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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Arrest German as
A Mail Smu,ggler

Agents of the Federal government at
tach much Importance to the arrest OF
a man giving the name of Ludwig Hott-
man, who was taken into custody on
Friday night, in his room at the Cen
trail Y. NJ. C. A., in Brooklyn. He is
charged with violation OF the Presl-
dents proclamation and, according to
Federal agents, he was the leading
spirit in a nationwide plot to smugglc
mail to Germany through neutral coun~
tries At the time of his arrest he
carried a loaded revolver.
Yesterday he was subjected to an
exhaustive interrogation by William
Wallace, director of the New York
Bureau of Enemy Aliens, and his as
sistant, Captain Roger B. Hull, and
later turned over to the Department of
Justice agents. The government Off
Gals are anxiously waiting for the
translation of number of papers
found on the man, which they believe
contain detailed information as to the
mail smuggling plot Pending the
translation Of the papers, Federal Off
Gals refused to enter into any discus
sion Of the case, except to say that a
thorough investigation was being made
However, it was learned that the plan
called for the dispatching of mail to
central clearing house in Holland
from which it was to be forwarded to
Germany.
Max Kahlhoff, an enemy alien, was
arrested by guards of the New York
Central yesterday on Pier 35, North
River, where he was acting in sus-
pcious manner, and brought to the
Enemy Alien Bureau for examination.
He did not have zone pass to enter
the waterfront area, and spoke in a
broken dialect, which the interpreter at
the bureau did not understand. After
failing to get any statement from him,
Captain Hull turned him over to the
Department of Justice for examination
and in We G ii ratin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
17-Year-Old Boy a Suicide
He Kills Self After Arranging
for Payment of Debts

Edward P. O'Connell, seventeen
wears Old, a page at the New York
Stock Exchange, whose home was at
Evergreen, J.. l., committed suicide
some time Friday night or early ycster-
day morning by inhaling illuminating
gas in room at the Morris and Essex
Hotel, 108 Barclay Street He left a
will. III the form of letter to his
father. which he had evidently written
as the tunes from the gas were slowly
overcoming him.
The letter directed the payment Of
some small bills and particularly urged
that $16 be paid to Miss Mabel De
Nike, of 529 Gates Avenue, girl
friend of his own age Miss De Nike
said that the boy had been one of a
party of her friends to 20 to the
theatre on Thursday night. Afterward
they all returned to her home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Daniels Makes
Voyage on Good
Ship Recruit
Secretary Tells Crowd
Navy Has Just Begun
to Do Things

AS Josephus Daniels. Secretary OF
the Navy, climbed aboard the good ship
Recruit, anchored in the sea Of PEG
pie that filled Union Square yesterday
afternoon, the Secretarys flag. furlet
for breaking, was loosened to the
breeze and the naval band struck uI
Hail to the Chief"
Advancing bravely toward a battery
Of motion picture cameras. Mr.. Daniels
shook hands with Commander Charles
A. Adams, in charge Of the sturdy yes
sci. Then followed an informal in
spection of the ship no submarine will
ever sink.
"Why, this is real ship" remarked
the Secretary to her commander. 81
can almost hear the waves beating out
side"
While officers and enlisted men stood
at attention, he examined the quarters
below, including the aft cabin, re-
splendent in the gay red furnishings
taken from the Vaterland, erstwhile
pride of the Kaiscr's fleet.
Then, followed by his aid, Lieutenant
Frost and Henry Mcdonnell. director
general of the Mayors committe on
National Defence, he climbed to the
deck and made brief address to the
crowd.
CAS- this ship stands in the heart of
the metropolis" he said. $50 our navy
is safely anchored in the hearts of the
American people. Our boys in blue
over there have already captured Ger
man submarines, and they have sunk
more of them than | can tell"
After the cheers which interrupted
this comment. he added:
"But what they have done is only an
mixing of what they will do to bring
this war to successful conclusion"
Escorted to the motor car which
awaited him near by, the Secretary
stood at attention while the band on
board played "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner."
Before the crowd could surge awav
another speaker was leaning over the
rail. and the GOOD ship Recruit was
hitting the stride for which it has be-
come famous. After w. T. Within ore
had finished brief appeal for volun-
teers; eleven young men stepped out
of the crowd to 90 to work for
Josephus Daniels and Uncle Sans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Four New York Men
Get Army Commissions
[Staf Correspondence1

