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Devlin Urges
Irish to Call
Peace Parley
Nationalist Denounces the
Spurning of German Over?
tures as a "Crime"
Sees No Advantage
In Beating Teuton?
Declares Plebiscite of Sol?
diers Would Stop War
in 24 Hours
BELFAST, May 26.??Joseph Devlin,
Nationalist leader, came out boldly as
an advocate of peace by understanding
in a speech at Dungannon to-day.
"Don't you think," he demanded,
"that the time has arrived when the
weight of the influence of Ireland and
Irishmen the world over ought to be
thrown into the movement, already
strong in all of the belligerent coun?
tries, in favor of a just general peace?
If the question of peace were submit?
ted by a plebiscite to the rank and file
of the armies of the world hostilities
would cease within twenty-four hours.
"Everybody knows that Germany's
position is as difficult and uncertain
now as it is likely to be two or three
years hence, and that even if Germany
were beaten to the dust it would be
just as difficult to negotiate peace. If
Germany, as she says, is willing to
negotiate now, is it not a crime against
civilization to prolon? the ivar a single
?lay, let alone for an inCeflnite number
of years?"
Referring to the voices of Lord
Lansdowne and others in favor of
peace, Mr. Devlin said:
"If the Irish race takes up the ques-"
tion it can help it forward as no other
race can. ... If we once get a peace
conference together, the question of
Ireland might well be submitted to it,
since British statesmanship has proved
incompo'-:nt."
Mr. Devlin indicated he does not
accept the government's statement
regarding the alleged pro-German con?
spiracy in Ireland as at all conclusive
of the verity of the charges.
"I am afraid the government, in its
confused and panic-stricken state of
mind," he said, "has got German plots
on the brain. Arrests have been made
on a wholesale scale of Irishmen and
Irish women on vague charges which
ihe government is unable to prove "in
the only way in which charges can be
proved, and that is by trying the per?
sons before a jury of their own coun?
trymen.
"No ex-parte statements containing
indefinite and unsubstantiated evidence
will satisfy men of impartial mind, and
the Irish people will not believe one of
these charges until they are proven
before the only tribunal which lovers
of justice and fair play recognize."
Austrian Woman Aide
Of Irishman Arrested
LONDON, May 26.?A sensation was
caused in Tippperary yesterday, ac?
cording to the Exchange Telegraph,
by the arrest of Miss Bruns, an Aus?
trian subject, who has been serving as
secretary to Major Edwards, who owns
a stock farm at Bansha, in County
Tipperary. She was taken into custody
at the Edwards home and removed to
Dublin. The charge against her was
not announced.
Edwards, a widely known sportsman,
was at home preparing to go to the
Limerick Junction races, in which he
had a horse entered, when the arrest
was made. Two motor cars, with po?
lice and military officers, drove to the
house and the authorities spent sev?
eral hours searching Miss Bruns's pa?
pers and correspondence before ar?
resting her. She .iad served as Major
Edwards's secretary for the past four
or five years.
Sinn Fein Arrests
Are Likened to
Anti-Popish Plot
LONDON, Saturday May 25.?Will?
iam O'Brien, member of Parliament,
telegraphs to the newspapers in refer
?. nee to the SinnF?in revelations:
"Since the anti-Popish plot some
centuries ago, there has been nothing
more disgraceful to English statecraft.
The lush people will read Lloyd
George's story with the same mingled
indignation and eon/tempt as they felt
when they read the forged letter pub?
lished by the authors of 'Parnellism
and Crime.'
"A similar reaction, even in Eng?
land, is sure to follow. The fact that
internment is the punishment of trai?
tors is a sufficient commentary upon
the rubbish, showing it to be an at?
tempt foul means, to break up the
nnti-conscription movement. The Ger?
man plot will turn out to be oven a
?rosser blunder than the extension of
conscription to Ireland."
Dillon Declares
War to the Death
On Sinn Feiners
<?y The Associated Press)
o*BA.ILvL1;BB0R0UGH' Ireland, May
?6.?John Dillon, chairman of the
Nationalists, speaking here to-day de
?XI mf* t0 th? death 0n the Sinn
rein. The occasion for his speech was
a meeting of delegates from East
Cavan to decide whether the National?
ist party ought to withdraw its candi
?late and permit the Sinn Feiner,
Arthur Griffith, to be elected un?
opposed.
