The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1921, Page 1

EXT RA “VOL. LXII. NO. 21, 916—DAILY. 45 ON SUBMARINI E ESCAPE BY TORPEDO TUBE | ehoad aed © abe iene FE Entered ns Second ‘ont Oftlee, New REES CHEERED BY DUBLI TO-MORROW’S WEATHER—Snow or Rain, . FINAL % oy PRICE THREE CENTS — S-48 FAILS TO RISE AFTER TEST; CREW IN DEATH PERIL 12 HOURS NEW FOUR POWER seine of R ecident Was Due to Man- holes Being Left Open. THREE GO TO HOSPITAL. Men, Fearing Chlorine Gas, Bail Out Water From Submerged Craft. Acording to Capt. E. Olsen of | Standard Of] Tug No. 2%, who Srought to Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day Lhe forty-five men who escaped death last night 3-48 off Bridgeport, | of secret | among themselves that the accident | was caused by the carelessness of | somebody in leaving open one of the'| airtight manholes which should have been closed” before the submarine went under water. The submarine | had not been turned over to the navy | und the responsibility for her navifa- | tion rested with the Lake Torpedo Boat Company of Bridgeport, whtch | built her. | Capt. Olsen made 1s report at 330) Standard O11 tow boat offices at No. | M1 Broadway late this afternoon. Hie | said it was only by the merest chance | that he took notice «f the occasional | flares caused by the mat'resses of tho] men who had crawled up throu; ne of the warship's torpedo tubes be rested. with her tail on the bo om and her nose stick.ng out of the water. He at first thought the lights were those of a motor boat and then | of a hydroplane skimming the waves. , Lieut under water in the submarine | the crew Conn., the submarine made no Three of the forty-five, Francis Adams Smith and Chief Wlectrician Fritz of the nay and Veter F, Dunne, a Lake foreman, arc) in the Navy Yard Hospital. ‘The first) two have a touch of chlorine gas in their lungs. Dunne is suffering from, submersion and frost bite. Forty-one | in all were treated in the hospital after the members of the crew were brought in by Standard Of1 Tug No.| 28 at daybreak to-day. Before noon they were ready to start back to Bridgeport with Lieut. Commander Stanley Haas, who is in charge of the supervision of the tests of the! our $-boats under construction at] Bridgeport. The $-48, which is one of four giant submarines under construction at the wake yards in Bridgeport, has been inder observation and tests by Lieut. Commander Haas and Lieut. Smith} ‘or nearly a month, She was 98 per} cent. finished and was to have been eady for delivery to the navy in| March, She had never been sub- merged before when she was under | her own power, In command for the Jake Company was former Lieut, U. ®. Apstin of the navy. The submarine left the Lake wharf | yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and headed out into the Sound, which heyond ‘the Bridgeport breakwater was lashed by half a gale into an angry, choppy, white capped sea. Off the Penfield Reef light and nearly ‘wo miles from it the boat dived. ‘The 240 feet of the big submarine’s length was hardly under water before the shouted reports. came from the aft part of th’. vessel: “Engine room room floodin: ‘” Compartment doors were closed with « rush after the men in the after- compartments had r-rambled for- ward. A moment later the stern softly bumped on bottom. The elec- | flooding! Motor ue Tug ‘Told "8-48 Heroes; Fritz Was Gassed; Dunne Suffered Frost Bites McrAEL AD Pere | SUBMARINE S-48, WHOSE CREW HAD THRILLING ESCAPE) THIS IS THE 8-48, BOW-ON |AS SHE APPEARED JUST .BE- FORE SHE WAS LAUNCHED trie lights went out et. Austin, with the navy men! (Continued on Second Page.) a CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF DYESTUFFS LOBBY IS VOTED BY SENATE WASHINGTON, Doc, 8.—The long pending King resolution directing an avestigation by Congiess into the ac- ‘ vities of an alloged dycstifts lobby, as afopted to-dey by the Senats RAOUL & FeSURU vob. FROM M HER CR CRADLE. GIRL HELD UP BY NEGRO WHO Is OHASED AND CAPTURED, | Anna Ziff, cashier of the \Cake Company, No | Street, Jersey City, was held up by a negro at Grand and Bates Streets at 3 o'clock this afternoon and robbed of $600 which she was taking to the Hud- son County Bank. The girl and sev- eral men who had witnessed the hold- up chased the negro, who was finally SWEARS HE SAW 12 ALE. MEN HANGED IN TOWN IN FRANCE | Affidavit From Philadelphian Submitted by Sen, Watson to Back His Charges. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Eleven members of the American Expe- ditionary Forces were hanged in France after conviction by a military court martial, Col. Walter FE. Bethel, Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Army, testifled to-day before the Senate committee _ investigating charges by Senator Watson, Demo- rgia, that American soldiers e hanged without trial in France, Col, Bet! who was Gen. Pershing’s chief legal adviser overseas, appeared before the committee after Senator Watson in an opening statement had presented a number of affidavits and letters from former soldiers to sup- port his changes. “Did Gievres: uo ever sex # gallows at * Col. Bethel was asked ‘he said, “one was erected @ for execution of a convicted sol- according to in- g enator Watson by former service mon, that soldiers were hanged without trial Col. Bethel informed the committee that the American military authort- tnies had exclusive Jurisdiction over the American army and the French never attempted to exercise jurisdic- tion in criminal cases. The men executed, convicted on rape A letter from William A. Small of Saint Vincent Infirmary, Little Rock, Ark,, in which he stated that he knew of fifteen hangings in France, was read by Watson, Chairman Brande- gee ordered Small subpoenaed as a witness. Watson also read into the record a letter from Henry L. Beott of Ken- more, Ohio, formerly of Company D, 16th Infantry, who said that he saw he said, were charges of murder or captured by two policemen in a blind all He described himacif Charles White, of No, 53d Avenue C, Bayonne, ‘The money was recovered. Major Opley of that organization shoot Sergt. Daly in Argonne (Continied on Recond Pa: yuple | comple JAPAN ACCEPTS UNDERSTANDING cat al Ratio Pre Sraposal Not Yet ! Agreed To by the Mikado's C binet. BRITISH GIVE OU NEWS Capital Ship Br amine Said Action on Big st” Points Await “Par Ei WASHINGTON, The cepted the proposal for Dec Japanes $ (Associated Government as woanad Pac an authorized British spokesman «tu Te ratio proposition with regard to cap! understanding in. ti to-day added that the tal ships was in some way reluted to settlement, and that this proposition had not yet been accepted ‘by the Japanese Government Attention was directed by ty | British spokesman that while the anese Government had approved Ja ithe proposals, this was only a pre lliminary part of the proceeding. The }Conterence Committee on War Hast- jern affairs, he added, was now wait by it in- ing for the official signification the Japanese Government that had approved the wholy scheme volving un agreement on the no | ratio. The actual status of the still is closely guarded, but the | ward signe suggest that the conver- sations are tending toward these sep- larate agreements: A treaty by which the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France will ree to a “cooling off perlod” of dis- cussion before going to war over dls- putes arising in the islands of the Pacitic. Hawall is not to be in any way affected by the treaty, ‘A treaty of understanding relative to the limitation of future fortific tions and naval bases in the Pacttie. From the provisions of this arrange- ment, too, Hawaii is to be omitled A treaty or other agreement relat- ing to the 5-6-8 naval ratio and other questions immediately concerned in the naval reduction programme ‘A joint declaration of principle by all the nations represented here with regard to the future of China, A treaty, in which the United States and Japan will be the principals, settling the debated questions of the German Island of Yap. An agreement between Japan and China relating to the Province of Shantung. Explaining the application of the four power agreement to matters outside of China, the spokesman asserted that it might concern the Anglo-Japanese alliance as this treaty applied to differences arising In the Pacific and of course it might cover the important questions of naval ratio, maintenance of naval bases and fortifications, The American delegation tu the conference held a meeting to-day in Secretary Hughes's office at the State Department. The powers represented in the Far Bast Committee have adopted a yeso- intion agreeing not to enter into any treaties or understandings among themselves that would !mpalr the four Root resolutions concerning Chin: ———— Sunday World Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World situation | out | BRAVE NUNS AID IN RESCUE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT BLAZE IN —— Women and Children, Deaf and Dumb, Paralyzed, | Saved in Jersey City. | | Some} 30 SAVED ON ELEVATOR. Sticks All Sister, Hiding Identity, Post Until Are Out. More than one hundred women and all blind deaf, paralyzed, were rescued at! y during a fire in the the Blind, | Jersey | children, and some tumb or \M Joseph's to-ds Home for uldwin and Pavonla Avenues, t tu policemen and firemen that not life mates or the herote nuns who helped | City seemed almost miraculos was lost and not one of the in- save Thy Joseph them was hurt. Home, run by ‘the Sisters of | houses about 800 persons inchiding the nuns The men Sleop in east wing, which was not! touched by the fire. The women sleep on the second floor and the children the fourth floor of the west wing. father Cornelius Melnerney, chap-' packing house lain of the Home, was awakened by moke, and when he opened fils door | flames leaped In from the sacristy. | | He jumped from his window on the first floor to the street and found Po- |Uceman James Sullivan nearby. Sullivan gave the alarm and about thirty police responded. Théy had | some difficulty in