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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
u. S. Scientists Get
View of Mt. Kat1nan
In Full Eruption
Americans Are i'm Alaska to
Explore ''Valley of Thou
sand Smokes'' and Make
Report OH Largest Crater

JUNEAU, Alaska, July 80 (By MaiD.
ern corner of Alaska are In eruption
this summer evidently for the benefit
of party of scientists sent by the
National Geographic Society to study
Mount Katmai, the greatest Of Alaska s
smoking moutains, and its "Valley Of
Ten Thousand Smokes"
Persons who have returned recently
from the volcanic country to the west
ward said Shishaldin Peak, on Unimak
Island, in the Aleutian chain, was in
eruption recently. They also reported
it was believed Mount Bavlof, on the
southwestern Alaskan mainland, also
had spouted, as the snow about the
summit was coal black.
Eruption Unexpected
When the party of scientists left
Anchorage, Alaska, on their way to the
Katmai country they said they believed
there was little likelihood of an erup-
ton this summer and declared they
were certain there was absolutely no
danger attached to the investigation.
Katmai's last big elbow off" was in
June, 1912.
The party Of twenty-six scientists is
headed by Professor Robert A. Griggs,
of the University Of Ohio, and some are
from Carnegie Institute. They are
planning to make observations of the
botanical, biological and geological
effects Of the 1912 eruption
In 1919 Professor Griggs headed a
party of scientists to Katmai and re-
turned with the announcement that the
crater was the largest on the globe and
that near Katmai lay great valley
wwhosc floor was dotted with thou
sands of mouths vomiting gray vapory
gas and smoke. This valley, Professor
Griggs named "The Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes" Instead of ten
thousand, there are literally millions
of smoking vents.
To Be Public Park
Congress recently set aside "The
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" as
national property and it is believed
that some day it will be a second yell
lowstone geyser field. Stcaming
springs, it is said, will eventually take
the place of the present smoking vent.
Professor Griggs and his party ex-
pect to remain IN the. katmai district
until the middle Of September. Until
they return nothing probably will be
heard from them as there is no direct
means of communication. Mrs. Griggs
and her children accompanied the pro-
fessor to Kodiak, an island near Kat
mai, and will remain there during the
summer waiting for him to- return
Moving pictures Of the smoking
mountain and valley are to be brought
back by the party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Dictograph Case
Proves Mystery to
District NAttOrney
Private Detectives Believed
to Have Put Instruments
Costing $2,5OO inNewman
Apartment by Mistake

After O day and half Of investiga-
ton tho District Attorneys Office was
still mystifed as to the identity of the
person who hired private detectives to
install an elaborate dictaphone system
in the home Of Nathan Newman, an
tiquc dealer, who lives at 14s East
Twenty-second Street. The wiring sys-
tenn, including three Instruments, was
fitted into the Newman house and the
telephone wire leading into the apart
ment was tapped six weeks ago, when
Newman and his wife left the city.
Since then, according to the District
Attorneys office, detectives have been
listening in" on the conversations of
Newman's two daughters. Newman
discovered the wires last Thursday
night.
Assistant District Attorney Pecora.
who is investigating the mystery, yes
terday examined Nathan M. Barbour.
Janltor of the house in which Newman
lives. Barbour told Mr.. Pecora that
about six weeks ago Aaron Levy. son
OF Mrs. Fannie Levy, who owns the
Newman house, introduced him to two
men, "Tony" and "Joe," who told the
!anltor that they were anxious to in
install the apparatus in Newman's apart-
ment. According to Barbour, the men.
VINO declared they were private detec-
tives, said they were looking for in
formation on the ope rat:ons Of pam-
bling clique. e"'''
Barbour told the Asslstnn, District
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Cork Production i'm Sardinia

Cork trees are indigenous to sar-
dioia, and extensive natural forests are
to be found upon the mountain slopes
in the northern part of the island.
The crop is cut every nine years. The
process of industrial production is
comparatively simple. The dried-out
bark in its cylindrical form is first
thoroughly steamed and hattened out
under pressure. 1t remains in piles
for about thirty days and reappears
covered with blue mold. The bark is
then carefully scraped on both sides
and cut into strips corresponding in
width to the varying lengths of the
cork shoppers desired These strips
are cut by hand into cubes. The cubes
are put through highspeed finishing
machines, which round off the edges
and give the required taper.-DetSoit
News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Ceehan Defends
Police Testimony
In Woman Cases
Mcmahon Is Challenged to
Debate Question of Its
Reliability; Dangero of Car
nival of Vice Suggested

