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= PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyrii , 1919, ‘ov (The | J “ Circulation Books Open to an”) The Pree Publishing Bf “Cirenlation Books Open to Al | NEW ‘YORK, FRIDAS FRIDAY, {MAY ME Sad 1919. 16 PAGES WILSON AT HEROES GRAVES SAYS THEY DIED AS CRUSADERS FOR FREEDOM OF THE WORLD caensieetal Declares They Established a New Order and Defends League of Nations. MUST NOT BETRAY THEM Withdrawal From League Would Be Like Betrayal of the Human Race. PARIS, May 30.—The day of secret BiG FOUR WILL HOLD GERMANY TO PEACE TERMS ees Modifications Will Be Limited councils is past, becatiso the people are in the saddle, said President Wil- son in ti@ Memorlal Day address in the American cometery at Suresnes. ‘The private councils of statesmen, ho added, will no longer determine the destinies of nations, An earnest defense of the League of Nations was a prominent note of the President's address. He said he looked for the time when a man who failed to support the be as ashamed of as the’ man who opposed the Unionof the States after the Civil War. dent aid, is a covenant to insure that | League would | ‘The League of Nations, tho Presi-| Allied peace delegate to Economic, Reparation and Territorial Sections, | PARIS, May 30.—Such modifications of the Peace Treaty ao may be made in response to Germany's final coun- ter-proposals probably will be limited to economic, reparation and territorial sections, it le: authoritative source to-day, Germany's contentions regarding a plebiscite for Upper Silesia are under- stood to be the subject of special con- sideration by the Allles. Many of the aro known to as the Germans declare, that the was red from an fee the men who gave their lives in bat-| reparations clause should name a spe- tle did not die in vain. “The Nation drawing out of this common agreement,” he said, “would betray the human ra As Union soldiors gave their lives for the freedom of the American Nation, th men gave theirs for the freedom of the world.” THEIR LIKE NOT SEEN SINCE DAYS OF CRUSADES. President Wilson spoke as follow: “Mister Ambassador, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Countrymen: No one with a heart in his breast, no American, no lover of humanity, can stand in the presence of these gra without the most profound emotion. ‘These men who lie here are men of unjque breed. ‘Their like has not been seen since the far days of cru- aades, Never before have men crossed the seas to a forejgn land to fight for a cause of humanity which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own but knew was the cause of humanity, of mankind, “and when they came they found comrades for their courage and their devotion, They found armies of lib- erty alrgady in the field, men who though they had gone through three years of fiery trial seemed only to be Just discovering, not for a moment josing, the high temper of the great affair, men seasoned in the bloody service of liberty, “Joining hands with these, the men (Continyed on Fourth Page.) CLOSING FIME 71.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. Wart Asreitatnentt for The Sunday World must be in The World's Main « {lice onor before 7,30 Saturday evening. Oe Positively no Advertisements wil be accepted alter this time. Send your Sunday World Want ment in to-day to make ‘euse of its publication. \cifle amount rather than take on the nature of a blank check, although there is no disposition to agree with the enemy that the amount should be only $25,000,000,000, There appears to be little like- lihood that Germany will be im- as the counter-pro- posals demand. In this connec- tion it can be stated authorita- tively that there is absolutely no chance of her ever entering the League with a mandate over her former colonies—she must con sider her colonies lost irretriev- ably. Regarding Germany's admission to the league, it seems to be France's objection. that is preventing this. But French sentiment, after four years’ fight, naturally is unable to consider an association with Ger- many at present, despite any possi- ble advantages. WILL GET ONLY A SHORT TIME IN WHICH TO SIGN. Germany will be given but a few more days to sign or reject the treaty, So short is