arousing the 100 women asleep on the second floor,! mang of whom were partly overcome} by smoke. | “As rapidly @s possible the women were led down stairs, Then firenen came and raised Indders on all sides of the wing and took down several of the women who were in windows ready to jump. One nun, whose name was not re- vealed, ran an elevator to the fourth floor until all of the fifty children had been brought down in safety. The men were taken from the adjoin- ing wing, but little excitement at- tended their removal Father McInerney had rescued seven or eight women when he re- ceived a laceration of the arm that needed surgical treatment, John Hartman, a policeman, after carrying out five women collapsed on the second floor, and was carried out by Battalion Chief John Sweeney, Ho was taken to the City Hospital Miremen ‘Thomas Maloney and John Duffy had to be relieved, one suffering from smoke and the other from a nail penetrating his left foot. All available ambulances were sent from the City Hospital to give treat- ment to the inmates who were suffer- ing from smoke and exposure. Warden Patrick Sullivan of the Hudson County Jail came with sev- eral deputies and besides aiding in rescues, hot coffee and food brought for rescued and rescuers, | The fire apparently started in the sacristy aud wrecked that and Father McInerney's quarters adjoin- the second ing and then jumped to The loss floor, where St was stopped, was ‘about $10,000. Ma a RECORD ALTITUDE FOR MARTIN BOMBER Wade Up 21,000 Feet To- at Dayton With Four Passengers. DAYTON, ©., Dec. 8.—Lieut. Leigh Wade, at McCook Field to-day, made the world’s altitude record for a Martin bomber with four passengers. He ascended 21,000 feet Lieut. Day jconfer “inform ‘on the hope of inducing them to settle} | ing and other hostilities, * ling waten, | Petition for the injunction was filed EX-KAISER AN AUTHOR; PUBLISHES A HISTORY Starts With 1978 and 8 at 1014, BERLIN, Dec. §—Former Emperor William has published a book entitled a Shore omparative Historical Tables from 8 to the Outbreak of War in 1914," cording to report ° Taito ? HOME OF BLIND MOVES TO SETTLE LABOR DEPARTMENT CHEERING DUBLIN THRONGS AWAIT SIN FEIN DECISION: CABINET IN ‘ 4 TWO SESSIONS British Tr s Are to Be Wi thd PER STE reece Day ane seen Is Approved by the Dail Eireann— Talk of Split Over Oath Is Heard.) DUBLIN, Dee. 8 (Associated Press).—The agreemeent with Great. Commis Gage Sent to | cago to Confer With Esa 4 | | ers—Picketing Enjoined. WASHINGTON, Dee. 8—The Labor | in the strike of packing hous employees at Chicago. Commissioners | Nelson and Marchinan of the Bureau! Hlation have been « Iv" with tn and the packers to-morrow tn Chi ARO the questions Involved and end riot- CHICAGO, Dee. Attor outburst by strike sympathtzers, 8. attacked an elevated train carrying orkers to the stock- yards early to-day, packing house town settled down to its fourth day of the strike, with no further dix- turbance but with 1,500 police koep- A temporary injunction’ prohivit- ing members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work- men’s Union from “picketing or other- wise molesting” workers in the stock- yards was granted in Superior Court by Judge Dennis Sullivan to-day. The by Swifl & Co. and twenty-one other packers, A few more defections were report- ed by the Big Five packers to-day, but the plants. still were operating. Reports from other packing centres said there was little disturbance and little chango in the situation. The injunction also was made ef- fective against the Coopers’ Interna- tional Unton and the United Asso- anoiher | who | ciation of Plumbers and Steamfitters, Whose men bave gone on strike in Sympathy with the butcher workers, Chief of Police Fitzmorris to-day promulgated a set of rules to govern the strike situation at the yards. He said the police would not tolerate gatherings. He added that he did not expect any further trounie to-day ‘The attack to-day was an after math of last night's rioting when nine were seriously injured and many ar- rested, Police sald most of the riot- ers lad been drinking, and Capt. Witiam Russell, in charge of the yards police details, immediately closed aj! saloons. The elevated train attacked morning was crowded with when the rioters threw stones and bricks through the windows, Those injured were out by flying glass or hit by the missiles All the big nts unnounced thar they would pay off the strikers tu-| moyrow te ayold bipoeetbie’ trouble ' MARINE SHOOTS | this workers urtment to-day decided to inter- | Britain for a settlement of Ireland's affairs and the establishment of the’ | Irish Free State was taken up for consideration by the Cabinet of the Dail: | Eireann at « specially called meeting here to-day. Great interest was: ederattta | manifested in the session, and a large Cfowd enthusiastically greeted bis strikers | C Cabinet members on their arrival at the Mansion House, After a comparatively briot bag FREED SINN FEIN PRISONERS GLAD OF PEACE TERMS “What Is Good Enough for Grif- fith and