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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
u. S. Unlikely to Call
New National Guard
But Men From the Organization
Will Be Taken By Regular
Draft

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The policy
Of the War Department with respect to
the new National Guard units organ
lied since the President drafted the old
guard into the Federal service will be
to refrain from calling them into ser
vice, even after they have attained the
state Of preparedness required by de-
partmental regulations and have been
recognized by the Militia Bureau
This was disclosed to-day in a state
ment issued by Secretary Baker through
the Militia Bureau. The new units,
however. will be subject to draft at any
time in the discretion of the President.
In that connection it was said to-day
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
that members of the new guard units
of draft age will be eligible to call un-
der the selective service law until the
units to which they are attached shall
have been drafted into the Federal SER
vice by proclamation of the Pres dcnt
under the national defence act.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Retailers Gross Profit
On White Flour Set
AT One Cent a Pound
lStaf CorrespoudenccI

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Rctail deal.
ers' gross profits on white flour are
united to maximum of ] cent y
pound In regulation issued TO-DAY
~ the food administration. Where the
"oar is sold in the original packages
'he retail dealers are restricted tn a
proht of 50 cents to s1.20 per barrel,
depending on the character of the
service. Wholesalers of flour are linn
.seu 10 profits not to exceed rs cents
per barrel: The food administration
statement IS:
E ~ Is the opinion of the United States
ZOO administration that the gross
maximum profit for whole salers in
nour should not exceed from so to
20 20 cents per barrel. The profit to re.
sail dealers in original mill packages
81 s,'o o not exceed from so cents to
st.So per barrel. depending upon the
rvn M, of the service performed
~ mere retailers sell in amounts less
man the original mill packages. the
gross profit should not exceed cent
pound. WIZ
:. ANY profits in excess of these are
a.. a. excess of those obtained in pre-war
ZINES Will be considered cause for in
scestlgation. Substitutes for wheat
nour should not be sold at more than
=" a. reasonable advance over actual pur
snase price Of the particular goods
soio' without regard: to market or re-
Placement value at the time of sale,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Kracke Was a Fusion
Mentor, He 1'estifes
Commissioner Tells Swami
Mitchell Finances Were Never
Discussed With Him

Public Service Commissioner Fred
erick j. II. Krackc, of Brooklyn. testi-
tied yesterday in District Attorney
SWann's investigation of the Mitchell
Fusion campaign fund that he was one
of the mentors Of the Fusion campaign
and was frequently consulted by Mayor
Mitchell, Controller Prendergast, Will
lam Hamlin Childs, Darwin r. James
and others. Mr. Kracke said he was
not member Of any of the campaign
committees. because he was Commits
sloner of Plants and Structure at the
time, having been appointed in 1914 by
Mayor Mitchell. Jacob A. Livingston,
Brooklyn's Republican leader, was also
present at the conferences. MIR. Kracke
said
The witness said finances were never
discussed in his presence. He said he
knew nothing about the selection by
Mr. Childs of William II. Boardman,
deputy Controller. to take the Fusion
check over to Brooklyn on the eve of
the primary. The financial matters in
brooklyn, Mr.. Kracke said, were in the
hands of Jacob c. klinck, of the Will
lamsburg Trust Company, but he denied
that he selected Mr.. Klinck for that
post. Likewise, Nh. Kracke denied that
ne consulted with or advised George w.
Perkins on finances. He said that he
might have suggested the name of Ed
win p. Maynard, of the Brooklyn Trust
Company, as a member of the Commit
tee of $50
In answer to questions put by Mr..
Swami, Mr.. kracke said he had no
knowledge of any offence committed in
with the raising or spending
OF the fund He said he favored leris
lation discouraging the raising Of ex-
cesslve campaign funds. He also de-
clared he was in favor of pre- election
publicity Of the names of the contrib
utors and amounts. Paying speakers
tor their service he thought was a bad
practlce. TIC said nothing but their
actua! expenses shou'd ! aid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Demands Right to See Child

