The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1919, Page 1

PRICE ‘TWO CENTS. Co. (The New ¥. Copyright, 1919, by The Ps “ Circulation Books Open to All.’” __NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, Publishing ork Ou Long Beach Robbers Slay Woman With OLD 220 ENGINEERS HOME LEADING THE 27TH DIVISION: ROUSING WELCOME GIVEN ws. HITS FREIGHTER; LATTER SINKING 102d E ngineers. o eae 942 NEW YORK | Lord Dufferin, Struck by Aqui- tania off Bedloe’s Island— Crew Tiken off. Aquitania and Maui Bring 9,000 More Soldiers Home From France. A foretaste of the re for the infantrymen « vision of New York was given ‘eption in st the 27th Di upon the arrival of the Rochambean swith the 102d (old 234) Engineers, the, The transport Aquitania, bringing fivat unit of the Division to reach |5893 soldiers home from France, col heme with honors from the war, The ded with the freighter Lord Dufferin entire engineer regiment with the ex- of bs Imand at 3,40 /onlock: (uy ception ef Companies F) and F came & home on the hambeau, which Ly on reported to « nkis lition ‘ t 15th Street, North River, ene | beta nih ; Its crew wa ken on board the ghortly after 2 o'clock police boat Pat which had go Im the wake of the Rochambeau down the bay to welcome the game the Aquitania with 5,809 tr le port. and the Maui with scheduled 0 are toa i HARBOR MEN VOTE STRIKE, e return of the ew York pr neers was like the first days of th BUT GRANT BRIEF DELAY home-coming transports, barr the De ee eee ane | Time for Walk-Out to Be Set If police boat Patrol, with a band and Agreement Is Not Reached by the Mayor's Welcoming Committee This Evening and the Correction, with another band, went down to Quaranune to. ” ra of the Marine Workers Affiliation of the Port of New York greet the returning herors. On the Patrol were the committee | to-day ratified their previous vote to of the new d Regiment and on t trike Correction were nearly 800 fathers) Committees of the various unions and mothers, sisters and brothers,| involved will confer with representa- wives and sweethearts of the engi-| tives of the boat owners in a last ef- neers. Both boats approached th fort to etts S satisfactory settlement transport from the starboard side and | 101" RTiraneee nd by 5B the doughty engincers scampered up inlet attache cet eetlcate cr on the rails, lined the Aicllmbed tena harkarworkate will wate detlaits the smokestacks and the shrouds to|time to strike and tie up all harbor give cheer for cheer to their welcom-| traffic, Interpreting the information ing relatives, friends and fellow coun-| given out by several officers of the trymen. | un t believed the strike will The bands played with a now gest | tke place midnight to-morrow came the returning blare of the 102d's A 1,000 word telegram wag sent to WIFE OF PHYSICIAN SLAIN AS HUSBAND |: BATTLES ROBBERS Mrs. Wilkins’s Skull Crushed With Hammer at Long Beach Home When She Screams. District Attorney Charles R. Weeks and Sheriff Seaman of Nassau Coun- ty, L. 1, appealed to-day to Capt. John Coughlin of the Brooklyn Detec- tive Bureau for assistance in running down the three young men who, dis- ‘overed last nignt in the home of Dr. and Mrs, Walter Wilkins at Long Beach, killed Mrs. Wilkins with a jammer in an attempt to stop her cries for help. Many fingerprints having been dis- red to-day in the Wilkins house, ‘ome of them outlined in blood, Capt Coughlin sent to Long Beach Sergt Mid Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | 24 PAGES 1919. WEATHER—Warmer, Rain To-Night and Sarrdiy, EDITION % 8 PRICE TWO CENTS. Mrs. Wilkins, Who Was Slain, Hu sband and Long Beach Home Frederick Zwiss, fingerprint expert Sheriff Seaman took frum the house to-day the hammer with which Mrs. Wilkins 1g, believed to have been killed, the cloth covered lead pipe with which her husband was beaten, a cloth topped button, a bloodsoaked handkerchief and a mauve veil, pre- sumably for examination by Detective