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New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Navy to Test New
Pneumonia Treatment
Serum Method of Hastenlns
Crisis Developed by New
York Physician
[Staf Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April line '",.
Department Medical Corps VIII 'H'. =.
tigate a new treatment for phe"N .N.s
developed by Dr.. c. H. Duncan A.
York, it was announced today, hs,
though the proposed treatmec..s ec..ssnersl
been submitted to Surgeon Wedical
Gorgas, the War Department. ~ 4
staff has declined to inves.lshh.cs ~ sed %
DR.. Duncan's treatment Is taken
serum prepared from cui'u.e;S .;rs tbs
from the patient. BY in,sss;;si ,;s;s is de.
serum, DR.. Duncan says, cris's sasnty.
veloped in the disease witn,n wia. dfesss
four hours. This prevents .ne syster
from depicting the pauem. i stated
before the crisis is reached ~ is,.,cumb 70
and practically no patients su'
the disease when so treated ,o,oros
DR.. Duncan says that - otha
methods in the treatment lie prsF
diseases have been successlu'i pr
tised in Europe for years; ,nilitsr
diets that it's adoption by 'ne nnenssnmops
authorities would prevent nropss
from ever reaching epidemi'. ~ psH
tions in military camps OF W
vessels.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Brown Will Quit
Senate If Home
City Goes "Dry''
If "Wets" Garry Water
town by Heavy Vote He
May Enter Race

Elon r. Brown, Republican leader OF
the State Senate, according to advices
received in New York yesterday, will
not be candidate for reelection. 1t
is understood that if Watertown
should go strongly "wet," showing
that the "dry" sentiment against SEN
ator Brown is negligible, he may be
prevailed upon to enter the primaries
but if the "drys," through the efforts
of the women voters, carry Watertown
by an emphatic majority. Senator
Brown will declare himself out of the
race.
1t is understood that if ne should
decide to enter the primaries he will
have opposition from the prohibition
ists and woman sutfragists. In Water
town the friends of Virgil X. Kellogg
former member Of the city Water
Board, predict that Mr.. Kellogg within
week or two will announce his in
tention of contesting in the primaries
for the Republican nomination for
Senator whether Senator Brown is a
friends said. would have entered the
ator Brown, but for the fact that as
member of the municipal Water
Board he was prohibited from con-
testing for an elective Office
Senator Brown has been Republican
leader Of the Senate for many years
He has served twelve years in the
upper house, but his term was not
continuous. After 1904 he was out for
; many years. He was first elected in
1898. During recent years he has been
regarded as reactionary in his politi-
cal attitude, and new movements Of
all kinds - Progressive, Anti-Saloor
League, woman suffrage-have en-
countered active and at times most
effective opposition from the Water
town Senator.
The Watertown charter is what is
regarded among students of civics and
economies as progressive. Many citi-
zens of Watertown think they would
like to see some municipal experiments
tried out. When they consult Senator
Brown about such things, according tc
his opponents, he starts for the wood.
shed for his trusty old axe, and then il
is known it is all off for another wear
ne was opposed to woman suffrage
Now the women, though inclined tc
hearts against Senator Brown. In
Watertown the neighbors say that il
means that Senator Brown ;e
Through"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
[Staf Co1vespondence1

WASHINGTON, April 17.-The Skin
ner Eddy Shipbuilding Company, of
Seattle, which established a record in
the construction of the freighter Seat
tie, which they launched sixty-four
days after the keel was laid, have now
delivered the 8,800-ton freighter Os-
sineke in 100 days from the date of
keel laying. Only 1877 days elapsed
from the time the keel of the Seattle
was laid until she was delivered. The
company has now, however, beaten its
Seattle record by twenty eight days. 1t
has delivered the Ossineke eighty-one
days ahead of scheduled delivery.
The record for fast construction was
temporarily taken away from the Skin
ner & Eddy Company by the Columbia
River Shipbuilding Company, of Wash
ington, when. on March 23, the stand
ard 8,800-ton freighter Canoga was de-
livered to the Shipping Board 113 days
after the keel was laid.
The keel of the Ossineke was laid
December 26 last. The vessel was
launched March Ia. The Shipping
Board accepted the Ossneke on April
IA. In all probability, within few
days she will be on the high seas.
In pre-war times it required year
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
German Language
Newspapers Barred
From Hackensack
Action Taken Monday on
Order of Citizens Commit
mittee of Home Guard