Another discordant note was sounded
yesterday in the inharmonous relations
between Eduardo Ferrari- Fontana,
grand opera barytonc, and Mrs Mar
garete Matzenauer Fcrrari -Fontana,
Metropolitan Opera contralto.
Mrs. Ferrari-Fontana obtained d.
vorce last September. The decree of
the court gave her the custody of the
couples daughter Adriana, who was
four years old on January 20. How
ever, the decree also provided that Mr..
Ferrari-Fontana was to be permitted
to see his child twice a week-on
Wednesday and Saturday-at the home
OF Pasqualc Amato, Metropolitan barry
tone and godfather of Adriana.
Complaining that his former wife
has failed to obey the order of the
court by refusing to permit him to see
his little daughter, Mr. Ferrari-Fon-
tana obtained from Justice Blur yes
terday writ of habeas corpus, direct
ing Mrs. Ferrari- Fontana TO produce
the child in court and csplan why she
has not permitted him TO see Adriana.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Preferred War to New York
Lieut.. Breeze, Killed in Battle,
"Disliked City"

William Lawrence Breeze, an Ameri-
can, who as a lieutenant of the Royal
Horse Guards in the British army, was
killed in France in 1915, preferred the
hazard Of death on a foreign battle
front to life in New York.
William Beverly Rogers, boyhood
friend of Lieutenant Breeze, in his
testimony as wl,ness in the trial of
q Supreme Court action quoted him as
saying that he would never again live
in New York. "He disliked New York"
said Mr.. Rogers. The proceeding in
which Mr.. Rogers was asked to testify
was brought by Hamilton Fish and
Cecil Matthew Higgins, trustees of
fund created by Lieutenant Breeze in
1914 for the benefit of his wife. who is
a daughter of the late Mrs. Fish. The
trustees wanted to ascertain whether
Lieutenant Breeze was a legal resident
of New York at the time of his death,
which information was needed by the
trustees in having their accounts ap
proved by the court. The father of
the lieutenant died when he was boy.
and his mother married Henry Vincent
Higgins, a London barrister. Breeze
was reared and educated in England.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
To-Day Campaign to Reach
Every Public Educational
Institution in Country
Help Win War
Also Expected to Make Better
Citizens of Boys
and Girls

The enrolment of every public school
pupil in America into the junior mem
bership OF the American Red Cross is
the purpose of a nationwide campaign
which will be launched by the Red
Cross War Council next Sunday, Lin
coins Birthday, and which will con-
tinue until February %, Washington's
Birthday. During the ten days of the
campaign every child in the 100000
public schools of the country will be
told how he or she can help the coun-
try solve its principal war problem. the
supply of necessaries to the troops
abroad
81 believe this programme is the
most important single movement that
was ever started in America for the
protection of the American and the
future Of the people," said Henry P.
Dawson, chairman Of the Red Cross
War Work Council. "The movement
is to combine, in the junior member
ship of the Red Cross, the patriotic
activities of all school children"
Aims of New Movement
Inc detailed aims OF the Red Cross
in the campaign are set forth in reso-
lutions adopted at recent conference
Of the organizations leaders at which
the plan was evolved.
1--WE would have our children not
merely escape the ills of war; we
would teach them to be in con-
structive way citizens of the America
that is to be-" the resolution states.
ave regard it as essential that the
Junior Red Cross should undertake to
teach that all our efforts to aid the
government are essentially one. The
mobilization of our home guards, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
American Red Cross
Feeds Paris Children
Organization Also Aiding Refu-
gees From Invaded Districts

PARIS, Feb. 1.-The American Red
Cross began feeding the school child
rcn in one of the poorest and most
overcrowdcd districts of Paris yester-
day by providing lunch for 1895 child
rem. 1t is also supplementing the work
of the municipal administration in that
district and also is looking after the
comfort of refugees from the invaded
districts.
Clinics for children and sufferers
from tuberculosis have been organized
by DIR. William P. Lucas, of the Child
ren's Bureau of the American Red
Cross, and DR.. Livingston Farrand. of
the Rockefeller Foundation. 1t was
discovered at the clinics that most of
the children We're undcr-nourishod and
that food was the best medicine.
The noon meal is the most important
in the French household, but since the
war began hundreds and thousands of
mothers have been forced to work out.
side their homes and the children have
to get their noon meal at the canteens.
The Childrcn's Bureau of the Red
Cross. in cooperation with the French
authorities, expects to extend it's feed
ing system to other quarters, DEPENDING
upon the importation Of food. Tort,,
nately, the Red Cross has large store
of staple foodstuffs brought to France
last summer in anticipation of future
needs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Handicraft Course
For Disabled Soldiers
Pen and Brush Club Plans Re-
education Of Disabled Men
TSf0f C07occno,,do,-o1
LStdT CO1YcSp Ondence I

