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j T S N E W , Y w l - - A p v e a n 1“ ■M i l * * ? S Z . i n g P«P<ra THE ADVERTISER-JOURNAL COMPLETE DAY REPORT OF TH E ASSOCIATED P E E S S AUBURN; N. Y.. .TUESDAY, MAY 11,. 1920 AMERICANISM Also Means “Aubumism”—If Yon'r® Loyal to Your Counti., You’ll Be Loyal to Your City PRICE THREE CENTS jport Carranza Not Yet Prisoner but ^Staiiding at Bay Near Puebla— ■ebels R Capture Fleeing President's Military Train and Whole Treasury —All Quiet in Mexico Gity With Huerta at Head ' • ! . < ’ . ' •' ' ' • n iitnn May 11.— The revolutionary government in Mexico will ask EJ^STreeosmtion by the American government. to this end already hae been inaugurated by the revolution- w h ich has its headquarters in the state of Sonora, where thel ^ f l r s t was launched. (B Y TH E . ASSOCIATED PR E S S ) ■Me the »dvices coining through from Mexico on the revolutionary sit- latere i» fragmentary- and conflicting they cast considerable doubt on (fet president Carranza has been made a prisoner. 4 Crui dispatch from the newspaper E l Dicatamen, a member of The kttd Prws ’ bearing Monday’s date, declared the fugitive president of making an effort to reach V e r a Cruz had broken through rtvtluJkmary lines and was standing at bay with 40,000 men at San ms, 27 miles north of Puebla. - 0 b the other hand, the revolutionary leaders along the border are still that Carranza has been made a captive, naming the place of his cap- m a Mint*naur Apizaco, in the state of Hidalgo. These reports, however, » few details of the capture except to declare that the entire convoy had lakes with the president, that three generals who were with him, Gen- Murpa, Orquizo and Barragan, had been executed and another general J v V '3 ' A U\, *• It' • V v S '• * ' / -V V i M ~ r 1 '• BY U. S tlie over- that safe was added that President Car- i hid been ordered returned to ;ico City with a l l ' consideration ’that none of bis party w a s to be j or mistreated. Ytn.Cnu Goes Over to Rebels. would appear, however, even i f nsu is still at liberty, that bis ,tiou latotding to the V e ra Cruz Is ^ precarious. I t is- ata- tlit. government troops in Obi have deserted th e ir com- ,' 1 Gen.,Candiclo - Aguilar, inwrof; the-state, and gone the revolutionists, • m a k ing i ipparently uio -longer a ige lor the' fugitive 'presiden t -in M od , revolutionary forces under lends Hill and Torino w e r e report- dosing in'on Carranza near ' San rcos. Other‘ reports declared than 'al Aguilar, Carranza’s son-in-law lost Us life in the fighting in •a Crnz state. M exico C ity dis- t e report the situation there as it vrith the troops of Getaeral Obre- in full possession. A l l M e x ico in , with the exception o f a fe w local- i is deelated to be iu the hands of Tie overturn has been effected with, e bloodshed, all advices indicate, dentally it is asserted the rovolu- leaders desired to brin g about tage in Mexico's foreign policy dss to the advancement o f friendly .with other powers. I 1 | era Grub, May 11 .— President Car- x whose train was stopped at by revolutionary forces on has succeeded in breaking Bgb the Kjbd lines and lias come iu« nearer this city, according to itches.- Soldiers m obilized at ;ca.aad Puebla have been sent to Marcos and three trainloads o f ^’\]®IPS 5 lave been sent fro m here in the operation. I to(Rnle from Vera Cruz. “Probes indicate President Car- ^e fled from M e x ico City, of ftp revolutionary in this state, arid planned » » « a stand here at the head of rf&““thereta dlticipa- M«xic3in soldiers, red S ° , y” aiKl customs officials ia t 11*.\*1* from Tampico citvtfiT^; \500- l5av‘ng fled to 'ontrol a/ « !anuel Pr,lara ^ad tak ing nf Hv town T h e y lenew ?f »tiecon^t?Uati° n in LhC inter' ie ^r0” ' ^ ‘ ^ D e s troyer. I hore u T 1 ^ Rtro-vor which ar- Z ‘1uI nf>r- firp '1 swlnte tchanwvi W,n ' command- *5whS\'i“' City. a n ^ D a n J .0 ria E1 Paso u and Dallas, Texas. M a y 10.— dats w e a t h e r f o r e c a s t . May 1L_ VVcst. *ew York; Unsettled, prob- Sb<n,'ers tonjgiu and Wed- _ y; °»derate north to ^ tsad5- TEJIPERATURES: S*-'do^,DePL 5 Thermom«ter.) ^anun, \ ........... 