Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, The (Newspaper) - July 28, 1919, Fort Wayne, Indiana ft Telephone your want by catling No 4300 FORT WAYNE THE PEOPLES AND NORTHERN INDIANA'S LEADING HOME NEWSPAPER AND AD MEDIUM 12 PAGES TO-DAY JOURNAL GAZETTE 1863 NEWS OF THE WORLD JULY 28 1919 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE THREE CENTS PACIFIC FLEET NOW IN WESTERN WATERS RACE RIOTS IN CHICAGO DUE KILLED MANY INJURED Trouble Between Whites and Blacks Gives Entire Police Force a Day of Real Work One Negro Is Drowned Score Hurt by Bullets and Flying Missiles RESULT OF FEUD c July series of riots in the negro dis- late to-day resulted in the drowning of one negro the reported drowning of a white man probably fatal injury of another negro the wounding of a policeman and injury to a score of whites and blacks by bullets and missiles Police to-night said they had the situation well in hand The trouble started at the Twenty-Ninth street beach where whites and blacks are segregated and soon spread to State street the main thoroughfare in the heart of the negro district which extends about five miles Shooting started near the beach There was also some shooting in the ity of State street Although ill feeling between whites and blacks on the south side has extended over a period of months emphasized by bomb explosions some shooting and numerous to-day s riots seem to have had their start in petty quarreling at the beach Reports that negroes Freedom of the Seas and Government Ownership of Railroads Subjects PROMINENT MEN dered across the dividing line to the white section oi the I beach and that whites amused Feiertag Wayne's Own Singer Appear Twice To-day small stones Appeared the most in of BIGGEST EVENT IN HISTORY OF THE PANAMA CANAL Allies Will Not Treat With Hungary Under Present Government REMOVING THE BLOCKADE Until This Is Brought About the Country Can Get No Pood PARIS July strong ar- of the present ian government is contained In the allied statement issued to-day In which it was made known to the Hungarian people that they could only a removal of the ade and receive food supplies if they ousted Bela Kun and set up a truly representative government The text of the statement given out by Premier Clemenceau in the name of the peace conference is as The allied and associated are most anxious to ar- range a peace with the Hungarian people and thus bring to an end a condition of things which makes the economic revival of central Europe Impossible and defeats any attempt to secure supplies for its population These tasks cannot even be at- tempted until there Is In Hungary a government which represents Its people and carries out In the letter and the spirit the engagements into which it has entered into with the associated governments None of these conditions is filled by the demonstration of Bela Kun which has not only broken the armistice to which Hungary waa pledged but is at this moment attacking a friendly and allied power With this particular aspect of the question it Is for the associated governments to deal on their re- sponsibility If food and supplies are to be made available if blockade is to be removed If eco- nomic reconstruction Is to be at- tempted If peace Is to be settled It can only be done Vith a ment which represents the ian people and not with one that ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP U S S NEW MEXICO Saturday July 26 By wireless to the Associated The Pacific fleet under command of Admiral man to-night is floating in Pacific waters Six led by the flagship New Mexico to-day successfully negotiated the Panama canal the largest ships that ever have passed through this waterway The average time of passage for each warship from Colon to Balboa was ten hours eliminating anchorage time in Gatun lake This is the biggest event in the history of the said Governor Chester Harding of the canal zone after the feat had been accomplished These dreadnoughts are the largest ships and this is the largest fleet ever to pass through the canal Governor Harding boarded the flagship at the Pedro Miguel locks and made the rest of the passage to Balboa Continued on 7 Column WEDDED BY BADIO UP AMONG CLOUDS TO-DAY AT CHAUTAUQUA a m oil p Miss Luella Fort Wayne lyric soprano Delbert Chute pianist Lecture The Great Dr Chas Zueblin formerly of Chicago university p Miss Luella Feiertag in recital Delbert Chute pianist De- Shall the Government Own he Affirmative Dr negative Hon Leslie VI Shaw former secretary of the Admission Afternoon and Ins adults 50 cents and 5 cents war tax children 29 cents and one tax How to get Take any car rom any part of the city to the transfer go three blocks on Calhoun street to league park rests its i r VI VI I behind a I Peace conference and began shooting at a policeman cease as as the terms of tbs armistice have in the opinion of trie allied commander-In-chief been satisfactorily complied with who had joined the pursuit and who returned the fre The negro finally surrendered During the shooting one negro was probably fatally wounded Twenty-ninth street was soon packed with whites and blacks the patter predominating More fighting j occurred and a few shots were fired as some of the negroes fled and patrol wagons loaded with blue coats raced to the scene A fire broke out in a small mg and fire apparatus was blocked I said toi Miss Bullard Red Cross Nurse nave tried to drag the firemen i Who Was Decorated by During the