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New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
De Forest Hicks, Banker,
Dies in Railway Station

De Forest Hicks. member Of the
firm of Coggeshal & Hicks, bankers
and brokers, of 1913 Broadway, died sud
denly in the waiting room OF the Penn
syivania Station yesterday afternoon
while on his way to Atlantic City.
Mr. Hicks. who was forty-four years
old and who resided at 156 East Scv-
entysecond Street. had been i'll with
pneumonia for about a month. Follow
ing his recent recovery he decided to
go to Atlantic City to recuperate his
health. He started on the trip. &C
companed by his wife, who was Miss
Nancy Benedict, of Georgia. When
ne reached the waiting room Of
the Pennsylvania Station he complained
he felt weak. He sat down and then re
lapsed into state of coma. DR.. Van
Dyke, who has an office in the Penn
sylvania Station building, pronounced
him dead.
De Forest Hicks was born at Sum
NIT, N. j., the son of William Cleveland
and Emily Norwood De Forest Hicks
He was educated at Trinity College.
Besides his partnership in the firm Of
Cogge shall & Hicks Mr.. Hicks vas as
sociated with the Peninsular Telephone
Company and the Western Canaoa
Power Company.
Mr. Hicks was member of the Ps
Upsilon fraternity. the St. Nicholas
Society. the Society of Colonial Wars
and a trustee of the Park Hospital, OF
this city. He WAS president of the st.
Nicholas Club and member of the
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, the
Church Club and the Baltusrol Golf
Club.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Frank Pixley, Famous
Opera Librettist, Dead
'sKing Dodo," 'sPrince of Pill
sen" and 'SThe Burgomaster"
Among His Productions

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 31.-Frank
Pixley, librettist of many operettas,
died here last night, after a brief ILL.,
ness. He was the author Of king
Dodo," in which Raymond Hitchcock
made one of his first successes. He
also wrote THE Prince of Pilsen,"
"The Burgomaster" and other oper-
ettas for which Gustave Luders wrote
the music.
Mr.. Pixley was born in Richfeld,
Ohio, November 21, 1867, and was
graduated from Ohio State University
in 1886. He received the degree of
Lift. D. from Buchtel College in 1909:
His marriage to Isabel MacRoy, of
Windsor, Ontario, took place in 1893.
From 1887 to 1890 he was professor
of history and English at Buchtel
College. From 1892 to 1899 he was
managing editor of 1.-THE Chicago
Mail" and from 1899 to 1902 editor-in-
chief of "The Chicago Times Herald"
Portugal decorated him with the Or
der Of Christ and he was a member
of the Royal Geographic Society of
London.
Plays as we'll as musical comedies
we're among Mr.. Pixley's works
Some of them we're 1.-THE Carpetbag-
GER" Thoughts and Things" "The
Return of Eve" Tanning a Tartar"
and "Dr. Doolittle."
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
JOHN H. SWARTZ

John Hancock Swartz, eighty-four, a
widely known inventor and veteran
Of the Civil War, died Tuesday Of
arterio sclerosis at his home, 229
Bergen Street, Brooklyn. Funeral serv-
ices will take place at ? o'clock this
afternoon, with interment in Green
wood Cemetery.
Mr. Swarts was born in Buffalo, n.
L., January p, 1885. and he was a
resident of Brooklyn for the last forty
years. He was tn inventor of the
Eagle water meter. He also invented
several boxmaking machines. Recent
~ he was experimenting with an ice
less refrigerator.
At the outbreak of the Civil War
Mr.. Swartz enlisted in the 47th Regi-
ment, New York Volunteers, and took
part in the defense of Washington. He
was later commissioned a captain in
the famous Hawkins Zouaves.
Mr. Swartz was one of the Oldest
members of the 1st Assembly Dis
trict Republican Club and formerly
was a district captain. He is survived
by his daughter, Miss Mabel R. Swartz.
with whom ne lived, and a niece. Miss
Clara Z. Swartz. of Buffalo.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Soviet Chiefs Predict
End of Blockade Soon

