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New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Equitable Life Agents
To Give Musical Comedy
S225,OOO.OO0 Insurance ;,,
Year Represented by I.IOO
Men at Convention

Agents of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society in convention at the Wal
dorf will attend musical comedy given
by the employees OF the company in the
grand ballroom Of the hotel this eve
nlng. There will be luncheon to the
Quarter Million Club at the Hotel Penn
sylvania to-day
The agents viii make an inspection of
the home Office tomorrow. the t,oljtabia
BOY, Scouts serving as guides. Previous
TO the inspection there will be an exhibi
ton OF special motion pictures. mclud-
ing The Journey of an Application"
On Friday the topics to be discussed
VIII be lessons of thrift taught during
the war, superiority of life insurance 70
an other teachers and promoters of
thrift, government Endorsement Of in
surance, and the uncertainty of life as
illustrated by epidemics. The sixtjeth h
anniversary luncheon will be held on
FRIDAY. The convention closes on Sat-
urday. VA 0'''-
Every agent attending the MEETINGS
has written at least 100000 of insur-
ance There are LOO present, ard
nearly 800 OF them have written more
lnan ,one-quarter million dollars: II
more more than a million dollars, and So 600.
ooo by one agent. The total amount bv
TINS group within the year ended June 20
mas Deen more than 1925 900 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Grand Jury Inquiry Begins
and District Attorney
Calls Attention to Iden-
tical Prices of Fluid
&c Lower in Philadelphia
Milk Conference Board Is
Said To Be Source of
'sRegulation'' for Dealers

District Attorney Swami outlined
yesterday the specific points he in
tends to stress in his presentation Of
evidence on the activities Of the milk
distributors to the extraordinary grand
jury now in session. The inquiry into
the recent traction strike was sus-
pended and the jury devoted itself to
the. milk price investigation.
Mr.. Swami enumerated what he
called peculiar" points in the local
milk traffic, as follows:
l. By some odd coincidence-dealer
deny all knowledge of price fixing-the
price of milk to the consumer is the
same each month.
2. Dipped or loose milk costs II cents
a quart, but bottled milk purchas sed
fro mthe three largest distributors.
Borden's, Sheffield Farms and Glover
Farms, cost 16 cents quart.
8. In Philadelphia Grade B milk
brings Ia cents quart, two cents less
than the New York price.
r-ss Not Satisfied With Replies
1t is understood that each witness
will be interrogated on these points.
Mr. Swami intimated yesterday that
have been far from satisfactory.
Charles A. Weiant, former president of
the, Borden's Farm Products Company
and former head of the New York Milk
Conference Board, and Harry A. Cronk
vice,president of the Borden company
We're the only two witnesses examined
yesterday. Each was on the stand more
than an hour. l. Elkins Nathan, sec
retary of the New York Milk Confer
ence Board, will testify to-day.
Mr.. Swami said last night that he
would welcome any information from
irderendcnt milk dealers or consumers
which might throw light on the activi-
ties 6 the large milk companies. He
asked that all persons with any evil
dCpSe of this kind communicate with
HIM at once.
Information has reached Mr.. Swami
shat ONE one at the Office Of the Milk
Conference Board notifies the members
- H prices are to be advanced.
Finds Plan for Regulation
edition to this he has come into
ion oi plan for the regula-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Total Casualties
For Forces Abroad
ow Are 29l,732
Killed in Action and
1862 Victims of Dis
ease, Pershing Says in His
Weekly Report for Army

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2e.The fol-
lowing casualties are reported by the
commanding general Of the American
Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action. died from wounds. 4
died OF accident and other causes. 10;
died Of disease. 12; wounded severely. 6:
wounded, degree undetermined 0; wounded
slightly, IL. Total. SO.
Total number Of casualties to date
including those reported above:
Killed in action Uncluding 1872 at sea),
$3.50 died OF wounds. 1860: died Of
other causes, 5.2ss; wounded in action
lover IS per cent returned to duty), 214,-
3o3; missing in action (not Including pris-
Oncrs released and returned), 2. Total &c
date. 291.732.
WOUNDED SEVERELY
FLICK. Leo NJ. musician, Lloydell, Penn
ZODER, George, private. 241 East Nine-
ty-third Street. New York City.
Wounded degree Undetcrmined)
DEROSSA, Thomas. corporal. Astoria
Wounded Slightly
MCCORMICK. stephen A. private. Co
hoes. N. y.
CURRENT CASUALTIES
Died From Accident and Other Causes
LCIW w ~, w oIASdHs JULIUS SERGEANT Eas'
Emhurst. N. Y
Changes in Status
The following cabled corrections are
issued as an appendix to the regular
casualty list:
Died of Disease, Previously Reported
Died From Wounds Received in Action
DEMAREST. William. private. Wald
wick. N. j.
Died of Disease Previously Reported
Died of Wounds
ROOSA. Elting w, private, Ossining
n. Y.
Enormously Reported Wounded
Severely
O'BRIEN. James B., private $50 Allan
tic Avenue, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
OBITUARY NOTES

