The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1914, Page 1

FI NA EDITION PRICE ONE OENT. FRENCH GUNS DESTROY BATTERIES OF THE GERMANS, WAR OFFICE REPOR GERMANS BEATEN OPW toro: es HOGAN TOTES FOR TRAD Wives and Brokers on Hand to Wit- ness the Start. TOTAL SALE NORMAL. | ‘ Bedlam Breaks Loose When | Gong Gives the Cue for | First Trading. ‘Trading tn stocks was resumed this morning witb joyous enthusiasm on the Stock Kxcbange after nineteen weeks of wartime closing. There was mo avalanche of foreign ing, ne “disastrous slumy in prices, On the @entrary, prices ali along the line took & jump. The greatest speculative game in the world was opened under rules wpectally made for the occasion to prevent anybody from losing and to mive the long idle brokers a chance to make some money for Christmas cheer, Nobody was more interested in this phase of the game than large nambers of women. They filled the galleries of the Exchange and in pri- vate rooms of offices others waited with animated eagerness for news of the start. Four months of hard times In Wall suet have inflicted privations and economies on many households ac- cu@fomed to extravagant luxury. Re- opeuing of the Exchange, therefore, bad a@ vital interest for wives and sweethearts and they were more ex- cited over it than the men. From a spectacular point of view there was small demonstration at the start. The scenes were not half ao tumultous as on many previous days of rapid rise or fall in some specula- tive securities. Steel crossing fifty or Union Pacific touching two hundred have drawn lurger crowds and pro- voked more noise on the floor, The bond brokers, on their plat- form at one end of the room, who have held the centre of the stage for the past two weeks, retired to the background, and though they shouted and jumped about, making consider- able noise, they were compelled to play minor roles to the stockbrokers who swarmed over the main floor, watching the clock hands approach the opening hour of 10 o'clock. Secretary George W. Ely touched an » @lectric push button and the big brass gong gave one boom. Instantly there was a series of sharp, staccato yells, five hundred yip, yp, yips, blending into a single volume of chorused sound, It lasted for ten seconds, and (Continued on Fourth Page). eee 200 AIRSHIPS NEEDED FOR THE U, $. NAVY How Craft May Be Used in Time of War. @red naval aircraft—100 for active ser- vice and 100 to be held tn reserve—are urgently needed by the United States . Navy ip its plans for national defense, ‘as outlined in recommendations of Capt. Mark L. Bristol, chief of the aeronau- tical bureau of the Navy Department, Servic to the House Naval Committee, made public to-day It would require an appropriation of \ $2,800,000 to bring the aeronautical branch of the navy up to ® proper stand- ard of eMciency, Capt Bristo) told the ‘commit toe, as Head of Aeronautical Bureau Tells| WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Two bun-! UP WHEN EXCHANGE OPENS ING IN STOCKS cree, PLANED JUDAS, SAYS LATER OW $1200 0001085 Answering Suit, He Recalls Great Wheat Corner and De- clares He Was Deceived. CHICAGO, Dec. 12.— The stirring days of the Leiter wheat “corner,” the failure <of which -comt Joseph Leiter more than $12,000,000 in 1898, were recalled ¢o-day in the United States Court before Judge Humphrey when Leiter took the witness stand. Leiter, now a resident of Washing- ton and a son of the late vi Z, Leiter, who made many millions of dollars in Chic: is being sued by the Interior Elevator Company and Charles W. Lane, auditor of the Mon- arch Elevator Company of Minneapo- lis for $380,985, principal and interest on notes given the plaintiffs in the year of the corner. The suit was filed in 1911, but bearing did not begin until yesterday. In connection with the notes Leiter named “F. H. Peavey and the Pills- bury people’ of Minneapolis and charged them with deceiving him, His defense i» fhat the clevator com- panies were virtually in partnership with’ him, having agreed not to sell grain in the Chicago market while big deal was on. “They played Judas with me,” he testified. “When the market broke I found'that I owed one creditor—the Dinois Trust and Savings Bank—be- tween ten and twelve millions of dol- lars, Every cent of it and of other bills has been paid. I do not owe thia one.” Leiter said that he was in control of the Chicago market and would have won had Peavey and the Pills- bury people kept their promise to him. Local traders still talk of the sensational conclusion of the deal. Philip D.