davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Board Finds Relatives Of B.
Baf, Slain Poultryman,
Violated Law
Sold Storage Brand
AS Fancy Candled
They Disposed of $4,000
Dozen Above Maximum
Price; Lose 4 Licenses

More than $4,000 dozen eggs which
were put into cold storage almost q
year ago were sold to the public this
winter as fancy candled" eggs, and
were made to bring prices in excess of
the maximum fixed by law, according to
the Federal Food Board, which yester-
day ordered that the licenses of B. Baff
d Son, 321 Greenwich Street, and Harry
Batf, the alleged profiteers, be revoked
for the period Of the war.
Complaints were heard by the board
that Harry BaY, son of Barnet Baf,
who was slain by gunner three years
ago, supposedly as result of a feud,
had been "defying the governments or
der regulating the wholesale price of
eggs" and had bought and sold eggs
regardless of the maximum price.
Four licenses were held by Baff under
the names of B. Baff &. Son. Inc. B.
BaR & Son, B. Batf and Harry Baff and
Fannie Baff. All these licenses were
revoked.
"This is one of the most fragrant
cases of profiteering that has been dis
covered in New York." was the food
boards comment in sending it's finding
to the food administration at Wash,
ington.
Soon afterward the food administra-
ton telegraphed back: "Give this mat
ter wide publicity, as we understand
the. Bats are discouraging poultry
dealers Of New York and hindering
agreement between poultry dealers and
food administration"
The members of the Federal Food
Board. accompanied by F. D. Walcott,
Mr.. Hoover's personal representative
here, left for Ithaca last night, where,
with the State Food Commission. they
will confer to-day and tomorrow with
farmers regarding the coming seasons
crops. The board has been tcld that
many farmers are withholding their po-
tatoes from the New York market for
higher prices. An effort will be made
to induce them to release their hold
ings.
Mr.. Hoover sent telegram yesterday
to the Mayors Committee of Women
on National Defence, praising the
board for its food conservation work.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13

torpedo construction and control care.
FULLY and had made numerous imnrove.
ments in the mechanism of the
weapons. Officials of the Bliss con.
Germ confirmed his statement.
tie also said that he had invented
and patented an appliance for steering
torpedoes, which he had offered to the
government in 1918, with the stipula-
tlon that If the invention were accept
ca ne should receive position in the
Navy Department. 1t was not &C.
copied.
y! made this invention, working in
conjunction with United States Naval
Lieutenant Emmett" the witness re-
lated. 1T was great disappointment
to me that it was not adopted"
Work Careless, He Says
The speeding up of work at the Bliss
plant since the declaration Of war has
been responsible, according to Hennig,
for much sovenly and careless crafts
manship.
"In August, 1912 he said, "they gave
me. about twenty-cight inexperienced
girls, whom l was obliged to put to
work drilling and tapping gyroscopo
parts. Many of the men were also very
poor mechanics. l felt that the whole
for the gyroscope depart
mcnt devolved on me and the work of
superintending such employees became
harder and harder"
The work of inspecting the complet-
ed horoscopes, Hennig said, was en-
tirely apart from his department. This
was done, he said, by government and
factory inspectors after the appliances
had left his denartment
The witness stood a rapid fusillade
of questions from the government at
torney in cross-examination without
showing embarrassment or deviating
from his story.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Victory Bread To Be Here
By Feb. n, Hoouer Thinks

Food Administrator Hoover believes
that within week the freight blockade
will have been relieved sufficiently to
permit New York bakers to get from
the mills all they need Of wheat -four
substitutes. Hence he expects them to
be producing Victory bread by Feb
ruary "a, the date the 20 per cent sub
stitute rule becomes effective.
This was the message delivered yes
terday by Benjamin L. Jacobs, baking
.echnician of the national food admin
istration, to representatives of all the
large baking and biscuit manufacture
'ng concerns of the city.
After February "a bread and rolls
must contain 20 per cent of wheat SUBJ
stltutes and cakes, pies, pastries. bis
cults and ice cream cones 331- per
cent. Shortening agents are limited to
vegetable oils or compounds which con-
tain not more than Is per cent Of ami
NAL fat. while the use Of more than
SIX pounds of sugar to every barrel Of
flour made up into bread or rolls is
also prohibited.
Mr.. Jacobs, as president of the
American Society of Milling and Bak-
ing Technology, called the meeting at
Street. He and DR.. j. A. Leclerc. Of
the Bureau of Chemistry, Department
OF Agriculture, expounded the rules and
discussed approved formula for the
baking of Victory bread and other bak-
cry products under the wheat conser-
walton rules.
The new regulations permit the use
OF rye flour as wheat substitute until
March 3. Bakers may also use milk
and cream, but the food administration
apparently discountenances ANYTHING
put water, as Mr.. Jacobs announced a
rule providing that if milk or cream is
used the bakers licensed under a pre-
VI vlous food administration regulation
snali not charge higher price for the
product or advertise it as milk or i
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Rev. DIR. Holmes
Withdrawn From
Peace Convention

