The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1914, Page 1

| \ 4 \ , - = — = PRIOR ONE CENT. “Copyright, 1914, by The Prevs Publis! ‘Co, (The New York Werld). hing ——— a F FINSTON TOLD 10 AONE EXPLOSIONS BLEW GIANTS COULONT INLAND AS FAR AS NECESSARY: BATTLE IS HOURLY War Department, Fearing Surprise,’ Gives Field Commander Instruc- tions to Take Up New Positions | and to Fortify Them. ADMINISTRATION “WAITING;” ARMY MOVING FORWARD) Rigid Censorship Established, but) News of Fight Outside Vera Cruz | Would Not Surprise Officials. | By Samuel M. Williams. ff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, May 6.—Fighting between American and Mexican asmies at Vera Cruz is imminent. Gen. Funston and his men are looking} for a scrap and are liable to get it any day. While announcement was made at the White House to-day that President Wilson's orders were for our troops to mark time and not ad- vance beyond Vera Cruz, instructions were being sent by the War De- partment to Funston to use his own discretion in protection of the city’s water supply and defending himself against threatened attacks, It is pointed out in the orders tc Funston that our policy is not to provoke attack nor to attempt invasion of Mexico further than the present base. At the same time, a general in the field is at liberty to take such precautionary measures in face of an enemy and so rearrange his troops as to render his position safe. Acting under these advices, the army in Vera Cruz is being moved into a new position. While details are sup- pressed by the censor, it is understood that stronger forces, supported by artillery, have been moved from the centre of the town and intrenche? considerable distance out in suburbs. Under guise of protecting the out- fying waterworks and pumping station, | that place Is being made into a fortified | base instead of the most advanced | point of the lines, Qutports are ex- tended well beyond there and rgich | closer to the Mexican lines, These | ’ the general staff as precautionary measures, despite the Administration's peace policy of “standing in our | tracks.” News is awaited at any hour of | n the American and} Both | movements are tacitly sanctioned by | the War Department and approved by Let Case Go to High Court on Appeal. L eecines on Second Page.) ATLANTA, Ga., May 6.—Judge Ben BRITISH ULTIMATUM | Hil of the Fulton County Superior Court denied to-day the extraordinary T0 HAYTI ON INDEMNITY) motion tor a new triat tor Leo My Frank, the young factory superin> tendent under sentence of death here for murder in April last year of Mary Phagan, a factory girl. | In denying the motion Judge Hill announced that he would sign a bill! jons, thus allowing the rul- appealed to the State Su- prome Court iene: SEND BABY TO HER IN JAIL. Little Republic Given Until 6 P. M. To-day to Pay $62,000— Warship to Back Up Demand. PORT AU PRINOF, Haytl, May 6. —Tke British ttplomatic representa: | tive at Port au Prince to-day deliv- fred an ultimat m to the Haytian Government demunding the iminedi- | ate payment of an indemnity of $6 000 to a British subject in compensi tion for the destruction by fire of his paw mill during the Le Conte revolu- | tion. The ultimatum expires at 6 o'clock this evening. ‘The British demand is supported by the presence bere of the Hritish CHES | vepresentati | elals that ltenced fr Frank M Auburn Prison offi- Teresa Marino, nsen- County for killing | reh 1%, 1913, hat she was pining away for her bab: iser Suffolk, The payment of this|¢ y. gum of money to the British subject ir OUAH tsdnyt Cearaat tie | viously been oriered by a “court take the child to Au- of arbitration. | The Haytian Congress this after noon authoriaed the Government treat with the British di resentative in the mand submitted to. for the pay- ment of $12,000 to a British subject | and to open a credit for the payment | fo: of _ SE AY, d atomobile man: | But Atlinta Judge Agrees tu fi {and the lamp trimmer fell into the “MENFROM DEGK OF BURNING STEAMER BROOKLINS WIN© 0 o 4 EYPECTED Wireless tate Viva Vivid Story of Bunched Hits yen Demaree in| Disaster to Columbian, Rent | and Set Aflame at Sea. ONE FELL IN FIERY PIT. Others Burned in Wild Escape to Boats—27 Saved and Score Missing. BOSTON, May 6.