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New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Two Cabinet Members Said
to Have Been Represented
in Conferences That Pre-
ceded the National Call
Mr. Wilson Not Unaware
Meyer London Visited Pres
ident Just Before He Left
for Paris on March 4

Tn attitude of the politically wise
toward the new omnibus party of radi-
Gals, the launching of which was an
nounced yesterday, is that one should
wait to see more of its features before
making predictions.
For several months some such move
ment as this has been expected. 1t runs
parallel to q conviction on the part of
many prominent Democrats that party
success in 1920 is improbable without
the active cooperation of radicalism.
There have been number of confer
ences with that end in view.
Extreme secrecy from the beginning
has been observed with reference to
the identity of those who participated
IN the conferences. In consequence
gossip has been busy, and the same ru-
mors which accurately forecast the
launching OF the new party movement
on Thursday now connect with it the
names of several men high in the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party.
Some Who Are Named
For instance, it is declared that Sec
retary of War Baker was represented
In at least one or two of the confer
ences, and that Secretary of Labor Will
son also was present by deputy. George
Creel also is named. There are hints
that President Wilson was not unaware
OF what was taking place. On the day
before he sailed for France, March 4,
the President had long conferences in
OFT
London, the only Socialist in Congress,
and Representative Baer, of North Da-
kota, the Non-Partisan League member
of the lower house.
There is no suggestion, however, that
the President or any of his Cabinet
who may have been represented at
purely economic conferences had any
part in framing the radical programme
which is outlined in the call for the
conference
William Randolph Hearst is said to
have been represented. His publica-
tions are depended upon to spread the
propaganda of the new International
ism. and are already engaged in the
task; and of course there were repre.
sentatiyes at the conference of the
Nonpartisan League and the National
party. Others named in the gossip
about the movement as participating
are Frank P. Walsh and Louis +. Post,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Two Elements in the Movement
There are declared to be two ele-
ments In the movement who are en-
gagged already in quiet contest for
supremacy One of these seeks to
make the organization a distinctly new
party, pledged to the most extreme
radical principles, and would like to
capture the Democratic party organ
lzatlon. This element is in the ma
Jority and is responsible for the sug
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
American Socialist
Society Fined 600

A fine of $4,000 was imposed yester-
day afternoon, by Judge Julius NJ.
Mayer in the United States District
Court, upon the American Socialist
Society, found guilty By a jury re-
Gently Of violating the espionage act.
Earl r. Barnes, the United States At
torney. urged the maximum fine of
$4,000.
This society was tried jointly with
Scott Nearing for publishing a pamph-
let written by Nearing called the
"Great Madness Nearing was ac
quilted
Mr.. Barnes argued that the text
of the pamphlet was calculated to
make bad impression on the minds
of those who read it. He charged
the defendant with knowing this to
be true.
s. John Block, for the defence, dis
cussed the economic views and teach
ings of the society and said there
had never baen any intent to violate
the law.
Judge Mayer said he believed
that the defendant had no malicious
purpose in publishing the pamphlet,
and for this reason and the digniiied
manner in which the trial was con-
Quoted he felt impeled not to inaict
the extreme penalty.
His chief criticism of the pamphlet
was its glaring and indefensibe iuac-
curacies. Judge Mayer granted stay
of Judgment until April 14th, t. per-
nit counsel to prepare and submit
Il writ of error
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Has New Kinds of Food
Canucks Have Learned to Like
Whale Meat, Beaver and
Other New Dishes