JOHN c. PASCAL. an employe of the
Ward Baking Company. died Sunday at his
home, 42S Adelphi Street, Brooklyn He
is survived by his widow, two sons and two
daughters.
EMMA ]. VAN BENSCHOTEN. for many
years a teacher in the grammar department
of Public School, No. 23 Conseiyea Street.
Brooklyn. is dead at the home OF her sister,
Mrs. Frank Dean 2o7 Highland Avenue,
Orange, N. j.
CHARLES H. MCNAMARA, since his boy
hood employed by the William Cable Wire
Manufacturing Company. died UNEXPECTEDLY
Sunday at his home, 333 Powers Street,
Brooklyn.
LAWRENCE MURPHY. sixty-fve for the
last twenty years employed in the Financial
Department of the City of New York, died
Monday at his home, 3O1 State Street.
BROOKLYN. He belonged to the Republican
Club of the First Assembly District and the
ODonovan Rosa Branch, Friends of Irish
Freedom.
WILLIAM c. ADAMS. formerly lieu
tenant in the 123d Machine Gun Company
died Unexpectedly at Coney Island, while
bathing He enlisted at the oucoreaK of the
war and was commissioned at Spartanburg.
Mr.. Adams lived at 535 Fifty-eighth Street,
Brooklyn.
JAMES M. BLACKBOARD. eighty-four. a
retired stevedore. died Sunday of apoplexy
at his home, $40 Thirteenth Street, Brook
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

Naumann. president Of the German
Democratic party, died at Travemuendc
Sunday. He had benc suffering from
heart disease
Joseph Friedrich Naumann created
much discussion throughout the world
by the publication during the war of
his book "Mtteleuropa," which advo-
Gated league OF the Central Powers
INTO one unified country with a view to
world domination In order to popu-
larize his idea Naumann established a
weekly called "Mitteeuropa," and he
later wrote for periodical called Die
Hilfe" (Help).
DR.. Naumann was born in silesia
March 25, 1860. He was educated ST
Leipslc and was ordained a minister in
the Evangelical Church. Until the
publication of his book DR.. Naumann
was not conspicuous in German poll
tics, although he had held a seat in the
kelchstag. The idea embodied in his
book became widely popular in Ger
many, where thousands Of copies were
SOLD. The book was translated into
English and sold widely in this country
and IN Great Britain. 1t was said
that this book helped materially to
strengthen the determination of the
AiIled powers to crush Germany COM
pIetely, Tor its theory indicated the
trehd or the German thirst for world
power. Dr. Naumann preached his
IDEAS throughout Germany and Austria
hungary During the first part of this
year Or. Naumann was mentioned s a
possible candidate for the Presidency
of Germany ;
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

