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= _ “ Cireulation Books Open to All.” |“ Circulation Books Open to All.!" |_ ASI WAIT _PRICE TWO REELS —— | Wilson Offers Railway Shopmen Small Increase Coprright, coon, by bee ee Wort) Fubtiahing NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1 1919, 16 “PAGES ES PRIC RAND JURY DELVES INTO MILK #505 ; J) GREAT AIR RAGE’ STARTED | AT TORONTO AND MINEOLA: FLYERS G0 | Lieut. P, H. Logan in Le Pere Machine Leads From Roose- velt’ Field; Albany First Scheduled Stop. ALBANY, Aug. %.—Captain Foote was the first of the international @erby fiers to reach Albany. He Tanded safely at 3:16 P.M. Major Gen. Charles T. Menoher, ehiet of the United States Army Air Service, walked out on Roosevelt Field, near Mineola to-day and stoou . yards in front of the Le Pere Si¥itahe or Lieut, P. HH. Loran. The General lifted a hand- kerobief aa high as he could reach and let it float away from his hand to the grass. “With a roar of propel- lers Logan's machine shot out across ‘the lawn, lifted and made made two Sweeping circles over the crowd of ‘two thousand or more which had been ‘Waiting for five hours to see the start of the forty-three machines which ‘were to go from Mineola for Canada in the two-way races between this eity and Toronto. Every five minutes, for more than two hours, plane circled up over tthe hangars and headed for Albany, ‘the first contro} station, The race is for reliability first and speed second. ‘There are prizes for speed between contro! stations, but the big honor will go to the machines which are not delayed by mishaps due to con- etruction or to inability to meet un- forseen weather conditions. CAPT. FOOTES CARRIES MES- SAGE TO PRINCE OF WALES. Gen. Menober, Col. Archie Miller and Col, Carmody, the commander of Roosevelt Field, made a point of ghaking hands with every pilot and mavigator in the long line just be- Gere he received the signal to hop off. Capt. J, M, Footes with an L, W. ¥ and carryipg messages trom President Wilsot and Mayor Hylan t the Prince of Wales was the sec- Bd aviator to take off. Just before Lieut, W. C. F. Brown had started out with fonrmer Lieut, Panic! Gish as his navigator—Licut. @ish was wounded making a ‘record ag an ace in France so that he could got handle this own machine—the Princess de la Patra, who sald she ‘was the daughter of the Sultan Has- fan el Keme! of Exypt, ran up to his machine with a friend, Miss Ethel Abass, and gave him a filmy band- kerchicf, which he hurriedly tled as a streamer to one of the wire struts of his machine. After fifteen airships had left the ground word began coming from Buffalo of the arrival there of the firat of the flyers to etart trom Toronto, Jt was passed down the ot ‘waiting starters by mega- phone and enthusiasm was shown by cheering from the seats inside the machines which was heard over the whirr and the popping of the starting motors, At @ mesting this morning with Col, J. H. Carmody, new com- mander of Roosevelt Field, the con- testants decided not to fly over New York City on their way northward Because of the danger to persons on the streets in case of an accident. Two thousand persons gathered at the field to a | the start of the raco, © (Gonthaved on Eighth Page.) UP IN RELAYS: Four Flyers Out of Twelve, Who Started at Toronto, Land at Flying Field in Buf- falo, First Station. TORONTO, Aug. %.—Tweive air Planes, entrants in the race to New York ands return, “hopped off” at the Exhibition Grounds here shortly after noon to-day. The start was made despite the delay in the de- parture of the New York machines. On the “take-off,” a machine pi- loted by Roland Rohifs turned tute ; Ug No one was hurt. | Rohifs got away at 1266 PM. He was followed by Sergt. Coombs jin a De Haviland four minutes later, | At 140 all twelve machines had started and it was announced that | the other six entries had dropped out, for various reasons, Major W. G. Barkor, fying « cap- tured German Fokker, was one of the starters, but he did not carry a letter from the Prince of Wales to President Wilson as had been ex- | pected : Serst. Co First Lend at Baffalo Fie! BUMFALO, N. Y., Avg. 25.—Sergt. Coombs was the first to arrive at Cure tiss Field on the Niagara pmo here, | Ho jended at 1.36 B. ne minute later d landed and he was fists a Parte Major Schroeder.and at 1.82 by Capt. x | Gareater, a Belgian girl of 21 years PRETTY BELGIAN HEROINE ARRIVES TO BE AMERICAN eee Girl Once Ordered Shot as Spy to Be Adopted by Y. W. C. A. Worker. WRECKED WIRELESS Only 16 When Captured by Foe, Later Saved by Canadians. cartes nett Among the 579 passengers aboard the French liner La Lorraine when she docked at Pier 57 North River, this morning, was Belgian-Can- adian war heroine who is to become an American citizen through adop- tlon, “he is Miss Marie Louise who was at one time condemned to, be shot as a spy. She was wearing! ‘the