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TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain, Then Snow. Che f “Chreutation Books m9 Open to All.” | eng eeesen tea A SRC BE PRESID EDITION AGUS lie EVINGS FE aonb LX. NO. 21,380—DAILY. Covrrtent, Fgh Md Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, Kanter Second-Claso Post Office, ‘New Xerk 1920. Matter ™ 12 PAGES. NAVAL COMMITTEE OF HOUSE REFUSES ANY NEW WARSHIPS TOREDUCE NATION'S BUDGET Minimum Sum Asked by Daniels for New Construc- tion was $195,000,000., —_——-_ | FINISH PLANS OF 1916. polls ea Only $72,000,000 Will Be Appropriated to Complete , Vessels on Ways. WASHINGTON, March 13.—In the imterests of economy” the three Naval Construction Programs recommended by Secretary Daniels, depending on disposition of the Peace Treaty, were disapproved to-day by a House Naval Affair’s Sub-Commnittee. Am appropriation of $72,000,000 for continuing the unfinished 1916 pro- gram was decided upon by the sub-|ffom the Emergency Fleet Corpora-| committee as the d@y ship construc- tion of the United States Shipping Morning signed by Robert P. Brindell, tion funds to be provided for the next fiscal year. The Sub-Committee decision al though yet to be approved by the full committee, is regarded virtually as final, Total appropriations for the |fare basis, department under the Sub-Committee |line will be in operation by Monday | $400,- | Dill would be approximately 000,000 or $165,000,000 less than re- quested by department officials. ‘The Sub-Committee voted against | ever steps necessary for the opera- | recommended appropriations for de- velopment of naval bases at San/ Midland route, The receiver will be Francisco Bay, San Pedro, nd Port|directed to grant the necessary per- Angeles. ‘When he appeared before the Naval Committee of the House last Satur- day. Secretary Daniels proposed three naval buildings programmes. In the event the treaty of peace should be ratified and the United States become a member of the League ef Nations, he sait}he ould ask for only @ few vessels to round out tho ‘present fleet. , If, however, .the United States re- fused to join the League of Nations at this session of the Congress, the Secretary proposed that an appropria- tion of $195,000,000 be made for build- ing sixty-nine additional ships for the battle fleet. As a third proposition, tary declured that if the Congress should finally determine that the United States was not to become a member of the League of Nations, he would urge a three-year building pro- gramme, adding hundreds of millions to the $195,000,000 appropriation, the Secre- that America would have incom- parably” the greatest fleet in the worjd. MEXICANS RESCUE AMERICAN Federal Troops Release Sammers, jd for Ransom, CHICAGO, March 13.—Ransom for Peter W. Summers, American ~anch oryner captured near Salina Cruzwigat week by Mexican bandits, was raised from $500 to $5,000, March 12 fixed as the last day for payment, according to a telegram from Amer Burlinghame at Salina Cruz to two sis- tors of Summers here WASHINGTON, March Federal troopa have release of Peter W. Summers, can ranch owner who was kidnapped jast week and held for ransom by rebels in the vicinity, of Salina Cruz, Mexici BONUS SENTIMENT GROWS. 13.—Mexican brought about the Ameri WASHINGTON March 413,—Senti ment of a soldier bonus appeared to be growing in the Senate today and Numerous petitions resolutions are reaching Senators from con ents and soldicr organizations anking Kansas, Republic ponent of. univeraul. trains @uC fer relief legisiation to- ig ‘an Consul | |serve the public, | LEAGUE COUNCIL LABOR PLEDGES AID IN $100,000,000 PLAN FOR BUILDING ) Trades Council Assures Hylan ; Wage Agreement Will Con- tinue Effective All Year. | ONLY RELIEF IN RENTS. | FIRST CITY RUN |Mayor Invites Public to Sub- mit Suggestions at City Hall Conference Monday. | Organized labor, as represented by | CAR LINE T0 BE To Take Over Mid Midland Rail- executive officers of the Building ways and Buy Cars From | Trades Council, has assured co-op- \eration to Mayor Hylan in his $100,- Shipping Board—Sc. Fare. | o06.009 building programme to end elyceienetiatine the rent “profiteering evil. EXiward P. Doyle of the New York! Island Midland Railroad Company,) Real Hxtate Board had told the which suspended operation Jan. 19 « Haein ba a ware reasy: to Cut nto building now ‘if la- t ave Gave Seley wens sate the Dende Of 64. ana Gulldiie