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The Tribune Prints More News Th ALL MERCHAND1SE ADVER TISED IN THE TRIBUNE rs guarXnteed an LXXEK No. 26,457 1010, New to Truth: Ne THURSDAY, Any Other New York Newspaper ws Advertisements APRIL il irtlrane MIDNIGHT EDITION A or to-nifM; nrnbaltlv fair to-morrnw; modrralr windit two 1 ln f.rrnlrr aml f.l?*i?h?r# mu dlKliuKf- THIO.I. Italy Shall Not Have Fium "Big Three" Face New ie, Wilson Declares; isis in Japan-China Issue Burleson Tells of 6Plot' Against Him Postinastcr General Issues Orders That Articles At tacking Him Be Passed by Telegraph Lines Charges Intrigue To Force Rate Cut Official of Postal Liiies T) i Regulations Bamicd fcWorUF Query PoltfflSSter (irneral BrtrlfKon Issued ststemrnt yeiUrday in which hi aid ittaaki against him ml ralniitration, which have- multlpliod re were merely propaganda to t-redit i it-. nnd obtaifi lower postnl lAion on mail matter, He he had been wavned a your ago that such attacks would result un less the rates were lowered. It-was announced in Washington by John P.

Miller, chief of the division of information of the Postoffice De part ment, that the refusal or the tele? graph companies to accept queries from the "Xew York World" offering to other papers a story they were on the Postmaster General was not inspired bj' Mr. Burleion. He. Mr. Miller eaid.

knev nothing whatever about it. Tne wire chiefs, Miller ex piained. were merely taking advantage old-established rule to protect thamselves from action for hbel. Will ,1. DeDegan.

secretary of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, on the other hand. said yesterday that iheie was no rule on the regulation books of either telegraph company which could be invoked against tho "Xew Vork World's" message. At the offices of N'ight Managejs 1 oney and Leipman of the Postal and "esicrn Union companies, respec f.vely, neither of the men would say anything concerning the message they held up. Mr. Burleson also announced yes terdsy that the ban upon "Tho World" srtiele had been liftrd.

if the paper to send it now, and added he had instrueted the telegraph companies to hoM up no stories containing libellou? refcrer.u--- to him an.l his administra tion. Meaaage Nol Objectionable Mr. Deegan "The World's'' waa "absolutely unobjectionable from telegraph point of and Jhix -Aa? aurprossed "only because it to Burleson." Mr. rii'ijjan's statement follows: "Mr. Farleson's statement aboul the blfe ho.nored practiccs of the telegraph is all wrong.

a press "The New Vork World" WBt eul last night over the jrirei to different r.ewspapors in the States, would have been ac and transmitu-d by either tele trapn toTipany thc slightesl thc old rules and of the telegraph companies. tn fact, i do no? know of anv press having been rcfuncd bv ttlejraph company on thc ground o'f l1Delous. a telegram as "The New York oa'- laBt Sunday night is unobjectionable from a tele crajMi point of viftw and it wan onlv HUnn referred to Burleson. and has the telegraph by gag orders, threats of dis 7ml'a'' etc-? that the telegraph rejected it. A year ago tho would no more have thought il than if' think of reJect or mefl wwi Khow? the degradation to; wn.cn Burleson has dragged the cotnpanm." Kule Not Applicable Mr.

Delgan cited a rule of the Poatal Company referr.ng to ot containing obacene or libeloui out that it. had no hearing containing profane, ob language will not be employes are caationed ga raiatjng to legal proceed 'n ete. Our patrons expunge from in that he could not when it waa nec- I'ostal Telegraph Cable reject rneasagcK on account regulation. He charac statement of Night Man Ulpman tkat to the cftVct World was "im "rMiculous," and reernpha- mSt that only faar of T' them to relaet It, the rajaetfon of thc among tha nt ii'ii Half Bway Japan May Join League Wlihout Race Equality April 23 (By Tho Asso? ciated impression exists in well informed quarters here that Jnpan will join the league of nations, even if the racial clauso of the league covenant iinally is re jectod by the peace conference. This was brought out in answer to special news dispatches from Paris asserting that, Japan had informed the other delegates to the conference that Japan would decline to enter the league if the racial clause was not adopted.

