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The sun., 1919-08-26
PAIR ARRESTED ON
SHOPLIFTINC CHARGE
81, 900 in Merchandise in
Hotel Room of ShertDoods.

Edward Sherwood, a., and his wife,
anna, ~, were arrested yesterday In a
room In the Hotel Sinclair, Park avenue
ana l2bth street. and held in the East
lzeth street police station as shoplifters.
Inc police said that merchandise worth
$l'OOO which had been stolen from de-
partment stores was found in the room.
detective Michael Murphy and several
men OF the East 126th station have been
trailing the woman. who Is an attractive
brunette, for several days because Of her
resemblance to picture in the Rogues'
SaIlery or a woman who jumped ball in
$1,000 here in September, 1918, after an
arrest for shoplifting. The detectives
followed the woman to her room yester-
day and secured admittance by pretend
ing to have telegraph message.
sherwood was in the room. The de-
tectives say that as they entered SHEER
wood made jump for the bed. Muir
pny covered him with his revolver. An
other detective took a loaded automatic
revolver from under a pillow.
1t is a good thing you got the gun
nrst." Sherwood is alleged to have said,
sherwood is said to have given Sc
curlty Tor the bond which his wife is al
legged to have forfeited here. The couple
are said to be wanted In Chicago. Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and other cities to face
charges OF shoplifting and bail jumping.
They are said to have used many aliases,
The sun., 1919-08-26

diers of democracy return. This Is the
fatherland for which we fought. But II
Is our fatherland 1t was right for us
to fight. The faults of the country are
our faults. Under similar circumstances
we would fight again. But by the God
OF Heaven, we are towards and jack
asses IL. \now that war Is over, we do
not marshal every ounce of our brain
and Drawn to fight a sterner, longer,
more unbending battle against the forces
of hell in our own land.
I'VE make way for democracy. We
saved 1t in France and by the Great
Jehovah we will save 1t in America,
or know the reason why"
Gives Evidence to Palmer.
'1f this editorial" Mr. Byrnes said,
which refers to this as a shameful
land charges the Government with
Aynching. DISTINGUISHING Its citizens, en-
couraging ignorance and stealing from
lite citizens, does not constitute a VIOLA
ton of the espionage law 1t would be
difficult to conceive language sufficiently
abusive to constitute a violation. Be-
lieving this is true have called this to
the attention of the Attorney-General
with the request that he have proceed
ings instituted against Dubois"
Mr. Byrnes referred to statements of
William B. Colson. a contributing editor
of the Messenger, another negro maya
zine. Colson, who Mr. Byrne said.
claimed to be an officer in the 367th
Infantry, wrote the following in the July
Issue of the Messenger under the head
ing. propaganda and the American
Negro SOLDIER"
"A feeble and indefinite propaganda
did spring up among the negro soldiers
in France. In that democratic CLINE
they found themselves. They felt better
within themselves because they were
fighting for France and for their race,
rather than for a flag which had no
meaning"
Colson says again mo intelligent
American negro is willing to lay down
his life for the United States as 1t now
exists. Intelligent negroes have all
reached the point where their loyalty
to the country is conditional"
Mingling of negro soldiers and French
women is believed by Mr.. Byrnes to be
partly responsible for present condi-
lions. "a possible explanation of the
feeling OF these negro officers Is con-
tanned in the May issue of the Crisis, >
The sun., 1919-08-26
UNIONPORT GARBAGE
WRIT is PERMANENT
Citizens Win Fight Against
City Refuse Dumping.

Justice Mitchell in the Supreme Court
in Bronx county yesterday signed an or
der granting a permanent injunction
against the Mayor. the Department of
Street Cleaning, the Board OF Health
and the Watson Contracting Company
restraining them from dumping garbage
at 177th street and Westchester Creek
The application was made by the Union
port Social and Welfare League, Inc.
Garbage and other obnoxious ma
terial" were included in the prohibition.
but the court ruled that ashes and any
thing that was clean might be used to
fill in the marsh land there to meet the
grade of that section OF East Bronx.
The refuse was brought up on ows>by
way OF Westchester Creek and the East
River from various dumps in Manhattan.
Allegations that a diphtheria epidemic
had broken out in the neighborhood and
that it was infested by thousands of rats
and mice which fed on the garbage were
refuted by DR.. O'Leary of the Health
Department. He said but twenty-four
cases OF the disease had been reported
there in the last fortnight and that $780,
900 persons lived within the surround
ing forty-four square miles.
The sun., 1919-08-26
RACE RIOTS BLAMED
ON NEGRO LEADERS
Representative Byrncs Says
Leaders Urge Violence "t0
Obtain Rights"
RED GOVERNMENT SOUGHT
Extracts From Certain Papers
Are Read on Floor of House
to Prove Charges.
Special pespotch to TEE Sun.

