting room and
without uttering word, drew re-
volver and fired three times. Foster,
who was purchasing a ticket, was in
stantly killed. Frsenklin was struck
by the second or third bullet and died
twenty minutes later. After the shoot,
ING Knox left the waiting room ana
surrendered to the police. 80,
All the prisoner would say was lie
ruined my life" It was said Knox APP
parently did not know Fraenklin mad
been killed
Relatives of Knox declare that he was
suffering from mental alteration, as he
and Foster had been friends for many
wears and no cause was known for
grievance.
Local authorities said they had
learned that Knox Developed mental
trouble and was placed in Washing
ton sanatorium for treatment. lie ar,
rived here from Washington several
days ago.
Washington, Dec 22.-Robert l.. Knox
was released from a private sanatorlum
here on December Is. His condition
was so much improved that the physl,,
clans deemed il safe for him to spend
Christmas with his family.
On September II Knox, who was ap-
pointed Surveyor of Customs at New
Orleans about year ago, came here
and tried 10 see Secretary McAdoo
about what he called unjust criticism
of the administration of his ONCE.
Three days after his arrival, and after
he had created a scene in the Treasury
Building, he was taken TO the govern
ment asylum hospital for observation.
His brother, w. B. Knox, Of New Or
leans. made arrangements for his re-
moval to the private institution.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-05
ALBANIANS REVOLT
AGAINST SERBIA

Rome, Nov 5.-Albanians living In
the Suhagora and Kruseyo districts
of Serbia have revolted. according to
a Durazzo dispatch
A desperate battle between Serbian
troops and rebels has been fought
north of Tirana. The anti-Serbian
movement has spread into Northern
Albania.
If the reported Albanian uprising
against Serbia assumes important
proportions ii may prove a menace
to the Serbian army. threatened on
three sides by its enemies and whose
only apparent avenue of escape is in.
to the Albanian mountajls.
Reports reaching Rome from AL
bania have been disluieting to the
allied nations, as ii Is said Austria
is trying to stir up trouble by arming
and melting Albanian bands to attack
the Serbs and Montenegrins to facili-
tate Bulgaria's descent to Durazzo.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-11-05
MlNNESOTAN'S NAME FIRST
Charles r. Porter Gets Choice of Fort
BerthoId Claims.

Minot, ~ d., Nov. 5.-Charles r..
Porter of Anoka, Mimi, will have the
first choice of the 700 claims in the
Fort Berthold Indian reservation to be
thrown open for entry next May. His
name was the first to be drawn from
the box containing those of more than
10000 persons who had entered the
lottery from all sections of the North
west ..
julius Halvorson, ten years old, son
OF Mayor II. L. Halvorson OF Minot,
drew the first number, the name of
Mr. Porter Luther Stenvick, eight
years old, then drew No. 2. the name
of H. L. Wall of Dunwall y. ID. Kath-
leen Corbett, twelve years old, drew
forth the third name. that of G.. Oberg
of Minneapolis.
The name of Jacob LenartZ, New
Rockford, n. D., was fourth and was
drawn by Inez Leighton, seven years
old.