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New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Suspension of Mail
Zone Rates Sought

WASHINGTON, June 21.-Newspa-
per publishers, headed by George Nc
Aneny, Of "The New York Times" vice
president of the American Newspaper
publishers Association, urged before
the House Ways and Means Committee.
at the hearing on the new war rev.
enue bill to-day, that the zone system
OF increased second class postage rates.
when goes into effect July /, be sus-
pended for at least d year.
Mr.. McAneny denied that present
second class rates constitute a news
paper subsidy, and said no need had
peen shown for an increased rate for
newspapers. He said he spoke not for
ms own newspaper, but for five hum
dred, large and small; that the pub
ilshers want Congressional co6peration
in considering the problem and are
ready, to recognize any inequalities that
may be shown.
Advertising, Mr. McAneny said, al
ready is taxed as part Of the news
papers excess profits, and any at
tempt OF newspapers to pass an adver-
tlslng postage tax on to the advertiser
would result in reduced volue of
advertising, seriously affecting both
newspapers and advertisers, cutting
down sources of tax revenue and check
ing the acceleration of business gen
orally.
He testified Advertising rates have
been raised from Is to 18 per cent since
the war began, but pointed out that in
creased cost of white print paper, the
expense bulk of the papers. has scared
from 60 to 200 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Lieut.. Simpson Held
AS Draft Obstructor

Lieutenant Oswald l.. Simpson, who
was indicted with Frank O'Neil, former
Boxing Commissioner, was arraigned
yesterday before Judge Hand in the
Federal District Court and pleaded not
guilty to charge of conspiring to OBJ
struct the operation of The selective
service regulations. He was released
in $4,000 bail.
According to the prosecutor, Assist
ant Federal Attorney G. w. Taylor,
Simpson, with O'Neif, Lieutenant Le-
land A. Mitchell, of the quartermaster's
department. at Camp Upton, E. Fl. Cole
and Samuel Reichback conspired to OBJ
tain money from men of draft age on
the East Side by telling them they
could obtain their release from the
army or have them placed in the quar-
termaster's corps, where they would not
be forced 10 fight.
O'Neil appeared before Judge Learn
ed Hand yesterday, when the grievance
committee of the Bar Association re-
ported on his case. He said he would
not dispute the charges and would ac-
cept disbarment.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Senate Agricultural Com
mittee Decides to Summon
Cabinet Members
Schwab To Be Heard
Randall Charges Democratic
Plot to Postpone Action
on Prohibition
Especial Dispatch to The 7ribune)

WASHINGTON, June 21.-Wet and
dry members Of President Wilson's
Cabinet will be pitted against each
other before the Senate Agricultural
Committee, if members of that com
mittee carry out plans they discussed
to-day. Albert S. Burleson, Postmaster
General, will be summoned as the lead
er OF the vets, partly as result of
his appeals on behalf, supposedly of
the Administration, for the committee
to drop the prohibition amendment.
Secretary Daniels will be summoned
as the leader of the drys
Mr.. Daniels will no doubt be we'll
fortified with prohibition arguments,
as he conferred moro than two hours
last night with William j. Bryan.
Besides deciding to hear the two
Cabinet members, the Agriculture Com
mittee voted to request the presence of
Chairman Edward N. Hurley, of the
Shipping Board, for whom cambridge
Colby recently urged the committee
not to approve the Jones dry amend
AiSAes anu dIeO 0lIcCtVI GcueIdl
Charles M. Schwab, of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation.
The Jones amendment, now under
consideration, forbids the sale of dis
titled liquor and the making of wine
and beer during the war. Representa-
tive Randall, of California, whose orig
inal amendment forbidding brewing
and wine making during the war was
killed by letters from the President and
Food Administrator Hoover, to-day is
sued statement charging the Demo
cratic party was in a conspiracy, the
principal object Of which was to win
the elections
II have received confirmation" said
Mr.. Randall, through confidential
sources, that high authority in the
Democratic party has planned to post
until after the election. Ny amend
ment to the food bill has precipitated
situation in the Administration which
is properly described as pandemonium
"The party in power is threatened by
the liquor interests in the large cities
with loss of the next House if prohibi-
tion is enacted now. On the other
hand, failure to act is sure to cost the
Democrats a score of country districts
"This matter was discussed last night
at secret conference. l am sorry to
say there were present some of the
most famous Democratic prohibition
lists in the United States" .-,s
1t could not. be learned if Mr.. Ran
dali had reference to the meeting at
the La Fayette Hotel in which Mr.
Bryan and Secretary Daniels partici-
pated,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
500 Insurance
Agents i'm Union,
Says Organizer
Garhnkel Declares Mem
bership Will Reach at
Least $3.50

