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To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. “10 TO DAILY WALL STREET FEATIJRE THIS EDitioN 99 VOL. LXII. NO. 21,826—DAILY. yright, 1921, by The Press Publishing (The New York World GERMANY HAS CONCEDED EVERY POINT TO THIS COUNTRY; NO NATION IS MORE FAVORED All Rights Given Other Nations Under Versailles Pact Assured to U. S.—Commercial Treatics to) Come—Treaty Will Go Through. By Dacid Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (Copyrighs, 1921). —The “irreconcilable” group in the United States Senate, original foes to the Versailles Treaty, have won a complete victory. Official announcement at the White House that a separate peace with Germany had been negotiated and con- ei President Harding and Republican members of the Sen- information that at last ferences betwe ate Foreign Relations Committee yielded the a substitute for the peace treaty negotiated by President Wilson had been agreed upon between Germany and the United States. The new treaty is brief and in- ¢—————__—— ON GERMAN PEACE United States all the rights which were given to other countries under the Vervailles Treaty. In effect the mew treaty docs the following things 1. It establishes pe between the United States and Germany as goon as the pect is ratified by the United State anate and the Ger- | oe |President Shows the Terms to Republicans of Foreign Re- | lations Committee. WASHINGTON, Aug. —Details of the Peace Treaty were given to ited States ich were given the Versailles £ new eo) umer- - 4 It contemplates the resump- on of dip!omatic relations as : Hen) st ¢ Bae ee Republican members of the Senate as the ratifications are ¢Xe iced Foreign Relations Committee by 5. It makes possilde the jssu- [President Harding and Secretary ance of a peace proclamation ter- |fughes at a conference held to-day ation banc eed ny ‘ in [at the White House oa sihtaeee Senator Ledge of Massachusetts the war? of “until afier peaco | t 3 shall have been proctaimed” were | Chairman of the Foreign Relati used. These laws been a Committee, announced after the con- Renee, OF mun ¢ ton and | ference that be would call a meeting chapmaioas a |ot the committee for 2 o'clock this The “irreconcilables” are happy, fer they have brought to their ranks not | afternoon, at which time Sevretary mas of the Senate but the » branch of the Government, | men like Secretary Hughes,| ‘Terms of the treaty were said to Who originally favored the Versailles | lave met witit no opposition by any of Treaty with reservations. Senator| the majority uiembers of the Foreign Lodge, who drew up a set of reserva-, Relations Committer, and it was de- tions to the Versailles Treaty, has|clared that all gave to it their cordial agreed to the abandonment of that | approval. document and is in favor of the new| Republican members of the Senate pe reaty, enator Knox, who wrote the peace resolution of Congress, is pleased be- cause the new treaty follows almost exactly the purposes of that resolu- tiov. The “irreconcilables" set out to defeat the League of Nations, to see to it that the United States assumed no political obli any treaty, te make a separate peace with Ger- many, and to si America’s eco- nomic rights growing out of the ropean war were safeguarded All these points in the programme only executi tneluding tion as to the treaty. refused to discuss the terms of the treaty but it was learned that it is a comparatively short document. Senator Borah of Idaho, one of the Republican committee members, did not attend the conference, He explained to newspaper men that he had not declined the President's in- vitation but “was unable to attend on account of other matters." itions: like Senator Borah was an irreconeil- able in the fight over the Treaty of of the “irreconcilabl have been| Versailles, also was absent from the absolutely won by The new|conference. The California Senator treaty ignores the of Na-|has not been in Washington for sev- téons, It doesn’t in the United | eral days. = The President, it was stated, hopes _ (Contimuc don B sourteenth Ps ) for ratification of the pact at an early date. It