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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-14

delibly impress their minds with what
America really is.
AS a result Of these efforts It Is be-
lieved that the greatest portal of the
nation can be relieved Of the unhappy
reputation which has unjustly attached
to 1t, and that it may in time be known
as the place through which the gov
eminent receives and transmits those
whom it invites to it's shores with as
much courtesy, kindness and consider
alton as the enforcement Of the ex-
clusion laws permits.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-14
Gum CheWers in No Danger
of Facing Famine.

Six million FIVE hundred thou
sand pounds of chicle, the basis
of chewing gum, was imported
into the United States In 1915,
according to figures compiled by
the bureau of foreign and do
nestle commerce ut Washing
ton. This product Is the dried
milky juice Of the tropical sapo-
dilla tree. The countries from
which practically all Of it was
obtained are Mexico, Canada,
British Honduras, Venezuela and
the Central American republics.
Mexico and Canada between
them provided more than two
thirds Of the total amount inn
ported. The chicle imported into
this country during the last ten
years has cost nearly $35,OO0,-
600, which gives some idea Of
the popularity Of gum chewing
among Americans,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-14
Texas Manufactures Grow.

A considerable increase in manufac-
lures In Texas between 1900 and 1914
is shown by report from the United
States bureau Of the census. The cap
ital invested, as reported in 1914, was
$2S3,544000, a gain Of $66.66S, 900, or
30.7 per cent, over s216,S76,000 in 1909.
The value Of products was 1891, 49,
600 in 1914 and $2T2, $4,000 In 1909,
the increase being $685., 900, or 324
Der cent. "
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-14

Just imagine feelings Of a man
Who has bIunted his conscience
and turned a questionable trick
IN finance In order TO please tho
ulrI he loves, and then has been
severely judged by the young
lady when she discovered his
handIwork. What steps will
snullIard take to square him
self In Amy's eyes?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-14

Victor BrouiIIard knows that
he cannot win Amy Masslngals
until he pulls from his feet the
miro of this financial trickery.
How will he extricate himself
with a clean conscience and a
pocketful Of money--or can he
do III
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
MILLIONS GIVEN
TO WILSON FUND
Continued from page 1

who originally held out in opposition to
the nomination of Mr.. Wilson, is re-
vealed as & contributor of $4,000 to the
fund. Chicago financiers are among the
largest contributors to the cause, ac-
cording to this early report.
Others whose names appear in the
document are: Thomas d. Jones, Chi
cago, s12,500; David B. Jones, Chicago,
1880; c. Z. Davis, Chicago, $4,000;
Breckenridge Long, st. Louis, $4,000;
David r. Francis. st. Louis, $4,000; NJ.
n. Coolidge, Fitchburg, Mass, $4,000;
L. Doheney, Los Angeles. $4,000; Jacob
H. Schiff, $4,000; r. j. Reynolds, Win
ston- Salem, n. c., $4,000; Richard II.
Long, birmingham, Mass; Francis
Burton Harrison, $1,000; T. D. Chad
bourne. $4,000; Nicholas F. Brady,
$4,000; W. G. Sharp. Elyria, Ohio,
$4,000; James c. Brady, $4,000; Frank
NJ. Patterson, $4,000.
Also. John D. Ryan, 10000; T. L.
Chadbourne, jr., $4,000; j. D. Gerard,
$1,000; Charles K. Crane. $4,000;
Pennsylvania Democratic State Com
mittee, $4,000; John Burton Payne,
Winnebago, Neb., $4,000; Ed d Hurley,
Chicago, $4,000; B. NJ. Winston, Chi
cago, $4,000; William A. Tilden, Chi
cago, $4,000; w. c. Niblack, Chicago,
$4,000; Marcus Jacobowsky, Chicago.
$4,000; F. S. Peabody, Chicago, $4,000.
The report shows that the commit
tees disbursements to date total $751;
2o2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
Republicans See Politics
in Bakers Charges

