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New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Lieut.. Mitchell
Is Acquitted of
Draft Conspiracy
O'Neil and Others Accused
by u. S. Implicated by
Stories of Draftees

Judge Martin T. Manton in the Fed
eral Court yesterday directed the jury
to return a verdict of acquittal in the
case OF Lieutenant Leonard Mitchell,
who was on trial with Frank O'Neil,
former State Boxing Commissioner;
Lieutenant Oswald Simpson and Sam
uel Reichback on a charge of accepting
money to obtain the discharge or
transfer OF men in the military service.
Judge Manton took this action i'm
medlately. after George Curtis, AS
sistant United States Attorney, had
rested the case of the prosecution on
the ground that no evidence had been
presented against Lieutenant Mitchell.
lhe case against the others will be re-
sumed Monday when the defence will
start.
Martin w Littleton, counsel for
ONell, moved to dismiss the indict-
ment against his client. The motion
was denied
During the afternoon session the
government called several drafted men
to the stand. They told stories of how
they had, at the suggestion of Reich
back, consulted O'Neil to have him use
ms influence" with army officers to
nave themselves or their kin dis
charged from military service. In
each case where money was paid to
O'Nell, according to the testimony, he
gave receipts and promised to refund
the money if he was unsuccessful.
Louis Schlechtmann said that
through mutual friend he met Reich
pack and man named Cole. He de-
clared Relchback was introduced as ga
man who knew how to get men out of
the army" Reichback, according to
the witness, said that his LAWYER.
0eNeli, could have his son released
from the army by having him reex-
amlned and disqualified because Of
heart trouble.
The witness said that Reichback in
formed him that for $4,000 the matter
OF his sons discharge could be fixed
up. The money was not paid and
young Schechtmann was later released
on reexamination by the medical Of
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
David Banks Sickels

PATERSON, N. j., July 19.-David
Banks Sickels, aged eighty-one, au-
thor. traveller, lecturer and fnancier,
died to-day at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Andrew Derrom, 463 Ellison
Avenue.
Early in the Civil War Mr. Sickels
was a correspondent for New York and
other newspapers. Later he entered the
Federal army and rose to the rank of
colonel. After the war he was diplo-
matte representative for the United
States in Siam. Subsequently, with
Lyman w. Griggs, he founded the
American Surety Company.
Mr. Sickels travelled extensively in
the Orient, and was an international
authority on Eastern subjects.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Plays and Players

The New York War Camp Conmu-
nifty Service will give. q performance
at the Casino Theatre tomorrow
Among the performers Who have vol
unteered are Frank Clrman, Grant
Evans, Dixieland Jazz Band, Andy
Tombes and Rena Parker, Triangle
Trio, the Dooleys, Mollie King, Jessica
Brown and Billy B. Van.
Harry Clarke, who played the part
of the society press agent in "The
Kiss Burglar" at the Eltinge Theatre,
has enlisted in the navy and was called
to the colors yesterday.
Peggy Wood will return to the cast
of "Maytime" at the Broadhurst Thea
tre on Monday.
Eyes of Youth" will move to the
Thirty-ninth Street Theatre on Mon
day.
Olga Roller has been added to the
cast of THE Passing Show of 1918"
which will open at the Winter Garden
on Thursday.
Orlando Daily has been added to the
cast Of THE Blue Pearl" which comes
to the Longacre Theatre on August 5.
Cotton White has been engaged for
the role OF the postmaster IN Mother $
Liberty, Bond to be produced at the
Park Theatre
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Nurses Work i'm Pitch
Darkness All Night
Red Cross Receives Interest.
ing Account of Exploits
During Air Raid

