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asliiimton (Time Today Dante in Sing Sing. A White Man Working. Serious British Labor. Robbing Six Millions. WEATHER: Partly cloudy today arid tomorrow little rbanRr In temperature. Temperature at 8 a. m., 73 decrees; normal tem perature for June 27 for last thirty years, 75 de gree. i fe jSTUMBER 11,208. Published every evening (including Sunday) Entered as second-class matter, at the poatofnea at Washington. D. C WASHINGTON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS. M FINAL EDITION ,f By ARTHUR BRISBANE. " (Copyright. 1919.) No mind, not even Dante's, can imagine anything that is not in human nature. Dante shows you enemies that meet in hell. As they turn in the boiling pitch, suffer ing for all eternity, one bites and gnaws at the skull of the other, and thus biting, they sink from sight. That is the world's greatest fic tion and not unlike todajs reality. Albert Gerguilo is in Sing Sing prison, for life. His enemy, John McGlyn, after some years is sent to join him there. Both are sen- antaA t V10 Jvrr. parthlv imifai- ,, wu ...w " -., Ji ,, tion 01 neu. uerguuo sees aic Glyn, leaps upon him, stabs him ferociously, severs his backbone, kills him. Gerguilo will have his life sentence made short in the electric chair. "Where, if anywhere, will those two men meet next, and what will Gerguilo do the next time? There is rioting in Toledo; cars ditched and burned when the street car fare is raised. What will happen in New York with its six million people when corpora tion gentlemen will try to get divi dends on watered stocks by as sessing every man, woman, school child, and working child six cents a day, eighteen dollars a year? Proceedings before Federal Judge Mayer show that a sample street car line on Eighth avenue, its cost first well watered, was rented to the big trust on a basis to pay over 26 per cent a year. Eminent statesmen, hired as lawyers to say anything they are told to say, declare that the great trusts, over capitalized at least four times, cannot pay expenses unless allowed to put a tax on all the poor. They mean that the trust needs the money to pay 26 per cent interest to some one that did nothing but steal the streets from the city by bribing aldermen. Which would be justice, to put a tax on hard-working poverty or say to prosperous rascals that hire ex-Presidents and Presiden tial candidates to work for them: "You cannot have your 26 per cent or any per cent unless you can earn it bv olivine ud to your contract with the city calling for a 5-cent fare." When blocked in other direc tions -wily corporations usually turn to the courts. This New York case is worth watching. Those that dread what they call "unreasoning discontent" would II da well to putt off a scheme that Lwrold make the biggest city m -the land discontented with good reason. Profiteering in tens of millions during war and at the rate of 6 cents a dav rer person during peace would be thorough, but would it be wise? They will not try that nonsense in Chicago, for they know the tem per of the population. If New York puts it through, even that heaw city may develop "tempera ment" A colored songster, with a happy face, used to sing, "I've got a white man working for me." It would have made him sad to learn that his white man was too sick to work. The allies could sing "I've got a German man working for me," and that explains allied anxiety about Germany's internal health. Peace is settled, but German railroads are tied up with strikes, plots are formed to kill the leaders that signed the peace. Such conditions, prolonged, might interfere with the collection of billions. It is one thing to issue bonds Germany can easily do that another thing to pay them off. Englishmen who bought our Southern bonds at bar gain prices know it. Information about the formali ties of peace signing come slowly. With German statesmen it is a case of "after you, Alphonse." Every body says he will resign rather than sign for Germany. Some in Lorraine have celebrated the treatv by committing suicide, others are expected to do so on the day of signing, which would be a Japanese way of registering displeasure. Nevertheless, It will be a mem orable signing. Mrs. Wilson and her secretary, and Miss Margaret Wil son, will be there, according to As sociated Press dispatches, and in one corner there will be three hun dred newspaper men from all over the world. They will be the real .audience, for they will see and lis ten for as many of the earth's fif teen hundred million inhabitants as can read. The new great crowd of specta tors, undreamed of in old days, is the crowd that gathers in the newspaper columns mornings and evenings to read