davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
INVISIBLE AURORA
GUMS UP WIRELESS
Plays Franks Safely Hidden
Behind SUMS Rays.

If the effulgence of the sun had not
made it invisible. folk all over the north
eastern section OF the United States
might have seen a gorgeous display of
the aurora borealls yesterday. II was
shooting its rays through glaring day
light from polar spaces, as sttested by
operators at the keys of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. who know
the effects OF the northern lights on the
wires by long experience.
First President G. W. T.. Atkins
of the Western Union said the cable and
land lines were affected. particularly In
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Maine,
the service being interrupted intermit-
tently.
The aurora frequently has been OBJ
served dancing In the skies of this latI-
tude in August. and has been noted oc-
casionally south of Hatteras, as In mid
August two years ago. SSen the pas
sengers OF the MORO Castle and other
steamships arriving at this port were
treated south OF Hatteras to an excep-
tionally brilliant display of empyrean
fireworks.
The atmospheric conditions were IA
vorable to the development OF the aurora
yesterday, the weather folk said. but
they had no visual record OF the tremu-
lous rays. The only way the weather
bureau has OF detecting an aurora 10 by
the eye, and when the sun is shining not
the best trained meteorological eye can
pick out the most brilliant cerulean
show, But the magnetic disturbance In
the upper atmosphere always Affects the
wires.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
LUSITANIA LIAR Is
FACING INTERNMENY
Since Leaving Prison Stahl
. Has Been Making Remarks
Hostile to U. s.

Gustave Stahl. the perjurer who served
eighteen months in the Atlanta Peniten-
tiary for signing en- affidavit that he
saw six inch guns mounted on the deck
Of the Lusitania the night before she
left New York on her last voyage. was
recommended for internment as a dan
gerous enemy alien by Rufus w
Sprague, chief of the Enemy Alien Blu.
reau, yesterday.
Stahl who was released at Atlanta
in the fall Of 1917. has been working
since in and near this city and has been
voicing sentiments hostile to the United
States. He was arrested last week in an
employment agency In Twelfth street.
Herman Falkenheuer, 707 Garden
street. Hoboken; George Wardetsk
Elizabeth, ". j.. and Emil Klotzbach
Bayonne. German aliens, were examined
at the Enemy Alien Bureau yesterday
and committed to the Raymond street
Jail In Brooklyn to await further in
vestigation. They were arrested by the
Bayonne police early Thursday after a
party attended largely by Teutons broke
up in a fght.
They are accused OF shouting, 'To
hell with the United States" and OF
making other similar remarks. Other
members Of the party were arrested. but
were not accused of hostile utterances.
Word was received in Brooklyn this
afternoon that United States Supreme
Court Justice Brandeis had refused to
take bail for Joseph B. Rutherford and
the other Russellites now in Atlanta
Penitentiary serving terms OF twenty
years each for conspiracy against the
United States Government. The Justice
suggested that the matter be taken w
before the full court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
CATHOLIC PILGRIMS
Battle IN THE OCEAN
Feast of Assumption Ceie-
brafed at Coney Island.

More than 1000 children made the
pilgrimage to Coney Island yesterday.
which was the day Of the Feast Of
Assumption Of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Catholics have for many years made the
pilgrimage TO Coney Island and entered
the water as preparation for their
religious duties. The custom was in
augurated several years ago eat the
Church of Our Lady Of Solace. in West
Seventeenth street, Coney Island.
The Rev. William T. Kervin OF ST.
Benedicts Church, Morris Park, deliv-
cred a special sermon at the Church OF
Our Lady Of Solace in the afternoon at
4 o'clock.
Special prayers were said for the
American soldiers and sailors. Follow
Ing the services at the church the pill
grims wept to the beach and entered
the water. The procession then returned
to the church, where the candles car
ried by those in the procession were lit
and left burning for their intentions.
Besides the children hundreds OF others
attended the services In the church and
at the beach.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
HYLAN ATTACKS TAX SHARKS
Mayor Urges Quick Action Against
Mean Profiteerfns,

Mayor Hylan yesterday sent the fol.
lowing letter TO Nathan Hirsch, chair.
man Of the Mayors Committee on Tara.
ton and the Investigation OF Mortgage
Loans:
II note by the press that the tax loan
sharks have again come out into the
open. and are operating their nefariou.
trade against soldiers and sailors who
are serving their country.
"I cannot think OF a more vicious
trade or occupation than that of a loan
shark; the most unpatriotic and I'M
American activity that has come to pub.
lie notice Is the business Of loan sharks
''rhe city. as you we'll know. has sus.
pended until after the war any further
sales of tax liens. trust that your
committee will make an immediate In.
vestigation as to the activities OF the
loan sharks, and take such measures as
you deem advisable to stamp out this
vicious profiteering which the war pre-
sents to the INSCRIPTIONS and unpatri-
otto individual"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
WANT MONEY FOR GAFFNEYv
Cry Used by Holdup Men in Effort
TO Rob saloon Patnons.

