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New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Conditions in Austria
Are Reported Improved;
Enjoys Rushed to Berlin

LONDON, Jan. 22.-The strike move
mcnt which assumed such mcnacing di-
mensions in Austria on Sunday was
virtually ended on Monday morning,
when the strikers either resumed work
or held meetings at which decision
was reached 10 go back to their tasks
o-day, according to news agency dis
patches from Switzerland. Before this,
however, the strike and the food
demonstrations accompanying it had
spread throughout the whole empire,
including Galicia, and had everywhere
assumed political character, with the
demand for peace taking precedence
over everything else.
An Amsterdam dispatch received here
tonight says that owing to the vigor-
Gus censorship there was no news to-
day, and that the German papers, at
Austra's request, were printing no
news from Vienna. On the Amsterdam
Eourse there were rumors Of renewed
labor riots in Vienna, and Austrian
shares fell heavily.
On Sunday morning. according to a
Wireless Press dispatch from Bcrnc,
disorderly scenes took place when hun
ger marches were organized and a
HuHlDcl Ol SnOpS IOOtcu III vienna. OUc
crowd attempted to cut it's way toward
the imperial palace, but was driven
back by the guard. In other parts OF
the city, the advices state. the police
were unable to handle the mobs.
Count Czernin, the Austro Hungarian
Foreign Minister, who had returned
from the peace parley at Brcst-Litovsk,
had conference with Emperor Charles
on Monday, following which two high
officials of the Foreign Office were sent
to Berlin.
The government now has the sup
port Of the more moderate Socialists
in it's effort to quiet the population,
but the radical wing. according to the
Munich "Neueste Nachrichten," is max
ing further demands, such as the re-
lease of DR.. Friedrich Adler, who is
serving long prison term for the
killing of Count Karl Stuergkh, Aus
trian Premier in October, 1916.
Earlier reports from Switzerland
mention the arrest of peace demonstra-
tors at some places in Austria.
Clashes between hungry civilians and
soldiers are reported, while in some in
stances it is said the soldiers refused
to fire on the demonstrators when
ordered to do so. At Gratz, where the
trouble is ;cutc. the soldiers aban-
doned their loaded machine guns to
tho riOtcrS
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Theft
From Mails Not
A Theft at All
Stolen Bags Found in Post
office, Where They Were 4
Thrown in Rush

Authorities Of the New York Post
office, it will be remembered, announced
last week that eight sacks of mail, con-
tanning between 100000 and 100000
had been "stolen" from the general Of
fce at the Pennsylvania Terminal. 1t
will also be remembered that post
office inspectors swarmed to thelscene,
that there were hurryings to and fro,
alarums and excursions, and finally the
arrest Of ono man who was held in
$4,000 bail.
Well, last night they found the
Stolen" mail bags. All eight of them.
with their precious contents. were re-
covered. They weren't exactly recov-
look in 4 little used corner Of the mail
receiving room in the general Office,
and there all eight lay, just as they had
lain since they were brought into the
Office during a great rush Of mail on
January 7,
For two weeks the "stolen" sacks
had been in the postoffice, and inspec-
tors who had been ransacking the whole
United States for clew to them never
thought of looking there, it seems.
William Z. Cochran, chief Of the
United States postal inspectors, con-
firmed the discovery Of the sacks last
night and said that he believed they
had been there all the time. Several
empty sacks had been thrown on top
Of them. Thus camouflaged, the bags
lay secure from discovery until some
one thought of removing the empties
yesterday.
Chief Cochran said that there was no
reason for believing the bags had been
brought back to the building after the
robbery" had been discovered. Every
thing outside and inside them was
found to be intact.
The loss Of the mail bags was not an
nounced until last Saturday, when post
Office inspectors had been looking for
them week Their disappearance was
Charles j. Richardson, 666 Ninth Ave-
nue.. driver of the truck in which they
were brought from Communipaw, had
been arrested, arraigned before United
States Commissioner Hitchcock and
held in 1000 bail for examination
this Friday. He is still in the Tombs,
SO far as is known.
Richardson began to drive a mail
truck on January /, and left his job
four days after the sacks disappeared
Assistant District Attorney Yaselli
who had charge of the case against
Richardson. said that he expected other
arrests. Mr.. Yaselli could not be
reached last night.
One Of the sacks is said to have con-
tanned s1250O0 in 81 bills consigned
to the Federal Reserve Bank. One es-
innate placed the value of the contents
of all the sacks at $950,OOO. No one
connected with the postoffice here would
comment last night upon the mystery
of the eight stolen mail sacks and its
solution.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
u. S. Troops in France
Cleanest Body of Men,
Gen. Pershing Cables

