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New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
States to Aid Nation
Work Out r. r. Rates

WASHINGTON, June 7.-Steps tow
ard working out a system of coopera-
tion between the Railroad Administra-
tion and state railroad or utility COM
missions in the regulation of railway
rates and practices were taken to-day
by Director General McAdoo. C. A..
Prouty, director of the Railroad Ad-
ministration's division of accounts. was
instructed to confer with a delegation
of state commissioners and report rec
concentrations.
AS a result of the commissioners
protest to the Director General against
the disturbance of intra-s state rate diff
ferentials and relationships the Rail-
road Administration is now understood
to be considering retaining import and
export special rates and resembling the
provision of the recent rate order pre-
scribing that interstate rates should
be effective for intra-state shipments
wherever these interstate schedules
exist. Charges then would be raised
on the basis of existing intra-state
rates, without the double system of
increase which the other method
would constitute in many cases.
Mr.. McAdoo tonight explained that
he wanted the cooperation of state
commissions in working out rate and
other problems, and that only the ne
cessity of obtaining higher rail reve-
nues at once prevented him from con-
sulting these state bodies in advance.
He is said to be considering naming a
committee of state commissioners to
act as permanent advisers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Food Board Now
Plans Nationwide
Control of Prices
Committee in Each Town to
Fix Reasonable Profits
ON Commodities
Especial Dispatch to The T,ibume)

WASHINGTON. June T.-Control Of
retail prices in the interest of the con-
Stunning public will be inaugurated by
the food administration through the
establishment of "fair price lists" in
every city and town in the country, it
was announced to-day.
BY bringing prices to a uniform level
in each community, the food admins
tration expects to not only protect the
public against unreasonable charges,
but to also protect the merchant who
has followed the administrations mar
gin of profit suggestion. The new sys-
tenn will be adequately policed, and re-
tailers failing to comply will be penal
lied.
In every community Interpreting
committees, composed of representa-
tives of the wholesalers, retailers and
consumers, will be established The
published lists will give the range of
maximum selling prices, showing rea-
sonable low price for "cash and carry"
stores and high price for "credit
and delivery" shops.
Tradesmen on the boards will be ap-
pointed by the trades, and will serve
with representative of the consum-
ing interests, the local food admins
traitor acting as chairman. Retail
members of the committee will repre-
sent both the "cash and carry" and
credit and delivery" stores.
Each board will have detailed re-
ports Of actual wholesale prices.
Newspapers in every city and county
will be asked to cooperate in publish
ing the price lists.
Consumers will be asked to report
to their food administrator any stores
charging more than the announced
prices. An indirect control over the
retail stores may be exercised by cut
ting off supplies at the source-in-
structing licensed wholesale dealers to
, sever business relations with the firms
which exact more than a reasonable
charge.
Retail price reporters are being ap-
ing appointed in every county in the
United States. Wherever investiga-
tion shows any dealer has charged ex-
cessive prices the administrator will
grant hearing
The food administration believes it
can assure the consumers the price
they pay represents no more than cost
OF production, plus reasonable costs
and profits of necessary handlers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
New 'Bogie' on No. s
At Van Cortland

The nineteenth hole admittedly has
attractions for most golfers. All yes
terday afternoon the ninth hole up o.
the Van Cortlandt Park links seemed
to have as much OF an attraction fH
police sergeant and two patrolmen.
They had been ordered by Captaii
McKeon, Of the Kingsbridgc stand, y
play that hole as long as daylight
lasted in an effort to round up q!
OF the golfers who might rightfully
come within the provisions Of the ant.
loaing act. While no arrests wsls
made during the day, several player:
were warned, and it is the theory q
the police that neither the ninth nn
the nineteenth hole will have any g.
traction before the first Of July fei
any but those who are fairly certain y
their exemption from the Ego to wo!s
rule.
Among the men stopped at the ninti
ho,e yesterday and questioned as
their occ.)ntions wsln three Cstholls
priests, several lawyers, a professor
New York University and score a
more others who had satisfactory sn'
swers for their inquisitors. The nsns
and address of each player was take
by the police and they will be invesE'
gated as to their authenticity.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Gas Kills Cousin of John D.
Philip H. Rockefeller, 70, AS
phyxiated at His Home

