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ALL MERCHANDISE ADVER TISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED Vol. LXXIX No, 26,528 Fjrst to Last?the Truth: [Copj-rlKht. mil). New York Tribune Inc.] FRIDAY, News ^^^^ Or Editorials Sr?raiu JULY 4, 1919 Advertisements WEATHER Fair And ?.?nnlim?*! ?arm te-?a?. f*K-al ahn??r? prohaile ((?Burin?, ?Hit ??vu* f??r*rf*?>** r??ti m*?????? ?m? ? ??? a * * * ? In ftrtmf* *r<? Turk ????' i ?It ?In rnnimu'lnt ?tiMan, * R-34 Fighting Stiff Gale; 400 Miles Off St. John's; Kaiser Will Be Held for Trial in Tower of London, Exiled if Crown Prince May Face Court Betting Even On Big Fight At Toledo On Eve of Battle McGee han Picks Willard to De? feat Deinpsey; Crowd Is With the Challenger Nearly a Million Will Be Paid In Champion Will Weigh In at More Than 240 and Opponent Below 200 By W. O. McGeehan TOLEDO, July 3.?Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey will box twelve rounds in a $150,000 arena here to-morrow for $127,500 before almost a million dol? lars' worth of spectators. They have accumulated something like $20,000 apiece in their training, which is much more than the purse of some former heavyweight championship bouts. Those are the figures. I think the gross receipts will fall a little short of a million. ^Speculators from New York and Chicago have told me so. The at? tendance is expected to reach 75.000. The betting on this the eve of the battle is even. It seems to be senti? mental betting largely. Since the epi? sode of David and Gol?th the victory of the "good little man over the good big man*' always has been popular. Since the episode of Jack Johnson und James J. Jeffries, two almost for? gotten names at.this writing, an axiom seems to have been established to the effect that '"they never come back." Picks Champion to Win To my mind it seems that Willard should win. He has the advantage of fifty pounds and the longer reach. He hp.s trained in a sensible, business-like sort of way. He can hit and he can block. If it were not sacrilegious in view of the fact that Mr. Wihard was not at all interested in the late war, I might compare him to the American nation aroused. He is a huge person with potentialties that these twelve rounds will not bring forth. William Harrison Dempsey, the con- j tender, who will get $27,500 no matter ? what happens to-morrow, 6ut who will get a million or more if he should * knock out the Kansan, ? a more ro? mantic figure. Dempsey also is as fit as could be for a man who is twelve years younger and about fifty-odd pounds les3 than the obstacle that stands between him and the million and ail the glories that the late John L. Sul? livan left when he departed this world. This is the first heavyweight cham? pionship bout in three years. It is the first heavyweight championship in a number of years where expert opinion ? -or what passes for expert opinion? was not pretty well decided. The experts did not concede Jim Cor bett a Chinaman's chance with John J.. Sullivan; after .that Fiizsimmons .lid not have a chance with Corbett. When Willard was matched with John? son at Havana he was "the great big stiff." You can delve further into pugilistic history and you can find no parallel for the current difference of opinion. Wrangle, but Do Not Bet This difference of opinion is so de ci?-d that experts are wrangling still in the crowded corridors of th? hotels. They are wrangling, but they are not bettir>i. The head gambler here is dis? couraged over the reluctance of those ; resent tc beck their opinions with cur r.-.cy Everybody wants to "know something," in the parlance of the race track. There is nothing to know, save what I . beer, published and what will be published. Willard's weight is a se? cret that will be revealed in the ring. It is not violating any confidence to say that it will be something over 240 pounds. Dempsey'a weight will be less than 200. Both r:i<-ri have been on public view for two bits a peek, four bits on Sun? days and holidays. Their accomplish? ments are much more widely published than those of the A. E. F., a real fight? ing organization, wfiicn has recently h'-.