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New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Girl, Missing 20 Years,
Found After Father Dies
Mothers Photograph and Pa
pers Identify Daughter of
Secret Marriage

SYRACUSE, Jan. 19.--Search for the
missing daughter of the late Augustus
Pettis, wealthy Fayetteville, N. Y. man,
ended to-day at Astoria, Long Island,
when Marie, adopted daughter of
we'll to do family there was identified
by photograph of her mother as the
missing girl The discovery came two
days before she was to be married III
that city.
Twenty-three years ago Pettis left
home and went to Canada. He married
a French Canadian girl, whose name
has never been learned. A daughter
was born. and shortly after Mrs. Pettis
died her husband turned the child over
to Brockville, Ontario, family and
came home.
He never told Of his marriage. and
lived and died supposedly a bachelor.
After his death two weeks ago his ex-
ecutor. George II. Cole, discovcrd proof
of his marriage and the existence Of
a child in the dead mans private pa
pers, together with an old portrait Of
Mrs. Pettis. Newspaper publications Of
the picture led to the identification Of
the Long Island girl. The family who
adopted her moved from Brockville to
Astoria twenty years ago. The name
of the girls foster-parents is being
withheld until positive proof of identi-
fication is produced.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

navy" The letter was signed Every
respectfully the Committee,
Edmund O'Connor, Chairman, 1925
Sixth Avenue;
Fred Schackre, IS Palmetto Street;
Max Hyman, 1913 Eastern Parkway
David Hunter, 6S Conselyea Street"
Following is "a reprint from "Thc
City. Record" supplement under the
heading. Commissioner of Records
Kings County-Hall Of Records B'klyn."
Com missioner Of Records-Edmund
O'Connorfi 1925 Sixth ave-, Bklyn. ...
Dec. 26. 1912. 5000.
endent-Frederick S. Shack
ne. 80 Palmetto St, B'klyn. Jan. 2,
1913. 600.
Assistant Superintendent Max Hy-
man, 260 Grafton St., B'klyn. Jan.
2, 1918. $4,000.
Secretary Hunter. 6S Consel-
yea ST. B'klyn. June /, 1917. .....
$4,000"
Henry c. Bergman, of "a Shaefrer
Street, one of the members OF the pres
entation committee, is identified in
The City Record as bookbnder, ap-
pointed Septem oer. 1914, with a salary
Of $1,000 a year.
Hearst League Members
According to "The Brooklyn Daily
Eagle" Almanac for 1918 the following
members Of the committee are on the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Friends Open Fight
1oRestore Hygiene
Division to Harris
Meeting Called for To-day to
Urge Return Of Industrial
Work to Bureau i'll the
Charge of the Physician

The fight to have the Division of
Industrial Hygiene restored to the con-
troll of Or. Louis I. Harris, head of
the Bureau of Preventable Diseases,
will crystalize this afternoon at joint
meeting Of civic bodies, called BIZ the
Women's Municipal League, at a O'Clock
in the ballroom of the Murray Hill
Hotel. Federal Judge Charles ~
Hough will preside
Health Commissioner Copeland,
whose curtailment of Dr. Harris's
power has aroused food of protests
from the medical profession IN New
York and from labor leaders, as well
as from civic organizations, was asked
to address the meeting and TO give DIR.
Harris permission to do so. At the
leagues offices yesterday it was said
no reply from DR.. Copeland had been
received, except through the medium
Of a newspaper article crediting the
COMMISSIONER with saying pressure Of
official business" would keep him away.
Consumers League; Rose Schneider
man, of the Women's Trade Union
League, and James J. Bagley, Of Frank
lin Union No. 23, will be among the
speakers.
DR.. Mordecai NJ. Kaplan. Rabbi of the
JEWS Centre, 1s1 West Eighty-sixth
Street. attacked Commissioner Cope
lands recent action and his admins
tration in general from the pulpit
Saturday. He said:
"lt is the duty Of every citizen to
protest against the present political
tampering with the successful and in
disrensable work Of the Division Of In
dustrinl Hygiene. The present city
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
P0ughkeepsie Pastor
Den0unces Hearst
Papers, Lusds T.. 4. r

