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GEN. VANDERBILT is
BACK FROM ENGLAND
Lapionds Passengers Come
BY Rail From Halifax.

Two hundred and twenty-eight pas
sengers of the White Star liner Lapland
including Cornelius Vanderbilt, formerly
Brigadier-General, arrived at the
Grand Central station yesterday after
noon from Halifax. where they had left
the ship. The Lapland, which stopped
at Halifax to take on a sufficient guam
tity of coal to return to England without
worrying about the longshoremen's
strike, will not arrive here until to-mor-
row.
Gen. Vanderbilt was met at the sta
ton by Mrs. Vanderbilt, his son. Cor
nelius, Jr.. and his daughter, Cornelia
He said he had been in England and
France for the last two months on pri-
vate business He found time also to visit
the various battlefronts In France and
also made trip into the occupied Ger
man territory. This. German territory
is in prosperous coalition. and France
is also getting along all right" accord
ing to the General. He said he had no
plans for the future.
Others who arrived included Major
Arthur w. Heath of Melbourne, Austria
liza, a member of the British Royal Air
Forces and also a member of the Aus
tralian tennis team that recently played
here, and Major Cyril p. Dugmore
formerly head of the British Recruiting
Mission in New York.
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NEW ALTITUDE MARK
BY MAI. SCHROEDER
Record Of 81, 796 Feet With a
Passenger Verified by
Flying Club.
DUE TO IMPROVED DEVICE
"Supercharger" Avoids Loss of
Efficiency in the Rareffed
Atmosphere.

new worlds record for pilot and
passenger was established october
by Major r. w. Schroeder, chief test
pilot of the airplane engine division of
the Air Service, United States Army, &C.
cording to an announcement made yes
Major Schroeder in lie Perc blplane
scared to a height OF 31,796 feet. The
record has been homologated by the
contest committee of the American Fly
ing Club.
The newly developed "supercharger,"
device which prevents the motor from
losing efficiency as the plane mounts into
the rarer atmosphere, chiefly was re-
sponsble for the new record. Had not
the water pipe of the motor broken it
is probable, experts say, that Major
Schroeder and his observer. Lieut..
George w. Elsey, would have reached
a height OF $4,000 feet. This altitude
would exceed the present worlds record
height, for one man, made by Roland
Rohlfs, Curtiss test pilot. by 1890
feet. Schroeder's record was made at
McCook Field Dayton, Ohio. Another
attempt will be made within the next
two weeks to better Rohlfs's record,
Major Schroeder has announced.
The conviction on the part of aero
rautical experts that future wars in the
air will be fought at extremely high alti-
tudes has led Air Service officers to de-
vote considerable time to experimental
ton in the performance of air plane
motors at heights exceeding 10000 feet"
said Chance NJ. Vought. chairman of the
contest committee. yesterday. I'm this
connection Major Schrocders new record
is of the greatest Importance for the
future of military aeronautics."
Mr.. Vought said scientific data have
been obtained which clearly indicate
that the ultimate ceiling" or limit
which can be obtained by machines
similar to that used by Major Schroeder
when equipped with the supercharger
will'be considerably more than 10000
feet.
In making the record both men wore
a pair of sheepskin moccasins over a
pair of woollen socks, a one piece fur
flying suit over ordinary uniforms and
a fur lined helmet covering the entire
head except for spaces for eyes and
nose. a small hole was cut in the he'll
met to insert a rubber tube connected
with the oxygen bottle. The men drew
the oxygen from the tube much as if
smoking pipes, Only their gloves were
electrically heated. These wired gloves
were of silk and were worn under fur
mittens
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LIEUT.. MAYNARD
FLIES TO CAPITAL
Winner of Race Will Work
for Air Service in South.

