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The American Jewish world., 1918-06-14
FORWARD" LOSING ITS
HOLD ON JEWISH
MASSES.

Socialist Organ signally Defeated
in it's Opposition to Endorse
ment of Zionism by Labor
Unions.
The adoption of resolutions fav-
oring the establishment in Pa1es-
tine of a Jewish National Homeland
by the United Hebrew Trades, the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
the international Ladies' Garment
Workers and the Federation of Jew
ish Socialists, and the expression of
gratitude to Great Britain, France,
Ital y and Greece for official declara-
tions in favor of this project, is a
tremendous defeat for the "For-
ward" the Socialist Jewish daily,
which for many years has posed as
the leader of the great Jewish work.
ing masses.
This paper, the only daily print
ed in Yiddish still required by the
Post Office Department to furnish
complete translations of all news
items, special articles and editorials
in any way touching on the war,
fought the adoption of these resolu-
tions with every resource it could
bring to bear. Not only has it con-
Quoted a campaign against Zionism
in its news and editorial columns,
but it sent spellbinders, including
the recently elected Socialist Alder
men, Assemblymen and District
Court Judges, to the convention of
the organizations named, in a last
frantic effort to stem the ever-swell-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
7 Firms Hoarding
Cotton for Foe
Seized by u. S,
Five of Corporations Taken
Over Owned by Big
German House

Three groups of corporations with
assets of approximately s5,000,o00,
principal representatives in the United
States Of the industry planned to sup
ply cotton to the German government
were taken over Yesterday by A.
Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Gus
todian.
from the hands Of their officers Five
of these - the New England Waste
Company, the American Linters Com
pany, the American Products Company
the Overseas Trading Company and
Wolf & Sons-are owned by Wolf &
Soehne, one of the largest cotton
houses in the world.
Offices and mills of these concerns
are situated for the most part in
MASSACHUSETTS,. The companies were
dealers in spinnable cotton and cotton
waste Their assets are estimated at
$4,000 600.
One Group in Control
The management Of these concerns
was vested in one group of officers;
Adolf Leve. Boston, president; Lewis
George B. Lund. of Melrose, the three
constituting the board of directors.
The other corporations are the
Anglo o-American Cotton Company and
the Richard Mayer Company, owned by
Reis E. Co., of Heidelberg, Germany.
Their assets are said to be $1,000,000.
American officers for Reis & Co.. in
the Anglo American Cotton Company,
are j. f. Mcintyre, president; julius
Liable, treasurer; s. A. Mother. clerk
all of Boston. Officers for the owners
in the Richard Mayer Company are
Richard Mayer. presidents; Charles f.
Hicks, clerk. both of Boston, and Jacob
Flatau, Of New York.
When wer began Mr.. Leve and Mr..
Mayer were in Germany. When they
returned to America in the fall of 1914.
both told the same story. They said
that they had rearranged the business
of the American concerns, severed their
connections with the parent bodies, and
had taken the American business as
their share of the profits.
After this, both began to buy high
class cotton and ship it to Germany
through neutral countries
Millions in Storage
When the British embargo stiffened
they continued their purchases, but.
instead of shipping, stored the material
here At present, according to Mr..
Palmer, they have millions of dollars
worth of cotton in storage, all Of which
will be taken over.
The Wolf e. Soehne concerns,
through Mr. Leve, made reports in
which only small enemy holdings were
shown. The Refs companies made no
report at all. Since then Mr. Leve has
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Stops His Motor Club

Acting on information obtained in
an anonymous letter, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Kilroe called William
G. Osgoodby, of AZ Riverside Drive,
to his Office yesterday and questioned
him about his part in promoting the
international Motor Club, Inc" of
this city and Philadelphia. Osgoodby
said that motorists for respectable"
fee could join the club for life and
among other things get the benefit of
the clubs influence if they were ar
rested for overspeeding.
Mr.. Kilr said Osgoodby started
the club in 1914 and had made con-
siderable money thereby. The initia-
tion fee was $25 and the dues ranged
from SIP to $3.50. Osgoodby, Mr..
Kilroe said, admitted that with the
exception of about $5, he got most
of the initiation and due fees. The
New York home of the club, he said.
was AZ Riverside Drive. At the request
of Mr.. Kilroe, Osgoodby promised to
cease soliciting new members here.
There are several branches in Massa-
chusetts, Osgoodby said.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Gov. Whitman Pleads
For the Red Cross at
Hippodror71e Benefit

