The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 1

SS eee ) 0, by The Press Publishing w York World | ori, |FIVAL _,|_“Cirenlation Books Open to_All. © BRITAIN RATIFIES SPECIAL FRENCH TREAT SENATE COMMITTEE REFUSES cst Gi WILSON AUTHORITY 10 NAME.’ REPARATION COMMISSIONER —_—_— Accepts Knox Resolution De- hying U. S. Right to Help Enforce Peace Terms. PRESIDENT IS BETTER. Physician Allows Him to Meet Senators, Though Still Very Weak. WASHINGTON, July %—in re- mptane to President Wilson's request tit it approve provisional appoint- ment of an American representative om the Reparations Commission to be created under the Peace Treaty, the Senate Forsign Relations Committee to-day adopted a declaration that umtil the treaty is ratified “no power exists” to carry out its provisions, ‘The declaration, in the form of a resolution by Senator Knox, Republi- cam, Pennsylvania, was adopted witi- out a record vote, though the com- infttee previously had divided eight to seven in favor of substituting the! Koox proposal for one which would| have teft open the question of the! President's authority, In this vote| Senator McCumber, Republican, of | North Dakota, joined the Democrats | in the negative. A motion by Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, to add later & dectaration of the President's pow- er to act, was lost nine to six, Sena- | tor McCumber voting with the Re-| pablicans, j TEXT OF RESOUTION DENYING U. & RIGHT TO AID. Benator Knox's resolution follows: | “That it is the judgment of the| committee that until the Proposed | treaty is ratifiea, in. cordance with) its terms no power exists to execute any of its provisions either pro- visionally or otherwise,” Under the treaty the Reparations Commission would have wide powers in fixing the reparation to be de- manded of Germany, and the Presl- dent had written the committee that he considered it important to Amer! can business interests that the United States be represented. President Wilson was sufficiently recovered to-day from his indisposi- tdon to resume conferences with Re- publican Senators at the White House without objection from Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his personal phy- sician, Admiral Grayson said the President was in no pain, extremely weak “The President is now receivirg & calle but that He still was sitting up and * said Admiral Grayson, “and he probably will be up at least until lunch time, He was very anxious to get to work this morning, and I thought it would do him no harm to see one or two people. It depends upon how he feels in th middle of the day whether he goes back to bed again this afternoon.’ ‘The President weut tuto conference at 10 o'clock with Surmtdr Edge of New Jersey and he hopéd to fill other engagements which he was forced to defer yesterday because of an acute attack of intestinal trouble which de- veloped upon his return from.a week- end trip down the Potomac SENATOR M'NARY URGES cov- ENANT BE ACCEPTED Ia the Senate to-day Senato Nary, Republican, Oregon, ur Me d that (Continued on Second Page.) COMMONS PASSES THIRD READING OF TREATY OF PEACE. aap sls Special Agreement to Protect France Wins Unanimous Support. LONDON, July 22—The House of Commons passed unanimously carly this morning, after what was vir- tually an all-night session, the Anglo-French Trea’ Bill in all its stages, which guarantees to Fratiée should that country be ae- sailed, the assistance of Great Brit- ain, It it treaty which President Wilson will later present to the United States Congress. If it ratified by the Senate France will have in any time of distress the united support of Great Britain and |the United States same is The House of Commons also passed unanimously the third read- ing of the peace treaty with Ger- many, completing the debate om the subject. The discussion of the Anglo French treaty began at 8 o'clock ir the afternoon, Commander Ken worthy moved the rejection of thi bill on the ground that it was in consistent with the spirit of the League of Nations, Joseph Devlin Nationalist, seconded the motion, PREMIER SAYS TREATY WOULD HAVE PREVENTED WAR. Premier Lloyd George, defending | the bill, said if the treat had bee in existencein 1914 with the signa tures of Cireat Britain und the United States appended to it the war would not have occurred. He added he was confident 99 p ent of the British people approved the