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GOMPERS STEERS B CONVENTION CLEAR OF RADIAL TRAP Efforts to Commit Federation Blindly to Future Strike Foiled. By Frederick Lawrence. Wesel Mat Cormreendent of The Prening ATLANTIC CITY, June 14—~The biggest problem before the country, that of radicalism in labor circles, came squarely before the American Federation of Labor convention here and resulted in a partial victory for , the radicais. Rather tt seemed like a partial victory and will no doubt be heralded as a real triamph, foreshad- owing the complete ascendency of the radicals in the near future by the Socialist and I. W. W. propagandists, The plain fact is that President Gompers noted a certain measure of justice in the demand made by the Gelegates of the radical International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and suggested a course in which the con- vention concurred, over the protest of the radical delegates. Nevertheless the radicals are cele- rating the actiort as opening a wide breach in the Federation's conserva- tive stone wall through which Bol- shevism and the allied revolutionary hordes may rush and capture the con- servative citadel. ‘The proposition before the conven- tion was one that on the surface re- lates to Chicago alone, but in fact it would have momentous conse- quences in New York and all other garment factory cities, The fight on ‘the convention floor in behalf of the vadical position was engineered by Fenjamin Schlesinger, of New York, end actively conducted by Max Gor- enstein, Jacob Heller and Miss M. U'riedman. none of whom are noted *tor conservative opinions. DEMAND APPROVAL IN AD- ~ VANCE OF ANY STRIKE. Their proposal was that the Ameri- can Federation of Labor give its in- dorsement and support to a strike it 4s proposed to call in the Chaicago la- dies’ garment trades. They would not be content to present their cause \ the officials of the national organi- zation ond ask for the Federation's indorsement on the, merits of their Seuntroveray with the employers. Nor would they be satisfied to order @ strike and ask for support then. They demanded that the American Federa- tion of Labor take a blind plunge and fellow wherever their local union ‘night tead. This was the situation that faced the convention, and had the demand of the radicals been put to @ vote it would have been ‘overwhelmingly de- feated. But President Gompers saw that in their position, if the impos- sible blind indorsement were elimi- nated, lay the kernel of a proper proceeding under the Federation's practice. “The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is entitled to the unanimous support of the American Federation of Labor in all proper methods of obtaining justice from oppressive employers, and the Exec- utive Council and the President of the Federation will use the utmost power of the national organization to thet end,” said President Gompers. “But there are better ways of accom- plishing what te desired than the way proposed. The Committee on Organ- ization suggests that the resolution ‘under consideration be resubmitted to them for further hearing.” This did not suit the radicals, They wanted the convention (o either ac- cept thelr demand and pledge sup- port to @ strike not yet called or to reject tt, Hither way would have suited them. If the convention ac- cepted its action would force recogni- tion and support of all strikes, even it ordered by the most radical unions, without regard to the causes behind them, That would have created a Socialist and I. W. W. Utopia, GOMPERS STEERS CONVENTION CLEAR OF TRAP. On the other hand if the conven- tion rejected the plan the radicals could have shrieked that the con- servative labor organization had de- nied the poor worker aid in his hour of need, and that there was nothing for the worker to do but join with those champions of the downtrodden, the Bolshevists, I. W. W.s and So- clalists. But if the convention refused to pledge support of a strike before ir was ordered, and adopted no substi- tute in which the probability of a strike was mentioned, its action would have been heralded by the garment es employers as @ repudiation by the convention of the garment work- HEN you goon your vaca- tion thie Summer have your favorite paper mailed to you every day, Evening World, 19¢ per week Dally Word, 19¢ por wook Sunday World, Ge pet Sunday Most Amazing of Criminals Stole $410,000 In Eight Years; Had $16,000 When Caught Jay B. Allen, who Killed Two Men in Brooklyn Savings Bank, Is a Revelation to Writer, Who Is a Connois- seur in Cold-Blooded Man4 Killers and Daring Thieves —Doesn’t Swear or Use Drugs, but Has Drunk His Share of Whiskey. By Martin Green. Tt has fallen to the lot of the writer, in the course of thirty years of news- paper writing experience, to meet many murderers and master crimi- Daly in and out of custody, and few of them have measured up to pre- conceived notions of physical or men- tal attributes; but the most amazing example of a criminal who presents