War time conservation has given
Canada number of new kinds of food
that bid fair to remain permanently on
the national menv. Among the new
foods are whale meat, fatfish, beaver
and wild rice.
The Consolidated Whaling Corpora
ton, which succeeded the Victoria
Whaling Company in 1918, has Offices
IN Toronto and Victoria, and operates
three whaling stations at Kyuquot and
Rose Harbor, on Vancouver Island.
and at MAIDEN Harbor, Queen Charlotte
island, with ten steamers to hunt
whales. 1t also controls two whaling
companies operating at Bay Citv'
Wash, and at Akutan Island, Alaska,
The season lasts from May to Septem-
Der. The Canadian catch for 1917 was
379 whales and 500 for 1918.
Canned Whale Meat
The principal whales taken are the
finback and hur1pback. They meas
ure from forty to eighty-fve feet in
length and average in weight one ton
to linear foot. The little steel steam
ers which hunt them shoot a harpoon
from gun in the bow. The dead whale
IS inflated with air to prevent the pos
sibility of its sinking and towed tc
from Algonquin Provincial Park were
introduced in Toronto last year. Their
popularity spread through the PROV
ince into Manitoba and across the line
INTO Minnesota. Beaver have been
protected by law for years, but they
have increased so rapidly that open
seasons have been permitted in GER
tain districts in which to trap them,
and experiments in colonizing beaver
outside of Algonquin Park along the
line Of the Grand Trunk railway have
been undertaken with an idea of prop
agating the animals on commercial
scale.
Wild rice, which grows in abundance
IN the lake region Of Western Canada,
was rarely eaten until commission men
cf Canada and the United States saw
its possibilities as food during the
period Of conservation. They estab
lished market for it and it is now
in growing demand. Chicago Evening
Post.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Shipbuilding Costs
To Be Readjusted to
Basis of $3.50 a Ton
Experts TO Establish Peace
Time Price for Future
Contracts; U. S. TO Aban-
don Absorption Hazard

WASHINGTON, March 81. - Read
justment of shipbuilding costs to
peace-time production is expected by
experts of the Shipping Board to estab-
lish a basic price in the neighborhood
of $3.50 ton for future contracts let
to American yards.
Recent conferences here between
General Manager Piez Of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation and represen-
tatives of Pacific Coast builders are
said to have developed virtual unaniIn-
ity of opinion that high cost methods
Of production, which prevailed at a
time when the national emergency de-
manded speed in production above
everything else, should be eliminated
as quickly as possible to obtain re-
turn to sound business practice. Pros
poets of keen competition in world
trade routes, the Western men were
told, made it necessary to hold construc
ton costs to figure which would per-
NIT payment of dividends from COM
petitive rates which would have to be
established to get business.
Cancelled contracts will be replaced
with new orders when the ways are
empty, but the prices are expected to
be considerably below those prevailing
during the war, which sometimes ran
as high as $3.50 ton.
Government assumption of labor and
material hazards also will be aban-
doned. During hostilities. the Shipping
Board adopted a policy of absorbing
increased costs. Increases in wages
and overtime pay alone amounted to
$500, 100000. Hereafter, shipyard op-
orators will assume the risk of rise
in the price of material or of demands
for more pay, the government with
drawing its supervision over such
questions.
Readjustment of production costs is
expected to be facilitated by new prices
for steel, though the reductions scarce
ly will affect that part of the ship
building programme now under ccn-
struction. Most Of the steel ships now
being built were contracted for at a
lump sum, but the Fleet Corporation is
expected to benefit in the remaining
contracts, based on the cost plus
system.
It was said the Shipping Board re-
garded the cut in prices as likely to
encourage more shipbuilding.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Boulevard Map Plan
For Jamaica Bay Is
Adopted by Board
Mayor Airs His Views on
Citizens League and Other
Matters Before Estimate
Body Reaches Its Decision

