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New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

fantry, and Waterbury said he was in
Mrs. Daniel Smith, of 977 Whitlock
Avenue, he Bronx, told the police that
she noticed the two men standing in
the doorway of 976 Whitlock Avenue,
and that they struck Fred Stueky. a
driver for the Sheffield Farms Milk
Company, as he was leaving the house.
According to the police. Stucky was
making collections in the house, and
;he men got wallet containing S39
from MIN.
Mary Rosen. sixteen years old, who,
according to the police, confessed to
the surClarizing Of fifty apartments in
The Bronx last week. was arraigned on
two specific charges of burglary yes
terday before Magistrate Marsh. She
waived preliminary examination md
WAS held in $1,000 for the grand jury
on each charge.
The name Of the girl in the COM
plants was given as 'Molie Rosen-
berg" but she signed her name "Mol-
lie Rosen" and pleaded not guilty.
After Harlem had been shaken yes
tterda.y by an explosion on the roof of
154 East 118th Street, where the po-
lice say they found nine cardboard
boxes containing bombs, two men were
arrested charged with having explo-
sives in their possession. The prison
ers described themselves as Charles
stewart, eighteen, sailor, living at
lo4 East 1l8th Street, and Arthur
Cohen, of 149 East 11sth Street.
The police said the bombs ere either
blasting bombs or some kind of fire
works. They are about four inches
long and two inches wide and had
fuses attached.
Stewart was badly burned about the
face and body and was removed to
the Harlem Hospital. After receiving
treatment he was taken to the East
l26th Street police station.
Four youths were arrested last night
by Detective O'Hara, of the Oak Street
police station, charged with assault and
robbery IN connection with the hoid-up
ear'y Sunday morning Of Frank Kelly,
paymaster Of the Nassau News Com
pany. Kelly was attacked in the hall
way of 8 Spruce Street, knocked un-
conscious and robbed of $4,000.
The prisoners described themselves
as John O'Boyle, twenty-four years old,
OF 213 East Forty eighth Street;
Thomas O'Bovlc, nineteen, his brother,
Of 22o East Thirty-third Street; John
Kelley. nineteen, Of 209 East Ninety
fifth Street, and George Mitchell. twen-
tvoight, of 2S Bowery, known as
"Ducksey."
Thomas O'Boyle and Kelley were dis
charged a week ago from the employ
of the Nassau News Company, the
police say. Tho prisoners deny all
knowledge CT the crime.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Man Who Steps in
Path of Policelnan's
Bullet Meets Death
Watchman Gets Between
.Preis and Fugitive; Falls
While Pursuer, Unaware
of Fatality, Makes Capture

AS Carl Hendcrman, a watchmar
employed by the American District
Telegraph Company, stepped between
Policeman John Pre;s and Ricardo
Villalba. fugitive, on Montague
Street, Brooklyn, yesterday morning
bullet fired by the officer ploughcd
through his heart. Not knowing he
had fired fatal shot into the watch
mans body Preis continued his pur-
suit and caught the fugitive.
Policeman Preis, who has been at
tending the police training school
since September j, was making what
is kno IN as an instruction inspection
under direction of two detectives. The,
saw two men alight from a car a.
Myrtle Avenue and Washington Street
One Of the men carried a heavy suit
case. When confronted by the detec-
tives they dropped it and ran in diff
ferent directions. Detective Cunning.
ham ordered Preis to follow one of
the fleeing suspects who started
through Montague Street
Prs called to the fugitive to stand
and when the command was d;sobeyed
drew his revolver and fred two shots
The second shot struck Henderman
The prisoner showed FIGHT but was
soon subdued by the young policeman
who had just returned from France
where he served with the 77th Division
The prisoner said he lived at 52G
Greenwich Street, Manhattan
In the meantime Detective Cunning
ham cornered the other fugitive in q
lunch room at the point Of revolver
He said he was James Alverez, also
of 526 Greenwich Street Both men
were held on charge of burglary
when it was discovered that the suit
case they carried contained about $500
worth of silver. The prisoners were
armed, the police say. and carried a
complete set of burglar tools
The silvcrware found in the suit
case was identified by Mrs. Henry
Magns, of 1885 Lenox Road, Flatbush, as
her property The woman said burg
lars broke into her home early yes
terday morning. The police later
visited the Greenwich Street address
given by the prisoners and arrested
two men who said they were Eugene
Garcia and Eutimio Rueda.
Preis was not held responsible for
the killing
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
instruction Is keynote
OF Electrical Exhibit

