The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1919, Page 1

eH BILL FOR P WiTh DRASTIC I LIKE THAT OF “DRYS" Measure center Both Wartime and Constitutional Phases of Law. STRICT ENFORCEMENT. Any Drink With Over One- Half of One Per Cent. “In- toxicating Liquor.” WASHINGTON, June 25.—Drastic legislation for the strict enforcement -a@#t Both wartime and constitutional prohibition was completed by the House Judiciary Committee to-day. With only slight modifications, the bill Chainnan ‘Volstead submitted to ‘the House is the same as that pro- posed by the ultra “drys.” An ap- propriation of $3,600,000 is provided to carry out the act. ¢ The main provisions of the bill are: Any beverage containing more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol is “intoxicating liquot When the war time prohibition act or constitutional prohibition goes into effect, it shall be unlawful to “manu- facture, sell, barter, give away, trans- port, import, export, deliver, furnish, receive or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act.” The only exceptions are for medicinal, scientific or sacramental purposes, or where liquor is stored in private homes before prohibition goes into effect, for private use. Punishments for violations are as follows: A fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for the first offense and a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 with imprisonment from 30 to 90 days for the second offense. A fine of not less than $500 apd imprisonment from six months to two years is provide@ for the sub- sequent offenses. In addition, courts , may require bonds as security that violators wi not egain break the law for one year. Enforcement of the Prohibition Law is lodged with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Depart- ment of Justice. Patent and proprietary medicine “manufacturers must prove to the commissioner that their products can- not be used in place of intoxicating Uquor. Liquor may be prescribed for Medicinal purposes only by reputable physicians, and not more than one prescription shall be given every ten days, Pharmacists filling these pre- periptions must be licensed. Permits must be obtained to man- facture Hquor for legal purposes, bond being required, Transportation permits are also required, both being furnished by the Prohibition Com- missioner, Records of all trans- portation must be submitted. All liquor must be clearly labelled as such when sold for legal purposes, Ten days after the passage of the act all liquor illegally held must have Deen disposed of, or it shall be con- (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) pe Ata \ SHB WORLD TRAVET RURPAU, Ateade, Pulitser (World) Butlding 63-63 Park Row, N.Y. City Telephone Berkman 4000 room for bagenge and parcels open day and Money erdere and travellers’ checks for | oe nse ROHIBITION REGULATIONS [RAGE TR TRAGK BETTING IN MARYLAND ILLEGAL Court of Appeals Decision Applies to the Tracks at Bowie and Upper Marlboro. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 2%5.—The law permitting racetrack betting in Prince Georges County; Maryland, ts unconst!- | tutdonat, decording to @ decision of the Court of Appeals rendered to-day. ‘The law applies.to the tracks at Bowie: and Upper Marlboro. BROKER PLEADS GUILTY TO GRAND LARCENY First to Admit Wrong Doings in Connection With Fake, Oil Investment. James I. Cramer, thirty-three, re- cently a guest at the Hotel Pennsyiva- nla, pleaded guilty to-day before Judge Wadhams in the Court of General Ses- sions to an indictment charging him with grand larceny in the second de- gree, He will be sentenced next Wed- nesday. Cramer {s the first of the so-called “brokers to plead guilty in the round- up of promoters of fake oil companies, ‘The principal complainant against him| was Mrs, Ada Newburger, No. 66 East! 834 Street, who said that, introduced to| the broker on May 14 at the Hotel! McAlpin, she gave him $200 for the pu chase of stock in an oil company he claimed to represent. Investigation} failed to reveal such a company. | Complaints against H. C, Loup | Co., Assistant District Attorney Dooling said to-day, will be placed before the} Grand Jury to-morrow. —>—_—_. $63,000 LOST BY FIRE IN SMASH OF AIRPLANES House Asks Inquiry of Money !ost by Harriman Bank of » New York. WASHINGTON, June 25.