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Governor Signs Suffrage Act In Oklahoma i Federal Amendment Now Indorsed by Thirty-three States; Only Three More Needed for Adoption Referendum Split Ends House Completes Ratifiea tion With Eliniination of the Emergency Clause OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 28. Completion to-day of Oklahoma's rati? fication of tha Susan B. Anthony suf? frage amendment to the Federal Con brought the total of indors ing states to thirty-three and loft the approval of only three necessary for the adoption of the amendment. To compete ratification before ad Journment to-night the House to-day swung into line with the Senate's ac? tion of yesterday and agreed to accept the ratification resolution amended by the elimination of the emergency clause which the House had previous.y put on to prevent the submission of the question to the people by referen? dum.

Governor J. B. A. Robertson signed the measure this afternoon. Declaring it was impossible to get ln the Senate the thirty votes neces? sary to pass the ratification resolution with the emergency clause, Bert C.

Hodges, of suffrage leader in the House of Representatives, moved that the House concur in the resolution as passed by the Senate without the clause. The House passed the resolu by a vote of 76 to 4, with twenty four absent. It is planned to Bend certified copies of the signed resolution to President Wilson, the Secretary of StaU of the United States and the presiding officers of tha National Senate and llouae of Representatives. Anti-sutfrage Senators said they would not take part in effotrs that may be made to circulate petitions to refer the question to vote of the peo? ple. If it is referred, they snid, they would their influence to prevent a vote favorable to suffrage.

Argument was prolongcd in the cor ridors of the Capitol as to whether ratification of a national constitu tional araondraent is referable. The question presents two issues, it is said, one being as to whether the question is referable under the state constitu tion, which may come up for decision by the state courts, and the other as to whether -the national Constitution will hold valid the results of a refer ondum after the Legislature itself has made a decision. West Virginia Battle On Suffrage Postponed "Antis" Get Surpriso When Opponents Suddenly Ilalt the Fight Until To-morroiv Special Dispatch to Tha Tribune CHARLESTON, W. Feb. that the resolution to ratify the Susan B.

Anthony suffrage amend? ment would come up for passage when the Senate convened to-day, tha antis were primed for battle, but were taken by surprise when Senator Harvey W. Harmcr, leader for the suffrage side, immediately moved for adjournment until Monday. Indications to-night are that the Senate will be a little better than 80-50 on suffrage. The antis are claim? ing victory, but are giving no figures, while the suffrage leaders insist that they can count on not less than fifteen of the twenty-eight Senators, and are hoping for sixteen. It was reported this afternoon that Will H.

Hays, chairman of the Re? publican party, would arrive here Sun? day night or Monday morning in an effort to line up the Republicans who are opposing suffrage. U. S. Denies Sale to Soviet Report of Army Shoe Award to Russia Called Error WASHINGTON, Feb. in a War Department circular that the bureau in this country of the Russian Soviet government was the highest bidder on a large quantity of army shoes recently ofFered for sale in the New York supply zone was a mistake, it was said to-day at the office of the director of sales.

It was explained that it was not the intention to make any awards to repre lentatives of the Soviet government, which is not recognized by the United States. Suffragists to Invade The Latin Countries Women Will Form Campaign Plans at Geneva Conven? tion in May The ehief battleground of euffrngo activities for the future will be tho Latin countries of Europe and South America. American women, who thought the fight for universal woman suffrage wnn won, havo given up all thought of discontinuing the Interna tional Woman Suffrage Alllanco, and will go to Geneva for the convention ln May, preparod to carry their campaign into tne Latin countries. It was the hostility of the antl-suf frage Clerical officials in Spain, in pre venting the holding of the interna tional convention in Madrid, which made the American women realize tho great distance women of Spain have yet to go before they reach political freedom. Miss Crystal McMillan, recording secretary of the International Woman Suffrage Aliiance, has reported to Mrs.

Carrie Chnpman Catt, president of the ullianco, that the Archbishop of Madrid revoked the permission given the suf? fragists for the use of the Royal The? ater in Madrid, and thereby made it Im possible to hold the convention there. The following eleven delegates from the United States were appointed by Mrs. Catt in Chicago last week: Mra. Frederick Nathan and Mrs. Halsoy Wil? son, New York; Mrs.

H. R. Robinson, Denvcr; Miss Carollne Ruutz-Reea, Connecticut; Miss Amelia Cameron, New Jersey; Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis and Mrs.