-n more or less demobilized and scat? tered. Th?. eleventh-hour wrangle which precodes all championship prize fights occurred to-day when Major A. J. Drexel Biddle, of the Philadelphia Bid? dies, arrived. Major fuddle irnmedi / went into conference with Tex B <;kard of the Texas Riskards; Frank Floumoy, o? r-h<- Tennessee Elournoys, and Ollis Pecord, of the Toledo and Troy Pecords. Battling Nelson, of the Continued on paye eight rmaammamimamaaaaaaaawaaawmamaaawmmaawmaamaaw?imm When you leave town thk summer have The Tribune follow you to your vacation home. Daily , Tribune, 13c a week; Sunday Tribune, 6c. You may ?ub- : scribe for ?-ny length of time you wish and your address will be changed a? often as \ desired. 'Phone ?eekman 3000, ; or write to Subscription Dept., i I New York Tribune, 154 Na?- ?I mu Street, New York City. ?I Demobiliza tion By September 30 Ordered by Baker Secretary Says It Has Nothing to Do With War-Time Prohibition Tfew York Tribuna Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, July 3.?Orders were issued to-day by Secretary of War Baker to all military commanders in the United States to complete the task of demobelizbtg al' emergency offi? cers in the army arel pet down to a peace-time strength of 225,000 men by September 3. Failint of Congress to furnish funds for the retention of a larger force was given in Secretary Baker'3 message as the reason. The War Department also gave di | rections to-day for the discontinuance ; of Camps MeaOe, Custer, Bowie, Fun ! ston and Fort Oglethorpe as demobill j zation centre? on July 10 and the ! abandonment of Camp Upton as a de 1 barkation camy. on July 15. Cairp Uptof will be retained by the War Department, Secretary Baker said, ! but the use to whicn it will bo put has ? not y?;? been fietermir.ed. Secretary Baker took occasion to i explain that k:s ordtrs?to camp com I manders to expedite the discharge of ! army personnel had no connection I with the matter of war-time prohibi j tion. He reiterated thet the Attor? ney General must decide when the i army's demobilization is terminated. Michigan Hotbed of Reds,Says Gompers Few York Tribune Washington Bureau I WASHINGTON, July 3.?A startling i picture of labor conditions in Michi j gan was presented in a statement sub? mitted to the Senate Judiciary Com? mittee to-day by Sajnuel Gompers, j president of the. American Federation of Labor. A special investigation has I disclosed, he said, that revolutionary I doctrines are gaining adherents by the I thousands; that nuge funds are being I raised and expended for the propaga ' tion of socialistic and anarchistic theo i ries, and that the Michigan miners are ! going over to the I. W. W. in droves. Most of the American troops sent to Siberia were from Michigan, but ; Mr. Gompers blamed the enthusiasm ! with which, he said, the state was em 1 bracing the doctrines of L?nine and I Trotzky chiefly on prohibition. Michi | gan has been dry for fourteen months. "The industrial situation in Detroit, owing to the spread o" radicalism and the deadly doctrines of the I. W. W. and the revolutionists, is acute and charged with danger," he said. "Op? pressive legislation begets radical prop? aganda, and should Bolshevik doctrines ever obtain a foothold in this nation, which God forbid, the prohibitionists will not be free from responsibility." Conditions Threatening Prior to May, 1918, when Michigan went dry, Mr. Gompers said, all efforts of the radicals to organize Detroit and other Michigan cities met with failure in spite of the expenditure of large sums for propaganda purposes. "In the fourteen months since pro? hibition was enacted," ho added, "the alteration in Detroit conditions has been amazing, not to say sinister and threatening." Mr. Gompers gave a list of forty eight radical organizations with head? quarters in Detroit and of 125 radical pamphlets and booklets that have been distributed by the hundreds of thou? sands throughout the state. More than 200,000 copies of the Russian Soviet constitution have been sold in the city of Detroit alone. Describing the form of radicalism that is spreading i:i the industrial centres of Michigan, Mr. Gompers said: "It is a fierce form of radical 1. W. W. teaching and preaching akin to the revolutionary socialist of the continent of Europe, rather than the parlor so? cialist of the London Fabian Society. It is a socialist born of class division and class antagonism, and the hatred of all superiority, either mental, moral i?r physical, which would seem to be inseparable from radicalism, whatever name may be used to dignify it." Auto Racer Dying; Mechanic Killed Raymond Howard, an automobile racer, is dying in Coney Inland Hos? pital and his