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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-05

Start Training-A lc!ter to the play
ers on the High school basketball team
has been sent them by Coach Moore
The letter calls on them to start train
ing for the tournament at Buckhan.
non and praises thom for the splendid
sportsfeanship they have shown all
season, and which now bids fail to
win for them the state high school
championship.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-05

Their, snow rain and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
For Priests as Chaplains
Catholics Ask More Appoint.
ments for Men of Their Faith

Washington. June 2l.-At the re-
quest of Cardinal O'Connell, OF Boston,
representative Tague. Of Massachu-
sets, to-day asked the War Depart
men. to explain its recent ruling
whereby it is alleged the Roman Cath
clio Church is denied its full quota OF
army chaplains.
According 70 representations made 10
Mr. Tague, the War Department de-
cided last year 20 assign chaplains of
the various denominations 20 the army
in the proportion that their church
membership bore 20 the entire church
membership Of the country. By this
ruling it is claimed by Cardinal O'Con-
nell that the Roman Catholic Church
should have ffty-seven chaplains in
the army. The Adiutant Generals De-
partment, it is said, announced on June
7 that the Catholic Church would be
allotted but thirty-four chaplains.
There are now seventy-four army
ehaplains in active service, sixteen of
whom represent the Roman Catholic
Church. IL is the claim OF the Boston
Catholic prelate that forty-one addi-
tional chaplains of the Roman Catholic
faith should be assigned 10 duty If the
War Department proposes 10 hold 10 its
ruling Of las. year making assignments
proportional TO church membership.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Mrs. McQuaide to Get
Accounting of Trust

Justice Guy In the Supreme Court
yesterday refused TO dismiss an action
brought by Mrs. Sara S. McQuaide for
an accounting of 1850 shares OF stock
of the National Conduit and Cable
Company, alleged TO have been set aside
for her as a trust fund b. her husband.
James p. McQuaide, the Pittsburgh
steel millionaire, who purchased the
Alexander Pope villa at Twickenham,
England, where he died in 1915.
Mrs. McQuaide was the second Of
three wives Of the millionaire steel man.
She was divorced by him in Florida
on the ground of desertion, and under
the trust fund she was TO receive IS, 400
year as long as her husbands income
from dividends, salary and money from
other sources should not amount TO
less than $4,000 a year. She COM
planned she was allowed only $1,000
since 1912.
After diyorcing his second wife Nc
Quaide married Gertie Reynolds, a
Weber and Fields dancer, who was ap-
pointed eecutrX. The second Mrs. Me
Quaide, however, obtained letters of
administration, which the third wife is
trying 20 have set aside in the Surro-
gates Court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
The Weather Report

Washington. Iuns .i.-rempersturs CONTINUES
slightly below The seasonal average So the North
err states and near or above tho normal in all
paris Of the country Weather has become some
what cooler IN California where intense heat hA,
prevailed for several dDs past
There have been scattered showers IN he last
iVenp-four hours 200 the Southern states. the
lake region. the upper Mississippi vallry and the
plains states. Showers ara again reported from
the wheat he.t o. the Western Canadian provinces.
The pressure IS relatively high on the Atlantic
coast. lower Rocky Mountains and Western pli-
teau regions ana approximately normal elsewhere.
The pressure distribution Is Indicative % gen
orally fair weather east o. tie Mississippi River
Friday ard Saturday. exccp. that showers are
probable along tho south Atlantic coast Friday
afd Saturday and "a the upper lake region sat
urday.
40 Important temperature changes are indicated
fsrseass Tor Special Ioealltles England.
Ta.ferl New York Easftu pernsj.rarls. New
Jer.ry Delaware Maryland District of Columbia
Nlr1ula-Oycr-sst Fniay. saturday fair.
F1Y-ifa Aiatama Mississippi. Tennessee. Ken
Western Pennsylysnla. Wcsfe-l New Aork-Proba-
Us fair Fdisy AID satgriay.
LEGAL ofheIaI Rsoord.-Tn- foloHing off-al rec
ori from the Weather Bureau shows temperatures
during N elast tFeny-folr hours. IN comparison
with the corresponding date Of last year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Jewish Millions
To Restore Old
Palestine Homes
Moigenthau Sails With lnstruc-
tons to Spare No Ex-
pense in Giving Aid

