Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
The Evenin To Be Sure of Gettin World, Order in Advance of Your Newsdealer [* Ciroutation Books | Books Open to All.” | to All” > Bcrabdeme' san Books Open t to Au.” | Lo an ITED wh Ws Copyrig! — 1920, by The Pi ‘Went Eebliching NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920. Entered ae Post Oftice, Megond-Claae New York, pice esa President Expressed Surprise at Failure to Meet the Subma- rine Emergency. NO TIME FOR PRUDENCE. “Boldness Even at Cost of Great Losses,”’ He Suggested, Asking Admiral’s View. WASHINGTON, May 12.—A confi- dential cablegram from Président Wilson to Rear Admiral Sims in London, sent during the war, was read to the Senate Naval Investigat- ing Committee to-day by“Secretary Daniels, President Wilson asked Admiral Sims to advise him as he would give advice “if you were run- ning’ a navy of your own.” Admiral Sims's reply, said Secre- tary Daniels, who presented the . message in connection with his an- ewer to Sime’s charges against the Navy Department's conduct of the wer, was “A long telegram of gen- eralities of what the British Ad- miraity was doing.” TEXT OF THE PRESIDENT’S MES- SAGE TO ADMIRAL SIMS. President Wilson's message to Sims follows: From the beginning of the war 1 have been greatly surprised at the failure of the British Admi- ralty to use Great Bri: great naval superiority in an effective way. In the presence of the pres- ent submarine emergency they are helpless to the point of pani Every plan we suggest they et for some reason of pru- dence. In my view this is’not a time for prudence but for bold- ness even at the cbst of great losses. “In most of yéur dispatches you have quite properly advised us of the sort of aid and co-oper- ation desired from us by the Ad- miralty, The trouble is that their plans and methods do not seem to us efficacious. “I would be very much obliged to you if you would report to me, confidentially, of course, exactly what the Admiralty has been doing and what they have accom- plished and, added to the report, your own comments and sugges- tions, based upon independent thought of the whole situation, without regard to the judgments of any one on that side of the water. “The Admiralty was very slow to adopt the protection of con- voys and it is not now, ‘1 judge, protecting convoys on adequate scale within the danger zone; ming to keep small craft with the Grand Fleet. The absence of craft for convoys is even more apparent on the French coast (Continued on Second Page.) | Classified Advertisers | | | | Important! Classified advertising ci Sunday World should World office On or Before Friday | Preceding Publication Barly copy receives the praference dey ing haa to be is now y for ‘Nhe || in The WASHINGTON, May 12 (Copyright, 1920).—Political twenty-four hours have emphasized the improbability of a reconciliation between the various factions in beth the Democrat and Republican Parties who have taken their respective at- titudes toward the Pea League of Nations during the past year. ‘Three divisions exist in each party and by virtue of their similarity they appear now to be the nucelus of GREAT BRITAIN HELPLESS TO THE POINT OF PANIC, SAID WILSON IN CABLE T0 SIMS SPLIT 1S CERTAIN IN BOTH PARTIES OVER THE LEAGUE Avoided. events of political parties. President Wilson's letter to the Ore- asking for the of the treaty and league, followed as it was by ihe announcement of Republican, leaders | in Chicago that they would stand on the Lodge reservations, has now been attacked by the so-called “irreconcu- led by Senators Johnson and Borah, who hint at a bolt from the Republican Party ynless reservations, League, treaty and all are condemned HOW. THE THREE TICKETS MAY gon Demi qualified ables, ‘The outlook at present for the Pres- idential nominations appear to Republican jocrats: endorsement BE MADE UP.