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New-York tribune., 1919-08-26

said, "and their frame Of mind was
slightly improved. The August price
is $3.l3 and the September price 1921
a hundred pounds for per cent milk
There is curtailmcnt of the supply
IN August and September due to the
flies and the drying up of the pastures.
Farmers must purchase concentrated
feeds, and naturally must ask more
for their milk. But because Of the
fair prices they received during the
summer the advance probably will not
be as large as that Of last year"
Labor Expense Multiplied
Mr.. Manning declared the advance
IN price of labor and farming imple
ments is unprecedented Laborers de-
mand from $d.50 a day up. while 50
was the prewar wage. He gave the
following comparisons in price, most
Of them taken from the United States
Year Book, published by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture;
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26
Zen Men Are arrested
For Hoars|ing Potatoes

SEATTLE, Aug. 20. = Tep Seattle
COMMISSION men were arrested here to-
day charged with boarding several hun
ored thousand pounds OF potatoes in
an attempt to Increase prices. Four
OF the ten were Japanese.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26
BIRTHS

BROWN-To Mr. and Mrs Gordon Brown
Il.
BU RDEN-To Mr.. and Mrs Townsend Bur
den. at Roslyn, L. l., Sunday. Aug "A
1919, Z. son
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26
MARRIAGES

AMATEIS-COHE and Mrs Lerry
Cohen announce the marriage of Neir
daughter. Dorothy. TO Roland P Amateis
Aug. "a
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26
Table Of Fair Prices
DEVISED by Officials

FOLLOWING is the second of the
Fair Price Committees lists of
retail quotations which are consid-
cred fair to both dealers and con-
sumers. Lists are compiled each
Tuesday and Friday:
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26
ADVERTISEMENT
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Luckings, Bender & Schultz, Inc.

CNDERTA TAkERS-Chapci T. Show Rooma
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New-York tribune., 1919-08-26

gust Eedorhaus in his -lsf var 2sis.
uTes and friends and various -ocictes q
which The deceased ea. member a,
respectfully invited to attend funeral 49,.
vices 1i wis 'r-e iir~er ~fI eve and ~
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nciocA. ial.. Jackson al. troIes n
hToadway. FLUSHING rtcn fte Wai..s,as
,rolley 20 the door lnfefmrni priss.s
New-York tribune., 1919-08-26

LANE On ANY c lafa p,-.bol.re~
beloved son of .oin and aia-s faae 80
Mccarthy. formerly of 'ar Trl-th Nsri
Ne" Nor. Funeral frori ha. 'sfe rex
dence. 3.o Henderson et Jc--ey Civ
on Tuesday. Aus es ~ >7o a n
thence to St Mary r C. Church Whs-
solemn mass of rernicin s.lIl he o'Feret
Tor the repose Of his SOU lntermer
Calvary Cemetery. Jersey papers p.ess,
copy.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Jack Bin,,s, in 'Plane, to
COver Race for Tribune

The final stretch Of Americas great
est airplane race, which starts to-day
between New York and Toronto, will
be covered by The Tribune from the
air For the first time in the history
of journalism the worlds most modern
form of transit will be used to report
an aerial race.
One of the famous Curtiss "Oriole"
biplanes entered in the race, piloted by
Roland Rohlfs, holder of the worlds s
altiture record, will be used for this
purpose. Jack Binns, aviation reporter
for The Tribune, will make the fight
as observer with Rohlfs from Roose-
velt Field, l.. l., to Toronto tomorrow
morning.
Rohlfs is one of the most famous
American aviators. He is son of
Anna Katherine Green, the authoress,
and has been chief test pilot for the
Curtiss Company for the last three
years: During the present year he has
established three new worlds records
in aviation with Curtiss machines.
Jack Binns was wireless operator on
the White Star liner Republic, sunk at
sea after collision with the steamship
Florida, January 20, 1909 During the
war he was an instructor in wireless
and aerial navigation with the British
Royal ir Forces in Canada and Eng
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
3 Boys Drown i'm Harlem
AS Hundreds Race to Aid
25 Boats Are Launched From
2l6th Street, but Reach
SpOt Too Late