Lieut.. Belvin W. Maynard. the flying
lparson," who was first to finish the army
transcontinental race, flew away from
Mineola yesterday despite the threaten
ing weather on a trip to the South, where
he will do some exhibition flying to rouse
interest in the air service. He took off
in the same ship that had borne him
across the continent.
Word reached Mineola yesterday af-
ternoon that Lieut.. Maynard has landed
at Boiling Field, Washington, at noon,
and had departed for Raleigh, n. c.,
after lunch, in a driving downpour.
Lieut.. Maynard will spend a week at the
county fair in Clinton, n. c., his home
county.
After his return to Mneola Lieut..
Maynard will continue his plans for
spanning the continent in a one stop
flight. He hopes to fly a De Haviland
specially altered, from Mineola to Dali
las, Tex, and from there to San Diego.
The transcontinental race ended off,
cially at sunset yesterday. Eight of the
pilots of the sixty-odd who started fin
ished the race, six of these being from
Mineola and two from the Pacific end of
the continent. Capt. Felix Steinle at
Bryan and Lieut.. Daniel B. Gish at Chi
cago will fly homeward. but will not be
considered to have finished the race.
Those who finished, In the order
named are as follows: Lieut.. Maynard,
Capt. ]. o. Donaldson, Capt. Lowell H.
Smith. Lieut.. Alexander Pearson, Jr.,
Lieut.. Earl Manzelman, Lieut.-Col Hart
ney. Lieut.. Bagby and Lieut.. Robert
Worthington.
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extension Of the Washington Heights
transit facilities.
I'VE respectfully ask that you give
the matter your earnest consideration at
this time"
In speaking to SUN reporter on the
subject Mr.. Goldman said: The transit
question for those who live in this sec
ton has really become a very serious
matter. The crowding of the trains in
the morning and evening rush hours Ia
something disgraceful. 1t is n thing one
must see before he would believe such a
condition possible.
I'VE are not asking for anything we
do not need. We have taken into con-
sideration all that Commissioner De-
laney states in his objection, but the
Heights section must have better tran
sit facilities or the people will not be
able to get up and down town
Many of us have to send our daugh-
ters down to high schools, and the con-
ditions these young girls have to suffer
In the subway trains is outrageous. Such
things in a city like ours should not be
for one moment"
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HEIGHTS TRACTION
NEEDS ARE ACUTE
Delaney's Refusal to Act on
Crowded Conditions 'Stirs
Indignation.
DRASTIC DRIVE PLANNED
Letter Sent to Commissioner
Emphasizes Call for I'm
mediate Move.

The people who live on Washington
Heights, which now has a population of
almost three hundred thousand, have
started movement through their vari-
Gus civic organizations to get better
transit facilities. 1t is claimed the
Broadway subway is so crowded at the
rush hours that travel on the trains is
a disgrace to the city.
The Washington Heights Tax Payers
Association has been the most active in
the fight, but 1t has received very
little encouragement from John II. De
laney, Transit Construction Commits
sioner. The association received a let
ter dated October II from Daniel l..
Ryan, who is Mr.. Delaneys deputy, in
which the position was taken that the
Heights did not need any additional
transit; that labor conditions, the high
cost of materials &C., made any i'm
provements at the present time out of
the question.
AT the last meeting of the Tax Payers
Association It was decided to wage a
more drastic campaign for the improve
ments desired. The people on Washing
ton Heights want line extending from
Fifty ninth street on the West Side run
ming along Central Park West. then up
St Nicholas avenue as far as 1S1st
street. There have been several hear
ings, but that is as far as the matter
has gone
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VIII Discuss Spanish Trade.

