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New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Hebrew rades Avoid
Break With A. F. of l.

The threatened desertion Of the
American Federation of Labor by the
United Hebrew Trades, it was learned
yesterday, has been avoided. As test
of the attitude of the Hebrew Trades.
at meeting yesterday Secretary Pine.
alter submitting a report in which he
urged that all differences with Prcsi
dent Samuel Gompcrs and the Fedora
tion Of Labor be adjusted rendered his
resignation. The Hebrew Trades i'm
nledlatcly refused to accept the resigna-
ticn. '''
In discussing the action Of the trades
M. Goldovsky, delegate of the cloak
makers and one of the most prominent
members of the trades, declared that
the resignation had been refused be-
cause his organization is really in svm-
pathy with the American Federation Of
Labor and has no real desire to break
away from it. "rhe resignation" said
MI. Goldovsky. "was only a test. anv-
way, and the Hebrew Trades bv unan-
lmously declining to consider it. took
the most effective means at their hand
10 make their attitude to tho fedora
ton clear.
We are extremely anxious" con-
tinued MIR. Goldovskv, "to continue in
nmlcablc accord with the federation
We do not, however, want to be die
tated to by Mr.. Gompers without hav-
jEg an opportunity to protect our own
interests in Il way which. we feel viii
be better than the federation can do ,,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
lnterned as Agent
OF German Financiers

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19.~Dcpart-
ment Of Justice agents tonight an
nounced the arrest Of Edward Mossncr,
Of this city, and his intcrnmcnt at
the Gloucester, N. j., immigrant sta
ton as n dangerous enemy alien. Ac-
cording to Frank l.. Garbarino. special
agent of the Department Of Justice,
Mossner is friend of Adclbcrt Il.
Fischer, former president of the
Schultz Il Kocrting Company, re-
Gently taken over by the government,
following the internment of Fischer
at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Mossner's
movements, Garbarino said, were
traced through letters found among
F.ischcr's effects after search of his
house.
Mossncr, according to government
agents, came to this country about two
years ago to represent German minor
ity interests in the Hess Bright Com
pany, this city, manufacturers Of ball
bearings. Officials Of the Hess Bright
Company said tonight that the Ger
man minority interests in the concern
had been sold to the S. X. +. Admin
istrative Company, of New York, sew
eral months before the declaration of a
state Of war with Germany.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Gas Kills Two More
I'm East Side House

Two deaths from gas asphyxiation
we're reported from the furnished
rooming house at 1853 East Thirty-sec-
nnd Street yesterday. This makes five
persons who have lost their lives in
the house since January 4, and in the
same manner. The police are satisfied
that all of the deaths have been acci-
dental.
Yesterdays victims were two women.
One has been identified as Miss Mary
vogel, .fifty-five years old, maid at the
Park Avenue Hotel. The other woman
was about thirty years old She is
unidentified. Mrs. Elizabeth Remmellc.
who conducts the furnished room
house, said that Miss Vogel had inyit-
ed the other woman to visit her on
Monday night. The bodies were found
yesterday forenoon.
According to the police four women
and one man have died in the house
this year. In each case the dete ctives
have reported accidental gas asphyxia
ton.
In each room of the house, the police
learned, there are quarter slot gas
meters. Leading from the one in the
room occupied by Miss Vogel were two
pipes. 1t IS thought that The women, in
turning OFT one burner turned on the
other.
The police say That the last death
occurred in the house two weeks ago.
IN the same room as the two deaths
yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
u. S. Labor Balks at
London Conference
Will Not Be Represented at
inter-Allied Meeting, Be-
ginning To-day

