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| '" \) whiskey, rum, sary significance, which den —PBICE T TWO CENTS. Copyright, 1910, by [Fausto Backs Circulation Books Open to All.” | (The New York World). The Press Publishing / GERMAN CABINET SPLIT ON PEACE; HALF THE MEMBERS READY TO SIGN BETTING IN PARIS 3 TO 2 THAT GERMANS WILL SIGN THE REVISED PEACE TREATY MOVE FOR BEER AND WINES AFTER JULY 1 10-3 IN ROUSE COMMITTEE. Half Per Cent. Aah iidohet Fixed as Limit and Long List of Drinks Barred. RESUMED. 2.75 “FIGHT Noted Lawyers Take Part in Argument Here Over Federal Appeal. WASHINGTON, June 17.—By a vote of 10 to 8 the House Judiciary -Jomamittee refused to-day to adopt a motion of Representative Igoc, Dem- ocrat, Missouri, to recoummend repeal ‘qt wartime prohibition in so far as it affects light wines and ibecrs, Join- ing Mr. Igoe in supporting the mo- tion were Representatives Gard, Dem- cerat, Ohio, and Clason, Republican, | Wisconsin. The committee, which is consider- ing a bill by Chairman Volstead for enforcement of national prohibition, ‘approved the section defining intoxi-| yeating liquor at that containing one- half of one per cent. of alcohol after amending it so as to name specifical- ly as intoxicants alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rug, gin, beer, ale, porter and wine. ‘The section, as amended, reads: “That the word ‘liquor’ or the phraso ‘intoxicating liquor’ shall oe construed to include alcohol, brandy, gin, beer, ale, porter in addition thereto, y) and qwine, and, { any spirituous, vinous, malt or fer- mented liquor, Mquors and com- |. pounds, whether medicated, propri- etary, patented or not, and by what- { ever name called, containing one-half } of one per contum or more of alco- hol by volume which are potable or capable of teing used as a beverage.” Arguing to-day in Now York be- fore the United States Court of Ap- peals against 2.% per cent. (beer, United States Dis‘rict Attorney Caf- fey declared that the Wartime Act of Nov, 2, 1918, applies tp “all’’ beer “Beer and wine are prohibited articles,” Mr. Caffey said, “whether intoxicating or not. The words ‘beor vand ‘wine’ as they are used in tl statute must be taken jn their ordi- pe bov- sme alcoholic content. ssumed that these ed by Congress to evages havine It may safely ibe words were intenc shave a very certain and definite meantn; ‘On the contrary,” W. D. Guthrie yeplied for the brewers, “the pro- hibition here iv of beer and wine that s intoxicating and other, At great expense we enrolled 14 experts. These men, after exhaustive expert ments, declare that is not intoxicating.” no 2.75 per cent, beer The 1,%0 establishments in the! the District Attorney and Richard J. | United States brewing malt liquors. Mr. Guthrie suid, employ 75,000 persons and in the year ended June 20, 1918, paid $126,285,857 in taxes, Not- withstanding he had becn led to be lieve that there would be no inter- ference with 2.75 per cent beer pend- ing the determination of the pend- ng case, Mr. Guthrie complained, a Baltimore client was indicted last week and a Philadelphia client only yesterday. Judges Henry G. Ward, Charles M. Mong and W, Rogers ware NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 19) IS DEFEATED |ARMY OF OCCUPATION TO RETURN HOME SOON All Troops “Will Be on Way by Aug. 1 if the Germans Sign Treaty. | COBLENZ, June 17 (United Press).— | American troops along the Rhine wi!!! be om their way homo before Aug. 1. { the Germans sign the Peace Treaty, ording to present plans. ‘ne Sth Division, now in Luxemburk. would be the first to leave The other four divisions would entrain at the rate of 6,000 a day, Tentative arrangements provide @n American garrison on the Rhine for several years, but it would not include any of the men now here, unless they | were volunteers, All officers would be chosen from regulars now on the |Rhine. About 4,600 volunteers already | have orrived peal the United States. 