mechanician, Emilie Gam delli, ia dead as the result of an upset last night at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway, where they were trying out a car they had entered for the 100 mile Derby there to-day. Howard's skull, legs and right arm are fractured. He was driving a Peugeot car which he intended to speed up to 115 mile." an hour. He /ana his mechanician had the track to themsclvcs^and were mak? ing about 110 miles an hour when the steering arm broke as they reached tht east curve of the track. In a flash the racing car was rolling down the embankment. It came to a stop wheels uppermost with bo?h men pinned beneath it. Eddkf O'Donnell, another racer who had gone to the track for a try-out, had his car in motion while the Peugeot was still floundering. With the help of specta? tors he got the two victima out and Martel for the hospital at racing speed. G am del 11 was dead when O'Donnell ! reached the hospital ? few moments later. He had been killed outright/, dcctori* ?aid. Howard v/as placed on I the operating table at once, but there was said to be slight'chanc? of saving big life. He is twenty-seven years old. His mechanician was thirty-four and Jived at 14 West Sixty-fourth Street. The accident occurred at 8 o'clock. 33,000Guard City To-day Against Reds Every Policeman Ready Against Bomb Plots, While 12,000 Militia Will Await Any Call Municipal and U. S, Buildings Watched Dynamite Found in Shed at Walpole, Mass.; Big Powder Theft Revealed Independence Day finds armed men on guard at every vital spot, every public building, many churches and many homes of prominent citizens in New York City. Thirty-three thousand men, com? prising the entire police force, and New York Guard, reinforced by Secret Service agents, will be ready to-day to deal with the threatened outbreaks. The precautions taken here to fend against the rumored Red bomb plot have been duplicated in most of the other large cities of the nation. While the Department of Justice at Washington announced yesterday that it had no confirmation o? Ithe reported radical plot, it is known | that Secret Service men have made elaborate plans to protect the lives of officials there. Thus far the only definite indica? tions of the alleged plot have been the ! discovery of seventeen bombs hidden in a shed at Walpole, Mass., near Bos? ton, ?and warnings sent out by the Pennsylvania constabulary that there have been wholesale thefts of pow? der and dynamite in that state in the last week. While other cities are guarding against radical outrages, Chicago has carried the war into the enemy camp. ! The police yesterday rounded up every person of known Red sympathies in the city and will keep these jailed until after the Fourth. Mooney Strike Dwindles In New York City every police? man will be on duty. The 12,000 ? guardsmen, although not mobilized, j will be ready to report at their ar- j mories at instant call. The Fire De? partment is also prepared to use its j engines and hose to cool the ardor of ? possible mobs, and the sheriffs of the ' various counties have ordered all their deputies to be ready for service. Besides the homes of officials and | others who have incurred the wrath of the radicals, the police are guarding all powerhouses, bridges, telephone and telegraph lines, waterworks and mu? nicipal, state and Federal buildings. The five-day strike projected as a demonstration for Mooney has sim? mered down to small proportions here since the Amcricnn Federation ?f La? bor declared against it. Not more than o.r),000 workers will go on strike. Most of the other cities of the country will be affected but little, although Seattle may be tied up by it. The police of the greater city were assigned yesterday to spe? cial work for the day, the details to be in force until Sunday. Special safeguards arc thrown around the houses ?f men prominent in official and civil life, and those who at one time or another might have antagonized radicals of any shade. Strong guards, too, were placed near Federal and municipal buildings, public utilities, churches and synagogues and the en? trances to all bridges. Homes along Fifth Avenue will be priven special attention, including those of Senator W. A. (?lark, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street; Henry C. Frick, Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street; W. K. Vanderbilt, Fifth Avenue and Fifty third Street; Andrew Carnegie, Fifth