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New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Judge Says Sorro Should
Be Indicted for Perjury
Court Says Witness Lied When
He Retracted Testimony or
When He Recanted Again

Judge Mcintyre, who is presiding
over the John Doe inquiry to ascertain
if perjury was committed in the trial
of those convicted of the murder of
Barnett Baf, declared yesterday his
behef that Joseph A. Sorro, one of the
principal witnesses against Joseph
Cohen, had been guilty of perjury and
should be indicted. The Judge said
Sorro lied either at the time he re-
tracted his original testimony or when
he recanted his retraction.
Assistant District Attorney Pecora
declared he had been denied the privi-
lege of talking to Sorro while the lat
ter was in the custody of representa-
tives Of the Attorney Generals Office.
While Mr.. Pecora was addressing
the court, Sorro appeared in custody
of Detective J. J. Noonan He told
Judge Mcintyre he was willing to talk
to representative Of the District At
torney's Office if his attorney, John
Santore, was present.
conference between Judge McIn-
tyre and Sorro was held in the judge s.
chambers, at which Mr.. Pecora and Mr..
CdHIoIc WeIe present. w men the con-
ference was held Benjamin Simon, of
the Attorney Generals office, declined
to be present. The only questions
asked Sorro related to his written con-
fession that he had perjured himself
in the Cohen trial. On the advice of
counsel he refused to answer.
Deputy Attorney General Becker
was not in court, Attorney Gene raj
Newton is in Atlantic City, and for
that reason Judge Mcintyre ordered
that the hearing go over until Tuesday.
Judge Mcintyre announced that he is
inquiry by the end of this month, and
that night sessions will be held if nee
essary. Next week the hearings will
begin at p. M, instead of $3.50, and
continue until o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Testimony All In,
OLeary Case to Go
10 jury Next Week
Day Devoted to sur-Rebu,.
tai and Summing Up Will
Begin Monday; Story Told
By Arthur Lyons Denied

The case of Jeremiah A oY
trial for more than seven weets VI
the United States District Court H. :"
fore Judge A. N. Hand, charvsd ,us', ~
violating the espionage act. was sn.,. '
closed yesterday afternoon. spmm;a
up will begin Monday morning 80
Most of the day was consumed -,
witnesses called by the defence in snS
rebuttal. Joseph Ohrbach, called h. ~ ~
government on Thursday, when bs ,s;s .ss
he had seen Carl Roediger IN ~.
Mecca Restaurant, testified for III, !.
fence that he had never seen or.sS
in the company of Roediger. wbo :,
under indictment for treason.
Jeremiah OLeary was ask.s
Colonel Thomas B. Fielder + fbea be oy
ever been in the Mecca Restauraea ne mad
Never in my life" O'Leary !.
cleared. ee-
Margaret Burke, nurse at Rs,,.
Hospital, said OLeary never ,,rsSe wora =
white bathrobe, as testified w. a
Charles Martin, who identified or Wy
as the man he had seen with Rosd;rasy d;Sa,y
She said O'Leary always wore hS,eu,, a hrer,
bathrobe. '-'"n
Arthur O'Leary and his wife both
testified that they had visited Jara Ssa
miah in Brooklyn hospital in con- CON-
pany with Arthur Lyons, who went vvs
west with O'Leary on his flight. Thcv s~s
denied that j. Willard Robinson's
name was mentioned
Lyons had testified that at this visit
O'Leary directed him to hunt up Rob
inson and to tell him not to talk and and
to get lawyer. '"'
THAT testimony of Lyons, gentle.
men Of the jury" said Arthur OTeary
'is an absolute falsehood."
John j. O'Leary testified that
Lyons's testimony that he had accom-.
panied him to Newburgh was not true
He admitted going to Suffern h hnt
denied that it was for the purpose os
seeing j. Willard Robinson.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
People Should Decide ON
League, Says Garrison
Electric Railway Men Jump TO
Their Feet and Applaud
Sentiments

