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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Five Persons Killed
AS Train Hits Auto
Driver Attempts to Cross Tracks
Behind Slow.Moving
Local
Special Correspcndenc.

DERRICK, Penn, June 2s.-The Met
ropolitan Express, travelling at high
speed, struck an automobile at Ridge
view Park crossing of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, several miles east Of
here, tonight, killing five persons, four
of whom are members Of one family.
The automobile, damned against the
cowcatcher Of the locomotive, caught
fire following the accident; three of
the victims were crushed to death be-
tween the wrecked auto and the en-
CINE. while the two others were hurled
clear of the wreckage.
=, The dead are; Otto Won wege, of
Knoxville, Penn, head of the Eiler
Lumber and Mill Company, Pittsburgh;
his wife, Bertha Krager Won Wege;
daughter Mildred, twenty; a son. Wal
ter, fourteen, and Walter Schultz,
twenty-five, of Mount Oliver.
According to information received
here the automobile, driven by Won
Wege, had stopped on the south side
of the tracks when an eastbound train
made a station stop. AS the train
pulled out Won Wege started his ma
chine across the tracks behind the
last coach of the train just as the
Metropolitan Express, westbound,
came along.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
so Gents Enough for 100
Pounds of Ice. Says Day

The maximum retail price of ice
should be fifty cents hundred pounds,
DR.. Jonathan c. Day, commissioner Of
markets, said yesterday in a report
submitted to City Chamberlain Philip
Berolzheimer, chairman of the Mayors
committee on ice.
In his report Dr. Day sought to
trace the cost of ice production and
distribution. He pointed out that the
cost Of manufacturing a cake of arti-
fetal ice varies from AN cents to as
cents a cake, weighing three hundred
pounds The cellar man calls for the
ice himself, DR.. Day said, and sells it
for So a cake or approximately fifty
cents hundred pounds, making one
make as much as $3.50 week, he
charged. No mention is made in the
commissioners report of melting Of
ice, which is said by dealers to be
the greatest factor in it's traffic and
price.
DR.. Day recommended that ice deal
ers and all other retailers be licensed,
either by the Bureau Of Licenses or
the Department of Public Markets. He
suggested that janitors Of apartment
houses purchase large quantities Of ice,
enough for the whole house, at whole
sale rates and sell it at small mar
gin of profit. He gave as an order
Of precedence for the service of ice
in case Of shortage, the following:
Hospitals, charitable institutions.
householders, hotels, restaurants,
manufacturers and business houses en-
gagged in the manufacture or market
ing Of foodstuffs, soda and cold drink
dispensaries, other manufacturing and
basiness enterprises and cafes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Producers Declare Winter
Will Bring Worst Famine
Ever X wn Unless
Mines Are Speeded Up
Delayed Orders Blamed
Industries Holding OFF for
Lower Prices; Reduction
Impossible, Operators Say
NesO York Tribune
Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Officers Of
the National Coal Association said to-
day that as the situation now stands
New York City is likely to have to
deal with the worst coal famine in it's
history next winter. 1t will be much
worse, they say: than the harsh expert
ence of the winter of 1917-18, because
it will not be merely g trans ortation
and local distribution problem, as it
was then, but will be one of actual
dearth Of coal.
The only possible way of avoiding
desperate condition, the coal men say,
is to secure an immediate stimulation
of coal production. To this end the
association is beginning a general dis
play advertising campaign in the daily
papers, which will seek to arouse con-
sumers to the necessity of placing their
orders for coal Immediately. Factories
and public utilities are holding back
their fuel orders to such an extent that
a general industrial breakdown for
lack OF power is one Of the possibili-
ties that next winter holds in store
Wait for Lower Prices
The failure to place orders is attrib-
uted to general belief that coal. prices
will come down to pre-war levels This,
the coal men say, is an impossibiity
owing to increased wage scales and the
cost of supplies and equipment.
At the present rate Of production
this years output of btuminous coal
will be about what it was in 1910, which
tons. as compared with minimum re-
quirements.
Up to June 81 the production of
btuminous coal was $4,000, 900 tons
less than last year, and OF anthracite
about 100000 less. The weekly Out-
put fsoft coal, according to Geoogi-
cal Survey figures, is running some
what under 100000 tons, whereas it
should be II 900, 900 to meet estimated
requirements.
The producers say that ultimately
the orders will have to be placed, but
they are profoundly worried over the
question of whether it will be possible
to make up by feverish activity later in
the year for the scant production now.
They fear that even now, with a full
quota of orders, the best that can be
done is to reduce the degree of dis
tress next winter.
Working Forces Depleted
Owing to the long period in which
the mines have worked at reduced ca
pacity the working forces have been de-
pleted, to say nothing of the fact that
about 20 per cent of the alien miners
arem returning to Europe. Notwith-
standing the slackness of demand
some mines have, therefore, already
discovered that they have oversold their
production for the rest Of the year.
Further, it is stated. that when the
inevitable requirements do begin to as
sert themselves, transportation condi-
tons, owing to the enormous crops
that are being harvested, will be such
that there will be a shortage of cars
at the mines. Transportation condi-
tons will be comparatively favorable
for the next month or two, and that
period will be about the only one in
which there will be an opportunity to
make I'D for lost time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
u. S. Job Bureau to
End Tomorrow
For Lack of Funds
Boston Woman Tells Con-
gress Pre- mt Bills
Would Give the Unions
H old on Employers

