The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1919, Page 1

4 PRICE TWO CENTS. EXPLOSION IN FLEET KILLS SIX WAR FOOD SALE TO BENEFIT WHOLE CITY: First Women to Fly to Atlantic City And the Passenger Carrying Seaplane DOOVOOOGOSOSOGHHOGOHEOSHVOOS NEW YORK CAN [*Cironlation = Best Open to All.’’ hs i (ive New Fe York Wa World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 26, ‘1919. GET BENEFIT OF BiG ARMY FOOD SURPLUS BY EVENING WORLD PLAN * iMethod for Efficient and Inex-| CHEAPER BACON IN NEWARK pensive Distribution Sug- gested to Baker. BIG SAVING TO PUBLIC. Plan Includes Distribution of y 3,000,000 Pounds of Roast- ing Chicken, By P. Q. Foy, (Special Food Expert far The Evening World. Another plan is to have the food Mistriduted through a number of reputadle trade houses toho will give ponds to the Government. —Last night's Evening World. The food is here, It's a big supply. it’s lying in warehouscs, It belongs .to the Government. It is wholesome food that was stored up for tho use yet our army and navy. It should be ‘yeleased, and immediately. This is timperativo if the victory of Tho ,Pvening World in calling attention ‘to this huge surplus supply of food- ystuffs ts to be realized by giving the general public the benofit of the lower prices that must rosult from the roper distribution of these excellent nd wholesome foods. , This surplus supply is composed of ions of pounds of bacon, canned eats, cereals, and other items in the ‘eolumn of human necessities, Unless :the consumers get the whole benefit sout of this abnormal supply the vic- tory gained by The Evening World will be incomplete. And there is but one effective way by which the Government will get its full quota of value and at the same time benefit the con- sumers—that is by competent and inexpensive distribution through capable and reputable hous: specializing in the sale and tribution of the various kinds of foods. How can this be accomplished? The answer is that the Government should jimmediately select capable houses, requiring them to furnish a bond ‘securing the Government payment for foodstuffs turned over to them at yetated intervals. The Government sshould fix a net price on its holdings ‘of foodstuffs, allowing the merchant ‘a specified percentage for his service jin distributing the food to retail deal- jers who, in turn, would sell to the ‘eonsumers at a definite price set by (Continued on Second Paye.) CLOSING TIME \ 7.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. Want Advertisements for The Sunday World must be in The World's Main Office on or before 7.30 Saturday evening. ———_— Positively no Advertisements will be accepted after this time. —== Send your Sunday Word W Advertisement in to-day to make sure of its publication. AFTER MAYOR PURCHASES 25 TONS FROM THE ARMY Bought at 34 to 36 Cents a Pound, It Will Be Sold at 2 Cents Advance, AYOR GILLEN of Newark has been to market for the citizens of Newark and ought 50,000 pounds of bacon at 34 and 34 centa. He will market again in a few days and plans to ‘Duy 30,000 pounds of ham and thousands of cans of vegetables. After negotiations with the War Department the purchases wore made from the Surplus Sup- ply office in New York. He of- fered to buy 300,000 pounds of bacon if the price were lowered, but ariny officials said the prico stood, whatever the quantity taken, The city will sell to citizens at cost, plus 2 cents a pound to pay overhead charges, The Mayor has a fund of $100,000 for tho purchases, Chicago packing companion to- day quoted bacon in New York at from 881-2 cents to 41 cents necording to the grade, with ox- tra fancy bacon trimmed ao that the butcher has no waste, at from 46 conts to 48 cents a ponnd. Re- tailors were selling ordinary run sof bacon at from 60 to 75 cents a pound. The Government has con- sidered 10 cents a pound ample profit and limited the profit to 10 cents when food control was un- der way. > STATE-WIDE FOOD PRICE INVESTIGATION IN OHIO Governor Announces Grand Juries Will Act if Counties Fail to Co-Operate. COLUMRUS, ©., July 26,—Sweeping investigatfon of food prices in every county in Ohio is requested in a com- munication sent to-day by Gov. Cox