instruction will be the keynote of
the Electrical Exposition which opens
tomorrow at Grand Central Palace.
Hundreds of new suggestions for the
servantless housewife and the latest
wonders of electrical development will
be displayed.
The show will be open ten days.
There will be continuous demonstra-
tion of the many articles displayed.
Because of lack Of space the customary
government exhibits will be omitted
and practically no electric war mate
rial will be shown.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
American Admiral First to
Meet Prince at Vancouver

VANCOUVER, B. c.. Sept. 22.-Guns
doomed royal salutes and thousands OF
cheering spectators lined the streets
when the Prince Of Wales reached Van
couver to-day. Admiral Hugh Rodman,
commander of the United States
Pacific fleet. was the first to greet the
prince, as he stepped from the train,
How do you do, your royal high
ness Admiral Rodman said as he
graspcd the hand Of the future king.
The prince expressed his pleasure
at the presence in port of Admiral
Rodmans flagship, the New Mexico
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Preachers Discuss Salaries
Protestant Churches Consider.
ing Increases, Clergymen Hear

Preachers salaries were discussed
yesterday at clergymen's meetings
here. At one of them the superin-
tendent of Methodist work in New
York announced that the salaries of
missionaries were to be raised from
20 to 10 per cent. All Protestant
churches in New York are said to be
considering the question of incrcas-
ing salaries.
A Methodist minister of this city
informed a meeting that bridegrooms
we're incredibly thrifty, tradition to
the contrary Notwithstanding. The av
erage fee he received for performing
the wedding ceremony was 50, he said,
and he gave that to his wife.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Factory Wages Going Up
Slate BOARD Says Average FOR
.'.agsast W'as $23.2.s a Week

ALBANY, Sept. 22. Factory work
ers' wages in New York State
made n new high record for Au-
gust, according to statistics ar
ranged by the Industrial Commission,
made public to-day. The weekly
sum paid to employees amounted to
S23S5, or 81 cents more than the pro
yiOus high ma-, for December last.
Tho August average wns per cent
higA"v than III July, while tho advance
in food prices was said to have been
only 4 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Auto Victim Identified

A man who was hurt in an automo-
bile accident Sunday at Manhattan
Street ard broadway has been identi-
fed at Knichcrbockcr Hospital as Ell
wood Birdsley. tea broker, living at
1870 Park Place, Lconia, n. J.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
BY DOLLY
DALRYMPLE

