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CONTINUED FrOm FlrSt FaGc.D
before the committee by Secretary
Baker. General March and Provost
Marshall General Crowder.
The United States government"
General March is quoted as saying.
has been asked by her allies to en-
bark upon program larse that It
was necessary very carefully to ascer-
tain whether we could go through with
/, or not, and one Of the features Of
this enlarged program was providing
men. The desire of the administra-
ton is to establish limits both maxi
mum and min mum. which will accom-
plish this program and At the same
time disorganize the industries OF the
country as little as possible.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-16
SEND ENOUGH MEN
TO FRANCE TO WIN
QUICKLY is PLAN

CONTINUED From First PageD
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"Fo help make strong.
keen, rcG-bioeI AmcT.-
cans there Is nothinE In my
experiences which have
found no yalu:IIir ns nr..n 10
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Flight Saves Day
In Divorce Trial
Missing Witness Drops From
Clouds Just In Time
to Testify

MINEOLA, l., l., Nov. 22.-Counscl
for Mrs. Laura Kelly of Frecport. in
her suit for divorce from Lew Kelly,
;hc burlesque actor, consulted their
watches anNiously to-day as the case
progressed III The Nassau County Court
They had counted on Lieutenant John
j. Kelly, the defendants half brother,
as an important witness and had just
learned that he was still at Brindlcy
Flying Field, forty miles away.
Their suspense lasted barely ten
minutes. Then faint droning, al
most inaudiblc In the courtroom, grew
to mighty throbbing that ratified the
window panos. Then the witness him
self entered, goggles in hand. He had
flown from Brindley Field
Lieutenant Kelly testified that his
half-brothcr had introduced him last
summer to a woman known as Rita
Moore, whom he called "thc mother
of my child.' Justice Scudder granted
Mrs. Kelly an intcrlocutory decree Of
divorce. An agreement has been
reached. it is said, whereby she is to
receive from her husband S25 a week
for the first year, $40 week the sec
cnd year and $15 week thereafter.
and to take titlc to real estate valued
at $4,000. They were married in 1912.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Mackay to Fight Any
Wire Merger Attempt

Clarence II. Mackay, president of the
Postal Telegraph Gable Company. an
nounced yesterday that the taking over
OF the cables by Postmaster General
burleson was contrary to the letter
as we'll as the spirit of the law" and
added he would bring suit against the
government if a merger of companies
is attempted
Mr.. Mackay said:
Mr.. Burleson announces that he
proposes to merge or consolidate the
Western Union and Postal. Has he no
fear of the Sherman Antitrust act :?
If the two companies themselves
started out to consolidate or merge
they would promptly be met by an in
junction by the Attorney General of
the United States and would face iail
vt he joint resolution of Congress au-
thorized the taking over of the tele-
graph lines for national security and
Defence but did not authorize or in
innate in the slightest degree that any
merger or consolidation was contem-
plated, expected, or would be tolerated
or that the Postmaster GeneraA. could
override the acts of Congress. We shall
contest this in the courts if attempted"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Girl, Aged II, Caught as Thief,
Says Big Man Trained Her
Declares HE Threatened to Send Her Down Into Dark
cellar Among Rats if She Failed to Bring Back Big
bundle of Stolen Coods-Police Credit
Part of Her Story

Mrs. Anna Robertson went to the
door OF her apartment, at 1875 Manhat-
tan Avenue, last night. in response to
feeble buzz of the bell. A shivering
little girl looked up at her with appeal
ing eyes which glistened with tears.
'I'm hungry" said the waif. would
you be so kind as to give me sometime
to eat?''
In jiffy the girl was seated beside
sizzling radiator, Consuming every
sort of Wand Mrs. Roberson's rcfrigcra-
tor yielded. She offered 40 condolences
and Mrs. Roberson did not press her
with questions. The strl was hysteri-
cal with fear, she thought.
,,,' Now | must co. said the child.
1 hank you, you are Very kind" and
she walked out, slipping the catch on
'he LOCK as she went through the door
ana DONG 1T so dexteruusly that Mrs
Foperson, who closed the door behind
hef, mad. no suspicion uf what she had
done. A few minutes later, however
When she heard rustln.g IN n bod'
room and found the girl inside again.
making up package of clvthine Ind
JJeWelry, Mrs. Robertson knew why her
door. va '''e
Caught in the act, the culprjt onlv
sobbed and gasped incoherentlv Of
rats and dark cellars Mrs. Robertson
called the police. BY the time thew
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Woman Spy Suspect
Is Ordered Interned
Experts Still Unable to De-
cipher Code Found in Miss
Weidenhoffer's Home