WASHINGTON, July 19.-How dur
ing an air raid twenty American Red
Cross nurses were called to new hos
ptal near the front, where in pitch
dark wards eight Of the number as
sisted in caring for 200 wounded Amer
lean soldiers throughout the night, is
told in communication from Miss
Julia Stimson, chief nurse of the Red
Cross in France, received at Red Cross
headquarters here. The story of the
incident follows:
Summoned in an emergency to take
care of American soldiers in a hos
pital near the front, twenty Red Cross
nurses were packed in @ large motor
omnibus with an army nurse who was
going up with her surgical team.
When the town was reached at 10 p. m.
the place was in such absolute black
ness it was impossible to read the
signs in the streets. and difficult to
keep in the road Soon two American
military police stopped the truck and
guided it to Red Cross headquarters,
where Captain Jackson came to direct
us to the hospital.
"By means of occasional flashes from
hand torch it was possible to follow
the guide to the Ecole Professionals,
which had just that day become an
American Red Cross hospital. By this
time the siren was sounding the warn
ing of the air raid and guns were
booming. The nurses hurried across
a cloister-like corridor into pitch
black room because, it was explained,
it was unsafe for them to stay out in
the open.
"There were about 200 American
patients in the building and few
French soldiers. The severe raids of
the day before had completely demor-
allied the civilian employees, who had
left. Gas, electricity and water mains
had all been put out of business.
at was stated that at least eight of
the new nurses would be needed that
night and volunteers were asked for.
Every one of the twenty volunteered.
The first eight women who could be
touched in the darkness, much as chill
dren pick leaders in game, were put
over on one side and the rest were
conducted to an empty ward which
contained absolutely nothing but bed
frames, with metal slat springs.
"The eight night nurses, discarding
their hats and coats, were then taken
to pitch-black wards full of wounded
men. where they worked until day
light"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
To Take Up Draft Issue

Russian citizens who have been
drafted into the American army under
the selective service act will soon have
the question of their right to exemp-
ton from military service taken up by
the Cabinet at Washington, according
to letter from the Russian Embassy
to the Bureau of Legal Advice of this
city.
The selective service act expressly
excludes the drafting of aliens, and, as
no agreement has been reached be-
tween the Russian and American gov
ernments, many Russians now in the
army have been illegally inducted.
There is provision in the act for
men who have taken out first papers.
The matter is complicated by the
fact that Washington still retains as
Ambassador to this country the Keren-
sky envoy and has failed to recognize
the present Russian government, the
Soyiets.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
MIXED arty' Can't
Compel Service IL,
Negro Restaurant
A. Cohn's Suit Charging
Color Discrimination Dis
missed by Court

The Appellate Division, in a recent
to white man who was refused ser
vice IN negro restaurant in Harlem
Arthur Cohn, Hebrew, entered the
restaurant kept by Isaac Goldgraben in
The head waiter refused to serve
Cohn and Williams on the ground that
1t was against the rules of the place to
serve "a mixed party" Cohn brought
suit for damages in the Cd District
Municipal Court, but jury dismissed
the complaint.
The majority opinion of the Appel
late Division, upholding the Judgment
of the lower court, was written bv
Justice Whitaker, who held that there
was no refusal to serve Cohn because
of color or race" The opinion set
forth the following unusual discrimi-
nation:
"The plaintiff was white and his COM
panion was colored. They were both re-
fused service, so it could not have
been on account of color. The
served applied to white as we'll as
colored There was no discrimination
as to one color in favor of another.
"The record plainly indicates that
both parties would have been served
at separate tables and that plaintiff
knew this and refused service at a
separate table. How can it be said
then, that he was refused service on
account of his color?"
COINS suit was brought under the
civil rights law amended in 1918. In
dissenting opinion Justice BLUR
wrote:
ut seems to me to be clear that the
plaintiff was on the occasion in ques-
ton, denied the privileges of the de-
fendant's restaurant because he was
white. The defendant virtually said to
the plaintiff, If you were colored and
came here with Williams you would
be served but, being white, we will
not serve you The law naturally does
not undertake to define or even to in
dicate which, if any. race or color may
be regarded as superior. It's sole and
manifest purpose is to prevent dis
elimination on that account"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
,lhe Tribune Fresh Air Fund

