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rutin, imTiai,tmtmtnimmmmMwiPwtm. - rttv . DOUGHBAG 99- - - OF $500,000 FOR SEVEN-CEN- T FARE WEATHER Fair Wednesday warmsr. mm WW, M VMM EDITiON \Circulation Hooka Open to AIL\ Circulation JJooka Open to All.\ 6& PRICE TWO CENTS. Copyright, Co. (Th 101D, Nf by it The Vorli Preni World). mbllthloc NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919. 24 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. Prominent Individuals at Al- bany Prepared to Buy Votes for the Measure. ARE BEING WATCHED. Billion Dollars in Capital Rep- resented in Drive to Boost Traction Rates. mmrlii from t 8&tf romwomlent of Tin AIiBANY, April 1. Tho \man with tho doughbag\ has nsccnJcd BUte Street IIU1 and cntorcd tbo Btato Cup-co- l. This became definitely kuown io.iUx. Certain Individuals, aocno of them so prominent tbat mentlou of thru? names would creato a. profound surprise, arc prepared to attempt to purchases votes In tho New York Suite Legislature for tbo passago of tho Seven-Ce- nt Karo bill. Tho \r.;an with tbo doughbas\ Is be- ing carefully watehod. Bo arc hta This warning might have , been suppressed until the man with Hie doughbag bad dono lila work. Hut ' Is soundod now for a purpose. Information has been received that certain traction interests which wsnt the 8oven-pe- Fare bill passed have raised a half-milli- dollars, and are willing to double It to net this legislation. Those who have been furnished the money havo been told to rpend it as they please, on con- dition that tho Seven-Cen- t Faro bill is passed in both Houses. Thoro la a rumor hero to tho effect l(.at ono lejitslator. a Sonutor, baa l.ecn told by a very prominent to official, that Ihcro la a fund of JoOO.OOO available for tho \expenses'\ mccssary to p.iss tbo Seven-Ce- nt Tare bill. Tho legislator in question, who has a reputation for honesty, Is irportcd to havo told tho man who approached him that if ho was again bothered by traction lobbyists ho would tell tho whole story on tho floor of tbo Senate. PUBLIC OPINION THE JURY IN ALL SUCH CASES. There.\ Is a largo percentage of dy- namite In ''crooked\ money. Suppose, for Instance, a legislator sought 11a a victim of bribery wero to appear on tbo floor of either Houso and oponlv announced that an attempt had been mado to brlbo-hl- m on condition that be vote for tho Hovnn-Cr- Karo bill, public opinion would be tho Jury. Legislators havo In tho past arisen In righteous wrath ami laid bare plots (Continue! on Fourth race.) TO Snnday Clalfied Advertis- ing Cop; should be In the World Office by Friday Evening. Sunday Supplement Section Display Advertising Copy should be In the World Office by Thursday, \t 1 P. M. Sunday Main Sheet Display Copy should he In the World Office by Friday Krcnlng. ta-i-. drtlHn. swine t lh volume, la nteixmrllv Br ta rtlM4TnUireiilr Uw4 antlrtlr eraltiad. EARLY COPY NECESSARY TALK GERMAN FOE \MAN M THE DOUGHBAG\ IN ALBANY WITH $500,000 10 PASS IMPORTANT ADVERTISERS FARE BILL DRINKS WITH 1.4 PER CENT ALCOHOL \INTOXICATING\ UNDER AN ARMY RULING Discharged Soldiers in Uniform May Be Sold Liquor Away From Camps. WASHINGTON, April 1. far as tho Army Is a, SO any beverage con- taining 1.4 per cent, of alco- hol will be connldorcd intoxicating. This decision of the Judgo Advo- cate Gcuoral was approved to-d- by Secretary Maker, . . , , Official rulUiK was made In answer to tuqucsts from camp and organization commanders or an interpretation of Section 1! of tbo Seloctlve ervlcc Act governing