The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1919, Page 1

NC-4 REACHES HALIFAX; BLIMP ON W Copyright, 101 PRICE TWO CENTS. ‘1919. scan Roar ee ae] Ci —— — 24 TAGES $$ ——__—__—— WEATHER—Cloudy To. night and Thursday. EDITION % PRICE TWO CENTS. PLANE’S RADIO IS FLASHED OVER WORLD. WILL FIGHT TO UTTERMOST G.J.GOULD TRIED WHITMAN ACCUSED GAINST SEPARATION, SAYS SCHEIDEMANN PROCLAMATION Chancellor in New Speech Calls the Treaty a “Vile Murder Plot”— Berlin Socialists in Demonstration Against Wilson and Americans. BERLIN, May 14 (United 2ress).—Fifteen thousand Majority Socialists made a demonstration in front of the Hotel Adlon, where Ameri- TO BE RAIL KING, LAWYER CHARGES Accused of Damaging Estate Through Ambition to Be Financial Power. George J. Gould's ambition to be- come railroad king of the United States and a great financial power caused him “recklessly to manipulate millions of his father's estate,” Clark M. Rosecrantz, attorney for the chil- dren of Anna Gould, the Duchess dv Talleyrand, told Supreme Court Jus- tice Whitaker at this afternoon's ses- sion of the suit by which Frank Gould cans are stopping to-day, crying, “Down with Wilson! Down with,dhe| 04 tbe Duchess hope to oust Georss Americans!” «oe The tumult grew in front cf the American teadquarters until soldiers arrived and cleared the streeis gaonsiraion ein te. Pee BUT MAN HEIRESS SUES ST. REGIS HOTEL FOR LOSS OF HER $30,000 JEWEL Building. They were addressed by Richard Fischer, who sald the confi- dence of Germans in President Wilson has been shamefully abused and that the Government would re- fuse to sign the treaty, The demonstrators then surged to- ward the Hotel Adion, hooting, jeer- ing and shouting “Robbers!” ‘The tumultuous scene lasted half an hour. Chancellor Scheidemann later ad- dressed a large crowd in front of the Reichstag. “ We will fight to the uttermost against separation by violence of any German territories,” Chan- cellor Scheidmann declared, in a proclamation forwarded to Dan- zig. Scheidemann, War Minister Noske, Hugo Haase and Konstantin Fehren- bach, President of the National As- sembly, addressed that body. deputies stood and cheered for several minutes at the Chancellor's words, “Take uway that vile murder plot!” as he gestured toward a copy of the treaty; | Demonstrations against the peace | terms continued in several parts of; the city, The Berlin newspapers, commenting on yesterday's meeting of the Na- tional Assembly, to-day echoed Chancellor Scheldemann's verdict of “gnacceptable” regarding the peace terms, The Tageblatt ‘disapproved of Konstantin Fehrenbach, President of the Assembly, ‘waving the flag of revense.” A report was received here to-day | that @ general strike has been de- clared in Weimar, fa Sa AUSTRIAN DELEGATES ARRIVE AT ST. GERMAIN; WANT A QUICK TREATY ei 4 AROLAN ——_— Mrs. Harriet Pullman Carolan, Chancellor Renner Out for a Peace |" ae ead pr Meg B dics ' Ban 4 New York, and one of the heirs That Will End Suffer the estate of George Pillman, to-da ing. filed suit for $30,000 against the ” 7 a Regis Hotel, where, she alleges, jew- ° N, M Aus- nee ye gar tepid pied ps Jelry worth that amount was stolen shortly before 6 o'clock this evening from her on Dec 18 \ ast, while she PARIS, May 14 (United Press,)—| 4% 4 suest at the hotel — Mrs. Carolan raise a~ novel poln (Continued on Second Page.) in her suit, Knowing she was a} pact — woman of great means and high If you can - ™ cial position. allege: the hote ™ sk for rieulure of” anagement neglocted to maist tha adhering to the rules of fashion, to garry thom about with ber at’ ail Uc when she | her apartment she place her valuables in the office safe She decla the jewels were as| necessary to her social life a her wardrobe and she was compelled, in Gould from trusteeship of the Gould | estate, “George Gould's’ actions in the | management’ of this estate,” said Mr. | Rosecrantz, “were sufficient to war- |rant his Instant removal from his great position of trust, Gould tried to become the great railroad king of the United States and a great finan- cial power at the expense of this es- | tate. He showed himself absolutely incapable of understanding the duties |of a trustee. His ambition was to be |.the owner of a railroad from coast to coast, no matter what it cost the estate.” | lawyer traced the history of the Missourl Pacific