Former Ambassador Henry Morgen-
than and Professor Felix Frankfurter,
of the Harvard Law School, who is also
confidential adviser to Secretary Of
War Baker, have left this country for
Egypt at the request Of President Will
son, it was announced yesterday. The
mission was undertaken primarily TO
alleviate tho condition of the thou
sands Of Jews, many OF them American
citizens, who have been expelled from
JafFa bv the Turks. Although the
United States has broken relations with
Turkey. il was believed that Mr.. Nor
genthau, because of the high esteem IN
which he is held by the Turkish people,
was better fitted than any other Ameri-
can to establish direct communication
with the Jews Of Palestine.
Before Mr. Morgenthau sailed COM
mittee of prominent Jews, among them
Jacob II. Schiff, Felix VI. Warburg,
Rabbi Stephen ). Wise, Louis Marshall
and Judge Julian w. Mack, instructed
him TO spare no money in restoring the
Jews 20 their homes, and "to spend
millions, if necessary" Prominent
Zionists, who are TO meet next week at
Baltimore 70 draw up formal demands
on the Allies for the restoration OF
Palestine as a Jewish homeland, were
plainly elated at the selection of the
two emissaries, both of them ardent
Zionists, inasmuch as the mission 70
Egypt is the first step in the Zionist
platform.
Albert Lucas, secretary Of the joint
distribution committee. last night re-
ported that the committee had been
sending $4,000 monthly TO the Jews of
Palestine for a long time. and that 1t
had recently voted an extra appropria-
ton of $4,000, to be forwarded at
once. to assist shose who had been eX-
PEELED from their homes.
ut has been impossible since the dis
patch. many months ago, of the cruiser
Des Moines and the collier Cesar with
medicines and supplies for the Jews Of
Syria and Palestine" said Mr.. Lucas
ITO provide the needed relief. Owing
TO the international complications these
supplies were never delivered. 10 is
believed that Mr.. Morgenthau and Pro-
fessor Frankfurter Will be enabled 70
open negotiations with Turkey from
Egvpt which will result in securing
permission 20 forward food and other
supplies to the Jews of Jaifa, Jerusalem
and elsewhere"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22


Ottawa. June 2l.-Charges that Ger
man spies operating from the United
States used German money freely IN
Canada to prevent recruiting and TO
stir up anti-eonseription sentiment
were made by General Sir Sam
Hughes, former Minister of Militia,
during the debate now in progress in
Parliament on the Consumption bill.
To illustrate the subtlety Of the
German agents. Sir Sam declared that
William Jennings Bryan, former Sec
rotary of State Of the United States,
and Henry Ford, the American auto
manufacturer. had been victimized By
men on the payrolls Of Wilhelmstrasse.
Bryan and Foyd Duped
Canada has suffered and been en-
dangered by German gold working
through United States agencies" said
Sir Sam. william Jennings Bryan
was not bought by German gold, but
influenced by men in German pay.
Peace agitations and other similar pro-
paganda are controlled and financed
by German finance. And Henry Ford
was approached by those who have
since admitted on oath that they were
in the pay of German agents"
Sir Sam, whose speech occupied the
attention Of Parliament for several
hours, maintained that the German
propagandists had wrought a serious
situation in Canada. He declared that
certain labor leaders here, who oppose
conscription, bore "all the earmarks OF
being in the pay of German agents IN
the United States
Sir Sam attacked Sir Wilfrid
Laurier. leader of the Liberals, and
the French Canadians Of Quebec for
falling 70 do their bit. Reverting to
the activities of German propagandists'
he said:
Peace Moves All German
"There are excellent reasons for be-
Geving that German gold, cleverly ap-
plied, exhausted the voluntary system
of recruiting here in Canada. The rec
ords OF American courts show clearly
that the labor agitations, the contra
band demands, the food riot movements
the peace-at-any-price agitation have
ali been controlled and directed by Ger
man gold. We have instanced where
gentlemen occupying high journalistic
positions in this country were IN re-
CENT of money from the United States
and it IS now known that peace organ
izations in that country were to very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Society
Women Donate Livestock
for Babies Milk Fund
Fair To-day