'KEELER’S HOTEL BURNED | AT ALBANY; 200 ESCAPE: Guests Fight Way Through Smoke but Lose All Personal Property in $500,000 Blaze. | ALBANY, daylight Hotel with a $500,000, More than 200 guests fled from the | building. Some of them were forced to run through smoke and flames to; reach the street. Practically all their personal property was lost. One fireman was killed by a falling wall, Keeler's Hotel was one of Albany's landmarks and was known through- }out the country, Miss Anna Biggam, telephone op- erator, remained at her switchboard | summoning patrons from their rooms | until she was overcome by smoke ei es le COLLAPSE OF K.G. HUT, IN FRANCE KILLS SOLDIER Hundred Americans Also Injured While Witnessing a Boxing Match at Pontanezen. . June 17.-One June 17.--Fire just before to-day Broadway and Maiden Lane loss estimated at more than American sol- dier was ki!led, two are dying and more than 100 others are injured, ag the re- tult of the collapse of a Knights of Columbus Hut at Pontanegen last a ‘A boxing match was in progress at the time of the accident. on the bench, Each side was allot | ted two and one-half hou | “Two and three-quarter: as be- | fore the Court of Appeals on appeal |by the Government from decision by Judges Hand and Mayer ia te United States District Court grant- {ng a preliminary injunction against McElligott, acting Collector of Inter nal Revenue. The complainants were the Jacob Hoffman Brewing Com pany, the Clausen-Flanagan Brew ery and the Jacob Ruppert Corpora- tion, It Was their contention that \beer containing oaly per cent alcohol ts not intoxicating. D man can say,” Mr. Caffey argued, “when beer is intoxicating. | The courts have decided that men may walk straight, attend to their | business, be apparently ‘ali right’ to the casual observer and yet be with- it that clearn' of intellect they ould have without the beer, ‘ROBBERS GET SAFE, for | destroyed Keeler’s | !° | their idea was to carry it away and was to warn Mr. Cogswell, who is aap yes renee ae) Funk ARs treasurer of the United States Cobalt] Were on their me ii 4 “ fa met the army officers, Magistrate Company, to “keep it quiet’ M held th te ‘an at & Mr. Cogswell was atill keeping it] Mancuso he ps om TF Fea x jquiet this morning when an Kvening aise ial lg mrp a World reporter, having learned an toe be in the Gide pri pe 8 inkling of the story from one of the | SUF day . suffering jo Oe umili« ? \neighbors, asked for the latest facts, |!?® experiences, until on the repor of @ health officer that the charge | | | tell me that if the facts are published | ee JWOGE EXONERATES. INNOCENT GIRLS INJAILFOURDAYS: tends leah Detective for Ar-| | resting Respectable Women | as Flirts Meni URGED TO SUE. | $10,000 GEMS INT, BUT ROPE B BREAKS cape pe With 8 1,000 of | the Cogswell Jewels Lying Around Loose, POLICE WARN SECRECY. |News Suppression Ineffective; | Another Safe Robbery Fol- lows Nearby. Also Scores Night Court Mag- | istrate Before Whom They Were Convicted. Mayor Hylan’s ingenious pian tu suppress crime by suppressing infor- mation about it has worked rather badly of late in the metghborhood of Detective John F. Gunson of the Vice Squad and Magistrate Mancuso of the Women’s Court were vigor- Fifth Avenue and Uth ane 12th | 0UslY rebuked to-day by Judge Ras- heda alsky in the Court of General Ses- In the boudoir of Mrs. C, Van| ORs as a ~vault of an investigation Rensselacr Congswell, No. 12 East ith | Orde rea vy District Attorney Swann bet, there w Jowel auto weigh: | Mtv the arrest and conviction of two 6 bse ‘ rewpectable young women us disor On Saturday | |derly churacters, charged with solic- contained $10,000 worth of | iting. Scattered about the boudoir} The testimony before were other jewels which Mrs, Cogs- sky showed that Miss Lillian Kahn ico