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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
JEWS AND POLES.

Although the Jewish communal cleo
lions have taken place throughout Po-
land, with the exception of Warsaw and
LODI, the Council of the Jewish Commu-
nifty of Warsaw, whose tenure Of office
has long expired, has, under the pres
sure exercised by the Polish Government
postponed the elections that should have
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
HEBREW STUDY CLASSES TO CON-
MENCE AFTER FIRST OF YEAR.

MENCE AFTER FIRST OF YEAR.
Classes for the study Of conversational
Hebrew, and other branches Of the He
brew language, will be commenced short
ly after the first of the year, under the
auspices of the District Zionist Organiza-
ton of St. Paul. The classes will be COM
posed of grownups. Quite large num-
Der of men and women have already
manifested their desire to participate.
Those desiring to join, will communicate
with Rabbi Philip Kleinman, chairman
of the Educational Committee, telephone
North Summit 2115.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
285

Palestine "who had the great fortune to
liberate the Holy Land" The meeting
unanimously decided to place itself at
the absolute disposal of the Jewish Ma
tional Council of German-Austria.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-12-27
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD ORGAN
lies INFORMATION DIVISION
TO ASSIST SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS


SAILORS.
The soldiers and sailors and their
families will be given assistance in solv-
ing their problems of readjustment,
through the information division organ
lied by the home service department Of
the Jewish Welfare Board, to meet the
postwar emergency. With it's central
office at the national headquarters of the
Jewish Welfare Board, 149 Fifth Ave.,
the information division will carry on it's
work through the field representatives Of
the organization in the thirty-fve demo-
bilization camps throughout the country,
and through the community branches Of
the Welfare Board.
Information will be given to the men
in camp on all phases Of military life,
advising them in matters of military pro-
cedure, discharge, allotment and insur-
ance. Families who have failed to re-
ceive allotments, or who have not re-
ceived the insurance due them following
the death of a relative in the service,
will be placed in communication with
proper authorities and advised in proper
methods of procedure.
The division will send out daily bull
letins to all of it's centers, to dissemin-
ate all information issued by the gov
eminent OF INTEREST to men awaiting
discharge.
Attention will be paid particularly to
labor conditions, and opportunities
throughout the country. The bureau will
study the conditions of the labor market,
and will keep the camp and community
representatives apprised of changes in la
Dor requirements and of opportunities
that develop. The information division
will cooperate with the Federal Employ
ment Bureau in it's efforts to see that
a job is found for every man in khaki
and blue-to fit jobs to the men. Agri-
cultural opportunities will be studied
particularly. The community and camp
representatives in addition to disseminate
ing information among the men, will also
supply the Central Clearing house with
news of changes in the conditions of the
labor market, in their particular locali-
ties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Golf Champion
SO 900 Fund
Awaits Distribute

Mrs. William A. Gavin, the metropol'
itan golf champion, who raised about
$4,000 by giving exhibitions through
out the country fo4 the Drake Set
ton Sanitaire, recently dissolved By
District Attorney Swanr, yesterday DIS
cussed with the District Attorney tn.
disposition of the money. Most 0.
the money raised for the fund was
turned over by Mrs. Gavin to The West.
ern Golf Association and is deposited
in this city and Denver.
The District Attorney said that NM.
Gavin thought all Of the money shoas
be returned to the original contrl'9
tors, and if they thereafter desire
make the contributions through herG
the same purpose they should be at ln
erty to do so.
1t was stated that Miss Ethel Lang
don Drake, of Boston, who orignsA
the training camp for girls, is tr!lA
to persuade Ambassador Jusseranc' Z
France, to have a new committee ~
charge Of the fund.
"The District Attorney suggsss,
Mr.. Swami said, that better ps
would be TO turn the money over 70 y.
French government for the speesa.
purpose of buying ambulances ana W
no other purpose, and IN tnal s'..'
it would eliminate all overhead ehsisi:
of an amateur committee ana W. WI.
eliminate the possibility of Miss D''''
interfering"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Gas Used in
UBoat Attack
On IT, S. Coast
Continued from page l

