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New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Mrs. Stokes Wins
New Trial; l0-Year
Verdict Reversed
u. s. Circuit Court of APP
peals HoldsJudge's Charge
to the Jury Was Predju-
dicial to the Defendant
spscio, ps.potcA TO Tho Tribune

Special DtspGtch to The Tribune
ST. LOUIS, March 9-The United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals in an
opinion handed down here to-day, re-
versed the verdict by which Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes, wealthy New York Soc
ialist, was convicted in Kansas City in
June, 1918, Of violating the espionage
act, and was sentenced tp ten years
imprisonment. It remanded the case
for new trial.
The ground of the Appellate Courts
judgment was that the charge given to
the jury by District Judge A. s. Van
Valkenburgh was prejudicial to the de-
fendant.
The Appellate Court holds that "there
was substantial evidence at the trial
in support Of the verdict against the
defendant" 1t declares that Judge Van
Valkenburgh acted correctly in over
ruling motion to take the case from
the jury, and in overruling various
demurrers offered by the defense, but
that he went too far In his charge to
the jury.
The specific act for which Mrs. Stokes
was indicted was the writing Of a COM
munication to "The Kansas City Star"
explaining. utterancess in her public
speeches in and near Kansas City. In
this letter, Mrs. Stokes said:
"No government which Is for the
profteers can also be for the people.
l am for the people, while the govern
ment Is for the profiteers."
"The charge contains In several
places a rich and inspiring exhibition
Of patriotism, and of the nobility Of
our aims in the war, which could
hardly have failed to increase the
commendabla patriotic feeling which
was already afame in the heart of
every juryman," read the opinion of
the Court Ct Appeals.
when the charge is considered in
the light Of the time and circumstances
surrounding the trial, Of the many side
the charge Ito the jury), this court
is unable to, resist the conviction that
the partisan zeal Of the court below
(the District Court in Kansas City,
led ID to place too heavy burden on
the defendant in her endeavor to meet
the evidence which the government
produced against her; and that the
cause of the administration of justice
will be served by another trial of this
case"
When asked for a statement concern
ing the reversal of her conviction, Mrs.
Stokes at her home, SO Grove Street,
last night said:
"Therc really isn't very much to say,
for the reversal speaks for itself The
judges charge on which the reversal
ts found was certainly calculated to
prejudice the jury against me- Even
those most strongly opposed to me
thought the charge Improper.
"There is big change of sentiment
sweeping the country. Not only is the
war hysteria subsiding, but definite
reaction against it has set in This is
exemplified by the action of the court
to-day"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Craig Is Directed
To File an Answer
In Contempt Case
Judge Mayer Overrules De-
murrer to Charges Crow
ing Out of Letter to Nixon
I'm the Traction Litigation

Charles l. Craig, Comptroller Of the
City Of New York, lost another phase of
his legal Aght against the contempt Of
court charges In tho Federal Court
yesterday when Judge Julius NJ. Mayer
fled decision overru1ing the Comp
trolleTs demurrer to the information
against him. The charges have been
pending since last October. Mr.. Craig
is directed by the court to appear be-
fore Judge Mayer on next Monday
morning to enter formal plea to the
charge.
The contempt charges grew out Of
letter which Mr.. Craig wrote to, Lewis
NJ. Nixon, Public Service Commissioner,
on October last, in which he took ex-
ception to rulings made by Judge May
er on local traction litigation. Edmund
L. Mooney, counsel Tor Comptroller
Craig, demurred to the information on
twenty-eight grounds.
In his opinion Judge Mayer gave ex
tracts Of the Craig letter to illustrate
the difference between free and legally
and the statements charged to be con-
temptuous on the other" An excerpt
from the letter referring to the refusal
of the court to appoint a receiver ac-
ceptable to the Board of Estimate said:
GAS you must be sure, it Is a very
common thing in large receiverships to
appoint additional receivers, particular
ly where there are varied and conflicting
interests. / never have been able to
understand why in a matter of great
public concern such as this Judge
Mayer set himself against it.'
After quoting that part of the Craig
comm munication upon which the inform
alton charging contempt is based,
Judge Mayer said: "Expressed in sim
pie language, what the information
charges is that the part Of the letter
cited was knowingly false, because the
court never denied access to original
sources of information, but had ordered
and directed the contrary course"
Read with the entire context" Judge
Mayors decision continued, "there is
no escape from the conclusion that the
letter in this respect charged q court
of justice with adopting policy which
denied to public officials access to orig
3nal sources Of information to which
such public officials were entitled. On
demurrer, the court can look only to
the face Of the writing and is not en-
lightened as to what was in the mind
of the defendant as distinguished from
what was expressed by him in writing"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Gov. Smith Makes New
Attack ON w. r. Hearst
Says He Enjoys the One Distinc.
ton Publisher Can Confer on
ANY Man. His Hatred
From q Staff Correspondent