Perry Nj. Armstrong, chief examiner
of the Enemy Alien Bureau, yesterday
ordered the intcrnment of Miss Emmy
Wcidenhoifer, who was taken in Gus
tody several weeks ago by Federal
agents at Meyers Hotel, Hobokcn,
within block of the transport piers.
The Federal authorities indicated
that she was the leading spirit in a
scheme to keep an avenue Of communi-
cation open to Germany. They are OF
the opinion that size conveyed valuable
military information to Gustav Lu-
binus, German consul in Colombia,
which was rclayed to Berlin.
Some time before Miss Weidcnhoifer
was apprchended Federal agents
searched her home, at $40 Fillmore
Place, West New York, and found an
unusual cryptogram code. The gov
crnment experts have been unable to
decipher the code and the woman has
refused to say anything during long
interrogations that might reveal the
key to the &C de-. -
She was born in Bremen, Germany,
in 1883. and came to the United States
June %, 1916, at the request of Lu-
bnus, who was here on visit Ac-
cording to Mr.. Armstrong, before Lu-
bnus departed for his post in South
America ho left fund Amounting to
several thousand dollars in a bank in
her name. The woman declined to
make any statement about this money
She has Il brother in the German
army
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Brooklyn-to-Reno
Court Fight Ends in
Van Brink Divorce
Real Estate Auctioneer
Wins Decree, Although
Wife Also Has One

The marital troubles of Louis Van
Brink, a Brooklyn real estate auc-
tioneer, and his young wife, Ethel Van
Brink, which reached their climax in
the Brooklyn courts in 1916, were ended
yesterday, when Justice Finch, in the
Supreme Court, granted an absolute
divorce to Van Brink The decree was
independent Of one Mrs. Van Brink OBJ
tained in Reno. The Van Drinks were
married in 1907 He was forty one years
old at the time. She was seventeen.
After several attempts to obtain
separation, following Mr.. Van Brinks
suit in 1916 to obtain possession of
their seven-year-old daughter, Van
Brink signed an agreement in which
Mrs. Van Brink was to go to Reno and
begin an action for divorce on grounds
OF incompatability.
In the midst of the trial of Mrs. Van
Drinks suit the auctioneer learned
that his wife had caused testimony to
be introduced rejecting on his good
character. He thereupon announced
ne had abrogated his agreement, and
at once began suit in New York Coun-
ty for divorce. In the mean time Mrs.
Van Brink had obtained her decree in
Reno. Justice Finch, in granting an
absolute decree to Van Brink, held the
decree awarded TO Mrs. Van Brink in
Reno was not valid.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Shoplifting Authors
Are Remanded Again

MIS-. lnez Termaat and Ella Cohen.
school teachers, who pleaded guilty. to
shoplifting with the explanation that
they stopped to the crime in order
that they might go through the mill of
courts and prisons and thereby get
color" for their short story writing,
were before Justices McInerney, Voor-
hees and Herman in Special Sessions
yesterday for sentence. The attitude
OF the court seemed to be that shop
li1tlng was crime, no matter what
the motive.
Before the justices arrived at their
conclusion, however, Mrs. Sarah Axman,
probation officer, reported that Mrs.
Iermast, instead of being teacher in
Ferrer School, conducted near New
Brunswick, N. j., by William T. Brown.
a radical Socialist and a former Con-
gregational and Unitarian clergyman.
Miss Cohen, Mrs. Axman said. had
taught in similar school in Chicago.
Moreover, the probation officer said she
had learned that the Ferrer School had
been under investigation by the Fed
eral authorities. Mr.. Brown, the head
of the institution, who was in court.
denied this, and declared that Mrs
Termaat bore an excellent reputation.
III these women INDUCED in shop
lifting for the purpose of getting ar
rested, they need not have taken a
dozen or more articles" said Justice
Herman. "One would have been
enough. think they should be dealt
with as examples to others"
The justices agreeI to postpone sen.
tence for week pending investigation
Of the school. The teachers went back
to the Tomhs
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Continued from page 1

