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New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Mayor Tests Plan
10 Aid Injured if
Aeros Raid Civ
Call for Help Sent by
Police Answered by 100
Doctors and Nurses

Mayor Hylan had an opportunitv
yesterday to see just what has been
accomplished thus far in the wav of
caring tor injured New Workers in tho
event OF an air raid. Reports were
"iso submitted to the Mayor bv the
committee on hospitals and medical
1acll'ties Of the Mayors Committee on
-Na'lonal Defence, which is cooperating
with the army and navy in providing
,-osPltal facilities Tor the wounded
NIDnuIght here from the battlefronts.
me test of the plan for providing
HisI aid IN case of an air raid vas
MADE from the office Of Health Com
missioner j. Lewis Amster, in the Mn
n'cIpal Building. While the Mavor
ana several others who had been in
'.ea 10 be present looked on with in
.eTest call for help was sent bv
lice station. ~
me lieutenant on duty there i'm
mediate!y transmitted the cali ' bv
means of the signal boxes to all police
men on post, and in less than an hour
more than hundred doctors and
nurses reported to Dr.. Amster for dntv
The hospital committee. which met
at the Mayors Office earlier in the
aatJternoon, Jed reported that more than
l'1oo navy patients were scattered
among the various public and private
hospitals in the city. The plan is to
ce,ntralize the work as much as pos
s,Ible, and it is likely that several Of
the tn larger hospitals will be taken over
entirely by the committee and all
patients sent to them, at least for i'm
mediate treatment
POLICE Commissioner Enright, who
mas been largely instrumental in
arranging for the organization of medi-
cal units throughout the city in case
OF air raids, declared that within a
short time there would be units con-
sistlng of three doctors. six nurses
and six helpers in every section of
the city. Through the cooperation of
the Police Department these units will
pc IN constant touch with central
headquarters, so that they may be
summoned to instant service
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Our Women, Tagging in War Work,
Must Wake ~ p, Says Mrs. Blatch
We Must Take the Place of Men, She Tells Society for
Ethical Culture-Urges Community Kitchens
and Condemns Extravaganza

"The American woman lags behind
all other women of the Allies .in war
work"
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch dropped
this bomb into the meeting Of the
Society for Ethical Culture, at West
SiXty-fourth Street, yesterday after
noon, when she declared that American
women were not doing nearly enough
to help the war, and that the time
would come when they would be called
upon to bend their backs to mems la
bOrs, even as the women of Europe
have done.
"We American women are the only
women of the allies who have not had
a proclamation addressed to us by the
government" she said. "In France.
when the war first broke out. Viviani
called upon the women: Up then,
Frenchwomen, daughters and Young
sons he cried, TO help bring in the
harvest and prepare for the next sum-
mcr's crops
Germany Organized Women
In Germany, on the first day of
August, 1914, the government organized
the unemployed women, and in one
week had sixty thousand women maxi
ing military uniforms.
Our government has council of
women, but it gave them no admins
.ta,lVe powers and no money. 1t gave
them house, and few stenogranhers
ana some paper. If they want to do
anything they nave to raise their own
money"
Mrs. Blatchs thrusts were directed
"lth equa vigor against the women
them selves '''N II
...r' 1--WE are too extravagant she said
- nese thlngs stand in the way Of cur
oeihg help1ul to our country. We are
too fond Of the way mother used al to q
40. Imagine fifty women standjne
over nifty stoves, boiling fifty little pots
OIL potatoes. Women, wake up. That
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Yaphank Deserter Jailed
Private Gets 2O-Year Term;
Dishonorably DISCHARGED

CAMP UPTON, N. V, March 25. A
court martial here to-day sentenced
Private David Barry, of Hospital No. G
Veterinary Corps. to twenty years i'm
prlsonment at hard labor, for dcsertion,
and dishonorably discharged him.
Barry lived at Far Rockaway and
was sent here on October II. He left
camp without permission on November
2. and was not located until January
II, when he was arrested at Far Rock
away. He was sent 10 Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, TO serve his sentence
The second of the now Liberty the
atrcs opened here tonight with "IIcro
Comes the Bride" which will continue
until Sunday. "Turn to the Right"
which closed last night, drew 1920 per
sons on the opening night, Tuesday,
and $500 each night following.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26

