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New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Germany r Reduces
Meat Ration Again;
Seizes Old Suits
Fabrics Are Badly Needed
Paper Curtains Are
Now in Vogue

AMSTERDAM, July ga reduction
in the weekly meat ration in Germany
from $50 to 200 grams is reported
by the "Vossische Zeitung," of Berlin.
Tho new ration comes into force on
August II.
Inc German government has given
final notice" to the public to give up
voluntarily at least one suit of clothes
each to the war workers and the army.
Failure to meet the demand will result
IN forclble requisition and delinquents
Will be liable to imprisonment for one
year and fine not exceeding 10000
marks.
With very few exceptions none of
its assessment of worn clothes to make
up the aggregate of the one million
suits required.
Greater Berlin has contributed only
34.994 of the $4,000 suits demanded.
How high the need for fabrics has
risen is shown by decree announcing
the impending confiscation of curtains.
which will be replaced gratis with
paper-fbre material, or paid for at
the original peace time cost price, less
wear and tear.
Although private residences have
been exempted from the confiscation
fer the present, there already is good
deal of grumbling. The ''Lokal- An
zeiger," of Berlin, makes bold to say:
"The population. especially the
of making endless sacrifices. If the
government wants things it should pay
handsomely, as it does the war mate
| rial puryeyOrS"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
House Committee
Sees u. s. Navy
In English Waters

LONDON, July 29.-The Naval Af-
fairs Committee of the United States
House of Representatives, headed by
Lemuel P. Padgett, its chairman, has
arrived in London after an uneventful
voyage on an American battleship.
The committee was met by repre-
sentatives of the British Admiralty
and other officials, and before proceed
ing to London visited the naval bases
and witnessed the joint activities of
the British and American navies in
those waters.
The members of the committee to-
day visited Vice-Admiral Sims, Am
bassador Page and the First Lord of
the Admiralty, and were the guests of
the American Club. They attended the
debate on the Irish question tonight
in the House of Commons
The committee will remain in Eng
land several days and will then 20 to
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
WilsonandG Go1npers
Confer on Moonev
And Child Labor
Wilson and Gompers
Confer on Mooney
And Child Labor

WASHINGTON, July 29.-President
Wilson, at conference to-day with
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, dis
cussed child labor legislation proposed
as substitute for the law recently de-
clared unconstitutiona by the Supreme
Court. The case of Thomas ]. Mooney.
California labor leader, sentenced to be
executed December 10. also was dis
cussed, Mr. Gompers said.
1he President expressed q deep in
terest IN the proposed child labor legis-
latlon, according to Mr.. Gompers, and
considered it especially necessary dur
ing the coming years, when the health
and lives of children must be guarded
IN order to make I'D for the losses sus-
tanned in the war.
New Bill Is Expected
Mr.. Gompers after the conference
expressed the belief that bill in ac-
cordance with the Supreme Court de-
cislon Will be introduced shortly after
congress meets after its recess.
Mr.. Gompers declined to state the
views he presented in the Mooney case
further than to say that in discussing
as a representative of labor.
Mooney Protests Made
Delegations of labor representatives
from nearly every state in the Union
to-day gathered in Washington to pre-
sent protest to the President against
the execution of Mooney. An executive
committee to-day arranged an appoint
ment at the White House Tomorrow
afternoon.
1t is understood that the delegation
Will urge the President to direct the
department of Justice to act in the
Mooney case to secure Federal iuris
dlctlon and remove the case from the
Sallfornla state courts. Mooney has
been charged during the progress Of
his trial with being a German agent.
IT the Federal government wishes to
take action on these grounds, it was
said, it could obtain jurisdiction,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Prussian Born,
His Dearest Wish
To Fight Germany

