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QMPLETE TOGK ATHER—Partly Cloudy. EPORL RACING RESULTS — __ PRICE TWO CENTS, | “Circulation Books Open to All.” ae Donreigit, 1P1, by The Prew Publishing (The New York World), NEW “YORK, THURSDAY, “NOVEMBER 6, bg Circulation Bonks Open to All.”’ “1919. rye SESS Seat REFERENDUM STATE, PROBABLY “WET 28 PAGES TO-MORROW'S WEATHER-—Party end SUN SSS SAA aereien Lb Shai Wie PRICE TWO CENTS. _ TTT a 1 UN VEE ANAT a 4 WORE UNIO UNION MINES REOPEN: "STRIKE CAUSES SUFFERING IN MANY PARTS OF WEST 44 Properties in We in West Virginia _ Operating and Pennsylva- * nia Increases Output. NEXT MOVE IN COURT. Some Trains Taken Off and Several States Appeal for Fuel. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Informa- tion in the hands of Guvernment of- ficials in touch with the strike situa- on to-day indicated an increase in ituminous coal production, especial- fa the West Virginia fields. Penn- ia and Colorado also reported mines in operation. Weet Virginia operators sald that the railroad administration could the car supply to 100 per cent, all for output in the non-union ds would be shattered beforo the of the week. In the organized partly organized fields, Teported working as against 31 esterday. A further defection of union forces was noted in the early morning re- Ports, although offi¢ials were not able 0 say whethor the break in the union nks was increasing to any great ex- int. Thien phase of the situation is ing watched closely by the Govern- Ment departments, particularly the Railroad Administration and the De- partment of Justic Director General Hines reiterated to-day that no community need fear that it would be cut off entirely from fuel supplies so long as the stocks under supervision of the Railroad Ad- ministration last WEST FEELS EFFECT OF SHORT- "AGE OF COAL, This statement followed appeals for relief made to the Federal uuthorities from a numbor of Western States,and towns which have begun to feel the pinch of the coal shortage due to the strike. Meantime miners, operators and Government officials apparently were resting, awaiting the outcome of court action at Indianapolis on the restrain- 44 mings ing order, Counsel for the miners were to go into court to-day and ask that the restraining order be dis- missed, while the Government repro- tatives will request that the tem- Loess injunction be continued and that a mandatory order be issued to John L. Lewis, ting President of the miners’ orgunization, to ca'l off the strike, The real contest will come Gaturday, when the restraining order is returnable Unless the court action resulted fa- vorably to the Governtnent, thus end ing the strike, prediction was made in tome quarters that the country would be in for a prolonged cessation of u Jarge part of the bituminous coal mine operations. The strike will be tak up by} President Wilson's Cabinet when It meets to-morrow in the regular weekly seasion Appeals have be de by several Nebraska towns to the State Rule way Commission fur coai, and the Jowa Fuel Adminiytration sent a com- (Continued on Second Page.) Se es OLD Mh ATAURANT, eee Stilts TANT ey: Prooah tried pot wabhaye Protest on Bare Knees Brings S. R.O. Pastor Heald of Port Chester Waxed Indignant at Display of Shapely Limbs, but Townsfolk Disagree and Crowds at Entertainment are Turned Away The Rev. Harry B. Heald st Peter’s Church, Port Chester, went to a dance at the High School Gymna- of sium last week. ‘There was a rehear- sal of the Parada held this week by Philanthropic Section of the Women's Club going in another Everybody was asked not to look at on room. the rehearsal dancers when they passed across a corner of of the gym- nasium to the rehearsal room “so the of real performance would not be spoiled.” The Rev. Mr. Heald saw things in spite of himself, novelty the He saw the dancers in the Scotch | Kdltien and short} socks, the respective shortanesses be- ing about eight inches short of each other with an expanse of smooth pinkiness und dimples in between, In yesterday's Port Chester Item, which appeared on the stands about noon, The Rev, Harry B, Heald made some of his feelings on the matter known. The edition was almost im- mediately exhausted. “I did not attend any performance of the Patada,” the Rector said in his article, “But 1 saw a number of the performers