sort of thing won't do. We must adopt
the time and labor saving devices that
science has put in our hands. Moth
er's way won't 90 for the terribly poor
world we have got to reconstruct after
the war.
Food saving is not going to come
from private cooperation. 1t is going
to come through the government, be-
cause the oldfashoned way is too ex-
travagant. In Hamburg one half of the
entire population is fed from municipal
kltchens, and they are starting them in
England
Predicts Labor Shortage
The United States is going to face
an enormous shortage of labor, and
the women are the only reservoirs of
labor left Immigration has stopped
Boys on the farms and cooie labor
are lmpossibilities. We are worse off
than the belligercnts of Europe, for
their fagged-out soldiers are told off
back to the land in seed time and har-
vest, and It's good for them and for
the land, too. Our boys, once they
have gone across. are gone. They can't
be sent on furloughs. We women have
got to take their places. You women
here to-day have got to send your
daughters.
I'VE don't need to go into the mines
or the railroads, though women are
dong that in England, of course, but
we can and must release men to 90
there. And when we do go the pay
envelope and the mothers pension viii
follow. You remember in England
there was extravaganza and drunken
ness among women when they first
began to have money of their own to
spend. The last time | was in Eng
land that had stopped. The children
We're well fed in the East End and
well shod.
"The poor were never so we'll off as
they are now that the spending power
IS in the hands of women. The pen-
SION system recognizes the value of
the mothers duties to the state. Never
again are women going to be statistic d
with dependence upon one man. The
pension system may turn out to be the
magma charta of the mothers freedom
all over the world"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
All Aboard for Upton

Applications for reservations
on the first of the American Au-
tomobile Association free runs
to Yaphank next Sunday must
reach the A. A. A. offices, SOL
Fifth avenue, by Thursday morn
ing. Relatives Of soldiers at
Upton who wish to avail them
selves of the free transportation
should include the name Of the
soldier or soldiers they want to
visit.
James A Hemstreet, director
of the service, appeals for more
cars. Applications are far in ex-
cess Of the number Of cars avail
able for next Sunday. If YOU
desire to give your car for this
service notify the A. A. A. at
once.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Twenty-six Companies a
Waterfront Blaze

A fvc-alarm fire, which kept twenty
six engine companies, six trucks and
four fireboats busy for six hours. de-
stroyed or damaged lumber yard, a
laundry and two industrial plants in
the vicinity Of West Thirticth Street
and the water front yesterday. Three
trcmcn were injured.
The flames started in the mills of the
Crane 4 Clark lumber yard and spread
thence to the Stanley Laundry and the
plants of the Type Metal Manufacture
ing Company and the Nassau Smelling
and Refining Company. The damage
was estimated at about S5OO0O
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Fire Record

a NJ
l2;5o-o-7 Eighth ave: Silver Lunch Room. dam
slight.
5:5o-coe to o2G West 3oth St. Crane * Clarl
and others unkuovl,.
looc-256'h st and Fiedstonc Road; vacant lot
lumber and rubbish, Sl5.
+. NJ
l2;so-lsoth st. and DAILY ave automobile: Knitk-
crbockcr Oil Co.. unknown
~ 4l-24l East ll0th St. David hartman: 5000
l245-ll5 st. Marks Place. Morris Eilma,: sliga,.
io-2lSth s.. and broadway. fire in rubbish. nc
damage.
2:4o-l2-lG Vestry St: Panama Knitting Mills;
trlhing
2:55-l5oth St and Gerard ave. Tho Bronx: auto
mobile REQ Motor Co: $500.
3.00-Iaroad track. Shlock Road Tho Bronx
freight car: n. y. y. H. & H. X. II. Co
trit'ing
a.2o--72 West 9S'h St: Anscin & Levy triflng.
345-l629 University ave The Bronx Ernest
Boyd. $50.
l.4o-o5s East l5sth ST. The Bronx: Daniel
iooney ,rhing.
455--l2l 4 West 4lst st. Fred Hubert trifns
5:50-24l6 University ave The Bronx. unknown
trliiing
Oji0S Eighth Mr.. Carloza; trhing.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
The Weather Report

