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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-09-27
POR Ell BIEN DE LOS POBREs


Ell Secretario Executive dc Puer
to Rico ha expedido certilicado
de registro a la asociaci5n del
pals denominada "The Porto Ri
can Bel VIOLENT Society, cuya Off
Gina principal Sc establecera en-
Ponce,s Los fines principales de
Ldicha association seran investigar
los casos de verdaderas necesida-
des de las familias personals po-
Ibres, para socorrerlas con dinero,
|alimentos y ropas, 0 en- alguna
otra forma. Sus incorporadores
son las siguientes seiioIas y ca
|balleros: Teresa G. Vda. dc An
tonsanti, Maria Laguna de Dape-
ma, I. S. de Grahm, Salvador Man
DIR, Francisco Porrata Doria y
|Desiderio A. Muiiiz, todos de Pom
on
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-09-27

Director de Gel Tempo.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-09-27
ESPECTACULOS PARA HOY

Sc nos dijo que de este hech
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Hotel Murder Still i
Unsolved by Police:
Victim Identified
Man Slain in McAlpin Was
c. E. Landon, Of Portland
Ore. Who Was Discharged
From A. E. F. on Tuesday

Only part Of the nvstsrv Co.,
rounding the murder Of retuvro,
soldier IN the Hotel McAlDin Thursd...
was dispelled yesterday by the dom
acation of the victim.
The body was identified as tb.. :.
c. Z. Landon, student at the III;
versity of Oregon. whose home j. =;
Portland. Sergeant Albert yos u.
had just returned from France WIFI viz
Landon and was discharged from -" ia
army with him Tuesday, made ms ms
identification. We
Although there is no tangjble o,.
to the murderer, the police arc w" NV
vinced that Landon, who had s9o0 !,
back pay, was lured to the hotel bv ~. ~
of the numerous Broadway "foaterss
who are now credited with paying nar.
ticular attention to returned soldis-.
and was murdered when it becsna
evident that was the only means ~
obtaining his money. VI
The robbery theory is borne out hv
the fact that but 25 cents was forDy
in Landon's clothing. No reason bas
been found, however, for the attemn,
to conceal the murdered mans jdep.
tity No other motive could be fonna
for the removal of the mans collar ~
and sox. the only garments upon which
his initials or name might have beea
found
False Identification Made
Sergeant Vos appeared at the moror.
and positively identified the BODY af.a.
several men had caused furry of ey-
citement about the Criminal CONF,
Building by Identifying the BODY az
that of Darby Dent, a member of ths
Police Department now assigned tn
special homicide investigations at tbs
District Attorneys Office Because Of
the work in which he was Engaged Il
was thought that he might have been
slain by one of gang of criminals he
was Investigating.
Vos said he had returned with Ian.
don and four other soldiers on the
Great Northern a week ago. All wers
discharged Tuesday. Landon, he said.
had no acquaintances IN New York
City, but expected to visit friends in
Watertown, N. Y.
1t is believed that he set out to see
the city and made the acquaintance OF
the man who registered with him an
p. j. Pourerer The wounds upon Lam
don's skull indicate that his compan.
ION in the room at the McAlpin struck
him repeatedly as he reclined upon his
bed.
Seek Fingerprint Clew
The weapon with which the murder
was committed was found during the
afternoon when a bent and blood
stained candelabrum was removed from
beneath one of the two beds in the
room.
If Landon's assailant proves to be a.
former member Of the army Z is prob
able that he will not escape detection,
since the army fngerprint system,
available 10 the Police Department kere,
makes Identification almost certain.
Fingerprlnts upon the candelabrum
we're taken yesterday for the purpose
OF comparing with those OF suspects
later.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Path finder Leuues on
1ranScOntinentaL FLigl,t
-Four Other Machines Of Squad
ron Start To-day on First Leg
to Philadelphia; Others Later

