The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 1

' Circulation Books Open to All.” — PRICE TWO CENTS. Comer Cie Nem New York World). ‘The Fress Publishing NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1919, 14 PAGES The hours noted on the above map are given in Greenwich time. New York time is four hours eariicr. eo: fal nn Rit 3 AUSTRIAN INDEMNITY FIXED ATS}1,250,000,000 IN TREATY Cyedentiats of Allied of Allied and Aus- |* 'rse ## that demanded trom Ger- | many. trian Delegates to Be Ex- ‘The sum asked 1s 5,000,000,000 gold changed Monday, (Continued on Fourth Page.) PARIS, May 17.—The indemnity| — goecia Wo toy tartan ay 1919, 1 Viren “ha ‘ clause of the Austrian Peace Treaty | Base, Yim ste dhote din provides for a payment one-twentieth 4 ner, 6c, 14tn Toor World Building Aart, Watch THE WORLD for EXCLUSIVE STORIES of the THREE COMMANDERS of the NC Planes Great Transatlantic Flight Now On! As Announced Several Days Ago, ~ HAS ARRANGED WITH Commander John H. Towers, Lieut. Commander P. N. L. Bellinger and Lieut. Commander A. C. Read to receive Exclusively their Stories of the Transatlan- tic Flight. These three men are in command Bes ot the three planes. \ WAR GAIN RECORD MADE BY THE 77TH ADVANCE, 45 MILES Second Division I Next, With Rainbow Third-—-No Fear of Invasion, Says March, WASHINGTON, lay 17.—Official records of the War Department show that the 77th Division made a larger advance against the enemy than any other of the American divi- sions in France. The New York City National Army men went forward a total of 711-2 kilometres, approxl- mately forty-five miles, 9.14 per cent. of all gains made by the American Army. The 2d (Regular) Division ad- vanced a total of sixty kilometres, ap- proximately thirty-seven miles, and the 424 (Rainbow) Division Mfty-five kilometres, approximately twenty eight miles, This announcement was made to-day by Gen. March, Chief of Staff, Fourth in the list was the First) (Regulars), with 51 kilometres; the 89th, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska lorado, New Mexico and Arizona fifth, with 48 kilometres, These five divisions, with the Third (Regulars), which recorded. an ai vance of 41 kilometres. Each carrie the American line forward for mo: than 5 per cent, of the total advance made by all the fo:ces of the United States, War experience ha hown that (Continued on Second Page.) JERSEY WELCOMES ITS OWN SOLDIERS: PARADE IM HOBOKEN i Arriving To-Day Greeted by Governors, Mayors and Many Bands, | Hoboken welcomed Hoboken’s own to-day when the transport Floridian, from St. Nazaire, after writhing through nine days of exceptionally Pier 1 in the town across the river at noon. Twenty-eight and | men of the 118th Infantry, 29th ("Blue heavy weather, docked at oMcers 1,770 and Gray") Division, were on board. | They are all from Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. But it was Jersey that did the major part of the wel- coming. The transport Mount Vernon, with an Army personnel of 5,834, docked at |the same pier in Hoboken earlier in the day. Other transports due to-day are the Antonio Lopez, with 1,174, and the Yale, with 228 returning soldiers.| When the Floridian arrived the river was swarming with big and lit- tle craft. The giant Mauretania ‘backed out, turned her nose down | stream, and sent a whole fleet of be- | flagged welcoming craft scurrying to | safety. | Farther down, the Floridiag |came in, the welcoming boats scam- | pered about her like terriers around | thelr master ator Edge had a | party on ov. Runyan had one on an ; Mayor Griffin had a as | (Continued on Second Paged DANIELS 1S BACK; ENTHUSIASTIC OVER CROSS-SEA FLIGHT Due to Declares Success Is Two Years’ Preparations by Navy. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, arrived to-day from Europe on the transport Mount Vernon and stopped long enough before proceed- ing to Washington “perfect delight and supreme satis- to express his faction” with the performance of the | 4 naval seaplanes NC-1, NC-3 NC-4 in their flight across the At- | lantic, “[t is none the less wonderful be- cause it is what America expected of the brave and great navy,” dauntiess men of a sald the Secretary, “latest bulletins.” ‘The successful fight was a‘tributed | by the Secretary to painstaking work in preparation for the undertaking. “There 1s no such thing as ‘navy luck,” sald Mr, Daniels when one of the party which greeted him ai the pier used the phrase in commentifig on the progress of the NC Squadron, “We have been working up to this flight for two years,” he “and, as in other projects within its spheres of activities, what the Navy has done was due to @ perfoct system of eperation. “I let the British authorities know we were not attempt this (ight in on'inued, (Continued on 1m Second Page.) and | His first request on landing was for the | FLIGHT OF BRITISH IS AGAIN POSTPONED | Raynham and Hawker Get Reports of Unfavorable Weather in Eastern Atlantic. ST. JOHN'S, N. F., May 17.