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New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
LO1U Reserve Made
Insurance almost WoythIess

Against this tremendous hus;,.s.
with the wonderful insight it gave into
American commerce of all kinds. the
1ermans carried a f1imsy and almost
worthless reserve. A high authority
IN Washington declared shortly aftar
we entered the war that of the assets
to which the American insurers mns+
look for making good their claims $50
100000 of the S6s,oOo,o0O required was
invested in German government bonds
further, ne said, the German companies
kept IN America reserve of onlv ahout
~ cents against each $1,000 of in
surance, or about tenth of what r..
american companies carry. So that the
man lnsuring with the German con-
Germs was paying Germany good price
Tor telling his secrets to the German
government and getting almost worth
less insurance in return. Ask the San
franclscans who had money in Ger.
man companies when the FIRE swent
that city!
~-AAS, Va SOuISc, tn0 ma1OfltV
OF those buying such insurance were
patriotic Americans deceived bv the
German camouhage. The Germans had
incorporated many of their companies
under American names even before the
war, and continued their business nm
der the direction of American firm
names and American agents after we
entered the conflict The Alien Prom
erty Custodian's Investigations showed
that some American agents had been
faithful to them even to the extent of
concealing German property from our
government and otherwise evading the
law.
The camoufage of American owner
ship was frequent. In one instance II
was found that every share of stock
IN an American" company was Ger
man owned, except those necessary
for the directors to qualify, and that
the Germans had an option on these
shares. In the case of American
agencies of German companies attempts
were frequently detected to hide the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
Germany's Plot to Gas the Worlds Trade
America Paid Millions for
Being Spied On by Teutons

the war was going on. Eighteen Ger
man concerns and agencies in this
country have been seized and are being
lquidated-a most difficult process
which will take some five years to
mplete-and since there were so
many German companies camoufaged
under neutral and American names
there remains at least doubt whether
the entire field has been swept quite
clean
The insurance carried by the German
companies in America four months
after we entered the war was esti-
mated by Senator Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey, at $4,000, 900, 900 when he
attempted to prevent the Senate from
putting the German companies out of
business on the ground that it would
disrupt the whole American insurance
situation.
"The Southern Insurance Journal in
1917 made a compilation showing that
IN ten years the annual incomes of the
German companies had grown from
S14,193,235 to $53,494,740 in 1916. and
that they had absorbed in those ten
years total of s296,616,e31 of Ameri-
can money. Even as late as last fall
when the Alien Property Custodian
was closing out the business of tho
eighteen companies he was able to
seize. he found a premium income NJ
s14,6S0,OO5
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
Letter to St. Louis
Gets Trip to China
Missive Mailed Here Feb. 5 Is
Returned After Being Treated
to Long ''Burleson Vovage''

:. new Burlesonian method of hand
ling, mail has come to light which
might be appropriately termed "Shang-
haiing letters" A letter sent to ST
Louis more than three months ago was
returned to the sender yesterday after
having been, among other places, to
Shanghai, China.
Ihe letter was mailed from Brooklyn
FEBRUARY last, addressed to Mrs. B.
H. Colby at 1919 Nina Place, St. Louis
On Its return yesterday to Mrs. Lawn.
of 536 Eighty-irst Street, Brooklyn, it
bore several strange markings. These
included new address, sos Hearn
Building. Jacksonville, Fla, the num-
Der 1929" repeated in several different
places and a censor's stamp. The lat
ter was numbered 1872.
Inquiry at the Office of the superin-
tendent of mails in this city developed
that the 1872" was the number used
by the censor in Shanghai 1t was
stated that in all probability the let
ter, while the mail aboard the train
going to St. Louis was being sorted
was mixed in with the Shanghai bun
die. Once these bundles are made up
they are not opened again until they
arc aboard ship bound for their desti-
nations.
The letter also bore st. Louis post
mark dated April Ia. Explaining the
variance in dates, the postal officials
said that the letter had probably been
sent from St. Louis to Jacksonville in
April and the time between then and
yesterday was consumed in seeking the
addressee and returning the missive.
No explanation could be found for
the oft-repeated 1929" The opinion of
the postal officials was that the let
ter was "mistreated," a common occur
renee nowadays, they admitted.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
By Stanley Frost

