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New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
China to Act With
Japan in Russia
Minister to Peking Also Told
Republic Is Ready to Send
Army to France

WASHINGTON, May THE Chinese
press reports a conversation between
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister
to Peking, and President Feng Kuo-
Chang, which was said to have taken
place upon the return of the minister
to China from a leave in Japan. The
interview, concerning the Russian stu
alton, was reported as follows:
Baron Hayashi-What will be the
attitude Of China toward the troubles
in Russia"
"Feng o-Chang-China will act
jointly with Japan. and there is no
change about it,"
Baron Hayashi-Win China send
forces to Europe to join the war;"
"Feng Kuo- o-Chang The Office Of
China's participation in the war is pre-
pairing for it positively, and the arms
detained at Mukden have been promised
to be landed back by Chang Tso-Lin
tor the use Of Chins's participation in
the war"
On leaving. Baron Hayashi stated
that Japan desired China to compose
her internal troubles.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Oil Lease Bill Agreed On
Gives President Power to
Seize Land for Government

WASHINGTON, May THE Senate
oil leasing bill, amended to give the
government authority to lease or
operate oil lands in California and
Wyoming to meet war requirements.
was ordered favorably reported by the
House Public Lands Committee to-
day.
Under the agreement reached by the
committee the President is given
broad powers either to take over oil
lands for government operation ,, tn
give additional leases to oil nros.
pectors who have developed a part of
their land or to lease them to Others
The agreement also provides for row
alties to be paid to the government
amounting to one-eighth of the produc-
tAou.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

enemy fleet sails up the Hudson. So
clad, New York's young patriots may
curl up on the Palisades and take
snapshots of the enemy or hurl bowl
ders down upon him unseen.
The costume received it's first try
out yesterday in the hills of the Bill
ings estate, at Dyckman Street and
Riverside Drive, when thirty-five
"camoufeurs" Of the National League
for Woman's Service defeated squad
of camera sharpshooters in an all-day
contest of skill
For five miles over the rocks, and
up and down the gravel banks lining
the Drive, the crock ribbed" maidens
led the perspirng camera men, while
trees against which the victims sought
to lean and light their cigars burst
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Leaps Under Subway Train
Man Believed To Be Meyer
Fine Ends Life at Station

A man identified by draft regis.
tration card as Meyer Fine, 1856 N-
bridge Street, jumped off the southern
end Of the express platform in front Of
northbound Bronx express train
in the Ninety-sixth Street subway sta
ton about IL o'clock last night. He
was killed instantly.
Traffic on the northbcund express
tracks was suspended as an emergency
crew raised the car under which the
mans body was pinned. The power
was shut off for ten minutes, causing
considerable excitement and ureasi-
ness among the thousands of home.
ward bound theatre crowds. Trafie
was suspended for more than half an
hour and the congestion lasted until
long after midnight.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
nished with drug that would cause his
discharge from the army.
Walters and Becker Indicted

King working under instructions
from the military intelligence service
| invited Walters to his apartment in the
BeauX Arts Studios. at so West Fortieth
Street, where the transaction was dis
cussed and the money passed. Immedi-
atelv after the arrest of Walters Dr..
Becker was taken into custody, and the
pair were indicted for conspiring to
enable drafted men to escape military
service as'physically unfit and to obtain
discharges for men in the service. The
charge carries a maximum penalty OF
twenty years imprisonment and a fine
of $4,000.
Walters admitted that he had not
worked since his arrest. He pleaded
guilty to conspiracy on Monday before
the trial of DR.. Becker started. He was
member of the 18th Regiment and
went to Spartanburg. where he was dis
charged because of physical disability.
His home is at 1775 Sevcntyfourth
Street, Brooklyn.
According to Walters's testimony, a
short time after his arrest he met a
"Mr. Belt" in cafe on Broadway who
said that he came from Mr.. Osborne's
Office. Belt asserted, said Walters, that
if he would withhold certain facts
from the government he would pay him
$1,000.
Osborne Opposes Testimony
In addition, he testified that Belt
had requested him to call at the Office
OF Mr.. Osborne, at 115 Broadway, and
told him tnat Mr.. Osborne, who chad
an international reputation" as an at
torney, would defend him.
Mr.. Osborne objected to this testi-
mony on the ground that it had no
bearing on the case. He said that Belt
L, IL, h,,%
an offer was made it was without his
authority or knowledge.
Judge Foster ruled that the testi-
mony was competent, because Mr.. Os-
morne had opened the way for United
States Attorney Cotter to interrogate
the man along these lines when he
himself asked whether; he had been
promised money by agents of the
United States government. Belt, who
borne, was pointed out by Walters as
the man who had offered him the
S. 900 bribe.
Mr.. Osborne made every effort to
make Walters admit that the $50 he
gave DIR. Becker in marked money at
the instance of the Army Intelligence
Bureau was understood by the physi-
clan to be payment for treatment for
the disease that led to his discharge
from tne lItn heBlmenC. Tie was un-
successful.
Says He Had Agreement
Walters said that he had entered
into an agreement with DR.. Becker to
sell drugs to recruits and soldiers that
would cause symptoms of Bright's dis
ease. One of the first soldiers he ap-
preached was King. who laid the mat
ter before his superiors.
Other witnesses called by the gov
ernment were military men and de-
tectives, who testified to hearing the
conversations between Walters and
King in the latter's apartment, where
the entire scheme was discussed and
arrangements for the payment of the
money made. They were concealed in
the room.
The trial will be continued to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Asks Pneumonia Inquiry
Specialists Hope to Cut Death
Rate i'm Army CAMPS

