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The sun., 1919-01-13
LABORITES ACCEPT
RADICAL PLATFORM
Newly Formed Organization
Has Stormy Session, but
Avoids Riot.

At the end OF stormy two day con-
vention at Yorkville Casino. 210 East
Eighty sixth street, yesterday the newly
created American Labor party of Greater
New York formed by vote OF SS4 dele
gates of practically every trade union in
this city. found itself with working
business organization. platform and
funds to carry the movement along until
the permanent party is formed.
The platform, covering a wide range
OF subjects, many OF them radical, was
adopted with little dissent. The meeting
was later thrown into a hubbub over the
discovery that one of the planks de-
manded the immediate release from
prison Of conscientious DIRECTORS and
ant!-militarists.
Only heroic efforts by Chairman Will
lam Kohn prevented the radical wing
from stampeding the convention and
passing resolution calling upon Presi-
dent Wilson to grant freedom to "all po-
litical prisoners and those convicted for
their sincere views on war and militia
rism."
Edward I. Hannah insisted there were
no political prisoners" and that those
who had offended Federal laws should
take their medicine The resolution was
finally recommitted for later report
The platform included the following
declaration:
For public ownership OF public util!-
ties. 100 per cent. taxation OF all incomes
over 100000. single tax, prevention OF
excessive inherltances by heavy taxes,
extension of free education in colleges
and universities. opposition to universal
military training and military training
In the schools in peace times. and the
local administration OF schools by an
elected Board OF Education.
The platform Endorsed President will
sons peace views. stating that n league
OF nations should be supplemented by
league of workers" Self-determina-
ton for Ireland, the immediate with
drawal of troops from Russia and openly
conducted diplomacy We're other de
mauls
The sun., 1919-01-13

"All my life have made study OF
humanity" said Mrs. Lilly. Il have
watched the young and the old to make
sure l could judge right, and l hope to
be OF some use when the Legislature
takes UP the problem of caring for the
States mental detectives. In my school
and court work | got so l could tell
children who were weak from those with
criminal incllnations. detectives. and
those the undercurrents get. l think
this will be one OF the real big prob
lens the State must face"
Mrs. Lilly says she is glad there is
another woman member Of the AS
sembiy. Mrs. Ida b. Sammis OF Suf-
folk county. even though they cannot
agree politically Mrs. Lily is Demo-
crat. and Mrs. Sammis a Republican.
Things seehed odd and strange when
marched into this chamber the hrst
night said Mrs. Lilly. 1T was the
first time had been more than ten
feet away from the New York city
policewomen, who escorted me here, OF
course. the Assembly Chamber itself
was nothing new to me, as | have been
behind the rail in the rear OF the mem
bers seats many times, when | was
here for or against various bills. ! took
part In the teachers equal pay fight
aud others that are well remembered
here.
But to be privileged to go and take
my own seat as member OF this As-
sembly. a seat OF my own, was some
thing new and strange. The men have
been lovely. and the Democrats have
acted as though they were glad to have
me here and that has been a very
comforting feeling for me. The Republi-
cans, too. are all nice to me, and do
you know. 90 a matter or fact, You
cannot tell a Republican from a Demo-
crat to look AZ them
Mrs. LILY. who comes from the Sew
enth Manhattan Assembly district. was
permitted to take seat number in the
well OF the Asse rbly Chamber. the very
front seat on the Democratic side OF the
house.
The sun., 1919-01-13
Hus Hatred for "Tsms.v

