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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919
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TWO CENTS
i In Greater NVw York ami
( within commuting distan? e
THREE CENTS
Elsewhere
.4 Full Page of Pictures of the
15th Infantry Parade on Page 9
Throngs Pay
Tribute to
Heroic 15th
Col. Hay ward and IN ogro
Warriors Receive Ova-'
jion in 5th Ave. Parade
Official* (Ihrrr
Wetlal Winners
"CJiicrvin* Dinner" With
Entertainment Brings
Cifv'? Welcome to (lose
P the ? idt avenue
. wung. Their
outshone
golden sun?
light, In every
line r roud chests
, xpanded beneath
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,i won. The i in -
\ pasi ioned cheering
? , ?' ' he crowds
n assed along Cue
drowned the
? ng cadence of
I. The old 15th
.-?' York turned
., -, .-.. .tu '.I heroes
welcome.
first opportunity to
own regiments, The
negro volu led oversea,;
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it week as
? ore New
I the I anee to pay
its tril ' erana who
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epii -i ' glory.
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^ Continued on paye tight
Metal Workers' Strike
l?i Seattle to Continue
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 17.? At the j
end of a morning session the confer- I
ence committee of the Seattle Metal j
Trades Council announced at noon to
day that it had decided to continue, j
the strike involving approximately
?0.000 striking metal trades worker.", j
in shipyards and contract shops here.
The committee's statement was given
in answer to the announcement yester?
day by the shipbuilders that they would
reopen their yards Wednesday, re
nmploying union men at the gates un?
der the Macy scale, prevailing prior to
the strike. The committee's statement ?
added that if the yards reopened th<*y :
would not employ men affiliated with
the local trafics council. Under the
??lacy agreement the shipyards are to '
employ only union men, hut may "pick
and choose."
Woman Jumps From Pier
.Miss Anna Clark, a nurse in Belle
vue Hospital, glanced out of a window j
while making the round ?if her ward
early this morning and saw a woman
standing on the end of the pier at, the
foot of West Thirtieth Street. As she
watched she saw the figure drop into
the river.
The nurse ran to the telephone and a
moment later John F. Met?ale, the night
superintendent, with John McGann,
Charles Dalton and John Travers, were
on the run for the jiicr. They heard
screams and by lantern light found the
woman clinging to a erosspieee of the
piles. It took twenty minutes to get
her to the pier. Then she was taken
to the hospital, where she is in a seri?
ous condition from shock and submer?
sion. She has not been identified.
Fireman Killed
In Burning Ship
At Bush Piers
?Seventh of Luckenbach Ye?
sels ?Narrowly Escapes De?
struction; Eight Men Hurt
The fate, which for years has pur?
sued ships of the name Luckenbach
narowly missed . adding another tally
to the score last night. One fireman
was killed and eight persons were in
jured lighting a lire in the steamship
K. I. Luchen bach, docked at a Bush
Terminal pier at the foot of Fifty
first Street, South Brooklyn. If the
lire had spread to a hatch containing
gasolene, the vessel would have been
destroyed and the seventh ship bearing
the name Luckenbach, owned by the
Luckenbach Line, would have been
lost within a few years.
Alfred Kundie, twenty-eight years ol.l,
living ?it 383 Fifty-seventh Street,
Brooklyn, was the fireman killed. He
was attached to Truck Company 114.
Kundie had started down into Hatch
No. 3, in which the fire was at that
time confined. He fell, perhaps from
suffocation, in the centre of a veritabh
furnace of blazing straw, grain and
canteen supplies intended for the
American Expeditionary Force.
Battalion Chief James Laucan, of the
10th Battalion, led a rescue party.
With him went Sergeants John Fackner
and Edward Ilegwalk, of the 341st
Army Truck and Hose Company. All
three were overcome by smoke. Other
firemen and soldiers rescued these
three and recovered Kundie's body.
