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New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
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AMERICAN PORTS

BALTIMORE, Feb. 15--Arrived: strs
Hadnot TsmgiG,o; consoTSs Go1aa.ton b ss''.d Gas
Tan tampa; i.a''sH, Liberator. Rotterdam; Bacoi.
WYukssha vs db n'o1 o1snas
for Baltimore. 18th: schr Marion J Smith
lBr). Paysandu; 10Th, strs Middesex.
nio Hus'ya d fn6 h1hs nn 4th
strs San Valecio (Br). Tuxpam; San Jose.
Port Limon; 18th. II M Tlagler Tuxpam !:
Gufoi Port Alro Artmur; sieors Seonspeeo' Fort
BOSTON. Feb. 15-Arrived: strs Bo-
hemian (Br). liverpool via Halifax, N s;
folk; Guiiford, Norfolk Sailed strs
Lake Marion. Charleston; Lake Greenwood,
N9FfPK cHMKLEsToN ESveoSe s. crlGs c FEB 1s-Arrived
Str. Apache. Jacksonville. Sailed: Str
Lenane; Jacksonyille ~
wlshka, Havana; barge Daytona. New
York dn tow.
:. pH1LA.DELPHIA. P Fob 15:-Arrivea:
Maid. Port Arthur; Diablo. New York
ceNfusroy HSw York a
Marta; Haverford (Br). Liverpool Via Halt
down from Philadelphia: strs Lake WASH
burn Boston: Sunoil. Tampico; ,Kewanee,
HaXana; a,ns1 ;,, ,Watausa; at Hayana
Feb. l6-Passed up. for Philadelphia: str
from Philadelphia: strs Lake Annette.
PORT ARTHUR. Tex, Feb 15--Arrived:
Str RIon (Br) Norfolk Sailed Strs
virginia, Norfolk; Ligonicr. Savannah
PORT EADS, Feb 15--Arrived: Strs
Cubadist. Cienfuegos; Hespcros (Nor)
Iquique. Chile. via Panama Canal; In
spector. Norfolk; Johan Ludvic Mowinckel
lNor), Progreso; Tegucigalpa (Hond)
Geiba. Sailed: strs Belvernon (Norj,
progreso; coppename.. Port Barrios via
Tela; Cranenent. Havana; Excelsior
Havana; Fuelol. Tampico schr r r
Govlr, Cadiz. Spain.
PORT TAMPA, Fla, Feb 15-Sailed: Str
Miami, Havana via Key West: Calicorock,
Baltimore; .Lucelum (Br). Tampico.
~ PORTLAND. Me, Feb 15-Arrived: Strs
Cragrownie Norfolk; Lake Ennis, Nor
folk schrs Horace e Munroe. Norfolk; Ella
Pierce. Thurlow, Norfolk Outside: strs
Dominion. Liverpool; Cornishman, Avon
mouth. Sailed: Strs Lake Gaspar Nor
folk; Lake Fluvianna, Norfolk; Lake Cone
sus Norfolk.
SAND KEY. Feb. 15-Passed west 18th:
Strs Knoxville; 18th, Hunt j. A Bost-
wick. Montello GtaD. Gulf Light, Caprera
QtaD. Sharon, Harold Walker
SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb 15-Strs West
mead. Huelva; Merrimack, Jacksonville
land sailed for Philadelphia). Sailed: Strs
Hampden. New York; PeQuot, Norfolk;
Gloucester. Jaclsonville
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Oscar Hits
Shoal; Floated-
4 Hours Later
Stiff Wind and Low Tide
Cause Former Peace Ship
to Ground at the Entrance
of Ambrose Channel
Alleged ''Red'' Is Held
Deported From Norway as
Agitator, His Remarks
Cause Detention Here

