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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-11-02
THE CLAWS OF THE HUN with

THE CLAWS OF THE HUN with
Charles Ray at the Central Monday.
This is a war picture but it is
about the happenings in our own
country The plotters of the auto
craft Of Berlin try to extend their
Vaccinations to a great munitions
plant and are thwarted by youth
who has. been called a slacger be-
cause, to save his mother from death
as he believes, he has not answered
the dictates of his conscience and
gone to the front. Also Mack Sennett
comedy Two Tough Tenderfeet.'
THE TURN OF A CARD Real
oil wells actually gushing forth
their product from the earth, from a
scene which is hard to find and
which has seldom been witnessed by
motion picture patrons. Therefore J..
Warren Kerrigan's second Paralta
Play, The Turn of Card, which
will be shown at the Central Tues
day, holds in store real treat for
its audiences beside it's intensely
interesting plot. A forest of oil wells
photographed on the La Brea ranch
in California, is pictured in full de.
tail in, this film.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-11-02

Large clean cotton rags wanted al
the Journal office. -.-
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-11-02
AMERICANS FIGHTING
WITH GREAT SUCCESS

CONTINUED froom page one)
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
5000 Printers Out:
All But Newspaper
Plants Are Idle
Employees Demand In
creases in Wages Up to
IS Per Cent

Practically every printing press in
New York City except those of daily
newspapers is idle to-day as a result
of the strike of more than five thou
sand printers and printers assistants.
Publishers Of the numerous weekly
and monthly periodicals are making
frantic endeavors to arrange for their
coming issues. A delay in the publ
cation of all the weeklies printed here
is now certain. it was admitted by of
ticials of the Association of Employ
ing Printers yesterday.
Three special commissioners, sent
from Washington by the War Labor
Board, heard various angles of the con-
troversy between the printers and en-
ployers yesterday and took the matter
under advisement for rehearing and
decision next week A movement is OF,
foot among some Of the labor leaders
to have the men return to work pend
ing arbitration. 1t is understood that
both sides have agreed to accept the
decision of the three commissioners.
A meeting of employers. in the
rooms of the Association of Employ
ing Printers, in the Flatiron Building,
was he'd yesterday. According to
Floyd +. Wilder, secretary of the asso-
citation, the members determined to
await the decision of the special COM
mission.
The cylinder feeders and printers as
sistants went out on Monday last, after
requesting an increase in wages Of
from $24 to $50 week. On Wednes-
day the printers went out, after re-
questing a IS per cent increase to their
prevailing scale. They average s31
weekly
The printers violated an agreement,
according to Mr. Wilder, secrctory of the
Association of Employing Printers, in
which they pledged themselves to re-
frain from further demands until Feb
ruary 1, 1919. This agreement, Mr.
Wilder said, was made at the granting
OF the last increase. The last serious
printers strike occurred in 1917.
"The printers are hampering the
printing of necessary military manuals
and other essential war guide books"
said Mr.. Wilder. "PrinSed data for the
7. NJ. c. A. and other organizations,
for overseas use. are being held up.
Scarcely a cylinder press in com
mercial printing house is operating,
though this is our busiest season The
host of magazines published here will
be delayed, The monthly publications
might catch up in the event of speedy
arbitration, but the weeklies will sure
ly be late next week, if they come out
at ALL"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Wilson Critics Joke
Lands Him in Cell
Six Months Sentence Imposed
ON Man Who Praised
Kaiser Wilhelm