Jacob Baur, Chicago; Mrs. W. Y. Morgan, Kansas; Mrs. W.

E. Bark tey, Nebraska; Miss Julia Rogers, Baltimore, and Mrs. Charles F. Spen cer, Topeka, Kan. Four Children Die In Flames; Fire Chief Is Injured i Three Burned to Death in Brooklyn Home After Pa? rents Go to Work; Child, 3, Perishes While at Play Four children were burned to death I in Brooklyn yesterday.

Three of them, Joseph Mager, five; Benjamin, three, 1 and Josephine, one, perished I their home at Old South Road and Cen terville Avenue, Union Course, Queens, was destroyed by fire. The fourth, Walter Johnson, three, 1 ignited his clothes from an oil stove while playing about a room of his home, 2072 West Eteventh Street. The Mager home, a one-story frame building, was shared with Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Mewthek, who also have three children.

They were carried to 6afety by Albert Boss and Charles Hawxhurst, neighbors, who discovered the fire. Perished in Rescue Effort Joseph Mager died, the firemen who found the bodies sa.v4 trying to carry his baby brother and sister to safety. The little boy's body lay, face down, on the floor, his hands still gripping charred remnants of Benjamin's and nightgowns. Apparently hr had been trying to drag them from their beds when the smoke or fire over came him. Mr.

and Mrs. Mager had risen early to attend to their farm work. So had tho Mewtheks. The Mager baby, two weeks old, had been carried to the cow barn, some distance away, by the mother, and thus its life was savod. When Boss and Hawxhurst discov? ered the fire it was spouting through several windows of the house.

They rushed into the building, but were un? able to get to the room in which the Mager children lay because of a wall of fire that filled the hall. They man aged to carry the three Mewthek youngsters to safety, although the chil? dren were stupefied by the smoke. Battalion Chief Injured Falling fifteen feet inside a buming building when a wall suddenly col lapsed, and being pinioned under bricks and other debris, Charles H. Furey, Brooklyn battalion chief, was rescued by Chief O'Hara and a squad of volunteers while a fire at the Liber mann Bros. shoes factor, 20-24 Lexing ton Avenue, Brooklyn, was at its height I yesterday afternoon.

Furey Buffered I possible internal injuries and was I taken to hia home. Furey was dirocting about flfty fire men when, without warning, the wall in front of them suddenly disinte grated and showered down bricks and iron work. Furey was catapuited from a low roofed building lnto the burning factory, but the other firemen were able to dash to safety and were not 1 injured. The factory was destroyed with a loss estimated at 950,000. L.

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at 46th St. Hoover Asserts Peril Lurks in Farm Problem Declares Agriculture Must Be Developed lo Keep Up Witli Industry if tj. S. Is to Avoid Importing Food Improve Transportation Advocates Federal Regula tion of Produce Trade to Give Free Competition CHICAGO, Feb. of agriculture to keep pace with tho de? velopment of industry is one of the greatest reconstruction problems fac ing tho country, Herbert Hoover de? clared here to-night in an addroBs before tho Western Society of En gineqra.

Industries are druwing work? ers from tho farms, he pointed out, and if we should develop our exports of industries during the next five years as rapldly as we have during: the last five years we shall by that timo be faced with the necessity of importing foodstuffs. Tho problem Ia more than an eco? nomic one, he asserted, because from dependenee on overseas BuppHes for food we will bs concerned about their safety and find ourselves diacussing the domlnation of the seas. Our in? ternational relations will become more difflcult, he said, and unless the league of nations serves its ideals we will need to burdun ourselves with more taxation, malntain great military and naval forces and imperil the develop? ment of our national life, which "rests in the spirit of our farms and sur rounds our villages." Great as is the need for co'nstructive thought and action in regard to the weakness of our industrial relations, ho said, "the need for similar thought and 6imilar activity is still greater with regard to agriculture." The agri cultural industry, he explained, must bo made economicnlly attractive. This can be accomplished, ho declared, by i remedying the defects in our transpor tation and distribution Bystemis. Measures to Remedy Situation Measures which he advocated to bring this about include the develop? ment of the waterways from the Great Lakea to the Atlantic, replacement of "special control'- of refrigerator cars, stockyards and elevators by "construc tive public government regu lation of the "overswollen units" of the produce business to provide free competition; cooperative marketing; reduction in infiation, which he be? lieves will lessen the excessive number of persons engaged in food distribu? tion; Btandardization of products; ex haustive investigation "into our na? tional boards of trade, with a view to extending their legitimate functions or preventing their abuse" and devel? opment of mechanical agricultural equipment.