The Scandinavian American liner
Oscar II, from Copenhagen and Chris
tlania, went aground at the entrance
OF the Ambrose Channel at $3.50 a. m,
yesterday. but was floated by the ris-
ing tide at 1:45 p, m. and proceeded
to her pier in Hoboken, landing her
passengers ut 4:30 p. m.
arrangement Of her steering gear,
SUN westerly wind and an unusually
10" tide were responsible for putting
her on the shoal of the east bank Of
the channel
The vessel came over in command of
Captain AXel Schmidt, who has been
her chief officer for twelve years. He
IS Dane, forty-two years old, and
succeeded Captain Hempei, the We ssel's
former master, who died recently in
copenhagen after undergoing a major
operation.
The new master Of the Oscar II
went TO- sea at the age of fourteen and
gained much Of his experience in Brit
lsh sailing ships. He was second in
command When Henry Ford chartered
the Oscar II for his peace mission to
Europe. In the skipper's room hangs a
framed portrait of Mr.. Ford, a gift to
the late Captain Hempel
IL guess that picture Of Mr.. Ford
Will hang in the masters room as long
as the ship is afloat," said Captain
Schmidt. at really belongs to the
heirs of Captain Hempel, but as they
have left 1t aboard we shall keep it
as a remembrance of the historic trip
of the Oscar II as Mr.. Ford's peace
ship.
Although am Danish subject I
feel I am partly an American, as
have a brother who is an American
citizen and a veteran Of the Spanish
American War and the great World
War just ended. I have lost track of
him and have been trying to find him.
The War Department in Washington
informs me my brother, Johaan Efnor
Schmidt, who was color sergeant with
the 1st United States Cavalry in the
Philippines, had enlisted for the big
war at Fort Sam Houston, in Texas"
Nathan Chabrau, a steerage pas
senger who was deported from Nor
way on q charge Of being a Bolshevist
agitator, was detained aboard the Oscar
IL last night awaiting an investigation
by the Department of Justice. He said
he was an American citizen and was
a Russian correspondent for Socialist
papers in America. Throughout the
trip across the Atlantic he is said to
have given vent to his socialistc lean
ings. That was in measure respon-
sible for his detention.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Milk Commission
Plan Is Declared
Unfair by Walters
Majority Leader Also Con-
tends Measure Would
Increase Cost and Saws
Its Legality Is Doubtful

ALBANY, Feb. Ex-senator J. Henry
Walters, majority leader, declared to.
night that the bill introduced by Sena-
tor George F. Thompson and Assembly
man Maurice Block to appoint fair
price milk commission was unsound
of doubtful legality. 1t would not be
passed, he said
"Any measure that decreases produc-
tion always increases cost" said Sena-
tor Walters, (which is precisely what
this proposal would accomplish, for
instead of increasing the milch herds
in the state it would reduce the mum
Der. If three commissioners should
have absolute authority over every
quart of milk in the state it would
place the industry in the grip of men
with power to dictate the price the
dairyman is to receive and to order
whether the milk shall be manu-
factured into butter, cheese or any
other dairy product. In fact, it puts
the business arbitrarily into the hands
Of the commission, and the drastic
provisions of the bill almost suggest
confscation."
Senator Walters held also that as
milk was an article of interstate COM
merce it would be doubtful if the state
would have authority to fix the price
or regulate the transportation of the
large quantities of milk that come from
other states to New York.
ut would be an aggravated outrage
against farming and dairy interests" /"
he said, "to regulate New York state
products to the advantage of other
states. There is no doubt that the
price may be somewhat reduced, but
it is distinctly a problem of distribu
ton. Republican upstate representa-
tives will do their utmost to prevent
the advancement of the Thompson
Bloch bill. We will lend all possible
ana and assistance to cut the cost of
distribution, but it will not be done to
the detriment of the dairyman and the
encouragement of dairy production"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
indianapolis Schools Bar
Anti-Tobacco Pledges
Board Tells League Course of
Study is Best Adapted to
Obtain Results Desired