w. Bruce Wallace, American Vice
Consul in Coruna, Spain, will be at the
local offices of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, room 234, Gus
tom House, until November 3. to confer
with American manufacturers and ex-
porters regarding the development of
their export trade with northwestern
Spain. At the present there is a de-
mand for American railway equipment,
hardware, machinery, jewelry, ship con-
struction materials, iron and steel goods.
cement, coal. &c. Conferences will be
held from 10 so A. NJ. to ~ 80 p. NJ
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-Four additional injunctions were
granted yesterday by Federal Judge
Augustus N. Hand against saloon keep
ers under bail for violating the law
These inJunctions, as in the case of pre-
vious writs. are designed to drive out OF
business permanently any liquor dealer
guilty of a single violation, to brand his
place a public nuisance and to confiscate
his stock and fixtures. The injunction5
yesterday applied to William Fitzgerald
77s Sixth avenue; O'Brien & Cotter. 259
West Forty-second street; John w.
Bowen. 1876 Fourth avenue, and Michael
Bernhardt 1880 Third avenue. The
hearing in these cases is set for 10 80
A. NJ. November Z.
Rupert Asks injunction.
As counsel for the Jacob Rupert
Brewing Corporation, which complains
that Its $10,000,000 business will be
ruined without process of law or COM
pensation IL the enforcement OF the war
time act is continued. Emory r. Buckner
applied yesterday to Judge Hand for
temporary injunction against Francis Q.
Caffey. Federal Attorney, and Richard
J. McElligott Internal Revenue Collector
for the Third district. The complaint
was filed on Thursday and Mr.. Buckner
yesterday. Argument on the application
will be heard next Friday before Judge
Hand. Elihu Root will make the argu-
ment for the brewing interests and Fed
eral Attorney Caffey and Assistant Earl
B. Barnes will represent the Government.
The general situation in New York
last night revealed almost complete
obedience to the law. A few saloons
continued to sell 2.75 beer but these
places appeared to be drawing from the
last of their store. The brewertes have
made no deliveries for five days.
Whiskey has disappeared in places of
public resort and restaurants are al
ready complaining of a noticeable fall
ing off in patronage.
Wien the booze hunters from the Gus
tom House take the trail to-day they
will be armed with what is advertised
by the Federal authorities as a miracu-
lous detector of booze. They call this
device the "ohillioscope." 1t ia composed
Of lot of valves, keys and spirit levels
and is said to be an infallible detector
of alcohol percentages. The instrument
was perfected by a Kansan of scientific
attachments and booze hating tendencies.
Three road houses at Huntington
l.. l.. were raided by United States Mar=
shall Powers late yesterday afternoon
end the three prisoners, bartenders. were
arraigned and held in $1,000 bail each
by United States Commissioner McGol-
drick in Brooklyn.
Under an agreement. the owners of
the 200 saloons in Newark closed their
doors at midnight last night and will
not open them again until the war time
prohibition ban is lifted by President
Wilson. The saloon men are agreed not
to sell any near beer and have asked
. - ali ~, fIa off
The brewers will give their answer on
this question Tomorrow
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NEW SERVICE TO BERMUDA.
Sir Frederick Lewis Departs to Ar
range Steamship Schedule.

Sir Frederick Lewis chairman OF the
Furness-Withy company. with Lady
Lewis and a party of officials of the
line. their families and personal friends,
has sailed for Bermuda in connection
with the Inauguration of a new steam
ship service between New York and
Bermuda, according to an announcement
made yesterday. The party will be gone
week or ten days
The new service, which is operated by
the Furness-Bermuda Line, will begin
with the sailing from this port of the
steamship Fort Hamilton on December
8. In January another fast steamship,
the Fort Victoria, will be placed in the
service
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PLEA FOR HIGHER SALARIES.
Must Pay More to College Profess
sors. Says John C. Hibben.

PGTTsBuRG, Nov 1.-The necessity of
an immediate increase in the salaries
OF professors at Princeton University
and other colleges was urged to-day
by President John Grier Hibben at the
first national conference Of the Prince
ton Alumni Association, held at the
William Penn Hotel here.
There is grave danger at the present
time of losing the best men in our col
lege faculties" President Hibben said
Since the beginning of the war they
have been withdrawing from their
teaching activities into business and
professional life. They cannot live on
the salaries given in our universities
We must pay our teachers at least a
living wage, which they are not receiv-
ing at present"
He called attention to the fact that
the average salary OF an instructor in
the colleges to-day is less than that
of O chauffeur
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Reply to Delaney.

Mayer C. Goldman. who Is chairman
of the standing committee on transit of
the Tax Payers Association. has sent the
following reply to Commissioner De-
laney:
81 beg to acknowledge receipt of letter
written to me under date OF October ! l.
1919, as chairman of tn standing com
mittee on transit of the Washington
Heights Taxpayers Association by your
deputy commissioner, Daniel l.. Ryan, in
reply to my letter to you of the Bird,
with reference to laying before you an
outline of the plan which we believe
would meet the future requirements of
II aftic in the Washington Heights dis
trict.
Il note particularly In the statement
In Mr.. Ryan's letter that you do not
feel that you will be justified in under
taking any plan for transportation ex-
tensions where transportation facilities
are already sufficient to meet require
ments. 1t requires a wide stretch of
the imagination for any one to assume
that the transportation facilities on
Washington Heights are already suffi-
cient to meet requirements. The lack of
transportation facilities in the Heights
section amounts to a public scandal and
has been the source of constant protests
from citizens and civic organizations on
Washington Heights for years past. The
overcrowding of subway trains in the
Washington Heights district is a con-
slant menace to the health of the COM
munity and dangerous to human life
1t is a matter that requires a speedy
and effective remedy so that the pres
ent disgraceful conditions may be over.
come.
THE transportation problem is to-
day perhaps the most important one
confronting the residents of this sec
ton, and it is imperative that relief be
had in the near future.
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elevated and subway lines, made no re-
pjy TO the Commissioners letter. Sub
seauently the Brooklyn City Company
agreed to restore the transfers.
After waiting a few days for the Is. u
IT. Company's reply to his letter and mo-
getting IL, Commissioner Nixon informeS
the company that unless the order wac
complied with at once the commissio5
would take action. Fifteen minutes siter'
this peremptory order, the Il. X Il. Susn-
pany agreed to the restoration
The Commissioner was further In
formed yesterday that the Brooklyn City
Railroad Company will at once restore
through service on the Flatbush avenue
surface line in Brooklyn below Nostrand
and Flatbush avenues. This through
service is to begin on "Wednesday ana
will run as far as the Avenue car
barns
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Woman to Administer Oath.