- WASHINGTON, Feb. What the
Fen and Brush Club. 1872 East Nine
teenth Street, New York, is doing in
war work is the subject of comment in
statement issued tonight by the Di
vision of Woman's War Work of the
Federal government. The statement
says:
THE compilation of bool, of de-
signs for use in the teaching of handi
craft to returned disabled soldiers and
sailors is ono of the activities of the
Pen and Brush Club, of. 1872 East Nine
tccnth Street, New York, of which Miss
Ida NJ. Tarbell, vice chairman of tho
Woman's Committee of the Council of
National Defence, is president. That
this will be a most valuable work, en-
couraglng native handicraft and rein
forcing the national rc-education pro-
grammc at the same time, is tho opinion
of Pen and Brush Club members.
Some of the war activities under the
direction of this club include publicity
work i'll connection with the woman's
committee of the Council of National
Defence, the raising of a fund for the
Of two French babies for
two years, the entertainment of sol
diers and sailors in the clubrooms. in
cooperation with the War Community
Service, and collection of money to es-
tabllsh two rooms for weaving"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Biscuit Firm Laboratories
Busy Mixing Victory Flour

The "Victory" -four order means a lot
of work from the biscuit and cracker
makers.
Merely using 70 per cent wheat -four
and 30 per cent substitute would satisfy
Mr.. Hoover but it would not necessar-
eat. The present task of the bakers Is
tc make "Victory" crackers palatabc.
A representative Of the Sunshine
Biscuit Company told The Tribune yes
tcrday that the Sunshine laboratories
have been busy at this task for weeks,
and that some of tht results would
soon be put on the market. The Ma
tional Biscuit Company has tackled the
same job, representative said.
"'0nly you can't always tell what the
public is going to like until you've
tried it out" added the latter.
A "non-sweet wheatless cracker" is
one of the suggestions on which tic
laboratories are working. One firm
rye" cracker, and it il to be IN the
stores very shortly.
A cracker is delicate thing 10 add
80 per cent Of substitute cereal with
cut careful adjustment of the other in.
gradients is to throw it off it's balance,
experts say. A "Victory" cracker that
the public couldn't get it's teeth into
might easily be result. And to cut
out even the sugar, much as it would
help Mr.. Hoover, would complica.e mat
tcrs still more.
So the biscuit companies arc not cx-
actly sure about the on-sweet wheat
less cracker. One thing is certain, It
was stated, many new brands Of bis
cults and crackers will be seen bchird
the glass cases in the groccrs' shops
before long
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

control Of food, fuel and railroads, the
conservation of clothes and spending
money and other forms of thrift and
economy suggested by the National
War Savings Committee; the protec-
ton of the individual and the com
munity in conditions of health and
work which have been already won--all
these are identical with the aims of
the Junior Red Cross. with the volun-
teer making of sweaters and garments,
of packing boxes and surgical tables.
The purpose of all this is one-to re-
lease to the government for its vital
needs men. money and supplies.
"Since these activities are essential
ly one, we believe that the economy Of
the school programme demands the
avoidance of conflicting appeals and
duplicating organization. The Junior
Red Cross offers It's organization and
will cooperate with other organizations
to the fullest extent, obtaining a wise
economy of the child's time and
strength"
Cardinal Farley Approves
Cardinal Farley, member of the
honorary Advisory committee of the
Red Cross, and Archbishop Hanna, of
California, have agreed to support the
campaign. The cooperation of the ma
tons teachers has been invoked by
Miss Mary c. c. Bradford, president Of
the National Education Association.
Dr. Henry MacCracken, national d.
rector of the campaign. explained yes
terday that organization of the Junior
Red Cross membership in the schools
does not exclude other forms of wor-
thy patriotic service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Fifth Avenue Plot Sold
August Heckscher Buys Site
Opposite Vanderbilt Home

BY buying yesterday the old dwell
ings at Z and Q West Fifty-sixth
Street August Heckschcr so enlarged
his property at the southwest corner Of
Fifty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue
that it is now the largest site under a
single ownership in the Fifth Avenue
section between Forty second and
Fifty ninth Street 1t comprises an
area of about 26,500 square feet Oppo-
site the site is the plot on which is the
residence of Mrs. Vanderbilt The Van
derbilt plot has an area of little more
than $4,000 square feet and is the next
largest parcel under one ownership in
the section.
The Heckscher plot includes the sites
on which stood for many years the
homes of the late William c. Whitney,
ex-Secretary of the Navy, and Charles
W. Morse and which are now covered
with taxpayer" Office and store build
Ing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Nurses a-Plenty Now,
Says General Gorgas
Discomforts in Camp Hospitals
Traced to Lack Of Trained
Attendants

