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sn Control of E } i stimate right, 1919, by The Prew Conve "a. (The ‘New Yoru World). PRICE TWO CENTS. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1919. 16 PAGES “PRICE “TWO CENTS. * Nae \ Baker Urges Military Training in Schools ‘Gob and Broadway Dancer Wed { yale ESTIMATE BOARD CONTROL | - LOST BY HYLAN AND CRAG: ae HNN ENN {> ¢ation in All Schools Above Primary Grades. j ii ‘ : _|Borough Presidents Win Fight Per- \ gel Baga mitting Them, With Aldermanic! Congressmen Assured Perma-| President, to Rule on All Im- nent Change in Force Will | Be Left to Them. | portant Budgetary Questions. WASHINGTON, May 29.—Secre- | tary Baker to-day renewed before the House miiitary committee his recom- moendation that Congress provide for @ temporary army of 500,000 men. “Tam not asking for any increase fm che permanent military establish- ment,” the secretary said, “All I am asking for is sufficient monéy t6 pro- vide for an army of 509,000. The qui With Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig fighting vaini, against them, the five borough presidents, with the aid of Aldermanic President Moran. to-day got control of the Board of Hstimate. From now on they and net the Mayor and Comptroller will be the bosses of budget matters concerning salaries and other expenditures. Their powers will likely be extended further If Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig should seek (o run counter to the wishes of Tammany Hall, they will be rendered powerless’ In the city's most important governing body. In other words, with Aldermanic President |that | wage 7 "NABFIVEADAY,” ORDER GIVEN 10 |: TRAFFIC POLICE Secret Instructions Picked Up in Court Tells Cops to Bring in Assorted Violators. \$ ’ The ‘reason for an extraordinary increase in the number of persons | brought into the Trafflc Court for violation of traffic orders and ordi- ances in the last four days became apparent to-day when it developed traffic policemen, detailed to “crusade” received special tnstructions to serve at least five summonses a day. Policemen brought 260 alleged violators into the | Traffic Court this morning and Mag- istrate Frederick C. Mouse threw up his hands. ‘The Magistrate wad begn handed, | before court opened, a “fypewritten, ‘copy of a police order Which a po- liceman had dropped on the floor, a have tion of adopting legislation providing The order wag issued by Capt. John | Moran acting as the kingpin, his vote one way or the other deciding, the 1p, Ormsby of Traffic Precinct C and for an increase in the permanent) five borough presidents can now defy the Mayor and the Comptroller. i army is a question which Congress can take up later. now {s quick action on the appropria- tion bill.” Gen, March, Chief of Staff told the committee that demobilization was proceeding so rapidly every man in France could be back to this country within four months if an Army of Occupation in Europe were not necded "Until a definite policy is worked out, March declared, ‘we must maintain an Army of Occupation there. This ‘ army will soon be reduced, however, to the regular divisions.” ‘The number of men in camps in this country also was being rapidly reduced, the General said. Military education in all schools above the primary grades was thought advisable by Secretary Baker. ‘The experience of the army in France showed that military instruc- tion was advisable,” tary. Committeemen questioned the S| closely on the War Depart- policy on the size of the army allowance were made for the of 500,000 men. pointed out that the standing provides for an army of only 176,000 men and that all others must be dis- international however,” Gen. retary ment’ A case maintenane: aw harged within four months after the | completion of demobilization. “The number of men will be re- duced to the figure a change in the international situ- ation arises which might make a larger force necessary,” said Mr Raker. “In that event Congress will| be asked to change the law.” Secretary Baker said the depart- ment had not determined whether bodies of American soldiers should be left in France, Pers nally, he said, he was in favor of placing the StS n large national cemeteries where they could rest in the which they died to save." “[ realize, however,” he “that many fathers and want to h the bodies of their sons brought back, and I in complete sympathy with their wishes, However, since it would be impos- sible to start now the podies, the question can be postponed for the time bel id ALBANY STRIKE SETTLED. Get