30 47 Son rises L i ......... 41 41 (B y the Associated P r e s s ). — Mexico City w a s today quiet w ith water, liglit and p o w e r services in fu l l operation. General Jacinto Trevino to whom Gen eral F o r tu n a to Ziuzua surrendered the national ca p ita l has been named mili tary com m a n d e r of the city. The captu r e o f a C a rranza m ilitary train c a r r y in g mans; m illions of pesos is expected .to relieVe the threatened money shortage in M x ico C ity: The sudden advance in the p r ice of food stuffs is th e only alarm ing' feature in the situation here. Could H a v e Take Capital Before. General .Obregon told American guests tod a y that he could have taken M exico G ity a week e a r lier but pre ferred to w a i t and g ive President Car ranza a chance to resign and avoid all disorder an d bloodshed. Throughout the en tire rebel m ovement, he said, there b a d been virtu a lly no bloodshed and d isorder in any p a r t o f the coun try. - A ll rep o r ts received here bear out General O b regon’s contentions that the ideal o f the Lib e ral revolution had been to a v o id fighting and to bring about a p e a c e ful change in govern ment an,d to later hold fr e e elections. The m o s t stressed point o f the revolu tionary lead e r s was that the revolu tion w a s a m o ral one against imposi tion by C a r r a n z a o f a regim e under his own p residential candidate. Revoltuion on Last Legs. E l Paso, Texas, M a y 11..— Officials of the new revolutionary p a r t y in virtual control o f M e x ico today maintained that th e revolution is in its final stages, so fa r as active figh tin g is con cerned, despite latest reports that President Carranza w a s making a stand a f t e r -having broken through the rebel lin e s n e a r Puabla. Foreign industry and capital in the developm e n t o f the country’s resources was w e lcom e d in a statem ent in which lives and p r o p e r ty w e re promised pro tection. Americans Irtvited to Mexico. Nog&les, A r iz., M a y 11.— Cordial in vitations to foreign business men, es pecially Am e ricans, to com e to Mexico and engage in trade and to Moxican expatriates to return to th e ir native land w a s extended today in a state ment issued by Eimilano Tam e z , com m ercial a g d a t fo r the L/ibetral Consti tutionalist P a r t y at N o g a les. Senor Tam ez said he was sipeaking fo r the revolutionary government. BAIUSVI WANTS U. 8. W a shington, M a y 11 .— A resolution requesting President W ilson to send and A m e rican warsibip'and marines to Batum, on the Black Sea. to protect Am erican liv e s and property at that port and alon g the railroad to Baku wag reported unanimously today by. the Senate Foreign R e lations Com mittee. Long Silence in Russia \Strange” Paris, M a y 11.— The E iffe l tower wireless station ' reports th a t no mes sages h a v e been received ' from the Bolshevik station at M o s c o w since 2 o’clock M o n d a y afternoon. A s the Soviet govern m e n t has in the past made lib e r a l use o f w ireless, the Jour nal says th e silence is “stran g e / CHOSEN EXECUTIVE ORYS POUNCE ON BUTTERMILK AS ALCOHOLIC <$><$•<£»*$><$><$> <$><i><$><^<?> ^ <5> <$><$> ^ <$><£ <£ «> WHOLE REGIMENTS I OF SMITHS HELPED I I WIN THE W A R f <*> ------------ • <»> W a shington. M a y 11 — Smiths “§> made up l.-> regiments in the ^ Am erican w a r arm j. Johnsons & <S> eleven, B rowns eight, and Wil- <3> ❖ liams, Jones and M illers seven ^ each. <S> Records at the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, where the names of 4,622,422 form e r service men ^ <§■ are indexed, also show that the <s> Washington. M ay 11.— Butterm ilk, the famous drink o f the prohibition- ists, -fnay be barred by the Volstead 1<S> Anderson and D a v is families were Law, according to Representative Igoc|<S> represented in sufficient number 3> of Missouri. M r. Igoe recently had <S> to compose more than five rogl- Washington, M a y ' 11.