Arrangements for agents who make
the industrial collections for the big
insurance companies, which specialize
in these policies, to hold meeting to
discuss grievances against their en-
ployers and lay plans to organize a
union, are being made by Assemblyman
Charles B. Garfnkel 800 Fox Street,
The Bronx.
In face of the published announce
ment that agents of the John Hancock
Insurance Company had held sepa-
rate meeting to start strike move
ment of their own, a home Office Off
cial of the company yesterday said the
company knows of no dissatisfaction
among its agents.
Says Five Hundred Are Enrolled
Assemblyman Gariinkel, who is di-
recting the movement toward organic
ing the agents, last night said:
Give hundred agents of the three
companies, the Metropolitan, the Pru-
Dental and the John Hancock, have
become members. They each mailed
81, the initiation fee: to ME. and will
pay Is cents a week. There are $500
agents in this city. and l expect to OBJ
tain 80 per cent membership before
organizing the union.
Several small meetings have been
held already, but our general meeting
will not be for few days.
"The men have no intention of strik-
ing, but simply desire to place them
selves in position to force the COM
panies to grant better working condi-
TONS"
The Hancock official declared his
company will ignore the reported ac-
tion of its agents until they announce
dissatisfaction with present conditions.
Ten Per Cent Wage Raise
"The Intelligencer," the Metropolitan
Company's magazine, in a recent issue,
quotes Haley Fiske, the company's vice
president, at considerable length on
the alleged dissatisfaction of it's agents
because they had not been granted an
increase in wages similar to that given
by the Prudential Company recently.
The magazine quotes Mr.. Fiske as
saying: "In 1917 the agents were paid
S238 d week more than before. That
was 10 per cent raise right there. Do
the agents know that? Ii they don't
know that it is your fault Tor not tell
ing them.
"If you have kicking agent tell him
that an increase of 10 per cent has
been made to his income during the
last year."
Mr.. Fiske could not be reached at his
Office or by telephone, his secretary
reported.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Testimony Of CLANCY and
Humphrey Relates Chiefly
to Personal Honesty
Trial in Fourth Week
Defendant Admits Prospectus
Claims Of Auto Company
Were Overdrawn

The second day of the defence in the
trial of the Emerson Motors case, now
in its fourth week before Judge Mar
tin T. Manton in the United States Dis
trict Court here, passed with the nam
story set up by the government still
largely unchallenged.
In the cases of both o. e. Chaney,
stockbroker, and Henry B. Humphrey,
Boston advertising man, who between
them took up the bulk of the day on
the stand, IL was the legitimacy of
their own connection with the Emerson
enterprise rather than the soundness
of that enterprise itself which their
testimony sought to establish.
Mr.. CLANCY said he had come on to
New York from the Coast after cor
respondence with the defendant, N. F.
Wilson. At first Wilson had set him
to selling Federal Aircraft stock. Fed
eral Aircraft, however, did not soar so
high as they had hoped it would. he
intimated, and 80, in the course of time,
after conferences with Mr.. Wilson, Mr..
Campbell and others, he undertook the
Emerson proposition.
Owned Two Emerson Cars
Mr.. CLANCY testified that before he
took up stock selling he was news
paper employe. In the course of his
campaign with the Emerson shares, he
declared, he himself owned two Emer-
son fours, both of which took the
road, one of them getting as far rs
Texas.
On cross-examination, however, James
w. Osborne, I'd, Assistant United States
Attorney, brought out the fact that
Chaney's investigation of the lNactica-
bility of the Emerson automobile as a
1896 selling proposition had been COM
paratively superficial. Mr.. Osborne led
the witness through description of
the Ford plant, which the latter said
admission that comparison Of it with
the plant" of the Emerson people at
Kingston, N. Y, scarcely justified the
Emcrsonian advertising claims that
they were going to produce automobiles
to rival Ford
Mr.. Humphreys examination was still
incomplete when court adjourned last
night. 1t will be continued when the
trial is resumed at 9:45 o'clock this
Hired Own Investigator
1u1 ittS MS oLhy Oi tuS SLdHu vi
Humphrey was emphatic in declaring
that the unfavorable report on the EN-.
crson concern which it has been proved
was submitted to him before he, under
took to handle Emerson advertising
copy seemed to him to be based on
mere hearsay and rumor He hired
William A. Morgan, the defendant in
this case, for whom a verdict of ac-
quttal has been directed, to investi
gate subsequently, he said, because Mr.
Morgan was a man in whom he had
confidence, based on his long expert.
ence in the work. Mr.. Morgan turned
in favorable report, which, Mr.. Hum.
phrey swore, satisfied him Of its au
theuticty.
Mr.. Humphrey said he had been ir
the advertising business for thirty
years, and Don c. Seitz, of "The New
York World" and Louis Wiley, Of "The
New York Times" both took the stant
as character witnesses in his behalf.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Refused Warrant for
War Benefit Manager

