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PRICE “TWO CE NTS. NEW YORK, “SATURDAY, _MAY § 31, 1) 1919, Circulation Books Open to All. 14 PAGES ‘ pecupation. hundred technicians afd engineers ~The greater part of the objections faised in the German counter pro- posals have, in the opinion of French “diplomatic and political circles, been eet forth in separate German notes and duly answered by the Allies. Consequently, it is said, there can be nO modification of the peace terms and there,is no necessity for verbal ‘discussions in whieh the Berlin Gov- ernment desires to involve the Allied Powers. It is understood that the Council of Four will agree in taking this view in answering the Germans. ‘The German peace delegation has been notified that the period of delay for presenting observations having expired at 3 P. M. Thursday, no fur- ther notes will be accepted from the delegation, Tt became known to-day that the German counter-proposals were ac- companied by a covering letter of ten typewritten pages. ‘The Jetter ap- marently is the work of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, as it is more conciliatory and adroit than the *eounter-proposals which were elabo- rated by the Berlin Government, The Jetter paints a most gloomy picturo ‘of the fate to which the peace terms condemn Germany. It refers to the eacred character of treaties. Tie letter disavows the treaty made with Russia at Brest Litovsk and concludes with the following phrase: “We shall only undertake those ob- \ligations which we are sure of keep- ing, because it is the German people who in the last resort will give its essent to the treaty.” —_——_— ) AUSTRIAN TREATY COMPLETE AND WILL BE PRESENTED MONDAY "Wilson Speaks for Small Nations, + and Paderewski Objects to Some of Treaty Provisions. PARIS, May %1—The Austrian , Treaty will be presented to the en- emy delegates in St. Germain at noon ; Monday, it was announced to-day at , the conculsion of the secret plenary * session of the Peace Conference. The meeting adjourned at 6.15 P. M., after a session lasting two hours and a quarter, The financial, reparation and military terms will be held in reserve, which he urged the necessity of pro- tectimg minority peoples, declaring —— {Continued on Seound Page.) President Wilson made a speech tn} BASLE, May 31 (United Press)—A despatch to the National ‘Zeitung from Mayence to-day stated that in case the Germans refuse to ‘Sign the treaty the French high command has received orders to ad- ,Vatice eighty kilometres (fifty mi'es) eastward from the present zone of British troops will occupy the Rutir-district, the despatch said. Six already have been suthmoned to Cologne to prepare for such a move, it was said. PARIS, May 31 (Associated Press).: GERMANY WILL NOT SIGH, FOREIGN OFFICE REPEATS Reiterates the Formal Statement Given Out in Berlin on May 20. BERLIN, May 31 (Assoctated Press). —The German Foreign Office has re- iterated categorically and emphati- cally a statement made on. behalf of the Cabinet on May 20 that “Germany declines to sign the terms taid before fete The statement, which was given orig- inally, has been circulated throughout Germany by the official Wolff Bureau with credit to the Associated Press. It has been noted that the preamble to the German counter-proposals cou- tained many phrases similar to those of the statement of May 20, TWO AUTO DRIVERS KILLED Thurman's Car Overturns and Louts Le Cocq Burned to Death in Great Clash, INDIANAPOLIS, May 61.—Rounding the north turn om the forty-fourth idp of the 500mile auto classic here to-day, the machine driven by Arthur ‘Thurman overturned in the presence of nearly 100,000 motor fans. It was reported from the judges’ stand that Thurman was killed and his mechanic seriously injured, It was the first accident in several years to mar the running of the country’s premier auto contest. Louis Lecocq was burned to death, his mechanician seriously injured the 200th mile, that the fire in the regu near Metternich, in the Ai jof occupation Wednesday was believ- ed to be jncendiary, There were no casualties. ting station IN INDIANAPOLIS RACE when their machine caught fire after erican zone | SMILING ELSIE JANIS, HOME FROM WAR ZONE, LOVES ALL A. E. F, BOYS ELSIE JANIS BACK AFTER TWO YEARS Witty DOUGHBOYS; Actress hoa da 610 Concerts for Soldiers Near Firing Lines. Elsie Janis returned from one year and three months of making the joa line to-day. cheered up more Americans than any other man or woman who enter- tained the army, She had