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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
PALMER TO AUCTION
AMERICAN METALCO.
German Interest in S25. 900.
600 Concern Will Go to
the Highest Bidder.

It was announced last night at the
office OF A. Mitchell Palmer Alien
Propcrty Custodian. that the German
Metal Company, Ltd, would be sold at
public auction soon. But 40 per cent.
of the stock Is German owned, the
remainder being held by Americans
and Britishers.
Control OF the company for five
years will be put in a board of FIVE
voting trustees. These three have
been named by Mr.. Palmer: Henry
Norgenthau. formerly Ambassado to
Turkey: Joseph +, Guftey, chief n the
sales department Of the Office of the
Alien Property Custodian. and Ber-
thold Hochschild, chairman OF the
co-npany's board Of directors. Two
other trustees will be chosen after the
sale.
The company has 10000 shares Of n
par value OF 500 each outstanding.
Its authorized capital stock Is $4,000
900. OF the shares outstanding, 34,64i
are owned in Germany. 1876 in Great
Britain and 1890 in this country,
The company controls a long list OF
subsidiaries, which deal in metals and
chemicals as producers. refiners. ex-
porters, importers and dealers. Among
these are the Ohio and Colorado
Smelling and Refining Company, the
Bartlesville Zinc Company. Chanute,
Smelter Company. Metallurgical Com
pany OF America, American Zinc and
Metal Company, Compania Minera de
Penolcs Of Mexico and Cha. Metallur-
gical de Torreon of Mexico.
Mr.. Palmer loft the management of
the captured company in the hands OF
representatives OF its American mi
nority interest. He named as direc-
tors to represent him the following;
Henry Morgenthau, Andrew w Mel
lon of Pittsburg, George McAneny.
Lewis l.. Clarke and T.. c. Converse.
The appointment Of Mr.. Hochschld MS
one OF the voting trustees was pointc
to by Mr. Palmer 10 emphasize his
assertion that no suspicion attached
to the American owners OF stock, some
Of whom were born in Germany.
The enemy owned stock Of the
American Metal Company was seized
in July, when the Government also
seized the enemy interest in Stallforth
4 Co and the entire business of l..
Vogelstein & Co. and Beer, Sondheimer
& Co At the time 1t was said the
seizures had broken the German grin
on the metal markets Of the United
Gtataa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
KILLED AS HE TESTS
NEW MAIL PLANE
Carl B. Smith, Naval Filler,
Falls When Wing Of Ma
chine COllapses.

Carl B. Smith. a professional aviator
and balloonist for eleven years, cooked
his trained ear idSthe direction Of the
engine OF big Haviland airplane in
which he was about to ascend yester-
Gay at the flying field of the Standard
Aircraft Corporation in Elizabeth, n. j.,
and then turned to Sergeant Nellie
Faughnan of the Railway branch Of
the Woman's Motor Corps and said:
There's something wrong here: she
doesn't purr right" A moment later
the motor snorted loudly in response to
Smiths manipulation Of the levers.
Wheeled along the ground short way
and then sprang gracefully into the
air The big plane sailed straight
ahead. ascending rapidly in the teeth
OF a strong wind until It attained q
height OF about 500 feet.
There Smith tugged at the levers
again. banking for a sharp turn. He
caught the wind wrong apparently, for
:he plane shivered, swerved a bit ard
then one Of the wings collapsed. Smith
could be seen by those on the ground
81 bAShhb lIoiillNd4iN W TaEHl lnc
plane. He failed and it dropped into
tn. fatal nose dive less than $50 feet
above ground. That was too low for
the aviator TO straighten her out and
the plane fell with a crash. Smith was
dead when attendants at the field
dragged his body out OF the wreckage
The plane was one OF five that was
TO have been placed in service over the
new mail route between New York and
Chicago. Smith took the plane out for
is first trial flight. He had been in
the flying service since May. 1917. An
was started last night to
determine definitely the cause OF the
accident. Adj. D. Clark Egerton, In
charge OF the flying station, said he
thought Smith had made too sharp a
turn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
WALDORF STRIKERS
AND GUESTS BATTLE
Waiter Pickets Arrested A.
ter RotD at Door.

