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\ ? | “ Circulation Books ¢ ” “PRICE “Two CENTS. ‘CHICAGO RIOTS SPREAD; 1919, by The _TWO CENTS. "eth Gime New Ye (The New Tot We World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919, ~—_—_—_i18 OTHER PRISONS IN AL E. F MORE GRUEL THAN CHELLES, SAYS “HARD Tells of Brutal Tre Treatment to Himself After Conviction in France. BLAMES HIGHER-UPS. ‘Former Officer, a Prisoner, Says He Obeyed Orders From the General. Former Lieut. F. H. Smith of the 168th Infantry known throughout the eause.of his reputation when in charge of the Prison Camp at Chelles, near Paris, made a voluntary state- ment before the Congressional Sub- Committee investigating conditions \abroad of which Congressman Royall C. Johnson, himself an infantry lieu- tenant, ls chairman. “I ask that this committee,” Smith said with great earnestness, “investi- gate every prison and detention camp /in France.” “Why?” asked Chairman Johnson. “Because,” said Smith, dressed in brown denim overalls and holding his {brown denim hat in his hand, “I be- lieve that when these campa have ‘been investigated Chelles Farm will be found to have been a pleasure re- ‘sort in comparison with almost any of them, I ask it in simple justice to “myself.” Representative Johnson asked if he! meant to say that “the most inhuman | treatment” was practiced in all prison ‘camps in France,” Smith replied, will, but not in Farm No. The witness continued: “I do not expect to live much longer, but as long as I do live I wish to tell the | truth.” ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION AT 8T, SULPICE AND GIEVRES, He went on in accents shaken with feeling to ask that the committee look into affairs at St. Sulpice, near Bor- deaux, where he was himself mal- \weated and insulted with the knowl- edge of officers. He asked that a Fort * Jay prisoner named Croker be called ag a witness, He asked also that Gievres and Plignancourt be also strictly investigated and told of his own treatment at St. Sulpice stockade, “I arrived at the prison June 24 or 25, My record was taken at the of- fice; I was outfitted at the supply office and sent to the shower room. By that time word had gone all over the prison what “Hardboiled” Smith was there. “In the shower room a group of twenty prisoners gathered about and cursed me and attempted to assault me but were driven away by a Corpor. al, I was then put in a cell in soll- tary confinement, “Though there was a sentry just outside, prisoners were allowed to gather in front of the cell and shout the vilest insults and threaten me. They went away and brought back buckets and fire pumps and drenched me repeatedly through the afternoon. * “I did not want to go to supper, I ‘was sick, The sentry told me to come out of the cell or it would be the worse for me As I turned out at the corner of the building ten or fit- teen men jumped on me and kicked me up pretty badly, I lost conscious- ness. I could not identify any of (Continued on Tenth Page.) ——_—_—_—_ TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MBALS and ae pe Good Digestion makes vou BOILED” SM CHEAPER TO HIRE THAN FIRE COOK, BOSS MAY LEARN fae CREE Lizzie, Accused of Throwing Water on a Maid, Got, & EB F. as “Hardboiled Smith” ve-] Bounced and Wants $5,000 It will cost more to fire a cook than to hire one if Lissie, former Queen of the Kiteben in’ Lowell Lincoln Richards’ summer home at Litehfeld, Conn¥tan get away with her present enterprise and make it a precedent. Lizzie—her last name is Norton—is suing the boss for $5,000 damages, ex- plaining that she was highly dis- | pleased by the way he gave her the bounce one Sunday morning last | month. | Not afl of the important circum- | stances have yet come to light, but | the narrative of Lizzie No. 2, maid in | the same home, is fortunately avail- able—for she, weary of work for the | preserit, and having all the money she | needs, is going to spénd the rest of @he summer in Ireland, (Her last | name is Sullivan.) In order that the travelling plans of Lizzie No, 2 should not be dis-}, turbed, Supreme Court Justipe Ford | kindly gave consent to have her testi- |mony taken in advance, This was | done to-dey and it is all a part of the record of the trial and therefore pub- |lishable, Listen now to Lizzie No. 2: ‘I'm a maid at Mr, Richards's summer home at Litchfield. He has another place in town at No, 320 West 87th Street. “Well, Lizzie Norton came to be the cook and one day she said to me, ‘Lizzie, this is the first place I ever went to cook in without taking whis- key along I always take whiskey with me and when the lady tells me to do anything I take a good drink and go for her.’ “She told me a lot of things that she said she used to do at the places she had worked for, But what led to her being discharged was @ Sun- day newspaper, “Mr, Richards used to take a paper for us and send it to the servants’ quarters, Lizzie got i on that Sun- day morning. It was June 16. I told her it wasn't for her but for us girls. ‘Then there were some words and she hit me with her fist, I called for Dave, the chauffeur, Lizzie dared me to come out, and I wouldn't, Then she throw @ pall of water on me. “I ran to Mrs, Richards and she took me to the nursery. Lizzie came up there and doubled up her fist and said I bad been abusing her. Just then Mr, Richards came in and heard what she was saying, He told her to go to her room and pack up her clothes, She refused and he began to push her out of the room, He called Dave then, and Ligzle got ap grinning, She said she guessed she could go then, Just before she got into the automobile to go away she turned to me and said she was going to lay for me in New York for a year.” case comes to trial, ped ase RRS Col. Thesiger to Be British Consal Here. LONDON, July 29,—ol. Wilfred Thesiger hag been appointed British Consul General at New York. SPIES OF PACKERS TRAIL MEAT MEN Broker Tells O’Malley of Their Activities to Throttle Lower Price Sales. CHEAPER PRICES HERE. in Washington Is That of The Evening World. According to Information received by Edwin J. O'Malley, Deputy City Markets Commissioner, spies of the Packers’ are trailing meat brokers who have the temerity to purchase stuffs trom the Govern- ment..A UrdkKer to-day toll Deputy Counalgsions® O'Malley in his office in the Municipal Building that a repre- sentative of a well known packing house was waiting for him down-/| stairs, Wherever he went the agent | of the packers followed, the broker said. Realising that he was up against a combination that would eventually drive him out of business unless he obeyed orders, the broker offered to sell to the City of New York a large quantity of Government Purchased foodstuffs on that he obtained a profit of only one- halt of 1 per cent, “I have pro6f that the agents of the packers have followed me,” said the broker to Mr. O’Malley, “for as soon as I got back to my office after what I had considered a successful day with retailers, I found a stack of cancellations of orders on my desk. My only conclusion is that the agents of the packers visited the retailers after I left them and apparently threatened them into cancelling my orders, This is desperate work, but it shows what the dealer in food- stuffs is up against when he bucks the big combine.” Deputy Commissioner O’Mailey re- garded the complaint go serious that he decided to lay tt before Mayor Hylan, The Deputy Markets Com- missioner will also consult the Mayor to-day on the methods the city is to employ in the handling of Govern- ment food. He is puszied over a de- spatch from Washington to the effect that he has agreed to act as agent for the distribution of Federal food- stuffs “through a group of New York merchants.” “It looks to me as if that despatch from Washington is inspired,” said the Deputy Markets Commissioner, “It is true that I have agreed, with the permission of Mayor Hylan, to act as agent for the Government in the distribution of food, but | have not agreed to have this done on a whole- sale scale through merchants. My plan, as outlined in @ letter to the Government, is to have the police sta- tions, fire houses, city market places and other depots to be later selected, designated as the points at which Government-owned food could! be And the rest will be told when the’ bought. “With this end in view I have de- olded to go to Washington to-day and confer with Secretary of War Baker, It is true, as stated in the newspaper despatch from Washing- ton, that the City of New York does not intend to sell food for a profit. Its only desire 1s to act as the agent of the Government in the distribution of army bacon, canned meats and other products. I feel that every one | (Continued on Second Page.) | —————. | View the City trom the WORLD RESTAURANT, clagecial fot to-day, Tuewday. Joly 20, 1019.) riahed ‘teat’ gutiet ith tomsatd soos nase. Ey hear WHO BUY WAR FOOD. Distribution Plan Announced | condition | ar mataceremnad Extremists Stampede Midnight | Meeting of Surface and Elevated Workers. “TO HELL WITH PUBLIC.” 