Collins Is Good Enough for Me,” One Puts It. DUBLIN, Dec. $ (Associated Press). —King George's proclamation of am- nesty for Irishmen under internment resulted in the release to-day of many prisoners who had been interned in the Kilmainham and Arbour Hill Camps and the Mountjoy Jail. = peace xpressions of satisfaction over the terms were numerous among the men set free, One of the released men from Kilmainbam remarked: “What Is good enough for Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins is good enough for me.” ty this afternoon, all the prisoners in the Kilmainbam Camp had been released. ‘The 1,800 prisoners in the Bullykinlar Camp will be released to-morrow. = sepeeenae ULSTER IN SECRET CONFERENCE TAKES UP IRISH TREATY Both Houses Consider Agreement and Craig Decides to Go to London To-Night. BELVAST, Dec. 8 (Associated Press).—The members of both Houses of the Ulster Parliament considered the Irish agreement at a meeting thie mornipg. After two hours of private confer- ence, it was announced that Sir Jumes Craig, the Premier, would leave for London to-night ee DR. LORENZ TO STAY; SO DECIDES ON PLEA OF SURGEONS HERE Dr Adolph Lorenz decided this EXPRESS ROBBERS )|atternoon to remain in this country ——---— and continue his clinics, Owing to Third Man Escapes, bu’ Much |the antagonism he felt had been ~ the Loot Is ke | manifested toward him by some covered. members of the medical profession, it | had been his intention to give up his CHARLESTON, S.C. Dec, $.—-Set-! three months’ visit to thie oountry. grant 6. & Betherw, Marine Corps a} This decision came after a mest- suard on a miil car attached to Atian-| ing wyp Dr. Royal S. Copeland, tle Coust Line Train No, 60, Jackson-| jienith Kommiasioner, and a dosen ville to New York, to-day shot five) @.morc physicians and surgeons who tumes at three men, two of whom were negroes, who were throwing packages from a sealed express car ahead. The shooting occurred about four miles thiy side of Savannah, Ga. ‘Two of the men were wounded and} Board the third ts at large. Some of tho| Street. packages thrown off were rocovered.| examination to all patients on Mon- The express car ts being held here | ne yomtle The wounttod nae anoui, ih was met thie pleaded with him to stay, Th In Dr. Copeland's office late afternoon. Hereafter Dr, Lorens will hold his clinics on the neutral ground of tho of Health building in Peart He will give personal ex- days and Fridays at 10 o'clock. eae BS (Racing Entries and Resulie o on sion the Cabinet adjourned for lumeh. ° No statement was forthcoming as to the Cabinet's proceeding: ¢ | A huge crowd again oheered the Cabinet members as they came back to the Mansion House at 3.80 o'clock) in the afternoon to resume their de-! lberations, } Announcement was made to-day at_ the military headquarters here that if! he Anglo-Irish agreement ts ratified) the Crown forces would be removes from Ireland within a month. ] The beginning of the Cabinet seme sion at noon found ail the members| Present, Arthur Griffith, Michael Cel- ' lins and the other plenipotentiaries _ having arrived by this morning's mail boat. They were given a cor- > dial welcome at Kingstown. t Mr. Grimth, beyond saying he was glad to be back in Ireland, made mo statement, oe Talk of a possible split in the Dail” Cabinet over the terms is increasing, ; and the resignations of some of thes Cabinet members are predicted, | among them Cathal Brugha (Charles Burgess), Minister of Defense, Some. of the leading members of the Cabinet | are known to object to the form of | the oath of allegiance laid dowm in. the treaty, Regardless of possible differences, however, it is belleved the agreement will be approved, ‘a principle at least, : The public maintains the same sem- j blance of indifference toward thet agreement noticeable when the news was first received, The people seem 5 generally satisfied, but refrain from | expressing their feelings in any gut- | ward demonstration, appearing to ben waiting tor somebody to give the lead! as if not quite certain what attitude’! to take. Possibly the return of the | Irish delegates from London to-day, may evoke some tangible expression ¢ of the popular view, but meanwhile | the leaders keep their own counsel, ( and evade wout:-be quest opers, This: ¢ attitude was shown when Mr, De! Valera arrived at Mansion House yes- | terday; a small group of admirers + began a welcoming demonstratiou, | but tho Republican leader hurried: inside the bullding as if cager te! escape acitce, 4 Hepublicans of the rank and make no secret of their disitke of the | oath involving fidelity to the British sovereign, and cvitic.se among otter features of the treaty the appaintment | of a Governor-General, and the finan- cla! clauses. Women's Republican er ganizations are especially antagenb,, ic toward what they call a “surres-, der to Bugland.” All thie need not be regarded neces, surily as foreboding rejection of th agreement by the Dail Eireann. fh body doubts that there will be et publiegn evar the 1 4 sppositivg In