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The Pulaskian., 1919-01-31
CONDENSED NE VS. ITEMS
Short Stories Terse1y Told for the
Benefit of Busy Readers

All restrictions on the importation
of drugs and chemicals used in the
tanning business have been lifted by
the United States war board.
The Pulaskian., 1919-01-31
LABOR.

The French government announces
that 1t is willing TO make reasonable
concessions to union labor to prevent
trouble.
The Pulaskian., 1919-01-31
FIRES.

A fire in the Italian section of Phil
adelphia resulted in the death Of
eight people.
The Pulaskian., 1919-01-31


king a than
1912
sports sake" and practices what he breaches
Exercise lis Necessary.
general,
ITO body
of physical them
They should not to though everything depended their putting into
physical mental all
n of
all
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Blizzard Holds Up
Ocean Air Flight;
Outlook Is Gloomy
No Start Is Likely Within
48 Hours: Mechanicians
i'll Night Fight to Save
Tent From Wreck in Gale
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
ST. JOHNS, n. F.. April 16-A
blizzard here last night nearly caused
disaster to Captain Frederick Philip
Raynham's Martinsyde airplane, which
has been completely assembled, ready
for the transatlantic air race with
Harry G. Hawker's Sopwith plane. The
tent in which the Martinsyde was
housed was damaged by the storm
The Martiusydc engine and com
passes were tested Tins afternoon, and
Major Partridge, Official recorder for
the British Aero Club, affixed seal to
the machine, as he did last week to the
Sopwlth. Both aWplanes are now
ready for the start, which viii be made
as soon Ms weather conditions warrant.
This will not likely be within forty
eight hours unless there is u marked
change in the weather.
A seventy mile northwest gale has
been blowing since noon and. with the
intense cold, makes flying impossible.
Tonight reports from the ocean are
somewhat similar. Competent observ-
ers believe that it would be suicidal for
alrplanes to attempt to make the voy-
ago before Friday.
Hawker's machine is in wooden
shed and escaped to-day, but the air
dromc is covered with eighteen inches
Of snow
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17

the craft will be ready for her first
trial flight some time next week.
While the stormy weather precluded
flying tests with the NC2, the mechan-
ical staff Of the transatlantic section
worked hard all day putting the fin
ishing touches on the NC-3. The lat
ter probably will make her first flight
to-day in company with her sister, the
nee.
1t was learned yesterday that a new
type of propeller is to be tried out on
the NC-2. Should this device prove
as successful as is anticipated, it will
be used on all three of the navy's fly
ing boats in their flight across the
Atlantic next month.
The propeller is the invention of DR.
Charles Nj. Olmstead, of Buffalo Ac-
cording to naval officials its efficiency
is S5 per cent, as against 80 per cen,
for the usual types of propellers. Its
chief characteristic is the very thick
hub and short blades.
The new propeller was placed on the
NC Tor one of the short flights last
Monday. Naval officers declared them
selves satisfied with the result.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17

The people are uncertain whether it
is Sunday or a holiday. They just
loll against the shop windows or stroll
aimlessly about the streets.
All this is a protest against the new
military regulations, compelling the
inhabitants to obtain permits for lcav-
ing or entering the town, and follows a
proclamation of martial law, which
was the result of the recent troubles
Possibly the extent Of the popular re-
sponse has surprised even the origin
ators of the scheme.
Punctually at the stated time the
whole life of the city stopped. The
bakers even ceased to bake and the
dairymen to deliver milk, while the
saloons refrained from opening their
doors, and a stranger in the city was
unable to purchase a single cigarette
Hotel guests have Jared the worst and
have been experiencing the sensations
OF semi starvation. A restaurant
meal in England's scverest period of
rationing would have been feast COM
pared with the luncheon offered thf
guests OF the cty's biggest hotel to-
day. Perhaps the strikers also began
to feel hunger this afternoon, for
queues were forming outside the
shops. A popularity Of this strike
lies in the fact that it seems ultimate.
ly to injurc only the strikers them.
selves. If directed against the mill.
tary, it does not affect them, because
their supplies arrive with the usual
regularity. Nevertheless, apart from
the natural Inconvenience. the strikers
seem to be enjoying the sensation
and arc particularly pleased with the
opportunity Of seeing the beginning of
the transatlantic flight.
How long the strike will last is
problcmatical, but the strikers pos
sess a wonderful organization.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Bills Aimed at Rent
Profteers Are Rushed
BY Bronx Committee
.stad Correspondence