ATLANTIC CITY, May 7.--Special-
lists on pulmonary diseases were urged
to make a thorough investigation of
the new type of pneumonia" that at
tackled thousands in civil and military
life last winter at the thirty~third an
nuai session to-day Of the Association
OF American Physicians.
Speakers pointed out that the time
for research was short, and that un-
less something was done immediately
next winter would find the same condi-
ton obtaining in army environments
Army physicians reported they were
making a special study Of the sub
lect ana requested men in civil life
to aid them.
Pneumonia cases in the cantonments
ranged last year, it was said, from 200
to 300 cases in each camn.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Three Preachers RESIGN
Young Pastor Will Be Sought
for Presbyterian Churches

Pastors of the three churches that
recently consolidated under the name
OF the First Presbyterian Church have
resigned their pastorates to make
place Tor some younger man who will
cations.
The three who resign are DR.. Charles
n. Parkhurst, pastor of the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church and presi-
dent of the Society for the Prevention
OF Vice; Dr. George Alexander, pastor
OF the University Place Presbyterian
Church, and DR.. Howard Dufield. pas
tor Of the First Presbyterian Church.
The choice of the new minister for
the consolidated church will be decided
upQn soon
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

into giggles, and there were school
ma'ams in stones bookkeepers in
running brooks and girls in all things
The thlrty-tive are all patriots who
have given up their jobs to enlist in
the Camoufage Reserve Corps of the
National League for Woman's Service.
One is former newspaper woman
who tired Of writing up Connecticut
divorces and church suppers when the
war broke out.
"I threw up my job" she said arily,
when interviewed yesterday from the
top of an apple tree where she was
sitting in the costume of a dead
branch. "If Uncle Sam doesn't accept
my services as 'deadwood,' | guess
| shall spend my life in an old ladies'
home, but | don't care"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Aviation Instructor
Killed at Belleville III

ST: LOUIS, Mo-, May 7.-Lieutenar+
". W. Smith, of Topeka, Kan. an in.
structor at Scott Field. government
training camp for aviators at Rella-
yllle, Ill.,, was killed tonight when he
lost control of his machine and fell
900 feet. A cadet in the airplane with
him was not seriously injured.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Intelligence Officer Held
Sergeant Major Charged With
Desertion and Forgery

CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cali
May 7.-Sergeant Major Frank D.
Davis, alias Dyer, formerly of the IN
telligence Office. 40th Division, here, has
been arrested at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Charges of desertion and forgery Of
checks have been lodged against DAVIS,
and two men have been sent to Camp
Dodge to bring him here. Intelligenee
officers expressed qualification over tee
capture, as they said his work in tns !e
intelligence Office had given him miii.
tary information of considerable vaius
to the enemy of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Wisconsin's Loyalty Shown
In Loan Drive, Says Cooper

WASHINGTON. May speaking
in the House to-day, Representsfive
Cooper. of Wisconsin, Republican. &C.
clared the oversubscription to the LAD
erty Loan in Wisconsin, furnished SUI
ficient proof to refute insinuations o.
the states disloyalty. "a.
He called attention to the casualty
list, which a few days ago showed
eighty-nine men from Wisconsin. ano
cited large number Of WiseoasIs
men aboard the torpedced tvansp
Tuscania.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Did Not Register, Sent to Jail

Because Charles Kissell, alias
Sharles Smith, was so ashamed of
oeing German that he would not even
teil ms wife and did not register as an
enemy alien, he was arrested at his
nome, ~ Cherry Street, yesterday and
days by Captain Roger B. Hull of IT,.
New York Port Enemy Alien Bureau
Klssell has been in this country eleven
years, but was unable to guard tha
secret of his Teutonc origin becansa
OF his desire to look like the Kaiser
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