the only “white pass” issued by the British forces for an entertainer to go to the front line and she used it, just as Gen, Pershing, who obtained it for her, knew that she would. On her departure from France Miss Janis told The World she was going to announce her engagemem, when she landed in Hoboken, She did, “rm engaged to the whole A. B. F,," she said, “It is just sitmply im- possible for me to pick out any par- of those thousands of Some people talk of my having ‘sacrificed’ “a lot of money by giving up my engagements here to go to Europe, I would not have missed the education I have had in knowing Americans as they were in the army in France for all the money in the world, They are healthy ticular one wonderful boys. At the 150th mile Gaston Chevrolet|in body, mind and heart, Nobody shot to the front and took the leadjcan know how good and fine they from Ralph De Palma, whose glant|are who has not been with them Packard had been setting pace since} when they were under the test as the start of the long grind, At this |tney were in the A. E, F.” point the order of the first cars was:) with Private William Janaschek, a Gaston Chevrolet, De Palma, Wilcox, | relative of the famous Polish tragedi- Cooper, Louis Chevrolet and Rene i 3 Thomas. Time, 1:98:68:15 enne, as he accompanist, and her in- Pic sie asl speraable mother as chaperon, Miss Ne, Ca S$. Regulating |Janis gave 610 perforniances, travelling battle wp and down | PARIS, May 31,—A delayed dispatch | leave areas und to hospitals and tra received from Coblenz to-day reported |ing camps. Mest of them were given with the sky for a Jot them when she back drop and man; and her audic {were drenched with the chill Frenca drizzle. Martin Green, (Continued on Second Page] Evening World war 19 BOYS FELL JAIL GUARD AT ISLAND, FLEEING IN BOAT Fugitives Rescued From Drowning When Clinging to Swamped Craft. . Fifteen boys escaped from their dormitory in the House of Refuge on Randall's Island early to-day after their leader, Louis D. Dominico, seventeen years old, had ambushed Night Keeper Thomas Downs and beaten him into insensibility with a hammer, Six of the fugitives wero rescued from the Bronx Kills while trying to reach shore in a rowboat, Eight others were captured in a small building in course of construction ad-, joining the Children’s Hospital, The other was nearly smothered in the siime of a marsh when found dy searchers, All were brought to the | East 126th Street Station and later taken to Headquarters for the lineup. The charge of felonious assault against them may be changed to murder, as Keeper Downs may not recover, Dominico hac a hammer and chisel jhe had secreted under his clothes ‘and during the night chiselled the | lock off his cell. Dominico struck Keoper Downs ten | times on the head with the hammer. | He then took Downs's keys and, ren- ning back into the dormitory, un- locked the cells of fourteen of his boy chums. The boys tore up the sheets in their} cells and bound Downs's hands and feet. Carrying the unconscious man to a cell they threw him in and locked the oor. | yelbsrtc ‘of Railway’Transportation in the A. | A general alarm soon had tho city A. E. F. forget to be homesick, 0n| covered. Detectives lined the Harlem the Rotterdam of the Holland.Amer-|and Bronx shores and harbor squad| Miss Janis went policemen in launches turned search- abroad of her own motion, paying| Pete in all directions, her own expenses and amused and MANDEER ROWBOAT, USE HANDS AS PADDLES. On reaching the marshes of the island the boys found an abandoned rowboat, It would hold only part of them and there were no oars, Six of them, Dominico, Jerold Pontusco, Henry Kelley, William Grogran, John Mazello and Harry Luckasick, got in and pushed off for the Bronx shore, using their hands for paddles, The old boat leaked badly and its gunwales were soon awash, Some re- mained in It and others jumped over- board and clung to the side. Boat and boys were about to sink when po- lice launch No, 5 came up. Domthico had gone under for the last time and had been pulled back by the hair by one of the others, Henry Kelley also was too weak longer to hold on, and (Continued on Second Page.) ANS BEFORE MEALS jood digestion makes you feel, <==» CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp LOG OF THE NC-4’S FLIGHT FROM ROCKAWAY TO PLYMOUTH Actual Flying Time Is Fifty-Four Hoursand Ten Minutes—3,900 HE Rockaway to Halifax, 54 flying time. T Halifax to Trepassey, 460 miles, 8 hours and 69 minutes. 