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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
President Tells
Suffragists His
Mind Is "Io Let
Promises TO Reconsider Amend
ment for Universal Votes
for Women

Washington. May IA. President Viii
son pleased committee of woman suf-
frage advocates who called on him At
the White House to-day by saying that
his mind still was ITO let on the ques-
tion of universal suffrage by Federal
Constitutional amendment. and that the
question was constantly pressing on his
mind for Reconsideration"
Ii was the first time i'm more than a
year that the President had received a
suffrage delegation. His position al
ways has been that suffrage is a ques-
ton TO be dealt with by the states.
Five political parties were represent
cd in to-day's delegation, which con
sisted of j. A. II. Hopkins. Progressive,
Of New Jersey; DR.. h. A. Rumely, indie
pendent Republican. New York; John
Spargo, Socialist. Vermont; Virgil +.
Hinshaw. Prohibitionist. Illinois, and
Miss Mabel Vernon and Mrs. Abby
Scott Baker. Womans party. Washing
ton. Former Governor Walsh of Mas
sachusetts had intended to represent
the Democratic party. but he was un-
able TO be present
The President received the committee
i'm the Green Room. the callers seating
themselves in corner and he taking Il
chair facing them. Then the various
members Of the party we're presented
by Mr.. Hopkins to tell the President
why they thought he should indorse "A
universal suffrage amendment resolu-
ton Immediately
Miss Vernon. who on two occasions
had participated in Interruptions of the
Presidents speeches once at a dedica-
ton Of d local labor temple and again
when banner was dropped before his
eyes at the opening Of the last session
of Congress quoted some of the Ex-
ecutive's words in his war message as
an argument for suffrage.
In presenting the speakers Mr.. Hop
kins said that they did not come TO
argue suffrage. because they already
knew he favored it. The President
smiled and nodded his head
After leaving the White House Mr..
Hopkins issues a statement saying:
"The results were highly satisfactory
to the members Of the delegation, upon
whose mind the impression was created
that the granting of suffrage TO the
women Of the country was fast APP
preaching. The question Of its con-
frmation seemed to be largely mat
ter dependent upon the attitude Of
congress.
THE President showed very warm in
torest in the subject of Federal suf-
frage and great appreciation of the
manner in which the delegation pre-
scented their arguments He said that
the matter was one which was con-
stsntly pressing for consideration and
that he would take the matter again
under advisement"
The same delegation will have hear
ing before the judiciary Committee Of
the House and the Senate Suffrage Com
mittee tomorrow 10 urge that the suf-
frage amendment be reported favor
ably for passage at this session of Con-
gress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Coler Decries City Officials
Says Rockefeller Foundation
Controls Education Board

Bird s. Coler attacked the present
city administration last night at a
meeting of the Business Mems League,
80 East Forty-second Street. The league
is organizing 20 nominate business
man for Mayor" next autumn.
The speaker said that business meth
DDS were unknown in the present city
government. and alleged that the Rock
efeller Foundation controlled the Board
of Education and had too much inhu-
ence with the Health Department
The present high tax rate, he said,
was due to maladministration and to
the fact that the experts in the various
city departments received far'too high
salaries He also assailed the police for
their overlapping activities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Judge Beall, First to Create
Juvenile CoCurt in u. S., Desd

City Judge Joseph II. Beall, O.
Yonkers. known for his efforts to he4
juveniles, died at his horne In Armcs'
Villa Park. Yonkers. yesterday OF hear
failure. He was forty-seven years 0''
Judge Beall established the hrst lD''
nile court in the United States, beng
ahead Of Judge Lindsey. Of Denver
Judge Beall was born IN Cnari', W
". Va. He cane TO New YORK ~h',
fifteen years old and was grscus''
from the College OF the City Of ''r
York in 1895 He moved 70 fons'"
and was elected judge IN 1900. I
decisions he wrote were ever re'sr1
He leaves widow, son ana WV
daughters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Gives Five Sons to Country

Mrs. Alice Redyke. widow. Of 700
East Eighteenth Street. Paterson, y. j..
has given five of her sons to her coun-
try. They are members Of the 9Th New
Jersey Infantry. A sixth son IS eager
~ awaiting his eighteenth birthday so
he, too, may join the Fighting Fifth"
The sons now in the service are Ser
geant Fred l.. RedyNe. assistant to the
regimental recruiting officer; Corporals
Robert NJ. Cornelius and Arthur Re
dyke. and Private Theodore Redyke.
Theodore will be made a corporal this
week. All FIVE are on duty somewhere
in New Jersey"
Mrs. Redyke declared to-day she
would willingly give FIVE more sons to
the United States if she had them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