French War Cross with two palms when she came down the gangplank and was met by Mrs, Lita Dowdy, a ¥. W. C. A. worker of Los Angeles, who hus adopted her, Miss Gomdler was a convent stu- dent when the Germans began the war in August, 1914, and when they marched) against Brussels she es- caped from the school by climbing the garden wall and made her way to the home of her parents near Ypres. Later the Germans took that place also and soldiers wero billeted in her home. - Almost the Mrvt thing the invad- H.W. Cook. Rohifs into two storms over Lake Erie and encounter- ing a 125-mile gale, It waa raining hard aviators landed here, U.S, TRANSPORT ASHORE, SAYS AGASAKT REPORT Vessel Believed to be the Sherman ‘Runs Aground Off Matsura reported _ runni Island, HONOLULU, Aug. M—An American transport, possibly the Gherman, aground off Mataure Island and tugs are trying to float her, accordity to a Nagasak) despatch to the Hawai! Shin- po. The Gherman is due here early in Geptagnbes | from Manila. stninalie sotiae Ae FILM ACTOR LOSES HAND AS MOVIE BOMB GOES OFF Posing at Studio He | He Lights Cigarette From Sputtering Fuse Believed \ Harmless.” (Apecial to The World.) 108 ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 25.—Po- lice detectives are to-day probing what they belleve to have been a plot against the life of Harold Lioyd, film comedy star, whose right hand was blown off last night while he was posing. for lobby stills at the Wetsel studio. The bomb exploded while Lioyd was tight- ing « cigarette from its fuse. In addi- tion to injury to his hand, his right eye was punctured and his chest marked with a hundred cuts and bruises. It is rigidly against the rules of studio work to load paper smoke bombs with expiosives, and Frank Terry, tor, who was severely {n- the explosion, declares Jt must have been loaded by someone with de- ‘s ilfe, The studio interior was Wrecked and several per- sons injured. ae THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Arcade, Pulltser (World) Building. 63-68 Park Row, N. ¥, Ci, ‘Telephone Beekman 4000, Checks room for bagenge and parcels qpen day and ight, Money order end lunvellery’ checks for ans ing soldiers did was to construct a wireless plant in her dwelling. As soon’ as they left the cellar for a meal this heroine, who was only sixteen then, smashed the apparatus and slipped out to report to the Bel- gian troops a few miles away, ‘There she was instructed to destroy the wireless outfit. By the time she had returned home the plant had been repaired. This time sho used an axe and chopped it to pieces, As she was leaving the cellar she was con- fronted by two German soldiers whc took her to the German command- ing officer, He ordered her shot, Another officer pleaded for her life and sho Was ordered beaten and taken prisoner to Germany. Six men beat her and threw her into @ truck. Then they started behind the lines. By that time the French had come up and the way to Germany was blocked, She was driven from place to place in Belgium’ for months and finally the %th Canadian Infan- try wiped out the German detach- ment #ho was with and took her under their protection. She engaged fn Red Cross work and was sent back to Ypres. There, a year later, June 20, 1915, @ German phell struck the hospital in which she was working and killed a large number of Cana- dinns and wounded many others, She was among those wounded. Despite ‘her wounds she nursed the patients and for her efforts waa awarded the French war cross, with two palms, Subsequently she met Mrs, Dowdy and it was arranged that the Los Angeles woman would adopt her, She was prepared to come here with Mrs, Dowdy on the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, which docked last week, but army regulations barred her sailing with her adopted mother. Hence she (Continued on Second Page.) ey ape Non Tom Roast feel us on Broiled wi Girl Whom Germans Ordered Shot MISS MARIE Li As Spy for Wrecking Wireless SES G8 SDI LPESELODRIDEED pOLSLOGHOE GS: OUISE GOMDIER. A CENTS AN Railway Workers Demanded a 17-Cent Raise—500,000 Men Affected. WASHINGTON, Aur. pnt Wilson to-day after a confer- ence with Director General Hines of- fered railway shopmen of tho country 25.