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New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Paper May Pay
Ford ~ Gents

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Aug. 15.-
The amount of costs that Henry Ford
may receive from "The Chicago
Tribune" in addition to the six cents
damages awarded him last night by a
jury which heard his libel suit against
the Chicago newspaper will not exceed
$50. Under Michigan law, where
nominal damages are awarded, not
more than $50 costs can be assessed
against the losing party
Alfred Lucking, senior counsel for
Mr.: Ford, said to-day little attention
had been given to the matter of costs
and that until he had looked up the
law covering the case he could not say
how much the plaintiff could expect to
receive.
Among other attorneys the opinion
was held that in cases where damages
awarded amount to less than $50, the
costs collectible may not exceed the
Judgment awarded. In this event, Mr.
Ford could demand only six cents costs
from "The Tribune"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Speedy Policeman
Gets Relay Bandit
Blocks S2,I78 Payroll
Theft in Daylight Chase
in Croacded Street

Two men poked revolvers into Sam
uel Bruskin's ribs at 1870 yes
terday afternoon when he returned
from bank to Charles Z. Wayand &
Co.'S, wholesale stationers, at % How
ard Street, with the weeks payroll of
S2178.33. The vestibule hid the scene
from the street. A third man seized
the satchel containing the money, and
all three ran, with Bruskin in pursuit.
At Crosby and Grand streets the
footpad carrying the satchel handed it
to man who stood waiting for him
and Bruskin, who had rallied a mob of
helpers, kept on after his new quarry.
He ran north to Broome Street and
turned west, dodging Patrolman George
Magnussen, who turned and led the
pursuit.
The fugitive flung the bag he was
carrying into wagon at Mercer Street,
but that did not cause the patrolman
to falter. He caught his man at Spring
Street and then returned for the bag,
which had not been opened.
The prisoner said he was Stephen
Senft, Of 20 jackson Street He was
locked up at the Elizabeth Street po-
lice station, charged with robbery. Jo-
seph Bellar, an cighteen-year-o clerk
employed by the stationery concern,
had inspired the attempt at robbery,
Senft said and it would have taken
place & week before except that the
holdup men thought there were too
many people about.
Senft, according to the police, said
that Bellar had stood at window and
pointed Bruskin out to the men who
were waiting to rob him. Upon this
,f<.. D<11
accomplice. He lives at 236 Cherry
Street
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Boston Facing Police
Strike; Force Unionized
l,4OO Members Join Federation
of Labor Despite Orders
of Commissioner

BOSTON, Aug. 15.-Boston tonight
faces the probability of police strike.
Members of the force, disregarding a
recent order of Police Commissioner
Edwin U. Curtis forbidding their join
ing any organization outside the de-
partment except the associations of
wA veterans, organized a union to-
night under charter from the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Members of
the new union said that about 1,4OO
members of the force participated in
the afternoon and evening meetings.
The patrolmen, who met at the head
quarters OF the Boston Street Car
mems Union, were addressed by Frank
H. Mccarthy, New England organizer
of the federation; P. Harry Jennings.
business agent of the Boston Central
Labor Union, and James 7. MQriartv.
a member of the City Council. Mr.
Mccarthy told them that as members
of organized labor they would be ex-
pected to be faithful to themselves.
their brother members and their en-
ployer.
Mr.. Jennings said the policemen
would have the backing of $4,000 union
members, men and women, in this city
IN their determination to organize.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Managers Yield
I oi1lt to Actors:
Union Rejected
Willing to Concede 'More
Than Equity Demands
but Refuse Recognition,
Their Spokesman Says

