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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
$43,5OO,OO0 in 3 Days
Raised for Red Cross

headed by Jacob II. Schiff is third WIFI
| S62s,701.
The team directed by Mrs. f. II, mar
riman leaped into the lead OF the
women's organizations by registering
a total of 1857 ,255 at noon. Inc team
captained by Mrs. James A. Burden IT,
was next, with Sl8O,262.
Among the larger contributions re-
ported were: Dividends by Westing'
house Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany. s375OO0; Arthur Curtiss James
, s256.OOO; Henry c. Prick, S25O,OCO;
building Trades Employers Associa-
ton of New York, 100000; \. f.
Brady. 100000; Thomas T. Ryan
500 900; Dividend declared by Equi-
table Trust Company. 100000; James
Cox Brand. $4,000; Consolidated Gas
Electric Light. Heat and Power Com
panv of Baltimore, $4,000; James T.
Brady. $4,000; d. Lamar, S5O,OOO;
American Tobacco Company, S5O,OOO'
and Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Vanderbilt
$4,000.
Special dividends have been declared
for the benefit of the fund by the
Philadelphia National Bank, Corn tx
change National Bank, Guaranty Trust
Company, Borden's Condensed MIX
Company. Crocker-Wheeler Company
Home Fire Insurance Company and the
International Salt Company. The fol-
lowing concerns have pledged a GER
tain percentage of gross sales: NJ. and
VI. Importing Company, James Butler
Stores, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com
pany. Liggett Drug Stores and Schultz
Cigar Stores.
II was reported that S11,451 had
been obtained yesterday toward the
100000 which the Red Cross workers
are striving to raise in The Bronx.
A subcommittee to aid in the city
wide campaign was appointed at a
meeting of the executive committee OF
the Catholic Laymen's League for Re
treats and Social Studies. Members of
the curb market have formed unit
with f. r. Mccormick at its head. The
Salvation Army has donated the use OF
1875 kettles and tripods used at Christ
mas time. These have been placed on
street corners, with women in Red
Cross uniforms as attendants.
check for $4,000 was received from
the employees of Wanamaker's, and this
was accompanied by check from Rod
man Wanamaker for S5032 as payment
of a years dues for each employee for
membership in the Red Cross.
Word was received from Buffalo that
everything is in readiness for the areo-
plane flight of Miss Katherine Stinson
from that city to Washington in the in
terest of the campaign. Her machine
will have large red cross painted on
its side. and she will distribute Red
Cross pamphlets on her way. She will
stop here and will carry TO Secretary
McAdoo checks representing the initial
contributions to the fund both here and
in Buffalo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
) Girls Vanish
In City Every Day
Police Books Show
But Great Majority of Them
Records Show, Return
Safely to Homes

Investigation of the Ruth Cruger
case yesterday brought out the fact
that every dav last month five girls or
women disappeared from their homes
in New York Unofficial figures placed
te total number reported missing since
January at 700
Police Commissioner Woods issued a
report from his newly organized Blu
reau of Missing Persons, which show
that while 164 girls or women of vary
ing ages were reported missing during
May 151 were located in the same
length of time.
The work of recording reports of the
thousands annually reported missing
in New York was formerly handled by
the branch detective bureau. But last
month the task was placed entirely in
the hands of Acting Captain Grant
Williams, formerly head of the Bureau
of Unidentified Dead. which was alb
sorbed by the Bureau of Missing Per
sons.
The 164 girls and women reported
missing during May, for example. were
not all girls of white slave" age
Some of them were very young chill
dren who toddled away from home and
were found few hours after their dis
appearance and some were long-mar-
ried women, who did not so much dis
appear as desert their husbands after
ouarrels or for other men.
As for the young girls, a good many
I. IL.
into the files as missing" when they
stay overnight with a girl friend and
neglect to tell their worried mothers
Others leave home because Of unhappy
environments.
Zone of my men telephoned me about
such case few minutes ago" Cap
tain Williams said yesterday. ale has
located girl reported missing, but she
is at work and twenty years old and re-
fuses TO go home. And we can't make
her 60"
The bureau has no intention, Cap
tain Williams said, of minimizing the
the seriousness of the cases of the
prove TO be another Ruth Cruger trag-
ody.
The ever present danger of repeti-
tion of the Cruger case is minimized
by placing the work of tracing missing
persons under one department. The bu-
reau has its own staff Of twenty-six
men. which may be increased before
long, and they can be put to work i'm
mediately. Under the old system TWEEN
ty-four hours sometimes elapsed be-
tween the time a girl was reported
missing and the time detective went
cut 20 seek her
There is no standard method Of hunt
ing missing girls, though il invaria-
bly, commences with search Of hospi-
tails and morgues and an inquiry among
relatives and friends After those
stages have been passed without re.
suits the search develops on lines pc.
culiar 10 the case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
City's Share in Red Cross
Campaign NorO $40, 5O3,456
NorfhcIife and T. K. to Aid

