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New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Publisher Refuses Com
ment on Announcement at
Florida Convention
Confers With Bryan
Mayor Hylan Offers Explana-
ton of Resignation of
Henry J. Kempf

PALM BEACH. Fla, Feb. 23.-Will-
lam Randolph Hearst may run for
President in 1920. The newspaper
owner, who is resting" here, has al
ready been hailed as the next Chief
Executive of the United States at a
public meeting without eliciting from
him any denial of his intention to run,
and is spending a large part of his
time in conference with political lead
ers, past and present.
William Jennings Bryan, formerly
Secretary Of State, stopped over here
on his way to New York and held a long
conference with Mr.. Hearst, details Of
which have not been given out. The
newspaper owner has also had long
private talks with Dudley Field Malone,
Mayor Hylan and Richard Croker,
former boss Of New York
Yesterday Mr.. Hearst and Mr..
Croker attended the meeting of the
Florida State Educational Convention,
AT winch the former made an address.
Following this, Joseph Erman, a Demo-
crat!c politician. announced from tn.
platform that Mr. Hearst would run
Tor the Presidency in 1920.
Mr.. Hearst has refused to comment
upon this statement. When asked to-
day whether he was planning to enter
the held IN 1920, he merely replied that
he guessed there was no olitica sig
nificance in anything that had occurred.
Hylan Gives kempf Story
Concerning the resignation of Henry
>. kempf, whom Mayor Hylan. of New
York, appointed as motor engineer in
the Street Cleaning Department on
January. 9 last, the Mayor tonight
made this statements:
n9tice that the papers are try
ing to take a slam at me becausesMr.
come to Palm Beach. All there is of
Il is that he resigned to save the tax
payers $500 year, and | accepted
the resignation for the same reason.
This is all covered in letter which
you will find on file with Street Clean
ing Commissioner MacStay
kempf has been coming to Palm
Beach every winter, so there is nothing
to be made out of the fact that he has
come again. After had made the ap-
po;ntment, kempt came to me and said
that there was nothing for him to do
and he didn't believe there was any
need OF such position. l said if that's
the case, we had better do away with
the job and that has been done"
The Mayor was asked if Kempf would
be used elsewhere IN mis- administration.
He said he didn't know that. 1t was
some thing he hadn't thought of, but he
added at they are going to make an is
sue of this matter because he was my
friend they are taking poor grounds.
OF course, stick by my friends"
Another report originating in New
York which the Mayor was called upon
to deny to- daY was that his dalUhter
Miss Virginia Hylan, has become en-
gagged to John Sinnot. the Mayors
executive secretary. Both are here with
him.
The Mayor said he had heard the
story in Brooklyn before he left New
York, that there wasn't bit of truth
in it, nor was there anything of the
sort in contemplation, that Mr.. Snnot
was here because it was necessary for
him to have a confidential assistant
and that he had no idea how such q
story had started
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
s More Killed by Gas;
Months Total Is 100

hrec persons were added to the
rapidly growing list of gas victims
yesterday, making the total more than
one hundred for the month in all tho
boroughs Sixty died in Manhattan and
thirty in Brooklyn.
The latest victims of the deadly
Tunes arc Henry Schultze, sixty, and
hls wife, Annie, fifty-nine, who were
found dead In bed at their home, POP
rlith Street, and John Faulkner, who
aled at his home, 494 Hudson Street.
Ail thrce cases were accidental, the
medical examiner asserts.
The Board of Health is so alarmed
over the great increase. in the number
OIL deaths and prostrations due to gas
poisoning that yesterday an cx-
haustlve investigation was started
officials OF the department took this
action, they said, hoping in some way
TO discover means OF wiping out the
menace.
While the totai of sixty deaths is
double the record of the same period
last year, the number of suicides was
about the same thirteen. Five of the
casualties were the result of coal gas
while fortytwo died from the effects
explained yesterday, this record, al
though very great, was insignificant
when compared with the figures repre-
senting the number of victims attend
cd by ambulance surgeons and private
physicians during the month.
he prlnclpal reason given for the
marked increase OF gas cases by the
nolice is that tho people, unable 70 OBJ
tain coal. were forced to use more gas
'' h't30r purposes, and that in the
nm ority of cases the escape of the gas
Was One 10 inferior or broken fixtures
and plpes.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Socialists Want City
To Sell Coal and Ice
Three on Board of Aldermen
Advance Municipal Trad
ing Idea