all about it. In this case the reporter's trouble is too much bigness. The thing is beyond description. What's the use of telling how Clemenceau frowned, or how the German bit his lip, or what Mrs. Wilson's ec retarv wore on an occasion like that? It is like writing a para graph about the Pacific ocean. Judge Brandeis, of our Snnreme Court, is off to Palestine. He de votes his vacation after a vear of intense work to the welfare of Jerusalem, whence his ancestors came. The man who has reverence for his fathers, for the land, tra ditions, and aspirations of his race, will have the right reverence of feelinff for his own country. TRUCE SUING OF JUDGE HINGED IKilENl ABOUT PISTOL CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 27. The morning of the fifth day of the Morris trial, for the slaying of Judge "Son" Sullivan, in Standards- ville, witnessed a rapid advance in the presentation of the prisoner's side of the case. The feature was a long line of Green county residents trouble betwen the dead magistrate and Morris. The purport of their testimony was to show that Sullivan ordered Morris to be searched at a certain trial, held before him. Morris declared then that he had a right to carry a pistol, and had one on his person then "which he was prepared to use." Bevolver In Evidence. The coroner placed Sullivan's pis tol in evidence, stating- at the same time that it was brought to him after the Inquest, and her did no know whether it was 'in the overcoat pocket, or not. ' Proof of this will probably be forthcoming and will either strengthen Morris tale or will further jeopardize his charces of convincing the jury that he had a right to draw fire upon the judge, as he claims he did. There is a rumor around Char lottesville today to the effect that while in the military service Morris got drunk and held up one of his officers and forced him to drink with him. However, Major Opie, who was at that time a captain and Morris' commanding officer, denies that the rumor has the least foundation. Major Opie will take the stand this afternoon to tell just why Mor ris was discharged. XOGALES. Ariz., June 27. Although a dozen rounds of ammunition was fired, no one was wuuneed in a brush between a border patrol of United States cavalry and a party of Mexi cans four miles west of here late yes terday. The Mexicans fired on the cavalry men from ambush and th Americans returned the fire but did not cross the border in pusuit. No interest has been paid Finoe No vember 1917. on loans made by the United States Government to the former Russian imperial government. Under Secretary of State Polk told the Housp Committee on State De partment Expenditures today. Polk also testified interest pay ments have been defaulted on T.-,-000.000 loaned the late Czar's gov ernment by private banking interests in the United States ROOMS FOR RENT V ST. N. K., 65 Two room; I. h. k. . newly papered anil painted. Phone Lincoln 3739 24 VI could have rented my rooms thirty times from m ad in The Times," said Mrs. Grant, 642 L st. N. E. Another Jingle Con test starts tomorrow for $10. Read announce ment, first want ad page. NEW BORDER FIGHT NO ONE IS INJURED RUSSIA 19 MONTHS OVERDUE ON LOANS Crown Prince Has Not Escaped, Holland ENDS THE NEARLY LATE MR. BARLEYCORN MU)iMfa) &i r' f "" v 1 -v I glL(-YdOWlLSPEKD ) I .UNV. I f-0HDAY & Zl5 I5)(gjin YOUR LASTH0UR5 h --i ? ' rlVooAiAStl'Vt EmJihhmw iiitmJ """" "T" L Ail 4 r - wef 0 ftSttn ' gBzBljj1 " "J gm ARE EXPECTED T i .9 o nTa O M v , L" . gjc ' WET DINNER & BAWJuir & WH&fo W SRTTDCUS 1 ( 1 WIUU P in honor, fm fSiL f m$ iSKSJ v bvyyo- (kt'm) l . uke Yova. J mwBw&frW I 1 1 Qc if 15,000,000 IS LEFT NEW YORK, June 27. The largest gift ever made to further the art of music is a bequest set forth in the will of A. D. Juilliard, New York merchant, whic?i has been filed with the surrogate o. " inge county at Goshen, N". Y. He left his entire residuary estate for the establishment of the Juilliard Musical Foundation, which will help worthy students to be educated here or abroad without expense to them, give entertainments for the education and diversion of the public, and assiht the Metropolitan Opera Company in the production of operas. There are specific bequests to rela tives and institutions amounting ti several million dollars. The extern, of the residue, which will go to the Julhard Musical Foundation, can oi.lr. be gues-sed at now. It may reach $0,000,000 In any event this benefaction is in comparably the la-est ever recorded in the field of must. in fact, so tre mendous is the bequest and so broad its terms that there is nothing with which to attempt a comparison. Opening the doors of opportuniay to young men ana women with talent but