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' ' ''" iz . RAnfsBBfeehasBjej asBBaaaiBEBk AsjsjesAajBsttBMjg) H- jt JPvflHEHHpHH ESTED? All OUTLAW IE ADERS ORDERED AR STRIKE IS STEADILY BREAKING UP HE T0-NltHT8 WEATHER Probably showers. TO-MORROWS WEATHER Shower. mm RE 1 Get the CoifflSry 1 Back on Peace VOL. LX. NO. 21,408 Right toPasteurize and to Take Over Straus Stations Accorded. EVENING WORLD PLAN Round in Long Fight Won After All-Day Wrangle at Albany. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) . ATiTUKr, April 15. After an oil flay wnmglo tho Senate, late yester day afternoon, pas trod tho first of the milk (bills long advocated .by Tho Evening World. Tho vote op this 11111, -which gives the ,city power to purchase, pasteurize And. soil xnllk at a prico fixed toy the .Board oX Estimate and Apportion ment, Is eplo making in oovoral par ticulars. - - - It nutria the first tep toward regu lating the milk Industry and declaring milk to be a public necessity similar to (so and lectrlcity. It a tho first tlmo the Senate has laid down the princlplo that tho price til etich a necessity as milk must bo controlled toy some public authority. It la the first time a motion has (been passed this year to discharge a com mittee which refused to report a bill. And whan Senator Goorgo N. Thomp son, nponsor for tho milk bills, de manded a, closo call of the Senate, the debato that ensued strongly evi denced that tho milk interests' lobby hs been hard at work. 'SENATOR BROWN ATTACKS THE EVENING WORLD. Senator Adon P. Brown, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, which was tho committee discharged from further consideration of tho bill, Showed his displeasure iby a vigorous attack on tho bill and Tho Evening .World, which had so long advocated milk regulation, making special men tion of Sophlo Irene Loob of The Evening World staff, who has for years fought to have the Iogialaturo grve power to eomo authoritative body In regulating tho milk industry, all of .which Is not to tho liking of Senator Brown. All the New York City Senators of both parties voted for tho bill. Two Bomocrata from up State Senators Ramaberger and Mackerel voted .with their parties. Other votes in favor were those of Senators Davon port, Lusk and Fowler, Itcpubllcans. This bill, if enacted into law, will obviate any stoppago of milk, es- jecially among tbo babies and bos pltals. In periods of Shortage or strike. It will also permit tho city to ako over tho Straus milk stations, DEFEATED BILL AIMED TO NAME BOARD. Senator Thompson will next week tnovo to discharge tho committee from further consideration of a bill to reg ulate the distribution and tlx the price of milk by a commission which will determine the fair prlco to be charged. The milk btll which failed of pass ago by three votes, and stood 24 to 25 on reconsideration, was a measure that would regulate the producer, middleman and distributor and flx tho (Continued 'ihiin nth rage.) Classified Advertisers Important! C!Klf!ea !TrttrfMl eonr for T.1 fundar World dMUU In Tin World effire On or Before Friday Preceding Publication wry 'H tha rm!rnc wtian Sanity adrnrtlalna ha to i tam tr tack thn ta eat It. SENATE PASSES MILK BILL F00D TEAMSTERS WALK 001 GIVING CITY POWER TO BE IN DERANGE OF LEVER LAW; SELL AND ESTABLISH PRICES STRIKERS Lam THE WORLD Basis DAILY. Grants M, 1020, br Co. (The Maw GIRL'S KISSES PAY PAIR OF BACHELOR TRAIN VOLUNTEERS Mayor Martens, of East Orange, and Former Bicyclist Kramer Get Reward on Platform. FRANK KRAMER, former na tional bicycle champion, and Mayor Charles II. Martens of East Orange fired a Lackawanna train this morning, as they did yesterday. When they got off tho train for a few minutes at South Orange a young girl ran up and kissed both begrimed men. They are bach elors. OR LEAVE TOWN Long