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Eighty-cight Per Cer CONTRACTS FOR 4B EW SHPS ot These to Be of Woos-—Board Will Need £500,000,000 More, WAaeniInaron, ave 11.-ahp- Culling contracts seeremeting TM.- @20 tone ant an outer of HE were apr ye Mhipping Board to 4» This nage will tn Cate eighty -ceht wooden vesee! Giaty ete wdipe Amone ¢ firme given contracts are: Groton tron Works ton Conn.; Mande! Hngineering and Con Sraction Company, « wa, NH Dantsier Drydock and Bhippuliding Company, Mow ! t, Mine; York GRipbuliding Company Va; Taylor & Namilton, Nouston, Fes.; Cumberiand shiphuiiding € pany, Portiand, Me; Kelly & Spenr,! Bath, Me; Handy Point Shipt ding Company, Sandy Point Free. port Bhipbullding Company, Freeport, Maine; Baginaw (Mich) Shipbullding Company; Perey & Small, Math, Me, and the United Atates Ma inte Com pany, Brunswick, Ga With Chairman Murley's elgnature on thi contracts to-day and A@nir- al Capps's acceptance of resignations of five members of the Emergency Fleet Corporation legal staff, the final @iMeuity left over from the Goethals. Denman regime has been placed be hind the new Hoard. The contracts signed ares those Grawn by Gen. Goethals, but which dave been held up until Admiral Capps could study them carefully, His work was completed last night, The men who resigned are George Rubles, Joseph P. Cotton, George P. Howland and Edward Burling, all of whom were serving without pay, and George H. Savage. These men drew the contracts sponsored by Goethals, whioh Denman refused to sign during the late shipping row. They are step- ping out because they believe Admiral Capps should be permitted to choose Dis own legal assistants now, Rublee and Burling probably will become associated with the Shipping Board under Hurley immediately, One of the men is expected to be named to the post of general counsel for the board, @ seat now vacant, The Shipping Board already feels the need of more money for its vast plans. Admiral Capps is preparing estimates to present to Congress at this session. He will ask upward of $500,000,000 additional. — LITTLE HINDRANCE 10 HANDLING FREIGHT AT PIERS Inspector Daly Says There Is No Danger of a General Strike. With the exception of the upper #ea dock of the Southern Pacific Line, business along the North River railroad and steamship docks was going on as usual to-day. Thi at the Southern Pacific, who were the 900 freight handlers | Help for ‘Dependent’ Living Pro To Earn York iver, Civilian Relief Committee! Will Teach the Women Left, Behind How to Support, and Care for Their Children During War. | Themeelve By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. EAR MADAM: My husband what oan I do? seston “1 fn bin pr During the three curred no debts, bi have done my own as I left bigh sel rner. My family health, but what « has been called to ashamed to claim exemption and hide behind me. I do IN FIRE PANIC ON Ly lh not want to be unpatriotic and keep him at home, but 1) ot scrub floors. How am I to live if he enters the <aelisas A | pen Two Girl Victims Taken to Hos- In that letter from a puzzled young wife fs summed up the problem | pital—Fuse Blows Out and that confronts thousands of young, strong, childless, utterly untrained Starts Blaze, . women. They and their husbands are self-respecting, patriotic Americans. | siicy Hana Liefenieck, elghtean, of But what are they to do? What alternative is open to the young woman | No Kast One Hundred and Fourtn who doesn't want her husband to hide behind her skirts, but who never | 5t"e' ent bop haar Hig “ aed . twenty-one, of No. 926 venue, has earned a dollar in her life? wlll i the Bronx, are in Flower Hospital to- TOOK this problem to the Now day as the result of injuries recetved db Rut the steadying responsibility of a ' ing York agency, which T happened | jrar tne Atendying reaponstbility of Al when the blowing out of © fuse started to know already has been solving It-| soldier is most desirable, 4 fire on a Third Avenue train at |'That agericy ts the Civilian Reltet| the Forty-second Street station. | Committee of the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross, lof which