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The sun., 1918-07-25
COP DOZES. is ROBBED;
AWAKES. NABS THIEF
Says Lester Flynn Tried to
Pass Loot to Sailor.

Even the hard working policeman who
tries to rest a bit after finishing a stretch
Of pavement pounding throughout a hot
night is considered fair game by the
light fingered gentry, as Patrolman BIZ
Mccormack OF the Bath Beach station
testified fervently yesterday.
Patrolman Mccormack had personal
as we'll as official reasons for leading
before Magistrate Geismar, sitting In
the Fifth avenue court. Brooklyn, a man
who described himself as Lester Flynn,
% years old, OF IS New Chambers street.
Manhattan, The patrolman told the
court that after working all night he
had dozed for moment while waiting
for n train yesterday morning in the
Ninth avenue station Of the Culver Line
to take him home. but had been brought
back to reality when he felt some one
digging into his pockets.
The patrolman said he grabbed Flynn.
who, according TO the policeman, had
taken stick pin and money belonging
to the guardian Of the law, The patrol
man added that when Flynn was accused
OF the theft he tried to pass the loot on
to sailor sitting next to him, The
sailor refused TO accept II.
Magistrate Gesnlar held Flynn with
out bail fer the Grand Jury on a grand
larceny charge.
The sun., 1918-07-25
W. H. CHILDS SEEKS
TO QUASH CHARGES
Justice Finch Reserves De-
ciSiOn in Case of MitcheHS
Financial Manager.

A vigorous effort to free William Ham
lin Childs from the three indictments
charging him with violation Of the cleo
ton law in the Mayoralty primary con-
test last year was made before Justice
Finch In the Supreme Court yesterday
by John b. Stanchfleld. Is!dor kresel and
J. Arthor I.eve. attorneys for the late
Mayor Mtchels former campaign man.
ager.
The main question of the merit of the
charges against Mr.. Childs was gone into
by his lawyers in their arguments on the
return Of the writ Of habeas corpus sued
out IN his behalf Tuesday. Justice Finch
reserved decision.
All OF the indictments 50 Mr. Stanch-
field said, hinged upon practically the
same proposition" In response to suG-
gest!on that writ of habeas corpus
might not be secured to free duly IN
dicted and mtried respondent Mr..
Stanchfeld declared II to he the province
cf the court to inquire into the merits OF
the case.
Mr.. Childs. so Mr. Stanchfield urged,
had complied with the corrupt practices
act in every particular. II was only
necessary for the secretary of the Mitchell
campaign organization to note the fact
that sll.5OO had been turned over TO
Childe. and for Childs in return to send
back to the committee a report Of the
expenditures made for purposes OF rec
ord Mr. Stanchfield declared
Il am inclined % disagree with you as
10 that" Justice Finch said. LAS TO your
other contention with regard to the
availability OF relief under writ Of
habeas corpus l think. subject to hear
ing from Mr.. Taylor the Assistant Dis
trict Attorney. that you are right,
The sun., 1918-07-25
FINDS RUNAWAY SON
PET OF CAMP MILLS
Cop, Nationwide Search
Ends 10 Miles From Home.

After a search of three months n
every important city in the Tinted
States, Ralph Nugent. Jr.. the fourteen-
year-old son of Police Lieutenant NJ.
gent, was discovered within ten miles
Of the home from WhtGh he disappeared
last April. The NuCent home is Nv Rirh.
mond Hin and the boy was located A.
Camp Mills
According to the story told he -~-
rived at the camp a chilly afternoon .rst
spring. telling a sad tale Of berg an
orphan from Columbus. Ohio jimmy
Kelly, as lie gave his name. made an
instant hit with the soldiers He wa
supplied with n khaki uniform. eiyer
his meals with the soldiers. So the van
dering orphan who had come TO rsuN
Mills in search of his brother lived 'o-
three months.
His father had visited the camp OBJ"
tw" occasions, searching FOR the hov.
but he was not easily recognizable =
his suit of khaki Finally tho elder
NuGent left the hoy's photograph WA
I..eut. Doruelly of the Quartermas,er.
Department. and this proved the -
manCirG YOUTHS undoIng For lcs'Sr-
dav the Lieutenant noticed S'r.tug
similarity between Jimmv and the rrn-
tnGraph ~ Ralph In fact he Wa -
certain that he telephoned and the ha.
father and mother came to the camp
The abrupt end Of Ralph's m'i'ar"
lif" might not have been SO sad had II
not been for the fact that he had -
leave behind the pet mule which '7i
been given him to ride about the ra'00
The sun., 1918-07-25
WHITE WAY PLACED
ON LIGHT RATION
Signs and Windows Dark
From Monday to Thursday
Under New Rule.
SUFFERS PUT ON CONEY
Fuel Conservation Plan to
t Cause General Dimncss
Throughout City.