Phillip Henry Rockefeller, seventy
nine years old, third cousin of John
d. Rockefeller, was asphyxiated at his
home. 32 Morningside Drive, last night.
He was found unconscious in his room
by his daughter. Mrs. Edward MacAr-
thur. with whom he lived, and was dead
when doctor arrived He had in
vented contrivance to turn the gas in
the chandelier on or off, and it is be-
heved he accidentally touched this
while preparing to retire.
Mr.. Rockefeller was student at
Columbia, and later took up the study
OF steamboat engineering. During the
Civil War he was captain Of the trans
port c. p. Smith, on which President
Lincoln spent three days.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
WElyte Restaurant
Is Punished by
Food Board Order
Fulton Street Cafe Accused
of Violating Wheat
Regulation

Whyte's restaurant, 145 Fulton
Street, one Of the best known eating
places in downtown New York, was
ordered to close for seven days by the
Federal Food Board yesterday, for
breaches of the food regulations. A
fine of $1,500 IS the alternative, this to
go to the Red Gross.
The order goes into effect at mid
night next Monday. Whether the fine
is paid or not the management is or
dered to place this sign in a conspicu-
Gus position in the dining rooms:
1--WE violated the regulations of
the food administration, but have
pledged full obedience IN the future.
Posted by direction of the United
States Food Administration. Not to
be removed until midnight, Monday,
gune IT,"
Repetition of offences for which the
management Of the restaurant was GEN.
sured on May 13 according to the food
board, is the reason for the heavy SEN
tence. On May 13, the corporation was
accused by the board of failure to use
wheat substitutes in the manufacture
OF Vienna and French rolls. Frank
White, secretary of Whyte's, Inc.
blamed an Austrian baker for this and
declared the offending employe had
been discharged. The Austrian, how
ever, declared he never had been told
TO use substitutes.
IN letter to the corporation Arthur
Williams, Federal Food Administrator.
and John Mitchell, chairman of the
food board, said:
I'm our opinion you have failed in
the conduct of your restaurant to OH
serve the requests and regulations Of
the food administration with that care
which the administration expects from
patriotic restaurant and hotel owners.
I'VE direct you to close your res
taurant tor the, period of one week.
beginning Tuesday, June II. If YOU
prefer to make contribution of $500
to the Red Cross we will permit YOU
to do so. Please inform us in case Won
prefer to make such contribution. as
otherwise our inspectors will be pres
ant is closed"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

genially, of the young officer, as tne
stood side by side on the platform.
mo, French leave" was the g. g
sponse. "It's easy if you know "
pass signal"
But the cops will get you,' pr
sisted his friendly neighbor. :. i.
"Oh, the cops are easy" gsplied =
young officer, airily. "Speak roN'
to 'em and they fade away"
"You better speak up prompt, tnsa
snapped Murphy, seizing an olive -
arm. for I'm camoufiage expert i'ss
headquarters"
With two quick motions he stripr.
yards of gauze from the camoufsu.
hands and revealed four sound nnSss
and a thumb on each. A wcnx
screamed Somebody's faintedl~ es
the prisoner. Murphy glanced ~
palefaced girl beside him. She
been one Of the "lieutenant's" sav
tors.
Nav" he said. "She's just CO.
to-"
At headquarters, where no
charged with impersonating an
officer, the young man said ne
Joseph Summers, thirty years oio.
1886 East New York Avenue, bi9,:s,|
lyn. He said. according to the pen
that he had worn the uniform fot ss
months because of the pleasnts
gave him constantly to be seluteos
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08

have been totally rejected or placed in
the deferred remedable group"
The Provost Marshal Generals Office
declared there would be no further ex-
tension of exemptions to specialized
classes of labor, agricultural or other
wise, than already have been given.
The Provost Marshal General an
nounced the class of 1918 registrants
would not be allowed to enlist in the
navy or marine corps, and that no VOL
untary inductions would be granted
until order and serial numbers had
been assigned. After assigned reg
istrants may enlist if they obtain Ger
tifcates from their local boards stating
they are not within the boards current
quota
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Government Bureau
inds Women Unfit
To Be Conductors

