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New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Mrs. w. c. Story's
Bail Set at $1,000;
Frame-Up Charged
Her Lawyer Attributes the
Prosecution to Enemies
in the D. A. r.

Mrs. William Cumming Story, former
director general of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution. who was in
dicted Wednesday, charged with at
tempted grand larceny, petty larceny
and conspiracy, was held in $1,000 bail
yesterday by Judge Mulaueen in Cen
era! Sessions. Bail was furnished. She
will plead Tuesday, July 2. Her sons,
Allen and Sterling Story, who also are
under indictment for conspiracy in con-
nection with the WORK Of the National
Emergency Relief Society, of which
Mrs. Story was founder and president,
are in the government service, and viii
not be called until after the war.
Edmund L. Mooney, attorney for Mrs.
client vas the victim of frame-up en-
gncered by some of her enemies in the
D. A. r.
"Mrs. Story" he said, ais being pros
ecuted as a scapegoat. 1t is the first
time in my experience that I ever heard
of woman being pursued for the al
legged wrongdoings of her children.
cannot understand it. Her enemies en-
deavored to throw brickhat at the
children and they hit the mother"
MS. Story said:
"Some time ago I received word from
an em;ssary of District Attorney Swarm
TO the effect that if I would deliver UP
the books of the National Emergency
Relief Society, and if the society would
disband, the investigation of its affairs
by the District Attorney would be
dropped. On June last, at the annual
meeting, with 38 members out of 112
present and with myself absent from
the chair, the society unanimously re-
elected me as president"
Assistant District Attorney Kiiroe
who conducted the investigation that
began last December, had this to say:
Mrs Story's counsel says his clients
Indictment is the result of fight in the
D. A. r. at the time Mrs. Story was
president That is not true. The orig
inal complaint came to this Office from
Washington through the United States
District Attorneys Office in New York
"We communicated with Mrs. Story
and her attorney, then George Gordon
Battle, who was also attorney for the
society, and told them of our discovery
that the society was not being con-
Quoted according to law. Mrs. Story
was later requested by Mr.. Battle, so
am informed, to desist in her activities
She refused to act on this advice, anc
her conduct was such that it became
imperative to take the case before tho
grand jury. The charges should not bt
construed as any reflection on Other
members Of the society,""
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Rintelen, in Tonbs,
Wants New Quarters
Convicted German Agent
Depressed; Removal Sug-
gested by Warden

Warden John Hanley, OF the Tombs,
yesterday suggested to United States
Attorney Catfey that Franz Rintelen,
the Prussian agent, who was convicted
in the Welland Canal conspiracy, be
removed to some other penal institu-
tion because Of his physical condition.
Rintelen has been in the Tombs since
the early winter waiting trial on a
charge Of conspiring with DR.. Walter
Scheele to blow up munition ships. MIR
Hanley said in his letter to the Fed
eral prosecutor that the German agent
had been failing and was in dam
gerous condition His condition has
become worse since the refusal Of
Secretary of State Lansing to enter
tain the offer made by Germany for his
exchange.
Warden Hanley explained to Mr.. CAT
fey that the prisoner had been irr;-
table for some time and greatly dc
pressed when he read the papers an
nouncing the Italian victories and other
Allied successes.
DR.. Perry Lichtenstein, physician of
the Tombs. said that he had frequently
been forced to give Rintelen powde RS
to quiet his nerves. The prisoner COM
plains that he does not get enough ex-
erclse, although he receives the same
treatment as other Federal prisoners
at the Tombs.
Colonel Caffey said later that he
would forward Warden Hanley's COM
munication to Attorney General Greg
ory. as he had no jurisdiction because
Rlntelen had been convicted.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Authorizes
Buchanan Statue