ton Of trade and commerce affecting
milk" headed by the following notice:
Endorsed by the New York State Milk
Commission" Mr.. Swami said that the
Milk Commission has no power to reg
ulate anything. and that this appeared
TO him to be merely guise to lend
official support to a private project
In discussing his conferences with
Mr.. Weiant and Mr.. Cronk outside of
the sNg Ngrand nd Jury room q Mr.. Swami said: ,.+
milk bottle is 51h cents. bottle. he
said. made about eleven or twelve trips,
but he denied there is any inner ring
IN the purchase or manufacture of
milk bottles which makes then, come
so high. He denied there is any
officer, director or inner ring in the
companies that encouraged the nom
return Of the bottles in order that a
greater number would have to be
bought by the companies. He said q
forty-quart can that used to cost 81 %
now costs $3.50, but there was no inside
ring that had to do with the boosting
of the price.
"He said," continued Mr.. Swanton's
statement, "that the Bordens Farm
Products Company was Incorporated
by the Borden Condensed Milk Company
for the purpose of dealing in fluid milk,
and that all or practically AL Of the
stock of the Bordens Farm Products
Company is owned by the Borden
Condensed Milk Company, except the
necessary number Of shares to Qualify
the directors. He said that he had
only few shares, valued at few hun
dred dollars. and the other officers only
had few hundred dollars worth of
stock; that the controlling interest in
the Borden Company is the Milbank
family. George L. Nichols, of Masten
& Nichols, partners of ex-Judge La
combe, is q director in the above com
panies.
"Mr. Wcigant said that the chief
committee of the Milk Conference
Board was the conference committee" +"
but that no minutes or notes were kept
of it's meetings.; the Milk Conference
Board was composed of one member
from each Of the distributing COM
panies; that he was president Of tho
Milk Conference Board, but he seemed
to know very little about the opera
tlon of the conference committee.
Succeeded Milk Exchange
"Mr. Weiant said that tho chief
pened to go into the milk business on
his own account and undcrsold the
present milk distributors, whether he
would be permitted to remain on the
Milk Conference Board He said that
he thought he would not be permitted
to remain, but that was merely his
opinion or the subject.
Both of these gentlemen stated
that the Milk Conference Board was
incorporated after the abandonment OF
the New York Milk Exchange, all of
whose members were indicted by the
grand jury for fixing prices.
"Mr. Weiant said that the Borden's 3
Farms Products Company had never
declared dividend Of any nature or
description since its Incorporation, but
that all of the stock was owned by the
Borden Condensed Milk Company cx-
cept sufficient to qualify the directors,
and that there was q very intimate re-
lation existing between the two COM
panies.
"The question viii be gone into later
whether the profits OF the Borden s
Farms Products Company have been
absorbed by the parent company
through salary accounts. depreciation
accounts, charge for bottles and charge
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

plain shoes; but the factory girls, who
are earning more than they ever did
in their lives, are content only with the
fanciest and best.
young people must not forget that
thrift pays in the long run. Some Of
their money should go to purchase
bonds and thrift stamps or toward buy
ing that little house in the Country
some day.
Should Toll More Hours
"The Fair Price Committee also in
tends to try to persuade workers to
work overtime on week days, if neces-
sary. The present, tendency is to de-
part hastily on the moment Of the
stipulated closing hour. Production
can never ovcrta!Ee the demand with
such n state Of affairs. It would be
a patriotic service for workers to ad-
just themselves to present abnormal
conditions and work little harder and
a little longer"
An attempt will be made to spread
this propaganda to the homes through
the school children, Mr.. Williams said
The 10000 women who plan to fight
rroftcers Will also carry these mes
saRss to consumers, he declared.
