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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-29
'DJlEC. ARNEIT
IEN CITY CLERK
ELECTED TODAY
Gets Position Declined By
Attorney E. B. Cars
kadon.
CRY DIRECTORS MEET
Permit Taken Out for Work
on Fairmont Hotel
Addition.

nike C. Arnett was elected clerk OIL
the city Of Fairmont at the regular
weekly meeting OF the Board OF d.
rectors and will take office at tNle
ia he designated later on by the Boaru
Mr. Arnetts name was proposed a., az
a meeting o the Board several weeks
ago and at that time favorable actioh
was not taken on his nomination. At
torney e. B. Carskaddon was the
Boards first selection for city clerk
fintyMr Carskadon declined toe honoT'
little other bushes of Importance
was transacted by the Board. High
ways Director Arnett and City Engt-
neer Miller reported that owing to the
I low temperature that had prevailed
lsbere during the past two weeks little
progress had been made on the paving
of Morgantown avenue and there re-
mains something like $50 feet OF tnat
thoroughfare yet to be completed.
Seyenty-tive feet Of concrete was
noured on Saturday and it is planned
II POSSIBLE to again pour concrete TINS TINS
afternoon. Should good weather win
right temperatures prevail Tor TWO
days the work coul9 be completed IN
its entirety.
city Clerk Albert j. Kern reported
as,sldd s,Is;ld he had been informed by the Re
public Bank Note company Of Pitts
bnrgh which firm is furnishing, the
bonds for the $175,OOO bridge bond
issue that the bonds had been shipped
Z Saturday. They should be delivered
today. Mr.. Kern communicated VIII
Secretary Of State Houston Goff Young
al to when the money for the bonds
would be forthcoming from the Board
of Public Works and was advised thai
lit could be secured shortly after the
New Year. -,
Greer, Churchnan, Paul and Ford
architects for the two additional stor,
les to Be erected on The Fairmonl
we're given permission to erect boiler
bins and other buildings in Hull alley
to be used in this work
Harry R. Col1 was araNted permlt
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-29
sCHooL HOUSE BURNS.

McKEEsPoRT, Pa, Dec. 29.-The
Centennial public school here was
totally destroyed by fire early this
morning, entailing loss estimated at
$4,000, The fire was thought Ia
have been caused by an overheated
furnace.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-29
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE HAS Plan TO STOP STRIKES.
viii Demand
Kaiser After
Ratification
IRy AssoclaLed press !

PARIS, Dec. 29.-Extraditlon
of former Emperor William, of
Germany, will be demanded from
Holland as soon as the treaty of
peace becomes effective. according
to a decision by the British and
French governments, says the
Echo de Paris.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-29
COAL PRODUCTION
DROPPED OFF LAST
WEEK IN REGION
Aggregate Number of Cars
on Both Railroads Total
4,47O Cars.

Production shrunk last week with
the poor car supply and the Christ
mas holidays being observed SO that
there we're but 4,47O cars of coal and
coke produced inthe Fairmont region
last week-222,450 tons of coal and
II cars of coke.
Mines along the Monongah division
of the Baltimore G Ohio railroad last
week produced 3,646 cars of coal and
coke-181, ,25O tons of coal and 81 cars
of coke
Operations along the Monongahela
Railway last week mined 1874 cars of
coal or 41,2OO tons, Production almost
fifty per cent last week.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Fifteen Army Camps
And Thirteen AuiutiOn
Fields To Be Purchased

WASHINGTON, March 81 (By The
Associated Press) Decision of the
War Department to proceed with the
purchase of the sites of fifteen army
camps and thirteen balloon and flying
fields over the country was announced
to-day by Acting Secretary Crowell
Less than $15,OOOOOO will be involved,
Mr.. Crowell said. and it will not be
necessary to await action by Congress,
as the department now has the neces-
sary funds.
With these purchases completed, the
army will have thirty training camps,
including the original sixteen canton
ments constructed for training the Ma
tional Army, and nineteen aviation
centres, most of which will be in the
Southeastern states, Texas and Cali
fornia. The few fields to be retained
in the North will be regarded as sum-
mer flying centres only.
Twenty-seven camps and fifteen avi-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Mayors Committee
Saves Public From
9th ''Cas Attack
But 1t Is Only the Sale of
Division Publication at
Parade That 1t Stops;
Slurs Red Cross 1t Is Said