Zwiss. Stirred by the murder of Mrs. Wil men among the around residents of Long Beach 1 to-day of the organization of a Vigilance Committee, An inquest was held to-day in the Army Hosgitaf at the Nu Long Beach, to kins, representative sau Hotel, get at all the facts surrounding the murder, Edward T. Neu, J. P., of Lynnbrook, presided. An autopsy was performed under Corouer Neu’s direction, by Col. John J, Moorhead und Major Edward Neff of the Army Hospital. It revealed ten small scalp wounds and two frac- tures of the skull, Detectives to-day expressed the be- Nef that the murderers came to and went from Long Beach by boat. ‘The only road from Long Beach is by way of the automobile bridge across i i) & wes Reynolds Channel This road is manned by Provost Guards, The only other avenue left to the robbers was by boat. The beach, about a quarter of a mile from the Wilkins place, is bulkheaded for a stretch of ten miles. The murder wag and there ment to offer the is first in the of a @ substantial re- promise ward own band. Colors were dipped as the | president Wilson this afternoon by] Two detectives left for Manhattan Rochambeau went up the North River, | ine wers of the marine workers,| this afternoon to interview a woman after saluting the Statue of Liberty | in which they explained their stand.|with whom Mrs. Wilkins is :aid to and the skyscraper windows were | The telegram was signed by Thomas | have had differences, Noting that the filled with row upon row of girls with |l. Delabunty, President, and Stephen | house had been ransacked from top t waving handkerch and flag Mt Bi Condon, Secretary bottom but neither silverware nc as a sight to do the hearts of —— other things stolen, the police believe good and th wed a NO IMMEDIATE RETURN the three men were after jewels Mrs. tion with t eers and Wilkins Keeps in a safety deposit which streamed down the faces of OF RAILROADS BY U § vault in New York. many. * +) One night last August when Dr. and The biggest jam of humanity ever 2 Mrs, Wilkins reached home from the seen on any pier to wel are Hines Notifies Congress Wilson Ap-|city they found a ladder resting ing transport was in evidence on t f re against an open second-story window. proves Delay to Get Construc- | 9 i French Line pir At least 2,500,) | Del iy ie The would-be intruders had been mostly women and the majority of tive Legislation. frightened away by the collie, On them in diamonds and fu were WASHINGTON, Feb. 28,—Director} the same night thieves entered the within t pier inelosure on the! Gene Hines a ed to-day with| home of neighbore and stole jewetry h k cP n alued at $1,000, ¢ ground floor ar the trucks, and) approval of President Wilson that the| ’ 1 Dr, Wilkins, retired physic , thousands of them were lined up on) Sailrow would ny relinquished | > Ms, retired physician, sixty, es of West Street outside the |from Government control until there both sides of W itsid vax bern an opportunity to see whether| (Continued on ‘Thirteenth Page.) pier. The roudw a pn gested ys 1 P 7 ene se With gulomoblles tee legislation waa likely to be adopted | NEWS FOR WAR | DEPARTMENT Bavelly cater to the longshoremen did Asonable time a thriving business among the well 1 Arathi attitude was] WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The trans- dressed women, hed lotter sent by Mr. Hines to| port Leviathan galled from France on Whe the Rochan aonea 1 I na nith Mar Chairmen | t th of this month for New York, teenth Street, and the gir rt i f Sonate € jittees carry ng a large consignment of the itiicthis ang the 1 ae the Interstate ¢ 1 Appropri- | 27th Division, New York troops, ac : Pe TAPES ot fat pr ij cording to a War Department an nurses and can n girls, “ rn nouncement to-day coffees and sandwiches t ush to t 4 — end of the pier to wave and mn . en § The Evening World in a special cable Rat wan the tum of tho tide, ar The letter! despatch from Martin G: a Staff At was t 1 1© matter | correspondent