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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-10-02

Anna mas lett me, MT. SneuSkST
writes. az understand that she was
married to a man named Thomas at
Chambersburg, Pa, about seven years
ago, and she has probably gone back
there. Please advise what to do un-
der the circumstances" Getting
couples disentangled.from the nets that
Cupid weaves for them in this chaotic
world is not one of the specialties Of
Clerk Johnson, however important an
agent he may be in getting them in the
net. Without discussing the pros and
cons Of the case confronting the forlorn
Mr.. Snedeker, the County Clerk con-
densed his advice into three words:
"Let her go."-Advocate.
Our good friend Miss Edna Sprung
writes us an interesting letter from
Redondo Beach, California. She says:
Please send us the Register on and on,
as we cannot get along without it. We
have enjoyed it so much and there are
many things should like to mention
they are too numerous, however, to
begin. We appreciated Bills letters
from France and rejoiced at his safe
return. When we read Of his marriage
and reception, mama expressed great
90. .hw just as if that were the
end Of Bill-we had to laugh. We
are just beginning another school year
| am very busy with larger schoo
this year and more responsibilities
Our buildings are in fine condition
and the teachers are full Of enthu
siasm, so know we shall have splen
| did year. The salaries were raised
considerably and that makes the young
teachers feel good. They receive
| hundred dollars a month as beginner:
salary. Shepherdstown certainly get
the good moving pictures. People lint
I'D two blocks down Broadway to SCI
the pictures that you have almost a.
4 soon as we do. Very best wishes t.
! everybody back in Shepherdstown.
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ICILL IS RESIGNED
TO STAY IN TONES
Labor Leader Refuses to Tes-
fify in O'Leary Case.

John Gill, labor leader who got into
tho O'Leary case through an acquaint-
ance with Willard j. Robinson, alleged
messenger OF the German spy ring OF
which Herman Vessels Is said TO have
been the central figure. applied yesterday
TO Federal Judge A. y. Hand to be dis
charged under bail. Gill was committed
to the Tomhs in June after he had de-
fed an order OF the court commanding
him TO give testimony before Grand
Jury which later indicted OLeary. Yves
sells. Robinson and others charged with
conspiracy TO commit espionage.
Judge Hand told Gin the one way in
which he could obtain his freedom would
be by testifying before a Grand Jury.
II suppose that means | will stay in jail
until die" said the prisoner.
Gill. who had no lawyer, pressed his
application. When the politicians in the
Newberry case refused to testify before
a Grand Jury they were freed under YER
bal bail" he argued.
Judge Hand pointed out that these wit
uesses were released pending their ap-
peal.
"rhev we're rich men" replied Gill
Il am a worliingman. / suppose that II
! had means to appeal I would not be
in jail"
Judge Hand told Gin that if he wished
to appeal counsel would be assigned ia
him. The prisoner did not accept this
offer.
Stephen w. Johnson. the second I'M
willing Grand Jury witness to appear
In the csses affecting O'Leary, was pre-
scented to Judge Hand by Grand Jury
Yesterday. He was ordered to answer
certain questions before the Grand Jury
To-day.
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GOTHAM GEORGIANS
WELCOME FIGHTERS
Dinner and Dance at AStOr for
Men Back From the
BattlcficldS.

1t happened to be a lucky period last
night and early this morning for uni
formed overseas men from the state
OF Georgia. There was nothing they
wanted they couldn't have If they were
at the Hotel Astor and were guests
Of the GeorgS Society OF the city OF
New York and were willing to be con-
tent with such purlings of pleasure as
are permitted by Attorney-General
Gregory and others in charge of III"
prohibition campaign,
Prohibition or not it was great
night. out OF has" hospitals off trans
ports and from asphalted old New York
itself 20 men of the service who fought
abroad claimed the dinner privilege
that could only be theirs II they We're
Cieorgians. But for all Of being eN-
elusive II was party Of sorts, and
the sortiest of sorts.
As Il il were not enough to Confound
men out of trenches with six Aston
courses, the committee filled the room
with 100 and more women of fair Geor-
gia's cline, now living in New York 1t is
true, hut still Georgian rs everything.
Except for the wounded the guests
danced when the speaking vas over.
and the wounded gained about -four
weeks convalesceHCe in some thing like
two hours before the Motor Corps folk
dropped In to carry them back 20 can
lIill road.
The speakers lid their best from G
y. Towns the postmaster president Of
the Georgia Soc.ct,. 20 Nss Dorothy
Dix to make III" noys feel at home.
Mr.. Towns expla ned that dress suits
were more cheerf,l garments than they
looked. and Doro.'y DIX vcntured to
say that the only proper reception for
homecoming overseas men was a kiss.
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CANADIANS PRAISE
ROOSEYELTS WORK
Burrcll. Secretary of state,
IaudS Part of EX-PrcSidnct
in World War.