15,000 Walk Out on Few Hours’ Notice and Stop * Every Transportation Line. CHICAGO, July 29.—Fifteen thou- wand street railway employees went on atrike for highet wages at 4 a'clook this morning, completely tying wp the surface and elevated systems of the city. | OMeials of the traction lines de- | Clared to-day that no effort would be made to run cars. They denied that they were importing strikebreakers. | The public depended on steam rail- ways, automobiles and other vehicles to reach their places of business, Early last night heads of the unions nd officials of the street railway companies reached an agreement to fix the wages of the men at approxi- mately 65 cents an hour, and grant an eight-hour day with time and a half for overtime. It was thought this action would avert a walkout, but at a mass-meeting shortly before midnight, the men repudiated the agreement, and employees voted to strike at 4A. M. ‘The employees demanded 85 cents an hour, an increase of 77 per cent. over present wages, an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. elevated men attended the meeting at the carmen's auditorium, at which the strike vote was carried. Repre- sentatives of the men attempted to give an explanation of the negotia- tions between themselves and the companies’ officials at which ¢ compromise was reached, but the men swept their officials from con- trol of the meeting. | MEN ROAR STRIKE VOTE UNDER RADICAL'S LEADERSHIP, Boosting one of thelr number, said | the to represent the radical element in the union, to the platform, the men carried the strike vote with a roar, then proclaimed in favor of an 85- n-hour wage, an eight-hour a six-hour day Sunday and a six-day week, For two hours William Quinlan, President of the Carmen's Union, fought to get the compromise prop- osition before the meeting, He was aided by other offict Finally L, D. Bland, member of the International Board of the union, attempted to place the terms of the agreement as to wages before the meeting. Getting @ brief silence, he said: “Remember, men, we are not fight- ing the traction companies in this matter. We are fighting the Chicago public’*— “To hell with the public. The public be damned,” several shouted, and Bland threw up his hands and sat down, Quinlan at- tempted to talk to the surface men, ‘and William Mylan, President of the | Elevated Trainmen's Division of the union, made another futile effort to be heard, but, a crowd lifted Charles Dreckman, a conductor, to the plat- form, and thereafter those favorin, jacceptance of the wage compromise were out of control of the gathering. stations and notified the crews of | each train as it rolled up to the plat- (Continued on Second Page.) RADICALS FORCE CAR STRIKE THAT PARALYZES CHICAGO OVER UNION LEADERS PLEAS ‘SEVEN OFFICERS Six thousand of. the surface and! FOUND GUILTY IN NAVY GRAFT CASE Lieut. Davis and Three Ensigns , Among Those Convicted \ By Court Martial, $5. AT emiehtenttitn ‘WASHINGTON, July 2.—Four om- cers and thres petty officers of the navy iiavé been convicted by courts martic! on charges in connection with the enrollment, promotion and asgign- ment to duty of reservists in the Third Na- ul District ..t New York, the Navy Department anfounced to- day. Besides Lieut. Benjamin C. Davis, whose conviction previously had been announced, the men are; Ensigns Paul Beck, Oscar F. Robert H, Spahn, all naval reservists, and Chief Boatswain Lioyd C. Casey,|°PPortune to lay before you this Chiet Boatswain's Mate Frederick L.|Treaty which is meant to be in ef- “Circulation Books Open to. WILSON SUBMITS FRENCH TREATY IN SPECIAL MESSAGE Tells Senate Convention Is to Aid France Until League Is Ready. DEBT NOT PAID. OUR | President Says Triple Agree- ment Is Based on Sacred Ties. 18 PAGES WASHINGTON, July 29,—Presi- dent Wilson in submitting the special Franco-American treaty to the Sen- Berger and/™ent, (Treaty with Germany), I pre- ate to-day and asking for its early ratification, “along with the treaty | wag killed and two others were wounded with Germany," made no direct ret- érence to the charges recently madp on the Senate floor by Republicans that he had violated a section of the pact by not submitting It at th fame time that. the treaty) ef Ver~ sailleg woe presented, After explaining that the object of the treaty was to secure to the French Republic the immediate aid of the United States in the event vf| an unprovoked attack by Germany, the President said; “Now that you have had an oppor- tunity to examine the great docu- sented to you two weeks ago, it seems PRICE TWO CENTS. DEAD ROES KILLED IN “LOOP MORE TROOPS ARE SENT T0-QUELL CHICAGO RIOTING. Sixteen Whites and Ten Blacks on © _Death List—Governor Calls Con- ference and Pleads for Order— 5 ‘Hundreds of Injured Tax Hospitals ICAGO, July 29.