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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919
6 A.M. Edition
WEATHER
Rain and Cooler To-d<?> ; Probably
Rain To-morrow. Moderate Wind?
Full Report on Pag? -3
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Two U. S. Ocean Fliers Reach Halifax, One Missing,
Start on Second Stage of Flight To Be Made To-day;
^ermans Unite In Denouncing "Brutal" Treaty
540-Mile Trip Made
at Rate of Mile a
Minute; Flagship
Is First at Halifax
Engine Trouble
Delays NC-4
Destroyers Sent to
Search Seas for
Missing Machine
5he three giant United States naval
seaplanes, NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4,
flew f 10131 Rockaway at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning on the first leg
of their flight across the Atlantic
Ocean.
Two of the "planes, the NC-1 and
the NC-3. alighted on the waters
of Halifax Harbor at 6:.55 o'clock
New York time, 7:55 Halifax.
They covered the total distance of
540 nautical miles at an average
of one nautical mile a minute, de?
spite the stiff gale which blew off
the Nova Scotia coast.
The NC-4, commanded by Lieuten?
ant A. C. Read, developed engine
trouble off Chatham, Mass., after
being in the air 3 hours and 20
minutes. When last heard from
she was proceeding on her way
with three engines running, and
was reported at 2:33 o'clock to be
off Outer Cliff, Me., headed foi
Halifax. Two destroyers are
searching for her.
The NC-3, flagship of Commander
John H. Towers, "admiral" of the"
air fleet, was the first to complete
the aerial voyage. She was fol?
lowed ten minutes later by the
NC-1.
Lieutenant Commander Towers an?
nounced on his arrival at Halifax
that his ship and the NC-1 would
attempt the second leg of the flight
from Halifax to Trepassey, N. F.,
to-day.
All Halifax Out
To Greet Fliers
Cheers of Thousands Min
ule With the Shrieks of
Sirens as 'Planes Land
HALIFAX, .V. S., May ?S. The first
I-P of the first American transatlantic
flight was successfully completed to?
night when two navy seaplanes, the
NC-3 and the NC-1, glided to their
moorings in Kahtern passage, Halifax
harbor, at 8 o'clock after covering the
MO mile? from KocKaway Beach, in
exactly nine houra.
The aviators found conditions fairly
favorable and did not deviate from
their pre-arranged schedule. Com?
mander Tower was in charge of the
?lC-3, which arrive?! first, and Com
? Bellinger v/as in charge of the
HC-1. The aviators reported to the
States ciuiser Baltimore and
' ' ? ??? the flight to Newfound
orning.
The arriva! of the 'planes was most
It was just at ?unset, and
v.an, partly overcast with cloud's
of purplish gray shot with crimson tow?
ard the north, while the water of the
harbor -.vas ?tee] gray.
At ten minute? to ft o'clock ;. tiny
b.*?k ?pecJ: wu ?ilhoutted against a
Nfe '. of blue sky to the south in the
?''????? tion of i.?.ebjetohead. It grew
tepidly larger until the graceful con?
tour of the wing? of the NC-3 Were
iMfaly visible. j>, ?area wiftly toward
?i.city and opposite Point Plea ?.,<.-.<
"?rk planed down with hoarlntj en?
'''?' As it struck the Wfcte? a great
'?'???i >,' irri?des?sent spray shot op,
'Plane Dodge* Fishing Smock
proceeding ut tremendous
*He4 tr,<- 'plane round???) the edge of
?aer.ah a Jajarid and rushed toward its
?Coring?, leaving great furrows of
?Mm ir, it? wake, ere a fishing smack
?v.*?Y<.*ed the toarte, ne-tsesirttfiting a de- .
\'">t, bat the NC-3 fttked \xp Its moor
"'it* off the former American air
?t?t?on,
* few minutes later the \'<" J we?
*>Xn*Ant and landed seven. I hundred
y*t4* north <,r Maenabe island, toco?
'?tyt ftbont end proceeding to its ?,r>
******?? A number of tugs and Bub?
">'?';!?<? chasers rur,h<t<\ to tb* 'planen
*M the aviators were taken off and
??rried to the Baltimore,
Hsj.fax v/as roused to ?n unusual
1' ''? oevr the flight and all through
Continued vit. ftaf/e thirteen
! ROUTE 'PLANES FOLLOWED
Atlantic Coast line from Rockaway
to Halifax showing time at which
principal points were passed.
Women Keep
Returning Men
From Old Jobs
Soldiers Find Vacancies
Fewer, but Successors
Have Made Good and
- Work for Less Money ?
