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New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Repeal of French
Ban ON Returning
u. S. Dead Asked
NeaU York Tribune
WaShtu Bureau

NeaU York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 19.-A resolu-
tion calling upon the French govern
ment to repeal or modify the law of
France which prevents the bringing
back to the United States of the bodies
of American soldiers who died in bat
tie has been introduced in the House
by Representative Wood, Of Indiana,
and referred to the Committee on For
eign Affairs. The resolution reads
"a joint resolution to provide for
the removal of the remains of our de-
ceased soldiers, sailors and marines
who fell in battle or who died in the
prosecution of this world war from
France to the United States for final
disposition.
whereas, At the time the United
States declared that there was a state
of war existing between the United
States and the Imperial German Gov
ernment and began raising an army
to prosecute the same, it was pro-
claimed throughout the country in the
public press and in public speech, with
the sanction of those who were ad-
ministering the affairs of our govern
ment, that the remains of our soldiers,
sailors and marines engaged in the
prosecution of the war and who were
killed in battle or died from any cause,
should be brought back to the Unite d
States at the close Of the war for final
settlement.
NV Whereas, 1t is now ascertained that
there is an existing French law that
forbids the exhumation and removal
of human bodies from France until
after the expiration Of many years :;
and
whereas by reason of the existence
and enforcement Of said law, the War
Department and the Navy Department
Of the United States have been pre-
vented, and are still prevented and
denied, the right and privilege of bring
ing back the remains of our deceased
soldiers, sailors and marines that are
buried in France;
whereas there are multiplied thou
sands of fathers, mothers, wives. Sis
ters, brothers and other relatives and
friends in America who are anxiously
awaiting the fulfilment Of the sacred
promise hereinbefore referred to bv
having the remains of their loved ones
returned to them; therefore, be it
.'Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representative of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, That the Republic of France be.
and is hereby, most earnestly requested
to repeal or modify the law herein re-
ferred to at the earliest convenient
moment, SO that permission NAV and
will be granted for the removal of the
remains of our dead who fell in battle
or who died in the prosecution of this
worldwide war from France to the
United States for final disposition:
and be it further
"Resolved, That certified copv OF
this joint resolution be transmitted BY
the Secretary of State, under the seal
of the United States, to the Presidnt
OF France and to the President of the
French Chamber of Deputies"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20

supply such homes cheaper and better
than the government could. Concern
ing loans for individual purchases of
farms, he said that experience showed
that they would not attain the pur-
pose of adding to the numbers of sue
cessful agricultural producers. 1t was
only by creating homogeneous COM
munities that governmental assistance
had ever succeeded.
The hearings on the bill will close
Saturday, and it is expected that it will
be favorably reported out soon after
ward. 1t authorizes the appropriation
of $500,OOO,OOO to purchase and reclaim
unused lands, convert them into 60
ing farms in community groups and
sell them to ex-soldiers Of the recent
war on terms that may be as long as
forty years, with interest at per cent.
Soldiers are to have the preference in
on the reclamation, prof.
ects, and those so employed will have
preference among applicants to pur-
chase.
Weeks Makes Statement
Former Senator Weeks, of Massa-
gave out a statement tonight
defining his position in opposition to
the Mondell bill. He favors community
land settlement projects for soldiers,
conducted by private capital under gov
ernment supervision, such projects to
be on unused, but not reclaimed, land
near cities.
Dwelling on the facc that the soldier
must ultimately pay for his land,
Senator Weeks insisted that it is sad
ding him with unnecessary costs to
assign him to reclaimed arid, swamp
and cut-over lands, which it will be
expensive to redeem. Instead of such
lands he would utilize the vast areas
of land which require no or only
superficial reclamation that are to be
found unused within short distances
of markets and large cities throughout
the country.
Senator Weeks said this scheme was
as part Of the work of
the Joint Congressional Reconstruction
Committee; that he proposed it last
fall, but it was buried, he intimated,
because it conficted with the Lane
scheme.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Wants Love Rivals Named
Grace Fisher Demands to Know
Men Alleged to Have Paid Rills