Last night was called Especial Red
Cross Night" on the Hippodrome's pro-
gramme of "Cheer Up" and among the
special talent whose names appeared
with those Of the regulars, were Ray
mond Hitchcock, Fred Stone, Bert Will
iams. Frances Military Band, the
Garde Republicaine and Governor
Whitman
The Governor was introduced at the
end of the first act and after his
spirited appeal for the Red Cross war
chest, nurses with baskets gathered
in the silver and bank notes which the
big audience had ready for them.
Give what you can, and iii giving,
you know you are sending a message
of comfort, relief and mercy to the
boys across the sea-" said the Cover
nor. "They are our boys, and 900
o. our very own boys, the boys of the
State of New York, are, now wearing
the uniform and more than 100000 Of
them will be in the service by January
J. and over in France fighting for us.
And if the ratio holds out, it means
we will have s 100000 of our boys over
there by the first of the year, and they
will be fighting somewhere in France,
somewhere in Belgium, yes, and some
where in Germany, before they come
back"
When the applause which greeted
this died away, the Governor asked:
"While our boys are Offering up their
lives, are we going to hold back our
dollars ?"
After the Governor left the stage
the Garde Republicaine came on, and
stood attention, while the Hirpodrome
Band played the Marsellaise. to which
they replied with the Star-Spangled
Banner
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Roosevelt Starts
To-day to Tour West

Colonel Roosevelt will start TODAY
on . tour of Middle Western cities,
where he Will speak in promotion of
the National Security Leagues cam
paisn for patriotism through educa-
ton. He will emphasize the necessity
of winning the war and for such pre-
paredness measures after the war
as universal military training and
of Americanism in war and peace.
Colonel Roosevelt will address meet
ings arranged by the Security League
in Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Des
Moines, Milwaukee and Madison. Wis.
His first speech will be at mass
meeting at Wittenberg College, Spring
field, tomorrow. Wittenberg is Ger
man Lutheran school in the heart of
the German-American section of Ohio.
DR.. Charles G. Heckert, president of
the college, will preside. Monsignor
Vattman. of Illinois, will deliver the
invocation and only men of German
birth or parentage will occupy seats on
the platform.
Colonel Roosevelt will spend Sunday
in Chicago and speak in the Coliseum
at Des Moines Monday night.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
May Reindict Fusionists

II the indictments in the so-called
Mitchell slush Fund" cases are invai'-
dated by the Appellate Division be
cause of an error in the newspaper ad-
vertisement of the extraordinary term
OF the Supreme Court last August the
evidence will be presented to another
extraordinary grand jury. according to
Assistant District Attorney Alfred j.
Talley, who had charge of the grand
jury investigation of the matter.
ut would not surprise me greatly
said Mr.. Talley, "if there should be
other indictr. cnts forthcoming besides
those now pertaining to William Ham
lin Childs, ex-senator Josiah I. New
comb, Ex-Governor William Sulzcr and
former Coroner Timothy HeaY. The
attempt of these defendants to bring
about long delay on trivial techni
cality of this sort is akin to the action
of ex-senator William H. Reynolds,
Frank Bailey and the other defendants,
who raised the iscue of tse statute of
limitations in their indictments tharg-
ing them with dnfraudirg the city IN
the sale of Seaside Park"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
King of Italy Praises
American Red Cross

ROME, May %. 49, King Victor En-
manuel has sent the following telegram
to Robert P. Perkins, head Of the Red
Cross Commission in Italy;
"The humanitarian work carried out
among us by the American Red Cross,
and so worthily directed by you, has
earned the acclaim of the entire Italian
nation. In succoring the wounded at
our front and in mitigating the suffer
ings of citizens driven from their
homes by the enemy's invasion, the
American Red Cross has earned ever
lasting gratitude and has strengthened
still more the solid basis Of the trust
ing and cordial friendship between the
two countries.
ut gives me pleasure to express to
you these sincere sentiments of the
Italian army and people and of myself.
| send you also my cordial greetings" "
AS an additional tribute to the Red
Cross, Mr.. Perkins was received in
audience by Dowager Queen Magenta,
who expressed the deepest appreci-
alton of the work of the American
organization
Hamilton Holt, of New York. who
will represent the United States in the
celebration of ltaly's entrance into the
war. arrived here to-day
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Count Minotto's Plea
For Freedom Denied

