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Baturday, Aug. 2. © Paris; by Aspociated Press) Backe, a German horsedealer, ‘Of attempting to bribe Amer- “Army officers in connection with gale Of 24,000 horses, was sentenced Ww four months imprisonment to-day fined 6,000 marks by the Superior Court. yy OMcers connected with the case Backe was merely a go-between that wealthy Germans in the in- “Petter were back of the conspiracy, | and all fish dishes are improved one hundred per cent in flavor and digestibility by the | heat Perna Ieimpart that delicate that has given SAUCE ‘THE OWLY ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE A world wide reputation, U Sieur execiBhte tere NO HIDE SCARCITY, DECLARES LAWYER; End Profiteering by Empty- ing Laden Warehouses. While Congress is preparing to in- shoes, with further advances indl- cated, Louis W. Fehr, an attorney, No. 51 Rroadway, charges that as a | result of his personal investigations, he finds that hides in this country, instead of being scarce are plentiful. He asserts that it is within the power of the War Department to end profiteering on shoes and declares army and civilian warehouses and and shoes which could be readily placed on the market to remedy the present price inflation. Mr, Fehr, who recently was dis- charged from the army, where he served with the rank of captain, bases his findings on data that came to his personal attention while s‘a- tioned in Washington and on an vestigations he made as counsel for the bankrupt firm of Madero Brothers “In my avestigation last summer and in a more recent one,” said Mr. Fehr to-day, “I visited three ware- houses in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island and found them filled to the ceiling with hides, Warebouse- men I questioned said the hides had been stored in the warehouses since before the war and no steps had been taken to deplete the stock of these hides, which were suitable for tan- ning into shoe leather, “These warehousemen told me that the warehouses in and around Greater Now York were so filled with hides that it was necessary for the owners to ship the hides to the Middle West, where I know, to my personal knowl- edge, thousands of bales of hides aire stored. “The War Department ts in a po- shoes and the promise of stil higher prices to come due to holding yb pairs of excellent army ‘hoes made during the war and which now are |can Embassy at Mexico City. filling warehouses to capacity, be- cause the necessity for immediate supply closes with the demobilization of the army.” Mr. Febr made it clear that an ex- amination of the warchouses in this in the waterfront sections; in th distriet of Brookly: and of the storage houses in Mariners’ Harbor, tL, of hides red up by profiteers wait- ing for opportunity to unload on favorable. willing to wager that he will find millions of pairs of shoes abundance of materia! turned over to hide department of the Centr issue with Attorney Fehr's statement. age before the war can be day, but at a much higher price,” Mr. Lynch said, supply depots are laden with hides |% putting on the market thousands of “I challenge an investigator to ex-|to be held here Thursday, amine the contents of the four great|he was acting a@t the direction of Sec- United jretary of Laber Wilson and that, be- » manager of thé! pre-war period but the pric “gee EVENING | woube un ema NARRGE PAPERS Admits Guilt, With " Resetrations, on Six Specifications—Verdict Goes to Washington. instructions from Franklin D. @ court martial, sitting in the Brooklyn Navy Yard ted to-day the plea of Lieut. (junior grade) Benoit J. Bilert of Says War Department Could) guiity, with certain reservations, to six of fifty-one specifications charging him with accepting money and valuable presenta for placing young naval re- serve officers in “bomb proof’ berths in this city during the war. The court Will send {ts verdict sealed to Washing- vestigate the increase in the price of|ton and it will be made public by the Navy Department. A. i. Nova, counsel to Bilert, sub- mitted to the court papers showing that the self-convicted officer had served in American war and in the navy for twelve years. He called attention to | the fact the Ellert has already been un- der detention, confined to quarters for seven months. At least two more naval officers and 4 number of enlisted men will be court- }martialed for conspiring to keep young men with money away from see duty nv gation are planning a procedure |may enable them to reach the civ! who Fesorted to bribery to insure that ir sons or other reiatives might be away from German submarines shells in war time. PROTEST IN STURGISS CASE ., UNHEEDED BY MEXICO Dentist’s Mother-in-Law Said to Have Starved to Death While a Prisoner, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Inquiry at the State Department to-day developed that representations were made to the Mexican Government after Dr. Charles T. Sturgiss of Wash! his wife and the, latter's mother, Mrs, W. H, Keen- right, had been taken prisoners nearly a year ago by Gen. Rafael Cally, Mayor. ‘The Mexican authorities promised to in- vestigate, but so far as ts known here none of the bandits has been punished. First information concerning this case was made public here last night by the Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. Mrs. Keonright died of starvation, It is #aid, while « prisoner, and Dr. Stur- sins and his wife were not released un- Ul last February, The dentist was par- tially paralyzed owing sition to remedy the high price of| while nth the anda Lawrence L. Shipley an American of peringion, Nev., who was captured ey, bandits at Fresnillo, Mex., Saly 19, rding to Mexico’ dy spatches forwarded to the State Department to-day by the Amori= ' —— ACTS TO SETTLE FISH STRIKE Vederal Comm@eioner Calls Gone ference of Factors. BOSTON, Aug. 4.