Magistrate John e. Mcclellan, from
the bench in Womans Court, yesterday
took sharp issue with j. Grafton Nc
Mahon, Kings County judge, who had
scored vice squad detectives as "cor-
rupters of young girls" The magis-
trate offered to debate publicly with
Judge Mcmahon the question Of the
reliability Of police officers testimony
and vice segregation. Magistrate Nc
Geehan said:
my attention has been called to an
article in the morning papers in which
County Judge j. Grafton Mcmahon is
quoted as having said: Il am here to
do Justice to all, and I do not care
who approves of it or not, I will hold
nobody when the uncorroborated testi-
mony Of policemen alone is used, be-
cause they are interested in securing
convictions. They get merit marks,
and race to see who makes the most
arrests
"The above quotation Of Judge NC
Mahon does not state the law, and I
refer him to the case decided by Judge
Rosalsky, People of the State of New
York vs.. Charles Ruidtiman, April 13.
l914. This has been the ruling case
TOR many years, viz, that the uncorrob-
Grated testimony of a police officer is
sufficient to secure a conviction and
have that conviction upheld, provided
the officer is testifying honestly. Po-
lice testimony in all states of the
Union has been received and acted
upon, provided it is creditable, in all
cases of this nature"
1T is the universal law of all coun-
tries that keep the streets clean that
police testimony is held to be suffi-
clent for the conviction Of any person
engaged in this branch of business.
"What does this Judge want? How
does he view this situation with re-
gard to the public? Does he want 8
group Of women swindlers, badgerers,
olackmailers, connected with every
branch of crime in New York, to be
permitted the freedom Of the streets
OF New York without fear of molesta-
ton by the police, and assured by the
decisions of the courts of dismissal if
they are arrested? How long will New
York tolerate this condition? The wo-
men of every city in the country will
flock to New York, and make it their
parade ground. No power of police
can drive them out if conflicting de-
cisions block them.
III any man or any group Of men
support the proposition that the uncor-
roborated testimony of police officers
is not to be taken or an attempt is
made to force the Legislature or pub
lie officials to adopt that principle,
that man or group of men will take
part responsibility for a wide-open
town, which in. my experience as a
public official I have never found the
decent people advocating. They can
be led into it very easily under the
erroneous assumption that innocent
women are being convicted simply be-
cause only police testimony is pre-
scented against the women arrested
They should not be led into it either
blindly or with clear reckoning Of
the responsibility that they assume for
q, wide-open, indecent, intolerable- con-
dition Of the streets of New York"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Bottle of Water Was City
Souvenir to Lafayette
Fluid From Lake Erie Was Me-
mento of Opening of ssCIin-
toms Ditch"