without means is only one. al though a considerable one, of its pur poses. Executor' Statement. This is the statement issued in be half of the executors and trustees: "The will of the late Augustus D. Juilliard. who died April 25. has been filed for probate. Mr. Juilliard, after making ample provision for his imme diate relatives and providing terms for the disposition of his interests in the firm of A. V Juilliard A: ' to ins late partners, made the following be quests: American Museum of Natural History f 100.000 New York Orthopaedic Dis pensary and Hospital Society of New York Hospital Lincoln Hospital and Home.. Tuxedo Hospital, Tuxedo Park. N. Y New York Sonet v for the Prevention of t'ruelty to Children St. John's Guild, City of New York 100.000 ioo.oou 100.000 100,000 100.000 100,000 PRESIDENT ALONE CAN SAVE DAYLIGHT SAVING Repeal of the daylight savings law the last Sunday in Ostobcr is now cer tain, unless President Wilson acts. Both houses of Congress have agreed to the -onferenre report on the agri cultural bill, which carries & repeal ing rider. TO AID 1 SCANS Copyrlxfet: 1919: BrJotmT.McCuUAsoaJ OH, WHAT A SHOCK TUMULTY GOT IN THE DARK Secretary to the President Tumulty was routed out of bed early today by the insistent ringing of his telephone. At the other end was the White House attache who handles the cable messages from the President. "Cablegram for you from the President," he said. "Read it," the Secretary or dered. "J. P. Tumulty, White House: "I have decided to lift the ban on " "Yes, yes, go on!" " the export of gold bullion." NOTE TO GIRL LEO nosTMN. June :'7.-On the ev of Dr. Karl Mucks departure for Ger many it became known that the real cause of the downfall of the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was an intercepted letter sent by him to a Back Ba society girl. This missive was such that he was arrested and was told he could accept detention as an enemy alien or go to triul on the charge. He chose the detention camp. It was not until he visited Provi dence, where either he or the man agement of the symphony orchestra refused to put "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the program, that Dr. Muck received any attention from the authorities. This incident created a great storm all over the country, and resulted in Washington being flooded with demands that something be done about it. The Attorney General then took a hand and sent a peremptory order to the local authorities of the Depart ment of Justice asking them why they had not done something. Then the investigation of Dr. Muck was taken up in earnest. In this investigation, in which the authorities were assisted by patriotic members of the symphony orchestra, it developed that the name of a young woman in the Back Bay district was closely connected with that of Dr. Muck. TO IK'S UNDOING HAMBURC REBELLION . i Fmzw D. C. FISCAL PLAN The fifty-fifty fiscal relation be tween the District of Columbia gov ernment and the Federal Government should be abolished, in the opinion of members of the House, and the best that advocates of tha forty-year-old plan are asking for today Is that it be continued for one more year that no delay may be had in making appro priations available for the District govrenment next month. Majority Leader Mondell, who for years has supported the plan, yester day voted against it. holding that it has outworn its usefulness. Several other House leaders who have supported the plan in the past, on the groumd that it was merely to avoid delay in making District ap propriations available, are now deter mined that the final disposition of the natter should be taken up without more ado. Should a deadlock result following thr refusal of the House to recede and agree to the Senate amendment which puts the fifty-fifty plan back in the District appropriation bill, it is problematical what will happen Were the President in Washington a concurrent resolution could be passed which would continue District appropriations Of two years ago, but the President is not here, and a reso lution of that kind cannot be signed by wireless. The conferees of the House and Senate will meet late today, and an effort will be made to report out some measure that will offer a .volution Later. Senator King, after a con ference with Senator Curtis, agreed to withdraw his objections to the consideration of the conference re port. Senator Curtis, who ha charge of the District bill, hopes later in the day to have the Senate adopt the report and agree to the request of the Hous.e for a further conference. Ho expressed confidence that the half-and-half plan will remain in the bill at the insistence of the Senate. SENATE DEMANDS SIBERIAN POLICY The Senate