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New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Big Trade Changes
F oreseen After War
World Corporation Predicted
to Extend Credit to Allied
Nations in Peace

A world corporation Of business after
the war was forecast by Allied and
American industrial leaders at ban
quet of the American Manufacturers
Export Association last night at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Speakers were Sir Henry Darlington
Smith, Acting High Commissioner for
Great Britain; Edward Debility, repre-
senting the French High Commission; :;
Frank A. Vanderlip, Martin W. Little
ton, William G. Redfield, Secretary Of
Commerce, and Bayard Swopc, of the
War Industries Board
The need of taking up billions of
dollars in foreign securities and ex-
tending unlimited credit to the Allied
nations was pointed out by Mr.. Wander
lip as the first principle of reestab-
ished commerce.
Our banks will have tremendous
role in the rehabilitation of Europe"
said Mr.. Vanderlip. "ln securities held
and money loaned the United States
now has . financial balance against
Europe of about seven billion dollars.
This will have to be materially in
creased after peace comes.
"Foreign trade cannot be extended
unless buyers have the means Of pay
ment. Our Allies must have raw ma
terials and food and manufactured
commodities. These cannot be paid
for immediately by equal shipments of
goods. The answer means that we
must float foreign securities here to
give Europe the power to buy"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Pinchot Wants German
Note Given to Public
American People Do Not Want
Secret Diplomacy, Says De-
mand on Wilson

Protesting against the action of the
State Department in refusing to make
public the most recent peace note sent
by Germany, Amos Pinchot issued a
lengthy statement yesterday calling on
President Wilson to give the note in
full to the American people immediate
~. He declared its suppression was
backward step, unworthy of Mr.. Wilson
and inappropriate to the hour.
at is return to Old World secret
diplomacy" said Mr.. Pinchot. ut is
treating the people of the United States
as if they were children who must not
be allowed to know what either their
own government or the German gov
crnment is doing
"Are we to understand that the great
principle Of open diplomacy is to apply
to notes we send to our enemies, but
not to those they send to US? Are we
TO ask that Germany shall be bound by
that principle. but that we ourselves
shall be free to repudiate it whenever
we think it expedient?
"Thc Amerc people and the pro-
grcssive peoples Of the world arc be-
hind Woodrow Wilson. With him they
demand just peace, a non-protitecring
peace. Let the State Department pre-
serve open diplomacy, for as each day
goes by it will find d greater need for
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Guilty of Bigamy,
Verdict Against
Alexander Dujat
Queens County Clerk Con-
victed, Then Arrested on
Perjury Charge
Jury Out Two Hours
Previous Common-Law Mar
riage as Defence Not Rec
ognized in Decision

Alexander Dujat, County Clerk Of
Queens, was found guilty Of bigamy
late yesterday afternoon by jury in
the Queens County Supreme Court,
Justice Cropsey presiding. While tho
jury was deliberating Dujat was arrest
ed on charge Of perjury, the Queens
County Grand Jury having returned an
Indictment against him last Monday.
He will be sentenced on the bigamy
conviction Friday, November 8. unless
Abraham Levy. his counsel, takes an
appeal.
Dujat was accused o. having m, rried
Mrs. Edna Young Dujat in 1917, despite
the fact that in 1906 lie had married
Miss Mathilda Veronica. In his defence
Duiat contended that the 1906 marriage
had been invalid because he had
common-law wife living that time.
Following the death of the common
law wife, Dujat declared he considered
himself free to marry again, as he did
not believe himself ever legally mar
ried to the woman known as Mrs Ma
thilda Veronica Dujat.
The Jury, which required only two
hours to convict Dujat, evidently &C
cepted the declaration Of Assistant Dis,
trict Attorney Hazelton, who conducted
the prosecution, that the 1906 wedding
was legal and binding.
Duiat, whose term Of Office does not
expire until the first OF next ar, re-
ceived his conviction without emotion.
In giving his pedigree hsrsaid he was
fifty years Of age and lived at Rail
road Avenue, Corona, L. ].
The indictment for perjury arose
from his matrimonial troubles. 1t is
charged that when he applied for a
license to marry in June, 1917, he made
an affidavit that he had never been
married before.
Mrs. Mathlda Dujat and Mrs. Edna
Dujat were in the courtroom when the
jury returned its verdict Only the
latter spoke to him after the verdict.
Dujat has been prominent in Queens
politics for years. Assistant District
Attorney Hazleton asserted in court
that powerful influence had been
brought to, bear in an effort to save
the accused man.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Don't Beg Soldiers
To Overstay Leave;
1t Means Disgrace
Thoughtless Insistence Will
Make Them Pariahs,
Says Army Officer
OPENS VP
NEWSPAPER