who passed through the gymnasium going to and from the stage. I was both amazed and grieved to think that the costumes worn by many of the girls who were to take part in the Parada were ac- ceptable to persons whose standards of morals and conduct are known to be high.” Dr, BE, 8. Redmond, Superintendent of the Board of Education, said he had seen the show; he thought It was mighty pretty, He kind of guessed, hornpipe in short (Continued on Second Page.) MINERS PETITION TO-DAY FOR END OF INJUNCTION Lawyers Submit Formal Formal Motion for Hearing in Indianapolis Saturday. INDIANAPOLIS, Noy, 6,—Attorne, ‘or the United Mine Workers of Ame! lea to-day filed a motion In the Fed- Court asking dissolution of the restraining order that prevents offi- ais of the union from issuing In- structions to the striking members. The motion was propared after # con- erence of niuers’ officials with the a torneys Suv motions, in uecordance with a court rule, must be illed two days in idvance ¢ arguments, The hearing of the Governn 's petition for a tem- os TARE BELI-ANS BEFORE MEALS Govd Digestion m them ag te the iegislatio: ee ia caine alia GIRL, 25, ELECTED TON. Y. ASSEMBLY IN CITY DISTRICT nS aheane Miss Marguerite Smith De- feated Democratic In- cumbent and Socialist. AFTER RENT GOUGERS. | “American First, Last and All the Time,” Her Cam- paign Cry. Though both women who sat in the last State Assembly were de- feated for re-election on Tuesday, two others will be on the roll at the porary restraining order ha» been aut} or Maturday and to-day tw the loat day |for tiling motions In the case next session, Hlizabeth Gillett, Dem- crat, from Schenectady, and Misy Marguerite L. Smith, Republican, frem the 1%h New York District. | Miss Smith, who defeated Martin J. Healy, Democratic incumbent and also a Soclalist candidate, is only | twenty-five and her friends predict for her a career in the Legislature as brilliant as her campaign was/ popular, Miss Smith {6 the daughter of | Dr. J. Gardner Smith, President of the Harlem Board of Commeree, lives at No, 21 West 122d Street, and is} well known ag an athlete and social | jworker. She {s a teacher of hygiene and physical training and super- visor of club work at the Horace Mann School, Columbia. | “Il am an American first, last and {all the time,” was the principal plank |of her platform, Her father declared ; ton -day that she entered politics some- what against her will, adding: “Marguerite has never flunked in the ‘bug of service’ and saw there was work for her to do.” So that was why she made the race. Now that she has won, she is already planning political innovations, such as having week-end meetings of hix constituents when she returns from Abbany during legislative sessions, to et first-hand advice from them as to their wants. The profiteer, especially the rent profiteer, will get short sbrift from her whenever she js able to reach him with her vote or influence. But lot her tell it: “You see, my entering politics was the result of other work I have done, I was nominated by Irwin Kurta, Chairman of Local Draft Board 170, during the war, My particular work with the draft board was to take the blood pressure of the men in all critical heart cases, You know that is rather @ spe- clalty of mine, My thesis for my master’s degree in Columbia in 1918 was on "The Influence of Physical Training on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate'—the same subject that father wrote on when he took his de- gree at Columbia many years ago, “It was the war work that put me in touch with this district and made me realize some of its needs," she went on. “I teach physical training in Horace Mann Sefool, and I've ways cared for athletics, yo perhaps I am prejudiced. But my experience with the draft board makes me feel that there should be legisiation to provide sufficient physical training in the achools to make every man fit Physically to support his country in an emergency. “Another question that I mean tc study Is that of rent profiteering I think there will have to be some |kind of legislation to curb the prof. |B iteering by landlords, “L wonder if it would not be a good plan,” she added thoughtfully, “tu Arrange for meetings of my constitu. fents of this district on week ends |when I come back from Albany? 