Avenue and Ninetieth Street? and the Astor residence at 840 Fifth Avenuo, and that of Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. I/U?!t Committee Guarded A speciul squad of policemen and plainclothes men has been thrown around the Prince George Hotel, which is the headquarters of the Lusk com- i m It toe inventigat iriK Bolshevism in tho State of New York. Extraordinary pro tection is nlso jjiven Mayor Hylan's house in Brooklyn, as is also the homos of other city officials. Two policemen were stationed at St. , Continued on paye three Big Dirigible Fights Way Through Fog Favorable Conditions in Mid - Ocean Succeeded by Storm as Aviators Approach U. S. Coast Time of Arrivai Still Uncertain ? All Depends on Weather, Say Experts ; Wind May Continue for Two Days ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Friday. July 4.? Although communication with the Brit? ish dirigible was being maintained early to-day by the radio station here, the exact whereabouts of the airship was not known to the station officials at 2:30 G. M. T. this morning (1.0:30 i p- m., Thursday, New York time). No i reports of the airship's position have i been received.in the last four and one , half hours. Officials here reported last evening that the dirigible was within 400 miles of Newfoundland. LONDON, July 3 (By The Associated Press).-?The British dirigible R-34, i which started yesterday on a 6,000 mile journey across the Atlantic to New York City and return, met storms' ; off the coast of Newfoundland this afternoon and apparently has been blown far off its course. The British cruiser Tiger, in mid-At- , lantic attending the flier, reported to I the Air Ministry that at 6:30 G. M. T. J (2:?0 p. m. New York time) the dirig- ! ible v/a3 in latitude 54 degrees 20 min- | utes north, longitude 40 degrees west? I a j~c:nt approximately 700 miles north- j east of Newfoundland and 500 miles r.outh of Greenland. At 15:55 G. M. T. (about midnight New York time) the report to the Air I Ministry gave the position of the air? ship as latitude 52 degrees 10 minutes north, longitude 40 degrees 30 minutes west. This point lies 150 miles south of that fixed in the earlier report. According to these reports the dirig? ible, after swerving earlier in the day far to the northwest and heading tow? ard Laborador, suddenly turned direct? ly south. And in the succeeding ten hours covered only the intervening 150 miles. . AVhethor the deflection In .Tier course will delay the arrival of the R-34 in New York beyond Friday was not cer? tain to-night. An announcement from the Air Ministry early in the day in? dicated that the dirigible would touch at St. John a Friday morning and would make Hazclhurst Field, Long Island, early Saturday. But the Ad? miralty sent broadcast a wireless based on messages from the airship fixing July 4 as the probable date of arrival in New York and stating that the mammoth ship was expected to complete her return trip to East Fort? une, Scotland, by the following Monday. Cruisers Report Progress The two British cruisers, Renown and Tiger, that through the day have followed in the wake of the dirigible to render aid in case of need, have reported the airship's progress from time to time. Apparenly all is well aboard the dirigible, for, though communication has been maintained with her through? out the flight, no word of distress has been received by the waiting radio stations. Weather reports r,p to noon con? tinued to be good, although the pres? ence of a low pressure area otf New? foundland loomed threateningly. Major Gen-'rrl J. E. B. Seeley, speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, ex? pressed hope that a following wind would soon be struck that would aid the ship into port. r Moral Seely said the R-34 was carrying messages which would be dropped at St. John's. At 0 o'clock this morning, he said, tho dirigible had cov? ered 1,0.',.