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New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Abrogates Municipal
Traction Contracts

TRENTON, June 17~-Establish,nc
the doctrine that the State Board of
Public Utility Commissioners had tho
legal authority to abrogate contracts
between street railway companies and
municipalities for certain rate of
fare, the Court of Error and Appeals
to-day reversed the Supreme Court and
held that the agreement between the
borough of Bradley Beach and the At-
iantic Coast Electric Railway Com
pany was not binding at this time.
IN view of the application of the
Public Service Electric Company,
which controls the trolley service of
nine-tenths of the state, for an increas az
Of fare, and which application ia now
being considered by the utility board
and the many other similar applica-
tions, including that Of the Trenton
company, pending, the decision of the
court Is most farreaching.
The utility board allowed an in
creased fare. This was set aside by
the Supreme Court, and now the Court
OF Errors says that the contracts en-
tered into between the borough and the
company are not binding The opinion
was written by Justice Swayze. II holds
that only the Legislature or its agents.
in this case the utility board. definitely
possesses the rate-making power. It
also says that not only must the rate
of fare have been reasonable at the
time it was fxed, but it must continue
to be reasonable.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
u. S. Starts Inquiry
Into Speech by Debs

WASHINGTON. June 17.-Depart-
ment Of Justice agents to-day started
an inquiry into a speech of Eugene v.
Debs, former Socialist candidate for
President, at Canton. Ohio, yesterday
TO determine whether he made disloyal
or seditious remarks. United States
attorneys at Cleveland and Columbus
are in charge of the investigation.
CLEVELAND, July IT. - United
States District Attorney Wertz to-day
was investigating reports of Federal
agents regarding alleged sensational
statements made at the closing rally
of the Socialist state convention at
Canton yesterday.
Eugene V. Debs, of Terre Haute,
Ind, three times candidate of the So
eialist party for President, and others
are under investigation.
"if l find Debs said anything that
violated the espionage law" said Dis
trict Attorney Wertz. ~ will bring it
to the attention of teh Federal grand
jury at once"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Ambulance Made of Truck
Former Rector Writes How He
Saved Wounded

Karl S. Cate, formerly rector of ALI
Saints Episcopal Church. Providence,
and now Young Mems Christian As
sociation worker in France, has written
to the National War Work Council of
the Young Mems Christian Association
describing how he converted his motor
truck, in which he was carrying sup
plies, into an ambulance and general
rescue vehicle when the German drive
began.
Mr.. Cate was proceeding toward the
front with load when the Germans
broke through. He dumped his sup
plies by the roadside, placed five
wounded Americans and ali the refu-
gee children he could carry in the
truck, and after forty eight hours of
sleepless toll took them all safely to
Paris
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Trenton Upset by
Article Describing
German Teacher
Type in Pamphlet Is ldent.
flied as Modelled After
School Principal

TRENTON, N. j., June >17-An arti-
Gle on the German-American school
master in American schools, written by
J. Miller Dorey, professor of English
in the Trenton High School, for the
Vigilantes, and published by that or
ganization, has the city by the ears,
though the only copy of the document
is in the hands Of Beekman R. Ter
hume. another high school instructor,
who is guarding it zealously.
The trouble started when teachers
identified the type of German -Ameri-
can schoolmaster in the article as mod
elled after DR.. William A. Wetzel,
principal of the local high school Scan
dallzed, they took the offending ar
ticle to the Board of Education. It
was agreed nothing should be done to
cause talk, and that the best method
OF procedure would be to appoint a
committee of teachers to ask Mr.. Dorey
TOR his resignation.
Mr.. Dorey informed the committee
members that their identification was
erroneous, that he did not have DR..
WetZel in mind when he wrote the arr
t'cle, and intended only to describe a
type. Ii the article was interpreted as
an attack on DR.. Wetzel, he said. he
should most certainly resign, and
did so.
On thinking the matter over, however,
Mr.. Dorey decided the proceedings were
irregular and that he was entitled to a
public hearing. He asked for one and
the storm broke. The Board of Educa
ton was determined there should be nc
that sped and multiplied. Mayor Fred
erick w. Donnelly wrote to the board
| that he would preside at hearing in
the case. George B. Labarre, City Com
missioner, insisted that the facts be
brought out and condemned the action
of the board in shifting responsibility
to the committee of teachers.
1T is almost inconceivable," he said,
chat any member of such an impor-
tant body could be so spineless as to
shirk his plain duty; so careless of
the maintenance of discipline in the
teaching staff of our educational sys-
tenn as to suggest course of action
that could create only discord in that
staff; so insensible to the ultimate re-
suit as not to realize it would give en-
couragement and official sanction to
schemers and intriguers, and so indif-
ferent to the rights of the accused as
to suggest that the accusers act as
judges and executioners, procedure so
un-American that it must have been
copied from the actions of the Huns in
Belgium"
Members Of the board responded in
kind The two upper classes in the
school adopted resolutions supporting
Mr.. Dorey. 1t Is thought there will be
O public hearing.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Fourth Liberty Loan
Issue To Be at ~

