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New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
Taking Over En-.
emy Property

N ARTICLE by A. Mitchell Palmer,
Alien Property Custodian, app ars
i'll the June number of "Munseys" AL
most every day now one finds in the
news columns fresh reports of the death
grip on German commerce, which is
ever Tightening. Mr.. Palmer declares:
"The business being transacted by the
alien property custodian is beginning to
amount to hundreds of millions of dollars,
and is steadily increasing. 1t is not yet
possible to state the gross value of the
property taken into custody since last Oc-
tober, when the Office was established but
the total is very large, although it repre-
sents only part of the enemy owned wealth
in the United States. 1t does not include
the property of law abiding resident aliens,
which under the present law is not seiza-
"The test of enemy character of property
is solely one of residence, fact not yet
understood by everybody. Nationality cuts
no figure in the matter. Within the mean
ing OF the act the property of American
citizens can be seized if those citizens are
residing within the enemy lines, while the
property of unnaturalized German citizens
residing in this country, if not engaged in
any pernicious activity against the gov
ernmcnt of the United States, NAV not be
molested.
"All aliens interned by the government
are regarded enemies and their prop-
erty is treated accordingly The purpose is
to enable the alien property custodian to
take over and manage the property of alien
enemies of large means who have been
permanently interned, and to eliminate any
possibility of their carrying on, from the
lnternment camps, trading activities which
might be inimical to the interests of the
United States. 1t must be noted. however
that this provision does not include in it's
scope an alien enemy under arrest in
local jail who has not been transferred to
the War Department, nor an alien enemy
already released on parole, nor the great
body of alien enemies subject to regulation
by the President.
The government of the United States
does not intend to interfere with the prom
erty of the ordinary resident alien, be he
German or Austrian. The seizure of prop
eioy 10 oCllCCly lnlteu IN It's operation to
those who have been found to be danger
Gus and who have been transferred to the
War Department for permanent detention"
His conclusion is
1T is hardly necessary to say that the
United States government has no inten-
tion or desire to profit from these foreign
owned holdings. 1t only insists that these
wealth producing properties, making their
profits in this country, shall not be utilized
against America, either in the form of ma
terlal or of money The trusts are secure
and are under the jealous care Of the
Treasury Department. and, as have al.
ready said, no industrious, peaceable Ger
man or Austrian resident need have fear
that his property will be interfered with"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

are, almost without exception, keen for ar
tive, dangerous work. / suppose, of course,
that statement will be misunderstood
interpreted. ~Oh, do they like warp some
one will say in shocked voice. is it pos
sible chat our boys can like war? Enjoy
bloodshed?
"Only fool or a savage likes war or en-
joys bloodshed The American in the line
is neither a fool nor a savage. He hates
war and boodshed as nice, sensitive people
who have never seen either can never posi-
bly, hate the horrors they but sniff from
affair." He hates war, but temporarily war is
his proper business, and he attends to that
business with nationally characte eristc
whole -heartedness. He is keen to fight
and ever ready with courageous fippancy
to camouhage the suffering and horrors at
tendant upon action. Not long ago l was
speaking with an estimable gentleman over
here Investigating something or other
there seems to be about one investigator in
France to every ten soldiers-who was much
disturbed because the Y. M. C. A. was put
ting on light amusement in it's huts
"'Our boys should be made to realize the
seriousness Of their situation, he declared
ponderously. They have no conception of
it. They're facing death every minute Of
the time they are in the trenches. and they
speak lightly of terrible battle as "a show"
and talk of an attack in which many Of
them may be killed as putting on party"
They should be made to realize that this is
life-and- death matter!'
II believe if that man went scouting about
out in No Mans Land every night, his life
in one hand and grenade in the other, he'd
get crawful of realization of the serious
ness of the situation. If he saw his chum
pecked off by sniper or blown to nothing
ness by she'll ne might understand-even
more thoroughly than he now does-that it's
life-and-death matter. 1 can't help won
dering if, under those circumstances, he'd
have the grit to grin and carry on, as do the
men he worries about If the men of the
American army refuse to gloom and groan
and burden the air with doleful cries ex-
pressive of their realization of the Obvious
let the Boche fret. He has cause
IS \ ND SOME critics say that the Ameri-
"A can soldier is reckless To GER
tain extent he is. His motto is, Let's goi'
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

