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MOR LECH TI cy % — ALL THIRD DIVISION BAGK EXCEPT FEW NAHE GUNNERS) Maj. Gen. Howze Returns With Final Units of Much- Praised Regular Outfit. * The 24 Division, Regular Army, ‘With the exception of the Tth Machi Gan Battalion, which remains in Ger- many, is now entirely on home soll, the last units arriving to-day on four of wix transports which reached this Major Gen. 1, Howse, command of the came home i swith 2,000 of his men, parte of the ‘20th Infantry and 10th Machine Gun ) Battalion on the Mronprins Frederick ‘Wulbelm. Gen, Howse took the 38th Division to France last year and succeeded Major Gen. John T. Dickman in com- mand of the #4 when the latter was given command of one of our armies. During ten days of heavy fighting in Gen. Howse directed the’ operations of the 34 and he is very the work of the division. leaving for Brest to em- for Geh. Howre dedicated monuments at Chateau-Thicrry. ts in memory of the dead of the @jviston, the other commemorates thc ‘nohievements of the Third Division in stopping the Germany at the Marne BH tm the Chateau-Thierry sector. According to Gen. Howzze the Third Division, while serving as part of our Army of Occupation near Coblenz, conducted itself #0 well that 10,000 Ger. man residents of the district signed petition asking that the Third be al lowed to remain during the period of provided fot in the treaty, ‘The first verified German pride to arrive in the United Statcs came on | His parents were at ‘and took the bride to Bridge- them. maserve officer who does no? ‘to get out of the army is Capt Morritt of Tuckahoe, who served the 90th Infantry and wears tho war crom, the Distinguishe®) Cross and the insignis of the Honor. He was @ bond sales- ATE efit CRIMINALS HAVE BUSY NIGHT NEAR Two Hold.Ups, Twe Two Attempt- ed Burglaries and an Auto Theft in One: Centre, Two hold-ups, two attempted bur- Slaries, and one automotiiie theft— all in the district around the West {7th Street police station—kept de- tectives busy there from last night to thie morning. Only one man was caught ‘This was Etward Lahey, No. 316 West 16th Street, who wns held in. $10,000 bail in the West Side Court this morning on a charge of attempting to rob « dancing academy at 46th Sfreet and Broadway, He was caught because, when chased by 300 pedestrians and several autos, he ran into the arms of Patrolman Robert Graham. That, was early this morning. Graham told the police that he and ‘a pal, who was not caught, bad ‘been waiting for a man with a big roll of money, but failed to find him and had therefore decided to try the dance haif so as to get something “for the night's work. The police say the two might have succeeded in robbing the proprietor, Milton Prince, if the matron of the academy, Mise Katherine Murphy, had not stepped in between. When she did that they fied, and every; vody after them. About 10.30 in the evening Harry Melasky, manager of tho United Cigar store at Eighth Avenue and 67th Street, was proparing to close up. His girl was in the back storeroom wait- ing to walk home with him. Two mon with revolvers backed Melasky into the room with the girl and locked, the door. “We're gentleman,” said one of the robbers. “You'll have no trouble if you behave.” They got $90 and went away. Mo- lasky kioked down the door and, told tho police, Meanwhile somebody had stolen the new automobile of Chartes Ginch, pro- prietor of an. express business, who had left the car In front of his office at No. 1777 Broadway. He was told that two young men had walked up to ft and driven away. At one o'clock this morning Lous Shapiro was closing the front door of i al ir financial district before the {a aide to Major Gen. accompany his chief to the General will take troops in that district. men of the Third came Nansemond, which was the Hamburg-American liner Brigadier General Ora coromander of the Sixth Lo- charge of the On the Nanse- M. Brady of Yon- i if Fee = $ i f i 8 neg His saloon at 58th Street and Broadway, when he heard a noise in the