Max Hecht, a manufacturer of this
city, tor ten years was literally man
"lthout country because of his ha
tred OF Prussia and Prussianism. Al
though he was born in what now is an
integral part of the German Empire.
ne would enlist in a moment, he said
yesterday, to fight Germany if the
united States would accept him. He
never felt the weight of his sixty-tiye
years, Mr.. Hecht added, until he real
lied that they barred him from the
army of this country.
Mr.. Hecht was born in a village in
the Duchy of Nassau on Christmas
day, 1858. He was only thirteen wears
old when Prussia enveloped and alb
sorbed the duchy. but the high handed
methods of the Prussians made a deem
impression on him. For three wears
he pleaded with his father for permis-
sion to come to America, saying that
he never would grow to manhood in
Prusslan state. In 1863 his father
gave him leave to sail.
That was not enough for Max
Hecht. He wanted formal release
from all obligations to Prussia. That
was granted upon his fathers appl-
cation. and was one of the last of such
documents given by the Prussian gov
ernment. The discharge which Hecht
received read:
The undersigned Royal Government
hereby certities that Max Hecht, of
Ruppertshofen, Royal district of Mas
taetten, IN the Unterlahnkreis of the
circuit of the Government Wiesbaden.
born on December 25, 1853, was
granted discharge from the community
of Prussian subjects, for the purpose
OF emigration to America, on the mo-
ton of his father, Tobias Hecht of
Ruppertshofen.
This document of discharge carries
with it, but only so far as the ex-
pressiy named individual is concerned.
the loss of the character of a Prussian
subject from the date it is served.
Royal Prussian Government.
"By Authority.
From June IS, 1869, therefore. until
he obtained his final citizenship papers
in the United States ten years later.
Max Hecht was subject of no monarch
and citizen of no nation. They were
ten happy years, however, he said yes
terday, and he never has ceased to CON
gratulate himself that even the law
of the Imperial German government
that subject of the empire could be-
come naturalized in another country
without losing his German citizenship,
never laid his motives or his American
citizenship open to question.
"The dearest wish of my life would
be granted" he said. "if could enlist
to-day to fight the PrussianA-"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Food Council Formed
For All the Allies

LONDON, July 30. - The conference
in London between the food controllers
Of the United Kingdom, United States,
France and Italy is continuing. 1t is
expected the controllers will conclude
their discussions by the end of the
week.
Satisfactory progress has been made
and the establishment of an inter
allied food council, composed of the
controllers, is now an accomplished
fact. A resolution adopted to-day en-
phasizes the need for economy and the
elimination of waste, as we'll as in
creased production, in order to build
up the stocks as insurance against all
possibilities. 1t concluded:
"We cannot administer the food
problem on the basis of one years
wants. We must prepare for long con-
tinuance, if we are to insure absolute
victory"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Three Ex-Premiers
Take Stand for Malvv

PARIS, July 29.-Ex- Premiers Vivi-
ana, BRAND and Ribot were heard to-
day at the trial of Louis Malvy, for
mer Minister of the Interior, charged
with holding communication with the
enemy. This was known as Premiers'
Day. All three witnesses had been
President of the Council when M NAL
vey was head of the Interior Depart
ment.
M. Viviani protested against the re-
port that M. Malvy had been the Great
urc of M. Caillaux. He said Malvy
had always done his duty.
M. BRAND said that when he formed
cabinet he intended to exclude
Malvy, as he was not personal friend
and they differed in politics, but at the
eleventh hour he decided to confde
the portfolio of the Interior to Malvy
as the best man available.
M. Ribot testified that during the
three years he was the colleague of NJ.
Malvy nothing occurred for which the
minister could be reproached.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30

the government will wthohold its
threatened action regarding calling up
notices and that no victimization of in
divlduals takes place.
thousands of the Coventry strikers
returned to work this morning, at least
one OF the largest factories having a
full staff on its early shift After the
breakfast hours still more men re-
turned to their benches. The manager
Of one Of the works expressed view
that the strike had "fzzled out"
Acting on resolution passed by
their colleagues yesterday, the strikers
IN munition works in Birmingham re-
turned to their places Of employment
this morning. Although their hostility
to the embargo upon skilled labor is
unabated, the promise of an inquiry
into the situation has reconciled the
strikers to the inevitable. Some of
them had hostile reception from the
men and women who had remained at
work
1t is expected the action taken by
the workers in Coventry and Birming
ham Will have soothing effect in other
districts where the men have been
threatening to lay down their tools.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Number To Be Greatly In
creased, Says Sir Eric
Geddes at Dinner
Closest Cooperation
F. D. Roosevelt Declares Brit
ish Own and Convoy so Per
Cent of Transports