Behind an ordinance which has been
referred to the Board Of Aldermen s
committee on general welfare is a
situation not always appreciated by
soldiers hosts who urge them, with
never thought Of furloughs or
leaves, to stay Gust few minutes
longer"
The ordinance as drafted would
make it an offence punishable by a
fine Of $25 for the. proprietor Of a
public guest house OF any kind to
admit soldier, sailor or marine as
guest without scrutinizing his leave
or furlough or to permit him to stay
beyond the time fixed in that docu-
ment.
piled fifty to hotels become too pater-
nally irksome il aimed at residences,
SO the ordinance permits a fruitf ul
source Of absences without leave" to
multiply If civilians .comprehended
generally, an army officer said yes
torday, how grave an offence absence
without leave might become they would
not press their hospitality so heed
iessly upon their soldier guests.
missed train may mean the diff
ference between a commission and the
SuGlu u HOuSC " Il SoluISI. IL IL makes
him miss his sailing date it is bound
to cause him humiliation, annoyance
and, if he be dependent on his pay
near poverty.
IT he misses his boat the soldier is
tried by court martial, the immediate
penalty generally being d fine of $50
He is stripped OF his uniform and put
into ovcraNs and on fatigue duty Of
noxious varieties, being held at such
tasks at the embarkation camp until
company OF 800 similar offenders
has been mobilizcd
Then they sail, kind of mastetle So
pariah outfit which has to search for
the regiments Of its members along
some 400 miles of battlefront. Until
it's members find their regiments and
report to them they draw no pay.
And it sll may come of a thought
less invitation to "stay just few min
utes longer"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
y. S. Ship Dodges Two
Mines OFF Delaware
One Exploded by Gunfre and
the Other by Mine Sweeper,
Without Damage
By BRIGGS

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 31.-Of-
1icers on an American steamship ar
irving to-day form Havana reported
having sighted a floating mine on
Wednesday, tn ty miles off the Della
ware Capes. When the mine was OBJ
served, several sweepers wero within
calling distance and they were sig
nailed. After destroying the mine. men
on the sweeper thanked officers OF the
merchant vessel, but did not say
whether the mine was of American or
German make.
1t was learned that the vessel had
come close to Il mine in practically the
same position on her southbound trip,
eleven days ago. 1t was exploded by
gun fire. 1t is believed the mines were
part of a group strewn by German sub
marines.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Spy Pleads Guilty
In Insurance Fraud
Man Accused of Dynamiting
Ship Fails to Collect for
"Lost" Film

Frederick Fredericks, known also as
Fritz Joubert Duquesne, convicted
spy and accused ship dynamiter, plead
ed guilty yesterday before Judge Null
queen in General Sessions to present
ing a false claim for $4,000 to the
Stuyvesant Insurance Company, Of
New York. The claim was for $4,000
feet of film of explorations in South
America, which Fredericks declared he
had left with the F'latbush Storage
Company, 437 Carlton Avenue. Brook
lyn. The concerns warehouse burned.
1t was alleged in the Indictment to
which Fredericks pleaded guilty that
he never stored the film there. Pre-
vious to entering his plea he had as
serted that he bought the film for $780,
900 from man whom he was unable
at the time to find. He presented his
claim January 27, 1917.
For nearly a year Fredericks has
been under $4,000 bail, so that he
could be found if Great Britain should
press a charge that government was
investigating that Fredericks was i'm
plicated in an explosion which sank a
liner off the Brazilian coast February
IS, 1916, with the loss of three lives.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Gas Stove Blast Fatal
Mother and Two Children
Killed in Explosion

Mrs. Lillian Silverstein and her chill
dren, Sylvia, FIVE years old, and Edith.
four months old, were killed last night
by an explosion in her gas range at
1917 West Twentieth Street, Bsooklyn.
A gas cock in the oven had been ttr/ed
on accidentally, and when Mrs. Silver
stein thrust in a lighted match there
was detonation that blew out eyery
window in the place.
David Feuer, neighbor, ran in, and
with the help of policeman extin-
guished the fire that followed. The
women and children, An ambulance sur
geon said, probably had been killed by
concussion and asphyxiation. Nathan
Silverstein, the womAn's husbaYd re-
turned shortly aftcrward from business
in Manhattan.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Milk Drivers Talk Strike
Union Officials Urge Delay
Until War Board Acts