Mr. Hoover expressed the belief that the development of the Great Lakes waterways would remove a consider able portion of the peakload on ihe trunk line railways during the crop movement season when the shortage of cars causes increased and find employment for the great tnercan tile fleet which we have created if the development was carried out. He es timated that the saving in the trans? portation of grain would be five or six cents a bushel. Kegulate Produce Concerns When concerns engaged in the manu? facture and sale of produce reach such dimensions that they "can influence prices or dominate public affairs, either with deliberation or innonce," he said, they should be placed under reg ulation and restraint. Mr, Hoover de? clared he was opposed to government ownership and expressed the belief that the test to be applied to determinc whether regulation was necessary should be "not the size of the insti tutlon or tha volume of capital that lt cmploye, but the proportion of tha community tbat it controls ln lt? oper? ations." Calling attentlon to eredtt inflatlon Mr.

Hoover declared that "if we have wise nnd steady reduction ln Inflatlon he will be a skillful dealer who escapos a reduction in the scale of profits." This doflatlon, he explalned, should be mado progressively and with care in order thnt there shall be no sudden breaku with their resulting demoruli ratlon. unemployment and mlsery. On behalf of sevoral engineering societies, tho Washington award was presented to-nlght to Mr. Hoover for consplcuous services as Federal Food Admlni'strator and Director of European Hcliof. Mr.

Hoover is the first reciplent of tho award, which was founded ln 1016 by John W. Alvord, a member of the Western Society of Engineera, to bo presented to the engineer who "best uscs his professional sklll and ad ministratlvo attninments in the pro? duction of tho public welfare." i i a Plan to Advance Detectives Opposed Bv Unif ormed Men Police in Ranks Ready to Fight the Bill Before the Legislature. Would Aid O'Hara Type, They Say The addresses made Friday night to detectives by Police Commissioner En? right nnd Deputy Police Commissioner Lahey concerning the merits of a bill before the Legislaturo to enable first grade detectives, appointed from the ranks of putrolmen, to take the ex? amination for lieutenant and. after six months, that for captain, have con firmed lleutenants and sergeants of tho uniformed force in their opposition to They pointed out yesterday that such a law would mako it possible for a man in the po'sition of Irving O'Hara, 1 Hylan's brother-in-law, to bo come a captain, while his seniors in I the service were still serving their time as patrolmen or sergeants. O'Hara, who was a patrolman when his brother i in-law was elected Mayor, was asslgned to the Detective Bureau soon after that int orest ing event.

He was mentioned yesterday as one of sevonteen men whom Commissioner Enright intended to make captains na i soon as the measure became effective. Under such a law the soventeon, per haps all of them patrolmen a few months ago, could be convinced if they attained 70 pnr cent in the non-com petitive examinations, over the hsads of their seniors who might have re? ceived higher marks in the examina? tion. Might Nullify Eligible List Lieutenants and sergeants said yes fcerlay that the bill would give the Commissioner the power to nullify the eligible list for captain. This list is made up of lleutenants. "He could do that by transferring a detective-captain to the uniformed ser vice," a lieutenant said.

"Under the bill lieutenants and sei'geants are not permitted to tajco the detective-captain patrolmen. "Heretofore we have had to wait five years, after serving a five-year proba tion, before we could take the exam ination for serpeant. Then we havo had to wait five years more before being privileged to take the lleuten? ants' examination. It is usually only once in five years that a captainB' ex? amination is held. "Twenty we wait to make the captains' eligible list, Under this new bill tho Commissioner permits a pa? trolman five, years in service to take the deteeiive'-captain examination, and ii' ho passea he can jump from patrol? man to captain with a yearly salary increase of .1,600.

Believe me, En? right will have a real fight on his hands if he attempt3 to put this bill over." It is almost twentv years gince a similar but not as drastic reorganiza tion of the Detective Bureau was put through by legislation. At that time all iirst grade detectives were promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Just before the bill was passed it was said that patrolmen were offering from $1,500 to for appointment as first grade detectives. S) ws Furs For Spring Wear SHOULDER CAPES, WRAPS AND DOLMANS in Squirrel, Hudson Seal and Attractive Models. STYLISH ANIMAL SCARFS in Russian and Hudson Bay Sables, Fisher, Stone Marten, Etc.