Beer Pipe Lines Open Again in II. S. Baekdown Looks Ordered Broken, Official AnnouiM'emfiii Made nt Efearing iu Brew oiV Fighl for 2.7."> Drink Some Moses the Internal ivenue D.partment has smitten the locks on the hriMvciv piiic lines throughout the country and beer is flowing once again This wno announced yesterday in the Federal Court by Special United States Attorney Fitts during the argument on ihr suit brought by the Jacob Hoft'man Brewinp Company against the govern ment. Mr. Fitts said that the pipe lines, which have remained sealed since brewing was forbidden by Presi dential proclamation on December had bre ordered reopened foliowing conference with Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer.

Francis Cacey, United States Di? trict Attorney, added further compli cation to the situation'by announcing that he had received no instructions from Washington to prosecute the brewers who are con taiuing 2.75 per cent aleohol. light for 2.7."i Per Cenl Beer The Hoffman company, which has be the brewerg of the country. is seeking to restrain Federal inter ference with the production of a 2.7.") per cent brew, which they say is non intoxicating. Klihu Root artd William D. Guthrie appeared as counsel for the brewers before Federal A.

N. Hard. was upon the advice of Mr. Root that the brewers rccently turn inc out the 2.75 beer, despite the ulti matum by the government that no rev? enue stamps would be sold for beer containing such a perccntage of alco? holic content. The brewcrtf undis mayed, used stamps of their own, and laid the tax for such a time as government reversed its stand The as expected by the brewers, opened negotiations the earlj pan ol th ve.

and issued the stamps. This change official heart arouscd speculation yestcrday's hearing as to hcthor the att ittide no di played by rhe FedorHl nuthoritios would con tituie after the wartimc prohibition act which prohibits the manufacture of intoxicants after ApriliaO and their after June UO becomes effective next Thursday. District Attorney Caffey and Special United States At- I tornoy Fitts, however, declared they had no knowledge of the course to be pursued when the emergency acl koiv. into operation on May l. Glad Tidings Are Itrought Mr.

Guthrie assertecl that the inter? ests he rcpresents are "up in the air" because they have been unable to ob tain revenue stamps in Xew York, al thouRh the. withdrawal of the order prohibitinfc the sale of the stamps had been announced in Washington. Ile added that. bottling was impossible be? cause lhe Inturnal Revenue collcctor had refused to send agents to unseal locks on the pipe lines in brewery bottling departments. Al this point Mr.

Fitts asserted that he had been telephonic communica tion with Attorney General Palmer. who said that this niatter had been "straightened out." Gypsies, Barcfootcd, Sit on Floor To Be Wcd Novcl Ceremony Introduced at S'uh' Nuptials; Crowds Block Traffic The East Side introduced something now to New Vork yesterday in the way of ceremonies. It was a gypsy wod dih'g with bride and grpom sitting, bare-footed, on the floor of nn un carpeted room, each holding a plcce of and a bowl of salt. As the. WQrds pronouncing thern man and wife were said each ate of the othcr'a bread and salt.

The bnde waa Malina Pafalo, 24 years old, and the groom, Plszar I Pasha, 2K. Both are nafives of Brazil. Tho ceremony, which at 01 o'clock in the morning and continued' all day, was performod at Pacific Hall, 209 Broadway. Tbe happy couple1 ni" tomporarily at Chorryl street, where I consldorablo gypsy colony. During the march ol the wodding coupl.

to the hall thi iiuv.il were so large that PoJice O'Flahorty thought for a time or calllng out police roferves, U. S. Steel Buy8 New Home Here For $5,000,000 I City's First "Skyacrapcr," the Empire Building, Is Purehased by Judge Gary from the Potter Trust Strnetiire Built in I89? Deal Believed Largest by Private Treaty for One Property itt Vork The United Smtes Steel Corporation has boughl for about $5,000,000 cash the twenty-two story Empire Building nt Tl road way and Roctor Street, Now ork's first "i scrapei," il wa nounci il yci Lordaj. This iv l.eiii'veil ir. bu the Inrge I purchase of single pri to treaty ihe higlorj of N'ew i'orh estate, ICIbert II Gary, chnirman of lhe board of di of the steel corporation, actcd foi his company in the transaction Clarenee II.