WASHINGTON, June 27.--president
Wilson to-day signed the bill authoriz-
ing the erection OF 4 statue Of James
Buchanan.
The measure was passed over strong
opposition in Congress from Repub..
lieans, who attacked the record of
the erection Of the statute was provided
in the will of relative.
James Buchanan was the fifteenth
President of the United States. At the
time of his election, in 1856, despite
the fast growing dissension spreading
through the country over the slavery
question. he was honored, respected
and the South.
President Buchanan's slavery views
were thought to be well understood.
Despite that fact, however. he. began
to show decided change of viewpoint
almost Immediately after his election
and to this reversal of himself was
attributed much of the unpopularity
which he subsequently aroused.
Shortly after his Inauguration Presi-
dent Buchanan began to use his infu
ence to force the admission of the ter
ritory Of Kansas to statehood under
tion and contrary to the wishes of the
majority Of the settlers. The dispute
over this question reached climax
when he removed the Territorial Sec
retary and the Territorial Governor
resigned.
Throughout the four years of his
term it seemed to be the fate of the
President to invariably do the wrong
thing whenever he was called on to
make a decision. In consequence, from
being one of the most popular men in
the country in 1856, he soon became
one Of the most unpopular, the resent
ment against him eliminating with the
famous Covode investigation conducted
by committee Of the House of Repre-
sentatives in 1860.
Whether it was the real intention of
Congress to bring impeachment pro-
ceedings against President Buchanan
has been a question long in dispute 1t
is now generally admitted that unless
such proceedings were contemplated, it
is doubtful if the Covode investigation
was legal.
The most unfriendly biographers Of
President Buchanan agree that he was
man of high moral character, and it
is generally admitted that his mistakes
as President we're 80 emphasized as to
obscure the fact that he was a man
of unimpeachable honesty, Of the high
est patriotism and Of no little ability.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Barnes Threatened
I'm O'Leary Cases
Two Letters Promise Death
for Prosecutor If He Presses
Charges

Earl Barnes, Assistant United States
Attorney, has been threatened with
death if he continues the prosecution
of the OIearys Mr.. Barnes said yes
terday that within the last two weeks
he has received two anonymous COM
munications warning him that his days
were numbered if he insisted on press
ing the governments charges against
jeremiah and John O'Leary.
The Federal prosecutor made known
the receipt Of the threats when he was
asked by reporters if he had any
knowledge of the alleged persecution
of members of John o 'Leary's family,
as charged by OLeary. OLeary said
that members Of his family and per-
sons employed by him had been threat
ened with punishment if they did not
give the government certain informa
tion.
Mr.. Barnes said that he was sure If
O'Leary and his family had been an
noyed it was not the work of govern
ment agents.
II myself" said Mr.. Barnes, "have
received letters recently threatening
my life if 1 did not let up in the
prosecution of the OLeurys. l believe
they were written by cranks and / am
certain the O'Learys know nothing of
them.
1t was also learned yesterday that
Ben A. Mathews, United States attor.
ney, who worked on the case against
Jeremiah OLeary, had received several
similar letters
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

mix me "a vanilla high ball, Eddie,
and get out the last bottle of the
famous '92 lemon extract, for days OF
Crouth are upon US and the fiavoring
extract manufacturers a:e our only
friends"
With the prospect Of bone dry ma
ton staring US in the face. only one
oasis Is discernible to the knights of
the barroom in that desert of prohibi-
tion that stretches away before them.
Whiskey, gin and their stalwart COM
ranions are passing away. Beer is
plucking at the counterpart and wine
is about ready to take the count.
Some Alcohol Here
But hope is not quite tead ana one
moist spot remains that the prohibi-
tionists have not yet succeeded in sop
ping up. Vanilla extract contains SO
per cent alcohol; lemon extract is 85
per cent booze; Jamaica ginger is 80
ler cent potential intoxicant and there
nre a host Of others Of equal strength.
Flavors and the wallop they pack
were discussed at length yesterday at
the convention of the Flavoring Extract
Manufacturers' Association in the
Hotel Astor. 1t had been learned that
certain stern but ultra imaginative
moralists were already looking forward
with horror to the day when the tip
pier, robbed of his usual beverage,
would turn in desperation to the al
coholic charms Of flask Of orange
oil, or beakcr of Jamaica ginger and
soda.
Accordingly, the question arose
among the convention delegates as to
whether the government, in enforcing
the proposed dry plan, had designs
upon the favoring trade. Through B.
E. Reuter-, of the food administration,
the convention was assured that the
government hadn't.
The discussion then turned to the
practicability of the extracts as spree
agents. The general opinion was that
it couldn't be done, or rather wouldn't
be done to any large extent
In the first place, the delegates as
serted. it costs too much. Vintage
lemon extract, it was pointed out would
sell at about $8 q quart, and even then
It would have to be disguised and
diluted and dissembled with much cara
before it could be drunk.
"If the liquor hound turns to flavor
ing for aid" said Louis Spencer Levy,
secretary of the convention. che is go
ing to be disappointed man. He will
find that he gets i'll before he gets
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
lrkutsk Is Held by
The Czecho-Slovaks
Reports of Seizure of Siberian
City Confirmed by Swedish
Advices