Although the Red Cross organization
had made elaborate preparations to
take off the hands of the 9th Division
the matter of selling that units publ
cation, "The Gas Attack" in the parade
reviewing stand next Tuesday, all bets
have been called off by the Mayors
Committee.
When preparations for the big parade
were begun it was decided by those in
charge of "The Gas Attack" to issue a
special edition" for next Tuesday. This
was to be the last issue and was to
contain, among other things, a pro-
gramme of the parade.
Major General O'Ryan asked the aid
OF the Red Cross to sell the papers,
"hich was granted, and the proceeds
were to go to that organization.
And SO, when everything had been
made ready and six hundred girls had
volunteered to do the work, the plans
we're exploded by an order issued by
the Mayors Committee forbddng the
salc OF anything in the grandstand.
conference between Red Cross Of
metals and representatives of the May
or committee was held yesterday. At
its conclusion it was stated that pub
lication Of "The Gas Attack" would be
stopped, as its sale would not be per-
dnitted: 1t was at the instance of Nav
or Hylan, who referred to the Red
Cross as "the silk stocking gang" it
was said, that the prohibition order
was issued.
Az the office Of the Mayors com
mittee in the Hall of Records. it was
denied emphatically last night that tho
Mayor had made any such reference
to the Red Cross. 1t was also exs
planned that in stopping the sale Of
"The Gas Attack" it was not intended
TO curb the activities of the Red Cross
alone.
One committeeman stated that the
Mayors committee was willing to give
the six hundred Red Cross girls Who
were to sell ",rhe Gas Attack" pcrmis
sion to 20 within the police lines 10
"get the people on their way to tho
stand.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Autos to Transport
Wounded Men Asked

AMES A. HEMsTREET, sec
retary of the Long Island
Automobile Club, yesterday urged
patrlotlc New York motor car
owners to register their automo-
oiles Tor use in carrying wounded
soldiers to and from the grand
stands from which they are to
view the parade of BROOKLYN men
OF the 9Th Division on Monday.
I'VE have three hundred mon
TO transport" said Mr.. Hemstreet
Thus far l have obtained motor
cars enough to care for onlv sew
eh1y-hve. | need at least fifty
aooltlonal touring cars. New York
motorists who want their cars to
90 good work on Monday can reg
'ster with me at the headquarters
OF the Long Island Automobile
Club, 1855 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn.
The telephone number is Bed
ford 912. We will accept offers
OF cars until Sunday afternoon.
That's the dead line"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Orders Read by Foster
Printed in Record. Say
Department Officials

WASHINGTON, March 21.-In the
absence of Secretary Baker and AS
sistant Secretary Keppel no comment
was available at the War Department
on statements made in Kansas City to-
day by Major Dick B. Foster charging
that "secret orders" issued by Secre-
tary Baker covering the treatment of
conscientious objectors had served to
stimulate l. W. w. and other radical
pointed out, however, that the orders
of the department during the war in
this regard had been inserted in the
Congressional Record some weeks ago,
including those orders from which
Major Foster read excerpts to support
his contention.
The records Of the War Department
contain reports on Investigations re-
sulting from charges made as to dis
elimination by Major Foster in his ad-
mlnlstratlon of camp concessions
No warrant for action of any sort
against him was developed, however,
and in recommending him for promo
ton Major General Leonard Wood, COM
manding, said he had displayed great
efficiency in bringing order out of
chaos in the affairs Of the post ex-
change, which had been placed under
his supervision.
The suggestion that the prohibition
against publication of the War Depart
ment's orders contained in them was
intended to conceal the action of the
department from the country at large
was not considered seriously by off
GERS here. who said the actual purpose
was to prevent spread of conscien-
tious objector disaffection through ad-
vertisement of the problem these cases
presented.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Bakers Orders
Aided Pacifists.
Major Declares
Continued from page 1