Taking the stand that inhibition is
not education, the Indianapolis board
Of school commissioners approved q
recommendation of E. u. Graft, super
intendent of schools, that propaganda
from the No Tobacco League or other
similar organizations should not be
admitted in the schools. The school
authorities say that the course of
study given in the schools in physi-
ology and hygiene is teaching positive
action in maintaining health and that
in this manner the best results are are
obtained in the fight against tobacco
and stimulants.
With the authority of the school
board, Mr.. Graft sent letter to Mrs.
). +. Poe, secretary Of the No Tobacco
League, IN answer to request that
the league be permitted to work in the
schools.
The letter follows:
Il have received your letter of
February 3 and copies of the pledge
cards. The matter was taken up by
the board last evening. After full dis
cussion of the matter the board de-
clded that the present course of study
IN physiology and hygiene contains a
very adequate treatment of the subject
OF alcohol and narcotics and that the
provisions of the law in this respect
are beng more than complied with.
1T was also the opinion Of the board
and the undersigned that the present
outline of course of study is better
adapted to accomplish the results de-
sired than the plan Of taking pledges.
FOR the same reason the board does
not deem it advisable to authorize the
circulation Of pledge cards in the
public schools"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Admiral Sigsbee
ReteDs Story of
Maine Explosion
Commander of BattlesFip at
Time of Its Destruction
Principal Speaker at An.
nual Memorial Services

On the night Of February Is, 1893, a
"big story" was flashed over the wires
the story Of the destruction Of the
battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.
Since then this story has been told
and retold and printed and reprinted.
But yesterday afternoon, at the 18th
Regiment Armory, it was told again,
this time by the man who was in com
rand of the ship when the explosion
occurred
Charles D. Sigsbee. He described the
historic event as if it had happened
last week. He was one of the princ1-
pal speakers at the annual Maine
memorial exercises of the Manhattan,
Bronx and Richmond posts of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars of the United
States.
A sDrinkling of Civil War veterans
mingled with men who took part in the
war with Spain and the World War.
The speakers took seats on platform
room and the crowd Of visitors was
seated in front Of the platform. Music
wuas furnished by the band of the U.
S. S. Recruit.
Similar exercises were held yester-
day by all the Brooklyn and Long ISL
and posts Of the Veterans of FOREIGN
Vars. At 9:40 o'clock last night. the
exact moment the Maine was blown up.
all members Of the organization stood
at attention and repeated the words
"Remember the Maine" the slogan OF
America IN the war with Spain.
+. H. LaGuardla, President of the
Board of Aldermen, declared such oc-
caslons as Maine memorial services
were instrumental in spreading the
real spirit of America throughout the
land. He said the war with Spain re-
suited in the recognition of the United
States as a world power, and that the
World War placed her at the front of
all nations.
Rabbi Louis I. Newman declared the
Spanish American War served to unite
the people Of the United States in ,
common purpose and wiped out sec
tional feeling.
Other speakers were Colonel Henry r
Fairbanks, Albert j. Rabing, past com
mander Of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars; Captain Walter I. joyce. ad;n-
tant general of the veterans: James
Pershing, brother of General Pershinr
and Monsignor John P. Chadwick. chan'
lam OF the Maine at the time she was
destroyed '''o was
Following the exercises at the ar
Im1oriy' wreath was placed on the
MAINE monument at the Columbus Cir
cie entrance to Central Park by Albert
kau, OF Dyper Post, 81, one of the snr-
vlvols Of the ship,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
h. S. Tells Him He
Was Killed Twice.
But Soldier Doubts
Corporal Mcmahon Even
Disputes Official Photo
graph of His Grave in
France, Offered as Proof