During this rescue or in the lire light?
ing that followed these firemen were
overcome: Captain Richard Collins,
Hook and Ladder Company ino; Cap
rain John (.'ashman, Engine Company
U7*; Captain Leonard Gebhard, Engine
Company 223; Lieutenant Gallagher,
Truck Company 11?, and Fireman
Barry. Truck Company 114.
Members of the Women's Motor Corps
of Brooklyn responded to the call for
ambulances. They gave first aid to the
injured.
When Battalion Chief Langan wa?
carried out unconscious his coat and
shirt were removed. As he went to put
his garments back on, he discovered
that $50 in money, a ?M50 diamond pin
and a diamond studded badge were
missing. Detectives were notified.
The tire was of unknown origin. The
damage was $10,000 to the ship and
$25,000 to the cargo.
Deport Girl Stowaways
Feminine Freight of Transport
May Cause Trouble for Officers
After a long interrogation at Ellis
Island yesterday a board of special in
qu ry ordered the deportation of Miss
Bowie Bell and Miss Margaret Smith,
who arrived here .Sunday as stowaways
on the transport Louisville.
The young women, who aro both.
nineteen years old, said they were
clerks at Liverpool, but they Rave lit?
tle information to reveal how they
were secreted aboard the transport.
It is known that one commissioned of?
ficer and two petty officers have been
charged with guilty knowledge of their
presence, and the three men, it i
may be held for court martial.
The board of special inquiry ordered
the women deported on the technical
charge that they were likely to become
public charge-. The testimony was
forwarded to the Navy Department and
the Commissioner General of Immigra
i on.
GOOD POSITIONS EASY
Keen Competition Demands a Knowl?
edge of Languages
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. A sixty-four
page book, entitled "Language Logic,"
profusely illustrated with full page
half-tone engravings, tells how Span?
ish can be acquired by a very wonder?
ful method by which you can learn to
?peak a well a i read and write Ipan
- French, Italian snd Engli h simply
by l:"t.< oing to specially prepared
phonograph record?, on any machine,
!? publisher?, the Cortina Academy, 12
(????t Forty-sixth Street, Desk 60, New
York, announce that for a limited time
tl . book will }ip given free to all who
write for it.- Advt.
IL S. to Try
To End Strike
On Buildings
Baker and Wilson to Seek
Adjustment of Problems
at Issue in New York
Elevator Men Quit Work
Gpmpers Urged to Block the
Plans of Employers to
(?el European Contracts
There were three outstanding de?
velopments in the building trades strike
yesterday: (11 An appeal by Secretary
Baker and Secretary of Labor Wilson
for both sides to confer with them in
Washington to-morrow; (2) a cable
message to Samuel Gompers in Paris
asking him to block the efforts of mem?
bers of the Building Trade:- Employers'
Association to secure contracts in
France and Belgium, and (3) the strike
? of all elevator constructors and main?
tenance men in New York.
The telegram calling the conference
in Washington read:
"In view of the public inter?s! and
widespread effect of the strike of car:
penters in the building trade;-,, the
. Secretary of War and the Secretary of
Labor jointly request a conference, of
representatives of the Building Trades.
Employers'Association and the Broth?
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America at the office of the Secre?
tary of War, Washington, nl 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday.
"NEWTON I.i. BAKER,
S< cretary of War.
"WILLIAM I!. WILSON,
Si en " i-? ol I abor."
Of the three developments the
iff the elevator constructors is one
of the ni" ' immediate importance.
This is what is known in trade union
par?ame as an "100 per cent organi?
sation," containing as it doe;; within
its membership virtually every elevator
constructor in New Vork City. The
strike of the elevator constructors is
number, means that, for the present
at least, all new construction work, as.
I well as any but the simplest of re?
pairs, en elevators, i al an end.
The deci on of til-" War Department
'?i take a hand in the controversy was
interpeted last night as meaning that
it was about to reverso its position
en the matter of wages in New York.
