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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 1

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Bifi MM: BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SI IOWERS TONIGHT i FRIDAY. INCREASING SOUTH AND WEST WINDS. rnnperlure today, 12 58 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920. 26 PAGES.

THREE CENTS. JERSEY CITY R. R. GERMAN SLEUTHS USE URPLANE TO HUNT DOWN TRAFFICKERS IN MONEY BRITAIN AND FRANCE IN DEADLOCK OVER GERMANY; ENTENTE'S FATE IN BALANCE MEANS DEFEAT OF DEMOCRATIC WETS Made Dry Fight in Nebraska Against Hitchcock's Wine and Beer Platform. WILSON'S BULGARIAN PORT PLAN REJECTED France Demands the Right to Employ Force, and Situa- BY SUPREME COUNCIL By WTTHK WILLIAMS.

lMa LcHai-r; rfyrluf 1920 Fan Renin, April 22 Kirk Kllissr and Adrianople, which President Wilson wanted for Bulgaria, are to tie given to C.reece. while Bulgaria, deprived of the former port of Dedea-Bach, may still uai that port, which is to be governed by commission composed of one Greek, one Bulgar, one Briton, one Frenchman and one PHILIPPINE DEMOCRATS READY TO FIGHT FOR ISLANDS' INDEPENDENCE Manila. P. March 10 (By Mail.) The Democratic party of the Philippines will Join the Naclonallsts party in Hie demand for immediate independence of the Philippines, even using the force of arms, if It becomes Tcdoroa Sandiko, only member of the Democratic party In the Philippine lay. GUARD KILLS ANOTHER AT BUTTE, TROOPS TO QUELL STRIKE RIOT Butte, April 2J Hugh B.

Haran, a guard in front of the Daily Bulletin, said to be the organ of the Metal Mine Workers Union No. 800, I. W. was shot and killed today by Joseph Papst, another guard. Papst, said tho shooting Spokane, April 22 A de George Wright today for Butte, Mont, to which point they were, ordered as i SPAIN IS ON VERGE OF FAMINE IN FLOUR Madrid.

April 22 The scarcity of flour Is creating an acute situation, not merely In Madrid, but throughout Spain. The bakers of Madrid today gave notice that it was impossible to continue baking profitably owing to flour. The government has decided to requisition all flour mills, work 1 the bakers In order to see the millets have been makin profits. Bread now sells at th MISSING: 1 LAWYER'S HAT happened ill lb. l'lathlish Court today as follows: Senator Gilchrist, who had appeared bad diaaDDcarcd and that he his possession somebody else's hi There action to making iaw Die So" the" of how the judicial ot from the Maglstr DENOUNCES PICKPOCKETS Declaring that plckjockets are the meanest kind of criminals and that there is great doubt of one ever reforming, Judge Joseph F.

Mulqueen in General Sessions today refused to hear plea from Jacob Kramer. 19, of 224 Mar i he 1 ICcfoi I AUSTRIA EAGER FOR U.S. PROTECTORATE; AID IMPERATIVE Country Headed for General Smash Reaction to Bolshevism Feared. Geneva, April 22 Austrian patriots here whose democratic convictions are above suspicion urge that an Allied Power, preferably America, assume a protectorate over Austria to save her from herself and imminent ruin. They the 'rights of peoples to govern themselves, but the Austrlans don't know how to govern themselves and they must be taught first by somebody who Austria is being irretrievably ruined iptcd, but when It col- ia will become the prey of either dshevist or monarchist reaction un-ss the United States or another estern Power takes control In time id guides the bewildered Austrians the path of democracy.

These innngs do not exaggerate. Since the war ended the chief acuity of the Socialist rulers has con-ded of periodically raising the sal-ies of all the State employees and livm tely. This story until today the a point where something ts Like Auto Riding. Hapshurg rule each the todas Rentier's Socialist cabinet in Vienna lias three cars at his disposal. The today costs 1,000,000 crowns a year (a crown is normally fifty cents).

That is only one instance of the way in hich Austrian Socialist ministers are squandering (be nation's money In the midst of appalling distress and financial bankruptcy. In such circumstances the monarchist is inevitably gaining ground. The Austrian monarchist exiles in Switzerland arc lately displaying in- TRIVOULIDAS WILL RUN IN OLYMPIC MARATHON Boston, April 22 Peter Trivoulidas of New York City, the native of Greece who won the American marathon road race here on Monday, will run at the Olympic games at Antwerp next summer. Should the fact that representing the United States, ho will be sent to carry the colors of Greece. Announcement to this effect was made today by fellow countrymen of the Hellenic Association of Boston.