The success of woman workers as
substitutes for men during the war is
making it more difficult for men to
get jobs in peace times. Officials of
the Unitod States Employment Service
said yesterday that while 100,000 men,
: including discharged soldiers, sailors
and marines, are out of work in New
York City, the demand for women
workers is greater than the supply.
"It is daily growing more difficult
for a man to get _ a job,'' said Dr.
George W. Kirchwey, state director of
the service.
"A woman can get a job merely by
qualifying," said Miss Louise Oden
crantz, assistant to Dr. Kirchwey, in
charge of the women's division.
Reasons assigned for the situation
arc :
Employers who placed women in
jobs of men called to war arc keep?
ing the women.
Women have proved competent to
hold men's jobs-as elevator operators
< they are "more courteous,." as bank
: clerks moro efficient, as chauffeurs
i more careful, and as mechanics more
deft.
The clothing trades industries, in
which women are largely employed, arc
flourishing; men taiiors are scarce.
Waitresses Retained
Jiote! waitresses, who took men's
jobs, and conductorcttes are being re
tained.
Women workers are scarce because
hundreds of them have ouit their jobs
to get married, because in many in
' stances they are satisfied with places
at less pay than men, because housc
wivei who gave, up domestic servants
during the war are now wanting them
back and the demand for woman ser?
vants is about four jobs to every ser
i vant and because business in. which
women can work is increasing.'
"There i<. practically no unemploy?
ment problem so far as women work
ers arc concerned," said .Miss Mary
li. Tolman, in charge of the employ?
ment service's women's professional
section, "An unskilled woman worked
can get a job merely by asking for it.
; She may receive only $12 or $15 a
v.i i.k, which is not a cent more than is
required to maintain her, Men would
pot be satisfied with that pay. Indeed
some firms ask for git I workers who
!;\t. ut home. Their purpose is ob
vious they want to pay low wages.
Only Six Women Ousted .
??; i.i.r-'.. i,!' on! i ? Ix cases in the last.
;.'.?.? in where women workers wore re?
placed by discharged soldiers. It is
not being generally done."
Some1"concerns arc replacing women
by men only when the women volun?
tarily ouit.
H. M. Norris, employment official of
thi InUrborough Rapid Transit, ??m
"he company now employs about 000
women ticket agents and choppers.
Same Pay as Men
"Tlw-y are not. going to be fired,"
said .Mr. Norn?. "They are getting
the ?tarne pay as men. The men coming
back also are being given jobs, with ?
KUCh increased pay and advantages of j
seniority ?r may have accrued to them
?lui Ing ? hei r abuchee."
On the si i/ face in,e? ,n Manhattan
find Thfl Brtftf? about. -100 conductor- I
<?!!<,' ;>m- ?till in service, '/'hey sre be?
ing replaced by men ?un fast dh they :
MMM HOOK ROUTE,
.. ,,?-.,i,in'', on fluriduy, Muy it, tvllh
-''?i".'i. Two fleam??!'? on iiuy '?u
A '11 ?.
'World Record
; Rally Yields
? $125,000,000
i '
?Victory Loan Meeting at
Metropolitan Opera House
Sets New Mark in War
Finance Enthusiasm!
I One Bid for $13,000,000
Made by Police Force, Who
Thereby "Capture" Por?
trait of King Albert
I
Two hours of the most intensive bond
I selling ever seen last night netted New
? York's Victory Loan sellers a credit of
i exactly $125,000,000.
That is the new high record in bond
' selling for the world, hung up at tJje
Metropolitan Opera House, wherV nearly
' 5,000 men and women clamored to
; pledge themselves to purchase bonds
? all the way from the baby $50 denomin
! ation to one block of $13,000,000. It
j was more than three times the high
j mark recorded at the greatest bond
! rally ever held any place heretofore.
The bond selling began with, an ava- j
' lanche of $50 transactions. Chalmers
[ Wood, who was in charge ci the sell- :
ing, announced that he wanted to ob-1
tain a ?ledge from every man and J
woman in the. audience,'and the chorus :
of replies when he "asked for buyers of '
the smallest denomination indicated
that he was accomplishing just that.
Then the sums jumped to $100, $200 ?
and up to $50,000 and $100,000 blocks.
! While the enthusiasm was high a
! troop of machine gunners ran a ?
businesslike-appearing German 77 '
\ one of the guns captured during the
fighting in the Argonne forest - out
! upon the stage.
"Here s a gun that crocs to the high
' est bidder," announced Mr. Wood.