valued at about $1,000. Burglars came. From | Cobin Henry s'treet, stopped on the street yard of the Grosvenor Hotel | near Broadway and 42d Street to say | made thoir way to the Cogswell b: | yard, passing three high fences. They | roodby .o two army officers, one of climbed a clothes-line trellis and a whom ‘/as an acquaintance of Miss |hanging ladder to the roof of an ing about 100 pounds night it | Jewels. Judge Rosal- on March 4 last and Miss Sally tewnty-three, of No, 214 the back the ok Cobin, who Is chief stenographer in a U. 8. Army Quartermastor's oMce two stories high, Then | hore Jimmied a window, gathered the) Arter the four had parted Detective e jewelry and tied a rope around /Gunson ty sald. to bi asked the safe to lower it. Apparently | army oMcers if the young women had accosted them, and was informed that they had not. Gunson, it is alleged, followed the voung women, however, | and arrested them, charging them in| Magistrate Mancuso's court with dis- orderly conduct Despite the protest women, who said they vain to get into the Opera House to heer Preside extension the | the open it at leisure, But the rope broke and down crashed the safe to the fagstones of the yard, where it made a noise that roused the whole neighborhood, even the police, and the burglars had to |hurry away with no more loot than | they had pocketed. Detectives were quickly on the job, and the first step in their strategy of the young had tried in Metropolitan t Wil- “I have been ayked to avoid pub- sald Mr, arainst them was Magistrate suspended set them free Assistant District Attorney Samuel Markewich conducted the case before Judge Rosalsky, at the close of which unfounded the sentence and licity,” sake of the neighbors, Cogswell, “for the The detectives in this case the crooks will find out about it and may decide that this is an casy ueighborhood to work in. The detectives have reported progress to|the court apologized to the young | me, but they are emphatic in pointing | Women for their arrest and “horrible out the danger of. publicity.” treatment,” and advised them to It appears, however, that the| Dring civil suit against the policeman burglars of New York do not de-| To Gunson Jud; salsky said |pcnd upon the newspapers for tips} “There ly not one scintilla of rigiit as to “easy neighborhoods,” for |0M your pa Your own sister, my own jthe very next night, before sister, would be subject t est and “dangerous publicity” had been humiliation if men like you on the }to the Cogswell inci burg police force were allowed to go on Jwent to No. 44 Went Sireet without hindrance, Your action can ust a few doors away, ripped a bi fe of the New York Clothing Cu ot be too-strongly condemned. ‘The |‘ ters’ Union, and went away. with | Magistrate should be rebuked | $2,000 which the members had just] Te © | paid in as dues. w Jury wa | mony It is | $4,500,000 LIVERPOOL FIRE. | w 4 ‘hat both ed to be mur chouses Stored With ‘Timber, far Cotton and O11 Burned, |Miss Kaha, who wo saleywoman Pre eae {at $45 4 woek, has lost her pesition |raverpoot, sored with timbers eotton [a2 & Teaull ct the arrest loll, four hundred barrels of turpentine and other inflammables were burned| 4, | last night and to-day. Several ver Le ane tod Y a dara etael® |Vanbuskirk, twenty-three, of fs A hlaning scot feata ene waeake River, just back from France, was al LT sep rican steamship Nor {most instantly killed at Hohokus at| linda which was, badly damased, ‘The [ROOM to-day when an auto struck his motorcycle at a dangerous bend in the road. His skull was fractured and both legs broken. ‘The auto was driven by Geor aus, crew escaped. Newspaper despatches estimate the damage at $4,500,000, —— asus SB KEEP BLE aan, 8: He: WH Green: Ave, veesoe ramemeerereny a ipauvarenuonnatcssvacrns cesta ist a FS ne 18 oan sumaypgenieres sey 2 A i) giana tt 2 pis ti Be an, we pat 