—Investiga- tlon as to whether letters of the Harri- man National Bank of New York, said to contain $63,000 in drafts and checks, were destroyed when the Chicago mail plane burned near Cleveland May 24, was asked in a House resolution to-day. ‘The Postmaster General is asked whether the letters were transferred to the airplane mail without the consent of the senfer, and whether the “De- partment has refused or neglected to inform the bank of the facts in regard thereto.” ae Philadet, Atlantic City Alr L Opened. | PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The | first “air line express” between Ph | delphia and Atlantic City was in- augurated to-day when a flying boat left here carrying one passenger, J. 8. Clark, local realty man, purchased | 71st Street and Park Avenue, imme- DOUGLAS NS TE GROWS HELD UP BY THREE DAYLIGHT BANDITS lbiaelbciade Three Suspects Caught After Attack in Fashionable Sec- tion of Park Avenue. ONE HAD A REVOLVER. Gopher Gang Again Terroriz- ing West Side Says For- mer Sheriff. A bold attempt at hold-up with a revolver in the best resident quarter of New York on a street where many people were moving @nd less than hale a plock away trom two po'ice officers bedame-publig to-day when. former State Senator Theodore Dous- las Robinson, a nephew of the late Col. Roosevelt, appeared in Yorkv::le Police Court as complainant against three young men accused of highway | robbery, The prisoners were Harold Vogel, seventeen, of No, 429 East 82d Street; Arthur Plum, twenty-three, of No. 514 East 8st Street, and Edward Hene-| bry, eighteen, of No. 517 East 18st| Street. Plum and Henebry were captured running away from in front of No. 750 Park Avenue, where Mr. Robin- son was stopped. Vogel, it is charged, pushed a revolver against his body and threatened to shoot him If he did not hand over his money and jewelry Passersby who saw the hold-up yelled an alarm and Police Lieuts, Frank Brady and Patrick McCarthy, | who were standing at the corner of diately ran toward the group. three hold-up men sepa: of them got away. A large crowd gathered and Lieut. Brady, mingling with it, was attract- ed by a youth who was breathing |heavily us if from the stress of run- ning. The policeman put his hand Yover the youth's heart and found tt throbbing. He arrested the panting curiosity seeker and found a loaded revolver in his pocket, Then he took his prisoner, who. proved to be Vogel, before Mr, Robinson, The identifi- cation was immediate, ‘The Gopher Gang has been revived on the west side, according to ex- Sheriff Max Grifenhagen, who was held up and robbed yesterday in Tenth Avenue near 82d Street while he was on his way from his bottling business at No, 249 Tenth Avenue to @ branch in West 34h Street. Mr. Grifephagen says the gang numbers between fifty and seventy-five young men between sixteen and twenty-five years old, and that the whole Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen section has been terrorized for weeks. “I am told it 1s not uncommon for these young gangsters to jump on a policeman and beat him’ up,” he said, “What we need is a strong | arm squad with a roving commis- | sion. “If the police can't help us it will be necessary for the merchants in | this part of town to apply for per- | mits to carry revolvers and take The ted and one the first ticke $1,000,000 Raixe in Wager, | ‘The International Paper Company, No. |30 Broad Street, and representatives of the unions employed in the thirty-two mills of the company in various States, met this afternoon to sign a new wage agreement, It was announced that the compay woukt grant increases aggre- gating $1,000,000 a year. Soha i View the City From, the World Restaurant, gait fis, with PF tried potatoe b green \see to protect themselves.” el 'FIGHT WILSON’S RAIL POWER, Hines Prew Director General Oppes Rate Fixing by WASHINGTON, June ming bill to deprive Bines and Charles President of the Associati Utilities Commissione Interst. 