In statement issued last night the
PRODUCING Managers Association an
nounced that they are prepared to offer
any group of actors who are sin a posi-
ton to fulfil individual contracts with
out danger of interference" a contract
better than the Actors Equity contract
Arthur Hopkins, acting as spokesman
for the managers, said they were will
ing and anxious to have all disputes
that might arise between the parties to
the proposed contract arbitrated hv a
permanent board to consist of three
actors, three managers and an umpire
who would be, preferably, a justice Of
the Supreme Court.
"W ould actors chosen by the Actors
Equity Association be acceptable to the
managers as members of such a board
of arbitration" Mr.. Hopkins was
asked
NO" was the reply.
The managers issued a statement
concerning their proposal, following q
conference with (. H. Sothern and five
other people Of the stage, who were ap-
pointed a committee to confer with the
managers at meeting at the Hotel
Biltmore that was attended by about
twenty-five actors and actresses, most
of whom have resigned from the
Actors Equity Association.
Strike to Continue
When Grant Stewart, corresp spending
secretary of the Actors Equity Asso-
citation, was shown the managers
statement last night. he said:
THE Actors Equity Association is
striking for recognition. The strike
viii continue until the association IS
recognized. Mr.. Stewart said also that
no official Of the Actors Equity Asso-
citation had been approached yesterday
by Mr.. Sothern or his committee.
The managers statement follows:
"a committee Of actors headed by
+. H. Sothern called upon a committee
Of the Producing Managers Associa-
ton to ascertain the attitude of the
Producing Managers Association as to
future dealings with actors.
Mr. Sothern's committee was ad-
vised that the Producing Managers AS
sociatlon was prepared to offer any
group of actors who were in a posi-
ton to fulfil individual contracts with
out danger of interference, a contract
in every way as advantageous to the
actor as the former Actors Equity con-
tract. under which the actor has been
working for the past three years, with
the additional advantage to the actor
of including clause by which eight
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New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Writes Prelude
To Death, Then
Leaps to Doom
''Where Will | Be in Five
Minutes?" Asks Broken
Actor in 5OO-Word Epistle
Before history Jump

Charles H. Weston, a broken down
actor, stood by an open window on the
eighteenth floor of the Aeolian Build
ing, on West Forty Street near
Fifth Avenue, yesterday afternoon, and
wrote 500word account of how man
feels just before he commits suicide
Il feel" he scribbled on the final
page, just like man waiting to meet
his boss when there is something
wrong"
Then he flung himself from the
window.
Those who found his body on the
roof of the fve-story building at 25
West Forty-second Street retrieved the
account of the half hour preceding his
death from sealed envelope in the
inner pocket of his jacket.
Drugs Were His Curse
There was another envelope on which
had been written "This is a man s
greatest curse" In it were a hypo-
dermic syringe and needle.
A letter from Cohan E. Harris, re-
gretting their inability to place Weston
in one of their companies, established
the mans identity. His wife, who
lives with their son at 1852 South
Eleventh Street, Newark, N. j., was
notified of his death. In another pocket
Of the coat was found a city permit
authorizing him to purchase small
quantities of drugs for his own use.
1t must have taken Weston at least
a half hour to compose the account
of his last moments on earth. Shortly
after 5 o'clock mighty crash startled
workers on the top floor of 25 West
Forty-second Street. Blasting had
been going on all day in an excavation
at the rear of the building, and it was
thought that a heavy charge of powder
had thrown a rock to the roof.
James Davey, manager of the build
ing, was summoned. He found Wes-
toms body literally embedded in the
roof. 1t had broken through the roof
ing, shattered beam beneath and was
held firmly by the splintered ends.
Impressions Before Death
Here is Charles H. Weston's ac-
count of his last moments on earth,
exactly as he wrote it:
"HOW ONE FEELS JUST BEFORE
DEATH BY JUMPING FROM
THE 18TH FLOOR OF
OF A BUILDING.
"By Charles Fl. Weston.
81 am taking this advantage because
to die is big adventure.
"Last night / saw my wife and my
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
5 Hurt in Cr0,ud
At Polo Grounds
Fence Falls; Fist Fights
Follo,v; Police Kept
Busy at Ball Park

One accident occurred in which five
men were injured, one seriously, and
several fist fights were waged yester-
day at the Polo Grounds while the
thousands of fans were forcing their
way into the stands for the double
header between the Giants and the Gin
cinnati Reds.
The crowd that filled the runway ex-
tending from the Speedway below Coo
gan's Bluff to the rear entrance of the
grounds became so dense that part of
the fence of the runway collapsed,
throwing five men to the ground, 25
feet below.
n. II. Hertzberger was taken to St.
Lawrence Hospital. He is said to be
suffering from internal injuries and a
possible fracture of the skull. The
others who fell were bruised and
scratched, but apparently otherwise un-
hurt. They are Frank Solomon, of
1896 Clinton Avenue, The Bronx; Her
man Nixon. of 8576 Seventeenth Ave
nue., Brooklyn; Harry Fredercks, of
1888 Richardson Avenue, The Bronx,
and Louis Goldstein, of 1893 Madison
Avenue, Westfield, N. J..
At the Eighth Avenue entrance so
many persons pushed and elbowed in
their efforts to get inside that fist
fights resulted and the police had to
work hard to keep them from becom-
ing prevalent. Three iron gates were
broken down and the crowd stampede ID
through them, many thus saving the
price of admission.
The crowd, exceeding 10000, was the
largest that ever witnessed a ball
game, not excepting world series games
The Giants lost both games.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Shipments of Munitions to
Carranza GOvernmenttO to
Be Stopped for Present,
Washington Decides
Newspapers See
Gravity of Note
American Warning Called
Ultimatum; Improve
ment of Situation Urged