19. “cir Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 22 PAGES ae nanos EDITION A French Press Rejoices ment by Clemenceau, but Criticises the Slight Concessions That Are Made. ETTING in Paris to-day w be forced to accept the revised peace treaty. Over the Bitter Arraign- PARIS, June 17. as 3 to 2 that the Germans would While generally rejoicing at Premier Clemenceau’s bitter ar- raignment of the Germans, the sions made. morning papers decried the conces- GERMAN ENVOYS ATTACKED AS THEY START BACK HOME Phousand Frenchmer Stones and Jeer— Two Wounded. Four Hurl PARIS, the Fr June 17.—Th over ng of ench people the of peace was illustrated by the fact that when the Germans left the Hote! des Reservoirs for their special train ved here from the Paris at 945 Jast night a crowd of 4,000] White House to-day guthered outside, hooting and insult-| A® ® Femult the President's advisers ing the enemy representatives, was the first demonstration agains |them in the weeks they had been in France, Dr. Theodor Melchor, one of the|‘P® treaty on schedule and that 8°) president Wilson would be on bis five principal delegates, and Fraul way nome by June 24 or 2 Dorlblush, one of the secrtaries, were struck on the heads with stones. 1 e Freneh Government to-day ex pressed regret oyer the demonstra tion, Premier Clemenceau is writing a letter of apology (o Count von] message on the treaty to Congress he Brockdorf-Rantzan will start out on hi tour of the It is reported that the Prefect of] country, and the tour will continue Police Versailles may possibly be] for approximately three weeks. remo The demonstration had] The President's itinerary has not several phases, but .was confined] been completed. No dates have been mostly to Je rio tb the Germans. fixed for any city, because of the lack MEXICAN ENVOY PROTESTS AT U.S, ARMY GROSSING Every Hamlet on Border Guarded ky Troops Against Possible Villa Raid ASHINGTON treaty This WILSON EXPECTS GERMANS 10 SIGN; WILL HURRY BAGK 1|To Begin ” Fight aaa League | While in Belgium and Con- | tinue It Here, | ‘That the Ger- ¢| WASHIN June 17 President Wilson believes will y[ Treaty is 4] mans sign the revised indicated Peace in private de- spatches re: to-day stated that, while they have | 2° Positive information on the sub- Ject, they wore convinced that the German signature would be affixed to Tho President plans to open his fight for the Peace Treaty and League - | of Nations in Belgium during his visit -| there, It was officially announced to- day that after he has delivered bis of certainty ay to the date of his re- turn, It was said that the full tour plan will be announced coincident with the President's departure from Europe. —_— / KNOX OPENS FIGHT FOR HIS RESOLUTION _« aw GERMANS MUST ACCEPT TERMS, SIGN TREATY BY MONDAY, OR FOCH WILL ORDER ADVANCE Rantzau Goes to Weimar to Consult res Ebert Government and Re- eive Final Instructions—London ane German Cabinet Is Equally Divided. LONDON, June 17.—Seven members of the German Cabinet | favor signing the amended peace terms, while the other seven are opposed to signing, a Reuter despatch from Berlin says. PARIS, June 17.—Count Brockdorff-Rantzau was en route te Weimar to-day with a retinue of German peace delegates to present to the National Assembly the Allies’ reply to the counter-proposals, submitted at Versailles yesterday evening. One ot the Gétman delegates is quoted by the Echo de Paris to-day as declaring before he left for Weimar ihat Germany would sign the treaty. the would sign, he declared, because she knew that the heads of the Ailied Governments were in perfect accord on the consequences which would follow a refusal to accept the terms, and that orders had been iven for the advance, in that event, of an Allied army of 600,000 men. Among the concessions contemplated for Germany in case she signs the peace treaty, Iv the use of 80 per