WASHINGTON, Feb 19.-Thc Amer-
can Federation Of Labor will NOT no
represented at the inter-Allied Labor
Conference to be held in London TO-
morrow, but it hopes soon to send rem
rescntatives to England and Franco
Iresldent Gompers to-day so advised
arthur Henderson, British Labor lead
er' oy cable, IN response to an invita-
tlon received February 9.
Your January 16 letter reached ma
late Saturday, February 9. and broucht
10 attention executive council Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in session on
dith, I'm, said Mr.. Gomperss message
we regret that circumstances make
impossible to be represented in 10
inter-Allied Labor Conference rondnn m tme
fepruary 20. Executive council in dcc'
larat'on unanimously declared: W.
cannot meet with Representatives of
nose VINO are aligned against us in
lnlS ,. world war for freedom, but we
nope thcy Will sweep away the bar-
rcrs which they have raised betwoo,,
us "''" ecii
All should be advised than anv ono
rfcsuming to represent labor of Gmar-
1ea ~ your conference is simply self
constituted and unrepresentative. W.
noPe shortiy to send q delegation Of
representative re workers in the American
France ''u anu 10
Please convey our fraternal creot
lhgs to the lnterAlied Labor Confor
cncc and assure them that We are
pledged and will give our man move,
and at least half we have in wealth
power in the struggle to secure for the
world justice, freedom and democracv /,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Bush Resigns War
Post; Government
To Buy Terminal
Goethals Asks Congress to
Provide $15O,OOO,00O for
Acquiring Port Facilities
STAFF Correspondoncc]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-An appro-
priation Of $l5o,oOOO00 for additional
storage and pier facilities in New York
tcicncy bill, which is now before the
Senate appropriations Committee for
consideration.
Major General Gocthals, acting quar-
tcrmastergeneral and assistant chief
OF staff in charge Of storage and ware
houses, has plans prepared for the i'm
mediate utilization of all available pier
space in the Bush Terminals and other
Brooklyn properties on the water front
for war purposes it was learned to-
night.
The Bush Terminals, which were
rcquisitioned by the government on
by the War Department. under Goeth-
als's present plans. Additional prop
erty, south Of the Bush Terminals and
adjacent to it, also is to be acquired
by the government, and warehouses
will be constructed for the storage of
supplies for overseas use.
General Goethals, when before the
House Appropriations Committee seek
ing the appropriation of $150,O00,O00,
frankly explained that the government
had been backward about acquiring
waterfront property. lie Sald Inc army
took over the Hamburg-Amexican piers
at Hoboken first and then began to
ship everything to New York, loading
the piers and using them as ware
houses.
piers should not be used as ware
houses" he said. "They are simply
passage ways from and to the ships,
and the commodities loaded on the
piers should be only such as are to
be put aboard the next ship that comes
to that pier. The constant shipping to
New York without proper storage IA
cilities has caused much of the con-
gestion there"
General Goethals has decided to con-
vert the Newark Port Terminal into a
central warehouse for distribution to
other points, and to utilize the en-
larged Bush facilities for actual load
ing Of ships. He declares he is ready
TO sign the contract for the work of en-
larging the Bush properties at once,
and informed the committee that the
construction work would be completed
within the fiscal year. He said plans
are being drawn up now for an eight
story storage structure, adjacent to
the Bush properties.
The quartermaster generals plans
also provide for the utilization of all
available space at Governors Island
for storage purposes, and for addi-
tional storage at Boston Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Norfolk, Newport News and
Charleston
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Senate Attacks
The Printing of
Useless Documents

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Suspension
of the mailing list of "The Congress
sional Record" outside the District Of
Columbia because of shortage in
print paper, was the subject of de-
bate in the Senate to-day, during
ments by various government depart
ments was caustically criticised.
Minority Leader Galinger said he
had received numerous complaints from
persons who had failed to receive
copies of "The Record'
The Congressional Record is the
only uncensored publication we have
at the present time, and think the
people ought to have the privilege Of
reading it, he declared 1--WE spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars cx-
plotting some of our government de-
partments, yet we haven't paper enough
on which to print The Record"
Senator Gallinger, glancing over a
list of various publications which have
been printed by the government re-
cently, citing as an example one en-
titled Pirates Of the Deep; Story Of
the Squib and the Octopus" Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, called attcn
cotic Plants and Stimulans of the An
Gent Americans"
Senator Smoot, of Utah, a member of
the Printing Committee, explained that
it was impossible to get print paper in
the United States suitable for "The
Record" and that the price is up 100
per cent. He said the committed had
no control over what various govern
nlcnt departments printed, and re-
marked that, if the Senate would pass
the printing bill that has been before
Congress for eight years, nearly 81, ,5O0,-
600 year could be saved at the pres
Ont price of paper. He said he under
stood the Committee on Public II,
formation was spending $4,000 a day
for paper.
The "Record' itself did not escape
attack Senator Smoot urged that
members refrain from placing unneces-
sary documents in the congressional
Record" and Senator Penrose said that,
under the prevailing practice. the Gree
ord looked "like copybook from a
telegraph Office"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Boy Scouts Fund
Has Reached $22, $50

