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EDITION. “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. Coprriaht, 1918, by The Press Pebtishing Os. (The New York Werld). =—— ABROGATE PAN WITH GREAT BRITAIN 1S THE DEMAND Chamberlain Joint Bill Hits) Basis of Protest on Free Tolls | to American Ships. a7, MAY PUSH SETTLEMENT. Action Taken as New English Ambassador Comes to Deal | With Disputed Question. | | | WASHINGTON, April 21.—A Joint | resolution to abrogate the Hay-| Pauncefote and Clayton - Bulwer treaties, on which Great Britain !s/ basing her protests against the| Penama Canal act, was introduced to- day by Sengtor Chamberlain of Oregon, and referred to the Foreign Relations Committee, | Upon the Hay-Pauncefote treaty | Great Britain bases her protests xgainet free passage for American ships in the Panama Canal. Senator Chamboriain, a leader tm the Senate of the free passage exponents, declared to-day that he con- sidered abrogation of the treaty. the easiest and quickest way to get to the bottom of the affair. Senator Chamberlain explained that while the (Clayton-Bulwer treaty had been auperseded by the oxisting Hay- Paunoefote treaty, he included tt in his resolution for abrogation, upon a theory that were the Hay-Pauncefote treaty to de abrogated alone Great Hritain might rebase her claime upon the old treaty with the contention that the abrogation Of ite successor still left it tn force, MAY HASTEN ACTION ON DEF- INITION OF FREE TOLLS. One result of the introduction of the resolution probably will be to hasten the | definition of the attitude of the Admin- | istration toward the whole question of the exemption of American shipping {vom tolls in the Panama Canal, whici, it fe understood, President Wilson im- tended to keep in the background until 1 “station had progressed to- ward @ conclusion in the House. By taclt agreement tho negotiations sofun last summer by the presentation of Great Britain's preliminary uvte save been held in abeyance since the advent of the new Administration. The last note tm the series filed by Ambas- sador Bryce. clearly indicated it was to be followed by another from Sir wand Grey, Secretury for Voreign Al- faire, But this was withheld in view of in- timations that President Wilson would recoml his opposition to the exemption of American shipping trom tolls as a form ef subsidy, regardless of the question as to whether or not such ex- emption was in violation of the Hay- Paumeefote treaty. NEW BRITISH ENVOY BRINGS LATEST VIEWS. - Mr. Bryce is leaving Washington next | Friday without (he expected | supplementary note, Tis suce » Ba Cech Spring tod to be winging the ve on th will « the right of ex inelpal point, tha the Glayton-Bulwer treaty was Intende 1| to apply to a canal constructed Nicwraeua, State Lepartm have long considered it, but believer that the treaty has no such limitation ‘Three Panama Canal measures were Introduced to-day by Representative Moore of Penneylvanta, One resolution | would direct the Secretary of State to confer with Groat Britain and other Hetions as to thelr willingness to share the expense of constructing and main- tating the canal if it were opened to ali-on equal terms. Bee ether dill propose a Panama , ADE IN SENATE PRINCESS WHO FEARS RABIES FROM BITE OF HER PET LAP DOG. \ ae SY arial ve] ¥ PRINCESS BITTEN BY PET DOG IS IN DANGER OF RABES Sister-in-Law of King of Sax- ony Inoculated With Others in Palace by Dr. Koch. DRESDEN, Saxony, Apri Prof. Koch to-duy inoculated as a preventive against rabies Princess Maria Immac- ulate, wife of King Frederick August of Saxony’s brother, Prince Johann George, She and several members of her sulte and a number of domestics of the palace had been bitten by Prin- cess’s favorite lapdog, which had ehown signs of irritation for a week past and had snapped viciously at all comers. ‘The presence of rabies was ultimately suspected by the attendants, and bacteriological and chemical investiga- tion proved that this was the case, Prof. Koch was to-day hurriedly summoned from the Berlin Institute and inoculated the Princess and all who had come in contact with the animal. ie APPOINTED BY WILSON. 