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Treas
ury indicated in statement tonight
that the interest rate on the fourth
LIBERTY Loan would not be raised above
Az per cent. the rate of the third loan
THE inference drawn in certain
morning papers that the bonds of the
next Liberty Loan will bear interest at
AZ per cent is wholly without founda-
tlon," said the statement. with the
exception OF one or two issues, all of
the Treasury certificates issued in an
ticipation of the third Liberty Loan
bore interest at 41s per cent. The is
sue of certificates in anticipation of
the fourth loan bearing interest at An
per cent foreshadows no change of in
terest in the rate borne by bonds of
the fourth loan"
Officials explained that the report
was published in only one or two East
ern newspapers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
General Managers
Named for Roads

The following appointments for the
railroads in the Eastern region, ef-
fective at once, were announced yes
terday by Regional Director A. H.
Smith:
]. ]. Bernet, general manager New
York, Chicago & st. Louis Railroad,
Office at Cleveland; E. M. Rine, general
manager Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, Office at New York; #. F.
Brennan, general manager Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway, Office
at Rochester,; A. M. Darlow, general
manager Buffalo & Susquehanna Rail-
road office at Buffalo; j. H. Nuelle
general manager New York, Ontario &
Western Railway, Office at Middletown,
N. Y; Morris rutherford, general
manager Lehigh & Hudson River Rail
way, Office at Warwick, N. Y; r. II
Wilbur, general manager Lehigh &
New England Railroad, office at Phila-
delphia; Richard 0. Sullivan, general
manager Ulster & Delaware Railroad
general manager Detroit & Mackinae
Railway, Office at Detroit.
Tho following appointments were
made in the Ohio-Indiana district:
B. A. Worthington, general manager
Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western
Railroad. Office at Indianapolis; w. B
Wood, general manager Grand Rapids
g. Indiana Railway, Office at Crane
Rapids, Mich; H. c. May, general man
ager Chicago, Indianapolis G. Louis
vile Railway, office at Lafayette, Ind;
H. w. McMaster, general manager
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, office
at Cleveland.
The general manager of each of the
foregoing railroads will have charge
of the property. including such of its
leased or operated properties as arr
under Federal control. He will have
jurisdiction over al, departments, re,
porting to the regional director.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Naval Committee Defended

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Secretary
Daniels to-day defended the House
Naval Committee and its chairman,
Representative Padgett. of Tennessee,
answering a statement made by Allan
r. Hawley, president of the Aero Club
Of America. Mr.. Hawley was quoted
as saying blame for successes Of the
German submarines off the American
coast must be placed upon Mr.. Padgett
because he had blocked the construc-
tion of adequate coastal air sdefences.
II cannot say whether the stations
are there or not" said Mr.. Daniels, "be-
cause that is military information. I
can say that Mr.. Padgett has coop
Grated with the department in the most
perfect way. Mr.. Hawley has heen
misinformea as to Mr.. Padgctt's atti-
tude."
The House committee, the Secretary
said, has never failed to act in accord
anee with the Recommendations of the
naval experts,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Mccarthy Gives
Slogan for Loyalty
Parade Marchers