none of the outward appearances of his trade is Jay B. Allen. He is the man who, on Friday, Dec. 13, 1918, accompanied by a confeder- ate, walked into the East Brooklyn Savings Bank, killed two men and escaped with $13,000 in cash. The name Jay B. Allen is used in this article because this picturesque crim- inal says he likes it most of all the names he has used in his career as a hold-up man and burglar and he desires to hide his identity. Never, he gays, since he left his home in Alberta, Canada, at the age of eighteen, only eight years ago, to de- liberately make a living by means of burglary, robbery and, if to his mind it appeared necessary, murder, has any one known him by his real name. Will Johnstone, the artist, and I were introduced to Jay B. Allen in the office of District Attorney Harry Lewis, in Brooklyn. Allen had made @ complete confession of his part in the Brooklyn murder, which cannot | be spread here because he is in the| shadow of the electric chair. When) we entered the office of the District Attorney Allen was seated in an arm chair and in another chair, close up, was Detective Eason. bound together by handouffs, left wrist of Eason. Detective Eason is a large, dark gentleman with a square face, who looks as though he could take care of himself under any circumstances. It is lucky for the Germans (that Eason wasn't in the war. Johnstone and I looked Eason over carefully before taking a glance at the nattily dressed blond young man at his side. “Gentlemen,” said Distric. Attoraey Lewis, “this is Jay B. Allen.” POLITE CRIMINAL STANDS UP TO MAKE His BOW. ‘The nattily dressed; blond young man started to stand up and bow, but Detective Eason snapped him back. They take no chances with Jay B. Allen, Some time later Johnstone and I, while waiting for a street car, simultaneously advanced the sugges- tion that Jay B. Allen might have been the model for the blond young man with his hair licked back, col- lege style, who posed for the pictures in the collar ads we see in the sub- way, “L” and surface cars. Jay B. Allen was possibly more at his ease than anyone in the room. Mr. Lewis asked him if he had any objection to posing for a sketch to be executed by Mr. Johnstone. “Not the slightest objection,” sald Allen, in a voice that had a sugges- tion of melody in it. “But I ven.ure to ask that he shall not include the handcuffs. Until your detective, Mr. Roddy” — waving hts free band at Detective Roddy, who brought him back from Tacoma, Wash.—"“got hold of me I never felt the clutch of handcuffs. A great many people will recognize my picture and it is @ matter of pride with me that I shail not be represented as handcuffed. As for the rest I suppose I shall be photographed considerably before my fate is decided in your community.’ Detectiv8 Roddy, who was sea' behind Allen, reflectively, rubbed bis left wrist. For eight days he had been chained to the genial murderer in the voyage from the Pacific Coast “| have to say for Mr. Roddy, went on Allen, “that he treated mo They were the right wrist of Allen clinging to the most considerately under the circam- stances, which were, sometimes, em- barrassing, I think to both of us. Mr. Roddy is a gentleman of tact and dis¢rimination.” THIRTEEN PLAYS AN UNCANNY PART IN HIS CRIMINAL LIFE. “Do you know the day of the week and the month?" asked District At- torney Lewis, who is what might be termed @ trained District Attorney inasmuch as many years ago he w first, office boy and later law clerk and assistant to District Attorney Foster L, Backus of Brooklyn, “Yes, sir,” answered Allen, “This is Friday the 18th of June, It is just six months to the day from Friday the 13th of December, when I had to shoot a couple of nice but imprac- tical young men tn the East Brooklyn Bank, And there is something else, about which I remarked to Detective Eason this morning, when we were taken over to Police Headquarters in Manhattan, about the figure 13, We | rode over and back in a patrol wagon the number of which is 13, | “Then 13 is not your lucky num- ber?" we suggested. “I can’t say that it isn't,” replied Allen, “I am not superstitious. You must remember that I got, according to the police reports, $13,000 from that bank Job, And, by the way,” he went on, “I don't mind telling you, that was my thirteenth bank hold- up. I mean that I have taken part in many times thirteen hold-ups, but that was my thirteenth experience in walking into a bank and getting away with whatever | could pick up. I would have been caught some time and I had to get over the thirteen jump anyhow.” By that‘time we had been able to size up Jay B. Allen, He is 5 feet 11% inches tall, erect, square jawed, big boned, symmetrical, His hands are white and his nails show that when he was loafing between hold-ups he patronized a manicurist. He has a -|good head, @ little narrow below the eyes and rather bulbous above, but the forehead is fine and indicates the windshield of a pretty good brain, His ears are large and outstanding. ers’ demands on