—With p r a c t i cally all of M e x ic o dominated by r e v o lutionists official in t e r e s t here s h i f t e d , . . . . . T _ , , today from the m i l i t a r y phases o f th e ° i reports fro m chemists in convention at St. Louis. Tho chemists declared that in some instances butterm ilk con tained m ore than one-haif o f one per cent of alcohol,- while the Volstead Law fixes the maximum a t one-half of one per c e n t T o prevent those viola- sltuation to the escpected political d e velopments. A g e n t s of the de fa c t o rulers professed t o believe steps w o u l d be taken im m e d iately toward the e s t a b lishment of a p r o v i s i o n a l governm e n t, to be succeeded a s soon as possible b y a constitutional r e g i m e . The dispatch o f a battleship and a d ditional destroyers to southern w a t e r s suggested the d e term in a t ion o f th is government to a f f o r d the fo r e ig n e r s protection In e v e n t o f serious tro u b l e at any of the p o r t towns. - Villa at Peo-ce With Winners. While officials l i e r e considered th e revolutionary m o v e m e n t as too u n tried for judgment th e impression w a s manifest that f o r a time at le a s t it would, not have t o face the u s u a l counter revolution. illn, who ^defied Carranza so s u c c e s s fu lly , was re p o r t e d to have mnde p e a c e w ith the w i n n e r s ; Manuel Palnoz, r u l e r o f the oil reg io n s , was said to h a v e jo i n e d in the m o v e ment without r e s e r v a t i o n and th e r e r e mained no o u t s t a n d in g reb e lliou s figure. The possibility th .a t some on e o f Carranza's loyal o f f i c e r s might fill th e role of rebel w a s suggested, a lth o u g h revolutionary a g e n t s 'asserted its im probability, W h a t appeared f o r a time to he a p o t e n t i a l discord w a s th e recent declaration o f General P a b l o Gonzales that w h i l e he was fig h t in g Carranza, lie h a d n o t agreed to su p port the general revolu tion a r y m o v e ment. But o f f i c i a l and unofficial r e ports, Im-eveiv h a v e indicated e i t h e r an understanding betw e e n him a n d tVlvaro Obregon a n d the .dom ination o f Gonzales by O b r e g - o n . Gonzales, \vas the first to enter M e x i c o City b u t r e cent reports p o i n t e d to Obregon as th e dominant figure. Huerta C h ie f Executive. I f the r e v o lu tion ists carry out th e i r program announced, in the plan o f Agua Prieta, no t i m e will be lo s t in setting up a p r o v i s i o n a l governm e n t. Under the e x i s t i n g organization. Adolfo de la H u e r t a , governor o f Sonora is the c h i e f executive, ch o s e n recently at fc m e e t i n g on tlie S o n o r a frontier as the “ p r e - p r o v ision a l” p r e s ident. ACCOMPLICE OF \HCIf” LOCATED III CHICAGO Chicago, May 1 1 - — A fter piecing t o gether thousands o f scraps of p a p e r from tlie waste b a s k e t of A r t h u r Ecremont, police d e c l a r e d today th e y had obtained e v i d e n c e establishing a n absolute connection between E c r e m o n t and “Nicky” A r n s t e 'i n , alleged le a d e r iu $2,500,000 bond t h e f t s in New Y o r k . Letters from E c r e m o n t to Carlos F e r rer, known also a s T h e o d o r e do M o r e 3 , o f Milwaukee, b o n d , salesman, w e r e pieced together. O n e of the le t t e r s made public told o f an appointm ent made by Ferrer o n January 2 w i t h ‘‘an agent of a f r i e n d ” of E c rem o n t. Police declared t h i s friend w a s “ Nicky” Arnstein. G.O,PJAYlPLIT G P u Albanv, May 11. ---- A split In the R e publican party in t h i s state is th r e a t ened over tho c a n d i d a t e for govern o r . This was brought t o lipflit by the c a l l of George Glynn, s t a t e chairman, f o r an unofficial sta te convention to b e held in Saratoga n e x t /Vugust to designate a com p lete state ticket a n d by tlie notice w h ich Francis M. H u z o , Secretary of State h a s sprved on th e leaders that he w i l l run in the p r i maries for the ren o m in a t ion w h e t h e r or not. Mr. Hugo has f o r years been i n dustriously building: u p a personal m a chine