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om EDITION Pt: PRICE ONE CENT, © Wrrrete 2150 Teens NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, é ‘J AP. S. BOARD PAYS $5,340 TO ESTABLISH WAR} IN SHOP AND FLEE fj TO GARE FOR $1,000 IN BOOKS PASSION TO STEAL ISANINRERTANGE "om esiden t's Daughter ughter Also Bids WOMAN A ASSERTS) Lusitania’s Vela Required the Services of Nine ec. Men to Prepare Minutes of Commission. Treasury Is Accompanied by Her oe, ae Miss Britten. Secretary of sb Conve First Witness at Inquiry Con- ducted by Legislators. $900,000 IN ONE YEAR. Handsome asks Blower] ‘the frst ott time salling scene at- Lays Thefts to Blood From tending the departure of a great ocean liner that has occurred since * Swindler Father. the war was witnessed at the Cunard docks to-day, when the Lusitania started for Liverpool with 741 pas- sengers, 858 in the first cabin,. The coolly discussed at Police Head: | sin reseevations fell short of the quarters to-day the influence of beat trip jaat_ January by only two. y her- heredity. upon orime, admitting’ More than @ thousand people gath- Seite thiSt Yet LAsiotlng Shek. OER | 16d on te whksl and: Miause'd? tke she was under the influence of| prominent people on board the sulling liquor her heritage of criminal blood | was quite a society function. simply drove her, to.theft. A flutter of interest centred about She was Dorothy Blower, of No, 971 Hd bite Popa at WAsInateR: #8 Nona McAdoo, daughter of th Twelfth Avenue, Brooklyn, grand-|co-ietary of the Mreamisy, pels Pvod daughter of the notorious “fence,”| Katherine Britton} Miss MvAdoo'a Mother Meniigueney and daughter of |chum, also prominent in the official Sam Kohler, # noted swindler. set of the Capital. Both are going to committee and conducted the exam-| “Is it any wonder,” sho asked, "that | establish a hospital for wounded sol- ination, But Senator Thompson, Who) I should be caught as a thief? When|diers at San Remo, in the French { {@ a good lawyer himself, interrupted| I am sober I think I am as good a| Riviera; funds have been provided by t ‘with occasional questions to elucidate | woman as you could find anywhere,| Washington society folk, a chateau \ leading points.. but when I have had something to|has been secured and the two young q NO ATTEMPT TO START A SEN-| drink the blood that was my grand-| Women are now going to complete } SATION. mother’s and my father's cqmes to|arrangements for their work of mercy, ‘The probers made no attempt at| the surface and Tt will steal to buy} Sailing with them as unofficial man- | sensationalism in the opening sess!on.| more drink. , ager and chaperone respectively were Their initial plan was to gain ivfor-] +] am as helpless under my heritage|Col. and Mrs. E. M. House, close , mation and Senator Thompson said] of sin as any child born with the taint| friend of President Wilson. Col. 4 his idea was to let the witnesses tell] of incurable disease.” House sald to-day he would accom- ‘ their stories pretty much in their own] «The complainant {s Harry Ruasseil,|Pany the two girls to San Remo and a way at first. Cross examination will] Eastern representative of the Armour |emain with them until they, had their come later. : packing interests, with a home af No. | hospital running in good order. He After Secretary Whitney has fur-|412 West One Hundred and Twenty- | Jenled as preposter6us the rumor that ) nished evidence about employees, ex-|ninth Street. On Christmas day Rus-|h@ Was acting as unofficial messenger penses, contracts and complaints, the | sell and his wife met Miss Blower in| ‘Tom the President to Ambassador | committee will call the Public Service |a cabaret show on One Hundred and | ‘The State Legislative Committes to-day began its inquiry into the New York City Public Service Commission under direction of Senator George F. ‘Thompson of Niagara County. The nine investigators met in the Board of Estimate room of the City Hall at 11 o'clock and spent most of the day examining Travis H. Whit- ney, Secretary of the Public Service Commission. | Col. William H. Hayward, who used to be an Assistant District Attorney but now is legal adviser to Gov. Whitman, acted as counsel to the A well dressed, handsome woman | in oLndon, bearing instructions Commissioners themselves, Twenty-fifth Street, and were m@ On Monday morning Edward E.