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Arizona republican., 1919-02-27
INDIAN RED SLAVE" CASE FOUND ID BE
 NJ MANN ACT CRIME

What had every earmark of being the first Indian white slave" case ever to come before the Arizona dls- trict court of the United States, proved yesterday to be more of a fred slave case, in that it is not subject to prose- cucution under the federal law gen. orally known as the Mann act. As a result Mark Xavier, an Indian from the Sacaton agency, was freed from Indian police yesterday by United States Commissioner Henke, before whom he was about to be arraigned. after ad- mitting to federal officers that he was guilty as had been alleged.
 Havier. the story goes. transported from Phoenix to Los Angeles, leaving here January 27 last. a Sacaton agency squaw, Nancy Daddis by name. They were absent about five weeks, durins which time they lived together HavieI having admitted that he had been em | ployed at Cucumonga, Calif.. and other l places. Last Monday, when returning | to this state, Xavier was arrested al Mesa by the Indian police and lodged | in jail, charged with violation of tht Mann act. The Indian Is said to have 1 confessed all that had been charged | dSdlucA llllu lut "N' to have been had yesterday afternoon | Just before Xavier appeared before Commissioner Henke, however, United States Attorney John II. LangstoT telephoned Judge Henke, stating tha under the United States statutes ther' were only certain crimes for which aI Indian could be prosecuted in fed eral court. White slavery is not on of them and Xavier was released i'm mediately.
 That's why federal officials are say ing to each other, now, that whit slavery" when charged against an In dian, becomes ''red slavery" and ''ret slavery is not violation of the fed
 eral penal code. Both Xavier ant
 Nancy Paddis are married and live un
 der the Jurisdiction of the Sacatol agency
Arizona republican., 1919-02-27

wishing to brighten the lonesome hours for the boys and girls in the Fort Grant Industrial Home with books ana games should also call that telephone number and the articles will be called for.
 One of the features of the afternoon was the vocal selections by Mrs. W. F. Russell who is one of Phoenix's lead ing voices. Her rendition of Rose of My Heart was especially beautiful.
 Little Miss Agnes D. Griffin gave a masterly rendition of Chopin's Polo naise and Rachmaninoffs Prelude.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-27
THE LITERARY HERITAGE
CLondon Observer)

The undignified fracas between two grandsons Of Henry Savage Landor, which led to their appearance at Bow Street, suggests a hereditary explana- tion. for their illustrious ancestor also possessed a peppery temper. It was he who after throwing a man out of the window, remarked. "Heavens, I never thought of the poor flowers,"
Arizona republican., 1919-02-27

thing of the kind, but were stampeded just as their collateral ancestors were by the real thing. The miX-up of fran tic mules and harness was simply a chaos of uncomfortable brute force and leather entanglements. The holiday feast, of course, was spoiled. After all, men themselves do not like noisy surprises. Early in the Civil war the colonel of a new regiment had the long roll sounded at midnight without ad- vance notice. At roll call the next morning some were missing who were never heard from again.
 To large extent the auto is taking the place of the mule in army trans ; port, so the musical embarrassment is not beyond remedy.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-27
MULES ARE ADVERSE
 TO SOLDIERS SONGS
lSt. Louis obe-Democratl

In one of the army camps it has been noticed that the mules of the transport department are unfavorably excited by the singing of men. This fact is by no means disparagement of the qual- ity of the music. The mules own note is a singularly harsh discord. Why
Arizona republican., 1919-02-27
U. S. OWNS 477,262
 HORSES AND MULES

When the armistice was signed the United States Army possessed, as re mounts, 119,725 cavalry horses, 1S6,34S draft horses, 144,611 draft mules and 17,29S pack and riding mules, total Of 411262 animals.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Brooklyn Gas Co. Asks
z. S. C.. for $1.3O Rate
Says Expenses in 1913 Were
Equivalent to SIPS, While
1t Cot S1.I0

