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New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The T,ibune)
WASHINGTON, July 21.-The prisons
Of Belgian towns have become torture
chambers. They are overcrowded,
with three or four persons in cell,
according to the testimony of Belgian
just escaped from the occupied part
Of his country, made public by the
Belgian Legation to-day. He says:
"We have reached stage in Bel
gium when people become callous. The
arrests made from time to time are
not so much due to the skill of the
German secret police as to the gross
carelessness Of the patriots, who brave
the rigor of the German DEGREES as
their compatriots on the User front
brave their she'll fire.
Germans Are Relentless
less. We are far from the time when
Won Der Goltz pr. missed to respect the
peoples patriotic feelings and when
Won Kissing tried, artifcially, to pro-
woke resumption Of the country's
economic activity. Politically and
economically the Belglans beyond the
front have also to withstand fierce
offensive. The Germans have decided
to plunder the country and to suppress
at any price all patriotic activity.
Never has the secret police worked so
hard. 1t is composed mostly of crowd
of German Jews and commercial
agents who travelled through Bel
u hot ri
has been oponed in Brussels, where,
under the direction of Bergen, for
merly chief of police in q large Ger
man town, these men are taught the
various tricks of the trade. Under the
least pretext, mere suspicion, an
anonymous letter or the like, the most
honorable citizens are arrested, i'm
prisoned and completely isolated. Some
are never examined and are released
after few months captivity without
being allowed to know the cause Of
their arrest Others are subject to con-
stant cross examination and sometimes
to severe i'll treatment to force them
TO confess their supposed crime.
Stories OF Brutality
;"The prisons of Turnhout, Antwerp
into torture chambers. In Turnhout, a
German officer called Flieger strikes
the accused in the face with a whip.
In Antwerp two brothers named Meyer
and the director of the prison are the
chief torturers. Several of their
victims have become insane If brutal
force fails, the Germans try to extract
confessions through false promises, as
in the case Of citizen of Brussels who
had been corresponding with his son
at the front. His letters having been
seized, he was promised that if he
mentioned the name OF the messenger,
the latter would not be prosecuted. He
weakened and his accomplice was CON
demned to eight months solitary con-
tlnement. If this method fails the
examiners adopt sterner means. de-
priving the prisoner Of food. drugging
him and then spying on him in his
sleep, or they put in his cell a spy who
Will try to gain his confidence. Some
! times even false documents are pro-
duced which are supposed to be signed
by an accomplice, and the prisoner is
told that his friends having "confessed
their crime" it is no use for him tC
resist longer.
"The prisons are ovcrcrowded. three
and four men being confined in a eel
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Japanese Mission Back
From Long Island Trip
Red Gross Visitors Return TO
New York by Yacht from
Glen Cove

GLEN COVE, Long Island, July 21.-
After having spent two days on Long
Island, during which they saw some
airplane flying at Hazelhurst Field, the
members of the Japanese Red Cross
commission returned to Manhattan
late this afternoon on the Little Vik-
ing. George B. Baker, jr.'s, yacht.
During the day the commission at
tended services in st. Johns Episco-
pal Church, OF Lattingtown They had
luncheon in the Dawson home here,
motored to the. home of Frank M.
Doubleday at Oyster Bay, then to the
Piping Rock Club at Locust Valley
returning here late in the afternoon
on their way back to Manhattan.
Last night Mr.. Dawson received the
commission as guests of honor at a
dinner at his home. Among others at
the dinner were Mr.. and Mrs. William
b. Guthrie, Mr.. and Mrs George B
Baker, jr., Frank NJ. Doubleday. Eliot
Wadsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Hine.
To-day the commission will visit the
New York Stock Exchange.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22

hands and lay it down at the con
sumers door at reasonable cost for
distribution, doing away with profiteer-
ing, speculation and manipulation and
returning the farmer fair share of
the dollar. and the American farmer
will feed t. world. The world needs
the food and the farmer needs the dol
lar. Help us do it.
'No man has opportunity for greater
service for either the present or fu-
ture generation. On this assurance the
farm vote will be unanimous and the
women vote equally conclusive. They
would appreciate a man Of the farm
sympathies of Colonel William Boyco
Thomson for second place.
"While conscious of the sacrifice 1t
would entail, I am encouraged by your
splendid spirit Of public service to ap-
peal to you now on behalf of the farm
interests of the state and Of the ma
TONS need for food to permit us or
this issue to elect you Governor OF
New York State
Mr. Dillon is chairman Of the FEEDER
alton of Agriculture. which has beer
organized to put fifty farmers in the
Legislature and reduce the cost OF
food distribution. The federation car
be committed to candidate only by
referendum of its members. but The
leaders who could be reached were in
dividually and unanimously in favor O.
Mr. Roosevelt on Endorsement by hin
Of their purposes as strongly indicated
in his Saratoga speech.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Bennett to File
His Designating
Petition July 30

