The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 1

we TROOPS GET THE COUNTRY BACK ON PEACE BASIS TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER. U. S. Senator Writes On SEE PAGE TH PROFITEERS For THE EVENING WORLD i—Cloudy. REE [*Ciroutation Books Open to Aii.”| “Circulation Books Open 1 to All.’ TO-MORROW:8 WEATHER—Rain and Warmer. 5 > i Ss PPE ‘ at, VOL. LX. NO. 21,351—DAILY. — Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Go (The ‘New "Fork World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1 Entered as Second-Clase Post Office, New Yorks Matter ™ Y 18 PAGES. 8 PRICE TWO CENTS, ‘ORGY OF SPENDING SPREADS TALUS. * Investigation Shows Amazing Instances of Extravagance in Washington Bureaus. WAR WASTE CONTINUES. Printing Office, State Depart- ment and Other Branches Ask Huge Appropriations. By Martin Green. _ (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. olination of the War and N: partments to continue operation next year on a war basis has been shown in thin series of articles by actual fig- ures taken from the estimates and the records of past expenditures. The figures have been taken from large items, @ivisions, which will show amazing instances of proposed extravagance born. of the saturnalia of spending Prevalent during the Wasy-sill- later, This ‘article will deai in figures with the power of example, and will show how a few other branches of the Government have contracted from the War and Navy Departments the idea that a couptry which was an in- exhaustible reservoir of funds in time of war should continue to be an in- exhaustible reservoir of funds in time of peace, The habit of thinking in bMions has spread all over the Gov- ernment, and it will require a major operation on the part of Congress to eradicate it. A long standing disgrace to the usiness of conducting the Govern- ment is the shameless abuse of the privileges accorded public officers of making use of the public printer and the postal facilities for departmental and personal press agent purposes. The war acted as incubator which forced the growth of the evil to stag- gefing proportions, Senator Smoot of Utah in a speech on the floor the other day produced documentary evi- dence of the squandering of nearly $500,000 on publicity and propaganda im one department alone, BXCUSE FOR EXTENSION OF PROPAGANDA WORK, * There was some excuse for the extension of propaganda work during the war. An attempt ‘to keep up the pace set by the war is inexcusable. What will be said of mat: furnished by the Public Printer to show that he will require $3,400,000 more for his department next year than was required this year? The fig- ures show that this is the case, Everybody of honest habit of thought in the Government knows that the abuse of the Congressional Record, the printing of speeches and documents for circulation for the benefit of money spending enterprises or candidates for office and the ac- tivities of Governmental bureau press agents wil flood newspaper offices throughout the country with tons of documents which are never read con- gfitate a scandal. Let us Jook for a moment into the Public Printer's estimate of his requirements for the fiscal year 1920-1921. He asks for $10,770,291, Last year ‘he asked for approximately $7,300,000. Wo 1916—the year of a national elec- tion and the hottest propaganda year kpown to the Government up to that in masses Analysis of sub- DEPARTMENTS TREATY TAKEN UP “VER PROTEST O -——-BITERENDERS Senate Adopts Lodge Motion to Suspend Rules by 63 to 9. WASHINGTON, Feb. §.—Consider- ation of the German Peace Treaty was resumed in the open Senate to- day, Republican and Democratic leaders joining forces to bring it back for debate. The decision was reached without ldebate, the Senate adopting over- by Lodge to reconsider the vote by which —treaty--wns laid aside last No- vember, whelmingty a motion Senator Unanimous consent for the recon- sideration had been refused by Sena- tor Norris, one of the irreconcilables opposing ratification and on the roll call the irreconcilable group lined up in the negative. The Vote on the motion to suspend the rules so the treaty again could be considered was 63 to 9. Those vot- ing against it, all Republicans, were Borah, Brandegee, France, Knox, McOormick, Sherman, and Poindexter. As soon as the rules had been sus- pended a parliamentary scrap devel- oped, Senator Norris making a point ot order against Senator Lodge's mo- tion to reconsider the vote by which ratification failed in November, ‘The objection was overruled by Vice President Marshall, whose decision was upheld by the Senate by a vote of 62 to 10, On this roll cail the