—Presi- | an increase of four cents an hour, retroactive to May 1. The Ogeregauing about 500,000 workers, are asking a raise of 17 cents an hour, Jan. 1. The President told the committee of 100 representing the shop crafts that any greater increase now would sreatly increase the cost of living and therefore was inadvisable, i The shopmen's representatives told the President they would submit the proposition to thelr members. The President requested that the men not act on the original proposition of having a Congressional Commission paas on the wage demands. A nation wide vote of al! shopmen on the question of a strike is being counted to-day at headquarters of the American Federation of Labor, The polls ‘closed last midnight. The present pay of the shopmen is 63 cents an hour, ‘The ballots contained two questions, whether union officials should ac- ¢ede to the plan proposed by Presi- dent Wilson that the demands be heard and passed upon by a special commission to be appointed under a law to'be passed by Congress, or whether the men want to stand on their full demands, A circular accompanying the bal- lots explained that it might be neces- sary to call a strike to gain the full demands, Ballots already counted indicate a strong sentiment in favor of a strike unless the full demands are granted, it was learned at American Fedsra- tion of Labor headquarters. President Bert M. Jowell of the Railway dapartment, A. F. of L., said to-day he fears more unauthor- ized strikes if an unfavorable answer should be made public immediately, For this reason he planned to ask shobmen retroactive from | WILSON OFFERS SHOPIEN HOUR INCREASE COURT TOENION STRIKING ACTORS FROM PICKETING | Justice Hendricks Also to Rule Equity Must Not Urge Contract Breaking. Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hendrick gave the striking actors something ike @ shock this afternoon when he declared that he coud “see no reason” why he should not issue the injunction asked for by several individual managers against Francis Wilson as President and about twenty individual members of the Actors’ Equity Association. After some disoussion—the Justice having sald that this opinion was not final and that he was ready to receive suggestions—the Court said the injunction prayed for would be iasued on Wednesday, He asked that both sides get together tn the mean- me and agree upon its form. ‘The members of the Actors’ Equity are to be enjoined from (1) picketing theatres with a purpose of keeping the public away, and (2) inducing players to break their contracts with theatrical managers, The right of the player to organize, the Justice said, was not to be de- nied, He has that right. The right of players to form an associationo and pledge ita members not to work for certain managers, the Court said, was not.to be denied. Hut that had to do with “future’®contracts, They have no right to induce me to break “ex- isting” contracts. When these are broken the manager may sue. To picket a theatre with a view to keeping the public away, Justice Hendrick said, was as much a blow at property rights aseif a man with a lighted torch in his hand should Uhowlio building. “on wot Bre ta dhe NEW SENATE MOVE TO REVEAL JAPAN'S SHANTUNG PLEDGE medias Treaty Amendment by. Lodge Committee May Force Pub- “lication of Agreement. BILL TO ALTER LEAGUE, Jones Would Have U. S, With- draw if Conscription Lasts— Folk Appeals for Egyptians. WASHINGTON, Aug. 35.—A re- Rewed attempt to force Japan to publish the agreement whereby she Guarantees the ultimate return of Bhant sityution growing out of the amend- Ment of the peace treaty by the For~ elgn Relations Committee, ‘This agreement, while verval sofar as the records of the peace co! fekence are concerned, is in existence in writing. The Japanese, howevi have heretofore consistently refused to permit its publication. “An attempt to obtain the “release” of the actual wording of this agree- ment was made some two months ago in Paris, Other powers ap- proached the Japaneso on the sub- Ject, but with no success, The Presi. dent, consequently, bas been forced to refuse to give it to the Senate. While Administration Senators are confident of beating the Shantung agreement on the Moor, they recog- nize that the fight must be made on the principle that In order to assure early restoration of peace the treaty should be ratified without amend- ment or reservations. It is known that many diplomats connected with the Peace Conforence feo! that the President's hand would be strengthe: text of the published. For that reason the pre- vious attempt to Induce action by support the Japanese had some from other powers, which are an- xlous to see early American ratifi- cation of the Treaty, A renewed at- tempt might 66 expected to get the same support. ‘There is @ possibility that the Foreign Relations Committee. may the week-end. Withdrawal of the from the League of Nations within two years unless all momber nations abolish conscription ts proposed in a bill introduced to-day by Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, ‘The measure also provides that the American representatives shali not consent to any decision involving or requiring us to use military or naval forces unless expressly authorized by Congress. Another provision in the bill ts that the American delegates to the League shull be elected by the people for a term of four years, Their sal- aries would be §25,000 annually and no person under 85 years of age would be eligible to election, FOLK ACCUSES BRITAIN OF EGYPTIAN “ROBBERY.” Joseph W, Wolk, counsel for