The first airplane of the All-Amcri-
can Pathfnders' squadron left Hazel
hurst Field, L. T., yesterday on the
first leg of the transcontinental flight
to San Francisco. The machine was
piloted by Lieutenant Kenneth c. Leg
gett, of the Department of Aerial In
formation. Second Lieutenant Carl D.
Gunther, of the same department., was
observer.
The machine rose from the fyinc
field at o'clock and as soon as It
had gained an altitude of 5000 feet
started off for Bustleton Field, near
Phi h'ladelphia.
Lieutenant Leggett vii lact through
out the momentous flight as pioneer for
the seven other machines Of the SQUAD
ron. He will Ay ahead OF the squadron
to each Of the appointed landing places.
mapping oUt the route. and rcrortinr
back to the remainder Of tho squadron n
by wireless.
Under present plans Major paldlnre-.
commander OF the squadron. intends
TO start four more airplarcs on ths
transcontincntal fight to-day, and the
renal lining three to-morrow. Lievtnn-
ant Lcggett will fly from Philsdslph!s
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
SATURDAY. Mem 1)ork Gribnue AUGUST ae

nedy, author Of 1.-THE Servant in the
House" and husband OF Edith Wynn
Mathieson, wired the Equity offering it
the privilege Of staging any OF his
plays without paying royalties. At tho
Lexington Theatre the Equity Will
stage vaudeville.
Marie DressIcr not to be- outdone by
David Beasco's promise TO retire as
producer II the actors won the strike,
declared yesterday she wouid retire
from the stage II :hey los. it
Neither art. humanity nor the world
Will lose thereby" she said. Both Mr..
Belasco and myself are old enough to
retile"
Subscriptions of $4,000 for the strike
benefit performance at the Lexington
have been received to date, according to
Ed Wynn Plans are being perfected
for the parade of striking acto-s and
actresses Monday afternoon. Lleuten-
ant Colonel Ear, Booth, chairman Of
the parade committee, said a contin
gent of picketers would lead the pro-
Cession.
Hears Lockout Is Planned
Hearing in the two injunction suits
brought by Chicago managers against
striking actors was laid over until
Monday.
Chicago stage carpenters and elec-
tricians were granted a 20 per cent
wage increase yesterday.
An internecine scrap broke out III
the chorus girls branch Of the Equity
yesterday, when Ethel Hallor, of the
"Follies," and Fay Tunis, of "A Lonely
Romeo" each asserted she had been
elected vice president.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Pleas for Violence
Are Found i'm Raid
On Russian House
Arrest of 3 Russian Radicals
Follows Seizure of Papers
Urging Blood War Against
u. s. Capital and Church

Three men who were taken in & raid
on the Russian Peoples House, 1873
East Fifteenth Street, late Thursday
night, were locked up at Police Head
quarters yesterday charged with Grim
inal anarchy in connection with pub
lications in the Russian language
Twelve others taken in the raid were
released after grilling b. Assistant
District Attorney Rorke.
Ex-Justice Charles E. Hughes, Thorn
as w. Lamont, of j. p Morgan G. Co.;
H. +. (probably George W. is meant)
Perkins, Of the National Harvester
Company; L. c. Grace, Of the Dethle-
hem Steel Company; William Il. Darr,
president Of the National Foundry AS
sociation, and Daniel Willard, president
of the Baltimore & Orio RailroId Com
pany, are named by the Finnish! anar-
chist publication, THE Luoklataistelu," ;"
as organizers of "capitalst mobs" and
as such to be opposed by violence.
The men held described themselves
as Peter Bianky, twcnty-six years old,
a Russian editor, of 316 East Four
teenth Street; Naum Stetanuk, thirty
SIX years old, Russian secretary, of
15l East Fifteenth Street, and Hyman
Pcrkus, Russian, of 229 East Twent-
tieth Street
According to the police the premises
raided was soviet headquarters and
also the publication Office of the
"khlier-Y- -Volga," a radical newspaper.
whose title in English is Bread and
Freedom"
In its issue of the first week of Au-
gust, according to the police, his
news spaper advocated dictatorship of
the proletariat, the destruction of
power, property and capital and the
burning OF police stations, barracks
and churches. One sentence credited
TO the newspaper By the police was:
God is as much the sworn enemy of
the people as the gendarme"
INC three men named were later held
IN the iorkville Court by Magistrate
Ten Eyck in $4,000 bail for examine
tion Tuesday,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Cleaner Starts f. Fires i'm
Hotel "tO See Flames''
Questioned All Afternoon.
Finally Admits Guilt and
Is Arrested