which he h o p e s w ill land him in the governor's c h a i r , and he is th e only one of a dozen o r more candidates now in the field w h o has fluns d o w n me cnuiieuge 10 u.itr tU/punTTcan leart- ers that lie will f l s h t fo r the nom in a tion. called on th e Department o f Agricul- tuie for an opinion and the rep ly he obtained le f t him flabbergasted. “ I f butterm ilk contains m o re than one-half o f one per cent, o f alcohol, clearly it does not continue to be but termilk,” stated the D e p a rtm e n t of Agriculture. “ I f butterm ilk really turns out to bo a prohibited drink,” said M r. Igoe, “ the enforcem e n t officers to do their duty must go to the farm s and confis cate- the cows, tho barns and the dairy utensils. Som ething would have to be done by Congress to save butterm ilk for the nation.’ <S> ments each, and the Wilsons, ^ ^.M o o r e s and Taylors four each. <£• GERMANS REDUCE TROOPS Coblenz, M a y 1(X— Allied military authorities w e re notified today by tho After som e reflection M r. Igo e de- i German governm ent that the number clared that if it was determ ined but- ■o f tro°PS in the Ruhr region by tonight termilk did contain more than one- wou,d ho cut down to the units nuth- half of .one per cent o f alcohol he orizod under the agreem ent reached at would introduce an amendment to the Paris lnsfc August. T h e Germans inti- RADICALS SHOUT FOR REAL, RED SOCIALISM « __ Socialist Party May Split Over Plat form—Illinois Delegation Wage War on “Conservative” - Leaders —Declare for “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”— Want Radical Prin ciples in 1920 Platform Volstead L a w to exempt the beverage from the prescribed class. U. 8. FLYERS TOOK PART III KIEV DRIVE arsaw, M a y 9.— (B y the Associated -Press).— B o lshevik forces are m a k ing a stand on the east bank o f th<^,Dnieper' in the region o f .Kiev, and an .artil: lery battle is raging north aud south of that city. Polish -and Ukrainian troops found when they reached K iev that two o f the three • b ridges across the Dneiper h a d been dytnainited. ----------- ! American*! Take Part in Drive. Warsaw, M a y 10:— ( B y the Associ ated, P r e s s ).— Members o f tho Kosciuszko aerial squardron, under command o f M a j. P. C edric Fauntle- roy, o f Chicago, took a prom inent part hi the air lighting, which resulted in the Bolshevik being drivaa ou t of K iev; The Am ericans m ade repeated raids against Soviet forces, dropped bombs along railroads and, flyin g low, .turned their m a d iine gun's upon the Bolshevik in fan try. Twice du r ing tho drive towards Kiev, the Am e ricans moved their head quarters inear the front. Polish Dream Realized. Warsaw, M a y 9.— (B y -the Associat ed Press).— T h e m ilitary economic and political convention signed by Poland ■and TJlrrania just betfore the opening o f the drive toward K i e v is understood h e r e to have provided fo r a Polish outlet to the Black Sea. Such a southern outlet has been a Polish am b ition dating f a r back in the national history, just as w a s a seaport on thd Baltic. Poles H o ld in g Their Own. Warsaw, M a y 10.— (B y the Associ ated Press).— Polish forces w a re en gaged Sunday in an effort to establish a bridgehead position on the east batflJc o f the Dneiper, beyond K iev, which city was taken from the Bolsheviki Saturday b y P o lish and Ukrainian troops. The crossing o f the river opposite K iev was m a rked by hand to hand fighting. T h e first Polish detachmcnt to cross the b r id g e to K iev was met near the easterly side by a Soviet dc- taehmcot. Last accounts from the Polish army, rdceived late Sunday night, said the Poles were h o lding their ground on the east bank o f the Dneiper. with considerable close infantry fighting in progress. T h e Soviet forces w e r e us- ing maelitao jm n s and continuing their artillery bombardment o f K ie v from the. hilis com manding the river dis trict for a distance of many miles. Spanish Gain in Morocco. Madrid. M a y U . - Spanish forces fighting in M o rocco have advanced about nine m iles against