—The race rioting between negroes and. whites has terrorized the south side for two nights spread to the “loop,” or céntral business district, to-day. in the heart of the business section, Shortly before 7 A. M. one negro. Fae te exit ba telecon rh ena the loop,” “He was dragged out, Jones, and Chief Yeoman Henry 8. fect @ part of it.” Jacobs. ‘The Department statement said the seven men pleaded guilty on charges. of having accepted money and val- uable presents from reservists for de- sired assignments or for relief trom active duty after the armistice. Ber- ger-and Spahn were convicted of fraud in connection with the exam- {nation of applicants for promotion, Ensign Beck was sentenced to be} | stripped publicly of the insignia of his rank, dismissed from the service and twelve years’ imprisonment; Berger was sentenced to dismissal and three years’ imprisonment; Spahn to dis- missal and one year's imprisonment; Casey to be stripped of his insignia, dismissed and twelve years’ im- prisonment; Jones to be’ reduced to of seaman, five years’ im- prisonment and dishonorable dis- charge; Jacobs to be reduced tu landsman, five years’ imprisonment and dishonorable discharge. The sen- tence imposed on Davis was not announced, HAMMERSTEIN NEAR DEATH; FAMILY AT HIS BEDSIDE Physicians Hold Out but Little Hope for Recovery of the Impresario, Oscar Hammerstein, well known theatrical producer, is not expected to live more than @ few hours and his family bas been summoned to his bed- side in the Lenox Hill Hospital, 77th Street and Park Avenue. At noontime the condition of the tmpressario was auch’ that his physician held out no hope and pronounced him in a dying condi- ton. Mrs. Hammerstein and a son and a aughter of the producer were hurriedly called to the hospital this morning, when it was apparent that Mr, Ham- merstein had but a few hours to live, ‘The cause of sickness was diabetes and | combination of other ailments, which forced the removal of Mr. Hammerstein last Gaturday to the hospital. He failed As soon a4 the strike vote was car- | to respond to medical treatment and has ried runners went to nearby elevated | gradually Grown weaker, Last year he was in the same insti- tution for five weeks with a similar all- ment, but he recovered and left the hos- pital apparently in the best of health, The President departed from his usual custom of addressing the Sen- ate in person, His message was read by the clerk after the Senate, on mc- tion of Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, had agreed to reveive the Treaty in open session. There was no discussion after the reading and the Treaty was referred to the For- eign Relations Committee, The President's message follows: intlemen of the Sen: “I take pleasure in laying before you a treaty with the Republic of France, the object of which is tu se- cure that republic the immediate aid of the United States of America in case of an unprovoked movement of aggression against her on the part of Germany. I ea:nestly hope that this treaty will meet with your cordial approval and will receive an early ratification at your hands, along with the Treaty of Peace with Germany. Now that you have had an oppor- tunity to examine the great document I presented to you two weeks ago, it seems opportune to lay before you this treaty, which is meant tu be in effect a part of it. “It was signed on the game day with the Treaty of Peace and is in- tended as a temporary supplement to it, It is believed that the treaty with Germany itself provides ade- quate protection: to France against aggression from her recent enemy on the East; but the years immediately ahead of us contain many incalcula- bie possibilities, The covenant of the League of Nations provides for mili- tary action for the protection of its members only upon advice of the Council of the League--advice given, it is to be presumed, only upon de- Mberation and acted upon by each of the Governments of the member states only if its own judgment justi~ fies such action, The object of the special treaty with France which I now submit to you is to provide for immediate miltary assistance to} France by the United States in case | ® of any unprovoked movement of ag- gression against her by Germany |$: without waiting for the advice of the council of ‘:.o League of Nations that such action be taken. It is to be an 7 be by Lie kill@H the negro in self-defense. 