On April % a mob Of Russian rad-
jcols smarmed through the streets OF
Pctrograd, woripg black banners and
howiing dcnunciotions against Dord
X. Francis. the United States Ann
bossodoy. Agitators had led them TO
beiiere that one Mum" an Hdtidn
anarchist, had been erecuted ~ San
Francisco.
This distorted rumor, heard hdU
iroy around the world, wos an echo
of the conviction in San Francisco
of Thomas j. Mooney. who has been
sentenced to death for bombing the
Preparedness Parade there last year.
The rumor brought ont mobs. m
Petrogrod. The actual facts IN the
case Of Mooney and his fou' alleged
dccomplices threaten 70 tear San
Francisco apart.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Soldier Dying After Fall

William Sachs. corporal in the ma
chine gun company of the list Rcgi-
ment. y. G. y. Y. will probably die as
the result of fall from railroad
bridge in upper New York State yes
terday.
The young man WAS in charge of the
relieving guard. and stumbled as he
was crossing the ties in the darkness
Of early morning. He dropped fifty
feet to the rocks below. His skull was
fractured and he sustained internal in
juries He had not regained conscious
ness al a hospital late last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Mooney known as Disturber

Mooney had been trying to organize
the employes of the United Railroads
San Fratcisco's streetcar lines. lie
had been known as disturber for
years. and especially had been thorn
in the side of the Pacific Gas and Elec-
trio Company. In the weeks that FOL
lowed the Rigall disclosures opinion IN
California grouped itself into two hos
tile camps. Those who stand behind
the Oxman revelations hold:
That the San Francisco Chamber OF
Commerce. the United Railroads. the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company and
allied business interests seized the IRE
paredness Day crime as a means OF
hanging five labor agitstors; that they
branded union labor with a crime with
which il had no connection. and tina,
tho prosecution of the five defendant
is primarily in furtherance Of a tight to
crush unions. begun before the Pre-
paredness Day explosion; that District
Attorney Charles VI Fickert was
placed in Office b. the United Rail
roads. and that he put aside evidence
which would have led 20 the arrest OF
the persons guilty Of the bomb out
rage. and conspired to hang five enc
mics of the United Railroads pointed
out TO him by that corporation.
The reply of the prosecution is:
That in the trials of Warren X.
Billings. sentenced to life imprlson-
ment. and of Mooney. the guilt of the
defendants has been clearly and indls-
putably established; that those who
now assail 0xman's testimony are al
lied with a band Of criminal anarchists I;
chat the prosecution was based solely
on evidence Of guilt. and that the tight
to convict the defendants is fight for
law and order against organized law
iesgnoSs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

II you IMMERSED in the ways OF banks and brokers
that is no reason why you should buy Liberty Loan
bond For YOU need assistance OF banker or broker
age firm All that necessary for the purchase is the de-
sire and per cent Of the you wish to subscribe
eventually.
Having both of these you clip out the above blank
Then fill it out put it in an envelope with your check for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

and the prosecution joined Shortritr
IN every legal drive IN behalf OF or
man. As the Mooney defence attorneys
were not permitted to participate, ne
finding against Oman was mu
reached on the sole basis Of the le,'sn
and the Rigall story.
0xman did not take the stand duFiln'
the preliminary hearing, and his a.
fence was entirely on technicalltlees .
his arrangement. His only explains
ton of record Is the postscript e.
PLANTATION. made before the secret 'e''
sion Of the grand jury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
VANDERBILT Will Fire First Gun in Liberty Loan
Campaign Before New York State Bankers Association
TO ORDER A LIBERTY BOND, JUSl ri


LIBERTY LOAN.
hebsb
his district
r tn Treasury Depatm a
ed-- - ---
c Secretary
Of the15 Year Pei he
and raac application
ncDsedb the amour If bonds r o in
theoc 0bondap
Signature fsnbcnbs,in n.~-.-~-
bedaret-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Labor Unions Aroused