Hundreds of men and women who
lined the banks of the Harlem River
at 216th Street yesterday afternoon
took part in the launching of feet of
small boats in vain effort to save
three drowning boys. The third of
the exhausted swimmers had sunk for
the last time when rescuers reached
them.
Benjamin Roseman, fifteen years Old,
27o South First Street, Brooklyn, was
swimming against strong tide when
he suddenly began to sink. He called
to his seventeenyear-old brother
Charles, who was near him. for as
sistance. Charles and his chum, Harry
Samuels, seventeen years old, respond
ed, at the same time calling to the
crowds on shore for aid.
Men raced for launches, rowboats,
and every small craft that was avail
able. Within a few minutes at least
TWENTY-FIVE boats were skimming the
waterfoward the spot where the swim
mers had been seen. Two of the bodies
soon were recovered Police were
searching for the third late last night.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
merican Troops Ordered 10 Return From Mexico:
Bandit Chieftain Reported Slain by T. S. Arman
Outstanding Features
OF Great Aerial Race

THE greatest aerial race in history
starts at 9 o'clock this morning
simultaneously from this city and
Toronto, Canada. The outstanding
facts are as follows:
Number of airplanes entered:
From New York, 43; from Toronto,
ID
Course - American entries, New
York to Toronto and return; Cana
dian entries, Toronto to New York
and return.
Total distance of race, 1,o42 air
miles.
Prizes, $4,000 in cash and three
trophies.
Prizes for fastest flight-First,
$1,000; second, $500; third, $500.
Prizes under handicap conditions
for best performances-First. $4,000;
second, $1,000; third, $500; fourth,
$500; fifth, $3.50; sixth, $500; sew
enth, $3.50; eighth, $4OO, and ninth,
$3.50.
Control stations, Roosevelt Field,
L. l., Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo and
Leaside Camp, Toronto.
Entries comprise the best airplane
design of America, Canada, Great
Britain. France, Italy and Germany.
The race will take most of two
days.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Cuban President
To Call on Wilson
Fear of U. S. Interfer-
ence in the Islands
Affairs Reputed Cause
Neap York Tribune
WdshinOtOu Bttrenu


WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-President
Menocal of Cuba, it was learned to-
day, is expected to have a conference
with President Wilson in Washington
within the next month or six weeks.
In Havana the administration papers
have stated that Menocal would confer
with Mr.. Wilson about the high cost of
living and discuss ways and means of
remedying it.
Information reaching other quarters
here is that Menocal is disturbed over
the possibility that Major General
Crowder, who during his recent two
visits to Cuba drew up a new set of
election laws, might also recommend
that the United States government as
sumo the role of fiscal adviser to the
Cuban government, thus exercising
some check over the expenditures Of
public funds. This, it is reported, Men
ocal emphatcally does not want.
Also it is reported that Menocal is
disturbed over an agitation conducted
by members of the Liberal party in
Cuba for United States supervision
over the next Cuban Presidential cleo
tion. Menocal is understood not to
oppose the enactment of the election
laws recommended by General Crow
der, but he does not wish this govern
ment to go further.
In the near future, according to the
reports from Havana, resolution will
be introduced in the Cuban Congress
permitting the President to leave the
country in order to have this confer
ence with President Wilson. In copy-
ing the United States Constitution the
Cubans wentHit one better, writing in
q provision th6t the President must not
leave the country during his term of
office.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Baker Upholds
Old System of
Army Courts
Approves Gen. Kernan's
View They Are for En-
forcing Discipline; Not to
Fix Technical Law Rules

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-On APPROX
ing the report submitted to him by
Major General Francis J. Herman, head
of the special War Department board
on courts martial and their procedure,
Secretary Baker to-day took the official
stand that the present system should
not be changed except in minor details.
lnferentially, the Secretary upheld
General Kernan's view that courts
martial have always been agencies for
creating and maintaining the discipline
of armies" rather than agencies for
the mice exemplifcaton of technical
rules of law"
The War Department boards report
reflected the opinion of 225 officers who
were circularized. More than half of
these gave hearty approval to the pres
ent system, 43 condemned it as basi-
cally wrong, and the rest, total of Ct,
pointed out specific weaknesses which
they thought should be remedied.
Fighting Units Favor 1t
ut is noticeable" the report said,
that officers who served with fighting
units are as a class favorable to the
present articles. On the other hand,
officers whose duties kept them re-
mote from the scenes of battle view
the system with a more critical eye and
manifestly compare it with criminal
practice in the civil community, to the
advantage of the latter"
The report criticses the pending
Chamberlain bill, which would take
from the President and the War De-
partment heads the power to review
court-martial findings and place appeal
in Civilian hands.
Under such SYSTEM" the report
holds, "the- power to discipline effec.
ively, inseparably bound up with the
power of effective command, would be
paralyzed."
Oppose Enlisted Men
General Herman and the other mem
bers of the board express strong op-
position to the Chamberlain bills pro
posal that enlisted men be appointed
TO sit on courts.
"This change" the report SAYS
would seem to be more in harmony
with that form of discipline which in
Europe recently resulted in the estab.
lishment of soldiers and workmen's
councils"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Board to Fix
air rice on
Milk Proposed
State Licensing System Is
S :ggested by Glynn and
Finley to Governor if
First Plan Doesn't Work