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-There has
never been similar body of men to
lead as clean lives as the American SOL
diers in France, General Pershing said
in cablegram to-day to Secretary
Baker in reply to inquiries as to the
ing among the men.
General Pershing's message was made
public by Mr.. Baker in this letter to
Governor Capper of Kansas:
"You may recall writing to me sew
eral days ago concerning persistent
reports as to the immoderate sale of
liquor among our forces in France My
impression was that these rumors were
not we'll founded in fact, but I felt it
my duty to convey their content to
General Pershing, and to ask him to
communicate with me as to the facts.
You will be glad to know that l have
just received the following words from
General Pershing:
"'There has never been a similar
body of men to lead as clean lives as
have entered this war with the high
est devotion to duty and with no other
idea than TO perform these duties in
the most efficient manner possible
They fully realize their obligation to
their own people, their friends and the
country
"'A rigid programme of instruction
is carried out daily with traditional
American enthusiasm. Engaged in
healthy, interesting exercise in the
open air with simple diets, officers
ard men, like trained athletes, are
ready for their task. Forbidden the
use of strong drink and protected by
stringent regulations against sexual
evils. and supported by their own
moral courage. their good behavior is
the subject of most favorable com
ments, especially by our allies.
"'American mothers may rest as.
sured that their sons are credit t.
them and to the nation, and they may
we'll look forward to the proud day
when on the battlefield these splendid
men will shed new lustre on Americar
manhood"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
I. r. in Washington
To Aid Efficient Men
Speed War, He Says
lStuf Co1.-esD0udc,,cc1 I

WASHINGTON, JAM 22.---'I am here
to help every man who sincerely de-
slres to speed up and win the war. I
stand behind every efficient man and
stand against every inefficient man. No
man Is really intelligently loyal who
doesn't take that attitude"
That was the only statement Theo-
dorc Roosevelt would permit himself to
be quoted on late to-day, in addition to
what he had said this morning on his
arrival. When Colonel Rooscvelt's
known views as to the efficiency of Sec
retary of War Baker are taken into
consideration, some Of his auditors we're
crlvcn to wondering if he believed
President Wilson was "intclligcntlv
loyal"
II am infinitely more interested IN
what the President has said about .Mr
Chamberlain that in what Mr.. Stone
has said about me-" the Colonel said
Just after his arrival, when asked abou.
the charges of disloyalty made against
him by Mr.. Stone in the Senate YES
terday.
A man who has been snown to in
terpret the Colonel accurately, told
The Tribune correspondent to-nignt
that the Colonel would probably not
reply to Senator Stone. but that the
Colonel thought Mr.. Stone had proved
IAN intelligent servant of the Kaiser"
before the United States entered the
war in endeavoring to prevent that
entry, and that he was being an "in-
telligent servant of the Kaiser" nov
in attempting to prevent the United
States's attaining efficiency in prose
cutting the war against Germany.
The Colonel conferred at luncheon
with his former running mate on the
progressive ticket, Senator Hiram
johnson, of California. and with the
Senator's able political lieutenant. Mrs
Johnson. Senator Hale, of Maine, q
stanch standpatter, was present at
the luncheon also, to extend an invita-
ton to the Colonel to visit Maine.
The most important conference of the
day, so far as the war situation is con-
cerned, was with Senator Chamberlain
tonight The Colonel was eager to
know if Mr.. Chamberlain intended to
push his fight through, and in just
what way he could help.
One of the most interesting confer
cnces the Colonel expects to hold will
be that with Representative Baer, of
North Dakota Mr.. Baer was elected
at a special election recently by the
Farmers Partisan League, and
represents an element whit. many poll
ticians think is the most important IN
all the Western country. The news of
the conference proved .ther disturb
ing to old-line Republican politicians
tonight.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Condition Here
Worse Than Ever
Less Fuel Received
Yesterday Than on
Monday; 20 Ships
Coaled, so Waiting