The six candy kids rested from their
nightly caiisthenic exercises last evening
and the kitten that has played with It's
thread for so many years on Broadway
was nowhere to be seen. Nor were there
In evidence any other OF the huge cleo
trio sfsns. which have especially char
acterized Times Square and the rest OF
upper Broadway. But neither Reeve
Schley. Fuel Administrator for New
York city. nor Delos w. Cooke. Fuel Ad-
mtnistrator for New York State, nor any
other OF the coal conservation officials
care a whit. so long as this measure pre-
vents New York from shivering through
"heatless" days as it did last winter,
According to the ruling only exterior
lights over the entrances and exits of
public buildings. sufficient for public
safety, and signs locating telegraph and
telephone Offices characterized the hith-
erto White Way" last evening. The
windows of the shops and stores that
were open remained dark. although in a
number of cases the store interiors were
brilliantly lighted.
According to Administrator Schley's
Interpretation Of the new ruling. this
state of darkness will continue on Mon
DAY. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day nights OF each week until the order
Is rescinded
At I o'clock yesterday afternoon. when
the police went out on their beats. they
Systematically warned all property own
ers or holders of the ruling. A few
cases of delinquency were reported. but
these were Strengthened out in short
order. AS rule. however. Broadway
assumed the same appearance that it did
last winter when a similar order was
In effect.
Fred c. Gunnison. the administrator
for Brooklyn, is preparing to cope with
the situation in the borough in a sim
liar way. He stated yesterday that he
would take "A trip to Coney Island in
the evening in order TO take up the
question of lighting with the officials in
that resort The big display lights OF
Coney Island will have to go out" said
Mr.. Gunnison. However. the streets
and walks there are dark and there
must be some lighting for public safety"
The sun., 1918-07-25
HORSEMAN PURSUES
AND AIDS AVIATORS
Has Ambulance Ready When
Disabled Airplane Lands
in Brooklyn Lot.

To Mounted Policeman William Con-
ways lot there fell yesterday the honor
OF being the first traffic officer in New
York to pursue a runaway airplane and
render aid to its occupants.
1t was shortly after . o'clock yester-
day when the policeman saw the double
seated Curtiss biplane No. 2490 hover
ing over Third street. Brooklyn, between
Fourth and Fifth avenue. like a big
wounded bird 1t was evident that the
machine was out OF control. The police
man spurred his horse and began fol-
lowing its erratic flight
The machine circled down from an
altitude Of / 800 feet and seemed to be
trying for q landing in the old Federal
League ball park. at Third street and
Fourth avenue. Then it veered over to
n vacant lot next to the Fifth Avenue
Theatre and came heavily to the ground.
1t struck a rut. buried its nose and was
splintered.
Lieut. Donald Human. pilot of the air
plane. and Lieut.. Lorenz Casky. OBJ
server, scrambled from the ruins just
as the faithful Conway. who had called
an ambulance from the Methodist Epis-
copal Hospital, rode up to offer aid. He
found Lieut. Casky suffering from a
fractured jaw and minor hurts and
Lieut.. Humans right arm hurt. When
they had been treated at the hospital
Lieut.. Human returned to take charge
of the wreck.
Ten thousand persons gathered about
the vacant LOT and made efforts to carry
away pieces OF the plane as souvenirs.
Capt. John Collins and the reserves OF
the Fifth avenue station held them back
for hours. until army trucks arrived In
the afternoon TO take the splintered ma
chine back to Mitchell Field. at Mineola.
The sun., 1918-07-25
INTERNED GERMAN
ESCAPES BY WIRE
Bellevue Psychopathic Brings
LiUely Escape on East Side.