them, Presiden’ Gompers had no desire to place this weapon in the employers’ hands. He clear that the Federation will support the garment workers in de- mands based on justice, even though unions making the demands are com- posed of radicals, President Gompers makes no distinction between radicals and conservatives in the matter of, ‘struggling to make their lives better worth living and bring- ing light into the dark corners of made as be says, their days.” ‘The radicals indulged in many thousands of words of pertervid ora- tory first to force the adoption of their resolution and then to have it voted on immediately in the hope it would be killed, They were given the iveliest support of well-known radi- i from New York, and of Bol- Bocialists cals § ebevists, LW. W's and from other sections, But President “Have you ever used drugs?” asked Gompers's proposal prevailed. ‘The committee will report @ resolu- tion supporting the demands of the iil make nt workers, and wi mention of the prospective strike in such @ way that the Féderation will not be pledged either for or against a|women, Hi in advance, The radicals Pager to renew their fight when report strike committee's substitute comes before the convgation, We have seen me Lombroso con- undue development of the bump of vanity, and there Jay B, Allen runs true to form, He is vain, and the trained District Attorney of Kings County took advantage of this trait of bis character in extracting from him the confession of the East Brook- lyn bank affair, Allen does not swear, He says he never has uttered @ profane word or told a smutty story, He claims to be truthful in all things which do not impinge upon his personal safety. Certainly he is frank enough in tell- tng about events which are matters lof public record, He is quite proud of his personal courage, as was brought out in some questions put to him by the District Attorney, Mr. Lewis. “Never,” responded Allen, and his face broke into the genial smile which assures one that he must have been ‘@ popular companion among men and bas a wonderful smile, which ripples back into his cheeks from the sides of his mouth and di ed etl wesned sare projeming! fom (8 lavoRy ASTER KILLING ‘THAT head of bishops. The peak of bis CAUSED HIS DOWNFALL. dome is quite pronounced, showing steady, blue eyes. able chap, this self-confessed slayer of three men and accused murderer of as many more. Sergt. Alvin York of Tennessee, the one-man army, who made such & wonderful record in France, has the same kind of a smile, but there isn't a criminal instinct in York's mind Put the two men side by side and you couldn't tell the hero from the highwayman.on the basis of looks. Back in Allen's brain somewhere Is the little nick or protuberance, which inspired him to criminal pursuits in his youth and back in York's mind is the little nick or protuberance which made him an elder in the Christian Church. HE PUT AWAY HIS SHARE OF WHISKEY. We are wandering away from Jay B, Allen's career as he talks of it, outside his “job” as he calls it, in the East Brooklyn Bank. That is a matter between him and the District Attorney of Kings County. “Now, you say you never used drugs,” said District Attorney Lewis. “Did you ever use whiskey?” I've put away my share of whiskey,” replied Allen, smilingly. “ll say that I have done my share in reducing the visible supply.” “Did you ever throw in a few nog- Altogether a axe. | me or beat me to it with a gun. Bo | I kept pretty, close watch of him, 4 “I didn’t look at his hands. [ looked at his eyes. I found he wasn't going to apologize so I kept on looking at his eyes and when I read there that re was going to draw I shot at him. aw many times did you shoot? asked Mr. Lewis. “I couldn't say,” answered Allen. “T never aimed at anybody when I | shot. The goroner said, in the court | proceedings, that I shot Davis through the lungs, That js all I know about it.” HE GENERALLY HIT WHAT, HE SHOT AT. ‘Are you @ pretty quod shot?" we inquired. “att “I'll say I am,” said Alien, “You see I learned to shoot when I w: boy out in Western Canada. [ got) to be a good shot with a rifle, I gen- erally hit what I shoot at.” Allen said he went through public schools and spent two years in a col- loge. He left his home eight years ago, went back after the lapse of one year and has never seen his home or people since, although he has passed through Alberta several times in his travels, His mothor and father are dead. He has two brothers living. . gins of rum to help your courage when you went out on a stick-up or hold-up job?" we asked. “IL never needed it myself,” an- | swered Allen, “I have done some pret- ty strong pieces of work without the | influence of stimulants of any kind—| gone into them cold sober. But it was often necessary for me to brace up people who were working with me— especially amateurs, I had an ama- teur with me on this Brooklyn job and he was pretty well liquored up when he went into the bank. Profes- sionals—I mean professional burglars and holdup men