added, mothers ve am returning Trades Workers Wage Increase ALBANY, N. ¥., May 29. Building The strike ot the building t which has been in progre May 1, has ~ been settled. Increases in lourly wage rates range from 5 to 10 cents an hour, awarded by the Board of Arbitration, Original demands calied for increases! vanging from 10 to 20 cents an hour, ‘Tho great need | said the Secre- They | authorized unless | land] There are sixteen votes in the Board of Estimate. They are divided) as follows: Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig and Aldermanic President | Moran, three each; Borough Presidents Dowling and Riegelmann, two each, and Borough Presidents Bruckner, Connolly and Van Name, one | each. | In answer to a query by Borough President Dowling, Corporation) Counsel Burr, who owes his appointment to Mayor Hylan, has given an |opinion that a three-quarters vote of the Board, which is twelve, is con- trary to charter opinion. Nine votes are all that are required for the pas-| sage of budgetary resolutions, Mr. Burr says. That means that the five Borough Presidents, with the aid of Moran, can overthrow the Mayor and Comptroller any time they see fit. BABY THEY WANT — NC-4 POSTPONES IS ASH-CAN BOBBY, FLIGHT 10 ENGLAND NOT A SUBSTITUTE TO MEMORIAL DAY Renews | Read Defers Start From Lisbon on Account of Unfavor- able Weather. | Children’s Society Fight to Take Waif From Rich Foster Parents. BRE! States sT, May Naval 2.—The United seaplane NC-4 will probably start ‘from Lisbon to-mor- Supreme Court Justice Whitaker was asked to-day to decide whether |"Boby Ash,” the five-months. ie Feet ese Samer teres te baby, found last January in an ash] oo aes aC. Read, in Peas ye can in Mount Vernon, is to remain s with his wealthy foster parents or|°raft, wishing to reach England on be returned to the New York Nursery | Memorial Day, according to a wire- | and Child's Hospital. ‘Tho hospital is seeking by habeas corpus to regain the child, who is -now in custody of rie John Finebloom, a curb broker, and his wife, who live at No. 78 West which is lying $24 St t. in the roads at Lisbon, Bobby got his name from the fact] PLYMOUTH, May %.—Adverse| |that he was found in the weather conditions at Lisbon wag the ‘with a tag around his neck stating “mother dead—father unknown.” Finebloom read about the incident in The Evening World and applied to the Children’s Ald Society for adop- tion papers. The less message picked up here by the United State steamship Washington from the United George steamship Rochester, ash can reason for the night of the NC-4 for England, according to word elved here. The torpedo Stockton, which was given a position the English Channel along the route which the NC-4 is expected to follow, has gone to Brest, taking spare parts for the seaplane which may be used in case of @ mishap. pstponement last start of the seaplane re Fineblooms invested in a $65] in (Continued on Second Page.) —_ he SUFFRAGE UP NEXT TUESDAY. | Alr Ministry 1s plan- ed to Vote im Senate | e the United States NC-4 : vats, $n addition to two air. Suftr will go to escort the next Senator mM Chairman, al glution. wi Wheeler Wileox 1, hay ' nd, May — 29,—Ela it Wil who is iil here, reported to be in more tion to-day. There is some anxiety recovery, boat | reads as follows: You must serve at violations, Each man will con- sult the various violations here- in set down and try to make one summons for each kind of viola- | tion, Make daily reports as to | what you have accomplished to | the sergeant. By direction of Capt. Ormsby. The crusade is citywide and all courts handling traMfc cases were jammed to-day with perspiring, pro- testing automobile drivers. The Magistrates are able to take care of| only a small percentage of the cases! brought before them and the motor-| complain that they are compelled | to lose u lot of valuable time. Motor cycle policemen say they have no difficulty in serving at least five summonses a day because few drivers fail to violate traffic rules| many times in the course of a day.| In fact, there are so acy rules that it ta practically impodsible to drive a car through heavy traffic without breaking one or more of them The Williamsburg Bridge Plaza pro- duced %0 violations before noon to- day and Magistrate Steers in the| Williamsburg Traffic Court was swamped. Many policemen have been| taken off patrol and assigned to the TraMc Squad for duty during the crusade. Magistrate House commenting on the crusade said: “It is ridicu- | lous. One-half of the cases brought in here now, while they are viola- tions, are so trivial and committed under such circumstances that no one | oun de injured. It takes the police- man from his post and brings him into the traffic court and deprives the city of his services on the street where holdups soour, WOMAN PRESIDES “OVER DEMOCRATIC LEADERS Mrs. George Bass « of C Shicago Acts | in as Chairman at Con- ference. | CHICAGO, May 29.