ALBANY, April 16.-A definite leg
islativc programme for relieving New
York City tenants, suffering from rent
profteering, was mapped out before
Senate and Assembly leaders to-day
by a committee of Bronx County Off
cials. The committee was appointed
by The Bronx County Democratic
County Committee, and comprised
Register Polak, Municipal Court JUS
tice Harry Roblitzek, County Clerk
Joseph M. Callahan, former Demo
cratic leader of the Assembly, and
Mrs. Harry Arthur, Democratic leader
of the Third Assembly District.
The bills the passage of which they
particularly urged are:
Assemblyman McNe's bill requir-
;,g notice of twenty days to be
given by landlords to tenants before
a raise of rent would become effec
tive.
Assemblyman Fertig's bill extend
ing from five to ten days the notice
that must be given before "hold-
over" proceedings are commenced to
oust tenants.
Mr. Fertig's bill to repeal Chapter
303 Of the laws of 1918, which act
required all leases in the City of
New York to be in writing.
Senator Schacknos bill, which
would give municipal justices power
to give stay to tenants of not
more than twenty days when dis
possess warrants are issued, pro-
vided the tenant deposits in court
the rent for the period Of the stay
at the rate charged the month previ-
Gus.
A bill was introduced by Senator
Abels at the request of the com
mittee to permit tenants to answer
orally in dispossess proceedings,
thus removing the burden now cast
upon them of having an attorney
prepare q written answer.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Roper Says Congress
viii Act to Enforce
Wartime Prohibition

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 16.-Daniel
c. Roper, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, to-day stated his belief that
Congress will pass an enabling act for
enforcement of wartime prohibition,
effective July 1.
Mr.. Roper. in an address before the
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Asso-
ciation, called attention to the bulletin
of the Internal Revenue Department
under date Of April II, reciting that
the act had not then been passed.
"However," he continued, Congress
probably soon will be in session again
and no doubt will relieve the situation
by lodging the prohibition work def
nitely and by providing the necessary
money and other facilities. While the
Secretary of the Treasury will protest
against further responsibility for in
ternal revenue work, yet, of course, if
the work finally is lodged with the bu
reau VIC will proceed with it just as
we do with the enforcement of other
laws"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Shipping Board
Will Build Vessels
OF Motor Type
Netc York Tribune


WASHINGTON, April 16.-The Ship
ping Board has finally decided to build
a considerable number Of motor ships
Of 5000 tons dead weight. There has
been much criticism of the board be-
cause, with unlimited resources for
carrying out the most stupendous ship
building enterprise ever undertaken, it
made no provision for motor ships,
which some shipping men regard as
the coming type of cargo vessel. BY a
motor ship is meant one that is pro-
PEELED by internal combustion engines,
usually of the Diesel design, using
crude oil as fuel.
The Submarine Boat Corporation
originally favored the internal combus-
ton engine for the 5.000-ton fabricated
ships it is building for the Shipping
Board, but for some reason this idea
was rejected and oil burning steam
engines Of the turbine type were adopt
cd with disastrous results, though the
Hog Island yards have hnd no difficulty
with their turbine engines. which are
of another design
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Present Rents
Called Merely
Fair to O1unerS

