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sen Eadberht arent me - out its rehabilitatio: @etermination to renounce ali teristic and imperialistic tendencies. WARIS, May 26.—The respectively, with reparations responstbillty, German property in Allied countries and German religious maiesions abroad. AUSTRIAN TREATY COMPLETED. T0-DNY TO BE SIGNED QUioKLY German Notes Continue, but No ‘Vital Changes in Treaty Are Likely. PARIS, May °%.—The credentials of the Austrian Peace Delegation St. Germain-en-Laye have been ap- proved by the credentials commis- sion of the Peace Congress and the Austrian delegates have sent their firme note to the allied and associated pOwere. The note has to do with Carinthian affairs. “The Allics were expected to com- Plete the Atistrian treaty to-day and ‘the Germans were scheduled to finish assembling their final counter pro- posals. ‘This action, with contingent developments, will give the Peace Conference one of the busiest weeks since its inception. Presentation of the Austrian terms at St. Germain probably will take place Wednesday. In view of the ap- parent inclination of the Austrians to sign the Treaty as presented and re- turn to their country at once to work it ts believed they will make few counter propo: This may result in the Austrian and German pacts being signed at prac- Weally the same time. While the Big Four have not agreed | of even an approximate date for the final ceremony at Versailles, the be- ef prevails that it will take place between June 10 and 15, The date gamnot be fixed uptil the Germans turn in the last of their counter-pro- posals. This is not looked for before Thursday, when the additional week's Brace expires. The Echo de Paris says tt understands the Allied reply to the counter-proposals will be ready June Gor 7, the Germans then having three gives can proof of Germany's mili- German Peace Delegation to-day sent threo new notet to the Secretariat of the Peace Conference. The notes deal, and FIGHT ON LEAGUE RENEWED ON BOTH SIDES OF CAPITOL Johnson's Resolution Calling for Text of Treaty Before Senate—Madden Speaks. WASHINGTON, May 26.—Issues of the Peace Treaty fight came before thé Senate again to-day with the pros- | pect that the debate which began! Friday might occupy the entire day's session The immediate subject of the dis- cussion was a resolution by Senator Johnson, Republican of California, asking the State Department for the complete text of the Peace Treaty. Plans@of Mouse Republicans for keeping the United States out of war were outlined on the floor to- day by Representative Martin B. | Madden, Illinois, who recently visited Europe. As a national policy Madden made the following points. Separation from entangling alliances abroad, such as are lable to result from the Legue of Nations Universal military tr youths, A reasonabiy «mall army. | Maintenance of a reserve among officers who have returned to civil | life, Maintenance of a navy commen- surate with American commerce Madden called attention to the fact that Government expenditures for the first 143 years of the Republic were about $28,000, 000,000, while war priations have piled 000,000. Indebtedness uly 1, was $965,000,000, while to-day the debt is about $30,000,000,000, with an annual interest of $1,500,000,000. experiences in Europe, Madden claimed that an un- friendly spirit exists the | French people and the American sol- dier, He charged that the army .5 rebuilding roads in France and pay- ing the French people twice as much for the material as in this country. ee up to $51,-/ days to sign. The specis! printing outfit which will publish the coumer-proposals in book form arrived in Versailles yes- terday in charge of eighteen experts. The special train consisted of eight ears, one of which was loaded with coal. Al] work will be done in litho- graph or rotogravure. The first alteration in the treaty was made in the Allies’ reply to tho Germans’ note on the Saar Valley. Under the original draft, Germany Would automatically jose all claim to the coal mines if payment for their repurchase were not forthcoming within a year after the piebescite, which is fixed for fifteen y after the treaty