—Freder- ick P, Raynham and Harry G, Hawker, British aviators planning a trans- ie flight, decided at noon to aban- attempt to-day to start on their conditions In the Eastern | atl sescrines as unfavorable, | Ramis, [DR. SHAW AWARDED D. S. M, Suffragi#t Honored for Dt | Women's Defense Activi WASHINGTON, are et May 17.—Dr, Anna Shaw, Honorary President of the N tional American Woman Bu2rage As clation, nas been awarded the distin- service medal for her services of the Woman's Section of the | of National Defense. presentation will be made Monday ecretary Baker in his office at the nt. Depa CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp | on Saturdays for \1} SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS, Want Advertisements for The | 1] Sunday World must be in The World's Main Office on or before 7.0 Saturday evening. —=— Positively no Advertisements will be accepted after this time. —— fend your Sunday World Want Advertisement im to-day te make sure of its publication, a READ'S SEAPLANE LANDS AT HORTA, 1,200 MILES FROM SI STARING PLACE. Aivorcainaadaie Eighty Miles an — Hour—NC-3 -Believed to Have — Lost Her Way in Fog. 4 PONTA DELGADA, May 17—( Associated Preps). she had gone off her course and had been forced to alight in the open sea 200 miles northwest of Fayal. Four destroyers _ have gone to her assistance. The NC-3 is believed to be lost in the fog. The flag- ship of the flight reported at 9.15 A. M., Greenwich time, that she was off her course between stations 17 and 18. Nothing has been heard form the NC-3 since. The NC-4 which alighted at Horta because of un- favorable weather this afternoon, had not left that harbor to resume her trip at the latest advices. It was thought here, however, that she might complete the journey to Ponta Delgada to-night. WASHINGTON, May 17.—.The American naval seaplane NC-4, under Lieut. Commander Albert C. Read, has attained its first objective in the transatlantic @light, having landed safely at Horta, island of Fayal, Azores, at 9.20 o'clock this morning, Wash- ‘ington time, after winging her way from Trepassey Bay, New- foundland, in fifteen hours and thitteen minutes. This represented an average speed of approximately eighty miles an ‘hour. A message from Rear Admiral Jackson at Ponta Delgada, received by the Navy Department at 2.00 P. M., said local weather conditions around the Azores were unsatisfactory with mist and frequent rain squalls, The message was filed apparently soon.after the arrival at Horta of the NC~4 had been reported to Admiral Jackson. No mention was made of the NC-1 or the NC-3, Fog evidently caused Commander Read to land at Horta and officlals continue to Ponta Delgada to spend the night before taking flight for Lisbon, Portugal, on the ‘next leg of the overseas voyage. NC-4 HOURS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. Commander Read reached Horta several hours ahead of the schedule time for the flight, officials having estimated that twenty hours would be required for the seaplanes to reach Ponta Delgada, Had he continued to that port at the speed maintained throughout the long voyage, Com- mander Read would have covered the 1,350 miles in a little more than seventeen hours, | Azores drew comment from naval officers here. This ship was the “lame duck” of ths division from the time it started from Rockaway Beach, Long Island, Three of the four Liberty Motors which drove the ship to the Azores were installed after it left Rockaway Beach because of trouble with the original motors, Commander Read was forced to land at Chatham Light, Mass., on tne first leg of the flight to Newfoundland, He remained at Chathan . for several Jays repairing. He again was forced to make a landing on the way from Halifax to Trepassey to make repairs, and at Trepassey another new motor was pul in the plane before it started overseas, Pane these handicaps the NC-4 led the way to the Azores practi. j cally all night. | The mac chine, which will achieve the distinction of being first to | cross the Auantic will be that which arrives first at Lisbon, Portugal, the | first European landing place of the flight and starting point of the last leg {to Plymouth, England, While the performance of the NC-4 Is viewed as the most tacular aviation achievement in the history of heavier than air craft, © mander Read has not equalled the Americas Navy record elther —The NC-1 reported at 3.40 P. M., Greenwich time, that 4 ere asumed that after taking fuel from the cruiser Columbia he would a sg The fact that the NC~4 was the first of the three planes to reach tha