Patrons of the Waldorf. prevented
from entering that hotel last night by
pickets OF striking walters who insisted
that the arriving guests read tho strike
placards on their hats before passing
through the doors, resented such OBJ
structive tactics forcefully. Fists were
swung by well dressed men in the
after theatre supper crowds. and pres
emily fights were under way to such a
serious degree the police were called.
Sergeant Mooney and Patrolmen
Mulberry and O'Brien captured two OF
the Gordon Of two dozen striking hotel
helpers. After pulling them through a
crowd OF 500 persons the policemen
took their prisoners to the West
Thirtieth street station.
There they gave their names as
Peter Eklund. 81. a Swede, OF 20i East
Twenty-eighth street, and CONSTANT
nos Skalos. IS. a Greek, Of 225 East
Fortieth street. They were charged
with disorderly conduct
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
FLY FROM BUFFALO
BY DEAD RECKONING
Two Aviators, 5000 Feet Up.
Make Trip to This City
in $50 Minutes.

y isn't considered much OF an ac.
complishment these days 10 steer n
ship through the seven seas by dead
reckoning, but the art OF cutting
through tho winter ozone 5000 feet up
all the way from Buffalo TO New York
in the short flying space Of two and a
half hours was such an extraordinary
feat that every fiier took part in the
uproarloUs welcome extended yester-
day afternoon at the Mineola field
when Capt. W. i. Jacobs. PILOT. and
Col l.. W. Mcintosh. observer, stepped
out Of the big Haviland machine at the
Long Island flying station along to-
ward dusk
The flight was a test and the first of
it's kind ever attempted over the route
from Buffalo Capt. Jacobs took the
big plane up 10 the 5000 foot level
when he and Col. Mcintosh left the
ground at Buffalo and stayed there
The engine was working perfectly. and
from then until two hours and ten
minutes after the flight started they
keYt track OF its revolutions relying
entirely upon compass for direction.
Not once did the fiiers catch n
glimps OF earth or anything below UNI
til the allotted period OF two hours and
ten minutes had elapsed. Then Capt.
Jacobs twisted the levers and the air
plans dropped slowly to a height Of
only 500 feet. Tho result was exactly
what the aviatOrs had expected. for the
big buildings Of lower Manhattan could
be seen plainly short distance of to
the south and the plane was sailing
slowly above the comparatively lower
structures OF mid Manhattan.
without further search for land
marks capt, Jacobs sent the machine
upward again. this time TO a height of
5000 feet There he changed her
course and headed. again by dead reck
oning. for Long Island. That Tnrt of
the trip was slower and II was twenty
minutes more before the plane landed
in the centre of the Mineola field.
They said they expe rieuced no trouble
in making the experiment, and II con
ditions are favorable will try to make
the return trip by dead reckoning.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
CAPTAIN ACCUSED,
RESERVES RESIGN
Entire Nth Police Company
Quit.

Following the announcement yester-
day that the entire Forty-seyenth
Company OF the Seventh Regiment OF
Police Reserves, commanded by Ar
thur G. Clark OF 1875 Prospect avenue.
The Bronx, had resigned in body it
became known that Cart Clark had
been court martialled and his dismissal
from the service recommended by the
trial court.
II was admitted yesterday at the
headquarters OF the police reserves
that a court-martial convened on De-
cember s. presided over by Col. War
rem Leslie. had sustained charges Of
INSTRUMENTATION brought against Capt.
Clark by Col. Avery McDougal, that
Capt. Clark's dismissal had been rec
commended and that the recommends
tons were now before Rodman Wana-
maker. Special Deputy Police Commits
sioner in charge Of police reserves, for
approval,
Attached TO the complaint and
findings OF the board. before Com
missioner Wanamaker for approval,
are specifications of alleged violations
Of orders by Capt. Clark. These
specifications would show that Capt.
Clark failed to comply with certain
provisions OF general orders 10 the
police reserves issued on September
20. October /, October and October
., with respect to the assembling of
the reserves for duty in connection
with the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
and also that he failed to call meet
ings of the board of officers OF his
command and submit reports re-
CURED by his superiors.
When asked regarding the resigna-
ton of his command Capt, Clark was
quoted yesterday as saying:
we have always taken pride in
the organization and work OF our
company, and we have kept religious
and political affiliations out of the ad-
ministration of the company's affairs.
The officials higher up seemed 70 he
determined not to allow us to do this.
| protested in letter to the officials
and as a result was brought up on
charges OF INSTRUMENTATION was
not given my rights In defending the
action and all the members of the
company resented the treatment ac-
corded me-"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
SAW FLAMES SWEEP
NEW YORK IN 1885
Mrs. E. A. futile, IS, Is Birth
day Guest in Waldorf.

