New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1916, Page 5

D0 U-BOATS BREAK PROMISE TO WILSON? Belief Expressed Submarine Cam- Washington, Aug. 19.—Is violating the pledges she gave to the United States government with respect to the future conduct of submarine warfare on merchant vessels when g00d relations between the two na- tions were nearly broken during the crisis over the sinking of the channel steamship ex? This stion being asked and discussed in Wash- ington. No responsible official of ican government been reply categorically to the Secretary Lansing has said indicate that he believed these pledg had not been observed. Several days ago he made the statement that so far as official reports were availahle noth- ing had been found to show that the assurances were not heing lived up to by the German government. In offi- cial circles it has been admitted with- in the last few days that in the case of one vessel reported sunk in the Mediterranean it was admitted that an American, or perhaps several Ameri- cans were on bhoard. But this fact has not been established absolutely, and there is considerable doubt in official circles regarding this case. The state department has been com- piling its report from diplomatic and consular officers regarding the long series of attacks recently made on merchant vessels, mainly in the Medi- terranean, and has instructed agents in certain ports along the Mediterranean littoral to make re- ports in greater detail regarding some of these cases. Whatever action the United States government takes will be based not only upon facts but upon established facts, Germany the Amer- willing to question. nothing to its Wilson Would Act Swiftly. From what has been said in offi- cial circles during the last month it is gathered that President Wilson will take up the submarine controversy vigorously with Germany, and if nec- essary break diplomatic relations with | that country if the German are not lived ment. If the pledges | up to by that govern- | German government courts a break In friendly relations with this country the quickest \\‘a}“ to accomplish that object will be for its foreign office to notify Ambassador | Gerard that Germany feels that a | ‘“new situation” has arisen in which | she reserves to herself the right to g0 ahead with submarine warfare in violation of the assurances given in her note of May 4, 1916. Such a de- 1 claration by | senile dementia and that | maker would be fol- by President Germany !lowed by swift action Wilson. B since capta good ment | next, are that submarine put upon their behavior as this govern- is concerned, On September 8 four months will have elapsed since President Wilson sent his note {in which he informed the German | government that this government ex pected scrupulous execution of Ger- many's new submarine policy, In that period there has striking case of clear viola- German pledges so far as States government is ships have sunk. There is no clear evidence that Amer- ican lives have been jeopardized, or that Germany has not lived up to the that was given. But the sink- vessels, particularly in proceeded apace and it have been situation rerman facts of the May 8 have e last been far s adopted been no tion of the the United aware. Many been pledze ing Mediterranean with increas known that oncerned It is a intends live and not defy has ng regularity is officials he the matter. here that if Germany up to her assurances the United States the rlin government will insist in its joint dealings with the government of Franz Joseph that Austrian sub- marines shall careful to conduct ir warfare in the Mediterranean so to revive or complicate the rowing out of attacks on mer- vessels, over red be the as not uation chant WANAMAKER Judge Tells Wife He Does Not Believe Her Story. OT FREED. New York, Aug. 19—Supreme Court Justice Frederick E. Crane in Brook- I¥yn has dismissed the writ of habeas | orpus obtained by Mrs. Emma Wana- maker, the young wife of Lewis Cass retired woolen merchant, and ordered his re- Wanamaker, a 73-vear-old turn to the state hospital sane at Kings Park, L. I maker sought to have for the in- Mrs. Wana- her the commitment papers at the direc- tion of Harry Shirk, a lawyer, without knowing their contents. The decision of the justice was made after he received the reports of D Arthur C. Brush and Dr. Frederick C astman, who asserted that their ex- amination of Mr. Wanamaker con- vinced them that he suffered from it would be him. Justice his decision dangerous to release Crane in announcing aid “I have approached this case with inclination to release Mr. Wana- if it was possible. As far as his wife's story is concerned, she stultifies herself. 1 am inclined to believe that her statements in the first instance were true and that her atti- tude upon the stand was assumed for an the purpose of accomplishing a result. | I don't believe her story." then | the | | guilty, husband | released on the ground that she signed | 'BLACKLIST USED BY - GOTHAM VICE TRUST | Girls Who —Iiiéputed Wages Are Run Out of City York, Aug. concerning the operations of the “vice | combination” | New 19.