FIVE hundred members OF the Cana
diap Society and their guests at "vic-
tory dinner at the Hotel B.lYore last
night applauded Martin Burrell, Secre-
tary of state for Canada. when he paid
tribute to col Roosevelt and the SER
vice he had rendered the allied cause in
the war.
'IIe served his State highly and SUI.
fered nobly." said Mr.. Burrell. ITO him
the Canadian people gladly bow The
regard he had FOR our country was
warmly reciprocatel. To him. before
the great call came, happily was vouch-
Safed the privilege Of seeing the powers
Of darkness put to flight:
81 can see no spirit of repentance in
Germany" lie continued. land cannot
for the life OF me see why Germany
should not be compelled to pay 20 the
uttermost farthlug what she has made
others suffer. Speaking unofficially, |
do not think II would be bad thing to
sec an army OF ocoupa' ion In Berlin"
referring 20 The part the United
states had taken in the war, Mr.. Bur
reli said:
'Wo appellate your brilliant achieve
Mcnt In Organizing your man power and
your grea, military euccesses AT Cha
teau Thierry ami elsewhere, but our
highest need % praise 10 for the moral
support which YOU threN into the scale
AS President Wilson has pointed out.
moral force * the most potent influence
/ IT the word. II VA, this force which
kept the Brit!sh Empire together dur.
i"g tn" war and caused India to send
i,25V,000 men - take their part in the
struggle. The cry that England was
decadent was chiefly voiced by the Ger
/ man overlords and vas marvellously
answered by the English themselves.
Franklin *. Lane. Secretary Of the IN
terror, who was born IN Canada but who
came to the United States when he was
three years old. said it was the joint re-
:ponsibih,y Of the two countries to sup
port democracy before the world
The conference now taking place in
Paris sad he. has ? purpose Of band
ing the nations together ia a unity Of
purpose and tn l'-gu" Of nations that
viii prevent the countries 81 Euro.,e be-
coming the slaughter house in the future
they have been IN tn" past"
In entering the vsr Germany made
The mistake ~ considering man species
ana not an individual he declared
The Rev. Charles \. Eaton pastor
Of the Madison Avenue Baptist Chur,n
said that four years ago the Canadians
were tho only real Americans OIL the
continent
we were SO religious At that time
that X took US two years 10 get down
- Red rCrf and take our coats of"
J." said.
other speakers were GOV Edge OF
1 New Jersey and ST. James A NJ AK
ms. Observation-Disclosures oc Manitoba
Included among the guests were Major
Gen David G Shanhs L. = A. Rear
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the building. The police found that the
same automobile had passed Jezek's
shop several times on the same after
noon. They looked up the license num-
Der and arrested Frank II. Gaffncy. 26,
the chauffeur who lives at EGG Crescent
street. Long Island city.
Before Judge Rosalsky and "A jury in
General Sessions yesterday afternoon
Gaffney was convicted of grand larceny,
the Indictment charging him with rob
berry being reduced. The little bohemian
was one OF the principal witnesses
against him. Gaffney will be sentenced
next week.
His story was that on the day of the
robbery three men got into his taxicab
and told him TO drive slowly along
Seventyfourth street. He obeyed orders,
passing the power house and the butcher
shop several times Then the trio. he
says. directed him up a side street. left
the machine. and in n few minutes re-
turned. apparently In great haste and
excitement. They then told him TO drive
down town. which he did. They then
left him. He denied being an accessory,
and said he knew nothing of the holdup
until after his arrest.
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HYLAN AGAIN ROASTS
WHITNEY AND p. S. 6.
Shuts off Lawyers Plea for
Transit Funds.

Every mention OF the Public Service
Commission 10 the Board of Estimate Is
like the flicker of n rcd flag across the
path Of a spirited bull. William G. Full
len Of counsel for the commission was
the luctlcss man to whom fell the task
of waving the cloth Yesterday
After the Mayor and the Comptroller
had roasted the commission to n turn
Mr. Fulcn appeared to ask the board to
make further appropriations for the
work Of transit construction. The MAYOR
politely INT mated that he wanted 10 hear
no more from the commissions represent
tative when he said
Mr. Policeman down there, please see
n YOU can stop his mouth If he tries to
say any more
prior TO this the Mayor had expressed
his view of the request for money by
saying:
"Whitneys worried about losing his
press agent down there more than he is
about this. What IS he going to do II he
loses his press agent for Eooh?"
\ big delegation OF the employees lati
on because OF the cut IN the approprIa-
ton were toll they would receive hear
irg from the finance committee.
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DOUGHNUT MAKERS
FRY 'EM HOT HERE
Salvation Army Girls Open
Shop in Union Square.

