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New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
koenig Is Again
Elected President
BY Republicans
County Committee Also
Honors Two Women
With Offices

The Republican County Committee
Mt its reorganization meeting in Bryant
Hall last night, unanimously reelected
Samuel S. Koenig president, clecte d
Charles f. Heydt, first vlce-chairman,
Miss Helen Varick Boswell second vice
chairman, Major Ogden l.. Mills treas.
urcr, Clarence II. Fay secretary and
Mrs. Jessie l.. Higgins assistant secre-
tary
"It matters not whether men high in
authority in Washington try to inter
fcre in our state election by writing
letters in behalf of the Democratic
candidate for Governor or not, the
people OF the State of New York will
man, and definitely and irrevocably ad
journ politics and substitute patriot
lsnl,' said Pres dent Koenig, is accept
ing his reelection for the eighth time
Frederick {. Tanner, candidate for
Congress, in nominating Mr. Koenig,
SAID that if he was elected to Congress
the first thing he would do would be to
JOIN with other Republicans in retiring
Claude kltchin from the chairmanship
OF the Ways and Means Committee.
Smiths Tammany Tag
Referring to the political situation in
this state. Mr. Tanner said:
"Despite the agreeable personal quail
ities of Mr.. Smith, the Democrats can
not conceal the real fact that for years
Alfred K. Smith has been the repre-
sentative at Albany of Tammany Hall"
Chairman Koenig said that the duty
ol the hour was the winning of the
war, and winning it as speedily as pos
sible
eve point with PRIDE" said he, "to
the splendid record of Governor
Charles S. Whitman and his associates
IN control of the state administration
for the last four years. They put the
man power of the State of New York
behind the administration at Wash
ington. Governor Whitman did this
without regard to political consider
ations. He did it as a patriot"
Collin II. Woodward nominated Miss
Boswell as second vice chairman amid
great applause. and William Chilvers
nominated Major Mills as treasurer
Edward Montgomery. of the 10th AS
sembly District, was continued as ser
geant-at-arms.
To Take Part in Loan Drive
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia, was the last speaker.
Formal resolutions indorsing the Re-
publican state ticket were unanimously Y
adopted.
By resolution the county committee
constituted its executive committee a
Liberty Loan committee to cooperate
with other organizations and commit
tees IN the notation of the fourth
Liberty Loan and to supervise the
work of the various Assembly district
committees, which were constituted
local Liberty Loan committees, and the
various district organizations were for
mally requested to refrain from hold
ing meetings of any character during
the period of the fourth Liberty Loan
drive
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Y. w. C.. A. Staff Flees
Moscow; Will Return

cable message received yesterday
by the National Board, Young Women's
Christian Association, says that associ-
atlon workers whose posts in Pctro-
grad had to be shifted to Moscow. are
awaiting in Stockholm an opportunity
to return to Russia by the northern
route. The message. which was from
Elizabeth Boies, director of the work
III Russia, and Marcia Dunham, secre-
tary, follows:
political situation required our de-
parture. We expect to return to Rus
sia by northern route. Elizabeth Boise.
Clncinnati; Marcia Dunham. New York
City; Elizabeth Dickerson. Mime
apolis; Helen Ogden. New Jersey;
Clara Taylor, Taylorville, Ill. Muriel
Heap. Grand Haven, Mich, and Rather
inc Childs, Sherman, N. Y, are tenn
pcrarlly in Stockholm.
"Petrograd work is continuing. Clara
Iaylor's industrial survey in Moscow
completed and association work there
can be resumed at earliest moment.
W ork is being requested in other cities.
There arc great opportunities on the
new front
"What and how many new secretaries
are ready to come? What association
supplies and personnel are on way
now ?"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Upstate to Elect
Smith as Governor,
Is Harris's Opinion,

