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8 mV5 BROOKLYN- DAILY EAGLE, XEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. SUITE 2V T017. LOOSEN UP! GOVERNMENT COAL I POOLS ARE URGED TO AVERT SHORTAGE POISONED CANDY IS USED BY GERMANS: BURTON DECLARES wi iw-jiWiaiJK'iJTOa MONEY set apart for a special js purpose should bo kept In a separate bank account. Bring us your special de- posit account. Wo pay 2 Interest on balances over $500.

I LAWYERS TITLE TRUST COMPANY 1 160 Broadway, New York Fairchild Sons SUES TO ESTABLISH CLAIM AS PARTNER Dropped From Airplanes for Roumanian Children to Eat, Says Editor. QUEEN'S LITTLE BOY KILLED to The Eagle.) Atlanta, June 20 Pomeroy Burton, general manager of Lord Northcllffe's newspapers, made some In add re that he Rotary Convention here. He recommended a nation-wide campaign of Information to enlighten the people of jhoVnlted States on actual conditions nace for all So serious are some features of the war situation today," he said, "that unless tho people of the United 8tates awaken quickly to a full sense of their Individual responsibilities and Join heartily In the work of organizing tho country for war on an enormous scale, there Is almost certain ensue a long arlod of ghastly fighting and world- 'Is it too much to hope that the President's Flag Day speech Is the forerunner of a systematic and far-reaching campaign to make clear to all the people tho full meaning of the war? If, coupled with this urgently needed campaign, there could be accomplished a radical revision of the French and English censorship rules permitting a much freer flow of all kinds of war facts and war developments from tho fighting areas than is possible under existing conditions, the effect, I feel sure, would bo enormously beneficial to tho whole Allied cause. "For Instance, would It not be the height of wisdom to roverse the policy which, even yet, conceals from the world tho full truth about tho incredible atrocities in Belgium; atro- outdono In Rumania, and which up to now have not been publicly disclosed; adopting a new policy which would release to the wholo world tho story of appalling barbarities perpetrated by the Germans there many of them too horrlhlo to describe from a public platform, but all of them serving to show tho people hero what they might expect In tho event of a German Invasion Of tho United State; what sort of enemy, in fact, It Is that we are fighting; exposing the fiendish deviltry which caused thousands of poisoned candles, filled with typhus germs, to bo dropped from German airplanes for Rumanian children to pick up and eat; the tragic story of how the (Jueen's little boy, her youngest, picked up tno of these poison-laden sweets In her garden, ate It, i life a i for wet finally died In eeljig lit 'ell by llw VIM ewi returned to New York, and whe low; th mid ret through tne streets; me story 01 iui disease raging unchecked for lack of surgeons, pnysiciuns ana ineuicai supplies; the blood-curdling details of scores of submarine sinkings where non-combatant victims were ruthlessly shot down, or, when they escaped that horrible fate, were cast adrift without food or water. In small boats on the high seas, to die one after the other from madness and from thirst; and In a different category, the thrilling stories of combats In the air COME ACROSS FOR RED CROSS have never been equaled In the widest realms of fiction; the countless stories of noble heroism, of human sacrifice and suffering for a great cause, which show In their true Hge' the details of modern warfare, so persistently concealed, and so urgently needed to stir tho people's pulse and to make them feel and realize the truth and the full truth about this glgatitlo struggle between Might and Right on the one side nnd Might alone on the other.

Reverse this policy of secrecy, let the people at home have these and other true pictures of the war as it really Is. and I firmly believe the response would hp elertrlr.il the people of the Fnited States would rouse as one man to their task, fired with patriotic fervor born of a full and true understanding of what this war means to thein and their future, of tho Individual obligations It imposes upon those "Germanv. whose people nre organized down to the finest possible point, has been subsisting on semi-starvation rations for more than a year past. She has undergone great sacrifice and has faced grave danger from within on this There Informed persons who believe that food shortage may yet cause Germany's sudden and complote collapse. This' view Is met, however, by the fact that all such predictions have failed, that Germany's food situation today Is apparently no worse than It was three to six months ago, and that there Is the best of reasons for believing that Germany will he able to hold out until the next harvest Is available for distribution.