—The local office of the Cunard line to-day received a report from Capt. Miller of the liner Franconia telling of the rescue of a part of the crew of the steamer Columbian, which was burned at sea Sunday night. The Franconia yea- terday picked up one of the Colum- bian’s boats containing thirteen men and the body of Chief Steward Matthews, Early to-day the steamer Manhattan, bound from New York to Antwerp, saved Capt. McDonald and thirteen of the Columbian’s crew, which makes a total of twenty-seven rescued, The Manhattan is still searching for a third boat in which are a number of the crew, estimated at from nineteen to twenty-five men. At least two lives were lost, possibly four, with the steamer. The wireless messuge received from Capt. Miller of the Franconia was dated to-day and follows: “Received wireleas from steamer Georgie 11.24 A. M., May 4: itz passed in 41.27 large steamer burning high out of water, funnel gone, no peo) “At the same tim Sable Isiand requesting me to en- deavor to identify steamer should I pans close was received. At 1.15 P. M. I recetved from the Associated Preas, Boston: ‘Great alarm over Reyd'itz report of a big ocean liner afire, Reacues by Franconia. Please send brief despatch.’ “At that time rumor of rescue was not true. “On receipt of Georgic'a message I changed my course to cross given position of burning steamer, arriving there at $3 P. M. Could discern no trace of wreck, but decided, owing to false report and fearing influence on other possible rescuing steamers, to encircle position at six miles, and at 3.30 P. M. sighted a boat on starboard Iready prepared, the oc- on board awell was running at the time, tions of putting out my sea cover their embarkation. The boat contained thirteen men and a corps lying awash ym the bottom of the boat ; “The survivors had used a trousers leg from the corpse on the end of a boathook for a distress signal, The survivors were in a state of extreme exhaustion and mental collapse. Some had been burned by fire. “They state that they had been adrift forty hours. Six were put under the doctor's care on the ship and others were given brandy and soup, bathed in hot water and put to bed. They immediately fell asleep. Little information can be| obtained trom them. “The carpenter says the ship was! the Columbian, sailing from Ant- werp, and about 12,000 tons He was asleep and heard th n | and was coming along the deck and| had arrived about amidships when an! explosion occurred, under his feet, | which blew him overboard, He was picked up by @ small boat. “aA lamp trimmer's son states that! his father waa coming forward, call- | ing for him, when the deck blew up burning hola No Brookted Game, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 6.—The Brooklyn-Indianapolia game scheduled here this afternoon was postponed on, planned. to Introduce the Governor's , Reyer the boat bodies "of HITRUCKER, SO Sixth, Put Dodgers in AT WASHINGTON— Front. | ee HIGHLANDERS WIN © NEW YORK, j1 0 oo 20 = 4 ‘te 2000 0 O be ee _ 0 0 4 1 OF), Battertes—Caldwell and Sweeney: Shaw and Henry. Umpires—Connolly | Doyle, 2 : 1 0 3 1 0/9 sy ereement the game was called at 6 o'clock, to allow the Hixh- Merkle, 1b... . 0 0 8 3 Oj] anders to catch a train to Boston, Snodgra 123 10 —— eyers, ¢ 8 ie @ AT PHILADELPHIA. (0 1030 ST boo o 6 0 41 0 Cs. -0 0 00 0 -—-— — Batisriee—c Boye Benet and Car. rigan; us le; U — .3 7 27 15 0 Egan and vane ie aaa Riez ran for ‘Moyers In, Beh coat f : AT CLEVELAND. Cae ta, a ST, LOUIS— PO. A. B, 20 Dalonyet...e.sst ft 1 © 0|Caldwell Pitched Fine Game] oayetn? °° 9 3 Cutshaw, 2b -1 23 40 Daubert, 1b 1 0 14 0 0| forHighlanders Against Shaw = 0100000 Wheat, It. :1o3a 1 0 0 in Early Innin Blanding and Gariocts arpa ant: Smith, 3b 000 4 0 in Early Innings Gerbrand and O'Loughlin, Stengel, rf. -0 1 300 AT GNIGAGO: Egan, ON es HIGHLANDERS DETROIT— Miller, c. Oo 14a ad RH. POA. EB. Rucker, p. +1 1000 it 006 1o ry oS a = -1 t 2 @ 9) CAco— Total......s0e006. $ 10 27 13 1 “1 0100 10 SUMMARY, 0 2 S$ 0 Oj. Batteriea—Hall and Stoval; Hcott First Base on Balle—Off Demaree, . | an¢ Mayer. Umpires — Chill and 2; Rucker, 1; Fromme, 1, Struck 12 5 0 Sheridan. Outcry Dersares, 1; by