tbo prohibition of al- cohol liquors In or near military camps. Tho decision that 1.4 per cent, d! alcohol would bo considered tho deii'lllno liy the military au- thorities Is undorstood to have been based on an opinion by tho army medical experts that this would intoxlcato tbo average healthy rofdlcr If HUfficlcnt quantity of the beverages was imbibed. . Hale i intoxicating liquors to discharged soldiers, away from reservations or military dry zones, even If they aro In uni- form Is not unlawful, tho holds In a separata opinion of tho Judgo Advocate General, approved by Bocrotary linker. LIEUT, ASTOR COMING HOME IN A GERMAN SUBMARINE Richest Naval Officer Makes Good Pledge Given When He Left for Overseas Service. It was announced to-d- ay that IJcuL Vincent Astor, the richest otneer In the United States Navy, Is teoond in com- mand of tho UC-9- ono of tho four surrendered German submarines which Is being brought to this country from Harwich, England. The boats are to bo used in the coming Victory Loan campaign. Friends of Llout. Astor state that when he went overseas ho aild at a din- ner given In his honor: \I shall not come ba-c- from o there until I can bring a German I) tt with me.\ Ho Is making good on the plidce. Mrs. Vincent Astor, who la working in the Y. M. C. A. Victory Hut at tho llattery, aaJ.l y sho had received a cable from her husband confirming the report that ho was on tho U ALLIED TROOPS LANDED ON BLACK SEA COAST Expected to March Across Roumania From Constanza to Hungary. LONDON, April 1 It Is reported from liucharrst that Entente troops aro being landed at Constanin, on the Ulaclt Sea const, on their way to Hungary, ac- cording to a Copenhagen despatch to the Central Nows TAKTB BKIXANI HKTORB UMU M4.wa anr on tM eUudaa aitsn ft (uL J MAKE SCRAP AFTER HE UP ARMY AND NAVY Impetuous Finn Mistaken for a German, and Then Ruc- tions Began. Capt. nauman of CJovernor's Island was on Ills way to tho War Trade Hoard nt No. 411 Ilrondwny this morning when a man going like a steam cngino bumped Into him and knocked him flat on his back. The men kept going, but tho captain was tip In a Jiffy and had a hand on his xhouldcr, demanding an apology for Insulting the U. 8. uniform. \Why 1 npologlzo7\ demanded the disturber, who, It dovclopcd, Is a Finn, \You go to li once.\ \You go with me,\ declared the crabbing hlmby the coat col- lar. \I guess I wouldn't.\ declared the other. \You go to h again.\ \I guess you'ro a German.\ nnd the Captain \helped\ him up Hroadway and turned him over to I'ollccmnn Cleedy of Traffic Squud A. Tho defi- ant foreigner mado a dash nnd as tho crowd closed in on him ran Into Child's Hcstaurant at No. 60 Hroad- way. A revolving door guards tho en- trance there and a Navy Lieutenant was Just coming out. The Impetus of tho Klnn turned the door llko a merry-go-rou- and the otllcer went around with it. Then the Navy otllcer took tho situation in hand nnd gave tho door an extra hook nnd landed tho stranger out Into the street. Tho lat- ter mado a terrlflo swlpo at the otll- cer, who tamo back with a right- hander. Whiff! Hlght on the Jaw tho sleep producer landed and tho Finn took tho count for elht minutes; and tho cop nnd tho Army Cuptuiu had their hands full keeping tho crowd back. At that the Ktnn was kicked a HUlo bit, for thcro wero many who be- lieved ho was a German. When they got him to the Old Slip Tollco Station, he said that bo was a Finn named HJcluiar IMIne, and lived at No. 2.00S Cth Avenue. He had Just como from tho WcM, he