the Egyptian peace delegation, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to-day that the Versailles Treaty pro+ Egypt to that of a highwayman. Having occupied Egypt after con- struction of the Suez Canal under the pretext of protecting the Egyptians from rebels, Mr, Folk said, Great Britain in 1914 “selzed the Egyptian Wontiaued on Fourth Page) report the treaty to the Senate before} United States WENT (S FIRST WITNESS IN INQUIRY TO DETERMINE Cost Is FixedR Taken Up. ly, “Meetings are held on the 20th « The initia} inquiry of the Extraordinary Grand Jory ino vag to China’ was beleved jike-| Price and distribution situation in New, York revealed to-day that ly to-day an» result of the @enate|{o the consumer is fixed by the New York Milk Conference Board HGH COST OF tes Former Borden Co, Head he In-. formation to Grand Jury~How evealed at Investi- - gation—Car. Plot Charges Are — the of eah with by the ead the prices of the different grades of milk are established for the monty 0 amination of C. A. Weiant, former J. Elkin Nathans, secretary of the tablished that since the first of inst April the price of milk for 80-day periods has been fixed by the dis- tributers once @ month, ten days tn advance of the beginning of each 30- day period. For instance the price for September was fixed on Aug. 20— five days ago. Mr, Welant was before the Grand Jury for two hours. At the conclusion of Mr. Welant's evidence the Grand Jury called an employee of the Interborough whose name was kept secret as the first witness in the inquiry into the al- ieged conspiracy between the Inter- borough and its employees to bring about the strike as increased fare propaganda, The witness told in de- tall of the methods of Brotherhood organizers in soliciting members for GEORGE GORDON BATTLE TO INQUIRE INTO FARMS AND MARKETS COUNCIL Named by Gov. Smith an Investl gating Commissioner Under the Moreland Act. ALBANY, Aug, 2.—George Gor- don Battle of New York was ap- pointed to-day by Gov. Smith as a commissioner under the Moreland Act to investigate the State Farms and Markets Council, ‘The appointment was made after the Governor had received oficial word from his high cost of Hving investigat~ ing commissioners, former Gov. Martin Glynn and State Education Commis- sioner Jobn H. Finley, that the; ould not have time to investigate the Coun- oll, r4 The activities of the council have powed to validate the “robbery” of been criticised informally in several Exyptian independence, He likened uarters, Investigation of ¢ unedl Great Britain's legal position in|wes at firet ccna we A Was at first considered a part of the functions of the Glyna-Finley Commia- sion. Mr. Battle probably will call @ con- ference of various oMfclals who are con- ducting investigations into living costs later, and from that conference suggea- Hons necessitating legislative action & | follow and all dairy companies are bound by This was brotight out by the by-laws of the New York Milk Con- ference Board and records of the proceedings of that body during the ex- the agreement, president of the Borden Farm Prod- ucts Co, and the representative af that company on the Milk Conference Board, District Attorney Swann and Assistant District Attorney Talley appeared to be salisfied with the results of their first examinations. Mr. Weiant was notified to return to-morrow and subpoenas were issued for Milk Conference Board; Henry-A. Cronk, the present representative of the Borden concern on the Board and |. A. Von Bormnel, the Sheffield Farms-Slawson-Decker representative, In effect to-day'a inveatigRtton = thelr organizations which have Re: backing of the company, ‘The milk situation in New Yoh was the most important phase of the food Aight here, Former Gov. Martin H. Glynn and Dr, John H. Finley, appointed by Gov. Smith to investi- {Gate food costs, in a preliminary re- port, suggest two ways of control- Hing milk prices—elther by a “Fair Price Committee” to bring about co- operation betwhen dealer and con- sumer, or through legislation and the appointment of a Milk Commis- sion, which would bring ie ecntrol and municipal of milk through @ license system, WILL TRY FAIR price PLAN AT ONCE. *4 ‘The second ts described as "a re grettable alternative”. Word came to-day from Albany that Gov, Smith will create a Fair Milk Price Com- mittee within a few days. It will include Herman M. Biggs, State Health Commissioner; Dr, Royal 8, Copeland, New York Cith Health Commissioner, and City Market Commissioner Jonathan Day, distribution. in connection with milk, Mederal Food Administrator Arthur Williams for this,” he sald. \ In their preliminary report, Mesera, Glynn and Finley recommend that Governor act immediately on the question without waiting for tonal information, whieh he will doy. ‘The report, in part, follows: 4 “This increase (in the price of mili) is due in considerable causes which have led