Mr. Dillon's speech bristled with
references to America and appeals to
Irishmen not to neglect American public
opinion. He emphasized his denuncia?
tion of the Sinn F?in by quoting sev?
eral phrases from his statement re?
cently made to the Associated Press,
and added:
"Some English newspapers have
??uoted the interview I gave to the As?
sociated Press of America as evidence
that I have 'broken off* my alliance
with the Sinn F?in. You cannot break
off -what has never existed.
"I am being denounced to-day by the
Sinn F?iners as an Imperialist, which
1 never was. and as an enemy of the
true principles of Irish nationality.
And I have repeatedly explained that,
while I was in favor of the Mansion
House conference for the aake of pre?
senting a united f;ont on the single
question of conscription, I was so far
from believing that there was any
?other possible common platform with
the Sinn F?in that I was more bitterly
?nd more irreconcilably opposed to pe
Valera and Griffith than ever before
in my life.
"I am to-day more convinced than
ever that the Sinn F?in policy is cal?
culated to rob Ireland of the sympathy
of America and of all democratic peo
'?!? throughout the world."
?
8-Hour Day for Railroads
Delights Labor Leaders
McAdoo's Order Greatest Step Yet Taken by Government
in Dealing With Worker, Says Ocganizer Frayne ;
Gompers Calls a Conference
The greatest t>**r> yet taken by the
government in its dealings with labor
i? marked by the order of Director Gen?
eral McAdoo for the increase of rail?
road employes' wages, nccording to
Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the
American Federation of Labor and
member of the War Industries Board.
Mr. McAdoo's frank acceptance of the I
principle of the basic eight-hour day, ?
even in railroad service, was regarded
yesterday by labor leaders in this city
as a distinct victory for the working
men's organizations which have been
championing that principle. Following
the receipt of the order here, Samuel
Gompers, head of the American Fed?
eration of Labor, went, into conference
with international leaders for the pur- '
pose of mapping out a campaign to put '
the United States, industrially speak- |
ing, on an eight-hour basis.
"Mr. McAdoo's decision establishing |
the principle of the basic eight-hour
day removes any doubt, insofar as the !
government is concerned, aR to the
rijrht and justice of that principle,"
said Mr. Frayne, at the Hotel Con?
tinental last night.
New Board a Step Forward
"The creation of the new Board of
Railroad Wages and Working Con?
ditions, by Mr. McAdoo's order, is a
marked step forward also, as it calls
into effective action machinery to deal
with all future matters regarding rail?
road employes generally in the United !
States. \
"Furthermore, the principle tacitly
established by the government in deal?
ing with the workingmen collectively |
is a very advanced stride in dealing i
with the* labor problem, as it affects
the railroads and industries of all
kinds. It establishes the fact that col- j
lective bargaining is a sound principle,
and no more will we see the spectacle
of groups of men in the same occupa?
tions, often working on the same rail?
road, bargaining individually for a
common end.
"Thus is removed the ?anger and un
certainty that heretofore existed the!
danger of ?strikes on the part of those I
employed in all departments of the rail- :
roads, and the uncertainty on the part;
of the public which expected strikes to
take place. This uncertainty, applied
to public utilities, had almost the same
disastrous eifect on business as if the
strike had actually occurred.
"The fact that the government has
set up machinery which will in future
deal with the' railroad employes
through their representatives removes
the danger of strikes, as all questions
affecting their interests can be ad?
justed by this means without pny stop?
page of work.
Expects Eight-Hour Day to Spread
"The basic eight-hour day will now
spread to industries where it is not yet
recognized, as a result of the govern?
ment's acceptance of it. for there is
now no excuse for private business to
stiil maintain its opposition.
"The wage increase order estab?
lishes a minimum rate of pny for all
employes doing the same class of work,
irrespective of color or sex. It is a
principle that the American Federation
of Labor, and the American labor move?
ment generally, have been contending
for these many yeais. It is pleasing to
see that the government recognizes the
justice of this for railroad employes,
which will mean that other employes
will have to do likewise."
Ernest B?hm, corresponding secre?
tary of the Central Federated. Union,
declared the effect of the order would
be widespread in raising the efficiency
of the American workman.