Several hundred members of the
American Electric Railway Association
at their dinner in the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel last night, jumped to their feet
and applauded former Secretary of War
Llndley M. Garrison when he declared
this nation ought not to enter into a
league OF, nations until the proposed
covenant, uncomplicated by any terms
bated throughout the land and the
will of the people be ascertained
Mr.. Garrison said he believed Presi-
dent Wilson was wrong when he told
the people recently that the opinions
of the opponents of the covenant were
selfish. When, however, the President
said it was the supreme sacrifice
which America should make, Mr.. Gar
rison said he believed the President
spoke sincerely. Whether America
ought to make this supreme sacrifice,
ne said, should be considered cautious
ly and soberly.
Mr.. Garrison said the hearts of the
people Of Europe, who are looking for
help from the unselfshness of Amer
lca, must be broken already if thew
have read the covenant which gives MS
one vote out of nine in the executive
council and one out of forty-nine in
the body of delegates. Also their
hearts must be broken already, he said
II they hope to shake off the burdens
of excessive ornaments because the
covenant only holds out the promise
that this proposition will be Studied. "
"Ex- President Taft" the sneaker
said, says the covenant doesn't vio-
late the constitution because all we are
called upon in the proposed Ieague IS
to recommend, propose, and then, if we
aren't satisfied with the way an inter
national question is decided, we can
withdraw. If that is the case this
league joins those other scraps of
paper. This is one of the reasons whv
believe that the warmest advocates
OF the league of nations here hayen't t
the courage of their convictions"
Mr. Garrison said he believed the
only way league of nations can be
effective is for the league to have
teeth and maintain ample armaments
to preserve peace by force.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Bedford Decorated
For Keeping Allies
Supplied With Fuel
Standard Oil Officer Made
Chevalier b y French;
England and U. S. Pay
Tribute Too at Dinner

Beneath the intertwined flags of
france, England, Italy and the United
States Captain Maurice Loycr rank
ing French naval commander in Amer
ica, pinned the medal of Chevalicr Of
the Legion of Honor last night on the
breast of Alfred C. Bedford, chairman
OF the board of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
The decoration was in recognition of
Mr.. bedford's services as chairman of
the National Petroleum War Service
Committee. AS Captain Lover kissed
nm on both checks line of French
marines, guarding the tri-color in
front of the speakers table. dronned
their guns sharply to "order arms"
and the dinner guests in the Biltmorc
ballroom cheered approval
:, Consul General Castor Licbert of
rance, speaking in the name Of the
Tfench High Commission and the
french government. paid high tribute
TO TO = 'ne work OF Mr.. Bedford in moblz-
ing thc oil industry of America and
Keeping the Allies "never lacking in
the o-sence without which the war
could not have been won"
Thanks on British Behalf
captain Arthur Snagge, naval attachc
of the British Embassy. said:
at must be remembered too tb,
England is deeply indebted to Mr..
Bedford and his committee. when
Great Brtaln's navy was covering r.
ooo,ooo miles month. there was never
shortage of petroleum which Mr.
bedford was gathering for her use,
he man who is honored here to-
night VIII go down in history as one
or the civilians whose labors contributed
directly and constantly to the achieve
mcnts of the war"
Mr Bedford. after expressing his an
probation of the decoration given him,
reviewed the history of the oil indus
lrys organization for wartime effort
and paid high tribute to the sailors on
OIL tankers, who were among America $
first to give their lives.
Garfield Extends Appreciation
The fact that the United States GOV
ernment was accorded heartiest coop
Grafton by the oil industry was
stressed in letter from Fuel Ad.
ministrator Garfield, read by NJ. /.
Requa, director general of the oil di-
vision OF the fuel administration. DR..
Garfield also plead for continued
cooperation and Appreciation of a
new area in which human welfare is
placed above material possessions" ."
He wrote:
The National Petroleum Committee
made ready response to the call to ser
vice. The supervision of the industry
required under the provisions of the
Lever act and by executive order of
the President might have been rend
cred exceedingly difficult, but the re-
lations established between Mr.. Reuua
and Mr.. Bedford guaranteed the
cordial cooperation which has marked
the relations between the government
and the industry from the first.
Il cannot allow this occasion to pass
without expressing the earnest hope
that the spirit of cooperation thus es-
tiabllshed between the government and
the lndustry-i might rather say be-
tween the public represented by gov
ernment and the industry should be
continued in some effective way"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Daniels Says Navy
Will Lead Wav i'm
Aircraft Advance
Particular Attention To Be
Paid Aero Developments
on Visit Abroad; Will Ask
for Experimental Funds

