The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1919, Page 1

Che Circulation Books Open to. All. ide PRICE TWO “OENTS. Copyright, 1919, by ° Oo. (ihe New York The Press Publishing World). “MAN WITH THE DOUGHBAG” IN ALBANY WITH $500,000 TO PASS 7-GENT FARE BILL — Prominent Individuals at Al-| ‘DRINKS \ WITH 1.4 PER CENT bany Prepared to Buy Votes for the Me asure, ARE BE G WATCHE Db. Billion Dollars in Capital Rep- resented in Drive to Boost Traction Rates. (eeecial From 4 Stall Correspondent of The Brcting World) ALBANY, April 1.—The “man with the doughbag” has ascended Btate Street Hill and entered the State Cap- io, ‘This became definitely known o-day, Certain Individuals, some of them so prominent that mention of (hetr names would create a profound surprise, are prepared to attempt to purchase votes in the New York State Legislature the passage of the von-Cent Fare bill. ‘The “rian with the doughbag” g carefully watchod. So ave This warning might man with But for is be- sivtants. have , beem suppressed until the he doughbag had done his work. is sounded now for a purpose. Information has been received that certain traction interests which want the Seven-Cent Fare bill passed have raised a half- million dollars, and are willing to double it to get this legislation. Those who have been furnished the money have been told to pend it as they please, on con- dition that the Seven-Cent Fare bill is passed in both Hou There is a rumor here to Liga effect at ono le slator, @ been told by a ve prominent ex State offielal, that there is a fund of $900,000 available for the Sy pecessary to pass the Seven-Cent Vare bill, The les ator in question, who has a reputation for honesty, is yeported to have told the man who approached bim that if he was again bothered by traction lobbyists he would tell the whole story on the flour of the Senate. PUBLIC OPINION THE JURY IN ALL SUCH CASES. There is a large percentage of dy- namite In “crooked” money Suppose, for instance, a legislator sought as a stotim of bribery were to appear on the floor of either House and openly announced that 4m attempt had b made to bribe*him on condition that he vote for the Seven-Cent Fare bill, public opinion would be the jury, Legislators have in the past a en) {n righteous wrath and laid bare plots | with me. Fourth Page.) IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS Sunday Classified Advertis- Copy should be In the World Office by Friday Evening. Sunday Supplement Section Display Advertising Copy should be in the World Office by Thursday, at 1 P. M (Contin Sunday Main Sheet Display Copy should be In the World Office by Friday Evening, n| ner &i | Vincent Astor, ALCOHOL “INTOXICATING” UNDER AN ARMY RULING Discharged Soldiers in Uniform May Be Sold Liquor Away From amps. WASHINGTON, April 1 far as the Army is « corned, any beverage con- taining 1.4 per cent. of alco- iol will be considered intoxicating. Dhis decision of the Judge Advo- yenoral was approved to-day retary Baker, rullig’ “was “made In requests from camp commanders for an interpretation of Section 12 of tho Selective Bervice Act governing the prohibition of al- cohol liquors in or near military °o by 8 Offictal to organization anewer and camps. The decision that 1.4 per cent. of alcohol would be considered the deadline by the military au- thori s understood to have been based on an opinion by the army medica! experts that this would intoxicate the average soldier if sufficient of the beverages was intoxicating Mquors to d soldiers, away from rvations or military dry zones, even if they are in unl- form is not uniawful, the de- partment holds in a separate opinion of the Judge Advocate General, approved by Secretary Baker. senator, bas LIEUT, ASTOR ‘COMING HOME | IN A GERMAN SUBMARINE | Richest Naval Otticer Makes Good Pledge Given When He Left for Overseas Service. Tt was announced to-day that Lieut. the richest officer in the United States Navy, is second in com: mand of the UC-97, one of the four surrendered German submarines which is being brought to this country from Harwich, England. The boats are to be used in the coming Victory campaign. Loan Friends of Liout. Astor state when he went overseas he said at a din- en in his honor “I shall wot come back fron: here until f can bring a German | He ts making good on the pledge, Mrs. Vincent Astor, who is working in the Y. M. C. A. Vietory Hut at the ery, said to-day she had received a from her husband con: ng the report that he was on the U ¢ ALLIED TROOPS LANDED ON BLAGK SEA COAST Expected to March Across Roumania From Constanza to Hungary. LONDON, April 1 is reported from Bucharest that Entente troops are being landed a: Constanza, on the Black Sea conat, on thelr way to