Railroad in which the Gould estate is, heavily interested, “When George Gould knew Miss- our Pacific stock was getting bad he lincreased the estate's investment by | $9,000,000 and disregarded the caution |that an ordinary business man would |have observed, he encumbered the | estate with speculative stocks in the road and let go of the bond holdings,” the lawyer continued. “One loss alone in these Missouri Pacific transactions amounted to, not a million or so, which he would have [considered a small amount, ‘but be- | tween $12,000,000 and $15,000,000, He | never used his own private funds but always the funds of the estate in his |reckless manipulations and machina- | tions. | None of the Gould family were in court during the hearing. A great \crowd, however, filled the courtroom. Ue 7a ROOSEVELT FAMILY HELD UP AT PIER, AWAITING MOTHER Custom Guard Refused Admission Without Embarkation Port Pass —Parent Home From France, Lieut, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Capt. Kermit Roosevelt, Capt. Archie Roose- jvelt and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long- worth and Mrs, Edith Roosevelt Derby, vith their husbands, went to Pier 49, North River, to-day, to meet their | mothe r, widow of the former President, who arrived on the Giuseppe Verd! after a two months’ journey abroad to j visit the grave of her son, Un, shot down with his a the German lines in Fra: A Customs guard refused them without a pass from the Port of ;Embarkation and ordered the party off |the pier. Lie: Brig. Gen, issued ¢ party to the pier refused pwevell Th | ‘oplane over Col. Roosevelt telephore MeManus at Hoboken, phone orders to ° uM to admit any except 1 and his they were d to however t, Col brother Kerimit, the only ones mvuntioned lin the message from Hoboken, | Mrs, Theodore Roosevelt was. almost jin tear Her sons did not get through the customs line for half an hour after \the ship docked and she thought they |oas to mot her, Lieut. Quen- | to admit | who AS FABRIATOR I DOUGHBAG QUIY Thompson Says Ex-Governor Tried to Deceive Public; Shonts Brought in Again. A general attack on the veracity of former Governor Whitman was made at this afternoon's session of the ANSWER BY THE NC-4 TO RADIO FROM WASHINGTON SPREAD OVER WORLD IN 3 MINUTES Commander Read’s Position Flashed to Eu- rope and All Ships at Sea in Record Time. . JWASHINGTON, May 14. RHOORD in radio telegraphy was established by the Navy De partment today when a message was sent from Secretary Roosevelt to the NC-4 flying to Newfoundland, a reply received and relayed to Paris, London, Panama, San Diego and ships aea, all within three minutes Naval officials said no such speed had ever before been attained $500,000 seven-cont fare doughbag in- quiry at City Hall by Senator George F, Thompson while summing up his testimony. In his charges against Mr. ‘Whitman, ‘Senator. Thompson said the former Governor's statement on the stand at Albany was a “fabri- Going into detail in cate- gorical order, Senator Thompson made the following accusation against Mr. Whitman: “He has attempted to deceive the cation.” public by interweaving a lot of unim- portant falsehoods with a lot of un- important facts in an attempt to make it appear: “1, That I sought an interview with him—which is untrue. “2, That I sought to make a con- nection to practise’ law in New York —which is untrue, “3, That 1 sought his advice In re- lation to’ the Carson-Martin Bill— which is untrue, “4, ‘That 1 gave him an intimation that I was going around talking about the Carson-Hartin Will looking for Jan excuse to change my attitude— which is untrue, “S.—That, I was using that oppor- tunity to criticize former Gov. Hughes—which is untrue, “6.—That I was using that oppor- tunity to criticize Senator Burlingame —which is untrue, “7.