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New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
West Virginia Not
To Be s'Bone Dry''-Yet
"Ouart Month"; Will Be AL
lowed Into State, Despite SUI
pre1ne Court Ruling

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 2O.-The
quart month" rule in West Virginia.
whereby residents of the state may
bring in one quart of intoxicants each
month, will continue in force despite
the recent construction placed upon the
Reed "bone dry" law by the Supreme
Court Of the United States. This state
ment was made here by Walter S. Hal
lanan, West Virginia Tax Commits
sioner, in response to inquiries from
all sections of the state.
The Supreme Court in its construc-
tion held that the Reed amendment
made it unlawful to bring into dry
states any amount Of liquor at any
time, while the West Virginia prohibi-
tion law contains the quart a month"
clause.
In announcing that the West Vir-
gnia prohibition department would as
sumo no authority in enforcing the
Reed amendment, but would continue
to enforce the monthly quart law, the
Commissioner said: "In view of the
certain near approach of nationwide
prohibition and the transfer to the
Federal government of authority for
enforcement of prohibition laws, do
not believe it expedent to disturb the
provisions of our present law"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Municipal Utility
BillGets Approval
OF State Mayors
See i'll Measure Only Real
Means to Get Efficient
Service Under Public or
Private Ownership Plans

ALBANY, Jan. 2o.-The State Con-
ference of Mayors to-day made public
statement signed by the president
Mayor Walter r. Stone. of Syracuse,
and Mayor Cornelius F. Burns, of Troy,
chairman of the conferences General
Legislative Committee, which reads in
part as follows:
"The permlssive municipal ownership
bill which will be introduced in the
Legislature this week places Il munich
pal utility on the same basis as pri-
vate utility by submitting it to the
same regulations and atfording it the
same protection. After most careful
study of the utility problem we be-
lleve that this is the only effective way
to guarantee efficient and economical
service under either municipal or pri-
vate ownership If this bill becomes
law in substantially the same form as
it is presented, we believe that any
city which is not getting proper SER
vice from private utility can either
obtain or provide it. On the other
hand as long as private utility gives
good service at reasonable rates it can
enjoy the protection which it must
have in order to operate.
ITO the Public Service Commission
is given the same jurisdiction over
rates, service, issuance of securities,
operation Of a utility and keeping of
accounts as it now has over municipal
and private utilities. 1t, however, adds
one feature not contained in existing
laws affecting the regulation of utili-
ties. By means of the initiative and
referendum the regulating body-the
Public Service Commission-is made
amenable to public opinion.
"The procedure for requirement, es-
tablishment, financing, maintenance,
operation and control has been very
carefully worked out SO as to guard
against,
81. Hasty or ill-advised action by
and its officials.
"2. Unloading on municipality by
a private utility.
"3. Collusion between public and
utility officials.
a. Inefficient or costly service.
"5. Improper management and tinanc-
ing.
IS. Unjust attacks on private utili-
ties which give good service at rea-
Sonable rates"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
La Cuardia Finds
Hospital No. 3 Is
Above Criticism
Reports of Serious Basket
Cases. Are Untrue, Says
Representative; Food and
Sanitation Are Excellent

Representative Fiorello La Guardia
inspected Debarkation Hospital No. 3
IN the old Greenhut store yesterday
as result of complaints he had re-
celved. He had been told that erla-
tlves of soldiers did not receive suf-
flclent warning Of the nature of in
Jurles and that one woman ha dfainted
on finding her husband "basket case. -
Neither this complaint nor others con-
corning discipline, pay and food had
any basis in fact, Major La Guardia
said after his visit.
"There is no case there nor has there
been for weeks" he said. where both
legs and arms arc off. The statement
regarding the woman faintng is un-
true and no such thing happened The
so-called basket cases are those where
the wounds arc Of such a nature that
the officers do not want to disturb a
patient by having him walk.
Sanitation Is Excellent
81 spoke to several of the boys who
had just arrived this morning and
they made up the usual gunshot cases
of wounds in arms, legs or body, but
so dressed that it was not desirable to
have the patient moved so they had
been carried on Stretchers.
Sanitary conditions are excellent.
Light and air are plentiful and the
heating is g9od The food is excellent;
| tasted it myself. The recreation and
pass systems are wonderful. The boys
who are not able to out are we'll
taken care of. Those who can leave
get passes, are taken to theatres and
visit many parts of the city.
Was Pleasantly Surprised
"a good deal has been said about the
boys not getting their pay. On ar
irving at the hospital they receive
questionnaires and are paid all the
government owes them on their own
accounting Of what is due. Most of
the boys prefer not to draw their pay.
The general spirit of the hospital is
excellent. Not a single complaint that
heard in Congress or that was sent
to me in letters was justified in my
opinion. | was pleasantly surprised
and | visited the place from cellar to
top floor.
~ plan to ask some of my colleagues
IN Congress to come here and see the
hospital for themselves. In these DAYS
when we have SO much to criticise it is
u pleasure to be able to give praise
where it is deserved"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Strike of $4,000
Waist Makers Is
Called Here To-day
100000 Persons in Kindred
Trades Will Be Thrown
Out of Work at 10 A. NJ;
AK is p. C. Wage Raise

