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FALL INTO
SEA IN OCEAN FLIGHT
British Plane Comes to Grief
off Irish Coast.

LONDON, April 19.--The first attempt
at transatlantic aerial fight westward
came to grief last night in its first stage
Wylie. his navigator, had almost reached
the Irish Coast. off Holyhead, in flight
from Eastohurch for Limerick when
engine trouble brought the Shamrock"
nose foremost into the sea, three miles
from Holyhead. Both men were res
cued, while Lancaster Parker flying in
an escorting machine, had a narrow es-
cape on landing. his plane smashing
against a shore wall.
A destroyer towed the Shamrock"
nearly ashore, according to the COM
mander who was then compelled TO
abandon her, and she was washed on to
the beach.
Both officers are more concerned
about their machine than themselves"
said the destroyers commander, but It
was impossible for me to bring the BIZ
plane into the harbor.'
Mechanicians were on their way from
Eastchurch TO put the finishing touches
to the plane before the aviators venture
over the Atlantic, and were stopped at
Holyhead. The Short Company, in
whose machine Major Wood was flying,
hopes to obtain quick reports from the
mechanicians on the condition of the
plane.
There are conflicting stories regard
ing the circumstances OF the rescue.
Some messages say that destroyer took
The sun., 1919-04-20
ANTS BLAME SUFFS
FOR RED PERIL HERE
Miss Hay and Mrs. Gait Are
Accused Of Deal to I'm
dermine Republic.
VOTE SITUATION CLOUDY
Mrs. Whitehouse .Assailed by
Implication and Whole
Nation Is Warned.

The Women Voters Anti-SunIage
Party. Cooperating with established
parties against radicalism," sent out It's
first annual report yesterday and at the
same time announced an annual meeting
and election of officers to be held
wednesday afternoon at the home Of
Miss Annie b. Jennings. As Park avenue
1t is not quite clear from the report
whether the party believes that woman
suffrage relgns or not, because in one
paragraph, recalling that early in 1918
the ants insisted that woman suffrage
was not war measure nor did prohibit
clares that "the war was won and pro-
hibition has come without woman suf-
trage," but in another paragraph, which
brackets socialism, pacifism and woman
suffrage, occurs the statement: Now
tho country is aflame with the menace
that We predicted should New York
throw its strength for suffrage meas
ures"-the menace referred to being
Bolshevism.
Two things that are quite clear in the
report are. first, the charge that Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, working inside the
Republican party and Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, believed to be working along
the lines OF the Democratic party" are
conniving to undermine the republic and
party principles and to SOW dissension
between men and women voters by form
ing a sex league to control votes. the
League of Women Voters, and second,
an attack on Mrs. Norman Der. White
house.
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activities. our personal and public pro-
tests to the Legislature and TO Congress
against suffrage measures have had
effect; we are recognized by politicians
as being political factor. The news
papers give us no reliable news pub
licity, 50 we have been compelled to
employ paid publicity in the advertising
columns of the papers," the report says,
and In this connection there Is a spirited
attack on Chairman VIII II. Hays OF
tho Republican National Committee and
chairman Glynn OF the New York State
Republican Committee.
Following this comes the denunciation
OF Miss Hay and Mrs Gait: I'VE have
called attention publicly to the fact that
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, IN the inner
most councils of the Republican party,
Is a co-worker with Mrs Carrie Chap
man Gait who is believed TO be work.
ing along the lines of the Democratic
party, and that both these women have
Tor their first aim and object nom
partisan league of women voters with
International Affiliations. With these
leaders working inside the great parties,
and their followers distributed between
their vote controlled by a sex league
their organization Is far more danger
Gus than would be league Of nom
tinct whip party"
The document closes with an enco-
MUM of Mrs. James Griswold wentz,
president Of the Womans Republican
Club, who at the meeting of her organ
ization April put through a resolution
denouncing 'the action Of the Woman
Suffrage party in forming a league of
women voters to be n non-partisan
party that will use its power regardless
of party principles OF government and
regardless of safeguarding the repub-
lie" and calling the league "a menace
to our. national life and un-American in
principle and calculated to SOW dissen-
sion between the sexes" These things,
the ants say. show that they have only
to wait in the front trenches until their
ally, public opinion, comes up to reen-
force them, but in the meantime they
are urging all anti-suff women to regis
ter and I'VE in all coming elections, and
TO stand firm against the Socialists,
feminists, internationallsts Bolshevists,
the essential principle of whose revolu-
tionary propaganda is woman suffrage"
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NONSTOP CHICAGO
TO NEW YORK FLIGHT
Continued from First Pdoe.