Mrs, John M. Glenn ts Chairman. The headquarters for | Manhattan and the Bronx are at No. \30 East Thirty-sixth Street. There ‘are similar Red Cross committees In other parts of the city, State and country. “If a young man enlists in any branch of the service,” Mrs. Glenn told me, “and his wife faces any difficulty, we ask her to come to us. That is what we are here for. The committee for Manhattan and the Bronx will try to see to it that no person who is dependent upon a man in active service suf- fers as a result of his absence. This work will not be limited to the giving of material relief, but witl include the furnishing of friendly aid to meet any situation | in which the committese may be | of service. | (4°77AKE the case which you have cannot support me is not a slacker, nor am I one. Burt He ts » young lawyer, just beginning to succeed years of our married life we have tn ut nelther have we saved anything. I work, but I married almvst as soon 1001, and I nefer have been a wage ia in the West, and anyway, my father 1 have no children, I atm tn good an I do to carn money? My husband the draft, and he says he would be 4 B, of cou must not take the position of advising the Government in the matter of exempt- ing men with dependents. The Govern- ment is modifying dally its position on this point. But we do send an open letter to every man serving with the colors, in which we tell him: ‘If your people at home encounter any difficulties advise them to get in touch with this office. We have a corps of people picked for thelr good sense and good judgment to help solve any vexing family problem which may arise; able lawyers who will give legal service; experienced physicians who will give medical attention; bus- iness men who will help settle ques- tions relating to insurance or to real or personal property.’ “I believe,” Mrs, Glenn concluded, "that, barring a necessary period of adjustment, the young women whose men go » front will be able to support themse! Our American girls are extremely adaptable and most of them honestly wish to be of use. If they have not been trained for first to go out, aro still on stdike, They ‘ wage-earning, the fault Hes more belong to the Coastwise International put tome. It certainly i8 @4- | with their parents than themselves, Workers’ Union, At the Metropolitan| visable that the healthy, childiess| And it's never too Inte to learn, and Mallory Line steamship piers it! wife of a man at the front should) waa said that business was normal, that| have an occupation. She probably | SHIP'S CHIEF OFFICER SHOT 10 men had returned to work this) would worry herself sick without morning. The Pennsylvania Railroad! 314 put gho is untrained for wage- Company's pliers were operating as usual, There were about 100 freight handlers went out on More than half of these wore have gone back to-day. Inspector Daly, who was intsruct by the Police Commissioner to tnves! gate the trouble, said there was no danger of a general strike of longshore men as the strikers did not belong to PUT UNDER PRUSSIAN PRINCE GUARDIANSHIP OF ESCORT Frederick Leopold, Art Student Charged With Extravagance by Count von Eulenhard. BERLIN, Aug. 19 via London, Ay M).—According to an announce ent t the Official Gazyte, the youngest son of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, colored PI ald te who bears the same name his father, h been placed ur interdiction by t Count von Eulenb\ inister of the Royal House The prines, wh twenty-two years old, ts charged with extravagance and has been placed un der the guardianship of von Heyden, his militar rt The young man has been an art stu dent at the Royal Acadeiny of Muntch under the tutelage of Karl von Marr who was born and lived in Milwauke fore becomiug a natural rman, Prince Friedrich Leopold veceived the usual military training & Yalled to qualify for active service owin Lo @ defective t. His art produet have been exhibited in teriin ana elic ited favorable comment The action of the Koval Mini will be fought in a special vourt ned for such a purpose. The LP at tracted attention sone yeara ago by running doon and killin little girl at Potsdam when his motor speeding Was the cause of much eormplaint —_ Children to Stay Prom Sehool to Harvest Beets, DENVER, Colo., Aug Little chil may help harvest sugar be inatead of going to school this fal. ‘This became known here to-day, following Misers in petitioning Morrisey ave decla during the w the beet men b have the op t and wild a the he of schools postponed until the crop is wathered, earning. We should discuss her situ- ation with her all, for what work she had most ap- titude or inclination. There is a special demand just now for clerical labor. That does not by any means imply a know!