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The Car
rama government will not be permitted
to import further arms and munitions
from the United States, for the present
at least. This became known to-day
following the publication of the ex-
change of notes between the United
States and Mexico in which the Anne RI
can government threatened change Of
policy unless Americans in Mexico were
adequately protected.
Shipment of munitions into Mexico
has been prohibited since the United
States entered the war, but before that
time Carranza had purchased large sup
plies in this country, and it had been
the policy to let these go through in
comparatively small lots.
U. S. Will Not Answer
No answer to the reply of the Mexi-
can government to the State Depart
ment's warning that failure to protect
Americans might result in radical
change of policy will be made. officials
explained to-day that the United States
would wait until President Carranza
displayed either unwillingness or lna-
bility to afford Americans The rrotec-
ton they had a right 20 expect before
taking further action.
One of the first possibilities of ac-
uon, should the government be forced
to it, would be to with draw diplomatic
representatives, or even to withdraw
recognition of the Carranza govern
ment. Active Intervention is consid
cred IN most quarters a remote meas
ure at this stage.
kilograms received here said edi-
torlals in the Mexico City newspapers
after publication of the American note
OF warning indicated a complete realj
zatlon of the seriousness of the situa-
ton. Almost all of the papers com
mented on the note, but, for the most
part, the editorials were temperate in
character.
''Practically an Ultimatum"
GEL Democrata," which attracted at
tentlon during the war for it's pro-
German expressions, characterized the
note as "lntemperate, unjust, extreme
y alarming and practically an ultima
tum," and declared the Mexican gov
settle the petroleum question.
The "Monitor Republicano" admit
ted the rights of foreigners to demand
protection, but insisted the situation
did not warrant intervention.
I'll Excelsior" expressed surprise
because of the bitter tone of the note.
1t said this almost closed the door of
hope and meant intervention unless
Mexico did the impossible and COM
pletely pacitied the country
"kl Universal" characterized the
note as measured and reasonable de-
mand and said correction of the con-
ditions complained of and not an ex-
change of diplomatic notes would re-
lieve the situation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Consumers Warned
Not TO Hoard Food
Fair Price Committee to
Submit Suggestions to
the Attorney General

A warning that boarding on a small
Scale by consumers would be a serious
obstacle TO the work of the forces
fighting the high cost of living was is
sued yesterday following the first con-
terence of the fair price committee ap-
pointed by Arthur Williams, Federal
Food Administrator.
Wholesalers and retailers in various
parts Of the city are eagerly awaiting
the frst price list to be issued by the
committee. Peter Becker, president of
The Brooklyn Retail Grocers' Associa-
tlon, said prices have shown unusual
immobility during the week Retail
ers generally were under the impress
sion that the quotations will not fiuct-
nate locally pending the report of the
committee.
Prices were not discussed at yester-
Gays meeting of the committee. For
more than two hours the members de-
oated behind closed doors the first
steps to be taken to afford relief from.
.he nigh and soaring living cost. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Williams many timely
SHCStiNe Suggestions were maze.
dse rhese will be submitted to Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer, who is ex-
pecled 10 attend the next meeting of
s'le committee, on Monday or Wednes-
uay OF next week. Yesterdays confer
snce was held in the Chamber of Com
"e,r.ce, 65 Liberty Street.
ne warning against petty boarding
was suggested by Theodore Whit
lI"arsh' vice president of Francis H..
.,eseett q Co. and an associate direc-
w, OF the American Food Relief Com
;'Ssioh. his suggestion was embodied
"a ~ resolution to the effect that "the
roeSeht rst tendency toward high prices
Ivuiu l;,li De relieved if purchasers would
amt amt their purchases to their imme-
II,aee demands rather than purchase
raise quantities in fear of higher
prices nee IN the near future
~. ane Following were present at the
mas.!g, mee.!ing, IN addition to those already
dd.entioned: dsa0 Alfred E. Marling, presi-
~ rsnt OF the Chambers of Commerce of
e otate Of New York: William Eel
eb" Sb"es morgan, president of the Mer-
Iaahes association of New York; Mrs.
Saimes Samees Lees Laidlaw, of the Woman
Ha Haur rage party of New York State; Mrs.
ys, Wy Moscowitz, secretary of the New
~ .oiA state Reconstruction Commission,
~ 1o mrs. Charles c. Rumsey, chairman
.he committee on coordination of
"mmunity councils.
Sen zen a. Matthews, Assistant United
states Attorney, said he had learned
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New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Small Consumers Asked
Not to Stock Up; Prices
Probably viii Not Be
Advanced at This Time
COPELAND Threatens
To Revoke Licenses
Milk Inquiry Is Opened;
40 Warrants in Ohio:
House Members Called
to Capitol for Action

