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ans Nabi Dai /NO NEW JURYMEN AS WILKINS — PRICE TWO CENTS. 1919, __ ode | (The ‘New York World). y The Press Publishing GERMANS TO SIGN BY JULY KNOX FOUR MOTHER STILL MOURN MISSING SONS AS MYSTERY SOLDIER REVEALS IDENTITY ee : Roland Phillips Is Son of None | Who Meet Him on Pier. ONE WOMAN COLLAPSES | Youth Is Angrily Accused of Deception by Rev. Dr. MacLeod. Roland Phillips, private, home to-day from France and ac- complished an arrival at Hoboken from the transport Mount Vernon| more dramatic than that which has accompanied the return of any sol- dier who went overseas, Four fami-! lies awaited the homecoming of this Roland Phillips—four mothers held) hopes that he might be their son, and when he stepped ashore his mother came ‘was not there to greet him. He proved to be Roland Phillips, twenty-two years old, of Evansville, Ind., ofthe records of the army as mentally in- competent, although he appeared to be alert in mind when he was ques- tioned by the army officers. Awaiting arrival of the Mt. Vernon at Hoboken were Rev. Dr. Malcolm MacLeod, pastor of the Collegiate Re- | formed Church, and his two daugh- ters, and Mrs. Roland Phillips, of Flushing, L. I. Outside the pier, and not particularly hopeful, was Mrs, F. X. Lynch, of Yonkers, whose son has dropped out of knowledge of the Army in France. Dr. MacLeod had | received letters from Europe signed “Blakely,” which had led him to be- | lieve that the Roland Phillips arriv- ing to-day might be his son, Henry Blakely MacLeod, who disappeared a year ago from Camp Merritt, Mrs, Phillips, of Flushing, cherished a for- lorn hope that reports she had re- ceived of the death of her son Roland | in action in France might have been wrong. ADMITS WRITING TO REV. DR. MACLEOD. In a tense half hour following the Janding of Roland Phillips at Hobo- ken it developed that he, in order to obtain release from a _ military prison in France, wrote to Dr, M Leod, signing his letters “Blakel guch a way as to lead the minister to ‘believe that he was Henry Blakely MacLeod. This development, brought out by a conversation between a dis- tracted father and a soldier regis- tered as mentally deficient, was of in- tense interest to all who witnessed it Dr. MacLeod and his daughters and Mrs. Phillips of Flushing reached the army headguarters on the Hoboken pier early this morning and were taken to the office of Gen, McManus. Major H, C. Craig of Gen, MeManus's etaff had gone down the bay to board the Mount Vernon 'to straighten out, if possible, in the trip between Quar- ‘in DUQUESNE ESCAPED BY THE FRONT DOOR, SWANN ASSERTS District Attorney Asks Mayor For $1,000 Reward In Bellevue Case. District Attorney Swann this after- Hylan to. offer information con- noon asked Mayor $1,000 reward cerning for “the persons who helped in the escape of Capt. Fritz Joubert Duquesne from the Bellevue Hospital Mr. Swann bel prison ward of two weeks ago. that with such an offer of reward he will be able to prove that Duquesne, a federal prisoner wanted in England for mur- der on the high seas, did not escape by a window and an improvised rope, but was permitted to go out by way of the door, to enter an automobile in waiting and thus get away. Duquesne hidden having cargo of the accused among is explosives of the British steamship Tennyson in February, 1916, 1n a South Ameri- can port. 1 pt iciehat ANEL GIVE‘ bahsaonts, , 1919. f “Circulation Books Open to All’ | ye 24 PAGES WEATHER--Partly cloudy. to-night and Wednesday. ’ PRICE TWO CENTS. YOUNGER JURYMEN SOUGHT IN WILKINS TRIAL FOR MURDER Aged cid Tae Appears More | Confident as Court Ad- (Special to The MINBOLA, L. 1, twenty-five additional talesmen sum- moned on a new panel as candidates for the jury in the trial of the white- bearded, benevolent-looking Dr. Wal- ter K. Wilkins for wife murder, it was found impossible to-day to ob- tain any additional jurors. ‘The desire of both sides to get a few young men in the jury box was shown in the rapid rejection of the journs Until To-Morrow. | Krening World from « Staff | Correspondent.) June 10.—with | first four talesmen who were near the age of fifty years. 