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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-26

oped cockerel is usually satisfactory,
or n good vigorous yearling or 2-yenr-
old cock may be chosen. The hens
used for breeding purposes should be
given the best care possible; they
should be provided with large runs.
and should not be forced for heavy
egg production during the early win
ter
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-26

I'm with you.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

ment, and as police authority whose
duty it is to prosecute violators of the
law, you come out in public print, in
dict an entire industry, and when
asked for substantiation take refuge
behind evasions," the association
wrote. "You shrk each and every
query. You do not make good any one
OF your statements You assume in
our eyes. and in the eyes of the read
ing public. the proportions of a pub
ilclty-secklng politician.
"You accuse a number of highly re-
spectacle men of conspiring to ruin
the youth of the city, and when asked
TO support one of your assertions YOU
sidestep, cvadc-pass the buck. You
state you know twenty girls who have
been beer ruined by films, but hesitate to
In conclusion, the letter said:
"lf it is your desire to substantiate
your charges, we will be pleased to
near your direct answers to our ques-
tons, none of which will be published.
g assure you it is simply our desire
to cooperate with you to disinfect any
unclean corners, if you will but point
ont their existence. Your refusal of
TINS invitation viii be accepted as a
confession of error"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Easier Egg Rivalry
Settled i,v Ostrich
Circus Goose Clowns Offering
Goes to Owner and Rider
Has Other Trophy

"A special prize dinner of a quarter
peck Of ground glass, horseshoe nails
and discarded sp0nglcs has been award
cd to Merza, giant ostrich OF the Bar
mum q Bailey and Ringing Brothers
combined circuses, for producing the
banner Easter egg of the mcuagcrie
At Madison Square Garden.
Mor2a arrived only three or four
days ago. and when her crate was
opened an egg was found hidden under
the straw. The discovery of the egg
was particularly disconcerting to
Gladys, the only clown goose in cap
Nvi,y and the companion Of Sid la
Rue, clown who was making children
laugh before the plans for Madison
Square Garden we're drawn.
Gladys is a considcratc female. She
know that Sid wanted an egg for
Easter and produced one. The fact
that she laid it on top of trunk be-
longing to Ivette Renee, one of the
big shows equestriennes, complicated
the situation, as Yvettc put in claim
for tho trophy.
The problem finally was solved, how
ever, with the advent of Merza, for
1t was to Yvette that the ostrich egg
was given, and Sid got Gladys a con-
tribution. But Merzas egg would make
eight of the smaller one.
The circus hogirs the last week of
Its current season at the Garden to-
morrow. Next Saturday night it will
move over TO Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
OBITUARY NOTES

MISS CHARLOTTE LEWIS WILL
IAMS, 51,MS, seventy-nnc. widow OF Irwin a.
W'iIlams formerly manufacturer of lamps
md headlights in Utica, n Y. died ycs,cr-
day in Greenwich. Conn. She is survived
10y one daughter, Mrs. Alfred G. Smith. wife
OF the president of the Ward Steamship
Line. and son. Cartan Aras j. Williams.
who is overseas
SON. wife of Wilbur S. johnson, second
vSice-president of the Prudential Insurance
Company, died Friday at her home, hi
Harrison Street, East ORANGE N. !. She
was the daughter Of the late Daniel c. and
Orange for Twenty-Five relrs.
MRS. JULIA NJ. LOVE. seventy-three. died
Wednesday at her winter horne in Miami,
Fla. She the widow of John w Love,
cigar manufacturer. and while in Manhat-
tan lived at the Great Northern Hotel. She
was member of the Eclectrc and Athena
clubs.
WILLIAM HENRY BURNET. ninety two,
a retired manufacturer, died Friday at his
home, 62 North Arlington Avenue, Fast
Orange N: ]. He was member of the
Brick Presbyterian Church.
WALTER A. RAPP. thirty-one a clerk
in the general postoffice at jersey City, died
Friday.
CATHERINE DAILY, of 80 Bright Street.
Jersey City. is dead.
DANIEL A. HIGBEE. one Of the oldest
employees of the Wells, Fargo Express Com
pany, is dead at 2o5 Eighth Street, Jersey
City
NELSON PAGE CHASE, seventy-three, of
no Quincy Street. Brooklyn died Friday
FRANK BRETTELL, sixty-three a builder
of homes in Harlem, died Friday in the Mid
wood Sanatorium.
JAMES M. OVERTON, seventy-one.
former liveryman, is dead at his homa in
Patchopuc Long Island
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Film Men Accuse
Mrs. O'Crady of
Passing the Buck -

