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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-03-06

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-03-06
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New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Plan Flower Guild Benefit
Fort Slocum Women to Aid
Sick Soldiers

Last Easter New York florists sent
some flowers to the hospital at Fort
Slocum. There we're several score sick
soldiers to enjoy them, but the hos
pltal had no vases or pots to put the
flowers in.
Wives Of The post officers made up
purse to buy vases and pots. Then
when the Easter poses wilted and died
more flowers We're needed to fill the
empty vases by the soldiers beds. So
ciety girls Of New Rochelle Joined the
officers wives in the task of reflling
tic empty vases; and that is how the
Fort Slocum Iospital Flower and Com
fort Guild was started
Fort Slocum, now a regular army
post. will have an additional popula-
ton of 5000 National Army men
within n few weeks. In order to raise
funds to continue the work among a
larger number of men. the guild will
hold benefit ut the Burlani Casino,
800 Westches.er Avenue, May II
and r.
Private Adolph Gross has assisted
Mrs. John f. Chenoweth III arranging
the benefit. Mrs. Chenoweth, wife of
the post chaplain, is president of the
guild.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Woman In Thomas
Scandal Disappears
Especial Coryespondeuce1

CHICAGO, April 28.-Mrs. R. NJ.
Granger, the young wife Of an army
officer row in France. has disappeared
from the home of former Professor
William Isaac Thomas, of the Uni
verslty of Chicago, with whom she was
arrested III a room at the Brevoort
Hotel, the case being dismissed in the
city courts. Meanwhile the university
has ousced Thomas
"hile the scandal was at its height
Mrs. Granger was taken into the
Thomas home and no one was per
mittcd to see her. Up to that time
she had talked freely TO reporters and
Federal Secret Service agents, admit
ting everything and dilating upon her
profound love for Daddy" as she
termed Thomas. Once she was within
the walls OF the Thomas dom icile she
was not permitted 10 talk, being care
fully guarded and protected from rude
reporters By Mrs. Thomas. who shares
her husbands "upiift" ideas. and by
her twenty yfour year-old pacfst son,
whom she "did not raise 10 be q SOL
der"
Government agents insist they in
tend to make an example Of Thomas,
as other officers and soldiers in France
and in various camps are growing rest
loss under the disposition Of the case
Mrs. Granger, it is said. will be wanted
70 testify aE to certain alleged affairs
in Eastern cities.
Thomas, it is said, has received nu-
fnerous offers from vaudeville mana
gers who desire him to lecture on sex
topics, but he recently said TINT under
no circumstances would he 20 upon
the stage.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
SO Enemy Prisoners
Here From Panama

Ninety-eight enemy aliens brought
here as Federal prisoners from the
Panama Canal Zone, where they were
rounded UP for their war activities,
were lodged yesterday for temporary
detention on Ellis Island The prison
ers were brought here aboard a steam
ship which arrived Saturday and placed
in the custody of the immigration au-
thorities. Thew will lie turned over to-
day to Major Chester r. Hag, military
officer in charge Of the detention guar
ters.
a number of dangerous Germans are
said to be included in the party. Civil
engineers caught making maps and
charts of the canal and it's defenccs
are among the prisoners. Three are ac-
cused of disseminating false stories
about American casualties. One was a
paymaster in d 6sntral American state
while others were employed aboard
German ships interned when the United
States declared war
The large batch of aliens is the first
group to be detained on Ellis Island in
several months. They probably will be
sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, in a few
days, to be intcrned for the duration Of
the war
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Scofed at Bonds;
Rescued From Mob
Trenton Man Gets Taste of
Lynching at Hands of
Factory Workers

TRENTON, Y. j., April 27.-F'rank
Koss, of 216 Second Street, had taste
OF lynch" Law yesterday afternoon
following his refusal to buy a Liberty
bond A gang of infuriated workmen
grabbed him and there were calls for
a rope. One was procured and, despite
his struggles, it was noosed about
Koss's neck and he was suspended for
seven seconds. He was all but uncon-
scious when he was lowered
"To the canal" yelled one of the
workmen. "Overboard with him."
cried out another. He was then rushed
to the bank of the canal, with the rope
still about his neck and about to be
thrown in when member of the firm
where Koss was employed interfered.
The workmen insisted that Koss be
discharged, and when the employer
promised to do this Koss was released.
He is employed in the pottery depart
ment Of the j. L. Mott Iron Works, is
Hungarian and, according to the
other workmen, is said to have strong
pro-German tendencies.
He was approached at the shop yes
terday and asked to buy Liberty
bond He is alleged to have replied
ITO he'll with Liberty bondsi"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Quarternaster to
Move Division Here
Special CorYespondencel