Clad only in paJamas and stockings
William Meyers, an informed enemy
alien. escaped last night from the psy-
chopathic ward at Bellevue Hospital by
climbing through ventilating shaft.
and then climbed hand over hand across
a stretch OF telephone wire to an adj
Joining building f6sy feet away in East
Twenty-ninth street
Across the roof of the Twenty ninth
street building the fugitive hurried, and
then started TO descend toward the street
along the face OF the side wall, which Is
broken by series OF indentations OF
the brick layers every few feet. Half
way down hospital attendants discov-
cred Meyers, who reversed his direction.
and clambered back to the roof crossed
il and AGAIN made the perilous hand
over hand climb across the telephone
wire.
Down through the ventilating shaft
Meyers disappeared and Cor the next hour
reserves from two police stations hunted
for him futifely Just before 2 o'clock
this morning policemen standing at
Twenty-sixth street and Avenue saw
a man coming toward them. his coat and
trousers and hat covered with lime.
Trey stopped him and identified Meyers.
He found the clothing In a building ma :
terial yard across from the hospital.
where 1t had been left by workmen.
The sun., 1918-07-25

THE story Of" &C, &c, &C, &c. SC,
&c, &c, &c. &C.. will have to make It's
way as novel. pure and simple-both
of which a first reading indicates II is
or 1t will fall right down on its own
foolish face.
Scene Laid In New England.
The novel opens in New Engl1nd, not
any particular part of New England, but
just New England. And right in the
first chapter Novelist Shonts strikes an
original note; instead of calling the
hired man Cy the novelist baptizes his
hero Silas. But the writer fops hard
early in the matter Of literary style mas
much as he insists twice on the first
page that there is such word In the
English language as overly"
In the second chapter Novelist Shonts
begins to crack bit under the strain,
however, at least TO the extent of chang
ing "Silas" to the bromide "Cy." For a
time. too. as dialect begins to crop out
In Chapter II. the reader feels his first
fears coming on that Novelist Shonts Is
about to introduce for the sake OF atmo-
sphere, some pages OF the dialect used
by the subway and elevated guards In
announcing train stations. Fortunately.
however. the novelist swings back 10 the
English language before he has gone too
far
There isn't ain indecent line in Novelist
Shonts's entire novel and absolutely no
sex appeal Nov elist Shonts merely tells
how Farmer Hopkins fed his hired man
constantly upon buttermilk and whey
until S!las was next door to all in. But
in time Farmer Hopkins woke up and
began TO inject bacon and eggs into Silas
and Silas promptly began to do his work
much better and everybody lived more
happily ever after-the farmer gathering
in the coin as Silas worked harder and
harder. whereas Sias just worked
harder and harder.
shows He's Gotta Have DC. Fares.
Novelist Shonts is too experienced a
literary artist to come right out and
BADLY point the moral. But as one
fevershly reads on and on through the
seven brief chapters one gathers that
what the novelist is getting at is that no
hired man or truck horse or clerk or
maid servant or peterborough or any
thing is cars BILE of good work unless II
is fed up daily with a good mess OF 6
cent fares,
The now addition To american letters
is beautifully illustrated on a fine quail
IL OF paper and its pages number just
Nnety-sixth street normally. or from
Fourteenth 10 Eighteenth street during
the rush hours.
The sun., 1918-07-25
CHEERS SPEED COPS
ON WAY TO BERLIN
Friends Give Big Fetc for
Medal Man and Mate as
They Go to Upton.