Charles Ginovesc, Of 244 West Fistv-
ninth Street, went to work as cleaner
in the New Grand Hotel, Broadway and
Thirty-third Street early Thursday
morning.
at 6:50 that morning blaze was dis
covered on the fifth floor. At s a. m.
another started in washroom on the
second floor and spread to the third
before it was put out At yesterday
morning, another was discovered and
at 1885 Mrs. Margaret Mulvaney dis
covered fourth, in the mattress room,
and told the management that she bad
seen Ginovesc leaving that room.
All yesterday afternoon Fire Marshal
Thomas Brophy and assistants ques-
toned Ginovese. Last night, they say,
he finally admitted setting the fires,
which caused about $500 damage, be-
cause he "liked to see the flames" He
was arrested.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
''HenevoIens Trust" Formed bv
F.otestant Book Publishers

trade combination has been effectcd bv
publishers of Protestant relioIons
books, according to an announcement
made to-day by Dr. H. P. Ford. ono of
the secretaries of the Prcsbyterian
Board of Publication, who CHARACTER.
ized it as a "Benevolcnt Trust" The
com blnatlon includes the PRESBYTERIAN
Board, the American Baptist Publjca-
1ion Society, the Congregational Pub
llshlng Society, the Association Press
'f the \ NJ. c. A, and the Women's
press OF the Y. W. c. A. They are
lormlns the United Religious Selling
agency, which is expected ultimately
e, 70 represent virtually all publishers Of
literature pertaining TO religious work
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Sugar Profiteers Fined
$26, 900; Lose $ll2,8OO
French Confscate Illegal Gains
and Send Men to Jail
for One Year

STRASBOURG. Aug. I'm. Sc
phane. director Of the Bank Of Alsace,
another official o. the bank and Schoen-
ferber, theatrca. manager. convicted
IN the Correctional Court of Illicit
sugar dealing. were sentenced late yes
terday.
St6phane, large stockholder in
the Erstein Sugar Refinery, gained CON
troll Of the plant after the German
manager was expelled and sold eighty
carloads of sugar. Twenty carloads, it
was testified, were sold through
Schoenferber at an enormous profit.
Stephane was given jail sentence
Of SIX months, which was suspended.
and was fined 10000 francs (sl2,ooo)
The bank official was fined 10000
francs $4,000. Schoenferber was
sentenced to years imprisonment
and fine of $4,000 francs (sl2,00o)
was imposed upon him:
Alleged Illegal profits of 564.o francs
(s112,SoO) were ordered confiscated by
the court.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Army Will Enter
Thirty Airplanes
In Handicap Race
American and Foreign Made
Machines Included in the
List; Service Men Can't
Accept Prizes of Money

Major General Charles T. Menober
director Of the United States Armv Air
Service, yesterday announced that the
government would enter thirty air
planes in the handicap race between
New York, Toronto and return. which
IS to commence August 25. These ma
chlnes Will include almost every type of
modern airplane of American, British.
french and German make. They will
be flown by United States army avi-
ators.
Although there are prizes totalline
more than $4,000 for this race, put
up by the Hotel Commodore, the army
pilots Will not be allowed to accept anv
prize money in the event of winning
they may, however, compete for the
three trophies offered for the race.
General Mcnoher ruled.
The announcement of the army en-
tres was made by General Menoher to
Laurence LAT. briggs, president of the
American Flying Club. II East Thirty-
elghth Street, under whose auspices
the race is being held.
Ihe types of machines to be entered
oy the government were announced n
General Menoher as follows: American
make-De Haviland a, De Haviland 9.
De Haviland Ga. Glenn L. Martin Bomb,
er, Ordnance Scout, Honeymoon Ex
press, Vought, La Pere, Thomas Morse
scout, horsepower; Thomas Morse
scout 800 horsepower, and seven Cur
tlss j. N. H., all biplances, and the
Looming monoplane. British make
5. r. 5, S. f. 5a. Avro and BRISTOL
lghter. French make-Spad, Breguet.
German make-Two Albatross, one
fohker, three Phalz, one L. z. w. and
ore HanOverian Scout
General William Mitchell, who is to
start the race from Mitchell Field, l.. l..
may fly one Of Che army machines in
the race himself The trophies for
which the army pilots may compete are
the Canadian National Exhibition
trophy for the fastest time made on
the round trip flight between the two
cities, and the Canadian Aero Clubs
trophy for the fastest American entry
in the race. The American FLYING
Clubs trophy is reserved for the fast
est Canadian entry.
The race Will start simultaneously
from New York and Toronto. The
Prince of Wales will start the Canadian
entries from the ground of the Cana
dian National Exhibition in Toronto.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Action Against Craig Aired
Decision Reserved i'm Case Over
Pay of Two Examiners