Developments yesterday in the nation
ride fight on the high cost Of Irving
rere:
IN THE CITY
The metropolitan fair price commit
tee. appointed by Arthur Williams
held its first meeting and passed a
resolution calling on consumers not
to hoard. The prediction was made
that prices probably Will not go up
further at this time
Mayor Hylan ordered the Fire Depart
mcnt to inspect warehouses and re
port or storage holdings.
Health Commissioner Copeland an
nounced that he would revoke the
Health Department licenses OF prof
iieerng dealers in foodstuffs unde,
his Jurisdiction.
The milk price investigation was opened
by Assistant District Attorney Johr
T. Dooling.
IN THE NATION
Forty warrants were issued in Colum-
bus, Ohio, by Governor Cox anc
State Attorney General Price for the
arrest of alleged proiiteers anC
hoarders.
Efforts in the Senate to speed up ac-
ton on Attorney General Palmer
plea for more power to cope with
prohteering were frustrated b,
Democratic Senators, who threatened
flibuster unless action were de
layed until next Tuesday.
Three million eggs and three and one
half million pounds Of butter were
found in Buffalo warehouses.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Lawson Says High Finance
Keeps Shoe Prices High

BOSTON, Aug. 15.-Testifying to-
day at the grand jury investigation OF
the high price of shoes, Thomas W.
Lawson discussed methods of high
finance, and said that interest paid on
watered stock added materially to the
price which purchasers were called
upon to pay.
Mr.. Lawson, according to the Dis
trict Attory's obce, suggested seek
ing evidence of a conspiracy among
bankers and the big shoemen,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

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New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
K. L. Strike Will Be Called T0-mOrr0w
Unless 50ab Increase In Wages Is Crante,
Wilson Threatens to Send
Lodge and Kno1 to Berlin

NctC York Tribune
Washington Bxrsou
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Prcsi-
dent Wilson told Senator
Hitchcock, Administration leader, to-
day that if the Senate should make
textual amendment of the peace
treaty. as some Senators think
should be done in the case of the
Shantung provision, it would be
necessary to negotiate new treaty
with Germany. The President is
said to have added that in the event
of such condition arising he would
send Senators Lodge and Knox to
Berlin to negotiafe the new treaty.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
=. H. w I'D O.N.
Had PLAYED in "Peter Pam
Bandits Rob Gold Mill

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Aug. Is
The Independent Mil, at Victor, Colo.
one of the largest gold mills in this
section of the West, was robbed last
night. The bandits overpowered two
watchmen and escaped with a quantity
of gold concentrate The watchmen
are in a hospital at Victor. No esti-
mate of the amount stolen has been
made.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-09-19
WAR HELPED ZINC INDUSTRY
Remarkable Impetus Given to the
Mining and Refining OF the
Mineral In Japan.

The high-water mark in the deveS
opment Of zinc mining and refining In
Japan has been reached since the out.
break Of the present war. Zinc was
6rst mined in a commercial way In
1897. but even as late at 1911 the out.
put was still only about 10000 tonA
The refining Of the ores was not start.
ac on large scale until 1914. The
rising quotations Of the metal in oil
markets gave the industry great i'm.
petus In Japan, so that In 1915 21,0O0
tons Of refined goods and in 1916 As.
900 tons were produced. 1t is esd
mated that the production in 1917 to
tailed some $4,000 tons. It Is said
that the refneries can produce a.
high as 100000 tons year, but as
this takes some 100000 tons Of zinc
ore the problem before Japan Is to
obtain 2OO.NO tons Of ore In foreign
markets, as only $4,000 tons are mined
In Japan. In the past japan has bought
ore from China. Australia and Russia.
the greater part Of the ore. however.
coming from Australia. It has been
reported that Great Britain plans . r.
1nery III Australia In order to produce
zinc In that portion Of her empiFA Il
true, this, It 10 said, may force Japan
to seek h1e raw material N soDs seb0
aarhoG
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-09-19
RUDE AWAKENING FOR GUEST
visiting Parson Got the "DustInos
That lrate Father Intended 10
Bestcw on Offspring.

