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New-York tribune., 1919-05-12

Of housing" which was the only means
by which the problem could be settled
for all time
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, OF the State
Reconstruction Commission, said there
had beell no further development in
the rent situation yesterday, but that
the commission would cooperate in the
investigation, on housing conditions by
the Legislative committee.
This committee has announced that
ii will begin its first session on,Thurs-
day mornig at 10 o'clock in the Board
of Estimate room at City Hall. Senator
Charles c. Lockwood. chairman of the
committee, announced that Mayor Hy-
Ian, Mr.. Hirsch and Abram l. Elkus
chairman of the Reconstruction Com
mission, would be invited to appear.
The Legislative committee has offices
at 511 Fifth Avenue.
Despite the brighter aspect which
the Brownsville situation assumed, ar
rangements were completed to throw
open the Williams Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church in that district to-
day to the scores who were expected
to be homeless as the result Of dis
possess proceedings. A detail of police
has been assigned to the church to
maintain order in case the applicants
for shelter are too numerous or too
impatient.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12

the tenants, who deposited with him
their arrears in rents, thus halting the
eviction proceedings. Tenants in q
house at 534 Powell Street, who we're
so lncensed at rent advances a few
weeks ago that they partly wrecked the
place, seemed anxious to reach an un-
derstanding with the landlord
Captain Charles A. Goldsmith. Of the
Mayors Committee on Rent Profteer-
ing, said after an inspection of the
Brownsville district, that he considered
the situation much improved. 1t held
posslollltles OF danger still, he said but
Nathan Hirsch, chairman Of the
Mayors Committee on Rent Profteer-
ing, said the Committee on Mediation
and Cancellation, which was formed
with Mayor Hylan's consent, was re
sponslble IN no small measure for the
solution of difficulties.
AT least six important cases which
were spbmitted to this new COMMITTEES
by the respective landlords and ten
ants have been solved, he said, to the
satisfaction of all.
Everything" he said, "will be done
to bring about a good understanding
betwean landlords and tenants, and be.
cause | believe q lot of landlords do
not want to be held up to publicity and
are ready to negotiate with their ten
ants, who see that expenses have risen
and are ready to pay little more
rent. l think the rent problem is in a
tair way of being solved"
Mr.. Hirsch added that of course this
did not do away with the "necessity
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
% American Women
Decorated by France
All Served During War in Hos
pital at Buzancy, Says Let
ter Just Received

twenty-five women who served in
the American Womens Hospital No. l.,
at Buzancy, France, throughout the
war, have been decorated by the
french government, and the entire
staff of the hospital has been given the
freedom of the city of Buzancy. This
information was received yesterday
by Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Conger, executive
secretary of the American Women's
Hospitals, 637 Madison Avenue.
The medals have been presented to:
Or. Delan Kinney, Miss Alice M. Clark,
Miss Florence Eadie and Mrs. Sarah
O'Brien, New York City; DR.. Louise
Hurrell, Rochester, N. Y; DR.. Char
lotte Fairbanks, st. Johnsburg, Vt;
DR.. Kate Doherty, Milwaukee, Wis;
DR.. Margaret Ethel Fraser and Miss
Ruth Caldwell, Denver, Col; DR.. Mary
MacLachlan, Portland, Ore; DIR. I. j.
Manwaring, Norwich, Conn; DR.. Inez
c. Bentley, Kings Park, N. Y; DR.. Olga
Stastney, Omaha, Neb.; DIR. Edna
Ward, Littleton, Col; Mrs. Emile
Lanoir-Lehman and Miss Lillian w.
Pettengill, Philadelphia; Miss Ada
Tobitt, Darling, Penn; Miss E. Pauline
Whitaker, Lancaster, Penn; Miss Mar
garet Purvis, Atlantic Highlands, N. j.;
Miss Emily S. Cheney, Manchester,
Conn.,, and Miss Wilhelmina Drum
mond, Atlanta, Ga.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
Transportation Ira d e S
Council Named by Truck
Owners for Interference
With Longs h ore men
Injunction Is Granted
Unions Summoned to Show
Cause Why 1t Shouldn't
Be Made Permanent