German newspapers have been barred
from Hackensack since Monday by
order of the Citizens Committee of
the Home Guard, and yesterday Henry
Drysen, attorney for the "Staats- lei
tung," and John Condor, the repre-
sentative of another German paper,
went to Hackensack to inquire why
newsdealers had stopped buying their
publications. The newsdealers ex-
hibited their reason, scrap of paper
on which was written:
"On and after April Is no newspapers
or other publications printed in the
German language will be sold, offered
for sale or in any other way circulated
in Hackensack or vicinity.
by order of the Citizens Commit
teen of the Home Guard"
Mr.. Drysen and Mr.. Condor sought
officials of the Home Guard and per-
suaded them to hold a special meeting.
One member when informed of the
reason for the convocation declared
that the United States was at war
with Germany and that was reason
enough for the committees action.
But the Stats -Zeitung' has de-
clared it's loyalty to the United States,"
Mr. Drysen protested.
Yes" put in another member of the
Home Guard, that is one of the Ger
man newspapers that approved the
sinking of the Lusitania It justified
every outlaw act Germany committed
against the Allies before the United
States entered the war. The 'Staats-
Zeitung' cannot camouflage it's stand
with declarations. That paper cannot
circulate in Hackensack."
Mr.. Condor came to his companion's
assistance with talk of conspiracies in
restraint of trade, to which the Home
Guard listened courteously, and then
informed him that whatever he might
choose to call the phenomenon, no
German newspapers would be sold in
Hackensack during the war or after it.
Reports from other communities
about New York show that the feel
ing against the continued circulation
OF German newspapers is becoming
acute. Commu uters eye askance men
who puruse the crooked-typed journals,
and it is said that many of the readers
of the German papers have given them
up, in public at least, because of the
rnfrlandly atmosphere in which they
found themselves w!
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
l7,4l6,303 Catholics
Listed in America
Official Directory Shows New
York Leads Country With
3,O88. .4O6

There are 17,416,303 Catholics in the
United States, according to the latest
census of "The Official Catholic Direc-
tory" published and copyrighted by
p. J. Kennedy G. Sons, of Barclay Street.
The net increase of Catholics during
1917 was 393,424. Increases were shown
IN hfty-nine archdioceses and do
ceses, with only four reporting de-
creases in population.
Joseph II. Meier, who has complied
the directory for twelve years, declared
yesterday that there was no doubt that
the actual Catholic population of the
country amounted to more than 49,.
100000, as thirty-eight doceses faileo
to make returns to the directory this
year.
The directory shows there are 2o.477
Catholic priests in the United States
Of whom 1892 are secular priests nnJ
5.555 are priests of religious orders.
Divided by states, New York leads j.,
Catholic population with 3.OSS.4oG
penneylvania is second with 1.sS5.ooo.
Illinois third with 1,4s2.574, and Massa.
chusetts fourth with 1,4O6,O60.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Seattle Smashes All Records by
Delivering Ship in 109 Days
Freghter Osneke of $500 Tons Turned Over Govern
ment Eighty-one Days Ahead of Contract Time
by Skinner & Eddy Company
to eighteen months to build freighter

to eighteen months to build freighter
as large as the Ossineke.
The contract of the Skinner e. Eddy
yard called for the delivery of the Os-
sineke by July 4.
The record between laying of keel
and launching is now held by the West
Grove, a standard 8,8OO-ton freighter
approaching completion at the Colum-
bia Shipbuilding Company's plant in
Washington. A recent telegram from
the company to the Emergency Fleet
Corporation set April % as the date
Of delivery. If the Columbia River
plant makes good it will create the
new record of 103 days. The keel of the
West Grove was laid January Is.
Eastern shipyards are also beginning
to do rapid work. A telegram from
Manager II. R. Case. of the Newark
Bay plant, received by the Shipping
Board to-day, said:
eve are laying twenty-eighth keel
to-day, which fills all ways of the
Newark Bay shipyard."
During the week ended April 13 two
new requisitioned steel ships were ac
cepted by the Shipping Board They
were the transport Siboney, 4,5OO tons.
and the Westover, $500 tons. The for
mer was built by the Cramps and. the
other by j. F. Duthie & Co., of Seattle.
Wash.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Cannot Rescind
Lease of Pier 90