ALBANY, March Ex-Governor Smith
made another attack on William
Randolph Hearst and his newspapers
to-day. This was done in a signed
statement issued at the executive cham
ber, which read in part:
"The evening edition of the Mud
Gutter Gazette Of March 8, owned and
edited by William Randolph Hearst,
said: .Ananias was not without his
friends and supporters and Baron Mum
chausen was able to find publisher
for his mendacities.' Both of these dis
tinguished liars, if they wero alive to-
day, would find their greatest medium
in the columns of Hearst's newspapers.
"In Hearst's desire to destroy the
Governor, because he would not bow
went little too far and they were dis
covered in a lie that brought forth
from Alfred Mccain, a writer for The
New York Globe challenge to Hearst
himself to meet him any place in pub
lie debate in order that Mccain may
establish that Hearst's newspapers will
fully, deliberately and maliciously led.
They distorted the evidence taken be-
fore the Battle committee and at
tempted to make It appear that Gov
ernor Smith vetoed bill that was
really vetoed by Governor Whitman.
''It is needless for me to say that the
white -livered editor fefused to meet
McCann, as he refused to meet me.
His lying newspapers fool nobody.
They are losing in prestige and influ-
cnce every day. He has been forced
to the expediency Of employing the
columns Of the decent newspapers in
New York to advertise his filthy sheets.
II stand with the long line Of dis
days of Grover Cleveland, that have en-
joyed the ono distinction Hearst can
confer upon any man--that Is his
hatred"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Four Hurt as 8OO-Pound
Missile Drops to Street
Flagpole Base Falls From Build
Ing Into Throngs in
Thnr0urhfare

A cast iron daEpole base Weighing
about 800 pounds dropped from the
roof Of the four-story building ON the
southeast corner Of Fulton and Nassau
Streets yesterday afternoon into the
hurrying thousands in tho street below.
The Volunteer Hospital ambulance =
few minutes later picked up Lefty
Conklin, Of 1929 Bergen Street, Brook
lynt Catherine L. Walsh, Of 401 Halsey
Street, Brooklyn. and Robert Narder-
man, Of 207 Richmond Street, Glendale,
Long Island. Harry Schnsiweis, Of
2940 West Twenty-ninth Street, Coney
Island, was treated on the spot 3or cuts
and bruises and went home. The
others were suffering from more severe
injuries, but none was dangerously
hurt.
The missile was detected by q fence
built around the ground foor Of the
building, which IL being reconstructed.
There was almost q panic In the neigh
borhood, but police reserves under Ser
geant Mccarthy were hurried from tho
Oak Street station and order was quick
ly restored.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Ernest Fritz Acquitted
OF Murder of Mrs. Coyne
Jury Reaches Agreement After
312 Hours; Wife Stands by
Freed Man

Ernest Fritz was found not guilty of
the murder Of Mrs. Florence Coyne by
q jury before Supreme Court Justice
Vernon NJ. Davis In the Bronx yester-
DAY. The jury deliberated three hours
and thirty minutes.
Fritz's wife, who sat in the cotrt-
room, throughout the trial and heard
her husband 60 into detail concerning
the Intimate relations he had had with
Mrs. Coyne, eliminating in what he
claimed was her accidental death in
his taxicab March 23 Of last year, said
at the conclusion Of the trial:
II am going to help Ernest reastab-
llsh his auto repair shop in Tuckahos
We are going to work side by side the
rest Of our lives. This has been a les
son for Ernest and know he will profit
by it."
Fritz admitted on the stand that he
had caused Mrs. Coyne's death. but
claimed he had had no intention of
killing her. District Attorney Martin
contended the woman had been the
victim of ripper" Fritz was de-
Tended by William ]. Fxl1on.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Allies to Consult Wilson