|charmed by her manner that they In- y; McCall, Chairman of the commission, | vited her to share their Christmas : will be put on the stand and asked to| dinner. After their guest had gone tell what are his ideas of how the| Mrs. Russell missed a set of furs Public Service Commission can best | worth $200, serve the pablic, The only ciue was an empty whis- ‘At the formal opening of the in-|key flask left by Miss Blower, It bore quiry Senator Thompson, as Chair-|the name of a saloon in Brooklyn and man, occupied the centre of the|she was arrested at that place. horseshoe desk, with Senator George| Mrs. Blower was arraigned before =A Cromwell of Staten Island on his| Magistrate Ten Eyck In the Harlem right and Senator Ogden L. Mills of | Police Court. She seemed greatly dis- New York on his left. Other mem-| tTessed as she pleaded gullty to the pers of the committee were Sepators | Charge of stealing the furs. She was held in $1,000 to answer in the Gen- eral Sessions, and as she had no friend with bail she went to a cell, ee on the delicate diplomatic conditions arising out of the Dacia and similar cases, Secretary McAdoo and his wife, who was Miss Wilson, daughter of the President, were at the pier to wish God speed to the two adventurers of mercy. Dudley Field Malone and Mrs, J. Borden Harriman were also of the party. Mrs. Harriman kissed both girls and said she had to “hurry back to my job,” which is as a mem- ber of the Commission on Industrial Relations sitting at City Hall, Dr, Perey R. Turnure, head surgeon of the French Hospital in New York, and his wife were also sailing on a hospital mission. Dr, Turnure goes as (Continued on Second Page.) oma — = aaa head of the first hospital commission In_the ot Lis OH HOBSON'S CHARGE ON |"2%,c%.imtst States co be emoiaiy \ . At the C le Pi @ , Man No Lost Time PHILIPPINES DENIED| ne town or’ seoss"snsm, cocrzeneae Can Be Afforded miles behind the trench line in North- ern France, Dr, Turnure’ will estab- lish his base hospital, Ten doctors, an equal number of nurses and three Sisters of Charity will follow on a later steamer, Ambulances and all hospital supplies will be taken from this country, Among other noteworthy passen- gers were Henry Clews jr., and his wife, Who was Mrs, Robert Goelet; Henry Russell, director of the Boston Administration Forces Say Islands | Were Not to Be Dropped as | Price of Peace With Japan, WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Admin- | istration officials to-day issued dis- claimem to charges of Representa- tive Hobson of Alabama that as the Every day you are out of work and your income stops you not only lose the income you might | be earning: but you go in debt for your living. Every hour you reside suitable house, furnishe: apartment will leave its 4 your health or disposition. Every delay in hiring, buying, selling, renting, ia ng. looking | price ofepeace with Jaan the United | Opera Company; Elale Janis, an Ffor lost articles, Ke, may mean | States had prepared speedily to| actress; | Capt. Philip Lydig’” and failure, bandon Philippines. His sug-| Eracst Thompson Seton, novelist, Wants mad wh through tion that this nation sought to| Wier —— WORLD ADS. are usually Dts from under” In case of hostili.|%® Pst for Cotten ly filled. me tles with Japan or any other power| he Board of Managers of the Cotton That is probably why there was branded as entirely false, Exchange to-day announced that it had eae eee 1,275,790] 581, 998 | SAILING TO-DAY. WORLD ADs. MORE THAN aibceans Glasgow LAST YEAR—| THE HERALD Pastores, Havana, were priyted decided not to create Exchange holidays jon Feb. 13 or Feb, 20. A petition asking that these two dates, one of them the aturday following giinco! ‘a birthday and the oth preced| Sis We te vai aM ties cst Ui Sap f SAY Daughter of Secretary of|Yorkville Pawnbroker’s .Cus- tomers Suffer More Than He When Safe Is Robbed. .