The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1919, Page 1

>> =—=——— PRICE TWO CENTS. Covel hey a 10, by The (The New Press Pu York World). EPUBLICANS BLOCK WILSON PLAN TO NAME MEMBER OF REPARATION COMMISSION Dodge Vote on Request Con- tained in a Letter to Sen- ator Lodge. WOULD NAME BARUCH. Debate in Senate Renewed With a Hot Exchange Over Shantung Question. WASHINGTON, Jaty 21.—In a bt. appointment of an American) the “July 18, 1919. “My Dear Senator: There are some things in connection with the execution of the Treaty of Peace which can hardly await the actian ot the several Governments which must act with regard to the’ rati- Geation of the Treaty, and the chiet of these is the functioning of the Reparation Commission. “It is of so much importance to the business interests of the United States as well as to the mations with which we are asso- ciated that the United States @hould be represented on that commission, and represented now while the work of the commission ts taking shape, that I am taking the liberty of writing to ask if . you will not be kind enough to consult the Committee on For- eign Relations with regard to this particular appointment and say to them that I would very much appreciate their approval of my appointing provisionally a repre- sentative of the United States to act upon the Reparation Commis- sion. Very sincerely yours, “WOODROW WILSON. REPUBLICANS BLOCK A VOTE ON WILSON’S REQUEST. Senator Williams of Mississipp! of- fered a resolution decluring the com- mittee willing to approve such an ap- pointment, but Chairman Lodge and other Republican members opposed it, while Senators Knox and Harding of- fered substitutes that would declare the committee without authority in the matter, None of the proposals came to a vote, It is understood in official circles that (President Wilson intends to ap- point Bernard M. Baruch of New York, as the American representative on the Reparations Commission, During the war Mr, Baruch was Chairman of the War Industries Board, and he aided at Paris in working out the reparations and economic clauses of the treaty The committee will take up the President's :cquest again to-morrow when Senator Fall, under notice given to-day, will move that the doors be opened while the subject is under discussion. The substitute resolution offered by Senator Knox to-day would declare “that is the judgment of the com- mittee that until the treaty is rati- fied no power exists either in the President or in Congress to execute | Montinued on Second Page.) WILSON ORDERED TOBED BY DOCTOR. ENGAGEMENTS OFF President May Be Unable to Resume Talks on League for Several Days. WASHINGTON, July 21.—President ‘Wileon returned to Washington early to-day from a week-end erulse to ‘Hampton Roads and was immediately ordered to bed by his personal physt. clan, Rear-Admiral Cary T. Grayson, ~ |who announced that the President was suffering with dysentery. Admiral Grayson said the President's condition was not serious, but that he Probably would be unable to receive callers before the end of the week. In- gagements which Mr. Wilson had with @ number of Republican Senators +o discuss the Peace ‘Treaty and tne |League of Nations were cancelled. ‘The President had been compiain- ‘ng of feeling badly for several days, and when he started down the Poto- mac Saturday night on the May- flower it was supposed that he was suffering with a slight attack of in- digestion. Senators who were to have called at the White, House to-day were Edge, New Jersey; Norris, Nebraska; Cummins, Iowa, and Calder, New York, Senator Norris refused to discuss the reports that he had refused to go to the White House further than to say that any publication on the sub- ject was unauthorized by him. White House attaches who communicated with his office to announce cancella- tion of appointments were told that the Senator had written a note to the President, Senator Sterling of South Dakota had been invited to the White House to-morrow, and Senators Page of Vermont and McLean of Connecticut on Wednesday. These engagements were postponed, it being the Presi- dent's intention to see the Sexators in the order in which they were in- vited. KAISER FREDERICK'S BIARY WILL BE GIVEN TO WORLD Document Long Suppressed Wilhelm Advocated Alliance With England. by BERLIN, July 21.