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™™, P RICE TWO CENT Povrrighe Apt, eet wenden FIN; EDITION NEW' YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919. WITH ORDER FOR ARREST OF MILLIONAIRE BREWERS U. S. Attorney Files Informa- tion Against Big Pittsburgh Concern. ; fOURT'ACTS PROMPTLY. mecific ‘Charge ls That Prod- uct Sold Was 2.43 Per Cent: Alcoliolic. PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 9%—The Government's drive against the sale Of Deer containing 23-4 per cegt, | @léohol waa launched here to-day | when the United States Attorney, TR. L. Crawford, filed a suit against thet Pittsburgh Brewing Company, ene of the city’s largest breweries, ‘in the United States District Court, charging violation of the war-time) j@robibition Law. i of Eleven officials the company named in the information. * Pmmediately following filing of the sult United States Judge W. H. 8. ‘Thompson, on pleas of the Federal Attorney, issued a writ upon the company to appear in court. Simul- taneously he issued bench warrants for the arrest of the eleven officers of the company named in the suit. ‘The warrants were placed in the hands of United States Marshal @hort, who'started out to round up the officials. ‘The individuals named in the suit, some of whom are millionaires. were: ©. H. Ridall, E J. Vilsack, W. R. Heckman, A. P. Behrenberg, E. M. Straub, A. H. Sunstein, L. P. Mona- ban, A. A. Frauenheim, E. W. Gwin- ner, Alois Winter and George A. Dick- son, The suit was filed on information furnished by R. 8. Spencer, special agent for the Department of Justice. ‘km affidavit specifically charged that peer eold by the company contained ty weight 1.94 per cent. alcohol and ty volume 2.43 per cent, Arrest of all saloonkeepers and ethér persons selling Mquor contain- “fmm. more than one-half of one per capt alcohol in tho Pittsburgh dis- triet was ordered by Attorney Craw- ford this afternoon, Fight on Enforcement Bill to Be Re- pamed To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, July ¥—The House téeday defeated, 26 to 8, a motion by Representative Dyer, Republican, Mls- sour, to dispense with calendar Wednes: @ay for the purpose of resuming con- sgideration of the Prohibition Enforce ment Bill. Under agreement, the bill wil be taken up again ow ‘The Jones-Sheppard Prohibition En- forcement Bill probably will be reported | to the Senate Judiciary Committee this | Week by @ sub-committee, members an ) nounced. Pleads Not Guilty in Beer Tent Cane. BOSTON, July 9.—Leopold H. Vogel, r salonkeeper, to-day pleaded not guilty in the Federal Court to a charge of Hing beer in violation of the wartime iprobibition act, in what is regard Jthe test case on the isnue in this State. lVogel was ullowed u week to change his Ni plea or to file a demurrer das tial igh ER MINK, to taste, both and see how fii ) eR Saito teule—adr, you feclemadvt, (MUST FREE OR RECONQUER IRELAND, SAYS LONDON POST “Hour 1s Fast-Approaching,” Paper Says in-Warning Edi- torial. LONDON, July %-—-Commenting on the Government proclamation pro- hibiting Sinn Feip activity in Tipper- ary, the Morning Post aaid to-day! “We have always anticipated that the Government woul@ faced with the choice of giving I land complete independence or conquering the country. The hour is, fast approaching.” Atte “Goad Irish Into ection.” PARIS, July 9.—The British Govern- ment proclamation against Sinn Fein organizations in Tipperary County is an attempt to goad the Irish people into indurrection, “in order they may be ex- terminated by the British Army of Occu- pation,"Saccording to J, A. Murphy, who has succeeded Frank’ P. Walsh and Ed- ward F. Dunne on the Irish-American Gelegation. BILL TO BAR PRESIDENTS FROM GOING ABROAD Campbell Measure Also Would Pro- hibit Peformance of Duties Outside of Capital. WASHINGTON, July %—A Dill in- troduced in the House to-day by Repre- sentative Campbell of Kansas provides: “Thatgfrom and after the passage of this act’ it, shall be unlawful for the President of the United States, during the term of his office, to absent himself from the territorial Jurisdiction of the United States or to perform the duties of his office at any other place than at the seat of government established by eventually be) jdicated strongly, it was said that the | MRS. ARTHUR ELIOT, CASE, FOUND SHOT Sitaitieen’ Former Mrs. Atherton