1.-THE Red Cross has peace programme
for America. The keynote is health. The
method includes the extension Of home
nursing is to be developed in every com
munity. There IS to be provision of ade-
quate facilities for disaster relief and
the number Of unnecessary deaths is to
be reduced through training in first aid.
"And so in this Red Cross campaign
we may make thank offering and re-
dedicate ourselves to be principles for
which our men at arms laid down their
lives, that people everywhere, first at
home then abroad. may be given an OPP
portunity to live and be happy.
THE Red Cross roll call plan expressed
in fewest possible words. is to see that
every man and woman in every city and
every community throughout the United
States is asked face to face by some other
man or woman to join the Red Cross or
renew his or her membership. They will
be given Red Cross button to wear and
will not be asked again during the cam
paign.
"A membership in the Red Cross costs
the small sum of 81. half of which goes
to the jefferson county Red Cross chap
ter and the other so cents to the American
Red Cross to be used for emergency work
and in carrying out welfare programmes.
It feel very confident that Jefferson
county will make the fine record with
this call that it has in former cam
campaigns. The splendid Rainbow d.
vision under the leadership OF Mrs. w.
d. Smith that has done such marvellous
work as canvassers in former drives, will
officiate in this one. The organization
of the allied armies is a great asset to
Birmingham. Also Mrs A. l.. Fulen-
wider, chairman of the women speakers
bureau, has gathered together splendid
personnel Of speakers The message they
will carry into the churches of Birming-
ham district this morning viii be repeat
ed during the week, when these speak
ers with their vital messages will ad-
dress every gathering of any size during
the campaign. Their speeches will be
two and three minutes in length during
this drive, for people need only to hear
this great cause mentioned to them, as
| they are waiting TO DC aSheu 70 JON -
renew their membership.
Il have endeavored briefly to outline
some of the plans which the American
Red Cross has for the future to which
| other plans will be added and many de-
| tails developed" said Mrs. Wilkerson
rhe Red Cross will not be able to solve
the vexed and multiplying problems OF
|
but the Red Cross is built upon the hui
name motive to mitigate human suffer
| ing and to protect life and health by COM
batting disease. Amid the uprisings, con-
tentions and violences of the time, with
their discomforts and ominous forebod-
ipgs. the Red Cross stands out distinctly,
the greatest humanitarian organization
the world has ever known'
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vorce laws of some AZ of our states make
Reno desirable for would-be Divorces.
Before 1854 Fleet prison was the figur-
alive 'Gretna Green of England Until
that time the English law recognized
marriages as valid so long as they were
performed by clergymen of any denomi-
nation, but it imposed fine upon
clergymen who would perform the cere-
mony for couples who had not proclaimed
their intentions either by bannS or Ii
cense.
such fines had no terrors, of course,
for clergymen imprisoned in Fleet for
debt and some of the mundertook to
marry couples who wished to avoid the
expense of the customary public cere-
mony. Less scrupulous persons soon took
advantage of this example, and<tavern
keepers fitted up places where they
brought couples to be married by the
Fleet parsons. and in some cases young
women of means were brought there for
sihly by soldiers of fortune, and women
of the under world lured men there for
marriage as an easy means OF compelling
husban d-victims to pay their debts.
"rhese abuses were checked by the
| famous Hardwicke act of 1754, which
made unauthorized marriages yoidaple'
! and thareu,,on Gretna Green became the
| romance SPOT of the British isles. All the
Scotch law required was that owper-
| sons should declare their intention to
| be married IN the presence of witnesses.
1 and the British law then, as now. rec
ognizel marriages as legal so long as
| they conformec to the laws in the places
| they were contaminated
| cat Gretna Green. as in Fleet prison.
were persons who exercised cupidity at
the expense of cupid; and innkeepers.
ferrymen and dollhouse tenders exploited
the couples who fled to Gretna Green.
Any witnesses would have served, but the
| professional witness there, like the
| marrying parsons of some American
towns, engaged touts' to bring couples
to them, and when the railroad from
Glasgow to Caslisle started running the
| station platform at Gretna Green
thronged with these obnoxious commits
sion men,
| "a pioneer of this unique industry was
John Linton, formerly a valet to Sir
Jchn Gresham described as man OF
fine presence and manners and another
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL

ognized me. / said, I need 20 or more
women right away, five to wash the
floors, five to ladle soup. five to take
away the dishes. five to carry out the
garbage. and the remainder to do what
ever work there IS left
81 had scarcely finished my demand be-
fore the response came, almost as quick
~ as the appeal. There those women
have been working for these last eight
months, not once a week. but seven days
a week. Those are the noble women of
Belgium, noble of heart as well as Of
birth.
That is the sort of response that the
Req Cro-> .>.. ~all wants during it's
third campaign for membership, and that
the. great heart of America will respond
to this call is not doubted by those who
still remember the magnificent support
which has been given to the Red Cross
all along.
Birmingham's organization for the third
Red Cross roll call is master stroke in
efficiency.
The selection of Mrs. B. f. Wilkerson
as chairman OF the womans division of
Jefferson county carries with it prestige
and dignity. for Mrs. Wilkerson is what
we call born leader" She knows how
to inject enthusiasm among her CO.
workers; she understands organization,
and best of all she loves the Red Cross
and what it stands for
Speaking yesterday of the third Red
Cross roll call and its many tributary ac-
tivities which need the cooperation of
all good citizens of America in this call
Mrs. Wilkerson said:
when the armistice was signed people
began to ask: What does TIE Red
Cross proposed to do next naively
assuming that the armistice concluded
both war and the Red Cross programme
But there is no rehabilitation for the
American Red Cross; in fact l think
there VIII always be an American Red
Ncross, and while there is much untin-
ished war work that must be given fur
Their attention, it is designed in the fu-
ture to concentrate the main strength
of the American Red Cross on the needs
of the United States. 1t would be. Grim
inaI not to apply to welfare problems
at home the experience and technique
which the American Red Cross mas ae-
qured during the war
Already the Red Cross has an
ncunced It's programmes for nursing
home service, disaster relief ffrst-aid
etc, and is steadily working out details
of general public health programme
During the war the American people con-
tributed nearly $1,000 5000 to war activi-
ties through the Red Cross, and many
millions of people gave in addition
themselves in loving labor and the value
of this conservation cannot be computed
in figures and this loyal enlistment OF
the people themselves has made it a
spiritual force unparalleled in the history
of organized endeavor. And the Rec
/ Cross desires to perpetuate this spirit OF
devotion and service. both for the &C
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
GRETNA GREEN

.Gretna Green seems about to revert
once more to figure of speech says
a bulletin of the National Geographic So
ciety, commenting upon London DIS
patches which tell of the closing down
of the vast cordite plants built there early
in the world war
ITO most Americans the words may
never have meant much more than
nickname for any rendezvous or eloplng
couples, but there is a real Gretna Green
Twice has it been conspicuous among
English towns, once when its chief IN
dustry was matrornony and again when.
as wag remarked. it started making
new kind of high explosive.
Now. like Hopewell, Va, it is about 10
sink into obscurity. with the end OF It's
war contracts, which represented an IN
vestment of some s50.0G00O0, in our
money, and the employment OF more tnan
GOO workers
'Gretna Green is village in Scotlano'
tiny except for its munitions boom less
than mile from the River Sark, wnicn
marks the English Scotland boundary
lire in that vicinity near the Soiway
Firth, and about nine miles northwest
of Carlisle. Upon its proximity 10 the
border line rests it's first claim TO fame'
for the English marriage laws sent eiop-
ing couples to Scotland just as the d.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02

