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1:1 bi Jn h 4', M 'f if TV- - .. MORE 69TH VETERANS COME HOME ON LEVIATHAN WEATHER Flr, Warmer and Thursday. we MIM3 .JtotonlBtfoa Books QpenJoAlJL \Circulation Books Open to AJl.'i PRICE TWO CENTS I'opjrUM, mm, r Th, it,.. mulshing NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919. 22 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. ,; RE AT Y BY SATURDAY. 9 YORK HEROES LENINE WOUNDED NEW AMONG 12.274 I nUTil AM 10 LtVHUWU Old 69th Regiment and 27th and 77th Men Among 1,100 Convalescents. 110,000 MEN OF 85TH COME Gov. Sleeper of Michigan Greets National Army Troops Many Bring Honors. The Leviathan arrived y with 11,274 soldier! the biggest crowd of' troops yet brought homo from the war. Among- - theso wcro 1S7 wounded or alck of the Rainbow Division. 137) 1eing heroes of the lG3th (old CMi) Regiment. Thero were also men of, the 27 th Division and of Now York's 77th Division; some of them wounded in the last days of the lighting. Two of the hoy of the 6!th came Jiomc with tho French Cross of War They were Scrgts. Herman Iltlllg of So. Ill Fast Wth Street and Jack Hkelly of No. 530 West 120th Street On March 20 at Lunevlllc tho Freiuh general In toinin mil wanted som t.erntan prisoners, captured In onler n got Homo information as to t lie ncniy's movements. Ninety llluo Devils and sixty-liv- e of the lfiith, in lommaiiil of Lieut. Herman J. Ilooth, went tu get the desired iniormation Jtooth was wounded hut shouted to hi' iii'-i- i : \I'heie tlicy are, hoys. Clo and get 'i in!\ And the hoys went. Shelly, who licfore the war was a steamtll er, \nclil\ till his rifle ceased to work md Mien unit In with his bare hands ii\d returned with lioth hands fu of ttcriimn \liifonuallun\ In the wa i Ii' iimnrr. llllllg. on the way liacu vith tho prisoners, turned hark and jvicucd two of tho piillus. l.icut. Ilooth whs made a Captain for his fj.Uanl work, Tho boys of Hie 27lh who camo luck were sorry that they missed tho lug parade, hut were consoled by tho Knowledge that they wcro to ho mus- tered out without delay. Tho beat (Continued on Fourth I'.ige.) N O From Ship In DUlrrxx. WASHINGTON. April 2 The Navy Department y rwlved an H O ti rail from tlm schooner LMwurd Drake of l'lilladelphln, which Is In distress nt am. The location was not an- nounced. ACTH qOlCKI.V. Father John's Medlclno irmptly relloves court\ at)') colds. No ulcohol Adt. IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS Sunday Classified Advertis-lo- f Copy ihould be in the World Office by Friday Evening. of Sunday Supplement Section Dlaplay Advertising Copy should be in the World Office by Thursday, at 1 P. M. Is Sunday Main Sheet Display Copy ihould be In the World Office by Friday Krenlng. lU aarartUliu. .wn I. ths Im4 f nllrtlr omltixt. EARLY COPY NECESSARY SENDS PEACE OFFER TO ON BIG LINER: RECORD LOAD DCTPnTUAl PDfllCM DL I KU I llAL DKuILM BY FAY LEWISOHN AND WM BURTON mm tUL155 rAYLEWI50HN \Too Young to Know The'r Own Hearts,\ Is Only Explanation Given. Too young to know tholr own hearts. That, It appears, Is tho reason Miss Fay I.ewlsohn, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Philip Lowlsohn, No. 023 Fifth Avenue, nnd William Ilurton, son of Mrs. Fredurlclt Hnusman, No. 7V Park Avenue, decided to break their engagement, announcement of which Is mado y by Mrs. Lewlsobn. Tho announcement given to tha newspapers was a brief statement saying tho engagement had been broken by mutual consent. Mr. Ilurton is twenty-tw- o and Miss Lewisohn twenty. Miss I.ewlsohn Is a granddaughter Handolph Ouggenhclmer. Her fath- er Is a wealthy Importor. Mr. Hur-ton- 's stepfather, Frederick Hou9inan, a member of tho A, A. Housmnn brokcrago firm. Mrs, kowisohn declined to add to- - (Continued on Second Page.) A C I N G A.ESULTS, Tage 2 ENTRIES, Pago. 10 SENATE ORDERS INVESTIGATION 0 F DOUGHBAG GHARG E Votes 47 to 0 for Inquiry Into Existence of 25500,000 Traction Bill Fund. ALH.VNY, April 2. Hy u vote of 7 to 0 tho Senate this afternoon di- rected tho Judiciary Committee, to conduct an Investigation Into the statements that a half-millio- n dolhr traction lirlbo fund exists. The resolution Mr the lncitiiiy was presented by Senator Walker of Man- hattan. Senator Walker bitterly assailed The Evening World for publlnhlng thu llory of the With the Dough-bag- .