Hands up, everybody! We want
money for Gaffney.
The demand was shouted last night
by the leader OF four masked men. carry
ing revolvers, as they entered the door
way of saloon at the southwest corner
of Tenth avenue and Twenty fourth
street. where several men were drinking
at the bar.
One Of the drinkers dropped his glass
and made a rush to get out of range.
All four revolvers flashed at once and
Henry Bors OF 2l1 Tenth avenue dropped
to the floor, his skull fractured by a bull
let, while James Bormell, 80, an engi-
neer. Of 213 Tenth avenue. was shot in
the neck.
free for all fight followed when the
drinkers tried to find hiding places. In
the scrimmage the four holdup men
backed out of the saloon, climbed into
an automobile they had left outside with
its engine running and disappeared up
Tenth avenue before policemen could
reach the place. The men who we're shot
were taken to Bellevue Hospital.
The holdup men did not have time 10
get any money. One policeman fired
half n dozen shots at their automobile
but 1t was not hit. The police do. nor
think the robbers were confederates ~
Vincent Gaffney, the escaped gunman for
whom the whole department has been
searching for weeks II Is thought thew
used Gaffney's name to scare their pros-
pective victims.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
RETURNS WITH MISSING $4,000.
shapiro Brothers. Employee suf-
fered Mental Lapse From Heat.

Jacob Want. trusted employee OF Sha-
piro Brothers, dress manufacturers Of
5l4 Broadway, who disappeared August
with the company's pay roll of
A.6OI12. returned yesterday with all
but 5000. which he spent during his
nine days travels. His temperance was
followed by sympathetic statement
from his employers, who ascribe Wants
peculiar actions to a mental lapse caused
by combination of heat and overwork
The statement read:
Owing to our being engaged in Gov
eminent work, Mr.. Want has been work.
ing twelve to fifteen. hours a day for a
year. This great strain was too much
for him and during the excessively warm
weather of last week he suffered a
mental lapse and was not responsible for
almost week
He has no clear recollection of whero
he has been during this time. but evi.
IDENTIFY travelled from one city to an
other. When he came to his senses he
Immediately telephoned to our Mr.. NJ. j.
Shapiro. and later called on him at his
home in Summit. y. j. He brought
$4,000 and has offered to return the
balance OF s20I. Mr.. Want is going
away with his wife for a few days rest
and then will resume his duties with
Shapiro Brothers, who have the highest
regard for him in every respect"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
SOCIALISTS PROTEST
u. S. AID TO RUSSIA
Plan Macs Meeting Here
"Some Time in Future"

Allied and American intervention in
Russia will be made the subject OF a
nationwide protest by the Socialist
party. The protest will be developed in
several ways, II became known yester-
day when a committee of seven was
named by the central committee OF the
New York branch OF the party to make
arrangements Besides great mass
meeting-wnere and when this will be
held has not been decided-there will
be numerous small gatherings, and
leaflets galore will be distributed among
the faithful and the hopeful.
II appears that though the Reds want
no interference In Russia they would
not only welcome It but demand II for
Finland. for coincident with the an.
nouncement Of the protest plans came
a proclamation from national headquar-
tiers Of the party calling upon "all be-
levers In democracy" to aid the
workers government" of Finni h
people.
Chief among the speakers for the mass
meeting, which will feature the Russian
intervention protest, will be John Redd,
who Is awaiting trial with the editors
OF the Masses, charged with conspiracy
to obstruct recruiting. and Santeri
Nuerteva. representative OF the Finnish
Bolsheviki In the United States. Natu-
rally Scott Nearing will speak, or at
least he will be invited to, as will also
Eugene v. Debs, former presidential
candidate OF the Socialist party,
Resolutions deploring the despatch OF
military forces into Russia. adopted by
Manhattan and Kings county branches
OF the party, have been approved, II was
said yesterday, by mass meetings in
Boston. Cleveland and Buffalo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
WIDOW APPEARS FOR ESTATE.
Objects TO 100000 Request for
"Dear Little Friend"