The latest pronouncement OF Secre-
tary Of War Baker that efforts were
being made by an antiWilson propa-
ganda TO stir up. trouble on the Mex
lean border, and the declaration at
Democratic national headquarters that
representatives of Villa were believed
to have been in communication with
certain Republican leaders, were inter
preted at Republican national head
quarters yesterday as another attempt
to manufacture political capital.
Chairman William X. Wilcox Of the
Republican National Committee brand
ed the Baker statement as ve!ed
charge against American citizens, in
plying treason, for which the guilty.
persons should be exposed and pun
ished. II II was purely an attempt TO
create political capital out Of ma.
tionalf disaster, Mr.. Wilcox declared
that Secretary Bakers position was
Infamous"
Chairman Wilcox denied positively
that he had ever Seen or talked With
any one representing villa, Carranza,
Diaz, or anybody like them. He
laughed heartily at the idea Of pny
representative Of the Mexican revolu-
tionists hobnobbing with any Of the
Republican campaign managers, as had
been intimated at Democratic head
quarters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
Lubetsky's 10 Years Old, but
Is Mrs. Lubetsky 90 or IS?
Lawyers Disagree and Hempsteads Guessing Since John
Accused Her of Carving His Wrst-Slothful
Justice Rouses Him

Pauline Lubetsky stabbed her husband.
OF Importance TO the parties at law but
scarcely as interesting TO Hampstead
as another question which will be an
swered during the trial.
Here's the Real Question
This question is: Who is John Lu-
betsky's wife?
Is she weakened little woman OF
ninety years, who wears calicos and
drapes fantastic red shawl about her
white locks? Or buxom, dark-skinned
and sloe-eyed beauty, who does not APP
pear past the zenith of her twenties?
John Lubetsky's wife is about TWEEN
ty-five years old" asserted Attorney
Haskin. ''or twenty-eight at the out
side. She is not the mother of his
older children, of course. He married
her just a few years ago.
"The real cause of this affair is
his jealousy Of another mana younger
man.
"Lubetsky Is remarkable old man.
He claims to be 40 years old, and
physicians and old-age experts who
have examined him believe he is"
John Lubetskys wife is ninety
years DID," said Attorney Griffiths
THE younger woman is their daugh-
ter. She sides with her mother in this
case, and their constant association has
confused the attorney for the prosecu-
ton"
Insists She's Only IS
81 insist the defendant in this case
is a woman of twenty-five" persisted
Attorney Haskin, "and that she is John
Lubetsky's wife"
"The woman | am defending is ninety
years old" reiterated Attorney Crit
fiths, "and is John Lubetsky's wife"
At any rate, the Lubetskys have more
than the opposing attorneys guessing.
The children" range from old men Of
sixty 70 little shavers, and they are
scattered over many tenant. farms to
the east of Hampstead, around East
Meadow.
Lubetsky was released from the State
Hospital for the Insane at Kings Park
after a short detention there. Attor-
ney Haskin will claim he was remanded
there by the plottings of relatives.
The United States government also
has become interested in the case, and
the genealogical record Office has writ
ten Lubetsky for an account Of his long
life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
Mexican Commissioners
Resent u. S. Aid for Villa

Atlantic City, Oct. 27.-Reports that
arms and ammunition had been snug
gled into Mexico from the United
States and insistence by the Mexican
representatives that the United States
government take steps to check the as
sistance they assert Villa and other
bandits are receiving from persons on
this side Of the border featured to-
days discussions Of the Mexican
American joint commission at the close
of the second month of conferences.
Consideration Of these subjects took
much of the time, as did suggestion
of the American commissioners that
provision be made in the agreement for
the adoption of international quaran-
tine regulations so broad in character
that the American government might
send into Mexico commissioners on
sanitation who would work with Next
can agents in combating disease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
GIRL WANTS STYLISH
WEDDING, GOES TO JAIL
Accused of Stealing Jewels and
Money for Elaborate Trousseau

The method alleged to have been en-
ployed by Miss Mary Ayres, Of Ar
verne, Long Island, to satisfy her long
ing for fashionable wedding landed
her last night in the Queens County
Jail. in Long Island City. Wearing q
trim blue serge suit and an elaborate
fur neckpiece, she was arrsigned in
Jamaica on a charge of having stolen
500 worth of jewelry and 500 from
the home of Albert MichauX, an i'm
porter, in Arverne. She was held in
$1,000 bonds.
Miss Ayres offered TO serve as a
nurse for an aged relative of Mr.. Mi
chaux, while the regular nurse was on
a vacation, and when she left the ar
ticles and money were missed. She
said, the police assert, that she took
the things because she was to be mar
ried TO a boarder at her mothers
home and wanted an elaborate trous-
seau and fashionable wedding. Some
of the articles have been recovered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
ROFRANO DENIES
CHARGES OF PLOT
Continued from page |