Organizers of the pacihst, Socialist
and radical convention which is sched.
uled to open two days. session at
Bryant Hall, Sixth Avenue and Forty.
second Street, next Saturday morning,
ostensibly for the purpose of electinp
American delegates to "an inter-Allied
labor and peace conference" to be held
IN London this month, yesterday met
two adverse developments.
One was the announcement of DR..
John Haynes Holmes. pastor of the
Church of the Messiah. that he had
decided to withdraw as a member Of
the organizing committee. He wrote
letter to Scott Nearing. chairman
Of the Peoples Council, that the re-
port of British Labor party's inten-
tlon to hold a peace conference in Lon
don was unfounded, and recommend
ed that the New York meetings be
called off," The second development
came in advices that the London meet
ing is to be held. but will be held next
week, and there will not be sufficient
time to send American delegates.
Programme Announced
Instead of calling off" their meet
ing the organizers Of the conference
announced from their headquarters at
1873 West Thirteenth Street yesterday
the full details of their proposed pro-
ceedings. After the delegates have
been registered at Bryant Hall, Mr..
Nearing Is formally to open the ses-
sion with discussion of "Our Pres
ent Opportunity and Duty" In the
evening che delegates are to be shift
ed to Brevoort Hall. 154 East Fifty
will be 1.-THE Peoples Voice in the
Peace Settlement"
On Sunday morning the delegates
will reconvene at Bryant Hall to
discuss "A Constructive World Pro-
gramme for Democracy and Peace"
Sunday afternoon James H. Maurcr,
president Of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor. will preside at
a mass meeting at Central Opera
House. Morris Hillquit. DR.. Judah L.
Magnes and Amos Plnchot are to speak
In the evening Harriet Park Thomas.
Of Chicago, will preside at IAN inter-
dinner" at which the speak
ers are to be Louis Boudin. Louis P.
Lochncr, Dr. Patrick McCartan, Joseph
D. Cannon, Lajpat Raj and Lincoln
Steffens.
Just what the pacifsts hope to ac-
complish is indicated in literature sent
broadcast. Two paragraphs from their
arc:
Absolute disarmament, in place of
the modified disarmament commonly sug
gested by the statesmen. will be advocated.
This proposal is based upon the belief that
if it has been found well to prohibit the
carrying Of firearms by private citizens
for the settlement of personal disputes,
which are relegated to the courts. it will
be good thing to abolish the use of arms
by nations and send international disputes
to the proper sort OF tribunal. 1t will
also be urged that the. conference go on
record for the complete abandonment OF
all forms of military training and service.
Would Wipe Out Boundaries
"Thc conference will be asked to ap-
prove declaration that the ownership
and control of all natural resources and
public utilities shall be lodged in the peo- |
pie, with no distinction as to nationality. |
This amounts to the wiping out of national I
boaRaaz4es 50 far ~ wealth is concerned |
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Army Motor Trucks
On Test Trip to N. Y.

BUFFALO, Feb. 12.-Sixty-three mo-
tor trucks. in charge of army engineers
and carrying war supplies, left here at
10 o'clock this morning for New York.
The trucks will pass through Roch-
ester, Geneva, Syracuse, Utica and Am
sterdam. Leaving Albany they will
travel along the east bank Of the Hud-
son, with Peekskill as the principal
stopping point.
A further development of motor
to the seaboard will depend on the sue
cess Of the trip. Weather conditions
were unfavorable. many of the country
roads being flooded as the result Of q
two days thaw.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Three Guilty of Espionage
West Virginia Bankers and
Editor Fined ST. 900

PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Feb. 12.--
The trial of two bankers and an editor
OF Barbour County, this. state, on an
espionage act ended abruptly to-day,
when the three men pleaded guilty.
Judge Woods fined each $1,000 and
costs. The men were Floyd Teter.
vice-president Of bank at Beling.
ton, w. Va; Altman J. Stalnaker, cash.
ier, and Fred E. Thompson, editor of
"The Belington Progressive"
The Indictment charged the defend
ants in four counts with having con-
spired to obstruct the recruiting ser
vice and the selective draft law.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Rex, Zoo Lion, Is Killed
Aged Monarch Shot b,
Keeper He Trusted

probably the oldest in the world. went
the way of other monarchs yesterday
killed by man he trusted. 1t wrung
Jack O'Brien's heart to do it, but the
killing was one of the kindest acts he
has performed in manv years of min
istering to animals in the zoo in Pros
pect Park, Brooklyn.
The decrepit lion was twenty-nine
years old and he could no longer rise
to his feet. He was the last of the
twenty-seven lions that ran amuck in
the Dreamland arena fire. About three
years ago w. Darby bought Rex and
established him in Prospect Park
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Major Waldo Advanced
To High Staff Post

CAMP DEVENS, Massachusetts, Feb.
12.-The appointment Of Major Rhine
lander Waldo, former Police Commits
sioner of New York, as Assistant Pro-
vost Marshal General in France was an
nounced in dispatches received to-day
at divisional headquarters. The ap-
pointment was made by General Perish
ing.
Major Waldo, who was commander OF
the 1st Battalion Of the 301st Infantry
at Camp Devens, was sent abroad with
other officers for instruction at the
front
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
German Jewish Journals
Reported as Decreasing

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-Jewish
journals are increasing, but German
Jewish dailies are on the decrease, ac-
cording to report presented to-day at
the twenty-sixth annual meeting Of the
American Jewish Historical Society,
being held at Dropsie College.
DR.. Cyrus Adler was reelected presi-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
News Leak Being Traced
At Camp Devens Hearino

AVER, Mass, Feb. 12.-Three news
paper correspondents at Camp Devens
and several officers, members of the
court which tried Sergeant William
Nimke, Of Torrington, Conn, on
charge Of unpatriotic utterances. testi-
fed to-day at hearing by board of
inquiry which is seeking to learn tho
source Of published statements that
Nimke had been found guilty and given
a fhjrtv.five-vns eentanco
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
NeU York Labor
Greets Delegates
OF British Unions

Representatives Of organized labor in
this city last night were hosts to the
four British labor commissioners re-
Gently arrived in this country at con-
terence in Beethoven Hall, 210 Fifth
Street. The object of the conference
was an exchange Of views upon the ef
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Ford Libel Suit 10 Continue

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 12-
Circuit Judge Willis B. Perkins to- day
denied a motion Of "The Chicago Trib-
une" to dismiss the 81 100000 libel suit
brought against the newspaper by
Henry Ford. Of Detroit. Ford began
suit after "The Tribune" published an
article discussing Ford's peace motives.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Trade Board Chief RESIGNS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Chairman
Harris of the Federal Trade Commis.
sion to-day rendered his resionation
to President Wilson Mr.. Harris in.
tends to run for the Senate in Georgia
against Senator Hardwick.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-13

dent Of the society for the ensuing
year. Simon w. Rosendale, New York,
was reelected first vice president; AL
belt M. Friedenburg, New York, CORE
spending secretary, and Samuel Open
helm treasurer
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
Judging Schools By Age-Grade Distribution

lowing questions: Does the instruc-
tion realize the promise? Do the chill
dren move from point to point with
out needless waste?'
ITO find out just where the Anne
Arundel school children were last fall,
we collected data from all the schools
and made out what is known as an
age-grade distribution table.
such table, as suggested by the
name. is 50 arranged as TO show the
number OF children in each grade, dis
tributed in such away as to also show
the ages of these children. The latter
is a very important matter for school
syytem that holds children in. the
lower grades until they are so old
that they become discouraged and
leave school before completing the
elementary course has the wrong
kind of holding force.
The theory on which the school
grades are organized is that the chill
dren shall complete one grade each
year. and so finish the eight element
airy grades in eight years. If a pupil
has taken three years to complete two
grades, or seven years to finish five
grades, we may classify him, says Mr..
Ayres, as making slow progress And
we are willing to agree, that if the
course Of study is arranged to meet the
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08

needs and ability of the average child.
under favorable conditions, the aver
age child should advance a grade each
year.
If on entering school in September
ne is six years old, and if he COM
pletes the first years work in one
year, he will be seven years old the
next September and will be in the sec
ond grade. Likewise, the following
September he will be eight years old
and will be in the third grade, and so
on up through the grades. Allowing
one year for each grade, the average
child should reach the eighth grade at
fourteen years of age.
Are our children progressing at
this rate? The proper September age
for fourth grade scholar at this rate
is nine years old Let us examine the
age-grade table for our county and see
how the children of the fourth grade
have progressed:
Eve find in the fourth grade:
"One 7-year-old child. Under-
age. Probably started before six years
old
Five S-year-old children. (Under-
age. Probably started before six years
old
"Eighty-one 9-year-old children
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08

