The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1919, Page 1

a ee _ TO SIGN TREATY 2 PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyright, 1049, by Co. (The New ‘The Prose Publishing Che York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 24,. 1919. ARMY AVIATOR Lieut. Watson and His Mechan- ic Meet Death in Flames at Rye Beach. MACHINE' NOSE _ DIVES. Flyers Drop in an Amusement Field While Making a Practice Spin. The fiancee of Lieut, Shelly M. Watvou of Rogers, ‘Texas, saw him -aitd bis helper, M. Ireland of West- bury, L. L, plunge to death in a mass ‘ot flames at 9.80 o'clock this morn- ing. She was on the porch of her home at Rye Beach, L. 1, moments after she sent greetings and waved kisses to the army officer In the alr, Only a few ! a fow minutes: befpre the the porch of her home waving and shouting to her intended husband, who greeted her ~sith a like salutation from his perch aloft. and was so near her that she could fiancee stood on He was flying low at the time Pcee hun smile. Then something hap- pened and thé next moment the ma- chine took a nose dive and plunged |} toward the ground, The Diplane struck nose first and ploughed into the earth for a con- siderable distance with force enough but ) short drop flames broke out and the to crush the aviators, on the [machine wus a blazing mass before | it reached the earth. It fell burning on what 18 known as the trolley cir- cle which lies between Ward's Park and the roadway and within twenty- five feet ef the Watson home. Both aviators Were unconscious. While policemen, with buckets of water and Fwand, rushed to thoir aid they were owerless to save them. ‘The flyers. started from the Mine- bia Aviation Field at 9 o'clock for a practice flight, as they had done for many mornings. At about 9.20 o'clock, Dr, John Greene, a friend of both ayiatoré heard the hum of the machifie above his house on Prospect Avenue and went out on his porah p-yiew the performance, The doc- tor saw the machine proceeded on its way toward Rye Beachy and it was then not more than fifty feet above the rooftops, ‘Then all of a sudden the nose of the biplane headed for the ground, flames burst out and the machine caught fire, With outstretched hands the young woman, standing on the porch, watched the airplane on its down- ward path, saw the flames surmount it and envelop the occupants. Friends helped the young woman in- to the house. The bodies were removed to an undertaking establishment. A master signal electrician of the Utited States Army, who was on the ground at the time of the accident, gave {t as his opinion that the mo- TO DEATH FROM PLANE IN PRESENCE OF FIANCEE SAVINGS OF PUPILS STOLEN IN ROBBERY | their money was to have been ret turned. The highest class—160—puipls of Miss A. P, Cassin, had each contri- PLUNGES OF SCHOOL HOUSE Funds in Teacher ( Care Were to Be Return, { at Com- mencemen, To-Day. Breaking into Public School No. 128, Twenty-first Avénue and 83d Street, Bath Beach, Brooklyn, early robbers stole the accumulated } savings of hundreds of school ¢hil- to-day, dren which had been tn custody of their teachers fgr many months, The children were graduated to-day and buted fifty cents to de tho ox- penses of a class picture and a social this evening. Twenty-five “other teachers reported that their desks had also been smashed and the sav- ings stolen. The only money o looked was in penny, banks in each schoolroom, These banks had grad- ually been filling up after weeks of persistent economy on the part of the smaller children at the rate of a penny a day. The aggregate loss is $200. Police of the Bath Beach Sta- tion are investigating. At the graduation exercises a si- lent tribute was paid to the memory of Miss Marie Hertzer, who was to have graduated. Miss Hertzer, who ranked highest in her class, was run down and killed June 14 near her home by an auto truck, Tho girls wore pink roses on their white frocks in her memory. PENNSYLVANIA EIGHTH TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE House Approves Federal Amend- ment, Already Adopted by Senate, 153 to 44 HARRISBURG, Pa, June %4.—The Pennsylvania Legislature to-day took the final step In the ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment when the House, by @ vote of 163 to 4 passed, the Phipps resolution. The Senate” last week adopted the measure by a vote of 31 to 6 Pennsylvania is the eighth State to ratify. 400 INTERNED GERMAKS TO BE SHIPPED HOME Sailors Held at Fort Oglethorpe Will Be Embarked at Charleston, WILKINS ON STAND, DESCRBES SCENE AT WES MURDER Aged Doctor Says Victim's Screams Ceased Shortly After Robber Left House. GRABBED BY THROAT. | Bandits Beat Him, Took Cash and Jewels, Then Fled, | He Testifies. (Special From 9 Btatt Cormmpondent of ‘The Yrening World.) MINEOLA, L, 1, June 24.