Cheerful and clipper and upright,
with n voice that carried across the
big room when she made her speech.
and with hearing MS quick as girls,
Mrs. Edward A. futile of 1871 LeXing-
ton avenue, attended Yesterday party
in celebration Of her eighty fifth birth
day, given by the Legislative League
in the Waldorf-Astoria And by Mrs.
Tuttle's side in the receiving line stood
eighty -three-yea old Mrs. Saphira
Smith. who was her bridesmaid when
she was married IN 1851.
One Of the guests OF honor was Mrs
Anna Duryea, who is SO years old, but
laughed at all the jokes as much ms
anybody. Mrs. Euphenia Fisher. who
lives in the Home for Incurables. sent
Mrs. futile cap which she had made
with her own ninety year-old han5s.
Presidents OF eleven women's clubs
of which Mrs. futile has been n hard
working member made speeches. and
then the heroine gave some reminis-
cences, She told OF the great fire In
New York in 1885, which. though a
child at the time, she remembers, and
OF the pumps where New Workers. had
to get their water for household pur-
poses. and the pigs that served as gar
bage collectors.
1t was In Mrs. Tuttle's home in
Lexington avenue that the Congress
of Mothers was founded in 1897. She
has always been specially Interested in
children, because the death OF her
mother left her at the age OF Is
mother TO her younger brothers and
sisters. and then she married at II
and had seven children OF her own.
Mrs. Ella o. Guilford wound up pro-
ceedings by rea5ing an original poem
addressed 10 Mrs. futile.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17

Associated credit Men = New 70
City, Inc. meeting, Bgsh Terminal ss,,
building, r. "
A7dre Trldon viii talk or "Dos:o-4ysk,
the Nov el-zt" Cooper Union = NJ
tinnsr and discussion 4 .na .at.-, J..
formation regarding the r'id-T'u-ypesr
nations. the Plaza Ho,... s. 81
.-c-v-tatirr % e ~ r--Ih. ~ v.'-'ar-
Stsfansson and address by him ar n
NolGa NJ Northern L&r,o'a.i.r' \~-s-.
can Geographical Scc.-jv. Eug'ussrlrsS
cl't'es Building, $50 p "
Annual meeting o. the Alumni A",rt
ton OF Doctors OF Philosophy ~ Can .
IniversIty, address BY n Dieorg, 3
Brewer. East Seventh street b r v
John Barrett vii discuss future "a
possibilities OF this cnau'-y T'r g.
southern republics, Humar.-aris1 gu.
Carnegie Hal. SIS = NJ
Meeting Of he Brooklyn chan -.- '
Commerce. 5 p N
J"rusalem'S psIvc-a7r. .r1r7'o..
METROPOLITAN ON-rs Hpgss. 70
Lecture by Maurice " ~ sSrsll o
French and Eng. Ma. g .-.--r
Museum Of Natural History. 60.
Lecture is MJitrr Fr-Is- ..r At.
cat Of the Par:~ Jar ralrsa Or ~
French High Commission 'n A.r.-'-s or
The Trial Of Cas- IN tho '-.r' .
France" Bar Assott.' ior $50 2 4
Reading OF selections rom ID He~-' ,.
Henry Allen Price, Lecture UF. IS '
" Brooklyn Iustit.'e
Tti-ty's"tonl AM ..ai contention 4 go
New York State Hote, Association -l,-.
National Hote! Mems ENPo-.-'. Hsi''
square Garden, II A.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
XMAS ORPHANS IN
WAKE OF INFLUENZA
Health Commissioner Depends
on Generosity Of People
to Care for Them.
200 IN NEED OF CHEER
Experts Fear Winter May
Take Still Greater Toll
Through Pneumonia.

