The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1919, Page 1

| Copyrig! PRICE TWO CENTS. t (The New Circulation Books Open to All. ‘ad 1 1010, by The Prese Publishing York World). NEW ‘YorK, WEDNESDAY, MAY ‘ii, 1919. “Circulation Books Open to All.’”’ 24 PAGES WEATHER—Showers To-Night; Clearing Thursday. “PRICE TWO CENTS. GERMANY DECLINES TO SIGN, CABINET ANNOUNCES: > HOUSE VOTES KOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE DRY LEADERS IN CONGRESS TO HOLD BACK PROWIGITION ———— Plan in Mean Time to Pass TWO LARGEST an | Legislation for Enforce- IN WORLD HERE TO-MORROW ment of Law, Abit ales! : ems Leviathan and Imperator, Formerly CRITICISM OF _WILSON. German Sister Vessels, Bring- | ing 15,148 U. Troops. | The world's two largest steamships, | the Leviathan and Imperator. aggregnt- | [ing 106.409 gross tons of shipping and | formerly sister ships under the German Republicaws Say the President Has Merely “Passed the Buck to Congress.” flag, will arrive here to-morrow and | jdock within an hour of each other. WASHINGTON, May 21.—Notwith-} The Leviathan is e@pccted to lead standing President Wilson's recom-| the way into port, being due to dock | at 3.30 P. M,, preceding by an hour the mendation for repeal of wartime inperator. Both will make fast to the prohibition in so far as it relates to same pier in Hoboken where they for- wines and beer, the opinion seemed to ™efly docked when they were under jerman ownership, gain ground at the capital to-day that 6p board the two steamers are 16. 48 all repeal measures would be kept in American troops, of which 11,958 are 7 on the Leviathan and 3,190 on the Im- | Seeemiviee wets after Fyly 5 perator. It is the first trip of the In the mean time Prohibition lead-! jqt since she was held up in her} ers plagned to enact the legislation, home port of Hamburg in August, which failed at the last session, for) by the outbreak of the war. enforcement of the wartime Prohibi- - 1914, | bate to 5 THE HOUSE; VOTE oul 304 10 i Rushed Through—Part y | Lines Not Drawn. WASHINGTON, May 21—The | Woman Suffrage Constitutional | Amendment — Resolution passed to-day by the Hou less than three hours’ debat: The the suffrage | amendment was 304 to 88, Consideration of the Baual Suffrage | Constitutional Amendment Resolution the House was | after voté on began in shortly after noon under an general debate in two hours and with afterward. resolution, Rep- of n In calling up the Mann, rman resentative Illinois, uf ous consent to extend the time for de- Republican, of the Woma asked unanim- Ch ge Committee, o'clock, but Representative Ferris, Democrat of Oklahoma, re- fused to agree. Representative Little, tion Act and the Constitutional WOMAN DRIVEN 10 SUICIDE ¢ Republica of Kansas, opened the de- Amendment. Senator Sheppard Reyes ss : Democrat, of Texas, author of the BY DEATH OF 3 CHILDREN | °°" with an address in. support of Wartime Act, said to-day he was con- | the resolution fident enforcement legislation would x | The following is the Woman Suf- ve pares before July 1. ‘ | Mi s. Anna Dugan Lost Son and|frage Amendment ‘before the Hous: ere was no disposition on the T i Ti “The right of citizens of the United wo Daughters in Less Than bbe 4 part of majority leaders, it was said, | ps R in Le | States to vote shall not be denied or to hasten consideration of a repeal} Two Months. abridged by the United States or by measure, nor were they impre ssed | An elderly woman was found uncon-|any State on account of sex. with the argument that it might be| scious from the effects of poison in! “Congress shall have power to en- well to test out the saloon system! , 19+ at gust goth Street and Linden | force this article by appropriate legis- from which hard Hquors are to bo) ee sso day afternoon, | lation.” aa | Ave rool Monday afternoon, Sith Manon yl cllminated when the whole country | 4° dea before an ambulance arrived,| Representatives Focht, of Pennsyl is to become dry by constitutional Amendment next year. The only apparent move was by The story of the deaths in rapid suc- cession of three of her children, which unbalanced her mind and finally drove Prohibtion leaders, who were oUt-| yer to end her life, was told tom spoken in