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New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Girl browns in River;
Playmate Is Missing

YONKERS, N. Y, March 13.-Vir-
ginia OFerman. three and one-half
years old, of 779 Warburton Avenue,
was drowned in the Hudson River
o-day. Edward Conrad. d year younger,
is believed 10 have met the same fate.
He is the son of Mrs. Mllicen't Conrad,
who lives next door. The body of the
little girl was found near the Yonkers
Corinthian Yacht Club dock The boy is
missing. The police and scores Of cit
liens grappled for over two hours near
where the girls body was found, but
no trace of his body could be found.
The children had been permitted
early in the afternoon to go in front
of their homes to play. A short time
after they were nowhere to be seen.
Mrs. Oiferman searched the neighbor
hood and then notified the police.
Railroad men told the searchers they
had noticed the children cross the
railroad tracks The police then began
a search along the river bank, result
ing in the finding of the body of the
girl
There is a steep embankment along
the river edge where the body was
found. The police think that the chill
dren either fell from the top of this
embankmcnt or that they made their
way to the river and were playing on
an ice cake.
George OFcrman, father of the lit
tie girl is an accountant in New Yor!,
Citv
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

nue., Brooklyn, N. Y, 5000 copies of
the pamphlet entitled Proclamation
and War Programme
-. Adolph Germer, on July II, 1917.
at Chicago. sold to Scott Wilkins, 7l5
West Pearl Street, Wapakoneta, Ohio,
1000 copies of the pamphlet entitled
PROCLAMATION and War Programme
~. A. Germer, July 25, 1917 sold to f.
Wusthrick, 1911 South Eighth Street.
Sheboygan, Wis, 5000 copies of the
pamphlet entitled Proclamation and
War Programme
"5. Adolph Germer, August 3, 1917,
sent to c. H. Leber, 1921 Main Street
Reading, Ohio, twenty copies of the
pamphlet entitled Down With the War
IS. Adolph Germer. on June 10, 1917,
at Chicago, gave to the Chicago Ar
beiter-Zeitung' an order to print 100 .OOO
copies of the pamphlet entitled The
Price We Pay by Irving St. John
Tucker.
81. Adolph Gcrmcr on June is. 1917,
sold to Martin B. Heisler Buffalo, N. Y,
10000 copies of the pamphlet entitled
The Price We Pay
IS. Adolph Corner, on July 25, sold
matter to f. Wusthrick, 1871 South
Eighth Street, Sheboygan, Wis.
SO. Adolph Gcrmer and J. Louis Eng
uoii' oii JUNE 10, IJlt, at ONlCdBO,
printed in The American Socialist a
certain article entitled Cheer Up by
Cary Z. Norris.
40. Adolph Germer and Engdahl on
June %, 1917, printed in The American
Specialist Chicago, an article entitled
Show the Flag.
al. Victor L. Berger, June 20, 1917,
Milwaukee Leader sixth page. article
entitled Why We Are in This War.
"12. Victor L. Berger, July 13, 1917,
in The Leader on the sixth page, an
article entitled War and Insanity.
"13. Victor L. Berger on August 2.
1917, in The Leader or the sixth page,
in an article entitled Difference of
Opinion.
I'D. Victor L. Berger, August 6, 1917,
milwaukee, Leader sixth page, article
entitled A Big Business War.
"l5 Victor l.. Berger, August "a, 1917,
milwaukee, Leader on the sixth page,
an article entitled Ccnsoring God
"16. Irving st. John Tucker, June 49,,
1917, at Chicago, wrote and caused to
be printed for circulation a pamphlet
entitled Why You Should Fight"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Record Price Is Paid
For O Henry Letter