to State Attorney General Price. The At- torney General has called a moating of prosecutors for next Wodnosday, In case there is lack of Gonperation in the counties, the Governor will grant authority for the inatitution of an ine quiry by grand juries under State aus- ices, this communication asserts, Pres- ent high prices, the Governor maintains, are precipitating a crisis and unless + tion, "drastic" if necessary, ls taken the situation will become even worse and resulting unrest will increase. Placing the blame for exorbitant prices on “certain unlawful practices in the trafic of foodstuffs" Gov. Cox puts direct sponsibility upon policies of cold July 26.—Will F. Archibald, who handled the first cable message ever sent across the Atian- tie, addressed by the late Queen Vic- toria to the President of the United yesterday, He was rs old and had been a the age of fourteen, ————_——_ Smith in Town, Gov. arrived in this city from Albany at 890 o'clock last otel Biltmore, NS BEFORE MEALS Good Digestion makes Feu feel. Adve, SHIP STRIKE OVER, SAILINGS RESUMED; BOTH YIELD POINTS Seamen Win Increase of Pay but Lose Closed Shop Demand. RAISE FOR RADIO MEN. Wireless Operators Claim Promises Made Will Avert New Tie-Up. Gustave H, Brown, General Secre- tary of the International Seamen's Union, declared to-day that the ma- tino strike which has crippled com- merece for eighteen days is ended. He said ships would be moving from this port wefore night. Fach side claims the victory—and! each side has something to show in support of the claim. The unions get substantial wage Increases and great- er recognition. The employers, on the other hand, were succesful in their emand for an open shop. They retain the right to hire non-union men, but le ts considered improbable that they actually will hire many such, for the unions have won the right to con. duct organization work on board the ships. The térms agreed upon are those which were outlined exclusively yes terday by the Evening World. The additional announcement was made | to-day that the stewards will receive 20 per cent. increase, the cooks, bakers an butchers 15 per cent. me: attendants $10 @ month and thewait- ere and stewardesses $5 a month In- orease. Ratification meetingn are being held and the whole strike situation along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts ts expected to bi Liquidated in a row hours, The ship owners haa no more than reachod an agreement with the unions than they were served with no- tice from the United Radio Telog- raphers’ Association that the wireless operators on all ships will atrike un- less chicf operators aro raised from $110 to $174 a month and juniors from $85 to $150, Reginald A, Merry, second vice- president of the wirless union, said that the union had re- ceived assurances which promiso an amicable settlement without @ strike. pabcecion lbbaleey AIR MAIL STRIKE ENDS; SIX AVIATORS REINSTATED Sarvice Resumed at Belmont Park, Washington and Other Cities. Announcement was made to-day at the Post Office Department in Wash- ington that the first strike of dviators operators’ in history has been settled, Six aviators who refused yester- day to take the air with mali planes trom New York for Washington and Bellefonte, Pa., and from the latter city to Cleveland, have been rein- stated, it was announced. They were dismissed from the service yesterday. The two pilots, whose dismissal led to the strike, have not been rein- stated, Service had been resumed this morning, pending the conferencs in Washington, Airplanes left Belmont Park with mail for Chicago and | Washington, and the scheduled flights \from other cities were reported to have bios made, DDODDDWODODDOQHDOQSGHOS: HUNDREDS IN PERIL AS 2 HOTELS BURN AT SHARON SPRINGS Many Guests Jump From Windows and Others Are Carried Down Ladders. AITICA, N. ¥., July 26.