peared and two more depth charges
were dropped on the spot.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to-day
characterized the work on the subma-
rines in Atlantic waters as without
military value to the enemy. He
scoffed at the boast of the commander
of the submarine which took the crew
Of the Kate Palmer aboard that he
"was equipped to stay six months if
he desired"
Confirmation of the sinking of the
Kate Palmer, Anita May, Reliance,
Star Buck, Progress and four other
schooners on August 10, was received
by the Navy Department to-day.
The British steamer Penistone, of
4,139 gross tons, was reported torpe-
decd 100 miles east of Nantucket Light
ship yesterday morning, and the Swed-
ish steamer Sydland, of 3,031 gross
TONS was unk by bombs August 8, 100
miles southeast Of Nantucket. The
crew of the Palmer were held prison.
ers on the submarine for an hour, and
then set adrift in a dory. Survivors,
which haze landed at New Bedford,
Mass, report the submarine to be 800
feet long, with crew of sixty men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
10 Per Cent Wage
Increase Granted
By Western Union

G. w. E. Atkins, first vice president
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, announced yesterday a tentative
wage increase of 10 per cent retro
active from July 1, affecting AT, 900 en-
ployes. The higher ages will add
$3,0OO,O0O a year to the company's ex-
penses, but, it is believed, will elimi-
nate the danger of strike, although
concerning the reinstatement of men
discharged for joining the union, which
constituted the principal grievance of
the employees.
The new wage rate is conditional
upon the approval of Postmaster Cen
eral Burlcson, now the head of the
country's telegraph system, but as he
was present at the conference in Wash
ington at which it was decided upon it
is thought that his approval will not
be withheld. However, it was stated
by postofiice officials in Washington
that the question of operators had not
been taken up by the department.
The conference in Washington was
followed by a meeting of company Of
ficials and employees here on August 8,
at which the proposed increase was de-
cided upon. The decision is prelimi-
nary to joint investigation that is to
be made by the company and it's en-
ploycs along the lines followed by the
Railroad Wage Commission as to what
would be involved by applying certain
of that commissions findings to the
salaries of telegraph workers. The 10
per cent increase, there fore, according
to Vice President Atkins, is tentative
working basis only, and may be in
creased or lowered as a result Of the
proposed joint inquiry.
The Western Union company also re-
Gently granted its employees time and
n half for overtime and this additional
outlay is not included in the 5000 900
given as the cost of the new wage
departure.
Employees now receiving more than
$4,000 year and messengers and all
other commission employees will not re-
celve the proposed increase in wages.
according to Mr.. Atkins, but their
bonuses and commissions will continue
to be paid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Chinese Dead Get Yearly Feast
For Final Trip to Poppyland

The stream was the East River and
bridge the Williamsburg Bridge and
not grotesquely ornamented struct
ure Of Celestial manufacture; it was
the livery gated hoofs of horses that
clop-clop- cloppcd on the roadway in
stead of the swift, silent stride of
"rickshaw" boys, but the li.tle pro-
cession Of carriages that wound its
way yesterday from Mott Street 10 E.v
ergrcens Cemetery carried bit of an
cient China preserved intact in this
barbarian city.
On Leongs from 16 and 18 Mott Street
were travelling to the Feast of the
Dead, honoring those who had been
borne from those portals during the
last seven years. Those who had
joined their ancestors more than seven
years ago were not to sit at the feast,
for after an interval of seven years the
bones of the dead are sent to their old
homes in China, sealed in tin boxes
and prepared in secret way known
only to the fat and venerated Tom Hoy.
At the head of the procession was an
streamers of crepe-like paper of varied
hues, adorned with intricate ideo-
graphs prcclaiming that the huge roast
pig within, the heaping bowls of rice
the baskets in which wine bottles
clinked, the sweetmeats, the gilt
adorned candles, the cigars and the
cigarettes, all had been prepared by
the residents of 16 and 10 Mott Street
to honor their dead and that they
might not travel hungry in the shad-
oWs.
Joss sticks and candles were lighted
at the graves, marked by their tiny
upright slabs, and the score or so Of
Chinese tremendously served the re-
past first at one grave and then at the
next until the immense porker, bastcd
with molasses until he glistened like a
coolie in rice field, and all the rest of
the feast had been passed to the
abodes of all who formerly dwelt at 16
and 10 Mott Street.
At each grave the servers bowed low
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
All Are Liable, if Conv;ct.,
to $4,000 Fine and N
Years in Prison
Arraigned To-mor,o.,
Captain in Quarterm,....,
Reserve Corps Released
in $4,000 Bail