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Surgeon
General Gorgas reported to Secretary
Baker to-day that, as a result of the
special campaign for the enlistment of
army nurses, the deficiency in that
branch has been made up.
Instances in which soldiers in camp
hospitals have had to endure unneces-
sary discomforts have been traced in
nearly every case to the fact that the
War Department had failed in its ef-
forts to secure enough trained nurses
and hospital attendants to permit the
assignment Of an adequate number to
each camp.
General Gorgas has recommended adj
dltional buildings at the camps for
housing the nurses. In the mean time
the general has been authorized to Sc
cure for this purpose "hostess houses"
Y. M. G. A. structures or such other
accommodations as may be available.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

ing some day. Mrs. Borner collapsed
at the, news: but investigation showed
that the call came from a friend who
was trying to play joke on Borner.
The police are causing the sewers Of
the vicinity to be searched, and yes
terday men under the direction of John
c. CHASER went through them as far
down as 108th Street. This was due to
hearsay report that a child had fall
en- into a manhole some time during
the week, and to the fact that the po-
lice have not given up the accident the
Several Arrests Made
Mrs. Rosner feels certain that Lillian
was carried away, since the child never
even crossed the street alone, and
never got out of sight of the house.
Several arrests on technical charges
have been made, but so far no one has
been held after investigation. A man
taken to the police station yesterday
was thought at first to be one of those
described by persons who furnished
c!ews to the police, but he was net
identified.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
9 New York Officers
Receive Promotions
Sixteen Other Residents of the
City Get Commissions in
Reserve Corps
lStaf Correspondence


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Promotions
of New York. National Guardsmcn in
training ut Spartanburg. S. c., and the
granting of commissions to sixteen
New York residents in reserve corps of
the army were announced to-day by the
War Department.
Charles Il. Coffin, 1o4a Sterling Place,
Brooklyn, has been appointed a cap
tain in the New York National Guard
and ordered to report at Spartanhur0
for duty with the provisional depot for
there.
Other National Guard changes in
clude the following promotions: First
Lieutenant Hugo Jacket. to the rank
OF captain; Second Lieutcnants Earl
w. MaXson. Stephen II. Fitield, Girls
void 3. Daniel and Louis D. jaime, to
INC rank of first lieutenants, and Ser
geants Paul A. Florian, Kenneth Cow
and Clarence S. Freeman, to second
lleutenancies
Inc following reserve officers were
commissioned:
Ordnance Reserve Corps-Waiter f. Park.
S e. West Fortieth Street. major: Joseph A.
and Oliver f. Willis, 227 Audubon Avenue
hrst lieutenants; Wimurt A. Bennett, 215
west lolst Street, second lieutenant
AVIATION Section, Signal Reserve Corps
Joseph st: G. Bryan. Is Park Row. captain :;
thomas NJ Robertson. III East Thirty
e'snth street. second lieutenant
Medical Reserve Corps-~.Iohn Aouaro. So
uihVan Street. captain: Samuel Kahn, /
las, last Tooth Street and Edward Ambrose
, MlnF. -e' West Eighty ninth Street. first
r., Dental Reserve Corps--Morris Golden, 1853
t tm'rt.-e'ghth Street, Brooklyn, first lieu
y Quartermaster's Reserve Corps-John G.
circuit. 2SS Broadway. captain.
engineer Reserve Corps-Felix L. McCol-
ier' Al Elderts Lane. Brooklyn. and Fred
err srlck II: Pond. 81 Seventh Avenue, Brook
. Railroad Transportation Corps, National
Army-Edward P. Palmer. 1856 East Fortv-
second Sc Street, captain: George N. Richard,
49, 20, East Seventy-second Street, second lieu.
Sanitary, Corps. National Army-John
Jacob b. Morgan, Camp Dix, first lieutenant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Throws Open
100000 Acres of Coal Land