DR.. John H. Finley and Martin Fl.
Glynn, whom Governor Smith ap-
pointed commissioners to investigate
and report to him upon food costs,
made preliminary statement yester-
day. They suggest two methods of
controlling milk prices--frst, by a
flair price committee" or, second, by
legislation and the appointment of a
milk commission. from which dealers
would have to obtain licenses. The
second suggestion is described e5 "a
regrettable alternative" and consti-
tutes threat against distributors who
fail to cooperate in making the first
method successful.
The milk situation, especially in
this city, is regarded by the commits
sioners as $50 pressing" that the Gov
ernor is advised to take immediate
steps to relieve it, without waiting for
final reports of Investigators. He is
asked also to relieve Dr. Finley and
Mr.. Glynn of the task of investigating
charges against the Department of
Farms and Markets.
Prompt Inquiry Urged
Such an investigation, in view of the
reports in circulation, should be
prompt and thorough and have the
entire attention of the investigators
not the time to devote to it. They de-
clare also that rs one of them is the
head of coordinate state department
they are scarcely the ones to under
take such a commission, and ak Gov
ernor Smith to appoint another COM
missioner or commissioners for the
purpose.
Federal, state and local authorities
are investigating the high cost of ne
.cessities, they point out Declaring
that at present the most important
thing is to avoid duplication Of effort
in a general food investigation, they
recommend that the Governor call a
conference with the various investi-
eating bodies and determine upon a
plan Of action.
DR.. Finley and Mr.. Glynn in this state
ment. They have risen rapidly since
1916, they point out, despite inves-
tigation after investigation, and are
'lkely to go still higher during the
coming winter" The farmer, who re-
ceives about half of the price the pub
lie pays for bottled milk, is not at fault,
the commissioners believe.
Reported Surplus Cited
Nor do they think economic condi-
tions and the cost of distribution in
New York City can be wholly to blame
for the price the city pays for bottled
Continued on page three
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Little Boy Kills Sister
With Revolver at Play
s'Look What I've Got!" He
Cries, Firing Weapon

Seven-year-old Charles Emmerich was
searching his fathers dresser drawers
for playing cards at the Emmerich
home in Woodhaven, L. l., yesterday
afternoon when he found a far more
interesting toy.
"Look What I've got" he called to
his three -year-old sister, Anna.
The child turned and saw her brother
point a revolver at her. A momen'
later there was an explosion and IT,
girl fell, bullet having pierced he
cheek.
Charles ran, first to a telephone to
call his grandmother, then to a base
ment room to summon his mother. q
few minutes later Charles T. Emmericl
sr., father of the children, reache g
home. DR.. Harold Stamm, who attend
ed the child, took her to St. Mary
Hospital. Jamaica, but she died on the
way.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
u. S. Many AHz,san
Killed at Sea Girt
Lieutenant M0nteith Dead
and Lieutenant MiceLH
Injured in 800 Foot Fall