Flushed with victory in its fight for
a $l.lO rate, the Brooklyn Borough
Gas Company filed with the Public Ser
vice Commission yesterday a. supple
mental complaint asking for an in
crease to $1.30 for 1000 cubic feet of
gas. The company has been fighting
the 80cent gas law for some time
and after being granted permission by
the Public Service Commission to
charge 95 cents recently won over
the commission to the $1.10 rate.
On January 13 the city administra-
ton asked Supreme Court Justice
Cropsey, in Brooklyn, to set aside
the $1.10 order. Decision on this ap-
plication is still awaiting Justice
Cropsey's action on the law briefs
he ordered the lawyers to file.
In asking permission to charge the
s1.30 rate the gas company stated the
demand s made on the basis of in
creased expense Of production. The
1918 rate should have been $125, the
company alleged, to cover expenses The
company also declared the present in
adequate rate made it impossible for
to make improvements needed "to
comply with the requirements of the
commission in regard to pressure and
candle power"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Twelve Men Released
From Sing Sing Prison
Ex-City Chamberlain Moore's
Son Among Those Out on
Whitman's Parole

OSSINING, n. y, Jan S.-Sing Sing
PRISONS gates were opened to-day to
twelve men freed by the Parole Board.
Chief among them was Robert Moore
son OF Il former City Chamberlain of
New York, who was sentenced on June
II last to from two to four years for
forgery after being arrested for the al
legged theft of S65, 900 from the firm of
w. R. Craig & Co., cotton brokers'
OF % Broad Street. Moore WAS en-
ployed as manager for the brokers.
Another paroled prisoner was Philip
Tolliver White, formerly sales manager
of the john W. Masury Paint Company.
Of Brooklyn, at a salary of $4,000 He
was alleged TO be the brains of gang
that held up the companys paymaster
and stole $3,032. He was arrested with
James F. McGlinnin, also released to-
day.
Others who were released include
William J. +. O'Neill, of The Bronx,
convicted Of war charities swindles;
George and Robert McNotty. brothers.
OF New York, convicted as taXicab
bandits; Patrick Murphy. of New York.
Van Hennick, Of White Plains, sent up
for embezzlement; Rocco Galetti, of New
York. for robbery; Thomas Murphy, for
burglary in Kings County; Nathan
Jolles, Of New York, assault, and John
Ceruii, convicted of assault Cerulli
was barely sixteen years old when SEN
fenced
George Hodson, of Buffalo, onetime
head of the Mutual Welfare League, did
not get his expected freedom. Erie
County officials sent Hodson to prison
fourteen years ago for twenty years on
a manslaughter charge, and they are
SAID to have objected to his release.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Merchants Urge Smith to
Push Truck Tube Project
Association Wants SI,OOO,0OO
Appropriation to Initiate
Work Immediately

The Merchants Association forward
ed yesterday to Governor Smith a let
ter urging him to support the pro ject
or a vehlcular tunnel under the Hud-
son River.
New Jersey already has taken favor
able action, and the association asks
the Governor and the legislative lead
ers at Albany to push through an I'M
mediate appropriation by this state to
initiate the work The associations
letter says:
The Merchants Association, after
careful consideration of the subject,
has reached the conclusion that the
construction of vehicular tunnel be-
tween New York and New Jersey Will
be an important benefit to both locali-
ties, and the association has therefore
urged upon the legislative leaders the
approval OF the plan and the appro-
prlatIon for immediate use of 81 ,00O.-
600.
"At present there is strong ten
dency to the diversion of industries
and distributing business from the port
OF New York to other ports where the
port charges are materially less than
here. It becomes of the first impor-
tance, therefore, to reduce port costs
wherever possible. The proposed We
hlcular tunnel would produce a ma
terlal reduction in terminal expenses
by reducing the present cost of truck
ing, which is in large part due to ex-
treme delay in the handling of freight
upon the WaterfrOnt" "
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Food Prices Firm.
But Only for Day,
Dealers Promise
All Products Expected to
Take Plunge Toward Level
Before War: Butter Con-
tinues i'll Right Direction