In presenting the results of an in
vestigation it has made into the hours
and working conditions of the New
York Railways Company and the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company the
United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics concludes that street railway
employment is unsuitable for women.
at must be evident" the report of
the survey just made public says, "to
any thinking persons that it is prac-
tically impossible to make the condi
tions of street railway employment
even tolerably endurable to woman en-
ployes, and that the operation of
streetcars is one of the last occupa-
tions into which women should be
hired or forced. There are thousands
of clerical and factory positions now
filled by men which could be filled just
as well, or better, by~women.
"If the exigenceis of war make it
necessary to put women into the less
desirable employments, such as street
car operation, the public should first
obllge such industry to prepare itself
for the employment of women by pro-
viding the irreducible minimum of de-
cency and comfort before it is permit
ted to employ them. Moreover, any
policy Of employing women to lower
wages OK to keep wages from rising to
meet increases in the cost of living
will have most detrimental effect on
the labor market and will result in
lowering the standards of wages and
working conditions for both male and
female labor.
"Those who advocate the employment
OF women as streetcar conductors have
given scanty consideration to irregu-
larity of hours. to within time and to
night work or else they regard these as
more than compensated by the light
ness of the work. On many cars the
conductor is compelled to be on his
feet constantly, and the principle has
been clearly established that woman
cannot work at an employment requr-
ing constant standing without seriously
endangering her health.
ION the New York Railways Com
pany's lines 1876 per cent of the total
days worked by women conductors dur
ing period of seven days were com
pleted in less than ten hours, whereas
62.9 per cent required twelve hours or
days work. On the surface lines of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
l6.l per cent of the total days worked
by women conductors during a period
of seven days required less than ten
hours within which to complete the
days work and 4S.5 per cent required
twelve hours and over. On the sub
way elevated lines of the BROOKLYN
Rapd Transit Company 36.5 per cent
of the total days worked by women
guards and conductors required less
than ten hours within which to com
plete the days work and so per cent
required twelve hours or over"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Run1son Council
axes Steps to Bar
Hearst Publications

RUMSON, N. j., June THE village
council of Rumson voted last night TO
compile who's Who" of Rumson
newspaper readers. A council commit
tee was appointed to go to the local
newsdealers and ask for the names Of
those citizens. if any, who still read
newspapers published by William Ran
dolpth Hearst.
The committee is under instructions,
after getting these names, to take steps
to keep Hearst papers out of Rumson.
According to the plan of the committee,
one of these steps will be to request
newsdealers that they quit handling
Hearst publications. Another step is
expected to be personal appeal to any
citizen found to be still reading Hearst
papers.
Rumson is the first town in which
there has been any suggestion OF
personal, individual appeal to Hearst
readers. In other towns those readers
have been addressed collectively.
George A. H. Churchill, member of
the New York Stock Exchange, brought
the Hearst question before the council.
Last week Rumson unfurled its SER
vice flag, containing seventy-four
stars" said Mr.. Churchill. GAS you
gentlemen know, the citizens there as
sembled cast a unanimous vote request
ing the council to take action regarding
those newspapers.
"Many of our citizens have sons in
France to-day. While their sons are
away fighting for this country's very
existence these citizens do not want in
parently works insidiously to under
mine the morale of the American peo-
pie.
Having one son in the uniform of
Uncle Sam, I, for one, will not read
newspapers which have defended and
praised Germany. | am opposed to
having within the village limits any
newspapers which have sought to incite
hatred for England, the strongest ally
of my boy, your boys and the rest of
us. The citizens of this village ask
you councilmen to deal adequately with
the kind of newspapers which delete a
victory prayer from the Presidents
Memorial Day proclamation"
Mayor John Corlies said that any
newspaper which hampered the sue
cessful prosecution of the war ought
20 be barred from the village. How
ever, he said he was opposed to the
passage of an ordinance to bar Hearst
sales, in view of the court decision re-
garding the Mount Vernon ordinance.
Mayor Corlies expressed the belief
town merely by appointing a commit
tee to take the matter up with the
newsdealers. With the unanimous ap-
proval of the council he appointed a
committee consisting of Councilmen
Richard Rogers, Dalton Parmly and
George Kuhn.
Councilman William H. Mahoney
suggested that, in addition to asking
the dealers to cease selling Hearst
papers. the committee should ascertain
the names Of citizens who have still
been reading those papers.
Councilman James Ryan was partic-
ularly outspoken in his opinion of
Hearst papers. "If had my way they
would be consigned to the uttermost
depths Of, etc." he said.
Councilman Charles F. Briggs, for
mer chief of police, said Hearst would
be locked up in the village calaboose if
he came to Rumson and uttered what
he had printed in his newspapers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Obtains Courthouse Site
Government to Erect Barracks
on LAFAYETTE st. Property