The committee appointed by the
Board of Aldermen to investigate the
coal and ice situation in the city will
hold hearing in the Aldcrmanic Cham
Der. City Hall, tomorrow. Three of the
Socialist aldermen-Held, Beckerman
and Wolff will be heard in support of
municipal trading in coal and ice.
Municipal trading in coal and ice is
the only real solution of the problem y
sand Alderman Adolph Held Yesterday.
The city of Denver is already in the
coal business. 1T buys coal at the mines
and sells to the people through munici-
nal agencies at less than $5 a ton
there are slNty-ninc large coal yards in
New York, and one can readily sec the
waste that goes with this duplication of
effort, which would be eliminated under
!. system Of municipal trading"
Jonathan c. Day, Commissioner OF
Public Markets, will introduce testi.
mony to show why the city government
should have control Of the distribution
of coal. = y ~ Il
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Wilson Fixes
Wheat Price
AT Old Figure
Continued from page l

men to the army, and am keenly alive
to the sacrifices involved. Out of 49,
ooO,oOo men engaged in farm indus
tres 100000 have been drafted, or
about 1.4S per cent of the whole num-
ber In addition to these there have
been volunteers, and the farmers have
lost a considerable number of laborers
because the wages paid in industrial
pursuits drew them away
"ln order to relieve the farming in.
dustry as far as possible from further
drains of labor the new draft regula-
tions have been drawn with a view to
taking from the farms an even smaller
proportion of men, and it is my hope
that the local exemption boards will
make the new classifications with a
view of tightening the load upon the
farmers to the utmost extent.
"Thc Secretary of War has asked for
authority to furlough soldiers of the
National Army, if conditions permit it,
80 that they may return TO their farms
when assistance is necessary in the
planting and harvesting of the crops.
National and local agencies are ac-
lively at work, besides, in organizing
community help for the more efficient
distribution CT available labor and the
drawing upon new sources of labor.
While there will be difficulties. and
very serious ones, they will be diff
culties which are among the stern ne
cessities oe war.
"The Federal railway administration
is cooperating in the most active, in
teiligent and efficient way with the
food administration to remove the diff
culties of transportation and of the
active movement of crops. Their mar
ketinp is to be facilitated anN %bo
farmers given the opportunity to real
ize promptly upon their stocks.
1.-The Department of Agriculture and
the food administration will continue
to cooperate, as heretofore, to assist
the farmers in every way possible. All
questions of production, of the mar
keting of farm produce, of conserva-
ton in the course of production, and of
agricultural labor and farm problems
generally, will be handled by the De-
partmcnt of Agriculture, while all
questions of distribution of food sup
plies to the Allies and of conservation
in consumption will be handled by the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Edge Picks Baird
AS Successor to
Senator Hughes
Republican, 70 Years Old,
to Fill Out Unex-
pired Term

TRENTON, Feb. 23.-David Baird,
of Camden, Republican, seventy-eight
years old, was appointed to-day by Gov
ernor Edge as successor to the late
United States Senator William Hughes,
of Paterson. Senator Hughes was q
Democrat
The appointment is believed by many
to foreshadow an announcement by
Governor Edge that he himself will be
candidate for the Senate next Novem.
Der. Mr.. Baird in accepting the ap-
pointment declared that his age pre-
cluded his being candidate in tho
election.
Statement by Edge
The Governor took notice of the re-
port concerning his own candidacy in
the following statement:
necessarily have been entirely too
much occupied with the duties of my
ctfice during an important and ex-
tremely busy legislative session to give
much thought to any ambition l may
have had in this direction, but it is
rot my habit to postpone decisions and
will be prepared to presen. my posi-
tlon very positively after the Legislat-
ure has adjourned"
Besides the man who is to serve the
unexpired term of Senator hughes, a
candidate will be chosen next Novem-
Der for a siX-year term in the United
States Senate. Senator Hughes's place
might have been allowed to go untitled
+ until November, the Governor SAID, but
tor the eXigencies Of the times. In
his telegram to Mr.. Baird, who is in
! the South on a business trip, he said
that the people of New Jersey, while
recognizing necessity of individual
thought and action under orlinary
conditions, insist that their representa-
tive in Congress, in all pertaining to
war, absolutely support the President
as commander in chief of our forces
on land and sea-"
Il want to assure you and through
you the people of New Jersev," tele-
graphed Mr. Baird, in reply, chat, dur
ing my brief occupancy of the distin-
guished Office Of Senator, my age-pre-
cluding consideration of the long term,
every interest, party, personal or
otherwise, will be subordinated scrup-
ulously and Loyalty to the patriotic
duty Of supporting the President and
ngthening his arm
Baird Born in Ireland
Mf. balTd was porn IN ireland. lie
came to the United States in 1859
starting in business in small way ir
| Camden He now is one Of the fore.
most lumber dealers of the state. In
1874 he was elected to the Board OF
Chosen Freeholders. and served fou1
consecutive terms. He was elected
Sheriff of Camden County in 1887. al.
though it was an off year for Republi.
cans. Again, in 1896, he was elected
to the same office by a record majority
Governor Werts, q Democrat, appointed
him to the State Board of Assessors in
1895. and when his term as Sheriff
expired he was reappointed to the
board, serving until 1909
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Gangster's Boast
Causes Arrest of
Band as Robbers
Nine Brooklyn Boys Held
for Cigar Store
Hold-Ups