More than half Of New York's quota
Of S4O,0OO,000 toward the 100000, 900
war fund being raised by the American
Red Cross has been contributed, il was
announced last night. On the second
day OF their intensive campaign the
twenty teams OF men and ten teams
Of women yesterday raised S2,255,389,
bringing the city's total up to S20.o03,-
l56.
OF this amount the men collected
Sl,G63.776 and the women 1891 ,6l3.
A dinner will be given in the three
main dining rooms and the japanese
Room Of the Ritz Carlton Hotel to-
night by the Red Cross for the pur-
pose Of exchanging ideas as 20 ways
Of srousing sentiment IN the campaign.
Lord Northclife will be principal
speaker and others who have agreed
20 make short addresses are Colonel
Roosevelt. Mayor Mitchell, ". Andre
Tardieu, French High Commissioner 20
the United States; Charles Evans
Hughes, Dwight -. Morrow. Major
General Franklin Bell and Commander
Jessup, Of the navy.
The team captained by J. ?. Morgan
Was still leading az noon yesterday,
according 20 figures announced al the
luncheon in the Chamber Of Commerce.
~ Cd Liberty Street. Mr. Morgan
team he1 raised $1.2i0952, while that
beaded By Mayor Mitchell is a close
second. with tl,07Ass9. The team
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Negro Janitor Still Being
Held in Jail as Witness

Allison Alonzo Wellington, negro jan
itor. who says he saw body hidden in
the cellar of DR.. William J. Condor at
New Brunswick, \. j., is still being de-
tanned in the county Jail there as a
material witness. He assisted detec-
tives in disclosing that lime in the
Condor cellar was similar to that found
on Piper's body, on Condon's clothing
and in the Condor automobile.
Charles Gibson, neighbor Of Con-
don, was questioned yesterday concern
ing a 32-calibre revolver which was
found in the Gibson yard. The police
belieye it is the revolver with which
Piper was shot.
it was said yesterday that nothing
lad developed to suggest that more
than one person was implicated.
Prosecutor Striker refused TO discuss
the question of motive in Piper's MUIR
der when the prisoner returns to
New Brunswick on Saturday there may
be some developments, but all we know
now are the apparent facts" he said.
Detectives yesterday called attention
TO the similarity Of gne Piper and Cru
ger cases. Both victims were murdered
last February; the bodies of both, ac-
cording TO the police, were hidden in
cellars. and in each case the crime was
not disclosed until about four months
afterWard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
From Tho Tribune Bureau


Washington, June 20.-Not having
had any publicity for long time, the
pickets of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage to-day hung out a
banner, just as the Russian Mission
was driving into the White House
grounds, and started riot.
When it was all over the pickets
still retained the standards which had
raised the placard aloft, the banner
itself was in shreds and the police were
mildly amused.
About three hundred persons who
gathered 10 see the Russian Mission
drive into the White House formed the
mob. Just as the Russians came dash
ing down the street, in utter disregard.
watching motorists enviously observed,
of the Districts stringent speed laws,
the sufFragettes raised aloft a ten-foot
sign with the following wording:
TO THE RUSSIAN MISSION
President Wilson and Envoy Root
are deceiving Russia. They say we
are a democracy. Help US TO win a
world war so that democracy may
survive
We, the women of America, tell
you that America is not a democracy.
Twenty million American women are
denied the right TO vote. President
Wilson is the chief opponent of
their national enfranchisement.
Help us make this nation really
free. Tell our government that it
must liberate its people before il car
claim free Russia as an allyi"
Cries of Treason
There was a brief pause, during
which there were many cries of "trea-
son" and many threats shrieked at the
women. One man walked up quietly
and said if the banner was not instant
ly removed he would be opposed 10
suffrage from that time on. He didn't
stop to listen to the arguments TIE
women started to shoot at him. He
walked away.
Then a man who afterward gave his
name as Walter s. Timmis, and who
said he was an architect in New York
City, led a rush to the banner carriers.
In a few seconds the streamer was in
tatters. only the poles remaining in the
women's hands.
Milder banners were produced in a
short time, and the watch" resumed.
Pickets of this organization also stand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21