- be tl By David Watrence: (Special Correspondent of The Eve- the last e Treaty and tu therefore would — Lowden, Wood or Hoover on a platform of Lodge reser- | “ONE BIG UNION’: FOR CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS Nese Aim at Ultimate Control ot | Mills and Shops by Co- Operative Employees. IS FAR-REACHING PLA I etc May Take in Ladies’ Garment | Workers—Many Can’t Speak English, | By Martin Green. | (Special Staff Parresperaent of The | Evening World.) | BOSTON, May 12. All indications Washington View View Is That Al point to the accomplishment ’ this Thitd Ticket Cannot Be week of the consolidation of the ‘Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ | Union, which takes in practically all the workers in the shops of the man- ufacturers of men's clothes, and Amalgamated Textile Workers’ Union, which includes in its mem- bership about 40 per cent. of the workers in the New Englandetextile mi'ls. The textile workers are al- | ready committed to the plan and the national eonvention of the clothing workers. now in, session here, ts to ass upon it befor. the end of the week. ‘The consolidation may have the ef- fect, of heading off the .threatened etrike in the mills of the American Woolen Company in Lawrence and in the mills of other woolen con- cerns, for reasons which will appear later in this despatch. The most im- portant feature of the proposed amal- gamation of the two unions’ men- Yoned 1s that it marks the first step toward ultimate consummation of the plan of the leaders of the cloth- ing workers to unite, in “one big union,” all persons who work on or with all kinds of clothing, from the toilers in the milla and factories to the clerks in the wholesale and re- rail stores; to unite everybody di- rectly or indirectly employed in what are called “the needle trades,” Mang organizers and officers of doth the clothing workers and tex- tile workers, in public utterances, have announced that when the “Ope Rig Union” ts in working order the next step will be to move to take over complete control of the cloth- ing trade by acquiring the mills, the the un- | GIRL HAD PREMONITION, REWARD OF $5,000 OR SLAYER OF R BUYER OF GUN 1S HUNTED |SON OF MRS. DUKE WEDS FORMER WIFE |10 CURB GOUGERS HERE OF A SONG WRITER| Man in Pawnshop at Time Weapon Was Sold: Says He Can Identify Purchaser. Merchant’s Will Leaves Part of Large Estate to Ho- | boken Fiancee. A reward of $5,000 for the arrest | and conviction of the slayer of Fritz; E, Rueckert was offered to-day by the White Metal Manufacturing..Co. of No, 1006 Clinton Street, Hoboken. Rueckert, wealthy ‘bachelor, who was} shot early Sunday morning in his; apparently by a burglar he surprised there, y Sed vice presi- dent of the company. He died in St. Mary's Hospital early Monday, Announcement of the $5,000 reward was made by Chief of Police Patrick Hayes, -At the office of the company President Richter was said to be out. Inqutrers were referred to Chief In- spector Baniel Kiely of the Detective Bureau. apartment, Despite a score of reports to the contrary, Chief of Police Hayes said the police are not looking for Adolph Schmidt, once a sailor and later the proprietor of a Hoboken lodging house, in connection with the gun with which Rueckert was slain. Chief | Hayes declared that the police were MRS Ww, Marriage of not responsible for the use of] Schmidt's name. The revolver was bought in the pawnshop of Abraiam Cohn at No. 229 Washington Street, ‘At 1.30 o'clock on Saturday after- noon,” Cohn told an Evening World reporter, “a man came in and looked at several revolvers before making his selection, “He spoke with a German accent, gave the name Charles Berger and the address No. 513 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken; was 5 feet 71-2 inches tall P. Inman, has been th Helen Clark: writer, for t At Inman was friction FORMERLY Mme. GARNET the home of Mrs. Duke, Wast 78th Street, the marriage of Mr, | OFFERED ECKERT: ACKER P INMAN if Wi ker P. Inman ai Mrs, Clarke Two Weeks Ago Just Made Public, It became known to-day that Walker stepson of James B, Duke, | multi-milllonaire tobacco manufactures, © husband of Mra. Gafi e, former wife of a so wo weeks, No. confirmed, and it was nied that the marriage hay caused an; | between Inman and his mother. Mrs. Duke declined to give any informa PATTON Chamer PROF ON SUGAR FED BY PALMER AT AND. CENT First for Wholesalers, Second for Retailers—Order to | Be Rigidly Enforced. | | | | | | U, S. Agents Receive Orders to Canvass Entire District | for Violators, Mitchell has