Victim of Bullet-—Believed to Be a Suicide. WAS A NOTED BEAUTY. Figured in Sensational Epi- sodes, One With a Young Duke. LONDON, July 9%—Mrs. Arthur Eliot, who early this year became the wife of the dramatist, Capt: Arthur Eliot, grandson of the Earl of St. Gerindns, but who was more widely | known as the divorced wife of Col. | Thomas Atherton of Boer War fame, | was found shot this morning in her London home. Evidence gathered by the police in- case wns one of suicide. About mid- night a shot was heard, A maid went} to Mrs. Eliot's room and found the! door locked and barricaded with fur-| niture. An entrance was forced and the body of Mrs. Eliot was found with part af the head blown away. A discharged shotgun was beside the body. Mrs, Arthur Eliot, who probably forty-eight years old, was Mal Louise Dean-Paul, third daughter of | Sir Edwards Dean-Paul. She first} attracted notice at Cape Town, South Africa, during the Boer War. While Col, Thomas Atherton, then her hus- band, was at the front fighting Boers, his home, according to all ac- counts, was a place of revelry. The beautiful Mabel Louise, then in her Inte twenties, was the magnet that drew many of the brave young jscions of the nobility—with a weak« ness for her sort—who went to South Africa. There was, first of all, a wealthy the act for establishment of the tem- porary and, permanent seat of govern- ment of the United States, aproved July 16, 1790, to which this act is an amend- ment.” deaiilhiclecepbiil PLAN NATIONAL LABOR PARTY DENVIOR, July 9. co-operate with the three other railroad brotherhoods for the creation of a Na- tional Labor Party was adopted at to- ‘A resolution to day's weesioh of the annual convention of the Brotherh@eds of Locomotive Fire- men and Enéineren.. (The reaolution was included ih the re- port of the Protective Committee, which was adopted. Action was taken in ex- ecutive seasion and the announcement given out simply sald the resolution was adopted after “some discussion,” eassieii wte weet Baker Discontinges All Work on Avtation Fleldm WASHINGTON, July 9.—Seeretary |Baker to-day ordered all construction work and purchase of real estate for aviation fields and balloon fields or aviation schools (0 be discontinued im. mediately HONOLULU, . [United States army transport Dix, which lest a propeller enroute from Manila to {San Francisco, ‘by the submarine tender Beaver, a wire- less message to-day stated. The Dix llost a prope miles from Honolulu. TAKK BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS hd Good Digestion makes has been taken in tow | young Duke, barely twenty-one, who lost his head completely. The story goes that the lovely girl tick home to whom he was betrothed went finally to the then Prince of Wales, who saw to it that the Duke was called back to England and who there ¢alked to him like a father to @ son. Next in order came Capt. John Reginald Yarde-Buller, the present Baron Churston. Before the affair with Yarde-Buller was half way over the affairs of the Atherton family had become the jest of the army and a subject of gossip in court circles. In 1907 Col, Atherton divorced his wife, naming Yarde-Buller as co respondent, Mrs, Atherton soon afterwards sued the latter for $100,- 000, alleging breach of promise. Described athe most fascinating of disturbing elements in English so- ciety,” Mrs, Atherton had another worrisome time in court when John Alexander Stirling, the Laird of Hip pendavie, sued hix wife, formerly | Clara Taylor, an Am n actress. | Stirling named Lord Northland and won his suit. Mrs. Stirling filed a cross suit In which the name of Mrs [Atherton appeared | Again in a few years the divorced, arts Atherton was buck in court us the plaintiff in a suit for slander, She |charged that the wife of her brother, |Siv Aub Edwards Dean-Paul, Burt., {had circulated a t that Mx, Atherton had bs to leave the | Hotel Savoy at C ypt, t of her “conduc Lady Paul denied having said so, The pd incident wai described ax having taken place in. 1909 or 1910, Mrs. Atherton pro- {duced a letter from the hotel man- agement in 1911 offering to make pecial terms” for her. The jury| hs We her @ verdict of ous _ Beautiful English Divorice, Found Shot, Believed.a Suicide OF FAMED DIVORCE) === este Si ol ARS , ARTHUR ELIOT R34 10 START AT 4.30 A M. OVER CITY HALF HOUR LATER Powerful weeeen Search- ‘Navy SCORNS DRY LAW (Continued on Beoond Page. Auk for particulars of aya Joba lights to Illumine Big Dir- AND BUYS 20 GALLONS igible Until Sunrise. OF RUM ‘FOR R- A-34 CREW The British dirigible R-34, accord ing to an official announcement | Gets It in New York, ‘T York, Too—British made at Roosevelt Field this after Officer Suggests President Had noon, will start on the return trip to to O. K. Order. England at 4,30 o'clock to-morrow HE wartime prohibition has morning, an hour before sunrise and not prevented the United in practical darkness, The sun rises | States Navy Department . 