generally—start out with their heads clears” “Did you work with the same peo- ple often?” we asked. “I seldom had the same man on two jobs,” was the reply. “I never re- peated with an amateur—by that I mean @ man I picked up for his knowledge of local conditions, Some- times I did two or three consecutive Jobs with a professional. Nearly al- ways I split up with them and we ted, I preferred to work alone.” “Some of your pals,” we ventured, “wanted to stick along with you?” “Oh, yes," he replied, “but the ho- rizon of most men is limited, I had the whole world to work in. A little trip of a few thousand miles meant nothing to me.” “Inasmuch a8 you have been con- victed and sentenced to life for kill- ing your pal Davis tn Tacoma,” said the District Attorney, “would you mind telling us something about that affair.” “Well,” said Allen, quite earnestly, “we bad an argument over politics, We were in a room, three of us Davis said something about me not having any red blood. I asserted that I had as much red blood as anybody in the room, But nothing happened then. “Davis used some rough and pro- fane language, but I let is pass for about fifteen minutes and then he got up and went out of the room, “1 knew him pretty well and I knew he generally carried a pistol in the hip pocket of his trousers. Pretty soon Davis came back. “While he was out of the room I figured that possibly he hadn't his gun in his pocket and had gone to get \it; 1 also figured that maybe he had ; about twenty-two brothers," he ex- “The police have attributed to me plained with a smile, “In a number of places where they have something on me I worked with a fellow who was known as my brother. I used to spread the information that we were brothers, I had my reasons, which I prefer to keep to myself at this time.” Recalling that Frank James, the bandit, was addicted to the habit of chewing tobacco—we knew Frank James very well after he became a respected voting citizen and acted as ticket taker in the Standard Theatre in St, Louls—and that other bandits and robbers of our acquaintance ate tobacco on the sligntest provocation, we asked Allen if he, too, ever sought the solace of plug or fine cut, He got @ good laugh out of our question, “I know why you ask me that,” he said, “My teeth are discolored. No, I never chewed tobacco, but I have smoked in moderation, Now, as to my teeth, let me tell you something. A toothbrush has not touched them since I left Tacoma nine days ago, and it does not look as if these careful sentlemen are ever going to allow me to brush my teeth again,” THE PROFITS OF CRIME ARE SMALL, For an hour Allen talked about things which may not be set down here because of inhibitions placed by the Interests of justice, and all the time the alert District Attorney of Kings County watched him; all the time Allen's mind was at work. And we could put ourself in the District Attorney’s place and wonder what de- fense was being builded in that brain which had enabled a super-criminal to remain at large for eight years until he was caught by @ Killing re- sulting from a dispute over politics. In his eight years of crime Allen claims to have stolen about $410,000, a considerable part of which was split up with accomplices, “How much did you have,” we asked, “when you were arrested in Tacoma for killing Davjs?" “About $16,000," he replied, “and that is all gone now.” “So,” we said in the way of per- sons desirous of impressing on the erring the disadvantages of a mis- spent life, “all you had at the end of eight years of crime was « bankroll BACK AFTER HARD SERVICE NA EF Its Fifty Members, All Owners. of Ranches, Took Part in Four Big Battles. The classiest jazz band in the world, 60—cor-t ‘em, 50—pleces, every man the owner of at least one ranch in Colorado Wyoming, arrived) from St. Nazaire to-day as part of a| contingent of 1,791 officers and men, on the teahspoft “loridian. The “Million Dollar Band,” as France calls it—they believe over there that every player is @ millio@air-—is part of Col. Burke ‘Hi. Sinclair's 148th Field Artillery. Col, Sinclair grows beet sugar. ‘There wus a rece to port between the Floridian .nd the Peerless, waich left St, Nazal.) twelve hours ahend of | her. When the Floridian passed the; Peerless three days ago everybody on | the former b ¢t said it was all over and they would beat the Peerless to, New York by at least a day, but the boss of the Peerless put on full steam and she was only a few hours behind her rival The largest single unit on the Floridian, which docked at Pier 6, Bush Terminal at 7 o'clock, consisted ot 10 white officers and 921 colored troopers of the 509th Engineers, who | worked behind the lines in France. The 148th Field Artillery, National Guardamen of Colorado and Wyom- |ing before they went over, was rep- resented by Field and Staff, Medi- cal Corps, Headquarters Company and Battery B, a total of % officers and 411 men, The rest of the regi- ment was on the tardy Peerlesd. “We had the honor,” Col, Sinclair said, “ot taking part