set a price limit on sugar, and the | Attorney General Palmer entire machinery of the Government has been put in motion to compel it observance. ij One cent is fixed as the limit of profit to the wholesaler. ‘ The re- tailer can eharge but 2 cents a pound above what his sugar costs him delivered at his store. Notice of .the foregoing was re- ceived at the offices of the Feder District Attorneys of Manhattan: and Bréokiyn this morning, and similar notices were sent from Washington ti every city in the ‘United States. In Greater New York enforcement will be | up to the Flying Squadren of the De | partment of Justi. at the head of | which Is A, W. Ri! | “There oan be no evi the law,” said Mr, will buy a pound of sugar at the price demanded by the » We will follow that pound of su- gar back to its original purch so that we are bound to locat the man who is doing the profi- teering. There will be arrests and prosecutions in every case that is found until the dealers will find that it is cheaper to obey the law that to attempt to evade it. “One cent a pound profit Is plenty the wholesgler and two cents am- | ple for the dealer, because of the rapid turnover of their stocks. When the Sugar Equalization Board was in existence the limit of grows profit was'| fixed at one half of a cent a pound and later fixed at six-tenths a pound These prices were suggested by the sugar men themselves and they ought to know more about the margin of profit in their business than anyone jon of nd | net ong yy de- | | Accused of Profiteer! vations and their chances about in!factories and the stores and running}and weighed: maybe 140 to 150|tion regarding the details of the wed- | *8¢.” : the order named, . ‘them on the co-cperative plan, The | pounds. I should say he was twenty- ba 3 ‘ sete WASHINGTON, May 12.—It was Democratic — McAdoo, Cox or|method of obtaining contro) has |.ieht or thirty years old.” be age hare 23 J bagel a the! announced to-day. that prosecutions Palmer on a platform written by been outlined in detail. Policemen. whip hurried. to No, 613 |0TU? nd SUAGETIOED Rie ee eee iebed against (tie oMigiais of resident Wilson advocating unquali-| It is to make periodical demands | pioomfeld Street were told that no; }inm~n were married In Poughkeopste, | three large sugar firms who are under fied adoption of the treaty but ac-|for more wages and shorter hours|ioay of the name of Berger ever|N. ¥, The bride is considered remai arrest and charged with profiteering. cepting interpretative reservations | until the present owners of the mills. |iiveq there, Detectives did, however, | ably pretty. She obtained a divorce| The firms represented by the off- such as those of the Hitchcock reso- | the factories and the stores are driv-|/ ng 4 man who was in the pawn- | from Grant Clarke last June, after two| vigis arrested are G. H. Fintey lution. en to offer to sell their apple shop when Berger bought thé gun, |¥¢4F8 of married life with him. & Co, Now York; Sherbourne & Co. ator Hjram Johnson or Senator La- Hance ra leshe Heb erets a GAVE FALSE ADDRESS, Ree a vv") delphia. According to the evidence —— Bee te Kat sumersiaea dic (Meena. te to, hook my > -— on which the arrests were based, the (Continued on Second Pase.) | enutacturing end of the production | W@!C!” sald this man, whose name is! AIRPLANE MAIL TO FRISCO. |frms sola susar at prices ranging ——— @ eee se. withheld, “and what interestede m: at b | from 17% cents to 27 cents a poun| , “ONE BIG UNION” WILL BE . Aaya | Burleson Promises Service Soon | nineties | BABY’S PRATTLE TRI-PARTITE. | (Continued on Second Page.) — | aier guiy TO ARREST CANDY MAKERS. | LEADS TO DIVORCE Almost as powerful is the Interna- ALimaNOS, = a WASHINGTON, May 12.—Airplane | shih i tional Ladies’ Garment Workers'| YANKEE WOMEN WIN | mail service will be extended to St./ Chicago Concern Accused of Making sis at i Union, now holding a convention in # Louis and San Francisco, Postmaster $204,143 on Deal. She Tells of a “New Daddy” and chicago, During this convention the ON’ ENGLISH LINKS | éenerat Burteson announced to-day | CHICAGO, May 12.