The Board of Estimate yesterday
unanimously passed resolution grant
ing the request of the Federal govern
ment for the use of new courthouse
site on Lafayette Street for provost
marshal guard. 1t is expected that
the government soon will begin to erect
wooden barracks on the property. The
Fire Commissioner has waived any re-
strictions which would not permit the
erection of wooden buildings in that
locality.
The government had also requested
the use Of Hallenbeck Building, on the
site, for the use Of a quartermaster's
depot. Controller Craig said he and
Colonel Piper, of the Quartermaster's
Department, had not reached any
agreement as to the rental to be paid.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
What Is Going On To-day
ONE MEAL WHEATIESS.
CAMPAIGN FOR RED CROSS WA

ONE MEAL WHEATLESS.
CAMPAIGN FOR RED CROSS WAR
NURSES.
WAR SAVING STAMP CAMPAIGN
COAL WEEK.
Free admission to tho American Museum OF
Natural History Metropolitan Museum OF Art
New York geological Park. Van Cortlandt
Park Museum American Museum OF Safety
and the Aquarium.
Exhibition Of Italian government war rclics
Fifth Avenuo and Fortysecond Street. o. m
Last day Of National Music Exposition.
Grand Central Palace
Commencement Of New York University.
Address by Professor Charles Upson Clark
on "A Classical Professor In the Italian War
Zone before the Now York Classical Club
Barnard College Theatre. Broadway and ll9th
Street. II so a. m.
Recruiting rally under the auspices al IN,
Recruiting Committee OF the Mayors COMMITTEES
Oh National Defence. City Hail Park, 1880
y. m
Luncheon OF tho Speech improvement Associ.
alton. Hotel McAlpin. l 80 y. M
Business meeting Of the womcn's Press Cub
OF New York. Waldorf Astoria. p. m
Opening Of open air cantecn for soldiers and
sallors Ell route to Francs Public Idbrary
Sav Aronns and Forty 4spoad Street .. N.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Soldiers Convicted of Robbery

Sergeant Otis Walker, nineteen wears
old, of Milburn, Okla, and Private Will
lam B. Harrison, twenty years old. Of
Centreville, Tenn, were convicted Of
robbery, grand larceny and assault in
the first degree by a jury in the Queens
County Court, before Judge Humphrey.
early yesterday morning. They were
accused Of robbing Herman Beinbrink.
a saloonkeeper, on Fulton Street, Hol-
lis, Long Island, on April 13. They are
members of Company C. 49th Infantry.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Court Denies Right to Hide
Name of Coresnondent

The Appellate Division yesterday de-
cided against Michael E. Paterno, a
wealthy builder, in his effort to pre-
vent Mrs. Marie S. Palermo from men
tioning by name the other woman in
her divorce suit against her husband.
Mrs. Palermo has named Miss D. de
Constantowitch. sometimes known as
tine countess, as correspondent. Pa
terno sought to have her name kent
out of the case
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
House Rejects Senate's
Wheat Price Cornpromise

WASHINGTON, June Efforts to-
day again failed to break the dead
lock between Senate and House con
ferrees on the agricultural appropra.
ton bill liking the government prc,
of wheat ct $3.50 a bushel.
A compromise proposal, retaining
the s2.20 price at primary markets and
making it apply to No. spring wheat
instead of No. 1 Northern, the present
standard, was rejected by House con
ferrees.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Rhone Bridge Named for Wilson

PARIS, juno 7-Senator Herriot.
Mayor OF Lyons. and the City Council
have given the name Of President Will
son to a new bridge over the River
Rhone which will be opened on July Ia.
The bridge has been built since the
beginning of the war. The Wilson
Bridge parallels a bridge which for a
century has borne the name of Lafay-
cite Bridge.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-08
Coroner Finds Brother Dead

YONkERS, N. Y, June 7.-Coroner
George Engle, called to the National
Sugar Refinery. where man had died
suddenly, discovered the man was his
brother, John. an assistant chief en-
gineer there.
New Britain herald., 1918-05-09
ARRANGE FOURTH LOAN.