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Deiinite
plans for extensive experimental work
with aircraft are being worked out by
the Navy General Board, and in their
conferences abroad with officials of the
British, French and Italian admiralties
Secretary Daniels and his three chief
technical advisors will give particular
attention to aircraft development Con-
gress later will be asked to make q
special appropriation for the necessary
experimental work.
Mr.. Daniels personally confirmed this
outline of the navy's plans before he
left to-day for New York en- route to
France. He will be joined tomorrow
aboard the U. S. S. Leviathan by Rear
Admirals. Robert S. Griffin, Chief Engi-
neer David w. Taylor, Chief Con-
structor and Ralph Earle, Chief of
Ordnance, who will make the trip with
him.
Purpose to Keep Ahead
lie expects to return by May 1, after
visiting Paris, London and Rome. The
three admirals will confer with Euro
pean experts in their own lines and
visit shops and dockyards where guns,
engines and warcraft are under con-
structon
1T is our purpose in the navy to
keep not only abreast of aviation in
the future" Secretary Daniels said, in
reply to question as to the part air
craft developments will play in. the
conferences overseas, "but to lead the
way in aero development The Liberty
motor still is unrivalled in its own
held-that of high power aircraft
motor suitable for rapid production in
quantity. That was our war problem
-production-and we solved it,
with the stress Of war behind US
our problem is to advance the science
of air navigation, to explore every
build better, faster safer aircraft
from year to year, as we build better
ships for the navy.
VIII Ask Appropriations
"When Congress reconvenes we will
nave d ucnnlue PROJECT Tor AVIATION
experimentation to present. 1t will
require appropriations, for which l in
tend to ask.
ALREADY we are working toward the
first transatlantic fight. That event
is now almost in sight. Our plans are
definite and preparations are proceed
ing smoothly. The fight was ordered
because it was a logical step in air
craft development
at is the navy's purpose to carry
out its projects in harmony with the
army and the Postoffice Department
and also with American industry
which responded so promptly to oul
needs during the war Between us We
will crystalline the lessons of the wal
and build upon them those air fleets o1
the future of which now we have only
Visions"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Clothes for Young
Bird e Cost a Lot.
Says Aged Husband
"You'd Think SO if You Saw
the Bills Hart Tells
Court in Asking That
Marriage Be AnnuIled

In the sprihg-that season in which
Mr.. Tennyson deserted so many inter
estin0 phenomena - James Heryev
Hart, Brooklyn jeweller, sc years old,
married 1S-year old Katie Wolff.
That was last May Now, although
spring is almost here again, Mr.. Hart
wants an annulment of the marriage
and is seeking it in the Supreme Court.
The bride Of last year was mani
cure in barbershop that Mr.. Hart
owned. Their honeymoon was spent
In Atlantic City. The rest Of the story
was told yesterday to Mr.. Mooney, the
brides attorney, by the jeweler, who
used an ear trumpet to hear the ques-
tons, and roared back his answers.
Dld you go to Abraham & Strauss
before your honeymoon to get clothes
for your bride ?" asked the attorney.
No" Mr.. Hart shouted. "I didn't
buy her clothes. She bought them
with my money"
You gave her considerable money ?'
You'd think SO if you saw the bills!"
the witness retorted
You bought her $3.50 fur cloak and
you bought it because you wanted her
to look nice in it?"
mo! beloved the witness. "She
bought 1t herself and l never liked it.
told her to take it back-there was
something the matter with it."
But" urged the l.wyer, "you gave
her very handsome diamond ring?"
You bet your life, 1 did," said the
witness, proudly. at cost $3.50"
Asked why he had moved to East
orange, Mr.. Hart explained it was to
dodge reporters.
They followed me and badgered me
and wrote stories about things that
weren't any of anybody's business" he
Mrs. Hart, Mr.. Hart explained, lived
with Ter family in house owned by
MN, at S37 Monroe Street. He said if
any rent was ever paid he had not seen
1T. He also said he had purchased the
fl.niture. The case will be continued
next Friday.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Eliot Has Plan to
End Labor Conflict
Outlines Programme Whereby
Employees Would Be Part
ners i'm Every Business

