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New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Wants to Hold Titles
To Alien Properties
A. Mitchell Palmer Seeks
Drastic Extension of Enemy
Trading Act

WASHINGTON, June 4-Drastic ex-
tension of the trading with the enemy
act, to facilitate handling Of the mill
ions of dollars worth of enemy prop
erty taken over by the government was
asked of Congress o-day by A. Mitch
ell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian.
Under bill which Mr.. Palmer urged
the House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee to expedite, the title to any
property of an enemy or ally of an en-
emy, seized thereby would be vested in
fee in the Alien Property Custodian.
This would apply to every right of an
enemy, or ally of an enemy, in the prop
erty including membranes of any
kind.
Mr.. Palmer told the committee such
provision would solve troublesome
problem, with which the governments
lawyers have been wrestling, and make
easy the task of removing complicated
legal obstacles encountered in taking
over and disposing of vast German
holdings. He said German treatment
OF American property justified the most
drastic measures
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Yardmaster and Many EN-
ployes Among Those
Accused in Toledo
Roads Lost Millions
Vigorous Campaign All Over
the Country to Break
Up the Practice

WASHINGTON, June Abandonment
by Federal grand jury at Toledo Of
eighty-nine persons, including James
J. Corbett, yardmaster under the
railroad administration, and many
other railroad emlIoyes in connection
with systematic car robberies extending
over period Of years, was announced
here tonight by the railroad admin
istrations new section for the protec-
tion OF railroad property
Tho roundup is part of vigorous
campaign being waged over the coun-
try. and particularly at the larger
switching centres, to put an end to car
thievery which has cost the railroads
and shippers upward of $40 0o0 900 an
nually and has resulted in the murder
of many railroad watchmen Besides
those at Toledo, arrests also have been
made at Chicago. ST. Louis. Pittsburgh.
Detroit, Jersey City and other places
The situation at Toledo was de-
scribed as having been particularly bad
Tor long time. Corbett, who before
the railroads were taken over by the
government was yardmaster for
road under private management, was
arrested. He confessed according to
lhe Administration announcement. that
he was the leader of the gang Of car
thieves there, including switchmen and
train crews. His revelations were said
20 have extended not only to detailed
accounts of the robheries themselves,
but also to the disposition of the stolen
goods and the names of the persons
receiving the property. His story was
investigated and the eighty-nine indict-
ments resulted
Corbett has pleaded guilty. but mas
not yct been sentenced. Many of the
others accused were arraigned at
Toledo to-day and the railroad protcc-
tlon section plans to vigorously prose
cute the cases and ask for penitentarv
sentences as q warming to others
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Sees in German RAGE
A Sign of Defeat
British High Chancellor Says
Bombing of Hospitals Is Fore
runner of Allied Victory

LONDON, June An the recent
acts of Germany there is evidence of
desperation which might we'll in
crease British confidence in the final
result. declared Sir r. B. Tinlay, Lord
High Chancellor, in addressing a war
savings meeting Monday. The spirit
in which nation faced difficulties
was the thing that really counted, said
the Lord High Chancellor, who coz
tinued:
What means this bombing Of hos
pitals this numbering of nurses and
medical men and their patients? 1t
means the senseless rage of those who
are maddened at the obstacle which
England has thrown in the way of Ger
many, as it ever has thrown obstac les
in the way of any power that aspired
to tho domination of Europe and the
world.
"The conduct Of our enemy at this
time recalls what was said Of another
parsonage. His wrath is great because
he knoweth thnt his time is short
Our enemy's time is indeed short. 1t
will not be long before America has
redro ssod the balance and enabled US
to mete out justice to Germany.
"As to the treatment of prisoners
by Germany, nothing more infamous
could be conceived"
Sir Robert Kindersley, chairman of
the War Savings Committee, said that
during the last six months the weekly
or monthly investment in state secur
tiles totaled s3,455,92O, 900. He saw
no reason why the next six months
show not show better results.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Trade Commission
Urges Profits of
Gamers Be Cut
Their Net Earnings in 1917
Found to Have Averaged
81 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, June 4. Sweeping
recommendations for regulation of the
canning industry were made to-day to
President Wilson by the Federal Trade
Commission, on the basis of inequ-
ties discovered in an exhaustive in
vestigation. Legislation would be re-
quired to put some Of the recommends
tions into effect, while others may be
made operative under the food law.
Gamers were found to have aver
aged 32 per cent profit in 1917, com
pared with 8 per cent the year before.
The food administration, the report
preventing large advances in the prices
Of raw vegetables last year. Rulings
which somewhat checked the price Of
finished products came too late to pre-
vent unusually large margins over
costs, particularly in tomato and corn
canning. Army and navy purchases
and other war demands, however, now
are tending to place prices beyond con-
troll of the forces usually adjusting
them.
The influence of the large meat
packing corporations in the canning
trade was given especial attention by
the commission, which asserted that
wholesale grocers consider the meat
packers their strongest rivals. Swift
& Co. was said to control Libby, Nc
Neill e. Libby, the second largest
packer of canned foods in the country,
which made more than 70 per cent
on its investment in 1917 Armour d.
Co. has become a jobber of canned
goods, probably larger than any whole
sale grocer, according to the report
Wilson e. Co. was recorded as acquir-
ing salmon interests on Puget Sound
and cAnnerics In Canada
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Staten Island Renews
Garbage Plant Fight

