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The sun., 1919-08-21
LEGION TO OPPOSE
DISLOYAL AT POLLS
Will Fight All of Doubtful
Loyalty Who Seek Pub
lie Office. Z
BACKS ESPIONAGE ACT
Seventh Regiment and Old
First Cavalry to Form
Posts Here.

Such nonpartisan petsttcal activity as
the American Legion will permit itself
was defined by a resolution adopted by
the national executive committee yes
terday pledging the legion through its
5000 posts to oppose the election to pup
lis office of any person Of doubtful
loyalty "and more especially those
whose disloyalty has been judicialiy de-
ternined." The same resolution calls
for vigorous application Of the espionage
law.
The resolution with regard to the par
ticlpation of the legion in politics is as
follows:
Resolved, That the American Legion,
in accordance with its announced prin-
ciples as expressed in the preamble OF its
constitution and in the resolutions
adopted by 1t In caucus assembled,
stands squarely against violation, or
threat of violation, OF law and order,
whether by individuals or aggregations
of individuals: that II advocates, and
urges upon its membership to advocate,
the imposition of full penalties upon vio-
lators Of the espionage act: that 1t is
in.nuta bly, opposed to, and urges its mem
bersliip TO oppose. the admission TO the
national legislative body, or to any other
public Office. Of persons of doubtful
10y atty, and more especially of those
whose disloyalty has been judicially de-
termined"
Announcement was made by the New
York State branch yesterday that two
historic New York National Guard Or
ganizatious have applied for charters
for Legion posts They are the Seventh
Regiment and he First Cavalry. The
Seventh served rs the 10th Infantry
through the war and the membership
Of the First Cavalry was split up as
machine gunners. aviators artillery
men and what not through almost every
organization in the army
Brig Gen. Charles |. De Bevolse. Col.
Willard c. Fisk and Col Mortimer D.
Bryant head the application for the
Seventies post and the first two are
also interested in the First Cavalry post
being organized by Edgar T. Beamish.
375 Fulton street, Brooklyn.
! Among those who have signed the
/ application for the Seventies post are
c. Edgar Burton, Ogden H. Freeman.
Charles 2. Chamberlain. Gilbert F.
! Clark. William f. Munro, Arthur Tai
! bot, Thomas G. Simpson, William w.
| Hobert, George =. Nichols. Marston +.
Drake, William ). Hawkins, Arlan V.
Streat. Edward C. Bradford. Harry o.
Clayberger. W. Irving Clayton, John
w. A. Davies. r. A. Byrns. Edward
Gillespie. Joseph A. Cox. Edward Fitz-
/ patrick, Joseph \. Ahearn, Kenneth G.
( Wilson, Arthur NJ. Smith. Edward A.
| Mullaly. Rowland Tompkins, Thomas J.
Brady. +. VI. Justis. James r. Aver, A.
| n. Benedict c. T. Gray, Henry A.
Bancel, +. d. Conklin, Nicholas Engel
| and Douglas c. Despard.
Applications for the FIRST Cavalry
charter include Harry II. Spencer
Walter II. LoclIhart. Harry Won der
I Leith, John S. Roberts, Joseph f. Joyce
Joseph A McCaffrey. Walter r. Kuhn
James Crook McIeer, c.. Fred Appers
Harold w. Bomfeld. Louis @. Buisson
and Leo G. Eney.
/ All men of the "Old First Cavalry
The sun., 1919-08-21
ASKS $997,6O7 FOR
PARKS IN BROOKLYN
HarmOn's 1920 Budget Shows
Greatest Increase Among
City Departments.

