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i r 7FIRST V To-Nloht'a Weather-Cloudy. WALL STREET HWML M EDI TION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,661DAILY. WASHINGTON i 'MY PEOPLE HAS BETRAYED ITSELF, ITS GOD AND H' EX-KAISER SAYS BITTERLY Could Have Won if Germans Had "Fought 26 Years for P.eace, Then SwordWasStruckFromMyHand" By Heinrich Petctmeyer. J (Ctrorleiit. lSl. br Unlttd ITwO v1 tCcvrrWA UncUnit Europe, OwU ud South Amrrlc. All rtlHU nramd, ncttUnt iu mwhlK- Uon proMtillM.) BERLIN, Feb. 11. I am able to-day to make public for the first time the only Interview with former Kaiser' Wilhclm since he crossed the German boundary Into Holland. In answer to a question as to why Germany lost the war, the former Kaiser said: "We would never have lost the war It my people had remained true to themselves. I alwaya assert with Martin Luther that 'If the world were full of devils who would swallow us up, wo still would succeed II wo did titrt fear for ourselves.' "We had already overcome hunger and need despite the fact that America had joined hands with our eternal enemy, Britain. Tho betrayal of Germany signified hor death sentence. "And notice how God scourges the here on earth." "Docs that mean tho death sentence V forever?" I asked., "Nobody knows that," the Kaiser said. '"Only Almighty God can help there. For the near future I don't ex pect much. Tho world looks darker every day. It was never no far re moved from peace as now. Tho whole orld has dented God not only my people. "For Jtwcnty-sli difficult years 1 atone led the fight to keep the peace of my folk then the sword of peace was struck out of my hand by my best friends. "I never wishod tbajrar." (Ich habe ' nle den kricg gewollt) Through the pood offices of Couut Oldenburg Bentlnok, I was Invited to Amerowren to be presented per sonally to the Kaiser by Gen. von Uontard, Court Marshal. When I entered the. garden I saw unite distant the Kaiser marching UP and down with tho Court Marshal In military tempo. The Kaiserin had seated herself In a quiet corner on a bench and sat theTO alone. "When den. von Gontard claps his hands then you must hurry over," I was told. When tho Court Marshal sig nalled I ran over and stood hat In hand. At tho name moment the Kaiserin departed. Tho Kaiser waa In brown hunting costume, with a dark gray capo and (Continued on Page Twonty-four.) KAISER BETRAYER OF THE PEOPLE; SAYS JAMES W. GERARD Former Ambassador Declares Ruler Forced Germany Into the War. 'The Interview with the Kaiser con flrrrm the belief of those who knew him that he would (become a victim of religious insanity," Jamos W. Ger ard, formor Ambassador to Germany, MJd to-day. "Ills delusions of personal grandeur and his superstition regarding a Teu tonic 'Gott,' whoso solo purpose was lo look out for his Interests and those of tho Gorman people seem to bo growing rather than diminishing. "It m rot for the Kaiser to talk about not having .'wished tho wur.' Tho German Constitution provided liat either he or 'the Federal Council could declaro an offensive war, while ho alone could declare a. defensive war. lie made tho false statement that Germany liad been attacked, so Miat he could conbtltuilonally declare wax, himself. "The German people never be the Kalser-he ,betrayed traced -. era. NTERVIEW WITH FORMER KAISER Copyright, msii by Co. (Tbe Mew War, He Declares, Remained True whole world all evil revenges itself N BIT. Off ICE Miss Eleanor Crowe, Daughter of General Passenger Agent, Taken io Hospital. i . ' Miss Hlcanor Crowe, twenty years 1 old, daughter of Harry A. Crowe, General Passcngor Agent of the Brooklyn Itapld Transit Company, and a clerk In tho revenue depart ment of the organization, was acci dentally shot and seriously wounded to-day In the B. R. T. Building, No. S3 Clinton Street, by John J. Mc Fecley, supervisor of the company's revenue