Food prices paused in their decline
yesterday, but market men and other
experts lost none of their confidence
in the speedy return of the pre-war
living cost. One wholesale dealer in
beef products compared yesterdays
halt to "a swimmer about to take a
long long dive"
The tirmness of the market was not
complete, however. The butter price
continued its tobogganing, starting at
81 cents a pound Wholesale in the
morning and reaching as low as 4S
cents, with few purchasers, at The
close. On January butter was II
cents pound wholesale. 1t has dropped
between u and % cents in three
weeks. Butter Will retail for 6l and
81 cents pound to-day in Washing-
ton Market. a new low record for the
past twenty months.
If not for the food administration s
minimum price of $17.50 a hundred
pounds for hogs the pork prices would
register speedy and decisive drop,
according to P. Q. Foy the local food
market expert.
yesterday adVlces from Washing
ton that F. S. Snyder, head of the
food administrations meat division,
has recommended to the price fxin
conference now in session that the
present minimum of S1750 be re
tanned, do not mean that the pork
prices Will not decline, said Mr.. Fov.
He pointed out that the natural in
crease Of hogs on the market viii
force lower wholesale and retail prices,
despite the stationary figure to the
hog raiser.
Market men are unanimously OF the
opinion that the meat prices Will 20
lower, While decreased prices nave
stimulated the demand and retailers
are selling more meat than at any time
since this country entered the war.
newly released meat stocks. held for
export trade before the armistice was
signed, are causing the supply to out
distance the demand
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Suffrage Officer
Demand Conference
is h Germans
Resolution Passed at Meet
ing Here That Grimes
Against y omen and Girls
Shall Not Go Unavenged

At board meeting Of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association,
III Madison Avenue. yesterday, the
following resolutions relative to the
treatment of women during the war
we're unanimously adopted:
Whereas, there is indisputablc evil
dence that in the present war the
Central European Powers have not
only permitted, but have systematical-
ly organized and encouraged, their
armies to commit all forms of offences
upon the women of the invaded states;
and
Whereas, those responsible for the
execution OF such criminal policy can
be ascertained as definitely as those
responsible for inhuman treatment to-
ward prisoners IN prison camps and
to crews from torpedoed vessels; and
Whereas, such crimes against wo-
men and girls strike at the heart of
society and the home, besides being
crimes under the laws of war and the
conventions of The Hague Tribunal;
and
'Whereas, the commission of such
crimes by the Central European pow
ers presents 10 the peace congress the
alternative Of ignoring, save by protest,
the organized violation of women and
girls IN time of war, or of taking meas
uras to penalize definitely those re-
sponsible FOR such offences, the penali-
zat!on 70 be similar to that contem-
plated IN cases OF !nhuman prison
camps and submarine commanders:
Wherefore We, women Of the United
States, wishing 10 join our protest to
that OF the women Of France against
liberation Of violation of womanhood
in war do hereby resolve TO urge:
u. That definite punishment for
crimes against women and girls be pro-
Vided for by the peace congress.
=. That women so injured bv a
despicable enemy be cons idered not as
snamed or degraded. buf as having
been honorably sacrificed IN their
coUntry's service
That the committee in charge of
these resolutions deliver them. duly
authenticated and with the number Of
women represented by the state as
sociations subscribed thereto. to all
governments called to the peace CON
gress, and arrange Cor their publication
IN every allied country"
he resolutions were signed bv tho
National American Woman Suffrage
Association. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
honorary president; Mrs. Carrie Chan
man Gait, president; Mrs. Stanley Nj
Cormlck. Massachusetts. first vice.
president; Miss Mary Garrett Usv
New ork, second president. .rd
ali the other officers of the association
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
lrisEllnen HurI Stones.
Put Enemy to Flight

Two Irshmen plontifully provided
with stones and fighting spirit won one
of the most rccuiiar sNjrmishes of the
war, according tC story rctailed in
this country yesterday for the first
time.
Michael ]. Feoncy. "bucl' private
of the Hath Infantry who enlisted
from Bayonne, n. j.. and a "buddy"
named Brady arc me heroes of the yarn,
and Licuterant T. J. 3. Lang, their
comnlandn officer is sponsor for it..
Fecncy and his companion were cut
off in shell hole in the wooded dis
trict near st. Mihiel, when d party of
Germans hurled a grenade at them.
Fceney dragged Brady into an adjacent
depression.
THE grcrade exploded with a ter
liblc noise" Lieutenant Lang relates
at shattered the stock Of Fceney's
rife, but Fceney, with all the heredi-
tary temper of his race. wasn't long in
deciding that the 'Doo.chmon were q
dirty lot ard needed a beating' He
had no gun and no grcrades, so he
and threw rocks and stones at the Huns,
who were only few yarlsraway. The
Germans, thinking they were due for
q shower of grcnades, fled to their own
territory.
Il went over to Feenev and, trying
to keep from smiling, upraided him
for throwing rocks at the Germans.
Feency thought | was angry. SO he
lost his usual disciplined attitude and
very forccfully told me:
'Yis,, lootinant, ye may be mad with
nc, but if I'd "a had grenadcs I'd a
thrown thin, too.
"How could help promoting him
fnr- ~ ov
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Giant Fruit Cake To
BE Given Soldiers