"The order is going to bring about a
national eight-hour day," he said. "It is
very opportune, coming at a time when
there is a bill before Congress to give
all women the eight-hour day, and will
undoubtedly result in the enactment of
this piece of legislation.
"The eight-hour day will be a gen?
eral encouragement to workmen, will
aid them in utilizing greater leisure
time for self-advancement, and is going
to put the United States on the most
effective basis industrially of any na?
tion in the world."
R.
I Pay
Increase of
$300,000,000
Continued from page 1
ceived in December, 1915, may he sum- j
marized as follows:
Monthlv rate Increase above
in 1915 1915 pay
$46 to $50.$20.21 to $21.50
50 to 55. 21.60 to 22.55
55 to 60. 22.96 to 24.60
60 to 65. 25.01 to 26,65
65 to 70.27.06 to 28.70
70 to 75.29.11 to 30.75
75 to 80. 31.15 to 32.70
80to 86. 32.75 to 34.00
85 to 90.-. 33.85 to 33.25
90 to 95. "3.10 to 32.50
95 to 100. 32.35 to 31.75
100 to 105. 31.60 to 31.00
106 to 110. 29.11 to 27.50
HOtollS. 27.12 to 25.66
115 to 120. 25.31 to 23.90
120 to 125. 23.64 to 22.40
125 to 130. 22.11 to 20.96
130 to 135. 20.60 to 19.63
135 to 140. 19.38 to 18.39
140 to 145. 18.16 to 17.24
145 to 150. 17.02 to 16.17
150tol'55.. 15.96 to 15.16
155 to 160. 14.97 to 14.22
160 to 165. 14.04 to 13.33
166 to 170. 13.16 to 12.50
170 to 175. 12.34 to 11.71
'175 to 180. 11.56 to 10.97
180tol85. 10.83 to 10.27
185 to 190. 10.15 to 9.61
190 to 195. 9.48 to 8.97
195 to 200. 8.85 to 8.38
200 to 205. 8.26 to 8.80
205 to 210. 7.69 to 7.26
210 to 215. 7.16 to 6.74
215 to 220. 6.64 to 6.25
220 to 225. 6.15 to 5.78
225 to 230. 5.69 to 5.33
230 to 235. 5.24 to 4.89
235 to 239. 4.81 to 4.56
239.01 to 250,cnoughtomake$250 flat
Based on 1915 Pay
To figure the increase he will get
each employe should determine the pay
which his present position carried in
December, 1915, for if he has been pro?
moted or demoted his new wage is
based upon the 1915 pay of the position
which he now holds. Increases which
have accompanied promotions are not
increases in the sense of the new
schedule, since "the wage runs with
the place," not with the man. I
Back pay due under the retroactive j
increases will bo sent to any man who
has been dismissed from the railroad
service since January 1 or who has
entered the trmy or navy, but not to
j an employe who quit voluntarily.
An important principle contained in
the director general's order is that re?
ductions in hours since 1915 are not to
be regarded as increases in pay. This
means that employes of the four
brotherhoods affected by the Adamson
act are to receive additions on top of
the increases developed by that act.
For instance, an engineer who made
$4 a day working ten hours in 1915 may
have had his pay increased to $5 for
the same number of hours under the
I Adamson act. But for the purposes of
applying the new scale the $5 is con?
sidered as $4 a day of eight hours, with
$1 for two hours overtime. Conse?
quently, the pay will be increased on
the basis of $4 a day, and overtime will
be paid at the same rate of increase.
On this principle train employes, in?
cluding members of the leading
! brotherhoods, will receive approxi
j mately tho following proportional in?
creases over 1915,pay, or their equiva?
lent, when pay is , based on miles
? operated: Passenger engineers, 11 per
j cent; passenger firemen and helpers,
j 28 per cent; passenger conductors, 15
per cent; passenger baggagemen, 38
per cent; passenger brakemen and
f flagmen, 40 per cent; freight en?
gineers, 15 per cent; freight firemen
and helpers, 34 per cent; freight con
j ductor?, 20 per cent; freight brake
I men and flagmen, 40 per cent. These
! men also must deduct increases
j granted since 1910.
j The recognition of the eight-hour
| basis, though important as a principle,
j does not materially affect the scale of
i new wages granted. For instance, a
man who in 3915 received $3 for a ten
hour day would now. get $4.23 for ten
hours, but this $4.23 would be con?
sidered as $3.38 for a day's work (eight
hours) and 85 cents for two hours'
overtime. When readjustments are
made later, involving possibly extra
rates of pay for overtime, the full
I effect of the new principle will become
more apparent.
