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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1918-12-02
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San Gntoniu, 2. 9e3ember, f9tS.--
aartoffeIu. Gal, 1926.
SiBfartoffeln. Gam. $40.
33piebefn, California 8bite. $500;
California Yeaotp, $4.25.
Somnten, Gal, $3.50.
Sohueu. COLORADO. Yinto. pei 9fn
1915; California 8appus, per cfpt..
5000; Ginfs, $3.50, Gina, $t4.50;
@abp, $14.00; 8(adepes, $500.
Stride String Senns, $1.75 Ii. $500.
aobl, $500 unb 1926 Der 100 8fo.
0rilner 1feffer. $500 per 9ufdel.
8aoies6eu. SOC per 9bb. @iinoeI.
Weerretttg>B uraeiu. per Bfo. 1874
@urfen, 90e per 9bo.
Grbien, Der fleiner Crate. $500.
8eeten, $3.50 Der 100 8haub.
aopfialat, $500 uuo 1926 per Crate.
9eteriilie. SOC per 9bo. e@iitsef.
YfirIide, $1.65 uno S1.75 Der Crate.
gelbe 8nroeln. $500 Der 100 8fb.
Gierpflan5en, $3.50 Der 8uSdeI.
Miiben, $500 per 100 Rfuu6.
Gauni6. $3.50 per SuiheG.
gnnteloupes, 81 SO.
Spirmt, $1.75 Der Camper.
Crime @rhfen. $4.0n per 5nrnnr,
Seaerie. Colorado. Sf.25 per Crate.
8ieb-Marft.
Gan autonio, 2. 0e8ember, 19t8.-
aiibe. 1925 bis S7.75.
\ 8dlber, $3.50 bis S12.tO.
Odien, $3.50 bis $3.50.
sdpeine. $14.00 biz $f7,85.
Ct. 2ouis, 2. 9e5ember. 19tS.
Rinopie6. 2eres@Odfen $40 bic sis.
Sdtpeine. $t4.00 biz $3.50.
Teue.
28olf nnb Studs -. 49,. 30 gts.
Angcras 3iegerl. per 8fb. 10 cts.
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1918-12-02
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New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Two Convicted in
Liberty Bond Plot

TRENTON. n. j., Sept. 2o.-Otto
Bruno Reichclt and Frederick w.
Blschoff were convicted to-day in the
United States District Court here Of
conspiracy to violate the espionage act
Their plan. which was concocted in
a room in the Robert Treat Hotel in
Newark. involved the distribution in
$50 cities of patent bill folders and
envelopes for Liberty bonds, both Of
which were to be crammed with
stories derogatory to the character of
American Red Cross nurses and Ameri-
can soldiers returning from Europe
Relchelt is said to have been the
head of the conspiracy, and Federal de-
tcctives are still tracing his past
career for clews to other activities. He
IS said to have influenced Bischoff by
lending him money to set up dentist s
establishment which Bischoff found it
Impossible to repay at the time set
Rclchclt is a patent attorney of New
ark.
Although he is believed to have beer
a secondary figure in the plot to viify
Rcd Cross nurse and soldiers, Bischoff
stands IN Jeopardy on another serious
charge and will be brought to trial on
it Tuesday. He is one of the men ar
rested last July as. it is charged, they
were about to place a lighted bomb in
the Gould e. Eberhart munition plant
at lrvington. n. J.
The dynamiters' attempt was frus-
trated at the last moment bv a gov
ernment agent who, in the guise of a
German baron, had participated in
their councils and accompanied them
Cn the bombing expedition
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Army Investigator
Admits Withholding
Rai17coat Case Data