Milk wagon drivers are threatening
to strike again. They demand mini
mum wage of S35 week and . per cent
comml lsson on sales.
At Il meeting yesterday in the Central
Opera House, 2o5 East Sixty-seventh
street. delegates representing 5000
drivers demanded general strike ant
threatened to overrulc leaders who
urged delay in final action until the
matter could be taken before the Wal
Labor Board.
The men threatened to quit at once
and go in a body into shipbuldine
work unless their demands. were met.
Henry katz, business agent of the
union, said he did not favor strike
When ne attempted to make pacifyine
address. he was howled down. He ant
his colleagues finally waived responsi.
oliity and warned the men if they quit
they could expect no support from
union officials.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Spurned Wife Held
Mrs. Scutt Does Not Remem-
Der Shooting Husband

Mrs. Maude Scutt, who is accused Of
having shot and seriously wounded her
husband, Howard B. Scutt, manager of
the Erickson Engraving Company. at 10
East 130tn Street, on Wednesday after
noon, was arraigned in Harlem court
yesterday afternoon on a charge of fe-
lonlous assault This will be changed
later should her husband die.
Mrs: Scutt was insistent yesterday
that she had not shot her husband. To
Assistant District Attorney Neary. who
questioned her at the East 126th Street
police station. where she vas taken fol-
lowing the shooting. she said she was
thlrty-t~o years old and the daughter
OF clergyman at Pine Bluff, Ark.
She divorced her first husband, Mrs.
Scutt said, in Seattle. and married
Scutt five years ago in Vancouver. She
told the District Attorney she had
given $4,000 to her husband, which
was all the money she had.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
War Work Drive
Here To Be Free
Of "Buttonholirag'
System Of Scientific Vista
tion for Entire City Is
Agreed Upon

lndiscrinlinatc buttonholing Of pc
destriens has been definitely clini-
mated from the programme Of the United
War Work Campaign here. This an
nounccment was made from the head
quarters of the campaign committee
yesterday after the city had been
plotted out for scientific visitation.
To raise the $35, 100000 quota as
signed to Greater New YORK, workers
will enter each block of each borough
and each apartment house Of each
block, and cverY apartment in every
apartment house in an effort to reach
every person oven sixteen years of
age. Workers will have such identi-
tication credentials as will reduce pos
slblllty of fraud TO & minimum.
Possibility of friction was eliminated
yesterday by the announcement that
members of the national committee vii,
not interfere with subcommittee.
Proceeds OF boxing carnivals anc
Sunday entertainments, to which
some representatives of the committed
objected, will be accepted, it was as.
serted.
Herbert L. Pratt, chairman Of the
national sports committee Of the gen.
eral committee, said that a misunder-
standing had arisen as result Of
statements printed in yesterdays news
papers concerning the objections tc
boxing exhibitions and Sunday enter.
tainments. Neither John D. Rockefel.
Ter, jr., nor DR.. John r. Mott, who had
been mentioned as objecting to these
entertainments, was present at the
meeting of the national sports commit,
tee at which the subjects we're dis.
cussed, Mr.. Pratt said.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., speaking
yesterday to the members of the Ro.
tary Club 1t tI.eir luncheon at the Nc
Alpin Hotel. appealed for unstintec
support for the United War WorI
Campaign. Mr.. Rockefeller is chair.
man of the New York committee.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Allied Officials to
See British Pictures
Fighting Naval Views Shown
at Private Exhibition
Yesterday

The private view of the historic Sc
rles OF 200 fighting pictures sent to
this country b.. the British Admiralty
was held at the Anderson Galleries,
Park Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street,
yesterday afternoon. The formal open
ing for the public will be Wednesday
at 3 p. NJ.
Colonel Roosevelt. Governor Whit
man. Mayor Hylan, Police Commits
sioner Enrght and many othey state
and civic dignitaries have been invited
to the opening. Admiral Grant, senior
British naval officer now in this coun-
try, will represent Great Britain while
Rear Admiral Usher will appear as the
official representative of the United
States navy. It is expected Secretary
of the Navy Daniels will deliver tho
principal address.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Copeland to Lift
Epidemic Bars in
City Next Week
Influenza, Pneumonia and
Death Figures Show
Big Decrease