The Associated Motion Picture Ad-
vertisera, of 145T Broadway. which has
been particularly active in defending
the industry against attacks made by
Mrs. Ellen O'Grady. Fifth Deputy
Police Commissioner, invited the com
missioner to address it's members
Thursday at the Cafe Boulevard
Broadway and Forty-frst Street. In
its invitation the association asserted d
1t was eager to cooperate with Mrs.
O'Grady.
In writing to Mrs. O'Grady. the asso-
citation charged her with failing to
answer r series of questions pro
pounded some days ago. The commits
sioner's reply to tho questions. made
public q week ago, was declared to be
cyaslVe, indirect and meaningless.
You made a bold and rash state
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
ANNA WALLACE, twenty-one, died Fri
day at her home, 116 Bedford Avenue. Brook

ANNA WALLACE, tWenty-one, died Fri
day at her home, 116 Bedford Avenue. Brook
lyn.
JAMES M'KNIGHT. thirty-five an en-
pioye of the Waterbury Wire Works. died
Thursday in st. Anthonys Hospital Brook
yn.
ELIZABETH LUCHT. an employe of the
Ludwig Lehman jewelry concern at T. Beck
Street, is dead III Brooklyn
LISA ERVAST. ten. daughter of George
+. Ervsst. assistant editor o. The Finnish
American died Friday at 1920 Eighth Ave
nue.. Brooklyn.
GEORGE KAISER, Sr., fifty-three, a mem
bcr of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joners. is dead at 1 St. Johns Place,
Ridgew ood.
JACOB KIRCHNER. sixty-three. an en-
ploye of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, is dead at his home in Brooklyn.
MICHAEL A. RYRNE,, for many years a
boss dock builder, we'll known on the Brook
lyn waterfront. died Friday
DELLA c. DUNN, in charge of the day
nursey Of st. Vincent's Church, Brooklyn,
is dead at her home. II Harrison Avenue.
Brooklyn.
DANIEL WALLACE HIBBARD. sixty
two. of 46l Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, is
dead He was in the steel business in New
York
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

the members of the gang responsible
for the double killing.
Frank Railo, twenty-tour, OF 151
Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, and Rocco
Braccia, thirty, of Sal Kent Avenue,
Brooklyn, were held in $4,000 bail
each by Judge Burt ]. Humphrey, in
the Queens County Court. A week ago
Michael Cssalino, OF LAG Classon Ave
nue., Brooklyn, and Paul Ricci, Of South
being held without bail.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
NOTICE

Mrth, Enga cement, Marriage. Death
and in Memoriam Notices may be
'eiephoncd 10 The Tribune any time
up to midnight for insertion In the next
l DAY \ paper Iust cal,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
BIRTHS

tARN ALHo-'ro MIR. and Mrs. Leslie r.
CsrvalAo. OF 5so 9th at. Brooklyn. a
daughter. ON FRIDAY. April Is. l9la. :
SMITH Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick NJ Smith
announce tn, birth of daughter on
Nprh II at Muhcnhurs Hospital. Plain
field, n. j
NlEr0R-ro Mr.. and Mrs Thomas +.
Victor. a son. on Thursday, April Il, al
IA Park av.
WElNBERG-To Mr.. and Mrs J. A. Vein
berg tnee Rose Rothbart). of Bloomfield.
~. j., on Wednesday. April 16, a eon. =
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
CAPT. JAMES EDMUND CoRkHuL

Captain James Edmund Corkhill, six
ty-four, who for the last six years
commanded vessels OF the Standard
on fleet. died yesterday at the home Of
his sister, Mrs. Sarah Quenzel, IS Sip
Avenue, Jersey City. He had followed
the sea since he was fourteen years
old and was the inventor of the time.
omcter, device used to reckon time
and course. Tie was decorated with the
Lloyd Medal of Honor for bringing into
an Australian port the schooner Crown
OF India in 1893.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
ENGAGEMENTS

ERAKAUER-TRIEDMAN-Mr. and Mrs.
q Morris Friedman. of 1o4s Simpson st.
Bronx, announce the engagement OF their
daughter. Mary to Nj Lewis Krakauer :
kRUG-CANALLI- Ernestine Cavalli,
cf Hartman, n. y. announces the en-
gagement of her daughter hruestine, 20
NJ. Charles S. Krug. son cf Mrs A. c.
Mertens. of New York
"OLSSON-M and Mrs. Jacob
Meadow of 26v Riverside Drive, announce
the engagement of their daughter, Rose
. L., to Mr.. Sidney Kenneth Wolsson, of
New York Roanoke. Virginia, papers
please copy
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
. Obituary
PROF. DEWINEL F. THOMPSON