Magistrate Simpson laughed last
yesterday in the Traffic Court at what
Simeon Irmont, of 420 West 121st
Street, averred was joke, sending the
joker to the workhouse for six months.
II am through with men who come
to this court and tell me that it is all
q joke and they did not mean it." said
the magistrate,
lrmont, who is iifty-six years old
and was born in New Orleans. was
found guilty in the Night Court of
saying, among other things: "Wilson
is no better than any one else" "I am
for Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck. .
Wilson is worse than the Car
"Wilson and King George are no good
He said that for thirty years he req
resented business concerns in Russia
and that when the war started his
children we're in school in Germany,
Magistrate Simpson imposed simi-
lar sentence on Max Stem, hair
dresser of Stebbins Avenue, The
Bronx. Stenz told his local board he
wanted the war to end in draw be-
cause his brothers were in the Ger
man army, while relatives of his wife
were in the American army, and that
he was ready to go back to Germany
and fight against this country.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

compelled to refuse patients. Outside
or one doctors surgery in 1lford yes
tefday there were more than seventy
people waiting to be treated.
The epidemic, which threatens to
interfere with public services, is still
spreading. Schools are being closed all
over England, l,159 London police
men are on the sick list and 500 en-
ployes of the London General Omnibus
Company are away i'll. At Woolwich
and in southeast London, where the
epidemic is particularly severe, the
doctors carry punches Of latchkeys of
houses where whole families are in
bed. At Barrow three members in one
family died in two days. The Leinster
death rate last week is three times the
ordinary figure. Dublin had 1o1 deaths
of influenza last week and So from
pneumonia
From other European countries and
Africa come reports showing serious
conditions. All Copenhagen schools,
theatres and cinemas have been closed.
In. Germany the epidemic is reported d
very severe. In Rome there were 1914
deaths on Monday, while France de-
cided to discontinue the express train
service for ten days owing to the de-
pletion Of the staff. In various parts
of South Africa 10000 persons died of
Influenza
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

ttueella' sixteen years old. with a razor ir
quarrel over the attentions of a solS;er ~
me Polish daily. "WoIna Polskan hoo
,,sa,,,. pren asAeu 10 arrange Polish Day pro.
fnnlrn,t ~a,ant SUNDAY for Camp Dix. The can.
f'''@'' mas s'coo soldiers Of Polish origin
;,, onarged with attempted burglary in fore
ing his way into a butcher shon Tbo,,l ~, ",
Johnson, of sos Sterling Place .l.aI Rrnal,,'', w
tolo Judge Dixie in Kings County Court that
ms family was starving He was re1,a s'ia
Tor Investigation. ''ueu
ior his native Greece has been noetnonad ~
definitely pending the disposition of cha r ~,
aea'flst nm that he employed the evening
before his sailing in trying to sci, = AZ
OF "hiskey to soldiers foH 50. '''
A. Mitchell Palmer, Enemy Allow D..
erty Custodian has decided to onerata ~
George Benda bronze powder pI.nt ar ~, sne
Ton, n. j.. for while longer az pn I;3d
mas oHered more than $4,000 for II .nd
Mr' fainer hgures that it is worth 500 0oo
Cuts from safety razor blade the no,;ce
neleve' caused the death of Josenh Norrass
Iouna dying III lodging house room at 1ao
Park Row WIN a' i'o
Traffic on the Eighth Avenue surface l;,o
was halted for fifteen minutes Will. Az
men put out d fire which almost destra,i',, ~
a car IN Church Street. near Cortlnnd
. an automobile killed Harvey Cerl.ss of
-4of Washington Avenue, The Pronr -
streetcar conductor, Just after he had drnu,n
ms pay rom the Union Railways pay car
at iae'h street and Southern Boulevard.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
B. r. I. Men Nav
Join Union, u. S.
Labor Board Rules
Twenty-nine Employees Are
Ordered Reinstated
With Back Pay