Assistant District Attorney Daniel
Direnzo applied to Magistrate McGee-
han yesterday, in the Yorkville police
court, for a warrant for the manager
of the benefit entertainment sta ged in
Madison Square Garden on Thursday
evening by the War Hospital Enter
tainment Association. The Assistant
District Attorney said that three de-
tectives had seen boxing at the enter
tainment, although they were re-
strained from taking action by an in
junction obtained by the organization.
Il was there myself among the good
people," said Magistrate Mcclellan,
"and ! was glad to be there. 1t was
very fine tribute to the city and the
affair was for noble cause. l saw
nothing illegal and l will not order an
arrest or interfere with the opinion of
Supreme Court Justice Guy, who sane
toned the entertainment by a court
order"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Draft Evader Gets
366 Days in Prison

Russell Storey Huhley. Of 11s West
Seventy-second Street, was sentenced
to serve one year and one day in the
Atlanta Pententiary yesterday by
Judge Augustus Hand in the Criminal
Branch of the Federal District Court,
when he pleaded guilty to having per-
jured himself when he filed his ques-
tionnaire. He is the first man con-
victed of violation of the sclective SER
vice regulations TO be sent to Atlanta
from the New York District.
Hubley is an actor. He registered on
June 5, 1917, with Local Board 1853.
When he was caAcd to tiic his ques-
tionnaire he claimed that he had wife
dependent on him and asked to be put
in a class with married men. To sup
port his claim, Edna Clarke, with whom
he had been living, signed a supporting
affidavit Investigation proved that he
was not married to Miss Clarke, but
that he had been married in 1906 to
Marion Taylor, an actress, from Scran-
ton.
The case was brought to the atten-
tion of Assistant Federal Attorney
Ralph Horne, who secured indictments
against Hubley and Miss Clarke. The
woman was indicted for conspiring with
him and will be tried next week.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
House Passes Bill
To Deport Anarchists

WASHINGTON, June 21.-Without
dissenting vote the House to-day
passed and sent to the Senate the alien
anarchist deportation bill, authorizing
immediate deportation Of aliens sub
scrlbing in whole or in part to the
tenets Of anarchism.
The measure amends the immigra-
tion laws SO as to remove the limita
tion on the power of the immigration
authorities to deport an alien after
five years residence.
During the debate on the bill, Repre-
sentative Robbins, of Pennsylvania,
urged the death penalty for German
sympathizers and propagandists In this
country. In the first year the United
States was in the war, he said, there
we're fSs fires and explosions. with a
total loss OF $43,000,000. caused by
enemies Of our government"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22

pharmacists employed in wholesale and
retail drug establishments, and does
ers, delivery drivers, electricians, en-
gineers, carpet layers, upholsterers.
nor any employe doing heavy work
outside the usual duties Of clerks
However, sales clerks and other
clerks inc.ude the clerical force in
the office and in all departments Of
stores and mercantile establishments.
The words Stores and other mercantile
establishments include both Wholesale
and retail stores and mercantile cs-
Establishments engaged in selling goods
and wares"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Allied Day at Food Show
Varied Programme Arranged for
Visitors To-day

This is Allied Day at the Conserve
tion Food Show in the Grand Central
Palace. There will be speakers repre-
senting Great Britain, France and Bel
glum. The Stage Women's War Re-
lief will give two performances of a
playlet. Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls will visit the show.
Arthur Williams, city food admins.
traitor, was the pricipal speaker yes
terday. Blanche. Bates appeared to
play with Holbrook Blinn in pisylet
entitled Food" only to learn that Mr..
blinn's food" hadn't agreed with him.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Judge Snitkin
And Two Guilty in
Draft Conspiracy