A general strike of the $4,000 work
ers in the waist and dressmaking in
dustry in Greater New York was or
dered by the leaders of the Interna.
tional Ladies Garment Workers. Union
last night.
The walkout is scheduled for 10
o'clock this morning
The strike will tie-up 1000 shops
and will throw out of work approx
mately 100000 persons in kindred
trades.
Demands for Is per cent increase
in wages, forty-four hour week. and
certain conditions affecting shop man
agement are made by the union. They
are willing to submit all their griev-
ances to an impartial board for arbitra-
tion.
The manufacturers are willing to
submit the question Of wages and
hours for settlement at n conference
but demand the right to discharro en-,
ployes except for union activity and
the abolition of the provis on fer the
equal distribution of work among al
employees. Thesc provisions, thcv as
scrt, are SO vital to their industry that
they cannot trust them to adjud.c .cation
by an outsider.
Benjamin Schlesnger, president of
the Garment Workers Union, an
nounced the waikout in a red. white
and blue circular, printed in three ian
guagos. He stated that the action OF
the workers was unavoidable because
of the alleged lockout by the manu-
facturers of from ten to twelve thou
sand workers in anticipation Of The
strike.
ave have done all within our power
to avert this strike" he said. "Whor
we presented our demands for a fort
four week and for an increase in wagc
we announced that we were ready to
submit all questions IN dispute to arb
tration, but the manufacturers d.
clined our offer and began to discharge
workers right and left.
"We expect that the sympathy of the
city will be with the workers, and that
the public will not be influenced by
statements of the manufacturers that
the workers were not loyal to our
country. They have bought $4,000 OOC
worth Of Liberty bonds and have made
garments gratis for tho Red Cross"
The workers we're instructed tc
leave their places in an orderly man
ncr promptly at 10 o'clock and assem-
BILE at various halls, according to the
location of their shops. "The more or
der in our ranks" reads the order
"th0 more certain Is oug victory"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
S5OO,OOO Raised
In Days Drive for
Jewish Homeland
Collect Many Large
Gifts for $1,000, 900
Fund; Entire Country Is
Responding Generously

The Zionist Organization of America
had collected more than $5OO,0o0 last
night at the close of the first day of
its campaign to raise $4,000, 900 for
the Palestine Restoration Fund.
Among the large gifts were $4,000
from Sigmund Eisner, a manufacturer
of New York City; $4,000 from Mrs
Joseph Fels; $4,000 each from Jacob
Schic, of New York City, and Peter
Schweitzer, of Brooklyn. and $4,000
from Eugene Mayer, of New York City.
San Francisco and Los Angeles re
ported $4,000 and $35, 900 respectively
at their first meetings. But the smaller
communities are setting the pace in
generosity. Atken, S. c., town
with twelve Jewish families, raised
$1,000, and ten families in Passaic, n.
j., pledged $3.50 at the first meeting.
The campaign will run for two
weeks and is part of drive the world
over for 500 900, 900 to be used in re
storing the national Jewish homeland.
The quota for New York is S1,250,000,
which workers say will be raised
within two weeks. One million of the
SSoOO,O0O will be used through the
Jewish Colonial Trust and Anglo
Palestine Company to make loans for
internal improvements and expansion
of industrial and commercial activities
in Palestine.
Cooperating with the Zionist Organ
i2ation of America in the drive are
$50 organizations. Telegrams poured
in to the headquarters of the organi-
zation yesterday from every state in
the Union, stating that the drive
started off with generous response.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21

one conld stand on, say, the west side
of Broadway, just north of Forty-third
Street, and see across Times Square.
The piles of subway contractors shacks,
derricks, material and waste from the
traction tunnels which heretofore have
been a barrier to vision further than
half way across the street had disap-
peared. The last girder on the subway
storehouse and Office which had stood
SO long at that point came down about
noon, and the Cleanup Broadway cam
paign which the Broadway Association
started in mid-December had achieved
it's happiest result.
Broadway looked as changed as man
who has just discarded Van Dyke and
brought the face out into the open.
Times Square was practically on the
level again, and there was as much in
terest manifested in the view as if a
water main had burst and made lake
there.
The change at Forty-fourth Street
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Organ Grinder Seeks
Share in $35,OOO,OOO
Pole Says He Has Spent $4,000
Collected i'm Street On
Long Lawsuit