At the American Art Galleries yester-
day, when the library of Oscar Hay
wood, D. D., was dispersed the record
price CT $50 was paid for an auto
graphed letter by 40 Henry" to Ethel
Lloyd Patterson. The buyer, A. Swan.
agent, also purchased the following
items:
Original unpublished holograph man
uscript Of an autobiography sketch
by "Mark Twain" S540; pencil sketch
Of bust portrait Of Oscar Wilde, auto
graphed by the author, S16O; original
wash drawing by Hardy of Marshall p.
Wilder, $130; first edition Of "Poems
Here at Home" by James Whitcomb
Riley, $3.50; first edition, with auto
graphed inscription by the author, of
Love Songs Of Childhood" by Eu-
gene Field, Sl05; original manuscript
poem, "The Reporter" by James Whit
comb Riley, S1C5.
letter by William Howard Taft
went to X. A. Heller for $1O2
The total for the sale was s5,972.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Urges Factory Closing
To Help the Farmers
Approved by u. S. Authorities

W WASHINGTON, March 13.-Closing
down of the less essential industries
for fifteen days in the spring to cnable
Workmen to go to the farms will be
necessary in many places to meet the
farm labor shortage, the Senate Agri-
cultural Committee was told to day by
Clarence Ouslcy, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture.
There is not an industry not en-
gagged in actual war work which could
not afford to close down for fifteen
days" Mr.. Ousley said. "1here is not
enough labor seeking employment to
meet the demand and the shortage
must be made up from the cities, but
from among men who have had actual
farm experience"
The closing could be arranged by the
iocal cominunitics, Mr.. Ousley said, and
he asked that members of CONGRESS-
to communicate with business men in
their states to urge that this be done.
he iifteen-day period could be dis
tributed. over the spring planting sea-
son, closing the industries for a few
days at time, he said
Other steps must be taken before the
numerous farm problems are met. Mr..
Ousley said, including The employment
OF women TO Go some Of the light work
Mr.. OusIey said he was confident
there would be greater acreage in
1918 than in 1917.x
The necessity for conserving wheat
so that the Allies can be supplied was
Impressed to-day on food administra-
tors from nearly every state in the
Union at conferences with officials of
the food administration. Reports of
the food situation throughout the coun-
try were made.
Mrs. Burnett Smith. of London. who
lost her home in German air raid
appealed to the officials for increased
exports to relieve the scarcity of food
in ENGLAND ''
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Seek Slackers in Factory

Three Secret Service operatives. ac
companied by member of the UNI
formed rolicc and representative Of
Local Board 1856, of Staten Island. de-
scended on the S. S. White Dental
Works last night and demanded that
the 45o mon working there show qucs-
tonnaire cards or prove they were over
age for the draft.
william Murray twenty-four years
old, was arrested when it was found
that his card was made out to Robert
Joseph Montgomery, OF New Milford.
Conn. He admitted that he had left
New Milford after he had been called
Tor examination, and had tried to evade
military service
lie VIII be arraigncd too day before
united states Commissioner McGold
rick in Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Berger and Companions
Accused of 10 Overt Acts
Substance Of Indictment Against Socialist Leaders, Charged
With Violating Espionage Act at Chicago, Is
Dvulged by Government

CHICAGO, March 1.-THE substance
of the charges against Victor l.. Ber-
ger and four other leaders of the So
clalist parry who have been indicted
by the Federal grand jury for violation
of the espionage act has been made
public. Bcrgers companions in indict-
ment are Adolph Germer, national sec
retary of the Socialist party; j. Louis
Engdahl, William F. Krusc and Irwin
St. John Tucker.
These are grouped in the indictment
as certain individuals in the city of
Chicago" who "unlawfuly combined
and agreed with other persons to vio-
late provisions of Section of Title 1
Of the act of Congress approved June
IL, 1917, known as the espionage act,"
iii the following manner:
q. Through and by means of per-
sonal solicitation.
"2. BY means of public speeches.
g. BY means of articles printed in
The Milwaukee Leader and Anne rcan
Socialist
a. by means OF certain printed pam
phlets printed such as the 'Proclama
ton and War Programme ard another
Down With War and another. The
Price We Pay, Esd Why You Should
Fight
IS. BY means of certain cartoons and
illustrations printed in The milwaukee,
Leader and American Socialist and
certain postcard pictures and billboard
posters.
"6. By means of certain printed pict-
ures, among others a picture entitled
The Realities of War
-. Through and by means of certain
books, magazines and bulletins.
"S. BY means of advertisements in
said newspapers and pamphlets.
Allege Overt Acts
The following overt acts are claimed
Il. Adolph Germer. June 20, 1917
gave to the Chicago 'Arbeiter Zeitung
an order for 25000 copies of the pam
phlet entitled "Proclamation and War
Programme
''2. Adolph Germer or June 26. 1917
sold to A. Pauly. 957 Willoughby Ave
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
German Alliance
Branch Stands
With Weissr1ann
President Refused to Hold
Annual Convention Dur
ing the War