At . o'clock on February Is Coechi
locked the door Of his shop and disap-
peared.
Police Worked on Wrong Theory
Following a preliminary investga-
ton of police methods in the Cruger
case. Inspector Faurot said it appeared
as though the detectives in question
had been working on the outside in
stead of on the in. They worked on
the theory that Ruth Cruger was only a
missing girl instead of murdered
one"
Police Commissioner Woods yester-
day declined an appointment as over
seer of Harvard University, which had
been rendered him by vote of the
alumni.
Acceptance would have necessitated
his presence in Cambridge, Mass, at
the commencement exercises to-day.
The Cruger case, he said, prevented his
leaving the city, and forced him to de-
cline the honor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Cruger, in Letter to
Mayor, Demands Woods
Be Ousfed from Office

Henry d. Cruger. father of Ruth Cru
ger. addressed the following open let
ter" TO Mayor Mitchell yesterday:
81 write this open letter to you as
Mayor of the City of New York, in the
interest Of the community and for the
better protection of the lives and repu-
tations of its people. And TO that end I
ask for the removal from Office OF the
Police Commissioner and for the reor-
ganization Of the Police Department
under an efficient head
Although the matter of the disap-
pearance of my daughter had been
promptly brought TO the attention Ct
the police and to the personal atten-
tion Of the Commissioner himself, the
work of the department has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Mrs. Diamond Pleads
Guilty to Fire Charge
Will Be Sentenced Monday
for NJ . slaughter in Candy
Factory Tragedy

Mrs. Celia Diamond, charged with
manslaughter in the first degree, fol-
lowing the death of twelve persons in
the Diamond candy factory fire, No
vember {. 1915. in Williamsburg, plead
ed guilty before Justice Callaghan. in
Brooklyn, yesterday, TO a charge of at
tempted manslaughter in the second
degree.
The plea was accepted by District
Attorney Lewis after SEVERAL jurors for
the trial Of the indictment had been
picked. Mrs. Diamond sobbed almost
continually while the jury was being
chosen. She will be sentenced Monday.
Assistant District Attorney Caldwell
moved yesterday for dismissal Of the
indictment charging Edward L. Dis-
mond. her husband, with manslaughter
in the first degree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Whittern Now Brings
Suit Against Wife
Composer Denies Charges in
Divorce Action

Another link was added yesterday
TO the chain of court actions started
when Mrs. Ethel Leggins Whittern'
pianiste. better known as Nine. Le-
ginska, sued Roy Emerson Whittern'
composer, for a divorce. Whittern
answered his wife's action with gen.
eral denial and brought counter
claim. in which he mentioned Oliver
Denton.
Miss Martha Hedman. who was the
leading woman in The Boomerang,
is named as one of the correspondents
in the suit against Whit.ern. Mrs.
Whittern also brought suit against
Miss Hedman in Chicago for S2o.oOo
damages for alienation Of the afec-
tons of her husband, and the actress
countered with libel action against
the pianiste, denying the allegations
made by Mrs. Whittern.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
News in Brief

Sixty trunks were required 20 hoS
gown. and personal effects OF Nine 80
Bernhard when she moved from bnIs,s
Lodge 10 Long Beach. where che VIII ~
the summer. IA
A verde. for SIS 900 for The loss .,
arms was awarded Oscar Fried, OF ION" ',,
against the New Haven Railroad by ''
the Supreme Court a. White Plains q.
Sergeant William s. eastman. OF Nsr
troll 3, who rescued Fireman Hary, -
ply from a burning cellar on Apn -
awarded the Fire Underwriters so'o
for hsroism. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Naval Reserve Fair Tonight