Maxwell McNutt had repre- scented the
defendants up 10 this point. lie was
row Joined by W. Bourke Cochran, OF
New York. who became interested in
the case through Mrs J. Sergeant Cram.
There was little money to conduct the
defense, but labor unions, hitherto in
different. became aroused. Resolutions
denouncng Fickert and demanding his
recall were passed by labor organiza-
tons all over the country. The San
Francisco Labor Council voted 100000
70 defend the prisoners.
District Attorney Fickert made no at
tempt TO explain the Oman letters.
lie said he had learned of Rigalrs
duplicity day or two after his ar
rival. and had had no intention of hav-
ing him testify. He had been kept in
san Francisco and entertained. he said.
because it was feared Oxman would
run out" If his friend departed.
Fickert entered several conferences
with the attorneys for the defence, In
which he said he would prosecute Ok
man. arrange for new trial for
Mooney and the acquittal Of the other
defendants. Then, after conferences
with Frank Drew, attorney for the
Chamber of Commerce. he appeared be-
fore the grand jury and asked that he
be allowed 20 conduct an investigation
Of the Oxman letters and his conduct
before that body. The grand jury asked
the Attorney General 10 appoint a spe-
cial investigator. and the latter ap-
pointed Judge Clarke, his deputy, OF
Los Angeles.
Fought Oxman's Arrest
John d. Spreckels. jr. foreman of the
grand jury, is the political ally Of Dis
trict Attorney Fickert. Fickert sent TO
Oxman Attorney Samuel NJ. Shortridge,
personal attorney for Spreckels. The
District Attorneys Office made a des-
perate fight against Oxman's arrest,
and a still more desperate fight in his
behalf during the eleven days OF his
preliminary hearing. The District AT
torney's office was reluctantly COM
PEELED to appear in the prosecution Of
OXman.
The Assistant District Attorney as
signed to the case. concurred in every
move by the opposing attorney; Short
ridges decisions were looked up for
him in the District Attorneys office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

nor cent of YOUR total subscription and forward to the
Federal Reserve Bank in dstrc or else to the treas
ury Department in Washington
The first actual subscriptions to the loan were received
in Warrington yesterday. On June 4, Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo will speak at Carnegie Hall under the
auspices of the Liberty Loan Committee of the New fofh
Federal Reserve District.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

Wool's going at such a
lively old clip that in some
clothes the poor sleeps hard
ly in the picture at all.
Here. "All-wool' means
Quality
Means your money back,
il you want it.
The style and fit you see
for yourself.
Moderate prices, thanks TO
the size of our business.
Straw hats and warm
weather come on together.
Ready any day you arel
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadwi, Broadway
q, 18Th ST The at s4th 81.
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave
a. Warren st4ixi ST
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Mooney Fight, Reopened, Stlrs
San Francisco as Judge Quits
Dunno Refuses to Sit in Case of Woman Whose Husband
Has Been Sentenced to Die for Explosion Plot

he placcd the Oxmsn letters IN the
hands of his attorney. Claude q. Ellis.
Oxman insisted he had added a post
SCRIPT 20 the letter 20 Rigal, reading
"If you arc the wrong man. don't come.
and alleged that the man had deliber-
stely destroyed this.
Events moved quickly after the pub
lication Of RigalPs statement. These
were the chief steps taken:
Superior Judge Franklin A. Grimm
who tried and sentenced Mooney. APP
pealed 70 the Attorney General OF the
state. in a formal communication, in
which he asked that official 10 confess
error before the Supreme Court and
ask for new trial for Mooney. In this
communication the judge said that had
these letters come 20 light before the
sentence he would have granted new
trial: that they assailed the credibility
Of the witness, and that justice de-
manded" a new trial for Mooney.
Police Judge Mathew Brady. after a
court battle Of eleven days. found the
evidence sufficient 10 sustain charge
OF attempted subornation Of perjury
against Oxman. and held him 70 answer
TO the Superior Court.
Judge Robert NJ. Clarke. Of Loa
Angeles. appointed by the Attorney
General to conduct All impartial inves-
tigation, conducted such an inquiry be-
fore the grand jury. and informed that
body that, in his opinion. the evidence
was sufficient TO justify an indictment
against Oman.
The grand jury questioned Oman,
accepted his postscript explanation ana
completely exonerated the cattleman
by vote of 10 to (. Il also adopted
a resolution commencing District Az
torney Fickert for his "able and fear
1nssn nrnsecntinn of the bond cases.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Humidity
Bsro meter Rsscins,
Miniature Almanac

sun rises "a rl. 20 Moon rises Il. M. %
sun s-ts 10 M. sos Moon sets IA M. asa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

