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New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Free Insurance for
Two Years Planned
For Fighting Men
Representative Sweet Be-
lieves Government Should
Carry Them Until They
Are Adjusted to Civil Life
Netc York Tribune
Wdski1l atom Buredu


WASHINGTON, July 90, - War in
surance issued to soldiers, sailors and
marines under the War Risk act Will
be continued in full force and effect
for two years after the discharge of the
men from the service without payment
OF premiums under an amendment to
the War Risk act now under consdera-
ton by Representative Sweet, of Iowa,
chairman of the sub committee of the
House considering amendments to the
insurance bill.
Mr.. Sweet declared to-day that he is
gathering data on the number Of men
whose insurance has lapsed or who have
declined to continue it in force. He
viii confer with other members of the
committee to ascertain their view on
the advisability Of perpetuating the
war insurance by automatically keep
ing the policies in force for two years.
"A great number of the soldiers,
sailors and marines who took out war
insurance have failed to continue pay
ment Of premiums after they left the
service Mr.. Sweet said. "The measure
| am now considering will provide a
means for the government to continue
this very important protection to these
men, who apparently do not see the
value of the government insurance.
'The amendment | am likely to in
troduce would provide that the govern
mcnt continue in force the policy Of
each man for two years after his dis
charge without payment Of premiums
At the termination of this two-year
period the policy would lapse unless
the insured would by that time make
arrangements to continue it in force
by the payment of permiums.
ut has come to my attention that
numerous men upon leaving the service
find that they have little money with
which TO pay insurance premiums.
Others have not been reached by the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, through
lack Of their present addresses, and
still others have failed to realize that
the government insurance is an invest
ment OF high value and a great protec-
ton to their dependents in the case of
death.
The two year period of automatic
insurance that my amendment provides
for would give the insured soldier
ample time to become readjusted to
civil life and a reasonable period for
the War Risk Bureau to get in per-
sonal touch with the soldier and con-
vince him of the asset he is dis
carding."
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

The police Of the Coney Island sta
tiQn have twelve feet Of snake and
thirty-fou feet Of frankfurtcrs for
which they are awaiting claimants.
The snake, nov defunct, is thought to
have been python. The frankfurt
ters, also dcfunct. indubitably are Of
the kind Indigenous to Coney Island.
But the snake wasn't that kind Of
a snake. That kind of snake became
a sea serE ent July /. The snake from
which the Concy Island reserves were
digging bullets until late hour last
night was an honest-to goodness snake,
dark brown and cray and yellow in
color.
The proprietor of the hot dog stand
on Stillwcli Avenue near Surf Avenue,
just west of the West End station
saw it first. From the attitude Of the
snake, however, the hot dog man was
convinced that the snake also had seen
him first. Nobody has seen him since.
His late hot dogs are the ones in the
station house kennel.
1t was about o'clock in the after
noon, and the deadest Sunday Concy
has seen for many g day. Peanut
IOfSNt-S anu Oldi my CALI OuStlS WHY
wasting their melody on the dies ,rt
air. The voice of the ballyhoo and the
photograph gallery man were not heard
in the land. The hot dog men stood
disconsolate and dripping under yellow
and white umbrellas.
When He Saw 1t
That was the way the hot dog man
on Stilwell Avenue was standing. HIS
posture suggested that the slightest
movement would bring clammy gar
mcnts in contact with his flesh and
send rivulcts trickling over him. 1t
was evident that he had cschcwcd the
luxury even of shifting his weight
from one foot to the other for the
Then he saw it. For one Mortified
instant his eyes bulged from their
sockets until the rain drops spattered
on them and made him wink. That
was the instant in which approximately
five feet of python slid over the top of
4 pile Of lumber in front of the Oceanic
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Governor Asked bv
Doctors to Abolish
State Drug Board
American Federation Of
Physicians Wants This
Put Before Special Ses-
sion; 1000 Treated Daily

