The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1920, Page 1

_— i y this jc WILSON VETOES KNOX PEACE RESOLUTION \To ) Be Sure of The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer ‘HARDING FUND $113,109; BUTLER’S Getting Che = Glrowlation Books Open to Au,” | VOL. LX. NO. 21,444—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by, The Press Publishing ‘Co. (The New York World). KNOX PEACE RESOLUTIO “WOOL TRUST HEAD VETOED aS “INEFFACEABLE AUS oma TAIN ON HONOR OF U. 8." ilasiitnaines Seeks to Establish Peace With- out Exacting Any Action From Germany, He Adds. ‘INFINITE WRONG DONE,’ “Have We Sacrificed 100,000 American Lives for Purpose We Cannot State?” WASHINGTON, May 27.—The Re- Publican peace resolution was vetoed to-day by President Wilson, “Such a method of making peace with Ger- many, the would “place an ineffaceabdle stain upon the gallantry and honor of the United States,” f Without announcing his intention regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the President declared that the treaty embodied the important things an‘.- ted by the resolution and that by re- jecting the treaty, the United States shad declared in effect that it wishod apart and pursue objects and interests of our own.” The text President message follows: President said, “to draw of Wilson's “To the House of Representatives: “I return, herewith, without my signature, House joint resdlution 327, intended to repeal the joint reso! tion of April 6, 1917, declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and Germany, and the joint resolutiqn of Dec. 1917, declaring @ state of war to exist between the United States and the Austra-Hun- g@arian Government, and to declare a state of peace. “[ have not felt at liberty to si! at resolution because I bring myself to become party to an ac- ;tlon which would place an ineffaceable tain upon the gallantry and honor of ‘the United States. The resolution secks | to establish p with the German sempire without exacting from the Ger- ‘man Government any dction by way of cetting right the infinite wrongs which it did to the peoples whom it at- tacked and whom we professed it our , purpose to assist when we entered the war. “Have we ace sacrificed the lives of more than 100,000 Americans und ruined the lives of thousands of others and brought upon thousands of American families an unbappiness that can never end for purposes which we do not now care to state or take further steps to attain? The attainment of these purposes is pro- ded for in the treaty of Versailles by terms deemed adequate by the leading statesmen and experts of all the great peoples who were associated in the war against Germany. Do we now not care to join in the effort to @ecure them? f “Wo entered the war reluct- antly, Our people stoundly disinclined to take part in a European war and at last did sc they became convinced (Continued on most were only because that it could Classified Adver tars Important ! Classified advertising The Sunday W The World offic On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Barly copy receives the preference when Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late advertising is now omitted for lack of tim: copy for rid should be in to set it, Indictment Against Wood and | American Co, Charges Ex- | cess of 300 P. C. C. Over 1919 HARD COAL MINERS | VOTE WILSON PLAN TO President's Offer Called “Compul-' Evening World Laid Facts and | sory Arbitration”—Operators’ Figures Before Attorney | Offer Rejected Unanimous! | ASK HEAVY BAIL. | \ | General on March 4, | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 27.—The meng — proposed wage agreement submitted by | i ‘ i Secretary of Labor Wilson, containing — William M. Wood, President of the) the maximum offer of the anthracite American Woolen Company of Mas- coal operators, was unanimously re- sachusetts and the American Woolen Company of New York, will be pro- duced by his attorneys before Fed- eral Judge Hand in the District Court at 11 A M. to-morrow to plead to indictments charging him and the companies with profiteering. Heavy bail, it was announced to-day, will be asked. Jected here to-day by the Tri-District Convention of hard coal miners. Ac- ceptance of this contract had been rec- ommended by the International Officers of the United Mine Workers. The convention agreed to adopt the Proposal made by President Wilson for appointment of & commission to adjust the dispute. A similar commission’ in- vestigated the bituminous mining con- ditions and awarded a 27 per cent. in- crgute In Wames, tated thar