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formerly Attorney General of the United States, and formerly Governor, has accepted' the chairmanship of the Leonard Wood Leaguo in New Jersey. The delogates-at-large to the National Gonention from New Jersey are likely to be Mr. Griggs, William N. Runyon, ex-Governor; Colonel Austen Colgato and William T. Read, Stato Treaauror, all of whom aro understood to be for General Wood for President.

Ruford Franklin, ex-Mnyor of Sum? mit, is the Btate mannger and organizer for the Wood in New Jersey. Mr. Franklin reported yesterday to the Eastcrn campaign headquarters at thi Imperial Hotel that in a poll of New Jersey Republican state committeomen, taken without prelimnary discussion at a nicotinp where nineteen were present, sixteen declared themselves in faor of General Wood and said their senti ments refiocted thoso of the peoplo of their respective committees. New Jersey for Wood "New Jersey seems to bo practically a unit for (ienoral Wood," said Mr. Franklin.

"The twenty-cight delegates from New Jersey to the national con? vention in Junu may not go as 'in structod' delegates, but it looks as if no one will be considered by the voters at the Btate Presidential primary in April unless ho has declared himself for General Wood. "The political situation in New Jer? sey has extremely mixed for some time. but it looks us if real harmony is about to be restored through the united movement and support of all for General Wood. Republican State Chairman ex-Governor Edward C. Stokes and Vice-Chairman Charles N.

Codding have both declared themselves publicly for General Wood, as have ex Governor William N. Runyon and ex Actlng Governor Clarence E. Case. Re? publican National Committeoman Ham? ilton Fish Kean is working hard for harmony. He is, however, publicly ad voting a 'Big Four' slate composed of ex-Governor Griggs, ex-Governor Run? yon, Colonel Austen Colgatet and State Treasurer William T.

Read, all of whom aro for Goneral Wood. Progressive Leaders Join Ranks "Former Progressive party leaders are unanimously for Wood. There is practically no sentiment for Johnson. There is no sentiment whatsoever for either Harding or Lowden, and their names aro seldom heard mentioned. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of University, has many wann friends and admlrers in New Jorsey, but he in not regarded seriously as a Presidential ovailability at this time.

The New Jersey Stato Committes of the Leonard Wood League is progress ing. The vice-chairman of tha com? mittee is John Grier Hibben, of Princo ton. The secretary and state manager of tho Leonard Wood League is Ruford Franklin, of Summit, who was Mayor of that city for many years Bill Aims to Protect CidzenshijJMof Women Americans, Marrying Aliens, Would Retain Rights if Re maining in U. S. WASHINGTON, Feb.

is high timo to get. away from tho old idea that the wife is the chaltel of the husband, Reprosentative Rogers, Republican, of Massachuetts, told the House Immltfra tion Committee to-day, in urging enact? ment of a law under which American women, marrying ailens and remaining in this country, would retain their cit izenship after adoption of the suffrage amendment. Mr. Rogers declared his measure did not protect wealthy "American title hunters," adding that he was not terested in extending the right of cit? izenship "to women who think so little of it that they go abroad to live." In pointing out that his measure I would not give the right of citizenship to an alien woman marrying an Amer- i ican, Mr. Rogers said this was done so that to be naturalized "a woman would have to go througli the eame machinery with the man." Mrs.

Maude Wood Park, president the National League of Women Voters, indorsed the Rogc-s bill, declaring it "eminently fair to Americans." Moffitt Faces Suit For $53,557 on Notes National Nassau Bank Seeks to Recover for Pledges Made in 1914 William H. Moffitt, real estate man, who was brought back here recently i from California on charsres of fraud, was sued in the Supreme Court yes? terday t'or $53 567 on two notes which he made in 1914. The William H. Mof fitt Realty Company also was made a defendant. Moflitt was served with the complaint in the Tombs several days ago.

The suit is brought by the National Nasf.au Bank. The nutes were made to I the Irving National Bank and assigned to tho plaintiff. One, for $26,700, was dated June 9, 1914, and the other, for $27,100, June 15, 1914. Only $245 has been paid by Moflitt on the two papers. Moflitt was released on bail a fow days ago, promising to make good to 1 the clients who accused him of de frauding them in real estate transac tions.

