Mo State Libre MAY 1919 THE LATEST NEWS The Post- Star is delivered anywhere In Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties the same day published. PAGES THE POST-STAR. THIS NEWSPAPER HAS THE FULL REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Whole No. 4237. CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL GLENS FALLS, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919 CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL 'WILL GLENS FALLS MAKE GOOD On the final lap of the Victory loan campaign Glens Falls has still to subscribe 950 in order to attain guota and uphold its reputation of having fulfilled every wartime obligation from the smallest request for a few dollars for starving children in foreign countries to the millions called for in its Liberty bond quota.
It is true that virtually every citizen of the city has done his or her full share in subscribing to previous loans and many of them have done more than their share in the Victory Liberty loan campaign. However, it remains for those who have not yet subscribed and for those who have already subscribed but can still possibly do more to come to the front during the remaining few days and put the city over the top in the last great struggle which it is necessary to make for the winning of the war. Victory Liberty bonds, or short term notes, as they are termed, present the soundest investment that is being offered the American people today and the best part of the offer is that they are available to the person of small means, even to those who are able to make payments of only one dollar a week. While bonds of previous issues are at present selling somewhat below their par value the Victory Liberty bonds are not very likely to depreciate in value. Should they drop below par they will be on a basis of a five per cent investment and there would be such a demand for a government bond that would pay this rate that the market price could, not possibly fall below this level and the strong buying that would come with such a drop would immediately send the price up again.
Regardless of what the market price may be for Liberty bonds of the previous issues it is well for those holding them and those who may be holding off on the Victory loan because of the market price that Liberty bonds are payable when due at their face value and that the rate of interest paid by the government is based upon their face value. To the holders of bonds who have them for investment the market value means nothing for to such holders the bonds are worth their face value. The urgency of subscribing to the Victory Liberty loan is set forth in the following appeal which was received by Post-Star last evening from Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury: "The Victory Liberty loan campaign is twothirds over but subscriptions have been reported for little more than one third of the loan. "Is it conceivable that the American people who with heart and soul waged the fight for freedom will permit this loan of Victory and Thanksgiving to fail? "Our sons gave of their. health, of their strength and of their lives that freedom might not perish.
There are one and one-half million American boys in France 2d Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money to pay the cost of Victory? Is American money less willing than American manhood? "Let everyone of the millions who have bought Liberty bonds buy Victory notes and success is PAPER MAKERS VOTE TO STAND FOR THEIR ORIGINAL DEMANDS Crowd Breaks All Records for Bond Buying Subscribes for Eleven and Quarter Million Dollars Worth of Victory. Notes. NEW YORK, May 4 Breaking all records for subscriptions received at liberty loan rallies an audience at the Hippodrome tonight subscribed for $11,250,000 worth of Victory notes.
The nearest approach to this mark was made in the fourth loan campaign. when $7.500,000 was subscribed at the Metroplitan, opera house, rally. of the largest subscription was one from the group of night. capitalists with Deputy Police Commisoner Frederick A. Allis as their spokesman.
They took $2,060.000 of the notes. Members of the group included Charles H. Sabin, William K. Vanderbilt, Elbert H. Gary, Chauncey M.
Depew, W. Swoodwin, Nicholas F. Brady and William Wood- ward. An autographed picture of Cardinal Mercler of Belgium auctioned off to the highest bidder in subscriptions to the Victory loan, brought $1,600,000. William H.
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The strike of motormen and conductors on the Austreet railway lines and the Auburn burn and Syracuse Interurban road remained unsettled today, despite conferences between a committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes, and representatives of the railway companies. The men are striking to the elimination of members of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Conductors as operators of cars on the Port Byron Railway, a subsidiary of the Auburn and Syracuse UTICA, May Russell Maughan, D. S. of the victory flyIng squadron, crashed into a tree near Cooperstown after leaving this city Saturday, Captain Moore, in the observer's seat, suffered a sprained ankle. Lleutenant Maughan WAS unhurt.