or all tine tentative budgets pre-
sented so far by the various city depart
ments for 1920 the one that takes the
prize for the greatest proportional in
crease is that of John y. Harmon, Com
missioner OF Parks in Brooklyn. This
year he got $759,4s5 But he opines
that he must have all of 1897 ,607 to run
his department properly next year. This
Is an increase of s23S,112, or more than
80 per cent.
In glaring contrast to this Is the
budget of the Tenement House Depart
ment. which shows a decrease of s1.1l6
from the 1919 money appropriated. The
entire amount asked for 1920 is 1921 ,0S5.
The tentative budget of the Law De-
partment calls for S1,0S2,s65, an in
crease of S20.415 over the 1919 figures.
OF this Increase s12.750 is asked for
personal service or salaries.
District Attorney Swami asks for
s553.s2s, an increase of s30,1S4, most all
of which is for personal service. The
District Attorney of Kings wants $685.
515, an increase OF s2S,150.
The New York Public Library seeks
$1.05S.592 for 1920, which includes an
increase OF s173,s61 for personal service.
For personal service the Register OF
New York county asks 4 $2s.362 in
crease. the Municipal Service Commission
a $685. increase, the Kings County
Clerk an increase of s10.9s4. New York
County Surrogates' Court S21.300. the
Surrogate's Court in The Bronx s11.170
District Attorney of Queens county So
400 Supreme Court, Fire Department
$4,000.
II is expected that Mayor Hylan will
order the sub-budget committee of the
Board of Estimate to prune these esti-
mates down rigidly. There are many
salary increases that will have to go
through that have not been presented
yet. The budgets of the Police. Fire and
Health and Charities departments, which
are among the largest in the city. have
rot yet been presented.
The sun., 1919-08-21
HAND DENIES WRIT
WINE DEALERS ASK
Refuses Injunction on Ground
War Emergency Exists Till
Rehabilitation.

Federal Judge Hand, in an opinion
filed yesterday, denied relief to the wine
interests from the operation Of the war
prohibition law. He denied a temporary
Injunction pending trial Of the suit OF
Scatena, Lawson & Perelli, In which the
plaintiffs sought to restrain Francis @.
CGffey. United States Attorney. and
William II. Edwards. Collector OF Inter-
nal Revenue. from enforcing the law on
the ground that 1t ls unconstitutional
and void. The law was alleged to be
invalid as confiscatory and as pretend
ing to be war emergency legislation
after the war had ended.
Judge Hand held that the emergency
that appeared to Congress to make war
prohibition desirable would not be over
until rehabilitation had been completed
The court said
sc long as the treaty OF peace is not
ratified there is some chance Of the re-
sumption of hostilities, though ! place
but the slightest weight on this. A war
emergency of serious import arises, how
ever, in respect to the period of demoblli-
zation.
There has been and still is a stream
of enlisted men coming into and re.
naming in the United States The
great stimulus engendered by the
popular excitement which attended the
war by their expectation OF having &c
combat their country's foes has disap'
peared and more or less purposeless
and dull routine has followed. Under
such circumstances men are especially
subject to all the temptations which a
lack of immediate definite purpose az
well as certain relaxation of dis
cipline are likely TO entail.
During the same period the country
has been filled with other men but re-
Gently discharged from military service
a considerable number Of whom are said
in the moving papers before me to lack
employment. There Is. besides all this
the general restlessness which has ap'
parently followed the termination OF Q
great war.
Under such circumstances IL car
strongly be argued that the free use o.
stimulants may have peculiar danger:
to the community. At all events a do
not see how It can fairly be safdvthat
no war emergency exists directly grow
ing out of the war or that such emer
gency may not be affected by such q
thing as the liquor traffic"
!. The decision will be carried to thu
United States Supreme Court on appeal
Samuel Seabury appeared as counsel toi
the plaintiff Arm, which has vineyard,
and wineries in California and New
York ONCE.
The sun., 1919-08-21
BUTLER REVEALED
AS AN EX-CONVICT
Arrested on Charge of Rob
bling Employer in 1917.

4 man who described himself to the
police as Arthur Gerard, and who is
said by them TO have received prison
sentences totalling seventeen years, was
arrested at the st. George. S. l., ferry
house last night and locked up at Police
Headquarters, charged with having
robbed the home of Frederick H. Allen
at Pelham Manor, where he was en-
ployed as a butler of jewelry and cur
rency valued at $4,000 on May 10, 1917.
Immediately after the robbery OF Mr..
Aliens home, Bolton Priory, which is
one Of the show places of Pelham Manor,
the butler disappeared. The police there
have been seeking him for the last two
years, and this week they learned that
a man answering the description of the
fugitive was living on Staten Island.
The superintendent of the Allen estate.
together with two Pelham Manor deteo-
tives, went there. after the superin-
tendent had Identified Gerard as the
missing butler he was arrested by De-
tiyes Collins and Ihnken of the Sixty
sixth precinct, Stapletoa.
The prisoner was taken to Police
Headquarters and hngerprinted, proc
ess which the police say disclosed long
criminal record under the name of Jacob
swaboda and other aliases. According
to the records he was sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Brooklyn for two years
for burglary in 1889. In 1894 he was
given two years and half for the same
crime In San Francisco. Gerard. the
police declare, was sentenced to Sing
| Sing for three years for grand larceny
| In 1901 and to a six year term in the
Eastern Penitentlary In Pennsylvania in
1906 on two indictments for the same
offence. The last entry against him is a
four year term in Sing Sing for grand
larceny In 1911.
It was said at Police Headquarters
| that Gerard would be taken to Pelham
Manor to-day after his room and effects
had been searched.
The sun., 1919-08-21
so STAB WOUNDS ON BODY.
Mystery Surrounds Murder of Man
Near Milford.