4uatBourt adjourned at 11.30 o'clock this morning after the panel had been ex- hausted and will convene to-morrow morning with a fresh panel of sixty. The first six jurymen chosen yes- terday are all past fifty except one, The fifth talesman called to-ds Charles A. Wood, a young grocer, wes excused because Justice Manning thought his business would worry him in the jury box. Another young man, Alfred S. mondson of Wheatley Hills, was ex-| cused for prejudice. | Before proceeding to the business of the day Justice Manning officiated at @ wedding in the library of his cham- bers. ' Private Charles J. Casey of| Camp Mills became the husband of Miss Teresa Rose Carbone of Jamaica, Dr. Wilkins wrote out and handed to reporters a statement of his feel- ings. He said he was satisfied with When he escaped it was found that the bars of his window had been sawed and that a rope of bed clothes dangled from the window, ‘This Mr. Swann believes to have been camou- flage believes that persons in- side the hospital, where the prison ward was ¢ ranged the escape, Duquesne was being held by the Federal authori ties for extradition, LEE, ATTACKING BOY SCOUTS, STIRS ANGER OF ALDERMAN “Bill” Kenneally Mai Heated Reply to Socialist, Causing Considerable Excitement. alist leader, created excitement at this afternoon's meeting of the Board of Aldermen when he clared the Boy Scout movement tended to implaint militarism in the minds of young and had a tendency to lay the seeds of future wars Up jumped Alderman “Bill neally, Ta representative the old district, who about a year nok his fist at Lee and told to go to the gollows for he murder of a man who insulted the Stars and Strip Glaring uisle at Lee, Kenneally said: “I think t Boy Scout movement ts one of the finest ever 1 in this country eW are particularly desirous our 8 trained as soldie of Bolsheviki ded by policemen, ar- Algernon Lee, Sot men Ken- from many him was ready cross the conce! of seeing erush th thro to bomb curs we antine and Hoboken the mystery of the identity of “Roland Phillips.” The MacLeods and Mrs, Phillips stood at a window in the office. They saw the Mount Vernon nose her way into the dock. Mrs. Phillips, who bad a mother’s hope that the ship was bringing her boy fri the grave restraint, Dr. Mac- wept without Leod, a man of the world, was not so hopeful, but his daughters had vis- fons of grecting their brother, Major Craig appeared shortly after | the Mount Vernon docked. He said he best “established that Roland Phil- pe, It | Alderman ( It ognize Boy Scout Schol 1b June 1 a hol was re: lution introduced by e that started the argu- ment Week reques Alder and that od ntatives wh abers . which wa ~ | Handley-Page Airplane Has Trial Plight. | ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 10.—The big | Handley-Page airplane, which Is being j tuned for transatlantic flight attempt, started on a trial flight at 4.30 Solow vided that the board rec-| the| the character and apparent intelli- gence of the six jurors already se- lected, He added: “It ig @ trial at my time of life to have to submit to the humiliation of a trial for h an atrocious crime, but I am convinced that justice and right will prevail. 1 will live to see my name cleared and all suspicion that I injured by thought, word or deed one who was so near and dear to me.” To-day, as yesterday, the questions of the attorneys emphasized the im- portance of circumstantial evidence and prospective jurors were ques- tioned closely as to their attitude to- ward evidence of that description, Justice Manning announced he would permit the jury to sleep at home, but admonished the six ac- cepted against talking with any one about the case, He said the jurors would be instructed not to read newspaper accounts of the trial. From the statements of the lawyers the case is likely to be protracted. HOBOES HAVE COLLEGE TO HELP FIND WORK James Eads Howe Opens Third Free Sociological and Industrial School in the Bowery. While other institutions of learning are closing for the summer, the | who is well over forty. | Hobo | College, under the guidance of James |Eads Howe, the millionaire hobo, lopened to-day at No, 202 Bowery. A tuition fee is not expected, nor is a e| diploma given. All full-fledged hoboes may take up such subjects as sociology, industrial law and public speaking, Mr. sald similar institutions b been su je ssfully launched in Ch: fo and Cin einnath. This is the schedule at the college The “student” arrives promptly at 9 o'clock in the moming. His ‘teacher’ sends him out immediately to interview —investigated and found that Fallin, Aili y me to land re- Sued as the result of the automobile $75,000 for New Phone Girl Wife KNOX ASKS SENATE TO VOTE AGAINST ACCEPTING LEAGUE Introduces a Resolution Urg- ing That the Covenant Be Separated From Treaty. WASHINGTON, June 10.—A reso- lution to have the Senate declare it could not concur in the League of Nations of the Treaty as now drawn was introduced to-day by Senator Knox, Pennsylva- provisions Peace $70,000 PAID OUT BY SHIP BROKER U.S. COURT ORDERS DEPORTATION FOR FORANEW WEE, SEATTLEL W. W.'S |Habeas Corpus Writs Denied for Agitators Held at Ellis Island. Settlement Reached Out Court in Alienation Case Over Phone Girl Bride. By a settlement reached out of a Radical I, W. W.'s and Socialists court to-day it cost Theodore Dough- fh : ‘ali on bs ae Whitney | Me @dvorated violence and “direct & Co., ship brokers, 10 Bridge | action” at Seattle during the strike Street, $75,000 to take unto himself | troubles there which terminated with @ second wife, And, stranger yet, the} money all goes to the shipping