—Revelations which closely resemble those of industrial trusts that conduct of District | business in restraint trade, were made yesterday to Attorney Swann by Yushe Botwin, the procurer, who has pleaded guilty to five indict- ments charging white slavery. All disputes between the police, re- sort keepers, inmates and procurers were referred to a ‘referee.” When an inmate disputed the decision of the ! | referce regarding payment of certain | percentage of her earnings, she was placed on the ‘“blacklist,” Botwin said. The referee usually was a sa- loonkeeper. “So great was the power of the po- | lice and the procurers that the resort keeper who employed a girl on the blacklist was drlven out of the city said the district attorney. “Botwin has furnished us with the name of one of these women. She is believed to be in Atlantic City, but he ha agreed to get her back to New York by Monday and he says she will tell us all she knows." For the first time since he pleaded Botwin talked about payment of bribe money to policemen. He mentioned several policemen | whose names have not cropped out heretofore in the graft inquiry. All these were formerly assigned to the third inspection district under In- spector Morris. Botwin gave details as to how the resort keepers escape arrest, and, if arrested, how they escape conviction. He cited instances where resort keep- ers emploved only women who were “agreeable” to the police Feared Girls Who Talked, “The policeman’s greatest the girl who talked,” Botwin said. “The girls frequented certain cafes | along second avenue and some of them | talked extravagantly as to their earn- ings in this or that place. This grated on the nerves of the detectives | who were taking graft money and they generally succeeded in getting the talkative girls shifted to other dis- tricts east or west of Fifth avenue, or north or south of Fourteenth street.” A raid that Assistant District At- torney Smith says will mean much in this investigation was made vesterday on the Hotel Du Nord, at Irving Place and Fifteenth street, just south of Gramercy Par fear was Lieutenant “Honest"” Dan Costigan This bank is prepared to draw checks on the First National Bank, Nogales, Arizona to the order of men in any of the Connecticut companies stationed in Arizona, and will do so WITHOUT CHARGE for exchange or any fee. Checks drawn on the New Britain National Bank will be paid (subject to final payment) by the First National Bank of Nogales We have made these arrangements for the conven- ience of local people wishing to send money to the border and that our men there shall have all possible ALSO with out charge. banking conveniences. Payments may also be made by telegraph for cost of message. NewBritainNational B | from | about | east side politiclan, who holds a state arrested Louis Frid, night clerk. Frid was held by Magistrate Krotel In $2,500 bail for examination next Thursday on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. Three months ago the Du was raided by Detectives Dallas O'Brien, but the case was dismissed because of insufficient evidence,” said Mr. Smith. ‘“Dallas and O'Brien are under indictment on charges of ex- tortion and bribery. Process servers this office were inside the hotel with women when the raid was made Lieutenant Costigan had to break through several lines of ‘Lighthouses,’ | police lookouts are called, before | he got inside.” Among the four witnesses before the grand jury vesterday was one woman, Dor: Bloch, i Annie Wiener. It is asserted she boasts that she kept a resort in the third inspection district for ten years without having been convicted. She was released on | Thursday in $2,500 bail from the | house of detention. Her release, the district attorney says, was brought by the influence of a certain Nord and job. DEMOCRATS FORCE SHIP BILL OVER Measure Passes Senate Despite | Solid Opposition of Republicans Washington, Aug. 19.—The bill au- | thorizing the government to purchase | or build merchant ships “for the pur- | developing and and naval pose of encouraging, creating a naval auxiliary reserve and a merchant marine to meet requirements of the merce United State: passed last night sent back which passed the in May. The differences between the two houses will be harmonized by the customar: joint conference committee. The final vote was 38 to 21, all in the affirma- | tive being democrats and all in the | negative republicans. The bill provides for the creation of a shipping board and appropriates $50,000,000 to be raised by the sale | of Panama Canal bonds. | Several amendments to the bill | were made in the senate today. One reduced from $10,000 to salarles to be paid to the shipping board. Not raised against the motion when Sen- ator Smith of Georgia offered it. An- other amendment changed the provi- sion for disposing of the government ships by private or public sale so a to compel competitive bids to be ad- vertised for. Senator Gallinger of- | the com- of by was and | had the the senate to the house, measure membe; a voice was | aui | eivil | the fered this amendment. He was author of another amendment *h was accepte enator Flet- | cha of the measnre, 1 tha - her the shiy should be from the of also | whic che in ployes of taken list service commission Senator Borah met with failure in an effort, backed by his fellow repub- licans, to attach the literacy eclau of the immigration bill to the ship- | ping measure as an amendment. Tt was rejected by a vote of 39 to 20. Mr. Borah's amendment provided that no ship purchased under the act should carry any immigrant who could not read or write. TLater Mr. Borah offered the entire Immigration bill | as an amendment Thirty-seven | democrats voted it down over the votes of twenty republicans and two | democrats, Ashurst of Arizona and Myers of Montana. The republicans were gleeful over making the demo- crats declare themselves. DR. POTTER DIES IN OFFICE | One of Principals in Wire Tapping | Case Expires Before Hearing De- cision from Supreme Court. New York, Aug. Potter, who, with his son, Dean Pot- ter, William B. Farrell Monsignor John J. Dunn, each day expecting the decislion of the the 19.