''''S manner it would be possible. for
example, to ascertain that 90 per cent
CT the men in the AID Division had
been promised employment. Other
divisions lnight not make so GOOD =.
showing at first, which would mark
the 42d for priority in rehabilitation
and so on, retaining to the last tho
regiments or divisions making tho
poorest showing of prospective en-
ployment.
1T is pointed out that there are 1884,
ooo community councils of defence in
tne country, and that they could take
charge of the task of canyassing work
IN their communities, associating with
themselves all the other organizations.
such as the Y. M. C. A., War Camp
community service, fraternal organiza-
elons and clubs, that would naturally be
interested In such an effort.
Inc more the demobilization prob
lem is examined the more its stu
dents are convinced that if only there
shall be adopted some rational plan Of
considering the industrial and economic
NE OF the country in returning the
soldiers, just as the military life was
the prime consideration in collecting
them, there will be no more difficulty
In returning them into civilians than
there was In turning civilians into SOL
diers.
Trouble is anticipated only in case
dem mobilization is limited to the simple
process of bringing soldiers home from
France :nG turning them loose en-
masSe.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Movements of u. s.
Troops Home From
Europe Is Begun

HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERI
CAN FIRST ARMY, Nov. 22 CIV The
Associated Press) (5 p. m.).-While
as an effective military force the
American army remains intact, the
bhomeward movement has already be-
gun. Construction of all kinds has
beenstopped and contracts and de-
liveries cancelled where possible, and
the men whose services have been in
these and other lines of activity are
either en- route to ports or plans for
their embarkation are underway.
The first to go will be the sick and
convalescent wounded These will be
sent home with the greatest possible
expedition. Certain divisions, ex-
hausted by replacement drafts until
only the skeletons remain, are also
going home.
One of the biggest of the present
problems is the land transport to the
seaports. With the coming Of winter
the rench need almost the entire ca
racity Of their railroads to distribute
fuel, food and other supplies through
cut the country. This will delay the
shipment of Americans.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23

arrived the girl. who said she was Con-
CHINA Triconi, eleven years old. of l44
Lawrence Street, was much more COM
posed
Its not my fault" she told Detective
Tierney. THE big man is downstairs
waiting for me TO bring him this stuff /"
Tierney dashed down the stairs. He
found no "big man." however.
Nevertheless, the police put credence
IN Conchlna's story, which was that for
the last month she had been robbing
apartments in Harlem at the behest of
a big man." whose partner was a
big boy She and other children. Con-
china said, had been trained in the
stories they should tell to gain en-
trance and IN slipping the catches of
night locks so as to make a second en-
trance easy. When the children falt-
cred IN their tasks, she said, the "big
man would threaten them.
He says. If you don't go up and do
this, said Conchina, "'Im going to
take you down to the dark cellar.
Where the rats are, and maybe I'll kill
you"
She pleaded with Tierney not to saw
tnat she had told him. for fear of what
the big man" might do
The bundle she had made up at Mrs.
Robertson's contained about $3.50 worth
OF clothing and jewelry.
Mrs. Alice Walsh, of 1877 Manhattan
Avenue, identified the girl as one who
mad called on her about week apo.
JUST before her apartment was robbed.
e Oonchlna was sent to the Children's
Society. .
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Army to Release
Men Needed at
Home Immediately
Tribune Washington Bureau

WV ~ N'c'oo'cS COft IL Nf CItU
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Immediate
discharge of enlisted men in whose
families there is sickness or other dis
tress, or who are needed to resume
employment in an industry or occupa-
ton where there is urgent necessity
Tor their return, was authorized to-day
by Secretary of War Baker.
The following general order was sent
broadcast to all commanders in this
country by Chief of Staff March:
department commanders within the
United States, commanders of ports of
embarkation and commanders of camps
not under the jurisdiction of depart
ment commanders Or of chiefs of bu-
reaus of the War Department are au-
thorized to discharge enlisted men upon
their own application, when there is
sickness or other distress in the SOL
dler's family, or when he is needed to
resume employment in an industry or
occupation in which there is urgent
need of his services, provided that such
discharge will not disrupt or cripple an
existing organization, and that the SOL
dier's services can be spared Consid-
Grafton will be given to the fact that
the machinery of camps must be utiI-
lied in the rehabilitation of the army,
and due regard must be taken that it
is not retarded by the discharge of per-
sonnel connected Herewith
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
1Ndnch 5 Plan for Demobilization
May Re Changed to Aid Industry