TROY, April 19.-Prof. Dewinel F.
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute. died
this morning shortly before o'clock,
after long illness.
Prof. Thompson was born in Bangor,
Me-, obtained his early education at
the Abbott School, Lewiston Falls
Academy and Bowdoin College and was
graduated from Dartmouth in 1869. in
1872 he was appointed to the chair of
descriptive geometry, sterootomy and
drawing at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Institute. He was made president
emeritus of the institute in 1917 when
he retired. Prof. Thompson edited and
illustrated several text books and was
an authority on Indian relics.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
LIEUT.. COL. LEWIS 7. GRIFFITH

Lieutenant Colonel Lewis T. Griffith,
forty-slx, OF the United States Army
Medical Corps, died of disease in
France on April 9. For fifteen years
Colonel Griffith was associated in pri-
vate practice with DR.. I. /. Hill. of
GIG Madison Avenue. Colonel Griffith
served III the medical corps ia The
Spanish American and Philippine wars.
In the last war he was in command Of
Base Hospital No. rs. ct Vichy. France.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
SAMJ'FI, w. EURICV

Samuel w. Enrich. sixty-four form
crly Junior partner Of Enrich Brothers.
department store formerly on Sixth
Avenue and Twcnty-third Street. died
Friday at Watkins Glen, n. Y. When
Samuel Enrich retired in 1901 the bust
ness was carried on by his brother,
Jules s. Enrich, until 1911.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Reeknsaii 5000

ard s9nd tho notice as YOU wish 1t In
>0l,@i. hill for same viii bo mailed to
eN later. The notice will reach moro
oaan leo poo readers daily.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
+ Held i'm Holbach Killings
Police Believe They Have Gang
That Murdered Man and Wife

-Four men are now under arrest in
connection with the murder of Joseph
Holbach and his wife, Helen, of South
Ozone Park, l.. l., several weeks ago.
The police believe they now have all
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
yHo Fabricated Shi,na
.Arc Launched at Newark

Two fabricated steel ships of the
5,5oo-ton type, the Jackson and the
Shortsville, were launched yesterday
at the yards of the Submarine Boat
Corporation, Port Newark Terminal.
Mrs. Fl. H. Turkey and Mrs. Joseph Ca
hill were the sponsors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

hot water for baths only from Fri
days till Sundays on alternate weeks.
and gas stoves for heating water are
prohibited. Those who cook with
gas are allowed to do so only within
certain hours. From s to 1870
o'clock and from to T o'clock gas is
not allowed for cooking. Coal is SO
scarce that houses cannot be ade-
quately heated with what is allowed,
and carts are now going about the
streets with wood for sale, much as
in the old times, several generations
ago. The demand for wood this
winter will be something unheard of.
Not only will it be needed for heat
ing private houses, but to some eX-
tent it will be used in the furnaces
Of certain industries where coal cam
not be had, and timber for building
barracks in the cities will be re-
quired in unusual quantities. Hence
there is already no little apprehen-
sion lest the forests be cut down to
q dangerous extent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Fec Houses; Little Food and Berlin Is Crowded

acute than ever before. This week
certain groups Of children are re-
ceiving condensed milk only; others
are getting q half pint Of full milk
instead Of a pint. Even invalids
with q physicians certificate en-
titling them to a pint are get
ting this week only a half pint.
The milk prospects are so black
that the mayor Of Berlin has is
sued a note of alarm in behalf
Of the larger cities. He asks that
the grain office turn over to the
municipalities its entire stock Of
bran, so that they can offer it In
exchange for sufficient deliveries Of
milk for infants and invalids. The
situation here can be judged from
the fact that Berlin's daily milk
amounted TO about one million IL
ters; now it is less than 100000
ljterc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

porary wooden structures on the
public squares to accommodate nu-
merous municipal offices which had
hitherto been housed in dwellings.
Many such temporary houses are
also being built on the outskirts of
the city as homes for the refugees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