00 miles, 15 hours and 18 minutes, da, 150 miles, 1 hour and 44 minutes, Ponta Delgada to Lisbon, 800 miles, 9 hours and 44 minutes. Trepassey to Horta, Horta to Ponta Del; Lisbon to Ferrol, 300 miles, 3 Ferrol to Piymouth, 475 miles, This maxes the actual flying breaking journey overseas 64 hours and 10 minute: Tho NC-4 left Rockaway Beach May 8 but w near Chatham, Mass., because of engine trouble. her trip to Halifax May 14, Tae next day Commander Read reached Trepassey, The NC-4 left Trepassey for the Azores May 16. there the same day. On May 90 ghe flew from Horta to Ponta Delgada. Seven days later Commander On May 30 the NC-4 started Jand on the Mondego River, 100 start was made, 340,00 SOLDIERS BACK THIS MONTH "BEAT OUT-GO MARK Gen. W. W. Atterbury, Arriv- | ing To-Day, Tells of Setting American Transport Record. Brig. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, Chief BF. men, and 2,290 other officers and including the 310th Sanitary Train’ and a number of casual com- panies, arrived in Hoboken t1-day on the steamship Rotterdam from Rotterdam, Brest and Plymouth, leaving Brest May 20, Gen. Atterbury, who is a Vice Presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad System, had charge of building up all the transportation and terminal facilities of the American Army in France. His success was recognized by the Distinguished Service Medal from his own army, the decoration of Companion of the Bath from the British and the Legion of Honor from the French, At the gangplank of the Rotter- dam he was met by an officer with his certificate of discharge from the army, whioh he had requested so he could immediately set about recuper- ating from his heavy task, Gen, Atterbury announced that the record of the transportation of troops overseas had been broken by the oper- ations of the American Army Trans- port Service for the month of May, when 340,000 men had been brought home. The largest number carried across the Atlantic heretofore was in September of last year, when 312,000 men were taken to France. on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. Want Advertisements for The Sunday World must be in ‘The World's Main Office on or before 7.30 Saturday evening. —=—— Positively no Advertisements wil! be accepted after this time ——=— “When the American Army arrived in France," said Gen, Atterbury, “its problem was to get the utmost out of jsuch railroad fac 3 as were not | absolutely essential to the supply and |movement of the French and British |The situation of the French railways was bad as to their personnel. They | jhad been woigiig olwii-iunded under |abnormal sure for four years and| there were no replacement “It was our task to build up the| railways to take the added load our! presence imposéd upon them and to | suppl inforcements to the men op- ler them, Tho first step was to obtain a corps of repair men to put in log of the NC-4’s flight jumps follows A few Sours later she proceeded to Ferrol, Spain, The trip from Ferrol to Plymouth was-compleetd to-day, NO MRE NOTES, BIG FOUR TO GERMANY ADVANCE OF FIFTY MILES ORDERED BY THE ALLIES IF GERMANS REFUSE 10 SIGN Paris Opinion Is That Greater Part of German Proposals Have Al- ready Been Made in Separate Notes and Rejected. N LAST “HOP Miles Covered. 0 miles, 7 hours, 47 minutes actual hours and 45 minutes. 6 hours and 46 minutes, time of the NC-4 in its record- Plymouth at forced to light She completed Arriving Read “hopped” off to Lisbon. for Plymouth, but was forced to miles from the Tagus where the BOY AND GIRL DEAD THIRTEEN INJURED INAUTO ACCIDENTS: Joyriders Flee After Running Down Whole Family at Elmhurst, L. I. 9.26 New York time. off the harbor at 2.23 o'clock. A four-year-old boy and a f.ve- | year-old gir) wer kI'-4 and thirteen other perecns were injured In au! mo- bile ~-cldents on their way heme from M-~>-rlal Day festivities late last n'ght or early this morning, An automobile loaded with joyriders whirled around a corner in Elmhurst, L, L, about 10 o'clock last night, run- ning dewn an entire family crossing the street. Henry J. Roath, four, the youngest of the family, suffered fractured skull and died a short time later in the Flushing Hospital, Will- fam Roath, the father, and his wife, Elizabeth, were run over, one leg of each being fractured. Two other chil- dren, Wilhemina, six, and Anna, eight, were painfully lacerated, All the in- Jured are in the Flushing Hospital, Tho joyriders continued on thelr wild cruise and their identity is not known, The accident happened at Manilla and Maurice Maurice