Tear. He got there just in time to scare away a man who had broken open the back door, He locked it again and went home. But the policeman on the beat found the door open again at four o'clock in the morning. Nothing had been stolen and it is as#imed that the burglar was sqpred off again. All this, however, does not mean ij rf i F. three decorations and for leading party of twenty- which captured, nine wa- ven German officers and German privates in the Ar- trips ending to-day Closed the of the Frederick Wilhelm and do Bart as transports, They overhauled there. Other transports which brought men of the 44 Division were the Huren, with 1,200 men of the 4t » and the Sol Navis, wit of the 30th Infantry. Madawaska brought 1,491 as- sorted troops, including 750 of the ‘76th Field Artillery, The Powhatan, started from France efor Newport News and was diverted to port en route, carried 1,601 toeee, including 450 of the 76th Field Artillery. setae TR RS INWOOD BUYS GREEN GOODS. Bat Its an Open and Abe an Game and Police Don’t In: Dp tm the Inwood section of Munhat- tan they're conducting a sale to-day of greem goods right out In the open, un- afrala of police interference, ‘The “green goods men” are the mem- bers of the Inwood Community Gardens Association, who are selling about ten truckloads of corn, beets, carrots, on- fons, eabbages, spinach and other ys dion” products ‘picked, last night from Dyckman o7th thelr own gt The sale stands are at and Post Avenue and at 2 and Sherman Avenue, The pro: isso the sale will go to the Inwood Welegme Home celebration on Satur- day, Sept. fil at all Lf z i Soe Peltee Flyers At Through the interest of Col Bim- ,elah P, Ghadiall, ‘the expert in the luboratory of the Police Reserve Avia- tion Behool, Hillsdale, N. J. ts to have un added attraction for the opening of jis Old Home Week celebration to- Jersey Fete. Any, Two planes. guided ‘by ‘police ‘are to m Mineola to PiRedaiee carrying Ghadial) and ina ec! tor Joho ¥F wyel he planes! NiP’be ‘put through various stunts On the Hillsdale cfowd that all the criminals were down town, F. Adam Kunz, No, 24 Sum- ner Avenue, Brooklyn, and Miss Har- riet Chappel, No, 18 Weat + 101st Street, were walking in Central Park in the evening when they were held up at 1034 Street by two men who got Kunz's watch and: $35 and Miss Chappel’s m: bag. The police a little later arrested John Schkereth, No. 106 West 10ist Street, and Frank Walls, No, 108 West 109th Street, and charged them with the park robbery ——— DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH GETS VANDERBILT MILLIONS Father's Gift of $15,000,000 Just fo Renovate Her Lon- don Home, Advices from Parts, recelved here to- day, state that William K. Vanderbilt has Just given $15,000,000 to his daygh- ter, the Duchess of Marlborough, for- merly Consuelo Vanderbilt, to renovate her don home, Sunderland House, —— MULLIGAN SAILS TO END WAR K. of C, Chairman Gees to Salvage Equipment and Call in Men, No matter when the Senate ratifies the Peace Treaty, the war will be over in three months, That's the date when the last K. of ©. secretary will leave overseas, according to William J. Mulll- gan, Chairman of the Knights of Col- umbus War Activities Committee. ‘The “Caseys" bad promised that their men would remain overseas “until it was over, Over There.” Is Mr. Mulligan ta booked to safl on the ronis to-day to salvage the equip+ ment used during the pose of a doughnut fac mi 75.000 a day, the transport servi: the Coney laland” it Brest. The K. ©. Becretarieg are atill operating 100 p hu nce and Bel; end's number In Solana, eal Iced TEA POLICE LICE STATION RVE | THREW BOILING WATER ON BOY, IS CHARGE ccused Man Says He Was Annoyed By Noise of Youth's Playing * Under Window. William Brunner, an’ electrician, 24. No, 624 Bast 196th Street, was held in $2,000 bail by Magistrate McQuade in Morrisania Police Court to-day on a charge of pouring a bucket of boiling water on 14-year-old Thomus Burke of No. 540 Hast 136th Street, The Burke boy is in Lincoln Hospital suffering from frightfal