Is Corporal William A. Mcmahon
Company H, 26th Infantry, 1st Division
dead or alive?
The corporal, who lives at 377 Bleeck-
er Street, swears that he Is alive and is
willing to submit to any scientific
test to prove it. The War DEPARTING MT
insists that he is dead and refuses to
take no for an answer. The corporal.
according to the government, is not
only dead, but is dead twice, having
oeen Killed on two separate occasions.
According to official notices sent to his
mother, Mrs. Catherine Mcmahon, the
corporal was killed at Scissors on July
Il, 1918, and, in order to make thor
ough job Of it, they killed him again
in the Argonne drive on October +
Mcmahon returned to this country as
a casual on April 5, 1919, and passed
the time since in trying to convince the
government that he isn't dead, or even
III. The War Department still contends
that he has passed over the great
divide and in order to cinch the areu-
ment and end controversy with a man
who was officially if not physically
gone to his long rest they sent him an
excellent photograph of his own grave
IN a military cemetery at Essey-et-
Malserais. The photograph arrived at
the corporals home on February 12
last.
AS he is disinclinend to be regarded
as dead, even officially, Mcmahon re-
Gently wrote to Colonel Pierce. in
charge of the War Risk Insurance. nt At
Washington, and explained in detail
exactly how alive he actually is. His
only reply WAS another official notice
OF his heroic, but untimely end in the
Argonne Forest on October 7.
The corporal has been WORKING m
his case for the last few days and he-
lieves now that he has found the soln.
ton to the mystery, although he admits
he has small hope of convincing the
government 'Ae
II think it must be case Of m;s
taken Identify" Mcmahon said tn
reporter for The Tribune last ni9ht
I'm Company G of our regiment there
was a Private William NJ. McMahon
who was killed in the St. Mihiel dr;va
on September 13. His parents live ~
Corona, L. l., and they never received
any official notice of his death The
only report they ever got Of him was as
that he had been wounded. u,as
wounded at Scissors and in the A.
gonne fight, but in both instances T
recovered and was able to reioin NV
regiment" o'" my
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Security League
Offers New Plan of
Americanization
Asks Judges of Naturaliza-
tion Courts to Appoint
Committees to Investigate
Applicants for Citizenship

Examining and training applicants
for United States citizenship is part of
broad Americanization plan an
nounced yesterday by the National &c.
curity League. The plan, which has
for its aim the reaching and guiding of
the foreigner who sceks citizenship
has the backing and cooperation Of
many Of the leading jurists of the
country.
The leagues ideas are to be achieved
through personal contact developed
through committees of citizens in all
parts Of the United States. These com
mlttees. appointed by the judges of
naturallzation courts, will make it their
business to get into direct contact with
all applicants for citizenship. The
plan will be put into active operation
by committee composed Of S. STAN
wood Menken, ex-President Taft, Alton
3. Parker, ex-senator Sutherland, Will
lam d. Guthrie, Judge Peter w. Mel
drim, Guy Murchie, George Wharton
Pepper, Walter G.. Smith and Moreficld
Storey.
In letter sent to all the judges of
naturalization courts the committee
points out that careful investigation of
applicants for citizenship has been over
looked in the past. and suggests that if
the courts having charge of naturaliza-
tion would appoint committees of citi
zens who would make inquiry about
and personally interview each prospcc-
tive citizen and notify the judges in
cases where objections were warranted
great and permanent good could be
done and the franchise protected to a
considerable degree
The development of knowledge IN the
foreigner of our language, customs,
ideals and government are among the
principal aims of the league, according
to S. Stanwood Menken.
"The league has undertaken to safe
guard the admission Of the fore gner to
the right Of the ballot" said Mr..
Menken. "The Federal and state gov
ernments have been trying 70 do this
work in the past, but with great diff
Guilty and with ridiculously inade1uate
forces. No man is admitted to labor
union or club until a committee on ad-
missions has looked into his creden-
tials, and l believe the same rules
should apply to citizenship.
"One of our purposes is to make
naturalization easier for the fit and to
make sure that the unfit are not nat
ura'ized. 1t is also hoped to eliminate
much Of the laws delays incident to
naturalization.
"To-day, when an applicant for iinal
papers comes up for examination, the
judge will have before him a report of
the government, insufficient and made
quate, and statement Of two persons,
both Of whom he may not know The
applicant is crowded into room with
hundreds Of other persons, and as
rule the situation Is a difficult one for
the judge to cope with. 1t is believed
that if the judge had the assistance of
people he knew in passing on the
qualifications of the applicant he would
be greatly aided in his work"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Wilson Will Reply
To Senate Hint of
German Ship Deal
Will Answer Question as to
What Agreement, if, Any,
He Made With England to
Sell Vessels Seized Here