M o more beautiful commentator OF
lWl the great American Red Cross
u v has ever been nAe~ =. t-e world
than the foregoing glowing trio-
ute froz. cne heart of the nations chief
Executive, President Woodrow Wilson
made during the grave days of the recent
world war, and no less today do these
Words carry significance in these AFTER
the-war hours, when perhaps the proniem
confronting the Red Cross is even greater
than it was when wars grim havoc
stalked red-handed throughout the land.
With the third Red Cross roll call
which has its beginning today money Is
not the primary object, although of course
it is not an objection. What the Red
Cross wants now more than anything else
is "co-operation," the team work
spirit, the get back-of-the-movement
idea. and make for greater things than
have ever been accomplished before
In other words, what the Red Cross be-
speaks now is universal membership
every man, woman and child in these
great United states of ours member OF
this organization!
DR.. Livingston Farrand, the honored
chairman of the American Red Cross
said. when he was here recently:
"The Red Cross is not asking so much
in money during our roll call as it is
oo-operation by membership, and | would
like TO see every citizen of America
Young and old, member of the organ
ization which is the best unofficial eX-
preston in the world today of American
democracy
| love the story which was brought
hcn1e to the American Red Cross from
southern Belgium by John II. Gade, as
-sistant to Mr. Hoover in the commission
for relief in Belgium during the war
times, which is illustrative of how Co
operation" and workers are so vitality
necessary to the successful achievement
-aa any Red Cross programme.
Mr. Gade related this little episode;
.4"Eyery man, woman and child in Bel
GUM was a worker. 1 remember one day
going through the streets of Brussels
SWe had recently opened soup kitchen
we had the pots we had the pans, we
had the kitchen, we had the food, we
had everything except the workers.
walked down the street and saw couple
of servants waiting in front of building
and I asked, What is going on insice%
They told me there was meeting OF
the noble women of Brussels l went in
side. and as son as / entered they rec
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were no strikes in the ranks OF these
workers, If there had been strike it
would have been for longer hours and
harder work! These women rolled their
hearts and hopes into bandages and knit
ted loyalty into socks and sweaters!
Equally devoted were the women of the
canteens, the camp service OF the motor
corps. At all hours and in all kinds Of
weather these women in their several
callings met troop trains and distributed
comforts to the lads in uniform, speed.
ed them from ports of embarkation with
smiles on their lips. while tears softened
their eyes These services will never
be forgotten"
Money alone, no matter in what
igal quantity, could not have produced
the war services Of the Red Cross. Money
alone was the smaller factor. A great
quantity of individual human intelligence
and enthusiasm was necessary The ar
mistice put no period to some Of the
work which the world had come to ex-
pect from this concern and for which
1t was the best available agency. II had
the organization and experience to do
many things that still needed doing, and
that nobody else could do so we'll Who
ever is looking for a moral equivalent
for war-that is, for an opportunity for
unselish, whole-hearted devotion to a
high cause-ueed not be DISCOURAGED be-
cause the slaughter is over with. He can
enlist in the Red Cross bloodless fight
to alleviate human suffering" says a re-
cent editorial of the Saturday Evening
Post
| Mrs. Wilkerson continued:
'sro me there is a new appeal in Red
Cross work now in that it is educational
and remedial The fight that it is maxi
ing against grim tuberculosis alone is
reason enough for It's continuance. Think
of what it means as emergency assist
ance! Always ready sin case of disas-
| ter! Is there no child no child health
problem? No problem of infant morality?
1.-The Red Cross nurses who have re-
turned from the wars ask--yes. demand
that they be permitted and assisted to
do for the American public what they
| did for the American army and navy.
These nurses paint vivid pictures OF the
need in America and offer themselves
to provide the remedies if the American
Red Cross and American people will sane
ton and support their projects. They
point to the fact that for every American
soldier grave in France there are eight
baby graves in the United States each
year! They point out the fact that while
100000 men were killed In four> years
of war; 100000 people died throughout
the world in two years of influenza,
: 100000 adults die every year of tuber-
culosls in the United States and that
} more than one-half of the school chill
: dren of America show some defect! The
nurses say that most of these things
are unnecessary, and that they tthe
nurses) will prove it If given the chance!
So the time has come when we can say,
And now, America, too
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a Mr.. Beattle, was personahle adven-
turer. But later trafficlSers were ne'er-
do-well and town drunkards.
According to popular legend, black
smith shops were favorite Meccas for
clipping couples, but authority is lack
ing for the stories of smithies who would
pause while shoeing horses to help legal
ice marriages. Many famous English
men were married at Gretna Green.
among them Lord Eldon and Lord Broug-
ham both of whom later became lord
chancellor, and Lord Ersline, while ne
was chancellor; Charles Manners sutton,
who afterward was archbishop of can
terbury. and Lord Westmoreland and
Miss Child, the latter daughter OF
the man who founded Child's bank.
During the three decades when Gretna
Green flourished, there were more than
1000 marriages recorded there. nearly 500
of which were performed in 1855, the
year before Scotland enacted law which
made a three-weeks residence requisite
to marriage.
Marriage by declaration still is legal
in Scotland, and it is Interesting to note
that our own marriage laws deviate from
the English law in respect to marriage
and the provisions of most states follow
more closely the Scotch law in this re-
spect AS in Scotland. every state has
made some provision for previous resi-
dence, obtaining a license or registration.
but there is the widest leeway permitted
for the form of the actuai ceremony
"Only seven years ago publicity was
given the marriage of two young people
at Cambridge, Mass, who wrote their own
marriage service,a ndh ad 1t repeated
to them by Justice of the peace, where
upon that official pronounced them man
and wife thus, Since you wish to unite
in marriage and have notified each other
of the same before me and these wit
nesses, now. by virtue of the authority
vested in me, pronounce you man and
wife"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-02
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