—r. Walter Keene Wilkins, his ruddy old face framed by snow white hair end close cropped beard and mustache, | took the witness stand before Justice David §.'Manning in the Stpreme Gourt to-day. He walked to the stand with o professional dignity which was almost pompous. Hel fettled himself to make his supreme effort to dofend himself from the ac- cusation of beating his wife to death with a bludgeon at their’ Long Beach cottage. He seemed as calm at first as though in a chair in his office con sulting -with ‘a patient, But before his attorney, Charles N. Wysong, had been quéstioning him for ten minutes his voice became shaky and the pink flush of apparent yigorous vitality turned to an excited flush. Dr. Wilkins was dressed in the cut- away coat, with braided edges, and the dark gray trousers with a lyht stripe, which «it is the contention of the defense he wore on the day his wife was killed, and was still woar- ing when he went to his Long Bou neighbors to tell of his being robbed and of his wife being struck aown. Just before adjournment his when telling how the nows of wife's death as broken to him the army h ital at Long Be Dr. Wilkins covered his face with his hands and sobbed herent for a moment and beeame inco- At the outset of his examination Mr Wysong drew from Dr, Wilkins a sketch of his life from the time he was born at Gorham, Me. He followed very closely the facts us they had al- ready been outlined in Mr. Wysong's earlier addr Dr. Wilkins spoke in short, clipped sentences, with a metallic tone which suggested that he almost resented the forced inquiry into his private af fairs by a public tribunal In the course of his examination there was none of the gentle twinklin eyed tolerance with which the de- fendant had regarded the witnesses giving testimony intended by the State to send him to the electric chair. He looked troubled, but still benevo lent. The doctor's only to his biography as furnished by Mr new contribution Wysong was that he had a sinall pri vate income which he got by furnish- ing apartments owned by his wife. Dre Wilkins collected for himself the difference between his, wife's rent for re ap the rooms as furnishe DOCTOR'S STORY OF EVENTS ON tor of the machine went dead, and, the biplane plunged to the ound, was driven into the gas tank in its hot condition caused an plosion. machine was of the Curtiss H It had a 42-foot span and 4,970 pounds, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 24 Four hundred enemy aliens interned at Fort Oxlethorpe will be sent to Cha ton, 8. C,, to-morrow und: ard to be Jembarked for Germany, Most of them are sailors from interned German ships | — om ti id Restaurant, Ve breaded, wi Pianos, Hit ot Mignon a ik ad NIGHT OF MURDER. The questioning of Dr. Wilkins in half an hour got down to his arrival |with his wife at Long Beach Station Fob, 27. Q. What did you do on leaving the train? | A. ‘We were with Conductor Boyd, Mrs, Wilkins went into the |room of the station I or bag full of food and waited for her; it was about ten minutes, (Continued on Hleventh Page.) $300,000 JEWELS STOLEN AT HOTEL, WOMAN REPORTS Mrs. Clarence Millhiser Says Valuables Vanished From Safety Deposit Vault. BIG PEARL NECKLACE. lone String of Gems Valued at $260,000, Richmond, Va., Widow Declares. Detectives from Police Headquar- aided by those of a priyate agency, two firms of lawyers and the executive staff at the Biltmore, are trying to-day to fathom the disap- pearasice of jewels reported. worth $300,000 belonging“ to Mrs. Clarence Millhiser of Richmond, Va, The jewels consisted necklace studded with diamonds, which {8 reputed to be worth $260,000, Other jewels, consisting of pendants, lavalliers, earrings and costly trin- are valued at $40,000. Mrs, Millhiser says she placed the jewels ters, of a pearl in a safe deposit box of the hotel May 20, Mrs, Millhiser and her’ late hue- band, a manufacturer, who died May 20 last, have spent considerable time visiting in New York. They invariably have been guests at the Biltmore while in New York. No one offered to explain why the alleged robbery was not made public before, Detectives from police head- quarters did not visit the Biltmore until to-day. The supposition ts, therefore, that a private agency has been secretly attempting to recover the gents, ‘The law firm of Stanchfield & Levy, representing Mrs, Millhiser in pro- bating her late husband's will in court, refused to-day t+ comment up- on the robbery, They did admit, however, that jewelry had disap- peared. The following statement was sued to-day from the offices of wards, Murphy & Minton, No. 26 Liberty Street. ‘This