Louis Oldstcin, one of the four
youths arrested on Friday night fol-
lowing a hold-up in the United cigar
store at Beckman Street and Park
Row, is said to have related his ex-
ploits in that line to the police with
considerable pride. AS q result, it is
alleged. of statements made by him
and other prisoners five more youths
were arrested yesterday as members of
ruled with an iron hand. Members of
this gang. the police say, held up at
least three cigar stores in Brooklyn
besides the one on Park Row.
Those gathered in yesterday, all of
whom live in Brooklyn, said they were
Charles Tucker, eighteen years old, of
1777 Park Place; Nat Kornblatt, fif-
teen years DID, Of 1873 Sterling Place:
Irving Zipowitz. twenty years old, and
Abraham Hipowitz, eighteen years old.
of 1880 Eastern Parkway, and Nat
Selig, twenty years old, Of 1877 Barrett
Street. The four older prisoners we're
held in $4,000 bail each IN the Flatbush
Avenue police court for examination
tomorrow on the charge OF robbery.
Kornblatt was turned over to the Chill
drens Society.
The fourth man alleged to have been
concerned in the Park Row hold-up is
Max Mcissner, twenty-five years old, Of
1856 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. Detec-
tives found him in his stepfather-,
automobile on Fulton Street, Manhat-
tan, after the hold-up. 1t is alleged
that he was waiting to carry away Old
stein and his companions, Philip Lip
schitz and Leo Fleischman, when the
cash register of the cigar store had
been cmpticC.
police that he was the head of gang
that gathered in poolroom in the
Brownsville section of Brooklyn. 1t
was there, he is reported to have said
that many cigar store raids were
planned.
From start to finish, according to the
police account of Oldstein's story. this
twenty year-old youth was the life OF
every hold-up party. 1t was he who
selected the places to be robbed and
mapped out the line of action, detec-
tives said; it was he who played the
prominent role OF gunman in the actual
robbery, flashing his revolver on the
salesman and cowing him into submis-
sion; it was he whose word was law
when the spoils were divided.
"He told me-" said Detective Roddy
Chat he would not let any Of the others
touch anything until he made his selcc-
tions. And he took the lions share OF
the proceeds, for in one case. where
over 5000 was stolen, he gave his as
sistants each Stat, and told them it
was a fair division. And they seemed
to be satisfied.
Trucker also made full confession
and admitted that he had been in all OF
the. three Brooklyn stick-ups. And
Irving Zipowtz has also admitted his
participation in two of the Brooklyn
cases."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