their allies when a German thrust is par
ried, drive checked stopped, in Flan-
ders, Picardy or the Champagne.
"In honely phrase, winning a round-and
that is just what General Foch has done in
the scissors sector-may be, and generally
49, very different thing from winning
fight. In this war Germany has won most
of the rounds so far and shows few, if any,
signs of waning skill and strength in the
field.
The war can surely be won with our
enormous resources and man power and ma
terial, but not unless prepare for the
ordeal confronting US and give of our best. 3"
"The Philadelphia Public Ledger" also
warns that overconfidence is a peril:
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
wv 7E HAVE ended once and for
M all the delusion that Demo-
cratic nation cannot turn out

says writer in "The New Republic"
who continues:
"That the men composing our national
armies would as individuals display courage
and intelligence has never been doubted by
Americans who knew America. But in the
absence of military tradition such as our
enemies possess, in the lack of an extensive
officer caste trained to war, was it possible
for us to organize armies capable of with
standing the shock of German assaults
Our army is beginning to answer this ques-
tion. 1t is morally equal to the task before
it. When our millions take the field it will
be as one of the most formidable of mill
tary organizations. Neither foes nor
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
LETS Col" Is Sam
my's Motto

w lTH vigor, humor and insight, as
we'll as vividness, William Sav-
ems McNutt writes in "Collier's" for
July 27. His subject is an inspiring
one: "Under Fire With the Yanks."
He observes:
'The American in the line is keen for &C
tion-not only the occasional naturally ad-
venturous man, but the lot of them They
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
The Filthiness of
Kultur

IN ARONESS HUARD contributes
to the August number of ..'The
H. American Magazine" more of
her "reminiscences covering the
German occupancy Of Chateau de Viii
liers. Zone little thing that l did"
she writes, "will show how naive was
my estimate Of German ideals.
an my desk were innumerable letters
intimate personal ones from my husband
priced them very highly l could not take
them with me. But in my simplicity l
fancied I was protecting them from the in
trusion of strangers when l put this note
conspicuously on the desk:
II swear that the contents of this desk
are purely personal and can be Of value
to no one but myself. l therefore leave
it under the protection of my country's
flag
"Then took a small silk American flag
and shut one end of it into the locked
drawer, so that one could help seeing
that it was The Stars and Stripes. Now that
l have gained, through bitter experience,
proper estimate of Prussian character,
laugh, as those German officers must have
laughed, at my trusting confidence in their
honorable treatment, either of woman or
of flag. But l had great deal to learn
about them then"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

sees realization of the will to victory,
which it aptly expresses as follows:
1--WE do not expect victory now, but we
see it coming. We are proving b, actual
successes that we can win it."
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

w what had been her home, she
found that the general who had occu-
pied it for a time at least was no less
a parsonage than Won Kluck. But, she
writes,
"the honor of having had him as guest
was one would gladly have relinquished
when l found my home, after nine days of
German occupancy, rendered unfit for
decent human beings to live in.
"The officers of the German army belong
to the nobility of that country. But even
if 1 had not known this fact, the names
chalked up on the bedroom doors would
have told me who were the men that haa
been living in these rooms doubt If any
other animals, no matter of what species
could have equalled these exponents Of
'Kultur' in the havoc they wrought
ut was not the kind of dirt which might
rnavoidably be brought into house thus
occupied: the mud from roads and fields
that sort Of thing 1t wasn't the natural
untidiness of improvised Offices, or of rooms
not csred for by servants. 1t was simply
disgusting filth and the debris of wan.or,
malicious destruction.
"The house had been systematicolly
looted Of everything of value that could be
taken away.
Furnishings which could not be removed
were deliberately ruined. And this ruin
was accomr lishcd by methods so revolving
that even a self-respecting savage would
have been ashamed Of them. Why any kind
of men, let alone those of supposed educa-
tion and breeding, should deliberately have
made an Augaan stable Of house in which
they themselves were living is beyond the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

IS ND SOME critics say that the Ameri-
n soldier is reckless. To a GER
tain extent he is. His motto is. Let's pol,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
Brazilian Freighter Ashore in Fog