The five-day industrial shutdown
ordered by the fuel administration
ended last night. Its results were
indicated in these developments:
In the Notion-Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield appealed to Secre-
tary McAdoo to put an embargo
on all freight except coal and food
'for few days."
In the City-State Fuel Admin
istrator Wiggin said that the
heavy snow which fell yesterday
had wiped out any benefits due to
the shutdown.
The great mass Of freight packed
into the terminals, however, is mov-
ing at last. A. H. Smith, Assistant
Director of Railways, said yesterday
that few mild days would end the
congestion. During the last week
six railways feeding the city cleared
out 2,40O cars.
Ships held here fo. lack of coal
are also decreasing in number.
Twenty more had their bunkers
filled yesterday. About eighty re-
main. The six inches of snow that
fell will hamper the work of coaling
them to-day.
That is the optimistic side of the
situation. The local New York story
is more depressing. The city is in
worse straits than it has been since
winter began. State Fuel Admins
traitor Albert H. Wiggin flashed to
DR.. Garfield last night hurry call
for relief.
"Use any method you please" he
wired, "but get coal to New York"
Here is the situation in New York
City. Only $4,000 tons of coal
crossed the Hudson yesterday, ac-
cording to City Fuel Administrator
Reeve Schley, the smallest amount
that has yet reached the town in one
day. Bins and yards in the city are
down to their last scrapings.
Industries that closed down five
days ago, in the hope of being able
to buy coal when they reopened, are
to be disappointed. Unless they have
supplies of their own, they will have
Floyd w. Parsons, editor of Goal
Age" returned yesterday from a
conference with DR.. Garfield in
Washington. He quoted the F;,el
Administrator as saying that other
five-day shut-downs of industry will
probably be necessary. In addition.
Mr.. Parsons said that DIR. Garfield
told him that it might be necessary
to forbid the railroads 70 carry pas
sengers during certain periods.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Chamberlain Sees
Roosevelt; Will
Press War Inquiry
By G. w. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Thc Senate
was W.. not frightened to death bv the
~, "''e house thunder to-day. Senator
""'"ocrlaln means to fight. On Thurs
sAS or Friday he will make a speech
:, ,s''ewlng the evidence brought out by
' military affairs investigation and
'e"u'ng to prove that he was right in
1as, aS,ihg that there was inefficiency and
Vi organization everywhere. Also
~ VIII remind the country that the
.'estigation resulted in the removal
- 'he lncompetents from Office and
:, 0sa secretary Baker to rcorganze
we War Department.
ne committee on Military Affairs,
""'ch Senator Chamberlain is head,
ue'ermlned to go on with the in
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
War Cabinet Vote
May Come Tomorrow

On Thursday or Friday there will be
a test vote on the question of the war
cabinet. which will SHOW whether or not
Senator Chamberlain and his friends
have majority of the Senate on their
side, now that the President has
spoken. The issue will come 10 on the
question OF referring the war cabinet
and munitions director bill to the SEN
ate Committee on Naval Affairs.
Inc Administration has a safe ma
Jorlty IN this committee, and ref
etrence to it will mean the end of tho
legislation. The committee claims the
right to consider both bills. on the
ground that both bills affect the navy.
The vote is likely to be close. There
are IN sight five or six Democratic votes
mat can be counted upon for Senator
Ehamperialn and against reference to
the Naval Affairs Committee. They
will be enough if the Republicans stand
firm. But La Toilette and Gronna are
not to be safely eopnted upon. And
some Republican members of the Com
mlttee on Naval Affairs are Jealous Of
the part the Military Committee has
prayed IN framing this legislation. and
accordingly they may be inclined to
SoIe ~, ior reference to the committee.
y Inc issue of the Senate against the
PRESIDENT may arise again in the imr,c
clate future over legislation extend
ing the price fixing power of the Pres
ident. Many Senators are inclined to
demand that the President give such
assurances as are contained in proper
organization that this power will be
Used wisely before being willing to vote
to extend it, They point to the blum
ders they allege have been made With
regard to coal. Certainly, fight over
further price fixing will take place.
though there may be enough Repup,
lican radicals, combined with faithfu.
Admlnistration Democrats, to make
certain the passage Of the legislation
the President seeks.
The general opinion in Washington
Is tnat the President will win with re-
gard to the war cabinet bill
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Buffers Pledge Hoover Aid