> miles, or one-third of the journey to New York. General Seely said that reports from the airship to the Ministry indicated thnt much val? uable information of the heretofore un chartcred air currents of the Atlantic was being obtained and that as a result the possibilities of oversea:? air traffic would be revealed. He expressed a hope that the flight would "bind still Continued on page thr?e Buying a War? (Copyright, I"?!?, !s>w York T*1Min? loa.) And Paying for It on the Instalment Plan ?Cnox Aims to Shelve League After Action on ?ponents Seek to Bring Up Deferred Resolution in New Form; Hitchcock Predicts Ratification After "Radical" Amendments Are Voted Upon By Carter Field New York Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, July 3.?A motion to defer action on the league of na? tions until the peace treaty shall have been ratified will be made by Senato; Philander C. Knox as soon as the treaty ;s laid before the Senate, it de? vele p. d to-day. Notice to this effect was served to? day on the Administration leader, Sen? ator Hitchcock, by Senator Knox. Thus a vote will than be had on a ques? tion in effect precisely similar to the much discussed Knox resolution, wh;ch was favorably reported by tho Foreign Relations Committee, and then allowed to .-?leep on the desk of the Senate clerk. This is tho course of procedure on the treaty and league in the Senate as forecast to-day by Senator Hitchcock: I A vote on Senator Knox's motion jL" to postpone action on the league until the treaty has been rati? fied. This is regarded by the Ad? ministration forces as the. most radi? cal of all the motions which will be made, and a vote on it, they tiiink, will not be heavy. ?rj A vote on amendments which would strike out portions of tho treaty to which Senators have objections, such as Articles X and XI. *> Votes on motions to write in qualifying amendments, safe? guarding the Monroe Doctrine, im? migration control and similar mat? ters. A A vote on the Root reservation programme. This is regarded by the Administration leaders as al? most as radical as the direct amend? ment. They say either amendments or the Root reservation, in effect striking out Article X, would force the reconvening of th?- pence confer? ence and delay thereby tho resump? tion of normal conditions. Final Ratification Predicted t? A vote on less radical reaerva * tions, one after the other, until finally a mild resolution of ratifica? tion will be adopted. "A large number of Republican Sen I ntors will vote with the Democrats i against the Knox motion, which is virtually the same as the old Knox ! resolution." said Senator Hitchcock. | "It will be snowed under. On each i succeeding vote I expect to see the ! opposition gain a little strength, but ! they will be beaten on every roll call J until the resolution of ratification ! ?tand* with mild language indeed." "Does that mean you expect there are to be some reservations?" he was I asked. "Well," said Senator Hitchcock, "I have not said that. Certainly if there are they will be mild, and will not really weaken the covenant to any ex? tent. The opposition will not have ?v. otes enough to do that. These tests of public sentiment which are going on all the time, every one of which j shows an overwhelming preponderance of public opinion for the league, will | gradually weaken-? th? backbone of the | opposition. "I have seen it many times in my | experience in the Senate, however, that men would talk against a measure as ! though they would never vote for it no j matter what happened, and then, after | their amendments had all been voted down, and the question was to vote j yes or no on the final proposition, they would vote for it. It will be so in this ? instance. Many of the Senators now ! talking so vigorously against the ! league or in favor of a radical pro | gramme of amendment or reservation i will hear from the people and on the j final roll call will vote 'aye' for ratifi I cation of the treaty." In the ranks of the opposition ther? ?is no apparent weakness on the reserva, tion programme, despite the coniiden | claims of the Administration leaders No organized fight for the Knox mo ! tion to delay consideration of th< I treaty is evident, despite Mr. Knox': I move in notifying Mr. Hitchcock tha | he proposed to demand a vote on it. With even Senator McCumbcr in lin j for some of the reservations, and wit' i Senators Spencer and Norris, who or i ardently in favor of a league of nn tlons, in favor of a reservation whii would take (he teeth out of Article J so ? far as the United States is con cerned, opposition leaders think ther is little doubt that something like th Root programme, with a slight chang in the reservation on Article X, to mak sure the peace conference would nc have to be reassembled, will muster s least fifty votes. I Foe May Ratify Treaty To-morrow \ Report From Weimar Says Majority in Assembly Has Been Obtained COPENHAGEN, July 3 (By The