I Mr. McAd-So explained that, although
j the wage commission had not recom
? mended adoption of this principle, he
j felt it just to do so, both in view of the
general movement toward recognition
of a shorter working dsy, and more
specifically because the government
recognises the principle in public
works and contracts.
The principle of paying women the
same as men for comparable work, and
negroes the same as whit? men for the I
same services, the Director General j
also explained, is in conformity with |
government policies in other lines of
employment.
The negro rule will affect many
roads in the South, where negroes are ?
employed largely as firemen, train- ;
men, switchmen, laborers and for other ;
work. This, rule will become effective ?
June 1, but payment of back wages j
will not include increases resulting:
from the rule.
In addition to the rule regarding
women's pay, Mr. McAdoo specified
that "where women are employed their ?
working conditions must be healthful j
and fitted to their needs." He said all j
state or local laws relating to hours j
and conditions of employment mustj
be observed carefully. ,
The new board of railroad wages
and working conditions is composed of j
J. J. Dermody, vice-president of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers; G. M.,
Sines, vice-president of the Brother- j
hood of Railway Trainmen; A. O. j
Wharton, litad of the railway employ
ees' department of the American Fed- j
eration of Labor; F. F. Gaines, super- j
intendent of motive power of the Cen?
tral of Georgia Railway; C. E. Lind- !
sey, maintenance of ways engineer for \
the New York Central, and W. E.
Morse, general manager of the Denver!
and Salt Lake Railroad. The latter
three have resigned their positions with |
railroads. The board will sit in Wash- !
ington, probably continuously. i
"It shall be the duty of the board," j
says the wage order, "to hear and in- ;
vestigate matters presented by railway :
employes or their representatives af- !
fecting inequalities as to wages and
working conditions, whether as to in?
dividual employes or classes of labor; ?
conditions arising from ??ompetition ;
with employes in ot?er industries, j
rules and working conditions for the ?
several classes of employes, whether j
for the country as a whole or differ-1
ont parts of the country. The board \
shall hear and investigate other mat-1
ters affecting wages and conditions of]
employment referred to it by the Di
rector General.* The board shall be i
solely an advisory body and shall sub- !
mit its recommendations to the Di-?
rector General for his determination." j
This order contemplates a strong ef- !
fort to iron out many inequalities now'
existing. The board will deal with or- :
ganized and unorganized employes :
alike, and the railroad administration ]
on its own initiative takes up the j
claims of railway clerks and other un- j
organized men.
In the preamble to the "wage order
Director General McAdoo said:
"No problem so vast and intricate as !
that of doing practical justice to the
2,000,000 railroad employes of the
country can be regarded as completely
settled and disposed of by one deci?
sion or order, therefore the Board of
Railroad Wages and Working Condi?
tions is hereby established."
Appealing for the enthusiastic sup?
port of officials and employes, Mr. Mc?
Adoo said:
"It is my earnest hope that railroad
officials nnd railroad employes will
realize that their relations under Fed?
eral control are not based on the old
conditions of private management. Dis?
sensions and disappointments should be
forgotten and all should now remem?
ber that they are not only serving their
country in the operation o-f the rail?
roads, but that upen the character,
quality and loyalty of that service de?
pends in lurge measure our success in
this war.
"It is an inspiring task?this task of
putting upon a more just and equitable
basis the wages and working conditions
of loyal workers in railroad service?
I ?nd I confidently expect the patriotic
support and assistance of every rail?
road official and every railroad employe
| in performing that task with credit
j and with honor to their country."
i The only provision ft>r limitation of
earnings in the order is a rule that in
individual cases where the new scale
permits incieases "greater than is ap?
propriate or necessary to those train?
men and- cnginemen who make ab?
normal amounts of mileage and who,
therefore, make already abnormally
high monthly earnings," officials of
each railroan may take up with com?
mittees'of in?-n the question of limiting
mileage made per month by employes
paid on the mileage basis.
