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New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Prison Guards
Hunt Missing
Trolley Bandits
Sing Sing Warden Uncertain
Whether Men Escaped or
Are Hiding in the Yard;
City Police on Lookout

Sing Sing guards searched the coun-
try around Ossining last night for two
OF the prisons most desperate pris-
oners, missing at the D. nj. roll call
They are Percival J. McDonough and
Alfred Friedlander, the "strcet car
bandits,' who terrorized trolley pas
sengers in the vicinity of Flushing and
Jamaica about year ago. McDonough
second offender, was sentenced to
thlrty-nine wears and Friedlander to
from eight to sixteen years
Two weeks ago the prisoners were
transferred from Auburn to Sing Sing
They originally had been committed to
sing Sing, but that prison was under
dlphtherla quarantine when they
We're sentenced on March 21 last
Frledlander is eighteen years old and
lived at 2214 Pitkin Avenue, BROOKLYN
McDonough, who is twenty-five, lived
at 2577 Pitkin Avenue
Warden Lewis +. Lawes, uncertain
whether the missing men had escaped
or were in hiding within the prison
walls, did not sound the siren alarm
whistle. The police of all the West
chester towns and of New York were
notified to be on the lookout, however
Extra guards were placed around the
walls.
Had Freedom of Yard
McDonough and Friedlander were
both on hand in the mess hall when
the roll was called at noon. AS is
customary on Sunday afternoons. they
had the freedom of the yard until
o'clock, when the prisoners in the cell
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cells of the TWO Brooklyn robbers
were empty.
Warden Lawes believes if the men
escaped they must have done so before
a p. M. as it began to snow about that
time and there were no tracks on the
ground. Guards on duty at the walls
were sure the prisoners had not scaled
them. They are ten feet high and q
ladder would have been required The
only other means of escape would have
been through the greenhouse, and that
was likewise we'll guarded.
The river has a thick coating of ice
and the conticts would have expert
enced no difficulty in walking across it
if they were Sble to reach the bank.
Held Up Trolley Cars
There have been several instances of
prisoners hiding for long time in
side the walls. On one occasion an in
mate dug a cave lencath the furnace
in the engine room and secluded him
self there for two weeks until he
found an opportunity to escape. The
cave was not discovered until three
years afterward.
McDonough and Friedlander late one
night in February of last year. held
up three trolley cars near the line
between Kings and Queens County.
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passengers of their valuables, besides
taking the conductors receipts and
robbing the motorman. They sped
from place to place in green auto
mobile. they had stolen, abandoning it
after the last hold-up. This occurred
on Qucensborough Road and Nc
Donough, who is former motorman
forced the crew off and drove She
car with Friedlander and their loot
They were not captured for several
days. They were sentenced for robbery
in the Queens County Court.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Soviet Russia Orders
Commerce Resumption
Authorizes Paris Headquarters
to Transact Business With
Western Europe and America

PARIS, Feb. 1.-The Russian Co.
operatives Headquarters at Paris has
received authorization from the Soviet
government to transact business with
foreign countries. The announcement
reads as follows:
"The Soviet government permits the
Central Union Of Russian Co0peratives
to enter into commercial relations with
the cooperatives and business firms of
western Europe, America and other
countries.
"The Soviet government has given
the Central Union all guarantees con-
corning the protection of goods ex-
ported and imported by the coopera-
tives.
"'1he Central Union is ready to begin
exchanges Immediately.
The Soviet government will allow
to pass safely delegates coming to and
leaving Russia whose names are fur
nished by the representatives of the
Russian co0peratives Of central Eu-
rODc"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Mexico Releases
7auo y. S. Flyers
Carras,z0 Delivers Cap
HUes at Border With
out AWaifing Request