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The Fed
eral Employment Service will go out
OF existence Monday. Congress has
failed to provide for permanent SER
vice and the emergency organization
is so completely out Of funds that 1t
is doubtful If it will be able to wind
up Its affairs in proper manner.
Early resumption of the work of the
employment service was made possible
to-day when the Senate, without debate
or record vote, adopted an amendment
appropriating 100000 for the service.
The House made no appropriation for
the work. The Senate amendment was
the result of private conferences be-
ween Senators, and is subject to &C.
ceptance by the House.
Opposition to the bills to provide for
permanent Federal Employment Ser
vice developed a point to-day which
the joint committee of the house and
Senate is inclined to investigate. This
occurred through the argument made
by Miss G. E. Cooke, Of the Massachu-
setts Technical and Commercial Asso-
citation, Of Boston, that several states
IN the South have statutes forbidding
the taking of labor from their boan-
daries to other states.
Miss Cooke was asked to prepare a
brief setting forth her viewpoints re-
gard'ng the creation of Federal sys-
tenn. Her chief complaint was that
private. agencies might have to clear
the public bureaus This, she
said, would be disastrous to the fee
charging Offices, as they would lose
the business of employers and thereby
be forced out Of existence. Employ
ers, she explained, often gave infor-
nation OF q confidential nature to labor
agencies. This information, If passed
on to the public clearing house would
fall into the hands Of the American
Federation Of Labor, she said, and
the labor unions would get possession
OF knowledge about shop conditions
of employers that would "be valuable
in the event of strike agitation" She
said that the American Federation of
Labor had been trying for wears in
massachusetts, to have the fee charg-
ing agencies clear their labor through
a public office. The proposed bills
would ultimately regulate the fee
charging agencies so heavily they could
not stay in business, declared Miss
Cooke.
Henry Sterling, chairman of the
legislative committee of the American
Federation of Labor, told the COM
mittee that the Federal employment
service had been Endorsed in a resolu-
ton by the A. F. of L. at it's annual
convention in Atlantic City. Referring
to Miss Cookies point about the taking
OF labor from one state to another,
he explained that Southern states had
passed such legislation to restrain la
Dor agents from fostering the exodus
among negroes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
~ Workers, Unable
10 Get Ships Home,
Chafe at the Delay
5000 Secretaries and Enter.
tanners Face Months Wait
in France, While Soldiers
Are Crowding Transports
Ne.D York Tribune