Special rates of pay are provided for
office, messenger and shore boys, and
similar employes under eighteen years,
as follows: $20 increase per month,
where the pay in December, 1915, was
from $30 to $45 a month; $15 increase
where rate was from $20 to $30 a
month; $10 increase where the rate
was les3 than $20 a month.
Interned German, Refusing
To Halt, Killed by Guard
ATLANTA, Ga., May 25.?Henrich
Knappke, a German prisoner interned
at Fort McPhersrm, yesterday over?
stepped the dead line maintained in?
side of the wire fence surrounding the
camp and failed to halt at the order of
a soldier guard. He was shot, and died
an hour later in the post hospital.
Colonel Van Gr?dalo, commandant,
said to-night that the sentry complied
with his duty and that no inquiry was
raoutred.
Sterling s. Silver. ^^t^
Unusual ?Designs, ?fr?1?
Exclusive ' Patterns ??h0
Reed&Barton
Established 1824
Fifth Avenue at 32ndSTREET
4-Maiden Lane
U. S. Agents Seek
Foe Propaganda
On Big Steamer
Scandinavian Liner, In
From Europe, Subjected
to Drastic Search
AN ATLANTIC PORT, May 26.?
Although she had been ransacked from
stem to stern by the British aut.iori- j
ties at Halifax, a big Scandinavian-]
American liner that arrived here to?
day from Copenhagen was put through
an unusual search by government in?
telligence services, and at midnight the
examination of the baggage of her 600
passengers had not been finished.
Every book, manuscript and docu?
ment was taken up for further scrutiny,
and when the government officials are
satisfied that t'.ie detained articles are
free of the taint of German propa?
ganda or intrigue they Will be returned
to their respective owners.
Prolwibly the most drastic inqui- !
sition of the day was put upon Monti
fiore Kahn, of the firm of Herman & !
Herman, of this city. He had been
abroad a year, and much of his time
was spent in Russia. As soon as the
vessel came into the harbor govern?
ment' officers ' went aboard, and long
after she docked they were closeted !
with-the traveller. When he came;
ashore to open his trunks for customs j
inspection a naval sentry was sent |
with him, with instructions to permit
him to speak to no one except those
who were to examine and appraise his
bf.K'gage.
Kahn had in his possession a large |
quantity of fine jewelry which he is I
said to have purchased in Russia, j
While he went through the ordeal of i
examination a man who knew Kahn in- I
formed one of the customs officials
that reports about Kahn's trip to
Europe had been circulated by an en?
emy, and that they might have been
responsible for the drastic search.
A large quantity of memoranda were'
taken from Kahn's baggage and ho;
was forced to return to the ship and ?
surrender it. Kahn said he had been i
under suspicion as a German propa-1
gandist since he left San Francisco a I
year ago and had been detained several j
weeks in Japan. He said he had the
same sort of trouble in Petrograd and :
Moscow.
Baron I Gerard Maydell, who comes !
from an old Russian family, returned |
on the vessel with his wife, accom-1
panied by eleven pieces of baggage j
which he described as "all that the ?
Bolsheviki didn't take."
He knew Kerensky well, he said, and, j
displaying some indignation, remarked i
that he was not aboard the ship, as was i
reported.
"It's well he isn't," he said, "as I'd I
hate to be on the same ship with him. I
That is the way all Russia feels tow- j
ard him, for Kerensky is the curse of i
Russia. If he should come here ask I
him and his friends just three ques-1
tions. They are these: Who was the
first in Russia to issue the order for
soldiers not to salute their officers?
Who suggested that the soldiers should
have the right to vote whether or not
they fought the enemy? And who fur?
nished arms for the Red Guards? He
will have some difficulty in answering
these questions directly and truthfully
and at the same time be able to main?
tain his pose as a martyr and a hero,
a pose which he hopes to impress upon
the people of the United States.
The Baroness Olga Maydell, who had
lived in Virginia when a girl, expressed
relief on being again in America. She
said that the flight of herself and hus?
band from Petrograd to Stockholm,
tfhich began last February, was a night?
mare.
Also on the vessel came J. Clan, the
Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs,
I who was Danish Consul General in New
i York for eight years. He is in charge
| of a mission from Denmark to Wash
| ington to negotiate with this govern
I ment for a trade agreement between
| the United States and Denmark.
j Olaf II. Lamm, of Stockholm, re
I cently appointed attach? to the Swedish
I Embassy in Washington, was a pas?
senger.