fighting rocks bricks and other missies were hurled the beach and at various principals along Twenty-ninth street and along State street White were frequently attacked and en on State street the police With delightful memories of the splendid programs at the chautauqua a At the beacn while missies were flying a negro on a raft was re- ported to have been struck with a rock and Into the lake Later the body of a negro was taken from the water A white man a swimmer also last week the people of Fort was reported hit and drowned Witn after an rest will flock tne Police stations emptied of re serves and scores of others from north and west side stations i outbreaks The small army of policemen to the big tent to-day Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday to take in what sre considered the biggest at- tractions of an exceptionally big day event w i WA people are especially in- in bringing about the afternoon and evening j semblance of order of to-day for they bring one I of Fort most popular young women Miss Luella who will appear on both frams in a delightful series of songs Miss accompanist is Delbert Chute who contributes several logues to the of the day united with the forces early In the present season ana she has made good to the delight of her many friends who share the on Page 7 Column i French Tells of War WON CROIX DE GUERRE Was Eye Witness of Scene When Town of Thierry Was Fort Wayne residents who were thrilled Saturday by the recital of Miss Bullard Red Cross nurse at Pan- German Newspapers Expose Trick on Part of Prince Maximilian FORCED KAISER AWAY Alleged Now That Former Emperor Never Renounced His Throne By the Associated Press BERLIN July morning's Pan-American newspapers of Berlin make a feature of a five column ex- pose of the occurrences in tion with the outbreak of the man revolution last November in- a struggle taking place at German great headquarters at Spa on 9 lasting nearly 24 hours to Induce Emperor William to abdicate Material is adduced to show that Prince Maximilian of Baden then imperial chancellor finally took the Initiative and gave to the Wolff bureau an official statement that the emperor had abdicated as em- and king of Prussia although it is averred he had done neither and has never renounced the throne of Prussia I Prince Maximilian it is declared took this step out of misguided I in an attempt to subdue the revolutionary movement which was rapidly getting out of hand and by it forced the emperor's advisers to hurry him away to Holland The now charge the er chancellor with treachery All doubts as to William abdication as German em- and king of Prussia were con- to have been settled when Berlin advices on November 30 last SIDETRACK PEACE TAKE DP TREATY WITH COLOMBIA Senate Will Halt Temporarily This Week to Make Way for Important Legislation President Expected Soon to State His J Stand on Reservations ON 4 WASHINGTON July controversy over peace treaty with its league of nations covenant will be halted temporarily this week to allow consideration of thell long pending Colombia treaty However the peace treaty and related subjects are expected to be to the fore every day if not on the floor of the senate at least in the cloak rooms and in conferences While the senate considers the two treaties the house will be occupied with a rush of legislation preparatory to the planned recess of five weeks beginning Saturday The house recess plans calling for a complete shut down of the lower branch from August 2 to September 8 art expected to be presented formally to-morrow The plans undoubtedly will re- the required senate proval While the house is in recess the senate will remain in session chiefly working on the peace treaty while the house committees will take up oU told of the issuance by the new map government of the former em- of renunciation ed having been executed and signed by William Hohenzollern at Holland on 128 The text of the abdication aa given in a Berlin dispatch investigations and will hold hearings on a ber of reconstruction ures The recess however will de- lay enactment of several bills in- the prohibition enforcement By the present document I re- forever my right to the crown of Prussia and the rights to t the crown THE WEATHER Monday and In probably local thunder ers In north portion not so warm In and central portions Still Maintaining Hold on Territory They Were to Evacuate N By the Associated Prees PARIS Friday July troops In are maintaining their hold on the territory they every the order that they shall evacuate i cupy there and are Ion i fort to day and on Tuesday not quite scT Warm Tuesday the country speedily according to Lower Michigan local thunder messages received in Paris from showers cooler south central portions Tuesday fair I Continued on Page 7 Column 5 SMALLPOX ON TROOP SHIP YORK July first case of smallpox discovered on a returning troop ship held up the transport Mobile from Brest on her arrival here to-day resulting n the quarantining of nearly officers and men on their arrival at Tamp Mills and the segregation of 139 war brides under care of the Red Cross after they were landed at Hoboken A Filipino mess boy was found to have developed a mild case of the after the vessel left France and he was quarantined with his truce Filipino companions in the ship's hospital Then all persons on board were vaccinated On their ar- here the four Filipinos were sent to the Hoffman island hospital The Mobile brought the first of