Kelsey and Krederick Poi ter represented lhe owners, lhe It Potter Trust, IV Day wa? the agent, 1 Statea Steel now occupies a large portion of the structure. it will title Lo the property in lhe name ol a subsidiary companj. The building stands at the head ol Wall Street, lacing Trinity Churchyard. il ha- a seventy.eight foot frontage roadway, two hundred and twenty teet on Rector and fifty feet on Church Streel. Kussel Sage Was Tenant Prior to the erection of the Kmpire Building, us site was occupied bv a six-story brown-stone office structure built in 1x59, which, however, despite its latter day shabbiness, housed many prominent individuals and firms.

One ol its most prominent tenant-' was lhe late Kussel! Sag'e, whose office in the building once was invaded. bv a fanatic who, in an attempt upon ihe life ol Mr. Sage by "bombing," succeeded onlv ni seriously mjuring one of his clerks lhe late Washington ronnor, who was Mr. Sage's broker, occupied office the same building, After rhe homb Conwnied on page si.e Germans Propose Own League Plan LONDON, April. 23.

A dispatch lo The Exchange Telegraph" from Am asserts that the German peace idclegates have been instructcd to pro? pose at Yersaillcs a plan for a IcagUe of nations to replacc the plan adopted by thc peace conference in Paris, Thc dispatch ndds thal thc German Plan wns draftod mainly by von Bornstorff, former Ambassador lo tho United State- Mathiaa Erzbergcr president of thc German Armistice Commission; Profossor Waltcrm A Schuckerling aml Carl Ikautsky, one nf lhe Socialist leaders. House Canvass To Boost Loan Totals To-day Special Appcal lo Made idnal- lo ictoij Notes aucl Make Lasl fssne a Popular Our HC the i'M itemeul of i tho campaign bi lo WHiic workers throughoul tlown t0 intensive drive ol canvassing the entire population Lo gi lhe widcsi possible disi I'ibulion fur I he if g0 IUM. issuetl, Campy 11 ai igi 1 bi 1 1 1 mpha size lhe largeness of thc lask, aud lo call upon their helpei to ipeed up their efl'orls. Reports lo the Trcasurj Departmenl from len of the Reserve distr indicatod tluji subsci iptions actually filcd al the Re serve bank- during the lirsl two of the drive 1 cedi ln order td achii 1 the financial obji cl ve which ha 3 been by lhe Secretary of lhe Treasury, the daih aggregatc of nib iption for the I wel- di tri I miift equal Total Here ln lhe N'c Vork den IJistricI Ih oflii total 'oi 1 hi days is $88,380,600, 1 ontinucd on Secret Treatv With Mikado Is Reported Council Three and Tokio Said To Be Near Agree? ment on Kiau-chau, but DilTer Over Other Rights iN vr Iss Vrises Treaty Is Being Itushed nnd Siiiumary Is Pre? pared for World Press PARIS, pAril 23 i Hy The Asso iated css'), The council of four which was roduced to council of three hj tho absencc of Premier OMando, hold morning aml afternoon sessions nt the I'm i'i luie House" and de coled the disciission to ihe i hinn question, which i- provinp; hardly less dlflkull than the Issue, Japan's case was presented by Iscounl i liimhi and Baron Makino nl lhe morning session, nnd China'a case by Dr, Wellington Koo nnd other Chinese delegates al the afternoon -i" ion. Japai de ii res thal I he nd, ust menl I be written into the peace treaty.

II is understood that the two are noi far apart upon China's securing ulli mate control of Kiau-Chau, but the nit 'i is on Hcconi). ishing this by session through Japan or by immediate recognition of China's terri lorial control. Seerei Treatj ed The Kiau-Chau question ha broughl up reports of another, sccrel treaty, 'aid to have been signed in London ihort i after the war. recognizing lapan's rights in Kiau-Chau, but the existence of such a treaty has ol boen confirmed, Doors at Versailles To Be Closed pARIS, April 23 (By Thc Associated fiirat of Presi? dent fourteen points, for open diplomacv, is again being put to thc test in the arrangements for the Versailles congress. The announcernent of the probable arrival of tho German delegation on April 28 postpons the opening session from Friday to Monday.

An executive session is proVided for. with no adrnission to thc meeting or within the building in which thc session is held pa vilion in the neighboring gardens will provide accommodations for tlie press. The American correspondents have decided to protest concern mg the secrecy of the proeecdings. PogromThreats A ii "ainst Poland U. S.