toward home yesterday when he filled
out demobilization blank.
But nobody could offer definite in
formation as to the time when the sue
ceedlng steps might be taken. All
tnat could be learned at the headquar-
ters of General j. Franklin Bell, COM
mander Of the department, was that
the forthcoming orders for demobiliza-
tlon from Washington are expected to
send the men home in comparatively
small patches.
The belief that men who are honor
aply dlscharged within the next few
weeks will be completely out of the
jurisdiction Of the military laws is a
mistake, according to Captain David
Ash, Of the office Of the director of the
Draft Tor the City of New York. He
pointed to the fact that the draft
Ia" still is operative, and that under
its terms every man of draft age, "un-
less now in the military service of the
United States" must be registered.
Since the discharged soldier obvi-
ously Will be in the service of the coun-
try no longer he will come under this
provision. For that reason every re-
turning soldier will be called upon to
register and be at the disposal of the
draft board of the district in which
he lives.
The first men to be sent home will
be themembers of tks DEVELOPMENT bat
tallons at Camp Upton. There are
more than 10000 New York men among
these limited service organizations No
matter what the war may have done
to others who were forced into it. phy-
slclans attending the soldiers who
make up these development battalions
say that almost without exception thew
Will return to civilian life in better
physical condition than when they
left it.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
War Plant Safety
r ule S Negated by
Army, Witness Says
Ordnance Inspector De-
clares He Was Without
Power to Enforce Orders

A trail, which, it was intimated, might
cause a transfer to Washington of the
Senate investigation into the Gillespie
munition plant disaster of October 4
and ), was opened at Yesterdays hear
ing at Perth Amboy when Isadore
Chester, chief loading divisional inspec-
tor for the New York dictrict, pictured
the United States Ordnance Department
inspection bureau as body whose value
to the nation has been almost wholly
decorative.
According to this witness, government
inspectors might frame as many regu-
lations as they pleased for the protec-
ton of life and property, but they had
no ability to enforce their edicts.
Washington Revoked Rules
"When some new regulation was
passed." he said. "the contractors
would rush to Washington and get a
special dispensation allowing them to
ignore the new rule"
The witness then read into the rec
ord letter from Major Field, head of
this division of the Ordnance Depart
ment, stating that inspectors had no
authority to insist that the bureaus
recommendations be enforced.
This made the inspectors task diff
ncui'. 4nf. CncSIer sad, not only at the
Gillespie plant. but almost everywhere
that munitions were being handled
"rhe contractors constantly protest
ed" said he, "that our rulings were inn
pcding output, despite the fact that the
changes VIC asked for as matter of
public safety did not as rule involve
any new construction work or outlay,
but simply a little more labor"
Much Carelessness Seen
In specific relation to the Gillespie
plant, the tale of alleged carelcssness
set forth at earlier sessions of the
hearing was further particuiarized.
Charles S. Wills, an instructor at the
government training school for inspcc
tors at Morgan, N. j., declared that the
6-1-1 unit, where the fatal explosion
started, had been allowed to be so
dirty that several Of the student in
spectors had refused to work there,
protesting that it was unsafe.
Walter Powell, former Westing-
house cmploye, and William A. Mullen
both former student inspectors at the
Gillespie outfit, testified to the exist
cBce Of improper cleaning methods and
babitual carelessness, such as smoking
within the plant, opening INT boxes
with hammers, scattering explosives
about and breaking up amatol with
steel shovcls.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
District Attorney Writes
Mayor He Will Act as
Soon as This Is Produced
Tells of Difficulties
Says He Hopes Those Persons
Having First-Hand Informa-
ton Will Come Forward

District Attorney Swami, in a letter
nounced that he would take action
against milk distributors as soon as
legal evidence tending to show that a
combine existed for the fixing of high
prices could be obtained The Dis
trict Attorney did not mention the
suggestion made in the Mayors letter
of Thursday that Mr.. Swami institute
john Doe proceedings before Chief
Magistrate McAdoo as soon as possible.
Mr.. Swann's letter follows:
"My Dear Mr.. Mayor: I vas very
much pleased to receive your le tier of
November 81 in regard to the recent
raising of the price of milk to 13 cents
per quart, and the evident intent on the
part of the producers and distributors
to raise the price again very shortly
"Or account of the very clear viola
ton of the state antitrust act by the
Dairymen's League last fall. the grand
jury indicted it's officers and directors,
but judge of the Supreme Court, Sit
ting in this county, transferred the
case to Oneida County for trial on ac-
count of local prejudice That, IF
course, also transferred the prosecu
tion of the case to the District At
torney of that county. Before the case
could be reached for trial the Legis-
lature passed Chapter 49O of the laws
of 1913, exempting dairymen and farm
ers from the effect of the antitrust
law. The result is, The milk producers
can now combine and fix prices, and the
District Attorney cannot prosecute
them.
"If the distributors combine or con-
splre, and we can procure legal evil
dence of it, we can proceed against
them. Men conspire in secret and, un-
less one of them informs against the
others, it is very difficult to obtain
the evidence that the judges require.
II would welcome such evidence, and
any man who conveys It will be doing
he'pless community great service
"All the resources of my Office will
be devoted to the prosecution of heart
less profteers in the necessares of life
when legal evidence of such acts can
be obtained.
81 hope that the public will be fully
Informed of your efforts in order that
those persons having tirsS hand infor-
nation win come forward with it."
In the afternoon, District Attorney
Swami attended a conference at Mayor
Hylan's Office at which were present
the Mayor, Alfred f. Smith, Jonathan
c. Day, commissioner of public mar
kets; Judge Lamb, of Chicago, and DR..
Clyde King, both of the Federal food
administration; DR.. Royal S. Copeland,
health commissioner, and Colonel Mer-
lin, of Washington.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Cable Seizure by u. S.
Denounced by L. E. Quigg