Ave- nues. The Roath family lives a! No. 83 Queens Boulevard Ruth Dryer, five, of Hauxburst Avenue, Weehawken, N. J., was killed and her father, Charies Dryer, hls wife, and another child, Norma, were injured when a trolley car on the Palisades Line crashed into an automobile driven by Mr. Dryer last night, Matthew Heearn, No, 306 59th Street Brooklyn, is in the Greenpoint H pital suffering from @ fracture of the right leg and internal injuries, and six other persons were treated for cuts on the head and body when Hearn lost control of his automobile and crashed into an electric’ light pole at Berry and North 14th Streets, Brook- lyn early to-day, With three friends, Hearn was re- wh York time, and made the distance of ‘New York time is five hours Spain.] PLYMOUTH HEARS NC-4 MAY FLY HOME OVER THE ROUTE FROM IRELAND U. S. Naval Officers Say Plane Is in Better Condition Than When She Begarf? Journey. PLYMOUTH, May 31 T bas been learned bere unoM™- clay that the American sea- plane NC-4 may fly home over the direct Atlantic route from Ireland to Newfoundiand. It is understood a conference will be held here shortly to discuss the project, American naval officers say the NC-4 is in better condition than when she began her flight Fur. thermore, the experience od turning from @ holiday celebration| >Y ail of the NC-4's navigators dnd n Connecticut. The other men in plete would prove of. Inessimale ‘ 4 benefit should the return flight be he car were William Gilmartin, No,| Benentsoy 2ist Street; John H, Smith, No,| ™ = 200 Conover Street, and Frank Dean,| “Child Killed in 4-Story Fall. No, 827 29th Street, Brooklyn, c Vetell ears ol The four men were thrown vio- must thie Btaat eat ce ‘ 200 Bast 104th Street, fell from the fire lently to the street and Di 4 ie was broken, | “74 Dean's FIBMt| cape of the fourth floor of an apart (Continued on Second Page.) After demolishing the pole the car, ment house at No, 164 East 10% Street crashed into @ fence and struck three’ wae end was Killed, 4 EAD MAKES DASHING FINISH SPEED, 72 MILES AN Big Ovation to Crew on Landing Time—Daniels Sends Congratis lations to Commander. , TIME TABLE OF NC-4 FLIGHT. 1 | NC-4 completed her long flight from the United States S_» arrived here from Ferrol, Spain, on the last jump of ise -3y at 2.26 P. M., local time (1.26 P. M. Greenwich Keen interest in the event and the fine weather which ceeded a rainy morning brought out large crowds to greet arriving Americans, the great wings of whose plane were seen The NC-4 made a dashing finish, swept quickly landward, and bes? minutes later had settled down on the waters of the harbor, to the accom! paniment of cheers from the crowds and salvos from all the steam at within sight—her memorable transatlantic trip ended. The NC-4 left Ferrol at 6.27 o'vlock, Greenwich time, 2.27 in six hours fifty-nine minutes, cr at the rate of nearly 72 miles an hétir. and four hours earlier than Green’ The seaplane’s progress was reported several times in her flight the mouth of the Bay of Biscay, first by the second station ship, the de stroyer Barney, which she passed at 7.43 o'clock, and next by Station No, 4, the destroyer Hazlewood, at 9,03. The NC was then half way across the Bay of Biscay, and by she had completed this section of her voyage, passing between Brest @ the Island of Ouessant between 12 and 12,30 o'clock. TO ENGLAND; 9.26, New Yi approximately 500 miles to this earlier than English summer time mean time which is in use im Lieut, Commander Read, Drought the seaplane across * lantic from Trepassey to the Asones and thence to Lisbon, had ini making the trip from Lisbon to mouth in one jump yesterday, ; was compelied to alight y morning in the Mondego River, ab@ut 100 miles up the Portuguese Coast, because of engine trouble, but pre ceeded shortly as far as Ferrol, on the | northwestern tip of the ae mainland, where” the pl: moored for the night, orossedian early this morning for this port, The altered programme for the sreeting to the commander and erew of the NC-4 included reception fim- mediately after their arrival on boant the cruiser Rochester, The formal #®- ception by the Mayor of Plymouth en the Mayflower pier was set for 4 P. . M., and it-was planned'to the reception ond ceremonies to instead of devoting two days to t as originally intended, the being due to the fact that the plane reached here Saturday i of Friday, the day first set, To the reception on the there were invitations to British tary officials, the American and his wife, American ye a