RICH PARIS CUT JET. ALL THE Latest
creations from highest maker. In Net
iacea. collars. paulesul Jai Hair on,
msnts jet brooches. Je. Bags. JET Lois
nstles. Jet SaufOire. jct tmofds'
JAMNES. 5fS Fifth Ave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
The Weather Report

Washington. MAY lf--Ther, has been general
rise in Temperature With falling pressure. except
ln the Southern and In the Pacific states and tenn
perstures arr now above the seasonal average I'm
tile lake region the upper Mississippi aud Missouri
salle,s the West and the Northeast. especially In
tho LATER District.
TIE weather was fair except In extreme southern
Florida and along the north Pacific coast. where
there we're nglf rains.
Fair weather will continue during the next thre
DAYS east m the Mississippi River. with somsshat
higher temDerIiures that vii reach the coast states
~ wednesday
Forecasts for Special looslides-for the District
81 Co.umhis MsplArd. Virginia. Delaware. NeW
Jersey. Eastern PennsJitanis. Eastern Nes York
Southern New England. Tennessee Kentucky. In
cis-s aad Onto fair to-day and to morrow SEASON.
abe temperature.
Fcr Northern New England North ard South
Carolina Georgia and upper AMI lover Michigan.
far to-day and tomorrow. little change in tenn
pefaiurc.
Local Official Record. Tie following official rec
orl from the Weather Bureau shows temperatures
during the last twenty -four hour. IN comparison
with the corresponding date of last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

Highest temperature YESTERDAY 20 degree fat
o. . D. m.J. lowest 30 tst a NJ: average. 80 .
sSerase zane date last scar. - average SANE date
for thlry three ycars a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Letters Cause Stir


Rigall is former city councilman OF
GRANVILLE and a member Of the Demo-
cratic County Committee. On Decem-
Der 10, he said. 0xman wrote TO him
saying that he needed an expert wit
ness" and urging Rigall TO come 10 San
Francisco and swear TO what he had
seen on July %.
"You will only have to answer three
or four questions, and | will post you
on them" the letter read. You will
only have TO say that you seen me on
July % in San Francisco, and that will
be easy done
Oxman also wrote to Rignll's mother.
saying: 1T might be that can use you
also about the 10th"
Rigall arrived in San Francisco on
January 8. He was received by Oman,
District Attorney Fickert, Assistant
District Attorney Edward A. Cunha
and Lieutenant Stephen NJ. Bunner, Of
the Police Department. For twenty
days he lived like lord at the states
expense. According TO his story, he
was taken to the scene of the explosion
and rehearsed IN mis- testimony until IL
fitted in with the states case
But when the time came for him to
appear on the stand his0iervc failed
him and he returned 20 G6ssilie. Later
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
,sI; iptnrY Io,s-Form no
Lo.ss Ant Cvxsrser
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
WOOD s SELECTION
Of CAMPS STANDS

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 6.-The
Southeastern department will still get
twelve camps, and selections of sites
already approved will hold, according
to latest advices at headquarters here
Three of these camps of which one
will be at Atlanta and one at Columbia,
will be wooden cantonments, and in
them the national army will be quar-
tered, while the remaining nine will
be canvass. The third will probably be
located in Louisiana, Mississippi or
Arkansas.
The militia units, when called out,
will be expanded, organized into divis-
ions, and given some training in their
native states. The three divisions from
this department will shortly afterward
we placed in their divisional camps anil
SIX additional divisions will be brought
from the Northern states and placed in
camps in this department with the
coming of winter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
MANY ALLOWED To
REGISTER TODAY

WASHINGTON. d. c., June 6.-Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder notified
the governors of all the states this
morning that he interpreted the selec
tive conscfption law as permitting
all those who in good faith failed to
register yesterday to do so today. This
Interpretation of the law opens the
way for all who for any reason failed
to either send in their cards or ap-
pear personally before the registrars
yesterday, to comply with the law to-
day, thus obviating many prosecutions
that otherwise would certainly have
resulted
New Jersey was the first state 10
send its complete registration report
to the office of adjutant general here
today. The report shows total OF
S02 900 eligibles registered there,
which compares with the estimate of
the bureau of the census that 800 900
eligibles resided in that state.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
BRITISH GAINING
GROUND IN NEW
WESTERN DRIVE