For the first time since the United
States entered the war the aid of the
New York courts has been invoked in
. labor dispute The Truck Owners
Association has hailed the Transporta-
ton Trades Council into the Supreme
Court of Kings County to show cause
why it and it's members should not be
restrained from interfering with the
open shop policy insisted upon as a
matter Of right by the truck owners.
On the petition Of P. Reardon, Inc, a
member Of the association, Justice Van
Sclen had granted temporary injunc-
tion and ordered the officers of the
transportation council to appear on
Wednesday and show cause why the in
junction should not be made perma-
nent. Joined with the union as de-
PENDANTS are Walker D. Hines, as head
Of the United States railroad admin
istration; the international Mercantile
Marine and various steamship COM
panies subsidiary to it, The unions
making up the transportation council
are locals of the International Long
checkers, weighers and receiving
ship piers.
Because Of what the papers in the
case term "an illegal boycott" it is
charged that several hundred trucks,
representing an investment Of $1,000,-
900, have been rendered idle, and a
volume of business said to exceed $3,-
100000 year closed to the operators.
During the winter of 1918 and the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
Labor Federation Won't
Join i'm Strike for Debs
Vice-Presidenf Duncan Declares
Protest Is Not Sanctioned
by Organization

The American Federation Of Labor
will not cooperate in the proposed ma
tion-wide protest strike for the re-
lease of Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist
leader, from the penitentiary. The
strike has been set by the Socialist
party and radical labor organizations
for July 4.
James Duncan, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
yesterday that any strike demanding
Debs' release will be without the sane
ton of the federation. 1t was ad-
mitted, however, that many of the
unions, which have promised to strike,
are affiliated with the federation. Mr..
Duncan thought the strike demonstra-
tions planned for Debs will be only
"spasmodic outbursts with which or
ganized labor will have nothing to
do" According to Mr.. Duncan the
unions affiliated with the federation
are business organizations. He said:
owe do things in regular fashion
and do not engage in fiighty outbursts.
We nave agreements with our employ
ers which we intend to keep"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12

present spring." says the complaint.
various attempts were made by the
Transportation Trades Council and its
affiliated locals to unionize the team
sters and stable forces of the plaintiff.
The plaintiffs employees were con-
tented with their wages and conditions
and rejected THESE overtures to enter
the union fold. At about the same
time intimations were received by the
plaintiff and its officers that it would
be advantageous to the plaintiff and
might avert future trouble for it to
sign a union agreement and insist
upon the unionization of the employees.
No attention was paid to these implied
threats.
Substantially every pier in the city
of New York and every steamship or
other vessel entering or departing from
the port of New York is closed to the
plaintiff, and it is wholly unable to
deliver any merchandise to or receive
any merchandise from these vessels or
upon these piers; the plaintiff is un-
able to truck bonded merchandise in
The custody of the United States gov
eminent from bonded warehouses to
vessels or receive like merchandise ar
irving from vessels from foreign ports;
the plaintiff is unable to make deliv-
cries on piers or to vessels of war and
army supplies intended for overseas
shipment by the United States govern
ment; the plaintiff is, and for approx
mately two weeks has been, wholly
incapable of carrying on its transfer
business in discharging its lawful
function as common carrier in inter
state commerce, for the reason that
the embargo declared by the defend
ants has been made effective against
freight as we'll as that of local
origin; merchandise worth millions of
dollars belonging to customers Of plain
tiff has remained for days, and much
Of it still remains on piers subject to
perils of fire, storm and insurance cam
cellations, and merchandise of like
character and value intended for ex-
port or foreign shipment has been
similarly delayed, with consequent loss
to all concerncd; perishable and urgent
freight have, in many instances, been
held up with severe financial loss to
the owners"
Paul Bonynge, counsel for the
truckmen, said yesterday: "a number
of checkers have orders from the union
to disregard the injunction order and
are defying it openly. AS soon as the
papers can be issued they will be hailed
into court and either jailed or fined
in contempt Of court. This is clear
case of master and servant"
Mr. Bonynge said that union workers
on Piers AZ and Ct, North River, in the
employ of the Panama Railroad Steam
ship Line, refused on Friday to accept
goods of P. Reardon, Inc, and were
DISCHARGED.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
National Union
OF Tenants Is
Started Here
Continued from page 1