If she can hold out thl year. It Is the Judgment of men who are qualified to speak that she can continue to hold out In the same way "So far. unfortunately, this war program, has been largely a matter of official concern, fairly understood in Washington, but not at all understood bv tho people. I say this Is unfortunately the case, because In no country is it so necessary for the people to understand their Individual obligations as In this great Fnited States today. "Vow what are the underlying reasons for this curious Inability on the part of the American people to realize that this war to crush Autocracy, so that the worlds free Institutions may continue to exist, is Just as much America's war as it England's war or France war? Wh does the average ritiren of tho Fnited States today Utterly fail to grasp the vital fact that If Germany, byt some brilliant stroke thefRriVisb fleet or overthrow the massed forcea of the Allies on the western front, the result would be na uf all of the world's Federal Trade Commission Recommends Control of Production and Distribution.

CARS PLENTY-BADHANDLING Washington, June 20 Government pools of coal production and distribution and of rail and water transportation were recommended to Congress today by the Federal Trade Commission as the only means of avoiding a "The Commission believes," says the report, submitted after many months of Investigation ordered by Congress, "that the coal Industry Is paralyzing the Industries of the country, and that the coal Industry Itself Is paralyzed by the failure of transportation. There are enough coal cars In the country, but not enough are delivered to the mines, and these cars are not moved to the point of consumption with the greatest expedition, nor are they promptly discharged." In view of these conditions, the I'ummlsslon recommends: "First, that the production and distribution of coal and coke be conducted through a pool In the hands of a Government agency; that the producers of various grades of fuel be COME ACROSS FOR RED CROSS paid their full cost of production, plus a uniform profit per ton (with due allowance for quality of product and efficiency of service); and, "Second, that the transportation agencies of the United States, both rail and water, bo similarly pooled and operated on Government account, under tho direction of the President, and that all such means of transportation be operated as a unit the controlling corporations being paid a Just and fair compensation, which would cover normal net profit, upkeep and betterments." Chairman Harris Dissents. These recommendations are approved by Commissioners Davies, Col-ver and Fort. Chairman Harris dissents on the plan for a transportation pool, except as a last resort, and suggests instead, "that during the war the President be authorized to order rail and water transportation agencies to give preference to shipment of coal, coke and other commodities, In the order of their importance to the public welfare." An urgent necessity exists for Immediate legislation to correct conditions, says the report, because the tion of coal stocks at points distant from producing districts "is not now taking place, but it must be made during what remains of the summer, unless the country la to face, next win-tor, a most serious and an irreparable Present production of bituminous, or "soft" coal, Is 40 per cent, under the possible maximum, principally because of coal car shortage, the report declares. Consequently, the extra large production of anthracite coal this spring one-fourth greater than usual has been diverted to industrial markets ordinarily filled by bituminous coal and coke.

Anthracite mines have been given ample supply, the Commission observes, "by reason of the close corporate relation between rail transportation and anthracite production." Bituminous mines, however, are compelled, by the car shortage, to operate only part time, and wordc miners are going Into other Some Contributing Factors. Contributing factors in the disorganization of coal transportation are the high barge rates from New York and News to Boston, and the practice of lake ships to make trips to the Northwest in water ballast, lather than carry coal. Attention is called to the fact that Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Germany have found it necessary, of their coal industries in varying de- Comm i will continue Its BROOKLYN COURTS Th "maMB "li. "li" h'Cunlop4VRljoer LIvMJmoIS? Statu BanklLcvIn et at; SehaefertB. H.

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1" 118 Vont.f i Ban. 44 xwi St, Baa fmem PEACE JUSTICE TIED FORSYTHE-STRACHAN MATRIMONIAL KNOT U. S. Declared War on Germany Same Day, April 6, Good Friday. EAGLE "AD" IN ROMANCE (Special to The Eagle.) Falrhaven, Vt, June JO The records here show that on April 6, 1917, Timothy J.

Forsythe. whose age Is given as 25, was married to Miss Grace Charlotte Strachan, age 4 3. by Justice of the Peace Edward T. Honvllle. It was the first marriage of each party, tho record shows.

Mrs. Forsythe did not mention yes-terday In announcing her marriage that a Justice of the peace officiated at the ceremony, although She did state that the wedding waa decided upon suddenly. It waa interesting also that the ceremony took place on Good Friday, April 6. This was also the date of the declaration of war against Germany by the United States. New light on Miss Strachan's romance came today.