was explained, however, that he would not ask the Senate to forego its th gin to-night, inasmuch as it was de- sired that the German Reichstag and the Senate consider the treaty at the same time and the German legisla- them, League rive Classified Advertisers Important! Pasar Vasvactiivan’ oxey far tive body does not convene until The Sunday World should be Sept. 20. fe Fae Word ecine BERLIN, Aug. 24 (Associated | Press). The peace between the United | On or Before Friday Preceding Publication THE WORLD | States and Germany will be signed) to-day. The Cabinet gave the document sion yesterday, which was attended by President Ebert. TREATY PROVISIONS | Hughes would give further informa-/ committee attending the conference) Senator Johnson of California, who| rty-day recess, set to be- | final consideration at a special ses-' aT AS A BOOTLEGGER PUTATS0,000, 000, Syndicate, Said 10 | to be Headed | by “Mary White,” Believed Broken Up. FIVE OTHERS ARE HELD. Man Arrested in Brooklyn Had $62,000 in Pockets—Round Up of Road Houses. A bootlegging syndicate which bas netted the chief operator, a woman calling herself Mary White, of No. 36 West 111th Street, Manhattan. ' $5,000,000 in a year and a half, ae- jcording to information gathered by | United States Distr llace EB. J. jbroken up by the arrest last night in Brooklyn of the White | five men—Anthony Casscee of |94th Street, Richmond Hill; et Attor Brooklyn, ey Wal Collins of was woman and ». 189 | Albaatt of No. West 132d Strect, Albert Bart of No, $25 Bast 118th |Strect, Joseph Bruno of No, 178 First Avenue, Mamhativs, and William Mareso of No. 19 Walker Avenue, Long Island City The six were arraigned before iv nited States Commiasioner McCabe in the Federal Building, Brooklyn, | to-day and held in #),000 bail each on a charge of illegally transporting liquor and %,000 ‘bail ¢ on a charge of conspiring to violate the Volstead Act. Bail was furnished by 2 surety company When arrested last t Cassese who hold a wholesale ruggist withdrawal permit and is alleged t have been the white woma chief avsistant, had $62,000 in his pocket He furnished cash bail at the Adam Street Station for himself and h companions. Cassese conducts the Commercial Grain Aleoliol Co. at Nos, 2 and 23) Lafayette Street Manhattan. Prohibition enforcements and De partment of Justice agents en gaged to-day In a round-up of roaJ- house keepers on Long Island and hotel and saloon keepers of Manhat ind the Bronx | tan and Brooklyn as shown by receipts and letters in the possession of the White wom«n, have purchased Nqauor from the syn dicate, ARRANGES TO PURCHASE 35 CASES OF LIQUOR. Mr. Collins received @ tip a few day go Which led him to detail Probibi | lion Enforcement Agents William Kissick and John H. Davis tom: the acquainiance of Mary White. Through channels which have been 1 her contidenc kept seeret they gain jand arranged to pu thirty-tive cases of whiskey at $75 a case 1 agreed, they say, to deliver the tiquor | at an address in the Park Slope see tion of Brooklyn at ' | day evening, The place of delivery was in the vicinity of Seventh Avenu and Ninth Str At the appointed time carrying the whiskey reached the dress, Following was 7 o'clock ye “et a small track nde automobile an (Continued on Second Page.) a GIRL “BURGLAR” OF 12 CONFESSES 25 ROBBERIES. Found by Skyle acend by 1 CHICAGO, Aug. 24-4 1 girl “burglar.” twelve years old, caught beside a broken skylight on the a dry Koods store, confessed to-day that she and her t, About De- ne Ro lu refooted om ourteen-year old brother, arres: with her, had committed over twenty-five robberies in a few months. ‘They are Hattie and Joseph Kasorsk. The police arrived in response to a burglar alarm, They found | preparing to lower his sister |the skylight with a sixty foot rope which he wore coiled about his. wais 7 nd the boy e girl had ten 1 4 gold wateh WORLD ved BuKeAD, ullaee World) builds oN Ye City, Telophoue. feekman 4000, Teom fol baggal ele i Micoey’ orders’ and’ travellers” checka ‘ta James NEW YORK, _WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 19 ails ‘To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR. PRICE THREE CENTS GREAT U. S. AIRSHIP BREAKS IN TWO; ONLY MAXFIELDATHEAD OF 17US. ARMEN — - REPORTED ON ZR-2 =e Crew Sent to England to Navi- gate Giant Dirigible Across Ocean to New Jersey, Ase related Press cables i from Howden, Bngland, | " Army, stated that Lou | | | yesterday | Commander | Maxfield of the United States: who ZR 2 in the the United American off r rs went mmander Maxfi trol car was to have commanded the flight ates, from England to twelve other and four American up on the trial trip. id was in the con with Brig.