—Two hotels were practically destroyed and anoth- or badly damaged to-day by fire at re. Hundreds Sharon Springs, near h of guests fled from the burning bulld- ings, many of them jumping from the lower windows or being carried down ladders from the upper storie Fire started in the Manhattan Hote! from a kettle of grease boiling over, {t spread to the Morrell Houso and Eldredge Mouse. The two former hotels were virtually razed, The loss ts estimated at $200,000, one-half of which is in Jewels and ap- parcel of the gucats in tho hotels, it is reported that one New York woman lost jewelry valued at $40,000, Max Welkowitz of New York, pro- prietor of the Manhattan Hotel, wus badly burned and was taken to the Little Falls hospital. A New York woman also suffered “severe burns and was taken to a hofpital at Glov- ersville, The Canajoharie and Coblas kill fire companies were summoned but because of low water pressure could do nothing to save the burning buildings. as SULTAN MAKES DISCOVERY. Says His Nation Made a M ake LONDC July nation committed jt in enter ing the war,” the Sultan of Turkey is quoted as saying tr interview pub lished by the Mor Post to-day from its correspondent at Constanti nople ultan protested h Turkey peace t terms were sever View the ORLD to-day, Cored Beet fe fable’ a'tlote thaner- adm Woot, World Bullding Ad, POOVDDOQDDDOQDOODDOPDODGHGDHOSOHVEOSG®D, re oO: Mrs. Hoagland and Miss lodges) HITCHCOCK SAYS SENATE Start on Trip—Hope (© WONT AMEND TREATY, BUT : | MAY QUALIFY INDORSEMENT Mrs. John A. Hlougiuana of New) York and Minn Ethel tlodges of | Any Qualifications or Interpreta- Dallas, Texas, came to the foot of tions Will Have to Have West 83d Street from the Waldorf. | President’s Approval. Astoria Hotel by automobile, shortl Hotel by automobile, shortly | HowroNn, July 2.—The Senate will before 1 o'clock to-day, were 4s-| patity the League of Nations cove- sisted to the cabin of the Mying-Muat | nunt without amendment, but may “Millicent” of the Travelers’ Air Line | Qualify its endorsement, Senator and wt 1258 o'clock headed, via the | Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Hudson and the alr, for Atlantic] Demveratic member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as City, They were the first paying pas sengers on a stricly commercial air | “ted to day, He was addressing in line from New York to Atlantic City, |frmally & group of friends and With Robert W. Hewitt for pilos,|2¢W#pspermen at the Union Club, Lieut, Miles Kellin as mechanician, | MAY'## stopped here on the way to and Charles T, Seims, one of the | 5! summer home at Swampscott stockholders of the Traveler's Com. |. The Senator said he represented the “Millicent | f2Pt¥-#x Democratic and five or six ator, who stood Republican against any amendment, He felt cer- tain that every urnendment proposed 83d St vintment for this evening in York," Mrs | Would be Beaten by from six to Hoagland sald before they started, | twelve vo The only doubt about ‘and feel confident of keeping it We| the action, in bis opinion, shall Pion, at Atlantic City long | was the question of the phraseology Miss Hedgex Was not quite so se-| of the resolution of ratification which rene, ft arth The nly time I ever might contain qualifying terms “If any qualifications or interpre- tations are made,” he said, “they must be made under the approval of Presi- dent Wilson, who is In communica ANDOVDE 6.—Mrs./ tion with the other nations involved," May (Skeels) Lundgren, who was a a acquitted on Ju of the murder by lines Mee « Play, polsoning of at “8 Rt bre 0 Ws Gay an}! WASHINGTON, July The Preai- aun be in imaninent dag, {dent and Mrs, Wilson played golf this ans to-day ( h, collapsed | morning for the first time in a week. *as wunounced | Mr ‘and bas been grow lay constantly Weaker, eacrclee following bis recent Lund 12 PAGES PRICE BOUND 10 PACIFIC BLOWS UP AT PANAMA DILER ON BIG NAVAL TENDER TWO CENTS. ’ AND KILLS SIX = PRESIDENT TELLS LODGE HE BROUGHT ONLY FEW PAPERS Willing to Give All Informa- tion Possible, but Some Is Still in Paris. WASHINGTON, July 26.