\ .Senator Henry J. Walters, Senate ma jority leader, announced to-d- that he would discuss the \doughbag\ charges. Minority Leader Jam&s Foley ltd mated that' he probably would also dli. cum the charges. B, R.T.TIEUP ON BRIDGE BRINGS MANY DARING FEATS Passengers Transferred- - to Surface Cars With Aid of Police 20,000 Are Delayed. Feats rivalling any th. t Dmir'n I'.ilr-Jun- ever pulled wore accomplish-- \ on Jlrooklyn UrliSRj' this morning when policemen transferred crowds, includ- ing many women, from stranded Ll. It. T. elevated trains to surface ears. Tho cars wcro stopped at n level with the trains nnd tho women were forced to take good-size- d steps over lattice work, the third rail nnd other obstructions with policemen's arms around their waists, Other portions of the crowd ner,- released from tho trains aitd nulla t i,i tics back to thu Snnds Street station In Ilrooklyn. The tie-u- occurred near the brldgo anchorage on the Ilrooklyn side and was caused by motor trouble on a Ful- ton Street train. All elevated traffic from Hrooklyn to Manhattan was stopped from S 30 to 10 mid trains ucre strung up clear back to Ilorough Hall and the Adams Htroot station, Tho overflow also caused congestion on the surface lines. It It estimated that moro than y,000 wcro deluycd. The motor trouble was repaired by 10 o'clock and trnfllc resumed, WISCONSIN-CITIE- TURN FROM DRY TO WET COLUMN Madison, Superior and Ashland Among Those That Vote Saloons In. MADISON, Wis.. April 2. \Wets\ y hnd regained ground lost In previous elections In Wisconsin towns and cities. In yesterday's vote Madi- son, tho Statu capital; Superior, city, and Ashland, lielolt, h'd. gerton, Stoughtnn and KvansvWlu went wet. .Madison, Superior, AjIi-lan- d and Edgerton had previously voted dry. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. April 2 So- cialists In Mllwaukeo County wc; defeated In the Judicial contests yes-turd- by majorities ranging from 2,402 to 13,100. LUCIANO DEFENSE BEGINS. Malljone Wreck liiirniiii to Tell Stnry on Stiinil, Edward Luciano, mntnrman on the Ii. II. T. train wrecked In the Malbone Street tunnel with a loas of ninety lives, will go on tin standu und till his slory of the rugedy, ll was an- nounced ut Mineolit tO'diiy ly lilk toiin set, Patrick E. Callahan who ninde h'x epenlng statement for the defeimu this afternoon. Luciano Is charged with manslaughter and the trial Is being held In the Su- preme Court at.Mlneola. The Stale retted y. VOTES OF WOMEN SWELL WETS' BIG CHICAGO mm Three Out of Five Again?t Dry Proposal Thompson Re-elect- by 17,600. CHICAGO, April 2. The pro- nounced wet vote in tho election here yesterday was said by \personal lib-ert- leaders to mark tho actual be- ginning of n campaign to repudiate national prohibition. Tho wet vote was 391,200, the dry 144,032. Four out of every five men vot- ed wet, and three out of every five women did the same. Tho oie was divided aa follows: No Mar, 236,529 woman, 124, 731. Yes Men, 67,707; women, 76,325. Tho Trades Union Liberty Leoguo Issued tho following statement regard- ing the wet and dry vote: \Through the overwhelming defeat of tlm drys, Chicago has spoken In tones that will ring In the curs of thoso subservient lawmakers who have so cravenly surrendered the lib- erty of American citizens nt tho dicta- tion of a clique of paid Prohibition lob- byists. Thero will now be no let-u- p In tho protest against Prohibition tyranny unui mo rrceuom or tno people has been rully restored to them. This Is tho messjgo Chicago sends to Con- gress.\ On the other hand, 15. J. Davis, Chi- cago Superintendent of tho Antl-Halo- League, said: \I am not surprised at the result. We made no tight and asked no one to voto for n. dry Chicago. To hnvo done so would have been to dishonor tho acts of Congrefi. The efforts of Chicago wet to uso Chicago results in an effort to terrorlro Congress und tho Supremo Court Is llttlo short of seditious'.