Sergeant Herman II. Cohen, Of the
Military Intelligence Service. was the
leading witness for the prosecution
yesterday in the trial of Captain Au-
brey w. Vaughan, Of the Quartermas-
ter's Department.; David Podell, an
attorney, and Felix Gouled, an alleged
contingent fee man, who are being
tried in the Federal District Court on
charges of conspiring to defraud the
United States on raincoat contracts
Cohen said that prior to the entrance
OF the United States into the war he
was in business as the Paramount
Trading Company in this city, and had
obtained contracts for all sorts of sup
plies from the national, state and mu-
nicipal governments. After being re-
jectcd at an officers training camp be-
cause of physical disability he became
a civilian investigator for the Army
Intelligence Service In the course of
his investigation of the raincoat scan
dal he made reports to his superiors
on Felix Gouled, who he had known
since June, 1917.
He said that, although he made re-
ports to Captain Houghton at Fort Tot
ten on Gouled, he failed to inform him
that he was still introducing manu-
facturers to Goulcd for private bust
ness purposes. He further admitted to
Prosecutor Bordcau that he had with
held that information from the grand
jury.
The trial will be continued on Mon
day, when Captain Vaughan. who has
confessed his part in the conspiracy
will. appear as a witness for the gov
ernment
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Dutch to Get
Food If Ship
Embargo Lifts
State Department Says Hol.
land Failed to Accept
Offer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-The acqui-
escence of the Netherlands government
in German threats which keep 10000
tons of Dutch shipping idle in port
while the people of Holland suffer for
want Of the food these vessels might
bring is commented upon in a state
ment issued to-day by the State De-
partment to clear up misrepresentation
as to the attitude of the United States
toward exports to Holland.
The department expresses the hope
that the Netherlands government will
hit the embargo on the movement of
its ships, which constitute the only
considerable unit of idle neutral tom
mage. and III effect gives notice that
appeals for American foodstuf's wltl
be in vain until Holland fellows the
example of the scandinavian countrie q
Switzerland and Spain and enters intc
equitable agreements with the United
States and the Allies.
The State Departments statement
in part, follows:
ut has always been. and still is. tnt
desire of the United States government
that the resources Of the United States
in so far as they can be spared from
purposes essential to the successful
prosecution of the war. be made avail
able under proper safeguards to neu
tral countries, in order to assist then
in the maintenance Of their economic
life.
1T has been the hope of this gov
ernment that an arrangement could bs
reached by the War Trade Board will
the Netherlands authorities similar t,
those reached with other neutrals sim
larly situated, whereby imports from
the United States to the Netheriand
might be permitted An understandin,
was, as is known, tentatively reache,
IN London in January of the currcn
year pursuant to which the Unite,
states and the Allied government
would have Facilitated the import t
the Netherlands of ample amounts o
those supplies which were Judged es
sential for the economic life of tha
country. This arrangement failed t.
receive the assent of the Netherland
authorities.
he War Trade Board of the Unite,
States has at all times been ready. il
/ conjunction with the authorities of tn
Aimed governments. alrd on REASONABLE
condltions' to conform to an arrange
ment similar to that which failed O
approval, taking into account sucl
changes as may have since occurred il
the positions Of the several countrie
concerned with respect to their need
j and their supplies
Referring to the offer OF 100, 900 ton
OF foodstuffs unconditionally. and tn
mai movement of half of that amount
the statement adds
The balance, largely in the Argen
tine. remains unified now for nearl,
SIX months, because Of acquiescence il
the position of Germany, which, Will
receiving from the Netherlands larg
amounts OF foodstuils. at the sam
time threatened with destruction Dutcl
vessels which might be sent even t
another neutrai country to lift grail
for the Dutch neonle.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
French-Russian Pact
Was for Defence Only

PARIS, Sept. 20.-Document estab-
fishing the pacific and purely defensive
nature of the alliance between France
and Russia are published in the Yellow
Book, distributed in the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday. The early nego-
tiations showed that both Emperor
Alexander of Russia and General Bois-
deffre, the French representative, in
sisted upon the pacific character of the
convention.
Emperor Alexander hesitated some
what at the outset, fearing that parti-
sans, out of revenge for the war of
1870, might preclpitate a new conflict
The first conversations becoming known
in Berlin, the German Emperor became
concerned. He is reported in one doe
ument as "regretting not having at
tackled France in 1887.
VI. Montebello, the French Ambassa-
dor to Russia, finally announced the
agreement in dispatch to NJ. Ribot
Foreign Minister, on March 6, 1892
saying. "the principle of reciprocal as
slstance and simultaneous mobilization
is accepted" 1t was stipulated that
France and Russia would mobilize thei,
forces only if the triple alliance mobil-
ized first.
The convention was finally concluded
on December 18, 1898, and was preced-
ed by the famous reception to the Rus.
sian marines in Paris
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Held for Cheating u. S.