The following advertisement appeared In The Eagle last October: I up 1 Flat- ner one October evening he picked up The Eagle to scan through the "Boarding" columns. His eyes caught the line "beautiful rooms, excellent table." The young man liked the place, liked the surroundings, made arrangements for himself and his sister, who recently graduated from a convent In the South, and then met Miss Strachan. When a dance was given at the Hlltmore Hotel by the Allied Countries' Society, late In November, many Is of Mis-, stmeiwm who attended sythe. and this, many are saying, was the limning the oourtshiD In an Interview with the bride, Miss Stl.o h.ii, is trip from Alb ed me. woman Is in.

runn when It comes to the very simple formula of falling In love. "For over twenty years I have been Identified with the local publlo school svstem, and then suddenly I met Mr. Forsvthe last November. My life became a strangely new thing to me then. That Easter week in Albany was more llko a moving picture scenario than the kind of a romance 1 thought would come to me.

We tried to gel our license in New York State and the finally we decided to go to CAR RIDERS MOBBED; DIDNT SALUTE FLAG Motorman Dragged From Post and Beaten in Front of 47th Armory. flag on the Forty- eing 1 night front of the building at Marcy nven and Heyward street, was playi "The Star Spangled Banner," caus disturbance, during which the ngTy croi nd i the: termination not to honor the national anthem were severely beaten. The prompt interference of officers of the regiment prevented more serious con-It was 7:30 o'clock when the fla -lowly let down by Color Sergeant William Kirkman and while Sergeant Major John Tucker was In charge of the music, the car came along. Thera were crowds everywhere and all tho men had their bends bared while women also stood motionless. As the ear approached nnd kept.

the "Hey. don't von stop Unt far and take your bat The after making some unintelligible remark, kept the ear going. Aim st immediately row. I surround. the car and tho von beaten.

Tlu.se men In the car who had failed raise their hats were also given blows In the fact There was serious rumpus in prog-if ss when officers in the armory rati out and put a stop to it. Then the car leums a dozen har-t punches. There was no policeman i idout the stlgattng (TOaiOMOWj GERMANS FAIL IN INFANTRY ATTACK ON AISNE FRONT Heavy Artillery Fighting in the Champagne Is Reported From Paris. BRITISH MAKE GAINS Paris, June 20 Heavy artillery fighting Is In progress on the Alsne and Champagne fronts, says today's official statement. Early this morning the Germans carried on a severe bombardment of French positions near Lauffaux Mill and In the region of Mont Carnlliet.

A German infantry attack was dispersed. The statement 'The Germans last night strongly bombarded the French positions between the Aillette River and Laffaux Hill. Intermittent artillery actions occurred east of Chevreux wood and northwest of Rheims. In the Champagne the night was marked by heavy artillery duels. Attacks on tho French posts at Mont Tetu and in the region of Mont Carnillet were repulsed.

West of Mont Carnillet the bombardment was followed by a German attack, which dispersed under our fire. The German infantry was driven back to lis trenches. Patrol skirmishes occurred In Lorraine." London, June 20 British forces have made some gains on the Arras front, according to the official statement Issued last night. Four German field guns were taken east of Messlncs In the advance last Thursday. The text of the statement follows: "On the Arras battle front our troops gained ground slightly during the day south of the Cojeul River and also north of the Sonchez River, where we captured thirty-five prisoners.

In addition to the captures already reported four German field guns were taken by us east of Messlnus in the course of our recent advance in this area on Thursday night. "Valuable work was performed by our airplanes yesterday in spite of unsettled weather. Bombs dropped on an enemy dump caused an explosion Six German machines were brought down in air fighting and three of our machines failed to return." GERMANS AGAIN DEPORT BELGIANS Havre, June Information reaching the Belgian Government dally from occupied territory confirms the fact, officially announced by the Belgian Government, that the Germans have begun again to carry off by force Belgian civilians and compel them to perform work useful to the enemy. According to forms for classification of the inhabitants of Mons, prepared by the German authorities and In possession of the Belgian Government, Belgians have been divided Into five categories men from 1 8 to 40, from 16 to 17, and 41 to 60; women from 15 to 35 and from 36 to 60. In each category information must be furnished as to the identity of the person, his or her profession and place of employment.

An American having occupied an official position in Ghent, who was recently expelled from Belgium, informed the Belgian Government that the German authorities about April 15 demanded of communal administrations new lists of unemployed workmen, members of the middle and upper classes without occupation, and in addition persons in regular employment. These facts, taken together, justify, in the opinion of the Belgian authorities, the liveliest apprehensions as to the designs of the PERSHING AND JOFFRE CONFER ON U. S. AFFAIRS Paris. June 20 Major General Pershing, the American commander, had a long conference today with Marshal I off re in regard to American affairs.

