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New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
A. E. F. Men Needed at
Home to Get First Relief
Pershing Ordered to Return
Meritorious Cases ON Arrival
of Volunteers

WASHINGTON, April SIN formal
ly advising General Pershing that 5o.-
600 volunteers are being enlisted here
to replace an equal number of men in
his army who want to come home. the
War Department has directed the COM
nanderin-chie to return for dis
charge selected meritorious cases as
he receives these volunteer replace
ments.
The War Departments cableeram.
made public to-day, follows:
I'VE are not enlisting for three
years $4,000 volunteers as follows: e5'-
600 infantry, $4,000 field artillery. E.
900 engineers, 5000 medical depart
ment. 1000 cavalry. These will be sent
you in detachments OF 1000 for assign
ments to the army of occupation.
Upon arrival of each detachment
return to the United States for dis,
charge an equal number of men en-
listed or drafted for the emergency.
ferably those who fall under circular
II, War Department, 1918, and those
with Glass A and Glass B allotments."
Circular IT, to which reference is.
made provides for the discharge IF
man upon his application where there
is sickness or other distress in the
soldiers family, or where he was
urgently needed in the occupation from
which he went in civil life into the
army. The allotment classifications
mentioned in the cablegram cover the
men who are making the largest pro-
vision from their salaries for the sup
port of dependents at home.
The 10000 volunteers are to be as
sembled in provisional companies at
Camp Meade, Nd, in preparation for
going overseas
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
U. 5. Sells 81 100000 Worth
OF AirnIancs To Curf;s

WASHINGTON, April 3.~-The War
Department announced to-day that a
contract had been signed with the
Curtiss Airplnne and Motor Corpora
ton, Of Buffalo, for the sale of 4.6OS
Curtiss X-5 metotrs, 1916 J N-4
planes without motors, and LOO Stand
ard planes without motors
The contract calls for the payment of
S2.7200 600 for this property, which. the
War Department announced, from the
standpoint of use by the army is obso-
lctc and worn out
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Wilson Saves Two More
Soldiers From Execution

WASHINGTON, April Records of
the trial of two additional cases in
which soldiers were convicted of muir
derlng comrades were made public to-
day by the War Department.
Private Ernest krutchfeld. 365tb
Infantry, was found guilty of having
KILLED Sergeant Frederick Carroll, of
the same organization, by shooting him
with rifle at La Voivre, France, Sep
tember 4, 1918, and was sentenced to
be hanged. On the recommendation of
General Pershing the sentence was
committed to life imprisonment because
the sergeant who was killed had
threatened krutchfield just prior to
the shooting.
Private George Davis, a negro, con-
vlctcd at Newport News, Va, of having
killed Charlie Jackson, another private
IN the same labor organization, August
~, 1913, was sentenced to be hanged.
President Wilson committed the SEN
tcncc to confinement for twenty years.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Pedler Wins Damages
For POliceman's Assault

Alleging that he was brutally beaten
by Patrolman Thomas O'Flaherty, Of
the East Twenty Street station,
Rocco Antenore, a pushcart peddler, Of
20 Bedford Street, was awarded S4OO
damages yesterday by jury before
Justice Abraham G. Meyer in the City
Court.
IF the plaintiffs statements re-
garding the policeman's acts are true,
this was one Of the most brutal as
saults that | ever heard Of" said Jus
tice Meyer, as he ordered copy of the
record sent to District Attorney Swami
and to Police Commissioner Enright.
The evidence showed that Antenorc
was peddling fruit n Seventeenth
Street, north of Union Square, last
September when O'Flaherty came up,
took a handful of his wares and started
to walk away. Antenore protested
couldn't afford to supply the police
department with fruit A crowd col
lected, and O'Flaherty tossed quarter
into Antenore's cart.
Two days later, Antenore says,
O'Flaherty accosted him in the same
locality and threatened to arrest him
if he didn't move to the other side of
Fourth Avenue. Half way down the
block, Antenore testified, the policeman
struck him and knocked him down
with such force that he lay in the
middle of the street until patrol
wagon from the East Twenty second
Street station arrived.
The peddler produced as evidence in
his damage suit photograph of the
bruises and cuts on his face and neck
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Highway as T. r. Memorial
Part of Long Island Road Urged
at Capital