—Warrants were | Her Father Gets Decsee in jquestion of amalgamating with the _——,, Ee eee ranches now ta{ smued to-day by Distriet Attorney Newark Court. |Aimagated Clothing Workers’ Union| Mics Hollins and Mrs. Vanderbeck |being made,” said Burleson, “'Service|C'¥N® for the arrest of Theodore] lee and the Amalgamated Textile Work-| at Dr ee aie eee i tee lakucircten| Unie, Heealgent’ Of. a candy (66) Childish prattle led to the recommen-|ers’ "Union will be considered ana}, Through Second Round of Match | . the caminniee ete bearing his name, and W. Boehm. lation to-day by Vice Chancellor Foster }and National officers of the cloth- Play for English Title. Iflades year as the neceasery equipment | secret” of the concern; charging fw divorce decree for Frederick |Ing workers’ union say they have! wewcoasrit, County Down, treland, {aNd landing fields can he perfected.” [Me™ with violating the Laver ack Wheeler of No. 374% South 10th Street, |@very reason to believe that the| way America’s two remaining con- — | ees 3 sb 100) ounde. prises from his wife, Mrs, Sarah Wheeler uf| Workers on womens’ garments Will/testants In the Sritish women's goit|AHenby Wins the Derby ‘Trial at New. | PUNUN NE) oo i. Raunt Be Aum) No. 720 Springfield Avenue, both of |Join with them. | championship tournament, Mrs. C. H wath: |New Orleans at. 12310 conta per Newark, With the triple consolidation ef-|Vanderbeck of Philadelphia and Miss |, NEWMARKET, Hngland, May t—| ood ig eselling It at an averag ‘The couple separated In August, 1917. | fected the activities of the leaders will | Marion Hollins of Westbrook, 1, 1,,| THe Mace for the Newmarket stakes) M% se 4uil ental making. © gredl The little daughter, Myrtle, now three | then be concentrated upon compactly | Won their way through the second round | ®t one mile i Saag ld cea EEO he years old, want to ans with er moth |organizing the workers in the mills of fant lay ere to-day onsidered fo ye coming but later with its paternal grandmother. | whic a Side ante Mr anderbeck defeated Miss A. (. erg to-day by | for a walk: After one tof these walks |i, the tuctories and the salespeople in” hile Miss Hollins climinated Mrs uget's Paragon finished estes + Muy «0 early this year, Myrtle talked te her Hankey, Sunnidale, four and thre ond and Lord Londonderry’s P ated Press).—Walker D. who! father about a “new Daddy” and u “new | tHe stores. It 18 & terrific Job, but the| sissy Cecil Leitch, the present cham-|ran third. lretires Saturday as Director General baby sister.” Wheeler investigated anj|URion Jeaders under the command of| pion and favorite in the contesting va jof the Railroad Administration, is to brought the present divorce action, Hu | Sidney Hillman, General President of | fold, also won early from Mrs, Hellet. | Hurt by Anciont + | ieave soon for Kurope on a confiden- | also brought .a criminal ugtion against |the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ | hoya! Portrush, nine and eight | NEWPORT, May 12 n ballet iat mission for President Wilson, | his wife, who w nvicted, receiving | Union, contemplate it with equanim- | _ jone ba many relics of other days at the | ics a suspended senten ity. They say they are in no hurry. | WORLD RESTAURANT. bowels pret hie pate ae - sched abracsias SEe As their “One Big Union" broadens ee te te Bs aie reir 72 Ba Reel agl otter | BY ! 01 r. Sure Bel . pose ned F . werantebase st “ters Mare Retiet, Men's ag om Mueventh Page Etude “Mer wera aaitd: maker, and two a CARRANZA FORCES TAKE UP STRONG POSITION IN FILLS; PRACTICALLY SURROUNDED Revolutionary Troops Under Gens.’ Hill and Trevino Closely Press the 4,000 Carranzistas Who Are Pus . LIMIT ‘ON SUGAR PRIC TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair, seat Ath PRICE Two CENTS iS UN Waa EDITION EVEN Entrenched Along the Mexican ~ National Railroad. VERA CRUZ, May 12 (Associated Press).