WASHINGTON. April 23.-The cot
ton and woollen and manufacturing
branches of the supply and equipment
division of the Quartermaster's Corps
will be trans ferred to New York within
the next week, according to a statement
made to-day by Albert L. Scott, chief of
the division. Offices will be opened in
the Borgfeldt Building, Sixteenth
street and Irving Place. Much of the
clerical force will be transferred to
the new Offices.
The new organization is not vet COM
plete, although it is hoped that within
very short time the name of the man
who will be in general charge of the
New York Office can be announced
Lincoln Cromwell will continue in
charge of knit goods. H. P. Bonties of
woollcns and Albert Elliott of tops and
yarns. Charles J. Nichols, wool admin
lstrator at Boston, will continue at that
place in the purchase Of raw wools.
This removal is one OF several which
are scheduled to take place soon. The
purchase of leather, for example, is
the buying of shoes may be divided
although no definite decision concern
ing shoes has been reached
Mr.. Scott will remain in Washing
ton in general charge of the govern
ment end of the activities of the sup
ply and equipment division. 1t is the
purpose OF General Goethals in max
ing changes of this kind to transfer
the merchandising end directly into
the markets, leaving the government
side Of all transactions TO be adminis-
tered here
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
South Beach May Be
A Shipping Centre
Steamship Interests Said To
Be Negotiating for Famous
Amusement Resort

Reports in Staten Island real estate
circles Indicated yesterday that South
Beach, for thirty years a recreation
centre, was about to be transformed
into a commercial centre as result
of the increasing demand for wharfage.
A man well known to realty op-
orators. who frequently has acted as
an appraiser. has been examining the
property which extends for two and
half miles from the Fort Wadsworth
reservation to Midland Beach. There
are about forty owners, and it is said
that most of them have been ap
preached with suggestions for sale at
prices which generally have Ibeen re-
garded as acceptable.
Steamship interests are said to be
behind the scheme, with the intention
of erecting piers ard warehouses AMI
dredging channels.
The beach is outside the Narrows
and not more than two or three miles
from Ambrose Channel. Up to within
500 feet OF the shore boats of any draft
would have no difficulty. Beyond that
point the sand would have to be
drcdged out.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Find Men They Expected
to Visit Have Been
Transferred
One Family Reunited
Locates Husband and Father
Just Before Return; $50
in Party

One hundred and fifty relatives and
TRENDS OF soldiers went yesterday on
the free excursion to Camp Upton ar
ranged by the Automobile Association.
About half of them travelled in the
buses which the American Defence
Society hired. The buses followed
the Merrick Road. The lighter We
hicles used the Motor Parkway, the
tolls having been remitted through the
courtesy OF W. X. Vande rbilt, jr.
some OF those in the party discov-
cred that the men they were planning
to visit had been sent elsewhere. They
sought information of soldier who
told them that he hadn't even known
that his companions were to be trans
ferred until be woke up yesterday
morning and found them gone. That
was why Mamie Bower and Lily Good
man, of Brooklyn, didn't bother to get
out OF the bus
Mrs Yedda Estrader and her two
small daughters found that "pa" was
still in camp. Mrs. Estrader thought
that probably he would have been sent
off with the rest if it hadn't been dis
covered that he was blind in one eye
~ ou know he oughtnt to be here AT
ALL she said. "He WIS put in Class
iitHt ana lileH III CIdSS L, and Wncn ne
appealed they merely sent him another
Class | card and told him to report in
camp
Mrs. Estrader did not find her hus-
band until fifteen minutes before II
was time for her to return She came
upon him att Mckinley Avenue and
Nineteenth Street. While she was talk
ing TO him member Of the Military
Police called upon Estrader to explain
why his cap was missing Estrader
said that his cap and other articles
of his outfit had been sent with the
baggage of the men transferred.
Lily Estrader. two years old, was in
consolable when the bus started or
the return trip. because the wind had
changed and the dust which had pre-
vented her from watching the driver
on the way to camp still hid him from
her view.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
ather Pious Mayer