The plan of making part of the pro-
posed highway from Montauk Point to
Long Island City into Roosevelt
Memorial was strongly urged at Albany
yesterday by representatives of Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk counties, who went
to the capital to advocate legislation
needed.
The present plan is to use part Of
the Brooklyn water conduit beds. The
highway, if it materializes, will pass
through Oyster Bay, close to Sycamore
Hill.
The committee which went to Albany
has asked an appropriation of 100000
to be used for maps and surveys of the
entire state.
The new highway, if completed, will
extend along the Hudson to Albany,
thence through Utica, Syracuse and
Rochester and end at Buffalo. The
total length is to be go miles in New
York State alone
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Romance Ends in Separation

Justice Benedict, in the Brooklyn
Supreme Court, yesterday granted a
decree of separation to Mrs Emma Gil
bert in her suit against Edward H. Gill
bert, after efforts to effect a reconcilia-
tion had failed. Thus ended a romance
that began fifteen years ago, when Mrs.
Gilbert nursed her present husbands
mother. Mr.. Gilbert is a retired real
estate operator of Utica, n. Y.
Mrs. Gilbert charged her husband
with cruel and inhuman treatment.
She said he threatened her life.
Justice Benedict awarded the custody
OF two sons to Mr.. Gilbert and a daugh-
ter to Mrs. Gilbert, who will receive
$3.50 month alimony.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Taxi Driver Held Up
Two Masked Soldiers and Sailor
Did Ii. He Saws

TENAFLY, N. j., April 3.-John D.
Pyc, taxi driver, was held up early
this morning while returning from
Camp Merritt by two soldiers and a
sailor, who wore masks and carried,
he says, the largest revolvers he ever
saw.
The highwaymen tied Pye to a tree
and left him there. while they started
off in his taxicab with $72 and a watch
belonging 10 him. They abandoned
the cab by the roadside further on,
but kept tho money and timepiecc.
Pyc finally managed to wrggc loose
and give the alarm, but too late to
overtake the thieves.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Goth Wounded Have Party
Rubberneck Ride Ends With
LOngacre Hut Social

After an omnibus ride around the
city yesterday afternoon more than
thirty wounded veterans of the 69th
Regiment were entertained in the
Longacre Hut Of the Knights of Co
lumbus. Their entertainment was
shared with soldiers and sailors from
other units but the Rainbow" badge
was most in evidence.
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt. jr., was hos
tess for the afternoon and with the
assistance of Miss Murie Vanderbilt
Miss Katherine Mackey, Miss Betty
jackson and Mile. NJ. Amuat, served
refreshments and cigarettes during a
vaudeville programme.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
ChalOner to Arrive
Here Tonight After
y Years Absence
Coming to Place of Birth
to Testify at Libel Trial,
but May Try to Re-
open Insa nifty Case

John Armstrong Chaloner, the mill
ionaire great grandson of John Jacob
Astor, who hasn't seen New York City,
the place of his birth, since he was
committed to Bloomingdale Asylum in
1897 as dangerous lunatic,' will leave
Merry Mills, his estate at Cobhan. Va.
to-day and is due in the Pennsylvania
Station at 1915 tonight. He is re-
turning under the protection of the
United States District Court and will
appear in that court next week as the
plaintiff in his suit for libel against
a New York afternoon newspaper.
Reserve the best in the house at
the Brevoort," he wired Morris Streu-
sand, his attorney of record, at 29I
Broadway yesterday.
1t is twenty-five years since Cha]oner
was adjudged insane by Justice Glider
sleeve in the Supreme Court of this
county. In those days the Brevoort
Hotel, at Fifth Avenue and Eighth
Street, was the centre of gay life for
him. He was born in the Rhinelander
mansion at Second Avenue and Eleventh
Street, and he has expressed desire
to make the Stuyvesant section his
temporary home.
1t is likely that Chaloner will enjoy
a much longer stay in the metropolis
than he anticipated. In granting a
writ of prohibition against the inter
ference of his committee of person and
affairs who were instrumental ii hav-
ing him confined at Bloomngdale.
Judge A. ~ Hand in the Federal court
allowed Chaloner five DAYS leeway in
the city before and after the trial of
his suit.
The actual time consumed by the
trial will probably be heightened con-
siderably because the defence has en-
tered plea in abatement which sets
up that Chaloncr has no legal capacity
as a litigant, as he is still an insane
person in New York State.
After Chaloner's mysterious escape
from Bloomingdale he suddenly turned
up in Charlottesville, Va, the girlhood
home of Amelie Rives, the novelist, his
wife, who divorced him in 1895. She
later became Princess Troubetzkoy.
Chaloner took court action and was
adjudged sane in Virginia, and also
in North Carolina. Later he had his
name changed from Chanler to
Chaloner
1t was learned yesterday that
Thomas T. Sherman, representing
Winthrop Astor Chanler Lewis Stuy-
vesant Chanler and others of Challo-
ner's committee, assured Chaloner that
he need not go to the trouble of get
ting court protection, as the commit
tee had no intention whatever of in
terfering with him.
Although the decision of the jury
in the abatement plea if it holds
Chaloner sane cannot upset the ad-
judication of Justice Gildersleeve, it
being a collateral matter, it is possible
that it may result in Chaloner's TAX
ing new action to have his sanity
established here.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Rickard Slated to Referee