Before the war Germany and
Austria Hungary had made great
progress in the matter of insur-
ance, not only in their own coun-
tries but in the whole world They
had made ( speciality of reinsurance,
and had established forty-seven
large companies exclusively for re-
insurance, which made large profits
in Great Britain, France, Italy. ETC.
"They had gained this remarkable
position (a) by their perfect or
ganization; (b) by their system of
commercial spying; (c) by con-
pretending to be Italian, Russian,
ETC., and (d) by their system Of
appointing as agents of their re-
insurance companies the sons and
sons-in-law of the directors of the
insurance companies of France,
Belgium, etc. Their system of COM
panies devoted solely to reinsurance
gave them a basic knowledge of the
trade movements of other countries
and particulars of almost every
commercial transaction in the
world-the name of the merchant,
the name of the buyer, the price,
the class of goods and the destina-
tion. A few days later all this in
formation was tabulated in Berlin"
This is the summary approved by
the Commercial Committee of the
British House Of Commons on the Ger
man insurance system. Every word of
it, as the Investigations of the Alien
Property Custodian show, was true of
America.
Insurance, and especially reinsur-
ance, as organized by the Germans, was
a system that made the countries
where the Hun had established himself
pay handsome profit for being spied
upon. America was very thoroughly
spied upon and America paid the Ger
mans a profit of millions year on
their system, receiving in return in
surance that in case of a strain would
have proved almost worthless.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
No Protection Against
Rene,ced Spying

This system, thanks to the work of
the Alien Property Custodian, has been
broken up and the companies the Ger
mans had here as being liquidated.
But no measures have been taken
which would prevent the immediate re-
appearance in American business of
this branch of the German spy system,
and no measures, except the precau-
tions of individual insurers, are posi-
Bile under the present law.
The Germans reinsurance scheme is
another instance of the keenness of
their commercial strategy. When big
risks are to be taken, usually any run
ming over 100000, it is customary to
divide them among several companies
30 that In case of loss no one will be
hit too hard The Germans made a
speciality of the companies which
should take up parts of such risks
usually rather small parts-and which
thus received all the information on
which the original policy had been
issued
By this and other means the Ger
man companies in America were able
to:
Know the cargo, destination, value,
shippers, ccnsgnors and destinations
of almost every ship that left an
American port, even after this coun-
try entered the war. This went so
far that German companies were car
rying insurance against Uboat at
tacks on ships sailing for the Amer
lean government, and received as \
routine matter information which the
American newspapers were not per-
mitted to publish;
Know the plans, conditions and
state of activity in many of the great
industrial plants Of the country, in
cluding some government munitions
plants;
Ship gold to South America to
finance. German propaganda there,
after this country entered the war,
and at time when no one else was
able to do this;
Insure the heavy shipments Of
foodstuffs and other goods which
we're being made with the hope that
they would reach Germany, and il
they were seized by the British, ap-
pear as Americans and prosecute
claims for recovery before the Brit
ish prize courts. Several times thcv
recovered their money!
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10

funds due the Germans, in hope o
sending them over after the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
Plan for Great
Underground Trust

OH0eTgTOuNd Trust
The German insurance pool was one
of the most ambitious schemes under.
taken during the war. 1t was originally
formed to insure shipments of goods
intended for Germany, as has been de-
scribed, but it developed into a scheme
to unite all the German insurance
companies OF America, and to continue
them after the war as a great under
ground trust. This scheme was fullv
under the control of Hugo Schmidt and
DR.. Albert, open agents of the Kaiser.
Hermann e. Co. was the "front."
The close care which the German
government took of these companies is
shown by the fact that they lost prac
tically nothing on the Lusitania.
The early efforts to clean up this
German system were not effective, as
the German concerns simply got be-
hind American names and continued
their espionage as usual, seeing the
manifests of ships and the plans of
the munitions plants the government
was building. 1t was not until the
Alien Property Custodian began work
that they were really crippled They
have now practically disappeared as
factor in the American insurance world
There is nothing to prevent their re-
turn as soon as Americans will do busi
ness with them again, or as soon a
they can buy into American companies
under cover.
IN to-m1ovrow's Tribune the final
article of this series shoavs hov the
Germans are concentrating their
poWers for the assault on America.
a0hich is their chief hope.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
THIS EVENING

Farmers Loan 4 Trust Co.
475 9th Ave-
Fifth Ave. Bank
$50 9Th Ave.
Fifth National Bank
1871 T.. 23d ST.
Garfield National Bank
5th Ave. E 23d ST.
Gotham National Bank
1919 Broadway
Greenwich Bank
Broadway 45th St.
Guaranty Trust Co.
5th Ave. & Add ST.
Madison Ave. & Goth St.
Hartman National Bank
627 9th Ave.
Lincoln National Bank
80 E. send st.
Lincoln Trust Co.
Broadway g. 72nd St,
Metropolitan Trust Co.
716 5th Ave.
Mutual Bank
81 w. 33d st.
New Netherland Bank
Al W. 34th ST.
New York County National Bank
20 9Th Ave.
n. Y. Produce Exchange Bank
Broadway seth st.
Columbus Ave. & S3d St.
Madison Ave. & Goth st.
7th Ave- & 58th St.
Sd Ave. & 116th st.
Manhattan St. & Amsterdam Ave
18th st. g. End Ave.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10