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. Lieu
tenants E. T. Davis and G. E. Grimes,
United States Army aviators, who have
been held by Mexican authorities since
Wednesday last, when they made a
forced landing near Guerrero. were re-
leased at Nuevo Laredo this afternoon
and crossed the Rio Grande to Laredo
Tex, Colonel J. E. Fechet, Air Service
officer of the Southern Department., an
ncunced tonight.
The aviators were released by order
of General Reynaldo Garza, commander
of the garrison at Nuevo Laredo. after
a conference with Major Julian F.
Sanez, commander at Matamoros, who
accompanied the aviators to Nuevo
Laredo.
General Cara and Major Sanez called
at the American consulate and informed
Randolph Robertson, United States
Consul, who had accompanied the avia-
tors from Guerrero, where he had gone
to look into the circumstances of their
detention, that it would not be neces-
sary to take them before General
Murguia. at Monterey, according to re-
ports to Colonel Fechet from Laredo.
Lieutenant Stoner, an aviator sta
toned at Laredo, was sent to San
Rafael las Tortillas, thirty miles west
OF Guerrero, and late to-day returned
with the airplane of Lieutenants Davis
and Grimes, Colonel Fechet announced.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1.-Criticism Of
American aviators flying over Mexican
territory was again expressed by Luis
Cabrera, Secretary of the Treasury. in
conversation with newspaper men yes
terday. He referred especially to two
flyers who had landed near Guerrero
because their gasoline was exhausted.
The Secretary asserted these incursions
were violations of sovereignty, and that
representations would be made to
WASHINGTON
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Offers $40, 900 for First
Planetary Communication
French Academy of Sciences Includes Mars Gas Be-
ing Sufficiently Known; Its Action Taken as
Belief in Possibility of Exchange of Messages

PARlS, Feb. 1.-The Academy Of Sci
ences evidently considers communica-
tlon between the earth and the planets
as among the possibilities, for it has
undertaken to act as Judge for prize
OF 100000 francs (S2OOOO) to be given
1or the best means of making sign to
heavenly body and the receipt Of n
reply.
1t has been the custom of the Acad-
emy always to refuse to handle prizes
for any feat which it considers mere
waste of time. In presenting the pres
ent prize for competition the Academy
makes the proviso that "the planet
Mars is included as being sufficiently
known"
Until solution is obtained" saws
the Academy's announcement "the in
terest on the prize money will form a
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Messengers of Bolsheviki
Travel From Berlin to
Russia on Spurious
American Credentials
Arrests Bare Plot
For German Revolt
Document Links Head Of
Spartacists With Rus.
sian Foreign Minister

LONDON, Feb. 1.-Bolshevik agents
lntrusted with messages regarding the
"Reds'" international plans have for
some time been travelling between Ber-
lin and Soviet Russia on forged Ameri
can Red Cross credentials, it is said
IN official quarters. One Of these ennis
sarles, German radical Socialist, ar
rested recently, asserted under inter
rogation that the German Independent
Socialists would attack and overcome
the Berlin government the moment thew
were assured of support from Lenine.
The credentials carried by the Boil
shevik agents are said to have de-
scribed them as delegates of the Amer
lean Red Cross mission in Berlin to
conduct Investigations regarding the
exchange OF German prisoners in Rus
sia.
Carried Letters in Neckties
These couriers, it appears, were car
rylng dispatches between Moscow and
Bolshevist organizations in other coun-
tries, including the German Spartacides IS
and the Swiss COMMUNISTS Lithua-
Man authorities discovered the illicit
travelling after Lithuanias borders had
been crossed many times, and num-
Der OF arrests followed. Not all the
couriers were provided with American
papers, but such forged credentials
were found on several of the prisoners
Two men who carried Red Cross
passes admitted they had nothing to
do with the Anne rican mission. but in
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lists. One woman. similarly equipped,
who worked from Dvinsk, said she had
been instructed to deliver documents to
persons she did not know personally.
The German who was arrested and
his companion, Swiss belonging to an
extremist organization called the So
cialist-D Democratic Organization of
Young People in Switzerland, we're en-
route to Moscow by way of Berlin when
captured. They carried letters con-
cealed in their nccktles.
Forged U S. Passports
:, The German carried a letter from
the head of Spartacide organization
in Germany to NJ. Tchitcherin, Rus
sian Bolshevik Minister of Foreign At
fairs. The letter Indignantly denied
the report that German Spartacides
were counter revolutionary to the Rus
sian Bolshevists. 1t declared that Kari
Radek (the Bolshevik propagandist,
who recently left Berlin), could testify
to the writer's Communist svmpathies.
1t was said further by the writer that
he was arranging with the Russian
bolshevlst. Zinovieff, with regard to
spreading Communist propaganda in all
parts of the world by special courier
service from Berlin.
Another letter seized, which was
written by the same German, stated he
mad succeeded in inducing a staff Of
engravers to print American, French
ana German passports for the use of
courlers and suggested that the Soviets
make similar arrangements for couriers
rom Russia to Germany
The Swiss courier carried a letter
from the secretary of an organization
of extreme Socialists in Berne to an
editor Of "Red" paper in Moscow,
acknowledging the receipt of Bolshevik
literature from Moscow, of which, he
said, he had made great use, and ask
ing further supplies.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Pinehurst Expects Wilson
Southern Town Prepares to En-
tevta;n the President