"On October &c, 1926, the first boat
to make the trip through the finished
Erie Canal left Buffalo, with Governor
Clinton, Stephen Van Rensselaer,,
Joshua Forman, Chancellor Livingston,
William L. Stone and Thurlow Weed
among those on board" we read in
artificial Waterways and Commercial
"The trip of the Seneca Chief, as
the canal boat was named, was prob
ably the most thoroughly celebrated
event New York State has ever ex-
perienced. All along the route was a
jubilant people, making it a contin-
uous holiday parade; ringing of bells
and booming of cannon greeted it
everywhere and Clinton was the hero
of the fortnight. On November 4, the
boat. escorted from Albany by a fleet
of steamers, arrived in New York City,
where civic, military and naval parades
followed accompanied by the most OK
travagant demonstrations of popular
enthusiasm. A memorial medal was
struck by the municipal authorities,
the face of which was subsequently,
adopted as the seal Of the Canal De-
partment. Two kegs OF water from
Lake frie had been brought along and
one of these was taken to Sandy Hook
ard the water tremendously poured
INTO the Atlantic Ocean.
The contents of the other key were
bottled as mementos, and one of these
bottles was presented to Lafayette,
who had e. short time before been the
guest Of the city. An enthusiastic
citizen had procured bottles of water
from the Nile, the Ganges, the Indus,
the Thames, the Seine, the Rhine,
the Mississippi, the Columbia, the
Orinoco, and the La Plata, all of which
were also, with proper ceremony, emp
tied into the Atlantic, after those Of
the Erie had been mingled with its
brine. This mingling Of water typi-
lied the ambitious faith of the build
ers that the commerce of the canal
system was bound to commingle with
and be enlarged by the commerce of
all portions of the world.
The festivities lasted until the
night Of November Z, concluding with
grand ball. 1t is recorded that the
news Of the opening of the Grand
Canal, as 1t was called for many years,
was sent from Buffalo to Sandy Hook,
over 60O miles, in eighty-one minutes.
by means OF booming cannon placed at
proper distances along the line. Our
forbearing, rejoicing over this great
aehtevement In transportation, sought
to hasten the news of the canals open
ing by booming cannon as fast as
sound travels. They little dreamed
that in less than century Buffalo
and New York would converse with the
same ease and certainty as persons
seated face to face.
"Thus 'Clinton's Ditch as his op-
ponents in politics contemptuouslv
called 1t, was fixed act, notwith-
standing Ex-Governor Chen Vice
President) Tompkins's declaration a
short time before, that it was a Chi
merical project "-Christian Science
Monitor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Presbyterians to
Give Next Sunday
To Laboring Man
Church Must Hold Sympa-
thy of Workers to Retain
Its Place in the World,
/ Says DIR. w. III. Foulkes

Throughout the country next Sun
day will be observed by Presbyterians
as Labor Sunday, and DR.. William
Hiram Foulkes. general secretary of
thesNew Era Movement, has issued an
invitation generally to organizations
of workers to participate.
"Christ was carpenter. Paul a
tertmaker," said DR.. Foulkes, "and the
Church was founded for the toilers Of
the world"
The golden text for Labor Sunday
will be Come unto Me all we that
labor"
In his address conveying the invi-
tation DR.. Foulkes said:
"When the Church gets away from
the toiler it loses the secret Of power
tutes any other motive for that Of
sacrificial service it loses its crown.
To the great throng of men, women
and children who are uprising to-day
in the midst Of their wearied labors
snd fruitless toll the Church seeks to
become friend and guide.
"1nspired by the example of it's
Master, it girds itself with a deeper
conception of service than any it has
YET hno"u. II says 10 tne WuitiCuUSS
crying out under the stroke of injus-
tice and oppression: Your cries have
reached the ear of the Almighty. You
shall have deliverance'
at also stands at the fork of the
roads pointing the way. On the one
hand Is selfish, sordid, satanic Boil
shevism, caring neither for justice nor
for brotherhood-the way of violence,
greed and shameless immoralities; on
the other Christian democracy, with
the naturalization Of all human inter-
ests, the enthronement of the many
above the few and the appeal for the
recognition of the economic, social and
moral unity and welfare Of all man
kind
"The Church, the only institution in
the world which belongs to no class
or clique, race, party or social group,
welcomes to its fellowship in service
all those who are weary and heavy
laden and who will take the yoke Of
the Carpenter of Nazareth, the Son Of
God, upon them and find rest unto
their souls. His yoke alone is easy and
his burden above all others is light"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Cries of ssHelp! Murder!"
Heard at Brokers' Home
Neighbors See knight and Wife
Come Out Accompanied
by Crockery Shower

Hampstead, L. l., Aug. 23--Cries
Of "Helpl Murderl" resounded this
morning on East Front Street In tho
direction Of the Meadow Brook section
Of this town. Residents of the neigh
about the home of Edward w. Knight,
q New York broker.
The cries proceeded from that house
and so presently did Mr.. and Mrs.
Knight and q varied assortment Of
household crockery, which was. being
employed as missiles.
Chief Of Police Robert Vandewater
got around after a while with Patrol
man Thomas Deyo and arranged an
armistice. Mrs. knight then had her
sault in the third degree. He was re-
leased in 5000 bail for examination
Tuesday,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Courland Still Held
BY Germans, Report
Preparing Offensive Against
Bolsheviki With Aid of
Russian Prisoners
Russian PrlSOners