If the people Of New York continue
to observe tho regulations Of the Board
of Health, and nothing unforeseen
arises, all restrictions, due to the in,
ffuenza epidemic will be lifted next
week, Health Commissioner Copeland
said yesterday. New influenza cases
reported showed a decrease Of 1881
when compared with Wednesdays fig.
ures. There were also marked declines
in the new pneumonia cases and NOR
tality records.
At meeting Of the Commissioner
epidemic emergency advisory commit
tee yesterday afternoon plans for
bringing about a system Of business
hours in the city's industries calcu-
lated to reduce permanently the sub
way jams will be discussed. The Com
missioner believes joint action by
! manufacturing and merchants associa-
tions and labor bodies, all Of which are
represented on his committee, can do
much to lessen this menace to public
health.
Compelled to Lift Ban
"After this week." DR.. Copeland says,
II will be compelled officially to de-
clare the emergency orders of the
Health Department voided by the ab-
sence of influenza in epidemic form
This will mean, of course, business in
terests are at liberty to resume their
old schedule of hours but to me this
would be unthinkable and nothing
should be left undone that would pre-
vent it"
Commissioner Copeland personally
halted several surface cars in Lexing.
ton Avenue Wednesday night and or,
dered conductors to open windows
Yesterday he complained to the Public
service Commission of conditions noted
on the Spring Street crosstowh line
where cars were jammed to suffocation
without single open window.
Hedley Predicts Better Service
Nice-President Frank Hedley of the
Interborough Company told the Pub
lie Service Commission yesterday he
approved the present schedule en-
forced by Health Commissioner Cope
land and added that if the company i.
as successful next month in securins
employees as it has been in the las
the subway service undoubtedly will
be increased.
Another decrease in the epidemic i;
predicted by Dr. Copeland to-day. Tn,
principal business of the department
now is "mopping up the remnants,
he said. Manhattan reported 1872,
new cases of influenza yesterday, Th,
Bronx, sol; Brooklyn, 1885; Queens
194, and Richmond, "a, total Of 1868
y Influenza deaths in Manhattan totallet
124. The Bronx, So; Brooklyn, IFS
Queens, so, and Richmond, -; total
337.
New nncumonia cases in Mo,b,t.,
numbered 2S7; The Bronx, 81; Brook
lyn. 1856; Queens, 72, and Richmond
J., totalling CAT. Manhattan's recor,
Of pneumonia deaths showed 116, Th
Bronx, SO; Brooklyn. 90; Queens, Il
and Richmond 2. q total Of 261.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Two Shot in Chase
Injured in Hospital After Pc.
lice Fire at Crowd

Detectives who have been searching
ior the man who plundc-e5 Danisl
Fischman's stationery store in 265 East
ie5th Street, The Bronx, swooped down
upon u group OF men standing at l2ith
Street ard Park Avenue last night.
Several of the group bolse1, and the
detectives onened fire. One CT the fug
tives dropped. Another bullet fired wild
iy struck Elias Samuel. fourteen Yeas
old, Of 214 East 12Sth Street, in the
abdomen. The other runners halted
and surrendered. The wounded mar,
who was shot through the right leg,
said nc was Edward Bernzotti, col
lector, nineteen. Of PA College Avenue,
The Bronx. Both he and young Samuel
were taken to Harlem Hospital.
Four other men were arrested and
held on charges of robbery and assault
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Lauzanne Urges
Secure Victory

Stephaae Lauzanne, editor Of the
Paris lie Matn,' addressed the con-
vcntion of the Alsace- Lorraine Associa-
tion of America in the McAlpin Hotel
yesterday as representative Of Andro
Tardieu, High Commissioner of France
10 the United States.
Germans only understand force and
"nion.' lie said, land We must make
our victory secure. We should not be
zoo lenient. because with certain peo-
pie leniency becomes weakness, and VIC
have no right to be weak"
Daniel Blumenthal. president of the
association, presided in the morning
and made an address at patriotic
demonstration at Bartholdi's Statue Of
Liberty II the afternoon. Mr.. Blumen-
thai was formerly representative in the
German Reichstag from the Province
of Colnar, Alsace- Lorraine.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Grip
On Big Sugar
Trade Broken
Industry in Hawaii Fred
of Hun Menace by
Palmer's Action
Enemy Firm Centre
Of Plotting Seized
American Factors, Ltd.
Owned by Loyal Citizens.
Succeeds Hackfeld's