their opposition to the} ‘The woman was Mra. Anna Dugan President's recommendation, regard-|52 yoars old, of No. 242 Lynch Street, less of party jines. They let it be known that they would oppose any substitute liquor bill, and would make every effort to prevent favorable committee action on any measure which would delay national prohibi- tion. On the Democratic side there is only slightly less reticence and caution displayed. Among the Dem- ceratic leaders in the House who have expressed themselves favorable to the repeal are Champ Clark, Claude Kitchin and Representative Hubert Dent, Chairman of the Military At- fairs Committee. Both Kitchin and Dent are from dry States and have been aligned with the “drys,” and Champ Clark hails from a 8) that is largely “dry.” Representative Lever Brooklyn. were Last December ail her hopes ntred on the return of hor “baby,” Tom, 18 years old, with the 106th Infantry, 27th Division, reported recovered from wounds in an English hospital. She planned a big Christmas celebration, but on Christmas Eve she was notified Tom had died. Karly in February her daughters Helen, 21 years old, and Anna, 26, be- came ill with influenza, Helen died on Feb, 1% and Anna on Feb, 20 On Monday she went to the grave of Helen in Holy Cross Cemetery and drank poison in a lot nearby, The body was identified by her son Hugh, > WOMAN SPEEDER FINED $25. Daughter of J me Says She Was Harrying Husband, ot South Carolina is another Demo-| yrs Roberta J. Cooney, a daughter cratic “dry” who is for repeal, of the late Judge Walsh of nwich | Republican leaders were at first} County, Conn, was fined $25 by Magia- disposed to think President Wilson] trate Mancuso in the Morrisania Police nad “passed the buck.” Many argued | Court this morning for speeding he could nave settled the question by Mre. Cooney, who is twenty-four and merely declaring the army demobil-| lives at Hye, told the Court she was iued and the urgency passed. How-| making up Ume after a breakdown ever, parliamentary experts say that| she could keep an engagement wit in the enactment of the war time| her husband prohibition law no provision was]. oo ao) ae hee made, for its suspension by Presiden- i ae oe cation tial decree, One of the leading par- | ppp.) Ane gee Namentarians on the Republican s1d@ | micsion to file petitions for a relerens| gives it as his opinion that President | jum yote on ratification of the probit Wilson is right in saying the situa-|tion amendment to the federal ec tu tion calls for additional | fon In|tion, was denied by the secretary ¢ order to undo what has been done, state lay on grounds that ratifica- | The Republican leaders who will; on pro mendments was a really determine the fate of the repeal bill, since that party now controls | ee, Congress, will have u conference | [td “tigestion Wates Men tlm within a few days, to on cone is Merted action, Meantime they have THE WORLD TRAVE!. BUREAU, thelr ears to the ground and are| Arcade, Puiltesr (World). Bulldiag watching closely for 4 crysiallization Cy RI of penile eenticnent, sentiment german sess Check moom for baggage and paroeln onan day and night, Mocey erdars and travellem’ checks for ale sare. j —_—>_—— wee wanes , zi | {for Raging See Page 2) | \vania, was the first Republican to speak against the resolution, declar- ing that “deep down in his heart no man from New York, Pennsylvania or Ohio” favored it. Representative Baker, Democrat, of California, speaking in support of the measure, predicted that not only would it ‘be passed in the House, but that the Senate would pass it within ten days “If this has shown us anything, it has shown us that women is the equal of man," said Representative Little, Representative Kitchin criticised the Republicans for having neglected their opportunity to pass the Woman Suffrage Bill during the sixteen years they had control of the Government Representative Clark, Democrat, of Flori to amend the resolu- tion so it would become effective un- 2 moved less ratified by the States within seven years. Former Speaker Champ Clark urged passage of the measure, be- cause it had been recommended by the President REPUBLICANS DECIDE TO REPEAL TAX ON COSTLY APPAREL AND SODA WATER Members of ole Committee Pass | a — = on Semi-Luxury Imposts, but _ | tried eet pieces of the NO-s moor- | Quite Pont WH © te Set Record In April, nit ed in the harbor here, made it neces- sylvan May Expo “ Ppt | oxports | Formal Action Deferred sary for the naval authorities to issue | ALBANY, May 21.