sued by the new union," he said, "will
be the collective method. We will or
ganize the tenants in unions just as
the various trades are organized, and
the federated unions of tenants in the
various states will ask for special ses-
sions of the legislatures to empower
each city to issue bonds for the erec-
tion of municipal tenements to be op
Grated by the cities and rented at cost. :"
Cooperation Committee Named
Samuel Shore, manager Of the White
Goods Workers Union, presided at the
meeting. Mr.. Shore, with David Brod-
sky and Meyer Abramson, were ap-
pointed committee Of the United He
brew Trades to establish a basis Of CO.
operation with the Tenants Union. the
Brooklyn Tenants Union, the Greater
New York Tenants Union and the Con-
sumers League.
In Brownsville, where 167 dispossess
actions are on the calendars of the two
parts of the Seventh District Munic;nal
Court for this morning, the rent situa
tion showed symptoms of settling down
to normal basis. There were indica-
tions that the tenants union and the
landlords organization wereS approach
ing an understanding.
Morris Jasse, secretary of the union,
announced that the organization had
satisfied itself that some of the land
lords it had been fighting were not
profteers and that these had agreed
to hold their rent increases to 80 cents
room or less. In this the tenants
union acquiesced. Mr. Jasse said several
OF the landlords had acceded to the de-
mands of the tenants for leases for
nine and twelve months.
Evictions Are Halted
City Marshal David Goldberg, who
was to evict more than forty tenants
from house on Hilsda]e Street this
morning, received visits from many of
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12
Two Killed by Autos
Woman in Corona and Boy i'm
Yonkers Are Victims

Two persons were killed by automo-
blles in and near New York yesterday.
Eliza Denander, ffty-three years old,
was walking across Alburtis Avenue,
Corona, early yesterday morning, when
she was run down by machine driven
by Louis Gailucci, of Corona, formerly
Assistant District Attorney of Queens.
She was killed instantly
John Zelenak, nine years old, of 46 Gro
ton Terrace, Yonkers, was struck while
crossing Nepperhan Avenue, by an au-
tomobile operated by G. A. Heller, Of
447 Walnut Street, Yonkers. The boy
died. Heller was arrested on a charge
of manslaughter.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-12

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New-York tribune., 1919-05-12

donderry, scored the best points for
the case of the royalty holders when
he explained he worked his own mines,
took close personal interest in them
and wished to continue so doing. He
declared for individualism and the
rights of private property.
The inquiry is developing daily
duels, with Smillie and Sir Leo Chiozza
Money scoring heavily with their hui
manitarian arguments against the
landowners. The commissions report.
which, is to appear in about week,
will render a decision.
The sun., 1919-05-18
III