1 | phould like to haye direct information her life in any undertaking, She has |‘ MISS MARGUERITE SMITH ELECTED TO LEGISLATURE FROM MANHATTAN DISTRICT Miss MAREANEY be SMITH 2 <4 “KIGK” IN 2 CUPS OF COFFEE EQUALS 21 PINTS “BEER” That Is Case as Brewed Beverage Is of One-Half Per Cent. Variety, Tests Show, LOUIS, Nov, 6.—Six authorities on alcohol und its effect, after tests on men and women regular drinkers, occasional drinkers end total abstainers, have found: Two cups of coffee have as much kick" as twenty-one pints of one-half of one per cent. beer, A stomach full of is only enough for one-quarter of one dunk Thee facts are contained in affidavits filed by the suthorities including Dr. John Marshall, Profeasor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the University of Pennsylvania, The aMdavits were filed in Federal Court here to-day In sup- port of the application of St, Louls brewers to restrain enforcement of the Volstead prohibition enforcement law. RITCHIE LEADS BY ONLY 20. Maryland Democratic Plorality Almost Wiped Oo BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 6.—Com- plete officig] returna this afternoon from Anne Arundel and Carrett Coun- tles and one ward in Baltimore re- duced the unofficial plurality of Albert C, Ritchie, Democratic nominee for Governor, from 326 to 20 Nice, Republtcan, had been given ai estimated plurality of e tually received oe PIMLICO RESULTS. Y RACK—Two-year-olds; whereas claim. A , $1,840. five and a half fur- longs.—Hister Helene, 114 (McCabe), 22.90, $12.20, $6.30, first; Jean Bullant, 107° (Johnson), $4.30, $4.10, second Peregrine, 107 (Fator), $3.10, third. Time, 1.10. Liola, *Sand Bed, ' Angac, Who’ Cares, Precious Pourl, | Ireland, *Ogden Girl, . Hush, Mark Weat also ran. SECOND RAC! hree-yeur-olde and up; claiming; purse, $1810.36; six fur- longs. —Quietude, 109 ' (Sande), $17.60, $6.40, $3.90, first: Out of the Way, 115 (Fator), $3.70, $2.80, second; Grimulkin, 115 (Butwell), $3.90, third. Time, 1:14- 4-6. Pastorial Swain, Smart Money, H ghiand, Lad) Torohbeurer, | Labelle lene Franklin, Arrah Go ‘On, Mar 2, also Pa THIRD KACE- chase for selling: pur cris, ‘The Towson Steeple- four-year-oldy and upward; 500; two miles.—Dor- $27.40, $12.20, $6.50, 145 (smithy, $6.80. Bird, 137 (Preece) 4.07 2-5, Lewis Op- > Algardi, New Haven Aniiwention fastoria leg ran, FOURTH RACE—The ide; colts and ; one mil ny for pure Dre ominique, rat; Dohon- ¥0.50 44.60, (Palrbroth: Da Choice, Constanc; cuuor aloo ran, m that cli . (Rasing Binaries en Page &) —— ae (3 122) RETURNS FROM 5 COUNTIES NOLATE Apparently First Referendum | State to Vote Against Ratification. JS 2.75 BEER *AVORED. ;State-Wide Prohibition Beaten | on Figures at Hand—Many Districts Missing COLUMBUS, ©., Nov. 6.—Returns from Tuesduy's election were com- piled at the Secretary of State's of+ fice to-day’ trom Mtty-five of thi ighty-eight counties of Oble, These ifty-five thirty-three of counties, which are complete and twenty-two incomplete, give the wets a lead of 99,081 on ratification of the | Amendment ani! 52-410 on the Crabbe Prohibition Kaforcement Act. They ,Alao give the wets a lend of 22,099 on | the 2.75 per cent. beer proposal, and 12,823 on the repeal proposition, | The thirty-three counties still to report gave a dry majority of 33,795 for Prohibition laet year. i In the twenty-two counties Yncom- plete which are Included in tu-day's tabulation, 265 precincts are missing. All those counties on artial returns made gave dry Jorities of an average of approx | mately to @ precinet, If this ratio is maintained in the precincts yet to report from those counties, the wet lead would be reduced by ubout} 7,500, which would give the wets and jdrys about an even break on the rati- fication proposal. At the Secretary of State's office iy Delleved that the wet lead on the Crabbe Bil} cannot be overcome, though It is admitted that the result cannot be ascertained with cértainty until complete returns are in, On the ratification of the Federal Amendment propomal it in sald that the official count may be neceswary to decide the result. OHIO FIRST OF TWELVE STATES WHOSE VOTES MAY UPSET DRY LAW Referendum Advocates Claim Sim- ifar Wet Victories Elsewhere Will Defeat Amendment. Onto Federal mull the thirty has apparently ratification of the the Constitution, The au of disapproved the eighteenth amendment to enacting