hald, to get a passport to return to his native land. I'alne wan arraigned beforo Magis- trate Nolan In tho Tombs I'ollco Court nnd hold till Friday on a chavgo of disorderly conduct. Ho was committed to tho Tombs, Ho said that ho was on his way to tho Huh-sta- n consul to get a passport for homo. He guvo his occupation lis that of electrical engineer. A proba- tion officer will look up his record. U. S. CITIZEN AND WIFE ACCUSED OF TREASON Baker Authorizes British to Arrest Spohrs in Turkey as German Spy's Aids. WASHINGTON, April Itakcr has approved a request of tho Urltlsh Military authorities In Turkey that thoy bo permitted to arrest on charges of treason James Spohr, a naturalized American citizen, and his wife, declared officially to have boen \closely asitoclated with tho head of the German spy system In I'alestlne and among Urltlsh Indian subject.\ Tho plan Is to havo the couplo brought to the United States for trial after tlmlr arrest by the Urltlsh. Spohr. said to he of f!min origin, hta been employed as a profensnr nt tho Saladln Ayoub ITK.rilj- - In Jerusalem. His wife la of Scotch birth, hut. nrcnr I ing to the charges, Is known to have lived at Ckrmmi hcodqiurturn. Iloth ir accused of having engaged In violent h and propaganda, principally through spaech making and diitributlon of In. tuunmstory literature. PEACE. 7 xx WANTS TO BROADWAY BUMPED GERMAN DEFIED IN HIS FAMOUS \GO TO HELL\ REPLY WANTS 10 VISIT HI Lieut. Prinz Says lie Desires to Express Admiration for Heroes of Argonue. ONCE LIVED IN THE U. 3. Col. Sherrill, 77th's Chief of Staff, Reports Conversa- tion With Foe Officer. Lieut. Heinrlch Prlnz, Germany army officer who rent tho \Hurrendor of Humanity\ note to Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey, Commander of t' Lost Itattatlnn In the Argonns Forest, which brought tho famous \Go to Hell!\ reply, desires to return to this country and meet his erstwhile op- ponent. This Information was contained in a letter received at Divisional Hend-quarte- rs of tho 77th Division nt the Illltmoro Hotel According to tho letter Col. C. O. Sherrill, Former Division Chief of Staff, later assigned to tho Army of Occupation In Coblcnr. to tnko over German arsenals and supplies, witnessed tho farewell re- view given to tho German 76th Divi- sion before that division crossed tbo Hhlne. Tho German 7Cth Division wa- - a part of tho Gorman Army that faced tho \7tli Division in tho Argorvne. The 76th had suffered so severely nt Grandpre that It had been pulled out. Col, Sherrill at Coblenz met two olll-cc- of the 76th. One of them he was Heinrlch Prlnz, the German \' tenant who sent the de- mand to surrender to Col. Whlttlu,-he- y. Said Lieut, l'rlnz: \I am a great ndmirer of Hie 77th Division. The Germans felt it suicidal for American do. itachments to persist In Its defense and for that reason I sent the mes- sage, requesting surrender.\ Llout. Prlnz previous to tho w.ir had been for Mx yoars tho repro-hentativ- o of a Gorman tungsten com-pa- of Spokane, Wash. Ho told Col. Sberrlll that hu wanted to return to thn L'nltod States after poacu was (flgned for tho purposo of expressing admiration of tho ga'lunt conduct of Lieut. Col. Whittlesey and his men. \One of tho most depressing things our troops enoountored,\ explained Lieut. Prlnr, \was tho lock of nervou shown by Amcilean troops, aa op-p- n ) l thu (hakcn nerves of the Gcimans.