—That I was using that oppor- tunity to belittle Senator Davenport— which is untrue. “8,--That I tried to see him on Mon- day—which is untrue.” “During our conversation,” said Senator Thompson, “on March 29 at the Hotel Gt. Regis, former Gov. Whitman told me his firm had made $66,000 during the first three months of its existence, and Mr. Whitman added that his firm expected to make $200,000 within a yearf.” Senator Thompson charged Richard Henry Burke, who a few minutes previously had been dis- missed as a witness by the commit tee, had uproached him in July, 1916. at the entrance to the grill room of the Hotel Biltmore. | “Burke told me that Theodore P. | Shonts, President of the Rapid Transit Comfany, had sent him to see me,” Thompson testified, “He asked me whether I was going to run for Senator again, I told him I was. Then Burke asked me if Shonts could be of any to me ampaign. “That is assured me, that terborough assistance in told him. ile that the offer |from Shonts was sincere, Burke told me Shonts knew that Mrs, Shonts had turned over to me some lette! and that as these letters had nothing to do with the Investigation Shonts tl was ‘right-minded ing them out “Ltold Bur a joke, I however, in not giv to the pre I did not care to dis (Continued on Second Page.) —— pyse O81 ary Veale) siant relief. ‘Advts. WORLD ACATAURAKT tat for Bard tay ation ehov sith Ereuciy fried vou eset ros bam with sors (bss i ne Waa in wireless communications, At 11.18 Acting Secretary of the the NC-4 as follows: “What is your position? All keenly interested your progress.— ROOSEVELT.” ‘Two minutes later the radio operator took the following reply from Commander Read of the NC-4 on the desk at the Navy Department: “ROOSEVELT, Washington—Thank you for geod wishes, NC-4 is 20 miles southwest Seal Island, making 85 miles per hour.—READ.” r One minute later this message was being relayed to all ships and the big wireless station in Europe and Central America, The oper ton was completed within three minutes and six minutes later messages were received from Panama and San Diego confirming receipt of the message from the NC-4. vy Roosevelt sent a message to was sent from Washington to the radio station at Otter Cliffs, Maine, and relayed there to the plane in the air, which replied by the same roate. On receipt of the message from the NC-4 in Washington a radio operator flashed it to Annapolis and New Brunswick, both stations ‘being connected on one key, and these in turn flashed it broadcast, The | whole operation, which bean at 11.18 A. M., was concluded at 11.21. | Lieut. T. A. M. Craven directed the feat, which radio officials sald would go down as one of the most remarkable instances of radio telegraphy. | Later a message from Boston revealed that Commander Read in the radio tests replied by wireless telephone to the Otter Cliffs station, | The Boston message stated that his telephone answer had been inter- cepted there. This would indicate Commander Read received the wireless radio from Otter Cliffs and immediately adjusted his wireless j bam to Trepassey, Newfoundland, alighted in the harbor here at 2.10 | | Radio officials explained that the original message to the NC-4 | | THIRD NAVY PLANE TO FLY ONTO TREPASSEY AT ONCE; OVERSEA HOP” TO-MORROW NC-4 Makes Flight From Chatham, Mass., to Halifax in 3 Hours and 45 Minutes— Three Craft May Start for Azores Together. HALIFAX, N, S., May 14.—The NC-4 arrived here this afterriozn. The big seaplane, completing the first leg of her flight from Chat * P, M, (1.10 New York time), The NCA left the station at CJ.atham, Mass., at 9.25 A. M. (This | time is unofficial.) . The plane thus made the flight of approximately 300 maidiegh miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes. The plan was to stop at Halifax for only a short time and then ¢on- tinue the trip to Trepassey, where the NC-4 and NC-3 are waiting to fly to the Azores en route to Europe, The NC-4 started with the others from Rockaway last Thursday but was forced to drop out at Chatham on account of motor trouble. WASHINGTON, May 14,—Licut, Commander A. C. Read plans tu stop the naval seaplane NC-4 at Halifax for only a few minutes during its flight from Chatham, Mass., to Newfoundland. He so advised the cruiser Baltimore at Halifax in a wireless message which was intercepted: and relayed to the Navy Department a few minutes before 1 o'clock ms WG TE FIGHTS KINO GET. 40 YEARS TO BUY There and Coast. WASHINGTON, May 14.