General Pershing will visit an Army engineeering depot tomorrow, and later large airdrome and a school, at SAXONY RADICALS FOR WAR INDEMNITY Copenhagen (via London), June 20 A convention of the Radical party in Saxony was held In Dresden on Sunday. Herr Wiemer, a Reichstag Deputy, declared that while the party was opposed to boundless annexations, extensions of frontiers on both east and west were desired for the better protection of German soil against ln- Deputy Wlcmer said that the question of colonies must also be taken under consideration in peace negotiations, and that a war indemnity to over part of Germany's expenditure was highly desirable. Fur these reasons the Deputy said he condemned the Socialist propaganda for peace without annexations or indemnities. Deputy Wiemer's remarks were all in accord with pan-German doctrine, and the Merlin Tageblatt's report of the proceedings shows little to lerentiate the Radical convention from a meeting of the Pan-German League for a German peace, except the absence of abuse of Ghatyellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. The pror lings show how false the hopes are for the attainment of even a Scheldt maim peace if viewed in the light of the attitude of the most conciliatory and progressive wing of the non-Socialist members of the Reichstag.

In regard to internal reforms. Pop ing the istag represen lie indicated that the realization of other reforms was indefinitely postponed, although the constitutional committee will discuss franchise reform In the individual States. GERMANS AT LUGANO GREET CONSTANTINE Former Creek King Reaches Switzerland-May Proceed to Germany. Lugano, Switzerland (via Paris), June 20 Former King Constantino of Greece arrived here today. Officers and delegates of the Swiss government met him at the frontier and welcomed him in the name of Switzerland.

A large number of German personages waited for the King at the depot, Including Prince and Princess von Bue-low and Dr. von Muehlberg, German Minister to the Vatican. The Greek Minister to Berne was also present Constantine and his suite drove directly to the hotel where rooms had been reserved for them. A number of German diplomats arrived here in anticipation of the coming of the former king, who was delayed by the Illness of his wife. A long telegram from the German Em peror was handed rain.

The ts Of but it Is believed it is probable that he will shortly go to Germany to visit the Emperor. Geneva, June Id (via Paris, June 20) The semi-official Balkan News Agency says that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been impressed deeply by the abdication of King Constantine office the of Greece will enter the war against. Bulgaria. King Ferdinand, therefore, intends to go shortly to German great headquarters to demand assistance. Consternation has been caused In Sofia by Constantlne's abdication.

MAYO HEARING ENDS. The examination of Virginius St. Julian Mayo of New Haven, defendant in a breach of promise suit for $250,000, brought by Wilhelmina Meyer-Mayo, was completed yesterday In the office of the referee, William A. McQuad, 165 Broadway. The new testimony given out was that the Marlln Arms Company Is now sole owner of the Mayo Radiator Co.

and that Mr. Mayo acts as salesman for the concern. RtdftWMa property. 1M was at be held tonight at the home of ter. Mm.

George Hoffman. 217 i Interment will be In Green- Mundell Club Elects Officers the Mundell of director. Miss M. Louise Mundell, 152 Hancock street the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Carroll L.

Nichols. In place of Mrs. G. Reginald Crossley. resigned; first vice president Mrs.

G. Relchmann; second vice president, Mrs. John J. Gillies; secretary, Mrs. John G.

Turnbull; corresponding secretary, Miss Ruth S. Hoogland; Mrs. Annie Litchfield Fa-ber; librarian, Mrs. Gilbert C. Hal-sted Jr.

As heretofore, the musical events of the club for the coming season will he held In the Hotel Bossert. The fourth annual white, breakfast will be held on Saturday, April 27. $55,000,000 BONDS TO BE SOLD BY CITY Controller Prendergast will sell at his office In the Municipal Building on Thursday, July 12, at 2 p.m., 4Vs per cent, gold corporate stock, payable July 1, 1967, and $7,500,000 4Vz per cent gold corporate slock, maturing serially from July 1, 1918, to July 1, 1932, inclusive. The latter class will be sold only In series. Separate proposals must be made for each class.