Like Mr.. Roosevelt, hate the isnns,"
said Mrs, Lily. 81 am dreading them
even now. l think new ideas should lie
a matter OF education instead Of ono
OF legislation. You cannot legislate
them into the people. but you could
educate the people up 10 wanting them.
That Is Just what happened in regard to
woman suffrage. That movement was
under development for fifty years. II n
movement grows and the people want
It. then comes the time for legislative
action. OF course II people bring their
isms here as part OF an educational
propaganda that Is all right, but they
don't Most OF them want their pro-
grammes swallowed whole. without
giving the Legislature time to look or
time to prepare TO digest the plan"
Mrs Lilly expects to introduce bill
abolishing capital punishment, says she
wants 10 beautify Riverside Park by
getting the railroad tracks covered over
and also plans to take an active in
terest in educational movements Places
were given to her by Speaker T. C.
Sweet on the Assembly Committees on
Education and Public Welfare. along
with Mrs. Samnhs. and probably will
have the opportunity TO do some useful
work along the lines that interest her
most
The sun., 1919-01-13
SMITH MILK BOARD
CALLS WITNESSES
Will Confer With Leaders Of
Rival Factions To-day on
Price Dispute.
RECEIPTS TAKE A JUMP
Bronx Consumers League Is
Planning to Buy Direct
From the Producers.

Milk receipts took a jump of s7.71e
quarts yesterday. a total OF 1.36O,OOO
quarts coming in, as against 1,272,3s1 on
Saturday on which day the supply Tell
1922 quarts below that OF Friday.
Or. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commits
sioner, who gets his reports from de-
partment inspectors direct from the rail-
roads. said he could vouch for their ac-
ouracy. He characterized as absurd the
contention of Albert Manning. secretary
Of the Dairymen's League, that the city
is not getting more than 25 per cent.
daily supply.
Gov. Smiths Mix Commission VIII
meet at noon to-day at the office of Rob-
ert +. Bowling, chairman, 165 Broadway
In response to a resquest oil MT. DOWNING
II. D. Cooper. president, and John d.
Miller, vice president of the Dairymen'
League, representing the producers. and
Charles A. Weiant and Isaac A. Van
Bomel representing the distributors. Will
tell the chairman whether they can or
cannot agree.
1t was evident last night that the
farmers and the dealers are as far apart
as ever in regard to prices for January
milk.
T.. Elkin Nathans. secretary OF the
MIX Conference Board. said: THE buy
ers will make no offer higher than $3.50.
President Cooper OF the league said
THE farmers are standing firm Tor
s4.01."
According to Chairman Bowling: III
they can't agree then there is no pos
sibillty of this commission settling the
controversy and the Legislature Will be
asked to take more drastic steps to com
pei settlement"
The sun., 1919-01-13
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The sun., 1919-01-13

Mrs, Helen y. Cobb, wife of James
Cobb. president Of the Abercrombie- Fitch
Company. was injured yesterday when
she was thrown from her horse while
riding in Central Park. The animal,
frightened by piece of paper, threw his
rider and started to run away. but was
caught by Patrolman Frederick Harness
of the Arsenal precinct. Mrs. Cobb,
suffering from decorations of the head
and knee. was taken to her home at AGO
Riverside Drive in an ambulance
The sun., 1919-01-13
DR.. MANNING PUTS
HYLAN ON DEFENSIVE
Asserts Mayor Knew Hearst
Selection Would Offend and
Provoke DiscOrd.
MASS MEETING FRIDAY
Trinity's Rector Endorses In
dependent Committee to
Welcome Warriors.
MASS MEETING FRIDAY