-Gen. 8. M. Mait British Air Marshal, and Col mpbell, Who supervised the work of designing the dirigible uttered through the vast interior five American Ameri and names of balloon wer seven nyinecring off four Following officers the who we are the | have brougi to her ha and crew the ZR 2 from F r near Lakehurst, Hu Commander Louis Marfi nding officer, Lieut ier, Mawr, P |coil, Lieut Ww ommander comm nior engineer : Lieut offiver, officer, Bryn ander Emory Marietta, O.; K, Byrd jr. air aavigational expert, Washington, D. C.; Major P. 8. Van Nostrand, Army Air Service, Washington, D. C.; Lieut. Ralph G. Pennoyer, navigator, Ber- keley, Ca Lieut. Henry W. Hoyt, Comr executive mmander R (Continued on Second Page.) eee hae | SPORTING BLOOD SOLD | TO FISHER FOR $60,000. Report Colt Ww Purchased at rivate Sal 2 TRACK, SARATOGA, Aug. 24. port that Bud Fisher had pur ed Sporting Blood, one of the beet yeur-olds of the season at a pri- vate sale from Maxey Hirsch and Arnold uthstein, was neither lenled nor con to-day Dal something like $40,000 Bporting Blond hea shaw | © brilliant performances th geason, tie best being his defeat of Prudery tn | the Travera Stake, valued at $12,000, | here last Saturday. Sporting Blood won the race by two lengths, IX MEN REPORTED SAVED COMML LIEOT PENNOVER Lr comm Rw .com, wleraoud & Underwoort mittee a At the Brown sa 1 to me I permits 0 on them Departine| ent really mittee, t dir have giving ev tion to it “Tho oe hand, T tirely wit it will be to furnis ingustice « have trict Atto When to the pre: ley to the effect that I kets who committee one t effect suffered it will also be opening aston night b f the 4 had te in the nt of by in. cx wecaune is to frighten othe idence 0} pmmittee allege hout the h pr wrong the orney Mr. of Meyer The taking of further partment of Markets official \to-day to announce that District Atlorney s an active ally. Judge Swann gave force to the tee in session and by declaring himeelt i a lelter which was read by for- mer Senator Elon kt. arOWT srOWTL d to have a yerm to extortic ada atom Commissio ) tees int Markets te f 1 warrant counsel ipt of t he fact COMMITTEE WILL FIGHT ANY INJUSTICE TO sion M -+-— imony of the payment of money to De interrupted by the Meyer Committee an the impo) pr vitir +JITNESSES, has a reme voention f the comur to see s done, Such ¢ been retained » District Attorney w pear here. He will annour will co-operate in surnishing plote immunity to any one wh .ea to the practice of extortion | or any other departme v be the policy of the committe: poltey of the Swann appeared n yun eld and I Dis- tion his ti mm PLEDGES PROTECTION TO CITY GRAFT INFORMERS District Attor ney Now J Active Ally Committee — Brown | Charges Commissioner O’Malley Is in Contempt. en rwa at been om rtunit nitter leem bl fe or perform t with (Cont read, as follows of the greatest publle con- iny and every citizen vho vant had joined the com- ent by joining the commit- obliged to pay graft to any Ul should have the freest appearing before your and testifying to the facts it to be of greater impor- ive from the public service © official has been ting tribute from a citi- compensation for of an official duty him by law, than to victims of his greed. object in view and for f and in rights have d upon by a publicy who xac ecciving spon the uw person whose fucts, 1, county, un- in me by] n the request of your assure entire immunity’ ition to any person who your committee and whole truth, and ith concerning any iption on the t any al, the witness being only wble for the truth of his| id that In conversa: the riet Attorn a” Mr. nued on Second Page.) Thousands Flee From Sight—Fifty- One Men on Board, the Majority Englishmen — Number of Saved Small—England’s Great Air Com- mander Fell With Ship. LONDON, Aug. 24 (Associated Press).