Island Citizens 'Form Committees After Firemen Are Pulled Off Trains. On learning that firemen had been pulled from trains at Babylon and Fatcihogue yesterday, the public irrl tation over tho strike became organ Izcd wrath looking for an opportunity to make an exam pile of anybody and everybody disposed ' "to start some thing." BnJbylon increased lt poMco force to seventeen members. Village President Foster of Patahoguo employed five extra policemen and authorized the organization of a Committee of Vlgl lantcs. V411 age after village all along the South Shore caught tflie spirit of the movement, Service men appeared on tho streets in large numbers and police Justices wore besieged for pis tol permits. The appointment of Vigilance Com mltteca was superintended by i committee which toured the Island In an automobile of iwhlch General Passenger lAgent woodward was Chairman, assisted by Chief Engi ncer 1 V. (Morris. Itockville Center drafted a committee mode up of vol untoor firemen, - members of the American Legion and Spanish War Veterans and peclal Deputies, Sub-committees of tho Vigilance Committees in Babylon and Patch ogue visited the homes of resident strikers this afternoon and notified them that they had better go back to work or prepare to move out of town, as they would hereafter be re gardod as undesirable citizens if they remained on strike. ATTACK PICKFORD DIVORCE! Nevada Attorney General Will Move to Set It Aside, CAldON CITY. Nev.. April 15 (United Press). Suit to set aside the divorce decree granted Mary Plckford from her former husband, Owen Moore, will be tiled at Mtndcn, Douglas County, to morrow, according to Attorney General 1'owler to-day. I Murphy's Srphciv Secretarr To i Murphy' Son-ln-l.aw. I .lulin A i-'ruy, eon of Polrio Captal '(;, and a nephew of Tammany Lead' . rnarWu V. Murphy, ha.i been aj iH.lni'd i. in- to S'irroK.it' Junius A I - ilil ill' , anil - III -In V . is, 1.1, OO" -i '-n uf Murpft.. Thu HOItl.l) Hhl l l( INT. Sixclil lot nidi. Tbnraftj, April 15. IB2D. Enurted bu tovue ! 1' iptnioli, UVi bmlol bru at Urcfa and tomato aura, 43c J ubk slttU dtaaar. (0c. 1Kb (tax. WotU AMfc-rt. VIGILANTES ORDER OUTLAWS TO WORK jCrcnlatfon Books Open to All.' Ths bn rnblUhlnx Vork VhU). U. S. Starts Investigation After Handlers of flutter, Eggs and Cheese Quit. WAGE DEMANDS BASIS. Mayor Seeks Conference to Try to End Trouble Before Night. United States District Attorney Francis O. Caffey began an investi gation to-day into the "statements and actions" of the leaders of the newly called strike of teamsters, chauffeurs and port era who handle perishable foodstuffs at the various markets. ,lle uiomtoad that there will be pros- eCutlona luncjer the Lever act if It is 6 frown that tbo strikers have plotted to endanger the city's food supply. He. was eapecdaJly interested in tho statement attributed to strike leaders that the strike raunt succeed because It threatened the destruction' of 91, 000,000 worth of food. "The Lover Act. was not intended," 0a Id Mr. Caffey, "to attack any man's liberty of employment. But if there ds a conspiracy to destroy food, that is another matter and action must follow. No body of men can threaten to starve a city and get away with it." The first acts of violence in con nection with the newly called strike occurred this morning. Extra police wore sent to the market districts by Chief Inspector Daly. Attacks on several trucks carrying butter and eggs to wholesale houses were reported. At 11.30 o'clock a horse-drawn wagon of Gudekleffor fis Co., No. 21 Jay Street, was attacked by about thirty-five strikers,' who olasbed holding ropes. They followed the wagon to Its Jay Street destina tion, where they were dispersed by the police. Section 4 of tho Lover aci i amended, apparently has a uireci bearing on the present situation. n.ot'AmMv