The United States Junior Naval Re-
serve Fair will be opened tonight at
the Gould Riding Academy, in West
Fifty-seventh Street, to continue until
Saturday night. More than 10000 ad-
mission tickets have been sold. Pro-
ceeds will be used to send boys to the
Junior Reserves summer camp, near
New London. Many debutantes and
stage and screen stars will take part.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21

marked by great stupidity, il not in
spired by Interior motives.
In the first place, they refused to
send out general alarm until after t?e
lapse of twenty-four hours. Then, when
Cocchi had safely gotten away they in
sisted that he was reputable business
man, and that his going away had moth
ing to do with the girls appearance.
They had taken the position that vari-
Gus witnesses who stated she went
away in a taXicab were perfectly trust
worthy, although none Of these wit
nesses had the hardihood to positively
identify her.
ION the other hand, this girl with
all the promise of magnificent
womanhood before her, and who gave
the last full measure of devotion TO a
pure and blameless life, was subjected
to a most searching investigation Of
her daily going out and coming the
hope, can only believe, Of finding
some flaw in her character that might
be used to help put an end to my in
vestigation.
These things were done, not only
by the lesser officials Of the depart
ment, but within two weeks of the time
OF the murder, | am reliably informed.
a statement was given 10 the press
from the Police Commissioners office
70 the effect that there was nothing in
the case, and that | knew where the
girl was. This attitude of the depart
ment toward this poor girl has been
most dispicable.
Denounces Commissioner
"In this case the much boosted eff
cheney of the Police Department was
proved 10 be hollow mockery by the
persistent work of a woman, and per-
haps intelligent investigation in other
directions might show similar results.
In my opinion tiny investigation of the
Police Department by the present Com
missioner would not be worth the paper
the report was written on.
IL base this opinion on the experi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21

ence Of myself and my friends with
the officers of the department from
top to bottom.
II feel that the facts which have
developed in the case of my daughter
are such that it is my duty to make
the above statement, and | submit the
facts to thS fathers and mothers of
greater New York, who, in the final
analysis, are responsible for the con-
duct of the public officials.
"HENRY D. CRUGER."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
Mob Tears Up Suffrage
Banner Attacking Wilson
Near Militant Tactics of White House Picket Intended to
Impress Russian War Mission, Bring Cries of
''Treason!' Then Real Action

with signs opposite the Senate and
House office buildings.
Cause Hurt, It's Said
IL is generally admitted that these
signs opposite the Office buildings have
caused more bitter opposition TO the
suffrage amendment and probably done
more to prevent a vote being obtained
On it this session than all the efforts
of the nti-sutfragists combined. Chief
Of Police Pullman conferred with Priv
ate Secretary Tumulty later in the day
about removing the pickets from the
White House, but it is thought moth
ing will be done. especially as the oiil-
Gals believe the women would like
nothing better than chance to pose as
martyrs.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association,
both issued statements tonight de-
ploring the banner episode.
Mrs. John Winters Brannan, the
New York member of the national
executive committee of the Woman's
PARTY. said last night that the picket
around the White House would not be
disturbed in the least by the riot
yesterday.
GLORIOUS Sentiments
"When people tear down banners in
scribed with such glorious sentiments
she said. at lust shows how little re-
gard they have for truth and democ-
Tacy.
Certainly we will not withdraw the
pickets, Such a proceeding would be
very short-sightcd. Without the pickets
and their banners. suffrage would have
been absolutely put aside these last
months"
Mrs. Brannan declared the suftrag-
lists were indignant at Elihu Roots
speech TO the Russian people.
when Mr.. Root SAYS that suffrage
in America is universal and equal. he
has deliberately said the thing which
is false" she said
at is well for the Russian mission
b know that American women will not
submit to such calculated misstate-
ments. We are as intent on democracy
as they are, and we know the sham
from the false. 1t is striking TO turn
to the news cables and see what real
progress England and Russia are max
ing toward democracy, while in this
country the men continue to lather
with fine phrases about freedom"
Mrs. Brannan, who was one of the
first women in New York to advocate
the policies of Mrs Emmeline Pank-
hurst and was her hostess during her
second visit 10 this country, has hopes
that maybe Mrs. Pankhurst will drop
few suffrage seeds in Mr.. Roots ears
while he is in Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-21
DR.. Condor Says
Murder of Piper
Is a Queer Case"
Army Physician to Start
Back To-day as Prisoner
of Jersey Detective
fBy Telegraph 20 The Tribunel