Rucker, 1; »0 0 4 0 0 —_ y mme, 1, +0 0 2 2 0 Left on Bases-—-New York, 4; Brooke y's waa tg “Sen ccf te Phe jases—Burns, 2. uble Plays—Egen 5 to Cutshaw. to Daubert, . Umpires SL Be M — —| surr, AT CHIGAR: Orth and Byron, Attendance 6,000, 48240 301 POLO GROUNDS, M INGTON. CHICAGO— Rucker, Brooklyn's star R. KPO. A EL 010 made his first appearance of the .0© 0 2 O Oj. Batteries—aoran and Biair; Hon- year this afternoon, and with Dem- 0 0 1 1 r drix and Wilson. Umpiree—Cross aree against him, the 6,000 fana got 011400 and Anderson, @ real run for their money. It was st -0 0 1 0 0 AT KANBAS CITY. (Continued on Sporting Page.) :0 0 5 10 "iaaeia popula dln Dy 00686 21 -0 0 0 O 0] RANSAS CITY— NATIONAL LEAGUE. fee ee Aaa ooo 3 Q Batteries — Walk and = Berry; _AT PITTSBURGH. 0 1 1 20 1| Harris and Easterly. Umpirea--Buah CHICAGO— 1" Mannasaau, 000000000—-0 i eal 6 8 PITTSBURGH— AT 8T. Louie. 0000000 0 1— 1}. Game called “at. 5 o'clock by aagree- | BALTIMORE— adiatteriea — Cheney and Archer: Tec 8 BARRIS Eon eenere 0 2) 00 jams an in; i A and Orth. ii i SUMMARY. ST. Louis ——— First. Base on Balls—Off Caldwel, 02 AT ST. Louis. CINCINNATI— 2 ST, LOUIS— 0 Batteries—Benton and Clark; Sallee and Snyder, Umpires--Quigley and Edson. ———._—-,, APPROPRIATION BILL CARRIES $30,492,840 ALBANY, May 6.—The Assembly Appropriation bill, 492,840.13, a decrease of $962,332.19 under the Assembly bill pagsed at the regular seasion of the Legisla- ture, was introduced to-day. The bill included no appropriations for the Department of Efficiency and Economy and the State Fire Mar- shal's office, Construction and supply bills also were introduced and advanced to the order of final passage without oppo- aition. proximately $1,500, Sada and the Con- struction bill $1,600,000, The former is about $400,000 lens Nhan the Supply bill passed at the regular session, The Construction bill ts practically unchanged. ‘The Assembly to-day unanimously } adopted a resolution to provide $40,- | 000° for the Sullivan investigating committee, The Senate was in ses- sion only a few minutes and trana- acted no business, Senate leaders totalling $30,-! NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, The Supply bill totalled ap-| cepted eccount of wet grounds, _-.. | @ppropriation bill to-morrow, a FIVE JURORS IN BOX AT BECKER TRI 1914, NATIONAL LEAGUE GIANTS LOSE ie) 0000000 3 BROOKLYN 0 4 0 0 0 Demaree and Meyers; Fromme and Johnsor Umpires—Orth and Byron. AMERICAN LEAGUE 5 and Batterion Hueker it suaai 1; off Bhaw, 6. Struck Out—By Cald-| Battertee—Amith and Jeckiitenh; well, 3 by Shaw, 2, Loft on Basee—| Brown and Simon, Umpires—Cu- New York, 11; Washington, 4, Three-| sack and Kane, Base Hits—Williams, Milan. Two- ee Haso Bits iarteell, Holden. Brolen| ases—eckinpaugh; jaimel, 2; Walsh; Truesd Umpires—Con- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. nolly @nd Dineen, Attendance 3,000 AT TORONTO. (Special to The Evening Workd.) PROVIDENCE— WASHINGTON, D. C,, May 6. 100100 Ideal spring weather brought out a Dig crowd for the final game of the worten betweon the New Yorks and Senators this afternoon, In order to allow the visitors to catch an early TORONTO— 102000 Batteriea—Hatley and J. Onsiaw; Hearne and Kelly. (Continued on Sporting Page.) AT ROCHESTER. (a o000 BATTLESHIP GETS COLORS, | "WARK ‘The Temas Is Presented With Flag | ROCHESTER— by Mate a } 0010 Fifty members of the Texas Club of New York, & woman's organization, to- day presented to the battleship Texas, in dry doek in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Batterlea—Holimquist and Heckin- Hughes and Williame, wer; AT MONTREAL, an American flag, nine by fourteen feet. | JERSEY CITY— ‘The presentation speech was made by 0000 A Gy club, a MONTREA\ Capt, “Arthur W. OF nal ihe Woy ander - Me 0000 Batterien—Verbout 2 Magon and Madden, a a’ Horses Win to France, and = Perce f the ceremony th i> Ameria tore amin over St e PARIS, May 6. — Amertean owned ere de st nt Fs A up rome Virginia horses captured two firats and one sec- to be w im at the in . ‘on saturday the baluicchip Wooming ond place et Le Tremblay to-day. The and the cryleer Tennessee w! ronella was won by H. > the Brooklyn Navy Yard "to. mee Frissle, while J. F. Wide