Eleven men were held for the grand
jury, or for examination, yesterday by
United States Commissioner in
Brooklyn on charges of cheating or at
tempting to cheat the government, and
two others were sentenced to three
months for stealing cloth from the
government factory in which they were
employed
One OF the men held was Solomon
Rosenberg. manager of Hyman Finkel-
stein Co., shirt makers. He is ac-
cused Of offering bribes to govern
ment Inspector. Five employees of the
Bush Terminal Company were held for
the alleged theft OF time, it being al
legged tnat they punched themselves in
and out on the time clock within a
few minutes and collected a days pay
Five others, some of them employees
OF the Coastwise Lumber Company
were held for the alleged theft of $50
600 worth Of beverage alcohol in the
custody Of that company en- route to
ltCIv
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Austrian Peace Offer An
,vered by $s, 900, 900, 900
War Levy Measure
Liberty Bonds Free
From Indirect Tax
Amount of Exemption to
Salaried Professionals
Is Increased
By Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-With a
shout Of triumph the House at sos
this afternoon passed the greatest
revenue bill in history, designed to
raise by taxation approximately
ss1SsOoO 900. by vote of 35 to 0. To
,araphrase the words of Representative
Nicholas Longworth in giving the bill
It's yalodictory, it was the unanimous
answer of the representatives of the
American people to the Austrian peace
note,
"Without any important amendment
and with less than twenty -four
hours OF actual debate" said
Mr. Longworth to the House,
Just before the vote was taken,
I'VE are about to pass the mightiest
revenue bill in history. and we are
doing it without subjecting business to
& burden under which it cannot at
least stagger along, though l confess
It is very near the breaking point. l
vas delighted to see Secretary Nc
Adoo's statement that the Treasury
would be satisfied with no addition to
the burden at present. for when addi-
tional taxes are levied they will have
to be in the form of consumption taxes.
This bill, whatever its faults, is based
on the theory of taxing those who can
best pay, and it has carried out the
theory. A consumption tax will neces-
state the abandonment of that theory
and force the rich and the poor to pay
alike.
Peace Proposal Answered
THE news that We have voted to
raise eight billions of dollars by taxa
tion will be welcome news to our brave
allies and sad news for the Kaiser. 1t
will show the Kaiser that the Ameri-
can heart is bent in the prosecution OF
the war to finish. 1t is the best an
swer the American Congress could give
TO the whining Austrian peace note II
notifies Burian that we purpose to deal
with the head and not with the tail OF
the German dachshund."
Though the vote was unanimous
representative j. Hampton Moore, of
Pennsylvania, fought to the last for his
idea OF committee on expenditures
lie mad sought twice to secure the
adoption OF his amendment for such a
committee. Ruled out of order on an
amendment proposing a joint Congress
slonal committee on expenditures in
general, he came back with one TOR a
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Transfer of Privates to
"Soft Berths" Is Halted

WASulNGTON, Sept 20.-To stop
indiscriminate transfers of enlisted
men from one duty to another the
War Department to-day ordered that
enlisted men may no longer apply for
transfers and that officers shall not
request by name the transfer of en-
listed men except for potent reasons.
Transfers Will be made in the future.
the department ordered. after requisi-
tions, calling for men Of certain quail
tications have been made. The men
will be selected by the personnel ad-
.jutant, who will be able, from the oual-
itication records kept of each soldier.
TO select the men best adapted for the
work.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
$4,000 Members of
Students Corps to
Go in Navy Service

Special Dispatch to The Tribmc)
WASHINGTON. Sept 10. The navy
viii receive $4,000 men of draft age
for service as seamcn and its require
ments for technical men will be met
DN releasing as many men as required,
according to an agreement made yes
terday between the War Department
and the Navy Department.
Under the new plan, the recruiting
Offices of the navy will be turned into
mobilization stations and special naval
inspectors will pick out the men best
suited for the demands of the service.
Those selected, if they pass the enlist
ment requirements of the navy. will be
certified to the genera mobilization
officers IN Washington, who in turn will
request the provost marshal general
20 instruct the local boards in whose
jurisdiction the selected men are To-
Gated TO certify them TO the navy
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Brooklyn Soldier, Victim
Of German Bomb, Buried