\ LEGS ARTIFICIAL; DANCES. Jrraey llnl (\\roaa Ainu re Aeel-ilr- nl Victim Jump Hurdle. At a conference to-d- In Newark of tho Chapter Workers of the American Jted Cross from Northern New Jcrsej, Charlei It. Weibell demonstrated that a pair of artificial legs could bo nude to do almost anything ttut a recula. p.ilr of the human article could par-fur- He Jumped hurdles, did high an I finij Itlcklnc and Jazzed. llo iM that h had been a talesman for eight esrs anl had experienced no difhVtilty In getting around with his new Jin.le He ild Ih.il the milmo.1 sold.er.i ,n linspltaN didn't wjnt sym-put- h Thi wdnttd to bo shonn thu ) t nui.i' rt Ihing, and Ih.u w:u whit he ).ii tryli.? to shuw ihem. ma nn example of h.nmtilf. tV(lltl,l UKhTAliltM', 8ri-l- l (or Tm1j. April I. ma, Item fnb bm nils aii: mum. ,..,...,, Iiik) rangir) HUKiit, aiub4 (Uto..,, Ttl d bolt lita slow, WmU Uailillii. Airt. & I i DISTRICT ATTORNEY SWANN IS REPORTED ABOUT TO WED, BUT IT MAY BE A HOAX Reasonable Doubt Cast About Many Report by Fact That This is All Fools Day. Is April 1. That much Is THIS known. Touching certain oilier matters hero and thcro y thcro arc what tho courts cull for reasonable doubt. And yet. the rumor hft?) persisted since early this morning that Dlh-tri- ct Attorney .Swnim has tnl.cn out a marriage license. .So far an It enn bo traced, tho rumor started somewhere in uK. criminal CourtH Hulldlng. where tho District lmn his olllee. Now.Hpaper men assigned to that building scented mi All Fools' Day Joke, but thoy wero seriously that It was nothing of tho kind, And, of course, tho mcro fact tbat District Attorney Swann ha thus far managed to cscapo hymeneal cntnngleiuents argues nothing. However, City Cloik Scully avers nnd declares thut no such llcenso han been Issued by his Marrlago Hureau. In this he is Joined by tho bureaus (u Hrooklyn and tho Hronx. Tho District Attorney's sccro-tar- y makes tho positive statement that tho'ii is nothing In tho rumor. Stlli Criminal icnirt Hulldlng attaches that thW In All Fools' day. PEACE TRWHW, STORY TOLD IN PARIS, BUT IT'S APRIL FIRST Statement Was CreJited to Col. Mouse an J bpre.nl All Over French Capital. PAULS, April i. started a story SOMKIIODY that Col. ):. M. House hud announced that tho peace treaty hud been signed. Tho lepurt nipnllj spread all over Paris, anil ihu telcphono wlten to tho American headquurteis In the Hotel do Crillon became hot with inquiries as to thu truth of tho rumor. The Inquirers were reminded thit to-d- was April L WILSON HONOR COL. WHITTLESEY MACKAY PROM E OLD RATES WITH POSTAL RESTORED Will Put Wire Tolls Where They Were if Burleson Re- turns Telegraph Lines. Clnrenco II Mnckay, President of the Postn! Telegraph Company, bolus asked icgnrdlng the Incrcaso In the telegraph rules which went Into ef- fect y by order of Postmaster Oencral Hurleson, said that If Post- master Oeneral Hurlcson would re- turn Its lines to tho Postal Telegraph Cublo Company nt onco that tho company would restoro the old tola-grap- h rates at mice. \Tho total jtulcgraph business of tho country Is npprnxlmntoly So.00O,oOO,\ \i'J'JJJiiJjiiWJ'Thla 20 per ernt, increasi ordered uy Mr. jturlcuon means mi Inerenno of 116,000,000 to tho telegruph luers. Thut It Is abso- lutely unnecessary to Jncroaao tele- graph rates Is nhown by tho faat that the representatives of tho Postmas- ter General now II ml wo havo been ablo to hold up our earnings and prollts to expectations, and those earnings nnd prollts for tho year commencing July 31, 1918, tho date when tho Government claims to have taken control, will bo more than twlco tho compensation which Mr. Hurlcson has given