becomes effective. The Allies made concessions providing the League of Nations shall determine the method by which Germany may recover the mines, providing the peo- ple of the region vote for German annexation. ‘The Germans had contended that payment of reparations might net leave them with sufficient gold to pay for the mines at the time set in the original trénty. Further alterations in the treaty are possible, it was sald to-day, al- though it was declared there would be nothing of a vital nature. VIENNA, May 26 (United Press),— Members of the Austrian Foreign Office declared to-day that the peace terms, as outlined in newspaper de- epatebes from Paris, are “absolutely table.” lost reports of the terms, Which have not yet been com- vy virtually wiped out and her territories reduced in that region known as German-Austria.] BERND, May 26.—Germany should refuse to sign the military and economic terms of the peace treaty,} which are not acceptible, according to & statement made by Gen. Count Max Montgelas, one of the Gerinan dele- gates at Versailles, to the corre- spondent of the Neuste Narichten of Berlin, and quoted in a Munich} despatch received here. He says that the military terms do | not allow Germany a sufficient num- ber of troops to maintain order, the recent events in Berlin and Munich being cited as proof of this state- ment, St, Clement's Bells to Peal for Peace After Long Silence. LONDON, May 17 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).—The famous peal of bells in St. Clement's Churoh, in the Strand, near the American Eagle Hut, will be heard again on Peace Day, after a silence of seven years, The bells are notable for thelr eniming of the old rhyme “Oranges and Lemons,” to which tune the children of Kngland still play one of their favorite games. Braberger Makes Protest to Armistice Commission, BERLIN, May % (via London).— Mathias Erzberger, Chairman of the German Armistice Commission, has sent a note to Gen, Nudant, the representa- al Ioch at Spa, protesting ee encouragement given " of the French Army, ‘to those seeking the separation of the Raverian palatinate from Bavaria and Germany. The note was sent through Pleted, agree that Austria's army be reduced to 1 ‘ f 5 i } i 2 ‘on tein, the German military representative Spa. OVATION FOR AVIATORS HAWKER AND GRIEVE (Continued from First Page.) Wouldn't bo surprised if he tries the flight again. A failure like this won't stop him. It will oly make him the more determined, If he does try again he'll get across next time.” Outside the house a notice was) posted: “MR. HAWKER HAS BEBN FOUND.” It was (this that firet brought the news to Surbiton and) started the eager crowds shouldering and pressing close around the door- step of the famous airman, Mackenzie Grieve, immediately upon landing at Thurso, sent the fol- lowing message to his parents: “Safe, will aire later.” “We had given him up for lost,” declared Mrs, Grieve, when she heard the news of her son's rescue, She was too overcome to say more. Grieve's native town, Froxford, took on a carnival appearance, “The courage of Hawker and Grieve places them in the first rank of the pioneers of the air,” declared Gen. Seely of the Air Ministry to-day. “I can hardly give expression to my re- joicing that their gallant attempt to cross the Atlanic has not cost brave, lives.” HAWKER’S Own STORY OF MISHAP ON FLIGHT. | LONDO: May ‘26 (Associated i Press). —Harry Hawker's own story of the difficulties met on bis flight! were told in the following message sent immediately after reaching Scotland, My machine stopped owing to the water filter in the feed pipe from the radiator to the water pump being blocked with refuse, such as solder or the like, shaking ‘LONDON PREPARES |the destination for | which they had started, Their Sopwith plane was not saved, FLAG SIGNALS USED FROM SHIP. Since last Sunday, when the flyers passed from the view of watchers at Stgnal Hill, St. John's, no authentic word of any sort had been received from them, It was well after noon yesterday when the Mary, bound to Aarhuus, Denmark, by course west and north of Ireland and Scotland, rounded the headland known as the Butt of Lewis and began