CHICAGO. May 23.--The plea of
Count James Minotto for freedom on
writ of habeas corpus from intern
ment on a Presidential warrant. was
denied to-day by Frederal Judge Car
penter
The Judge withheld reading of the
decision until IL O'Clock tomorrow to
allow the Count to pass tonight with
his wife, Countess Ida May Swift
Minotto, daughter of Louis F. Swift,
the packer.
The Counts counsel had admitted
the government attorneys disclosure
that the Counts father, Count Deme-
trius Minotto, was bodn in Vienna
and not in Venice, though the Minotto
family is declared to be of ancient
Venetian lineage. The Count had
never denied that he was born in Ger
many.
III ruled in favor of the petitioner
the President would be powerless to
deal with the thousands of men in this
country who were born III Germany of
parents foreign to Germany" said the
Judge. II believe that the law was
devised to include all men born in
Germany and raised and educated in
that country and who might have all
their sympathies with Germany.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Employees Obtain Advance
In Wages by New
Agreement
Milkmen Appealed To
Promised Fair Profits if They
Retain Their Herds
Intact

Herbert Hoover passed ten hours in
New York City yesterday When he
left for Washington he had delivered
an address to the bakers of the East
Side that had settled their strike and
had left messages which may solve the
difficulty over milk prices which the
Federal Milk Commission has been un-
able to cope with.
Contracts between the striking bakers
and their employees were signed early
to-day. The men receive an increase
in wages.
Herbert Hoover, Federal Food Ad
mnistrator, passed ten hours in New
York yesterday, and when he departed
on the midnight train he left messages
that may settle the difficulty over milk
prices that the Federal Milk Commits
sion has failed TO solve, set Alright the
wages dispute chat is keeping many
East Side bakeshops closed, and awak-
ened New York to a stern realiza-
tion of the task that faces the United
States in providing food for the Allies.
Speaking in the afternoon at the
tional Milk and Dairy Products Ex-
position is being held. Mr.. Hoover ap-
pealcd to- dairymen to maintain their
present great dairy herds. He called
the present system of milk distribution
chaotic, referring particularly to con-
ditions in New YORK City, and declared
that a complete reorganization was the
only remedy.
"Of all the food industries" he said,
"there is none which has been SO
stricken by the war as the dairy prod
uce. No greater catastrophe can hap
pen to a people than the loss of dairy
herds. The Germans supported their
herds by the import of foodstuffs from
the war, their produce in meat and milk
would have fallen to low ebb had they
not supported themselves to consider
able degree by stealing the cattle of
the countries they have overrun.
Later, at the headquarters of the
Federal Food Board for New York, Mr.
Hoover spoke to 200 representatives of
employers and employees concerned in
the east side bakershop strike. He de-
clared that it was the only food strike
IN the United States.
After Mr.. Hoover's address the
master bakers agreed to accept the
award OF the medlatl0n committee OF
general increase of Sc and 81 week.
The men have demanded SO and $40
week. and it was Mr.. Hoover's sug-
aestion that tho difference between this
demand and the mediation award be
submitted to arbitration, the men to
return to work in the meantime.
Discussing with reporters the failure
of tho Federal Milk Commission to ar
rive at an agreement with producers
and distributors on the price Of milk
in New York, Mr.. Hoover said:
"The Federal Milk Commission has
more or less broken down and the Food
Administration intends to straighten
out the matter. am going to see that
an equitable standard of profits is
made. The Food Administration can
regulate profits only, not prices, and
can deal with distributors only, not
producers"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Lynchir1g of Little
Described at Trial

