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Vol. LXXIX No, 26,518
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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919
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WEATHER
Fair to-day, partly cloudy to-toorroifc
Gentle to moderate winds,
mostly sooth.
Pull Report on Pace 17
nroffltimii!1! Qwtor New Tor* ?ad I TOMSK CKNTS
Germans Promise to Sign Unconditionally
We Yield to Force," They Tell Cierne
De Valera,
President of
Lreland,Here
?Joyous Greeting Given j
Head of "Republic" as
He Drops Incognito
M at Hotel Entrance
?Keeps Silent on
Details of Trip
es Out Statement in
Which He Plead? for
the Support of America
?aoonn de Valera, who some thirty
?jeven years ago was born on the lower
West Side of New York and christened
Edward, reappeared in his native city
yesterday, an expatriate, but President
at the Irish Republic.
A crowd of men and women was
grouped around the Thirty-third Street
?jntrancc to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
tt half past 5. A few bad American
lags in their hands, but most of them
waved ihe green, white and orange
colors of the Irish Republic. Two
mounted policemen pressed their
horse- this way and that in the group.
Then an automobile turned into
ttBty-third Street fro? Fifth Avenue.
?kvak faced old man with lone, snowy
hair blowing in tangles stood up in the
car. It was Justice John Goff, and the
Vltchers knew that one of the other
?km punts of the car was the "Presi?
dent of Ireland."
"Lp de Valera!" They Cry
''Up de Valera!" they shouted, and
fit response to this Irish "hurrah" up
rose de Valera, a tall man with a face
lean and lined with care. As the ma?
chine halted at the curb he stood
bowing and smiling just a little.
Tbcr he stepped to the pavement and
?as engulfed by the yelling crowd.
One gray haired old woman rushed
down the ragged edged lane of human?
ity and clasped the tall man about the
Beck and kissed him again and again
until a policeman roughly broke her
embrace. Two other policemen em?
ployed all their strength to protect the
tall man from his hysterically cheer?
ing admirers.
Above all the din of shouts the
shrill voice of a woman kept repeat
i?g:
"Up de Valera! Up de Valera!"
The steps of the entrance were
eroWded, too, and in the centre of
these at the top a woman had placed
herself as though she, too, would kiss
the man when he mounted the steps.
Then there was a rush of people from
inside the hotel and the woman fell
?nd was trampled on. \
In the President's Suite
Four big men placed themselves
?boot de Valera and guarded him
from the swarm who pulled at his
(oat, his hands and even at his hair,
?nt? finally he was catapulted past an
?mazed Peacock Alley into an elevator
*>d taken up to the suite reserved for
?be President of the United State?
?*d royalty.
. U bad been arranged by Harry Bo
?d, to? young Irishman who preceded
it Valera to the United States, coming
, ** a ?toker in a freight ship, that his
j Chief shouid reveal himself at 6 o'clock
wt night in the "state apartment" at
the hotel, and about fifty reporter?
*?re there, many representing out
, tUiovn papers, some of them corre
{ 'Pondents of London newspapers.
.*?* for every reporter there pushed
?Mo the room? at least three frantic
wybappy members of the Friends of
****b Freedom. Over the mantelpiece
'lu* P' J" 0'Donnen' of st- Francis
* Bales Church, fix?d an Irish flag,
*?4 then a little while later he added
?* American flag. Other priests and
iwtiee? of the New York bench, hur
JW '?to the room. Several Eas" Ind
?'?***. leader? o? the revolutionary move
*?t ?n India, crowded into the front
' ' of chair*.
U Introduced to Reporters
And then Diarmuid Lynch, of the
.??????d? of Irish Freedom, asked the
*e*atUn to step into an adjoining
[**?? ?nd presently Professor <*e, Va
**? **? smuggled in to tlwrn. Jn'stic?
? ????M F. Cohalan introduced hlm,?ay
"<*?t?*m?ni I have the honor to
FWittt to you Eamonn de Valer?,
CanUmusd on paga five
'?L-P?LS?? JKS? tM>**v
mMm tnvtat ?arWle yo? **v?.