Franz Sigel, president of the Friends
OF German Democracy, and Thomas D.
Mccarthy, United States Marshal, ex-
planned last night at a preparatory
meeting called by the Friends Of Ger
man Democracy in the Union Square
Hotel just what kind of American Ger
mans were eligible to march in the
Fourth of July parade.
I'VE do not want any man in the
parade who does not mean it," said
Marshall Mccarthy, "who does not
wish for America to win. who does not
want to see the Kaiser beaten. The
countersign of the marchers will be-:
10 hell with the Kaiser; we love
America!"
Marshal Mccarthy said that there
are 1900 enemy aliens in this district
whose soma are in the American army
or navy. To this statement Mr.. Sigel
added that those who were "citizens in
sentiment" although war had come be-
lore lore they completed the legal formal
itles, were eligible for participation in
the loyalty demonstration.
What we want to show, irrespective
ooo, soit 1uh toiBet, lS uHaC We
are patriotic in the sense of standing
Tor America and American ideals. We
are going to educate the people of Ge--
many by participation in a parade, in
which thirty nationaiities, representing
a unified American nation, will march.
And we are going to educate the Ameri-
can people by showing them that they,
and we among them, were blind to the
danger OF states. consisting of foreign
nationalities within this great coun-
try"
There We're about $50 "enemy aliens'
at the meeting, some of them women.
Lightly of those present had relatives
II the American armed forces. Julius
Heymarr preslaed. Other speaker
were William English Walling, Nissen
Behar and Felix Senff.
Mr.. Senff expected to consult earlier
with twenty or thirty Lutheran clergy
men OF the city concerning the forma-
ZION OF Lutheran unit to march on
July 4, but only two responded in per
son to the 140 invitations that had
6een sent by the Friends of German
democracy. They were the Rev. Dr..
William Popcke, pastor Of Zion Church !
and the Rev. DR.. William Schoenfeld' >
OF Emmanuel Church. Mr.. Senff said
that some might have failed to come
because they no longer thought of
themselves as German hut
as Americans.
Il am not going to pass judgment on
why more did not respond to our in
vltatlons," he said. "Let the neonIa
form their own conclusion. But I ad-
"ie that we sxpacted twenty or thirty.n
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Strangeland Is Held
Under $4,000 Bail

Charles Emil StrangeIand, former at
tache of American legations abroad,
was held in $4,000 bail yesterday by
United States Commissioner Samuel
Hitchcock on complaint which
charges him with violating the trading
with the enemy act.
The specific complaint against
Strangeland, sworn to by Gustave v.
Palmer, of the Customs Intelligence
Bureau, charges that he entered into a
conspiracy with Gustave Ragnar Lind
gren, with whom he lived, to violate the
trading with the enemy act. The pur-
pose Of the conspiracy, according to
the complaint, was to enable Lindgren
to convey a written communication for
Strangeland to his wife, Karin Mich
aelis Strangeland, the novelist, now a
resident Of Copenhagen
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Education Board
Votes to Dismiss
Paci6st Teacher
Miss Mary Mcdowell, of
Erasmus Hall, Openly
Against War

Miss Mary e. Mcdowell. a Quaker
high school teacher of Brooklyn, was
dismissed from the public school sys-
tenn of New York City at meeting
of the committee of the Board of Edu-
cation yesterday.
This decision, it is said, will affect
other cases in which the rights of
Quakers and other paciists to hold po-
sitions in the public school system are
involved.
"A teachers religious opinions are
not involved" said John L. Tildsley,
superintendent in charge of high
schools, who preferred the charges
against Miss Mcdowell. at is mere
ly the fitness of teacher with her
views to hold position in our public
schools. The Board of Education has
decided, and l concur in the decision,
that such teachers would undermine
patriotism in the schools"
Charges Against Miss Mcdowell
The technical charge against Miss
MacDowell was that of conduct unbe-
coming teacher" but the actual in
ulClHcliL WAS as IOllOWS.
THAT she stated to the Board Of
Education that:
Il. She did not concede our right to
resist by force invasion of our &C untry
and would not do her part in uphold
ing the national policy of resistance
and would not uphold our country in
resisting invasion.
"2. She did not want to help the
United States carry on the war and
was unwilling to assist the government
by every means in her power in carry
"3. She would not urge her pupils to
support the war.
a. She would not urge her pupils
to assist in Red Cross services which
either promote the war of the United
States against Germany or better the
conditions of our soldiers in the field
20. She would not urge her pupils
to buy thrift stamps, the sale of which
supports the government in carving
on the war.
sc. She did not believe that teach
er was under any special obligation to
train her pupils to support the gov
ernment in measures for CARVING on
the war.
81. She was opposed to the war of
the United States against Germany"
Miss MacDowell was a teacher of
LatiH III Erasmus Hall high School and
was suspended last December because
OF complaints from her fellow teachers
that she was a pacitist and had re-
fused to assist in the patriotic activi-
ties of the school,
On May 16 her case was argued be-
fore a special committee of the Board
of Education, of which Frank D. Will
sey, vice-president of the board, was
chairman; The other members were
George Ryan, Joseph Yeska and Mrs.
l. F. Russell.
After, the first hearing counsel on
both pot sides presented briefs. Miss Mac
Dowell was represented by Austen G..
Fox and the board by Assistant Cor
noration 20 Counsel Charles E. Mcintyre.
The decision Yesterday was unanimous
that Miss MacDowell be dismissed.
1t is expected that the case will be
appealed to the State Commissioner Of
Education. Miss MacDowell's counsel
also stated at the time of the first hear
Ing ing that that In case of a verdict against
appeal to the Supreme Court ON tha
question of constitutional rights,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Strauss Auditorium Packed
for Americanization
Mass Meeting
Many Teachers Attend
T. Coleman du Pont and Mar
Gus Nj. Marks Commend
"Win War" Spirit