return to McCook Field. Chicago, where
ne is stationed, but he will not fly there.
The aviator refused to make any conf
ment whatever on the proposed transcon-
unental flights.
Capt. White is a short man, weighs
about 145 pounds and is exceedingly
modest.
Katherine Stinson flew from Chicago
TO New York last spring, but she had
numerous mishaps and the journey con-
sumed several days. She left Chicago
May % and landed at Binghamton after
continuous trip OF eleven hours, during
which she broke two American records.
One was for continuous flying and the
other for endurance. She remained a
week in Blnghamton for repairs to her
plane. during which time all sorts OF
things happened However, she got
under way at last with fifty gallons OF
gasolene and arrived at Sheepshead Bay
without any stops.
Max Miller arrived in Chicago at 7:05
+. M. September 6, 1918. with the first
aerial mail from New York city. He left
this city for Chicago at 1903 A. NJ. on
the preceding day, and 1t took thirty
six hours and nfty-six minutes for the
trip. He stopped over night at Cleve-
land en- route and made other landings.
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Antis' Failure shown,

Mrs. Whltehouse is not mentioned by
name, but in the section called women
and peace" confessing mournfully that
the ants fell far short of success" in
their efforts to induce President Wilson
not to send IAN avowed pacifst" 10
represent women at the peace table, the
report says: Nearly every woman sent
abroad 10 represent American women
or to expound their ideals have been
women of nationally known radicalism,
absolutely foreign TO American ideals"
The somewhat mixed grammar of this
sentence is perhaps not to be wondered
at. since the women sent to represent
the Government were, so far as known,
but one-Mrs. Whitehouse--who. though
she was not sent to the peace table.
was despatched by the United States
Committee /on Public Information to
spread United States propaganda in
Switzerland during the war. Mrs.
Whitehouse having been the only woman
ohicially representing the Government
abroad during the war. the inference il
unavoidable that she It is who is labelled
S being of nationally known radical
ism, absolutely foreign to American
ideals" 1t is true that Miss Rose
Schneiderman and Miss Mary Anderson,
leaders of the Womens Trade Union
League. sailed in March for Paris, but
they were sent by their organization in
response to 2 suggestion from President
Wilson to the United States Women in
Industry Service. of which Miss Ander-
son is a director, that it would be we'll
to have ''at least one or two women in
Paris qualified to speak before commits
sions which are considering labor mat
ters"
The report recites that the conserva-
tive women who for eight years had
been working as the New York State
Association Opposed to Woman Suf-
frage formed the women voters Anti
Suffrage party after the 1917 election
ito meet the new conditions Of an ag-
gressive radicalism." Detesting the
vote, II says, women who were patriots
first perceived it their civic duty to use
their votes to counterfeit the incessant
activities of those who were politicians
first
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DU F0URCQ DEATH CONFIRMED.
state Department Informed He
Was slain by Bandits.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Despatches
received to-day at the State Department
confirmed previous reports that Edward
l.. Du Fourcq of New York city, as
sistant general manager of the Teziutlsn
Copper Company, was murdered last
Wednesday by Mexican bandits. The
body was recovered and will be sent to
New York.
According to the Departments infor-
nation Du Fourcq and his assistant, O.
Gaisman, were attacked and wounded
while travelling on a railroad motor car
in Pueblo State, near the copper COM
panys plant. Gaisman escaped, but Du
Fourcq was seized by the bandits, who
apparently had intended at first to hold
him for ransom. Later. however, he was
killed.
d. c. Brown. vice-president of the
copper company, telegraphed the State
Department to-day that Du Fourcq was
a native born American and was promi-
nent as mining engineer.
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Off Major Wood and Capt WylieA whuS
others credit the rescue to tvb men who
put out in rowboat. ct, ~
The Air Ministry's night bulletin Gays
that the weather conditions along tfle
Atlantic course are decidedly favorable
at present for a flight from west to
East. The surface winds are muck
lighter now over the whole route They
are accompanied by fog, and perhaps
rain or snow, but. It is declared. II It In
possible to leave the airdrome, conditions
arc exceptionally favorable for n hlght
and for alighting in this country. Tho
sea disturbance Is not sufficient to make
a forced landing dangerous, except near
longitude 20 degrees.
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ANSELL IS CYNICAL
AT COURTS INQUIRY
Suggests Bar Committee Sum-
mon Gusfouus AdoIphus.