mrdhlbltinir acts trial have been committed by the strikers. (Section 4 says in part: "It ie hereby made unlawful for any person wilfully to destroy (Continued on Twentieth Page.) NO COMPROMISE WITH INSURGENTS SAYS UNION CHIEF Onlv Settlement in Accordance With Law and Order, Train men President Wires. W. J. WAIiSlI. Chairman of tho Executive Com mittee of the Brother hood of Railroad TraltAncn at Hoboken to-day gave out tho fol lowing telegram ho received from W. O. Lee. President of the Brotherhood. "The situation la clearing In Western and Central territory. Men are returning to work at many points. Others are leaving the service at a few points where they have not been out. "Now that the Labor Board is appointed and will function Immediately, loyal members of the Brotherhood who have been cur ried off their feet by mob move ment should rciillzo tho necessity of returning to work uptll thu Labor UoaiU can hand Mown a decision. "Thero can be no cmprum so with li.BUi-Kcnts. Unlv "m m ttlo ment can bo hoped for, and that In uooordunoe with Uw und order . througn authorUt'd committees of established organizations." Raoina Entries, on Pag 2. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL. 15, 1920. ATTACK TRUCKS31.500 GOMMUIERS ARRIVE STRIKER KNOCKED OUT BY VOLUNTEER IN ENGINE BATTLE Major Weed Shatters Jaw of "Outlaw" Who Orders Him Off Train. Three striking yard conductors were fined $20 each to-day In tho Magistrate's Court at Hoboken for a concerted attack last night on tho engine crew of a Lackawanna local destined for Montctalr, but in the opinion of Montclalr folk at worKo- day in Manhattan offices, Newell "Weed's" man was not amftng' them. Tho Montclalr folk who talked of Newell Weed's man think ho is more likely In some hospital. Weed," twenty-eight, wus a major with nn A. E. F. tank corps. Hto was in th thick nf thlncs in France and i settling down as a Manhattan real ettutcr with a homo in Montclalr. Th mainr was one of the flint of Now Jersey's husky leaders to gathei other young men about him and or ganise a volunteer railroad crew. Rnmn of his crowd sympathlto with tho rebel unionists but condemn their methods. Their big consideration Is getting to work every day and home every night. The muscular major was in his overalls Juet before 5.J0 yesterday afternoon when two sturdy strikers suddenly appeared beside the puffing engine. One of them swung nlmseif up to tbo cab. "What in tnc hell do you mean, ho asked Major Weed, "butting into, this thing; coming hero to take the bread out of men's mouths and the mouths of children?" "We won't argue about It," said Weed, "thouch a lot might be said about my bread disappearing with a disappearing train service. I'm busy; you move along and sell your papers. Get!" At this the vacationist dropped semi-parliamentary language and be came profane. Ho went beyond the limit and tho onlookers witnessed tho striking of two blows. Weed struck them both. The first, it is said, al most shattered the railroad man's Jaw. Ho fell toward tho pit and Weed picked him up and dropped him to the station r tform. Rail road policemen carrl J him away. The 5.30 for Monclulr pulled out. ml,- Y. n vnnlmPn flnfHl WRrA AH3 Villi J " , . . ' - mixed up In a free-for-all. Tho fight between UlanK ana wevu ii vate. WILSON TO RECEIVE CALLERS Forelarn Diplomats 4n "Present Cre HirndMla SOOII. WASHINGTON. April 15. President Wilson suffered no III effects from his ,,..inn with the Cabinet yester day, it was said to-day at tho White Officials thousht the President's con- l?'"":.h' lrnf rul ers In the near1 i ,,,iT.r. mid that nmonit others lie mlchtl soon receive a half dozen or more foreign diplomats who have heen wait ing formal presentation of their ciedrntluls. EGGS AT 15 CENTS A DOZEN. MrlUr Cauaea Ills: Drop In Prlrra In nrlmvnrr. 