The War Labor Board of which for
mer President Taft and Frank p. Walsh
are the joint chairmen, yesterday
ordered the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company to reinstate with back pay
twenty mine men who were discharged
this summer because of their union
affiliations. The board, in its decision,
upholds the right of the B. r. T..
workers to organize and to bargain
collectively. The decision comes after
& bitter controversy of more than three
years standing.
a strike of B. r. t. motormen and
swltchmen was averted on August 6
hy the Intervention Of the War Labor
Board. The men asked the War Labor
Board to mediate in the DISPUTE and
accordingly a hearing was held in New
ork the following week The only
POINT ot issue was the right of the
employees to join the Broth herhood Of
Locomotive Engineers.
q. .. dempsey, VICE president of the
g. Il. t., IN testifying for the COMPANY
denled the charges made bv the men
dempsey said the company was not
opposed to It's employees joining local
union indigenous to the company
nuC ne said IT did object to their Join.
ing an "outside" organization such has AZ
ne ,r considered the brotherhood "a he
Inc board found reason for believ-
ing the company had Disseminated
against union employees, thus VIOLATING
a provision of the Presidents proc]as.
nation of April Q. f''0'"
Inc board asserted, however. that il
was wa mot unionizing the company in
me sense Of making its organization q
closed shop. Further, it left ito the
company and its employees full oppor-
light of these principles" s''e
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Local Union Adopts Resolu-
ton Pledging Support
Travelling Secretary Prom
ises 10000 Members of In
ternational Body Will Take
Active Measures to Assist
Vendors

One thousand members Of Local No.
OF the international Brothe rhood of
composition Roofers, at q meeting at
32l East Seventy third Street last
night, added the name Of their union
TO the long list of labor organizations
that have indorsed the newsboys'
! strike against the Hearst newspaners
and assured the venders of their whole
hearted support.
In extending the assistance of the
UNION to the newsboys through Andrew
Stanton, their leader, William F. Har-
gerty, travelling secretary of the In
ternatlona! Brotherhood, assured +bc
venders that he would bring their case
20 ,he attention of every one of the
iorty-1our locals of the brotherhood
t,'ilougnout the country, and felt conf
dent that the 10000 members Of +ho
national body would back the newshovs
up to man.
Inc roofers' action followed the rc-
cltal by Mr.. Stanton of the long-stand
ing grievances suffered bv thc now
ooys of New York at the hards of tla
Hearst agents, and the inability ~ tbo
Doys TO exc out the barest sort Of liv~
lhg under the system now bcino on
forced by the Hearst newspaper n mana M
gers. ~ '''''a-
Refuse Boys Square Deal
u never thought it possible that one
could be made to handle an .rt;nIo
mat he didn't want to handle and
whlch the people wouldn't buy. Yet
.hat is exactly what is taking place."
ADDED Mr.. Stanton. "The Hearst AGENTS
nav, nave SO fixed us that we must take
me New York American and sThe
hvenng journal or starve. 1t hap
pens that the great majority Of the
public will not buy these papers. for for
patriotic reasons, yet Mr.. Hearst saws
take them or Starvc
In presenting the resolutions to tbe
members, George f. Marsh, the presi-
oent, urged that the newsboys be given
every assistance. Upon this MIR. Hap-
geerty pointed out that The roofers 1yere
Lremsflves tnar, : ns at present ON strike and
'he neWsboys were combating.
am ABOUT to travel all over the.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Garbage Plant to Reopen
Barren Island Incinerator Is
Leased; Suit Threatened

- The New York Sanitary Utilization
Company, with the consent of the Hvlan lar,
admlnl,stration, is getting the old gar
page disposal plant on Barren Island
81 .f'o -, shape 1or operation, as the result
down the garbage plant on staten Isl.
and as public nuisance.
MemDers of the Flatbush Chamber
OF Commerce threaten to bring tax
payers payers suit if the city officials re-
Pudlate Brooklyn Borough President
Rlegelman, who promised that tbe Rsr-
rem Island nuisance would never be re-
vived.
Just how the New Yorl. Sanitary
Ntllzatlon Company managed to yet
Ine IN contract was not explained. Street
Cleaning Commissioner McStay said il
wasn't exactly a contract. but davNto-
day arrangement The charter provides
mat the disposal of garbage Shall be
let by coatract to the lowest bidder.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Mayor Demands
Gafney Be Sent
To Prison at Once
Hylan's Letter to Swami
Precipitates 4-Cornered
Controversy
By BRIGGS