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 23..-The Ger
man troops in Courland have not
evacuated that country, according to
reports from Helsjngfors. On the
contrary, they are preparing an Of
fensive from there against the Boil
sheviki and are bringing considerable
bodies of Russian prisoners from Ger
many in order that they shall partici-
pate in the proposed attack.
BERNE, Aug. 21 (By The Asso-
ciated Press) According to the latest
news received from Ukraine, the Boil
sheviki have everywhere been driven
back by tn Ukrainian and Rumanian
forces, acting in conjunction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Your Town

EOR reasons of economy, the Board
Il Of Estimate and Apportionment
felt compelled to reduce the mainte-
nance appropriation of the American
Museum of Natural History for this
year to 100000. This, according to
the museum officials, is $4,000 less
than the amount required. Trustees
and friends Of tho institution have
been making up the deficit.
The per capita cost Of maintaining
the city government has increased
more than 80 per cent during the past
twenty years. During the same period
the per capita cost of maintenance OF
1t is estimated that at the present
time the taxpayers Of the city are pay
ing less than one-third of the annual
cost Of the American Museum and Its
work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Found the Easiest Wav''

"A writer brought back from Germany
grim example of the humor developed
among distracted people by the in
aumerable deprivations they suffer. 1t
vas the story OF a man determined
upon suicide as the only escape. "His
first STEP" runs the story, was to buy
q rope to hang himself with, but being
made Of paper, it broke Next he tried
poison, but being a weak substitute, it
only made him ILL., He went to the
river to seek peace in the waters, but
the crowd ahead of him was so dense
that he never could reach its bank
Finally he determined th confine his
1000 to the government sation-and in
q few days he was dead of starvation"
Tho Areonaut.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Binghampton Honors X. of G..
Secretary, Manned i'm War

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, August "a
Tho city took holiday to-day IN honor
OF John Patrick Grove, q Knights Of CO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Gone Big Union" Opposed
NTachinists in Convention Vote
Confidence i'm COmpers

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 23.-The
New York State conference of the In
ternational Association of Machinists
this afternoon unanimously voted
down a resolution indorsing the zone
Big Union" Instead the delegates in
dorsed President Samuel Gompers and
the American Federation of Labor and
the policies for which they stand.
Action on tho zone Big Union" idea
was taken in view Of the present in
dustrial disturbances in Rochester. The
plan is being fostered here by the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, which is behind the present
strike in several clothing plants in this
city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Germany Returns $4,000
Tons of Loot to France

PARIS, Aug. 23.-Germany, according
to reports reaching the Bureau of Indus
trial Reconstruction, has returned to
France $1,000 tons of material taken
during the war.
A similar quantity Of material is
being loaded for shipment. Three hun
dred thousand pieces of French machin-
cry, it is said, already have ben identi-
fed in Germany
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Pacific Fleet Likely to
Visit China and Japan
Official Invitations Will Be
Accepted, Navy Department
Announces

HONOLULU, Aug 23.-The Pacific
fleet will visit Japan, China and the
Philippines, if invitations are officially
it was authoritatively stated by navy
officials here to-day, when shown a
cablegram that q Japanese daily news
paper in Toxic had announced the fleet
was expected to visit Japan. The trip
to the Orient would be made after visits
along the Pacific Coast of the United
States are completed, the navy officers
said.
Chinese. and Japanese consular Of
ficials called on Secretary Daniels this
afternoon and extended cordial greet
ings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

other oTciai-. A banquet was ,.ns
nfterward TO Mr. Grove. ''"aena
Mir. Grove was wounded Will
ing with the 3esth fnfassrv v Nefs-
second Division during the Arso r'kh'y-
tens.ve IN August. 1919 @,n sa o.
wounded by she'll burst and la, vas
left leg. '"S hts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

lumbus secretary wounded at St. Juv'n,
who was desorntcd with tbs French
war Cross by DR.. Marcel Knecht OF tho
French High Commission. James a.
Flnhcrty, supreme knight Of the order,
came here especially for the ceremony,
which was attended by the Mayor and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