When the carpenters' trouble broke last
November the quartermaster's depart?
ment of the army ruled that $5.50 a
day was the prevailing rate of wages
in this city and refused to permit con?
tractors on the Brooklyn army base
to pay more. Since then a survey "f
the city has been made and there is
authority for saying that the figures
of the department now show a change
;:i the conditions here.
Prevailing Wage fixed at $6.50
This survey was mad bv canvassing
all ol the contractors in New York on
various trade conditions, including
Continued on ?mac five
Soviet Plan
Of Forced
Free Love
Two Decrees for "Nationali?
zation"' of Women Given
to Overman Committee
Children State - Owned
Also Prize of 200 Rubles
Provided by One Commit?
tee for Mother of Twins
New Vor/,- Tribune
Il n. hivrjtov Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.- Two de?
crees by Russian Soviets under which
'women arc "socialized*' or "national
ized" were given to day to M?e Over?
man committee, furnishing the addi?
tional proof of the reports coming out
of Russia of ?he Bolshevik plans for
the degradation of women.
The decrees on women showed that
there was no uniformity of action
among the Soviets. In one rase the
decree provided that every woman over
eighteen should be compelled once a
month to choose a "cohabitant hus?
band," whose consen'. w; 3 not asked,
and that men had the same right to
choose a woman without, her consent.
In the other the requirement was that
all women between eighteen and thirty
two became the "property of the na?
tion," and were subject to any recog?
nized citizen.
This latter decree was issued at
Saratov and is based on decree.; of the
Soviet of Kronstadt at the eradle of
the Bolshevist revolution. The witness
stilled that many people were fleeing
: from the city and that it. seemed doubt?
ful whether the decree could be en?
forced. ' ! is as fol ! ow ;
Decree
"Tins' decree is proclaimed by the
Free Association of Anarchists in
the town of Saratov. In compli?
ance with the decision of the Soviet
of peasants and noldiers und work?
men's deputies of Kronstadt, the
abolition of the private possession
ol women.
Motiveis
"Social inequalities and legitimate
marriage having been a condition in
ihe past which served as an instru?
ment in the hands of the bourgeoisie,
thanks to which all the best species
of all the beautiful have been the
property of the bourgeoisie, have
prevented the proper continuation of
the human race. Such ponderous
arguments, have induced the present
organization to edict the following
decrev:
"1. From March 1st the. right to
possess, women having reached the
ages 17 to 32 is abolished.
'"J. The age of women shall he
i determined by birth certificate or
passports or by the testimony i f
witnesses, and on failure to produce
documents their ape shall he deter?
mined by the Black Committee who
, shall judge them according to ap?
pearance.
"3. This decree does not affect
women having five children.
In Case of Resistance
"?">. In ease of resistance of the
husband he shall forfeit the right of
the former paragraph.
"6. All women, according to this
decree, are exempted from private
Continued on page seven
NEW TRUCE TERMS SIGNED;
HELGOLAND TO BE STRIPPED;
U. S. SOON TO QUIT RUSSIA
Preliminary Steps Taken
to Withdraw Allie d
and American Troops
Soldiers Expected
To Leave by Spring
W i I s o n Notines Baker
500 Engineers Will Aid
in Work of Evacuation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.?Withdrawal
of American troops from Russia at the
"earliest practicable moment'' vicNt.
spring was announced in a letter re?
ceived to-day by Senator Chamberlain,
of Oregon, chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, from Sec?
retary of War Baker.
Secretary Baker's statement was
based on a communication to the War
Department forwarded by General Tas
ker II. Bliss, of the American peace
delegation, al the instance of the Presi?
dent, in which General Bliss reported
that the President has approved the
si nding of American railroad troops to
Murmansk "to facilitate the prompt
withdrawal of American and Allied
t-oops from North Russia at the ear?
liest, possible moment that weather con?
ditions in the spring will permit."
To facilitate the withdrawal addi?
tional .'orces aro being dispatched to
the scene. Groat Britain is sending
'.MINI troops and the united States
railroad engineer units numbering
about 500 men.