signalling | the shore with flags. Those watching her and spelling out her message found it difficult vo what she said, The signals i “Saved hands of Sopwith plane.” The Butt of Lewis gua: ’s wagged back the question: “Is it Hawker?" “Yes,” was the the Mary, While the men on the Butt of Lewis were trying to digest this an expected and hardly believable m« sage the Mary held on her cours She was making nine knots an hour, wig- | terse reply from | Col. Bishop Delighted at News of had been three weeks out of port, and evidently proposed to reach | Aarhuus with the least possible de- lay. Word was immediately sent to the British Admiralty, and destroyers wore ordered out to try to 6vertake Grieve, LY ERS DELIGHTED ia SA YING OF BRAVE BRITONS WHERE AVIATORS HAWKER AND feo bast WERE RESCUED RECE/VED ESCUE of and RIVE jam G. Barker, Canadian aviator, who is credited with bringing down 61 German planes and has made flights across the English Channel with the Prince of Wales, arrived to-day from Southampton, He believes the At- lantic will be crossed in a single flight this year, “The performance of the Americans in flying from Rockaway to the Azores was sple: did,” he said, “and I believe the NC-4 will fly from the Azores to Portugal. It was a great victory for the Liberty engines.’ BRITISH AGE SAYS HAWKER RESCUE WAS WONDERFUL Fellow Sopwith Flyer's Miraculous Escape. The news of Hawker's rescue was taken to Lieut. Col. W. A. Bisanp, “ace of aces” and agent in this coun- try for the Sopwith airplane, at the Biltmore. “Wonderful!” he exclaimed as he listened to the details then at hand. “It 1s marvellous news. I haven't heard @ word from the Sopwiths yet, but that probably is because they under- stood 1 had already left New York. | “It really seems too good to be true. what happened to him all comments | status in the National Guard.” GUARD RECRUITING LAGS AMONG VETERAN MEMBERS Officers Find It Hard to Get Former Men to Re-Enlist in State Service. “Officers and men who belonged to the New York National Guard before it was mustered into the Federal Service are reluctant to return,” said Col. Olm- stead to-day at the National Guard headquarters, Municipal Building. “A great many will return, to be sure," added the Colonel, “but they are ‘fed up’ and it may require several months for | them to again feel that comradeship- of-war feeling and resume their former Officers who served With the 27th Division overseas have already been as- signed to various State The units included are the First Cavalry, Squadron A Cavalry, New York City; Ist Field Artillery, 24 Field Artillery, 34 Infantry, 3d Infantry and 7th In- fantry. According to a ruling of the War De- partment atl members of the former National Guard who enlist within six months from their discharge will be credited with continuous service. HOPE TO SETTLE STRIKE IN WINNIPEG TO-DAY Postal Workers and Firemen Threatened With Dismissal Unless They Return, NOYES, Minn., May 26.—Government units. |the Mary and transfer Hawker and Of course, until we get his story of and city officials in Winnipeg declared to-day they believed the strike will be BEG THE MARY'S MASTER TO are based on pure conjecture. But of broken before evening. LAND. At the same time all signal sta- tions were instructed to try te com- munnicate with the Mary’s captain, with the urgent request to land the aviators at some Scottish port, It! was several hours before the next| word from the two men was received. loose in the radiator, It was no fault of the Rolls- Royce motor/which ran absolutely perfect from start to finish, even when all the water had boiled away. We had no trouble in landing on the sea, where we were picked up by the tramp ship Mary, after be- ing in the water for ninety min- utes, We leave Thurso at 2 P. M. Monday, arriving in London, Tuesday evening. The spot where the flyers were picked up was latitude 60.20 north, longitude 29.30 west, This is about 1,100 miles from Newfoundland and 800 miles from Ireland. They were absolutely on their course, and but for the stoppage in their circulation might well h expected to reach \ \ a It came last evening in the shape of a wireless from the destroyer Woolsun, | saying