Residents Of Staten Island complain
that the odors from the 100000 mu-
nicipal garbage disposal plant located
on the island are so annoying this year
that they have become "an intolerab]e
nuisance"
Sheriff Pitou announced yesterday
that he had sent protest to Governor
Whitman and is awaiting reply to
determine whether he shall close th,.
plant; More than 1000 citizens have
complained to Sheriff Pitou that the
stencil from the plant is so great that
they are compelled to keep their door.
and windows closed. They declare that
the pungent and variegated smells
which can be scented for ten miles,
have not only kept new residents from
settling on Staten Island. but have re-
suited IN 40 per cent depreciation
in the value Of all residence property.
"The odors are an offense from one
end of the island to the other" said
Sheriff Pitou yesterday. "They make
life unbearable to the residents of
every town in the county. When a
Staten Islander goes to New York YOU
can identify him by the odor which
clngs to his clothes
of the Governor says so / am ready
with twenty-five men to go down and
close the plant"
The plant is operated under five
year lease by the Metropolitan Bye
products Company. 1t was started last
May. This year the amount of gar
bage consumed by the plant averages
about sixteen scowfuls day, which
is carried from Manhattan, The Bronx
and Brooklyn. Before the plant was
located on the island the residents
spent $4,000 in fighting the plan.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Many Shippers Ask
Modification of
Freight Increase
Representatives From 80
States Confer With Com
rnerce Commission

WASHINGTON. June q. Steps look
ing to modification of the order raising
freight rates 25 per cent so as to pro
vide for retention Of differentials, and
to remove provisions discriminating
against certain business interests or To-
calities were taken day by the rail
road administration.
Many changes may be made before
June 25, when the higher rates are to
become effective. They will not, how
ever. affect materially the amount of
the increase.
Representatives of public utility com
missions Of about thirty states CON
ferred with the Interstate Commerce
Commission and railroad administra-
ton officials too day and arranged to
present draft of specific recon-
mendatlons for notifications to elm =
mate apparent injustices in intra- state
rates. They will discuss these Thurs
day with Director General McAdoo at
white Sulphur Springs, W Va. where
he is resting.
Several state commiss ions have
asked postponement of the effective
"a'e VI tne new rate order. Western
OIL producers, livestock and grain in
terests, protested in person to the rail-
road admin illustration to-day against
abolition of ditfcrentials The National
Association of Sand and Gravel Pro-
ducers complained that the new rates
would close hundreds of sand and
gravel plants and would force building
and highway contractors to abrogate
contracts. State and local highway
commissioners sent similar protests.
Iowa meat packers objected to the
fact that the advance on finished meat
products to the Atlantic coast is the
same as for livestock
New England paper manufacturers
urged that the higher rates be con-
structed in such a way as not to elm
mate present dfferentfals affecting
competing paper and pulp producers.
Scores Of requests to maintain spe-
cial excursion rates to summer schools,
state fairs and conventions are reach
ing the railroad administration. and
many Will be granted
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion issued formal order, putting
into operation Secretary McAdoo's plan
for a one cent-a- mile rate to soldiers
on furlough
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
80 Nationalities Will
Celebrate July 4
Plans Are Launched for Mon
ster Cosmopolitan Pageant
Parade Here