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Reservc
Corps commissions were issued to-day
by the War Department to the follow
ing New Workers:
Walter j. Duncan. AZ Fifth Avenue, CAP
tain, Engineer Corps.
Harold w. Chaplin. 40 Clinton Avenue.
i,rookiyn, first lieutenant, Quartermaster
Corps, National Army.
William A. Bradley. 2S0 Madison Avenue.
and Lawrence A. Meekcr. jackson and Sec
ond avenues. Long Island City, first lieuten-
ants Sanitary Corps. National Army.
Promotions in the New York National
Guard Division at Camp Wadsworth an
nounced to-day by the department in
Guided the following:
Franchot, Buffalo
TO be first lcutenants. Second Leutenants
Rlchard +; Cloak. Buffalo; Ezra A. Barnes,
Oswego: Edward +. Winnek, Geneva. and
Durant Rice, New York CITY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Shot Kills Soldier
Mystery in Spartanburg Pri-
Yates Death

sPARTANBURG, S. c., March 16.-
Private Frank Z. Farrell, of Company
G, 105th Infantry, was found in his
tent at the CLASSY Rock rifle range with
bullet through his body near the
heart yesterday afternoon and died two
hours later according to word received
here to-day. A board of officers is in
vestigating the death. The supposition
is that his gun may have been acct
dentally discharged in some way. He
was alone in his tent at the time, SO
far as officers could learn.
Farrell's home is at Irvington-on-the-
Hudson, and the body will be shipped
there for interment. The regiment has
been at CLASSY Rock, thirty miles dis
tant from here, for rifle practice for
about a week. A soldier heard the re-
port of gun and went into the tent.
finding Farrell MORALLY wounded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Restoration I Hospital for Disabled
10 Be Opened T ere Next Month
War Department Base Being Rushed at sam N. j., for
Reclamation of Men for Civilian Pursuits-Nlaor Fred
A. Albee, M. D.. Noted Specialist, to Have Charge

many clerical assistants, orderlies and
non-technical workers, making a staff
of men in khaki Of some $50, besides
the nurses.
The hospital buildings, which will
cluster around splendidly equipped
operating room $50 feet in length, will!
bc on property the government has ac
eepted from Mr.: and Mrs. Charles d.
Freeman, head of the Mercy Committee,
Tor five years. Originally the property
was offered to the government fully
equipped as hospital. with an oper-
atng room and 100 beds. Deciding to
erect a hospital on larger scale, the
War Department arranged to put up
seven buildings and $500 beds, with
the Mercy Committee of New Jersey
furnishing much of the bedding ma
tcrials and fully equipping at least 100
beds.
The Mercy Committee will also man
age the recreational side of the hos
pital york and will provide entertain
ment for the convelcscent' patients. The
site is admirably suited for out-of-
door entertainments, being q combina-
ton of eight adjoining fertile farms.
A large house which now stands on the
property will be used as the headquar-
tcrs of the Mercy Committee, whose
emblem is violet star.
An especially interesting part of the
institution will be shops, where the
men will be taught trades, enabling
them to earn their living without
physical strain in cases where the frail-
ty persists.
Working in harmony with the Red
Cross, the Mercy Committee will act
as the interested friend. 1t will take
n personal interest in the patients, and
will provide funds for things which
the government overlooks The women
of the organization, which has branches
throughout the State of New Jersey
will endeavor to add the human touch
to the scientific excellence which the
nurses and surgeons will provide for
Americas wounded.
Originally, the War Department ex-
pected to have the hospital ready by
June 1, but later decided to have at
least part of it completed by April 1.
The contractors are now rushing the
work to meet the governments eXpec-
tation.
The Mercy Committee is a voluntary
relief organization, formed three years
ago. 1t was started to lend succor in
all emergencies, such as railroad acct
dents, CONGREGATIONS, earthquakes and
the ike. Fate decreed that its first big
opportunity for service was the war
Through the American Clearing House
in New York. it has shipped countless
units of supplies for civilians in the
countries of Americas allies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