1 WILMINGTON". Del.. April 1&. With ! thou.anla of cases of fftts ready for 'shipment on station platforms. Die prW 'of eggs In Dtlaware towns to-day I dropped io 15 cents per dozen. VAKB 11KLL-AN8 AFTER MEALS and eel e is GOOD DICIITION ak rW lad. Aft A4i OUTLAWS TELL UNION'S TERMS; U. S. TAKES UP NEW FOOD STRIKE IN CITY ON TRAINS MANNED BY CREWS OF VOLUNTEERS "Indignation Specials" on Long Island Lines as Well as Erie and Lackawanna. ONE ON PENNSYLVANIA. Jersey High School Students Join College Men in Offering Services. The number of "Indignation BptcfaJa" brought to the Jersey ter minals of the Lackawanna and Erie Rallroada to-day, manned In part'by commuter volunteers, Jumped from yesterday's top mark,of nineteen to the -higher figure af tntrty. tcn roaa reported fifteen. On the basis of yesterday's estimate by J. J. Mantell of tho General Man mm Afoanelatlon. 9S0 passengers to a train, to-dajr"i "specials" on these two railroads brought 28,500 persons. TBn, PRnnsvlvanla. maintaining about 75 per cent, of a normal pas Mvtm with its own crews, reported a single trnln maintained oy volunteers. It came from Wood- bridge, N. J. Tho Long Island Railroad ran tnreo uoh trains, two from Oyster Bay and one from Patchogue. The total number of passengers brought to New Tort in part by volunteers, therefore, was at least 31,500. in nddltlon to tho plain, cvery-uay commuters who ran their own trains, ii- m.n flocked to the railroad UUII4V .- - yards to give their young strength to the public service wherever it migm be needed. Princeton, according to rmnrt, win be a university wtth- WUQ ..... out students by Saturday. Hundreds of young men have gone out irora Stevens Technical Institute at Ho boken. JERSEY HIGH 8CHOOL BOYS TO HELP IN YABD8. TYwlav the boys of Jersey high schools came forward. "Two hundred students of East Orange High," Mayor Charles H. Martens of that city in formed offldala of the Lackawanna, "are ready to lend a hand In the rail road yard after school hours. Moit of them are free after 2 P. M." Ellrabeth, N..J.. reported that word hurl rone out to commanders of the New Jersey Home Defense League to hnM their men ready for a call to er vice on the railroads. Members of the Guard are former members of the State militia. . At Stevens Institute a Student (Clearance Bureau was organized to pupply tbo railroads with freight (handlers. At least 350 Stevens men nre absent from the classrooms. ,UHt of thorn arc with the Erie and ,the Lackawanna, but many are in the (yards at Long Island City, more are pa Btaten Island, and fifty are doing tho rough work of longshoremen on ,West Shore docks at Jersey City. if the strike I prolonged tho col- m-n will have to rematn at . .v... ftonool during the summer. Other wise tbey will .bo given an opportu itlty to make up tbo lowt time this iterm. Eliot Sumner, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania's mU)r division oi Now Jersey, placed n snl)Htltiil In his office to-daj, donned u Hull oi overalls, climbed into the cab of u locomotive and Hred the enginu to (Continued on SeconJ Page.) W1IKIUS TO GO SUNDAY NHIIIT. Urn; 0 U4Ut" I0 lo 12, &0. fcU Wvw, atdrt, Mow. 1 "Circulation Books Open Kntertd aa Hreond-Claaa at Office, New York. U ARRESTED BY U. S. Chiefs of Strikers Put Under, $to,doo 'Bail for Violating Lever Food liwjfc. ' 4 I WASHINGTON, April 16-rTsat of leaders of the "outlaw" railroad strike may be expected In many cities before night, C. B. Ames, As sistant Attorney General, Indicated to-day, following the newt that Chi eaoo leaders had been taken into custody. CHICAGO. April 15. John Orunau, President of tho Chicago Ynrdmun's Association, the "outlaw" organliatlon which started the nation-wide strike ol rullroud workers, and six others werq urrcMtod by Kednral agents who raided a meeting of tho strikers here