were made for bar fixtures belonging
to Cornell in the old Chatham Club,
which Rox through Rofrano sold for
$500.
Rofrano readily admitted his rela-
tons with Cornell until the latter's
arrest, in March, 1914, in connection
with the murder of Vincenzo Cardillo,
for which two Of Michael Gaimari's
brothers were arrested, tried and ac-
quilted. He said for the sake of Cor
nell's mother, an acquaintance of his
mother in Italy, he had tried to help
him in his difficulties. He broke with
him, however, he testified, when Cor
nell brought him into the case of the
witness Baldo. Baldo had testified be-
fore the grand jury that the Gaimaris
shot Cardillo.
"Did you ever speak with Cornell
over the telephone in your Office in the
Municipal Building about getting Cal
mari out of the way-early in January
or at any other time?" Mr.. Littleton
asked.
81 never talked over the telephone
with him since | told him TO keep away
from me in 1914. | gave orders in my
Office in the Municipal Building and at
my law Office not to connect him." re-
piled the ex-ofIicial, his swarthy head
wagging earnestly. Again he denied
with the same smile of contempt the
charges that he had ever met Cornell,
Fennimore and Montimagno in Joe
Brondinis home, in Borough Park,
Brooklyn, where Montimagno swore he
had been induced to "do the job" as he
put it frequently.
81 was never in Brondini's house in
my life" Rofrano declared.
The courtroom was filed when Mr..
Littleton arose yesterday forenoon TO
open the defendants case.
The attorney spoke for nearly three
hours, and declared that he would
prove TO the jury by testimony from
clean, sweet lips that Rofrano was the
victim of a plot framed up by Month
magno TO save himself from the chair.
He promised 10 prove by reputable men
and women complete alibis for every
day and hour when the telephone rec
ords showed that calls had come in to
Rofrano's Office in the Municipal Build
ing from Cornell's fat. He would
show, he added, that Gaimari was muir
dered in a gamblers feud.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
BUFFALO RAIL
WIEN FOR WILSON
Leaders Out to Pay Debt,
but Hughes Is
Gaining
By s. Fl. EVANS.

Buffalo, Oct. 27.-With regard only
to the railroad vote of Erie County,
eliminating every other element and
influence and making no predictions on
the complexion Of the majority on
Election Night, the following is offered
as an analysis of the situation created
by the passage Of the Adamson law:
There is no doubt that in Buffalo, the
second greatest centre of railroad pop
ulation in the country, a great many
more railroad men will vote for Wilson
than for Hughes. Even Republican
committeeman in the service of rail-
roads are frank in saying they will
vote for Wilson.
The active campaigners for Wilson
here and all over the country are the
trainmon. They virtually dragged the
others into the threatened strike in the
first place, and they led the fight all
the way. Now, they say. they are try
ing to see that their political debt IS
paid.
The engineers always were dissatis-
fed with what they got in the Adamson
bill, and as time goes on they are be-
coming more so. 1t may be that by
Election Day more of them will be for
Hughes than will be for Wilson. The
passenger conductors, as rule, appear
to be for Hughes; also the freight con-
ductors Those younger in the SER
vice, with no personal memory of soup
kitchens and other accompaniment OF
hard times, are for Wilson: The fire;
men break even between Hughes and
Wilson.
Eighty per cent Of the shop foremen
are for Hughes, but practically all their
men. at present at least, are for VIII
son. The fact that they think that Will
son has done something for labor
weighs more with them than the fact
that they were left out when the Big
-Four took all there was to be had from
the President and Congress.
II must also be remembered that
small percentage of the Big Four votes
on Election ay-approximately 30 per
cent. They will be off on the road or
asleep. But their opinion carries great
weight. ,..
Railroad men make up the largest
labor unit in Erie County. With them
every other campaign argument Is
subordinated to the Adamson bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28

Paso, on the Galveston, Harrisburg &
San Antonio division of the Southern
Pacific, supposedly by Mexicans, result
ed to-day in troops being sent TO guard
all bridges near the border on that and
other railroads. Reports circulated in
FL Paso by Mexicans from Juarez that
General Trevino had abandoned Chi
huahua City and was on his way to the
border caused apprehension late to-day
and led to the strengthening of border
guards east and west of Ell Paso.
1t is thought possible that evacuation
Of chihuahua by Carranzistas would
cause an exodus of Mexicans to the
border and that Carranza soldiers in
fight might attempt TO cross the Dor
der to secure food or to escape further
military duty.
Many wild rumors have excited the
border to-day, all having a bearing on
Secretary Bakers statement that enc
mics of the Wilson Administration had
arranged with Villa for border raids
As a matter of precaution, militia
troops in camp at FL Paso and at other
border points tonight are to a large
extent on border patrol and every point
where Mexicans might be expected to
cause trouble is heavily protected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
SAVES BROOKLYN
MILLION ON LIGHT
public Service Commits
sion Orders Scent Cut
in Edison Rate