Sole heir, he says, to $35 100000
estate left by one of the California
argonauts of 1S49, Joel Feldman, an
organ grinder, aged nfty-three, told
Magistrate Thomas Nolan. in the Har-
lem police court, yesterday, that he
had spent $4,000, gathered slowly in
pennies and nlckels and dimes, in vari-
GUS abortlvc efforts TO gain posse ssion
Of the fortune.
Feldman, who was arrested for viola
ton of the ordinance prohibiting organ
playing on the streets after p. m. on
Sunday, said that he and his wife and
their children came from Poland, where
he had been an organ grinder, twenty
years ago. The trip was prompted, he
explained, by notice that an uncle,
Jacob Horowich, who had gone to Cali
fornia in the height of the mid-century
gold rush, had died leaving mines, real
estate and other property valued at
$35O0O,O0C.
He brought his organ. "a Hot Time"
was popular then and hurdy gurdies
playing that and other ragtime could
attract a crowd of young dancers on
any East Side corner. Most of the
$4,000 was gathered during that time
But in little while the movies came
and the business of playing music for
street corner crowds in the summer
slumped badly, and Foldman told the
court he had been having a harder and
harder time procuring funds with
which to carry on the fight, whose
course during all the years he traced
with the aid of frayed and yellow legal
documents, newspaper clippings, letters
and tattered petitions.
All his children had died meanwhile
Feldman said, but he and his wife,
assisted by the faithful hurdy gurdy,
intended to keep up the fight.
Magistrate Nolan fined him So, which
lie paid in nickels.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Bolshevist Given
Is Year Sentence
For Disloyal Talk
Brooklyn Dentist Accused
of Telling a Brownsville
Audience He Would Fight
in the German Trenches

For the infammatory speech he de-
livered Thanksgiving night before a
Socialist gathering in the Brownsville
Labor Lyceum, Morris Fucker, dentist
and professed Bolshevist of Brooklyn,
was sentenced yesterday to serve fif-
teen years in the Federal prison at
Baltimore
Sentence was pronounced by Judge
Edwin l.. Garvin in the Federal Dis
trict Court of Brooklyn, where Fucker
was convicted last week of violation of
the espionage act The prisoner re-
ceived the judgment unconcernedly,
but his wife tainted when the Judge
told the prisoner that he could not
even have bail pending appeal.
Fuckers counsel, Louis Boudin,
urged that the verdict of the jury be
set aside. He argued that the war
was over and the Bolshevik principles
preached by Fucker could not hurt the
country now.
To-day there is nothing more i'm
portant to the country than that its
citizens he loyal, and disloyalty will
not be tolerated." the judge answered.
THE court would be glad to believe
that what you said was said innocently,
but would be remiss in it's duty if it
tailed to take steps which will prevent
you from repeating the offence for
some time to come"
The sentence then imposed was fif-
teen years on each of four counts, to
be served concurrently
The prisoner, who is only twenty
four years old, in his speech at
Brownsville declared he had claimed
exemption from service in the Ameri-
can army and gained it because of the
baby who was with it's mother when
she tainted in court. But he declared
that if he ad been in Germany he
would have been willing to fight in the
first line trenches.
Charles |. Buchner assistant United
States attorney, opposed bail on the
ground that none should be granted
a convicted Bolshevist. He also op-
posed nation to refer the case direct
to the Supreme Court for review.
Judge Garvin denied bail but reserved
decision on the motion for review
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Italian Ship Rescued
Anchor Liner Took Disabled
Vessel i'm Tow OFF the Hook