—Eduard Engel wil! edit Kaiser Frederick's diary, which William Il. snatched from his English mother's hand at his dead father's bed- side to nt its publication. Kaiser Frederick dealt largely tn the diary on his ideas for liberal improve- ment of the German Constitution and friendship, extending even to the point of an alliance with England. at Halle will bubilah the book. — Visita ihe City, trem the WORLD RESTAUIEAN Special! tor oe he sh 1919, Roast fresh with’ mashed Guia? n bral x French fried potatocs o d*hote dinner Sits wlewr “Werle Muliding. Adv, Dickmann | EARLDOM FOR HAIG AND ADMIRAL BEATTY, $500,000 FOR EACH {Handsome Rewards for Work in War Proposed in England— Field Marshal Is Ill. LONDON, July 21. E TIMES reported to-day that earldoms would be conferred on Field Marshal Haig and Admiral Beatty. Par- Mament, according to the news- paper, will be asked to grant 100.000 pounds to each of them. Haig’s condition was improved last night, although he has can- celled his engagements for sev- eral days. He has a slight fever. He collapsed after Saturday's peace parad WOMEN IN PANIC AS SUBWAY CARS JUMP THE TRACK Guard Injured at Brooklyn; Bridge and Express Service | Held Up for Hour. | Southbound express traffic on tne! Fourth Avenue Subway line was tied | up for an hour this afternoon when the last two cars of a seven-car Lex- jumped the the Brooklyn train into ington Avenue track coming Bridge station. Dominic Palazzola, twenty-seven, a guard, who was standing between the two cars that jumped the track, was thrown to the tracks and se- verely bruised, He was removed to the Reception Hospital. Fully « dozen women who were on the derailed cars became hysterical and tried to escape through the win- dows. Guards on the station plat- form rushed into the cars and calmed the women. Almost instantly the power was shut off, leaving the cars| in darkness and adding to the scare of the passengers. According to the injured guard, the train was crossing a switoh to pull into the Brooklyn Bridge station hen the next to last car jumped the track and derailed the last one. The last car reeled to the side and would have turned over but for the} steel ceiling supports of the tunnel, The next to the last car in the train carried away 4 platform support and ground away some of the concrete platform, but only one window was broken in the two cars. Police reserves swarmed down into the station and cleared the platforms while the wrecking crew jacked the cars onto the track, As soon as the accident was re- ported, at 1,56, guards were sta- tloned at the ticket boxes and warned travellers that express traffic was suspended between ere and Brooklyn. BOY SLAYER OF HULL =| TO COME HERE TO-DAY Jersey Governor Honors Requisi- tion Gov. Smith for O’Brien’s EXtradition, (Special to The Brening World.) TRENTON, N. J., July 21,—Gov. Runyon to-day honored a requisition froin Gov, Smith of New York for the extradition to New York City of Edward |. O'Brien, a youth now held in the| | Freehold jail, and jointly indicted with |Indward EB. Paige, another youth, for the murder recently of Gardner C. Hull, a New York stationer. O'Brien will be |taken to New York late to-day. According to aMdavits by Detective Sergt, Willlam T. Reynolds of the New York Homicide Squad, O'Brien con- fessed to him in the Freehold jail his part in the murder, Paige wae arrested io Fi SES i i! YORK, MONDAY, JULY 21, DRYS’ DRASTIC JAIL PENALTY REJECTE Special Washington Guard to Prevent Rio: TRIUMVIRATE SEIZES CONTROL OF HUNGARIAN BELA KUN REPORTED IN FLIGHT New Government isicsai dead to Be More Tyrannical Than De- posed Soviet Minister. ORGANIZING A REVOLT. Anti-Soviet Factions Prepare for Co-operation if Allies. Start Offensive. VIENNA, July 21 (Associated Press).—It was a triumvirate of -adi- cal leaders that replaced Bela Kun at the head of the Budapest Soviet Gov- ernment, according to despatches to Vienna newspapers. ‘The three men composing the new Government are Varga, former Min- ister of Social Protection, Moses Alpary and Tibor Szamuely, The new Government, according to the reports | received here, ordered Habrich, com- mander of the city, known as a “moderate,” to turn over the city to |them. Volunteers for the “terror troops” have beeh called for by their leader, who formerly was Bela Kun's bodyguard, The Governing triumvirate, it Is said, ts convinced the Altes are either too weak or unwilling to inter- vene forcibly Bela Kun’s “Red Army" is declared to be Breaking up. Money is depré- clating in value rapidly and food con- ditions are said to be unbearable. BASLE, July 21.—The Europa Press announced to-day that Bela Kun had fled from Budapest to Vienna. VIENNA, July 21 (United Press). —A Government more tyrannical than thet of Bela Kun exists in Budapest Ssamuely, one of the peo- attempt to shift responsibility for his acts to a coall- tion Government. ey White leaders of Hungary are ‘ganizing thelr army for co-opera- ton on with the Allies in the offensive which it is expected will be launched 5 inat the Soviets. Numerous ex- ers, wearing their war decora- | tons, are arriving in Vienna en route to Szegedin (ninety-six miles south- east of Budapest and headquarters of the counter-revolutionaries). Hungerian secret agents are buy- ing copper money in Vienna, intend- ing to melt it for the manufacture of munitions. a ST. SWITHIN CAUSES DEATH. Fear of Forty Days Rain Leads to Brickiayer’s Suicide. ‘The police of Newark reported to-day thet the St, Swithin tradition under which forty days of continuous rain are to be anticipated, was the cause of the muickie of Isaac