Hungary, cording to a Copenhagen despatch the Central Nows to-day, —_- i ks te ne ac to BROADWAY SCRAP AFTER HE BUMPED UP ARMY AND NAVY impetuous ‘Finn Mist Mistaken for a German, and Then Ruc- tions Began. Capt. Frank Baum ot Governor's Island was on his way to the War Trade Board at No. 4 morning when a man steam engine bumped him and knocked him flat on his back, The men kept going, but the captain was up in a jiffy and had @ hand on his) shoulder, demanding an apology for insulting the U. “Why I apologize?" who, it developed, - once declared the of- ¥ roadway th ¢ like Ki into 8. uniform. demanded the | disturber, is a Finn, “You go to h “You go with me,’ W. Whittlesey, Commander of ficer, grabbing him. by the coat Col i7o4¢ rattalion in the Argonne Forest, | lar, }which brought the famous “G: “I guess 1 wouldn't.” declared the Het!" b lothens #¥ou @0:t0 1 ppp c reply, desires to return to this | “L guess you're a German." and the! country and meet his erstwhile {Captain “helped” him up Broadway | ponent, and turned him over to Policeman This information was contatne Cleed Trafic Squad A, The defi- Cleedy of Tra a letter received at Divisional He and as th ran into 69 Broad- dash him No. {ant foreigner made a closed in crowd on | Child's Restaurant at y ys | A revolving trance there and the en- guards Navy Lieutenant door Lie ul. Prinz Says He > to Express Admiration for Heroes of Argonne. ONCE LIVED IN THE Co arm of Humanity" quarters of the B | the i. Staff, tion jeut. 1 ny ¢ Sherrill, icer who sent the U. 77th’s Chief at Reports Conversa- With Foe Ofticer. feinrich Prinz, note to Maj. t ot Desires Germany “Surrender harles op- doin re Hotel to-day. According to letter Col, C, O, Sherrill, Former Division Chief of Staff, later assigne |was just coming out. The impetus of |to the Army of Occupation in Coblenz | the Finn turned the door like a merry-|to take over reenals and! go-round and the officer went around | guppiics, witnes: ihe facawallo res jwith it, Then the Navy officer took! uivencis the Garman Tue biel: the situation in hand and gave the |door an extra hook and landed the|#ion before that division crossed the | | stranger out into the street. The lat- } Thine leer made a terrific swipe at the om-{ Tho German ) Division was a leer, who came back with a right-|Part of the German Army that faced | hander. |the 77th Division in the Argonne, The | Whiff! Right on the jaw the sleep|6th had suffered so severely at [producer landed and the Finn took |Grandpre that it had been pulled out. | jthe count for eicht minutes; and the Col. s rerrill « ‘oblens met two oft | cop and the Army Captain had their cera of th bth Ine of them ad-] hands full keeping the crowd back.!" 1 he was Heinri Pring, the J At that the Finn was kicked u little |German tenant who sent the de- | bit, for there were many who mand to surrender to Col, Whittle Heved he was a German, sey Said Lieut, Pring a When they got hi © the Old Slip n rer 16 TTth ete Station, he said that he was a | Division rma. t it Finn named Hjelmar Paine, and lived |selutely suicidal for Americin at No. 2,008 Sth Avenue, He had jtachments to persist in its dof just come from the West, he said, to,and for tt ason I ser m get a passport to return to hiv native |Sase, requesting surrende | land. Lieut. Prinz previous to the war] Paine was arraigned before M had been for six years tho repro trate Nolan in the Tombs Police |Sentative of a German tungsten com |Court and held till Friday on a|Pany of Spokane, Wash, Ho told Col charge of disorderly conduct, He was| Sherrill that he wanted to return to committed to the Tombs, He said|the United utes after peace was | ithat he was on his way to the Rus-|#sned for the purpose of expressing | sian consul to & passp for |admiration of the ga'la duct t] hom He gave his ovcupation as| Lieut, Col, Whittless s me | I that of electrical engineer. A proba-| “One of the most di th | Hee officer will Jo0k up his record, !our treops encounter — | Lieut, Pring was the lack of nery | ‘U.S, GITIZEN AND WIFE". Aviom "wit the shaken nerves ne AGCUSED OF anes | CCUSED OF TREASON oa Baker Authorizes British to Arrest LEGS ARTIFICIAL; DANCES. | Spohrs in Turkey as German er meeten Spy’s Aids. |} At ac 7 »day in Newark of WASHINGTON, April 1.