While the aeroplane was flying over Otsego Lake, Lieutenant Smith Clark and Miss Mildred" MacEwen of Cooperatown were drowned when the canoe from which they were watching the plane. capsized, Lieutenant Clark was convalescing at the military hospitel there after service in France. is a Californian, -Buy a Victory BondCasualties Attend Flying Circus Stunts WEATHER Showers Monday, cooler Monday night; Tuesday, fair and cooler. At. 2:30: o'clock this morning The Post- Star thermometer register A 62 degrees above zero.
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May Return. Paris despatches assert that by rea801 of th's invitation it is believed the Italians will return to the French capital and that the negotiations over the disputed points will begin again where they were left off. The Italian claims are the chief unsettled and points in the peace in treaty. Rome British diplomats for several days have been discussing the controversy with Promier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino: In an endeavor to straighten out the tangle. The invitation of the now council of three, it is understood, has in view the el elimination of the personal element in the controversy and the pavIng of the way for a territorial adjustment acceptable to Italy when the conferees are again together.
Quiet Sunday. In peace conference circles Sunday was quiet. President Poincare hod the af the him and discussed with them the preliminary peace terms. A mooting hetween the Inter-allied and German credential commissions which was to have been held was postponed. President Wilson spent the day motoring, (Conainued on page 3) -Buy a Victory Bond- HUNS SILENT ON ITALIAN MATTER Delegates Do Not Raise Question of Representation of Italy VERSAILLES, May 4 The question of Italian representation at the peace negotiations, so far as can- be ascertained.
has not been raised by the German delegates, Certainly it was not touched upon at the meeting of the inter-allied and German credentials commissions here Thursday. The Germans had this point in reserve and according to indications would probably have raised it had the Inter-allied representatives at the meeting questioned their right to speak for Germany with Bavaria in nobellion, or enjoying semi-independence but were 80 satisfied that Mr. Cambon, Instead proposed an exchange of credentials for verification that they did not go out of their way to seek trouble. There has been no meeting of the German and Inter -allied commissions since then but the inter-allied commission met today at the Quai a'Orsay In Paris to prepare a report, which will be submitted to the Germans in waiting. Henry White represented the United States.
It is understood that the inter -allied representatives found nothing to question in the German documents. Church goers among the German delegation were few in number. Baron Von Lerner and Herr Giesberts, accompanied by several subordinates In the delegation attended the morning service in the Catholic church, while three German men and five women occupied reserved pews in the French Protestant church. The women, returning with bouquets which they had purchased during the promenade were attended in each case. by French secret service agents.
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COMMISSIONER ALBANY, May -Governor Smith announced yesterday afternoon that he had appointed Lewis Nixon, present state superintendent of publio works, to be regulatory public pervice commissioner for the city of New York. TWELVE PAGES Price Two Denti SEVERE STORM SWEEPS THROUGH HUDSON VALLEY East Poestenkill Severely Damaged by Fire From Lightning Bolts TROY HIT Building Wall Collapses and Buries Trolley Tracks Under Debris Many Washouts and Damage Done to Young Crops in That Section. TROY, May 4. Five buildings were destroyed by fire in the village of East Poestenkill, 13 miles from this city, after one of the buildings had been struck by lightning during the heavy olectrical storm which passed over this vicinity this evening and which caused much damage otherwise. Only a shift in the wind saved the entire village from destruction.
Fearing that the fire was to destroy the whole village, aid was summoned from nearby villages and when that did not control the situation, an appeal was made to the fire department of this city, The motor driven apparatus of one of the department's houses was sent to the scene. Later a call came for Fire Chief Casey of the city's department and he went to tl. village and took charge. Much delay in getting outside aid was experienced by the villagers, since the storm had put the telephone lines out of commission: The storm, the first of the season, of the worst ever hitting the valley. Lightning struck in several places.
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The tax is payable on a sale whether or not the purchase price is actually collected and discounts for cash or discounts made subsequent to the sale may not be deducted. If an article is increased in price to cover the tax, the tax is on the increased price. The manufacturers taxes cover a number of articles, including automo biles; parts and accessories, musical Instruments, sporting goods, confections, furs and fire arms and range. from three per cent on automobile trucks and wagons, to 100 per cent on dirk knives and daggers. The jewelry sales tax Is five per cent, and applies to articles to be worn for the purpose of adornment, accordIng to the ruling.