The German American Alliance OF
Brooklyn met last night in Arion Hall
and adopted resolutions expressing the
confidence of the body in Henry Weis
mann, president Of the State Alliance
and it's Brooklyn branch, who has been
under fire for some time because he
has refused to hold the annual con-
vention of the state organization.
Before this resolution was passed
unanimously Weismann himself ex
planned his stand on the subject by
pointing out that. although the alliance
of greater New York had demanded a
convention, it had no right to do so.
This power. he said, was vested only in
branches of the state alliance.
Oppose Meeting During War
The resolution sets forth:
I'VE are opposed to the holding of
a state convention of the alliance dur
ing the war. 1t would breed discord
and wrong impressions. What is
wanted is united action, to organize
the citizens into one army of workers
to win the war, and thus insure an
early peace We favor unity and decry
words or acts that carry the impress
"We deprecate the attacks upon
President Weismann by some whose
motives we question, and demand of
hni not to resign his post until such
time as the present dangers to the
alliance have disappeared and the ele-
Dents attacking him have been made
to realize that their movement must
fail"
If the leaders of the National Ger
man-American Alliance had been rs
good patriots as Weismann himself, the
King BILL to revoke the charter of the
national body, would never have been
introduced, according to Wesmann,
who spoke at last nights meeting for
an hour.
Both he and his lieutenant. William
Lieberman. addressed the gathering at
length, discussing for the most part the
patriotism of the alliance and how it
had been understood.
Says Robinson Bill Will Die
Weismann announced that the Robin
son bill, now pending in the Legislature
and providing that the three members
of the alliance, who are serving on the
State Herkimer Homestead Commission
be dropped, had been practically killed.
He spoke last week at a hearing on
the bill in Albany, and, according to
his statement last night, it will die in
committee. The present commissioners,
he said. will be continued in Office for
the next five years, and their number
will be increased by four, making them
ten in all.
Weismann attributed this action on
the part of the legislative committee to
the influence of his report on the meet
ing Of the directors of the state Alli-
ance in ALBANY some time ago
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Straus Is Reappointed

ALBANY, March 13.-rhe nom;na
tion Of Oscar s. Straus. Of Now ynrI
as chairman Of the Public ServiceCon
mission for the lst District. for y
term OF five years, was sent to the
Senate by Governor Whitman to.aav
and was confirmed Immediately.
Senators &. +. Thompson, of Niayora
and Robert K. Lawson were excused
from voting, after Mr.. Lawson had cx
pressed opposition to Mr. Straus on ac
count of HIS age, sixty-nine years, and
Mr.. Thompson had declared that the
Public Service Commission as nm or
ganlzhtion was unnecessary, unjusti-
fed and Of no benefit to the state"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
N FEBRUARY 18 we received this complaint;