\ Hud tho dry won Chicago saloons would have been forced to close May 1. Interest In tho result of tho wet and dry voto dwarfed even Interest In tho Mayornlty election. Complete returns showed Hint Wlllluin Hale Thompson (llcpubll-enn- ), was Muyur by a pluiallly of 17,600 over Itobcrt M. Sweltzcr (Democrat), his nearest competitor. Tho total voto for Mayor wns i;SS,3Gl out of a registration of 702,000. At tho Mil) orally election four years ago, Thompson defeated Sweltzer by more thnn 147,000 votes. Analysis of tho Mito for Major In- dicates that Hoyne, present State's Attorney, drew heavily from the normal Republican vote, whllo 1'itz-pntrlr- k cut Into tho Democratic vote. 1'olluwJng are the figures for tho Miijoraity candidates: Thompson 257,888 Sweitzer 240,283 Hoyn 110,898 Fitzpatrick 54,467 Collins 23,104 Carms 1,715 The Aldermanlu returns show the elimination of Socialists from the City Council, every candidate! of tho party in the thlrty-on- o wards in which that party piesentcd candidates being beaten. Tho total Socialist vjle was less than 25,000, whereas last fall It was 65,038 und two years ago 102,086. Whole Itepiilillcnn Tlel.et ln In M. I.iiiilo. ST. Ltll'IS. April 2 The entire 1' I' t w its Irtnrioim at '8 iiiiiniLip.il t lection, acmrding to compleie iiiiotlKlal tuturiis Pifldrnt of thu Hoard of Aldermen and fourteen members of thu board were voted for. TAKK IIKI.I.ANS IIKI-OII- MKAtH (Pd lie list loed dUmlea ntiii ru (mI. &SVL FRANK T TO Strikes in Germany I lave Only Slightly IHxtended, Berlin Reports. MOULIN, April 2. The forces ot Law and Order are y the rom-ple- te masters of tho situation nt Frnnkfort-on-thc-Val- Tho lnbor organization of the city. Frankfort advices stnte, has ranged Itself on tho side of the authorities and placed the organization at their disposal for the prevention of disturbances. When attempts to plunder In tho Altstadt quarter were renewed prompt action suppressed thu '. Twolvn of tho wouid-b- o plunderer1 wero killed. Of theso dozen letlms four were women. Reports show that the strikers at Ksscn and llochuni have only slightly extended, liecause of the cutting off of tho gas supply tho food kitchens In Hoohum have been unable to servo any meals since noon on Tuesday. LONDON. April 2. Hoveral hun- dred persons wfM-- killed In further rioting at Frankfort-on-llm-Mni- n yesterday, according to a Copenhagen desputcli to tho Exchange Telegraph Company. The hotels of tlm r.lty were plundered during tho disorder. In the fighting at .Stuttgart ye.slcr-da- y, tho inessago adds, n violent crowd attacked tho Town Hall, which was occupied by Government trootm. The crowd, however, wns beaten off, Frankfort Is reported without water or light. FItANKFOItT, Tuesday, April 1 (A soclatcd Press). Itlotlng broke out hero again tills afternoon. Tho mob plundered tho provision stores. All tho available military forces wore rushed to tho cccno of tho d'sordcrs. PAIU8, April 2 (Associated Presi). A desputcli from Zurich stutes that In the riots at Frankfort on Monday eleven persons wcro killed and twenty-flv- o wounded. Tho police havo made 400 arrests in connection with thu disorders, It Is sold. In tho Kuhr llasln tho number of strikers Is estimated at 50,000. Thero havo been riots In Wurttemborg. The Matin says that u general strlko Is going on at Herlln, being as serious as tho uno recently called In that city. UklKLIN, April i (Associated Press). In a collision between strik- ers and Government troops at Hutt-ga- rt on Tuesday t.ireo persons wero killed and many others wounded. I'ho demonstrators wero ovcntuully IU. !crsed und order restored. Tho labor leaders in Stuttgart havo declared a general strike there. Almost all the labor forccH of Ger- many aro either striking 0r threaten- ing to strlko as a result of agitation carried on by Independent .Socialists and .Spartlcldes, who aro succeeding In their efforts to induce workers to make Increasingly impossible de- mands. Thu situation nverywhoro Is considered! serious and it Is said that tho u I in of the Kpnrticldcs In purely political, having as its object thu overturning of tho present govern- ments and tho establishment of .Sanguinur engagements liavi oc- curred at Kastrop, In WcMphulia, to tho Tageblatt. A procos- - (Continued on Second Page.) PARIS REPORT COUNCIL PEACE COUNCIL OF SETTLING ITS BROUGHT END; HUNDREDS KILLED IN LENINE PROPOSA L FOR PEACE PLACED BEFORE COUNCIL Much Secrecy About It in Paris, but Allies Are Con- sidering Document. PAULS, April 2. Thero Is now be- fore the Pence Conference a definite and concrete proposal from the Hus-sln- n Government for cessation of hos- tilities, hearing Premier Lenlno's signature. There Is also authoritative Informa- tion that Karl Kautsky, German Radical, Is now In Moscow trying to arrange a formal alliance between Germany nnd Russia. In tho light of these two facts, the peace delegates aro giving moro thought to Russia than the dally olll- - 'clnl communiques Indicate. Hecrccy surrounds tho Ixmlne pro-- posal, but It i.i known that it offers a wuy to end hostilities between tho Russian and Hrltlsh Governments. How America Is affected it Is Impos- - sible to uscertnlu. Thero appears to be an opportunity to break at tha I outset the rapidly forming Holshovlk front Russia nnd Hungary, and with Germany, and possibly Roumanla and .Serbia. Another important factor La that medlrul men aro becoming greatly alarmed at possible spread of thu typhus epidemic westward frnm Rus- sia. Thirty or forty thousand of Oio es- timated population ot a million In Petrograd aro now In hospitals. Sev- enty thousand arc seriously 111 In their homes. Ileyond tho written documents, Lenlno is said to bu ready to osKitro for nil formor Ruj-sln- n territories which desire to break away from the Soviet Govern- ment. It is understood ho will also promiso tlio Allies to abstain from propaganda work III the Allied coun- tries, taking the view that tho bejt propaganda will bo actual success of tho Soviet system of government. RAID ON U. S, ARSENAL THWARTED IN PITTSBURGH Army Officers Report Four Men Who Tried to L:nter Fled in Auto. PITTSIIt lUlll. Ph.. April 2 tec- - tlv- wen- - rushed to th United Htutea Arsennl Ik iii this afternoon In response to a rlnt cull. Army olllcers said that four men who hud attempt) d to open tile nrsennl gnte eeape In an antoinobll\ n few mlnuti-- liofoi.' tin1 pollre arrived. Follow InK closely on the arrest last night r Wltllum MyeUft, ulleged tk lender, and the subriquent rev- elation of a plan to seize the arsenal here. Federal HUthorltlvs regard tho at-t- i mpt to-- d to enter the Government probity as vlunltlcnt KING ALBERTTOSEE WILSON. PAItlH. April 2 King Albert, who arrived hern from lirui sets In an a:.'-pl- tterd.iy, is expe.HeJ to confer rtith President Wilson the Utters Impending trip tj HcUiuru. Albi'it onlVrro'l with President Potn-eur- o this inoiulng mil s ci'liedulcd to meet I'roni.er Clcuicneeau tills after-nou- n TAKK IIKI.I.-AN- H IIKrOKG ME.tI.9 snd So- - list ioixJ dljMiwe taikit mu liu. SPEEDS KNOTTY Foch to Notify Germans He Will Not Stand for Any Trickery at Danzig or Elsewhere Wins \Big Four Over to His Views on RhineFrontier PARIS, April 2 (United Press). Final decisions upon the most lm portant questions liefore the Peace Conference will be reached before Saturday, according to the belief expressed to-da- y in official quarters. Marshal Foch is expected to make plain to Mathias Erzberger at Spa that the Allies wifl stand for no trickery of any sort at Daridf or any other place. In tho light of recent events, the pcaco delegates apparently are Im- bued with tho necessity for speeding tip their wotk to prevent further loss of prestige, which would facilitate German attempts at haggling and sidestepping In Versailles. Foch, It Is believed, has won over tho \Illg Four\ to his Ideas regarding settling tha Rhino question elimin- ation of nil military works on the left bank and within a zone of 50 PEACE DELEGATES TO VISIT DEVASTATED REGIONS OF FRANCE Special Train to Take Them in a Body to Lens, Arras and Other Cities. April 2 (Associated PAR.I8, Tho Fronc Gov- ernment has Invited oil delegates to the Pence Conference to visit tho devastated regions of Northern France on Sunday. It Is planned to tako tha delegates to tho former battle