POUGHKEEPSIE, Jan. 19.~At
public meeting this afternoon, which
was attended by representatives from
various churches and organizations of
the city and at which many prominent
men made addresses, the Rev. George
IL. Chesebro. pastor Of ,he Hedding
M Methodist Episcopal Church. denounced
the Hearst publications and commend
ed the q. A. Il. for their recent action
IN buying Up and publicly burning all
the Hearst papers on sale in the city.
~ DO not sec said the Clergyman,
now any rightrinded, conscientious
person can continue to read such a pub
llcation. Every citizen of Poughkeepsie
should stand behind the Grand Army
men in their fight against William
Randolph Hearst and refuse to read any
paper in which his views are expound-
ca. | am glad TO see the number of
buttons proclaiming 4 do not read
Hearst papers growing more numerous
on our city streets." Great applause
greeted this statement.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Protests Against Hearst and Praise
For All-American Committee Continue

Further populations of the Mayors
Committee for Welcoming Homecom-
ing Troops because of the presence on
the committee of William Randolph
Hearst were received yesterday at the
headquarters of the Independent Citi-
zens' Committee of Welcome
PerciNal G. Williams, jr., who had
been asked to serve on the Mayors
committee, made public copy of a
letter he had sent to the executives
secretary, which read:
Your letter is received informing
me of my appointment to the COM
mittee Of welcome arranged for the
homecoming troops. l am informed
that William r. Hearst is a member Of
this committee and more or less active
in its management.
"Mr. Hearst's policies relating to
Americansim, as revealed at the recent
hearings in Washington. determine me
to conclude that my Americanism is
too far advanced for me to be asso-
c;ated on this occasion with MIR.
Hearst.
Therefore l fell it duty to the re-
turning American forces to decline
membership on this committee, which,
under other circums stances, would have
been a pleasure, and in my decision
I am not subtr&ctirg from my loyalty
to this country or to her troops"
Outline Programme Tonight
The members of the executive COM
mittec of the Independent Citizens
Committee will meet tonight to outline
q constructive programme for welcom-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Gene Buck Given
Dinner by Lambs;
Friars Dine Also
Host of Wounded Soldiers
at Banqucts Is Honorcd by
Club Fellows; Villas Chef
Cooks Chill Con Carne

Gene Buck, Who started the practice
Of banqueting wounded soldiers at the
Lambs Club, was given a dinner by the
Lambs last night. Willie Collier prcsid-
ed and many prominent actors were
present.
Mr.. Buck, who writes songs and
librettos, showed UP at the club one
Wednesday night last August at the
head Of thirty wounded American sol
diers from France.
Into the dinnng room he marched
them. He sent for q band and asked
artists who happened TO be in the club
to entertain them. The night was such
9 success that next evening he came
around with fifty wounded men. Since
then Wednesday and Saturday night
for wounded soldiers have become a
club institution.
Several hundred trusting Friars
ossaycd Mexican dinner ct the Friars
Club last night. Among episodes OF
the banquet were hct tamales ard chilli
con carne prepared by cook said to
have been the personal chef of Villa.
Beans for the chill We're said to have
come from Joseph Hams Long Island
bean ranch.
After the dinner there were speechcs :
Emitted to one. minute each. Henry
Give won the prize by giving one
only fourteen seconds long After the
speeches the Frars were cheercd bv
vaudeville entertainment.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Girls Smiles Cause Killing
Men Fight Over Dance Hall
Beauty and One Is Sho!

Rivalry tor the smiles of girl in
"Happy Jacks" dance hall. at Far
Rockaway. resulted yesterday morning
in the death OF Homer Craft. of In
wood, Long Island. il St. Joseph's
Hospital and tho arrest of Robert
Morris, an cmploye Of the naval air
station at Ncponsit. on a charge Of
homicide. Frederick trederickson, an
other employe, and George Hewletts, Of
.nwood. friend Of Craft, were he d
as material witnesses.
Craft was shot through The stomach.
while he and Morris were fighting in
the street in front of the dance hall.
Patrolman Webster and Detectives
Raeburn and Murray made the arrests.
The three prisoners will be examined
in the Far Rockaway court tomorrow.
Graft, the police say, identified Morris
as his assalant before he died.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20

The Woolsack is a stand
ing symbol of the place
held by wool in the indus
trial, economic and social
evolution of the English
people.
It's a Woolsack on which
the Lord Chancellor sits in
the House of Lords.
Folks engaged in the
same occupation for CEN
turies, handing their skill
down from generation to
generation. are just natu-
rally bound to produce a
prize product.
It's our irnportations,
along with Americas best,
that let's lis refer to our
suits and overcoats for men
and boys as "the worlds
best woolens."
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Kills Wife and Her Mother:
Confesses Crime to Police

HAVERHILL, Mass. Jan. l9.-Joseph
E. Banforth, q shoe worker, killed his
wife, Minnie, and his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Martha Graham, here tonight.
He then went to the police station and
confessed to the crime
He used an axe, killing Mrs Graham
as she lay in her bed, and his wife after
q struggle in the kitchen OF their home,
I View Street. There were three chill
dren in the house when Banforth com
mitted the crime
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
$50 Women in Law School