this time that President Wilson !s preparing to sa'l by June 20. Germany's refusing to sign, if it comes, may mean her end as an In- dependent nation, She will be kept impotent under the hee! of an invad- ing army. Ultimately she must sign. President Wilson will leave France immediately after the final German answer is received, and will not wait hand fn time for the President to sail for home on June 20, SOLDIERS ARE HOPEFUL GeR- MANS WILL NOT SIGN TREATY. Army men in all camps admittedly are hopeful the Germans will not sign, The refusal of the enemy to ree to the terms of the Associ- ated Powers will give tho soldiers ‘a chance to impose upon Germany mil- | itary terms more severe tnan those tnid down by the peace treaty Since the signing of the armistice the Allied military chieis have had a (Continued on Fourth Page.) —— WORLD RESTA pecial for torday, Wrlday, foie, wiih, for the conclusion of the treaty with Austria, As the present programme} goes, Germany's reply must be in WILLARD REACHES TOLEDO ON SUNDAY: FIT, WIRES EDGREN ames Jack Hempel Says Champion’s Condition Is Better Than It"Was in Havana, By Robert Edgren. (Special to The Evening World.) DALHART, Tex., May 30.—Jess Willard will stop over at Lawrence to-day ta see his family. After a day at home he will ’go straight to To- ledo, arriving there at 7.30 Sunday evening. 1 left Los Angeles with the cham- pion Wednesday morning. His only other companion was Jack Hempel, his sparring partner. Willard sent Charlie Miller back to San Fran- cisco. Miller was too fat and soft to stand the pace. Hempel welcomes the four days’ rest on the train. It gives him time to recover from the. WOMEN AND CHILDREN JOWN HEROES OF THREE WARS IN TRIBUTE 10 SOLDIER DEAD All Records Broken in Number Participating in Annual Memorial Celebration. FEW VETERANS OF Ranks Are Filled by Younger Men, and Women Whose Relatives Died in France, 61. ‘The Memorial Day services and parades in Greater New York to-day broke all records for tho number of participants and spectators. Not sifae, tough grind he has gone through as the custom of paying tribute to the Willard’s only punching bag. Last night I had a talk with Jack. I brought out some snap shots I took | memory of soldiers fallen in battle was instituted has the occasion made during the fight in Havana and asked | *UCh a direct appeal to so many peo- Hempel how Willard'’s present con-/| dition compares with before the Johnson fight. was sincere and empbatic reply. , “Jess was in wonderful shape then,” he said, “but he is better now. In Havana he knew few things about boxing and could do everything well as far as his knowledge went, But now he is one of the cleverest big fellows that ever lived. He's a great boxer. You n see how he takes care of himself. He knows how to train; he hits a lot harder than he ever knew how to hit before, “It's a tough job to be his sparring partner now. If he doesn't get two or three good huskies to help out at Toledo I can see my finish. I can't stand mauling around with him much more. “L'll tell you what I think of Demp- sey’s chances and I've seen Dempsey in two fights. I think Jess could stand up to Dempsey with his hands at bis sides and Dempsey couldn't hurt him or knock him down, I think Dempsey will tire out in four or five rounds if he goes that long.” Willard was weary from the crowdgs last few days of moving pic- ture work in Los Angeles, added to his training, and the first day out he slept several hours in his stateroom, The big fellow is remarkably free from nerves, He lies down for a nap and is sound asleep within a minuute Hempel in (Continued on seta Page.) LAWYER'S WIFE. A SUICIDE IN HER BROOKLYN HOME Whose Husband Was Prominent in Brookfyn Politics, a Nervous Sufferer, Suffering from Mra, Anna K, MeGovern, Brooklyn her throatewith a razor in the bath- room of thelr apartment in the Stand Mrs. McGovern, nervous prostration, wife of John lawyer, cut A. MoGovern, a sh Arms, No, 169 Columbia Hei-hts, Brooklyn, to-day. Physicians were sant for, but it was found that death had been Instantaneous, Mrs, Met for more than two months been nursing | her husband and the nervous breakdown renulted, | MeGovern became prominent the campaign to t Justice Cropsey of the late Mayc 