Officials lake liaud in Curbing Anti-Seiuitic Agitation Rccently 'lu flamed by Piusk Shootiiig By I'Uhs Tobenkin Yorh Special Vorl, l-rlbuim lm OPIiNHAOEN, April 20. When I lefl JVarsaw four day, ag0 the shadow ni wholesale executions hung over the Poland. on dny of Passover the streets of Warsaw were placarded with proclamations signed 'Warsaw ftranch. Central Executive Committee," announcing that a plol to assassinato the heads of the Polish gov? ernment had been discovered and that il such assassinations occurred one Jew oul of every 100 would be exe cuted. rhe attention of American represent atives here was called to the procla? mations.

They immediately took up the. matter with the Polish authoritjes, who ordered the placards torn down. The proclamations are a direct out growth of the anti-Jewish agitation carried on by the Polish press since Lhe Pinsk arresl aml- sum. mary sho'oting of thirty-seven men. 't is practically certain now that these Lhirly-seveii men were Zionists ajnd were instad of th Bolsbviki sought th Polish military author ities.

Confession Would Re Blow I'o admit that such a frightful ilunder was committed by the Polish tommander at Pinsk would be a blovi the budding Polish army. Hence Polish press haa changed actics. lhe ncwspapers now admil hnl the executed men probably were Zionists, bul say thal even then the ixccution justifled, "foi Jews are Solsheviki." ln as in years past lhe Talmud Sj rakecl for evidence to prove tha: 5j lhe Jews used Christian blood for the Pnssover feast, so now (he anti Semitic 2 Polish press is making distorted rcfei enccs to the Tsimud to prove thal the Jcwish classic I nol opposed to Bol hovism, Tho Polish mllitarj commander Pinsk exacted a huge monetary con tribution from ihe nf Pinsk tell ing their ropresentatives thal if i' i did not pay up at the stated time I would face exocuion. li is probable that ihe contribution will be paid with American relief money. Jcwish Press Excked i The Jewish press of Warsaw is 5 greatly excited over what thev charge ia an attempt to make the jews the Mscrapegoats of a possible revolution by branding all Jews as Bolsheviki Conditions in Poland nre extremelv prccarious, because the Paderewski regime has done nothing to relieve the condition ol' the unemploved.

who are constantly brfeaking out in smail riots which are suppressed bv soldiers Jcwish leaders see in the cry that ail Jews are Bolsheviki tactics analogous to thoe employed bv the Gzar, who ought to divert the nger of populace from himself bv organiz-l ing pogroms. fhe Jewish newspapers of Warsaw' published passionatc protest.s against 'the government policy of makin" scrapgoats of the Jews." They protested against the inefflciency of the present Polish government, but the authorities promptly suppressed them MI The "Monient," a leading Yiddish IJlany, said in a suppressed editorial: What happened at Pinsk was not a pogrom but an act of murder which cannot be equalled. Only a short' time ago we heard much talk about the victonous march of Western cul i ture against Eastern barbarism in the border countries of Lithuania and White Russia. Is this civilization "March of Mass Murder" "It is a march of pogroms and mass murder. done in the name of voun? and liberated Poland.

The same hy ppcrisy which spoke to the parliament about culturc and civilization now dili gently seeks to misrepresent facts and cook the wcll-known brew about Bol 1 shevism and the Jews. which it has been feeding the world since the I.em bcrg massacre. We feel confident that such deeds will not go unpunished. "1 he blood of the Pinsk victims cries from the enrth, and its cry cannot. be stopped by falsc nnd mislcading official It.

is our conviction that theaa people. whonv anti-Scmit ism hai heeome a sorl of intoxication. which they cannot denv themselves even when reason demand" such ilenial, can only destroy, but cannot build nor' lay a foundation for an enihinng struct I Wilson's Latest Russian Parley Near Failure Political Conference of Aiiti-Bolshevik Leaders in Paris Deeidcs Against Pt'opiiMal for Armistice fcjieciol The ltyled political conference eompoaed of ren fcsentatives of the varioua Bnti.Bt>,. shey.ltgovernments a. Paris Pre8i.