British Fliers Again
Bomb Bruges Docks
! Bring Down Eight Hostile Ma?
chines Without Suffering
Single Loss
LONDON, May 26.?An official state?
ment on aerial operations to-night
says:/
"There were only a few flying inter?
vals Saturday, during which over 300
bombs were dropped on billets in the
neighborhood of Armentieres and Mer
ville, an ammunition dump at Vars
; senaare and on the Bruges docks.
i "In air fighting eight hostile ma?
chines were brought down and two
j were disabled; another was brought
! down by machine-gun fire from the
i ground. None of our machines is
j missing.
"During a short period at night per
i mitting bombing, six tons of bombs
j were dropped on Peronne, Bapaume and
?Maricourt. All of our planes returned."
! Halifax Calm Again
After Wild Rioting
(Four Injured in Hospital,
! With Property Damage Be?
tween $5,000 and $10,000
HALIFAX, N. S., May 26.?The city
to-day regained its calm after the riot
! last night in which returned soldiers
| succeeded in freeing two of their com
| rades and a sailor who were arrested
! hy the police. No efforts were made
j to rearrest the three men, nor were
i any of their rescuers taken into cus
j tody.
As a result of the riot, which was
one of the wildest in the history of
the city, four men, injured when the
rioters stormed the City Hall and at?
tempted to set fire to the building,
were treated to-day at a hospital. The
properly damage was estimated at from
So.ooo to sto.noo.
U. S. Leads World
In Moral Care of
Army, Says Wilson
President Praises Work of
Spiritual Resources Mobi?
lized Back of Troops
WASHINGTON, May 26.?No army
ever before assembled in history has
had more painstaking thought given to
the protection and stimulation of it3
Jnental. moral and physical manhood
than the new American Army, Presi?
dent Wilson declared in a statement
made public here to-day by the Com?
mission on Training Camp Activities.
"Every endeavor is being made to
surround our fighting men with the
kind of environment which a democ?
racy owes to those fighting in its
behalf," the President said. "I do not
believe it is an exaggeration to say
that no army ever before assembled in
history has had more conscientious and
painstaking thought given to the pro?
tection ar,d stimulation of its mental,
moral and physical manhood. In this |
work the Commission on Training |
Camp Activities have represented the !
government and the government's !
solicitude that the moral and spiritual I
resources 'of the* 'nation should be j
mobilized behind the troops."
The President's -statement appears |
in "Keeping Our Fighters Fit for War
and After,".an official account of the ]
educational and recreational activities j
in the army and navy training camps, |
written by Edward Frame Allen in co- i
operation with Raymond B. Fosdick, !
chairman of the commission. A strik?
ing contrast is drawn between the
demoralizing conditions obtaining on
the Mexican border in 1916. when
American troops were concenti-ated
there, and the conditions of training
camps to-day.
3,500 Here Celebrate
British Empire Day
Italians Join in Cheering Men?
tion of England's Part
in War
British Empire Day was celebrated
at. Carnegie Hall last night. Over
3,500 Englishmen and friends of Eng?
land crowded the hall and listened to
concerts by the Garde R?publicaine
Band and a band of Scotch pipers, solos
by Mme. Frances Alda, Miss Anna
Fitziu, Miss Regina Victorina and Miss.,
Alice Brady and recitations by Julia
Marlon , E. H. Sothern and Clifton
CrawfoH.
The only speeches of the evening
were made by the British Consul, C.
Clive Bailey; Major General W. A.
White, in charge of the British-Cana?
dian recruiting commission here.^and
James M. Beck. General White de?
clared that Englishmen bere have two
duties to perform. One is to either
enlist or secure recruits for the army
of Great Britain, and the other is to
aid in supporting British dependent
families in this country whose men
have already gone to the war.
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Cadet Killed in Trial
Flight for Red Cross
Moultrie C. Trowbridge Dashed
to Earth at Kelly Field
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 25?Prac?
tice for a flying demonstration for the
benefit of the Red Cross at Kelly
Field to-day was fatal to Cadet Moul?
trie C. Trowbridge.
The flying exhibition was scheduled
for this afternoon and called for prac?
tically every flier at Kelly Field.