The tumult and tho shouting is slowly
dying out all over Williamsburg and
dust from the neighborhood OF the Stage
street police station is steadily settling
down upon the distant gowani of the
Gowanus and the fatbushmen OF Fiat
bush and other far points, as the last
spa SIN Of the celebration which marked
the departure yesterday Of Patrolmen
Charley McNally and Dan Collins for
army camps begins to peter out
A telegram OF good wishes from no
less a parsonage than the highly exalted
C'mish Richard Enright himself was re-
ceived by Patrolmen McNally and Col
Inns in the midst of the riproaring dinner
which their brother policemen OF the
Stage street station blew them to at
Johnny VOLTS refreshery In honor OF
the fact that henceforth McNally and
Collins will be in a service where, in
case they get their uniforms ripped off
in a mixup they will not haYe to dig
down in their own pockets to buy new
clothes.
Patrolman McNally-Charles X. &C.
cording to the family Bible inscription
has been a policeman only nine months,
but short as his service was II was long
enough for him to receive the coveted
Departmental Medal Patrolman Daniel
COLLINS mas been Dluccoat for even a
shorter period. but also found time since
Joining the force to win commentator
from his superiors for service we'll rem
dered. Both left yesterday for Camp
Upton to take up service as soldiers of
Uncle Sam.
Commissioner Enright's telegram to
Collins and McNa!ly expressed the con-
fdent hope that both would hang up a
record for bravery in the army as good
as the one they had established for
themselves in the Police Department.
Capt. John Kelly of the Stage street
station read the telegram and also acted
as toastmaster ut the police dinner held
in honor OF the departing men. There
were also addresses at the dinner by the
Rev. O. Slvestri Of the Church OF Our
Lady of Pompei and band from the
church furnished music during the
sprea6
The sun., 1918-07-25
MISSING FINGER IS
CLUE TO MURDERER


The notice said Las, MIGHT ,bev uere
hourly exnectinp 10 arrest NuCridi,ch
Mihitarian the norter Of o2t t.ast
Twenty-ffth street who is wanted on D..
charge of doubIe homicide Nihitart,m
TUESDAY aftsrnoor shot AVID lilIed bIs
employer and henerartor ,;uIIahi chi
beukian wealthy Armenian rur i'm
norter Of %, Eifth avenue
In a struggle to diso.r, tho irf,ri,,od
man. Serone GuIhenkian uenhev no.
ccIved a bullet wound in ,ba .hdowe,
iron, which be d,ed IN mo Nov yor,,
IIosnital n few hours later
After the shooting unitarian ,iarted
,brouph a roar door of ths ,uc es,ah.
lisbmeu, an tho mind anor NJ s,a h,iId-
inc M Licth avenue and Twenty seyen,r
street and esraned
Scores NJ datectivas dira,tcI nv In
sne,,or Gray head Of the homicide h,,-
rca, searched Yesterday the rabbit var
ron ,oremorts of the Armenian ro,or,.
ON tho lover West side II was also
learned that a simultaneous combirp az
tho foreirn Quarters of several roarb,,
citles .rd towns WIS beinp made
unitarian ia minus the third eusor
of his right hand and this fact is ex.
The sun., 1918-07-25
NEW THRIFT HABITS
CUT TOLL OF RUM
Bellevue Has Only Third of
Usual Alcoholic Cases.

