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The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02


 Tho municipal auctioneer and his cohorts were surely there last night, especially when it came to mc.kiEg noise, they had some in- struments along which made sound something like Scottys velo- cipede and the Vic's siren combined A large attendance were present and everyone seemed to be having a good so1iable time. It was ap- parent after the second innings that the Nome team had the edge on the Fort Boys. The final score stood 13 to 5 in favor of the sourdoughs. There was some speed and very classy play showed at times during the basket ball game by some of the players on both sides. The result of the game is as follows, 42 to 21 in favor of the civilians.
 It was self evident the way the youngsters defended themselves, from the tcrflhc onSlaughtS Wnlcl frequently developed, that they had been rigidly trained under the watchful eye of scientific author ties on tEc rules of the Marquis Of Blueberiy No decision was rendered on account of the speed shown making it almost impossible for the referee to tabulate all the points. The matter was taken unGer advisement, the verdict will be announced later It wGs deem- ed advisable to postpone the Wrest- ling bout cn account of one of the contestants having tke misfortune to meet with Glight accident vest erday afternoon.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02
CARPENTERS AND JoINERs.

CARPENTERS AND JOINERs.
 Local Union ITs9, Carpenters ana soiners of America. meets every Fri Say at Al Orland's shop Front st. kt D. n.
 Carpenters Headquarters, Feder- al Labor Hall.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02
Feb. 1 6 P. M.

Feb. 1 6 P. M. Temperature: Max. 10, Min.--5 Barometer: 29.S67 inches. Weather: Clear. Wind; Calm. Precipitation: None.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02

Express and General Delivery. See Erickson at Mansfield's Cigar Store.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02
WEATHER REPORT.
U. :. eather Bureau.

Fob 1, 6, A. M. Temperature: Max. 15, Min.-2 Barometer: 29.S31 inches. Weather: N, miles per hour. Precipitation: Nolc.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02

GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ THE WORKER.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02

Proper Training For A King. "I think" said the heir appar- ent, that I will add music to my accomplishments"
 Aren't they rather light?"
 They may seem to you, but they will be very handy if a revolution occurs and 1 have to go into vaudeville"
 A sociable crowd were present, and enjoyed the card party held under the auspices of the Miners Home club on Thursday evening. The lucky one amorg the Ladies were Mrs. Holden, first prize, Mrs. Hewett End and Mrs. Hill the con solstion. The men : MT. Chas Rice first, MT. (Pap) Wittcnberg End Billy Carpenter the booby.
 Anything fin the Jue or Job worS at the Industrial Worker Office Satisfaction assured.
 Dick Lambert dropped in yester- day evening from Rock creek, for mail and supplies. Dick and his partner have been out ill ;he Gla- cicr section since tho frccze-up. They are extracting windlass dump of low grade paydirt.
 MRS. Is. VI. SEIDLER
 Has Opened First Class REPAIRING ESTABLISHMENT FRONT STREET. Next door to The
 Emporium
 We are here to please old and new patrons. We do the best CLEANING, PRESSING,
 ALTERING X REPAIRING. First class workmanship. Gent Iemens and Ladies Clothes.
 The players in the Board of Trade tournament took recess yesterday evening, to attend the athletic tournament at Eagle Hall. The games will be continued this oveniI g.
 There is one very good reason why there will not be many rough necks stampeding to conscript a large stock of supplies, even if the merchants felt so disposed as to i sell their stocks other than on the installment plan.
 
 Fur garments made and repaired at the Nome Tailoring Company.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02

The Miners Union meets tonight at 8 P. M.. All members are re questsd to atterd.
 Old-timer, we'll publish your story in Mondays issue.
 The thermometer registered 2 below when we wont to press.
 We are pleased to acknowledge the receopt of a re tent issue of the newsy and interesting monthly magazine called "The Eskimo"
 MT. and Mrs. James Ross, and several personal friends were enter tained at very pleasant surprise party. at the home of Mrs. Riggs on Thursday evening. The occa- sion of the social gathering was to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Ross.
 Jake Topolsky and Partner are down about 60 it. :n their shaft near the head of the left Fork of Dexter. Jake was in town yeSter- day after powder and fuse, which is necessary for them to use in sinking to a greater depth, on ac- count of encountering slide rock at the bottom of the shaft.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-02
WE CAN DO IT.