—For the first} time in the party's history a woman presided to-day over @ session of the Democratic National Committee | here. | At the opening session to-day, the committee resolved itself Into a con- |terence in which members of the Woman's Association National Com- mittee participated. Mrs. George Bass, Chicago, was neq 8 Chair- an, } * mnitt r organization among women Funds for con $ the national campaign in 1920 will be r i by pop: \ subscription and it is cspected that contributions will be ived tron 1, 00,000 persone. Wilbur W. Mars owa, treasurer of committee, said day beers tar y Tumult 1 {tts 4 Gen- ere! Palmer an assistant Beoretary of the Navy Rooseyclt arrived at | Three Hundred Mates Prepare | came ashore of: BIG FOUR TAKES UP GERMAN REPLY On Hospital Ship Mercy To-Day H1OOoee e Gay Reception for H. M. Folsom and Mary Valis. On the foc’s'l of the U. 8. hospital ship Mercy Pharmacist’s Mate Hor- ace M. Foisom will marry Miss Mary Valis, Broadway dancer, late this af- ternoon. And on the big white steam- er which brought 2,000 wounded troops from France, every one from the Captain down to the messboy Is preparing for the ceremony. There will be a navy band and a wedding dinner and a dance after- ward, Two Lieutenant Commanders and two Lieutenants from the ship will act as ushers, and there will be gold braid aplenty, But Folsom, whose only gold braid consists of two V stripes for a year's service, overseas, doesn't care about that He's too busy planning his honey- moon trip south, which starts to- morrow. It's all part of a romance which be- gan ix months ago when Folsom | on liberty and dropped into a dance on Broadway with a pal from the crew. Miss Valis, whose | home is at No, 1297 First Avenue, was on the stage in an exhibition dance, and Horace, who comes from Minneapolis, decided right there that she was the first Eastern girl he really liked. | The next night he planned to go back, but in the morning his ship| sailed for France. A month hater) she put into New York again and| Folsom hunted up every friend he | had in town sceking an introduction | |to the pretty brown-eyed dancer. | ‘Then they met—and the next day the Mercy sailed again for “Foley,” as the gobs called him, 1} @ man of action. At the end of the | trip be hunted up the best jeweller along the Rue de Siam in Brest and | bought two rings. The engagement | was announced one trip later. day the Mercy 18 at Pier 45, N. I, on dress parade. The decks have been holystoned and the paint | work scrubbed, In the droom rests the big chest of ail oiate that will be . wedding present from the officers and crew, The deck force is busy spreading an awning over the foc'sal, and down below the band of Agamemnon is tuning edding 1 are mixing th uke ever made ew! Jub ‘olvom ist m and surrounded 300 Pharmacists Mave F up his dress of overw 3, and & adve ried ticularly if 300 friends avo all trying to help one at once, is a prety Par France. | 5:, bO94-000 Bll FOUR 10 TELL GERMANS THEY MUST SIGN QUICKLY AS ANSWER TO PROPOSALS SR eae Reply Comprises 146 Pages Wit 60,000 Words—Rantzau Going to Berlin, but Is Expected to Return and Sign the Treaty. ot BERLIN, May 29 (United Precs).—The German Foreign Offié was advised to-day that some changes had been made in the Peac® Treaty. It was not informed as tu whether the alterations were vital or whether they affected the clauses objected to by Germany, y “VORACE M. FOLSOM, vecuats PETTY OFFICER FIGHT AMERICANS REPORTED MISSING IN RHINE BLOW UP |One Cologne Despatch Places | Disaster in U. S. Area, Another in French, | LONDON, Press). in May a 29 (Associated - As result of a fire a building occupied by American | troops in the Cobienz district and the |explosion of a munition dump yea- terday, eighty men are missing, ac- cording to a Cologne despatch to the xchan, Telegraph Company A later despatch from Cologne | Says that the fire and explosion oc jcurred near the frontier of the Ba-| varian Palatinate, which in the French area of oceupation | BROADWAY TO BE DARK FOR 5 MINUTES TO-NIGHT lipse Planned to Show What City Does Not Do in Way of | a) | is Providing Lights. The Great White Way will be in | eclipse for five minutes from 