ratified their mess kits for hours at a
time and could not be stopped.
IN the midst of this condition" ;"
Major Foster went on, eve took from
conscientious objector, circular
sent out by Upton Sinclair, Socialist
leader, in which he reprinted letter
from Newton D. Baker to the Presi
dent of the United States, answering
the President in regard to complaint
Sinclair had made of mistrcatment of
socialists. That letter said:
think, however, he should be in
formed that we are now doing abso-
lutely all that public opinion will stand
IN the interest of conscientious OBJ
Jectors and others whose views do not
happen to coincide with those of vast
majority of their fellow country men,
MIR. Baker Was Right
"Mr. Baker was right. He was doing
all that public opinion would stand in
the interest of conscientious objectors
and through his secret orders was do
ing more than public OPINION would
have stood had the true conditions
been known
The objectors sentenced by the gen
eral court martial were sent to the dis
clplinary barracks at Leavenworth,
Kansas Major Foster continued, "but
the paclfist protection did not leave
them. After serving four months of
their sentences 100 of them were re-
leased. The order of Secretary Baker
was that they should be honorably re-
stored to duty as soldiers and that
they should be paid for the entire time
they had spent in the guard house
awaiting trial and the time spent in
the disciplinary barracks. Immediately
following their honorable restoration
to duty, the order read that they
should be discharged"
Major Foster declared he and other
army officers had the highest regard
for the religious objector, who, he
said, had been found willing to per-
form any non-combatant tasks as
signed him.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Judge John F. Mcintyre
DenOunces BOIsheviki

Bolsheviki, anarchists and l. w. w.
were severely arraigned, and the
lenience of the Federal government in
dealing with them sharply criticised
by Judge John f. Mcintyre yesterday
in imposing sentence on Anthony Reg
nowsky in General Sessions.
Regnowsky, a tailor, had been con-
victed of striking Patrolman Cornelius
Sheehan on the head with a stone on
August 80, 1918, while the police were
dispensing a meeting at 106th Street
and Madison Avenue. at which the Fed
eral government and President Wilson
were denounced. He was sentenced
from one year and six months to four
years and six months IN Sing Sing.
"The government has been entirely
too tolerant with the disorderly foreign
element which has come here to disturb
our form of government" said Judge
Mcintyre. "Thcre is gang in this
country that should have been out of it
long ago, and should be deported as
ST on as possible. Any anarchist, Boil
shevik or /. w. W. who comes before
me is going to get severe sentence.
l will not tolerate what they have been
doing here"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

and Engineers Train, from Camp Mills
to East Twenty-third Street, march to
Seventh Avenue, take the subway tc
16Sth Street and march to 22d Regi-
ment Engineers Armory, 16Sth Street
and Fort Washington Avenue.
One Hundred and Fifth Machine
Gun Battalion from Camp Mills, to
East Thirty-fourth Street-March to
Lexington Avenue subway, to Ninety
sixth Street. and march to Squadron
A Armory. Madison Avenue and Nine
ty-fourth Street.
Division headquarters troop and
detachment 102d trains, the 9th Mill
tary Police Company and 1O2d Mobile
at East Thirtyfourth Street, march on
Thirty yfourth Street to Lexington Ave
nue., to seth Regiment Armory, Lexing-
ton Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street.
The 104th Field Artillery will pro-
ceed to the foot of Broadway, Brook
lyn, via Long Island City, and B. r. T..
to Lorimer Street, thence marching
to the 47th Regiment Armory, Marcy
Avenve, Brooklyn.
The 106th Field Artillery, from Camp
Mills to East Fourteenth Street and
march to the 9th Coast Artillery Ar
mory, Fourteenth Street and Sixth
Avenue.
The 108th Infantry from Camp Mer-
ritt by ferry to West 129th Street;
march to Eighth Avenue "L' to Kings
bridge; march to Sth Coast Artillery
Armory, Jerome Avenue.
= Headquarters saith Brigade, 107th
Sanitary Train and 1O2d Supply Train,
by ferry to foot of West 129th Street,
march to Broadway subway, thence to
l6Sth Street, to 22d Engineers Armory.
102d Field Signal Battalion from
Camp Merit, by government ferry to
foot of Thirty-fourth Street and march
to list Armory.
10th Infantry, less I'd and Sd Bat
tallons, via ferry to West Twenty third
Street and proceed to 7th Regiment
Armory, Sixty-sixth Street and Park
Avenue.
>1o4th Machine Gun Battalion, via
Long Island Railroad to Vanderbilt
Avenue; march to Fulton Street and
Lafayette Avenue, thence by elevated
to Consumers Park; march to 1st Cav
airy Armory, Bedford Avenue, Brook
lyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Chamberlain Sponsor
For Army Trial System,
Says Secretary Baker