Pacific Bank
49th st. & 18th Ave.
Public National Bank
Delaney & Ludlow SITS.
1923 Broadway
Madison Ave. & 1f6th st.
Second National Bank
5th Ave. & 2Sth St.
Sherman National Bank
9th Ave. & 32nd St.
State Bank
376 Grand ST.
5th Ave. & 115th st.
eth Ave. & 28th St.
100 Essex st.
Union Exchange National Bank
9th Ave. & 21st St.
Z. s. Mortgage & Trust Co.
Broadway & s3rd st.
Madison Ave. s 18th st.
125th st. Is Sth Ave.
YorkviiIe Bank
1911 3rd Ave.
Corn Exchange Bank
Astor. Place & Lafayette Pf.
Broadway s t60th St.
Broadway & Spring St.
Broadway & 55fh St.
Post Ave. a. 20Tth ST.
Norfolk & Grand SITS.
1873 f. Seth st.
Avenue ID & 10th ST.
9TH Ave. & goth st.
385 II. Fordham Road
>Uo west 4E@0 81.
4th Ave. E Goth St.
Fulton & Pearl Sta.
East 42nd st.
I.enOx Ave. & I25fh ST.
Columbus Ave. & 72nd 81.
Lexington Avn. & Goth st.
s5 f.. i25th ST.
ST. Nicholas Ave. & 1eIst St.
Park Ave. g. 52nd St,
7th Ave. & S3rd Sc.
Lexinkten Ave. & 72nd St.
30 Church st.
fremont & Arthur Aves.
12 West 2Sth st.
~ Union So. Egxt
broadway 6 fzsth ST.
Broadway & Murray st.
Amstertiam Ave. s 142d ST.
e53 Broadway
81 East l25th ST.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
People of United States
Long Were Victims of
an ''Insurance'' System
Aiming at Exploitation
Protection Is
Not Sufficient
Pirate Companies Have
Been Confscated, but
Espionage Will Revive

This is the fourteenth of the scries
of articles ON Germany's new wor
Of economic piracy.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
ADVERTISEMENT
DEAR FOLKS:

AN4 q SASoS
the principle of prov
ing ones statements.
There are some people, you
know, who question the
value of a $40 gold piece.
Therefore, they seek some
expert to test it's value.
I have been telling you
about the Wilson & Co.
Certified Ham and Bacon
and I have not the slight
est doubt that many of you
have already made a salts
factory test of their excel
lent quality-but I thought
I would try an experiment
the other evening.
/ bought a Wilson Certi-
fed Ham and had it cooked
for dinner. / invited sew
eral friends to take dinner
with me. l did not tell
them that they were being
served with a Wilson Certi-
fed Ham. l did not ask
them how they liked it. I
knew it had been cooked
just right and I think I
know how to slice ham as
we'll as anybody. I waited
to hear expressions of opin-
ion from my guests.
One-a young lady who is
secretary to the National
Honor Guard of the Saliva
ton Army, started the ball
rolling by rernarking to my
daughter: why, Eleanor,
where did you buy this
ham? It is the most deli
cious I ever ate"
Then another guest, who is
a Y. M. G. A. secretary,
spoke up and said: isn't
this ham wonderful? Why
it melts in your mouth, and
what a delightful flavor it
has"
And so it went, all around
the table. Everybody expressed
very favorable opinion as to
the quality and taste of the ham.
You know a Wilson & Co. Ger
eertifed Ham is big enough to
serve many people. There were
several people as guests at my
table--a couple of them being
golfers, with very keen appe-
tites-yet there was enough ham
left to serve a couple of lunch
cons to several people.
When I told my guests finally
that they had been served with
a Wilson & CO. Certified Ham,
they said to me: eve don't
blame you for being SO enthusi-
astic about the quality of the
foods prepared by that firm.
They certainly make good all of
YOUR claims about them
Then they asked me lot of
questions about my experience
with the workers in the Wilson
& Co. organization, which | an
swered, but they were especially
interested in a story I told them
about the Good Fellowship
Clubs which have been organized
IN the Wilson & Co. plants.
\ recent experience with the
Fellowship Club members in the
New York plant gave me the
cue to tell them how wonderful
the workers are and how they
pull together for their own bet
terment as we'll as for the better
ment OF the business.
The New York Fellowship Club
was Just getting under way.
They held an election of officers
and they elected the General
Manager Of the New York plant
as their President. There is no
Aristocracy Of Workers in the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10