7 ‘Commerce Commitee serious Forelgn mar | complications in rate making if the bill were passed in its present form, | deposit box, and removed | tents of one of the two packages e) been searched over for thom" NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY JUNE 25, IN $279,000 JEWEL THEFT IN BILTMORE caliieliats Six Men Constantly Guarded Vault That Held Mill- hiser Gems. STOLEN GOODS LISTED. Pearl Necklace Worth $170,- 000 Chief Part of Jewelry Lost by Widow. Only two theories are advanced to-day to account for the loss of $275,000 worth of jewels which Mrs. Regina Millhiser of Richmond, Va., says she deposited in the Biltmore Hotel vault on May 20 and missed when she opened tho box on June 13. The favorite theory of the detéec- tives—although it depends updén @ fantastic conception—is that som body obtained Mrs, Millhiser's key, impersonated her successfully, al- though sho is well known’ to the) — hotel office force, opened the safety the ‘con- she had placed there. Tho other,theory is that the jewels were stolen from Mrs. Millhiser’ room in the hotel before the pack- ages were deposited--that when she deposited the packages the contents were not what she believed, But it was learned this morning that Mrs, Millhiser on gpening the box on June 13 at once saw that one of the packages had been tampered with and at once complained at the office, ‘The list of jewels was made public to-day, There were five pieces. The most important was a pearl necklace valued at $170,000, In addition there were two exceptionally fine diamond rings, a diamond and ruby brooci and a brooch set with diamonds and sapphires, It was reported that two arrests had been made in connection with the case, but this could not be con- firmed, About 100 detectives and many lawyers are working night and day on the case, which has features some of the oldest thief chasers admit have completely baffled them. It is the biggest jewel robbery since those of Mrs, Charles Cary Rumsey, daughter of Mra, E. df, Harriman, were stolen at Narragansett Pier in July, 1913, In the Millhiser robbery, besides the city detectives, there are men from two private agencies, private detectives from hotels and represen- taties of insurance companies hard at work. Suspected fences have been searched, pawnbrokers qui tioned and the underworld has been raked for some person willing to give the #euths some lead to follow. Six men are constantly on duty ‘n the office, including an armed watch- man, There is another armed watch- man at the main door of the hotel ali night. The box had not been tam- pered with. After having repeatedly referred re- porters to her attorneys, Stanchfeld & Levy, Mrs, Millhiser gave out a statemen\ last night at her summer place, No, ‘1 Jerome Avenue, Deal, N. J. She ridiculed one statement appearing 1 print which represented “At for a Rajah” an ther that the “world had before (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) If you can save money you ‘cal Invest while you save, AmK for particulars of ment jada Mass @ Cee Oh Bway—aave, |EX-KAISER GETS SHOCK IN NEWS THAT WEIMAR AGREED T0 GIVE HIM UP Members of His Party at Amer- | ongen Criticise National As- sembly for Yielding, (Assoriated Prem.) AMBPRONGBN, June 24, EWS of Germany's decision to accept the peace terms, including the clause pro- viding for the delivery of the former German Emperor to the Allies, reached the castle late yesterday evening. Exactly how ‘the former Emperor was affocted by the tidings cannot be ascer- tained, but the attitude of mem- ‘ders of his party gives rise to tho belief that the nows was a con- siderable shock. When the’ Associated Press correspondent talked with at- te <dants ‘they suid the news was salready. knewn, at, ¢ho castle. They made ‘the most scathini¢ griticisms ofthe Gefman Nu- tlonal Assembly for its action, Evidently they Wad, held to tho hope that some way would bo found for the former Emperor to returh to Germany, Now it ap- parently is realized that he ia exiled forever from his country. The former monarch. resumed his customary log-sawing at the BABY BORN ON TRANSPORT Trust Fund Raised for Marcella Smith, Daughter of Soldier and War Bride, On the transport Santa Teresa, which arrived to-day from St. Nazaire with 2,919 troops, was a passenger who had No passport and didn't need one, Sho was Marcella Teresa Smith, daughter of Trooper Wrederick EB. Smith of the 16th Cavalry, and was born a little more than six hours after the trans- port left the French port. ‘Trooper Smith was also on the ship. ‘The child was christened with