MILFORD. Conn, Aug. 20.-State po-
lice. assisted by the local authorities
and detectives from New Haven and
Bridgeport, were attempting tonight tO
unravel the mystery surrounding the
murder OF a man whose body, bearing
almost fifty stab wounds was found
along the Milford turnpike here to-day
The only clue to the mans identity is
mark on his collar. which the State
police thought was that of laundry
in Derby.
According to the police the man was
not stabbed here, but was brought in an
automobile about midnight Saturday
One of the mans hands was clasped
to a wire fence where the body was
found, and the police think he was still
alive when placed in the bushes.
The sun., 1919-08-21

only have set fires in isolated spots. but
have In several Instances severed cons
nections between the FIRE fighting crews
and the outside world. with serious re-
suits.
In the Clearwater forest service tss-
ephone wire was found out In seven
places, and the ends wrapped around
trees.
Forest officials said a crew OF thirty
FIRE fighters retreating from a blaze had
left the forest along the route followed
by the telephone line Just before conr
n,unication was interrupted. II was i'm
possible to obtain information from the
Clearwater forest tonight.
in the Salmon Mountain district for
est fires burned uncontrolled south Of
the Bitter Root Valley. The White Cap
fires also escaped control lines. Three
lookout stations in the Selway forest Of
central Idaho were abandoned. Tho
blaze in the Cabinet forest was re-
ported sweeping down Swamp Creek over
fifteen mile front The Cold Greek
fire near St Regis. the largest In the
district, which recently was placed within
control lines, also broke out anew.
The sun., 1919-08-21
NEWSPRINT PRICES
TO BE INVESTIGATED
Senate Orders Inquiry, Which
Will Start at Once.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-Acting i'm.
mediately upon a resolution introduced
by Senator Reed (Mo.). the Senate or.
dered to-day the Committee on Manu-
LECTURERS to make an Investigation OF
The manufacture OF newsprint paper
The resolution, which was adopted with.
cut debate, follows:
Resolved, That the Committee on
Manufacturers or any subcommittee
thereof is hereby authorized and d.
rected to investigate the newsprint
paper industry and to ascertain
whether 1t is now or has been en-
gagged In discriminatory, unjust or
illegal practices and whether the
prices now being charged for news
print paper or similar products are
excessive and the causes for existing
prices.
The committee shall report to the
Senate the results of the investiga-
ton, together with such findings and
recommendations as II may deem
proper.
Senator La Toilette (Wis.) is chair
man of the committee which will TAX,
Up the investigation at once.
The sun., 1919-08-21
Award war Medals To-day.

Fifty-seven medals of America and the
allied nations will be awarded In the
Aldermanic Chambers, City Hall, at IL $50
o'clock to-day to heroes OF the war or
to relatives. who will -,ceive this mark
of a hero's posthumous fame. Nine
new names were added to the list pre-
viousy announced, the fifth being that
OF Chaplain Richard r. Rankin OF the
Twenty-nlnth Division. There are
twelve medals of the Distinguished Ser
vice Order to be conferred. The others
are medals of Belgium. France and
Italy. Mayor Hylan will make the prln-
clpal address.
The sun., 1919-08-21
GREY TO SAIL SEPTEMBER 3.
New Ambassador Plans to Come on
Adriatic.

LONDON. Aug. 20.-Viscount Grey. the
new British Ambassador to the United
States. Il is understood probably will
sail for New York on the steamship
Adriatic. which will leave Southampton
on September 8.
If he Is unable to perfect his plans by
that time he will sail on the next fol-
Loving ship.
The sun., 1919-08-21
PHONE RATE INQUIRY
WILL OPEN AUG. rs
Probe viii CoUer Greater
NeD York Schedules.
Special Despatch TO THE sux.