treaty, The German Treaty Bill passed th Committee of the Whole without amendment. When the third reading was moved, Joseph Devlin, Nativnal {st} demanded its rejection as a pro test against the lremier's reference to Ireland, Mr. Lloyd George, replying, ridi culed the suggestion that his attitude toward Ireiand had changed. He said he adhered to his position an- nounced in the gene election and was prepared to carry it into effect The home rulers, he added, could have home rule for themselves if they wished it, but they could not force it on Ulster The House then rejected Mr. Dev- | lin's motion by a vote of 163 to 4 | DECLARES LONDON WOULD BE FAIR. Premier Lloyd George's recent an- nouncement that the former German Emperor would be tried before a tribunal in London had created much discussion, and several members, in- cluding Lord Robert Cecil, expressed doubts as to the advisability of the trial being held 'n London. The jon of a neutral country for this purpose, it has been contehded, would TRIAL se- | have been better The Premier,4in srid: “What right have we to assume that any neutral country could desire answer to this, ein ELI~ANS BEFORE MEALS ee yfite Seed Pisestion makew TAKE and ree to be the scene of such a trial? The (Continued on Second Page.) { ND WOMAN DEAD IN IYSTERY FIRE Jersey Pig Pichon Firemen Find Door to Apartment Tied With Rope. | WINDOWS NAILED SHUT. Fire Fighter Tells How He Found All Means of Escape Shut Off. Police are investigating the mys- terious imprisonment of a mother and child in their burning home in Jersey City, injuries which they received having caused their death in the City Hospital. Their rescuer found the door to the room in which they were imprisoned tied stoutly with a rope on the cutside so that the occupants could not open it. Mrs. Mary Fientusch, thirty-four years old, and her daughter, Sylvia, eleven years old, the victims, died in the hospital after being carried ftom No. 475 Henderson Street. Their gar- ments were burned from them The mother occupied three rooms on the first floor of the four-story brick building and conducted a gro- cery store in the front rooms, The adjoining room back was a store- room and Mrs, Fientusch and Sylvia slept in the rear room, During the progress of the fire early to-day eight other persons living in upper floors of the building escaped without dim- ulty. Fire Department chauffeur Henry Snnis forced a door into the hallway and heard a woman moaning in the ack room, He ran to the door and und it closed, a rope being tightly secured to the knob and then nailed to the wall in such a way that the door could not be opened from the nside. nis tore off the rope and ‘an into the room, Mrs, Fientusch was found crumpled upon the floor and Sylvia upon a coal tove in which there was nofire, Both were burned and unconscious, Flames were bursting through the wall from ihe storeroom. The door connecting he two rooms was & mass of flames and was no other exit except hrough the barred door into the hall, for the tn windows long had been there boarded uj) on the outside Mrs. Fientusch had broken tht lass in the windows and had loos- ened some of the boards, before los- consciousness, nnis carried the mother and child were taken to the City Mrs, ntusch was ng rut Hospital und they where juestioned by the police before she lied to learn if she could throw some ght on the mysterious binding of door Mrs, Fientusch said that she had had @ quarrel with a neighbor and that this woman had threatened her She said she had never seen the rope on the door, although she had used the hall door last night. “Mrs, Fien- tusch told the police that she had t two lights burning in the grocery store and ‘one in the room where she was found. Mrs, Anna Andruszéwski of No, 477 Henderson Street was taken to lice Headquarters and examined, ‘The police are lot yet convinced that the fire was of Incendiary origin, ‘ » is sald to have been $1,000 in- surance on the store and $1,600 on the furniture of the Fientugch home, Frank Miller, No. 187 Pavonin Street, told the police that he had taken everal articles to the Hudson ‘Ter minal station in Manhattan and had hecked them for Mrs, Fientuach, | Other boys tuld the police the sam the Aree | Wy ae Sma ak with Wrowob tried potetons ‘Ge Veal cuties. breaded, tomato eauce, +o ee Bade “Thote naet 4th Ceor Wotld “Baliding, aden,’ WASHINGTON RAGE RIOTS