it). The Evening World, in ita fight would accept the Preaidents proposi, S8ainst gouging, under the caption tion, not because It was a desirable of- fer, but as “compulsory anbitration.”” STRIKE ON B. R. 1. DEFERRED FOR DAY ON MAYOR'S PLEA Hylan Seeks Conference Be-| “Is This Profiteering?" published facts and figures on March 4 last of |the so-called “Woolen “Trust”: which |were laid betore Attorney General Palmer, The accuracy of its analysis |and conclusions-is shown by the in- {dictment yesterday by the Federal Grand Jury for this district of Mr. Wood and his companies under the Lever law The American Woolen Company of Massachusetts manufactures one- fifth of the woolen cloth in this country, The American Woolen Company of New York Is the sales organization of the parent concern. Fourteen separate acts are alleged in the indictment against Mr. Wood tween Union Men and |and the two companies. The trans- AD = jactions «re alleged to have taken Receiver Garrison, | place in 1920 and to show that in Sages each case where a bolt of cloth was ‘The threatened strike of the powor| suld the purchaser paid twice us house and substation employes of MUCH as It cost to make or more. the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, | PROFITS JUMPED 300 TO 400 PER called for 4 o'clock this afternoon, | GENT. hatenaa” & | Herbert C. Smyth, Special Assist- deferred for ant to the Attorney General, suid hours at the request of Mayor Hylan! that the Department of Justice's in- vestimation disclosed that the woulen firm's profits in 1920 xceed on an has been twenty-four in order to give him time to get in touch with Lindley M, Garrison, Fed- eral receiver of the B, R. T, and W./ average from 300 to 400 per cent. 8. Minden, Vice President and Gen-| those of 1919" when protits were eral Manager of the company, to ar- | $15,513,414.70, in spite of a strike range 4 conference with the men, | tying up most of the mills for five This action way taken late thig af-| months, ternoon, when a committee of the; Through his atturneys, Hays, men, composed of J. W. O'Donnell, | Hershtleld & Wolf, No. 115 Broadway, international representative of tho | Mr. Wood issued the following etate- union, P. L. Reeves, L. Smith, | ment to-day: Paul McNally and EF. A. Reynolds} “I do not care to reply at any | length to the newspaper statement of | Assistant Attorney General Smyth, I am advised that it might be wanting | in proper respect to the court for me to comment upon pending legal pro- called upon the Mayor at the suggc, tion of Peter J. Brady, Supervisor of City Records, After listening to the men the Mayor sent to Minden und Garrison | identical letters urging them to ar-| Coedings, What I huve to say in rango the conferonce the men de-| these respects must, of course, be suid mand. “No reply ind een recet-ed | '8 court “It may be proper for me, however, to say that Mr, Smyth's statements, while no doubt he believes them, from either Mr. Garrison or Mr, Min- den. On May 5, according to the state- Are ment made to the Mayor, the union-| funded upon a misapprehension of ized powerhouse and substation em.| the facts. What the reul facts are ployees sent a letter to Mr. Garrison | Wi! @!! appear in due time asking him to receive a committe stand absolutely by the statement Including a representative of the in. | Which Mr. Smyth quotes tn hiy inter- ternational organization, The answer | Y'’¥* There tu ubsolutely oo Just was del they declared, ana|STeund for the su stion that this reached them on May 24, That night | COMPanY hus charged excessive privws ey called a me at Tammany | for its cloth, or has gained an un Hail, Brooks, der the letter, | reasonuble or excessive profit.’ | and so uni i - strike vote Was tiken and it'werger| Besides “enormous” suluries trom cided to send an ultimatum to Men- den an jarrison (Continued on Secong Page.) announcing thi ; | eee was it that oe \ | (7%, }to liquors, favoring stout, JOEL THORNE SUES FOR DIVORCE FROM ‘OD AVENUE BELLE teidacifechans Charges Former Mary Casey Drank to Excess and Was Indiscreet. TELLS OF ROW IN AUTO. Declares W ife Knocked Out Friend’s Teeth—Bought Much Liquor. Joel Wolfe Thorne's version of !fe with his wife, Mary Casey Thorne, once known as the “Belle of Third Avenue,” Supreme Court to the sult for sepa: ration begun by Mrs, Thorne last summer. Thorne, son of the million- aire banker, Samuel Thorne, charges his wife with addiction to drink and infidelity, and asks for a divorce. In the answer Mr. Thorne stated that witile the separation suit wae pending, to avoid notoriety, he