The uniform of Uncle SANS fighters
has been privileged 90 many civilian
luXuries, hue 'arcly has It been so par
ticularly the garb OF the elect as II was
yesterday morning and afternoon in
Union Square where, fronting a neat
white cottage with green blinds, the HE
formed to the right and, passing by, got
In either hand a gorgeous brown dough
nut right out of the kitchen. fried by
one of the few famous cooks OF this
war, Miss Helen PurvanCc. Adjutaut OF
the Salvation Army.
Miss Purviaucc claims the d!st!nct!o.
of frying the first dOughnut IN the war.
Her fame at the front limo trenches pre-
coded her home by many months, not
only for her doughnuts hut for her
bravery That was why when the door
OF the new little cottage In Union Square
opened yesterday and Miss Purvance
appeared with a big pan OF huge brown
crullers folks came gallopiug from near
and far and would have tumbled right
up the steps after them except for the
fact that Miss PurvianCe, speaking out
Of the mist Of the aroma eucirclng that
magic doughnut pan, announced that
soldiers, sailors and marines only were
To be fed.
Sharing the honors with Adjutant
Purviance, whose home IL in Hunting
ton, Ind, were the Misses Alice and
Violet MoAllister of Los Angeles, who
also served and made doughnuts at the
front
Thus the Salvation Army Doughnut
Hut was dedicated. \ few songs were
sung with great fcrvor. the band from
I. :, :. Recruit played and Lieut..
Wright. speaking for Rear Admiral
Usher, said the right thing for the Sal
walton Army and It's work abroad.
Praise be-" said the vision-struclS
civilians, 1--WE have got doughnut hut.
Maybe our turn will come tomorrow"
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DIR. BIGGS CLASSES
FLU" WITH MEASLES
4OO,O 900 Died in Three Months
in United States.

Or. Hermann NJ. Biggs. State Health
Commissioner, places Spanish influenza
in tho category with the mumps. the
measles, scarlet fever and other diseases
OF childhood which. as every boy and
girl knows, have ZEN once. get over il
and you're safe.
Statistics and observation Of the eu!-
Gcmic justify the belief that one attack
confers Il more or less lasting immunity.
and for that reason a recurrence OF the
disease in epidemic form need not he
feared at present" said pr Riggs yes
terday Tine disease has returned in
many communities, but only to those
which Were not heavily attacked by tho
first outhreak."
DR. Blggs said more than 400. 900 poo
pie In the tnited states were victims Of
the disease during september, October
and November and that in October alone
approximately 1000 persons died IN
New York State The wave of d sea se
has left in its wake a number of dead
estimated AZ at least equal 10 that
caused by four years of war in the ar
mics engaged, he says,
Persons suspected ~ being afflicted
should be Isolated, but I do not think
the extreme measures taken 10 prevent
the spread OF influenza during the height
Of the epidemic TO be necessary or de-
sirable," said the Commissioner
There was another decrease in the
number Of cases OF influenza and pneu-
monla reported to the CITY Health
Department Yesterday Influenza dropped
"a cases, 357 being reported. Deaths
were also fewer than on Thursday. 50
being reported. There were 10I pneu-
monia cases, . less than the previous
day, with ~ deaths, a decrease of g.
Influenza and pneumonia cnses re-
ported Yesterday by horoughs were:
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SLAIN ON HER WAY
TO CALL ON SISTER
Mrs. Southland Is Attacked
Near Scene of Tragedies.