Four little pigs, donated by Mrs.
Ralph Ellis, and other livestock, as well
as q Pekingese dog given by Mrs. Jo-
seph f. Davis, antiques, garden imple-
nents, furniture, homemade preserves,
pies, cakes and other delicacies, will be
sold this afternoon at a fair TO be held
at Greertree, the country home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Payne Whitney at Manhasset,
Long Island. Virginia Keep Clark will
make sketches Of children, and there will
be other attractions. The proceeds will
60 to the babies milk fund Of New
York and the Nassau County Associa-
ton. Mrs. Whitney will be assisted at
the sale by Mrs. Egerton L. Winthrop,
Mrs. Courtlandt Dixon Barnes, Mrs.
| Cornelius n. Bliss, jr., Mrs. John Pratt,
Mrs. John Truesdale and Mrs. Philip
Boyer.
Miss Dorothy Duryes, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Townsend Duryea,
was married last evening at the home
Of her parents, in Lawrence Park,
Bronxville, TO Warren Bruce PRIME.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Carl II. Elmore, Of Briarcllh
Manor, and a small reception followed.
Miss Helen Royce Duryea was her
sisters maid Of honor and only attend
ant. Malcolm PRIME, of Scarsdale,
y. Y, served as best man, and the ush-
ers were Donald PRIME, of Providence,
and Russell Ayres, Of Montclair, y. j.
Mr. and Mrs. PRIME will spend their
honeymoon in the West and will live in
Wallingford, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus F. Kountze
are staying at the Rive Cottage, in Red
Cross Avenue, Newport
Mr.. and Mrs. VI. Orme Wilson have
gone TO Shinnecock Hills, Long Island,
for the summer.
Justice and Mrs. Francis ". Scott
went Yesterday to Locust Valley, Long
Island, where they are guests of Mr..
and Mrs. william d. Guthrie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Morris
have taken house at East Rockaway
for the summer.
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman and Miss
Ethel NJ. y. Hartman will arrive IN
town to-day from Washington. Miss
Hartman and Mrs. Vincent Aston are
sailing in a few days for England to
engage in war relief work with Mrs.
Astor's mother-in-iaw, Mrs. John Aston.
James J. Van Allen, who was with his
son and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. Laurens Van Allen, at Newport, left
tbere on wednesday on his annual fish
ing trip TO Quebec
Mr. and Mrs. William VI. V. Hoffman
are AZ White sulphur Springs for few
days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Bryan and Ford Dupes Of German
Propagandists, Says SIR SamE hughes
IN Speech Before Parliament Former Minister Of Militia
Declares Americans Were Not Bought, but Were
Influenced by Men in Kaiser's Pay

large extent maintained By German
gold for years before the war
Early IN 1916, when Canadian re-
crultlng was az its zenith, whispers
were heard from all Canadian centres
the work was skilfully done-dreading
that workmen could not be found for
the various industries and services IN
Canada. At the time | suspected Ger
man gold, and so informed the Prime
Minister. The movement grew in force,
and the Imperial Munitions Board and
the Finance Minister each became anX-
ious and restrictive. Finally the head
Of the Canadian Pacific Railway was in
huenced by the agitation, and while the
Imperial Munitions Board and the FL
nance Minister had limited themselves
10 impressive personal conversations
with the Prime Minister and many
others, Lord Shaughnessy went further,
and not only privately, as did the 9TH
ers, but publicly and openly. proclaimed
himself in an address before the Bosrd
of Trade at Montreal
Scores Lord Shaughnessy
Lord Shaughnessy had been regarded
in railway circles as a man of sound
judgment. He was trained under the
greatest railway man of the age. Sir
William Van Horne, but he had not the
breadth of judgment. had not the force
of character. had not the fearlessness
in the face of trial, of the great master,
Van Horne"
The Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux. of Que
bee, in supporting the referendum
amendment, which would put the whole
question before the people, Injected
the religious question into the debate.
After UNFOLDING Sir Wilfred Laurier's
speech Of the day before, he criticised
severely the administration of the vol
untary system IN Quebec, province
almost wholly made up Of French Ro-
man Catholics, pointing out that the
recruiting officer for the province was
a Methodist minister.
Suppose" he continued, "a Jesuit
priest had been put in charge OF re-
cruiting in Toronto a Protestant cen
tre), what would have been the re-
suit"
Deplores Religious Turn
The religious question, which ia back
Of the internal troubles here, was also
emphasized by Sir sam Hughes, when
he was interrupted by Quebec Lib
eral Said Sir Sam:
"The actual action OF certain promi-
nent people in directing men not 70 go,
but TO stay at home and secure the
places of those going 20 the front. has
had its effect, regret 70 say. Since
the ex-Prime Minister, the leader OF
the Opposition, is so welded to his
beloved Province OF Quebec, regret to
az that that IL a charge which you
might well inquire into, relating 70 the
common clergy of his own province
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Women Learn How
To Operate Lifts IN
Equitable Building
80 Others in Overalls Do Their
Bit Cleaning Staten Island
Street Cars