Trivoulidas plans to renew in New York today or tomorrow his application for first papers which was refused because he could not speak the NO WORD FROM MARS April 22 catch a sig Frederick and Harvey STRIKERS DEFIANT; VOTE TOSTAY OUT Reject Offer to Go Back Pending Settlement Rail Heads Obdurate. The km; Grand VI Jersey City, 1 today which, for the numbers attend- passed all that had been held at any time during the two weeks since the walkout began. Three thousand men tilled the big barn-like structure to overflowing. So great was the jam that a man fainted and was carried out. For more than a block outside the building the street was choked with men.

The meeting followed the action of the railroads yesterday in repudiating the agreement reached yesterday in Washington between the brotherhoods and the insurgent leaders. Sec Bitter Fight The railroad managers will not accede to the request of the strikers, made through the brotherhood chiefs, that the seniority rights of those who return to work be preserved until their grievances have been passed on by the Railroad Labor Board. A suggestion that the strikers return to work and remain on the job for a period of 30 days pending the settlement of their claims by the Railroad Labor Board was quickly voted down by the "outlaws" at Grand View Hall. Something hail evidently occurred which raised the spirits of the strikers perceptibly. They kept "jollying" the reporters and calling out to them: committee, had decided "to until the Hail I handed down a de- I leaders cannot recall work.

McIIugh ied and failed. They on the job to protect lanagers extended," 1 iske.l the men if till or to go back. They Redly, roj ri'e o'fnc'i. ns of the railroads all There that the view of tt a fight 1 hopeful a Jersey City ya rds of I he I i ie 15 locomotives "dead, us busy shining the tr tad grown rusty from disu Food Plentiful Pi tubes were still being handled by Strikebreakers today, the railroad company which operates the tubei continuing to provide an emergencj service between lower Manhattan Jersey City and Hoboken. Only a fev of the striking trainmen have re ehantshave said thaUiml'ls a "surplus of foodstuffs In the.

city now the lifting of the freight embargo hav-Ing been followed by a flood of ship ments, retail prices, for some un known reason, still remain high, the great innux or green goons apparently having had no appreciable effect. Wholesale Prices Drop. Due, it Is said, to the inability of own great nuantities of the foodstuffs nrtces in the Washington market and other places in this city on foodstuffs line spinacn, kale, lettuce a vegetables, continue to be br selling at Jl a rrel of $2 in price from yesteni thai terdin I11 i' Old a bag pota toes continued i ent of foodstuffs 8 and 29, North syivania Railroad 60 arriving cars 5 of oranges and 5 of grapefruit. erly announced." ATTACKS VICTORY HALL BILL IN BLUE AND BROWN The trouble with this overall movement is that when a man puts 'em on he may get the strike fever. When eating from your lunch box be careful not to spill anything on those new denims.

The Literary Digest is running a series of portraits of Presidential aspirants, but only one a week is published, and here's Election Day less than seven months off! Unless you wear a coat with the overalls you can't get away with "something on the hip." Newspapers not only tell us what is going on but what is going up. N. H. R. R.

STRIKE HALTS CONSTRUCTION HERE MATERIALS TIED UP Jew Building Projects Prac- tically Impossible- Builders i Hold Mfifttino- Building operations have beer most completely tied up by the road strike, as a result of which next to impossible to get There Is an embargo against move ment of lumber into the city, ant cement is being held up. It was state today that hardly 10 percent of On requirements was being received here Builders generally have given up th idea of new operations at the present though the: inue the The trou inder of 11 get laboi meeting Denial was made today that th( was any action looking to the 81 pension of work, though it was mitted that the subject of present vital 3 referred Committee of Metropolitan Strikers Will "Sit Place Blame on R. R. Heads Washington, April 22 Headed by Frank Poland, of Jersey committee representing the strikers in the metropolitan district of New York, returned to the offices of the Labor Board today prepared, they said, to "sit tight." Boland declared the men had attempted to return to ment by the fleneral Managers As- addi that they would E. Her.

pies of of th America, nee of BS percent with" timcnd If for overtime, Sundays and holi- U. Mitchell of the United En-lemen's Association of Chicago, an-unced that efforts to organize the is committees now nere would be Id today to perfect a national or- Demands of the conductors for in- DADY GETS RECOUNT lat there had been more votes than there were Voters in the Re-ican primary election of the 7th Congressional District for delegates to the National Convention was the na.de today by John J. Mc-i before Justice Lazansky in Michael J. Dady, who was 'he re I He I ri Dady's protest against providing for a of the bajlots, and the Corpora- plainod that there was no fund for ot put up a bond there would be ay of getting the recount. Dady's then consented to have his Classified Advertisements for Sunday's Eagle must be in Eagle Offices before 5:30 P.M., Saturday, to insure proper classification.