in four major operations, We were in the Marne defensive, the Marne offensive, at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne, Seven- teen of our men were killed and sev- enty-seven wounded.” ‘Jn the Peerless, also destined for mem, including 59 officers and men of the 146th Field Artillery, 4 officers and 62 men of the 66th Field Artil Brigade Headquarters and 16 officers and 740 men of the 148th Viekd Art! SPEDING UP WORK TO SAVE WALDERSE FEAR OF STOR Salvage Crews Work Day and Night as Thousands Crowd Long Beach Waters. ‘Thousands of visitors are expected to vistt Long Beach to-morrow by | public schools of the city, and out of OF SCHOOL BATS Passes Blame to Ettinger, But Doesn’t Deny Appropfiation ‘Was Cut. Mayor Hylan to-day replied to the charge of Superintendent of Schools Httinger that about 300,000 children witl be deprived of the use of public school swimming pools this summer because the Board of Estimate out $6,912 from the 1918 budget. The $6,912 was Intended for the pay of swimming pool attendants. The Mayor's reply, which is in a letter to Anning 8. Pratt, President of the Board of Education, does not deny that tHe amount fn question was lopped off. The letter follows: “Dear Sir: I note that Superin- tendent Ettinger, who is anxious to have the legisiature increase his salary by $5,000, which the Board of Estimate and Apportionment opposed, is attempting to give the public the impression that the Boarc of Bati- Mate and Apportionment is opposed to keeping open the ewimming pools in the public schools, This is ab- solutely false, and Dttinger knows it. “There has been $45,000,000 appro- priated by the present Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the that there will be sufficient to pay the few attendants necessary, the cost of which is leas than $7,000, to look after the swimming pools for the summer. “Ettinger had no trouble in finding money out of the $45,000,000 to start new activities so that his friends could get high salaried jobs and in- creases in salary for other Ettinger favorites, “A man who resorts to such moth- ods to mislead the public is not the proper person to be Superintendent of the Schools of the City of New York, “Very truly yours, “JOHN F. HYLAN, “Mayor.” Superintendent of Schools Mttinger told reporters that the appropriation for baths was requested, but was eliminated along with other items, “The reason why the eliminations were necessary is something that the President of the Board of Estimate will have to answ: he said. “Per- sonally, I would be delighted to see the baths kept open from the stand- point of the absolute benefit to those who would use them, and also from the standpoint of the inadvisability of having them but not operating them.” Secretary Joseph Hi of the Board of Estimate said cuts in the school budget re made by a joint meeting of the Board of Estimate and the Board of Education and were necessary to keep the budget down to the fixed mark. He said the in- crease of teachers’ pay was partly responsible for the eliminations. Mayor Hylan is ex officio President of the Board of Estimate. train and motor to watch the wreck- ors at work on the former Hamburg- American liner Graf Waldersee, beached at 11 o'clock Thursday morn- ing after she had been rammed In & fog by the Rodondo, The wreckers hope to get the liner off Stone Pile Bar sometime to-morrow afternoon. All that worried them to-day was @ o: bad weather. Sunday visitors to the beach will not see a spectacle to equal that pre- sented Inst night, when 300 men of the Merritt & Chapman forces worked on the vessel in thes light of six giant clectric searchlights. Divers carried submarine lamps. The scene from the shore was weirdly beautiful. Dance halls and movie shows were deserted for the open air spectacle and small boats did a rushing business at §1 for a trip around the Waldersee. Under Capt. EB. G. Dennison the crews of the tugs Relief, Resolute and Chapman Brothers labored throughout the night, At moon to- day the great wound in the giant liner’s side had been patched with planks and heavy tarpaulin and she had almost ceased to take water, She had @ bit of a list to port, but was slowly righting herself, “We hope to begin hauling her off Sunday afternoon,” one of the wreck- ers said, “but the barometer had dropped @ little this morning and there is the possibility of a storm, If realy bad weather should come right now it is more than likely that the Waldersee would be @ total loss.” While work on the Graf Waldersee was going ahead to-day W. Davis Conrad, Admiralty Counsel to the Shipping Board, began an inquiry into the sinking of the freighter Yankee, rammed by the Argentina and sunk at about the time the Ro- dondo bit the Waldersee. Capt. Dmniak of the Argentina, an Italian transport, wrote to the agents of that vessel that he thought the Yankee might have been saved. The Yankee remained afloat, he said, three hours and five minutes. average salaried man would consider |that bankroll quite ample at the end of