dent WiWs second efl'ort to lermin ate hostilities in Russia-wiH share the late of the firs, an? they have informed the peace conference officially to this effeel rhe anti-Bolshevik forces are unwill mg to lay down their arms, the Holshev.k; obviously cannoi The Hm sheviki apparently have not S.i'"i,^,S"^-''V;,';'?: it way, and, "oresee way, am, loreseeintr of the new effort, Hke fhe militai.v aid tinTe IS? should moral grounds, r8CUoal t'ood Means Victory For Lenine, Say Foes imi.HohhpviL Forces Deelare Soviet Armies Are 1 of a Complete Uetvnt ARCHANGEL, April 23 (By The -Ofpoaition by officials ot the government of North Russia to plan for feeding Bolshevik Russis hs recently made public in Par js based not only on unwillingness to vis.on territory occupied by forces of a government the N'orth Russian, are hghting, but because they believe the Plan would not be efficacious in combat ting Bolshevism. ln the interview given the Associated Press correspondent recordmg his op position to the plan, Lieutenant General r-ugene Karlovitch Miller, acting head of the Archangel government, expressed who had helped Bolshevik Russia in this wise wouldMn effect be allying themselvea with the Bolsheviki. Against an Armistice Others in official circles t0 the Rcheme' "-J aM hands there was approval of the state? ment 0f the Russian leaders in P.rts hat those aiming toward thc regenera tion ot Russia should not fo rone mo ment cease fighting the Bolsheviki General Miller eharactemed as "im poasible and impracticabie" the propo th? Ruaatens should cease hghting at any place in order to allow provisions to reach their snemies. "The Bolshevik government," contin ued the general. "is hard pressed from military standpoint by the Siberian forces, and it is now helpless in the north.

In the interior it faces hunger. It doubtless would welcome an armis? tice and would eagcriy accept heln fron who help it. would, in sffect at least, siniplv be mukinc an illiancc with the Bolsheviki." And this he general said. at. a time when victory or the opponents of Bolshevism is Troops' Morale Now Hijjh General Miller sHid the period of for the new Russian troops in the Continued on next pdgi Label and laate betraj domeat'lc irlnaer le ltoih prove that KOtvs GINUEft ALK fewui Holds.Treaty Of London Is Not Binding President Insigts Armis lice Pledges of Free dom io Small Nations Be Carried Out Romaiis Are Fully Protected, Avers Public Statement Italy to Give ln; Says AiiHTira ller Friend PARIS, (By llu AhsocJ.

Rted PJ'chs). The high tension provoiled over lhe Itnlinn issur before peac.uncjj "'elieved b.v the eventa ol lhe day. The council of four held session throughout the day, without the presence of Premier Orlando, and the Italians made that, while not withdrawing, they will discontinue their participation in the conference for the time being. This is ilescribed by the diplomats as akin to a tempontry sospension ul diploinativ' reiationa. The Italian Vice-Admiral Thaon di Revel, former Chief of Stag, lias left Paris for Rome.

General At mando Diaz, commander chief of the ftalian armies, it is announcei will deparl to-night. Vk ilson Explains Stand Againsl Italy's Claim Presidenl Wilson issued a enl to-day explaining his positioi on the Adriatic i ad decJar ing that Piume cannot become a parl of Italy. The texl of the statement follows: v-iew of the capital im ppi-tance of the questions affi and order to throw all possible upon what involyed setth ment. I hope thal tho following contrib to the final foi mation of opin? ion and to Hatisfacto olution. "When Italy ent( red isis of a definiti private understanding with Great Britain and Pra Pa it of London! Circumstances Chauged Since Parl "Since that time the whole i een altered Many other powers, greal aml smal ruggle, with no knowledgi of thal private understanding.

"The A Km pire, then the enemy of Europe. whose expense the Pact of London was to he kept in the event of victory, has gone to pieces and no longer exists. Not only that. but the several parts of that. empire.

it is agreed now by Itaiy and all her associates, are lo be erected into indepcndent states and associated in a league of nations, not with those who were recently our eneniibs. but. with Italy herself and the powers that stood with Italy in the greai war for liberty. Must Give Liberty To Enemies as Well "We are to establish their lib? erty as well as. qur own.

They are to be among the smaller states whose interests are henceforth to be safeguarded as scrupulously as the interests of the most powerful states. "The war.was ended, moreovcr. by proposing to Germany an ar? mistice and peace which should be foHnded-yn eertain clearly deiined which set up a new 'dcr cf right aml justice. Upon these principles tho peace wifti Germany has been cohceived not only, but formulatcd. Upon tlu.se prineipies it will br cuted.

We cannot ask the greal bodj of powers to propose and feet peace with Auslria and.