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New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
$500 German Women
Enroll in Yorkvil]e

Twenty-Five hundred German women
had registered at the Yorkville police
station by sunset last night, almost
ceomple letting the registration expected in
That district, the largest in the citv.
The police, however, admit that thev
may be surprised at the end of the
registration, as they have never before
known just how many residents of the
district were aliens.
When the German men registered p
SAID Sergeant Neumann, 1--WE were sur
prlsed to see one old man come sheen
1shiy IN here who had always protested
notify that he was an American. We
used to call him 'Dutchy,' and it made
hlm furious. The law compelling ali
Germans to register was too much for
him, however"
~ Inc Oldest woman to register at the
! orkville station male her appearances
late yesterday afternoon, guided by an
embarrassed grandson of school age
and daughter, who spoke no English.
but held the old woman's hand and told
her In German to be Of good cheer.
She was Mrs. Elise Mohrmann, seventy
seven years old. She has been in this
country twenty years, and has no rela-
tlves living in Germany to-day. Her
grandson, August Loughlin, is lighting
for Uncle Sam.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Unjust Discrimination,
Is O'Connor's Ansuuer
To Revocofioy, Order

When seen yesterday in his office,
Broadway, Mr.. O'Connor declared that
he felt he had done nothing to warrant
the revocation of his license. He
charged that he is victim of unjust
discrimination, but denied the state
ment attributed him by the fuel ad-
ministration to the effect that he had
known of an order regarding smokeless
coal and had violated it because Of
discrimination against him.
According to an order of the fuel
administration promulgated on May Is
and effective May 16. Baltimore,
Rochester and Pittsburgh coal could
be used on ships" he said. "The coal
complained of. far less smoky than the
coal permitted by the administration,
had been furnished by me to ships
about May 1, but in all probability was
not used for twenty-five or thirty days.
IL have grown gray in the coal SER
vice, but this has not prevented me
from being Disseminated against re-
peatedly. The revocation order does
not come as shock to me. In view of
my previous treatment from the fuel
administration, have come to expect
anythng"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Lieutenant Staley
Admits Taking Br;be;
Held in $4,000 Boil

Second Lieutenant James C. Staley,
Quartermaster Corps of the National
Army. was held in $4,000 bail yester-
day by Samuel Hitchcock, United States
Commissioner. when he was arraigned
on a charge Of having accepted bribes
to influence his reports on factories
seeking war contracts. Staley was ar
rested on Tuesday by Agent De Mond,
Of the Department of Justice, in con-
nection with the nationwide Federal
investigation Of contingent fee prof.
teering.
The specific charge contained in the
complaint, which was drawn by Assist
ant United States Attorney Axman. was
that he had accepted $50 from the
owners of the True-Fit Waterproof Com
pany, of $40 broadway, which concern
sought contract for $4,000 raincoats
for the army. The concern could not
obtain the contract if Lieutenant Sta
ley's report was not favorable.
When he was brought before Com
missioner Hitchcock his wife, who is a
was with him In her khaki uniform.
Tho proceedings were short. Staley
pleaded guilty to the charge of having
accepted the bribe and was held in
$4,000 bail.
There Is strong possibility that
Staley may be forced to repeat his
story to the Federal Grand Jury. If
he dogs and the Department of Justice
is satisfied that others are engaged in
the same practice, indictments will be
asked for.
Staley was grilled for hours by
agents of the Department Of Justice
and is understood to have told ell he
knew. According to report he is said
to have mentioned several army officers
as having accepted bribes.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Plan to Hang Mooney
AT Once Is Blocked
Court Refuses Prosecutors s
Demand Death Warrant
Be Given to Sheriff
Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc}

Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc}
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.-Superior
Judge Franklin A. Grifin to-day denied
a motion made unexpectedly by Fred
erick Berry, Assistant District Attor-
ney, TO have the death warrant of
Thomas J. Mooney Immediately turned
over to the Sheriff tor service. The
motion, if granted, would mean that
Mooney would be transferred at once
from the county Jail to San Quentin
penitentiary..
Alter brief court proceedings, at
taches of the District Attorneys office
refused to disclose the reasons for the
unexpected motion, but it was init
mated that the aid of one of the higher
courts might be invoked to force Judge
Griffin to turn over the Mooney death
warrant to the sheriff.
Judge Griffin refused the motion of
Berry on the ground that the death
warrant is being held by the clerk Of
the court pending action by the state
Supreme Court on writ Of probable
cause fled by Moneys attorneys.
Berry interrupted the court proceed
ings in bringing his request before
Judge Griffin, He said: 81 would like
to make an ex-parte motion in the mat
ter of the case Of the people VS.. Thomas
u. Mooney. ! ask that the death war
rant Of Thomas j. Mooney be signed
with"
To this Judge Griffin replied: This
warrant is in the Office of the clerk of
this Court, and it will stay there until
the Supreme Court has had a chance
to act upon the application for a GER
tificate of probable cause made by the
defense"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
N. Y. Coal Dealer
Loses His License
Especial Dixpotch to TIE Tribune,


WASHINGTON, Juno 19.-The fuel
administration announced to-day that
the license Of J. P. O'Connor, of /
vokcd, and the Department Of Justice
has been requested to further invest-
gate the circumstances leading up to
the revocation and to take such action
against O'Connor as the facts may
warrant. The case against the New
York coal dealer is stated as follows
by the fuel administration:
ION April /, 1918, the fuel admins
tration promulgated an order in which
the kinds of coal permissible to be
sold for ship bunkers were clearly and
distinctly defined. O'Connor admit
ted, at a hearing before the license
board of the fuel administration, that
he knew of the order. He admitted
but sought to justify his conduct on
the ground that he considered the re-
strictions imposed in the order. as to
tho grade of coal, constituted an unjust
discrimination against the kind of coal
sold by him. This coal is classified as
"Pool "a" by the tidewater coal ex-
change, and is very low grade COAL
"The coal sold by O'Connor in viola
tion Of the order Of the fuel admins
tration was delivered by him to the
steamship Stella, a vessel owned by
Eeutrals and plying between the United
States and neutral countries.
"O'Connor's license was revoked and
his case was referred to the Depart
ment of Justice only after he had been
given full hearing before the license
board.
"The penalties provided by law for
violations OF the orders Of the fuel ad-
ministration are two fold, and. if in
dicted and convicted. O'Connor may be
subjected by the court to fine Of not
more than $4,000, or imprisonment for
not more than two years, or both"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
F irst 10,000-Ton Vessel Slips
From Ways at Kearny Yards
lie Liberty Pioneer of Class of Ships To Be Built

poration. She will be equipped with
geared turbine drive, will use crude oil
for fuel and will have a speed Of ten
knots.
Although her lines are very graceful
she is about so per cent fabrlcated'
the fabricated steel being furnlehed by
the American Bridge Company from its
shops in Trenton and Ambridge, the
plates being rolled at the new Liberty
rolling mill at Homestead The Rear
nv yard is. however, n complete ship
yard and ultimately it will be able to
build ships without the assistance OF
outside fabrication.
Built Yard and Ships Together
The yard has been building for the
last ten months and shipbuilding has
progressed simultaneously during most
Of that period. All of the buildings
are of permanent character and the
principal ones are of enormous extent.
There are ten ways in use, two more
have been started and three others are
to be added. The yard is IN the west
bank Of the Hackensack River and
ground has been acquired on the east
side for 1,0c0-foot drydo,x.
AS soon as all the ways are in COM
mission the company expects to launch
a 10,000-ton ship every fifteen days.
Inc dimensions OF tho ways are SGcH
that vessels Of $4,000 tons may be
built on them.
The invited guests at the launching
included officials Of the neighboring
cities. shipbuilders, officials OF various
companies associated with The United
States Steel and many men Of national
prominence in commerce an.l industry
The group around the christening
stand Included Judge Gary. Mrs. Gary,
Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Lewis Nixon.
A. c. Wilkie. assistant district officer
Of the New York district, represented
the Shipping Board. and among those
attending from Washington were Mr..
da Cana, the Brazilian Ambassador,
and Mrc da Cana
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Jerry O'Leary
Plans to Fight
Treason Charge
Prisoner Declares He Will
Stand by Plea of
Not Guilty