Peoples Laundry wash everything except the Baby.
 w. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Roundup Of Loft Burglars
And Truck Thieves Is Begun
Every Traffic Patrolman and Detective Gets
Photographs of Fifty Old Offenders Some of
Whom Were Convicted Years Ago

taken place since the police got
Bosche's picture in their collection is
shown by the fact that now lott bur
glars drive 10 their work in taxIcabs,
which wait outside the building while
the looters are at work, and cart away
the plunder when the job is done. Also
such tricks are turned sometimes in
daylight, but before the hour when
workers report at the lofts. After
picking the lock Of the place selected
the burglar- chief sets his assistant
burglar to work with the freight ele-
vator and hand trucks. transferring
such goods as he desires to waiting
motor truck.
The whole affair is conducted so
openly as to disarm possible suspicion
and the burglc r-in-chief has ready
story about sudden rush of wal, or
ders for watered silks or something
requiring workers to report before the
usual time, in case the building su-
perintendent gets inquisitive. Also the
burglar-in-chief and his assistant bur
glars use collodion on their fingers and
leave no betraying fngerprints behind.
Sixty Robberies This Year
A list of loft burglaries which The
Tribune has obtained from source
which is far from having a complete
list Of all those reported, shows that
sixty places have been entered since
January 1, fifteen of them more than
once and one of them, at 14S West
Twenty-third Street, eight times.
Three men with drawn revolvers en-
tered the fur shop Of Pines & Co., at
20 West Twenty-sixth Street, about 9
o'clock yesterday morning and ordered
Roma Pines, clerk, who was laying
out furs, to put up his hands. Instead
Of obeying he gave yell and leaped
at one of the men.
The hold-up man dropped him with
two bullets in his abdomen and one
through his right thigh. AS he fell
his assailants beat him over the head
with their revolver butts, stepped over
his body and ran out each with an arm
full of seal and fox skins. These they
flung into an automobile and drove off
Pines was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital and is in critical condition He
is twentythree years old and lives at
1424 Forty-third Street, Brooklyn. The
furs stolen are said to be worth sew
eral thousand dollars.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Vail to Aid Burieson
In Organization of
u. S. Wire Control

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Theodore
n. Vail, president of the American
Telegraph and Telephone Companv
wiii become the personal adviser of
postmaster General Burleson in the
organization of the telephone. telegram
and cable systems under poyernment
control
In making this announcement to-dav
the Postmaster General said Mr.. Vail
would prepare for the department,a
assistance in directing wire control a
comprehensive report upon the wire
service with a view to the more ex
TENDED use OF the telephone, telegraph
ana cable during government control.
ne years of study which MIR. Vail
has given to the problem Of universal
wire service and unified and extended
cable system" said Mr.. Burlcson's AN
nounccmcnt, "and his prominence IA
an authority on the organization OF
electrical communication will render
his advice and assistance Of great value
to the Postmaster General"
Hearings will begin before the House
Merchant Marine Committee on Dccem-
Der IL on the Administration bill
which provides for permanent govern
noent control # radio communication
through the purchase and operation Of
aIl shore stations in this country used
for commercial purposes.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

, messages on the ouija board, but te
no avail.
It was at the Parma home, known
as "The Little White House." and head.
quarters for little group of serious
mysticista, that Mrs. Pratt alleges the
actions on which she bases her suit
occurred.
Mrs. Nellie Reynolds Hanson, an
other witness, told of spending ten
days in Nine. Parma's home. She didn't
stay longer because she disapproved
of some things she saw there. She
described the "sacred room" the "yel-
low room" and the violet room" in
the house. She also said Mr.. Pratt was
visiting Nine. Parma at the time, and
was introduced as her nephew.
But from her actions while stayed
in The Little White House," she add
ed, 81 could rot see how they could
be aunt and nephew"
1t was Mrs Evelyn Shelly, general
housemaid at Nine. Parma's home, who
described the near pistol duel. She
said that when she once talked OF
quitting the mistress of the house
threatened her with revolver.
II drew revolver, too," she said
$50 nothing happened"
The trial will continue to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
"Wrong Numbers
Cost New Workers
$6,000,000 a Year
Complainant Charges Loss
to Defective System of Re-
cording Phone Calls