rebellious tribesmen and have occupied the 'Vil lage of Tlazla and tlie mountain of Klaladia. accorclrnK to advicos re ceived hero. General Rilvestre has 10,- 000 troops and a number o f airplanes. One non-commissioned officer has been killed and fo u r soldiers wounded in recent fighting, official dispatches auiLc. U. S. Envoy t o ■ J a p a n Resigns Honolulu. May H -- (B y the A s s o c iat ed Press) —Accordin'#? to the Tokio c o r respondent of the H o n o l u l u A d v e r tiser it is reported th a t R o la n d S. M o r r is, t'nited States a m b a s s a d o r to Japan , i intend-; resigning i n r l i e near future to I participate in the -presid e n tial elections jin the United S t a t e s . German Candidates D e feated. Danzig M a y 10— German candidates to tho Polish D iet in the elections which have ju s t been held, in districts o f East. Prussia and Pom erania which w e re given to Poland by the peace treaty, have m e t with a crushing de fe a t Only th r e e Germans ont o f IS candidates w e r e elected, a m a jority o f tlie seats goin g to representatives of the Polish D e m o c ratic Party. mated they expected, in consequence, w ithdraw a l o f French troops from Frankfort. An A llied commission has been appointed to visit I ho Ruhr Val ley and investigate conditions- FRANCE WILL DISSOLVE LABOR FEDERATION Paris, M a y 11.— T h e French cabinet at a m eeting today instructed Minis ter of Justice I/H o p iteau to open pro ceedings against the General Federa tion o f I/abor w ith a view to the dis solution o f the organization, which has been supporting the strike of the French ra ilw a y men by calling other strikes. Cars S t ill Operating. Paris, M a y 11.— In spite of the ap peal to the' E lectricians’ Union by the General Federation o f Labor yester day, electric supply throughout tho city seemed not to be affected this morning. A t 5 :30 o’clock trains on the subway and tho north and south systems began to run, volunteers tak ing the places o f the f e w workers who failed to report. A t 0 :30 o'clock street cars w e re operating over the main lines throughout the city. Auto-bus service seemed to bo working under similar conditions. JAPS ESTABLISH I E Washington, M a y 11. — A neutral zone between the Japanese and Rus sian troops in Eastern Siberia is being arranged by the m ilitary commanders on both sides, although there is no in tention o f erecting a buffer state or of taking any action that would amount to political recognition o f the Soviet government by Japan, according to ad vices to the Japanese embassy To preserve order in the zone it is planned to establish a Russian police force while Japanese troops w ill maintain their stations along the railroads. X e w Tork, May 11.— Demanding lim itation s of citizenship and the dic tatorship of the laboring classes, the Illin o is delegation o f the Socialist p a r t y ’s national convention today open 6 d an aggressive m inority fight fo r the \radical principles” o f inter n a tion a l sovietism hi the 1020 p la t form . Struggling to defeat the \conserva tiv e ” forces of Morris H illqu it ,1 four Chicagoans— J. Louis Engdhal, Sam uel I-I. Holland, W illiam F. Kruse and Ir v i n g 'St. John Tucker— b attled to' substitute their program f o r that given the convention yesterday by H illqu lt and his platform committee. Pream b le of Illinois Platform “ T h e Socialist party summons all w h o believe in this fundam ental doc trin e to prepare for a complete reor gan ization of our social system, based upon public ownership o f public neces sities, upon government by representa tives chosen from occupational rather than solely from geographical groups in harm ony with our Industrial devel opm ent, and with citizenship based on' service that we may end forever the exploitation of class by class.” E x p lain ing this before this conven tion opened, Engdahl declared it called fo r the limitation of citizenshp to those who gave service to the nation in c ludin g aliens and excluding native b o r n Americans who Ndid not serve. > Radical Socialism Called For “ T