Mrs olr, ITendricbsop uss u.o.,riaa
-. -
60 en- 90 "''"1 S'-'''N o'rdNldS' III
h"r nome al "62 foTty-second street,
Brooklyn, yesterday. At ( O'Clock the
rph. b.for. bor Observation-Disclosures. ,r,r,r
couthlond c,r,artsr u.rns. 49, e.
oround ia ,sl, II Mrs tterdrici,s,n,, ~
seen ANYTHING OF his wife HeI,na-olga,s
sister
Nrs Southland who uros % ,.o,...
old had loft tbo house ahout , o,,Ia.,.
to 90 to n drug sto,o ar Thfr,y-,;y,h
stras, and \.vy Utrecht ,,,o,,,, a. az,
him "A hottie of rough yuixr,rc Sou,r-
land rxrlaincd II should not have taLa,
more than fifteen cor twenty n,jputcs
and. after ne had waited an hour No
thought he'd come over and CO, ~ his
wife were there. But she wasn't and
he started home again. dlspirlted and
depressed
The side windows OF Mrs ITerIrlcl-
sons little Fat look ont over tho vacant
plot bounded hv Fortv-second and Forty
third streets and Ninth and Tenth avo-
nues a path leads across il and Mrs
Southland frequently used it when she
went 10 see her sister. AS Mrs Hon
erickson moved about hc, Kitchen yes
terday she recalled how two months AGO
the body Of a man who had been stabbed
TO death had been found there in A
barrel
she may have recalled that /, was on,v
few years ago that Rufus Durham
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WAR HERO, ACTOR,
ENGINEER, BURGLAR
Police Place 3J RObberics to
the Debit of a Neat and
Nimblc Youth.
CONCEALS HIS IDENTITY
Is Called Jackson and Baker,
but Even His Home Abode
Is Not Known.

The neat and nimble young man who
has been taking Chsstmas presents Tor
himself from the well to do sections OF
Flatbush. Nandervcer Park and PARK
willie for the last month was taken TO
Brooklyn police headquarters yesterday.
There he said he was Samuel Jackson,
a discharged sergeant from the Canadian
army. and. according 10 the police, the
acknowledged field marshal in series
of burglarics that have made 1.-The w.lds
OF Flstbush" something more than a
mere phrase.
The police have evidence that he
engineered thirty-five robberies in as
many days and that ne relieved Fiat
bushers of 100000 worth of valuables.
His first enlistment was at the out
break OF the war. Jackson stating with
reminiscent smile that he was one of
the carly british contcmptiblcs.' lie
was readily accepted August nl, 1914.
at "A British recruiting station in Bridge
port, Conn. as he had already had term
in the British army ia India. where he
landed at l6 after escaping from the
family rooftrce in this country. After
going to Montreal and being assigned to
the Durham Light INFANTRY in the Ca
radian expeditionarv forces he partici-
pater in the first battle of the Marine.
and, as he said himself, he was in about
everything after that
The meant that he went through
enough scraps 70 be gassed and wounded
seriously in five different places, in
Guiding a slash on the face from chin to
left ear which "A German gave him in No
Mans Land.
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HENRY B. MACLEOD
STRANGELY MISSING
Son of Pastor of Collegiate
Church Disappeared on Way
to Camp Upton.

The Rev. Or. Malcolm James Mac
Leod pastor Of the ~. Nicholas Cole
giate Church. Fifth avenue and Forty
eighth street offered reward Of $1,000
through the New York Police Depart
ment last night for information which
would solve the mystery connected with
the disappearance of his 19-year-old son,
Henry Blakely Macleod on the night or
Thursday, June -. The Army lntelli-
gence Service has been conducting n
countrywide search since the day after
his boy dropped out OF sight, but the
offer through the police Is the first pub
lie announcement that has been made Of
as battling a case as has ever been
known to the authorities here.
Young Macleod who spent four years
at the Collegiate School, three more at
Lawrer""Ville. was freshman Mt
Princeton University when he enlisted in
Company VI OF the Forty-uinth Infantry.
He was stationed a. Camp Merritt, y.
j., early last summer and on the day
before he passed into the leuces lie Wis
lied his parents nj their home at l51
Central Park West. 1t was believed
that his regiment might receive orders
70 embark for France AZ any time and
his mother gave him $50 in cash to he
used in buying the little luNur.es that
soldiers crave.
ON Thursday. June -. Henry called
his father on the telephone and said he
expected 10 start for Camp Unton at
noon the following Saturday for a period
of intensive training before going
abroad.
Have you had tho money your
mother gaze YOU changed into Y. NJ. g.
A. service checks" asked Or. Macleod.
NO, dad" said the boy. I've been
So n = I l,a
bu, VIII at once"
Sec that you do" urged his father
and be sure you call us III as soon as
you get TO camp Upton"
"All right, l will" DR.. Macleod heard
Henry say The telcrhouc receiver
clicked as the youtr hung UP. and that
is the last trace that has ever been
found of him.
As the days passed and TO telephone
call came the family commenced to grow
anxious. and Dr. Macleod communicated
with the military authorities. Henry
was missing. but he could learn nothing
more, Efforts We're made to trace the
telephone call, but II has never been es-
tahishrd whether Henry was at Camp
Merritt when he last talked with his
family. wlether he was in New York or
elsewhere. The police said last night
that thcA We're inclined to the theory
that hr h'0 been murdered ard robbed.
Circulars with two pictures OF young
Macleod, both IN uniform, are being
sent hroadcaS, ny the police and will he
posted in railway stations and other
public places He is described az being
six feet tall, weighing $50 pounds and
having blue eyes and brown hair. His
teeth were irregular. lie j. supposed 10
have worn the regulation army uniform
nj the time OF his disappearance. Be
sides his father he had a mother, a ff-
terL-year-old sister aud baby brother.
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BUTCHERS ODD SOLITAIRE
GAME TRAPS TAXI BANDIT
Bohemian Unwittingly Obtained Clew He Chalked
Passing Automobiles Numbers on Store Wall
for Unique Diversion.