burns and the hospital authorities say he cannot be release before Sept, 2. Brunner’a examination was set for that date. Burke and other boys were playing in the back yard of the tenement tn which Brunner lives Thursday evening. They were noisy and annoyed Brunner, who grabbed a pail of boiling water from the kitchen -stove and threw it into the yard, The pail and its con- tents struck Burke, Brunner admitted to Detective Meli- tharty, who arrested him last night, that he injured the boy, He naid in) explanation that the boys had so taunt- ed and annoyed him that he lost con- trol of himself and threw the first thing nat came to hi yd, P 2 MILES A MINUTE IN TEST New Record Set in Flight From Buffalo ‘to Mineola Pre- ceding Race, A new record has just been for the Buffalo-Mineola leg of the big handicap and speed air race which will start Monday under the auspices of the American Club of this city and the Aero Club of Canada. J, D, Hill, a pilot from Buffalo, reached Mineola yesterday afternoon in a Curtiss Oriole biplane after a fight of four hours and ten minutes. The distance in 440 miles Hill's speed was nearly (wo miles a minute. Hill made the Might as pathfinder for the big international race. On Monday 34 Government-owned and 14 civilia® planes will set forth over the same course reversed, with th difference that each will be com pelled, under the rifles governing the contest, to make stops en route at Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo, with Toronto as s minus. Major Gen, Menoher, wilh it director of the Army Ai vice, be the starter at the Mineola end, was announced, a | PRINCE CLOSES | QUEBEC VISIT i vias Shrine of St. Anne de Beau- and Kent QUEBHC, Aug. 2 three days’ visit to Q) of Wales to-day was thi other series of receptions, This morning he visited the famou Ursuline Convent and Hotel Dicu How: pital, In the afternoon be visited th shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre and trips to Montmorency Falls and the ancient Kent House. To-night the Prince will be the guest Govern —onsipaing a bec, the Prince guest of an- of the Lieutenant or of the | Province at a dinner and reception at the atorial residence, encer- Torento Toes The Fringe lesves for set! Flying | Ha bine” WoaLb, ‘sarumpay, American and Canadian Flyers, Many Heroes of War, to Compete for Valuable Prizes in Round-Trip Contests. - The Hotel Commodore Internation-|the sky. Letters will be exchanged 4, Airplane Race between New York | between the Mayors of the vurious cities where and Toronto, which starts on MoD-| os. sivian to Mayor Watt of Al- day, Is scheduled as the greatest race in the history of the country. Buck of Buffalo and Mayor Church of On thp American aide the airmen | Toronto+and ane the ofher way ian flyers. jaround by the will be given the signal to start BY)" “one pig Job forthe army alrmen | Brig. Gen. Willlam Mitchell, head of lig the testing of the different’ ma- army aviation, from Roosevelt Field, | chines — French, English, — Italian, at Mineola, and the Canadians will Amertoan aa Olttind make—ob- take the alr at the word from the | epying the péfformance of eavb un- Prince ot Wales trom Exhibition |ior the same weather conditions and City, Toronto, En route, both ways, |determining their utility, speed and ground stops wil] be made at Al-|air.worthiness for the future com- bany, Syracuse and Buffalo, and the | nerce of the skies. route will be the round trip, the aero- ‘The route covers 1.040 miles, 149 nauts finishing at their starting from New York to A!bany, 141 more pointa. je edie other 146 to Bulla, From Roosevelt Field the sqaad- And a miles trom thera to Pershing Square group of hotelsshas Queensboro Bridge, and after circling donated a cash prize of $10,000, ani Hudson and follow the river to Ale Flying Ciub for the Cana- du o bany.. ‘They will he clef by Gow iin confend nd by the Canadian | velt Field by Mayor Watt and Tepre- FORTUNE TELLERS GIVE HER sentatives of the Albany Chamber of Hakes, Chairman of the A saad HOP E OF FINDING BABY Committee on