Trowbridge, flying alone this morning,
attempted a figure eight, banked his
machine too sharply and crashed to
earth in a tail spin. The body will be
sent to New York.
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Warns U. S. Against
"Leper of Potsdam'*
"Awake America", an appead by Dr.
j William T. Hornaday, in which he
i against warns America against the
I poison of German propaganda and the
l danger from the "Leper of Potsdam",
will be issued to-day by the American
' Defence Society.
Dr. Hornaday pays particular atten?
tion to the dangers arising from a mis?
conception of the German character.
"For forty years or more," he says,
"the Huns of Germany went masquer?
ading under cloaks of 'kultur' that
deceived the world. They successfully
diverted attention from the gross and
material side of the German character
j and everywhere set up idols in Ger
I many made with feet of clay."
The Week in Congress
Wilson to Outline
Immediate Need
For Revenue Bill
Formal Statement Urging
Action at Once Expected
in Few Day?
Members to Confer
Eleventh - Hour Compromise I
To Be Sought to Bring
About Adjournment
WASHINGTON, May 26. -Dissatisfied
but resigned, Congress is prepared to
revise its legislative programme this
week and abandon plans for adjourn?
ment in July.
President Wilson is expected to state
formally in a few days why revenue
legislation before the December ses?
sion is regarded as imperative.
Democratic and Republican leaders
failed to agree on plans proposed by
the President for a special session after
the fall elections. The work of form?
ing a new tax bill will proceed at once,
unless there is some most unexpected
development.
Final conferences on the question j
will be held to-morrow. Senator Sim- ?
mona, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, plans to see Secretary Mc
Adoo, and a compromise movement to
afford Congress a summer vacation
later on may follow.
Hope for Adjournment Later
Leaders hope the Administration may j
consent to an adjournment after the
revenue bill has made substantial prog?
ress early in the fall, possibly after it
has rep.ched the Senate, and defer com?
pletion of the measure until the winter
session.
With an all summer session regarded
as a disappointing certainty, a slowing
down of recent speed on legislation is
expected. Week - end recesses are
planned during the summer while com?
mittees work on the tax bill. This
week, however, much important legisla- ?
tion is on the programme.
The record-breaking army appropria?
tion bill, totalling about $12,000,000,000,
with its provision for calling all men to ;
the colors who can be trained and ?
equipped, will- be taken up Tuesday by j
the House under an agreement to give
it the right of way, in the hope of its
passage early next week. To-morrow
the House plans to pass the new urgent '
deficiency bill, carrying ?123,000,000.
Army Increase Bill Up
Increase of the army also is sched
' tiled for consideration by the Senate
in discussion of the resolution of Sen
! ator Reed, of Missouri, authorizing 3,
000,000 more men, unanimously re?
ported by the Senate Military Com?
mittee. Some opposition already has
developed in the Senate to the pro- !
i vision in the House bill, and champions i
! of the Reed resolution hope to make it j
! the basis of a compromise.
The aircraft inquiry of the Senate j
I military sub-committee, headed by Sen- i
ator Thomas, of Colorado, will meet tc- !
I morrow to discuss procedure.
Proposed increase to $2.50 a bushel'
j of the government's maximum guaran
? teed price for wheat will be considered !
I again to-morrow by Senate and House ]
j conferrees on the agricultural appro- i
I priation bill, with prospects of defeat)
I of the proposal by continuation of the i
present deadlock.
| Germany Turns Over
Two Ships to Holland
_
?They Will Take Place of
Vessels Destroyed by
Kaisers U-Boats
AMSTERDAM, May 2C?Two Ger-j
man ships will sail in the near future!
' from the Dutch East Indies to Holland
' as Belgian relief ships, according to |
| a Rotterdam telegram to the "Nieuwe I
I Rotterdamsche Courant."
The German vessels, the dispatch ]
| states, have been placed at the dis- ?
posai of Holland by the German gov- ;
ernment to replace two of the six i
Dutch ships which were torpedoed in j
the English Channel on February 22, ?
1917, when the entire fleet of Dutch:
merchantmen, supposedly free fromj
submarine depredations, was attacked!
by a German U-boat and all of the!
units either destroyed or badly dam-!
aged.