Always remember that lower prices are no criticism
the retailer We selling in larger lots eliminating part
the wholesale and retail overhead expense giving you
benefit of it.
Thrift that despise small savings three
cents pound dozen staple articles of food
dollar added to the purchasing of income the
of year Raise your salary by making 20 uher
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Says He Had Agreement
New York Diver Commended

WASHINGTON, May Frank A.
Anderson, a diver at the New York
Navy Yard. was commended by the
Navy Department to-day for special
services in recovering a loaded depth
charge, several large projectiles and a
number of cartridge cases lost over
board.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Camouflage Gowns
Hide Girls Amid
| lrees and Rocks

When is girl not girl? When
she's a rock, of course.
The latest style on Riverside Drive
is one-piece costume Of rock gray
canvas, smeared with mud and rat
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Col. Carly Gets Edison Medal

The American Institute Of Electrical
Engineers announced yesterday that
the Edison Medal, awarded for remark
able achievement, had been given this
year to John Joseph Carty, now a
colonel in the Signal Corps, United
States Army. for his work in the sci
ence and art of telephone engineering.
The medal will be presented at the
annual meeting of the institute on
Nav IT,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08
Wednesday, May 8, 1918


TERE is hoping that you have good running starr
on that eighteen pounds of potatoes that is youf
bit for the current month-because if you are behind
the schedule the frantic appeal of the Federal Food Board
that hurry up and eat 100000 pounds of fine yellow
Southern cornmea in town. which will spoil in hot weather
just because it contains much fat may be somewhat en-
barrassing.
Is not the irony of fate that should be eat
up these supplies before they spoil when Belgium Poland
and Rumana starving and Northern France hungry
When the smoke Of battle clears away it will be interesnc
to remember of these difficulties Of distribution that We
have found out about under and because
Federal boards with authority that keeping the consumer
touch with the wholesale et condtionsettng buyer
of foods in behind the commercial curtain fooiph
where he has never been before.
Special Cornmeal Prices
This is time for abstract philosophy the time TO
vegetables and the dairy products balance the ration
the cornmea and potato drive The Tribune Institute Consumers
Clubs will deliver these staples to club chaen following
terms:
Cornmea in five pound packages cents pound (The
cost 465 cents and must be bagged The best price
have found quoted in the cents the Federal
therefore, cents pound cornmeal and ought
be willing to buy it straight without wheat you can
use it that way, and there is emergency to
1t help half million dollars of food.
stuff by eating cornmea why do it? It nobodys fault
that the meal ordered long ago has all owing
delayed traffic. and that the hot weather simultaneously
Cornea the cheapest substitute wheat YOU can u
VIII you do it?
Club Prices on Potatoes and Other Staples
Potatoes (good old stock New York Maine) will be de-
vered IN hreebushe SO pOunds) for $345that
than cents pound These quoted at the market
and the food board under special the
retailers is 25 cents pound.
1t want to help to do duty by the cornm
and potatoes at minimum expense call Mornngside 1885,
and the club organizer will make cooperation painless
possible There must be club ordering basic unit of twelve
dozen eggs in order justify the of delivery by motor
The other items offered by the clubs follows:
Savings in Cents per Pound on Cooperative Buying Plan
New-York tribune., 1918-05-08


candled be bought
t2) Highest
sold. They at q
with the 7
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
Books and the People Who Make Them
Reilly & Britton
Books for the Fall

THE fall list of the Reilly q Britton
l. Company, Chicago, includes the
following books:
Abrdham Lineoln as Man Of Letters,
by Luther Emerson Robinson
Billy and the Major, by Emma Speed
Sampson. A sequel to Hiss Minerva and
WiIliGa Green Hill.
Blue Stars and Gold, by William E.
Barton.
Diet aud Health With Key to the
Calories, by DIR. Lulu Hunt Peters
Happy School Days, by Helen A. Has
elton.
Let's Write a Story, by Harry and
Louise Armstrong.
Ns-bo-Shone, by Hal l.. Cutler.
Think, by Col William C. Hunter.
The Tin Woodman Of o., by Frank
Baum.
The Hearts Kingdom, by Maria
Thompson Davies.
Kenny, by Leona Dslrymple.
This house publishes great number
of books for children. Of the books named
above Ne-bo-Shone is tale of frontier
days = Michigan; Think is by the author
of Per- Riae Stars and Gold is addressed
to the p4.eits of men fighting abroad, and
Miss Dalrymple's novel Kenny pictures
studio life in New York city as well as
life on farm.
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Robert Nj. Mcbride
Books for the Fall