An action to bring about the punish
ment of Controller Craig and various
municipal civil service commissioners
for alleged failure to obey an injunc
ton and shut off the pay Of two exam
lners last spring was argued before
Justice Cropsey in the Brooklyn Su-
preme Court yesterday. The justice
reserved decision.
ne action was Instituted by Elmer
q Story, civil service examiner of
Queens, acting as taxpayer The ex-
aminers whose removal from the pay
roll is sought are Thomas f. MURRAY.
flrst assistant chief examiner. a, a
salary of $4,260 a year, and Miss Nav
Is. upshaw, whose salary is S3,6GO. The
contempt proceedings are directed
against Commlssioner Craig, Morris
Cukor president of the commission.
and Commissioners William Brennan
and Thomas R. kllilea.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Liebers Made Inspector
Police Captain, Nov at Staten
island. is Promoted

Captain George c. Liebers. who has
been temporarily in charge of the 9th
inspection District. Staten Island. was
promoted to inspector yesterday. He
mis- the place on the force left vacant
by the retirement of Inspector Tunnev
Inspector Liebers was appointed to
the force September /, 1888. He be
came sergeant in 1889, a lieutenant
III 1892 and captain in 1905.
Other promotions announced at
Headquarters included the raising of
Lieutenant Thomas W. Mullarkey to a
captalncy Lieutenant Mullarkey has
Deen e. attached to the chief inspectors
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Woman and Baby Found
Starving in Doorway
Mother Has 81 in Purse. but
Explains She Was Too
Worried to Eat

The faint cry of q two months cid
baby attracted Patroiman Harry Smith
early yesterday to the door of an apart
ment house at 209 West 1O4th Street.
where he found young woman uncon-
sclous. Child and mother were taken
70 the hnickerbochcr Hospital. where
the case was pronounced one Of starva-
ton The woman had ST. but explained
later that she had been too worried
to eat.
She said she was Manuela Guilera.
that she came from Cuba fourteen
months ago, and after the birth cf her
naby mad gone several times to Wash
lhgton to tnd its father, who, she as
serted was member of the Cuban
legation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
At 80 Ezra L. Mundy
Would Run for Coverno,

:, MEtTUCHEN, N. j., Aug. 15.-Ezra
r. Mundy; who is eighty-six years old
announced himself to-day as an in,
dependent candidate for Governor If
ne is elected he says he will endeavor
TO 10 increase teachers salaries and cur
.hose OF public officials, reduce taxes.
urge the Immediate ratification of the
woman suffrage amendment and ad-
vecate a law reducing tie speed limit
!or automobiles to four miles an hour
IN urban districts and fifteen miles ne,.
nour on country roads. Mr.. Mundv
publican. GU" W.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Two Army Fliers Hurt
Iandin z Plane in Storm
Machine Wrecked on Estate of
Former Justice Narean
at NorwaIk
Special Corrcsponl

NORWALK. Conn, Aug. 1.-Two
army aviators lost their bearings this
evening in fierce thunderstorm and
attempted TO make landing at Day
Break, the summer home OF former Su-
preme Court Justice Josiah T. Marean,
of Brooklyn. n. Y. In their efforts to
avoid ploughing through a tennis court
they drove their plane into steep
bank, wrecking the machine.
Both men were hurt. The more Sc
riously injured is Sergeant Benjamin
S. Bishop, of North Adams. Mass. His
injuries are internal and he is at Nor
walk Hospital The pilot. Lieutenant
Monteith. suffered cuts on the head.
and after having them attended to
went on to Bridgeport. Both men are
members OF the 18th Aero Squadron
and started this afternoon from Hazel
hurst Field. Long Island, to fly to vii.
imantic, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Bugbee Pledges Aid in Move
10 UniOnize Jersey Firemer

TRENTON. N. j., Aug. 15.-Con-
troller Newton A. X. Bugbee, one of the
kepuollcan candidates for the guberna-
toflai nomination, let it be known TO-
day mat he had had indorsed the two
platoon system and pledged his assist
ance to the unionized firemen of .ha
varlous cities and communities to have
the question of its adoption placed on
the ballot. Mr.. Bugbee's pledge was
contained in letter replying to a
question put to him by P. j. Mahonev
representing Firemen's Local No. 72
A. F. of L.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Cornell Deans Son Pleads
Guilty to Forgery Cboro<