with the Divisior there were more tears and bi urn ¢ 2 1 with President exclusively announ ed on Haine last land his statement with the lat- that the Leviathan Unat day and (the 25th)“with Gen. O'Ryan and: wey (Continued on Second Page.) ter's authority, regiments, a UNITS OF THE 27TH DIVISION BANDITS DRIVEN AWAY COMING ON THE LEVIATHAN | BY PAWNBROKER'S ALARM It Unless Is Be Brought | WASHINGTON, Feb. third working with but to-day prospect, with bills increasing ing the Nilion dollars for The bill fore xtension. sald, wa April loan camp: failed of 1 President might be new Congre eaders to the re they 4 almost ir pr $750,000,000 for Administration, It ha ‘but is held in th House ts addition to the which House ate to-day Warning less the Victory Loan the troops cannot be from France. Just now there is a hroughout the countr: irn of the troops, tation is due to the up legislation tn the Pre jon of Congress The President's which he spc is up. and ould not be extra session until France, even if they de ropriation bill and the Representatives te weasure The Pre | bas warn Jing politics, it measures, the country n pretty plain la to blaine d Congress th know public tructed the speedy LISTED BY WAR DEPARTMENT | es a 105th and 106t ie nents | } d Avenue 105th Machine Gun Complete | ; i With Two Battal f1 1 ae. ele le gah yds NITS of the 2ith D: 1A n and U the Leviat “ - the W I . Major Gen, O'Ryan 1 1 Headqu and 1 rd Inf t ude H 1 Infantry, uy € 1 men Ls ad 1 is fiver and n = Eidr ea ation ubscaunstics’ m EX-KAISER GOES BROKE. of 107th L 1 1 ‘ 4 nt 1,043 men € 1 hd t i 4 De oR Nay wns top ip Various harbors. Passed, Warns, the Troops Cannot a long night In connection with the Adi absolutely essential and Leaders also were dubious the filibusters who are VICTORY LOAN BIL WILL BE FORCED THROUGH SENATE Wilson fome. 28.—On day before sine die congestion of ign wien intimat ed to ately nme bility of passing the bill the Rs & passed he Senate leaders hoped to has been given that Bill is brough ov the adjournment Congress went to work session {n and the fate of many mportant measures still in doubt. President's reiterated declaration that he did not ntend to convene the new Congress until he returned from France, Ad ministrative leaders took steps In formally to develop the attitude of Republicans on the remaining im portant bills, especially the Victory Loan measure, They said they had decided that after to-day no more bills, private or general, would be passed until after disposal of the Victory Loan measure. This will be brought up to-morrow and kept before the Senate exclu sive tepubdlicans already have an jounced opposition to a provision gly War Finance Corporation one commerce if it ed the All the ‘er the appro allroad the Ap propriations Committee with plans for undry Civil Hil! paw un sed pe t back great clamor y Jent to call an extra at once. fighting e in his Boston address, He sent word to the Senators o-day t feat ev blood, for the re- Much of the agi- propaganda of now holding an effort to force ot hat he clubbed into calling an he returns from ry ap Victory Loan ident has gone further. nat if, b: He y play refuses to pass these at large will nguage return SURRENDERED U BOATS TO BE BROUGHT 10 U. S. who Is No party will ever care to go before with a record of having ob- of the troops from France, and in this lies dent's undoubted strength, artment to duty 1 to | ight mb, Troopship and Freighter Crash in the Harbor ith Hammer FIGHT OVER WORLD LEAGUE BREAKS OUT IN THE SENATE, LODGE LEADING THE ATTACK Hitchcock in Reply Says Charter of League Does Not Limit in the Slightest Way the Right of Any Nation to Defend Itself. WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—Sharp differences of opinion over the League of Nations Constitution were voiced in the Senate to-day by chairman Hitchcock of the Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who will be Chairman of the committee in the next