The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1919, Page 1

-N KIL TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair, EPORT RACING RESULTS « PRICE TWO Cc =— ENTS. ‘Circulation Books Open to All,’ Copyright, 1010, by T Co. (The New York World), Press Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER ‘04, 65 SENATORS FOR COMPROMISE PACT “COAL PARLEY POSTPONED WHILE OPERATORS FRAME REPLY 10M —aee 1) Employers to Draw Attention) to Delay in the Resump- tion of Work. SOME FIELDS REOP! Men Go Back in Wyoming and Maryland and Part of Pennsylvania, NG WASHINGTON Nov, 17,—The con- ference of wage scale committees in competitive bituminous the central boal field was postponed to-day, at re do request of the operators, were not ready to submit a counter who INERS’ DEMAND SCHOOL HEAD ACTS TO OUST TEACHERS ENROLLED AS REDS Ettinger Orders Charges Pre- pared Against Sonia Gins- POWDER BLOW-UP KILLS TWO MEN IN WAYNE, N. J epee Three Injured in Explosion ai Du Pont Plant—Blast Felt for Miles. and several persons, including two women and a& Two men were killed proposal to the demands received onig, wero injured this afternoon in pee the mince meer tin a double explosion at the Wayne, N Rawlins, «a. cpmnm| ype Ry Bh J., plant of the B, L du Pont de Ne- oparato: framing w reply. It ee PEER WES CATES sia || moura Powder Company was said the question of the renewal The et killed ase believed of ‘work by the minera wis one of the], he John Poster and James matters to be brought by the] witliams, employees. Poster leaves 4 operators, wifand seven children. Willams was Wyoming miners and operators have. to be a reached a settloment satisfactory poth parties and the mines will ‘e-opened at ielesram from P. of the Wyomin wolation, tary W! the Wy the agreement reached in the ¢ field, Mr. Quealy said Insistence on an early settlement 1s made imperative, according to views held in Administration circles, by the actual conditions in the coal industry. Rep from the show that however high hopes may have been that cancellation of the wtrike order would he followed by a general resumption of work, the fucts are that the /mprovement in conditions is confined to non-union fields and to ficlds lightly organised. Reports from the ther show that the men are well sup- plied with funds—in Llinots alone, they received $8,000,000 in back pay once, according to | Operators’ As- lay by Secre- in received to son. ‘The final contract ‘oming field is to be based on ntral competit ris lany assistance from the outside, the miners original a six-hour day cessions, In the they asked for+« operators, a working day four to fl as mow pré day is asked. On all other points, hours. nied, only five-day week, the stand, ‘The operators we large part of Sunday the counter proposal to the Quealy, President the flelds union flelds fur- yesterday—and ure in & position to stay out a considerable time without ‘Analysis of the terms submitted by operators Satur-| day shows that in one important re- japect they are prepared to make cun- demands “from bank to bank,” which meant, accord- ing to the statements made by the of from In the demands a six-hour including the right of local unions or districts to) settle local questions, the 60 per cent, | increase over existing wages and the| riginal demands in conference a preparing | miners’ single and his home was in Brooklyn. A finishing mill and a cannister mill were destroyed. The two explo- sions separated by about ten seconds, and both were heard and felt at Pas saic, nineteen miles away Among the injured are Mrs. Care: her twelve-year-old son Geor; 1 Mrs. John Van Ness, all of Wayne. They were In their home and wert thrown to the flodr by the concussion, suffering brulses from the fall and cuts from the broken win- dows. They were taken to the Put erson Hospital, ‘Telephone calls for anfbulances nnd physicians were sent out from the company’s office, ‘The number of in- jured is belleved to be small, for it was pointed out that the powder plant is divided into a number of small units with a small number working in each, The plant employs nbout 150, and they and their families |constitute practically the whole pop- ulation of the town, Windows in houses and factories within « radius of half a mile were broken, and several buildings