W WASHINGTON, June 27-Confirms.
tion through Swedish channels of the
reported capture of 1rkutsk by the
Czecho-Slovak troops in Russia was re-
ceived by the State Department to-day.
A telegram from Rome states that re-
ports from q Russian source confirm
the news Of the occupation by the
Czecho-Slovaks of Samara. Omsk and
Teheliabinsk, "who appear to be rap
idly executing their plan and Destroy
ing Bolshevik progress"
HARDIN, Manchuria, June 25.-
Austro- German war prisoners are in
complete control Of Irkutsk, on the
Transsiberian Railway, according to
reports received here from that city.
Inc prisoners are commanded BY
Austro-German officers.
Berlin advices transmitted through
ported that 1rkutsk had been capture d
by Czecho Slovak troops under General
Alexieff, the former Russian COM
mander in chief. The Czecho-Slovaks
having served in the Austrian army.
formerly were prisoners in Russia,
This may account for the conflict in
lrkutsk is town on Lake Baikal in
Siberia. nearly 1000 miles east of the
ural Mountains and 1900 miles west
OF Vladivostok, on the Trans Siberian
Railroad. Czecho-Slovak forces were
reported on June 10 to be in control of
the 1,250-mile stretch Of the Siberian
railroad from Samara, 500 miles east OF
Moscow, in European Russia, to Tomsk
If they have extended their power east.
ward to lrkutsk, distance of 1886
miles from Tomsk, the echo-Slovaks
are now in control of more than 25OC
miles Of railroad.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
10000 See Explosives Test
New Compound Blows Huge
Craters Near Camp Dix

CAMP DIX, N. j., June 27.-Six
mines containing more than ten tons
of new secret explosive were set off
to-day under "Marne HILL" blowing
trees skyward and creating deep and
wide craters.
Flaming gas shot up from the great
cavities, and into the face of the flames
dashed mining engineers equipped with
gas masks and oxygenntors to be
tested. The test was successful. The
craters will be occupied by engineers
and infantry of the S7th Division.
Although the explosions were ter
rife and earth tremors were felt ten
miles away, there was comparatively
little noise. The demonstration was
watched by 10000 soldiers and 10000
civilians.
The mines were charged under tho
direction of Captain Henry Davis
Trounage, of the British Royal Engi-
neers. and under the general super
vision of Colonel John r. Slattery. of
the s7th Engineers. Major General
Hugh l.. Scott and his staff were pres
ent.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Mrs. Royal Defends
Chocolate War Fund
Assues Swami His Criticism
Does Not Apply to Her
ORGANIZATION

District Attorney Swami announced
several days ago that he intended to In
vestigate the activities Of the commit
tees which had been raising money to
buy doughnuts and chocolate for tho
soldiers in France. He expressed the
opinion that doughnuts and chocolates
are "non-essentials," and that the So
lcitation Of money for those purposes
should be stopped. He added that his
information was that persons engaged
in this work had spent nearly $4,000
buying uniforms for boys who collected
the money, and that scores of war char
ity committees had been spending as
high as 80 or 80 per cent Of the money
collected for overhead charges.
Mrs. Forrest B. Royal, president Of
the American Chocolate Fund, of 4 West
Fifty-seventh Street, issued a state
ment yesterday to the effect that she
had assuerd the District Attorney that
his criticisms were not applicable to her
organization, whose advisory board con-
sists of Mrs. Henry W. Taft, Mrs. Otto
H.. Kahn, Mrs. Mahlon Pitney, Mrs.
John Grier Hiblin and Miss Lillian
Wald. Mrs. Royal said that the "boys
in uniforms" were in reality members
of musical band loaned to the fund
by Guy Emerson, of the Liberty Loan
Committee, to speed up the street col.
lections made on June IA. by permis-
sion of Police Inspector O'Brien She
declared that all of the large expenses,
such as rent, Office fixtures and the like,
are donated, and that the remainder Of
the charges are met by subscription
tees from the members.
This fund is shipping 1000 pounds
or chocolate-not chocolate candies, but
the pure chocolate, which Is regarded
by army experts as valuable "emer-
gency ration"-to France every week,
where it is delivered to the men In the
trenches through the Red Cross with
out cost. The supply is purchased in
New York from the same firms which
supply chocolate to the government, and
at the same price.
Mrs. Archibald M. Reid, Of 131 East
Slxty-sixth Street, is treasurer. and the
funds are kept on deposit in the Equi-
table Trust Company. The accounts
are regularly audited without charge
by an accountant, and the fund has the
approval of Secretary Daniels and
Franklln D. Roosevelt of the Navy De-
partment; General Goethals, Admiral
Gleaves and George F. Rice, chief of
The Bureau of Donations in Paris.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
House Rejects Mail
Tubes by Close Vote
Especial Dispatch to The Tribu,e,