—Presi- dent Wilson to-day informed Senator Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Re- Jations Committee, that he was not able to bring from Paria a complete file of papers relating to the peace negotiations and that he would be able to submit to the cammitton only papers “which happened to be in my hands when I left France.” ‘Yhe letter to Senator Lodge wus in reply to the fenate’s resolution ask- img for wi documents used by the American delegates ut the Peace Con- ference. ‘Tho President's letter follows: “In response to your letter of July requesting me, on behalf of the committee on foreign relations, to send to the committee the agreamont referred to in Article 287 of the treaty with Germany, in the event that such agreement bas been determined upon by the Allied and associated govern- I would say that #0 far as An agreament haa not ments, { know such been reached. “As 1 recollect the business an at- tempt was being made to reach such an agreement, but T have not yet Jearned of an agrenment having bean arrived at. “May I not ask with regard to other requests which I have recaived trom the committee for papers and Infor- mation of various sorta that I was not able to bring from Paris a complote file of papers, “1 brought with me only those which happened to be in my hans when t left France, “These alone congtitute. a considar- able mass of paper have been going over them as rapily us time and my engagements permitted and must beg the committee's indulgence for the delay informing them whieh 1 can supply them with," President Wilson's advisors said to-day that after studying the Jetters written by former President Taft to Wiison has been refraining trom | Chairman Hays of the Republican (Continued op Seoond Page.) Accident Occurs on Melville, Which Served Admiral Sims as Flagship Abroad — First Dreadnoughts of © Fleet Easily Pass Gatun Locks. _ ON, BOARD THE U, S. S. NEW MEXICO, July 26 (by wireless, via Colon).—Six men were killed o-lay in a boiler explosion, the U, S$, S. Melvile, a naval tender attached 10 the Pacific Fleet, Capt. Twining, the Chief of Staif, has been advised. (Pour dreadnoughts of the Pacific. fee, the New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and New York, were lifted suc ‘Cadefully through the Gatun techie yesterday, This was the first at. tempt to negotiate the waterway with a fleet of dreadnoughts. The ships anchored in the fresh water of’, Gatun Lake, eighty-five feet above? sea level, The dreadnoughts will resume thelr trip toward the Pacific Ocean to-day, when the Mississippi and Wyoming, tow coaling and oiling at Colon, will commence the passage of the Canal, Admiral Hugh Rodmin, in come mand of the fleet, said last night: “The flagship was lifted out of the three locks of Gatun Dam in eae hour and seventeen minutes. Now, jet us go tarpon fishing nene tho dam—putting dreadnoughts through the Canal is too easy.” The old battiewhips Georgia and Vermont joined the fleet at Colon yesterday. After the New Mexiow had oiled at Colon in the afternoon, sho swung lesily into Limon Bay” whence she took the two ships part ot tho way to the dam, creeping slowly through tbe fira¢ cuttings of the waterway amid dense jungte growth like somo weird umphiblag, in 4 prehistoric swamp. NEW MEXICO LIFTED IN LOCKS EASILY AS ROWBOAT, Nonring tha locks, the crew fhung landing lines outboard, which quickly drew inboard ateot cables that led ta the electric “mules” running on track on each aide of tho locks, Tho whale Operation scomod to function autos matically, for not an order was heard ax the droadnoughts slid into the lower lorks a8 casily as a shullie Into @ sowing machine. The stool gates astern the flagship then closed like great Jawa and eburss ing water rose up from viaducts im the bottom of the Jock, while the New Mexico was liftad ax mally and rape idly as a rowboat. The fagsbip was then lifted out of the next two locks in the same fashion while crowds standing on top of the conorete lock walls throw bananas and cocoamuts at the ship's crow, bY ‘Twenty destroyers went through the Canal Thursday, passing through the locks im groups of ton, Capt. Twins | ing, Chief of Staff, said that the Capat | had proved tts naval value beyond a doubt, as dreadnoughts may be eastly moved from Pacific with celerity avd without ation, for San Diego, Cal., Sunday nigh ‘The Melville was the first ship em pecially designed as a destroyer tends er. and was completed in 1915, She also the Srst large America: United States at Queenstown, the Atlantic to tha” trouble, as shown by yesterday's oper a ‘The Pacific Geet will leave Panama er Bi, i M