?'veasv-xan.
Suggested Design for Monument To
Memory of the Last
(Copyright, 1919. New '
Be Erected in Wilhelmstrasse in
German Monarch
ork Tribune Inc.) .
Wets Pin Hope
On Wilson to
Halt Dry Wave
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Anti ? Prohibition Leaders
Say President Will Heed
Labor's Demands and Will
Not "See America Thirst"
Prohibition as a war-time measure
! will not go into effect on July 1, ac?
cording to view? expressed yesterday
! by anti-prohibition forces. They based
their opinion on these contentions:
1. Neither the Federal, the state nor
city governments has made any prepa?
ration to enforce the law.
2. Plans for bringing an injunction
against the enforcement of the law are
being prepared by the Society of Res?
taurateurs and other organizations. It
is expected that the injunction, if ob?
tained, will act as a stay in behalf of
all liquor and beer sellers in this dis?
trict
Expect Wilson to Act
3. President Wilson is expected by
the wets to issue before next Monday
midnight a proclamation setting aside
war time prohibition on the ground
that demobilization has so far advanced
as to make a bone-dry country no
longer essential. The wets contend
that under the law the President has
the authority to interpret the present
stage of demobilization has been com?
pleted for all practical purposes. The
anti-saloon people say th? President
cannot set aside war-time prohibition
without a special act of Congress.
Meantime the status of the beer,
wine and liquor market may be de?
scribed as chaotic. It is estimated that
there are in the country, in and out of
bond, 70,000,000 gallons of whiskey, or
enough to supply the country for about
a year, and enough wine and beer, ex?
clusive of 2.75 per cent beer, which is
still being manufactured, to last
through the summer.
The public is being urged by an?
nouncements of dealers that "only six
days remain in which to stock%p," and
also by inducements of discounts from
war prices ranging from 10 per cent up.
While most of the clubs nave solved
the problem by selling their stock to
members and providing lockers for
storage purposes, the restaurants and
cafes are in a quandary. Some of them
say that on the advice of counsel they
will continue to dispense beer and light
wines.
Want Law Tested ?
Their position is upheld by J. J.
Cavanagh, president of the Society oi
Restaurateurs, which expects to bring s
Continued on page eighteen
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Son in Arms, Wife
Shoots Dr. Tuggle
One Bullet in Breast9
One in Head; He Will
Die; She Is Arrested
With her three year old adopted son-,
Woodrow, held in her left arm, Mrs.
Jennie B. Tuggle, of 523 West 149th
Street, fired four shots from a 38 cali?
ber revolver at her husband, Dr.
Thomas B. Tuggle, as he lay in bed
early this morning.
Two of the bullets went wild. The
others struck the physician in the left
side of the breast and the left side of
the head. At St. Lawrence Hospital it
is said that he will die.
Dr. Tuggle returned home late last
night and immediately went to bed.
Early this morning neighbors heard
the report of the four shots and the
physician's scream of "My God! What
are you doing?"
The man staggered from his bed?
room to the hall and managed to open
the front door. Then he blew a
police whistle, summoning Patrolmen
Francis Rice and Edward Luby.
"My wife has gone crazy," Dr. Tug?
gle gasped as the policeman ran up.
"She has shot me three or four times.
She ha3 the baby in her arms. For
God's sake go get her! "
While the physician attempted to
stop the blood thtatt wtas flowing-from
his wounds, Luby telephoned for an
ambulance and Rice ran into the house
in search of Mrs. Tuggle. He found
her with Woodrow still held close to
her with one hand and the pistol in
the other.
"What if I did shoot him?* the po
liceman says she answered in response
to his questions, "I suppose you are
going to murder me now."
After the physician had been placed
in an ambulance the policemen took
the woman and the baby she refused
to release to the police station! Ques?
tioning there demonstrated that she
was mentally deranged, and she was
taken to Bellevue, after finally being
induced to turn the child over to a
friend.