- ENGLEWOOD. N. r., April Is
Paralysis caused the death to-day Of
Father Pious Mayer, General of the
Carmelite Order He was seventy years
old and one of the most widely known
Catholic priests in the country. He
had been here for more than four
years.
Father Mayer was craained more
than forty years ago. He was born in
Germany and had served in missionary
capacities in various parts of the
United States. including Kansas City
and Niagara Falls.
Several years ago, while in Rome,
he was made General OF the Carmelite
Order, in recognition CT services per-
formed for the Catholic Church in the
missionary field. The funeral will take
place on Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
I eachers Warned To
Avoid War Criticism
Cornell Alumni News" Dis
approves Comment on Eng
land by Faculty Member

ITHACA, N. Y, April 2s.--"All public
teachers, and especially those con-
nected with colleges and universities,
should, we think, take special pains at
the present time TO avoid such criticism
of the policies of America and her al
lies as may give rise to the suspicion
that they, the teachers or the institu-
tons they represent are not in tha
feartiest and fullest sympathy with the
cause OF the Allies in this great con-
fiict"
This is one of the statements appear
ing in an editorial headed "Sedition" in
the current number of "The Cornell
Alumni News mouthpiece of the
alumni of the university. The occasion
for the editorial was an incident re-
ported several weeks ago in the news
papers Involving a member of the Cor
nell faculty, Professor Nathaniel
Schmidt. In a lecture before the Po-
litical Equality League of Chicago Pro-
fessor Schmidt is reported to have
made certain critical statements con-
cerning the colonial policy Of Great
Britain. The reports of the meeting
stated that some Of his remarks were
Kissed.
Protests against his remarks were
fled with President Schurman OF the
university and with"The Alumni News"
by the Cornell Alumni Association OF
Chicago. Professor Schmidt himself
denied making the remarks attributed
to him and that his audience had ex-
pressed disapproval
"'The Alumni News" editorial says:
The time for certain types and kinds
of criticism has gone by, and another
time will not come till after the war.
Discussion Of England's relation to her
colonies and dependencies is not now
to the point-the point at this moment
is where England stands to-day in the
struggle with the Hun and what we can
DO to back her up."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Baby Only Occupant of
the Car That
Escaped
Mother Badly Hurt
Two Women Knocked Dewn
by Machine as They At
tempt to Gross Street

Four out OF the five occupants of
Philip Rosenwasser's automobile were
injured yesterday when the machine,
in coming down the steep Hill that
leads from Haven Avenue to the Drive
at 177th Street. overturned at curve
and rolled over twice before it came
to a standstll. The only one to es-
cape was the Rosenwasser baby.
Mr.. Rosenwasser started from his
home. 6S4 Wales Avenue, The Bronx.
Yesterday with his wife. her friend
Molly Silverman. of sl5 Caldwell Ave
years old, and the baby. In going
down the l77th Street hill, he threw
on his brake so sharply that the car
skidded and overturned.
Reserves from the 177th Street sta
ton hurried TO the rescue, and an am
bulance was summoned from st. Law
renee Hospital Mrs. Rosenwasser
and Miss Silverman were taken to the
hospital, the former w.th fractured
skull the other with "A broken left
shoulder. David and his father both
sustained scalp wounds.
In attempting to turn and go down
town At 165th Street and broadway
yesterday. George Byron, Of 965 Am
stcrdam Avenue, bore down in his car
upon Johanna and Alice Cassandra,
who were crossing the street. The
women lodged back and forth and
finally stepped directly IN the path OF
the car.
Alice was flung aside, but her sist.'r
was knocked down. A surgeon from ST.
Lawrence Hospital ook johanna to
that institution suffering from brnise1
and possible internal injuries. Alice
was treated for bruised kneecap.
An automobile driven by Or. !. Schul-
man, of 157 Sumner Avenue. Brooklyn.
took to the sidewalk yesterday at
Myrtle and Tompkins avenues, Brook
Ign. Four persons were hurt. Mollle
Roffman, nine years old, of $50 Myrtle
Avenue, sustained an injury to her
spine and was taken TO St. Johns Hos
pital.
Dr. Schulman was arrested. charge 4
with reckless driving. He declared that
the accident was due to his attempt to
avoid collision with another vehicle.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Bandits ON Ferryboat
Rife Express Wagon
Four Robbers Escape in Auto
After Holding Up Amer
lean Co. Driver