irreconcilabies again voted in the negative, their strength being augmented by the vote of Senator Sutherland, another Re- publican. The Senate’ by acclamation then adopted Senator Lodge's motion of reponsidération, and with the treaty formally before the Senate Vice Presi- dent Marshall ruled that it had brought back with it the cloture im- posed before the November vote. To get rid of the cloture restric- tton, Senator Lodge moved to re- commit the treaty to the Foreign Re- lations Committeé, but incorporated instructions that it be reported back with the Republican adopted last session. After a half-hour's discussion, dur> ing which several expedients were proposed for untangling the parlia- mentary tangle about the treaty, Sen- ator Hitchcock withdrew his proposal to amend the motion, which then was carried by a vive voce vote, That put the treaty technically out of the Senate and into the committee and ended for the time being discus- sion of the subject on the floor, ‘The committee is to meet to-morrow and members expect a report to be made immediately. Gronna, Norris reservations “SHOOED’ FROM WHITE HOUSE Visitors Unintentionally Wander Into Presence of the Pres fime—the appropriations for the] WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—I J Public Printer totalled = about | Whitty, Assistant District Attorney of $5,400,000. pete ne —_ ct as showing OR PUB. {Him through the White House to-day BIDDING ON SUPPLIES F UB! started leisurely through the door fr , e Exec e OM, he corrido! ¥ have before me a sheet showing |(he, Excculve, © pe onrsiaoe the results of bidding on paper for! aney suuntered into the presence of the Public Printer-for public Printing | president Wilson, who had taken up a for two periods—one Eom March 1,| jew vantage point for his daily sunning 1920, to August 31, 1920, the other) secret Service men moved them back (Continued on Eighth Page.) pct“ iD * Racing Entries on Page 5. TAKE BELL-ANS AVTER MEALS and see Hourihan, of Wlisw tow fine GOOD DIGESTION makes you feel, Ade Machine Guns Open on 4,000 in Lexington, Ky., to Save " Murderer of Girl. NEW MOB IS FORMIN Mountaineers, -Angered Shooting, Swear to Hang Negro Yet. by LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 9.—Reports received here by telephone say mobs are looting pawnshops and hardware stores at Lexington to obtain firearms and have declared their intention of securing the negro by any means. LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9. ve persons were killed by Kentucky State militiamen to-day when a mob attempted to storm the Fayette County Court House and jail here*to lynch Will Lockett, negro, charged with the murder of Geneva Harde- man, ten years old, a South Elkhorn schoolgirl. ‘ifteen others were wounded by ha shots of the sol- diers. While sold the mob of 4,000, which a surrender of Lockett, the negro was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be electroduted. He has been spir- ited away to a place of safety. ‘Two women’ were reported amor those shot. ‘Among those reported dead are FE. F. Carrier of Lexington, John Thomas of Versailles, William Effing- ton of Versailles, and a man named Bradley of Lexington. Enraged at the killings, hundreds of armed mountain: are reported to be en route here to seize the negro. Four hundred troops from Camp Taylor, Ky., have been ordered to Lexington to prevent further trouble. The additional troops were gequested as it was feared the 300 militiamen could not handle the situation. ‘The Hardeman girl's body was found in a field near her home late Friday. Bloodhounds put on the trail led to Lockett. Rumors of attempts at lynching spread rapidly through Fayette County and a company of State mili- tia from Latonia was rushed to Frankfort Sunday to escort Lockett to the Court House at Lexingtone Machine guns were mounted to sweep the approaches to the Court House, and overseas soldiers with steel helmets were on guard when court opened this morning. Lexington’s streets were packed with onlookers when the negro, sur- rounded by the troops, marched to the Court House. Heavy wires and ropes had been stretched on either side of each street through which Lockett passed and troops were un- der orders to “shoot to kill” if an at- tempt was made to reach the pris- oner. Fifty extra police and a Sheriff's posse patrolled the streets to keep the crowds behind the ropes. Long before the hour set for the opening of the trial the Court House was filled, No one was permitted «Continued on Second Page.) Seer an THIRTEEN INJURED ON JERSEY CENTRAL Brakes Fail to Stop Point Pleasant press at Jersey City Terminal. | | ‘Thirteen persons were injured to-day |when the brakes on the Point Pleasant | Express on the Jersey Central Rallroad led to stop the train on thé slippery | ft tracks as it pulled into the terminal at Jersey City. The locomotive struck the oncrete bumper, dislocating it, The passengers were lurt In being thrown agninst seats or to the floor, ‘two were taken to St. Francis’ Hospital m Jersey City. They are Miss Anna . and Miss Lulu Gkienar, Perth Am ¢ PRESIDENT ALONE CAN STOP STRKE OF RALROAD MEN 300,000 Track Hands and Shop Workers Ordered Outrebs 17. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The strike of maintenance of way employees and rfilroad shop laborers set for Feb. 17 will be carried out only in case 4 final appeal to President Wilson to adjyst demands for wage increases wD. Malloy, Vice President of the Brother- hood announced to-day The appeal may go to the President to-morrow. DETROIT, Feb. 9.—~A strike of 300,- 000 members of the United Brother- hood of Muintenance of Way Em- ploxes_and. Railway Shon Laborers was called to-day for Puesday, Feb- ruaty 17, at a meeting here of the general chairmen of the Brotherhood. The strike was announced by Alen E. Barker, grand president, after numer- ous communications from J. B. Mal- loy, grand vice-president at Washing- ton, conducting negotiations with the Railroad Administration. Malloy advised that no hope of a ment existed. “T am loath to call a strike,” Mr. the brotherhood favorable settle- Barker said, “but there is nothing else we can do. Our hands have ‘been forced. I am tired of the treat~ ment we have received from Govern- ment officials.” The strike is for the general in- crease requested last summer and in addition a uniform rate from coast to coast. The general chairmen who have been in session here for several days were empowered to order a strike by a vote of the union membership last summer. Last September a strike was postponed so that President Wilson might have opportunity to attempt to bring about a reduction in living costs. According to union of- ficials his efforts have been fruitle: Original demands of the Brothes n average increase of 40 per cent., the greater increases to go to the lower paid/men. ONE DEAD, 20 HURT, IN BLAZE IN HOTEL 150 Other Guests Have Narrow Escapes in San Francisco Fire. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.-Only one life was known definitely to-day to have been lost Jast night in a fire that destroyed the fashionable Berk- shire apartment house. A search of the building revealed no additional bodies. ‘ ‘A score of persons are in various hospitals, however, suffering from burns and injuries. Most of those taken to hospitals were women, Some suffered from severe burns, while others leaped from windows and fire conies. neeiioe eee ts BRITISH OCCUPY DANZIG. Last German Troops Left the City on 8 BERLIN, Feb. 9.—The advance guard of a British battalion, which will be on of the units of occupation in Danzig, has arrived in that city, and the Jast unday, German troops left on & — Ban on Vehicles Also Aids 13,000 Men and 1,000 Trucks in Removing Snow. GARBAGE PILING UP. Warning Issued to Keep All Gutters Clear—Surface Cars Still Motionless. With 13,713 flame throwers, two from the army, and one men, three invented by,a shopman of the Sec- ond Avenue Line, one steam shovel than 1,006 trucks at work, the task of cléaring the streets of snow and ice is pro- and more emergency ceeding apace, said Arnold H. Mac- Stay, Commissioner of Street Clean- ing, this afternoon. that the 2,500 regulars of his department, He explained in addition to there are tWo thousand laborers em- ployed by contractors and 9,213 en- gaged by the department to meet the emergency. Under the direction of Major Harry BrClark,-executive officer of the re- cruiting district, two flame throwers were being tested against the heaped up snow and ice at the Columbus Cir- cle entrance of Central Park this af- ternoon, If they prove capable of doing the work they will be tried out in various section# of the city. Officials of the Second Avenue lines sald that they also were trying out a flame thrower to melt the ice now clogging the channel rail. Their de- vice was built in the company’s shops. ‘The test is being made at Second Ave- nue and 86th Street, and officials hoped that it would solve the prob- lem of clearing the rail. Commissioner MacStay reported that the steam shovel of the scoop variety he had started at work at Broadway and llth Street was a big help. WARNS HOUSEHOLDERS TO KEEP ALL GUTTERS CLEAR, ‘The Commissioner issued a warning to all householders to. clear out the gutter in front of their homes and places of business. He said that