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New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Will Report to President
on Food Needs of
the Allies
To Discuss Prohibition
Chairman Will Take Up the
Liquor Problems Abroad
in Detail

Washington, May A.. Herbert c.
Hoover. recently named chairman Of
the food committee Of the Council OF
National Defence, arrived here to-day
TO advise the government on food con-
.ditions abroad and on measures the Al
lied governments have taken % con
serve their food supplies. He divided
the day between conferences with de-
partment heads and preparation Of a
report on the food needs of the Allies.
81 have been called food dictator"
said Mr.. Hoover tonight, "but that is
incorrect. What am here for is 20
give my services to the nation in any
way can be of use. Secretary Hous-
ton will control the country's food sup
ply under bills pending in Congress, and
will assist him and the Council of
Defence by supplying information gath
cred IN relief work abroad
Mr.. Hoover said he could make no
statement concerning the food situation
in Europe until he had made his re-
port to President Wilson.
This report" he said, "will indicate
the requirements of the Allied coun-
tries, their capacity TO produce and the
amount of food the United States will
have to supply. 1t will outline steps
the Allies are taking 20 reduce con-
sumption and how they are meeting
distribution and other problems. | do
not know what the government will re-
quire OF me. / am acting in an unoffi-
cial capacity and no plans have been
made"
Other members Of Mr.. Hoover's COM
mittee have not been named, and none
probably will be appointed until the
committees duties are defined. The
Administration plans, it is understood.
in a general way to provide that the
committee shall aid the Agriculture
Department in carrying out the food
regulation programme.
The committees services will be OF
particular value in meeting distribution
problems and in assisting the American
government and British and French Of
ticials to be left here in working out a
scheme of apportioning food cargoes
among the Allies.
Mr.. Hoover probably will report on
prohibition abroad and present esti-
mates of the amount of American food
stuffs that go into the manufacture OF
liquor in the Allied countries. This in
formation will be turned over immedi-
ately TO the Department of Agriculture,
which has DR.. Alonzo Taylor of Penn
sylvania. studying the question. The
food bills pending in Congress would
give the President power to prescribe
prohibition restrictions.
Mr.. Hoover to-day saw Secretaries
Houston, Baker and Lane. all members
OF the Defence Council. and tomorrow
he will meet other officials. He will
see President Wilson early next week.
Belgian relief work will be directed
by Mr.. Hoover, as heretofore. The Bel
cians he said tonight, arc in fearful
plight and reduced to rations totally
inadequate for their needs. The sink
ing of five relief ships recently by the
Germans, he said, made it impossible to
foretell the future.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
The Rev. DR.. John G.. Fagg

Funeral services for the Rev. DR..
John Gerardus Fagg who died Thurs
day evening, will be held Monday
morning at l0:3O o'clock in the Middle
Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church, Second Avenue and Seventh
Street. of which he was pastor. Dr.
Fagg's death followed an operation. Dr.
Fagg was born in Milwaukee in 1860.
He was graduated from Hope College
in 1881, and from the New Brunswick
Theological Seminary in 1885. He was
a missionary at Annoy, China, from
1888 to 1894, and after a brief pas
torate at New Paltz. y. Y, came to the
Middle Collegiate Church in 1896. he
served as president of the General
Synod and was president Of its Board
Of Foreign Missions. He was also sec
retary OF the Evangelistic Tent Commit
tee and Of the New York City Mission
Society.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Pink Cape and Billy Sunday Punch
Make Woman Champion Recruiter
Mrs Wheeock, Who Used To Be Mrs Kid Mccoy, Is Idol
of City Hall MONDAY Crowds and Helps
Swell Ranks of Navy