PARIS, March 9.-Premier Millerand
has instructed Jules J. Jusserand,
French Ambassador in Washington, and
England and Italy no doubt have imi-
tated him, to communicate to President
Wilson general decisions req ched rela-
tive to Turkey by the Supreme Allied
Council and to ask his opinion, says
"Pertinax," political editor Of the
"Echo de Paris"
"This was done by way Of precaution
in view Of Mr. Wilson's veto Of the
Turkish settlement, which Washington
dispatches foreshadowed," he con-
tinues. Hope is still entertained,
however, that America will shoulder
her part Of the Oriental burden"
Premier Lloyd George proposed on
Friday, says "Pertinax," "grand the
atrical demonstration at Constanti-
nople-the occupation Of the War Min
1stry. the arrest of statesmen working
against the Allies and the substitution
OF moderate conciliatory Cabinet for
the existing semi-nationalist minis
try" He says the dismissal of Mus
tapha Kennel would also be part Of the
British Prem ier's program.
ROME, March 9.-Italy will associ-
ate herself with the Allies only in Dip
lomatic steps 10 be taken regarding
Constantinople. says the newspaper
"Popolo dItalia," which declares the
nations objects in Asia Minor are Of
purely economic character
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
No Opposition Expected

WASHINGTON, March e.-As Pres
ident Wilson has not yet resumed the
custom, interrupted by his illness, OF
personally receiving Ambassadors res
ident in Washington, the decisions
reached by the Supreme Council rcla-
tive to Turkey which have been sent
to Ambassador Jusseraad by the French
government, will De communicated to
him through Acting Secretary of State
Polk.
1t Is understood that the measures
decided upon are purely coercive, and
as the American position heretofore
has persistenNy been one of bencvo-
lent interest in the fate OF the Anne
nlan and other peoples oppressed by
the Turks, it is scarcely expected that
any opposition wi'l be offered hy the
State Department to the execution Of
the councils prcTTarD.
According to T. ration hero, the
representations 20 DC made to the
American government by the Entente
1nciuoe recommenda lions that Amer
lean naval strength in the Turkish
waters be largely augmented.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Allied Officers
Again Attacked
By Germans 8
French Mission Roughly
Treated in Bremen, Ber-
lin Hears; Foreign Min
lister Apologies to Paris
Police Rescue 3 Others
Prince Joachim Denies
Taking Part in Demon
stration at Hotel Adlon

BERLIN, March 0-Further attacks
on Allied army officers in Germany
were reported to-day coincidental with
the delivery to the French government
Of German apologies for the anti
Allied demonstration in the dining
room Of the Hotel Adlon In Berlin Sat
urday night, when Prince Joachim AL
brecht, cousin Of the formey Emperor,
led an assault on an official French
party because its members failed to
stand when the orchestra played
deutschland uber Allies"
According to report from Bremen,
high French officers on an official en-
rand at the German barracks were sur
rounded and roughly handled by q
crowd which collected when German
soldiers began singing deutschland
dber Allies" The police dispersed the
crowd and escorted the French officers
to their quarters. An investigation was
started Immediately.
Dispute Over Salute
"Die Vossische Zeitung" reports that
Monday two French and one Italian Of
ficers stopped man in field gray
uniform, supposing him to belong to
the German army. and questioned him
regarding his failure to salute them.
Words followed and resulted in blows,
the report said. A crowd assaulted and
injured the Allied officers, the news
paper adds, before they were rescued
by the police.
An official of the Berlin Foreign
Office called at the French Embassy
to-day to express the regrets Of For
eign Minister Mueller for the Hotel
Adlon incident. Later the Foreign
Minister visited M. de Marcilly, the
French Charge d'Affaires, and person.
ally expressed his regrets, which he
begged the charge to transmit to the
government Of France.
Prisoners Disclaim Responsibility
Prince Joachim Albrecht and Captain
Won Platen are still locked up in the
Moabit jail awaiting final action Of the
court respecting the legality Of their
arrest. Both disclaim responsibility
for the attack in the Hotel Adlon, but
the states attorney has confronted
them with damaging evidence given by
dining room employees and several
guests, whose corroborative testimony
apparently duplicates the prince and
the captain with those who began the
assault.
Count Matterinich, an Austrian, who
sat near the princes table, charged
that Prince Joachim not only shouted,
"Throw out the swine! Kill the dogs
is they refuse to go!" but declared that
Joachim threw crockery and glassware
at the Frenchmen, whereupon other
guests Joined in the attack on Captains
Klein and Roughevin.
A certain Prince Hoherlohe is
charged with removing one of his
boots and striking one Of the French
men with it.
General Nollet, head Of the French
mission, has forwarded q report to
Paris, in which Prince Joachim is pri-
marily blamed for the attack.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Baby Born or Liner
--------------------
Columbia Has Additional Pas.
senger or Arrival Hero