Bulgars Fired on Train
Of Emperor Charles
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26.?|
The train bearing the Austrian Em?
peror and Empresa from Constanti- '?
nople, where they had been on a brief
visit, reached Vienna yesterday in a
dilapidated condition. Advices from
tho Swiss frontier town of Buchs
give additional details to the reports
previously received here of the at?
tacks on the Austrian royalties.
T,he train came by way of Sofia and
was stoned by Bulgarian troops. Even
some rifle shots were fired, and sev?
eral members of the royal entourage
were injured by glass from broken
windows.
Not a cheer was heard when the
Austrian royal couple passed through
I Bulgarian stations, there being only
comparatively small military demon?
strations.
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Patriotic Homicide
Plea of Accused in
Prager Lynching
Defence Aims to Show Kill?
ing Was an Act of
Loyalty
{Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
EDWARDSVILLE, 111., May 26.?The
prosecution to-day was preparing to
tear to pieces the unwritten law per
mitting "patriotic homicide," which
counsel of defence is expected to plead
in behalf of the eleven men accused of
lynching Robert Prager.
From questions to jurors, since the
opening of the murder trial here two
weeks ago, it has been evident that J.
M. Bandy, the defendants' attorney,
will stake the lives of his clients on
the anti-alien sentiment in Madison
County. If he obtains a full parel of
veniremen who believe that mobs have
the right to anticipate Federal author?
ities in dealing with alleged disloyal?
ists his case is won. *
State's Attorney Streuber said to?
day he was ready to meet any defence
that tries to show Prager as a danger?
ous outlaw and fair game for the first
man who decided to hunt him down.
"The defence has indicated that it
will try to establish Prager's killing as
an act of patriotism," he said. "I'm
not saying now whether I think Prager
was loyal or disloyal. That question
will be threshed out when we begin
taking evidence.'
"He really was a German. Let us
assume that he made seditious remarks
that he was an enemy, which I'm not
admitting. But if he were everything
the defence probably will try to make
him out, I don't just see how we can
feel any great local pride in the men
who are charged with hanging him.
"We have eleven here on trial, of
that number seven are husky, unmar?
ried citizens within the ages of mili?
tary service. Let us go so far as to
say that Prager was a menace to the
community. In such case the law
would have taken care of him. And he
was only one man.
"On the Western front in France
there arc about two million Germans,
and we know they're dangerous. It
seems to me that the place for a really
patriotic American to kill Germans is
in France, not in Illinois. If this
patriotic plea is carried too far, it will
be pertinent to inquire why seven of
those defendants have failed to prove
their Americanism in the front line
trenches."
?-. ?Captain R.Hugh
Knyvett
in OVER lr-.ERE WITH THE
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Anti-German Bureau._
Opened Here by Italy
To let the world know the great
sacrifices Italy is making to defeat the
Central Empires and at the same
i time, to expose the intrigue of German
propagandists is the mission of the
Bureau of Information on Italy, which
! will be opened to-day at 501 Fifth
; Avenue.
The director of the bureau, Dr.
? Felice Ferrero, is correspondent here
? of the "Corriere della Sera", of Milan.
He has represented his paper in Ber
' lin, and on special missions to Auitria
? and ?he Balkan countries, France,
! England, Belgium and Scandinavia.
N. Y. U. G?ts $122,000
Students and Alumni Contrib?
ute to $600,000 Fund
Students and alumni of New York
; University have raised $122,000 in a
? campaign to obtain a fund of $600,000
: needed to proceed with a programme
j of expanded war work which the uni
' vcrsity will undertake in thre fall.
There are now 600 National Army
i men receiving 'technical training at
: University Heights, and this course
will be continued this summer. The
campaign to complete the fund is con
! fined at nresent to the alumni of fie
: College of Arts and Pure Science and
! the School of Applied Design, but the
! general undergraduate body expect to
enlist in the drive the alumni of the
\ schools of Law, Medicine, Commerce
\ and Pedagogy, the Graduate School,
I Washington Square College and the
Veterinary Collage.
Improvement Noted in
Fairbanks'? Condition
INDIANAPOLIS, May 26.- The con
; dition of former Vice-President
; Charles W. Fairbanks, who is ill at hi?
home here, shows slight improvement
I over yesterday, according to attending
! physicians.
Mr. Fairbanks, they said, has rested
I more comfortably during the day, but
? his condition is still very critical.
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