Here are outpourings from the hearts
OF three mothers.
One Of them read in Wednesday, 8
Fresh Air column the question of the
woman who asked whether it was
worth while to send children from the
tenements to the country. She sent
her boys to Fresh Air hosts years ago.
She writes:
Il want to say Yes, Yes!' it is worth
while to send tenement children to the
country! My boys were sent there by
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund years ago,
and know it helped to make good men
of them. In grateful remembrance /
send IS as a contribution to the Fund,
wish 1t were more. l sometimes think
how fine it would be if more mothers
sent little in memory of the happy
days so spent. With best wishes for
the Fund. Yours truly,
"Mrs. j. R-----."
The other mothers were looking
toward the future, not back at the
past. when they wrote their letters to
the fund.
Having heard how good you have
been to hundreds of children in send
ing them to the country, beg you you
should send mine, because they suf-
fered very much this winter, and even
now they are not getting what they
should get. l have five. My husband
was hurt-it's nearly two months-and
have to work hard to make ends meet.
l am living in q bad section and my
rooms are bad-only skylght air. SO
if you could send them for couple of
weeks it would make them strong for
the winter.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
"Yours truly, MRS. B."
II hope you will excuse me troubling
you at this time. But l write to ask
you if you know of any place I could
put my children in the country during
their vacations. l am the mother OF
my husband eight months ago. l do
my utmost to support them with the
help Of $40 month which I receive
from the ST. Andrews Scotch Society
| go out washing during the day,
which leaves them to look after them
selves. And l feel they would be bet
ter off where they could be attended
to more than can during the hot
weather.
Respectfully, MRS. -"
These mothers did not expect that
their appeals to the fund would be
published, but they tell the who
story. nevertheless. There is no need
to add to them anything in the way
of an appeal to the friends of children,
unless it is this little picture of Joy
from the pen Of Robert:
Dear Mrs. Donovan.
III hope you are we'll and the hole
family. l wish the cat was out out
here he would get good eats and home
keeping just like do i drank
BOWLS Of milk and the cat could have
all she wanted if she was here
"From ROBERT"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Balfour Opens Drive
For Business School
Starts Campaign for Commerce
Department for London
University
Uniycrsity

LONDON, July 19.-With the in
dorsement Of Arthur J. Balfour, the
forelgn Secretary, campaign is under
way to have London University insti-
tute the study Of and degrees in COM
merce. At meeting last night. at
which Mr.. Balfour was the chief
speaker, the scheme was warmly in
dorsed, and a committee was appoint
ed to raise funds to further the cam
paign.
After dealing with various objec-
tlons, especially the contention that
the scheme would lower university
study, give it an almost sordid aspect
and have narrowing effect, Mr.. Bal
tour said the courses of study proposed
would widen the view of those engaged
IN commerce. "Some persons seem to
think that the infinite activities of the
commercial and industrial world were
beneath the notice of highly educated
ana intelligent men," he. said. but con-
does not exist"
The Foreign Secretary declared
there were few subjects having so
many aspects of interest. The making
transporting and marketing of goods
and the financing of their distribution
formed subject so profoundly COM
plicated, he said, that man not need
ing to earn living and having no idea
of gain might well devote him self, from
a purely scientific viewpoint, to these
subjects. Commerce, he said taught
the science of social organization
diplomacy and international relations
in every aspect.
"How can such study have a mar
rowing effect? ?" Mr.. Balfour asked, and
concluded: "The university will do a
great work if it will carry out such a
scheme"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
King George Gives
Park for u. S. HOSPITAL

LONDON, July 19.-The proposal to
establish an American Ned R Cross hos
has been discarded, owing to the diff
culties that would be encountered in
draining the soil. The King there
fore asked the American army authori-
ties to choose a suitable site in any of
the other royal parks.
The high ground in Richmond Park,
overlooking the Thames. has been Sc
iected. II ia close to the South Afri-
can Hut hospital, where there are al
ready nearly 400 American sick.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
7. M. G.. A. Men Reviewed

Four hundred Y. M. C. A. secretaries
soon to leave for overseas service we're
reviewed yesterday by DR.. William T.
Manning, rector of Trinity Church and
chaplain at Camp Upton, in the Armory
of the 9th Coast Artillery Corps, 1926
West Fourteenth Street.
To Lieutenant Colonel George w.
Burleigh. who has been assigned by
Colonel j. r. Delafeld, of the 9th Coast
Artillery Corps, to drill the "Y" secre-
tares, Dr. Manning said that he was
immeasurably pleased with the type of
man represented, and asserted that
Of this calibre were in the service.
He then addressed the men from the
bridge Of 10-inch gun.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Fuel Administrator Garfield
Calls for Resumption of
Conservation Measure
Street Illumination
Reduced to Minimum
Open-Air Eating Places and
Outdoor Movies Only
Exemptions
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune,