national Prohibition, result in Ohio was regarded critical importance on the question by constitutional lawyers because Ohio was the first to vote of twelve states which have claimed the right to pass on the amendment by refer- endum rather than by vote of the| Legislatures, The constitutions of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Mi Missouri, Nebraska, Nevads, Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington also provide for @ refere.uum on con- stitutional questions, In all of th States the voters have exercised t han, | New| Jinttiative by pesttioning — for referendum and the voting to ase -| tain the popular will is to be held| Jin 1 in the contention of advocates of referendum procedure, regardless | of their relutions with the Anti-Sa |loon League campaign, that the Log- | Jislatures of these States were power- [tone to accept oF reject the consti- (Continued on Second Page) jwho I# the directing head of the “invisible government,” why mem- | bers of the Grand Jury. since the HEAD IS SOUGHT BY GRAND JURY _ > — Special Investigating Body | delves Into So-Called “Overshadowing Crime.” MITH IS A WITNESS. Swann’s Assistant Presents Famous “Police Blue Book” Which He Compiled. The existence of an “invisible Gov- *rnment" of New York City, a Gov- orhment which the virile Ad- is only an instrument + suspected by members of the Ex- Grand Jury which Dia- Attorucy Swann once ied, but has now broken, away from in ainistration raordinary trict which him The Evening World learned to-day that the Grand Jury in ite new and self-appointed task of eeoking what its foreman calls an “overshadowing crime” {8 operating’ under Section No, | 260 of the Code of Criminul Pro- | cedure, which makes It mandatory on the Grand Jury to inquire into “wil- ful and corrupt misconduct in office Public officers of every deserip- int tor The Evening leqrned that the ciding to World has Grand Jury broaden the scope of its original inquiry, which at frat was confined to Muyor Hylan'y charge of @ plot of Interborough Rapid Tran- sit officlaly and employven to raise | the wubway fares, was actuated by admissions made by witnesses in that original investigation. The Grand Jury intends to find out also in de- sturt of the new Inquiry, have been shadowed by private detectives, and who is paying these detectives, It wan learned that the testimony of Mayor Hylan in the original inquiry provided the cause for the subsequent summoning of an editor of the New York American, The summoning of Assistant District Attorneys Smith and Dooling was merely incidential. The Grand Jury is expected to call, in uddition to the entire clerical staff of Mayor Hylan, a large number of Persons who have been appointed to public office by Mayor Mylan under circumstances that are not quite clear, SWANN'S ASSISTANT CALLED BEFORE GRAND Jury. The first witness called before the Grund Jury this morning was As- sistant District Attorney James E, Smith, who was currying a big bundle of documents when he went in. Be- fore appearing before the Grand Jury Mr. Smith had a long conference with the foreman of the Grand Jury iu | Smith's office, Late this afternoon, when smith had come out of the grand jury room and Yor Kin, and | De. DIRECT TREATY VOTE STIRS a mobiles Those under arrest were cont teen, cont | stolen cycle, WITHOUT Senator Underwood's proposal FOIL PLOT TO BLOW UP CHICAGO FEDERAL BUILDING! Police Rushed to Scene—Doors of | tee of the Whole in order to consider Structure Locked and No One Allowed to Enter. HICAGO, Novy. 6.—Squade of po- licemen were rushed to the Federal) Hullding thts afternoon when an al- leged plot to blow up the structure was sald to have been discovered. The doors of the building were or- dered locked and no one was permitted to enter, GIRL HELD IN FRAT THEFTS. Three Boys Also © Arrest After Cornell Rebbertes, ITHACA, N. ¥., Nov. 6.