Former Senator William M. Bennett
last night issued the following state
ment:
~ have no information concerning
the plans of my two opponents, ex-
cept that | understand the headquar-
have been shut up tight for the last
four or five days.
GAS to my own plans, l would say
that my designating petition signed
by 5000 enrolled Republicans will be
filed with the Secretary of State on
July 80, which is the first day for
filing under tho law. The petition
also contains carnations for Lieutan-
ant Governor, Attorney General, Con-
troler and state Treasurer.
"If Colonel Roosevelt should decide
to obey the almost unanimous call Of
Tie party that ne run for Governor
shall be very glad to have ms name
substituted for mine. and if Colonel
Roosevelt does consent to run, Mr..
Whitman would have to withdraw and,
in my opinion. Mr.. Roosevelt would
sweep the state.
81 wish to make it clear that | shall
abide by the result of the primary. f
uclGdlcu VIII NOt run independently y
in November. Lnst fall in the Mayor
{ Calder's club that ! would abide by the
result of the Republican primary for
/ Mayor. l regard this as a fight within
| the party.
"I wonder if Governor Whitman viii
take the same attitude, or Will he, ii
defeated, rcpudiate the result of the
primary as he did last fall in this city
after he had voted in that primary
Will he again show himself to be q
fifty-fifty Republicans?
81 believe prohibition should be set
tied in this state by submitting the
matter to vote of the people. Wher
in the Senate voted for the extension
of the local option law, under which
the people by g direct vote would de
eide the question.
AS the campaign progresses | shall
demand that each candidate make pub
lie before the primaries the amour
of money received by him, the name.
of the givers and how it has been spent
"Widcly prevalent opinions are tina:
Mr.. Whitman is the candidate of the
money crowd, who are putting up THEN
money in an attempt to get control OF
the state government for investment
purposes. If that is so, the people are
entitled to know it before they vote.
81 have sent to each of the sixty.
three Assembly district leaders a let
ter asking them to permit me to SPEAK
at their cluhhouses. | expect most OF
them to consent, but if some refuse. as
aid Samuel S. Koenig's leaders last fall
will carry on an open air campaign il
those districts. With the other capdi
dates on the ticket l expect to cover
every county in the state by August |.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Barnes and Roosevelt
Settle Libel Action

SYRACUSE, July 2t.-The appeal to
the Appellate Division, Fourth Depart
ment. by William Barnes from the
judgment returned by a Syracuse jury
in May, 1915, against him and in favor
of Theodore Roosevelt viii, not be
argued. The case has not been placed
on the calendar, but the bill Of costs
has been settled, both parties paying
their share.
Oliver D. Burden, who was one of
the local counsel for Colonel Roose-
welt, said to-day that the costs of the
suit had been paid by arrangement be-
tween the lawyers. The costs amount
ed to SLAP, and the Colonel would
have been entitled to $4,000 more. as
the law allows per cent of the origi-
nal amount of damages claimed when
the defendant is the victor in a pro-
longcd legal action.
When the libel case was tried. one
juror, John Burns. held up his fellow
jurors for fortyeight hours by insist
ing on voting for the plaintiff because
his colleagues would not recommend
that the two parties should divide the
costs.
After more than three years Mr.
Burns's desire has come to pass,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Federal Jury Calls
Over 20 Witnesses
In I olisElus Case
lSnectal Disnntch 70 The Tribunel