Edwin 5. Harris, chairman Of tn,
Democratic State Committee, after ;
trip up the state, covering Syracus,
and Buffalo, said yesterday, on his re-
turn, that Alfred f. Smith, Democrat,
candldate for Governor, would be
, elected Governor.
MY reason for believing that Smith
Will beat Whitman" said Chairman
Harris last night, is that the people
generally up the state seem to have be-
come tired of Whitman. Besides. the
! admiration for the achievements of the
Wilson Administration is sure to heir
Mr.. Smith in his candidacy. The people
| talked with think that Governor
Whitman stands for nothing but polit.
ical expcdicncy.
There are plenty of people around
the state who are convinced the Gov
ernor does not really sympathize with
me temperance movement, but IS using
it as a political expedient. talked
with number of prominent labo,
men, and | find that the labor men
generally, on account of the fair
treatment accorded organized labor by
the Wilson Administration, will vote
the entire Democratic state ticket. A
farmer said he hadn't much use gen
orally for Iammany Hall, but .Al
smith was such fine fellow that he
thought he would vote for him.
think that this is typical of the atti
tude OF very many Republican farmers
upstate"
Chairman Harris is going to form a
committee for the purpose of gettinc
the business mems votes. Some of the
men who will be on the committee will
be George Sherman, of Watertown;
OilVer Cabana, jr, of Erie County,
VINO was discussed for the nomination
for Governor last spring; E. f. Per-
Hins, presldent of the First National
Bank of Poughkeepsie; ex-Congress-
man E: G. Underhill, of Corning;
Mayor Roslyn NJ Cox, of Middletown:
Mrs. John w. Cameron. of Buffalo.
and Mrs Hidreth, of Syracuse, for
mer president of the State Fcder ration
Of Women's Clubs.
The campaign for the central and
upper part of the state will be run
from the Syracuse headquarters, where
Chairman Harris will spend the great
er part of his time. The campaign in
this city Will be left largely to Tam
many Hall.
Asked about the anti-Tammanv
sentiment among the upstate Demo-
Gratis, Nh Harris said:
Il do not think there is anv such
sentiment now that Mr.. Smith is the
candidate. Mr.. Osborne is high
minded man, with a supposedly large
following up the state. He spent a
good deal of time and money in trying
to rally the upstate Democrats to his
standard, but was unable to make
much Of an impression, because Alfred
f. Smith was the choice of the Demo
cratic State Convention and the Demo
cratic masses"
The Cleveland Democracy met last
nigh. at its Harlem Headquarters and
Endorsed Alfred f. Smith for Governor
and the entire Democratic ticket.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Volunteers Sought
For Suffrage Parade

Ihe government has never allowed
women to say they arc denied at home
the liberty which it is sending men
across the ocean to Defend" said Lucy
Burns, of the National Woman's Suf
1rage. party. who addressed a small
meeting at Peoples House, East Fiji
teenth Street, last night
Miss Burns is the proud survivor of
seven lall sentences. which she served
IN the interest Of the cause A Brook
iyn girl and a graduate Of Vassar Col
lege, she studied in Edinburgh and
shared Mrs. Pankhurst's work in Eng
land. She was the first editor of "Thc
Sufragist.' the official organ of the
National Woman's Suffrage party.
The meeting last night was for the
purpose of recruiting volunteers for
the demonstration to be held Monday
at the foot of the Lafayette Statue in
Washington. A special train bearinr
the participants will leave the Penn
sylvania Station tomorrow night.
Miss Burns told the story of the re-
cent demonstrations in Washington.
Our trial was ludicrous," she said.
and the place where we were impris-
oned, an internal dungeon. Some five
years ago it had been abandoned as an
improper place to hold prisoners"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Pay Envelopes Will
Contain w. s. 6. Plea

The National War Savings Commit
tee. believing in simple, direct tactics,
will distribute appeals to join War
Savings Societies to-day in the pay en-
velopes of more than 100000 men and
women in this city.
Abraham g. Straus, the Brooklyn de-
rartment store, will distribute $4,000
of the leaflets. Other concerns which
have requisitioned more than a thou
sand from the National War Savings
Committee include:
Lawyers Title and Trust Company,
United States Rubber Reclaiming
Company, Title Guarantee and Trust
Company, B. I. Babbitt & Co., Bank of
Manhattan Company, United States
Trust Company, "The Brooklyn Daily
Eagle Mercantile Trust and Deposit
Company, the Bowery Bank, United
States Mortgage and Trust Company
the Diamond Match Company, New
York Produce Exchange Bank, Irving
National Bank, Second National Bank,
National Conduit and Cable Company
New York. Trust Company. Hecker-
Jones-J Jewell Milling Company, Equit-
able Trust Company, American Metal
Company, Chatham and Phoenix Ma
tional Bank, Franklin. Simon & Co.,
Remington Typewriter Company; Bank
ors' Trust Company, Lehn & Fink, Inc,
Robert Hoe & Co., Bank of the United
States, the Metropolitan Trust Com
pany and the Merchants National Bank.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Employers Urged
To Engage Women
In All Departments

