The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 1

(US Al Vie EVES f Ciroulation Books Open to Al1.”| : CONFERENCE WITH JUDGE MAYER TO SETTLE B. R. T. STRIKE BEGI Strikers on B. R. T. Start Free Auto Passenger Service for Brooklyn Citizens \ CONGRESS WILL GET BUSY AT ONGE 10 PASS FOOD LAWS URGED BY Tht PRESIDENT Majority Leaders Lodge and | Mondell.Indorse Sgme of Wilson's Views. ,PALMER’S AGENTS BUSY. Orders for Round-Up of Profiteers — President to Take Fight to People. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Congress will begin at once consideration of to carry out, in part at least, President Wileot's recommen- Gations for reducing the high cost of living, House and Senate leaders. promised to-day. country may be taken up directly with the people by President Wilson dur- ing his forthcoming trip in the inter- ext of the peace treaty. This was in- dicated to-day at the White House, where it also was eaid that plans for the President's tour were going for- ward. America’s army of secret servic hhoarders to-day. Orders were flashed from Washington’ to hundreds of PRICE TWO CENTS. u Domestic problema now facing the ‘agents was turned loose on the food R “ Cireulation.. Omrrben’ (The 1919, by The Press New York Werte). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919. NO THREATS INTENDED, SAY RAIL RAILWAY UNIONS Chiefs asin i Me If Wage Raise Is Refused They Will Try “An- other Solution.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-—Leaders of the fifteen organizations of thr railroad employees united to-day in ® “definite assertion” thet they had no desire, and have none, “to impress upon the public by violence or by threat,” thelr proposal that the railroads “be nationalized under tri- Dartite control. — Declaring that the requests of the SLOSO-93698 06906-5600 O9F OOF 8EO9EOF 6 990 OSEGIE6G- 40-46-0686 ques month f “4 lpm of the tare. ai railroad the labor lei i lent Wilson meet this request jave to try to find onition C4 mn would solution. GLIDES THIRTY-FIVE MILES WITH PLANE MOTOR IDLE Aviator Starts at Height of 17,500 Feet for His Long Descent to Earth. A glide of thirty-five miles with a dead motor was made last Saturday by Cc. Marshall, te pilot for the ‘Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation, ac- cording to an announcement to-day by the company. It is said that this is a special operatives of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice all over the United States, instructing them to cooperate with Federal district attorneys in the profiteer hunt. Atio.rey General Palmer expects news to-day of the arrest of many alleged profiteers. Representative Mondell, majority leader of the House, said that any request for money to make effectiye the campaign against profiteers ‘would speedily be compiled with. “I have no opposition to extending the Lever Food Control Act, if that 18 believed essential,” Mr. Mondell added, @enator Lodge, majority leader of the Senate, said: “I think the President made some good and practical suggestions in re- i gard to the artificial and extortionate prices for the necessities of life, and I am sure that Congress will-deal with them at once.” A number of the President's -ug gestions have been covered in biile now pending, Committee action on these will be urged next week. Thoy include measures for regulation uf storage plants and for stamping of prices on food products, “The President is taking an unfair advantage of using the high cost of living i#sue as a club to force raitfi- cation of the League of Nations,” sald Senator Brandegee, “He can have peace in two days if he will agree to a regervation excluding the United States from the League of Nations,” am against further extension of autocracy,” said Senator Gronna, Nerth Dakota, chairman of the Agri- culture Committee, before which a bill to re-enact the Lever measure would go, “The President bas all the au- thority he needs, and I think he has all he'll get, so far ag the Agriculture Committee is concerned.” pia ees ANS BETORD MEALS jow fine Good Digest! ef! jaestion makes world's record for gliding. * “Tex” Marshall, as he is called, flew from Ithaca to the head of Cayura Lake, @ distance of thirty-five miles, and then flew upward until he reached a height of 17,600 feet. He then cut off big motor and glided toward Ithaca. ‘When he prrar the city, it Is stated, he was still ne Pelee of more than 8 mill and t tight have glided Atteen JUDGE OPPENHEIMER PUT IN BELLEVUE FOR OBSERVATION Reported to Have Attempted to