DR.. Royal s. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, is depending upon the peo-
pie OF New York to make Christmas a
merry one FOR 200 Influenza orphans
at the Health Departments seaside
hospitals, on Coney and Staten islands.
He viii transform his own private
once in the Health Department Build
Ing. at 1879 Centre street, into a Santa
Claus storsroom and personally over
see the distribution OF clothing, shoes.
toys and anything else that may be
sent to him.
OF the 200 children suddenly placed
In the keeping of DR.. Copeland's de-
partment by the influenza epidemic
nearly 1000 have been provided with
good homes. All OF these have not
been dependents, but their care de-
until suitable guardians could be APP
pointed by the courts.
Directors and officials of the Health
Department met yesterday evening in
DR.. Copeland's Office to discuss the
epidemic situation. They were unani-
nous in declaring there had been no
fresh outbreak Of influenza in Greater
New York. but discussed methods of
meeting the problem should 1t return.
That there Will be a great many
more cases Of pneumonia this winter
than in previous winters was the
opinion of DR.. Copelands aids. This
is expected because influenza attacks
have left many people In a weakened
condition and have lessened their
powers of resistance.
The bureau. of food and drugs Will
continue its crusade against unclean
eating houses. II Is recognized that
such places are the greatest sources
of contagion.
Statistics Just compiled relative TO
the recent epidemic show that the
grip was no respecter of persons The
death rate in the crowded tenement
districts and in fashionable residential
sections was practically the same. In
two thickly populated Jewish sections
the rate was Is and II deaths respec-
lively. per 10000 Inhabitants. In the
Central Park section the death rate
was is and in the Fifth avenue sec
ton the death rate was Il. In two
Italian sections the rnte was II and %
per 10000
New cases reported yesterday. ny
horougha.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
VETERANS CALLED
TO ORGANIZE IN U.S..
Dinner to Wounded Men
Opens Campaign to En-
roll 100000.

Twenty pairs OF crutches were
stacked against wall Of a room in
Mouquin's Sixth avenue restaurant
last night. Their owners and thirty
other American soldiers. also wounded
in France or Belgium and now con-
valescing in the army hospital that
was once the Greenhut store. at Sixth
avenue and Eighteenth street, werr
boring their way through a seven
course dinner provided by the Col
Wallace A. Downs Post of the Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars OF the United
States. The soldiers looked hard and
brown and. at frst, hungry
Thus the Veterans OF Foreign Wars
began a campaign to enroll 1000. 900
men and make itself the successor Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic.
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee
L. S. ", retired, who commanded the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor
looked down the lines OF diners and
said he was amazed.
You don't look like wounded men.
/ must say" he told them. You
surely bear your wounds nobly. am
impressed by your ruEgedness, your
healthy compilations. These bear wit
ness to your training in this war It
has done you good. In your own COM
munities you will be men OF distinction
all your lives"
The Admiral made the "cripples
laugh by recitins his own yearninGs
for Just a little bit of a wound Some
place whore II wouldn't show But
ne had lived seventy-four years. had
been in the navy ffty-nine years. had
been blown up and seen men die all
around him and the only scar he pos
sessed was a tiny one on his hand
which I got" he said when I was
five or six years old and was trying
10 give another boy half Of my apple
The comrade who passed the cigars
fought with Dewey at Manila, But
he was silent. All he and the others
felt was probably voiced by the chap
lain OF the Old Maine, now Mgr. John
r. Chadwick when he said: You bear
on your bodies what every man should
wish to bear--a wound received in the
preservation OF his country. envy
YOU"
The uniformed guests were asked 10
write on slips Of PAL er something of
their experiences. Most OF them re
piled that words failed them. Wagner
w. Alspach hit IT of for the whole
crowd by setting down: Some people
say war IL hell. but they're all wrong
Hell IS only a rest camp"
The wounded men represented
twenty-six States. one OF them. Pri-
vate George Cloud Of North Dakota,
slashed at Chateau Thierry. is full
blooded American Indian. Albert
Rading, past comma nder OF the Downs
Post, was chairman of tho dinner.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
FREDERICK 0. BEACH
DIES SUDDENLY HERE
knoWn Socially on TDo Con-
tinents and a Sportsman.

