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_ Ue) Ms Vref IBIS M22 EDITION _——————————— PRICE TWO CENTS. er ih "New York World). The Press Publishing NEW YORK, |, THURSDAY, ICANT DECLARE PEACE, SAYS WILSON ‘MEXICO ASKS U.S. TO RECALL TROOP ‘CROWDS FLOCK TO SCHOOLS FOR ARMY CANNED GOODS: BACON SUPPLY 1S DELAYED) Thousands Purchase Food at Low Prices Without Disorder—Women Watchers Thwart Dealers Who Try to Buy Up Big Stocks. ‘The sales of surplus Army supplies of bacon and vanned vegetables began today in fifty-six school houses in all boroughs of the city. In the Bronx the sales were not started until afternoon, but in the other’ boronighs,.city salesmen, assisted by.th¢ police and the women’s police reserves, cashiers from the Finance Department*and volunteers were kept busy every. minute after 10 o'clock the announced opening time. At | S8tNe schdols the early crowd was o'clock. ‘The City’s anti-High Cost of Living centres were not mobbed. In but few imbtances did intending purchasers thow any more anxicty than would be found about any ordinary com- mercial establishment which had a Vertined judiciously in the new: papers. In market terms, however, the demand was strong and steady from the start and Market Commis- sioner Day, Deputy Commissioner O'Malley and others who put into of- fect the insistence of The Evening ‘World that the surplus government supplies released by the ending of the war! should be put on public sale, both ‘as an object lesson to profi- teers and as an immediate relief to their victims, found the response to their efforts more than gratifying. Good order was preserved every- where and porary irritation, due te un‘amfilc. ‘ty of both ealesmen and buyers with the new method, dis- @ppeared as soon as it was started in general good matured chaffing and mutual congmtulations. SOME HITCHES IN DELIVERY TO SALESROOMS. The deliveries from the city ware- houses to the school salesrooms were im tow instances working perfectly. Tm many neighborhoods, especially on tthe east side, this resulted in slack Dusiriess for a time because the emer- gemoy delivery conditions had fur nished first shipments of foods un- acceptable to the religious beliefs of many of the dwellers in the neighbor- hood. It soon became apparent, however, that in the “melting pot” no one race or creed is 20 much in the majority but that there are plenty of pur- @hasers at bottom prices for any food oh can be offered in almost any ntity. Commissioner Day said that he had Been disappointed in getting an ample wupply of bacon to all the schools in time for the opening of the sales, but his early morning reports trom the watehouses and from the Government storehouses at Port Newark were that bacon was moving steadily Baoon would be ayallable at all the temporary stores in the afternoon, he said, and there would be a full sup- ply @-morrew and on succeeding @aye until be allotment was ex- - hausted. ‘The Commissioner's figures showed that 250,000 pounds of bacon had been received by the city and 190,000 pounds of this amount was on its way to the salesrooms by half past ten o'clock this morning. From many of the selling stations came reports making plain the wis- dom of putting on auty Police re- so great that the sales began at 9 HIGH GOST OF LIVING BLAMED FOR STRIKES BY COMPTROLLER OF JERSEY Bugbee Advocates Better Marketing System and Strict Punishment for Profiteers. EWTON A. K. BUGBDE, N State Comptroller of New Jersey, to-day attributed all strikes in progress or pending to the bigh cost of living, His in- dictment was delivered in an ad- dress to employees of the Edison Lamp Works at Newark, in ex- plaining the operation of Jersey's State Labor Bureau. Mr. Bugbee declared that the workers do not insist that their services are worth more than they are receiving, but that their wages will not purchase what they need to live on. He advocated a better marketing system ‘and strict punishment for profiteers. sa ssbb COL, GREEN'S FINE YACHT ASHORE, BADLY DAMAGED Hole Torn in Bottom of V. One of Costliest of Kind in World, NEW BEDFORD, Masa, Aug. 21.