WASHINGTON. March 25-Thc group Of ir-
regular depression IN Tho Atlantic states has cen
tired INTO single disturbance OF we'll defined char
acter over Southeastern New England with a
northeastward movement. although without pre-
cipation since Sunday night Pressure las also
fallen considerably in the Missouri Valley tho
plains states and tho Northwest with principal
centres of disturbance over Nebraska and Al
beHa. There was. however. no precipitation at
tending except in tho North Pacific states
1t is colder in the lake region and generally
warmer elsewhere cast Of the Rocky Mount aims
with temperatures from 10 to 30 degrees above the
seasonal average N the upper Mississippi and the
Missouri valleys the plains states. the plateau re
sion and the Northwest
Generally fair weather win continue Tuesday
and "Wednesday cast of the Mississippi River. with
sonewha, higher temperatures Tuesday over cen
ttral and interior southern districts. and on
Wednesday IL the lake region. II viii be some
land.
York Southern Nsw England fair, slightly slightly cold tSST
or Tlllessday;, Wednesday Wednesday fair.
syvana. fair tuesday and Wednesday,; slightly Si
warner Wednesday.
,o as''' Esn.yyA"4 aornA {str sTasy slightly
Northern New England. cloudy Tuesday prob
colder Wednesday, fair
Western New York. partly cloudy Tuesday
Wednesday, fair.
Local Oncal Record. The following official record
from the Weather Bureau shows temperatures during
the last twenyfour hours. in comparison with the
corresponding date Of last year
1918 1877. 1918. 1917
: :. a.. 4 = + !, : q: a. E E 4 4
, a. ni,..,.- !" 4ol u m...... AZ Al
j. noon ..,.., ~ 81 IL y. m.-.... 40
Highest temperature Yesterday sc degrees (at 20
p M; lowest. 81 lat a. m , average. Al average
same date last year. 45 average same date for
thirty three years, 40
Humidity
4 M. II I ! p. M. 81 p. m. Al
Barometer Readings
a. nj. 29.72 ! p. % 60 D m % II
Local Oflcal Forccast.-Far and slightly colder
today and tomorrow: fresh northwest north
Winds. diminishing al night.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26

Our Easter egg" aren't
all in one basket!
Four stores full of smart
Spring clothes - and by
clothes we include every
thing men and boys wear!
Four stores operating as
one-the stocks of all at the
call of each.
Four stores offering the
same generous variety, the
same good quality, the same
reasonable prices.
The only rivalry comes in
trying to see which store can
give the best service to it's
customers-and what better
time than just before Easter!
Army officers uniforms!
The Rogers Peet" Camp Toilet Case.
Compact Durable
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th ST THE at gath St.
-Four
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 4Ist St.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26

a M. - p. % 60 .. m. % 81
Local O(cial Forccast.-Far and slightly colder
10 day and tomorrow: fresh northwest TO north
winds, diminishing al night.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26

HlKnt@t tenlperaurc YesteEday 56 degrces tat 20
p M; lowest. 81 (at a. M: average. Al; average
same date last year. A.; average same date for
thirty three years, 40
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
GROCERS MAY SELL CORN
CRISPS in LIEU OF WHEAT

District food administrator c. n
Bassett has received instructions
from headquarters at Washington.
stating that grocers may sell in lieu
OF wheat products, corn flakes. most
toasties. and crisps.
strict enforcement of the regula-
ton regarding the sale Of flour to
farmers who have their own corn
meal. is urged by the administration.
any farmer wishing to avoid pur-
CHASING wheat substitutes with his
Hour must sign a written statement
SAYING That he has the corresponding
amount of corn meal. produced h9
himself, and not purchased from
Mr.; Bassett has been Informed that
the Fred Harvey restaurants along
the santa Fe system are maxine
considerable reduction in their con-
sumption of wheat flour by the use
OF rice corn and buckwheat flours
shortening compounds to take The
place OF lard, are also being made
Harvey chefs
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
CLARK Goes
To Abilene
In Custody
State 5 Witness In the Jones
Case Charged With
Rail Damage.

". C. Clark, the states most i'm
portant witness in the Felix R. Jones
case, left at SIS o'clock Monday af-
ternoon for Abilene, Tex. in custody
of deputy sheriff Ben Peevey Of that
place
Clark has been indicted at Abilene
in connection with the alleged dam
aging of a Wichita Valley railroad
rail, said to have been pried from its
place on the ties in order to cause a
train TO leave the track. Jones has
been indicted there in connection with
the same alleged incident
According to Mr.. Peevey, Jones was
passenger on a train that passed
over the loose rail and suffered
scratches about the face at the time.
Clark was under a witness attach
ment here, but it was decided that
a felony indictment takes precedence
and he was allowed TO depart with
the Abilene officer. Clark is a witness
to an alleged conspiracy to murder
him, in the case of state VS.. Tom
Morrison, ST., which will come UP for
trial in the county court at law early
in April.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
Shops To.
CLOSE TUESDAYS
Butchers Organize, Mexi
can Dealers Applaud;
Retail Grocers Unite.