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
An Atlantic Port, Aug ia Brazilian
freight steamer ran ashore on the New
England coast during heavy fog today.
The vessel is in dangerous position,
me report was that the steamer was
evading q German submarine
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
STOCKS OPEN STRONG;
PRICES SHOW GAIN
Industrials, Only 'Laggers" at
Opening, Soon Join Group
of Gaining.
by Associated Press to Every Evening

by Associated Press to Every Evening
Now York, Woll Street. Aug. "a
Rails gave promise nt the opening of
todav's stock market Of extending their
recent gains, transcontinentals and
Rrangers showing pronounced strength.
Initial advances IN those divisions
ranged from large fractions 10 q point,
Union Pacific leading
Coalcrs also made further substantial
improvement on n moderate inquiry for
Reading and Norfolk and Western.
lndustrinls were uncertain, United States
Steel recording nominal loss, but soon
rallying with Craciahle Steel and Pressed
Steel Car
Sumatra Tobacco was strongest of the
speclaltics, gaining two points.
PRICES STILL ADVANCING.
Noon Gains among rails Of tho in
vestment class were materially increased
during the morning, coalers assuming
greater prominence on Norfolk and West
ems gain Of four points, while Elk Horn
Coal rose ! "a
Shares Of numerous estern and nth
western roads were included in the ad-
vance which also embraced cotton car
ricrs such as Louisville and Nashville.
Illinois Central and Southern Railway
Preferred
ndustrials made less progress, although
steel advanced a point.
Among ecialties the noteworthy
feature was General Motors which lost
Yesterday g gain Of five points
Liberty 3l2s continued strong with
Anglo-frcnch rs.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
DEATHS.

ANTHONY-In this city. on August II.
1915. Wiliiar Anthony. husband Of Annie
Anthony NEE Glynn)
Due notice of funeral will be given.
KEELEY-In this city. on August II.
1918. Mary Margaret keeey.
Due notice of funeral will be given.
1918. WilIiam W. husband of Annie An
thony.
Relatives. friends, Loyal Order of Moose.
Democratic League. Ba-tenders' Union. are
morning at 9 n'c.Ock from his late resi-
dence. s24 West Seventh street.
CATHCART-At White Haven. Pa. on
August 10. 1918. Henry II. Cathcart. in
Relatives. friends. Crusaders Castle. No.
8. X. of G. T.. and Camp No 9555. NJ. w
vices at his late residence, No 6O9 Grant
avenue. on Wednesday. August Ia at 2
O'Clock Interment at Snverbrook Ceme-
terry
1918. J. Frederick Gradwohl. aged AZ years
Relatives and friends also different or
ganizations with which he was connected
are invited TO attend the funeral services
at his late residence 500 vandever avenue
on Thursday az rnoon. August IS, at 3
O'Clock lntermcll private.
KEELEY-In tins city on August II 1918
Mary Margaret. daughter of Daniel j. and
Cert Gertrude McManus Kelley. aged 10 years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited 10 attend the funeral from the
residence OF her parents. 1911 West Third
street. on Wcdu. it morning at o O'Clock
REQUIEM mas - 80 Paui's Church. In
terment at CAT he Ira! cemetery.
: ZiMNY-ln this city. on August II, 1918
Frank. son OF the late Charles and Kate
Relatives and friends are invited 10 attend
the funeral from his late residence. No :
Cedar street. on Wednesday morning at
terry.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
PHILA. PRODUCE MARKET.

Philadelphia. Aug l3 Corn easier;
No , yellow, S6al IS; No. yellow,
S5al 81
Oats. lower, No white, 50 i2asi,
No 3 white, 81 3aS3
Butter. higher. western creamery, cx-
ira, rs; nearby prints. fancy, 52aI
Eggs, firm, nearby. frsts, l3 20a13 so
per ease, nearby. current receipts, ~ 90;
western extra, 6rsts. l3 80; western, firsts,
- 9OaI3 ~; fancy selected, packed, Jla52
per dozen
Cheese. firm, New York and Wiscon-
sin, full milk, - i2a26l2
Live poultry. higher fowls, ,35a38 spring
chickens, not Lcghorns, 36a42, do, Leg
horns, 33a36, roostcrs, 25a26; ducks,
Pckin, spring 3}a35; old, do, 2Sa30;
Indian runners 26a24
Dressed poultry, firm; fresh killed
fowls fancy 81 q do. smaller sizes, 32a
35. roostrrs - brollIng chickens, west
crn, 3saf2 spring ducks, Long Island,
3Ga37
Potatocs. steady Norfolk and Eastern
Shore. / - per barrel New Jersey
No /, per basket, S0a90. do. No. ,,
iOa65
Tallow, firm; city prime, in tierces.
17l.. do, special, loose, Is; prime, coun-
try, l624 dark, l5i2ai6; edible, in
ticrces. l9a2l
Flour. weak. winter wheat, 100 per
cent -four, l0l5al0 90; Kansas wheat
II 25all So spring wheat II 25all.50.
lIav. firm timothy No. |. large and
smallba 26 00a26 80; No >, do, % 50a
"A 30, No 3. do, Il scale so; sample,
II 50aI5 80, no grade, 750all.50.
Clover mixed. light, "A OOa2500; No l.,
do. 70 j0a2l 50. No ,, do, 10 50al7.50
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
wv, {. A.. PREPARES
TO SPREAD OUT
Two New Secretaries to be Added
and New Boarding House
Opened.

