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New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Mrs. Underhill Asks
Quick Trial of Suit
But Judge Won't Advance
Date of $250,OO0 Action
AGAINST Husband

Mrs Lillian A. Undcrhill. one time
wife of Washington Burton, manufact-
urer Of havoring extracts, who had
her marriage anulled on the ground
that the divorce obtained by Mr.. Bur-
tons first wife was not valid in New
Jersey, yesterday appeared in the Su-
preme Court to urge the immediate
trial Of her suit for $250,000 damages
against her husband.
Mrs. tnderhill alleges that Mr.. Bur-
tons treatment ruined her voice for
professional singing, and also charges
that he threatened to poison her with
arsenic and in addition threatened to
commit suicide. She also says that he
drank heavily.
AS proof Of the suicide charge she
offered in evidence letter from Mr..
Burton, which read in part:
"I do not blame you for the act that
am about to commit. You have been
all that wife could be, but / cannot
endure the pain and torture any longer.
SO. gocdby until we meet on the eter-
nal shore"
Mr.. Burton denies her charoe and
says that he has not been lifelong
drinkcr.
~ am a total abstainer," he adds.
"After the plaintiff left me, in May,
1915, did use liquor to some extent
and was treated at the Oppenheimer
Institute"
Justice Mullan denied Mrs. Under
hills plea that the case be set fur
thcr ahead on the calendar.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
''Big Bill" Edwards
Campaigns for Bonds
Passes Up Ball Game to Make
Speech for Loan in Lib
erty Park"

big Bill" Edwards made his sec
ond speech of the day at Liberty
Park" which was opened yesterday af-
tcrnoon at Madison Avenue and Thir-
ty-eighth Street.
When one is fat, forty and weighs
300 pounds" he grinned. "Unce Sam
won't take him, but the man who can
not fight with guns. knife and fists is
just as much interested as the boys at
the front. No true American boy who
has gone across will come back, or
would be willing to come back, with
out the laurels of victory. No true
American over here will let anything
stand in the way Of complete service
to his country. That is why am max
ing speeches to-day instead of going
to the ball game"
The centre Of the park" was filled
with plaster replica of the Liberty
Bell, inside of which there was real
bell, which rang whenever bond was
sold. Young women in Red Cross uni
forms were in charge, and the band
from the land battlcship Recruit played.
One Of the first sales was made to a
young woman who gave her name as
Ruth Longdicker. who subscribed for
81 800 worth of bonds.
81 had 81 800 as an inheritance, and
it was in bank in Harrisburg, Penn"
she said, "but | got SO mad at Pennsyl.
vania after the New York women got
the vote that I decided to take my
money out of that bank. Now I'm glad
to put it all in bonds. and l hope the
United States government will treat
US as we'll as New York did"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Senate Passes Bill to
Protect Aliens in Armv

WASHINGTON. April l6--Loyalty
of American citizens of foreign birth
and blood was praised today in the
Senate, during the brief debate which
preceded passage Of the House bill
amending naturalization laws to meet
wartime conditions. The bill is es-
pecially designed to protect $4,000
technical enemy aliens in Americas 5
fighting forces who would be subject
TO execution as traitors if captured.
The bill, which now goes to confer
ence, also provides for naturalization
of aliens. upon satisfactory proof of
loyalty.
Senator Hardwick. of Georgia, chair
man Of the Senate immigration Com.
mittce, in charge of the bill, told the
Senate the bill was designed to sep,
arate loyal from disloyal German
Americans. The great mass of Ger
man Americans, he said, were patri-
otic. The bill would permit naturaliza-
ton of those whose loyalty is unQues-
toned or adequately demonstrated
An important amendment, proposed
by Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
was adopted. 1t would prevent natural
ration of Germans, permitted by Ger
man law to perjure themselves and re-
tain their German citizenship. The
German law, Senator Lodge declared.
is a 'vllanous' dual citizenship pro,
vision.
In discussing the Lodge amendment,
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, said immi-
grafton of Germans to this country
should be prohibited for a great
many wears to come"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Defence Society to Furnish
Two Extra Buses Next
Sunday
Reservations Asked
A. A. A. Hopes There Will
Be Enough Cars, to Care
for All