LONDON, July 29.-"There is no
branch of Anglo o-American activity in
which cooperation and comradeship are
more marked and more complete than
in the navy" said Sir Eric Geddes,
First Lord of the British Admiralty,
speaking to-day at the American
Luncheon Club. "There are more than
$50 American warships now based on
this side," Sir Eric said, "and Mr..
Roosevelt (Franklin D. Roosevelt,
American Assistant Secretary of the
Navy) has assured us this number will
increase faster in the future than in
the past.
"We are glad to welcome all these ad-
ditions to the Allied naval strength"
Sir Eric added, because every addi-
tional ship means more strenuous
war against submarines.
Releases British Ships
Large numbers of ships are being
required nowadays for the work Of
escorting incoming American trans
ports. If a ship is on escort duty it
NdllIiOt NC uuICiIlR anu uSI'iHS
rines. So the additional American
forces will mean the release of a SINH
lar number Of British for intensive
offensive work against Uboats."
The guests included the members of
the Naval Committee Of the American
House of Representatives.
Mr. Roosevelt said:
~ came over here with the object of
learning. That is why | came across
the Atlantic in a DESTROYER. l shall
spend most of my few weeks on this
side in actually seeing things being
done.
Finds Geddes 'fHe Man.
"Sir Eric Geddes and myself already
have visited Queenstown, and we have
found things working there just as |
had dreamed they ought to be working
"a keen, unified energy of British and
American forces aiming at common
end. 1t has been great pleasure to
meet Sir Eric, to travel with him on an
American destroyer and to find him a
he man. talking in our own language.
"The United States owes much to the
untiring work of the British navy, for
it is fact that about go per cent Of
the troopshlps carrying Americans to
Europe are British ships and have been
escorted by British men -of-war.
"The United States has, | believe, at
last struck its stride in naval construc-
ton, and we shall deliver ships very
rapidly henceforth.'
Mr.. Roosevelt had long interview
With King George this morning.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Rosenberg Too
German; Alderman
Now "Robeson':


To cut the last shreds of association
with Germany which fingered in his
1eutonlc name, Alderman William G.
rosenberg yesterday announced that
n ne = had changed his name to William
=: Robeson. President Alfred E. Smith
of the Board of Aldermen received tbn
following letter from him: @''
desire to inform you that have
changed my name, owing to it's Ger
man man origin, from Rosenberg to Robe
son. and | have this day assumed the
name of William C. Robson, and de- de-
sire and request that hereafter | be
addressed by that name"
Alderman Robeson is an attornev
ana an iives at 5 West One Hundred and
lwenty-second street. He said he had
changed his name without going into
court, as the Court of Appeals held =
NUMBER of years ago that person
could legally discard his or her name
adopted one. S
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
81 Neglect Soda Glasses
Summonses Issued, II Fined
and Nine Paroled

Ninety-seven summonses have been
issued to soda water fountain and drug
store proprletors charged with failure
to cleanse drinking glasses in the man
ncr required by the Health Depart
ments ordinance. This crusade began
on Friday, after Commissioner Royal
S. Copeland of the Health Department
and Major Charles A. Smith. of the
Surgeon Generals office, had conferred
regarding the protection of enlisted
men from communicable diseases.
Magistrate Smms fined seventeen
ordinance violators from 81 to SIS yes
terday in the Harlem police court. In
the Tombs police court nine others
were paroled on their own recogni
zance until Friday.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
British Strikers Go
Back to War Plants;
Wait Arbitration

LONDON, July 29.-At mass meet
ing in Coventry to-day the strikers in
the munition plants decided to re-
sumo work Immediately.
The meeting passed a resolution ac-
cepting the governments offer of a
committee of inquiry and agreeing to
resume work forthwith on the under
standing that the committee will sit
mediately and will include local rem
resentatives of their union; also that
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Air Mail From Philadelphia
Arrives Here in Ar Minutes

Lieutenant Bonsal, carrying air mail
from Philadelphia, made a new record
yesterday, landing at Belmont Park at
2:15 p. m.. forty-two minutes after
leaving Philadelphia.
Bonsal's average speed for the trip
exceeded 120 miles an hour. Most of
the way he drove through rain. He
carried seven sacks of mail, weighing
ITS pounds
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Nungesser Cited
For Legion of Honor

PARIS, July 90. - Lieutenant Nun
gesser, the second French Ace, was
cited for the Legion of Honor day,
having brought down. according to the
official announcement, thrty-one Ger
man planes and destroyed three OBJ
scrvation balloons. He has received
many wounds and has been cited fif-
teen times. and is created an officer
of the Legion of Honor for "hs superb
example of COURAGE"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30

Queenstown and afterward to France
and Italy.
Chairman Padgctt said that the COM
mittee members were enthusiastic over
what they had already seen and we're
prouder than ever of Americas efforts
IN the war and happy to find such cor
dlal relations between British and
American naval officials.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09