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Intimation
was given in official quarters tonight
that President Wilson early this week
would make reply to the resolution
offered by Senator Brandegee and
adopted by the Senate late yesterday
asking what agreement, if any, he had
made with British authorities regard
ing disposition Of the former German
ships taken over by the government
during the war.
Bids for the purchase of the thirty
former German passenger liners will
be received by the Shipping Board at
an auction to be conducted tomorrow
simultaneous with submission in the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
by the board of its answer to the
courts order to show cause why q
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16


temporary injunction against
Of the vessels should not be i..,,..s .ssas
Chairman Payne Of the bosrd bsea
night adhered to his plan to W.. %.
the highest bids obtainable fos esiys y
vessels subject to the approval w =, q. ne
board and the Senate Commerce y en- sas
mi..ee I ~ Deiore consummation Of am. ~.
is required, in which case ono =" &c court
commissioning of the board will u The
dust the auction, the chairman ~, .. con.
that he will offer the vessels b;.a'sc! ",asec
at 10 o'clock tomorrow mornina 'hsef
Judge O. B. James, Assistant A..
ney General will appear for tho 1ssor.
in the injunction proceedings ins,;.od ;.oard
by w1lliam p Randolph Hearst, and has.a cha;saa
present the same facts that war. you'd
to the Senate Commerce Coz',ms;,.s.sn gwen
Friday. 'aitsee
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Sound Proof Room
Sought by Reformatorx

The employment Of psychiatrist To
examine irrational prisoners and the
estaoilshment of sound proof room
IN which to confine them when thew oat
TOO uproarious are two Of the recon
mendations made in the annual renor+
OF the State Reformatory for Woman
at Bedford, made public yesterday. This
report was prepared before charges of
misuse Of power advanced aeainst
officials Of the institution led Goytrnor
smith to appoint a commission to in
vestigate the reformatory adminiatra-
Dr. Pearce Bailey, an expert ON
mental diseases, who is a membe, ~
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
News Catherers at Feast
Nycna Society Gives First An.
nual Dinner to Sixty Members

The Nycna Society, composed of the
employees of the New York City News
association, which attends to the gath
erlng of routine news for the New York
dallles, gave its first annual dinner
Saturday night in the Hawaiian room
at Kelsenweber's. Former members of
lne staH TOOK the places of district and
office men SO that all might attend The
affair. '''N
Performers from the Columbia The
ater and from Jean Bedini's revue.
twinkle Toes" furnished entertain
ment. There we're boxing bouts bv
members of the Pastime Athletic Club.
The sixty members of the society
were each given an insurance policy.
Letters extending good wishes were re-
ceived from city editors of New York
newspapers and from Governor Smith,
bishop Burch and Secretary Of State
Hugo.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Panic Follows Explosion
Conduit Cover Hurled Into Air,
Car Plunged Into Darknesa

AN explosion which hurled an cleo
;rlc conduit cover into the air, knock
ing ing 'he trolley pole of a St. Johns
ctace ct car from the wire. at Livingston
last night, threw into manic ~ ~
1orty passengers. alarmed at the sud-
den darkness that ensued. Some of them
were trampled upon. but none was
The explosion smashed about f,ftv
Panes of glass in nearby buildinrs
Seven large windows in the Courthousa
were broken and twenty eight in an
apartment house at 1l8 Livingston
Street. Ignition of pocketed sewer eas
o;y spark is believed to have caused
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Labor Conference Takes
Recess Until March /
Drafting Committee to Have
Recommendations iE Final
Form at That Time

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Recest
until March l was taken to-day by the
present Industrial Conference TO ALLOW
. drafting committee to..put into fina
form the conferences recommendation;
Tor harmonizing relations between
capital and labor.
In dealing with public utilities the
conference has eliminated railroads
inasmuch as Congress now is consider
ing the entire railroad problem. with
indications that the question of strikes
would be acted upon by legislation
1t was said to be not likely that the
conference would recommend any lepal
prohibition of strikes In local public
utilities.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
100000 Paid for Damav.
Enemy Guns Did in b..