One hundred buffers employed by the
wealthest families in New York met
last night in the Madison Avenue Pres
hyterian Church. Seventy street
and Madison avenue, and discussed
plans for the conservation of food in
the households of their employers. Re
ports of the Buffers Association will
be filed with the Office OF the local
Food Administrator
Buffers were present from the homes
IF William Rockefeller, j. P. Morgan,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carne
gle and many other wealthy families.
A. copy of the following resolution,
which was adopted was sent to Her
bert c. Hoover, National Food Admin
istrator:
1--WE pledge our honor to uphold Mr.
Hoover and the Administration. to do
our utmost to conserve food, eliminate
waste, and by our example persuade
others III our households to do like
wise"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Garfield Asks McAdoo
For Embargo on All
But Food and Coal

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-An urgent
recommendation that an embargo be
declared for few days on acceptance
by the railroads of any freight except
coal and food was submitted to Direc-
tor General McAdoo tonight by the
Fuel Administration.
This action is imperative, Admins
traitor Garfield said, to assure adequate
movement of fuel during the balance of
the week, when the general transporta-
tion situation east of the Mississippi
threatens to become worse daily, owing
to the prolonged strain on railroads OF
deep SHOWS and intensely cold weather.
Tonight the tive-day period of indus
trial suspension, ended, and with the re-
sumption of manufacturing tomorrow.
railroad officials look for a new flood OF
traffic which the railroads cannot han
die until normal weather is restored.
McAdoo Not Convinced
Director General McAdoo tonight
was not inclined to look with favor on
the embargo proposal. He held tha.
under government operation and con-
sequent pooling of facilities and short
haul routing, the railroads would be
able to clear all freight offered for
transportation without priority and
without embargoes. c oal and food al
ready have preference over all other
classes of freight, he pointed out, and
are being moved to tidewater and t.
localities where domestic needs are
greatest, as fast as is physically pos
sible
Mr.. McAdoo promised, however, to
study closely DR.. Gartield's figures
showing how coal production had been
ourtailed in recent weeks, and to take
whatever action seemed best Near
while he and DR.. Garfield set about de-
vising scheme by which cross -hauls
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
The Tragic Delay

Sooner or later Germany will be
thoroughly beaten. 1t is SO written in
her book Of Fate. But upon Americas
prompt help now depends the dispatch
and the cost with which the Job is
done.
SO long has France stood in the
breach. so heavily has she paid, so
much has she counted upon the as
surcd aid Of America, that now as she
views the lag in shipbuilding, the de-
lays IN the arrival of our soldiers, of
our arms, of our equipment, her cry
to us is that of or late noble patriot,
Joseph H. Choatc. "For Gods sake,
hurry up!" that beyond the limit OF
our physical endurance we may not
have to Withstand the fierce, united
attack of the Hun.
And it is because France has really
passed her meridian in man power and
America is unpreparcd to go to her
assistance at once in all her might, and
the Russian breakup frees enemy
troops-with a further chance of re-
leasing over 100000 Austrian pris-
oners-that Germany's supreme effort
is certainty and 1918 the critical year
of the war. Even the success of our
cause is in the balance unless America
by next May or June lifts somewhat
the burden which now rests so heavily
on her ally. Surely it is not too
much to expect of our capabilities one
year after entering the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Chamberlain Plans
10 Continue Fight
For War Cabinet
Wilson Says Overseas
Army Will Be Twice
Size Planned by June

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-The
President told Administration leaders
who called on him last night that
under the present organization, the
war record of the government had
oeen one of the great accomplish
ments and would result in placing
abroad by next June twice the num-
Der of Americans originally planned.
Mistakes in such a gigantic task, he
suggested, were to be expected.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Saloon Is Not an Industry.
But a Place Of Amusement,

CLEVELAND, Jan. 22-Under a new
ruling handed down to-day by Walter
D. Sayle, chairman Of the county fuel
committee. saloon s not an industry
store, office or shop.
He decided they are places of amuse-
ment, and may remain open on heasless
Mondays, but must close on the nine
fuellcss Tuesdays.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23

vestigations> which the President has
pronounced useless and a cause of
delay and confusion. On Saturday it
Will have General Gorgas, surgeon gen
eral of the United States army, before
1t, and will inquire into the health of
The cantonments. Thus the committee
Will address itself to more than mill
ION homes with sons or other male
relatives in the camps.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
NelU Diving Shell to Sink U-Boats
By Associated Press1


WASHINGTON, Jan. 22The non-ricoche she'll weapon as
deadly the depth charge the perfected by the
navy ordnance for submarines
The shell dives the water instead Of bounc
ng as do the ordinary missiles Through of new fuse the
charge be solid
the water at a predetermined depth.
The value of the latest ntubmane the fact
that shots which fall slightly much effect as those
which register direct hits Pursuing course beneath the water
the shell will explode against the submerged
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Is We Are in Earnest