Mayor Hylan yesterday precipitated
himself into the case of Vincent Gaff-
ney by urging in letter to District
Attorney Swami that the recaptured
gunman, who is being held in the
Tombs, should be taken at once to
Sing Sing. This communication
stirred up a sort of four -cornered con-
troversy among Mr.. Swami, Judge
Malone and Sheriff Knott, the Mayor
being participant ex-officio.
The Sheriff said, when shown the
letter of the Mayor, that he is the
Sheriff Of New York County and his
Office was not under the orders or
jurisdiction of the Mayor. Sheriff
Knott explained that he has not taken
Gaffney to Sing Sing because the
prisoner has been remanded to the
Tombs by Judge Malone, to give him q
chance to plead to an Indictment for
escaping, and that SO far as the Tombs
itself was concerned the Mayors De-
partment of Correction has charge
there.
On the other hand District Attorney
Swami wrote an answer to Mayor Hy-
Ian agreeing that Gaffney ought to be
in Sing Sing, instead of in the Tombs,
and blaming Judge Malone, whose or
der has kept the felon here. Mr.. Swami
questioned the authority of Judge Ma
lone to suspend an order of commit
ment isshed by a judge of coordinate
jurisdiction, Gaifney having been SEN
fenced by Judge Mulqueen.
Mayor Hylan, in his letter, made the
mistake of assuming that Gatfney had
been sentenced for from twenty years
to life imprisonment. AS a matter of
fact, Gatfney's sentence is for nineteen
years and seven months. The Mayor
argued that SO long as Gaffney is going
to serve a life sentence why keep him
here to plead to the indictment charg-
ing his escape, because the court could
not give him longer sentence than
life, anyway.
Gaffney was again before Judge
Malone yesterday and obtained a fur
ther postponement until TO-DAY 20 plead
to. the new Indictment. His counsel,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
What Is Going On To-Day
WAR SAVING STAMP DRIVE.
DEPARTURE OF VKAFT QUOTA.

fre admission To thu American Museum of \,,.
9fa. ,n.., ti,stoy; Nc% York Geological rarl Van
r"5cso h"5Igss' sn9E n ,lo S%e Nsw Ssm0n GIN Arao
Meeting Ct the Post Parliament Hotel McAlpln,
Meeting II the womcn's League Of the r-,i,o,
Staea Naval Reserye Hoci Woodward e'0 - "i'1o' ro
Address by Major H. W. Dudley On Gas Warfar@. r.
York Section ct the Society Of Ghemirel wv IT,"
dnSiIy Chemists Club. 80 La>t Norydrst Strcet.
Military reception and dance of the Aviation ,rra,,
rg ,ml OF New York Police. Yorhylle Casino,
Eighty sixth street and Lexington Avenue. eve.
PUBLIC LECTURES OF THE BOARD OF rn1,-
CATION. Sl5 7. M
Manhattan
T@S pSoys Red w,5s e1Gss & h Ssrgsst Alcsapler Con-
scyeiItG Avenue -''s'' ''''0'i' llo'h Street ana
"TurEcS syria and rggpt" by Harry C.. os.
ASsenr' AlSn,e' lnwocd o. pro4a"'y and Nermilyea
The r Kse Of Rg.sis Ear Bsrues =. : &C.
Madam butterfly" hy Mrs Antonio STABILITY. r
,E = 10 l4lth Street and Seventh Avenue.
& sGhmaeRer A%s' w M"'n' b = s rgos9r s Samuel s5l
Wsdsworth Avenue '"0 ''''V'' anu
"sqbmArin,,sss" bs cna5lcs /. Harrington. y N.
The Bronx
The Caiskin Aqueduct" by Perez G Barney = 9
~ Foroham Street. near City Island Avenue.
City Island
The Moon and Man" by Jacob E. Eric rb y
.sI, r. s. Is; Antheu5 and Tremon, Avenues. D''
Ihrpush foiynesia. by Mrs. Lillian : Fisher.
y ); 81. lsSi street and Cambreling Avenus
The Structure Of the unyerse'' by Garrett p
sservss. r 5 80. jerome Avonuc and Is4th
English Achievement in science and lnrentior "
~ Miss Gra'e Caldwell ~ East isoth
Meeting Women,s League United states Naval Re
serve. hotel Woodward. 5 y N Every woman
seUmN4 sa In the service is urgently requested to
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