Statements that the war is not over
are fiction, Lemuel E. Quigg declared
last night in an address before the
Bronx County Republican Committee
at 2661 Third Avenue.
Germany and her allies are defeat
ed he said, "and the law that has in
terfercd with the free movement Of
the American citizen ought by Presi-
Dental proclamation to be terminated
to-day. The seizure by the government
of the cables controlling the passage
of messages. private and public, be-
tween the United States and Europe
after the war is over is nothing else
than crime against the American peo-
pie.
at can have no other motive than to
control the messages that news cor
respondents in Europe send in the next
three months to the American people
and to prevent sending anything but
what Mr.. Cree, on behalf of Mr. Will
son, may approve"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Mccarthy Not in Court
Former Attorney Fails to APP
near When Case Is Called

GLEN COVE, l.. L., Nov 22.-City
Judge Cocks opened court this morn
inc TO conduct hearing in the case
Of Charles T. Mccarthy, former as
sistant district attorney of SUFFOLK
County, charged with approoprria,tin,ge
$500 belonging to the estate Of e. Hall.
XIX witncsscs were on hand to testify
against Mccarthy. 49, MI,
@Leycrett Reeve, trustee OF the Haii
outafe and the complainant against Nc
Car,hys likewise was present. In fact,
II III ,hat WAS lacking for trial was
Mccarthy. .,sa r,ace
Cocks that Mccarthy had been ar
rested, Several persons fepor.co s.u, ~,
H., him riding about the streets IN an
a,'ntomobile. az Judge Cocks ordered an
Investigation
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Chaplain Lawson to Speak
At Judson Memorial Church

Chaplain F. W. Lawson, of the 3O5th
Machine Gun Battalion. who was in
valided home with two wound stripes.
will speak tomorrow evening at the
Judson Memorial Church, Washington
Square South, on "What a Preacher
Learned from the Soldiers" He re-
celved his first wound in the fighting
on the Vesle and his second in the
battle for the Argonne Forest.
Chaplain Lawson formerly was asso-
cate pastor of the church in which he
will speak tomorrow night.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
y. 5. Transport FIoated
America Will Be Ready
;. for Service Soon

lnsri,s 'hIttd States army transport
isaa la, isfmsrfy the Hamburg-Amcr~
pssy Isssr E, Amerika, which sank at her
faatsd nobekeD on October ~. was
tsfytes yssMrday and viii be ready for
ssissS ~ .wo or three weeks. She WIS
md u f'1gm gn her resting place in The
M M, .,scDoken ny sealing her ports
lsen m.dv'pg out her hold. An cxanina-
f&iIsd sa ~ me naval board Of inquiry
ssak Sc ssow that the vessel had been
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Secretary Wilson Would
Continue War Labor Board

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Continua-
tion Of the National War Labor Board
until the peace treaty has been
signed is highly desirable, Secretary
Wilson has informed joint chairmen
William IL. Taft and Frank B. Walsh
in letter in answer TO their request
That the board be discontinued as soon
as awards have been made in the labor
cases pendinG,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
Musical Is Cancelled

Owing to an accident to Mrs. Celeste
D. Heckscher, composer, the invitations
for her musical newt Sunday have
been recalled. On Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Heckscher fell on a slippery floor
at her apartment, 131 East Sixty-frst
Street. Her hip was fractured. She
was taken to ST. Luke's Hospital.