The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 1

WAR EXTRA @tbe_ |“Cireulation Books Open to Alt" | Books Open to All.’’ | PRIOE ONE SA RAI I LA Conrviems, 1834 The Press sida Reason Publishing NEW “YORK, TUESDAY, AUQUST 11, 1914. au ‘PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. RL VICTIM'S TALE > OF ATTAGK BY NEGRO FRENZIES NEIGHBORS Beg Police to Turn Alleged Assailant! Loose to Their Vengeance— - Brother of Child Asks to Get at Him for Ten Minutes. Driven near to insanity and death by starvation, torture and worse, Catherine Larkin, thirteen years old, made slight recovery both of mental and bodily strength to-day at her home, No. 2751 Broadway, comforted by her father and mother and her eight For the firat time since Police Com-* missioner Woods and his squad of! picked men late yesterday afternoon fgind the little girl in tho vaulted en- nee of a drain pipe trap, so small that she could not rise to her full height, in the play yard back of Pub- Mc School No. 7 at Two Hundred and Thirty-second street and Kingsbridge avenue, she was able to tell what hap- pened to her fron, the time she left early mass at St. fohn's Church, 4} block away from the school, at 7 o'clock last Friday morning until she was rescued. George Webb, a Barbadoes mulatto of the type which wears flashy clothes * and swaggers about the Harlem negro quarter until the early morning hours, ,@n assistant janitor of the school, was in the custody of the police, under ®uspicion that he «new something about the little girl's disappearance, at the time Catharine was found, Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas C. Larkin, Cathertne’t brother, and her father, Martin Lar- kin, a letter carrier, begged the po- lice for ten minutes alone with Webb after they heard the girl's story. The sidewalk in front of the Larkin home was b!.cked by men and neigh- bors who dem:nded that Webb be turned over by the police to the friends and neighbors. In the crowd were many who had been searching day and night through the streets, in Van Cort- landt Park and along the Hai: m and Bronx river fronts for Catharine since Friday night. They were weary eyed * and nervous, but tense with rave for revenge. Webb said: “She say I done it; 1 suy i never @one it. My wo: !'s as go.d as hers. You ain't goin’ to Ke: nothin’ on me.” Magistrate Corrigan held him in $10,000 bail on a charge of kidnap- ping and remanded him to the cus- tody of the police, who are preparing @ more serious charge. “Catharine went to 6 o'clock mass at St. John’s Friday with her two younger sisters," aid Corporation Counsel Larkin to-day to an Evening World reporter in relating the girl's story as it was told to her family. “Bho stayed a little longer over her devotions than the others. They thought nothing of leaving her to follow them home. It was only four Blocks away. ys that when she was pass- ye school on the other side of treet Webb called to her. When @he graduated from the school last June she had lost a little breastpin. She had told Webb about it and asked m to hunt for it. He had told her je next day that he had been un- 7 to find it, MW ‘I have found a pin, Catharine, | Woatinued o6 Fourth Page.) brothers and sisters. BASEBALL _o— NATIONAL LEAGUE AT NEW YORK GIANTS— 01100 ST. LOVIS— 01200 Batterles—Doak and Snyder; thewson and Meyers, Umpires— and Rigler, AT BROOKLYN. BROOKLYN— 000 CHICAGO— aia ad. Batteries—Humphries and Bresna- han; Ragon and M Eason and Quigley. iller, Umpires— | FEDERAL LEAGUE AT CHICAGO, FIRST GAME, BROOKLYN— 0000000 CHICAGO— 0000000 1 Batteries—Seaton and Land; Hen- drix and Block. and Anderson, Umpires—Goeckel — WINNERS AT SARATOGA. FIRST RACE—Northerner, 7 to 2, 8 to 5 and 4 to 5, first; Jacobone, 8 to third, Time, 1,413-5. SECOND RACE—High Noon, 13 to 1 10, 1 to 2 and out, won: Scorpii, 8 to 5 and 4 to 6, second; Razzano third, Time—1.06 4-5. THIRD RACE—Star Jasmine, 9 to 2, 8 to 5 and 4 to 5, first; Buckhorn, 6 to 5 and 3 to 5, second; Amalfi, third, Time—t1.39 2-6, FOURTH RACE—Garbage, 15 to 1, 6 to 1 and 3 to 1, firet; Royal Martyr, Distant 7 to 1 and 3 to 1, second; Shore, third. Time, 1:13 3-6, $10,000 to: TRENTO! lor Walker to-day issued an order al- lowing $10,00 as compensation each to ex-Senator Jame ant Postmaste Johnson, and ex, Smith jr, eneral William = M. ex-Asaiat- v. Franklin Fort for their services as appraisers for the stock of the Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany so that it could be changed from stock to a mutual company, Tl ra te rash WAR DEVELOPMENTS TO-DAY The French army which forced by the German: A great battle is on in the plains outside the city. About 500,000 German troops are massed at Strass- burg to invade France. The German main army was reported intrenching itself on the Ourthe; while two large divisions of cavalry had got to Tongres, north of Liege. A battle is imminent in iste the Germa the allied Belgians, French and British. Fighting has occurred on tier. FRENCH TROOPS PUSHED BACK. GERMAN ARMY IN GREAT FORCE. MAKES SWEEP ON THE ALLIES THREE NATIONS MASS ARMIES invaded Alsace has been s to evacuate Muelhausen: in the north of Belgium ns will be confronted by the Russo-German fron- Six carloads of German prisoners were reported to have passed through Vilna to-day on their way to the Russian interior. Russian funds seized in Berlin: banks by Germany amounted to $25,000,000. Germans are said in Belgian official reports to have ‘ost 2,000 killed, 20 between 500,000 and LONDON, Aug. 11.