BOSTON. March IA programme
for cooperation between capital and
labor, designed to bring about "a just
settlement of industrial strife" was
outlined to-day by Charles w Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard Uni
versity, at a legislative hearing on a
bill for the appointment Of a special
commission to study the hours of labor
In Massachusetts industries.
AS basis for his programme DR..
Eliot proposed:
General adoption of genuine part
nership system between the capital and
the labor engaged in any given works
or plant, whereby the Teturns to capital
and labor alike, after the wages are
paid, shall vary with the profits of the
estabilshment the percentage of the
profit going to payroll being always
much larger than that going to share
holders or owners, and the payroll
never being called on to make good
losses. The employees are always to be
represented in the directorate.
The war between capital and labor"
SAID DR.. Eliot. "is getting to stage
winch seriously endangers the existing
industrial and social structures in most
OF the civilized nations, and the DO
lltlcal structures in those nations
which have had no experience in the
practice of liberty. After the Arm
establishment of a limited league of
nations with plenty of force at com
mand. the thing most to be desired bv
the free peoples, and by those who are
hoping to become free, is q lust settle
ment of the industrial strife"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15

Pryor wrote curt resignation, turned
it in and enlisted as private.
He served also in the Provisional
Congress of the Southern states. His
wife, as ardent a Virgnian as he, be-
came an army nurse and, many years
later. wrote in her memoirs of the
hardships her duty entailed.
During the Petersburg campaign the
general in the ranks" was engaged in
special scout duty for General Robert
&. Lee. 1t was perilous work and the
scout eventually was captured. He was
sent to Fort Lafayette in New York
and spent the last year of the war as
a prisoner there. He was charged with
being spy.
An Admirer of Lincoln
More than once General Pryor, as a
delegate from the South, had met
President Lincoln to intercede for some
similarly situated Southerner.
81 thought he never would stop get
ting up" General Pryor said years later
when asked for his impressions Of the
Civil War President.
He was profound admirer of Lin
coin and regarded him as eminently
just
Now it was the turn of General
Pryor's friends to undertake a similar
was to Secretary Stanton.
mo, damn him! We won't free
him." Stanton is said to have replied.
"We're going to hang him."
But they did not John w. Forney
and "Wash" Mclean, father Of John
r. Mclean, got to Lincoln first. They
told him of the chivalric manner Of
General Pryor's fighting; of the cour
teses and kindnesses he had shown to
L. G11 i 4
ed him of the missions on which Gen
eral Pryor had served in Washington.
President Lincoln wrote a reprieve on
q visiting card and General Pryor was
saved
His life was saved, but it seemed
that he had lost almost everything
else in the war. When it ended he
found himself possessed of a tattered
uniform, sword, wife and five
children. Undaunted, he tilted at life
anew
He speedily won success in the news
paper business, although compelled at
first to write anonymously because of
the prejudice against Southerners. In
the meantime he studied the law of
New York and was admitted to the bar.
Success there came more slowly, but it
was more satisfactory. Through the
influence of former foe, General Dan
iel +. Sickles, General Pryor was ap-
pointed to the bench of the Court of
Common Pleas by Governor Hill.
Later he was elected to the Supreme
Court bench. He retired at the age of
seventy, but preserved his interest in
the law and was engaged in active
practice until considerably more than
eighty. His interest and insight into
the problems of the day never tagged.
From day to day he followed the course
of the war in Europe and his opinion
on developments in this country was
sought eagerly and willingly given.
His wife died in 1911. She was al
most eighty-two years old and had
written novel in the last year of her
lite. She also was the author of sew
eral volumes of memoirs.
General Pryor had not been in good
health for several weeks and had had
pneumonia for about week
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
OBITUARY NOTES