offered and is: now paying his wife $750 monthly alimony, bas paid nurses’ and doctors’ bills, and that he gave her $7,500 for counsel fee and the use of his house at No. 9 East 76th Street. He alloged that shortly after he married Mary Casey on Nov, 1, 1911, discovered that she was ‘addivted gin, whis- key, brandy and cocktails, the ue which caused her to commit exce. and prevented her association his friends and family and her o pancy of a position in society wife. He employed physicians from time to time to cure her but, he do- clared, her use of liquors grew after the birth of their child. In the spring of 1917, the papers stated, while he was dining at Waldorf-Astoria with his wife friend, Mrs. Thorne became obstreper- ous, and he and the friend forced to take her home in a taxic On the way, Mrs. Thorne becoming impatient, ruck at her husban |, missed him and knocked out friend's teeth. On another occasion, he while attending religious serv! the Presbyterian Chur Street Madison Av Thorne appeared in the midst of the service and said she was “going to raise the devil.” In the winter of 196 he continued, because of his refusal grant his wife's demand for a piece of family jewelry, she threatened to mutilate a valuable painting of Christ in the Thorne home, and to the picture he gave her wer his alleged, and nue, wo 2 1917 she summer seandalized their neighbors in the Adirondacks, whore they had taken a bungalow, by run- ning across the lawn in her dress, and breaking the windshic his motor car. The years 1916 and 19 Thorne stated, particular ing w him as his wife Mr. harass- several times | were, AN By } unless conference was arrun within the next 24 hours or by yes. terday, the em oyees of ill powe out at 4 v'clock thin afternoon, ‘This um was delivered to Mr, M mura th t i sdiiy morning after the com ; epg "| had been informed that M what u brainy college prof ‘abd | |Garrison was out of town | * whot ruok and had an i Acne sie fatement of the a pal Deuulital Woman thief in omnmitte den retuned “THE MASKED WOMAN," ployees of the company Hy Johnsten MuCulley, of the Street Railway) Men's which na tn The. Byening then was culled in and this morning| World, Tuesday, June 1 another visit was paid to Mr. Men- » N den, they said. | He repeated ins re-| sma Otte) Aint Ales a wes ‘ 3 trtcasaue, en fusal to deal with them ua union aie dat fs, he mea st cocting a case ouaiabt Mrs Mrs. Thorne. teal BRE was disclosed to-day in the |¢ supplemental answer he filed in the : PRICES OF FOOD IN 70 BROOKLYN STORES 10 BE tui the} the} Jewelry. Another charge is that in the| Will be pursued and beat him. once enterin the home of his mother bran a club. She bought quantities of drinkables, he alleged, at es and | even at bis club, charging them to ecount. Between Mareh 14 and 19, she purchased, he stated, of stout | Mr, Thorne charged, upon informa- on and belief “between July 18 and Oct. 13, 1919, Mrs. ‘Thorne committed acts of Infidelity with one Raymond B. Wilson at the residence No, 9 Bast 76th Street, and between Ma 1920, with t No. 1 Wes Thorne, satd t afternoon in swer to Thorne's allegations that ymond B, Wilson, named co spondent, was a private detective placed by him in the Thorne house hold to preclude the chance of con- M ARY C. THORNE SUED FOR DIVORCE BY BAN SON NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY a7, 1920. KER’S SECEES E004 Tontered as Post Offlee, orld, | To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR. ESS RRS. TS GO Tile. BVA PRICE TWO CENTS 1X GREATER NEW YORE s se Matter ork, N ce ONE PROCTER GIFT OF $900,000 MADE WILSON PRESIDENT Rejection of Wood “Angels” Offer to Princeton Started Him on Political Road, Gt EEFULLY. 2390 0) vv RECALL Over Strings to Gift Wilson Resigned Chair. By David Lawrence. Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, May 27 (Copy- 1920).—William Cooper Proe- ter’s half million dollar contribution right, Acti Th as his | chain 1 sweeping and a) on Follows Conference | With Head of ‘Flying Squad- ron’ and Prosecutor. ot | Brooklyn and Lo: ederal Food S| about reduction seventy tores, prices with stores: z Island, will make to- to the campaign fund of Gen. Leon- ard, Wood stirred fond recollections here to-day in the minds of many |friends of President Wilson, who pointed out that another half million dollars contributed just ten years ago this month in another cause had as much to do with electing Woodrow Wilt the circumstance on to Presidency as any other in his political journey to the White House, Mr, Procter gave $500,000 toward to 1910 