firm represents the Hotel Biltmore, as well as the Bowman chain of hostelries: “On May 20, 1919 Mrs. Clarence Millhiser of Ricahmond, Va., who with her late husband, was a guest at the Diltmare, procured from the hotel one of the safe deposit boxes, maintained for the convenience of guests, desiring to store vatuables She alleges that she placed in this box on that date, which was the day of her husband's death, jewelry of considerable value, and that when went to the box on June 13 to remove the jewelry, @ part of the same was missing.” The police are working on two clues. The first is that the jewelry was taken from the suite of Mrs. Millhiser before she took the gems to the hotel office, (Mrs, Millhiser they say, would naturally be upset by her Lusband’s death, and perhaps | not a as custo t By Mrs, ing her jewelry is that while he other supposi. tion MUlhiser was waiting for @ clerk to take charge) German Ministry hed fallen, of the jewe a pimbile fingered thief — removed the jewkls from their boxes $12 A WEEK FOR MOTHERS neither clerk nor Mrs, Millhiser } noticing the loss in weight of the UNDER BAY STATE BILL packages Mrs. Millhiser was seen at Asbury ee Bark, where she is stopping during! BosTON, June 24.—The Btate Senate ‘| must refuse to cuss it’? she [Ma Passed a bill to protect mothers and ——— | ehitd during the maternity period by (Continued on Sixt authorizing payments of $12 4 wee nth Page.) ieee p Gat meer NS BEFORE MEALS and see how fine Good Digestion makes 100 feel——Adve ssdchaiiiaaiia nics nila I ik On CLEMENCEAU TO Paar Clemenceau as meeting of Hs “Be careful; that powder, that treaties do at a dinner given by the Econom ister of Commerce aud Agriculture. the world’s hope.” Hutin in the Echo de Paris. It is expected that | Parliament ek or Witliam TI, it w: ot the Middle Ages, surrounded by soldiery and érunk with pride. the interest of a state and get rich by any means. witnesses who were at the side of William II that when he learned of the Sarajevo tragedy, he'who posed as a keeper of the peace cried: “The hour has struck, Now we shall seo what an army is.’ This story of how the French Premier received the news was told “Toward this magnificent and impressive inmovation,” “I ask you to direct all your thoughts and to uplift your hearts in this great act of faith, hope and love.” Premier Clemenceau has expressed his intention to resign from «fice as soon as the treaty is promulgated, feeling that he has accom- plished the task for which he assumed the Premiership, says Marcel QUIT POST AS SOON AS PEACE IS SIGNED; REJOICES OVER SURRENDER “We Have Waited Forty-Nine Years for This Moment,” He Exclaims on Receiving the German Note. PARIS, June 24, as he opened the fatcful despatch ‘ ‘W': have wait@d forty-nine years for this moment,” exclaimed indiig that Germany would sign the treaty at the ‘ouncil of Three Monday afternoon. “Por forty-nine years,” be continued, “the mailed fist of the reiter (German trooper), who has governed Germany has Whether ‘9 name was still the same reiter keep your powder dry. Be careful. Remind the world that it ts living on a barrel of ‘This reiter’s dogma was that might is right, that a state’s only obligation {fs its own interest, not exist when they clash with We know from ic Commission of the conference in | honor of the French delegation by Etienne Clementel, former Min- ‘The Minister conciuded his speech with a eulogy of the League of Nations, which he said was “at present he said, will ratify the tre stl late in b muly. PERSHING IN LONDOK; RECOGNIZED BY FEW American ecnatiter Will Be Gen. Biddle’s Guest To-Night and Get Oxford Degree To-Morrow. LONDON, June %—Gen. Pershing, who arrived here to-day from Franc for a brief visit, was met at Dover by Gen, Biddle, Commander of the Amer fean forces in England, who motored with him to London. Gen, Vershiag’s arrival was charac- teristically unostentatious. Few people | recognized him. He will spend the night here as Gen. Biddle’s guest, and | will motor to-morrow to Oxford, where he will rece honorary degree. NEW GERMAN GRISIS REPORTED IN PARIS American Delegate Hears That Chancellor Bauer's New Ministry Has Fallen. | PARIS, June 24 (United Presa).