matérial taea Will @ receiver, and run cars purchased ,©0-operate.” The city plans to take over the Staten A letter was sent to the Mayor this President, and Roswell D, Tompkins, | Secretary, of the Building Trades Council, accepting the Mtyor’s the first municipally operated traction|vitation to attend a conference of | realty financiers, builders, material men and lwbor at 10 o'clock Monday at the City Hall, The letter assured the Mayor that existing wage agreements affeeting | the 118,000 workers in the “building | trades would continue effective till} next Jan. 1. There is a provision in the agreement that if by Aug. 1 the] cost of living has not decreased the men may ask for higher pay, but the Mayor was informed that provision would not affect the scale during the present year, ‘The Mayor to-day extended an in- vitation to the public to attend the conference Monday and “to submit any sugestion tendinj; toward the so- lution of this pressing and vital question,” The Mayor's annouccement of the conference was read last night at the meeting of the Central Federated Union. Afteward President Hannah said: “We propose to tell the Mayor that labor will co-operate to its fullest extent in any constructive plan to relieve housing conditions in this city. We realize that such a building Programme is the only permanent cure for the rent profiteering evil. But meanwhile we shall continue our efforts to bring immediate relief to those who haye suffered long from rent gougers so as to stop profiteering by unscrupulous landlords during the time the building programme is being carried out.” PLANS MASS MEETING ON RENT PROFITEER BILL. The central labor body, which repre- sents 350,000 organized workers in the city, by unanimous vote indorsed the action of its legislative committee in | co-operating with the Mayor's Com mittee on Rent Profiteering to push! Board. ‘The restored service, which willgmean in line in this city, will be on a five-cent It is expected the new! morning, Mayor Hylan to-day directed Cor- | poration Counsel Burr to take what- | tion of city owned cars along the jmit. If he does not grant the same} | the Corporation Counsel will institute | proceedings to have declared for-| feited the franchise of the Midland Company because of its failure to Asked what would happen if the Midland tore up its tracks in the event of a forfeiture of its franchise, Commissioner Whalen said: “We will have other rails to replace them. The city is well supplged with = “Robert Haig, Superintendent of Construction of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, says the Government will sell the new cars for $9,000 each and the used cars for $2,500 each.” Asked if he believed the Richmond Light and Railroad Company would refuse to furnish power to city oper- ated cars ‘he answered: “[ don't think so, It is a question of public necessity and the Richmond cancern is a public utility corpora- tion. It owns the only power plant on Staten Island and we could not pply elsewhere. I think it is up to the Richmond Company to give us the service Midland same ag the Com- pany.” IN RUSSIAN INQUIRY land General | mise impossible, T | NEW PORT STRIKE WILL TIE-UP FIVE COASTWISE LINES Vessels Now Loaded Will Be Last to Sail From Here Until Walk Out Ends. REPORTED Owners Plan Bitter Fight, Claiming They Can’t Grant Wage Demands. 7,000 OUT. The strike of coastwise longshore- | men, stevedores and checkers, who walked out at § o’cloek this morning, will result in the complete tie-up of | all Atlantic coast traffic, according to admissions made by officials of the five lines affected. At the headquarters of the man- agers, it was announced at noon that! five vessels now loaded were ready | to sail, and after they had departed | no ships would move until the strike | was settled, gPassenger and freight steamers are expected to be affected by the tle-up, BE. R. Diechardson, Vice President iGreat German Leader in the War Manager of the Ocean Steamship Company, operating the Savannah Line Steamers, spokesman for the ship owners and managers, sald: ® Union leaders asserted that the at- titude of ship owners made compro- and that ‘the strike would “be fought to a finish.” “It ts absolutely impossible for us to grant the demands of the men, We intend to stand pat on our pres- ent position and to fight this through to the bitter end. “It is to be regretted that this strike has come at this time, The men on strike