Betsy Ross Wool Company Ffth Aven"e rh M waoI w
s week as beng all wool and sold wholesale prices
wn b SOCKS wheh have started The
o mas no eiasticy and all invc
f a ha mat there frequent OF running
OF the company and of goods ~ ~ ~ " A.
oil OF th Betsy Ross advertisements claimed that
SAMPLES OF both the the The khaki only
Of % OF per cent of cotton the gray a
ne small quantity and general appearance the cotton
nates tnat it together With shoaiy which had
peh arbozed all
h an dlcatlon of manufacturing h
uenrale adueration Since both yarns onstras
,e VIRGIN @ wool as from sheep WIN
"oo or shoddy made f
garments ana pieces of CLOTH has therefore had onie
oelore nelhg woven into
present scarcity of wool knitting yarns should not be made m
@ WOOL provided they represented purchasers; but m
& reason why reconstructed part should not
'o o' a'Ner''sed as pure WOOL "all WOOL
h epoe our findings to the Betsy Company receive
'hs le'ter from them, dated February q
We have your letter reyors;, m r., - +be mill
unoouptedy be surprise that
e yarn nave asked them matter up with
me MUS surprise at learning that their gray warn contained -
ot v nlust nave been great they &
rev rnd;rocti 'ciehly from it to take the with
von" a iMmealately modified since February q ~
nu ana pure Wool have disappeared from the advertising s
Birthday, difficult to tell whnber The Tribune
a ~ a.her or Our Country responsible for the wa
with G. we perfectly willing the hv
longer c,a;n . copy least negatively clean M
nnt & u urlher Improvement Betsy Ross company wishes
that be I me ruth but the whole truth Let them explain p
ti o reconstruccd combined with ttle
rae wh;ch % 'hs they will nearly justified
eS nave chosen patriotic appeals which then
'eiASenehts make to kntters f 'ff
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Army Evader Sent to Jail

Pleading that he was an interno-
tional Socialist and that he was unal-
cerably opposed to war in genera,
Charles kroll. twentv-t three wears old
VINO refused to appear for physical en-
amlnation when ordered by his local
GRAFT board. was sentenced to eleven
months and fifteen days in the Essev
Jounty, New jersey, Jail yesterday bv
Judge julius Mayer in the Criminal
hranch OF the Federal District Court
,,han Mroll was condemned by Judge Mayer
be ashamed Of yourself" said tha ti,'
Judge. "You should be glad to ba"e @
the chance and the right to defend ~ ~; c c
land as member of it's armed forces s' ), ),
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Scheele, Sought
In Bomb Case,
Caught in Cuba
German, Missing Since
1916, Being Returned
TO America

HAVANA, March 13.-Dr. Walter T.
Scheele. who was indicted in New York
in 1916 for placing bombs on Allied
ships in New York Harbor, was de-
ported from Cuba to-day in custody of
American detectives.
Dr. Schcele is said to have come to
Cuba. under an assumed name, as a
chemical expert. When he learned that
he was being sought by American Sc
cret Service officers, it is said that he
took refuge on board of one of the
German vessels interned in Havana
harbor When Cuba entered the war
these ships were seized by the Cuban
government, but DR.. Scheele succeeded
IN making his escape before the Cuban
officials went on board
He was arrested later in Guanaba-
Goa and brought to Havana, his identity
being kept secret. It was not until
some hours after the snip aboard which
he is being taken to America mad sailed
that details of the case became known
here
Capture of DR.. Walter T. Scheele
ends search which has kept the Fed
eral authorities busy ever since August
1916, when the fugitive was indicted in
connection with the plots by German
agents in this country to blow up mer-
chant ships plying between America
and Allied countries.
Schecle was copartner with Captain
Charles Won kleist in the New Jersey
Agricultural Company, of HObOken, and
it was charged by the government that
they, together with six others. had
conspired in the manufacturing of re
bombs destined to destroy ships carry
ing munitions and supplies to the Al
!ies.
All the accused were indicted in
August, 1916. and Schcele vanished.
Persistent efforts to locate him failed,
the above dispatch being the first init
nation of his capture.
At the trial Of the others. who were
convicted, it was testified that Scheele
himself had filled bomb cases with ex
plosives in his factory, the cases hav
ing previously been made on the deck
of the German liner Kaiser Friedrich
der Crosse, then blockadcd in this port
because Of the war
Scheele's property in Hoboken was
sold at auction because of unpaid per-
sonal taxes, and repeated questioning
of his wife. just after he lad disap
peared, elected the information that
he was "away on business trip" and
would return within a few days.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