carless Sundays designated and those
which may be announced later, no bet
ter use of an automobile can be made
than to utilize it to carry cheer and
comfort to the boys in camp in the
form Of visits from the home folk.
Motorists Released From Pledge
"Automobile owners have received
the suggestion of the American De-
fence Society with enthusiasm. To
them we are glad to suggest that they
use their cars in this free Camp UPTON
service. without feeling any violation
of their pledge. Those who donate
their cars for the service are doing a
patriotic and generous act. We will
place their names on our honor rolls,
just as if they had entirely sacrificed
the use OF their cars, as originally sug-
gested.
81 believe that everything which con-
tributes to the cheer and comfort of
our fighting men makes victory more
certain. The thought that many of the
boys in camps outside of New York arc
unable to receive even weekly visits
from their loved ones is very deprcss-
ing and demands remedy. We should
make efforts to show that we appreci-
ate the sacrifices our soldiers arc MAX
ing for us
Applications for reservations of the
Easter Sunday run and offers of cars
continued to come into the Offices of the
American Automobile Association. at
sol Fifth Avenue. Mr.. Hemstreet said
yesterday that he had one hundred cars
available for the first run. He is anx-
ious, however, to get the names of at
least one hundred additional car own.
ers who are willing to help in the SER
vice
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

restoration factory whose business
VIII be to take in American boys
wounded in battle and turn them out
vigorous and ready for civilian life
VIII be opened in Islam, n. j., next
month. Technically, the place will be
named the United States General Hos
pltal, No. 3, and physicians will know
1t as the Orthopadic Hospital for the
Port of New York.
But to the boys who gave up their
routine of every day living to do the
emergency job of crushing Kaiserism
1t Will merely be the delightful place
which healed their fractures and their
bone troubles incurred in the trenches
and which enabled them to return to
their pre-war occupations without the
handicap of physical incapacity Only
men who have been wounded so badly
that they Will be invalided out of the
service Will undergo treatment at the
hospital. Those with lesser hurts of
battle will be cared for on the other
side.
Major Albee in Charge
Major Fred A. Albee, NJ. D., the noted
specialist in bone and fracture cases.
Will be in charge of the new hospital,
with twenty-four surgeons under him,
and the fact of Dr.. Alhee's leadership
indicates that the new hospital in
islam Will be not only a military asset
but scientific centre also.
The fame of Dr. Albee's surgical
methods have spread throughout the
world, and his visits to France have
saved many of the sons of our allies
from an lnestimable degree of pain
and from the likelihood of remaining
cripples for life.
American soldiers who will be sent
to this institution will be under the
general supervision Of the man who
invented the twin electric saw, which
succeeds in making missions in the
bone much less painful. Dr. Albee was
perturbed by the fact that the pain of
the operation in such cases was more
intense than that felt when the bullet
entered the patients body. His worry
led to the electric saw. He recognized
that the velocity with which the bullet
entered the body was much greater
than that of the surgeons knife. The
electrically driven saw attains an equal
velocity and the patient is spared I'M
speakable agony
$50 Nurses to Assist
Besides twenty-four assisting sur
geons, Dr. Albee will have under his
direction in the new institution a corps
Of $50 nurses, under Miss Josephine NJ
Swenson. In addition, there will be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Farmers Short
OF Help to Put
In Spring Crops
Situation in the Rural
Districts Worrying
Officials
By Theodore NJ. knappen

WASHINGTON. March 15.-The farm
labor situation is serious.
This fact is known to the chief Of
flclals Of the departments of Labor
and Agriculture. They are extending
themselves to the limits of hours and
brains to remedy the situation.
They are doing everything to meet
the emergency except to give authori-
tative publicity to the actual situation
The idea is to reassure the farmer by
Fastening to find him some labor.
Meanwhile the bill now pending in
Congress, which carries an appropria-
ton Of $2,500,000, for the mobilization
of farm labor is anchored, despite the
fact that the planting season is at hand
and that it will take time to organize
to spend the money effectively.
The Department Of Agriculture now
is making survey of the entire coun-
try through its farm labor specialists
agents to determine precisely what the
labor situation is. All information con-
corning the facts being disclosed by the
reports is refused, but the New York
survey, which has been published
shows a decline of 10 per cent in the
acreage under cultivation in that state.
The labor situation in New York is ad-
mitted to be bad. but 1 am in posses
sion Of authoritative information which
proves beyond doubt that the situa-
ton is worse in some other states than
it is in New York.
There are whole states in which the
number Of farm laborers is as much as
70 per cent below normal.
There are great agricultural districts
where the farmers have not single
experienced farm hand left. They have
no nucleus with which to break in
green hands, even if they can find
them.
The departments of Agriculture and
Labor are putting forth great and we'll
planned efforts to meet the O. ,rgencv.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Defence Society
Approves Upton
Free Auto Service
Releases Motorists From
Sunday Pledge to Per-
NIT Participation