the Fourth division to return home In- the ninety-three officers and men of the Forty-seventh In- fantry and twenty-one and and twenty-five enlisted men of the Third army corps headquarters detachment The division nicknamed by its members the forgotten Fourth because of its lack of publicity fought in the Aisne Marne St Mi- hiel and Argonne offensives ing casualties out of a total of 5.330 officers and men engaged In action Of 163 officers originally there were 103 casualties at the end of the war of the most heroic feminine pants of world war For although the speaker wore the de Guerre the prized war medal of the French army with one star ing from the ribbon as special tion for personal bravery And Ism under fire she had little to say of her own experience in her astic praise of the splendid valor of the men she served with on the tle front i Slightly built but vivacious and j mentally alert and with a world of I knowledge obtained first-hand of the lawful effects of the war Miss lard is one hundred per cent ican This Is puzzling in of the fact that she is American born for the reason that she has a decided foreign accent When asked how this came about Miss Bullard responds with a Is American Girl Well you see it was like this I spent two years and a half with the French troops in the field saw no one but French mingled with the French surgeons and nurses and spoke ing but the French language In all that time Unconsciously I suppose I absorbed the French manner of speech and this accent has caused many to think I am foreign I am not I was born In Glens Falls Y in the old Mohawk valley My people are all Americans I was at Glens Falls took up nursing a profession and was later or duty at the Glens Falls hospital When the world war broke out I went to France and offered my services For over three years I was In the thick of all the allied drives both at the front and In the various hospitals Then when America entered the war I was with the American Ked Cross on the French front BROOKLYN N T- July ried In the air by radio telephone with the guests on the ground ing the service through amplifiers this couple chose about the latest thing in the way of a wedding The in a third After the ceremony It was arranged for 30 planes to join the wedding procession in the air Lieut George H Burgess U S air service and Miss Mllly K Schafer of Brooklyn the up-to-the-minute principals in the In the bridal couple went up In one plane i clouds over Sheepshead Bay while the minister was sent aloft In way are here pictured in their another and the best man and brides ding garments Dr Otto Bauer Will Be At Least That Is What His Succeeded by Dr Renner Indiana Friends Say in the Administration Failure National Capital VIENNA Saturday July Dr WASHINGTON D C July ptto Bauer Austrian foreign j Indiana friends of Will H re- flay He retained however the post of minister of socialization in the announcement to-night chairman that made Hays cabinet The foreign ministry will will not be a candidate for governor over by Dr Karl Renner he chancellor In addition to the Chancellorship A number of reasons are ad- for Dr Bauer's resignation Jn the first under his tration was a failure to secure union between Austria and Germany and likewise failure to obtain the aid of Italy In advancing Austria's de- sire toward this end The attempt Decorated for Valor Miss Bullard would have nothing to say as to how she won the Croix de Guerre but the facts In the case protection by Italy against territorial aspirations of the Slavs also came to naught as did an effort to obtain partial by Italy her claims in the the 1 jQ to gain French good will for of Indiana at the state convention next year It was said in political circles her to-day that Havs will make an announcement at tlie re- publican editors at nesia Springs Friday he will not seek the republican Humiliation No is except Hays to devote all of his time to the work of the national committee MIGHT BE INDIANAPOLIS July The until Developments thought possible this week treaty fight include statements by President Wilson outlining his stand on the proposal for ratification reservations and ing new information as to the Shantung provision Both of the j statements will have a direct bearing on debate The Shantung provision is the subject of jic discussions now in progress with i Tokio designed to obtain publication of the secret understanding for of the province or sons public declaration of Japan's Intentions In the Hotel Night Watchman in Confession Says He Killed Little Janet Wilkinson STRANGLED THE CHILD Charge That HIT U r T i ii n Mon Turned It DOWn morrow and will be followed on Tuesday by Senators Thomas of wl discuss the treaty t0 in 1917 Is Denied t Colorado and Gay of Louisiana i both democrats Other addresses are expected later in the week ATTEMPT TO FIX BLAME i Committee i expects to complete Us preliminary reading of the peace treaty Imperial Chancellor After of the ni TT TT bia treaty the committee plans to He Did His Best But j hear one or two of the experts who Unwilling assisted the American peace at Paris BERLIN July the A Dr George Michaelis the former im- chancellor in a long tion published by the Rundschau disclaims for refusal of peace overtures in 1917 attributed to him by Mathias Erzberger vice-premier speaking in the German national assembly day On that occasion Erzberger de- clared that peace overtures were made to Germany by Great find France through the