WASHINGTON. Sept 13.-An appeal
to all women in the United States, in
Guiding "women who have never earned
a dollar and will never need to-" to
come forward more generally and take
the places of men was sent out to day
signed by every member of the wom-
ems committee of the National Coun-
cll of Defence. Employers are also ap-
pealed to do all they can to give women
a fair trial.
The Woman's Committee emphasizes
that millions of men will be drawn
from civilian life through the registra-
ton Of yesterday. Women will have to
hll the vacancies left by the outgoing
of husbands, sons. brothers and
friends. And the sooner they begin to
do so the more smoothly will the
machinery of the nation swing into
place for the remainder of the war.
Victory over there means work
over here and do your all. Do not
be content with your Bit" are fea-
lures Of the appeal.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Fusion Leaders
All to Go Free i'm
'Slush Fund Case
Court Holds Indictment of
Childs lllegal-Sulzer
and Others Profit

Justice Finch sustained yesterday a
writ Of habeas corpus sworn out by
William Hamlin Childs, manager of
the Fusion campaign Of 1917, and dis
charged him under the three indict-
ments against him because Of his al
legged violation of the corrupt practices
act.
Although they were not petitioners,
the same decision will release ex-Gov-
ernor Sulzcr, former Senator Josiah T.
Newcomb and former Coroner Timothy
Healy, similarly indicted.
Justice Finch held that Mr.. Childs
did not commit an indictable offence
and that the jury that indicted him
acted without jurisdiction.
Mr.. Chuds was charged with failure
to set forth fully in his report ali the
expenditures which the Fusion Cam
paign Committee had made in the cam
paign. The court pointed out that the
act under which the relator was in
dlcted gave the court power to compel
Mr.. Childs to file a complete statement
within ten days.
If the defendant wilfully refuses, the
court may impose a fine of 81 900 or a
prison sentence of not more than one
year.
When Mr. Childs and the other de-
fcndants appeared IN court on May
to plead they were confronted by two
superseding indictments After hear
ing arguments by Mr.. Stanchtield, the
defendants attorney, the Appellate Di-
vision on July II granted writ OF
prohibition. This was given on the
ground that the extraordinary term ot
the Supreme Court called to try the
defendants would be powerless because
it was said its session had not beer
properly advertised in the newspapers
Immediately following this decision
Mr.. Stanchheld obtained wit Of
habcas corpus on behalf Of Mr. Childs
In his decision Justice Finch says
"The corrupt practices act provides
that the court may direct man to
Tile complete report, and in case of
ms failure the court may sentence him
to one year and a fine of $1,000, if
It is proved that he wilfully withheld
details.
"Ihe act provides, however, COM
plete remedy in the form of summary
proceedings. No attempt was made to
proceed against him in accordance with
this provision Of the act, but he was
first indicted.
'Dcfendant has done nothing for
which he is indictable and even if the
facts alleged were true, as a matter
Of law, he would be entitled to sum
mary proceedings"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
"Gasless" Sundays to
End With This Month
Fuel Administration Consid-
ers Saving on Other Petro-
leum Products
Especial ptsparcn 10 rns Tribmns)


WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-The fuel
administration is considering the pro-
mitigation of new restrictions on the
use of petroleum products to supple
ment the "gasoleneless Sunday" order.
1t is understood that Mark l.. Requa,
head of the Gil division, has recon-
mended 70 Fuel Administrator Garfield
that a prohibition be placed on the
use of gasolene for both automobile
and motor boat racing. Rigid conser-
walton of kerosene, with the dscon-
tinuance of its use for cleaning and
other non-essential uses, has also been
urged upon DR.. Garfield. These addi-
tional petroleum saving measures are
under consideration and action on them
is expected within the next few days.
Suspension of the Sunday restric-
tion on the use of gasoene may be
ordered by DR.. Garfield, officials of
the Fuel Administration state, within
the next two weeks. 1t is not consit-
cred likely that it will be necessary to
continue the restriction in operation
after the end of the present month.
In the Senate Finance Committee
this morning Senator Penrose stated
that the gasoleneless Sunday policy OF
the fuel administration had caused the
loss Of an entire days production OF
coal for each Sunday, and that in view
of that fact he would offer resolution
requesting officials Of the fuel admip-
lstration to appear before the commit
tee and explain their course. "They
ought to be investigated" he added.
The Senator explained that in these
prosperous times about half the coal
miners own automobiles in which they
take their Sunday outings. Not being
able now to use their cars on Sunday
they knock off Saturday afternoon tc
motor to their outing places and return
Monday morning. The Senator thought
it was curious that the government
should be impeding production on the
one hand and resorting to unusua
methods of economizing on the other
hand
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Women Chosen as
Leaders by Both
Old Parties in City
Republicans Name Miss H
V. Boswell as County
Committee Officer