FOUR bandits. who piled their trade
with astounding boidncss on a Jersey
City ferryboat before dawn yesterday
morning, took their pick Of the con-
tents OF Wells-Fargo Express Com
p@fys van under the nose Of the occu-
pant OF another truck and then escaped
IN an automobile. The police obtained
no estimate Of the value Of the goods
stolen.
The witness Of the robbery was
|. seated IN an American Express Com
sDany wagon. On seeing the four
men proving about the other cx-
press wagon he walked oyer. One Of
The four showed revolver in his face
ana told him to keep quiet until he
was out Of range.
Tie did 80, with the result that Fred
srick Smith. driver Of the Wells Fargo
Express wagon, and his helper had
cumbed back TO their seat and we're
aiw'ng up a Jersey City strect when
ne overlook them with news Of the
r0bnsry. Smith and his helper had
oesn IN the smoking room on the trip
asroas the river
ne police asserted that there vas "A
1ustHer delay Of two hours before the
1S~ssry WAS reported 10 them.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Russo-Japanese War in Zoo
Keeper RcnanoH Arrives Too
Late to Save Life of
Brown Bear

TIE mix-up that follows when Greek
meets Greek can't even be compared
20 what ensued yesterday in The Bronx
zoo, when Ivan, the Russian brow,a
bear, and Japanese black bear, rejoic-
ing in the Oriental name of Lillian, in-
dulged in an international dispute
For years Ivan and Lillian have
shared the same cage in the bear pit,
with expressions of mutual regard.
Yesterday, however, they became en-
broiled in a discussion over Vladi-
vostok, or some kindred subject. Spec
tatcrs were astounded to hear Ivan
roar out some thing in Bolshevik, and
sail into Lillian.
The racket brought Peter Roman
off, the keeper, on the run, accompS-
MED by Curator Ditmars, who feared
that because Of his name Peter might
be partisan. By the time they reached
the cage, however, it was all over.
Lillian was dead, and Ivan sat over his
victim, mumbling something about the
rights Of the proietariat
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Fire Ties Up Rail
Traffic ON Bridge
To Williamsburg
200 Feet of Planking Is
Burned; Defective Insula-
ton Started Blaze

Defective insulation in an electric
Railways Company, running beneath
the north roadway of the Williamsburg
Bridge, caused a fire yesterday which
burned away several hundred feet of
the planking of the road and tied up
for five hours surface cars running
across the bridge, as we'll as Twenty
third, Fourteenth. Eighth and Grand
Street crosstown lines, which the cable
supplied with power.
The blaze gained considerable head
way before it was discovered, and had
fastened so firm hold upon the OIL
soaked wood that firemen had to fight
hard to eXtinguish it.
Smoke began 10 pour UP through the
planking at about o'clock, AMI Patrol
man Straighton discovered that the
under side CT the roadway was ablaze.
He blew his whistle. summoning
Patrolman Mannix, who began 20 clear
the roadway, while Straighton boarded
an automobile and shot over to the
Manhattan end of the bridge to turn in
an alarm.
Meanwhile, fireboats had seen the
flames. Lying under the bridge they
directed streams from their powerful
howitzers against the blazing plarkins
while the land forces fought from
above, tearing up the blazing planAs
and dropping them overheard.
Two boats, filled with soldiers on
their way to one of the Sound forts,
ran through a bombardment of planks
as they came under the bridge. One of
the heavy boards splintered the stern
of one of the craft. Then. until the
fire was extinguished, police patrol
boats held I'D traffic on the river.
Vchicular traffic was allowed to pro-
ceed to and from Manhattan along the
south roadway which generally only
carries Brookly bound cars and
WaCOne
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Jury to TryI. w. w.
Probably Will Be
Completed To-day
New Venire May Furnish
the Last Man
Needed
Especial Correspondence