PINEHURST, N. c., Feb. 1.-Plans
for the ente rtai nment of President Will
son here are being made, it was an
nounced to-day, in expectation that the
President may accept the invitation
which has been extended to him to
come South. A large winter residence
here and another at Southern Pines
have been reserved for Mr.. Wilson's
use, and either will be at his disposal
as long as he cares to stay, it was said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Secretary
Tumulty said tonight he knew nothing
of current reports that President Will
son would go South, either to North
Carolina or Florida, within the next
ten days --..----A.----
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
By Theodore M. knappcn
Ne1D York Tribu.c
TVdshin oton Bureau


WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-For a time
recently letters poured into the Re-
publican National Committee from all
sections of the country urging the Re-
publican leaders to beat the Democrats
to it and get Herbert C. Hoover prop
erly labeled and corra,ed for the Re-
publican party. Don't let the Demo-
Gratis get Hoover He is the man for
u.s. was the tenor of the letters. A
large percentage of the letters were
from women, thus confirming, appar-
emily, the hypothesis of the Hoover
hackers that his record as Food Ad-
mnistrator had made him the ideal
of the women voters. Many of the
women went so far as to say that it
would be fatal for the Republican
party to leave Hoover to be annexed
by the Democrats.
Last Monday the committee head
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02

prize for scientists making the greatest
progress in knowledge of the planets
and their relation to the earth'
LONDON, Feb. Professor Albert
E,nstein, the German astronomer.
whose theory that gravitation defects
the rays of light recently has been the
subject of considerable discussion, in
m NJ lntervicw with "The Daily Mails"
Berlin correspondent asserted he be-
llevcd the mysterious signals referred
to by Signor Marconi as hav;;.s been
heard on various wireless apparatus
are due either to atmospheric disturb
ances or to experiments with other sys-
tens of wireless
Professor Einstcin, who believes that
Mars and other planets are inhabited.
added that if intelligent creatures on
other planets tried to communicate
with the earth he would expect ther. to
use rays of light, which could be much
more easily controlled.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
KieI Leased as
COnlnles'ceHurbOr

LONDON, Feb. IA Berlin
wireless message says that the
government has leased the former
naval port Of Kiel to the town
authorities, who will make an
initial expenditure of 100000
marks (nominally S5o0,00O) for
the purpose OF transforming it
into commercial harbor.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
65 Sinn Feiners Held
Limerick Police Sergeant Shot,
Situation Is UNCHANGED

DUBLIN, Feb. IA total Of sixty
five prominent Sim Feiners and Re-
publicans have been arrested in Dub
lin, Tipperary, Limerick and Cork.
There were no further developments in
the situation to-day.
Saturday night Police Sergeant Well
wood was fired upon in Limerick. The
bullet struck him in the jaw. At first
it was feared that his wound would
be fatal. but it is now believed he will
recover.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-02

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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
LUTHER JAMES TISDALE