WORST SINCE CIVIL WAR; FIVE DEAD AND MORE YING Wilson Asked to Proclaim| MISS GLADYS M'INTYRE, Martial Law to Suppress hk E, F, ‘DOUGHNUT GIRL’ Outbreaks. TEN ARE NEAR DEATH. | “Jim Crow” Cars Also Re quested in Resolution—An- other Woman Attacked. —Congress WASHINGTON, July 22 ked to-day to take notice of| the race riots and crime wave in the| National Capitol to-day and Presi-{ dent Wilson was asked to dectare/ martial law and police the elty with troops,. in resolutions introduced in the House by Representatives Clark, Demoerat, of Florida and Vaile, Re- publican, of Colorado, respectively The riots of the last three days have been declared the Civil war. Soon after noon the nearest oficial Married to Man She Met While Win- estimate of Iast night's rioting stood ning Fame as Salvation Army five dead, ten expected to die, Worker: ka: Prance, scores of lesser wounded or injured Miss Gladys E, Mcintyre not only won and the cases of 17% rioters docketed « War Cross for her service os a & the police courts. ;Yon Army “Doughnut Girl’ in France, Representative Clark's resolution | but a wedding ring. Lieut. Russell A. was a scathing arraignment of the| Harmon of Company ©, 104th Regiment local police and the city government.| of the New England Division It proposed that the Speaker of tho] *!!PPed It on her finger last night, The House appoint a select committee to|c¥!mination of the war romance was nvestigate the crime wave ard the at- met secret until this moming when Mrs. Harmon's father, who is a Colonel tacks on women and repor: WHE) in the Salvation Anny” nae ene! changes may be necessary in the PolCe| marriage, which was netternen nt ine force or the city government and de- Walter Hart Hotel McAlpin by the Rev termine what officials are responsible, mple, assistant pastor of Fort Wash- was the worst since a- in At the same time Senator Harrison |ington Presbyterian Church. of Mississippl, Democrat, introduced a] Mra. Harmon wax one of the ” resolution to separate the whites and of “Meintyr Siaters, dys and oan Irene, who won t approbation of blacks on the street cars. & Gen, Pershing and Distinguished Ser- “For the past month or 4.” recites! vice Crosses for their efforts with the tepresentative Clark's resolution, “the} A, . , ‘The bride mot her husband capital of the mation ms to havelin the Toul sector, where Mr, Har been infested with the vilest criminals|Mon's regiment was stationed. n all the land. Larceny, burglary, as- ar MeIntyre sisters and Lieut nany women have occurred almost within the shadow of the capiiai build- ing itself, The officials of the District of Columbi ahave utéerly failed Uring to justice the cowardly and in- human beasts who are guilty of cru- clly ravishing innocent and defenseless there was no courtship until they met here. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom started for Richmond, V to} where they will make their home, Mrs. Harmon Is a graduate of Pratt Institut Brooklyn, and was buay in charity work before the WEDDING IN AIRPLANE A FIELD DAY FEATURE Band to Play “There Goes the Bride” at Ceremony Over Sheepshead Speedway, A wedding in high circles Is going to women. The police of the District of Col- umbia or their superiors are either too timid or too inefficient to oring these criminal scoundrels to the bar of justice, The xisting conditions a 1 shame and a disgrace to the poli and the higher officials. It is the solemn duty of this Congress to make the streets, of Washington safe for the good women of the land. The present district government is un-]® °P@ Of the attractions at the Po- questionably incapable from weak. |llee I@eld Day in Speedway Park, inefficiency or timidity to deal |Sheepshead Bay phon next Saturday after- with the situation with the firm hand Inoon, Miss Millie Schaffer of Sea Girt required.” IN. J., will be married in an airplane te All the resolutions were rece!ved for reference in the usual way. By request of the police all mer- chants and puwnshops to-day ceased Lieut. Geor, Burgess, who will pilot the craft uple will be married by the Rev. Alexander Wouters of No. 1118 S4th Street, Brooklyn, who will fol. selling fitearms, Thero is no law in|low them through the ky in another she tal’ waversing tha anion’ aad piloted by Lieut. B. 8, Barks " oluntutily acdeded to | asle whe will ext man the mareune ts, 9% a Both machines will carry wireless the