That Mayor Hylan knew beforehand
that the presence of William r. Hearst
on the Committee to Welcome Returning
Soldiers would be deeply offensive AMI
would cause discord was the assertion
made yesterday by the Rev. DR.. william
T. Manning. rector of Trinity Church.
lie issued a statement scoring the Mayor
for appointing Hearst and calling for Tho
support of all good citizens in behalf ot
the Independent committee which viii
take on the real responsibility of 4 pa
triotic. suitable welcome.
"The Mayor of New York city," SAID
DIR. Manning, has appointed commits
tee to welcome our Homecoming troops.
This action on the part of the Mayor
was highly appropriate and most crafty
ing to all of us. The appointment o.
such committee was hailed with un.-
versal approval Citizens Of every Kind
were ready and eager to give their helb
and felt that it would lie great honor
to do so. But to the amazcinent Of cur
loyal people, it was learned that tho
Mayor had made William Randolph
Hearst a member OF the committee aud
that he had appointed MIR. Hearst chair
man Of the subcommittee on military
affairs.
Can Keep Personal Friendship.
"John +. Hylan. has right to have
Mr.. Hearst for his personal friend. II
This Is satisfactory to him. Mayor Hylan
acting in his official capacity. has no
right to appoint on the committee OF weI-
come to Homecoming troops one WHOSE
presence on that committee he khe~
would be ceeply offensive TO great part
of our citizenship ari TO great numbers
of the soldiers ami sailorstnemsc'VeS
I'VE must not fail, however, to give
our men the welcome which they have %
noblv earned To provide for sucn
welcome is the purpose OF the Indepen-
dent citizens Comm ttee Of Welcome. All
citizens Of New York, bo'n men and
women. who are In sympathy "'ts mo
effort are asked TO send ia their names
for enrolment I'm IRIS committee. II - 20
include loyal citizens % g." stocks all
faiths and all political views. and people
desiring to join are req rested TO SEM
their names to +l5 Madison avenue.
"On Friday, Ja' ua-y u, at /. ~
n great moe';nG is 10 lie held IN Madl@on
Square Garden. Let the families ara
friends of our to'diers and sailors be
there In overwhelming numbers to eX-
press their feeling in this matter
Nothing Is too good for the mon WHO
have been riskiuE their lives to defend
Va They are the finest lot of fellows
the sun ever shone on, and they are "iT
own. l believe that the wives, fathers
mothers. brothers. sisters. sWeet'eaf's
and friends of orr men in the service
will make the meeting on January 4
a demonstration which New York VIII
not soon forget"
The sun., 1919-01-13

The opening of the Pershing Theatre,
Forty-fourth street and Madison ave-
nue., which had been postponed, will
take place tonight. THE Message OF
the Star of Gold" written by Miss Mar
garet Vail. will be presented with Miss
Vail in the principal role. Men in uni
form are invited.
The sun., 1919-01-13
Preparing for His Army.

within the last few years Lebaudy
caused excitement on Long Island by
announcing to horse dea lers. farmers and
others that he was anxious to buy horses
to equip an "army" of cavalry which he
was about to send somewhere or other.
simultaneously he decided also to buy
up Long Island cattle, which he said
were to be killed to feed his "army."
Thirty Long Island horse traders and
others managed to sell him many anti
auated specimens of horseiesh. Within
few months he had gatheerd so many
head of horses and cattle that the
Hampstead health authorities had TO
take action against him because Of COM
plain made.
Last summer he arrived on n sloop at
oyster Bay. Upon landing there he
went to an Oyster Bay plumber and in
sisted that the plumber bore holes in
the sloop to sink her. Then, he said
he would show that he could raise the
sloop again to the surface by means OF
an invention which was to revolutions
lie naval warfare" The plumber re-
fused to take part In the venture, and
Lebaudy, very wrathful, sailed away.
Usually he carried from $1,000 to
many times that amount in the black
leather portfolio. which he always lugged
about with him. Long Island residents
said yesterday that on one occasion he
had displayed 100000 in bills and tucked
the roll back in the portfolio again
Whenever his erratic behavior brough,
him into trouble with the authorities he
was prepared to pay fines or deposit cash
bail In any amount asked.
Although abusive at times to Broad.
way walters, no instances could be
found where he had physically harmed
any one, except the attacks he Is SAID
TO have made upon Nine. Lebaudy.
The sun., 1919-01-13
Bap,ists to Raise sG.ooo.ooo FUND.