The oath of allegiance taken by natu-
rallied citizens in the Bronx County
Court will be administered in the future
by Mrs. Alma ]. Cole, wife of William
r, F. Cole, a. veteran of the Twenty
seventh Division, who was appointed
yesterday a special deputy clerk by
County Clerk Joseph NJ. Callahan. Mrs.
Cole became clerk in the naturaliza-
ton bureau year ago. After citizen-
ship applications have been approved by
the Judges the candidates will come to
her to swear fealty TO the Fedral Gov
eminent. Mrs. Cole lives at 2O34 Grand
Concourse and Boulevard.
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PERSHING JOINS NEW CLUB.
Accepts Membership in Army and
Navy Organization.

Gen. John J. Pershing. In a letter yes
terday to Admiral Bradley Il. Fiske,
president of the National Army and
Navy Club. accepted membership in the
new organization, which isl composed of
members of the Pershing Club Of the
New York War Camp Community Ser
vice and the Army and Navy Club. 1t
is expected that Gen. Pershing will be-
come first honorary president of the new
club when it moves into its permanent
home.
A ball under the auspices of the
Pershing Club hostesses in the Hotel
Plaza, Friday night, November 2s. will
inaugurate a series of social affairs
which the National Army and Navy Club
is arranging.
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Sterling Co. Exonerated.

Emil Rachmil and Abraham L. sam
ueIson, who do business as the Sterling
Accounting and Auditing Company. did
not cheat the Government on income tax
returns according to a jury which re-
ported late yesterday in the Federal DIS.
trict Court. Twice before Richmil ana
Samuelson were tried on other similar
indictments and both times the jury dis
agreed. Yesterdays verdict being on9
of not guilty, Judge Learned Hand dis'
missed both defendants.
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FREE TRANSFERS IN
BROOKLYN RESTORED
Consolidated Acts in Case of
Bay Ridge Line.

The New York Consolidated Railway
Company will restore to-day the system
of free transfers at Eighty-sixth street.
Brooklyn, between the Fourth avenue
subway and the Sixty-fifth street, Bay
Ridge line. This restoration comes as
the result of an order issued by Public
Service Commissioner Nixon.
Such transfers are called for under
the dual system contracts. Commits
sloner Nixon handed down the order on
October 2S, but the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company. operating the affected
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RANK AND FILE TO ORGANIZE.
Charter Includes Non-Coms. and
Privates in World War.

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA charter was
issued here to-day to the Rank and File
Veterans Association, composed of pri-
Yates and non-aommissioned officers
who served in the world war Commits
stoned officers are not eligible to MEM
bership.
The organization plans to establish
camps in all the larger cities. officers
announced that it would advocate
years pay for all world war veterans.
oppose universal military training and
take an active part in politics.
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Need for Help shown.

"Our committee challenges the ac-
curacy of your conclusion that trans
portation facilities are already sufficient
to meet requirements and will be glad
to invite you to justify your statement
before the various civic organizations on
Washington Heights, II you care to do So
our committee believes that now is
the time for you to seriously take up the
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Motor Car Deaths Increase.

Three more persons were willed py
automobiles In October than during DC.
tober, 1918. The report Of the National
Highway Protective Society gives the
death list as SO from automobiles, from
surface car accidents and from being
struck by wogans. In the State 104 per-
sons were killed by automobiles as
against 80 during the same month year
ago. Automobiles killed II in New Jer-
sey during the month.
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to my memory and in my prayers, and
give me the privilege of bestowing my
blessing on you with all my heart
I'D. T. CARDINAL MERCER,
Archbishop of Malines"
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Gives Tina INKS for Aid.