| ELEMENTS OF MYSTERY. Thieves Pack Loot in Suit Cases and Lock Bound Captives in Store. Adolph Stern, owner of a pawnshop and pawnbroker’s sale store at the southwest corner of Eighty-fitth Street and Third Avenue, notified the Police at 10 o'clog® to-day that threo thieves armed with revolvers had bound his three clerks with ropes and robbed his safe of diamonds and Jewelry pledges valued at $15,000... Acting Captain Jones of the Third Detective Branch and Detectives Cou- sins, Caputo, Birmingham and Gal- lagher, after a preliminary investiga- tion, said the case presented more anglos of mystery than anything they | “ have run across of late Stern's store occupies one of the busiest corners in Yorkville. Besides the proprietor, three clerks—Jerry Stern, a son of Adolph, who lives at No, 15 Hast Eighty-seventh Street; Edwin Schwarts of No, 54 East One Hundred and Fifth Street and Morris Ticklen—look after the busin These three opened the store at 8 o'clock to- day. Jerry Stern opened the safe, which is in the rear, According to the clerks, they were undisturbed untll 8.45 o'clock, when a man wearing a brown overcoat and a brown soft hat entered the store and @aked to be shown some sult cases. Jerry Stern says this man had visited the establishment twice before during the week, cach time apparently inter- ested in sult cases. Ticklen stepped forward to wait on the catler. sult cases from the stock when a sec- ond man, wearing a black overcoat and a cap, entered and said he wanted to buy a ring. Jerry Stern elected to walt on the second cus- tomer, who seemed to have consider- able difficulty in removing his gloves. He had just taken them off and placed them on the counter when « third man, wearing a gray overcoa’ and a cap, entered, and Schwart: started toward the front of the store The third man stopped as he closed the door, snapped the lock into place and drew 4 revolver, The other two, according to Stern's clerks, drew revolvers, Each of the thieves pointed a revolver at one of the clerks and demanded quiet and obedience. The clerks were ordered to the oxtreme rear of the store, where they were lined up. ‘The man in the gray overcoat tuoh the revolver of the man with the black overcoat and that individual proceeded to tle the hands of the clerks behind them, using new twine When each clerk was bound the thieves tied all three torether, pushed them Into a corner, fastened their ankles securely and went to work at the safe. One of the thieves kept an eye on the three clerks and occasionally | poked the muzzle of iis revolver in| thelr direction, The man in’ the brown overcoat took the two suit cases that Ticklen had produced for his inspection and began to fill them with articles selected from the safe, In making their selections from the fe the thieves were considerate of Stern, for they took only $170 in cash and $50 worth of gold rings belonging (Continued om Second Page.) ada of Premier Asquith, Who Was topped From Jaunt to Battle Lines He had taken out two| ‘4 MRS. ASQUITH'S PARTY STOPPED BY FRENCH BEHIND BATTLE LINES Polite Officer Upsets Week- End Jaunt Because Custom Annoys Joffre. LONDON, Jan, 30.—Mrs, Asquith, wife of the Premier, with three other women, left London a week ago to spend the week-end at a villa in the ear of the British lines as guests of lan olficer In the Guards, His wife | was one of those with Mra, Asquith | These week-end visits to the front are becoming extremely fashionable, and @ number of villas near the front | have been rented by wealthy officers |\n the Guards and cavalry’ regiments, who entertain their relatives and friends when resting from duty in the trenches, Mrs, Agquith and her {friends left ing and Circulation Books Open to All.”’ WEATHER—Gnew or rain to-night and Gundage . HOSE 1915. PS 8 OOSSO99 Calais about midday last Saturday in two motor cars. At a farm some six miles from the villa to which they were going they were held up by a French cavalry troop, which ‘declined to let them either proceed or return, In vain Mrs. Asquith showed her perm and passes, The French officer Yeclured with many regrets that his orders were positive, and that he must carry them out, In the next half hour a number of other motor cars containing week- enders arrived, and were all held up. Among those who arrived were the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Cowdray. ‘fhe motor cars were driven into a fleld and their occupants were requested to remain in them. This they had to do until 5 o'clock }on Sunday morning. By