INDIANAPOLIS, June 21.-Following
the announcement of q verdict of
guilty this afternoon against Leonard
A. Snitkin, Municipal Court Judge
in New York, his brother, Maurice L.
Snitkin, and A. Joseph Schur, both of
Indianapolis, Of conspiracy to obstruct
the operation of the draft law, Judge
A. B. Anderson, of the United States
District Court, said sentences would
be passed later.
The Snitkins and Schur were found
guilty Of conspiring to obtain exemp-
tion for A. Max Swartz, of New York,
by arranging for him to come to In
dianapolis for examination before a
local conscription board, where Schur
acted as government appeal agent.
In his instructions to the jury Judge
Anderson informed them that the only
question they were to consider was
whether Judge Leonard Snitkin was a
member of the conspiracy. He declared
that although Schur pleaded not guilty
he took the witness stand for the gov
ernment and admitted his guilt The
fact that Maurice Snitkin's attorney
made no effort to defend him was prac-
tically admission o. guilt, he said
There can be only two possible verdicts
in this case, the judge declared, after
explaining the law on conspiracy cases,
one that they all three were guilty and
the other that two were guilty and one
not guilty.
Judge snitkin denied he was a party
to any such conspiracy as Schur de-
scribed on the witness stand. His
lawyers explained kilograms identi-
fled by Schur rs dealing with the
negotiations by saying some one else
had used Judge Snitkins's name
Schur went on the witness stand for
the government and explained how the
alleged conspiracy was formed.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
$175,000 Gift for Convent
James Butler to Present Tarrv.
town Property to Marymount

Three properties in Tarrytown,
owned by the estate of Sarah Hermann.
were purchased yesterday by James
Butler, vino will present them to Mary
mount Convent, which was established
several years ago by him as a me-
mortal to his wife. The convent con-
ducts school for girls and is under
the supervision of the religious order
Of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
The Hermann properties are valued
at about $4,000. They comnrise
elaborate country dwellings,, formerly.
the homes of the late Ferdinand Her.
mann and his two daughters, at Castle
Ridge.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
277 Grammar Grade Men
Sought for Army Glasses

ALBANY, June 21.-A call for TT
grammar school graduates with either
mechanical aptitude or experience to
volunteer for training to fit them fo1.
special branches of service in the army
was made tonight by Adjutant General
Charles H. Sheriff..
About five hundred will be sent to
New York University and the rest to
Mechanics Institute. Rochester. Vol
untcers will be accepted until July 20
when, It necessary, the quotas will be
filled by the draft boards. Men who
registered June 5, 1918, will not be
eligible, under the call, it was an.
nounced
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Three Women Claim Him
George Won Auer Is Arraigned
ON a Charve of Rigamy

Three women were watchfully wait
ing in the Morrisania police court yes
terday when George Won Auer, loco
motive engineer, was arraigned on a
charge of bigamy. They described
Won Auer, Mrs. Hetwig Boyer Won Auer
and Mrs. Josephine Semmiler almost
Won Auer.
According to their accounts, the first
was married to the engineer on May
ID, lent him money and lost him; the
second was married to him on May 6,
drank cup of tea and woke up to find
bridegroom and $160 gone, and the
third was to have married him on
March %, but also fell asleep unac-
countably, to discover after awakening
that Won Auer and $257 had gone.
Letters from several other women
were said to have been found in the
prisoners trunk,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Snitkin Long Identified
With Tamn,a11v Affairs

Judge Snitkin has long been a fa-
miliar figure in Tammany affairs on
the East Side. Fifteen years ago he
was frequently engaged in defending
criminals in the police courts.
In 1909 he was nominated by Tam
many for the Municipal Court bench.
Three years later charges were lodge d
against him with the grievance com
mtteo of the Bar Association and his
removal was asked. These charges
were based on language he was said
to have applied to n landlord and his
counsel in an eviction case. The
charges were dismissed. His term on
the bench was for ten years and does
not expire until December 81. 1919
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Police School Suspends
Closed Until End of War, Says
Commissioner Enripht

Thirty-nine young policemen, who
have been attending the police training
school the last three months, were
sworn In to the denartment yesterday.
Incidentally Police Commissioner En-
right announced that there would be
no more training school work done un-
til the close of the war
The graduating exercises were at.
tended by more than 1000 relatives
and friends OF the young officers. In
presenting them with their patrolmen,s
badges, Commissioner Enright smoke
briefly of their new onsibilities and
promised that real merit would win
them promotion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
FIsH-ESPECIALLY BLUEFlSH