The American Defence Society has
lifted its ban on the use of private
automobiles on Sundays during March
in order that the hundreds of motor
car owners who voluntarily agreed to
the request and promised to invest the
gasOlene savings in war stamps may
feel free to respond to the American
Automobile Associations call for ma
chimes to take part March 81 in the
first run from New York City to Camp
Upton.
Official announcement Of this was
made yesterday at the headquarters OF
the American Defence Society. 1t was
communicated to James A. Hemstreet
of the A. A. a., who is directing the
| pton transportation service. 1t means
that many additional motor cars will
be available for the purpose of carry
ing the relatives of National Army mer
at Upton to the camp on the last Sun
Gay in March, when the first of a Sc
ries of free runs to the environments
Will take place.
Gugrenheim Approves
William Guggenheim, trustee of the
American Defence Society and origi
nator of the pleasure carless Sunday
idea, made this statement last night:
"The purpose of instituting the
pleasure carless Sundays was to en-
courage voluntary sacrifice on the part
Of those best able to make it ant
through economy aid the government
We sent out the call for the four Sun
days in March, but we will probably ex-
tend the plan into April and possibly
May. Many of our own members anc
car owners who belong to variou:
motor clubs throughout the city have
agreed to act on our suggestion tina,
they refrain from using their machines
during one or more Sundays in March
The response was hearty and spon
taneous.
"But we feel that the American Auto
mobile Associations plan for free
Upton service, as suggested by the wife
Of a man at Yaphank in letter to The
Tribune, is laudable and patriotic. It
deserves help and wholehearted sup
port.
Owe believe that on the pleasure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Sunday Lifts to Upton


Relatives of soldiers at zap
hank who wish to avail them
selves of the American Automo-
bile Associations offer of free
transportation to camp on Sun
day, March 81, should mail ap-
plications to the Touring Bureau,
A. A. A., SOL Fifth Avenue.
Please include the name of the
soldier or soldiers you wish to
visit. Persons desiring to give
their cars for the service should
communicate with the same
office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Lieutenant G.. L. Norstedt
Dies at Camp Upton

CAMP UPTON, N. Y, March 10
Lieutenant Gustaf L. Norstedt, of the
Medical Reserve Corps. a member of
the administrative staff of the base
hospital here, died to-day Of pneumo-
MIA. His body, which was accompanied
to the station by a platoon of the med
ictl detail, was taken by his brother
+. O. Norstedt, of the Navy Hospital
Corps, to his former home in Mount
Carmel, Penn.
Lieutenant Norstedt was twenty-six
years old. He was commissioned on
October 5, 1917, and assigned to this
cantonment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Mrs. de Rivera's Birthday
Women Honor Founder of
City Federation at Luncheon

Mrs: Belle de Riviera, founder of the
New York City Federation of Women IS
Clubs, was seventy years o-bcs
pardon sevnty years young-yestcr-
day. She Indignantly denied being old
although admitting the seventy years,
and gratefully gathered in ali the
presents her friends thrust upon her
at luncheon in her honor at the
Hotel Majestic.
The best present was little bit de-
layed; Mrs. de Rivera won't get it for
several days yet, but it is promised
This is the Federal woman suffrage
amendment. Miss Mary Garrett Hay
came up from Washington on the mid
night train Friday to attend the party
and had expected to bring the amend
ment along with her. However, those
Washington Senators are so slow.
Mrs. de Rivera declared she wouldn't
count any more days on her age until
the suffrage victory was ACCOMPLISHED
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Villa Captures Durango

Ell PASO, Tex, March 16.-Informa-
ton was received here to-day from
Torreon, Mexico, stating that revolu-
tionists had captured and occupied Du-
range City.
AS Francisco Villas main force has
been campaigning in the State of Du-
range, it is believed the reported capt
are vas made by troops Of his com
mand.
General Fracisco Murguia. COM
mander III chief Of the field troops in
the north, left chihuahua CITY TUESDAY
night with troop3 for DURANGO to start
a campaign against Nilla
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Sailor Who Saued Mate
From Sharks Decorated