James A. Hemstreet, director Of the
American Automobile Associations free
Sunday transportation service between
New York City and Camp Upton. an
nounced last night that motor sight
seeing buses are likely to make the
fourth run to Yaphank on Sunday. The
buses are being hired from the Amcri-
can Defence Society's motor fund.
For the last two weeks" said Mr..
Hemstreet, "the American Defence So
ciety has provided one bus for our
Sunday runs. These buses have been a
tremendous help. A bus carries forty
persons.
1--WE nave been paying $500 for a
single bus. To-day l learned that we
could get two buses for $3.50, and I told
William Guggenheim. chairman of the
army and navy committee OF the Ameri-
can Defence Society. He has assured
me that he will do his best to see that
we have two buses for Sunday.
"Mr. Guggenheim first conceived the
idea of conducting a fund to which
those who have no automobiles might
contribute He personally has been
very generous, and want to thank him
for the help he has given u.s."
Applications for reservations on this
Sundays run TO Yaphank continue to
come in large numbers to the A. A. A.
Offices, sol Fifth Avenue. ut must be
remembered" said Mr.. Hemstreet, that
new quotas Of New York City boys are
being moved to Camp Upton continu-
ousy. We need cars badly. I can use
at least one hundred additional ma
chimes Sunday. Last Sunday, as in the
past, we had to disappoint about $50
people who wanted to go along.
hope this will not be necessary this
week Ii New York City car owners
could only realize the fine friendly ser
vice they perform for the folk of our
! fighters when they carry them to Yap-
hank we would be dcluged by offers of
carc y
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
26 Colonels Also Nominat-
ed by the President to
Receive Promotions
Colonel Hines
Among Them
All Are Attached to National
Army-One Lieutenant
Colonel Honored

WASHINGTON. April 16.-Ten brig
adler generals of the National Army,
we're nominated to-day by President
Wilson, to be major generals and
twenty-seven colonels were nominated
to be brgadier generals. Those nom
mated to be major generals are:
William P. Burnham, James II.
McRae, Ernest Kinds. Charles S.
Farnsworth, Edward F.. McGlachlin. jr.,
willard A. Holbrook, George b. Dun
can. Charles H. Martin, James w.
McAndrew, Leroy s. Lyon.
Nominated to be brigadier generals:
Colonels Robert H. Noble, Arthur
Johnson, Charles Gerhardt. Guy H.
Preston. Frank NJ. Caldwell. Lutz Wahl,
John L. Hines, Joseph c.. Castner. Ju-
Ian R. Lindsey. George II. Jamerson,
Lincoln c. Andrews. Dwight f. Ault.
man. Ora f. Hunt. Adrian S. Fleming
Thomas w. Darrah. johnson Hagood
Lytle Brown. Alfred A. Starbird, Ed
ward I: Donnelly. Fred T. Austin, Will
lam |. Westervelt. Augustine MCINTYRE
Richard W. Young; George A Win
gate. Hugh S. Johnson, Lieutenant
Colonel Robert r, Wood
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
|. r. T. Men Urge &c. Fare
Increased Wages Without 1t
Impossible, They Declare

A committee Of scventy-fve, repre-
sentng the Brotherhood Of INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company En-
ployes, appeared before the Public Ser
vice Commission yesterday to urge the
advisa bility of permitting the company
to charge siX-cent fare. They de-
clared that, unless the company re-
ceived such permission, it would be
unable to meet a demand for increased
wages by the employees on August /.
Chairman Oscar S. Straus told the
committee that. while the commission
sympathized with their request for in-
creased wages, power to modify the
transit company's franchise so as to
permit increased fares lay solely with
the Mayor and the Board Of Estimate.
He suggested that the committee cal!
on Mayor Hylan and seek an oppor-
tunity to present their argument to
the board.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
AR. R.Conkling Left$187,268
Widow Claims Dover Rights
Amounting to $48,564

Ex-Assemblyman Alfred R. Conkling,
lawyer and clubman, and nephew of
the late Roscoe Conkling, left an es-
tate valued at $187,2ss. The transfer
tax appraised filed in the Surrogates'
Court yesterday, shows that Mrs. Ethel
f. J. Conkling, his widow, who was liv-
ing apart from him under separation
agreement made in 1912, elected to
accept her dover in the real estate,
amounting to S48,564. Mrs. Catherine
A. Stebbins. housekeeper for Mr.. Conk-
ling, received $4,000; his butler, SO 600,
and his coachman, $1,000 Three daugh-
ters received S35,944 each.
Mr.. Conkling's death occurred two
days before he was to appear before
referee and explain his trusteeship
Of $750,000 estate left to his daugh-
ters by their uncle 'and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Lorillard Ronalds. The
daughters had applied to have their
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
McAdoo Appeals to
Children to Save
He Also Tells Boys and Girls
to Urge Parents to Lend
Money to Government