Real estate operators asserted yes
terday that present rentals merely
gave property owners an adequate re-
turn on their investment for the first
time in years and speculative building
would not be encouraged until the cost
Of labor and materials decreased
Labor men declared that wages must
not come down; if necessary, they must
go up to meet increased rents. Inves-
tgators said that real estate specula-
tors were seeking to make up in one
fat year the losses of ten lean ones.
Reports of rising rents came from
every side.
"Rents are not too high" said an
official Of one of the largest title and
trust companies in New York. "They
are not high enough. For years real
estate owners have conducted their
properties at q loss. There was not
the demand for space, and they re-
cclved no adequate return on their in
vestments. Now rents are approach
cost of operation, pay the interest on
their mortgages and make per cent
on their money. Not many are MAX
ing per cent as yet. The real estate
men have been doing business on a
basis of profit of and per cent
The whole matter is one Of supply and
demand, and cannot be met or solved
by Legislation. This company is ready
to finance a building the owner of
which needs it for a specific purpose,
but not to finance speculative building,
as the cost of labo, and materials are
so high such structures will not pay
Wages have got to come down. When
they do, and costs of materials de-
create, building will be stimulated and
the demand met. We are getting q
real estate market, and agitation of
this question is going to knock that in
the head. | am told there is plenty OF
space If it is looked for"
Against Lower Wages
Edward |. Hannah, president Of the
Central Federated Union and mem
Der of the Mayors Rent Profteerine
Committee, said there could and woulc
be no reduction Of wages. "The yer,
men reduction of whose wages Il
asked" he said, "arc those who arc
suffering from the increase of rents
They cannot meet these rents and live
on what they are getting now. There
is nothing so dea- to man as n home
for his famiI~. When you intcrfer,
with that it is worse than cxtortior
in food or anything else. Ii food i
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Naual Heads Confer on
Plans to Safeguard
Air Flight Orer Sea

WASHINGTON, April 16 Admiral
Henry T. Mayo and Rear Admiral c. p.
Plunkett, commander of the destroyer
force, arrived III Washington day
from New York and went INTO confer
ence with officers at the Navy Depart
mcnt to discuss the disposition of the
destroyer force which VIII be assigned
to duty on unc route 10 be followed by
the naval seaplanes on their proposed
flight across the Atlantic Ocean next
month.
1t was understood that two separate
plans were considered, one should the
route be via the Azores, and the other
should the planes be sent direct to Ire
land from Ncfoundland. Several high
officers are known strongly to favor
the direct route.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Flight Of Major W'ood
Delayed by Squalls

LIMERICK, April Ii (By The AS.
sociatcd Press) s).-Whilc the weather
here is fine, reports from the west
coast Of Ireland, over which Major
Wood will have to fly on his trip
from Eastchurch. on the Thames,
to prepare for his attempt to cross
the Atlantic, are discouraging. High
ing and all hope of his arrival to-
day has been abandoned.
Every train is bringing additions
to the small army of newspaper cor
respondents. photographers and NOV
ing picture men here.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Philadelphia Brewers
Will Be Prosecuted
Special Corrcspondence

PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-Phila-
dclphia brewers who have been sell
ing beer manufactured since December
l containing more than one-half of l
per cent alcohol, despite the govern
ment orders, will be prosecuted.
This announcement was made to- day
by Ephraim Lederer, Collector of In
tcrnal Revenue, on orders from Com
missioner Roper. Brewers generally
have been selling the prescribed beer.
on advice of Elihu Root, that beer CON
tanning less than 2% per cent of al
cohol is Notwithstanding
The news came as u blow to the
brewers, who thought they had found
a strong ally in Roper following a
statement last week. when he tried to
shift tho responsibility for enforce
mcnt Of wartime prohibition to the
United States District Attorneys Of
flee.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17

high people may be able to cut down
on consumption, but man with
family must have shelter for it.
III rents continue to be raised he
is affected vitality and discomfort will
be created which will drive them no
one knows where. 1t may be neces-
sary for every workman in the state
to 60 on strike for increased wages to
meet conditions"
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, secretary of
the Reconstruction Commission of New
York, under whose direction canvass
of the rent situation is being made,
declared the speculative builder and
leasee were the persons to be checked.
Real estate investors" .she said,
SHOULD not assume that they may
make up for ten bad years in one good
year, yet some of the increases re-
ported are as high as so per cent"
Several hundred complaints were re-
ceived yesterday bv the Reconstruc-
tion Commission. One man wrote that
his apartment, formerly renting for
$65, now cost 500. A Harlem tenant
wrote her rent had been raised from
$3l to $33 in October and would be
raised again to S45 May Is. She said
the apartment was in bad repair. and
the lessee told tenants to make the
repairs themselves.
Occupants Of building in The
Bronx wrote they had been raised n
total OF $l2 each since January |. A
soldier, who served nineteen months in
France, wrote the day he was dis
charged his rent had been raised from
creased to $50. The rooms, he said
had not been painted for four years
and the agent declined to make repairs
as he wished to get rid of the tenants
This man has wife and six children
and no money to move.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
res i'm Greater New York:

untarily abandoned every form of gov
ernment in order to ventlate its gricv-
ances. There have been no fireworks
nor outward excitement of any de-
scrption. Passivity is the watchword.
All shops are shut and Offices closed
and only few private vehicles are
running For the last two nights the
city has depended on candles for IL
Elimination.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Secretary Wilson Calls
State Conference on Jobs
Governors Asked to Assist in
Forming Employment
Bureaus
Nelr YORK Tribpns
Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON. April 16.-Secretarv
of Labor Wilson to-day sent request
to the Governors Of all states to send
representatives to a conference on em-
ployment to be held from April % to
25 in Washington with him and John
B. Dinsmore, Director General Of the
United States Employment Service.
The conference will consider ma
tional legislative programme for the
creation OF permanent national en-.
pioyment service in cooperation with
states and municipalities.
The purpose of the conference"
said the Secretary's letter TO the Cow
ernors. twill be to define and estab-
hsh the most effective form of rela-
tionship between national and state.
employment activities, and in general
agreement bringing out definite OBJ
jectivc toward which all may work to
the end that "a thorough and compre-
hensive public employment service
may be permanently established"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Heroes Out in Cold
Compelled to Sleep i'm Back
Yard of W. e.. G.. =. Billet

Ten heroes of the Belgian army, part
of a group of los here for the Victory
loan, have been crowded out into the
back yard of their billet at 35 West
Twenty Street.
The back yard is the best hospitality
the War Camp Community Service can
afford them. They are of the machine
gun corps, and drag the machine gun
of the Belgian army.
They are ten stout and loyal Belgian
police dogs
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Coles Bill for Rooserelt
Memorial Passes Assembly

ALBANY, April l6.-The Coles bill
to empower the Roosevelt Memorial
Association to condemn lands in Oys-
ter Bay which may be considered neces-
sary for a memorial park, passed the
Assembly to-day without opposition.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Epidemic in Australia
Keeps All Ships i'm Port

MELBOURNE, April Is. - The Com
monwealth government has decided to
prohibit the movement of all shipping
from Australian ports in consequence
of the severity of the influenza cpl
demic in Australia and New Zealand.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Macy Flying Boats to
Get Real Test To-day:
Nem Propeller Tried

Assembling the MOI, last of the
navy's three giant flying boats, was
commenced at the Rockaway Naval
Air Station yesterday. It is expected
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
General Strike at
Limerick Stops All
Industries of City

(Copyright 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
LIMERICK, April 16.-Limerick has
original notions on the subject of
strikes Never before has a city VOL
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
AMERICANS WILL BE THERE
Opportunities offered In AbyssInla Are
by No Means Likely to Be Long
Overlooked.

After his visit to the United States
one of the Abyssinian visitors admit
TED that he knew now why there were
no Americans in Abyssinia. AS he had
seen him at home, the American. so
.he stranger from Abyssinia decided,
IS not given TO slow and tedious travel
lag. He wants to get about quickly.
AID Abyssinia, with nothing faster
than a pack mule, offers no induce
melts of rapid transportation. "That,
1t seems" said the Abyssinlan, 'has
kept the American man out of our
country. 1t is too bad. We need
bridges like yours, we need streets like
yours, and we need men like yours to
direct the building Of them" CONNER
cially and industrially, however, the
truth probably is that Abyssinia has
not been discovered" and when that
happens the American man will come
and build his own rapid transportG-
ton. The mere statement that the
capital, Adds Abbeba. is a city of
some 10000 inhabitants and no rail-
way connection with the outside world
is a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Science
Monitor.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
BROUGHTON HERE
THURSDAY NIGHT.
Noted Baptist Preacher viii De-
liver Address At Baptist Church
Thursday Night.