Secretary Baker also said (?enera!
Bliss had informed him that the- Brit?
ish military authorities felt no appre?
hension as to the military situation at
A re h a ?lire 1.
Secretary Baker's Letter
Secretary Baker's letter, which was
si nt to the chairmen of both the House,
and Senate Military Committees, said:
"I bav-e just received a cablegram
from General Bliss, sent by tbe Pres-r
dent's direction, in which I am told
that the President 'has approved the
sending of two American railway
companies to Murmansk for the i'ol
lowing object:-: First, to assure
greater safety during this winter of
the Allied forces both along Mur?
mansk and at Archangel and south
ol Archangel; tecond, the much bet?
ter supply and, if necessary, the re?
inforcement from Murmansk of the
advance detachments south of Mur?
mansk and Archangel; third, to facil?
itate the prompt withdrawal of
American and Allied troops in North
Russia at the earliest possible mo?
ment that weather conditions in the
spring will permit. The President
lias directed me to communicate the
foregoing to the heads of the Allied
governments, which I have done. The
Continued on next page
Germans Curbed. Says Erz berger
T ONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 18.?Mathias Erzberger ha? returned to
* J Weimar from Tr?ves, according to a German wireless message
picked up here. Following his return ho appeared before the
National Assembly and read the text of the now armistice agree?
ment. After he had finished the reading Erzberger is reported to
h ave sa i d:
"1 do not wish any of this House to ever have to live through
such heavy hours ?is it was my fate to live at Tr?ves. The German
commission's activity was kept to the narrowest, limits, as Marshal
Koch declined to extend the period, and he declared he was unable
to alter anything in the stipulations, since the conditions had been
framed by the chiefs of the Allied governments. Marshal Foch's
interpreter stated that President Wilson has approved the condi?
tions of the now armistice."
I
Allies Must
Curb Germany,
P i e ?? o il S a y s
l-Yenrli Minister Drrlares
Teutons Are lo Bo Made
?<> Realizo Their Llofeal
By Frederick Moore
Vi m York Tribune
Fo cign Cable Si r<-T
(i 'opyright, L013, N< - Y. rk Tribuno Inc )
PARIS, Feb. 16; ? "The man if e ta
tions at Weimar justify our views of
the necessity of taking pn cautions and
making it. clear to the Germans that
they are beaten, omething they appar?
ently do not realize as yet," said
Stephen Pich?n, the French Foreign
Minister, to-day.
"They have apparently no conception
whatever that they have been guilty of
! international crimes," he '???'??w' on, "or
that the Allies need tr> lake precautions
to avoid a repetition of them. The
[ Germans seem to be speculating upon
the possibility of a division among the
Allies, but the discussions of the Coun?
cil of Ten and of the peace conference
I are mich as would cause them great
' surprise.
"Everything proves that there is no
difference of opinion among the Allies
on essential points," he continued. "The
only questions raised affect ways and
means. In all steps to he taken to
make it impossible for Germany to
renew the war there is but one spirit,
and that is absolute unanimity."
Wait on Future Events
a?
''Are the Allies prepared to recog?
nize the present German government?"
; he was then asked. Hi?, answer was:
"If (lie results of the recent election
are carried out in due form there is
no reason why it ?should not be recog?
nized in the ordinary way.''
The position of the French with re?
gard to the league of nations gives
special importance to the declarations
of M. Pich?n. lie said that France
had not the slightest, ?mention of
weakening the unanimity with which
the draft of the covenant went before
?he peace conference, but that Leon
Bourgeois had pointetl out certain ad?
ditions to the text which were desir?
able for the strengthening of guaran?
tees, and that a movement toward se?
curing these additions certainly would
be made.
The situation as he explained it was
that the draft had been unanimously
agreed to by the powers represented
on the commission, and it remained for
the peace conference itself to see
whether it could be improved. Any
power may introduce an amendment,
which will be referred to the league
of nations commission and later re?
ported to the conference.