New Jersey Decides
To Fight N. Y. Tax
TRENTON, N. J., June 23.?Gov
ernor Runyon took official action to?
day on protests from New Jersey resi?
dents, who make their living in New
York at paying the N?w York State
income tax. He called Into conference
State Comptroller Newton A. K. Bug
be? and State Treasurer W. T. Read
to discuss ways and means.
The, Governor read an opinion of At?
torney General McCran, who held that
state? had no right to tax non-resi?
dents. John W. Griggs, formar United
States Attorney General and former
?BGUsS?V?C'*"*"""
40 Hurt When
Brooklyn *'L9
Trains Crash
Two Probably? Will Die as
Result of Collision Be?
tween Canarsie and Lex?
ington Avenue -Cars
Two persons were probably fatally in?
jured and forty others cut or bruised
in a rear-end collision on the Broadway,
Brooklyn, "L" line, between Madison
Street and Patnam Avenue, shortly be?
fore midnight ?ast night.
A four-car stee.' train, bound from
Times Square to Canarsie and filled with
homeward-bound theatregoers, crashed
into a stalled Jamaica train, consisting
of two wooden cars. lights were ex?
tinguished in both trains by the impact
of the collision and men.*women and
children were thrown into a panic.
John Williams, 36 years old, of 1638
Stephens Street, Queens, motorman of
the Canarsie train, was locked up at
the Ralph Avenue police station
charged with' felonious assault.
The two most seriously injured are
the motorman and a guard on the Ja?
maica train. They were rushed to
Bushwick Hospital, where it is be?
lieved both will die. They are:
William Kessler, 32 years old, of 120
Fountain Avenue, East New York;
fracture?of the skull.
^ Morten Stevens, of 938 Gates Ave?
nue, Brooklyn; five fractured ribs and
internal hurts.
Kessler stopped his train to put out
a fire on the centre track, which is
used for express trains. He was just
climbing back to his car platform
when the crash came.
The sound of the collision and the
shrieks of hysterical women imprisoned
in the dark cars attracted a throng
and some one turned in a fire alarm.
When the apparatus reached the scene
ladders were hoisted? to the tracks and
the firemen and Drs. Oransky, Weiss
and Enselbcrg, who had hastened on
foot from Bushwick Hospital, a block
away, asceiided to the rescue.
Trains carrying working crews were
run down from East New York over
the centre track and boards were
placed across to the wrecked cars,
enabling passengers to reach safety.
Twelve persons in all were taken to
Bushwick Hospital, where they -were
treated for scalp wounds and body
contusions and sent home. Some
thirty others were assisted along the
tracks to the Gates Avenue "L" plat?
form and given medical attention
there.
Williams was arrested by Detectives
Farrington and Thornton after William
Young, a patrolman attached to the
112th Precinct, Manhattan, who was a
passenger on Williams's train,' stated
that a red lantern was distinctly vis?
ible on the rear of the stalled Jamaica
,traia? . ..
Plea for 48-Hour Respite Denied;
Formal Signing Thursday or Friday
People Are
Hungry, Cry
Socialists
Surrender Is Justified by
Plea That Morale of
Laboring Class Has Been
Broken by Hardships
New Bauer Cabinet
Expected to Fall
Old Coalition Is Expected
to Resume Control Af?
ter Treaty Is Signed
WEIMAR, June 23 (By The As?
sociated Press) (5:15 p. m.).?The
National Assembly this' afternoon
voted to sign the peace terms uncon?
ditionally, the government haying
succeeded in overcoming the opposi?
tion of those who insisted on two
conditions.
The Assembly met at noon, and
Premier Bauer asked 'for confirma?
tion of the Assembly's decision, as
the Allied and associated powers
had rejected Germany's reserva?
tions. The Assembly thereupon de?
clared, notwithstanding the opposi?
tion vote of the German National
party, the People's party ' and' a
section of the Centrists, that the
government was still empowered to
sign the treaty.