Seventy-fve scoutmasters have VOL
unteered to serve and S22,6S0 has been
given to the general fund as result
of the first half of the seven days
campaign of the New York branch of
the Boy Scouts of America, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Numerous large contributions are
to-day as a result of the canvass made
yesterday by thirty Scouts in the
financial district of the city. The boys
did not directly solicit money, but told
hundreds of tinanciers what the Boy
Scouts had done for them and what
the organization hoped to do for thou
sands of new members which the drive
is expected to bring it.
Arthur B. Leach entertained the
boys at luncheon at the Bankers Club.
Lewis l.. Clark, William S. Kies. C. G.
n. Thomas and Walter " Price also
acted as hosts, and the Scouts spread
their propaganda among the members
of the club. After eating, the boys re-
sumed their systematic tour of the
lower part Of the city.
In sending his check Of $500 to the
Boy Scouts Fund Clarence H. Mackay
wrote to Alexander j. Hemphill. the
treasurer:
II have always been very much in
terested in the Scout movement. as I
feel there is much good to be derived
from it if it is properly and thorough
ly organized. I was in England at the
outbreak Of the war and saw at close
range the efficient work that the Boy
Scouts were doing. We have a tra-
mendous field for this work in the
United States, and | am very glad to
be one of the participants in YOUR
present campaign"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Red Cross Empowered
o Trade With Enemv

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The Ameri- :
can Red Cross has been granted a
license by the War Trade Board to
trade with the enemy"
The privilege Of sending letters. food
and money to American prisoners Of
war in Germany has been granted ex
clusively to the Red Cross by the Ger,
man government
Germany demands return for this
privilege. She asks the Red Cross to
act as the medium through which Ger
man fathers and mothers can send a
word from home" or a remembrance to
sons confined in American prison camps
and to a minor extent TO her prisoners
IN French and British camps.
lhls in sense constitutes "tradinc
with the enemy" and it was necessary
TO get the sanction of the War Trade
Board for the undertaking. This has
Just been secured and the license is
sued. 1t gives the American Red Cross
a blanket authorization for communi-
cation with prisoners of war over the
entire world--cnemy, Allied and neu-
trail
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20

college course at home, especially in
that graduation is on tho point system.
"The competition is keen as can be
to get rs high number as possible.
however. for at graduation time those
who stand highest have first choice OF
the regiments that need future officers.
"The French are splendid to us. The
instructors. on the one hand, make
every effort to see that we clearly un-
derstand everything that is said in the
lectures. The French pupils. on the
other hand. are all good fellows, and
we're all great big family together"
The young men live in a huge bar
racks in the neighborhood Of the ia
nous chateau. Each week end they are
given leave to Paris. Despite their
signing up with the Legion of Honor
they are as kcenly and patriotically
American as any one in the American
army Their service for France has
made them enthusiastically pro-French.
The list Of American students shows
the widely scattered constituency OF
the American contingency at the school.
Here it is, with only few of the men
missing:
Harold l.. Scott, Granville, Ohio;
William M. Barber Toledo, Ohio; Cole
man T. Clark, Westfield, N. j.; Whitney
Warren. jr, New York; Stanton Gar
field. Washington; Philip A. Rogers,
Mnghamton. N. y; Thomas +. Nc
Allistcr. Grand Rapids, Mich. William
c. Towle, New York City; C. Law Wat
kins, Rye, N. Y; John Clark, Cornelius
Winant, Townsend Martin, Winthrop
Cortelyou and Redmond Moreland, all
from New York; Gerard Genew. Bos-
ton; William Moreland Pittsburgh;
Edward Phillips. New Haven, Conn;
Patterson, Ann Arbor, Mich,
and ---- Cohen. New York City.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Baker Finds 3 Camps
In Good Condition