WASHINGTON, June 27.-Apparent-
ly, by vote of $50 to I49. the House
Of Representatives rejected pneumatic
mail tubes for New York, Boston. Phil
adelphia, Chicago and st. Louis to-day.
The vote was on agreeing to confer
ence report on the postal appropriation
bill, which includes compromise on
the proposed purchase by the govern
ment of the tubes, providing that the
present lease of the tubes, which ex
pres July 1. shall be continued until
March l and the question of purchase
be referred to the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
There is much doubt concerning the
accuracy of the vote announced By
Speaker Clark. Three roll calls were
necessary to determine how the House
stood, each result announced being chal-
lenged. Friends of the tubes claimed
tonight that actually the vote stood
$50 to 149 in favor of adopting the con-
ference report.
Should this prove correct, and II will
be tested tomorrow, Chairman Moon
of the House Committee and Repre-
sentative Rouse, of Kentucky, will urge
the President to veto the postal appro-
priation bill
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
America Building
Hospital for 5000
Soldiers i'm Britain
Salisbury Site Is One of the
Most Picturesque in
England

SOUTHAMPTON, June 27.-Work
can military hospital in Great Britain.
1t will be at Salisbury, six miles from
Southampton. 1t will accommodate
5000 wounded Americans from the
West front.
The site is magnificent country
estate of nearly 200 acres which the
Red Cross has purchased. The Old
Manor House of the estate will be the
central building, and around it the
Red Cross is erecting nearly ten acres
Of hutments and wards.
The central corridor of the new hos
pital will be 1000 feet long, opening
on either side into wards, each of WHICH
will accommodate from sixty to one
hundred patients.
The site is one Of the most beautiful
in southern England. 1t everlooks
Southampton harbor and the Isle of
Wight, and has a frontage of half .
mile on the water. with good fishing
and boating facilities. From the tower
of the Manor House one has an unob-
stricted view for twenty miles in all
directions.
The property includes large amount
Of woodland, where American lumber
men already are telling trees to pro
vide heavy timber for the new build
ings.
The contracts provide for opening
the hospital with the first 400 beds in
six weeks. The institution will have
its own electric plant, water supply,
kitchen gardens, dairy, chickens and
pigs. The construction is going on
under the supervision of Captain
Harper Sibley, former president of the
Chamber of Commerce of Rochester,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

late Car of Russia, was received at
the State Department to-day from
Stockholm. 1t was transmitted as a
Swedish press report. which needed
confrmstion."
LONDON, June 27.-Rumors are cur
rent in Petrograd that Alexis Rom
anoff, son of former Emperor Nicholas,
died few days ago, says an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
to-day.
The first report of the assassination
Of Emperor Nicholas was received in
Copenhagen through Stockholm on
Tuesday. although it appears that ru-
mors that the former Emperor had
been killed by the Bolsheviki had been
circulating in Russia for several days
previously. The Copenhagen message
quoted the Russian newspaper "Vjia"
as saying that Russian Red Guards had
murdered the ex-Emperor in his resi-
dence at Yekaterinburg. to which he
was removed recently from Tobolsk.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Moscow, dated Friday, June 21,
and received in this country on
Wednesday, declared there was no
foundation, however. for the rumors of
the assassination, and dispatches from
German sources last week reported
that the former Emperor was not at
Yekaterinburg, having been removed ia
Moscow for safe keeping.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Ship Loss This May
Half That of Last
224,735 British Tonnage and
1909 Allied and Neutral
DESTROYED