Thirty nationalities were represent
ed at the meeting in the Council
Chamber at the City Hall yesterday
when plans for Fourth of July
pageantparade were formulated under
the direction of the Mayors Commit
tee on National Defence. Mayor Hy-
Ian, in brief speech, promised his
full cooperation with the movement
The government was represented by
B. r. Newton, Collector of the Port,
and among others present were Cap
tain Whitweli, of the British War
Mission; President A. S. Somers of the
Board Of Education; Henry Macdon
aid, director Of the Mayors Commit
tee on National Defence; Dr. George
f. Kunz; Nathaniel Phillips, of the
League of Foreign Born Citizens; Ma
jor c. Brooman-White, in charge of
the British Recruiting Mission; Caye
tano de Quesada, chancellor of the
Cuban Consulate; Joseph Appel. rep
resenting John Wanamaker, and Colo
mel Alexander NJ. Damon, of Brigadier
General George R. Dyer's staff.
General Dyer will be grand marshal
Of the parade, which, according to the
plans disclosed at the meeting, will in
clude as many racial groups as possible.
groups would depict some of the event
ful episodes in their own native his
tory, such as the victory of Thermop-
yl@. to be presented by the Greek
group. 1t was agreed that the demon
stration should be q parade of the peo-
pie. 1t was estimated that there would
be at lcast $4,000 marchers in line
Augustus Post. representing the
Aero Club of America, suggested an air
parade as q feature. Mr.. Post sug-
gested that Italian and French planes
should also fly during the parade.
Fifty representatives. of the various
nationalities present indorsed the
pageant plan. Daniel Blumenthal, for
merly q Mayor under German dominion
in Alsace; A: A. Bublikoff introduced
as ''the man who arrested the Gar"
and Franz Sigcl, a son of the Civil War
general. were among those who spoke.
Mr.. Sigel pledged the support of
Americans of German birth
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
"Figures not yet at hand.

The greatest year in the history Of
shipbulding in the United Kingdom
was 1913. The output was 1898 ,229
deadweight tons, or a monthly average
of 241,619 deadweight tons Last year
the United Kingdom produced 1.741 500
deadWeight tons, or monthly average
of las 1925 tons. The best month was
March, with 23S.239 tons.
The record May output fer the Ship
ping Board comprised thirty-nine req
uistioned steel, four contract steel
and one contract wooden vessel. In
the last six days Of the month there
were delivered fifteen steel and wood
ships; totalling S2,7G0 tons. The best
previous week was that ending May d,
when the deliveries totalled S0,1SO tons.
The Shipping Board to-day an
nounced decision prohibiting the
transfer Of the American registry of
any vessel over 100 tons to foreign
registry during the period of the war.
To encourage the development Of the
smaller shipyards. the Shipping Board
further ruled to-day that foreign own
ers could place contracts for construc-
tion in American yards of sailing yes
sells of 1000 tons or under
The Japanese tonnage recently ac-
quired by the Shipping Board is be-
coming available on schedule it was
stated. Twelve Japanese ships, ag-
gregating tonnage OF about so 900.
have arrived at Pacific ports.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Man and Wife Held
AS Sugar Hoarders
MIR. and Mrs. John H. Vree-
land, of Hartford, to Have
Hearing TODAY

HARTFORD, Conn, June 4.-Federal
warrants charging sugar boarding were
served this afternoon on John II. Vree-
land, assistant secretary of the Scot
tish Union and National Insurance
Company, and his wife, of 7 South
Marshall Street. Following their ar
rest they were released upon their
own recognizance, pending their ap-
pearance tomorrow before Richard f.
Carroll, United States Commissioner
The household consists Of Mr. and
Mrs. VreelaNd. their small son and a
maid. On the food administrations 3
basis of a fair allowance of SUGAR he
ing three pounds per person per month
the family in question is said to have
had enough to last them we'll into nex
year.
1t is understood that the District At-
torney is in possession of evidence
that the Nreelands had ninety-fivc
pounds of sugar in unopened cartons
and seven or eight pounds of sugar in
another TIN container. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Vreeland were motoring whom
the agents called and they we're nd.
mitted by the maid.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Belgian Heroes
Loudly Acclaimed
On Fifth Avenue
Albert's Soldiers Cheered
on Last Lap of Journey
Around World