One OF the two undivorced wives pos
sessed by Charles A. Tyrrell when he
signed his will August 2. 1915. fled no.
tice o a contest in the Surrogate's Court
yesterday. She objects. she says. to the
clause in the document which be-
queaths the resduary estate left by her
former husband to my dear little friend
Miss May Cleary," OF 1l42 Lind ave-
nue., The Bronx.
Tyrrell, who died July and who had
a large optical business at 1874 West
Sixty-hfth street. married Miss Eliza
beth Glaister in Australia thirty Ave
years ago. According to his will she dis
appeared few years later, leaving with
him their infant son Ernest A. Tyrrell
now living at Teaneck. n. J. After maxi
ing what he declares was a "diligent
search" for the missing wife and fail
ing to find her Tyrrell came to America
where he subsequently, married again.
To each of his wives Tyrrell left 500
in lieu of any possible dover rights
His optical business and other property
were given to his son. and the remainder
went to Miss Cleary. The second Mrs
Tyrrell died September 10, 1917 The
first contests the will upon the ground
that II was obtained by fraud and de-
ceit practised by the lesatee, May
Cleary." The value of the residuary es-
tate SAID to be $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
YOUTH TAKES CAR,
RUNS OVER WOMAN
Boy, Who Says He Is Son Of
New York Central Mana
ger, Is Arrested.

Anthony Justin Crowley, 81, who said
he was traffic manager for the French
High Commission and a son OF the gen.
eral manager of the New York lcentrs,
Railroad Company. was arrested at tho
Park Avenus Hotel last night and held
at the East Fifty-f1rst street station, ac.
cused with two others of having stolen
an automobile which careened wildly
through Forty second street, hitting
taxicab and then knocking down and
inturing. probably fatally. a woman WHO
was in its path in front OF the Manha..
tan Hotel.
Crowley was caught at the hotel after
the entire Police Department had re-
ceived orders to search for him He
said his father was at Saranac Lake, a.
his summer home, and pleaded with The
police to keep word OF his arrest from
his mother. who, the prisoner said. wa,
dangerously Ill. Crowley said he also
had brother who Is a Captain in the
American Army in France.
The automobile belonged to Joseph
r. Larkin Of 1852 Boulevard. Jersey City
Mr.. Larkin drove 1t up TO the Park
Avenue Hotel and left 1t in the stree.
there in charge Of Leon Jones, 10,
negro, OF 255 West 134th street. NhIa
Mr.. Larkin went into the hotel to have
dinner with his wife. Jones was talking
to W. J. .Anslow, "A chauffeur. OF $50
Amsterdam avenue, when. they said
man they knew only as "CrowIey came
out of the hotel and looked the I.arA!r
automobile over carefully.
Let's try her out, fellows" Anslop
and Jones said Crowley" suggested, ard
all three of them climbed in. Crowley
,,.la D,r
avenue and turned west into Forty.
second street. humping into the tax
cab as It swung around the corner
The taxicab wasn't damaged. but The
automobile was zigzaging wildly and
policeman called to the men IN Il 70
stop.
Instead of complying the machine sho,
ahead faster, narrowly escaping hitting
several persons crossing F'ortv-seclra
street. and finally pinning Mrs Schult
80, of 50 Amsterdam avenue. o. The
pavement directly in front ~ the Man
haitian. Even then the car did not stop,
but sped on through Forty-second stree.
Policemen along the line telephoHed de-
scriptions OF the car and detectives were
starting out 10 search for It Nher, hal
and hour after the accident, Jones aFt
Anslow drove the machine up 70 Police
man Won Holey at Forty-serond stree
and Park avenue and told him It va! he
same car that had knocked a woman
down some time before
They said Crowley" had deserted m
machine in Lexington avenue a. Forty
sixth street.
Policeman polan Of the f,ds' Ft''
first street station comma ndee.rd Rs'
Cross ambulance. which had tNn w0me'
drivers aboard. and hurried Mrs S'H'.
Ter to Flower Hospital. rNan'.rAI''
there showed her skull was fra't. Q
and she is expected to die
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
NEW LIBERTY CORN
RED. WHITE AND Blue
Jersey Farmer to Reveal
Method to Houston.