h is means the dictatorship of the p r o letariat,” Engdahl. said.1; \ I t < means real, red, radical S o c ialism ' such a’g ou r comrades in France, Germany, Ttussia and Italy are flgh tin g ^ o r . - 1 \ I t means that we demand that we id e n t ify ourselves .unmistakably with the principles of international Social ism ” . T h e platform itself as drafted by the. Chicagoans resembled closely that al-' rea d y suggested by the H illqu lt forces excep tin g its introductory demands. N e w Tork won the election o f A l gernon Lee to bo chairman o f the con vention fo r today. Lena M o r row Lewis o f C a lifornia, was elected vice chair - 1 man- W h e n the question o f the adoption o f a Socialist platform came up on the floor Cameron II. K ing o f San Fran cisco, moved to refer the H illq u it doc um e n t to a committee to Mput more pep in it.” T h e declaration of principles o f the T lillq u it program was ordered for first consideration and Engdahl imme d ia t e ly offered the Illin o is snbstitute, s h o r tly before noon. M o tion to refer the d r a f t o f a party platform to a com m ittee had been defeated and the H o u s e had begun considering it, “ as a convention,\ rather than a com m ittee o f the whole. T h e d r a ft o f the substitute declara tio n o f principles as offered by Engdahl proceeded the .submitting o f the m inor ity ’ s program . This substitute declara tion w a s largely a copy o f 't h e national pream b le which was amended by na tional' referendum last January, except fo r th e introduction o f paragraphs w h ich state that all power m u st be in the hands o f the workers la the transi tion a l period, in order to insure the successful overthrow o f the capitalistic system . Tlillquit Opposes Measure H i l lq u it gained the floor to oppose tlie Illin o is substitute. H e defended the declaration of principals as offered by -his forces as radical enough and suited to condition in America today. \W e may as w e ll realize that the war is over,” said Hillquit, “and th e period o f reconstruction is now upon us. W e m ight just as well talk sense for a time.” V ictor L. Berger, unseated represen tative in Congress from M ilwaukee, under a 20 -year sentence fo r viola t ion o f the espionage <fct, urged adoption o f the H illqu it platform unchanged. H e declared that fo r 40 years th e Socialist P a r ty had not talked a la n guage the people o f the country cou ld understand. Berger Wants Democracy. “ I don’t'b e lieve'in any dictatorship,\ B e r g e r said. \ I don’t believo in th e dictatorship’o f Attorney General P a l mer, Postmaster- General Burleson, o r the mobs in the northwest, or an y - Ixody els(e. I waqfc. Democracy, “n o t the dictatorship o f the proletariat. \■Why ‘I outside o f Milwaukee an d N e w Y o r k ’s Ea&t Side’ nobody k n o w s anything'about a proletariat M a y b e the _ steel trust and Sammy G om p ers know about it, but the Am erican p e o ple in general haven’t got any p r o le ta r i a t ” W e i * Hissed. Irvin g F. W eiss o f Buffalo, w a a hiseed by the galleries when he join e d with B e rger In opposing the prin c iple of. the dictatorship o f the proletariat. “ I am not in fa v o r o f this dictatorship o f 't h e prolcftarifit as-it' is in R u s s ia today,” \.Weiss-said. “Conditions in Am erica ir e differen t'from those in R u s s ia.and thoae who hiss opposition to the dictatorship o f the proletariat are.dgnorant -and,,dce>t’ know w h a t they are doing.” A. Drelfuss o f Chicago denounced H illquit and Bergwr as “playing to th e gallery,” in proyxvnventibn speeches favoring tho advent to power o f th e Russia Soviet goveiiamcnt, bat h a d discarded th e ir'“high sounding t a lk t o become conservatives here.” • Exiled Kaiser Pays No Taxes The Hague. April 20.— Decision that the form e r German crown prince and his fellow exiles shall not pay taxes has been reached by the minister of the treasury. T h e ir stay at. Wlerln- gen is regarded as being involuntary Uccouse o f their internment. Athens Plotters Get Big Sentence Ath e n s May. 11.