The New York Federation of Agri-
culture, organized last week Wednes-
day at Syracuse by three hundred
delegates, representing all the more
important farmer organizations in the
state, numbering about 100000 voters,
it is said, is regarded by Governor
Whitman, State Controller Travis,
Lieutenant Governor Schoeneck and
other leading Republicans as menace
to the peaceful and prosperous condi-
tions prevailing in the state Republi-
can party.
The new organization osten3bly is
non partisan. It's sponsors say that it
would be disgrace for any farmer
actuating him. At the same time it is
patent to all the politicians that any
movement among the farmers, who in
normal times vote the Republican
ticket, is likely to prove disintegrating
and demoralizing, from Republican
point of view.
Near Parting With Whitman
The federation is against price fix
ing Of farm products unless there is
price fixing for everything that is pro-
duced Wednesday they were out
spoken against Hoover. They did not
attack the President, and they did not
by name attack the Governor or the
other state officials. At the same time
they seem to have reached the parting
of the ways with the Governor unless
something is done before next fall to
straighten out certain things. that they
regard as abuses.
1t is understood that when the new
Republican national chairman, Will II
Hays, of Indiana, gets to talking things
over this week with Governor Whit
man and the state leaders he will urge
the Governor to go out Of his way, if
necessary, to keep in the Republican
ranks the men who naturally are an
tagonistic to the Democratic party and
policies.
Whether Chairman Hays does this, il
! is certain that the Governor Will bring
to bear every modifying influence t<
( allay irritation among the men who
| furnish Republican pluralities.
The new federation demands the re-
tirement of Charles II. Belts, of Lyons
Wayne County, who, although not
! farmer is secretary of the State Fooo
Commission, at $4,000 year. Tha
salary suits Mr.. Belts. but the farmers
are angry whenever they think of it
He also is secretary Of the Council o,
Farms and Markets. The two commits
sions occupy the same Office
Plan Endangcrs Party
The menacing thing about the feder
alton movement is that the farmer.
seem to be in a mood to threw thei1
support to any political organization
that will aid them in the working out
of their aims, and it is this state o.
mind, so different from old times, thai
disturbs all the state officials who are
looking forward to denomination anc
reelection next fall.
The friends of Governor Whitma,
are confident that there is no one ir
sight that is "big enough" to beat hin
in the Republican primaries, and the,
argue that after the primaries he
stands to carry the state BY at lcast
$4,000
But along comes the new federation
Of farmers, headed by influential men
DR.. Silas l.. Strivings, of CASTLE, is ar
educator, Il college man, and he car
run state convention with the dex.
terlty of Lafayette B. Gleason OF
George A. Glynn. He is the temporary
president of the federation. Samue
A. Fraser. of Geneva, used to be tho
superintendent of the Wadswortf
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
IS Names Certified
In Congress Elections
Petitions of Several Received
Just Before Time
Limit Expires

Fifteen candidates in the Congress-
ional elections. to be held March 5. in
the 7th, sth, 21st and 22d Congress-
ional Districts, will be certified for
places on the ballots by the Board of
General Elections. The nomination
petitions of several candidates Were
received in the Office Of the board in
the Municipal Building only few
minutes before midnight last night,
when the time limit for filing petitions
expired. The names certified by the
board are:
Seventh District
John S. Gaynor. 1856 Keap Street, Brook
John j. Delaney. 1876 Nassau Street, Brook
lyn, Democrat.
Alexander Fraser 1l3 First Avenue, Brook
lyn, Socialist.
Eighth District
Wilmot l., Morehouse l3O Eighty eighth
Street Brooklyn Republican,
William Y. Cleary, Shore Road and Scv-
cnty-fourth Street. Brooklyn. Democrat.
Harry w Ladder, 396 Halsey Street,
Herman Naeher, 3l2 sixteth Street. Brook
lyn. Citizen party.
John A. Boil, 155 Hamilton Place. The
Bronx. Republican.
jerome +. Donovan. no address given,
Democrat.
Joseph D. Cannon. 1i3 West Eighty-hrst
Street, Socialist
Mamie ". Covin. SC West l79th Street,
Prohibition.
Reverdy c. Ransom tcolored). 80 West
l34th Street United Civic League.
Twenty second District
Richard Urlong, 299 Alexander Avenue.
The Bronx. Republican.
Anthony j. Griffin, no addrc given. Dem
ocrat
Arthur +; Dieckman, $40 East 13oth
Street, Socialist.
The colored candidate representing
the United Civic League presented his
petition at O'Clock last night, and was
informed tha he had an insufficient
number of names, the numbersreuuired d
for the 2lst being 2,24S. He left i'm
medlately. saying he would get the
names, but was not expected back bv
the members Of the board At ten min
utes TO II ne rushed into the Office
with 100 names to his petition He is
the editor of The African Methodist
Episcopal Review
disappointed Independent candi
date in the 21st District was Charlotte
Smith, Of 2136 Seventh Avenue. who
represented the Single Tax party. Her
petition contained 123l names. and
her representative, who presented the
petition. said he understood that 1900
were sufficient. When Informed that
the number required was 2,24s, he said
he would get them, but failed to return
by midnight.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Two More Arrested
In Drug Cleanup