BALTIMORE, April 19.--Lieut- Col S. T.
Ansell, whose criticism of the military
courts-martial system involved him in a
controversy with high officials in the
War Department. in an address at n
luncheon OF the CITY Club here to-day
discussed the military code. which he
said had been described by some as
archaic, un-American, oppressive and
that it has led to intoerable injustice 1;
In short, that it is a system of organ
lied injustice"
1t was upon this side OF the question
that he stood, he said, adding: There
are others. however, in high and respon-
sible positions who defend the system.
who stoutly insist that it is modern.
liberal, has not resulted in injustice, and
these have taken almost every means to
assure the people that this system Is
worthy OF the highest popular confidence,
l am led to believe that the people them
selves. upon the information they have,
are impressed with the injustice Of the
system
There are many investigations about
the system. 1t is announced that a
judge advocate recently has been des-
patched to Europe to investigate the
European systems of military justice, a
field which I covered just one year ago
and made report which never was
read. committee OF the American Bar
Association is making an investigation
So far as I can discover from the press
hardly can think that that investlga-
ton is likely to prove beneficial They
10 haCa IN Had fba availu h1a
Generals OF the Regular Army and
understand that they intend to call all
living former Secretaries of War. 1t is
rather pity that Gustavus Adolphus.
from whom came a considerable part of
our code, could not also appear before
them to commend the system which he
administered.
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MARY GARDEN HAS NEW JOB.
With Other Well known Actresses
she Sells for Red Cross.

Miss Mary Garden has obtained a job
In the Red Cross shop at 5S7 Fifth ave-
nue. and goes to work tomorrow in the
women's apparel department. Well
known actresses will help for the few
remaining days of the shops career, for
1t goes out Of existence May /.
The latest contribution Is the two
Shetland ponies presented to the shop
by the three children OF Mr.. and Mrs
George +. Baker Jr., Florence, Edith
and George T., ESQ Madison avenue.
The children wanted to give something
that represented actual sacrifice TO them
and decided TO give their ponies to the
Red Cross The ponies are being cared
for on a farm in Jersey unit! such time
as they will be delivered to their new
owners.
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FATHER HACKETT RETURNS,
Army Chaplain Expects to he Mus
tered out Soon.

The Rev. James ]. Hackett, formerly
an assistant at the Roman Catholic
Church Of the Holy Trinity. Elghty-scc-
ond street. between Broadway and Am
sterdam avenue, who was one OF the first
priests in the New York archdiocese to
volunteer as chaplain, has arrived
home from France.
lie is now at Camp Jackson Column
bia. S. c.. but expects to be transferred
to Camp Upton. At the latter camp he
probably will be mustered out of service.
When he Ia Archbishop Hayes will re-
assign him to a local parish,
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POPE RECEIVES U. s. TROOPS.
Audiences Arranged By X. OF q.
Superior in Rome.

The Pope is receiving American SOLE
diers and sailors who are on duty or on
leave in Rome, the Knights of Columbus|
announced yesterday. The audiences ars
arranged by =. G. Hayes, supervisor Of
the K. OF c. Service. Club in Rome. The
first one was held March'2O. in the saia
del Anaspaji. On that occasion Pope
Benedict said:
1T is with particular pleasure that T
have given this special benediction to
the Knights of Columbus. The organi-
zation is we'll known to me. I have
watched their work with special inter-
est and their deeds in recent times ara
most praiseworthy. / impart from the
bottom of heart the benediction asked
for"
The sun., 1919-04-20
RESTAURANT MEN TO DINE.
Annual Gathering to BE Held To-
morrow Mt Hotel Com m odore.