Will Work Without Wilson
Ti.i questions whether the peace con?
ference would meet before the return
of President Wilson, M. Pich?n re?
plied:
"When leaving, the President placed
great stress upon his de-tire that the
work of the peace conference should
go on during his absence, adding that
he liad left behind men he trusted, whe
were fully able to continue the work
ile is anxious to conic hack as soon as
possible, and hopes that the work dour
while he Is away "ill result in im?
portant questions being considerably
advanced toward final solution."
When asked, "fan the Allies among
themselves form a league before the
neutrals arc consulted'.'" he replie?
that the answer was in t"no covenant
in which the power- constitute them
selves a league. The league will nut
reach its final form until the neutral:
arc consulted, he added, "but they wi!
certainly come in and agree to forn
part of the league."
"Must the national parliaments b
consulted in regard to the covenant'.'
was another question, and M. Pichoi
answered :
"Of course, the parliaments of th
various nations must pasa un the co\
enant before it goes mto force, 1> caua
the questions of sovereignty and mil
I I tary power are involved, making pa
! liamentary sanction imperative."
Wilson Thinks
Constitution
No League Bar
Protest Against Debate in
Senate Pending Arrival Is
Likely To Be Ignored
By Carter Field
AVw York Tribuna
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. President
Wilson does not. believe an amendment
to the Constitution is necessary to per
mit the United States to join the league
of nations, unless he ha? changed his
mind radically on this question. Hi
has said the President and the Senati
can commit the country to compulser?
a lint ration and even to the policy o
an -international army to enforce thi
decrees of an international tribunal
thereby displaying a sharp different
in opinion with several very ominen
lawyers in the Senate.
This fact became known here to
night at the same time that it becam
evident that Mr. Wilson's request tha
?'.ere he no debate on the. league o
nations plan in Congress before h
had explained the document to th
Foreign Affairs and Relations Tom
mittees would not be strictly observ?e
Senator Poindexter gave notice o
his intention to speak Wednesday an
it was taken for granted that, a dis
cussion of th-1 league plan would tak
place m the Senate.
Wilson Letter Is Cited
In view of the attacks on the pr?
posai for the United States to join tl
league of nations as unconstitution
and the contention by many Senato:
that such a surrender of the warma
ing power by Congress, as is implied
in joining such a league, would neces?
sitate an amendment to the Constitu?
tion, the following letter, written by
['resident Wilson to Senator John }-'.
Shafroth, of Colorado, on January 3,
11'17, and made public for the first time
to-day. when Mr. Shafroth gave me the
letter, is of great ?nteres'..
- "My Dear Senator:
"Personally. I do not doubt our
power to join m any arrangement
with regard to the maintenance of
the peace of the world in which the
President and the Senate may unite,
but I realize the interest and im?
portance of resolutions such as you
have introduced and am very glad
indeed that the matter is to be thor?
oughly canvassed. Mv own feeling is
that the power of dealing with for?
eign affairs is given in as complete
terms as necessary in the Constitu?
tion, and 1 think the more the ques?
tion is discussed the more clear that
will become.
"Cordially and sincereiy your-,
"(Signed; WOODROW WILSON."'
Amendment Evoked Letter
The letter was, in reply to a lettei
from Senator Shafroth asking an in
(iorsement of an amendment to the Con
stitution which Mr. Shafroth had pro
posed. To be fully appreciated in it:
important bearing on the present dis
cussion as to whether the United State
could join the league as proposed a
Paris without an amendment to th
Constitution, the letter must be con
sidered in connection with the Shafrotl
amendment.
The section which Mr. Shafroth a
that time wished to add to the legisla
tion is as follows:
"The President is authorized to
negotiate and, after ratification by
both house? of Congress, to sign
a'treaty or treaties with all ov a
part of the other sovereign nations
of the world, engaging the United
States to submit for final determina?
tion all international disputes threat
oiling war to an international tri?
bunal or tribunals and also engag
, ing the United States to assist in
supplying funds for the support of
said tribuna! or tribunals and o?