A member of the sinking fund COM
mission which approved the lease of
rier 50, North River, to the Hudson
DOCK and Terminal Corporation for an
annual rental Of $4,000 when $50 900
had been offered b. the Occident Dock
company, the present lessee, yesterday
asked Corporation Counsel Burr for an
OPINION as to whether the commission
had the power to rescind its action.
An opinion rendered by Corporation
counsel Reeves under the Low ad
mihistration held that decision by
me sinking fund commission was hind
ing and it could not rcscind it's action
Inc temporary injunction obtained
by the OccIdent company restraining
the city officials from consummatino
the lease will come up for argument
before Justice Greenbaum in the Su.
preme Court tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
u. S. May Take Over
Canned Milk Surplus

A large surplus of condensed and
evaporated milk, cheese and butter, ac-
cumulated in the storehouses of con-
densers and manufacturers of milk
products in New York State. NAV soon
be taken over by the Federal govern
ment tor shipment abroad
John Mitchell, president of the State
ROOD Commission and chairman of the
Federal Food Board, who went to Wash
lngton last night to confer with Assist
art Secretary of War Crowell on the
olsposal OF this accumulation, will make
sucn recommendation, according to an
0lncsal memorandum given out by the
state Food Commission here yesterday.
With Mr.. Mitchell are Commissioners
Porter and Wilson, of the Farms and
Markets Council, and delegates from
the Federation of the County Farm
Bureaus, the Dairymen's League and
the Milk Conference. The conference
VII ", take place this morning. NJ.
Mitchell brought the matter to the at
tention of the Farms and Markets
Council at its last meeting.
The Federal Food Board continued
yesterday the hearings in the cases of
bakers charged with failing to use the
required amount of substitutes in the
manufacture of bread and rolls. The
poard announced that thirty-ive more
bakers had been ordered to suspend
business on April %, 90 and "a for v;o-
lations of the food rulings Summonses
have been issued for eighty more bak-
ers on the same charge
The Food Board announced that when
tins batch of cases is cleared up rev.
ocatlon of license will be the penalty
Tor violation of the substitute rule The
Board gave out a statement by Herbert
Hoover urging the beginning of an Eat
Potatoes" campaign. This reads in
part:
We have potatoes - millions Of
bushels of them. They are available
now. They won't be as good three
months from now. Eat potatoes now.
Does it not fill you with shame to read
the morning paper with wheat bread
before you in any form? Shame on any
American who does not stimulate fur
ther production of potatoes by eating
them now!"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Big Sugar Cargo Arrives
3,84O,000 Pounds Brought
Here From Cuba

AN ATLANTIC PORT, April 17.-A
cargo of 3,84o,ooo pounds of sugar was
brought here to-day by an American
ship from Cuba. The record shipment
is the first tangible result of the gov
ernment's embargo on the transporta-
ton Of fruit from Havana, a step taken
to restore to normal the depleted sugar
supply Of this country.
Twenty of the seized Dutch liners
will be put into the sugar trade shortly
by the food administration, it is an
nounced, and plans call for the i'm
portation of 100000 tons of raw sugar
before May /.
One of the passengers on the ship
was Colonel Juan Montalvo. Cuban
Minister of the Interior, who went to
Washington to confer with government
officials. 1t is said his mission seeks
the temporary lifting of the embargo
surplus crops.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Leases Dwelling Next
To Home of Carnev;e

Atwood Violet, senior member of the
cotton and stock brokerage house Of At
wood Violet & Co., has leased the
dwelling at "a East Ninety-frst Street.
two doors from the home Of Andrew
Carnegie. The announcement is Of inter
est 5ecause Of the fatherly supervision
PR. Carnegie has always sought to
have over his ncighbors. According TO
commonly accepted reports no one could
either buy or lease property in the
vicinity Of the Carnegie home unless
they we're acceptable TO the Laird o
Skibo.
Ar. violett's present home is at 150
West Fifty-ninth street.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
To Aid Polish Orphans


"The Spirit of Poland" will be pro-
duced at the Cort Theatre this after
noon. The proceeds will be sent to
destitute children of Poland in tia
orphanages in England, Holland and
Switzerland.
Mrs. George Grant Mason. Mrs.
William E. s. Griswold and Mrs.
Walter G. Ladd have taken boxes and
tickets have been taken by Mrs. Henry
Hardness Flagler. Mrs. Edward de Con-
pet, Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlee, Nine.
Sembrich and Miss Juliette de Coppet.
The patronesses are Mrs. E. Henry
Hartman, Mrs. James F. d. Lanier.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. George
Montgomery Tuttle, Mrs. Howard Van
Sindcren, Mrs. Walter Damrosch and
Mrs. John Grcenough.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Elizabeth Launches Shin