DR. Len G. Bourghton the most
distinguished divine in the Southern
Baptist church, q man of inter
national reputation and former pas
tor of one of the large London
churches, will deliver an address
at the First Baptist church in this
city Thursday night at 1880 o'clock.
Dir. Broughton is one of the great
est minds in the Baptist denomina-
ton in ths age and the opportunity
offered Cclumbians to hear him is a
rare one, and it is believed the big
church auditorium will be filled to
overlooking Thursday night.
lie is a great preacher, plat
form orator of fine ability, an org
nizer and man Of broad knowledge
and experience in the affairs of the
world.
Dr. Broughton won international
'ame ard attracted attention abroad
by his fine work in Atlanta in the
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
FIND MANY USES FOR PEAT
wartern Industry Olives Promise o.
Great Development In the
Years to Come.

The output OF peat in the United
States last year far exceeded that Of
any preceding year and the general
increase, which was stimulated by the
war, was shared by practically all
branches Of the industry. Though ex-
tensively used as fuel in Europe and
widely known in the United States as
a potential source Of heat and power,
peat has been unable TO compete with
coal and many peat operators have d.
rected their attention TO the utilization
OF peat in agriculture with gratifying
results.
Peat fertilizer was first marketed in
commercial quantities In 1908, and
stock-food peat In 1912, and though
there Is still some prejudice against Its
use the agricultural branch Of the In
dustry has been successful and the
quantity of fertilizer and stock food
peat annually produced is increasing.
Large quantities Of these products
were made last year, but the most
striking development was the prOduc-
biph ~ ihoAG l1IdL III AHN WV AhbiutN
States than has been manufactured in
the entire United States In all preced-
ing years. Almost equally striking
was the widespread interest manifest
ed In peat resources which had been
generally regarded as OF doubtful
value.
Large quantities OF peat or sphag-
nun moss we're produced and utilized
for stable litter. packing material, and
surgical dressing. and several hun
dred thousand acres of peat soils were
used FOR the growth of crops. The
peat litter was produced by the own
ers Of small hogs for their own use,
but the packing material was sold
to florists for 500 a ton. According
to j. w. Hotson of the Red Cross
more than half million peat pads
were prepared in this country for that
organization. Most Of the moss was
gathered by volunteers from bogs in
Washington, Oregon and Maine. and
the pads were used in military hos
pitfalls at home and abroad.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
Village Proud Of War Record.

The little Norfolk village Of Old
buckingham is proud of its war rec
ord. Its total male population be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and fifty
In 1914 was 264. OF that number no
fewer than 10 served with the forces
and 80 have given their lives for their
country.
In their honor a memorial cross has
been erected ON the village green, an
exact reproduction of the "cross of
sacrifice" designed by Sir Reginald
Bloomfield, Il. A. for all British mil.
itary cemeteries abroad. The total
height from the ground line to the
top Of the cross is "a feet inches.
1t is built Of stone and the names of
those men of the village who fell in
the war are incised in gilt on the drum
below the base Of the cross.
The sacrifice OF Old Buckingham is
typical of every British village.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
PRoDIeIEs PROVE A PUZZLE
Psychological Experts Unable to 40
count for Their Amazing Preva-
lenee In England:

Infant prodigies are being dlscov-
cred a England almost daily. Some
cOnnecN this with the psychology Of
war. One OF the youthful marvels is
Pamela Bianco. thirteen-year-old girl
artist, whose drawings were given the
place of honor in an exhibition at one
Of the principal London galleries.
Critics dealt with them quite seri-
ously and said that the work was sug-
gestive Of BottIcelli and some of the
other old masters. Pamela is an
Italian girl who was born in England
and never had taken any drawing les
sons.
ROnnie Routlcdge, four, little more
than a baby. whose parents know
nothing of music, has enjoyed six
months of tuition on the violin. At
the Grimsby College Of ViolInists re-
Gently he Outranked 43 competitors.
most of them in the twenties, and
scored 40 points in a possible 100.
Professor Danton describes him as
miracle.
Little Robbie Day, aged seven, OF
Brighton, son of a motor mechanic,
has wonderful powers Of clairvOyance,
according TO the Weekly Dispatch.
Bllndfolded. he described a number OF
articles. These included n treasury
note giving its color, numbers and
writing on the back), the color and
texture Of q piece of fabric he had
never seen, the correct answer to a
complicated sum in mental arithmetic
and figures written down at random.
After five minutes test he COM
planned of feeling Icy cold. II just see
little pictures and just say Them" is
Boobies explanation.