The fish market continues in excellent condition
Porgies, founders mackerel and bass all plentiful
Porges selling for H. Is and 18 cents bass whole
sailing from to 1919 cents and retailing for Is to 1S cents
Founder and uke are very cheap whoesang for to c
and retailing for 10 to Is cents Mackere may be had for bp
rs cents. The wholesale price is II to is cents.
There have been bluefsh Some pessimisc souls NV
yenure to prophesy that there would be any more M
fish that they practically extinct Early Friday mor
small shipment of buesh arrived and sold for 35 to 38 e
wholesale Later in the day 5000 pounds of buesh came
unexpectedly and the wholesale price promptly droppeo
rs % cents This that this lot could be sold Tor o.
RETAIL the very amount that the fish dealer who boug
hours earlier paid for his fish at the wharf, This bluen
story shining example Of the ups and downs and
Of food prices which look to the buyer but
sadly obvious to the behind the
Whoa market aud conditions based primary ,y Sai
Agricltye the retail arkef M
special conditions prepared collaboration Hfa W
York Federal Food Board) gssssa%S
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Threatened by
Fire in Ammonia Plant

MOUNT KISCO, N. Y, June 2l.-The
explosion. of an ammonia plant in tho
armory building early this evening
started a fire which threatened for
time to spread through the business
section of the village. The firemen
finally confined the flames to the one
building. The loss will amount to more
than $4,000
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22

Gu. S. Food Administration License G-67333)
The following prices offered to the members of the Con-
sumers' Clubs
Best grade of fresh eggs canded for quality 43 cents
aret eggs canded for spoiage only AZ cents) Saving
cents a dozen superior quality.
Extra quality creamery butter prints SO cents slightly
lower grade of tub butter is quoted at 81 the market
Other products
Prunes, in 25- pound packages large Is cents small
cents Saving to 8 cents pound
Beans dried lmas in 5pound packages, Is cents pink
BEANS which substitute for the navy bean worth 9 cents for
II cents pound.
Telephone Mornngsde 7794-7ss5 or BITS to give your
order.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Newbury to Remain i'm Race
For Michigan Senatorsh;n

DETROIT: June 2l.-The camna;cn
TO secure for Truman Fl. Newberrv the
Republican nomination for United
States Senator to succeed William Al
den Smith will not be interrupted bv
recent political developments in Michi.
gan.
>, This was announced to-day by Paul
n, King, executive chairman of the
Ncwberry committee.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
Brooklyn Soldiers Sentenced

. SPARTANBURG. S. c., June 21.--
Sentences Of one year in prison, at hard
labor have been given two Brooklyn
aoldiers-Privates Walter Miller and
Martin Kelly. Of the sad pionesrs Infan-
without leave.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
200 Boys Wanted for Camp

The Junior Training Camp. Associa-
s.!on, Of 25a Broadway, still hos room
for about 200 boys ut Camp John
Pershing, which will open IN Rockland
Lake Park on July /.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-22

(Ths market colamn appears on Saturdays.
The Arvada enterprise., 1918-05-16
CROP OF WINTER WHEAT
EeTiMATED ONE OF Largest
EVER PRODUCED.
Department Of Agriculture Predicts
Production Of s72.s3e. 900 Bushels
Big Crop Of Rye.

Washington.-A winter wheat crop
Of 1855, 900 bushels was forecast by
the Department Of Agriculture. basing
It's estimates ON conditions existing
May 1. and ON . canvass Of the acre.
age. With continued favorable con-
ditious the crop will be one Of the
largest ever grown.
The area of winter wheat On May
1 was 36. &c., 900 acres. The condition
Of the crop was 1914 per. cent Of nor
NAL. indicating an acre yield Of sp-
proximately 1877 bushels.
Stocks Of hay on farms May 1 are
estimated at 11.O9e,O0O tons. Aver.
ags condition Of pastures was 1871 per
cent Of . normal; spring blowing was
IT'S per cent completed. and spring
planting COS per cent.
Production Of rye. forecast from
May / conditions, will be $3.50 900
bushels. based on . condition Of S5.S
per cent Of normal.
Production Of hay will be lot $780,
900 tons. based on . condition of 1915
per cent Of normal. and an expected
acreage of 1851 900 acres. of which
53.606.0OO IL tame and l5.s26.O00 wild.