Miss Grace Fisher, musical comedy
actress, who is suing Gustav Schirmer,
music publisher, for $25oooo for al
legged breach of promise, yesterday OBJ
tanned from Justice Donnelly an order
directing the defendant to file a bill
of particulars mentioning by name the
wealthy men who. Mr.. Schirmer al
legged, had maintained apartments for
Miss Fisher.
Mr.. Schirmer has denied he prom
ised to marry Miss Fisher, but admits
giving her $1,000 to purchase peace
and prevent annoyance and scandal"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20

ant, said to-day that there would be G
court of inquiry instituted Immediate
ly. He added: 81 do not attempt to
defend the attacks. The mems griev-
ance was that the police unfairly ar
rested one of them. Several of our
men, who obviously had nothing to do
with the disturbances at the start,
returned with injuries received from
civilians in the town."
The London papers expressly regret
that the splendid Canadian record is
being tarnished by incidents like that
at Ensom
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Dannemora Hospital
Faces Investigation
Committee ON Prison Survey
Will Take Up Charges Made
bv Jamaica LAWYER

Louis Greenspan, Jamaica lawyer,
who recently preferred charges of mis-
management against the officials of the
Dannemora State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane, yesterday received q
letter from the legal adviser of Gov
ernor Smith saying that the evidence
he had submitted had been laid before
the Committee on Prison Survey for
full investigation and report.
Mr.. Greenspan yesterday wrote to
Adolph Lewisohn, chairman of the COM
mittee, asking for an appointment at
which he might lay the matter before
the committee more fully.
The lawyer will leave to-day for
Plattsburg, N. Y, there to argue writs
of habeas corpus which he has obtained
in an effort to free three more prison.
ers in the hospital who, he says, are
being illegally detained.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Woman Testifies That Har-
ding, of Ohio, Gave Her
Money With Which She
Paid Propaganda Writer
N. Y. Senators Mentioned
Leaders of Opposition Say
They Oppose TakingLarge
Sums From u. S. Treasury
Neao York Tribune

Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 19.-Disclos-
ures before the House Public Land
Committee that small group of East
ern Senators had been backing a sort
of propaganda in opposition to the SOL
dlers' land settlement bill, followed by
inquiries to-day, indicate that the bill
is not to have the easy passage
through Congress that was at one time
predicted for it.
A Mrs. Haviland Lund, who has been
opposing the bill, having said that the
committee would not listen to any one
who was opposed to it, was summoned
to appear and state her case. Her
examination revealed the source Of
some anonymous literature in opposi-
tlon to the bill that has been circulat-
ed among Washington newspaper men.
She said that she was being assisted
financially by Senator Harding, of
Ohio, and former Senator Weeks, /of
Massachusetts. Questioned about a
particular article which misrepresent-
ed the attitude Of the National Grange
while purporting to speak for it, Mrs.
Lund said that she paid g publicity
man $50 to write 1t Tor ner, and that
the $50 was Senator Harding's money,
though he did not know it.
Senator Harding Explains
Senator Harding said later that a
few senators, supposed to include SEN
ators Wadsworth and Calder, of New
York, had been considering what could
be done to meet the land settlement
problem without drawing on the public
treasury for immense sums of money.
Mrs. Lund's community settlement
hobby was somewhat in line with their
views, and the outcome Of her advocacy
of her ideas has been that she had re-
ceived some financial assistance to
keep her going"
The interested Senators have had a
number of interviews with New York
capitalists OF philanthropic and altruis-
'iN ASoHlu6S Win Il view TO ascertain
ing the practicablity of private enter
prise taking up the ideas of the Mon
dell-Lane bill in a modified form They
think the soldiers want farm homes or
city homes, and don't care to go West
and South to pioneer, and they are OBJ
posed to the governments spending
sums on "socialistic scheme" They
favor small suburban farms, CONSTITUTE
ing highly organized and equippcd
communities, with the financing pro-
vided by private capital instead of by
the public treasury. They fear that
tho West and South will be able to
put over" the Mondell bill unless some
alternative is available. So far there
has been no enthusiastic response
from the capitalists though some have
pronounced the plan as worthy of
serious investigation.
Mondell Analyses Opposition
Representative F. W. Mondell, au-
thor of the Lane plan, appeared be-
fore the Public Lands Committee and
IN defining the measure, analyzed the
different classes of opposition it is
encountcring
Mr.. Mondell swept aside the cash
bonus suggestion as unworthy of the
soldiers. AS for the city home idea
Tor those who wanted one instead of
farm, he remarked that there were
numerous private agencies that could
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Women Recognized by
British Accountants