if the expected thaw materializes to- gay or to-morrow and the gutters are still clogged damaging floods will undoubtedly result, He also appealed to the police de- partment to enforce the regulations against dumping garbage and ashes op the snow piles. Fifth Avenue below Forty-second Street was still closed to traffic this morning, as were West and South Streets. Efforts were centered on (Continued <= HOW NEWARK HAS SOLVED PROBLEM OF SNOW REMOVAL Many Thoroughfares Are Opened to Traffic and Trolley Lines Freed of Ice. AX lines of the Public Ser- on Second Py “ . vice Ratiway Company were operating in Newark to-day with the exception of four miles of the Trenton fast lines, ‘This was held up at Bonhampton, two miles outside of New Bruns- wick, by three army trucks which have been frozen in snow dritts | since Wednesday. The line ts | also held up on the other side of f New Brunswick, and cars are be- ing run from Milltown to Tren- ton. | The Public Service has cleared all its tracks in Newark of snow. The Street Cleani@g Department has also cleared Broad Street and Market Street, two prominent business thoroughfares, and many side streets. The entire business | section is opened to tra Mic. The KILL FIVE LYNCHERS AS SLAYER IS'CONVICTED | TROOPS KIL VE LYNCHERS ~ AS RY CONICTS SLAYER STEAM SHOVELS AND FLAME TROWERS CLEARING STREETS PRINCESS ANNE BREAKS IN THO LST OF CREM OF Police Boat and Fishing Smack Land Men After Shots Halt Mutiny, The skeleton loft the stranded steamship Princess Anne at crew on Rockaway Point were roused by the crashing of timbers at 2.30 o'clock this morning. It was the beginning of the thing that had been feare the ship grounded on Friday, The vessel was breaking in two. ‘The middle sagged and the two ends pro- truded from the water A dozen members of the crew, with- out waiting for a command, started to go ashore. The first officer, C. W Barker, ordered them back to duty, When they ignored the order he fired over thidir heads with his. revelver, ‘Then they obeyed, 4 . It was soon apparent, however, that all would have to leave. ‘The fishing smack Stella C. drew alongside after daylight and took off twenty-five of the forty-four men, landing them at Sheepshead Bay. Two otiers were afterward removed and this afternoon the remaining seventeen men were taken off by the police boat Patrol. The reversed ensign, a signal of distress had been flown since daylight, Among the New York men off by the fishing,boat were: John Stanton, No. 100 West 139th Street; J. V Ransome, No. 7 East 13ist Street; Frank Mostow, No. 306 West 112th Street; Dennis Dozier, No. 703, Park Edward Harvey, No. 102 West 142nd Street; Wiliam Dwell, No. 2424 7th Avenue; William Danzey, No. 127 West 183d Street; Tony ever since sewers are being Gushed. Philtz, No, 180 Mulberry Sireet and Louls Peterson, No. 172 Clark Street, Brooklyn. LEGION DID NOT OPEN FIGHT ON I.W.W. Counsel for Accused’ Men Admit Soldiers Did Not Attack “Wobblies” in Centralia, MONTHSANO, Wash., Fob. 9—The American Legion to-day was exoner- ated of any part in the alloged plot to raid the I. W. W. hall at Centralia by Attorney George F. Vanderveer, counsel for the eleven I. W. W. defendants on trial here for their lves for the Cen- tralia Armistice Day shootings. Foch Not Going to ! PARIS, Feb, 9.—It was stated at the French Foreign Office to-day that there was no foundation for the re- uhat to published Foch port Marshal jand. at Warsaw intended going SWEEPING CHARGES BY ALLIES AGAINST VON HINDENBURG Ludendorff Is Coupled With Him in Accusation of Ordering Devastations, BERLIN, Feb. 9.—-The official list of men whose extradition is demanded hy the Allies for war crimes is a bulky vol- ume of 200 closely printed pages. Field Marshal von Hindenburg aad Gen, Ludendorff allotted several pages on @ general blanket indictment for ordering devastations and other al- leged breaches of the rules of warfare. Admiral von Tirpitz, held responsible for naval operatons, chiefly the subm- rine campaign, while Dr. von Beti- mann-Hollweg is sceused of violating the sovereignty of Belgium. ‘The names “Bernstorff" and “von Hanel" refer to young offcers 2 thowe names who were stationed on the west ern front. The name of Dr. Altred are FEDERAL CONTROL OF MEAT INDUSTRY AS PUBLIC UTILITY APPROVED BY Bll PACKERS Majority of “Big Five” Consent to Evening World Plan of Commis- ~ sion toInsure Fair Return to Them and Fair Price to Consumers. By Sophie Irene Loeb. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The Evening World, in an effort to get at the underlying causes of the high cost of living and to promote a con- structive movemént that would once and for all forestall profiteering and assure fair prices for the commonest necessities of life, had me confer with the heads of the five gigantic corporations in the packing industry. “The Big Five,” as they have been commonly called, have been charged with not only dominating the meat industry but with getting control over the whole food supply. For the first time in the history of these five packers has an inter- view been secured from all of them on this vital question, j For the first time the majority of them have declared themselves @i Agreement with. The . With a ‘public interest utilities, } lation aimed in thelr direction, have come forward and approved The Evening World’s suggestion that their business shall be subjected to the supervision and regulation of a properly constituted commission not unlike a Pablic Service Commission, COMMISSION AS A PROTECTOR OF THE PEOPLE. Up to this writing the packers throughout the country have opponed _ the steps taken by the Government in an effort to regulate or control them. Many of them, not yet conceiving the public nature of their business, are holding to their view of being but @ distinctly private industry.” What these packers have feared most from such legislation was that their : ness, which has taken more than a generation to build, might be pats to such drastic political interference as would wreck it. So aay ‘These five corporations, with sales last year aggregating between. three and four billion dollars and with assets of between two snd three. billion dollars, claiming their profits have not exceeded wver one-fourth cont” a pound of all their productions, will, if this movement Is Inunched, be sub- Jeet» 7sttia Cece cls Or Sie Stabe we feo aa EO . the public that the prices pald for these products are the lowest bie ‘and that there is only a fair return on the investment, ey ‘The Bvening World is ofthe opinion that, unless some such step is taken in the direction of secuting authoritative and undisputed facts and figures upon whieh prices are based, we will forever be confronted with a hopeless maze of public contradictions, reqriminations and erfti- cisms. In plain parlance, ‘the people must have some sure authoritative method of getting at the truth about the prime necessities of life. Until something is started along these lines, the consumer never can be sure of fair prices ‘of the common necessities of life. - PACKERS SUGGEST MAKE-UP OF COMMISSION. 43): eee All of this I have set before these masters of bo wuts during tie peat few days. 1 pointed out to them that they might adVertise their financial statements in the public prints from now umtii doomsday, setting forth cap-_ {talization, their small profits on the pound and all'the rest of it, and the consumer would stil! be @ doubting Thomas who wants to be shown, = I urged that if there was nothing mysterious, nothing to bide, need fear the jurisdiction of an authoritative body in which the consumer, who is most concerned, would be properly repre: noted in @ matter so vital is ie brief, after discussion with each of them, a majority agreed that. the chief problem developed into the personnel of such a permanent com»): mission instituted by Congress, with jurisdiction of the meat industry! Although I went over this matter fully with the majority of these men, Louls F. Swift, President of Swift & Co., the largest organization of them | \. ‘all, was the first to agree to an efficient and workable commission, as fol ‘To have a commission consisting, say, of— “Three firms of public accountants of international reputation, w: Vhree bankers, representing, say, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. ‘Three representatives of the public—men like Oscar S, Straus and representative women (he mentioned my name) to Investigate and cer+ tify statements, financial or otherwise, made by the packers concerning their business. It wo ve to be understood, of course, that the mem- bers of the commission would be interested solely im the public welfare.” ‘This commission to be appointed by the President with the concurrence of the Senate, Mr. Swift stated: “It is really of vitalimportance that the public should have this informa- tion and understand what it means, and it occurs to me that it would be an excellent. thing. “Our problem, it seems to me, is to get the public to understand our * business, and particularly to see that our profit has no appreciable effect , on prices. It is such a simple situation that we sometinies get a little dis: © ¥ Zimmermann, the former Koreign Seu Tetasy, does not appear oa “hie haat couraged that we are not able to get the public to understand it Bessibly |