CHICAGO, April 29.-When the trial
is resumed tomorrow of the 113 mem
bers of the l. w. W, charged with
hindering the prosecution of the war,
the new venire of thirty men will be
present, from which it is hoped the
final juror will be selected. Each side
has remaining three peremptory chal-
lenges. however, and if these are exer-
clsed the jury may not be completed
without the summoning Of another
venire
The tall, black clad Individual who
addressed rather slender gathering of
Wobbles in l. ". w Hall this after
noon created enthusiasm only once
That was when he mentioned May l,
International Labor Day.
The speaker, Robert Heggie, a
Scotchman from Idaho, made a grave
tactical error and forgot all about the
ers who are on trial, but when he spoke
of May l there was brisk applause
He told them that was the date set for
lumber jacks and other blanket stiffs"
to burn their bedding rolls. There
after, he said, sleeping accommod da-
tions must be provided for them or
they would "insist upon exercising
their right to be lazy"
Tells of Contemplated Strike
Then he told them how Wobblies in
Seattle and Far Western cities are
planning TO celebrate International
Labor Day with a strike in protest
against the execution of Tom Mooney
AT the close of the meeting little
groups gathered on the floor of the
abandoned church building that serves
the /. W. W. as meeting place. They
discussed the six-hour day and the
five-day week and other industrial
changes dear to the /. w. w. heart.
In one group was a crippled. gray
bearded man. His legs had been cut
off just below the knees and the stumDs
were encased in leather pads as cum
bersome as an elephants foot. He
shuffled along on these, aided by a
served him as walking stick. Across
the left breast of his gray mackinaw
was shown an American flag upside
down, a signal Of distress in the inter-
national code
An ear trumpet was draped about
his neck and the index finger was miss
ing from the right hand that was
cupped behind his ear.
Apropos of nothing at all, he finally
yelled in the tone Of one who has long
been deaf:
"Anybody who says this is free
country is blank blanked liar"
Nobody seemed disposed to argue
with him ana he continued:
They won't even let me write to my
eighty--year old mother they won't,
. those blasted United States Secret Ser
vice devils. Know what they did to
me? Out in Japlin, Mo. three years
ago they took my artificial limbs away
I from me. Said they could keep better
track Of me on the ground Anybody
VINO wants to know what I think u
them just ask me-"
There were Secret Service men there
/ but they paid no attention to the old
man, and he finally shuffled out of the
hall.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Il Can't Speak" " Says Soldier
But Empty Sleeve Is Eloquent
Engineers and Friends Give Ovation to Private Bryn
Who Lost Arm in France Job Hedges Declares
America Is Just Finding Her Soul

here was much moving oratory yes
tcrday afternoon in the auditorium of
the Engineers Societies Building. in
west Thirty ninth Street, where the
Association of the 18th Engineers as
sembled in patriotic meeting. But
more eloquent than all the rest-with
due respect to Job Hedges, who de-
hvered the principal address-was a
certain missing right forearm.
Several months ago that right fore
arm was firmly attached to the person
OF Private Bryn. Of the United States
Engineers. Private Bryn took it to
France with him, and found it of in
estimablc aid in laying railroad tracks
and fixing emplacements for big guns.
Then one morning along The Cambrai
front-it was one of those dark foCgy.
French winter mornings eight big
German planes suddenly swooped
along, and when they had passed Pri-
vate Bryr's right forearm was gone.
Veteran Called to Platform
'Sp III INC COCISG vi time 1t cam @
about that Private Bryn returned to
this country. Yesterday Frederick L.
Crawford. who presided at the meeting,
spied him in the gallery and promptly
hailed him to the platform. And thus it
was that the first American soldier
wounded under the Stars and Stripes in
France who has been persuaded to tell
about it was brought before a New
York audience.
At the outset Of his brief remarks
Private Bryn warned his audience that
he wasn't much Of speaker But
that missing arm spoke many volumes
for him. Tears glistened in scores of
eyes as he ran through a curt, halting
narrative Of his experiences, and when
he finished the audience-the war
brought. perhaps, more intimately home
to them than ever before stood long,
apnlauding. cheering, acclaiming.
Then Job Hedges rose and talked
about the finding of the American soul.
"This country" declared he, "for
half century before this never once
thought nationally. Never has there
been suffering anywhere or trouble but