4, B.A. Strong Samed Governor of Mlaska—Other Offices Filled, WASHINGTON, April Pre it w harles Burke, (oo aaa (ig AO DITTO) UT Te NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 2 1, 191 ANIA TREATIES {TITANIC CLAIMS MUST BE SETTLED BY ENGLISH COURT Judge Holt Refuses Application to Place Company’s Lia- bilities at $97,000. $16,000,000 CLAIMED. Widow of Theatrical Manager Asks for $1,000,000; Broker’s Widow for Half That Sum. A total of $16,604,7°1.63 is asked from the Oceanic Steam Navigation Com- pany, owners of the ill-fated liner, Ti- tantc, in G1 suits ‘or damages for loss of life, pivperty and pernonal injuries filed in the United States District Court in this cit}. The report of the number and character of claims for losses due to the sinking of the Titanic was filed }in the United 9 iDatrict Court to- | day by Unied Staes Commissioner Gil- christ, who was appointed by the court for that purpose. The claims are divided into four classes, the number of sults filed under each class being as follows: One hun- dred and ninety-one claims for loss of fe, 38 for loss of property, 190 for lous of life and personal property and 47 for personal injuries and loss of per- sonal property. The aggregate amount asked for loss of life ie $14,346,967.75, total for loss of property $1,848,309.88, total for Personal injuries $410,464, Ti largest individual claim among the @1 on file is that of Mrs, Irene Wallach Harris, widow of Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, who weeks to recover $1,000,000 for the death of her husband, Mrs. Mabelle Swift Moore, ww of Clarence Moore, who was @ broker of Washington, D. C., {s the second largest claimant, asking $610,600 for the loss of her husband and Personal effects, JUDGE HOLT REFUSES TO LIMIT LIABILITIES, The petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., owners of the Uner Titanic, asking that the com- Pany’s Habillty for damage for loss of Ufe and property in the sinking of the great White Star liner, on Apri 15, 1912, De Imited to $97,000, was dented late this afternoon {n an opinion handed down by Judge George C. Holt in the United States District Court. Judzo Holt holds that the U. 8, Admir- alty Court has no Jurisdiction in the proceeding. And that the rule laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of the steamer Scotland, which was sunk off Sandy Hook, applies in the case of the Titanle. case held that when @ collision oocurs on the high between two vessels of the me coun the Hability of thelr own- ers is to be determined by th the country to which the vessels belong. Judge Holt says: “It seeme to me that three great fundamental principles of law relied on are decisive. The rile that the law of no nation has any extraterritorial effgct ie universal, The rule that a ship on the high seas ‘s @ part of the country to which she belongs is universal. The rule that Habtlity for a tort Is governed by the lex locidelict! ie universal, If the owners of the Titanic, under these cir- cumstances, can obtain a limitation of their Hability in this court they could have obtained it if she had foundered in the harbor of Southampton imme- | diately after she started on her voyage and while still undoubtedly within the t ylal jarivdiction of England, If entitled to Hmitation of th rainy ptt q nity vaunted vi matey they are | bitty an to) they are n all DECISION DRIVES CLAIMANTS TO ENGLISH COURT. nis decision by dads nh ette ans that the Ol persons who have | fled claims fur losses of life and prop erty in the United States District Court aggregating more than sixteen Mt offictal, |(#nat Trade Commission and to repea!| and a half million dollars, will be re-| The Supreme Court in The Scotland, law of} HOW ACTRESS LOST HER BG $5000 HEART It Was Such a Nice, Loving One and Cruel Hotel Man Stole It. JURY HEARS | | | ONLY ONE SHE HAD, TOO. Maida Athens, Ere They Part, Thinks He Ought to Pay for It, So She Does! Gorrow — $60,000 worth of it—swam among the half restrained tears that made brilliant the orbs of Mra, Ruth Lucitie Trufant (stage name Maida Athens) as she glanced reproachfully over Supreme Court Justice Davis's shoulder this morning, straight at Henry G, Williams, elderly proprietor of the Hotel York. ‘Then she quelled a sob of nervousness It wasn't stage sob, velther—and pro- ceeded to pour into the ears of Justice Davis and the twelve jutymen the story of how Mer hope of becoming Mre. Will- fama was blighted. And all to her damage in the sum of $50,000, “I came to New York from my home in Denver for two reasons,” she said. ‘T had disagreed with my husband, and the success of my sister on the stage led me to believe that I, too, would become ® great actress, I lived with my mother in Thirty-sixth atreet, until she wont back home, and then I moved to the Hotel York, “Soon I found that my slender emolu- ment of $% a week was too Uttle to pay my expenses. I was just telling the clerk at the desk that I would have to move, when Mr, Williams called me