1 tleket MEA i — THE WORLD TRAVEL Arcade, BUREAU, Puliteer te Bueing, jrade, |fore the head of thi ple as it did to-day, for the great war his condition | touched, directly or indirectly, prac- tically everybody in the city and brought home a renewed appreciation of the courage and self-sacrifice of men who go out from thelr homes and families and dio for a principle with their faces to the foe. t was estimated that 50,000 men, women and children participated, In the parades to-day were veterans of three wars. They were escorted by soldiers of the Guard and mili- tary and somi-military organizations and by fraternal and social organiza- tions, Parades were held in the five bor- oughs, The veterans of the Civil War, for whose comrades Memorial Day was first institute ', were never as much the central figures of the parade—few as they were—as though the Spanish Wer and the great war in Europe had not been fought. They have cume in fifty years to regard the day as a sacred festival—as they know it came to be later to the holders of more recent trials by fire and hunger, 81X OF 17TH NEW YORK ZOUAVES IN LINE, Just how fow of the white-haired old boys were let was shown when the 17th New York Zouaves in the gaudy uniforms (which they dis carded on the battlefields of ‘61 as too helpful to the Reb sharpshooters as targets) had only eix of their sev- enteen survivors in line for the start of the Manhattan parade, William G. Mitchell Post had but seven men able to march out of its 13 living. There were but 21 old men in | the platoon of William Leggett Post —Asa Bird Gardiner, who died day before yesterday had never missed a parade and never led leas than two score veterans in one of them. The Manhattan parade was twenty minutes late starting, dye to the in- ability of some of the veterans to get to thelr places promptly. The Brooklyn parade started on time to the minute. Grand Marshals morning that about 25,000 had re- ported for the Manhattan parade, starting at 9 o'clock from 72d Street and moving up Riverside Drive to 91st Street; 15,000 for the Brooklyn parade, 4,000 for the Bronx parade and 10,000 for the Staten Island pa- made up of organizations from ail the settlements of the Borough. Goy, Smith, Mayor Hylan and « officials reached the official rey: ing stand about five minutes be- parade enimo announced this (Continued on Second Page ) AH. SMITH QUITS AS U. §. DIRECTOR JOINT TELEGRAPH AND PHONE SERVICE URGED BY CARLTON — os Western Union Head Tells Senators Postal Tried to Make Federal Operation Failure. WASHINGTON, May 30.—Amend- ment of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, so that the telegraph and tele- phone companies can operate a joint service after the wire properties are released from, Government control was urged before the Senate Inter- OF EASTERN ROADS Will Rene Dates Duties as Head of New York Central—A. -T. Harding Successor. WASRINUTON, May 90.-A. H. Smith has resigned as Regional Rall- road Director for the Eastern system, j Director General Hines announced to- day, Mr. Smith will resume immedi- New York Central. A. T. Harding, former Vice Presi- dent of the New Yok Central and Assistant Regional Director for the Eastern Division, will succeed Mr. Smith, No friction marked the resignation of Mr, Smith, according to correspona- ence between him and Director Gen- eral Hines, given out at the Ratlroad Administration. Mr. Smith's letter of resignation, dated May 27, says he feels that as a result of the war's end his services are no longer needed by the Government. In his reply, Mr. Hines thanks Mr, Smith for his work, Mr. Smith made a reputation in the railroad administration as a red- tape cutter. He abolished the system of indiscriminate priority shipments; started the solid trains of army sup- plies which connected with army ‘transports and the pooling of ter- minal facilities and equipment DRIVER SLAIN IN TAXI; WOMAN PASSENGER HELD Ohio Authorities Seek Second Occu- pant of Cab After Unusual Mur- der and Robbery, COLUMBUS, ©, May %.