Bank of the Manhattan Co.
Bank of United States
~ Delaney St.
5th Ave. 32d St.
Madison Ave. & 1l6th st.
Bank OF Washington Heights
1915 Amsterdam Ave.
Bankers Trust Co.
42nd St. s 5th Ave.
Bryant Park National Bank
2:0 w. 42nd St.
Central Mercantile Bank
E. 14th st.
Central Union Trust Co.
6th Ave. 60th st.
Ssna Ssn Axe y : : Ssd;ssa, ssth st, Ave-.
Chatham g. Phenix National Bank
Greenwich & Warren SITS.
Bowery & Grand ST.
9th Ave. 3 l4th st.
57th st. & Sd Ave.
esth st. 4 Lexington Ave.
Broadway & 61st St.
Broadway & 105th st.
I-enox Ave. 1l6th ST.
Broadway & Hath St.
Canal & Thompson StS.
Columbus Ave. & s1st St.
Broadway s 18th ST.
Broadway & l0end St.
CoIumbus Co9umbus Ave. Az : Z gdst 9dstb s.; l..
116th st. & 18th Ave.
Columbia Bank
Broadway & Canal st.
Columbia Trust Co.
85S Fifth Ave.
100 West 1cBth st.
Commercial Exchange Bank
$50 Broadway
Broadway b Goth st.
Commonwealth Bank
100 BOwery
Empire Trust Co.
$50 9Th Ave.
Equitable Trust Co.
Madison Ave. g. 45th st.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10

Government Loan Organization
Second Federal Reserve District
New-York tribune., 1919-05-10

The United States
Government Offers
Subject to Allotment,
$4,500,0000O0 of Victory Notes. No over
subscription will be accepted
Here are the facts that every inoesor should know:
Allotment Applicaons from any one subscriber for an
aggregate of Notes not in of $10-
600 will be allotted in full.
Applications for an aggregate amount in ex-
cess OF $4,000 from any subscriber will be
subject to allotment by the Treasury Department.
Interest Rate 4 the highest interest paid on any
United States Government security issued since
the Civil War period
Conversion Rigt 4P6 Victory Notes convertible
at the option of the holder into 3A9o fully tax
exempt Victory Notes any time during the
life of the issues. The 3a496 Notes similarly
recoverable into the 4sA% Notes.
Tax Exemption 4q6 Notes are exempt from all State
and local taxes except and inheritance
taxes, and from normal Federal income taxes.
The 3a4% Notes are exempt from all taxes
except and inheritance taxes.
Maturity Government agrees pay Victory Notes
in four years. May TO- 1925 and reserves the
right to pay them off par and interest in three
years.
Patriotism mThis your last chance pay your for
the Victory have Don't let it pass
Act now-and leave for future regrets
In order that every patriotic American in
New York City may have full opportunity to
subscribe until the last moment, the under
signed banks will be open to take subscriptions
to the Victory Loan
THIS EVENING.
~
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16

election held therein on the 9Th day of
May, A. ID. 1919, at which election a
majority of the qualified electors vot-
ing on the question voted in favor of
mourning such indebtedness; and it is
further hereby certified and recited
that all the requirements of law have
been fully complied with by the prop
err officers of said city in the issue of
Ahis bond, and that the total debt of
said city, including that of this bond,
does not exceed any limit Of indebted
ness prescribed by the constitution OF
laws Of the state of Utah, and that
provision has been made for the levy
and collection of an annual tax upon
all taxable property within such city
sufficient to pay the interest on and
to extinguish the principal Of this
bond when the same becomes due.
The faith and credit of the city of
Cedar City are hereby pledged for
the punctual payment Of the princi-
pal and interest Of this bond.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the
city council of the city Of Cedar City
has caused this bond to be signed by
the mayor Of the said city, attested
by the recorder therefor under the
seal Of the city, and countersigned by
its treasurer, as Of the 18th day OF
May, A. ID. 1919.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16
fC;tv Seall
City Recorder