dressed foreigners. who arc turned
away because they have not yet been
naturalized; sturdy boys from delivery
wagons. sickly boys from the factories
and occasionally one whom Mrs.
Whcelock designates as "all wool and
a yard wide" The New York street
crowd is mostly poor material physical
ly. and the spirit Of patriotism Is often
quenchcd with some pretty cold water
from the army and navy doctors
Toll of Ninety-five Patriots
Ninety-fve was the total Of converted
patriots who hit the trail at Mrs.
Wheclock's last meeting Experts can
not quite decide whether II Is her Billy
Sunday methods or the charm of the
pink cloak, it being we'll known TACT
that men will go anywhere they see
anything pink. ..
i've had that cloak ten years.
laughed Mrs. Whcelock when asked
about this important detail, but II
1t helps TO win recruits I'm glad !
had nothing else TO wear. ! get so
warm shouting and shaking hands
with those boys | have TO have an cX-
ira wrap.
"My father was soldier. one Of
those who answered in the first three
months after Abraham Lincoln called
for volunteers" she said last night al
her home At Madison Avenue and
Twenty Street "He went all
the way through the Civil War, and
lived 20 eichty-fve years OF age. J
had three brothers who fought in the
Indian wars out West, and I'd be IN
the army myself to-day. if they would
take skirts.
Norman Selby? Oh. yes. was
married TO him. when I was a crazy
little school girl in Newark. Mercy,
that was twenty years ago, though"
The newspaper records show that
the present Mrs Wheelock was mar
ried not once but three times to kid
Mccoy" before she finally made up
her mind she didn't like him. She
made other matrimonial experiments,
too. her final choice being George A..
Wheelock. former president Of the
Metropolitan Turf Association, who
is now in the real estate business
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Chicago U-Boat Chasers
First of Forty Fast Boat.
Altered for Navy Use

Chicago, May 4.-The first of fleet
of motor boats and yachts accepted
here by the government has been con-
verted into submarine chaser and is
ready for service to-day. On what
front the boat will be put into service
was not made known.
Within two weeks. it was said. forty
speedy craft which have been accepted
by the government in this section will
have received their alterations, fitting
them for subm arine chasers, and will
be modified somewhere on the Great
Lakes. They will be manned by crews
from the Great Lake region.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05

The foliowing hints TO gardeners
deal with soy beans:
From Japan. home Of some of the
most intensive farming the world ever
saw, comes the soy bean. Imported
first as a crop to build up the fertility
Of American soil. it is now claiming a
Diace in the American diet, says bull
Ietin from the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission.
Tbe Chicago meat packers arc warn
- ne that we may soon have 10 adopt
mesatless me- days. OF all the garden sub.
"titutes for meat beans come nearest
70 flling the measure, because they are
the richest of vegetables in protein me
chief food element IN meat TOT ms ms
rsason some of the scientists Of the
department TeaS of Agriculture are urging
tbe SOW bean as a garden crop this year.
II grows sbundsntx and has the ad-
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05

Billy Sunday is an cx baseball player,
and the inventor Of the Billy Sunday
method of winning recruits for the
navy is an ex-wife OF Kid Mccoy. the
pugilist. This is Mrs. George A..
Whcelock. the woman in tho rosc-col-
ored cape. who is the idol Of the City
Hall monday crowds. the woman who
has more recruits TO her credit than
any other orator now engaged in try
ing TO stir the sluggish blood of the
New York populace.
With her hright-colored cape flash
ing in the sunshine. as she stretches
out her arm TO point an appealing
finger al the boy in the back row, she
rs a figure that arrests the attention
Of every passerby, from Brooklyn
Bridge o the Woolworth Tower.
"Nhe will hit the trail for Uncle
Sam ." she cries. "Come on, now, lads;
don't let the conscription man catch
YOU"
How about you. you boy in the
green cap? Yes. come on up here;
You're a good husky chap, the kind
the country needs. Hurrah, Hes com
ing, boys; make way, make way.
The Embarrassed Recruit
The recruit stumblcs forward. blush
ing ferociously with masculine embar-
rassmeht at being made conspicuous IN
a crowd. He is a fine looking, rcd
cheekcd oUy. almost six feet tall
Mrs. Wheclock gives him hand up
the steep platform and snatches of his
cap. revealing a shock of thick blond
curls.
Look at that" she cries. 81 wish ]
had hair like that, Isn't he a splendid
boy? One hundred per cent perfect
this boy is. Well make a gun pointer
out of him. Look at him, you slackers.
Il costs the United States government
S5O.O 70 make good gun pointer,
but it's worth il, when you get a good
one. like the hero on the Mongolia that
sent the German pirates to the bottom;
"All right. sonny. shake hands and
God bless you. Take this to Twenty
third Street. and Commander Taylor
will fix you up"
For an hour they come. poorly
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
New York Is Seventh
In Army Enlistments
48,326 Recruits Have Been
Enrolled Since April l;
Illinois in Lead