Women students Mt the New York
University School OF Law. in Washing
ton Square. now number 15O, according
to Dean Sommer, who said yesterday
that they comprised 2b per cent of the
enrolment. Three COURSES are neces-
sary to take care Of the unusually
heavy enrolment, one Mt night and two
In the daytime.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-20
Committee of Presentation
Resembles Commissioner
of Records Office Payroll
Haven for Hearst League
.Iobless Followers of Pub
Usher Found Positions
Under O'Connor, OF Kings

The roster of the citizens committee.
which on Friday presented Mayor
Hylsn with memorial purporting to
he signed by 5000 Brooklynites, COM
mending the Mayor for appointing
William Randolph Hearst to the
alayor's Committee of Welcome, bears
q close resemblance to the payroll of
the Kings County Commissioner of
Records office, the Mecca of the Inde-
pendence League. Of the fifteen men
on the committee nine are officials of
the League of Brooklyn. while the list
of signers fairly bristles with men as
sociated in the Hearst political move
ment in Brooklyn.
The memorial. as one Brooklynite
said yesterday, was not the result of
spontaneous ou.burst but rather an
oppression of payroll gratitude" on
the part of men whose allegiance to
Hearst was rewarded by political jobs.
Haven for Hearst Men
The Commissioner of Records office,
which is headed by Edmund O'Connor,
chairman of the committee, is the last
stronghold of the Hearst forces in
Brooklyn. When E. I. OLoughlin, a
former Hearst employe, became Regis
ter of Kings County, he appointed
O'Connor Commissioner of Records.
Although OLoughlin, who had alter
nately fused with Republicans and
Democrats, was badly defeated when
he ran on the Hearst ticket for Bor-
ough President, O'Connor continued to
hold office. as his appointment covered
ousted from other Offices as the result
of OLoughlin's defeat, the Records
Office was made a haven for the faith
full jobless.
Democrats who held appointive posi-
tions under O'Connor were forced to
resign. it is said. to give shelter to
unemployed Hearst League men. With
few exceptions the names of the COM
mittee which praised the Mayor
Hearst's political followers in the days
of the Hearst League.
The resemblance Of the names on
the memorial committee roster and the
Commissioner of Records payroll
might be gathered from a comparison
taken from "The New York American"
and the civil list supplement of "The
City Record for the six months period
ended JunH so, 1918.
Committee Lauds Hearst
The names were appended to let
Ter, which began: "Hundreds of thou
sands OF intelligent, thoughtful, patri-
otc people are watching with growing
resentment the organized attack on one
OF the greatest Americans living day,
William Randolph Hearst. whom you
appointed as one of q committee to
welcome home our glorious army and
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
CONGRESS BEGINS
|TSFOURTH WEEK
Senate Busy on Wire Law Re.
peal and House at Work
on Army Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-Congress
began the fourth week of it's new ses-
sion today with the senate considering
the bill of Senator Kellogg, Of Mime
sofa, Republican, providing for the re-
peal Of the law authorizing government
control Of telegraph, telephone n ca
BILE wires, and the house at work on
the $500, 600, 900 army appropriation bill.
Action on the Kellogg bill by the SEN
ate was not expected before late In
the week, al lively debateSon the ac-
ton Of Postmaster General Burleson I n
ordering operation OF the wire lines
restored to private control and the
strike Of commercial telegraphers and
telephone operators was looked for.
The foreign relations committee of the
senate was called together by Chairman
Lodge today to formulate plans for the
inquiry to be undertaken by 1t into the
in which copies of the peace
treaty with Germany have fallen into
private hands in~New York. Appoint
work Of calling and questioning witt
nesses was the principal subject to
come up at the meeting.
Meantime the senate awaited a reply
to its request for the complete text Of
the treaty. This request, embodied In
a resolution adopted Friday, immedi-
ately was referred to President Wilson
by state department officials, and tho
general expectation was that a response
would reach the senate either today or
tomorrow.
Most senators were predicting today
that the request would not be granted,
and the same impression was apparent
in state department circles.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
.CH|CAGOAN BRINGS
.. TREATY TO j. S.
Full Text of Hun Terms Now
Being Syndicated Out
of New York.