LONDON, May 17.-Announcement
was made at the annual meeting of
the Society of Incorporated Account
ants and Auditors, the most impor-
tant organization Of its kind in Eng
land, that women are now admitted
to the society on the same terms as
men. So far, the president said, the
women who had presented themselves
for membership were of excellent edu-
cation and good qualifications.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
BIRTHS.

BRUCK-Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bruck (nee
Lillian ShevelD, of TIT Broadway, Far
Rockaway. announce the arrival of a son,
Tuesday, June II.
HIRSCH-To Mr.. and Mrs. Leopold Hirsch
tnee Ethel Greenman), Bensonhurst, q
daughter, on Tuesday. :
HOPPIN-Charles Gilbert, June 1e, son of
Mr.. and Mrs Gilbert II. Hoppin New
Brighton, N. Y. Other papers please
copy.
WALLACH-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walach
(nee Jeannette +. Kohenberg), announce
the birth of son, June II, at 80 m.
at Long Island Hospital.
WAHNER-To Mr.. and Mrs. David L. War
ner (nee Blanche Rabbino), of Newark
N. j.. boy, June IS.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
JOHN L. CONCKLIN

PATERSON, N. j., June 19.-John
l.. Concklin, seventy-one, a well-known
Republican politician, and a veteran
of the Civil War, died yesterday morn
ing of heart disease. Mr.. Concklin
was born in Paterson and educated in
the public schools. When the Civil
War broke out he enlisted in the 37th
New Jersey Volunteers. At the close
of the war Mr.. Concklin was appointed
assistant postmaster, which position
he held until 1874, when he was made
postmaster. He was city tax assessor
for several years, and then became
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
MAYE LOUISE AIGEN

Maye Louise Aigen, forty-fve, for
twenty years on the stage in the lead
ing American cities, died yesterday at
the Lenox Hill Hospital, after a long
illness. She was seen many years ago
with Virginia Harmed Her last ap-
penrance was with a Texas stock COM
pany several years ago. The body was
taken to the Campbell Funeral Church,
WHARF aervices will be held tomorrow
morning at IL O'Clock. The interment
will be In Evergreen Cemetery, under
the auspices of the Actors Fund.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Obitu ary

business manager of "The Patsy.o,
Evening News" His last official po.
sltlon was .as collector of Pass.;.
County.
Mr.. Concklin was a member of III.
Farragut Post, G. A. R., and the Ivsn.
hoe Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons
He belonged to the Elks and n.
knights Of Pythias. He is survived bv
son, sister and brother.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Mrs. Helen S. Cutting, Wife
OF Research Director. Dies

Mrs. Helen suydam Cutting, wife of
R. Fulton Cutting, the fnancier and
director of the Bureau of Municipal
Research of New York City, died yes
terday at her home, "a East Sixty-sev-
enth Street.
Mrs. Cutting was a daughter of the
late Charles and Anne Schermerhorn
Suydam. The funeral will be at 1Oa.m.
Saturday from st. Georges Church.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Soldier Riots Suppressed
Military Order Bars Canadians
From EPSON

sLONDON, June 19.-The military au-
thorities have the situation in hand at
the Canadian camp near EPSON, where
serious rioting took place yesterday.
EPSON is now out of bounds for the
Canadian soldiers, and civilians are
forbidden to 60 near the camp.
Colonel Guest, the camp command
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
Poultney Bigelow Better;
Condition Still Serious

KINGSTON, N. Y, June 19.-The
condition Of Poultney Bigelow, author
and traveller, who is suffering from
tetanus, showed some improvement to-
night. His condition is still serious,
Major George Fletcher Chandler, his
physician, said.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
JEROME B. FISHER

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, June 1s-
Jerome B. Fisher, sixty-eight, for ths
last thirteen years Supreme Court re.
porter of this state, died last night a,
his home here. For ten years before
his appointment as reporter in 1908
he was county judge of Chattauoua.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
J. MUNsON TOMLINSON