Continued mi ;?/?/<? throe
if ;. ,.-i can : :e i inonej
j "i; can :??m .?' ?hile j ,,ii na ve,
au for particular? of
Inri ill l'ujmont I'lllll.
John Muir & lu,, til B'way.? Ai1\t.
Kiel Canal Also Expected
To Be Dismantled and
Opened to World Trade
Foe Agrees lo Live
Up to Old Terms
Erzberger Asks Release of
Prisoners and l se of
German Merchant Ships
i The now Allicil armistice terms
wore signed by the German ar?
mistice commission on Sunday
at (?:?'!(> p. m.
Under the terms Marshal Foch will
impose demobilization and dis?
armament upon Germany.
The exact disarmament require
ments have nut bren announced,
but they arc said tu appl' to both
the army and navy fortifications.
Helgoland and the Kid Canal will
be stripped of their defences and
the canal is tu be op? tied to com?
mercial navigation, it is : lio
It is also said that the German war?
ships which have been interned in
Scapa Flow are to be surrendered
and destroyed.
Germany must abandon all offen?
sive movements against the Poles
and prohibit her ; roops from
crossing the Russian frontier at
certain, points.
A line of demarcation was drawn
between Germany and Poland in
such a. way as to give Poland a
considerable, part <>f To en and
a strip of Silesia.
The. restrictions on German arma?
ment enforced by the. armistice re?
newal are to be made permanent
through the league of nations, it
is said.
The German government, after an
all-night session at Weimar, at
which the leaders of all parties
were present, ordered Chairman
Erzberger, <>f {'?>" German ar
mistice commission, to siL'n 11t*
document.
?,rzberger, at the instance of the
German government, presented
a note to Marshal I och regard?
ing the release of German pris?
oners, and also concerning Gei
man merchant ships and com?
mercial intercourse between Ger?
many and occupied <>
ritory.
The Supreme Allied Peace f'
in Paris, at the .-, of
Winston Churchill, Briti h Secre
tary of Suite for War, tool: up
the queston of rei he in
vitation to the L. ti< i
for the Prinkipo conference, 01
the basis of new conditions.
Blockade Not Raised.
But Relief Measures
Are Expected Later
PARIS. Feb. it. Marshal Foch ap?
peared in person before the council
of great powi rs t i-day ai d announced
the accepta':.- ai i ie signing !
Germans of the i coi
arm istice.
The sij k place at 6 o'clock
Sunday evening on board Marsha;
Foch's private car at Tr?ves
"?\,\< averts what promised to be a
rather critical situation, as it had
been reported that the Germans might
persist in carrying out their intima
! tions of a refusal to sign.
The new terms, till withheld,
are understood to n strict German op?
erations aga : " Pi ': ' d within cer?
tain fixed lini removing the
danger of a military clash, and a*
same time opening ? tween the
? -ior of Poland and the Baltic Siea.
But more importar.' results will take
form shortly when Marshal Foch re
turns to ? mission of * he
deta
? n ' ' Gi man forces,
which are be :-.- mil
it ary, naval and econ sm i s of
Foch. These arc of a nature amount?
ing in fact to a prelim nary reare
agreement.
Disarmament .- ui lerstood to in?
clude both ? ? and military
branche . authorit ie ex
pect the ult n ..' terms will pro?
vide for the dismantling of the forti?
fications of Helgoland and the Kiel Ca?
nal, the canal being opened for com?
mercial navigation.
While the blockade is not raised by
the present term .pcctcii that
the disarmament under later and more
complete terms will obviate t;-,e neces?
sity of a furthr bl ? ? permit
: economic and food relief a., it
? determined upon.
The council of the great power? to
i dn> gave a further hearing on the Rus
? sian question, hut no decision whs
reached. The feeling seema to he jron
eral that no decision is in ?light and