NEW YORK. June 9.-The full text
Of the treaty OF peace with the central
powers, which has been the subject of
discussion in the United States senate
for "A week or more, has been brought
to this country by Frazier Hunt, a cor
respondent Of the Chicago Tribune, and
Is being syndicated TO newspapers in
this country in copyrighted sections.
The first section appeared today.
Mr., Hunt says the copy OF the treaty
which he brought here Is one OF the
original drafts and was obtained in
Paris. II is printed in French and
English, is contained In ZIG pages and
runs about 5000 words. Mr.. Hunt
says Il is quite Easy 10 obtain German
trsnslatipns Of the treaty IN Germany
and nsutrai countries hut these have
omis slonH and are without the maps
which his original draft o contains,
This summary OF the treaty, as pre-
yioosiy published In this country, MFR.
Hunt states, substantially carries the
important points Of tho full treaty and
only IN = few places are there omis-
sions. These, he says. occur Inithe sec
tioh relating 20 the SaArs valley and In
r~sfsyshes W The International labor or
"a niEsti9ns
Ahethsr American correspondent
abroad slso secured and mailed a full
copy " she ireaty. but the British cen i.
sot hsie u Qp. according 10 a statement
puhiisbeS ~ The newEpaper here which
be ssprsssBts a complaint In the mat
Ter Will be officially made TODAY. the
pa per says, 20 the foreign relations
committee Of the senate. I
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
Last Laughter
Who Laughed At
LdW Is Landed

Last Of the Laughter lads, who have
aughed at law, have landed liquor Law
ishly during the last few years at vari-
Gus landings on the river, who have
conveyed 1t by auto through from the
~perennially liquid GASES OF Caruthers-
vile, Is In the tolls of the federal au-
thorities Of Mississippi. Henry Laugh
ter, caught at Friar Point, Miss, Sat
urday with a boatload consisting of 100
cases Of liquor and a quantity Of beer.
Is facing charges Of violating the Reed
amendment, and federal prison at At
tanta may be yawning for him.
LED by i.ucien and Il, A.. Laughter.
the family crest might we'll bc a half
pint rampant or a field OF quarts. Tho
weu-known lIucien IL In the tolls on a
charge OF violating the Reed amend
ment by transporting liquor into Fort
Worth, Tex. His address promises to
be Fort ~Leavenworth, Kas., care u. s.
prison, for some time.
y. A, Laughter, skipper OF the good
ship Gypsy and also OF various bail
bonds, Is busily painting buildings red
instead OF helping TO paint noses the
same hue at the Shelby county work.
house, After he has served his IL
months and 20 days there Uncle sam
is going 20 invite him to be his guest
at Atlanta for a while for perpetrating
such a poor brand OF whisky as Old
Sage on al entirely innocent and un-
suspecting public, Truly "a noble fam
ily fallen. Well might Bill Shakespeare .
famous pronunciamento be paraphrased,
Law laughs loudly because II laughs
last at the daughters.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
THREE THOUSAND PEASANTS
SLAIN BY HUNGARIAN REDS

VIENNA, June .. (By the Associated
Press. )--Three thousand peasants, in
Guiding women and children, have heen
shot or hanged by the Red army as a
consequence of revolts In western Hun
gary around oedenburg, according to
news considered trustworthy which has
been received here. The entire village
OF Kolnhof was burned.
The massacre took place after 80 viii
lagos surrounding Oedenburg had re-
fused to go over to Bolshevism. They
desired to join Austria.
Bella Kun, communist leader and min
lister OF foreign affairs, and Joseph
Poguny, Bolshevik minister of war,
visited the districts, then sent orders
to Commissioner Semely, to whom such
class OF work is usually deputed be-
cause Of his bloodthirsty character, to
conduct acquisitions of clothing, food
\ imperial paper crowns, now called
red or soviet money.
The peasants, according to the adj
vices gathered a small army numbering
a few thousand, armed with rifles,
axes, scythes and similar weapons,
against which a red division was sent.
The peasants were surrounded. Koln-
hof was shelled; then machine guns
were turned against IL on Thursday
and Friday nights. A majority Of those
fleeing from the burning village were
shot. Those who were captured were
hanged.
Severe fighting is in progress between
Budapest and Vienna north Of the
Danube between the Czecho- Slovaks
and the Hungarian communist forces.
The Hungarians have crossed the river
Neutra and are threatening Pressburg
(Pozsony.)
The position of. the Czechs in Sol
vakia also is more serious as the Hun
garian communists have been stirring
up the Slcvaks against the Czechs. The
HuRga rlars point out that the Czechs
refused to give the Slovaks autonomy
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
BULLIES
FINED AT BARTLETT