The restaurant men of the city will
hold their sixth annual dinner to-mor-
row night at the Hotel Commodore.
Thomas Healy, chairman OF the din
ner committee OF the Society of Restau-
rateurs, announced yesterday the fol-
lowing acceptances: Supreme Court
Justices A. $. Tompkins, William b.
Platt and Victor J. bowling Magistrate
Joseph L. Corrigan, Sheriff David Knott,
Deputy Police Commissioner John Z.
Leach. Lee Davis. District Attorney of
Westminster county; Col. A. ID. Porter.
Lieut.. William Kennel. the Mayor
bodyguard; Assistant District Attorney
James Z. Smith, John McCooey and
Thomas c. McGill.
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KANSANs TO GREET TROOPS.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April 1s.-Gov.
Henry J. Allen of Kansas is here to-day
at the head of a delegation Of Kansas Of
ficials sent 10 greet the headquarters OF
the Thirty-fifth Kansas and Missouri
National Guard Division, which will ar
rive from France tomorrow under COM
pand of Mstor-Gen. Wright on the
transport De Kalb.
The party will leave for New York on
Monday to meet other Kansas troops due
to arrive there next week.
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Fountains to Play Gold.

Thus through galleries where fountains
Of pure gold and silver play and plash.
into the giants kitchen-where one must
climb aboard an escalator TO get 10 the
seats Of the giants chairs. where Tom
Thumb, the Mayor. has his residence,
and on upward to the dizzy heights of
the Giants kitchen table, on the heights
of which the circus clowns are busily
engaged teaching the completed TOYS
how to act And--but columns would
be needed to tell of the boat trips in the
Giants washtubs- the pools OF liquid
gold in the fairies garden where, right
before ones eyes, the dolls como into
being on pond lily leaves, the Giants
dining room, now the workshop OF Santa,
the great corridor where all the children
of the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe
are now making toys.
And at the blssful end one does not
go back to earth in an airship; one en-
ters golden elevator and is shot down.
ward, past the stars and the moon,
through the clouds and finally TO a room
that facts street which looks very like
street in New York city And no fair
telling the visitors that during all their
trip they never once have been as high
as the second floor OF city building
They wouldn't believe II anyway.
For all OF his illusions, his machinery
and the thousand and one other details
Of the idea Fred Thompson has worked
out the details with the thoroughness
which made his Luna and his Hippo
drome possible. He welcomes the s,lR-
gestion that his "Principality Of Toy
land be Enthusiastically on
smaller scale-in cities throughout the
country, the -principalities to work in
conjunction with the national idea OF the
New York institution" And out of Il
all he hopes to 'dramatise" the Ameri-
can toy market and to give country wide
employment to the crippled men OF the
great war-best OF all. to lead the way
back to the too faded land of romance.
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German Toys Doomed.

Tn one of these, car barn or brewery,
that has been all made over, will arise
the first and only principally OF Toy
land" which the genius OF Fred Thomp-
son Ia confident will become an ''insti-
tuition" to America and trademark
throughout world of toy Consumers
OF far greater power than the one-time
slogan. Made in Germany" No toys
will be sold in the fantastic and bliss
fully delightful principality of Santa
Claus, although tons OF toys will be
made there annually.
But out OF the principality, which ts
planned to stretch the length and breadth
OF a city block. will come patterns of
toy s--which manufacturers everywhere
may have and copy upon paying royalties
to the directorate OF the "Principality OF
Toyland toys which only
American ingenuity and fancy could
fashion. Also the principality will be
factory to the extent Of releasing" (for
n consideration, of course) movie films
for Christmas and other holiday shows
OF childland the films to be acted by the
principality's own stars and midget won
ders. Wondrous child books will be de-
signed and printed there as models for
publishers and binders of the world--al-
ways providing, of course. the publisher
remunerates the principality and re-
spects the ''insiitution's'' trademark.
BY these methods and others too many
to list here the "Principality of Toyland"
expects to make expenses and more. But
OF chief concern 10 Fred Thompson -
who, like the late Richard Harding Davis
and the mythical Peter Pan. refused TO
'srow up" after convention had length
ened his knickerhoCkers TO "long pants
lis the idea back OF his scheme that
the present day child needs to he brought
back TO the land that too sophisticated
childhood of to-day was almost forgot
ten. the land Of pixies and seven league
boots fairies and giants, and above all
to the Santa Claus who meant so much
more few years ago than he does to-
day.
1t Ia when the Thompson idea con-
The sun., 1919-04-20
INFLUENZA DEATHS DECLINE.
Pneumonia Victims Number As, an
IncreRse of z.

Influenza cases reported yesterday to
the Health Department numbered eigh-
teen. one above Fridays total. and
deaths fell from ten to eight. There
were twenty-five pneumonia cases, eight
fewer than in the previous days report,
but pneumonia deaths showed a gain of
seven over Fridays figure, forty -flve be-
ing reported.
New cases OF influenza and pneumonia
were
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Leaders Are Attacked.