CHICAGO, May 23.-Activitics of
the I. W. W. in attempting to organ
ize the miners at Butte, Mont, and the
strike and violence which followed,
eliminating in the lynchng of Frank
II. Little, August j, 1917. were des-
cribed to-day at the trial of 112 7. w.
W. leaders before Federal Judge
Lands by three newspaper men. The
witnesses were Charles L. Stevens. A.
w. Walliser and Harold w. Creary,
who were employed in Butte as re-
porters when the trouble occurred.
Walliser told of an open air mass
meeting of miners held in Butte July
19 at which Little attacked the ma
tlonal ard state governments, the
capitalistc class and referred to sol
diers as Uncle Sans uniformed
scabs," "Pershing's yellow legs" and
thugs"
The witness said the I. w. w. were
against everything in Butte and their
activities caused a reign Of terror
followed by strikes and bloodshed.
Charles L. Stevens repeated excerpts
from Little's speech and said that por-
tlons of the address were not we'll re-
ceived by the audience. Little, he de-
clared, said that unless the demands
of the strikers were granted a general
strike would be called throughout the
country. which would keep the United
States army so busy at home it could
not be sent abroad.
Geary described an anti-conscription
parade held by the |. w. w. on regis
tration night, June 5, 1917, which was
broken up by the police and a company
of state militia, after severe fighting
and number of arrests had hoen
made.
The witness told of the I. w. w.
parade which followed Little's body to
the grave. The l. w. w. leaders wore
red sashes and were compelled by the
police to carry an American flag at
the head of the column, but when the
line crossed the city limits the flag
disappeared and was supplanted with
/. w. w. banners.
Creary told of a number of arrests
of I. w. w. members for interfering
with construction work at Camp
Lewis, Wash, while he was in training
there.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Fire Underwriters
Help Government
I'm Its War Work
National Board Reports
Losses in 1917, $25O,0OO,-
600, Show Increase

The National Board of Fire Under
writer's, at its annual meeting at the
Hotel Astor yesterday, made known
through it's president, r. NJ. Bssell, the
vast work it has done in the last year
to aid the government in tle war. 1t
separate plants available for produc-
tion Of war munitions; has made a
great number of industrial inspections;
worked out fire protection features for
cantonments, and carried on educa-
tional work for several Federal bu-
reauS.
President Bissell told of the work
done by the national board engineers
in the, administrative departments at
Washington and elsewhere, the protec-
ton of shipyards, docks, warehouses,
cotton congresses and other vital e!e-
ments OF war industry.
President Bissell said that fire losses
for 1917 were approximately S250000,-
900, large increase over 1916, being
due to war conditions. Losses for
1916 were $214,53O,995. Mr.. Bissell
said, however, that the fire danger from
alien enemy incendiarism had been
ovev-estimated.
NJ B:ssell said that the profits or
fire underwriting were undoubtedly
less t1an in any other business Of
such large scope, and that this fact,
together with the effectiveness with
which the work is being carried out
was i'll his opinion the reason the gov
ernment had not taken the industry
under its control. Mr.. Bissell urged
that the leading insurance companies
enter into the spirit of the pressing
need Of adequate insurance protection
Tor grain in elevators, in anticipation
OF tle record crops.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24

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Substantial sums were collected at a
dozen rallies throughout the city. AS
on previous days, the demonstrations
at City Hall Park, at the Miniature
Theatre in front of the Public Library
and at ST. Paul's Chapel were the most
largely attended.
To-day and Saturday will be Field
Dav for the Red Cross canvassers, all
of whom will be furnished with a M is'
Of persons who have not yet contrib
uteG. Visits will be made to the de-
linquents' homes, and pedestrians with
out Red Cross buttons will be sought
out and solicited for funds.
Governor Whitman and Cornelius N.
Bliss, jr., are scheduled to speak at st.
Paul's Chanel this noon. There will be
a detail of sailors, two hundred and
forty nurses and the police band.
Among the interesting events to
mark the remaining days of the drive
will be a large mass meeting at Ci1y
College Auditorium tonight, Wnlch
will be addressed by Will II. hays,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, and Sergeant II. M. hadei-
macher. of the First Canadian Dlvl-
and musical selections.
Tomorrow Central Park will be the
scene of Red Cross military display
including parade and elaborate eere-
monies during the evening. Major
General Bell will review the Seventh
infantry during the afternoon, fol-
lowed by massed band programme,
including the French Military Band.
The speakers at the Liberty Bell, in
City Hall Park. this noon, Will be
James w. Gerard. former ambassador
to Germany, and Sir John Harrington,
former British ambassador to Abys-
sinia.
Among the most enthusiastic sup
porters of the drive are the various
newspapers of the city, the contribu-
tions of whose employees in some cases
have reached 100 per. cent. Louis
Wiley. chairman Of the committee,
says that members of labor unions em-
ployed on the papers have contributed
much to this success.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Grace Lusk Denies
That She Pursued
Doctor Roberts