Teutonic control OF the suys, &.
dustry of the Hawaiian Islands has hs.,
broken for all time and this impor..ss
industry restored to the island n.o,,.
This announcement was made ves..,.
day by A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Prom.
erty Custodian, after he had comu,etsa
the Americanization of II. Hackfeld
Co., a German corporation, which "a,
years had dominated the sugar indus,r,
i'll the Hawaiian Islands. In 1917 plant..
tions controlled by this concern s,o.
duced 100000 tons of cane sugar
In crushing this menace to Amer;c.,
interests, Nj. Palmer organized nav
! company, known as the American Tss.
tors, Ltd, selling the entire assets AM
business OF the German firm IN tSs
American company. Most of the SaS
stockholders Of the new company srs
residents of the Hawaiian Islands and
all are loyal American citizens. Tbs
American Factors, Ltd. has capitsI.
zation OF S7.500000. because the assets
OF the Hackfeld company were valusS
~ that amount.
Centre of Propaganda
The powerful German concern mas
used not only TO control the sugar. in.
dustry, but as the centre of German
propaganda in the Pacific. The Ger.
laan Foreign Office is said to have sen,
out through the firms agents an in.
sldlous and dangerous propaganda DE-.
signed to sway the islanders to the
German cause
! The Hackfeld company was can;ts)-
lied at $4,000,000 and had undivided
profits and reserves amounting to
/ s3,92d, 1888. In 1917 the net earnings
were 81 SCI ,624. 1t controlled ten sub.
sldlary concerns, which ordinarily pro-
duced from 20 to 80 per cent of the
sugar of the islands.
The company owned or controlled
the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer, Ltd.
which furnished phosphates to Hs,
wauan sugar growers. In addition, the
company owned the E. f. Ehlers Com
pany, of Honolulu, the biggest depart
ment store west of San Francisco.
The three officers of the corporation
were j. f. Hackfeld, George Kodiak
and j. +. C. Hagcns. liackfeld is at
present in Germany and Kodiak is be-
ing held by the Federal authorities in
San Francisco, where he was convict.
Cd OF conspiring 10 violate the neutral.
,ty of the United States.
Stock Above Par
The American Factors. Ltd has a
capital stock of $4,000 shares, per value
$3.50, or 81 100000 capital. In comparison
with the old capital STOCK of s4O00,O0O
this would give the new shares value
of 1871.
The trustees selected to manage the
American factors concern are George
sherman, r. A. Cooks, +. A. Atherton
G. r. Hemenway, Richard II. Tren.
a. W: 7. Bottomlcy and G. T. Wilcox
all Of Honolulu.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-01
Juror Adrnonished
For Revealing Vote
In Newberry Case
Presentment Is Filed by
Grand Jury Against
Abner T. Bowen

The United States Grand Jury yes
terday afternoon filed presentment
accusing Abner T. Bowen, one of its
members. of having disclosed secrets
of it's deliberations to Lieutenant Com
mander Truman II. Newberry, U. S. n,
in The investigation the grand jury
has been conducting into the primary
campaign funds raised by Republicans
in Michigan, where Commander New
berry is the Republican candidate for
United States Senator against Henry
Ford.
Judge J. N. Mayer, presiding in the
District Court. cxonerated Commander
Newberry from all responsibility in
connection with telling what the juror
had told him, and at the same time ex-
onerated The Tribune, which on
Wednesday, morning gave an exclusive
account of the visit of q man who said
he was juror to the Office of Com
mander NeWberry, in the Stewart
Building.
Assistant District Attorney Ben A.
Matthews made it clear in Judge
Mayors court yesterday that the gov
crnment has not exhausted its efforts
to bring about an Indictment in con-
nection with the management of the
Newberry primary campaign
Admits Telling of Vote
Mr.. Bowen, who is a member OF A.
T. Bowen & Co., bankers, at II Wall
Street, was called before Judge Mayer
and asked for an explanation of his
conduct. He admitted that he had
reported to Lieutenant Commander
Newberry the result of the secret vote,
os an Indictment. He said that in tell
ing what had happened in the grand
jury room he did not think that he was
doing anything wrong, thinking that
the inquiry was ended.
Assistant District Attorney Matthews
then said that it was clearly contempt;
also that Bowen should have known
that the Newberry inquiry had not
ended because three of the government
witnesses had been held for contempt
for refusing to testify, having appealed
on the ground Of the District Courts
lack of jurisdiction to investigate a
primary election in the State of Mich
lgan.
=. In view Of the confession by Bowen,
Mr.. Matthews asked Judge MAYER to
cxcnse the juror. Judge Mayer admon-
shed Bowen.
Matter Is Deferred
"You should think this matter over.''
he said. land determine whether or
not you will by. yourself, or on the
advice of counsel, present any consid-
e atoms OF law or fact. l shall not de-
tcrmine this matter until after Tues
dhS, because I do not wish this occur
renee to have any effect otherwise than
as proceeding in court.
"A person to whom a grand juror
makes statement regarding an inves-
tigation is under no obligation to keep
that communication secret, nor, on the
other hand. is any person under any
obligation to keep secret a communi-
cation impaired to him by person to
whom it has been given by grand
Juror, so there is no impropriety on
made this publication
Mr.. Bowen was directed to appear
in court on Thursday next to show
cause why he should not be punished d
for contempt.