11 o'clock to-night. atres Promptly at 11, as the the- discharging their audiences ‘owds are Jamming th. are and the the tre tro signs on Broadway 49th Street will go out. in gloom! by preconee Broadway rted arran, Ava desirous of showing th is private ¢ clty whieh pub: erprise and not 8 lighting e pot. It lic that | the big night pletu ing the Broadway |e all the by emer oe ew York's | js said tho | ven sputtering m1 mentioned | the poorest | thoroughfares, 188 HS al ae city maint only ele Nights in and that lighted of ighborho VERSAILLES, May 29,—Baron von Letsner, of the German dele: gation, informally delivered the completed counter proposals to Cal. Henry, the French liaison officer, at 12.20 g'clock to-day. The German explained that there had been no time for translations which would be sent later, FIUME A FREE CITY UNDER COMPROMISE WITH THE ITALIANS iItaly Is to Receive Some of the Dalmatian Islands as Price of Agreement. PARIS, May 29—It was stated in high this morning that a settlement of the Adriatic question is now a certainty us a result of the Regotiations of yesterday and last ning. Under this settlement Flume becomes an independent city, The Italians will receive Certlin of the Dalmatian Islands, but it is un- derstood that they will not get Zara or Sebenicto, When the Peace Conference met in plenary session this afternoon to bear the Austrian peace terms, it was announced that the treaty had not yet been completed. Jt was de- clded to postpone the session until Saturday when the completed treaty was expected to be ready Anot reason for postponenent was a request from the smaller powers, especially the Balkan States, that they be allowed further time to consider the terme. 198 U BOATS LOST; 3,000 SAILORS KILLED, THOUSANDS CRAZED Statistics Published in Berlin Show Own Crews Destroyed Four- teen Submarines, quarters 2 BASLE, Wednesday, May 27 IN BERLIN rage 4 MANY lost 198 subma- Fa, rines during the war, ac- cording to statistics on this branch of the German naval ser- vice published in the Berlin Vos- siscbe Zeitung, This numer in- cluded seven subma...es inte, sed in foreign ports and fourteen de- stroyed by their own crows, More than 3,000 sailors lost their lives in sinkings, » statistics show, while several yusand others lost their reason the submarine th The volume containing the countet Proposals is not bound, corner fas- teners holding together the 146 pages. PARIS, May 2¥.—The counter pro- |posals formulated by the German |delegation ab Versailles have been delivered to the French authorities, The proposals will go at once before the Council of Four of the Peace Can- ference. The German reply was received in instalments, the first instalment, about one-third of the whole, contain- ed 20,000 words, The reply is written in German and bears the caption: “Observations of the German delegation on the can+ ditions of peace.” After having considered Ger many’s answer, the Big Four ie expected to announce any changes in the treaty that may be made and ask Germany to sign quickly ‘Two members of the German dele- gation—Lansberg and Giesbert planned to return to Berlin to-night, Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau was to follow to-morrow or Saturday, He will return to sign the treaty or, if he retires as a member of the delegation, another diplomat will be “ppointed to take his place and slim, it is understood, + Germany proposes that a special commission, including delegates from both sides, be set up for the settle- ment of all territorial and colonial problems and questions concerning the League of Nations, It is reported a new peace delege- tion being formed by Count ven Bernstorff, former Ambassador to Washington, and that it will be sent to Versailles in a few days with or dere to sign the treaty. Ebert and Scheidemann, however, will not resign from the German Government. —_—_— b CONSERVATIVE PRESS THE GERMAN REPLY “Suicide,” Says Gazette; “German People Doomed to Slavery,” Declares the Post. BERLIN, May %% (Associated Press.)—The conservative press of Berlin condemns the counter-j posals to the peace terms submit by Germany, especially the tim and had to be comm 1 to luna- | and military concessions which tie asylums. | granted, ‘The Pan-German Gazette brand: f Be! ANS FORE ond ee Fhom Mise "good auseetion OR AL, the reply as “suicide,” and the Post say: “Ths German people WORLD MESTAUMANT, pbmit (ot woden, Thunder, May 2.1918, mutioa chop wit potalows. Peodon ‘trou! etn” masked ‘Table ‘tis eas rey doomed to slavery between two ters until a new Germany amives