Copyright. 1919. New York Tribune incj
PARIS, June 28.-The struggle to
secure accommodation on homeward
bound transports and passenger steam
ers. which recently reached perhaps
the highest pitch since the movement
homeward began, is causing many dis
appointments and some peculiar disor-
ganization Of plans.
The Y. M. c. A. recently purchased
1000 accommodations on the transpor.
Leviathan, and sent special represent
atives to the American army trans
portatioh Office at Tours. Unfortu-
nately. one of the Y. M. C. A. repre-
sentatives mentioned the 1000 pas
sages in the presence of an officer,
who Immediately Communicated them
for 1000 officers who were ready to
sail.
This illustrates the situation which
CARNATIONS are facing. At the pres
ent rate it will be months before the
7: NJ. c. A. can repatriate it's workers.
With the American army of 100000
men in France and Germany being dis
patched homeward hy every possible
means, the Y. M: G: A. has 5000 work
ers in Europe, 1000 more than when
the army numbered 100000 men.
Of all the "Y" members who have
passed through the medical examina-
tion and been released only 1000 have
obtained transportation. The situation
reached its climax to-day, when the
Y. M. G. A. received notice that all its
entertainers must leave Germany by
Sunday, the "Y" secretaries to follow
shortly. This adds 900 workers to
those already awaiting transportation,
all of whom must be supported until
they are repatriated, perhaps months
hence.
The Y. NJ. c. A. has leased several
hotels at St. Malo, near sBrest, and is
shipping the released workers there to
await transportation. The workers are
opposed to this procedure. They OBJ
ject to being pooled in such a fashion,
preferring to remain in Paris or their
respective fields.
1t is reported the, Y. NJ C. A. is
seeking an army ruling subjecting in
subordinate workers to court martial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Senators Reject
Plan to Eliminate
Tariff Commission
Amendment Appropriating
10000, 900 to Purchase
Cape Cod Canal Stricken
From Sundry Civil Bill

WASHINGTON, June 2s-After more
than six hours debate, the Senate late
to-day voted 81 to 2 to reject the COM
mittee amendment to the sundry civil
bill proposing to eliminate 100000 pro-
vided for continuing the Tariff Com
mission. Senators Warren Of Wyoming
and Smoot of Utah voted for the
amendment, which virtually would have
abolished the commission.
The committee amendment appropri-
ating s1o,ooo,ooo for government acqui-
sition of the Cape Cod Canal was
stricken from the bill on a point Of
order by Senator King, Democrat, Of
Utah.
Two more measures aimed at anarch-
lists, bomb throwers and other enemies
of law and order were added to the
bill. The sum at the disposal of
the Department of Justice for de-
lection of crimes was increased from
$1,4oo,oOo to 100000, ana a special
fund of 100000 for the Department Of
Labor to round up and deport alien
anarchists was created
The committee proposal for creation
of budget commission to prepare and
present a budget system was adopted
The committee will be composed Of Eve
Senate and FIVE House members, the
Secretary OF the Treasury and two
other members to be appointed by the
President, subject to Senate contirmc-
ton.
Senator Gronna, Republican, North
Dakota, attacked the budget theory as
tending to destroy democratic govern
ment."
The amended bill was passed by the
Senate at midnight, at the end of a
fourteen-hour session. All Of the regu-
lar supply measures have now passed
both houses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
LILO Aliens Caught
And Big Passport
Fraud Is Exposed
Agency Clerk Arrested as
Cleveland Men Tell of
Paying SIS to Obtain
Bogus Greek Documents

Edward R. Norwood, Deputy Col
lector Of Customs and director of the
United States Customs Intelligence Bu-
reau, rounded up on the French Line
pier yesterday ITO Austrians and Hun
gartans who were about to sail for
their home land on the steamship Ro-
chambeau by the aid of fraudulent
passports.
Norwood had been suspicious of such
efforts for the last three months, and
had been waiting to make such a
roundup since April.
No blame is attached to the enemy
aliens who were detained on the pier,
as 1t is understood they were victims
OF group of swindlers who persuaded
them to travel eastward on fraudulent
$50 to S75 for the spurious documents.
After an interpreter had talked with
the victims Of the alleged swindle it
was found. that the majority of the
prospective emigrants will, by the
terms of the peace treaty which has
just been signed, become Rumanians.
Had they waited long enough they
would have been permitted to sail d.
rect to their home land, without having
to sail for Greece via Havre on steam
ships of the French Line.
Practically all the victims who were
detained from sailing yesterday were
regarded by the custom officials as
substantial, hard working and honest
take care of wives and children and
parents, from whom they had heard
nothing in three or four years. Nearly
al Of the men detained had come from
Cleveland. 1t is said that attractive
advertisements had taken them from
prosperous jobs in Cleveland.
As sodn as the detained alien. had
told their story Deputy Collector Nor
wood sent his men to the steamship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