country" he added, "and visit everv
one of our forty-four locals. | shall
ask every one of the 10000 members
IN our international body to give these
boys every bit of help they can. Thev
are lighting for square deal and it's
up to all union men to place themselves
on record as their sincere we'll wishers,
Speaking for the International brother
mood, wish the newsboys good luck in
their struggle and feel confident that
our organization will help them get q
square DEAL q
Resolution Is Adopted
me resolution, as adopted, reads:
nereas, The newsboys Of the CITY
or New York arc making efforts to
better their living conditions. and
to that end have requested the nub-
l1shcrs of the daily papers of the
city to allow them a greater profit
so that they might be enabled to
meet the present high living cost:
and o'''
Whereas, it is claimed by the news
boys that their fair demands we've
refused them solely through the in
huence OF the publisher of "The New
YORK American" and "The Evening
journal which papers, they con-
tend, they arc being forced to sell.
although great portion of the pub
llc wlil not buy them on patriotic
grounds; and '''''' '0''o
whereas, The newsboys have struck
against these papers in order TO OBJ
tain their fair requests; therefore
be it o'eAoi0
Resolved, That the Composition
Roofers' international Brotherhood
Local Union No. 4, expresses its sin,
cere sympathy with and heartily in
dorses the strike of the said news
doys for fair working and liyine
conditions, and as a loyal labor or.
S%nlzatlon extends them every moral
asst tance.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
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One OF the features of the army aviation
carnival tomorrow at Belmont parl j.
Iaoe pS aeroplanes from the park to the
Statue OF Liberty and back. The last race
over tne same course was in 1910 when
Moisant, the French flier. now dead Gov
cred the thirty mile course IN ~ ooip,,tos
and 3S seconds i''''o'eS
= drive for one million phonograph records
10 oe sent overseas, starts Tomorrow Head
quarters of the committee in ch.roo af H.
drive are at 81 East Fortieth Street Wv
- Frederick A. Wallis, Fourth DEPUTY Police
commissioner, announced yesterday that the
9o'al SUBSCRIPTIONS to the fourth Liberty
Loan through the Police Denartmen.
reached $3.50, $50 $50 The original n'iots e
the department was $50 900 900
Women physicians of the New York In
Urinary for Women and Children ut 9S1
hast Fifteenth Street. have raised a IttIa
over S4p,O0O in the first two DAYS Of 7 ton
day drive for 5000 900.
Lloyd s. Bryce. forner Minister IF tbo
United States to the Netherlands. who died
at Rosyn. l.. l., on April . 1917. left an
estate valued at 81 ,665 061 Tho pronertv
is to be divided among son and two daurh-
ters S "
The Young Israel Synagogue which has
been holding services in the Educatio1al
Alliance Building, intends to raise a building
fund of 100000.
Rose Bechelle. eighteen yeas old. of s71
Manhattan Avenue, BrooklS mas been hold
III $1,000 bail in the Bridge Plaza nolirc
court on the charge of slashing Angelina
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
New York in Danger From
Morgan Plant, Senator Saws

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Investiga-
ton by the military committee of the
explosion at the shell loading plant at
Morgan, N. j., on October 4, was
authorized by the Senate. Senator
Frelnghuysen, of New Jersey, urging
his resolution for the inquiry, declare q
I. reign of terror exists among the
residents for from forty to fifty miles
around the munitions plant because of
the fear Of another disaster
If either Of two storage plants at
Morgan was struck by lightning or a
fire should occur it would destroy half
the City of New York, Senator Freling-
huysen said. He added that proper
distrlbutIon Of the explosives would
minimize the danger.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Railroad Men Rene1u
Request for Increased
Wages for Overtime