Congress when the Republicans take control, After Senator Lodge had delivered a prepared speech before crowded floor and galleries, warning the Amrican people to weigh the Constitue tion and insist upon revision, Mr. Hitchcock took the floor and denounced as preposterous the Massachusetts Senator's Suggestion that the League would deprive the United States of its Ala of self-defense, TO SPEAK HERE HH estion sue would in the slightest degpye limit the privilege and the duty ¥ any nation, the United States or ant, other, to defend itevif when attached, either by @ member of the Leagw, or not® LODGE INSISTS THE LEAGUE CHARTER SHOULD, BE CHANGED. Snator Lodge rr plied that he that view, while the committee Chair~ man Was entitled to an honest “ghey of opinion, The conflict, Senator Accent Invitndinneniere Gav Pecan a area Ulustrated and em- Seily for re-drafting the. ague charter to make dispute at” construction impossible, “Let's have it stated in the contract Just Smith for Addresses at Met- ropolitan Tuesday Night. le what it meane, Senator President Wilson and former Prest- | Lodge. bes I dent Taft have both accepted the in-| “When war starts," replied Benatar vitation of Gov Smith Hitchcock, “the right of self-defenes Supersedes everything elee, and the Senator knows it.” Senator Hitchcock devoted himaelt ~ chiefly to an attack upon an account of the White House conference Wednesda’ night, in which some Senators ‘were quoted as saying the Prestient showed an amazing lack of fumniliarity with the League plan. He denied that any such statements had to speak on the League of Natic 8 next Tuesday Metropoliton Opera The Governor himself will be the third speaker. Mr. night at the House. Taft's acceptance was an nounced this morning at the office of Blkus, No, 411 swamped Abram I Broadway, where clerks are already with thousands of applications for|been made by any member. He said seats, President Wilson's accept-|they had found the President “gener. ance was received last night. al) +i, and sincere” Mr, Taft telegraphed his acceptance eee from statement ate is tributed to Republican leader from Evansville, Ind., to-day, It has} Lodge, Senator Brandegese of not been announced when he will ar-| Connecticut and Senator Knox of rive in New York Pennsylvania, the Nebraska Sen« President Wilson will lea Wash ator said: ngton on a special train Tuesday renew my statement on be- aflernoon and will stop for an hour| half of the Senators named that and a half at Philadelphia “ they never used any such lane hter, Mra, Sayr and J guage. Ison, He will reach N York | BIG CROWD IN SENATE TO HEAR at 8.30 in the evening, and ter THE DEBATE, speaking will Ko directly aboard th Senate in semen until 115 transport to spend the night, 7 " » morning, working om tts President will be accompanied again} congested legislative programme, met by Mra, Wilson, ; again at 10 o'clock, and when the Ther are only 4,0 ) seats in the) Republican leader began to epeak Metropolit van 1 only 600 standees"| soon afterward, nearly every Sem are allowed, But several hundred ad-| ator was in bis seat. The diplomatic jalts nel sents will be pi ced on the y was filled and in the otter stage, fo th the ‘wudience probably crowds overflowed into the will number about 5,000 people waited rs where th The are not to be apportioned |jines. » the: poeple % jon any such p' ple ax first come,| pefore Senator Lodge began his P first served audience 1s to be| address, Vice President M, y leaner oe ee ss ha 1 the people against app! and those only w t 1 who| n out frequen: Jing discussion of the league, ipa? the strongest claims to recognl- | oe the strictly enforced 8 ior When a wave of laughte; al the chamber following, THE WORLD TRAVEL BURBAD, | guy hotween Sei Arcade. Pulitmer (World) Botiding, ton Reed of be ri | Trierhone Beekman 4000, Jordered that thegalleries be cl room for bageage and pamela open Mr. Reed, Money orders and tavellem’ check for 4 Poindexter