man’s first wife, Frances B, Dougherty Bethel, Conn, When the alienation suit the prompt action of Mayor Ole Han- | 9on are to be deported. of | Motions for writs of habeas corpus against Frederic C, Howe, Immigra- have been dis- first Mrs. for $100,000 Mrs, Ruby Buchanan Dougherty, Dougherty’s | against | tion Commissioner, for- | missed by Judge Augustus N. Hand mer Waldorf Astoria telephone git! | and second wite of Dougherty, came |! Federal Court, An opinion on eight up for tria} to-day before Supreme | cases has been handed down and the Court Justice Hotchkiss, it was an-| agitators, now held at Eis Island, nounced that the had been} settled. Attorneys for both sides re- fused to divulge the terms of settle- | Med ment, but from a close friend of Mrs. | Dougherty. No, 1, the settlement was $25,000 Dougherty. | Mrs. ances Dougherty had al+| ready recefved $42,000 in lieu of her one will be sent out of the country im- ely. When the “I. W. W. Special” ar- rived in New York in March with the agitators, Miss Caroline Lowe, a Chi- cago attorney, and Charles Recht of w York sought writs to prevent the deportation of twenty or more, Out of the legal tangle several casos it was learned that paid by| dower rights and $20 a week alimony. | This was in 1917, and as the alimony | have been held for further hearing has gone on steadily the total pay-|%94 one or two men have been pa- ments by Dougherty amount to ¥ 000. In addition Mrs, Frances Dougherty | roled by immigration authorities at | Washington, but most of those who advocated wilful destruction of has received a divorce, The couple| Property are to be deported, became estranged in the early part| Assistant District Attorney David of 1917, when Mrs, Dougherty dis-|¥> Cahill argued the cases for the covered that on business trips taken Government, by her husband he was accom-|, “Congress has the right to pro- panied by the former telephone girl.| hibit the introduction of aliens or to One day she read in a Jersey news.| deport them after they have once ar- paper that @ Mrs. ‘Theodore Dough-| rived for any cause it sees fit. It erty had sett! 1 automobile a seen fit in the act of Feb. 5, dent sult, for | 700 with oer Be 1917, to provide for the deportation of aliens ‘who advocate or teach the the real Mrs, Dougherty at that time the Mrs. Theodore Douggerty” who was (Continued on Second Page.) pecan’ was in reality | | the resolution, nia, Republican, of the Foreign Rela- tions Committe. The resolution, which ts expected to bring to a more definite stage the fight being made against the League covenant, asks that the covenant be separated from the Peace Treaty be- fore being submitted to the Senate for | ratification, At the request of Senator Knox, who announced he would later dis- cuss tt in the Senate, the resolution | was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee. / The resolution was offered after a conference with Chairman Lodge, of the committee, and there were evi- dences that it woulg have the back- ing of most of those who have con- ducted the fight against the league. Knox, explaining the purpose of his resolution, said it is to afford an opportunity for the American people to hear all the facts about the League and then express their deliberate judgment on it, while at the same time permitting the ending of the war and the participation of the United States in the making of peace, “The Senate will regard as ade- quate for our national neods,” says peace treaty which shall assure to the United States at- tainment of those ends for which we entered the war, and will look with disfavor upon all treaty provisions going beyond those ends,” The Kaoox resvlution also would declare it the policy »f the United States Government, in order to meet fully and fairly our obligations to ourselves and to the world, that the freedom and peace of Europe, being again threatened by any power or combination of powers, the United States will regard such a situation with grave concern as 4 menace to its own peace and freedom, In such an event the Knox resolu- tion proposes that te United States will consult with other powers af- fected with @ view to devising means for the removal of euch menace and will, the necessity arising in the fu- ture, carry out the same complete ac- cord and co-operation with our chief co-belligerents for the defense of civilization. —tuseeeeettiineeietenasine SAVANNAH LINER SAFE AFTER BARNEGAT GROUNDING Before Arrival of Rescue Tug. ‘The steamship City of Sav 148 passengers and cargo, fror ah, with Savan- nah, Ga,, for New York, which went ashore In the fog off Bari .N. Ju, at 1 A. M, to-day, was reached Sandy Hook at 832 A. ing here later this morning. Bhe was proceeding slowly in a com: paratively calm sea and rested easily M., dock- after she struck, but the captain sent out @ wireless call for a tug to help get her free, The message was picked up by the Navy and a Merritt & Chapman tug was sent to her aid, The tug reached the A. M, just in time to se oals under her own 5! her trip to New York. avannah at 3.48 wet off the resume Vessel Pulls Off Shoal Undamaged | SEEKS SEPARATION OF LEAGUE AND TREATY | Woman Whose Husband Paid Her Bll FOUR TAKES UP REPORTS OF PEACE COMMISSIONS ON REPLY TO GERMAN PROPOSAL Allies to Seize $5,000,000,000 of Liquid German Assets Now an Take $25,000,000,000 More in Gol After Two Years, Latest Plan. — PARIS, June 10.