Chattanooga, June 20.-Stll wearing
the uniform of captain in the United
States Army Medical Corps, DR.. Will
lam J. Condor, of New Brunswick, n.
j.. is in a narrow cell at Police Head
quarters here tonight, awaiting his re-
turn to New Jersey to answer the
charge Of numbering John V. Piper
Rutgers student who attended the fur
mace at the Condor home.
Detective Petler, of Perth Amboy, ar
rived tonight and will start home with
the prisoner tomorrow morning. DR..
Condor, on the arrival of the state
warrant, was turned over to city de-
tectives by the authorities at Fort
Oglethorpe, where he had just entered
the medical officers training camp.
Although his hands trembled, DR..
Condor otherwise appeared cool and
confident as he denied vigorously that
he knew anything Of the crime.
Seven Burns detectives have worked
on this case, and | thought it was
threshed out five months ago." said the
prisoner. "My cellar was searched, but
they found nothing"
Ridicules Lime Clew
"All the talk about lime found on
the body being the same quality as
that found in my car amounts to abso-
lutely nothing. All lime is of the
same quality. They may have found
lime on my clothes, but what of it?
IL in
don't see how lime could have been
found in the car anyway-it was
washed shortly before | left home.
81 did not know Piper very we'll and
had nothing to quarrel with him about
"His work was satisfactory. He
seemed 10 me TO be a nice, industrious
fellow, who appeared to be very stu
dious. | saw very little Of him. He
frequently would go two months with
out collecting the wages due him, and
then would send upstairs for the money.
He used a separate entrance to the
cellar and never passed through the
house.
81 don't know, but it was said he and
his wife did not get along well to-
gether. They were estranged, it was
said, or something like that but that
may nave Deen just Cd!k, ten you'
knew so little Of him | did not know
his name
Asks Where Body Was Hidden
DR.. Condor was careful to call at
tention to the fact that it would have
been impossible for body TO have re-
NAMED in his cellar for five months
without attracting attention. They
say this fellow was wounded" he said.
"Well, if he was, decomposition would
have set in at once, and even if the
body had been embalmed at once it
could not have remained hidden that
long. The question is, where was it?'
DR.. Condor appeared somewhat con-
fused when he was asked about the re-
volver found by the dead mans side.
at could not have been mine," he de-
clared. 81 know where my revolver is.
Il is at home
He said it was a very queer Grim
inal case" and that while detectives
don't like to admit it they had appar-
emily been completely bafflcd."
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1917-02-22
RURAL MAIL
CARRIER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announc-
ed an examination for the
County of independence, Ark
ansas, to be held at Batesville,
on March 10, 1917, to fill the
position of rural carrier atNew-
ark, and vacancies that may
later occur on rural routes
from other postoffiees in the
aforementioned county. The
examination will be open only
to male citizens who are actual
ly domiciled in the territory of
a post office in the county and
who meet the other require
ments set forth in Form No.
1877. This form and applica-
ton blanks may be obtained
from the offices mentioned
above or from the United States
Civil Service Commission at
Washington, D. C. Applica-
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1917-02-22

Representative Joe Hardage
seems to have developed into
a full-fledged knocker. He re-
Gently made a vicious attack
upon TT. Raney upon the floor
of the House, where Mr.. Ran
ey. had no opportunity of de-
Tending himself. Last Tuesday,
Mr.. Hardage made a similar
attack upon Secretary State T.
J. Terral because Mr.. Terral
had the word private" taken
off the door of the secretary of
states office. Fortunately,
there are very few men in the
legislature as small as Mr..
Hardage is showing himself to
he
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1917-02-22
The Why of Removal

moving the university, for if it
were not, her present oppor-
tunity to use the students and
the institution as asubjectof ex-
ploitation she would not last as
long as a SNOWFALL dog chas-
ing an asbestos cat through the
nethermost regions of the In
ferno."
The recent report of the
joint committee of the legisla-
ture visiting the university stat
ed in substance that the build
ings were rather dilapidated
and necessarily would require
a great deal of money to put
them in condition, whereupon
Pulaski county came forward
and has agreed to raise a mil
hon dollars to establish uni
versity near Little Rock, buy
the land, construct the build
ings and turn the whole thing
over to the State as a donation
and assure the public that the
attendance at the University
would double between sessions
of the legislature.
Are the taxpayers of Arkan-
sas so prosperous they would
refuse this million dollars? The
money appropriated every two
years should be employed in a
place where we could have a
real university for all our boys
and girls.-Arkansas Demo-
crat.