YUMA, Ariz., March 21.-Secretary
Of War Newton D. Baker who is on an
inspection tour of army camps, reply
ing to charges made yesterday in
Washington by Senator Chamberlain,
of Oregon, chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, that the
Secretary was under the influence of
reactlonaries opposed to changes in
the army court martial system, said
that the Senator himself caused to be
enacted the system he is attacking.
Secretary Baker and his party
passed through here late last night
and are expected to reach Ell Paso
to day.
Secretary Bakers statement follows:
II cannot permit myself to be drawn
INTO newspaper controversy with
Senator Chamberlain about officers of
the army to whom I hold an official
relation and whose conduct | must
Judge dispassionately and upon all the
evidence | can obtain.
That duty is mine and not Senator
Chamberlain's, and | shall perform it
unbiased and unhurried by abuse or
agitation.
ut is important, however, to note
that the system of courts martial and
of military justice which the Senator
attacks is one which he himself caused
to be enacted in 1916. when it was pre-
sented by me as a reform and mod
Grafton of the previously existing ir-
regularities.
at is also important to note that
the amendment which | sent to SEN
ator Chamberlain AS chairman of the
Military Affnrs Committee of the SEN
ate more than a year ago and more
than year before. the occasion for
the present discussion arose has, so
far as l know, never even been pre-
sented by him to the Military Affairs
Committee for considerations
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
9th Boys Are All
A-Tinggle, Just Can't
Wait Till Tuesday
Heroes Who Faced Death
Without Flinching Count
Off Hours Like Kids; Al.
readyPrimping for Parade

CAMP MILLS, N. Y, March 2l.-The
childlike joy of the average doughboy
of the 9th Division at the prospect of
marching up Fifth Avenue Tuesday
passes all bounds. Chaps who have
borne unflinchingly the horrors of
trench warfare, who have performed a
mans job in the deadliest and most
efficient fashion, are to-day like so
many kids counting the hours till the
great day arrives.
Gee, l bet therell be some crowd
out in little old New York when we
hike up the Avenue" grinned giant
corporal with two wound stripes on
his arm to-day. won't there 2" he
added. trile hesitatingly, just as
though there was any doubt about it.
The point is that the folks who will
MI the mammoth grandstand and
occupy standing room on such sec
tons of Mr.. Hylan's curb as are to be
thrown open to the public, will have
the opportunity of lifetime to make
the realization of the doughbov's
triumph as big a thing as his anticipa-
tlon of it.
Primping for the Parade
Preparation for Tuesday has not con-
sisted solely of looking forward to the
Iun. Equipment is being cleaned, uni
forms mended and brushed IN and
everything else done to insure fine
military appearance.
=, About 5000 men will leave this camp
sunday afternoon for Brooklyn, to be
there In time to take part in the bor-
ough parade Monday morning.
Inc units that will leave Sunday are
the l06th Infantry, the 104th Machine
SD Brigade Field Artillery.
Beginning at l p. m., they will be
taken in trains running from here at
twenty minute intervals TO Vanderbilt
Avenue, Brooklyn, Thence they will
proceed to the various Brooklyn ar
morles, where they are to be housed
Sunday and Monday nights. The re
manning 5000 or 5000 troops of the di-
VISION stationed at Camp Mills will en-
train for Manhattan Monday afternoon.
At Upton After Parade
The men of the 9th whose homes are
in New York City or state will not see
Camp Mills again after they leave here
for the parade. They will go to Camp
Uptcn to await rehabilitation, while
the replacement troops will be mus
tered out at Camp Mills and Camp
Merritt.
The actual mastering out of the 9th
will hardly begin before Saturday
March 81, as necessary preliminary
work will require several days. Off
GERS here are of the opinion demobili-
zation will be completed by April or 5.
Provost guard details from the 9th,
working under direction of the Camp
Mills military police. were sent tonight
to the Pennsylvania Station, New York,
and to Jamaica and other Long Island
Railroad points. to round up and re-
turn to camp any of the men on fur
lough who may appear likely to over
stay their leave and not be on hand for
the parade.
Y. M. c. A. and Knights of Columbus
huts were filled all day with men mail
ing their allotted two grandstand tick
cts to relatives and friends. There is
no doubt spectators have succeeded in
getting possession of some of the covet-
I'd cardhoards, but it is not believed
The traffic has been carried on to the
extent that was feared.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
CiuiL Liberties Bureau
Denies Sending Tracts
As Maj. Foster Charged