WASHINGTON, March 16-Heroism
IN rescuing seaman from sharks in
PHILIPPINE waters nearly two wears
ago won for Wallace Odcll Prater, of
STAFFORD, Kan., machinist's mate. a
gold medal to-day. Prater is now serv-
ing with the navy in French waters.
The medal was awarded by the Secre
tary of the Treasury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
New York Filler Killed

FORT WORTH, Tex, March 1s.-Two
American aviators were killed in fall
at Hicks Field TINS afternoon.
Lieutenant Harold Andre, of New
York City, and Cadet Joseph flanagan,
who came here from Camp Dick, in
Dallas, were the victims of the fatal
crash
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Loft Robbers Trapped
Caught With Loot When Auto
Nearly Runs Down Detective

Because speeding automobile near
ly ran down detective a $4,000 loft
robbery was solved and four men ar.
rested yesterday in Brooklyn.
AS Detective Kaufman was CROSSING
Sumner Avenue near Hart Street he
was grazcd by the auto. The machine
stopped at BOP Hart Street. Four men
got out and carrying rolls of silk and
other materials, entered the house.
Calling the Seventh Branch. Kautr.
man learned that the goods answered
the description of some stolen earlier
in the day from the factory of Herman
Kimball. 1874 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan
Detectives Woody. Patton and
O'Connell joined Kaufman, and the
four men were arrested while return
inf with a second load.
They gave their names as julius
Hrall, forty-two, of 5o2 Hart Street;
Joseph Asbngc, TWENTY-FIVE, Of 1919
Simpson Street, The Bronx; Isidore
Wolkof. twenty-six. Of 8l5 East l77th
Street, Manhattan. and Benjamin Der
man, Of 280 DeKalb Avenue. BROOKLYN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

Study the HELP WANTED ADS. in to-
days Sunday Tribune--you'u find IT n
profitable move. Turn TO the CLASSIFIED
Advertising Columna now!--Advt
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-08-17
REOPENING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OF CITY.
Certificate Of Vaccination Necessary
to Admission.

Last Spring, when the city was
conducting its campaign Of vaccina-
ton against smallpox, the public
was urged to send to the schools the
children who could enter school for
the first time this year, in oder that
they might be vaccinated and thus
save time this Fall. There were some
who took advantage of it Every
year there has been time consumed
in the Fall having children vaccinat-
ed after they have reached school.
This interferes with the progress OF
these children as we'll as with the
progress Of those who may have been
already vaccinated. AS a matter of
convience to all the law relative to
vaccination will be complied with.
No pupil who has not been vaccinat-
ed can enter the schools. 1t is one
month before the schools reopen and
there will be an abundance of time
to have this attended to. If one pre-
fers to have this vaccination done
by ones own physician, this, Of
course, may be done; otherwise the
city physician will attend to it. No
tice of mis- Office hours will be pub
lished. The schools will reopen Oh
September the sixteenth.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-08-17
SMALLER DEMAND FOR LINT
COTTON.
Census Bureau Gives Figures on
Staple.

Washington. Aug. 14.-Smallel
consumption of lint cotton, increased
use Of Inter cotton and reduction in
cotton exports, compared with the
previous year, marked the close OF
the cotton year July 81, as shown to-
day in the census bureaus report.
The years consumption Of lint was
6,591,336 running bales. That was
197.169 bales less than the previous
year. Linter consumption for the year
was 1,116,385 bales, an increase Of
246,6S3 bales.
Almost million bales more cotton
were on hand July 81, this year, than
on that date year ago, the total be-
ing 3,230,261 bales.
Eports for the year amounted to
4,476, ,124 bales, including 1S7,704 bales
of linters. That was 1,262,SS5 bales
less than the previous year. Linter
exports were 48,457 bales less.
The statement continues:
LAS a result of good showers or
moisture from preceding rain, cotton
made generally satisfactory progress
in the Carolina, Florida, much OF
Louisiana and Southeastern Tennes-
see, but elsewhere throughout the
belt little growth was made or crop
actually deteriorated in local areas.
The crop is only in fair condition IN
Georgia due to shedding, rust, black