The Bolshevik leaders In Russia ex-
pect the Allied blockade will be lifted
within month and that the resumption
Of trade relations between Russia and
the outside world will gredrsliy lead
to recognition of the Soviet govern
ment, according to the Russian Soviet
Bureau. The bureau, which processes
to be in contact with affairs in Russia
through correspondents at Stockholm
and Copenhagen, announced yesterday
that it had received confirmation of a
report from London published in The
Tribune yesterday that the Allies are
preparing to make peace with Russia.
with the anti-Rolshevik forces rep
resented by Kolchak and Denikine com
pletely crushed, there is no other gov
ernment for the Allies to support"
said Gregory Weinstein, counsel for
the bureau at its office, 10 West For
tieth Street. eve have been relying on
the success of the Soviet government
to convince the Allies of the futility of
trying to force upon the Russian people
military form of government which
they do not want. Now the Allies are
beginning to see that the lifting of the
blockade and the resumption of trade
relations is the most practica BILE step
for the peace of the world.
I've do not expect recognition of the
Soviet government for long time But
meanwhile the Russian markets can be
thrown open and the Soviet government
given chance to stabilize itself un-
hampered by a blockade. 1t will be
found also that much of the hostility
shown toward the Bolsheviki was manu-
factured by counter-revoutionary in
terests. The Lusk committee will not
have any legs on which to stand. We
have never felt that the so-called ex-
posures of that committee have done
US any harm"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
MARRIAGES

DEMBY-HOFFMAN-M Sarah Hoffman
announces the marriage of her daughter.
Fannie. to Mr.. Max Demby, of New York
and Panama. Panama papers please
copy.
HERR-DOTY-On Wednesday, December
81. Eleanor Vaudeville daughter of Fran
ces G. and the late John Doty. TO Hobart
William Kerr. of Des Mones. Iowa.
MORRIS-DARCY-On Tuesday, Dec 80,
Margaret c. Darcy to Walter Adams
Morris at the rectory of st. Bartholo-
news Church, Elmhurst L. I.
RHODES-BRADLEY - At the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mamaroneck, n. Y.
Wednesday, December 81, 1919 by the
Rev. Isaac A. Marsland, D. D., assisted by
the Rev. David G. Downey. D. D., Mrs.
Bertha B. Bradley and Bradford Rhodes
ley's son, heretofore known as Donald
Bradley, was baptized and named Bradford
Rhodes I'd.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
OBITUARY NOTES