zone on a train which will leavo I'nrlj Sat- urday night, going to Lens, Arras nnd other cities In tho coal nnd manufacturing centres which suf- fered from tho war. Members of the American delegation will go, but It Is as yet unknown whether President Wil- son will be one of tho narty. MAKE ALIENS PAY INCOME TAX ON LEAVING COUNTRY U. S. Officials Stop Leak in Rev- enue by Change in Passport Rules Many Stopped. Uncle Ham Is stopping a leak by which he, has lost money In the last two months through permitting sllens to depart from this country without pay- ing their I lieu n i tux. lly nn arrangement betwen the Mate Department and tho Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue a new plan of issuing passports la now being put Into operation, under which tlie Stato Department refuses to Issue n passport to anybody who does not show his tax receipt. Major Daniel L. Porter, who enmo hero March 18 as Suporvlstor of the In- ternal Revenue Agents of thu New York Division with 300 Investigators under him, Is rounding up a big sum by stopping aliens who wish to leave the country. Many of theiie are of tho clajr'hat' has made fortunes out of the wa'ros- - purity of this country. Kven thjf '.bor- ing clusscs, which nro largely eprn- - sented in the crowd of perhi 2,000 i gatherid st the Custom House havo made in war wages enough to put iitriu wi-i- , ui tlHIUUK lliusu rho should pay Income tax. It ou can kv mousy )ou can Invsil while ynu 4Vr. Ask for lurllcuUr. or I'urtlul I'uiiiient I'lnii, John Mulr .1' l'u.. SI 11 way. Advt. ran woetu rnxvm. ntmaic, Asm. Pulltsar fWarld) Bai'ets. s rift no, x, r. air. TMlMn mwi 4000. ss4 IraMllsa' sls.-CJ- :5 PARIS WORK : POINTS kilometers (31 miles) on tho right bank. An agreement icema to have, been reached that France shall haV the right to exploit tho entire S&iir Valley, aa compensation for destruc- tion of mines In Northern France. The Sanr region probably will t controlled under special regulations to bo Incorporated In (ho final .treaty. Information received boro In offi- cial circles Indicates Germany is more in tho mood to sign the treaty than she was even four days ago. It Is believed Foch wilt Increase this Inclination. ., Tho President's plain speech to kvlf colleagues late Monday Is aJsojbe-lleve- d to havo resulted In clarlic- - tlon of tho situation, making It clear lt,ut tho pcopl of lha varlu luuiiirica expect concrete rcauiu from now on. LABOR COMMISSION COMPLETES DRAFT OF INTERNATIONAL RULI$ Bach Country to Have Four Dele- gates, Twxj of Whom Are to be Named by Governments. ' PARIS, April 2. The report of.ljjie commltteo on International labor ' legislation to tho Poaco Conference Includes tho draft of a convention creating a permanent International labor commission. Tho convention, contains forty. ono articles, the mre Important of which aro as follows\:) Tho permanent' organization shall consist of a goncral la'jor conference and an International labor office,-- Tho conference shall meet at lea!, once a year; oftcner If necessary. It shall lio composed ot four repres- entatives of each country, of which two shall bo Government dolegatea, ono representing active labor and ore tho employers. Objections wore voiced by thV American, French, Italian and Cuaan membea of the committee to ,tho, preponderance of Governmental rep- resentation. JAPAN HOLDING OUT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY Uaron Makino Says Nation Is Too Proud to Accept Inferior Place. V PARIS, April 3 (Associated Press) Asiaiio nation coum tu nappy In a league of Nations In which sharp ra cial discrimination Is maintained. Uaron Makino. head of the Japanesa delegation to tho Peace Conference, de- clared in A statement to the Acjoclatt4 Press y on the position of Japan: \Wo aro not too proud to tight,\ the Huron said, .\but we are too proud to accept a place of admitted Inferiority In dealing with one or more associate nations. Wo want nothing but slmplV Justice.\ Japan does not wlslu he continued; to force her laborers as Immigrants' erf any associated countries and reccgnlie that thl question Is. one for each natlgf wj ataj whs iiawi. i . f t J . i