—The giant airship ZR-2, purchased by the United States from Great Britian, ex- ploded over the city of Hull to-day, according to ad: here thi The airship is a wreck in the River Humber. It is known that at least six survivors have been picked up, one of them with a broken leg and one severely burned. Thousands of the people of Hull watched the disaster, curred at 5.40 o'clock. es received afternoon. which o¢- As the explosion occurred they dashed panice stricken in all direction for fear ot being enveloped Which fell just over the Victoria pier. by the wreckage, \ Vhe airship was passing over Hull in fine style when suddenly it |was seen to break in two. Instantly there were terrific explosions and ‘the airship burst into flames and commenced to descend. jchufes were seen to leave the ZR.-2 PECTATORS SEE HER BREAK IN TWO. Burning fragments from the airship belched dense columns of smoke hand flame which extended for hundreds of feet along the surface of the Three paras | water, Eyewitnesses saw at least four men descend from the burning airship by parachutes. The such force as inany of the windows of store fronts in the centre of Hull. A message from the scene received shortly before 7 P. the airship’s captain had been rescued. Some bodies, the message added, had been recovered. Two dead and a number of injured were landed trom the river and conveyed to the Hull Infirmary. Tugs and other craft of all kinds put off from the shore for rescue immediately after the disaster Three men were seen hanging from one parachute. explosions in the big dirigible were to wreck said vork was witnessed. Simultaneously a corps of ambulances dashed to the pier and took injured members of landed. It was while the ZR-2 was cruising over Hull that sh to emerge from the clouds and suddenly break in two. peared to rise in the air, The other descended slowly and fell into the Humber. One explosion occurred as the ship was falling, and another it touched the water. The wreckage floated on the water about 200 yards from the riverside quay and continued to burn. Phe purchase price of the ZR-2 was to be $2,000,000, This, it is assumed, was to become effective after the aircraft had completed her the crew lo the infirmary as they we Was seen One portion ape after trials amd was delivered to and accepted by the American authorities, The British Air Service had been careful, premature delivery, as they had wished to be assural that everything connected with the structural arrangement of the dirigible was in satis- factory condition. It was for this reason chiefly that the flight which terminated so disastrously to-day was begun. The monetary loss, under the circum- stances, apparently falls on the contractors and these instrumental in building the ship. LONDON, Aug exploded over Hull to-day at however, to avokl a 24 (United Press). 5.46 PLM. The new American dirigible ZB 2 » broke in half and fell, wrecked, into the Humber River who had were horrified to see that big bag suddenly crumble shattered silk fabric. Spectators watched the machine gliding through the air wile a cloud of smoke ballooned above the The ZB 2 was near the conclusion of a trial trip undertaken late yes- terday in preparation for the transatlantic trip to America: The explosion occured after the machine had been in the air a nula- ber of hours It had just signalled that a speed trial would be attempted before de- 5,30, ander whose direction it had been built, sending at about Britishers, The machine was carrying about fifty men, some others the Americans being trained in her management for the trip to the United who were Stat ‘There bad been vague rumors that the airship was not bebaving ip an altogether satisfactory manner, and that there were some defects in ber fabric Capt. Maxfield of the United States Navy was on board. The remainder of the crew was composed of thirty-one British Air ——— ae

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