r,setric lighting bills in Brooklyn
N he cut from 25 TO so per cent
,,,oueh decision rendered yesterday
= tire Public Service Commission
..,inst the Edison Electric llluminat-
- Company Of Brooklyn.
This move OF the commission was
.,se unanimously. Oscar S. Straus,
.I,irman. was absent, but cOncurred.
D il the company is directed to re-
,r,s its maximum of IL cents per
slowatt hour to eight cents, with cor
,.sponding downward revision in other
rstes.
The general substance Of the deci-
SION is as follows:
The retail lighting rate Of IL cents
,sr klowatt hour for the first two
hours average daily use a month is
r,5ueed 20 eight cents. The eight-cent
ste for the next two hours is re-
Sueed 70 six cents. The present rate
AZ four cents for the excess use over
four kilowstt hours average daily use
is retained.
The company also is directed to cut
down its power charge from 10 cents
ur kilowatt hour to eight cents. This,
he commission believes, will reduce
The retail power consumers bills by
6per cent.
Lamp renewals and installations are
20 be charged at one-half cent per kilo-
watt hour, but the company is directed
70 furnish, instead of the carbon lights
which il now gives, tungsten lamps, or
lights Of equal efficiency, which, the
commission holds, will result in an in
eresse Of the lighting efficiency Of
from 200 70 $50 per cent.
The commission also adopted an
opinion on the case, which mas been
under investigation for the last four
wears. This is the work Of Commits
sjoner William Hayward, and discusses
al length the questions Of capitaliza-
ton. franchises, etc.
The Edison company has claimed
throughout the lengthy series of hear
ipgs a capitalization of S3S,000,000 on
jts property, exclusive of franchises
and going value. At the new rates
liked by the commission, it is estimated
that the company will have a return
Of Z per cent and at the same time the
retail customers will be saved about
SilO0,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
LYON GRlNS OVER
FAT FOOL NOTE
Wrote of Passion Flowers
Signed Letter Lydia
Pink Ham

Whitney Lyon, tooth powder manu-
facturer, demonstrated to crowded
courtroom in the Supreme Court yes
terday that he possesses sense of
humor. Not even the fact that he is
defendant in a 100000 breach Of
promise suit brought by Miss Margaret
Cornell, a Fifth Avenue modiste, in
terfered with his enjoyment Of the at
mosphere of levity created by the
reading Of two letters which he wrote
to Miss Connell. In these he addressed
her as "My dear doll" and subscribed
himself as "Your big, fat fool" and
Yours for health, Lydia Pink Ham,"
respectively.
The appearance of these communica-
lions, written in Florida, was some
what OF a surprise in view of the
prior declaration Of Miss Connell that
Mr. Lyon did not make love to her
with an ink bottle" But there they
were, these love letters of the fifty
hye-year-old. widower, whose daughter
is a Wellesley student and son is at
Yale. they were introduced by George
Gordon Battle, counsel for Mr.. Lyon.
Picks Passion Flowers
In one of his letters Mr.. Lyon said:
When | see the New York papers
with pictures of the billiards you have
been haying | am glad | am down here
IN the warm sunshine, picking passion
flowers and learning how to love.
sometimes wonder which Of the kind
doctors is holding her lily white hand
while | am not there and who is taking
her to dinner at Rogers's. / don't wish
him any bad luck, but hope he chokes.
| have sent you box of oranges, which
you are supposed to eat whole. | hope
you have not got your bed up against
the window these cold nights"
Mr.. Lyon said that in the winter of
1912-13 he took Miss Connell out on
that he ever told her before he started
for Florida, in 1914, that he loved her
or proposed marriage TO the modiste.
Asked about Miss Connell's age, he
demurred, saying that he did not like
to guess at the age of women.
Gift Ring Only $3.50
Mr.. Lyon explained the giving Of
a ring to Miss Connell, which she said
was an engagement ring. The de-
PENDANT said that its original value as
a scarfpin was only $3.50, it being
what is known as a reconstructed
ruby" with some kind of small stones
surrounding it.
Being an imitation thing, l discard
ed it." he declared, and said that Miss
Connell admired it, and he had it made
into a ring for her.
Mr.. Lyon described Miss Connell as
IAN old family retainer, servant, a
dressmaker, a friend of the family"
with whom he went out when there
was nobody else to go around with" y
He took the complainant to dinner and
theatre half dozen times.
Miss Dorothy Lyon and Irving
Lyon, daughter and son OF the de-
PENDANT, also testified, corroborating
their father.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
HURLEY WARNS U. S. TRADE
Official Says Allies Are Ready TO Seize
Commerce