Next to the Kaiser-the profiteer
b freedoms worst enemy.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
REPUBLICANS
: ARE ANGRY AT
WIRE BILL MOVE
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the principles Of the Senate. The
minority members might as well with
draw. When the American people
learn what's going on, there will be
an avalanche Of protest, disapproval
-and repudiation.
- The committee chairman calls a
meeting without even giving notice.
Can he defend his action?'
The Senator knows the authority
will be given to the President; the
zcnly question is compensation" re-
piled Smith.
= well, let it be given to the Presi-
dent in an orderly way and In the
Tight of deliberation," answered PEN
rose.
Senator Hitchcock made his ruling,
and Senator Smith said he would ap-
peal from the chair, as 1t had always
been the Senate's custom to allow the
working quorums." Later he changed
his mind and withdrew his appeal
He said the committee ''acted for the
best interests of the country"
Republicans had massed their forces
for a filibuster in case the ruling of
the chair had been otherwise. They
were prepared to talk until they had
summoned Influential members of the
Commerce Committee from their
homes by telegraph.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
U. S. TO LEAD
WORLD WHEN
PEACE COMES
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spots In this war viii come that
one bright thingA-the bringing to-
gether In lasting friendship OF the
Angio-Saxon speaking peoples.
Il recently visited the French
front IN company with other Ameri-
can ofhcials. There, talked with
allied generals and men right up
In the thick of It. i never realized
what wonderful encouragement
America already has given those
iwar-tried veterans up In the
trenches. until talked with those
men.
"The great number Of American
soldiers in France now is wonder
full. and they're coming in an ever
increasing. ,unending flow. In a
twenty-mile auto tour up near the
front, We passed thousands Of these
singing. roliickfng sammies on the
march. and honestly believe that
In that one trip saw more Ameri-
can soldiers than British. French.
Portuguese and all the rest COM
bined.
America already Is making her
weight felt against militaristic Ger
many, as she will later against
commercial Germany"
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
FRENCH DRIVE HUN
BACK ON FRONT OF
MORE THAN 2 MILES
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Decorations for bravery appeal to
her but legions of honor and war
crosses cannot compare in her esti-
nation without the privilege OF
walking with a soldier lad who has
been ia Bas' up there where the
steel cracks open and tears the flesh.
And the nastier the wound, the
greater the honorable disfiguration
the tighter she cliags to the arm on
her hero. 1t is sometimes a sight
that brings tears to the eyes.
The families of France are taking
our wounded lads into their foyers.
And France. could pay. no greater
compliment to Americans. For the
French family. even the humblest. is
as difficult for a stranger to break
into in ordinary circumstances as
Ward McAllister's ancient 400.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
Farmers Issue Warning
To Aerial Trespassers

St. Louis. Mo.-Growers OF wheat
and corn within a radius of forty-five
miles Of Scott Field, BellviIIe. Ill,
near here, have posted their farms,
warning army flyers not to land.
/ When aviators effect q forced land
Ing the machine usually drops into a
wheat or coarn field and shoots
through Il like a binder. cutting a path
100 feet wide. .
Aviators tell the farmers the signs
are too small TO be seen from an alti-
tude OF 5000 feet, at which distance
forced landings ofttimes start.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09

Every day that profiteering exists
means a day longer in the life of
autocracy.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
Cowboys Long to Charge
Germans on Horseback

San Francisco. Wearing real
cowboy sombreros, COW boots with
spurs and gaudy-colored shirts,
1,550 rangers from Idaho. New Mex
leo, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona and
Utah arrived here to be made into
soldiers. -
Marching up Market street. they
presented the appearance of a ro-
deo parade. The cowboys, who are
in the draft contingents from the
various Western States, declared
that they would like to charge the
Germans from horseback, but didn't
have much hope that they would get
such a chance.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
Climbs Quickly.