The Anchor liner Columbia, from
Glasgow and Moville. arrived here yes
terday with 9S6 passengers, ono mora
than she took aboard when leaving the
Irish coast. The newcomer was Dem
mis- OHanlon, an eight-pound baby,
born to Mrs. Mary O'Hanlon, of Green
wich, Conn, who with her three chill
dren had been on visit TO her mother
in Ireland.
The Cunarder Royal George sailed
yesterday for Southampton and Cher
bourg with $50 saloon passengers.
Among them were thirteen Red Cross
workers in charge Of Mrs. Hazel Kings
ley, of Seattle. Wash. who are on their
way to Paris. With the workers were
pine physicians, In charge Of DR.. Ches-
4er Clark.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Sale of Anlericaua Ended
Proceeds of Anderson Galleries
Offerings Reached 2a.22I

AT the Anderson Galleries yoster-
day afternoon the sale Of carly Amer
1cana was completed, the fetal proceed IS
reaching Sa.2sl.to. During tho evening
the Anderson Galleries also complctea
the sale OF prints and Autographs from
the estate Of tho late henry Q. Aarria
and other collectors, Tor which the
total was $S,364.25.
J. b. Stetson jr purchased for sl87. 80
set OF Martin Fernandez de Navaret,s
dated 1926 S7, and other gems OF the
early Americans went to NJ. Wolf, who
gave SlSb ior scarce copy Of two
George Washington poems in Dutch.
Max Williams bought the J. G. Chap
man print OF "New York From Bedlcw's
Island" for 1915.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Bombs Fail to Break
Susqslehanna Ice jam
INT Dropped by Array Ais7nan
Tears Huge Caver1s. bx1t
Gntge Still! Rolls
Special D,spc.eh % Tbs Ts7;l,..,

Special D,spcteh - .'hs Tribune
PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, March g.
Fifty or more aerial bombs, she kind
used by American srnaea against Ger
man strcngholds, were dropped by
army aviators on the ice Jams "A the
SusQuehanna River to-day. Thousands
Of tons Of ice was splir.ered. While
the frozen masses were partly broken
up, the big gorge still holds, but the
flood has somewhat rscedea.
Several bombs, each weighing 2Gr
pounds ard containing llo pounds Of,
TINT, were dropped by Llantenant .2ene
Stuiler, army aviator from the her
deem proving grounds. and eava ax-
P!os;on tore hoie from two to fo,,s
hundred feet ii diameter - tbs is,n.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10

force the Common Council to authorize
a fare increase from five to seven cents.
The company had promised higher.
wages to The men II the council allowed
the sfx-cent fare.
Following the postponement OF a de-
cision by the council whether to allow
cided to cooperate with the railway
company and punish the council and
the citizens which elected it by forcing
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10

them to walk. The council doesn't ma.
again until Friday night, when il 4
expected decision on the fare incrs..s
will be reached. Until then the 49,
will remain in the barns.
The 10000 residents here who vo,.
in factories at Johnson City, two milss
distant, and Endicott, nine miles frosss
here, either walked or rode TO wcrI %
to-day in the trucks modified by ths,.
employers.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
Carmen Strike to Win
Fare Raise for Company

Special Dispateh TO Tho TyttunS
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. March 9.---The
employees Of the Binghamron street
railway company struck to-day to sup
port the efforts Of their employers to
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
SOCIAL DEPARTMENT
ENTERTAINED AT CARDS

Members of the social department
of the Civic League passed delight
full evening last Saturday as the
guests of Mesdames Mason, Mowatt,
DeWane, Geo. Mitchell, Culver and
GIFTS and the Misses Katherine Meal
er and Keckler. The party was held
in the dining room of the Sherman.
1t had been announced to take place
at the Masonic hall, but, owing to
the stormy weather, it was thought
best to have it at the hotel.
The evening was delightfully."- spent
in playing whist. Mrs. Ole Erickson
won the head prize, Pyrex baking
dish, and Miss Venice Balbinot car
ried off the consolation prize, a box
of candy. Both winners cut for the
prizes. A delicious lunch, consisting
of sandwiches, cake and coffee, was
served at eleven o'clock, and the
guests went home declaring that the
party was one of the best they had
ever attended.
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22

Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Hanson left
Sunday morning for Minnesota to
remain ten days or more. They will
visit Mr.. Hanson's people at Star
buck, and Mr. Hanson will attend the
merchants short course given at the
University of Minnesota. This is an
annual feature of the "U" that af-
fords an excellent opportunity for
ambitious business men to acquaint
themselves with some of the finer
points of business economics and
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
LIKES THE OLD RELIABLE
PIONEER NEWSPAPER