OTTO THOMAS PFLAUMER. sixty-three.
a. artist in the photographic business, is dead
or pneumonia at his home. 617 East Fourth
Street Brooklyn.
JOSEPH H. sCHMITzER. .hirty-eivht.
employed by the American Drug Company as
chemist, died at his home 27a South Fifth
street Brooklyn. He was born in Germany
ana came 70 tins countr when boy
and veteran Of the Civil War. died Tuesday
at his home. 139 Leffert, Avenue, Brooklyn
he was secretary of Peter Cooper Post.
6. A. R.
WILLIAM H. M'KlERNAN seventy-four.
ior many years employed as n gardener at
the brooklyn navy yard, is dead of apoplexy
at his home. SIG Leonard Street, BROOKLYN
tie served in the Civil War as an able sea
man on the L. S. battleship R. R. Cuyler. He
TOOK part IN The battle between the Merrimac
and the Monitor
JEFFERSON SHEFFIELD BRIGGS. 6ftv.
president of the Briggs Engineering Com.
pany. Of Brooklyn. died Monday Of pneu-
monia in the Skene Sanatorium, BROOKLYN.
He formerly was connected with several
steamship lines marine engineer and
contractor.
JACOB BEYER ninety, who served dur
ing the Civil War as lieutenant colonel in
the I'd New York Cavalry, died Sunday at the
home Of his son. Otto Boyer. IT Adelphi
street, Brooklyn. He born In Bremen.
Germany, and came to this country sixty
years ago.
GEORGE HOARE, eighty. police justice Of
the town Of Deer Park. Orange County.
n Y. died at his home. in Sparrowbush
n. u, yesterday. He member Of
Joppa Lodge. F. and A. M. Of Brooklyn.
GEORGE BODY. seventy-four. a well,
known resident Of Port Chester. N. Y. died
yesterday at the home of his son. Ceorve
Body, jr., Is East Broadway. Port Chester.
he was connected with the Glenvile Wooden
Mills. now the American Felt Company. AZ
Glenviile Conn.
GEORGE WOODGATE FREED, sixty-two.
National Bank of New York City. died Tues
day at the home OF his sister MIS-. E. B.
Valentine. 73 Belmont Avenue. Port Ches-
ter. n. Y.
MRS. A F. ALLISON. wife OF the secre-
men. Manufacturers. died Yesterday morning
at her home. at Liberty. N. Y
JOHN FOY. sixty three. for Afteen year.
q special officer employed by the New York
Founding Hospital. died Monday night in
policeman.
MRS. SARAH E TUNISON. seventy-seven
widow OF Harmon H. Tunison died yester.
day at her home in Planfeld, N. j. she
~as born at Mount Horeb, N j.. and for
many years WAS an active worker in the
Methodist Church. She is survived BY thres
sons and two daughters
MRS. SARAH E. BOYLE. seventv-thrss
widow Of Edward Boyle. of Somerville, n
died TUESDAY night in Muhenhurg Hospital
Plaindeld. N, J. She was born al Psan.ck
N. J. She is survived by two soma
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
SAMUEL. S. BARNEY

MILWAUKEE, Dec al.-Samuel S.
Barney, fftythree, former Congress-
man and recently judge of the Court
of Claims at Washington. died to- day at
his home in this city.
Judge Barney had been in declining
health for more than year. He re-
sired from his judicial position in
Washington last March on account of
III health. Judge Barney was born in
Hartford, Wis, and was educated at
Lombard University in Illinois. He
taught high school in Hartford, Wis,
for three years and was admitted to
TIC bar in 1878 He practiced law in
West Bend Wis. from 1873 until 1906.
From 1875 until 1880, he was Superin-
tendent of Schools OF Washington
County. Wis. He ran for Congress in
iSSA on the Republican ticket, but was
defeated. He was elected q member of
the lifty-fourth Congress, and served
n the House of Representatives, from
1895 until 1903. Since 1906 he has been
associate justice of the Court of Claims
at Washington.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Jean Dupuy Dies
After Long Career
AS Paris Editor
Occupied a Leading Place
With French Statesmen
and in 1913 Refused Offer
to Form New Ministry