Washington, May 9.--Before work
on the Third Liberty Loan is finished
the treasurys loan publicity bureau
has started preparations for the
Fourth Loan which will be held next
fall All artists and designers were
asked today to submit designs for
posters, window cards and buttons by
June /. These are to be donated to
the government. Bond buyers but
tons for the Fourth Loan will be
smaller than those used in the third
campaign and will be made of tin in
order to save celluloid for more i'm
portant war purposes.
New Britain herald., 1918-05-09
NJ ADOO NOT READY
TO 0. X. new WAGES
Report Of Railroad Commission
on New Schedule Being Studied

Washington. May 9.--In recon-
mending wage increases of S300,000,-
600 annually for all railroad en-
ployes whose wages We're less than
$3.50 a month in December, 1915, the
railroad wage commission made sew
cral original and far-reaching suS-
gestionS on the problem of railroad
labor which attracted the close at
tention today of Director General
McAdoo and other government Of
fcials
Mr. McAdoo is expected to an
nounce his decision on the recon-
mendations in about ten days There
are indications that he will not ac-
cept them in their entirety. Some
union officials already have expressed
dissatisfa ction with the amounts rec
commended for the men of their Or
CARNATIONS.
The commission declared in it's re-
ports that reductions in hours are not
to be regarded as increase in pay.
Schedule of Increases
The increases averaging from 43
per cent. downward to 4.6 per cent
follow
Freight engineers, . per cent;
firemen and helpers, "a per cent;
freight conductors, 20 per cent;
freight brakemen and flagmen, 80 per
cent; passenger engineers, II per
cent; passenger firemen and help
ers. rs per cent; passenger conduc
tors, Is per cent; passenger baggage
men, 3S per cent: passenger brake
men and flagmen, 80 per cent.
Requests for an eight hour day for
all railroad employees and for time
and a half for overtime were not act
ed on by the commission.
AT the outset of the hearings" the
report says, cit was evident the mat
ter hours of service islodged deep
in labor's mind. A standard day of
reasonably limited length Is as much
a part of the measure of justice with
the workingman as is his rate of
wages.
THE employees have asked for the
shorter day, saying frankly that they
did not want any increased rate for
overtime save a means of compelling
the observance of shorter hours-a
penalizing Of the employers for too
long a work day. At this time, how
ever, in penalizing the government
for working their men as long as they
have been in the habit of working I'M
desire to take advantage of the two
fold embarrassment of the govern
ment---its needs for work and inabil-
ity to call, in outside men. The COM
mission does not believe the employees
want to hamper the transportation
facilities of the country in it's hour of
need
The report continues:
"As the war takes an increasing
number of men, women must in a de-
gree take the places of men. They
should be cared for. Their burdens
should not interfere with conditions
conductive to health Their hours
should be reasonably short. Their
working conditions should be health
full and fitted to their needs. And
their pay, when they do the full work
CT men, should be the same as that
OF men,"
Large salaries paid railroad Off
Gals received the closest scrutiny of
the commission, which showed that
some might be abolished.
New Britain herald., 1918-05-09

wers. for Mothers Day, May IL
Stroin. Florist.-Advt.
tonic Carraglio, who is training
Brfolk, Va, is spending a few days
! is city. He recently enlisted IN
Naval Reserve and since nv -
'ent has been assigned to the
&rs' department. He was form
barber in Peter Crona's shop.
list and Old Fashioned Dance to-
pw night in Electric hall given
/ A. z. Q. H.-advt.
fx Chernefskiof % Williams street
zbl, was walking down the rail-
farcade this morning and he lost
wallet, containing his passports
other valuable papers. He
he'd carefully but in vain.
3dolph Carlson and Frank North
have gone to Detroit to the
b Bros. factory and will return
Two new ears.