Two new fields were opened TO
women by war conditions yesterday,
when thirty women in overalls APP
peared as car cleaners at the Staten
Island Rapid Transit Terminal Station,
and two young women of the Women's
War Work League of the Y. W. c. A.
took their first lessons in elevator op-
Grating at the Equitable Life Assurance
Building, at 120 Broadway.
The women car cleaners replaced
thirty men formerly employed at this
work who are liable to conscription,
and officials of the company announced
that more women are being similarly
employed on the South Beach, Totem
Vile and North Shore divisions.
The elevator women went through
only the first stages Of elevator operat-
ing yesterday. Under the watchful eye
OF Chief Starter Clifford $. SImonson
of the Equitable Building, the two cam
didates were taken up and down for
several hours to test their ability 70
stand the motion Of the car. Later
they were shown the rudiments Of the
mechanism, ana, dCCOIulhB 70 SlHHoh-
son, they soon demonstrated that heavy
iron gates and levers are no obstacle
to a girl who wants to serve her coun-
try in war time.
Clarence J. Coley, operating manager
Of the building, said yesterday that If
this experiment is a success women OPP
orators might be made a permanent
feature, as most Of the Equitable opera
tors are eligible for consumption.
The American Association for Labor
Legislation sent out a bulletin yester-
day urging equal pay for equal work
without discrimination as to sex.
what makes you keep staring al
the mercury in the thermometer"
81 like to realize that at least the
temperature can go up without costing
me anything extra. Washington Star.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Half Of Harvard
Graduates Away
For War Service
Commencement, Is Made Patri-
otto Celebration-Bone-dry
for First Time

Cambridge, Mass. June 2l.-War
shattered time-honored customs and
caused commencement day at Harvard
University to-day 20 be transformed
into a memorable patriotic occasion.
The famous campus had the appearance
OF military camp. and the thousands
that crowded it seemed sobered with
newer and greater responsibilities.
When the roll OF the senior class OF
Harvard College was called less than
half the number of 40 who had won
the degree of bachelor of arts re-
sponded in person. The others are
serving their country az widely sep
srated posts Of duty. A total OF l,2s4
degrees in course were conferred by
the university az the commencement
exercises at Sanders Theatre.
Honorary degrees were awarded and
announced by President A. Lawrence
Lowell as follows:
Doctor of Laws-Herbert Clark
Hoover, organizer of the Belgian Re-
lief work; John Grier Hibben, presi-
dent of Princeton University; Henry
White. formerly American Ambassador
20 Italy and TO France; Arthur Cecil
Spring Rice. British Ambassador TO the
United States.
Doctor of Letters-Paul Jean Lewis
Azan, military writer and teacher, Sc
Nor French officer instructing the
Harvard Regiment of the Officers Re-
serve Training Corps.
Master of Arts-Daniel Chester
French. sculptor; Newcomb Carlton.
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
The parade OF the Harvard Officers
Reserve Training Corps, with the
graduates massed in review on the
steps of the Widener Library, further
emphasized the patriotic character Of
the occasion.
1t was the first "bone dry com
mencement in the history of the uni
versity. Even the class of 1892 dis
pensed with the traditional champagne
toast which has always been given by
the twenty-ffth year class.
At the annual meeting of the Alumni
Association President Lowell an
nounced that the customary gift by the
twenty-fifth year class was d 100000
Liberty Bond.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Yunnan and Canton Cancel
Secession Decree and May
Avert Civil War
Ii to Retain Office
Militarists Expected Soon to
Declare Hostilities Against
Germany