Harm Himself at Home in East 79th Street. Judge Solomon Oppenheimer of the Sixth District» Municipal Court was taken this morning from his home, No. 172 Hast 79th Street, to Bellevue Hospital for observation. At the home of the Judge it was but In what manner or to what degree could not be learned. pa An Nl al FIRST U. S. MAIL IN BERLIN, for Three Years There. BERLIN, Aug. 9 (Associated Pres), ‘The first direct uncensored mail from America to Germany began arriving Wednesday, the letters received rang- ing from business communications held up for weeks, months and even years by the English to recent letters from three to five weeks old. One bank communication more than three years old bore the seal of the British censor, but all recent letters were untouched except by Germans, who, it is charged, might have been looking for’ money or for trade secrets, Another shipment of nearly 1,800 sacks is due in Copenhagen the middie of August, said that he had tried to harm himself | ®' OS24-4490G4-0S565-08 G4-99684O0 GEN. PERSHING RECALLED, SAYS REPORT FROM PARIS Baker and March Declare They Know Nothing of Such an Order. PARIS, Aug.’9.—It is reported here to-day that Gen. Pershing has been Tecalled suddenly to the United States and that he may even abandon hia visit to King Albert of Beigium planned for Sunday. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Secretary Baker and Gen, March, Chief of staff, sald to-day they knew nothing of any order recalling Gen. Pershing to the United States, White House officials said they had not been advised that such an order had gone forward. It would have to be issued by the President. palatable Satelite REDS REPORT PLOT TO RESTORE MONARCHY International League Alleged to Have Been Revealed Through Murder of Russian Bolshevist. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 9.—Police herr declared to-day they had discovered an “international league for re-es- tablishing the Russian monarchy.” The disclosures followed investi ons of the recent murder of a Bolshevik emissary. The | Secretary of the league selected the victims, the police said, ‘They said an American named Lehrs was among the persons reported. executed, charged with: the murder of four royalists, CLOSING TIME 71.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. Want Advertisements for The Sunday World must be in The World's Main Office onor | |] before 7.30 Saturday evening. —== Positively no Advertisements will Vienna Re. clnimed & VIENNA, Aug, Badapest, A state of 5! 9. has been prociaimed in Budape Ke be accepted after this time. fend your Sunday Wer'é Want Advertisement in to-day 0 make eure of its publication, NEW HAVEN TIE-UP MAY END QUICKLY: MEN FOR RETURN Connecticut Strikers Recom- mend Resumption of Work to Conference. NEW HAVEN, Aug. %— meetingof shopmen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad hereto-day instructed its delegates to a system federation meeting here to- Conn., morrow to agree to end the strike, provided the shopmen at the Boston edn of the system desire to return, The strike may be ended immedi- ately, in the judgment of the dele- gates, Without any warning to the oM, clals of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 175 car in- spectors, attached to the Van Nest Yards, walked out to-day following the strike of shopmen, which has crippled the system, They took with them their tools and working clothes, Superintendent Robert Hull, in charge of the inspectors, declared the only explanation he could get from the men as they quit was “that Washington knew why they were leaving.” Superintendent Hun did not deny that the walk-out of the men made the situation more serious, Thelr work is to examine all brakes, coup- lings and connections of trains before they are permitted to make a run, and is of @ highly essential nature, Up to this morning 141 traing had been withdrawn on the New Haven system, including most of the fast ex- presses, No parlor cars are being run, and few sleepers, It is still possible, Lowever, for travellers to reach any point on the road. The following announcements were made to-day relative to train ser- vice: The Btate of Maine and the Bar Harbor expresses will be consolida- ted and will leave the Grand Cen- tral terminal to-night at "20 o'clock. The State of Maine express will leave the Grand Central terminal at 7.30 o'clock to-morrow night. But after that will not be run on Sunday nights until further notice. These Saturday trains were taken oft: 12.40 P, M.—Seashore idence, 12.42 P, M.