ELlZABETH, N. j., April IT, The
first ship in sixteen wears was launche i
to-day from the ways here formerly
owned by S. j.. Moore & Sons and now
the property of the Bethlehem Ship
building Company. AS in 1902, the YES
sci launched to-day was christened the
Plaintield by Miss Jessie Bush. This
Plainfield, however, is screw steam
ship BIZ feet long Of $500 tons burden
while the one launched sixteen wears
ago was a ferry boat.
NEWARK, N. j., April IT,. The
twenty-eighth keel was laid TO-DAY in
the Newark Bay shipyard of the Sub
marine Boat Corporation, filing all the
ways and making, it is said, the great
est number of merchant vessels ever
under construction at one time in one
yard
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Drys Claim
Victory in 20
OF 80 Cities
Continued from page l

did not impress them or lessen their
ardor to register their opposition. In
majority of instances the cities went
wholly dry or wholly wet, but where
the vote was unusually close it is likely
that here and there the hotels NAV 90
on doing business, while the saloons
will have to shut down.
The attention of the dry women
voters. doubtless. will be called to the
case of Mrs. Julia Danio, of Oswero.
nlnety-eight years old and the Oldest
woman voter in the city. She went to
the polls and voted wet.
The decisions at the polls become
effective at the beginning of the license
year, October /, next.
The four questions voted on were.
Shall any person be authorized to
traffic in liquor to be drunk on the
premises where sold?
Shall any person be authorized to
traffic in liquor not to be drunk on
the premises where sold?
Shall pharmacists be authorized tn
sell liquor on physicians prescrip-
ton? rS'~4 'p-
Shall hotelkeepers be authorized to
traffic in liquors?
The voter could vote on one or all of
these questions, but had to vote on
each one separately
But the voters, men and women alike,
aid not discriminate among the ques-
tlons. IN virtually every city they ap-
peared to have gone to the polls deter
mined to settle the main question. and
that alone. Towns went bone drv or
they went wet, but in few instances
did they appear to compromise by per
mitting certain individuals to- sell
liquor under certain circumstances.
The following table gives the vote
for. and against local option and the
majority on which the measure was
adopted or defeated:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Fire Record

a. NJ.
4;5-253 West olst st. unknown: tridlng
S;55--l04 and lo6 Wooster ST.. Progressive r,v
Co: slight
7,50--6GS 5th av. Bourgeois Art Gallery: slight
ll;l2-Automoble III IN front OF l.2 East 1l2th NJ
Park Drug Co.: slight "
II ao-A42 West saith St: Julia Ward: slight
i. NJ
l2;so-2as William st. Now York journal, ,,,sn,
]? ?;to-l0 Seaman av. Tho Bronx; unknown; slight
l:35--5sS Icnox av.: Robert Robbins. slight ''''''
! :45~-la East 45th ST.. James H. Stlo: irfnr
4;ln--iS7 Tenth ave; jacob Apple; trifins
4l5-4l5 West Attn ST owner unknown: tr,einc
Z 750-l30 West li2u St, Belle Newman: trifinss
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Vehicle Light Bill Signed

ALBANY, April IT, Governor Whit
man to-day signed the Showers biz
requiring lights on vehicles to be dis
I!ayed from half m hour after sunset
TO nalf an hour before sunrise, instea.
OF from an hour after sunset to an hour
before sunrise.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

Among the skilled workers needed
by General Pershing are "gyratory or
jawcrusher foremen," presumably to
guard the Kaiser in the event of his
capture.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
NORMAL PASSENGER
SERVICE IS COMING
plREcToR-eENERAL MeADoo is
SUES STATEMENT TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
MORE TRAINS TO BE ADDED
During Remaining Period of Fedora,
Control of Railroads Policy viii
Be to Give Public the Best
Of Service.

Washington.-Re Restoration of normal
passenger service has been under,
taken by the railroad administration,
said Director-General McAdoo in a
statement addressed to THE American
People" Withdrawing his plea made
last January for curtailment Of passen-
ger travel for the war emergency. A
number of the trains, he announced
will be added to existing schedules
within the next few weeks
THE war now being practically
over said the statement, sit will be
the policy Of the railroad administra-
ton during the remaining period of
federal control to give the public the
best service of which the railroads are
capable. AS rapidly as possible ser
vice will be improved, although trains
which were-run under private control
merely for competitive reasons win
not be restored. Such service was un.
necessary.
"Plans have already been made for
service to California, Florida and the
Southeastern states during the coming
winter. The public may be assured
that the railroad administration will do
everything possible to meet the needs
of the travelling public
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
FLU'S TOLL OVER 100000
Estimate Fatalities From Epidemic In
United States May Reach Three
Hundred and Fifty Thousand.