eight years of toll, I should say.” On that assertion of what appears gone out to cool off, and when he came back I was undetermined as to brings sparkles to hie normally ccld, ‘ whether he wae going to apologise £0 of $16,000," “Well,” he said slowly, and be suiled and big eyes sparkled, “the to be the philosophy of life of Jay B. | Allen, bandit, we leave him to the , consideration of the reader, LOST $1,000 BOND FOUND AT CLERK'S HOME, THEY SAY Broker's Employee Tells Judge He Planned Marriage, Honeymoon, Trip and Speculation. Joseph Baron, twenty yoars old, of is @ young man of , being under $1,000 ball on @ charge of grand larceny simply because he planned ahead. Up to a week ago Joseph was a clerk in the brokerage house of Hirsch, Lilien- thal & Co., No, 61 Broadway. ‘The firm sent him to deliver five $1,000 bonds, He delivered four and reported that he had lost the other, Yesterday detectives who had been wtaching him claim to have located the missing bond hidden in his home, He made this explanation to Magistrate Ten Hyck in Centre Court to-day: “You see, Judge, I am engaged to get married, To get married I must have money. In the first place I must give « wedding feast to 400 people at a swell cafe in Second Avenue, That would cost $175, Then I must take my pride to Atlantic City for @ week on our honeymoon. That would cost $25, 1 would have $800 left which I would invest in @ certain oil stock and then buy ® bouse on Riverside Drive,” ——_———— United Synagogues te Convene, ‘The seventh annual convention of the United Synagogues of America ‘and the second convention of the Women's League will be held to-mor- row and Monday at the Jowish Theo- logical Seminary, No, 531 West 1 Street ¢ will be busli ings, speeches and social fi Street Police |. Noted Men and Women V Big Demonstrations of Bolshevist Dangers. ‘This is the birthday of the one hundred and forty-two years older than the Union Jack, older the French Tri-Color, older than i flag of Spain or of Ttaty—tving Ora the most powerful nation on cart, It le Mlag Day. And from to coast and from northern to ern boundary demonstrations are ing made against every “ism” every social dream that opposes American tradition. Perhaps the most impressive the most important event on day's programme here is the this afternoon at the Soldiers Sailors’ Monument \n Drive, where school children, the inene of to-morrow, singing the ot the nation, pledged allegianey © to the American emblem and ideals it representa, shevism and other imported Even in the midst of people paused to celebrate day. At Macy’s, for instance, a Ral was sounded this afternoon all the employees and ! bike ton Street soon after noon marched to the City Hall, led by the ‘Spirit of '76" Fife and Druin Corps. At the City Hall 282 returning com- patriots were to be presented with ervice medals. Not less than 700 Boy Scouts were at the noon meeting at the Sub-— Treasury et which was held under teh auspices of the Sons of the lution. The young soldiers aj in striking contrast with the % men and receivec an ovation from | the big crowd gathered about We 7 steps, ke Judge Alphonso TT. Clearview, | President of the Sons of the Revelu- tion, denounced Bolshevism and sake that ‘there never could be a LS when its doctrines would prevail i < this country, ‘There can never be time when there will be @ d tion of the world’s goods which’ willy in any way abviish opportunity the fraudulently and pernicious ¢ trines are attracting the clamor the very few, he said. mi Music was furnished by the 12 Regiment Band and subscriptions for the Boy Scouts campaign poured “in in generous offering. The Daughters of the Americas” Revolution arranged for a programme of speeches and songs at Mount Mage! ris Park in Harlem, * To-night the teachers and the De Witt Clinton High honor the soldier heroes of the including 1,800 alumni, thirty-two teachers and six pndergraduates. There are eat Wi Home demonstrations thi for returning soldiers, one at Cent Park, the other’ at Prospect Brooklyn. ‘ Anna Case Is giving a lawn party lospitay to wounded soldiers of Base Hi No, 1 this afternoon at her Farm, Mamaroneck, N. ¥, She 3 sing to her guests. oat 5 BANK RESERVES SHOW = FIRST DEFICIT IN 5 YEARS: Clearing House Attributes Money: “ Tension to Heavy Withdrawals * for Tax Payments. ‘ ‘The deficit shown by Clearing Howat Banks this week of $656,050 ts first deficit im reserves reported, them since Oct. 17, 1914, which the last of the large weekly Cl House deficits -witn oa the outbreak of the Buropean waa! when emergency currency had to fe” issued. ® Disappearance of surplus reserve during the past week explains tension in the money market resulted in 12 per cent. call money. The heavy withdrawals of cash for tax payments was the direct cause of is money stringency, Clearing House ‘Banks reported = loss of $32,000,000 in actual cashe serve and the Government drew some $30,000,000 of deposits, oq “SALADA Flavor The Tea witha “Quality” R Sealed Packets Qaly. . ‘ , } hy agli Purity he pA