Aviation. Mitchell will be Major Gen. Charles Anonymeus Letter That It Will T, Menoher, U. 3. A; members of} Be Returned. President, and Edward W. Forrest,) Mrs, Elsa Wents, dehperate decause Secretary of the Forty-second Prop. °f the failure of her month-long search lation and hope by visiting for- Won; Laurence Driggs, President, and Cone! other members of the American Fly. ‘Une tellere, Bho said to-day that she ing Club, under whose auspices and tog yesterday by one of these ” those of men prominent in aeronau- The fortune “teller told me. | This committee will be at ltoosevelt by @ friend of mino who passes my Field @o welcome the woming Cuna-: house at No. 725 Home Street « dogen hop, ron will fy te Now York, scroas the Toreat®, John McE. Bowman of the Pershing Square make a.drive for the trophies have been put up by the Aero Club for the American aviators. Smith and his staff at Quentin Roose- abitaen conan Commerce, ‘including Chauncey At tho starting point with Gen. | Mother of Kidnapped Child Gets the Canadian ,Chtb; A. E. Thorne, erty Owners and Merchants’ associn- fOF her stolen baby, is row seeking wan much encouraged by what she was tics In Canada the race takes place, Mra Wents, “that my baby was stolen dian birdmen, times @ day and that the baby will | <1n the list of contestants of both |#on be returned.” | ‘This morning she received an anony- mous letter saying that the child would |be returned if,-she placed the carriage | Where it was when the baby was stolen |Countries are aces of the air who |won distinction and decorations {wbroad on all fronts. All sorts of airplanes will be in the race, from @ jca pront to a Curtiss Wasp. Fifteen | well- known aviators of the American | Army will fy with the Americans as |@n escort of hover and for the pur- | pose, of making ‘observations in the performances of the varlous aw aes fe front of a department store |150th Street and Third Avenue. pallid ital OLD TYPESETTER DEAD. Thomas A. Resstter Was in | Composing Room Forty-Six Year j of eratt, Thomas A. Rossiter, for forty-six Li resenting the army in the alr| years an employ of the New York will be Col. Archie Miller, Major Gil- | Sun and for thirty years foreman of the kinson, Major Henry J. Miller, Major | Composing room, ts dead of peralysis at Lyons, Capt. Harry Smith, Capt. A. toe home of bi donghtar, ars, wrens 3 in A. 9. past 32 et, |F. Simonlan, Capt, J. 0. Donaldson, | 9 2d pra Bro g tay #8 |M & McGrew, Capt. Kindley.| the gun in 1968, the first year of Charles Capt, M. G, Cleary, Lieut. Ross C. | 4” Dana's editorship, and was retired Kirkphtrick, Lieut. W. Contes, Lieut. | on @ pension after a paralytic stroke In | Roullot, Lieut, Philip Melville und|1914. He never took # vacation. Lieut. W,R. Taylor, — * Mr, Rossiter was seventy-six yoars | Among the daring airmen in the |old on June 6 last. He was born in| jrace ere Roland Rohifs, the Curtiss | Ferne, County Wexford, Ireland, and test pilot, whq recently flew to the|came to New York when sixteen. His height of 30,700 feet, and would have oe Bag =e mes Raw ; 0 fee ath jaughter, Mrs. i 5 manda 90079 toot WE as = tat a sons, Frank and Dr. Philip E, Rossiter, one below zero, Others Will | mne,tuneral will be held from the Phe- be Richard H. Depew, Charles 3. |ian nome at 3 o'clock to-morrow after Jones, with two Boche planes official- | noon, Ted Parsons, who also saw service with the Escadrille, % A telegram from Greenwich Capt, J. M, Foote, who Is testln® | yonq MeoCormack purchased an Irish pilot for the army, will carry a letter | cow yesterday. It was assumed that from President Wilson at the White the cow was Irish, because the tenor —Gets Guernsey Herd Too, nays House to the Prince of Wales and|named her Bileen, which ia the name next King of England at Toronto. of the Irish actress, Miss Huban, and Major C. W. Ford, another aviator |of Victor Herbert's recent Irish oper- with « great record, fighting first with ¢tta, as well as various other persons, the Lafayette Escadrille later Plays and stories of Irish doscent. Mr. McCormack