Let me again thank you for the gen.
erous way in which you have responded
and are responding to my appeal to help
me once more in the heavy tasks of
social and moral reconstruction, in COM
batting the devastating effects of radical
Socialism and Bolshevism, in reestablish-
ing trade and technical schools, &c.
which await me at home: tasks which
are related closely not only to the well
fare but to the very existence Of my
people, even though they themselves in
this period of unrest and resentment
may not fully realize it.
The world, l know, seems to have
these difficult and unsettling problems
before 1t everywhere. And yet I have
the profound conviction that Just as
right prevailed in this awful conflict Just
ended, so Justice and right will, when
given their hearing, solve these prob
lens of unrest and measurably reconcile
the differences of man. 1t is my duty,
know. to work to this end. 1 pray you,
my dear friend, do likewise.
IT had hoped before leaving TO be re-
ceived by your President, Mr.. Woodrow
Wilson. To my keen regret this has been
impossible owing to the present state of
his health. ] express my sincerest
wishes and prayers for his prompt and
complete recovery.
Let me, in conclusion. my dear people,
assure you that you will ever be present
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LOST, FOUND AND REWARD.

LOST-Bank Book No. 205627 the Man.
haitian Savings Institution, GA Broadway
Payment stopped; return to bank
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Loves American People.

II have learned to admire the Amer
lean people l have learned to love
them. | feel a strong assurance that
lasting tie of mutual sympathy and
confidence has been established between
your country and mine and that it will
endure for generations to come. If the
calamities Of this great war and the
bitter sufferings which it entaied for
our people have brought one bright
thought II is of this bond of union be-
tween us. realize and firmly believe
Americans also realize that 1t has been
a privilege for our generation to go
through the crucible OF this gigantic
struggle. For those who would be
exalted spiritually and morally by its
lessons 1t is an opportunity such as has
never been given at any other time of
the worlds existence.
by these lessons which can be
sought and I may say, which stand
out in bold letters, on every page of the
annals of the war mean the mag
nificent instances, of individual and
national self-sacrifice and self-denial,
object lessons of the highest moral
order, In and by which each one of us
may make his rule of life in the future
Once more. my dear American friends,
let me express to you my heartfelt
thanks for the wonderful assistance
which you gave to Belgium during the
war
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MERGER, SAILING,
SENDS US. MESSAGE
Declares Sympathy and Love
Have Strengthened Him
for Tasks.
BOND BETWEEN NATIONS
Says Justice and Right Will
Solve Present Problems
of Unrest.

QUEBEC, Canada, Nov. 1.-Carinal
MERCER boarded the steamship Megantic
and sailed for Liverpool to-day after
being given a civic reception. He was
the guest of Cardinal Begin during his
stay here.
Before sailing the Cardinal sent the
following farewell message to the peo-
pie of the United States:
ut is difficult for me to give adequate
expression to my feelings at this mo-
ment when l am about to leave your
wonderful and hospitable land. The
sympathy and love with which l have
been received everywhere, both in large
cities and the lesser ones, and even at
small stations on the way. have gone to
my heart. / can say with full truth
that the moral comfort whitl you have
brought to my soul has indeed rejuv-
enated me and given me new strength
and vigor with which to face whatever
duties Divine Providence may call upon
me to accomplish in my dear Belgium.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-03-12
ALLIES RESTRICT
NAVY PERSONNEL
Of THE GERMANS

LONDON, Mar. l2-The supreme
council Of the Inter-Allied Peace
Conference, which is holding its
meetings in Paris, came to decision
today to restrict the personnel of
the Germany navy to fifteen thous-
and officers and men.
The military conditions include
the giving of guarantees by Ger
many that no tanks would be built
and no poisonous gas manufactured
in future, and that all war material
on hand be turned over TO the
Allies to be destroyed.
These terms will be made part
Of the peace treaty which Germany
will be invited to sign and ratify,
ere peace is restored again.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-03-12
HUN DELEGATION
TO MEET ALLIES
REGARDING FOOD

COPENHAGEN, Mar. l2.-Des-
patches received in this city today
indicate that the German delegates
will start for Brussels on Thursday
to meet the representatives of the
Allied nations.
The meeting has been called for
the purpose of discussing the ques-
ton of food for Germany At this
meeting the German delegates will
learn the Allies decision concern
ing the turning over of the German
mercantile fleet to the Allies and
the conditions under which a food
supply will be given Germany in re-
turn for the surrendered fleet.