jeremiah A. OLeary will stand by
his plea of not guilty to the indict-
ments which charge him with conspir-
ing to violate the espionage act and
to commit treason, and that will be his
defence. He will not plead insanity, as
reported, but is ready to fight his case
on it's merits.
This was learned yesterday after
noon, when O'Leary, who is in the
Tombs, after refusing to see news
paper men, consented to look at set
Of questions presented. The questions
were:
"Have you obtained counsel?
ut has been intimated that you have
revealed activities of certain men Of
Sim Fein cympathles, including public
officials, who now face arrest. Is tn.
so?
witnesses at the trial Of your broth
er have testified that you are mentally
unsourd, and that this will be your de-
fence when you are brought to trial. Is
this so?"
After cons idering the questions for
some time, Mr.. O'Leary wrote the fol-
lowing reply:
~ legret that cannot answer your
questions. | trust that the newspapers
will refrain from publishing irrespon-
sible rumors. The public mind should
not be deceived nor should any effort
90 distort the truth be encouraged. I
have pleaded not guilty. That plea
stands as my answer and my defence. -
O'Leary awakened yesterday morn
ing after his first night in prison
greatly refreshed The weariness and
fatigue he suffered subsequent to his
long trip from the Northwest seem to
I have left him. He was not called with
the other prisoners, but was permitted
to sleep until 8 o'clock by Warden Han
ley.
When he awoke he rushed to the
grating of his cell and called to the
keeper that he wished to see his broth
er John. His request was granted, and
he was led to the lower tier, where
John was waiting to go to the Federal
Court, where he is on trial, charged
with conspiring to assist Jerry in his
flight.
II am glad to see you. How are
you?" asked Jerry as he grasped his
brothers hand.
~ am awfully glad to see you, too,
jerry" replied his brother, "but
wish we'd met in some other place."
Then with the permission Of the au-
thorties the brothers drew off to one
side and held an earnest conversation
for about ten minutes, until John was
forced to leave for court.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Plan Electricity
And Gas Reduction
To Conserve Coal

WASHINGTON, June 19-The pub.
lie will be asked soon by the govern
ment to broaden it's list of war sacri-
fees to include electric lights and gas,
as means of saving fuel
Conferences between representatives
of the fuel istration, the War In
dustries Board and the Shipping Board
have developed that every phase of
Americas war making is dependent on
coal in the final analysis. The fuel
administration has warned the nation
that the visible supply of coal will not
cover the needs of war industries,
householdcrs and private industries,
and a beginning has been made in cur
failing the use Of fuel for non-war
manufacturing.
Questions now have been raised,
however, as 10 why private citizens,
whosy sclfdcnial has made it possible
TO feed tht Allies and the american
soldiers abroad, should not also give
up other daily comforts for the sake
of the country if thereby they may
ease up the demand on the coal sup
ply. Instead of shutting down all non
war industries to save fuel, thereby
throwing many persons out of en-
ployment and reducing the economic
resources, an effort will be made to eff
feet such reduction in the private
consumption of coal that many fac
tories will be enabled to operate part
time at least.
Details of the plans under discus
sion became known to-day. 1t will re-
anire some time to perfect uniform
plan of curtailmcnt, and it is probable
that its application will be more gen.
cral in the East, where the coal short
age was most acute last winter.
One suggestion being studied is to
notify all households that they may
consume hereafter only half of the
average amount of electricity and gas
burned each month during the last
year. If that amount should be reached
before the end Of the month the supply
would be cut off for the remaining
days Of that month. Industries in each
town would have available for neces-
sary work the, amount of current or
gas saved, and where there was not
sufficient essential work to utilize so
much there would result saving in
fuel.
Compensation to the public utilities
companies for their loss in business
has been taken up only tentatively as
yet. Settlement of that problem seems
likely to be the most difficult in the
proposed curtailment, but officials are
hopeful of satisfactory solution
Raises in rates may be recommended
to state commissions having control, or
the Federal government may be asked
to make up the difference
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20