WASHINGTON. Oct. 24.-The four
leading railway brotherhoods have rn-
neWed their request for time and =.
half pay for overtime work. and orc
now pressing this issue before tho raj,
road admlnlstration's board of railroad
wages and working conditions. ~
At present most of the men pet ,ho
same rate of pay for overtjma that "t
work. uay :
NE new application applies to tho
engineers. fircmen, conductors and
tralnmen's brotherhoods. In addition
the swltchmen's union has asked 'f,,, fn,,
Ilme I'm and half credit for HOLIDAYS ana
Sunday work ana
The wage board is CONSIDERING Tho
applcatlon, and will make recommen- %
datlons to Director General ,,,re.- MnAdnn
halfway firemen ask a special sra1o aoot ~
pay winch would result in incrasses es
ranging between % and so per cent r4sfo Is
audltion to the time and a half for r
overtime request. ioi
All the brotherhoods also sock 80
adjustments of wage scales thronohovt
1ne country to restore wage reIat;on0
shlps and ditferentals which the la"t los
general wage advances wiped out
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Commissioner Failed to
Consult Mayor About
Park Casino Lease
Disobeyed Orders,
Is Charge Made
Third of Official Family
to Feel Executive
Displeasure

Mayor Hylan asked yesterday for the
! resignation of William f. Grell, Com
missioner of Parks for Manhattan and
president of the German Democracy, a
Tammany Hall annex.
The Mayor took this action following
publication of the fact that Commits
sioner Grell had leased without public
letting to it's present lessees the Casino
in Central Park.
-, The Mayor did not ask Commission
er Grell to resign because he had
leased the Casino without giving others
a chance to bid on it, but because he
had executed the lease without first
consulting him.
Commissioner Grell declined to dis
cuss the Mayors statement. which the
latter handed to the press, or to say II
he would resign. The Mayors state
ment follows:
Several days ago 7 directed the
Commissioner of Accounts to make an
investigation of the report that the
Park Commissioner Of Manhattan had
executed the lease of the Central Park
Casino to the present tenants without
first submitting same to me, as was the
Claremont lease.
Asks for Resignation
"rhe Commissioner of Accounts re-
piled to me verbally yesterday that
such lease has been executed. ] for.
warded a letter to the Commissioner o.
Parks calling his attention to instruc-
tions from this Office dated April and
October 81 (this last date was three
days after publication of the fact that
Grell had made the lease without pub
lie letting) bearing on this subject
and advised him that if he had exc
cuted the lease in question IN dlsre-
gard of my orders, | desired him
to forthwith hand in his resignation
Commissioner Grell closed the lease
in question with Gustave Dorval, presl-
dent of the company Of restaurateurs
who have run the Casino for upward
of twenty years. Dorval has been pay
ing recently only $4,000 a year for the
big building in Central Park known
as the Casino. 1t is said the new lease
is for ten years at an annual rental OF
$50, 900.
The Claremont, to which the Mayor
refers, was leased last Spring at public
auction. Its present tenants pay $780,
500 year for the lease, which does
not expire until 1923. Until then the
place, which commands view Of the
Hudson River and the Palisades from
its site on Riverside Drive, near Grants
Tomb, brought only $4,000 annually.
This was under the secret leasing ar
rangemcnt.
Third Commissioner to Go
This is the third of his commission
ers whom the Mayor has forced to re
sign. The first, Frederick H. Bugher,
after being appointed Police Commits
sioner, found, according to his state
ments, that Mayor Hylan wanted to
run the department, wanted Deputy
Police Commissioner whom Bugher
thought unfit, and objected to Commits
sioner Bugher having as one of his dep
uties a man because he was college
trained and had Independent means.
Bughcr resigned after he had held the
Office twenty three days.
The second resignation wac that of
DR.. j. Lewis Amstcr, Health Commits
soner. He said, after three months un-
der Mayor Hylan, that he could not con-
tinue under him "with due regard to
self-respect and my professional
ideals"