As- j ! sociated Press;.? The German National I ' Assembly will deal with the treaty of ? peace between the Allies and Germany : I on Saturday, and a majority for the j j ratification of the instrument has been , i oLte.ined, according to a Weimar dis- I I-f.tch to the "Politiken." Ti'ew York Tribune European Bureau (Copyrilht, 1910. Sew York Tribune Inc.) LONDON, July 3.?Although it is un- ! ! certain when the German National , Assembly w-ill ratify the peace treaty, ' : it is expected here that ratification will ! come this week, probably Saturday, bs ; the Germans are anxious to have tho j ! blockade raised at the earliest possible | ? moment. j Under the directions of Premier Nitti, ' \ the Italian parliament also is expected | to ratify the conyention quickly, prob- I ; ably within a fortnight. Ratification of the Anglo-Franco- j ! American pact assuring aid to France ; :n ;h .? British Parliament doubtless will , await the action of the American 1 Senate, but 'there is not the slightest doubt that the House of Commons will ? act favorably as soon as the United . States accepts the responsibility. -. Esthonians Take Fort And Four German Ships Dvina River Cleared of Enemy Warships as Far as the Muehlgrate Canal COPENHAGEN. July 3. Esthonian warships have captured the fortress of Boldcrrs, at the mouth of the Dvina River, and have cleared the river of Gerninn armed vessels as far as the i Muehlgrabe Canal. An Esthonian official statement con ; taining this announcement says that ? four of the German v?ssels were cap ! turod. The Esthonian press bureau points 1 out that this means Riga is invested ] from the west, as -well as from the eaat and north, and that the cordon is tightening: about tha city. *' Couinions Is Divided on Premier's League Plea Proponed U. S.-Britinh Treaty to Safeguard France From Attack Is Loudly Cheered {English Ship to Bring Wilhelm Allie* to Make Example of Ex-Emperor to Pre? vent Future Armed Infamv, Sav* Premier J ON DON t Juin J,. William ** ' HohenzoUcrn, the former German Emperor, will he (trough t to England in a Ilriti*h *hip and Imprisoned in the. Toner of I.on don, according to "The Paily Mail." The death penalty ttit! not he tought, the neiospapor point? out, hut if he it found guiHy the Allim u-ill auk hin baniehmeni fur life to a remote island, following the precedent of Napoleon'* rjile to St. Helena. The international trial court had intended to try the former Emperor alone, "The Da?y Mail" ?ays, hut it in po**ible that the former Crown Priv?e Eredrriek William will uho he arraigned he fore it. LONDON, July 8 (By "ihr Asso? ciated Presa).?William linhenzol lern, former Carman Emperor, will be tried by a tribunal which will sit soon in London, Premier Lloyd Georg- told the House of Common? this afternoon. Cheers ?greeted the announcement In c'iscussing the peac** confer? ence's decision to try the men held chiefly respors'ble for the war the Prem-er said that if such a course had Loen followed after othr-r war? "ther-? would have t>?*pn fewer wars.' He said l? was the inten? tion to make such an example cf Germany as to discourage others from "ever acr.iin attempting to re? peat this infamy." Laughter Greets Mention of League The Premier's address was made, in connection with two bills he in? troduced, oht? dealing with ratifica? tion cf the r.'-ac ' terms and the other approvirp the Amer;.can-A" glo-French convention providing for American am' British aid if Ger? many should attack France unpro? voked. The Premier's reference to the United State?* and England agree? ing to aid France jf she should be attacked was loudly applauded. When the Premier first mentioned the league of nations many of the members cheered, but seemingly nearly an equal number burst into laughter. I rcg of y^-u to try ;t. I beg of you to take it seriously," the Pre? mier protested. Proceeding, he declared: "If it saved only one generation from the horrors of war it would be a great achievement." "Nobody Want? Ii!M One Member Shouts One member shou?ed: "Nobody I wants it!'' There was a scene like those which ? frequently occurred in the suflfra I gette days during the debate after the Premier's speech. A woman in the gallery shouted: "There is rfo need to send men to Russia! The ? war is over!" Attendants carried her out strug ; gling and crying that her son was i being sent to Russia. Another woman took up the cry, I and while she wss bein> dragged out