would not agree to give preference to
union men on the ground that this
would discriminate against American
citizens who might not be union men.
rms objection seemed valid, and we
then asked that irrespective of their
pelng union or non-union, American
citizens be given preference over all
aliens, and that as between union men
not citizens and non-union aliens,
where American citizens were not
available, the union man be given first
chance
".No action was taken on this by the
ade up Sn ~ r %wesrs L. Srxe eemGttff
Brown, and myself. Of the seamen;
Oscar Carlson and Duncan McKillup.
Of the firemen, and H. P. Cartledge, Of
the stewards, took the matter of pref
erence for Americans to Washington
and presented it to Messrs. E. N. Hur-
ley, r. ?: Stevens and H. L. Robinson,
wired the Shipping Board asking that a
decision be given as early as possible
and the conference reconvened.
"ln reply, Mr.. Stevens informed US
yesterday that the shipping board had
given qualified approval to the pro
posal that American citizens be given
first preference and union men the
second To-day we saw Mr.. Stevens.
he informed US that he did not know
what the private owners would do. We
asked that the private owners make
answer in the open and that he take
steps to reconvene the conference. He
could not do this at once, he said, but
he promised to do so.
Made First Condition
Now we have met with our associa-
lions and have agreed that until and
unless 1T is agreed, with the idea of
putting the American boy back at sea,
preference be given American citizens
on American ships, we will be parties
to no organization formed to handle
shipping problems.
american boys have begun going
to sea again and we take the position
that nothing must be done that is in
any way calculated to keep them ashore
or interfere with the manning of Yam
kee ships by Yankee crews. The extent
to which they ire going is known by
the fact that, whereas when the war
began there were no Americans before
the mast on the Pacific, since the pas
sage 'of the Seaman's act and the be-
ginning of the war. Americans have
gone to sea on the Pacific until now
"a per cent of the men on the Pacific
are native-born Americans. On this
coast before the war the percentage of
native Americans sailing before the
mast was less than 10. Now it ex-
ceeds 30.
eve sincerely hope that there will
be no serious or long continued OPP
position to this programme of prefer
ance Tor Americans on American ships.
We also hope that we may reach
an agreement on this matter next week.
10 us it appears to be the most i'm
portant shipping question that can pos
slbly be raised. On it depends whether
or not, with the expenditure of all the
millions that has been made for ships.
we are really going to have an Ameri-
can merchant marine that is worthy
Of the name, or of real, practical value
to the United States"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Compers at Launching
The Afol Is Named for the Fed.
Grafton of Labor

PHILADELPHIA, June 28.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, was the principal
speaker at the launching of the cargo
carrier Afol, thirty-ninth ship to leave
the ways at the worlds greatest ship
yard.
The vessel was named in honor of
the American Federation of Labor in
recognition Of the work of union labor
during the war.
Miss Sara Conboy, international Sec
rotary Of the United Textile Workers
Of America, was sponsor for the Afol.
The vessel left the ways at 1:48
o'clock. 1t was union labor" day at
the yards, and thousands Of representa-
tlves Of trades unions from this and
other parts of the country witnessed
the launching.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Bird Dog Kennel Sold
For $4,000 in Indiana

COLUMBUS, Ind, June 2s.-U. R.
Fishel, Of Hope, owner Of one Of the
most famous bird dog kennels in the
world, has sold his dogs to s. Dorton
Lassiter, Of Tennessee. The first
group was shipped to the new owner
June ], a second will be sent August
l, and third September /. The price
paid for approximately forty dogs was
$4,000.
N.Y. Fishel has spent lifetime in
breeding and perfecting the pointer
dog of America, and Is credited
With having developed the animals to
such an extent that in the last ten
again, 70 defeat their old rivals. tho
setters, in the worlds most prominent
field events.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
''Christy Grip a Bride