Immediately there was a chorus of
i voices shouting a $1,000,000 bid.
"Why, this gun isn't going for any
j such trifling sum," came the reply of
i the auctioneer.
The men who were bidding included
i Jacob Schiff, Walter Frew, George F.
I Bakes?. R. R. Brown, James W. Alex
! ander, J. P. Morgan, Gates McGarrah,
Albert 11. Wigf.in, Seward Prosser,
: Martin Vogel, Allen B. Forbes and,
! Charles W. Sabin.
Jumping half a million at a time
; the amount bid quicklv jumped to
! $5,000,000. There it stuck. It seemed
', that the humbled German weapon
I would go for that price when a man in
I an upper box added half a milion to
I the price, obtaining the gun. He
! slipped a card to the Red Cross nurse
I who took his pledge for that sum, -but
refused to permit his name to be an?
nounced.
"Just say I'm unattached," he an?
nounced.
"A great catch for some woman!"
shouted a soldiet in the rear of the
theatre.
Police "Capture" a Picture
Next came a great painting of King
Albeit, of Belgium. It was announced
that no trifling bids would be accepted
on the portrait, which probably ac?
counted for the fact that the bidding
began at $;!,000,000. Practically the
same group of bankers and financiers
| bid on the picture, each bid being re
| corded as a sale of bonds to that total,
i whether the bidder was successful in
obtaining the prize or not.
In half-million dollar leaps the price
I of the picture went to $5,000,000, then
j $10,000,000 and finally, after a slight
! pause at the $12,000,000 mark, it was
! taken for the Police Department by
Deputy Commissioner Wallis, for $13,
' 000.000.
There was, a wild applause an thi,s the
largest single sale of bonds ever re?
corded at any meeting was announced.
The Deputy Commissioner was dragged
to the platform, where he was forced
to make a brief speech.
An Investment. Says Taft
The formel Secretary of the Treas?
ury, William G. McAdoo, who had
been scheduled to make ona of i he
principal addresses of the evening, was
too ill to attend the meeting. He sent
a tetter to the loan committee, how?
ever, in which he said that immediate
! i-ction was required to raise tlie $2,
1 000,000,000 that must be subscribed in
? the two days remaining.
Former President William II. Taft
I made a plea for this particular bond
i issue on the grounds that it was a good
I business ?nvcstmi nt, entirely aside
| from its attractiveness on patriotic
| grounds.
"Now these bond? are for people who
don't know enough to go and invest
their own money in matters where they
ara to exercise any control," he said.
"There arc lots of professional men;
lots of men who live: on salaries; law?
yers, judges, doctors, ?Jetgymen and
others who do not have the menus of
managing a business and don't know
how. And yet they scrape together
their ?livings and want to put them
where they can be certain of an income
without any cine with reference to the
investment.
"Now, this is the kind of investment
that should attract them. If they aie
looking for something better they won't
find it, and they may And something a
good deal worss Therefore why urge
the argument of patriotism in respect
of these bonds, because they are so
good?"
World's Biggest Wheat
Crop in U. S. Predicted
WASHINGTON, .May S. -The great
'* est crop of winter wheat ever
produced in any country is in pros?
pect for this year's harvest. To?
day's forecast by the Department of
Agriculture, placed its size at almost
000,000,000 busheis?in exact lig?
ures, 899,915,000?which would make
this year's harvest worth $2,034,000,
000 at the government's price guar?
antee of $2.2(3 a bushel.
Stabilization of
Steel Prices Is
Abandoned
Open Market Begins To-day
as Result of Failure of
Producers and Rail Ad?
ministration to Agree
The plan to stabilixe prices in the
steel industry has collapsed. As a re?
sult, the entire programme that aimed
to stabilize prices in all trades,
fathered by Secretary of Commerce
Redfield, is expected to fail.
An unrestricted market in iron and
steel becomes effective to-day. The
leading producers, represented by the
general committee of the American
Iron pnd Steel Institute, and represen?
tatives of the railroad administration,
faiied to reach an agreement in a
final conference late yesterday. The
railroad administration jntends to ask
for bids lor supplying it with 200,000
tons of steel rails at once.