—Notwith- standing reports from San Mathilda Carlson Seeks to} Keep Nephew’s Family From $7,000 Mausoleum, Francisco that the wedding of Francis Burton Har- | rison to Miss Betty Wrentmore of Be keley, Cal., has been postponed, friends of the Governor Genera! of the Philip- pines in this city hint that Gov. Hai rison's absence from his Washington home at Just this time—the wedding was set for to-morrow-——may be significant They hint at a ceremony somewhere tween here and the Pacific Miss Mathilda Carlson, past sixty, of No, 46 West 32d Street, to-day ap- this afternoon, While weather conditions’ along the route from Trepassey Bay to * the Azores were improved to-day, meteorological experts at Newfound- i land held that they still were “unsatisfactory” for the start of the sea- planes, NC-1 and NC-3, on their transatlantic flight, according to tis. ; patches received at the Navy Depariinent. ———-<<<=@ As the plane NC-4 passed over Bar- OVER NOVA SCOTIA BOUND 10 ST. JOHN'S which was clearly visible in the air. Then they Mashed this message tv Blimp Which Left Montauk Point To-day Due in New- Commander Read: “You look good, Took a soap foundland in Morning Would you like print?” SHELBOURNE, N. S. May 14.— “Gilad to have some, Read answered CHATHAM, afass., May 14—The The United States dirigible C-5 passed here at 4.15 P. M, (Halifax time) headed for Halifax. Naval Seaplane NC-4 left here at 9:25 A. M. to join the NC-i and NOS The 420-mile flight from Long Island was made in 7 hours and Commander at Trepassey, N. I’, starting point of the transatlante flight. The NC 4 was to fly to-day to Halifax. Two seaplanes from the naval eir station bere, Nos, 1850 and 1916, ae companied the NC 4 in the start of her flight, leaving here aoout ten minutes later, They were ordered ty convoy the bydroairplane as far a» the first ship of the destroyer patrok which ts stationed at @ point approxi- mately Ofty miles northeast of bere. A message from Boston said the Navy Department there recéived a radio from the NC-4 saying she had 15 minutes, giving the ba!!s0n an average speed so far as 58 miles Other friends explain the nostpone- | pealed to Suprome Court Justice ment by the fact that alifornia | ¢, courts have not yet handed down a final [Greenbaum to prevent her nephew, decree in the case of Goy, Harrison's | Nils Mogelgren, and his wife and| divorce from Mrs. Harrison No. 2.|daughter from | do er from occupying a costly | Prof, and Mra, Clarence G. Wrentmore wf pying (® soany | are said to be more determined than |™@usoleum which sho built for her- | ever to prevent the marriage self In Woodlawn Cometery, In tears | . Harrison Is twenty-seven years | 4) i 4 older than Betty Wrentmore, wha ae |t8@ aged woman told the Justice | Neuy turned blabieen how for more than forty years she aaa and her sister Sophia, now dead, | tolled as cooks, pre ng delicacies | 3,000-MILE FLIGHT IN WEEK. |! tie nomes of Now York miltion- | oe aires, that they might provide a rest- Col. Wilson Reaches Engl in!ing place for their bodies. | © From Mesopotamia ren and bis family are equal- IN, May 14.—Col. Wilson are }iy rmined that the mausoleum rived in England by airplane late! sia be their just rest yesterday after a woek's flight from |® ai) De thelr last resting place, and Mosul, Mesopotamia, lis route, via| the @ght in court developed that in- | Cairo, way nearly 3,000 miles tense bitterness exists between the | | ae “ jaunt and her nephew and his family, | : | Fogelgren had non Food terms | Seizo Rum tm i with Miss Carlson until a few year derbitt t jeer until # few. Feacn vant Jago, when he refused to live at her | line pada home and took his family to Now- Vanderbilt port, It, I | |xelged enouxh wit Miss Carlson told Justice Green- | toxleanls to All two; baum she would rather occupy the with violating th mausoleum with total strangers than permit her relatives’ bodies to repo: eed Uigootl Sind a. | (Continued on Second Page.) passed Seal Island, Me, at Ibs an hour, A. M., making 8 miles an hour, YARMOUTH, N. &., May 14.— TREPASSEY, N. F., May I= Weather conditions over the Atlantic to-day were not so propitious as were The United States dirigible C-5 passed this point at 3.30 P, M. expected and the indications were this # WASHINGTON, May Reports |fFene0n that Commander John Ht ee Towers would postpone the start of received at the Navy Department to- the American naval transatianti¢ day on the x “8 the navy | fight until to-morrow, dirigtble C-5 on its Might from Mon-| ‘Phe belated NC-4, fying trom Chat J i‘. Point, Long Island, to ham, Mass,, was expected here this taal evening to join her sister planes, the = (Continued on est skas Page.) NC-t and NC-3, and if she arrives 7 Commander Towers said that th three overseas fliers might “hop er ORTORE MEALS vegeta: A ; ANeaa