inspectors. Mr. McFeely was examining a de fective revolver which had been turned in by one of the Inspectors who are armed 'because they trans port moneysof the company. In an attempt to ibreak tho revolver so that ho mlRht remove the cartridges Mc Feely pulled the trigger and one of tho cartridges was discharged. Instantly there was a report and Miss Crowe,' -who was standing near tho desk, clapped her hand to her sldo and fell to the floor. The shoot ing created consternation in tbe of fice and McFeoley waa almost pros trated hy'what ho had done. Miss Crowe, who lives at Jfo. S4!i Ocean Avenue, Woodhaven, waa taken to the Brooklyn Hospital, her father accompanying he. McFeeley was arrested by Patrolman Glennan and held in the Adams Street Court. He is married, lives at No. 208 liberty Avenue, ani has been in the employ of tho company for twelve years. HUGHES TO VISIT HARDING. "Count rue II You Wluli," ISy l'rrlilnit-Klrct. . ST. AUGUSTINE, Ha.. Fah. 11. ProJident-cleet .Harding announced to da that Charles B. Hughes will arrlvj herp within a weT "I may say that I 4c not Inland to do anything that will nake hl itay In Florlda-arihappy," Mr. Harding said fltn a smile. 'You may oonstrue that as you wbih." Mr. Harding also stated that Charles SeStaSJ fp? lEgeSS Tf th" Trel - . T, would irrjye here i shortly,, GIRL WOUNDED BY PISTOL SHOT "Circulation Books Open to Alt" The rr Publishing York World), three rob dihers Line Up 15 Men and Women Against Wall in Suffolk Street Restaurant. TAKE JEWELS AND CASH. Auto Patrol Seizes Trio, One; of Whom Has Valuable j Gems and $1,247. Fifteen men and women wero held up early to-day In Warshaucr3 Res taurant, No. 114 Suffolk Street, by three bandits who robbed them of $5,000 In money and Jewels. Three hours later the hold-up men wero locked up by detectives of tho" Police Automobile Squad. ' This squad wast originally created by Former Police Commissioner Arthur Woods. It was disbanded by Commissioner Enright und only, re cently was revived. According to Inspector Coughlln, who announced the airests, victims of the highwaymen positively Iden tified the three prisoners seized by the motor detectives and also jewelry found in their possession. Tho entrance to tbe restaurant, which Is In a tlve-atory tenement. Is by a Bide door a short flight up from the street. The three men, who wero J well dressed and masked, alighted I from a taxlcab In front. As they I strolled into the restaurant the firjt! man flourished a revolver and ordered hands up. Everybody obeyed and ho . men oraerea an to une up against, tho wall In the rear. So quickly was this order heeded that chairs and a table were overturned. Whllo the leader covered tho party with his gun another relieved patrols and manager of their valuables and tho third stood guard at tho door. No ono follov.ed as tho trio left tho place and dtovo; off. f I Police Headquarters sent out a gen eral alarm nnd notlllod all automobile patrols. DetecUves Greer, Vander- drlft and Carter, operating as an auto patrol on tho lower west side, saw three wen aesseo men ana a driver In o taxi which they recog nized as having been stolen laat Tues day and recovered the same day. When the taxi stopped at Broome and Thompson Streets and the three men got out, tho detectives solzed and searched them. On one, who said he was John Bellantone, twenty-three, of No. S159 Now Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn, a salesman, were found a platinum ring set with diamonds and threa emeraldti valued at $1,000, a stickpin with twelvo diamonds worth 1700, a gold ring set with diamonds and rubies worth $500, an octagon gold watch worth J500, a ladles platinum chain set with diamonds worth $500 and $1,217 in cash. He had a loaded revolver. On another, who said ho was Salvatore Poovongano, twenty seven, at No. 8 Spring Street, a truck driver, was found $58. The third man, who said he was Joseph Gorga, fcwenty-two, of No. 62 Spring Street, truck driver, had only $2. They were looked up at Headquarters charged with rdbbcry and osuault The chauffeur was allowed to go. TO STOP FOREIGN LOANS. Snlt Entrrrd In WtilnRtnn Court lo Unjoin Trraaur. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. Suit for an injunction restraining Secretary Houston of the Treasury Department from moklnjr any further loans to for elBn Governments was filed In the Did triot Supreme Court to-day by attorneys for W. It. Heanrt. An order was issued on Secretary Houston to show ouuae Feb. 21 why an injunction should not be granted. It Is also sought to enjoin the Secretary 1 f rom mskln any further ndvano.1 on oredlts already established. nrTQ'Lnnn a m i A ir cKfSi CONTROL OF N. Y. QUARANTINE i CTATIHM IM UAD flM TVDUIIO NEW YORK, FRIDAY, TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ASK omuumn viHnun uruuo U. S. Orders Consuls Abroad to Refuse Health Bills to Infected Shins. - WILL INVOKE PENALTIES. Increasing Number of Diseased Immigrants at New York Brings Drastic Action. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The ar rival of New York of another ship with typhus Infected immigrants from Italy aboard led to-day to plans for ener getic action by the United states Gov ernment Tho Federal authorities are now negotiating to take over control of the quarantine station at New York, now operated by the State. After a conference with Surgeon General cummlng of the Public Health Service, Assistant Secretary La Porte, ! In chargo of the Public Health Service ' Division of the Treasury Department. announced all necessary steps to pre vent typhus-Infected immigrants from leaving Europe for this country would bo taken. The Now York State Health au thorities have the situation there In full control, Mr. La Porte declared, and thero is little danger of tho spread of the disease from tho ship to shore. Mr. La, Porto said instructions al ready had gone forward to American oons)ul8 m Europe to refuse cloan bills of healtll to VCSsels preparing to leavo forvthls country whose medical In .spoction has not been uuttsfactory. In addition, public health service metl ica4 ofllcers In Kuropo will make care ful Inspection of immigrants leaving for this country. Vessels coming to America without clean bills of health Issued by Amorl- can Consuls arc subject to heavy penalties, Mr. La Porto said, and tho law will be rigidly enforced. He added the American medical officers wore having tho most dlfticulty In Italy, as tho Government thero was not Inclined to permit those officers to inupect vessels leaving Italian ports. OCEAN LINES PLAN RESTRICTIONS TO KEEP OUT TYPHUS representatives of all the big trans atlantic steamship companies held a conference at the office of Cornelius Van de Stadt, general passenger agent of the Holland-American Line to-day to discuss means of barring undesirable Immigrants from passaire on their vessels. This meeting was In line with precautions being taken at this port to prevent the entrance of typhus Into the United States. It was understood a roproaeutalve of the Health Department attended the con ference. Tho conference followed the turn ing back at Kills Island of the steer- ago passengers on tho steamship Ryndam, who were found to be In tented with vermin. Health Commls- uloner Copoland bad hoped to have the Immigrants treatl at tho army delouslm; plant at Hoboken, but officers there said tho plant was In adequate for tho work and the lm migrants are still on the ship. The Byndam was wclieduled to sull to morrow, but the wailing has been postponed Indefinitely. More than a thousand steerage paj.nengern on the I-apland also were turned back at HUitf Island and will not ibe allowed to land until they have been deloused. Health Commissioner Copeland d clared to-day not one Immigrant wili (Continued on Eleventh .Page.) FEBRUARY 11, "SWEAR," HARDING ADVISES WORRIED n GOLF PLAYER "You'll Feel Better," President elect Says, but the Other Man Lacks Words. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. lL riHLB President-elect Har ding was on tho goft links hero ho camo up with a red-faced golfer who was thrashing wildly In a sand traip. Mr. Harding, noting that the man was oUent, said: "Go ahead and uwear, old man; you'll feel bet ter." T would," waa the reply, "but I can't think of any more words." A DAY, IS EDISON'S ADVICETOfEN, 70 Inventor Doesn't Expect to Re tire Until He Sees Oxygen Tank Coming. "A man over seventy years old can, and Hhould keep himself busy olghtcen hours tt day: The reason most of them don't, Is they were not active men tally In the preceding years." This was the declaration, to-day, of Thomas K. Edison, who Is celobratlng his beventy-"fourth birthday by fol lowing his usual routlno of work at his Orange laboratories. Mr. Edison sover.il days ago bad declared no amount of advice could help a man who wan dead mentally at twenty one, and a reporter asked him to-day how about the man over hoventy. '"There ts plenty for him to do," said Mr. IDdison, after expressing his cighteen-hours-a-day idea. "Ho can develop hobbies; he can trtudy peo ple; ho can rad and watch the pass ing throngs of life. "Tho reason so many men are wrecks when they pass seventy Is they have hurt their bodily machin ery. Most men overdo. If they like drinking they drink 100 per cent, too much; If they lfie eating upoclal dishes they cat 100 per cent, too much of them." "How about yourself, Mr. Edison?" he was asked. "Well, I have no intention of re tiring," he declared. Asked when he thought he might retire, he replied: "ProbaMy when I see some one walk into my room with un oxygen lank. I think, houovei-, mom men ought to retire about three jcars after they reach sevont." Mr. Edison looked tho piutuie of (Continued on Second Page STRONG GALES COMING. Jiort)irrrt Mnrm M'urnlns, Centred Off Jrrry CmiI, Innl. The Weather Uureau to-day receded the following advisory inowngq from Washington: "Change to northweit tonn wur-ung, 10 A. M., llOkton to Dotnwure Jfrnak water. Storm cent-ed off thu New Jer sey coiutt. Will mo luuit. northeast ward, attended l troiiir nort.hu it lncl und gahu. this after ioon and to nliht." rms wom.n toavki. nuiuiAu. Ltu&t. 14U IWwMi UaildMi. M-Gj I'ui ttcr, N. t. CHi. TflwfcM ltai) 0OO. CUiV tun fw bHt ta4 'r"ti eiM 4tf Md fi.irf VI miMtn www BE BUSY 1 8 HOURS Mi a w. "Circulation Books Open 1921. Kntrrrd iu Mrrond-CtuM Mttrr Tott Ofncf, Nw York, N. X. HUT OUT MAN FOUND SLAIN CENTREOFmYSTERY 2 IDENTIFICATIONS First Believed to Be Husband of Child Bride He Had Forced to Wed by Threat. BUT HE TURNS UP O. K. Then Believed to Be Husband of Rich Woman, and There Is 'Hint of 'Bigamy. CAMDBN, N. J.. Fob. 11. The police of this city and of Wilmington, Del., have on their hands a mystery Involving the murder or sulcido of a man, the posltlvo Identification oS him aa two different persons, a pos sible case of bigamy and an alleged marriage which ' took place under threat of murder, and they hope to get some sort of solution of the tangle through the arrest here of William F. Walker. He wus taken prisoner this morn Ing upon his return to the home of his sixteen-year-old bride, formerly Dorothy McCabe, at No. 243 Kalghn Avonuo. Tho police report that let ters belonging to the dead man In tho case havo been found In Walker's possession. Tho mystery begins wttli the ctate- mcnt of Mrs. McCabe, tho girl's rr'thor, and tho girl hcrsolf, that at a dinner in a restaurant on Jan. Z5 Walker throatcm-d to shoot them both unless the girl agreed lo maVry him. She was a worker In ti mlMslon conducted by the Kalghn Avenue Methodist Kplscopu! Church, und he hnd attended Kervlccs thero. They consented and Walker took them to