SEA GIRT, N. j., Aug. 24.-Lieuten-
ant R. Howard Montleth. U. S. NJ, was
killed this afternoon, and Lieutenant
Paul Micelli narrowly escaped death
when an airplane at the state encamp-
ment, .piloted by Micelli, fell from an
attitude of 800 feet. Lieutenant Mon
tletn went up with Lieutenant Micelli,
who intended to do some stunts for
the pleasure of a thousand people on
the grounds. He was doing a tail spin
when his machine was caught in an
air pocket so close to the ground that
he could not regain control.
Montleth died in Governor William
n. Runyon's automobile while he was
being conveyed to the Ann Mary Hos
pital at Spring Lake Beach. Micelli
was taken in the same car. He sus-
tanned broken hip, two broken ribs,
a broken collarbone and many cuts
Lieutenant Montieth's home is in
Easton, Penn. He was the dsbursing
portation service, with an office at As
Broadway, New York. He had been
coming to Spring Lake Beach for the
during the summer and stop
ping at the New Monmouth Hotel. Mi
celli is a French ace. He left the
French service when the United States
entered the war. He served here as
an inspector of aviation. He holds a
commission as captain in the New York
aerial police reserves. He is said to
be one of the most dependable fliers
in the country, as we'll as one of the
most sensational. He has been Civ
ing exhibition flights during the state
encampment here and has taken up
many prominent men.
Governor Runyon witnessed the fall
from the porch of the Little White
House. He quickly jumped into his
automobile, and VIXEN on the scene
helped to get the two injured men
from the wreckage and into his car.
Julian Maynard, of New York, friend
who came down here to see Lieutenant
Montieth to-day, reached the state
camp few minutes after the acci-
dent. He took charge of the body
pending the arrival of relatives.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Forces of Administration
Are Rallied to Prevent
Adoption of Kiao.Cllau
Amendment i'm Senate
Further Changes
In Pact Unlikely
Republicans Expected to
Stand on Lodge Plan;
McCumber on Defence
Shant1lx,g First Break
In Treaty, Says sTemps'

pARIS, Aug. 24.-The "Temps" in
an editorial under the title
"The First Break" deals with the
Shantung situation. The article
declares that there is nothing to
prevent France from concluding
with the United States an arrange
ment such as suggested before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
by Thomas f. Millard, adviser to the
Chinese government, "for mutual
aid where territorial integrity of
China or the principle of the open
door is menaced."
In his testimony in Washington
Mr.. Millard said clause should be
put in the Franco American treaty
binding Great Britain and France
to support the Hay doctrine in
China.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

What has happened to New York's
telephone service in the last three
years?
Statistically this:
In 1916 you averaged to wait four
seconds for central to say, "Number,
please?"
Now you wait ten and -tenths
seconds.
That is slump in service of $50
per cent
In 1916 one call in twenty-eight went
wrong. {
Now It is one in seventeen.
mat IS slump of 60 per cent
Ihls loss of time is the Irritation"
10 which people are reacting when they
say; The telephone service is simply
rotten. What's the Public Service Com
mission for?"
Inc causes of the slump in the New
iofk Telephone Company's efficiency
are numerous; but always in the end
'ts the girl that counts-or doesn't.
New York's telephone girls are doing
nearly third more work than is nor
maj. They are overloaded by from 20
to 30 per cent.
"hen the war came to America the
Ne" ork Telephone Company was han
oling 100000 calls day-often more
'nan 100000 in single hour, or 5000
. t,,,t
minute. 1t had plant equipped to
axe care of 90 per cent "overload," or
ssnGtner saG half-million calls a day. 1t
nso s'e01 operators, of whom Ave out
" SIX were seasoned" by from one to
zen years experience. And the COM
Rta"y was giving service which the pub
nc recognized as nearly nerfect
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Lightning Kills Two Who
Seek Shelter Under Tree
Couple in Canoe Hasten Ashore
During Electric Storm
and Meet Death
Cpec;ot C.-

NEW ROCHELLE, Aug. 24.wHarold
Odell and Catherine Slattery were
struck by lightning and killed instantly
on Glen Island during severe electric
storm to-day. They were canoeing on
Long Island Sound and sought shelter
from the approaching storm by landing
on Glen Island and standing under a
tree.
Odells father is captain of the gov
ernment boat which plies between New
Rochelle and Fort Slocum and resides
at 10 Clinton Lane. The girls father
IS one OF the oldest postmen in New
Rochelle. He lives at 66 Grove Avenue.
She was assistant secretary in thu Ma
tlonal City Bank, New Rochelle.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
heserUe Quickly
Disappears