D.. Jonathan G. Day, COMMISSIONER
of Public Markets, announced yester-
day that the sales Of army food to
date total s225. 900. Business will be
resumed to-day with q variety Of COM
modities at each station, re announ ced
The lighters made their first trip yes
terday afternoon.
More Bacon in Sight
More than $4,000 pounds O. Bacon
were installed in schools Yesterday.
Captain J. Il. Hcbblethwaitc, IN charge
OF finance and transportation of tho
Zone Surplus Property office here, said
that the city would probably receive
100000 pounds OF bacon in addition to
the original order OF 100000 pounds.
day by Deputy Market Commissioner
Edwin j. O'Malley. Captain Hebble-
thwaite and his aid, Lieutenant Frank
A. Dee, were at work yesterday en-
deavoring to secure additional supplies
from the twelve other supply zones to
I'LL the city's second order of 200 car
Dads. large part of this order Will
be filled within short time, Captain
Hebblethwaite announced.
Georgs Gordon Battle, who was ap-
pointed by Governor Smith to investi-
gate the activities of the State Coun-
fa1 of Farms and Markets and corollarv
departments and bureaus, announced
yesterday that his inquiry would begin
tomorrow. He said that he had named
John Burlinson Coleman, a lawyer, of
GO Wall Street, to act as counsel. He
Will probably designate place for the
hearing to-day.
Will Sell 10000 Pairs of Army Shoes
James f. Meade, president of the
Meade Shoe Company, of 1O2 and 104
Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, was author
lied yesterday by United States Attor-
ney James D. Bell to sell 10000 pairs
OF army shoes at $3.50 pair. The sale
VIII begin tomorrow morning. The
shoes sell elsewhere for $3.50 a pair.
Colonel Bell said. Mr.. Meade is s,author-
lied to take any precautions NECESSARY
to prevent the shoes from falling into
the hands of dealers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Hoordizag Is Charged
fn Basic Industries
Trade Commissioners Seek IN
quD'y Into .Siocks OF Fuci,
Steel, Lumber, Textiles. elc.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26. Amend
mcnss to the wartime food control bill
recommended by Attorney General Pal
mer were ordered favorably reported
TO the Senate by the Agriculture Com
mlttee tonight. Two new amendments
were accepted by the committee ono
offered by Senator Smith, Democrat.
Of Georgia, legalizing the organization
Of fair price committees, and another
BY Senator Harrison, Democrat, OF
Mississippi. providing for reasonable
regulation Of rents in the District OF
Columbia.
Hurried inventory Of all stocks
fuel, steel, lumber, textiles, leather
and food--hold by basic industries.
would disclose boarding and spccula-
ton. William b. Colvcr and Victor
Murdoch, of the Federal Trade Com
mission. declared to-day before the
House Appropriations Committee
They urged that the commission be
provided funds for permanent work in
compiling information regarding these
basic industries, declaring such infor-
nation would reveal causes when liv-
ing costs rose suddenly.
Mr.. ColVer said the canned food in
dustry was filled with spectators. and
this condition was typical. The pack
of canned goods this year Is not yet
completed, he said, but so per cent Of
it has been sold and resod since last
January, many Of the sales being pure
iy speculative. To stop this spccula-
tion enactment of legislation would be
necessary, he said.
Department Of Justice officials to-
day refused to accept the compromise
proposed By members Of the Senate
Agriculture Committee on amendments
to the food control act to penalizc
profitccring
Senator Smith, Democrat. Of Georgia,
author of the compromise plan, which
would apply the proposed penalties for
sale beyond the "fair price" standards
only in case OF combinations Of deal
crs, said he would press the compro-
mise plan despite objections Of Assist
ant Attorney General Ames The De-
partment of Justice, Senator Smith
said, insists upon adoption of the
profteering penalties approved recently
by the House, declaring the compro-
mise amendment would make the de-
partment's authority doubtful
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Mailpouch, With $4,000
In Securities. Ia NI;ss;no

CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-Postoffice in
spectors to-day were searching for a
registered mail pouch containing s7o,-
600 worth Of Liberty bonds and securi-
ties which disappeared yesterday some
where between Joliet and Chicago,
Sccordlng to postal authorities IN
Jolet, the pouch was delivered to the
station tor transmission to Chicago in
stltutlons and disappeared either
while at the station or aftel it vas
placed on the train.
lhe bonds and securities were con-
signed to Chicago banks by Joliet
oanAs. 1t was stated the banks would
noS suner loss by disappearance of the
secu11e1es as they were insured.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
iyn He was a member Of Joppa Lcdse n,

201, +. and A. NJ. va
THOMAS S. GOODWIN. an iron,.~.
died Monday at his home. 1872 India S.r,
Brooklyn. after short illness, re !. S',.e., .as
vdosbsr viosd by his wid0~ two daughters and bi,
ELIZABETH T. MURPHY. seven.A.,
pupil in the Fay Ridge High School I.
Moneny at Otisville, N. Y. where she va.
spending the RUNNER. She j, survived as
her parents. Police Lieutenant Iere-n;oyy
Murphy and Elizabeth B. Murphy 'f1sn fosa.
brothers and four sisters. 1s
EUGENE A. MOON. seventy. a marin.
Rineer. a5sociatcd with the Geodetic S,,~,s ~
ing Service of the Port of New Yorj i al,
at his homo. 237 Oakland Street, BrooETT"a
OF heart disease. ''a'
AUGUST LEDERHAUS. se..,,.
musician, who was bandmaster of Sonad..sa
during the Spanish-American W. Wqros 40,
Sunday at Whitestone For severai ~es,. usl
was d cornetist in Giimores Band. "'
HOLLAND c. ANTHONY. an arcb;....
associated With Warren G. We.more. 49,
Monday in the Brooklyn Eospi,ai Tsa v
Anthony was a graduate Of Polytechnic H.. T..
stltute and had studied architecture m p.,'' ~
MRS. ADELINE ROBERTSON woGLox
seventy-hve widow of william Cropsy Woy'
lom, Is dead of pneumonia at her sun,,.e
home IN Wet Eaton, X. Y She was ho,r
near the historic Plymouth Rock, Piymon,s'
Mass, Of Colonial aneeet try Mrs Way1o-,,
had been resident Of Brooklyn more tbaa
forty years and had lived at q Winds
Place.
JULIA FIcHE. six.y-two. veteran scho,,
teacher in The New York public schools d.
Monday in Hills Sanitarium. after Io1s
illness. she had been principal Of pnbl;ss
School No. IL '''s
EDWARD MURRAY. sixty. master .,.
trician. died Monday at his home. Ia
Cooper Street. Brooklyn. lie was a rrernbs-
Of the International Brotherhood OF Electr;.
e. ca Mori'errs ard Co-lersrone Lodge No.
361, F. and 4. NJ ''
MRS. ANN ROUS WIGGINs. nins,v-
three, the Oldest member o. .ae South Tb;-s
Street Presbyterian Church BROOKLYN. died
MONDAY il Tie Greenpo.ns Home for tbs
Aged, Greenpoins
ANNE +. CuNNITF. tbi-,y-seven. prom.
inent n the Ladies Ca-hoi,- .'-ncvoent A.
sociation. died Sunday - h77 residence ga
member of the Hospiia. Gu.id Of the l.. C.
A. and Fort Hamilton Branch. knights Of
Columbus.
MRS. LOIS c. BOURNE wif. Of William
r. Bourne IS dead g Ter home in Esser
Fel-s, =. J, where she hat iitoi for thirtv-
SIX years. She was an a.-..- for four
years.
JOHN r. CONN. seventy. for many wear,
a member Of the Boara of ReT0f and the
Board Of Assessors ct Darier Conn. died at
his home there Yesterday. lie is survived
by his widow and three children
CAPTAIN ANDREW J. :. KFNNFDv
force at Providence, z. /. died there yes
terday after z long Illness lie was mem
ber of the Odd Fellows and the Providence
Police Association.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
Baker Denounced for
Dalmatian Expedition
Mccullough, of Ohio, Charges
Z. 5. Force Was Starved
by Drunken Officers
NcW York Tribune
IVGsjijnutOn Rjfrco,I

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Secretary
of War Baker and the sending of
American troops into Dalmatia after
the armistice, where it was charged
they were starved, scantily clad and
abused by drunken officers. were de-
nounced by Representative McCul-
Tough, of Ohio, in the House to-day
Affidavits from former members OF
Company II, 332d Infantry, Ohio men,
who after fighting on the Italian front
were sent down the Adriatic coast,
were read into the record by Repre-
sentative Mccullough in substantiation
of charges originally preferred and de
MED by Secretary Baker in February,
1919.
"Secretary Baker said the charges
were untrue and that no one could be-
lieve such slanderous stntements," said
Representative Mccullough. "EIe wrote
me letter citing report which he
said disposed of the charges. But the
report was made not OH the troops in
question but upon troops 800 miles
away"
Representative Madden. of Illinois,
remarked that he was in Europe at the
time of the difficulty over Iiume, and
'"it oHdU ielueliCeH SOlulcfS VINO were
IN Italy at that time told him that they
had to be put into civilian garb to pro-
tect themselves from violence at the
hands of the Italian populace
"Whatever The purpose of sending
these troops into Dalmatia," declared
Mr.. Mccullough, "the fact remains that
despite Secretary Bakers denials and
LEGATIONS, they were starved and
led on wormy food. housed in filthy
quarters and inadequately clothed At
the same time four out of five of their
officers were drunk most of the time,
and some of them were later removed
Tor, the very things which Mr. Baker
declared could not be true"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-27
HENRY W. SCOYuL

,, WATERBURY, Conn, Aug. 2s.-
Henry William Scovill, sixty-six, for
many years director in the Scovill
manufacturing Company, died of heart
disease last night at his home here.
MI Scovill was widely known for his
nenefactions, and he always was inter-
ested in philanthropic work. especially
mat o. the !. NJ. c. a. Mr. Scovill was
porn 1t. IN Waterbury, the son of James
Mltchell Lamson. Scovill and Sarah
Ann Merriman. He married. in 1874
Miss Elsie Hyde. Besides his widow
Mr.. Scovill is survived by three chill
rem and five grandchildren.