WASHINGTON, Feb. President
Wilson's approval Of the restoration to
entry and purchase, under the coal
land laws, of nearly 100000 acres of
withdrawn coal land in Northeastern
Montana, south Of the Missouri River,
adjacent to the Fort Peck Indian Res
crvation, was announced here to-day.
A large area thus is made available
for the opening of coal mines to re-
lieve the coal shortage. Nearly all the
land is underlain by one or more beds
of Ignite.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Garment Workers Out
Strike for Higher Wages in
100 Independent Shons

Members of Local % of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union went on strike yesterday in 1920
shops: According to Harry Silverman,
organizer of the strike, 10000 girls quit
work.
The demands OF the strikers,' he
said. ARE for an S1a per cent increase
IN wages for piece workers and 81 a
week for week workers. We also de-
mand a forty-ninc hour week"
the shops affected are all independ-
ent, and according to strike leaders
nifty employers have already signed
terms Of peace with their workers.
Headquarters for the general picket
ing committee of the strikers has
been established at Progress Casino.
% Avenue A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Mother of Missing
Rosner Child Still
Hopeful of Return
Police Could Not Do More
for Millionaire's Baby,
She Declares
Sewers Are Searched
Report of Girl Falling in
Manhole Starts New
Activities

A knot Of the curious blocked tho
stairway to the basement home Of Sam
.oel ana fctta Rosncr at So Lcnox Ave
nue all day yesterday. At intervals
,"ey were jostled aside by patrolmcn
bringing in reports or by detectives
working on the case of three-vear-old
Lillian Rosner, who has been MISSING
since last Tuesday.
Two detective sergeants and two NJ
their men sat all day in the front room
OF the Rosner home dircct;no Tho
search Tor the little girl and wnrk;nr
on lnnumcrable leads suggested hS
every person who had seen some one
waking with little girl. No matter
nov fantastic suggestion sounds. the
p,olIce arc Investigating it, and ground
s snas nag peen gone over already in the
search IS being covered again. Descrin-
tons of the little girl have been is.
sued, and practically every member Of
the Police Department is on the look-
out S i0oA
Mother Still Hopeful
MRS; :. 1etta Rosner, the mother of the
lost child, is cheered by these sipns IF
IN activity. She said yesterday
tnat people were as kind as possihie
ana tnat the police could not be doing
more NOR: II they were hunting for a mil.
l1,onaire's child. The mother has not
SIC slept since Tuesday night, but She has
n no g sTH up hope yet. Captain Rich
,uo.,. MecAenna. who is supervising the
york from the 4th Branch Detective
bureau, is proving to her that nothing
is left undone, and that her baby NAV
be found any time.
Charles Borner, superintendent Of
the house at 124 West Hath Street
VINO gave the police a clew Friday. re-
celyed threatening telephone cali YES
terday morning. The voice over the wire
warned him to keep his mouth shut or
ms own two children would be miss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
General Leman, Defender
Of Liege, Arrives in Paris

PARIS, Feb. 2.-General Leman de-
lender of Liege against the German adj
h hahee early in the war, arrived in Paris
as. night. He was greeted at the sta
uoh by the Belgian Minister and rep
lresentat'yes of President Poincare and
'"ssnsfa' .Dubail, the Military Governor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Woman Proves Good Shot

PINEHURST. N. c., Feb. 2.-The
Annie Oakley trophy, awarded for the
best rife score made among the marks
women at Pinehurst. was won this
week by Mrs. c. W. Billings, of Ocean
port, N j. Mrs. Billings scored 1875
out Of possible $50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

ners OF their families and servants liv-
ing on "short rations" we're:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

=, THOMAS D. Green, president of the
New York City Hotel Association. and
CHAIRMAN of the hotel division of the
1000 board. declared last night that
he had not heard any complaints about
general wastefulness by the hotels.
Hotel Man Denies Charge
eff Mr.. Walcott knows of any COM
plants he should report them to the
hotel division" said Mr.. Green. "Mr.
Hoover has said that the hotels are
generally obeying the law. I believe
that the hotels are doing everything to
help the government, and Mr.. Walcott
is Mistaken
The Food Board yesterday imposed
Its first fine for violating the regula-
ton which fixes the wholesale price
Of sugar at SO cents a pound. Michael
Rosenberg, 1877 Eldridge Street, paid
fine of $500 for overcharging. He plead
ed that he had paid as high as IL
cents a pound for it and had sold it
for Ii cents.