- edge of stenography. And the use of a typewriter may be ac- quired in a comparatively short time. If the young wife seemed suited for a clerical position we should arrange for her to begin training at once. If she had not enough money to pay for her Course and live, we should either ive or lend her the necesary unds, “after she had learned her work nly should be able to find a we Peo Y eee Oe Pers in cioes | She hospital and pol Ambulance touch with the industrial clearing | Surgeon Cartwright, who took bim ise of the Mayor's Committee of| to the hospital, said he would dle, Women on Nattonal Defense, This] Detectives Malcolm and Lohman clearing house clears for practi learned that the crew of the Kame- ill the important: non-comme mitz had been notified of thelr chiéf's onaien here sh Haw: York plight by Vaierlan Litzinenko, twen ass ~|ty-mine, chief officer of the §, ATTRER are other positiona fo: Bore nog of the sume fleet, lying on Which such a woman as You! the opposite side o ame pler, entie might qualify. jome of} Litginenko told the officers he had them ¢ in the Government service, | been vi ting J ihovi ; ae they ; had been talking over « mes W might become a telexrapher oF @| Tee viots wuddenly picked Up a phone operator, She might pre- volver and shot hi if. fer dressmaking or millinery. In any| search of the wounded officer's Ase should stand behind her un-|cabin revealed a 22 calbes 4 Ae | ti) she fints maint volver containin e empty and six she finished her training. Meany Sealant Mot oatintiod with: tha We have just arranged for ®| story told by Litginenko, the police course In @ business colle at re-|qetained hem, juced rates, for one young wom: | _> who 1s a soldier's dependent and| 5 to become independent. We! OBITUARY NOTES. ve rented a typewriter for anothor, | errr who now has home du but who] eee 42" acea's ne areas Js free evenings. At that time one of | Memorial Hospital af jur n clerical workers goes to hor | ceived a week ago In un auto aecld rach her." | Charles Edwin Mer sixty, for- » present situation, the| merly dramatic e4 f the Albany economic emergency so many women | Argus, and more + pector frie hust meet, emphasize the necessity | tho New Y« Life Insurance Com of teaching every young girl some | par ead his no at Ridge- wage-earning occupation?” I sug- | Wood, N. gested William Ke eo times indeed it does,” replied Mrs, Glenn, | Mayor of Milist J. is dead at bia Every girl, whatever her po- | hume th sition, should know how to work, Mra, Blige 1 elghty-tw And, aa | have seid, work is most | President of ome. £08) arvisable for women dependent Kitute, Children and fenton of soldiers—who are not now la- vn boring to care for children, such instances, of course, hame ve at rds should be preserved Mast “ is ‘dren should not be for er, Mr into a day nursery so that the moth- ler may enter the industrial world. d find out, first of | AND HIS FRIEND IS HELD Victim Found Dying in the Cabin After Visitor Had Given the Alarm. Lying on a cot in Norwegian Hos- pital, Brooklyn, with bullet wounds in his chest and right side, Camintry Jakovloss, thirty-two, Chief OMcer of the 8, 8. Kamemitz, cargo ship of the Russian volunteer fleet, stolidly refused to-day to tell the police how he was wounded, Jakovioss was found early to-day in the cabin of his ship, at the foot of Forty-second Street, lirooklyn, by members of his crew, who notified te No. 1042 Mudieon Gtr Uv \ Eleven other persons, seven of whom are women, are at home suffering minor injuries received in the wild scrambie to escape, Miss Liefenteck