The newly organized American FEEDER
alton of Physicians, which was formed
primarily to fight the registration and
identification Of drug addicts, has
asked Governor Smith to include in his
promised call for special session of
the Legislature provision for the re-
peal of the law establishing the State
Narcotic Commission.
DR.. John p. DAWN, acting as spokes-
man for the federation, said last night
that the State Narcotic Commission
and the Board of Health were breaking
the law and violating the principles Of
the medical profession in the system
of registration they have put INTO
force
"Thc law applies to New York City
and to no other part of the state said
Dr. DAWN. "This is unfair, even TO a
drug addict New York addicts should
be treated precisely the same as ad-
diets Of other cities. The Federation
OF Physicians wants the Narcotic Com
mission abolished and egistration
done away with. The members are
Vi&iliHOu us Oh lNlS SUBJECT.
AS far as the Health Department is
concerned IN its capacity of agent for
the State Narcotic Commission, either
1t is violating it's charter in trying to
cure addicts or it is violating the Har-
rlson law in supplying them with drugs
for their comfort Drug addiction is
a subtle disease and the method of
cure laid down at present is both
wrong and bad.
1--WE believe the Narcotic Commits
sion should be abolished The Harri-
son Federal law is salts factory to all
and under it there is no conflict of
rulings. AS things are just now the
doctors don't know where they stand.
ihr.y are giving up prescribing drugs
and are refusing to honor the cards
issued by the Health Department and
Narcotic Commission. Rather than
register; some people VIII commit
suicide"
The supply bureau on Worth Street
had the busiest day in its history yes
tcrday. despite the fact that it was
Sunday and that it poured rain all
day. Long lines Of waiting people who
could not be accommodated in the
building were given tickets with num-
bers so they could find shelter in a
building on the other side Of the street
and repor. for their doses in sequence.
On Saturday 500 addicts were treated.
Yesterday the figure went over 1000.
1t was the biggest day on record.
Physicians are still holding out en-
phatically against giving prescriptions,
and this is causing increased conges-
ton at Worth Street and additional
work for the Board Of Health, which
has to handle all the eases that doctors
Will not touch in addition to the sew
eral hundred addicts who have been
attending the clinic steadily since last
March, Even notorious criminals are
finding their way into the waiting
queue. which, in the opinion of Board
of Health officials. indicates thar
registration is making ii harder for
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Flight Around Rim
OF U. S. Delayed a Day
Unfavorablc Weather on the
Eastern Coast Causes
POstDOne.Oent

WASHINGTON, July 2O-Predictions
of unfavorable weather during the next
twcnty-four hours along the North
Atlantic Coast led Lieutenant Colonel
R. s. IIartz, commander at Boiling
Field here, to decide to-day on post
poncment Of his flight around the rim
Of the United States in a Martin bomb
ing plane. If conditions improve,
Colonel Hart, with his three assis-
;ants, viii start Tuesday on the first
lap to Iazelhurst Field, Long Island.
From iazelhurst Field Colonel Hartz
plans to ny to Augusta, Maine. While
numerous stops viii be made at vari-
ous cities in the circle of the country.
The prnci pal stops and distances be-
tween each as announced by the army
air service to-day are from Augusta
to Duluth, l,345 miles; Duluth to
Seattle. 1875 miles; Seattle to San
Diego. Cal, l.170 miles; San Diego
TO San Antonio, Tex, ,120 miles, San
Antonio to Miami. Fla, l,lA0 miles.
and Miami to Washington. ,l20 miles.
This route will traverse thrty-one
states.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Transport Ready to Bring
Last Troops That Will
Sail From City That Saw
the First ''Doughboys''
Only Brest Is Left Now
Part of Dismantled Works
To Be Sent to U. S.;
France Will Get the Rest
By Wilbur Forrest
Ncw York Tribune
Snc,tnI (vnhI.,