ifAft'fs
SYRACUSE, July 21.-More than
twenty men aAd women are under
subpoena here tonight 10 appear be-
fore the special Federal grand jury to-
morrow and testify in the case against
John A. Tolishus, Syracuse attorney
accused of making disloyal utterances'
and who UP to the time he is charged
with making th remark was en-
ployed as a managing clerk in the law
office of Bond & Schoeneck in this city
The first two witnesses to be called
before the jury at p. m Will pe -
Eaton Alvord, Assistant OoIporasio1n
Counsel, and Attorney FRANCIS T.
Welsh, witnesses before the previous
grand jury watch. after voulng to ihae.
Tolishus, reconsideced and dec1dd nO'
to return a bill. =.
Alvord and Welsh filed petitions WIN
the Department Of Justice at Wasnins,
ton, asking an investigation OF .-T
jury's failure to indict Tolshus' aau %
another with the OnoNdAga County oS'
Association. asking that be De u.s
barred. The petitions were aceOn a5
panied by affadavits when dlsciOsela fsl.
that the jury's change or attltuae W.
lowed conference in the chamber u
Federal Judge George ". Kay
At this hearing evidence aiso s.'.as sas
produced which, Assistant I nited o'a'0s 's
District Attorney Davern says Wa We.
stronger than the evidence upon WIZ
Tolishus first was indicted. Ine Jug
reconsidered and refused to vote o.
Indictment. however Thereupon Mesas. .sn.
Alvord and Welsh fled their petiliO"'
and affidavits. ,bs
afidavits Judge Ray signed an olrs, ora.
recalling the jury for reconslusar;s A.
ton of the case and then later Is .
missed the jury entirely ana carr
new panel Of thirty-six men Inc 4, el'ls bs
jury of twenty-three members "''' =
chosen from the new list. ham
Because Alvord and Welsh have os..
drafted. the Onondaga County par Ss; h.
sociation's grievance cemmlt'ese IN
taken the testimony Of hotn OF mn MN ~
its investigation to dispar lo'sss1, issrp,
This testimony is being kept S TnIs
until after the grand jury acts. i'.l, n,
/ hus has refused to comment on n.
case since the demands tor sn -
/ vestigation were made. ~,
The case has created grea' ~
politically and is being used % D.
powerful weapon by SchoeneeAs nm
! publican foes in an effort TO keep ~, :,
off the state ticket. He refuses ~,
withdraw from the race. however, e.; "a
declares he will be a candidate
denomination on the Whitman ticKe"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
80 Degrees Maximum
Drives Sweltering Thronp,
to Beaches and Parks
Baby Dies Seeking Air
Falls From Fire Escapes Al.o
Seriously Injure Two Others.
One Frustrated

1t was the hottest day Of the vea,
yesterday. To-day. the Weather Bn.
reau says, may boost the 1913 record
still higher, and unless mercjtul
rainstorm intervenes the heat will con.
tinue for several days
Not only was Sunday the most torrid
day Of the summer but it was also tbs
hottest July Il since 1901, which NAV
be some small comfort to those WIN
wilted many collars, drained sods
fountains dry and tried u sleep on
fire escapes, in parks and on beaches,
Maximum of SO Degrees
The mercury began it's triumphant
march upward early yesterday nom.
ing, and attained its maximum height
at 2 p. m. Then it registered so. and
remained stationary until 4, when u
began sluggish retreat. At 10 .. m.
it stood at 81.
Coincidcnt with the advance of the
mercury, New Workers began a general
retreat. BY 9 yesterday morning.
boats and cars carrying passengers 10
cooler resorts were packed to capacity.
The exodus continued all day lone
and even after the heat had begun 10
abate with the coming of darkness the
lines to the beaches were as crowded
with outgoing as with incoming pas
sengers.
Inc first day Of the heats attack
brought few casualties. One person
was killed and two others were in
jured by falls from fire escapes, and
Baby Killed Seeking Relief
Oliver Betto, two years old, was
killed. He fell through the opening
in the floor OF the family fire escape al
1ST Allen Street and died on the pave
ment, three stories below. =,
Mary Wall, FIVE, of 1z3 East 13Oth
Street and Anna Grastper, twenty
three, of 555 Westchester Avenue, the
/ Bronx. sustained fractured skulls
i from similar falls.
More than 100000 persons fed t.
Coney Island. where the beach wa;
packed with bathers.
Late comers we're not able to ge
bath houses at any price. II the after
noon men were Offering $3.50 for
/ place where they might disrobe an
leave their clothes, but few such place
were available.
Two earnest seekers after coolnesl
Joseph and Irving Ebelkopf, OF IS
Rockaway Avenue. Brooklyn, attempte
! TO change from street wear to 0atnin
suits in the none TOO secluded depth
OF their Ford automobile. Both We
arrested and locked up in the Cone
/ Island Police Station.
Crowds Visi. Staten Island
Staten Island was also swamped b
heat refugees. More than i25.000 pei
sons crossed the bay to the beache
there-the largest crowd to visit thes
resorts since they were established a
usual, the trolley system of the islant
broke down early in the afternoon am
was utterly unable 20 handle tn
front, crowds coming and going.
Many were obliged to stay in Rich
mond until early morning before the
could start for home.
The humidity got lot Of undesere
blame yesterday. 1t was low all da
long, yet every one attributed his dis
conf fort to it,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
$50 a Ton FOX Coal Is Price
Asked in Buencs Ayres