NEWARK, June 19.-Slipping down
the ways 80 quietly and quickly that
Mrs. +. H. Gary almost "fanned" as
she swung the champagne bottle
against its PROV, the 10,000-ton steam
ship Liberty was successfully launched
at the yards of the Federal Shipbuild-
ing Company in Kearny late this after
noon.
The breaking of the bottle. the wild
rush of seventeen camera men to
catch" Judge and Mrs. Gary and party
and luncheon in .he administration
building constituted the whole of the
proceedings. There was no speech
making, but much brass band music,
cheering and steam whistling. All Of
the company's 5000 employees and some
thousands of guests were the specta-
tors, to say nothing of unlimited thou
sands who lined the river banks.
Has Many Contracts
The Liberty marks the entry Of the
chief of the unofficial allies, the United
States Steel Corporation, into the list
of shipbuiders, the Federal being
merely q corporate subsidiary. The
corporation has taken up shipbuilding
not merely for the war, but for all
time. AS soon as the government or
ders are disposed of it will build fifty
ships for its own uses. 1t now holds
contracts for thirty ships like the Lib
erty for the Kearny yards and for
thirty more for the new yards of the
Tennessee Iron and Steel Company at
Mobile, Ala. At least fifty more gov
ernment ships are contemplated.
The Liberty is built according to the
sherwood system of steel construc-
tion. She is bo2 feet long, 54 feet
tonnage and is the largest ship yet
launched for the Emergency Fleet Cor
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Patriotism Defined
AS "Hatred Toward
Neighbor" by l.W.W.

CHICAGO, June 19.-The gov
ernment late to-day completed its
presentation of evidence in the
seditious conspiracy trial of 40
[. w. w. leaders. Counsel for the
defendants tomorrow will make
formal motions before beginning
.he introduction of it's case.
The l, W.. w. Dictionary of
Military Terms" was introduced
to-day to show the attitude of the
organization toward Americas
war programme. Among the
"defnitions" included in the "dis-
tionary" were the following:
Observation-Disclosures not the
Allies.
Congress-Woodrow Wilson.
Huns-Devoted patriots of Gen.
trail Europe.
Humanity-The treachery OF
the government.
Justice-Straight and success
full shooting at human targets.
Kaiser-The ambition OF the
President.
Patiotism-Hatred toward your
ntighbors.
Registration-The funeral pro-
cession of liberty.
Victory-Ten million men killed.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20

Craig, submitted information that in
August. of last year the steward of the
steamship Irlshman turned back eighty
pieces of beef delivered to the vessel
by the Gotham Hotel Supply Company,
a subsidiary Of the Wilson firm, the
steward asserting that the meat was
soft and not sufficiently frozen. Tho
same beef, it was testified, was brought
back q day or two later covered with
cheesecloth and was again rejected.
Spencer said it was "the worst meat he
had ever seem"
M. M. Behrend, manager of the Cot
ham company, denied the meat was in
bad condition, saying he later resold
it to other people.
The hearing will be continued this
morning at IL O'Clock in the Woolworth
Building.
Attention of The Tribune has been
called to a misstatement in yester-
days story on the Federal Trade hear
ing. Thomas E. Wilson was elected
president Of Wilson G. Co. two years
ago, when he took over the interests of
Sulxberger & Co. This was an Amer
lean firm and was never under the
slightest suspicion of pro- -Germanism.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Six Accused of
Stealing Beef ON
Way to Pershine