of the newest freight cars had to be
delivered to France and Belgium,
and what was left were largely out
repair. The Minister of Railways
mas wrestled in vain with the prob
lem Of getting cars and locomotives
repaired. Although he has greatly
increased his working force, the
amount Of work finished remains
less than it was before, and more
locomotives are going into the shops
every week than come out. The
Minister said the other day that 55,-
600 cars We're not in use because he
had not enough working locomotives.
Of course, the scanty supply of
coal is sold at enormously increased
prices. Before the war the price
was 1880 marks a ton. Until re
Gently it was So marks, but a fort
night ago another raise of 1880
marks was made. While the in
crease may save some of the coal
companies from bankruptcy, it bears
hard upon consumers at a time when
all other prices are extraordinarily
high The poor Minister of Rail-
ways has also to try TO recoup him.
self for the shrinkage in transporta
ton by raising prices. Both freight
and passenger rates have Just been
raised heavily. The deficit in OPP
orations is now 100000 marks a
day, and for the last half year it
amounted to 100000 marks. In
sheer desperation the Minister has
just ordered the discontinuance Of
all express trains.
But this winter of discomfort will
also be aggravated by hunger pangs.
The malnutrition Of the German peo-
Pile is by no means thing of the
past, Notwithstanding the arrivals of
food from foreign countries. | can
note very little difference, if any, in
the physical appearance of the street
crowds since my arrival here in Feb
ruary. The people mostly still look
i'll fed. and there is that unhappy
look on their faces which naturally
goes with permanent hunger.
Roughly, | would divide the street
crowds about thus: Three persons
in every ten look normally we'll fed
the rest show varying degrees of
leanness, and two or three Of these
look distinctly emaciated and I'M
healthy. Women in particular show
the effects of undertaking; large
numbers of them have hollow cheeks
and unhealthy compilations.
So the food problem is still pinch
ing. The scarcity Of milk is more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Not Much Food

In many respects the food situa-
ton is serious. You cannot buy
pound Of sugar in Berlin unless
you have dark and devious connec.
tions. You can't buy meat, though
the restaurant keepers are able in
some way to place a sufficient
amount on your dinner plate TO ap-
pease your hunger Fruit can be
bought, but at prices about ten
fold higher than pre-war prices.
The bread is still the unsavory,
black conglomeration that has been
in use for several years but, for
tunately, we are promised better
bread this month. Already the
"Schrippe," kind of roll, has come
back, but several shades darker than
normal, and the price, Every baker
sold two for pfennigs before the
war, now they ask so pfennigs for
one.
Fortunately, the grain crop was
large and Of excellent quality, and
now it is even asserted by the gov
ernment authorities that there viii
be enough grain to feed Germany
till the next harvest. Hence. it has
been ordered to resume grinding
white -four, and the bakers are again
to be allowed to bake the rolls Of
various kinds and degrees that were
our delight before the war. On the
other hand, the arrivals Of Ameri-
can -four are slower, and it Is said
that they will soon cease altogether,
But behring's have been bought in
Norway for a hak year ahead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

enty families daily Besides this, the
arrivals of transient visitors at the
hotels have reached greater proper
tions than ever before. Hotelkeep-
ers say they have never known any
thing like the present rush of travel.
The arrivals in September averaged
AGO q day. In the great hotel
where lodge it is a common sight
to see the servants spreading beds
upon the floor of the bathrooms for
guests who can get no better accom-
notation. At the desk you hear the
clerks turning away applicants and
telling them there will be no room
for some time ahead. To make mat
ters still worse, the various Allied
commissions will be arriving very
soon, and the government has al
ready given notice to several impor-
tant hotels that their rooms will be
entirely requisitioned for the accom-
mediation of the foreign officers.
Berlin has now such large over
flow population that the city gov
eminent has had to resort to extraor-
binary measures to create room
for the homeseekers. Several weeks
ago it announced that it would billet
homeless persons upon families oc-
cupying apartments without filling
them to their capacity. Then it
began to take a census of the house
room of Berlin to ascertain just
where newcomers might be squeezed
in. At the same time Berlin house
holders began to develop an I'M
wonted interest in their friends and
relatives, hoping to find among them
renters for some of their rooms and
thus escape the disagreeable al
tentative of having to take stran-
gers into their homes. Of course, all
this has resulted in a wholesale up
setting of housekeeping arrange
ments, and it will also result in
upsetting the family finances OF
many a household, for it is required
that the refugees be taken in at
very low rates if they are poor.
But the accommodations created
by this doubling up process are not
nearly enough to meet the require.
ments; hence many other expedient'
are being resorted to. Old ware
houses and other buildings are be
ing overhauled and converted int
living rooms. Where former dwell
ings were taken possession of by
the various war organizations thes'
businesses are being closed out, al
far as possible, so that the houses
can again be lived in. The mu
nicipality itself is building tenn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Coal Shortage, Too