tho Hcv. AVilllanj G. Hum, irastor of tho churoh, and they were married that day. Mr. Hum noticed that 'the girl had' been crying, hut set It donvn to nervousness. ( Walker dlsappeatod two days later and on Jan. 28 there was found In Hrandywlne Spring Park, Wilmington, tho body of 'u iruin, -which lay on carefully placed ncwspairs. Ho huil i ben shot through th; mouth, und beside the body, by which was u re volver, was a notu addressed to JJoro. thy MoCabc purporting to bo signed by Walker. The young bride hastened to Wil mington expecting to find her ljus band dead,' especially as a brother In Ualtlmoro was said to havo Identified the writing In tho note as- that ot William F. Walkor. Hut she found, instead, that the body wilh that of a man aged fifty, whorcas Walkor Is only thirty-six, and a fow days lator It was Identified as that of Charles Smith, living at the Cedars Wil mington. Smith's marriage to Mrs. .Smith, who is roported to bo rich, oc curred a week ,before his death. He disappeared from home four days after the' wedding. When the. body was found his watch was missing. The Identification of Smith seemed correct in vlow of the fact that a fow days latir the girl bride received a note. unnlgTWtd, but in what Is said to bo Walker's handwriting, written In Heading, Pa. After that the police maintained a waleh at the McCabe home and the arrest this morning followed. The next complication in the oaf eame through the ottteo of Attorntj General F- H- Townsend of Oilawurc. He reported that the Smith body had bwsn Identified a that of her hus band by Mrs. George Hlgloy of Phila delphia. Tills wa supported by the sUtement that the Initial "K. It." were found In "Smith's" hat. Now the police are wondering whether they have not ton upon a case of bigamy. 1 Attorney General Townwnd lus. DIJTItOIT. I-Vb. 11. When Henry notltied thB Camden authorities tliut j Ford waa anked to-day If he had suo In Hpitoot the verdict uf the corcmer's , cid In oblainlnir the 171,000.000 lo..i jui. thai "Smith" had committfd ' iiauaMHiry to finno hi automobile In suii'.d'!. he was poltiv he hud boen duitry he wild: uiuruei'u uiu mi iu,, in.DBiiKa - tlon ould be made. Meunwhll Walker is being held at Police Head quarters here to await the action of te 'Wilmington auth;rltl 7nd poi-lto slble action agaUm him her. To-Morrow' WALL JED I to All." I Ti MURDERS IN HOLD-UP OF TRUCKLIJAD OF WHISKEY; HUNDREDS OF POLICE IN HUNT 4 Frank Walsh, Victim of His Comrade Bandits, Had Been a Partner of Bootlegger Eckert,WhqWas Killed on Staten Island One Victim Was to Be Whitman Witness in Eckr ert Case. ; No seven reel thriller In the movies ever carried more action than attended tho hold-up last night of a truck carrying twenty-Are barrels of whiskey on tho Lincoln Highway, fourtoen miles East qf Trenton, N. J., ' tho murder of Leo Salamandra of No. 736 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton,, tho-owner of the whiskey, by Uie bandits, the subsequent murder by hi ' own companions of Frank Waltth. a Passaic bootlegger, who was the leader of the hold-up men, the disposition of the Whiskey, tho recovery of tho empty truck and the .scouring ot roods and towns and cities ot Northern Now Jersey by hundreds of poilcemeu, detect! res and revenue agents In search of tho murderers. At noon to-day no arrests hod been made. Ono man, Edward Iting, tho driver of the- whiskey truck is held at Now Oni'UiwIck as a material witness. Three other men, rnemborB of tho party transferring the whis key are under hodpltal treatment for wounds inflicted by the b'andla) with blackjacks. Another momber of tho whiskey convoy party, Samuol Porldns, a negro chauffeur mysteriously appeared at his home In Nerrerj:' ihortly before noou to-day. yj An automobile 'trueV and nve aiitik" POST OFFICE CAGE AS BAR TO BANDITS Heavy Wire One Is Being Con structed Around tlw Cashier's Booth. A