today passed Senator Hiram Johnsons resolution request ing the President to inform the Sen ate regarding the Government's mili tary policy in Siberia. TAKE BELL-ANS BKFOKE MEAI.S and Me how fine cood digestion makes you feeL Advt. NOW A NG DOOM DOUBLE BILL TO ENFORCE DRY LAW NOW UP-TO HOUSE Enforcement legislation for both wartime and constitutipnal prohibi tion was formally reported to the House in a bill of two sections by the House Judiciary Committee to day. The vote on reporting the legisla tion was 17 to 2. As the bill now stands rather lenient laws are pro vided in one section for wartime prohibition and drastic provisions for constitutional prohibition in the other. Lenient Enforcement. Should Congress approve the House plan, enforcement of the war-time act will be more lenient than pre viously planned by the House Ju diciary Committee. Only the manu facture and sale of Intoxicating liquor are prohibited, but the House bill clearly defines intoxicating . liquor under the war-time act as any bever age that contains more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol. Although enforcement legislation almost certainly cannot be passed be fore July. J, drys in Congress believe the wartime act In itself provides ade quate enforcement provisions. While it does not define "intoxicating liq uor," the manufacture and sale of liquor Is prohbited, with penalties of Imprisonment from thirty to ninety days and .fines of from $100 to $1,000. Enforcement in clearly lodged with the Internal Revenue Commissioner and the Department of Justice, and powers are given to issue permanent injunction against any place that tries to manufacture or sell liquor. Export of the liquor on hand is al lowed. NEWPORT. June 27. The Iron hand of Secretary Daniels In enforcing prohibition has been on Newport too long, thinks Mayor Mahoney. who sent to the navy chief a fiery telegram demanding that the -naval dry zone law be modified to permit New porters to bring in liquors irom sur rounding cities before July 1. Secre tary Daniels recently refused the pleas of both Congressman Burdlck and the mayor, and citizens, feeling the rapid approach of wartime pro hibition, prevailed upon the mayor to send the telegram wnich stoutly up holds home rule and resents outside Interference. "War being over, Newport Intends to be ruled in home affairs by New porters and no one else,' said Mayor Mahoney in his telegram. "Newport ers consider continued refusal to modi fy unjust and unreasonable interfer ence with local rights a violation of the sacred New England institution of home rule." FEAnS INSANITY j DRINKS POISON'. TOPEKA. Kan.. June 27. Fearing insanity. Miss Anna Hays Holt, daugh ter of the late Judge Noel Holt, drank poison on the Bteps of the house of Judge W. A. Johnson, of the Kansas supreme court, a long-time friend of her father, and died in a' few minutes Miss Holt left a note iaying she feared insanity. ST. HELENA EAGER TO HAVE KAISER AS PRISONER JAMESTOWN. St. Helena Island, June 27. The St. Helena Observer, the only newspaper published on this island where Napoleon ended his days, wants the former Kaiser sent here to spend the remainder of his life in exile. The Observer says the entire population of the little island is excited over the pos sibility that it may have another imperial hostage. NEWPORT PROTESTS NAVY'S LIQUOR BAN Announces FOE PRINCE STILL AT WIERINGEN, SAYS HAGUE LONDON, June 27. It is officially announced at The Hague that the for mer German Crown Prince is still at the island of Wieringen, said a Beuter dispatch from The Hague today. The former Crown Prince was reported yesterday to have escaped from his place of internment and to have entered Germany. Advices received in Paris were that he was accom panied by a staff officer. RESIDENT IS WILL RATIFY By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN, International Tferrs 'Service. PARIS. June 27. President Wilson has the utmost confidence that the United States Senate will ratify the peace treaty shortly after it Is pre sented in its final form. The President plans to sail imme diately after the signing, probably Sunday noon, landing in New York a week later. It is expected that he will request a joint session of the Senate and House on Monday, when he will address the members and at the same time deliver the treaty to the Senate Committee on Foreign Re lations. Latest advices reaching the Presi dent indicate that sufficient votes can be mustered to secure ratifica tion, although the Administration ex pects a bitter fight in the final stages. Telia of HI Confidence. The President has informed his colleagues that he is entirely con vinced that public opinion will de mand the ratification and that it will be unwilling to consent to a separa- (Contlnued on Page 8, Column 1.) JACKSON'. Mich.. June 27. To spend thirty-five years in JacKson peniten tiary for murder and then come face to face with the man he was sup posed to have killed waa the experi ence of James Halsted, paroled con vict, he declared today. Halsted said he met by appoint ment on the streets of Chicago the man whom he was convicted of killr ing lir Jackson thirty-five years ago. His story is being investigated. NEW BEDFORD. Mass.. June 27. Mij-s Olive Grace, a twenty-two-year old stenographer, shot John S. Noves during a lovers' quarrel early today, while they were automobile riding. 