General Maercker, in command
of the forces guarding Weimer,
said to-day at a meeting of various
parties that all the generals and
staff officers of the army have
threatened to retire if the govern?
ment signs peace unconditionally, it
being declared that such a step
would be incompatible with i;he
honor*t>f the German officers' corps.
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New York Tribune
Special Cable Servier.
(Copyright. 1019. Now York Tribuns Ine.)
WEIMAR, June 23.?The Socialists
here say the chief factor which in?
fluenced them in deciding to accept
the Allies's terms was the spiritual
and physical exhaustion of the work?
ing classes.
They say the impoverishment of the
people had reached such a pass, and
hunger was pressing so heavily on the
families of the poor, that it was im?
possible to expect them longer to with?
stand the pressure of present distress
or to confront worse conditions
through a renewal of the blockade and
an advance of the Allied armies.
The reorganization of the Cabinet
is what nyght have been expected un*
der such circumstances. Formed in
the utmost haste to sign the treaty
! within the time limit, the new Cabinet
j is regarded as remarkably weak.
Bauer, while a safe and moderate
j man, was the least conspicuous mem?
ber of the old government. He as an
East Prussian and gained entrance to
politics through years of service as
secretary of a labor union.
Hermann Mueller, as Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, also appears to be a
rash experiment. He, too, got his
training wholly in Socialist party af?
fairs and has never figured in a pub?
lic discussion of foreign affairs.
The general verdict is that the new
ministry is a stop-gap government,
merely constructed for the purpose of
signing the treaty, and that .it will
give place to the old coalition at a
comparatively early day.
As all the members of the German
peace delegation have refused to sign
the treaty, it is not intended to have
them return to Paris or to appoint a
new delegation to go to Paris. The
plan appears to be to instruct a subor?
dinate official to affix his signature.
No little satisfaction" is expressed here
that this disposal of the. matter will
spoil the projected spectacular scene
in the Versailles palace, with the Ger?
man delegates marching into the hall
to give their signatures in the presence
of the assembled representativos of
the Allies.
'A feeling of intense relief prevails
in Weimar that the long nerve-racking
uncertainty is at an end.
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Greeks, Outnumbered,
Retreat Before Turks
*~ ? * ?
PARIS, June 23.?The situation in
Asia Minor is serious, according to offi?
cial advices received by Reuters, Ltd.,
Bureau here. These advices declared
the Turkish forces outnumber the
Greeks four to one and threaten to
driverthe Greeks entirely out of Asia
Minor. The Greek forces are repotted
to bo retreating before the Turks, who
sro supplied with good artillery and
JiWrtBf'fit frtnpinniVi>n? . __ ?
Wilson to Sail for Home Thursday;
Plans Speedy Voyage on Transport
BREST, June 23? The U. S. S.
George Washington, which will carry
President Wilson back to the United
States, received orders to-day to be
ready.to sail Thursday morning. The
work of loading the transport began
this evening.
WASHINGTON, June 23.?President
Wilson cabled Secretary Tumulty to?
day that he expected to leave Brest
on his homeward journey Wednesday
or Thursday.
Tffce President should make the re
turn^trip within a week and immediate?
ly Vfter his arrival here he will per?
sonally present the peace treaty to the
Senate for ratification. After he
clears his desk of accumulated work,
he will make a "swing around the
circle," speaking in support of the
treaty and the league of nations
covenant.
PARIS, June 23.?The activities
?
Russian Soviet
Threatens U. So
With Reprisals
Demands Release of Mar?
tens on Pain of Retalia?
tion Against Americans
Who Are in That Country
LONDON, June 23.?The Russian So- ;
viet government has demanded the re
lease of L. C. A. K. Martens, the Bol
shevik representative arrested in New i
York, a wireless ? message from Petro- j
grad declares. Reprisals are threat- j
ened against Americans in Russia.