Attorney that he suggested the
men pose "a electricians, which they
did, installing the wire system while
pretending to be repairing the electric
light circuits In the Newman apart
ment.
Barbour said that the detectives dist
ened in" on the conversations Of New
mans two daughters, Estelle, twenty -six
years old, and Frances. twenty-five. at
least twenty times from receiving
station in the cellar OF the establish
ment.
He also declared that he and Jack
also donned the receiving apparatus.
but had overheard nothing but ord-
nary family conversations.
barbour says that he henrd the de-
tectives frequently mention a mysteri-
Gus "Mr H." for whom they said they
were gathering information Barbour
also said that tho detectives had asked
him to keep track of the license mum
bers Of automobiles that pulled up ut
the house.
Mrs. Levy Examined
Mrs. Levy, who also was examined
by Mr.. Pecora, said that she knew tho
Newman apartment was wired, but
thought that it had been done by de-
tectives with full legal authority Al
bert, her son. was also questioned by
the Assistant District Attorney, but
declared he knew nothing about tho
matter
Anthony Senes. of the Senes De
tective Agency; Harry Van Pelt, an
employee Of the agency, and Jacobson
who were arrested in the Newman
cellar Thursday night last. will be
arraigned in Yorkville Court Tomorrow
afternoon. Thus far the detectives have
declined to tell who hired them to in
stal the dictatphone system, which il
is said cost about $4,000.
Assistant District Attorney Pecora
said that he believed the apparatus
had been installed in the Newman home
by mistake, and that the Newman girls
had been confused with young women
of other identity whom the detectives
had been hired to watch.
The Coconino sun., 1919-08-22
STORMS DESTROY
 A VALUABLE DAM

Roland Ainsworth visited the city of Prescott Saturday from Walnut creek and reported the complete destruction of his $5,000 storage dam on the big range during a cloudburst and heavy rains of last week. He says such a heavy fall of water has never been known in that country, and that noth- ing artifcially constructed could have withstood such terrific series of big storms as passed over that country.
 The dam lad recently been com. pleted and Was to have been utilized for watering range cattle and farm ing, being the largest lake in that sec ton of the county. It also was to be used for fishing and pleasure pur- poses, having been stocked this spring with black bass and catfish. The res- ervoir covered an area of nearly four acres, having a depth in certain places of nearly ten feet. It will be rebuilt at once and utilized next year for the same purpose.
The Coconino sun., 1919-08-22
Range and Market News Pertaining Arizona
 Market Letter for the Past Week.
POISON PLANTS ON
 THE ARIZONA RANGES

The Apache county cattlemen have had trouble in the past with loco among cattle, although this trouble usually is more prevalent with the horses.
 D. w. Mckay, of Edgar, has been treating a locoed steer with strych- nine with satisfactory results. Doses of one-fourth grain were given daily for the first twelve days and one-half grain daily thereafter. Stockmen will show the steer at SpMngerville to the members of the Live Stock Squad" when the squad reaches Apache coun- ty in its trip through Arizona.
 A locoed horse will also be treated in similar manner for demonstration purposes. Poison plants have been a source of much loss to Arizona stock men. Loco, larkspur, lipines, pingue, death camas, and other poison plants have claimed thousands of range ani- mals. There are ranges that have had to be abandoned for sheep and given up to cattle on account of pingue, which affects sheep most seriously. : Poison plants will be determined, remedies suggested for treating af- fected animals and methods of control given to stockmen who attend the public livestock meetings to be held throughout the different counties by the Livestock Squad" This is a party of state and federal livestock and range specialists sent out by the agricultural extension service of the University of Arizona. Twenty-Five public meetings will be held by the "Live-Stock Squad" within the next month throughout eleven counties of the state. Stockmen should attend all these meetings and can secure dates and meeting places from the different county agricultural agents of the state.
The Coconino sun., 1919-08-22
THIS BOY COULD NOT
 CHANGE HIS MOVEMENT

The artistic temperament will man. ifest itself, no matter what sordid kind of work the owner of the artis- tic temperament may be engaged in.
 A business man was having his shoes shined in a downtown shop. The young negro welding the brush and polishing rag was putting high de- gree of jazz into his labor. Especial ly with the shining rag was he able to fetch forth an alluring combina- tion of sounds. But the material minded business man noted that the jazzy manipulation of the rag result ed in lowered efficiency in the mat ter of a shine. About two-thirds of the young negro's operation went into the production of jazz, leaving only a rather unsatisfactory one-third for the production of a glossy shine.
 "A little less jazz and more shine would be better, boy" advised the business man.
 "Ah can't change nah movements, Mistah," was the reply, "'cause Ah've eot a melodious soul"