A bidder offering to purchase all or any part of all the bonds to be sold may also separately offer to purchase all of said bonds, Including both classes, at a different single price. As the statute forbids the sale of city bonds below par, the Finance Department fixed the interest rate for the forthcoming sale at a figure to insure days will elapso before bids will be received, and the interim, it Is hoped, will give opportunity for the money market to show some realization in the demand for money and lower raThe fifty-year bonds are to be Issued to redeem notes sold to defray the cost of Income producing public docks, water construction, etc. The used to pay Interest and sinking fund charges on the bond issue. The fifteen-year serial bonds are to redeem notes Issued to pay for non-Income producing Improvements. WOUNDED PATROLMAN DIES.

Patrolman Samuel T. Cunningham, 35 years old, of 1707 Nelson avenue, West 152d' street station, died in St. Laurence uospnai jesteraay afternoon from a bullet wound In the abdomen inflicted on the early morning of May 25 at 206th street and Prescott inirsiiiii Stivers, thief. George J. leers, was arrested several dayi charged with the shooting.

LAST RIVER TUNNEL IS "HOLED THROUGH" At noon today the south tube of the. Whitehall-Montague street tunnel was "holed through" by a blast set oft by Chairman Oscar S. Straus. The event marks the completion, so far as excavation Is concerned, of the last of the four tubes of tho two new tunnels under the river. The event was witnessed bv all the members of the Public Service Com- gineeritig department and member of the Flinn-O'Rourko Company, the contractors.

After the blast Chairman Straus delivered a speech complimenting the workmen. Other speeches were made and then the party walked through to Clinton street, Brooklyn. Tho Whitehall-Montague street double tunnel will connect the Fourth avenue subway with the Broadway subway In Manhattan. Tho contract price was $5,974,809. and work was started In August, 1914.

Miss Turner Declares Brother Ignored Her After He Cot Married. Isabel Moran of New Orleans, sister Cora L. Turner of 187 Columbia Heights, who la suing her brother, Cha of 266 Sev- ty-seventh Supreme Court. Manhattan, for participation In profits of an alleged partnership agreement made In' 1901 for the division of profits over valuable patents, was examined before trial, and her testimony filed In the County-Clerk's office. Turner, It Is alleged, married a young woman, described as being one-third of his age, which Is 65 years, and Immediately afterward Ignored his sister in the alleged partnership patent dealings, with the result that she brought the Supreme Court action which is now in the Appellate Division, First Department, on an appeal by Turner denying his motion for Judgment.

Turner formed a corporation with a capital of $25,000,000, all of which was Issued In exchange for an assignment to the company of the Inventions and patents, $12,000,000 par value of which was returned to the company's treasury to be sold to purchase land, for Ship It was furt tague made a subsefiuent visit to Brooklyn, in 1910, prosperity had dawned with the development of the Turner patents. The witness described how her hrother pointed to a large safe In the room and said to her that the safo contained $23,000,000 in stocks of the Hydrocarbon Products She quoted her brother as "She a 1 I a Th. in which Turner said to her that had done all. No one else has 3 anything to aid him in his ef- I have two dining rooms full and money enough to hold the fort' The purpose of this testimony was ta show that a partnership existed between the brother and sister, this be- 1 be used at the SPANISH MINISTER DENIES I RUMOR OF UNREST IN SPAIN Washington, June 20 The Spanish Ambassador, Juan Riano, today issued tho following statement In regard to published reports of unrest In Spain: "The, news reports circulated In the Fniteil States regarding the Interior situation of Spain are absolutely Incorrect. Perfect tranquility prevails, both material and moral.

Certain complaints of an Interior character In one of the branches of the line of the Army have been attended to, in so far as they were just, and they are In no way related with interior politics, and far less with the International policy of Spain, which is being developed normally within the monarchical regime and constitutional practices." WEST SIDECONFERENCE the has the Joint conference committee of tli Public Service Commission nnd the Hoard of Estimate and Apportionment to submit to the New York Central Railroad Company their proposition on the West Side track problem, Ira A. Place, vice president of the rail-rond company, in a formal letter today to Commissioner Henry Hodge, accepted the Invitation of the committee to havo the railroad represented at tho conference to be held tomorrow afternoon, at 1 o'clock, at 120 Broadway, Manhattan, HILL IsM no line rnrmr, Jnnn thr tVomi BBDITORB SBCTION Cl FLATBUBH MECTION Ontnrj, 1160 Neitrand llnttka. Thr Hottle Imr I llMlen. M. (inrit bmi.

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