A message to American school chill
dren from William G. McAdoo. Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was received here
yesterday-by the school bureau of the
metropolitan Canvass Committee. 1t
follows:
Every little girl and every little boy
ana every big girl and every big boy
IN the United States can help their
government in this great war and help
our noble sons and brothers who are
flghtlng this war for us BY saving their
money and lending every cent Of it to
the government
The government gives you bond
or an obligation to pay the money back
IN full with interest | want YOU ali
to save to the limit and lend to the
government to the limit of YOUR ability
| want you all to- make your mothers
and fathers save to the limit and lend
to the limit to their government. Every
girl and boy, especially every little girl
and every little boy is or ought to be
the boss of their mothers and fathers.
and | know that if you make pa
tr4otlc appeal to your mothers and
fathers to save money and lend ii to
the government to help our gallant SOL
olers and sailors who are fighting 10
save liberty and our country, Your
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Loan Appeals Made
From Liberty Floats
Speakers Add Their Argu-
ments in Parade Through
City Streets

Floats bearing Liberty Loan appeals
paraded through the streets of the city
yesterday afternoon. At various points
along the line of march halts we're
made to permit speakers to amplify the
reasons why every one should become a
bondholder.
To Save the Lives of Your Sons"
was the title Of one display. which
showed a trench scene, in which Ameri-
can soldiers were on guard, while
stretcher bearers were carrying wound
ed figures to the dressing stations.
For Freedom of the Seas" showed a
huge, ocean liner, tunnels smoking
heavily, with stern uprased, about to
plunge to the bottom of the sea after
Pershing,d depicted "p partly tive eompeted mpiet
ship built out of Liberty bonds. Inside
a worker labored with hammer and
plane finishing the work.
Lend Him Hand" visualzed a
hand of an American soldier, in full
accoutrement, who was just about to
go over the top, prot~uding from a pile
OF Liberty bonds The Key to Vic
tory revealed placid bay covered
with ships, while score of airplanes
with whirring propellers lowered over
towns on the edge of the water. "Over
the Top for Victory" was huge Ameri-
can tank, upreared and ready to plunge
INTO trench, in which two German
soldiers were awaiting their doom.
The parade passed down Eighth Ave
nue. from Thirty sixth Street to Twen-
ty-third Street, where it turned east
and looped around the Flatiron Build
ing at Fifth Avenue. The line of march
was then up Fifth Avenue to Fifty
seventh Street and across to Broadway
then down Broadway to Times Square
The parade disbanded at Thirty ninth
Street and Seventh Avenue.
Under the auspices of the Cont
mental Guaranty CORPORATION. the new
Liberty Bell, copy of the famous
Philadelphia symbol, was yesterday pre-
sented to the Liberty Loan Committee
Guy Emerson, director of publicity for
the Liberty Loan Committee, accepted
the contribution in its name. The band
from the land battleship Recruit ac-
companied 100 BOYS from Public School
68, most of them negroes, as they sang
the national anthem.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Cortelyou's Son
l of so Abroad to
Win Commissions
Staff Co,.resnondencel