ALBANY, Aug. 20.-The Public Service
Commission. Second District. announced
tonight that on Thursday. August 2S, al
70 o'clock in room 400. Hall of Records.
New York, II will begin an investigation
Of the rates of the New York Telephone
Company in Greater New York.
Certain telephone rates were reduced
by the Commission July !, 1915, under
AZ order covering n three year period
and expiring July I, 1918. No action
vas taken by the Commission at the
ohpired time because OF war conditions,
during which yates were Increased by
tho Postma ster General.
The Commission will notify the COM
pany and Mayor Hylan OF the hearing
There viii be considered the question OF
valuation of the telephone company I
property. The investigation will b.
,cparstc frcEl that relating 10 the Net
Fopoliian telephone service now pending
The sun., 1919-08-21
FOREST FIRES GROW
WORSE IN THE WEST
Incendiaries Reported ActiUe
in Montana Woods.

AIIssouLA. Mont. Aug. 2O.--The gen.
eral fire situation in forestry district
NO. /, Montana and Northern Idaho.
never has been as serious as It is to-
day, according to forestry officials
New fires are breaking out. old blazes
are escaping beyond control, and II ID
reported incendiaries in the woods not
The sun., 1919-08-21

lery First Lieut.. Harry @. Borian. Tank
Corps. and First Lieut., Ralph Falt, In
fantry.
The sun., 1919-08-21

have been invited by Mr.. Beamish-
there are no military titles in the
American Legion--to attend the next
meeting Of the post in the armory. Bed
ford avenue and President street, Brook
lyn, on the evening of September 4. APP
plications for membership may be sent
to Mr. Beamish, 375 Fulton street,
Brooklyn
The Washington times., 1919-03-14
ONE DEAD, 3 Hurt,
: IN RUM RACE RIOT

MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 14.-one
negro is dead and three wounded
following desperate clashes this morn.
iEg, between party Of whites and
a group Of black in what is believed
by police to be a bootleggers' feud-
The first clash occurred when an
auto load Of whites met an auto load
OF negroes on q downtown street The
whites flashed their headlight into
the negroes car and fired two shots,
hut none of the negroes was
wounded.
The negroes speeded away and hid
in a negro cafe on Beale street. A
few minutes later two white men in
a roadster drove up. in front OF the
cafe and. demanded to know OF a
negro loiterer where the auto load OF
negroes had gone. Failing to answer
quickly enough he was shot Al the
sound Of the shots the fugitive
negroes. started running out OF the
door of the cafe. The Jwo white men,
still sitting in the auto, picked them
OF as they ran. One died instantly
and two:fen wounded. Then the two
men spee6ed away, leaving no clues.
The Washington times., 1919-03-14
WARSHIPSSAVED
BYBLISTER COAT

LONDON, March 14.-An invitation
known as a blister" coat is rated
one Of the best produced by British
naval experts IN the war time. L
served to protect ships against tor
pedoeS. It IL an outer steel casing
fitted to the sides of ships. All Of
its technical details OF construction
have not been revealed, but. naval
experts assert that ships equipped
with blistsrs run no greater risk
from. under sea attacks than from
surface fighting dangers. In the war
the Germans torpedoed several blister
ships, but in every case, it Is asseFt-
cd the vessels were able TO reach
port and be repaired.
Sir Z. H. I. D'Eyncourt. director
OF naval constructions. invented the
blister. which was first attached to
four old cruisers. Patiently the navy
waited for a test for two years. then,
in June, 1917. the cruiser Grafton.
while steaming at ten knots. was
struck amidships by a torpedo fired
from a German submarine only thirty
yards distant The blister, which
stuck out from the cruisers side
about fifteen feet, exploded the tor
pedo. and the Grafton steamed back
to port with only a slight list.
improvements were made on the
blisters and they were fitted to the
sister monitors. Erebus and Terror.
Both these vessels, mounting 15-inch
guns, bombarded the Belgian coast
for months. Both were torpedoed
within a week. and but for the pro-
tecting blisters they would have been
sunk. Three torpedoes struck the
Erebus, two hitting the fore part OF
the monitor where the blister tapers
off. AS a precautiOn the Erebus was
beached, but IL was afterwRrd found
that she was less severely damaged
than had been thought and she was
subsequently, repaired. No ship ever
before survived three torpe1oes.
The navy now has about fifty
blister ships in commission. includ-
ing some of the first battle cruiser
squadron. The new dreadn4ughtz|
Rodney, Howe. and Hooi are being
fitted also with blisters.
A self-propelling projectiIe charged
with 500 pounds Of T. ". T was per-
fected by the naval experts only a
short time before the armistice was
signed. 1t is believed to have
materially the power
and effectiveness OF the British fleet
The projectile can be discha ged
without conclusion from small boats
or a light platform. exploding, on
contact, or when fitted with a special
device, below the water. thus serV-
Ing the purpose Of depth charge.
The Washington times., 1919-03-14
De Valera To
Be. Stage
Hero