WASHINGTON, July 19.-To con
serve coal Fuel Administrator Gar
field to-day promulgated a new light
less night order, which prohibits the
use Of fuel for outdoor illumination
during the first four days of each week
in New England and the Eastern states.
and places q similar prohibition in ali
other sections of the country on Mon
days and Tuesdays only. Only bona
fde outdoor food and entertainment
establishments are exempted from the
operation of the order
Under the cr0er the use of light
generated or produced by the use or
consumption Of coal, gas, oil or other
fuel for illuminating or displaying ad-
vertisements, announcements or signs,
or for the external ornamentation of
any building will be discontinued en-
tirely on Monday. Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of each week with
in New England and the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware. Maryland and the District of CO.
lumba. Il will be entirely discontin-
ued on Monday and Tuesday of each
week in all the remainder of the
United States. The order eXcepts roof
gardens and outdoor restaurants and
outdoor moving picture theatres.
Street Lights Dimmed
Street illumination in all cities will
be restricted to the hours between sun
set and sunrise, and the amount of
public lighting in any city will be
reduced TO that necessary for safety.
The order charges local fuel admins
tration officials with the duty of ar
ranging with the proper municipal au-
thorities for the regulation of public
lighting, in accordance with the pro-
vision of the order
The use of light for illumination or
display in shop windows, store Win
dows, or in signs in show windows, will
set, and viii be discontinued entirely
on the "lightless nights" designated
by the order
The Bureau of Standards of the De-
partment Of Commerce has advised the
fuel administration that it is estimated
that about 100000 tons of coal a
year is used for advertising purposes,
including display and show window
lighting, in the United States. Similar
estimates fix the amount of coal used
IN advertising lighting in New York
City at 10000 tons a pear.
Asks Cooperation With Miners
With the miners of the country re-
spending Loyalty to the appeals of the
fuel administration for increased pro.
duction, the weekly output Of bitumin-
Gus coal is SURPRISING all previous
records, it is stated. The efforts OF
the fuel administration, operators and
miners to increase production must be
supplemented, however. by the eimi-
nation of every wasteful or unneces-
sary use of COAL it is said. The enor-
nous war demand for fuel makes it
imperative that the country make the
most economical use possible, even OF
the constantly increasing OUTPUT.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Commons Passes Alien Bill

LONDON, July 1o.--The British ma
tionaiity and status of aliens bill was
adopted by the House Of Commons to-
day by unanimous vote.
The bill had been amended by add
ing provision that no certificate Of
nationality shall be granted for a Pc
Rod of five years after the war to any
Germany subject or any subject of any
country at war with Great Britain, un-
less he has served in the British or
Allied forces, is member of race
or community known to be opposed to
enemy governments or was British
subject at birth.
Another amendment empowers the
home Otfce to assent to the applica-
ton of British born wife of an en-
envy alien to resume her British ns-
tionality.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Red Cross Mission
From Japan Gets
Warm Welcome
Brief Address Made by
Prince Tokugawa in Penn
sylvania Station

An unusually enthusiastic welcome
was accorded the special commission
of the Japanese Red Gross, which ar
rived from Washington last night at
the Pennsylvania Station on its way to
France, headed by Prince Yohihisha
Tokugawa, n descendant of the last
shogun of Japan.
Hundreds of travellers awaiting
trains and practically all the passen-
gers on the Congressional Limited,
which brought the commission to this
city, assembled on the main level and
listened to the brief address made by
the prince, who spoke in English.
Ethan Allen, manager of the Atlantic
Division of the American Red Cross,
headed the reception committee and
arranged for the transportation of the
visitors to the Waldorf-Astoria in
motor cars of the Women's Red Cross
Motor Corps.
Prince Tokugawa expressed the
gratitude of his country, the commits
sion and himself for the warm well
come that had been accorded to the
party since it arrival in America, and
explained that he could not express
any opinion on national or world poll
tics, as his work concerned only that
of the Red Cross.
The party will visit the Stock Ex-
change this morning, and after visit
ing the Woolworth tower will take
luncheon at the Union Club as guests
of Ethan Allen. Among those who will
attend are Henry P. Dawson, Don G.
Seitz, Jacob H. Schiff, Frank N,
Doubleday and c. Yada, the Japanese
Consul General.
The afternoon will be given over to
visit to the aviation field at Min
cola, where the visitors will witness
flights by army aviators. Later they
will be driven to the home of Henry
P. Dawson. at Locust Valley, where
they will spend several days.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
True Bill Is Returned by
Richmond Grand Jury
Against F. Jefries
Hylan Asked to Act
Committee Will Go to WASH
ington to Demand u. S.
Take Over Concern