That the meat shops Of Ell Paso in
GLIDING all meat markets. and bar
becue stands, will be closed tight on
Tuesdays after this week, was the de-
cision reached by the butchers of FL
Paso at a mass meeting in the cham
Der Of commerce building Monday
night. This regulation viii prohibit
the sale Of any sort Of canned meats
in grocery stores, or any smoked or
sailed meats, or lard
Several hundred dealers in meat and
groceries attended the meeting, the
majority Of them being Alexicans. As
the simplest solution of the problem
Of organizing such a Heterogeneous
assembly. c. n. Bassett, district food
administrator, who called the meeting,
sent the English speaking dealers up
stairs to arganize separately, while he,
assisted by Interpreter II. J. Sada ex-
planned the purpose of the meeting to
the MeSicans, and aided them in their
own organization.
Addressing the Mexicans. Mr.. Bas-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05

should be appointed by the president,
to be announced at the next meeting
which was set for Thursday night at
1880 at the chamber OF commerce.
Decide to Have Inspector.
It was at first thought that a COM
mittee of dealers should serve in the
capacity of q board of inspectors. and
nine men were chosen they we're j.
s Crane, ]. \. Tapley. d T. Eel, o.
D. Woods, E NJ Bray, A J. Blain.
E. W. Bishop, f. D. Underwood. II. c.
Kreathman, and W. A Pollard. 1t was
afterward decided however, that one
inspector should be procured whose
sole duty should be the inspection OF
the groceries Of FL Paso.
Prior to closing the meeting. the
dealers united in a vote of confidence
in federal food administrator Herbert
Hoover
James MARI Assists Bassett.
Out of town dealers at the grOcers'
meeting were o. P. Ford, Of Clint:
Isaac Loewenstein. OF Ysleta, and Otto
Hintz, Of Fabens. Thirty members
signed the roll passed around by sec
rotary Franklin. An interesting an
nOuncement was that James L. Mari
had been appointed assistant district
food administrator.
butchers Organize; Name Officers.
The butchers met downstairs, after
the adjournment Of the Spanish deal
ers and appointed Charles Shuck,
tary. There was considerable Discus
sion as TO whether or not FL Paso
meat markets should close on meat
less Tuesdays, but it was finally
voted to do So remaining open Tues
day. March 5. but closing thereafter
on Tuesday. Later discussion on the
question, led Mr.. Bassett to announce
that he would take up with state ad-
ministrator E. A. Peden. the matter
Of relieving FL Paso Of meatless days
IN view of the fact that this city is In
q similar condition to the coast, where
meatless days have been abolished be-
cause Of the superfluity Of meat on
hand.
The meat men decided that they al
SO would hire an inspector TO line I'D
an dealers. and see that everyone was
tons.
A pledge Of support to the food ad-
mlnistra ton was drawn I'D BIZ a ccna-
n1ttee composed OF J. c. Peytoq. c.
W Rogers and E H Iredale. and the
pledge viii be presented to .sver-
dealer in town for his signature The
nsXt meeting Of the organization will
be ED Thursday evening at s O'CLOCK
n the chamber of Commerce
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
I Blame The Woman
Who Lets a Man Drink
Says Druggist Brown

and for 10 years kept her secret She
saved him from drink-rescued him
from his own depraved. besotted self
by giving him a secret remedy. the
formula of an old German chemist. To
pay his debt 70 her and to help other
victims out of the murk and mire he
mas made the formula public.
Druggists everywhere dispense IT
daily as Prepared Tescum Powders,
put up in doses. Get it of your own
druggist and drop a powder twice a
day in tea. coffee, milk or other drink.
Soon liquor does not taste the same.
the craving for it disappears. and 10.
one more drunkard has been saved
ana knows not when or why he lost
his taste for drink.
warning Note- Tescum should be Civ
en- only where it is desirable 20 destroy all
taste for alcohol and all pleasure in its
use Those who encourage moderate
drinking should not give it until the So
called moderate drinlzer reaches the dan
ger line. as most OF them do in time
Druggist Brown has such confidence in
Tescum Powders that he personally guar
antees results or he will refund out Of
his own pocket the price charged by the
dispensing druggist II is sold in El Paso
by Kelly & Pollard. and other druggists.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05