If the crowds and enthusiasm at the
Americanization meeting yesterday
afternoon on East Broadway, in the
heart of the region inhabited by for
eign-born peoples, may be taken as
typical, then there can be little doubt
of the loyalty Of those who have found
a haven in America.
Straus Auditorium, jefferson Street
and East Broadway, was filled and as
many more were unable to get in at
a o'clock, the hour set for the meeting
by the Educational Alliance.
Many of those present were teachers
in the public schools Of the district de-
scribed as "the lower East Side" who
had come on invitation "to be informed d
Of special services to be rendered the
United States government"
Du Pont Praises Loyalty.
T. Coleman du Pont. who presided,
commended them for their part in in
spring loyalty in the homes Of the
foreign born. He introduced Marcus
M. Marks, former Borough President,
who said:
"The foreign-born citizens and the
children of the foreign born in this
country can be relied upon to be abso-
lutely patriotic. The men and women
who had the spirit and courage and en-
terprise to leave their native lands are
ilkely to appreciate their American cit
lzenship. They are much more likely
to value what they have acquired by
hard work than citizenship thew
might have inherited. We are ali united
IN the conviction we can and will win
this war"
Chancellor J.. Wesley Hill of Lincoln
Memorial University likened those who
oppose the flag to geological quar-.
tet made up of jackass, goat, humble
bee and skunk.
"We must get rid of these PRO- Ger
man kickers, these pacifstic buckers
these Socialist stingers and these
l. w. W. stinkers," he declared.
Asylum for Liberty Loving.
Tonight we are mixed up in a uni
verse of mix-up," he added. "Out of
this war must evolve the thought that
We Will not tolerate a hyphenated
Americansism. Here in America must
be built. an asylum for the liberty
lovers of the world"
lie gave this advice to the teachers;
Teach the glory Of democracy to
your boys and girls, and teach them to
repeat your message in the humblest
of their homes. Teach them the right
eousness of treaty, that truth must
be secured by international law and
that the world must have security for
life, liberty and civilization
DR.. Edward w. Stitt. district suner-
intendent of education, and Dr.. vii
liam J. O'Shea, associate superintend-
ent OF schools, commended the patriotic
sacrifices of their teachers and bespoke
their Willingness to cooperate in any
measures for the spread of Ameri-
canism.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Five Held as Result of
Pro-German Charge
Venezuela's President Accused
His Former Secretary and
Family Sent to Ellis Island

Charges made by Carlos Lopez Bus
tamante on Sunday, that President
Gomez of Venezuela and his admin
istration were pro-German. caused the
detention at Ellis Island yesterday Of
DR.. Esquella Vivas, former secretary
of President Gomez
DR.. Vivas's wife and daughter and
two men whom he described as men
servants, who we're fellow passengers
with Bustamante aboard a steamship
from Caracas, also were removed to
the island and will be kept there pend
ing the decision of a board of special
inquiry that will handle the case.
Bustamante told story to the Gus
toms and immigration officials, saying
that he had been imprisoned and his
newspaper in Caracas contiscated and
suppressed because Of its pro-Ally edi-
torials and his refusal to sell out to
German interests.
The baggage of DR.. Vivas and his
party was carefully searched yesterday
and the inquiry which followed the
seizure of the papers will be resumed
to- day
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Germans Report Good
Care of u. S. Captives

AMSTERDAM, June 17-Amer,con
war prisoners are not being ill-treated
IN germany, says dispatch to Am
sterdam by the semi official Wolff
Bureau of Berlin.
me prisoners, it is declared, are not
used as show objects to the German
pubic and ere rot subjected to insults
ana ana the throwing of stones which is
Ioreign to the calm-tempered German
mind, which does not excite itself anv-
now nc over few Americans in the midst
OF so many thousands of war prisoners
of all nationalities. - '''''0A .
Adequate food ION a scale corra,.
ponding to the present condit;ons =,
germany" Is not lacking. it state in
the camps where American prisoners
are quartered e''''ei
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
$17,50O for Loss of Toe
Verdict Given for Girl In.
jured by Coney Island Car