—President Venustiano Carranza’s army of 4,000 men, virtually, surrounded by rebel forces commanded by Gens, Hill and Trevino, is making a determined stand in a strong position it has taken up between San Marcos, Puebla and tne village of Huamantla, ten miles northwest, in the State of Tlaxcala, according to advices received here, The struggle went on all day yes+ terday, and according to the latest reports the Carranza forces had not "3 been dislodged. Rebel reinforcements, under command of Gen, Porras, “have~beer?, ordered up from Cordoba, and have taken up positions at San Andres and Chalchicomula, southeast of the scene of yesterday’s baftle, prob- abl” for the purpose-of preventing the escape of Garranza, should ne succeed in breaking through the lines thrown around him. Reports state ihe Carranza forces are entrenched along the Mexican National Railroad. FIRST BIG CLOTHING FIRM FOUND GUILTY OF PROFITEERING Syracuse Concern Convicted on 11 Counts—Jury Rules on Rate of Profit. SYRACUSE, May 12. Hi John H. Roberts Com- pany of Utica has been found guilty of profiteering in the sale of clothing on eleven counts by a jury in United Stotes Court. The conviction is the first in the United States involving the sale of wearing apparel, Sentence was deferred. ‘The jury was out seventeen aftd a half hours. It reached a unan- imous verdict of guilty on one count in twenty minutes, The rest of the time was spent in consideration of the other counts. One of thé main questions was whether a retail firm is justified in figuring that it costs 6 per cent, of the purchase price of mer- chandise, or % per cent. of the selling price, to do business, <: clgeal SYRACUSE FIRM INDICTED. im the Sal of Wearing Apparel. SYRACUSE, May 12.—Cottrett Leonard of Albany were re-indic here to-day by the Federal Grand Jury le and on a charge of profiteering in the sale and women's wearning ap- jans.are to move for trial about May 24 before Judge Martin T. Manton of the Circuit Court of Appeals. The now indictment has twe pounts covering twenty-seven items, ‘The old indictment, on’ which t oncern was tried and the jury disagreed, had four counts, 'HEARING ON MAY 20 ON BEER AND BOXING Will Be Hell in Albany at Request of Civic League, Governor Announces, ALBANY, May 12.—Announcement was made by Gov. Smith to-day that he would have « mg on the Walker vuxing and 275 beer bills ‘Thursday, May 20, at 1 o'clock, in the executive ber The Governor granted the hearing at the request of Canon William Chase of Brooklyn, representing the NeW York Civic League —_>—— Paria Entries on Page & { | | | | | | | jand oth ‘* Gen. Candido Aguilar, son-in-law of President Carranza and Governor of the State of Vera Crus, has aban- doned all hope of escape from the country and is making an efort to join his superior and share his fate, Says a despatch to El Dictamen. Hmissaries from Gen. Aguilar to- day conferred with Gen. Sancher’s Chief of Staff, and asked that their commander be permitted to pass through the rebel lines toward San Marcos. This request was granted but it was stipulated Gen, Aguilar must be accompanied only by hfs general staff agd civilians, all of bis soldiers being barred, Paul H. Foster, America, Consul here, has reported ‘to the State De- partment in Washington that condi- tions are returning to normal, that the lives and property of foreigners have not been molested and that there is no Yeason. for .retaining United States warships in Mexican waters, where they may cause frie+ tion. Felix Dies. leader of 4 rebel group in the State of Vera Cruz, has asked permission to leave the country, promising he will take no further Part in political movements in Mex- ico, It is probable his request will be granted, HOW CARRANZA FLED WITH TROOPS” IN MANY TRAINS Equipment, Supplies, Records and Archives Taken From Mexico City by President. WASHINGTON, May 12,—Prest- dent Carranza, his Cabinet advisers r adherents left Mexico City last Friday morning by train, appar- entty going in the direction of Vera | Cruz, the State Department wae ad- vised to-day in messages from the Anffrican Embassy at Mexico City. Carranza’s train was preceded by numerous trains carrying troops and equipment, supplies, recogds and ar- chiv Artillery and supplies also were held sin trains waiting at the railroad station some hours after Carranza left. ‘the despatches, which were dated May 7, 8 and 9, and which were held up by the interruption of the telegraph lines, quoted an official bulletin pub lished in the Mexico City newspapers on May 8 announcing that forty-th: oa noe eee tk na en cannon, ten trains of equipment, sup. >» pies, &c,, and one trai witii funds