—In an effort to settle the atrike of fishermen of New ‘ould reveal thousands | England ports which has been in pro- gress more than @ month, Henry J. the market when the price ls more Skeffington, a Federa) Comniissioner, to- day called @ conference of all factors He said that aides trying te adjust the controversy an | ver Wages, he would endeavor to ob- tain an Agreement to prevent future which could | japor troub! js being constantly forced up by the produc- Leather Co., of 17 Battery Place, took| ers and slaughterers.” Another official of the Central “About the same number of hides| feather Company said the increased that were on the market and in stor-|cost of shoes was directly traceable had to-| to the public's desire to pay more for shoes because it has now been edu- “The importation) cated to @ higher standard of shoe of hides is about the same as in the’ quality. BROOKLYN: PPENHEIN.CLINS & G Fulton Street, Brooklyn Special Sale Tuesday ouada Handsome Silk Blouses OF EXCLUSIVE DESIGN—IN SHEER AND BECOMING MODES A varied group of the season’s smartest models of superior Georgette Crepe and Crepe de Chine in Flesh rills, vestees, lace trimmed and tucked. and White. Sale Price an Indiana regiment in the Spanish-| REPLACE WARRANT FOR CHAUFFEUR faspalsfpdlsess Employer Drops Charge of Stealing Car When He Finds Driver Took It to Wed. William F. Read, a manufacturer of No. 212 Fifth Avenue entered the West Side Police Court to-day filled with resentment against his ¢hauffeur, Bernard Leonard of No. 203 West) 1024 Street. He left the court an hour later filled with the kindliest feclings toward Leonard and rode down to the Municipal Building with Leonard and Helen Gibson of No. 203 West 102d Street to aid them in procuring a marriage license. And this is how it came about. Mr. Read left the city last week, announcing that he would be gone several days. He came hack after two days and was unable to find his car or his chauffeur. He promptly in- formed the police that Leonard hed stolen the car and a general alarm Was sent out which reached the police headquarters of all nearby cities. On the day of Mr. Read's return, Leonard, who fought in France with the old 69th, ventured to use his em- Ployer's car on @ very important mission, He took Miss Gibson up to a city in Connecticut for the purpose of marrying her, They had been en- waged for some time, While Leonard was arranging for his marriage in the Connecticut city a policeman who had read the gen- eral alarm recognized the automobile number and notified the chauffeur that there was a warrant out for his arrest in New York. Leonard imme- diately placed Miss Gibson in the car and hurried back here without wait- ing to be married or arrested, He ran the car to the garage and ,find- ing himself unable to reach Mr. Read, want into retirement, appear- ing this morning in the West Side Court to answer to the charge against him, ‘When Mr. Read heard the story he| = withdrew the complaint, re-employed Leonard and volunteered to aid him in committing matrimony, ee SHIFTS RATE-MAKING POWER. House Committee Restores It to interstate Bo: WASHINGTON, Aug. Interstate Commerce Committee to-day voted, 6 to 5, to report out the Cum- mins. Railroad Bill which restores to the Interstate Commirce Commission the right to make rates during the re- maining. period of Federal control. The bill, was amended by the com- wide that there shall be ho change in interstate rates until they Save, be been approved by the State Com: BOLSHEVISTS RETAIN POWER Deny Ramors of Coalition Rule in Russia. 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Y., Aug. 4.—With the Presentation of the War Work report at the Knights of Columbus Conven- tion opening here to-morrow, the or- ganization will jaunch its campaign for peace time constructive work for American ideals. Secretary of War Baker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and Admiral Benson will represent the Army and Nayy at the convention. Mareel Knecht of the French High Commission will speak for France. Archbishop ‘Hayes of New York, Bishop William ‘Turner of Buffalo and Bishop |Thomas Shahan of the Catholic Uni- versity of Washington, D. C., will at- tend. The thirty-seventh annual conven- tion since the organization was founded in New Haven in 1882 and the largest in its history will open with solemn high Pontifical mass in St. Joseph's Cathedral. The Supreme Board has received re- quests from England, Scotland, Nor- way, France, Chile, Peru, Argentine and Hawai! for the extens:on of | the Knights of Columbus. It was decided to institute a council in Hawaii, while the other requests were referred & committee, Rev. John J. Wynne, 8. J,, of New York, submitted the report of’ the edu- cational conference held in-New York Inst week. This contemplates the es- tablishment of approximately — 1,700 Knights of Columous supplementary schools. eaten NO TROOPS FOR DANZIG, Supreme Allied Counctl Decides Against. PARIS, Aug. 4.—-The Supreme Coun- cil has decided inst the occupation of Dantzig by Allied forces, according it to-day. eral will be placed & id of Allied contingents the Rhine, the Council decided. A TOR ARE SA Auburn Convict Escapes. AUBURN, N. Y., Edward Duffy, a convict in the group working in the Hector road camp near Watkins, escaped last night and has not been ap- prehended. Duffy was serving years having been convicted in Kings County for assault second degree after previous conviction. STANDARD OIL COLOFNY. 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