—With the arrest of two bo: da gir} here to- day, the pation bell they have solved the mystery of a series of fra- ternity house robberies at Cornell the thefts of a number of auto- throughout Central New x. Richard hteen, They are g, fifteen; Leon Simpson. Daisy Warburton, fourt arrested following an alleged sion by Audrey Cornish, six- ‘The police sald all have made ons, They are said to have clothing, Jewelry, a motor revolvers, watehes and cash, $11,000 DOCTOR BILL. Byrne Anke That Am, Noe Mata! he said he had produced for the grand|,_ DF Joseph Byrne of the Fordham jury the famous “Police Blue Book, Barres n See ie ioe on ey f which he is the compiler, The Fowler an order directing Patric book i# sald to contain the numes of loading figures in the so-called |c, ¢ Smith’ censed after | cide Mayor Mylan had written letter of protest about them to District Attor- ney Swann Mt was waid that the Grand Jury | vids suddenly (Continued < on ‘Twentieth Page.) Sweeney. Yormany. at ite closing sess William Simpson a: Ohartes executors of the estate of vice trust” and “gambling ring” a9| Mrs, Nellie M. Now, to show cause why well 4s a great deal of other personal | they should not pay him $11,000 balance |information pertinent to the inquiry jdue for medical servi to the deceased. which the Grand Jury ia making ‘The physician's bill included services Materiaix for this book were col-|for four years preceding the death of lected in large purt about a year ago| Mr Noo, tt wes explained, en wae ned TISRIDE | SIQUL | wi ostiag: Women Uneaten Clones, nikitly raids and wher yinplained | WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—-Tho Inter, ed to postpone the whe manont organisation. ‘until neat SENATE GRAND JURY GETS FAMOUS “POLICE BLUE BOOK™ MHD GOES “WET,” "INVISBLE RULE” HITCHCOCK MOVES TO VOTE “DIRECTLY ON PEACE wEATY | RESERVATIONS. Accepts Lodge’s Challenge and the Senate Gets Into a Wrangle Over Status of the Pact—Reservations Must Be Acted on First. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6,—-An immediate vote on the ratification of the treaty of Versailles without reservations was proposed in. the bayer Be late to-day by Senator Underwood, after Republican Leader Lodge challenged the Administration to. make-sueh a move. Senator Hitchcock intervened before the question was put and i argument ensued. followed discussion of pertamsentargd procedure, which was attended by great confusion. Half a dozen Senators © frequently sought to speak at the same time and Vice President Marshall kept busy banging his gavel for order. nator Hitchcock accepted’ the challenge of Senator Lodge and made a motion that the Senate ratify the treaty without reservation. He thea demanded a roll call. | Instead of proceeding to vote om | ¥enator Hitchcock's motion for wanes | served ratification, the Senate revived discussion on apother proposal by | Senator Hitchcock to report the | treaty immediately from the Commit- resvulutiony of ratification, opinion as to what would be status of the Treaty Abould the reso- |lution of ratification without reserves | tons attached be defeated. Senator | Underwood said ho would vote against the resolution containing ratifivations and Senator Ledge warned that if the Treaty were fe Jected with reservations attached the delay that would follow would “be the delay of death,” LENROOT RAISES QUESTION OF STATUS OF TREATY. ‘ Senator Lenroot, Wisconaln, agkod that the motion be amended so that i case It was defeated the treaty would still be before the Senate. Senator Fall, ew Mexico, obe tained the floor and indicated he might object to Hitchcock's request although his first words did pot estate this specifically, Vice President Marshall ‘dictated to the stenographer a statement add- ing to Hitchoock's proposal for @ vote as follows: ; "It the treaty is rejected the Senate will take up its consideras on again as though a vote ha@* not been taken at ail," : Yah declured that the rules res quired the Senate to vote on the ace ton of the Roreign Relations Com- mittee, This construction would make Hitchcock's motion out of order, “Such a motion is entirely out of ‘ order," Pall said, full then offered formal tenn to Hitehcook’s motion. “Lt is ridiculous,’ Full declared, we are playing with the entire subject, There {s nv necessity for violating al} the rules of the Senate.” It was the most dramatic moment of the entire treaty fight Senaters in from cloak rooms, Galler- les filed quickly and house memberg rushed over to the Senate side. bs Senator Underwood offered an amendment to the Hitchcock motion committee of the whole would vote og © objection, An ybjection by Jones killed the motion for p divest vote at but There was wide difference of | that the Senate proper and not the © sht out ratification to meet Falla os aM