The coal scarcity has already
made marked changes in Berlin life.
The opera now begins at 6 o'clock,
so that the performances may be
over by 10, when the gas pressure
is reduced in the public mains. For
the same reason restaurants must
turn down their lights, even includ-
ing electricity, at a comparatively
early hour. Manufacturing estab-
lishments also are hard hit by the
shortage of coal Many of these
have already been kept idle for
months by lack of fuel; and now 1t
is proposed to cut down by 80 per
cent the coal allowance Of those that
had been able to keep in operation.
1t is with the greatest difficulty
that the gasworks can keep two or
three days supply of coal ahead.
The coal famine is due to reduced
production and poor transportation
facilities. During the first half of
the year Germany's production was
only 100000 tons, as compared
with So,OO0,OOO last year. And this
years coal contains 10 to 20 per cent
of stone. The famine has recently
been rendered still more acute
through the fact that Germany has
had to begin delivering coal to
France under the treaty.
But the famine is still more
directly due to the breakdown Of the
railway system. Last winter 5000
Of the best locomotives and 10000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
By William c. Dreher
Berlin Correspondent Of The
Trlbune)
Berlin, October 8.

Berlin, October 8.
~ ERL1N is now suffering from
such congestion of popula-
H. ton as it has never known
before. Several years ago,
during the first two years of the
war, the newspapers were regularly
printing the number Of vacant
apartments in greater Berlin, and
| recall that the number ran up to
about $4,000. But now. notwith-
standing the great loss of popula-
ton caused by the war, the situation
has been wholly reversed and there
Is much less house room than there
are people to be housed.
And how does that come to pass?
First, negatively, there has been al
most no building done for over five
years; second, and positively, there
IS now an unprecedented rush
Of people to Berlin. Many causes
have produced this congestion at
Berlin. The disarmament Of the
greater part Of the army left many
ex-soldiers here who did not want
10 return to the rustic pleasures of
village life, and more recently re-
turning prisoners of war have be-
gun to pour in. A much more i'm
portant cause is the influx of refu-
gees. The frst of these came from
Alsace- Lorraine, but that stream
has now about ceased to flow. 1t
has been more than Offset, however,
by the several streams from Ne
east, which are at least four in num-
ber-those from the regions of
Posen and West Prussia that are to
be coded to Poland, and latterly
from Poland itself and Galicia.
The number of Germans who have
left Posen and West Prussia is very
great Latterly, too, Germans and
Jews have been coming out of
Poland, particularly from LODI,
where pogroms are reported to have
occurred affecting not only Jews but
Germans. Many Jews are also COM
ing out Of Galicia and out of Poland
itself to escape military service.
Refugees
Most Of these fugitives, it seems
make their way to Berlin. Recently
il was reported that two trainloads
q these people were coming here
@goxy week from Lodz alone. The
~ government has just announced
~ The arrivals now amount to sew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

Many such temporary houses are
also being built on the outskirts Of
the city as homes for the refugees.
Concerning Castles
Under these circumstances it has
been suggested that the old "cas-
ties" of the former Kaiser be con-
verified into apartment houses; but
there does not seem to be much
prospect of gaining room in that
direction. The buildings in ques-
ton are already in use in some way,
except the cold Schloss," where
the former royal family lived in
winter, and it is to be used as
museum. Moreover, some of these
old castles are works of art in their
inner structure, and objections have
been raised to putting them to such
"profane uses" as dwellings for
common mortals; even the radical
"Berliner Tageblatt" emphasizes its
opinion that ''even the dearth of
apartments would not justify such
barbarism. In Potsdam, on the
other hand, the municipal authori-
ties have taken possession of the
Stadtschloss and are using its nu-
merous rooms as offices, thus lib
Grating house room elsewhere for
homes. There, too, it has been pro-
posed to overhaul the Kaiser's pri-
vate railway station at Wildpark and
convert it into dwellings. There
seems to be no profanity" felt at
that suggestion.
One class Of the community has
been hard hit by this room famine
namely, the students. Next week the
university and other institutions will
be opening, and when the students
arrive, some $4,000 strong, they
will find it next to impossible to rent
rooms in Berlin. Under these cir
cumstances a committee has been
formed to scour the city and plead
with people to squeeze student into
some corner of their houses. Similar
appeals had to be made for the mem
bers of the National Assembly, who
gathered here this week.
But the house famine is not the
only trouble for Berliners. Their
winter Of discomfort now about ia
begin will pinch In many ways. Coal
is extremely scarce, which renders
it necessary to use heat and light
moro sparingly than Berliners have
ever done before. They are allowed