heavy "anti-hnndlt" cage of wire Is being built around tho ikihUiMIcu cashier'! olllcc In the Federal Build ing. It Is twelve fet-t high and thick enough, It In believed, to rccl the Hliongest hold-up men. OHIcIuIh wi-re ruliictunt to discuss the reason's lor the cage, which In )i,ar past bus been deemed unneces sary. Hut J. J. McCrum, Superin tendent of the City Hull .Station, said the Idea was "to lock the stable before the horse Is stolen." He said similar precautions wero being taken all over the city. DENTIST'S PATIENT LANDS IN SUBW.AY Negro Jumps Th rough Window of Dentist's Office, Carrying Sash Willi Him. Ilarton Sktete, a negro of No. 160 Third Avenue, Hrookly, went this afternoon to the dental office of Dr. Gaffney, on the rhlrd floor of the Temple Court Hulldlng, No. 41 Court Street, Brooklyn, to have a tooth ex tracted, .(las was administered to him and when the tooth came out Skevte hud a brain tonn. I( apnmg from tho chnlr. leaped through a window In front of It, carrying uway glum and sash,, and crashed upon the sidewalk thrct rtorioM botow. Then be rolled down the subway stairs which are almost under the .window. An ambulance took him, still ailve, to Hrooklyn Hoiipltal. The physi cians could not tny whethor he'd sur vive or die. v FORD DIDNT KNOW, HE NEEDED $75,000,000 I rcpsrlit IWt. I'miM I'mi.l 1 , ujdirt know we nled it until a few loan aharkii rajiiw out und tried to tell us we did. Uut I think we proved a of thm thst we could taka care of ouritv." Weather Cloudy, Colder. STREET T!ON PRICE THREE CENTS moblloa figured in the developments of tills latest Jersey highway crtmr. A dramatic feature of the case Is tile fact that WuUh waa a partner In trio bootleggimr 'business of Frederick P. Kckert, who waa found dead in ah automobile In Old Town Itoad, near Wadnworth, Staten Island, on Aug. 21 last with two bullet wounds through ltU head. It has been pret well established that he was assass! nated by associate bootloggers w; were afraid he would betray them. Walsh was found unconscious arid dyititf In iui aUtomobllo on the roatl nour New Jlrunxwldk two hours aftjV tho hold-up of last night. He had n bullet wound through his head. In asmuch as none of Vhe men held uW whllo escorting the whiskey truck wn armed, it ta,assumed that Walsn was killed by his fellow bandits be cause of fear that ho would betray thom. Walsh died In St. Peter's HcX pltal, New Hrunuwlck. ' Ux-Gov. Whitman said this after). noon that In his investigation of the Pollco Dupartmcnt ho had taken up tho matter of Kckert's murder, which, Inwofar us any pollco results have been obtained, still remains ii mystery. Walsh had g'Vn blm sornft Information lit the Kokurt case and was to have appeared ' before tht Grand Jury within ten days to fflV luauuiuiiy rwuuiiK iu iau relations o Kckert with certalu policemen an politicians In tho days of his whlske running activities. It would appeal from this that Walsh, while active), engaged in bootlegging activltl was "double-crossing" his associate by keeping In touch with ex-GoA Whitman. j About a dozen men figured In tho holdup, six of the whiskey escort ant nix bandits. Subsequently four othen i were drawn Into tho action of th s dramu, as It led up to the dlscot ery of tho dying Walsh. Tho action bogun yoatorJay aj tet noon when Abo l"osnak, a truckman, of No. 21 Jacob Street, Newark, rw culved a telephone call from Leo SalaV mandra for a truck to convey twerttyt five btyre's of whlskoy from Treptol to the warehouse of Marchesl Urosi No. 200 Klghth Avenue, Nowark. Only a few hours" bwfore Posnak received the order for the truck, hut garagk Hnd .homo were searched by Proftli bltlon agents and flvo barrels of si cohol, forty casus ot whiskey and 4 quantity ot wine were seized Posnak instructed Hlng and Per Un- to take . txuok to Trentorf couuct with Sttittmuidfa. and bet? TllJlIITC i rni ti V 1 - a.. :