4 AND BATTLE FOR HOUR Race Riot in Chicago Prison Ended } Only When Both Sides J Are Clubbed. CHICAGO, July 2. NE of the most serious race Oo riots to-day occurred in the Cook County Jail when 100 ng@ro prisoners, exercising outside their cells overpowered a negro rd and raced into the exer- room af the white prisoners ere there were between 600 and men. When the negroes burst there waa’ an instant clash, The regular force of guards unable to control the fight- and #0 locked the doors and peated for aid, The prisoners wht for an hour before they ¢ beaten into submission with qiubs, Several of the negro pris- agers, it was reported, carried kRives and a number of white Deisoners are paid to have been sériously wounded. i a BRIDE SWALLOWS POISON. Life b Prompt A Mrs. Blsea Sanches, thirty years old of No, M2 Freeman Street, the Bronx, andia bride of a few months, attempted sulgide to-day at hef home by swallow. ing the contents of two cans of insect powder, Her life was saved by the nick work of a neighbor, Mrs, Kather- ine Duncan, who administered an emetic. ‘ Mrs. Sanches is now aprisoner at the Lingoln Hospital, cbarged with at- tempted suicide. ll recover. She sald that her act was caused by martial troubles, —>——. ‘Whe United States Steel Company to- day. declared regular quarterly divi- ends of '1 1-4 per cent. on the common stock and 13-4 per cent, on the pre- ferred. Earnings were as follows: terrended June $0, 1919—Net after Federal Taxes $34,331,301 against $32,513.384 in the preceding quarter $62,557,391 In June 1918 quarter, earnings by months compared ra #grent AO, O8 follows: Apri 27,398. decrease $9,617, ay, $10,082,559, decrease $10,561,645; June, $12,271,349, decrease $8,046,856, ; ——_——— SUNDAY WORLD “WANTS” Quar- N In, pth instances the Slayers escapedbeywneni% ¥ ; ‘An unidentified negro who fireu Into a crowd surrounding ae James Dey was killed by the Lieutenant, i reported he had .. WwW, stabbed, and left dead 20, the sina Gs There were several other exciting | clashes in the loop district this morn- |ing when mobs of white men chased Regroes for blocks shouting, “Kil the Coons.” A ¢rowd invaded a restuu- rant across the street from the City Hall, dragged out a negro porter and beat him unconscious with bottles, The police used: their batons vigor- ously in dispersing these mobs and rescuing the negroes, Joseph Powers, white, a street, car conductor, was shot and killed soon after daylight in the Stockyards sec- on. William Henderson, a negro, was arrested on suspicion in connec: tion with the killing, Thomas Joshua, a negro, was killed later by @ detective who fired into a crowd of rioters on the south side, About the same time B. FP. Hardy, negro, died at a hospital trom wounds, he had received, Folowing this Harold Rignadell, | white, was riddled by bullets fired from a house at No. 1021 South State Street and killed. When the police rushed the place they found and ar- rested four women and nine men, ali negroes, Two revolvers, two razors, @n axe, several knives and a quantity of cartridges were discovered piled negroes had been shooting, Morris Parral, white, died of in- juries sustained last night, ‘There were several shootings and stabbings, mostly by emall gangs. SIXTEEN WHITES AND TEN NEGROES DEAD. To-day’s killings brought the num- ber of dead, in police reports; up to twenty-six, and hundreds were in- Jured. The police had under investi. gation three other reported killings. The list of twenty-six included sik- teen whites and ten negroes, The street car strike seemed to aid surged up from the south side into pedestrians, mostly men and boys, whose numbers afforded rich oppor- tunities for racial quarrels, The disorders to-day reached even the North Side, which includes the exclusive Lake Shore Drive distriet,. A number ‘of negroes were chased and threatened there. Few negroes” live in that section, There were two. dangerous outbreaks as far south aa SLst and State Streets, ‘The day's fighting however, mainly in the heart of the ‘ belt,” along 36th, Street, at Wabash and Adams Streets, near @ window from which the: ~ the spread of race rioting which - the loop on the heels of thousands — walking to work who ordinarily ride Streets ordinarily almost deserted” early in the day were busy with! ..