While the Board of Estimate, in ex-
ecut've session, was discussing proffer-
ing to the Federal authorities the $2,-
ooo,000 garbage disposal plant on Stat
/ en- Island. the Richmond County Grand
Jury indicted Frederick Jeffries, the
superintendent, on charge of opcrat-
ing it in an Improper and inefficient
manner. causing it to become public
nuisance"
Reports by sanitary experts of the
municipal and state health departments
and personal investigation by nine
grand jurors prompted the handing
down of the indictment. member Of
the State Board of Health appeared be-
fore the grand jury and read report
from Thomas Horton, the chief en-
gineer of the board, to Governor Whit
man, informing him that the plant had
become a nuisance. The investigating
jurors reported that they had found
nine barges tied up at the piers Of the
plant. The barges, they said. had been
there for sixty days.
Wednesday committee of grand
jurors visited Mayor Hylan with plea
to take steps to abate the alleged nui-
sance. It Is cutting real estate values
in Staten Island by 40 per cent and re-
tarding the borough's growth generally,
they said. The health of the popula-
tion, including the thousands Of ship
yard workers, is being endangered, they
declared.
1t was expected last night that as a
result of this appeal the Metropolitan
ByProducts Company, which operates
the plant, would lose it's contract.
Preparations for grand celebration
throughout the island had been made.
To the disappointment of majority
/ of the one hundred thousand Rich
mondites. the Board of Estimate, at its
meeting, merely discussed the posi-
bilities of persuadng the government
to take over ard operate the plant.
A committee, of which Mayor Hylan
is chairman, was appointed. 1t will go
to Washington Thursday to confer with
the War and other departments. 1t was
stated that the Metropolitan company,
which was supposed TO purchase the
garbage from the city, had defaulted
in payments. Lack of funds prevented
the city from assuming management of
the plant, it was said. The government
will be told that glycerine, fertilizer
and grease-three essential war prod
cuts-can be obtained from the opera
tion of the plant. Proper management
will insure against it's remaining a pub
lie nuisance, the committee will main
ia
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
5000 Buenos Ayres Bakers
Join General Strike Move

BUENOS AYRES, July 19.-One-half
of the 5000 bakers emoloyed in the
city of Buenos Aires have Joined the
general strike movement under the
direction Of an anarchistic strike COM
mittee. Efforts have been made by the
committee for two weeks to bring
about general strike OF all labor
throughout Argentina.
The employees of power houses
threaten TO walk out with the next
few days and the government is pre-
pairing to use naval engineers and fire.
men in their places.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Famous Fearing Library
Left to Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 19.-The
entire library of Daniel Butler Fear
ing, who died recently at Newport,
r. l., is to be presented to Harvard
University, under the terms of his
Will.
The Widener Library at Harvard al
ready houses two of Mr. Fearing's
collections of books; the Persius col
lection. assembled by Mr.. Fearing and
the late Professor Morris H. Morgan,
and the Fearing collection of books
On angling. The latter consists of
more than 10000 volumes in twenty
languages, including all editions Of
Izaak Walton
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Lichnowsky Expelled by
Prussian House of Lords

AMSTERDAM, July 10. = Prince
Lchnowsky, German Ambassador in
London at the outbreak of the war,
whose disclosures attributlng responsi-
bility to Germany for rne bringing
on of the conflict brought m into dis
favor at home, has been permanently
excluded from membership in the Prus-
san House of Lords, according to the
dusseldorf Nachrichten."
minority of the members voted
for the temporary exclusion OF the
Prince.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Empire State Asked
For q. 285 Nurses


ALBANY, July 1s.-New York state
is asked to enroll 4,2S5 women, between
the ages of nineteen and thirty five, as
its share of the $4,000 women the gov
ernment is seeking to recruit for the
United States Reserve.
Recruiting stations will be opened
July 20 and continue to August II. Ap-
plicants may apply for training in a
civilian hospital or the Army School
for Nurses. They must hold themselves
ready for assignment to a training
school until April /, 1919. Women with
high school or college educations are
preferred, though this is not essential
to enrolment.
Mrs. Alexander Trowbridge, chief of
the Womans Division of the State
Council of Defence, is in charge of the
New York campaign.