Two moro arrests were made ycster-
day by. the Federal authorities in the
general roundup of alleged "dopc'
sellers, who, lit is charged. are carry
ing or their traffic open handed
throughout the CITY. Eight doctors
and druggists we're arrested bv the
Narcotic Squad and Internal Revenue
agents on Thursray
Or. John l.. Cornish was apprehendod ID
yesterday at the Office at 20l West
124th Street. of Dr. Ira +. Booth. who
was baeged in the first raid. The tenth
prisoner was +. T.. De Mar. also known
as "Scotty," who is said to be drug
runner for Dr.. A. A. Robert Bankow
sky, also in the Tombs. Bankowskv
had three offices, where it is alleged he
sold prescriptions for heron. cocaine
and other habit forming drugs. One
OF these, at PIT East Eighty-fourt h
street, was conducted in De Mars
name.
All ten of tho alleged traffickers
were arraigncd before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock in the Federal
Building yesterday. and held in bail
asgregating Sl05, 900. DR.. Bankowskv.
DR.. Booth and Dr. NJ A. Di Preta. O.
444 West 11Sth Street. were held in
$4,000 bail each, at the suggestion Of
Assistant United States Attorney Be-
A. Matthews
Barnet Kirschstein. Antonio petrar-
liza and Isadore S. Workin, the drug
glsts who are said to have worked with
the physicians in retailing the mar
cotics, were held'in $4,000 bail apiece
Ihelrr clerks, John Dwork and Henry
V. Meyers. were required to furnish
bonds of $4,000, while De Mar was held
In the same amount
The band was arrested on indie,
ments charging violation OF the Har.
rlson drug law. They are said to have
furnished dope" to drug addicts in
the navy.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
London and Texan
Have Row in House
Handshake With Representa-.
tive Dies Follows Bitter
Debate

WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.-Reprcsen-
tative Dies, of Texas, Democrat, as
sailed the Socialist doctrines of Rep
resentative London, of New York, in
the House to-day, and Mr.. London
made a vigorous reply. Later the two
shook hands.
Mr.. Dies, dcprecating that Mr.. Lon
don was called by Speaker Clark to
preside temporarily in the House re-
Gently, declared Mr.. London's social
ism was a nightmare in Russia, and
advised the Socialist member to go to
"his Lenine and Trotzky in the blight
ing shadow of Bolshevik socialism,"
Mr.. London, in rep:y, said MIR. Dies
knew nothing about socialism, and
added that the Texas member, invoking
the principles of Washington, Jcffer-
son, Madison and Hamilton gets his
inspiration from the grave and studies
the past, while l have my face set
toward the sun"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
New York Farmers Said
To Plan Full Stafe Ticket
Especial CoryesD0udeuce1

SYRACUSE, Feb. 23.-Meeting in
secret session after the organization of
the State Agriculture Federation here
early this week, leaders in that move
ment decided to place full state tick
ct IN the field this year. This ticket is
to be composed entirely of agricultur
lists. Candidates will be named for
every elective office from Governor to
Assemblyman
Attending this conference were Seth
j. I. Bush, author Of the resolutions
accusing Governor Whitman of turning
the Farms and Markets Council over to
the politicians; Samuel Frazer. of
Rochester, who bitterly attacked the
Governor on the floor of the conven-
ton, and many others. Local politi-
clans of both parties, who asked to be
heard, were refused admttance to the
council.
Two candidates are being mentioned
to head the ticket, Speaker Of the AS
sembly Thaddeus Sweet, Of Phoenix. and
DR.: Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca.
1t had been planned to keep the
whole affair secret and spring it short
~ before the primaries, but it leaked
out to-day. Onondaga County leaders
held another meeting last night and
talked over candidates.
The Republican leaders regard as
premature and without foundation any
statement at this time. saying that the
new Federation of Agriculture will
name an independent third party tick
ct for state officers next fall
State Chairman George A. Glvnn
when asked about the matter ycstcr-
day, said:
"It should be kept in mind that not
all the farmers os the state were repre-
sented at the Syracuse gathering. They
cannot be delivered by any one unless
they arc convinced in their minds that
thing ought to be done. Taken as a
whole; the farmers arc, perhaps, the
Notwithstanding people in the en-
tire state. individuals may organize a
new party, but that does not mean that
the farmers of the state are all going
to join it or vote a third party ticket
Plenty of things can happen between
now and primary time"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

food administration, puc the chief re-
lance is upon the farmer himself, and
am sure that that reliance will be
justified by the results.
THE chief thing TO be kept clearly
in mind is that regulations of this sort
are only part of the great general
plan of mobilization into which every
element in the nation enters in this
war, as in no other. The business of
war touches everybody. 1t is a stern
business, a cooperative business, a
business of energy and sacrifice, a bust
ness of service in the largest and best
and most stirring sense of that great
word"