are now receiving sixty-five cents an hour, They want a dollar an hour, or $2.50 for over- time. ‘This is impossible for us to pay. We have been hard hit by the war and are just getting back on our feet.” Mr. Richardson declared that the figures given aut by the strike lead- ers that 7,000 men are out and more going, are incorrect. “There are about 3,000 men gut,” he said. “This means that hundreds of seamen, stewards, engine room workers and the like are thrown cut of work because of our inability to operate, The effect of the strike will be felt from Boston to Galveston.” Fifteen hundred clerks and other helpers will be laid off next week un- less the strike breaks, The Mallory, Clyde, Old Dominion, Savannah and Morgan Steamship lines e affected by the ‘The effect of the strike (Continued on Second Rel Mediotaies AID 50,000 TO BUILD HOMES. perative Savings and Loan A tlons Help to Beat Landlord ALBANY, N. ¥., March 13.— Page,) he suc- my pine sere, feiciei-ieicieleeieleleieieleleleleielel-ieeieeleieieieiele FIELD MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG. feelin ob “PEGGY” MARSH — HOOVER DECLARES LOSES FIGHT FOR, U-BOAT RAVAGES FELD MILLIONS) ALMOST WON WAR | —_—s— Court Rules that Son of Henry {Refuses to Support Sims’s As- Field Cannot Share Great sertion That Navy Delay Fortune. Prolonged Struggle. CHICAGO, March 13,—Henry An- WASHINGTON, March 13.—Send- thony Marsh, three-y -old son of| ing of surplus anti-submarine craft the late Henry Field and Miss Peggy | to n waters would have Marsh, a chorus girl, will receive no| greatly aided the Allies at a “dan- share of the estate of the late Mar-| gerous period” of the war, Herbert shall Field. - | Hoover testified to-day before the Superior Judge Sullivan to-day | Senate Investigating Committee, Pp ruled the boy was not entitled to the $2,000,000 fund the merchant prince for| porting contentions of Sims as Allied situation in the to share in trust the critical spring of 1917 Submarine sinkings wete so great a created by his grandchildren of whom Henry Field was one, Field in this period as to endange of th Hoo’ v the out- Henry and Miss Marsh met | come war, ver declared | EBERT AND CABINET QUIT BERLIN, MAKING NO FIGHT Who Is Slated to Be President Wolfgang von Kapp, Appointed bly and Announcing That New Elections Will Be Held Soon. (Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 13.—The overthrow of the Ebert Goverm ‘ment was announced in a proclamation issued at 10 o'clock this: morning after revolting troops from the suburbs had entered movement had proved a peaceful one, no disorders developifig. The proclamation declared that the entire authority of the state had passed into the hands of General Provincial Director Wolfgang von Kapp as Imperial Chancellor and Premier of” Prussia. | Chancellor Kapp, says that the mandate of the National Assembly declares the National Assembly dissolved. “As soon as internal order has been restored,” it says, “we shall return to constitutional conditions and prescribe new |elections.” It is reported that it is the intention to proclaim Field Mare |shal von Hindenburg “Imperial President.” | VON LUETTWITZ PLACED AT HEAD OF ARMY. It was announced that Gen, Baron von Luettwitz had been ap. | pointed Commander-in-Chief of the military by the Chancellor and that la new government, “of order, freedom and action,” was being formed, At 10 o'clock the city was still preserving for the moment its usual aspect. Carriages, taxicabs and street cars were in movement as though nothing had happened. President Ebert left the city with his wife at 5 morning.” The members of the Ebert Government are retaining their offices, although they have left the capital, according to the Lokal Anzeiger, The newspaper says the old Government refused to comply with an ultimatum presented by Gen, Enrhardt of the Naval Brigade which expired at 7 o'clock this morning, the Government officials leaving Berlin by motor car without resigning their posts. The troops which made the descent upon Berlin were for the most part quartered in the suburb of Doeberitz, and included troops which had recently returned from the Baltic provinces. MOVE OF TROOPS ON CITY BEGINS. The threat of their movement developed at midnight. When it became known that they were advancing, the semi-official agency states, Gen, von Oldershausen began negotiations with the naval brigade, which formed part of the contingent, The demands made by