a in the establishment of graduate school in Princeton Univers- | | ity, of which Mr. Wilson was then the President, but later turned the gift a| down because the Cincinnati soap In| Manufacturer attached certain condi- tions to the expenditure of the money which involved the retention of cer- tain personnel in the college. morrow. This was decided upon fol- |lowing a conference between officials| Mr. Wilson argued that gifts should of the concern, Arnin W. Riley, head} come without strings attached, and of tho ying Squadr rounding | the incident ‘provoked such a contro- jup allexed profiteers, and United) yergy among Princeton alumni that It |States District Attorney Ross of poun) sumers ought to be fancy | Brooklyn. Fresh eggs will be sold at 49 cents rice, pe wetting SCHOOL CHILDREN FLEE FIRE | duce tr ated and th the 16 cents a pound: sentatives of the leadership of retailers they have ma- benefit. led Mr, Wilson reluctantly to resign the Presidency of the college, and ac- cept the gubernatorial nomination a dozen; best coffee at 37 cents @/ which the Democratic leaders in New pound; ‘best butter at 59 cents 4! Jersey were eager for him to take, pound; best loose oatmeal five cents} Again and again that half million a pound; pink salmon, 14 cents 4] gollars has been facetiously referred ripe tomatoes, 15 cents a large} to among Princeton men as the “first best quality prunes, 15 cents @/ important contribution toward Mr. Wilson's first campaign for the Pres- white granulated sugar, 20 cents a| jgency, pound eae PROCTER SHOWS HE 1/8 AN It is expected that other stores ENTHUSIASTIC GIVER, jae ling In the same line of f00ds Will! y4e, procter’ testimony in defense | | fone om aS ; ae to. {ot his expenditures for Gen, Wood | F Mar jest iene onet O' ‘ ° | did not create the impression that he ay opened at Jamal: © n [Pennsylvania and Jamaica Avenues, | contributed large sums of 'moncy for | the first public market at which|@ny selllsh purpose. He contributed farm produce from Long Island| heavily to the Hughes campaign in sold at wholesale and retail.| 1916, Cross-examination on the stand The plan is to estab! ich markets! rather led to the conclusion of dis- | in suburban districts where the farmers.| interested observers that Mr. Proc- by a short haul, can reach the con ier is the kind of a 4 hi sumers. The markets will be open from j ‘ d of &@ man who waa) CAM ieee persuaded by ardent and enthusiastic The other attack was by the “flying| friends of Gen. Wood that he ought squad" of the Department of Justice|to use his fortune to help advance | when Armin head of the pandidacy of so Vigorous a char- eter as Gen. | Wood. | Of course the 1 A game of roping men (Continued on Second Page.) _ HEADS OF OUTLAW STRIKE INDICTED? lps. Tenttic 4 vat of whale oll in wnich| TER leaders in the recent railroad aws W ng tempered in the plant| strike in New Jersey have been in- of R. Hoe & Co. Sheriff Street dicted by the Federal Grand Jury at everal hundred eomployeea from th. Newark, it was reported to day, | company’s buildings and quickly emp-| Twenty-seven indicments altogether! j tise Bu 1 No at were handed up in the United States| | ‘i wea " The ehildr varched out w District Court | i 1 Nine railroad leaders are named in 4 day Jone Indictment, according to the re wa port. and man Was named in ne of another true bill | Clinton t station It is sald they are accused of hay- | ” ing interfered with and obstructed | Hy Deslys's Mother Here, | Madame Anna Caire, mother of the | Interstate commerce and ure charged |! te Gaby. Deal, and her daughter,| With conspiracy, me, Fernan Conill, arrived here to- LAN FR oe arnt gay, aot la fran on their wa: s Hans, water, Sure Relet, aire said” “Gang | Don's Pormoee-adee wre Deniya i niet it ie.ooe f franca to the poor > On Account of Controversy | “Getting down to brass tacks,” ho campaign is pure fiction?” asked added, "if a candidate circularizes the| pomerene, votes it Is very easy to sit down with “It is, As a matter of fact, Mr, | pencil and paper and figure out the| Prick was not for Gen. Wood for at It costs about five cents per! President.” letter to tssve a well written lett Senator Reed questioned King at on good stationery, to provide the en-|iength about the Friek dinner, Hanna velope and stamp to send it out was not there, King said. There were WOOD'S DEPOSED MANAGER SAYS DAN HANNA OFFERED John T. King Tells Senators His Side of the Wood Campaign—Harding Manager Insists Ohio Campaign, Cost Only $18,000 or $20,000— WASHINGTON, May 27.