into his office. He protested that I must re- main and made m oncession, And then the cabs flo began. TOLD HER OF HIS LOVE IN CAB, SHE SAYS. “On Election Day, 191, he took me out riding. During the ride he asked me that | was but expected to be divorced he told me he, too, had been divorced and was very unhappy. “1 love you, Ruth,’ me ardently, his handsom fire. ‘Do you love me? The beauteous Ruth-or Maida— blushed furiously. Recovering a modi- (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) BaseballGamesTo-Day NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT BOSTON. vhispered to es hurling GIANTS— AT BROOKLYN. PHILADELPHIA— 100100000-32 3ROOKLYN— 010000000-1 AT 8T. Louis. PITTSBURGH— 1000 ST. LOUIS— 1012 —_—— AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK WASHINGTON: 030 YORK~- 00103 AT PHILADELPHIA. BOSTON— 03000 003 NEW she provision of the Hanama@ Canal act| quired to sue tn the British Admiralty | PHILADELPHIA— & free of duty foreign materials that en into the construction or equip- ment of ships. n of a treuty involves the ) of both Houses of Con- ar nd the approval of the Pros dent. The last treaty abrogated by the United States was the Russian (reaty of commerce and navigation be- cause Congi held American Jews Were not treated on gn equality. with other Americans travelling in Russia. Jol 3 Court to recover damages. The Titanic claims thua are thrown out of the United Staos Courts, The decision ts rendered on the ex- jceptions fled by two claimants, Harry Anderson and William J. Mellor, against the steainship company’s peti- tion asking that ite ability be itmited to the company's interest in the Ti- (Continae’ on Geeerd Baga) 4 01001 AT CHICAGO, DETROIT— | o10 | CHICAGO. | 0 | ae | POR BASEBALL 8: FOR RACING hl i a all ht isa lili iba ii aN lt lll a if I were married, and when I replied | jday at Luna 1 Maida Athens, Wh t in Bill to Kill Panama Treaties ~ fee, q H orl — re ad Fate, with trost to-night; Tuesday probabty cleas, % [Circulation Books Open to All.” | 3. 18 Lost Heart Is Worth $50,000 008996090 904.64.4 HO-HHETTEDS @ . 4 : ¢ $ $ 3 3 i i | | 004600004. "FRED" THOMPSON, LUNAPARK BUILDER, TAKES NEW BRIDE Soest Wedding to Selene Wheat Pil- cher This Afternoon Com- plete Surprise to Friends. Frederic Thompson, the Coney Island | @musement purveyor, obtained a it- cunse late this afternoon to marry Selene Wheat Pilcher of No. 307 Fifth! avenus. The wedding took waco at the | home of the bride immediately after- | ward, Mr. Thompson was divorced a year ago in Chicago by Mabel Talliaferro, the actress, whom he married in 1906, The divorce was obtained in Chicago. When the newn that his wife had severed the marriage tle reached Mr, Thompson he raised his right hand and sald “Never a fatled to hold, Thompson 1s thirty-nine years old, Hie wife is two years his junior. ‘Mr. Thompson has been engaged in jent enterprises for came to New York on foot the biggent enter- prise of his career, Luna Park, at Coney Istand. Later he and his partner, “Skip Dundy, now dead, built the Now York Hippodrome and went into the theauloal business on a gtigantic Mr Thompson turned his Co 1 Park « to @ syndicate but Was retained a¥ manager ad caretally eo s Nis the Ntentlor f mace been working rk, getting ¢ shape for ‘The mar romance that Tenn., when Mr. ‘Thompson waa « bos and Miss Pilcher was a schoolgirl, Mise Piicher’s father was a lawyer in Nas- ville and caine from New Orleans. Mr, Thompson left Navhville to make his way In the world before he had reached his majority, and his visits to his home town wers few and far between, Miss Pilcher came to New York and estud- | 4 Mehed herself as a Fifth avenue mod- iste, The sweethearts of childhood did not meet until recently. in," but his resolution |; The marriage loense recorts that Mr. ' | Japan alread: The ceremony was performed by Dr Kdaward Work of the Fourth Presby- terian Church, Ninety-Oret street and ODOT Ob HEE EE Fee HOO O® * ANTIAP BILL WILL BE PASSED IN CALIFORNIA MHLLIONAIRES IN| ‘cemlimeleoss Despite Wilson, Alien Measure Will Be Put Through and Signed by Gov. Johnson, SACRAMENTO, Cal. April 21.