WALTER L. HARRIS, president of
the Holyoke Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, died at his home in Salem,
Mass, yesterday He was formerly
president of the Massachusetts Mutual
Fire Insurance Union.
MRS. BEATRICE FLYNN, wife of
Thomas Flynn, of IL Chapel Street,
Orange, and a sister of John Gas
coyne, Essex County Probation Off
Ger, died in the Orange Memorial Hos
pital yesterday of pneumonia. Be-
two daughters and two sons, one of
whom is in the army
WALTER E. SCOTT, of "a West
pital yesterday after a brief illness.
He was seventyfve years old. Mr.
Scott was New York representative of
several out-of-town newspapers for
many years. He was born in Illinois,
but came to New York twenty We
years ago. He was a deacon of the
Mt. Morris Baptist Church, and is sur
vived by his wife,
MRS. ELIZABETH DAVIES STIMP-
SON HUBBARD eighy- eight years old,
widow Of the Rev Dr.. Isaac G. Hub
bard, died Thursday at 1880 Bergen
Street. Brooklyn. For many years her
residence was in West Claremont, N. II.
Mrs. Hubbard is survived by two
daughters and son, DR.. William S.
Hubbard.
CHARLES WILLIS BRlTTON, who
conducted bakeries in Rockaway and
day at Verona, N. j., where for three
years he had made his home. He
leaves a wife and 4 son.
SARAH M. WALLACE, widow Of
Benjamin NJ. Wallace, died Thursday
at her homo, 50 Morton Street, Brook
yn. Mrs. Wallace was born in Man
haitian seventyive years ago. She
leaves three sons, Benjamin N. Full
ton, Theodore B. Fulton and Samuel
f. Fulton.
ENSIGN SIDNEY JOHN KELLY. a
veteran Of the pilot service, forty three
years old, died Thursday at his home,
81 Adclphi Street Brooklyn He leaves
wife, three sons, one in France, and
four daughters.
PRIVATE CLARENCE ]. JONES, of
the 5lst Artillery, son of William +.
Jones, of Palmer's Island, Sound
Beach. Conn, died Thursday at Fort
Hamilton Hospital. Private Jones,
gassed end wounded at the battle Of
st. Mihiel. He returned on the Aga
memnon after nineteen months of
overseas service.
MRS. MARIA KRULL TEGGE,
eighty-one years old, widow of Ferd
nand Teggc, a Brooklyn manufacturer,
died Wednesday at her home, 1870 Han
cock Street, where services will be
held this afternoon. Interment will
be in Lutheran Cemetery. A daughter
survives.
MRS. REBEKAH ALEXANDER SKE-
GAN, daughter of the late Colonel
Charles II. Gallagher, Of Wilmington
Del, and widow of the Rev. Edward M
Skegan, Sao Of Canada Canada died Thursday hui, at
Skegan was a descendant of Thomas
Mexican, a signer Of the Declaration of
| independence.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Four Children Accuse
Man of Throwing Acid
Janitor Charged With Assault
On Boys and Girls Who
Got in Way

Four little children-two boys and
two girls-appeared before Magistrate
Simpson, in the Essex Market Court
yesterday to testify against Dimitro
Dudeck. thirty-fve years old, jani-
tor, of 335 East Thirtieth Street. He
was charged with felonious assault on
complaint of William j. Cohen, agent
of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
According to the testimony, the
children refused to move away from
the steps of the house where Dudeck
was Janitor. Then he is said to have
thrown sulphuric acid on them. The
cheek of one of the girls was burned.
Magistrate Simpson held Dudcck in
$4,000 bail to await the action of the
grand Jury.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-15
Michaelis Joins Ranks of
Unemployed in Germany

BERLIN, March II by The Asso-
ciated Press DR.. Georg Michaelis
the former Imperial Chancellor is the
latest German statesman slated to join
the ranks OF the officially unemployed
The Prussian Ministry of the Interior
has requested his resignation from the
post of Over President of the Province
OF Pomerania,. to which he was ap-
pointed after his retirement from the
Chancellorship.