—Dr. Thomas F. United States in April sur- WASHINGTON, May 21 orders that the ship be guarded day | Fineran, Deputy State Commissioner | passed the previous high record of EPHAL of the semicluxury |end night | of Education, has been appointed Super- | jast January by nearly $100,000,000. R Mae aashtonce the War ca ee Jintendent of Public Instruction for ‘The Department of Commerce | an yh dp | Pennsylvania by Gov, W, C. Sproul, and | nounced the total to-day as $715,000,- ‘ J 2 READ WAS SCHEDULED will take up his duties Sept, 1.” His mnpared with $624,000,000 in| on coutly wearing apparel, soda | | salary will be $12,000. He has been January, Imports, in April were vale water and a variety of other 10 LEAVE PONTA DELGADA | er eeasiad with the wee Ueation De | ued, Bt, $273,000, 000, 1,000,000 lesa articles, was practically decided | partment for tw we seven years, | — on to-day by the Republican EARLY THIS MORNING \¢ a ‘Try Crown mee t Treaty members of the House Ways and | feuente on narra ‘ LONDON, May 2l--Andrew Bonar Means Comittee, but formal | PARIS, May (Associated Press), Law, governinent spokesman, speal uction was deferred, WASHINGTON, May 21 | s-Promiar Orlando left Paria hat night ing '8 the House of ¢ late A esterd id the former Ger Proposals for repeal of other taxes jing to advices from Po for Italy, He will confer with mem-| Yesterday, sa rman Aaa Vy ar ailero Gad ices from Ponta Delgada, | oo or the Ttatlan govern rown Prince and prison camp com- begpas tain interior and foreign ques meeting to-morrow, (Continued on Second Page.) wil retura to e welday ‘ ‘i ¢ Bintan | NC-3 1S agreement to close | leaders expecting a vote immediately | ~ SUFRAGEPASSES TROUBLE TO ENGINE DELAYS THE FLIGHT OF READ FROM REPEAL TILL AFTER JULY ! vaca PONTA DELGADA 10 LISBON | Damage to > NCAN 4 Not Serious and Plane May Make “Hop” To-morrow. COMING HERE. |Read’s Plane Only One of Squadron Left to Complete the Voyage. WASHINGTON, May 21.—Because| of engine trouble the NC-4 has been | forced to postpone her “hop off—ex- | to-day—from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon, a despatch to the Navy| Department announced. Admiral Jackson, in a radio filed! }at 4.30 A. M. (Washington time) and |reaching here at 7.23 this morning, | said pec -4 will not leave to-day, One engine not functioning properly.” Despatches to the Navy Depart- | sion for rebuilding when she arrives | in New York. The NC-3 is now be-| ing ken apart at Ponta Delgada | preparatory to being shipped home: Lieutenant Commander Lavender and Lieutenant Ladenwater, mem- bers of the crews of the NC-1 and NC-3, will return to the United States on the first Government vessel leaving Ponta Delgada, The dis- mantled NC-3 will be taken to New York on the U. 8. 8. Melville with Machinist L. R’ Moore, 4 member of her crew, in charge. The destroyer Stockton has been placed at the dis- posal of Commander Towers and the remaining members of the two crews, who will proceed to Plymouth, Eng- land, the objective port of the NC-4. PONTA DELGADA, May 21 (Asso- ciated Press),—Engine trouble cau the postponement today of the might of the NC-4 from Ponta Delgadn to Lisbon which it had nm planned to start at daybreak, The crew boarded the plane two hours before sunrise to tune up the motors, After making three unsuccessful attempts to take off with one engine functioning im- properly, Lieut. Commander Read de sided that it was too late to remedy the trouble take off in time to make Lisbon in daylight hours. Thousands who crowded the decks | of ships in the harbor and vantag points on the waterfront were dis- appointed at the failure to start. Com- mander Read is confident that the} engine trouble is not important and that it will be remedied in time to | begin the flight to Lisbon at daybieak to-morrow, weather permitting Crowds of souvenir hunters who this morning in order to the flight to ‘CHICAGO WOMAN NAMED LEAGUE. REPRESENTATIVE BY CONGRESS OF HER SEX BRITSHFLOTILA UNABLE TO LOCATE AVIATOR HAWKER London Believes the British Flyer’s Adventure Ended Near the Start. LONDON, -May 21.