THE fall list of Robert n. Mcbride
L & Co. includes the following fic-
ton:
Thomas, by II. B. CresvelL
The Nan With tie GLIB Foot, by Val
entine Williams.
The Island Of Intrigue, by Isabel Os-
trander.
Tyl Esle.spiesel, by Charles de Coster.
Introduction by Maurice Maeterlinek
The following war books:
Romeo Hoale Of the HFire and SIR"
by himself.
Behind the Wheel Of a War ambulance,
by Robert Whitney Imbrie, American
Viee-Consul at Petrograd.
. Fields and BattIefeids, by No. $3.50.
Aerobatics, by Capt. H. Barber.
F. G. Trayes.
Campaigning i" the Balkans, by Lieut..
Harold Lake.
The British Fleet in the Great Var,
ny AICuiDhu Iufu
Nationality and Government: With
Other War Tine Essays, by Alfred f.
Zimmern.
Government and the Wo,, by Spenser
Wilkinson.
War Nursing, by Prof Riehet.
The following books of general inter
est:
Beyond Life, by James Branch Cabell.
Poems, by Godfrey Dearmer.
Rimes in Olire Drab, by Sergeant John
Pierre Roche.
Liring the Creatire Life, by Joseph
II. Appel.
Eastern Exploration: Past and Failure.
by W. Flinders Petrie.
The Ploy Work Book, by Ann Mac
beth.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
Misinterpreting
Mr.. Arnold Bennett
By GEORGE GORDON.


MIR. BENNETT writes to his Ameri-
1VA can publisher concerning The
Pretty Lody: "Some Of the good reviews
have said that II is decadent and cynical
and that it gives an entirely ruthless pic
ture Of heartless people in London. This
is not 50, and I particularly want you to
note that the war has good effect on
the three principal characters, namely,
Christine, Conception and G. j., all Of
whom do what they can" Yet 1 am
inclined to agree, not with Mr.. Bennett,
but with his reviewers-tbough can see
no reason why "an entirely ruthless pie
ture Of heartless people in London
should not be presented, and at this time:
it has tonic effect.
Undoubtedly there are such people, not
only in London but in New York and
Berlin. 1t is their tragedy that they must
do what they ean," and for the most
part they only stand and wait; save as
spectators they have no part in the war.
G. j. is an idle bachelor in his SOS, aim
less and self-indulgent, living easily on
an unearned plenty; Conception. is a
widowed war bride, clever and animate,
wasting her energies in Mayfair society;
Christine is a French courtesan, young
and appealingly feminine, cast adrift in
London by events. That the war has a
good effect on them is neither here nor
there; they are still without purpose IN
the world and of interest only because
we are morbidly curious concerning ou~
fellows.
The soldier, The sailor, the mechanic,
the farmer, the civil servant, are essential
to victory; G. j., Christine and Con
cepcion are not 1t is Mr. Benefits
peculiar good fortune to have been able
to speak, and honorably, for such unde-
serving folk, to have sensed the pathOs
of their position, the wistfulness of their
enforced waiting. Almost alone in his
generation he understands that the men
and women at home not fit or necessary
to the war are not worth fighting for.
So war time out of mind has defeated
its own ends, for, say what You will of the
hundred thousand Germans killed or
wounded at the front last month, they
were intrinsically more valuable than the
princes, the bureauerats, the merchants,
for whose safety they do battle. And
this is as true of England and America
as of Germany.
Mr.. Bennett has had the sound good
sense, the honesty, the humility, to
acknowledge that neither he nor the
children of his brain, nor You, nor |, are
worthy the ,self-saeriieing cath of the
lowliest subaltern or private; that it Is
not our war but theirs. And war is neees-
sary that humanity may be tried as IN a
fiery furnace, that the ehaf may be win
moved from the grain-though some of
the grain be lost in the process. At
last they come into their own, their
supremacy is conceded, the future is
theirs. 1t is for them and the perpetual
ing of their kind that we do what we
can.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Small, Maynard & Co. announce
the publication of Ethel Sidgwiek's new
novel-Jdmesie. The story dates some
eight years or so after Hotehsrays, Miss
Sidgwiek's last previous novel, and shows,
as anything written of English life now
must, how the war has penetrated into
the life of each and every individual.
The Jamesie of the title is he seven year
old son of Iveagh and Bess in Hatch
rays.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Ralph d. Paine, author of The Fight
ing Fleets and The Call of the Ofsho,e
Wind, has been called to Washington by
the Fuel Administration to help rouse
the coal miners TO the need of putting
forth every effort to meet the fuel short
age.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Having completed Vfrtuons Wires.
Owen Johnson is at work on another book
of fiction. After completing this long
novel he expects to go to France
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