! Edward De ValerA'S escape from
Lincoln Jail in England. is to form
the basis Of q new opera, according
to a story that has just arrived in
town from New York. Victor Herbert
Is going to compose II.
Little did the Sim rein president,
who win probably be the frst ruler
OF, ireland : II that county succeeds
in gaining independence, think when
his romantic escape was carried out
that II would be used as the founda-
tion of q musical. production.
Here iS = Beautiful opera plot
ready made" said Herbert. What
could be more romantic than an
Irish gardener in the prison yard
telling De Valera what to do by sing
ing directions in Gaelic2>
Then, too, there Il the additional
motif OF the beautiful Irish girls who
masQueraded as flower sellers about
the prison to cozen the English
guards. Few great operas have such
romantic piots.gf'
Valera.s escape was carried out
after weeks Of planning By otheP Sim
Fein leaders: He Is now IN hiding In
London.
-NOIalnB was lcAl uhoone s y e. Inc
plOtters, who, as Herbert pointed
out. adopted : the novel way ,Of in
forming their impFfsoned leader OF
their plans by means Of q singing
gardener. The Irish girls to whom
tie composer refers, Wsfetgiyen many
rehearsaIs IA their. work and after
appearing outside Of Ehe prison walls
for more than three weeks, managed
to attract the attention CT the guards.
Then when the time set for the ess'
cape arrived. the supposed flower
girls walked the guards from the
gate through which De Valera was
postG - .r
While the composer did not say 50,
il is undeFstoOd that Efforts may
be made to have the original flower
girls themselves in the cast Of the
opera 81
The Washington times., 1919-03-14
De VALERA'S ESCAPE
MAY BE OPERA PLOT

NEW YORK, March I4.-Victor
Herbert, noted composer, is planning
a new opera based on the romantic
escape from Lincoln Jail. England, of
Edward De Valera, professor OF the
Slim Fein and probably tha first pres
ident OF Ireland il that country sue
ceeds in getting its independence. he
said today.
Here Is a beautiful opera plot
ready-made," said Herbert. What
could be more.romantic than an Irish
gardener In the prison yard telling
De Valera what to do by singing de-
rections in Gaelic? Then, too, there
Is the additional motif Of the beauti-
full Irish girls who maHdueraded ~
flower sellers about the prison to
eozsn the English guards. Few great
operas have such romantic plots"
The Washington times., 1919-03-14

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The Washington times., 1919-03-14

Escape of Sim Suggests New Opera-Oer
Gossip of Plays and Player Folk.
What's on
Behind and
In Front

In The Country Cousin" there is a
scene that requires the passing OF
fresh strawberries among the char
aeters. Because fresh Strawberries
are obtainable only a few months Ir
the year Harry Bissing. the company
manager, substituted red gumdrops.
which to the audience looked like thu
genuine article.
The guilty Of the gumdrops was
not always tasteful In some Of the
far Western towns where the prop
erty, man purchased them they tasted
more like an old rubber shoe than
berry, and 1t was with difficulty that
the players kept them in their mouths
long enough to give the semblance of
mastication. BiSsing met the. COM
plants Of his charges by changing
the menu to Maraschino cherries.
All went well until the company
ran out in Portland, Ore. That city is
as dry as a politicians after dinner
speech, and Maraschino cherries are
barred from the sanity State of Ore
gon because Of their alcoholic proper
ties
After endeavoring futilely to in
duce the proprietor of one OF the big
Portland grocery stores 10 sell him
the cherries, the latter, after learning
their purpose, led Bissing into his Of
nee, carefully locked the door. cauti-
ously looked behind everything, in
cluding the picture frames, and then
opened the safe. Deep down at the
bottom, packed in Swamp Root box,
he disclosed two bottles of Maraschino
cherries, which he bestowed upon
Bissing with an air as important as
max Marcia accepting a royalty
check.