LONDON, June 27 (via Ottawa -
Merchant tonnage losses fol May due
to enemy action and marine risk. the
British Admiralty's monthly statement
shows, were as follows
British, 224,735 tons.
Allied ana neutral, 130,959 tons.
This aggregate for May of 355 ,694 tons
compares with an adjusted aggregate
for April OF 81, ASS tons and total
OF 630,436 tons in May Of last year.
The losses from marine risk are
stated to have been unduly heavy last
month.
The Shipping Ministry announces
tfat steamships of 500 gross tons or
more entering and clearing in. United
Kingdom ports during May, exclusive of
coastal and Channel traffic, totalled T.
777,843 tons.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28

it would not be better, in the interest
Of what he desires to do in Russia, for
Kerensky to remain in Great Britain.
No formal action would have to be
taken to assure this, as Kerensky
could not leave Great Britain for the
United States without passports is
sued by the British government, and it
is said here that the British govern
ment would not issue such passports
without knowing that visit TO this
country by Kerensky would be. agree
able to the American State Depart
There was an impression here to-day
that President Wilson might appear be-
fore both houses of Congress before
the summer recess is begun next Mon
day to acquaint it and the country with
measures he contcmplates taking for
the relief of Russia.
No information was available from
official sources to confirm this. 1t was
pointed out that it would not be desir-
able to inform Germany beforehand Of
the intentions of this government.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Streetcar Raise Not Yet
Put Up to President

WASHINGTON, June 27-The War
Labor Board, at the final session to-
day of the hearing on the request of
street railway company employees for
an increase Of wages, withheld. decision
on on the proposal made by employees and
the companies that President wilson hs
asked to raise local transportation rates
II it is shown that this is necessary in
order for the companies to increase
the pay their employees.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Ocean Grove Man and Three
Others In German Prison

WASHINGTON, June 27.-Names Of
four additional American soldiers held
prisoners at Camp Darmstadt, Ger
many, were announced tonight by the
War Department. They are Corporal
Royal ]. Lacourciere, Meriden, Conn,
Privates Chester D. Gravatt Ocean
Grove, N j.: Clifford N. Markle, s5s
Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, and
Elijah Collins, Warwick, R. I.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
T'ipplers' Last Oasis in Desert
OF Prohibition Merely Mirage
Hope That Vanilla and Lemon Extracts and Jamaica Ginger
Could Produce That Grand and Glorious Feeling
Is Secuted by Makers as Too Costly

drunk He'll have all the morning.
after troubles, without any Of the ex-
element"
But even these wet blanket remarks
cannot kill the hope that has sprung
in the bosom of the faithful, and who
knows if the future years will not pre-
sent the picture of the gang stagger-
ing home just before sunrise and chant
ing the praises of "brown October ex-
truot
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Belgium Gets $9,OOO,OOO

WASHINGTON, June 27.-Belgium
to-day received another credit of $9,-
100000, bringing the total loaned to
that country up to S131, 100000 and
the total to the Allies to $5981 500 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Plans
Military Aid
= For Russia

Continued from page /
New-York tribune., 1918-06-28
Kieu Reports
Ex-Czar Killed
By Bolsheviki

Continued from page l
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-02
son d RESCUE.
ASKS SENATE TO PASS SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT. z
Woman Suffrage Measure Csassed rs a
ar Measure ana Preident Urges
Senate to Ae, Before the Recess.

ashington, ressde-l
Wilson address the senate at ]
o'clock this afternoon on the pending
federal amendment for women SUI
rage Sufrage leaders have been
counting On the preside Tents influence
to end delay ID the senate, which
apparently is again about to start
a vacation recess, without aetingslp-
on the suffrage resolution which has
already passed the house. The pres
ident vii ask the senate TO adopt the
resolution as a. war measure.
President Wilson stepped into the
breachsof senate fight over he Wo-
man suffrage reso1u ton today, and
ID "a, personal address asked for its
passage asa war measure. He said
he regarded the extension of the s1f-
frage vitality essential to- the sue
.eessful prosecution OF the great
war. at is dltty to win the var
heSdeclared, and e ask you to rerneve
every obstacles that stands in the way
of Winning IT. ii 2 He said that no dis
patable principle or party issue was
involved IN the amendment. SIS