—lt wan sald to-day by Administration leaders tn the Logislature that a definite agres- ment to enact an anti-allen land Jaw di- rected solely against the Japanese and exempting all foreigners “eligible to citisenship in the United stat haa been reached and would be carried out this week, It {s understood thin course has the approval of Gov. Johnson and that he will sign the bill immediately upon its passage, Whether such a law would be constitutional will remain tn doubt unt!! it tm tested in the ! courts, but it the settled policy of the majority jard the ter until cial decision. The exact wording of the new bill has not been decided on, but it probably will be formulated before night. The new draft will be offered as a substi- tute for the Thompson-Birdsall bill in the Senate, where ft will firat come to a yote It arable the State Buropean the fact that through capital, to va o Lenisiative ¢ at nent from ‘Tokio that ad withdrawn her sup: ama-Pacific Expo- wiseo is sald to have a End avenue, ‘The brid Winston Pilcher, U wave her away, In the wedd © Mrs. Martha ‘Thompson, Mr Mra r and broth- nwer and Mis f the bride. Went Lieut. tired, party 1 at. rid may be left Messenger oftive Ady oe is said that the danger of trrep- | PAGES $60,000,000 IN ART LEFT BY MORGAN MAY BE GIFT TO THE ClTY iM A : }/Son in Full Possession of Collection, 4 Which Is Part of Residue of Estate Valued at. $100,000,000. STATE MAY LIFT TAX AT REQUEST OF SULZER Equitable Life Left in Young Mor gans Hands and Estate Reach Total of $125,000,000. Lat Into the hands of the city, either ss a gift or as a permanest, Ioan Board of Estimate has decided upon an appropriation of $750,000 for new addition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park large © enough to house the Morgan treasures. The actual appropriation , be made within two or three weeks when the budget is adopted. ‘ Gov. Sulzer is considering the plan of asking the special enactment to exempt the value of the art collection from inheritance tax on the Morgan estate. It is not believed there be any opposition to the measure, although J. P. panne aia? of the collection under the will, has not tion of his intentions as to the objects of art collected ‘The will of the iat Med for probate bly be probated Morgan, the ) her three ters and her son have waived In the petition for probate it that the value of the real the value of the personal “In excess of $10,000" in The intention of Mr. Mi ing collection of painti objects of art was made Will that lttle doubt ultimate disposition. Mr. Will deplored the fact that he ‘WHITE SLAVE CASE | AT GIRL MOTIMS Sees Wealthy Men of Los Angeles tion so (that in part or in ite aid to Have Placed Young we able for the instruction and the American people.” Women in ‘Protected’ Resort e i 4 Ff fi ki 5 x o_o i s us i 7 i ul i eset f f LEFT ART WEALTH SOLELY WAND® OF SON. q Although he specifically provided his last instructions that he placed obligation, legal or moral, on his or grandson to turn the art over to the public, it te espemed they will eecept his wish LOS ANGELES, April 31.—The names of forty-one girls, most of them not yet passed eighteen, were given to the County Grand Jury to-day when it was asked to investigate white slavery charges in which a number of million- aires are said to have lured girls from home and placed them in @ ‘protected resort.” Affdavite of four of these girls al- ready have been obtained and, accord- ing te the allegations contained in their sworn declarations, the miliionares in- volved hat complete organization. There cadets in their employ- ment and known attorney, who, hesides being involved in the actual ving of the girls, {8 alleged to have wl the young women, Necwuse the tagial Sho ravenied the alleged facts of the |ty the public of auch @ vast eol shad tween threatened; aw that of Mr, Morgan would be @ tion for attempted F of great magnitude and importance). the greatest in history, ke ALL THE EQUITABLE STOGK | ¥ GOES TO SON, 8a ~ Be ao disposing of th conversations ering Was known to “ct ari im "tes ause of « peculiar » In the matter of the stock of most of his allexed fellow] Equitable Life Assurance slavers are in the hands of the police. which Mr. Morgan bought from Katherine Phill Helen Barsen |. Ryan, thag stock was beq Myrtle Adair and Marie Brown are the/outright to J. P. Morgan as part 4 names of girls who have told of their| the residue of the estate. Mr. relations with the alleged milliunaires. | left no instructions of @ epecifie Detoctives are in San Bernarding to-| about the Equitable stock. The duy to bring back Marte Tirown, Whos! of the stock te about $8,00neen it ie claimed, an taken to that In hie will Mr, Morgan eal@ quently securities, real properties belonging to with the business firm & Co, Were taken or me Only » black ¥ given | pin, but the ro her tell what she CONSTANTINOP! 4 Aprit i Dele- tes representing Turkey and er” > Balkan allies excep, swntenegr> signed the firm may an armistice on Gaturday et Bulais, cession. So it ; / $