WASHINGTON, Feb. Generally
satisfactory conditions were found at
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga; Camp
Wheeler, Macon. Ga. and Camp Han
cock, Augusta, Ga, Secretary Baker
announced to-day after his return from
an inspection of those camps in com
pany with Surgeon General Gorgas and
Colonel Furbush and Major Welch. Of
the medical corps.
Inc general health Of all three camps
was excellent, the Secretary soid
olothlng equipment was adeuuatc and
the equipment Of rifles at each camp
complete. Full compliments of ma
chlne guns and artillery arc not vet
on hand, but there is enough of each
10 permit continual practice.
Inc death and sick rates at each
onlnp of were found to be steadily de-
cl,nlng, said Mr.. Bakers statement.
AT each camp an adequate number nf v,
trained nurses was found and the hos
pitals were well cared for and sup
pied, and in the hands of capablo
medical and surgical staffs. The gem
eral health of all three camps was oy-
cellent, and at Wheeler, where The
worst sickness had occurred tn, i'm
rrovement was marked and steady,
The early difficulties due to crowd
ing have been entirely overcome and
none of the hospitals visited was beino
used to full capacity. In very few
wards were all the beds occupied
The operating rooms at all HOSPITALS
are now thoroughly equipped, and the
water and sewage systems have been
completed IN two and almost completed
IN the third camp. In all of the camns
the men were very actively engaged in
training, having constructed elaborato
trench systems and being occupied win
drills and exercises included in tbo
prescribed courses. VIZ
"ln each of the camps the clotb,no.
equipment was found adequate. The
food was excellent and abundant
Equipment Of rifles was complete and
at each camp a number Of machine
guns of various types are in actual
service on the machine gun target
ranges. At each camp are artillery reo,-
ments with field artillery and ammuni- =
tlon and artillery ranges in use
There remains some shortage Of
harness and minor articles of eouin-
ment which are being rapidly supplied.
Full compliments of machine guns ar,
rot yet on hand, nor of artillery, but
there is enough of each to permit CON
tnual practice va
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Oluney Withdratus as
Port Boards Officer

Coincident with an announcement
from Washington that the government
had decided to purchase outright the
Bush Terminal and a strip of adjacent
waterfront property as a site for a
military and naval base came the an
Irving I. Bush as executive officer Of
the War Board of the Port of New
York.
Mr.. Bush, who is the owner OF the
greater part Of the property which the
government had decided to purchase.
said he had not been informed Of such
q transaction and declined to make any
comment, except to explain that a
committee had been appointed to con-
slider rental and purchase values Of his
Offering to the government, with in
retary Baker. The committee. he said,
consisted of J. Spencer Smith. chair
man; Edward NJ. Bassett. Major Dean,
Of the Advocate Generals Office, and
Judge Gray. Of Wisconsin.
In rendering his resignation as chief
executive officer Of the War Board for
the Port of New York Mr.. Bush said:
"ln accepting the Office early in No
vcmber there was a great deal of con-
structive work to be done, co0rdinat-
ing the activities centring in New York
Harbor. Since then much has been
accomplished, and gradually the var-
Gus functions have been reorganized
under different government depart
ments, until a point has been reached
where it seemed unnecessary for me
TO give up my own pressing affairs.
The railroad operations, including
barges and harbor craft, have been
pooled under Mr. McAdoo. The drec-
tIon of ship movements has passed
under the lntcrAlied Steamship Coun-
eli and the terminals and warehouses
under government control have passed
in the War Department. | feel, there
fore. that my work is finished and
there is no reason for me to continue" )"
1t was explained that Mr.. Bush did
not intend to resign as chief of en-
barkation.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Strikers
On Staten Island
Return to Plants