—Thomas J. MacNamara, Parliamentary Secretary for the Admiralty, announced in the House of Commons this that the flotilla leader and eight de- stroyers searching for Harry G. Haw- WOMEN FOR WORLD STRIKE IN EVENT afternoon ker and Commander Grieve had found | no trace of the miss! tors. ment indicated that the motor trouble race of the missing ors. was not serious and officials ex-| Hundreds of vessels have been nth COREanien mead to eat & scouring the Atlantic for three days in a hse Cee, a vain effort to locate the missing) wa ga dati Joha H, Towers has |*¥iators, The belief is steadily grow- — . 1 0. f a i" f recommended that the NC-1, which Bog nee ne Perea here er Congress Proposes Jane Ad- sank at sea, be stricken from the | #awker and Grieve met with an accl- ' navy list as “lost at sea,” and that |4ent soon after clearing the New- dams For League of the NC.3 be placed out of commis. |fundiand® coast, fell in the Iceberr track avoided by vessels, and perished from exposure far from any chance Nations Representative. | of succor ZURICH, May 2.—The Interna- In spite of early bdellefs that|tional Congress of Women voted Hawker nearly reached Ireland—be-| unanimously at its concluding ses- Hefs inspired by baseless rumors—the| sion to call a world-wide strike of opinion among air experts now is that he fell into the Atlantic a consider. | ¥°™ en in the event another war is able distance away from the Irish |declared coast. The fact that no wireless mes-| ‘The proposal was made by Fraulein sage has been received from him sug-|tertzka, Vienna delegate, It was gests that he met with accident not/carried after an amendment had long after starting; otherwise it 1s be- Heved his radlo would have spoken. At this hour there are fow who do not believe in thefr hearts that the names of Hawker and Grieve have been added to the glorious Gritish roll of honor along with that of Scott, the Antarctic explorer. There was an inclination to-day in some quarters to blame the Govern- ment for not properly safeguarding the aviators. The Times attacked what It termed the Government's inaction in not pa- viding that the strike should be called even if the war was sanctioned by the League of Nations. The conference also decided to send a delegation to the meeting of the in ternational Socialist executive com- mittee at Lucerne, in August, to ask that all Socialists refuse military ser- vice in case of a new war, A delega tion was nominated to submit these resolutions to the Peace Conference A resolution demanding representa tion for women in the League of Na- tions and that Miss Jane Addams of been added pi trolling Hawker’s route, and declared | Chicago be the first woman repre- the Government climaxed this by| sentative, was adopted unanimously bungling the communiques Monday.| “The intensity of spirit and unity The Post commented on misleading | was most gratifying,” said Miss Ad communiques which, it said, aroused|dams, ‘The discussions proceeded premature elation, without any wrangling. The most An Investigation by the Admiralty | important political features were the as to how misleading official reports | protests against the peace terms, regarding Hawker's flight originated | against the economic blockade and revealed they were started by carbled | against Armed intervention in Rus radiograms, relayed through a num- | sia and Hungary. As an American, I ber of ships. keenly the present disillusion- of Hawkey Delng ativetwith the eg, | Dect, of Kuropean Uberals and pac ton ok ihe MAL fists in regard to realization of Presi- ent Wilson's programme to explain to Europeans President did not come | dictator.” It is hard that the to Paris as a was a chance h end soon after leaving Si. Johns, as he had answered no wireless calls] shortly after starting. CERNANS MISQUOTE WILSON IN CALLING ON AMERICANS TO STAND BY 14 POWNTS Cabinet Issues a Statement That Treaty as Drawn Spells Dishonor | and Economic Desfruction— Council of Four Extends Time to Reply to May 29. ° PARIS, May 21.