--Seeretary {he Chapter W # of the American Baker has approved a request of tb sf ern New Jers | British Miltary authorities in Turkey Charke We 1 rated tha |that they be permitted to arrest on @ pa urtiflelal aid be maile charges of treason James Spohr, a » di alm an nat a regula naturalized American cit! nd his pair of man article could per wife, declared officially to have been ¢ iT jumped hurdles ‘id high closely aavocluted with the head of ney Kicking and jazzed the German spy system tn ating | Ho waid tha fan Seana and among British Indian sit hal a The plan is to have the ueht aim Bia wii hia nike to the United States for t bale ceca | he ae arrest by the Britis ; mitniayd Ba Spohr, sald to be of German ¢ 2 laa has been employed a “ as i Saladin Ayoub Ur y J vlom, mice ee His wife fe of Scotch birth, but, accor yen ee Mr ing to the charges, is known to hay ; lived “at Germath headquarters |. Both are accused of havin engaged WORLD [ip violent ant! British and anti: Amer lean propaganda, principally through ateceSt &nd distribution of in- reture, ad | Reasonable Doubt ¢ Wa “NEW YORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919. GERMAN WHITTLESEY DEFIED IN HIS FAMOUS “GO 10 FicLL REPLY WANTS 10 VISIT HM | | AM Westy vie acute DISTRIGT ATTORNEY SWANN IS REPORTED ABOUT TO WED, BUT IT MAY BE A HOAX i} About Many | Reports by Fact That This is All Fools Day. HIS is April lt. ‘Th much is db definitely known, Touching certain other matters re- Ported here and t are what the courts call grounds for reasonable doubt. And yet, the rumor has persisted since this morning that Dis- trict Attorney Swann has taken it can be trace rumor started somewhere in the Criminal Courts At igned to that in of th 8 Building, where the District torney has his ¢ Newspaper mer building scented an All Fo Joke, but thoy were ger formed that it was nothing Kind. And, of course, th fact that District Attorney has thus far managed bymeneal nothing. However, Marriage ic ns and and the tary that thers he sun make All Fools re da City ¢ thi y declares that bee Bureau ned by the In t bureaus jn Bronx Attorne re nn to escape entanglements n issued his B Seuliy by hi u h ok ‘PEAGE TREATY SIGNED, STORY TOLD IN PARIS, Statement S the Ho 1c ise BUT IT'S APRIL FIRST OMERODY A tel wir rumo| The that to-day was April 4 is Was Credited to and Spread All Over French Capital PARIS, April 1 nor kM pread y inquirers were reminded 24 PAGES ‘END TALK, MAKE PEACE, WILSON AS 00 GERMAN FOE WANTS TO HONOR COL. WHITTLESEY KS MACKAY PROMISES OLD RATES WITH POSTAL RESTORED Will Put Wire They Were if Burleson Re- turns Telegraph Lines, turn its Hines to the Postal Telegrap! that the company would restore the old tele- yh rates at once, The total jtelegraph business of the table C at once mpany country {8 approximately $0,000,000," ald My "This 20 per cent iierea by Mr, Burleson |m ans an incrense of $16,000,000 to the telegraph users. That it is abso- lutely unnecessary to increase tel | graph rates is shown by the fact that jthe r tives of the Postmas- | ter al now find we have bi able to hold up our earnings and profits to expectations, and those earnings and profits for the year commencing July 31, 1918, the date when the Government claims to have taken control, will more than twice the compensation which °Mr. Burleson has given our company “In the six months ending Jan, at have ¢ 1 more than the com- | pensation d to us by Pos | master General Burleson for a whole year, If we had been allowed to keep our property and operate it we would ight of raising the rates, been the be we ar | not have t and there would not have slightest. occasion for raising the Mr. Burleson has agreed to pay Western Union more than he should have agree to, and In order to realize that amount he has to ra rates pty and expenditures of the postal system as administered by our own staff sinee the Government as- sumed to take ontrol show there has been no such material change ag ty require, or even Justify, an in- crease in rates, 1 believe the troub! Jue to the fact thi Mr, Burleson ed to pay them t much com- pensation and to the fact that the Western Union is not administered carefully and ¢ nomically, What Mr, Burleson intends to do with profits which he is taking }away from us Jo not know, We do know that if we had been left ne there would have been no in lecrease in rates and no loss of profit tou If Mr. Burleson will return our [tines to ux at once we will carry on in egraph busine at the old {rate at € Th ertainly is a fair y ition and should appeal co 1 American public, who are paying “ eased telegraph rates, a ASKS CELL OF ANOTHER. er Wants to Serve Sentence Imponed on Speeder. John Flanagan, who has had eight yea service in navy Kod agistrate O'Neil! c Island Court to-day to let I « the ff |days’ sentence of Charles dinan of No. 1625 Gravesend Avenue, Brooklyr Feldman had bi ay f speed and d The Max Ku f | Tolls Where Clarence Hl Mackay, President of the Postal ‘Telegraph Company, being | asked regarding the increase in the te aph nates which went into of fect to-day by order of Postmaster General Burle said that if Post master General Burleson would re | wing wire hvcording to a despatch ceived from Budapest to-day: “We! welcome you with all our hearts, A ie dawns for us. ‘The whole world will e0on follow your example,” f PRESIDENT EXPLAINS D Root’s League Changes Said to Be plained that he was willing to accept his share of responsibility for Peace Conference delays. He was careful to point out that the ness of the negotiations was not due to any single country or its sentatives, jally finished and that now was the time to show results. HINDENBURG MASSING Expected to Defend the Railway} Li Field according to the Paris edition of the New York Herald. gathered in Graudenz and Thorn in order to defend the railway line from Danzig to Posen, Hindenburg’s force at 150,000. 