PARIS, Dec. 31.-Jean Dupuy, di-
rector Of "Le Petit Parisien" and for
merly president of the Council OF Min
listers, died this afternoon after short
illness.
Jean Dupuy, for many years prom
inent and forceful figure in French
journalism and politics, and tower OF
strength for the Republican party,
was born at Ssint-Palais, in the
Gironde, on October /, 1914. He did
not become conspicuous in public af-
fairs until middle life, but then he took
a leading place in that group OF jour
nalist-politicians who, in Gabetti-'s time
and afterward, exercised dominant
influence in the republic. He became
proprietor and director of "Lo Steele"
in 1886, and soon afterward entered
into the same relations with LIE Petit
Parsien," a journal of the people, the
great circulation Of which-about
1,25O,oo a day-gave it immense
power. To the vigorous direction OF
that paper he thereafter devoted his
chief attention. Because of his sue
cess with it he was chosen president Of
the Syndicate of the Partisan Press, in
which capacity he was a valuable cham
pion of the best interests OF French
Journalism. During the war he did
much to maintain the legitimate func-
tions of the press against undue CEN
sorship.
He became Senator for the Haute
Pyrenees in 1891 and held that place
for the rest of his life In 1899 he be-
came Minister of Agriculture in the
famous Republican Concentration"
Cabinet of NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau,
among his colleagues being Messrs.
laux and the Marquis de Gallifet. In
that place he served with distinction
until 1902. In Aristide Brands Cab
met he was Minister of Commerce from
1909 to 1911, and in the early part
of 1913 he was minister Of Public
Works, Posts and Telegraphs. In the
fall Of that year, when NJ. Caillaux and
the Radicals forced the Barthou Min
istry out of office, President Poincare
asked NJ. Dupuy to become Prime Min
lister, but after careful consultation
with his friends, to the bitter disap-
pointment of the President, and, in
deed, of the whole Republican party,
he declined the task.
During the war NJ. Dupuy was a
member Of the War Council in which
place he rendered inestimable services
to his country and to the Allied cause
His son. Paul Dupuy, for a number of
years his chief aid on lie Petit Pari-
slen,' visited this country in 1902 to
study American newspaper methods
and to find, if possible a cheaper sup
ply of wood pulp than France afforded
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
DR.. ADOLPHE y. ROTSSFL

DR.. Adolphe Napoleon Roussel, sixty
seven, retired dental surgeon widely
known in Brooklyn, died Tuesday Of
angina pectoris after long illness at
ms home, lll5 East Thirty-nintn
Street. Brooklyn. He was born in
Perth Amboy. n. j., the son of the late
Professor Jules Roussel, who was at
the head of the Franco Anne rican In
stltute, of New York City. His grand
father, Napoleon Roussel, was leader
or the Huguenots and writer OF re-
liglous books
Dr.. Roussel was graduated from the
Philadelphia Dental College in 1879.
and for more than thirty years p-ac-
tlced dentistry a l43 Stuyvesant Ave
nue.. Brooklyn. Fe was formerly presi-
dent Of the I'd District Dental So
ciety of the State of New York, all
OF whose members are from Brooklyn.
He married Isabel Wander Veer, who
died in 1915, and he is survived by
two sons, Reginald S. Roussel and
Julien D. Roussel, the owner Of the
Hotel Montclair. Montclair, ~ J.. and
daughter, Mrs William A. Gable.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Skipper Dying, His Wife
Brings Ship Across Ocean
Special Corrcsporde ,,cs

Special C0rrcsporden
PORTLAND. Me, Dec. 81 While
her husband, Captain William +. Dram,
lay critically i'll in his bunk, Mrs. lsa-
bella Dram, acting as skipper, brought
the big four masted schooner Jean
Somerville across the Atlantic from Las
Palmas, Canary islands, to Pensaco ola
Bar off the Florida coast. The voyage
was forty three days. and Captain Dram
died three days before the vessel
reached port. SO far as known this is
the first time in maritime history that
a woman has navigated ship across
the Atlantic.
The Jean Somerville arrived in Mo
bile. Ala. Yesterday, having been
towed from Pensacola Bar bv tugs.
" ord of the schooner's safe arrival
was received here to-day by Miss Alice
Dram and DR.. julius C.'Oram. of South
Portland daughter and son of the
woman skipper.
Mrs. Gram was the only person
aboard the four-master besides her
husband who knew anything OF navi-
cation
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Haywood and 81 Other
COnuicted /. ". ". S Ask
Reversal of JUDGMENT