—Dr. Daniel C. Father and has been of Justice Greenbaum supreme as to whether stituted them recent wire-tapping investigation should be | placed before the grand jury, dropped dead from heart disease in his office in the jEmigrant Industrial Savings Bank building, 51 Chambers streer, yesterday afternoon. Dr. Potter had not been feeling well for some time, but continued going | regularly to his office. About three | o'clock yesterday afternoon, Harry C. Ford, an employe of the Beaver Ingi- | neering company, of which Walter J. | Drummond, son of Michael J. Drum- | mond, former commissioner of chari- ties, is the head, stopped in the doctor’s office and discovered him | stretched on the floor. Ford tried to reach veral physicians by telephone, but, failing, called Hudson street { hospital. Dr. Desmoes, of the hos- ! pital staff, hurried to the office in an | ance, but found Dr. Potter was Officer Dillon, of the Elizabeth ation, arrived with Dr. Des- court charges in- | against in the the ambu dead. | street | moes. | Dr. A. T. Weston, physician for | Coroner Feinberg, after examining the body, said that death was due to myo- | carditis, from which Dr. Potter had | been suffering for a long time. Dean Potter, the dead man'’s son, hurried to the office in response to a telephone message from Mr. Ford, and appeared greatly affected by his father's death. | all of which was admittedly spent for | grana | er, NOONDAY LUNCH 1A Mto2P. M. FOR MEN AND WOMEN 25¢ HUDSON LUNCH 284 | serted, { mitted t1 Adolpt ! ing: man. | ceiving W Baylis ¢ ALL ABOARD FOR HUNGRY BELGIUM But Dr. Baylis Could Not Sail as | pesri He Had No Ship Baylis | accordin | | | | | raise | bazar in sidered. | ceivea a elvec | Ca Baylis 1 New York, Aug. 1 ~The Rev. Dr. Charles T. Bay “Director-General” of the allies hospital relief commi sion, which collected $7,000 in contri- butions from all parts of the country, | solicit a of the Service was end ing for the ffa | promine hers of signified trict att had misappropriated the funds | the orgs administration purposes was indicted vesterday by the grand after an | into the commission. i There nents. jury investigation affairs of the were te indic One charged three separ Dr. F the first wylis with | larceny in degree, in that h commis second and e had by George im ant for the arrest of the clergyman was issued by Judge | Rosalsky of General Sessions, but Dr. | Baylis could not be found. Accord- | Ing to District Attorney Swann he | telephoned late last night to ascer- | tain the amount of bail that would be asked and promised to give himself up today. The method that Dr. Baylis was said to have adopted in soliciting funds from prominent New Yorkers was described by Assistant Disthict At- & in charge of the prosecution. Fred- erick A. Collins, secretary Daniel A bench war to as compensation | o all the money has money, of preparat raising funds i | she asked if It was s MAIN STREET clergyman ad IRISH blin, Ire dverti gration on, hereupon the he deception. 1 Kallman, who was ager EMIGRATION. Aug. 19.—The of the commis: re 65 in, per cent decl that return This charged. ken g to the Dr ompelled of his Dr. fact under prosec him to share Baylis he mone by e the been that 1t investigation, continued his effort the prosecutor Atlantic City being in cc on and other in the city District Attorney letter from the “chio, whose symr 1ad enlisted In it would be advisahle for the commission a unofficially at t district attorney that Commissioner Osc Strauss to arrange a meet- purpose of winding up commission. Many mem- | have | Thwing commis Dr, to WANTS BAN ON OPIUM (Corr lans be Thwing, chic | Refc Bure Presider L 1 uar 1 urging the opium. On acee I movem Dr. letter Count athies the ong 1 shibition mona Pres e solute § unt of id : found other prominent financin th movementy stipulated in the o will soon expire, sts that ma abolishing all and re-enfor the repu 1e office Public | Y iy Shanghai a for the Shi-Kai recessan m t centers eavoring r the irs nt citizens who the board of directors their desire to aid the orney in his investigation anization. | pose o X | the term igreement sug issued m throu of the dis- | should 1 of | fices for | prohibition tax rhout Take Them to Jack; He'll Fix ’Em Guggenhem, testified, Mr. Markewich said, that his employer had a circular letter from in which it was stated that a had been donated by a “friend” that hospital supplies were being on board as fast the money forthcoming to purchase them. lying on that statement, it was said, Mr. Guggenheim sent a che for $100. | An Tmaginary Ship. witness, Mrs. Edith was employed by the com- mission,” Mr. Markewich said, ‘“told that Dr. Baylis admitted that the ! ship was purely imaginary. The doc- tor added that it was a harmless de- ception. This was corroborated by the testimony of George R. Buck, who acted as a solicitor for.a time. Buck aid that Dr. Baylis sent him to térest William F. McCombs in proposition bona fide. Buck about the hoat.” and reported that declared he would received the commission ship and seni was| Re- as you “Another who Ran- us in- the as- age was believe the story Buck returned Mr. McCombs had know of any proposal to send a ship abroad by reason of his connection with another relief commission Mr. Markewich continued. The minister then called up Mr. McCombs, but could not convince him that the proposition hana fide, Buck as- 1 129 was “Clean Up” You get WALL PAPERS at Cost. COST per room will be exceedin Sale starts SATURDAY M TEMBER 2nd. And he'll fix you up when you're stuck on th road with a flat tire if you call CHARTER 4641 It's to your own advantage to see Jack wheneve need anything in the line of tires. 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