BUENOS AYRES, July 20.-Weekly
market reports show that the big labor
strike has affected the expectation of
cereals and wool. Although 5000 tons
of the latter has been sold, it lies idle
on the market through the absence of
labor.
A special meeting Of the Cabinet has
been held to consider the high cost of
living. especially the prevailing prices
Of fuel and lighting supplies. Wood is
selling for S34 q ton and coal for 500
a ton, these prices resulting in the
enforced curtailment of electric and
gas illumination. This, in turn, has
increased kerosene prices during the
past month from $3.50 to sl1 q ease.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Long island Sound
Yacht Clubs Hosts
To Junior Reserves

Scores of Junior Naval Reserves yes
terday enjoyed the fascination of life
on salt water at yacht clubs on Long
Island Sound. The lads were weekend
guests of the clubs, through the ef
forts of the navy and merchant marine
recruiting committee of all the clubs,
the chairman of which is Rear Com
modore Henry W. Howe
At the American Yacht Club Milton
Point, at Rye, N. Y, fortytive boys
were encamped over Saturday and Sun
day. There were eighteen others at
the Orienta Yacht Club Of Mamaro
neck, and other clubs on the Sound had
groups of the youngsters. All were
from New York.
In the afternoon, before a gallery of
several hundred members of the Amer
ican and Orienta yacht clubs, com
pany Of the Reserves, commanded by
Captain Lewis Till, staged sham bat
tie. followed by a dress parade. Dur
ing this ceremony, on behalf of the
American Yacht Club, Commodore Og-
den Reid presented the young salts
with stand CT silk colors. Then, with
their new colors at the head Of their
column, the boys passed in review be-
fore the officers of the club.
In the morning the Rev. Mr. Annet,
Belgian minister, conducted mill
tary religious service on the lawn of
the American Yacht Club. In the
afternoon the boys listened to lee
ture by Harry de Barclay Parsons on
"Seamanship and Navigation"
Those interested in the boys organ
ization are anxious to give the boys
every opportunity to familarizc them
selves with small boats. and hope tc
accomplish this through the generosity
of the yacht clubs on Long Island
Sound and adjacent waters.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Bows Assist Government
To Stamp Out Disloyalty
BROOKLYN Members of Anti Yellow Dog League Tell How
Critics of Government Are Summoned
Court of Own Conscience

mctcd out to a classmate who destroyed
an American flag. James ?. titz-
gerald, supervisor of an Anti, elbow
Dog Club, reported to the police an
enemy alien who failed to register.
John Benson, 1877 Grand Street, OBJ
tained for the police the correct ad ,
dresses Of two Austrians who had
given their addresses falsely.
After the reports had been MADE yes
terday, Mr.. Dodge spoke briefly to the
boys and they then had their pictures
taken for the movies.
Six Leagues in Brooklyn
Brooklyn now has six regularly or,
ganized Anti-Yellow Dog leagues, ana
others are in process OF formation
There are 900 of them in the country.
Ali bows ten years old and over are
eligible for membership. Every boy
who Joins must watch for yellow
Dogs" When he finds one he must
challenge him and hand him sum
mons, which says: "You are charged
with being unpatriotic and are sum-
moned to the court of your conscience
for the first offence" If the speaker
retracts what he has said the summons
is withdrawn. If he destroys 1T he IS
presented with another.
"Yellow Dogs" are defined as "any
man who tells the government about It's
faults to discourage it," "any man who
talks against the government and can't
back up what he says" any man who
says something that could make the
Germans think this isn't popular war
and "any man who says United States
bonds aren't the safest investments IN
the world" There are many other def-
initons, all of which must be mem
orized. While the boy sleuths are
urged to be persistent, it is part of their
code not to act like "smart Aleck,
but to be dignifed and quiet.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Osborne Adds Plea Government Urged
To Save Chapman To Run All Canals
From Death Chair Near the Atlantic
Former Sing Sing Head
Says His Execution Would
Stain the State