that time the baggage, ammunition and food wagons had passed, It is surmised that these week-end parties at the front are not approved of at ne) headquarters, and that | Gen, Joffre ve imstructions last week that visitors be stopped In order to give them a lesson that would dis- courage this sort of visit to the front in future, ———— Killed by Fall in Steamsl Niel Berguson, sixty years old, a Ia- dover, of No. 61 Bloomfeld street, Ho- boken, fell trom the main deck to the hold of the steamship Minnewaska, ly- ling at Pier 68, North River, thie morne wae kibed. thse mitee 10 PAGES L KAISER UNDER FIRE OF FRENCH GUNS 5 = IN THE TRENCHES NEAR SOISSON MISS M’ADOO SAILS |THIEVES BIND TRIO. PRICE ONE CZNT. BRITISH AND GERMANS NV HARD BATTLES ON LAND AND IN THE Germans Claim Success Over F in Argonne; Berlin Declares Or Regiment Was Wiped Out—500) Killed, 745 Captured. . ITALY PUTS MORE TROOPS IN READINESS FOR W. BERLIN (via London), Jan. 30 [Assoclated. Press] —The Cort spondence Agency of this city asgerts_that Jt leama from a source that Emperor Willlam ‘stood in a’ heavy fire at the. Batlle Soisson$. It was only after insistent representations from his entourage he consented, after a long while, to leave the exposed position. ROME, Jan. 30.—A royal decree has been issued calling to the the Italian soldiers of the first category, born in 1888 and belonging to field artillery, and also the Alpine troops and the soldiers of the t category, born in 1891, 1892, 1893 And 1894, belonging to the Alpine Italian Socialists, who strenuously are opposed to the idea of intervention in the war, although they represent but a significant had conceived the {dea of # general strike in case of mobilisation. At @ meeting of Milan Socialisté, however, Deputy Turati, one of most prominent leaders of the party, opposed the pifins and delivered 4 notable anti-German speech, which was applauded with enthusiasm, Seven British Airships In Battle on an Air Rai LONDON, Jan. 30 (Associated Press).—Wireless advices from bring a report that of seven English acroplancs which have Ostend and Zeebrugse, three failed to return, It is stated that these three machines were surrounded by German craft and chased into the open sea. [The above despatch may ind{cate a new British air raid on the Belgian coast towns. The last British air raid reported in thet direction occurred at Zeebrugge on Jan. 22. Two British aviators took part in this attack, and it was stated that their bombs dam aged a submarine and killed or wounded the crews of the gums” mounted on the Mole. The German report of thte raid said that ne damage was done.) , DUNKIRK, France (via Paris), Jan, 30 (Associated Press) —The peu bardment from the air carried out here by the Germans came from aeroplanes, It was a clear moonlight night, but the machines could not Be p seen except when lit up now and then by the beam of a whirling light by which the three-inch anti-aircraft guns directed their fire, The droning of their propellers, however, was heard some time the aeroplanes arrived. This was sufficient notice and the alarm was for the inhabitants to seek shelter, according to @ plan arranged by | authorities, In all fifty bombs were thrown, ten of which were incendiary A number of private houses were damaged, but the result of the raid, a military point of view, was nil. OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. French Defeated in the Argonne, Claim of the Berlin War @ BERLIN (By Wireless to London) Jan, 30 [Associated Press) troops captured 745 French soldiers and twelve machine guns in the part of the Argonne Forest yesterday, according to official made by the German War OMce to-day. Of these men twelve were The Germans captured aleo ten smaller guns, The enemy's losses heavy, from 400 to 500 dead men hay. ug been left on the fleld of ‘The French Infantry Regiment No, 15) seems to have been The German losses were comparatively sight, The text of the communication follows: “The French losses !n the fighting to the north of Nieuport 28 were heavy. Over 300 Moroccans and Algeriaus were found in the sand dunes, German artillery yesterday hampered the in his efforts to make hin way by sapping operations in the ai of the wand bili, which te to the east of the | “Sus