Special Gable Service
Copyrieh, 1919 New York Tribune Incl
ST. NAZAlRE, July 20-St. Nazaire
rs ar American port has ceased to
exist. When the transport Kroonland
sails within the next day or two she
will carry the last United States troops
to embark homeward through this city
That ship also will carry General s. D.
Rockenback and his staff Of officers,
who have administered this port
through the days of war and the home
going days of peace.
All American property here, includ-
Ing the massive docks, warehouses,
miles Of nctworkcd railway tracks. vcri-
table cities of troop barracks and thou
sands of tons Of supplies of all kinds
are now to be turned over to an Amer
lean colonel with mparatively small
staff. who will remain until part of the
material has been shipped home and
the rest of it turned over to the French
government.
Two days ago almost one hundred
French war brides with their American
soldier husbands were put into motor
vehicles and sent overland 200 miles
&c Brest, whence they will sail with
other honeymooners homcward Nearly
1000 men will go with the kroonland
when she sails.
With the elimination of ST. Nazaire,
Brest now remains the only American
port in France through which the
100000 United States troops remaining
in Europe will likely go home.
St Nazalre is especially noted be-
cause it was here that the United
States transports poked theii. noses
into the harbor one gray dawn more
than two years ago with the first Of
Americas combat troops. They we're
the famous 1st Division, commanded by
Major General Sibert.
General Pershing, who had preceded
them to France by two weeks, was
here to greet them. They entered the
troop barracks on the outskirts of the
city and lived there until moved to
Eastern France for training. Their
places were taken by other embryo
fighting units that kept coming through
all the war.
The German prisoners who were
working on the docks when the first
Americans arrived are still here to-day
to see the last Americans pass through
homeward bound. These prisoners have
worn out their uniforms and now are
hardly distinguishable from the Amer-
can soldiers, as their rags have been
replaced with American made clothes.
They are going back to Germany free
within a fortnight
Two years ago l heard one of these
prisoners yell in his broken English at
the American soldiers as they disem-
barked:
"You aren't coming over here to fight
greasers. You'll find this different"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Mystery Battles Police
In Cleveland Murder
Authorities Have New Clcws.
but Fail to Find
Motive
.Spcciai Correspondence


CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 2O.-Sev-
eral new theories were advanced to-
day in the case of Dan Kaber. Clevc-
land printer and publisher, who was
ysteriously slain at his home late
Friday evening, the latest being that
the murderer was one who had a com
plete plan of the house. Another
theory is that two persons were impli-
Gated in the murder, but the police are
still baffed
Kaber, who was paralyzed from neu-
ritis, was dragged from his bed and
stabbed twenty-four times with d dag-
ger made from file and died fourtc N
hours later in Lakewood Hospital
With the exception of slight wound
on the left hand, all the wounds were
in the abdomen.
While the murder was being per
petrated and the victim Offering a
feeble resistance to his assaiant or
assalants. kaber's stcpdaughter, Miss
Marian McCardle, and her friend. Miss
Anna Baehr. were engaged in conver-
sation in an adjoining room. In a
room upstairs f. w. Utterback, a male
nurse o. MI. haDer, was asleep. Ut
terback says he was at his employer S
side thirty seconds after hearing his
cry for help.
None of the furniture had been dis
turbed and the bcdclothes did not
suggest any struggle having been
made.
f. S. Christensen. Lakewood Chief
of Police. and the nurse believe that
two people entered the room. that one
grasped the invalid's throat while the
other stabbed him. The belief is en-
tertained that the murderers were dis
turbcd.
Chief of Police Frank w. Smith, of
Cleveland, said to-day that the crime
was apparently committed without a
motive.
lmprints of naked fingers were
found on the throat at the autopsy
this afternoon, and apparently the
fingers of the assailant had been
pressed into the flesh with consid-
cradle force.
Police are searching for an anony-
nous letter in which Mr. Kaber was
threatened about a year ago.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Girl Marines Join Legion
Charter for ''Semper Fideli,'
Post Is Applied For

Girl reservists OF the Marine cow.
yesterday applied to the headqusrte,,
Of the American Legion. lao Nas,.r
Street, for charter of the first post
consisting Of women reservists Of n.
Marine Corps to be founded in ~.
United States. The post will be knov,
as "Semper Fidelis," the motto Of IN.
Marine Corps.
Because of the recent order that .n
female reservists in the Marine Corps
wlIl be released from active duty on On
July 81, the new post expects an earlv
rush of recruits. Corporal Raw Z
Sawyer, known as the Musical God.
mother of Americas Fighting Mem ,
was elected chairmen of "Semps.
Fidelis." Corporal Theresa N. Lake i.
secretary.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
~ Feet of Snake Enlivens
Dull Day at Coney Island
Hot Dog Man Sees 1t First but Doesn't Wait
for Introduction; 1t Ignores Police, and
Pays Compliments to Sizzling Frankfurters