Charges of Major Dick B. Foster that
the National Civil Liberties Bureau
had circulated in semi-secret manner
among drafted men arguments against
military service were branded as false
both as to the subject matter of our
literature and the method of distribu-
ton" in statemens yesterday by
Walter Nelles, counsel for the organi-
zation.
Our publications largely were re-
prints of the War Departments regu-
lations as to conscientious objectors
and kindred subjects said Mr.. Nelles.
We furnished these tracts to any one
Interested, including the War Depart
ment," he added, "and distribution was
made through the mails from head
quarters in New York.
I'VE had no branch Offices and no
agents In the vicinity Of the canton
ments. Most of our literature was
sent out In response to requests re-
ccivca by mail"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
French Forest Nav
Bear Name of r. s.
Army Woods Scout

If the French military authorities
are able to keep their word there is to
be forest in France called "The
Zwicky," which will take its place on
the new map of Europe with the ia
nous Argonne.
No one here knew of this proposed
honor until the steamship Giuseppe
Verdi came in from Marseilles yester-
day with an American fighter after
whom the wood is to be named.
His name is William Zwicky Ac-
cording to his friends he was a
natural born woodsman an, was trans
ferred as scout officer attached to the
9th Infantry Of Regulars.
His commanding officer came to him
on the last day Of May, 1918, to feel
out the enemy through woods a few
miles west of Vaux. With seven men
he spent thirty-siX nights in the
woods sending back an abundance of
information vital to the success of
American forces. German snipers
hidden in the thicket hit him four
times, but he never quit. When the
time was ripe for an advance he
passed the word along and all tie in
formation he had sent proved invalu-
able in the attack General Omar
Bundy gave him a written apprecia-
honored him with the Croix de
Guerre.
Brought 1921 Officers and Men
The Giuseppe Verdi brought 1921
officers and men, including twelve
transportation corps companies, thir-
teen casual companies and eleven
nurses.
Among the casuals was Lieutenant
Harold j. Forshay, of Brooklyn, who
brought an envable record for service
with the Goth Aero Squadron. He had
little to say about himself, but praised
his observer, Lieutenant Paul j. ODon-
nell, of Washington, D. c., who downed
a Bosche plane while dying from loss
of blood.
"O'Donnell was the gamest fellow I
ever met" he said, "and he died fight
ing the Hun to the last. He went out
26 to bomb the German lines at Dun
sur-Meuse. There were five other
planes in the party. On the return a
flock of Fokkers dropped down upon
u.s. We stopped bombing and gave
them a fight. Paul was blazing away
at two of the enemy planes when sur
denly his machine gun stopped | saw
that he was shot in both legs and was
from loss of blood. Soon
he recovered consciousness.
Fought to His Death
Let's clean up these Boches,' he
said. l got in position under one of
the Fokkers and O'Donnell blazed into
it. He got the German properly and
sent him down spinning and then
sped away for base hospital within
our lines. When l landed and the
surgeons examined Paul he was dead.
In that mix-up we got three of the six
Fokkers that fought US.
Lieutenant Forshay himself was
cited once by the British and once by
the Americans for bravery in the air.
Some Of the returning fighters on the
Giuseppe Verdi complained that the
meat served during the voyage from
Marseilles was unfit to eat, and pro-
tests were made to the Port of EN-
barkation in Hoboken.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Fifth Auenue Traffic
Rules for Big Parades

DOLCE regulations for the 9th
- Division parade closing Fifth
Avenue to pedestrians are as fol-
low:
Eighteenth Street to Twentieth
Street-Reserved for GONZALES
cents from the military hospital in
the Greenhut Building.
Twenty-third Street to Twenty
fifth Street and Fortieth Street to
Forty-second Street-Reserved for
veterans.
Seventy-ninth Street to Eighty
fifth Street-Reserved for Mill
tary Cadet Guard of Honor.
Persons desiring to cross Fifth
Avenue between Fortieth and
Forty-second streets will use the
subway shuttle between Grand
Central Terminal and Times
Square.
Limited crosstown traffic will be
allowed as follows:
observation-disclosures, Twenty
second, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-sec-
ond, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-eighth,
Forty-fourth, Fiftieth and Fifty
eighth streets.
West-bound-Fifteenth, Twen-
ty-frst, Twenty seventh, Thirty
first, Thirty~third. Thirty-ninth,
Forty-third, Forty-ninth and
Fifty seventh streets.
No person or vehicle will be per-
mitted to cross Fifth Avenue ex-
cept at these points and the trans
verse roads through Central Park
will be closed to all traffic after 8
o'clock except that the surface cars
will operate across Eighty-fifth
Street.