Six million dollars is lost yearly by
New York telephone subscribers be-
cause of a defective recording system
used by the New York Telephone Com
pany, according to testimony given
yesterday before Public Service Com
missioner Charles B. Hill.
George w. Markens, president of the
Export Corporation, 20 Broadway, who
brought the complaint, said that sub
scribers, in 10 per cent of their calls,
were given wrong numbers, and that
these wrong numbers were automati-
cally charged against the subscriber.
The records of the commission show
that there are an average of 2,051 900
calls day, and, according to Mr.. Mar
kens, more than 100000 of these are
wrong numbers.
The defect works in the company's
favor" testified Mr.. Markens. ''If YOU
get wrong number and fail to tell
the operator about it that wrong num-
per Is charged up to you as if it were
the right one. In the case of large
business houses this loss is consider
able In the course of a year, while the
loss to the 100000 subscribers in the
city amounts to about $4,000 ,OOO."
Paul II. Burns, attorney for the tele-
phone company, sought to show by the
records of employees that the COMPANY
makes efforts to credit the subscriber r
whenever wrong number is recorded.
Even when the subscriber gives the
wrong number and the fault is his,
the company gives him the benefit of
the doubt" said Mr. Burns. He said
the company had been unable to find
a device which would discriminate
between right and wrong numbers.
Commissioner Hill took the evidence
under advisement In two previous
cases the commission dismissed the
complaints for lack Of jurisdiction.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Sympathy Not Part
OF Tax Lien Game,
Dealer Tells Court
Robert w. Boenig Admits
He Sought High Profits
From Former Owners

Eight hundred per cent profit for
redemption of property bought at tax
sales in Mineola was defended yester-
Gay as Legitimate business sagacity by
Robert W. Boeng, formerly of the Gill
mora Estates Company. Boenig was
tcstifying before Magistrate Appleton
in the investigation into the sale OF
tax liens in Nassau and Suffolk coun
ties.
When it was shown that one of his
clients was a widow with hardly enough
money to support herself without going
cut to work, Boenig insisted that 100
Fer cent was not too much to charge
even her. He said he always tried to
be lenient to the poor when he was
satisfied that they were poor, but he
said very few such had come to him to
get their lots redeemed.
Tells of His "Troubles"
Boenig said he ran great risks in
his business, and there was consider
able "overhcad." In fact, his business
was not pleasant because it was so
hard to find the owners of the lots, he
said.
81 was working twenty-four hours a
day to turn out airplane parts for the
government and couldn't give my time
to finding the owners" he said. "I've
done my bit for the government and
have been rewarded for it,"
Didn't one of the women from
whom you tried to exact 200 per cent
have a son in the service?" asked
Magistrate Appleton.
II didn't know it," said Boenig.
Agrees to Furnish List
Boenig said he couldn't see how the
county governments could keep up busi-
ness if some one like himself didn't
take the loss off its hands at tax sales
"Now, don't worry about that" re-
piled Magistrate Appleton: "Unless I'm
mistaken, they'll get along in the
future under different laws than those
which permitted you to operate"
Boenig was asked to furnish list
of his tax lien purchases and the price
he wanted for the lots. He declined at
first to make up the list himself, plead
ing lack of time. He finally agreed
to let the Mayors committee on taxa
tion to go through his books and make
up the list under his supervision.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
McAdoo Studies Plan
OF Public Ownership
MAY Have Something to Say"
of PROPOSAL After Inves-
tigation

ATLANTA, Nov. 25.-William G. Nc
Adoo, who has resigned as director
general of railroads, indicated to-dav
that he may soon make public his at
titude toward national ownership OF
railroads and other public utilities.
.! have wanted for some time" he
said, ito get all possible practical cx-
perlence before making up my mind on
the best thing to be done. When have
determined on what l deem the most
practical solution of the problem,
Mr.. McAdoo is in the South on an
inspection trip. Informed that St
Louis railroad men have offered to nav
$4,000 month toward his salary il
he would remain in Office because the,
were opposed to his resignation, Mr.
McAdoo said he was glad some one ap-
preclated his financial straits. He said
he expected to resume the practice oil
law.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 25.-A TEN.
porary restraining order was issued to-.
day in the United States District Cour,
here against William G. McAdoo as
Director General of Railroads, instruct
ing the receiver of the Toledo. St
Louis & Western Glover Leaf
Railroad not to accept cars. sign con
tracts or to do anything that would
jeopardize or compromise the interests
OF the stockholders of the road. A
hearing on the injunction was set fol
December 49,
The case in question, said to be the
first in the United States wherein tho
power Of the Director General of Rail
roads has been attacked, is one il
which the stockholders protective com
mittce Of the Toledo, st. Louis e. West
crn seeks to prevent Mr.. McAdoo from
compelling the road to accept 1,25(
freight cars, which the committee as
serts the road does not now need ant
for which the committee declares thu
road would have to pay an cxorbitan
price.
The court nlso made the Directoj
General personal party defendant tt
the suit
During court procedure attorney,
for the railroad administration sait
that the records showed that the re
csiver for the road had requested tn,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