Advertisements received after 5:30 cannot be guaranteed proper classification. ambushed the ti tickers the moment they tra frrred the coins to accomplices i local hotel, where all the nir hers of the gang were arrest. BURLINGAME TAKES UP TEACHERS' SALARY BILL FOR L0CKW00D Republican Senators to Hold Important Conference on Measure This Afternoon. i Special to The Eagle. I Albany.

April Senator Ah ah W. Hurlingame, of Brooklyn, todaj took the place of Senator Charles C. I.ock-wood. in the fight for the Lock wood ichers floor of the Lockwood tig legislative projects this vhen Lockwood broke dow legislation Lockwood Lockwood sent back word that h. clt grateful for the offer, and if it wa ot asking his fellow Senator to vot gainst the dictates of his consclenc desired his aid for the Lockwood lonohuc re vised teachers salary bill.

Senator Lockwood was still con ned to his lied today. His tempera poned after rccopt that Lockwood was wood's breakdown, the chances of the bill had been excellent. Yesterday there was a. slump, however, but there Is more hope today, and although Senator Sage, chairman of the tinning his fight on the measure, Walters expressed the belief this afternoon that the Lockwood-Donohuo hill could pass the Senate. However, this mav lie upset in the G.

O. P. conference this afternoon, although Walters and Burlingame are prepared to make a strong fight for it. SIMPKIN INDICTED The additional Grand Jury today Thomas W. Slmpkins, ho on Sunday shot and killed Dr.

James Wright Markoe at St. George's Church. Man hattan, The indictment charges Simpkln with murder in the nrsi oe- snted the case to the as witnesses Her-Dr. George R. Brew- Grand Jury, bert L.

Satterh police departmen JOHNSON'S MICHIGAN VOTE Lansing, April 22 Senator Hiram Johnson's plurality 1 'residential preference primary Michigan. A pi loiinced by the oday. Ilerher GUILTY OF RIOTING jury before Judge Haskell in tho County Court today returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Matteo Blanco, 4U, of 136 Columbia std charged with rioting. Blanco is alleged to have been a member of an outlaw strike gan that created a riot last October on th Bush Docks during a longshoremen' strike. Assistant District Attorney FIRE BLOCKS TRAFFIC night in the trick building IM Kelly, del ts and cloaks.

The la not known. The ay to the adjoining occupied by ern Company. But the 'iJutterirk at i had Ion to traffic "PUBLIC'S UNION" FORMED An organization purporting to be a "growing union of middle-class people," with a "relief from class oppression" as its ultimate object, to- the limelight in the County Court House in Manhattan through an application for articles of Incorporation which was approved by The The Public Inc. RESERVES BUS DECISION he application of Job Hedges as re Lvdon. In Pan I.

Spc lal Term Sure me Court, in Manhattan, directed the attorney to file all papers by Friday, April 20, and reserved de- tion Seems Drifting to the Shoulders of Marshal Foch. Britain Concedes Her Inability to Cope With Issue. Nitti in Forgiving Mood Toward Germany. BY wythf: wiiii ground upon which to force Ger. disarmament and the execution Treaty of Versailles.

Within the Ihrce days that balance must crux of the entire oi 'tire. Kf form the i ins at the Turkish the Ruhr distri, t. if In that case con gatherd at San Jietn ing the final chapter Situation Drifted Toward ixx-h. N7, le VS' 'he other While the situation more defln- th" ll'c whrr' and iiose name is Foe), The Hrilish iv, r0nced summon and their than later, in shoulder on. In other iuite likely she hl.

ahi'p will it. for ,1 Kngland is admittedly The I.ragui quest 'for'inft The Brooklyn Eagle from Paris that bro il I-ran. and Gr. at Hritain shall indeed bave an outlet to the Black Sea at Return, but that the same shall be a free port shared by two other republics As that case was disposed of In confer, nee. the news received hra by Armenian delegates is to the effect Allien lelChb.i Mlgh tO ited to re.

The i the confer theb presence of the 'r former if the future and ccon. in Germany productive of I representations ot P-. Ml Imatelv convinced the Italian and British Premiers that they had taken the wrong view, and it was decided that discussion of the German problem should he confined to the members of the Supreme Council. dated Press i The official statement on questions regarding the adtnlnistra Hon of the Dardanelles Straits. Th.

council approved the insertion oi clauses relating to this matter in th Turkish Peace Treaty. The councl Your Eagle Bureau, 1 Colorado Built BRA1XKRD. Washington. The co i J. Bryai ebraska.

according to the later primary returns, is a heavy blow for those who would write a liberal or openly wet plank in the Democratic National platform. Politicians here believe that it sounds the knell for any attempt to break down National Prohibition this year. Bryan is the most conspicuous Prohibition politician In the country, lie made a "dry" fight candidate for dele- 11 hat Bryan himself will go nates. It is admitted here omplete returns might chole Bryan ticket. Even ictory of Bryan is the pro Aryan's candidate for Natic ive defeated Arthur IT.