—A total of $113,109 has been raised for the campaign of Senator Harding, Republican, of Ohio, and $107,704 spent, the committee. was told by Harry M, Daugherty, representing i, Senator. Dr. Burris Jenkins, publisher of the Kansas City Post, a member of the McAdoo Committee, testified there was no McAdoo fund and that he York placed the fund of Dr. Butler at $40,550, and J. S. Darst, the Wood manager in West Virginia, said only $6,000 had been spent in that State. He asserted that $100,000 would not be considered large for a Senator’s campaign in that State. : third largest so far developed. Col. SENATORS REJECT; WILSON| PLAN FOR ARMENIA MANDATE that the Wood fund was nearly $1,000,+ 990 and It has been testified that the Lowden fund exceeded $400,000, mostly contributed by himself. John T. King, the Wood man- Four Democrats Oppose Action, But Only One Approves *resident’s Proposal. President P Procter, testified to WASHINGTON, May 27.—President) , Hanna of Cleveland, 0., agreed Wilson's proposal for an Amerioan to go out and raise half a million dollars te finance the Wood cam- paign. This was more than a year ago. Hanna did not say how much cf the $500,000 he would give him- self, nor did he know whether mandate over Armenia was disapproved to-day by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Only four Democrats 0} posed adverse action on the President request Senator Shields, Tennessee, Democrat, voted with all Republican membe Hitcheock, Nebraska; Williams, Misat Hanna was instrumental in get- stypl; Smith, Arizona, and Pittman,| ting William Cooper Procter of Nevada, Democrats, opposed the reso-} Cincinnati to put into the Wood lution, Williams, however, was the ouly! campaign the $600,000, one who favored the mandate, others Mr. King said Hanna's sugges tion was made at a meeting at New York between himself, Mr, Hanna and = William = Loeb, former private secretary of Col, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Hanna was “to go out and gather it in for 18 months work.” It was not scussed with Gen. Wood. King said he took charge of the Wood mevement at Gen. Wood's request and raised about $91,000 of which $30,000 was contributed and $51,000 on his own note, FACTS OF DINNER BY HENRY CG, FRICK BROUGHT OUT, King was asked whout a dinner re~ ported to have been given by Henry C. Frick at which, according to re« ports a group of millionaires pledged themselves to back Wood, He said it was merely a complimentary din ner to Wood at H, C, Frick'’s New York home, at which politics was n> discussed. He branded as pure “fle tion" the story of the underwriting of voting against the resolution of rejec- ton because they opposed this way of advising the President. Hitchcock said he did not favor the mandate, but thought the Senate com- mittee's resoluion was “too summary,” and Smith doubted the legality of the mandate, Swanson and Pomerene, Democrats, were ubsent. Senator Lodge presented the report against the mandate to the Senate and announced he will call it up when the appropriation ills have been disposed ot. ——— $1,500, 000 NEEDED FOR A CAMPAIGN WOOD ASSERTS Doubts Whether the Direct Contact With People Is Worth Expense, BOSTON, May 21,.—Major Gen, Wood, the testimony of Ci commenting on Willlam C. Procter before the Senate|the Wood campaign by a coterie of Campaign Expenditure Committee in| rich men. which Procter sald had advanced $500,000 to Wood's Ohio campaign, de- Jared to-day “that Procter was an ab- solutely free agent to contribute as he saw fit to the campatgn.” He said It was a question whether the direct contact with the people afforded by primaries was worth the expense in- volved. present,” said F kins was one, ick. “George Per- A man named Blair was another, That's all | remem-~- ber, The dinner was given in the spring, a year ago.” “So far as you are concerned, the story about the underwriting of the ere are in this country some sev- enteen million voters. When the women have the right to vote the total will reach about thirty millions, it can easily be seen that to issue one letter, wtihout photographs or any matter, would thus cost about $1,500,- no speeches and no discussions either of politics or of public affaire of. Presidential possibilities were not touched on, he said, TELLS ABOUT HARDING'S | CAMs Pi IN IN OHIO, . male (Racing\ Entries on Page 24) fh A cytes ae ee ee, he TO RAISE FUND OF $500,000 Details of Frick’s Dinner to Wood. had to pay his own way to Washington. Judge John R. Davies ot New © | ‘® The $118,000 Harding fund is the | Procter’s testimony yesterday showed , “There were about 26 or 30 men.