much ceremony by Father William P, Me- Kenna, an army chaplain John Flynn, a K. of C. secretary was god father and Mrs, Julia Miller, another war bride, godmother. Last night Capt. F. 8. McMurray, master of the ship, gave a dinner in honor of the new enger and a purse of $251.36 w. raised, which was made the founda- tion of a trust, with the officers of the ship as trustees, until Marcella is eighteen. Smith met his wife in La Rochelle, where he wi quartered for eight months, Forty-six La Rochelle girls married men of the 15th. According to ¥. W. C. A. girls who arrived on the Santa Ter » 12,000 wives of sol- diers are in France awaiting trana- portation to this country The Regina d'Italia, from Marseilles, also is due. She has 1,730 troops aboard. NEW PLEA FOR IRELAND Letter From De Valera to Clemen- ceau Says Irishmen in Paris Can Act as Delegates. PARIS, June 25.—A supplemental memorandum regarding — Ireland |claim to recogpition by the Pea |Conference was presented | Premier Clemeneenu, along with « le ter from Edward de Valera, Griffith and Count Plunkett In forwarding the me |Sean O'Ceallaigh and George Gavan |Durty, the Irish delegates here, sug- Bested that they, being now in Paris, were ready to act as Ireland's repre- sentatives if the Peace lwere unable to grant safe conduct tu |the delegation previously named. | eae el ELI-ANS BEFORE MEALS fine Good Digestion makes ‘andum, TAKE and see yeu teal: IS HERE WITH 2,919 TROOPS, BOES TO PEACE COUNCIL 1919 GERMAN PER \Feeling Among the Military ‘GALLS THE TREATY SCRAP OF PAPER: Leaders Running High—Erz- berger in Disfavor. FOOD RIOTS IN BERLIN. Tear Bombs and Fire Hose Used in Dispersing a Mob in Hamburg. BERLIN, Juhe % (United Press).— The Berlin Vorwaerts, Majority $o- | clalist organ, describes the peace | less," | leaders by the treaty as “g serap of paper.” “Extortionat’ pressure renders sig- | nature of the peace treaty worth- * said the Vorwaerta. never forget it is only a scrap of paper, can “We must | Treaties based on violence! validity only so long | Do not lose hope, | as force exists. The resurre The ion day comes.” Preussische Krouz Zeitung, in an editorial headed “Finis Ger- maniae,” declared that “it is our duty not to permit the Prussian | spirit to be crushed,” Several minor food riots occurred | in Berlin yesterday and last night, and It was feared they might grow i» seope and violence to-day, A strike involving postal,’ tel pn | ond telephone employees seemed c tain, Hamburg has been declared in a} state of sioge as the result of a sh | between Communists and police, | was reported to-day Port workers are on strike there be- | cause the police attempted to hurry the unloading of food ships by doing | some of the work themselves. Tear bombs and fire hoxe were em- ployed in dispersing the rioters, The Governor of West Prussia has | announced his resignation, BERLIN, Tuesday, June % (Aaso- clated Press).-Long accounts written for the Berlin papers by correspon- dents at Weimar telling of events preceding the decision of the German Government to sign the treaty of peace show that there was a threat by generals and officers of the volun- | teer troops to quit if the treaty was! signed without reservations, | Gustav Noske, Minister of Defense, proffered his resignation but succeeded in apy He under pressure from Cabinet Ministers, Feeling among military leaders ts| still running high, notwithstanding | the fact that they are admonishing| the troops to continue in the service. | Major Gen, Baron von Luettwig, in a) pecial call, reiterates his opposition! to the peace terins, while Major von | Gilaa, Herr Noske's adjutant, has an- | nounced that Prussian War Minister | Reinhart “will endeavor to defend the menaced honor of the army and its adoption of special measures.” He will confer with Herr later | sing the officers. | then withdrew his resignation his party and| to-day to| unanimous Arthur | been damaged because of his myste- | materialize Conference | | | Noske to-day. Correspondents at W In the belief of Mathias nar are that the prestige Ermberger hi rious but emphatic assurances that the Entente would be willing to yield on the honor issue, which failed to Herr Erzberger's pos tion is a subject of much speculation, and it is believed that ag soon as the