our company. \In tho sir months ending Jon. Jl we havo earned moro than tho com- pensation awarded to us by Post- master General Hurlcson for a wholo year. If wo had been allowed to keep our property nnd opcrato It wo would not havo thought of raising the rates, nnd thero would not havo Iteen tbo slightest occasion for raising the rates. \Mr. Hurlcson bus agreed to pay tho Western I'nlon more than ho should have agreed to, and In ordor to realize that amount ho ban to raise the rates. \Hecclpts and expenditures of tho postal system us ndmlnlstered by our own staff since the Government as- sumed to take control show there hus hern no such material change as to require, or even Justify, an In rates. I bellovn tbo trouble is due to the fact that Mr. Hurlcson agreed to pay them too much com- pensation and to the fact that tho Western l.'nlon Is not administered carefully and economically. \What Mr. Hurlcson Intends to do with tho prollts which he is taking away from us we do not know. We do know that If wo bad boen left alone thero would have been no In- crease in rates nnd no loss of protlt to us. \If Mr. Hurlcson will return our lines to uh at once we will carry on the telegraph buslnois at tho old rates at once. This certainly Is a fair proposition and should appenl to tho American public, who aro paying the Increased telegraph rates.\ ASKS CELL OF ANOTHER. iinllor Wniitu to erie Sentence. ImpiiNril on i4iUer. John Flunagan, who lias had eight years' service In tho navy, waited MuglHtrate O'Neill In Coney Island Court y to lot htm servo thn five days' sentence of Charles Fuldman of No. ICjr, C.ravesend Avenue, llronklyn. I'eldman had been ennvlcted of spuui-lu- g and driving without a llcenso. Thn Magistrate reduced thu sen-tenc- e to two ln) . but said 1l'.:Hl twuH It hllllfi'ir. Mnilm tiurk Weleimira lleln Kim, HKItXK p II I. -- .Mixlin (Jorky lia Dent Koie! n Mi usier llila Kuti tne fol- lowing wlreltsi. h.voiillns to a drfpaU'li received from UudupeJt to-d- : \Wii welcome you with all our hearts. A new )lf dwni for u. Th whole world will oon follow your cxtmpls.\ 1 he was to tic was ness of the was satu now was the 4 to the to 1. aro In of von to tho of tho New Tho are In and In to tho line to Tho von force ut of 42 Per in 11. on 2S ii nvt of 4: per cent, since. Nov. II, 1311, A table by the tftaf gv the of tho as In 1 and men; Ui at sea, In thi State . In Not In tho total are with the of t All meat were from Fond undc a by at Paris \All or ens uted In or of fresh or cured beef. or ars re-- I li o.n hj the Food Ad- - A from at Paris Food of tho N- - - -- ' . , ASKS WHITTLESEYt PRESIDENT EXPLAINS DELAY! IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS; J ACCEPTS PART OP BLAWfc .s Root's League Changes to Be MMfoAdZJX Acceptable to the American Delervl gates Cieorge to stay in .fans Until Treaty Is Signed. F'ARIS, April (Associated plained that willing accept Peace fjonteuncc aejays. negotiations not due scntalivcs. The President empnaucauy ally finished and that HINDENBUR6 MASSING ARMY IN EAST PRUSSIA TO OPPDSE THE POLES Expected Defend Railway Line f:rom Danzig Pos:n, Says Report From Paris. PAHIS. April THK Germans largo forces Kostern Prussia under command Field Marshal Hlndenburg, according Paris edition York Herald. German forces being gathered Giaudonz Thorn order defend railway from Danzig Poson. Intcst estimates place Hlndcnburg's 150,000. 2,131,503 IN I), S. ARMY; 1,409,789 STILL IN EUROPE Net Decrease Cent, Total Strength Since Nov. WASIUNGTON, April l.Amerlcan Army strength March totallod 2.1J1.