PARIS. Feb. IS. - Forty n,;l,; y; y; ~
francs (s8,o0o,0Oo) has been ad'on dmnhon
as compensation for damage doan dancsd
this city by German airplane eJns ho.il n
and shells from the enemy's lono ,v'nos r.
guns. Injury to property as rse auge
Of the explosions of munition nista Isul'
at Rue Tolbiac and Corneuvs a1sp p'anIs
figured in with the sum advanced Iss .1
put SIX OF the houses damaged by bonn. M.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Bullet From Own Rifle Kills
Preston kcnyon. n, Y. LAWYER

WASHINGTON, Conn, Feb. 15.-
Preston. Kenyon, New York lawyer
about sixty years old, was killed here
yesterday afternoon by bullet from
his own rifle. Medical Examiner
Stevens expressed the opinion that
death was accidental.
MT. Kenyon came here Thursday,
staying at the Logan homestead. Fri
day and Saturday he hunted for fox.
Last night Frederick Powell, who has
acted as caretaker of the homestead
stopped at the house and found it
empty. Powell searched through the
snow and found Mr.. Kenyon's body a
mile away with the rifle near by.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Suffrage to Fore in Japan
Bill Would Enfranchise All Self
Supporting S1hiecfs

TOXIC, Jan. 1s.SThe universal suf-
frage bill Is likely to be the subject of
an intense discussion in the coming
session OF the Imperial Diet.
..,1, Inc henseikai. or opposition party,
wiz introduce the bill, based on the
prlnelpie OF giving franchise to ali self
supporting Japanese subjects Of or
about the age of twenty-five years.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16

the managing board Of the reforma-
tory, urges the construction of a sound
proof room for "nervously disturbed
cases."
Other improvements asked for are a
modern laundry to cost $4,000; addi-
tional water supply, $4,000: fire es.
capes for four cottages, 81 900: a SEN
arate nursery building, $4,000; a ioint
chapel and assembly room, $4,000. and
a coal pocket and switch, $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
Hail Bombards Atlantic C;,r

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb. ia
sudden burst of hail in the midst of q
severe thunder storm here TO-DAY
smashed windows, skylights and green
houses. The storm lasted half an hour.
1he damage was not ssrious.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-16
FOREIGN PORTS
Departures for New York

Hong Kong-S S Glenshane.
Marseilles-S s Jules Henry.
Bergen--S Ranenfjord.
Rio de Janeiro-S S Tennyson
Liverpoo-S s Triumph
Glasgow-S S West Celeron
Calcutta--S S Abron.
Buenos Ayres--S Oshkosh.
Halifax-S S Golden Cate
HaVana-S Lake Fariston
Neuritas-S S Lake Duncan.
Caimanera-S S Bartholomew
Arrivals From New York
Cape Towns S Eten.
Bombay-S S City of Hankow
Port Said-S Langton Hall.
Sabang-S S Waaldyk
Talcahuano--S S Tulsa
Algiers-S S Allaguash
Santos-S S Glenshel.
Soutnampton--S : Defiance
London-S s Minnesota
HalifaX--S S kosalind
st. Thomas--S s PARMA
Port au Princes General George w
Goethals.
San Juan--S S Ponce.
Galveston-S j. E. O'Neil
TRANS-PACIFIC Malls
The connecting mails close at the General
.0Stoffice and City Hall postoffice sta
ton, New York, at 6 y. M, as follows;
Hawaii, China, Siam. Cochin China and
Netherlands East Indies. via San Fran
cisco. steamship Marking. February 1G
Japan. Corca and Siberia. via Seattle
steamship Arabia Maru, Februarv iS
Hawaii, Fiji Islands, New Zealand and
specially addressed mail for Australia. Via
Vancouver and Victoria, b. c.. steamshin
Makura, February 49,
Hawaii. via San Francisco. steamsbin
Matsonia, February 20.