Vatican in August 1917 and that Chancellor Viscount Ishii Declares Such a Thing to His Is Inconceivable TOKIO Wednesday July Michaelis on September 24 wrote tlle A reports of that the situation was not sufficiently un delivered to the Tokio clear and rejected the overtures press league to-day by Viscount Dr Michaelis in his present Ishil ambassador to the irent says that the proposals were United States who recently returned before him early in September tc Japan quote the ambassador WASHINGTON July and that he discussed that some Japanese seemed Assistant Postmaster General to war Takes Police to Spot He Had Concealed Body in Coal Pile CHICAGO July gerald night watchman of a hotel to-day confessed to the police that he had murdered year-old Janet Wilkinson a bor's child and thus brought to a climax one of Chicago's most ring police cases Fitzgerald who 39 years old to-day and who is married his confession after five sleepless days and nights of questioning and then led the police to his home where he had concealed the body be- neath coal last Tuesday The child had been strangled A crowd surrounded the home the body was removed and there were threats against the i murderer A strong guard thrown about the prisoner and hai waa hurried to a cell The crowd followed to the station where it was quickly dispersed When the child daughter a grocer disappeared suspicion directed toward Fitzgerald and hal was arrested Two days gerald's wife was called home from Michigan At first she faith in her husband but said she believed he had of Janet's disappearance Seldom has the populace eor aroused over a criminal case here Various independent had began investigations and pne Chicago newspaper to-day offered a reward of for information leading to a solution The father of the child had offered a reward of 1500 Supporters of other republican are these She stuck to her post candidates have circulated story that under fire and saved her of the allied Hays will announce at Magnesia boys from bombs and shrapnel Her gallantry in the face of deadly peril was repeated not times In action at Her as of the Springs next Friday that he will not to-do order are have but best information from close once but many or to bring I friends ts that he will announce his Dr Bauer s resignation candidacy then Continued on Page 7 Column cause of his supposed left Mich to-night Chicago them with Dr von Kuehlmann who was foreign secretary at the lime Later he requested the emperor to hold a crown council in the presence of the supreme army and navy This was held on ber 11 and the result of the ence he says was summed up by the emperor in the following ten The annexation of Belgium is dubious Belgium could be restored The Flanders coast It is true is important and Zeebrugge must not fall into the hands of the British But the Belgian coast alone could not be held The close economic union of with Germany must be brought 1 about Belgium has the greatest in- terest In this The former chancellor explained he arranged with von mann to make soundings through a suitable person to Indicate in v to fear war might break out be- tween Japan and the United States over the Chinese question but that was an amicable settlement with the air mail pilots who went on a one day strike last week -Kin AII j At the conclusion of the conferences able All that war would do would Pilot Charles H Anglin bo to entail gi eat losses upon both sen ting the pilots the countries Viscount Ishil added of Pilot E Hamilton Lee one of two The ambassador is quoted men whose dismissal resulted ta the as telling the newspaper j sti ike was announced it he believed the Americans Leon Smith the other dismissed th thina in will not be Mr J Japan In concluding his Praeger said This action was said speech the reports add he urged the to hme met with the approval of to stick tn tho the ast to Anslin proposal for racial equality Smith's case pre- complications required ISSUE LOAN CERTIFICATES July same will sec the certificates of five months of m loan and tax cordance with the crown council's at per certificates leaving an increase of that for be issued by the treasury I to lie funded bv the of nn tho ana fifteenth sisr nf e y e t- monthly on the first and fifteenth sue of short term notes when August 1 for the remainder ket conditions are favorable and the of the calendar for the purpose terms advantageous to the of the government's re- ment All national and Mate banks trust companies will be ex- recognition of territorial integrity tion of the German colonies of an economic war and no indemnity Gieat secrecy was necessary and it was considered in- i in mis announcement I to take not less than 1 6 per advisable to negotiate through the day In a letter to the banking cent of their gioss in each Vatican because that might havo lions of the country Secretary of loan rendered an indiscretion by minimum nf ger possible In conclusion Dr Michaelis I did my utmost and if the plans failed it was due to the fact that our enemies are unwilling L DC In making this announcement to take not less than 1.6 per n a letter to the banking cent of their gioss in each of the country Secretary of loan the minimum amount of during August ami September issue in August and September would with he percentage falling to 0 8 not exceed while sub- ward the end of the calendar year sequent probably would be i The mav be octa- about half that amount with the i the substitution of total estimated at The ft