—The time limit for the Germans to present counter-proposals to the peace treaty has been extended one week to May 29 by the Council of Four, it was officially announced this afternoon. BERLIN, May 21.—“Germany declines to sign the peace terms laid before it because they spell the economic destruction, political dis- honor and moral degredation of the entire German nation, not only for the present, but also for still, urhorn generations,” was a statement authorized by the Cabinet through the Associated Press. TO KEEP HIGH OFFICERS LONGER | IN EUROPE: itself has recognized without ques- Members of abe fa pAmeneit Peace | ton," the statement continues. “To- ward them Germany took the etand- Mission Also Give Up Idea of Early Return. point that acceptance of such condi- tiona could not be demanded and that PARIS, May 21 (Associated Press). In addition to the abandonment of these the Entente was unjustified in impos- ing such demands.” The statement argues that Ger- many has a moral right to insist oo the fourteen points, as interpreted in Germany, and especially ¢ inet the United States. It is asserted that Germany concluded peace on the basis of the fourteen points and the note of Secretary Lansing. “We do not believe,” the statemen: says, “that President Wilson, Sec tary Lansing and the American peopl: can take other than this German standpoint if they do’ not wish to do that which President Wilson in his message of December 4, 1917, con- demned categorically when he sa‘; “*We would dishonor our own cause if we treated Germany any other than justly and in a non- Partisan manner and did not in- sist on justice the projected trip to England of Gen, Pershing, the American Commander- hief, several of the higher Ameri- in- can officers and certain members of the American Peace Mission, accurd- ing to reports, have given up the idea of a return to America in the near future, TOO LATE FOR GERMANY TO DENY RESPONSIBILITY, REPLY OF THE “BIG FOUR” of Clemenceau’s Letter in Name Allies Takes Them Shafply to toward all, ne Task. matter how the war ended. We demand nothing which we are not PARIS, May 21.—It Is too late for] ready ourselves to admit.” to deny both the war and her respon- to seek [In President Wilson's message to Congress of December 4, 1917, no passage can be found in tex- Germany .ggression in the sib ‘or it. ‘This declaration 1s Wility for 1 - tual agreement with the quota made by Premier Clemenceay, ®] tion in the Cabinet statement. he president of the peace conference, in| quotation appears to be a condem- sation from the following pas replying to the German note on repa- sages in the message in question: rations he The argument put forth by Count] ‘ can do this (conceptrate von Brockdorff-Rantzau was that @ prosecution of the tis of winning the war)—with all Seater seal and enthusiasm cause we know that for us this is & war of high principle, debased by no selfish ambition of con- quest or spoliation, * * * It is be- Germany did not start @ war of ag- gression, that the German people were convinced they fought a defen- sive war and that the present Ger- man Government cannot be held re- onsible for faults of the former connor fue af te tomer] Ste iW for ura war oC HE, Ptemier Clemenceau takes up the| ““#lnterested purpose, in which all , the fi |points made by the German dele- e free peoples of the world are gation and declares that the German| D@Aded together for the vindice- tion of right, a war for the pres- vember made no * 4 ervation 6f our nation and of all ent last | Govern’ | protest SeAIDAY the ine - ® note) that it has held dear of principle [of decrotary of State Lansing shah and of purpose, that we feel ‘our- lermany ws # the ressor, n® | selves doubly constrained to pro- president of the conference points) Lose for its outcome only that at further that Germany made the! which ig righteous and of irre: |¥rench Government of 1871 and the} proachable intention far our foes j Russian Government of 1917 respons)” a5 well ds for our fries, See sible for the aets of the imperial re-| cause being just and holy, the set- gimes in France and Russia tlement must be of like motive | Bs yee tae and quality, For this vou Gab ‘invest ‘wh fight, but for aaah na partieese, or lens ene, on fh Be . say y m da it tut gee ° — 7