So numerous and daring are the
truck thieves and loft burglars who
ply their trade in New York that the
Police Department has fallen back
upon the good old custom Of failing
the cons" in an effort to curb their &C.
tivities. Slowed among the odds and
ends in every traffic patrolmen's cap
is a booklet containing the rogues'
gallery pictures of fifty known truck
thieves.
keep a sharp lookout for them" )"
directs the pamphlet. "If you obtain
any information notify the office of
the Second Deputy Commissioner. De-
tectives, traffic and police officers are
directed to familiarize themselves with
these photos and information accom-
panying, in order that truck and wagon
thieves will be apprehended following
alarm issued Immediately upon report
of larceny being received"
Ex-Convicts Are Watched
a similar photograph album of yeggs
and cracksmen has been prepared and
issued to detectives. AS the instruc-
tions state specifically that roundup
OF ex-convicts is to follow the receipt
of every burglary or wagon theft COM
plant, and as such complaints are al
most of daily occurrence, the existence
of reformed thief or burglar whose
vocation compels him to walk abroad
in daylight, is a wearing one:
Corro Of tho mon whose lkenoSSeE
are shown in the booklet issued to
traffic patrolmen we're convicted as far
back as 1902 Henry Bosche, whose
rogues' gallery photograph was taken
in that year. was thirty-tive years old
then. If, at the age of ffty-one. he
has accommodated himself to new con-
ditions and is now able to drive off
with motor truckload of silks as
readily as he used to shake the rcins
over the backs Of team of grays left
standing in front of a West Street sa-
loon, his capture would be something
Of an exploit.
The extent of the changes that have
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Wife Who Failed to Get in une'
By Crystal-Gazing Asks Divorce
yellow Rooms" and violet Rooms" as Well as sMme
Parma Named in Suit Brought by Mrs. Katherine
Pratt Against Publisher

yellow rooms" and "violet rooms"
crystal gazings and ouija board COM
municatons, vain strivings after oc-
cultism and disputes between mistress
and maid. which came within an ace
of developing into pistol dues, were
described yesterday before Supreme
Court Justice Davis in the suit for
divorce of Mrs. Katharine Sloane
Pratt against Albert Houghton Pratt,
formerly employed by the Houghton
Mifflin Company, and said to be a
stockholder IN that concern.
Mrs. Pratt in her action names Mme
P. Mildred Parma. writer on social
subjects and said to be an occultist, at
whose home at Atlantic Highlands, N.
j., many of the bizarre proceedings de-
scribed by witnesses yesterday are
said to have taken place.
Mrs. Pratt, called as a witness for
the defence, said that her husband had
risen so far in occult circles that he
felt out of tune with his wife. She
testified he said she twas not prop
erly attuned to the vibrations" She
tried to perfect herself, she said, by
gazing into a crystal ball and taking
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Convict Offers to
Solve Murder Case
If Given Immunity
After Hour inJudge'sCham
bers This Is Refused and
Trial of Baksa Girl Proceeds