Luther James Tisdale was born IN
Guilford, Vermont, April 20, 1886: de-
parted this life at Brookings, April
90, 1920 after two years of failing
health. He was one of the pioneers
Of the northwest At the age of 21,
he completed his education at Smith
college in North Adams, Mass, com
'ng to Lake City, Mimi, in 1857 In
company with Gen. John A. Logan,
he walked over the ground where is
now located the city of st. Paul, also
to Winona where he and his father
built one of the first big mills.
He was married July 8, 1862, to
Adaline Applegrath at Guilford, MINI.
To this union were born five children,
three girls and two boys, the boys
dying in infancy He moved to Tyler,
Mimi, in 1879, engaging in the mer-
camille business and furnished sup
plies for the people of Brookings dur
ing the winter of the deep snow In
sleigh to Huron, just three months
before the railroad came through. He
again engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness, selling government supplies TO
the railway graders from a tent. He
afterwards became contractor. In
1906. he moved to Brookings.
At the early age of nine he united
with the M. +. church and remained
a member until his death, Just three
quarters Of a century. A son of
Methodist minister, he was himself
devOutly religious. He was a patient
sufferer always ready with a smile
and pleasant word for every one dur
ing his months of suffering, endearing
himself to his host of friends.
He is survived by his widow, who for
fifty-seven years has been his com
panion and shared with him the joys
and dangers and burdens of his
pioneer life His three daughters,
Mrs. F. G. Heron and Mrs. w. B.
Steer of Sioux Falls, and Mrs. C. f.
Poole of this city, were with him in
his last hours.
The funeral services were held at
the home Friday afternoon at 200
o'clock, the Rev. G.. II. Zentz, pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
officiating. lnterment was in Green
wood cemetery.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06

realizing that any home welcomes the
person who is interested in its child
dren
She knocked at the side door which
evidently led into the living apart
ment The mother of the child opened
invited in. The mother stated that
she had kept the little boy at home
because he had not been well. Then
the chat drfted into talk about the
kindergarten and the pleasure which
it had brought him.
Finally, rising eagerly to her feet.
show you what my man has done"
Timidly tiptoeing, as if she herself
were afraid, she led the way to the
door which connected with the sa-
in whisper, Just look there. He
has put little Fritz's flag on his big
looking glass" and sure enough, in
a conspicuous place, fastened to the
edge of the big looking glass over
the main bar was the little paper flag
which the child had made and brought
home from the kindergarten
Fritz's father was a man who had
been known to utter bitter denuncia-
tions of the American government be
fore the war began and in his saloon
many infiamatory meetings had taken
place.
This is but one instance of how "a
little child shall lead them"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
ORANGES TO AID

Directing the attention Of more than
one million farmers to the issues in
volved in highway transportation and
good roads, Thomas c. Atkeson, Wash
ington representative and moving
spirit in the National Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry, has addressed letter
to grange secretaries throughout the
country enjoining their participation
in National Ship by Truck-Good Roads
Week, to be observed May II to %,
In this connection" writes Mr..
Atkeson, Il heartily approve of the
general idea involved in Ship by Truck
Good Roads Week and attention that
VIII thereby be directed to the prob
lens Of highways, transportation and
distribution
AS a preface to his letter, Mr.. Alike
son says: THE National Grange be-
lieves that the time has come when
all national government highways
should be unified in a single admin
istrative department and that a ma.
tiOnal highway law should be worked
out which will serve the welfare Of the
whole country and distribute the ex-
pense of highway construction equit-
ably between the benefciaries.
Expressing his belief that there is
place for the motor truck in agri.
cultural pursuits, Mr.. AtkesOn con.
tinues: at is conceded that there is
a place for the motor truck on the
farm and most particularly does this
apply to the economic use of the motor
truck by farm associations. To Sc.
cure the most satisfactory and bene-
ficial use of the motor truck the ma
tion, the state, the county must have
suitable permanently constructed road
beds to insure motor truck operations
from the producer to the consumer.
Not only is the necessity for perma-
nent highways apparent in this in
stance, but an improved highway is
step toward the Improvement and
consolidation of rural schools and the
use Of schools as rural social centers." "
Mr. Atkeson requests the grange
secretaries to bring the preparations
for the week to the attention of farm
er members. He says:
"In view, therefore, of the simulta-
neous discussion. study and attention
on the part of the citizens of this ma
ton, which will be directed to these
problems by National Ship by Truck
Good Roads Week, it is recommended
that you bring this matter before your
grange and take part SO far as it is
possible in the activities attendant on
the success of the national week.
"It is evident, therefore, that the
grange should be represented on COM
mittees and it is thought that because
of this the grange will be able more
intelligently to define the farmers
angle and arrange for farm participa-
ton than anyone else."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
SMALL. STRAWBERRY BED