Old Mr.. Demon Rum himself is ap-
preaching n condition as anRm!c rs the
near beer substitutes which are trying
TO replace him according to statements
which came yesterday from no less au-
thoritative n source than the Pink Ele-
plant Bureau OF the psycnopathic ward
at Bellevue.
Furthermore the demon is being
choked TO death by bales of Liberty
bonds and War Saving Stamps. The
undoubted fact that lot OF money
which used to go for booze is now spent
on war bonds and thrift stamps is one
of the reasons advanced by DR.. Stephen
p. Jewett. head OF Believes famous
ward for the woozies, for the marked
falling OF in the number OF alcoholic
cases treated there lately,
The high cost of firewater also has its
part in lessening the cases of alcoholism
DR.. Jewett thinks. During the six
months Just passed, DIR. Jewett said
Yesterday, about 1919 cases have been
treated in the alcoholic ward. as against
1875 cases treated there throughout the
corresponding period OF 1917.
Even though vast number OF work
ers are making more money these days
than they ever dreamed OF earning be-
fore they are, despite their sudden rise
in wealth. also practising thrift as never
before, a commendable condition of af-
fairs which. DR.. Jewett believes, Is
largely due 10 the Liberty bond and
Thrift Stamp habits. The bond and
stamp booths get thousands of dollars
here that formerly went over the bars
that pave Manhattan with mahogany
from the Battery to The Bronx.
DIR. Jewett dwelt upon the significant
fact that in recent months very few
young men OF draft age were treated at
Bellevue for alcoholism. Almost all the
cases since last winter have been men
ranging from 35 TO so years OF age. and
a majority Of these were cases OF chronic
alcoholism.
The sun., 1918-07-25
FIELD NAMED FOR Mitchell.
Aviation Officials Honor Late
Mayor and Other Filters

Orders were received Yesterday ON
cially designating FLYING Field No. 2. at
Mineola, as the John Purroy Mitchell
Field. in tribute TO the memory OF the
late Mayor OF New York city. who waa
killed in falling from an army biplane
at an aviation training camp in Louisi-
ana.
At the same time three other fields
were named for American aviators killed
in service. The order was signed by
Ma jor-Sen. William l.. Kenly. head OF
the American flying service. and trans
mitted to Major c. X. Rhinehardt. COM
manding the Mineola aviations camps.
The other aviators Tor whom the fields
were named were Major Raoul Lufbery
who was killed in battle with German
airmen in France Lieut.. Col. Henry j.
Damn and Lieut. col. e. G. Chapman
vino were also killed in action. Lufbery
Field is AT Wantaugh Dam Field at
Babylon and Chapman Field at Com
mack
The sun., 1918-07-25
EDITOR S4ONTS BREAKS
OUT INTO SUBWAY NOVEL
Seven Chapter Tale, With Not Racy Word, Hints
Interboroughs Gotta-Simply Gotta-Have
6 Cent Fare

Ye Editor Theodore r. Shonts, whose
literature TO the masses and his avoca-
ton the job OF presidenting the Inter-
borough whenever he can get away from
his typewriter, broke out with a best
seller yesterday.
1t was only last Monday that scriv-
ener Shonts. finding that his occasional
display posters in the subway did not
contain paper enough in which to pack
all his thoughts. liberated the first edi-
ton OF newspaper called the SubtDdy
Sun, a bit OF literary history which was
dutifully chronicled in the belles-lettres
section of THE Sun.
So well was Scrivener Shontss news
paper received on Monday that by Tues
day he felt a complete novel coming on.
and when he managed to get around to
It that day he showed some new paper
In his typewriter and banged out the
novel in seven chapters, which erupted
yesterday all over the subway. the sur
face cars and along the elevated lines.
An Open Hearted Title.
Novelist Shonts spared no words ink
or paper when selecting a title With
the combined help of Assistant Editors
Ivy Lee. Horse Power Wool IHenry
Proctor Waugh in private life). little
Malachi Colligan. the office boy in the
Shonts word factory, and Elevator
Starter Henry Dfsselkoopf Novelist
Shonts designed and built a title for his
novel, which runs. The Story of .Iud
Hopkins's Hired Man; or. Buttermilk
and Whey"
Right there. II must be said. Novelist
Shonts made his first false step, so
many rival novelists said last night. The
only reason for writing a novel. insisted
many of his jealous but less brilliant
contemporaries. is to have II dranatized
for the Broadway trade and so cop off
more royalties from the box office in one
night than mere novelist sees in a
year
But this Shonts guys book Is out OF
the running before it starts" said Ned
Wayhurn between acts OF the "Fo!lies'
last night Admitted II has pep and
plot and all that sort of thing it never
will be produced by a Broadway man.
ager. To put a title like The story of
Jud Hopknss Hired Man. or. Butter
milk and Whey out in front of a show
shop in electric lights would eat up more
coal than Doc Garfield will give US show
folks next winter; and even II the coal
were TO be had the electric light bill
would eat up all the profits"
Consequently twas nosed around the
literary life of the city yesterday that
The sun., 1918-07-25
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER,