Although Walker D. Hines, director
general ot railroads, was in the city
he did not attend the meeting. He was
represented by Henry B. Spencer and
T. C. Powell. Late in the evening Mr.
Continued on page thirteen
Brother Seeks
To Oust Gould I
As Estate Head
'Frank J., Backed by Anna,
j Brings Action to Remove
George J. From Manage?
ment of Vast Properties
Alleges $25,000,000 Loss
Say? Operations Have Been
Used to Further Per?
sonal Interests of Trustee
Th'J suppressed discord that has ex?
isted for several years among the sons
and daughters of Jay Gould became
public yesterday In a Supreme Court
proceeding brought by Frank Gould
to have George J. Gould, his brother,
removed as trustee ofythe estate of
their father.
The petitioner, still in Paris, where
about two weeks ago lie divorced his
second wife, is represented in the ac
tion by Walter B. Walker, who ii
voluminous affidavits states, in somi
instances "on Information and belief,'
the grievances of his client. Thes?
are that George .1. Gould has mis
managed the trusts placed in his hand
by his father, has shown bad faith i
the conduct of his fiduciary office, ha
deprived the estate trusts of money
that properly belonged to th >m an
profited personally by transactions t
the financial prejudice of the est?t
and others who have an interest in i
Allege Loss of $25,000.000
It is alleged by Frank J. Gould, wh
* Continued on page twelve
Uo S. Must Maintain
Large Armv if Pro
posed Defence of
France Is Promised
French Pleased
With the Plan
Wilson Hokls Agree?
ment Is Not Incon?
sistent with League
PARIS, May 8 i By The Associated
Press). It is the opinion here that
the provision in the proposed agree?
ment between Great Britain and the
United States to aid France, that the
United States will '"immediately"
come to the assistance of France in
case of unprovoked aggression, will in?
volve consideration by the United
States Congress of a plan for a suffi?
cient army to permit "immediate" ac?
tion without awaiting the creation of
an army and the forwarding of large
forces as an expedition to France after
such aggression occurs.
More Important Than Treaty
The engagement for joint action by
the United ?States and Great Britair
in case of such an attack excited greater
interest and satisfaction in Franch of
licial and military quarters than th<
treaty.
It is understood to have been the cul
mination of conferences held by Pre
mier Clemenceau and Marshal Foeh.
The latter took the advanced mili
tary view for complete defensive pro
tection and the Premier sought, to rec
oncile this with the more moderati
view held in the conference and empha
sized the difficulties attendant upoi
Continued on page three
President to Tour
Country for League
Net? 1'orJfc Tribun*
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 8.?President
Wilson has decided to tour the
United States on his return from
abroad to swing the nation into line
on the league of nations and the peace
treaty by a popular appeal, it was
learned to-day.
After Congress has had about three
weeks to discuss the international
documents, the President will return
and go direct to the people with little
argument, but an appeal to senti?
ment, preaching idealism with which,
he maintains, the war was won and
the peace will be made secure.
Referendum on
League Planned
By Republicans
Senators Would Separate
Covenant and Treaty and
Submit Amended Draft of
the Charter to the People
New York Tribune.
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 8.--A deter?
mined effort to divorce the covenant
of the league of nations from the
treaty of peace with Germany and con?
sider its ratification separately will
be made by members of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the Senate
when the treaty is formally presented
for ratification.
This move will have the support of
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, chair?
man of the committee, and practically
the entire Republican membership of
the committee. In addition, it is prob?
able that at least one Democratic mem?
ber of the committee, Senator Thomas,
of Colorado, will support this move?
ment.
Influential Republican Senators will
propose that, in addition, the covenant
be amended and the country be asked
to ratify it in amended form through
a national referendum before final I
ratification by the United States be?
comes effective.
Plan tc Amend iVeaty
Already Senators are devising a j
method of procedure calculated to de?
feat the President's purpose to make i
the peace treaty and the covenant in- |
separable. One plan is to amend the >
treaty by substituting for the "league ,
of nations" the words "commission of
the powers," with the addendum that
when the league of nations becomes op
erative the authority of such "commis- j
sion of the powers" shall vest in the ?
council of the league.
Senator Lodge declined to give an !
opinion on the matter until he has seen j
the complete official text.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, re- |
tiring chairman of the Foreign Re?a- !
?ions Committee, expressed the opinion
that such a plan would Uc futile, be- :
zause the two subject matters are' so
'intertwined as to bo inextricable."
Would Ratify Treaty First
Should the proposed separation be
jffected the Republicans would under- !
take immediate ratification of the '
treaty of peace and subsequent con- :
(?deration of the covenant of the league
if nations. An attmept would then be
launched to amend the covenant of the j
'cague to meet ;he criticisms of those ''
lections which are alleged to impair the ;
?sovereignty of the United States.