The autobiography of W. Fl. HIdkon is
announced by f. p. Duttml & Co. for
early fall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
John Lane Company
Books for the Fall

per0TS Dtdry A study OF Wlilam Ii. OI
Germany.
Women and Soldiers, by Mrs. Alec
Tweedie
II We Return: Letters Of q Soldier Of
Kitchener's Army, by c. B. Manwaring.
The Neu Eizabethans, edited by E. B.
Osborn.
Roumania: Yesterday and To-day, by
Mrs. Will Gordon.
From Car to Bolshevik, by E. P. Steb
bing
asia Minor, by Walter A. Hawley.
The following book on air transporta-
ton:
The First Arrays: Their Organization,
Equipment and Finance, by Claude Ora
hame- White and Harry Harper
The following art and gift books:
Sketches in DuneIand, by Earl H. Reed.
Canadian Wonder Tales, by Cyrus Mac
milan
Prints and Drauings by Frank Brang
,oyn, With Some Examples of Mo~otint
in Decoration, by Walter Shaw Sparrow.
Famous Pictures Of Real Ammals, by
Lorinda NJ. Bryant.
Portraits Of Whistler: A Critical Es-
sag and an IconO9raphy, by A. E. Gal
latin.
The Studio Year Book Of Decorative
ART (19f5), edited by Charles Holme.
The following fiction:
Totrdrds Morning, by I. A. R. Wylie.
Benton Of the Royal Mounted, by Ser
geant Ralph S. Kendall of the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police.
The War Eagle, by W. y. Dawson.
The Ghost Girl, by Fl. de We're STAG
poole.
Drums Afar, by John Murray Gibbon.
The Gail Of the Soil (L'Appel du Soil,
by the late Lieut.. Adrian Bertrand of the
Chasseurs Alpins.
The LoUe Of an UnknoUn Soldier. In
PRODUCTION by John Lane. The manuscript
was found in dugout in France.
The Pathetic Snobs, by Dolf Wyllarde.
The La,cs Of Chance, by F. f. Mills
Young.
His Grace Of Grub Street, by G. v. Me-
Fadden.
Footsteps, by Dorothy Percival.
The Flappe''s Mother, by Madge Mears.
The following history and biography:
Rupert Brooke: 4 Memoir, by Edward
Marsh.
The Memoirs of Sir Andreu MeluiH,
1624-fG72, and the Wars of the Seven
teenh Century, by Torick Ameer-Ali.
The British in Capri, 1SO6-180S, by Sir
Lees Knowles.
The following books of essays and bellies
lettres:
The Superstition Of Dirorce, by Gilbert
X. Chesterton.
The Letters Of Algernon Charles Swin-
hgrne, edited by Edmund Gosse and
Thomas James Wise.
Domus Doloris, by w. Compton Leith.
Casting Out Fear, by Flora Bigelow
Guest 1.-THE Hon. Mrs. Lionel Guest).
The Greater Patriotism, by John Lewis
Griffiths.
Il Not Impossible Religion, by Silvanus
p. Thompson.
Great Testimony against Scientific
Cruelty, collected and edited by the Hon.
Stephen Coleridge.
The following poetry:
The Coming Dawn: A Var anthology
in Prose and Verse, by Theodore Thomp
son.
Corn From Ode Fieldes, by the Hon.
Eleanor Brougham.
Var, the LiberdtOr, and Other Pieces,
By f. A. Macintosh.
The Vagabond and Other Poems From
"Punch," by r. c. Lehman.
nomort-pOenS of Var aud TOre by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

The first book of poems by Private
Charles Divine will be published on
August 81 by Moffat, Yard & Com
pany under the engaging title, City Ways
and Company Streets, indicating that
some of the verse was written before d.
vine entered the army. About two-thirds
of the poems are soldier verse, mostly
written at Spartanburg and appearing in
Gas Attack, the camp magazine, and in
Books and the Book World Divine is
now overseas.
The story of Georges Guynemer's fight
ing career as the foremost aviator of the
world war will appear in book form on
August p from the press of Moffat,
Yard & Company under the title of Guy
nemer, the Ace of 4ces. This is the au-
thentie story of Guynemer's flights set
down by his friend, Jacques Mortane, ed
lated by Clifton Hardy Levy.
Much of the text was dictated by Guy
nemer himself and the latter half of the
book includes numerous pages from his
own notebooks Of flight.
Capt Louis Keene author Of Crumps,
who went overseas with one of the first
Canadian regiments. was invalided home
and later became one of the military in
struc;ors at Dartmouth College, has again
gone TO the front