Garage, headed straight for the hot
dog man.
The next instant the hot dog man,
clammy clothes, rivu!ets and all was
passing the West End station in the
direction of Montauk Point, the poetry
OF his movements attuned 70 the re-
frain: eek press. 10 local stops
That was the last seen Of the hot dog
man. BY the time two OF three more
feet Of snake had slthered over the
pile of boards Sti;well Avenue and
Surf Avenue, 50 recently deserted
thoroughfares, had become poDu1ous.
The crowd came 20 watch the wake of
the hot dog man. It remained TO watch
the snake.
Pity TIE Poor Dogs
The snake neNer took its eyes from
the hot dogs, which spluttcred and
wrlthcd, but were pOWcrlcss to escape
the balcfuI presence. When eleven feet
of snake had come into view and the
rearmost elements were not yet in s ight
some one at the West End station tele
phoned for the police.
Lieutenant Kcnney, Sergeants Bar
ncy and O'Conncr and Corporal Huf-
man, the most willy snake hunters in
of the hot dogs. Their haste decreased
in inverse ratio to the distance be
tween them and the snake. The snake
also became suddenly hesitant and
seemed divided in mind as to whether
to select the hot dogs or the police
mon.
While it hcsitatcd the policemen
drew revolvers and began to shoot. An
expression of surprise fitted over the
face of the snake. 1t proceeded on its
way toward the hot dogs, ,howcvcr.
giving the police broads!de marx.
Bullets did not bother The snake at
all, however, and finally Lieutenant
Kenny picked up a rock and Dashed
it's head in.
1t is believed that the snake escaped
from freak show which was on Surf
Avenue at that point last year. Since
its escape, it is thought, the snake has
been living in the vicinity. being routed
from its lair probably by the rain.
The recent cutting through Of Stiwcll
Avenue to Surf Avenue also may have
disturbed its domestic arrangements.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Belgium Plans Sharp
CermHu Grade Rules

BRUSSELS, 1s's 20 (By The Associ-
ated Press. .-/The Belgian government
this week yin issue regulations gov
erning trade with the Germans. Every
transaction will require license, and
importers and exporters will be obliged
to submit Specifications, prices and
other details. Subject to this control,
trade generally will be free, except the
expectation Of gold, platinum, arms and
munitions.
Importations of raw materials from
Germany will be encouraged and the
importation Of finished products rot di-
rectly competing with Belgian indus
tries will be permitted
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Ransdell Wants Better
Distribution of Ships
of 558 AIlocated in Three
Months, He Says, 4O5 Went
to North Atlantic Ports
NeW York Tribune
Washin1ton Bureau

w VUSHtHQtOU bureau
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Pointing
out that of 558 vessels allocated by the
U3ited States Shipping Board in the
last three months, 405 have gone to
North Atlantic ports, Senator Joseph
f. Ransdell, Of Louisiana, president Of
the National Marine Association, said
to-day: "Unless every port in the
country is given consideration it will
be impossible to arouse and maintain
that nationwide interest in shipping
which is essential to the upbuilding of
an American merchant marine"
Senator Ransdell said that the un-
due proportion Of ships given the
North Atlantic section was not due to
any intended unfairness on the part of
the Shipping Board. but simply devel-
oped through circumstances He gave
the figures on the other allocations-.
II ships to Newport News, Sd to South
Atlantic ports and 28 to the Pacific
Coast-and added:
The Shipping Board and the Rail
road Administration are now engaged
IN working out plan Of rail and
water freight rate equalization which
Will do much toward putting all ports
on something near an equality This
will be a tremendous aid in developing
various ports"
The National Merchant Marine AS
sociation, said the Senator, was back
Of movement for the fair distribu-
ton Of the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton to the various ports, and was re-
ceivng support from all over the
country. The matter, he added, had
been taken up with the Shipping
Board, and the association had re-
ceived encouragement that made him
confident that in the near future there
would be increased activity at the
South Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coast
ports.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Burglary Attempt Charged
Four Accused of Trying to
Rob Loft