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June 1e.-J.
Munson Tomlinson, vice-president of
the New York, New Haven G. Hart
ford Railroad, in charge of accounts,
died suddenly at his home in this city
early this morning of apoplexy. He
was fifty-nine years old and had been
actively associated with the road for
thirty years.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20

Birth Engagement, Marriage Death and In 1leuorian
Notices be teebhoned The Tribune any UP TO
midnight for insertion the days paper Just Beck
5000 and send the you uish inserted Bill TO,
avW be mailed you later.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
ENGAGEMENTS

TALMAGE-DONNELL-On Saturday, June
IA, at st. Louis, Mo-, Mildred. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Donnell to
Thomas Hunt Talmage, of New York
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
JOHN NJ. GRAHAM

SANTA BARBARA, Cal. June "a
Following stroke of paralysis John
Martin Graham, former president os
the International Trust Company. Of
Boston, Mass, died here.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-20
So Big
And Yet So Small!

Seen by itself, Swift & Company is
of the largest manufacturers and
distributors of animal food products in
the country.
Seen in relation to the total food busi-
ness of the world, its size diminishes to
small proportions.
We handle only about 22 per cent of
the total output of the hundreds of pack
ing plants under federal inspection and
only about IL per cent of the total meat
supply of the nation.
We handle only about per cent of
the total quantity Of fbutter, eggs, and poul-
try sent to market in the United States
Our tanneries- handle less than IS per
cent of the hides made into leather in
the United States.
Our soap factories make less than 10
per cent Of the soap output of the nation
This is done in keen and open
competition with every concern handling
these products, and at a profit of fraction
OF a cent per pound.
In the meat packing industry there is
noone dominant concern handling large
proportion of the output
Swift & Company, u. S. A.
Edwards district aricA Manages Manages
. . , -
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-26
Tribune Man Who is on Board Howard
Hughes Boat "The Ranger,
Has Story About Power
House.
MARvELs AT SIMPLICITY
How II Can be Run by Seven Men and
Some Other Interesting Fea-
lures Told In
Article.

James O'Donnell Bennett-"Eye
Witness"-has written an interesting
! twocolumn story in the Chicago
/ Tribune concerning the power house
and dam located here. He prefaced
/ his account with quotation from the
late Senator Allison which he made
to twenty-five Keokuk citizens in 1901
and which was Boys, this is very
bold proposition, but a very COM
mendable one"
The story is as follows:
Aboard the Motor Cruiser Ranger
at keokus, Iowa.-Figures given out
today from an authoritative source
reveal the Keokuk dam and power
house as solid business success.
Financially, this huge enterprise,
which was a dozen years in the pro-
motion stage and three and a half
years a-building, has met expecta-
tons. Its business is increasing; it
is adding to its sinking fund, and its
bonds, which sell at Is, pay on that
basis about percent. 1t is now an
engineering and commercial success
of six years standing.
But far more important than the
actual money profit 1t pays is the
great lesson In the economic develop
ment OF natural resources which it
teaches.
Biggest In World.
The Keokuk plant Is the biggest
single dam and power plant in the
world.
And it is the greatest lesson a
small town ever taught big one
a lesson in patience and persever-
ance, in victories won over the heart
sickness of hopes SO long deferred
that sometimes they seem blasted,
and in clean, straight, unselfish COM
munity service that turned out to be
,valley-wide service.
The plant creates cleanliness, con-
venience. and cheapness in nearly
two score communities in Iowa, Illi-
nois, and Missouri, ranging in popu-
lation from a few hundred to mil
lion.
Three and half years were re.
quired to build 1t, 1t cost s23,000,000,
and graft never tainted it. No man
in Keokuk who lent himself for a
dozen years to the promotional work.
Legislative or financial, in connection
with the launching of the project was
ever any the richer by reason of that
work
What Plant Means.
The best way to show what the
plant means and what It does and to
drive home the resplendent civic les
son inherent in 1t, is to brush aside
all technicalities and deal in some OF
the large, massy figures concerning
It. so that our citizenry in Illinois will
mot say, What new graft is this?
when we come TO the development OF
water power on our new waterways
| The Keokuk dam is concrete
monolith three-quarters of a mile
long, extending across the Mississippi
/ from Keokuk to the Illinois town OF
Hamilton. On top Of it are two stand
! ard gauge railroad tracks.
I The power house is the equivalent
! of a fifteen story office building
covering three city blocks. It's foun
dations go twenty-five feet into the
( solid bed rock of the river.
/ One of the generator floors in the
main room OF the power house would
provfde standing room for the entire
population Of Arizona.
Run by Seven Men.
/ But perhaps the most picturesque
ie.o+ tbat learned in this stupendous
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-26
WAYLAND, MO.