A new gastronomic delight calcu-
lated to wean the thoughts Of uni
termed men, at least for q time, from
the kind that mother used to make, u
Is ready for d concerted attack by sol
dlers and sailors in the y NJ c. A.
nut in Battery Park.
The last word in "eats" is a giant
trult cake OF such weight that three
husky men were required to deliver
!. yesterday, and so full Of divers in
eledients that its recipe reads like
the inventory Of a commissary. Among
other things there are:
Sixty pounds of raisins, 1902 eggs
nine pounds of citron, ninc pounds of
-four. nine pounds of butter, nine
pounds OF sugar, nine ounces of cloves
ginger and cinnamon, an ounce and q
half of mace and three quarts of
molasscs. the ice coating on the cake
weighs several pounds and experts de-
signed it,
Three quarts of good brandy have a
place somewhere in the cake, but the
production is so large and the amount
OF brandy so small that this feature
IS not expected to cause an unprcce-
donted rush for the delicacy.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett and
Mrs. Vincent Astor had the cake made
at the Cushman bnkeries, and the recipe
is an old one furnished by Mrs. Paran
Stevens. There is only one condition
prevailing IL the dispensing Of the
cake:
First come first served"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
$l0 a Week for Women
Fixed as Minimum Wage
Snccinl Cnrrcar1r.'erlcc


WASHINGTON, Jan. Working
women and girls cannot live on less
than $l6 week in the District of
Columbia. This was the finding an
nounced by the District Minimum
Wage Board to-day.
The SIG wage is divided by the
board as follows: Board and room, SO
4 week; clothing, $3.50; other expenses
such as medical attention, amusements,
reading matter, S3.15 The items in the
total weekly expense budget are based
upon the average expenditure Of work
ing women and girls interviewed for
survey of the United States Bureau
Of Labor Statistics. These figures were
gathered in 1916 but have been brought
UP TO date where the percentage Of in
crease is known.
Consequently on items whore the
percentage of increase is not known
no increase has been allowed For in
stance $1316 is allowed for vacation,
and the increased railroad fare since
1916 has not been allowed On the
Inst candy remains at 10 cents a week
and gifts, laundry, charity and reli-
Eion have the same allowances they
had in 1916
Many of the trades employing girls
have had to raise their wages because
Of the difficulty of getting workers
d1ring the war. However, some Of the
trades looked upon as skilled do not
pay more than S12 q week
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29

lines affect Queens Governor Smith
is said to be looking around for an
engineer of national reputation for the
b, which carries salary of $4,000
annually. Mr.. Connolly is not an en-
gineer.
The Governor, it was learned to-
night, has decided to make Travis
Whitney, now a member Of the Public
Service Commission, head of the re-
organized New York City Public Ser
vice Commission. This also pays Sl5,-
600 annually. Spokesman for the Gov
ernor have told the Republican legis-
latore tho Governor is willing to play
a fair game if they put through the
bin, for not only will he appoint Whit
ney, who is q Republican, but two Of
The four deputies will also be Repub-
leans
Sentiment Is Divided
Some OF the Legislative leaders here
are for giving the Governor his way,
while others are for opposing him.
Some of them do not want Commits
sioncr Whitney retained, but the Gov
crnor, it is said, is insistent on this.
Commissioner Whitney has been in
innate with the Governor for years
and was largely instrumental IN OBJ
tanning for him the indorsemcnt OF the
Citizens Union in 1915, when Smith
ran for Sheriff. Their friendship dates
from the time when the Governor was
an Asscmblyman here and Whitney was
.he Legislative representative OF the
Citizens Union
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Smith Uses Whip
For Single-IIeaded
Service Commission
Displeasure of Executive
Is Hinted if Legislature
Fails to Pass Foley Bill;
Whitney Is His Candidate
staff Corrcspondcnce