Every day that profteering exists
means a day longer IN the life OF
autocracy.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
73 AMERICANS ARE
NAMED OF THOSE
HELD In GERMANY
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Dunnlns. Miles g.. corporal west
Haven. Conn.,: Ely. Raymond T.. pri-
vate. Haverhill. Mass; Garand, Al
bert. private. first class, st. Johns
burg. VT; Gee. Newman s., private,
frst class, Caribou, Maine; Goidrick.
James C., private, New Haven,
Conn: Goodwin, James. private. Ey,
erett Mass: Hager. Fred. private,
Prospect, Conn; Hall, Herbert pri-
vate. first class. New Haven, Conn. ;
Lufkin. Harry NJ. private, Proyi-
dence. r. l.; Kenney, Charles B., pri-
vete, Norwalk. Conn; Lynch, Ber-
nard T.. private, Brooklyn, n. Y;
McCartin. John T.. private. first
class. New Haven, Conn; McDer-
mott. Michael J.. private, FIRST class,
New Haven. Conn: Mcnamara,
Joseph NJ. private, New Haven, Conn.
CLIFFORD N. Markle. private, New
Haven, Con-: Hugh p. Marion, pri-
vate. Norwalk. Conn: Albert James
Maynard, private. New Haven, Conn.
Charles Monson, private, New Haven,
Conn; Ernest d. Moquin, private,
Bristol. Conn; Edward A. Olson, pri-
vate. Bristol, Conn; James E. Peto-
chelli. private, Pawtucket, r. l.: WILL
lam L. Quinn, private, Swampscott.
Mass; Austin NJ. Ready, FIRST class
private. Jersey City, N. J.; Clarence
H. Riedel. private. Bristol. Conn. ;
Dascomb Rowe, private, Barnet, vt. /;
John samak, private, KoveL Russia:
Stephen L. Torok. private, DarIen,
Conn; Patrick Wall. first class pri-
vate, New Haven. Conn; Edward
Green. private, not Identified; Leslie
Allen, private, not identified.
Aviator Held.
Lieut. James c. Ashengen, of
Chicago. an aviator, was forced to
and in Switzerland on June q, be-
cause he ran out OF gasoline. HIS
name appears on the list Of prisoners
held in Germany, as given out by the
Committee on Public Information
yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09
AUSTRIA MUST
FIGHT ALONE,
ALLIES BELIEF
VIII Be Left While Ger
many Renews Drive
IN; West.

London. July s.-Austrfa must fght
her own battles while Germany re.
news her offensive on.the Western
front.
This b the decision reached BY
the German war lords, allied mill
tary observers believe.
A renewal Of the great battle for
Paris-perhaps In Champagne, per-
haps in Picardy-is expected within
q few days.
1t will be predicated on the Ger
man belief that the best way TO save
Austria and the dream OF 4 Mittel-
Europa IL to try once more to crush
| the allied armies in France.
Austria Cries Help.
Austria 10 crying for help to stem
the great Italian counter-offensivt
which is driving the Austrians beyond
the Piave. But while Hindenburg
front, his main forces are still intac'
in France. He is probably figuring
that the Austrians will be able to
make a stand behind the Piave OF
the Tagliamento rivers without Ger.
man help.
The Kaiser has about 100 divisions
or about 100000 men on the Western
front between the North Sea and
Switzerland. He has I'm addition about
| 30 divisions Of reserves which have
not been used up in the spring offen-
sives, or $4,000 men.
These % divisions Hindenburg might
divert to the Italian front. but II he
did SO he would be unable to resume
the offensive In the west on the grand
scale which marked his four previous
drives.
The Kaiser has his heart set on
capturing Paris and the channel ports
this year. So have the German peo-
pie, who are beginning to realize that
America spells defeat. To suspend
operations on the Western front and
give the initiative over to the Allies,
therefore. would necessitate the aban-
donment Of all the German plans for
1918.
The Austrian offensive was a diver
sion, which had two purposes: to draw
French and British troops from the
West front to italy, and to make the
Austrian people forget their empty
stomachs.
In each case II has had the con-
trary effect The Allies are stronger
in France than they were when the
Austrian offensive began. because
American troops are arriving almost
daily. And instead Of forgetting their
abdominal vacuum. the Austrian peo-
pie are rioting for bread.
Expect Drive Now.
These things, together with infor-
nation that the Germans are again
concentrating behind the lines In
France. incline military observers to
the belief that the nth phase Of
the great battle in France is about
tn begin.
Its outcome will depend largely on
the extent to which the italian Of
fensive will force German help for
Austria's hard-pressed armies.
Gen Diaz already has wen the
greatest allied victory Of 1913. He is
pursuing the enemy beyond the Pi-
ave. and how far the pursuit will
continue Is question time viii an
swer. He began his counter-drtve
with e waliop that looks as II It win
drive the Austrians back to and per-
haps beyond their owp border.
/ Food will win the war-profiteers
.,,;lI
The Washington herald., 1918-07-09

Food will win the war-protiteers
will lengthen II.