near by were damaged. A restaurant bulld- ing was put out of commission, Offi- clals of the company declined to \anake @ statement about the accident, the cause of which was not learned. PE GLASS ACCEPTS SENATE SEAT AT WILSON'S REQUEST WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury, will accept the appointment as United States Senator from Virginia, to suc- ceed the late Thomas 8. Martin. An- | nouncement to this effect was made at the White Hovce Mr. Glass James to-day. | of President Wilson. Secretary Glass has consulted with former Secretary of the Treasury Mc- Adoo and with members of the er representatives, The main concession | ate, who told him that there was no in this will be abandonment of the po- | particular need for him to take the sition hitherto taken that the 3 r for a week or more called Washington agreement under te House it waa sald no 9 ss had been which the mines have been Spanien . of Daniel ¢. must stand until the war is olllcially | Roper, Commissioner of Internal Rev- over, enue, was added to-day to the list of This concession Involves an in+| those being discussed as probable suc- crease of wages. The exact a unt | cessorg to Mr, Glass. iy not stated, but operators who dis- _—— use the matter say that it cannot) THE WORLD TRAVEL BURMAD, 1 ericent Arcade, Pulitver (World) Balding, well exceed 25 per ¢ 68.60 Park Tow, N.Y. City, ‘The 25 per cent. increase will aot Peete Teekman sono Qoece rom for bawerge and parcels might, Money orders snd Ce o RO ose h pon ince + ee takes the Senatorship at the request| berg of Brooklyn Force. FIVE OTHERS ON LIST. One of Six Facing Charkes of Communist, Party Member- ship Reported Suspended. William L. Ettinger, Superintendent of New York, Public Schools, to-day instructed the Corporation Counsel te draw up charges against Sonia Gins- berg, a teacher in a Brooklyn public school. At the same time Dr, Ettinger requested Deputy Attorney General Samuel Berger to furnisb him a tran- script of the evidence against five othér women teachers who have been found to be active the Communist Party. The Communist Party was ehars terized a criminal organization by Chief Magistrate McAdoo last week When the Corporation Counsel has pyoferred charges against Miss Gins; berg and the other five women they workers in will be immediately suspended and Dr inger promises “swift and radical action” against thom. The regular procedure of the charges by calls for a hearing the Board of Edu- cation, Dr, Ettinger asked that for the present the school where Miss Ginsberg teaches be not mentioned as he thought it would produce undue excitement among the pupils and other teachers, Mr. Berger d clured to-day that one teacher had already been suspended by Supt, Ettinger, but the latter de- jclined to comment on ahis atutement Asked whether Miss Ginsberg had preached radical theories in the school room Dr, Ettinger replied: “It doen not matter whether he dia or not, No teacher can be a mem- ber of Such ) Organization and re- main a teacher in the New York public sohovls, A teacher cannot teach patriotism tn the class room if she belongy to an orgnnization that 1s opposed to the brand of patriotism that our school system stands for. ‘here is no such 4 thing as 9-to-3- o'clock patriotism, The doctrines that our teachers are required to espouse in the class room’ must remain their doctrines after school clones. We are making every effort to wipe out rad. teulism in the New York schools, and whether there are wnany ur few teach ers of that stamp they will have to 0. Our school system is no place for them.” Arguments on writs of hubeas cor pus for Benjamin former Bronx Assemblyman, and James Lar- kin, Irish labor leader, was adjourned this morning by Supreme Court Jus- tice Delehanty until Wednesday morning. The appearance of Larkin |and Gitlow this morning followed the | suing out new writs Saturday morning before Justice Glegerich. Writs issued earlte week wert abandoned by cons unsel, | ‘The Lusk Committee ay gave | out ecutions of radical Gitlow, te a statement explaining that pros- which have re- |sulted from its investigation of se- \dittous activities are not based upon the theury government which |s tae by any of the endants, ut up 6 methods advocated to bring ivi 4 change in government “The