Fire at Luna Park threatened serious dam
age for time. Vigorous action by the
Concy Island iremcn, however, subducd it
after a half hours fight.
Harry Horowitz, twenty-one years old. and
Edward Hobinofsly. forty-eight, propre.ors
of garage and repair shop at 119 Gerry
Street. Brooklyn were arrested, chnrped
with receiving stolen property. The police
claim to have found q quantity OF propcrty
stolen from the Lonsees Auto Supoiy Com,
pany, OF Long Island City, recently in the
garage.
l5ith Street. committed suicide by inhalinv
illuminating gas. His body was discovered
by his niece.
Sadie Kochler, thirteen of II East 115tb
Street, was struck and almost instantly killed
by automobile owned md opernted bv
Samuel Rand. of 2ll East 104th Street.
Fire which damaged the stable of the Shelf
field Farms Milk Company, at sos West
Fifty-sixth Street. was not brought undcr
control until several frcmen had been over
come by smoke and six horses burned tn
death. The cause is unknown. The loss is
placed Mt $4,000.
HACKENSACK, n. J.-Mrs. julius ver-
veeck. tifty-six. lost her own life in saving
That OF her thrcc-ycnr rrnndchiid While
she was niighting from train mt River E,ivc
1t began to move. She threw the babv she
was carrying clenr Of the train, but fell he.
ncnth the wheels hcrsclf.
Six hundred girls employed as feather hon
workers are on strike. They demand "A forty
cight-hour week and rs per cent incrcasc
in wages.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
Decline in Birth Rate
Alarming to Prussia
The Ne1r York Tribune c

Foref1n Press Bureau
The decrease in the birth rate in
Germany is giving great anxiety to tn
statesmen of that country, and a spe-
cial committee has been appointed by
the Prussian Diet to study the ques-
ton.
According to the "Bcriner Tage-
blatt,' the Prussian government has in
formed the committee that the falling
off in births during the war far exceeds
the number Of men killed IN the field.
and that the number of births cannot
be expected after the war to reach the
former level.
Among the remedies which are beinr
discussed by the committee are wages
reform, better provision of houses,
supply of cheap furniture to young
married couples, and payment of pfN
mlums on the birth Of children.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
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Thursday, March ii, 1913

This department engaged in separating tho sheep a.
advertising, and of the service which backs advertising
goats-and hanging bell the goats invite.
letters describing experiencespeasant unpeasanw;tb
whether they be manufacturers, wholesale house.
retail public service corporations 1t pr;n,
those letters which show typcaly how m
advertisers square with the words of his adver;no
Only signed letters giving the writer's address, will read
But the name will be printed withheld, preferred
Address The Advisor The Tribune, New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
DR.. Osborn's Death Was
Due to Natural Causes

DR.. Henry P Osborn, whose body
was found on the floor of his apart
mcnt at 229 East Forty third Street on
Tuesday morning, died from natural
causes, and not, as was first believed
from the attack of some person un-
known This was determined yester-
day by Deputy Medical Examiner Ben
iamin Schwartz, who performed an
autopsy on the BODY
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
SCHOOL AGENCIES
INSTRUCTION

American and Foreign 1encners' Axeney.
- Supplies Frafessors. Teacaers, Tutorn
EoysdnNssTs, etc, q Colleges. Schools and
faml,sg: .Arpiy 10 Mrs k J. YOUNG.
FULTON. 70 Union GQuars
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
IN THE NEW TRIBUNE for February II this advertiser
appeared:


Free Evcrbearng Youc three best
Grape Vines, red, white blue yard
addre The flowers Cola
Street New York
bearing size fruit in the back yards O the
On February % received letter from
closing circular sent him by the
this circular the association offered free grape
adverlsed upon receipt of yearly subscription
trad magazine Fruits and Flowers If you
PLEASED with this BIGGEST DOLLARS WORTH YOU to be
judge the letter, will
askng." - ~ ' ' ~
Just how this advertising Tribune we cannot
say although the fact that the free
save 1t an air of legitimacy 1t conceivable oga
acuated patriotic motives
the nome garden movement But the dispe all such
] oner OF IRE tree vines Word has gone forth that
copy onere The Tribune containing offer kind
be RE rejesfe @ at sight unless the prove satisfaction
10 any one who nibbed and bit this
"pooses ana the privilege of back
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
T PALM BEACH. IN M....

q a IN 3 bEACH, on Msrs
~ 10, DR.. j. NJ. Munyon sa a;sa
suddenly, and in reAectinos s,sa ~
this tragedy it is hard to rememS.s W.
that one should speak only good u
the dead. N "
The little picture which we reo,o
duce is familiar to every reader 'v "
newspapers; but less familiar are tha
details Of the career Of this No. s''o
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

The Star-Spangled Banner but, on the
contrary, did SO the first time ] asked
him, which was in November. He gave
me his resignation, which | have not
refused or accented
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
News in Brief

Fire at Luna Park threatened serious dam
age for time. Vigorous action by the
Concy Island fremcn, however, subducd it
after half hours fight
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

advertised and sold
which claimed to syphilis scrofua eryspea pmps
lodld
ubmate The other of far oms
This second blood medicine and syphilis proved
contain nothing but His asthma also analzd
nothing Notwithstanding his published
testimonials cures Munyon pleaded guilty
charge Of frauuenty labelling and find 5000 the Ims
e and all the made for h
medicines. unnor
proofs with the cold ooded wringng from the and
of uas
off with instead wt
his ended Jail but fashionable resort
Munyon himself There
who deceive the SICK
He the old school
less vicious perhaps it's members least Let
EE recent publicity to the exploits of Frclk j. Go and
connection with the beginnings of the Tecla industry m
be- interpreted reflect dscrctaby this arc
excellent articles the to-day which, like himself were be-
gotten but which ouy
respected place the community is probably appH
the
but to-day Tea sold the combined
pearls either real imitation They sold for are
synthetic jewels of beauty Their value lies
similarity pearls
unfairly by that similarity They sold
Fabriod marketed
claiming leather They
and they confused with pearls
ubleS diamonds
This printed ethicaly business
which shadow has been momntariy the
dscredit them company M
would be dscred
with it, 1t belief honestly made hon.
esty advertised and honestly
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

Sadie Kochler, thirteen of II East 115tb
Street, was struck and almost instantly killed
by an automobile owned and opented by
Samuel Rand, of 21l East 104th Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-14

Thomas Wilson forty-two, OF 47O West
l5ith Street. committed suicide by inhalinp
illuminating gas. His body was discovered
BY his niece ~
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-03-28
CHURCH NOTICES
First Baptist Church.

Rev. Geo. Boddis, Ph.D. LII. D., Pastor.
The Sunday school will hold its
annual Easter service. This will
take the place of the regular morn
ing church service. The service
will commence at 1890 o'clock
There will be singing of Easter
hymns by the school and exercises
by the children. The offering will
be devoted to the Million Dollar
Campaign now being carried on by
the churches of the Northern Bap-
fist Convention. In the evening at
7.3O the church Easter service will
be held, at which time an approri-
ate sermon will be preached by the
pastor.
prayer meeting on Tuesday, even
ing, at 7.45. At the prayer meet
ing services the pastor will continue
his lectures on the Epistle of Paul
to the Romans.
All are invited to these services.