—The Big Four had before them to-day reports of Allie¢ Commissions regarding the German counter proposals. + Eleven of the commission have turned in their final report, while five others—studying Germany's eastern frontiers, Belgium’s claims, the Schleswig question and various phases of the economic terms—are prags tically complete and are expected to be included in the reply to be sub itted to the German delegates on Friday. The plan for reparations which is now proposed in the Council of Four, according to Marcel Hutin of the Echo de Paris, follow: First, to seize Cerman liquid assets to the value of 25,000,- 000,000 francs ($5,000,000,000). 3 Second, to leave a margin of two years so that an accurate idea of the economic and finan- cial situation in Germany may be gained. Third, after two years to ex- act payment on account of 125,- 000,000,000 francs ($25,000,000,000) in gold or negotiable securities, | Fourth, to give the arations Committee authority to raise the 8 " GERMANS TO SIGN TREATY BEFORE FIRST OF JULY, FORECAST FROM PARIS Various Parliaments Are Expected to Ratify the Pact Before Aug. 41. PARIS, June, 10. HE signing of the Peace Treaty by Germany before July 1 and Its ratification by the various parliaments before Aug. 1 is predicted to-day by the Echo de Paris, It expects the answer to the German counterproposals to be handed over probably on Friday. The course of the Germans, it thinks, will be to replace the Scheidemann Government by an- other in case the present govern- ment determines not to sign the terms as the Allies finally present ‘them, — by Germany, should her ca; to pay increase. One of the questions still to be set tled is the early admission of German to the League of Nations. A livel, debate on the latter was anticipated The British and Ameri understood, favor earliest possibl admission of the Germans, French hotly oppose it. The Big Four also was expected devote some time to solution of ¢ problem presented by the three-co! nered warfare in which the Roun fans, Czechs and Hungarians tigui The Allies are reported to have ®patched an ultimatum to the Hi garian Soviet Government, de: ing it cease its attacks on the Czec! The Adriatic question, which been one of the hardest nuts for t Peace Conference to crack, and why resulted in temporary withdrawal the Italian delegation, is now report to have been virtually settled on t following basi One—Fiume will be made a free city, under protection of the League of Nations, together with GERMANY TAKES STEP STEPS TO PUT DOWN A REVOLT Leaders Say There Is No Danger, but Noske Is Taking No Chances, BERLIN, June 10 (United Press). —Despite the doubt cast by Govern- ment leaders on the well advertised rumors of a forthcoming “people’ coup” to overthrow the present re- gime, War Minister Noske is taking no chances, His Guards—the “tron- handed rulers of Berlin"—are in ri readiness for any eventuality, He gonaiters jo surrsunding tennis has personally undertaken the task| ‘Fy: Which becomes a free state, Twe—Sebenico will go to the Jugo- Slave. Three—Zara will become a free city under Italian control, Four—Certain Adriatic islands adjacent to the Jugo- will be awarded to Italy. Five—A pl in five years to determine whether je of Fiume and the sur- of assuring their loyalty. through in- creased pay and other concessions, While a refusal to sign the Peace |Treaty undoubtedly would lead to resignations from the present Cabl- | net, or perhaps even a complete, ove! throw of the Government, there is a feeling that considerable reorganiza- tion is certain in any event. It ts this feeling of uncertainty that has led Noske to prepare to avert any- thing approaching the bloody days of Jast winter, Press reports are alternately optt- mistic and pessimistic regarding modification of the treaty. -day publivhed an ret order from the General anding demobilization depots re- quiring all troops in those camps to stand in readiness to aid the Volun-| The Austrian delegation at St. G teer Guards. The order, it was said,|main has asked Germany to jexplained that further unrest in Ber-|to the Allies against the rigor of \iin is expected, | sai mommies under Nations, or become subject to remain the League of er the Italians or the Jugo- ve. Both Sebenico and Zara were gt’ to Italy by the Pact of London, plan has ben submitted to the J Slava, and it is believed they will cept. amount of the annua! payments i % i ee *