81 sut BY the end of 1918 the traffic
,'ao increa sed by 100000 calls day
~ o'zoo'ooo. This wiped out the re-
sso oeove o qulpment and put an overload of
.ioo'ooo calls on the switchboards. At
rle same time government war orders
piiesehted the company's enlarging its
' p.an'' ana the government even took
vsel some of the reserve stock it had
seaay; moreover, the government called
~. ~. skilled operators to meet the sud
ts ush war demands in Washington-at
e.e te army camps, shipyards, coast guard,
;iand e;si. M the company sent it's best
s'ias. sIas Ihe New York City force fell to
cnM,a c,ryI; a loss of 700, in spite of all that
csn.a n.u De done to keep the chairs in the
vrast vastals full. This meant still
fsarSeer sorsa reduction in the quality of the
a;.,' G.Ie' as some 5000 of the experienced
s"ss r mad been replaced by green ones.
,ha sihaiiy, when the influenza struck
ca,, ar CITY last fall the number of phone
ssr,o r,s Jumped another 100000 on the
nnr'l Sa'm1 overworked equipment, while the
. sontoer o1n of operators had fallen to
o,''' net loss of one girl in ten
Iaa loss of more than 25 per cent
a., a. eHlclency. And even out of this re-
ICED ~ force from 1900 to LOO were
sn each days sick list, making a short
aSe aSe o1 from $500 to $500 girls, or
su;s soous one in every three, while the
sploemlc lasted. This forced the aver
dss, ase number of calls a girl handled
t;aay Up from 1889. which was normal
sIs' si before the war, to around 1900
almost double.
y; mat was the period Of worst SER
,se. There has been a steady improve
,aene ever since, but the irritation and
resentment that grew UP at the time
.;s nsse remained and the public con-
"hues more and more critical.
Other Factors
Causing Slump
there are several other factors which
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Editor To Be Heard ON Charge

PARIS, Aug. 24.-Orders have been
issued for an examination of Ernest
Judet, former director of "LEclair,"
accused of having had dealings with
the enemy in the purchase or founding
capital.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Many Factors Combined
to Cause Slump IL,
Service Here Since
Outbreaks of the War
Labor Shortage
First Noticeable
Improvement Is Looked
For Soon, With Re-
turn to Normal IL,
at east One Year

THE TRIBUNE has
1 made an independent
study of Ne1U York City's
mechanical nervous sys-
tenn, otherU1se called the
telephone service, 1Uhich is
being Investigated also by
the Public Service Conn.,
mission. Many interest
ing and unexpected facts
hare been discovered By
inquiry and observation,
and they are noW to be set
forth purely for their meavs
interest.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25
Other Factors
1ausing Slump

Continued on page four
New-York tribune., 1919-08-25

Continued on neat puge
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-04-08

ed this section Of the country, stop
ping over at Columbia while en-
route. He was the commander of
this train, which was commercial
enterprise. At Asheville. he said
he recOunted the boast OF the peo-
pl" OF the southern states that they
were the only real Americans, and
their percentage of infusion of for
e'gn blood was practically negligi-
Bile
In that speech, as was repre-.
serting Governor Rye then the chief
executive of Tennessee. | made the
same sort of speech that / thought
he would make" said General Ty-
son. II told the people of the North
Carolina mountain city that / was
satisfied that we would get into the
war. ard as the southern people had
boasted of their Americanism. the
world would expect them to make
good when the time of trial and
stress arrived | think the people
of the world will give a unanimous
verdict that We have made good"
The Tennessee soldier was very
much impressed with the port facil-
tiles at Charleston. He said that the
dispatch and thorough manner in
which the troops of the division were
handled at Charleston spoke well for
the port The designation Of Char
lesion as the port of debarkation
dem utilization. was a distinct recog.
milton of the south, said General
Tyson. He was very much en-
thused over the reception the troops
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-04-08
SOLID SECURITY
FOR YOUR BONDS
1t is the Wealth of This Great
Country Somewhere Near
Hundred and Fifty Billions
of Dollars.

How many holders OF "Libertys"
realize fully the security that is back
or that property they own7
IL is the wealth OF the richest ma.
tion OF the earth.
Here's hut glance at what that
wealth comprises
with per cent OF the worlds
population and Z per cent OF the
worlds land America owns OF the
word supplies:
20 per cent OF the copper.
81 per cent OF the coal.
20 per cent OF the gold.
sc per cent Of the oil