A jury in the Brooklyn Supreme
Court awarded s17,5oO yesterday
to Fannie Ciambrelli, who lost
toe in Coney Island crowd last
summer when car of the Conev Isl.
and & Brooklyn Railroad Company
struck her. Complications developed
several operations were performed and
others will be necessary.
In another part of the Brooklyn Su-
preme Court jury awarded $4,000 to
Henry +. Hanker, whose son, Harry
sw,e7nity-seven years old, was killed bv q
t.alllng tackle on a steamship of the
pany.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Erraad Boys Body Found

The body of Emanuel Magolafsky, an
srrand boy for q silk Arm at 404 Fourth
Avenue, who had been missing since
Wednesday, was discovered yesterday
in the pit of an elevator shaft in the
building. Apparently he had been
killed by walking into tho shaft, think
ing that the elevator was at his level.
He was sixteen years old and lived at
7ss Trinity Avenue. The Bronx
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Fears at Having Their Fin
gerprints Taken Are
Quickly Overcome
All Make Amdavits
Policemen to List Enemy Aliens
in Workhouse and City
Hospitals

RegI stration Of German enemy alien
women began yesterday under the Presi-
dents proclamation Of April 10, and by
the end of the day 19,435 had filed off
davits and 2,991 had completed their
registration, including the finger print
ing.
The registration will continue from
a. M to 10 p. m. until June 26, and
every opportunity will be given tardy
women to obtain the FIVE duplicate
photographs required in the rcgistra-
tion. 1t is not believed there will be
a last day rush, as in the case of
registering enemy alien men.
Yesterdays registration duplicated
that of the men on February a, with
few exceptions. There was much more
difficulty, however, in determining the
status of the registrants. A number
of American women appeared at one
of the stations and asked if they had
to register.
my husband is Of German birth
and has never become q naturalized
Citizen" said one. "But I'm Ameri-
can and my parents and grandparents
were born in this country. Surely I'm
not German subject"
Sergeant in Doubt
The police sergeant scratched his
head in doubt and looked through the
regulations.
"l'm sorry" he said finally. "There
seems no way out. You take the status
of your husband for all purposes OF
the law. and you'll have to register
just the same"
The woman good naturedly went
through the process of filling out and
swearing to the affidavit, and had he1
finger prints taken. "Any way, Pm
all for the Allies and against the
Kaiser" was her parting shot to the
policemen.
The attitude of the men and women
who assisted in registering the enemy
alien women was one of entire sympa-
thy. They were cautioned not to look
upon the women as potential enemies
but as persons making affidavits of al.
legiance ano promises to obey the law
w Abii 1caA anu CIcIlDllUS d mlQOlc-
aged German woman walked into the
East Eighty-eighth Street station
shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning
the first to appear. She apparently
had never seen the inside of police
station before and thought she was to
undergo an inquisition.
Instead she was greeted by si1 young
women, who talked kindly to her in a
language she could understand. They
were members of the Americanizaton
League of the Woman's Suffrage party
several hundred of whom had been as
signed to the task.
The women helped her through the
intricacies of the questionnaire and
finally passed her on to the policemen
up to this time in the background, who
were to do the fingerprinting.
Twenty an Hour
The German woman objected to hav-
ing her prints taken, but gave in when
it was explained to her that it was
merely matter Of Identification and
resorted to generally in the case of
bank clerks and other law abiding
workers.
After the ice had been broken the
alien women came into the station, in
the largest German section of the city
at the rate of twenty an hour. BY 6
p. m. 240 had been put through the
mill and many others had gone through
all the formalities except the finger
printing
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Husband and Wife Die Torether

A double funeral will! be held at ths
mortuary chapel in the Flushing Gene
terry, Flushing, L. L., to-day for Charles
3: Perham, eighty-four, and his wife.
MRS; Lucy Perham, seventy-four, who
died within few hours of each other
Mr. Perham up to a few years ago was
one OF the leading shipbuilders Of New
London, Conn. He had made his home
recently with married daughter at
'Westwood, N. j., while his wife had
i,yed with another married daughter at
Elmhurst. L. L. a.