—Mrs, Leila Grizzel, aged twenty-three, of thia city, is under arrest at London, Madison County, and the police of London and Columbue are searching for another woman in connection with the murder late yesterday of Milton G, Donavan, a taxiead driver. ‘The murder was committed on the National Pike, between Lafayette and Summerford, Madison County. Dona- van's empty pocketbook was found on the seat beside him. He had been shot twice through the back. When found his clothes were on fire, Mrs. Grized, Donavan’s passenger from Springfield to Columbus, admits having been in the automobile with Donavan and the other woman for whom the police are searching, Mra. Grizzel was arrested near the scene of the mlirder, She told the police whe left the car to pick flowers and knew nothing of the killing, The police currency found in her pocketbooks fits the shape of Donavan's purse. An un- uted cartridge also was found in her casion. “| GREEKS LAND MORE TROOPS. | Turks Make 0 ht Opposition 1. ately his duties as President of the, state Commerce Committee to-day by Newcomb Carlton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Com. pany. ‘The committee is conducting hear- ings on tegisiation providing for the return..of the telegraph and tele- 1) phone p to. private owne | ship” Heart tion also were begun to-day by the House Interstate Commerce Com- mittee, Mr. Carlton said he had no remedial legisiation to, suggest as the Western Union was able to take care of itself after the Government relinquishes | ——-——————— control. He added, however, that he would like to see the United States at this time setting a world wide ex- ample in the combined use of the tele- sraph and telephone services, with provisions making It mandatory upon all companies to participate. Such a pian, he said, would ald the country's prosperity, Mr. Carlton declared the Govern ment made a grave mistake in 1914 in ordering the divorcement of the Western Union and the Bell Tele- graph and Telephone Company. In opening his statement, Mr. Carl- ton went into @ detailed acgount of the differences between officials of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company and Postmaster General Burleson. He denied he had ever been in con- trol of the Postal properties under Government operation and said thero had been no change in the Postal or- ganization or method of operations under Federal control. Mr, Cariton sald that at the request ot Mr, Burleson, Edward Reynolds, General Manager of the Postal Com- PARUS, May Greek landed yesterday at Aviall, of fata Minor sixty-six miles northwest 30. forces were on the coast } pany, iaid out a plan of co-ordina- tion of the wires but at the same time sent letters to Postal oMfctais “asking them to make Government operation a failure.” “Did you personally see one of those letters?” asked Senator Wat- son, Indiana. “Yes,” was the reply. Denying that he desired to see the Postal Company put out of business, Mr, Carlton said the Postal by its competition saved the Western Union many millions of dollars annually in supervision According to the witness, the West- ern Union handled about 95 per cent of the Government's business during the war, ‘He explained, in reply to questions of Chairman Cummins, that the Postal mpany had ‘ssued orders discouraging the taking of Government business, Chairman Cummins — expressed “great sympathy” with the suggestion for co-ordination of the telephone and telegraph service, but said he did not see how the Sherman Law would stand jn the way Mr. Carlton made a plea for reten- tion of the 20 per cent. increase in rates granted under Government op- eration, declaring that if there were a reduction it might have to come out of the pockets of em who now are ' y moderately “The Postmaster General had noth: ‘on @imilar fomis) ye NOE. TELESRAPH MERGER URGED ON CONGRESS | READ’S PLANE FORCED DOWN BY TROUBLE WiThi MOTORS; PLYMOUTH FLIGHT DELAYED Naval Aviators Rush Repairs and May Take Air for Vigo or Corunna at Once, Completing Their Trip to England To-Morrow. BREST, May 30.