request of the ice. There was phone apparatus and there will be| & rush of citizens to-day to buy arms. |, wireiess telephone in the grand atand The negroes and rioters demonstrated | where also wil) be the bridesmaid. ‘The At last night's scenes and the pre- | ceremony will be listened to and trang. vious disturbancés that they were | mitted over the grounds by a m, well susoited phone. Ax the two alrplanes fy through | loft by the phone, A wedding march (Continued on Second Page.) Hl be played during the ceremony, | BRIDE OF ARM ARMY Y OFFICER BLIMP DISASTER STARTS THREE BIG : INVESTIGATIONS heiieldiner iain Federal, State and City a thorities Seek to Place | Blame for Deaths, } DETAINED. | Inquiry to Determine If Uns! | tried Devices Caused Burn- | | e ing of Dirigible. ;PILOT IS CHICAGO, July, 22,.—Federal, and city ome teUay began a | searching investigation of the explo- |#ion of the dirigibie balloon Wing- foot which yesterday resulted. in eleyen deaths and the injury of twenty-eight others and wrecked (he interior of the lilinois Trust and Sav- ing» Bank. Charges that several devices used on the giant blimp were practically untried and were used for the firat time on this type of aircraft will be made the ‘subject of rigid inquiry by officials, One of these deviods was a rotary motor which was loaned for the pur- pose by Major Clarence Maranville, Chiet of Army Air Craft Division at the Akron, O., Flying Field, who de- clared that while there was danger of fire in its use, he believed every necessary precaution had been taken to prevent an accident Another device said to have been used for the first time on a blimp was @ number of silk bal oonettes at- tached to the main body, and Major Maranville says the friction of these bailoonettes against the alk sides of the structure may have been respon- sible for the accident, CORONER'S JURY TO HAVE EX ERT ASSISTANCE, Coroner. Peter M. Hoffman and State's Attorney Hoyne declared that it Was probable that several offciits of the Chicago office of the Goodycur Tire and Rubber Company, builders and owners of the dirigible, would be taken Into custody be! the end of the day. They said every effort would State to fore be made to Ax responsibility for the disaster and punish thove found to be | gutity. { Coroner Hoffman impaneiled a Coroner's Jury of well-known busi ness men to investigate the disuster, He also named a commission of six electrical engineers to act with ¢ Jury in an advisory capacity in fixing the blame for the tragedy Charles F. Clyne, United States District Attorney, detailed several of his assistants to assist in the inquiry and gather evidence for possible use later in prosecutions for manslaugh ter or criminal carelessness, Sevent persons have tained as witnesses, Among those detained are Hoettner, pilot of the dirigibie, escaped by jumping with a parachute and W Young, in charge of the Aeronautic Department of the Good- year Company, been de- Jack who Of the eleven dead, nine were em. ployees of the bank and two pas- sengers In the airship, Five persons ‘were in the airship at the time of the accident and three escaped. When the balloon crashed through the sk; light of the bank at 6 o'clock more than 200 employees, mostly girls, were at work. More than 30,000 saw the aceident The balloon with its five passen- gers was making its maiden trip Jabove the city in the interest of an amusement park, According to wit- nesses, a spurt of flame appeared at |the stern, above the engine. In al moment there was a puff of smoke and the flame attacked the big exg- shaped gas bag. Almost — simul- ur parchutes leaped trom | taneously (Continued on Second Page.) DRASTIC LAW TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION PASSES HOUSE BY A VOTE OF 287 10 100 ‘Wets Call Measure So Stringent as to Invite Veto of President—. lay Predicted in Senate—Provi sion of Act—Uproar on Roll Call, WASHINGTON, July 22.