:, Donald Hammond. twenty-four-year-
Tqia qia son Of Dean Hammond, of Cornell
University, who was wounded several
s:snes in France where he served viii
me IN Royal Flying Corps. pleaded ru,ltv
70 forgery in the second degree before
Iudge "adhams In General Sessions
uours yesterday. He was rcmanded to
'Ae ., lombp for sentence noxt week.
!, hammond pleaded guilty to an In
a.ctnsnt charging him with forging
=" pa i1naorsement to a check Of Norman
GGilstaiord, IT,, member Of tho Harvard
S'oo' on which he collected $1,000.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Jail Breakers Recaptured
After Fight in Autos

sPRlNGFIELD, Mass. Aug. 15.-
Alexa1der Magill and George Lynch,
Two Of the FIVE men who escaped from
fhe Worcester Jail on Wednesday
Hisht' arc under arrest. Hasill in this
city and Lynch IN Northampton. BOTH
for the theft CT automobiles. Magiil
was arrested early to-day in North
s'npton, whore he and Lynch we're
asleep IN touring car sto.nn from u
theatfieal manager ct this ely.
Lynch escaped Ia spite Of shots hred
TO ha.t him. and, communicating tho
o"f o. the Rev. a. Go Forest SnIvaiv.
Grove through Williamsburg to Goshen,
Pursusa by constable, who captured
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

Mrs. ELLA G. BUCKLEY, of 1893
AVA Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, was
summoned 60 the Flatbush Police Court
yesterday on complaint of William
Frederick Cowen. forty-three, of 965
Greene Avenue. who charged that she
promised to wed him, although she
was already married, solely to deprive
him of his possessions, including a
set OF furniture, ring valued at 5000
and Il watch said to be worth the same
amount. He further charged that Mrs
Buckley made her two children believe
their father was dead, so they might
not spoil the plan.
Mrs. Buckley said Cowen described
himself to her as "an Irish poet, author,
student and detective" but that she
knew him as a waiter. He was
roomer at her house, she said, and the
only present he ever gave her con-
sisted of wilted flowers he had gathered
up after a wedding at which he had
served the cake
Mrs Buckley's counsel said the case
was one for the civil courts, but Magis-
trate Reynolds paroled her for hear
ing next Tuesday.
HOHN OLSEN, IL years old, chauf-
- feur, of 225S Webster Avenue, The
Bronx, made traffic court record
yesterday. He is the first person ac-
quilted of speeding charge since the
court was established three years ago.
Motorcycle Patrolman Vincent Macau-
ley said Olsen was driving CONNER
clal car at twenty-six miles an hour
on Seventh Avenue, between 146th and
149th streets.
Macauley said he was standing on
the curb when Olsen passed, but that
he caught up with him in less than a
block. When two other motorcycle
patrolmen, called as experts by Maeis-
trate Cobb, testified that Macauley's
cycle was one speed machine incapa-
BILE OF attaining speed of thirty miles
IN less than a block, Olsen was dis
charged.
THE Municipal Court of the Eighth
District has not had a session IN
ten days, much to the satisfaction of
more than q hundred tenants faced
with dispossess proceedings Justice
Oppenheimer, who pres ded, has been
Ill for more than a week and is now
convaescing in Bellevue Hospital.
Despite his absence, the president of
the Board of Municipal Court Justices
mas neglected to designate a substitute.
When Justice Oppenhcimer was
taken Ill he had heard evidence on fifty
dlspossess proceedings, and about that
number were pending. He had not
gwen his decisions on those he had
heard when taken to the hospital In
consequence, tenants are still holding
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16

to Middletown, near Harrisburg, Penn,
o-day.
The transcontincntal fight is being
made for the purpose of general re-
cruiting for all branches of the army,
and also to give the people of the
country the sight of complete squad
ron in independent action. The squad
ron is accompanied by a complete
motor truck transport train, on which
is packed every requirement of mod
ern ,airplane squadron, including one
of the most powerful searchlights in
existence. This train is already at the
first stop.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
Youker Says He Can't Afford
To Run for Assembly Again

Assemblyman Wilfred E. Youker. Of
the 18th District, Brooklyn, who was
designated for denomination by the Re-
publicans, announced yesterday that
he was unable to afford the financial
losses entailed by another term in
Albany and that some one else would
have to be selected in his stead. Mr.
iouker has served three terms in the
Assembly and was chairman Of the
General Laws Committee. He will re-
sumo his law practice.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-16
L. 5. Military Mission to
Berlin Completing Work

BERLIN. Aug. 5 (By The Associated
Press The United States military
mission, assigned TO Germany after the
quarters in Berlin, viii be dissolved in
the course Of the next month and will
leave for home early in September.