The Baptists want s6,O0000O ITO tn
sure spiritual democracy at home ant
for reconstruction abroad" Or. Fred T.
Haggard, director Of the national COM
mittee OF Northern Baptist laymcn. an
nounced last night that 1t is planned to
collect the money through teams OF lay
men,
The sun., 1919-01-13

night--a Hotel Albert key was found
In his pocket after he had been shot
that he was altogether unknown there.
At all the hotels he frequented 1t was
said that he always came into the din
ing rooms unaccompanied. Always he
wore long ulster a muffier about MS
neck winter and summer, flat crowned
derby hat of an old fashion or fuzzy
fedora, and the inevitable portfolio OF
black leather under his arm, without
which he never was seen.
As the result of one OF his riotous
visits to Nine. Lebaudy at the Lodge
about three months ago several thou
sand dollars worth Of beautiful furni-
ture went up in smoke. First he raved
through the Lodge. smashing new furni-
ture right and left with an axe, and
then he lugged the pieces to the base
ment and thrust them into the furnace.
Following another such visit which
he made at the Lodge about three weeks
ago Nine. Lebaudy was taken down with
the cold which developed into the
bronchitis from which she now is suf-
fering. On the visit In question Lee
baudy not only roughhoused the furnish
ings again, but also smashed the heat
ing plant of the house, whereupon Nine.
Lebaudy had to install oil stoves to try
u keep herself and daughter warm. The
cold followed the lack of heat in the
house.
on one of these recent visits Nine. Le-
baudy appealed over the telephone to
Sheriff phineas Seaman for help. as she
had done on other occasions She was
advised to ask protection from members
of the State Constabulary stationed near
her country home.
The sun., 1919-01-13
SEATTLE BRINGS
IN 1900 SOLDIERS
ArmOred Cruiser Battered by
Icy Gale All the
Way.
ONLY FEW SAW FRONT
One Sailor Tells of Harsh
Treatment by Germans in
Prison Camp.

The armored cruiser Seattle, originally
the Washington. came into port yester-
day as a transport with her nose Ice
sheated and battered by the most ma
llgnant winter seas her commander
Capt. J. r. Y. Blakely. ever has encoun-
tered In his career on many raging deeps
Her 15O0 soldiers OF various detach-
ments. chiefly anti-a.rcraft and pachine
gun units, had several bad days when
clifflike combers smashed aboard.
Many doughboys were knocked out
and one, Private Charles o. Headley OF
the 3O9th Trench Mortar Battery. fell
dead on deck from heart disease agra
waited by seascknese. The old war
camoufiage Of the cruiser. covered by
gray paint, washed away by the lashlng
crests. was revealed again.
The worst of the hurricane blasts
came along from the Northwest on Jan
uary 4, when the Seattle, which was
running at her economic speed OF about
300 miles day. was able to make only
ninety-five In the tumult. Her forward
and only the veterans reported at meals
One towering gray back that broke
aboard carried away the after star
board llfeboat two life RATS and
wrecked boat forward, besides
crumpllng the forecastle bulkhead.
All Hands Kept Aboard.
The soldiers We're mighty happy wher
the cruiser tied up to the solid earth OF
Hoboken. but were disappointed wher
told that they could not set foot on II
until to-day, All hands took the order
good humoredly, learning later that II
was partly Of a disciplinary nature, In
pursuance of the recently announced
policy of Major-Gen. Shanks. in charge
OF embarFation. who found the disci-
plire of officers relaxing on arrival
Naval Seaman John Peter No OF
New Orleans, OF the Seattlc's crew
told of his experience in German prison
camps and the events t'"t precc'ed
his capture. He was attached TO the
naval aviation base at Dunkirk. and o.
July : he pat out in a scout patrol viii
six others TO answer Il wireless distress
signal from a seaplane. They found nc
trace of the seapiane and. sighting an.
other plane. received instructions tror'
her 10 follow her course They did. and
finally losing her came within gunGho,
Of the neGhborhood of Ostend. The
German batteries began Smelling Their
and they jumped overheard n few min.
utes before a she'll sunk their little ship
Two q his shipmates were killed 10y
shells while swimming toward shore
He and four others landed ana were
made prisoners.
The sun., 1919-01-13