The Wilmington Y W. c. A. is 10
have two additional secretaries here.
This was decided upon at q meeting of
the Board of Directors held Monday
morning at 1901 Market street.
The new workers are to he a Girls
Work Secretary, who will have charge
of girls between the ages of l3 and Is IN
three groups, High School, upper grade
and young employed girls and Re-
creational Leader, who is to be provided
by the National War Work Council.
The association expects to move into
their new boarding home at Twcnty-htth
and Market streets on August 25. This
property has been put in splendid order
and re-finished inside. Thanks to the
Bethlehem Steel Company, who had
leased the place just previous to It's
purchase by the \. W. {. \, there are
modern shower baths already installed
Only permanent boardcrs will 60 to this
house and the age limits will be is to
80. T1arsients will be aCcon mCdatCd
nj Ninth and Shiplcy streets
At the directors meeting vest terday
AIrs Charles Wollaston presided. \
report of the Industrial Extension Com
mittcc bv Ruth McC Comb, the extension
secretary, tclingof her work here among
working girls and about the industrial
conference that she attended at Nc
PAWN last month was presented. Miss
Ellen Pottbcrg reported for the Holiday
House. The average family al the
House the report said was seventeen,
and during the month, $40 meals were
served Finances show a credit of S342.sG
plus the garden receipts oi $3.50. Thus
is not including the rent and salaries,
which are met from another source
Through the Holiday House, sixteen
new members have been brought To the
association.
\ motion was made to appoint com
mttee on social morality Plans were
also made FOR Sctting-up conference,
which is a getting together OF local wor kerS
10 discuss winter plans, t0 bc held week
end in September at Holiday House
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
QUAKER CITY MAYOR
FOR SUNDAY BALL
Has No Personal Objection to
Diamond Sport on the
Sabbath.

Declaring he personally could see no
harm in enlisted men playing sunday
baseball. Mayor Smith Of Philadelphia to-
dav saId his stand against the leasing of
Shi0c Park ny the government t"r that
purpose was taken because Of the 'old
Plur Laws
Tho war camp community service,
he said, sounded me three months ago
on the project. and said that per
sonally ] could see no harm in the
government providing . place for sol
dicrs and sailors 10 nmuSe themselves
with Sunday baseball not charging any
admission But, lis mayor, i Is my
duty to sec the laws arc enforced
Because of the Blue Laws ! did NOT
officially approve the plan However il
tho government chooses TO come here
and take the park fer that purpose,
leasing il and holding i aS government
property, that is another story, because
10 not believe the Blue LAWS are APP
plicable to Federal ground
Plans were begun last January by
O. I. Mccormick If the War Camp
Community Service, 10 provide place
for soldiers, sailors and marines 10 en-
tcrtain themselves this summer.
The plan to have the government take
over Shibc Park Was decided and ar
rangcments immediately were made with
the park management 10 lease the
grounds during the war At 81 year,
Details Of the summer amusement cam
paign Of the service organization in
cluded ball game every Sunday be
tween teams of enlisted men only. No
one was To be allowed to attend these
games except enlisted men.
Furthermore no one not in uniform
was TO be allowed To attend the games.
except girls. and they had to be escorted
by an enlisted man A man was to be
allowed to bring only one girl. No ad
mission was TO be charged
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
Suspect Boy of Stealing Wallet.

The police are seeking n small boy,
who is alleged To have stolen wallet
containing S35 from carriage driven by
Lillian Handler. at Eleventh and IfcaId
streets. Yesterday The wallet was
later found. but the money was gore.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
BROAD ST. STATION DRY
RcaG.ng Terminal Also to Close
Bar; Dining Cars No More
Serve Liquors.