Yesterday the editor received the
letter below from well-knowr
farmer tributary to Wolf Point:
my subscription for the Her
aid expires the 1st of February,
and I cannot pay for a renewal
at the present time but will be
able to in perhaps month or
so. | like your paper fine, and
if you will keep on sending it
after my term has expired it
would be appreciated, or if you
stop it, it will be all well and
good just the same"
We wrote this man just what we
have repeatedly said to many other
farmers: "Your paper will not be
cut off. To farmers unable to pay
now The Herald will be continued to
the limit allowed by the postal regu-
Iations. You staid with the old re-
liable pioneer sheet in former years
and it will stay with you now and
take a chance on 1920"
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
Methodist Episcopal Church
"The Peoples Churcn-Make II
Your Church

Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning worship IL o'clock
Epworth League 7 o'clock.
Evening service 8 p. m.
Remember our prayer meeting
services on Thursday evenings at
1880. These are well attended but
we want to make their circle of use
fulness as wide as possible. The pas
tor teaches the Sunday school lesson
for the following Sunday.
Next Wednesday afternoon the
Ladies Aid serve supper at the church
from $50 until all are served. Those
who have attended these suppers at
other times will not want to miss this
one. We invite you to come.
At the Sunday evening services the
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
JOINING THE FARM BUREAU

The first issue of the Roosevelt
County Farm Bureau Bulletin was
sent to every farmer and business
whether they were members or not,
and the same is being done with this
issue. This is for the purpose of let
ting the people of the county know
just what the Farm Bureau is and
what it stands for.
If you do not get the February
issue of the Farm Bureau Bulletin
it will be either because you are not
member, on have not paid up, or
you have been overlooked. If you
are a paid-up member and don't get
the Farm Bureau Bulletin, let the
County Agent know so the records
can be Strengthened out. If you were
member and are not paid up,
notice will be sent you so you can
re-join if you desire. If you are not
a member at all. send in dollar to
the County Agent and you will get
the Farm Bureau Bulletin.
NOTE.-The dollar you send in
for the Farm Bureau membership
does not go to pay the County Agent,
the county commissioners do not get
it, nor any other county officers. 1t
goes to pay for publishing and mail
ing the Farm Bureau Bulletin, for a
state and national membership in the
Farm Bureau organization, and for
other incidental expenses of the
County Farm Bureau not provided
for by other funds.-F. J. G.
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
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Morning service at IL a. m.
Evening service 7:45 p. m.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
The work on the kitchen for the
Ladies Aid is nearing completion.
The ladies of the aid are to be con-
graduated on raising the necessary
funds for this part of our work.
Communion service and reception
of members February Sth. All those
desiring to enter our membership
will be received. Baptismal service
will be held for those who desire it.
If your religion is bringing you
comfort, joy and peace, some one is
sure to want religion like yours.
But if you go fussing along thru
life, complaining, sour, dissatisfied,
getting mad at the drop of the hat,
people that know you won't want
such religion as you have, and you
can't blame them.
Take an honest look and see if
your religion is worth anything. If
it isn't, "chuck" it.
The kind of religion that will stand
the test of time and eternity is the
religion of Jesus.
You can get in touch with that
kind of religion every Sunday at the
Presbyterian church.
S. McIVOR.
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22

When a druggist finds that his
customers all speak well of certain
preparation, he forms a good opin-
ion of it and when in need of such
a medicine is almost certain to use
it himself and in his family. This
is why so many druggists use and
recommend Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. J. B. Jones, a well known
druggist of Cobrun, KY, says, 'I
have used Chamberlain Cough
Remedy in my family for the past
seven years, and have found it to
be the best cough medicine l have
ever known"
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
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For Sale.-A 1919 Model Ford car,
in good shape. Also good lots in
South Addition. Address Box 1856,
Wolf Point, Mont. 48-2tp.
Wanted To buy few cows, fresh
or to come fresh soon. Let me
know what you have and your
price. Fred Sugden, Wolf Point,
Mont. 47-tf.
The Wolf Point herald., 1920-01-22
SATURDAY
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
SPECIAL

Douglas Fairbanks in his first big
special entitled "KNICKERBOCKER
BUCKEROO."
NOTE-It took six months to
make this picture and it is SOME
PICTURE.
A world-beater Of a Sunshine Com
edy in addition.
Admission 15c and 35c, including
war tax.