Tex Rickard, of Goldfeld, Ely and
Rawhide, Nevada, New York and
Buenos Aires, is slated to be the third
man in the ring at the Victory dinner
of the Rocky Mountain Club of New
York, at the Hotel Waldorf, April g.,
when frankie Fay, of the Army, and
Phil Wagner, of the Navy, feather
weights, will trade punches. Police
Commissioner Enright is among the
invited guests.
Caricaturists of the New York pa
pers, headed by Briggs, will draw their
conceptions of the celebrities present.
General 7. Coleman du Pont will act
as postmaster, and the guests will in
clude John D. Rockefeller, jr., Senator
Calder, John Hays Hammond, William
B. Thompson, Cation Borglum, Gen
eral Shanks and Colonel BILL" Cava-
naugh, ranking officer of the 91st
(Rocky Mountain) Division in New
York.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Union Gas Hearing April 9
Company Wants to Issue 81
80O. 900 i'm Rords

A hearing on the application of the
Brooklyn Union Gas Company for per-
mission to issue $4,000, 900 of debent-
ure bonds will be held by the Public
Service Commission on April Q.
Between February /, 1914 and Janu-
AIRY 81, 1919. the company declared.
$2,s02,232 was expended for the acoui
sition Of property and extensions. This
was drawn from the TREASURY and the
company now desires to capitalize the
expenditure.
The petition stated that in 1918 the
company did not earn the dividends
paid on It's stock The declaration Of
! u per cent dividend, payable April
|, 1919, the company stated, will ex-
haust the surplus fund.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Soldier Gets 15-Year Term

Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, in General
Sessions, yesterday sentenced Charles
McGovern, twenty-five, of 172 West
Ninety-eighth Street, soldier, to ff-
teen years at hard labor in Sing Sing
for first degree robbery.
Judge Rosasky said plenty of work
awaits the soldiers and there is no
need of them beginning a life Of crime.
McGovern and another soldier, who
escaped, held up Vasilios Cologrides,
at 249 West Fifty third Street, and
robber him of S35.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
All Men of 9th To Be
Civilians by Nightfall
Only 1859 Members of Division
Now at Camp Upton; Will
Be Discharged TODAY

CAMP UPTON, April 3.-All but
1859 men of the eth Division have
been mustered out of the service and
have left camp. These will leave to-
morrow night, if not before.
During the past forty-eight hours
the men have been too busy getting
ready TO return to civilian life to
give much thought to military routine.
The chief subject of discussion has
been the prospect of obtaining a po
sition as soon as they are back in
"cits.' Hundreds of them are certain
of their old positions or have obtained
others, but there are hundreds of
others who have no jobs in sight.
To-day 4,3OO men were discharged
The 102d Sanitary Train, numbering
s97 men, and the 1o2d ammunition
train, mastering 462 men, will be dis
CHARGED Tomorrow
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Rolph Visits Hylan
San Francisco Mayor Calls N. Y.
Official big Hearted Man,

Mayor James Rolph, jr., of San
Francisco, who is in the clay to well
come the returning soldiers from his
city, called on Mayor Hylan in City
Hall yesterday. The two Mayors had
a fifteenminute talk and when the San
Francisco official left he was accom-
panied to his automobile by the New
York Mayor.
Mayor Rolph was asked what he
thought Of Mayor Hylan and replied:
"Your Mayor is a very fine, human.
big hearted man. The courtesy he ex-
tended to me and our troops here ex-
ceedcd our fondest expectations"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Help for Stranded Sailors
Office in Broadway Where They
Will Be Aided