Miss Helen Varick Boswell was
chosen vice-presdcnt of the Republi
can County Committee last night at a
meeting held in Bryant Hall. Miss
BOSWELL is chairman of the woman's 8
division of the committee.
Only two real fights develoned in tho
election of women leaders in the Dem
ocrat'c ranks in Brooklyn last night.
mere were contests in five districts.
out the promised fights in three of
these simmered down to practically
nothing.
In the sth Assembly district, the
regulars. so called, under the male
leadership of Charles NJ. Byrne. recent
~ ~ defeated by Paddy" Diamond for
S{ale S committeeman, elected Mrs.
margaret Wise as the woman leader.
while the Diamond, or rival faction
backed Mrs. Marie Westbrook and
named her as the leader.
IN the Sixteenth Assembly District
tne only other fight of importance took
place, when Mrs. Jennie McMahon
VINO supported Charles r. Ward against
Alderman John J. j. Ryan in the recent
primaries, bowed in defeat to Mrs. Mar
garet Jeradot. of the Ryan faction.
This was bitter fight, but Mrs. Jera-
dot won out handily.
The contest in the Seventeenth AS
sembly District finally wore itself out.
and Mrs. Minnie Adel was returned
the leader. In the Fifteenth there was
a contest, but Mrs. Helen Hupner was
chosen. Miss Agnes Ward won three
cornered fight for the leade rship in
the Eleventh Assembly District. defeat
ing Mrs. Dorothy Douglas and Mrs. Eu-
gene Gottimer.
The following are the leaders chosen
IN the districts where there were no
contests:
First Assembly District, Mrs. MAJ
garet Gilfoyle and Mrs. Margaret Wal
ters; "a A. D., Miss Lillian Murphy;
"a A. d.. Miss Annie Paterson; 4th A.
u, Dr. Laura Reigclmann; 5th A. d..
Mrs. Margaret Grechy; 9Th A. D., Miss
Carrie D'Oerich; 9th A. D., Mrs. John
K. Maher; 10th A. D.. Mrs. Minnie J.
Harris; 11th A. D., Mrs. Alice Leddv;
18th A. D., Mrs. Alice joyce; 18th A.
d., Miss Elizabeth Skehnan; 14th A.
D, Mrs. Thomas J. Carroll: 18th A.
D., Mrs. Sallie McCrea Minsterer; 10Th
A. d.. Mrs. Paul Katske; goth A. D.,
Mrs. Annie Spencer; 2lst A. d., Mrs.
Charles O'Mallery; 22d A. D., Mrs.
gertrude s. Vaughn, and 80 A. D., Miss
Laura Mulclare
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Woman Takes Charee
OF u. S. Stock Farm

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-Answer-
ing questiors from farmers and ranch
owners as to the best winter feeding
Tor their stock is the work of Miss
Edith Curtiss. the first woman to re-
celve degree in animal husbandrv
from the Iowa State College of Agri-
culture. Her official title in the De
partment of Agriculture. where she is
a woman pioneer also. is scientific as
slstant IN beef cattle investigation of
the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Miss Curtiss will have oversight OF
the experimental farm run by the de-
partment at Beltsville, Nd, this win
ter, where experiments are made in
feeding foul groups of ten steers each.
Velvet beans, a new food for stock,
VIII be tried. and Miss Curtiss will
keep records of the farm and the feed
ing of its animals and send them out
to farmers next wear.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Miss UnderhilPs Engagement
To Lieut.. Olyphant Broken

Announcement has been made of the
breaking of the engagement of Miss
Helen Oakley Underhill. second daugh-
ter of Frederic Edgar Underhill. Of
10 West Seventy sixth Street, and
Lieutenant Donald Olyphant, son of
Robert Olyphant, by his first wife, and
a grandson of the late Robert Morri-
son Olyphant.
Lieutenant Olyphant is in the aviation
section of the Signal Corps, U. S. A.
He sailed for France last October and
the engagement was announced late
that month
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Suffrage Sure to
Pass Senate Now,
Mrs. Gait Declares
Women Democrats Will
Urge Wilson to Push 1t
to Save Party's Face
Especial Dispatch to The Tribunc)