The BODY Of Private Thaddeus West
cott Phelan, j., of the American Am
bulance Corps, who died on Ellis Isl
and from wounds received in France,
was buried yesterday from the home
OF his parents, PAT Gates Avenue,
Brooklyn
Private Phclan sailed for France in
December and had been at work di-
rectly behind the lines for several
months when wounded in May by a
bomb dropped from German aero
plane. He was sent back to the United
States in the hope that the change
might save his life, but he died in the
hospital few days ago.
mtermont was in Mount Olivet Gem
ctery, where men from the 18th Heavy
Artillery .ircd a Vollcy over his grave
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
No "Slackerism" at
Hog Island or Any
Yard, Says SchlUab

Charles NJ. Schwab, Director of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, in a
statement last night to The Tribune.
denied the charges of "slackersm" that
have been brought against the working
forces at Hog Island.
"lnstead of slowing up, as reported.
the men are increasing their pace every
day. Mr.. Schwab Stated. ~ spend a
great deal Of my time at the Hog Isl
and yard, and |, for one, think that the
great maj ority of the workers are put
ting forth their best efforts. We will
deliver our first ship this month. and
when YOU consider that the great plant
has been built and set into operation,
huge laboring force assembled and
trained, all in a year. the record doesn't
seem so bad
There are slasckers, OF course. In a
force of this size you'll naturally find
a few. When we discover them we kick
them out.
"As sort of a sporting proposition.
set forty eight ships as high mark to
shoot at for the first of the year. 1t
was an impossible number, and at the
reach such a goal. AS q matter of fact
we won't. But the men are going to
make good on a reasonable quantity Of
production.
What | say about Hog Island applies
TO all other shipyards under our di-
rection. have just finished a two
days inspection of yards around New
York City Downey's yard. on Shoot
ers Island. for instance, will deliver
ship IN October, In almost record time
from the laying of the keel. The Stand
ard yard and others also seem to be
working at toDmast speed
In answer TO criticisms, | might add
that we have exceeded our schedules
by many tons for every month we've
been building. Well continue to do so.
and we've set rapidly increasing ratio
Of future DrOductiOr -
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
VIII Aids jeremiah O'Leary
Mrs. Mertensen Leaves Ac-
cused 500 for Legal Expenses

One hundred dollars toward defray-
ing the legal expenses of Jeremiah A.
o'Leary. indicted and awaiting trial for
violating the espionage act, is one of
the bequests in the will of Mrs Cath
erin Marie Caroline Mertensen, filed
yesterday in the Surrogates' Court.
The testatriX died July 10 at the Ger
man Hospital. She executed her will
five days before her death
Mrs. Mertensen said in her will that
She had $4,000 marks on deposit in
Leipsig. of which she gave 5000 marks
to two German towns. for the benefit
OF the widows, blind and crippled SOL
diers. and old and feeble persons living
In those towns. The $10O for the
O'Learv defence fund is to come out
of $1,000 which Mrs. Mertensen had on
deposit with the German Savings Bank
OF this city. To the Waltburg Orphan
Asylum, Mount Vernon, she left $l50;
the German Odd Fellows Home, Yonk-
ers. S300 the children's department.,
German Hospital, 5000 and the Nurses
Aid Society of the same hospital, 5000.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
All Nation, s Shipyards To Be
Purged of industrial .Sldckers

forth, proved that they were there for
other reasons.
The last-named group were all in the
ages of the first draft, and but for the
exemption granted them as necessary
workers would long since have been
inductcd into the army.
Among these workers is a thriving
colony of actors. Pugilists. profess
sonal ball players and petty politicians
from cities and towns in all parts of
the East are said to be numbered
Stories were told by workmen of
we'll dressed youths who report at the
gates mornings wearing kid gloves
and swinging canes, and who go home
nights untouched by the expected
stains of toll. These men earn wages
of from 81 to So day, and in a great
many instances perform work that is
usually done by boys, laborers state.
Ofiiclals declare that the high wages
enable men to earn enough in three or
four days to support themselves for a
week, and that the payrolls show a
large daily list Of absentces. Laborcrs
also, it is said. quit the plant on slight
provocation, knowing that they can
easily find employment elsewhere
Petty Politics Blamed
Labor leaders have charged that
petty politics and graft have enabled
many inexperienced workmen to obtain
positions in the yard, while skilled
artisans are being drafted in numbers
The skilled shipbuidcrs arc said to be
greatly discontentcd with the condi-
tons, and have asked to have the
"slackcrs" combed out of their ranks.
Admiral Bowles denied that politics
or graft enabled workmen to secure
employment mo doubt there are
many draft dodgers here" he said
but am sure that they obtained their
Jobs by the obvious method Of apply
ing TOR them and not through any un-
due influence with the under bosses.
When we find slackcrs we shall turn
them out Of the plant at once and allow
the draft to take it's natural course"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21