opcSt~ g~eeputSN " Inn OONs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Recent race
riots throughout the country were in
cited by radical negro leaders who are
striving to force members of their race
into the ranks of the revolutionary ele-
ments of the country. Representative
James F. Byrnes Is. c. asserted on the
floor Of the House to-day.
Mr.. Byrnes charged an extensive cam
paign is being carried on by radical
leaders urging the negroes to join the
/. w. w. as the only organization in
which they may obtain racial equality.
Many appeals of negro radicals for vio-
lence as the way of obtaining what they
call their rights, particularly on the part
of the returning negro soldiers, were
read to the House by Mr.. Byrnes. Evil
dence of activities have been placed be-
fore the Department of Justice, he said.
One aim of the radicals, Mr.. Byrnes
said, Is to establish what would prac-
tically amount to Russian soviet
among the negroes of the South.
These radical leaders of the negro
race" he said, ARE urging their follow
ers to resort to violence in order to Sc
cure privileges they believe themselves
entitled to. and the recent race riots in
dictate they are accepting this bad adj
vice. 1t 10 manifest that when sanguin-
airy conflicts take place in cities so wide
ly separated as Washington and Chi
cago in such a short time the cause is
general, not local.
Quotes From Negro Paper.
"a fair illustration of the type OF
radical negro leadership Is W. L. B
dubois, editor of the Crisis magazine
Heretofore he has rendered great SER
vice TO his people by intelligent leader
ship"
Mr.. Byrne then referred to an editorial
In the CRISIS urging the negroes to rise
up and save America for democracy OF
know the reason why"
The editorial with the title Returning
Soldiers follows, in part:
I'VE sing: This country OF ours
despite all its better souls have done
and dreamed, is yet a shameful land.
1T lynches. 1t disfranchises its owr
citizens. 1t encourages ignorance. II
steals from us. 1t insults u.s."
To support each one OF these state
ments, the Representative said, Dubois
prints a short article, concluding with
the following:
This is the country to which we sol
The sun., 1919-08-26
MAYOR NAMES 27O
TO GREET PERSHING
Rodman Wanamaker Heads
Neto City Committee.

Mayor Hylan announced yesterday the
formation of Mayors Committee on
Receptions to Distinguished Guests. In
a way It supersedes the Mayors Com
mittee to Welcome Homecoming Troops
and will take charge OF all official city
welcomes. Among the first duties will
be to make arrangements to welcome
Gen. Pershing and the First Division OF
the American Expeditionary Forces and
also to welcome the Prince of Wales
when he comes to New York city.
It was said yesterday that the COM
mittee hoped President Wilson not only
would be heye to- review the Pershing
parade. burt also to be a guest of honor
at the dinner to the General in the eve
ming.
The officers of the committee are Rod
man Wanamaker, chairman; Alfred ].
johnson and Harry F. Sinclair, vice
chairmen; Louis G. Kaufman, treasurer;
John F. Sinnott, secretary. Mr.. John
son is chairman of the executive COM
mittee, which will hold its first meeting
in the Mayors Office at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. The other members
are Borough President Bowling, John L.
Golden. William r. Hearst, Philip Ber-
olzheimer. Louis G. Kaufman. George w.
Loft, DR.. John A. Harriss, Daniel l..
Ryan and William Z. Walsh.
Among the 270 members OF the gen.
eral committee are Robert Adamson.
Senator William NJ. Calder, Henry
Clews, Robert Grier Cooke, George B.
Cortelyou. Coleman du Pont Abram l.
Elkus, Julian D. Fairchild, Justice
Lewis L. Fawcett, Ebert H. Gary, Jo-
seph p. Grace, Archbishop Patrick ].
Hayes, Alvin W. Krech, DR.. George F.
kunz. Preston p. Lynn, Clarence ].
Shearn, Francis Lynde Stetson, Henry
w. Taft. Albert NJ. wiggin ana Robert
D. Wrenn.
The sun., 1919-08-26
STEEL WORKERS SAY
BIG STRIKE Is LIKELY
Committee Here to See Z. H.
Gary in Hope of Averting
a WalkOut.
DECISION IN TEN DAYS
Ninety-eight Per Cent. of Men
in Industry Have Voted
to Go Out.