-
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.- On the
ssnc day that the National Woman's
party. the "militants." hold the opening
demonstration in it's fall campaign
scainst Democratic candidates for the
Senate from suffrage states. President
wilson VIII give an audience
70 dcNutation of Southern
and Western Democratic women
N regard to the Federal suf-
rage amendment. The women Of the
democratic party Will meet the Presi-
dent at > O'Clock next Monday. and the
National Woman'S Party Will hold its
protest meeting in Lafayette Park,
across from the White House, at 5
The interview with the President
vas arranged several days ago through
the National American Woman Suf-
frage Association, of which Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait is president.
"Before the recess in the Senate"
said Mrs. Gait to-day. Several SEN
ators who have been for some time
opposed to the Federal amendment, an
nounced their intention of getting into
touch with their constituents during
the recess They had heard so per
yiduals in favor of the amendment that
they began to realize the extent Of the
change III public sentiment in their
states.
Senator's Hear From Home
"Wc are gratified to learn that they
did take advantage of the recess to
consult the people of their states, and
they return 70 the Senate with changed
minds. We are now assured of the
necessary backing TO put the measure
through. We believe that the amend
ment viii be passed at an early date
with not merely two-thirds vote, but
with several additional votes"
This change in the Senatorial stu
alton brings women of the Democratic
party to urge that the measure be
pushed a q Democratic measure They
believe that IN some states the contes t
in the fall elections will be extremely
close. and that Democratic or Repub-
lican supremacy IN Congress may rest
upon the party attitude toward the
Federal amendment.
In that case the Republican women
will not hesitate to call attention to
The fact that Republicans in the Senate
have gone on record in Republican
caucus as ready and anxious for an
early vote. The Republican women
also call attention to the fact that
more than two-thirds of the Republi-
can Senators are in favor of the
amendment.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
American Women
Cheer u. S. Wounded

WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-More than
5000 American soldiers in hospitals in
England have received personal calls
from women of the care committee of
the American Red Cross in the last
few weeks. In every instance efforts
we're made to keep the men in touch
with relatives and friends. a service
which, reports to headquarters here in
dcated, convinced the sick and wound
ed that England was very much like
home.
Mrs. Robert Peet Skinner, wife of
the American Consul General at Lon
don, directs the activities Of the COM
mittee, which has branch organizations
in twenty cities.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
High Mass for Anna Held
At St. Patrick's Cathedral

There was a high mass of requiem
yesterday morning for Anna Held in
St. Patrick's Cathedral. The service
was arranged, it was explained, be-
cause at the time of the actresses death
it was not generally known that she
died in the Catholic faith. About 500
attended the mass.
The celebrant was the Rev. William
B. Martin, assistant rector of the
cathedral. The Rev. Patrick Daily was
deacon, Bernard Corcoran subdeacou
and the Rev. Henry f. Hammer master
of ceremonies.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Fresh Hopes for the Ballot
1,442,000 English
Women Replace Meh

ElGURES from the "British Labor
u Gazctte' show the extent of the
increase in employment of girls and
women in Great Britain outside Of
domestic service. In January. 1913,
9,4al,Ooo women and girls were en-
ploycd, as against 3,275,000 in July,
1914. A total of 1,442,000 is given
on tho direct replacement Of men by
women.
No figures relating to the number
employed IN such services as the
Women's Royal Navy Service. the
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. tho
women police and timber cutting un-
der the Board of Trade, but in Feb
ruary, l9lS. it was stated in the
Housc OF Commons that more than
.V.ooo women were enrolled in the
Nomcn's Army Auxiliary Corps.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Duke Leopold of Anhalt
Is Dead, Says Dispatch

AMSTERDAM, Sept 13-Duke Leo
pold of Anhalt died yesterday at Des-
sau, capital of the Duchy of Anhalt,
according to dispatch received here.
Leopold succeeded his brother, Duke
Frederick IL. upon the latter's death
in April of this year.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Women Needed in. Plants

SO great has become the need for
women workers at manufacturing
plants in the Long Island City section
which are making supplies for the
American army that it was decided
yesterday TO lnaugurate special re-
crultlng campaign, under the direction
Of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Neustadt snner-
visor of the Woman's Branch of the
United States Employment Bureau in
Queens.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-14
Miss Putnam to Wed To-day

Miss Dorothy Putnam, daughter Of
Mrs. Frederick H. Putnam, of Brook
line, Mass, will be married to-day in
the Union Church, Waban, Mass, to
Lieutenant Harold D. Hayes, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert w. Hayes. The
bride is sister of Lieutenant David
L. Putnam, an American ace. Lieu
tenant Hayes returned from France re-
Gently, having come from the trenches
to instruct troops in his country.