that she had intercepted the Mary and transshipped Hawker and | Grieve. She said she was taking | them to Thurso, on the northern coast of Scotland, about 100 miles east of the Butt of Lewis, A still later report from the de- stroyer Revenge, the flagship of the squadron in those waters, made known that the two flyers had beon | transférred and would sleep on board | her last night at a port in the Ork- | neys. As indicated by Hawker’s own | | message, they will take train this afternoon for London, Lacking definite information, it 1s assumed that the hour of the land- ing must have been some time after 4 o'clock last Monday morning. Fly- ing at 100 miles an hour and caleu- lating on the distance covered, it would have been about daylight when the Sopwith took to the water, and about 5.30 when the Mary picked the two men up. U, S, AIRMEN REJOICE AT NEWS OF RESCUE OF HAWKER AND GRIEVE Aviators at Alanic City Aero Con- gress Give Highest Praise to British Flyers. ATLANTIC CITY, May 26.—“Bully for Hawker and Grieve!” “Got to hand it to those English fellows!" ‘These were two of the expressions that went from flyer to flyer when they learned.of the rescue of the dar- ing pair. Alan R. Hawley, President of the Aero Club of America, had the news relayed to him by phone. “This is a day of miracles!” he ex- claimed. “Hawker wok the bun- dredth chance and won.” Whether Hawker will be awarded | the gold medal of the Aero Club of | America will depend upon how far he actually flew in bis transatlantic at- tempt, The gold medal is given ony for some signal achievement and has been awarded only ten times before. | Mr. Hawh said it was certain Hawker Grieve will receive the Medal of Merit. one thing I feel certain, and that is that his Rolls-Royce engine served him well.” Col, Bishop declared his confidence in the ot -motored plane for the transatlantic flight, although not for commercial purposes. INTERNATIONAL PAPER STRIKERS BAGK AT WOR Pay Increase Not Granted, but} Conference Has Been Ar- ranged for Wednesday, Striking employees of the Interna- tional Paper Company who have been| out for the better part og a month on | a demand for increased wages went back to work this morning without the granting of their demands. All the {company's mills throughout the count: with the exception of that a# Water. town, N. Y., resumed operations. A conference has been arranged for Wednesday by Mediator Buchannan of the National War Labor Board between the heads of the company and the union leaders, The men based their demands on an assumption, according to the heads of the company, that the war was over, and though they hed been granted an increase, they insisted that the agres- | ment made by the company and, em- | Ployees with the War Labor Board was a@t an end, amd that they were en- titled to a favorite increase, PASSAIC HEROINE GETS AD. S. MEDAL Chief Operator of Army Telephone Service Is Honored for Her Work During St. Mihiel Offensive. COBLENZ, May 22 (Associated Press).—Before a crowd of admiring officers and enlisted men, Miss Grace D. Banker of Passat, N. J., received ‘The crisis was expected at noon, the hour set by Government officials for the return of postal and telephone workers and city firemen under penalty of dismissal. Strike leaders sald they had positive assurance workmen in twenty Dominion cities will quit work if the situation is not settled to their satisfaction. Winnipeg citizens of all classes sorted mail to-day, If postal workers do not return to their tasks deliveries will be made by volunteers under guard. —__—_ CHURCH DISCARDS CREED. Old Messiah to Be Renamed the Community Charch. At the morning service yesterday at the Church of the Messiah, Park Ave- nue and 34th Stroet, it was announced by the minister, the Rev, John Haynes Holmes, that the chureh will change its name to the Community Chureh of New | Yor ‘The ebureh was founded in 1835 and has had ite present name since 1839, Mr, Holmes aaid he has cut himself off rom ‘all denominational connections and | il preach @ universal, humanistic re- Matod that knows no sectarian bounds, The church under its new name will be rene by voluntary ons. fe belong to the community.” said Mr. take rank with the Shook t the library ‘and the community cantre as @ public institution for public service.” pilates seinen FRENCH NEARING BUDAPEST. Cross Tissa and Expect to City im Three Weeks. ROME, May %.