Washington Between 100000 and
$4,000 deaths from influenza and
pneumonia have occurred among the
civilian population of the United
States since Sept. 15, according to esti
mates of the public health service.
These calculations were based on rel
ports from cities and states keeping
accurate records and public health Of.
ficials believe they are conservative
The epidemic persists, but deaths
are much less numerous, according to
reports reaching here.
The insurance companies have been
hard hit by the epidemic, government
reports indicate, although there are no
figures available here to show total
losses sustained by the companies.
The government incurred liabilities OF
more than s17O,OOO,OOO in connection
with life insurance carried by soldiers
in army camps not including those in
Europe,
About 10000 deaths occurred in the
camps in the United States, war de
partment records show.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
WILSON WILL INSIST
THAT SEAS Be FREE
PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AN IN.
TERNATloNAL HIGHWAY BY
LAWS OF ALL NATIONS.
FORMULATE DEFINITE LAW

Accumulation at the
peace conference Of a definite law es-
tablishing on the high seas an inter
national highway-by the laws OF all
nations combined, and not by the laws
Of individual nations-is understood to
be the stand of the United States re-
garding freedom of the seas.
1t is believed that America would
have this law define a minimum con-
traband list and establish definite
blockade regulations.
President Wilson will make at least
one address in England, his friends
believe. 1t is understood he will be
given an honorary degree at Oxford
University and probably will make
that the occasion for the speech.
The president attended the regular
religious services on the George Wash
ington Sunday. He is resting and has
held no formal conference with other
members of his party.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
MANY ARE KILLED IN RIOTS
Demonstration Against Lack Of Reeog-
milton In Executive counell-Re-
fused To Dispense.

Copenhagen.-Th was a lively ex-
change of shots resulting in the killing
Of Is persons and the woun1.ag Of 10
others when soldiers parading In Ber-
lin as a demonstration against not be-
ing represented on the executive coun-
cil Of the soldiers and workmen re-
fused to dispense. according to reports
from Berlin.
I,ondon.-An extraordinary meeting
of the German cabinet was summoned
at Berlin to discuss the possibility OF
the allies occupying Berlin. owing to
Cermany's alleged inability to carry
ont the terms Of the armistice. Accord
ing to an Amsterdam advice to the
Press
Zarich.-The German government
aas rejected the proposal Of Kurt Els
me-. head Of the Bavsrian government.
for the formation Of free German
states. This means that Eisner is
free to carry out his threat to publish
documents showing Gernanys respon'
sibility for the war.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
5000 U. S. TROOPS ARRIVE
Returning Soldiers Share AS Part Of
the Welcome Ovation Given
the President.


New York.-More than 5000 Ameri-
can soldiers arrived here on the trans
ports Lapland and the Minnekahda
shared as a part of their homecoming
reception the tremendous ovation
given President Wilson as he sailed
for France on the George Washington
to help seal their victory at the peace
table.
The Lapland, bearing more than z
900 officers and men, most OF them
aviators, came in just as the presiden'
tial ship was about to sail. The Min
nekahda, which came in a short time
later with S,OS9 men aboard, passed
the George Washington in the Mar
rows. On each occasion cheers for the
president and cheers for the soldiers
we're blended as the ships passed.
The demonstration which attended
the arrival of the Lapland and the de-
parture of the George Washington had
Just begun to die away when the Min
nekahda hove in sight, but its appear
ance stirred the crews gathered on the
shores and. the water craft whistles
into another tumultuous greeting.
Secretary of War Baker, who mad
come to New York to witness the pres
ident's departure, visited the Lapland
as the troops were being debarked
The British ensign over the stern oil
the Minnekahda was flying at ali
mast in tribute to Walter L. Hart, OF
Malakoff, Tex. a member of the 18th
Construction company, who died OF
/ n.o,,pnnnia during the YnYaRe.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
Liz. norn Investments.

washington.-State directors OF wal
savinrs we're requested by Secretary
McAdoo to urge the public to fill
promptly pledges for the purchase Of
war savings and thrift stamps and to
assume rev pledges.
uThe governments monetary re.
uu,rements we're never greater nor
ro-e pressing than they are today,
"a ,he secretary's appeal. This is
~. 4 tine for Us to re.ax our efforts
-na the treasury deps stmsnt Is MAKING
,,ans for larger and even mere impos
tart work daring TIE coming year"