Following are directions for prepa-a-
tion OF soil, planting, care OF bed, and
harvesting. Properly handled each
plant should produce quart Of ber
ries.
Time to plant-March and April
Age of plants-One-year old plants
give the best results.
Preparation of soil - Strawberries
grow in many kinds Of soil. Any good
well-drained garden soil, well pre-
pared, will produce strawberries. A
layer one inch deep, of wellrotted
manure should first be thoroughly
spaded into the soil. Then finely
ground bone meal at the rate Of one
pound to 25 square feet of space, and
tobacco stems at the rate Of three
pounds to the same space should be
carefully raked into the soil. Wood
ashes spread over the soil just thick
enough to be seen can be used in place
Of bone meal and tobacco stems.
Setting the plants-The rows should
be two feet apart and the plants one
foot apart in the rows. The holes
should be deep enough to place the
plants at the same depth they were
before and large enough to spread the
roots out well. In transplanting the
soil should be placed little at time
around the roots and pressed down
firmly Care should be taken not to
get any soil in the crown.
Care of the bed-Clean culture Is of
prime importance. The strawberry
bed should be hoed frequently so as to
keep the bed free of weeds and the
upper two and One-half inches of soil
loose and dust-like. Throughout the
first summer all lower stems should
be removed as soon as they appear.
The runners should be cut off. The
cut should be made as close to the
plant as possible To prevent rain
from spattering sand and soil in the
fruit, thin layer Of straw or pine
needles should be spread over and be-
tween the rows in December. This
layer should be thin enough for the
plants to grow through it the follow
ing spring.
Harvesting-A strawberry bed care
fully prepared and cared for should
produce at the rate OF a quart of ber-
ries to the plant the following season.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
SCHOOL AN MERiCANIZER
BY Elizabeth Harrison.

i'S f>IlHdb'IH harrison.
When DR.. Anna Howard Shaw was
chairman of the women's committee
Of war defense, she wrote from Wash
ington: Il get many letters from
teachers. in country schools particu-
larly, which say, We love our coun-
try and we want to help it; what can
we do to serve it?' She continued:
I have one answer to make. Stick
right to your job There is no work
that any woman can do for her coun-
try today that is more needed, more
patriotic than to stay by the school
and teach patriotism to the younth of
the country" This is just as true
today as it was during the war
In a hundred ways the average
teacher can stir the love of country
in the hearts of her pupils; by the
saluting of our flag each day after
it's significance has been explained; by
enthusiastic singing of patriotic songs
and by stories of American discover
ers, pioneers and heroes. In these and
oliCl ways luC ICdClltl Cdu DIIuS
about wonderful Quickening of the
children's right emotions, directing
them into happy and useful activities
Young children of kindergarten age
can carry into their homes love and
appreciation for our nation, as shown
by the following story. A certain kin
dergarten located in one of the doubt
full" districts of Chicago, was in charge
of a most enthusiastic and patriotic
young Kindergarten On the first
Memorial Day after our entry into the
World war each child in the kinder
garten made a little American flag
They were delighted to take this bit
of hand work home to their fathers
and mothers.
A few days later the kindergartner
noticed that one little fve-yearold
boy had been absent so she decided
to visit him. His address brought her
to rather disreputable looking sa-
loon III neighborhood in which sew
eral arrests had been made for un-
patriotic utterances. Finding herself
in such surroundings. she hesitated
and then strengthened her courage by