Four men were arrested in Williams
burg on charges of attempted burglary
about five minutes before the street
lights were put out yesterday morning.
The four men. who were held withou.
bail for examination this week, de-
scribed themselves as Albert An
coicere, twenty-one years old. 49 Allen
Street; Ezra s. Matza, twenty-nne, 2e
East Hath Street; Joseph Queette
nineteen, Bound Brook, n j., and Ed
ward Duffey, twenty of Montcair
N. j. They are charged with attempt.
ing to steal $4,000 worth Of clothing
from the loft of Max Manis, .cs 98'
Broadway, williamsburg.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Sea Cirt Is Launched
Stuck ON Ways in Firsl Atternp pt
on Hume 2l

CAMDEN, N. j.. July 20.-The 21,00O-
ton combination cargo and passenger
ship Sea Girt, which stuck on the ways
At the New York shipyard on June 21,
was launched to-day. Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, of Red Bank, n j., was the
sponsor.
The ship left the ways to-day with
out the aid Of hydraulic rams. 1t was
originally designed as d troop ship.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Gypsy Circus Employe
Charged With Murde,
Edward Nelson Arrested ;,
Brooklyn and VIII r.
Taken to ALBANY

Ewward Nelson, twenty-three v..~
DID, who travels with a gypsy cirrrs
was arrested in Brooklyn last n;...
on charge Of homicide in corr...s SUI
with the death of Clinton Dev;u ~
est IN Albany early this month
Forest, a returned soldier and br;a.
groom, was shot while RESISTING :.
hoid-np man: In the Albany Hospit,1S
before: before ne died, he described his ;ul' ss
sallan' s;a and said he worked for a gypsy v
Nelson will be taken tc Albany h,
a detective who came from there ss,
urday. NaI'
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Otis Smith Northrup

WATERBURY,, Conn, July 2o-Otis
Smitn Northrup, president Of the Colo
nal Trust Company. controller Of the
Dime Savings Bank and vice president
OF the Plume Atwood Manufacture
ing Company, died at his home here
to-day Of hemorrhagc Of the brain.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Policeman Dives From
Boardwalk; Saves Women

Policemen William c. Phillips dived
from the boardwalk into the ocean
yeatcrdhy at Rockaway Bench to res
cue two women bathers. Their cries
for assistance reached him ns he was
on petrol duty. He swan out to the
women and brought them both ashore.
IN spite or strong undcrtow He
went to the station house for change
of clothes and then resumed his patrol
The two women. WHO are spending
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Second Attempt to End
Her Life Is Successful

NEWARK, July 20-Mrs. Clara
Slennenger, OF 159 Charlton Street,
committed suicide to-day by cutting
her throat. She had attempted to end
her life on Thursday by inhaling illu-
minating gas.
Her twelve-year- old son Robert
found her this afternoon lying on the
floor of her bedroom. A razor lay
beside her. III health led to the sui
eide.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

the addicts Of the underworld to get
their usual supplies from pedlers.
The registration bureau at 1913
Prince Street was open all yesterday
but only fifty addicts put in an ap-
pearance. On Saturday the number
registering was 1S4. The total regis
tration so far is 3,455. which is
much smaller number than was, ex
pected.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
More Pay or No Summonses

West Of Ireland process servers have
handed to the county court judges notice
OF their intention of striking, and hold
ing up the business of the civil courts.
Unless their salaries are immediately
increased
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

the summer at Rockaway Beach, are
Mrs. Rose Roe, twenty eight years old,
of 319 East Seventy second Street, and
Mrs. Rosaline Schmerz, forty one, OF
s42 Beck Street. The Bronx. Both
were suffering from exhaustion, but
we're able TO return to their hotel af-
ter they had been treated by DR.. Wag-
ner, Of the Rockaway Beach Hospital.
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