paid $10,000 for the| and wit is own airmen, wil > be in| ee Dvors. floc tues noted 198eo™ ‘Two hours after the sale, sho | = became the proud mother of a bouncing make history an rome L KROWN gait, which also will, in all probability, |wherever aviation js kovwn' oll ever acquire @ old ‘Irish name in fue couree of tim: the world, also purchased Mai) will ve cur.ied by tho shipgiof of js yeuterdey, avaust Great International Airplane Race. Ready to Start Here and at.Toronto PROMISEHELPIN | INS45,000TH tops are made—from | bany, Mayor Stone of Syracuse, Mayor | ly to his credit; Lawrence B. Sperry, aefpocmaiiene Lieut. M. ‘Leslie Hull, Treasurer of | M’CORMACK BUYS IRISH COW. | § the American Flying Club, who flew | - és with the Lafayette Escadrille, and | Names Her Eileen | rh i ne Y 23, 19 ‘i a RON President, time the First Division, As President Wilson Sept. 8 or 9 | The |to be among the first their arrival, but wish the General the signal Plans for a big Co plans this elty to welcome the Goneral on CONGRESS PLANS BiG WELCOME FOR PERSHING AND 1ST Reception Proposed Includes Cabinet, Court Justices, Diplomats. Supreme Arrangements now making by tho President and Congress pomnt to a bix in New York and when Gen. Pershing comes home with Washington has been stated to come to resident not only ts anxious to greet Gen. Pershing and the First Division on es to accord to honor of visit~ ing the port of debarkation for the sole purpose of welcoming him and his victorious warriors home, ngrossional ra. ception to Pershing were set in mo- | tion by the Introduction of # resolu. j tion by Chairman Julius Kaha (Rep, Cal) of the House Military Commit. tee. ure pr This is virtually the same meas- posed some days a > by Flep- resentative Caldwell of New York. The new resolution Axew the date | os Sept. 18, and would create a com- mittee of fivy Senators and seven Representatives 10 urrmango 4 pro gramme. A joint session of t House t# planned, vites the President in every major engai fc | by Lieut, Col. ‘Theodore Roosotelt, formerly of the 26th Infantry, for the purpose wf co-operating with other committ especially the Mayor's Commit for the recepuion of the | gallant “Fighting First” in New York the middle of September, Col. W. L nly, once head of the air service, and Capt. Kermit Roose. | velt are others on the committes, of which Col. Fred Fiegel ts secretary, a me | Strticing: ¢ Men ket in Brooklyn, Ne Senate and The resolution ins members of bis Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme| ; Harris, commanding, dealres fifteen boys | Court, ex-President Tart, former Jus- | CO Comme, of Civil War ame Dtes| ving high school education tq salldt 4 tice Hughes and the heads of the|,,OUMVHAd Aug. 33.d—Andrew | 7) tag years on the Hanoll Cowan, Lieuteaant-Colonel in the Civil ‘The lay. recruiting offlcer, at Ny, bs military and naval torces, while thelwar, who commanded the Union Batter |3¢ Raat £34 Street. polnts out’ ‘the Diplomatic Corps will doubtless be! placed near Ue tamous “clump oi (reece | boys whe respond will be out of Aiton gi ited ie tOny : ett's care was |New York, engaged in ict | presen re will probably be a pa- IM, the |experimenial | work. | whi |rade on Pennsylvania Avenue with re. died” at his home mechanical Wutles as well as Gen, Pershing at it» head #, long lnees, round” seamanahtp Officers of the First Divfsion, the first combat unit to afri in France, | victors at Cantigny and perticipants | The 600 striking shopmen and in |dexera employed by the Brooklyn |Union Gas Co. began picketing morning, The pickets |the Gowanus Canal, North lath Street and af the company a berd wee ny oe to ‘ee. ENGLISH ACTORS THREE CABLETO EQUITY) OF LIBERTY BON Detectives Report $41,000! Securities Stolen Here Are Located. Inspector Lahey received a. Urge suman Hire Here to * Hould Out for Recognition of Union. ‘The English Actors’ Assdciatfon wot behind the strikt actors and actregnes fo-day. A cablegram was received from she assogiation at the AE. A. hea@quarters, giving as- marance of the Engtishmen's