a story OF how a parson got the
busting instead of youth is related
by a newspaper man of Wenatchee.
Wash.
The boy in the plot was Oscar
woods" he says. at happened In
NEBRASKA. In our home 1t was the Gus.
tom for one Of the boys to take his
turn at starting the fire on cold morn
ings. 1t was degrees below zero
and 1t was Oscars turn. He Lit tbs
IRE and then proceeded to the BARI,
TO reed the stock. But the fire Wenl
out.
'An hour later, perceiving that there
was no fire, father sent another call
louder. Then several more. But nc
sound came. The governor started
upstairs.
without informing the head of the
nouse, my brother had brought home II
preacher the night before and put him
IN the same bed with Oscar.
The pnrson had a thrilling awaken
Ing. He was yanked out OF bed. He
resisted. This was too much for IN
dignant Cad.
The conflict was exciting. The
preacher fought like a wildcat.
In the cold gray dawn dau fount
mat ne had made mistake. L wa
ough. but tho preacher survivadIs
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-09-19
bAn WAY TO EVIL SPIRITS
kalaysians Believe Mountains WerS
Placed to Shut Out Strange
Race of Yajuj.

In the OAK bungalow al Kwala Kubu
Tin Malayasia) the Chinatoy chowki-
dar, queue In pocket. shod IL shoes of
silent felt, served my breakfast. I was
at last on the threshold of strange
expedition In a land to which no letter
ever came correctly addressed. so un-
known was it to the outside world. At
this moment the strangest thing In
sight was my breakfast 1t consisted
chiefly Of tins of tiny Mongolian finches
-humming birds in size, squads in
taste-canned a dozen in a tin.
AS devoured the pitiful little birds,
bones and all, 1 looked up at the
great Malay mountain range, the back
bone OF the finger peninsula which
stretches southwark from Siam to
within sight Of the bund of Singapore
Itself. Mountains. SO the MaIays say,
are the wall Of the world, shutting out
great winds and beasts of prey. And
they believe that strange race-ths
Yajuj-are forever striving to bore
through, and when they succeed, then
will come the end Of all things.
The great limestone caves scattered
throughout the mountains are places
where the Yajuj have attempted and
failed There Is nothing impossible or
unbelievable In all this, when ona
comes to know Malay mountains In
III the1r weirdness. William Beebe, u
- Atlantic Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-09-19
The OPAL,

Have you ever heard of the opal?
So asks Frank G. Carpenter in How
the World Is Clothed 1t is a beau
tiful stone, composed of a material call
ed quartz, save that it contains more
or less water and gives forth some of
the most brilliant colors known. It
sometimes looks white and again may
be pale yellow, red, green or blue.
Fire opals shine like fire, when the
light strikes them, and show almost all
the colors of the rainbow. The
opal Is found in Mexico and Honduras,
and also in South America. 1t occurs
in Hungary and Saxony, and there are
large opal mines in eastern Australia.
Some have also been discovered in GER
tain of our western states. About the
finest specimens, however, are from
Austria-Hungary, the most beautiful
opal ever found coming from there.
This stone Is of about the size of a
mans hand, and it weighs II ounces.
1t is now among the jewels of the
Austrian crown. Opals are usually
Embedded in other stones. They have
different form from the diamond, sap
phire, or ruby, and are usually round
or oval in Shann
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-09-19
,ear strangely, Joyous1y, WINE rnere

near strangely. JoyuuEy, wnne rnere
came calls of distress from the elderly
linswoman and the girls outside the
car, "if 1t is the hour Of death to
fou, I am going to pass it with you y
Come out, Madge," pleaded Shc:-
ill's voice through the open window.
Don't risk your life!"
There was no answer from the girl.
Leeds voice hardened with fear
Marjorie, I'm coming in to carry
Du OUT"
Go, Marjorie!" besought O'Neai
narsely. Go, darling!"
Marjorie slipped the solitaire off her
third finger and passed it through the
window to Leeds.
You need not come-you have NO
,uthority over me now, Sheriff." she
aid tensely; II didn't know where my
heart was when l promised to marry
you. l know now!"
With q little sob she slipped to her
knees, and, throwing one arm about
O'Neals neck, laid her head on his
breast. whispering contradictory that
she had loved him all the time.
Five minutes later O'Neal stood or
The firm ground and watched his
prison house go down In the muddy
waters. Marjorie chung to him anG
hid her eyes.
Look up, sweetheart" he whis
pered, his face glowing, "it is the houl
of life to u.s.!