A subcommittee of a national commit
tee which is organizing the iron and
steel workers, reached New York yes
terday with the intention Of seeking a
conference with e. H Gary. chairman
of the board Of directors Of the United
States Steel Corporation. on the demands
which have been made by the workmen
The committee is headed by John Fitz-
patrick, national chairman, and has es-
tablished headquarters Mt the Continen-
tai Hotel. Broadway and Forty-first
street. Fitzpatrick said yesterday that
a strike vote taken in the steel indus
try showed ninety-eight per cent Of the
workers in favor of a strike, and It Is
to avoid a tieup that the committee has
come to New York to see Mr.. Gary.
Although the committee, by action
OF conference in Youngstown. Ohio, has
but ten days to negotiate with the steel
companies and get results, It is not
likely that the conference with Mr.. Gary
will Ne asked for until the arrival of
Samuel Gompers, president OF the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor. who Is ex-
pected to return from Europe to-day.
The instructions of the committee are
to set a date for a strike in the event
that Mr.. Gary and the officials OF other
steel companies refuse to deal with them.
William Foster. secretary and treas
urei Of the committee. said yesterday
that IL the steel workers call strike
1t will have widespread results, AFFECT
ing the shipyards, railroads, and prac-
tically all manufacturing businesses de-
Nw..q,, Co.
terials He intimated, however. that II
a strike is called only the men in the
blast furnaces and the steel mills will
b.. called out Mr.. Fitzpatrick said that
at the recent convention Of the American
Federation of Labor Mr.. Gompers wrote
Mr.. Gary asking for a conference on the
demands of the steel and iron workers
but received no reply.
Resolutions that the persistent an6
unceasing demand of workmen employed
in all classes and kinds of industries fol
shorter days work and an increased
wage to meet the present hig hcost Of
living are uneconomic and unwise were
adopted by the employees OF the Mid
vale Steel and Ordnance Company. the
Cambria Steel Company and their sub
salaries who were in session Friday
and Saturday at Atlantic City. These
resolutions. which formulated the opin
IONS of 10000 workmen. were read yes
terday with considerable interest in tn,
financial district where the proposeC
strike of steel employees has created
some apprehension. The resolutions ex
pressed the conviction that a man who
demands a greater proportionate return
for his labor than his fellow workmer
in other lines are getting Is guilty o.
profiteerinS. The real unit Of value, &C
,cording to the Atlantic City meeting, /.
not dollar but the purchasing price Of
a dollar.
The sun., 1919-08-26
TYPHUS FEAR HELD
LINER ATQUARANTiNE
Suspect Found in Italian
Boat Bringing ReserUists.

Discovery OF a suspected case of
Nphus fever aboard the italian steam
shlp Regina dItalia, which arrived yes
lerday from Genoa and Naples, via the
azores, resulted in the quarantining of
me ship and the isolation Of her fifty
eight cabin and 436 steerage passengers
on Hoffman and Swinburne islands for
detention and observation. The sus-
plcious case is a cabin passenger. rs
years old, who is said to have been
ashore at St Michaers. in the Azores
where the ship touched.
close watch has been kept for
Vphus by the health officials at this
port ever since the resumption OF ocean
travel following the end of the war. but
yesterdays case is the first suspect OBJ
served here The majority OF the steer
age passengers were Italian rservists
VINO left the United States in response
!" mobilization orders and are now re-
turning 10 their former homes. The
nher. after being fumigated, locked at
we Bush Terminal. Brooklyn. after be-.
hg held at Quarantine from 10 o'clock
sandsy morning until late yesterday
The sun., 1919-08-26
EQU1pPING NEW YORK GUARD.
War Department Grants $4,000
900 Allotment to This State.
Special Despatch to The Sun.

ALBANY, Aug. 25.-Adjt Gen. Berry
received word from Washington to-day
that a complete issue of equipment
worth about $4,000. 900 has been granted
by the War Department for the $500
New York National Guardsmen to be
federalized. The equipment is to be
issued in advance of the actual organi-
zation and acceptance of the units to
be federalized. 1t includes machine guns
and ammunition.
Adjt-Gen. Berry is making n fight to
have the federalized National Guard for
New York State fixed at $4,000 instead
of the $500 authorized. and to have the
companies mustered in at a strength Of
sixty men instead OF 100. as the War
Department now asks
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
Readjustme Under Way.