WACKESHA, Wis. May 23.-With
two jurors and many of the spectators
in tears, Grace Lusk brought to
dramatic conclusion late to-day the
story Of her life almost up until the
Staying of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts.
for which she is now on trial.
She denied that she had ever pur-
sued DR.. David Roberts and charged
that he, first appealing for her help in
the preparation of a book, finally won
her sympathy by telling Of his un-
happy home life. After describing
places during nearly two years, Miss
Lusk told OF arranging conference
with DR.. Roberts in Milwaukee hotel
IN May, 1917. almost month before
the tragedy. 1t was to this meeting
she carried the same pistol with which
she shot Mrs Roberts.
II had decided that the situation
ought to be Strengthened out" she con-
tinued, "and that if DR.. Roberts did
not care for me l would take my own
life. ! told him how sincere | had been
allowed it to start if he had not as
sured me that Mrs. Roberts did not
care for him. Things now were beyond
my control. My reputation was gone
and my life ruined Mrs. Roberts also
was hopelessly wronged. If this had
been a game on his part, and if I had
been SO simple as not to have under
stood it, would take the consequences.
"Ihen he said he cared ten thousand
times more for me. ] asked him to tell
her. He said it was impossible.
again asked him if he cared for me.
he assured me that he did. then took
the pistol, made him put his right hand
on Bible, and asked him to swear that
he would go home and tell the truth.
He said that it was impossible at that
time. / said that l would give him
until June 10, and he swore that he
would tell Mrs. Roberts that we cared
for each other. | told him to ask for
his freedom and he said, DO you think
that will be necessary if ! tell the
TRUTH Then | put down the gun and
told him that he need not tell her if he
did not want to. He said that he would
tell her-that it was better to be hon
est"
At this point Miss Lusk paused her
shoulders shaking with sobs. Two
jurymen openly wiped the tears from
their eyes, while scores of women were
weeping IN the hushed courtroom.
Judge Lucck ordered an immediate ad-
lournment and the defendant staggered
from the stand.
Tomorrow she will continue her
story.
Miss Lusk began her testimony this
morning. by telling OF her first meet
ing with Dr.. Roberts after he had
sought her help on some manuscript
he was preparing. She told of their
growing intimacy. Later she described d
visits to Chicago, where she said that
they registered several times as man
and wife, DR.. Roberts in at loast three
instances buying her railway ticket
! from milwaukee to Chicago and paying
the hotel bills.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
TO-DAY'S EVENTS IN THE RED
CROSS DRIVE

9 A. N. to IL P. M.--Red Cross
Gallery, 30S Fifth Avenue,
photograph exhibition of battle
Of Vimy Ridge.
9 A NJ. to II p. M.--Greuze Ball
room, Ritz Carlton, art exhibit.
IL M.-Meetings at Liberty Bell.
City Hall Park; Liberty Bank,
Madison Square Park; Liberty
Theatre. Public Library Steps;
Plaza, Fifth Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street. y
- M.-St Paul's Chapel; Governor
Charles S. Whitman and Cor
nelius n. Bliss, jr., will talk.
1890 z. M.-Chamber of Commerce
luncheon; reports of teams'
a;3o and $3.50 P. M.-e77 Fifth Ave
nue.. Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt; exhibition of posters and
musical entertainments.
3:45 P. M.-Polo grounds, first OF
four games for benefit of Red
Cross.
i P. M.-Union League Club,
Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth
Avenue; speakers and music.
P. M.--City Hall; Trapper Allen
McMu!lin due to arrive with
team of Great Danes from AL
bany.
s p. M.-Theatre .du Vieux Colon
bier. Elizabeth Tyrec and Com,
pany in "Starting Somethlng,'
for benefit of Red Cross.
8 P. M.-Cooper Union; Red Gross
meeting: Colonel William
Boyce Thompson and Countess
Terczynowitz; Alma Gluck and
ST. Cecilia Club.
s P. M.-Madison Square Garden,
boxing carnival and patriotic
concert.
s:15 P. M.-Grcat Hall, College of
the City of New York; WIN FL.
Hays, chairman Of Republican
National Committee will speak,
Garde Republcaine band plays.