Communist Party of Americ! the statement says, hus adopted a | programme which ' sets forth the means sought to be employed to over- throw the Government of the United States. These means are the use of \the general strike, having a political | objective *An attempt to put Into effect such | \ programme must of necessity be followed vy force and violence and | constitutes an unlawful means to alter or amend the Constitution.” Killed Worn She She Had Beenj siting With Hatchet and Then Robbed Her, VICTIM iLL. ND IN BED. Slayer Says Trouble Started Over Question, ‘Are You a Crook?” Mrs. Mary Warren, thirty-one years old, confessed to-day to District At- torney Weeks and County Detective Plant of Nassau County and former Capt, W. A. Jones of the New York Police Department, now the head of that she in Valley @ private detective agency, killed Mrs, Clara Branch Stream Inst Friday. Mrs. Branch was housekeeper in the home of Henry Wright, captain of a fishing boat which from Wreck Lead, According to the detectives of the Jones Agency, M Warren went to the place about two weeks ago, saying she was “in trouble” in Manhattan because she was charged ‘with taking a atickpin worth $50 from a man there. “Mrs, Branch was sick,” the War- ren woman said, according to Dis- trict Attorney Weeks, “I went into her room about 9 o'clock to ask how she was. Sho asked me to get her some medicine, She took out of her waist @ lot of money Capt, Wright gave her through the week to keep for him until be gave It to the owner of his oat. "I asked her to lend me $50 because [ needed it She asked me was I a crook. One word Jed to another and she made @ reach for a revolver on @ table. “I went down to the dining room ind got a hatchet with the axe end partly broken off, her face was turned away. She was deaf and didn't hear me, So far as 1 know I only hit her once, Then I took the money out of her waist “I don't remember when [ left the house. 1 went back to New York and gave some of the money to my friend, Miss Catharine Hayes, on Riv- erside Drive.” According to the detectives Mrs, Warren gave Miss Hayes $135 keep her and paid a deposit of $25 on \ trunk held at Reiseuweber's hotel as ecurity. Assistant District Attorney Kd wards said the confession was se- ured by refusing Mrs, Warren's pleas for a cigarette until she was willing to “come through." ‘The story was substantiated by the liscovery by former Capt. W. Jones of the New York Police De- partment, now the head of a private Jetective agency, of a woman, Cath- arine Hayes, living in a flat on Riv- rside Drive, New York, who said Mrs. Warren had come to her late Saturday and handed her $135, asking “take care of it.” Mrs, Branch's body was found after alarm given tapt. Wright. The Attorney Weeks to olice dog, ent by Wanner, a s¢ stead, and one of the New York ploodhounds on the murder was dropped when Mrs, Warren confessed, Capt, Wright was arrested Satur- day and was held in $10,000 buil as @ necessary witness, pending the ex- | amination of Mrs, Warren ner to evening Leo clety woman of Hemp- ¥, sails daily! When I went dack | A.| by} of District 0? 1919, “Circulation Books Open to All ‘hd 24 PA G E 8 TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair. (SE WENT UN AIG EDITION TLS Mal Via) ie WU NUN INSE PRICE TWO CENTS. MRS, WARREN CONFESSES MURDER OF MRS, BRANCH AFTER QUARREL OVER LOAN / WILSON ENJOYS ‘OUTING’ IN HIS WHEEL CHAIR ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN Leaves Mansion for First Time Since He Was Taken Ill— Bright and Cheerful. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. RESIDENT WILSON was taken downstairs in a wheel ehair. to-day and rolled out on the White House lawn near the south portico, where he enjoyed the sunshine for Short time. This was tho firat time the President had left the Wafte House since his return from the Western tour during which he was taken ill, ‘Those who saw the President said he seemed bright and cheer- ful, So KANSAS ASKS RECEIVER Hopes by This Process to Resume Operation—Governor Makes Announcement. ‘TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 17.