Apparently the Russian Soviet gov
ernment has been misinformed regard- j
ing the status of L. C. A. K. Martens,
its representative in New York, whose ;
"release" it has demanded. Martens
was not taken into custody when state
troopers raided the Bolshevist mis?
sion's headquarters here early this
month, but was served with a sub?
poena calling for his appearance as a
witness before th? Lusk state legis
lative committee investigating reported
seditious activities in New York.
Under this subpoena Martens went to
the City Hall here on the day after j
the raid and was questioned in secret
by the committee regarding the alleged j
endeavors by the Soviet organization in
New York to circulate propaganda in?
tended to justify the Soviet form of
government as established in Russia.
Shortly after the raid was conducted
persons subpoenaed with Martens mad*
threats of reprisal, declaring that the
Soviet rulers in Russia would retaliate j
against Americans there.
Questioned yesterday about the Lon
don dispatch, Mr. Martens said that
the report was probably "inaccurate,"
since he could not cable the news of
the "raid" upon his office to the So- i
viet government at' Moscow, but had
to depend upon la courier service. ?
"It seems to me," he said, "to be a
misconception of what happened or the
dispatch is inaccurate. I don't see .
how the Moscow government could
?(earn about it so soon. The report |
could not reach Russia in less than j
three weeks."
i A. J. Sack, head of the Russian !
Information Bureau, said that as far
as he knew the only Americans in ?
Soviet Russia at the present time were
Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross workers,
Quakers doing relief work and a few
representatives of big firms like the
Standard,Oil and Harvester companies.
Whatever other Americans are there,
he said, are probably Soviet sympa?
thizers, and elected to stay of their
own volition. There are a large num?
ber of Americans, however, he said,
i on the Siberian front outside the in?
fluence of the Bolsheviki.
Prince Lubomirsky Made
Polish Minister to U. S.
Appointment of New Diplomat,
Who Is Now in Paris, Is
Confirmed
PARIS, June 28.?The appointment of
Prince Casimir Lubomirsky as Polish
MinisUr to the United States is con?
firmed. Prince Lubomirsky is now in
if**** i . tf
noted to-day at the Paris residence of '
President Wilson appeared to indicate ;
that preparations were being made for ?
the President's departure.
One company of the troops compris-.j
ing the Guard of Honor at the "White |
House" will leave for Brest to-night
and another company will leave to?
morrow apparently in expectation that
the President will leave Wednesday.
The U. S. S. George Washington, the I
President's ship, will take a direct |
route from Brest to the United States, j
under forced draft. Extra coal is be?
ing placed on the deck spaces.
One battleship and four destroyers
will comprise the escort of the George ?
Washington. In miff-sea, four destroy- j
ers from the Azores will relieve the
| original four.
The women in the Presidential party,
| in addition to Mrs. Wilson will include
I Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. John
W. Davis, wife of thf American Am
I bassador in London.
Allies to Try
Von Reuter for
Sinking Fleet
"Daily Mail" Declares Court
Martial of German Ad?
miral Will Be Arranged by
Entente Leaders in Paris
Germans Sink Kiel
Fleet, Says Report
WTEIMAR, June 22 (Bygthe Asso?
ciated Press). ? The Germ?n
warships which were not surrendered
to the Allies, and which have been
anchored off Kiel, Wilhelmshaven
and other points, have been sunk by
their crews, according to a report
received here.
According to the reports, there
were twelve German war vessels,
besides destroyers, in German I
waters. a''
LONDON, June 23.?The German
admiralty denies the report that the
Germans had sunk their warshipglip J
German harbors. ?
'_,-J
LONDON, June 23 f By The Asso- !
ciated Press).?Admiral von Reuter, in '?
command of the German fleet scuttled i
and sunk in the Scapa Flow, will be
court martialled for having broken the
armistice conditions, says "The Daily
! Mail" to-day.
The newspaper adds that the details
of the trial of the admiral will be ar
! ranged by the Allied council in Paris.
"International questions arising from ?
the summary sinking of the German ;
! fleet will be dealt with by an inter- j
Allied commission in Paris. The Brit?
ish Foreign Office and the Admiralty
plan to withhold information on the
subject until a decision has been
reached by the Allied commissioners.