James F. Regan, a convict brought
down from Sing Sing to the Criminal
Courts Building yesterday, offered to
clear up the mystery attending the
murder of Mrs. Helen Hamel in a lodg-
ing houses at 507 West Twenty-third
Street on February 49,
Elizabeth Baksa, now on trial for
the murder, is innocent of the crime
according to Regan's story, but no de.
tails as to who he charges actually
committed the murder could be learned
kegan was closeted with Judge Rosal-
sky and District Attorney Swami fo1
an hour after court adjourned. Dis
trlct Attorney Swami said later that
Regan had offered to tell all he knew if
complete immunity were promised him
This was refused The case will prob
outlined by Assistant District ATTORNEY
Alfred j. Talley.
Regan was convicted of burglary be-
fore Judge McDermott in Brooklyn last
August and sentenced to fourteen wears
imprisonment. Last Friday he wrote
/ letter to Judge Rosalsky and another
to Samuel j. Koenig, counsel for
Elizabeth Basksa, in which de declared
that he knew absolutely that she was
innocent. The letter so impressed
Judge Rosalsky that he ordered Regan
brought down from Sing Sing for ex-
animation. The trial was suspended I'd
for an hour yesterday when Regan
arrived Afterward detectives were
sent out to investigate his story.
Mr.. Talley treated the whole Incl
dent as Of trifling Importance.
PRISONERS are constantly writing
such letters to judges" he said. an
gives them a trip to New York and q
little taste Of the limelight, which is
welcome relief from the monotony
of prison life"
In view of the sensational develop
ments in the case Judge Rosalsky
warned the jury with unusual severity
last night against reading newspaper
accounts of the trial.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
HI Subway Success,
Asserts Hervey in
Opposing Changes
"Crisscross" System Pro.
posed by 5th Ave. Associa-
ton Called Impractical
BY BRIGGS

Public Service Commissioner Charles
S. Hervey yesterday defended the pres
cnt "H" subway system as proved
success. The agitation by the Fifth
Avenue Association for new "criss-
cross" method of routing East and
West. Side travel was fostered, he said,
by special interests along Forty-second
Street and not by the public at large.
The commissioner declared that the
diagonal system presented several fatal
defects, involving construction and
subsequent operation. He referred to
a report made by Daniel L. Turner,
chief engineer of the Public Service
Commission, which the commission has
indorsed.
"The problem is to get the people
uptown and downtown in the most ex-
peditious manner possible" he said
Figures show that while about 10000
use the shuttle daily during the rush
hours, 100000 use the through lines
l. IS the interest of the larger number
that we must consider, and it stands
TO reason that the straight lines, east
or west, will carry people to their des-
tlnatlons more quickly than if trains
were crlss-crossed" back and forth,
Doubts Improvement
AS | understand the scheme of the
Fifth Avenue Association, alternate
trains were to cross each other at
Forty-second Street, Broadway Seventh
Avenue trains turning onto the Lex
lngton Avenue tracks, and vice versa
This probably would be a good thing
for merchants along the points of in
tersectlon, but l can't see how. as 3
whole, it would improve the situation
The mere physical changes required
would be almost prohibitive in cost
and would mean the razing, or at Least
material damaging Of important build
ings at the Times Square and the
Grand Centra ends of the present
shuttle. Even If the engineering
problem were figured out, the money
appropriated and the work done, we
would face operating difficulties which
would be certain to slow down traffic
BY switching alternate trains across
each other, valuable minutes would be
lest on each run, and no real advantage
gained for through traffic.
Reason for Defects
In Mr.. Turner's report the proposed
"crisscross" system was held to be i'm
practical because:
Structural changes at Times Square
and Grand Central, requiring excava-
tlons for loops and new grades, would
COST many million dollars.
Under the proposed scheme twelve
switching movements would be necessi.
tated on the crossing express lines
slowing schedules and adding to the
danger of operation.
Constructor work would interfere
with operation of the existing Broad
waySeventh Avenue and Lexington
Avenue lines, impairing all rapic
transit service for months.
A special committee of various mer
chants organizations will meet to-mor
row at the Offices of the Fifth Avenus
Association to consider means of inn
proving subway travel. While tn,
association has tentatively approved
the "crlsscross" system, engineers viii
be invited to submit substitute nlanc
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
tzrr,ing Worms Turn
Wrath on Car Service

THE Turning Worms organized
4 yesterday on a Brighton line
train between Brooklyn Bridge and
Franklin Ave, Brooklyn. Before
they reached the Court Street sta
ton they had elected George SUIT
ton, of 81 East Eighteenth Street,
Brooklyn, president, and by the
time Franklin Avenue was reached
numerous committees and sub
committees had been appointed.
At Franklin Avenue the Turning
Worms all got out and finished
an interrupted trip to Manhattan,
where they laid their grievances
before the Public Service Com
mission.
They had all started for Man
haitian on a Brighton train la
be]led Park Row. At Brooklyn
Bridge a guard sought to turn
them out to take their turn at
the next train. 1t was at this
point that the worms turned.
They refused to be turned out,
and when the trains tail turned
into its nose and got in motion
for Brighton Beach again, the
worms were turning into the
Turning Worms.