Six men, charged with stealing large
quantities of beef intended for Per
shing's men in France and selling it
to East Side meat dealers, were arrest
ed yesterday and arraigned before
Samuel Hitchcock, United States Com
missioner, who held them in bail for
further examination.
The prisoners are George Killian. of
217 West Sixty ninth Street, and Frank
Kilinet, of 302 West Twentieth Street.
employed as checkers by the govern
ment; Theodore Mancini, butcher,
of $40 Bergen Avenue. The Bronx;
George Williams, of 43S Bedford Ave
nue., Brooklyn, driver; Harry Roth
man, of SAT West Tenth Street. and
Joseph Zegar, an East Side butcher.
Assistant United States Attorney E.
Paul Yaselle appeared for the prosecu-
ton. In his complaint he charged that
the six had entered into conspiracy
to steal the beef while it was on it's
way from the warehouse of the quar-
termaster's depar, ,ment to the trans
ports. The specific charge is the theft
of ten quarters OF beef which reached
New York over the Lehigh Valley Rail
road.
The complaint says the beef was de-
livered to Williams, who while on his
way. to the pier turned over ten quar-
ters to Mancine. The latter delivered
the beef to Rothman & Zegars, on the
East Side. The theft was made nos
sible, according, to the complaint. by
Killian and Kilinet giving Williams a
pass to leave the Lehigh yards, at
Twenty sixth Street and the North
River, with ten more quarters than he
was credited with trucking to the
transport.
Mr. >Yaselle told Commissioners
Hitchcock the government beef was
purchased at 23 cents pound. Roth
man & Zegars, who are accused Of
buying the beef at IL cents a pound
and. selling it in their stores. werc
held in $4,000 hail each. and the
others wore held in $4,000 bail for g
hearing on June 26. ="
The government is still continu;nc
its investigation. and other arrests ars
expected. The case has been given ~
the Federal Grand Jury. ~
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Dates Named for Opening
Consolidated r. r. Office,

WASHINGTON, June 1s.-Approxi-
mate dates for the opening of consoli-
dated ticket Offices were announced to-
day by the railroad administration. as
follows:
New York, 81 West Thirty-second
Street, July 8; "a Broadway and ia
West Forty-second Street, July 10;
Philadelphia and Baltimore, June "a;
Cleveland and Toledo, July i; Indian
apohs and Boston, July 10, and Cincin-
natl, July TX
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
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Thursday, June 20, 1918

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advertising and Of the which backs Advertising
from the goatsand hanging bell the goats. II
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retail public corporations. 1t will print
those letters which show typiealy how
advertisers deeds with the words of his advertising
Only signed letter giving the writer's address, will be read
The will be printed withheld preferred Address
The Advisor Tho Tribune, New York
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Arbitration Treaty Renewed

WASHINGTON, June 19.-Renewal
for five years of the general arb'tra-
tion treaty between the Urited States
and Great Britain was approved to-day
oy the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
OUR GUARANTEE IS YOUR PROTECTION

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The Republican journal., 1918-02-14
MUCH RHEUMATISM
Local Druggists Mcclure Moray Offer
Attracts Many Sufferers.

If there are any rheumatic sufferers in
town who have not awaited themselves of
A. A. Howes &, Co.'S generous offer they
should do so at once.
They state that if Rheuma, the guar
anteed prescription for rheumatism, does
not give any purchaser quick and Joyful
relief they will return the purchase price
without any clubbing or red tape.
Rheumatism is dangerous disease,
and anyone who has the slightest faint Of
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f'For five years l suffered with articular
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and was greatly improved before | had
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sufficient for TWO weeks treatment