Senator Brandcgee, of Connecticut, a ,
member of the Foreign Relations Com- '
mittee, will support the move for a ??
referendum, and it will be seconded by
Senator Borah, of Idaho, another mem?
ber of the committee. The Brandegee
Borah championship is admittedly
strong. It. lends geographical backing
to the proposition in the Senate and
the support of bpth conservative and :
progressive forces.
In the event the Senate accepts such ;
i referendum an attempt will be made
to stage the proceedings at once. Re-?
publican Senators said to-dav there
would be no attempt at postponeing
such a referendum until the 1920 elec?
tions.
Few Senators are disposed to ques- ?
tion the early ratification of the peace
treaty with Germany in all its major j
provisions, exclusive of the league |
covenant. The military terms in- |
.-luded in the treaty are almost un i ver- j
sally acceptable.
Shantung Decision Opposed
There is, however, a strong likeli?
hood that there will be strong criti?
cism in the Senate to the Shantung
province concession to Japan. This
has been characterised by Senators
who will figure prominently in the rati?
fication of the treaty by terms varying
in strength from "inconsistent" to "the
most infamous agreement negotiated
in the history of nations."
Senators are not disposed, however,
to discuss the Shantung matter until
they are able to study the full terms
of the concessions granted to Japan.
I No Trace of Mr. Wil?
son's Prineipiles
I To Be Found?, Is
Berlin's View
Make Threats
i
Not To Sign
i
"Tageblatt" Asserts
Seizure of L a n d
?
Means R e v e n g e
BERLIN, May 8 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?Official circles in Bev
, lin learned the probable tei-ms of
i peace yesterday morning, and a
i lengthy session of the Cabinet fol
| lowed at which the action Gt'3*many
I is to take was discussed.
The Berlin morning papers pub
i lish a summary of the peace terms?
i which are condemned by all, from
the extreme Left to the utra-Con
i servative Right.
Dr. Theodor Wolff, in the "Tage*
j blatt," says: "Although we were
I prepared for a good deal, even for
' everything, we can only say that the
| treaty surpasses our worst expecta
; tions. It does not show a trace of
| states3i3aiiship or of President Wil?
son's principles, but is a brutal,
thoughtless product of thoughtless,
intoxicated brutality."
Threatens Revenge
Dr. Wolff says that the occupation
of the left bank of the Rhine foi
fifteen years "will within a few
j years create imperialism and a call
j for revenge in Germany."
He also condemns the eastern set?
tlement, and says there can be only
one answer: "No."
The "Bourse Courier" says: "The
territory concessions ai*e more ex
tensive and unbearable than we ex?
pected."
The "Lokal Anzeiger" publishes a
summary of the treaty under the
heading "Crushing Conditions."
The 'National Zeitung" to-day
I publishes what it tenus the official
standpoint the government expects
to take regarding the peace terms.
The government, according to the
newspaper, will i-efuse to sign any
part of the treaty which pi*ovides
for "oppression of Germany." For
instance, the Entente's standpoint
?egarding Danzig and the Saar Val?
ley will not be accepted.
The German delegate?, however,
will make every effort to institute
regotiations on these and other un?
acceptable demand?, says the "Na?
tional Zeitung."
Haut/a ii May Quit
It was considered in some quar?
ters that Count, von Brockdorff
Rantzau would refuse to sign the
peace treaty and resign, but th<
opinion is general that German;
must accept, since she is helpless.
The resignation of the Foreigi
Minister would only delay a settle
ment of the question, but if his Cab
?net left office with him, indeper
dents, it is believed, would sure.
take up their position?, and thei
first act would he to accept th
terms.
A translation of the text of th
treaty is expected to reach Weimis
Friday morning. Only brief e:
ti-acts of the document can be wire
by the correspondents, owing to la<
of telegraphic facilities. Meanwhil
the press and public are discussir
the forecast of the terms receive
from London by way of Amsterdam
''Ended as a Power"*
The first newspaper in Berlin
publish the forecast hgaded it, "Ge
?any's End as a Great Power."
The "Tageblatt" says the size
the Germait army can be decid
only by the league of nations, a;
that it will be' impossible to p
?1,000,000,000 ($5,000,000,00
as indemnity. The newspaper ca
the decision with regard to the Sts
icgion "hardly disguised anne:
i tion," and says that it cannot
? accepted. The Danzig solution a
? is declared to be inacceptable. 1
decision as to Germany's forn
! colonies is arousing protests.
; Germans Complain
VERSAILLES, M.iy I (By The Ai
j ciated Tress).- Tin* (?ornvu? ?ioiofr?