The Board of Estimate and Appor-
tlonmcnt discussed yesterday the plan
to construct boulevard across ia
maica Bay from Sheridan Avenue to
Beach Channel Drive. After Mayor
Hylan had had his say about the Citi-
Zens' Union, Leonard M. Wallstein,
The previous administration, payments,
pavements and leases and Controller
Craig and Borough President Connolly
of Queens each had pointed out the
others errors, the Board of Estimate
and Apportionmcnt adopted the map
plan.
Borough President Connolly opened
the repartee with an explanation that
only the map, and not the physical
construction Of the boulevard, was be-
fore the board.
What about the long lease this man
Day got down there during the last
administration and the Citizens
Union didn't say a word ?" demanded
Mayor Hylan at this point.
Borough President Connolly replied
that long leases were common and
that the DAY people" would relinquish
voluntarily their title to any part Of
the lease affected by the construction
Of the boulevard.
There is a man by the name Of
Wallstein," said the Mayor, "who now
runs the Citizens Union and who was
Commissioner of Accounts during the
time the last administration gave away
almost all of Jamaica Bay. We didn't
hear a word from the Citizens Union
about it then"
Controller Craig said Borough Pres
not merely the map that was in oues-
tion the Controller said, for when
that was approved then there would
be the plan for the construction of
the boulevard and an approximation
Borough President Connolly insisted
that only the map was under discus
sion.
well, I, for one,' said the Con-
troller, will not vote to improve the
land Of the Broad Channel Corpora
ton at the expense of the city"
So the Mayor asked to hear from
the Broad Channel Corporation. H. S.
Sayres, It's treasurer, said his corpora
tion had not agreed to pave the boule-
ward.
eve never agreed to pave anything"
he added.
That's just X" Mayor Hylan agreed
with enthusiasm. "You don't want to
pay anything"
81 said pave not pay" returned
Mr.. Sayres. "P-A-V-E.''
Controller Craig said:
"Ihis discussion is unnecessary. 1t
is simply question of whether or not
the Broad Channel Corporation is 90
ing. to stand between the Roclaways
and this improvement"
ut is question:" amended Borough
President Connolly, "of whether or not
the Controller is going to stand be-
tween the Rockaways and this improve
ment."
The question of the map was put to
a vote. The Board of Estimate and
gave formal approval,
Controller Craig dissenting, and the
audience, Rockaway residents, ap-
plauded.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Girl Wife Tells Story
OF Old Mans Wooing
Mrs. Katie Wolf Hart, Aged l8,
Witness Against Her Hus-
band. Aged 81

Mrs. Katie Wolf Hart, eighteen years
old, whose eighty-se -year-old hus-
band, James Harvey Hart, is seeking
an annulment of their marriage. was
a witness on her own behalf before
Justice Benedict in the Supreme Court.
Brooklyn, yesterday.
Wearing handsome suit and cloak
which her husband had given her, the
bride of ten months said that she had
been forced to help support her mother
and four other children ever since her
father, died three years ago.
For q time she worked in factory
for SIS a week, and then became a mani
cure in a barbcrshop in the building
in which Hart had his Office She re-
lated at great length her wooing by the
aged man, and said he. proposed to her
week after they first met
When this occurred, she testified.
she told him he would have to see her
mother. She also said that Hart prom
ised to give her $4,000 on their we'd
ding day.
Under oss-cxamination, Mrs. Hart
said her husband left their home MS
a result of a quarrel. Dirty dishes.
she related, had been left on the man
tel, and when Hart ordered her brother
to remove them and he refused. her
husband left her, saying:
I'm through with you"
was so surprised that | was
specchless," the witness said.
Physicians testified yesterday that
except for slight heart murnlur Hart
was III surprisingly good health.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

gestion of the soviet system, which is
vaguely limited at in the call for a
national conference. The other ele-
ment hopes to keep the new movement
toned down and turn it to the uses Of
the Democratic party.
j. A. H.. Hopkins, who has taken
the leadership in the movement, says
frankly:
There is nothing to be hoped for
from either of the old political parties
They have nothing but political issues
whereas the issues which the nation
faces now are distinctly and emphati-
cally economic"
A Democratic national committee
man, when he was asked his views
about the new party, said:
Let 1T come. We may as we'll meet
the issue and have it over with, The
gentleman who said the old parties are
barren OF issues was more than half
right. The war has left US in an eco
nomic condition which is ripe for new
political alignmcnts and it will be a
good thing for the nation to see just
where we stand.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
W. u. Messengers
Deny BolsEnevisnl
Ani1nates Strike
We Want to Do Everything
Like Law Abiding Boys,
Says Youthful Leader;
Zone System a Grievance