In a move to investigate the de
j struction of the German ships th? bud
! get committee of the French Chamber
; of Deputies has decided to send a dele
! gation to Premier Clemenceau to in- ?
quire whether the government is in a
position immediately to furnish an ex?
planation of the sinking- of the fleet,
according to a Paris dispatch.
The delegation will also ask, the re
I port says, what measures the gcvern
ment expects to take to meet the loss
to France through the destruction of
that part of the fleet to which France
was entitled.
To prevent further destruction of in- ?
terned enemy raerchantment by their |
crews, the French navy will take pos- ?
session of three German ships now in?
terned in Spain, says a Havre dispatch, i
These ships are the Faro, now at
! Huelva; the Planet, at Balboa, and the
j Oldenburg, at Cadiz. The crews, of
twenty-seven men each, will leave here
! immediately by train for the various
1 ports, the report states.
j German Officers
Shot Own Crews
i THURSO, Scotland. June 23 (By The
Associated . Press). ? Germajt sailors
were shot by their own officers when
they attempted to obey the commands
of the British officers to return to their
ships and shut the seacocks. This
statement was made by Lieutenant Nut
tall, of the steamer Alouette, who
reached here to-day from Scapa Flow,
where the German ship's were sunk.
"I pulled alongside a German dc
Contimutd on page three
Note Asserts
Allied Terms
Are Unjust
"No Act of Violence Can
Touch Honor of German
People," Says Ministry,
in Its Final Surrender
France Doubtful
Of Teuton Honor
Ship Sinkings Cited ??to
Show Allied Partnership
Must Be Maintained.
PARIS, June 23 By The Asso?
ciated Press).?The German gov?
ernment at Weimar has formally
communicated its willingness to
sign the peace terms uncondition?
ally, it was announced by th? ,
French Foreign Office this after?
noon.
The signing of the peace treaty is
not likely to tak?^ place before
Thursday, possibly ??>t until Friday.
This announcement was made to?
night by Premie^ Clemenceau and
Secretary Dutafta.
The date ipr the signing of the
peace tre?iy will d?pend on whether,
ihe German government accredits
Dr. Haniel yer^Haimhausen to affix
,.'-,. &
his signature to the ? compact or
sends a new delegation to Versailles.
According to information at Ameri?
can headquarters he will be selected.
The council of four this evening
sent a note to the Germans asking
for information, on the subject. It
will give a German delegation the.
necessary time to arrive in Ver?
sailles.
Time to Verify Credential?
if the Germans should have de?
cided to send a delegation to Ver?
sailles, flie signing of the treaty
probably will not occur before
Thursday on account of the neces?
sity for verifyingrthe new creden?
tials. < f
In declaring ?t's intention to ac?
cept and sign the peace terms the
government of the German Republic ?
has sent the following note to M.
Clemenceau, president of the peace
conference, through Dr. Haniel von
HaimhausSh : ?
"The Minister of Foreign Af?
fairs has instructed me to com?
municate to your excellency the
following:
" 'It appears to the government
of the German Republic, in con?
sternation at the last communica?
tion of the Allied and associated
governments, that these govern?
ments have decided to wrest from
Germany by force acceptance of
the peace conditions, even those,
which without presenting an?*
material significance, aim at di
j vesting the German people of
? their honor.
Germany Helpless Is Plea
| " 'No act of violence can touch
! the honor of the German people.
The German people, after fright
| ful suffering in these last years,
j have no means of defendin?? them
! selves by external action.
" 'Yielding to superior force, and
without renouncing in the mean?
time its own view of the unheard
| of injustice of the peace condi?
tions, the government of the Ger?
man republic declares that it is
ready to accept and sign the peace
conditions imposed.'
"Please accept, Mr. President, as?
surances of my high consideration,
"VON HANIEL."
Ploa for Delay Refused
Early to-day the Germans re?
quested an additional forty-eight
hours within which to make known
their decision ?Jative to t&e ?gniaj|