Captain Rickenbacker tells story
about Quentin Roosevelt which may
interest the War Department as well
as the ordinary reader. Young ROose-
welt, who was the most popular man
in the Ninety-ffth Squadron, was
made Flight Commander before he
had ever flown over the lines, his COM
manding officer having been "moved
perhaps by the fact that Quentin was
the son of Theodore Roosevelt"
Quentin, who seems to have had more
sense than his chief, declined the
honor, but "his superiors directed
him to obey orders" Three men, all
more experienced than Quentin, were
placed under his command. The first
time the group started out Lieut..
Roosevelt said to the most experienced
of his men: "You, Buckley, are to be
flight commander in my place. As
soon as we leave the ground you take
the lead. I will drop into your place.
We will try out each man in turn.
They may make me flight commander
in name, but the best pilot in my
group is going to lead it in fact"
And that condition of affairs con-
tinued until Quentin Roosevelt's
DEATH on Jaly IA, 1918, in a "dog-
fight" with RichshofeR's circus ten
The sun., 1919-05-18
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miles back of the German lines. Of
Quentin's bravery Capt. Ricken-
hacker says:
"He was reckless to such degree
that his commanding officers had to
caution him repeatedly about the
senselessness of his lack of caution.
His bravery was so notorious that we
all knew he would either achieve some
great spectacular success or be killed
in the attempt. Even the pilots in his
own flight would beg him to conserve
himself and wait for a fair oppor-
tunity for a victory. But Quentin
would merely laugh away all serious
advice" Once he followed a Hun
squadron, thinking it was his own.
When he discovered his mistake he
shot down the German machine In
front of him and streaked it for home.
That incident was a puzzle to the
methodical German mind. Why should
a Yankee have trailed the German
squadron for fifteen minutes before
shooting it upf
The sun., 1919-05-18

THE most complete and satisfying
Il narrative by a war aviator that
has yet appeared is Fighting the Fly
ing Circus, the personal experiences
of Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker,
commanding officer of the Ninety
fourth Pursuit Squadron-the Hat
in the Ring Squadron. Rickenbacker,
besides being the leader of the most
active American air squadron, which
had about seventy official victories, is
himself credited with twenty-Six kills.
In foreword to the book Laurence
La Tourette briggs, keen student
of aerial warfare, declares that if
Rickenbacker had been a free lance
he would have doubled his own score,
even in the short period of America
service in the war.
Captain Rickenbacker's book does
not keep the reader waiting. He
avoids not only the story Of his going
to France as General Pershing's
driver but also the details of his
training as fier, and he jumps right
into his first flight, under Major Luf-
bery's wing, across the German lines.
From that first page on it is war
war to the crash. 1t tells not only
of the strategy Of aerial battle, which
is different in almost every fight, but
Of the various adventures of himself
and his courageous American associ-
ates, not limiting the tales to the men
of his own squadron.
Who was the greatest fighting pilot
of the war? Rickenbacker says it
was an American, Frank Luke Of the
Twenty-seventh Squadron, who shot
down thirteen balloons in six days.
. Balloons, by the way, looked easy to
the new airman, but they were puz-
zle to him when he tackled them.
Either the gas was not infammable
or the bullet went through the bag
so rapidly that the gas was not ig-
nited. Also, to tackle balloon which
was comparatively near the earth
meant a journey through a perfect
storm of Arches. At dusk one day
last September Frank Luke pointed
out to his companions at the Ameri-
can aerodrome two German balloons
in the sky two miles back of the
Boche lines and about four miles
apart.
"You will see," he said, "the first
one 60 up in flames exactly at Z is;
and the other will do likewise at
7:19."
And Rickenbacker declares that
Luke made good his prophecies al
most to the very second!
On another occasion, in less than
twenty minutes, Luke shot down two
balloons, two fighting Fokkers and
photographing machine. That little
job put him temporarily ahead of
Rickenbacker among the American
aces. Luke had gained fourteen off
cial victories in eight days. No other
aviator says observation-disclosures even
Guynemer, or Fonck, or Ball, or
Bishop, or Richthofen-ever equalled
that. What became of Luke nobody
knows. He sailed away one evening
for his favorite sport of killing bal
looms, and he never was heard of
again. The Germans could give no
clue to the mystery. Like Guynemer,
The sun., 1919-05-18
Nv.