cent. of her merchant ships for two years. Other such concessions wor be permission for her t dispose of her gold reserve and to purchave the Minette ores necessary for smelting ber own Lron ores. Unless the Germans accept the drastic terms and sign the treaty by next Monday, June 23, the Allitd Armies will advance from the Rhine The terms as finally presented, while making concessions here ~ there, stick to the principles set forth in the first draft. WAR DELIBERATELY PLOTTED AGAINST LIBERTIES OF WORLD, . FINAL CHARGE OF ALLIES Authors of Crime Must Be Punished, Says Re- ply to German Note, and Tribunal Will Represent Judgment of World. DEPRESSION IN GERMANY ply ef the. Peace ‘Contareane to a TERMS CALLED HARSH counter proposaly of the Germans, | which was handed to the German delegation at Versailles yesterday, takes up in its order each of the ob- woe vedo. TO) STRANGLE LEAGUE | | . F |Jections made by the enemy to the nment and people of Mexico conatder |Peace Delegation Said to Havel provisions of the original Peace as 4 violation of Mexican sovereignt | As\ ed by the Ti ot Me | obate Expected to Be One of the| Been Astounded by the Tone Treaty ibe ies aped Siatee soldiers | Most Bitter in History of | of Clemenceau’s Note. Among the modifications to the inte ‘Meaican (erritor Candide! Mos story o ab: treaty which are accorded by the REE TE ot | Senate, WEIMAR, Juno 17 (Associated| conference are frontier ratific declared today in] WASHINGTON, June 17.—The Sen- fregersee ; oad Reaieed ruc tions for West Prussia. sued at the Mexi-|ate fight over the League of Nations] fre nop erens pendege a pvadllcas A plebiscite in Upper Silesia, y entered a new pliase to-day with thogs "4 fears upon the German} with a guarantes to Germany 0, Texas, June 17.—Every | beginning of debate on the resolution ¥e {oem WhO remained awake to wa that she will receive fair treat- town and huiniet along the | of Senator Knox, Republican of | {hem was that of depression. | ment in securing mineral produc artic being | Pennsylvania, a former Secretary PU aa etebeylayrce ia rates 4 dean. | Sein nat Fe y ei. Krein, to prevent| ate propoming that the enate! 2 | Ti soa eesntment at thet” tah emt sen eeueee ree fe possib ta Villa raid acroxa | fOr mally express unwillingness to ac-| aiewed crucity of the terms. | lOsne be Snenery Searremye 00m ' , ln ex. | cept the league covenant as it now| were Ger id cent Ae mt waterway phases of ‘the treaty. ee ey pittered over a report that a Frenc tain 200,000 men in its army tem- > The debute is expected to last for fay ie va nites Poe Gorman} porerily and @ promise te fursiep Start Hamby ‘Trial Menday for Breek>| many days and to develop some of| (eee orenlilcn i | Germany within a month with @ yn Bank Marder, | WEIMAR, June 17 (United Press)! full list of the persons who are te | Gordon Vaweett Hamby, ‘ie seif-con feantiniad (hues acend Pie The German p delegation was| be tried for responsibility for the fewsed slayer of two men Vas’ 4 the tone of Premier| great conflict and violations of the ; ber ' be 1 eh © BELL-ANS BEFOKE MEA: ncenu's Bote accompanying th laws of war. * December, wil be hs no J on trial for Lit xd Digvation mmekes ‘ reply to the counter-proposals,| Taking up the subject of penal murder in the first degree in the Su —Aay aaonedinn to GMIAIAK Rawlaok fre oe . i preme Court of Kings County next — ligase + received b vs mn from | the Feply entere, steed ie Monday. District Attorney Lewis has| " ates mea ee, Vv by the Goverm-| the immediate cause of the received no protest from Frank X. Me- i fina .i7,_ 1918, | ment here to-night. The note was] says that the twas Catterty, Hamby's counsel, ag inst | Heke me sits esa {% charecterized a8 “harsh,” “smash: | abomt . # ne" te Going to trial et that tune Widdisg aan" ing” ang “ ” i h a SCI oe SEAN EE ATS EEREYERT TS mm rectren eM gs 1 8 penne mmr as