— An unconfirmed rumor reached the American Peace Commission to-day tliat Chancellor Bauer's newly formed during contin Entrie Rocing Rasing Results on Page GERMANS REJOICE OVER AGREEMENT TO SIGN TREATY Processions in Berlin, Munich and Other Large Cities, All Participants Singing. LONDON, June %. of the German Government's agreement to News | sign the peace terms resulted in patri- otic demonstrations through Germany, the Exchange Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent reports. In Berlin, Munich and other large the despatch says, processions |formea and marched along the priv- the participants singing | citles, cipal streets }war songs ring the Generals ! of the old The OM ssociation, it is added, as asked the Dutch Government not {to deliver the former German Fm- ‘peror to the Allies, In a telegram, oMicers of the asociation said, “We lean protect the Kaiser with our | bodies, but we rely upon the gener- popli u osity of the Duteh BPRLLN, June © now Slaves, “The German people working for foreigners,” Philip Scheldemann, late Chancellor, declared an article in the National Zeitung. "We must do our utmost to fulfill the treaty or the Allies will use every possible means gt reprisal.” “Circulation Books Open _to All.’ 24 PAGES a da WEATHER=Fair, warm; showers to-night. EDITION Germans Appoint Signed. 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. French GERMANS BURN FLAGS WHICH TREATY ORDERS RETURNED TO FRANCE Officers and Soldiers Take Them From Museum in Berlin and Sing “Deutschland Uber Alles,” PARIS, June 24, IF'TEPN flags captured from F the Prenah, which were to be returned after signing of the Peace Treaty, were takon from a museum in Berlin by a crowd of German officers and soldiers and publicly burned near the statue of Frederick the Great, a Berlin dispatch reported to-day. ‘As the flags burned @ great crowd sang “Deutschland Uber Alles.” Peace Conference opinion is apparently unanimous that this is @ violation of the Peace Treaty, inasmuch as that document stipu- lated that the flags should be returned to France by Germany, PRICE TWO CENTS. $300 000 JEWEL: ROBBERY MYSTERY AT BILTMORE — WILSON AND THE PREMIERS PLAN FINAL ACT FOR PEACE Herman Mueller, New Foreign Minister, as Head of New Peace Delegation—Wilson to Start Back as Soon as Pact Is PARIS, June 24.—The German delegation which will sign the Peace Treaty will arrive at Versailles on Friday morning, the French Foreign Office has been informed. It is thought probable ae sees Cee ee ee ee Tis tntcitiaton fapsdinig te Ween et gilth ot the "Catehen Gite gatlon was made known to Premier Clemenceau, Lloyd George am! President Wilson while they were at Versailles this afternoon lookin;: over the arrangements for the signature of the treaty. | The Treaty Will be signed in the historic Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, in the palace where von Moltke and von Bismarck, with typical Prussian boorishness, ravished France of two of her fairest provinces. Immediately following the actually signing of tne treaty, President Wilson, accompanied by several hundred members of the American Peace Delegatién and American experts, will board special trains for Brest, where the liner George Washington is waiting, with steam up, to rust the American Chief Executive to New York. Mr. Wilson will go im- mediately to Washington, to begin his fight to force through the Senate speedy ratification of the treaty and the League of Nations Covenant. VERSAILLES, June 24 (United Press)—Herman Mueller, new German Foreign Minister, has been appointed President of the Germat: Peace Delegation, it was officially announced “this afternoon, said he would probably sign the treaty alone, but would be accompanies! to Versailles by a delegation of twenty, WEIMAR, Monday, June 22 (Associated Press).—Dr. Haniel vou Hainthausen, who was on Sunday designated as the German representa- ‘ve to sign the Treaty of Peace, has telegraphed his resignation from Versailles rather than attach his name to the instrument, PARIS GOES WILD WITH JOY OVER SURRENDER OF GERMANS Scenes Like These Attending the Signing of the Armistice Are Re-enacted at the It was Capital. PARIS, June 23 (Assoc'ated Press).—Long months of strain dur- ing the peace negotiations and weeks of doubt whether Germany would accept the conditions offered or would invite by her refusal of them a fur- ther invasion of her country ended late yesterday afternoon when a note announcing Germany's unconditio! acoeptace was delivered to the Su- preme Council of the Conference, The announcement during the early morning of the Council's decision to refuse a further extension of time ir which Germany might answer in. augurated a day of extreme tension It was generally known to the oublie and conference diplomats that only 4a few hours separated them from the portentous decision, The first light came in @ press despatch from Wei- mar about noon, stating that Ger- many had decided to yield, but noth- ing was heard from Versailles until shortly after 3 o'clock P. M. A tele. phone message from. Versailles then announced the arrival of the German reply, which it was known to a tew of the initiated was favorable, ‘The first definite anno wea conde to Amorionn, r