ts suffering from burns on the arms and leges Miss Iyaacson has six broken ribs, The aceident occurred at the hetgnt of the rush hour last night. A tongue of blue flame shot down from the floor of the motorman's box at the forward end of the third car and @ panie fol lowed. Some one pulled the emergency cord and the train stopped before 4% had entirely left tne platrorm. But fur this n Se ore would ha eral s. Oth Paying little ation Were also trying to get was torn and hats and lost | It took less than one and a half min utes for the frightened passengers to leave the train, observers «aid, On on the platform, they rushed’ to th street. Several fell in getting down th st en hurt. through win. for the door to women w out. Cloth! dies w T wa was tled up tw Jamaged badly. nty minutes, NAME 100 NEW GENERALS | FOR U, S, NATIONAL ARMY Hardly Probable That Either Wood | or Barry Will Get Com- mand in France, | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Regular Army department commanders are not to direct’ the work of National Army cantonments within their terri- tories, but will devote themselves to the Regulas Army fo This wa provided to-day in War Department orders, Officers for the National Army and the federalized National are | to be chosen from a list of more than | 100 men to be sent to th nate for confirmation next week by Presiden Wilson, The War Department designated these men for the ranks of Brigadier and Major Generais, it is improbable that any officer who ranks Gon. Pershing will be sent to France. He is ranked by Major} Gens, Wood, Bell, Bliss, Harry and Scott, Gen, Scott, Chief of Staff, and n, Bliss, the A t Chief, reach the age of retirement tiis Uniess Gen, Pershing shoul moted to a Lieutena |is improt that el | Barry wil gent to | as a sistant to hi It is contrary to mil tary routine to have junior officers command their seniors. MILLIONAIRE JUDD NO “SKIRT SLAGKER” ‘Trafic pew, Guard has be t Gener er Wood or HARTFOR Aug, 11 | home of t at Gov, Hol |eomb recent army off to squeeze « of Conneeticut w eradicated to-day by Harold I | Judd, multimillionaire of New Brita who married the widow of Charles C. Gates of Minneapolis When Judd was passed by the ex Jamining board he 1 for der hey exemp 1 [the sooner he got ac ‘ Jcountry's enemy tho better } 1 | ike it He cousin of erat | George M 4 millio food t man ¢ State Couns nnd his ¢ tu 1h 8 aK ut $7,000,000, He married a j 91st, 4 th hay a Child, | Mr. Judd, ‘whose father organized the bie munitions plant of North & Judd during the Civil War, will be the first levy New Britain to @ mobilization camp, will send THIRTEEN PERSONS HURT {HALE IN COURT FOR VISIT | was fined @ WORLD, SATURDAY, avousT Wives of Soldiers —~—— TO WOMEN’S BATHS Superintendent Said to Have Pro- jected Himself Unceremoniously Into Matron’s Presence, William HM. Hale, seventy -# years old, Superintendent of Public Bathe of Brooklyn, was arratgned In the Flat bush Court this morning on @ cha: that he 1 hin way last night dn the womans department of the baths at Fourth Avenue and Presiden: Street, wh Mra ma M. Hayden, the matron, was disrobing, In order to get there, the Court was told, Hale climbed down @ ladder ino the engine room and then broke « screen that barred the way into the women's quarters, he complaining witness was George | Wheaton, the attendant tn charge ot the baths. “This is an outrage,” @ald Hale Magistrate Nauman. “This Wheaton in my inferior and he has 1 disobedient and disrespectful. 1 wish to make a complaint against him.” “You can't make ft here at this tinie, the magist Hale was re on MMs own recognisance for a hearing Tuesday. The la. to} man | | for keeping forty cats nty his home, No, 40 First Place, Brooklyn. | THREE ACCUSED OF PLOT Scheme Was to Smuggle Rubber and Platinum Into Germany Through Belgan Relief. Louls Tinck and John Marte West Side water front boarding house keepers, and Frank Bollert, a dia- id cutter, mecused of plotting to smuggle rubber and platinum tnto Germany through the Belgian relief machinery, were held tn $25,000 bail each after they had pleaded not gullty before United States Commissioner MeGoldrick in