Philadelphia, Aug. l3 Broad street
Station and the Reading Railroad Ter
minal in this city, will he Obliged 10
close up their bars under the ruling Of
the Railroad Administration, made public
yesterday The first official act Of Di-
rector General McAdoo upon his return
to Washington after two months was
to issue an order forhidding the sale Of
liquors Of every character on dining cars,
restaurants and railroad stations under
Federal control. 1t is to take effect
Immediately.
II the Government retains control o!
the railroads after the war electricity
is to be more generally employed as q
motive power. i, is Director General
Mc.Adoo's idea that this would result in
a bag saving of coal every year. The
water pswer systems of the country
could be more generally utilized to gen
crate the current.
Mr.. McAdoo has entirely recovered
from laryngitls.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
VANDALS ROB GARDENS.
Kaiscr's Friends in Wilmington
Active in Dcspoiling
Vegetable Crops.

Vandals, believed to be boys, who have
been destroying war gardens Mt various
places throughout the city, are being
sought by the police. In fact the names
of three boys have been given the police
by citizens who have seen them ma
liciously destroying vegetables that pm
triotic citizens have toiled to cultivate.
While there has been some wanton de-
struction at several gardens the work of
the maraudcrs has been more severe nj the
gardens at Ninth and Lincoln and Tenth
and Clayton streets, also at Third street
and Bayard avenue.
The police have placed watchers about
the gardens, because il the vandals saw
an officer in uniform about they would not
attempt anything but the friends of the
Kaiser who arc doing this vandalism would
not detect a loyal American in citizen 3
clothes. who might be keeping an eye on
the garden.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
NEGRESS HELD IN BAIL
AS SELLER Of HERON
Three Charges Of illegally Traffick-
ing in Drug Against Eleanor
Smith.

Another alleged dope peeddler" was
before Municipal Court, today in tho per
son of Eleanor Smith Negress, against
whom there were three charges Of Illegally
selling heron
Queen I.aster, also eolored, said she
was n user of heroin k Nv c stuff
shc bought from the defendant was heroin
Florence Anderson and Alice White, both
Negresses, told the court that they had
bought decks" or packages, of heroin
from Eleanor
Judge Heiings held the defendant under
5000 bail for tho Court Of General Ses-
aions
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
CHIC ANNA HELD DEAD.
WAS STREET SINGER AT 3
Sought to Excel Sarah Bcrnhardt. But
Early Success as Coincidence Kept
Her From Tragedy.

New York, Aug. l3--After facing
death for several months, during which
she fought hard against the grip OF per-
nicious annmia, Anna Held, the actress,
died at % o'clock yesterday afternoon
in her apartments in the Hotel Savoy,
her case having been complicated recently
by acute bronchial pneumonia. Miss
Held is survived by her daughter, Lame
Carrera % years old, who is also an
actress.
Miss Held's last illness, which COM
menced in January, was AT hrst reported
to be due from multiple mycloma, a rare
disease, with only fifty cases recorded in
medical annals.
Anna Held, who had sung in the streets
of Paris when only s years old, following
the death of her father, began her stage
career in London about 1885, when she
was an orphan at the age of IL years, and
she made star in light comedies in
Paris when she was only IL years old.
She was born in Paris in 1879, after
her parents had moved from Warsaw.
She appeared first in Paris about lSSo,
and achieved n success rs lie ColIgnon
in a review at La Scala. II was her am
bition at this beginning of a stage career
to surpass Sarah BCrnhardt, who was
then in the full flush of her success on the
Partisan stage, and Anna Held made
frequent trips to the public hospitals
10 witness horrors So that she would he
prepared for the portrayal of tragic
characters But before she had time Ia
undertake her ambition to appear M
tragedy her success IN comedies and
farccs became so great that she could
not neglect that branch.
She will he remembered chiefly by her
songs, like Won't You Come and FlaY
With Me- and Il Cannot Make My
Ewes Behave
Anna Held was rarely beautiful, and
she was most ultra of the ultra modish
women of the stage. She was the wife OF
Florcnz Zlcgfcld Ir, her manager who
divorced her few years ago and married
Billie Burke Since the separation she
had been little heard by thcatrc-goers.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-13
NEW GOCART Is EQUIPPED
TO SLIDE DOWN STEPS

Mothers and nurscmnids, particularly
will be interested in new gocart, shown
IN the August Popular Mechanics Maga-
zlnc that can he taken up and down steps
and over curbs without jolting the youth
ful occupant The special feature consists
Of light steel skids, pointed Mt either end,
mounted next To the inner side of each
wheel They clear the ground by short
distance and permit the cart to slide over
curhs and steps without bumps.