Failure to receive a telegram, cost
ing two and onc-half cents to deliver,
may lose some broker $1,OO0,O00.
Adolf Brunwasscr, seventeen-year old
president of the striking Western
Union Messengers Union, said yester-
day. "We have got deliveries in the
downtown and financial districts tied
up" he added. "Thcy are trying to
telephone the messages, and if they
don't connect, they mail 'cm. A
broker can't wait for the mail" The
union, he said, would appeal to-mor-
row to the War Labor. Board to settle
the dispute.
Officers of the union denied their
strike was a Bolshevik movement 81
challenge any Western Union official
who says we are influenced by Bolshe-
vism to meet me in joint debate" said
Isadore Sturman, fourteen-ycar old
secretary. 81 can show we are not"
"We want an increase Of half cent
for delivering messages for which we
are now paid two and one-half cents"
said Brunwasser, who supports his wild
owed mother.
owe protest against the zone sys-
tenn the company wants to put in be-
cause it would cut down every boys
pay. The old way kid with no an
chors on his feet could make from SIG
to $25 week. With the zone sys-
TEN he can't make more than $40 or
$l2. We want 50 increase for week
workers, who now get SIP for day
work and $16.25 for a seven day week
at night, and also ask six day week
for night workers and lunch hour
NEARLY 1000 boys are out and we
will have ell the Offices in the city
tied up Tomorrow. We amt looking
for trouble. We want to get recog-
milton of the union and win this strike
peaceably, and are going to do every
thing like lawabiding boys"
There were several clashes between
pickets and messengers yesterday
Four strikers were arrested, one boy
being taken in twice. Sol Grubois,
an organizer of the union, said the
Western Union had hired strong arm
men and stationed them in front of
each office to intimidatc pickets.
Meyer Wolozansky, member of The
strike committee, said when the COM
mittee went to present their demands
to D. Shelton, in charge of the Western
Union messenger service, last Friday,
in company with their attorney, |. M.
Sackin, OF 271 Broadway, they were
told the company would not deal with
any attorney. Tuesday night, he added,
the boys decided to give the company
twenty-four hours notice of Il strike,
but before this could be done, the
union leaders were discharged and
strike breakers put into the Twenty
third Street office.
Union headquarters, but it was said
unofficially the strike had had but lit
tie effect in delaying delivery of
messages.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
DEATHS