to-day. Grunnu was arrested whllp he was ad dressing tho meeting. Other arrcata liuvo already been mado and many warrants have been Issued. Klmer BldwelL who was named yes terday by Attorney General Palmer as having replaced Qrunau as leader of the. strikers here, was also .arrested. Both Bldwell and Grunau dony that the latter has beep displaced or that Bldwell Is taking any part In directing tho strike. All the arrests wrre mnde for viola tions of tho Lover Kood Iaw on war rants Issued by U. S. Commissioner Mawon at the Instanco of U. 8. Attor ney Charles' l Clyno, under instruc tions from Washington. James J. Dodglon, whom Attorney General Palmer Ih reported to have called a "dangerous man, also Is un der arrest. Among others arrested are Joseph Scott, Trustee at the Chicago Yard men's Awoclatlon; A. W. Calseday, Secretary; Martin J- Kennedy, Vice Presldont of Ivxige No. 2, C. Y. A.; W. Larrnbell, Trustee of the association; Fred L. Schultx, Vice-President of the United Englnemen's Association, and Michael Ellgas, Treasurer of the Knginemcn's Association. A11 the men wcro held in ball of f 10,000 each. WASHINGTON. April 16.-Chlef Burke, 'lit the Bureau of Investlga tlon, Dcpurtmcnt of Justice, let It be known to-day that many arrests may be exrx-cted In Chicago In connection with the lallroad strike. Burke was told twolve arrests had been made In Chicago. "There ure many moTe radicals than that in that district." be said BOYS TRY TO BURN YOUTH AT STAKE Tie Him Up and Set Fire Under Him, but He Is Rescued bv Woman. UVNOAhTKIt. O(rlo. April IS rollre to-dav arc irfs'irehliiK for live oldur ixjya who last evenlnir attaoltid .Charles Kneller. len, a newtKi. bound him to a stake, pll'id kftidlltiK and p.ipr about I, tin Hii.i after dturtlriK a fire, left hint to hl fute. A rmall Blrl reported the Incident to Mrs. A. P Mowiiry I'vlne nonrfjy, und she rescued the Kncller boy, who was badly burned. OUTLAW WR GRUNAU AND AIDES WMAL M EDITON to All." I Mattar N. V. 21 PAGES. 1,500 Firemen and Yield ' to Brotherhood If Federal Board Will Act- Workers Return ing and More freight Moving. Fifteen hundred striking railroad firemen and enginemen who had been in session dt City Hill, Hofooken, al) .day, adjourned this afternoon affer agreeing to conditions under which they would go back under the - control of the heads of the International Brotherhoods and return to work. They voted to continue on The conditions were that the rangements for an immediate hearing the present walk out. Timothy Shea of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, who labored with the meeting for three hours, said hr thought the situation would re main dead-lccked except as the railroads made use of volunteers until an intimation was received from Washington that the Adjustment Board was ready to get down, to business .with the trainmen's and switchmen's grievances at the fop of the programme. He was sure the outlaw would then come back into the Brotherhood" fold, . . . " " " A speaker at the dally strike mfeti STRIKE CONDITIONS at Grand View Hall, Jersey City, ON NEW YORK. ROADS "hb dwt Immediate return AS REPORTED TO-DAY JL J 5"tlln,R a ?r th. FoderaP Adjustment Board was l0. Passenger Service Improved, Espe- daily to Suburbs More Freight Moving. NEW YORK CENTRAL Pas senger service regulari receiving freight at Klngtr bridge yardsk moved hundreds of ears of general merchandise yes terday. PENNSYLVANIA, Pastenger service to be completely re-established to-day. Work in local freight yards resumed. NEW HAVEN Suburban ser- vio again crippled. FrelghCyards clearing. LONG I8LAND Electrle traf fie 100 per eent,-eteam about 60 1 crews returning, but freight ser vice paralyzed. LACKAWANNA Suburban velunteer aerviee inereased. VolunUer freight crews In train ing. ERIE Running forty apeolala to-day, many with