Thomas Mott Osborne. warden Of
the United States naval prison at
N. II, and former head of
Sing Sing, believes that the people of
New York will place a stain on their
state if they allow Paul Chapman, six
teen years old, to go to the chair.
81 have been receiving letters from
all over The United States and Canada" !"
he said, following his address at the
Church of the Ascension last night,
"against sending this lad to his death.
! cannot believe that the people Of
New York will allow such terrible
stain to be put upon their state.
Keeps Up Welfare League
Mr.. Osborne explained the success of
the Mutual Welfare League which pris-
oners in Sing Sing Auburn and the
naval prisons have formed under his
guidance. He told Of escaped prisoners
returning to prison of their own
volition because they didn't want to
violate the trust imposed in them.
He called en- his audience to drive
politics out Of prisons.
"W hen | visited The prison as vol
untary prisoner over year ago there
were 10 prisoners and 40 guards" Mr..
Osborne said.
Last winter I had 100 prisoners
ard only four guards. Most of the
prisoners are there for overstaying
their leave We are senling three mon
a day back to the service"
Men Return to Service
Mr Osborne said one MAJ was in
rrisor because he had said: "Is that
so2' to young officer, wkc thought
he was insolent.
1T is much better that such me
should be sent back into &C service
instead of being disholorably dis
charged" he said. "Secretary Daniels
has accepted this view and Of 1,lOC
ron 7s4 have been restored to the
.,,1.ico
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
Trained Men Needed
For Many Positions
New York University Is Un-
able to Supply the De-
mand for Workers

Hundreds of jobs, with salaries rang
ing from S25 a vaek to S150 600 year,
are open to specially trained workers
throughout the United States, accord
ing to the efficiency bureau of New
York University
Students and graduates Of the sum
mer session of the university are being
placed in positions they are best quail
flied to fill. but there are not nearly
enough applicants to go around.
Moderate salaried positions calling
for specialized talent are very hard to
till," said Clay c. Dugan, director OF
the bureau. "Qualifed men over the
draft age usually are able to command
more money than the smaller positions
pay. This applies to such occupations
as teaching ard bookkeeping
An average Of five hundred students
have been found positions by the bu
reau during the last three years, while
there have been calls for $500 workers.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22

Several hundred young Brooklyn
boys, all members of the AntiYellow
Dog League, who have been serving as
an unofficial auxiliary of the Depart
ment Of Justice in the search for dis
loyalsts, met at the Sheffield Theatre,
Brooklyn, to exchange experiences.
They were addressed by Henry Irving
Dodge, whose story "The Yellow Dog"
began the nationwide boy movement
against Americas internal enemies.
Inquisitiveness, curiosity and other
boyish characteristics are big assets IN
the new profession for the youngsters,
who, without being frowned upon once,
related yesterday to q group of friends
and relatives the exploits which they
had performed through the exercise
of those qualities which were once
considered the mark of the "bad boy"
Critics Traced Down
Salvatore Niedelstein, eleven years
old, 450 Miller Avenue, was the first
to cover himself with glory in the
two men who spent their time dis
paraging the government and the war.
Salvatore got his cue from hearing
Leo Berg, 761 Blake Avenue, deliber-
atcly play "The -Spangled Banner"
wrong on the mouth harp. "Your
father taught you that" he said and
went for the father, whom he found,
with another man, criticising the gov
eminent. He handed the men a 'Yel-
low Dog" summons He still is work
ing on the case.
One little chap challenged fellow
for saying that Liberty bonds we're q
poor investment. Another passed out
summonses to 100 loafers in the parks.
Still another saw that justice was
New-York tribune., 1918-07-22
VIM. II. Black Named
Alternate by Walsh
{ lSnecfnI DiSnntch to TIE Yribuncl

WASHINGTON, July 21.-William
Harman Black, of New York City, has
been chosen by Frank P. Walsh to be
his alternate on the National War
Labor Board. Mr.. Walsh is one of the
two Joint cha1rmen of the board. The
other is former President William H..
Taft. The selection OF Mr.. Taft's al
ternatc. Frederick N. Judson, of st.
Louis, was announced several weeks
ago.
All the other members of the board
have also named alternates. who have
sat with the board from time to time
and also acted as members Of sections
assigned to specific cases.
Mr.. Black is special counsel for the
City of New York in charge of CON
demnation of lands for the Catskill
water project. Until February of this
torney of New York, acting as District
Attorney in 1917. In l904'05 he was
Commissioner Of Accounts of the City
Of New York. and later Deputy At
torney General of the State Of New
York. in which Office he conducted the
prosecution of the ice trust. In 1910
he was appointed specTal corporation
counsel by the late Mayor Gaynor
He was the first chairman elected by
the Democratic County Committee OF
the County of New York, under the
election law; was reelected but re
signed upon entering the District At
torneys Office. He is member Of the
Mayors Committee on National De
fence and of the COMMITTEES on Nation
alism undertaking the Amercanizatior
of foreigners in New York. Mr.. Blacl
is fifty years of age and is a graduate
of Columbia University He was borr
in Georgia ard practised law in Atlants
until 1900, when he went to New York