Widely the French of the country
side believe we are not very much in
earnest-that we make little more than
q gesture. Partly this is the influence
of the German propaganda against us
in France, partly on account of our
own halting exhibition. If we are truly
in earnest. how is it, they ask, that
after nine months we have so small
force on the ground, that our men are
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Walter johnson Exempted

COFFEYVILLE, Kan. Jan. 22.-Wal-
ter Johnson, Washington American
League pitcher, received notice to- day
from his exemption board that he had
been placed in Glass Four. Johnson
has wifet and two small children.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23

IS A TERRIBLE blow is imminent.
~ Tell your Americans to come
quickly" These were the
Parting words of Premier Clemenceau
three days before l left Paris on nv
way to the. steamer.
And substantially such were the first
and the last words heard on every side
throughout my recent sojourn in
France, which closed December 90.
The call to America, the reliance
upon her swift energy and enormous
strength. for help to turn the impend
ing German stroke is the most COM
pelling of the Impressions made upon
the American ir the war zone.
Nor are they the words of weakness
or panic or loss OF courage. France is
not dspirted; she is wide-eyed and
acutely intelligent. She sees the posi-
bility Of persistent hammcring of her
lines, which,, unaided by her allies to
greater extent than at present, she
could sustain, no doubt, though with
losses perhaps so stupendous as to de-
stroy the smashing aggressiveness of
her dauntless army and put it for two
years on the defensive
Not France, not Great Britain, nor
America can contemplate the bare
thought Of such casualty without SOL
emn apprehension. 1t might result in
the loss of Italy; it would positively
defer the end Of the war for another
two or three years, for no Boche peace
shall there ever be. no peace at all
which is not a just and therefore a
lasting one
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
ell Your
Americans
To Come
Quickly -
Clenlenceau
The rench Premier. in
His Last Words to The
ribune's Departing
Correspondent, Called
to the Spirit of Am
erica

News From the Wide-Eyed
Ally Whose First Expecta-
tons Have Been Dis
appointed-This the Criti-
cal Year, Now the
Precious Time-The Sin
of Self-Complacency
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23

HOTEL IMPERIAL. NEW ROOM-OANCiNG a.
Tea. Dinner and Supper. Uuque Surround.ngs-Advt
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
BY Caspar Whitney

Copyright. 1918. by The New FORK Tribune Assn,
IS A TERRIBLE blow is imminent.
N Tell your Americans to come
Cuickly" Theee uaro w.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-06-17

Administrator for Alaska shortly af- ter the outbreak of the war and has been serving in that capacity since.
 Judge Gunnison had been lead ing citizen of Alaska from almost the moment of his arrival in Ju- neau. He was public spirited, and took prominent part h' all move ments for Alaska's advancement. He was a lovable character and his personal friends were numbered by his acquaintances. - =. ,,..
 He was a B3'' Mason and an hon orary member of the Coordinate Bodies of Alaska Scottish Rite. He was a Shfiner and member of Mt Juneau Lodge, and also member of Juneau Lodge of Elks. He was particularly active in Masonry. '' ..
 The sudden and, unexpected an. nouncemet of his death caused . profound shock to the coEmnnlty:
 This afternoon the flag on the court house was lowered to half staff and Judge R. w. Jennings de- clared the court adjourned until further notice out of respect to tho deceased member of the Bar of A- aska and former occupant of the Bench.
 Masons of all degrees are re- quested to meet at 7:30 this eve ming at Odd Fellows hall to per feet funeral arrangements for Judge Gunnison.
 Judge Gunnison win be given 6 Masonic funeral, coducted by Mt. Juneau Lodge F. 6 A. M. It will take place at 3 p. m., Tuesday. June IS, from Elks' hall. Interment Will be at Juneau.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-06-17
HAD THREE HUSBANDS

London, June ,15.-To have lost two husbands and married g third during the war has been the eX- perience of Lady Michael Wardell, one of London's May Day brides.
 She is a daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper. an Australian millionaire. She married first the late Viscount Northland, who lost his life in ac- tive service in 1915, and left will in which he expressed the hope that his widow would marry again. She fulfilled his hope when she was married to Captain Geof- frey Mills, who was killed year ago.
 Her third husband is also a Brit ish officer, holding a commission in the Royal. Hussars.