This table shows that in this batch
of 1926 leather coats only O44 per cen.
were found to be fit for use by the
American aviators. The inspection of
the other products of the plant brought
about the same results. Inspectors
working on the inspection of spiral
puttees reported the first day that ONLY
pair Of puttees was found perfect out
OF i51 rairs examined. The second day
l6l were inspected and accepted and
on the third day only 10 pairs were
accented out of 164 inspected.
Rosenwasser States Position
Morris Rosenwasser yesterday made
the following statement to Commits
sioner Reifschneider
For twenty years we have main
tanned unbroken relations with the
United States government and estab-
lished and maintained record OF
which we are justly proud. We can
refer to the various departments of
the army and navy, which Will, I am
sure, testify to the high character OF
our work.
w Z nave ItCtlNcU from tnp army
commendation for the shoes we have
made. Almost 100 per cent of our
product has been at the command of
the government. Before to-day no one
ever questioned our high standing. We
are sure that these charges will fall OF
their own weight
The raid made yesterday seems to
me. was OF the moving picture order
and was entirely uncalled for. The
concern has always. and is. willing to
produce what records and information
are needed by the government.
1--WE want an early trial and are
satisfied that we will prove our entire
lnnOcence.'
Harry Gernovitz, an employe of the
Rosenwasser firm, surrendered yester-
day when he learned he was wanted
He was held in $4,000 bail. which was
furnished. Leslie Copeland the last of
the men alleged to have been involved.
is now sailor in training at the Great
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Course Cut at Stevens
Technical Students Are To Be
Graduated in Two Years

Stevens Institute of Technology be-
gan its forty y-eighth year yesterday with
800 students enrolled. Most of these
viii be under military discipline, IN
accordance with the system recently in
troduced by the government through
out the country. To speed up the work
OF preparing technically trained men
for war. the institution has altered its
schedule so that it viii graduate stu
dents al the end OF a two-years' course
instead Of the former four years OF
WORK
The Students Army Training Corps
VIII be divided into a military and a
naval section. In this latter group spe-
cal attention will b. paid to naval en-
gmeering. and special school has
been established by the government
for this purpose Graduates of this
school will receive commissions as en-
signs in the United States navy.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Milk Price to Increase

Milk is to increase two cents a quart
on the first of the coming month
This announcement was made yester-
day by representatives. of the Dairy
mems League. The cause is directly
tracable to increased demands on the
part of the farmers
AT the present time grade B milk is
selling tor II cents quart and grade A
at IL cents a quart The farmers have
already demanded an increase of 112
cents quart from distributors for Oc-
tober milk
The increase is in no way Indicative
of shortage of milk, it was said. The
sole reason for the increased demands
by the farmers is due to the labor
problem
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
President Wilson to Vote
At New JERSEY Primaries

WASHINGTON. Sep5 2o-Pres sdent
Wilson will vote at the primary cleo
tion in Princeton, y. j.. next Tuesday.
It has been the. Presidents custom to
return to his home district to cast his
ballot az all state and primary elec
tl0us.
Aside from local contests. the pri-
maries IN New Jersey are Of no un-
visual importance this wear.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Joseph Pulitzer Joins
Aviation Training School

CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-Joseph Pult-
ger, editor of The St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch and director of The New York
World" Corporation, has enrolled in
the aviation training school at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, it
became known to-day, and has been
given temporary rating as chief
quartcrmaster.
Mr.. Pulitzer is thirty-three years
old, is married and has two children.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Plymouth Honors Page

LONDON, Sept Walter Hines
Page. TIE retiring American Ambassa-
dor to the Court OF St James's. was
presented to-day with the honorary
freedom of the borough Of Plymouth
inclosed in silver model of the Pill
grim ship Mayfower The presenta-
ton was mad, privately in Le 1~u.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Rotarians Aid Yanks

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 20.
The Rotary Club of southampton has
decided to provide 500 Temporary homes
tor American soldiers on leave and con-
valesconts.