Liestein of No. 28 Chartton Street, a bricklayer. He killed himself by hanging. His wife and daughter stated that he had gone into a deep despondency because the rainy weather kept him out of work and yesterday came home and told them he had no hope for the immediate future because a friend bad convinced him it would not be dry enough for construc tion work before the middie of August. mepeernenienentoneensi Disabled Tran t Towed to Boston. BOSTON, July ~The transport Edward Luckenbach, which was dis- abled by engine trouble south of Sable Island last Wednesday, while on her way to Brest, arrived here today in tow of the Coast Guard cutter Ossipee. Ee aren: THR WORLD TRAVEL BUREAG, GOVERNMENT; NEW YORK BOYS, ARMY PRISONERS, CHARGE CRUELTY Say They Were Beaten and Robbed by Guards in Camps in France. (fomclal to The Bvening World.) CAPE CHARLES, Va, July 21.— United States Army prisoners who arrived here iast evening by boat from Norfolk after service with the United States forces in France tell tales of crusities which they say were inflicted upon them in prison camps in France. Benjamin Cohen of New York, who was serving with Company I, 18th Infantry, 1st Division, and who wears medais for bravery and went over the top severa] times at Cha- teau-Thierry and the Argonne, was absent without leave. He says he was given three months in prison, was fed on bread and water and was ‘eaten black and blue. 1919. | TROOPS GUARD STREETS BWiorld,) FINAL Beh [“Clreulation Books Open to an.”| <Sasecnaanii BLAGKS IN CAPITAL FIRE ON HOSPITAL NEAR WHITE HOUSE Discharge Shots Where Wounded Sailors and Ma- rines Are Being Cared For. Citizens Asked to Remain at Home as Steps Are Taken to Prevent More Trouble. WASHINGTON, July 21.—Follow- ing two nights of fighting between whites and negroes in Washington, five negroes drove past the Naval Hospital in Potomac Park in an au- tomebile shortly after noon to-day and fired ‘several shots at sick and wounded marines and sallors in the grounds. AN the bullets missed, Autos Wweré commandeered and citi- gens, pursued the negroes, who es- caped, The hospital is not far from the White House. Several instances of negroes fir- ing shots from autos during the night were reported from nearby Maryland towns, but no damage was done, ‘The Federa! Government inter- vened to-day to prevent a recurrence of the attacks made Saturday and Sunday nights by soldiers, sailors apd marines against negroes in re- taliation for assaults by negroes on white women. After @ conference bx- tween Secretary Baker and the local governing authorities, the Army Pro- vost Guard was restored to duty, Thomas Gootrad of No, 227 South Fourth Street, Brooklyn, who was with Company ¥, 28d Infantry, says he was knocked down and blackjacked and that his head was split open by marines, He had been sent to camp prison for overstaying his furlough. Bernit Marks of New York, who was with the 39th Infantry, says when he asked for $100 which was taken from him when he was sent to prison he was beaten black and blue and put in jail for one year, Marks \s suf- fering from tuberculosis and claims he lost one lung when he was gassed, The prisoners are being taken to Fort Jay, New York, and Fort Lea- venworth, Kan. While the train was waiting here for boat connections two of the pris- oners escaped, There aré thirty-five New York boys among the prisoners and several from Brooklyn, —— POLK SAILS FOR FRANCE BEFORE LANSING ARRIVES Assistant Secretary Expected to Talk to Chief by Wireless Phone at Sea, Frank Polk, Asststant Secretary of State, safled on the naval transport Im- perator from Hoboken to Brest at noon. He did not go aboard until three min- utes before the transport cast off and he refused to discuss the Mextean situ. ation or the “leak” of confidential State Department messages regarding the Bolshevists, With Mr. Polk were his wife and two children The Imperator will pass the Rotter. dam oft Fire Island and it is expected that Mr, Polk will talk by wireless tele. | phone with his chief, Secretary Lansing, who is returning from the Peace Con. ference, Mr. Polk B03 abroad to take his place Another passengem among the 200 on the Imperator was Mra. Herbert Hoover Her son Alien waa with her. ‘They are going to meet Mr. Hoover in Paris to id in the “American Relief for i pean Children,” are pda ALAR Le 1 BELL-ANS BEYORB MEALS end sey how five Good’ Digestion "aah, oe r 4 wes ‘The police authorities announced that 250 soldiers and marines would aid the police in patroiling the streets to-night. Major Gen. Barnett, Commandant of Marines, assured the authorities all possible help would be 18 PAGES HOUSE REVOLTS AT PRISON - FOR PROHIBITION VIOLATORS T00 POOR TO FURNISH BOND. Radicals Now Seek to Bar Stocks in Private Homes—Enfocement ~ Bill Rushed and May Be Passed To-Night. WASHINGTON, July 21.