2,131,503 INU, S, ARMY; 1 Net Decrease of 42 Per Cent. in| ‘The suggestion for the sign Total Strength Since | of the covenant by the United 8 Nov. | with reservations designed to bd * | the safety of the Monroe Doet WASHINGTON, April 1.—American FLAY: IN THE PEACE NECOTIIINS ; ACCEPTS PART OF BLA -¢o——— us | Acceptable to the American Delé gates—George to Stay in Paris Until Treaty Is Signed. a. PARIS, April 1 (Associated Press).—President Wilson to-day @®+ The President said emphatically that the time for talk was @ President Wilson was again in ate | tendance to-day at thd meetings of the council of four dealing with peste problems. Between the sessions ot the council the President received «ie © Bishop of Spaito, representing Juge= Slay intorests in the Dalmatian Coaat corkroversy In tho forenoon the President Wad © ARMY IN EAST PRUSSIA TO OPPOSE THE POLES ine From Danzig to Posen, |a conference with Josephus Wry Says Report From Paris. Daniels, the Secretary of the Nagy PARIM, April 1. shortly before the latter's de ; sis for Italy. Ls HE Germans are concentrat- Ave ing large forces in Eastern otwithstanding the ¢aaaiam reaching an agreement on the liminary peace treaty, premier Lady George, the Paris Edition of the 4 Prussia under command of Marshal von Hindenburg, don Daily Mail says, does not tnt to return to England before the qi tions are adjusted, in spite of his sire to attend the closing mee! of the British Labor Conference. j|AMERICANS ACCEPT ROO LEAGUE AMENDMENTS, Commenting on the amendmenta | the covenant of the League of | tions suggested by Elihu Root, it stated to-day by one of the legal cialists associated with the Am Peace Conference delegation that believed all the amendments were | ceptable to the American delegat The German forces are being The Intest estimates place von ——> 409,789 STILL IN EUROPE and safeguard immigration laws Army strength on March 2 totalled| volves no new procedure, as the 18i6 “tie ae Sridaaaad of 42 per cent.) orvations would be somewhat since } . 19 A tabla coraplled terdax. Gee the: Gene lor to those with which the Al eral Staff gave the location of the| Treaty was signed € eci ca, dallas The Aeronautical Commission gf 9) In Burope, 1,409,789 officers and men;| the Peace Conference held a meetin r in Siberia, 8.893; at sea, 63,760; in the| Monday to receive and consider i United States, 602,178; In Insular pos-| ports from sub-committees cone | sessions, 45,383. |ing military, legal, commercial j Not included in the total are 23,700! technical subjects, It was found thet 1 marines romaining with the Expedition-|the sub-committees had not edala ary Forces | pleted their work, but the commie. } _— |slon approved the temporary repost ald ALL WAR RESTRICTIONS it The Commission will hold its newt meeting on April 4 when, it is @ie pected, the general principles ail 7 much of the detail of the inter-Al ON PACKERS REMOVED a if Wilson Proclamation Releases| Aerial Convention may be settled Them From Control of Food | 22ally 2 her ‘ FRENCH BELIEVE THE SITUA ~ Administration, | TION 18 IMPROVING, WASHINGTON, April 1—All meat} In French conference circles them packers were released to-day from| ‘8 49 Impression that the situationtig | Food Administration control unde) | Clearly satisfactory, hough a t proclamation. sighed "by. President | 872 caution is being observed ., pene effective to-day, “All| thE Proceedings of the cont persons rporations of assoc! Councit of Four heard \ atic ) Lnporting, manufacs}Hymans, the Belgian Foreign turin packing, storing r, yesterday and later recelvedim distribution b nned or report from the Inter-Allied onde f, pork, mutton or lard,” a | mission which was sent to leaned jonas by the Pac | to Investigate the controversy s ss er ELA mu Neal ola yeen the Ceechs and the Peles if af oscie aouifies Bead’ Aan The principal difiteulty hae } : \ officials of the proclamation | found in settling upon .c; aration ~ cording to the new method of LAN , FASE BEL! ANG BEE MEM. ment suggested by the Freneh aan gation, This plan was