World finance was affected yesterday
by the mere announcement that the Brit
ish Government had withdrawn support
of the sterling exchange market and
rates OF exchange the world over from
Canada to Japan were lowered the de-
cline experimenting the ! per cent. re-
duction which prevailed In me rate be-
tween New York and London. The news
was drastic. but the manner in which
the financial markets received I; was
encouraging to say the least. or course
the full effect OF the new DEVELOPMENT
did not occur yesterday. but further de-
clines are expected TO be orderly, al
though the rate may so "a low MS $3.50
to the pound, where sterling would be
per cent. below parity and 3 per cent
below the rate Mt which sterling had
been peGged for three and oue-quarter
years. The bright feature of the British
Governments action is the fact that
the Gordian knot IN the direction of
normal exchange relations has been cut
and world business is one step nearer
normal in consequence thereof.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
Traction Securities.

The action OF the marlborough securi-
ties in the stock market yesterday fore
cast the receivership for the New York
Railways Company, not to mention. ac-
cording to belief In many quarters. SINH
lar action with regard TO marlborough
Consolidated. marlborough Metropolitan
n per cent bonds sold down to 33L.. a
new low for the present movement, while
the marlborough Consolidated common
and preferred stocks both made new low
records at A.. and 12h respectively.
The story told by an official of the COM
pany that the weakness OF the stocks
was due to the unloading OF block al
$4,000 shares OF the two classes in set
Element of an estate did not receive
much credence in Wall Street. and there
was very little recovery from the low of
the day. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit
stock and certificates reflected the weak
ness of the fractions generally, while the
New York Railways adjustment 5s de-
cllned to ., the refunding 4s of that COM
pany dropped TO 43. and marlborough
Rapid Transit 1s sold at GO.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
A Holiday Tuesdayf

Prospects for a holiday in Wall Street
on Tuesday. the day when New York
will welcome officially the Twenty-sev-
enth Division, are becoming brighter.
With tho announcement yesterday that
the Cotton and Coffee exchanges are to
be closed came the statement that the
board of governors of the New York
Stock Exchange will meet this afternoon
to consider the petition presented by
members Of the exchange for closing on
Tuesday. The governors have been
waiting for Gov. Smith 10 declare the
day a Statewide holiday, in which case
IL was said the exchange would auto
matically close. The one factor which
has deferred the governors SO far from
ordering the exchange to close is the ire
mendous market in Liberty bonds. which
would be thrown out of gear with the
closing. 1t was pointed out that the
business of the rest of the country and
of the rest OF New York State would
probably be carried on just the same
and the closing OF the exchange would
seriously inconvenience the Liberty bond
market However. Il is considered likely
that at their meeting this afternoon the
governors Will decide to close up on
Tuesday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21

The situation with regard to Inter-
borough Consolidated is in TO way
cleared in the opinion OF men In Wall
Street by the receivership OF the New
York Railways Company. That the lat
ter company has been IN desperate
straits has been known for a long time
and the holding company also has been
generally considered to be In a bad way
although perhaps rot so desperately off
as New York Railways With respect
to marlborough Consolidated nothing
can be obtained from authoritative
sources TO indicate just what is TO hap
pen. Mr.. Shonts declared yesterday after
the appointment OF the receiver for New
York Railways that he had nothing to
say about 1nterborough Consolidated.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof" was the way he replied to all
questions regarding the holding company.
In circles close to the company II is
declared that there 10 grave doubt as
to whether or not the interest due April
on the Interborough-M metropolitan 4las
will be paid.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21

fcont'nslsd on FoIIo.O.ns Pass.I
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
GOSSIP OF WALL STREET.
Tho Patient Bears.

Bears found ammunition suited to
their taste yesterday when J. z. Morgan
q Co. announced the removal OF the peg
In sterling exchange and rumors of an
imminent receivershlp for marlborough
Consolidated were heard on every hand.
They exerted strenuously to bring about
a sharp break in the market, but prices
suggested In their action that an equally
vigorous support was extended and the
general list gave remarkably good
account of itself during the FIVE hours
of rather excited trading. There were
exceptions in the active list, such as
Marine preferred, which lost points on
the reports that the deal was unchanged /;
st. Paul common and preferred, which
lost 1 to 2is points on a report that the
Railroad Administration had prohibited
the payment of dividends by this rail-
road. and all local fractions, which suf-
fered sensational declines, because their
affairs had reached a crisis. Bankers
and investors were relieved when the 3
o'clock closing gong was sounded. New
ertheless they expected general market
values to work lower.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21