Frederick Ogden Beach, known for
many years in society here and abroad
as Beauty" Beach and few years
ago central figure IN sensational
criminal proceeding at Aiken. :. e..
growing out of an attack upon his
wife, who was the widow of Charles
., Havemeyer, died suddenly ycster-
day in his hone, 525 Park avenue.
Mr., Beach was a member OF the
stock brokerage firm OF Taller Il Rob
inson, was widely known as a whip
ana sportsman. in his younger DAYS
having acquired considerable OF a
reputation as polo player He also
drove for time the coach that ran
between New York and Tuxedo and
which was established by Pierre Loril-
lard Jr., and other residents Of
Tuxedo Park
Mrs. Beach and her husband were
occupying their winter place at Aiken
IN February, 1912, when she WAS at
lacked as she was entering tho house
supposedly by negro. who knocked
her to the ground and slashed her
throat with knife. The attack caused
sensation and eventually Mr.. Beach
was accused of the attack. In the
meantime he had gone 20 Europe with
Mrs Beach, who denied her husband
was her assailant, but returned, and
after brief trial, at which Mrs. Beach
was his chief witness, he was acquit-
ted nearly year after the attack oc-
CURED. Mrs. Beach was Miss Camilla
w Moss Of Philadelphia. Her first
husband died in May, 1898, and she
was married to MIR. Beach AT Grace
Church in November. 1899. William
*. Vanderbilt was best man.
Mr.. Beach was son of tho late
Edward Payson and Elizabeth Bluchly
Beach.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
NAVY CHEMICALS CAUSE FIRE.
Two Firemen Overcome by Fumes
at Columbia University.

Chemicdl reaction in the contents OF
bottles that formed part OF the equip
ment for making experiments for the
United States navy at Columbia Uni
versity caused fire late last night
in the basement of the Havemyer
Building of the Columbia group.
Firernen and students fought the
blaze while the reserves from the
West 125th street station kept larSr
crowd back Lieut.. Michael Nc
Carthy Of the Fire Department and
another fireman We're overcome by the
fumes from the chemicals. The loss
was estimated at $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
FOUR HELD IN FINE MURDER,
Suspected OF Participating in Pay
roll Robbery.

Four men were held without bail by
Magistrate Mancuso In the Harlem
court yesterday on a charge Of sus-
plcion OF homicide In causing the death
of Nathan Fine, SAG Howard avenue
Brooklyn, who was killed on the after
noon OF October ! and robbed of a
payroll of $1,000. They described
themselves as Franck Greece. 2OS East
10Sth street Salvatore Genovese, 3l2
East 10Sth street: Joseph Falcone, 233
East l09th street. and Tony Buono.
30S East l06th street A fifth pris-
oner, Michael Albert. BAL East 18th
street. was discharged for lack Of evil
dence.
Fine was member Of the shirt and
overall manufacturing firm OF VI. Fine
& Sons. 413 Fast 10th street. He had
returned TO the factory from the firms
office at ! Greene street with the
weekly payroll when he was robbed
and shot, The body was secreted be
hind door on the second floor of the
building and the murderers escaped
through rear winodw.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
WANTS ICE FIRM PUNISHED.
OdeI Says Company Cut Price
Against Orders.

Former Gov. Odell State Ice Comp
troller. appeared before Chief Magis-
trate McAdoo yesterday afternoon to
press his complaint against the Wash
ington Heights Ice Corporation for the
alleged violation of a State law by do
ing business without a license. He
made II plain he was anxious 10 throw
all possible light on the ice admins
trRtion Of the state.
Mr.. Odcll issued license to the
Washington Heights Ire CORPORATION
on June IA. All went well until the
concern found is chief competitor, the
knlcke rbocker Ice Company, was sell
ing at So a ton. Then. instead Of heed
ing the price fxed by the State Ice
Comptroller OF $40 ton, the defend
ant company began selling a SO a ton,
and continued the cut rate after a
warning
Because the company didn't live up
to the rules Mr.. Odeil revoked its
license on October 10 and the Wash
ington Heights concern Is still doing
business in defiance OF the Ice Comp
troller at 81 ton.
Mr.. Odell explained that the only
companies permitted to sell ice below
the fixed administration price were
those who had executed contracts at
lower prices prior TO the issuance of
the regulations. He named Burns
Brothers. the KnIckerbocker and Solo
mon Bros. as concerns which had prior
contracts.
Mr. Odell explained the so-called "55
cent a ton agreement" was voluntarily
reached by the trade following a state
ment by representative of the United
States Food Administration that "a
mistake had been made about the am
monia."
The hearing will be continued
Thursday morning at IL o'clock.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-17
POLICE GUARDS ARE oUsTED.
for Their Pay Ex-
hnusted, Says Leach.

Acting Police Commissioner Leach
in an order which became effective
Yesterday directed the rehabilitation
OF what was left of the Division Of
National Defense of the Police Depart
ment. The order came as a surprise.
to the members, many of whom had
been on duty since April. 19l7. The
division was organized as strictly
war time necessity, the men receiving
1910 day. The funds were provided
by special appropriations by the Board
of Estimate