Except for some dissension in the
plant of the Downey Shipbuilding Cor
poration, in Staten Island, the threat
cned strike of shipyard workers has
been definitely declared off. Even at
the Downey plant work is proceeding
as customarily, the employees there hav-
ing decided to let their grievances rest
in the hands of the wage adjustment
division Of the United States Shipping
Board
The controversy at the Downey plant,
according to John Rice, national or
ganizer of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, was provoked
who sought to return to their places
We're turned away from the plant.
These workers, Rice said. were told
that before they could return they
would be compelled to make new ap-
plications for their old places at a new
scale of wages. He assorted they had
oeen getting 60 cents an hour and we're
told they must sign up for from 81 to
bO cents an hour.
= me men left the yard, and their af-
ndavlts are to be sent to William l..
ilutcheson, their national president,
VINO is in Washington conferring with
:, At the Downey plant William Bowers.
the vlce-pres dent, said that the men
involved had not been offered their
pIaces because they were not needed at
the plant. The work. he insisted
called for workmen of the unskilled
ciass' because it was trough work" and
the company could not be expected to
pay them wages of skilled workers.
All Workers Return
SIXTY more employees Of the Staten
Island Shipbuilding Company who had
hoI reported for work Monday returned
yesterday. They said they were not
unpatrotic, that many of them had
sons sons IN the service and that they were
perfectly willing to abide by anv deci-
son 81, President Wilson might make.
lhey were confident. they said. that hn
would deal justly, and they pointed out
mat there would have been no strite
mad he issued his letter to them at an
earlier date. 'N" q "''
Every, carpenter involved in the re-
cent walkout in Brooklyn yards is back
at at work They have announced that
tnelr grievances will be put up to the
ofhclals at Washington. The hreach
was healed even further when Scbeuon
q Sons took back at their old waees
foreman and several workers who have
oeen on sstrike. brotherhood orran-
izers had charged these men werc d;s.
crlminated against. u''
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20

immediately, using other lawyers OF
the department it necessary, and also
inc service of secret service agents OF
the Bureau of Investigation. Thcs>
agents already have been at work on
the Hog Island situation and are re-
ported to have gathered many facts on
which the special investigators Will
base their future inquiries.
Will Inspect Records
Mr.. Todd or MIR. Hyman probably will
GO to Hog Island this week to inspect
records of the American international
Corporation, which had charge of the
building OF the government plant. In
Nestigators also will be put to work
htre on government records relating to
the Hog Island contracts.
The investigation is an outgrowth of
. Congressional inquiry into the Ship
ping Boards building programme and
n later request of President Wilson
that Attorney General Gregory under
take separate investigation.
A conference report on the $50,000.-
600 shipyard workers housing bill. with
new provisions definitely prohibiting
cost plus profit contracts, and giving
latitude in lending money for house
building. was adopted to-day by the
House
The conferrecs modified a section
passed by the House requiring "adc-
ouate security" for all loans, and re-
ported its opinion that enforcement Of
such a requirement might seriously
embarrass the Fleet Corporation in its
efforts to get housing facilities built
quickly.
at is too much to hope" said the
committee. chat there will be no loss
to the government in carrying out this
project"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Rejected by American Army,
q Youths Enlist in France

FONTAINEBLEAU, France, JAN 81
(by maiD.-Numcrically in an almost
vanishing minority, though standing
out clearly and distinctly among their
5000 fellow pupils by reason of their
work, 2,300 young Americans arc fast
completing their courses in the French
artillery school here.
All of them arc graduates or have
been students at American colleges or
universities; all of them have seen
service with such organizations rs the
American Ambulance or the Rcd Cross.
More than one of them wear the French
war cross to attest to what they have
done in the war. Yet all of them have
and gone over to the service of Franco
for the duration of the war, because
they have not quite been able to pass
the strenuous American physical fitness
tests, and vet are so anxious to do
something for "the cause" that they
could not remain idle.
With the exception Of two or three,
all have had to enlist in The famous
Foreign Legion in order to get into
the school at all, as 81 government rcgu
lation put stop to the original ease
French artillery school.
The youngsters were rompng in
from their morning work one day this
week, when an Associated Press CORE
spondent found them. Eventually they
picked out Whitney Warren, jr., of
New York, to set down the facts, which
he did
"There are approximately 5000 pupils
at the school," he began. "The course
lasts about three months and a half,
and is not dissmilar in many ways to
New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
He Appoints Lawyer Who
Handled Antitrust
Investigations
Mark Hyman to Aid
Inquiry to Begin at Once; Sc
cret Service Agents Al
ready Working

WASHINGTON. Feb 19.-G Carroll
Todd. assistant to the Attorney Cen
cral, was appointed tonight by Attor-
hey General Gregory to conduct an in
vcstigation into charges that govern
ment funds have been spent extrava-
gantly in the fabricated steel ship yard
at Hog Island. Penn.
Mr.. Todd, who has had charge Of
antitrust actions for the Department
Of Justice since 1913. and is considered
one of the most able lawyers in the
department, Will be assisted in the in
quiry by Mark Lyman, of New York,
who for several years has been a spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney General
for antitrust Investigations.
The two men will begin the work