Brooklyn to-day, The six firemen on the Belgian relief ship Gothland, who were used by the chief | nspirators a# tho actual carriers of | the contraband, were held in $10,000 each, Deputy United States District At-| lorney Beers asked that ‘Tinck, Mar- tens and Bollert be held in $50,090 ! their operations were the pernicious character iam Byrne, & lawyer representing k, asked for nominal bail, [ol- ert protested that he doesn't know hat was arrested for, but detec ey assured the Commissioner that is one of the leaders in the plot. niki WOMAN RUN OVER BY TRAIN, Says He Saw Man Throw Her There. CAMDEN, N, J., Aug, 11 ¢ Stella Otto, twenty-nine, The bod who ‘ her husband, Joneph ¢ Delaware County, Pa. an! ime here to lve with Willlam Gordoa, wenty-four, ag bis wife, was picked y this morning on the tracks of th est Jersey and Seashore Mallroad tire train had passed over ptorman says the woma ywnoin front of hia train AW the man who did it rush. from MERA URE Baader Gakden tak! Those cool mountain ed Fey ety Under arrce| B breezes give the tiny JESS | “Salada” leaves a qual- SHOT JULY 29, HE DIES. Atinek by Three Men atal to Jer- sey Hotel Proprietor, HACKENSACK, J, Aug. 11 sce Mooney, proprietor of the Halt House at Midland Park, who was by three men Saturday, July 29. 1 the Barnert Hospital last mii Three men and two young Arrested shortly after ie but were released w, Mooney's housekeeper, urder und wero ¢ three am and heard ellow and U1 C 4 i he koew them. i leaving 4047. ided by the Red Cross POPES WISH, SAYS -_-——— Tedeschin! Quoted as Saying This Includes Restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, Maer Preterce Teteechtnl, former Under Reoretary of Mate of the ¥ oon, bee euccreted Cardinal Ges Perr as Prime Miateter to Pupe Bene Get serorting (0 @ cable received from Vere ty the official Preach Duress of tot atom Previous dispatches from Rome eald Carding: Gosparrt had restaned because of ti health and partly be cause Pope Menediot desired to tn otitule & new polley regarding Ger many. The Valian Gatiy be had retired The message received by the Bureaa of Information quotes Mgr. Tedeschinl * peace of justice.” In & conversation which Mer. Frederico Tedearhini, new Mecretary of Biate of the Vatican, had with the Rome correspondent of the A BC, @ nish newspaper, he made the fol- lowing interesting dvclarations ‘Only @ Christian peace is desirable because It will be @ peace of Justice. Home poopie have prevended that a Christian peace ought to be a ‘white peace’ or & peace without result; that is, & peace bringing the world back #talua quo ante, ‘hia is not exact § We bellev the contrary, that there are rights which justice must respect. We can- Cath, revert the same before the war, As Christian not approve tha* Palestine should remain under the Turkish yoke, “We believe also that every one | would be » 1d to see Alsace: Lor- raine returned to lieve finally that if the Italian prov- Inces now under Austrian domina- tion would be attrtbuted to Italy no Cheistian would oppose It, just as no Christian would declare himself op- posed to the unification of Koumanta in the East.” BROWN HAT MAY BRING HERO'S SLAYER TO CHAIR Traced Through Two States, It Is Expected to Reveal Man Who Shot Policeman, to-day at Police Headquarters may clear up the murder of Robert Holmes, the negro policeman shot by @ burglar he had pursued info a West One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Street hallway last Monday night. The hat was picked up in the street after the burglar’s escape, It has the initials “H. A." and the} time Hale was in court he! police have traced it from the time it/crulting campaign here, and militia) x left a Fifth Avenue shop. A wealthy! Riverside Drive broker lost it in Stam ford, Conn., last summer when It blow! {rom his head, He was afraid if he went | back for it he would be arrested for} ceding. | he police learned that a citizen found tt and sold it to a nexro for 60 cents. Waltér Hill of Stam Who Is held as ial witness denies ownership of The broker who lost it, and the who found and sold it,! bureau to-day to Identity tt Phe polict say negro Wo » who lives at the