WASHINGTON. April 16.-In the list
oi oei commlsslons issued to-day by the
War Department sixteen members of
the eXpedltlonary force are made first
lleutenants of engineers and seventy
four are commissioned second lieuten-
ants of engineers, Among the second
lieutenants is George Bruce Cortelyou,
j., son of former Postmaster General
Cortelyou.
The New York residents commits
soned to-day included:
Walter w. Brown. S76 Park Avenue. car
tain. and Ambrose l.. kissinger, School for
Bakers and Cooks. Camp Upton. frst len u
tenant, Quartermaster Corps, National Army.
William Adelbert Smith. $40 Washington
Avenue Brooklyn captain; Frank Adelbcrr
Bien, Metropolitan Hospital; Maurice BucI1-
sackett Schoonover, jr.. ST. Mary's Hos.
ptal. first lieutenants. Medical Corps
Members Of the overseas force com
mlssloned first lieutenants of enei-
neers follow
coons. Donald Des Oranges, Robert Emmet
Dusan. Carl Sig Wal Evenson, Thomas Fer
sason. lanes Thompson Ganson. William
rice Anthony Mott. Joseph NJ. Mccoy, Alex
ander s; Mcdonald, Hugh Joseph O'Neill,
Daniel W. Pierson, Wellesley r. Richards.
EDWARD Irving Roberts. Jarvis Stanley
Feeder, Leo Folle and Leslie Albert Weary.
The second lieutenants included:
Robert Elliott Allen, Elmer Ashton An
stock. Andrew De G. Berkey, Ware Berry,
Frank Mccain Brewster. Walter Raymond
bright. Alexa nder Broadhead, Roy Franci,
Brookey, Richard Cecil Boyer. John Paul
sorley. George Bruce Cortelyou, jr, Russell
Dix Coumer, John Paul Dean. Roderck De
sastro. Ralph Gordon Dobson, Forrest Roy
Doud. Adrian Augustus briggs, Edwin Paul
Dudley. Walter l.. Dugan. James Thomas
Erwin, Charles Mckinley Ettinger, Victor
EDWARD Frincke. Henry Ramsche-. jr., Aus
TN Sprague Hart, Edward Joseph Hart John
P. Hart. Cecil Hawley, Montgomery Haynes
Emil Lewis Holmdahi. Allan Edgar Hughes.
henry Arad Israel. Frank w. Jacobs. John
Theodore Jams, George 3. jenkins, Henry
Lee Jennings, Henry Neil Kirkham. Ernest
Dean kitche. Jacob Frederick kroskc, Nor
man Miller Lack Marvee Lake, Alexander
n Lund. Paul j. Lynch Thomas Francis
,NeGarey, jr.. Walter Ryan McHenry. Dona;d
Iaclsaac. Thomas Henry Mitchell, John Me
Gill Montz. Robert B.. Muir. Harry Wesley
ott Jay French Paddock, Everett P. Peter
seus. Frank p. Rawn. Freeman Leigh Raw
son. Paul Dunlop Reyburn. William Agnew
Robo. Wayne Latimer Rockey. Joseph L.
Rodman, Laurence r. Sexton, Sheldon War.
'en Simms. Joseph Berry Sitton, Homer Har.
rison synder. Charles Leslie Stanley, Louis
Emile Sterrett. Omer E. Swank. Walter ely.
burn Taylor. Frederick Doyle Unkefer, Car.
ence Crawford Upton, Leonard Edwarc
Warner, Bresrley Whitehead. William X
Wright. Hume Clifton Young and Thoma.
II. Mckittrick, jr.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Intensive Recruiting
Drives Start Here
Men for All Branches Sought
jeff Davis Aids Naval
Campaipn

While recruiting continued good
yesterday, officers rounding up volun-
teers in New York City for the fight
ing service, announced the beginning
of intensive drives to fill various
special calls. Lieutenant Commander
Newton Mansfield, in charge of re-
cruitlng for the navy, made public yes
eeeroay an urgent call for volunteers
Tor the Naval Reserve.
Men IN large numbers are needed
he said. owe begin a big drive for
this branch of the service to-day. It
Will continue indefinitely"
The first day of the drive brought in
100 men. These signed up at the re-
crultlng stations at 81 Chamuer Street
and 1l5 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn
and many enlisted at the navy head.
quarters. 34 East Twenty third Street
series of special rallies has been
arranged to stimulate the drive. The
hrst took place at noon yesterday on
the U. S. S. Recruit. Here. jeff Davis
known as the king of the Hoboes,'
pleaded that the young men in his
audience join the navy.
To day Frank Craven and members
of the "Going Up" company viii hold
a rally at the Customs Building TO.
morrow Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey
Will round up volunteers at the same
place.
Lieutenant Gardner, in charge OF
Marine Corps headquarters, sent forty
rockies off for Port Royal yesterday
He also announced the enlistment OF
twenty-seven men during the day
Lieutenant Gardner made a special call
too. This is for boys between the
ages of sixteen and eighteen, needed as
drummers and buglers. Boys who want
to join this branch of the service mus,
have the consent of their parents OF
guardians. One hundred are needed.
The Regular army station al
Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue
announced the enlistment of eighty
five men: Captain Roderick Stephens
said: I'VE want 1000 more men out OF
New York City for the tanks. Mer
who want to get right into the thicl
OF the fighting make no mistake wher
they sign up with u.s.
The stevedore section of the Quarter
masters Corps needs men. Sergeant
Hill stationed at Forty-second Stree
and Sixth Avenue, issued cal
for stenographers, hatchmen, deck
hands and steamship checkers Me1
who can qualify are urged to apply
in writing to the Forty second Stree
station. They must include references
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Defends Her Medallion