The new sabotage law was i,v.,.
by the Federal Grand Jury yes,s,s
IL the return of indictments sss; ss!
nineteen individuals and two cos' pS
lions accused by the goverrmsr, :,
having been involved in deals .brn, "
which raincoats that General persl;s
characterized as rotten were s.,s
the United States Army. '''' y
These indictments" said .s.:.
United States Attorney Joseph as'' "a
deau, "are, | believe, the first ~ =" / oes
turned under this act" W 'e r.
Many of the manufacturers ;sa;..
yesterday q ready are under 'I ;ns;ss
ment under the section of The i iIu,s'
States criminal code which imnosa.'s'
penalty for giving money or otb pv'ss
sideration to an official or emna. e0a,
the government with view to iS nssss q
ing the latter's officials decisions ut ~
der these original Indictments b oa
ever, the severest penalty which At W.
accused men can suffer, if found er;l ~
IS five years in prison or q fine Of ffW S
600, or both. Under the SABOTAGE wv Nv
the maximum fine possible rem. Nv
still at $4,000, but in case of cnnn.
ton, the prison term nav be ey,.nsDi
to thirty years. S-S''
Following is the list of tins. ).
dicted: ''' n'
Morris Lesser. of the Lesss, .
Stenge Company, 81 West Twen,;,s
Street; Harry E. Lazarus, of SO7 Ss..
Avenue; William and Joseph Saw.
man, of the Seydeman Rubber cos
pany; Ralph Cohen, and the Yorksb;,
Manufacturing Company, of So l-niy.,
slty Place; Charles and Benjamin pO,.
tel, of the Plottel Raincoat Compsm
163 West Twenty-sevcnth Street: San.
uel Halpern, of the Interborough Raj.
coat Company, of 6Sl Broadway: Tai,
Clamon, of the Manchester Waterpra,,
Coat Company, of us Broadway
Harry Stenge; Simon Harris, Of Il,
Harris Raincoat Company, of ,ly
Broadway; Arthur Zittel. of the Auto.
mobile Raincoat Company, of 2l Wasb.
ington Place; Lewis J. Fried, Of Il
East Twelfth Street; William Hansue,
of Hanauer & Rosenthal COMPANY o
245 Seventh Avenue, and Ralph Rossn
thai, of the same company; Aaron R
Levinsky, and the Levinsky Sons Ram
coat Company; Felix Gouled, of Mad
ison Avenue: and Samuel Josephs and
Samuel Levine.
Judge Julius NJ. Mayer, to whom The
indictments were returned. ordered III.
arraignment for tomorrow morning At
II o'clock
A few days ago Captain Aubrey "
Vaughn, of the Quartermaster's Re-
serve Corps, U. S. A., was arraigned 81
/ result of this investigation of the
raincoat scandal. Yesterday, however
Judge Mayer released him in S5,GQ
bail.
The government is letting further
contracts for raincoats. The work il
in charge of the waterproofng clothing
Section of the Quartermas Generals
Department, at 100 East Sixteenth
Street. This department desires
have on file here the names of all nF
utable raincoat manufacturers T.
gardless of location. who have estit
lished plants and working organii'
! TONS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
German Advertising
Placed by Runely,
Hammerling Says

Louis N. Hammerling, president of
the Association of Foreign Language
Newspapers, yesterday issued a state
ment branding as false the testimony
of Arthur Gabryel concerning the
formers alleged connection with the
preparation and placing of the adver-
tisement entitled "An Appeal to the
American People," which appeared in
many foreign language newspapers
over the country.
Mr.. Hammerling denied also that
him at his Office or home, as was testi
fled to by Gabryel before Deputy At
torney General Becker.
In his statement Hammerlng saws.
in part: y
"Gabryel is reported to have testified
he saw Count Won Bcrnstorff in nv Of
flee shortly before the advertisement
was published. Count Won Bernstorff
was never in my Office or my home. In
fact, have never met him.
Neither is it true that | called Ga
brycl into my office and said, Arthur.
whatever you know, keep your mouth
shut He we'll knew that DR.. E. A.
ton" A~0
Explaining Gabryel's testimony to
the effect that Hammerling had Given
him $500 bonus and had made pres
ents to other employees, Hammerling
said: For many years it was the Gus.
tom IN this Office around the Christmas
and Easter holidays to distribute bo-
muses. or gifts among all employees and
II Gabrycl found $500 cheaue in his
envelope it may have been on one Of
these OCCASIONS"
Concerning Gabryel's allegation that
Hammerling ordered the records of the
association burned, Hammerline said
this was done when the offices wcre
moved to eliminate removing them to
the new headquarters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13