2he then shot herself. She may die. N'evej.. who is twenty-five and a garage manager, bandaged his wound and drove the car to the police sta tion. He i.aid the shooting had ended their romance, and he will prefer charges against his sweetheart if she recovers. WILL STRIKE IN SEATTLE AS M00NEY CASE PROTEST N'KW YORK. June 27. A -general protest strike to demand the immedi ate retrial or release of Thomas Moonrv will b" held in Seattle July 4. James Duncan, president of the Seattle Central Trades Union, stated today. i MET. 'VICT1' AFTER TERM FOR KILLING SHOOTS HER FIANCE DURING AUTO RIDE STREET RIOTS AT END, BUT REDS MENACE U. S. VESSELS BERNE, June 27. A truce has been effected between government troops asd Spartacan forces in Ham burg, ajdispatch from that city re- ported tilities y. The cessation of hos- e after hours of street fighting. egotiations were still in progress en the dispatch was filed. Spartacans occupied the railway stations and tore up the tracks for .miles in all directions to prevent arrival of more government troops. LONDON, June 27. It is believed here that the Spartacist mob which has taken possession of Hamburg will attempt to capture the supplies aboard American food ships which .recently arrived here. The American vessels are armed and should be able to repel the at tempt. MACHINE GUN BATTLE IN ALEXANDER PLATZ; CASUALTIES CONCEALED BERLIN. June 27. A machine gun battle took place in the Alexander Platz. It could not be ascertained whether there were any casualties., 185 REPORTED KILLED IN HAMBURG RIOTING; BOURSE IS DAMAGED LONDON. June 27. The killed In the rioting at Hamburg number 1S5, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. Other dispatches declare order has been, re stored in the city, which is belnff governed by a council of twelve, whose numbers include communists and independent socialists. Newspaper advices from Berlin ay General Von Lettow-Vorbeck has been ordered to Hamburg with strong forces to restore order. The stock exchange at Hamburg, it is added, was damaged seriously in the fighting for possession of the. town hall. Disorders are increasing In Berlin . the Exchange Telegraph correspond ent at Amsterdam reports. Manv streets there are barricaded, and there have been serious engagements between government troops and mobsr In military circles In Berlin, tha dispatch adds, it is asserted th.t a counter revolution will begin as soon as a communist revolt against th government is started. Up until 4 o'clock Wednesday aft ernoon the strike of railroad workers failed to show signs of spreading in Berlin. The Federation of Rail Workers, the membership of which, is 400,000. is opposing the strike and has called upon the workers not to permit themselves to be "misled by political agitators or guilty of plung-' mg the country into economic chaos." Field Marshal von Hindenburg. In reply to a request from Minister of Defense Noske concerning the allied rejection of German reservations in the peace treaty, said that in th event of a resumption of hostilities according to a Berlin dispatch, tha Germans would be able to reconquer Posen and maintain the frontiers to the east, but hardly would be able to reckon on success in the west. Tha field marshal is said to have added: "A favorable issue to our opera tions is. therefore, very doubtful, but as a soldier 1 must prefer an honor able fall to an ignominious peace." General Groener. who succeeded Field Marshal von Hindenburg as German chief of staff, has tendered his resignation to President Ebert. but has agreed to remain at his post until the situation in the eastern provinces becomes stabilized, say Berlin advices, which also deela.ro that th Prussian National Assembly has passed a resolution expressing; confidence in the government, this action following a discussion of tha peace situation by the assembly. PEACE SIGNERS LEAVE BERLIN; DUE IN PARIS TOMORROW MORNING VERSAILLES. June 27 The Ger man delegation which will sign tha peacp treaty left Berlin at midnight (Continued on Page S, Column 5.) tt