commerce
That France and England have reor-
ganized their entire industrial systems,
copying and improving American stand
ards Of efficiency so that they will be
ready for a commercial invasion Of this
country at the end of the war, was the
warning delivered last night by Edward
y. Hurley, chairman of the Federal
Trade Commission. Mr.. Hurley ad-
dressed about 800 publishers and rep
resentatives of the Associated Business
Papers, Inc, at the Hotel Aston.
Mr.. Hurley said that france had al
ready switched from the making Of
highly individualistic products TO large
scale business. Small farms, formerly
worked mostly by hand labor, are now
thrown together and farmed co0pera-
lively with tractors and other modern
agricultural equipments. He said Great
Britain had advanced industrially thir-
ty years in thirty months Of war, and
that both these countries, as well as
Germany, would enter the commercial
world after peace is restored with war
sharpened wits.
r. H. Patchin, of New York City, sec
rotary of the National Foreign Trad
Council. spoke on the need of a sound
national foreign policy. President A. A
Gray of the Associated Business Papers
presided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28

away from its words, but according 10
its words; and before you get under
way you have got TO prove that this
thing has been done commonly and
Systematically
But that is not the worst Of IL. X
a statute has proyiso, you want 10
watch the proviso. A proviso some
times has such a nav that IL swallows
up the whole statute. That is not the
intent of the proviso; the proviso IL
intended TO detract somewhat from the
force of the main statute; but this
proviso do not think leaves anything
of the statute, so far as practical
operation is concerned.
after defining this defence, which
would be hard enough to prove, IL goes
on to say: Provided that such act or
acts be done with the intent Of de-
stroying or injuring an industry in
the United States, or 20 prevent tho
establishment of an industry in the
United States, or to restrain or mo-
nopolize any part OF trade or COM
mcrce in such articles in the United
States
THAT is what you have got 20 prove.
Suppose the intent is just 10. sell
VOodg ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28

The venerable John Lubetsky, who Is
old enough to remember the retreat OF
Napoleon through his native Poland
yesterday plodded with his long,
crooked cane down the corridor Of
Hempstead's venerable Town Hall
which looks old enough TO remember
Washington's retreat from Long Island
and entered the courtroom Of Justice
Of the Peace Walter L. Jones.
He cupped his hand behind his ear
and edged forward in his seat so as 10
catch the particulars of the case on
hearing, which is entitled Lubetsky
versus Lubetsky. The charge was as
sault with a dangerous weapon, to wit,
a carving knife.
Lincoln B. Haskin, attorney for the
plaintiff, arose and announced his
readiness to proceed with the selection
of iury. At the word Jury" the old
mans dark eyes snapped. Yes, yes; he
was eager for the jury to be selected at
once.
But when Mr.. Haskins had concluded
il developed that Attorney H. Willard
Grifiths, of counsel for the defence,
was absent in New York City. With
out Mr.. Grifiths the matter could not
proceed. Accordingly, Mr.. Justice of
the Peace Jones ruled that on Monday
the Jury will be chosen, but the case
will not be brought to trial until De-
cember l.
Justice Too Slow for Him
John Lubetsky stumped from the
courtroom in dudgeon, drumming with
his cane on the Town Hall floor his
criticism of justices sloth in Nassau
County.
John Lubetsky's one motto is prompt
ness and after 10 years Of strict oo-
servance, punctuality has grown TO be
something of habit with him. He
wanted the case settled at once-and
for all. He says he thinks his views
are justified by the circumstances CT
the case, he being the complainant and
his wife being the defendant.
Lubetsky accuses his spouse OF
wounding him on the wrist. He OBJ
tanned a warrant for her six weeks
ago and insisted upon trial by jury.
This jury will decide whether Mrs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
Italian Bazaar Opens Tonight

The Italian bazaar for the relief OF
Allied war sufferers will open at the
Grand Central Palace at 8 O'Clock TO-
night. to continue for nine days. More
than 500 girls and young women of
many nationalities and nearly 100 the
atrical and operate stars, from Caruso
10 little Maxine Hodges, will take part
az booth attendants and entertainers.