right kind of officials they would not
exist Nearly all the dens of iniQuity
these houses Of i'll fame. have been
started under the present administra-
ton and such could not run were the
law enforced.
Right here I will say that I have
never rented a house for immoral
purposes, nor have I owned any part
OF the reservation, nor have I ever as
much as listed any such property for
sale during the Is years of my real
estate business, nor have ever been
in any way connected with the traffic
except to prosecute many of the city
and county officials through every
court of the state. and any person who
says that I at any time have done
lgated lar and anyone who SWears
that 1 did is a perjured liar, and this
goes If he hears it
7 will further state that I, in COM
pany with one other person. put up
practically all the money to break up
the old reservation to employ attor-
neys, detectives to get evidence, also
for maps and charts of the reserva-
ton, paying court costs and carrying
II through all the courts of the state
of Texas. the first being the city
council, then the grand jury, then the
county court, then the district court,
then the court of appeals, and finally,
as last and final effort to get jus
tice, the supreme court of the state of
Texas, where We at last got ali we
asked for.
"And let me add, we did not take
prostitutes and low down people with
unclean hands to prove our ailega-
tons, but brought good credible wit
nesSes, as We were above colluding
with the other class, as our socalled
sheriff openly confesses he has done
We are Of the opinion that the law
can be enforced without resorting 10
such underhand methods. The human
hound is the lowest down animal in
existence, whether he be CARRIED as
an official, or a traffic solicitor, but
will put my record in the balance
during the entire length of my IS
years in this city and defy any of our
Striking officials" to attack same
successfully. Had the socalIed city
leaders given me their support at the
time was fighting the traffic-and
at the same time I was paying all
expenses in connection with same
they would not now be making these
startling exposures. and Washington
would not have to make the impera-
tive demand on them that she has
now made, and long trips to Wash
ington would be wholly unnecessary,
and the cantonment would have been
ours for the asking.
f. A Spence"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
THREE WOMEN ARRESTED IN
RAID; ANOTHER BY INSPECTOR

Three women were taken into Gus
tody by detectives Claude Smith,
Andy Shobe and VIII Stewart Monday
night in raid on the Texas Grand
hotel, according to police reports.
The women gave the names of Ethel
Fowler Maria Wilson and Mrs R. c.
Wood Misses Fowler and Wilson
were charged with vagrancy and Mrs.
Wood was charged with running a
disorderly house All of them were
admitted to bond
Nora Ross was arrested by Waiter
Reese, inspector Of police, Monday
night and is charged with vagrancy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-05
lays down new
EVIDENCE RULES
Judge jenkins Announces
He viii Give Police Help
in the Cleanup.

Judge B. F. jenkins laid down some
new rules Of evidence in two cases
growing out OF the police raids of sat
urday night when Billie H. Raye and
sErs. Charles Palmer were each fined
$500 on vagrancy charges. Appeal
bonds were filed in both cases. Bell
stiles forfeited her bond and the court
Instructed the states attorney 10 file
suit against her bondsmen- Two other
cases growing out OF the police raids
VIII be heard before a jury in judge
Jenkins's court Two other cases
which were postponed Monday after
noon on request OF attorneys, viii also
be heard this afternoon
jenkins Stands Pat.
Judge jenkins viii gi-e the police
all the assistance possible in the
cleanup campaign they are waging.
The Judge made this statement Mon
cay afternoon when the first Of the
cases came before him.
Several legal tits occurred between
the counsel for defence and the court
curing the presentation Of evidence
IN the Raye case. The first disagree
ment came when chief OF police
Charles E. Pollock testified that he
had caused the arrest Of Miss Raye on
telephonic complaint OF Mrs. NJ Del
Campo. who conducts the rooming
house at sos North FL Paso street
stand For Change OF Rules.
Mr.. Gardiner objected to this testi-
rronv on the ground that it was hear
Say evidence. but the court said he
would override the objection, on the
ground that the police had great diff
ffculfy in obtaining first hand infor-
nation and if they were to abide BY
the requirements of the national gov
eminent a great many Of the rules
governing testimony and court pro-
cedure would have to be changed
Chief Pollock added to the state
tnent Of the court that if Mr.. Car
diner had been present at the meeting
al the chamber Of commerce Satur-
day and heard the police force criti-
cised he would very probably be Will
The chief stated on the witness stand
that a great many regulations must
De overruled. II the cleanup Of FL Paso
is 20 continue
Reese Gives Opinion.
walter Reese, Inspector OF police
Who followed the chief as 8 witness
also caused considerable arguments
IIe testified as to the general reputa-
ton Of the defendant. Mr.. Gardiner
objected to this testimony, but was
overruled by the court. Judge jenkins
SAID he had asked Mr. Reese for his
crlnion regarding the defendants
character.
Upon further examination Mr. Reese
testified that the department had at
tempted 70 arrest defendant before
hut because OF suspicious circum
stances" in the provost guard the po-
lice had never been able to apprehezd
the woman