--A Bucharest de- spatch to the Idea Nazionale report that French troops have crossed the Tisza |River and expect to enter Budapest | within three weeks. Assembling of 8ST. JOHN'S, N. F., May 26.—-Assem- bling of the Vimy Bombing Plane, which the Alcock-Brown team of begun to-day. The machine be put together at Quidi Via Field, but another site, poa- Lieut. Gen, Hunter Liggett, com- mander of the Ist Army, et army headquarters to-day. Miss Banker is chief operator of the Army Telephone Service bere, and has been overseas one year at general headquarters and with the lst Army. The citation reads: “For exceedingly meritorious and distinguished service and by untir- ing devotion to her exacting duties under trying conditions did much to assure the success of the phone sys- tem during the operations against the La Mibiel salient and north of | Ve Canadinn Alr Here Praises Feat of U, &. Navy Btrers, i teh Poa dee sbhaue ESE the Distinguished Service Medal from | 5) Harser Grae, rey be chosen ‘hop Electric VACUUM CLEANERS ALL MAKES ON Easy Terms Phone Bryant 5877 Vacuum Cleaner ripe Co. 131 West transatlantic flyers has entered in the | POLIGE CAPTAIN PEABODY INDICTED Accused of Conspiracy and Petit Larceny. The Grand Jury to-day found three indictments against Capt. William 8. Police Station. The indictments charge misdemeanors and are based on evidence that Peabody accepted &@ fee to aid two pickpockets under arrest in New Jersey to escape con- viction, Tho Grand Jury was told it is si that a Mrs. Livingston of © Island, acting as go-between for the pickpookets gave $750 to Peabody on his promise to see that the New Jerse horities “would go easy” on the sed men, The men were convicted and sen- teficed to two years and a half in the reformatory at Caldwell, N. J. Re- cently their wives tried to recover the money from Mrs. Livingston who was unable to get Peabody to refund it to her, according to the charges. The Grand Jury, it was asserted, was told that some of the money paid to Peabody, a sum jess than $50, was stolen money. The indictments charge conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice, recelv- ing stolen property and petty larceny. Feabody went fore the Grand Jury his own request and made 4 statement In the effort to clear him- self. He was notified by District At- torney Swann to be in court o-mor row before Judge Rosalsky for ar- raignment. " HERO WON IN WAR ROMANCE Mrs, Naomi Staton, 20 and Pretty | as Picture, Met Soldier While * in Canteen Service. Mrs, Naomi Staton, nee Frost, the bride of a week, twenty years old, as pretty as a picture and living at No. 1264 Morris Avenue, left this morning to crows the Continent and join her soldier husband in Portland, Ore. Miss Frost, in the fall of 1917, with a whole lot of other pretty, girls, started a social organization with a canteen for the soldiers. | Private Henry Wesley Staton of the W470 Field Artillery, came East with the Sunset Ditision. While at Camp Mills he obtained a furlough and chance or Cupid took him to the canteen and into the presence of Miss Fri Evidently, it was a case of love at first sight, for many letters thereafter weighted the mails to and from France. On May 17 Miss Frost received a telephone call from Phila- delphia and Henry was at the other end. The next day he was in New York and that night Miss Frost was her soldier's bride. eee paee HALT TRIAL FOR SANITY TEST Man Held 1 On Park Murder rangely. ‘The antics of Michael Casalino, No. 146 Classon Avenue, arraigned for trial on a charge of murder in the first de- gree before Justice Fawoett in the Queens County Supreme Court, so tm- pressed his attorney, Edward J. Reilly, that he applied for a petition to test the sanity of hie client. Casalino is accused of murdering Mrs, Joseph Holbach when her husband's hot at South Osone Park was the soene of a shooting affray last January, ‘Casalino, jes, stared ir, made motions with his hands ani twee ae face, Coyle of Manhattan » ‘prolution J. Sebwetkart of Elm were no's sanity. Sapna Brooklys Bakers on Mrike. Brooklyn bakers went on strike to- day in the WilHamsburg and Bushwick sections of Brooklyn. Union leaders estimated between 1,000 and 2,000 men are out, affecting some of the biggest bakeries in the sections, The men pian the strike to 1,800 bakerics, large emall, in Brooklyn, and a of bread in the borough was pred within a week. ON THREE CHARGES Flushing Precinct Commander | Peabody, Commander of the Flushing | BRIDE GROSSES U. S. TO JOIN CTY CENSORSHIP OF FILMS SOUGHT IN NEW ORDINANCE Alderman Wise’s Measure Would Give Full Power to License Commissioner. | Augustus M. Wise Democratic Al- | derman from District of Manhattan, has introduced | an ordinance giving the Commissioner | of Licenses absolute power as & moral jeengor of all motion picture films either circulated or exhibited in the city. According to the Alderman, at the present time the powers of the License Commissioner over moving pletures are confined merely to His right to revoke the license of a the- atre In which objectionable films are exhibited the Twenty-seventh The proposed ordinance provides thas all filme must be submitted to | the License Commissioner. If he ap- proves he is to issue a permit upon | the payment of @ fee of $1, and this |permit must be displayed conapic- uously where the picture is shown. In cases where disapproved films are circulated, leased out or trans- ferred, the penaity |s confiscation of the films and a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $200 for each of- fense. Where other provisions of the proposed ordinance are violated, the penalty is a fine of not less than $50 hor more than $100. One provision of the ordinance ii that if “a picture or a series of pic- tures for the showing or exhibition of which an application for a permit is made, is immora} or obscene, indecent or suggestive, or such as tend in the judgment of the commissioner to-de- base or corrupt morals or such as Yntsrepresent, travesty or defame any office, act or thing identified with any eligious belief or has a tendency to disturb the public peace, it shall be jthe duty of the Commissioner of | Licenses to refuse such a permit,” ‘The Aldermanic Committee on Gen- | eral Welfare will hold a public hear- Jing on the ordinance at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in City Hali. D’ANNUNZIO QUITS ARMY. Peet Aviator Resents Order of Commanding General. ROME, Sunday, May 25,—Gabricie @'Annunzio, the poet aviator, resigned his post as Lieutenant Colonel in the Italian Army after the General in come mand of the flying corps had ordered his immediate return to camp. D'Ane nunzio, who is a volunteer, exercised his right in asking to bo retired, saying thas he considered the order from the Gen- eral of a political nature rather tham military. <<. HARBORD CHIEF OF STAFF. General Succeeds Me Will Retarn to Wash: PARIS, May 26.—Major Gen. James G. Harbord, head of the service of supe |ply of the American Expeditionary Forces, has been relieved of his dutie |in this Connection and detailed as chicBe~ | of staff of the expeditionary forces. Brig. Gen. James MaAndrew, present chief of staff, goes to Washing> jton to becor Jef of the War Coltego, | ——<——— | Witnon Speaks tw Parts To-Night, | PARIS, May 26.—President Wilsoa will speak to-night at a dinner given by the Pan-American group of the Peace Conference in honor of Epttacia Pessoa, President-elect of Brazil, The President motored in yesterday afters noon with Mrs. Wilson. —_— oIeEo. O'NEILL—On May 24, widow of James O'Nel! Funeral from her late residence, Gold st., Brooklyn, on Tuesday, at 5.30 { A. M., thence to St. James R. C. Churen, where a golmen mam of requiem will be offered for the repose of ber soul. Interment Calvary Cemetery, 1919, MARY, 179 | OST, FOUND AND REWARDS beck; strayed of stolen 0 kw Pa] een tialn brown eslioss. G00 cats ted Rrrete ee tie PERSONALS, TRYING HATMAN, come ‘wants to mee vou | CHOCOLATE ED NOUGATINES—It Special for Tuesday, M. CHOCOLATE COVERED BU HALL iT RED FINEAPE 1, tf beat chaleen etetinnent Sf mens i mont lusclons

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