* Armour, the veteran packer, was the man who fought Leiter in the deal, He is said to have won 4 large sum, COLLINS AND HIMMEL ARE MADE CAPTAINS After serving a satisfactory proba- tionary period of three months Lieuts. Oscar P, Himmel and John J. Collins were promoted to the rank of captain in the Police Department to-day. Capt. Himmel will command the | Sixth Avenue Precinct and Capt, Col- |iins the Amity Street Precinct in Brooklyn. They have been assigned to these stations as acting captains, Both are well known police officers, Capt. Himmen was for many years on |the staff of Chief Inspector Schmitt and also acted as head of the ancy Squad. Capt. Collins wi confidential Heutenant of Inspe: tor Titus, now 1 attached to Deputy Will chief of the of m J. Flynn, who Is ne United States se Sec nel and Collins headed the eli- gible list Lieutenants Meade and Enright are next on the list, but new examination has been held, and it is probable that anew list will be | L be Circulation Booka Au” NEW YORE, WOLATON OF RULE, SAYS PARS REPORT Passengers on Brooklyn Ex-)Heavy ,Losses and Disorderly press Are Imperilled as “L” Victims Were. McMahon, In Charge of ‘ Train In Fatal Crash, Is Released. The Brooklyn express train leaving Retreats North of Warsaw and South of Cracow. MAN BAILED OUT.|FIGHTING DESPERATE. ye Servians Said to Have Cap- tured 18,000 Men in the Recent Battles. PARIS, Dec, 12 (Associated Presa). Brooklyn Bridge station at 2.45 o'clock |—The French War Office made the thie afternoon for the Flatbush ave-| following atatement w-day on the nue terminus was operated from a|campaign in the east: motorbox in the third car from the front of the train, the motor in the leading car being “dead.” A,tule the Interborough Com- pany stipulates that when the motor of the leading oar on @ train becomes inoperative the guards shall discharge all passengers at the next atation and the train shall be run “blind” to the yards at the One Hundred ang Thirty- seventh Street station. The train noted to-day was being run in viola- tion of this rule, as passengers still filled the cars, and gespite the fact that the operation of an elevated train from the fourth car was held as a contrjbutory cause of the fatal col- Msion at One Hundred and Sixteenth Street Wednesday night. In to-day’s instance a train des- patches, who had boarded the train at one of the express stops further up the line, was acting as motorman in the third car motor box and the regular motorman was on the plat- form of the first car, signalling back to him with @ white lantern at every stop and start. Yesterday, The Evening World re- ported a similar instance of flagrant violation of the rules of safety on a subway train running south. In that case it was a guard who signalled from the front platform, and the motorman was directing, the train from the third car, Dennis J. McCabe, a motorman of No. / 674 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, called at the Coroner's office this afternoon and offered his property as surety for the $2,000 bond of Thomas McMahon, motorman of the Ninth Avenue train that was wrecked at One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. Coroner Patrick Reardon accepted the bond, sent to the Tombs for Mc- Mahon and released him. The in- quest was set for Dec. 26. Reardon took McMahon into an in- ner office and had a long talk with him, Es PLAYMATE OF A BOY CAUSES HIS DEATH David Vetter, Six Years Old, Pushed Under an Auto- mobile. Is ‘ David Vettor, six years old, of No. 11 Essex Street, while playing at Hester and Norfolk Streets with several com- panions to-day, was pushed by one of them directly in the path of an auto- | mobile. The car knocked the child down and the front wheel ran over his chest, Dr, Gamble of the Gouveneur Hos. | ret | pital removed the boy to that institu: | tion, but he died shortly after reach- ing there. The police did not hold the chauf- a | feur as witnesses exonerated him of any blame. But they are looking for the playmate of Vetter, who accord- made up before the next ‘appoint. | ing to other boys, ran away when he ments to the rank of captain are made, -. paw his companion go under the wheels, “In the region of Miawa violent attacks om the part of the Ger- mans have been repulsed and the Russians have aguin takee the of- — fensive against columns of the enemy that are retiring in disur- der. In the region to the north of Lowics ferocious German attacks have been also everywhere re- pulsed, with heavy losses for them. “In the region south of Cracow the Russian offensive has been successfully continued in spite of @ stubborn resistance. “The Servian armies which had reached the Kolubara River ba: crossed this stream between the Valjevo, which bas been occupied by them, and the junction of the Ljid. To the north they bave oc- cupied Lasarevats. The number of prisoners taken by the Servians in the course of these recent en- wagoments reaches the total of about 18,000 men.’ LONDON, Dec. 12 (Associated Press), ~The close of teenth week of the war finds the stirring operations im the eastern theatre of great im- portance. Since the military bhead- quartera on both sides profess satis- fection with the situation as it af. fects their respective armies and are giving outsiders only scant oppor- tunities of forming independent judg- ment, it is dificult to estimate pre- claely the significance of what Is nap- pening. Nevertheless, it is now being said that something went wrong with the timing of the Austro-German opera- tions for the relief of Cracow, Ga- Ucia. ) | | -“Cireulation Books Open to All.’’ . FS NA EDITION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914, 10 PAGES SBHIEN IK ATSER’S ARMY LOSES HOLD ON WEST BANK OF YSER CAN Duchegs of Croy, American Girl, Who’s Nursing Wounded Husband LOGE MDIDEALSIG DOGLDOVH DLT OCSOOOOOD LONDON, Dec, 12.—The Duchwas of | shrapnel in the Aghting near Uraco: Croy, formerly Mise Nancy Leishman, daughter of John A. Leishman, ex- American Ambassador at Bertin, 19 nursing her husband, who was seri- curly injured in the leg recently bv ARIZONA HANGING BEE HAS BEEN CALLED OFF) SHIPPED 10 T0 The converging columns apparently | Of Six Men to Be Executed Gov. failed to effect a junction, with the Hunt Commutes Sentences of result that Gen. Dimitrieff, former Bulgarian seems to have been able to inflict a sharp reverse on the Teutonic forces by repulsing the individual armies be- fore they had time to concentr: Further to the north, the capture of Lodg by the Germans, eo far as ia known, has had no spectacular sequel, It is considered possible that the Germans just now are placing chief reliance on the effort to turn the right flank of the army of Grand Duke Nicholaw through the efforts of the invadifg forces which have been pushing forward from the direc- tion of Miawa, near the East Prus- @ian border. BERLIN, Dec. 12 (by wireless to London, Associated Press).—The Ger- man Official statement issued to-day says: “On the East Prussian frontier our cavalry repulsed Russian cav- alry, taking 350 prisoners, “south of the Vistula and in Northern Poland our operations are developing. “In Southern Poland Tussian attacks have been repulsed hy Austro-Hungarian and German troops.” STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Idahe, Hull...csss0ss0+e » 1P.M, Lapland, Liverpee! . 420 P.M, Minister at Petrograd,| Twoand Refers Cases of Others, Dec. 12.—There bee at Florence PHOENIX, Ariz, will be no hangin; Penitentiary Dec. 19. Six men con- demned by the action of electorate in voting Nov. 8 against abolishment of capital punishment in Arizona won to-day the clemency of Gov. Hunt. The sentences of two men were commuted by the Governor just before hoe began preparing the elec- tion proclamation which would put into effect, among measures, the new law taking away his power of par- don and commutation. The case of another was referred to the Supreme Court, .nd the cases of the other three were referred to the Attorney General. ee + WANT DEATH INQUIRY MADE. Family of Man Slain by Mexicans Lays Case Before Bi PITTSBURGH, Dee. of Robert BE. Dunn, a young tor, reported to have been slain by Mexican bandits near Nucozari, to-day laid the matter before the British Cor | sul in this clty with the request for an investigation: 500,000 BT, LOUIS, Dec for $600,000 worth of isos has been laced with a large factory here by the ritish Government, it was learned to- Mr. Leishman, who ts now in Lon- don, says that the Duke will be am in- valid for many months, The former Ambaseador called on Ambassador Page yesterd 75,000 POUNDS OF SOCKS MY ATKINS English Manufacturer Buys All He Could ‘Find in the Market Here. ‘The Cunard Line steamer Orduna walled to-day with 753 passengers in the