— ports. BiG NEW YORK | | | | Morgan and the National City Bank: eign commerce of the United States into wh '@ endea America. Out of the chao European war fhe bankers action, Oscar Underwood, promote all reasonable measures in C: and Stripes on the high seas. The Morgan house 1s operating In three co-operative lines. First, it 1s endeavoring to establish direct finan- and France. \ternational Mercantila Marine Cor- | poration, commonly called the Ship- | ping Trust, :7hich was floated by the late J. P. Morgan, but did not prove fa financial success, Now its oppor-| tunity has come, for the paront com- pany !s an American corporation, al- though most of its ships still fy for- eign flags. The third line relates to manufac- markets of the world, and in this *|)James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, has been put forward by the Morgan in- terests to lead the industrial forces. The National City Bank has been after South American trade and fi- nance for several years. Ita purpose is to establish branch banks there and to change the currents of commerce | towards the United States instead of to Europe, Efforts to-day were centred chiefly in agreeing upon definite recommen- dations to be laid before Congress and ougmeations to the banking and im- JOIN TO RESTORE FOREIGN TRADE 10 NORMAL STATE The two greatest financial institutions in America—the house of J. P. clal relations between the United! 5 and 4 tq & second; Golden Prime.) states and the Banks of England) The second line ts through the In- turing American goods to supply the! ,000 wounded and 9,700 prisoners in the fighting around Liege. England is said by the Times of London to have 600,000 men under arms without the reserves. England now holds as prisoners of war 800 German sailors taken off ships cap- tured by British war vessels or seized in British TO CRUSH KAISER’S TROOPS NOW THREATENING BRUSSELS} French War Office Admits Its Army Was Forced to. Evacuate Muelhausen---Big Battle on Outside theCity ---Russians Capture Six Train Loads of Germans. Belgian Officials Now Estimate German Losses in Belgium at 2,000 Killed, 20,000 Wounded and 9,700 Prisoners--Belgian Women Fight German Troops. PARIS, Aug. t.—The War Office this afternoon issued an official statement announcing that the French have been compelled to evacuate Muelhausen, in Alsace. This is the first news received of a German victory. FINANCIERS —have assumed command of the for- and divided the world between them. {ch business has been thrown by the voring to evolve some definite plan of jeader of the House of Representatives, will ongreas looking to replacing the Stars {dustrial world, Some of the’ points agreed upon are as follows: Amend the navigation laws to permit foreign built ships to be registered under the American flag by American ownors, Government guarantee of inaur- ance at a reasonable rate for American ships during war time, similar to the plan adopted by | British and Belgian goveroments, Further legislation to enable | American ships to be operated more cheaply in competition with ships of other countries, Despite the efforts of bankers and | merchants, the complete blockade of | export trade continued to-day, The grain markets are clogged and cotton is held back at enormous cost, Not only does this condition prevail at Now York, but Southern ports are Mkewise affected. The State Ratlroad Commission of Texas, for example, Issued to-day a notice citing an in- ternal railroad blockade danger. Cotton planters, bankers and. mer- chants have been called to meet in | New Orleans, Aug. 27, to discuss mar. keting the cotton crop which will soon , begin to move, The Chamber of Commerce of New York meets to-morrow noon to launch the movement for an American mer. |chant marine and re-opening of for. eli trade Rankers, merchants, manufactur- \era, shippers and representatives of the committees now forming in Naw York, are to meet Friday in the Treasury at Washington to confer “ST PO OE eR Mrraeeat si RIE ies sue gent *| said a battle is in progress on the plains surrounding the city. ‘loriginally designed to lead an invasion of France from a point near the Swiss border. The Morgan group is to take Europe and the City Bank {s to develop South The announcement states that the army operating against Neu Breisach was driven back, afd that an overwhelming German army pushed the attack back upon Muelhausen. Although in an earlier report it had been claimed that the French troops had | re-formed their lines outside of Muelhausen and checked the German advance. it is now That the battle is general is indicated by the admission from the French War Office: that the army of invasion under General Joffre had met “an overwhelining force.” which: 4 had advanced from Neu Breisach. The German attacking army comprises a part of that which was massed at Stras- “4 burg. The whole army is understood to number nearly half a million men and it was) % Officia: announcement was made to-day that engagements had taken place be German and Freygch troops at Longwy, just inside the French border at a point whe Belgium Luxemburg and German Lorraine meet. It was also officially announced that engagements between the French and Germans have taken place along the Franco-Belgian frontier on French territory, and at Virton, on Belgian territory, to the southwest of Arlon. German cavalry patrols were met also to the north of Montmedy on the Franco-Belgian trontier. This fighting is believed here to indicate that the German mass movement to force — an entrance into France across the Meuse is being pushed. While no details of the strength of the invading army is obtainable, the admission that the advance is “in force” is considered highly significant. According to a special newspaper despatch the women workers in the Belgian Nas) 33 tional Arms Factory at Herstal, just outside of Liege, defended their village against the . German attack. The men were away serving in the army and the women swore that the German % troops should not take the factory. They armed themselves with revolvers and other, weapons with which they repulsed several charges of the German Uhlans. When their ammunition was exhausted, the women barricaded themselves in the : houses, from which they poured boiling water on the German soldiers in the streets. ‘4 The correspondent says 2,000 Germans were disabled by wounds or scalds. Chite = dren and old men shared in the defense of Herstal, and on Friday the Belgian colors s' with Bovgroment officials on bees io Valse the trade blockade, ' floated from the factory building. Lieut. Baron Marschall von Dipbarstniey son of Baron Marshal von .