BEASTON-On March 90. at the residen,
OF Gerrish II. MilliSen, 723 Park av.. New
York, Anne, daughter of the late Richard
beaston and Mary Someis. Funeral ser.
vices private Philadelphia papers please
copy.
DUNN-On Friday, March 21. at Si9 we.
94th ST., after q long illness. in her 7sh
year. Amelia Sillick. widow Of N GsnO
Dunn. Funeral services at ST PauFs
Church, S6th ST. and West End sv. on
Sunday afternoon. March %, at 3 oclork
lnterment at White Plains.
GILMORE-Anna b.. in her sSth year, widow
OF the Rev. John Scott Gilmore. on FRIDAY.
March q, 1919 Funeral service a; her
late residence. 81 Hudson av. Hayersrsv.
N. Y, on Monday. March "a. at i.:se
a. M. on arrival of train leaving Wee
hawken at 9:29 a. m.
GOODHEART- George. on March %. Sc.
vices THE FUNERAL CHURCH, Bres-
way, Goth ST. Crank (. Campbells), SUE
day, 2 p. m.
GRAVEL Panline, on Ma ch %. SERIES
IHE FUNERAL CHURCH. Brosdssl'
66th st. Drank Z. Campbcll's), Ssiu'
day, 2 p. m.
HETSCH-Oa March 81. Jacob K. becgtt.:
husband of Julia E. Hetsch. in his go
year: Funeral services at THE FIJNEsaL
CHURCH Campbell Buidingl, Brosdsu
o6th St, Sunday. 3 80 p. m. lnternsn' q
convenience of family.
Suddenly. of pneumonia Oh Msfsa
y, at the Peck Memorial Hospital, I!s.A NlIliam
Greenley Nicoll. son of tte late Nhsn
and Sarah A. Nicoll, of Islip. L. l., N 'as .s
lith year of his age Funeral services =
Emmanuel Church. Great River. l. -
ing New York at 40 p. m. lnterlaen'
private. Philadelphia papers please eops.
VAN TINE-Thursday March %, w
Thomas H. Van Tine. in the 5Sd year q
his age, husband of Minnie c. l'aws4oan 4a.'s.; ~.
son of Adelaide Allen and the late Ih'''''
H. Van Tine. Funeral private.
ROGERS-At 116 East cd St. New io's :.
Monday. March II, 1919. at 4 80 p. ~. ~.
her 23d year. Edith Elliott Rogers, VII
Edmund Pendleton Rogers and dsvgn.ei
Mr. and Mrs Howard Elliott. 100 Para ~
New York. Buried "Wednesday aise'ys s ysrI
March ~. in st. Jamess Chufen 40
Hyde Park Hudson. \. y.
ROMEO After a short illness. Fred ! To-
Romeo. in his oath year. beloved 90. !.
Francis Romeo. on Friday. March X av.,,s 7,
y. m, at $50 18th av.. BROOKLYN. - ~,
of funeral later. Dover DELI ps''D
please copy. ~yr
INVADE Ada. on March 10. Service. y.
FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, spa
Crank l.. Campbelrs). Sunday, D. ~
SCHERMERHORN- Suddenly, on Mar. arr
1919. Frederick Augustus scner,m,s.
son of Peter Augustus and Aaerssl n
Schermerhorn, aged "a years f9n.Ss ,.S 4
Grace Church. Broadway and lu'"
Monday. March q, at 10 a. m
TYLER On Friday. March II. 1919, ns, esrr
Parkhurst Tyler. widow of the iase US ~
RI. Tyler and mother of George VesI |
Edith l.. Tyler. at her home. ~ 's,sss
lo2d St, In her I'D year. Funeral ~ >. So
and interment in Chillieothc. oiaV' '"
day March %.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22