peace crisis is passed he faces a rather trying period _ SISTENT THIRST, GERMANS AT VERSAILLES | Sent to the German Government, according to the Paris office of Reu' | Limited. The ultimatum will demand the appointment of pI | Bingen, as reprisal for the sinking of| received no news except the fact that (REJECTS PLAN TO NAME | moat, R34 To DROP MAIL BAG. | | Wite and Deiighias of Pres her - tune, | quexcurs pen go over here sai wager ditions ects ts 0 whalenome ‘end wale de, southerly course.” GET NO WORD ABOUT COMING OF THE NEW DELEGATION Von Haniel Tells Big Three HisOnly News Is That the Weimar Gév- ernment Last Night Left Weiihidk | for Berlin — Can’t Sign Befc Saturday. PARIS, June 25 (Associated Press).—If the heads of the ails Powers in Paris do not hear from Weimar very soon regarding thé k man delegatjon for the signing of the peace treaty an ultimatum will ® : tiaries within a certain number of hours, [United Press despatches from Versailles yesterday sal Foreign Minister Mueller had been appointed to head the German delegation, but did not disclose the personnel of the remain of the commission.] Up to 4.45 o'clock this afternoon no official word had been received | here regarding Germany's plans with regard to the formal signing of the peace treaty. The Peace Conference leaders were undisgui@dly per plexed over the situation, ; FRENCH REPRISAL FOR SINKING OF SHIPS: ) Resolution Ordering Destruction of | Victory Monument Introduced in Chamber, It was con to be impos sible that the ceremony of sign+ in@ could take place before Sat+! urday. Unofficial reports were that it would probably be dé until Monday. Paul Dutasta, the General Sovrg- | tary of the Peace Conference, wept 4 to Versailies this afternoon un tho instructions of the Copneil PARIS, June 25 (United Pre Taree to see it Herr Bailie, resolution was introduced in the Cham-|Helmhausen, representing (h¥ ber of Deputies to-day authorizing de-;™MAns there, had any infor struction of the German 1870 vietory | his Government's intentions. monument on Niederwald bill, opposite | German representative gaid he > i | The the German fleet in Scapa Flow and| burning of French battle flags in Berlin. | Weimer far nore ma nee tee Cardinal Amette, Archbishop Paris, to-day ordered a te ceum to sung on Friday in the Chureh of Sacred Heart at Montmartre and |Sunday in all the chureh PERSHING GENERAL FOR LIFE =," ny ers fcr peace be continued until Senate Arindmint ls Is Lost When |¢rs, with which France was at war,’ Bingen aon tho Rhine, fifteen miles west of Mayen treaties are concluded with the was announced to-day King Makes Point of | President Poincare'’s official 4g Order. |to the peace plenipotentiaries ty WASHINGTON, June 25.—The Sen- | take place on Thuraday night. It : ate to-day Is expected to pass the |orlginally planned to hold the dl | $888,000,000 Army bill, clearing the|on the night of the signing of 4 way for the Naval bill treaty, but the uncertainty as to tee At @ session lasting until after mid- night the Senate rejected an amend- ment to give Gen. Pershing the rank of full general for life, when Senator King made a point of order, date of the ceremony has cat Thursday to be named definitely the dinner irrespective of the time the event at Veranili Senator McKellar urged that — ee 7 War Department make more vigorous | =H 000 WILL WITNESS ... - 39 forts to put on the market vast Va stores of meat which are no wevtd 4 : CEREMONY OF Sié THE PEAGE needed for the army Senator Wadsworth declared the de- partment Is trying to dispose of the | ~~ Wilson and 300 Newspape | Correspondents Among Guests, The Air| PARIS, June 25 (Associated P Council of t Admiralty has|—Notable among tho persdné wi Instructed the captain of the dirigible| will attend the ceremony of R-34 to pass over Novia Scotia, poss!.| signing of the treaty with Ge bly at Halifax, his transatlantic | wiil be five Senatora who Might and drop @ bag of letters, pated in the campaign of 1870, ne eable states the big airship in| proposed flight from East For-|'? Clemenceau announced tm Scotland, to Mineola, N. Ya wili| Senate that these men will jaw “provided weather con-|ored with places in the Hall of do not necessitate @ more} rors in the Chatean at Versail Petain, accompanied to Bring Letters to HALIFA on