came ‘In firet in the. Prix "inthe latter event August took second place, “Circulation Books Open to Au.” | 20 PAGES 3) | 0 ing the Courtroom After Judge \ PRICE ONE CENT, BOURKE COCKRAN QUITS “BECKER TRIAL: SAYS ITS AN ASSASSINATION “I’m Through,” Says Lawyer, Leav- Declines to Punish Whit- man for Contempt. MOVE TO GET ANOTHER PLACE OF TRIAL FAILS District-Attorney Replies Bitterly to Lawyer, Denying He Instigated Newspaper Reports. A determined attempt on the part of Bourke Cockran of counsel for the defense to have District-Attorney Whitman adjudged guilty of contempt of court marked the opening of the second trial of ex-Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal to-day. The attempt failed and other motions looking to delay were overruled. Two jurymen had been obtained when the court adjourned for recess, Mr. Cockran made his motion in the contempt matter at the very pet ing of the trial. He contended that the contempt charged rested in state. ments given out by the District-Attorney on the eve of the trial which tended to prejudice Becker in the minds of the 300 talesmen from: whos the jurors are to be selected. Mr. Cockran asserted and submitted affidavits in support that the al Jeged Carl Dressner interview printed yesterday morning, charging ab John Becker, the defendant's brother, procured a perjused statement from Dressner in order to help the four gunmen who killed Rosenthal, was not an interview at all, but a statement prepared by the Dtstdeb Attorney and given out to newspaper reporters by Mr. Whitman's escre tary with the warming that !t must be printed es en interview. ‘The printed statements, Mr. Cockran contended, hurt Becker's case with. the. talesmen. “An assassin's act,” was one of Mr. Cockran's charactertzatlons ef the District-Attorney’s performance in the Dressner effair. was the more reprehensible, Mr. Cockran said, because ft was performed by en officer of the court who should have been particularly anxious to protect the rights of the accused in view of the Court of Appeals decision grant- ing a new trial on the ground that an atmosphere of hostility prevailed in the court-room during the first trial. On the denial of the motion Mr. Cockran went slowly out into the He was in a high state of indignation. “Are you going to open the case for the defense?” he was asked. “No,” he sald, “No! I am not, I am through with the Becker en rd fe not a trial, I¢ fs an assassination.” . Mr. Cockran made his argument to Justice Seabury at 1 o'clock. | The two jurors and the remaining members of the panel were excused, | Justice Seabury said he did not think that the minds of the talesmen | were influenced in the slightest by any statement printed as coming fiom Dressner, hall, a, ae JURORS SELECTED. 1 te Detain aa ee Jurors be discharged and the panel dis- F, MEREDITH BLAGDEN, |man; residence No. 16 Eas' | etrest. | WILLIAM J. DALTON, advertising| jagents residence No. 125 West One} | Hundred and Thirty-ninth street. | JAMES M. FAUST, real estate rat and living at No. 16 East Six- it, 33 yet, THOMAS W. EOWARDS, chemist,’ No, 507 West One Hundred and Si) teenth atreet. | EDWARD E. VAN EMAU, sales: man, 455 Fort Washington avenue. = - LORDS KILL SUFFRAGE BILL. wow by Vote of 104 to a0, May 6 — The House of) Lords night rejected the woman's | euttrng Dill by & vote of 14 to 0 | Mensure Giving Vot |Cockran asked that the jurora and No. 68 West Forty-fifth. , missed because of statements made in their hearing by the District-Attorney that he believed Dressner’s statements reflecting on John Hecker to be true, This motion was overruled. Then Mr. talesmien be instructed to disregard janything they heard the District-At. torney say about Dressner, ‘This, too, overrul Mr. Covkran took ex- ma to averse ruliag of the unt, During the argument of the several motions of Mr, Cookran there were free auentl angry words passing between the lawyer and Mr. Whitman, At Me, Cochran's second or third repetition ef the cha at the Dressner confem sion was” “nh out by Mr, Whitman,” Mr. Whitman, bis face Aushed, rose and shouted: “You have said it was given out by, my il prove it!” roared Mr, Cochran “You heard what t ala sald werlng hie volon ena jf very ‘ Whitmaa, bad