—-Th« prohibition enforcement bill, mi scribed by members opposing it as drastic enougi to invite a veto, was finally passed to-day by tne House. The vote was 287 to ba with three members voting present. The vote on the passage of the bill was taken after a motion by Rep resentative Igoe, Democrat, of Mis®uri, to recommit the bill had beet defeated 255 to 136. ¢ five Nearly every member of the {iouse was in attendance and there was so much noise dusing the roll call taat Republican Leader Mondell was re- corded as supporting the Igoe motion. vote. NEW JOLT FOR DINERS; TEN PER GENT, FOR TIP TO WAITER SOON ON BILL This item Going on Checks, Though Blackjacking on Street Is Still a Crime. FTER you have gasped at the prices on the menu cards of the New York hoteis and have imagined that the limit has been reached, stealy yourself for a new thriller when the bill is furnished, A Long Beach hotel has blazed the way for the surprise and Broadway and Fifth Avenue will nut be slow to adopt it, Tucked awgy rather sheepishly at the foot of the bill just before the total line you will soon see something like this Waiter’s tip 10 per cent, of check. The amount ts added to the eck. ‘The character of the service you receive will no longer determine the size of the tip. The hotel men will arbitrarily asseas you the 10 per cent: You'll see it up- town woon! Blackjacking on the street is a erline. ——— There was applause on the fleor. when the vote was announced. Only 4 few visitors were in the galleries. The measure, which had been be-, fore the House for more than a, week, now goes to the Senate, but House managers of the measure do Not expect it will be accepted there as a whole, The House bill will be substituted for the measure now being framed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but Senate leaders were doubtful whether tho bill could be prought before the Senate until the German Peace Treaty had been disposed of, involy~ ing a delay of many weeks, The Prohibition Enforcement Bull, as it passed, provides that after Jan, der the law to have liquor in his pose kind to the Commissioners of Inter nal Reve: (This applies to chem. ists, physicians, &c.) After Feb, 1, 1920, the law provides that the possession of apy other than as authorized by the law shall bé prima facie evidence that it is being kept for eale or otherwise in violation of the law, It will not be required, however, to report, and it will not be illegal to have in one's possession, liquor in [® Private dwelling while the same ocoupled and used by the possessor as his private dwelling, and the liquor is used for personal consumption by the owner, his family or his guests, Two SALOON MEN ACCUSED ae The possessor of such Nquors, how bears the burden of proof that jt OF WHISKEY AND BEER SALE oct sessed lawfully, | Intoxicating Hquor is defined as a | beverage containing more than one« half per cent. of alcohol, Any house, boat, vehicle or other place where liquor is manufectured or sold, is deciared a nuisance. Held in $500 After Detective Says He Bought Liquor at 3A. their arraignment on a} Following No person shall manufactu: short affidavit charging suspicion pf ire, aell, barter, give away, transport, import, Violation of the Vquor tax law, Hugh : yo, 93 | Ueliver, furnish or receive any ims Dougherty, a saloon keeper of No, & toi Columbus Avenue, and his barten toxicating [quors, Philip “abe, were held to-day by Liquor for non-beverage purposes, Magistrate Corrigan In West Side Court] @nd wine for sacramental use, may in $500 ball each for a hoaring on| be sold under specified regulations, July 29. Miss Jeanette Rankin, former Con. Detective Martin Rothamel of Inspee- or Henry's staff testified that, accom. panted by three other detectives, he Bought beer and whiskey in Dougherty's place at 3 o'clock this morning. HOUSE PASSES WAGE BILL. tal Denatured alcohol, medicinal arations (including patent m unfit’ for beverage purposes, articles, flavoring extracts aad v! gar are exempted, Registered physicians are author. ized to issue prescriptions under regulations for the use of liquor in cases where it may be consi necessary as a medicine. ; Liquor advertisements of all kinds are prohibited, WASHINGTON, July Py a vote ot Me to IT the House to-day passed} Sale, manufacture or distribution of the b’l providing 4 minimum wage of | Compounds intended for use in the uns | $a tor ail Government employees except | Wel manufacture of liquor ts ne hon geal ante) nails hibited, together with sale or publica! Oe oe Sania Mie ot tion of recipes for home manufaew Ume bona of $240 4 year allowed em-| RresswomMAN, appeared on the ployees, ‘The measure now goes to the| during the vote on the probibit} wenale bi, and wae given an ovation, session shall report the quantity and” He was permitted to change his # 26, 1920, every person permitted um : i