4 orning| {fom obtaining rum, which is part Wb AAD Cakpols. Lo-MOrrew \MOFRIAE) oT asticial' ration of the crew by sun time, but our clocks are an] OF the British. dirigible. M34 hour ahead of sun time and the start| ‘Twenty gallons of the llquor will be made according to the clock| reached here to-day, and it is aud: Hal ieeaaidlie to:ihe aut | being stowed aboard the airship. It will take about half an hour for| Navy officials said it came from the big airship to reach Manhatian| # New York dealer. for a circle over the city before put ‘{ dare say,” said Major J. 1 ting out to wea. To give the people! M; Pritchard, of the British Air : Ministry who expressed bis pleas of New. York a chance to wee the) vee tnat the dirigible would not | first lighter than alr machine to cross sail rumiess, “th judging from the Atlantic Ocean seurchlight beam the extent of th fuss made over will render it visible as long as dark this problem, the Navy Department ness prevails. must have had to get the Presi Should the morning be cloudy, ax! Sent'y signature.” the weather forecast indicates, the —_ searchlight will be necessary for visi Hogs 822.40 bility, for the stay of the R-34 over CHICAGO, July old here New York will be short, to-day at $22.80 per 100 pounds, a new Major Scott, in command, said that | bleh record. he would head directly westward apa from Roosevelt Field. Ho expects to seu tan tree, walle Fe save, | }for any sort of opposition SENATORS CALLED BACK TD CAPITAL FORLEAGUE FIGHT Wilson Confers With Advo- cates of the Covenant Adopted at Versailles, PLANS TO TOUR U. S. Unusual Demand for Tickets of Admission to the Senate To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, July 9.—President Wilaon, back in the White House af- ter an absence of four months, to-day assumed leadership iw the fight for ratification of the Peace Treaty and the adoption of the League’ of Na- tions. Advocates of the League were prepared to support his efforts to thgir fullest extent, while its oppo- nents were no less determined to keep up the struggle against it. As an indication of the intensity of the fight, every member in thé Sen- ate to-day received telegraphed or- be here Thursday, prepared to stay on the job until the treaty has been ratified or rejected. With few exceptions, Sen: tors will be here, and those who a: absent wil! have suitable pairs ar- ranged so that their absence will not affect the result of any test vote on the treaty or the League covenant. Demand for the admission tickets to the Senate to-morrow was sald to day to be extraordinary. The Senate galleries seat only about half the number of those of the House, where the President addresses joint sessions. President Wilson will start his tour of the United States cam- paigning for the League of Na tions in about two weeks, it w: announced at the White How to-day. The trip will include a visit to the Pacific Coast, where he expects to review the newly formed Pacific fleet, according to present plans. Administration Senators hoped to arrange conferences to-day at the White House with President Wilson to report to him before he delivers his speech the exact situation as It appears to them. URGE THE PRESIDENT TO HIT FROM THE SHOULDER. League advocates sald to-day they will urge the President to. hit right from the shoulder in his- speeches to ders trom party leaders to the Senate and the county, Although the Senate speech is prepared, the President's ability to extemporize would enable him to change it if the nformation Democrats hoped to give him to-day warranted a digression they said. Anti-Leaguers were making a care ful canvass of Senators to learn what amendments they will propose to the treaty or League ecvenant, work out a concerted so as to n of support The 24 PAGES — ate will convene at noon Thurasd just fifteen minutes before President Wilson's Preparations have been made to handle a record breaking crowd at the Capito President Wilson was represented as belog ready to place himself at the (Continued on Second Page.) ACING ESULTS, Page 2 ENTRIES, Page 16 FIGHT FOR LEAGUE IS OPENED BY WILSON | 'U, S. STARTS COURT FIGHT ON BEE BITION DRNE OPENS —— PRICE TWO CENTS WEIMAR ASSEMBLY VOTES. 