several times, their hands clasped be-
fore their middles, while they muir
INJURED moaning invocations to the
dead to partake of the feast.
Not far away, at the entrance Of
weather faded marquee, stood Chinese
of dignifed corpulence, his sleeves
rolled up and an inscrutable smile on
his face. From within the tent came
bubbling as of a boiling caldron, and
film of smoke and a peculiar aroma
drifted from it to where the dead, four
feet under ground, with their chin fans
at their sides and money in their
mouths, Toasted with the living.
The living glanced uneasily over
their shoulders and edged closer to
their silent guests, as the smoke from
the fire slanted lower, for the man at
the tent door was Tom Hoy, of % Pell
Street, the only man in Chinatown
whose spade cannot desecrate grave.
He was preparing the bones of the
seven yearsdead for their long jour-
ney back to Pagodaland. A shudder
ran through the moaning graveside
group as Tom Hoy mechanically drew
strange, wide bladed knife across the
palm of one hand. The dead, decently
IN their graves, were one matter; their
bones, neatly cleaned and reposing in
Slaoo jars, we're announcer; DuC the dead
as they came to Tom Hoy, neither in
their graves nor in glass jars, were
mystery, and horrible.
Perhaps the feast was hurried a bit
toward the latter end. At any rate,
the frugal hosts presently CLEANED
every last crumb, candle and cigarette,
packed them in the wagon and started
back to Chinatown, where last night
the Barmccide feast of evergreens be-
came an actually on a grooming board
in the joss house on the top floor of
16 Mott Street, and the bones of the
great roast pig were picked as clean
as any that ever passed the hands Of
Tom Hoy.
All this week the pilgrimages to
Chinese graves will continue, and then
the dead will begin another twelve
month fast that will be another lap
on the journey to Tom Hoy and Pop
pyland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax
Willie Willis

willie Wits
Potsdam and Frankfort, Berlin and
Cologne,
Cities l govern completely. and own,
Daily complain that their patience is
done
Waiting to sit in their place in the sun.
Hindenburg, Ludy and even the prince
humble excuses, and fretfully mince
Blatant evasionS which bounce off the
dome
Of everybody l talk to at home.
Dunkirk and Paris, Verdun and Calais
Were to be captured, swept out of my
But at the moment they're distantly
Further away than in nineteen fourteen.
What shall do now it's getting so hot :?
Call on Mahomet or pal it with Gott ?
Armies I've cherished no longer can
punch,
Food is no more in the larder for lunch.
Come to me, Allies, let arguments
cease,
Comrades, together, we'll patch up a
peace;
Lands which at present I'm holding
If you will add just billion or two.
LESLIE A. TAYLOR.
Somme, but their official reports went
back to the Hindenburg Lynn month
ago.
There will be new target in the
general store of Cheshire, Ohio, on
which the village strategists may train
their tobacco barrage. H. A. Resener,
who halls from that metropolis, an
nounced at the Hotel Majestic yester-
notified to bid farewell to the time
honored sawdust box.
Here is what | am going to send
as a substitute" said Mr.. Resener,
holding up steel shrapnel helmet. "My
cousin in France got it from a Hun,
his first time over the top. I can't
think of better use to put it to-"
while you are selecting proper
targets for German bombs "V. b.
suggests, "why omit the old Postoffice
on Park Row? Alphabetically it
should be deleted, and since l got a
mailed in Croton-on Hudson on July "a,
l don't believe anything could disrupt
the postal system any further"
Motorists, beware! Don't try to con-
fuse the honorable traffic court here
after with complicated technical ex-
plantations of how it happened. Mag
istrate House will call your bluff. He
and his chief clerk, Rowland J. Sheridan
are spending their evenings in taking
a course in automobile engineering and
will analyze in the light of their
knowledge every excuse offered here
after.
Trying to get out column gives us
fellow feeling for the directors OF
West front offensives
The deeper we penetrate the tougher
the going.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Sued for Separation,
Claims Another Wife