Mullen, the Mullen ran as an open and avowed r. machine in Nebraska and kept out of the national convention the Jackson Day banquet in Washing- wit a i n. mi ion, thai possessed to smashh He had the backing Administration. Set Nat jo hand: end of to on Bryan raged. Rffh Hitchcock stood on a light wine ai beer platform in his candidacy for tl Presidential indorsement, Mullen ra lied all the wet interests in the Stal Administration supporters, lrrespecti of their views on prohibition, got I Bryan has havi State four years age defeated Mullen- If Thompson very close right would be a double vie t0TheBryanaIvote in Nebraska is accepted here as an evidence that thcrr is no Middle West reaction of any consequence against National Prohlbi- fir tight prospect of getting anywhc section of the United States spoke Nebraska, and the result Is in li with public sentiment throughout Central West, as it has been sounded manv impartial While it is not considered at probable that Bryan can force convention to adopt a plank indoi ing the Eighteenth Amendment a assured' that lie 'will 'be able to he off the "wet" drive from the Fa TILDSLEY RAISES COLOR BAN FROM G.

H. S. SENIOR PROM Protests From Parents of Colored Girls Move School Offi- senior class at Girls' High School voted today 71 to 6 to hold its prom tomorrow night at the Hotel Marge and to admit the six colored girls the class. When plans for the da that thev would not be permitted attend because the hotel people did not want them In the bail room. William B.

DuBols, editor of Crisis, is the father of one of colored e-irls When he learned action of her classmates, he started out to ascertain the reason for the discrimination. He with Dr. Owen Waller, Dr. Roland R. Johnson, D.

Macon Webster, George E. Wlbecar, and the Rev. George F. Miller, rectot went to see Dr. William L.

Felter, the principal, and claim mat iney goi Next thev visited Superintendent hools William L. Fttinger on Tin iv and according to the commit) was astounded when be learned of me facta in the case. nr. r.ttmgcr as signed Dr. Tildsley, who la in charge of high schools, to look into the mat- -tirerence with i r.

reiter yesierciay. told the principal that if the col-red girls were not invited to atlend th. dance the function must he called off. order of Dr. Tildslev was put the girls this morning and It left to them to decide whether former course.

Mr. Dubois said today that his daughter would attend the dance, but that he could not speak far Girls' High this year than usual be- iiu colore a people are making money than they did formerly dren continue In school. of the prom, a theater party be held DROP TREASON CHARGE IN CAILLAUX TRIAL; HE WILL ESCAPE DEATH The Intelligence with the former Premier Joseph Court of the Senate today by a vote of 213 to 2S. This eliminated the possibility of the death penalty by being la- had pleaded guilty to! sole a handbag from Miss "usslon of tl In Paris a Dinner Coat Is a "Smokanj" President Deschanel Goes "Footing' Susan Maltz of 934 Bronx. The Judge law in this I Bolshevist the diceof this fellow Kra that.

When a Frenchma mixed company after da doesn't dress up at all a regular split-tall coat "costume du soiree." One of the perquisites I he either i calls it back to The rench Preslden Iking, i ly, Just like anybody else. The Pari press blossomed out with stories abou a president who loved the "footlnc There is no French werk for "walk You can "go on your feet" marcho a pled) In but you can't walk. Footing n.itnrallv would he nro. footing, jus So I ng which ret into a rl a boxing." thev If it is an open "meeting publi.pi.-. 1 lanj publlque.

ear a smokanj iiigS ii footing" Oc-aMi to a dansanj. It Is always all right, i however, to wear a smokanj to i 1 1 63 Rue Camboi Bv GtTV HICKOK. ris, April 10 Mall I "English spoke here" has long been a well- Americans visiting Paris this year ill find that English is "spoke" dif ferently from at "home and they will I also a queer, hybrid vocaouiury irn the back-wash of the A. E. V.

that nnither English nor Krcnch. Just as American restaurants and hotels have for years struggled wit vice cards, so the French are strui. with English with queer results. The Dansant" from the French Is almost an English expression now Brooklyn. But it Is out of fashion m't find their own language quite piessive enough.

They call an noon dance a "dancing" and mnce it dansanj. So Instead of ilng to a dawnsawnt you go dansanj, if you arc that sort of a If yo just a out to a smoker for lone men you wear what tl York theater program fashii rt calls a dinner coat. But both the coat and the party and you p- going i smokanj." available piece of real property in marie a Consistent light against Victory Hall proposition, headed by lint In Brooklyn Edltt smokanj get me? but only on veriYih nm special occasions should you wear a txti. smokanj to a meeting, -aw..

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