At 421 East Seventy-fourth street is a
small butcher shop kept by a little old
fashioned Bohemian named Joseph Jezek,
When the war sent the prices of meats
soaring he lost many Of his customers
Then the draft came along and took his
only assistant. Time hung heavy on the
hands Of the Bohemian until he invented
a solitaire game which kept his mind
occupied
This game consisted OF watching pass
ing automobiles and chalking their
license numbers on his wall adding up
the totals at the end of the day, COM
pairing one days result with the others
and juggling the figures through all the
combinations figures are capable of be-
ing jugglcd
IL was by accident the police hap
p"pcd on the little Bohemi,~ while in
NeStigatinE the robbery of a payma ster
who was held mp by three men as he was
about to enter the marlborough power
mousse on East Seventy-fourth street and
robbed OF Sl.l00, the payroll of the West
inehouse Electric Company employees in
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1,be C,anadlnn arrllv Gave MIN a dis
o,arsa on mo y-o,,rd ri phvsicsl dis
abit,.,. ~, D..or,ba. 1o15 and no aIled
g, - ii,,Ia ,,,,,o u.itI Tho American steam,
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roar
rEo 1,-o ~, ITO n,,,s drew hin, early
{, to,c ,n ,rn vi,arr,nh Cornnanv
r,nirr s,,,,..,,i,.' ,,ess trl.th,,sb ,ocatiors
IN, n.lli,s ~ o,rirr-or perhsns OF
drir,oI I'm +, Rnston TO-
w,rd ,ha o,'d If tqIc md ,bere started
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The committee early In the day al.
tempted TO find out II any contributors
to the National Security League wee
interested in the manufacture of n.Ia.-
lions so that they might benefit from
preparedness. Mr.. Nenken said that the
rules of the league were distinctly
against contributions from anybody viii
war profiteering faint. but admitted
that few might have slipped in with.
out his knowing it. Chairman johnson
had Mr.. Menken give the names 81
few contributors.
Joseph II. Choate, r. De Wit CGy.er
T. Coleman du Point. J. Il. he Lama,
Nicholas J. Brady. Henry g. FTick. WI
lam II. Vanderbilt Arthur Cur' IS
James. Emerson Mcmillan and J. b.
Morgan were a few of them i J.
Morgan & CO. had not contributed any
thing for fear some foolish people
might criticise them Mr. M"uheu cN.
planned, but the senior partner Of o."
firm had done so 20 the extent OF $..in0.
John II. Rockefeller gave $4,000 a.i
H. II Rogers $1,000. Eversley Cht'J'
Clarence II. Mackay. J. KENNEDY Tat
and Bernard NJ. Baruch were Others
Mr. Hearst did not contribute anytals
except reportorial and editorial support.
Mr.. Menken said.
He WAS asked IL the Remington Arms
Company contributed anything and rs
piled it did not. although he beiicr"d
some members Of the Sergeant family
did.
quite sure Of that" asked Mr.. John
son
Yes" said Mr. Merkcu. and then
the committee dug UP the fact that TIVE
company had contributed 500. M
Menk-H e&piaired that wa probably for
life membership. WItrh lie minated
was a little thing
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Board Pays Tribute.

Tribute to Col Roosevelt was paid
yesterday by the Board OF Estimate by
the adoption Of resolutions at the open
ing of its session offered by Frank L.
bowling. president Of the Borough Of
Manhattan. TIE resolutions said in part .
MIR. Roosevelts personality. his
unique traits. his courageous tempera-
ment and his characteristic vigor and
decision wildly portrayed the popular
conception OF genuine. uneQuiyocal
Americansn, and constituted an out
standing example 4 splendid citizenship
and devoted concern for the welfare and
interests of'the country"
A memorial meeting for col Roosevelt
will be held at the Methodist Preachers
Conference. 80 Fifth avenue. Monday AZ
II a. VI. Chauncey NJ. Depew viii be
the principal speaker, Bishop Luther b.
Wilson will also deliver an eulogy