Through our Democratic and Repub-
lican sections we did our civic duty AT
the elections last November and will
continue TO do it until woman suffrage
is repealed. Our political
The sun., 1919-04-20
More Newport villas Lea.ed.

Special Despatch 10 THE Sun.
NEWPORT, April 19.-Several more
cottages were leased to-day for the
coming season. Capt and Mrs Rufus z.
Johnston and Mrs, Mordon Douglass
will go to New York tomorrow evening,
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cretely tackles the problem of gripping
the hearts and minds OF the children OF
the land and Juggling them back TO the
fanciful dreamland of Santa's country
and thereby increasing by millions the
toylovers In the young world--that he
best combines his great gifts as a show
man with the Industrial idea which runs
hand in hand with the less material
phases OF his plan.
THE classic Sun editorial, is There
a Santa Claus by tho late Frank p.
Church." Mr.. Thompson said yesterday.
played a great part in causing me to
develop the Principally of Toyland'
idea. l carry clipping of that editorial
around with me while developing the
plan. After reading 1t for the hundrodth
time the thought came to me one day
that 1t would be possible to mako prac-
teal a toy trade mark which could have
no rival in the child's mind.
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Giant Killer Has Part.

But away with overhead" and like
low thoughts. For now the children
have gone through the portals and are
approa ching natty aviators. who are to
take them across the moon and TO a
star. where once lived a giant in a
mighty castle-until Santa Claus. as the
nviators subsequently will explain dur.
Giant Killer to rid the star of the ogre,
who was murderously cruel to the Little
People.
So up the gangways TO far spreading
airships. 1t is moonlight and Manhat-
tan falls far below. giving way to a
moOnlit ocean miles below the cargo OF
youngsters. Through the clouds and
over the moon and down with a rush to-
ward an earth that is not an earth. but
the star where none other than Santa
Claus himself has his workshop in the
giants castle.
Chains with links as big as cart
wheels support a drawbridge so ponder
Gus that the little visitors must climb
stairs to get to a height that measures
merely the thickness of the drawbridge
planks. And once inside the castle-a
machinery hall, where Santa and his
workers make the toys before ones very
eyes, among lathes and wheels that are
not grimy and greasy like the factory
wheels of earth. but which whang and
bang and whizz in myriads of colors.
To get to all these wonders is the
great door, like the father and mother
Of all bank safes. which is chained and
barred, but through which visiting
child may see, for all its iron strength
provided he believes in Santa And as
the giants and gulllvers who take visit
ing boys and girls through the marvels
are explaining that one had but to be-
lieve, 10 even the massive door of STEEL
the bars and chains fade away and
without moving one sees through the
steel door into the WORKSHOP of Santa
himself. And an instant latter, explain
1t as one will, the door comes into
being as quickly as it faded.
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"1n these days of American efficiency
when toys are stamped out as a cold
commercial proposition on a par with
the dollar watch. the result to me is abb
horent Toys 10 me are still like liv-
ing beings. SO l act to work to make
toys as real to the child OF to-day as
they were to the kips when ! was young
real as they are to me still"
Wherefore Fred Thompson purposes
to lead the children OF the greater city
and the visiting children from all the
forty-eight States through masterful IL
lusions which will be delightfully."- real to
them. A sublimated "Trip to the Moon"
will be but an incident in the Joys
Of a visit to the principally OF Toy
land" which to the Thompson mind Is
sure not only to replant a belief In
Santa and new love for toys among
the children but which also will cause
every child who comes to the city to
insist upon seeing for himself the Won
ders in the principality he has heard Of.
In the form of an exceptionally inter
esting scenario Mr.. Thompson has put
into typewriter form what the young
ster will see-and remember ever after
after the principally of Toyland"
has been built From prosaic trolley car
or flvver the city child or his country
cousin will come upon what over
sophisticated grownups may remember
was once car barn, but which the
child will see only, when close enough.
as multicolored stretch of architec-
tural glories. with a broken skyline Of
delightful towers and minarets pat
termed against the New York sky.
An admission fee will be paid at the
suburb OF the ecstasies, which will help
to pay for the overhead" and for the
cost of the changes which every now
and then will be made in the wonders
not to mention the payroll Of the Grip
Piled soldiers and the midget gullivers,
the giants and the blind, who will be
employed within. all in fanciful dress as
they ply their toy making trades.