The flag Of Belgium, which has al
most circled the globe in the war
against Germany, made its triumphant
way down Fifth Avenue yesterday af-
ternoon
The 300 hundred men who followed it
are the veterans of Liege and Namur,
the "frst heroes of the war" remnants
of the little army that threw its
strength against the Kaiser in August,
1914. AS members of the Belgian Ar
mored Motor Corps, they fought in
Belgium, and then went around up to
fight on the Eastern front. They are
on their way back to finish the war
where they began it. having crossed
Siberia and into the United States via
Nladivoston
In the parade they were led by Ma
ior Osterreich and the following rep
resentatives of the Allies: Lieutenant
Eugene Garibaldi, of the Italian army;
Captain Toddin. of the French army,
and Major General Daniel Appleton,
of the American army. Mayor Hylan
and many other prominent New York
ers reviewed them from the grandstand
in front OF the Union League Club,
where the officers had been entertained
at a luncheon at which Chauncey NJ
DepeW was tOastmaster. The route Of
the parade was down Fifth Avenue from
Central Park to the American Art Gal
lerics, at 6 East Twenty-third Street.
where a reception was given by the Of
ticials of the Belgian Military Mission
Hundreds congratulated them and
wished them good luck on the last lap
Of their voyage around the world
A few were able to speak English,
and these were targets for the ques-
tions of the throng which they an
swered goodnaturedly and nodestly.
Everybody had jolly time until
some moving pictures of the war in
Belgium were shown. Then the real
soldier made itself known in Kisses for
the Germans who appeared on the
screen.
Mrs. Laura B. Prisk presented the
Belgians and French Blue Devils each
with silk American flag in the name
of the women of America, while the
audience joined in singing "Braban-
conne," the Belgian national song.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Colombia to Create
Platinum Monopoly
Threatened Action Would Sc
riously Disturb War Plans
of America
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

WASHINGTON, June A cable re-
port received here o-day states that
the Colombian Congress has been called
IN extraordinary session for the pur-
pose of establishing a governmental
monopoly of the Colombian platinum
supply The dispatch does not ind-
cate any special reason why the Boz
gotta authorities desire to create a
platinum monopoly. and it was sug-
gestcd here that the proposed measure
is intended to force the United States.
now dependent upon Colombia for
platinum for war manufactures, to pay
excessive prices for it,
1t was declared that a serious situa-
ton would arise if Colombia should
sell its platinum output to the highest
bidder and that bidder should be Ger
man agents, who would store it to pre-
vent the United States from obtaining
IT, Since the expectation of platinum
from Russia. the principal source of
supply of platinum, ceased the United
States has been entirely dependent
upon Colombia for It,
Russia normally supplies 80 per cent
OF Americas platinum and Colombia 10
per cent. In 1913 Russia produced
200 ounces. the production of the world
beng $4,000 ounces. For the three
Years before the war the imports of
the United States amounted to be-
tween 100000 and 10000 ounces an
nually, of which Colombia furnished 10
per cent, and since January last the
United States has been entirely de-
pendent upon Colombia for it. this
country's purchases representing the
total visible exports of that country.
he prlce in 1917 for platinum was
500 an ounce, which was abnormal
but 1T IS feared that with the creation
OF a monopoly in Colombia and the
absolute necessity of obtaining plat
mum for war manufactures the Ameri
can government will be "held up" bv
colombia. If Germany should not sue
ceed IN having this countrys supply
cut or altogether by purchasing Co.
iomoia's total product.
The last platinum obtained bv the
united States from Russia was in
January when a $2,000,OO0 shipment
was secured. Since that time It has
neen impossible to obtain Russian
platinum. although it is believed that
the General Empires are experiencinp
httlc difficulty in obtaining ali thev
need from Russia.
III was considered possible that the
prospective action of the Colombian
Congress would be taken up with the
hogota government by the State De
partment
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Husband in Camp
Accused by Wife
Of Robbing Her