CHICAGO, Dec. 3l.-Briefs asking
= versal of judgment and release of
W D. Haywood and ninety-one other
|. W. W. officers. editors and organiz-
ors, convicted of seditious activities
and sentenced to Leavenworth prison
have been filed in Federal Circuit Court
of Appeals here by attorneys for the
prisoners who are now at liberty on
bail
The defendants charge that no ma
tion-wide conspiracy existed or was
proved by the government. Polish,
Lithuanian Hungarian and Portuguese
editors of W W. papers either were
not indicted or their indictments were
quashed, the prisoners contend, and if
there had been a general conspiracy to
oppose conscription these papers would
have been involved in it and their
editors would have been convicted
There was no impartial considera-
tion of the evidence by the jury; and
that their verdict was the product Of
passion and prejudice the briefs say.
is manifest from the fact that after
several months employed in the intro
duction of evidence the jury in twenty
five minutes found ninety eight de
fendants guilty on all four counts of
the indictments" "
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
La Cuardia Booms Kelly
As Congress Candidate
Haskell, However, Thinks Re-
publicans Should Fuse on
Metz for Vacancy

Major Michael A. Kelly-"Dynsmite
Mike"-Liberty party candidate for
President Of the Board Of Aldermen
until the Tammany men forced him
out of the race, will be the Republican
candidate fer Congress in the district
made vacant by the election of Major
F. II. La Guardia, if the latter has his
way. Major La Guardia declared for
Major Kelly last night.
Samuel s. Koenig, president of the
Republican County Committee. when
asked about it, indicated that Major
La Guardia would not have his way.
County Judge Reuben L. Haskell, Of
Brooklyn. formerly Representative from
the 10th Congressional District started
the discussion following the announce
ment that Governor Smith had decided
to call special election. When asked
about the vacancy in his district, Judge
Haskell said:
at should be filled by fusion can
didate, in order to make sure that
in in a three-cornered fight. We ought
to fuse on a good Republican in Brook
lyn, and in Major La Guardia's district
the Manhattan Republicans ought to
fuse on Herman A. Metz, who would
like to go back to Congress-"
When Judge Haskell's plan was
broached to Major La Guardia he said:
Owe got candidate who will win in
a walk-Major Michael E. Kelly=who
broke with Tammany when they pushed
him out of the race for President Of
the Board of Aldermen. Major Kelly
will make first class fighting Repub-
lican. just the kind we need in Man
haitian"
Major La Guardia is a little bit
swift" said Chairman Koenig. "The
twoyear term to be served is not filled
out. BY every rule of fairness the
Democrats should indorse any candi-
date we may name, and believe they
will do it. The Republican organiza-
tion win take care of that vacancy"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01

criminal anarchy, she entered a plea
OF not guilty when arraigned in the
police court.
The hearing of the Lusk committee
was completed this afternoon with tes-
timony from police and the committee's s
agents relative to documents seized
in Monday nights raid Of the Com
munists' headquarters. The name of
Buffalo public school teacher was
mentioned frequently, and it WAS tes-
tilted she had been in communication
with the Rand School of Social Science
in New York City. This teacher re-
fused to answer questions. en- the ad-
vice of her lawyer, but submitted a
signed statement to the effect that she
was not a member Of the Communist
party and had never practiced or
preached its doctrines. She said she
was opposed to anarchy Of all kinds.
Attorney General Charles D. Newton
had charge Of the examination Of the
witnesses to-day. Tomorrow the COM
mittee will hold hearing in Utica.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
100, 900 Reds in
Ne,U York, He Says
Lusk Investigator Asserts
Radicals Planned Re-
public: Z Face Charges

BUFFALO. Dec. Sir W. Finch,
chief Investigator of the Lusk commit
tee. testified to-day at the hearing of
the committee in this city that he be
lieved there were 100000 COMMUNISTS
in New York State last June. wheH the
radical movement in this country
reached its apex.
The Communist party" he added,
was organized to end capitalism and
to bring about and put in operation a
workers industrial republic of which
Trotzky was to be the head
Acting under the direction of the
Lusk committee, officers to-day ar
rested Anna Renstein, wife of Boris
Reinstein, who at one time was re-
ported to be a member of the Lenne-
Trotzky Cabinet, in charge of foreign
propaganda. After being questioned
by District Attorney Moore, Mrs. Rein
stein was taken to the county jail.
With sixteen men, all charged with
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Slayers Granted Respite
Governor Delays Executions
Until Court of Appeals Acts