Washington, May - New York
dropped to seventh place yesterday in
the list of army enlistments, reporting
only l54 recruits, while Illinois re-
ported $40; Pennsylvania. 29s; Indiana
239; Missouri, 1874; Texas, 167, and
Michigan, l56. Total army enllstments
Yesterday were 2.7s6. making the total
since April /, 1926. OF this latter
number, Nw York furnished 1852;
Illinois, 5,192; Pennsylvania, 1895;
Indiana, 3,629, and Michigan, 2,241.
New Jersey announced sixty enlist
ments in the regular army yesterday,
while New England reported as fol-
lows: Connecticut. .; Maine. 6; Mas
sachusetts, 81; New Hampshire and
Vermont. o; Rhode Island, 7. Nevada
continues to increase her quota. yes
terday's enlstments Of II bringing her
total number of army recruits to 225.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Maryland F arm Army
Indorsed by Governor
Units to Travel State, Assist
ing to Solve Food
Problem

Baltimore, May 4.-Governor Har-
rington announced to-day that he will
issue a proclamation indorsing the
farm army, in which nearly two hun
dred men have already been enrolled.
The army will number several thou
sand. will be uniformed, and each unit
will be under lieutenant. The units
will be sent from section to section for
several weeks work at a time under
state superyiSiOn.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Cillender Kin Lose
S1,OOO,O00 Will Fight

After hearing witnesses for several days
!, tho contest over the will Of Miss Jessie
GiIender Surrogate Cohalsn decided yester-
day 10 admit it to probate. Miss Gillender
lef, most Of her estate. valued at about
81 OOO .OOO. to public institutions.
Mis- Gillender died in Los Angeles IN Feb
ruary. 1916. She left the residue OF her es-
90 society of 81. Paul (Paulist Fathers)
,l0O 600 10 the Charity Organization Society.
sI00 600 outright and remainder Interest
in 500. 900 to Johns Hopkins Dnversiy
and $50 900 10 the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art. Cousins who contested the WIN; Alies
.,;lI NOT receive more than 100000.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Preparedness Begins
In Your Own Garden

vantage of leaving the garden soil
richer than it found it.
The soy bean will not grow well IN
soil where it has never grown before
unless that soil is impregnated with
certain microscopical germs which the
roots must have. that IS, for soy bean
culture the soil must be ''inoculated."
While this sounds difficult, it is
really quite simple. All that is nee
essary is to procure a little soy bean
culture" or some Of the soil which has
already produced soy beans.
This culture is sold by numerous
seed men and can usually be purchased
cheaply. A handful OF culture or Of
soy bean soil is sufficient TO inoculate
the whole bean patch. MIX TINS SOL
with a half pint Of seed, plant the
seeds two to three inches apart and
one inch deep. in rows fifteen inches
anart. For successive crops you can
sow 1t up teithe middle of August
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
You Ought To Be Ashamed
Not to Co." He Tells
1000 College Men
Reject Men Under Is
r,.,n.ne Camp Officials Thin
Ou. Line of 1000 Eager
Applicants