Messrs. Henry and John Buskirk-of
Vancouver, Wash, are visiting and
greeting old time friends. Some forty
years ago they were merchants or
Gregory, Mo. They notice many
changes in locations as we'll as faces.
In the west they have prospered In
wealth and health. ana enjoy the
health the westerner gains, yet the
days and scenes of boyhood long for
them to return for a visit and every
kindred and friend were 80 pleased
to greet them. May we meet them
again on another visit In the future.
The Reid Bros. are building a nice
1ittle residence. AS three of them are
bachelors we wonder who?
Mrs. F. E. Schmidt and children
were guests of Prof. Ferd Mason and
mother Of Memphis, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Bear are moving
near Des Moines, Iowa. We are sorry
ia lose them. Mr.. Beal mas been en-
ployed by Mr. A. Raglan as an expert
mechanic.
The Winkleman brothers talk
strongly of putting in an airplane
factory.
Richard Gaines, our blacksmith OF
r,anv wears. and as many friends, sold
ont to Mr.. Smiley. Mr.. Gaines kind
and pleasant face will be missed be
hind the anvil.
Wayland extends welcome to all
new corners, and regrets 10 see the
leaving of SO many old timers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-26
NEW ROUTE
is MAPPED
Scenic Road From Quincy 20 hamit-
ton and Crossing at keokuk Is
Being Laid Out on Auto
mobile Charts Now.

Another new road for autoists to
mark on their maps IS being laid out
10 include Quincy, Keokuk and Hamii-
ton. The road viii cross the river al
this point. The Quincy Herald says:
Quincy will be shown on the main
line of the Mississippi Valley Scenic
Highway if a tentative map now being
made is approved by the trail assoc,a-
ton at its meeting in Memphis on
October Is. ]. s. Jackson OF Kansas
CITY is making the map and he mas
reached Quincy, working northward
from New Orleans, La. From this city
he will proceed TO Hamilton along
roads best adapted to the trail. Tne
crossing into Illinois was made at
Hannibal and the crossing into Iowa 10
TO be made at Keokuk.
The route which Mr.. Jackson VIII
show in this vicinity, as outlined
above, is about ten miles shorter than
2 route through Missouri south from
Keokuk, Iowa, which has sometimes
been mentioned, and the route as out
lined ig the most desirable from every
other standpoint.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-26
BURIAL OF
DR.. j. NJ. SCHEE
Graduate Of keokuk Medical College
in 1882 and Married in Prin1-
rose-Physician Died at
Halbur, Iowa.

FARMINGTON. Sept. 26.-James
McCance Schee, son of John and Mary
Schee. was born November 8, 1860, in
Athens. Mo-, and departed this left
Sept. 10, at Halbur, Iowa, where he
located two years ago. His early years
were spent on the farm, near Arson,
Clark county, Missouri. He received
his education in Keokuk and was
graduated from the medical college
there in 1882.
He located in Eldon, later moved to
Eddyville and practiced his profession
in southern Iowa and northeast Mis-
souri
He was a successful physician, al
ways ready with skill and sympathy TO
respond TO the call Of suffering human
fly. He was united in marriage with
Miss Lolita Bollinger Of Primrose, in
November 1902, who with one brother
C. E. Schee, Of Chambersburg, Mis-
souri,. and one sister, Mrs H NJ. Caro-
ehers of Pennington, Iowa, survive t
mourn his death.
Funeral service was held at Ansor
missouri church at p. m, Sept. q
rider James McKiernan in charge. Il
erment in Arson cemetery.