—New Rochelle, 12.45 P. M.—Pittsfield express. 12.47 P. M.—New Canaan express, 1.06 P. M.—Bridgeport express, 1,09 P. M.—Winsted express. 1.12 P. M.—New Rochelle local. P. M.—Danbury express. 2.1% P. M.—New Rochelle local. It was anounced also that the fol- lowing trains would not be operated to-morrow: 6 A. M.—To Springfield. 9 A. M.—To New Haven. 10 A. M.—To Boston. 3.85 P. M.—To Springfield. 6.26 P, M—-To Springfield. Commutation service between New Jersey and New York is not threat- ened by a strike at present. The shop men of the railroads on the Jersey side are organized but the sentiment seoms to be against a strike, oMiciuls state, J. J. Mantell, in charge of the Jer- sey roads under the U. 8. Rallway Administration, sald to-day no inti- mation of a strike had been given by employees of the Jersey Central, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania or Erie lines, ’ pee al RAE FELONY CHARGE DROPPED. express to Thirty-six men who were arrested yesterday charged with putting rails across the tracks at Church Avenue and East S4th Street were arraigned this morning before Magistrate Fish in the Fiatbuah Court. ey were arraigned before Mas istrate Folwell yesterday and hold in $1,000 pail each on a felony charge. Ansistant District Attor Conway had the charge reduced to-day to one of dsorderly conduct, The bail wi reduced to $200 and the haring put off until Tuesday in the Butler "Btreot Court. United Press).— Bolshevik troops, disguised as women, attacked British gunners near One: on the Archangel front, sald a despatch from the Dally News correspondent to- LONDON, Aug. 9 day, The British escaped through the woods. Retreating” British forces shelled a for eleven hours, hittin according to & news or houses, despatch, ney ck 1 ms dobbs aa a. nals abe UNION LEADERS CONFER TO TIE UP MANHATTAN CARS and Surface Lines May Be Affected by Strike Tuesday. ORGANIZERS Mén on This Side Have Griev- ances of Their Own, Says Shea. ‘Threats of a complete tie-up of the Manhattan surface, subway and ele, vated nes, with the possibility of extending it to the Brong, have been made by union officials... It is re- ported on good authority that the! Pi Will be called out In the early; hours of Tuesday. Leaders Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em- ployees have been quictty arriving jn the coty from Detroit during the past tow days and have been holding con- ferences as well as talking with the men, It is said that action may depend upon the outcome of the B, R. T.! strike, but that the strike on the! Manhattan lines will be ordered | whether or not the Brooklyn situ: | ation is cleared, The men of the | Manhattan lines have grievances of thelr own, which include a demand for more wages. Union Leader P, J. Shea declared that more than half of the Manhattan subway and “L” men are members of the Amalgamated, and will strik regardless of the Brooklyn tie-up, be: cause “they have grievances of their own.” He said leaders and organize! of the Amalgamated would arrive to- day and start things going. Organ- iser Fitegerald, active tn the last strike, is already here and busy among the men. Harry Jones, one of the national organizers of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Blectric Rail- ways, said this morning: “A strike on the Manhattan trac- tion Lines is inevitable, no matter jWhat the outcome of the B, R, T. jstrike Is. The union is prepared to centre all its energies and resources on the fight to make the New York companies sign an agteement with with Shea, said the Manhattan strike would probably be called us soon as the natiqnal officers of the union from Detroit, #0 many men in New York who are members of the Amal- mated,” he sald, “that it will take a great many leaders to direct the strike.” Mr, Shea was asked: “Will the strike in Manhattan be called next Tuesday?” “Why do you ask that?” “It is a duty you owe the public to warn them,” he was reminded. “No time has been set for the strike yet.” He said demands the Manhattan comp: that thes would be the sa:se as the Brooklya ultimatum, recognition of the union, 76 cents an hour and an eight-hour day. ——_—___- BREWER WINS 2.75 POINT. Ruling Puts Qu uid bo made on n ‘et and tom up to Jury, LOS ANGELMS,: Cal, Aus. 9.— Judge B. F. Bledsoe of the United States District Court yesterday sus- tained a demurrer to an indictment against Joseph Baumgartner, an offi- cer of the Bakers Field Brewing Com- pany who was charged with selling 2.75 r cent. beer, on the ground that the Indictment did not show that the beer was intoxicating. According to Gordon Lawson, assist: | ant United States District Attorney, | the ruling means that in each cuad the jury must Uquer complained of is intoxicating. 