Shades" Later he served in -,
lice Department. 'as Il.
CHARLES SCHEFFLER. ret;,.,
ker, died yesterday at his hnmsa b
Charlotte Place, Ridgewood, al ain ~ 4;
of sixty-nine. - 'ae q
WILLIAM II. WOHLERS al,
tea and coffee salesman, die8 sassal ayssesals
at 1890 First Avenue. Interma"uoea
take place Sunday at Cedar Crow WI
MISS GENEVIEvE NJ M,nu
died Thursday at her home seaEkfff % Mkf
ton Street, Brooklyn, at the saa s,ss,
EIwehIy-one. Sne was a member os
nnaughsers aug s oil OF ISABELLA; the Childrs.' % !,
Mary and Court st. Clair. q
MISS ANNA TIERNEY. act;v.
work of the Church of Our In y tAs
Mercy, died at 53S State Street ''aRay Rsy T
AUGUSTUS LIBBY. retired ,u.a
merchant, died Thursday at HE "vvoass
eo Prospect Street, Summit. N JI0ns
the age of seventy-seven. Ne v, q
director of the Citizens Nation.,Tes Tss 4
of New York. ''''a' Sars
MRS. SARAH MILLS SHALE ~.
OF j; 3. Shale, former president - VIE
publishers Press, is dead Of pneuw,lIa y. "a
at So1 West 10sth Street. '''1n'as
HARRY BROWN, manager =.
Plies at Camp Perry. Ohio, died ~, ,saA
day Of pneumonia at his homoA Aauis ~,
Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 's' isa
JAMES w. BUTLER. osra.
twenty-five years in the emnlov u To
Williamson family, Jamaica y, he
Brooklyn. 81" Sueels
BATTALION SERGEANT M.,o.
EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN. attacSas Sasok
Headquarters Co., 77th Divis;on !. 70
a. Saranac Lake last Sunday y. ueu
an honor student of the class os tas was was
OF the Georgetown Law School ana ,sE
at one time associated with su se-s was
Assistant District Attorney Clsr, ,v'ne' 1e
was twenty-cight years old sna ne
longed to one Of the Oldest fam;l;o.o oe'
Jamaica. 1"''''es N
GROVER FRANCIS J.cvco,
president and sales manaoar nssoN
Mciiyane & Baldwin Corporati,anas a ,ns
adstiilers; az, died Thursday at his av, bowa
2Ol2 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn ''Ms me-
o"ShoS't was -Lnree Years ala :
Elk and had been prominentlv iI' ;Sa.s ~
fled with Brooklyn amateur at6leties aies''
MRS. ARMENIA HUNT CApprx
TER, widow OF Isaac p. Carnantsss Cl En-
1,u,. builder in Mount Vernon, died. died -
iyn; The body has been taken to o'pOA' pn.
N. Y. s" 70 hye
MORTIMER o. RICHARDSON o...
Ter of the brokerage firm 81 Tas Sssa'
tarnum & Co, in Manhattan ",ns' ing
treasurer of the Masonic Clrh aug
brooklyn, died Wednesday t' at VI y
brooklyn home, 70l st. Marks Avon. A. n.'
MRS. CATHERINE SHAY wiaom -', :,
Charles Shay, died Thursday "'st" AZ bo. o.
residence, 76S A Quincy Street R Proat asf
lyn, ! She is survived by two sons ns'I, :
GEORGE II. GOODHEART wbo A.,
thursday at Lloyd's Sanitarium af,s. ~.
snort illness, was d jcweller at ''.5 s.5
Fifth Avenue. N- a' 0s-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
Becker Declines
To Cross-Exanline
Baf Case Witness
Instead, He Sends Judge
Mcintyre Copy of Memo
randum Of Conversation
He Had With Di Paola

Deputy Attorney General Alfred
l.. Becker yesterday declined the in
vitation Of Judge Mcintyre to cross
examine Carmine Di Paola, witness
in the John Doe inquiry as to per
jury in the Baf case, who on Thurs
day testified to conversations with
MIR. Becker relative to changing the
testimony previously given by him on
the trials of Arichielo and Cardinale.
Mr. Becker transmitted copy of his
office memorandum relating to his con-
ference with Dl Paola in the BafF case.
According to the memorandum fur
nlshed by Mr.. Becker, D Paola re-
fused to talk to him in the presence
OF stenographer on the occasion of
the conference to which he had testi-
fled. After the stcnographcr had been
excluded, the statement says. the fol-
lowing conversation took place:
"Dl Paola said: You know about
the oher you made; does that still
mold good? | said: what offer?' He
SAID: The offer of immunity | said:
You mean in case you change YOUR
story?' He said: yes said: Things
are different now, because after | said
would consider such suggestion,
provided you would tell the truth. YOU
went ahead and told the story just as
before, and said you were telling the
TRUTH"
Joseph A. sorro was the only wit
ness examined yesterday. Judge Nc
lntyre warned Sorro that if any at
tempt to commit perjury was detected
he would be committed to jail.
Sorro's attorney, John Santora, oh
lccted to the remarks of the court on
the ground that they tended to in
timidate the Witness
Il have no intention of intimidating
him" was Judge McIntyres reioiner,
but I'm not going to sit here and let
him commit perjury if | can helm it,"