Mrs. Elsa X. Peterson, of Flushing,
whose medallion exhibit was ordered
removed from the annual exposition
of the National Academy of Design
on Monday as likeness of Field
Marshal Won Mackensen, declared yes
terday that a mistake had been made.
1t was not a likeness of Mackensen,
she averred. but Of q mere civilian.
Her medallion of Mackensen. she con-
tinuod, as we'll as that of Won Hinden-
burg. was safely locked up.
1t was ridiculous. she continued. to
suspect her of -Germanism merely
because she happened to be studying
in Germany when the United Statfs
entered the war. Her mother added
that the young artists husband was
an American soldier on his way to
France
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Dinner to l. F. Marcosson
Writer Will Be Honored Be-
fore Leaving for Europe

Isaac +. Marcosson, the writer and
lecturer, who has made four trips to
Europe since the war began, and who
expects to leave on his fifth trip short
ly, will be rendered a testimonial din
ner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Wednesday night, April a. More than
fifty prominent men are on the invi-
tations committee.
Mr.. Marcosson has written extern
sively on the business SIDE of the war
and has spent considerable time abroad
collecting data for the authorities at
Washington on the conduct of business
during war times behind the fighting
lines. In England he is given credit
for doing much to weld America and
the Allies together,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Pushcart Pedler Must
Attach Photo to License

Reports he has received recently that
enemy aliens were securing pushcar
licenses by purchasing them from the
rightful holders and thus evadng the
law which specifically states aliens can
not procure license caused Commits
that on and after May / every pushcart
pedler must have his photograph at
tachcd to his license.
Under the present system, the Com
missioner stated, the police have no
way of knowing whether the bearer of
the license is the lightful owner.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
mothers and fathers will listen to you
and take volr advice

mothers and fathers will listen to you
and take your advice
"The future of the country concerns
the boys and girls Of America more
than the old people of America, because
the future is what you must take care
of. Your seniors are trying to take
care of the present in order that they
may hand down to you young people
unimpaired the splendid institutions of
freedom and democracy which our
fcrefathers handed down to us. Let
every girl do her part, let every boy
do his part, and let every mother and
father do their part. and the military
despotism for which the Kaiser stands
will be swept away BY universal liberty
and triumphant democracy
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
Fourth Steel Steamship
Is Launched at Seattle

SEATTLE, Wash. April 1s.-The
8,800-ton steel steamship Westmount
was launched here to-day at the plant
of the Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock
Company for the United States Ship
ping Board
The Westmount was chrstened by
Mrs. T. A. D. Jones, wife of a forme
Yale star athlete, now assistant man
ager of the plant. The vessel is the
fourth steel steamer launched for the
government here this year. The vessel
was commandeered.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-17
To Pave War and Dock Streets

Most Of the $2,OO0,OOO set aside for
the repaving of streets in Manhattan
will be used for work on highways lead:
ing to ferries and important docks. &C;
ps purtment " Of Public Works 0y YESTERDAY ste law
This plan is to be carried out as Il war
measure. Borough President Dowling
said that he believed these streets
should be the first to be repaved, as
they are used extensively for the trans
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-02
Everybody Satisfied.

President Wilson is expected to go
before congress tomorrow and ask for
legislation that will make government
control of the railroads complete. 1t
is understood that there will be no
opposition to the presidents program.
1t appears to have been generally ap-
proved both by the public and by the
owners OF the railroads. The former
has faith in the purpose of the pres
ident to make the railroads perform a
maximum Of service and to accom-
plish reforms in operation that were
impossible under the war board plan
twirg to the diversity of interests, and
furthermore because the government
proposes to take latitude in abolishing
laws and regulations that it is claimed
were handicap to the private oper-
Rtors The railroad owners are con-
tent to let the arrangement stand
without interference from their side
because they have first of all the as
surance that their stockholders will
get fair return on their investment
while the government is at the
throttle, removing one of the main
sources Of worry to the managers of
the properties. The government will
advance finances where they may be
needed and will so conduct the prop
critics that they will profitably serve
both the people and the owners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-02
Vollmer's Latest Address.

Henry Vollmer of Davenport, for
merly congressman from the Second
Iowa district, says he delivered pat,
riotic address in Chicago last Satur-
day night Agents of the department
Of justice maintain that Mr.. Vollmer's
description of his speech is incorrect
and have decided to digest it further
in an effort to find whether the dis
tinguished Davenporter did not en-
ploy some cunning camoufaging. The
most serious offense that Mr.. Vollmer
il charged with having committed dur
ing his talk was in declaring disbelief
in the atrocities credited to German
soldiers. He said that most of them
were gross exaggerations, put to-
gether for the purpose of engendering
hate against the German people in the
United States and other countries.
This would not have been such grave
break on the part of Mr.. Vollmer had
not the United States government Off
cially reported the atrocities referred
10 and to have convinced itself that
they were true before passing the in
formation on to the American public.