New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

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1'a Avenue, The Bronx, was denied
citizenship yesterday because one of
ms witnesses. Simon O. Pollack, a
lawyer, of 875 Hunts Point Avenue
was said to have expressed sympathy
with bolshevism.
MIR. Pollack was in court when can
didates for citizenship appeared before
Justice Tierney. He denied that he
was entirely in favor of bolshevism
when Justice Tierney asked him if he
thought the Trotzky Lenine theories
should be applied in America. But
the court cut short his explanations,
and CURLY Informed Boltin that he
would have to apply again for citizen
ship.
Boltin came from Russia seven
years ago and Pollack from Moscow
twenty-five years ago.
The court also denied citizenship
to native German with the sur
name Sternberg. The examiner called
him to the bar, using his given name
Wilhelm
That's enough" interrupted the JUS
tice. HE might make a good citizen,
but not with that name" And Stern
berg's application was deferred until
ne can apply to proper authority to
change his name.
COLONEL WILLIAM HAYWARD,
~ former commander of the "Black
Watch" replied yesterday to the SUP
gestion that he might be again placed
in the Public Service Commission, say
ing he had no political ambitions and
preferred to be plain practising
lawyer" At a luncheon at the Union
League Club he said:
EARLY in the campaign in France
the slogan of the Old Fifteenth was
G. A. B.-Get a Boche. Now that !
am back in New York, in civilian
clothes, have changed that slogan
to &. A. C.-get q client"
A MEXICAN maids who arc expect
IN ing German helmets to place in
curio cabinets in newly foathcred
American homes will get the helmets
as their soldier swcethcarts promised.
but
They must not inquire tos closely
as to where the helmets came from.
"A factory has been started in
Lyons, France" reports Corporal
James Turner, of Warwick, N. Y, "and
it makes German helmets and iron
crosses for American soldiers"
Then there are the 10000 German
helmets stored in an Erie Basin ware
house waiting for the next Liberty
Loan drive.
HARRf SKINNER, one Of the young
est war veterans, came home yes
terday on the transport Sobral in olive
drab, wearing sergeant's chevrons.
he is sixteen. His parents were among
the Americans who died on the Lusi-
lama, but ne was rescued and sent
to has uncle's home in Scotland.
a Of f~..-
struggled him to France as a mascot
and he was gassed at Ypres. After
SIX weeks in a hospital he went raid
ing and was captured. He escaped
from Cobenz in a German uniform and
made his way to the front line, where
he fell willing prisoner to Com
pany G of the 1O2d u. S. Infantry.
The regiment adopted him forthwith,
gave him uniform and bugle and
dubbed him sergeant" He was with
the Americans at Chateau Thierry, st.
Argonne Forest.
MISS ETHEL WOODWARD, a Red
Iva Cross canteen worker, writing to
her brother, B. d. Woodward, of the
University Club, tells of an attempt
by German locomotive engineers to
buy canteen food. They had brought
trains to surrender to the Allies.
1T was my duty to refuse them"
she wrote. Il told them they could
not expect to sit down and eat at the
same table with the French, or ex-
pect the French to tolerate them I'M
der the same roof.
when one remembers the pride
that was once Germany's it seems re-
markable to see the present humility
of the Boche."
MARCH /, fatcful date, arrived shak-
lsA ing its name and roaring; it
gamboled away flirting its tail and
bleating- A tradition has it that if
March comes in like lion it will
go out like a lamb, and, contrariwisc,