Srat saloon, most of them Eng- lishmen elther returning to England to enlist or for the Christmas holl- deys, Lashed to the deck forward were six “caterpillar” traction en- gines manufactured in Peorla, Iil., and evidently designed for use in hauling the British beavy artillery over Belgian and French roads J, M. Graham, @ Manchester wool- jen manufacturer, was @ passenger in the frat cabin. He was taking back with him 75,000 pounds of woollen socke—practically all he could find left in the American mar- ket. These will see servvice in the trenches. Harry Lauder, the come- dian, was another passenger. He was observed to tip @ porter five cents just before he went Up the wangway. Johnny Eve! ter At tye Hotel Som Forty-seventh Street, t, No. 150 West it was raid to- cap: day the condition of John tain of the Boston Nation: iM there vers, FOR RACING Paris War Office Says That Three Batteries Were Destroyed and Others Silenced Along the Battle Front in Belgium and France. GERMANS CLAIM GAINS AT IMPORTANT POINTS — PARIS, Dec. 12 [Associated Press].—The French Wee Office announced to-day that three German Batteries ‘na ; been destroyed and others silenced. It is declared that several German trenches had bea blown up and that the allies had made successful infantéy attacks. swe The allies have won back possession of an extended sage | tion along the west bank of the Yser Canal in Belgium, ¢ roa capture which the Germans engaged in the most and deadly fighting of the war in the west. The allies hold that bank. A blockhouse was blown up and two German destroyed on the heights of the Meuse. A battery of was destroyed in the Aisne region. The official statement again indicates the advantage a resting with the allies along the entire line. ‘The text of the communication follows: “The enemy has completed the evacuation of the weet bank of the é Yeer Cana) to the nortb of the house of the ferryman, and we comp thie bank. “In the region of Arras there have been artillery engagements, Ip the region of Nampco! our batteries have reduced to allence the bad . teries of the eemy. In the region of Aisne our heavy artillery ellenesd the field datterics of the Germans At 8 polat northeast of Vailip one of their batteries of howitzers was completely destroyed, “In the region of Perthes and In the vicinity ef the Forest ale Grurte there have been artillery engagoments and come infantry Gght' * ing, which resulted advantageously to us. “On the heights of the Meuse the artillery of the esemy showed Ittle activity. Om the contrary, our artillery demolished at Deuxzneeds, to the went of Vigneulles-les-Hattonchatel, two batteries of the enemy, one composed of guns of large calibre and the other used for Sring bi 5 several trenches. “Between the Mouse and the Moselle there ts nothing to report, ang _ in the Vosges there have been artillery engagements, In the region of Senones we have consolidated the positions gained by us the evening = before. German and French statements as to the happenings ta the forest of Le Pretre are diametrically opposed. Both etdes ciate success, This point te of vapectal importance, for if the allies, eo the French assert, have captured German trenches there, tMachenge |. sensibly increases the menace to the Wne of communication be tween Meta and the somewhat tsolated German force at Bt.-Minéel - German War Office Reports Gains. Made in Fighting in Belgium BERLIN (by wireless to London), Dec, 12 (Associated Preee).—Twe German War Office made announcement to-day: “In Flanders the French yesterday made attacks in the regiog ot Langemark, which were repulsed, They lost 200 men in killed 4 and we took 440 prisoners. i “Our artillery bombarded the Ypres Railroad station to inter-) * fere with the movements of the enemy's troops. ? “We have made some progress near Arras. “French troops again attacked us near Souain-Perthes, but / without success.” “In the Argonne Forest the French for weeks past have limited |_ themselves to very weak attacks and they everywhere have been repulsed, On the other hand, German troops have again taken posses | sion of an important French position of support by means of the ex- plosion of a mine. The enemy has suffered heavy losses in killed, an@ many of their troops have been so severely shaken as to de unable || to fight any longer.” { i : German Cruiser Dresden Escaped, ' Latest Report From Valpare LONDON, Dec, 12 (Associated Press).—A despatch to the