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Mary MacArthur, secretary of the British Women's Trade Union league of the National Federation of Women Workers, declared in an address here tonight that England seems to be dangerously near a social upheaval. "I belleve that England is standing at the parting of the ways," she said. There la grave doubt in some quar ere as to whether the question will be settled by constitutional means or. otherwise. It.
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ALBANY, May 4. Striking mem the Typographical union emploved on the four local dailies, late voted to return to work pending arbitration of their differences with the publishers over the matter of wages. The employes on the two morning papers resumed their work tonight and the crews of the after noon papers will report at usual hour tomorrow. While the matter: of wages is being arbitrated the working conditions will the same as before the walkout midnight, com tee from the union will confer the unable publishers to reach at early agreement date an ide will select a representative turn will select a third man to tute a board of conciliation. al Sunday edition appeared today the newspapers from away within a few hours after their arrival here.
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"Our three entries are all ready to go, except that the NC-1 and the NC-4 will be given further tests tomorrow," said Commander Towers. Cat Climbs to Top of High Tree and Won't Come Down Workers Hola Month Period Expires on May 11 and Threaten to Strike on That Date- -Paper and Pulp Workers in Conference. Union makers employed in the paper manufacturing industry in this vicinity have voted to stand for their original demands upon the manufacturers: to be included in the new working agreement which the em May 11. If their demands ployes hold should become effective complied with they will cease work May 11, according to officers of the district organization of paper makers following a meeting last evening in Trades Assembly hall at which delegates from the Finch and Pruyn Company in this city and the International plants In South Glens Falls, Palmer, Fort Edward and Ticonderoga were present. The delegates voted to stand by the original demands which were for an increase of 15 per cent over the present wage scale.
This was to be granted six months after war ceased and the paper makers hold that war ended November 11, while the manu facturers contend it is not yet over as no treaty has been signed. Meetings of the unions of pulp, sulphite and paper mill workers in this city, South Glens Falls, Hudson Falls, Fort Edward and other places were held yesterday but no announcement was made of the decisions arrived at. The executive board of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers are conductsessions in Fort Edward at the ing headquarters of the organization. The board met Saturday and sessions will be continued today. (Conainued on page 2) -Buy a Victory Bond- Falling Window Kills One Person, Injures Scores -Buy a Victory BondARMY MAJOR KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT TRENTON, N.
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There were about 1,500 women in the church and many fainted. The mission was conducted by the Vincentian Fathers, of Germantown, and the priests by their coolness, prevented a stampede in the church. NASHVILLE, May 4-Major Alexander W. Dillard, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
100nd Infantry, S. was killed and Mrs. Lloyd Cregor, wife of, an army captain, now. serving in France, was seriously injured early today in an automobile accident here. The automobile, which was driven by Major Dillard, crashed Into a steel telephone pole, throwing the officer beneath the machine, Frightened by a dog Friday.
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SHANLEY DEAD DANBURY, May 4-Rev. Dr. Walter J. Shanley, one of the best known members of the Catholic clergy in New England, died at St. Peter's rectory here today at the age of 64.
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This first flotilla, to be followed by intervals by two other groups of equal strength was commanded by Captain Harry A. Baldridge of the destroyer Stockton. Leaving New York Thursday and enveloped in fog from Fire Island to Trepasscy Bay, it. navigated 1,100 miles entirely by 61- rectional wireless with which the giant trans- Atlantic seaplanes will be equipped. The trip was said by Captain Arthur Crenshaw, base commander here, to have been one of the severest tests this means of navigation ever had.
Only the destroyer Philip became separated from the flotilla in the fog but she entered the harbor soon after her companions. While the natives were watching the unusual congestion in their snug harbor today they were startled to see a small speed plane brought here by the mine -layer Aroostook: and piloted by Ensign P. To bot, circle over water and land, testing air currents. Unused to the noise of even an, automobile, horses, sheep and goats went scurrying across the flelds, alarmed at the roar of the motor, while their owners. stared skyward spell -bound.
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Mrs. Treen Castle, widow of Captain Vernon Castle, both of whom won fame as dancers, was married Saturday at Little Church Around the Corner" to Captain Robert Treman of Ithaca, Y. Alter the wedding, Mrs. Treman announced that she had given up professional dancing, but would continue her. work as a moving picture actress.
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