volunteers; through servlee Improved. One freight train started from Port Jervls. BALTIMORE AND OHIO Moving perishable freight. Pas senger service at Pennsylvania terminal restored. JERSEY CENTRAL Caring for all commuterej SO per cent, of all traina running except freight, which le tied up. WEST 8HORE Through and local service normal, some freight movement. LEHIQH Normal passenger service through Penn Stationi some freight. BTATEN ISLAND RAPID TRAN8IT Three traina sched uled to-day. HUDSON AND MANHATTAN TUBES No service promised for to-day. 8,000 DETROIT MEN IN OVERALLS CLUB Loyal Order of Moose Also Boy cott Potatoes Until the Prices Are Reduced. DErrrtOIT. Mich.. April 15. Sever! thousand members of the Loyal Ordr of Mooke donned overalls to-day pur suant to s resolution adopted last night cuJIlug upon 8,000 local members to wear rouk'h raiment until prices ot clothlntc ducllneil. The rvjulullon 4lo 1 nil on od a boy cott on puiutovd us u yiu.iat again'. hlKh irlci. IXiVKU. N. II.. April 15. An "oer alls" rlub" Iws been formed here by tweniy-nvu prominent cltlxens. The mnmbrrs me pledged to wear overalls until wearing upparel Is cheaper. T i.'M"looi u'teVsl vuk-aSZ wm PRICE TWO CENTS. EnginemenOff er to strike until these conditions were met. Federal Adjustment Board make ar of the wage demands incidental to 'rrVptod a domat" - vote on the proposal. No vote was taken. On. t"enta at vole started a rough and ,u..,uio peraonaj argument In which tne seekers of compromise were' called "skunks" and "worse than scabs." An adjournment was taken to atop the wrangling. The compromise fac tion promised to renew the proposal for a vote on ending the strike this afternoon. HUNDREDS OF STRIKERS RE TURN TO WORK. Meantlmo the 'general demorallxa tlon of thn outlaw railroad strike fol lowed rapidly tho course Indicated by yesterday's reports from ml I road managers, officers of the Railroad brotherhoods, public officials and tho strikers themselves. Hundreds of strikers returned to work; some, notably thoso of tho Hudson and Manhattan Tube (whletl have not yet resumed operutlonsh were met wjth signs saying thero' were no vacancies for them. " In tho Pennsylvania nnd other ralli' road offices cots Htid bedding oh which tho operating VPrces have alcp( during the emergcncjOiero being rti moved. V On all of the New JeV ' Vunea the,' improvement, besides th -Aytrrx In incrcaee of suburban . .ina o,n'. iho restoration of through schedulei, extended to the freight altuatlon. 7 Tho floating equipment of tho rail'-, roads waa moving about the rlvere and bay to-day n.i freely as before the marine workers' strike began more than two weeks ago. Energetic efforts by leaders of tho Marine Af. . filiation to revive the effectiveness" of tho marine railroad strlko wee made by appeals to the deep sea longshoremen and bollcrmakers and other shopmen to strike. There "ire no Indications of any reuponso to these requests. The United states Army shipments whlrh huvM Kn Ivlnv In i. - n.v, - - rf "O ... ,,U IlUVUItDU yards since tho strike began wcr i started on their way to posts anil campa tolay by detachments of ho diers from fiimn territr. whn um.i,I Into the yards with a full complement ' i . . r- ui mponcutTu rutiruuu men to maJitf up and pull out army property.1 The first duty these men had wu to get at two empty baggage cars whloh were sent to Hoboken to receive tho bodies of A. K. K. dead for ship ments to their families at home and', which the strikers have not allowed', to mom since tho first yard walk-out.. Ninety-nine college students, eighty seven from Stevens and the remain,, dor from Princeton were sent to Jamaica at noon to report to Assist tint General Manager Baker of the Long Island for service as firemen oa tao stfiam Unw of the road. A tutf p- 1 . ' n ..i "T'"'iulll 'i mm (www- -nuazt.