— Col. Edward HL R. Green's steam yacht United States was aground to-day on a lodge just Inside Padanaram Break- water, where she struck late last night while belmg swung around to make anchor, vessel was listed at an angle of ‘eos with her starboard ratl ged and was sald to have a big Wreckers have ‘Th ‘The United States, formerly a Great Lakes steamship, is said to be one of the most costly private yachts in the world, having @ etateroom for every state in the Union. Col. Green is a son of the late Hetty Green. a EE MARTIAL LAW IN HUNGARY, Prociaimed Throdghout » Budapest Despai Country 21,—BLartial throughout despatch Aug. law has been proclaimed Hungary, ‘says a Budapest dated Wednesday - _ “Cireulation Books Open to All.” EDITIO. L405 AI va BVGy AUGUST 21, 1919. | WM MALONEY y BOLL ELOE-O8-G-8-9-0-O--6 ‘OF bar! SS HAYNES, pees) TUS Sai. LOP-FDDL DELIA P4OOO4O9694 964209290244 For story of the decoration of Americans at City Hall see page 3. @: |French, Italian, Belgian and U. S. Decorations Awarded to New York Heroes on City Hall Steps | POPOL DEED OLDE KNEPPER LEADING JONES BY ONE HOLE IN GOLF TOURNEY Amateur Championship Round Played in Rain—Ouimet _ and Platt Even. By William Abbott. (Bpscial Sint Commmurient of ‘The Brening World.) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21—The four remaining matches to-day in the third round of the National Amateur Golf Championship on the Oakmont course were all played under a driv- ing rain that swept across the links from the nearby foothills of the Al- legheny mountains with such velocity that umbreflas and ollakins were Littl protection. The firet pair to splash around the water-soaked links were Bobby Jones, the seventeen-year-old Atlanta youth whose chances of winning the coun try’s golf classic has fairly leaped up. following the elimination of Chick Evans yesterday, and Ritolpy snep per, an eimhtcou-year-a unknown from Sioam OFy, whose business like playing har been one of the outstand ing features of the tournament. Afte many ups and downs K per fin shed the first eighteen holes, with hole lead over the brilliant Southern youth, ‘Tho scores were exceptionally high, reflecting the heavy golng which was poentinned qn Stesnd Feans MEXICO PROTESTS AGAINST U.S. TROOPS CROSSING BORDER Carranza Directs Envoy to Ask Immediate Withdrawal of Our Forces, WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The Mex- can Ambassador here has been tn- structed by his Government to pro- test to the State Department against the dispatch of acrosa the border and to request their withdrawal, according to a statement issued at Mexioo City yesterday, The here to-day, American troops statement as received sal “Two aviators of the army of the United States, through error, so thoy state, flew over our territory, landing approximately 112 kilometres to the south of the frontier, whore they were captured by a band of twenty bandits. They have now been liberated. “Some troops of the 8th Cavalry of the United States orossed the frontier in pursuit of the outlaws. The De- partment of Foreign Relations gave instructions at once to our Embassy in Washington to make appropriate presentations, protesting juesting the immediate withdrawal :f the invading It was said at the State Department and re troops to-day that no protest had been made by Ambassador Bonillas. Thé Mexican Government has byon MAY GALL LESISLATURE TO ENACT FOOD LAWS Governor's Action Depends on Re- port to Be Made by Glynn and Finley. ALBANY, Aug. 21.—Upon tho pre- Uminary report to be submitted to Gov. Smith to-night or to-miorrow py for- mer Gov. Martin H missioner of Education Jonn H. Finley Glynn and Com- on their survey of the food #ttuation in the State will depend whether there will be an extraordinary session of the Legislature to consider proposed legis- lation aimed at profiteering. Goy. Smith wrote to Distc ney Swann of New York asking what, if any, action had been takun toward invefatiguting an ulleged conspiracy to raise the price of milk. ——- MOB SHOOTS NEGRO, Body Taken to Scene of and Hanged to LOUISBURG, N, C,, Aug. $1.—Wal ter Elltott, a negro, Who is alleged to have asmaulted a wife was #not to death last alght by a mob which later carried the body to the acene of the crime and swung it to @ tree In @ country churchyard. The mob took the nogro trom Sfferiff Attor- a Crime ee, farmer's (onuinued on Heoond Page) f Seer vetinven 80 war 108, ALL CARS TIED UP BY WALK-OUT ON WESTCHESTER LINE etd ie Men Demanding Higher Pay Strike Without Warning— Got Increase Monday, Service on the New York, West- chester and Boston Railroad, which runs from the Harlem River in the Bronx to White Plains and New Rochelle, was tied up to-day by a strike for higher wages of the motormen and conductors. Not & wheel turned on the sys- tem. There was no warning of the strike, the men having been granted an increase last Monday, and thousands of commuters were seriously inconvenienced this morn- ing, The strike was called at 6 o'clock The company operates high pow er electric trains and the employees assert they should be on the same plane of compensation as the men on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, which parallels the system at several points ‘ Although only seventy men are actually on strike-—thirty-five mo- tormen and thirty-five conductors— their action in abandoning their trains has forced all the other em- ployees into idleness, Public Service Commission has warned op- | (Continued on Tenth Page) | New _____ 20 PAGES RATIFICATION OF TREATY ONLY WAY TO OBTAINPEAGE, WILSON'S ANSWER T0 FALL It Would Be a Stain on National Honor, He Writes the Senator, If U.S. Should Abandon Associates in War in Settlement of Terms. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—President Wilson has not the power to declare peace by proclamation, nor could he consent in any circumstances to take such a course prior to the ratification of a formal peace by the Senate. The President so wrote Senator Pall to-day in answer to'one of the twenty written questions the Senator presented at the White House conference Tuesday. Li Replying to another question, the President said the provision of the treaty that it should come into force after ratification by Germany and three of the principal associated powers operated merely to establish peace between those ratifying powers and that it was “questionable whether it can be said that the League of Nations is in any true sense created by the association of only thfee of the Allied and’ associated Governments," :/AMERICAN SAILORS, | AIDED BY FRENCH, FIGHT GERMANS eS Clash at Port Near Danzig in Which Shots Are Fired From Warship. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 21.—Collt- sions occurred between German and American sailors on Tuesday at ‘Neu- fabrwasser and resulted in the wounding of several civilians and one German seaman, according to Dan- sig despatches received here’ to-day, Neufahrwasser is a sport four miles north of Dansig. ‘The disorders grew out of a quarrel that arose in a dance hall Monday night, according to these despatches. The disturbance was continued in the streets after the sailors left the dance hall, The Americans returned to their ship, the destroyer Hale. On Tuesday seamen on leave from the German ruiser Frankfort came to blows with An can sailors and, it was sald, civilians also attacked the Americans. The Americans, supported by French seamen from the French de- stroyer Claymore, charged the crowds. Shots were said to have been fred tom the Claymore, wound- ing four Germans alightly Frontier guards who were called | out dispersed the crowds and the Americans and the French returned | to their ships. min 13 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK. York Sleepers Care That Are Der: Five ROANOKE, Va, Aug hirteen Passongers were Injured, © wert ously, In the derailment of a Norfolk and Western passenger train near Boyce, Va, early to-day Five cars left the track, including two Pullmans, en route from South- w York. —»—_—__— Pe ge eerie, |, 4 tombe. ern points to As to the question of when ners” mal conditions might be restored, the President said he could only ‘express the confident opinion that’ immediate ratification ‘of the treaty and acceptance of the Cov- enant of the League as written would “oortainly within the near future reduce the cost of living,” both in this country and abroad through the restoration of pre+ duction and commerce to normal, To Senator Fall's questions relating to the disposition of Germany's pos- seesiona, the President said the ar rangement in the treaty conveyed no Utle to the Allied or Associated Pow. org, but merely “intrusts disposition of the territory in question to their decision.” “Germany's renunciation in favor of the principal Allied and Associated Powers,” the President continued, “of her rights and titles to her overseas possessions is meant similarly to op. erate as vesting in those powers a trustecsbip with respect of their anal disposition and government.” TEXT OF WILSON’S LETTER To SENATOR FALL. Tho Fall questions wero submitted at the White House conference be tween the President and Senate For eign Relations Comittee Tuesday, The President's letter in reply was written yesterday and reada. “You left yesterday in my hands certaim written questiohs which J promised you I would answer. I am hastening to fulf! the promise “L feel constrained in reply to your first question not only that tn my judgment I"have not the power by proclamation to de@fare that peace exists, but that I could in no elrewm- stances consent to take such @ course prior to the ratification of a formal treaty of peace, , “1 fool it due to perfect frar’ee ness to say that it would, in bo opinion, put # stain «1 jonal honer, which we could eff if, after consigy: our men to the battlefields . fight the common cause, we should abandon our associates in the war in the settlement of the terms of peace and disgociate our- selves from all respo ‘bility whe regard to those terme, AY