same address in fas Hill, was in the Hariem house by the burglar at @he time of the mur der. She 1s also being held as a witni pot Bs. Ee ILLINOIS COAL PRICES TO BE FIXED BY JUDGE CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—The price of coal to [linots consumers will be fixed for the next year by Chief Jus- tice O, N, Carter of the Supreme Court of Lilinols, who last night was) named by Gov. Lowden to be Direc- tor of Coal, The Illinois coal opera- tors agreed to accept the Justice's services after a four hours’ confer- ence with the Governor. nd Roumaniaos Rt the Trotus, 11—Russian and troops repulsed enemy the Trotus Valley and LONDON, Aug. Roumanian attacks in then launched vigorous counter at-| tacks which gainec and captured mach! a» prisoners uns, accord- | Forty-seventh of Brooklyn Scat ‘The identification of a brown felt hat) ford, guard ammunition plants and public | ered | putdings. ing to an official at day by the Roumantan ‘The statement says tho forced the enemy to flee in disorder. — With © nt insued to- co LONDON, Aug. 11.-A despatch to uter, Ltd, from Zurich, says adyices received there from Buda pest are to the effect that the former Hungarian Premier, Count Colonel of Hussars, ity of invigoration that isunique. Try LC wD "SALADA’ CEYLON TEA | § FOR A TRULY NATURAL SUMMER RINE War Oftce.| Russtans | Stephen} Tisza, has gone to the front as a| This Real Daughter Oe le of the Army Provides Tobacco for Soldiers Miss MARion OW CUAL newn When Mi Margaret Carron) sweethearts, mothers, daughters end ‘. 5 (ie eat sisters of army men Jearned that the firat contingent of | "Ro Was started what te nowt our boys was sailing away to France us “An Army Girl's Transport Tow Without tobacco, she didn’t stop to|tu nan aicient oreanivatton that me feel sorry for them, or talk about the | soldier need fear that he will be far pity of ft. Bhe went right out and | “¥4¥ from home, without eves the plentiful supply of tobaeco and had | bred-in-the-bone daughter of the it delivered aboard the transport tiarmy, and knows just what a large in the nick of timo before sailing, | Patt small comforts play in keeping But #ho didn't stop the he or-|{a°the chim and conadante 60 San dered a cane to be delivered to each father, Col, John M. Carson, General successive ship departing with intendent of the American soldiers $ Then, after the excitement of this was over, she began to talk among her friends about the need of a fund to meet much emergencies, She found many supporters among the wives, ti and ! re of his trips to military post Uiited States, the Philippines Japan. New York UP-STATE REGIMENTS | MOBILIZE FOR CAMP at Van Cortlandt Park | Gen | to Spartanburg, 8. York troops. ————»—___ tered on Guard Duty, and Not to Go to Spartanburg. Plans were started to-day fer the temporary mobiligation of Guard regiments up-State preparatory to their departure for the South, There is to be no let up in the Guard re- | MeArthar Br: | Tron the contract to build th ment at Dumont, on Rallroad, officers are trying to arrange so that recruits accepted here may be sent to the units of their pref nee after the regiments have reached Spartan- | burg. The Third Battalion of the Forcy- seventh Regiment, Brooklyn, under command of Major Walter E, Corwin, consisting of Companies I, K, L and M, has gone to Philadelphia York on Monday. with 1,000 cots, A road will | transport |5 Minutes to) Col, Ernest BE. Jannicky, his staff, the supply company and headquart: company left their armory on| Marcy Avenue for Richmond, Va, this morning. ‘The First Battalion, ‘eu manded by Acting Major Hendvicks, consisting of Companies A, B.C apd FOR IN D, left the armory at ‘the same time for Lynchburg and Frank. fort, Va | Orders have been issued to the | Twenty-third Kegiment, Brooklyn; |. Seventy-first, Manhattan, and the The World 1917 | Summer Resort Annual 64 Pages of Reliable Places for Rest and Recreation : : For Sale, Price Five Cents At all World Offices and at your nearest Liggett- Riker-Hegeman drug store in Manhattan. Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Newark. 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