NEW YORK, June Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day)-British
French and German official statements
all tell of infantry activity on the
western front last night, with Berlin
admitting that British forces penetrat
ed German trenches in the vicinity OF
Reou. The British reported they
gained ground in two sectors north OF
the river Scarpe on the Arras front
and Paris announces that the Germans
attacked the French lines heavily after
an intense bombardment in the vicinity
of Hurtebise and Chemin-d n-des-Dames,
hut were repulsed.
There is lively artillery activity il
Belgium, and it is evidently the inten-
tion of Gen. Haig to make Lens and
the mining region around it untenable
for the Germans and thrusts last night
ard today form part of his plans in
this direction.
Air fighting makes up much of to-
days news from the war fronts, the
casualties in yesterdays raid over Eng
land being given at 12 dead and p
hurt. The British report four airplanes
participating in this raid were de-
stroyed London also reports that pho
tographs taken during the aerial bom-
bardment of Belgian coast towns re-
Gently show much damage was done to
dockyards and warehouses there, adm
that several ships in the harbor wer2
sunk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
GEORGIA COTTON ACREAGE
REDUCED FIFTEEN PER CENT

ATLANTA. Ga. June 6.-The belief
is expressed in some reliable quarters
in Atlanta that the cotton acreage in
Georgia has beer reduced from ten to
fifteen per cent. by farmers blowing up
cotton.
High prices Of food. with the enc
not yet in sight, are believed to be re-
sponsible for this to some extent. while
others have plowed up cotton because
the cold spring weather killed good
portion of it, and Others have plowec
it up because of the early appearance
of the boil weevil.
Farmers are advised not to piow up
their cotton because of the boil wee
vii. because the few insects which
have ventured out of their alternating
places this early in the season are not
going to destroy the crop
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
NATION RALLIED
At PRESIDENTS )
GALL To ENROLL

WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 6.-Ofl-
cial registrations reports received from
all over the country early today show
the work was carried on most success
folly, as ordered in the president S
proclamation. Disorders occurring at
registration places during the day were
in the aggregate less than usually
mark general elections.
Many centers of population. it is be-
leved today, enrolled more than orig
inal estimates anticipated for these
communities. In the eastern states
anti-draft agitators remained dis
creetly in the background. and wher-
ever they were successful in stirring
TIP demonstrations in the west and
widdle western states, their activities
we're quickly counteracted. The regis
tration of negroes in the Souther:
states was unusually heavy.
The work of selecting about 100000
men from among the elegibles will be.
gin as soon as complete reports from
all states in the union are tabulated.
and those selected for service will be
notified later when and where they vii!
be required to report for physical ex
animation and actual enlistment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
A|NMONS BROUGHT
BACK To AMER|CUS

B. G. Ammons, a well known barber
Of this city, whose arrest on charge
OF bigamy occurred on Monday in Sa-
Tannah, was brought back to Americus
last night about midnight and lodged
in the Sumter county jail
Sheriff Harvey being apprised of
threats of violence made against Ami
mons by indignant friends of the young
lady whom he married here about two
Ecnths ago, removed the prisoner
from the Seaboard train at Huntington
and rushed him by automobile through
the country to the Jail in this city.
Ammons was brought from Savannah
by Deputy Sheriff Bob Price. Quite a
crowd met the train at the Seaboard
shops last night, but there was no dis
turbance when it was seen that the Off
Ger and his prisoner were not aboard.
Relatives of the Americas girl whom,
Ammons married in March, declare
that their Investigations show that he
was married in Blba, Ala, in 1909, wit
nesses to the ceremony having been
found, as well as the record of the
marriage license issued by the probate
judge, authorizing the union. His first
wife is now living with their two child
ren, aged 4 and years respectively,
in Victoria, Ala.
Public Indignation over the affair
continues at high pitch, particularly
since it became known that Ammons
has signed complete confession, ad-
plitting the facts charged against him
1t is thought that he will be arraigned
before judge LiftFe5ohn without delay