Mrs. Maybclle Thompson Christy,
original Of tho "Christy girl" and for
was married to Leslie Garfield Fcrgu-
son, lawyer, at noon yesterday at the
North Presbyterian Church. The core
nony was performed by tho Rev. DR..
John MacKaye, pastor. About twenty
intimate friends Of the family were
present,
The bride WAS escorted by her
brother Lieutenant Herbert Thompson,
y. s.. M. G., whose homo In in Wash
tngton. Among the others In attend
hnce zero Mr.. and Mrs. Alland Johnson
and Mrs. Guy Lamsen. Of Randolph. Vt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Panama Commission Would
Revise Her Land Laws

PANAMA, June 2s.-The American
commission, headed by DR.. Clarence j..
owens, which has been making sur
vey or Panama's economic resources, is
selllng to-day for New York on the
steamer Colon.
The report Of the commission recon-
lnends revision Of the Panama land
laws and establishment Of farm loan
bank. 1t Is understood this report will
ne used in an effort to float loan in
the United States.
belisario Porras, President Of Pan
ANA, announced to-day he intended to
open Pan-American college at Panama
on January /.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
R-34 Due to Arrive
From England July 5
British Dirigible Ready to At
tempt Round Trip Flight
Across the Atlantic

WASHINGTON, June 2s.-The Brit
ish dirigible R34 is expected to arrive
in the United States on July or on
a round trip flight across the Atlantic
This announcement was made here
to-day by the British air attache, who
requested that American merchant
ships on the North Atlantic radio
weather reports to Cape Race for both
the outward and return voyage of the
dirigible. The R-34 will land on
Long Island and will remain only long
enough to replenish It's fuel and gas
supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Tax Dodgers Warned
Wealthy and Poor Alike Must
Pay Penalty, Saws Paper

WASHINGTON, June 2a-Tax dodg-
ers-rich and poor-were promised the
1uil limit of the law by Commissioner
OF internal Revenue Roper in a state
ment to-day, commenting ON the recent
CONVICTION Co "! in Boston Of William A.
mnghsh and John H. O'Brien, wool
merchants, who returned their taxes at
100000 instead of s1,37s,s17.
~ is our determined policy" Mr..
topper said, "that wealth shall not in
n 1 to prevent wilful tax dodgers
from II! going to jail. The big and fnan-
clally able must be treated In the same
way as the small wilful violator. and
ne compromises through money will
Mr.; Roper said the government re-
FUSED to allow English and O'Brien to
Pay $l,6oo,ooo to escape prison SEN
fence. Civil proceedings will be begun
Immediately by the governm ent to col
iect the tax due from the two men and
100 per cent additional penalty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Magistrate Croak Weds
Takes Vacation to Marry Miss
Marie Norton. of Seneca Falls

Friends of Magistrate William C.
Croak, Of the First District Magis-
trate's Court Of Staten Island. were
surprised to learn yesterday that he
was married Thursday to Miss Marie
Barbara Norton, daughter of Mrs.
George Norton, Of Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Magistrate Croak took his vaca-
ton on Thursday and went to New
York City, where he was married in
the church of Oura Lady Of Lourdes.
Only members Of the immediate fam
lily were present at the wedding.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Portrait by Frans Halls
Sold for Is. 500 Cuineas

LONDON. June ce.-A Frans Halls
portrait aold for $500 guineas to-day
Mt tho sale of pictures owned by the
late Sir George Drummond, Of Mon
treal. Sir George bought tho portrait
dealer for 1880.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
SIS, 100000 for Aviation
Agreed On by Conferrees

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Funds for
naval aviation for 1920 were fixed to-
day at S26000,O00 under a compromise
agreement reached by House and
Senate conferrees. The House voted
SIS, 100000. but the Senate increased
this sum to the $35,0OO,000 asked for
by Secretary Daniels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
A TRAVELLING SALESMAN

Of high personality, represent
ing well known New York con-
Germ for past ten years, desires
a change. Very we'll acquainted
in Central States, especially in
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Duluth,
etc. Is willing to work on
strictly commission basis, and
able to finance his travelling ex-
penscs.
A specially line preferred.
Is used to making Big money"
and will consider only large
proposition. Al references.
Address: P. X, 100 Tribune.