70, thousand university graduates
- ever bic college in the East
.3snn 60 the oolors yesterday by
-...5s,, Roosevelt Summoned as a
b.. ,.ser, ,r ,nc work of obtaining the
-A.sof. o. mon FOR tho officers train
~. ,rrs which are TO open in ten
..r. 81, Colonel stood on a platform
,sc Harvard Club and said he was
',,,,ed and surprised by the Platts-
,-r, enrolment figures in this district.
While De was speaking line Of one
.sosand ucu. rushing TO enroll on
,Ar they believed 10 be the last day,
.-,,ebe5 from 70 West For,y-fourth
street. half O. block 20 Fifth Avenue. SO
b. and urU,ldy did Il become later,
..rc,c through the buildings corridor
nd down Iorty-dfth Street almost a
,.ole block 60 Sixth Avenue, that Cap
te Arthur Cosby was forced to sum-
"a, polio, reserves. Only a fourth OF
.se applicants were Of the same gen
ral type as the men TO whom Colonel
Roosevelt; was speaking
Unless your reasons are over
rhelminc you ought TO be ashamed not
20 TO-" the Colonel told his audience.
And II had my way In the selective
inf. would select every blessed col
tge mar who had not volunteered
20 60
Few College Graduates
Amom,rt before he had heard II. b.
C.srk. o. Che Pla,tsburg enrolling force,
declare ,ha: only about 1900 men Of
exactly thc right type had been en-
rolled. though $500 TO 5000 were re-
o.red, and that Of the 1000 certified
70 the camp only about $500 were col
lese graduates.
Singing The Star-Spangled Ban
ner'" the Colonel went on, "does not
justify you men IN going home in q
inc glow of patriotism. We are up
sca.us, ttc reality. and Il we do moth
rg but CIr ugly times are ahead Of
l> You college men have been so edu-
Gated as g. give you the rudiments OF
rb4t eyeIy officer ought to have, and
unless there is volunteering we cannot
Iu' obi s-;ory service into practice
quickly.
You should jump at the chance Of
rendering service. The figures speak
lI for you and New York. ! hope with
al ny heart. for the sake of keeping
ny pride 30 being a college man. that
me college men OF the city will in the
next Few days cause "a complete re
'ersal IN the figures"
Greeted with Cheers
a tremendous burst OF cheering ac
tompanied him as he hurried from tn,
hail. Joseph II. Choate. Henry L. Stim
son. cX-Secretary of War, and Major
Lewis Sanders. o. L. c.. also spoke
Major Sanders asserted that San Fran
cisco. Chicago and Boston were wei
ahead Of New York in enrolment
whereas The War Department expected
'tl. CITY 20 furnish 1.5O0 to I'll up Other
clmus shan Plattsburg. as well as 2,5Ol
Tor F.atis burg
Ncu under twenty-five. among tho
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Clearing House
For Farm Labor
Will Open Here
Mayors and Governors
Food Committees to Sup
ply $4,000 Hands
City Employees to Help
$4,000 Municipal Workers
Asked to Devote Vaca-
tions to Work

A bureau for the distribution Of
labor from New York to farms through
out the state will be established in
this city as the result of a conference
yesterday morning Of representatives
OF numerous organizations working to
increase food supplies. As fast as ex-
perienced men can be collected they
Will be sent to supply the demand for
10000 farmhands.
Plans for cooperation between the
Mayors Food Supply Committee and
Governor Whitman's State Food Supply
Commission were laid at meeting in
the United Charities Building, Twenty
second Street and Fourth Avenue. A
special committee was appointed by
George W. Perkins, chairman of the
Mayors committee. This sub-commit-
tee met later at the City Hall and per
tocted plans for the central clearing
house for farm labor.
The committee consists Of William
Church Osborn, chairman; F. W. Ses-
sions. chairman of the State Food Sup
ply Commission; John II. Love, Mer-
chants Associations committee on
food supply; George +. Hewitt. war
service committee of the Board of Edu-
cation; Walter +. Kruesi. Municipal
Employment Bureau; Major y. f..
Erickson, Salvation Army; Ralph w.
HARRISON, international committee Of
the Young Mems Christian Association;
Charles b. Barnes. State Employment
Bureau, and c. +. Brace, James VI. Ro.
senberg and Sheppard A. Morgan, Dep.
uty Controller.
Want Experienced Men
The distribution of farm workers
will be handled through an employment
bureau at 8 West Seventeenth Street,
Mr.. Osborn announced. Mr.. Barnes,
who has been in close touch with the
farmers OF the state, emphasized the
fact that most of them do not wan.
inexperienced employees. Trained men
are needed for ploughing and planting
For the time being, it was suggested,
those unskilled in form work might be
used on gardens and small truck farms
near the city.
At the suggestion Of Deputy Control
Ter Morgan the committee adopted a
pan " put .NtH lOIh lily 6U.OUD
municipal employees on farms during
their vacations. Each ore will be ap-
realed to during the next few weeks.
and even if only 10 per cent of them
respond it will mean the tillng of hun
drcds of acres that might otherwise be
idle. Each city employe gets two weeks
vacation. The farmers will be asked to
board the workers and pay them 81 a
day.
Policemen Eager to Help
Deputy Police Commissioner ODaniel
said that many policemen would be
glad TO spend their vacations working
on farms. but that there was no assur-
ance they would get vacations this
year. as conscription might cause the
suspension of all vacations in the de-
partment. 1t was announced that 500
firemen have agreed to cultivate plots
about New York.
The Tully-McInnis Company, build
ers, with Offices in the Grand Central
Terminal, yesterday offered through
The Tribune TO donate for cultivation
1.200 acres at Red Oak Grove. near
Chatsworth, y. J. If the land is not
used for farming the firm is willing to
let the government use il for a military
cncampment or any other purpose.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
College to Make Shells