—Recelver- ship proceedings will be started at once by the Attorney General the State Supreme Court against the coal mine operators of Kansas, it was announced by Gov, Allen to-day, By this move it is expecte Jof the mines, {dle since Noy. 1 on ac- |count of the strike, will be resumed. > —— WIVES RETAIN ALL RIGHTS UNDER NEVADA DIVORCES Supreme Court Refuses to Interfere on Ground of Lack of Jurisdictio: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The 8u preme Court to-day dismissed for want of jurisdictiog a case attacking the rights of wives who obtained divorces In Nevada courts to enforce decrees for alimony and division of property in other States. Lower courts held the de- in operation Jerees are enforceable, Mr. and Mra. Rud &, married In Now York. to Carson Cit demanh ne wife and got the di- alimony of $7,200 a your and wt her husband's property. Later |the wife won # suit in New York to Junforce the ‘decree and the husband ap- pealed. _ j BQWIE RESULTS. FIRST RACE—For maiden two-vear- Jolds; fillies; purae, $1,059.10: five and a half — furlo Sweet Musie, 114 (Falrbrother), $6.10, $7.20, $2.30," won Rubidium, 114 (Highson),” $4 $4.00 ‘ond; ‘Back ‘ Prien) $11.20," third, dy of the Lake, Lic Imiatie, ian Queen, M a fone ather, Libe nck O° the 30, $2.10. we ), $2.45, (Collins), $2.80. Silex Marceile Boy, Brutus also ran TUMD RACE—Clalming; eur-olds and up; purse, $ da half furlongs. Ultr (Pierce), $6.50, $3.90, $3.00, won braska, 115 (SUrling), $8.30, 85.10. and 12 (Hamilton) s. Latholie veiing 3d ie 068.10 Gold, fur Mid Title, (Racing Entries on Page 16.) FOR COAL MINES IN STATE) WILSON TO POCKET LODGE TREATY, HE Considers Reservations Ac cepted by the Senate a Nullification of the Pact. FIGHT TAKEN UP AGAIN. Senate Rejects Reservation Ex- cluding U. S. From Aiding Disposition of Colonies WASHINGDON, Nov, tt.—1t'resi- t Wilson \will pocket the Pes Treaty if it contains the Lodge res wrvations, he told Senator Hiteheock at a confereues to-day at tha White TELLS HITCHCOCK House. Hitchcook after Presi- dent Wilson Inst woek will be carried, through in the Senate, Mr, Hitehcook sald, This contemplated he had seen reservations uttuched, ing of # resolution without reservations. nd the offer'- ratification for feut of this resolution a deadle would follow and a compromise sought, Senator Hitchcock was with the President for an hour, LODGE RESERVATIONS NULLIFY THE TREATY SAYS WILSON. “I find the President ts very mueh improved since I saw him last,” the Senator said on leaving Ue White House. “He looks better, talks bet- ter and is much more aggressive. I the Lodge reservations and that he considers them a nullification of the treaty and utterly impossible.” “Did the President tell you what his course would be in the event the Lodge re: vations are accepted by the Senate?” he was asked. “The President will pocket the treaty,” was tho reply. en if Reservation 16 Is stricken out “Yes. hat would make ho difference in the President's decision,” he added, WILSON SAYS PREAMBLE TO RESERVATIONS KILLS TREATY. ‘The preamble of the comm lution, requiring that the § vations must be op by the otber great powers, wa the Democratic leader to be particu- larly objectio to the President, who regarded it, he declared, as “kill- ing the treaty absolutely.” Ho Indicated also that ten reservation was entirely unac- eptable to Mr, Wilson, but said the ecutive might be willing to accept some of the other proposals on the programme nate reser ac three of said by the article committee Ax soon as he left the White House Senator Hitchcock begun plans for a conference of friends of Democratic find that he has read and considered | Tells Commons Lodge Reser- vations Amount to a Repudi- ation of the Covenant. LONDON, Nov. 17 floult to exaggerate the gravity of the international Nobert mons to-day Russian polley was under debate, was impossible news fre n referring to the action ef the Sen- ate BIG MAIORITY IN THE FAVORS A SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES ON THE TREATY This Agreement Will Be Reached, Says David Lawrence, After Lodge and Hitchcock Reservations Fail to Get Two-Thirds Vote and Will Be Accepted All Around. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (Copyright 1919).