Looking toward the betterment Of
the public school system. County su-
perintendent of Public instruction,
Prof George Fox. has issued his first
annual report Of the Board of Educa-
tion of Anne Arundel County.
The report is complete and com
prehensive and contains much that is
OF material interest 10 the taxpayer of
the county. as well as 10 the parent
and guardian of children who are be-
ing educated at the city and county
public schools
IN will not he wise" says the report.
ito attempt to longer, as in the past.
measure our schools in terms Of
Fourth Of July orations"
Taxpayers are rapidly coming 10 a
point where they expect accurate edu-
cational accounts as well as accurate
financial accounts.
I'm his report. which he illustrates
by the accompanying plate. showing
age grade distribution of the schools
in Anne Arundel County. Prof Fox
says:
The Maryland elementary school
course, occupying eight years, prom
ises systematic progress through a
variety OF studies
The recent Survey asks the fol-
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
EV MN c H A T
ABOUT PEOPL E

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Fowler. and
child. of Baltimore, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Barrow, at Parole.
Miss Ella Basil, of Baltimore, is
visiting her sister. Mrs. Hugh r.
Riley. wife of Major Riley, Franklin
street. Murray Hill.
The family of Mr.. Harris and
daughter, Mrs. Maley. are occupying
their cottage at the lower end of
| Arundel-on-the-Bay.
Lieut.. viii Shea, of the Quarter
masters Department, motored from
Washington Saturday with his sisters
for a weekend stay at their cottage
on the bay
Mr.. and Mrs Galloway were hosts
yesterday TO large party of Army
friends who motored over to Arundel
on-the-Bay, and enjoyed their hospi-
tally
Mrs. George Salisbury, is enter
tanning Miss Ruth Haslup, of Balti-
more, daughter of the President of
the Y w. c. A.. at her cottage at
Arundel-on-the-Bay
Private James Vernon Abbott. Co.
E, End Engineer Corps, Camp Humph-
reys, Va, spent Sundays furlough at
home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles b. Abbott, Conduit street.
Mrs. A. S. McLemore, of Washing
ton, wife of Col. McLemore. U. S. M.
c.. spent the weekend with Lieut.
Commander and Mrs. A. ]. James, u.
S. ~, Naval Academy
Mr.. Thomas Anderson, who operat
ed 1.-THE Postal Studio" in Annapolis
some few years ago, was in town Sat-
urday Mr.. Anderson is now with the
Quartermaster's Department as In
spetor He is well known here and he
was greeted by many old friends.
Lieut. Roderick Peters, Ordnance
Department, u. S. National Army
forces. who has been visiting the par
ents of his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Lin
coin Townsend. at "Lincolnhurst,"
Arundel-on-the-Bay, returned to his
post in Hartford. Conn, last night
Mrs. David f. Grouse, of Newark, N.
Y, who has been visiting friends in
Annapolis and Washington. has re-
turned to her home. Mrs Grouse is
the daughter of the late Mr.. John
Duffy, formerly of this city, who was
a descendant of the Ormsly family of
Ireland, one of the oldest English
families of Great Britain, having for
the past ten centuries been both titled
and prominent. The Earl of Tyran-
ley was a close connection and also
Sir Lambert Hepenstahl Ormsly. who
is at the present time President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Dublin,
Ireland.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08

EIGHT ELEMENTARY GRADES IN EIGHT
YEARS, REPEATING Is COSTLY TO STATE
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
d. A. r. ACTIVITIES