Officers on the Anchor Line steam
ship Calabria, which arrived here yes
terday from Genoa, said they found
the Italian steamer Ensaldo III dis
abled last Friday, about 400 miles off
Sandy Hook The Calabria picked up
the Italian ships wireless call and
went to her aid, taking her in tow.
Late Friday night the disabled crafts
officers asked the Calabrias captain to
drop the tow lines, as government
tugs had responded to her radio for
help.
The Ansaldo was on her way to
Genoa with a freight cargo from Phil
adelphia. The Calabria brought seven
American naval officers from the Medi
terranean
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21


follows that made in the course Of the
Broadway Associations campaign at
Broadway and F'orty-second Street,
where an almost equally mountainous
heap of debris disappeared virtually
overnight ten days ago
by the end of the week" said Henry
c. Opdycke. managing director of the
Broadway Association, "the old Square
will be a useable breathing spot once
more"
Already it is possible for pedestrians
to move about the Square with some de-
gree of comfort, and the street surface
on the west side of the Broadway car
tracks and the east of the Seventh Ave
nue. tracks have been restored to such
condition as to make it possible to
board streetcars with east and safety
something that has not been feasible
for the New Yorker in several years.
Now new concrete sidewalks are be-
ginning to emerge from the widespread
area lately buried scores of feet deep
under the subway fotsam.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Civic Bodies Also Suggest
Investigation of Health
Regime by Legislature
Harris 5 Snub Denounced
Academy of Medicine to
Be Asked for lis Opinion
of commissioners Action

representatives Of more than sixty
New YORK. civic bodies met yesterday
IN the ballroom Of the Murray Hill
Hotel and listened to speeches con-
demninc Health Commissioner Royal S.
copeland's removal of the Division Of
Industrial Hygiene from the Bureau Of
preventable Diseases. headed by Dr.
Louis / Harris.
Among the suggestions made by vari-
Gus speakers and cheered by the dele
gates were investi cation Of Commits
sioner Copeland's entire regime by the
Board Of Alderman and the State Legis-
lature and a demand for the Commits
sioner's resignation.
The meeting unanimously voted that
\ committee, composed of DR.. G. Alsop
of Barnard College; Dr.. Ira S Vile,
DR.. George NJ. Price, Mrs. Frances
Carter Wood, James J. Bagley and Rose
Schneiderman, wait OH Commissioner
Copeland and ask the restoration of
Dr.. Harris's full power.
Opinion of Experts Sought
1t also was voted, on the motion of
DR.. Sidney Goldstein, Rabbi Of the Free
Synagogue, to appoint special com
mittee through the Woman's Municipal
League, which called yesterdays meet
ing. to ask the Public Health Commit
cine to make public it's opinion of the
recent Health Department change.
"The real Health Commissioner of
New York IS DR.. Monaghan, the private
physician of Mayor Hylan," said DR..
Goldstein, and if the city admins
tration won't submit to an informal
investigation by the Public Health
Committee OF the Academy OF Medicine,
well try to have q formal one by the
State Legislature"
John Coughlin. representing the
Central Labor Union, Of Brooklyn and
Queens, declared labor influence was
$4,000 appropriation for the Division
Of Industrial Hygiene.
"The Mayor and the Health Com
missioner ought to learn" he said,
that it is dangerous to play politics
with the health and safety of the citi-
zens of New York. This administration
was glad enough to use 1abor's desire
for better conditions as stepping
stone to power. Now it is not keeping
its pledges"
DR.. Barris's Work Praised
Fred Gaa, of the Painters Union,
said DR.. Harris's work was unique in
the history of New York.
"This man actually came around
and tried to learn what conditions
were he said. He showed an earnest
desire TO accomplish something, and
he even came back from time to time
and asked our opinion as to whether
he was doing any good. We never had
heard OF such a thing"
Evans Clark, renres senting the Social
ist aldermanic delegation, told the
meeting the Socialist members of the
city government would aid any meas
ure the civic bodies might rekuest for
the preservation OF the Health De-
partment's efficiency. He urged that
pressure be brought to bear in favor
Of the pending resolution requiring an
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Mrs. Hyams Given Divorce
Papers in Case Are Sealed by
Supreme Court .Iudge

WHITE PLAINS, Jan. 2O.-Sealed
papers concealed the grounds for a
divorce granted by Supreme Court JUS
tice ". P. Platt to Mrs. Violet V.
Hyams from Chapman Il. Hyams, of
New York. 1t is understood that
100000 was set aside by Mr.. Hyams
for his son, Charles H. Hyams, Sd, and
large sum given TO Mrs. Hyams in
lieu of alimony.
Charles II. Hyams is the son of
wealthy New Orleans man. He makes
his home in New York only intermit-
tently. All information in the case was
refused by the attorneys for Mrs.
HyamS
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
L. S. to Return Vessels