—The Senate of the United States is going to ratify the Peace Treaty and the reservations | The prograumn outlined by Senatur ihat are attached are going to be accepted not only by President Wilson’ but by the foreign governments associated with us in the war, ‘That doesn’t mean that the Lodge resolution now pending before the ‘eat of the Senate with ils series of reservations is going to be adopted or that Sena- ratifoation resolution, with the Ledxe tor Hitcheock’s resolution to ratify with a few reservations that do fot tncet the flaws that have been pointed out in the treaty during the Senate, With the de- | debate is to be finally approved, but that a new ratifying resolution, a K ‘compromise, will be adopted. SENATE GHANGES REJECT TREATY, SAYS LORD CECIL Coen on the He did opinion of the legitimacy of the Sen- action from the American view- nt, he ons th cepted amounted diation of the covenant, and the tepu- diation of the covenant meant the re- pudiation ot the treaty. the wat Robert, effect en the neighboring Bolshevik country, “nothing but a long period of negotiations and the treaty. the possibility of further rejection|ence to enable the Senate to resurrect Senator Hitcheock predicted that} when the negotiations are concluded. | anything that, !s killed, the mild group would sive the Deas ‘ desire ans ae © eparaiin ana SOME SENATORS WANT STATI crats enough support to uph@d the} American ng, but 16 United ratification resolutions are in order,| great international effort we must . : = thus opening the door for a com-|go on, and tho burden would be the |¢rments that they would not accept prom greater upon us and the other na-|the Lodge reservations would ¢on- Mr. Hitchcock did not go into de-| tions.” vince a number of the Republicans tails as tothe exact stage at which| Lord Robert declared that Bolshe-|that to insist on these reservations Nght intervene in the] yim, at its best, was oppressive tyr-|means the complete defeat of the | but Indicated that/anny and at its wor iy, brutal) Treaty of Versailles, | t withdraw the potiom, Ie said it appeared im-| Possibly the President himselt de Ae ane rigs | 19 to crush Bolsheviem By. fas might make a statement declaring Moe eed Uneg lon > MANO and that the rea Peta terNN the Lodge resolution, if adopted by If the committee resolution is de- tervention was useless, and| ie capers CnOahittee. 8. Feinetee I reated it Is expected Mr, Wilson will expressed the hope that Gen, Denikine|! the treaty. That would carry nd Admiral Kolshak Would abandon] conviction with many Senators of (Continued on Second Page.) {ie attempt to reach Moscow and en- | the mild reservationlst type, but it AURAAT, nt in the ritories already occu-| Would not be as effective as a state- . pA *. pied, at pert ried ment from the foreign goveraments 43) would ay an overwhelming moral SENATE. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) The foregoing prediction ts based partly on,a knowledge of what the parliamentary tactica of both sides contemplate and partly on a con- viclon that there are at least sixty-five Senators—Republicans and Democrats—more than the neces- sary two-thirds, who honestly do not wish to see the Treaty of Pease killed and new negotiations opened with Germany. ALL SORTS OF FEARS AMONG SUPPORTERS OF TREATY, All sorts of fears and apprehen- sions bave been running up and down the backs of supporters of the ‘Treaty and League of Nations that unless the pending Lodge resolution were given a two-thirds vote, the pact iself would be dead as a door- nail and that the responsibility for killing it would be on the thirty- three Democrats who failed to vote for Mr. Lodge's reservations to the treaty, Hoth sides are doing a considerable emount of jockeying for position, ‘The Republicans may be divided into two classes—those who avowedly want the Treaty killed and those who say they want It ratified, but insist that their ratifying resolutions do not mnean destruction of the pact, The Democrats differ with the Iat- ter class, bat what 1s the opinion of one Si as against another as to what constitutes the death of any plece of legislation when partiamer tary manoeuvres galore are in extet- Snnckidipenisoa | It would be dif- ‘waid House of Com- situation, Lord in the while the Government's it to Ignore the serious 1 the (ited States, he sald, jerman Peac not Treaty desire to express an 1, but the reserva n provisionally ac- almost to the repu- continu had be best continued in to be Lord expected Great Britain and France and, Italy