Woman Named U. S. Colleetor WASHINGTON, Feb. V. Collier, of Salt I ak.e City, was nomi? nated to-day for customs collector at Salt Lake.

So far as known here, hers is the first appointment of a woman to such a place. 'Spanking Machine9 Is Making Bad Boys Good, Says Inventor Number of Bridgeton Lads Sent to Reformatories Is Low Since the Mayor In stalled Devicc in City Hall Special DUpatrh to The Tribuna BRIDGETON, N. Feb. tho rod and spoil tho child" is no mere proverb at the Bridgeton City Hall, where Mayor Arthur C. Whitaker his famous "spanking in operation.

More than a hundred boys and a few girls, too, have gone through the "spanking machine" in the seven years that Mayor Whitaker has been ln of? fice. so he declares that it is now well beyond the experimental stage. Until recently the nature of the "spanking machine" was much of a secret. The Mayor and his police would not tell what it was and those whd went through it considered it too sore a subject to mention. Now the secret Ts out.

The "spank? ing machine" consists of an assortment of barrel staves, selected to fit the victim's particular anatomy and operated by a strong-armed policeman. "The "spanking machine" savors in iiowiso of "the ola whipping post. It is not nn implement of torture but for bonefidal chastisement, says Mayor Whitaker, who has a boy of his own. "I'm a friend of the boys," said Mayor Whitaker. "When I went office seven years ago 1 decided that no Brigeton boy would be 'railroaded' through to the county court or to t'ne reformatory if I could help it.

So when boys were brought before me for petty erimes and thefts, I invented the 'spanking machine' as offering the best solution for their cases. Police Do the Spanking "No small offender is ever spankod without the permission of his or her parents. The 'machine' is operated to tit the. flagrancy of the oifcnse. "When a boy has committed some of? fense that gets him into the hands or the police he is brought before me," explained the Mayor, "and if the of? fense warrants it I sentence him to the 'spanking I have nothing to do with administering the spanking; the police do that.

After going through the 'machine' the boy is brought back to me. He usually has tears in his eyes and is in humbie spirit. I talk to him and show him where he has done wrong and the effect of it. I invite the boys to come back and tell me how they are getting along and to seek my advice in any of their troubles. At times I have had as many as a dozen boys waiting at my office of an evening to talk to me about their problems--every ons of them a boy that I had previously sen? tenced to be upanked.

"Yes, wo have to spank girls, too, sometimes," admitted the Mayor, "but we don't spank as many of them as wo do boys. Parents have heard of our 'spanking and occasionally when a boy gets too obstreperous at home, they send him arojand here and ask us to put him through the machine. you av? perated that lf now just Jf th? boy has been really bad ally accommodate them." Brldgeton a manufacturing city 0f 16,000 population and has boys of abotit the average type. The number of boys committed from here to the roformi tories and other corTectior.n' InsUtfca tions, however, is surprisingiy Citizens give Mayor Whitaker's ing maehine" the credit for this low average of commitments to the reforni. atories.

Out of the more than lOobors whom he has sentenced to the ing machine" only one has been back for a second spanking. The fact that it was known 'hat thero was a "spanking machir.n" at the City Hall has had a moral effact the younger generation of the "I've had fathers come and ssfe -i' 'What kind of machine Uthat to spank bad said May aker. "They thought it by a crank, or something like the moral effect should be that the general public kn what the 'machine' is, why, then well rig up a really, truly mechat ici i jpanfc. er to take the place of the and it will have some jolt to it, I Prepare for Sims tteari Navy Department and Adm Busy Collecting Data WASHINGTON, Feb. ment that the Senate Naval Comrr; would open March 9 its in of Rear Admiral Sims's criticism the navy's war record cauaed an ce'eration to-day in preparation the Navy Department, there offl are making ready their reply.

A categorical answer to the critit embraced in Admiral Sims i January 7, read before the mittee investigating naval sward being prepared under the persona rection of the Secretary, it was to-day. A mass cf data, every phase of the navy's tjes, also is being whipped into able shape, and it wa? said at thi i partment that Admiral Sims was to have been making an haustive preparation of his case. ng iral Of ac at cials IsnjB of I di rned on tivi i-atl de. own ex? Let's see your mtntai tongue Ahl coated with boredom, from tlie same old daily grind. Louis TracyI in his new detective story Bdward J.

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