Men discharged from the navy who
are without funds are to be assisted
through an office opened yesterday at
1886 Broadway. Commander B. G.
Barthalow, who was placed in charge
of the work by Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt,
said several thousand navy men are
stranded here.
MANY of these men are without
places to sleep" said Commander
Barthalow. I'VE have asked the po-
lice to bring any struggling sailors
to us. Any sailor who has been dis
charged from the navy since Novem-
Der II is entitled to $50 bonus and
transportation at the rate of 5 cents
a mile from the point of discharge
to his home or place of enlistment.
Some men have received the money
and spent it, while others have not yet
collected it. We are assisting both
classes of men,"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Henderson to Visit Here
Invited by U. S. Labor Party
viii Accent. Say Friends

Arthur Henderson, leader of the
British Labor Party, will visit the
United States shortly, it is expected
and make speeches on behalf of tho
American Labor Party. The invita-
tion to Mr.. Henderson to come here
was delivered by Miss Rose Schneider
man, president of the Womcns Trade
Union League.
William Kohn. chairman of the La
Dor Party in this city, said yesterday
that he had been assured by friends
Of Mr. Henderson that the latter would
accept the invitation. Mr. Kohn said
the intention Of labor leaders is to
introduce him at mass meeting at
Madison Square Garden, TO be follow
ed by a tour Of the country.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Disabled Ship Arrives
Transport Scranton Back in
Port; 3 Seamen Lost

The troopship Scranton, which be-
cause Of a broken rudder post when
700 miles out, was forced to return to
port, anchored in the lower bay here
yesterday.
The transport Ell Sol reported when
she arrived that three sailors of the
Scranton were drowned when a small
boat put over the side was swamped.
The men were John Clement Jones,
apprentice seaman, of Chrome, N. j.;
William Sorenson, seaman of Berwin,
S. D., and Clarence Philip Pickner, ap-
prentice seaman, of Ambrose, N. D.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
''Hobo King" to Steal Ride on
Rickenbacker's Airplant

jeff Davis, "Kng of the Hobocs."
will set his tattered vassals new
fashion in brake beam "riding" at the
field day to be held by the Actors
Fund of America in the Polo Grounds
Sunday, April 49, Eddie Rickenbacker.
foremost American ace, will fly to the
grounds in his fighting machine. with
Miss Pearl White as a passenger. Be-
meath the body of the plane will
danglo jeff. unless Captain Ricken-
hacker discovers him in mid-air and
Shoes him off.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Transatlantic plane Tested
n. C.-2 Makes Five-Nlinute Trim
Over Jamaica Bay

The n. c., one of the four giant
naval flying boats which will attempt
the transatlantic flight next month,
was given a short preliminary test
flight yesterday. After short run on
the waters of Jamaica Bay the ship
took the air gracefully.
The plane circled around for five
minutes before descending and then
was taken back to her moorings. The
flight was for the purpose of testing
out the arrangement of the four Lib
erty engines installed on the flying
boat.
These four engines are fitted in
pairs, one pair on each side of the
fuselage. The engines develop total
Of l 600 horsepower.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Stairway TO Aid Passengers
Mezzaninc Station Also To Be
Erected at Fulton Street

A new stairway and mezzanine sta
ton is to be constructed a tthc eastern
end of the Flatbush Avenue Fulton
Street station in Brooklyn to increase
facilities for passengers changing from
the Interborough subway station.
The Clark Street tunnel will he
opened about April l5. The Public Ser
vice Commission ordered Lindlcy NJ
Garrison, B. r. T. receiver. to have
the work on the stairway far enough
advanced by June l to have it placed
IN service.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
First U. S. Treasury Medal
For Loan Service Presented

WASHINGTON, April 3.--Secretary
Glass to-day made the first prasenta-
tion of a Treasury Department special
medal for distinguished service dur
ing the Liberty Loan campaigns to
Rear Admiral Thomas J. Cowie, under
whose eadership exceptional records
were made by the navy in the third
and fourth Liberty loans.
The first three of these medals,
which have been made from captured
German guns. will go to President Will
son. former Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo and Secretary Glass. These
have not yet been presented
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Judges Increase Vetoed

A bill passed by both houses of the
Legislature providing for an increase
of $4,000 year for Municipal Court
judges in this city was yesterday re-
turned by Mayor Hylan unapproved.
Had the Mayor approved the measure
an estimated increase Of 100000 in
the yearly budget would have resulted.
To make TIE bill effective the Legis-
lature will have to repass it.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Australia to Build Ships

MELBOURNE, Australia, April 8
Via Montreal) The Federal govern
ment has decided on an extensive ship
building programme, providing for the
construction of steel vessels of proba-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-04
Mexico Buys u. S. Horses

Ell PAsO, Tex, April 3.-A permit
was issued to-day for the expectation
of 1000 cavalry horses to Mexico for
the use of the Mexican Federal army.
The horses were purchased from the
United States army at the Fort Bliss
remount station.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-24
HOLCOMB ISSUES
 LOAN PROCLAMATION
Governor Urges Every body i'll o'a'S to Do Their Utmost to Fu'
 Big Drive Across.