the brigade were discussed by the Cabinet, which sat until the early morn- ing, the news agency adds, The demands were subsequently rejected and the troops entered Berlin and proceeded to tne occupation of the Wilhelmstrasse. The agtncy also announced the calling of a general strike by the Social Democratic Party, the party which had supported the Bbert Government, and of which President Ebert, Premier Bauer and Foreign Minister Mueller are members. caienimigdiate o'clock this | ; operative savings and loan| in London while the latter was in the | A iS ‘or ¢ ssi ate Z state | ces? of co-operativ vings an | Whether the navy could have done Adopt: aaa nia for au 100! for immediate passage by the State | sociation in freeing wage-earners | chorus of a theatre there, Prior {|| eiaa ta taba’ aha He in Burone of Ten Members at Paris aaeuag! from the exactions of landlords is| his death Field gave the girl approxi- : pam 01 exe | appro flenaa: daa ‘ Meeting (Continued on Fourth Page.) devcribed in the annual report of| mately $60,000 and agreed to settle |... Sims alleges, Hoover declined to is —— | George Skinner, State Superintend- jeez PARIS, March 13.—The Executive Jent of Banks $100,000 on her son, Following his| }oover declared the war would 9 Pra yihy peotapiitchir merger. Nearly 500,000 persons, who can save| death two rs ago the Field | come to an end “almost in a moment" ¢ ao nie Os tae Ramee ORE oe 2a te S d W Id only In small amounte have been en-| family carried out his plans and gave| had the Allied food supplies been cut SAYS ME SA q nder the Presidency o! o1 ur- al 0 build homes. @ resources 0 nad the Allied food supplies bee! Be un ay or |e" anmociations increased 11,000,000 | Miss Marsh the $100,000 to educate| oft, The situation was dangerous . A resolution was adopted providing for [eure oe Tr tctas ke Tem tle | Rar son | almost beyond description, and I can't the appointment of a commission of ten Cl ifi d Ad jexceeded $100,001 ata Miss Marsh, an American girl, is| ¢. obaniss’ the dancers coal: | COLOGNE, March 13.—A despatch to the Cologne Gazette from | » living with her so: OVET- SBM Ae Me CANES ES DOF , Mare! A spatch te Yolo members, each with two counsellors, to assifie Ss. | SEEK WOMAN'S SLAYER, | *!¢ to be living with her son in New| toy ne allied cause was in,” Hoover s gn make the proposed investigation into | slants Haven, Conn erred mga ce swore emcee RPE TAT conditions in Russia as soon as favor- ; eee sh A pi ads e ‘ Masic Teacher Is Beaten to Death O. aoak onions: end: MA Tht bxceae aa f . |able reply ls received trom the Soviet | SHOULD BE IN THE jaa Opener aes ree Swain Ming Mer Ge (ecrarie (for ee “The new Government under Qhancellor Kapp will say in its Government, To this commission is to DARIS, ob 48. inw Gustave’ c : k x a) See ie eg be added & commiaston fram the Inter | ar ears | WASHINGTON, March 13—Police to- | | PANE ee eT Rte THATS: OF waa cto. create utmost anxiety on programme to be made public that it will honorably fulfill the Treaty tional Labor Bureau for the sj - |day are searching for the slayer of Mra, | Bwede i wrcho ae | the other wide at the rate of sink- | } : st obi i nNGbor aris ne Gertrude Mann, music teacher, whose F holidays, says the Echo do | ie eh taking place the war had a Of Versailles. It gives emphatic assurances that the Government ‘hag m0 : ee 5 Saati ial a body was fou tch of woods in S08 Wa ianla-ana 4 saatiar or monarchical aims.”” Hytan te Cent! Traction Ine BABLY ARS 5 a I THE the fashionable Cleveland Park district |e, uy BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and 200 : It Hepes had gone on at the ae Bey apnea A Government in Germany has es traction companies’ petit SUNDAY ADS. HAVE AB MEA: ARN SO SEM LB Lae ge rem Allien have gone on?” Chairman tablished its seat in Dresden, the Capital of Saxony, according to Guicy “will continue and the TO BE OMITTED ; ; a segey, inte, MEAS SMTRS ia, ggo,| Halo aaked "My opinion Is that advices this afternoon, wert the OR May or He Bl | sew for iy airy © Sapo Olive Ol and ve By poy 3 dinner, (Continued om Second Paseo BASLE, March 13.—News from the provinces indicates that alm ce ee a em te ete Chancellor, Issuesa Proclamation — Dissolving ‘the National Assem-— |to create a constitution and conclude peace has expired and it ‘ ‘Berlin and occupied the Wilhelmstrasse. Up to that hour the — J % The proclamation, tseued over the: signature. of Ingenta mae eee ee