On the complaint of Nine. Lebaudy
he was committed on October last to
an asylum at Amityville. so Lawyer
Murdoch said yesterday. Three days
later. added the lawyer. he escaped but
was recaptured and sent to the asylum
at Kings Park Long Island. Lawyer
Murdoch thereupon secured his release
on a habeas corpus proceeding and La
baudy again. according to Murdoch, was
declared sane by a commission before
Justice Callaghan in the Supreme Court.
Brooklyn
Murdoch declared Yesterday that he
had taken charge Of the murdered mans
estate in this country. including the
Lodge. which the lawyer believed to
be worth about sl50O00. Nine Lee
baudy is said to have been living on
an allowance OF $4,000 a year, which
her husband had been ordered to pay
her.
Officers who searched the house yes
terday said they had found little food
or other evidences Of the comforts
which many In the vicinity had been
led to believe would be found about the
place Neighbors told the officers that
the little girl. Jacqueline. had been
taken away from her studies at Brent
wood Academy several months ago be-
cause Nine. Lebaudy didn't think she
could AFFORD" to keep her daughter in
the academy
The sun., 1919-01-13

Politics has not bothered Mrs. Lilly
much UP to the present time. She de-
clares she is n Democrat who will stay
with the party. and does not expect to
kick over the traces" She was very
fiustered when she was escorted down
The sun., 1919-01-13
Passing the Buck Along.

There seems to be n very decided i'm
preston among producers and dlstribu-
ters that the troublesome milk situation
has not been made less troublesome oy
the activities Of men holding public
office. Mayor Hylan started the ball
arollng by declaring that something
had to be done. He passed the job along
to District Attorney Swami and a John
Doe inquiry was started. Then the Dis
trict Attorney asked Gov. Smith to do
something and do II in n hurry, and the
Governor appointed his commission. Now
both producers and distributors suspect
that the Governor will have to pass the
lob along to the State Legislature and
both sides to the controversy are ask
ing: what can the Legislature do?'
1.-THE milk situation is improving rap
Idly from the standpoint of the dairy
men" Mr.. Cooper. the league president.
eaid last night. Hundreds Of reports
show that the dairymen are more united
than ever, realizing that they must win
the fight against the big Borden-Sheff leld
milk combine, or go out OF the dairy
business. Less milk Is being received
each day, despite reports to the con-
trary
Consumers realize this because they
know they are not getting the milk. Con-
sumers also know that much or that
purchased of the large dealers In the
combine Is not Of good quality. The
milk middlemen claim credit for reduc-
ing the farmers price so low that II ac-
cepted thousands Of farmers must make
immediate arrangements to reduce their
dairy herds and go in other lines OF
farming. But with all the dealers gen
crosby. his own margin is not reduced
at ALL and this margin Is nearly twice
hy mil
cities Despite dealers misleading state
ments, farmers prices for milk in New
York in 1913 were below the average
throughout the United States"
No Increase in Price Oner.
Secretary Nathans Of the MIX Confer
ence Board. issued this statement last
night: The announcement in to-day 8
newspapers that the buyers of milk were
prepared TO increase their offer of $500
for January milk provided the producers
were willing to make some concession,
and not Insist upon 81 Of per 100 pounds,
is likely to be m sinterpreted by the
producers. The buyers have not made
any offer and will make none higher than
$3.50 for January
This position Is based upon sound
business considerations the reasons for
which have been 90 clearly get forth from
time TO time. These considerations are
that the amount of milk in The market
does not warrant a higher price than has
been offered. and that the producers in all
other territories are voluntarily selling
their milk at less than New York buyers
have offered.
I'VE are daily increasing the supply
received from normal sources as well as
the quantity OF milk being brought in
from outside to make up the deficiency
in the normal supply. The resumption
OF the ferries on the Jersey Shore ending
the inconvenience OF the last several
DAYS, has tended to relieve the situation
materially"
The Consumers League of The Bronx
Is preparing to purchase milk through
the Dairymen's League direct from the
farmers at first cost.