—The American navat’seaplane NC-4 made an In-. effectual attempt to-day to make the jump from Lisbon, Portugal, ‘to “| Plymouth, England, the scheduied last leg of her trip, and thus round whe would be unable to make Ply- mouth to-night. Latest reports received by wireless eay that the seaplane developed ‘trouble in both starboard motors, which unbalanced the plane and com- CROWD SEES PLANE FALL AT BRIGHTON; TWO BADLY HURT pees ES Professional Flyer With Jersey Passenger Plunge 200 Feet —One May Die. While holiday visitors looked on, an airplane crashed from a height of 200 foet at Brighton Beach this afternoon and its two occupants suffered in- juries from which one of them Is said to be Ukely to de. One of the uien is Robert Wilde, owner and professional driver of the machine, whose home is at No, 626 North Curley Street, Baltimore. The other man is Frank Rice, No, 119 Home Avenue, Rutherford, N. J., Wilde's paying passenger at the rate of $1 a minute, plus the war tax, for 4 ride of fifteen minutes, Rice, not so badly injured as the professional flyer, says Wilde was asleep at 1 o'clock when he ap- proached him in the neighborhood of the Shelburne Hotel and engaged him for a ride, ‘The ride had scarcely be- gun before something went wrong, Rice says, and the machine fell ti the ground and crashed into a fence on the Boulevard, The men were rushed to Coney Is- Jand Hospital, where at 245 o'clock Dr. Drago, the surgeon in charge, said Wilde has a fractured skull, fractured ribs and internal injui Rice, Dr. Drago said, may also have suffered a fracture of the skull. The men made their flight from private aviation grounds near dhe hotel. GERMANY HANDS IN TWO MORE PEACE NOTES VERSAIL May 90.—Two new notes were delivered to the Secretariat by the German | Att mans handed over Fr lish translations of the first counter-proposals, which erday in German only, same time | were (Continued on n Bevo Page.) ie ne ad for th att sea offered only Be ee EAS, |The ‘Tae otsias. bas to do with tho Turkish The first of the new notes concerned German property in Allied countries, repair tho motors and reach Vigo or Corunna ness set in. Parlier the U. ington picked up this, sage, “NC-4 landed for to~ continue to-morrow, mroyer Carbell, The American NC-4, Lisbon at 5.20 o'clock the destroyers She was reported pass at 8.00 A. M. and Stat! 2,000 feet in excellent tion C made it appear Night. (NC-4 was picked up by of the seapla: dego River and stating would be read: impossible, await high tide, make Plymouth, to keep stations, land seaplane within 300 The message was sign Commander Read. PLYMOUTH, May 30, there were heavy clouds biltty both over the Ba 8. Stockton, which arrt night, left here at 10 morning to take up her way in the channel, lowed by the U, the harbor, Major Waldorf Astor, count Astor, and Mrs, arrived here’to take pa WASHINGTON, she landed at miles north of Lisbon, yal seaplane NC-4 is cording mesage to a cruiser Rochester, at i). ment, The message with that “NC-4 at Mondego River. ceived here up to noon were and the English Channel, ceived to-day at the Navy Depart- out her memorable transatlantic air voyage. Less fortunate than on the! previous flights of her journey, she was compelled to land in the Mondego River, about-400:miles up the ist from. Lisbon, ‘The NC-4 sent word by radio (hat 9c preege eeee pelled Lieut. Commander land, The plane was not damaged, Commander Read is attempting to ta ese Road to may try to before Gark- 8. 8. George Wash- wireless mes- day, It will The message was sent by the do- starting from this morning, had not progressed very far in her filght before messages came from indicating that she was in trouble of some description. ing Station A fon B at 9.20 o'clock, flying at a height of about weather, Towards noon, however, a message jfrom the destroyer Woolsey at Sta- that the sea- Plane had developed trouble, but it was thought at the time that she had effected repairs and resumed her At 12.30 o'clock a message from the an American naval vessel in Brest Harbor telling descent in the Mon~ that comple- tion of the trip to Plymouth to-day The message Must Seaplane cannot Request destroyers What is best port to miles?" ned by Lieut. —Reports re that and low vist- ay of Biscay The U. 8. ved here last o'clock this position mid- She was fol- 8. S. Narragansett. The Aroostook and the Rochester are the only American warships now in son of Vis- Astor have rt in the re- ception for the crew of the NC-4, Major Astor sits in Parliament for the Sutton Division of Plymouth, damaged. May 90.—Although Mondego River, 100 he American “O K" ace from Lieut, Commander Albert C. Read, from the Lisbon, re-, WEN