The Dutch ships requisitioned by the
Shipping Board for war emergency op-
Grafton, with the exception of those en-
gagged in government service, will be
turned back to their owners as fast
as they become available in American
ports.
This was made known here yesterday
by Commissioner John A. Donald, act
ing chairman of the Shipping Board.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21

A shining example of the
way we do things when we
discontinue certain lines
of shoes!
Sale,
Some 1000 pairs: mostly
high, tan and black. A few
pumps. Not all sizes in
everything, but something
in all sizes.
All from our regular
stock.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Travel to T.. S. HEAVY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-Ambassa-
dor Davis at London cabled the State
Department to-day that it is virtually
impossible to obtain return passage
to the United States from Europe at
this time. Officials said this condition
was due to the use of so much tonnage
in returning American troops howe
and TO the general congestion of trans
atlantic traffic.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Broadway, Slnorn of
Its Tunnel Debris.
Amazes Observers

Matinee crowds, hotel habitues and
others who frequent Broadway in the
vicinity of Times Square during day
light hours sustained an ocular shock
yesterday. Eyes were rubbed. There
was something different about the
scenery; the landscape had changed.
But how? And then the answer came:
"Why, we can see across the street,"
Which was undoubtedly true For the
hrst time in years-four, to xe exact
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Club Issues Year Book

The 1919 edition of "Club Members
of New York" was issued Yesterday by
j. B. Gibson, of 81 East Forty second
Street, member of the New York Ath-
letic Club. The volume contains the
names of officers, of fifty-one stand
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
American Aviasor Hero
Hies i'm German Prison

LEE, Mass, jan. Lieutenant
Ivan ]. Roberts. of South Lee. an avi-
ator, who was reported as missing in
action early in November, died in
prison camp in Germany Friday night.
Lieutenant Roberts wes twentv-three
Years old. and had been awarded The
Distinguished Service Cross and the
CroiX De Guerre for bravcrY in action
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21

explanation from Commissioner Cone
land 10 the Board of Aldermen.
Rose Schneiderman who urged q de
mand for Commissioner Copeland's
resignation; Mrs, Florence Kelly, Of
the National Consumers Lcague;
Edward }. Rybicki, representing the
Central Federated Union, and Rabbi
Nordecai NJ. kaplan, were amonp the
other speakers. Federal Judge Charles
A' Hough, presided.
commissioners Letter Read
Mrs G. S. Baxter, secretary of the
Woman's Municipal League, read the
leagues invitation TO Commissioner
'opeianG to be present at Yesterdays
mecNng. and the commissioners letter
saying ne would be busy at the office
until O'Clock and couldn't come.
MIS-. LILLIAN Sire, president Of the
SOC ety for the Aid of Mental De
ecuVes, read Commissioner Copeland's
statements given to the newspapers
In The Tribune b. DR.. Warren S.
Coleman, chairman of the Advisory
Committee of the Bureau of Prevent
able Diseases. Mrs. Sire said she pot
ont OF bed. although ill, and came to
lne meeting IN taxi cab, to bring
commissioner Copeland's defence.
Leonard NJ. Wallstein, representing
the Citizens Union, said the commits
sloner's statement was full of "weascl
words" and its contents were mex
plicable in view of the promises DR..
Copeland gave labor leaders regard
ing his intention to respect their in
terests
Many Bodies Represenfed
Among the organizations represent
ed at the meeting were the Civil Ser
wee Reform Association, the Manhat-
tan Maternity and Dispensary Social
Service, the Citizens Union. the Wom-
ans Department of the National Civic
Federation, the Committee for the
Care OF the Jewish Tubercular, the
Hospitals Social Service Association.
the Seventy-ninth Street Neighborhood
Aousueu, utuheu Henry Street Settle
ment the Woman's City Club, the AS
soclatlon of tuberculosis clinics, the
United Hebrew Charities, the St.
Luke's Hospital Social Service, the
Presbyterian Hospital Social Service,
the Foreign born Women of the Y. w.
Z. A, the Charity Organizations So
ciety, the National Consumers League.
the Womens' Trade Union League, the
New York Free Synagogue, the So
ciallst Aldermanic delegation, the Cen
v-al Federated Union, the New York
Child Welfare Committee, the Portia
Club of New York City, Inc; the So
cial Service Department of the Hos
pital for Ruptured and Cripples the
Babies Welfare Association, the Wom-
ans Suffrage party, the Diet Kitchen
Association and the international
Ladies' Garment Workers. Union.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
RoGERs PEET COMPANY

ing committee and 10000 members of
the club. Other club information is in
cuded in the book