Harry Row. a we'll known farmer of
Haledon. ". j.. has succeeded in raising
corn which has red. white and blue kerr
nels and which he has called Liberty
Corn. He placed a dozen ears of Il on
exhibition in window of a Paterson
bank yesterday, He sold many dozen
more to curious visitors who hunted out
his farm, FIRST among them a number of
New Jersey farmerettes who work In
Hohokus.
Mr.. Rows father, the late John C.
Row. a prosperous harness manufac-
turer. tried for number of years to
raise the tricolored corn. but was able
10 add only the blue. His son succeeded
this year In getting In a touch Of red
Each kernel is striped with the red and
blue, which. with the white OF the kerr
mel itself, make the national colors.
He said TO inquirers that he would be
glad to explain how he succeeded in pro-
ducing the Liberty Corn II II were not
for the fact that he wants to inform rst
the Department OF Agriculture at Wash
ington, Some visitors suggested that
perhaps he treated the seed with a
coioring before he planted II, but ne de.
med this
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
Big SNAKE Unleash
STIRS COMFY ISLAND
Policeman Drags His Slippery
Prisoner Through Crowd
/ to the Station.
HIDE IS NOW ON VIEW
Formally Of Trial Denied
and Purchaser Loses His
Five Dollars.
HIDE IS NOW ON VIEW

When anything breaks loose at Coney
Island the proper thing to do rs TO TAKE
II TO the police station-whether It's
lost baby, a deserted teddy bear, or
freak escaped from one OF the SIDE
shows. The assumption Is among the
defenders off tho peace at the resort
that anything found around In an odo
moment has an owner. Which Is oy
way OF explanation OF the conduct OF
Patroman John Coffey. who was seen
in the early hours OF yesterday after
noon trying to march a snake from the
Bowery to the police headquarters,
third of a mile away.
Patrolman Coffey when first OBJ
served was marching slightly to the
fore with the snake, a fine, healthy rep
tile Ave feet long. coiiing and kissing
from the length of, a tether at the
obvious disgrace of being hailed to court.
That moment WAS not reached without
struggle. The wiggler had been
sighted In the Bowery at Seabright
Walk. where his squirmy passage had
excited a great commotion.
At the first alarm Patrolman Coffey
strobe boldly up to the visitor and de-
manded an explanation. The snake re-
piled with series of Kisses that
sounded terribly disorderly and con-
WINGED the policeman that arrest must
follow at once. He did not like the
notion of sticking up a snake with his
boot heel and his night stick was back
at headquarters waiting for night to
come.
Coffey got a yard stick from q peanut
stand and commenced to whack with
vigor at the potential prisoner. The
snake proved good dodger and the
stick broke. The. crowd of women
thinned to a respectful distance, while
the men and boys gathered round to
whoop words of encouragement to the
cop In his Ineffective battle.
Then Patrolman Coffey got the idea Of
tying up the reptile and dragging him
of to Justice.
At the station house the snake was
thrown into the back yard to await the
appearance Of an owner. Inquiry at the
various menageries at the resort failed
to reveal missing snake. and Patrol
man Coffey went back to his post.
Thereupon a man offered him IS for the
reptile. which was gladly accepted. as
1t was the day before pay day. When
the purchaser went to the station house
to claim his property it was found that
justice had already been executed and
the snake was not only dead but his
hide was hung I'D to dry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
CLAYTON DENIES GUILT.
Held in $1,000 Bail on Primary
Election Forgery.

To an indictment charging him with
forgery In the third degree by falsifying
ten names in the printed petition of
Henry Moeller, who Is fighting Jacob A.
Livingston. Commissioner OF Elections.
for State committeeman Of the Twenty
second Assembly district. John II. Clay
ton Of $50 Barley street. Brooklyn.
pleaded not guilty yesterday before
County Judge Campbell In Brooklyn and
was released In $500 bail Trial was
set for Monday.
Coincidept with Clayton's arraignment
Police Inspector Samuel McElroy an
nounced that Special Commissioner
Wanamaker had suspended Moeller as
Major OF the Police Reserves of the
Eleventh Inspection district. The charges,
1t Is said. are connected with the alleged
use Of the Reserves In getting signatures
for him.
Moeller issued a lengthy statement In
which he referred to Clayton's alleged
confession to the District Attorney and
explained that he had taken Clayton's
word as to the authenticity Of a number
OF signatures submitted by him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
B. R. T. IS NEUTRAL ON UNIONS
official Denies DISCRIMINATE
Against brotherhood.