208 10.115 10 APROVE. TREATY. AND PROTOS Ratification: Becomes Effective as Soon as It Is Signed by President Ebert—Blockade to Be Lifted by the Allies at Once. WEIMAR, July 9 (via Coblemz) (Associated reschtion vliiyig the Ponsa’ Tasty wad sheptal br the | National Assembly today by a vote of 208 t TIS. PARIS, Suly-9 (Associated Press) —The German’ Natimat Assefibly in Weimar has. passed the,tegolution ratifying the peacé, treaty, according to advices received here to-day. Following is the text Of the resolution: “The Peace Treaty signed on June 28, 1919, as well as the protacol annexed and special agreements on military occupation of the Rhineland, are hereby ratified. This law becomes effective from the date of its pro- mulgation.” ‘ The National Assembly by ratifying the treaty makes it possible for the Allied and associated powers to raise the blockade. _ nn Official notification was sent Ger- STEPS ARE TAKE TOPREVENT FLIGHT OF FORMER KAISER Bonar Law Makes Announce- ment in Commons—Prince Pleads With King George. LONDON, July 9.—-Steps have been many on June 2 that the blockade would be raised when the treaty was ratified. Placing this condition on the raising of the blockade was looked up- on in Peace Conference circles as a sure plan for securing speedy yatifioa- tton by Germany, ‘The Council of Five on Monday @e- cided to lift the commercial censor- ship on communications with Ger- many simultaneously with the re- moval of the blockade, The Peace Treaty does not become effective for all the signatory Powers until three of the great allied Powers in addition to Germany have ratified it, Promuigation of the resolution rati- fying the Treaty is dependent upon the signing of the resolution by Pres. taken to prevent the escape of the! ident Ebert. former Kaiser, Andrew Bonar Law declared in the House o! to-day. WASHINGTON, July 9 Davis, American Ambassador to Great Britain, !# understood to have been selected as the American repre- sentative on the Permanent Court of International Justice, which is to be formulated by the council of the League of Nations. BERLIN, July %—Prince Henry, brother of the former Kaiser, has telegraphed King George begging, “in the name of justi that Britain desist in her preparations for the extradition of the ex-Emperor Prince Henry says he knows Wil- helm endeavored to avert war, and refers to a conversation he (Prince Henry) had with King George on July 7, 1914, 4 oe View the Clty THe WORLD RESTAURANT, Hpecial for To-day, Wednesday, July 9, Veul cutlet a 4,'with tomato mauoe .46 Roast adian mutton @ la Brett 5 Table d'hote. $ FF OWORLD TRAVEL BURRADO, Arcade, Pulltzer (World) Building. 63-43 Park Row, N.Y, chy. Telephone Beekman 4000, | Check room for baggage and parvels open day and night, Money Orders and \eveliers’ checks for John W.{ after Temata ‘When three of the principal Allied ¢ Commons | P°Wers, in addition to Germany, have ratified the treaty it becomes effect- ive for those who have ratified ft. Germany and three Allied powers have ratified it, the treaty will come into force for each other power on the day when it notifies the Peace Conference Secretariat of {ts ratitication, JOHN SKELTON WILLIN WILLIAMS, “WILDCAT OF TREASURY” Comptroller of Currency Thus De- scribed to Senate Banking Committee. WASHINGTON, July 9.—Vigotous opposition to ‘the confirmation of John Skelton Williams as Comptroller of Currency wi expressed before the te Banking and Currency Com- mittee to-day by Frank J. Hogan, counsel for, the Riggs National Bank of this city, who registered charges by the that they had been sub- ition through the per- sonal malice of Mr. Williams. Mr, Hogan characterized the Comp- troller as the “wildcat of the Treasury”? and asserted that since 1914 the Riggs Bank had been subjected to the “moat perwistent, consistent and malicious Persecution ever banded out to. any financial Ipatinytion by & sworn public . 1H tame