(Cjty Seal) City Recorder.
Section 4. That said bonds, when
executed shall be delivered to the pur-
chaser thereof, and said bonds and the
funds raised thereby shall be applied
solely for the purpose described in the
said bonds, but the purchaser thereof
shall in no manner be responsible for
the application or disposal by said
city or any of its officers Of any Of
the funds derived from the sale OF
said bonds.
Section 8. That the interest falling
due on said bonds on November 10,
1915, shall be paid out Of the general
revenue fund Of the city, and for the
purpose Of reimbursing said general
revenue fund for said interest and to
meet the interest accruing ON and at
ter May Is, 1920 and also for the pur-
pose of constituting a sinking fund to
pay the principal Of said bonds, there
shall be levied on all Of the taxable
property in said city, in addition to all
other taxes, a direct annual tax suf-
ficient to produce the following sums:
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16

or of the city, attested by the city
recorder, and shall be published in
the IRON COUNTY RECORD, a
newspaper published in the city Of
Cedar City, and shall take effect and
be. in force Immediately upon such
publication.
Section IL. Owing to the fact that
the city and its inhabitants are not
properly, adequately or sufficiently
supplied with water, in the opinion
Of the city council Of the city of &C.
dar City, Utah, this ordinance is nee
essary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the peace, health and safety
of the city. II is therefore declared
that an emergency exists and that
this ordinance shall become immed-
lately operative after it's passage and
publication.
Adopted by the city council this
18th day of May, A. d. 1919.
Approved; +. NJ. CORY.
Mayor.
ATTEST: J. II. ARTHUR.
(Seal City Recorder.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16

and said taxes when collected, shall
be applied solely for the purpose OF
the payment of said interest and
principal of said bonds, respective
", and for no other purpose what
ever, until the Indebtedness so con-
tracted under this ordinance, princi-
pal and interest, shall have been fully
paid, satisfied and discharged. And
the sums hereinbefore provided for
to meet the interest on said bonds
and to discharge the principal there
of when due, are hereby appropriat-
ed fer that purpose and the said
amount for each year shall also be
included in the annual appropria-
ton bills passed by the city council
of said city each year respectively.
Section 6. II shall be the duty Of
the city council of said city annually
at the time and in the manner pro-
vided by law for levying other city
taxes, it such action shall be neces-
airy to effectuate the provisions Of
this ordinance, to ratify and carry
out the provisions hereof with refer
ence to the levying and collection Of
taxes; and shall require the officers of
and for said city TO levy, extend and
collect such taxes in the manner pro-
vided by law for the purpose of Gre
ating fund for the payment of the
principal Of said bonds, and such tax
es, when collected, shall be kept for
and applied only to the payment of
the interest and principal of said
bonds as herinbefore specified.
Section 7. The city recorder shall
make and keep list of the bonds is
sued under this ordinance, showing
the facts required by statute.
Section 8. The bonds issued under
this ordinance shall be exempt from
taxation by the city Of Cedar City.
Section Q, All ordinances, by laws
and regulations of the city of Cedar
City in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
Section 10. This ordinance shall
be and remain irrepealable until said
bonds and the interest thereon shall
have been fully paid, satisfied and
discharged, as herein provided.
Section IL. This ordinance, immed-
lately upon it's passage, shall be re-
corded in the book Of ordinances Of
said city kept for that purpose. auth
enticated and approved by the may
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16
ORDINANCE NO. IS

IN Ordinance Contracting an Indebf-
edness on Behalf of the City Of
Cedar City, Utah, and Upon the
Credit Thereof, by Issuing the Ne
gotiable Coupon Bonds of Said City
in the Amount Of Sixty Thousand
Dollars. for the Purpose of Supply
ing Said City with Water by I'm
proving the Water System Now
Owned and Controlled by the Mu-
nicipality, Prescribing the Form Of
Said Bonds and Providing for the
Levy Of Tax Upon All Of the Tax
able Property Within Said City Suf-
ficient to Pay the Interest on and to
Extinguish the Principal of Such
Debt.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16

Engineer ]. E. Eddards, who has
been negotiating the sale of large
group Of iron claims to California
investor, expects a representative
here the last of this month to close
up the deal. The almost certainty of
the railroad building from Lund in
the immediate future is stimulating
interest in the mineral deposits of
this locality, and some important de-
velopments are expected in the very
near future.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-16
About Rheumatism

People are learning that it is only
a waste of time and money to take
medicine internally for chronic and
muscular rheumatism, and about
ninety-nine out Of hundred cases
are one or the other of these varieties.
All that is really necessary to afford
relief is to apply Chamberlain's Lini-
nent freely. Try it. 1t costs but 35
cents per bottle. Large size 60 cents.
ADV.