Washington, June 21.-The Chinese
provinces of Yunnan and Canton have
cancelled their declaration Of secession
and are now supporting the govern
ment, according 10 a cable message
from DR.. WI Ting-fang, Chinese For
eign Minister, made public by the Chi
/ nese Legation here to-day.
Other official intelligence represents
the provinces as being quiet, contrary
to press dispatches. A modus vivendi
has been reached by the so-called Pro-
visional Government at Tientsin, under
| the dictatorship of Hsu Shih-ching,
ex-Secretary of State. General Chang
I Hsun, military governor OF Anhwel
Province, the real power IN the Prov
sional Government, controls the sltua-
I ton.
Only two members OF the Ii minis
/ try-Wu Ting-fang, Foreign Minister,
and the Minister Of Education were
not dismissed with Premier Iuan Chi
: Jul. and there is no opposition TO them
/ BY the Provisional Government What
! the personnel of the new government
will be is not known here. II IL be
/ ieved. however, that no effort will be
made to dislodge President III Huan-
I hung. and the compromise between the
( military governors and the President
/ is thought to have averted war with
/ the Southern provinces
There are differences among the mill
/ itarists themselves, which have been
/ composed in the face of the threatened
/ revolution in the South, and also on ac'
count OF yelled threats from japanese
sources.
II was thought here to-day that the
ANTICIPATED acceptance of Hsu Sinh
chang of the task Of organizing a new
ministry with himself Al its head, may
solve the difficulties.
The new elections cannot be held
within six months. according 10 Chinese
here. owing TO the size and population
of China and the unfamiliarity of the
neoDle with elective machinery 10 Is
considered certain that the mihtarlstS
will trv TO prevent the return 10 power
/ OF A majority of the so-called Natioh-
aliqt party. The elements now IN con-
/ troll favor strongly centra iized gov
| eminent. while the Nationallsts favor
/ a wide distribution OF powers, with a
| large measure of local government Z.
1t is said here that the militarlStss
/ do not intend 10 await the election ot
a new Parliament before placing emma
nv the side of the Allies in the war
with Germany. Before the coup vlrtu-
allv all details had been arranged Tor
a declaration of war. Chlnas decision
is now expected soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-22
Net Profits of More than
$4,000 a Year Also
To Be Taxed
Postcards Not Raised
Tax on Excess Profits to APP.
ply to Individuals as Well
as Corporations

Washington, June 21.-The Senate
Finance Committee late to-day took
what the members expect TO be final
action on publishers taxes in the war
revenue bill, adopting by vote OF s
to an increase of one-quarter of a
cent pound on second class postage
rates, and an additional levy of five
per cent upon publishers net profits
over $4,000.
Revenues Of 100000 annually from
the increase in postage rates 70 IA
cents a pound, which most publishers
have vigorously opposed. and about
100000 from the profits tax are ex-
pected
The committees decision came after
days Of dispute and was reached just
before members of the American News
paper Publishers Association called TO
confer with Senators regarding the
publishers tax.
Tax on Religious Papers
The increase in postage rates would
apply 20 publishers OF newspapers,
magazines and all other periodicals. in
GLIDING religious publications.
The committee also decided to-day "a
retain the House increase of so per
cent on letter rates, but tentatively
agreed to strike out the doubled post
card rate As about one billion post
cards were sent last year. if the post
card increase is eliminated about s20,-
100000 i'm revenues will be lost The let
ter increase IS expected TO raise about
$4,000 900.
In revising the excess profits tax to-
day, deferring a decision regarding the
rate of taxation, the committee decided
to extend its operation TO individuals
in trade, as well as corporations and
partnerships. From individuals. at the
House rate of Is per cent, it is esti-
mated Sl00,000,000 additional revenue
would be secured
Corporations Get Exemption
Il also was decided 20 give an ex-
emption Of per cent 20 corporations
having subnormal profits during the
three-year pre-wsr period, and simi-
lar exemption to new corporations or
gained since the war began.
An exemption OF $4,000 in assessing
the tax will apply to individuals on
the same basis as corporations. The
individual tax would be additional TO
the income tax.
The object Of the tax Is 20 reach war
profits Of trade conducted personally
and not in corporate or partnership
form. The tax, it IS expected, will sp
ply also TO professional men, such a
physicians and dentists.