Easton, Penn, May AT a meeting
of the board of trustees of Lafayette
College provision was made for turn
ing over to one of the local munition
plants the building and equipment of
the department of mechanical engineer
ing for the manufacture of shells. Stu
dents at the college will be employed in
this plant when II is completed.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
41-Ton Girder, Mislaid,
Halts 81" Work Two Weeks

Construction work on the Cypress
Hills elevated extension, south of SUIT
phin Road, Queens, has been held up
the last two weeks while a search was
made for mislaid Alton girder.
Yesterday the girder was found thir-
ty miles east of where it was needed.
It is hoped that the extension will be
completed by July |.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
MARRIAGES

AMES GOODRICH At the residence OF
the brides parents. at Nutley. n. j.. by
the Rev. Allen w McCurdy. ID. D.. on May
g. 1871. Robert Ames to Frances. daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wickes Goodrich. 70
NEwBERGER CRACER On Thursday.
May 3. at Plaza Hotel. by the Rev. De.
Harris Eleanor Ed Crager to Monroe New
bel.ct.
THORNTON SHAW On Thur.day. May ..
Aat the residence Of the brides mother.
Old Bennington. VI. by the Rev. Isaac
Jennings. Mary ConckIing Shaw to Chol-
mondeey Thornton.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Miles Wants Son at Front

Boston, May 4.-Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, to-
day enlisted the support of Governor
Mccall in an effort TO have his son,
CAPTAIN Sherman Miles. of the field ar
tiliery. transferred from his post in
Hawaii to this country. General Miles
is anxious to have his son take an ac-
tive part in the campaign against Ger
many.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Bank Robbed of $4,000

Cumberland. Md. May 4.-Threc men, with
blackened faces. held up d. V. lnskeep.
cashier Of the First National Bank. OF kitz-
miller. Md. fifty miles from here. to-day. and
are said TO have robbed him of 900 in cash.
Paul Junkins. 4 member Of a posse, was
wounded in an exchange of shots
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
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New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
BIRTHS

BENZIAN May 3. 10 West I'D St.. 70 Mr..
and Mrs. II. Benzian. son.
SILyERMAN Mr.. and Mrs David Sill
verman (nee Mildred Friedlanderi. 1907
eth av.. on Tuesday. May !. daughter 70
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
Nep York Still Lacks
329 of Navy Quota

Unlrss New York breaks to-day all
previous records for navy recruiting
the city will have failed to fill inc
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05

The first steps a little
blouse suit, size ~ years.
The last steps a big
mans "a stout"
All the steps in between
suits, overcoats, hats, shoes
and hxings for every size OF
man or boy.
Quality, every step OF the
way.
Prices moderate.
For hiking and drilling
"Westpointer' shoes.
"7hs Rockies Recal' tells srhdt TO
take to Training Camp. COPY free at
our stores.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05

THE WOoDLAwN CEMETERY,
2e3d st BY Harlem Train and " Irollsy.
Lots OF small size for sSis
Once 20 East ?sd 81. ~. x.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
PERSONAL

pADpY--Csn Up or communicate with
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New-York tribune., 1917-05-05
ROGERS PEET COMPANY

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at 18th St. The at 34th St.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-02-17
Death of Desire Gonzales.

Desire Gonzales, janitor of the To-
cal courthouse for the past fifteen
years, died at his home in Lafourche
street at 10 o'clock Friday morning,
aged II years, months and 8 days.
He was a veteran of the Confederacy,
having served as a member of Co. H,
28th Louisiana regiment. In former
years he was engaged in the fatboat-
ing business in Bayou Lafourche, and
afterward was connected with the
Donaldsonville police force. For some
years past he had been one of the con-
stables of the fourth ward justice
court. He was at all times faithful
to the trust reposed in him, and leaves
to his descendants the priceless heri-
tage of a good name and blameless
career. The funeral took place at 10
o'clock this forenoon, with services
and interment in the Catholic church
and cemetery. Members of Major
Victor Maurin Camp No. 38, u. c. v,
with which organization deceased was
affiliated, were among the mourners
who accompanied the remains to their
last resting place. Mr.. Gonzales is
survived by two sons, Amadeo and
Tony Gonzales, Of this city, and two
daughters, Mrs. William Curse, of
Mccall, and Mrs. S. Babin, of Port
Barrow. To the bereaved family sin
cere sympathy is extended.