For eastern New York--Local sbov.
crs to-day; tomorrow. partly CLOUDY.
gentle to moderate east winds
For New Jersey. local showers to.t,..
partly cloudy tomorrow, little Chenra q,
temperature, moderate winds nosti"
south. "''"y
For northern New England. partly CHINA.
to-day ana tomorrow. gentle to modera,.
northeast ana east winds.
For southern New England local sbo,
ers to-day: partly cloudy tomorrow mod.
crate east winds 'H'
For western New York, local showers -
day and Tomorrow w.
WASH1NGTON, July .t-The roo,,.
weather reported Thursday in Montan,
continues there and has extended thro"se
the Dakotas. northwest Ncbra ska nor
ern Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. vheT.
me temperatures tonight are from Is N
50 degrees below the seasonal ayerap.
~ IL also cooler In New England Win
high pressure. over the remainder Of IA
country high temperatures continue
. Ihere were quite general showers !,
Northwest states. Colorado and the gre.,
general valleys and local thunder shoN.rs
CUR states. In the Southwest and IN ths
PacihC states fair weather prevailed
There will be local showers THURSDAY in
the Atlantic and east Gulf States ANA
thursday and Friday In the lake region
IN the Ohio Valley partly cloudy weather
Thursday will he followed by showers Al
night and Friday
II Will be cooler Thursday in the urn.-
,ak, region and on Friday in the Ohio
Valley md lower lake tegion while in tbs
East and South Temperatures WITH no,
chanS- materially.
The sun., 1918-07-25
STRIKE AT MILLS
HITS NEWSPAPERS
Papermakcrs Likely to Meet
Little Sympathy. Says News
print Bureau Head.

81 believe the strike IS in direct viola
Labor Board and that the men will be
ordered to go back to work immed-
ately." said r. s. Kellogg OF the News
print Service Bureau yesterday refer
ring to the walkout OF $500 paper
makers fremen and other workers at
five mills of the international Paper
Company.
officials of the paper company are
gravely concerned. as thevfear the strike
may spread to their other fifteen mills,
Four Of the idle plants are located in
New York state, at Glens Falls. Fort
Edward, Corinth and Tconderoga. and
the NTH at Rumford. Me.
Should the strike spread to the other
plants the situation will he serious for
the daily newspapers and other large
users OF newsprint. as supplies on hand
AT the various mills are understood to
be sufficient to supply the needs of the
community for only one week. Some in
dividual publishers, though. have been
buying newsprint in the open market
and have accumulated enough to last
them six weeks TO two months.
The strikers say the company has
violated the wage fixing order of the
War Labor Board made in June. when
general walkout OF pape:makers through
out the United States and Canada was
threatened The board awarded the
workers general wage increase Of
about 90 per cent. which, the compan ny
claims. was 10 take the place of all
bonuses At that time n 10 per cent
bonus was being paid and the workers
insist that this should stand together
The sun., 1918-07-25
SEA BREEZE COOIS CITY.
Keeps Mercury ut So, hut Humtd!tT
Helps KIN Two

\ breeze from the sea helped q, .i'9s@
the ambition of tHe official nercu., ''s.
tcrday, and IL did not climb above 80
seasonahle summer height Of - T@'
high humidity. however, assisted Us 'I'
stored up Caloric Of other hottie. ia =
was responsible for two deaths tud s,'-
eral prostrations. The dead ar I,'r.s
J. Harmon, 80, ll9 West Seveut, -s.NN
street. and John Nella, seaman. 2tf West
Seventeenth street, Solomon Ro4fa.
bloom, when seeking relief in a haih'ah
AT his home. 255 Pennsylvania aNCun".
Brooklyn, was overcome and droWrCi
Showers seemed immincu' .e..'"I
times Yesterday afternoon, after iNr =
of wind from tho sea. but they hold ~
They may, the seers believe, ml.. .
more worth living to-day.