Mrs. Lyela Turner, widow Of Hugo
Brandcis, a wealthy dry goods mer-
chant of Omaha, testified yesterday
before the grand jury that her hus-
band. Charles Wesley Turner, broker,
now a private in the national army at
Spartanburg. S. c., had stolen $4,000
from her She testified that 5000 Of
this was money she had given to him
with which to buy Liberty bonds
Turner was indicted on two counts for
grand larceny.
Mrs. Turner told Assistant District
Attorney Ryttenberg that she was liv-
ing at the Ritz Carlton. She met
Turner in London in 1914, where he
had recently been divorced, and they
were married there. Soon after their
marriage, she said, she gave Turner
$250.000, all of which, she said he had
spent long ago.
She testified that on September 20
Turner informed her that he must
have $4,000 in securities for a margin
stock transaction or he would get into
serious difficulties. Mrs Turner said
she gave her husband twenty-five
bonds.
Later" she said, ~ ascertained that
these bonds had been sold through a
brokerage firm. while $4,000 l gave to
him with which to buy Liberty bonds
be had spent on himself"
Mrs. Turner applied to Magistrate
Marsh for her husbands arrest. De-
tectives Dolan and Dalton served the
warrant. Turner was held in $4,000
bail and last week he was drafted and
went to Camp Wadsworth
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
New Company to Sell
Milk Here at 7 Cents
John j. Dillon Promotes Up.
state Farmers Or
ganization

Milk will be sold in bulk throughout
New York City for seven cents a quart
If the plans of the Country Milk Com
pany, cooperative concern of upstate
farmers. which was Incorporated yes
terday. materialize. Bulk milk now is
selling at from 10 to II cents quart.
The promoters of the new concern
are N. A. Van Son and John J. Dillon,
former State Commissioner of Foods
and Markets. Mr.. Dillon has been work
ing on plans for such an organization
for three years.
The company has fixed the price in
bulk for Grade A milk, delivered at
stores, of $3.50 per can Of forty quarts.
Sweet cream, for which dealers now
are charging 78 cents a quart whole
sale. will be delivered at stores for 81
cents quart.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
One Wooden and 43 Steel
Vessels Completed and De-
livered During Month
Steady Growth Shown
Output Since September Is
Nearly Triple That of Great
est Pre-War Year
tSpcctdi Dispatch TO The Tribune

WASHINGTON, June d. American
ship production reached new high
mark during the month of May, when
forty-threc steel and one wooden ship,
totalling 263,57l tons, were completed
and delivered to the Shipping Board.
The greatest previous production was
recorded in March. when twenty one
steel ships, totalling 1861 tons. were
delivered
The May output from American ship
yards brings the total deliveries since
September, 1917, up 70 40 ships, ag
gregating 1l12,S97 tons. The great
est pre-war production in the United
States occurred in 1901. when 402, 1876
tons, exclusive of Great Lakes con-
strnction. were completed in American
shipyards. Comparative figures on
ship construction in the United States
and the United Kingdom during the
first five months of the present year
are as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Girl Downs Thief in Chase
Captures Youth Who Snatched
$4,000 Jewels in Store

young man. who said he was look
natod ing aor a job but seemed chiefly inter
tered yesterday through the wbolesaIe
Jeweiry establishment of Alfred A.
,Asse, 33 West Forty sixth Street.
irene irene kehoe. bookkeeper, nineteen
N the place AS she approached him.
The young man snatched handful NJ
vanity cases and ran.
Miss kehoe gave chase, treating Fifth
Avenue to an actual demonstration If
the theory woman is the hunter and
man the hunted. Nobody interfered
until. near the corner of Fifth Avenue
and Forty sixth Street, Miss Kehoe
made daring flying tackle just as a
policeman arrived
The young woman's prisoner shed
four vanity cases worth $4,000 in his
fall and was held in $1,000 bail in
forkville Police Court, charged with
grand larceny. He said he was Harry
Codhen, Of 103 East 102d Street