14 PAGES active.|Nixon Meets B. R. T. Strikers in Plan PRICE TWO CENTS. CAR AND CITY OFFICIALS = ASKED BY FEDERAL JUDGE TO CONFER TO END to Arbitrate, but Results Are Not Known — Subway and Elevated Motormen Threaten to Quit ‘Improvement in Service. ia Federal Judge Juline M. Mayer, whe appointed Lindley M. Garrison receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid’ Transit Company, ‘conference this afternoon in his office in the Woolworth Bi at which it was hoped that definite progress toward a meat of the street railway strike in Brooklyn might be made. Judge Mayer returned from his vacation to-day to take up a settlement of the strike. The conference opened at 3 o'clock. Mayor Hylan, Publie Service Commissioners Nixon and Delaney, Receiver ;Corporation Counsel Burr, Timothy S, Williams, President of the 'B. R. T.; George G. Yeomank, B. R. T. counsel, and others were Er invited. Previously there had been a conference between Comaniigda a | Nixon and a committee of ten striking employees of the B. R. T. The ‘ results of this conference were nut made known at once, but it ‘was sald that Nixon made the following suggestions: ‘The strikers to select a committee of five and the non-union em Dloyees of the B. R. T. to select & committee of five and this joint committee of ten to select an arbitrator to act for ail the employees of the B, R, T. Receiver Garrison to select an arbitrator to represent the company. _ Commissioner Nixon to select a third arbitrator, who would prob F ably be John Mitchell, Chairman of the State Industrial Board and’ former President of the Coal Miners’ Union. ‘ Both sii jen to agree to abide by the decision of the arbitrators and the strike to be called off immediately to await the deciaion. The Nixon plan was presented at noon to a committee appointed | by the strikers at a meeting in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Louis Si i diger, counsel to the union, insisted '.: being made amember of the.com- mittee, although Receiver Garrison iss stated” that hé will- not dea union representatives who are not employees of the B. R. T. Smith, Chairman of the local unidn, was named as Chairman of committee, Other members of the stilkers’ committee are: Edward McGovern, & surface motorman; Edward Mayer, a subway motorman; Thomas P. “i brought to an immediate close 5 motormen may have to abandon posts, Such a step inevitably would Fallon, @ surface conductor; George Bub, an elevated repajrman; ‘Ray- mond Dhuy, & shop mechanic; Elmer Finn, ® mechanic; Max Brodie, ao elevated guard, and Morris Druban, « subway guard. between Mr, Nixon and the strikers Mr, Nixon came out smiling, but not talkative, “It was an encouraging confer- ence,” he said. Louls Fridiger only said that the talk had been “agreeable;” that ‘Mr, Nixon had been very kind” and that there would be no statement to make until the close of the later confer- ence in the office of Judge Mayer. P, J, Shea also indicated that he was pleased with what had happened but refused to tell what It was. He [had previously said he would do any- thing the men wanted him to do. After a meeting this afternoon of members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers employed by |the B, R. T.—these being the motor- men of subway and elevated trains now in operation—a committee left Prospect Hall, Brooklyn, to tell Mr. Garrison that unless the strike is At the conclusion of the conference | Orr, tle up B, R. T. subways and elevated, It was said, 4 The Locomotive Engineers were tidy dressed by Assistant Grand Chief L. G, Griffing, who came on from Cleve~ land, and Chief Organiser Willian J, ‘The committee chosen to ssé the Reeelver was made up of Chris Trauerts, General Chairman of the Brooklya Division R. L, Ei; 3.) Dixon and J, J, Donnelly, iy “We have a contract with the B, © RT. tha runs uptil Jan, 10," one)” of the men said, “and we ba os to live up to tt, but present eo are impossible. They are our trains with young strikebreakere /ilj and other non-union men, who at the engineers and say ‘You are better union men than we are.” the riding public has no respect us. The men are getting more satisfied every hour and it will» impossible to hold them. We wis the recetver would agree to trate and have. the MEN REPORTED TO TAKE STRIKE! ‘The strikers are ready to but the attitude of