Justice Guy yesterday denied the an
pllcation of Mrs. Irene B. Kinney Nav
tor allmony pending her separation
suit against Frederick Nav. who 10
connected with the Lux Manufactured
Company. Mays unusual defence to
the action is that he is married tn
another woman, that he never married.
the defendant and that his wife. from
whom he has been estranged. is once
more on friendly terms with him and
VIII be a witness for him on the trial
OF the separation suit.
Mrs. May is seventy years old and
a, graduate of Villa Mariet Convent.
Montreal. She is a musician. comnoser
and writer. 'p''ei
The story of Mr.. May, who is about
he first met the woman who insists
she is his wife while she was keeping
a boarding house in West Twenty,
third Street. He admits that for
twenty-one years he supported her, but
denies that there ever was cere-
monal marriage between them.
The defendant alleged that Mrs. May
has Authorizations Mr.. Nav denied
the allegation of the plaintiff that he
tried to have her committed as men,
tally Incompetent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
$2,130,000 Asked
AS Damages for
Gates Corn Drive
Former Chicago Broke,
Says 1902 Attempted
Corner" Broke Fed
eral Law

The famous corner on corn, generally
in 1902 by that picturesque gladiator of
the stock market and the race tracks,
Beta Million" Gates, is at last to be
passed upon by the courts.
Yesterday Robert H. Thorburn, of Ga
West Fifty-third Street, who in those
hectic days of frenzied finance used
to be a member Of the Chicago firm Of
Waite, Thorburn & Co., dealers in
grain and members of the Chicago
Board of Trade, brought suit in the
United States District Court here for
s2,13O,OO0 against Dellora R. Gates,
John F. Harris and John Lampert.
1t is the contention of Mr.. THorburn
that manipulations on the part of
Gates and his firm caused the suspen-
sion of the firm of Waite, Thorburn g.
Co. from the Chicago Board of Trade,
and that, as result of that suspen-
sion, his business was destroyed, and
that he has accordingly been injured
to the extent of S7OO,OOO Under the
provisions of the Sherman antitrust
law he claims treble damages, thus
somewhat staggering total of $2,130,OOO
counting in a few incidentals.
Will Define Corner"
The two defendants, Harris and Lam
pert, were associates with Gates dur
ing the spring and early summer
months when the transactions in ques-
ton were undergoing their most furi
Gus convolutions. John w. Gates-the
a. =
day supplement fame-died overseas at
Paris on August 9, 1911. Two years
later his son, Charles G. Gates. passed
away at Cody, Wyoming. Dellora R.
Gates, as trustee and sole residuary
legatee under the wills of both the ell
der and younger Gates, is in posses
sion Of the entire Gates property
Which is how she comes into the pres
ent suit.
What the court has to decide is
whether or not it really was a corner
that John w. Gates and his associates
brought about The complaint sets
forth that more than 25,oOo. 900 bushels
were cornered between March and July,
1902, in direct violation of the Sher-
man law.
Law Broken, 1t Is Charged
A Coordination and conspiracy" was
formed, it is charged, which created a
restrained, artificial. unnatural and
monopolistic condition of the corn
market" and succeeded in running the
price up to 80 cents q bushel, whereas
so the complaint says-had it not
been for these unlawful and criminal
acts of the said Gates" the price would
never have exceeded Sc cents at the
outside.
The complaint then sketches appeal
ngly the plight of the country at large
as a result of this-and of Waite.
Thorburn e. Co. in particular.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-13
Cyclops Foundered
Is Daniels's View

WASHINGTON. Aug. IL. - Loss of
the American naval collier Cyclops re-
mains the mystery of the war, Score
tary Daniels told newspaper CORE
spondents to-day when asked regard
ing reports that message saying the
Cyclops had been captured by a Ger
man submarine had been found in
bottle floating at sea. Mr.. Daniels said
the Navy Department had no informa-
ton regarding such a message.
Nothing in this war is impossible.
the Secretary said, when asked if the
Cyciops could have been taken to Ger
many as prize, but he added that it
did not seem within the realm of prob
ability that such craft could have
passed between the Gordon of British
and American naval vessels guarding
the gateways to the enemy's coast.
Mr.. Daniels's personal opinion Is that
when coming up the coast from the
West Indies under one engine, the
Cyclops encountered rough weather,
which caused the shifting Of her cargo
Of manganese, turning her over.