The New York Consolidated Railroad
Company, which operates the subway
lines Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, neither opposes nor approves
the action of those OF its motormen who
Join the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers. 1t was asserted by ]. ]. Demp-
sey. vice-president. at yesterdays ses-
sion OF an inquiry into a charge of the
brotherhood that its members have been
Disseminated against. The inquiry is
being conducted by John A. Henderson
and c. b. Ogburn, examiners of the Ma
tional War Labor Board.
Mr., Dempsey declared that his COM
pany tries to get Its employees to limit
their organization allegiance to mem
bership In the company's benefit associa-
ton, but II they choose to Join the
brotherhood they are not restrained He
said that the records OF his company
showed that the eighteen motormen
whose dlsmissals since July form the
basis OF the complaint OF the brother
hood were discharged for cause and not
because they Joined the union.
Thomas F. Blewitt, division superin-
tendent OF the h. r. T. denied that he
had ever questioned motormen about
their membership in the brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
40. 900 WILL SELL
IN NEW w. S. S. DRIVE
Campaign Will Be Launched
Here Wednesday.

Another War Savings Stamp drive will
oe launched at a mass meeting In Car
nesie Hall next Wednesday evening. II
will be largely attended by the sales
men OF the city. who are to put UP a
new high record for the campaign. Ac.
cording TO announcement made yester-
day there will be between S0.00n and
10000 trained statesmen on the streets
for the new drive.
The pioneer division of the War Saw
ings Committee, composed of 100 COM
mittees in the tradee, has underwritten
$6.0oo,ooo worth Of stamps. Other Or
ganigations will bring the total to $685.
900. 600. II Is stated.
The National Council OF Travelling
Statesmen opened headquarters yesterday
at 12+6 Broadway for its drive, which
begins August 90 and will last a week.
The organization for this drive con-
sists of Charles F. Hall. chairman: ]. B.
Patton and s. L. Bernstein, vice-chair-
men; Arthur J. Levy. secretary. and
Aaron Nuemann. treasurer. The speak
ers so far announced are Tim Healy,
william Fl. Hoar and Reuben Hecht.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-16
THREE REEL MOVIE
PAPER SUIT WITNESS
Film of Industry Testifies for
the Manufacturers in Fed
eral Appeals Court.

three reel movie was the last wit
ness yesterday before the United states
Circuit Court OF Appeals in its review
Of the Federal Trade Board decision that
news print paper manufacturers may ask
a maximum price Of $50 for every ton
Of news print sold. The manufacturers
feel that they are entitled to $50 ton.
as wages. freight rates and the general
manufacturing costs have risen sharply
since the decision was rendered.
The new witness figuratively took the
stand yesterday in Room E in the Nc
Alpin Hotel before Judges Charles NJ.
Hough, Martin 7. Manton. Henry Wade
Rogers and Henry. Gailbraith Ward.
when a motion picture of the news print
industry from the cutting Of spruce In
Maine and New York to the reading of
a newspaper extra in the strets of New
York was thrown on a screen stretched
across one end Of the room.
Others who watched the testimony
were P. T. Dodge. president of the In
ternational Paper Company; c. w. Ly-
man, vice-president OF the same concern {,
R. s. Kellogg, J. NJ. Picker and A.
Curtis.
The picture opened showing snow and
spruce covered hilisides in Maine and
the Adirondacks. Then came the lumber
camps with the separate buildings half
buried under heavy drifts. and finally.
the most important building Of all, the
cook shack.
The long logs rolled and we're coaxed
down a steep hillside to a camp mill.
where they were picked up by barbed
steel rollers synchron!zed so that the
trees were fed to a circular saw at regu-
lar intervals and cut into standard
lengths.
when this saw had cut them into four
foot lengths the shorter pieces were
picked up by an endless belt and carried
to the top of a lofty incline. AS each
length reached this point It was cata-
pulled into space and whirled end over
end. to join growing mountain of Its
fellows to walt for the spring drive.
The picture later switched to the
Palmer plant Of the Interna tiona Paper
Company on the Hudson River. Here
the wood was shorn of Its bark by
knives revolving at high speed. From
the grinders emerged a pulpy fibre.
which was run over screens where dirt
was separated from the mass. This
was then fed to a machine which re-
moved large percentage of water by
suction. and then sent under roller
where more water was squeezed out.
From this roller the nearly dry fibre
was passed to another. from which 1t
was cut in regular lengths and folded
into laps" for storage.
From the digesters the pulp was fed
to, the dryers and then to the paper
machines, through which 1t ran at the
rate of 500 feet minute. After the
paper had been made into the big 900
pound rolls which are seen once in a
while near newspaper offices they were
wrapped and sealed and loaded aboard
freight cars.
The picture next showed the trucks
delivering the big rolls to a newspaper
office in New York and illustrated the
printing Of a newspaper. ending with a
close up o. an interested reader scan
ming the headlines.