—By a vo.2 of 83 to 26, the House tor day eliminated the section of the Pronibition Enforcement Bill would have authorized the courts at their discretidn to send to jail convicted of violating the law, pemebenrhar would not Representative Gard, Democrat, of Ohio, author of the am to strike out the section, declared it afforded * unique method. of ¢ punishment or At the ith which the House worked after it resumed consider- ation of the measure to-day, leaders said it might be passed to-night. ) ” An effort to-have a provision in the bill making it unlawful for a person to storm centre of debate later in the day. Members wha announced they would attempt to have the bill amended with this. point in view declared the measure as framed per- mitted hoarding by wealthy persons, thousands of whom are said to have stored in their homies enough wines and whiskey to last them a lifetime, Other members were said to feel that the “drys” had gone about as far as it was wise to go, as to make the legislation too drastic woul” only bring it into contempt and thereby defeat the ends to which the Prohibitionists were working. . WHEN IS A MAN INTOXICATED? given by marines from Washington Barracks. One hundred solders trained in po- lice duty who were recently relieved from the Provost Guard have been recalled. Louis Brownlow, Commander of the District of Columbia, in a state- ment asked citizens to keep off the downtown streets ‘tira evening, and declared that order mast be pre-/ served in the Nation's capital, If Aighting breaks out to-night the police. will try to confine it to the NEW YORK COURT EXPERTS GIVE THEIR VIEWS, BUT CAN'T AGREE Drys in Congress Have Decided What Makes a Drunkard, but Magistrates and Prosecu- ‘There has been but one arrest at Coney Island for intoxication alnge | negro quarter and not let it spread as it did last night, when there were | scuffies near the White House, the | ‘Treasury, the District Building and! within a few blocks of the Capitol, | No action curtailing the issuance | of passes or the granting of fur- loughs for soldiehs and marines sta- tioned in or near Washington ts con- templated by the military authprities. The attacks by the service men on negroes were #0 general that uni- formed negro policemen were de- tached from duty and sent bome by the authorities. ULSTER OUT OF HOME RULE PLANNED BY LLOYD GEORGE Dominion Scheme Would North of Ireland Section County Option, LONDON, July 21.-—Premier George is considering dominion rule for Ireland, Including county op- tion for Ulster, it was rumored in Parliamentary circles to-day —_ Give Lioyd home Leap From Auto Fractares Skull. While en route from her residence at 112 the No, 6t. Ann's Avenue, the Bronx, observation ward at Bellevue Dora Neuhanas, ‘fifty ne and jumped from. the omobile in which she was riding, at “Viole wartime Prohibition wont into effect three weeks ago. There used to bo | from fifteen to twenty a day, “And ton sald 2.75 per cent. beer is intoxicating. could drink too much of It, but I have yet to meet such a ran.” T City Magistrates and public prosecutors on the subject. @re of value because of their vast opportunitics for observation im the people's courts of the greatest American city. Not all the wealth of the Carnegie laboratories than the courts in which these men spend their daya, q The answers of these experts, as gathered by Evening World report ers the length and breadth of New York, follow: JUDGE JOHN 8. McINTYRE, General Sessions—I agree with the Patrolman on post that a man is not drunk until he falls down and tw unable to care for himself, is not drunk. JUSTICE Magistrate)—-A man is drunk when he falls and stays there. If he falla and rises stuck to FORMER MAGISTRATE FREDERICK J, meaning iy helples# and annoys his neighbors, To this definition Mr, Groeh added this suggestion: “Intoxication is very hard to define. A person may be intomicated Prt Stat Street and First Avenue, slie auf- fered @ fractured skull, with joy, HE drys in Congress have about decided that any man who drinks @ liquid containing more than one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol ts @ drunkard and must be kept sober by prohibition. It is held that drunkenness can be definitely defined in legal language, The Evening World has obtained opinions from present and former WEATHER—Ghowsrs To-Night and Tuesday. | PRICE TWO CENT again violate it within a year. ncn men w! to give bond.” ” possess liquors in jis own dwelling was expected to be the tors Here Find More Difficulty. that.” Capt. Byron R. Sackett of the Coney Island Police Sta- "5 to-day, “is the best answer [ can give to the question whether * It might be, h gegen | if @ man Their opinions or Rockefeller Foundations could establish better reasearch If he can find his own way unassisted he ELLSWORTH HEALY, Speciat Sessions (formerly « unassisted he isn't drunk, I have never seen a man drunk who 2.75. I am positive 2.75 will not intoxicate, GROEHL—The general accepted by the police is that a man is dever drunk until he Th be may be auto-intoxicated, When | was an enstetont ss