A little more than two years "7o this country joined the Allies III 'ie desperate war they were Waslhs against the Central Powers. me ih1o forces of conscienceless au'oci" were struggling to impose the'r "lli on the nations of the world and when finally our government made the oo- cision that meant war it received the approval of an aroused and oeIer- mined nation.
 As our government gathered us strength for this conflict the people came to it's support with unaIlliil'y @ unparalleled in our history WeaiCh was poured out without measure our citizens asked for the privilege oA giving their time and strength III "ai work, and our sons went forth to the front to die if need be. All ol us tried to do our part and we dlu It gladly.
 Four times we met the call ot the government for loans, and Liberty Loan bonds in the homes or o"i people are a witness to their paCrlot~ ism and their share in this great uh dertaking.
 The war has been won and the oaS5 of battle are over For thls we are deeply grateful. Today, however Ilie task remains of bringing home the SOL diers who were at the front, Of caflhg for the sick and disabled, ot honor ably discharging the contracts or the government, and of establishing peace in the land. This work requires large sums of money and to this ehd we are asked to buy ''Victory Liberty Bonds" Duty and honor alike require ,,s to do this and in doing it we will give evidence to the forces of disorder throughout the world of the strength and stability of our free government.
 Now, therefore, I, Marcus Ii. Hol- comb, governor, do call upon the people of this state to subscribe l1b- eral1y to this loan and so to show their gratitude in these days of re- jocing for the victory that has been so dearly won on the field of battle.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-24
DINNERS FOR SOIDITRS.

Giving dinner parties for wounded soldiers is the most popular after-War occupation for the young girls in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Young Women's Christian Association. Autom oDiles bring the boys to the dinner and girls to the number of men invited are there to care for all the needs and pleasures of the wounded ones This way of entertaining has given rise to another occupation for the girls, that of looking up and studying the best methods for evening enterta inn ent for those who. by reason of their sac rltlce, have given an arm or a leg sometimes botla--to the cause of freedom.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-24
ADVISORY BOARD IS REORGANIZED
Welfare Workers Will Again Assist New Britain Charity Organization lin City's Problems.

E The advisory committee of the New
 Britain Charity Organization, which Hd1sbanded during the last two years fbecause of work which demanded all 3spare time, has re-organized. 4 The first meeting was held yester- ||day afternoon at 4 o'clock, at 62 Gen. der street, the new office of the Char |8ty Organization. Tea was served aft Fer a very enjoyable and profitable Eiour.
 ~ The committee is composed of a dozen of the prominent women of the city representing various churches.
 who are interested in the welfare of
 the community. The advisory com
 mittee will meet on the last Wednes-
 day of each month to discuss matters
 of civic interest, and also to help the
 agent in dealing with her many fam lilies requiring supervision and aid.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-24
CITY ITEMS

Keep your eyes on Lyons Terrace. sIt will be one of the surprises of city.
 -advt.
 Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Brown of sAIaple street are registered at the St. sCharles hotel, Atlantic City. Painters wanted. Apply John Boyle To., Franklin Square.-advt. Mir. and Mrs. A. A. Williams, of 250 Maple street. are receiving congratu- 5ations on the birth, Tuesday, of a 
 Z The Home Banking & Realty com spany has sold for Claude A. Herman
 a two-family house at number 34 Lin- scoln street to William H. Levin.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-24
336 Main Street

berS. President Ernest w. Pe1ton urged the cooperation of every mem Der and spoke of what has been ac- compllShed in the last year through cooperation with the bureaus es- tabllshed for different lines of work The activities of the traffic, civic and mercantile bureaus--the three irn- portant committees of the chamber Were outlined
 Spirit. Interest and Friendliness' was the motto posted over the door, and it's acceptance as a slogan was urged by Secretary Loan Sprague in his remarks. The rooms were beauti fully dccroated With American flags and with the chamber slogans.
 Before the conclusion of the meet ing, sandwiches, crullers and coffee were served by the young women of the office and a "Welcome Marma- lade' was served to each member of the chamber. The Wesleyan quartet sang selections and were joined by the members of the chamber as a closing Ieatufe or the get-together.