&03, decTeaso compiled y Oen- eral location forces follows; Europe, .403,783 olllcers Siberia, 8.133: 63,760; United 603.17S; Insular 15.383. Included :3.70ft marines remaining Expedition- ary Forces. ALL WArTeSTRIGTIONS ON PACKERS REMOVED Wilson Proclamation Releases Them From Control Food Administration. WASHINGTON, April paeknrs rolenscd y Administration control proclamation sltcned President Wilson effective person, firms, corporations aisocl aliens Imparting, manufac- turing, including packing, storing dlKtrlbiUion canned pork, mutton lard.\ leased license iiilnlMrailou. lalilegram llerliert Hoover notified Administration officials proclamation. TAKE UKI.I.-AN- S HKKMRK MK.ttA m ;.T. ..MJX.) aaifl'.... JhJL mm Said Press). President Wilson to-da- y ex Wll 1 his share of responsibility for ijgj&i careiui to pomi out mat inc to any single country or its inai ine.ume lor laiK-wa- s vir lime to show results. . Jf Presldont Wilson was araln In t tendanco y at th6 meetings of; tho council of four dealing with peacs , probloms. Hetwcen tho sessions of 0 ...... ino council tno j'roaiueni rccoiveu m, Ulsbop of Spalto, representing Ji Hlav Interests In tho Dalmatian Coast, cotXroversy. In tho foronoon tho President iul a conferenco wltb Josepbua W. Daniels, tho Seerotary of Uio Nary: shortly beforo tho luttor's departufo' for Italy. Notwithstanding tho delay nt reaching uti agreement on tho pre? llmlnary peaco treaty, premier LloyU George, tho Paris Edition of tbo Left.! don Daily Mall says, does not Into to return to England beforo tho qutf tlons aro adjuatod, In splto of his df' slro to attend tho closing moat lap. of tho Urltlsh Labor Conferences AMERICAN8 ACCEPT ROOT.S LEAGUE AMENDMENTS. 'W Commenting on tho amendmcnta1,lit., tho covenant of tho League of N tlons suggested by Kllhu Hoot, It wW d.fi.A tn ...... t... ..... ... .. . c.u.vA. lu-u- uy uuu oi uio legal 1\ clullsU associated with tho Amerl Peace Conferenco delegation tbat believed all tho amendments wero nf- - ceptablo to tho American dolegatloa, ... . . . . . \ ' BUKicnimn tor ino eignatttfe' of the covenant by tho I'nlted SUM: wun reservations designed to lns the safety of tha Monroe- - Doctrikf and safpguard Immigration lawa 5 ervatlons would bo somewhat slui- - lar to those with which tho Algcclruu Treaty was signed. Tho Aeronautical Commission of tho Peace Conforcnco hokl a meetlg.; Monduy to receive and consider r$ lorts from concefir.' I nil,- - niiiiiury, irgai, commercial Mi? i tcchulcnl subjects. It was found tSS'f the had not com! ' ., Pietod tneir work, hut tho commlsi i slon approved Uio temporary report , \3 siiDiultted. v The Commission will hold Its ntwt meeting on April 4 when. It Is t: pected, the general principles and much of tho detail of tho Inter-Alllif- ii Aerial Convention may bo settled llnally. FRENCH BELIEVE THE SITUA- TION 18 IMPROVING. ! \ In French conferenco circles tbftrj Is an Impression that the situational clearly satisfactory, (.' hough ftKj tromo caution is being observed i tho proceedings of tho conference ,rhe Council of Four heard PmMl\1 Hymans, tho Helglan Foreign .' ister. yesterday and later rceelTedJiv report from the Inter-Allle- d Com- - mission which was sent to TesohHV' to investlgata the controversy hi\- -' twern the Ctechs and the Pole, The prlnolpal dllilculty has 3.,\ found In settling upon ,c;arat!on , eordlnv in th nnw trtAttiA,4 nf - n - - . y w ment sunrestsd by th prenefc q jr; gallon, TbJi plan was prssMW S' 4