The members of the Maryland So
ciety of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution will be interested to
know that the beautiful Holy Com
munion service presented by the
State Regent, Mrs. Lily Tyson Elliott,
to the Protestant Episcopal Chapel
at Odenton, was used for the first
time when the chapel was dedicated,
early in June. Nineteen soldiers were
confirmed from Camp Meade and one
baptized at that service. The chalice
was presented by Mrs Elliott as her
own personal gift. The remainder of
the service she gave in the name of the
Maryland Society of the d. A. r.,
which bears this inscription: Given
by the d. A. r. in memory of their
ancestors of the American Revolu-
ton"
Mrs. Charles Linthicum, State Chap
lain, has presented an altar cloth to
the chapel, through the Baltimore
Chapter, of which she is a member.
AT special meeting of the State So
city, held on July 1, at the Belvedere
Hotel, Mrs. Elliott presiding, a mo-
| ton was made and passed that Miss
Harriet Marine State Historian, should
compile from her original manuscripts
record of the military service of the
Revolutionary soldiers of Maryland
birth buried in the old cemeteries in
Baltimore, and also brief sketches of
the men prominent in the early civil
life of the city during the Revolution
airy period and the War of 1912. These
records will be published and placed
in all of the public schools in Balti-
more. In order to preserve a true
register of the Maryland soldiers, sail
ors and marines who are fighting to-
day in France in the service of their
country, an earnest request is made of
the mothers, wives and sisters of these
men who are members of the Maryland
Society ID. A. r., to keep the State His
torian informed of any change or pro-
motion in rank, etc, so that she can
keep these records complete.
Mrs. Charles Linthicum, chairman
of the free-wool committee of the
Maryland Society, urges all members
~ hCCP OA hniAllAS the Suit-
mer months, as sweaters and socks
will be greatly needed this fall
The State Regent reports a valu-
able and interesting relic recently
placed in the museum of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution in
Memorial Continental Hall, Washing
ton, which is the flag made by six
Scottish women who sat up all of one
night to make an American flag to
place on the graves of the victims Of
the Tuscania. This flag was sent in
exchange for very beautiful Scot
fish one given to these women of Ip-
sley, Scotland, by the National Society
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Mrs Elliott called the at
tention of the Maryland Daughters to
the request of the President General.
Mrs. George T. Guernsey, that all
members of the Society should observe
the two minutes silent prayer at noon
offered daily for the success of the
American and Allied armies
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
TEA HONOR OF GUESTS

Mrs William Spencer Murray will
give small tea at Acton on Wednes-
day afternoon of this week in honor of
Mrs. Robert Baker, of Washington,
D. c. Mrs. Baker is well known in An
napolis, and one of her sons was a
graduate of the Naval Academy sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. Baker will speak at the tea on
the Federal Woman Suffrage Amend
ment, now before the q. s. Senate
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
ANNAPOLITAN OWLS
TO GIVE DANCE

The second dance under the auspices
of the Annapolitan Owls, an organiza-
ton of well known young men, will be
held on Thursday evening, July IL,
from $50 to IL o'clock at Bouchers-
on-the-Spa.
The music will be furnished by the
original colored Jazz band of Balti-
more, the same that played on the
afternoon of July Fourth at Boucher's
with such success.
Buses will run every half hour from
Church Circle to Boucher's. A good
time is promised all patrons For
particulars, see ad in another column.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
COLORED MAN DROPPED DEAD

Augustus Ridgely. colored, dropped
dead Saturday in Bancroft Hall, Ma
val Academy, where he was employed
as steward, and had served for many
years
Ridgely was subject to heart trouble,
and usually spared himself the un-
necessary effort of walking to the
Academy by taking a car that runs to
the gate On Saturday morning he
missed the car, and while in the act
of changing his clothes in one of the
lower rooms he fell over and soon
expired Medical assistance was sum-
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08

moned but the man was past human
aid.
He was respected and held in high
esteem, not only by his race but by
those of the white race who knew
him. He had a wife living in Balti-
more and daughter in Connecticut.
The funeral took place this after
noon from Mount Moriah Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which he was a
member and class leader, the pastor,
Rev ]. A. Briscoe, officiating.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
EASTPORT MEETING
TOMORROW EVENING

Mrs. William Spencer Murray, presi-
dent of the Anne Arundel County
Branch of the Just Government
League, will speak at a meeting in
Eastport on Tuesday evening of this
week at the home of Mrs. Minnie Scott
Beavin.
Mrs. Murray's subject will be the
Federal Women Suffrage Amendment.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08

pany in contributing bonus funds for
the purpose, was opened by the Rev.
DR.. Paul Hicock, of the US National
War Council; John T. Stone, presi-
dent of the Maryland Casualty Com
pany, and Lieut.. John Hall. Chaplain
of the 50th Infantry.