— General Lib ritis C o lonels Derleres and Karapateas and C a p tain Kanabouvos, leaders in the p lot against the life o f Prem ier Yen isei os last December, have heed sen tenced to life imprisonment by a court m a r t in i Fifteen other officers re ceived sentences o f from 15 to 20 years in prison, and 24 suspected o f com p lic ity in the plot were acquitted. W o m en M a y Join Order Cleveland. M ay 11.— Election of of- fleers and com mittee reports consnmcL the greater part o f today’s session of the eleventh anual convention of tho Independent Orden B ’N a i B’Rith. Among resolutions presented to the e-mmittee were A proposal to change the name o f the 'organization to the International O rder o f B ’Nai B 'R ith; admission o f women on an equal mem bership basis; abolition of secret rites: to low e r the age lim it for ad mission from 21 to is. and protesting to European countries where alleged pogroms have occurred. Infcer-Chnrch Movement W a n t Tw o Hundred Million M o re C leveland, Ohio. May 11.— Field w o r k e r s o f the Inter-Chnreh W o rld M o v e m e n t, gathered here today as a p a r t o f tho Inter-Church plan to carry fm -Tcti t M U b n a g a f f i - . i f Itil.-l -<l<»nnrri'I^ na tion a l co-operation in a ll lines o f church activities. The campaign to raise $320,000,000 which closed offi c ia l l y M a y 3, was ordered extended to Ju ly ir> at a meeting last night o f the G e n e r a l Board and Executive Com m ittee Churches are to raise $220.- <> 0 0 ,0 0 0 the remainder to come from ou tside sources. It was estimated that $150,000,000 had been raised. T h e board also voted to make tlie In- , ter-Ohurch organization permanent, w ith headquarters at N e w Xork, SIMS DELAYED MINES 6 MONTHS SAVS DANIELS ■Washington, May U . —A counter charge that establishment o f the N o r t h Sea m ine barrage was delayed s i x months . because o f the opposition o f R e a r Adm iral Sim s and the British A d - m iiality, was,m a d e before the Senate N a v a l Investigating 'Committee tod a y by Secretary Daniels in presenting th e second p a r t of his reply to the o fficer’s charges that the N a v y Department had unneccessarily prolonged the w a r through failure to co-operate fu lly a t first w ith A llied N a v a l Forces. T h e barrage, M r. Daniels added, was the most effective measure that had been taken to check the submarines and w a s wholly an American idea. T h o secretary also charged that -Sims had atteiftptcd in his tekimony to rob the navy o f credit f o r this project and to give it to the British. T h e plan was conceived, he said, in the bureau o f ordnance at the N a v y Department and urged on the B ritish Adm irality for six months before i t w a s accepted. During this time, Adm iral Sims constantly opposed the idea, ho added and attempted to convey the im pression that the project bad been d e layed while the British attempted to get the American N a v y Department's approval. Sim s Robbed U. S. of Credit “ A d m iral Sims attempted to rob Am erica and tue United States n a v y of the credit o f initiating this great achievement and to give you the im pression that it was a British plan which our navy merely assisted in car rying out. though it ongnated in the Navy Department was purposed aud urged by us for half a year before w e could induce the-British Adm iralty to opprove it and although four-fifths o f i t was composed of American mines des igned and constructed in America and transported 3,400 miles overseas and In If I hr American vessels.” Mr. Daniels told the Committee. Tlie Sims charges o f unpreparedness before t i e war were not justified M r. Doniels asserted, declaring that in Ju ly 1015. he ordered the general board to study and recommend plans for a “ con sistent and progressive development ” As a result of this study the policy w a s evolved, he said, that the United m n st by 1925 have a navy equal to any other in the world. H e approved this p o licy pnd tlie direct result was the five y e a r building program o f 1916, the secretary said, an “ epoch m aking matscure,’’ .