Capt. Rickenbacker describes briefly
the early attitude of the allied airmen
toward their American cousins:
"The British and French had had
three years and more of air fighting,
and the veterans of these squadrons
looked upon the American pilots with
something of amusement and some
The sun., 1919-05-18

thing of polite contempt. They had
believed in the story Of our twenty
thousand aeroplanes which had been
promised by April Here was April at
hand and We were flying ill equipped
machines that we fortunately had
been able to wangle out of the French
and English"
1t IS best to quote verbatim what
Rickenbacker says about the Liberty
airplanes. He is telling of the bomb
ing operations in the Grand Pre-
neighborhood:
From every side Fokkers were
Piquing [diving vertically upon the
clumsy Liberty machines which, with
their criminally constructed fuel
tanks, offered SO easy target to the
lncendiary bullets of the enemy that
their unfortunate pilots called this
boosted achievement of our aviation
department their flaming collins
During that one brief fight over
Grand Pre- L saw three of these crude
machines go down in flames, an Amer
lean pilot and an American gunner in
each flaming coffin dying this fright
full and needless death"
v.
On the familiar subject of the
"chJvalry of the air" Capt. Ricken-
hacker touches briefly. Early in the
game, he says, he decided that he
would never shoot Hun who was at
a disadvantage. 1t is to be supposed
that he means that he would not and
did not shoot an enemy whose ammu-
milton was gone or who already was
plunging toward the earth. Once, in
a fight with Fokker of Richthofen's
circus, he saw that the foe 5 motor had
"gone dud." The German started. to
plane toward home, being even then
two miles inside the German lines.
Rickenbacker headed him off and
shepherded him, like dog turning q
sheep, toward the American lines. The
Fokker pilot had the choice OF going
or being shot. Rickenbacker's object
was to capture the Fokker uninjured
and use it himself. But the scheme
was spoiled, for Spad, the nation
atty of whose pilot Rickenbacker
never discovered, rushed out from the
clouds and began shooting at the
Fokker. At last Rickenbacker's wig
wagging made the foolish friend un-
derstand that the German was really
prisoner, but the damage was done.
Turned from its path, the Fokker
quickly dropped and was smashed, al
though the pilot crawled from the
ruins, waved his thanks to Rick and
then surrendered to the doughboys,
who had watched the strange doings
above them.
Were the Germans as chivalrous .
the matter of shooting a helpless en-
envy? They were not. In three or four
of Rickenbaeker's anecdotes the Ger
mans fred on the American machine
after it was doomed-after it was
whining earthward, lost beyond hope.
And after one Yankee airman had
fallen among the ruins of his machine
in a shell hole the Fokkers followed
and emptied their guns at him.
The sun., 1919-05-18
q ~ N. LAEARHIcF

says Rickenbacker, Luke was swal-
lowed by the skies.
The sun., 1919-05-18
A Yankee Flier's Story

Captain Rkenbackers Book About Himself and Other Knights
Who Tilted in the Tournaments of the Skies of France
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-18
CLINTON ROBB, Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
trict of Columbia.-Bra ttleboro Trust Com
pany. corporation, trustee of the estate of
Josephine Colburn Bacon. deceased, plaintif,
VS.. Emily Bacon Wheat1ey. Edward Bacon
Wheatley. an infant; Marjorie Wheatley. an
infant; Georgianna Cook Bacon and Henry r.
Brown, administrator of the estate of Robert
Coburn Bacon. deceased. defendants-EGuity
No. 36Sl4.-Order of publication object
of this suit is to obtain authority to sell and
convey good title to lot No. L. in square 4g5
described in I.iber No. 636. Mt folio lat, OF
the land records Of the District of Columbia.
On motion of Clinton Robb. attorney for the
plaintiff. it is. by the court, this 9th day OF
July, 1919 ordered that the defendants Ed
ward Bacon Wheatley and Marjorie Wheatley.
infants. cause their appearance TO be entered
herein on before the fortieth day. exclusive
of Sundays and legal holidays. after the day
Of the first publication Of this order, otherwise
this cause will be proceeded with as i'm the
case Of default. provided copy of this order
be published once "A week for three successive
weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and
The Evening Star before said day. BY the
court: +. l.. SIDDONS. Justice A true ropy
Test: j. r. YOUNG. Clerk. BY F. f. Gun
NINGHAM. Asst. Clerk. jyl21S25
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