ALBANY, Dec. 81 - Three mon
now in the death house at Sing Sing
prison and sentenced to be executed
early in January were granted respites
until the week of February 8 bv
Governor Smith to- day The men are
James P. Cassidy, Charles Mclaughlin
and Joseph Usefof. al convicted of
the murder of a station agent in the
Bronx.
The Governor acted because the
Court of Appeals has not handed
down decision in the case of Joseph
Milano convicted with the others.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Father Duffy's Father Dies
Son to Celebrate Mass in Honor
of His Parent

The Rev Father Francis P Duffy,
former chaplain of the 165th Regiment
and now pastor of the Church OF Our
Saviour, 1S3d Street and Washington
Avenue, the Bronx, will celebrate
solemn high requiem mass Saturday
morning for his father, Patrick Duffy
Mr.. Duffy died yesterday Of heart dis
ease in his seventysixth year at his
home, 2065 Crotona Avenue. the Bronx.
The former chaplains father was
born in Ireland and cmigrated to Can
ada al the age of six years. When he
was twenty-five years old he came 10
the United States. He was a wool
spinner. He is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Mary Birdie. with whom he
lived. and Sister Mary, of the Little
Sisters Of the Poor. He also is sur
viyed by another son. Hugh Inter
mcnt will be in Calvary Cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Investigations in Europe,
He Says, Have Stripped
Its Propaganda of All
Semblance of Idealism
Drastic Policy Promised
Disturbers Declared Chiefly
Criminals, Mistaken Ideal
lists and Social Bigots

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Any move
ment, however cloaked or dissembled.
designed to undermine the government.
will be met with "unfinching, persistent,
aggressive warfare" Attorney General
Palmer announced tonight in stating
the policy Of the Department of JUS
tice for the forthcoming year in regard
to radicalism. The Attorney General
added that no quarter would be shown
Bolsheviki or others of their like whom
he described as chiefly criminals, mis-
taken idealists, social bigots and un-
fortunates suffering from various forms
of hyperesthesia.'
Mr.. Palmer disclosed that the gov
ernment had been engaged in tracing
down motives, methods and manner
isms of the element which had been
charged with the direct cause of rs
per cent of the unrest in this country
Representatives of the Department Of
Justice, working with secret agents of
the Allied powers. have gone into the
Russian Bolshevik territories to OBJ
tain definite information of the plans
of those responsible for introducing
to the world the dictatorship of the
Rre!e ~ariat.
RED" Movement Criminal
I'VE have found" Mr.. Palmer said,
that the Red movement does not
mean an attitude of protest against al
legged defects IN our present political
and economic organization of society.
1t does not represent the radicalism of
progress. 1t represents a specific doc
trine. namely. the Introduction of die
tatorships by force and violence 1t is
not a movement of ertyloving per-
sons, but distinctly 1t criminal and
dishonest scheme.
"Lenine himself it is proved, made
the statement that among every hum
dred Bolshevists there is one real Boil
shevist, thirty-nine criminals and sixty
fools and IN Russia's experiment we
find the dictatorship OF the prole-
tariat,' after two years of wasteful con-
sumption OF accumulated socks. sti4
are promising the peasants peace, bread
and land The dictatorship OF the pro-
letariat has degenerated into a military
dictatorship of subsidized and cor
rupt portion of the proletarat."
Stud of Menace Advocated
Acquaintance with the doctrines of
the Reds" Mr.. Palmer said was the
most forcible method of ending their
activities in this country. He urged the
American people, in the interests Of
law and order, peace and happiness and
the maintenance of national solidarity,
to study the full meaning OF the Red
idea and to counteract it through the
teaching of Americanlsm in the press
the church, the school and labor organ
lzatlCnS.