staff Corrospondcncc
ALBANY, Jan. 28.-W ord has been
sent from the Executive Chamber to
upstate Republicans that Governor
Smith will be displeased if the bill in
troduced by Senator James A. Foley
abolishing the New York City Public
Service Commission is not passed by
the Legislature. Word Of this sort
usually has the effect Of stampedng
raen who are graYcly concerned about
ao-ca1led local legislation such as n
bill appropriating few thousand COL
lars TO drain creek or to build road
or repair bridge in their respective
districts.
And since the Governor has the
power Of veto over such legislation a
word Of this sort usually has the de
sired effect. IL Ii not an uncommon
thing and Governors and legislators
know it--for rural legislator 70 be
defeated for denomination because OF
failurs TO get his local Legislation
through.
Aims at One-Man Rule
The Foley bill creates single
headed commizgion 10 exercise all the
powers Of the present commission with
the exception Of subway construction.
which il placed in the hands Of Il rapid
traneit commissioner. Maurice Con-
molly, Borough President of Queens, is
An actiye candidate or the latter place,
urging ~ reason for hig appointment
that most Of the uncompleted transit
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Father Says " oman
Married "Maj. Fenton''
.4b0uf Il Year A 60

TAMPA. Fla. Jan. 2S.-Gcorge H.
Packwood. wealthy real estate dealer of
Tampa. received through Associated
Press dispatches tonight the first news
of the death of his daughter. Azeele
whose body was found Sunday on the
Palisades of the Hudson River. He
said he had heard fro,a his daughter
only occasionally since shc vent to New
York early in Novem be-, after return
ing from France. and knew no reason
why she should have taken her own
life, As the authorities of Bergen Coun-
ty. n. j., believe.
Miss Packwood was twenty-eight
years old. and until ten years ago lived
N Tampa. Going to New York to study
music. she enlisted as Red Cross
nurse when the United States entered
the war. ard was sent to France about
. year ago she returned to this
country. according 20 hcr father, about
the tine the almIstsce was s.fMed.
Members of the family tonight said
they had heard that she was engaged
to be masried to an army officer, who
New-York tribune., 1919-01-29
Lane Admits He Got
$1l,00O for Search
OF Church, Title
Surrogate Reminds Witness
That He Could Have Had
Information for SO Cents

Richard II. Lane, formerly president
OF the American Steel Goods Company,
was again under examination ycster-
day in the Surrogatcs' Court ON an an
pLcatlon that he be punished for con-
tempt The allegations are that he
received large sums OF money to locate
assets Of the estate of Mrs. Antoinette
l. Schermerhorn, OF which he was one
Of the executors, and that he failed to
ME an accounting when directed by
the court to do so.
Charles Thornc, attorney for the
estate, charged that Lane had not only
persuaded Mrs Victoria A. Mackenzie.
sister OF The testatrix aud co-executor.
to advance $4,000 to him to hunt the
supposed assets. but he had also re
celved S264 600 in securities from her.
One OF the several admissions made
by Mr. Lane in the course of his ex-
animation was that he accepted from
Mrs. Mackenzie who is soveuty-tve
years old, $11 600 to search the title
to the Northwestern Presbyterian
Church at Seventh Avenue ard titty-
seventh Street. now the Church of the
Surrogate Cohalan reminded the wit
ness that he could have gone to the Of
tcee Of The Register and Obtained his
Information in q half hours time and
for fee of 80 cents. Mr.. Lane is
quoted as having said that the church
property had been decided to the late
Rev. John w. Schermerhorn, husband
OF the testatriX and that he had seen
the deed. "You know you nevo,- saw
such deed" said Surrogate Cohalan.
"oecause the church cannot transfer
such property
At one point Of the hearing the
Surrogate suggested that there seemed
no need Of continuing the proceeding.
but Macintosh Kellogg, attorney for
Lane, wanted to pursue the inquiry. He
SAID. IN answer 20 remark by the
Surrogate, that he did not thing his
client had deceived him.
Mr. Lane admitted shat bonding
company, to which he pretended TO send
letter saying the Shormerhorn estate
was valued at $1,271,000 was hcti-
tious concern The letter, he acknowl
edged, contained unsupportable state
ments. "Wasn't that letter framed for
the purpose Of getting $4,000 from
Mrs. Mackenzie ?" asked Mr.. Thorne.
"No." said Lane.
Didn't you tell Mrs. Mackenzie that
the assets would be lost to the estate
unless the $4,000 was raised?" the
lawyer asked. The witness did not re-
member any such thing
Mr.. Lane said he had been able to
locate only 100000 in tangible prop
erty left by Mrs. Schermerhorn. Asked
why he spent $4,000 when he could
see the property was worth only $50
600, he said that $50 900 was nearer
the actual amount he received and that
$4,000 was still due Mrs. Mackenzie,
but that he did not owe it. Mrs Mac
kenzle will testify to-day