support and sympathy and winding up by saying that Onless the New York ac- tors insisted upon recognition of their union they would not be worthy Citizens of a free country, “Individualistic” actors is the name destowed by the Equity upon the new actors organtzation — wy George Cohan, “If thé individualistic actors want to find out how they stand with tl pubdite, let them give a parade like did,” said Recording Secretary Grant Stewart of the Equity to-day, “We didn’t need agy referendum to start our strike. Public discussion of our demands was carried on for several weeks Before We took action—in fact, over since the managers started their progressive lockout. “The demands of the A. BE. A. are. extraordinarily modest. We cannot guerante that hurd will continue #0 indefinitely.” In accepting leadership of the new actors’ organization, Mr, Cohan sat he did not think he would ever pro- duce another pla} Previously he had offered to subscribe $1( 9,000, re~ tire from the producing business and devote his future to trying to bring back friendly relations between actors and managers, He said he did not wish to attend any meetings until he resigned from the Producing Mi Anno clation, nctacaosiinaemoniat ILL; FOUND DEAD IN YARD, Police Say “Rechest * Man Com~ 4 Sutera: Philip D. Daita, thirty-four, of ifochester, N. ¥.. was found dead tn the court yard of No. 47 @feat 112th’ Street early toxtay under the window of the room which he occupied last night In ment of hie cousin, Mrs. Sam. Hs ey sees here on his way yo suitivan Sour. for tuber= Where he was to be trented culosts ene heart trouble, recorded his death as due to pa Bn nF Tt GIVES LIFE TO SAVE GIRLS. wate was infatuated with a dancing gift well known along Broadway and F sho had disappeared. n ! il with Simmons & ing alleged forged and a photograph ot uniform of @ soldier, Me that be had seen service 11 A general alarm was sent out | the police for the arrest of and Birkowita as soon as the 1 Dery was reported. u ff Ate of ned Gathers, . ASBURY PARK, N. J. Aug. 23.— Rath Dubois bathing in the surf this morning when |Pbilip Zausner, secretary of the the heavy waves suddenly frightened {York District Counell, gave, tte’: them and they called for help. Henry |to-day to the statement of Alfred Donekamp, a waiter, reached them but |Jo¥. secretary of tite Allied the exertion was too m Pa nters’ Association, printed fn py 4d he died in the wate; Evening ang, be Sin0. i ae Se ening World Lrernta 2 t him, but ed to hold on his body just citmie to the rescue. piesa ena PLAN N. Y. TO PARIS FLIGHT. |. $25,000 Prise Ia Donated by Ray- | whi rt Ortets. ‘The Aero Club of America this morn- b ing announced that it will put up a prize of $2,000, donated by Raymond |a' Ortelg, for the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in the net five. years. The flight .must be York to Paris or the oe of Be or the reverse, in a heavier than air, land or water machine, The competition {i to all flyers vf allied nationalith olding & [egace of the International Aeronautical Fs eration, trance, fe ie bein The commits Raymond Orteig, “Aus ne Hawley ‘and Augustus ‘Post. DOCTOR KEEPS NIXON IN eo. Mervice Commissioner May Net Be Up eral Days. Public “Service Comminsioner Lewis Nixon, who broke down two days ago aa the resuit of the strain attending the settlement of the traction 10 and will need careful atte: . cording to his physician, Dr, T, D, Lucus, of No, 263 West Tlat Street. Beane ods EDISON To WORK WORK FOR U.S. “Commissioner Nixon had @ bad epell 4 Dr. Lucus, “but he| | The U. 8. Pe Mauoll, form formerly “Laide; io feeling better now. The Commissioner | Baldwin's widow's yacht California, gow certainly wilt Bok aye e. Bed Sor Anchored at 834 Street, in the Hudson, — ot three days and T canno! aay whether be will be up then,” bas been assigned to Themes A. Watson ~ ad for experimental duty. Lieut. W. # Mere Clty Children Bent te ee Mense Varm tee 8 Weeks of Sagi Ee tice, the a, Las ‘up-in- the-opane % ment this season, and more before more will 5 the season Keil