The municipality of Bartlett is really
getting more funds from fines these
days than from taxes. Late Saturday
the town marshal, Will Martin, arrest
ed seven negro men and four women
and charged them with disorderly con-
duct, and Mayor Sedinger fined them
$40 and costs each, netting the little
town $40 in ven
The negroes were threatening other
negroes, speeding their automobile and
making themselves n~uisances. They
came from Binghamton. All reached
down in their pockets and paid their
fines
A revolver and two bottles Of whisky
were found in the car.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
TRIAL OF DOCTOR AS
WIFE SLAYER BEGINS

MlNEoLA, N. Y, June S.-The trial
of DR.. Walter X. wilkins, for the muir
der OF his wife, Julia Wilkins, at their
home at Long Beach on Feb. 81 began
here today before Justice Manning, of
the supreme court. 1t is expected the
trial Will consume two weeks. Thirty
witnesses are to be called on each side,
Or, wilkins is 81 years old and his
wife was 65. Each had been married
twice before their last marriage. Mrs.
wilkins had returned to her cottage
at Long Beach with her husband on
the evening of Feb. % after a day
spent collecting the rents OF property
which she owned In New York city.
Within u half hour after they reached
their house DR.. Wilkins appeared at
the home Of a neighbor and said his
wife had been murdered by burglars
whom he and she had surprised looting
the cottage. DR.. Wilkins was not In
dicted until about a month after the
murder Of his wife.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
DRAFT BILL FOR COURT
TO TRY GERMAN WAR CHIEFS

BERLIN. June 9. (By the Associated
Press. THE constitutional convention
has completed its consideration OF a bill
creating a state court which will try
those accused of starting, lengthening
and losing the war. 1t will be present.
ed to the national assembly soon.
The measure provides for a commit
tee of 10 members of the national as
sembly to investigate the political and
military leadership of the country prior
to and during the war n requires the
government to produce any documents
needed at the projected trial. The court
would be composed of Is members, in
Guiding the presidents of the imperial,
military, Prussian. Bavarian and Han
seattle supreme courts, five members of
the national assembly and five senator's.
The accused would be permitted to
have counsel and would be given the
privilege OF testifying. Deliberations of
the court would be secret and there
would be no appeal from its verdict.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
Irish. American Question

Next, n comes to the action OF thu
senale IN unanimously asking the peace
conference to grant a hearing 10 ths
lTish-American delegates. lrrespecti~e
OF whether the Irish question comes
within the jurisdiction Of the confsrs
ence OF powers. there was considerah Ria
amusement today over the fact thar
senator Borah on the one hand de-
nounces American entanglements In
european affairs on one day and then
OBTAINS the passage OF a resolution
valilng upon the peace conference 10
listen to the discussion of what Greay
Britain, a European power of consids
erahle prominence, considers an internal
htlalr n something entirely covered
by. her sovereignty. - ~
AND the truth Is, Democrats as wei,
as Republicans, believers in the learue
OF nations and opponents OF the idea
all Joined In asking the peace conSer,
ence to hear the Irish American dele
gates. Both parties In the United States
senate would hardly want TO offend the
irish element in the United States 20
rne score Is about even on that Irish
resolution, Politics Is, indeed, pla VIM
a vital part In the senate debates,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
CLAIM WARFARE IS
GOING ON IN IRELAND

PARIS. June 9.-Guerrila warfare of
a character which usually precedes a
major conflict is now going on in Ire
land" 1t is declared by Frank p. Walsh
and Edward F, Dunno in a supple
m%entary report which they have for
warded to President Wilson regarding
conditions in Ireland.
Messrs. Walsh and Dunno, delegates
Of Irish societies in the United States,
affirm in this addition to their report
submitted to President Wilson last week
that clashes between Irish volunteers
and the army forces in Ireland, in which
men on both sides are killed, are of
daily occurrence.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-09
LONDON GETS NEWS OF
HUNGARIAN MASSACRE

LONDON, June 9.-Armed peasants
who revolted against the Hungarian
@ mmuhist government and Hungarian
troops have been engaged in heavy
fighting in Western Hungary, which
resulted In the defeat OF the peasants
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Vienna.
-Four thousand peasants assembled
Friday near Oedenburg (S%ophrony) be-
tween zinkendorff and Koilerhof with
the object Of displacing the soviet gov
eminent In Oedenburg, They were in
tercepted on the march near Zinken-
dorff by tire communist garrison from
Oedenburg armed with artillery and ma
chine guns. A bloody battle followed
and the peasants were driven back and
surrounded in Kollerhof by the Red
Guards.
After a short siege, 1t Is added, Kol-
lerhof was stormed and many of its
peasant defenders slaughtered. The en-
tire Oedenburg district has been de-
clared IN a state OF siege and a military
dictatorship proclaimed.