Mexico Extern sterling SIS OF 50, le45, 55>s 1914
Mexico Extern gold Is OF ~, 1851 .... 80 81
Russian, 1884 rente a., 1000 ruDle den. 20 ..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
: III hsx ldle~x Nat ;here-NR y,


Notwithstanding the ronsummation OF
definite understanding between MeNi-
can Government representatives and the
International Committee of Bankers, Il t.
recognized that the republics rehabllita-
ton must pursue n long road. 1t was
much easier 20 tear down the credit than
1t Is to build it up. THE problem las no
less than five ooncentrlc aspects. one po-
liticai or governmental, another Internal
finance, still another railroad finance, an
other Industrial and still another the
land or ranch question. The problems
Will have TO be taken up piecemeal, and
the first step toward solvency is the re-
sumption of payment by MeXioo of in
terest on her just foreign obiga tons.
Before leaving for Mexico city Mr.. Nieto
will pay visit to Canadian cities for
the purpose OF explaining to bankers in
the Dominion what his country proposes
TO DO to rehabilitate herself,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
BONDS IN NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Thursday, March 20, 1919.

1918. 1917.
S6,1s4,0O0 s2,73s.0oO
251,392,000 25i,s65,00C
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21

There was published yesterday some
bits OF Information regarding the MeNI-
can situation which prove TO be un-
founded in fact II was asserted that
Rafael Nleto, Mexlco's acting Secretary
OF Finance. had departed for the repub-
lie south of our borders and was going
back empty handed. AZ matter Of
fact no followed Mondays conference
with ten OF the American members of
the International Committee of Bank
ers with another conference yesterday
with ]. +. Morgan. At the Offices OF the
Mexican Financial Agency a statement
was issued In person by Mr.. Nieto, In
~ I'll hAX ld!SSsk Nat ;hcre-<I ID
be full cooperation between Mexico and
her creditors, From an authoritative
source II was learned that a definite
understanding to the effect that the
Carranzista Government will snow its
good faith by resuming Mt once Interest
payments on the national debt and by
other evidences of cooperation was
reached. With that as a start the In
tenational Committee of Bankers ex-
poets to he able to aid definitely in the
broad rehabilitation OF Mexican finance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
Investment
Securities
NLATT[ !;
% Erchss.. Plse. Fhou. Broad 4ss1 4
EARNINGS STATEMENTS.
RAILROAD.

CANADIAN NATIONAL.
second week March. 81 297. $50 Inc. s,Ss.ies
January ! To March "A. - ~. so Inc. 4,o52,s2s
GRAND 1RJ Nix SYSTEM.
Second week Murcll.... 81 1887 Inc. SJlf,7s5
January / L. March a. L. .3jJ Inc. 3Sl. les
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
CALL MONEY.

20 days. so days. 20 days
,,,.-.I, Bid. Ask. Bid. Ask. Bid. Ask.
banks bank: ,..;...... 40 ~ ~ ~ ~
member banks. i,s "a ~ ~ a.
Ineligible banks
bills .,.;. 81 ~ &. ~ 81 a.
CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. "
Clearing House exchanges t7fI aoo Iso. h.I
ances, siS. e7s; Sub-Treasury credit nj
ances. 3, $3.50: Federal reserve credit bal
ance, SIS. S33 2SS. N'
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE
Bosto. par; Chicago. par; st. Louis es0
Do discount San Francisco. par; Montreal
$50 per $1,000 premium Cincinnati, par: Min.
nea pOls, loo. premium. 1850
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
Indiana livestock Men Meet.

INnrANAroLIs, March 2O.--What wa,
said 20 ho the hrst State live stock raliy
in America was held here today VITA
stock growers from al parts of Indiana
and many Other States present Recon-
sructiun problems as they relate TO tbs
live stock industry and methods of elm
mating costs of production, publicitv for
live stock products and closer cooperation
In IN. INDUSTRY were discussed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
Cum House Heceipts.

Receipts for duties at the Custom
House yesterday were s2j7.61S.O9, Of
which Sl56,3s4.54 was for merchandise
withdrawn from bonded warehouses and
S101.223.6b for recent importations
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21

racine Gas IS
1...... S5L
Psc Tel &~'f' SIS
2......p 2ll
Penna 6s 1888